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She is also the co-author of THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES NOVELS (Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness & Beautiful Chaos). Beautiful Creatures has been published in 39 countries and translated in 28 languages, and it is currently in development as a major motion picture by Warner Brothers, with Academy Award nominated writer Richard LaGravenese adapting the screenplay and directing.
Kami grew up outside of Washington DC, wore lots of black, and spent hours writing poetry in her journals. She has always been fascinated by the paranormal and believes in lots of things "normal" people don't. She's very superstitious and would never sleep in a room with the number "13" on the door. When she is not writing, Kami can usually be found watching disaster movies, listening to Soundgarden, or drinking Diet Coke.
Kami has an MA in education, and taught in the Washington DC area until she moved to Los Angeles, where she was a teacher & Reading Specialist. In addition to teaching, Kami was a professional artist and led fantasy book groups for children and teens. She still lives in LA with her husband, son, daughter, and their dogs Spike and Oz (named after characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
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Margaret Stohl is the author of ICONS, the first book in the Icons Series, forthcoming from Little, Brown in Spring 2013 – as well as the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Indie-Bound and Internationally Bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures Novels (with Kami Garcia.)
Including BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (2009), BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS (2010), and BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (2011) – along with DREAM DARK, a Beautiful Creatures story available exclusively online (August, 2011) – the Beautiful Creatures Novels have been translated into 28 languages and 37 countries, and optioned for film by Warner Brothers. The fourth and final book in the Beautiful Creatures Novels will be available in the USA in October 2012.
Beautiful Creatures was an ALA William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist in 2010, as well as a SCIBA award finalist, a NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and a YALSA Teen Top Ten Pick. Beautiful Creatures was named the #1 Teen Pick from Amazon in 2009, and the #5 Editors Pick, Overall.
A longtime veteran of the videogame industry, Margaret's work includes – to name a few – SPIDERMAN, FANTASTIC FOUR, DUNE 2000, THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE LEGEND OF JACK SPARROW, DEFENDER, THE SOPRANOS, SLAVE ZERO, APOCALYPSE, ZORK NEMESIS, ZORK GRAND INQUISITOR, SPYCRAFT, COMMAND & CONQUER: RED ALERT RETALIATION, and COMMAND & CONQUER: TIBERIAN SUN.
After working with Activision (now Activision/Blizzard) and Westwood Studios (now EA), Margaret became a co-founder of 7 Studios with her husband, Lewis Peterson. She has previously been nominated for "Most Innovative Game Design" at the Game Developers Conference.
Margaret has participated in the Nashville Screenwriters Conference, the Tribu dei Lettori in Rome, and the BAU Institute/Otranto Residency, as well as the LA Times Festival of Books, Romantic Times, and the Texas Book Festival. She was the Director of Programming for the 2011 YA Capitol Bookfest in Charleston, SC, and a founding member of the Smart Chicks tour.
Margaret has been featured in Amherst Reads, and is a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. She has been a member of the WGA West and PEN West. Margaret's original screenplays have been optioned by Clasky-Csupo and Nickelodeon Movies for feature film.
A graduate of Amherst College, where she won the Knox Prize for English Literature, Margaret earned a MA in English from Stanford University, and completed classwork for a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Margaret was a teaching assistant in Romantic Poetry at Stanford, and in Film Studies at Yale. She attended the Creative Writing Program of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where she was mentored by the Scottish poet George MacBeth.
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Butte's Dave Silk fell in love with speed skating at a very young age.
He loved the competition and had fun being on the ice, even here at the Butte High Altitude Skating Center.
By the age of 13, Dave decided he wanted to make a career out of the sport, with hard work, he did just that.
"The novelty of doing this sport, and the hard work, and the grind, really sets in and a lot of time the goal is far off," said Silk. "You have to take it day by day and just kind of put the work in even though at times you don't feel like you're making much progress."
Silk did make a lot of progress and worked his way onto the U.S. world team.
Soon after, he was competing in the Olympics, starting with the 1984 games in Sarajevo and then again in '88 in Calgary.
"It by far was probably the hardest thing I had ever attempted to do," said Silk. "As far as training for world championships and to be at that level, it was very rigorous year round, it was extremely hard."
Silk trained every day in his sport, constantly working out in the gym, and going over the small details in skating to get better.
Silk's extreme work ethic won't stop with two trips to the Olympics.
This weekend, Dave will be inducted into the U.S. Speed Skating Hall of Fame.
"It's kind of a statement that my peers thought I was a good skater," Silk said. "To me, that's what it means. You're fellow speed skaters and peers think that you're pretty good and deserve to be in a special club. Now that I've been out of the sport for a number of years, it really does mean quite a bit to me."
Silk says he worked extremely hard to be a top speed skater in the world.
He hopes the wrestlers that work just as hard will have their shot at the Olympics in the future.
Dave stopped competing in speed skating.
He has since become an emergency room doctor at St. James Healthcare in Butte.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The joys of being a minion
Isn't he awesome!?! He's so green and fluffy I'm gonna die!
I've named him Oogle.
Oogle is a present from Elizabeth Schuch, who worked as a producer on a Google gig here in London last week.
So I presume it's for being a good minion. :)
As you probably know by now, I'm a big advocate of doing whatever jobs you need to do to keep the studio business going. An art career is a choice, and it's an unpredictable income. Sometimes a bit extra income helps.
I've done lots of things over the years - gallery assistant, artist web designer, partner in a giclee publisher biz, art photographer, teaching artists Photoshop, commercial magazine layouts... and now I'm a studio assistant at Immortal Longings - products adorned with Shakespeare illustrations by Elizabeth (Lizz, really).
While this might seem a distracting way to run an artist business, really I've have the "side jobs" as part time and that has always ensured the studio and painting can keep running full time. Many artists do other jobs to keep steady income, particularly teaching art, so instead I chose to do things I like instead of art teaching. (teaching art isn't making art so I see no difference between that and any other part-time work someone might prefer)
Thank you Lizz for letting me be a minion. It's really quite fun. (managing someone else's artwork is far easier than managing my own) And I get yummy dinners a lot of the time on top of my wages. And thanks to Google for giving her the fluffy toy so she could give it to meeeee.....yay!
Right, it's a minion day so I have some Shakespeare prints to pack now...
(oh and if you haven't seen it and don't know the references, Despicable Me is a must watch film)
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Like most weeks, I had to Google the Pooch of the Week's name. After doing so, I'm not completely confident where his name came from. Everette could be named after the African American blues, jazz and gospel saxophonist, Everette Harp, or the Detroit Lions defensive end, Everette Brown. Wherever Everette's name came from, one this is for sure, this sweet boy is one lovable lab and deserves his happily EVER after!
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Everette really kicked it off with another adoptable pooch named Asher. Asher, whose name means fortunate, blessed, and happy, is a 1-year-old Shepherd mix that is available for adoption through St. Louis Pet Rescue. Asher had a rough start in life. Poor Asher was hit by a car in north St. Louis. Luckily he was quickly rescued by a caring and compassionate person, and walked away with just some minor bruising.
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Albany -- An 11 year old Worth County boy is critically burned while playing with fire and gasoline. Christopher Green and a 13 year old neighbor were burning newspaper in a small pit in the backyard of a house on Treasure Circle in the Worthy Manor neighborhood.
The 13 year old boy was going to pour gasoline on the fire from a glass jar, when it burst into flames. Christopher Green was in flames when he jumped into a small swimming pool to put out the fire.
Christopher's Uncle, Terry Morefield, said "He was burnt 60 to 65 percent of his body. From his ears all the way down to his feet."
The 13 year old neighbor was not injured. Christopher Green was airlifted to the Augusta Burn Center where he underwent skin grafts on his ears, face, and chest.
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Can't Spell "Scum" Without UM-2011 Edition
A Ponzi scheme that bilked people out of close to $1 billion sent Nevin Shapiro to prison for 20 years. He wanted to cut a deal; prosecutors wanted him to spill about ALL of his shady dealings. So now he's talking to the NCAA about how he provided improper benefits to UM players since 2001. He's naming names, and the NCAA is very interested in what he's got to say. Incidentally, this year also marks the 20th anniversary of UM's gargantuan Pell Grant scandal that caused SI to call for the school to abandon it's football program. Happy anniversary Miami! Edit: Yahoo! Sports broke out the rubber gloves and went full-body-cavity on this scandal. The story was frontpaged, but is added here to keep continuity.


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Citigroup Loses Millions Due to Fraud in Mexico
If you're a major financial services company like Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), not all press is good press. Citigroup reported on Friday that it is adjusting downward its fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 earnings by about $235 million (or $360 million before taxes) after discovering fraud at one of its subsidiaries in Mexico. The adjustment amounts to a 1.4 percent reduction in full-year earnings to $13.7 billion. The loss was charged to Citi's fourth-quarter Transaction Services operating expense.
The fraud was discovered at at a company called Oceanografia S.A. de C.V. (OSA), a Mexican oil services company that is a primary supplier to Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, the Mexican state-owned oil company. Through Banco Nacional de Mexico, or Banamex, Citigroup had extended about $585 million in short-term credit to OSA in order to finance accounts receivable from Pemex. This means that Citigroup lent OSA money, and OSA used its accounts receivable from Pemex as collateral. Banamex, acting as a sort of intermediary, also had about $33 million in loans directly outstanding to OSA, or tied up in standby letters of credit issued on behalf of OSA.
Everything appeared to be in order until February 11, when Citigroup learned that OSA had been barred from new acquiring new business with the government — which means no new business with Pemex. The specific reason for the suspension is unclear, but it understandably raised some red flags at Citigroup. Together with Pemex, a review of OSA's financials were conducted, with Citigroup checking its credit exposure to the company and Pemex investigating accounts receivable.


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So he's going to be trade bait from Washington..
I know:
1. He only finished his first MLB season last year: .269/.308/.392; 10 HR, 65 RBI, 17 SB
2. 5 years away from free agency, so nice for the wallet
3. Washington wants starting pitching...cause the FA class is pretty much all gone thanks in part to the Dodgers..
I don't know:
1. His defense v. Uribe
2. How great of SP Washington would want...
Does anyone know more?
Would Perhaps some lower-end SP from the Dodgers (Ely, Monk, or something?) + prospect (or 2) been able to get this guy?
He seems like a better option for the Dodgers compared to the 3/21 contract given to Uribe.. but I'm not really that well versed on this guy or situation. Thoughts?


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A movie relationship vs real life
MANY persons would like to believe that the types of relationships we see in the movies are possible in real life. They can be, if both persons are willing to go to the lengths that most directors will to stage scenes in movies. Here are just a few differences between movie relationships and actual relationships.
1. In the movies the relationships tend to last maximum three hours, while a real relationship can last anywhere between three minutes and 70 years. Let us not forget the amount of time it takes to fall in love with the person.
2. When we fall in love with someone, this person may not necessarily be our ideal physical match. The reality of it is that we have no clue, while in the movies the love interest is the ideal guy for the role and complements the ideal girl physically. It is rare that you will see an odd couple in the movies, but they are a dime a dozen in life.
3. Let's face facts. You might never meet the love of your life in a café or at a dinner party or some other social event in France or some other romantic country by just locking eyes. This happens in the movies quite often and, though this may happen in real life, it is not something that the average person will experience.
4. So you've met and you've spoken and he asks you out on a date. You say yes and you two have a wonderful candlelight dinner and your lust for him deepens. Sorry, but in real life most first dates are awkward and come equipped with unpleasant small talk, not profound conversations on politics and social issues.
5. When you are in a relationship, you generally don't think that the first persons you are going to take this guy to see are your girlfriends, especially not the hot ones who will attempt to steal your new man. More than likely you will take him home to meet your pet. The movies would have you believe that your friends will do you no wrong. Don't trust the movies on this.
6. It is unrealistic to think that your parents will like your new man in the first five minutes of meeting him. It takes time for persons to adjust to these types of situations where someone new is being added to their lives.
7. Only movie parents don't mind that you will have a new boyfriend every time you visit. In fact this trait of being non-judgemental of your child's choice and volume of partners exists solely in the movies. Though there may be parents who just don't judge their child's choices, parents want the best for their children and would honestly prefer if that child were single and celibate rather than running around town with every new crush.
8. In the real world sweet nothings will only get you so far. However, in the movies all it takes is a glance and a seductive touch and then the sex scene starts.
9. Have you ever noticed that when there is a problem in a relationship in the movies it becomes a battle of the sexes that divides the cast into two teams and causes most if not all persons in relationships to do some sort of evaluation of their situation? Well, when was the last time you reviewed your relationship because a friend of a friend of your cousin was having relationship problems?
10. Not all relationships are going to last forever. Not everyone will have a happy ending. Movie characters usually get married or patch up the potholes in the relationship, but in real life, when the going gets tough, someone has to get going as well.
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State police arrested a Monroe woman who tried to stab her boyfriend in the face with a pencil during an argument in Oxford, police said.
Jane Fancy Belanger, 35, of 19 Pastors Walk Drive, was in an argument with her boyfriend in a car when she pulled out a wooden pencil and stabbed him near his eye, just missing it. The man had a minor facial cut and was treated by EMTs but did not require hospitalization after the Wednesday morning incident on Christian Road in Oxford, police stated in a news release.
Belanger was charged with second-degree assault, second-degree breach of peace, second-degree threatening and second-degree reckless endangerment. She was released on a $10,000 bond and arraigned at Derby Superior Court on Thursday. The case is now awaiting disposition at the courthouse, according to state Judicial Branch records.


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A dentist from Carthage, Missouri continues his tradition of offering free dental exams on Good Friday.
Doctor William Herrington opened his doors at 8 a.m.
He wanted to help those without dental insurance.
About 49 patients had already visited by noon today.
Dr. Herrington says he wants to walk his faith.
"Acts 1-8, we're commanded to start in our own city first, before we go out, and even though I've done mission work in other foreign countries, it's important to also do mission work right here in Carthage," says Dr. Herrington.


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Jaws: I Wouldn't Take Manziel In First Three Rounds
"Manziel may fall. I'm not crazy about him, to be honest with you," Ron Jaworski said. "I've only looked at five games. I wouldn't take him in the first three rounds. That's my opinion. It's incomplete right now. But he has not done a whole lot to me."Philadelphia Magazine


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Vitesse Arnhem striker Wilfried Bony has penned a contract extension to keep him at the club until 2015.
The 23-year-old Ivory Coast international was previously contracted until 2014 but has committed his future to the Eredivisie side for a further 12 months.
Bony, who joined Vitesse from Sparta Prague last winter, has scored nine goals in 17 games for the Dutch club this season.
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Phyllis J. Fisher, 82 of Fort Wayne, passed away April 5, 2012, at Citrus Memorial Hospital in Inverness, Florida.
Phyllis was born April 1, 1930, in Van Wert County, Ohio, to the late Donald and Edith (Johnson) Morrison.
She married James C. Fisher on February 25, 1951; he survives.
Phyllis attended Decatur Church of the Nazarene and was a homemaker.
James 'Paul' Henrey, 88, of rural Wren, Ohio, went to the arms of his Savior in his home on April 9, 2012, at 1 p.m..
He was born on February 25, 1924, to James Edward and Della Mae (Anderson) Henrey in Benton Township, Paulding County.
He graduated from Tully Convoy High School in 1942 where he received a letter for playing baseball.
On April 9, 1944, he married Esther Jane Abbott.
Delores E. Rickord, 86, of Fort Wayne, passed away Sunday, April 8, 2012, at University Park Nursing Center, in Fort Wayne.
Born in the Belgian Congo, in Africa, Delores worked in the plastics industry for 12 years before retiring in 1988. She was a member of Super Sixties at Blackhawk Baptist Church and the Fifty Plus group at First Assembly of God. She enjoyed cooking and spending time with her family.


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UFC 129 results: Jason MacDonald defeats Ryan Jensen via submission (triangle choke) 1:37 at of round 1. This is a middleweight fight (185lbs) and will take place on the under card. It's not of huge importance and MacDonald's Canadian nationality in part is helping him to get a spot on the card. Still, it's a competitive affair and worth taking a deeper look into for clarity about the larger card. MacDonald is a fantastic athlete, but doesn't possess brute strength and isn't necessarily the best endurance athlete. I wouldn't go as far as saying his cardio is lacking, but he's taken sufficient damage in his fights enough to say whatever reserves he does have are often depleted less by distance and more by absorbing punishment. Notwithstanding, he possesses a dynamic guard and has notable submission wins over Chris Leben and Ed Herman. Both MacDonald and Jensen have a common loss in Wilson Gouveia. My issue about MacDonald is that his best place to win the fight will be on top of Jensen, but that's going to be hard to achieve positionally. Jensen isn't the best wrestler in MMA, but he's capable particularly on the defensive end of the equation. He's also likely stronger than MacDonald and more savage in his aggression. That spells trouble for MacDonald, especially early. Yet, Jensen isn't so technically sound that he's free from error on opponents he can physically and positionally control. Jensen's gas tank is somewhat of an issue as he starts strong and fades. From there he becomes defensively lax. If MacDonald can weather a storm he should be able to take advantage of a fatigued Jensen in the second or third round. Jensen is no Yushin Okami or Rich Franklin. He's not even a Nate Quarry, but I'm not sure he has to be to get the stoppage. The longer the fight goes the more that favors MacDonald.
While he didn't go out on his own terms, at least he went out on his shield. UFC middleweight Jason MacDonald has decided to call it quits.
Would a win for Alan Belcher at UFN 25 put him in title contention?
Ryan Jensen released by UFC following loss to Jason MacDonald on April 30
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Hey, that's alright:) I don't have any choice about the singing in the shower thing...so if does become a genre, I'll go straight to the top!!!;-D Sure I'd like to read what you've written, I like looking at the words other people put together...it's interesting to see what you can pull from them, even something as simple as a comma or an extra space can change the entire meaning of a phrase...and making sense, well that's all relative, isn't it? I suffer from accidental rhyming myself...I do have a trick for that though...when the rhymes are what are coming,but don't make sense... if you lay them down on paper, and leave a blank line in between, you can go back and connect them so that they do make sense. Back to exams! ~Jamie


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LAS VEGAS -- A man charged with three felony counts of sexual assault is suspected in three other cases while he was out on bail. The I-Team has learned his case has sat in the criminal courts unresolved for years.
This story is about a man who has fallen through every crack in the very system designed to protect people and the innocent little girl who is forever changed because of it.
A small Montana town feels about as far away from Las Vegas as you can get. Kody, 18, whose last name is not being revealed to protect her privacy, calls it a safe distance from where, she says, a predator changed her forever.
"I just wish somebody would care," Kody said.
She has waited eight years for somebody to punish the man she says sexually assaulted her. That man is Paul Santiago, a registered sex offender, was also a licensed nurse. In 2004, Santiago worked at Montevista Hospital, the psychiatric facility where Kody was placed as a foster child.
"It's just like people have awesome stories to tell about their childhood and when I think of mine that's the only thing I think of," she said.
Christmas day, the happiest day of the year for many kids, is when 10-year-old Kody allegedly lost her innocence. Santiago is accused of tricking her into oral sex while her eyes were covered with gauze. According to court records, the 53-year-old Santiago called it the chocolate game.
"I don't want to see that guy. Last time I went to court in Vegas, like when he was there, he just sat there and smiled at me and it was really creepy." Kody said.
"What's happened since then, nothing, nothing," Kody's attorney Steven Day said.
He represents Kody in her civil lawsuit against Montevista Hospital, but his focus these days is on the criminal courts. Although prosecutors formally charged Santiago with three felony counts in 2007, the case remains open.
"My frustration has always been why in the hell isn't this case getting tried? It's frustrating for me, it's frustrating for my client that we can't get any resolution anywhere," Day said.
According to court records, Santiago's trial has been postponed nine times. The case seemed close to an end in August of 2011 with a deal that allowed for a no contest plea in exchange for probation. However, the sentencing judge, now retired Judge Donald Mosley, rejected the agreement. Noting there was enough evidence to quote "convict this fellow over and over."
Santiago maintains his innocence and dubs his accuser as a liar with a history of false allegations. An argument that helped to keep him out of jail and free on bail for most of the last five years. But in September, Santiago again found himself behind bars accused while working at a medical facility of sexually assaulting three new victims.
"First time, second time, three times, how many times until it sinks in? That's what I just don't get," Kody said.
From her safe distance, Kody looks to the beauty of her surroundings, to color her ugly past.
"There are days when I just cry because I hate my life and I wish it was different," she said.
A trial date for Kody's case is set for February of next year. Until then, Santiago is being held without bail. Montevista Hospital is now under new ownership.
Tonight at 11, a look at the other systems that are supposed to keep a convicted sex offenders from having access to vulnerable people but don't work.


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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Schenectady Police say that a 32-year-old man and his three children were killed after a fire broke out in a two-story home on Hulett Street early Thursday morning.
Five people, including the four pronounced dead, were transported to Ellis Hospital after the fire broke out around 4 a.m. at 438 Hulett Street, Schenectady Fire Chief Michael DellaRocco said.
DellaRocco says three children were killed in the blaze; 11-month-old Donovan Duell, 2-year-old Michael Terry and 3-year-old Layah Terry. Their father, 32-year-old David Terry, was also killed. A fourth child, 5-year-old Safyre Terry, was air lifted to a burn center in Westchester and is listed in critical condition.
Schenectady Police say after "looking for" the mother of the children, Jennica Duell, throughout the morning she appeared at the police station to talk with law enforcement, as the cause of the fire is investigated.
The male victim's sister, Elizabeth Dolder, spoke with NEWS CENTER saying "we need prayers for Safyre." A make-shift memorial has been set up in front of the home for the four victims.
DellaRocco said the fire was fully involved when firefighters arrived at the scene around 4 a.m. Firefighters rushed into the second story of the home to remove the five victims before successfully putting out the fire at around 6 a.m., at which point the home was deemed at total loss, the roof having already collapsed.
A few people on the second floor were able to escape without injury through the back door and are being spoken to by fire officials to assess what may have happened.
The family that lives on the first floor of the home woke up to the sound of smoke detectors and were all able to escape the home uninjured.
"Everything inside meant something to me," said Melissa Krom, one of those able to escape the buring home.
what we kept saying as soon as everyone went down – 'where is everyone,
where are the kids?'" said Krom.
Melissa, along with other tenants in the downstairs apartments salvaged what they could this afternoon.
Fire investigators are still looking into how the fire started, questioning neighbors and the mother of the three children that died. The landlord says they were in the process of evicting the family that lived upstairs because they had been behind on rent.
Several residences on the street had been evacuated and power shut down until the fire had been extinguished.
The Hulett Street fire is the third to break out in Schenectady overnight. Two others were reported on Nott and Swan Streets. Though they do not appear to be related, fire crews said it had been a tough night for city firefighters.
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California's lead in setting stricter mileage standards for automobiles helped President Obama's administration formulate the new 35.5 mpg requirement for 2016. Since California's voice is so strong in the debate, we can see what might possibly be coming to the whole country in the later half of the next decade by looking at what California thinks will happen after 2016. Reuters did just that, and found that the California Air Resources Board chair Mary Nichols thinks that "a much more stringent standard" will be announced for 2017 and beyond.
That everyone appears to be happy with the 2016 requirement doesn't mean the struggles between CARB and the automakers have ended. Nichols told the news service that the compromise "doesn't signal any kind of flagging interest on the part of California in being part of a transformation of the auto fleet to something much more efficient than what it is today." A new EPA waiver request will need to be applied for, Reuters believes, but at least there appears to be a new feeling of working together. For now.
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Sony: The perfect Nexus candidate
Sony may have (assumingly) already ruled themselves out to make the next Nexus, but that won't stop us from imagining the potential an Xperia Nexus would bring.
I know that there have already been millions of concept mock-ups and rumours already out there (including mine), but I just can't put to rest how a Sony Nexus would make so much sense.
First you have the iconic Sony design, in my opinion, they are the only one who could deliver distinctive, attractive and stylish designs out of all the current Android OEMs. Sure, lately their designs have been a hit-or-miss, but a stock Sony device would merge great looking hardware with clean and untouched software.
You then have the little things that makes 'Sony' in the first place, top-of-the line Exmor R/Cybershot cameras, Walkman grade audio, and Bravia engine displays, to you they may sound just like marketing buzzwords, but stuff like this makes the difference between something that is average and premium.
Sony also 'gets' Android. This is something that isn't so obvious to many but is a good example to show how they are positioned as an OEM. After each Nexus, Sony was the first OEM to implement NFC and use on-screen buttons. Their skin-overlay even follows Android 'Holo' guidelines, but most importantly, they are a big contributor to the OHA as well as backing AOSP.
However, as everybody else, they aren't perfect. Battery life isn't their strong point, they are usually late to market and they have a terrible update track record. This is why a Google collaboration could give them the push that they need.
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Many of us never think about cleaning the inside of our dishwashers. Home dishwashers sanitize our dishes with average water temperatures a scalding 158 degrees. So why doesn't that sanitize itself?
Our home improvement expert, Dailyn Matthews gives us the tips you need to help your dishwasher stay clean and sanitary.
In order for your dishwasher to do a great job, you need to clean the inside. A dirty dishwasher won't get your dishes as clean as they could be, and can shorten the life of your appliance.
First, inspect the bottom reservoir. There may be food particles in the trap. You'll want to clean this up.
Matthews says, "On my model I can take mine apart and wash it in the sink. But if you're worried you won't remember how to reassemble it; take a picture first."
Next check the gasket seal. Now this is where you may find some mildew. Use hot soapy water to clean it. If the mildew remains use hydrogen peroxide to kill it. Rubbing in some petroleum jelly will protect the seal and keep it soft and pliable.
To make your interior sparkling clean, place one cup of vinegar in the top rack and run the dishwasher empty for a full cycle. This will help get rid of soap scum and lime build-up that can prevent your dishwasher from running at peak efficiency.
Do that every couple of months, and you'll have spotless dishes, and a clean, well-running dishwasher.
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A man in his 80s was found dead inside his Petworth rowhouse Wednesday after fire engulfed the first floor.
Neighbors say smoke began billowing from the home shortly after the man said he was going inside to cook a turkey.
Fire officials say they can't say for certain at this point what sparked the blaze. Was it the cooking? It's unclear.
What we do know is firefighters found the man's body under some furniture on the first floor after a secondary search of the home.
The callers to 911 just after 11 a.m. said flames were coming from the first floor of a home in the 300 block of Webster Street.
Leroy Copeland, who lives a few doors down, says after noticing the flames, he saw neighbors trying to get inside the front door.
"They couldn't get in," said Copeland. "They had fire extinguishers, so I called the fire department."
After knocking down the flames, fire officials say the rescue squad had a difficult time inside the home.
"Units responding encountered quite a bit of contents from the home that were pretty much hoard conditions, packrat conditions and that was a challenge for them to get inside and extinguish the fire with those conditions," said Deputy Fire Chief Edward Pearson.
Public records show the owner of the house is 88 years old - a man well known in Webster Street.
"I'd see him out here, he used to pick up cans and stuff around the neighborhood," said Copeland.
Waddell Jackson, who lives across the street, said he would sometimes sit and talk with the man.
"He retired from the government," said Jackson. "He went through the Army Map Service, I think, but he used to go out every day and pick up aluminum cans."
It was a task that kept him busy while cleaning up the neighborhood.
"He used to get a lot of bread and stuff and give it to the neighbors," Jackson said. "He was a kind-hearted man."
By quickly knocking down the blaze, it appears firefighters were able to contain the flames within the framework of the rowhouse.
No one else was injured.
Although neighbors identified the man, FOX 5 is withholding his name until the next of kin have been notified.
We know he lived alone and his wife passed away about 10 years ago.
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Redistricting, the once-a-decade process whereby incumbent politicians carve out their own legislative districts to guarantee themselves safe seats, is just about completed in all 50 states. Much ink has been printed about which side will win more seats, Democrats or Republicans. But the real score is: Incumbents 100, Voters 0.
That's because this time around the "incumbent protection" process was even more crass than usual. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that incumbents so rigged their districts that, out of 435 House districts, only 11 races are true "toss-ups" that either side could win. Congressional analysts generally have narrowed the field of play to 30 to 40 races. The rest of the races are essentially done deals.
Voters don't even need to show up to the polls anymore. And guess what? A lot of voters won't bother, having more important things to do with their time than participate in elections where their vote has been made irrelevant.
There probably won't be a single close general election in such major states as Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Texas, New Jersey or New York. Not even Florida — symbol of the nation's 50-50 political split since the 2000 campaign — has a race where the Republican and Democratic candidates are given equal chances of winning. California has only one race out of 53 considered a toss up.
One consequence of the small number of competitive races is that those races will determine which political party wins control of the U.S. House. Consequently, party leaders will flood the close races with tons of money while ignoring those races already locked up. Says Burdett Loomis, a political scientist at the University of Kentucky, "A lot of money will flow to a relative handful of seats. In those seats, it's nuclear war. Twenty miles away, there's nothing."
Who gets ripped off by this process? Why, the voters, of course. As a result of this "incumbent protection" process, most voters are locked down into noncompetitive one-party districts where their only real choice at election time is to ratify the incumbent or heir apparent of the party controlling that district. Voters no longer pick their representatives — our representatives now pick us. And they do it with increasingly powerful computers, mapping software, and databases that allow them to slice and dice the electorate to create safe seats for themselves.
Even more than campaign finance inequities, this incumbent-protection process is responsible for creating uninspiring noncompetitive elections where voters have little choice. If you are a Democrat in a solidly Republican district, or a Republican in a solidly Democratic district, or a supporter of a minor party, you don't have a chance of electing your candidate of choice, no matter how much money your candidate spends. We like to think of ours as a two party system, when in fact for most voters it's a ONE party system — the party that dominates their district. Demography is destiny, it turns out.
What can be done? Here are a couple of recommendations to consider:
1) Take the redistricting process out of the hands of the incumbents and their parties, and give it to independent nonpartisan commissions that use non-political criteria for line-drawing. That's how other nations do it (and a few of our states as well), and after the Florida debacle it's time to admit that we can learn a thing or two from other democracies.
2) Convert the U.S.-style "winner take all" voting system to a proportional representation system. Proportional voting systems use multi-seat districts that don't require redistricting. Moreover, many political scientists say that proportional systems give voters more viable choices, better representation, more informative campaigns, and produce policy that is closer to the "will of the majority." In 1995 the Chicago Tribune editorialized about Illinois' previous use of such an alternative system that "Many partisans and political independents acknowledge that it produced some of the best and brightest in Illinois politics."
The redistricting process is the Achilles heel of our winner-take-all system. It allows incumbents and party leaders to rig most races and to ignore most voters. Following on the heels of the Florida debacle, this cannot help but to further undermine confidence in our already shaky political system.
Steven Hill is the western regional director of the Center for Voting and Democracy and author of "Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics" (www.FixingElections.com). Rob Richie is the Center's executive director.


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Currently watching the Djokovic-Nadal finals. And was wondering if anyone else wants to discuss it.
Nadal leads the series 21-15 overall, but Djokovic leads 11-6 on hard courts.
Nadal leads Djokovic 4-1 in 2013.
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Currently 1 set each 6-2, 3-6.
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Butter Broasted Carrots
They aren't exactly braised. They aren't exactly roasted. They're somewhere in between…they're broasted. And they are exactly how I'm cooking up six pounds of carrots this weekend. I know that sounds like a whole hell of a lot but between … Continue reading
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Flashback Friday – Peeps Show
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You've Been Warned
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3.5/5 rDev -3.8%
01-29-2012 06:46:41 | More by ygtbsm94
4.1/5 rDev +12.6%
Bottled jul 05. Nice and very well lasting white head and beautifull golden beer with some big particles on bottom of glass and lots of haze in the beer. Nose is fresh being very hoppy with fresh citrussy carracter. Next to that good and fresh malty bdoy, some alcohol and litle yestesters giving it a very fresh nose. Taste is fine too, dry and matled bitter. Bitterness high for a belgium beer but fitting to the dry and straw like malted brew. yes this is something worth seeking out and a fine brew. High carbonisation with it make it a good mouthfeel. Nice dryhopping though not as delicate as some US or English brews but still fine achiefment. Good and quiet easy drinkable.
10-23-2005 19:57:16 | More by paterlodie
United Kingdom (England)
4.13/5 rDev +13.5%
Got this bottle from the Beer Circus, East Croydon, London. Vintage 2003, the BOTTELDATUM is April 05... suppose it has expired for five months?? On the beer label it specifies "blond extra" and "dryhopping", giving me a rough idea about what this beer might taste like...
A: in a tulip-shaped big wine glass, it pours a hazy, dark yellowish honey colour, with a foamy beer head quickly settling down, leaving fine and uneven lacing.
S: extremely perfumy (with a touch of muscat!!) and malty, with sweet green-bean paste, figs, profoundly sweetish citric hop aroma and a quite strong alcoholic smell at the back--very nice, yet a bit too powerful for me.
T: lots of lightly sweet citric-hop flavour pours in at first, quite different from much more malty Belgian pale ales; immediately followed by a smooth palate of semi-sweet malts, lightly yeasty and spicy flavour and a mixed fruity (peach and mildly grapefruit) body at the back; increasingly dry and slightly peppery+zesty bitter in the reasonably lingering finish.
M&D: the mouthfeel is satisfying, from initially smooth to intensifying, dryish palate in the end, while the texture is slightly flat, alas. This ale smells very Belgian but ends up tasting like a hybrid of American pale ale and Belgian pale ale. Extremely drinkable and thirst-quenching for a strong beer!
09-01-2005 01:14:34 | More by wl0307
2.85/5 rDev -21.7%
Review from notes taken while I enjoyed this beer on tap at The Bavarian Lodge in Lisle, IL with (among others) my two brothers-in-law Steven and Mat August 21st, 2010. Mat lives within minutes of this place and we enjoy visiting there when I am in town. Poured into a Bavarian Lodge logo'd tulip glass.
A Cloudy blonde body under a meringue white head with fair lacing. 4.0
S Unfortunately, this beer reminded me of the smell of a urinal disinfectant "cake." I don't know if it was the tart hops combined with the heat of alcohol or what but I got a vivid mental image of that urinal cake when I smelled it. It was not overwhelming but I am not impressed with the smell of this beer. 2.0
T I know, I know, you are thinking "Why did you drink something that smelled like a urinal disinfectant "cake?" The reason is that I have experienced many times that smells can be (on rare occasions) deceiving. The taste is of a slightly bitter Belgian IPA, rather basic and I kind of had to "hold my nose" by not inhaling during sips to avoid smelling it. I will rate on taste alone. 3.0
M Fair with a mostly thin feel with a bit of bitter roughness. 3.0
D I was glad to have tried this beer but I am not sure about seeking it out again. 3.0
08-30-2010 02:27:02 | More by adamette
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Surya's Satya Tiwari named a Top 25 Entrepreneur
January 15, 2013-- Home Accents Today,
Surya's Satya Tiwari
The annual event honored Atlanta's top entrepreneurs for achievement in innovative business development within their respective industries and local community.
This is the second year Tiwari has been included on the list. His ranking has risen from 17th to sixth for his vision and the continuing growth of the Surya brand. Since he took over leadership of the company in 2004, Surya has experienced double-digit growth annually, and grew revenues from $35 million to $55 million in the last year.
"I'm incredibly honored to be recognized by the Business Leader organization as a part of their list of 2012's Top 25 Entrepreneurs," Tiwari said. "I find myself in great company with the other Atlanta area business leaders included. This award inspires me to continue moving the Surya brand forward - exploring innovative new solutions to meet our customers' needs."
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So I went to the WPA stats for the team deciding to see if Pronk has at least been comparable to some of his teammates when it comes to helping us win ballgames. I went back over the last 44 games (with an atbat) for each positional player on our club, and using a minimum WPA of 0.085 as having a significant impact on the game (number seemed like a good choice) see how many games each player had over this number. The results are pretty crazy. (And yes, I realize stats are just stats.)
Martinez 11
Grady 10
Blake 10
Barfield 10
Peralta 8
Nixon 7
Michaels 7
Shoppach 7 (in 22 games)
Garko 6
Dellucci 5
Marte 4 (in 15 games)
Gutz 2 (in 17 games)
Choo 1 (in 5 games)
Rouse 0
Francisco 0 (in 2 games)
Big Pronk with only 3 such games in his last 44. I hate to keep piling on the guy, but this isn't just a mirage anymore. And kudos to J-Barf too...the guy may have a terrible OBP but he certainly is clutch.
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Civil rights leaders across the country are reacting with anguish to the U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning the Voting Rights Act. It's an understandable response given the significance of this landmark legislation. But the ruling ultimately was less a nullification of the law as it was an indictment of Congress.
Washington lawmakers have had ample opportunity to upgrade the infrastructure in the 48-year-old law protecting individual voting rights. But it has declined to do so, leaving the Supreme Court little choice but to rule that the blocks on which the law was based are too old to pass constitutional muster anymore.
The problem is a formula contained in Section 4 that's used to determine which states must receive preapproval from federal officials before any changes can be made in election procedures. The requirement currently applies to nine states, most of them in the South, as well as certain cities, counties and jurisdictions in six other states, including California.
In its 5-4 decision, the majority held that the formula, which hadn't been updated since 1975, is outdated and thus unconstitutional.
"Our country has changed, and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority.
Opponents presented compelling arguments about how the Voting Rights Act, as written, puts states that still require preclearance at an unfair and seemingly endless financial disadvantage despite gains some have made in minority registration and the elimination of discriminatory barriers over the years. Meanwhile critics note how the formula makes it difficult to apply the act in areas that do not now require preclearance but where there's evidence of a new generation of potentially discriminatory practices through such tactics as the elimination of district elections, the closing or moving of polls due to budget cuts and voter identification requirements.


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The Jaycees are a community service organization who have been devoting their time to build a haunted house in Wyandotte like they do every year. Their progress was frightening until building their dream haunted house turned into a real life nightmare. Someone broke in and stole all their tools.
It's a personal loss for the group since they use their personal tools, a value of $9,000 gone. Most of the members have full-time jobs working by day and building by night.
Wyandotte Police say the break-in was likely not random. The thief knew the tools would be left overnight.
Tuesday night, the thief hit both the haunted house and the warehouse on the property, stealing wiring, power tools and building supplies.
Now the Jaycees are more devoted than ever to put on a phenomenal grand opening. They will have to work double time, but hard work doesn't scare them.
The Jaycees say this theft won't stop their show. They still plan to open on October 4. Tickets are $12. For more information, visit www.WayndotteJaycees.org.
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Greg Moore: There is much to like in the new state budget
Unlike the way things work in Washington, where if you want to spend more you simply borrow money from future generations, in Concord our legislators are required to pass a balanced budget. That means that legislators can't simply put off tough decisions; they need to look into the eyes of individuals, agency heads and special interests who want more money and say, "no," the same way a parent has to tell a child that the family can't afford to go to Disney World this year.
Equally important for the state's long-term fiscal health is the fact that this budget does not include the expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare. While advocates for bringing Obamacare to New Hampshire have talked about all the "free money" from the federal government — as if state taxpayers somehow are not also federal taxpayers — adding tens of thousands of new individuals onto government health care would invite many problems. Among those problems are the long-term implications to our state's financial health, the increase to private insurance that would ensue, and the dumping of many people from high-quality private insurance to substandard Medicaid, all of which make expansion a bad deal for the Granite State. Removing Obamacare Medicaid expansion from this budget was a critical victory for taxpayers and citizens across the state.
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A nonprofit is kicking off its grand opening with a week of wellness to help you keep up with those New Year's resolutions.
Common Ground Healing Arts, located in the Jefferson School City Center, is offering free yoga classes and discounts on wellness packages through the end of the week. The rates for yoga, acupuncture, and massages vary depending on your income level.
"Things like yoga, massage, acupuncture - these are all great stress reduction techniques and everyone in the life experiences stress regardless of what neighborhood, their economic level, so all these techniques have proven effective for helping general stress," said Kate Zuckerman, executive director of Common Ground Healing Arts.
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The U.S. Senate voted Monday to discard a proposal that would have eliminated the Pentagon's Starbase program for fifth-graders, including a Fort Wayne academy.
The measure was among more than 100 amendments offered to a resolution for extending funds for the federal government through Sept. 30. Current funding expires March 27.
The Senate voted to end debate and whittle the list of amendments to nine – excluding the Starbase defunding proposal in the process – at the recommendation of the sponsors of the legislation, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
Starbase provides laboratory lessons and projects in science, technology, engineering and math to elementary-school students at nearly 80 military bases. The only lab in the Hoosier State is Starbase Indiana at the Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing. The local site opened in February 2012 and has been attended by more than 800 fifth-graders.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., filed the amendment to end funding for Starbase; he said it is slated to receive $5 million in the remaining six months of fiscal 2013. In a floor speech Monday, McCain called Starbase this nice-to-have but not-necessary-to-have program.
He complained that the Department of Defense has increased spending for non-essential programs that are clearly not a national security priority at the same time that automatic budget reductions known as sequestration are diminishing the military's combat readiness.
It's nice that fifth-graders are able to hear from members of the military. Meanwhile, we can't deploy an aircraft carrier, McCain said in remarks broadcast by C-SPAN. With a war going on, a budget crisis at our doorstep, this is how we elect to spend our taxpayers' defense money.
His amendment also would have cut funding for the Civil Air Patrol Corp., a volunteer civilian auxiliary of the Air Force. McCain at one point Monday referred to $6 billion worth of non-essential military programs, including alternative energy research, as junk and pork.
Ten Republicans joined 53 Democrats and independents – including Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind. – in voting to end debate on the appropriations resolution in a motion that required 60 votes to pass. Thirty-five Republicans, including Indiana Sen. Dan Coats, a member of the Appropriations Committee, opposed the move.
Starbase Indiana has an annual budget of $300,000, according to director Scott Liebhauser, one of four full-time employees at the academy. The Pentagon had expected to spend $21.3 million nationwide on Starbase in fiscal 2013, compared with $27.4 million in fiscal 2011 and $24.3 million in fiscal 2012, according to a budget request.


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Updated Jun 30, 2013 - 11:16 pm
Dallas restaurant chain offers Dwight Howard free chicken fingers for life
Originally published: Jun 30, 2013 - 3:03 pm
While the seven-time All-Star will more than likely be offered a max contract in the coming days or weeks, one local establishment in Dallas is doing everything it can to strengthen Mark Cuban and Co.'s sales pitch.
Taking a page out of the Lakers' playbook, Raising Cane's, which has 20 locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, has recently put up billboards trying to lure Howard to sign with Mavericks.
If he does, the fast food chain promised to give the 27-year-old free chicken fingers for life.
The story got big enough in Big D, that local sports reporter Brad Townsend of the Dallas-Morning News broke down the potential offer.
Howard is 27. The average American male life expectancy is 76. That would be 49 years - 2,548 weeks - of free grub for Howard.
Figure the least he would order in one sitting would be the Caniac 6-finger combo, which is $10.80 including tax. Surely, though, an athlete of Howard's size would have no problem downing the 25-piece Tailgate box, which goes for $29.75 including tax.
If Howard ate one Caniac a week for 49 years, it would cost Cane's a reasonable $27,518.40. One Tailgate order per week would extrapolate to $75,803.
But if Howard really took advantage and hit the drive-through every day, he'd amass $192,628 worth of Caniacs, $530,621 worth of Tailgates.
If the latter occurred, Cane's would be lending the Mavericks far more than a hand in landing Howard - 445,900 chicken fingers, actually.
Not word yet on whether the chicken fingers would count against the Mavericks' cap space.


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Because it's the summer and I don't have shit else to do, I figured I'd get an early start at looking into next year's Rebel baseball squad. With the MLB draft over and several key players having already made their decisions on where they'll spend their spring playing ball, we've begun to get a more concrete idea of what this team will look like in 2013. We know our pitching will be solid, but several key departures have left big question marks in our lineup. My projected starting nine and analysis after the jump.
Though it's not definitive yet, these projections assume that Alex Yarbrough and the three top recruits will move on to pro ball. They also do not take into consideration incoming freshmen.
1. Tanner Mathis – LF
2. Austin Bousfield – CF
3. Will Allen – 1B
4. Sikes Orvis – DH
5. Austin Knight – C
6. Andrew Mistone – 3B
7. Will Jamison/ Preston Overbey – RF
8. Austin Anderson – SS
9. Jake Overbey – 2B
The offensive losses we'll sustain are staggering. The top half of our lineup is decimated with the departure of Yarbs, Matt Snyder, and Zach Kirksey. That's 223 hits, 28 HR, and 153 RBI gone from an offense that was already struggling down the stretch. What's left isn't pretty. Of the ten players listed above, only Mathis (.359) and Allen (.305) hit above .300 for the season. In fact, this lineup hit a meager .260 as a group in '12. We'll really need some of the younger guys to step up big if we're to even come close to replicating the offensive output of this past season.
I actually feel okay about the top of the lineup. Retaining Mathis for another year is HUGE. He gives us a spectacular leadoff hitter, veteran leadership, and a whole shit-ton of swagger. He finished '12 on an absolute tear, going 8 for 14 with a .684 OBP during the regional. Bousfield really emerged during the second half of the season, batting .305 with 2 HR during conference play. He's also by far our best defensive OF. I look for him to have a breakout sophomore campaign and become one of the elite center fielders in the conference.
Replacing the production at the 3 and 4-holes will be the biggest challenge for this squad in '13. Despite a skid in the postseason, I like Allen batting third, as he was one of our more consistent hitters in the second half of the year. Defensively, he was an absolute liability behind the plate, but Snyder's departure allows us to move Allen out to first base where his pre-pubescent girl arm won't do any damage. The other option is to DH Allen and use Orvis at first. The development of Orvis is perhaps the single biggest factor in our offensive success next season. Clearly Bianco sees something in him, as Orvis saw a steady, yet seemingly unwarranted increase in playing time as the season progressed. He'll have to improve on his .321 slugging percentage (ten points below Snyder's batting avg) and 1 HR if he is going to bat in the clean-up position, though.
Knight has shown an ability to gun down runners, a quality which will have a significant impact on our defense. Fewer bases stolen means fewer runners in scoring position. Just as significant, the threat of our catcher actually being able to throw someone out may allow Bianco to back off his patented "pickoff 15 straight times to keep the runner close" defense. Fewer pickoff moves means fewer chances for an error and less exertion from our pitchers' arms. Offensively, Knight is nothing special, but I would expect his .267 average to increase with more playing time.
Mistone won't be an offensive juggernaut, but that's not his job. He is one of the best defensive players in the league, as his .978 fielding percentage and 3 errors (2 of which came in the same game late in the season) can attest. Plus there's this:
The competition for the RF position will be wide open coming into next season, with Jamison and the elder Overbey being the primary combatants. Jamison is the superior fielder, and though he underwhelmed with his bat as a freshman, one would think he'll be able to improve on his .247 average after getting a season of SEC baseball under his belt. Despite being hyped as the next great Ole Miss slugger, Preston Overbey has shown very little production in his first two seasons in Oxford. He managed a meager 2 HR and 12 RBI last season, while racking up a team-leading 41 strikeouts in just 145 at-bats. The wild card here, of course, is Senquez Golson. After a blazing hot start to '12, lack of on-field production and rumored academic struggles led to his complete evaporation by season's end. If he can get his head on right, he'll have an opportunity to show why the Red Sox were willing to pay him a boatload of money.
Middle infield will likely be a soft spot on this team. At shortstop, Newalu is lost to graduation, and Anderson was unremarkable both at the plate (.239) and in the field (8 errors) last season. With our All-American second baseman gone, we'll most likely turn to the younger Overbey. Highly touted out of high school (sound familiar? More like Over-rated brothers, amirite?) Jake was absolutely atrocious when presented with significant playing time at the end of the season. Forced into action in the regional following injuries to Anderson and Newalu, he went a painful 1 for 12, and failed on multiple occasions to even get a bunt down. To be fair, he was a freshman being pushed abruptly into the most crucial point of the season, and certainly nerves played a factor. Let's hope that performance was an aberration, as opposed to a sign of things to come.
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Did you recently work on an innovative steel building project? It's not too late to enter it in AISC's 2013 IDEAS2 Awards. The deadline for entries has been extended to tomorrow, February 7. The annual awards program, which has existed for more than seven decades, recognizes outstanding achievements in engineering and architecture on steel-framed building projects around the country.
The awards recognize all members of the project's team involved with the structural framing system. This year's winners will be announced at the 2013 NASCC: The Steel Conference in St. Louis, which will be held April 17-19. In addition, awards are presented by AISC to the submitting firms and their fellow project team members at the individual project sites during the summer, and all winning projects will be featured in the May issue of MSC.
Architectural and engineering firms, general contractors, fabricators and owners are encouraged to enter innovative building projects that use wide-flange or hollow structural steel sections for a significant portion of the framing system. Pedestrian bridges entered in the competition must be an intrinsic part of a building, not stand-alone structures. Any member of the project team may submit a project for consideration, and joint submittals from project teams are encouraged.
To be eligible, projects must be located within the U.S. and completed between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2012. If any member of the project team is an AISC member, there is no entry fee. (The entry fee is $150 for non-members.)
For more information about the competition and to submit a project entry, go to www.aisc.org/ideas2.
You can view last year's IDEAS2 award winners in the May 2012 issue of MSC. Or, click here to link directly to a PDF of the article.