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LINCOLNTON An itinerant handyman stops by and promises his house-painting job will be first-class, fast and cheap.

But he only accepts cash.

When the stranger clears out with the money, all is well until the first rainfall.

Then a horrified homeowner watches as the fresh paint washes away.

Lincoln County Sheriff David Carpenter often hears stories like this after a group called the Irish Travelers descends on the area.

Their annual visits usually take place in the spring. But traveler sightings are already coming in and, although there have been no reported incidents this year, Carpenter recently issued a warning about the group.

The elderly are prime targets, especially in home repair and burglary scams. Carpenter said theyre usually at home alone during the day and traditionally have larger amounts of cash in the bank or in their homes.

Older folks are more trusting and more apt to take somebodys word, he said. Its sad. A good handshake and a good word used to mean something.

Carpenter said Irish Travelers are what law enforcement officers call members of the transient group, who are descendants of 19th-century Irish immigrants and many of whom are based in North Augusta, S.C., he said.

The group, which authorities say consists of members of a larger, law-abiding ethnic Irish community, travels into the local area using high-pressure sales tactics for driveway blacktopping or sealing, roof work or painting. Authorities said there are other people out there who pull these kinds of frauds, but call the travelers unique because of their mobility, organization and preference for working as family teams.

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NEW DELHI: India and the US still seem locked in a battle for righteousness over the Khobragade issue as the strategic partners pick up the pieces after the bitter standoff, bringing the bilateral engagement back on track by scheduling the energy dialogue next month.

With the US authorities refusing to withdraw visa fraud charges against diplomat Devyani Khobragade, Indian authorities are proceeding with the pursuit of tax issues related to American School employment contracts and are also closely following contracts entered into by US diplomats here with their domestic helps.

One such contract between a Mumbai-based US diplomat and his Filipina maid, a copy of which is with TOI, suggests that the maid is being paid less than $3 per hour. The minimum hourly wage in the US is $7.25.

According to her lawyer, Khobragade actually paid $9.75 per hour to her maid in New York, as promised by her in the employment contract, in the form of the amount paid here to her husband and also cash payments and "permissible deductions'' for various services in the US.

The US state department says that the salary paid to local staff of US diplomats is based on "prevailing wage rates and compensation practices''. Unlike the contract between Khobragade and her maid Sangeeta Richard, though, this one between the US official and his maid doesn't carry any stipulation of hours of work. The contract, which came into effect on December 1 last year, says the Filipina maid would work "six full workdays per week'' at a salary of $458 per month. Even at only eight hours per day, it is perhaps safe to assume she works well over 40 hours every week.

Authorities here believe the Khobragade contract was more favourably inclined towards the maid also because it restricted work to five days and 40 hours per week. The Filipina also has only five holidays apart from a 12-day annual leave and no ticket for home leave during the period of three years. On the other hand, all domestic helps going with Indian diplomats are entitled to a return air ticket after completing a year's stay abroad.

There was no response from the US embassy here on questions about the contract between the US diplomat and the Filipina maid. Like Richard, the Filipina maid too has rent-free accommodation, free internet and food allowance. She also has "appropriate contributions'' to the Philippine Social Security System. While the Filipina maid has medical insurance, Richard had "100 per cent'' medical cover under which all such expenses were borne by the Indian government.

In case of any negligence, the contract with the Filipina maid also specifies that all such issues will be decided by the employer only. There is no option of any recourse to local courts or US courts or even courts in the Philippines.

CNN reported in 2009, quoting a state department report, that many local staff of US diplomats across the world were being paid less than a dollar per day. The state department-mandated contract between Khobragade and Richard projected an average of 40 working hours per week (approximately a salary of $1,560 per month at an hourly wage of $9.75). Around $560 was given in the form of Rs 30,000 transferred to her husband's account, another $625 in cash and remaining in deductions.

Meanwhile, income tax department has also begun a probe into alleged tax violations by the American Embassy School here. "Once the preliminary information is gathered, the tax department would be taking a view on issuing notices to the authorities concerned. Also, the CBDT would be informed as this is not a regular case and involves relations between two countries," an agency report quoting government sources said.

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India and the US still seem locked in a battle for righteousness over the Khobragade issue as the strategic partners pick up the pieces after the bitter standoff, bringing the bilateral engagement back on track by scheduling the energy dialogue next month.

With the US authorities refusing to withdraw visa fraud charges against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, Indian authorities are proceeding with the pursuit of tax issues related to American school employment contracts and are also closely following contracts entered into by US diplomats here with their domestic helps.

One such contract between a Mumbai based US diplomat and his Filipino maid, a copy of which is with this paper, suggests that the maid is being paid less than $ 3 per hour. The minimum hourly wage in the US is $ 7.25.

According to her lawyer, Khobragade actually paid $ 9.75 per hour to her maid in New York, as promised by her in the employment contract, in the form of the amount paid here to her husband and also cash payments and "permissible deductions" for various services in the US.

The US State Department says that the salary paid to local staff of US diplomats is based on "prevailing wage rates and compensation practices". Unlike the contract between Khobragade and her maid Sangeeta Richard though, this one between the US official and his maid doesn't carry any stipulation of hours of work. The contract, which came into effect December 1 last year, says that the Filipino maid would work "six full workdays per week" at a salary of $ 458 per month. Even at only 8 hours per day, it is perhaps safe to assume she works well over 40 hours every week.

Authorities here believe that the Khobragade contract was more favourably inclined towards the maid also because it restricted work to 5 days and 40 hours per week. The Filipino also has only 5 holidays apart from a 12-day annual leave and no ticket for home leave during the period of 3 years. On the other hand all domestics going with Indian diplomats are entitled to a return airticket after completing a year's stay abroad.

There was no response from the US embassy here on questions about the contract between the US diplomat and the Filipino maid. Like Richard, the Filipino maid too has rent-free accommodation, free internet and food allowance. She also has "appropriate contributions" to Filipino Social Security System. While the Filipino maid has medical insurance, Richard had a "100 per cent" medical cover under which all such expenses were borne by the Indian government.

In case of any negligence, the contract with the Filipino maid also specifies that all such issues will be decided by the employer only. There is no option of any recourse to local courts or US courts or even courts in the Philippines.

CNN reported in 2009, quoting a State Department report, that many local staff of US diplomats across the world were being paid less than a dollar per day. The State Department mandated contract between Khobragade and Richard projected an average of 40 working hours per week (approximately a salary of $ 1560 per month at an hourly wage of $ 9.75). Around $ 560 was given in the form of Rs 30,000 transferred to her husband's account, another $ 625 in cash and remaining in deductions.

Meanwhile, Income Tax department has also begun a probe into alleged tax violations by the American Embassy school here. "Once the preliminary information is gathered, the tax department would be taking a view on issuing notices to the authorities concerned. Also, the CBDT would be informed as this is not a regular case and involves relations between two countries," an agency report quoting government sources said. As per the information available with the government, several teachers at the American Embassy School were working "illegally", in violation of both tax laws and their visa status.

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There are hip fashion shows. And then there are fashion shows that seek nothing less than to redefine just how hip a fashion show can be.

How else to describe a designer who can get crowds of the most discerning fashion to leave Manhattan on a frigid Saturday night in February and head to Brooklyn to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, yet for a 15-minute fashion show?

That would be Alexander Wang, 30, who presented the fall 2014 collection of his signature line (he is also creative director of Balenciaga in Paris) at a 100,000-square-foot greenhouse at the navy yard, a huge space that provided a dramatic backdrop to his inventive fashions. The production involved a rotating stage that moved the models around, and a futuristic-looking set that resembled some post-apocalyptic world.

The design label, perhaps knowing that many guests would feel reluctant to leave Manhattan, particularly after running from show to show all day long, provided free ferry boat service to Brooklyn and back, and also chartered buses.

In a post-show interview, Wang explained that he felt a duty to raise the bar and keep experimenting.

"Fashion is always evolving and changing, so why not have a location change?" he asked. "With every kind of change there is opposition, but I think that's the exciting thing ... to keep the conversation new."

And, he said, fashion and theater go hand in hand. "For me it's part of the process," he said. "You want to create an experience. Clothes are clothes, at the end of the day. You're not reinventing the wheel there. So you want to be proposing an idea that entertains people and gets them to come out to Brooklyn in the cold. There are so many fashion shows on the calendar, it's important to create that individual moment between you and the audience."

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SHARON (CBS) Members of the Sharon Fire Department and the Animal Rescue League of Boston saved a hawk Sunday afternoon that had become entangled in landscape netting, public safety officials said.

At about 1 p.m., firefighters were dispatched to Sentry Hill Road after public safety officials received a report of a large bird in distress. When the firefighters arrived, they found the hawk on the ground entangled in netting that had been placed around shrubbery.

The firefighters draped a blanket over the hawk, calming the animal, then cut the netting to free the bird of prey. Members of the Animal Rescue League of Boston took the hawk for possible treatment.

A hawk rescued from an entanglement in Sharon recovers at the Animal Rescue League of Boston on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014. (Credit: Animal Rescue League of Boston)

The Fire Department reported the netting had been place around vegetation to keep deer from eating it.

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The leaders of Eli Broad's planned Grand Avenue museum of contemporary art, to be called simply the Broad, will make news in three separate ways on Monday.

They will unveil designs for a new plaza adjacent to the museum by architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and landscape architect Walter Hood. They will name Bill Chait, who runs Bestia in the arts district, to oversee a new restaurant on the plaza with Timothy Hollingsworth, former chef de cuisine at French Laundry in the Napa Valley.

And they will announce that the opening of the museum has been pushed back from this fall to an unspecified date next year.

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It doesn't require too much cynicism to conclude that the release of the first two items is meant, in part, to draw some attention from the third. But for me the design of the plaza is the most meaningful bit of news here.

And that's not just because Bunker Hill is short on public space that is well-designed and friendly to pedestrians. It's also because the details of how the plaza will operate and who will own it make up a multilayered and in the end rather opaque story.

If the last few years have taught us anything about the role that public squares play in the contemporary city, it is that they are both more valuable to civic life and more fraught with legal and political complexity than ever.

The rise of digital technology has not dimmed our desire to gather in public. In fact, it may have intensified it. Recent revolutions have been sparked by a combination of text message and sit-in.

But scratch the legal surface of any public square, particularly in this country, and you're likely to find a tangle of restrictions and, in many cases, concessions to private interests.

In 2011 the Occupy movement sprung from Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, a privately owned public space a POPS, for short legally controlled by Brookfield Office Properties. Unlike city-owned parks in New York, Zuccotti was open 24 hours a day, making it possible for protestors to camp out there.

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