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Konosuke 300mm Sujihiki!
I'm too tired and lazy right now to do a full review so I'll post a few pics and give a quick rundown.
F&F very nice,rounded choil and spine.
OOTB edge real sharp.Passed the paper and tomato test NP.
Knuckle clearance is good for a knife with a profile this slim.
Handle is stabilized Magnolia wood,wa,octagonal(I usually prefer darker coloured handles but this was nice for a change),very comfy.
OK too much talk,time for some photos..
Awesome knife. But,dammit...i just reached the point in my sabatier slicer fixer-upper project where I didn't regret not getting a sujihiki. Wanna trade?
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re: petek
Yeah, you and chem are right. I deliberately choose an old and neglected one to gain some hands on restoration experience. It's my 1st, so i won't part with it. Unless you want to sweeten the deal...how about the sujihiki and one of the other knives (your choice) for a "highly sought after, limited edition, officially autographed ****elephant Sabatier - in mint condition." Just kidding.
Thus far, i've been working on the blade..
- sanded off the rust spots; not too bad and no deep pits
- stuck in a vice for a couple of days to straighten it
- leveled most of edge to fix the divots / edge gaps
I need to put a better edge on it with more even shoulders. The blade is still a little twisted. Plus, I'd like to replace the handle...just need to figure out how to make one.
Is the gyuto and petty also from konosuke? They look awesome too.
re: JavaBean
<Unless you want to sweeten the deal...how about the sujihiki and one of the other knives >
Ha ha ha. Playing tough huh? I did that in college. I was reselling my textbooks, and I was increasing my prices ever so slightly each week, just to make a point. .... actually I am not so sure if my "point" makes any sense.
<Is the gyuto and petty also from konosuke?>
I know Pete has a Konosuke gyuto... I didn't know he has a petty now. Congratulation, Petek.
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re: JavaBean
I think your tactic is correct. I think you should go for three knives, but makes the offer next Monday (not now). I think Petek needs some time to digest. He tends to "freeze" when under pressure. I froze when I shopped for my car last time and the car dealer was criticizing me -- it was an odd experience..... he wanted me to put money down, but I said I am not ready to decide to buy this particular car (an Accura) yet, and then he said that I am mising the best opportunity of my life, and then he managed to said "Do you know what is wrong with you?" "You cannot make decision on the spot"
I then went home and made the decision to buy a Volvo. :P
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High pressure sales tactics is a good way to get me to shop somewhere else.
I had a similar experience buying a used Toyota Tercel off the Ford dealers used lot. I was a cash customer and made that very clear. I was out of town and struck a deal with the saleswoman to buy it for exactly how much cash I had. When I went to the lot, the sales manager would not honor the deal that caused my drive 70 miles with my father to get the car. I told him again that I was a cash customer and he tried to get me to finance $500. I told him no thank you and proceeded leave when he (sales manager) went on a tirade.
The saleswoman came in the next day to learn the sale fell through and asked why. I related what the sales manager did to me and told her I was no longer interested at any price. She called back confirming the price we originally agreed to and I relayed my dissatisfaction with the sales manager and wasting 140 miles of gas money and time to show up and be treated so poorly. Two days later she sweetened the deal and had the car delivered to me and promised I would not have to talk to or see the sale manager again (I think he was fired).
If I had more money to buy a better car, I would have purchased something from a different source. Such is life for a freshman in college with limited options.
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<Is the gyuto and petty also from konosuke? They look awesome too>
Yup,they're both Kono's.The petty is Swedish stainless and the gyuto is HD.I've recently made the switch from carbon to SS or semi stainless for work(it's not the steel,it's me)
OK I'll sweeten the deal.All 3 konos+2 Moritakas and 2 Kasumi.+ my boardSmith "Carolina Slab"...you drive a hard bargain! :D
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Hi. Yeah there's a boatload of different brands of "Sabatier" knives floating around -- including cheap knock-offs. From what I read, the authentic ones were made in France by one of several founding / affiliated manufacturers. Like K-Sabatier, ****Elephant / Thiers Issard, Veritable Bresduck, 2 Lion and Mercier et Cie.
FWIW, the 1st three listed above garnered the most positive user comments. Plus, the older "virgin" carbon steel knives (made prior to the late 1980's) are said to be better than the later recycled carbon steel and stainless steel knives.
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No,my gyuto will still be my main go to knife.The extra 2" will take some getting use to(although it's quite nimble for such a long blade).
I bought it mainly to use as a carving/slicing knife for work.I gave her a light workout today at the shop and she performed very well(chopping herbs,julienning apples,makling a mirepoix).
So far so good :)
I could see a 240 or 270mm suji being used as a main knife though..
Beautiful knife, petek. Is it going to see use at work, or is it staying at home for now?
I'm guessing that, like their gyutos, the kono suji is a very slim knife without a pronounced right handed bias. Is that right?
Around Christmas, I went and finally bought a suji myself (asked for it as a gift, actually), with plans on trying it out for all-around prep. I went with the 270 mm Carbonext. Didn't do very much research into that particular knife, though I had handled Chem's carbonext santoku. Turns out, their suji is fairly thick and seems much better suited to use as a dedicated slicer than all-around prep. Even more problematic, there is a very pronounced righty bias, which made it pretty much impossible for (left-handed) me to use for prep. Serves me right for not doing my homework. Hope this one lives up to your expectations.
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Thanks CBAD!
It's a work knife,that's the only way I can justify any new knife acquisitions these days(like anyone really needs to justify buyin a new knife :D )
As far as I can tell,it has a 50/50 grind and the neutral handle should be fine for you lefty's.
Like the HD gyuto,this thing is a total laser weighing in at 138 grams vs 147 for the gyuto.
I was originally going to buy the SS version,but the fine people at Tosho made me an offer I couldn't refuse..:)
One more photo to show just how long this knife is.
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re: cowboyardee
It is the HD version,and you're right,it is more or less "stainless' although after cutting some lemons today and not wiping down the blade immediately,I did notice a "patina" of sorts.Nothing like my carbons,but a slight change in appearance of the steel.Kinda cool actually..
Not sure if you can see it in this photo..
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"Any Konosuke or particular ones?"
I'm using a gyuto, a petty, and a honesuki from kono now and would recommend all three with ZERO reservations. Ive even been beating the crap out of my HD gyuto at work recently to see how much it can take and it's holding up just fine despite being a laser.
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Yes, I did, teacher. I had huge knife crushes on CCK and Watanabe. Now, these have turned into love. :)
To be honest, I am not sure what knives I should get next. Since cowboy and you have raved about Konosuke, I may give that a try. I had a crush on Mizuno, but it is out of my reach. Hiromoto AS looks very good, but I have many Aogami (blue) steel knives, so I probably should branch out.
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That was cowboy's main knife purchase, wasn't it? :)
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Early signs seem to indicate Cowbabyardee favors his right hand. He is doing well, has excellent fine motor control for a 16 month old, and is very interested in what I'm up to in the kitchen - I'll have him applying precise compound bevels and blending em into a smooth convex edge with a mirror finish in no time.
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cowboy and petek,
I checked on Japanesechefsknife yesterday. Again, the JCK Original Aogmai Super knives are mostly sold out. Man, why do they sell out that quickly? By the way, the new Ryusen Blazen with Japanese Kaji looks nicer.
While at it, has Mark's Richmond knives gained any traction? That beyond the initial support and honeymoon period, have they gained quality reputation like the more established knife brands like Tojiro, Fujiwara, Shun, Global...etc.
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<While at it, has Mark's Richmond knives gained any traction?>
It seems that Konosuke is producing the "Richmond Laser" for CKTG.Same profiles(petty and gyuto) same steel= Stainless AEB-LVery similar pricing.
The petty is pretty much identical to my Kono SS petty(different handle,no machi).
I bought mine for less.. :D
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Consumer alert!!
For anyone who's interested,there's a 300mm sakai yusuke suji for sale over at KKF B/S/T for $190.00 shipping included only 8 weeks old
Sounds like a great price for a nice knife!
re: petek
With all due respects, I just have to say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN29X2...
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I remember you said that you did not buy the Suji for a all purpose knife, but rather a specialized knife. For you, what do you use it for? I know you are in the restaurant/food business, but I also know you are not a sushi chef. So do you use it as a slicing knife/carving knife for large roast...etc?
re: Chemicalkinetics
Hey Chem.
Yes I originally purchased the suji as a dedicated slicer/carving knife,but I've found that since I've gotten used to the length,I'm using more and more as my go to knife.
Because of the knuckle clearance,she works well on bags of onions carrots,peppers etc..Also great for julienning fruits and veg.
But she truly is an amazing slicer/carving knife..
Example..last week I sliced 25 whole,cooked tenderloins(a la minute) in a blink of an eye(ok maybe 10-12 mins).Easy peasy..
Great knife,great steel highly recommended..
I still use the 240mm gyuto a lot,but it's nice to change it up every so often.
re: petek
Thank Pete,
<Because of the knuckle clearance>
I assume the knuckle clearance of this sujihiki is less than that of a gyuto, right? Or not really?
<I still use the 240mm gyuto a lot,but it's nice to change it up every so often.>
If anything, the two knives allow you to sharpen them at your leisure. You don't have to sharpen the gyuto right away when it gets dull. You can switch to the sujihiki, and sharpen the gyuto at your pleasure.
I doubt I will need a sujihiki, but I will look into getting a Konosuke of some sort.
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<I assume the knuckle clearance of this sujihiki is less than that of a gyuto, right? Or not really?>
1 3/4" gyuto vs 1" suji..
While I can still use the siji for most chopping and dicing jobs,I still reach for the gyuto for others.hard to explain which ones,but I just know when to switch.
<If anything, the two knives allow you to sharpen them at your leisure>
Exactly! Plus they're both a lot of fun to use :)
A little more konosuke porn for you guys. Got some new toys a few days ago.
Konosuke 180 mm nakiri
Mac Superior 10" bread knife
Tojiro DP 150 mm honesuki
I also just sent off my masamoto ks gyuto for a custom rehandle, so Ill post pics of that when I get it back in a few weeks. I also just bought a full range of shapton stones to learn to freehand on (been using an edgepro since I caught the knife bug), so Im sure Ill have lots of questions for some of you guys!
As for the kono Nakiri, I seriously love the knife. Its a LOT heavier than I thought it was going to be since my kono gyuto and petty are so light, but it feels very sturdy and takes a ridiculous edge. I honestly don't know how much work either of my gyuto/'s are going to get now, I really prefer the nakiri because of its smallish size and not having to worry about the tip of the knife as Im banging through a bunch of prep at work.
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Im actually leaning heavily towards koa as well, I htink you actually suggested it to me when I mentioned possibly rehandling the knife before, but the final decision has not been made. I mailed my knife off to mark at chefknivestogo and he should recieve the blade monday and get back to me with some suggestions/options from the guys who do handle work for him. Im also considering trying to work black and gold into my handle as I am a ginormous new orleans saints fan.
As for the grind on the nakiri, its considerably thicker at the top of the spine than my HD gyuto, but it tapers all the way down to a fantastic edge. The actual edge is barely visible with the human eye, I have a couple of days off so Im going to get out the loop to take a look and then strop the nakiri to learn a little more about the edge.
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re: TraderJoe
"I hope we get to see some photos when it's done."
Don't have the knife back yet, but mark sent me a pic of the finished mounted handle. I like the way it turned out, been wanting a knife with a darker handle as most of my other knives are konos with the light handle. More pics next week when I have the knife in hand!
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Yeah, all three at once, but two of them were real needs for work. The only "for fun" knife was the nakiri. I break down at least 20 chickens a day hence the honesuki and needed to add a bread knife to my bag so I could stop borrowing my coworkers' every time I needed to slice bread or cut melons.
As for the weight question, I was positive it was going to be considerably heavier than the gyuto, but to my shock they both weighed in at EXACTLY 143 grams when I put them on the scale a minute ago. I guess due to balance the nakiri just feels heavier.
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<The only "for fun" knife was the nakiri>
Interesting how things turn out, you ended up liking the nakiri the most.
<I break down at least 20 chickens a day hence the honesuki>
I break up at most one chicken every 20 days. :P Anyway, I also got a honesuki. I have used mine enough to say it is a very useful tool. I was breaking down my chicken with a Dexter boning knife, and then I got the Moritaka honesuki, and then later a CCK 1402 heavy cleaver.
I have used all three of them for breaking down chicken. In my opinion, the honesuki is better than my boning knife in all aspects. The CCK heavy cleaver is better for cutting through joints and is adequate for parting the larger cuts like the breast meat. However, the honsuki absolutely rule for cutting meat off the smaller bones like the drumsticks due to its very refined and sharp tip.
<but to my shock they both weighed in at EXACTLY 143 grams when I put them on the scale a minute ago>
That is good. That means your nakiri must have a fairly thin blade. That is a good thing.
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Hey Chem. Besides boning chickens, what are some of the other things you do with a honesuki? Can it breakdown chickens...severe the ribs and spine? Also, how thick is yours...relative to a German chef's knife or other types of knives?
I recently handled the Miyabi honesuki...1st honesuki,ever... at SLT and was somewhat surprised that it wasn't very thick as I though honesuki were.
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<Besides boning chickens, what are some of the other things you do with a honesuki?>
Not much thus far. I have played around with it for regular vegetable cutting. It isn't very good at that.
<Can it breakdown chickens...severe the ribs and spine?>
I think so. This partly depends on the edge angle we put on, but with a more obtuse angle (wider), it should be fine. My guess.
<Also, how thick is yours...relative to a German chef's knife or other types of knives?>
Pretty thick. Let me measure... At the spine near the heel, it is 3.6 mm thick. In the midway of the blade on spine, it is 3.3 mm. Near the tip, the spine is 1.7 mm thick. So you can see it tapers down very quick after the middle point. (I measured with a micrometer -- got it a month ago)
I took some previous photo, but it seems that I didn't have any cross section one:
Here I have attached four more photos.
The first photo shows the CCK KF1402 meat cleaver and the Moritaka Honesuki
The second shows the blade geometry looking down from the handle -- almost like a cross section look
The third shows the blade thickness is similar at the heel for both knives.
The fourth shows that the honsuki taper down from heel to tip.
P.S.: I know the photo quality is lacking, but I think they still illustrate the points.
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re: JavaBean
The spine thickness on top of the Moritaka Honesuki heel is actually 4.3 mm, not 3.6 mm. Sorry, I read the micrometer wrong.
< the edge on the honesuki is even thicker than 1402>
I would say that my honesuki blade comes down more quickly (above the edge to the very edge) than my 1402 blade, which means the blade thickness of the honesuki 1 mm and 2 mm above the edge is thicker than those of the 1402. So, yes.
< the shoulders are more or less as thick as the spine along the heel to tip taper>
If you look at photo #1, the honesuki blade thickness comes down slowly in that black area. Once it reaches the sliver area, the thickness comes down quickly. I measure the blade thickness 1 cm from the heel. At the spine, it is 3.9 mm, at the bottom of the black area (more than half way down) it is 3.1 mm, so it is thinner.
<the 1402 is thicker than a German chef's knife...right>
Although, the blade thickness look almost the same on photo for honesuki and 1402. The 1402 is actually thicker. The honesuki, as mentioned, has a blade thickness of 4.3 mm at the spine above its heel. The CCK 1402 is 6.4 mm. I think the reason is that the CCK's spine is rounded/smoothed, so it looks thinner in photo. As for German Chef's knife, I think it depends on the makers.
I am told that the Henckels Chef's spine thickness above the heel is 4 mm, and Wusthof Le Cordon Chef's knife is 2.5 mm. Le Cordon is a thinner line from Wusthof, but I don't think Wusthof makes it anymore.
So yes, CCK 1402 is thicker than any German Chef's knife I have encountered. My Moritaka Honesuki is equal or thicker than German Chef's knives I have handled, and the Honesuki blade remains thick until for most of the blade width.
Like you said, different honesuki has different thickness, so some honesuki will work better for you than others. Good luck.
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"Besides boning chickens, what are some of the other things you do with a honesuki?"
I break down tons of chicken(severing the ribs and spine)
Clean tenderloins,debone prime ribs,lamb chops etc..
It's a great little knife,but because of it's rather short length(150mmish) there are some limitations
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<What model to you have, and guess-estimate on what the edge & spine thickness is.>
I have the exact same Moritaka honesuki as Chem, so the same dimensions I guess...
A very robust little knife indeed.No need to baby it at all.I actually use the spine of the knife to clean/scrape chicken and lamb bones(rack 'o lamb).
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It has been a long time coming, but Zombieland has finally come back from the dead. The 2009 cult movie went through a number of rumored iterations, including a film sequel, a TV series, and an animated series. It finally landed as a pilot for Amazon Studios. What is different about the Amazon model of programming is that the pilot is online, allowing anyone in America to watch it and leave comments. It is this super-direct focus group mentality that will decide whether more episodes are made.
We spoke with Zombieland writers and creators Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick about the many different versions of their story, what we can expect from a TV series, and what it is like working with Amazon.
It's kind of widely known that Zombieland started as a television pilot. Why don't you give us a little bit of the history of how it began and how it has evolved to where it is now on Amazon?
Rhett Reese: Well we always intended Zombieland to be a television series. And we originally sold a pilot script to CBS back in 2005. They decided not to make it, which was a blessing in disguise because that pilot script we ultimately expanded into the movie Zombieland.
When Zombieland came out and succeeded as it did there was a lot of talk of a Zombieland 2, a sequel. And we tried very, very hard to make that happen. Unfortunately the movie gods didn't smile on us. We had a few key departures and any number of factors that played into Zombieland 2 not happening. At that moment we decided, "Why not go back to our original passion and our original vision," which was to make Zombieland into a TV series. And we found a partner in Amazon to do that. And now we've brought out the pilot.
How has Amazon been as a partner?
Paul Wernick: Amazon's been just amazing. We really feel they're trailblazing here on the content front, putting their pilots up online and letting the viewers decide. Zombieland is a nontraditional show. Amazon is a nontraditional network and content provider. And we've really had the creative freedom to do what we want, how we want to tell the stories we want to tell. They've given us incredible resources, dollar for dollar, minute for minute. It's really on par with the feature, budget-wise. The feature was shot for $22 million. Dollar for dollar and minute for minute we're really on par with that.
I think the viewer response is great. People are clicking on Zombieland and watching it and loving it. And it's been really fun to watch. It's the ultimate focus group. You put it out there for all of the public to watch and they get to decide whether we move forward or not.
Why bring back the same characters - Tallahassee, Wichita, Little Rock, and Columbus - knowing that you couldn't get the same cast back, instead of creating a new batch of characters?
RR: I think the biggest reason we brought back these specific characters is, to us, Zombieland really is these characters. Without Tallahassee, Wichita, Little Rock and Columbus I think Zombieland really wouldn't be much more than a title and a tone. It would be like watching The Odd Couple movie and then doing The Odd Couple TV show and not having it be Felix and Oscar, having it be another odd couple of two different people. It just didn't make sense to us. We always loved these characters; they were the reason we wrote the movie in the first place.
It's about a dysfunctional family. It's about a fearless guy paired with a fearful guy. It's about two really live-by-their-wits con artist sisters. And at its heart we just didn't want to stray from that. We didn't want to create a bunch of new characters.
Obviously what that created was this comparison between new cast and old cast which we think is incredibly unfair. Obviously our first cast was tremendous. We had four Academy Award nominees in Zombieland the movie. And it's clearly impossible to replace those actors and the indelible market they left.
That said, there's a long history of parts both on stage and in TV shows that have become movies and movies that have become TV shows going in each direction of parts being played by multiple different actors. That is a precedent that has definitely come long before Zombieland.
We think we found a tremendous cast, people who really captured the essence of the characters without imitating the actors who came before them. And we're very, very proud of them. We just want everyone to give them a chance. Our feeling is if the more time [viewers] spend with them the more they're going to love them and the more they're going to embrace them.
Because of the series format are you planning on exploring a lot of the country?
PW: We do envision this as a road show. We're going to head east and travel towards Detroit, towards the East Coast and Fisher Island to this safe community. So absolutely. We feel that actually going on the road and shooting it on location [is the way to go]. Vegas will hopefully be the next spot we hit and hit spots along the way, like Mt. Rushmore and Graceland. Again, we have to kind of chart it out on a map. This inherently is a road show and I think we ideally would love to take the production on the road.
How does working with Amazon impact the amount of gore that you're able to show, versus what you can show on a network or in the theaters?
PW: I don't think we got overly gory in the movie. I think we tried to maintain that same level of horror and comedy and heart. We tried to maintain the tone of the movie in the pilot. Amazon's edict was basically: "Make the show that you want to make. Make Zombieland." As gore goes, we do see some blood and guts. But that's all part of the tone of the show and something that Amazon encouraged.
Kirk Ward, who plays Tallahassee in the pilot, was originally cast in the role in the network pilot. What is it like working with him post-Woody Harrelson? Did he struggle with interpreting the character?
RR: We worked in Kirk Ward in 2005 on a show called Invasion Iowa with William Shatner. And we fell in love with his talents and him as a person. When we wrote Zombieland as a spec pilot, we were really inspired by Kirk. We intended him to play the part of Tallahassee. We kind of wrote the part to him, based on some of his acting strengths and what he likes to do in his physicality and his sense of humor and things like that. When Zombieland became a movie it was impossible to cast Kirk because, you know, Hollywood wanted a star and they found that star in Woody Harrelson, who was just amazing and awesome. And Woody left a very indelible mark on Tallahassee. But interestingly Tallahassee was never really intended to wear a cowboy hat and to talk with a more rural accent. He was supposed to be from a big city in Florida and was supposed to be Kirk Ward originally. So much of what Woody brought to the role was Woody bringing himself to the role and it was awesome. He created this wonderful Tallahassee that was different from the Tallahassee we had originally envisioned.
When it came time to do the series we had a lot of actors come in to audition. We wanted Kirk and but we had to go through an audition process. We had a lot of actors come in and essentially ape Woody Harrelson. We had a million guys come in with shark tooth necklaces and cowboy hats and T-shirts and jeans and do the southern accent. Our immediate reaction was that that was a mistake. We didn't want an actor to imitate Woody or to try to invoke Woody because we just thought that would have been playing an actor as opposed to playing a character. When we went to Kirk and said, "You've got to come do this," we told him not to try to imitate Woody, not to do a southern accent. We said, "We're not going to put you in a cowboy hat or cowboy boots. We're going to let you be the urban Tallahassee we originally imagined and you just have to be what you originally would have been in the character."
Can you talk a little bit about finding the balance between honoring the movie while keeping the TV series its own entity?
RR: Ultimately we're trying to recreate the movie without imitating the movie if that makes sense. We want to try to capture the tone of the movie which is dramatic, scary and funny - with the emphasis on the funny. We want it to have a heart the way the movie did. We want the relationships to play out similarly to how they were playing out in the movie and how they would have played out in movie sequels, which is a father-daughter relationship that developed between Tallahassee and Little Rock and a romance that developed between Columbus and Wichita.
We're bringing back a lot of elements from the movie like the rules and the zombie kill of the week. We have a lot more of those in store, not just rules and zombie kills of the week, but also a lot of other fun little... I hate to use the word "gimmicks" because it sounds gimmicky, but a lot of different elements that will bring new graphics and new fun runners and jokes that we always had intended to bring in.
I think overall we're not trying to imitate the movie or do exactly what we did in the movie. But we are trying to make it feel like it's from a consistent tone and world.
PW: If you think of Zombieland the brand, think of the movie as the pilot episode of the show. And now we're continuing on and telling more stories. The movie was essentially episodes 1 and 2 of the show put together. And now we're basically hitting the road on episode 2 or episode 3, depending on how you look at it. We're not necessarily trying to emulate it as much as we are just trying to continue to tell that serialized story that we wanted to tell of a dysfunctional family coming together and trying to survive in a world of zombies.
One of the biggest surprises of the film was the Bill Murray cameo. Can we expect more celebrity cameos like that if the show goes to series?
RR: Yes. We will likely see a celebrity cameo down the road. It's tough to predict who it will be because celebrities are notoriously hard to pin down and convince. And their schedules are always difficult and getting them in.
What kinds of zombie "rules" will you have?
RR: Well we're basically using the 28 Days Later model. So our zombies are infected humans who are fast and they're not undead. They're not slow. We are not adhering to some of the previous zombie rules like zombies don't eat other zombies. Obviously you see a zombie eating another zombie in the opening scene of the pilot. You don't have to shoot the zombie in its head in order to kill it. We have a moment where Tallahassee shoots a zombie in the chest and it dies because they're just human beings. They're human beings whose brains have been ravaged to one degree or another by a virus. So I do think that depending on when they got bit you'll see some variation. We'll have some smarter zombies, some stupider zombies.
But beyond that I don't think we're going to get too much into the mythology. Ultimately we hope to be able to lead our heroes to a place that's zombie-free or maybe find a cure or something like that.


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CHAPEL HILL — New data released Friday about a long-running academic fraud scandal at UNC-Chapel Hill show athletes made up nearly half of the enrollments in 172 bogus classes within the African studies department, and also accounted for a just under half of 512 suspect grade changes during that period.
Their average grade: 3.56, between a B-plus and an A-minus.
But Baker Tilly, the national management consulting firm that produced the data, said those numbers are not evidence of an athletics scandal at the university.
Raina Rose Tagle, a Baker Tilly partner, said the remaining 55 percent of nonathletes in the classes, who also accounted for half of the suspected grade changes and received similar grades, show it was purely an academic scandal.
There was not a relationship between the presence of student-athletes in a class and the existence of known anomalies in that class, Tagle told members of a UNC Board of Governors panel that is looking into the academic fraud.
Baker Tilly was hired in mid-August to help former Gov. Jim Martin try to determine when the academic fraud began, who was involved in creating it, and how many courses it affected. The report released last month found 216 suspect courses and 560 grade changes that lacked proper authorization dating back to 1997.
Fridays follow-up report did not show the breakdown of athletes and nonathletes in suspect courses and grade changes prior to fall 2001 because that information does not exist in an electronic format.
Tagle said the fraud wasnt about athletics because nonathletes had the same access to the classes and received similar grades. She and Martin also reported that they could find no evidence that athletics officials hatched the fraud. The report said longtime department chairman Julius Nyangoro and department manager Deborah Crowder were solely responsible.
Nyangoro was forced into retirement in July; Crowder had retired in September 2009.
Roughly 800 athletes are attending the university in any given year, and they account for less than 5 percent of the total undergraduate student population. But Tagle said their over-representation in the African studies courses is likely because African-Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of athletes at the university.
She said the data showed that athletes had a similar representation in other African studies courses not found to be fraudulent.
In response to a question, Tagle said she, Martin and her colleagues left no stone unturned in probing what the university had asked.
Our review and our analysis has been exhaustive, Tagle said.
Whats missing
Unlike a previous UNC-CH report, the Baker Tilly report did not disclose how many football and mens basketball players were in the suspect classes, or how many bogus classes were taken by each athlete, compared to each nonathlete. It didnt explain how numerous freshmen football players got into those classes, some of which were identified as being for upperclassmen.
It also did not disclose what classes had suspicious grade changes.
Panel Chairman Louis Bissette said after the meeting that the report contained important information. But he also acknowledged areas that the report did not go into that could shed more light on athletic involvement, and he said he would try to get more answers before the panel delivers its findings to the full UNC Board of Governors, possibly as soon as their next regular meeting in February.
The NCAA has said little about the academic scandal, but last week President Mark Emmert, in response to a McClatchy Newspaper reporters question, said a potential inquiry hinges on the question of whether there was an intent to help athletes stay eligible to play sports. He said he was concerned that freshmen athletes were enrolled.
A smokescreen
Experts in NCAA enforcement said the new reports grade change data provide further evidence that the association should investigate.
The new report shows that from 2002 to 2009, UNC athletes had their grades changed 38 times in ways that were not approved by the courses instructor. All were in African studies classes.
Those grade changes, according to the new report and one on the same topic issued last month, were specifically identified by the course sections instructor of record as unauthorized.
(T)he instructor of record confirmed that, while listed as the authorizer/approver on a grade change form, the signature represented a grade change s/he did not approve, the report says. Unauthorized grade changes were either specifically identified by the instructor of record, or associated with a course section found to be a course determined to represent academic misconduct (and) could not have appropriate grade changes associated.
The report says that an additional 215 grade changes for athletes are suspected to be unauthorized.
The updated report highlights that the grade changes were made for athletes and nonathletes in similar proportions. But it is silent on other details, including whether athletes were kept eligible by the unauthorized changes.
Irrelevant proportions
Gerald Gurney, past present of the National Association of Academic Advisers for Athletics and a professor at the University of Oklahoma, said the way the new report is written is obviously a smokescreen.
From an NCAA perspective, he said, it doesnt answer the right questions.
John Infante, whose respected blog on NCAA compliance matters was once hosted by the NCAA, and Michael Buckner, a Florida lawyer who has represented universities in infractions cases, both said further investigation is warranted.
The burden would be on UNC to explain them away, which they did not do in the report, Infante said, adding that the proportion of unauthorized grade changes between athletes and nonathlete students is irrelevant.
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Barack Obama Leads John McCain in Polls and Voter Enthusiasm
The final Pew Research Center presidential poll looks much like other national surveys.
The Pew Research Center's final presidential poll released today looks much like other national likely voter surveys released in the waning hours of this epic campaign: Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain, 52 to 46 percent, Pew says, with McCain having narrowed the gap modestly over the past month.
But the survey also revealed interesting data about how the campaigns have contacted potential voters and how voters have responded to those contacts—ranging from direct mail and E-mail to automated robocalls.
Think campaigns are getting their money's worth out of the cheap but controversial practice of robocalling? According to the survey, 65 percent of all registered voters polled said they hang up when they receive an automated call and half said the calls are a "minor annoyance." Thirteen percent say the calls make them angry. But candidates may want to take note: Those coveted independent voters are the likeliest to hang up and get angry. Seventy-five percent of registered independents hang up on robocalls and 17 percent get angry.
Pew also found that McCain voters are more likely than Obama voters to receive automated calls, 63 to 57 percent, but Democrats are more apt to listen to the calls. The survey found that 39 percent of Democrats listen rather than hang up, compared with 31 percent of Republicans.
As expected, voters reported a surge in contacts by the campaigns over the past month. Political mailings, the most common tactic, increased 14 percent between October and November. Automated calls spiked 10 percent, and home visits were up by 5 percent—with 18 percent of Obama supporters reporting a home visit, compared with 10 percent of McCain supporters. Twenty-eight percent of registered voters polled said they had received E-mails from the campaign or political organizations.
And in a stark measure of what has been characterized as the "enthusiasm gap" between Obama and McCain partisans, Pew found that twice as many expected Obama voters attended a campaign event—16 percent versus 8 percent for McCain supporters.


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On Monday, October 30th FEAR was born at a hot new club in Los Angeles, Boulevard 3.
It was a total scream as Hollywoods Horror Community tore up this Hallows Eve fete. With hysteria on the dance floor, appearances from the latest horror celebs and a FEARnet tattoo parlor, this was the ultimate shriek fest.
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WALTHAM, Mass. –- The Colby College baseball team fought back from two large deficits for a wild 13-11 win in the opener and then had it a bit easier with a 7-1 win in the second game as the Mules swept Brandeis University in a non-conference doubleheader on Saturday.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas is trying to beat its reputation as a shut-in.
MGM Resorts International announced Thursday that it will sink $100 million into building a park and public promenade outside of its New York-New York and Monte Carlo casinos.
The project runs counter to casinos' long-held strategy of trying to keep people inside, losing track of time as they buy more chips and flit from one pricey attraction to the next.
"It's what customers were really excited about in the '80s and '90s— the convenience of being in a single environment when you could sample so many different kinds of entertainment," MGM CEO Jim Murren said in a telephone interview. "Tomorrow's consumer doesn't want that limitation. They are far more spontaneous."
To that end, MGM is transforming the congested sidewalks in front of its New York City and European-themed casinos into an outdoor plaza featuring trees, benches, food trucks and shops. Construction is expected to begin in the coming weeks and last through 2014.
Murren said he was inspired by New York City's small and cosmopolitan Madison Square Park, as opposed to the more sprawling Central Park.
"We're not going to play Frisbee on the Great Lawn, but I would describe it as a city park with a dramatic boulevard," he said.
Tourists will be able to stroll over a replica of the Brooklyn Bridge, relax in a beer garden, and enjoy a cone of frozen custard from Shake Shack, an upscale burger stand that has become a New York favorite.
Artist's renderings depict Gen Xers fiddling with smartphones under shade trees.
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FORT WORTH — The Fort Worth Stock Show's annual All-Western Parade through downtown posted 212 entries and included 1,774 total animals, reports Philip Schutts, Stock Show Executive Committee Member and Parade Chairman.
The one-hour-and-thirty-minute event was watched by more than 100,000 people who lined Main and Houston streets between the Tarrant County Courthouse and the Fort Worth Convention Center.
Riding Group winners were First Place: Parsons Mounted Calvary, College Station; Second Place: Glory Riders, Denison; and Third Place: Circle L5 Riding Club, Fort Worth.
In the Sheriff's Posse category, First Place went to Rockwall County; Second Place to Tarrant County and Third Place to Wise County.
In the Marching Bands division, Southwest Raider Marching Band took First Place; Western Hills High School Marching Band took Second Place; and Third Place was awarded to Paschal High School Marching Band. All of the marching bands are from Fort Worth. The award for Best Marching Group (other than a band) was given to the Marine Corps, from Fort Worth.
Horse-Drawn Vehicle awards were: First Place: White's Funeral Home, Weatherford; Second Place: Texas Girls' Choir, Fort Worth; and Third Place: J-L Ranch, Fort Worth.
The Texas/American Fellowship Of Cowboy Churches, Waxahachie, received the Chairman's Award; the Outstanding Display of Western Heritage Award went to Legends Of Texas, Bedford; and the Most Colorful entry was awarded to Dwaine Taylor, Perrin, Texas.
Traveling the greatest distance to participate in the parade was the American Association Of Sheriff's Posses and Riding Clubs of Clovis, New Mexico.
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FORT WORTH — The Fort Worth Stock Show's annual All-Western Parade through downtown posted 212 entries and included 1,774 total animals, reports Philip Schutts, Stock Show Executive Committee Member and Parade Chairman.
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FORT WORTH — Come join the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) for a ranch gathering Thursday, at the Wise County Sheriff's Posse Arena in Decatur. The gathering will begin at 6 p.m. with registration followed by a beef dinner and presentations.
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Planned grazing course with Kirk Gadzia this April in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers and Holistic Management Texas team up to offer a new "Planned Grazing" course at the Will Rogers Memorial Center April 21-25.
The emphasis for this five-day course will be on grazing planning, but instructor Kirk Gadzia will cover rangeland monitoring, financial planning and land planning as well. The content will be relevant to both managerial and operational level employees, with varying levels of formal education. There will be a lands-on Learning aspect if weather permits. Class runs from 8am to 4:15pm each day.
One more for the tourists
Moira and Clive, British tourists, had taken in the Arkansas attractions of Eureka Springs, the Chuck Wagon races in Clinton, the sale barn in Green Forest, and now found themselves in Fort Smith for the Arkansas Cattlemen's Association Trail Drive.
Cowboy ingenuity
Cowboys are nothing if not ingenious. It takes that sort of out-of-the-box mentality to allow them to solve the myriad of problems that arise when you combine horse, cow and rope!
Local wins at San Antonio Stock Show
SAN ANTONIO — The Junior Market AOB Steer Show was held Feb. 19, at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.
Taylor Cody won the honor of Breed Champion AOB with her 1334 pound steer.
Olympic distraction
You know the inmates have taken over the asylum when you're turning to PETA as the voice of reason! These are the animal rights extremists who compared eating chicken to the Holocaust, compared the murdering cannibal Jeffery Daumer to butchering hogs, and once proclaimed that it would be great if Foot and Mouth Disease infected animals in the U.S.
Scholarships awarded to Parker County youth
SAN ANTONIO — Cade Hansma and Alannah Chalmers of Weatherford, and Jens Rudibaugh of Poolville, were the recipients of scholarships from the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo at this year's horse and llama shows.
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In an effort to make managing the 20 section ranch more efficient, the boss bought Jake a Ranger, a four-wheel drive muscle car ATV.
Local student wins at Fort Worth Stock Show
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Why the Economy Can Withstand $100 Oil
Plenty of those petrodollars end up right back here in America.
Forget the credit crunch and mortgage crisis for a moment. What about rising oil prices? So far, the economy has shaken off high prices at the pump, no problemo. But what if oil his $100 or more? Don't fret, says Jim Glassman of JPMorgan:
1) The sticker shock related to $90-$100 oil won't spark new alarms. That's because, for all intents and purposes, consumers already saw $100 per barrel oil this spring, when large numbers of refineries shut down for a long-needed maintenance, gasoline prices spiked above $3.00 per gallon, and retail margins temporarily widened to unprecedented levels.
2) Today's economy is better able to absorb the rise in the relative price of energy, because it is more flexible, it is still relatively strong, and we use energy far more efficiently than we once did so that oil is not as important as it once was. In addition, contrary to popular opinion, oil may be a "tax" initially, for consumers and net oil consuming countries, but eventually oil revenues get spent—recycled—if not in the spending stream, into financial markets.
3) $100 oil implies that [3 trillion] of petroleum dollars are cycling into financial markets annually today, compared with an annual flow of only $600 billion back in 2003 when oil prices were close to $20 per barrel.
4) OPEC shocks get a bad rap for the stagflation and recessions of the 1970s. In fact, oil may be guilty only by association.
5) High oil prices, as unhappy as they make us, are doing God's work, by curbing our appetite for carbon fuel, pointing us to greater energy security and limiting the impact of human activity on the environment. The decline in gasoline demand in response to rising energy costs is proof that markets work and that market mechanisms are our best energy policy.


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By GARY POPP
Drunken mother found with tot
Charlestown police responded to Bobby's Sweet Shop on Halyson Road about 8:45 p.m. Aug. 10 after a concerned citizen called about an intoxicated woman pushing a child in a stroller.
After responding to the business, police spoke with a woman who said she had seen Elizabeth Richardson, 26, of Berkley Road in Charlestown, in the area with a child, later determined to be 1-year-old.
The woman reported to police she had seen Richardson nearly falling over while reaching for a baby bottle. When the woman tried to help Richardson, she refused her assistance.
The witness also reported seeing Richardson tipping the stroller forward to spill fruit juice that had accumulated on the table portion of the stroller while disregarding the safety of the child.
The witness said she had to intervene to prevent Richardson from losing control of the child and "dump [the baby] on her face," according to the police report.
The same witness helped the mother into Bobby's Sweet Shop, where she was found by police.
Police reported observing Richardson " ... inside the store slumped over the cashier counter for an extended amount of time."
Richardson then stood up with her eyes closed and appeared to be asleep, police reported, as the stroller and child were behind her and out of her sight.
The woman and a second person pushing the stroller then left the store.
When an officer spoke with Richardson, she had a "very strong odor of alcohol coming from her breath," police reported. She also had to use the front of a police vehicle for balance.
An officer reported Richardson admitted to drinking alcohol, even though it was difficult for police to understand her slurred speech.
When police asked her where her child was, Richard said the baby was with her mother. When police asked Richardson if she had been with her child at all that day, she said had not.
When the officer pointed in the direction of the child, " ... Richardson stated 'Oh,' as she stumbled forward," according to the police report.
Police then administered a portable breath test, which Richardson returned a .31 BAC. She was taken to St. Catherine Regional Hospital for treatment before being transported to the Michael L. Becher Adult Correctional Complex.
Richardson has been preliminarily charged with neglect of a dependent and public intoxication.
She was given a $5,000 court-cash bond on Monday, but released on her own recognizance Wednesday. Richardson is scheduled to appear in court for an initial hearing Aug. 21.
She has yet to be officially charged in court.
Foot pursuit ends in Taser strike
A Branchville man was Tased after a nearly 30-minute pursuit with Clarksville police.
An officer attempted a stop on a vehicle driven by Andrew Clemons, 26, along Providence way Monday night after he was seen driving at a high rate of speed.
After the officer activated his patrol car's lights and sirens, the vehicle slowed near the entrance of Providence High School, but Clemons accelerated then slammed on his brakes near Gutford Road.
Clemons then exited the vehicle and fled on foot, while leaving the vehicle, which was not registered to him, in drive, and the vehicle veered into oncoming traffic and came to a stop in the front yard of a nearby home.
A K-9 unit was called to the scene to track Clemons, but he was not initially located.
Clemons was later seen covered in grass and mud coming from between two homes in the area. Before he could be apprehended, however, Clemons again took off running. By officers working together to locate Clemons, he was again located, only this time Tased in his lower back and buttocks area and placed into handcuffs.
Police reported he had an odor of alcohol coming from his breath. Clemons then refused to take a field sobriety test and a portable breath test, and refused to speak to the officer.
As he was patted down, police located a substance believed to be spice, a synthetic drug, in his possession.
Clemons has been charged in Clark County Circuit Court No. 3 with operating while intoxicated endangering a person, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, resisting law enforcement, criminal recklessness -— use of vehicle, reckless driving, driving while suspended with a prior, and possessing a look-alike substance, all misdemeanor charges.
Sibling dispute results in arrest
A Charlestown man was arrested Aug. 9 after Charlestown police responded to his home on a call of two brothers fighting.
Brian A. Money, 29, Chris Court, has been charged with class C felony intimidation.
At the home police spoke with the mother of Money and his brother.
She reported that Money had woken his brother and asked to borrow his vehicle. When the brother refused, the mother told police that Money said he was going to slice the vehicle's tires, if he wasn't allowed to borrow it.
Money then left the home with a knife in his hand and walked toward the vehicle, the woman reported.
The brother followed Money outside of the home with a baseball bat to protect his vehicle, the brother later told police.
"[The mother] stated Money went after [his brother] with the knife and was trying to cut him," according to the police report.
Money told police he had pulled out the knife to defend himself, but never opened the blade. Police found the knife in Money's shorts.
The mother told police Money came back into the home and held a the storm door shut. His brother told police he threw the bat at the door, which was found broken and had covered Money with glass. The mother told police she did not want any action taken against her son for breaking the door.
A neighbor reported that when he heard the glass break, he went to the home and made the brother who threw the bat come back to his home, where police found him on their arrival.
Money was taken to the Michael L. Becher Adult Correctional Complex.


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Medium amounts of karenia brevis—the organism responsible for red tide—has been collected in water samples on Siesta and Turtle Beaches, according to satellite images. Very Low amounts have been collected in New Pass, Longboat Key Beach, the north point of Anna Maria Island and low amounts have been collected off of Redington Pier in Pinenellas County.
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John Alexander Williamson of Alton was among the graduates from the Virginia State Police's largest class Friday at commencement exercises held at Meadow Event Park in Doswell in Caroline County. Williamson, the son of Betty Williamson of Alton and the late Alex Williamson, was among the 108 men and women who were presented their diplomas as the commonwealth's newest generation of state troopers.
Williamson has been assigned to Mecklenburg County.
Observing its 80th anniversary, commencement exercises for the 117th Basic Session were moved from the traditional location of the Virginia State Police campus in Chesterfield County because of the record size of the class and for the safety and comfort of attendees.
Friday's graduation also marked the official conversion of the Department's Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer (CVEO) position to trooper.
Eighty of the graduates are members of the 117th Basic Session, and 28 are former CVEOs. The CVEOs took part in a special 12-week "CVEO-to-Trooper Conversion School."
All of the CVEOs are existing, uniformed VSP employees assigned to Virginia Motor Carrier Service Centers (weigh stations) across the commonwealth. The additional academy training allows the CVEOs to convert to the rank of trooper, thus allowing the state police to add 28 more troopers to patrol duties on Virginia's highways.
The 117th started a demanding 36-week training session June 27. In the last eight months, the new troopers have received 1,800 hours of classroom and field instruction encompassing more than 100 different subjects.
The 117th is the first class to receive 16 hours of intermediate criminal investigation training. Additional subjects included judicial procedures, juvenile and traffic law, firearms, self-defense, crowd control and first-aid, to name a few.
The final phase of training begins today when the new troopers report for their first duty assignments.
For a minimum of six weeks, every member of the 117th is partnered with a field training officer (FTO) in order to learn his or her new patrol area and day-to-day duties.
The graduating troopers come from every corner of the commonwealth, as well as Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. Also unique to this class is the number of those born outside the country, to include Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ghana, Philippines and South Korea.
Prior to starting a career with the Virginia State Police, many of the new troopers served with other law enforcement agencies and/or with a branch of the military.
The 117th yields more than 62 years of law enforcement and corrections experience, as well as an impressive 124 years of prior military service.
As the need for highly-skilled and capable law enforcement professionals continues, the department is currently seeking qualified applicants for the position of trooper.
All interested applicants are encouraged to contact the Virginia State Police Recruitment Office at the toll-free number 1-866-877-2329 or visit the Department's web site www.vsp.virginia.gov.


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George Roberts and Austin Urban have spent several months honing their baseball skills indoors at the ERA Sports Inc. facility in Windber.
The area's two professional baseball players also tutored dozens of young ballplayers participating in the winter program.
Soon, Roberts and Urban will be playing ball in the sun in Arizona and Florida, respectively.
Snow? Ice? Freezing temperatures?
Those annoying winter trends will be memories as Roberts begins his second season in the Arizona Diamondbacks minor league system, and Urban continues to pitch in the Baltimore Orioles organization after he returned to action last summer following a back injury.
"It's been a good offseason. I've really enjoyed it. I got a lot of hard work in," said Urban, a Richland High graduate who pitched for Aberdeen in the short season New York-Penn League last summer. "This is probably the strongest I've been during the offseason so far. This is as good as I've felt going into spring training.
"I feel completely healthy. I feel I made a lot of good strides last year. I learned a lot of good stuff during the summer in the season. There still are a lot of things to learn. I try to pick up things every day in pursuit of my career."
Urban went 3-5 with one save and a 3.32 earned run average for the Orioles Class A squad in Aberdeen. The right-handed pitcher missed 2012 due to the back injury. He parted ways with the Chicago Cubs, the team that drafted him in the 41st round in 2011.
Urban reunited with the Orioles, the team that selected him in the 27th round of the 2010 draft. That year, Urban didn't sign a pro deal.
"The Orioles worked on my windup in instructional league," Urban said. "I've been working on that. Mainly, it's about location. I just work on everything. You continue to work to try to get better every single day."
Urban hopes to land with the Delmarva Shorebirds, the Orioles' Class A team in the South Atlantic League. He leaves for Sarasota, Fla., training camp on Feb. 28.
Roberts had a solid pro debut with the Diamondbacks after Arizona selected him in the 26th round of the June draft.
The Forest Hills High School graduate had a stellar college career at Kent State University, where Roberts was the MAC Player of the Year as a junior and played in the College World Series.
"I'm hoping to get to spring training and work hard to earn a spot on a full-season squad whether it's South Bend or Visalia," Roberts said. "I want to do well and keep climbing."
His Diamondbacks career started strong as he batted .300 in three games on Arizona's rookie team, earning a quick promotion to the short season Class A Hillsboro Hops. Roberts batted .251 with 34 runs, eight doubles, a triple and a homer.
"It took a little bit to get adjusted to the pitching and the grind every day," Roberts said. "I thought college baseball was tough, but pro you work every day about eight hours a day. It's like facing everybody's ace in college. Everyone can throw. It's a lot more of a mental game. Baseball is always a mental game, but it's even more mental in pro ball.
"The big thing is once you get out there, you treat it like another game just like I've done my whole life," he added.
Both Roberts and Urban are instructors at ERA Sports in Windber, where George's older brother Rick runs the indoor program.
The two players complement each other well, with George Roberts tutoring young hitters, and Urban offering instruction on the mound. The players once were teammates for Delweld in the AAABA League and in the AAABA Tournament.
"It's been fun. I try to gather as much information as I can from all of my different coaches so that I can feed it back to the community here and try to help young players out of ERA," George Roberts said. "I try to teach them what I know and help them out."
Urban appreciates the work. It's a bonus to have a job that helps prepare him for his summer gig.
"It's always a lot of fun. It's a great offseason job," Urban said. "I love helping out the kids and being able to give back what I've learned. It's great that we have guys like Rick and now, us, who can give back and help these kids in their career."
Mike Mastovich is a sports writer for The Tribune-Democrat. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/masty81.


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By BRAD KELLAR
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The City of Greenville is seeking bids from companies interested in performing maintenance work to some two dozen local streets.
The city is planning to spend almost $900,000 under the 2013 Street Improvement Program.
Bids will be accepted through June 20 for the project, which will not involve any new construction.
Director of Public Works/Interim City Manager Massoud Ebrahim has proposed 24 individual projects on portions of 23 streets in Greenville, divided among the six Council precincts. The work will involve milling, overlaying, chip sealing and micro-surfacing on the streets.
The streets proposed for maintenance under the program include King from Lee to Henry, Clark from Gillespie to Polk, Patterson from Mullaney to the culdesac, Nob Hill from Cedar Ridge to Creekside, Home Street from U.S. Highway 69 to the end, River Oaks from Home Street to the end, Northgate from Peacock to the end, all of Northgate Circle, Kingswood from Royal Oaks to Oak Creek, all of Briarwood Circle, Rosewood from Oak Creek to Aerobic, Poplar from Wesley to Sayle, Garden from Stonewall to Interstate 30, Meadowbrook from Stonewall to Stonewall, Cornelia from King to Sayle and from Moulton to Seventh, Creek Crossing from Shelby to Ridgecrest, Henderson from Stanford to Division, Redbud from First to Cornelia, Stanford from Moulton to Fourth, Hemphill from Moulton to Stuart, Frontier from Sahara to River Oaks and Royal Oaks from FM 1570 to the end.
A 2006 assessment of 200 miles of streets in Greenville is being used as a strategy tool to schedule reconstruction/rehabilitation projects within the city.


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It's amazing how the different kinds of cold feel before the sun rises.
For instance, this morning's 7 degrees feels slightly out-of-focus compared to 24-hours ago when the same temperature -- coupled with a moderate breeze -- created a sense of crisp clarity (in addition to feelings of imminent frostbite).
Today's cold is also feels a bit stale (if any part of a new day can be "stale") and even the birds waiting patiently for me to bring out the jug of feed and bag of shelled peanuts seem to have less energy.
True, they swoop down to begin their breakfast the moment I turn the corner of the house, but they don't have the usual frantic bob-and-weave while sorting through to the pieces of food that interest them most.
Maybe my perception will change if/when the sun arrives. Like the old Blue Bonnet margarine commercial ("everything tastes better with Blue Bonnet on it") every part of my being/ existence feels better with the sun shining brightly.
Fortunately my mood this morning is not aligned with the air quality or presence of the sun.
This is a Thursday and noted Vietnamese monk Thick Nhat Hahn (Thay, as he is known to his students) is computer-live at 3 AM with his dharma talk streamed from Plum Village, France.
After watching and listening for only a few moments, I relax and merge with the mystery and power of my in- and out-breath.
I become conscious of the miracle of being alive and grateful for this life-force in me and you and the rest of the "you's" I've never met. And yes, that includes the animals, plants, and minerals I co-exist with on this planet.
I am discovering that we all are one, no matter what shade of cold Mother Nature provides. And that thought brings a quiet smile to my heart.
At least this is how it feels this Thursday morning on the 24th day of January in my neck of the Central Jersey woods. What's it like where you are?
Judy Shepps Battle is a New Jersey resident, addictions specialist, consultant and freelance writer. Her weekly column "It Takes a Village" appeared in the South Brunswick Patch for a year. She can be reached by e-mail at email@example.com. Additional information on this and other topics can be found at her website at http://www.writeaction.com/.
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