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Dr. Cortner has little time – just one weekend – and his search takes him to strip clubs, a beauty pageant, and finally the studio of a figure model with a badly scarred face. Meanwhile, Jan is horrified at being kept alive in her state and wants revenge on her insane fiancé. She discovers that the serum gives her telepathic powers to communicate with and control the hulking Thing in the Closet – “the sum total of Dr. Cortner’s mistakes.” And so revenge will be hers….
“The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” comes from the same San Antonio theater that produced another cult-movie-turned-musical, “Sheer Bloody Lunacy!” (selected as “one of the Best Shows of 2008” by the San Antonio Express-News). It will contain all of the overcooked dialogue, melodrama, and cheesy special effects of the movie, plus original songs, choreography, and much more!
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Principal Roles: Jan – Christie Walheim; Dr. Bill Cortner – Robert Jerdee; Doris – Julie Vaquera; Kurt – Cary Farrow; and, Dr. Cortner Sr. / Brunette Stripper – Roy Thomas.

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… Enlist citizen experts. Ask financial experts in private business and nonprofits to examine city government for potential savings. Such a process worked for the Duval County public schools.
- Shared the sacrifices. All city employees, including police and fire, should make sacrifices, just as those in private business have done.
- Revive Taxwatch report. Partner with Florida TaxWatch and give renewed life to their financial review of city finances.
- Face up to pension realities. Even when reductions are accepted at the bargaining table, some committed source of funding should be found for pensions.
- Examine uncollected taxes. Millions of dollars in uncollected commercial property taxes are available.
 Sort out tax exemptions
. Work with state legislators on the property tax exemptions granted to private businesses on aviation authority land, such as the strip bar and pet business.

See the full article from “Florida Times-Union”

Morgan earns minimum wage at the part-time job, but once he has a diploma, hell earn much better money than he earned in Galveston, he said.
A Good Living
Galveston was just a stepping stone, Nancy Wilson, who also worked at the Salvation Army before Hurricane Ike, said.
Wilson, who caught a bus to San Antonio after spending the night floating on air mattresses as the storm surge filled her house, now has a full-time job as a Dennys waitress.
Its a good living, she said.
Not that she doesnt miss Galveston. Wilson, a self-described former crackhead and prostitute from Texas City, came to Galveston eight years ago to get clean. In Galveston, she married her husband and buried a daughter, who died when she was only 24 days old.

See the full article from “Galveston County Daily News”

As I was researching William Lacey’s story, one of the little footnotes that bothered me was the location of Lacey’s burial plot. Back in 1900, the San Antonio Municipal Cemetery was a well-maintained graveyard, an honored place to put the dead to rest. The surrounding neighborhoods were dotted with huge three story Queen Anne-style mansions and wide open horse pastures. It would have been a lovely, serene location–at least back then.
But these days, the Municipal Cemetery is surrounded by some of San Antonio’s roughest streets. From the corner of the facility known as Cemetery #4, where the newspapers said Lacey was laid to rest, you can watch drug dealers and prostitutes walking the streets. You can see the homeless sleeping on bus benches. You can hear TVs blaring from clapboard houses hovering on the verge of collapse. Police cars sprint up and down the streets all day long, their lights and sirens lit up like pinball machines going full tilt. At night, the area echoes with gun fire. To me, it seemed a curious place for a policeman’s grave, and I was struck by a desire to go see him.

See the full article from “In Cold Blog (blog)”

Ex-officer pleads guilty to civil rights violation
09/16/2009
Associated Press
A former San Antonio police officer has pleaded guilty to charges of official oppression and violating the civil rights of someone in custody after being accused of forcing a woman into sex in exchange for release.
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office said Gregory Mickel pleaded guilty Wednesday and could face up to a year in jail on each count. He was fired after authorities investigated the woman’s claims.
She alleged she was arrested after the 31-year-old officer saw her picked up in an area known for prostitution. She said she was released in exchange for sexual favors and reported the incident several days later.
Mickel maintained the sexual encounter was consensual.

See the full article from “Dallas Morning News”

Problem is, while these games have millions of users, many people have only a handful of real-life friends who play them. Entering Pet Society for the first time is a little like being gay or Asian in Oklahoma. You know there are others like you, but you are often alone in your immediate circle. Hence, players flock to forums and blogs to find one another. “Add me. My pet needs more friends,” is a familiar plea.
Sarah Gordon Weathersby, a retired IT professional in Raleigh, North Carolina, jokes that such forums feel like the “red light district,” but other gamers can’t resist clicking the add button. Many items in Pet Society cost thousands of coins, and buying them would take weeks of playing (or real money) if you don’t have many friends. Even a moderate player like Ulrika Ruston, an English teacher in Sweden, has added 41 complete strangers.

See the full article from “Gamasutra”

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Monday highlights and the day ahead
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison did not take part Monday in an overwhelming Senate vote to withhold federal funding from ACORN, the increasingly controversial community organization. On Monday evening, she attended a fundraiser at the Dallas-area home of former Dallas Cowboy Roger Staubach.
The Senate voted 83-7 to deny funding and community grants to ACORN, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The organization has faced a series of setbacks over the last year, including the recent circulation of videos in which some of its employees gave tax-avoidance advice to conservative activists posing as pimps and prostitutes. The organization is also the subject of voter-fraud investigations.

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Says Perry spokesman Mark Miner: “Less than one week after the Senate returned to work, Senator Hutchison skipped a key vote to prevent ACORN from receiving taxpayer funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is yet another example of Senator Hutchison failing to protect the taxpayers of Texas. The Senator made time to vote for a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street, but when it came time to prevent tax dollars from going to a liberal activist group, she was nowhere to be found.”
ACORN, which helps poor people fight foreclosures and fix tax problems, has received more than $53 million in federal funds since 1994, but conservatives say it’s a corrupt organization – and they point to three hidden-camera videotapes by a right-wing filmmaker that show employees advising a fake pimp and prostitute how to break the law. Last week, the Census Bureau told the group it did not want its help boosting participation in next year’s census. On Monday, the Senate voted 83 to 7 against funding the group.

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In USAA’s case, Oyekan, Onwuhara and other ring members are accused of using the information to telephone USAA and pretend to be customers. The ring provided enough biographical information about one customer to persuade USAA to wire transfer $98,000 from the customer’s account to mule accounts at Citibank in New York and Woodforest Bank in Houston, court records show.
Onwuhara has a past that involves credit card fraud, and authorities say he researched and tested his skills until he was successful.
Court records said he splits his time between Miami and Dallas, but could be in Atlanta, New Jersey or Canada.
With the stolen proceeds, authorities allege, he lived in a $600,000 home in Miami and rented a condo in Dallas for $4,000 a month, according to a segment featuring him on America’s Most Wanted.
Among his victims is Sen. Thurmond’s former chief of staff, according to the show.
Onwuhara flashed up to $50,000 at strip clubs, drove a Bentley, a Maserati and a Rolls-Royce. He also owned a recording studio and started his own rap label, S.W.A.T. Up Entertainment.

See the full article from “Houston Chronicle”