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Little GemAn uplifting Irish comedy about life, death, and "getting on with it" by Elaine Murphy. Party girl Amber feels a rumble in her stomach. Her compulsive mother Lorraine tries her hand at salsa dancing. And her grandmother Kay "toys" with the meaning of pleasure as she looks after her ill husband. Chock full of Dublin slang and hilarity, this play depicts three generations of middle-class, Irish women as they strive to piece together their lives over one extraordinary year.03/30/2013 - 05/05/20131300 Bingham Street Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
"Japan is the Key...": Collecting Prints and Ivories, 1900-1920This show features over 50 rarely-seen Japanese prints, including traditional masterworks by Hiroshige Andō, Katsushika Hokusai, Utamaro Kitagawa, and Kunisada (Toyokuni III), as well as highlights from Carnegie Museum of Natural History's collection of Japanese ivory figures of people, animals, and gods.03/30/2013 - 07/21/20134400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Ronald Zollman conducts the Philharmonic, with the Repertory Chorus and Concert Choir prepared by Dr. Robert Page, in Anton Bruckner's Te Deum and Robert Schumann's Symphony #4. This concert will be repeated Friday at the Music Center at Strathmore, Bethesda, Maryland04/03/2013Time: 8:00 pm4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Texture Contemporary BalletThere's Something About Fontina, an evening of new mixed works. Performances are Wednesday & Thursday at 7:30pm; Friday at 8pm. For tickets, ShowClix.04/03/2013 - 04/05/2013Location: New Hazlett Theater, Northsidewebsite
Dream of AutumnIt seems a chance meeting, two former lovers in a cemetery, where the man will bury his grandmother. But nothing is as it seems, all of life, of lives, of history, is going to emerge from the dreamlike shadows as these two do battle against each other, then turn together to face the forces of the past and future. Written by one of Europe's leading playwrights, Jon Fosse's lyrical and erotic drama provides urgent testimony to the fact that our loves and lives will be the death of us all. World premiere translation by director Sarah Cameron Sunde starring Martin Giles, Karla Boos, Laurie Klatscher, and Gregory Lehane.04/04/2013 - 04/28/2013Location: Royal York Apartments, 3955 Bigelow Blvd., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Big Band & Doowop BrassA trip down memory lane, celebrating the music of America's finest and most famous bands, with special guests Johnny Angel and The Halos! Works to include: Blue Moon, Miller Magic, a Tribute to Stan Kenton, In the Mood, April in Paris and much, much more!04/04/2013 - 04/12/2013Time: variousLocation: 7 locationswebsite
Master of the Modern FluteA solo recital by flutist Robert Dick, whose influences range from Telemann to electronic and ambient music, jazz to Jimi Hendrix. "Jazz Times" has called him a "truly revolutionary" performer. He'll also join the Alia Musica Pittsburgh ensemble at Bricolage Saturday evening.04/04/2013Time: 7:30pmLocation: Bricolage Theater, 937 Liberty Ave., downtownwebsite
Toi Derricotte, poetAward-winning poet Toi Derricotte will give a free public reading. Her most recent book, The Undertaker's Daughter, looks back on her childhood in an abusive home. Recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Paterson Poetry Prize, NEA fellowships, and Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundation grants, Derricotte teaches at Pitt, and is co-founder of Cave Canem, a workshop and retreat for African-American poets.04/04/2013Time: 7:00 pmLocation: Power Center Ballroom, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
The Six Brandenburg ConcertosConductor and harpsichordist Jeannette Sorrell leads these six masterpieces in concerto grosso form, J.S. Bach's supreme achievement in instrumental music. The Brandenburg Concertos were unknown until published on the centennial of Bach's death. Ms. Sorrell is one of the leading interpreters of Bach's music and will provide insights throughout the concert.04/05/2013 - 04/07/201304/05 - 8:00 pm04/06 - 8:00 pm04/07 - 2:30 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Les Ballets TrockaderoFor more than 35 years, New York's legendary all-male dance company "Keeps on Trockin" by playfully bringing the pleasures of dance to the widest possible audience. Through its skillful parodies of ballet classics and modern dance, the Trocks' comedic brilliance lies in incorporating and exaggerating the foible, accidents and underlying congruities of serious dance.04/05/2013Time: 8:00 pmByham Theater, 101 6th St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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HAGERSTOWN - The Maryland Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Elizabeth Schulze will kick off the MSO's 32nd season on Saturday, July 6 with the 28th annual Salute to Independence Concert at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
This free celebration has become one of Maryland's signature patriotic outdoor events and attracts more than 35,000 concert-goers each year. In recent years it has been recognized by the American Bus Association as one of the "Top 100 Events in North America."
"The Maryland Symphony is proud to give back to the community through this annual concert that honors those men and women who have served our country in the past, as well as those currently serving throughout the world," said Michael Jonnes, executive director of the MSO. "The MSO could not do this alone. We are very grateful for the corporate and individual support we receive each year that enables us to produce a concert of this magnitude."
The concert will feature local singer/songwriter Jennie Avila performing her original compositions based on true stories from the Civil War experience here in Washington County. The master of ceremonies will be Christopher Boyer, a Washington County native and an actor currently residing in Los Angeles, whose most recent role was as Robert E. Lee in the film "Lincoln."
The orchestra will also be performing such crowd pleasing favorites as John Phillip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever, Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Morton Gould's American Salute, and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
The evening will end with a spectacular fireworks display sponsored by PNC Bank and produced by Bay Fireworks of Farmingdale, N.Y.
Event partners for the 28th Annual "Salute" are the National Park Service at Antietam National Battlefield and Washington County, Md. Liberty sponsors are FirstEnergy Foundation on behalf of Potomac Edison, Antietam Cable Television and The Alice Virginia and David W. Fletcher Foundation Inc.
Antietam National Battlefield is one of America's National Parks and is the site of the bloodiest one-day battle in American history. On Sept. 17, 1862 more than 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or declared missing in action after 12 hours of savage combat. For more information on the Battlefield, www.nps.gov/ancm.
The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is supported by a grant from the Maryland States Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive.
The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 32nd season as the area's premier professional orchestra, dedicated to providing musical performances that educate and entertain, while enhancing the cultural environment of Western Maryland and the surrounding region.

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on May 14, 2013 - 3:46 PM
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Confidential information about more than 10,200 patients of Dent Neurologic Institute was inadvertently sent to more than 200 patients Monday in an email attachment.
The personal information – including patients' names and home addresses, their doctors' names, last appointment dates and their email addresses – was contained on an Excel patient spreadsheet.
The data does not include specific information about the patients' medical conditions, birth dates or Social Security numbers, according to Dent, which attributed the privacy breach to "human error."
"The list was mistakenly attached to a routine email that was being sent to patients by a clerk in the DNI administrative office," Dent said Tuesday in a statement.
"We are very sorry this happened, and we deeply apologize to all of our patients, referring physicians and WNY health care partners," Dent CEO Joseph V. Fritz said in the same news release. "Patient confidentiality is extremely important in our field, and we take it very seriously, and we will review how this accident happened so we can take steps to minimize the possibilities it could ever happen again. This is an inexcusable event."
Dent officials did not respond to requests to comment further. The institute said that by Tuesday afternoon it had contacted all of the 200 patients who received the email and asked them to delete the message.
Not every patient of the institute was listed on the spreadsheet. However, some patients whose information was included remain upset by the breach of privacy.
"I'm on there, and my daughter is on there, and I know other people on there," said Kelly J. Asher, a health and wellness coordinator with Erie County's Senior Services, who received the email and is in the database.
"When I opened the attachment and realized the plethora of personal information that was carelessly sent out by the Dent Institute, I was very disturbed," Asher added.
"I also must question the intent of the email, and I'm not sure I buy the explanation of the incident given by Dent. This list would certainly be helpful for a business trying to directly market a product to a targeted group of patients."
Several Dent patients contacted for this article said they were learning about the release of their information from a reporter.
"The scary thing is, The Buffalo News knows about this and I don't," said Ross T. Runfola Jr., a member services supervisor for health insurance provider Fidelis Care.
Runfola said he's also worried that identity thieves could get their hands on this data.
"It's amazing what you can do with a little information," said Runfola, who only recently started going to Dent.
Asher and Runfola view the release of the patient data as a violation of HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which protects patient privacy.
A breach of HIPAA is "an impermissible use or disclosure … that compromises the security or privacy of the protected health information that … poses a significant risk of financial, reputational or other harm to the affected individual," according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
"It certainly seems to fall within the general definition of 'individually identifiable health information.' That's the magic phrase from the privacy rule," said Anthony H. Szczygiel, a University at Buffalo law professor and director of the Law School's William and Mary Foster Elder Law Clinic.
An institution that violates HIPAA could face civil or criminal penalties, but these are issued only for the most serious and malicious misconduct, said Szczygiel, who teaches an introductory course on health law.
Even if this data release doesn't violate HIPAA, he added, "I would think this violated institutional policies, so I think some heads would roll for that."
The act also requires any companies involved in the breach to notify media and affected individuals.
According to Dent, it has already notified the state Department of Health and will send a letter of notification and apology to all the patients involved in the breach.
Dent officials did not say what, if any, safeguards they plan to put in place to prevent a future breach.
The accidental release of the database follows another recent misfire by Dent in which all the institute's patients received letters by mail that were intended only for those with Catholic Medical Partners physicians, causing confusion among those with other doctors.
In a response at that time, Fritz wrote on the institute's website: "These letters were distributed to our entire patient database rather than just those patients currently under the CMP program. Many patients are now questioning why we moved away from Kaleida, etc., and are concerned their insurance will no longer cover them. … Frankly, it was an unfortunate mistake that these letters were sent to our entire patient population, and we sincerely apologize for creating this confusion."
Dent Neurologic treats patients of all ages for such conditions as concussions, headaches, dizziness and sleep problems, as well as those with multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and memory disorders. It has offices in Amherst, Orchard Park, Derby and Batavia.
Dent patients who have questions about the email incident can call the institute at 250-2000.
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The Buttermilk Boulders are about 13 miles (21 kilometers) west of town; follow Highway 168 (West Line Street) for 12 miles (19 kilometers), then take the Buttermilk Road straight to the rocks. Or trek to the summit of White Mountain Peak, a 14,246-footer (4,342-meter peak) with views of the jagged Sierra, eerie Mojave Desert, and glowing Las Vegas. Load up on gear and local intel at Wilsons Eastside Sports (www.eastsidesports.com).
Erick Schat's Bakkerÿ has the best sandwiches (read: daily, home-baked bread) between Los Angeles and Tahoe (www.erickschatsbakery.com).
The nearby Bishop Creek Lodge has rustic cabins smack in the heart of high Sierra country (cabins from $125; bishopcreekresort.com/front/index.htm).


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The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Sydney for UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch, the organization's second visit with the fine people of Australia.
The event took a hit when Carlos "The Natural Born Killer" Condit was forced to pull out of what was sure to be a burner against Chris "Lights Out" Lytle due to injury. Nevertheless, it still features a blah-turned-burner between middleweights Michael "The Count" Bisping and Jorge "El Conquistador" Rivera thanks to the latter's mediocre video taunts plus a battle of onrushing top contenders at lightweight in native son George Sotiropoulos and Dennis "The Menace" Siver.
Additionally, the locals will have plenty of Oceania products to cheer for at a time when the region, devastated by the earthquake that claimed hundreds of lives in New Zealand, could use a good cheer.
Three Australians—Sotiropoulos, Kyle "KO" Noke and Anthony "The Hippo" Perosh—and two New Zealanders—Mark "Super Samoan" Hunt and James Te-Huna—will try to provide their countrymen with a momentary respite from the situation.
And then there's the main event.
The majority of the buzz comes from B.J. "The Prodigy" Penn and the next phase of his assimilation into the welterweight division against its long-time No. 2, Jon Fitch. Most of the experts are picking the perennial bridesmaid to grind out a victory over the Hawaiian, but that's usually when Baby J is at his best.
The first gloves drop in a couple of hours, see you then.
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The Tahoe Conservancy Board awarded two grants Thursday to expand the growing South Shore bicycle and pedestrian network.
The South Tahoe Greenway and Sawmill Bike Path will eventually allow people to travel from Meyers to Van Sickle Bi-State Park without getting into a vehicle, according to a press release.
The conservancy will invest $900,000 to build the first phase of the 3.62-mile Greenway between Glenwood and Herbert ways.
The conservancy also awarded a $350,000 grant to El Dorado County for construction of the final phase of the Sawmill Bike Path between U.S. Highway 50 and the Echo View Estates subdivision. The trail will complete the bike path network between Meyers and the city.
"These paths are not just about getting around, they're about accessing all of the extraordinary recreational attractions that our community has to offer," South Lake Tahoe Mayor Tom Davis said in the release.
The conservancy has invested more than $40 million in bicycle and pedestrian networks around Lake Tahoe.


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on September 10, 2012 - 6:00 AM
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Perhaps it goes without saying, but it shouldn't: The Erie County Water Authority is playing a fast-and-loose game with the revenues of rate-payers, defending with a wink and a nod its intolerable practice of larding its ranks with the friends and relatives of the well-connected.
The most recent hire, as reported recently in The News, was Robb Poloncarz, brother of Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz. Robb Poloncarz, a former chef, was provisionally hired as a contract monitor. The job was not advertised, nor has a civil service exam been held.
We have already commented on that charade - Poloncarz is hardly alone in this - but now commissioners of the Water Authority are doubling down. Not only do they continue to make careless hiring decision, but they actually made a point of defending the indefensible. Do they think their customers are idiots?
In a nutshell, here is what the authority believes is a sensible and efficient way to run a business with a $68 million budget: Hire anyone.
Imagine any private-sector business adopting the Water Authority approach. You're the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and you need someone to play the oboe. Hire a chef!
Or maybe you're a contractor and you need electricians to help you meet demand. Don't advertise, hire a professional bowler. He may not know what he's doing, but he's the boss's brother and, well ... you know.
Two of the authority's commissioners were wounded by criticism of their hiring practices, saying that they have cut staff in recent years. What is more, said Commissioner Earl L. Jann Jr., "Frankly, we have a very good workforce, a very efficient workforce."
That may be true, but if it is, it's a matter of dumb luck, not the kind of care and planning real businesses put into these kinds of decisions.
It needs to change. The commissioners said they would consider setting up a more formal process to advertise jobs and, thus, ensure they are hiring the most capable workers, but what's to consider? Maybe how to do it, certainly not whether. Unlike most of government, this really is a business. Why not run it like one?
This system has been long supported by both political parties and elected officials. That, on its own, is a disgrace. Surely someone in public office is willing to make an issue of this - to investigate the practices of the Erie County Water Authority and then to push for changes.
There are 11 members of the Erie County Legislature and some of them must care about constituents whose water bills are underwriting a reckless policy. Those lawmakers should start getting some answers and demanding reform. If no legislators do that, county voters will know whose side they are on.


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Lighten Up: A Month of Getting Rid of Stuff
Dear Kay, Who kicked the plug out of the heater? I opened the door to take out the trash and it was SPICYcold. I think we broke ten degrees. These are glory days for us knitters; I'm wearing everything I ever made. It's almost enough. A belated Happy New Year to everybody. The word for 2014 is LIGHTEN. In the interest of lightening, I decided to get rid of stuff around the house. I wanted to get rid of enough stuff that it felt like...Read More


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Open mic night set at Daily Grind
MARTINSBURG - Daily Grind, on Foxcroft Avenue, will hold an open mic night at 7:30 p.m. every Friday.
McBee to perform at 9 p.m. Saturday
SHEPHERDSTOWN - Chelsea McBee and The Random Assortment will perform from 9 p.m. to midnight Satruday at The Mecklinburg Inn, 128 E. German St. Cover charge is $5.
For more information, visit online at www.chelseamcbee.com.
Bluegrass series continues in Va.
LUCKETTS, Va. - Audie Blaylock and Redline will perform Saturday at the Lucketts Elementary School, 14550 James Monroe Highway. Doors open at 6 p.m. Cost is $15 at the door. Sandwiches, sodas and snacks will be available.
For more information, call 703-771-5281.
Wind Ensemble set to perform
WINCHESTER, Va. - Shenandoah Conservatory Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform "Symphonic Metamorphosis" at 8 p.m. Saturday in Armstrong Concert Hall on the campus of Shenandoah University. Admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors and $5 for students and active military.
For more information or tickets, call 540-665-4569 or visit www.conservatoryperforms.org.
KokoBlue slated for Saturday
MARTINSBURG - KokoBlue will perform from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday at Nan and Pops.
Museum to present Small concert
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts will present pianist Haskell Small in concert at 2:30 p.m. A reception will follow the performance. Cost is $5 for non-members and free for members and children 12 and under.
For more information, call 301-739-5727 or visit www.wcmfa.org.
Opera House set to host live music
SHEPHERDSTOWN - The Shepherdstown Opera House has announced the following lineup:
April 15: Kids concert with Gustafer Yellowgold;
April 21: Ginada Pinata;
April 27: Tilted Torch Burlesque and Variety Show;
May 1: Zach Deputy;
May 4: Cotton Jones;
May 5: On the Bus;
May 18: Frank Fairfield.
Admission ranges from $5 to $30, depending on the concert, and more information is available at www.OperaHouseLive.com.
Schein concert set at 3 p.m. Sunday
WINCHESTER, Va. - Shenandoah Conservatory's The World of the Piano Series will present Ann Schein in concert at 3 p.m. April 15 in Armstrong Concert Hall, on the campus of Shenandoah University. Tickets are $18 for adults, $16 for seniors and $10 for students and active military.
For more information or tickets, call 540-665-4569 or visit www.conservatoryperforms.org.


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Real Housewives of New York City's Bethenny Frankel and her beau Jason Hoppy were married at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York on Sunday.
"I'm a real housewife!" Frankel tweeted on Monday morning. "On way to honeymoon. best night of my life. your messages were so beautiful & sentimental. have a great week tweeps!"
The couple's guests included Frankel's castmates Alex McCord and Ramona Singer and Today show co-host Hoda Kotb. Singer tells PEOPLE the wedding was "amazing – the Rolls Royce of weddings!"
Guests dined on lobster ravioli, sirloin steak and fish, and a red velvet wedding cake. The night "was full of emotion and laughter – a beautiful wedding," said a friend of Frankel's.
Frankel, 39, who is seven months pregnant, has been with Hoppy, a businessman, since late 2008. She found out she was pregnant last October, and wanted to get married before becoming a mom. She said at the time: "I got engaged, we got pregnant, and we're gonna get married. It's a miracle."
Bravo's cameras were on hand at the wedding to capture the occasion for Frankel's upcoming Housewives spin-off, Bethenny's Getting Married.
Reporting by CARLOS GREER and MARY S. PARK
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Published September 27, 2013
Jonathan Lippman, New York State's chief judge, will be at UB Law School on Oct. 3 to hear testimony about the unmet needs for civil legal services in the state and what it will take to meet those needs.
Oral testimony at the hearing, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Francis M. Letro Courtroom in O'Brian Hall, North Campus, is by invitation only, although the public is invited to attend. Among those testifying are Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua and law students Emily Dinsmore, '14, and Kerisha Hawthorne, '14.
This is the fourth year that Lippman has conducted a series of public hearings on the issue. He has made access to justice a priority of his judgeship, most notably by imposing a requirement that aspiring attorneys perform 50 hours of pro bono legal services before they can sit for the state bar exam.
Lippman will be joined at the hearing by Henry J. Scudder, presiding justice of the Fourth Department; Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti; and David M. Schraver, president of the New York State Bar Association.
Individuals and organizations appearing at the hearing have been invited to express their views on:
Later that day, in a program to be broadcast statewide from the New York State Bar Center in Albany, Lippman and Schraver will offer pretaped remarks introducing a Web-streamed panel discussion detailing the critical need for legal services among indigent New Yorkers.
The program from 5-7 p.m., titled "Why We Need a Right to Counsel in Civil Matters Where Basic Human Needs Are at Stake," will be shown in the Cellino & Barnes Conference Center on the fifth floor of O'Brian Hall. The public is invited.
The live panel discussion broadcast from Albany will include these participants:
Following the broadcast, a panel of local experts will continue the discussion at UB Law School. Participants include:


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on February 8, 2013 - 12:01 AM
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By Ellen T. Kennedy
Recent media attention to the tragic story of Abdifatah Mohamud has included references to Family Assessment Response (FAR), an alternative approach to providing services to families who have been reported to Child Protection Services.
Without FAR, CPS workers focus on whether there is evidence to "indicate" a case, meaning there is some truth to the allegations in the report. Statewide, 70 percent of reports are not indicated, and the case is closed. That doesn't mean there are no problems in the family; rather, the problems do not rise to the level of required intervention. FAR allows the CPS worker to engage the family in a thorough assessment of family strengths and needs, and to take needed action. This may include linkage to informal supports, concrete services such as transportation and financial assistance, and formal services such as drug and alcohol treatment.
All CPS workers complete the same initial safety assessment and if, at any time, there is evidence of serious neglect or abuse the case is referred back to the investigative track. The safety of the child is always paramount.
Alternative response models are being implemented in 21 states. Evaluations to date have shown them to be effective in providing safety for children and being more helpful to families.
We need to remember that CPS was established to protect children and "preserve and stabilize family life whenever possible." Of course, the first task is to make sure that the child is not in danger. The worker does not have a crystal ball, however. The determination of safety depends on what can be observed and what information is received from family members and other relevant parties. It is rare that a worker is immediately presented with evidence of serious injury or risk of imminent harm. The task of the worker is then to develop a trusting relationship with the family, that will lead to a full assessment and a service plan that focuses on improved family functioning and reduced risk of future neglect and/or abuse.
Despite the best efforts of social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, law enforcement, judges and others, violent behavior cannot be accurately predicted. Sadly, tragedies occur. This does not automatically mean that a worker is incompetent or that the system is broken. There may not be a person to blame for the tragedy. CPS workers have a very difficult job, and do their best to keep children safe and help families.
We do know that the old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is still true. There are model prevention programs, such as home visiting, that have been proven to reduce future abuse and neglect. One way to help prevent another child abuse tragedy is to urge state legislators to provide adequate funding for prevention.
Ellen T. Kennedy, MSW, is chairwoman of the Western New York Citizen Review Panel.


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SYCAMORE - The Mohawk Community Library is to host the Adult Summer Reading Challenge.
The program is set for June 3-July 6. Adults 18 and older can earn a color coded sticker for prizes for every adult book checked-out.
Prizes include ice cream, shopping bag, Subway gift card and a Mickey Mart card.
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Marfa is difficult to get to. Fortunately, you can eat quite happily once you get there. The two are connected, though the explanation requires a little patience on your part.
Way out in the high desert of Texas, Marfa is several hours of fast driving from the nearest major airport. I flew into El Paso and, on a tip from a jazz trombonist who knows his food, provisioned myself with some quite good green chile tamales from Pepe's (just off Hwy 10) before leaving town and heading north north-west. The next three hours were filled with desert, big-rig trucks, Spanish-language radio, and the judicious use of cruise control.
Judd, the minimal
Before he passed away in 1994, the sculptor Donald Judd established a constellation of studios, living spaces, and art installation spaces in Marfa. He'd passed through the town years before as an enlistee in the US Army and been struck by its remoteness from everything else. As a successful artist showing mostly in New York and other major urban centers, Judd's Marfa experiment began as an attempt to create art that would, by virtue of its isolation and placement, force the viewer to experience it mindful of its location and context. Judd's largest works are installed here, at the Chinati Foundation which he established in a decommissioned military base on the edge of town.
As you drive into the town center on Hwy 67, you pass the southwest corner of the Chinati Foundation's property. Here, sixty enormous concrete boxes arrayed in fifteen clusters of three to five boxes along a kilometer-long north-south axis. The boxes are of the same external dimensions but each cluster's boxes have different faces left open.
Behind the concrete works, in two retrofitted hangers, sit a hundred boxes fabricated of mill aluminum to the same external dimensions but with internal volumes permuted a hundred different ways. Both installations invite the viewer to explore the mutability and variety of light, shadow, and space.
Judd's was a rigorous aesthetic of consistency and consideration in the making and doing of things. Those who were attracted to Judd's Marfa shared or developed something of that same rigor. This is not to say that Marfa isn't an art town, because it is. It just happens to be an art town that has only a minimal tolerance for fluff and tchotchkes.
Marfa food
And so we come to the food. Does the spirit of a place permeate its food, like a sort of genius loci? In Marfa, as in other places, maybe it does. For a town with a small population and only a handful of eateries, it was a happy surprise to find as many good places to eat as I did. Two in particular felt like they'd absorbed the spirit of place: simple but not simplistic, complex but not complicated, carefully considered.
Food truck eating
The Food Shark is a food truck that shows up Mondays through Fridays under a canopy next to the railway line running through downtown Marfa. Krista Steinhauer and Adam Bork bought the truck for a small sum and keep costs down by prepping in a kitchen they built in their duplex. They recently installed a dining car—it's a refurbished schoolbus parked right next to the Food Shark and the railroad track—to accommodate those who find the large tables designed by Judd too exposed to the elements. This is a quirky operation.
Food Shark food is simple and to the point. It's not trying to be something it isn't. It is what it is. Here's an example. One of the best sandwiches I've eaten in a long time was a Food Shark reuben (a special that day): pastrami on dense toasted rye, with sauerkraut, swiss, and Russian dressing, served with dilled potato salad. As a list of components, this reuben sounds just like any other. As a gestalt, perfectly made and full of balanced yet distinct flavours, warm in your hand and incredibly unpretentious, it has a weightiness that makes you go quiet, eat it instantly, and then think about it for a long time. On reuben day, the town was empty and flooded in desert sun, and a windstorm was blowing eddies of sand and tumbleweeds about.
Calm under pressure
I stayed in Marfa for only a few days before heading north-east to Austin. The last night I was in town, I went to Cochineal to see what most people told me was the upper end of the local restaurant scene. Just a few years old and three years in the making, Cochineal's kitchen staff is tiny and consists entirely of Marfa natives trained by proprietors Tom Rapp and Toshi Sakihara (previously of Etats-Unis in New York). There's been no turnover in the kitchen in the two years they've been open. I sat close to the pass and watched the sous-chefs working in the open kitchen through dinner. The dining room filled up up quickly and orders began to filter in faster and faster, but the kitchen action remained precise, quiet, coordinated, and (most pleasingly of all) unfailingly polite. Making the food well was as important as making the food good.
And the food was good. It was really good, and didn't call attention to itself with fancy pyrotechnics. Handmade pasta dressed with oil, anchovies, tomatoes, and capers, then showered with grated Parmesan was simultaneously tender and delicate, robust and meaty. A veal chop was grilled a textbook medium-rare, served with with black olives, crisp pan-roasted potatoes and parsley. Warm date pudding both dense and light at the same time, and mildly sweet with the complex flavour of molasses and dried fruit; the pile of gently-whipped, nearly unsweetened cream alongside was exactly what the pudding wanted. [pullquote]The food had a clarity rare in an age afflicted with fads: it was carried by classic flavor combinations and superb execution. With a crisp, cold Sapporo, this joined my short list of nearly-perfect meals.[/pullquote]
Spirit of place
So, back to the question: Is Donald Judd's Marfa connected to the Food Shark and Cochineal? My take: Yes. They all share the quality that comes from careful consideration and believing that the act of making of a thing can be as important to do well as the thing itself. Here in the thin desert air, under wide skies and far from the rest of the world, Marfa's food and art seem quite at home with each other.


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MIAMI — The Buffalo Bills are starting to realize an offseason personnel explosion is coming.
It's just a question of how much owner Ralph Wilson and General Manager Buddy Nix decide they need to blow things up.
"It stinks that we're not winning, and a lot of people are gonna lose their jobs because of it," said Bills center Eric Wood after the team's dismal, 24-10 loss to the Miami Dolphins.
"That's the reality of this league," Wood said. "When you don't win, you're not gonna play with the same group year to year. We've got a talented team and we play hard. We just don't always play well. It's really frustrating."
Wood was referring to players losing their jobs. Asked if he worried about facing another coaching overhaul with the firing of Chan Gailey, Wood replied: "Yeah."
"I definitely feel like we've taken a step forward this year in our play," Wood said. "But when you lose more games or you lose the same amount of games, then it's tough to say that. I mean, you can turn on the film, and I think we're better than last year or the year before. But when you don't win games, you can't justify it.
"I'd hate to start over, and that's not what I want. But when you lose this many games, I understand change happens and it's going to happen at some position. That's just the way the league works. I hope for zero change."
Nix does not want to fire Gailey. However, Sunday's performance painted the general manager into an even tighter corner in his quest to maintain continuity with the coaching staff. It's going to be hard to sell the fans on a fourth season of Gailey at the helm.
The Bills (5-10) lost for the seventh time in the last nine games. They dropped into sole possession of last place in the AFC East. Gailey's record dropped to 15-32 overall and 3-14 against division foes.
Coming off a miserable 50-17 loss to Seattle, the Bills played another ugly game, falling behind, 24-3, in the third quarter.
The offense managed only a field goal in its first nine possessions and committed four turnovers against a Miami defense that had created just one takeaway in the previous seven games.
The Bills' defense gave up touchdowns on three of Miami's first seven drives and was bulldozed for 182 rushing yards.
"It's just an ongoing recurrence of things that's happened this year," said linebacker Kelvin Sheppard. "Something's obviously going to have to change, because it's starting to get repetitive."
The game was more of the same on both sides of the ball for the Bills.
The defense, which ranks third worst in the league against the run, was bad from the start, yielding 56 rushing yards on Miami's first two drives and 115 rushing yards in the first half.
Miami back Reggie Bush was held to 65 yards on 19 carries but made two big plays in the passing game. He caught a 17-yard TD strike to give Miami a 7-0 lead and had a 12-yard TD catch that blew the game open, 21-3, midway through the third quarter.
On the first TD, Miami called the perfect play for the defense the Bills ran, which was vulnerable to a pass in the flat. Miami faked a run to the left, and quarterback Ryan Tannehill bootlegged to the right. He dumped a short throw to Bush, who streaked down the right sideline into the end zone. Sheppard, the Bills' middle linebacker, was responsible for getting all the way over to the sideline to guard Bush. Sheppard actually got a good jump on the play, but he was no match for Bush's speed.
Bush's second TD came on a "wheel route," in which he came out of the backfield and down the left sideline. He made an over-the-shoulder catch against Bills linebacker Nick Barnett, with cornerback Aaron Williams coming over a tad late in support.
"I was just running with him," Barnett said. "Do I play off of him and he runs an option route in there? Or do I get up close and try to eliminate that? He kind of got me on an angle and made a great catch and a great throw. You couldn't have made a better throw on that play. It happens. This is the NFL."
One play that shouldn't have happened was a 31-yard Tannehill run down the right sideline to the Buffalo 2. It set up Miami's second TD. It came on the same read-option running play that Seattle killed the Bills with last week. Tannehill faked up the middle and ran around right end. Linebacker Bryan Scott missed a tackle near the line of scrimmage.
"We go out and had a game full of penalties, missed tackles here and there," said defensive end Mario Williams. "They hit us one time with a read, and we had three chances to get him on that sideline. He went all the way down and pretty much scored."
Williams said he's at a loss to explain the defensive breakdowns.
"I can't really understand how everything's unfolding like this," he said. "We definitely went out there and played our hardest. We went out there and tried to get it done. … You can play hard but at the end of the day you've got to finish."
"You scratch your head till you go bald," said defensive tackle Spencer Johnson. "I wish I had a formula or an equation to figure out what's going on, man."
On offense, the story was turnovers and the Bills' lack of passing-game weapons, exacerbated by the loss of tight end Scott Chandler to a knee injury early in the game.
Stevie Johnson fumbled at Miami's 17 to foil one scoring chance. Dorin Dickerson fumbled at Miami's 48 early in the third quarter.
Running back C.J. Spiller rushed for 138 yards.
"That was I think as poor as we've played offensively since I've been here," quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick said of the first-half showing.
As Gailey pointed out, that unfortunately was an overstatement. "I don't think I'd go that far," the coach said.
"We're playing for jobs, for the coaches and for the fans," said defensive tackle Marcell Dareus.
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NeuroSearch's Huntexil works by either enhancing or inhibiting dopamine-dependent functions in the brain depending on the initial level of dopaminergic activity.
In February Danish company NeuroSearch announced positive results from its Phase III trial testing Huntexil as a treatment for symptoms of Huntington disease (HD). The results demonstrated that "Huntexil can provide significant benefits to Huntington patients on symptoms not reached by any current treatment, and this without any trade-offs in terms of safety or worsening of any other disease symptoms," said NeuroSearch CEO, Flemming Pedersen. Analysts predicted a 2011 market launch for the drug, and NeuroSearch stock rose nearly 100%.
But on April 28, the firm's shares plummeted 41% just as quickly as they went up. "Significance value for the study's primary endpoint, the modified motor score (mMS) of p=0.042, did not meet the prespecified level of p< 0.025. With inclusion of the clinically relevant CAGn adjustment, the p-value is < 0.02." In other words, a new analysis of the Phase III data showed that the endpoint had been missed. CMO Dieter Meier, M.D., departed post the data debacle, and the company continues to try to put the best face on the data.
The company says that the new data doesn't change the findings that Huntexil demonstrated a superior treatment effect in patients with an elevated CAGn score, considered a surrogate marker for rate of progression. And while active drug development continues, with a range of therapeutics being tested to treat the symptoms of HD, the basic mechanisms behind the disease are still being worked out. Recent discoveries may overturn currently held ideas about its pathogenesis as well as present unique drug targets.
Huntington disease is caused by an expansion mutation beyond 36 CAG (cytosine-adenine-guanine) repeats in the IT15 gene, which encodes the huntingtin protein. The CAG score refers to the number of expansions in the codon; the more CAG repeats there are in the gene, the faster clinical symptoms progress. NeuroSearch's Phase III study showed that the CAG-dependent rate of motor symptoms progression that was seen in the placebo group was not apparent among Huntexil-treated patients.
If NeuroSearch's finding that Huntexil can delay disease progression in patients with elevated CAGn scores holds up, the financial community and regulatory agencies will be a lot more willing to cut the firm a break despite its statistical blunder.
To date treatment for HD has been supportive only, aimed at suppressing the uncontrolled body movements and progressive cognitive decline characteristic of the disease. The only drug approved in the U.S. for treatment of HD symptoms is Regulin. It was formerly an antipsychotic but now is primarily used in the treatment of various movement disorders including tardive dyskinesia. Regulin works by inhibiting vesicular monoamine transporter 2, a transporter in the central nervous system that moves cytoplasmic dopamine into synaptic vesicles for storage and release.
Huntexil acts as a dopaminergic stabilizer to either enhance or inhibit dopamine-dependent functions in the brain depending on the initial level of dopaminergic activity. Thus, according to the company, there are few or no physiological effects when dopamine levels are normal.
Apart from dopamine blockers and stabilizers like Regulin and Huntexil, treatments in development for HD range from nutritional supplements to antiapoptosis compounds. Even sirtuins are in the HD game, with Siena Biotech reporting in January that its orally active, selective SIRT1 inhibitor SEN0014196 had obtained orphan drug status from the FDA as well as the EMEA. At the time, the company also initiated a Phase I trial in 96 volunteers.
Siena's drug candidate inhibits the acetylase activity of SIRT1, which appears to modify acetylation of the huntingtin protein. This enhances clearance of the mutated protein but not the normal version of the protein. Siena said that it has performed a series of unpublished studies in which it found the inhibitor to be neuroprotective in cell and animal models. In a mouse model, symptoms were ameliorated and survival times were increased.
The basic research front may also be turning a corner in terms of understanding the mechanisms behind this disease. A major mystery in HD has been that neuronal destruction associated with the presence of the huntingtin protein occurs only in a specific brain area, the corpus striatum, even though the mutant protein is expressed throughout the body.
But in June 2009, scientists in the laboratory of Solomon Snyder, M.D., at Johns Hopkins University reported that the mutated huntingtin protein (mHtt) binds to a protein called Rhes that is localized in the corpus striatum. Tests in human and mouse cells revealed that Rhes interacted with both healthy and mutant versions of the huntingtin protein but bound much more strongly to mHtt.
"Touching or binding is one matter, but death is altogether another," said Dr. Snyder, so the next step was to see whether and how Rhes plus mHtt could kill brain cells in the corpus striatum. The researchers added different combinations of normal and mHtt and Rhes and examined the cells over a week. While each protein alone didn't change the number of cells in the dishes, when both mHtt and Rhes were present in the same cell, half the cells died within 48 hours.
"Here's the Rhes protein, we've known about it for years, nobody ever really knew what it did in the brain or anywhere else, and it turns out it looks like the key to Huntington disease," Dr. Snyder noted. The researchers believe that this discovery is a clear, simple molecular mechanism that accounts for the neurotoxic mechanism of HD.
Patricia F. Dimond, Ph.D., is a principal at BioInsight Consulting. Email: [email protected].
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Alfred State College President John M. Anderson is stepping down March 31 to assume the presidency of Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
Alfred announced his resignation Saturday.
"Naturally, I am excited about this new opportunity for many personal and professional reasons. Yet, this new transition requires me to separate from a community that I care deeply about," Anderson said in prepared statements. "There will always be a soft spot in my heart for Alfred State and the students who make it their home."
Anderson has been president of Alfred since 2008 and previously had more than 20 years in senior-level administrative experience in numerous capacities. He left Alfred in 2003 to serve as interim executive vice president for academic affairs at the State University Institute of Technology. A year later, he was named executive vice president and provost of Hartwick College in Oneonta, a position he held for four years before returning to lead Alfred State.
"It is, of course, with mixed emotions that we congratulate John on his new position," said SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher. "He has served SUNY with absolute distinction."
Anderson will succeed Francine G. McNairy as president of Millersville. McNairy is retiring after nearly a decade in the post. Zimpher said SUNY will work with the College Council at Alfred State to initiate a search for the college's next president.
Among colleagues at Alfred State, Anderson is known for his innovative approaches to leadership. He also taught for more than 11 years at Alfred State as a professor of chemistry and physics, before moving into administrative duties and eventually becoming its president.
Under Anderson's leadership, enrollment at Alfred State grew 20 percent and the college embarked on a new strategic plan that included the reallocation of more than $1 million in new strategic initiatives. Programs also were added, including baccalaureate programs in sports management, forensic science technology, human services management and nursing.
The college also has undergone a building boom, adding state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms, and a $33.5 million Student Leadership Center.
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Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma was arrested Friday night in Miami and charged with reckless driving and resisting arrest, according to WSVN-TV in Miami.
Vilma, a former University of Miami player who lives in Miami in the offseason, was booked in Miami-Dade County Jail and released on bond by 10 p.m., according to the report. Police said Vilma had been in his Range Rover weaving through traffic, ran a red light and was arrested after an exchange with police and refusing to move away from his vehicle, the report said.
Saints spokesman Greg Bensel said the team is aware of the incident. He said no alcohol was involved and that VIlma has been released from custody.


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Pie Tastes Bitter
Felix Pie went 2-3 with a lead-off first-pitch double roped down the RF line, a bases loaded RBI walk on a 3-2 pitch, a grand slam HR hammered over the CF fence, and a hard-hit 4-3 GO, as the AZL Cubs thumped the AZL Royals 18-1 at Fitch Park Field #3 this morning in hot and sunny Mesa.
So do I really think Pie was sent to Fitch Park to "rehab" a "sprained thumb"?
... from what I've heard, he did have a thumb injury, but it wasn't particularly significant, and it certainly wasn't the type of injury that would normally warrant a trip to the hell that is Fitch Park in June.
Reading between the lines, it appears that Pie being sent to Fitch Park was more for disciplinary reasons than it was to rehab an injured thumb, with the so-called "sprained thumb" the excuse needed to justify the DL stint and the Fitch Park rehab assignment.
What the exact nature of Pie's transgression at Iowa was, I don't know. Maybe Mike Wellman can find out. But I have heard whispers that he sulked big-time after being optioned to AAA by the Cubs in May, and that part of the reason behind the Cubs decision to option the Pie man to Iowa in the first place was related to his becoming a bit of a "party animal" in Chicago, staying out until all hours of the night and then showing up at the ballpark not necessarily "ready to play" the next day.
As a further tidbit of bizarro information, Pie had what sounded like an argument with someone from the Cubs brass (I couldn't see exactly who it was, but I could probably guess) who was sitting up in the Fitch Park Tower that overlooks the four fields as Pie was walking to the clubhouse after he left the game in the 6th inning.
I didn't understand the complete nature of the "discussion," but I believe it had something to do with Pie expecting to leave town immediately (like "who is driving me to the airport?"), but being told instead that he would be staying in Arizona for at least one more day.
Pie did not look happy, that's for sure.
As for the rest of the fellows, the AZL Cubs had a really poor performance yesterday (Saturday) versus the AZL Angels in Tempe, especially the hitters (OK, the defense sucked, too), leaving men on base all over the place and failing to advance runners into scoring position. All this in front of Cubs Organizational Hitting Instructor Dave Keller.
Well, Coach Keller (who is making his once-every-six weeks visit to Fitch Park) apparently was none too pleased with yesterday's effort, as he held a closed-door 90 minute meeting at the Fitch Park clubhouse with the hitters this morning at 7:00 AM, followed by an extended BP session that ran until almost game time.
I guess it must have worked, though, because the AZL Cubs slammed out 21 hits (the AZL Royals had only three).
On the pitching front, two AZL Cubs pitchers who were at the Fitch Park Infirmary made their first AZL appearances, and both looked VERY sharp.
RHP Cedric Redmond (torn labrum, but no surgery) threw a 1-2-3 1st inning, striking out two and keeping all three Royals hitters off balance with his fine screwball.
And then Ryan Acosta (injury unknown) threw a masterful 14-pitch (13 strikes) two-inning shutout stint (he was only supposed to throw one inning) where he just toyed with the Royals hitters. Acosta actually looked like a young Greg Maddux out there today, the way he threw strikes and with lots of movement on his fastball. And he worked VERY fast, too.
And please note that there were two mistakes made by the AZL official scorer (as appears in the "official" MiLB box score -- see above).
First of all, the AZL official scorer identified Ryan Acosta as Francisco Acosta (they are two completely different AZL Cubs pitchers), and then the official scorer had "F. Acosta" (who did not pitch today) working three innings, when actually "R. Acosta" (that is, Ryan Acosta) worked two innings, and then Toby Matchulat made his pro debut, working one inning. (The official scorer didn't even list Matchulat!)
See, this is the problem with the AZL official scorers. They don't have a clue. Maybe Oneri Fleita could yell at them, too.
So anyway, RHPs Toby Matchulat (2008 11th round pick out of Wabash Valley CC) and Justin Bristow (2008 5th round pick out of East Carolina) both made their pro debut today, throwing one inning a piece.
Working out of a wind-up, the long and lanky Matchulat walked his first hitter on four pitches as he appeared out of whack (please keep Rich Hill away from the young'uns!), but then once he got into the stretch, his mechanics became much more compact and he struck out two and got the other batter on a ground out FC.
Bristow retired the first two hitters he faced easily on infield grounders, before giving up a walk and an RBI double that resulted in the AZL Royals one and only run of the day.
Julio Pena (who normally would have started the game) worked the final four innings and looked very sharp, allowing no runs on just one hit and a walk, with two Ks.
On offense, Dutch-Aruban 2B Dwayne Kemp (signed out of the MLB European Baseball Academy last year) got his first three "official" pro hits (including two doubles) and first RBI. Also, Nelson Perez (a single, a double, and a triple, plus two RBI), Bryan Jost (a single, two doubles, an RBI, a walk, and three runs scored), Sean Hoorelbeke, and Jose Guevara also had three hits each.
In AZL Cubs roster news, INF (now C-INF) Robinson Chirinos has completed the Cubs six-week catching course at Fitch Park and has been assigned to Daytona, where he will alternate at catcher with Steve Clevenger and Blake Lalli (Mark Reed has been promoted from Daytona to AA Tennessee). .
The AZL Cubs don't play tomorrow, and let me tell you, I can really use the day off!
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Well we knew Pie could hit AAA hitting now we know he can hit AZL pitching. I am rooting for Dwayne Kemp to make it though. More European players in the majors would be cool, help the sport grow. I wonder if he'll have an outside shot for the Netherlands World Baseball Classic team next year.
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if you're over the age of 23-ish and in ARL this time of year...and you're healthy...you f'd up.
NO ONE wants to wake up at the ass crack of dawn to shag flies, run, and take BP that early in the morning greeting the days in the 80s and going home in the 100s.
hope pie "learns" something. aka, hey, there IS something worse than having to ride the bus in the minors. a bus may not be a chartered plane, but its not a dusty field complex in the desert.
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I would LOVE to wake up at the ass crack of dawn to shag flies, run, and take BP. Instead I have to wake up at the ass crack of dawn to sit in a cubicle and suffer from a deficiency of vitamin D.
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I second that.
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Mmmmmmmmm! Love me some ass crack of Dawn. She's hot!
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Concerning the comment about official scorers making mistakes, that's not necessarily the case. The information is called in to milb.com in New York, where it is transcribed by whomever is on duty that day. The guys in New York are juggling several games, so they don't always get the information entered correctly and it has to be fixed later.
After seeing the box score online this afternoon, I emailed Rodney Johnson, who was today's official scorer. (By the way, Rodney also scores Diamondbacks games and has been scoring professional games for years). He was already aware of both mistakes and had notified milb.com that they had not entered the information correctly. So the assumption that the official scorer had screwed up is not accurate. It's not an easy job when it's 110 degrees, you've got bad sight lines and no instant replay. Phil, please don't disparage the guys doing a difficult job. I've been there ... it's not an easy job.
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Pie could sure use something at this point, might as well make him eat some dirt in order to help him get his priorities straight.
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"I couldn't see exactly who it was, but I could probably guess"
So who did you guess it was? tell us?
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So... After many years of hard work you're the starting CF for the Cubs. You have talent, and all the promise in the world.
So your priorities are to party all night????????????
The Cubs must have a monopoly on players with small brains.
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The Cubs must have a monopoly on players with small brains.
No, Farnsworth plays for the Yankees now.
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Heh Heh. Yep, indeed he does.
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Speaking of Pie, he's far away but still remembered in the Chicago dugout--the White Sox dugout, that is. I notice that the Sox hitters, after hitting one of their frequent home runs vs. the Cubs, do that little hopping hip-bump that the Cub outfielders do after a win. Pie started that business, right?
It always reminded me of Santo clicking his heels after wins in '69. The Mets took exception to conduct they considered unsportsmanlike, and they got the last click that season.
Dancing after a win is still bush league almost forty years later.
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Arizona Phil.....we sure appreciate all your reports and insights into what is going on at Fitch.What is your "paying occupation"? I sure hope it's in air conditioned comfort ! Does the Cubs trainer help keep you hydrated with gatoraid? Do you ever take pictures of the action that you can post?
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Whoa, Phil, hold on! I think maybe the heat is getting to you. You're getting a little testy.
I was just challenging your non-factual assertion that AZL scorers are "clueless" with the fact-based statement that many of the errors are made when the results are transcribed in New York. It has nothing to do with where the official scorer sits when he scores the game, how many hours you've spent watching batting practice, etc., etc.
Your reports are great and provide lots of info that you can't get anywhere else. But there's no reason to automatically make a statement that the scorers are clueless based on one error on the MILB website. Do you have any other evidence to back it up? Your readers are relying on you for what actually is happening at Fitch Park. You start to lose credibility when you don't have the facts right, and in this case you didn't report the facts.
Keep on reporting because, as I said, your reports are great. Just show that scorekeeper a little love the next time.
In Pie's absence, ANDRES TORRES and his .958 OPS is playing centerfield for Iowa.
JEFF SAMARDZIJA started yesterday, pitched six innings, gave up one run on four hits, struck out four and won the game, BUT walked 6!!
JASON DUBOIS has 10 home runs in 82 AB's for Iowa.
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given that the 30 year old torres has spent most of his past many years (including the past 3 so far) in AAA he should have it down by now. you should see what trot nixon did in tucson. =p
it is nice to see dubois seemingly has his power stroke back, though...might help him catch on with someone for another year. he was almost out of baseball options if he didn't improve over the 13 homers he had all year last year in AAA in between being injured.
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Maybe somebody should get Felix the manuscript of the upcoming book, The Josh Hamilton Story, and tell him to get back to work.
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Partying aside, I like the idea of Pie being rambunctious and not just trying to be his coaches' pet. That wasn't working. Ariz Phil didn't see who Pie yelled at or hear what he said, but I understand he was shouting these words to Dave Keller, his erstwhile hitting coach: "Shorten THIS!"
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Pie is circulating the Cubs organization drain right now. He's an uncoachable spoiled moron demoted all the way down to the Arizona Summer League.
What's not to like?
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What kind of shoddy sensationalism is going on here??? Felix Pie's name and reputation are being smeared on this blog based on what? Someone whispered something that Pie was maybe at a party all night, and then someone might have heard someone else say something to Pie but he's not sure who said it or what he said? I realize this is just a blog and not some serious attempt at journalism, but have at least a shred of ethics.
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Oh Felix. The first thing you do upon waking up at 1:00 in the afternoon after a late night out is post this?
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I think it's pretty much understood that a lot of this is speculation and AZ Phil seems pretty careful about stating absurd rumors without anything to back them up. The point of his posts is to give the rest of us a look at what goes on in the Cubs organization down there in AZ. If he's giving his opinion on some things, well that's kind of what we're looking for. If we just wanted box scores with no context around anything, we'd go to MiLB.com (and apparently those are wrong anyway).
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Rumor has it that there really is no Arizona Phil, but that the blogs are being written by the altar ego of Ozzie Guillen. Ozzie has spies everywhere who report in to him, and he knocks off a new posting from his hotel room on the road. Strange but true, folks.
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The Pie as as a party boy story was the rage of sports talk radio when he was sent down. Az Phil has been Pie's biggest fan on this site since about as long as I have been posting here which was 05, so I doubt he was trying to "badmouth" him.
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wow...that's one forum you'll never catch me on.
geez...1/2 those people are acting like baseball players dont have a life.
wow...felix pie partys...so does 1/2 of mlb...so does 99.999999% of the minors.
some people can just handle it better than others. some can show up hung over and get the job done (what's up bj upton?).
they're human beings...it happens. this is beyond not surprising, but some people on that board refuse to believe a baseball player is human i guess.
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At age 23, if I were in Chicago and didn't have to get up for work until noon (for a night game), I might sample the night life quite a bit as well.
But...if I had an entire off-season to party, and, if messing up my million-dollar baseball career meant that my next best career option was...ummmm...organ donor, I might have a little self-control during the season. 23 ain't 17. Time to grow up.
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I don't think we are acting at all like baseball players don't have lives. No one said that. The point is that many baseball players can party and play solid baseball. Those who can't cut back on the partying. Each player has to strike his own balance. For some that means more partying, for some less. I think given Felix's rather pathetic performance this season, many of us would have hoped he'd have tried to back off the partying to see if that helped him. From what we've heard, he has chosen not to do so. So I'm all for sending his ass down to the desert.
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Whatever's been said on this blog pales next to some of the ridiculous stuff we read (and hear) every day in the mainstream sports media - calm down and stop making accusations until the rest of the story evolves.
Or do you have something to refute the original statements at this point in time? If not, then put a sock in it and take yourself down from the cross.
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Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
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CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
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Another era of Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy has come to an end.
Arguably the goofiest duo on Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars, Alley, 61, and Chmerkovskiy, 32, kept the jokes coming, even after being sent home during Tuesday night's double-elimination.
When asked how she managed to tame her bad-boy partner, Alley told PEOPLE with a laugh, "Tranquilizers. Horse tranquilizers because human ones didn't work."
But in all seriousness, reflecting on the season, the actress says, "We got better and we had fun. [I] got to meet a lot of amazing people. Maks tried his hardest. But the bottom line is there are extraordinary dancers here, and the first time we did the show, it was sort of – everyone was a little even-steven. From the time I saw this cast, I was slightly tripping."
Although she doesn't seem to have any regrets, Alley admits, "I learned [I'm] insane for joining this cast."
Even so, the madness was worth it.
"I'm so glad I did it," she explained. "Maks and I have an amazing relationship that evolves. And before this [season], I didn't know our position with each other, and I do now."
Facing Chmerkovskiy, who was standing next to her, Alley shouted, "You love me! ... I love [you], too."
Next up for the funny lady is some much deserved relaxation.
"I'm sleeping," she says. "I've decided for 48 hours, I'm going to hire someone to wait on me and give me whatever I want while I watch Law & Order and Criminal Minds."
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