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He endeared himself to area police officers, responding at any hour of the day to their personal or professional tragedies.
Parishioners of the East Side parish where he celebrated Masses grew to love his disheveled, everyman way of ministering, and impoverished residents in the neighborhood appreciated his caring attention.
In some ways, the Rev. Joseph F. Moreno Jr. did the kind of gritty priestly work for which few other clergy are suited.
Yet Moreno, 54, also was by many accounts a tortured soul – an enigmatic man who craved attention but refused to allow people to really know him.
His death Oct. 13 due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound sent shock waves across Western New York and caused his family and other supporters to blame diocesan officials for what they called a callous mishandling of the priest.
With the Catholic Church's clergy sexual abuse scandal still looming as a backdrop, some people wondered whether an allegation of that sort had surfaced for Moreno, who reportedly was distressed over his pending departure from St. Lawrence Church, where he had been living since 2005.
In a statement, the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo said no allegations of sex abuse of a minor were ever raised about Moreno. There were no indications Moreno harmed a child. But the priest had other troubling incidents in his past, including a 1989 conviction for attempted arson and falsely reporting an incident and a 2005 bankruptcy filing in which he listed $447,000 in debts.
Portrayals of Moreno as a saintly man and model priest don't tell the whole story, according to multiple clergy sources.
"He did a lot of wonderful things, but there is the dark side," said one priest who spoke on the condition that his name not be used.
At times in his priesthood, Moreno could be highly unpredictable, to the point of missing Masses for which he was scheduled to be the celebrant.
"You never knew where he was going to be. He was supposed to be saying Mass somewhere, and he was someplace else," said another veteran priest who requested anonymity.
He sometimes acted oddly, giving extravagant gifts to fellow clergy despite serious money problems. Clergy observers said Moreno fabricated or embellished stories about himself. In 2006, for example, he told Buffalo police he fought off a 6-foot-5, knife-wielding burglar who cut the priest's hand, requiring treatment at a local hospital.
Fellow priests suspect there was no burglar at all, and police said the case generated no leads and hasn't been solved.
So erratic was his behavior that some clergy suspected Moreno battled depression or bipolar disorder and wasn't adequately treated.
"It's always been a source of happy hour conversation: 'Did you hear what Joe did lately?' " said one clergyman. "It's a tragic thing."
Moreno's father, Joseph, and his sister, Susan, declined to comment for this story.
Arson at St. Aloysius
Whatever his personal demons were, Moreno kept them to himself, said Monsignor William O. Wangler, a retired priest who worked with Moreno in Springville more than 23 years ago.
If anyone tried to talk with him about stresses or problems in his life, Moreno deflected the overture or denied anything was wrong, said Wangler.
"Many people, including the chancery, tried to help him, but if a man doesn't want help, you can't help him," he added.
Some members of the clergy said diocesan officials struggled for years with what to do with Moreno.
"I think they just gave up and said they can't control him," said one priest.
Moreno's problems dated back to his early priesthood.
In May of 1989, three years after his ordination, Moreno was arrested and accused of arson in connection with a fire in the rectory of St. Aloysius Church in Springville, where he was an associate pastor.
He ultimately pleaded guilty in State Supreme Court to charges of fourth-degree attempted arson and falsely reporting an incident, both misdemeanors. He received a conditional discharge and was transferred to St. John Church in Olean.
Priests across the diocese were aware of the Springville incident, though the case had never been reported publicly.
Afterward, Moreno may have received residential treatment at a place such as Southdown Institute, a facility in Aurora, Ont., that provides a full range of mental health services to clergy, according to some priests.
The diocese declined to answer several questions about Moreno's conviction and any treatment he received afterward. Instead, through spokesman Kevin A. Keenan, the diocese issued the following statement: "Father Moreno's ministry was one of presence to first responders, the needy and the parishioners, and many others he served. The diocese makes available to all of its priests a full range of assistance for any issues that might arise during the course of their ministry, and that certainly was the case with Father Moreno."
The statement also said: "It is unfortunate that these matters are now being raised when Father Moreno cannot speak for himself and when his family and friends are still grieving his unexpected, tragic passing."
Outside of some self-admitted traffic violations, Moreno didn't have subsequent run-ins with the law.
But he did encounter serious financial problems.
In 2005, just a month after his Town of Tonawanda home was foreclosed upon, Moreno filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of New York, declaring assets of $145,610 and an astounding $447,086.55 in liabilities – mostly credit card debt incurred in May of 1999, a time when Moreno didn't have a priestly assignment in the Buffalo diocese.
Moreno testified that he incurred the debt because of living expenses and as a result of extensive stock trading. His case was converted to a Chapter 7 filing, and he was granted a discharge of the debts in 2006.
Moreno ended up at St. Lawrence rectory around the same time the bankruptcy case was unfolding.
"He was very straightforward about this when he moved in with me at St. Lawrence," said the Rev. Paul D. Seil, former pastor of the church, who lived in the rectory with Moreno before moving on to become pastor of St. Bernadette Church in Orchard Park. "He didn't hide it, and I didn't dwell on it or get into details."
Some priests speculated that Moreno had a gambling problem that led to the debt, but Seil said Moreno was not known to frequent casinos, and he never spoke of placing bets.
"I do know that he was buying a fair amount of lottery tickets," said Seil. "Once when I talked to him about this, he said he was in a group of guys [mostly cops], and he picked up the lottery tickets for the group."
In his bankruptcy filing, Moreno revealed he won $15,300 in the lottery in 2003.
Never named pastor
In his 26 years as a priest, Moreno never was appointed pastor of a parish, and the bankruptcy, combined with the earlier arson, made such an appointment highly unlikely, even with the Diocese of Buffalo's growing priest shortage, clergy sources said.
Nonetheless, parishioners of St. Lawrence Church were disappointed when Bishop Richard J. Malone decided not to name Moreno pastor of the parish on East Delavan Avenue, not far from the Cheektowaga border.
Instead, Malone asked Moreno to leave St. Lawrence and live, at least temporarily, with Seil at the St. Bernadette rectory in Orchard Park.
"He was our shepherd and he should have been our pastor, but he never had that title," said parishioner Eleonore Clark, who described the usually upbeat priest as like "a whipped puppy" after a meeting with Malone in which the bishop told him he would be moving.
Moreno had a profound impact on people's lives, regardless of whether he had the title and duties of pastor, said Monsignor Robert E. Zapfel, chairman of the Buffalo diocese's Council of Priests and pastor of St. Leo Church in Amherst.
"He did great ministry. He touched the lives and the hearts of many people, and he did it maybe because he wasn't pastor," said Zapfel.
Moreno's faults might have helped him connect with people who "saw in him a very human priest, with failings as well as many blessings," he added.
He "really understood their brokenness, their heartaches, their ups and downs, in ways that others couldn't," said Zapfel. "From those perspectives, he was a great priest. Was he perfect? No. But none of us are."
Wangler, too, said Moreno had "beautiful pastoral gifts" and was selfless in his concern for others, but he lacked the organizational skills that parish pastors must also possess.
"I think he had a personality that was a little bit not healthy, but he would deny it," said Wangler. "One of the consequences of that kind of personality is that he needs attention and he needs to help people, more than people need the help."
Trauma by proxy
There's no question Moreno helped plenty of people, including police officers, to whom he ministered regularly, even though he never was officially assigned as their chaplain.
And it's possible that Moreno's regular presence in tragic situations had an effect on him.
Care providers of all kinds can be profoundly impacted by aiding people in trauma, said Douglas B. Fabian, executive director of Crisis Services.
"They, too, become traumatized after a while," said Fabian. "It's what we call vicarious traumatization."
"For people to think that a priest is any stronger than anyone else," said Fabian, "I don't want to burst the image, but that's not necessarily the case. They are in a position to see more trauma, to see more problems, than anyone else."
Over the years, Moreno attracted positive attention from The News and local television stations, which some clergy said helped insulate him from chancery discipline.
Often in the media
Moreno loved the limelight, regaling in his associations with the likes of Jay Leno and Derek Jeter. He seemed constantly to be delivering pizza and baked goods to one needy group or another.
"Because he was so high-profile, administrators left him alone," another priest said. "As long as what he was doing was admirable – priest to the poor and all that – it took them off the hook."
But Moreno's work wasn't always so public, said Seil.
"A lot of times he was out there, bigger than life, getting attention, but a lot of times he was doing things privately, behind the scenes, with nobody knowing," he said
Moreno's fellow priests are still struggling to come to grips with exactly who he was.
Seil, who preached at Moreno's 25th anniversary Mass and probably knew him as well as any other priest, wishes he had more answers about his friend.
"He left a lot of questions," Seil said.
News Reporter Maki Becker contributed to this story. email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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LONDON � Five things to know about Friday, Day 7 of the London Olympics:
Threepeat achieved: Michael Phelps wins last individual race at Olympics.
Saudi woman�s judo appearance hailed as victory for women in ultraconservative kingdom.
Track and field gets under way with fans filling up stadium.
Roger Federer, Serena Williams reach Olympic tennis finals.
U.S. men shut out in boxing; worst showing ever.
Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani became the first Saudi woman to compete at the Olympics when she lost her judo fight in 82 seconds. And she only made it to the mat after a compromise between Olympic organizers, the international judo federation and Saudi officials cleared the way for her to wear a modified hijab.
The crowd roared right before Shahrkhani�s fight against Puerto Rico�s Melissa Mojica. The Saudi, wearing judo dress and what appeared to be a tight-fitting black cap, looked tentative and cautious on her feet, and Mojica eventually grabbed Shahrkhani and flipped her onto her back, ending the match.
As she rose to her feet, Shahrkhani gently reached for her head to make sure the hijab still was in place. It was, and the two women bowed to each other and left to a loud ovation.
Afterward, the teenager walked with her father past journalists and TV cameras.
�I am happy to be at the Olympics,� she whispered in Arabic, her brother, Hassan, holding both her arms. �Unfortunately, we did not win a medal, but in the future we will, and I will be a star for women�s participation.�
Olympic Stadium was packed for the first time since the opening ceremony, and heptathlete Jessica Ennis gave the delirious crowd exactly what it was hoping to see.
Ennis finished the 100-meter hurdles in 12.54 seconds, the fastest time ever in the heptathlon�s first event and one of the highlights on a raucous opening day for track and field.
Ennis� time matched Dawn Harper�s gold-winning burst in the 100-meter hurdle final at the Beijing Games � and would�ve been good enough to take that title at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics.
�Amazing. So loud. When you step up to jump or get in your blocks, they really get behind you. It�s a great feeling,� Ennis said of the home crowd.
Poland�s Tomasz Majewski (men�s shot put) and Ethiopia�s Tirunesh Dibaba (women�s 10,000 meters) won the first gold medals in track and field, and world champion Carmelita Jeter of the U.S. led the 100-meter heats with a time of 10.83 seconds.
There were more stirring moments as Wimbledon, where Federer was pushed to the limit in his pursuit of his first Olympic singles medal.
Federer rallied past Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 3-6, 7-6 (5), 19-17 to reach the final. At 4 hours, 26 minutes, it was the longest three-set men�s match of the Open era.
�I was very tense at certain times,� Federer said. �I was seeing myself as a loser many times during the match.�
Federer faces another tough challenge when he meets Britain�s Andy Murray in Sunday�s gold-medal match. Murray, who advanced with a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Novak Djokovic, lost to Federer in the Wimbledon final.
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Nine consecutive defeats appeared to finish off the American men�s boxers � until a late-night reprieve kept one U.S. fighter alive.
Rau�shee Warren and Errol Spence appeared to send the Americans home without a medal for the first time in Olympic history.
But about five hours after Indian welterweight Krishan Vikas appeared to clutch and grab his way to a 13-11 win over Spence, AIBA overturned the result of the bout, saying Vikas had committed nine holding fouls in the third round and intentionally spit out his mouthpiece in the second.
The rest of the Olympic action Friday:
Diana Taurasi scored 18 points, and Tina Charles finished with a double-double to lead the U.S. women�s team to an 88-61 win over the Czech Republic.
Liz Cambage dunked in Australia�s 70-66 victory over Russia, and Croatia, Canada, Turkey and France also won.
Abby Wambach slid into a pass in the 27th minute to knock home her fourth goal of the tournament and then celebrated with a cartwheel in the United States� 2-0 win over New Zealand in the women�s quarterfinals.
Sydney Leroux added an insurance goal in the 87th minute for the two-time defending Olympic champion Americans, who will play Canada on Monday. Canada advanced with a 2-0 victory over host Britain.
France faces Japan in the other semifinal. Japan topped Brazil 2-0, and France bested Sweden 2-1.
Beach Volleyball
Defending gold medalists Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser of the United States were knocked out of the Olympics by Italy.
Rogers and Dalhausser lost the first set 21-17 and fell behind Paolo Nicolai and Danielle Lupo 12-7 in the second. The Americans tied it 19-19 but lost the final two points and were eliminated when Rogers� spike was blocked back into him by the 6-foot-8-inch Nicolai.
Jennifer Kessy and April Ross of the U.S. beat Switzerland�s Simone Kuhn and Nadine Zumkehr to advance to the quarterfinals of the women�s tournament. Brazil�s top-seeded Juliana and Larissa also advanced, eliminating the Netherlands 21-10, 21-17, and Laura Ludwig and Sara Goller beat fellow Germans Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler 21-16, 21-15.
Destinee Hooker scored 19 points, and the U.S. women�s team clinched the top spot in its pool with a preliminary-round victory over Serbia in straight sets.
Logan Tom added 12 points in the 25-17, 25-20, 25-16 sweep. The U.S. will wrap up the preliminary round with a match against Turkey on Sunday.
Brazil stayed alive in the preliminary round with a 3-2 victory over China. Now 2-2, Brazil is still on the ropes with one match left against last-place Serbia on Sunday.
Italy and the Dominican Republic each had three-set victories. Turkey edged South Korea in five, and Russia topped Japan 3-1.
Water Polo
Maggie Steffens scored three goals, and the U.S. women�s team beat China 7-6 in its final preliminary-stage game.
The Americans will play 2012 European champion Italy in Sunday�s quarterfinals.
Spain beat Hungary 13-11, Australia edged Russia 11-8, and Italy topped host Britain 10-5.
No tears for Victoria Pendleton this time. Just jubilation.
Pendleton washed away the disappointment of her disqualification in the team sprint by winning the Olympic gold medal in the keirin with a flawless performance.
Mahe Drysdale was really nervous before the men�s single sculls final. He felt really great when it was all over.
The star oarsman from New Zealand won his race in the Olympic rowing regatta in 6 minutes, 57.82 seconds.
China�s Dong Dong took the gold in the men�s trampoline competition, putting together a dizzying series of flips and twists. Dmitry Ushakov of Russia was second, and defending Olympic champion Lu Chunlong of China grabbed the bronze.
Charlotte Dujardin�s record score riding Valegro helped Britain take a slender lead over Germany after the two-day first round of the dressage competition.
Rafalca, co-owned by the wife of U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and ridden by Jan Ebeling, scored 70.243 percent to place 30th out of 50 riders.
Wu Minxia and He Zi of China led the preliminaries of women�s 3-meter springboard, another dominating performance by the country that captured the first four diving golds of the London Games.
Minxia surged ahead with a brilliant final dive, a back 2� somersault in the pike position. The crowd gasped when she sliced through the water, barely causing a ripple.
Ben Ainslie won the 10th race in the Finn regatta to set up a dramatic showdown in his quest to become the most successful sailor in Olympic history.
He pulled within two points of Denmark�s Jonas Hoegh-Christensen, who has led the Finn fleet since Race 1 and angered Ainslie on Thursday with a claim that the British star hit a turning mark.
Ainslie is trying for his fourth consecutive gold medal and fifth medal overall.
Table Tennis
China defeated Spain 3-0 to reach the women�s quarterfinals, and second-seeded Japan also advanced easily.
Singles gold medalist Li Xiaoxia, silver medalist Ding Ning and Guo Yue got the wins for China, which took the top two spots in women�s and men�s singles.
Japan also swept the United States. Hong Kong, Austria, Portugal and Germany won on the men�s side.
Field Hockey
Argentina earned its first points in the men�s field hockey competition, drawing 2-2 with No. 1 Australia.
Argentina captain Matias Vila scored just after halftime, and teammate Gonzalo Peillat tied it on a penalty corner in the final minutes.
The Netherlands beat New Zealand 5-1 for its third win in a row. Germany, Britain, Spain and Belgium also won.
Sergei Martynov of Belarus set a world record in the men�s 50-meter rifle prone, and Cuba got its first shooting gold medal at an Olympics when Leuris Pupo won the 25-meter rapid fire pistol.
Martynov became the second shooter in Olympic history to score the maximum 600 points in qualification and finished with a total of 705.5 points, beating the 12-year-old mark from Germany�s Christian Klees by 0.7.
The silver went to Belgium�s Lionel Cox, and Rajmond Debevec of Slovenia took third.
Pupo scored 34 shots in the final, beating Vijay Kumar of India by four shots. Ding Feng of China won bronze with 27 points.
Spain joined France in the women�s handball quarterfinals after eliminating Sweden with a 25-24 win, while Croatia and Russia also continued preparations for the next round with victories.
Nely Alberto Francisca and Marta Mangue Gonzalez each scored six goals for Spain. France, Angola and Norway also won.
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Don't be a silent majority when it comes to gun control
March 6, 2013
According to the latest survey, 90 percent of Americans favor universal background checks for all gun purchases. Yep, that's 9 out of 10 people....
JimD, my suspicion about the 90% "statistic" is that it was crafted deliberately to withhold some info so its vague answers could be used to make it look like 90% of us want the ADDITIONAL, colonoscopic laws that are being proposed.
Did the pollster start off telling the people "Did you know that IBC is already the law of the land for ALL gun purchases from a dealer, which comprise over 90% of all gun sales"? and THEN ask them "Do you support the ADDITIONAL laws that being proposed, which include making it a felony to give or sell a gun to a friend unless that friend undergoes a background check?" ??
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I don't know where that 90% number came from, I don't know anyone who supports the universal background check. I know there are people out there somewhere that want to make it more difficult to buy a gun, but I don't know any of them. Could this number have been made up by the media?
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You shared a lot of important info, feather. Maybe too much for a liberal to comprehend how stupid these proposed new laws would be.
If 95% of felons don't even try to get their guns by buying them from a dealer, then exactly how many felons are running around unarmed thanks to the background check law? Shouldn't Obama/Biden/Feinstein have to answer that question BEFORE they unleash their latest idiocy on us?
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Yet mental health experts agree that on avg. over 23.15 mil US adults (50% of current 2.7 mil prisoners) are severely mentally ill.
Don't forget the NCIC FBI database showing over 1.043 mil open felony warrants in the US today. Uh where's your data showing that 50% of these 1 mil people wanted aren't severely mentally ill eh?
So is that the 80 mil law abiding gun owners fault, BATF fault or the politicians fault, sucker question I know!
Antis never have a clue.
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Like the BATF for refusing to allow civilians access to use the NICS background check for private sales as only licensed dealers are allowed.
Lets not forget that our politicians play a significant role in enabling the crazies to go free. As a result of VA Tech, Pub. L. 110-180 NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 was enacted.
The real question and failure, is what have the states actually funded or resourced for this mental health reporting to the NICS?
Going to the actual NICS website, we see as of Dec 2012, there are only 1.83 mil records of people who by due process have lost their 2A rights for being severely mentally ill.
You do realize in the 1970's how the ACLU mainstreamed the mentally ill into society, and people didn't want the half way houses for them in their neighborhoods, and politicians continually cut said funding, does anyone wonder where they went, we dont!
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Then we should review how well those laws are enforced anyway.
Like the BATF for refusing to prosecute more than 1% of the 1.83 mil felons, others, and crazies rejected by the background check since 1994.
USDOJ Background Check & Firearm Transfer report 2008
Or the fact that for ex. 2010 of 76,000 felons supposedly rejected, only 44 were prosecuted?
Is the BATF that incompetent, not really, see the process of the backgorund check review those rejected, and found that 94.2% to 99.8% who were rejected, weren't felons, hence they were legal gun buyers, details, details eh!
Like the BATF for refusing to catch ANY of those lying on their 4473 forms (Cho, Loughner & Holmes were crazy, they lied) or using fake identifications.
cbsnews 2001/03/21 General Accounting Office study
Like the BATF for refusing to do anything about the 95.52% of felons who don't even attempt to buy from a licensed source to begin with.
DOJ Firearms use by Offenders Nov 2001
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Lets continue this review by acknowledging how many of the existing gun control laws actually apply to the bad guys.
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Haynes vs. U.S. 390 U.S. 85 1968 where the US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of Haynes that any law requiring a felon to self incriminate themselves and violate their 5th amendment rights was not enforceable as a charge for prosecution.
Hence criminals don't have to follow 85% of the existing 22,417 gun control laws that do so, e.g. your stolen weapons, registrations, etc....
Would you care to suggest that the 5th amendment be repealed, no, don't think you would.
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Poorrevcracked up, there is this thing called asymmetrical warfare, you should read up on it, it was practiced before a certain author wrote Sun Tzu, the Art of War, and it methods/tactics are still taught at West Point today.
Anyone who has military experience knows that 30-35 mil former military, 350 mil weapons, 10's of billions of rounds of ammunition bought each year, the inability to stop 40 mil illegal aliens much less $50 bil in drugs a year across the Mexican border, the political interests who would provide technical and logistical expertise to such insurgents, mouth pieces of the communists responsible for initiating such an action becoming targets, their families, drone operators have to sleep and go home sometime, American public not caring if massive military firepower is unleashed upon its own soil, refusal by the massive majority of the 3 mil active duty soldiers to refuse such an illegal order, the 40% desertion rate in the civil war etc, etc, you dont have a clue.
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Steve Warner regurgitates a very misleading, possibly false "statistic" IMO:
"According to the latest survey, 90 percent of Americans favor universal background checks for all gun purchases."
Suppose you find you don't have enough money to pay all of Obama's increased taxes, so you decide to sell one of your guns to your 40-year-old daughter, whose drug-dealer ex-husband has been threatening her just outside his TRO distance. Do 90% of all Americans support MANDATING a background check on that PRIVATE sale? Really?
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Well, since the so called President insists you can kill you in your sleep without due process, it only makes sense he would want us disarmed....pure TYRANNY
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Washington DC - some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation yet some of the highest murder rates
Wyoming - the highest gun ownership ratio in the nation, yet some of the lowest murder rates
yup, gun control works
/s/ sarcasm
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Research on Australia? ok in the five years after banning firearms, Australia's murder rate dropped 31.9 percent. Over the same period of time in the United States, where no gun ban was enacted,the murder rate dropped 31.7 percent. A study done in 2002 by Australia's Bureau of Criminology found that 5 years after the gun ban, violent crime overall ROSE 42.2 percent. At the same time, in the US, violent crime DROPPED 31.8 percent.
so yes, Australia is clearly the model we should follow
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"our voices of reason need to be heard too!" But all who disagree with Mr. warner are paranoid, anti-government, extremists.
"innocent lives can be saved with a comprehensive approach to the problem...and one that doesn't infringe upon that sacred right to bear arms and defend one's self." When one is presented, it will looked at with appropriate attention.
Gun ownership registration is what is actually what is being proposed as "Background checks". That is a non-starter and will not be tolerated.
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Exactly the point that I was going to make...
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How successful has the NATIONAL restriction (total ban) on COCAINE possession, purchase, and sales been? Wasn't that ban "comprehensive" enough?
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Do some research on Australia. It seems that stricter gun laws reduced homicides over time.
The problem with cities passing strict gun laws is that guns can easily be brought in from other places. Regional gun restrictions usually do not work. It must be national.
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A rare voice of reason and good sense on these pages of The Journal.
There are more signs every day that the extremist position of the NRA will not be sustained in future public policy.
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Steve is a good example of knee-jerk, utopian liberalism that advocates more laws & bigger, costlier government as the panacea. His heart is in the right place, since all normal people wish for less violent crime in society. But the heart can't overrule reality and logic.
"I...am absolutely convinced that innocent lives can be saved with a comprehensive approach to the problem..."
If only Steve could cite some evidence that draconian laws have actually cut violent crime rates, maybe some of US would be convinced, too.
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Stephen Ministries is a Christian organization that serves more than 10,000 congregations, businesses, and other organizations from our office in Saint Louis. We train congregation leaders in one-on-one caregiving, small groups, and other ministries, including spiritual gifts discovery, evangelism, and grief.
Stephen Ministries Internship Description
A Stephen Ministries Internship provides a great learning opportunity—particularly for those interested in exploring a career with Stephen Ministries, a successful Christian business that has been practicing and teaching leadership and management for more than 30 years. Interns learn through study, discussion, and guidance from experienced leaders. They often have the opportunity to focus in on one or more of the following areas: organizational management, conference operations, market research, human resources, customer service, writing, and project management. Stephen Ministries places a major emphasis on developing new leaders, and our interns benefit from similar training, mentoring, and experience as do others here.
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Stephen Ministries Internship Application Instructions
To apply, send a letter of application, résumé, samples of your writing, and at least two faculty letters of recommendation to:
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Attn: Stephen Glynn
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2045 Innerbelt Business Center Drive
St. Louis, MO 63114
Recommended application submission dates:
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Stephen Ministries Internship Requirements
Candidates for a Stephen Ministries internship should:
1. have completed at least their sophomore year of college study;
2. be currently registered at their institution, or have just graduated;
3. possess excellent writing skills;
4. maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale; and
5. have an active Christian faith.
For more information: Waldorf University is a four-year liberal arts college offering 20 bachelor degree programs in a variety of popular fields both residential and online. For over a century, Waldorf has provided a signature student experience through an engaging community of learning and faith. That community has now expanded beyond the campus through Waldorf's distinct approach to online education. Waldorf's academic programs combine a strong liberal arts base with applied learning. Co-curricular programs ranging from the second oldest a capella choir in the nation, to an outstanding theatre program, to highly competitive athletic teams, provide students with a wide range of opportunities for meaningful participation in personal development. Waldorf is committed to engaging its students in service and in bringing the world to its students through international student recruitment and study-abroad programs. Every student is challenged to excel in Waldorf's community where students are treated with dignity and respect. The university has an attractive campus with 14 major buildings and excellent resources.
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After sustaining damage from a kitchen fire in May, T.J. Willie's plans to host an open house Thursday as the restaurant finishes preparations to reopen.
Doug Dunlap, owner of T.J. Willie's, said returning customers will experience a restaurant that is "the same, but different."
While the basic floor plan is the same, he said, small changes to the layout and a number of aesthetic changes will be revealed when the restaurant opens.
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The carousel horses will remain part of T. J. Willie's decor.
The bar and waiting areas, Dunlap said, have been expanded, and the deli area of the restaurant has been eliminated to allow for more interior space. The menu board, which was located near the entrance, has been replaced by a mounted electronic menu screen, he said, which allows for a more convenient and thorough presentation of menu and special items.
Dunlap said while some of the restaurant's decorative items were salvaged from the fire, such as the carousel horses and antique light fixtures, a new color scheme can be seen throughout the restaurant and banquet room areas, which he said offers a "crisper" look. Plus, seven 42-inch televisions have been added throughout the lounge area and patio.
Customers, Dunlap said, "still have comfort here."
The restaurant's foyer, he said, now has a different look, and the menu has been revised and reprinted for new, fresh choices. While a few items were deleted from the menu, Dunlap said, new options, including dishes with southwest flavors, salads and pastas, have been added. Also, a portobello sandwich and new chicken dishes now will be available.
The great plates and early fare menus will continue to be offered at T.J. Willie's, he said, after the restaurant has been open for a few weeks.
Dunlap said a large percentage of the T. J. Willie's crew will be returning to work when the restaurant reopens, and some new staff members also have been hired. He said it likely will take some time for staff to adjust to the changes T.J. Willie's, but within a few weeks, customers will experience the "smoothness of operation" to which they are accustomed at the restaurant, and "service and quality food" will continue to be a high priority.
An "insane amount of work" has gone into the remodel and restoration of T.J. Willie's, Dunlap said, and an opening date has been set for Oct. 21, pending final inspections.
The open house, he said, will be 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday and will offer hors d'oeuvres and light beverages.
Dunlap said the event will allow the public to "look the place over" before T.J. Willie's begins serving the community again with a style that is "the same, but different."


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SALEM - Helen Louise Brown, 97, of Salem, died at 9:45 a.m. Friday, June 21, 2013 at home with her family by her side.
She was born Jan. 27, 1916 in Portageville, Missouri, a daughter of the late Lemuel and Charity (Ashford)Akers.
She attended Salem First Friends Church. She was a wonderful mother and homemaker who enjoyed cooking and being with her family.
Her husband, Riley M. "Brownie" Brown, whom she married July 15, 1931, preceded her in death July 30, 1995. A son, Harold Brown; two daughters, Phyllis Lease and Wahnettia Johnston; granddaughter, Paula Roman; three brothers, Jack Akers, Paul Akers and James Akers; three sisters, Virginia Baker, Imogene Christy and Maxine Lloyd; and sons-in-law Fred McNeal and George Sturgill also preceded her in death.
Survivors include a son, Robert J. Brown of Phoenix, Ariz.; daughters, Alma Sturgill of Phoenix, Ruth McNeal of Salem, Helen (Ray) Esterly of Salem and Barbara (Paul) Lippiatt of Salem; two brothers, Donald Akers of Rockford, Ill., and Bill (Ruby) Akers of Hayti, Missouri; sons-in-law, Donald Lease and John Johnston; 19 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren and eight great great-grandchildren.
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Do your neck and shoulders feel stiff when you awaken in the morning? Do the muscles seize painfully with no warning? Does neck and shoulder pain limit your physical activity and become your constant companion?
If you suffer from pain in your neck and shoulders, you have plenty of company. Doctors estimate that seven out of 10 people will be troubled by such pain at some point in their lives. One in 10 adults is hurting right now. And between 50 percent and 85 percent of people with such pain will be bothered by it again within the next five years.
Clearly, neck and shoulder pain is a common, and troubling, problem. But the solution is no quick fix. Managing and relieving neck and shoulder pain can involve a combination of therapies including medication, physical therapy, self-help techniques, and, less commonly, surgery.
What causes neck pain?
Neck pain isn't all the same. There's no shortage of ways to describe it, in part because people have different perceptions of how they experience pain. The type of pain will also vary based on what's causing it.
How would you describe your neck pain? Are your neck and shoulders stiff? Do they ache? Do you feel a sharp pain or hear a grinding noise when you turn your head? Pain can be mild or severe, achy or sharp, stationary or shooting. It may stand alone or be accompanied by other troublesome complaints.
By clearly describing your specific neck symptom – or combination of symptoms, because they often overlap – you can help your doctor determine what's wrong and how to help.
Types of pain
The following descriptions will help you clearly explain your symptoms to your doctor:
• Muscle pain. Aching or sore neck and shoulder muscles may occur in response to overexertion, prolonged physical stress (usually from poor neck positioning during everyday activities), or emotional tension. Muscles may also develop hard knots that are sore to the touch, sometimes called trigger points.
• Muscle spasm. This is a sudden, powerful contraction of neck muscles. When you wake up with a painful stiff neck, that's likely a muscle spasm – what is sometimes called a "crick" in your neck. The muscle usually feels painful, tight, or knotted, and may be impossible to move. Muscle spasm can result from a muscle injury, but it may also occur if there is a deeper problem (say, in a disk or nerve) and the muscle tenses in order to stabilize the neck and prevent you from moving in a way to cause pain or further damage. Neck muscle spasms sometimes accompany emotional stress, but often there is no identifiable reason for muscle spasm.
• Headache. Neck-related headache, called cervicogenic headache or cervical headache, is most often felt in the back of the head and upper neck, where muscles extending along the skull are contiguous with neck muscles that may become tense or go into spasm. Neck-related headache pain is typically dull or aching, rather than sharp. It is aggravated by neck movement and often accompanied by stiffness and tenderness of neck muscles.
• Facet joint pain. Often described as deep, sharp, or aching, facet joint pain typically worsens if you lean your head toward the affected side, and may radiate to your shoulder or upper back.
Arthritis in the facet joints, as in other locations, may feel worse in the morning or after a period of inactivity.
• Nerve pain. Irritation or pinching of the roots of the spinal nerves causes pain that may be sharp, fleeting, severe, or accompanied by pins and needles. Depending on the nerve involved, the pain may shoot down the arm or even into the hand.
• Referred pain. When you feel pain at a site removed from the area where the problem lies, it is said to be "referred." A variety of conditions may cause referred neck pain. For example, neck pain that worsens with exertion may indicate a heart problem, while pain when you eat may stem from a problem in the esophagus.
You may feel pain in your neck from shoulder damage; conversely, what you feel as pain in your shoulder, head, arms, hands, or chest may actually be referred pain from your neck.
• Bone pain. Pain and tenderness in the cervical vertebrae are far less common than neck pain from the soft tissues. Bone pain needs medical evaluation because it can stem from serious conditions such as cancer or infection.
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• Fever, headache, and neck stiffness. This triad of symptoms might indicate bacterial meningitis, an infection of the spinal cord and brain covering that requires prompt treatment with antibiotics.
• Pain traveling down one arm, especially if the arm or hand is weak, numb, or tingling. Your symptoms might indicate that a herniated cervical disk is pressing on a nerve.
• Loss of bowel or bladder control. This might indicate pressure on the spinal cord or spinal nerve roots, needing immediate attention.
• Extreme instability. If you can suddenly flex or extend your neck much farther than usual, it might indicate a fracture or torn ligaments. This usually occurs only after significant impact or injury, and is more likely to be detected by your doctor or on an x-ray than by your own perception.
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Sauder Original Painting to Sell for Benefit of Jersey Youth Academy
Sauder Original Painting to Sell for Benefit of Jersey Youth Academy
Artist Gary Sauder of Cloverdale, Calif., has donated an original painting in pastels to be sold for the benefit of Jersey Youth Academy at The 59th All American Jersey Sale at November 6, 2011 in Louisville, Ky.
"Generations," a 16" by 20" pastel on suede, captures "the beauty and character of the Jersey cow along with the care and dedication in developing the next generations of Jerseys and breeders of Jerseys," Sauder says. The artistic effect is enhanced by a custom frame creating a 24" by 28" finished work that will have a substantial presence in any home or office.
Sauder, a native of northern California, was an accomplished exhibitor of Registered Jerseys™ as a youth. He was awarded the 1979 Paul Jackson Memorial Scholarship while attending California Polytechnic State University, then later worked with the show string for Meadow Glen Farms, Orland, Calif. Sauder's work has been juried into many exhibitions, including Southwest Color '98 in San Diego, Tracy Art League, the Amsterdam Art Contest, and Art on the Move. He is a resident artist at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts.
The painting will be sold at the start of sale at 5:00 p.m. on November 6. Absentee bidders can contact any member of the American Jersey Cattle Association staff to be represented in complete confidence.
The Jersey Youth Academy is a 501(c)(3) private foundation managed by the American Jersey Cattle Association to attract, educate and retain talented young people for careers in the Jersey dairy business. It provides an in-depth educational program focused specifically on the Jersey cow and the Jersey business, while challenging participants to explore the broad range of career opportunities involving Jerseys and the dairy industry For more information, visit the Academy web site (http://academy.usjersey.com), contact program coordinator Dr. Cherie L. Bayer at (614) 322-4456, or write Jersey Youth Academy, 6486 E. Main Street, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-2362.


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Autumn Stover and Michael McBroom were united in marriage at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 2010, at First Lutheran Church, Tiffin. The Rev. John Alice was officiant during the double-ring ceremony. A reception followed at the Community Civic Center, Tiffin.
Autumn is the daughter of Tom and Maryanne Stover of rural Tiffin.
Michael is the son of Hollis and Laura McBroom of Clyde.
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Autumn, given in marriage by her father, wore a white silk and satin A-line gown with hand-beaded, tip-of-the shoulder straps. The sweetheart neckline was adorned with a hand-beaded Swarovski crystal motif and featured a low V-back bodice with a matching crystal motif and a dropped waistline that flowed into a chapel-length train.
Valerie Dudziak of Cleveland was her sister's matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Holly Schwartz of Toledo, sister of the groom; Amanda Courtney of Garner, N.C., Gaby Neubert of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Jenni Bush of Bellevue, friends of the bride; Betsy Sebetto of Clyde, niece of the groom; Laura Sebetto of Clyde, sister of the groom; Karen McBroom of Clyde, sister-in-law of the groom; Meghan MacRitchie of Pinckney, Mich., cousin of the bride; and Cameron Cover of Tiffin, cousin of the bride. They wore apple-colored satin, A-line ballgowns with chiffon, illusion halter straps.
Scott Renfro of Elyria was his best friend's best man. Groomsmen were Bob Schwartz of Toledo, brother-in-law of the groom; Dan McBroom of Clyde, brother of the groom; Dominic Sebetto and Cole Sebetto of Clyde, nephews of the groom; Ryan Burgess of Akron and Dan Rogers of Clyde, friends of the groom; Weston MacRitchie of Pinckney, Mich., and Joe Strausbaugh of Arcadia, cousins of the bride; and Adam Miller of Clyde, friend of the groom.
Autumn is a 1998 graduate of Clyde High School and a 2003 graduate of Tiffin University. She is employed with Calfee, Holter and Griswald law firm in the accounting department.
Michael is a 2002 graduate of Clyde High School and served in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he completed two tours in Iraq. He is employed with Veteran Affairs in the business administration department.
The McBroom family hosted a bridal shower Aug. 21, 2010, and Valerie Dudziak hosted a couples' shower Aug. 28, 2010.
The rehearsal dinner took place at Pioneer Mill restaurant.
Following a honeymoon trip to St. Lucia, the couple resides at 1333 Hall Ave., Lakewood.


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For the second straight year, the Stetson sand volleyball program has been selected as a recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award.
The award is presented annually to volleyball programs who maintain at least a 3.3 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale. The Hatters completed the 2012-13 academic year with a 3.40 team GPA.
"The scholar-athletes on our team worked very hard in the classroom to achieve this award," Stetson volleyball head coach Tim Loesch said. "The sand volleyball team has made earning this award a tradition, having done so in both years of existence. This accomplishment is even more meaningful because Stetson is such a prestigious academic university. I'm very proud of our players for their studies and helping Stetson win the Atlantic Sun Academic Cup last year."
The Stetson sand volleyball program was one of 130 recipients on the NCAA Division I level to be honored with the AVCA Team Academic Award. The Hatters also saw 19 of its student-athletes earn A-Sun All-Academic Team honors in 2012-13.
Loesch said the indoor volleyball team narrowly missed earning the team award as well, coming just five-hundredths of a point short of the necessary 3.3 GPA threshold.


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Hello All,
We have EP 6.0 with MS-SQL as DB and WINDOWS as OS.
Our Administrator password got locked and wanted to reset the same.
I have tried to enable the EMERGENCY USER SAP*, but it is not happening ..Can any one guide me to fix the problem ?
Steps which I have followed to do
1) Go to the Server Installed path i.e. usr\sap\<systemid>\<system instance>\J2EE\configtool\
2) Choose configtool.bat and start it.
3) Under Global Server Configuration, choose Services.
4) Find com.sap.security.core.ume.service, click it.
5) Under Global Properties, find ume.superadmin.activated
6) Set the Custom value to TRUE. Click on SET to apply the new value
7) Apart from that, I have set another property i.e.
8) ume.superadmin.password, define some password.The password that you are defining is for SAP*. save the changes.
9) Restarted the cluster / server.
10) Tried to logon to Portal with SAP* with the changed password and here it gives as authentication failed.
Awaiting reply.
Best Regards
Hi Rakesh,
Did you restart the portal after doing step 8?
Best regards,
Hello Duncan,
Thanks for your update.
Yes I have restarted the server and tried to login,,but failed.
Best Regards
Dear Rakesh,
Hope you are doing good.
The steps seem to be all correct.
Quick questions:
What is the UME of the JAVA server?
If the UME is a ABAP engine, please use the ABAP TCode - /nSU01 to change the password of the user J2ee_admin. In this case, you do not need to activate the SAP* user.
Please can you make sure that the UME properties are changed in the
offline config tool.
Steps :
Login to the configtool->switch to the configuration editor mode->configuration->cluster_data->server-> cfg> services->
Propertysheet com.sap.security.core.ume.service
Check the below values:
ume.superadmin.activated and ume.superadmin.password
More info:
Thank you and have a nice day :).
Kind Regards,
Hi Rakesh,
You mean to say , there are no active user id's to login to your portal?
If you have other user id , you can get Administrator unlocked with that , no need of activating emergency SAP* user.
Also try if other tools like JSPM and visual admin allowing you to login?
Please let us know if it has an UME backend ABAP. Then you can unlock the j2ee_admin buy logging in the abap end.
Then it will not be necessary to activate the super user.
Jaianandh V
Hello All,
This is a standalone java engine and the datasource maintained is UME.
Any way i tried again by following the standard procedure of enabling the Emergency User SAP* and by using this I have reset the password of Administrator.
Now my new Problem is :
1>JCONTOL.exe process is getting stopped automatically after 30 mins of server restart showing the log status as "Stopped, License check failed".
2>Again after restarting the server it allowed me to login to VA to check the License(Licensing Adaptor).
3>Here under General section I am able to see three entires
i>j2ee-engine_MSS(status shows as expired on 5th Jan 12 and this is an extended temporary license(28 days).
ii>Maintenance_MSS(status shows as expired on 3rd Jan 12 and any way this will have only 90 days validity)
iii>Netweaver_MSS (Status shows as valid and expiration is 31/12/9999).
4>Now My doubt is because of 1st option got expired this issue is happening up(j2ee-engine_MSS ) ?
5>What is the procedure to apply for a permanent license of type J2EE-ENGINE_MSS ?
6>What is the difference between License J2EE-ENGINE_MSS & Netweaver_MSS ?
Awaiting your reply.
Best Regards
You have to do few things really quick to avoid facing the license issues.
Make sure you have the new license file ready with you.
Only then delete the exiting licenses in the machine and apply the new one.
When the license is removed from the system, the System will be accessible only for few minutes, then again the system will come down.
I experienced the same, because of license issues.
Jaianandh V
Hi Rakesh,
Just go through the below link and follow the given steps in the last reply of the forum, I should help.
how to reset password for user sap*
Hi Rakesh,
What can I do when the "Set Custom Value" is Unabled?
I'm trying to do what did you read but I can't change the Value.
Could you please help me?
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YEREVAN. The National Olympic Committee of Armenia (ARMNOC) hosted, in capital city Yerevan, Japan Figure Skating Federation President Hidehito Ito and Federation Manager Tatsuro Matsumura.
YEREVAN. The National Olympic Committee of Armenia (ARMNOC) hosted, in capital city Yerevan, Japan Figure Skating Federation President Hidehito Ito and Federation Manager Tatsuro Matsumura.
Now that is an interesting choice
Is Yerevan, Armenia, in some way nicer (or more reasonably priced) than Sochi itself? I see the appeal of the rink, but apparently the scientific-medial sports teams will be there too?
Before long, Japan will send a huge skating delegation to Armenia. Aside from skaters, Armenia also will host scientific-medical sports teams and news reporters from Japan. - See more at: http://sport.news.am/eng/news/19938/....rhoTOvvE.dpuf
Skating is not the driver. Japan is looking for new places to invest in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Armenia needs investment. The two countries have been courting each other fairly heavily in the last year or so. The cultural, sports, and scientific delegations/exchanges are part of the outgrowth of this. Consider that these are low-risk and friendly ways to "date" each other, prior to any big capital investment heading over. The fact that Armenia is proximal to Sochi is very convenient for the future Japanese Olympic team, but certainly not a necessity. They're only 5 time zones apart.
bigsisjiejie, now that's very interesting.
I'll bet a cookie that this article may have something to do with the desirability of trade with Armenia for Japan:
After all, this has been going on for quite some timeArmenia has a strong mineral resource base of copper molybdenum ores. Explored deposits of the world renowned Kadjaran copper molybdenum ores are a potential source for the next 100 years The Kadjaran mining and extracting factory is the largest enterprise in the mining industry. Connected with the indicated type of copper molybdenum ores are the explored and estimated reserves of molybdenum. the substantive part copper reserves (90 percent). rare and dispersed elements (rhenium, selenium, tellurium, bismuth. and germanium), and certain parts of accompanying precious metals of gold and silver. Molybdenum and copper are the main components of the complex copper molybdenum ores. The content of molybdenum varies from 0.001 percent to 0.1. The content of copper traces is to 0.1 percent. The deposits of copper belonging to proper copper include about 10 percent of explored reserves with 80 percent of copper and copper pyrites ores. In the ore veins of the Alaverdi deposit, the content of copper reaches 12 to 20 percent and more. The year 2000 is the target date for the restoration of the Alaverdi copper works plant and the construction of a new modern plant in Kapan.
Chinese customs officials are halting shipments to Japan of so-called rare earth elements, preventing them from being loaded aboard ships this week at Chinese ports, three industry officials said Thursday.
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when I read Armenia on the headline, I dont mean in a bad way
but I just immediately thought of politics
I think we all agree politics is dirty, lol
Ummm. It could also be a smart move to have a training base in proximity and time zone for such an important event.
Also, just thinking of skating, it's a huge advantage for Armenian skating. If the Japanese skaters don't take exclusive possession of a skating facility, they will serve as wonderful role models for Armenian skaters and coaches, and this might give Armenian skating a bit of a boost.
This effect does happen In 1980, when the Olympics were in Lake Placid, a young US skater named Scott Hamilton did some demos with kids in Vermont, a place where skating had been more or less about hockey with a little speed skating thrown in, with a few young girls doing figure skating now & again. The training was reported in the Burlington Free Press. Among the kids inspired was the guy who later coached Ross Miner when he was young.
This sort of activity has great results.
There's also the huge effect of Peggy Fleming touring China & doing skating workshops back in the day.


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"Snitch" is today's slightly shocking beginning to what is going to be a two-month Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson festival in Buffalo. On March 4, he is scheduled to come to the First Niagara Center with John Cena and others for a segment of "Monday Night Raw."
On March 28, his next big action hoo-ha – "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" opens nationwide. And of unusual interest to Buffalo filmgoers, his action comedy "Pain & Gain" with Mark Wahlberg opens April 24, directed by Michael Bay, no less. That's the newest film written by Emmy-winning, Buffalo-raised screenwriter Chris Markus and his writing partner Stephen McFeeley (the "Narnia" and "Captain America" movies as well as the film "You Kill Me" that was set in a fictional Buffalo and filmed elsewhere).
The shock of "Snitch" is that it's good – very good, for what it is, so much so that you might well ask, "Why, for pity's sake, is actor Johnson back in the wrestling ring as 'The Rock' just when he's truly proved himself in a film?"
"Snitch" radiates B-movie integrity. It no doubt sounds odd to be calling it a B-movie when it had a budget of $35 million, but such is modern Hollywood's way of doing business that a movie for the action crowd starring a muscle mountain like Johnson and directed by former stuntman Ric Roman Waugh is equivalent to another movie era's B-movie toss-off. In other words, it's a way to occupy screens and make the megaplex go "ka-ching" briefly even though nobody need ever worry about it at Oscar time or 10-best lists or invitations by film culture academics for Johnson to lecture their classes on 21st century gender roles.
What's hard to deny is that "Snitch" is a good movie in which Johnson, somewhat miraculously, gives a real performance as a father forced to set up a dangerous drug dealer for the feds when they refuse to commute his son's "maximum minimum" 10-year sentence for drug dealing (in other words, the minimum sentence the law provides for the quantity of drugs found in his possession). And even then Johnson never takes his shirt off or uses his muscles to showily throw some bad guy 10 feet into the air. He does a bit of shooting and a lot of fancy driving of a semi on the highway, but there's just no getting around the fact that he's doing some real acting in "Snitch" and he's doing it credibly and sometimes even well.
It didn't hurt that the cast of "Snitch" is full of real-deal actors – Susan Sarandon as an unyielding "dragon lady" U.S. attorney, Barry Pepper as her funky-looking numero uno undercover DEA agent, Melina Kanakaredes (where's SHE been?) as his ex-wife and, of lesser renown, fine actor Jon Bernthal of "The Walking Dead" who plays an ex-con who helps him set up the drug dealers.
The story is loosely based on a true tale told on PBS' "Frontline." Johnson plays a guy who's the last guy who ought to be in the cartel-busting business for the feds. He's got a construction business successful enough to buy him a McMansion in the suburbs for his new wife and their adorable young daughter. He practices his putting in the office, says things on the phone like "let's move some equity around" (he needs a couple of new trucks pronto) and is happy as can be in the backyard grilling hot dogs for neighbors.
It all comes crashing down when his idiot teen son accepts delivery of enough Ecstasy to keep the nightclubs of a small city touchy-feely for a couple of months. His best friend set him up to get himself a lighter sentence. All the kid had to do was refuse to accept delivery of the package his buddy had Skyped him about.
If he'd refused the package altogether that would have been the end of it. Even in accepting it, he'd have been all right if he hadn't opened it – just waited for his friend to retrieve it, as he was supposedly going to. But no, the kid was so curious to know what was in it – and maybe, for the first time, sample Ecstasy – that he opens it.
Bam. That's it. The feds are on him with their maximum minimum sentence they'll only commute if he does what his buddy did – set someone else up. The kid just won't do it. He's no druggie or dealer and he's no snitch or narc either. He's just not that kind of kid.
That leaves a 10-year stretch awaiting him, which is why his frantic father does everything possible to trade his own abilities to set up some dealers for his son's freedom.
It's a good B-movie premise with some explicit hard swipes at intransigent federal laws and practices. The premise reminded me of fabled old Sam Fuller and Phil Karlson B-movie classics like Karlson's "Phenix City Story," and "Walking Tall" (Johnson starred in the remake) and Fuller's "Underworld U.S.A." Or, to bring things much closer to home, James Caan's "Hide in Plain Sight" (which was based on stories by then-reporter Lee Coppola that first appeared in The Buffalo News).
Even so, to be frank, who expects an ex-stuntman director like Waugh to do as much with it as he does – especially with all the extreme close-ups from his fine digital cinematographer Dana Gonzales?
There's a fair amount of action in it but it's hardly action-packed. It's more human than that and credibly acted by people caught up in political ambition (Sarandon) and exasperation imposed by a cruel legal apparatus.
With so much good movie attention coming Johnson's way, you have to wonder why on earth he'd want to continue being the Rock again inside the ring.
It's tempting to speculate that it's money by the ton but I doubt it. I think the outsized, flamboyant absurdity of ring performance must be a relief, in a way, from a movie like this, where the camera comes an inch away from his face during intense scenes to show exactly how good an actor he's become.
He passed the test well. I'll bet short and remunerative reacquaintances with the world in "Rock" disguise are practically vacations.
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Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Barry Pepper, Jon Bernthal, Melina Kanakaredes
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Running time: 122 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for drugs, language, violence and action.
The Lowdown: A father makes a deal to work for the feds to reduce his son's "maximum minimum" 10-year drug sentence.
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When playing teams from out of the area, it can often be difficult in preparing for those teams that are rarely on the schedule. It requires adapting on-the-go and making quick adjustments.
Not many had to be made on Thursday as Bishop Guilfoyle (8-1) used its stifling man-to-man defense to put on a clinic at BG's Pleasant Valley gym, defeating Bishop Walsh, 62-7.
"We have to just play our game and make adjustments along the way," Moschella stated." We didn't have to make many tonight, but traditionally that's how it goes."
Bishop Guilfoyle got off to a fast 9-0 lead, forcing a Walsh timeout with 4:07 left in the first and never looked back.
The Lady Marauders defensive pressure limited Bishop Walsh, Md., to just seven total points and forced Walsh into 31 turnovers in its opening game of the Jim Ellis Shootout.
"We played good defense and our pressure really got to them," BG coach Mark Moschella said.
"Their high pressure man-to-man defense kept us out of our offense for most of the night," Bishop Walsh coach Travis Beeman said. "Their size and athleticism really helped to exploit our weaknesses."
The size and athleticism Beeman referred to helped BG hold Walsh to just two made field goals, both of which came in the first half.
Nicole Ross hit a jumper to get the Lady Spartans on the board with 4:05 remaining in the first quarter, and BG finished the quarter on an 11-0 run to make it 20-2 BG after one.
Ally Simpson hit a 3-pointer with 1:30 remaining in the half for Walsh to set the halftime score at 42-5.
Despite the lopsided score, both coaches recognize the position that Bishop Walsh was in heading into the game with just one senior and four juniors on the roster.
"Bishop Walsh is a team that is in a rebuilding state with a lot of young players, " Moschella stated. "They lost a lot of seniors last year."
"We are trying to get experience and help develop our fundamentals," Beeman noted. "We need to keep encouraging our players."
BG's offensive attack was led by senior Brittany Boslet, who had a game-high 13 points, including three 3-pointers.
Thirteen Lady Marauders got involved in the scoring, as it used a group effort to put Walsh away early. Alexis Craig, Halee Adams and Elyssa Ehredt each had seven points, while Jenna Irvin added six for BG.
"It is important to get scoring from everyone, " Moschella said. "We have an unselfish group because a lot of our girls gave up shots tonight to get others easier looks."
The second half allowed for many of BG's younger players to get some experience, as the mercy-rule came into effect with 6:43 remaining in the third quarter when Alexis Craig made a layup to give BG the 46-5 advantage.
The Lady Marauders held Walsh to 0-7 shooting in the second half, with its only points coming from two Breana Uhl free throws in the third quarter.
"Obviously we played a great team tonight, probably the best we will play all year," Beeman stated." We just have to keep improving."
Bishop Walsh will face Delone Catholic on Friday, while Bishop Guilfoyle will face Delone on Saturday.
BISHOP WALSH (7): Matthews 0 0-0 0, Yarnall 0 0-0 0, Simpson 1 0-0 3, Czapski 0 0-0 0, Morin 0 0-0 0, Dunn 0 0-0 0, Mock 0 0-2 0, Ross 1 0-0 2, Uhl 0 2-2 2. Totals - 2 2-4 7.
BISHOP GUILFOYLE (62): . Totals - Craig 3 0-0 7, Boslet 5 0-0 13, Stessney 1 0-0 3, H.Adams, 3 1-1 7, Ehredt 3 0-0 7, Miller 2 0-0 4, Luciano 1 0-0 2, Bates 1 2-2 4, E.Adams 1 0-0 2, Irvin 2 2-2 6, Ruggery 0 0-0 0, Frederick 0 0-0 0, Mallott 1 0-0 2, Yanoshak 0 0-0 0, McGhee 1 0-0 2, Spencer 0 0-0 0, Scipioni 1 0-0 3. Totals - 25 5-5 62
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Bishop Guilfoyle20 22 13 7 - 62
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More than 100 participants enjoyed sunny skies and ideal cross-country skiing conditions for the President's Cup race at Auburn Ski Club on Monday.
Far West Farm Team racers once again led the charge, as Wyatt Fereday claimed the win in the men's 10-kilometer race in a time of 20:38.4, while Spencer Eusden was second in 20:39.9. Patrick McElravey rounded out the men's top three in 20:42.8.
Incline Village skiers Peter Hanson finished ninth in 22:51.9 and Evan Vomund 12th in 23:17.0.
Holly Whitney won the women's 10K and placed 16th overall, posting a time of 23:48.6, while Julie Young was the second woman in 26:37.4 and Laura Stern was third in 26:47.6.
The event also included a 5K and a junior 2K.
Dylan Syben won the men's 5K wave in a time of 10:24.3. He was followed by Julien Bordes (10:59.7) and Ryland Belisle (11:10.8), while Incline's Brandon Herhusky finished seventh in 12:24.3. Hannah Halvorsen won the women's 5K in 11:56.9, Danielle Nivinski was second in 12:19.2 and Lizzie Larkins third in 12:21.2.
Haydn Halvorsen took the win in the boys 2K, finishing in 7:03.2. KC Larkins was second in 7:40.4 and Bjorn Halvorsen was third in 7:59.7. Kianna Mullings claimed victory in the girls 2K in a time of 7:07.7 and was followed by Natalie Andersson (9:05.6) and Caitlin Smith (9:06.1).
The CNISSF Truckee Sprints also went down at Auburn Ski Club on Friday.
The North Tahoe boys dominated the final heat of the race, as they took the top three spots and five of the top six, while the Truckee and Sugar Bowl Academy girls took seven of the top eight places in their final.
The spectator-friendly race, which is traditionally held at Truckee's Surprise Stadium, was moved to ASC due to a lack of snow at the school.
Each athlete skied a preliminary lap to determine his or her time, and the fastest 32 racers were then put into quarterfinal heats of eight. The top four racers from the quarterfinal heats advanced to the semifinal round, while the top four from the two semis met in the final.
Sugar Bowl Academy's Katrin Larusson recorded a win in the varsity girls race, as she reached the finish line in the final eight-person heat ahead of Truckee racers Gabrielle Rinne and Larkins.
It was Syben's turn to claim a win for North Tahoe in the varsity boys event, as he edged teammate McElravey by a hair in the final heat. Holmes, of North Tahoe, was third, while SBA's Sam Zabell broke up the Lakers' party with a fourth-place finish. North Tahoe's Shane Christian was fifth, Bordes sixth, SBA's Peter Carroll seventh and Truckee's Alex Kopytko eighth.
Vomund finished 10th, Brandon Herhusky 16th and Owen Graffis 33rd. Meghan Kelley was 20th among varsity girls.
Find complete results at www.farwestnordic.org. Find a photo gallery from the Truckee Sprints at http://macbethgraphics.smugmug.com/NORDIC-RACING/CNISSF-School-Races-2013/, and a gallery from the President's Cup race at http://macbethgraphics.smugmug.com/NORDIC-RACING/Nordic-Races-2013/ASC-PRESIDENTS-CUP-RACE-2013/.


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If anyone tells you there's nothing to do this weekend, slap him over the head with an Italian sausage.
Or an ear of corn. Or whatever you can find at one of the many festivals taking place across the region.
Whether you're in Buffalo or Barker, Elm- wood or Eden, there's a whole lot going on from now through Sunday.
You might just be able to do it all in one day – if you have a plan. That's right – 12 festivals in 12 hours. Covering 154 miles. It can be done. (We think.)
Start in downtown Buffalo on Main Street, where kids are doing what countless officials couldn't: breathing life back into the 500 block.
Chalk in hand, the artists are treating the 6- by 6-foot sidewalk squares as their own personal canvasses.
It's all part of Chalkfest Buffalo, an annual event meant to revitalize the downtrodden thoroughfare – at least for a weekend.
If you thought that was quirky, then get ready for the Buffalo Infringement Festival farther north in Allentown.
You'll see oddball artists, underground acts and street parties like no other, coupled with live music and bar crawlers all day long.
Taking place simultaneously is an art event that couldn't be more different from the Infringement.
The more buttoned-up side of Allentown will be on display at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site on Delaware Avenue, where those who missed the popular art festival can see a smaller gallery of historic Allentown figures.
"Everyone will find somewhere on the wall a piece that they think of as being what makes Allentown special," said Jonathan White, vice president of the Allentown Association.
Like the five paintings and wax sculptures of "Chas the Bubble Man," the semi-famous Allentown figure who runs the bubble machine above Jim's Steakout.
Trust us: He's a hero around here, and the paintings are spot on.
OK, the morning is over, so let's grab lunch at the Buffalo Italian Heritage Festival, which has to be the headliner of this so-called Buffalo Festival Weekend.
The dates changed from last year, but the food is as tasty as ever.
"Don't eat before you come," warned Tamela King of Buffalo, who was digging into a heaping plate of stuffed meatballs, macaroni and cheese with sausage, pancetta and, of course, a deep-fried pepper stuffed with sausage.
She brought along a friend to carry her dessert of fried dough, funnel cakes and cotton candy.
"We've only been here for an hour, but I tried everything," King said.
Further down Hertel Avenue, the Delmontes were scarfing down tomato sauce and tripe.
"It's cow's intestines, but it's delicious," said Dottie Delmonte.
"You have to be Italian," clarified her husband, Paul.
Don't come here if you're on the new Weight Watchers routine, because the whole festival could be summed up in one word: Mangia!
True Italian die-hards should also head up to Niagara Falls, which has brought back its Italian festival.
Lord knows why the festival ever went away, but it's back in full force this year.
Pine Avenue will include a strip of local vendors, a spaghetti-eating contest and even a bocce tournament.
If all these people in tank tops, short shorts and other apparel best suited to private dwellings have you thinking about the Erie County Fair, don't worry – you don't have to wait a week for that kind of fun.
The Niagara County Fair has been running all week and closes out today and Sunday with plenty of rides and even a flying border collie.
After that, Erie County will be calling you back, so head on down to the Taste of Williamsville, where Island Park will be jam-packed with people still riding high from the Old Home Days event last week.
If you like pies, this is your event. Judges will decide who has the best overall pie, the best fruit pie, the most original pie and the most attractive pie.
All right, time for a good old-fashioned lawn fete.
Head on over to Resurrection Roman Catholic Church in Cheektowaga for the annual Resurrection Outdoor Festival.
A parish secretary guarantees there will be rides, games and "all the things at a usual lawn fete." If that includes bell jar/pull tabs, then it's just what we're looking for.
Now it's time to clear your head and get out into southern Erie County.
But what can we possibly see at the Eden Corn Festival that we haven't seen before?
Nothing, organizers of the 50th annual festival say. That's what's great about it.
In fact, that's the secret to the corn's success: It has been cooked in the same four steel kettles for the past 50 years.
"The kettles are well-seasoned," said festival director Chris Colvin. "The more you cook in there, the sweeter it is."
But we didn't take their word for it. A little investigative eating revealed that the corn is, as Colvin put it, "the best you'll ever taste."
In all, 32,000 ears of corn will pass through the mouths of festivalgoers this weekend – enough to stretch five country miles.
A more disheartening figure is 850 pounds – that's the amount of butter that will be slathered all over the corn.
This aw-shucks spirit is hard to shake, so we're heading over to the Down Home Country Weekend and Langford Tractor Pull in North Collins.
The jamboree and concert takes place today, and one artist's hit song sums up the spirit of this day quite well: "I can sleep when I'm dead."
Sunday features the Western New York Championship Truck & Tractor Pull, and you haven't seen a tractor until you've seen these bad boys.
One is shaped like a Zamboni machine. Another looks like a hot rod. Oh, and they're capable of popping wheelies, too.
The Cattaraugus County Fair beckons us south, but there's not enough time to get down there before dark. Maybe Sunday.
After all, we're starting to feel those six Italian sausages we had for lunch. Two Italian festivals will do that to you.
We'll head west to the shores of Lake Erie for the final festival, a beach party Sunday at Mickey Rats dubbed CityJam.
Ten bucks gets you admission, food and live bands on the beach. But after a day of traipsing across Western New York, we're looking forward to something else: a seat.
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Authorities say a senior at a Buffalo-area high school has died while on a class trip to Florida.
Officials with the Lackawanna school district tell local media outlets that Jeffrey Cintron died Friday after falling ill during the senior class trip to Disney World in Orlando.
They say he complained of back pain while at a hotel on the Disney property, where he was checked out by an ambulance crew before being taken to a hospital. School officials say he lost consciousness while en route to the hospital, where he died in the emergency room late Friday night.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
The teen was one of 48 seniors and four chaperones on the trip. They're scheduled to return Monday.