Illusion
by Pattison Hemmerly
Don't feel sorry for that sorry excuse for a woman , either....SHE STILL won't talk about it publicly.
Not in court.
Not to the media.
Alycia Lane is still that traumatized by what was done to her ...And who could blame her?
A day after Mendte was sentenced in federal court for hacking into her personal e-mails hundreds of times, Lane's lawyer and sources close to her said that the damage Mendte did to her is inestimable.
And ongoing.
Lane has been unable to get a job, despite the fact that she was a victim of a vicious career-assassination plot and was a successful anchor before she was deliberately destroyed.
There's been interest, but she fears it's of the prurient kind, people who just want to get a look at the home-wrecking bikini babe that Mendte's vicious leaks to the media made her out to be.
Larry Mendte, 51, was also handed 250 hours of community service and a $5,000 (£3,300) fine. He was sacked in June.
Lawyers for Alycia Lane, 36, said Mendte's actions "destroyed her career and made her a tabloid feeding frenzy".
The pair co-anchored the evening news bulletin on Philadelphia station KYW-TV from 2004 until January 2008.
Mendte admitted hacking into his colleague's e-mail hundreds of times, before and after Miss Lane was dismissed by the broadcaster in January.
Several of Miss Lane's personal e-mails had appeared in the US media, including a message about a sexy bikini shot of herself that she sent to a married ex-colleague.
That'll teach him!
CBS3 news anchor Larry Mendte, who hacked into a coworker's email and spread rumors that got her fired, has been sentenced to six months of house arrest, with three years probation, 250 hours of community service and a $5000 fine.
Mendte apologized in federal court to the victim, Alycia Lane, saying he was grateful to say it to her in person. It all started in August when Mendte made a public statement pleading guilty to felony hacking and described a "flirtatious, unprofessional and improper relationship" with Lane.
Apparently when Mendte confessed to his suspicious wife - Fox29 anchor Dawn Stensland - about his unprofessional relationship with Lane, it all went sour.
So Sunday I am taking a walk and I see a police car roaming around, followed by one of my neighbors. My neighbor stops and asks if I had seen a small white dog running loose, that she had called the police after it had almost become road pizza.After going missing five years ago, a little, lost dachshund named Tootsie is finally going to be reunited with with his owners from New Jersey. He was found as a stray in Wilkinsburg.
It's that time of the year again....No one ever really thinks about that year beyond the three years of guaranteed housing when they decide to come to Villanova. There seems to be the idea that unless you have called a place to live by Thanksgiving, you will probably be subjected to living in East Jipip - wherever that is.
Now, the easy way out would be to blame the University for not having senior housing, but it's not at fault here. The University does want to house all of its students, and if you have taken a look at the newest draft of the Campus Master Plan, you would see that the University has come up with multiple alternatives to house seniors in the years to come.
I blame Radnor Township.
The residents of Radnor Township don't want us to live in their community. They want us all to live on campus, which should be surrounded by a huge bubble. Think "The Simpsons Movie.".....Instead, Villanova seniors are subjected to living off campus in houses that are not taken care of. Some seniors have squirrels running around their apartments, while others are subjected to living on someone's couch because their neighbors discovered that they were students. (The Villanova bumper sticker and out-of-state license plate probably gave it away.)
No one should be subjected to the constant hassle of trying to secure a home for his or her final year of college. But then once you find a home, you have to sign your life away, and depending on which township you live in, your parents might have to sign their lives away too. No one wants to live in a house or apartment that could crumble to the ground at any minute, but it happens because the township has decided that Villanova should not build.
The University does have a number of resources, such as the Office for Residence Life, which can review leases and help with student-approved housing, but the University can only do so much. If our neighbors want to pretend we don't exist, then let Villanova build.
“Since I was elected chairman and even while I was campaigning, everywhere I went, I was asked ‘What are we going to do about Jim Matthews’?,” Chairman Bob Kerns said.
“The voters I talk to feel betrayed and the Republican committee members are just devastated by Jim’s actions.....“Republicans have done a great job running Montgomery County and that is why the voters have consistently elected Republican majorities to the County Commission. It’s been based on our record and the things we stand for, not our political affiliation. Our committee members delivered that good government message to the voters last year and the voters responded by electing our team. But the Matthews-Castor team is not what they got,” Kerns said. “Montgomery County’s voters pick the person, not the party.....“At some point, we have to decide to move on and accept that, based on his actions, he is not a Republican anymore. No matter how often Jim insists he is a Republican, you are ultimately judged by how you govern and your record, not your words,” Kerns said.....“It is becoming a distraction and our voters are confused. It is time to take action and then put this matter behind us and move on without Jim Matthews. We’ve got important elections to win in 2009. We cannot have this kind of sideshow...It weakens our message,” Kerns said....Jim’s actions are the actions of an individual, not the Party.
So this is what Nurse Junkie looks like? She sure looks older than the 30 years or whatever age the paper said she was. So who monitors nurses in PA? How many nurses have substance abuse issues? After reading comments on the original article, someone claimed they worked with her before? See:amused
Canadensis, PA
50 counts and her bail is only $10,000. I've worked with this woman and happen to know that this was not her first offense. that means monday morning she gets 10%...and she's free to leave. which 9 times out of ten means you get nothing but probation. what about the patients who did need this medication, was she keeping their doses?
A registered nurse charged with stealing narcotics agreed Friday to enter a drug rehabilitation program before going on trial in Jan. 8.
Heather L. Wolters, 30, of Bethlehem waived her preliminary hearing Friday in exchange for release from Lehigh County Prison into a treatment program.
2008
1920'sNo national mortgage bailout programs seem promising and my mortgage company just told me yesterday that when I send them new pay stubs etc. it will take them 3-5 months to evaluate and get back to me! What a f-ing joke! These mortgage companies are pulling on the debtors. I am only behind 10 grand and could easily be salvaged buy putting the 10 grand on the back of the mortgage but they wont do it. They just really want the system to fail..... The electric company is going to shut my electricity off November 26th unless I cough up $1,300 in old arrearages. I have been paying regularly for current usages and now I can no longer use medical excuses (doctor authorized notices) to keep the juice on....Well I guess I better stop crying...
JUST how concerned should American taxpayers be about American International Group (AIG), the insurance company brought to its knees by its escapades in the credit-derivatives market? On November 10th a revised rescue package was announced, comprising $153 billion of capital injections and loans. That is the largest bail-out for any firm, anywhere, during the crisis. Is the government being, as AIG’s new chairman says, “very, very smart”, or has it been taken for one of the most expensive rides in corporate history?
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A key Democratic lawmaker called Tuesday for the resignation of American International Group's CEO after the troubled insurer held a financial planners conference last week at a posh Arizona resort....AIG had come under sharp criticism for sending executives on a lavish English partridge hunt and a weeklong retreat at a California resort after accepting an $85 billion bailout -- since grown to $150 billion -- from the federal government in September.
"These guys, they don't get it," Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, said on CNN's "American Morning."
"They came to us basically saying 'we are on the critical list, and we need a respirator,' and we bail them out, and the next thing we know, we turn around and they are going out partying and spending the taxpayers' dollars. And it's kind of -- it's very upsetting."
GRAPEVILLE, Pa. - Back in April, Mary Gannon, 54, was taking a shower when she felt the lump in her groin.
Mary earns $11 an hour in a doctor's office as a medical assistant. She's a temp worker, without health insurance.
The doctor she works for, Valerie Pricener, looked at her lump, didn't like what she saw, and wrote a prescription for a CT scan. That cost Mary $350. It showed a lump the size of a quarter.
The doctor sent Mary right upstairs to surgeon Mark A. Zelkovic, and he removed the lump in May. That cost Mary $3,000.
The biopsy came back May 27 - cancer.
Follicular lymphoma.
Mary's husband had died four years earlier of brain and lung cancer. It wasn't diagnosed until Stage 4, the most serious, and he died five months later. That's all she could think about.
How extensive was her cancer? Was it anywhere else in her body?
That day, after she learned the biopsy results, Mary called the Excela Health-Mountain View Diagnostic Testing Center to schedule a PET scan....The woman who answered the phone, Mary said, told her she wouldn't schedule the $3,000 PET scan unless Mary had insurance. The woman told Mary to apply for medical assistance from the state....Then she asked the surgeon's staff to make the appointment for the PET scan.
Another call. Same result.
"Apparently there were some issues with them," Zelkovic said of the Mountain View diagnostic center. "Unless [patients] have insurance, they have a hard time scheduling them. For whatever reason, that's their policy."
A spokesman for Excela Health, Robin Jennings, said the woman answering the phone likely offered to help Mary apply for charity care. The center requires an uninsured patient to apply for medical assistance and get denied - a process that can take weeks or longer.
Excela waits for the denial letter from medical assistance before offering charity care, Jennings said, to prevent against fraud.
And the thing I love about Latrice other then if she expects me to believe the hot island bikini photos shown in NBC10 Harry Hairston's interview a la Alycia Lane are "just friend" shots then I am the Tooth Fairy, is that she is a racist and has a job? What's wrong with Nutter? If a white woman held up a card at a City Council meeting with "KKK" on it would she still have a job? Wouldn't that be a "no" and it would be as much drama as speaking English to order cheese steaks in South Philly? Why did she even KEEP her job after this photo was taken by a million people? (And Stu, there ain't no such word as "ethics" in Philadelphia.)LOS ANGELES, Nov 06, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- When the NFL's AFC and NFC champions face off during February's Super Bowl game, cheating will be not only allowed but encouraged!
The naughty folks at AshleyMadison.com will be placing an advertisement in this year's Official Super Bowl Guide which will be distributed at Super Bowl XLIII and available on newsstands across the United States.
Considering ESPN pulled AshleyMadison.com from advertising on their network, it came as a pleasant surprise when Super Bowl Guide creators, National Event Publications, approached AshleyMadison.com about advertising in this year's Official Game Program.
According to Noel Biderman, President of AshleyMadison.com, "partnering with the Super Bowl is the perfect fit because over 50% of all men in the US typically watch the Super Bowl just like over 50% of all men will have an Affair at some point in their lives. "
Latrice Bryant, City Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr.'s controversial chief legislative aide, has been out of the news for a month.
But that's going to change today as Bryant, who made a citywide spectacle of herself in Council in September, will appear in an NBC 10 news story to be broadcast at 4 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Reporter Harry Hairston said Bryant called him last week to explain why she held up signs during Council's Sept. 18 session accusing Fox 29 News of racism.
Fox 29 spent the summer shadowing Bryant and then broadcast a report showing her attending to personal business while logged in as working at City Hall. The station later aired vacation pictures of Goode and Bryant looking very cozy in Jamaica in 2005.
Hairston said Bryant blamed her behavior on stress resulting from the Fox 29 attention.
"I think on one hand I was able to understand some of her concerns and what she felt," Hairston said. "But on the other hand I was a little bit confused as far as what she can see from this. What did she learn? Can't you see how this looks?"
BOSTON -- An online dating service that matches married men and women for affairs has launched an ad campaigns in Boston, according to the Boston Herald.
The Ashley Madison Agency, which uses the slogan "Life is short. Have an affair," started advertising on radio stations WAAF and WBCN last week, and TV ads will start to air soon.
Adultery is a criminal offense in the Bay State, but a spokeswoman for the Attorney General's office said no law enforcement agency in the state has enforced it in years.
COUNCILMAN W. Wilson Goode Jr. fulfilled his promise to Controller Alan Butkovitz when he wrote a personal check for $836.35 to reimburse the city for time his legislative aide/travel companion Latrice Bryant used for personal errands.
Goode had promised to pay if Bryant didn't.
That's a neat arrangement. My boss won't even pay my parking tickets.
(Editor's note: Staffers are reimbursed for tickets they get pursuing breaking news. Getting ticketed outside Club Risque rarely qualifies.)
Pamela Jones may never be able to shake the image from that bloody summer night: a man plunging a 30-inch blade into the chest of her dog, Baby, a 3-year- old American bulldog mix that she had rescued as a puppy from the SPCA.
Worse yet, it was her husband of 15 years who was wielding the samurai-style sword that killed the family dog inside their Ridley Township home four months ago.
Yesterday, a Delaware County judge found James Jones, 47, guilty of animal-cruelty and weapons charges after he entered a no-contest plea to both misdemeanor counts.
....She obtained a protection-from-abuse order against her husband the day after the July 13 incident - and plans to seek a divorce -....Jones, who has been imprisoned since his arrest, is scheduled to be sentenced in January following a psychological evaluation. Each of the charges carries a maximum five-year prison term, but the standard sentencing guidelines fall between probation and three months in jail for each count, his attorney said.
"This is a heartless and brutal act of cruelty and we are going to ask for a prison sentence that is commensurate with that act," Deputy District Attorney Greg Hurchalla said....at his sentencing hearing that he had not intended to "severely injure or kill the dog" and that the animal "was being aggressive" when the stabbing occurred, defense attorney Daniel Armstrong said.
Ah yes, a new spin to the famous line "I see dead people"... Now it's "I medicate dead people" Why is it so embarrassing to be from Pennsylvania? A registered nurse was charged Friday with stealing narcotics from the nursing home where she worked, after her cover-up story failed because she said she dispensed some of the drugs to a dead person, authorities said.
Heather L. Wolters, 30, of 414R Grandview Blvd., Bethlehem, faces 50 counts of drug and theft charges.
She is accused of stealing 10 vials of hydromorphone, a painkiller, that she claimed to have given to residents at Lehigh Center nursing home in Lower Macungie Township.
Supervisors at the home became suspicious when refilling an automated medication dispensing machine and noticing it needed an unusual amount of the drug, according to an affidavit by state police at Fogelsville.
The only employee who had signed into the dispensing system and removed hydromorphone was Wolters, the affidavit said.
She reportedly gave it to three residents, but supervisors checked their charts and none had been prescribed the drug.
One resident had died before the time when Wolters said she gave it to him, the affidavit said.
Beth Dunn.Welcome to the world of Social Climbers where the society season kicks off at the opening night of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Main Line ladies compete to get their names on committees, invitations and their picture in the newspaper.
SC Elizabeth Quinn is a young lady determined to make it to the Philadelphia A-list. Each invitation (or snub) is a benchmark of her struggle. While Elizabeth is a SC, she lacks the ferocity of the ladies she will encounter. She’ll see schoolyard cruelty, just polished up for the grown-up world and now finely honed into small humiliations.
Friends from The Agnes Irwin School and Lake Forest College, Kitty and Elizabeth, are “mean girls” grown-up.
Why is Jim Gerlach smiling? Because he beat Bob Roggio!
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