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The government has shut itself down. But not before a motion was made to pay its most elite employees. Given the situation, its frighteningly irresponsible that our political leaders should be taking a paid break. In celebration of paid vacations, I am going to finish evaluating my prediction from last winter about Twins prospects (while working at the ole day job).
(Will DJ get his "hog-on" in 2014?)
I recently critiqued my predicted top-10 list for the end of 2013, which was dreamt up last January. Check it out here. Today, we will see how I did on prospects #11-20. For comparison purposes, I will list my prediction alongside MLB.coms actual list.
My Prediction MLB.coms Actual List 11. Nate Roberts 11. Travis Harrison 12. Zach Jones 12. Daniel Santana 13. Mason Melotakis 13. Miguel Sulbaran 14. Josmil Pinto 14. Mason Melotakis 15. Daniel Santana 15. Luke Bard 16. D.J. Baxendale 16. J.T. Chargois 17. A.J. Achter 17. Stephen Gonsalves 18. Michael Tonkin 18. Niko Goodrum 19. Kennys Vargas 19. Stuart Turner 20. Chris Colabello 20. Felix Jorge
Now this is more like it. Not a single correct prediction by myself on prospects #11-20. Lets look at each spot on the list and comment.
11-spot: I had Travis Harrison listed #10. So, thats not bad. Nate Roberts was on a fast-track to competing for an outfield job in Minnesota after his stellar performance vs. other top-prospects in the 2012 Arizona Fall League. But, Nates 2013 season was non-existent due to more injuries. He has only managed to play 180 games in the last four seasons. Will he ever make it?
12-spot: I need to reiterate my annoyance at Zach Jones being excluded from the top-20 MLB.com list. This guy is fire! His first real challenge in professional baseball was slapped in the face by his 95+ gasball. I understand he walked a lot of people, but he had the most Ks/9 and allowed the least amount of hits for anyone that finished 30 games or more in the Florida State League. He will hold down a bullpen spot in Minnesota very soon. And, if he gets his BBs/9 under control, he will challenge for the closer role with the MLB club.
13-spot: I predicted Melotakis would continue to impress in 2013, and that he did. His role was changed to starting pitcher, and he proved that he can handle it. He made 18 starts and was 2nd in the Midwest League with 11 victories. His 3.16 ERA was great, and his rise to Minnesota should be in short order since the entire MLB rotation is AAA material. The current 13-spot holder, Miguel Sulbaran, looks like a great return in trade for Drew Butera. Who would have thought we could get a 19-yr-old LHP with the 5th best ERA in the Midwest League in exchange for a AAA catcher?
14-spot: Again, how can the experts at MLB.com not rank our boy Josmil Pinto in the top-20 Twins prospects?? This guy has done nothing but Hit (with a capital H) at every level. Pinto, because he can hit, is the best catching prospect we have had since Wilson Ramos. The need for this guy in Minnesota is obvious. Let Ryan Doumit do his super-back-up role somewhere else that doesn't require him to hit. Should Pinto split time behind the plate with Mauer 50/50 in 2014?
15-spot: I predicted Daniel Santana for this spot. MLB.com had him ranked at #12. The shortstop Santana is definitely a #10-15 prospect for this organization after his solid 2013 season. So, lets look at who MLB.com has in the coveted #15 spot: Luke Bard. I get it. That ranking is based completely on reputation, not production. How can they include Bard, but leave out healthy, productive prospects? That, I dont get.
16-spot: I put D.J. Baxendale, who lit it up in Ft. Myers. After his promotion to New Britain, he really reached terminal velocity as he fell back to solid ground (to the tune of a 5.63 ERA). It must have been frustrating for the young righty, since he absolutely Dominated (with a capital D) the Florida State League in 2013 (1.10 ERA and he went 7-0 in nine starts). Baxendale remains a solid prospect for the starting rotation in Minnesota, maybe as soon as 2014. MLB.com has J.T. Chargois ranked #16, and he did not play any baseball in 2013 (injury).
17-spot: MLB.com has Stephen Gonsalves ranked here, and I would have to agree that the 2013 4th rd. pick is very promising. This 19-yr-old dominated the rookie level after signing last June. Could he move multiple levels in 2014? Jose Berrios couldnt quite make that happen in 2013, but we can always hope for Gonsalves to find a quicker path to Minnesota. I predicted A.J. Achter would crack the top-20 following 2013. But MLB.com didnt value his contributions out of the pen. Achters Hits/9 numbers during the 2013 season in AA (6.87) and AAA (6.46) were outstanding. Achter should debut with the big club in 2014.
18-spot: Michael Tonkin deserves a spot in the top-20. And I predicted that for him following 2013. It didnt happen on MLB.coms list. Tonkin was unspectacular in AAA, but was called up to help out of the bullpen mid-season in Minnesota. He dominated for 11 innings with the Twins before being sent back down to AAA (as a reward??). Many times, this organization does things that make you scratch or shake your head. Just roll with the punches I guess. MLB.com likes Niko Goodrum in the #18 spot. I disagree since Goodrum is miles away from being a major league hitter.
19-spot: MLB.com has Stuart Turner ranked #19 for this organization. That seems a little ridiculous considering he hit .264 with very little power in Elizabethton after signing as a 21-yr-old. He could be the next Drew Butera, or even the next Eric Fryer. That should get Twins fans excited. Our #19 prospect has a AAA ceiling. Stuart Turner might develop into something great, but he is not top-20 material right now. My #19 guy, Kennys Vargas, had 53 extra-base-hits in the pitcher-friendly Florida State League. Where were ya on that one, MLB.com??
20-spot: I threw Chris Colabello a bone and named him the #20 prospect following 2013. Well, that might have worked out fine, except Morneau got hurt and Parmelee couldnt hit. So, Colabello got an extended look in Minnesota and proved to be less than the god that slashed .352/.467/.639 in AAA. If Colabello had never been called-up, how much would fans be screaming for him to start at 1B in 2014? As it is, MLB.com has Felix Jorge ranked #20. Jorge had a solid 2013 in Elizabethton, and could move multiple levels in 2014. Felix Jorge is exactly the type of prospect of which the Twins could never have enough.
Predicting the rise and fall of baseball prospects is not easy. Those that are sure-fire often end up being weak-sauce. And those that were never drafted can have profound impacts on professional baseball. The guessing game will continue for the upcoming 2014 season. Will the Twins find a way to get all the top talent together in Minnesota? The last three seasons have been trouble for the Twins. Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with C, and that stands for Cool (NOT).

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TRAVERSE CITY — The Cherryland Humane Society will host its annual Santa Paws/Open house event on Sunday, Dec. 1. This also marks the start of the humane society's Tree of Lights event, Christmas merchandise sale and Christmas Pet Food Drive.
The Santa Paws/Open House will be hosted from noon-4 p.m. at the shelter, 1750 Ahlberg Road. Visitors can tour the facility, enjoy refreshments and have their pet's picture taken with Santa Claus for a $10 donation per picture. Guests also can register for free door prizes.
The Tree of Lights event features a Christmas tree with lights in honor or memory of a pet or person. A light will be lit on the tree for each $10 donation. Donations may be sent to the Cherryland Humane Society, 1750 Ahlberg Rd., Traverse City, MI 49696.
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For details, call 946-5116.
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Class fees range from $49-$95 each. For details, visit www.nmc.edu/ees. To register, call NMC Extended Education, 995-1700.
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The orange-blue glow of the fire in the wood stove matched the color of the sky across the Boise Mountains during the frigid January sunset.
The thermometer on the wall of the Rocky Ridge Yurt, in lodgepole and ponderosa pine snow country about 20 miles northeast of Idaho City, registered 70 degrees inside and 24 degrees outside.
There wasnt a sound outside except the deep stillness of night setting in across the snow-muffled landscape.
Winter in snow country, a few miles from the nearest highway and 20 miles from the nearest town, offers the most solid of solitude.
Winter camping, and I use the term loosely, in one of the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreations backcountry yurts in the Idaho City trail system, is the ultimate way to get away from it all.
There is no cell service at Rocky Ridge Yurt and when youre back there, youre off the grid.
Dont get the jitters. Dont have a meltdown.
Yup, its a strange feeling in this day and age. As you all know, Im connected a lot of the time, even when camping. Most of the time, even in the remote desert of eastern Oregon and northern Nevada, I can wake up in the camper and get my emails and tweet about birds tweeting at sunrise. I can send a text from a ridge overlooking the Gospel Hump of north-central Idaho.
Ive written about using the WiFi at state parks and about making phone calls, or posting on Facebook, from 10,000-foot mountain ridges somewhere between Elk City and Darby, Mont.
But to find places without signals is getting more and more difficult.
Thats why spending three nights at Rocky Ridge Yurt last week was total cold turkey from Twitter, Facebook, emails, and checking for news at IdahoStatesman.com. I didnt know what was going on out in the world.
It was refreshing, and the backcountry yurts are the way to do it, especially in winter.
No cell service? Dont worry. Theres still plenty to do to take your mind off your mobile device.
Youre packing firewood, tending to the wood stove, hauling snow to melt it for drinking water, skiing or snowshoeing several miles each day, planning and cooking meals over the propane stove, and having an entire evening with nothing to do except read, play a harmonica, guitar or mandolin, or play any of the board games provided at the yurt.
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So, if you want to unplug, you might consider those yurts. Go to parksandrecreation.idaho.gov.
It really is possible to get along without texting and posting. Heck, its relaxing just to stand on the yurt deck and listen to nothing out in the black-and-white night.
You can spend hours watching the winter light change across the mountains at dawn and dusk. You can haul firewood and snow for drinking and kitchen water.
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The Raiders placed Bartell on the reserved/injured list.||||||| Bartell broke his shoulder blade in a season-opening loss to San Diego. Under a new NFL rule, Bartell is allowed to return to practice Oct. 27 and could play as early as Nov. 11 at Baltimore.
Bartell, who sustained a season-ending neck injury in the opener, plans on playing next season.||||||| Bartell, the team's top coverage corner, said Monday that doctors have told him there's no extra risk in playing again. He fractured two bones in his neck when he absorbed a block by a Philadelphia Eagles lineman in a 31-13 loss on Sept. 11.
Bartell is active for Sunday's game against Kansas City.||||||| The Rams lost 31-13 at New Orleans without Bartell, their top coverage man. Bartell vowed Wednesday that he'd play this weekend against the Kansas City Chiefs given the team's playoff hopes.
Bartell missed practice because of a sprained ankle sustained on Tuesday.||||||| St. Louis Rams coach Steve Spagnuolo had feared the injury would be serious, but X-rays were negative and Bartell was listed as day-to-day.
The St. Louis Rams re-signed Bartell to a four-year contract, addressing one of their free agent priorities on Wednesday.||||||| Terms were not disclosed, but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Bartell gets $13.6 million in guaranteed money, with the overall deal reaching $28 million if incentives are met. Bartell started 14 games last season. He tied a career high with three interceptions last season and broke up 20 passes, the most by a Ram since Jerametrius Butler had 22 in 2004.


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The St. Clair County Coroner's office reported that Margaret Schneider, 86, of Fairview Heights was discovered dead in the driver's seat of a gold 2004 Cadillac. The car appeared to have driven off the east side of the road in the 1200 block of Frank Scott Parkway in Belleville and overturned several times.
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Highlights: Visit ancient ruins and archaeological sites with a local expert, float in the Dead Sea, watch a cooking demonstration and taste local specialities, overnight in a comfortable desert camp and learn about the ancient Bedouin culture
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The worst part of resort vacations? Trying to find a spot to lay out your blanket on a crowded beach. Solution: Visit Jordan instead! The beach never ends here (okay, technically it's the Arabian Desert, but still…), and there's way more to do here besides laying about and catching rays. Grab the kids and gape at the ancient rock-cut city of Petra one day, hike magnificent Wadi Rum the next, then snorkel the coral reefs of Aqaba and float in the Dead Sea a few days later. Good luck doing all that at an all-inclusive!
Highlights: Arrive at the awe-inspiring sight of Petra, camp out under the stars in Wadi Rum, observe many coloured fish while snorkelling in the Red Sea, float in the salty Dead Sea
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Explore ancient sights and lost cities, overnight in a Bedouin tent and dine with the locals amidst the dramatic desert scenery of Wadi Rum. Take in Petra's fascinating history and marvel at its thrilling beauty, and still have a chance to relax in the therapeutic waters of the Dead Sea. This 8-day trip is ideal for the traveller who is short on time but wants to soak up the colours, culture and history of a country that's small in size but big in adventure.
Highlights: Explore ancient cities and crusader castles, relax at the Dead Sea, camp overnight in the desert, visit the ancient rock-cut city of Petra
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Patrick Buchnowski
A Johnstown man was jailed Friday after police said he forced a woman to perform oral sex on him and then shot her in the leg with a handgun.
City police charged Jamere Quince Christian, 23, with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, terroristic threats and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.
Police said in a criminal complaint that they were called at 2 a.m. to a reported shooting in the 700 block of Cypress Avenue, where Christian lived with a woman.
Police found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower left leg. She was treated at Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown.
The woman told police she and Christian had returned home after drinking at Woodside Bar and Grill on Highland Park Road. She said Christian forced her to have oral sex and punched her in the head.
Christian then began yelling for his shoes, she said, and the couple went out to the car to retrieve them.
The woman told police she was shot when she was unable to open the trunk.
Christian fled and was picked up later by police.
He was arraigned by on-call District Judge John Barron of Upper Yoder Township and sent to the Cambria County Prison after failing to post 10 percent of $100,000 bond.
Assault on police officer
A Northern Cambria man was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer when the officer tried to arrest him during a domestic dispute.
In a criminal complaint, borough police alleged that Thomas Lee Findley, 51, of the 2900 block of Crawford Avenue, assaulted a woman Thursday night. The woman told police Findley had been drinking all day when an argument started.
When Sgt. Isaac Hassen arrived and tried to arrest Findley, he fought back.
Hassen suffered a leg injury and was treated at Miners Medical Center, police said.
Findley fled and was picked up by Hastings police. Police said they had to use a stun gun to subdue him.
Findley also was charged with simple assault, terroristic threats, resisting arrest, flight to avoid apprehension, disorderly conduct and several summary charges.
He was arraigned by on-call District Judge Rick Varner of Salix and sent to the Cambria County Prison after failing to post 10 percent of $40,000 bond.
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The old man peers from under a black cowboy hat covered in mud, his face pink underneath a bushy beard as white as the clouds in the big sky over Freedom, Okla.
Todd Monken likes having fun, and he's a regular people person. At least that's what No. 3 Oklahoma State's feisty offensive coordinator says about himself on the "Depth Chart: Oklahoma State" that aired this month on ESPN. Dude also likes to cuss, judging from the cacophony of beeps peppering his sound bites.


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Workers Memorial Day is held each year on April 28th to mourn workers killed and injured on the job. It is also the day that we rededicate ourselves to the fight to make our workplaces safer.
The Western Maryland Central Labor Council will hold a memorial service on Monday, April 29, in front of Cumberland City Hall at noon. This is open to the public and we encourage everyone to attend.
Speakers will be Ron DeJuliis, Maryland Commissioner of Labor and Matthew Darby of Berman, Sobin, Gross, Feldman & Darby LLP as an expert on Workers' Compensation law, along with our state and local officers presenting proclamations.
Forty-six years ago, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act also the Mine and Health Act, promising every worker the right to a safe job.
OSHA and MSHA are now moving to develop and issue new rules on major hazards including silica, cranes and derricks, infectious diseases and coal dust.
The present administration has stepped up job safety enforcement, particularly for employers who repeatedly violate the law. We never want another horrific day as was lost at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn.
Safety laws and regulations don't kill jobs — but unsafe jobs do kill workers.
On this Workers Memorial Day, we call for an end to the unnecessary deaths of our brothers and sisters and action on job hazards that kill and injure and stronger job safety laws and protections for all workers. This year's theme is "Safe Jobs Save Lives. Make your Voice Heard."
We encourage everyone to take a moment on April 29 to remember the hard-working Americans who go to work one morning and never return to their families at the end of the day.
We will continue the fight until the promise of good, safe jobs is a reality for all workers.
George Koontz, president
Jody Oliver, COPE director
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By Satyajit Das
SYDNEY (MarketWatch) — Australian equities, especially commodity producers and banks, high-yielding bonds and appreciating Australian dollar (A$) all made the country an attractive destination for investors.
But Australia's economic outlook is deteriorating. The commodity boom, predicted to go on forever, is slowing sharply.
Asian investors dive into U.S., European property
Asian money is fueling global property markets. Meanwhile, China's factory demand figures are a good sign for its economy
Australia has been enjoying strong, consistent economic growth, low unemployment and increasing living standards. It benefitted from the increasing wealth of emerging nations, especially China and India, and demand for commodities.
Meanwhile, government spending, lower interest rates and a credit-fueled investment boom in China helped Australia avoid the worst of the economic slowdown in developed markets.
But now economic growth in China, India and other emerging markets is slowing. Even if growth levels remain above that of developed markets, the changing composition of growth (a rebalancing from investment to consumption) reduces demand for commodities. Increased capacity — the result of aggressive recent investment — will also come on-stream progressively, concurrent with lower demand.
Austere Australia
These factors place pressure on both commodity prices and exports. It will also drive a slowdown in mining investment — the linchpin of Australia's growth. Many miners, especially mid-sized and small firms, will have difficulty raising needed equity and debt due to the weakened conditions.
Plus, excessive investment and cost overruns have created overpriced projects. That will hamper Australian resource competitiveness and financial performance. These problems may flow through into the financial institutions that have funded these projects.
The outlook for the Australian dollar is also uncertain. Dollar strength reflected higher (until recently) commodity prices. It also reflected the Australian dollar's role as an investment proxy for China and safe-haven status as one of the few remaining triple-A-rated countries. High Australian dollar interest rates relative to other developed countries drove the "risk-on" or carry trade. Investors borrowed in U.S. dollars, yen or euro to purchase higher-yielding currencies leading to strong capital inflows.
While beneficial to international investors, the strong Australian dollar reduced the country's competitiveness in manufacturing, retail, tourism and exports of education and health services, which are all major employers.
As strong growth in the commodity sector no longer offsets weak domestic conditions, government finances — both national and state — are deteriorating. Federal government revenues have dwindled, with cash receipts running below expectations. This reflects a slowing economy, which has translated into lower-than-expected corporate tax revenues. The government has admitted that its politically motivated budget surplus target is likely to be missed.
Weakened foundation
Australia's external account is also a concern. Despite the mining boom, Australia's trade account has been negative in recent years. Since 2001, the trade account has averaged a deficit of around A$500 million per month, fluctuating between a surplus of A$3.4 billion and deficit of A$3.2 billion.
In aggregate, the trade account has been in deficit by around A$68 billion or around 6% of Australia's current Gross Domestic Product. The performance is disappointing given the record terms of trade and strong export volumes, despite the need to import capital goods associated with mining development.
Currently, Australia's current account deficit is around A$50 billion or 3.7% of GDP. It is likely to increase to around 5%-6% of GDP based on Australia's weaker export performance, one of the highest in the developed world. This will increase the country's reliance on international financing.


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Travis J. McKenna, 29, passed away on Aug. 25 at Lee's Summit Medical Center. Travis was born in Santa Monica, Calif. on March 8, 1984.
Travis leaves behind his loving wife and best friend, Jeannette and 20 month old son and playmate Connor. Travis is a graduate of Hope Christian High School in New Mexico and Western New Mexico University. A self described computer "geek," Travis founded PC MD, a mobile computer repair service. He also worked as a computer engineer for a "green technology" company in Kansas City.
He is survived by his loving parents, Jeane and James McKenna, brother, Ryan (Sarah) Lefebvre, nephews; Micah, Evan and Lucas all of Lake Winnebago, mother and father-in-law, Joanne and Gabriel Ocampo, brothers-in-law, Frank and Dominick, sisters-in-law, Bianca and Denise of Lee's Summit, uncle Jeff Bakke, cousins, Cale (Amanda) Bakke; Heather (Tom) Chambers and Christopher Bakke, all of Wis.
Travis touched so many lives during his short time on earth and will surely be missed by all those who have known and loved him.
Visitation will be held at 2 p.m. on Aug. 29. Funeral Services will be at 3 p.m. at Langsford Funeral Home. Graveside services will immediately follow at Lee's Summit Historical Cemetery.
(Arrangements: Langsford Funeral Home, 115 SW Third St., Lee's Summit, MO., 64063, 816-524-3700.)


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As of Monday, December 17, 2012
© Copyright 2014 Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Military College's Kris Hurley, a 2011 Archer grad, committed to Presbyterian College's football team, according to Archer head coach Andy Dyer.
Kris Hurley was the first Archer football player to sign a college scholarship in 2011 in the second year of the school's existence.
The 6-foot-5, 245-pound Hurley, who is known more for his blocking, caught six passes for 75 yards and one touchdown this year at GMC. As a freshman he made five catches for 61 yards and one TD.
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Brown Sugar
|Release Date: October 11, 2002
|Running Time: 109 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Box Office: $27,362,712.00
|Genre: Romantic Comedy
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Summary:Dre and Sidney can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single childhood moment--the day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic and he is a successful, though unfulfilled music executive. As they lay down the tracks toward their futures, hip-hop isn't the only thing that keeps them coming back to that moment on the corner that they both can't seem to forget.
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Saint Porcarius of Lérins
Benedictine monk. Abbot of Lérins, France, a house of 500 monks. Warned in a vision that the monastery would be attacked, he managed to evacuate about three dozen of the students and younger brothers to the mainland by boat; Porcarius and all but four of the remaining brothers were massacred by invading Saracens. Martyr.
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Jan. 10: Abraham Ortiz, 33, of the 200 block of W. 14th Street, was arrested and charged with aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol after he disregarded a traffic light and almost hit a police cruiser near the intersection of 14th Street and East End Avenue, according to the report.
Police stopped Ortiz and noticed he had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol, according to the report. Asked if he had been drinking, Ortiz told police he had three beers about an hour before driving, but later changed the number to four. Ortiz was also unable to provide a valid driver's license, police said.
Ortiz took a Breathalyzer test and registered a blood-alcohol content level of .181, according to the report. He racked up additional charges of disobeying a traffic control device, driving on a suspended license and having a blood-alcohol content above .08. Ortiz appeared in Markham Courthouse on Jan. 13, when his bail was set at $50,000. He his scheduled to appear in court again Feb. 1.
Jan. 11: Jesus E. Munoz, 29, of the 300 block of West 15th Place, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after he sped through multiple intersections, ignoring stop signs with police pursuing him, according to the report. Police said they were driving more than 50 miles per hour and were unable to catch up with Munoz.
Munoz ignored police sirens and lights, disobeying four stop signs total on his trip from the intersection of 17th Street and East End Avenue to the 100 block of East 22nd Street, where he finally stopped, according to the report. Munoz immediately got out of his vehicle and stumbled into the middle of the street, according to the report. Police saw an open case of Bud Light in Munoz's vehicle, which contained nine empty cans and five full ones, police said. Munoz racked up additional charges, including four counts of disobeying a stop sign.
Jan. 3: A Mokena man faces charges after allegedly drunkenly driving into a shrubbery, according to Frankfort police reports. Frank J. Callham, 20, of the 19700 block of Glennell Avenue in Mokena, is charged with driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol content above .08, improper traffic lane usage, failure to reduce speed and operating an uninsured vehicle.
Frankfort police were dispatched to the intersection of Tanglewood Lane and Birchwood Road at 10:58 p.m. Jan. 3 in response to reports that a car struck a resident. When they arrived, the officers found a red Chevy SUV on the lawn of a residence in the 500 block of Tanglewood Lane. The car was sitting atop a cluster of landscaping bushes.
The police met with the homeowner and confirmed that no one was injured in the crash. They then spoke with Callham, detecting a strong odor of cannabis and alcohol. A Frankfort Fire Protection District ambulance arrived at the scene, evaluated Callham and transported him to Silver Cross Hospital.
At the hospital, police reported that Callham was abusive and belligerent. He yelled profanities and refused to comply with hospital personnel or the on-site police officer.
Callham was released from Silver Cross and taken into custody. His court date is Feb. 5.
Jan. 13: Thomas Vitelli, 39, Joliet, was stopped for improper lane usage at Route 30 and Interstate 80. At that time, police noticed that he had been drinking. He was ticketed for both offenses.
Jan. 12: Adam DeCaire, 27, Manhattan, was stopped in his car for speeding and improper lane usage at Cedar Road and Third Avenue. According to the report, police discovered that he had been drinking. He was ticketed for DUI, speeding, improper lane usage and operating an uninsured vehicle.
Jan. 9: Rodney L. Riddle, 61, of the 7300 block of Sandlewood Drive, Tinley Park, was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, leaving the scene of an accident and driving under the influence of alcohol, and cited for possession of cannabis, following an accident at the intersection of 159th Street and Laramie Avenue.
Police stopped Riddle in the 5200 block of 159th Street after a driver called in a hit and run, describing the vehicle Riddle was driving. The victim told officers Riddle bumped into their car three times at the traffic light at 159th Street and Cicero Avenue and then drove off.
During the traffic stop, officers noted Riddle to have slurred speech, watery eyes, a flush face and a strong odor of alcohol on his breath. Riddle told officers he was not aware he was in a traffic accident while being interviewed during the stop.
Riddle failed field sobriety tests. He was taken to the police station, where he urinated in his pants during the booking process, before blowing a .208. Riddle was processed and issued a Feb. 8 court date.
Jan. 5: Eric J. Smok, of the 9800 block of South Ridgeland Avenue, was charged with aggravated driving under the influence and leaving the scene of accident after Oak Lawn police said he struck a 62-year-old man shortly after 2 a.m. Jan. 5.
Police were called to the 9500 block of South New England Avenue for a hit-and-run accident involving a pedestrian, reports said.Upon their arrival, police saw the male victim laying in the parkway. When they attempted to talk to injured pedestrian, police said the victim could only mumble.
Police located the witness who called 911 in a nearby parking lot. The caller said he saw the pedestrian walking south on New England as the caller was walking toward his apartment and a white car traveling in the same direction.
While the caller did not see the impact, he told police he heard a "boom" and saw the pedestrian airborne and landing on the west side of the street, reports said. The driver of the white car later identified as Smok got out and checked the pedestrian, before returning to his car and driving away, police said.
The caller did not see the driver's face and told police he didn't think he could identify him. The Oak Lawn Fire Department arrived on the scene to treat the injured pedestrian. Chicago Ridge police were notified of the accident. A Chicago Ridge cop, without being informed of what happened, said he saw a white car travelling at a high rate of speed pull into the alley east of Ridgeland Avenue. The car, a white, 1997 Pontiac Trans Am, was parked in a lot off the alley.
Police were able to locate a name on an apartment matching the name on the Trans Am's registration. Officers said a man identified as Smok answered the door. Smok allegedly said he had hit a person and left the accident scene. He was taken into police custody.
According to the report, Smok had been at a bar where his girlfriend works as a bartender. On the way home, he said that his windshield was fogged up and he didn't see the pedestrian. After he hit the man, he got out of the car to check if the man was alive.
Police said Smok recognized the pedestrian and "freaked out." Smok asked the man if he was okay. He allegedly admitted: "Yeah, I did the wrong thing. I went home and didn't know what to do."
Smok agreed to field sobriety tests at that police station, but refused to take a preliminary breath test, reports said. Eventually, Smok agreed to a breathalyzer test, where police said he blew a .136. In addition to the felony charges, Smok was also issued traffic citations.
Jan. 13: Stanislaw Czyszczon, 38, of the 12000 block of Lancaster Court in Orland Park, was charged with drunken driving, speeding and driving without insurance, according to a police report. A green Ford truck was spotted allegedly speeding at about 4 a.m. on 127th Street. Before police could stop the truck, it sped into a McDonald's parking lot before stopping. The driver then fled on foot through a creek and was found, wet and covered in mud, in the next block over. Czyszczon was given a $2,000 bond and a court date of March 5.
Jan. 12: Tanner Fleming, 26, of the 4800 block of 109th Street in Oak Lawn, was charged with two counts of DUI and speeding, according to a report. Police stopped a black Mercury that allegedly pulled a U-turn at about 6:32 p.m. and sped down Harlem Avenue. Fleming reportedly failed field sobriety tests and was arrested. He was given a $1,000 bond and a Feb. 5 court date.
Jan. 12: Andrew J. Broda, 52, of the 7800 block of Belle Rive Court, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, failure to yield while turning left, and BAC over .08, after police conducted a traffic stop at the intersection of 175th Street and Duvan Drive.
Police stopped Broda after he made a left turn in front of officers at the intersection of Harlem Avenue and 175th Street, causing officers to come to a nearly complete stop to avoid hitting Broda's car. Police then pulled over Broda and noted a strong odor of alcohol and asked him to perform standard field sobriety tests. Based on the tests and the odor of alcohol, officers arrested Broda. During the stop Broda told officers he was drinking before the stop and had two beers in the last hour.
Police took Broda into custody and transported him to the Tinley Park Police Station. While being transported Broda asked if he could walk home instead of being arrested and told officers they were making a mistake, 'because he knows he's under .08.'
At the station, Broda blew a .107, admitted to drinking '6 to 8 beers' and admitted to being under the influence of alcohol. Broda is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 25 at the Bridgeview Courthouse.
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BrewDog Paradox Isle Of Arran (Batch 016) - BrewDog
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Ratings: 255 | Reviews: 183 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by Bfarr:
3.8/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 2 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 2 | overall: 4
Dark brown with no head. Vanilla, oak, chocolate and whisky. Molasses up front mellowing to spice and vanilla notes with a smooth roasted and caramel sweetness. Thin, watery with no carbonation.
A very mellow beer with increasing complexity. I didn't realize the age when I bought it and I would say this really went past its prime in carbonation. Really a very smooth and flavorful beer nonetheless with an increasing nuance even after swallowing.
Serving type: bottle
11-17-2011 20:30:00 | More by Bfarr
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3.81/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Big ol' thanks to Craig for the trade. This has been in our cellar since 2012 (it's 2014) and who knows how long he had it before trading.
Sampled some Arran scotch whisky beforehand to get familiar with the taste.
Color is mostly black, a little brown.
Plenty of head, still smells good. Stout, carmel, kinda sweet. Doesn't smell at all like the whiskey.
Taste matches the smell. A little flat, perhaps, smoky, acidic, maybe a little gingerbread on the finish.
Later sips. Acidity not so shocking on subsequent sips. The whisky has completely disappeared, though. Maybe the age has converted the whisky into smoky malt. Very malt heavy.
Serving type: bottle
07-18-2014 03:28:47 | More by mmapes
North Carolina
3.79/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours pitch black with a tan coloured head which quickly disappears.
The smell is very sweet whisky and dark malts.
The taste is very heavy on the whisky, sweet and malty. The finish has some bitter chocolate.
The mouthfeel is smooth and light for the style. The carbonation is low.
Overall a very whisky forward sweet beer. I enjoyed it but one is definitely enough.
Serving type: bottle
07-06-2014 01:21:33 | More by Dave1999
3/5 rDev -23.7%
05-04-2014 23:04:38 | More by osuskin
4/5 rDev +1.8%
03-07-2014 18:17:47 | More by HomerS
4.25/5 rDev +8.1%
02-22-2014 03:44:29 | More by Mplsbrew
United Kingdom (England)
4.5/5 rDev +14.5%
02-16-2014 21:02:35 | More by Andy_Luft
North Carolina
4.06/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Been sitting on this one for a while...just never got around to drinking it.
Pours an oily jet black with a tightly bubbled tan head that dissipates at a nice even pace leaving good lacing around the glass. Looks slightly thin and bubbly for a 10% stout.
Smell of chocolate, vanilla, oak, and peat. Very nice. Not heavy in the aroma...need to go searching for the scent a little bit, but the reward is worth the time. Scotch comes out more as the beer warms.
Taste is very nice. Upfront notes of dry cocoa followed by the oak and peat characteristics from the scotch barrel aging. Finishes very dry with another shot of cocoa powder accompanied by a slight booziness. Like the smell, scotch comes to the forefront as the beer approaches room temperature. I love the fact that this is not an overly sweet stout. The dry, rich, earthly flavors are a perfect match for the scotch treatment here.
Mouth is slightly thin, but not off-putting in any way. Definitely can't tell it's a big stout from the mouthfeel, and that's a good thing. Don't mind a clean finish without the sticky heaviness.
Overall, this is a very well crafted beer, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to try it.
Serving type: bottle
12-10-2013 02:48:58 | More by dgfair
New Hampshire
4/5 rDev +1.8%
11-29-2013 00:02:18 | More by jaycar06
3.95/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Batch 016, best before 08/08/10 bottle. Have had this for about 2 years and decided to sit on it for the right time. Splitting this one with my dad night before thanksgiving.
Poured carefully into a snifter, there is virtually no head at all; the beer is a really dark cola, a bit lighter than your typical imperial stout. It's opaque and cloudy.
Definitely able to smell the barrel, which is not always the case with BA stouts aged for this long. There are obvious exceptions, but I am pleased, here. Nice combination of coffee, chocolate, subtle dark fruit and vanilla aromas are present.
Taste is similar but different; robust barley and malt backbone with some hopiness as well. Great chocolate aftertaste, bitter but well-balanced.
Feel is incredibly smooth/some bitterness as well. Very lightly carbonated.
Overall great beer. Aged fairly well; probably only chance to try this one, but if you see it on a random shelf somehwere, check it out. Cheers.
Serving type: bottle
11-27-2013 22:05:20 | More by rodlavers
4.25/5 rDev +8.1%
11-25-2013 11:42:42 | More by SteeleWright
4.75/5 rDev +20.9%
10-31-2013 21:56:40 | More by geoperez
4.5/5 rDev +14.5%
10-27-2013 16:48:54 | More by TheBaumer
New York
3/5 rDev -23.7%
09-15-2013 17:21:26 | More by Denoas
5/5 rDev +27.2%
09-04-2013 22:11:06 | More by JoeDurp
3.5/5 rDev -10.9%
08-17-2013 04:46:37 | More by Gonzoillini
4.25/5 rDev +8.1%
08-07-2013 05:00:48 | More by rdespain
New York
4/5 rDev +1.8%
08-05-2013 21:22:41 | More by DoubleSimcoe
4/5 rDev +1.8%
07-29-2013 08:39:24 | More by Stalgondo
3.75/5 rDev -4.6%
07-20-2013 05:11:25 | More by Gagnonsux
New York
4/5 rDev +1.8%
07-19-2013 12:29:20 | More by mborden
4.25/5 rDev +8.1%
07-13-2013 20:59:58 | More by pathman
Alberta (Canada)
4/5 rDev +1.8%
07-07-2013 15:55:53 | More by Kmat10
4.25/5 rDev +8.1%
06-26-2013 20:52:28 | More by mrfrancis
Ontario (Canada)
3.75/5 rDev -4.6%
06-23-2013 17:37:10 | More by DaPan
BrewDog Paradox Isle Of Arran (Batch 016) from BrewDog
88 out of 100 based on 255 ratings.


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Conventional Wisdom
Rediscovering the social norms that stand between law and libertianism.
Lately I have begun to understand how a Methodist must feel when everyone he meets calls him a Lutheran. People often describe me as a libertarian. All right, it's true that I often write in a skeptical vein about government. Yes, I have come to see a higher, Zen-like power in leaving things alone. I generally do subscribe to H.L. Mencken's dictum, "All persons who devote themselves to forcing virtue on their fellow men deserve nothing better than kicks in the pants." But still. I know, in the visceral and insistent way the Methodist knows he is not a Lutheran, that my worldview is not quite congruent with what most people today regard as libertarianism.
It is hard to evade one label, however, when you can't offer another. If not "libertarian," then what? For a while, I tried "curmudgeon." A curmudgeon, in my own enlightened sense, is a person who is against improving things for the sake of it. (These days, "curmudgeon" is not the same as "conservative," because, ever since Barry Goldwater, many American conservatives have been radical reformers.) I tried "radical incrementalist." A radical incrementalist is a person who seeks to foment revolutionary change on a geological time scale. The trouble is that "curmudgeon" and "radical incrementalist" both describe my temperament but say nothing of my beliefs. So I gave up. And then, a little while ago, I figured it out. I am, I discovered, a soft communitarian.
A what? You roll your eyes, and I can't blame you. Bear with me, however. There is a fair amount of undesignated soft communitarianism about these days, and it signifies the emergence of an important sort of thinking.
A soft communitarian is a person who maintains a deep respect for what I call "hidden law": the norms, conventions, implicit bargains, and folk wisdoms that organize social expectations, regulate everyday behavior, and manage interpersonal conflicts. Until recently, for example, hidden law regulated assisted suicide, and it did so with an almost miraculous finesse. Doctors helped people to die, and they often did so without the express consent of anybody. The decision was made by patients and doctors and families in an irregular fashion, and, crucially, everyone pretended that no decision had ever been made. No one had been murdered; no one had committed suicide; and so no one faced prosecution or perdition.
Hidden law is exceptionally resilient, until it is dragged into politics and pummeled by legalistic reformers, at which point it can give way all at once. The showboating narcissist Jack Kevorkian dragged assisted suicide into the open and insisted that it be legalized (and televised). At that point, the deal was off. No one could pretend assisted suicide wasn't happening. Activists framed state right-to-die initiatives, senators sponsored bills banning assisted suicide, and courts began issuing an unending series of deeply confused rulings. Soon decisions about assisted suicide will be made by buzzing mobs of lawyers and courts and ethics committees, with prosecutors helpfully hovering nearby, rather than by patients and doctors and families. And the final indignity will be that the lawyers and courts and committee people will congratulate themselves on having at last created a rational process where before there were no rules at all, only chaos and darkness and barbarism. And then, having replaced an effective and intuitive and flexible social mechanism with a maladroit and mystifying and brittle one, they will march on like Sherman's army to demolish such other institutions of hidden law as they encounter.
The enemy of hidden law is not government, as such. It is lawyers. Three years in law school teach, if they teach nothing else, that as a practical matter hidden law does not exist, or that if it does exist it is contemptibly inadequate to cope with modern conflicts. The American law school is probably the most ruthlessly anti-communitarian institution that any liberal society has ever produced.
For eons, hidden law has coped sublimely with adultery. As long as the adulterer was discreet and the wife either didn't know what was going on or was willing to pretend she didn't know, everybody else also pretended not to know. Public law's rather different way of handling the situation was on display in the Clinton-Jones-Starr-Lewinsky affair, and it was not superior. So, also, for sexual conduct involving adults in the workplace. Hidden law was imperfect for situations where flirting got out of hand, but today's sexual harassment law, in which platoons of lawyers scour office e-mails for hints of unwelcome overtures, is proving itself not just imperfect but grotesque.
What about the "soft" part? Why a "soft" communitarian? Because there is a harder variety that replicates the lawyers' mistakes in a communitarian direction. The hard communitarian, seeing that hidden law has broken down, demands a series of public laws or subsidies to re-establish it. Require children to support their aging parents, require students to do involuntary volunteer work, make voting mandatory--that sort of thing. The archetype of the hard communitarian is Lee Kwan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore. In America, an example might be Rudolph Giuliani, the mayor of New York City.
We softies, by contrast, understand that hidden law works precisely because it is not formal: The very act of formalizing it destroys it. We believe, therefore, that public law's next big project should be to sit down and shut up. That is, public law should be careful, infinitely more careful than at present, not to burst into every room it sees and immediately begin breaking crockery. It should strive to stay out of hidden law's way, rather than obliviously trampling it with each elephantine footfall. When personal behavior needs regulating, we soft communitarians prefer exhortation to legislation and shame to jail. A good, albeit controversial, example of an effective soft-communitarian activist is Bill Bennett, with his Book of Virtues, his "index of leading cultural indicators," and his denunciations of gangsta rap. Bennett says he opposes legal regulation of song lyrics, but he certainly does not oppose confronting recording company executives and demanding that they read aloud some of the lyrics they sell. He practices censoriousness rather than censorship. That is "soft" in a nutshell.
We soft communitarians are soft in a further sense: Like F.A. Hayek (who in some ways was a soft communitarian), we do not believe in taking an uncritical attitude toward social norms, even deeply embedded ones. With all due respect to folk wisdom, I favor gay marriage, even though nothing could be less traditional. Now that we know that homosexuals exist--that they are not just neurotic heterosexuals who need a few jolts of electroshock --the extension of the nuptial contract to them is not a sundering of tradition but an extension of it. Thoughtful criticism allows us to see this. Soft communitarianism is not blind obeisance to tradition. It aspires to be rigorous rather than rigid.
An interesting question about soft communitarianism is: So what? Who could be against such a mushy and innocuous doctrine? Or who, anyway, apart from everyone who ever went to law school? You might point out that soft communitarians can be found toward the drab center of both political parties, where everyone is for "values" and "civil society." You might also note that soft communitarianism is perfectly consonant with most major strands of libertarianism. The reason I am often mistaken for a libertarian--even though I am more comfortable talking about rules than rights, I prefer reasonableness to reason, and I care about government's effectiveness rather than its size--is that my soft communitarianism leads toward a persistent skepticism about the oozing encroachment of public law into every pore of daily life. Maybe the soft communitarian and the libertarian, like the Methodist and the Lutheran, are just two versions of basically the same thing.
But not so fast. The fact is, many libertarians I know react with discomfort, often bordering on hysteria, to soft-communitarian talk. They feel that if their life is not the law's business, then it also is nobody else's business. They are deeply uneasy with social instruments like shame or opprobrium, which smack of big-nosed authoritarianism in a new guise.
And here a certain sort of libertarianism comes full circle to join hands with a certain sort of leftism. The libertarians and the leftists come to blows over economic issues--who should run the health care sector, for instance--but they glare in hostile unison at the soft-communitarian project (which, remember, also enlists some libertarian types of its own; this gets complicated). Underlying their hostility is an implicit theory of coercion that is worth grappling with, because it lies at the heart of today's culture wars. In that connection, consider Michael Warner.
Warner is, to begin with, an English professor at Rutgers University. But he is probably better known as a leading queer studies scholar. And, more than that, he is an activist, closely associated with an extremely controversial group called Sex Panic!, which organized in the mid-1990s to oppose what it regarded as the squelching of sexual freedom by gay and straight conservatives alike.
I ought to say, not that it matters, that I am discussed in passing in Warner's new book, The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (The Free Press). Warner quotes me on gay marriage and says I am "more honest than most" of his ideological adversaries: a compliment I can return in kind. Because The Trouble With Normal is, in large measure, an answer to Andrew Sullivan and other gay conservative advocates of homosexual marriage and assimilation, and because it concerns itself with various intramural disputes in the gay world (strategies for AIDS prevention and the like), booksellers will confine it to the "gay interest" shelves. That is a pity. Warner is that rarest of writers, an honest extremist who is smart enough to see through to most (though not all) of the depths of his own positions and who is fiery enough not to flinch. His agreeably written and commendably concise book thus turns out to be, among other things, a 200-proof distillation of the case against soft communitarianism.
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Artists Repertory Theatre
Joe Smith heads to Artists Repertory Theatre for the return of their seasonal production, Holidazed.
Local playwrights and authors Marc Acito and C.S. Whitcomb have updated the script that tells the story of a Christmas-loving mom (the always-amazing Susannah Mars) who takes in a homess pagan teenager (Ana Reiselman).
Holidazed runs on the Alder Stage at Artists Rep through December 20th. Tickets start at $35, and students get in for just $20.
(Despite the overly-clever headline, the production has nothing to do with Dar Williams, as far as Producer Aaron can tell.)


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Tim Henningsen
Aural Fixation
Another March has passed, and with it another installment of the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, where several of us go every year to scout the newest, coolest bands. OK, we all see a few older cool bands, too, but most of the reason we go every year is to give you a brief preview of bands to watch when we get back. Plus, it keeps us from killing ourselves (and each other) the remaining months of the year. Here we go with SXSW 2004 Top 10:
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