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August 15, 2014
What's up with NBC, the Today show's ridiculous reporting about…
back to school lists and how out of hand they have gotten. Instead of reporting (in awe like wonder) about why coffee filters or ice cube trays might be on the back to school lists, they present only the parents' side of how much all this costs. I can sympathize that back to school bills can add up and be overwhelming, but try running an effective, hands on classroom without taking a major hit to your own wallet as the teacher. I am sure the filters and ice cube trays play some part in the classroom and will be used by the students, not for the teachers' coffee and cold drinks, but why not ask a teacher or two and present a balanced story NBC? And parents, wondering how some of the items you are being asked to purchase will be used or are useful in the classroom, send the teacher an email and ask!
PSA of the day ~ News stories need to present both sides.
February 22, 2014
Hopefully students make better teachers!
I am back at it professionally. I am teaching again and loving it more than I ever thought possible. More on this later.
January 8, 2013
teachers make the worst students
I started an on-line course to get a certificate to be able to teach English as a second language to adults. I haven't taken an on-line course before, except for the traffic class for my last speeding ticket which I hardly think counts after having attempted this class. The last time I took an actual class in real life (everyone knows the Internet isn't real-life) was 12 years ago when I finished my master's degree. I noticed then that the teachers that made up my class, while being a very nice group of women, were not the best students. Don't get me wrong, everyone was smart and well-read, but there was a lot of complaining and nit picking and by the end of the 2 year program some down right rudeness going on during class. I had attempted a master's program before this one that after the first meeting I dropped out of because of the attitude of most of the 'students' that the professor we had was ill prepared and after having only listened to the man for 2 hours they were already planning a mutiny and starting a petition to have him removed.
But back to my on-line adventure. I should have known there were going to be problems when I was being threatened with disconnection when I was taking too long taking notes. I opted not to take my 16 year old son's advise to cut and paste the important info into a word document and print it out for notes. while that seems like a good idea, I am old school and need the process of writing my own notes to help process the info. I felt pretty good when I got a 95 on my first lesson review (all mult. choice and t/f) but then I got a 78.3 on the next. The first essay answer I attempted was not up to par and I had an idea I hadn't given a detailed enough answer so I tried a little harder on the next essay answer and got 90 out of 100 points for it. That's better! The project assignment was a piece of cake…or so I thought. I used to teach how to use I statements to my 6th graders in conflict resolution. I got a little creative and changed the four offensive you statements to responsible I-statements and got a 30%. What? I had to ask for clarification as to what I did wrong and the iota of feedback I got back from my 'teacher' was an example with no creativity whatsoever. So I rewrote the statements and regurgitated them back as blandly as they were first written and I am awaiting my new score. I have a quiz up as my next assignment and I am not looking forward to it.
If anyone out there has on-line course experience and can offer me some words of wisdom, I would very much appreciate it.
PSA of the day *stay in school*
(being out for too long makes it a bitch to get back in the swing of it)
January 4, 2013
The party's over….
The tree is down. The outdoor lights came in last week. If I wasn't so set on starting off the new year in a productive mood, I'd be depressed. Christmas brings with it a lot of work and stress and hub bub, but it also means family get togethers, baking and shopping! I'm just going to have to incorporate those 3 into the whole year. The first as much as possible and the other 2 in moderation. What I am really proud of is as I am putting Christmas decorations away, I am organizing them. I plan to start listing again on ebay and if it isn't ebay worthy I have 2 boxes in the basement: garage sale and freecycle/wings. 2013 is the year all the dead weight gets gone!
PSA of the day* keep intimate info to yourself, sharing it makes you avoid your own blog!*
January 2, 2013
Nancy Drew Blue
Bear with me while I attempt something that I think, if I can accomplish, will be pretty…neat.
I was laying in bed this morning in the wee hours of dawn and could sense my husband was awake as well so I left my warm, comfy side of our bed and snuggled up behind him to spoon. As is my habit I found my favorite hand warmer and I had his full attention in the palm of my hand. I like to think I know the right buttons to push and areas to tickle and tease so I went at it and was rewarded with pleasant sighs and the usual happy finish. But what I find so intriguing is this; because of my abdomen being flush against my husband's back I was keenly aware of 12-16 muscle contractions or surges and I am typically only aware of 8, if I had to guess. So I asked my dearest after clean up had occurred and we were settling back into our bed if before any expulsion happens are there preliminary pumps and he said , of course, and I learned something new.
So I wanted to share my learning experience but in such a way as to not attract any people searching for adult material. I think I did it. I hope it doesn't offend anyone and I can promise sharing such information is not going to be a regular on this blog.
I realize this has nothing to do with Nancy Drew but when I discuss adult topics with my husband I try to keep it as clean as possible and he has referred to how I put things as how it would be if Nancy Drew went blue.
January 1, 2013
New Year … New Habits… New Results
As a kid I always liked the number 13. I felt sorry for it because everyone thought of it as unlucky and I remember thinking how can the first year of being a teenager be so bad? And it wasn't. I enjoyed being 13 even with the bad perms, dorky 80's big rimmed glasses and braces I sported and my ineptitude at handling friendships.
I really don't want to make traditional resolutions, I only feel bad when I break them, so I am going to strive to do some things differently in 2013 and hope they become lifelong habits. The main goal that pertains to this blog is writing more and in doing so I am relatively sure you, dear reader, will glean from my posts what the other changes I am implementing are. See you soon!
PSA of the day *Just DO it*
(Nike will understand my plagerism, it is just too good of a slogan to be kept only for sportswear ads!)
May 12, 2012
20 years of Mother's days
19 years ago I spent my first Mother's day overly pregnant. My first-born was due on the 5th, it was the 9th and he started arriving on the 11th. It is 2 am here and now on the 12th, in 2012, and at this point 19 years ago I was about an hour into pushing and counting to 10. During those (what seemed like) futile pushes, my husband and I jokingly said that at least this kid will be born knowing how to count to 10, he has heard it so often. My nearly 11 pound bouncing baby bundle of all boy joy finally got here after almost 5 more hours of pushing, suction that was futile due to a full head of gorgeous black hair, forceps, and an intern going in up to her elbows (or so it seemed from my angle) and helping our battered and bruised first-born arrive to the anesthesiologist proclaiming the Bears were going to be calling any minute to sign him up (that jerk is another post all on his own, but I am in too good of a mood right now) and my son, he is fantastic at math, who knew!
I never dreamed I'd be spending his 19th birthday with him opening his presents in the car before taking him to lunch to celebrate in the town where he is away at school. I won't be spending this Mother's day with him, finals loom, and while I am okay with that; it got me to thinking how the importance of this Hallmark holiday has evolved for me over the past 20 years. That first one as an expectant mom I couldn't wait to just see and hold my first child and on the eve of my twentieth I am beginning to see the kind of man he will be, is becoming. His brother is on the cusp of young adulthood, starting to consider colleges even farther away, and it dawns on me that my Mother's days of grubby kisses and exuberant hugs, handmade cards with homemade craft presents are over. Mother's day, for the very first time, is going to mean a phone call (or more likely a text) from an adult son who is busy living his life apart from mine. Now in all honesty, as I sit here at 2:22 am and type that out I am tearing up and there is an honest to goodness lump in my throat, but I couldn't be happier. As much as 20 years ago, I never wanted to let him go and I was thrilled a few years later when he changed his mind about joining the army because he found out I wouldn't be coming with, I could not possibly be any happier. This Mother's day, I can see that the result is so worth the journey. Happy Mother's day, whatever number this one is for you, I have found they just keep getting better.
And even more importantly, Happy Birthday Mitch! I couldn't have done any of the last 20 Mother's days without you and I wouldn't have it any other way. Best late Mother's day present ever…..you!
PSA of the day: You guessed it , go call (or text or twitter even) your mom or an important woman in your life, you'll make her day.
April 27, 2012
Open letter to Verizon executives
Thank you! A few days ago the slow obliteration of the landline department in the northeastern IL office my husband works out of was halted and is rumored to be under consideration. I am praying that you look very carefully at what is going on in the landline industry and realize that your bottom line, while being very important, is not the only thing being greatly affected by the move away from traditional landline phone systems. I cannot imagine that you cannot see the business contracts that could be kept and cultivated by being one of the only major phone companies supporting the antiquated phone systems in the present economy. Many businesses need to nurse these old systems along and would be very grateful to remain your customer for years to come. Eventually, either due to an upswing in the economy or the inevitable realization that the age of their phone system and lack of support available to continue it as a viable option, I would imagine you will be able to convert them over to wireless business line systems and continue to keep their business and loyalty. You do see that a quick profit is not always as desirable as a solid business relationship and there are also all the employees and families to consider that you will be keeping employed and off of unemployment. I realize there is a lot more to the situation than the very basic picture I have painted and I also realize the union angle is difficult as well. But please while you are reconsidering the downsizing and/or ultimate removal of the branch my husband and so many others work in, I am literally begging you to see the whole picture and not just the bottom line. Thanks for reading and hopefully taking into consideration my plea.
December 17, 2011
Christmas Dilemma
I LOVE sending out our Christmas cards. I agonize over finding just the right card and have the best time legally allowed planning and executing the yearly Christmas themed photo of the boys. Alas this year I am dragging my feet. I took the few photos that my camera-shy 15 yr old would allow at Thanksgiving and due to a craptastic camera and little to no preplanning, surprise, surprise they turned out not so good. So I did the next best thing which is cropped their heads from each of their best shots and elffed them up! I have capture shots from some of the better Office Max backgrounds to choose from and I have 2 links that I find absolutely hilarious and have actually laughed so hard while viewing them that I may have peed my pants just a little. That's how funny and apropos (sp?) they are and NO, having 2 over 10 lb infants has absolutely nothing to do with the sneezing and laughing incontinence that can occur. It is just how my bladder chooses to share in the glee…..and sneezing.
Now you would think the afore-mentioned incontinence would be my dilemma but sadly it is not even a blip on my radar at this point, that is how much I take it for granted that it is just part of my life. No my dilemma is that as cute and funny the capture shots are, I really want to share the links to the 2 best songs from the Elf Yourself site and I am delusional enough to think that everyone I send a christmas card to will rush to their computer to see the boys humiliated for their mother's enjoyment. Why I asked my husband for feedback on this is beside the point but he insists that I should include a line about emailing me for the link and just leave it at that. I think I should include the links with the photos and cut out me being the middle man. I mean really I think our relatives are much more likely to enter the link if they have it right there in front of them, and not at all likely to email me to get it, wait for me to reply and then click on the link. I wish I had emails for all the people I snail mail cards to but I don't. So while I am probably going to go ahead and do it my way and include the link in the cards and not wait to see how few people ask for the link through email I am wondering what YOU think would be the best course to take.
Perhaps I have thought about this long enough while typing this post that the best solution has come to me…like an epiphany of sort, tis the season after all. I can include the links and the option of emailing me for a clickable link if that's what they prefer. BINGO! I would still love to know what you think and have included the links for your laughing and tinkling enjoyment.
PSA of the day~ Get your depends on and watch these!
If you only have time for one go for the second one. It is pee-tastic!
December 16, 2011
Best Christmas Present Ever
I want to put this out there before I procrastinate it, feel the need to not post until it is perfect, or just plain talk myself out of it. I am reading a book about Women, Food and God (only God is more about spirituality than it is whatever form you believe him/her to be. Anyway food issues are big in my life. I eat for many wrong reasons and rarely use food as just noursihment. And I am only half way thorough this book but the idea I am so excited about and want everyone to share in is that by being present in the moment the mindless eating can stop. There is a lot more to it than that and I am having a hard time even staying present enough in the here and now when I am reading the book to fully grasp all of it. My theory about that is I am subconciously fighting the ideas presented. I am still not convinced I can be successful. But back to the best christmas present I can give myself; it is the idea that by concentrating on being in the moment, feeling the feelings, wading through the day to day boredom of just exsisting I can see food for what it really is. Nourishment, plain and simple and each time I don't give in to the urge to eat mindlessly I am celebrating being me, not hiding from it.
This probably doesn't make a lot of sense. But I wanted to put it out there, maybe it is just the present you need to give yourself this year.
PSA of the day ~ Give yourself the present of being present.


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This time of year the dry line will be mentioned numerous times. Gabe McDaid of Austin was wondering how it makes storms and how do you know when it passes by.
The dry line is a narrow boundary separating hot and dry air from very humid air coming off the Gulf of Mexico.
You can find the position of the dry line by looking at the dew point temperatures which gives you a good indication how much moisture is in place. If the number is low the air is dry and if it is high the air is muggy.
Topography plays a key role in the dry line developing. When the air slides down the eastern slopes of the Rockies it dries out, creating a hot and cloud-free area. At this point a dry line is born.
As the dry air moves toward lower elevations it encounters lots of moisture slowing down the dry line so that is why it normally stays in west Texas.
Violent storms can be triggered along this boundary. Storm chasers call it dry line magic.
When the dry line advances eastward it acts like a plow lifting the warm and moist air.
This rising motion makes the atmosphere very unstable allowing the clouds to bubble up into severe storms.
When the dry line passes through the area, the skies will clear rapidly and the air will dry out and heat up.
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NBC: Shuster Suspended
by dpANDREWS, Fri Feb 08, 2008 at 11:45:05 AM EST
Just checked my email. I had sent an email urging David Shuster be fired for his comments regarding Chelsea Clinton.
The response I received reads as follows:
On Thursday's "Tucker" on MSNBC, David Shuster, who was serving as guest-host of the program, made a comment about Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton campaign that was irresponsible and inappropriate. Shuster, who apologized this morning on MSNBC and will again this evening, has been suspended from appearing on all NBC News broadcasts, other than to make his apology. He has also extended an apology to the Clinton family. NBC News takes these matters seriously, and offers our sincere regrets to the Clintons for the remarks.
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Hoosiers face tough and important choices for governor, county offices and school boards. The race for a U.S. Senate seat can decide the makeup between Republicans and Democrats. Madison County voters will have an important role in making those decisions.
Senate candidates push into final leg of race
Democrat Joe Donnelly and Republican Richard Mourdock are spending the final hours of their fierce race for a U.S. Senate seat touring the state telling voters almost the same thing: a message of "send me to Washington" if you want to break the partisan gridlock.
Officials say voting machines functioning as intended
Madison County voters might want to review their ballots after voting Tuesday. Just in case. An Anderson man reported a glitch when he tried to vote a straight Democratic ticket. But according to Madison County Clerk Darlene Likens, no complaint was ever made.
State representative candidates file pre-election finance reports
Voters in Indiana districts 35 and 36 will pick their state representatives Tuesday. Here's a look at the candidates' pre-election campaign finances, as reported to the Indiana Election Division in October.
GOP looks for big wins in Indiana, but spoiler lurks
Republicans working to move Indiana firmly back into the land of red states after its 2008 support of Democrat Barack Obama hope to have plenty to celebrate Tuesday, but a U.S. Senate seat that has been a lock for the GOP for nearly four decades could be the night's spoiler.
Democrats try to capitalize on discontent in GOP in county council race
One day to go.
And the most contentious Madison County Council election in anyone's memory will be over.
Endorsement: Obama has shown courage to address explosive issues
Many of President Obama's early supporters have grown disenchanted with his "audacity" to hope, the topic of his 2006 book. Yet he has managed to keep focus while wading through the mire of Washington politics.
Commissioner candidates facing big issues
Each incumbent Madison County Commissioner has a challenger this year and the north district has two.
Whoever wins on Tuesday will be facing shrinking budgets, reduced personnel and an ongoing legal skirmish with the county council.
Campaigns deploy volunteers to get out the vote
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I've been reading a few comments on how the Wolves should consider drafting Whiteside to get the defensive big they need. I saw this piece by David Thorpe at FOUR LETTER and have not seen it discussed here.
The piece is about Solomon Alabi, someone to consider if Whiteside is gone or perhaps instead of Whiteside.
Feb. 4 Update, by David Thorpe: I've known about Solomon since he was first discovered by some NBA scouts when he was a young teenager in Africa. When I put together a post development DVD using high school players, he was one of my demonstrators. He was 15 then, and looked to be an NBA prospect because of his unique characteristics. He is a high-energy, bright and charismatic person in the best sense. That, in a 7-foot-1 body with a huge wingspan, makes him very draft-worthy.
When NBA executives track his improvement over the years, they can't help but come to the conclusion that he will continue to get much better over time. He makes over 80 percent of his free throws. He can score around the basket with either hand. He can face up and make 15-foot jumpers. He uses great technique to front post players and he's fearless inside the paint, despite being outweighed by almost every player he faces, though not by as much as he used to be. Not to mention that Alabi has only played basketball for six years or so.
That he's a good shotblocker is no surprise, given his physical gifts. Doing so while anchoring an excellent defensive unit without fouling (only averages 2.2 a game) is certainly impressive.
All of these skills were not evident even two years ago, which is why it's fair to assume he'll continue on the same development path. His best talent though, is his spirit. He is a selfless worker, and a tireless one, reminding me in those areas of Joakim Noah, who is now one of the premier help defenders in the NBA. Unfortunately, he does not have all of Noah's talents.
Alabi is not a likely low-post scorer in the NBA because of his inability to pass out of the post, a very difficult skill to master. Nor is he someone who will take his man off the dribble from the pinch post. But at worst, he projects as a shotblocking and energy-bringing center off the bench who impacts games whether he scores or not. At best, he's a top defensive center that can play late in games because of his free-throw shooting.


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The Lilly Endowment will give the Indianapolis Parks Foundation $10 million to renovate and upgrade facilities at 13 Indianapolis parks. The grant includes improvements at Frank and Judy O'Bannon Soccer Complex on East 16th Street. Tarkington Park will also receive funding to begin a revitalization effort that includes playground upgrades, new shelters and a water feature.
Other facilities will get upgraded playground equipment, new permanent restrooms and shelters, water spray upgrades, field upgrades and walking trails. Those include Beckwith Memorial, Bel Aire, Bertha Ross, Dubarry, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Gardner, Greene, Haughville and Stout Field parks.
The $10 million grant will be administered over a three-year period starting next year. The Lilly Endowment previously awarded the Parks Foundation a $7.3 million grant used to repair and upgrade tennis courts, install permanent restrooms and improve aquatic facilities.


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It seems there might be a double standard among City Council members when it comes to asking questions of city staff.
At the Tuesday, Oct. 9, City Council meeting, Deanna Reeder, a resident who frequently attends meetings, criticized councilman Jesse Molina because of questions he asks staff. Molina often asks basic questions to which staff already provides answers in their presentations or reports. Then, they repeat themselves when they answer Molina's questions.
"You have asked the same questions over and over and over," she said. "Read the agenda. That's what you get paid to do, so you're prepared when you get here."
Molina didn't say anything until after the meeting, when he said he asked questions to get clarification.
During the meeting, Councilman Marcelo Co came to Molina's defense.
"Those who pretend to understand don't question," he said. "Those who want to understand, they ask questions, to clarify within himself. When you do not have enough information, you do not make a good decision."
Earlier in the meeting, Co and Molina took issue with Councilwoman Robin Hastings, who asked several questions about staff's recommendation to adjust the city's developer fees. It's no secret that they support one of the challengers running for her seat in the Nov. 6 election.
Hastings specifically questioned how staff determined the need for a new category for large-scale warehouses and its fee.
Hastings asked for a separate vote on the large-scale warehouse category because she said staff did not provide the information she needed to make a decision on it. She said she expected to see a comparative analysis among Moreno Valley and other cities and it wasn't included.
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There was no such thing as home court advantage for UCLA on Thursday. Home court advantage belonged to Arizona's Solomon Hill, an LA native, who led his team to a 66-58 win in the second round of the Pac-12 tournament.
Hill scored 25 points and added 12 rebounds in the win. He was not the only Arizona player with a double-double. Jesse Perry scored 16 and had 12 rebounds of his own. Hill and Perry combined to sink 24 of 27 free throws to give Arizona an edge.
Arizona broke a 51-51 tie late in the second half with a 10-2 run. The Bruins made it interesting in the final 90 seconds, scoring five points to close the gap to 62-58. Arizona added four more on free throws to end the game.
Lazeric Jones led the Bruins with 17 points and five assists. Jerime Anderson had 14 points, four rebounds and four assists.
UCLA made just two of 12 three-point attempts, compared to five of 15 for Arizona. Solomon Hill hit three of six three-pointers.
On paper, it looks like the Wildcats get a break, facing ninth-seeded Oregon State rather than Washington, the tournament's top seed. Of course, Oregon State is riding high after the upset, so anything can happen on Friday. That game is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. Pacific on Friday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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I believe that the Clintons would like to do what's right with respect to gay rights. I believe that, if it were up to them alone, they would be in favor of gay marriage and gay adoption and full partner rights, emloyment and housing rights, etc. The problem is that it really is NOT entirely up to the Clintons, and they don't have a good record on the issue.
No sooner had Bill Clinton gotten elected in 1992 then he tried immediately to implement a policy of full gay equality of participation in the military. He believed he could accomplish this by executive order, forgetting that the US Congress also has a say in these matters.
The political right got together with military leaders like Colin Powell, and they rapidly built a solid wall of opposition to gay rights, mobilizing all of their forces. Those of us who supported Clinton had not been mobilized at all. We were not even informed beforehand that he was taking on this issue. He just sprang it on the nation and assumed that everyone would go along because he had been elected president (with a plurality of the vote).
And then Clinton was forced, by stiff opposition in the US Congress and a significant part of the public, to accept "don't ask, don't tell," which effectively reified the discrimination that existed before Clinton tried to do anything at all. This would have been like Johnson trying to open the lunch counters to Blacks and whites and then ending up with a legislative reiteration of Jim Crow instead. Yes, Clinton's heart was in the right liberal place, but she was utterly ineffectual at implementing her vision that time.
When you think about it, this is actually very similar to what happened with national health care. Hillary Clinton believed that she could design a complicated health care regime in isolation, and then all of the forces who opposed the plan would go along with it just because she said so. So, she didn't effectively work with Congress to find out what was politically possible or to obtain buy-in from the essential Congressional players.


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former pro-bowler, i know he's coming off quad surgery, but he has been splitting first team reps this preseason. so he must be healing up pretty good. the saints have been one of the best pass blocking teams in the league for awhile, and their run game was no slouch either, i would like to see him brought in and see if he has anything left in the tank.
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I guess it's hard to leave the game forever.
According to sources close to both fighters, MMA veterans Shonie Carter and Phil Baroni will both be returning to the cage to try and jump start their respective careers on March 25 for Titan Fighting Championships.
Carter (49-26-7-1) is coming off of five straight losses, most recently dropping a decision in Israel to Jeremy Knafo on Nov. 9 2010. Ironically, after the fight was over, Carter took the mic and announced his retirement from MMA. I guess once a fighter always a fighter.
Baroni (13-13) is coming off of three straight losses, most recently at UFC 125. At UFC 125, Baroni looked really strong in the opening minutes of the fight before getting rocked by a Brad Tavares head kick and subsequently TKO'd. When Baroni was asked about fighting for Titan, he had this to say:
"I'm very happy and excited to re-start my career with Titan Fighting in Kansas City. I have another chapter to write and it starts March 25. The best NYBA 'eva is fighting for Titan… People love a comeback."
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Husband and wife sentenced in Platte County home, piggy bank theft
PLATTE CITY, Mo. - Stephen and Amy Hamer were like any married couple. They liked to do things together. One thing they did as a couple landed them prison sentences.
Stephen Hamer, 33, was sentenced Friday to 26 years after guilty pleas to burglary and stealing charges.
Amy Hamer, 38, received 15 years in prison after a jury found her guilty last month of burglary.
The Hamers came up with a scheme to lure a man from his home so Stephen could break in and steal things, according to a news release from the Platte County Prosecutor's Office.
The crime happened Nov. 15, 2011, when Amy told the victim her boyfriend kicked her out of his truck and she needed a ride, the release states.
Amy sent text messages that said "gone" and "now" when she conned the man into the ride, according to the release.
Stephen broke into the house, grabbed jewelry and large amounts of coins that belonged to the victim's children.
Law officers later found the stolen jewelry at a St. Joseph pawn shop.
"These defendants took advantage of one man's kind nature, luring him out of his home by claiming to need assistance while they burglarized his home,'' Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said in a statement. "This sentence sends a clear message that taking advantage of a Good Samaritan and stealing money from children will be met with a lengthy prison sentence.''


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Another business on West Church Street has failed and will leave taxpayers holding the bag. This time, the vacancy is inside the Amway Center.
A group called Grat LLC was to build, open, and operate a restaurant inside the Amway Center, but recently bailed out on the project, leaving the taxpayers to finish the job and repay the subcontractors left in the cold. Mayor Buddy Dyer says the city did not fund building that restaurant inside the Amway Center originally because they wanted private dollars in the project.
"Just as we have a different concessionaire that is operating the ONE80 Lounge, we wanted to try to spread some of the economic opportunity out, so we left that unfinished. We were looking to do it in the fashion we did, unfortunately that didn't work out."
It will now cost more than $700,000 to finish the job. Mayor Dyer says he still thinks it will be a positive.
"We got a million dollars worth of improvements for $700,000. The contractor cut his fee, cut some other expenses. At the end of the day I would have rather seen a different result, than what went into it, but we've made a, made lemonade out of a lemon."
Part of that $700,000 will be given to Turner Construction to pay off subcontractors that were left without payment when Grat LLC bailed on the project.
"We wanted to make sure that they were made whole, and there was a way to accomplish that, our goal which was to have a functioning restaurant."
The city is likely to give final approval to the new deal on Monday, which will allow the company that currently controls restaurants inside the Amway Center to operate this one as well once it is finished. The new company will also pay market rent to run the restaurant as opposed to the discounted rent the original company would have received.
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Caspell says the suspect called authorities in Ropesville to report the accident after it happened. The Ropesville Police Department put the suspect in contact with Lubbock police. Caspell says the suspect has been cooperative and they have impounded his car.
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The USC Men's Basketball team has a new head coach. Western Kentucky head coach Darrin Horn was introduced Tuesday as the Gamecocks' replacement for Dave Odom who resigned earlier in the season.
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W.-P. Lu, M.K. Sundareshan, "A Model for Multilevel Security in Computer Networks," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 647-659, June, 1990.
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A model is presented that precisely describes the mechanism that enforces the security policy and requirements for a multilevel secure network. The mechanism attempts to ensure secure flow of information between entities assigned to different security classes in different computer systems connected to the network. The mechanism also controls the access to the network devices by the subjects (users and processes executed on behalf of the users) with different security clearances. The model integrates the notions of nondiscretionary access control and information flow control to provide a trusted network base that imposes appropriate restrictions on the flow of information among the various devices. Utilizing simple set-theoretic concepts, a procedure is given to verify the security of a network that implements the model.
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Undocumented students in Virginia should be given the chance to pay in-state tuition to attend a public university
Student Council's External Affairs committee passed a resolution Tuesday in support of a bill in the House that would allow undocumented immigrants living in Virginia to attend any state school and pay in-state tuition. One of the requirements for eligibility is proof that the college applicant or applicant's parents paid Virginia income taxes for at least three years. Additionally, the applicant must have attended a Virginia public or private school for at least three years and have graduated high school or earned a GED.
The justification for charging lower tuition for in-state students is that they or their families have contributed to state funding by paying taxes. Many are under the impression that undocumented workers pay no taxes, making them freeloaders who try to reap the benefits of living in our country while avoiding all of the costs. But this is a huge misconception. Undocumented workers do in fact pay taxes. Despite the fact that there is little incentive and much disincentive for undocumented workers to pay taxes — they are usually ineligible for Social Security and Medicare benefits, and the risk of being deported dissuades many from filing tax returns — undocumented workers contribute about $15 billion to Social Security each year, according to the New York Times.
To offer in-state tuition to undocumented workers who have contributed to the tax pool of the state is a matter of fairness. And it also could give undocumented workers an incentive to pay taxes, so their children will have the opportunity to go to college for the same price as their next-door neighbors.
Some may argue that those who break the law by entering the country illegally do not deserve to benefit from the price of in-state tuitions. But this argument is flawed, because most college applicants who are undocumented probably entered the country at the discretion of their parents. There are about 2.1 million undocumented minors in the United States, who under the DREAM Act could obtain legal status. The DREAM Act applies to undocumented minors who have been in the country for at least five years, indicating that these 2.1 million were too young to have entered the country of their volition. They do not deserve to be punished for circumstances over which they had no control.
To deny in-state tuition to undocumented students who live in Virginia leaves them in a kind of limbo. Prospective students who are U.S. citizens have the option of choosing a public school outside their state and paying a higher price, or staying in-state and paying less. Undocumented applicants do not have that choice. They are treated as out-of-state students despite their residence. Such a policy restricts their access to the educational opportunities that all other prospective college students have.
There is widespread agreement that the whole country is in need of an immigration policy reform, but the debate on that larger issue is too complicated to fit into one editorial. The current bill before the Virginia House is a small improvement to a flawed immigration system, specific to the issue of educational opportunities. There are many students who could bring great contributions to the University or to other Virginia public schools. This initiative is an important step towards admitting them to those institutions.


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Firefighters responded to a blaze inside a home on Simms Point Road. Officials say they advised the residents they could not re-enter the home until the structure was deemed safe. That's when police say Anthony Woods, 32, attempted to push past firefighters several times to get inside the house to remove his belongings. One firefighter lost his mask during the incident, but did not suffer any smoke-related injuries.
Woods faces simple assault and disorderly conduct charges.


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A Novel Strategy to Find New Genetic Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
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In this study, we introduce a novel strategy identify genetic risk factors for breast cancer. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the best known examples, in that inherited mutations in these genes greatly increase risk. However, after a decade of research it is clear that these genes leave unexplained a large fraction of familial breast cancers, and it is strongly suspected that other risk genes must exist, although efforts to find them have been largely unsuccessful. Here we propose a new strategy to localize such genes, based on the founder effect, i.e. the situation where risk mutations in "unrelated" patients are in identical, having been inherited from a common ancestral carrier. This effect implies the pair actually share a much larger fragment of identical founder DNA surrounding the mutation, and we have developed a powerful method to directly search for such shared DNA fragments between individuals. This allows us to directly search pairs of unrelated, high-risk breast cancer patients for large shared DNA fragments, which then immediately become candidate regions for the risk factors. Such regions typically contain tens to hundreds of candidate genes. The net result is equivalent to a massive linkage study using pedigrees that connect the "unrelated" patients through distant ancestors, but here we only need to analyze the patients in hand, and we do not need to know the underlying pedigree at all, which enormously reduces the cost and complexity of such a linkage study. This "pedigree-free" approach relies on the latest advances in SNP genotyping technology, as well as new analytical methods invented by our group, to detect the shared DNA fragments. In order to enrich for the existence of the essential founder effects, we will conduct the search within a genetic isolate already shown to have strong founder effects for the BRCA genes, the Ashkenazi Jew population. Within this group, we will select for patients enriched for genetic risk factors for breast cancer, based on their family history and age of onset, but who are negative for the known BRCA mutations in this population, and thus more likely to implicate new risk genes. The necessary patient samples will be obtained from existing, well characterized breast cancer biospecimen repositories. In this pilot study, we hope to demonstrate that this new approach is a general, powerful and cost-effective way to broadly screen for new genetic risk loci, and thus candidate genes, which can then be subject to more focused analysis to search for the mutations and identify the specific risk genes. The ultimate value of this approach, if successful, would be to greatly accelerate the discovery of the remaining genetic risk factors for breast cancer, which should collectively be of comparable importance to the well known BRCA genes for understanding the overall genetic risks for breast cancer.
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The present study introduces a new and powerful method to search for "breast cancer genes", that is, genes that greatly increase cancer risk if they are inherited in a mutated form. For high risk families, as well as the general population, it is important to identify these genetic risk factors in order to better assess personal risk levels and to make better decisions in the overall battle against breast cancer. The most well known breast cancer genes are BRCA1 and BRCA2, which were discovered a decade ago by searching for genetic mutations in high risk families. Since their discovery, they have been the subject of over 5000 scientific papers, and it has become clear that a small percentage of all women carry mutations in these genes, and that such women are at a greatly elevated risk for breast cancer. While the discovery of the BRCA genes was an enormous advance in breast cancer genetics, it turns out that they explain only a small portion of all breast cancers, perhaps 5% to 10%, and even in families with a strong history of breast cancer, these genes are the culprit in only half of such families. This suggests that there must be additional breast cancer genes to be discovered. Yet, despite extensive efforts to find such genes, little progress has been made. The ideal way to search for mutated genes in a cancer patient is to read all the letters of their DNA "text", and directly look for genetic "spelling errors". However, it currently costs millions of dollars to read all three billion letters in one person?s DNA, and it will be decades before the cost drops enough to make this approach possible. Our new approach makes use of the fact different patients often have inherited the exact same mutation, tracing back to a distant common ancestor, perhaps hundreds or thousands of years back. This implies they have inherited a large block of DNA text around the mutation as well, and therefore they have in common a large piece of their DNA text. To determine two large blocks of text are identical, we do not need to compare every letter---it is enough just to compare a tiny fraction of letters sampled from the text. In this way, by reading just a small fraction of all of each patient?s letters, we can use statistics to locate large, identical block of DNA text. In turn, this locates the shared mutation, down to a block of DNA containing only hundreds of genes. These genes are all candidates for the gene of interest, and they can be systematically searched for mutations in standard ways to ultimately identify the gene. Thus our procedure provides a highly efficient first pass of screening, to identify the genes that should be analyzed more carefully, by finding the blocks of DNA that are shared identically between different pairs of patients. The ultimate value of this work is to greatly accelerate finding the remaining genetic risk factors for breast cancer, beyond the BRCA genes, by providing the prime candidate genes for more detailed analysis.
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GOG #35 vs the Ringless Rangers
1) Series outcome: 2 games at Great American Ball Park. (2 points) 2-0 Reds
2) Big boy at the dish: My favorite part of games at NL parks are those magic moments when Bartolo Colon takes his turn at the plate. How many plate appearances for Bartolo? (1 point) Does he put the ball in play? (1 point) Does he get on base? (1 for a correct no, 3 for a correct yes) (maximum 5 points) 1, yes, no
3) Giant slayer: Tuesday's Cincinnati starter Mat Latos is well-known for his hatred of the San Francisco Giants. I have a feeling he'd fit in pretty well here on AN. Guess Latos' IP/H/BB/K. (2 points each, 8 total) 7.1/4/3/3
4) Around the league: There are two other interleague matchups on Tuesday night. Both are part of these home-and-home matchups. Like the A's, two other AL teams are making the return trip. The Rays will play at Arizona and the Orioles travel to San Diego. Pick the winner of each game. (1 point each, 2 total) How many runs are scored overall between the two games? (4 points, 2 points if +/- 1) Of all three Tuesday night interleague games, which one is the highest-scoring? (2 points) (8 points total) Arizona and Baltimore, 12, Tampa @ Arizona
5) Logjam: One of the problems of traveling to an NL park is the lack of that extra lineup spot usually taken by the DH. For the A's, this is extremely clear in the outfield. Guess the number of starts for each of the A's five outfielders: Cespedes, Crisp, Reddick, Smith and Young. (1 point each, 5 total) If for some odd reason Brandon Moss, a callup from the minor leagues or anyone else gets an outfield start, don't worry about them. Just deal with these five. Your number should probably add up to six, but if you think someone outside of these five gets an outfield start, it doesn't have to. Cespedes: 2, Crisp: 2, Reddick: 1, Smith: 1, Young: 0
6) In and out: Name as many position players as you want for each team that appear in both games but only start in one. (3 points for each correct answer, -1 point for every incorrect answer, lots of points possible) Callaspo, Reddick, Smith, Sogard, Mesoraco
7) Dragging on for a while: How many pitches are thrown in the longest plate appearance of the series? (5 points if exact, 3 if +/- 1, 1 if +/- 2) Who is the batter? (4 points) Who is the pitcher? (3 points) (12 points total) 10, Donaldson, Hoover
Indefinite total amount of points, questions 1-5, 7 worth 40 points maximum
Answers due by Tuesday, 4:10 pm PDT
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Piano Duo to perform at Bryan February 13
January 24, 2009
The award-winning Kantorski-Pope Piano Duo will appear in concert at Bryan College on Friday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m.
Pianists Valrie Kantorski and Ann Pope will present a program of works by Rachmaninoff, Brahms, and Gershwin.
Performing as the Kantorski-Pope Piano Duo, Ms. Kantorski and Ms. Pope won the Ohio Music Teachers Association Graves Piano Competition first prize. They were selected as members of the Touring Artists Program of the Ohio Arts Council, have appeared as guest artists and clinicians at the Ohio Music Teachers Association and the West Virginia Music Teachers state conventions, and have performed with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Kantorski teaches applied piano and keyboard classics and accompanies choral ensembles at Adrian College in Adrian, Mich. She is principal pianist with the Toledo Symphony and has performed throughout the United States and Europe.
Ms. Pope lives in Chattanooga, where she maintains a private piano studio. She has taught at Bryan College, the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and Bowling Green State University. She was a keyboardist with the Toledo Symphony and soloist with the Perrysburg, Ohio, Symphony Orchestra.
The concert in Rudd Auditorium at Bryan College, is open without charge.
The award-winning Kantorski-Pope Piano Duo will appear in concert at Bryan College on Friday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m.


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To be published in the spring Issue of Vermont Commons, a print journal and online forum for exploring the idea of Vermont independence – political, economic, social, and spiritual. http://www.vtcommons.org/
There are several red herrings flopping wetly in our midst. Boss Kiss is trying to sell a doozy with his admonition that "no one can be ruled out" as a partner in fighting climate change in Burlington. The Mayor insists we must pursue partnerships even with the likes of Lockheed Martin, a corporation that has done more to both create climate change through the carbon belching military and to perpetuate climate change inaction via their membership in the Chamber of Commerce than any other entity short of one specifically created to serve those purposes. To say nothing of the effects on homegrown green industry to inviting a politically highly favored financial behemoth like Lockheed to the party, to anyone serious about addressing climate change, this partnership is the anti-matter of sense. But wait, there's more! Bob Kiss and the City of Burlington have another big plan in the works: they plan to expand Burlington International Airport, hoping to double the number of cars and planes that travel hither and yon each day. Given that air travel is one of the bestest ways to create climate change, methinks the mayor may be beating the oft mentioned plowshares over his own head. But this isn't about climate change because, for reals, tiny Burlington VT can't do squat about world-wide climate change. Even if every man woman and child in Burlington were to stop producing carbon emissions, there would be no effect on climate change. Frustrating as it is, only concerted action by whole nations can ameliorate the unstoppable effects of climate change. In light of this unfortunate reality, framing the Lockheed Partnership as a responsible answer to climate change is so nonsensical it suggests the purposeful obfuscation of the real agenda. We can only retire to the fainting couch to speculate (money!) what Bob Kiss hopes to get from Lockheed in exchange (money!) for the massive green-washing benefits LM would extract from the arrangement (there is a great sucking sound coming from the general direction of Burlington Telecom!). Yet this fish is but a wee smelt in the wider sea of tantalizingly simple piscine rhetoric.
Another red herring on the ice of our national consciousness is the idea that we are, like, totally broke and must therefore give up all which separates us from the beasts of the forest. The winger elite tell us that we simply don't have the money to keep all the frilly pretties we once held dear: jobs that pay well enough to support a family, a spot at the polls that isn't crowded out by some lard ass corporation and an educational system that is more than an 12 years of industrialized torture by test. Yeah, we're making the tough choices alright, at least in terms of non-military discretionary spending that makes up only 12% of our overall costs. More to the point, what other choices have we made that might have had some role in emptying the national coffers?
We choose to indulge the Military Industrial Congressional Complex in their dogged prosecution of a perpetual war strategy to the tune of at least $1.2 trillion a year. In the midst of the current shrink-that government-baby-down-to-a-drownable-size hysteria, Boeing just got the green light for a $35 billion modified 767 tanker project, a plane designed for the midair refueling of nuclear-armed bombers intended for use in retaliation to a Soviet first strike. Like the trillion dollar F-35 program, this is a War Games era military program that has slogged its way through years of "meh" and one rather spectacular takedown in 2005 that sent Boeing's chief executive officer to federal prison, to triumphantly re-emerge re-branded as jobs program for Boeing's hometown of Congressional study estimated that moving money from the Pentagon to state and local governments would create two jobs for every job eliminated. but Congress ordered them anyway! Now the C-17 itself, at cost of $45 billion for the initial run, replaced 2 perfectly serviceable transport planes, the 121 C-5 and the 265 C-144, so the unnecessary procurement of more C-17's adds insult to injury.
We chose to allow the banking class to expropriate $13 trillion in wealth during the financial crisis that their pathological greed created. The financial industry doesn't create wealth, it just shuffles claims on existing wealth so the fact that they now claim $13 trillion dollars they would not have had but for the bailout represents a simple transfer of wealth from the people to bankers. Imagine for second what the State of Vermont could have done with just the $13 billion funneled to Goldman Sachs to cover their exposure to AIG, to say nothing of the $500 billion in low interest emergency loans they received? Maybe with that kind of money we wouldn't have the worst railroads in the entire country and we wouldn't be contemplating wishing our mentally ill citizens good bye and good luck managing that schizophrenia on your own.
We choose to allow corporations to hide billions of dollars in income through tax avoidance constructs like unrepatirated profits, retained earnings and undistributed profits. The tax value of these legally hidden assets is estimated between $37 and $100 billion per year. We chose to extend the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 per year, a deal costing $40 billion in revenue this year alone. We did this while persecuting 2 wars bought on credit to the tune of $200 billion a year. We did this during a brutal recession that has at least 16% of the work force either unemployed or underemployed and doesn't take into account those that have exhausted their benefits. It is important to put this already terrible number into the context of a labor participation rate of only 65%. There are fewer people in the labor force today than at any time since 1984 and we can't employ almost 20% of them.
We go forward with these indefensible uses of the people's wealth while concurrently making a show of fiscal responsibility by proposing to cut $1 billion from Headstart; a program that has proven to be the most cost effective way to combat disparities in educational achievement by addressing the problem of poverty and cultural disenfranchisement. We depict public sector workers as lazy, greedy, as "the haves" to the private sector "have nots" and most ridiculously as the root cause of our spittle inducing, faux financial malaise. This argument is even less credible than Newt Gingrich's recent exoneration of his wandering penis as a direct function of his boundless love for America. We choose to give the most destructive, least productive, least deserving and richest among us a king's ransom at our moment of greatest vulnerability and task those least able to give a drop more with making up the difference. It makes even a wide and dewy- eyed optimist like me wonder: Do Republicans want the government to fail?
The final herring and choice: we choose war in the land of the tribalist isolationist, whacka doddle dapper dandy under the pretext of defusing a humanitarian crisis. Newsflash: Congo has been in the grips of a humanitarian crisis since 1996 and 5 million people have been killed there so if we are really feeling bad about all the deadness happening in Libya, why aren't we discussing action in Congo, or Ivory Coast or Detroit or Baltimore? Of course this is a flimsy ruse that Tom Ashbrook thought up to pump our empathy glands. The powers that be couldn't give a shit about dead Libyans and won't even acknowledge the growing pile of dead Bahrainians and Yemenis. Hell, we can hardly get it up for dead Americans these days unless they happen to be rich people caught up in the mother of all Darwin Awards ceremonies off the coast of Somalia.
Our willingness to consider an entanglement in another Middle Eastern civil war reeks of desperation as does the suggestion that we drain the strategic reserve to combat gas prices that have yet to hit $4 a gallon, a price that would be welcomed like a cool breeze on hot day in Europe. This is a back handed admission of the current paradigm's inability to react rationally or responsibly as the world tips into a pick your poison sampler of resource decline that our elites cannot acknowledge without assenting to their own extinction. Enter the red herring: a device to ensure that confusion reigns, that manufactured bitterness divides and that reckoning is delayed long enough for the necessary changes to be made and the scene set for feudalism v2.0.
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Hey guys!
Over the next 6 months (and 162 games), the KFBB News Team will be making (a lot of) references to our station Fantasy Baseball League.
We will either be tweeting it or mentioning it on air.
And by "mentioning it on air," I mean talking smack to each other in front of the camera.
It's all in good fun but I wanted to find a way for our viewers to be involved in the fantasy league battles so they're not lost in the smack talk.
So every now and then I will be writing an "OPINA'S OPINION" blog post updating viewers and readers on what's going on in our league. I guess you can call me the "KFBB Fantasy League Beat Reporter." I will try to make an update every 2-3 weeks.
For my first blog entry regarding the KFBB Fantasy Baseball League, I thought I would ease everyone into our league.
Below is everyone's name, job, fantasy league team name, favorite MLB team, draft number and their best players on their fantasy team. I've also included why each person picked their team name in hopes that it would allow readers to get to know our news team members a little bit better.
I've provided all the basic info to get you guys acquainted to everything baseball we'll be doing at KFBB. I won't be listing entire rosters because it will take too long and trades will change things from this original post (all you need to know is that my team is REALLY good, ha ha).
KFBB News Team & League Info
Derek Opina
Job: Sports Anchor/Reporter
Fantasy League Team Name: PH Carroll Saints
Favorite MLB Team: Los Angeles Angels
Draft Number: 1
Best Players: Mike Trout (Angels), David Wright (Mets), Max Scherzer (Tigers)
Story Behind Team Name: "At first I had it as 'MT Filipino' because I'm like the only Filipino in Montana. Then Blake made his name 'Belt Huskies' and I thought that was pretty funny because he has a thing for Belt. I've always been known as the 'Carroll Saints' guy because I covered them for over a year when I started as the bureau sports reporter in Helena. So I put my name as 'Carroll Saints' to match Blake but put 'PH' in the beginning to represent the Philippines side."
Micah Rumsey
Job: Weekend Meteorologist
Fantasy League Team Name: Goldschmidt Happens
Favorite MLB Team: Arizona Diamondbacks
Draft Number: 9
Best Players: Carlos Gonzales (Rockies), Bryce Harper (Nationals), Troy Tulowitzki (Rockies)
Story Behind Team Name: "Because (Paul) Goldshmidt is the best player on my favorite team and people say Goldschmidt happens when he gets a home run or does something"
Blake Arthur
Job: Weekend Sports Anchor/Weekday Sports Reporter
Fantasy League Team Name: Belt Huskies
Draft Number: 2
Best Players: Miguel Cabrera (Tigers), Ryan Braun (Brewers), Adam Wainwright (Cardinals)
Story Behind Team Name: Belt is "Blake's Squad." It's one of the first schools he ever visited when he started at KFBB.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Story written by the author of this blog post because Blake did not produce anything.....just like how his whole fantasy team won't produce any stats for him this year. BUUUUUURRRRRRNNNN!!!!!)
Ben Kaplan
Job: Sports Director/News Anchor
Fantasy League Team Name: Jobu Needs a Refill
Favorite MLB Team: Chicago Cubs
Draft Number: 4
Best Players: Andrew McCutchen (Pirates), Felix Hernandez (Mariners), Edwin Encarnacion (Blue Jays)
Story Behind Team Name: "Why Don't You Get To Work."
Jake Jones
Job: Helena Bureau Sports Reporter
Fantasy League Team Name: Brohio
Favorite MLB Team: Cleveland Indians
Draft Number: 8
Best Players: Prince Fielder (Rangers), David Ortiz (Red Sox), Jason Kipnis (Indians)
Story Behind Team Name: "The reason I picked 'Brohio' was because being from Cleveland, Ohio I obviously had to make it about that somehow! Indians outfielder, Nick Swisher, has a section in which every game he gives everyone in that section a shirt that says "Brohio" and I thought it was clever enough to grace itself as the name for my fantasy baseball team! Roll Tribe!"
Taylor Thompson
Job: News Reporter
Fantasy League Team Name: To The Chop House!
Favorite MLB Team: Atlanta Braves
Draft Number: 7
Best Players: Freddie Freeman (Braves), Craig Kimbrel (Braves), Evan Longoria (Rays)
Story Behind Team Name: "It's my favorite place in Turner Field to watch the Braves Play."
Dan Cordtz
Job: Weekend News Anchor/Weekday Reporter
Fantasy League Team Name: The Davanzo Shift
Favorite MLB Team: New York Mets
Draft Number: 5
Best Players: Chris Davis (Orioles), Adam Jones (Orioles), Yu Darvish (Rangers)
Story Behind Team Name: "I came up with my team name because it was kind of a joke in college. The popular movie at the time was Artie Lang's 'Beer League.'"
Eric Hultz
Job: Promotions/Web Content Manager
Fantasy League Team Name: Chet Stedman Rockets
Favorite MLB Team: Cincinnati Reds
Draft Number: 10
Best Players: Hanley Ramirez (Dodgers), Joey Votto (Reds), Stephen Strasburg (Nationals)
Story Behind Team Name: "My team name is from my love of Rookie Of The Year. Favorite movie behind The Sand Lot probably. It's kind of awkward because I hate the Cubs with a passion but I love a movie about them."
Joe Biega
Fantasy League Team Name: A-Rod's Not Here Man (For Now)
Favorite MLB Team: New York Yankees
Draft Number: 3
Best Players: Paul Goldschmidt (Diamondbacks), Jacoby Ellsbury (Yankees), Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)
Story Behind Team Name: "I named myself 'A-Rod's Not Here Man' on a play-on joke on the fact that A-Rod is not on the team this year. It's a play on a Cheech & Chong Joke, 'Dave's not here man.'"
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Because Biega changes his team name all the time, I may or may not update this portion of his profile)
Matt DeBray
Job: Technical Director
Fantasy League Team Name: Kuma Kameleon
Favorite MLB Team: Seattle Mariners
Draft Number: 6
Best Players: Robinson Cano (Mariners), Clayton Kershaw (Dodgers), Yasiel Puig (Dodgers)
Story behind Team name: "Hisashi Iwakuma is one of my favorite players on the Mariners and I think he's going to have a breakout year this season. And it fits with a song name."
Be sure to click on each name listed above to go to their KFBB Profile.
While you're at it, be sure to follow me on twitter: @DerekOpinaKFBB
We will be talking a lot of smack the entire season.


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