Photos: Chef Todd English?s Stash of Foodie iPhone Photos

When Todd English first debuted his signature rustic Mediterranean cuisine in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1989, the floodgates opened for his self-made culinary empire. Now 23 years later, with Olives restaurants in New York and Las Vegas, four cookbooks, his own PBS food travel series, and four James Beard awards, the Boston-based chef has returned to his roots, relaunching his flagship Olives in Charlestown after a two-year renovation process. View his collection of photos from the reopening?including close-ups of glistening sweet-pea panna cotta and tempura oysters wrapped in beef carpaccio?that he took on his iPhone.

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Nissan says Leaf charger will start powering homes in July, details new battery (video)

Nissan says Leaf charger will start powering homes in July, details new battery video

We kicked the tires on Nissan's Leaf-based EV Power Station in Tokyo a while back, and now the company has announced that Japanese customers will start receiving the home power backups in July. On top of trundling you around town, the EV's battery will supply 6kWh of juice to your house, keeping it powered for up to two days. It also features an advanced charger, which can juice the Leaf to 80% capacity in only four hours, compared to the eight usually required to get to that level. It'll be sold through Nissan dealers and will run 480,000 yen ($6,000), or less with government subsidies -- in addition to the $35K you'd need for the car itself, of course. Roll on past the break for the video details.

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Want to make $200K? Become a train repairman

By Elizabeth Chuck, msnbc.com

A train car repairman for the Long Island Rail Road earned nearly $203,000?last year -?more than the New York transportation authority's?chief operating officer?-?thanks?to overtime bonuses?that workers are able to receive under union rules, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority confirmed to msnbc.com.

Repairman Vincent Blackburn was one of 20 employees who received a six-figure overtime bonus in 2011, as first reported by The New York Post. Blackburn earned more than double his base pay of $66,539.12?in overtime, the paper said, in part due to an arcane labor agreement called "Rule 24."

Rule 24 has been phased out at all?but one?transit facility: the Long Island Rail Road's Richmond Hill, Queens, repair center, where Blackburn and seven of the 10 highest overtime earners work, reported The Post. Whether or not manpower is actually needed, Rule 24 calls for all vacant positions on certain shifts to be filled by?the railroad, creating opportunities for huge overtime payments that increase with seniority.

Blackburn wasn't available for comment Tuesday morning.?Aaron Donovan, MTA spokesman, confirmed to msnbc.com that the Post report was accurate, and said Rule 24 is one of a number of labor relations issues the MTA is hoping to address, but he said it's subject to the collective bargaining process with unions.

However, year-over-year overtime pay is declining,?he said.?

"Over time, expenses have gone down," Donovan told msnbc.com. "This was a focus on the top 10 [earners]. Certainly people do earn overtime, but the overall aggregate figure is down."

While the MTA hopes to reduce overtime across the board,?the Long Island Rail Road has been one of the areas it's focused on the most.?In 2010, LIRR overtime hours were reduced by 12.6 percent, or $13.4 million, compared to the prior year, Donovan said.?They?stayed at that level in 2011, and then, for the first four months of 2012, overtime hours decreased again by 5.9 percent compared to the same period in 2011, resulting in a savings of $1.8 million in overtime expenses, he said.

News of the large overtime packages comes amid a hike in fares for MTA riders in 2011. There are?plans for more fare increases of about 7.5 percent in 2013 and again in 2015, the MTA chairman told NBC New York earlier this year.

While Rule 24 assisted in the bonuses at Richmond Hill's repair shop, employees of another quasi-public agency, the Port Authority, padded their base salaries with hefty overtime compensation, too. Sergeant Edwin Rivera, 43, was the biggest overtime earner out of the 44,000 Porth Authority employees for 2011, the Post found. A search on?SeeThroughNY.net, a database of earnings for New York public employees, reveals?Rivera?pulled in $166,035 in addition to his base pay of $107,911. Rivera, of Staten Island, gets about $52 an hour to supervise police officers; that increases to $77.82 per hour for time-and-a-half overtime.

Rivera has already worked 888 hours of overtime in 2012 - about 40 hours per week - putting him on track to earn even more in 2012, an official told The Post.?He has consistently been a top overtime earner in his 16 years at the Port Authority, partially because Port Authority has only 141 sergeants on the force, 20 fewer than needed, said The Post.

Port Authority: Curtailing overtime hours?is a priority
Calls to Rivera went unanswered on Tuesday.?A statement?from Port Authority media relations said reducing overtime was a top priority.?

"Since late last year, the agency has conducted a wide-ranging audit of operational spending, including police overtime, with the first quarter of 2012 realizing a 14 percent drop in the agency?s overall overtime hours," the statement, issued Tuesday afternoon to msnbc.com, read.?"Reforms include increased documentation, reviews of overtime to improve compliance, and oversight by the agency?s future Chief Security Officer to curtail excessive police overtime."

Christopher Garrick, another repairman at the Long Island Rail Road's Richmond Hill, Queens, repair center, got more than $124,300 in overtime last year in addition to his base salary of $64,367.42. Garrick could not be reached by msnbc.com.

According to an MTA?report from January 2011 that outlines cost-saving measures, the agency began a crackdown in 2009 on "unnecessary overtime that will save the MTA $70 million annually." Reducing administrative staff, consolidating MTA back office functions?and?freezing non-represented employees' wages were also listed.

Bloated overtime?pay isn't the only problem the MTA is facing. Last week, the State Comptroller's Office revealed findings from a two-year audit of?a unit of the?MTA's Metro-North Railroad. Workers who were supposed to "monitor train conditions and crew performance were not on the job when they were scheduled to work and performed poorly when they were," the audit said.

In an examination of 300 rides, the comptroller's office discovered employees in Metro North's On-Board Services Unit had little to no supervision and "surfed the internet during work hours, including spending 6.5 hours on firearm sites and Google and 5 hours on various commercial sites such as Chuck E. Cheese. Reviews of cell phone usage found little communication between staff members and their supervisor but did find out-of-state calls and calls home."

The MTA has disbanded the unit as a result of the audit. More changes are likely to follow, Jennifer Freeman, communications director for the Office of the State Comptroller, told msnbc.com.

"The MTA is an entity that we have looked at quite extensively," Freeman said. "We are concerned about the questionable practices that we've identified. We're going to continue to probe employment at the MTA on an ongoing basis, and we expect there are a number of things we'll be looking at, given what we've identified through the course of our audits."

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Sandusky defense opens with talk of reputation

Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., Monday, June 18, 2012. The defense is to begin presenting it's case in Sandusky's trial on 52 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of 15 years on Monday. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., Monday, June 18, 2012. The defense is to begin presenting it's case in Sandusky's trial on 52 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of 15 years on Monday. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., Monday, June 18, 2012. The defense is to begin presenting it's case in Sandusky's trial on 52 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of 15 years on Monday. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., Monday, June 18, 2012. The defense is to begin presenting it's case in Sandusky's trial on 52 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of 15 years on Monday. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Jerry Sandusky arrives the courthouse for the second week of his trial at the Centre County Courthouse, in Bellefonte, Pa., Monday, June 18, 2012. The defense is to begin presenting it's case in Sandusky's trial on 52 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of 15 years on Monday. (AP Photo/Centre Daily Times, Nabil K. Mark)

Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's attorney Joe Amendola arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., Monday, June 18, 2012. The defense is to begin presenting it's case in Sandusky's trial on 52 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of 15 years on Monday. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) ? Jerry Sandusky opened his defense in his molestation trial Monday with character witnesses who defended his reputation, including a former Penn State coach who said he knew Sandusky took boys into showers but never saw him do anything wrong.

The six witnesses, one who called Sandusky a "local hero," did little to directly counter the testimony last week by eight young men who accused the former Penn State assistant football coach of sexually abusing them when they were children.

Judge John Cleland told jurors Sandusky's defense has about a day and a half left of testimony and that they could begin deliberations on the case as early as Thursday, a quicker schedule than had been expected.

Sandusky looked an Associated Press reporter in the eye and said nothing when asked if he planned to testify. Other possible defense witnesses to come include his wife, Dottie; and an expert who could discuss whether Sandusky has "histrionic personality disorder," which experts have called a personality disorder characterized by inappropriate sexual behavior and erratic emotions.

The list of potential witnesses also includes a physician who spoke with key prosecution witness Mike McQueary the night he said he saw Sandusky attack a child in a football team shower in 2001 and members of former football coach Joe Paterno's family, although it was unclear how they might fit into the defense case or whether they will be called.

Sandusky's arrest led the university trustees to fire Paterno as coach in November, saying his response to the 2001 report from McQueary showed a lack of leadership. Paterno died of cancer in January.

Dick Anderson, a longtime Penn State assistant and Sandusky friend who retired in January, testified that he and other members of the football staff were present when Sandusky brought young boys into the team's showers.

He said he never witnessed anything inappropriate.

"If Jerry would bring someone in with The Second Mile, they had been working out, for whatever reason they came in, it was not uncommon ... with the other coaches in the shower as well," Anderson said, referring to the charity for at-risk children Sandusky founded in 1977.

Anderson, who coached at Penn State from 1970 to 1983 and again from 1990 through the 2011 season, said adults and children often shower together at gyms. He noted, for example, that it's not unusual for him to be in the showers with boys at the YMCA.

Anderson also spoke in detail about the long hours of coaching and recruiting trips required of the job, which could lay the groundwork for a defense argument that accuser testimony about regular contact with Sandusky may be inaccurate or exaggerated.

Anderson said he did not know Sandusky had been barred by university administrators from taking children onto campus after the 2001 incident was reported by McQueary, although that was disclosed in court documents and has been widely and repeatedly reported since Sandusky's arrest.

When lead prosecutor Joe McGettigan asked him if that fact would surprise him, Anderson said yes.

Prosecutors claim Sandusky targeted his victims at The Second Mile, groomed them for abuse, then moved from touching and kissing to more severe forms of sexual abuse, including in some cases oral or anal sex. Sandusky has denied the allegations against him, acknowledging he showered with boys but saying he never molested them.

Earlier in the day, prosecutors told the judge they were dropping one of the 52 counts, that of felony unlawful contact with the accuser known as Victim 7. Prosecutor Frank Fina said the statute under which he was charged did not cover the time frame when the alleged act occurred.

The judge ruled against defense motions that charges were too vague or nonspecific to defend and that there isn't solid evidence of the ages of two accusers.

Prosecutors rested their case after calling their 21st witness, the mother of so-called Victim 9, a recent high school graduate who testified last week that Sandusky raped him in the basement of the coach's suburban home.

The woman said her son told her that Sandusky called him late one night after the first round of charges was filed in November, asking if he would be a character witness.

"He said that Jerry asked him to make an affidavit or some kind of statement on what kind of character or person he was," she said. "Why would he call my kid after he's being accused of things like this?"

In December, prosecutors brought more charges against Sandusky, alleging he'd had forced anal sex with the boy.

Victim 9's mother said the boy's laundry would often be short of underwear and he would claim he had thrown it away because he had an accident. Last week, the teen said Sandusky forced him to have anal sex that made him bleed.

In tearful testimony, the mother described gifts Sandusky gave her son, then added: "I wish he would just give him underwear to replace the underwear I could never find in my laundry."

The defense's case focused largely on Sandusky's reputation. Anderson said he was "well thought of in every regard," former Penn State assistant coach Booker Brooks called his reputation "exemplary, top-knotch," and local political consultant Brent Pasquinelli, who raised money for The Second Mile, called him "a local hero."

Besides Anderson, Brooks and Pasquinelli, three other witnesses testified for the defense Monday: a woman who ran a golf-related charity to which one accuser was recommended by Sandusky, a young man who knew Sandusky through The Second Mile and vouched for his reputation and a schoolteacher who said Sandusky seemed genuinely interested in helping one of the accusers in the case. None was on the stand for more than 10 minutes.

Tom Kline, a Philadelphia lawyer who represents one of the accusers, said he was served a defense subpoena on Monday, ordering him to produce a copy of the fee agreement he has made with Victim 5, along with copies of his interactions with reporters.

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Egypt rivals claim presidency as army tightens grip

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's agonized passage from revolution to democracy was in limbo on Monday, as the Muslim Brotherhood claimed victory in a presidential election while the generals who took over from Hosni Mubarak decreed it was they who would keep most power.

The former air force commander running against the Islamist dismissed Mohammed Morsy's self-declared triumph as a bid to "hijack" the election. Ahmed Shafik, who was also Mubarak's last prime minister, said that it was he in fact who was ahead.

As a day of counting, and mutual jibes over violations, wore on, there was no official word on how the two-day run-off went and electoral supervisors warned they may not publish any result until Thursday - prolonging what for many Egyptians has become a wearisome deadlock between a military past and religious future.

Shafik's camp insisted he led by two to four points but even sources in the army, which has fought the Brotherhood through six decades of military rule, indicated they were preparing to accept that Morsy had won Egypt's first free presidential vote.

Whoever emerges as president - and at least one electoral official privately endorsed Morsy's claim to be leading by 52 percent to 48 with the bulk of votes counted - he will find his powers tightly circumscribed by a decree issued by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi's military council as polls closed on Sunday.

Having last week dissolved the parliament that was elected in January with a thumping Islamist majority, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) said on Sunday it would now take back the assembly's legislative powers and could also step in to break a deadlock in drafting a new constitution.

Liberals and Islamists called it a "military coup".

"Military Transfers Power, to Military," ran the ironic headline in independent newspaper al-Masry al-Youm.

Tantawi, Mubarak's defense minister for 20 years, promised Egyptians who entrusted him with their revolutionary victory to hand power to civilians by July 1. That pledge, endorsed by the United States, the army's $1.3 billion-a-year sponsor, would be satisfied, a military council member said, with a ceremony to be held by June 30 to swear in the new civilian head of state.

Yet he will be a president who can only appoint a government whose every law must be endorsed by SCAF. A timetable set down for writing a constitution, passing it by referendum and then electing a parliament could leave Tantawi in charge until 2013.

The Brotherhood, however, expressed its joy and defiance on the streets and Morsy, a 60-year-old, U.S.-educated engineer who was a political prisoner under Mubarak, promised to be a leader of all Egyptians - a nod to the many, from Christians to secular liberals to moderate Muslims, who fear intolerant clerical rule.

"Thanks be to God who has guided Egypt's people to the path of freedom and democracy, uniting Egyptians for a better future," Morsy said in a victory speech to supporters in Cairo during which he forswore revenge or the settling of scores.

In a cameo moment that spoke of his lightning journey from obscure apparatchik to national celebrity - he was mocked as the party's "spare wheel" when a more senior figure was barred from the race in April - Morsy was caught on camera before his speech telling an aide to let his family know they would see him on TV.

ISLAMIC FUTURE

Hundreds of flag-waving supporters of the Brotherhood, whose members long suffered torture and death at the hands of the generals, gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square. It was there that the anti-Mubarak revolt was launched on January 25, 2011, mainly by secular young urbanites, later joined by the Brotherhood.

"Thank God, we have got rid of military rule and the police state," said Mona Issam, one of a group of cheering women clad in long robes and full-face veils. "We hope Morsy takes power from the military council and the army goes back to barracks.

"We lived like strangers in our land under the old regime. We were oppressed and Islam was not the law."

Hosni Qutb, a 45-year-old physician, derided Shafik as the "candidate of Israel", in reference to the military rulers' 33-year-old peace treaty with Egypt's Jewish neighbor. Israel fears growing hostility from Cairo and said an Israeli and two militants were killed in an attack on its border overnight.

However, the crowds hardly attracted notice in the morning rush hour and measured barely a drop compared with the human sea that engulfed central Cairo on February 11 last year when Mubarak fell, pushed aside by generals fearful of losing their own privileges.

Morsy attracted support from many who reject his religious agenda and the imposition of Islamic law but wanted to bar the way to Shafik, 70, whom they see as the heir to the old regime.

As Islamists celebrated, unemployed Mohamed Mahmoud, 28, did not share their joy: "I voted for Morsy but I can't say I'm happy," he said. "I'm still afraid of both and what they may do.

"I don't want an Islamic state or a new Mubarak state."

Political chaos has ravaged a vital tourist trade focused on pyramids and Red Sea beaches and the latest turn of events, by prolonging uncertainty, may further harm the economy. The main stock market index fell 3.4 percent to a five-month low.

"How can you possibly make these huge economic decisions in such circumstances?" says Gabriel Sterne, an economist at London investment banking house Exotix. "Such events as these only serve to undermine confidence and accelerate capital flight."

"SETBACK FOR DEMOCRACY"

The military council's "constitutional declaration", issued under powers it took for itself last year, was a blow to democracy, said many who aired their grievances on social media.

"Grave setback for democracy and revolution," tweeted former U.N. diplomat and Nobel peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei.

"This decree just makes plain the hegemony of SCAF," said Khaled Ali, an activist lawyer who was eliminated in the first round of presidential voting despite a strong, youthful following. "This decree strips the president of the powers he was elected to have and gives those to the military council, whose members were appointed by the old regime," he said.

The order indicated that the army, which controls swathes of Egypt's economy, has no intention of handing substantial power to its old Islamist adversary and may be hoping that public disillusion with the Brotherhood's performance will reduce its influence on the new constitution and the next parliament.

The Brotherhood has contested the army's power to dissolve the present parliament. It warned of "dangerous days" ahead. But few expect the Islamists, who were not in the vanguard of the revolt and spent much of the past year in uneasy symbiosis with the army, to launch a violent grab for power any time soon.

"This is the beginning of a very tough path," a senior Brotherhood official, Essam el-Haddad told Reuters, "The beginning of it is dealing with the amended constitutional declaration that strips the president of any real powers."

The failure of the new parliament to agree a consensus body to draft a constitution - liberals accuse the Islamists of packing the panel with religious zealots - has left Egyptians picking their way from revolution to democracy through a legal maze while the generals control the map and change it at will.

Under the latest order, writing of the new constitution may pass to a body appointed by the SCAF - if a court rules against the contested panel nominated by the now defunct legislature.

Any new constitution would need approval in a referendum, with a new parliamentary election following. By a timetable contained in the decree, it would take another five months or so to complete the planned "transition to democracy".

However, the experience of the past year has left many Egyptians doubting that the military, and what they call the "deep state" stretching across big business, Mubarak-era judges, security officials and the army, will ever hand over control.

"The military has more power now than it had over the past year and more control over events now that parliament is dissolved," said Said Hirsh, an economist at Capital Economics in London. "The new president will not be able to do much.

"SCAF isn't going to transfer any real power," Marc Lynch, a Middle East expert at George Washington University said on Twitter of the constitutional order. "Back to the beginning."

(Additional reporting by Dina Zayed, Tom Pfeiffer, Edmund Blair, Alastair Macdonald and Samia Nakhoul in Cairo; Writing by Edmund Blair and Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Samia Nakhoul and Janet McBride)

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China space flight a test of docking precision

Liu Yang becomes the first Chinese female astronaut to go to space while traveling on the Shenzhou 9 capsule. NBC's Ed Flanagan reports.

By Ed Flanagan, NBC News

BEIJING -- China's first woman in space, Liu Yang, will be conducting space medical experiments on a 10-day mission that started Saturday, but experts are deeply interested in the mechanics of the mission -- namely the manual space docking the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft will attempt with the Tiangong-1 module.

Launched last September, the Tiangong-1 is China?s first space laboratory module and a key cog in Beijing?s larger ambitions of establishing a space station by 2020. From this outpost, Chinese scientists over the next few years will be able to test out new equipment and experiment with future space station capabilities.?

But first Chinese astronauts need to prove they can actually dock with it.?


Last year, China successfully got its unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft to remotely link up with the Tiangong-1 module, but this will be the first time Chinese astronauts will attempt to manually guide a spacecraft into docking.?

"Some people describe the manual docking as threading a needle from 100 meters away, so you can see how difficult and precise the procedure would be? said astronaut Jing Haipeng, who with 14 years of experience in China?s space program, will be responsible for this critical aspect of the mission.?

"The manual space rendezvous ... is a huge test for astronauts' ability to judge spatial position, eye-hand coordination and psychological abilities," he added.?

According to NBC News space analyst, James Oberg, the sooner China?s astronauts master how to linkup with the Tiangong-1, the faster the country will be able to realize its long-term vision.?

?The Tiangong-1 is not just a docking target ... this is a full-fledged, live support module that can also can be used as a living space if the Chinese decide to move beyond low-Earth out to the moon or deep space? said Oberg. ?The Tiangong-1 is exactly the kind of module for long term, deep space missions.??

China?s space rise a cause for concern?
According to Oberg, China?s rapid development in space capability is quickly bringing the nation to the same level as the other major space powers.?

?What the Chinese are doing is not just going on a tail chase of ancient space race accomplishments,? says Oberg, ?They are bringing themselves right up to and in some cases maybe even taking a step ahead of some of the other space powers.??

?It?s a very, very impressive program on a very broad front,? he adds.

There have been some questions, though, about whether China?s space program is going too fast. An annual U.S. Department of Defense report on China?s military and security developments released in May theorized that China?s space program might be encountering challenges in system reliability, pointing to an August 2011 malfunctioning of a Long March 2C rocket.?

China is currently in the process of several large scale improvements in its space capabilities. The design of the much larger Long March 5 booster and the construction of a new rocket launch site on Hainan Island are just two examples that will push China?s technological expertise.?

Report: First Chinese female astronaut joins space club

Increased reliability and confidence in China?s space capabilities will be critical for another important Chinese aspiration: increased commercial opportunities. European and American satellite builders have traditionally corned the market on satellite construction and launching. A U.S. ban on the use of American components in satellites launched by China have effectively kept China out of the competition for satellite construction bids.?

The success of Chinese designed, constructed and launched satellites could position China to be a major player in the industry.?

?When the Chinese get credibility for their technology that space successes give them, they elbow their way to the top rank,? says Oberg, ?the slice of the U.S. pie will shrink when the Chinese start getting a bigger slice.?

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PFT: Browns willing to deal McCoy for cheap?

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While 93-year-old Bills owner Ralph Wilson may have no desire to sell the team during his lifetime to someone committed to keeping the franchise in Buffalo, Wilson can make it difficult if not impossible for the next owner to relocate any time soon.

And so the Bills and Erie County officials are working toward a new lease that, depending on the language of the final document, could make it so expensive to move the team that only buyers intent on keeping the franchise where it is will make offers for the team, once Wilson?s lifetime ends. ?Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz tells the Associated Press that a basic agreement on a new lease?could be reached by the end of July.

Step One would entail the negotiation of a ?memorandum of understanding,? which would be followed by the full-blown lease. ?The current deal expires in July 2013, which means that the Bills could become free agents after the coming season.

Which also means that time is of the essence, in more ways than one.

Poloncarz says the team has ?provided assurances of their commitment to stay in Buffalo.? ?Still, the only way to ensure that commitment will still exist when someone other than Wilson owns the team is to beef up the lease with terms that would make it difficult if not outright impossible to escape within the next 20 years, or longer.

The Bills are seeking roughly $200 million in upgrades to Ralph Wilson Stadium, a fairly modest amount for a facility that opened nearly 40 years ago. ?The challenge will be for the team, the county, and the state to work out a plan for sharing in the costs of the improvements.

The county definitely has an incentive to ensure that the team?s stay extends, indefinitely.

?We?re not New York City, we?re not Chicago, we?re not Boston, and we never will be,? Poloncarz said. ??But I certainly like us to be greater than other cities out there of comparable size that wish they had an NFL team. ?Well, we have one, and I have no intention of seeing that team leave on my watch.?

Ralph Wilson has no intention of seeing the team leave on his watch, either. ?And he?s in position to ensure that the lease will keep the next owner from seeing the team leave on his watch, too.

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also get rid of unpiad and college only internships (paid or unpaid) We need to get rid of the idea of pay to work / work for free and pay full price for Credits.

Hmm. I work in an accounting practice, we occasionally get "interns" of two kinds.

Firstly, people who are in the break between high school and university, or who are considering a career change. The folks are mainly looking to see what it's like. There's also an element of being able to put study into some context and have an edge in future interviews. Employers feel like they're taking a gamble on someone who has no idea what the work is like, or what they're getting into, so it's a significant advantage. They are what I consider an internship is supposed to be about.

These folks are usually in for about a month and it's unpaid. It does feel like a tough month of hard work for them, because it's all new and we give them a taste of a range of things. The firm's pretty good about that actually; at the time it's daunting for the intern but it is exactly what they were hoping for and need.

What they're not doing though is producing anything of value. Sure they'll complete things, like a bank reconciliation, but they'll take maybe a day to do it. As the senior it'd take me about an hour to do the same thing myself, and I'll have spent at least that hour showing them what to do and then another hour checking it and bringing it up to standard for the file. Yes, per unit of productivity, interms end up a hell of a lot more expensive than seniors. It looks like work, feels like work, but it isn't contributing anything. What they're doing is basically a college exercise, just in a practical setting and without having to pay for the one-to-one tuition. It would actually be more efficient for the firm to treat it more explicitly like that i.e. give them photocopies and put what they do in the trash while I do the real work for the file, but it's important to convey the sense that they're contributing to the file, to a real-world thing that has importance, ramifications, standards, is part of a larger project... After all they didn't come here to do an exercise out of a textbook.

Unpaid interns are very expensive in my time. They get a very good return for their time investment. That's probably why all the interns I've seen have either been kids of clients, or someone making a career change who would be an obvious asset if they do decide the work is for them and join the firm. To be fair, that's probably also the reason the interns are getting such good value, I have heard of other firms who basically sit them down and make them do the photocopying or churn through bank recs non-stop, so they are producing value and overall saving time/cost of paid staff whilst getting very little of value from it.

The second kind were university students in the summer break. We've not done these for a few years now. They're paid not that much less than the juniors and for their 4-6 weeks they'll basically be new juniors. In other words horribly inefficient. Unlike juniors though, they go back to uni well before they become productive enough to return the training investment. It's basically a write off for the firm just on the prospect that maybe they'll come back after graduation, maybe if they go into industry they'll maybe put our name down when their employer tenders for a new accountant. I suspect the partners also used to think they were kind of getting some temps in during the busy season, but have cottoned on to the reality that they're a time-sink with a net burden on staff when things are already insanely busy. Maybe if they were unpaid and thus had a zero chargeout rate they might just about be worth it, but I doubt it and the partners do not consider that to be acceptable behaviour.

There's one thing that makes me certain in my assessment above. When we do get an intern, if we're in the off-season folks who aren't busy are interested in the interns, it's fun being tutor. But if busy, all the seniors and

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