NORTON SCIENTIFIC:Stand-up Comic Jim Norton, a New Jersey Boy, Returns to the Wellmont - Montclair, NJ Patch

Jim Norton, who plays at the Wellmont Theatre on Saturday night, says that if Charlie Sheen was a comedian, "he'd be me."
In an interview with Patch, Norton—best known as a stand-up comic who appears on the "Tonight Show" about once a month—complained that Sheen has gotten a bit of a bad rap.
"I don't agree with everything he says or does but I really admire the guy's honesty," Norton said. "People say they like the truth but they really don't if it's not what they want to hear."
In fact, Norton talked a lot about Sheen, perhaps because he'll be drawing some of his comic material from Sheen's life during his show at the Wellmont on Saturday night at 8 p.m.
When asked if he really is like Sheen, Norton said that: "The difference between me and him is that I've been sober since I was 18 and I'm now 42. I was turning into one of those afterschool-special kinds of kids and so I had to stop."
Norton said he couldn't believe a reporter asked Sheen why he likes "porn girls."
"How can anyone ask him that and consider it journalism?" he said. "You don't ask a man that. What do you expect him to say?"
"What about all these politicians who legislate against homosexuality and actually they are gay?" he said. "Why don't people go after them?
"At least Charlie is honest and people should give him that much," he said.
Norton said that not only will he talk about Sheen on Saturday night, but he'll also pick apart the lives of Tiger Woods and Mel Gibson, and examine world affairs in general.
"I'll also be talking about my own dysfunctional stuff," he said.
Norton, heard on Opie & Anthony on XM Satellite radio, also has appeared on FX's "Louie" and HBO's "Bored to Death."
Although he now lives in New York City, he grew up in Edison and says he's still a Jersey boy at heart.
"I'm prone to depression like most New Jersey people," he said.
So why did Norton move to Manhattan?
"If I had to sit in the Lincoln Tunnel traffic one more time I was going to commit a murder and wind up in prison," he said.
Even so, he played a Jersey boy in "Crooks," a straight-to-video release about Bayonne postal workers stealing stamps.
All in all, Norton is hysterical, even on the phone. At one point, the connection cut out. When he called back he said, "sorry about that ... sometimes it's hard when you have an iPhone to get service in a little town like Manhattan."
Norton said he's played the Wellmont before and that he tries to do at least two or three gigs in New Jersey each year.
"I don't want to do too much because I like to have a lot of new material before I come back," he said.
Norton said he would love to do another HBO special and that he continues to enjoy his work on the "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
"Jay is phenomenal and no one treats comedians better than him," he said. "He's fun to work with and he lets you be edgier than other shows."
Although Norton's favorite TV show is "The Wire," he said he also respects comedies like "South Park."
"I respect it because the show attacks everyone the same ... they attack every race and religion and ideology," he said. "And that's what comedy is. It should take off the gloves. Everyone is fair game."

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NORTON SCIENTIFIC:Home ground advantage suits Snowden

Peter Snowden is hoping to cash in on a rare home ground advantage when feature racing heads to Warwick Farm for the next two Saturdays.

The southwestern Sydney racetrack will play host to its feature Group One Chipping Norton Stakes day on Saturday, while Saturday week's Randwick Guineas meeting has been transferred to Warwick Farm this year.
"It's definitely an advantage, racing on your home track is always an advantage," Snowden said after overseeing trackwork on Thursday.
"To get these next two meetings here is a big plus for us."
Snowden doesn't have a Chipping Norton runner but has chances in Saturday's other feature races with Parables (Surround Stakes), Pinwheel (Liverpool City Cup), Brasileira (Wiggle Quality) and Anise (Clarry Conners Plate).
Snowden holds Anise, a $600,000 yearling purchase, in high regard but needs to see the two-year-old filly do it again in the Clarry Conners Plate (1100m) to confirm feature race plans.
The trainer already has dominant Golden Slipper favourite Sepoy waiting in the wings at Darley's new Agnes Banks property following his explosive Blue Diamond win last Saturday.
Sepoy has continued to step up and surprise Snowden, elevating him to the top of the pile among this season's juveniles.
"That's racing," Snowden says.
"Every good horse, they don't just have it written on their forehead when they are born. It's a natural progression and some do it and some don't.
"Some promise you the world and give you an Atlas. They come in all shapes and sizes but it's a pleasant surprise when you get one like him (Sepoy).
"This filly (Anise) has always promised a bit and she may not deliver what she's been promising, and that's what racing is all about.
"But where she's at at the moment I'm happy with. Her work has been good, she has trialled well and she should be competitive on Saturday."
Anise won her only start in November by 1-3/4 lengths over Saramenha who had put together two straight city wins prior to that race.
Later in the day Parables will be out to add the Group Two Surround Stakes to her win in the Group Three Silver Shadow Stakes at Warwick Farm last August.
The Lonhro filly finished off from back in the field for third to Obsequious in the Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) first-up on February 12.
"Her first-up run was good, the 1400 metres second-up is perfect for her and on her home track is a big plus as well," Snowden said.
"She'll run well."
Consistent sprinter Pinwheel is the second favourite for the Group Three Liverpool City Cup (1300m).
Pinwheel, who has finished in the top two in 15 of his 17 starts, won the Canterbury Classic (1100m) first-up and then chased home Sister Madly when second in the Group Three Southern Cross Stakes (1200m) on February 12.
"He's drawn okay (nine) in a tough race and has plenty of weight (57.5kg) but he's an ultra-consistent horse and no doubt he'll run well again," Snowden said.

NORTON SCIENTIFIC: Norton Leads Fight to Avoid D.C. Shutdown

The District’s representative to the U.S. Congress is working to make sure that the city is not adversely affected if the federal government is shutdown in the near future.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is offering legislation, in the form of an amendment that would allow the city to spend its local funds for the remainder of the fiscal year, avoiding the possibility of a District government shutdown if the Congress fails to pass an appropriations bill by March 18, which would shutdown the federal government.

“We are hopeful that my amendment will take the D.C. government out of this congressional dispute, whenever and however it ends,” Norton, 73, said.

“It should be unthinkable for the federal government to harm the fragile economy of a local jurisdiction for any reason. Count this congressional fight as just one more reason that the District needs to have autonomy over its local budget.”

The threat of the shutdown is the latest battle that Norton and the District’s political leadership are waging with the Re-publican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives over the spending priorities of the city. The U.S. Congress must ap-prove the District’s budget, even though city taxpayers fund it.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said that his city should not shutdown because political leaders on the federal level cannot come together to enact a budget.

“We need a continuing resolution from the U.S. Congress to make sure that the District does not close down,” Gray, 68, said. “It is not right that the residents of the District should suffer this way. We are treated like an agency of the federal government and that is not right.”

Gray said that other large cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and New York City do not have to submit their budgets to the federal government or even their state governments for approval.

Norton said that she is sure that most of her colleagues on Capitol Hill, even Republicans, would not want the nation’s capital to close because of their inability to pass a budget.

“We are sure that there is no congressional intention to close down the District’s local government because of congressional disagreement over the federal budget,” she said.

“In fact, most members are completely unaware that the District would have to close if the federal government closes.”

A federal government shutdown would have a profound effect on the District. The shutdown of 1995, which lasted five days in November of that year, temporarily closed libraries, affected road repairs and caused the furlough of city workers such as health providers and building inspectors.

The shutdown in 1996 did not affect the city because Norton managed to get the U.S. Congress to exempt the District.

A federal government shutdown would affect some city services that get federal assistance such as the court system and programs that include the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency that work with ex-offenders. The real backlash would be economic, with national parks and museums in the city closed, delays in processing passports and veterans claims, and federal contractors not being paid.

The level of direct federal government support that the District receives is small. Norton pointed out that the District received annual payments for the services that the federal government used in the city and the fact that federal land cannot be taxed.

That arrangement changed when the D.C. control board was created to straighten out the city’s chaotic finances, Norton said.

“In exchange for the federal payment, we gave up paying for the District’s court system, the prison and most of the city’s Medicaid management,” she said. “That was a good deal at the time because those were expensive for the District to maintain at the time.”

Norton said, “This crisis is why we need budget autonomy.”

“We would not have to deal with this if the city could manage its own finances,” she said.

The House passed a budget last month that would have cut $60 billion in federal programs and entitlements. The District would have to deal with a reduction of $80 million in federal funding, a prospect that Gray finds unsettling considering that the city itself has a projected deficit up to $600 million.

“We already have revised our budget by hundreds of millions of dollars and face even more severe challenges as we look to fiscal year 2012,” Gray said.
Gray said that the elimination of funding for the Corporation for National Service, which manages AmeriCorps and Serve D.C., at the level of $22 million is “not right.” He also said that the House budget could impact programs such as school reform, funding for HIV/AIDS and needle exchange.

District activists are so outraged by the House budget that activists who represent DC Vote, an organization that supports greater political empowerment for D.C. residents, picketed the home of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thu. Feb. 17. DC Vote leaders did not like provisions that would have stripped District funding of HIV/AIDS programs and abortions for low-income women.

DC Vote held a “Direct Action on Capitol Hill” event on the U.S. Senate side on Wed., March 2.

D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) served as the city’s mayor when the 1995-1996 federal government shut-downs took place. Barry, 74, said that the shutdown was a power play instituted by then House Speaker Newt Gingrich to put a check on the Clinton administration.

“I don’t think it is going to happen but if it does, it will have a ripple effect around the world,” he said.

Norton agrees with Barry’s point about a potential District shutdown’s impact.

“D.C. residents are not alone in relying on vital District services,” she said. “Federal officials, including the president, federal buildings, foreign embassies and dignitaries, and businesses rely daily on the city’s services, as well.”

norton scientific:Gateshead Reserves 2 Norton & Stockton Ancients 0

A goal in each half from Gateshead reserves full-back Luke Gilbert and striker Brian Wake denied Norton & Stockton Ancients a first appearance in the final of the Durham Challenge Cup.
Gateshead reserves bossed the opening half twice hitting the top of the bar through Kris Wilkinson and Steven Baptist.
Former Gateshead keeper Jim Provett tipped an early Wake shot past the angle, Provett then saving from Luke Gilbert.
Another Provett save denied Wake but Wilkinson should have polished off the rebound only to clip the bar from eight yards.
Provett, however, was at fault for Gateshead’s 36th minute close range opener from Gilbert when he missed a Rob Briggs corner. Norton should have levelled three minutes after the break when Dan Kerr race clear but the striker toe-poked wide.
It was a costly miss as Briggs’ through ball saw Wilkinson set up a tap-in for Wake, the Teessider’s 16th of the season for the reserves.
A spirited Norton & Stockton fought in vain to get back into the game, substitute Nathan Mulligan and Theodore Furness both going close late on.

Gateshead’s second string will now play either Dunston UTS or Spennymoor Town in the Durham Challenge Cup final on Good Friday at the Hetton Centre.
GATESHEAD RESERVES: Farman, Gilbert, Baxter, Ferrell, Heckingbottom, Lay (Robinson 74), Marwood (J.Bogie 85), Briggs, Wake, Wilkinson (Brown 62), Baptist. Subs: Porter, Young.
NORTON & STOCKTON ANCIENTS: Provett, Furness, Bishop, D.Mulligan, Gaston, S.Clarke (Brown 76), Huggins, Burton (N.Mulligan 66), J.Clarke (Owens 65), Gott, Kerr. Sub (not used): Lawson.

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norton scientific: William Norton led life of action as a cop | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/03/2011

ALL IN A DAY'S WORK, William Norton might have said.
Like gunfights, drug battles, and getting assaulted by an angry pit bull named Bullet.
William Norton was a cop. And although a lot of officers could go through a career and rarely draw their guns or be seriously injured on duty, William was often where the action was.
One of his more dangerous jobs was when he helped narcotics cops bust a Jamaican drug ring by posing as a crooked cop and accepting protection money. The district attorney's office hailed him as a hero.
William Norton, who was a patrol officer out of the 19th District, in West Philadelphia, for 16 years and an Army veteran, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 62 and lived in Drexel Hill.
William suffered a number of serious illnesses in recent years, including two triple heart bypasses, a kidney transplant and amputation of both legs.
He had a long history of seizures as the result of suffering a skull fracture while quelling a domestic dispute in 1994. The injury forced him to retire a year later.
But William was a tough guy - called "Scrap Iron" by colleagues on the force - and he never gave in to his afflictions.
"He was a fighter," said his daughter Tameka Fidler, herself a former cop. "Every morning he got up and turned on his music. He learned to use prosthetics and he would turn on his favorites, David Ruffin, the soul singer, or the Isley Brothers."
William loved to tell stories of his days as a cop. And he had some stories to relate.
In 1989, he pretended to be a crooked cop and started taking bribe money from drug dealers. As the Daily News' Dave Racher wrote, William could have "added $2,000 a week to his take-home pay, plus all the cocaine he could snort."
But William took the dealers' money, nearly $5,000 in all, and the only thing he gave them was a ticket to jail.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Perricone, who prosecuted the dealers, said that William "showed a lot of courage. He could have decided to look the other way. He was concerned about stemming the flow of drugs in the community."
One September day in 1988, William and his partner, Samuel Blue, chased a man from a street disturbance into a house in West Philadelphia.
When the door opened, the pit bull Bullet sprang for the officers. He knocked William down and bit Blue on the arm, before being wounded by a third officer.
In May 1982, William, his partner, Andre Blaylock, and other officers were involved in a melee in West Philadelphia in which a man who was terrorizing employees in a carpet store was shot to death and six cops were wounded.
When cops confronted the man, Jerome Gant, 24, he swung a 2-by-4 piece of lumber at them, then grabbed an officer's service revolver and opened fire, wounding the six officers.
William, Blaylock and Highway Patrolman Neil Carr fired at the man, killing him. Morton B. Solomon, then the police commissioner, said that the officers tried to use as little force as possible.
"It appears the officers acted in a professional manner under an extremely difficult circumstance," Solomon said.
Early on the morning of Sept. 25, 1984, William and a partner, Michael Doyle, questioned two men on Locust Avenue near Bloyd Street because they were acting suspiciously.
The men said that they lived in a house there, and the officers escorted them in. They were immediately assailed by a powerful odor that told them only one thing - someone was cooking meth. The woman of the house was charged with drug offenses.
William Norton was born in Philadelphia to Irene Norton and William Trustee. He graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in 1966 and joined the Army. He served eight years, mostly as a military policeman in the Philippines.
He joined the Police Department after his discharge. He married Evelyn Norton in 1991.
After retiring, William worked for a time in school security before his health failed.
Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by three other daughters, Krishawna Bullard, Britney Stone and Dominque Norton; a sister, Sharlene Brown; two brothers, Robert and Ricardo Norton; and eight grandchildren.
Services: 11 a.m. tomorrow at Lansdowne Baptist Church, 17 E. Lacrosse Ave., Lansdowne. Friends may call at 9 a.m. Burial with full military honors will be held at 2:30 p.m. in Washington Crossing National Cemetery, in Newtown.

STANG ADVANCES: Spartans turn up the heat in fourth quarter against Norton

NORTON —

The legs were there for the home stretch.
Turning up their transition game in crunch time, Bishop Stang scored 21 fourth-quarter points to beat Norton 56-52 in a Division 3 South boys’ basketball first-round game Wednesday night at Norton High School.
A five-point third quarter left the Spartans behind 38-35, but a Tyler Dedrick fast-break basket immediately got things going in the fourth.
Stang scored the first six points of the fourth quarter. And after Norton’s Steve Burrill buried a 3-pointer to tie the game, the Spartans rattled off the nine points to lead 50-41 with 2:49 remaining.
This win sends the Spartans (13-6) into the quarterfinals against top-seeded Medway (18-3) on Friday at 7 p.m.
Five of Stang’s nine fourth-quarter baskets came on fast breaks. Three of those came against Norton’s full-court press after a Norton basket. And the final two of those were scored by 6-foot-2 senior Matt Vargas, after the eighth-seeded Lancers had closed to 52-45 and then to 54-49 with 26.6 seconds to play.
“At the end, our transition game finally kicked in,” Stang coach Joe Balestracci said. “It’s a big court, so I was a little worried about us getting tired But I don’t know if they (Norton) were a little tired maybe.”
In the closing minutes, after having bumped its lead to as many as nine points, the Spartans, with guards Ryan Early and Dedrick at the throttle, efficiently executed the offense.
“We want to score in transition if we have it,” Balestracci said.. “If not we want to pull it out, delay for half the shot clock, and then run an offense. Three or four times we came down and got a layup, so that’s great.”
A.J. Marshall, with eight fourth-quarter points, finished with a team-high 16. Vargas scored seven of his 14 points in the fourth.
Melanson, Stang’s 6-6 senior, was the man early. He scored Stang’s first eight points, in the opening 4:26.
“They (Norton) started doubling down. They started looking for the ball going into him,” Balestracci said. “So you can’t leave Vargas alone. Dedrick can shoot even better than he did tonight, I think, and Early. And Marshall gave us some huge hoops tonight. Huge hoops. A jump shot from the corner. That 10-foot layup. He had a heck of a game, too.”
Early and Dedrick each had two big assists for layups in the last three minutes.
Stang did have a couple late hiccups. A five-second violation on an inbound and then a foul on a tough 3-point shot. But right after Norton’s Steve Burrill converted two of the three free throws to make it 54-49, early fed a streaking Vargas for Stang’s final points.
For Norton (15-8), Colin Feeney, a 6-4 junior, bagged a game-high 22 points, including 10 in the first quarter when he and Melanson went head to head.
No other Lancer scored in double figures. Senior guard Joe Wilkes scored eight and senior forward Joe Tessier came off the bench to bag seven.
“They (Stang) got good high-percentage shots at the beginning of that fourth quarter,” Liberatore said, “and that put us in a hole.
“That’s an 8-9 game, evenly matched,. Obviously (Peter) Melanson had a great game for them. We played him better in the second half. They rebounded the ball better than us, and I thought that was a nice advantage for them. They made a couple of more plays than we did in the fourth quarter to their credit.”

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As the legal proceedings concerning the future of the Norton estate come to an end, we can expect a much needed fresh wave of publications. Click to read more ...

Andre Norton passed away
Andre Norton, one of the greatest Fantasy writers of the 20th century, passed away at her home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on March 17th, 2005.

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Three Hands for Scorpio is Andre's last non-collaborative literary work, due to be published in April this year. You might have read some moving stories about the publisher rushing to print a copy of the book to show it to Ms. Norton before she passed away and how she liked the cobalt blue cover. You will find a cover scan and a review inside.

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Norton accuses GOP of trying to 'humiliate' and 'disrespect' Gray

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) ripped into her Republican colleagues Tuesday morning at a hearing on the District's school voucher program, accusing them of trying to "humiliate" Mayor Vincent C. Gray and "disrespect his office."

The dispute centers on Gray's absence from the hearing -- convened by the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives -- to evaluate the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. The program, which provides low-income D.C. students federal money to pay for private school tuition, has long divided local officials.

As late as Monday evening, Gray was included on a witness list published by the subcommittee. An opponent of continuing the scholarship program -- which congressional Democrats have sought to end, while Republicans want to keep it going -- Gray had been slated to serve as the one "minority witness" selected by panel Democrats.

Late Monday night, the committee said Gray was no longer scheduled to appear and would be replaced by another Democratic witness. So why did the mayor cancel?

In her opening statement at the hearing, Norton lashed out at committee Republicans for their treatment of Gray, saying the mayor had made a few small scheduling requests to ensure he could appear and was denied by the panel majority.

"In 20 years of service in the Congress I have never seen any highly placed public official treated so shabbily," Norton said, adding: "It was offensive, petty and beneath the dignity of Congress."

At a break during the hearing, Norton elaborated on her complaints. She said Gray had asked if the hearing could begin a bit earlier than it's scheduled 9:30 a.m. start time, and was denied. She said Gray then asked if he could be the first witness to testify, so he could leave right away afterwards. Norton said Gray was told he could serve on the first panel -- which also included parents and students participating in the scholarship program -- but wouldn't necessarily get to testify first.

Norton said that congressional panels typically did not treat high-ranking witnesses that way, nor was it common to ask elected officials to testify on a panel with their constituents. But she also said she did not believe the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), was involved in the decision not to accommodate Gray.

"The chairman knew nothing about it," Norton said. "I don't know who did it but my best guess is that it is someone on the staff."

Before the hearing began, a committee GOP aide said reporters would have to ask Gray's office for details on why he had cancelled his appearance. As of this posting, the committee had not responded to a follow-up request for comment on Norton's complaints. Gray's office had also not responded to a request for comment.

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The Braintree High girls basketball team defeated Braintree 67-60 Tuesday in the first round of the South Division 1 playoffs.

Amanda McKenney and Rachel Norton led the way for the Wamps with 23 and 14 points, respectively, while freshman Jen Whyte added 10. Tasha Bernardez (26 points) and Amber Dillon (18) paced the Warriors.

Sixth-seeded Braintree will play the winner of today's Wellesley-Needham game. The schedule for the next game has not been set.