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Geibel's Ewing scores career-high 28 points in key section win
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With four Section 3-A losses already on its record, the Geibel boys basketball team knew beating Avella at home Friday night was of utmost importance if it wanted to retain solid hopes of making the WPIAL playoffs.
The Gators came through.
Despite trailing for a majority of the first half, the Gators continued to battle and took control late on the way to a 60-52 victory.
"We talked about it in practice," Geibel coach Bill Hughes said. "We told them that if we won, we'd be in a three-way tie (in section wins) with Avella and Mapletown for fourth place. The guys have been working hard, and I'm proud of their effort."
Hughes especially was pleased that his team overcame several obstacles to beat the Eagles.
Brandon Miller led the Eagles (3-11, 1-3) with 22 points, and Walt Kopko finished with 12 points and helped Avella to an early lead.
However, the Gators (2-11, 1-4) stayed aggressive defensively and started to get rewarded on the offensive side.
Brent Plisko scored five points in the opening quarter as Geibel stayed within striking distance at 11-7. In the second quarter, Geibel's James Ewing began to assert himself.
He scored eight points in the quarter on his way to a career-high 28-point effort.
"James is a silent leader, and a game like this for him is huge," Hughes said. "He did a good job of handling the pressure."
Bailey Miller scored eight points in the second quarter to help the Gators pull within 29-28 at the half.
With momentum already on their side, the Gators received another boost prior to the start of the third quarter.
Matt Mammarella, who suffered a leg injury in the first half, told the team he would be able to come back for the second half. He added two big buckets in the second half to help Geibel overtake the visitors.
"Matt Mammarella is our heart and soul," Hughes said. "He went down in the second quarter, but at halftime, he said he was good to go."
Geibel came out strong in the second half as Ewing buried two big shots to help the Gators claim a 38-36 lead headed to the fourth.
With the game tied at 38-38, Tucker Bokan hit a 3-pointer to put the Gators ahead to stay. Ewing connected for 13 fourth-quarter points to help seal the win.
For Avella, the game represented a missed opportunity to gain the driver's seat in the race for one of the last playoff spots in the section. Avella coach Joseph Hough pinpointed the Eagles' main weakness in the loss.
"We couldn't make free throws," Hough said, lamenting his team's 14-of-31 effort from the line. "Geibel played really well, but we have to knock down free throws. This was a huge ballgame. If we win, we're sitting pretty, but it's a tough loss.
"The kids played hard, but we couldn't make free throws."
Jason Black is the local sports editor of the Daily Courier. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Outside of the addition of paint to a few locations such as Cambridge St. in Allston, and the groundbreaking new truck sideguards ordinance pushed by the Mayor himself, the city's progress on bike safety has slowed significantly in 2014. Public meetings on and talk of the cycletrack around the Public Garden have evaporated. The plan for the first contraflow lane on Hemenway Street in the Fenway neighborhoods has been shelved without notice. A bike lane set to be added to a key connection for South Boston residents–the W. 4th St. Bridge–has been put on hold.
But when it comes to the Commonwealth Ave 2A reconstruction project, the leaders of the bike community agree it is time to draw a line in the sand. BU Bikes, the Bike Union and all of Boston's big biking and walking advocacy groups are calling an all-city rally for Tues.. Dec. 9, 6:30pm at the Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Comm Ave. Boston's Interim Transportation Commissioner Jim Gillooly has said he'll be there, and here's why you and everyone you know needs to be there too:
The 7-block stretch of the street from Packard's Corner to the BU Bridge has hosted more bike crashes than any other similar stretch of road in the city. At present, the city intends to widen the bike lane there, but statistics show that a bike lane clearly is not enough.
The Bike Union's analysis shows that of 68 crashes between 2009 and 2012, 25 percent were caused by doorings and a further 8 percent are related to lane changes and parking issues, adding up to 33 percent that are likely to be entirely preventable if people are using a cycletrack. Another 17 percent are from right hooks, which could be mitigated with a protected intersection design. All of these crashes caused at least 31 ER visits, four hospital admissions and one fatality—incurring an estimated cost of $1.7 million to the victims in just four years, using cost estimates developed by the Center for Disease Control.
Compare that to the roughly $250,000 it would cost the city, the state, or Boston University (or all three ponying up) to revise plans to include a cycletrack, and the picture becomes very clear. A small expenditure for the city now will save residents millions in hospital bills and likely save lives.
If that's not convincing enough, a recent study by a student at Northeastern University has shown that 45 percent of cyclists who use the existing bike lane are actually forced out of it by illegally parked cars.
In October, Jeff Rosenblum of LivableStreets Alliance and Pete Stidman of the Boston Cyclists Union made these points and others in a presentation to Interim Commissioner Jim Gillooly at a meeting of over 20 other staff and consultants from the city and state. The result of that meeting seems to be a shift toward a cycletrack, but it's still unclear.
To counter any technical objections to the cycletrack, a few Bike Union volunteers who happen to be traffic engineers created a full conceptual design for the street from end to end, showing conclusively that fitting a cycletrack within the street's parameters is a solvable problem for Commissioner Gillooly——even with the challenging fact that the MBTA's reservation for the Green Line is significantly expanding.
With all the evidence piling up, including a downward trend in motor vehicle traffic on the street, and skyrocketing biking and walking numbers, "If not here, then where?" is the question many in the Bike Union's organizing group and other leaders are asking. But it still isn't completely clear where Interim Commissioner Jim Gillooly stands. It's a new kind of infrastructure, but also one that all major cities in the U.S. are now implementing in one form or another.
"What about the little old lady getting out of her car door?" Gillooly asked, shortly after Stidman and Rosenblum's October presentation ended. "What about the kid listening to his headphones?"
Even the city's walking advocates—while cautious about creating a design that will keep pedestrian and bike conflicts to a minimum—see the point of protecting people who ride bikes from harm.
"This is one place in the city where we must increase safety and capacity for walkers, cyclists and transit users," said Wendy Landman, Executive Director of WalkBoston. "Any plan that does not: (1) create safe and accessible Green Line platforms that are served by safe street crossings; (2) maintain and improve the space and amenities for pedestrians; and (3) provide safe and well regulated separated bicycle routes (cycle tracks), is just not adequate. The redesign of Comm Ave. will help to set the stage for Go Boston 2030, Mayor Walsh's forward looking mobility plan. We need to get this right."
And on a bike ride with Mayor Marty Walsh last Saturday, organized by the Bike Union, both the mayor and Commissioner Gillooly seemed to be warming up to the Comm Ave Cycletrack proposal. Riding in the door zone on Comm Ave, Mayor Walsh said he could feel his own tendency to shy away from the oncoming traffic to his left, and he recognized the calamity a quickly opened door would bring. Commissioner Gillooly proposed an idea to help people visualize where the cycletrack would be—and agreed to let advocates work with him on the dimensions of it. He also accepted an invitation to participate in the BU Bikes public meeting on Dec. 9.
Because this project will help set the tone for the next 20 years of the Walsh Administration, the Bike Union is billing this as perhaps the most important bike planning meeting this decade. Be there, bring friends and family, and be ready to speak up for a cycletrack on Comm Ave!]]>
The project area on Route 9 stretches from the Jamaicaway Bridge down to the intersection with Washington and Walnut streets. If it could be made into a true 8-80 route for cyclists (comfortable enough for people ages 8 to 80)——it would connect several relatively pleasant biking routes, including the Emerald Necklace Path, Walnut Street, Harvard Street, and Washington Street. The improvement would be a massive bicycling game changer for the town.
In the fall, a team including Roslindale resident Mark Tedrow and Bike Union board member Dr. Peter Furth engineered a full conceptual design for a cycletrack on Gateway east. Union volunteer Jessi Flynn put pen to paper and created a rendering of what the Bike Union's cycletrack concept would look like. With this vision in hand the Bike Union successfully engaged MassDOT and the town of Brookline, convincing them to reconsider the project design and try to include cycletracks.
Then Brookline resident and bicycle researcher Anne Lusk requested an open design charrette from the town, which is apparently eliciting many different ideas for the project——some of which presumably may not include a cycletrack. The charrette's benefit lies in allowing public input, which is a very good thing, but preserving bicyclists from injuries has not been high on the list of priorities for all people. Competing plans may be developed that put amenities like trees and decorative flowers over the need to reduce bicyclist injuries and fatalities at the site.
In light of this possibility, it is extremely important that all Brookline residents and those who use Route 9 regularly attend the design charrette on Dec. 3. If you cannot make it, please encourage your town meeting member or selectman to attend and speak on your behalf in favor of a cycletrack design that promises to reduce injury.
The need for community voices is heightened by the fact that unlike the City of Boston, which now has some of the best bicycle crash data in the country thanks to a study the Bike Union was part of, Brookline has not analyzed crash data on Route 9. Anecdotes about crashes that have occurred here will be an important part of the ongoing conversation around Route 9 in light of the lack of strong data.]]>
"We believe this is the first ordinance of it's kind in the country," wrote Mayor Walsh's press secretary Kate Norton. "The ordinance requires side guards, convex mirrors, cross-over mirrors, and blind-spot awareness decals on all vehicles over 10,000 pounds awarded a city contract. There is a fine for those not in compliance — escalating from $100 for the first offense, to potential termination of the contract."
The Bike Union began pushing for the ordinance through Councillor Ayanna Pressley's office in the wake of Eoin McGrory's tragic death in Charlestown in early April. (Please contribute to a charity fund in his memory.) At the same time, the city's office of Urban Mechanics was talking to the city's new mayor about the success of a pilot program that required sideguards first on the city's public works truck fleet, and subsequently on all trash hauling trucks that contracted with the city. The results of the pilot were positive and all parties agreed that a move toward design requirements for all trucks contracting with the city was the best next step.Today the Bike Union is also releasing a new "Sideguards Save Lives" fact sheet that illustrates the benefits side guards and blind spot mirrors. The fact sheet is that will give residents in other municipalities, the state, and the country a tool to push forward similar ordinances and legislation.
"The Bike Union knows who's who and they set up a face to face meeting with Councillor Ayanna Pressley's staff," said Alex Epstein, one of the nation's expert on truck safety design who works at USDOT at the Volpe Center in Cambridge, and also helped advise the Mayor's staff. "I don't think it would have been possible without that insider connection."
McGrory, a 34-year-old recently married native of Londonderry, Ireland, was hit by a trash hauling truck's rear wheels as it turned off of Cambridge Street onto Spice Street in Charlestown. His death is one of a string of similar incidents in recent years including the collisions that took the lives of Tanya Connolly and Christopher Weigl in 2012. These deaths appear to have been preventable by sideguards and mirrors that allow drivers to see more of what's happening around their vehicle.
"I think overall it's a good bill, it goes beyond side guards to provide cross-over mirrors," said Epstein. "Those mirrors will help drivers to see pedestrians and cyclists within three and five feet of the front of the truck. The main thing is the side guard requirement for trucks over 10,000 pounds. Overall I think it's a great day for safe streets in Boston."
With this ordinance the city of Boston will lead a small group of cities and one state in the nation that are moving toward action on an April recommendation from the National Traffic Safety Board as the federal authorities continue to drag their feet. It's the hope of the Union's Organizing Group——of which Epstein is an active member——that the state legislature takes note of Boston's initiative and follows suit for all trucks of a certain size registered in the state. And ultimately that the federal government takes notice of the upswell of city and state actions and implements side guards and blind spot mirrors for all trucks nationwide.
There are some notable exceptions to the Boston ordinance, including snow plows and emergency vehicles, and any provision for an evaluation of the new sideguard specifications——a study which would admittedly be a costly endeavour for Boston. A study of the kind might be easier for a larger city like New York to carry out, or a well-heeled local university like the Harvard School of Public Health or MIT.
In Council session on Wednesday Sept. 10, the body will take up the issue and likely assign it to one of three committees, Neighborhood Services, chaired by Councillor Tim McCarthy; Government Operations, chaired by Councillor Michael Flaherty; or Healthy Women, Families and Communities, chaired by Councillor Ayanna Pressley. From there, a public hearing may be called before a vote to approve the ordinance takes place. Stay tuned to the Bike Union's e-mail newsletter and social media channels for more information.]]>
The Bike Union and a handful of volunteers took a big step with the Town of Brookline this week when they agreed to take a serious look at a cycletrack option for a small but important section of Route 9 in Brookline Village. After a couple months of back and forth, [...]]]>
The Bike Union and a handful of volunteers took a big step with the Town of Brookline this week when they agreed to take a serious look at a cycletrack option for a small but important section of Route 9 in Brookline Village. After a couple months of back and forth, the Bike Union laid out a convincing argument that cycletracks are feasible, and now the town's going to explore the idea.
Let the town know you support their move by signing this statement of support for a cycletrack in Gateway East, and please forward this email to everyone you know in Brookline to do the same!
The town's original concept was first presented back in 2011 at the 25 percent (conceptual) design stage and then sat on the shelf for a while. The plan sitting there didn't have any bike accommodation on it so when it came off the shelf into a world clamoring for cycle tracks, it got a cold welcoming from the Brookline Bike Committee. Back in 2011 they had asked for cycletracks, to no avail, but this time the context had changed, cycle tracks are due to be installed in Jamaica Plain, downtown, in Somerville, and several already exist in Cambridge. Plus, the Boston Bike Union now works in Brookline, Cambridge and Somerville too.
The Union proposed presenting an alternative concept for the street to the Town of Brookline and MassDOT, similar to the one it is cooking up for Commonwealth Ave across town (update: still tweaking it). The plan was drawn up by Mark Tedrow, a Bike Union member and Livable Streets volunteer, with help and guidance from Bike Union board member Prof. Peter Furth and executive director Pete Stidman. Tedrow's plan was then illustrated by talented Bike Union volunteer Jessi Flynn.
The concept, which is mainly meant to show that there is enough width throughout the scope of the project to include a cycletrack, includes one-way raised bike lanes (cycletracks) on either side of Route 9. It stretches from what is often referred to as the "Route 9 Crossing" of the Muddy River Path to where Washington St. (sometimes confused with nearby Harvard St.) branches off to the west.
After it was received by the Town and MassDOT, Assistant Director of Town Planning Joe Viola informed the Bike Union that the town was going to ask their consultant VHB (Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc) to create an option that includes a cycletrack. MassDOT is also talking to the town about potential solutions. In any case, it seems that by the time options reach the eyes of Brookline residents, they will include some very significant improvements for bikes.
Normally, very few would venture to ride on any part of Route 9, but this particular section is essential for people who want access the Muddy River Path, get over to Walnut St, Washington St., or Harvard St., or access the Brookline Village MBTA station. All of these access points connect to comfortable, relatively low-stress bicycling–making this part of Route 9 a significant barrier to cycling for a large number of potential riders, and the Gateway East project the key to eliminating it.
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the design proposed by Tedrow and the Bike Union are the "floating bus stops." The concept is common in Europe and it is included in the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide that many American cities including Boston now endorse, but it would be a first time it is used in Massachusetts. Similar examples do exist however, such as the bus stop that exists along the Southwest Corridor at Roxbury Crossing, and the soon to be finished cycletrack on Western Avenue in Cambridge. In essence, the bikeway travels behind the MBTA bus stop instead of in front of it, creating a crossing point where pedestrians can access the bus stop. The room for this marvel at Gateway East was provided by the removal of a unnecessary travel lane.
The travel lane's potential demise was daignosed by Professor Furth, who analyzed the traffic signal cycles at this intersection and discovered that if some of the different moves through the intersection were allowed to run concurrently, two turning lanes wouldn't be needed for the right hand turn off Route 9 onto Washington. The same amount of cars would be able to get through with only one lane.
The Bike Union will need your help as we continue to work with the Town of Brookline on Gateway East. Please forward this email or the petition link to everyone you know in the town, but also, write your Town Meeting members and selectmen, and let the Bike Union know if they are open to the idea. CC us at email@example.com or call us at 617-620-1989.]]>
Commonwealth is often recognized in the news media as having the most crashes of any street in the city, along with nearby Mass Ave. So it's hard to understand why a new Boston Transportation Department plan to fully reconstruct the street does not include significant safety improvements for cyclists–nor does it include the current gold standard of bike safety: a physically protected bike lane (cycletrack).
The revelation has the city's bike advocates mobilizing. We ask for your support through an online petition that you can sign with your friends.
"Its a heavily biked corridor, and its also got a lot of crashes, so we need something that's safer and more comfortable," said bike advocate and resident Matt Danish. "It's an important link between Allston-Brighton and the rest of the city."
Using data made available through years of Bike Union advocacy, the Union's Research Group was able to carefully read the current situation on this particular stretch of Comm Ave in detail.
Looking in particular at the kinds of crashes cycletracks can prevent, their analysis showed 17 doorings (25 percent of all 68 crashes reported), two people hit by cabs pulling over, one car reversing into a cyclist, one car switching lanes and hitting a cyclist, and one cyclist seriously injured when hit from behind by a drunk driver. All in all, the analysis shows that as many as 33 percent of the crashes reported might have been prevented if a cycletrack was installed.
And, if one added protected right turn signals to the cycletrack, which allow vehicles in dedicated right hand turn lanes to go only when bicyclists going straight are stopped by a special red bicycle traffic light, it might have prevented a further 12 "right hook" crashes. One of those right hooks, a tractor-trailer turning right at Commonwealth and St. Paul, took the life of promising photographer, former Eagle Scout, and 23-year-old BU student Christopher Weigl at the end of 2012.
"Comm Ave is simply not built for the kind of traffic it has," BU Bikes founder Galen Mook said. "That's evident with the bike lane constantly being blocked by delivery trucks, buses pulling into bus stops, double parked cars, and kids sprinting across the street to catch the trolley, and the general chaos."
Last week local residents, the Boston Cyclists Union, LivableStreets Alliance, MassBike, and others submitted a letter to the city of Boston asking for improvements for pedestrians and cyclists, including a protected bike lane. But before Boston Transportation Commissioner Jim Gillooly could write an answer, Boston University VP Robert Donahue answered instead, saying the school would have the consultant on the project, Tetra Tech, review the suggestions for improvements. But he also sounded a strong warning to the city and the state against any time-consuming changes to the plan.
"The financing and feasibility of this project has been made possible through federal earmarks which need to be used or are in danger of being lost," wrote Donahue, and then continued in bold lettering: "I would urge both the City and State to be mindful of these facts before they contemplate a major redesign of CAP2A that would definitely jeopardize the delicate funding balance of this project and thus threaten its completion."
The city's response to the letter has yet to arrive, and Commissioner Gillooly has not answered an email asking if he would reply or not.
Fears that funding will be lost are raised often in planning projects with deadlines to meet, but in truth, making changes quickly is simply about prioritizing the changes and heralding the resources necessary. Often it is the resistance to change can result in long, drawn out neighborhood battles that can delay projects.
"I think they have noticed that it is an important corridor for their students and I think they genuinely want to make it a better place to walk and bike," Danish said of Donahue's letter representing Boston University. "I also think they have some ideas that we don't find to be safe in this day and age. They may be a bit old fashioned."
Tetra Tech, a $2-billion-a-year 13,000-employee giant, is also not the most progressive consulting firm in the field. Although the firm has been involved in projects that advocates have helped make innovative, like the cycletrack coming to one side of the Longfellow Bridge, Tetra Tech's website today brags about highway interchanges, highway widenings, and highway overpasses. Only a two or three mentions of bike lanes can be found on their sprawling website, and the word cycletrack is entirely absent.
The plans for Commonwealth 2A are currently between 25% and 75% design stages. The city received comment letters after the 25% design public meeting that asked for cycletracks, but somehow did not see fit to incorporate them as the plan was refined. The city has not indicated that there will even be a further public meeting on the project, an unusual break in routine. Typically all large arterial road projects in the city have a public 75% design meeting.]]>
ere a grand jury seemed to ignore a mountain of evidence.
Police had to track Prezioso down through witness accounts of the garbage truck he was driving, and charged him with "leaving the scene of an accident causing death," but a Suffolk County grand jury did not find probable cause to indict.
Grand juries continue to be used only in the United States and individual states use them in different ways. Some states have effectively abolished them in favor of other types of preliminary hearings. They have been criticized as an inefficient use of the court's time, but also because they appear to be easily swayed by the disposition of the prosecutor. It is also said that grand jury members often misunderstand their purpose as determining guilt, rather than their intended purpose: to determine whether or not there is probable cause to believe that someone committed a certain offense.
In order to indict in Massachusetts, a case must go before a grand jury.
In Prezioso's case, the Suffolk County DA's office offered more detail than is normal in their press release, perhaps in an effort to show that they earnestly tried to win an indictment.
"Suffolk prosecutors introduced 19 physical exhibits and testimony from seven witnesses, including percipient witnesses and Boston Police officers, to the Grand Jury as part of the investigation," spokesman Jake Wark said in the release. "In light of the grand jury's decision, prosecutors are essentially left without a criminal case."
Now that the grand jury investigation is over, prosecutors gave the investigative file to McGrory's family to use in the event they want to file a civil suit.
The McGrory tragedy has also sparked a number of campaigns to prevent further crashes like his. The Bike Union has been working with side guards expert Alex Epstein to spark interest in a new city ordinance that would require all trucks contracting with the city have sideguards—modeled on a similar requirement currently being implemented for trash hauling trucks. A fact sheet on the effort is also being drawn up to help bring state legislators up to speed on developments in the field.
At Sullivan Square where McGrory was killed, the City of Boston is planning a number of improvements to help prevent future crashes.
"We are adding bike lanes and sharrows and signage to the area, including pavement markings for the entire (circular) square," said Boston Bikes Czar Nicole Freedman.
The Boston Transportation Department has long-term plan as well. An award winning redesign is sitting on the shelf that would fully reconstruct the area into a group of regular intersections, help organize traffic, and add better bikeways, including a shared use path alongside Rutherford Ave.
As of yet that project is not fully funded, and it may be altered to account for potential impacts from the Wynn Resorts Casino proposal in nearby Everett. The added traffic from the casino could degrade conditions for cyclists and pedestrians by influencing the city to keep an underpass on Rutherford Avenue at Austin Street, though many in the neighborhood would oppose such a change.
To help preserve the plan, advocates in Charlestown are rallying this week to support the Mayor's call to delay a license hearing on the proposed casino until after a Ballot Initiative to repeal gambling in Massachusetts is voted on in the fall. The hearing is tomorrow Wed., July 2, 10:30am at Bunker Hill Community College Theatre (Room A300), and is being held by the Mass Gaming Commission.]]>
An article in the last issue of the Union Rider newsletter pointed out several errors in the Arborway design that could be dangerous to cyclists, and decried a lack of public review of any kind.
On the positive side, in a response letter Commissioner Jack Murray committed to hiring a traffic analyst to help create an "initial study concept" for bikeways on the street in the late fall and, as a result of the increased attention from the Bike Union and other advocates, took stronger steps toward creating a bicycle advisory board specifically for urban areas in the state.
The Union requested that the future Arborway concept include protected bike lanes (cycletracks), and recently received plans for the street that engineers working with the Union can pour over for possible solutions.
Many sections of the Arborway measured by Bike Union volunteers are wide enough allow a cycletrack with the kind of flexibility needed to allow residential services such as trash pick up and oil delivery. The challenges DCR and Bike Union engineers will face will be the traffic circles; how to traverse them or avoid them altogether.]]>


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JACK: Because I want to Dare myself to get out of this game.
KALIN: Come on, Jack, don't be like that! (nudges him a bit)
JACK: All right smart guy - I pick you! Truth or Dare?
KALIN: Let me start off with a Dare.
JACK: Then I dare you to eat a whole big package of pretzel sticks.
CROW: Err... I think we're out of those.
JACK: Then (to Kalin) go downstairs and buy them.
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(Kalin get
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(our small town, late in the evening, the living room)
ME: (to everyone in the room) Guys, you know what are we gonna do now?!? We're gonna play Truth or Dare!!
JACK: You have got to be kidding.
ME: Oh, come on, that's the best way to kill some time! And it can be so much fun!
KALIN: I agree, let's have a go!
CROW: Uh... Well it's not like we have something better to do...
(we (Jack, Yusei, Kalin, Crow, Atemu and me) all settle down into a circle on the floor (the furniture has been moved aside so that we could have more room))
ME: Hey Magna! Come to play with us!!
(Magna slowly emerges from some part of the apartment)
MAGNA: What are you playing?
ME: Truth or Dare.
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ME: You just pick someone, ask him if he wants Truth or Dare, and then you think of something for that person to confess or do.
Oh yeah - who ever doesn't want t
TDOTCC: Truth or Dare pt.9(...)TDOTCC: Truth or Dare pt.93 years ago in Humor More Like This
KALIN: O-kay...
... Atemu, do us the honor, will you?
ATEMU: Alright.
(gets up to take out a paper again)
(reads the picked)
"Dress up into something and act like it till the end of the evening."
Well looks like I finally got lucky.
BJ485, you be the next one until I get back.
ME: (still mad at Crow) |:< Fine, I'll take out a paper...
(Atemu stands up and goes out of the room)
Kalin, can you pass me the bowl?
KALIN: Sure. (takes it and hands it over to me so I could take one)
ME: (reading from the paper) ... "Go outside and stay there all alone until you count (out loud) to thousand", nooo!!!
Well, rules are rules, come on!
Luna, take care of the egg for me please.
Leo, you be the next victim.
LEO: Yes!
I'll draw a paper!
ME: TT_TT ... (I take my jacket and go outside)
LEO: (reads) "Don't say a word for the next hour"?! D8
(the st
TDOTCC: Truth or Dare pt.3(...)TDOTCC: Truth or Dare pt.33 years ago in Humor More Like This
ME: (from the outside) I'M AAAN IDIOOOOT!!!!!!
KALIN: (while I'm running back in) XD I hope it's not contageous!
ME: Oh you had a nice time, huh?
Crow! Truth or Dare?!
CROW: Truth.
ME: What was the most embarrassing thing you were hiding in your childhood from Yusei and Jack?
CROW: I'll get you for this in the next round... -_-' (gets up and goes on the terrace)
KALIN: Hahahaha! XD
CROW: (in Japanese) I'M AN IDIOOOOOT!!!!!!!!
(a bark of a provoked dog is heard)
(Crow also runs in)
(notices Kalin laughing)
Kalin!! Truth or Dare?!
KALIN: Dare. XD Hahahaha!
CROW: I dare you to do a handstand 4 times by jumping from a normal stand on your hands and vice-versa!
KALIN: Aw, come on Crow, that's really hard! Don't you really have a sense of humor?
CROW: I don't.
KALIN: Aah!... (gets up and gets ready to


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April 10, 2011 at 8:45 am
April 10, 2011 at 8:50 am
Baldy is such an evil businessman, yet a great one. He definitely looked weird with that Strikeforce T- shirt on.
April 10, 2011 at 8:59 am
Is it me or Dana was breathing heavily from just talking to Ariel?
April 10, 2011 at 8:59 am
Damn it Dana you know I can't stand you but you had me crackin up with the Diaz impersonation!
April 10, 2011 at 9:04 am
"He's paid his dues" = "Get your butt back, run your mouth, and make daddy some money!"
April 10, 2011 at 10:51 am
Dana said he wasnt going to attend any of the strikeforce events, only 1 show in and hes there… lol.
April 10, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Ariel Helwani is the Devil!!!
April 10, 2011 at 4:57 pm
as if he said to wanderlei that you cant ask for fights or make twitter/fb campaigns to get the fight you want, thats happened like 10 times just last year.. and its probably going to happen again with sonnen-bisping..
April 10, 2011 at 8:38 pm
he is 100% right about nick diaz lol he really could be somethin else if he just chills out a little bit
April 10, 2011 at 9:47 pm
sonnen-bisping thats 1 fight id love to see, yes spitping is good at what he does, but sonnen will put a hurting on him, and when it happens ill have a smile on my face
April 10, 2011 at 10:10 pm
I hope he gets rid of the awful commentating….Most of Lowkick can commentate better then Ranallo/Shamrock. Pat Miletich, however, is good in my book. Oh and get rid of the tranny looking guy Gus…or whatever his name is. Replace commentating with Bas Ruten and Joe if they are up to it, hell even Goldy. Oh and when Ranallo said "the crowd is on fuego"…..He shouldve been fired on the spot for that one
April 11, 2011 at 3:41 am
lol who wants to beat up arial?? u jus treatend him for a bit u wanted to uncle dana
April 11, 2011 at 5:16 am
The real power is with Frank and Lorenzo Fertita.
Both Dana and Coker are figureheads.
April 11, 2011 at 5:19 am
He should have been fuegoed on the spot.
April 11, 2011 at 7:00 am
Sonnen. Belfort. Rio. Book it.
April 11, 2011 at 5:08 pm
I also agree about the commentating…..I hope Dana changes that first. For any "new" mma fan to hear how poor and loopy these guys sound, is going to hurt SF. Not only do they sound uneducated as far as the sport goes, they go way overboard with exclamations and hype. The interviews with the fighters after the fights in the hexagon are horrible also. It sounds so scripted and uninteresting. I never realized how much the commentating has an impact on watching the fight. It makes me almost want to mute the tv. Dana, please change this!!
April 11, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Translation: "The UFC will absorb StrikeForce just like the WEC and it will no longer exist". Just watch, boys.
April 11, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Coker is a clown with no real power anymore, it's only a matter of time.
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290 dead as high street fashion chains told to put lives before profits after Bangladeshi factory collapse
Death toll passes 290 as staff describe how they were ordered to continue production despite raising concerns over huge cracks in the eight-storey structure
Jonathan Brown
Friday 26 April 2013
Pressure is mounting on high street retailers and leading brands to put lives ahead of profits and safeguard Bangladeshi factory workers as the death toll from the collapse of a building housing clothing manufacturers passed 290.
The factories supplied Britain's Primark and Matalan, as well as Spain's Mango, whilst C&A said it had previous links to one of the contractors.
Tonight rescuers located 40 survivors stranded in the rubble at Savar, near Dhaka, as staff described how they were ordered to continue production despite raising concerns over huge cracks in the eight-storey structure.
US supermarket giant Wall-Mart was also on the factory's clients' list although it has not confirmed this. UK company Premier Clothing said it used suppliers on the sixth and seventh floor of the building.
Hundreds more people are believed to have been injured in the disaster which comes six months after a fire at a Dhaka clothes factory left 112 people dead when emergency exits were blocked. The incident highlighted the dangers in an industry that reportedly accounts for 80 per cent of the country's exports and employs three million workers earning an average of 12p an hour, campaigners say.
According to the Associated Press, among those trapped was Mohammad Altab who lay pinned tightly between two concrete slabs. Next to him lay two corpses. "Save us brother. I beg you brother. I want to live," he moaned. "It's so painful here... I have two little children."
The cracks in the Rana Plaza building were discovered on Tuesday and were reported on the local television news. Staff from a bank that is housed in the same building were evacuated. However, bosses at the five clothing companies told their 3,000 employees to report for duty as normal. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association claimed it had asked the factories to suspend work starting on Wednesday morning, hours before the collapse.
"After we got the crack reports, we asked them to suspend work until further examination, but they did not pay heed," said Atiqul Islam, the group's president. It was reported that some of the floors on the building had been illegally built.
Laia Blanch of British charity War on Want urged the UK government to intervene. "It is unacceptable that UK firms continue to make huge profits from garments produced under appalling health and safety conditions," she said. Oxfam said the collapse highlighted the vulnerability of many buildings in densely-populated Dhaka, a city that sits on two seismic fault- lines.Speaking from Dhaka, Gareth Price-Jones said many retailers already claimed that ethical working practices were in place but in reality were often not enforced.
He said companies needed to change the working culture of factories in Bangladesh, where profit margins come before safety. He said this could be done at little cost.
"It can be as simple as changing the culture. The only reason there were workers in that building was because management told them they would be docked pay if they did not go to work," he said. Mr Price-Jones said consumers had the power to "hold brands to account".
An action plan by the Bangladeshi government following last year's tragedy has done little to improve conditions, Scott Nova of the Washington-based Workers Rights Consortium said.
Campaigners are urging companies to sign up instead to the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement (BFBSA) which would require signatories to fit out their suppliers' premises to full safety standards. So far only PVH, owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, and German retailer Tchibo have signed up. Mr Nova said it was estimated regulation would add 6p to the cost of an item of clothing.
"Change will only happen when major brands and retailers including those in the UK say that there is such a risk to their reputations that they will finally take the step of protecting the lives of their workers. This is not an industry driven by moral considerations but the bottom line," he said.
Unions claim that 700 garment workers have died in the past 10 years during which time wages have declined for the predominantly female workforce by 2.37 per cent. Primark said it had been working for several years with NGOs and other retailers to "review the Bangladeshi industry's approach to factory standards." It said it would now "push for this review to also include building integrity."
A spokesman for Premier Clothing said: "We were shocked and deeply saddened to hear about the terrible tragedy… Our thoughts are with the victims and their families."
Mango said it had only discussed production of a test sample of clothing with one of the factories. Matalan meanwhile said it had not used New Wave since February when it had switched production for commercial reasons. Primark, is a member of the Ethical Trading Initiative designed to promote safety standards through the supply chain. It is calling for a collaborative approach between retailers and suppliers.
But Sam Maher of the group Labour Behind the Label, said: "It's unbelievable that brands still refuse to sign a binding agreement with unions and labour groups to stop these unsafe working conditions from existing."
The Bangladeshi Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir said the building had violated construction codes and that "the culprits would be punished."
The building owner has been ordered to appear before Bangladesh's High Court next week alongside the top management of the factories.
Timeline: Factory disasters
25 Nov 2000 A fire at the Sagar Chowdhury Garment Factory in Narsingdi, 35 miles from Dhaka, kills 52 people, including children. A locked gate stops them escaping.
11 Apr 2005 Sixty-four people are killed when the Spectrum factory near Dhaka collapses. The disaster is blamed on illegal construction.
25 Feb 2010 A fire kills 21 workers at Garib & Garib Newaj factory in Gazipur, which supplies H&M.
14 Dec 2010 A fire at the That's It Sports Wear factory in Dhaka kills 29. Its customers include GAP.
24 Nov 2012 A fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory near Dhaka kills 112. US rapper and producer Sean Combs is among its Western customers with his ENYCE label.
26 Jan 2013 Eight workers die in a fire at the Smart Fashions factory in Dhaka. Brands found in the wreckage include Bershka and Lefties (Inditex), KIK and New Look.
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Iskandar Zulkarnain became only the second Malaysian badminton player to qualify for the World Junior Badminton Championships boys' singles final after defeating Taiwan's Hsu Jen-hao 21-17, 7-21, 21-16 in the semi-finals at the Sultan Abdul Halim Indoor Stadium last night.
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The famous Shinkyō bridge in Nikkō. Shinkyō might be translated as Sacred Bridge, but I think most people tend to use the Japanese name. It is known as one of the three most beautiful bridges in Japan and is a World Heritage site.
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I love The Green! I was a little surprised to see them on here cuz I've only heard them on raggae radio stations (:
by ParamoreRox13 on 7/17/2012 8:59:20 PM
i wanted to go for all time low and we are the in crowd. but i love that we the kings song already. sad that i'm going on vacation when they come here!
by that70sgirl13 on 7/2/2012 12:07:54 AM
I love Breathe Carolina and All Time Low!!!
by Cutiepie7 on 6/29/2012 4:03:40 PM
I'm so glad to see All Time Low and Breathe Carolina on this list :3 they are two awesome rockin' bands and it wouldn't be a Vans Warped Tour without them! and i wish i could go but i can't
by California Love! on 6/26/2012 10:49:40 PM
Sadly, I won't be seeing Warped Tour this year. My favorite band on the tour is Yellowcard.
by supersingershannon on 6/26/2012 5:53:33 PM
Makeup advice! Go to the club Flawless (Makeup Advice) for giving and getting advice. Join the virtual makeup store (: Member titles are still needed! xoxox
by vintage50 on 6/22/2012 9:49:34 PM
Grrr...in my town the day i leave for vacation...the thought of being 10 miles from Ronnie Radke already has me swooning <3
by AnimalHugger1000 on 6/22/2012 9:20:12 PM
YAY WARPED TOUR!!! We the Kings(<3), All Time Low, Yellowcard, Sleeping with Sirens, Breathe Carolina, Falling in Reverse, Pierce the Veil, You Me At Six, Of Mice and Men, We are the In Crowd!! all my faves! all we're missing is Fall Out Boy and Blink-182 and it would be perfect <3
by Kalulah on 6/22/2012 8:39:55 PM
I'm going!!!!!! i love all time low <3
by wightkitty on 6/22/2012 6:03:29 PM
I LOVE WE ARE THE IN CROWD!!!!!!! i've loved them ever since they were on the 2010 warped tour
by cass15 on 6/22/2012 5:53:03 PM
I thought that I would be finally be able to see Paramore in concert, because they go on Warped Tour a lot; but I'm finally allowed to go, and they aren't gonna be there. Good thing I didn't buy tickets, cause I see no point.
by cheesybes98 on 6/22/2012 3:52:57 PM
I wanted to go so bad!!!!!!!
I love The Used and All Time Low!
My friend got Alex Gaskarth and Ronnie Radke's signatures, and talked to them both!
by awtechnofish on 6/22/2012 1:52:52 PM
I will not be checking out the Vans Warped Tour this summer. My fave band on the tour this year's All Time Low.
by otter77 on 6/22/2012 12:46:04 PM
The Used <3
by archer_girl on 6/22/2012 12:00:06 PM
Oohhh!! I'm really sad that GL didn't put a Cherri Bomb song in. They are amazing and on this tour! I would recommend Better This Way, or Shake The Ground. The band consists of 5 teenage girls who do their own vocals and instrumentals. If you like rock, then they are defiantly a must have!
by Supersid on 6/22/2012 11:32:21 AM
omg, i love we are the in crowd! im so happy theyre on here!
by rockstargal03 on 6/22/2012 11:01:05 AM
by peace1089 on 6/22/2012 10:44:20 AM
I love GL X1000 now for posting this.
by GettoxFabxForever on 6/22/2012 8:00:07 AM
I LOVE Blackout by Breathe Carolina!
by xpunkxkatx on 6/22/2012 3:41:06 AM
omgg i love blackout!! <33
by stylecrazy503 on 6/22/2012 1:47:47 AM
Grew up listening to Ocean Avenue because of my 2 older sisters LOL. Still know every word to it!
by DaNcInGQu33N9812 on 6/22/2012 12:55:27 AM
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