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Adams County Sheriff's deputies are warning of a scam.
Adams County Sheriff's deputies are warning of a scam.
The Adams County DARE Kids are ready for a graduation.
The Adams County Sheriff's Office would like to inform residents of a possible ongoing scam in the Adams County area. Residents in the St. Ludgerus Road area and Royal Oaks Mobile Home Park have reported a subject going door-to-door soliciting residents for money.
The Quincy Gems are presenting a benefit softball game this Saturday at Q.U. Stadium with the Adams County Sheriff's Department taking on the Quincy Fire Department. Game time is 6:30 Saturday night with all proceeds benefiting both departments.
The Adams County Sheriff's Department has sent out notification that someone is trying to scam people out of $250 to $500. According to a news release from Deputy Brad Parrish, the Sheriff's office has received complaints that a phone scam is going on where people are being offered federal grants if they send $250 to $500 to them by Western Union.
The Lewis County Sheriff's Office and the Adams County Sheriff's Office are looking for assistance in locating a stolen trailer. On May 22 around 7:00 a.m. a 1977 John Deere 201 Implement Carrier was stolen from rural LaGrange Missouri.
The 24th Annual Teddy Bear Clinic was held yesterday at Blessing Hospital and it was a huge success. According to officials at Blessing Rieman College of Nursing over 300 youngsters and parents came by the 3 hour event.
Earlier this week the Quincy Police Department and the Adams County Sheriff's Department displayed an online program that will enable citizens to track crime in their immediate area. It's called RAIDS Online
Nothing could be more horrific than losing a child. We hear about missing children all the time on the national news and think that it only happens elsewhere. Within the last couple of years it has happened here with a missing daughter of a Hannibal family and a missing girl in Louisiana, Missouri.


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Nathan Drake occasionally reaches out to touch a wall in passing. Batman's suit gets more tattered the further into Arkham City you venture. But nowhere have we seen such wanton physicality as in Crystal Dynamics' short demo of its upcoming Tomb Raider reboot. The re-invented Lara Croft goes through so much impactful agony as she stumbles through the 30 minute segment we get to play, we're almost constantly wincing.
At various points Lara gets strangled, falls from vertigo-inducing heights, gets savaged by wolves and has her ankle crunched in a bear trap. These are not the short sharp, ineffectual knocks and scrapes that certain other heroes may take in the course of action. Every hit Lara takes she feels, and you feel through her, thanks to some amazing animation and striking sound design.
That aforementioned bear trap has Lara limping about until she can find a camp to recuperate. But don't start thinking that Lara has gone all soft. This origin story knows that Ms Croft is destined to become one of the world's greatest action stars. It asks, what would a person have to go through for the taking of life to become as easy as it is for the likes of Lara, Drake and Batman? The answer? Pain, suffering and the discovery of an intense inner strength.
After spending the night in a makeshift shelter, we begin to explore our immediate surroundings. Rather than throw us into one giant sandbox world, the world of Tomb Raider is presented through massive hubs. The first of these we discover after following a bubbling brook down a short incline, which opens up into a huge expanse of thickly wooded forest.
Your time in Tomb Raider is taken up primarily with the main story, the objectives for which periodically flash up briefly on an otherwise barren interface. Find food, we're told. We spy a corpse with a bow in a tree and are soon clambering up for it. Using the bow will be instinctive to anyone who's fired a weapon in a third-person shooter, as we find out hunting deer for some much needed grub. Lara sorrowfully approaches the grunting form of her felled deer, and apologises as she puts it out of its misery with an arrowhead. A significant moment for Lara, it being the first life she snuffs out, and a noteworthy counterpoint to the ultra-violence ahead.
A particularly potent element to Tomb Raider's narrative is its use of human characters. In previous Tomb Raider games a sense of isolation was crafted through the exploration of vast empty tombs, with long periods of time permeated with hardly any sound apart from the occasional grunt of Ms Croft herself. In 2013's Tomb Raider there are plenty of homosapien folk, including irritating intellectual Dr Whitman and a hulking bloke called Reyes. Not to mention the vicious enemies you'll encounter along the way. So, if this new Tomb Raider wants to build upon what has gone before, how can it give Lara these emotionally involving characters to bounce off, while still encouraging a sense of remoteness? The answer is all in the island itself.

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Welcome to my series on Cloth Diapers. If you missed the previous entries, you can start reading here. Today's post is brought to you by Yosefa in Israel, who shares how homemade wipes can be simple, frugal and healthy. Last month, I sent a … [Read more...]
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Welcome to Part 3 of my cloth dipaering series. Be sure to read Cloth Diapers 101 & Prefolds & Covers, if you missed them. Today's post, brought to you by my friend Dara from the Not in New Jersey blog, is all about her experience using … [Read more...]
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The Pagoda Hotel is well known by local residents as a popular Sunday brunch spot, but not as a furniture store. That could change -- at least for the next week, as the hotel liquidates a huge supply of excess furniture. Click here to watch Paul's report. Saturday was a feeding frenzy for furniture shoppers at the Pagoda Hotel ballroom. "You had to get here early. A lot of the stuff I was ...
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Carles Esteva Mosso is Director for Policy and Strategy at the Competition Directorate General of the European Commission. In this position, he is in charge of the development of policy, strategy and legislative instruments in the fields of antitrust, mergers and state aids. His responsibilities also include the coordination of the European Competition Network and the international dimension of competition policy.
Carles Esteva held previously a number of management positions in DG Competition. He was Head of the Private Enforcement Unit, which was mainly in charge of developing initiatives to facilitate the compensation of damages deriving from the infringement of competition law rules. Before he had been Head of the Merger Control Unit in charge of the investigation and assessment of mergers in telecoms, media and IT related industries and Head of Unit for Merger Control Policy and Scrutiny.
Between 1999 and 2004, Carles Esteva was a Member of the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Competition Policy Mario Monti. In this capacity, he advised the Commissioner on the enforcement of merger control, antitrust and cartel policy. He was also the Cabinet Member in charge of the process of modernisation and reform of antitrust and merger rules.
Since 1994 and before joining Mario Monti's cabinet, he had worked in several areas within DG Competition, including the Merger Task Force and the antitrust unit in charge of the financial sector. Prior to joining the European Commission, Carles Esteva worked in legal private practice. He is a member of the Barcelona's Bar.
Carles Esteva holds a Masters degree in European Law from the Institut d'Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles ; he also graduated in Law and in Economics by the Universitat de Barcelona and in Political Science (International relations) by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is a guest professor on competition law at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He has published several articles (the most recent being "Non-horizontal mergers: a European perspective"; Fordham International Law Journal, May 2008) and he regularly participates in major conferences on competition law and policy.


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One of my favorite people in NYC is Galadriel Masterson, fashion stylist, BUST contributor, and self proclaimed "cuntastic lezberry," she knows it all and she isn't afraid to tell you! Luckily for us, Galadriel has recently launched her new web series, "In Bed with Galadriel" where she'll be interviewing various NY luminaries (in bed, natch) and getting all up in their faces. The first episode features the legendary Miss Guy, former lead singer of the Toilet Boys, who can often be found at fabulous events on the arm of his best gal pal, Debbie Harry, or DJing at swanky NY hot spots or celeb parties.
Stay tuned for more episodes and nuggets of wisdom at Galadriel's blog.
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Now that is a serious piece of jewelry. It looks like a portable turntable for your finger, only covered in diamonds. And when I say "covered," I mean it.
According to ESPN's Dave McMenamin, there are more than three karats worth of diamonds on that bad boy, including the 16 bigger ones that go around the outside of the ring and represent the Lakers' 16 titles. I'm not sure, but I'd imagine the remaining gazillion smaller rocks refer to the Lakers just being really good at basketball. Nothing specifically, just a reminder that this is one of the premier franchises in NBA history. No bigs, just shine.
Though you might think three karats of diamonds on a broccoli floret-sized ring would be enough to satisfy the rich tastes of the Lakers, you'd be wrong. That little brown spot you see on the left is a piece of leather from the game ball used in last year's Game 7 win over the Celtics. Kind of like how I had my signature put on the inside of my high school class ring that I never wore, only way cooler. Plus, each ring has a 3-D model of its owner's face, or possibly they all got Kobe's face which would be really funny.
No indication yet how much the rings cost, but I would estimate the price at "a lot." Maybe even "crazy a lot." However, if you're lucky enough, you can get your hands on Ron Artest's, which would in turn give you a tiny 3-D sculpture of Ron-Ron's face. That'd pretty much be the best Christmas gift imaginable.


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After weeks of behind the scenes work, Mayor Kevin Johnson is expected to reveal the highly speculated names of the deep-pocket investors he's lined up to bid on the Sacramento Kings, according to Sacramento's CBS 13.
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According to a report from The Sacramento Bee, the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy auction of a seven percent stake in the Sacramento Kings might make the sale happen sooner than anticipated.
Details Of Financing Plan For New Sacramento Arena Emerge
According to CBS Sacramento, the NBA-endorsed arena financing plan the Maloofs walked away from last year is getting a new look with a new location, and possibly new landlords.
Judge Rejects Union Lawsuit Aiming To Block Arena Plans
A Washington state judge rejected a union lawsuit Friday which aimed to block a deal for new Seattle basketball arena.
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The brown rat can breed throughout the year if conditions are suitable, a female producing up to five litters a year. The gestation period is only 21 days and litters can number up to fourteen, although seven is common. The maximum life span is up to three years, although most barely manage one. A yearly mortality rate of 95% is estimated, with predators and interspecies conflict as major causes.
When lactating, female rats display a 24 hour rhythm of maternal behavior, and will usually spend more time attending to smaller litters than large ones.
Brown rats live in large hierarchical groups, either in burrows or subsurface places such as sewers and cellars. When food is in short supply, the rats lower in social order are the first to die. If a large fraction of a rat population is exterminated, the remaining rats will increase their reproductive rate, and quickly restore the old population level.
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Photographers are born travelers. They'll go any distance to capture the right light, beautiful landscapes, wildlife, and people. But exotic locales aren't necessary for interesting photographs. Wonderful images are hiding almost everywhere; you just need to know how to find them. Get inspired to discover the beautiful images around you.
Extraordinary Everyday Photography will help you search beyond the surface to find the unexpected wherever you are, be it a downtown street, a local park, or your own front lawn. Authors Brenda Tharp and Jed Manwaring encourage amateur photographers to slow down, open their eyes, and respond to what they see to create compelling images that aren't overworked. Through accessible discussions and exercises, readers learn to use composition, available light, color, and point of view to create stunning photographs in any environment. Inspiring photo examples from the authors, taken with DSLRs, compact digital cameras, and even iPhones, show that it is the photographer's eye and creative vision–not the gear–that make a great image.
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Amateur and experienced photographers interested in making more compelling images will love this new edition, now updated to address the exciting possibilities (and challenges) of digital image-making. Author Brenda Tharp's inspiring approach has garnered fans all over the world, as she teaches that magical skill no camera can do for you: learn how to "see." Readers expand their photographic vision and discover a wellspring of creativity as they learn how to use light, balance, color, design, pattern, texture, composition, and many simple techniques to take a photo from ordinary to high-impact. Featuring more than 150 stunning, all new images, Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography, Revised Edition is for anyone who understands the basic technical side to photography but wants to wake up their creative vision.
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''If you want something bad enough, anything's possible,'' says the plucky Sonora Webster (Gabrielle Anwar) in this inspiring, based-on-fact Depression-era story about a girl who runs away from home to join a carnival act in Wild Hearts Can't be Broken.
Determined to become a ''diving-horse girl'' someone who straddles a horse that leaps from a 40-foot platform into a pool she tracks down master showman Doc Carver (a leathery Cliff Robertson) and to his annoyance sticks around. She's too young to be a glamorous show girl, but Doc lets her care for the horses and shovel manure. ''Why, manure's my speciality!'' Sonora says brightly. ''I can believe that,'' says a rueful Doc.
Sonora's persistence impresses Doc and his obdurate son, Al (Michael Schoeffling). When Doc's regular diving girl is injured, Sonora gets her big break. Though Robertson plays the curmudgeonly Doc with a dour kindness that makes him sympathetic, there's no getting around the distraction of his truly terrible wig and makeup.
There's a splashy suspensefulness inherent in Sonora's dives (though production notes mention that the horses really jumped from only about 10 feet), especially when one of the dives results in her having to learn to live with a significant handicap. Equally powerful is the tension between Doc and his son as they resolve their strained relationship and in the broken, then sweetly restored, romance between Sonora and Al.
It's heartening to see a movie with a spirited heroine who relies on her own resources to triumph over difficulty. The message that girls and women can be adventurous and boys and men can be supportive celebrates both sexes. That's really just horse sense, but it's a rare kids' movie that dares to convey it. A-


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CH&L: This home is so airy and sophisticated and just plain pretty. Tell us how you got started.
Andrea Schumacher: The house really set the stage. It's an old Colonial-style home in Denver's Country Club neighborhood, on one of the best streets in the area. That alone was inspirational, to dig my hands into Denver history. The couple that owns it is young; they wanted the house to feel young and traditional, but not stuffy.
What's the secret to that balance?
We used clean lines and a soft palette in the family and living rooms. I love to use neutral backgrounds and add pops of color with the art, rugs and pillows. We took a more playful approach in the dining room, incorporating bold color with classic toile wallpaper [from Osborne & Little]. It really gives what could have been a boring room some life and excitement. We had a little fun in the powder room, too, with the modern, graphic pattern of the F. Schumacher wallpaper. The room is just the little gem of the house.
What else do you love about this space?
My favorite pieces are the [Kravet] desk behind the sofa in the living room and the buffet in the dining room [a one-of-a-kind piece imported from Brownstone Furniture]. They add life and a little sparkle. The same goes for the dining table in the breakfast room; it's a hammered stainless steel top on a wood base. I love the overall softness of the house, and it has the right amount of punch, which makes it exciting and relaxing at the same time. There's enough eye candy to make you want to know more, but not so much that it's sensory overload.
The art is beautiful. Did you have to design around the owners' collection, or did you help them select these pieces?
The homeowners gave me a lot of suggestions. There's a huge Chinese screen from Eron Johnson Antiques that we hung on an 8-foot-by-10-foot wall; it takes up the whole wall. I showed them a landscape from Walker Fine Art, and they fell in love. It turned out that the artist [Jared Hankins] went to school with the homeowner, and they commissioned him to do a piece. It's a beautiful landscape—moody and gorgeous. In the dining room, I suggested a Quim Bové piece. I've used his work in multiple homes. It's simple; he uses layers of lacquer and varnish to get rich, deep texture.
It's a great mix of pieces. We love when homeowners just choose what they love and make it work.
That's the key to art. My grandmother was an artist—she studied [at the Academy of Fine Arts] in Vienna and was friends with Salvador Dali in Paris. She has pieces in the British Museum, and my house is full of her work. It's very European. I love the pairing of her work with clean-lined upholstered furnishings; or a homeowner could blend contemporary art with traditional [furniture] pieces. Never be afraid to mix it up.
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Visit galleries. You don't have to know Degas from Dali to enjoy a stroll through an art gallery, where you'll cultivate a feel for what you like. In Denver, you can find a good list of current and upcoming gallery exhibits at the Denver Art Dealers Association's website, denverart.org.
Get the scoop. Ask questions about work you like. "Tell me about this artist," is a good place to start.
Don't "match." Your art doesn't have to match the sofa or rug—and in fact, "that's so not the point," says designer Andrea Schumacher. Instead, she says, "Buy what you love and find a place for it. Buying art isn't like buying curtains."
Dare to go big. Often, first-time buyers avoid large pieces because they worry about over-committing. But many homes suffer from "tiny art syndrome." If you have a large blank wall, don't be shy about selecting art that can fill nearly the whole space.
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How are galaxy distances inferred from their recessional velocities?
I have a Ph.D in physics from Caltech (1948).I am living in a retirement community in Redlands, CA. By request, I am giving lectures on astronomy every two weeks. A question that I am asked but cannot answer satisfactorily is "How do they determine the age of the universe and the distance in light-years (or kilometers) to distant galaxies?"
I understand that the redshift determines the recession velocity, but I do not understand the relation of this to the distance.
There is a simple answer and a not-so-simple complication to it.
The simple answer is that it has been known for some time that the distance to a galaxy is proportional to its recessional velocity: this is called Hubble's Law, and it was demonstrated observationally by Hubble in the late 1920s. It turns out that if you assume that the Universe is homogeneous and isotropic (which we think is the case), then Hubble's Law can also be predicted by theory. The constant of proportionality between the recessional velocity of galaxies and their distance is called Hubble's constant. Astronomers have tried to measure Hubble's constant ever since the term was coined: the simplest way is to look at the recessional velocities of galaxies for which the distances are known by other means (like looking at the period of variable stars). The current best estimate of Hubble's constant today is about 20 km/s per Mly, so that a galaxy with a recessional velocity of 2000 kilometres per second is 100 mega-light-years away, and so on.
We can therefore use Hubble's law to tell us distances to galaxies by simply measuring their redshifts, which is a relatively easy thing to do even for very distant objects. We can also estimate the age of the Universe: you'll notice that the units of Hubble's constant are actually 1/time, so one over Hubble's constant must be the characteristic age of the Universe. From the Hubble constant above, we therefore calculate that the Universe is about 14 billion years old.
Now for the complications: it turns out that for *very* distant objects (at redshifts of, say, 2 and greater) Hubble's Law doesn't quite hold, because at very great distances we have to start taking the (4-dimensional) curvature of the Universe into account. A more important effect is that in most cosmologies, Hubble's constant isn't really a constant: it actually increases as you look back in time, so that its value was different for galaxies at redshifts of 5 than it is today. So, to get estimates of the distances to galaxies and the age of the Universe, astronomers must assume a set of cosmological parameters for the Universe (for instance, the total amount of "normal" matter it contains) and model its age and the distances of galaxies as a function of redshift by integrating the equations of motion for cosmological evolution. The answers they get are not that different from what we estimated above, but can be crucial to learning about galaxies at high redshift (for instance, the extraction of their sizes depends linearly on their distance, and their masses on the distance squared).
For all intents and purposes, however, Hubble's law is a very powerful tool for getting distances from velocities (and you may want to stop at that in your lectures).
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Last edition: Dallas is team to watch at NHL trade deadline (full Friedman edition here)
Friedman's column, April 12th: NHL players in Sochi Olympics won't come cheap
In this week's opener Friedman explains some of the financial complications that come along with the NHL and IIHF agreeing to have professionals participate in the 2014 Olympics. There are issues like travel (likely a couple million-plus to charter flights for NHLers to get to the games), and insurance (all the long-term contracts means you're in another couple million to ensure if a player gets hurt in the games he gets his money), and yada yada yada.
Honestly, and maybe I'm naive here, but I just can't see how a handful of millions could derail the process, let alone be more than a speedbump. Knowing the amount of money there is to be made by those involved – TV rights, jersey sales, ticket revenue and beyond – I have a hard time seeing how this doesn't get tidied up fairly easily.
That said, that's the most outsider-y outsiders perspective of all time, and I truly have no clue what the fine details are, so much like I was (and others were) during the lockout, I'm in full "Whatever man, just fix this" mode.
1. I couldn't help thinking of Calgary when Jean-Sebastien Giguere ripped the Colorado Avalanche's give-a-care meter. The Flames were criticized for talking about playoffs next season because fans believed it showed a lack of commitment toward a true rebuild. Giguere was angry because no matter what a team's record, the players and the organization should never allow losing to become acceptable. When you're developing, say, a Sven Baertschi or a Nathan MacKinnon, that's the tone that must be set. Maybe "playoffs" wasn't the right word, but it's the right mentality.
Yeah, I'm fully on board with this. How are you supposed to mentally get up for every game knowing your team doesn't actually give a shit about winning during the current season?
This reminds me of a hockey school I used to attend, and eventually taught at, Dave Roy's Edge of Excellence in Kelowna, BC. Roy was the Dallas Stars skating coach for awhile, and I believe worked with a few other NHL teams as well. One of the things he had players do was find their limits and break through them. As in, when you're doing crossovers around circles (lower body angled in, shoulders level), push your speed to the point that you fall. Push, fall, push, fall, push, fall (when everyone is falling you're less self-conscious). That development is the only way you get comfortable going faster, and it's how you learn ways to fall less and push past your current best.
For prospects, if they're not in games where they're pushing themselves to be more than their current bests, to get better, to rise higher, they just won't get better. You're going through the motions. Even if your management doesn't sincerely want to win every game on the way in, the players damn well should.
By the way, fun fact: after Shea Weber's year playing Junior B in Sicamous (I believe he was 15), he attended Edge of Excellence, and I was one of his instructors (which is funny, because I think I may have played in the same jr. league either that year or the year before as a 17 year old). He was already my size (and I wasn't small), and he deeeeefinitely skated better than me. Still, you can't watch your own golf swing, so hopefully I didn't waste too much of his time.
3. I talked to general manager David Poile about Nashville's need to build offence. The Predators have the lowest "one-goal game" winning percentage in the NHL and are the victim of eight shutouts, also 30th. I asked Poile if he'd consider trading Shea Weber once the post-offer sheet moratorium ends in July: "We have a franchise goaltender and the best defenceman in the NHL … We are building our team around them."
The Nashville Predators are a pretty remarkable franchise in that they've never really had that star offensive player who becomes the face of the franchise. That's pretty crazy 15 years in. Usually expansion teams will struggle for a good number of years as the Preds did, so they'll get some high picks, and end up with a situation like Ilya Kovalchuk in Atlanta, Rick Nash in Columbus, or something. The all-time leading scorer in Preds history: David Legwand, with 501 points in 846 games. Man, could one of their prospects turn out to be an NHL stud please? Just one? For the fans there?
7. One player a few teams were disappointed they couldn't get: Boyd Gordon. Phoenix Coyotes want to keep him.
No offense to Boyd Gordon, who's a good depth center that can win draws and plug a roster hole in a respectable manner, but I really believe this speaks to how hard it is to add difference-making talent (which is why Pittsburgh's deadline week haul was so impressive). There aren't too many teams out there sinking their tee into the ground on the fourth tee box in the summer going "We had all the pieces, if only we'd had a Boyd Gordon."
Again, no disrespect to Boyd, a quality NHL player, just pointing out how hard it is to get a guy who can truly alter the game without overpaying on deadline day or during the free agency frenzy.
9. For all of the craziness in Vancouver, here are two numbers to know about the Canucks. They have allowed 62 even-strength goals. That's seventh best in the NHL. Of the last five Stanley Cup winners, only the Chicago Blackhawks were not in the Top 10 (Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings were second). Also, Canucks goaltender Cory Schneider is fourth among starters in even-strength save percentage. That's where L.A.'s Jonathan Quick was last year. Tim Thomas ranked first for Boston in 2011. The Chris Higgins injury really hurts, but I'm curious to see how good this Canucks team is with Henrik Sedin, Kesler and Roy down the middle.
Lately I've been turning my attention to the Canucks too, because damned if they don't just sort of keep ho-hum winning. I mean, I know their division isn't exactly the Atlantic (ooo, 2013 is a bad year to use the Atlantic as a measuring stick, but you get the point), but they're playing other teams in the West and just sort of…winning.
What's scary about them in the playoffs is that they seem like a cat batting at a bug they've caught and intend to kill, but don't seem in a rush to actually do it. Have you ever seen a cat do this? They'll have a live insect or whatever under their paw, will be essentially sitting on it, but will still be looking around at other things. Ho-hum, I have this thing's life in my hands. And then, homp, it's over. If the Canucks get healthy enough come playoffs, they have great goaltending, a d-corp that can play hockey and a pretty darn decent group of forwards. Beyond your Sedins and Kesler, guys like Higgins and Booth and Raymond are solid players all over the ice. I could see the Canucks flipping the switch and *homp*, finishing off some playoff opponents instead of just toying with them.
11. Could Toronto and Vancouver still do a deal if they wanted? Several years ago, one GM was so angry at a compatriot that he promised never to do business with him again. Next season, the two sides made a trade. When I asked what happened, the answer: "Our assistants did it." There you go.
I'm consistently floored by the dick-measuring contests that seem to go on behind the scenes in hockey (hell, all sports) when it comes to this stuff. I remember tweeting something to the affect of "GMs are pros, aren't going to hold some petty grudge and try to screw over some opposing franchise if it isn't the best thing for their group just because of something that happened in the past." I forget why I felt qualified to make a comment like that, I'm guessing because I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Apparently, I'm too much of an idealist.
Patrick Burke responded fairly simply if I recall, saying something like "Actually, yes, they will."
12. NHL contracts cannot be renegotiated once signed, but there is a potential loophole. In 1998, months after Glenn and Suzie Healy welcomed their first child, Meagan, Toronto demoted Glenn to the Chicago Wolves of the AHL because Curtis Joseph and Felix Potvin were with the big club. Healy's initial reaction was to go all Johnny Paycheck on Leafs executive Ken Dryden, but he received a phone call from then-NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow warning him there was precedence for a goalie's contract to be voided for refusing to report. (Glenn wouldn't say, but I believe it was Vincent Riendeau in Boston). This will get sorted out, but if Luongo was serious about walking away from $40 million, well, that's the way to do it.
This seems like a fun excuse to tell a fun story about my Dad's early days in the NHL. Apologies if I get some fine details wrong here, Pops:
Dad's first deal with the Islanders was a three year deal worth $17, $19 and $21 thousand dollars, I believe spanning 1974-77. As Elliot mentioned, you aren't supposed to renegotiate deals up or down, and actually, these days you probably couldn't do it if you wanted to. But then it wasn't quite so tight, and the Islanders were impressed enough with Dad that they came to him after the first year and bumped him up to $21 and $23 thousand over the last two years of his contract. Just, willingly. Could you imagine that happening now? "Great work, here's more money despite you not asking for it."
15. There was some surprise Murray would trade Bishop to one of next season's divisional opponents. It sounds like he did it for three reasons: first, Tampa made the best offer. Second, Murray knew Bishop and Yzerman had a bit of a relationship. When he traded Mike Fisher and Chris Kelly, it was to places he knew they'd be happy. If you treat the organization right, Murray believes the organization should treat you right. Finally, when you believe you have two better goalies, you should be fine in the long-term, even though Bishop beat Ottawa Tuesday night.
Barring a very special, unique situation where you're clearly one of the two best teams in your division or conference and dealing with the other one, I can't fathom ever accepting a lesser deal in a trade based on who the other team is. It basically ends at "Tampa made the best offer" for me. Your job is take care of one thing: make your team the best it can be. If you're better on Day B than you were on Day A, you're better, cut and dried. You're more likely to beat other teams around the league and climb the standings. It's the most sports thing ever: all you can do is take care of yourself, and there's rarely any use in worrying about your opponent's situation.
17. When I asked the same question to Columbus Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen, he said: "Credit to Scott Howson for giving us pieces we could trade for Marian Gaborik." Remember when Pat Burns and Barry Melrose feuded during the 1993 playoffs? Burns didn't like it, saying that coaching was a small fraternity and they had to look out for each other. I thought of those comments when Kekalainen graciously said that.
From what I can tell, Kekalainen seems to Kek-a-lot-of-ass as a guy. The hockey community is craaaazy small. I know you're reading that and thinking "30 teams, leagues around the world, minor leagues, college, junior, blah blah blah," but dude: tiny. If you play in a few leagues on a few teams, somehow you end up with at least a handshake relationship with half the guys on half the teams, with one or two degrees of separation from the rest. And when you get out and into management, it only makes sense to be respectful of others, because like in high school, word travels fast, people like to gossip, and apparently people hold grudges. If I'm hiring a guy to run my team, I want someone gracious enough to make comments like Kekalainen.
19. The New York Rangers rushed someone to Gaborik's apartment so he could sign the waiver allowing a trade to Columbus. It had to be physically done before the 3 p.m. ET trade deadline.
I'd sure love to hear more about what went on behind the scenes in New York. I mean, I know John Tortorella can be abrasive and was constantly sending Gaborik "SCORE MORE FOR US" messages via his in-game use, but you'd have to think a lot was happening for a guy to say "sure I'll pass up living in one of the greatest cities on earth with a pretty solid roster and shot to win" to go to a place like Columbus. And I don't mean that as a shot at the Jackets or their city, but I think even their fans would acknowledge it's a pretty crazy lifestyle change, and that CBJ's NHL history doesn't exactly shine bright like a diamond.
29. A few tweeters asked about post-game comments I made regarding PK Subban and the Norris Trophy for top defenceman. Here is the issue. Through Tuesday, Subban is playing 17:18 minutes per night at even strength. That's 89th in the NHL. Among recent Norris winners, Duncan Keith was second, Erik Karlsson fifth and Zdeno Chara sixth. Since 2005, Nicklas Lidstrom finished 16th, 17th, 20th, and, in his final victory at age 41, 105th, which, incidentally, was Subban's ranking last Saturday. If Subban continues to move up the chart, it will increase his candidacy. He's improving and is going to be a great player, but recent history (the great Lidstrom's last season aside) says you've got to play the toughest minutes to win.
If there's one thing that traditional hockey fans and fans of advanced analytics agree on, it's that time-on-ice is a telling indicator of a player's value. The best defensemen in the league are the guys that their team can't afford to not have on the ice. They're on the powerplay, get 'em out there. On the kill, "can you go?" They're the guys the coach is constantly looking down the bench at, using as a crutch because when they're out there, it's one less thing to worry about. PK Subban is not that guy right now, playing 17-18 minutes a night.
He is, however, a fantastic player and worthy of much praise, but I just can't see the Norris going to a guy who isn't more important to his team's success. We'll have more on Subban later this morning, from Cam Charron.


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Personal Statement Director of Clinical Neuroscience Service at Shattuck Hospital where he also operates outpatient programs for people with mental illness involved in the criminal justice system.
Research The relationship between mental illness and violence, individual differences in the effects of alcohol on aggression, and the use of MRI imaging to study neural correlates of aggression in people with mental illness.
Publications (2003) Fulwiler, C., Benjamin , B., Scott, T., Bhadelia, R., Patz, S.: Preliminary morphometric study of amygdala volume in relation to impulsive-aggressive traits in psychiatric patients (Abstract). Biological Psychiatry 53(supplement 8):90S-91S (2001) Fulwiler, C., Eckstine, J., Kalsy, S.: An exploratory study of serotonin function and personality traits in alcohol-enhanced aggression (Abstract). Biological Psychiatry 49(supplement 8):87S (2001) Mackin, R. and Fulwiler, C.: A public health-juvenile justice collaboration to address the psychiatric needs of incarcerated juveniles, The Organizational Response to Social Problems 8:335-361 (1999) Fulwiler, C.: Treatment of aggression with Divalproex in unusual presentations of bipolar disorder, Psychline: Inter-Transdisciplinary Journal of Mental Health 3(1):35-37 (1999) Fulwiler, C. and Ruthazer, R.: Premorbid risk factors for violence in mental illness, Comprehensive Psychiatry 40(2):96-100 (1997) Fulwiler, C., Grossman, H., Cooper Forbes, C., Ruthazer, R.: Early-onset substance abuse and community violence by outpatients with chronic mental illness, Psychiatric Services 48:1181-1186 (1997) Fulwiler, C., Forbes, C. Santangelo, S. and Folstein, M.F.: Self-mutilation and suicide attempt: Distinguishing features in prisoners, Journal of the American Academy of Law and Psychiatry, 25:69-77
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MLS, supporters of Northwest teams fight over trademark rights to Cascadia Cup
MLS's attempts to trademark the Cascadia Cup have drawn strong opposition of supporters groups for the teams in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver.
Seattle Times staff reporter
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Major League Soccer will meet with representatives of the main supporters groups in the Pacific Northwest following a controversy over trademark rights to the Cascadia Cup.
The league's intention to trademark the name of the competition among Seattle, Portland and Vancouver soccer teams — which dates to 2004, before the teams were part of MLS — has been met with impassioned resistance.
The Emerald City Supporters (Sounders FC's largest supporter group), the Timbers Army of Portland and the Southsiders of Vancouver issued a joint statement Thursday, announcing they have formed a Cascadia Cup Council that will also pursue the rights of the trophy.
"Not only does the Cascadia Cup Council believe they rightfully own the trademark to Cascadia Cup," the statement said, "but they also are of the belief they are the appropriate entity to protect the mark from third parties that are unaffiliated with the supporters groups in the Pacific Northwest."
MLS, in a statement released by a league spokesman Thursday, said its intentions had the interest in the teams and fans in mind:
"A registered trademark would put Major League Soccer in a position to protect the brand from exploitation by parties unaffiliated with the league and its supporters. However, we understand that some of our fans have concerns about how the trademark will be managed, and we are planning to meet soon with leaders of the three teams' supporters groups to discuss the topic together."
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Sounders FC general manager Adrian Hanauer confirmed in a statement Thursday that the Sounders are finalizing the one-year loan of forward Fredy Montero to Colombian club Millonarios. It was the first comment from the team since the move was reported last week.
"We hope to have this transaction completed in the next few days," added Hanauer, who is also part owner. "Fredy has been a tremendous part of our success the last four years, and this decision was not taken lightly. This was a process that Fredy and the Sounders cooperated on, and our hope is that it works out successfully for both parties."
Montero also met with Colombian media Thursday, the first day of Millonarios' preseason.
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Off-duty Okla. cop kills prison escapee during robbery attempt
Darnell King approached the officer's open garage and threatened him with a gun, the officer led him into the house and shot him
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A man killed by an off-duty Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Friday in Oklahoma City was a state Corrections Department escapee, authorities said.
Darnell King, 22, was shot when he attempted to rob off-duty trooper John Marion in the 200 block of NE 2. King later died at a hospital during emergency surgery.
King had been serving a three-year sentence at the Oklahoma City Community Correction Center for assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of a stolen vehicle out of Tulsa County.
King was moved recently to the low-security Carver Transitional Center in south Oklahoma City, but went missing from the halfway house Friday, corrections officials said.
Police said the trooper was in his garage with the garage door open when King pointed a gun at him and demanded his belongings.
The trooper led the man to the home's second floor, where the trooper used his gun to shoot the man, police said.
Police have linked King to an attempted kidnapping and robbery occurring the same day he was shot. That incident involved a woman and her child who were assaulted in the 400 block of N Central as they were entering their vehicle. The two locations are within a few blocks of each other.
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Good question. We have a three ton geo heatpump (a Tranquility 27) with the desuperheater, but its inclusion was a mistake the installer made. We took it as was with the thought that it would be worthwhile enough after all, but I have not yet hooked it up. We only use the unit about half of the year (we need very little cooling) so I put it off over the summer ... well, you know the drill. But I am attracted by the vacuum solar tubes, which are claimed to be useful here in western Montana even in overcast and cold conditions. We'd spend close to $3K on such a system, with an anticipated payoff (at current natural gas prices) of about 7 years. But the desuperheater would cost me almost nothing more to finish installing, even though it added about $300 to my heatpump cost. I could probably recoup that in about three years. Right now it's just a sunk cost. But "What if", since I already own the desuperheater, I installed it in tandem with the solar tubes? It would be at its most efficient at exactly the time the solar tubes were at their least efficient- when it was very cold. (Or I may be wrong- it may be that the tubes are plenty efficient when it's veryvery cold, as long as it's clear; it may be fog and overcast conditions that I need to worry about concerning the solar tubes.) Well, I haven't answered your question, but there's my two-bits worth for now, and thanks for bringing the question up. Good luck to you and I hope we both learn something from this! M |
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Las Cruces - Police arrested a Las Cruces woman Tuesday evening after learning that she stabbed her boyfriend during a heated argument.
Yvette Garcia, 46, is charged with one count of aggravated battery against a household member.
Police responded to the woman's apartment on Oak Street and found the 48-year-old victim suffering from a stab wound to his upper back. His injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.
Detectives learned that Garcia and the victim were arguing over a number in her cell phone. At some point during the argument, the victim tried to leave the apartment when Garcia followed and struck him with a knife.
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DuelL AG, one of the premier MINI tuner in Japan have completed creating a tuning package for the all new Mini Coupe (R58).
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Woman, 68, perseveres in quest for donor father and her identity
The need to know who your biological parents are can be powerful for those conceived by donor sperm or eggs.
Seattle Times staff reporter
The voice on the other end of the phone was insistent:
"I don't know who my biological father was."
It was a story we'd heard before: a woman conceived with sperm from an anonymous donor, trying to find her true identity. But this call was different. The caller was wry, her voice crackly. She sounded — how should we put this delicately? — like a senior citizen.
Which it turns out she was. Vicki Reilly, of Bainbridge Island, is 68, born in 1943. Yes, "artificial insemination" was performed back then. Which Reilly knows comes as a surprise to many, who think sperm-donor children are all exactly that: young children.
"It ticks me off that people always talk about the kids," she said.
In recent years, she's read countless reports on how the baby-making industry is booming. She's seen stories of donor-conceived teens and 20-somethings finding half-siblings online.
What no one seems to talk about is people like her. People in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond, who were also donor-conceived, but who were born at a time when families didn't talk about such things. Back then, couples just quietly made appointments with "special doctors," and never breathed a word of it to anyone — including their children.
"There's a whole bunch of us out there," Reilly said, "and a lot of people searching."
Reilly is married, with four grown children (two biological, one stepson, and one foster son from Vietnam). She owned a picture-framing shop, ran a charter-boat business and was a Turkish translator. She has had a good life.
It may seem odd, then, that she is so consumed by this mystery, that it has caused her so much hurt. To Reilly, it hits at the core of her very identity.
"What are my roots?" she wonders. "Am I Native American? Italian? Where did my sense of humor come from?"
There are very real concerns about health history, as well.
Experts say there are likely hundreds of thousands of people who are donor-conceived but don't know it. And if you get right down to it, that's what ticks off Reilly the most: the secrecy.
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Nobody knows when donor sperm was first used. Naomi Cahn, a George Washington University law professor who's written a book on the fertility industry, says there are vague references going back to the 1400s.
"It's also got a very, very long history of secrecy," she said.
The first known recorded case was in 1884, when a doctor at a Philadelphia medical school inseminated a woman, under anesthesia, using sperm from his "best looking" student.
It took 25 years before the story was reported in a medical journal.
"At that time the procedure was so novel, so peculiar in its human ethics, that the six young men ... who witnest [sic] the operation were pledged to absolute secrecy," the report says.
The woman, who wasn't in on the secret, believed the resulting baby was her husband's. He was "delighted with the idea." He had acquired a sexually-transmitted disease in his younger days that made him infertile.
Back then, "you didn't talk about infertility," Cahn explained. In this regard, some families found artificial insemination preferable to adoption: "The woman gets pregnant, has a baby, and nobody needs to know," Cahn said.
Besides, the article goes on to state, it was a "scientific fact" that the origin of the sperm doesn't matter.
Absolute hooey, Reilly and other donor-conceived people say.
Something wasn't right
Reilly grew up in Michigan, always feeling something wasn't right. She knew her parents loved her. But her father was cold, distant — and so very different from her. "Like the swan and the ducklings," she said.
Her father was a conservative man with a straight way of looking at the world. Reilly was liberal and cynical, with a strong sense of humor. Her conversations are punctuated with a laugh like a firecracker.
"My poor dad never rocked the boat," she said. "I love rocking the boat."
No one's exactly the same as their parents, of course. But Reilly always felt — rightly, it turns out — that there was a secret she wasn't in on. It affected the way she looked at her family, and the world.
"You sort of feel like you don't belong and you're not sure why," she said. "I think genetics, biology, has a lot to do with who we are."
Reilly was never told, but even as a child, she began putting together clues. She remembers, at age 9, overhearing family friends ask her grandparents: Why didn't little Vicki have any siblings?
Reilly's father had the mumps, her grandparents explained, so her mother had to go to a special doctor in Chicago, 150 miles away.
Reilly remembers wondering: "Why, if he had the mumps did she have to go to the doctor?"
In high school, she learned that blue-eyed parents, like hers, couldn't have a brown-eyed child, like her. When questioned, her mother responded with a laugh, "It must have been the milkman!" she said. And that was that.
As a teen, Reilly had a vague idea about how prized horses were bred. "Either my mother had an affair," Reilly concluded, "or they used artificial insemination."
Until the 1950s, sperm had to be fresh, not frozen. There weren't commercial sperm banks like there are today.
Who would have donated the sperm in 1942, Reilly wondered? The doctor's intern? More likely, she figured, it was the doctor himself. Back then, it wouldn't have been unusual, Cahn, the professor, said.
Reilly remembered a photo of the doctor her mother held onto for decades. She also found letters he wrote to the family, inquiring after her. "Vicki must be such a big girl now," he wrote. "I'm anxious to hear all about her."
There were other clues, but Reilly didn't pursue the issue until her father died. Then, she took up an intense search. By this point, her mother had Alzheimer's and the doctor was dead.
If Reilly had been adopted, there would be court records and a birth certificate. Not so with donor sperm. Even today, most donors are told their identity will be kept secret. And many couples still don't tell their children, says Wendy Kramer, who founded the Donor Sibling Registry website for this very reason: to make the process less anonymous.
"Family secrets are toxic," she said.
To the industry and to donors, secrecy can be a good thing. However, that can lead to unforeseen issues.
For example, the industry is not required to track how many kids are born to each donor.
Through Kramer's website, she learned that one donor was so prolific, he fathered 150 children. (He was tracked by families via his "donor number.")
Even health information isn't always passed on to the families, Kramer and others say.
"It's one thing if you have a biological father who passes along a medical issue when he has two kids," Kramer said. But 150 kids? That's another thing entirely, especially since health information isn't always passed onto the families, Kramer said.
Law in Washington
Last year, a law took effect in Washington requiring sperm donors to provide identifying information and a health history. Sperm banks must keep it on file; donor children may request it after age 18.
The law has a loophole, however: The donor can ask for his identifying information to be kept secret.
"I really feel," Reilly said, "that anonymous sperm and egg donation is very, very wrong."
Bill Cordray, a donor-conceived Utah man, has long been outspoken about the issue. Growing up, Cordray said, he was so different from his three brothers that he could only conclude that his mother had multiple affairs.
He, too, felt his parents were keeping secrets. It turns out they were.
In 1983, at 37, Cordray said his mother finally told him the truth. She said she kept the secret to protect him. It didn't.
All it did was make him feel out of place for decades.
"They were keeping it (secret) for their own sake," he said. "To me, it was a selfish act. To not tell your child the truth about life is not right."
It took Cordray four years to find someone else like him; now he knows of thousands through a Web group he moderates. That's how he met Reilly.
Reilly has spent nearly 10 years trying to figure out the identity of her sperm donor. A few years ago, she tracked down the doctor's son and spent hundreds of dollars on DNA tests for the two of them. They did not come up as a half-sibling match. But she learned later it was the wrong kind of DNA test.
She still believes the doctor was her biological father. In 2010, she did another DNA test, through a genealogy website, which has matched her with hundreds of distant cousins who share her genetic makeup. The doctor's surname is listed among them, but she feels uncomfortable asking the doctor's son to do a newer DNA test.
"Before I pass on, I'd like to know where I came from," she said. "I just do. It's not idle curiosity, either.
"I want to know when I look in the mirror, who I am."
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While well done, your examples and text seem heavily weighted toward the Catholic experience.