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The first lasso-like nets of this year's shrimp rodeo get thrown Friday as shortly after noon as humanly possible. Take our word for it.
That's when the two-month recreational shrimping season, or shrimp baiting, opens. Thousands of boaters will be out there setting poles, dropping clay-and-fish meal bait balls then slinging cast nets with a looping beauty like a fly-rod cast. At night Charleston Harbor waters will gleam with their lights.
The quarry? A cooler full of "our sweet, fresh, white shrimp," said Bill Brickell, of Mount Pleasant. "There's just no comparison." Brickell would know; he is the irrepressible Mr. Shrimp.
The recreational season is one of those you-have-to-be-here rights of Lowcountry life. A day or night on the water filling a cooler with shrimp is generally accompanied by a second cooler for beverages — although don't tell anyone you heard that here — and a camaraderie that rivals fishing itself.
The shrimp cooler doesn't always come back full, but the second cooler tends to come back a lot lighter and the time out there is priceless, aficionados say — the salt tang to the air, the rocking in the glistening tide.
"Hootin', hollerin' and enjoying the water. It's not just the hunt, it's knowing you're doing this right in your backyard," Brickell said.
The season does have its critics: Commercial shrimpers have complained it takes too much of the crop. Alcohol is a problem, despite boating-while-impaired laws, and greedy shrimpers have been known to trample the etiquette of staying a little ways off somebody else's poles if the catch gets hot. The onslaught of trucks and trailers at the landings can back up parking down the roads.
But there's nothing else really like shrimp baiting. Here's a few things to know, cheap advice and some sly tips:
CATCH: Spotty, likely smaller, at least at first. "People will find some pockets of decent shrimp, somewhere," said Larry DeLancey, of S.C. Department of Natural Resources.
Cheap advice: Hang in there. The shrimp will get bigger week to week. Move if the luck doesn't change. If it gets worse, think about heading south to the Edisto River estuaries.
Sly tips: Don't forget about holes, drops as deep as 40 feet in the bottom where nets can be free cast without bait and shrimp come back not having eaten fish meal. Then there's the "honey holes," recreational shrimper Bill Brickell said. Commercial shrimp outlets are open during business hours at Shem Creek, in McClellanville and elsewhere. You can always say you caught it.
SPOTS: Rules of thumb are the Charleston Harbor area at night, when shrimp move into the shallows to feed, and Bulls Bay during the day, where much of the water is shallower.
Cheap advice: Go early (see above about boat landings).
Sly tip: There's a lot of water out there; most veteran shrimpers have their own spots away from the crowd.
TECHNIQUE: Don't overdo the shrimp balls. Brickell has seen shrimp baiters who shovel the fish meal bait from trash cans. A few balls at each pole will do the trick, if there are shrimp.
Cheap advice: Get it (the advice) at tackle shops and equipment dealers, if new to this.
Sly tip: Don't make balls of the bait, make hamburger patties, so they don't roll away in the tide.
COST: Not factoring in the boat, fuel and supplies, a shrimping license (for a set of 10 poles) runs $25 for residents, $500 for non-residents. Contact DNR, 866-714-3611 or www.dnr.sc.gov.
Cheap advice: License and outfitting can easily cost more than $100, but the allowed cooler (48 quarts) of shrimp per day tends to run more than 50 pounds. If sold at retail prices, those 50 pounds would be worth a lot more than that.
Sly tip: Don't even think about it. It's illegal to sell recreationally caught shrimp. Fines start at $200.
WHY DO IT AT ALL: Headed and cleaned, the shrimp can be frozen in containers of bags nearly full of water. The stored shrimp keeps a lot of that fresh Lowcountry taste for meals straight through to next year.


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SPRING MILLS - West Virginia State Police have arrested a Hedgesville man in connection with a Tuesday afternoon robbery at the Walmart pharmacy in Spring Mills.
According to a news release, Jesse Lee Gibson, 27, entered the store at approximately 3:30 p.m., approached the pharmacy desk and demanded Xanax. Police said the suspect did not display a firearm, but threatened the use of one. He was described as a white male, approximately five feet, six inches tall, wearing a red jacket and white hooded sweatshirt. State police reviewed video surveillance and observed the suspect leaving the store in a small, white, four-door sedan.
Approximately five hours after the incident, state police were notified of a stolen vehicle from Pennsylvania at the AC&T Exxon store off Edwin Miller Boulevard in Martinsburg. The vehicle was located and was determined to match the description of the vehicle used in the robbery. Police also said Gibson matched the description of the suspect in the robbery. A subsequent search of the vehicle yielded a small bottle of Xanax pills labeled "pharmacy only," consistent with the pills obtained during the robbery.
Gibson was charged with robbery, bringing stolen property into West Virginia and several other traffic-related offenses, including an outstanding warrant for DUI.

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Adjective. When some when is so useless or incapable of doing anything. The person cant put on their own clothes, or just answer a question to a quiz or test or follow basic instructions. They are like almost retarded without the mental handicap. It does not have to be physical. Someone could be dumb at a subject. Or someone is lacking on a school project. Maybe they are just assholes. This term can be used for almost anything at this point. Just like fuck. Fuck can be used for anything. Keller is the new word that I hear alot of people saying.
Kenny - lily didnt do her work for the project tomorrow.
Kevin - Shes useless.
Kenny - shes so keller
Kevin - Shes useless.
Kenny - shes so keller
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A psychotic or oversexed woman. Slang for prostitute
Man that keller blew me in the alley for nothing!
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How to Become an Author, in 5 Incredibly Difficult Steps
Getting the Attention of a Publisher
Fair warning: This is not going to help you.
I didn't actually initiate contact with a publisher of any kind. In fact, I didn't even have a book to pitch when contact was first made. Somebody at the publishing house contacted me, out of the blue. And her email was caught by my spam filter.
Some backstory: I used to have another site in addition to my work here on Cracked, called I Fight Robots. This secondary site was just more of my work in the same style, but entirely under my own control. The very nice lady at the publishing house found me through the Cracked articles, but it wasn't until she clicked the little links at the bottom of every one and read my own site was she confident in contacting me. She emailed me through the I Fight Robots link, and because I apparently saved the Pope from getting raped by snakes in a past life, I was blessed enough to check my spam filter that day, and caught it. The email asked me if I was interested in putting together some book ideas, to which I responded -- quite reasonably -- by clapping my hands and running around in circles until I fell down.
"I'm gonna be a serious and respected author! DERHERHER!"
So I guess I lied earlier: This information could feasibly help you. If you're looking to get published, all you have to do is find a high profile site to write for, work your ass off producing quality content there, then start your own secondary site and do the same thing again, all while ignoring loved ones, education, socialization and career advancement in favor of writing dick jokes about The Enterprise.
Then, profit!
Finding a Publishable Idea
After I read the publisher's email for the 50th time, then called up everybody who'd wronged me and threatened to crush them with my newfound industry connections, I went out for a drink with my wife. That's when the panic set in. The ground rolled beneath my feet, the table bucked like a bronco, and the beer poured right out through my sweat glands as the anxiety turned on me. That's when the wife said those same stupid, trite, cliche words you always hear: "Write what you know."
"What the fuck do I know about anything? Literally anything?!" I screamed into the face of the now fleeing waitress.
"Well," she said, "you like the apocalypse. Write about that."
She was right, of course. But the book isn't her fault: All she did was notice that I'm messed up enough in the head to "enjoy" the concept of society dying horribly just so I can race cars through its crumbling graveyard of abandoned cities, and throw liquor bottles at famous statues.
"What am I into? Well, I guess I'm pretty into the death of all humanity and the slow, somber retreat of civilization as it cedes to nature. What are you into, baby?"
But there are a few more implied words at the end of that "write what you know" slogan. It should actually go like this: "Write what you know ... so long as it's interesting, and hasn't been done before like a billion times."
That's the catch, and navigating around it is harder than it seems. No offense, but you, like me, probably mostly know boring and stupid bullshit. And boring and stupid bullshit does not usually make for very good literature. Sure, there are a few exceptionally talented writers who can convert tedious subject matter into captivating words. But the simple odds say that your thoughts on what it is to be a barista and your Gears of War griefing tactics are not going to be entering the Library of Congress anytime soon.
So write what you know ... that nobody else does. Or write what you'd like to know -- what you find interesting and wish you knew more about -- and just be prepared to do a shit ton of research. But that's OK, actually, because no matter what, you're going to be ...
Doing an Assload of Research
I wrote a non-fiction book, and obviously that involves a good amount of research. For every hour I spent writing, there were 10 spent reading scientific essays on cell division and geological abnormalities. And for every hour spent doing that, there were 10 more of me pretending to understand it, just in case the power of wishing could make it true.
So what? you're probably saying now, my book is fiction. No research there, my good man. It all bursts forth, fully formed, from the wondrous aether of my imagination!
First of all, you talk like kind of a prick. What are you, from the 17th century? Knock it off, dickhead. You ain't better than me.
Second, I'm writing a fiction book right now, and there is exactly as much research as the non-fiction one. It wasn't even a subject that seemed research intensive, at first. My fiction book is a dystopian pharmaceutical-time-travel sci-fi thriller -- you know, a classic -- and I basically thought I'd just be sketching this world out in my head, and then writing a story through it. Like LeVar Burton told us as kids: "The only thing books need ... is imagination!"
I need you to sit down for this, because it's a hard truth to learn: LeVar Burton is a dirty motherfucking liar.
If you give a damn about the quality of the work at all, every other sentence means a pause for research. You write the word "steel" and then you have to stop, and wonder: "Is steel strong enough to do this? Wouldn't they have something better than steel in the future? Where is the future of the steel industry heading?" Six hours later, you're Googling "hardened mesh weaves" and "nano-tubes" just to finish the sentence: "Biff Largeblaster's sculpted cyborg abs glistened in the afterglow of the imploding time-vortex like a gargantuan bunch of manly ____ grapes."


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Last week, PFS Members got a chance to see indie hit The Kings of Summer. The film, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, revolves around three teenage boys who have had enough of overbearing, unappreciative parents and decide to take to the woods. Reminiscent of the classic Stand By Me, the boys move to the forest, where they build a makeshift cabin and live off the land. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and starring Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, and Allison Brie, The Kings of Summer is a hilarious and fun exploration of adolescence and what is means to become a man, whether that is standing up for your friends or eating only what you've hunted.


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The 5 Most Disturbing Tween TV Show Universes
#2. Austin & Ally and Fame
The record industry is known for vindictive mockery of good taste and greediness. Probably once it was known for something to do with music but, man, let's not be naive. There are record execs who would give your grandpa a record deal if the sound of him passing kidney stones could sell a few albums, then they'd screw him out of most of the profits and blame it on pirates. Yarr!
Austin and Ally is a tepid glimpse into the world of teen idols, except that in no conceivable or even attempted way does it broach anything bordering on realism. And that's fine. Children shouldn't have to be exposed to the soul-crushing realism of what it takes to make it in the music industry. Let's face it. If Justin Bieber hasn't paid to watch a homeless person be murdered in front of him for his own amusement, then I'm the Pope. And I am not the Pope. I don't even have a hat.
The show is about Austin, an overnight internet sensation who gets a record deal and becomes a recording hearth-throb, or what we can now refer to as Pre-Hobo Murder Bieber. The hilarious twist is that the song that made him famous was written by this girl Ally who has terrible stage fright and can't perform herself, so they become partners. Oh, man! Hijinks! Or just the way 90% of all singers work, whatever.
The kids in the show are 16 and, predictably, have no parents. The crime committed by the show, therefore, is not the proliferation of yet more bubblegum pop, poorly-rendered characters or predictable story lines. It's that it's fooling a generation of children into thinking they can upload videos of themselves singing onto Youtube and expect not to be mercilessly fucked, both metaphorically and literally, by hordes of sleazy record execs without any parental involvement whatsoever. It's never a bad idea to give kids hope, but all hope needs to be tempered by reality and for every Justin Bieber success story, there are probably about 300 of this guy.
#1. Jessie and Child-Rearing
Someone has likely written a paper in a sociology class on the nature of children's shows and the irresponsibility of the parents therein, but I bet it's a boring-as-shit read and no one in it gets called a "twat." Why bother reading that? Instead let's learn about the emotionally bankrupt lives of people in the show Jessie.
Jessie is a show about a nanny. Her name is Jessie. It's quite clever. She cares for an ethnic zoo of children for reasons my research never adequately explained. Nonetheless, there's a little Indian boy who Apu would find slightly over the top, a sassy little black girl, a spoiled white girl and Danny Zuko. Unlike our other shows, these kids do have parents -- they're just so hateful and brimming with neglect that they are literally never home, thus leaving the children in the care of a teenage girl and an ill-tempered fat man of a butler. He's fat because fat is funny. Ask any Disney executive. Then chuckle at the hijinks of Pumbaa or that fat-ass potato from Toy Story.
You can almost feel the creators of this show congratulating themselves for having an ethnically diverse cast and for showing kids that being unwanted crosses all cultural boundaries. Wikipedia tells me it was hatched by someone who wrote for both Charles in Charge and The Nanny who is not Rain Man, so there's no legitimate excuse for not being able to come up with a single new idea. But at least they present a family that loves children so much, they adopted them from the terrible squalor of India, Uganda and Detroit, and then never spends any time with them. I would have made that Detroit joke on my own if one kid in the show hadn't legitimately been adopted from there.
For most people adopting children is probably a serious decision based, at least in part, on the desire to actually see the children you've adopted every once in a while and maybe raise them in some way. But on TV that's bullshit.


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An combined abbreviation of the term "hand job"
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The team at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital
excels in complex stroke treatment as they care for more than 600
patients recovering from a stroke every year. Our intensive stroke
rehabilitation program is certified and accredited by several national
health care organizations. We work with our patients and their families
to design therapy programs customized to their specific goals—using both
traditional and non-traditional modalities. This tireless creativity
means 99 percent of our stroke inpatients meet
the goals they've set with their care managers, upon discharge.
When stroke patients arrive at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital—generally from
acute-care hospitals—the main focus is restoring mobility. The body and
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active during their rehab stay. In fact, we make sure our stroke
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The average inpatient stay for a stroke patient is just under three
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Upon discharge, 61 percent of stroke survivors were able to return home.
Many patients discharged from the Stroke Rehabilitation Program can
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Most stroke patients at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital are over the age of 65.
For stroke patients under the age of 50, we offer a Young Stroke
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Since stroke patients often have low physical capabilities, many of our
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In addition, many individual academic programs are either approved, accredited or hold membership as indicated below.
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The University of Wyoming is committed to providing students with high quality academic programs and services. As a result, UW is actively engaged in several processes to assess student learning with the ultimate goal of continuous improvement. A university wide assessment plan and individual department plans are in various stages of implementation. The purpose of these plans is to identify and articulate student learning outcomes - the skills, abilities, and knowledge that students are expected to acquire by the completion of their programs - and the means by which these outcomes would be measured. Learning is assessed at the university, college and departmental levels. Current assessment activities include, but are not limited to, surveys, interviews, portfolios, exams and senior capstone projects. In order for UW's assessment efforts to be successful, students must become engaged in the process. As such, students are expected and/or required to complete various assessments as determined by the university or department prior to the awarding of degrees.
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An adjective to describe Short, Chubby people or objects.
Por Shaniqua of Chap3l 14 de septiembre de 2012
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another form of "fo sho"
Chris:Hey you want to chill tonight?Tim: Chodey!!
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another way to say chode
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made as a noun
hey CHODEY!
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chubby boy, in which you would assume he has a chode.
Ew, he has a double chin... He's so chodey.
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A useless motorcycle salesman that alienates all he comes in contact with. One who profits from lies. Smells like a trucker's used roid cushion after a cross country run. Often confused for being gay, except that not even the gay community will except him.
I work with this guy at the bike shop who is a real chodey.
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our friend Joey's nickname/penis.
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The National Numismatic Collection (NNC) of the Smithsonian Institution is one of the largest numismatic collections in the world and the largest in North America. With over 1.6 millioin objects, the NNC contains many great rarities in coins and currency, from the earliest coins created 2,700 years ago up to the latest innovations in electronic monetary exchange, as well as fascinating objects such as beads, wampum, dentalia, and other commodities once used as money.
The collection emphasizes the development of money and medals in the United States. The core of the U.S. collection, consisting of more than 18,000 items, including coins of great rarity, came to the Smithsonian in 1923 from the United States Mint. Exceptional rarities include the Brasher half doubloon, the 1849 double eagle (first of the gold 20 dollar pieces), and two 1877 fifty dollar patterns. Other rarities are include the 1913 Liberty head nickel as well as all three types of the 1804 dollar, and two of three known examples of the world's most valuable coin, the 1933 double eagle, the third of which recently sold for 7.6 million dollars. Learn more about the collection.
Below you will find a selection of over 350 objects from the collection. We are working to expand and improve online access to additional objects in the near future, so stay tuned.
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Medal, 1905
- Description
- Theodore Roosevelt met sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the 1890s, when T.R. was an aspiring young politician, and Saint-Gaudens was establishing a reputation as a brilliant artist. When Roosevelt was elected President in 1904 and needed an inaugural medal, he gave the commission to Saint-Gaudens after rejecting the standard, unmemorable medal typically produced for this occasion by the United States Mint.
- Saint-Gaudens's results shattered precedent. The piece was modern in all senses of the word. There was no attempt to beautify or romanticize the President's head on the obverse, yet the image clearly conveyed vision and power. The reverse was, if anything, even more groundbreaking. The magnificent, left-facing eagle epitomized authority and presence, while displaying a classical ancient style. (The same eagle is used on the Saint-Gaudens $10 in 1907). This bird unquestionably ruled all it surveyed.
- Saint-Gaudens's success with this medal convinced Roosevelt that the artist was the partner he needed to collaborate on a pet project: the redesign of America's money. Saint-Gaudens signed on, and the plotting began. But the potential for trouble hovered on the horizon: this medal had been struck, not by the United States Mint in Philadelphia, but by Tiffany & Company in New York. If the Mint hadn't produced Saint-Gaudens's medal, would it agree to produce any of his coins?
- date made
- 1905
- associated date
- 1905-03-05
- associated person
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
- Weinman, Adolph A.
- maker
- Tiffany & Company
- designer
- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
- ID Number
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It was the tone-deaf statement of the week.
There was Gov. Andrew Cuomo, explaining a drop in his sky-high approval rating after he pushed through a sweeping new gun law.
"The more they understand the law and the more they hear about the law, the better they are going to feel, because it has nothing to do with the legitimate ownership of a gun," Cuomo told reporters last week.
If he wanted people to understand the law, he might have given them a chance to read it before the first vote was taken. Or he might have allowed the public to weigh in on its merits before lawmakers approved it. Or he might have considered the idea of ensuring lawmakers actually had time to read the very bill they were voting on.
Heck, the state didn't even make sure there were enough seats at a meeting to find out what was in the new law. This was not the Empire State at its best.
Just ask Budd Schroeder. At 76, he's been a competitive shooter since his Army reserve days, when he made the Fort Bragg pistol team in 1961. He's been advocating for gun rights for almost as long.
To say that people are upset about the way the law was pushed through, he said, is an understatement.
"This was rammed down our throats in a dictatorial fashion," Schroeder said.
The anger seethed at a midday meeting in Clarence last week, where Schroeder and dozens of others packed a small library room that was clearly too small for the crowd. The outrage was visible.
That meeting and others held across the state were meant as question-and-answer sessions to explain the new rules. They turned into the public vetting that should have happened before any vote was cast.
People have every right to be angry about the way this law was passed.
Cuomo swatted away a three-day waiting period for the bill like it was little more than a nuisance. It's meant to give people a chance to digest what lawmakers are doing, but governors for decades have used a maneuver meant for emergencies to push bills through before the public gets a good look.
Cuomo said he didn't want to create a run on guns. It's also likely he wanted to quickstep past the powerful gun lobby. But choosing to push through bills this way gives the appearance he's more interested in getting his will obeyed than he is in letting in transparency.
Schroeder thinks the way this was passed is a prime example of why citizens in the state need the ability to force a referendum on legislation. But Schroeder, who has a hand in local conservative politics, is savvy enough to know that idea will never fly.
Power brokers in Albany don't appear to want the mere public involved in their business. That should concern everyone – whether or not you agree with the new gun law.
The fact that it takes secret meetings to craft bills and dead-of-night votes to make them law is a symptom of a broken system. It's not how democracy should be done.
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - After several years of treatment in the Blair County juvenile system for drug and alcohol abuse and sexual offenses, a 19-year-old Altoona man was released Wednesday from custody without being placed on probation.
Blair County District Attorney Richard A. Consiglio objected, stating the young man should at least have to be on probation until he's 21 years old, but Blair County President Judge Jolene G. Kopriva said he has accomplished the goals the juvenile system set for him.
Kopriva said she has been overseeing the teen's case for a long time, adding she was impressed with the progress he had made recently to rid himself of his addictions and to address his sexual problems.
The teen has undergone sexual therapy through Project Point of Light, according to a counselor who helped to treat him and who said he is now "low risk" for a relapse.
The judge's ruling that the young man need not be placed on probation turned out to be a major break for him, since he will not have to register with police for the rest of his life as a sexual offender, under the stricter Megan's Law requirements that take effect on Dec. 20.
The discussion between Consiglio, the judge and representatives of the defense team became intense.
Consiglio said that it was 'irresponsible" and "flat out ridiculous" the young man would not be placed on probation.
"There's no rational reason under God's blue heaven he is not on probation," Consiglio said.
Kopriva said the district attorney and his staff have stepped into the case only in the last six months and
didn't understand how much progress the young man has made in addressing his problems.
For instance, he previously would not open up about his problems, but that changed during his most recent stint in a treatment facility. Once he opened up, his attitude changed and now he is talking about getting work and supporting himself, Kopriva said
His mother told the judge how much improvement he has made. She told him to "man up" to his problems and in recent home visits she said she has "enjoyed" his company, minus drugs and alcohol.
"He's more fun to be around," she said.
The therapist who treated the teen said he has 12 years' experience and believes the young man is low risk.
Kopriva, in releasing the young man from custody with no probation told the teen to "make it work." He vowed, "I will."
Then she pointed out that the young man is no longer considered a juvenile and she stated that any new crime he commits will end up in adult criminal court.
Kopriva warned him that she doesn't expect the district attorney to give him any breaks if he comes back to court.


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Is it the magic of Disney, or are Zac Efron and Lily Collins really back together?
A fan snapped this sweet photo of the two stars holding hands while strolling through California's Disneyland Tuesday evening.
The pic comes less than two weeks after the duo was spotted leaving a Hollywood movie theater together on Oct. 11, according to E! Online, which first reported the Disneyland snapshot.
The 26-year-old Efron, who recently completed a stint in rehab, and the Mortal Instruments: City of Bones actress, 24, cozied up in early 2012 when they were spotted holding hands while out to dinner in Los Angeles. A week later they spent Valentine's Day together at the Soho House in West Hollywood.
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Tom Leppert has a new gig as president of Kaplan Inc., a $2.5 billion global education company owned by The Washington Post Co. He's in Fort Lauderdale today for the official announcement and his first round of meetings with staff.
The former Dallas mayor and recent U.S. senatorial hopeful may be hitting the ground running, but he isn't picking up stakes. He and his wife, Laura, will continue to live in Dallas. That was a nonnegotiable for Leppert's taking the job.
Tom Leppert with supporter during 2012 Senate campaign (PHOTO: Dallas Morning News)
Kaplan, which has 25,000 employees and is the world's largest tutor for standardized tests, wants someone to recast the company, which is also a major player in online education. Revenues and profits have been headed south in the past few years, so Leppert has his work cut out for himself.
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What Does Christmas Taste Like?
Whether your answer is English wassail or Swedish saffron buns, spice is the common denominator in festive foods from far-flung lands
RIGHT ABOUT NOW we're at rock bottom in terms of hours of sunlight per day in the Northern Hemisphere. Want to eat seasonally? Then you'd better love root vegetables. Otherwise, the ingredient that carries us through the dark months in its bright halo is spice.
At no other time of the year do we hit the spice rack as hard as we do in December. It really doesn't matter whether you observe Christmas or Hanukkah or any other (or no other) holiday. If you're in the vicinity of those who celebrate, you'll taste it—a dusting of nutmeg on a cup of egg nog, the buzz of black pepper in a gingerbread cookie, cinnamon's woodsy warmth in dishes all over the sweet-savory spectrum.
Festive recipes tend to come with a lot of baggage as well as spice. As I gathered the ones featured here from different chefs, I asked what Christmas tasted like to them growing up. Ana Sortun of the restaurants Oleana and Sofra, in Cambridge, Mass., responded without hesitation. "Awful!" she said. "Do you know what lutefisk is?" Her family, "very traditional Scandinavian on both sides," makes their own batch of the gelatinous, lye-soaked fish each year. It's enough to make you retreat to your bed, as the late English food writer Elizabeth David did in the face of obligatory holiday feasting, with a tray of smoked-salmon sandwiches and a bottle of wine.
As a chef, Ms. Sortun has moved a long way from the frozen north, to the bright, citrusy palette of the Eastern Mediterranean. "There, spices are used subtly, to create layers of flavor," she said. "They can make food rich without making it heavy." Her kind of festive dish marries the flavors of Turkey or Lebanon or North Africa with the cold-weather crops her husband pulls out of the ground at their farm: a Moroccan-style bisteeya with a crust of paper-thin pastry leaves and a filling of custardy sweet potatoes, scented with cilantro, lemon, fresh ginger, saffron and cinnamon; and a winter salad of radishes, turnips, apples, dates and a buttermilk dressing spiked with coriander, cumin and hot chilies.
Spice Rack
- Turmeric: Native to South Asia, this rhizome brings a rich orange hue (and antioxidants, too) to Indian curries and Persian pilafs.
- Cinnamon: The bark of a Sri Lankan tree that now grows as far afield as Latin America, it's used everywhere in between, in desserts as well as savory dishes.
- Coriander: Aka cilantro, the herb that produces this spice grows wild from the Mediterranean to Asia.
- Cumin: These earthy 'seeds' are actually the tiny dried fruits of a flowering plant of the Mediterranean.
The notion of Christmas foods having one foot in the part of the world Ms. Sortun happens to be preoccupied with is not new. Look at English mince pie—a medieval descendant of sweet-savory pastries like bisteeya, filled with fruit and meat as well as cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon by the spoonful—or mulled wine, once taken medicinally following advice in Arabic medical treatises on the therapeutic benefits of spices.
Tristan Stephenson, co-owner of the London bars Purl, Worship Street Whistling Shop and Dach & Sons, serves a lot of hot drinks at this time of year. "Mulled wine is the one we don't do, really," he said, "because it's pretty commonplace." Instead, Mr. Stephenson has raided the works of Charles Dickens for forgotten concoctions like purl, made with warmed ale, gin and bitters. From his own childhood in Cornwall, Mr. Stephenson recalls steaming bowls of wassail made from hard apple cider and honey, steeped with star anise, cloves and cinnamon. "You drink something like that in summer, and it's really weird," he said. "It transports you right away into that warm kind of Christmassy feeling."
There is science to back that up. "Neurogastronomy," one of my favorite books of the past year, is an introduction to the emerging field of the same name by the neuroscientist Gordon Shepherd. "Other fields start with the food," he writes, "and ask how it stimulates the senses. Neurogastronomy starts with the brain, and asks how it creates the sensation of flavor." When I spoke to Dr. Shepherd, he said, "I think of spices as stimulating the brain to create flavor images that get incorporated into the whole internal ecology of brain activity, in which the occasion provides the context."
Citrus, once a luxury import like spice, is another key element in the collective festive gestalt. Apollonia Poîlane, head of the legendary Poîlane bakery, in Paris, said, "Oranges used to be a gift to children, so for me, oranges are very much part of the scents I associate with the holidays." Her friend Lior Lev Sercarz, of the New York spice shop La Boîte à Epice, created expressly for her a blend she uses in holiday baking. Apollonia N.29 has cocoa, orange blossom and black pepper, a combination Ms. Poîlane enjoys in savory foods, too, like lamb meatballs studded with candied orange.
For chef Marcus Samuelsson, who grew up in Sweden, Christmastime is cardamom and saffron. "We start eating saffron buns on December 1st and continue through St. Lucia Day (Dec. 13)," said Mr. Samuelsson, who's been serving the yeasty, incandescently golden buns this month at the Red Rooster, in Harlem. Normally the restaurant's menu reflects the neighborhood's patchwork of cultures and cuisines, but the Holiday Plate is 100% traditional Swedish. Some things aren't negotiable.
Still, I think I can stretch my Christmas menu to include arroz con leche cremoso, creamy rice pudding perfumed with lime peel, star anise and cinnamon. The recipe comes from "Gran Cocina Latina," the staggeringly comprehensive new Latin American cookbook from New Jersey-based, Cuba-born chef Maricel Presilla. Her Christmas memories center on spit-roasted pig basted in a garlic and Seville orange adobo laced with allspice, oregano and cumin—a dish she now serves all the time at Cucharamama and Zafra in Hoboken. "It's troubling to me," Ms. Presilla said, wondering if the tradition might lose meaning out of context. "When you smelled that aroma in Cuba, you knew it was time for feasting."
Tristan Stephenson's Wassail
This warming drink from Tristan Stephenson of the London bars Worship Street Whistling Shop, Purl and Dach & Sons is a great way to use the craft ciders available now. A cloudy, unfiltered one works best. Serves 6.
Heat 1 quart hard cider, 3½ tablespoons honey, ½ cup brown sugar, 3½ tablespoons lemon juice, 4 cloves, 2 whole star anise and 2 cinnamon sticks to around 175 degrees. Try not to boil. Hold temperature steady 25 minutes, then ladle into cups. Garnish with dried apple slices.
Ana Sortun's Winter Salad With Spiced Buttermilk Dressing
For this zesty salad, try a mix of colorful radish varieties (watermelon, French breakfast, daikon) and sweet turnips (hakurei, purple top). Serves 8.
Place 1 Hungarian wax pepper or jalapeño, 2 cups cilantro leaves, ½ cup parsley leaves, ½ cup tarragon leaves, 1 small clove garlic, ½ teaspoon ground coriander, ½ teaspoon ground cumin, 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 1 tablespoon Sherry vinegar and 2 tablespoons buttermilk or plain yogurt in a blender and blend until smooth and creamy. // Place 5 cups thinly sliced mixed radishes and turnips in a large mixing bowl and lightly season with salt. Let sit 5 minutes. Add 2 cups shaved crisp apples, ½ cup chopped dates, 1 cup finely shredded cabbage or escarole and dressing, and toss to coat. Sprinkle 2/3 cup lightly toasted walnuts, finely chopped, on top.
Ana Sortun's Sweet Potato Bisteeya
This recipe was adapted from Ms. Sortun's book, "Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean." If you can find North African-style brik pastry, you can use it in place of phyllo for a crunchier crust; this recipe requires about six sheets. Serves 8.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place 4 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut in half, in a medium-size saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil over high heat. Lower heat to medium and simmer until potatoes are tender, 20-25 minutes. // Meanwhile, in a medium sauté pan, over medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter and allow it to brown. Stir in 1 large onion, minced, 1/8 teaspoon turmeric and a pinch saffron. Lower heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are soft but not brown, 4-5 minutes. Stir in 1 teaspoon fresh ginger and set aside. // Drain potatoes, reserving ½ to ¾ cup cooking liquid. Purée potatoes until they are creamy and soft, adding reserved cooking liquid as necessary. Season mixture with salt and white pepper to taste. Add 4 eggs, beaten, 2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice, ¼ cup finely chopped parsley and ¼ cup roughly chopped cilantro. Scrape mixture into large mixing bowl, stir in onion mixture and season with salt to taste. Set aside. // Place ¾ cup pine nuts on a heavy baking sheet and toast until golden brown, 8-10 minutes. Once nuts have cooled, coarsely chop, place in a small mixing bowl and stir in ¼ cup confectioners' sugar and 2 teaspoons cinnamon. Set aside. // Assemble bisteeya: Dip a pastry brush into ¼ cup olive oil and brush bottom of a 9-inch pie pan with oil. Remove 1 pastry sheet from a 1-pound package of phyllo, place on counter and brush generously with more oil. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon pine nut mixture. Top with another two sheets phyllo, both brushed with oil. Place layers in pie pan, allowing edges of pastry to hang over sides. Repeat process with another 3 sheets phyllo and place over sheets in pie pan in opposite direction, so edges of pan are completely covered and you have 4 equal flaps. Fill dough with sweet potato mixture. Make one last layer of pine nuts and 3 sheets phyllo. Place dough on top of sweet potato filling and fold edges inward so pie is completely covered. Brush top with oil and sprinkle remaining nuts on top. // Bake until puffy and golden brown, 40-45 minutes. Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar and serve warm or at room temperature.
Apollonia Poîlane's Lamb Meatballs With Spinach Salad
This recipe was adapted from one in Lior Lev Sercarz's new book "The Art of Blending." It calls for Mr. Sercarz's Apollonia N.29, a blend of cocoa, orange blossom and black pepper (available at theingredientfinder.com). If you're unable to obtain it, substitute cocoa and black pepper, with a little orange zest for brightness. Serves 6-8.
Heat ¼ cup olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add 2 medium white onions, finely chopped, season with salt and pepper to taste and cook until lightly browned, about 8 minutes. Transfer to a plate and let cool. // In a large bowl, combine 1½ pounds ground lamb with 2 large eggs, beaten,1½ cups diced crustless sourdough bread,1 tablespoon chopped candied orange peel, 1/3 cup finely chopped blanched almonds and 1 tablespoon Apollonia N.29 spice blend. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add reserved onions and mix well. // Roll mixture into 1-inch balls (about 30 meatballs). Place 1½ cups all-purpose flour in a bowl. Roll each meatball in flour and shake off excess. // Heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add meatballs and cook until browned all over and cooked through, 10-15 minutes. // While meatballs cook, whisk together 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil, 1 teaspoon Sherry vinegar and 1 teaspoon Apollonia N.29 spice blend in a large bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add 8 ounces baby spinach leaves and toss to coat. Serve meatballs with spinach salad.
Marcus Samuelsson's Lussekatter (Swedish Saffron Buns)
These spiced buns the color of the sun appear at the time of year when actual sunlight is scarce in Sweden. Makes 12 buns.
Heat 2 cups milk in a small saucepan just until warm and remove from heat. Combine ¼ cup milk, ¼-ounce package active dry yeast and a pinch sugar in a small bowl and let sit until bubbly, 10 minutes. Combine another 2 tablespoons milk, 2 tablespoons brandy, 1 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon powdered saffron in a small bowl, stirring to dissolve sugar. // In a large bowl, whisk together 4 cups f lour, ½ cup sugar, 1 teaspoon ground cardamom and ½ teaspoon salt. Make a well in the center and pour in yeast mixture, dissolved saffron and remaining milk. Stir with a wooden spoon, gradually adding more flour as necessary, until a soft dough forms. // Turn dough out on a lightly floured surface and knead, adding just a little more flour if necessary, until dough is smooth, shiny and elastic, 10-15 minutes. Knead in ¼ cup dark raisins. // Shape dough into a ball. Put it in a large, lightly oiled bowl, turning to coat, and cover with kitchen towel. Let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, 30 minutes. // Punch down dough and transfer to a lightly floured surface. Shape dough into a log and divide into 12 equal balls. Cover with a kitchen towel and let rise until almost doubled in size, 30 minutes. // Preheat oven to 375 degrees. After dough rises, form each dough ball into an 8-inch-long roll. Twirl ends of each roll in opposite directions to form an S-shape and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Place 1 raisin in center of each end of bun. // Bake buns until the bottom sounds hollow when you pick one up and rap it with your knuckles, 30 minutes. Lightly beat 1 large egg with 1 tablespoon water. Remove buns from oven and brush tops with egg wash. Let cool on a rack.
This recipe for fragrant rice pudding is adapted from one in Ms. Presilla's "Gran Cocina Latina." She recommends using Spanish Montsia rice, but any medium- or short-grain white rice will work. Serves 12.
Rinse 1 cup medium- or short-grain rice in cold water until water runs clear. Place rice in a heavy 6-quart saucepan with 2 quarts water and 1 teaspoon salt. Tie 6 pods star anise, 4 sticks cinnamon and peel of 1 lime or lemon in cheesecloth and add to pan. Bring to a boil over high heat, then lower heat to medium and cook, uncovered, until rice is very soft, 25-30 minutes. // Stir in 3 cups whole milk and two 14-ounce cans sweetened condensed milk. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring occasionally, until creamy but still liquid, 40 minutes. (If you want to add an interesting dimension of aroma, stir in 1 tablespoon each rosewater and orange blossom water 10 minutes before removing from heat.) Add 1 tablespoon butter and stir to melt. Remove pan from heat and pour immediately into a serving bowl. Dust lightly with ground cinnamon and let cool to room temperature. Can be stored, covered, in refrigerator up to 3 days.


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Some local college students are learning painful lessons outside the classroom.
Over the last three weekends, four brutal attacks against students have occurred in University Heights and Elmwood Village.
Motives in the attacks appear to be different, from robbery to possible hazing, to disagreements between strangers, although all occurred late at night.
The most recent attack, just before 2 a.m. Sunday on the 100 block of Winspear Avenue near UB's South Campus, resulted in a 20-year-old student taking time off from school to undergo reconstructive facial surgery, a police official said.
That attack might have involved other students conducting fraternity hazing, according to police.
A week earlier, on the first block of Winspear, a UB senior was standing outside a late-night house party that was breaking up when he apparently had words with a group of young men walking by. The student ended up at Erie County Medical Center for treatment of facial injuries and internal bleeding.
In the early hours of Saturday on Labor Day weekend, two Buffalo State College students were severely beaten and robbed of their purses by four young men who slashed one of the women with a knife at about 4 a.m. at Richmond Avenue and Dorchester Road. The students were walking home from an Elmwood Avenue bar.
Several hours earlier, three Buffalo State students were attacked and robbed by five or six individuals at Potomac Avenue and Grant Street. As the students fled, one of the attackers fired several gunshots and wounded 18-year-old Jabril Muhammad, shattering his forearm. He has since returned to college.
What's happening?
Police on and off campuses say students need to realize they are attending school in an urban setting and should take special precautions to protect themselves.
"The City of Buffalo is an urban environment, and if you come from a rural section of the state, this is a different setting," Buffalo State College Police Chief Peter Carey said.
University at Buffalo police and city police continue to team up to increase foot, bicycle and car patrols, according to city police spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge.
For those who have experienced violence off campus in recent weeks, the memories are traumatizing.
"We had just left the bars on Elmwood at about 4 a.m. and were on our way home and I heard people behind me. I turned around and I told my roommate to walk faster. These four guys started running and tackled us to the ground," Jordan Delaney, a Buffalo State senior, said of the Sept. 1 assault and robbery at Richmond and Dorchester.
"They didn't just snatch our purses. They literally yanked them from us until the cross-body purse straps snapped. I had bruises on my neck and shoulder from where they were pulling it," the 21-year-old said.
Police say they continue to make progress in solving this robbery.
As for the Winspear attacks, DeGeorge said:
"Police are looking at the possibility that these incidents may all involve students."
But for Delaney, who comes from a village in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, the attack is something she will never forget.
"I only had bruises and scratches, but my roommate was cut with a knife on her wrist and had to go to the hospital. She also had to get a CAT scan because she had a concussion. One of her front teeth has to be pulled because she was punched in the mouth," De aney said.
In the most recent attack, authorities say the 20-year-old student was returning home with his roommate when one accidentally brushed up against another student who was with as many as 20 other individuals, leading authorities to think the attack might have had some connection to fraternity pledging.
The roommates were kicked and punched and an attacker broke a bottle over the head of one of the roommates, which resulted in the need for surgery, a police official said.
For Brian Gold, a UB senior majoring in economics, the attack on him at about 2:30 a.m. Sept. 8 has provided a lesson in practicing caution.
Gold said he had just left a house party on Winspear and was congregating with others outside the house when, he acknowledged, he might have said something stupid to a group of young men walking past them.
He was punched and kicked into unconsciousness by four to 10 young men as 20 students watched, Gold said, explaining that the onlookers probably did not want to get involved for fear of their own safety.
"None of my bones were broken but I had some internal bleeding and my face was swollen," said Gold, who comes from Rochester and lives next to UB's North Campus in Amherst.
Since then, he says he has not stayed out late when socializing.
"If I do go out, it will be with friends. My advice to other students is use the buddy system, don't get too drunk and have a good time," Gold said.
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on January 15, 2013 - 7:11 PM
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Erie County expects to pay $103 million during the course of a proposed 10-year lease deal with the Buffalo Bills on Ralph Wilson Stadium for renovation work and subsidies to the team.
That annual cost has been built into the county's 2013 budget and its spending projections for the next four years, but County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz hasn't ruled out whether he will need to ask for a tax increase during the next few years.
"I've heard some criticism out there saying, 'Oh, this means taxes are going to be going up as a direct result of the Buffalo Bills lease,' " Poloncarz told Erie County legislators Tuesday. "Our four-year plan as projected right now already includes the costs associated with the Buffalo Bills lease. We don't anticipate having to go above and beyond that."
That four-year plan, however, anticipated county property taxes going up in 2013 – and continuing to bring in more revenue in future years to cover rising county expenses.
Now, after that tax increase was turned down late last year, Poloncarz said he doesn't yet know whether he will ask lawmakers again to raise taxes.
"I really can't answer what the final result is going to be," Poloncarz said of work to revise the four-year plan. "Everything's on the table. We do know if the budget had been approved as presented, we were not anticipating having to do another tax increase in the out years. We would have had sufficient revenue. I don't know now."
The cost of a new lease – and how the county will pay for it – was on the minds of county legislators Tuesday as they had their first chance to publicly question Poloncarz and Bills executives about the deal they struck in late December.
Poloncarz has asked legislators to approve a memorandum of understanding and a nonrelocation agreement with the Bills and the state at the Legislature's next meeting Jan. 24 so that the documents can go to the National Football League for approval when team owners meet in March.
That would clear the way for a $130 million stadium modernization project to begin later this year, with construction work on the county-owned stadium slated to wrap up in 2015. The focus of the work, Bills CEO Russ Brandon said, is on the "fan experience."
"If you walk into that building today, there are some areas in the common fan areas that, quite frankly, are not much different than in 1973," Brandon said. "So we're looking to upgrade those areas."
The cost of the stadium upgrades will be split among the county, the state and the Bills, with the county paying $40.7 million, New York State funding $53.9 million of the construction work and the Bills picking up $35.5 million.
The proposed lease also would extend payments already made to the team and for annual stadium improvements.
Under the new deal, the county and the state will split the cost of annual subsidies the team receives, as well as reimbursing the team for game day and stadium operating expenses.
Those costs are expected to start at $7.7 million in the first year of the lease and increase to $10.1 million when it expires in 2022, according to the county's calculations.
Annual stadium upgrades expected to cost between $4.6 million to $6 million a year also will be footed largely by the county and the state, with the team contributing between $800,000 and $977,000 a year through rent payments. A portion of that money can be diverted into studying the potential for a new stadium starting in 2018.
The public contribution, county officials say, will be recouped in sales tax revenue, state income tax and the less tangible benefits of having an NFL team in the region – all a focus of county legislators as they met with Poloncarz and Bills representatives Tuesday to discuss the terms of the lease.
"I'm pretty sure you can justify this investment on the part of the county, but I'd like to hear it so that when my constituents ask me, I can say, 'Yes, I know that's a lot of money, but here's where we're getting back that,' " Legislator Kevin Hardwick, R-City of Tonawanda, told Poloncarz.
The county's analysis focused on state income tax that Bills players and staff pay each year because it was the clearest example of a revenue source that would disappear if the team and its employees moved out of state. Deputy County Executive Richard Tobe said the county's calculations show the team would generate roughly $140 million in income tax payments to the state during the 10-year deal.
That doesn't include sales tax generated by team ticket sales or by other businesses that see increased sales because of Bills games. Those numbers, Tobe said, are more difficult to calculate because it is difficult to determine how much of that money would be spent at other businesses if the team was not here.
But Poloncarz noted that the recent National Hockey League lockout likely cost the county more than $1 million in lost sales tax because of bars, restaurants, hotels and other entities that lost business when games weren't played.
"While the Sabres and the players and the organization will generate revenue now that they're back, for the bar owners and the county, that's lost revenue going forward," Poloncarz said. "So those are things you have to think about when we negotiated this."
The lease's total $103 million cost to Erie County does not include interest it will pay on debt for the renovation work – numbers that will not be finalized until after the county decides how it will borrow money for the construction work. The last lease, a 15-year deal that will expire in July, cost the county about $93 million in direct expenses.
The state's share of expenses under the new lease during the next 10 years would be $123.5 million, according to the county.
County legislators also heard a proposal Tuesday from a group of businessmen headed by Nicholas J. Stracick that hopes to construct a new multi-use stadium on the outer harbor in Buffalo that would include a "North American Museum of Sports and Culture" operated by the Strong Museum of Rochester. The group, which has formed a limited liability corporation called Greater Buffalo Sports & Entertainment Complex, is seeking an option on the waterfront land so it can get financing and other revenue sources for a proposal to construct a new stadium that would cost $1.4 billion.
George F. Hasiotis, vice president of the group, told lawmakers that planning for a new stadium needs to move forward well before a "new stadium working group" created under the proposed new lease would begin its work.
"It has to be done now, because it takes so long," Hasiotis said. "It can't be deflected off to a committee."
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We recently reported that an IS version of the focal length exists in prototype form. It's pretty normal to have multiple versions of a lens.
There's always a risk with price lists and typos, and we have seen a lens appear on a price list before it was announced. The announcement came 6 months later, so this may not be an imminent thing. The good news is that there is a lot of chatter about the focal length going around.
All of Canons 50mm lenses lack something, maybe except for the 1.2L (which is in turn quite expensive).The 1.4 is built way under par, and the dramatic difference between image center and corners makes iteasy to hate it. The 1.8 is an insult in its build quality, and the optically well performing 2.5 compact macrois in desperate need of a better drive.So yes, there is a lot of need for a new 50mm. I still have a 1.8/50mm MkI, and I have the 2.5/50 compact macro.The 1.8 is good enough for low light, and the 2.5 is good for general work.Both are way from perfect.1.8/50 with the mechanical build quality of the 1.2L at a price point of 350 USD or below would be a no-brainer.Let's see what canon comes up with.
Over the last few days I have received a lot of hints that a new EF 50mm lens is coming down the pipeline.
All of Canons 50mm lenses lack something, maybe except for the 1.2L...
For $849, I'd expect a 50 f/1.4 to either have Zeiss class build & IQ, or the abilities to make coffee and <self censored>


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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
College of Charleston baseball coach Monte Lee knew it'd be a challenge, but he was always confident in his team.
The No. 4 seed in a regional with Florida, North Carolina and Long Beach State, the Cougars entered as underdogs and battled their way out as champions.
College of Charleston (44-17) grabbed three wins in four days, including a 4-2 win over Long Beach State Monday, to claim the Gainesville Regional title and advance to the NCAA Super Regionals for just the second time in program history.
The Cougars are the only No. 4 seed left in the round of 16 and just the fourth No. 4 seed to advance to a super regional in the past 15 years. They'll face Texas Tech in a best-of-three series beginning either Friday or Saturday in Lubbock, Texas.
"I'm so proud of this group of young men," Lee said. "I am humbled to get to coach this incredible group and excited that we get to keep playing baseball."
Cougars freshman right-hander Tyler Thornton earned regional MVP honors, allowing two earned runs off four hits, one walk with four strikeouts in the complete-game win. Thornton gave up both runs in the first inning but allowed just two hits and no walks through the next eight.
The Cougars scored in the first inning in each of their three regional wins and are 30-2 this season when doing so. Andrew Wise delivered the prophetic first-inning run with a single up the gap to center to score Brandon Murray. Wise finished 2 for 4 on the day with the RBI.
"To come here as a four seed and go undefeated, it's awesome," Wise said. "It's definitely an experience I'll never forget."
Long Beach (34-26) countered with two runs in the bottom frame as Richard Prigatano doubled off the left-field wall and Johnny Bekakis lined a single off Thorton's arm.
Wise helped the Cougars tie the game in the third, reaching on an infield error while Blake Butler scored from third.
The Cougars ended Long Beach starter Nick Sabo's day in the fourth inning at 62 pitches. Sabo suffered the loss, allowing four runs, three earned off two hits, two walks and two strikeouts.
Morgan Phillips hit a sacrifice fly into foul territory to bring home Ryan Welke in the first at-bat after the pitching change. Ben Boykin scored off a wild pitch in the next at-bat to give the Cougars a two-run lead that'd be enough with Thorton dealing on the mound.
Phillips, Boykin, Murray and Thornton were all named to the Gainesville All-Regional team. The Cougars head to Lubbock, winners of 10 of their last 11 games, with a six-game winning streak intact and an opportunity for a bid to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
"They are a special team to coach and they have been having so much fun the last couple of weeks," Lee said. "We have been playing loose and scoring early."
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Learn hunters' culture before judging unkindly
I would like to applaud the Holley Fire Department for encouraging young men and women to spend a day with their parents on a squirrel hunt. I disagree with the writer who characterizes this event as "violent," and accuses its honorable sponsors of teaching children to kill animals "without respect or remorse," even going so far as to suggest a link with the "increasing violence found in schools." She does a great disservice to those who understand that getting a child out of the house, away from the computer, to spend time with Mom or Dad enjoying nature and gaining respect for wildlife and its habitat, is precisely the best way to form that "kid" into a healthy and responsible young adult.
The writer expresses concern that these animals not be wasted or treated inhumanely. I assure her that every responsible hunter shares this same concern. Indeed, along with firearm safety, this is the fundamental lesson of hunter safety education in New York State. Before judging these people unkindly, take some time to learn their culture and the values they impart to their children. You just might be pleasantly surprised.
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Men's Hoops Faces Western Michigan Saturday at 6 pm
MUNCIE, Ind. -- The Ball State men's basketball team hosts Mid-American Conference West Division leader Western Michigan for a 6 p.m. tipoff Saturday at Worthen Arena.
The game will be televised by SportsTime Ohio with the broadcast also streamed on ESPN3.
Ball State (8-13, 2-7 MAC), coming off a home loss Saturday to Ohio, will look to get on track against the Broncos (15-7, 7-2 MAC), which won their seventh straight game Saturday against Kent State.
Live Coverage
• Television: SportsTime Ohio, ESPN3, ESPN Full Court; Play-by-play: Michael Reghi; Analyst: Dave Cecutti
• Radio (Flagship): Ball State Radio Network (104.1 FM WLBC); Play-by-play: Joel Godett; Analyst: Jerry Peirson
• Radio (Student): Sports Link Radio (91.3 FM WCRD); Play-by-play: Sean Stewart; Analyst: Donnie Kolakowski, Tyler Bradfield
• Internet: Live audio and stats at ballstatesports.com
The Matchup
• Ball State trails by a slim 59-57 margin in 116 all-time meetings with Western Michigan. The Cardinals have played only one opponent more often in school history -- Indiana State (126 times).
• Ball State holds a 35-20 advantage over Western Michigan in Muncie and has won 15 of the 21 games between the teams at Worthen Arena.
• The teams split two regular-season meetings last season with the Cardinals posting a 78-69 victory at home (Jan. 7, 2012) and falling 78-61 on the road (Feb. 22, 2012).
• Western Michigan then handed Ball State a 69-63 loss in the first round of the 2012 Mid-American Conference Tournament (March 5, 2012).
A Quick Look at the Cardinals
• BSU fell to 8-13 overall (2-7 MAC) with Wednesday's 69-42 loss to MAC preseason favorite Ohio.
• The Cardinals are looking to bounce back from a tough stretch in which they have lost seven of their past eight games.
• Senior guard Jauwan Scaife scored a game-high 18 points Wednesday against Ohio, but a shorthanded Ball State team had its toughest offensive night of the season, shooting 26.5 percent from the floor with 22 turnovers.
• Ohio opened the game on a 16-3 run and built a 34-14 lead by halftime.
• Scaife leads Ball State with an average of 13.2 points per game (16.0 in MAC play), while junior guard Jesse Berry scores 12.4 per game and junior forward Majok Majok adds 12.2.
• Majok, who leads the MAC and ranks 13th nationally in rebounding, is one of 15 players in the country averaging a double-double at 12.2 points and 10.3 rebounds per game.
Scouting Western Michigan
• Western Michigan, coming off an 82-76 win Wednesday over Kent State, rides into Muncie on a seven-game winning streak and leads the MAC West Division at 15-7 overall (7-2 MAC).
• WMU dropped its first two MAC games to East leaders Akron and Ohio but has not lost since.
• Shayne Whittington leads the Broncos with 12.8 points per game and ranks second in the league in rebounding (behind BSU's Majok) at 8.4 boards per game.
• Nate Hutcheson (11.2 points per game), David Brown (10.8) and Darius Paul (10.8) give the Broncos four double-figure scorers.
• WMU is out-rebounding its opponents by an average of 7.2 per game. In league games, the Broncos own a +8.7 scoring margin and are holding opponents to 36.8 percent shooting.
Playing Shorthanded
• Ball State played Wednesday's game against Ohio without center Zach Fields (ankle) and forward Tyler Koch (hip).
• It was the first missed game of the season for Fields but the ninth for Koch, who sat out the first eight games of the year with a thumb injury.
• The Cardinals have also played the entire conference season without freshman guard Michael Ramey because of illness.
More on Wednesday's Loss to Ohio
• Freshman forward Bo Calhoun played a career-high 24 minutes and grabbed a career-best seven rebounds to go along with five points Wednesday against Ohio.
• The Cardinals held the advantage on the boards, 41-38, led by junior forwards Matt Kamieniecki and Majok Majok with nine rebounds each.
Last Year vs. Western Michigan
• Two current Cardinals averaged double figures in last season's games with Western Michigan -- Jesse Berry (13.3 ppg) and Jauwan Scaife (12.0).
• Berry scored 19 in the Cardinals' MAC Tournament loss to the Broncos.
Scaife Scoring Consistently
• Senior guard Jauwan Scaife is averaging 16.6 points per game over the past 11 contests after averaging 9.5 points over the first 10 games of the season.
• Scaife has scored at least 18 points in six of the past 11 games, including a season-high 23 points last week versus Toledo. His 16.0 scoring average in MAC games ranks fifth in the league.
• Here is a breakdown of Scaife's numbers:
First 10 games: 9.5 ppg, 29.3% FG (27 for 92), 20.0% 3PT (10 for 50)
Last 11 games: 16.6 ppg, 42.1% FG (56 for 133), 38.5% 3PT (30 for 78)
Production at the Top
• Ball State is the only team in the MAC with three players in the top 15 in the league in scoring -- Jauwan Scaife 10th, Jesse Berry 14th and Majok Majok 15th.
• Ball State is getting 46.0 points per game from its top-4 scorers -- Scaife (13.2), Berry (12.4), Majok (12.2) and Chris Bond (8.2).
• Among MAC teams, only Toledo (50.9 ppg), Kent State (46.3) and Buffalo (46.2) are getting more production from their top-4 scorers.
Home vs. Road in League Play
• Since the start of conference play this season, Ball State has found more success away from home than it has in the historically home friendly Worthen Arena.
• The Cardinals are 2-3 on the road in league play and 0-4 at home.
• Here is a comparison of the team's offensive numbers at home and on the road in MAC play ...
Road MAC Games: 64.4 ppg, 49.0% FG, 37.4% 3PT
Home MAC Games: 57.5 ppg, 35.3% FG, 26.0% 3PT
Mr. Double-Double
• Junior forward Majok Majok is one of 15 players in the nation averaging a double-double at 12.2 points and 10.3 rebounds per game.
• The last Cardinal to average a double-double in a season was Theron Smith, who tallied 19.6 points and 10.9 rebounds per game in 2001-02.
• Majok, who leads the MAC with eight double-doubles, is averaging 13.6 points and 10.0 rebounds per game in league play.
• With 18 points and 17 rebounds Dec. 5 against Holy Cross (Ind.), he became the first Ball State player since Cameron Echols in 2002 with at least 18 points and 17 rebounds in a game.
• Majok was named the MAC West Player of the Week on both Dec. 10 and Jan. 28.
Majok on the Glass
• For the season, Majok Majok ranks 13th nationally and leads the Mid-American Conference at 10.3 rebounds per game. He averages nearly two rebounds per game better than his nearest competitor in the league rankings (WMU's Shayne Whittington, 8.4).
• Majok's 46 rebounds over Ball State's three games from Dec. 5 through Dec. 15 were the most in a three-game stretch by a Cardinal since Theron Smith grabbed 46 over three conference games from Jan. 5-12, 2002.
Close Games
• Ball State is 2-7 in conference play, but the Cardinals have either led or been within one point during the second half in five of those losses.
• Here is a closer look at those five games:
Opponent -- Leading or trailing by one (Time) -- Final score
Kent State (1/12) -- BSU trailed 45-44 (6:55) -- Kent State won 61-47
Akron (1/16) -- BSU trailed 47-46 (10:48) -- Akron won 71-64
Central Michigan (1/19) -- BSU led 41-35 (18:04) -- Central Michigan won 71-57
Buffalo (1/23) -- BSU led 49-46 (8:29) -- Buffalo won 66-63
Toledo (1/30) -- BSU led 47-43 (15:07) -- Toledo won 85-78
Cleaning Up on the Glass
• Ball State has out-rebounded eight of its first nine Mid-American Conference opponents, including Miami by 20 (37-17), Toledo by 16 (41-25) and Eastern Michigan by 13 (29-16).
• The Cardinals were out-rebounded for the first time in league play last Saturday at Bowling Green by a 30-26 margin.
• Ball State has out-rebounded its opponents by an average of 36.1 to 29.0 in league play for a +7.1 margin that ranks second in the MAC behind Akron.
• For the season, the Cardinals are +3.9 on the boards on average.
Scaife, Berry on Career Treys List
• Senior guard Jauwan Scaife is now second on BSU's career 3-pointers list with 173, behind only Patrick Jackson (1998-2002), who holds the school record at 202.
• Junior guard Jesse Berry is quickly climbing the list, as well. He now owns 142 career 3-pointers to tie for sixth in school history. He is 12 treys away from cracking the top five.
Scaife Joins 1,000-Point Club
• With 17 points Jan. 16 at Akron, senior guard Jauwan Scaife surpassed the 1,000-point mark for his career.
• The local product from Muncie Central High School became the 26th member of Ball State's 1,000-point club. He now owns 1,106 points to rank 23rd in school history.
High Volume Rebounding
• Despite having his minutes limited for much of the season with a back problem, junior forward Matt Kamieniecki ranks second on the team at 5.9 rebounds per game.
• Kamieniecki averages 12.8 rebounds per 40 minutes for the second-best average on the team behind Majok Majok (13.2).
• By comparison, Siena's O.D. Anosike, who is tied for the national lead with 11.6 rebounds per game, is pulling down 12.3 boards per 40 minutes.
Berry's Explosive Performances
• Junior guard Jesse Berry scored 20 points Jan. 26 at Miami for his fifth 20-point game of the season and the seventh of his career.
• Berry, the MAC West Player of the Week twice this season and three times in his career, scored a career-best 28 points Nov. 28 against Cleveland State.
• He went for 22 in back-to-back games Dec. 15 at South Dakota and Dec. 18 at Purdue, and he scored 21 in the non-conference finale against Norfolk State.
Lineup Consistency
• Ball State has used only two starting lineups the entire season.
• Guards Jesse Berry and Jauwan Scaife, forwards Chris Bond and Majok Majok, and center Zach Fields have composed the starting lineup for 17 of the 21 games.
• Forward Matt Kamieniecki has taken Fields' place in the other four.
Bond Knows How to Finish
• Junior forward Chris Bond has connected on 52.4 percent of his career field goal attempts, which is on pace to rank seventh in school history.
• Bond is shooting 57.4 percent in MAC play this season (third-best in the league), including an 8-for-8 effort at Eastern Michigan, where he scored a career-high 18 points and hit the game-winning free throws.
Bond Stealing the Show
• Chris Bond ranks first in the Mid-American Conference in steals with an average of 2.2 per game and second in league games only at 2.6 per game.
• Bond matched his career-high with five steals, all in the first half, Jan. 26 at Miami.
• He has had seven games this year with at least four steals.
• Bond's 46 steals have already surpassed his previous career high of 29 steals last season.
Majok's Dunk a Finalist for Play of the Year
• Majok Majok's buzzer-beating dunk to defeat Norfolk State on Jan. 2 won its round of fan voting to become a finalist for the GEICO Play of the Year.
• The play beat out three others during its week of voting and will be one of eight finalists up for the award in another round of fan voting in March at facebook.com/BestofCollegeBasketball. All eight finalists will appear on the Best of College Basketball show April 6 on CBS.
Posley the Distributor
• Freshman guard Marcus Posley leads the Ball State guards with a 1.7-to-1 assist/turnover ratio.
• Posley has reached five assists in five games this year, including a career-best six helpers without a turnover in the season-opening win over Grambling State.
• In all five of those games, Posley has had one turnover or fewer.
Fields Gets Smaller to Play Bigger Role
• After four years in the program, fifth-year senior center Zach Fields made his first career start in the season opener against Grambling State and has gone on to start 17 of Ball State's 21 games.
• The 6-foot-10 Fields, who has lost 30 pounds in an effort to make a greater impact, is averaging 17.8 minutes per game this year after never logging more than 5.4 minutes per game previously.
• Fields made the most of the opportunity in the opener versus Grambling, logging career highs with 10 points and eight rebounds. His previous career bests were four points and four boards.
• He scored eight points in the MAC-opening win at Eastern Michigan and finished with nine Jan. 19 at Central Michigan.
Second-Half Shooting Improvement
• Ball State has been a better shooting team and a higher scoring team in the second half of games this season.
• The Cardinals are shooting 45.1 percent in the second half of games compared to 38.7 percent in the first half. BSU is scoring 33.9 points in the second half compared to 28.9 in the first.
• Ball State's interior players have been especially efficient over the final 20 minutes of games with Chris Bond shooting 58.2 percent, Majok 57.6 percent, and Zach Fields 56.7 percent in the second half of games.
Ramey Misses Time
• Freshman guard Michael Ramey has been out for the past 10 games as he recovers from an illness suffered in December.
• Ramey played in 10 of the Cardinals' first 11 games and scored in double figures twice -- 11 points versus Wofford and 10 against Holy Cross (Ind.).
Thrilling Finishes
• Ball State won both its last non-conference game and its first MAC contest on its final possession.
• The Cardinals topped Norfolk State, 62-61, Jan. 2 when Jesse Berry drove the length of the floor with 6.3 seconds left and found Majok Majok for a buzzer-beating dunk.
• Jan. 9 at Eastern Michigan, Berry's pass went to Chris Bond, who drew a foul at the rim and made both free throws with less than one second left to lift the Cardinals to a 60-58 win.