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Digging deeper into dungeon’s secrets Fourth suspect arrested, more children removed from still-growing Tacony nightmare where people were chained in basement {page 02}

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Third SRC member resigns Denise McGregor Armbrister yesterday became the third member of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission to resign since last month. Gov. Tom Corbett is expected to name a replacement soon, while his other nominee Pedro Ramos still awaits Senate confirmation.

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‘Sheer madness’ only thing to call dungeon Top police, city officials have hard time comparing what they have found in Tacony apartment building One of numerous kids taken from suspects suffered horrible injuries RON CORTES/POOL PHOTO

New details emerged yesterday as the complicated case of the four adults found chained to a basement boiler in Tacony continued to unfold, revealing a human trafficking ring reaching across at least four states in which mentally-disabled people were kidnapped and held captive for their social security checks. “It’s quite possibly one of the most visible signs of man’s inhumanity to man,” Mayor Michael Nutter said. “And I’m sure there’s much more to find out.” Police arrested a fourth woman, Jean McIntosh, daughter of alleged ringleader Linda Ann Weston, Tuesday night and charged her with the same offenses as those arrested Saturday. The group traveled to Virginia, Texas, Florida and, eventually, Philadelphia to evade suspicion. Authorities removed six juveniles and three adults from an apartment building Tuesday on the 4700 block of Longshore Avenue. McIntosh’s two children, aged 2 and 5, were taken into custody yesterday, bringing the total number of juveniles to eight. Police say they are still attempting to unravel the case, but that ensuring the safety of all of the children involved was their first priority. ALEX WIGGLESWORTH awigglesworth@metro.us

Captain Joe Green surveyed the living conditions of four victims in the basement of 4724 Longshore Ave.

‘Worst in 40 years’ One adult found Tuesday was Beatrice Weston, 19, Linda Ann Weston’s niece. Linda Ann was given custody of Beatrice when the child was 8 due to her birth mother’s unspecified

medical problems and an ongoing family feud. Beatrice was reported missing in 2009 because a relative saw her “looking skinny” and worried for her health, Ramsey said. Beatrice suffered healed fractures, burn marks, pellet-gun injuries, facial scarring and severe malnutrition.

Public Safety Everett Gillison will become Mayor Michael Nutter’s chief of staff, filling the position vacated by Clay Armbrister, officials said yesterday. Gillison has spent Nut-

ter’s entire first term overseeing the police, fire and prison departments. He will now serve as Nutter’s right hand and spokesman on a number of issues. The deputy mayor post will not be filled. METRO/SDL

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“transforms customers’ smartphones into their wallets, making tap and pay transactions quick and convenient by storing virtual versions of users’ credit cards on their phones,” according to NJ Transit. The service will be available at New York City’s Penn Station, Newark International Airport’s train station and on some bus routes. METRO/KB

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‘Hard’ to close empty classrooms Report found Philly School District will have rocky path downsizing 40K empty seats in city schools The Philadelphia School District’s process to downsize through school closings will likely be a contentious one with little financial benefit in the short-term, according to a report released yesterday. The report from Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Research Initiative, which examined the process in six other cities, found that the average an-

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employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the nation’s greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show. The figures demonstrate how the nation’s political and financial classes are prospering as the economy struggles with unemployment above 9 percent. BLOOMBERG

Middle class hit hard by past measures General strike, police clashes mark discontent of the masses Greece’s parliament gave initial approval yesterday to a new round of belt-tightening needed to avert default, despite violent protests during the biggest rally in two years against the bitterly resented measures. Hours after Greek police clashed with blackclad demonstrators outside parliament, all 154 of the ruling Socialist PASOK party’s lawmakers voted in favor of the measures, which must secure a second vote today before the new wave of austerity is enforced. The view of the ancient Acropolis was obscured by smoke from burning piles of rubbish and a bank

48 hrs Much of the country was shut down by the 48-hour general strike, the largest since the outbreak of the crisis two years ago — with government departments, oﬃces and shops closed and at least 100,000 people taking to the streets. building was evacuated after being set on fire by petrol bombs as a strike called by Greece’s two main unions degenerated into violence outside parliament.

“It’s one of the biggest demonstrations in recent years,” said Mary Bossis, international security professor at the University of Piraeus. “People showed they were determined to protest against these policies.” After repeated rounds of austerity measures, which have hit middle class Greeks hard, protesters said new cuts would only drive the stricken economy deeper into the ground. Unions urged deputies not to pass the law. Trapped in the fourth year of deep recession, which few now believe can be paid back, Greece has sunk even deeper into crisis. REUTERS

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An Ohioan collector of bears, lions and dozens of exotic animals allegedly freed them before killing himself yesterday. Terry Thompson kept the creatures in small pens and fed his lions meat from malnourished horses, an animal welfare expert said. “When he was charged with animal neglect, there were complaints that he wasn’t feeding his horses enough. ... When they would die, he would feed them to the lions,” said Larry Hostetler, executive director of the Muskingum County Animal Shelter. “We’ve been trying to get him shut down since 2003,” Hostetler said, adding that authorities had made several visits to Thompson’s farm since 2004 and found underfed animals with open sores.

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Thompson, 61, was found dead at the farm from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed most of the 50-odd lions, tigers, bears and other big animals he set loose from their pens. A monkey was still at large as of last night, the Muskingum County Sheriff said. Thompson was released

last month from federal prison on a firearms conviction; agents raided his farm in June 2008 and found 133 guns. Court documents showed that he told an informant he dealt guns illegally after giving up his license five years earlier. Thompson’s wife cared for the animals during his absence, Hostetler said. REUTERS

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GOP special delivery: Herman Cain on top? The pizza man cometh Surprise libertarian candidate makes splash among right wing His 999 plan is the standout policy among debaters

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Tuesday’s GOP debate confirmed it: A new force — the Herminator — has entered U.S. politics. Pizza entrepreneur Herman Cain, once dismissed as a political joke, is the surprise Republican front-runner. Recent polls show Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, ahead of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. That’s a gigantic leap for Cain, a man with almost no political experience or name power, who began his campaign with a tiny war chest. But the fact that Cain is so different from the other

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Lindsay Lohan in cuffs once more Trying to figure out Lindsay Lohan’s many legal infractions is like trying to remember all the Duggar kids: There are just too many to count. Yesterday the actress got into even more trouble while at her progress report hearing in Los Angeles, Calif. Judge Stephanie Sautner scoffed at the lack of hours put toward her court-ordered community service and suspended Lohan’s probation. Her bail was set at $100,000 (which Lohan quickly paid); and to add insult to injury, she was handcuffed before she was taken into custody. But before Lohan even walked into a courtroom

Wolverine as James Bond? Hugh Jackman says he was

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All was not well in Grammer marriage Kelsey Grammer thinks that ex-wife Camille Grammer had some pretty tough expectations when they first got together. “I think she married me because I was ‘Frasier,’” Kelsey tells Piers Morgan in an interview. “[Frasier] had

yesterday, Judge Sautner ordered that she be taken off her community service assignment at the Red Cross and focus instead on the 120 hours of work she must complete at the county morgue, according to TMZ. She will apparently be cleaning tables where autopsies are performed, the site reports. She’ll also be doing basic custodial duties like sweeping floors, cleaning toilets and emptying the trash. Just to help refresh your memory, Lohan’s current legal problems stem from her 2007 drunk-driving conviction and a jewelry theft conviction earlier this year.

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interest in you for Bond. Are you interested?’ At the time, I wasn’t,” Jackman says, according to Total Film. “I was about to shoot ‘X-Men 2,’ and ‘Wolverine’ had become this thing in my life. I didn’t want to be doing two such iconic charac-

claims that his ex-wife’s involvement on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” was something of a “parting gift” from him. “It was a very difficult marriage and a very difficult decade,” he says. “I thought, ‘So long, here’s a present for you.’”

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ters at once.” Still, should anything happen to knock Craig out of the role, Jackman still wants to be considered. “I think every male at some point thinks about playing James Bond,” he says. “So it was not right then, but it may be right

Clooney’s recent PDA George Clooney and Stacy Keibler are upping the ante when it comes to red carpet displays of affection, according to Us Weekly. Most recently? Hitting Paris for the French premiere of his new film, “The Descendants,” with Keibler on his arm — just as she was early this week in New York. Clooney and Keibler “gazed adoringly at each other” while stopping for photographs on the way into the theater.

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if it comes back.” The singing and dancing Jackman as Bond? Yes, please! It’s about time to have a Bond who can shoot darts out of his cuff links while throwing down a tap dancing routine at the same time.

at Elle magazine’s 18th annual Women in Hollywood Tribute, and her presenter, pal Reese Witherspoon, couldn’t contain her enthusiasm for the former “Friends” star, according to Us Weekly. “On one hand, she is this gorgeous, breathtaking beauty that men lose their thought process and their speech patterns [over] — I’ve actually seen this, it’s incredible when they see her — and, on the other hand, she is a woman who lets you in,” Witherspoon gushed. “There’s not that many people actually that have this incredible combination. You just want to get your nails done with her, and you want to make out with her at the same time ... at least I do.”

Today, Patton Oswalt is easily intimidated, Andy Richter has specific music tastes, Martha Plimpton notices the strangest things and Alec Baldwin is learning new things about himself. @pattonoswalt Jesus Christ, the 2 dudes who work at this EZ-LUBE are ALSO gorgeous. My car's getting fixed in an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue. @Andy_Richter My favorite country songs are the ones about country songs. @MarthaPlimpton People ask @AlecBaldwin about pizza a lot. That's all I’m saying. @AlecBaldwin Some website wrote that I’m worth $65 mill, so have no cred at OWS. Man.....news to me. Didn’t know I had $65 mill.

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Let’s hear it for the boys! 1: Harrison Ford (with his earring) spoke during the Senate General Aviation Caucus meeting at the Capitol Visitor's Center in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. 2: Hugh Jackman was spotted rehearsing for his new Broadway show “Back on Broadway” in New York on Tuesday. 3: Adam Levine attended the grand opening of M. Fredric at Westfield Valencia Town Center in Valencia, Calif.

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THE PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL TURNS Times have changed, but the need to properly present thoughtful, engaging films has not This year’s highlights When the Philadelphia Film Festival debuted, there was no Netflix. There were no DVDs to slip into non-existent Netflix envelopes. And there was not — prepare yourself — high-speed Internet for those nights when you’d rather just stream “Eurotrip” and ignore the artsy new release judging you from the coffee table. And so 20 years later, while the festival is no longer the only chance to see many films, it is a rare opportunity to experience them in a theater, with people, far removed from the temptations of that highspeed Internet. “With all these alternative means of

distribution, the festival becomes almost the domestic release for a lot of these films,” says J. Andrew Greenblatt, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Film Society and the festival. “In a city like Philadelphia, where we only have something like 14 screens in Center City, the festival identifies these films and shows them in the way they deserve to be shown.” Spanning 15 days and packing 120 films, there’s plenty to see. We asked Greenblatt for three of his can’t-miss picks. MONICA WEYMOUTH

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Opening the festival tonight, “Like Crazy” took home the Grand Jury prize at Sundance this year. “It’s a powerful, beautiful, heartbreaking but ultimately fulfilling film,” says Greenblatt of this story of a budding romance interrupted by visas and the red tape that comes with them. “On the surface it looks like it skews younger, but it really does appeal to all audiences.” Tonight, 8 p.m., The Annenberg Center; Sunday, 2 p.m., The Ritz East

‘Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears’ This documentary on the legendary Philly boxer is just one of a collection of sports-oriented films this year. “‘Joe Frazier’ was a

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in a boating accident. “It’s certainly going to get him the nomination — if not the award — he’s been waiting for,” says Greenblatt of Clooney’s performance. Closing night: Oct. 29, 7 p.m., The Annenberg Center

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“Paranormal Activity 3” “Catfish” director Henry Joost takes on the third installment of this reality TV-like horror series, which shows haunted lady Katie’s first experiences with supernatural entities back in 1988.

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“Margin Call” Did you not exactly wrap your head around the fiscal meltdown of September 2008? Well, this finance thriller, if we can call it that, aims to explain it with a stellar cast including Kevin

“Johnny English Reborn” Mr. Bean may be lost and gone forever, but Rowan Atkinson returns with a special agent for MI7, whose cluelessness just happens to be one of his best tools for saving the day.

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“Footloose” The 1980s classic starring Kevin Bacon gets an update. Yes, dancing is still banned in an entire town, but director Craig Brewer’s take on what could’ve been even worse than “Step Up 3D” is much smarter than it looks.

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REALITY. This Southern-fried spin on the dating competition pits country girls against city gals in a contest for the heart of Alabama native Tribble Reese. Twenty-two ladies — including Jon Gosselin fling Hailey Glassman — head south to meet Tribble, who is not actually a furry little “Star Trek” creature, but a former quarterback. Season premiere, 9 p.m., CMT

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California four-piece grow up with ‘Only in Dreams’ Singer talks about what she thinks is and isn’t different with her band’s new album The difference between the Dum Dum Girls’ 2010 debut and this year’s “Only in Dreams” is undeniable. Yet singer and guitarist Kristen Gundred tries to deny it. At least at first. “To me it’s not a dramatic shift,” she says. “It’s part

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of a process.” The singer, who writes all of the songs and goes by the stage name of Dee Dee, says that if there is any difference, it may have to do with her recording setup. “When I started, it was just something I was doing in my spare time in my house,” she says, “but what I do, it hasn’t changed much. I write simple pop songs, and try to infuse them with meaningful words. That’s always been my deal.” It’s hard to tell if she’s being humble or stubborn.

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We all owe the company store After the Civil War, former slaves who continued to work on plantations invariably learned that they owed more to the “company store” than they had earned by their labors. As a result, they were required to work to pay off the debt; thus, becoming enslaved once again. In 2011, many Americans overburdened with debt, limited income and opportunity face a similar scenario, but instead of the “company store,” they are obligated to banks.

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to remember any Republicans screaming about the national credit card that Bush was using to fund two wars and the Prescription Drug bill. The difference between Obama and Bush is that while Obama is trying to bail the country out of the mess the Republicans spent us into, Bush just put money into the pockets of his cronies. BARB MILUSKI, VIA E-MAIL

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Over the past month of reading your articles, it has been plainly evident that you are trying to undermine the OWS movement in any way you can. Did you treat the Tea Party rallies and their supporters with the same critical eye? Shame on you.

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Comedy Brian Posehn Tonight, 8 p.m. $24, The Trocadero www.thetroc.com “The Sarah Silverman Program” comedian’s new album is, obviously, titled “Fart & Weiner” jokes. His debut album, 2006’s “Live in Nerd Rage,” will be free at the door.

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Opens Oct. 22, 9 p.m. Downey’s Bar and Restaurant, 526 S. Front St. www.byebyeliver.com The Pub Theater Company presents this satire on lovable drunks and their lessthan-lovable mornings, starring local sketch comics. To set the mood, you’re invited to chime in on games of “Never Have I Ever” and dig in to $10 buckets of beer.

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Hanson is MMMback We’ll make this quick before we make another bad “MMMbop” joke: Hanson is in town tonight, and as the long line of 20-something girls lurking outside

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Wildcats look to thrive on lower expectations Villanova’s young roster will have to mature quickly in tough Big East Players seemed to bond during summer trip to Europe Wright’s squad ranked eighth in preseason poll JIM MCISAAC/GETTY IMAGES

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Villanova is used to being picked among the top teams in the Big East. But this year is different. After failing to win a game in the Big East tournament and NCAA tournament last season, the young ‘Cats were picked eighth in the preseason coaches’ poll. Much of that has to do with the losses of Corey Fisher, Corey Stokes and Antonio Pena. Maalik Wayns, who was voted preseason All-Big East second team, is now the leader, Mouphtaou Yarou needs to become a dominant force down low, and James Bell and Dominic Cheek will enter the starting lineup. Villanova coach Jay Wright believes a trip to Europe this summer really helped his team mesh and get ready for the season. “When you have a young team, it takes some time,” Wright said. “But

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The Big East still wants to expand to 12 teams for football. The plan is to add SMU, Houston, UCF, Navy, Air Force and Boise St. They would join existing schools: UConn, Cincinnati, USF, West Virginia, Louisville and Rutgers. No invitations have gone out yet, according to commissioner John Marinatto.

1. UConn (7) 209 points (tie) Syracuse (5) 209 pts 3. Louisville (3) 201 pts 4. Pittsburgh (1) 188 pts 5. Cincinnati 169 pts 6. Marquette 155 pts 7. West Virginia 132 pts 8. Villanova 127 pts 9. Notre Dame 114 pts 10. Georgetown 104 pts 11. Rutgers 75 pts 12. St. John’s 71 pts 13. Seton Hall 56 pts 14. South Florida 43 pts 15. Providence 40 pts 16. DePaul 27 pts

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eign tour and I think his lowest output was 15 [points] and 12 [rebounds],” Wright said. “I think he’s ready to break out on the scene.” Villanova will open on Nov. 11 at home against Monmouth. A projected eighth-place finish in the 16-team Big East may seem low, but maybe the lower expectations will benefit Wright’s young roster.

we were able to go away this summer, to Europe, together. And we really got a lot out of it. Our guys really came down together really quick.” The ‘Cats, typically reliant on guard play, will have more size and bulk than usual with Yarou, Maurice Sutton, and freshmen JayVaughn Pinkston and Markus Kennedy in the front-court rotation. “This summer Mouph [Yarou] played against a lot of NBA players on this for-

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