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Welcome to the Hatter Lax Nation Blog, where we hope you enjoy some of the stories and insights from within the brand new Stetson Women's Lacrosse program. Our third entry comes from Amanda Parker.
I am currently located 986 miles directly south of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, my hometown. I could also say that I'm a 16 hour and 36 minute drive from home including traffic, or even a 2 hour and 22 minute non-stop flight back to my family. Early morning, my alarm goes off and I sometimes ask myself, how did I ever end up in Florida, so far away? I don't have any family down here, I'm not familiar with the area (except Disney of course), and I came to Stetson only having met a few of my teammates in the spring.

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Loy C. McAtee, 93, a former resident of Waneta, Webster County, and for the past 40 years, a resident of Huttonsville, passed from this life on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, in Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.
He was born Sunday, June 13, 1920, in Waneta, Webster Springs, a son of the late Albert Harrison McAtee and Gertie Mae Hamrick McAtee. He was the last surviving member of his immediate family.
On May 3, 1945, he was married, in Buckhannon, to the late Katheryn A. Liggett McAtee, who preceded him in death on April 7, 2011. They had celebrated 65 years of marriage.
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Loy along with his wife had operated the post office, store, taxi cab service and filling station at Waneta, Webster County, for 28 years and later was owner/operator of the Huttonsville Exxon in Huttonsville for 18 years. Loy was very active in the community and served on the Huttonsville Public Service District Board for 30 years, the Huttonsville Correctional Parole Board, Randolph County Health Department Board and the Randolph County Development Authority.
Loy served in the United States Army in World War II and was stationed in New Guinea. He was awarded the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Ribbon with a bronze star and good conduct medal and two overseas bars.
Others left to cherish Loy's memories are two sons, Eugene McAtee and wife, Kandi, of Mill Creek and Paul McAtee and wife, Louise, of Beverly; one daughter, Mary Marcum of Huttonsville; and three sisters-in-law, Helena Liggett of Elkins, Nellie Liggett of Huttonsville and Emily Liggett of Hilo, Hawaii. Also surviving are 14 grandchildren, Christina M. Brady of Hampton, Va., Kasey D. Andrews of Richmond, Va., Justin C. McAtee of Huttonsville, Paul David McAtee II of Daytona Beach, Fla., Neena Walls of Clarksburg, Paula A McAtee, Michael D. McAtee and Emily L. McAtee of Beverly, Robert Lee McAtee II, Rodney Lynn McAtee, Bradley Shaun McAtee and Jennifer L. McAtee of Huttonsville, Katheryn E. Marcum and Teena L. Marcum of Huttonsville; 11 great-grandchildren, Grace E. Brady, Abigail E. Brady, Mark Alexander Andrews, Alexis McAtee, Noah Bradley McAtee, Braden Carus McAtee, Bentley Allen Walls, Somer Jo McAtee, Landon Robert McAtee, Tyler Lynn McAtee and Madalynn McAtee; two daughters-in-law; Margie McAtee and Caffey McAtee; one special friend, Shirley Bosley; and several nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death were two sons, Loy Earl McAtee and Robert Lee McAtee Sr.; one daughter, Emily V. McAtee; three brothers, Eslie McAtee, Forrest McAtee and Ernest McAtee; sisters-in-law, Pattie Laderach, Mary B. Liggett, Ilene McAtee and Doris McAtee; and brothers-in-law, James Liggett, Barrett Lee Liggett, Kenneth Wadahara and Ernest Laderach.
Loy attended the schools of Point Mountain, was a member of the Elks Lodge in Elkins, Randolph County Senior Center, American Legion, a charter member of the Webster Springs Veterans of Foreign Wars and Elkins Order of the Odd Fellows. He was a member of the Tygart Valley Presbyterian Church in Huttonsville where he was a charter member and was the oldest living lifetime elder in the church.
Visitation will be at the Randolph Funeral Home and Cremation Services Sunday from 5 until 8 p.m. During visitation, the Elkins Order of the Odd Fellows will conduct a ritualistic service. On Monday, Loy will be moved to the Tygart Valley Presbyterian Church where friends may call from noon to 2 p.m., the funeral hour. The Rev. JoAnne Glaser and Pastor Frank Stanley will officiate, and interment will follow in the Brick Church Cemetery in Huttonsville where full military honors will be accorded by members of H.W. Daniels Post 29 American Legion, Tygart Valley Post 3647, Veterans of Foreign War, and West Virginia Honor Guard.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Tygart Valley Presbyterian Church, Huttonsville WV 26273, in Loy's honor. The Randolph Funeral Home and Cremation Services has been entrusted with the arrangements for Loy C. McAtee. Send online condolences to the family at www.therandolphfuneralhome.com.


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The Ship That Came In (On Four Radio Bands)Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
If you wanted to pick a date when music radio in America began to really suck, it would probably be the mid-1980's. Popular music was getting worse. All those god awful keyboards (think..Lionel Richie), with music was all sequencer riffs, boomy emulated drums and shiny boring guitar solos. At least that's how I heard it. And if the music wasn't bad enough, almost all of the personality and unpredictability that made commercial radio so much fun had been quashed.
Back in the sixties, the corporate consultants turbo-charged the top 40 format by amping up the energy and trimming the fat. But after a couple decades a lot had changed, and with the audience moving to FM it brought a different mentality to radio formatics and programming in general. The seventies brought in the "less talk" school of radio, and as that philosophy gained ground you heard much less persona and patter between songs, and more perky robot announcers reading positioning statements and liner cards. And instead of "breaking hits" radio stations were broken by the tired and worn-out "hits" their corporate masters made them play incessantly.
By the mid-80's, the model of radio as a music delivery system was finally broken. And in the wake of its failure listeners adapted. It was the golden age of the "mix tape," where put down chunks of their own programming on cassette tapes. And at the same time "talk radio" was where you could still find some spontaneity on the dial, and it became a viable and popular radio format for the first time (and filled the void on medium wave as top 40 format had moved to the FM band).
And it was around this time that I became the radio freak of nature I am today. This is when I started scanning the AM band looking for fossil music stations playing big band, old country or r&b and blues. And it's when I started actually paying attention to talk radio. And shortwave. And so, my adventures in amplitude modulation really began…
As a relatively young curmudgeon at that time, I still had some enthusiasm for changing the world. Or at least try to change radio, from the inside. And in the summer of 1987 I enrolled in a broadcasting school, where I learned how to splice tape, how to read news copy, and how to browse an Arbitron book. And while I've had my ups and downs in the radio business, I have had a lotta fun over the years. The trouble is, at heart I'm a programmer, not a tech guy or a salesman or an incredibly talented announcer (I'm not bad, but…). My original dream was to program a real R&B radio station. And I did that at a little AM outlet in Alabama for a couple years. I had a blast, but it didn't pan out into the earth-shaking career I had imagined. Somehow or other I ended up volunteering on a freeform station presenting answering machine tapes and audio letters. But that's another story…
However, I have another story for you. A better one. A tale of brave young souls on the high seas who took on the FCC and corporate radio in a big and beautiful way. That same summer, while I was sitting in classrooms learning the technical ramifications of commercial stop sets and how to say the letter "W" correctly, a cadre of real radio activists were skipping all the technicalities. They'd pooled together thousands of dollars to build a radio station and transmitter on an old fishing vessel, and parked the thing off the coast of Long Island. Yes, it was exactly twenty-two years ago this week that Radio New York International briefly made rock and roll history. And although they were only in business for a few days, the legend of RNI lives on. And rightly so.
Here's a choppy and murky video tour of the docked "Radio Ship Sarah," ready for its maiden voyage as America's most infamous offshore radio station. It's still worth watching, just to get a feel of the excitement and anticipation onboard.
They dropped anchor just four and a half miles from Jones Beach on Long Island and started broadcasting July 23, 1987 on FM (103.1MHz), AM (1620kHz), shortwave (6250kHz), and even longwave! (150kHz). Amazing. And what did they play? Free-form rock and roll. Which from what I gather was kind of a mix of college radio, album rock radio, oldies and lots of banter. Kind of like what FM rock stations might have sounded like around 1987 if DJ's still had a hand in selecting the music (mixed with some "pirate" shenanigans). The reaction in the New York City market was immediate, and RNI made headlines around the world. And by the next day the local TV news operations were sending reporters out on boats to get the story. Here's a big fat montage of the coverage…
They Sarah crew even made an appearance on that 80's tabloid TV mess, "A Current Affair, starring the craggy-faced 80's icon, Maury Povich.
But, you know how this story ends. After three days of broadcasting (and lots and lots of exposure on local and national news) the FCC paid the ship a visit. They weren't friendly and they had a cease and desist order in their hands.
For a day, RNI was silent. Then the next day the leader of the operation, Allan Weiner gave the go-ahead to crank the transmitters up again, and New York City's newest radio station was back on the air.
Busted. With Alan Weiner, his partner Ivan Jeffries, and Village Voice reporter sitting in the summer sun in handcuffs as the Coast Guard ransacked all the equipment. Or most of it. And Jeffries and Weiner were charged with conspiring to impede the Federal Communications Commission. A felony.
However, the FCC didn't have much of a case and they dropped all charges on the crew. They got what they wanted. The station was off the air and all the investment of time and money on all that equipment lay in runs. But Weiner swore that RNI would return.
The legacy of those few days rebellious days ran strong for a year or two. And the radio pirates who challenged the FCC in front of the nation continued to attract national attention. They had a little stint on MTV, and were offered free air time on a little AM station out on Long Island on a weekly basis, which they fooled around with for a short time. There was even a short-lived rebirth of RNI in 1988, but only on shortwave. And again the heavy hand of the FCC put a stop to it.
However, the "Radio New York International" brand wouldn't die, and Weiner and his sundry radio cohorts continued to dream the dream in more practical ways. They rented out a weekly chunk on shortwave's WWCR, and Weiner himself began to pursue a legitimate shortwave station license for himself. And as many of you know, in the late 1990's that license was granted and WBCQ was born in Monticello, Maine.
Since that time, John P. Lightning (formerly of pirate station WJPL and one of the RNI gang) began a program on WBCQ bearing the name– "Radio New York International." (Which I wrote about a while back.) A broadcast originating from right here in Brooklyn, for years Lightning (as well as Big Steve and others) have held court with a rowdy few hours of talk, noises, music and silliness. However, last week Lightning and Weiner parted ways. And Lightning, who has threatened to give up show recently anyway, is currently doing a show he still calls "Radio New York International" on the internet. But WBCQ also has a show with the same name at the same time. Kinda strange.
It was all a surprise to me, but I don't listen to WBCQ enough to know the details. Someone archived Weiner's open letter to Lightning, and the response, here. Allen took his "open letter" down after a week or so, but Lightning's responses remain on his site. Lightning's modus operandi is slash and burn clowning, which is occasionally monstrous in the mode of Neil Rogers (who also just retired by the way…). It's all about verbal abuse, especially of the BOSS. Apparently what was once considered good fun became something else, at least as far as Weiner was concerned. And if you read Lightning's response, he sounds almost sorry. Even recalcitrant. However, he thinks Weiner was being thin-skinned and says in his blog that you can listen to the archives of his show and judge for yourself.
The approach the 22 year anniversary of RNI coinciding with this rift between Weiner and Lightning that struck a chord with me. Not that I know either of them beyond the on-air persona and what I read in the blogophere. But I identify with these guys because we're members of the same tribe. And although I was never really a radio pirate, we're fellow travelers who have been cutting our own paths around the fringes of the radio business for the last few decades. And some of my best friends have been creative and dedicated radio disciples who inspired me, and lent me a helping hand when I needed help on a project. Or needed a job. And I don't know if it's something about the radio business, or something about the kind of people who fall into it, but I've lost more than my far share of radio friends over the last few years as well.
Of course, Allan Weiner's illustrious pirate radio career started long before RNI. He was just a kid back in 1970 when with the help of another wunderkind named J.P. Ferraro (a.k.a. "Pirate Joe") they established their own radio "network" in suburban New York City. After being shut down by the FCC a few times, Allan and J.P submitted a rather articulate and impassioned letter to the FCC explaining and defending their criminal acts of broadcasting. You can read the whole thing here, but here's the last paragraph:
We started this whole thing because we love radio as an artistic and creative medium, and to bring freedom to the airwaves. Not because we want fat bank accounts and chaffeur-driven cars. We have chosen our operating frequencies especially so as not to cause interference with any other stations. However, as human beings and citizens of the United States and the world, we have a right to use the airwaves put there by whoever or whatever created the universe, and use them as we will. This is our freedom, this is our right.
Amen to that.
And over many years Weiner's friendship with Ferraro was also a partnership, and involved many radio collaborations. Some legal, some not. And while he wasn't onboard the Radio Ship Sarah for the maiden voyage, I believe he was involved in some of the fun. I do know that he participated in later incarnations of "Radio New York International," and was involved in another offshore radio project with Allan (which the FCC stomped out before the station set sail). And you can actually hear some of the radio these guys created together over the years. Weiner has run a program on WBCQ called "The Pirate's Cove" where he plays old airchecks from his pirate days, and you can find some archives of the Pirate's Cove here.) Worth checking out.
Then in 1992, Pirate Joe came upon a radio station for sale in upstate that was selling for so cheap that he could actually muster the funds to buy the whole thing. And that station was WHVW in Poughkeepsie (which I've written about a few times here), a little class D AM station that Joe turned into a wonder of the world by programming a unique blend of American roots music around the clock. And just like so many times before, Allan and Joe worked together on getting the station off the ground, technically. And I certainly don't know enough to tell you what happened, or why it happened, but somewhere in the process of setting up the new incarnation of WHVW these longtime collaborators experienced something the Stylistics used to call a "heavy falling out."
I only know this because Allan's mentioned it a few times on his WBCQ program, and he also alluded to the fact that he didn't just lose a friendship at the time but also lost a bunch of money. And although I finally met Pirate Joe a while back, but I wasn't prepared to ask him his side of the story. I do have a feeling they probably have differing accounts of how their friendship ended. That's usually how those things work.
As a fan of both WBCQ and WHVW, I can see how these two stations compliment each other. And in my mind's eye it's not hard for me to squint at these two unique radio operations and combine them into one fantastic station, with Ferraro's musical automation and his D.J.s taking the place of all the preachers and daily dead air you hear on BCQ's frequency. But that surely will never happen. And in a way it already did. Years ago.
Again, I don't know the nitty-gritty details of the relationships between these guys. It's almost not important, and not the type of gossip I like to deal in. Yet, even though I have cleaved away from a few of my closest creative co-conspirators myself, I still find it sad when I hear it about it happening to others. Especially between people I admire, like Allan, and John and J.P. But middle-age is an odd phase I'm still coming to grips with. You don't have that same wild desire to change the world, but you still do have the drive to do something meaningful or profitable, and you're so much more aware of the limited time you really do have left. And hopefully you've accumulated enough wisdom to guide you in making those important decisions you may not be able to reverse or make again.
But most of all, in the youth of old age you begin to find that you really are yourself now– all the warts, all the habits and a unique collection of memories. And you have a story you tell. It's you. And you come to a point you have to stand up for that story. And represent it, right or wrong. And then some event or series of events makes your story and your old friend's story irreconcilable. Mutually exclusive. And it's been getting that way for a long time, but something happens that makes it impossible for either of you to pretend you accept the other's narrative any longer.
At least that's how it's happened with me. Or how I've crafted my drafts of these recent sad chapters. And perhaps that's how it was with some middle-aged former pirates I almost know. And I guess it's just not easy to be a person. Even if you're a white guy…
I guess in the pop psychology books they'd call it "growing apart." And after all, you can only have so many operational friendships at one time. If you try to keep too many friends close, the relationships themselves can't be all that meaningful. And even though I occasionally grieve for that handful of lost friendships, like a couple of intimate relationships I never wanted to end, maybe me and some of my middle-aged male cohorts tried to stay close too long instead of drifting apart in a more natural fashion. I don't know. But I do know that once the smoke clears, the grieving is often eclipsed by the relief of never having to pretend one more time.
And I wouldn't feel too sorry for Allan Weiner. He seems to have plenty of friends. And while WBCQ is a much more low-profile operation that RNI, it seems to stumble along and somehow prove every day that shortwave is not dead in America. And I shouldn't forget to again mention the Area 51 programming on WBCQ's 5110kHz transmitter every night. Cosmik Debris is in charge of that operation, and it's really where a lot of WBCQ's creative energy is focused lately. Mr. Cosmic incorporates pirate radio shows, old and new, with other new WBCQ shows, and WBCQ airchecks and probably any other compelling audio morsels that land in his lap. The website for this commendable circus is here.
Speaking of that, Cosmik has helped set up a couple of online webcams, so he can do his show from Maryland as live web TV, and Allan can stream WBCQ programming in main as internet video. And so far there's some archives which you can find here or here.
And lastly, I should mention that the offshore radio fever dreams of Allan Weiner didn't just go away when he switched the power on over at WBCQ. He's currently getting another ship together to do it all again. I'm not sure where he's gonna park this boat, but I don't think it's going to be four miles off the American coast this time. He has a website for it here (not much there yet as of this writing…).
And I'd like to thank Hank, and Pete and this guy, for archiving these historic videos of RNI, which I borrowed for this post. And I'm really glad we can all see these strapping young radio pirates in action on the high seas. Thanks.
And when you're not doing something solitary like reading a blog or scanning the bands for some exotic DX, remember to take advantage of the friends you still do have, and hang out. Do something interesting, or daring. Why the hell not? A good friendship is a good thing. As luck would have it, some you do get to keep for a long time.


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Gael Rodriquez, 8, eyes his putt closely during a field trip with the La Plata County Boys and Girls Club to Durango Park mini golf Thursday.
C.J. Koso, a leader in training at the La Plata County Boys and Girls Club, helps 8-year-old Kavan Magers retrieve his ball from a pond beside a putting green at Durango Park mini golf Thursday during a scheduled field trip. Leaders in Training is a program offered by the Boys and Girls Club that prepares high school-aged youth for the workforce.


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Nov. 7
A Grand Island man who broke into a Wilson ice cream stand Aug. 1 pleaded guilty in Niagara County Court.
Steven J. Yaksich, 25, of West River Road, admitted to third-degree burglary. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas admitted him to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment, meaning to he can earn a reduction in charges to a misdemeanor, with a probation sentence, if he succeeds in treatment.
Otherwise, Yaksich will be sentenced to as long as seven years in prison.
He was caught by sheriff's deputies hiding in the basement of a hardware store next to Hibbard's Custard Stand on Young Street in Wilson. Yaksich stole a three-gallon container of ice cream. He told Farkas that at the time, he had a $100-a-day cocaine habit.
• Jeffrey J. Farrell Jr., 23, of Washburn Street, Lockport, was sentenced to six months in jail and five years' probation for violating a restraining order a woman had obtained against him.
Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas imposed a new restraining order on Farrell, who was arrested June 30 after entering the Town of Lockport home of the mother of one of his children and allegedly choking her. Farkas said she will sentence Farrell to the maximum, seven years in prison, if he violates the order.
Farrell had pleaded guilty Sept. 6 to aggravated criminal contempt.
Nov. 8
A 2000 Chevrolet Blazer stolen from a Niagara Falls woman has been located, in pieces, on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation.
Sheriff's deputies said they found the vehicle behind a Mount Hope Road home. The body had been removed from the frame and overturned, and the engine had also been removed from the vehicle and was sitting separately from it. Deputies said the vehicle had damage to the steering column and that the catalytic converter was missing.
• A rear door was forced open and tools and lawn mowers were stolen from a home in the 2200 block of Welch Avenue in Niagara Falls.
The homeowner told police that sometime between 7 and 8:30 p.m. two lawn mowers, two rakes, a shovel a tool box and two pairs of Timberland boots were taken from his home. He said a bottle of Pine Sol was dumped on the floor and stairs. Total loss and damage was $1,115.
The victim said the burglary happened while he was away at a Bible study class.
• NIAGARA FALLS – A minibike valued at $500 was stolen from a Pierce Avenue garage overnight Thursday, police said.
Someone cut a lock to a garage door to gain entry.
Nov. 9
Police said a 47-year-old man was assaulted in his Girard Avenue home Friday afternoon by his girlfriend's ex-husband and his friend.
The victim told Niagara Falls police he came home around 5 p.m. and was immediately confronted by the two men, who attacked him without provocation and repeatedly punched him in the head and face. He fled to a nearby retail area and phoned police.
The victim's girlfriend told police she had invited the men over, but did not expect their violent reaction to her boyfriend's arrival. He was advised to seek an arrest warrant. Police said he was not seriously injured.
• Three residents in the 7100 block of Schultz Road in Wheatfield reported having cars broken into overnight, sheriff's deputies said.
One man said a GPS unit and a starter's pistol were stolen, resulting in a loss of about $250. Another reported losing only about $1 in change, while a third reported the loss of about $650 worth of belongings.
Items taken from the latter vehicle included four power drills in a case, and a monitor for a reverse camera, deputies said.
• An unattended stove in a garage caught fire in the morning, causing an estimated $2,500 in smoke damage to a residence at 6827 Sy Road, Wheatfield, sheriff's deputies said.
A woman had been cooking just after 11 a.m. and forgot the garage stove was left burning, deputies said. She vacated the premises with her 1-year-old child upon noticing smoke and flames coming from the garage. A sheriff's deputy was able to douse the flames with a fire extinguisher from his patrol car. No one was injured in the fire.
• A 72-year-old woman had her purse snatched by two teenagers as she walked in the 600 block of 20th Street in Niagara Falls just after 4 p.m. Friday, police said.
The victim told police she was accosted from behind by two young males, 15 to 17 years of age. They ripped the purse from her arm and fled. She was able to locate the discarded purse and wallet nearby, but her money, about $40, had been removed.
• Cars were broken into overnight at neighboring homes on Stevenson Court in Wheatfield, sheriff's deputies reported.
One couple said that both of their cars were entered while parked in their unlocked garage. Close to $600 in goods were stolen from one car, including a GPS unit, several pairs of sunglasses and two cellphone chargers. A GPS was taken from the other, along with $150 in cash.
A neighbor reported that a GPS valued at $150 was stolen from his unlocked car while it was parked in his driveway overnight. The thefts occurred between 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday.
Nov. 10
An elderly Valley Drive woman inadvertently left her apartment unlocked after experiencing plumbing problems, and someone entered and stole her $300 diamond ring, police said.
The woman left her home around 9 a.m. Saturday and discovered Sunday morning that someone had entered the residence and taken the ring from a bedroom nightstand.
• More than $5,000 worth of housing materials were removed from a vacant rental property in the 1700 block of Ashland Avenue sometime over the past three months, Niagara Falls police said.
The homeowner, a LaSalle-area resident, said that someone removed numerous items sometime since Aug. 20. Police said most of the material was probably sold for scrap. Items missing included assorted pieces of copper, brass and aluminum, a furnace, some water tanks, sinks, doors and tools.
Nov. 11
Damages were listed at $10,000 in a weekend fire on Ninth Street, according to the Niagara Falls Fire Department.
Firefighters responded at 2:20 a.m. to a fire on the first floor at 3113 Ninth Street, according to Chief of Fire Prevention Daniel Ciszek. He said firefighters were able to contain the fire to the kitchen in the first floor apartment.
Ciszek said first floor tenant Elois Holmes told investigators that her 15-year-old granddaughter had been cooking french fries on the stove and then left the stove unattended.
• A member of the Hartland Masonic Lodge called Niagara County sheriff's deputies to report a burglary.
Sometime between 8 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Sunday, someone cut a screen on the west side of the building at 9201 Ridge Road to open a window and gain entry. Once inside the person stole two cases of beer and $10 from petty cash, according to sheriff's deputies. The complainant told deputies that a locked cabinet was pried open, but nothing appeared to have been taken. Total loss and damage $110.
Nov. 12
A clerk at the Hometown Market 2 convenience store told police that a man with a ski mask robbed the Niagara Falls store at gunpoint.
The clerk told police that a man brandishing a silver handgun entered the store at 1519 18th Street just before 9:30 p.m. Monday and demanded all the money in the cash register. The clerk told police they filled up a plastic shopping bag and handed over $400.
• The owner of Variety Motors in the 1100 block of 11th Street told police that a security camera was installed after being plagued by burglaries. But overnight thieves hit again and the first thing they took was the security camera. Two males jumped the fence and entered the lot sometime between 5 p.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday. The men walked around a white van and then one suspect, a black male wearing a dark hoodie and a back pack, knocked the camera, facing it downward. The suspects then knocked the surveillance camera off the wall and stole it. The thieves also smashed a passenger side window in a 2004 Ford Escape and a stole a speedometer.
The owner told police this is an ongoing problem for his business.
Total loss and damages was $500.


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Mens Hoops Goes OT Again, Falls to Western Michigan
MUNCIE, Ind. -- It was yet another close call Wednesday night for the Ball State men's basketball team against another Mid-American Conference championship contender.
The Cardinals led for the vast majority of the game against Western Michigan before the Broncos rallied late to send it to overtime, where they prevailed 88-81.
The win, coupled with a loss by Toledo, put Western Michigan (19-8, 12-3 MAC) into first place alone in the MAC with three games remaining. For Ball State, which gave Toledo all it wanted on the road three nights ago, Wednesday's loss was its third overtime defeat in the past eight games.
"I'm sick for our guys," Ball State head coach James Whitford said. "I told them that we've just played the two best teams in the conference. One of those teams in going to get the conference championship, and it doesn't feel like the gap is what the record shows. As a matter of fact, it isn't even close to what the record shows. I thought for 40 minutes we played a good game and were in position to win."
Zavier Turner scored 20 points to lead the Cardinals, while Jesse Berry finished with 17 and Chris Bond logged his third double-double of the year with 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Mading Thok came off the bench to spark Ball State for the second straight game, scoring 14 points and pulling down five boards. He has scored 26 points over the past two games against the top two teams in the league standings.
The 6-foot-11 Thok scored 12 of his points in the first half and was able to stretch the Western Michigan defense by stepping out and knocking down 15-foot jumpers. The Cardinals shot 51.6 percent on one end of the floor in the opening half and took Western Michigan out of its offensive rhythm on the other to build a 39-30 lead at the break.
"I thought we followed the game plan very well in the first half on both offense and defense," Whitford said. "We made a lot of good reads, and that's what allowed us to build the lead."
The Broncos changed up their attack in the second half, throwing the ball into center Shayne Whittington and running isolation plays with David Brown and Connar Tava. That trio combined to score 76 of Western Michigan's 88 points on the night, led by Whittington with 28.
A 19-5 run turned what was once a 12-point Ball State lead into a 49-47 advantage for Western Michigan. The Cardinals regrouped, took the lead back and built it to 68-60 with 4:55 to play. But the Broncos went on another run, this time 14-5, to take a 74-73 lead on a Tava lay-in with 59 seconds left in regulation.
Bond answered to put Ball State back on top but was then whistled for a foul on the other end, sending Tava to the line for two shots. He made one to tie the game with 8 seconds left, and Ball State was not able to get a shot off on its final possession.
Majok Majok scored the first basket of overtime for Ball State, but Western Michigan responded with the next eight to take control. The Cardinals were forced to foul late and the Broncos finished off the game at the free throw line for their first win in their past six trips to Muncie.
Majok spent much of the night in foul trouble and played only 25 minutes of a 45-minute game. He finished with nine points and nine rebounds.
"We've gotten way better," Whitford said. "You can't see it by looking at our win-loss record, but you can certainly see it by looking at the flow of the games and the scores. We're hanging in there, we're fighting and we're playing better. I hope for our guys' sake that we can pull a few of these out because we're playing more than well enough to win."
The Cardinals will play their final home game of the season Saturday at 2 p.m. against Central Michigan. It will be Senior Day for Ball State, which will recognize Berry, Bond, Majok, Tyler Koch and Kindon Crowder before the game.


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SOMERSET - Somerset had its passing game going Friday night - particularly the Tanner Stull-to-Bryce Mostoller connection - but it wasn't enough to overcome a stout Cambria Heights line and the hard running of senior Tyler Crawford as the Highlanders handed the Golden Eagles a 33-15 loss in a Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference matchup.
Crawford churned out 168 yards rushing on 30 carries while scoring a pair of touchdowns.
Both head coaches credited Heights' O-line as the main factor in the outcome.
"Hats off to our offensive line," said Cambria Heights coach Jarrod Lewis, whose team improved to 7-2. "I thought they did a really good job of controlling the line of scrimmage. Tyler was the beneficiary of that.
"I don't think we thought we could exploit anything against Somerset. We just went after them with our power running game. They're a fast team, a quick team. Luckily, we were able to open up some holes, and Crawford ran very hard tonight."
Added Somerset coach Bob Landis: "Their offensive line is very good, and I think that showed throughout the game. They were able to move the ball up and down the field on us. ... [Crawford] ran great, but the game was won in the trenches as most football games are."
Mostoller, a sophomore, hauled in a career-high nine catches for 147 yards. As a team, Somerset passed for 250 yards while being held to a mere 17 yards on the ground.
"We were able to throw the ball pretty well," Landis said. "We found some things that they were giving us, and we took advantage of it. Stull and Mostoller, they're both underclassmen, and they both had fantastic games tonight."
Cambria Heights led 7-0 after the opening quarter following a 39-yard TD run from quarterback Nathan Bearer and Tristin Irwin's extra point.
The Highlanders quickly increased their lead to 21-0 thanks a pair of touchdown passes from Bearer. The first covered 54 yards to Andrew Brawley, while the second went for 22 yards to Donnie Contorchick. Irwin booted both PAT kicks.
Somerset finally got on the board as time expired in the second quarter when Sam Hayward kicked a 34-yard field goal to make it 21-3.
Crawford provided a pair of TD runs in the second half to help preserve the victory. On the initial scoring drive, Crawford carried the ball 11 straight times for 60 yards, which culminated with a 4-yard plunge into the end zone.
"That's the type of back he is. He gets better as the game goes on," Lewis said. "He gets better the more carries he gets. That's been his M.O. all season. That's what great backs do."
Mostoller caught two TD passes for Somerset. Stull tossed both TD strikes, which covered 9 and 29 yards.
The loss dropped Somerset's record to 5-4 with one week remaining in the regular season. The Eagles play at Penn Cambria next Friday night with a potential berth in the District 5-6-8-9 Class AAA playoffs on the line.
"We have some work to do," Landis said. "We had some injuries in our linebacking corps and played some guys tonight who don't have a lot of experience."
Cambria Heights has already qualified for the playoffs.
Cambria Heights7 14 7 6 - 33
Somerset0 3 6 6 - 15
First quarter
CH-Bearer 39 run (Irwin kick), 8:33.
Second quarter
CH-Brawley 54 pass from Bearer (Irwin kick), 10:23.
CH-Contorchick 22 pass from Bearer (Irwin kick), 5:11.
S-Hayward 34 FG, 0:00.
Third quarter
CH-Crawford 4 run (kick failed), 5:01.
S-Mostoller 9 pass from Stull (pass failed), 1:05.
Fourth quarter
CH-Crawford 5 run (kick failed), 10:48.
S-Mostoller 29 pass from Stull (pass failed), 9:43.
RUSHING: Cambria Heights-Crawford 30-168, Bearer 7-74, Contorchick 4-8, Fees 2-8. Somerset-Stull 15-(-1), Shafer 1-4, Faulkner 2-1, Beeman 3-1, Sarver 2-11, Boyer 2-1.
PASSING: Cambria Heights-Bearer 3-4-0-83. Somerset-Stull 13-25-0-177, Beeman 2-3-1-43, VanLenten 2-2-0-30.
RECEIVING: Cambria Heights-Contorchick 2-29, Brawley 1-54. Somerset-Mostoller 9-147, Wilkow 3-38, Faulkner 2-18, Sarver 2-11, VanLenten 1-13, Baker 1-0, Baker 1-23.
INTERCEPTIONS: Cambria Heights-Crawford. Somerset-None.
First downs1111
Passing (comp-att-int.)3-4-8317-30-1
Yards passing83250
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The stretch of Cazenovia Creek winding through East Aurora and toward Majors Park is becoming more popular among kayaking and canoeing enthusiasts.
But there seems to be disagreement over just how "natural" the creek should be.
Village Trustee Peter Mercurio said he wants the creek cleared of dead tree limbs and debris so that more residents can take to the water.
But Aurora Highway Superintendent David Gunner isn't sure that is a good idea.
Cazenovia Creek is a federal waterway, overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and is not supposed to be disrupted, except for an annual cleaning by the Town of Aurora each summer.
"I think they should be happy with what we do," Gunner said of residents. "It's like going through a jungle. It's like being in an 'Indiana Jones' movie, with vines hanging down. We want it like that, and it looks better like that. It is an amazing one-mile canoe trip."
Mechanized equipment is not allowed in the creek, and it's not a situation where anyone can just go in and start clearing vegetation, Gunner said.
The town has had a standing agreement since 2009 with the Corps of Engineers to do minimal cleanup once a year. No bulldozers or bladed equipment is allowed in the waterway.
"We clear just enough of the creek to get through by boat. We want it to look natural," Gunner said of the trip upstream from the dam near the American Legion Post off South Street toward the town-owned Majors Park.
Mercurio has told the Village Board that residents have approached him about going kayaking and canoeing in the creek.
"I'm wondering what we can do to open it up for recreational use," Mercurio said, adding that a local Boy Scout troop could get involved in helping. "Some residents want to clear brush and junk out of it."
Mercurio even went as far as asking about an aggressive cleanup.
"What if residents went in with chain saws and started clearing out dead debris?" he asked.
Many were against that idea.
"The last thing you want is people walking with chain saws in there," Mayor Allan Kasprzak said, noting that the property owners need a permit to clear debris from the creek.
The creek is kept narrow so that typically just one boat can pass through at a time. Most of the creek is fairly deep at 10 to 15 feet and willow trees straddle the banks.
"You cannot disturb the water. It's against the law," Gunner said. "You aren't allowed to go into the creek and start removing trees or using mechanized equipment. If you just go in there and start ripping out trees, it will create silt."
Gunner said the town tries to do the minimum amount of work to clear the creek and did not do its usual cleaning last summer because the water was so low due to light rainfall.
The other consideration is that the creek also is a trout stream where 2,000 trout are stocked each March by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The fish harbor is near some of the fallen trees and an old steel girder bridge that fell in the water years ago.
Mercurio said he intends to walk along the creek to get a more detailed idea of what might be done.
"Maybe we can make this a fun, healthy option for East Aurora residents," he said. "Maybe we can make an easily accessible entryway into the creek. Who knows? But I would like to research what the possibilities are."
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Manoas Got TalentMarch 22, 2013 - February 20, 2013
Manoa Campus, Campus Center Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Hey all U.H. Warriors!
Do you think you've got talent? Want a chance to perform on stage and win amazing prizes? Sign up TODAY to be part of the Manoa's Got Talent show on Friday, March 22, 2013, 7-10 PM in the Campus Center Ballroom!
Applications for solo and group performances are being accepted until Monday, March 8, 2013. Pick up an application at the Ticket, Info, and ID Office in Campus Center 211, or online at our AC website (http://uhmccbac.weebly.com/index.html). Applications may be returned to the Ticket, Info, and ID Office (Campus Center 211), or emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Manoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium (CKS)
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Manoa Campus, Tokioka room, Moore 319
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Manoa Campus, George Hall 301
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|Shooting Sports Head Coach
Richard Hawkins, prior coach of a three-time U.S. National Shooting Team Championship winning team, is in his fourth season as the first full-time academy shooting sports coach.
Hawkins grew up in Michigan where he graduated from Bath High School in 1972. He went on to college at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he graduated in June 1976 with a Bachelors of Science Degree as a Second Lieutenant. He spent ten years assigned to the United States Army Marksmanship Unit's International Rifle Section where he competed in International Rifle Competitions and won numerous medals. He retired in June, 1996 and went on to Graduate School at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. to receive his Master's of Business Administration Degree. He graduated number one in his class.
In 2001, Coach Hawkins was selected as the International Rifle Coach for the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit and coached there until August 2013..
1) Had one of his team members win the 2002 World Championship in Men's Air Rifle. At the 2004 Olympic Games, another team member won the Silver Medal in Men's Three Position Rifle. This is the only Olympic Rifle Medal for an USAMU member in the past 40 years. After five successful years as the Rifle Coach, he was reassigned as the Pistol Coach. He went on to coach the pistol team to three National Team Championships. These are the first team championships the team has won in 25 years.
2) Went on to earn his PhD in Sports Science. Conducting seven original scientific research projects, with three being published in scientific peer-reviewed journals.
3) Was awarded a Class A International Judge's License (eligible to coach in the Olympics), an International Coach's License (one of nineteen in the world with an ISSF Class A Licensed Coach, the highest coach certification that a shooting coach can earn). Received all coaching rifle and pistol certifications in the U.S. for the Olympic shooting sports.
4) Was selected as a Voluntary Assistant National Team Coach from 2002 to 2005. In which time he was selected as the U.S. Team Leader for five major International Championships.


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While the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, Steve Miller and N.W.A. as its 2016 inductees, there are still some acts it has overlooked over the years.
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on February 6, 2013 - 5:17 PM
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Sergio R. Rodriguez knows the odds are stacked against the election of any Republican as mayor of Buffalo.
Indeed, it hasn't happened since 1961.
But the Medaille College administrator had a ready answer in Niagara Square on Wednesday as he declared his GOP candidacy for mayor and dismissed any idea that party labels mean everything in overwhelmingly Democratic Buffalo.
"Do you think a single mother out there, worried about putting food on her table and their kids being involved in gang activities, do you think she's worried about whether it's a Democrat or Republican in City Hall?" he asked. "I don't believe Republicans or Democrats have a monopoly on how to run a city administration effectively."
Rodriguez begins his super-underdog quest without any real advantages, other than emerging as the first Republican since Kevin J. Helfer in 2005 to even volunteer to run for mayor. As he launched an effort to unseat incumbent Democrat Byron W. Brown, the Marine Corps veteran gathered a crowd of about 25 supporters for his announcement – featuring not a single recognizable Republican face.
Add to that a campaign treasury of about $1,100, and it's understandable why City GOP Chairman William E. Nowakowski says the Republican ticket is far from settled.
"He's out there, but he's got to show us he's capable of a viable challenge," he said. "We like Sergio; he's a good kid. We're still looking for other candidates."
Still, Nowakowski did not dismiss the possibility that Rodriguez may emerge as the GOP candidate this year, even though some Republicans would prefer no November contest. They hope that as in 2009 when no Republican ran, turnout could prove lower in Democratic Buffalo to the advantage of the party's countywide candidates.
Rodriguez, 32, nevertheless looked like a committed candidate as he attracted a phalanx of cameras and reporters to the front of City Hall. The Dominican native started his speech by relating the story of his immigration to the United States in search of opportunity, and how he believes Buffalo can offer just that with the right leadership.
Most of his remarks then followed that theme as he continually suggested that better leadership from the mayor can overcome daunting problems of poverty, crime, and especially, education.
"Mayors in other cities within New York State are doing something about it," he said, citing the efforts of New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A. Miner for public schools. "They are getting involved and taking a proactive approach. They have found that the best way to address a failing education system is by dealing with it head-on."
Rodriguez said a high school graduation rate of about 50 percent is "alarming and threatens the future stability of our community," and questioned why a school system spending $27,000 per student each year registers such dismal results.
He also said he does not envision running an ethnic campaign aimed at the minority vote, despite challenges faced by African-Americans and Hispanics like himself.
"I understand these issues," he said. "However, this will be a campaign that transcends all of that. Black, Hispanic, white – it doesn't matter. We're all in this together."
Rodriguez serves as Medaille's coordinator of military and veterans affairs and is a South Buffalo resident.
Brown, meanwhile, is expected to announced his candidacy for a third term within the next few weeks. Another Democrat, Bernard Tolbert, is also weighing a challenge to Brown in the primary, but has yet to make a decision.
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Source: Scribd via AppleInsider
quote: Look at HP and their beat notebooks, quite a deliberate knockoff in MBP's design language.
quote: To drive it to the point, look at how many companies have borrowed design cues from other market trend setters. Take the Automotive Industry for example, Audi(well more like the designer who was contracted to articulate it) was perhaps the first to make the "loud and proud" grille, you look at American automakers, Asian automakers, and other European automakers who followed suit.


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This Family Circle Cup was an awakening, a first introduction to many of the young players who are starting to make their mark on the WTA Tour. They're coming from everywhere, especially the United States.
One-quarter of the 56-player field came from the United States.
Although this year's event could be labeled the Venus and Serena All-American Invitational, a new group of players arrived. Many of these were players who played a different type of game than even Venus and Serena played when they took the women's tour by storm in the 1990s.
Yes, the bashers apparently have arrived in women's tennis.
Yes, even on the green clay of the Family Circle Cup.
These bashers have discovered that it takes much less patience, strategy and conditioning to simply take every ball, not just the high-bouncing ones, and to pound it as hard as they can, and hope that the ball lands on the other end of the court. The alternative, of course, is to sweat out the point.
There always have been a few bashers on the pro tours, players who play by no boundaries, players who go for broke on every shot. When they are in the zone as Stepanie Voegele was in her upset of former world's No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in the Family Circle quarterfinals, they can't miss. Other times, they can't hit. It's all about being in the zone.
This appears to be the mentality of the new players. They don't take the time to learn the basics of the game.
Obviously, the new breed of coach must be in on this type of game plan. It must be easier to just turn players loose and let them pound the ball rather than teach them the basics of the game.
Not very long ago, an aggressive player was one who played serve-and-volley tennis or at least often made trips to the net. Today's aggressive player goes for home runs on almost every shot. Some hit the court, others miss badly.
That's why it was so good to see veterans such as Serena Williams and Jelena Jankovic in the final. They play the game the right way. So do Venus Williams and Wozniacki, and certain young players such as Sloane Stephens and Mallory Burdette. Obviously, some coach in each instance made sure the player knew the basics, that tennis is a game of points, then games, sets and matches. One huge shot doesn't mean anything when the next two crash some place other than the other end of the court.
Many of the young Americans are as guilty of this type of tennis as anyone else. Young Taylor Townsend, Madison Keys and others may want to play like Serena Williams, but they don't have all of the tools to make it happen.
But you've got to hand it to Serena and her dad, Richard Williams. All of that early training is paying full dividends.
Serena always has been a great athlete, one good enough to probably be better than any other women's tennis player ever. Serena has taken this to another level.
This past week while marching to her third Family Circle Cup title, Serena demonstrated that she is the consummate tennis player, not just an awesome server or a great mover or a powerful player. She has it all. She is truly Miss Tennis.
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- FACULTY and STAFF
Graduate Course Information
ECE 541A - Automatic Control
Credits: 3.00
Course Website: D2L
UA Catalog Description: http://catalog.arizona.edu/allcats.html
Course Assessment:
Homework: 8 – 10 assignments
Project: 1 project
Exams: 3 Midterm Exams, 1 Final Exam
Grading Policy:
Typically: 60% Midterms,
25% Final Exam,
5% Homework,
5% Laboratory,
5% Project.
Course Summary:
Linear control system representation in time and frequency domains, feedback control system characteristics, performance analysis and stability, and design of control. Graduate-level requirements include evaluation on the following set of topics: Mathematical Rigor: proofs of various design guidelines; utility of signal norms as principal characteristics of a controller. Robust Control: analysis techniques for controllers with plant or other uncertainty. Project: analysis and design on a relevant novel control systems topic, using rigorous mathematics to prove properties of the system or to validate design goals, presented in the form of a conference paper. Project ideas may be developed with the instructor or graduate advisor.
"Modern Control Systems," 12th Edition by Richard C. Dorf and Robert H. Bishop, Prentice-Hall 2011.
"Feedback Control Theory," by John C. Doyle, Bruce A. Francis, and Allen R. Tannenbaum, Macmillan, 1992. (On-line: http://www.control.toronto.ca/~francis/dft.pdf )
1. Model, via differential equations or transfer functions, electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical dynamical systems.
2. Linearize a set of nonlinear dynamical equations.
3. Create a second-order model from a system's step response.
4. Construct all-integrator block diagrams from a transfer function, a set of differential equations, or a state-space representation and vice-versa.
5. Compute a state transition matrix from a system matrix.
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The young man walked into Martin Luther King Park with an Uzi-like machine gun and mowed down five picnickers at Shelter No. 4 on a warm May evening last year.
When he fled, he left behind one man who was fatally wounded and four other victims, including a man left a paraplegic and a woman blinded in one eye. He also inflamed the community.
Nearly a year later, local and federal law enforcement officials returned Tuesday to Martin Luther King Park to announce they had found and charged the man they believe was the shooter: Tariq "Reek" Brown, 20, a member of the Bailey Boys gang who thought he was shooting at a gathering that included rival gang members.
It has never been determined if gang members were present at that picnic shelter – there were more than 100 people at the picnic. But police say innocent family members and children were there when Brown began shooting.
To make matters worse, the weapon malfunctioned and kept firing as long as Brown had his finger on the trigger, authorities said.
"It was a cowardly, terroristic act. He fired on family members and children," Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said.
"We will not allow somebody to turn a play zone into a war zone," said U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr.
Mayor Byron W. Brown, who had visited the surviving victims while they were in the hospital, said the federal criminal charges offer consolation.
"I know those families are still suffering today, but this gives them some closure," the mayor said, adding that the community is now safer. "A cold-blooded killer is off the streets of our city. He can no longer hurt anyone else."
The charges against Brown under the federal racketeering statute could place him behind bars for life, with the possibility of the death sentence.
In addition to the allegation that he killed Marquay Lee, 26, who died a few day after the May 12 shooting, Brown faces seven other counts of attempted murder, four of them for the wounded picnickers:
Edmond Carter, 28, now confined to a wheelchair; Shaneta Payne, 27, blinded in one eye; Aron Rose, 20; and Jahond Taylor, 23. Both Rose and Taylor were shot in the ankle.
The three other counts of attempted murder date back to shootings in 2011, when Buffalo police teamed up with the FBI's Safe Streets Task Force in an investigation of gang violence that eventually resulted in numerous arrests of Bailey Boys members.
Tariq Brown has been in custody since Aug. 1, 2012, when he and seven other Bailey Boys members were charged in a federal indictment with shooting rival gang members, selling drugs and committing robberies to make money for their criminal enterprise under the federal racketeering law. Since then, the indictment has been revised four times with additional charges, including Tuesday's latest counts against Brown.
Richard M. Frankel, special agent in charge of the FBI's Buffalo office, said the investigation into the Bailey Boys is continuing. "We're not done," he said. "There could be more charges."
The shooter's gun was recovered as evidence, police said.
"It was a cheap weapon, and it malfunctioned, turning it into an automatic assault weapon," a police official said.
Jeremy D. Schwartz, Brown's defense lawyer, said, "We've been aware of the investigation, and we're going to challenge the charges."
Hochul said it was important for authorities to gather at the park to make the announcement so that residents would see not only that police officers and investigators are out in the community but also that the people who lead the investigations and prosecute the cases are in the community and not off in an "ivory tower."
With Hochul was assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony M. Bruce, lead prosecutor in the case, and leaders of different police agencies that assisted, including Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard; Dale M. Kasprzyk, supervisory agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Buffalo office; and Frank Christiano, resident agent in charge of the Buffalo office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
There was an even bigger gathering in the park in the days after the shooting. Dozens of people went to the same picnic shelter where the attack occurred and held a "Peace in the Park" event to make a stand against the violence. Tears were shed amid cries for justice as city leaders offered a message that the park belonged to the good citizens of the neighborhood and not the thugs.
All of that proved true on Tuesday.
During the news conference, people were in the park enjoying the April sunshine as children romped on new playground equipment. Some said they were thankful that the alleged killer had been charged.
"I feel 100 percent better. They got him, and now he'll do his time" said Frances Turner, who had taken her granddaughter to the park.
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Charleston County is pushing for more control of construction of the extension of Interstate 526 across Johns and James islands, a move that likely is slowing down the project.
County Council voted by a narrow margin in December to move forward with building the controversial road, which would complete a highway loop around Charleston. But after more than seven months, the county still hasn't taken any concrete steps forward, including the first required step of amending and updating the project's three-part contract, known as an intergovernmental agreement.
The project was planned as a collaborative effort between the county, which would sponsor it; the South Carolina Department of Transportation, which would manage and build the road; and the S.C. Transportation Infrastructure Bank, which would pay for it.
The original agreement between those three groups must be updated, including the cost, which has risen from $420 million to $558 million.
Council Vice Chairman Elliott Summey said the county wants to play a larger role in building the road, even though the management of such large road projects usually is left to the South Carolina DOT.
And it wants more input on right-of-way acquisition and mitigation for the impact the road would have on nearby property owners. "Local government is where the rubber meets the road," he said.
While Summey is pushing for more control of building the road, project opponents, including the Coastal Conservation League, said that would be another in a string of missteps. "What we're looking at here is a Chinese fire drill at the county level," said Dana Beach, the league's director. "If we want to see a higher level of dysfunction," he said, "we should turn it over to the county. It will only get worse."
Summey said he and some county administrators plan to make a presentation on the project to the Infrastructure Bank's board Wednesday. It's part of the process to complete the amended agreement, he said.
Debra Rountree, the bank's director of operations, and Donald Leonard, chairman of its board, said the issue so far is not on the agenda, which hasn't yet been released.
The bank's board must approve the amended agreement, Rountree said. And she has heard from DOT commissioners that they want to weigh in on the agreement, even though they may not be required to do so.
DOT spokesman Peter Poore said the group "is still in the process of modifying the existing IGA for the Mark Clark extension. That will require some time."
Charleston County Council, however, doesn't have to approve the amended plan. It gave that responsibility to county administrators in December as part of the 5-4 vote to move forward with the project.
Councilman Dickie Schweers, a strong opponent of the project, said the majority of the board that voted in favor of it did that "to cut us off from being able to challenge it in the future."
He said I-526 is one of the largest construction projects not only in the county but in the entire state, and he doesn't think the county has the resources and skills to build it. He thinks the majority of the board is pushing for control because it "fears the politics of the DOT."
Some DOT commissioners previously have raised concerns about spending such a large amount of money on a project that is not a regional or state priority.
Schweers also said he thinks taking control of the project will put county taxpayers at risk.
"I think this project is littered with mistakes," Schweers said, but he can't predict whether any of them are severe enough to create a legal challenge that might stop it. "It certainly was not a clean process that passed the smell test," he said.
Citizens' groups continue to disagree about the project.
Braden Davis, a spokesman for Charlestonians for I-526 said his group supports the county taking over building the road. But members would get behind whoever can build it the most quickly. "Let's get it done," he said.
Rich Thomas, a member of the opposition group Nix 526, said the county simply doesn't have the ability to complete such a massive project. "It's just laughable that a $600 million contract is something the county needs to take on."
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CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. — Whitney Myer remains mysterious.A 25-year-old singer from Reno, Nev., Myer was tight-lipped during last season's airing of NBC's "The Voice." Now she still is holding something back.What we know for sure is the Whitney Myer Band will play its first ticketed Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room show Friday, Aug. 31, and that a studio album is close to completion.But there's something more."We have some other things in the works that we're not sure about yet," Myer said early this week. "I'm going to be strategically vague about that question."Myer knows how to keep a really big secret. The entire season of "The Voice" was recorded before any of the episodes aired. So Myer was unable to let friends, fans and the press know she passed the audition and was selected by Maroon 5's Adam Levine to be her coach. 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After Levine chose Myer ahead of fellow judges and coaches Christina Agulara, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton, he said Myer had the potential to win the entire competition. More than a month later in the Battle Round, Kim Yarbrough was picked instead of Myer, in an appropriately named song, "No More Drama."Hours later, Myer was on a plane home to Reno."Brutal," is how Whitney's uncle Fred Myer described the process."It's dramatic because they make it dramatic and it makes the show dramatic and it makes people want to watch it," Whitney Myer said. "It's television and at the end of the day it's about television and ratings, which is fine. It's a great way to reach people but that is what it is."Since Myer's run on "The Voice" ended in March, it has become much easier for her band to book shows. Her father plays guitar and his twin brother, Fred, the drums. Gina Torcaso is on bass. The family connection makes the band more sentient than even the most seasoned groups who have been together for a long time."We were like that before we started playing," Scott Myer said of his family's telepathic bent.Because of the time spent with "The Voice," the band's third CD, expected to be released in the fall, was delayed eight months. All of the tunes are originals."We have a different engineer and studio which can be huge and in this case it is huge," Fred Myer said. "It's much more equipped to accommodate some experimentation and enables us to spend some time digging in and doing some things, just experimenting in the studio with the sound and layering and things like that.""We're taking these songs further along," Scott Myer said. "We took the production to another level."Fred and Scott Myer began playing in bands when they were 14 years old. They played in a funk band, Bump and Grind, before joining the Commander Cody Band. They later played in Sutro, a popular Reno band, before joining the Bay Area's Mudsharks.Scott Myer said he learned music and songwriting was a way to spend more time with his daughter, who was named after Whitney Houston. As Whitney became a teenager, he realized she had a soulful voice with a great tonal range. The melding of two generations of Myers resulted in a unique sound. "It's tough to label and we've had a very hard time labeling ourselves," Fred Myer said. "We started calling ourselves pop-soul-funk because there's a little bit of all three of those elements in our music at any given time, but we're not any one of those things, that's for sure. We hate to pigeonhole ourselves."Whitney comes from this younger eclectic 'Randamp;Bish' and yet soulful and rocky and sometimes even folky place and Scott and I are completely old-school funk Randamp;B with some rock in there. We've done it all, everything but jazz."A premise of "The Voice" is an unknown singer is discovered and she gets a record deal with a major label. But it appears the Whitney Myer Band, if it is signed to a big label, must do it the modern way."(Labels) want you to figure it out and sell a lot of your CDs and then sort of sign on to something that's already successful," Fred Myer said. "Artist development is almost no longer. You have to boil your own pot and whatever comes out of that is what they take."Speaking of boiling, Scott Myer does the cooking and Fred is the driver of the tour bus for the band, which, Whitney Myer said, is content based in the Biggest Little City in the World. "We are definitely going to continue to work from Reno for now," she said. "It's cheap to live there and it is perfectly located for the West Coast."Whitney Myer worked nearly six years at the Great Basin Brewery in Sparks, which is donating kegs of Icky IPA and Nevada Gold for Friday's concert-goers' bus ride to Crystal Bay. After Myer's afternoon sound check, she will return home along with Torcaso in order to catch the bus and be with the fans. There will be special lighting effects at the show and an aerial performer."It is a bigger step up, a ticketed event in a bigger room with a bigger reputation, so we are definitely looking forward to that," she said. While Myer was briefly in the national spotlight, she didn't become an overnight sensation. Nevertheless, she is among a group of talented up-and-coming groups from Reno that includes Kyser Soze, Jelly Bread, the Jason King Band, UpRising and the Mark Sexton Band, which will play next week in the Crystal Bay Casino Red Room. Sexton, who worked with Myer at the Great Basin Brewery, hopes to someday also move from the Red Room to the Crown Room. He said Myer learned from her television experience."She perhaps has gotten a little smarter in talking to people and knowing what to do businesswise," Sexton said. "I think it's really important to have a good head on your shoulders. I think that's where a lot of people lose themselves."Myer is circumspect."My lasting impressions of 'The Voice' keeps morphing," she said. "At first it was so exciting. It is an exciting, awesome thing and I am so grateful that I was able to make it that far and I was able to have that experience because not everybody gets to and a lot of times there's no rhyme nor reason why someone does. "But I think I was expecting a little more to come out of it. I thought there would be a little more interest on the industry side of things, which there was but it wasn't as much as I would have expected from an outside perspective. In a lot of ways, I learned a lot about that because I would have thought, 'Oh man you get on television and millions of people see you and it's got to mean a whole lot,' and it does, but on a different level than I had thought."
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