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Yesterday, Feb. 18, 2013, I published a piece here describing the two latest shooting murders in Chicago. I had read the news stories and watched a couple of reports on local television about those killings. One was of an 18-year-old senior at Roberto Clemente High School, Frances Colon. At the time of my report, more was known about Frances' murder, I guess, because it had occurred earlier than the second one.
The second shooting death involved the murder of another 18-year-old student, Janay McFarlane. She was not actually killed in Chicago, but in an adjacent suburb called North Chicago. For most of the city (and the world), the thing that stood out most about Janay's killing is that her sister Destini had participated that same day in the gathering at Hyde Park Academy where President Barack Obama spoke about the killing of Hadiya Pendleton. In fact, Destini stood less than 10 feet behind Obama as he spoke. And that is the approach I took in my report as well.
The reports I read referred to her mother as Angela Blakely. I looked at that name, but it did not register. I have a cousin named "Angie" Blakely who is 43 and lives not far from me on the South Side of Chicago.
An aunt called me last night and informed me that, yes, the Angela Blakely referred to in the reports was, in fact, our "Angie" and that Janay, the murdered child, was her child.
Since then, there have been several more news reports about this incident. I could not find any videos on YouTube, otherwise I would have posted them with this report. The Chicago Tribune does have video of my cousin and more details about the murder.
Needless to say, our whole family is grief-stricken, heartbroken and angry at this latest turn of events in this crazy city.
Although I was not born or raised here, I have always loved Chicago. I have had family members here for as long as I can remember. It wasn't until 1976 that I moved here permanently. Since then, I have witnessed this city go through many different transformations – usually for the "good." And some, well…not so good. But for as long as I've been here, I have never seen anything like this.
For the first time in my life, I am seriously considering leaving my beloved Chicago – for good.
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Student Government is happy to announce the completion of the Field House renovations. This facility is located between the UNF Arena and the Wellness Center, and it contains state of the art scoreboards and locker rooms. This will be an area for intramural sports ranging from indoor soccer to basketball, as well as be open for students to come play pick up games.
Student Government and the Jacksonville Jaguars teamed up to give UNF students discounted tickets in a student section, and the results could not have been better! All 3500 tickets were sold on campus, and the Jags extended an additional promo for UNF students through their website which has also been utilized by many of our students.
Student Government has provided funds to supply the library with graphing calculators that are available to be checked out. Any student is allowed to go rent a graphing calculator as long as they have their UNF ID with them.
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SHEPHERDSTOWN - Joe Montana passed his way into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
His son, Nate, would like to pass West Virginia Wesleyan past Shepherd in this afternoon's West Virginia Conference game.
The younger Montana will try once the noon game begins at Ram Stadium.
"They're going to throw it like crazy," Shepherd coach Monte Cater said. "They're going to keep throwing it."
The Rams know all too well.
A year ago, Wesleyan delivered one of two losses in consecutive weeks suffered by Shepherd, and quarterback Adam Neugebauer, who won conference offensive player of the year honors, threw the ball 66 times against the Rams. Zane Zebrasky also threw a pass.
The Bobcats completed 42 of the 67 tosses for 441 yards and six touchdowns in their 45-44 overtime victory.
It was a game Shepherd would soon like to forget - especially how it ended.
Wesleyan scored first in overtime. The Rams also scored in overtime and kicked the apparent game-tying extra point. However, when a penalty against Wesleyan was called on the point-after try, the Rams chose to have the ball moved forward, and Shepherd took an opportunity to go for two and win the game right away.
Tommy Addison was stopped on a running play short of the goal, ending the game and, in the end, finishing Shepherd's run to a playoff spot.
The 4-1 Rams, the lone undefeated squad in league play, are positioned at the moment to reach the postseason , though they must continue to win. Any stumble likely diminishes any postseason possibility.
"It was a good play," Cater said. "Whether you like to remember it or not, when you look at the film, you're going to be reminded."
A reminder the Rams can do without, but they will be quickly reminded today of Wesleyan's attack that is fixated on moving the football through the air.
Montana is averaging more than 40 passes per game for the 2-3 Bobcats.
He's completed 104 of 212 passes for 1,148 yards and nine touchdowns. He's been intercepted three times.
"Neugebauer was really good, polished and had a great feel for their offense," Cater said. "He had been pulling the trigger for a long time.
"Montana, he was getting used to it early, but it's not like it's his first ballgame."
It's not like it's Shepherd's first ballgame either.
Since yielding 38 points to undefeated Shippensburg in its first game, the Rams have held the next four opponents to a total of 29 points and have staunch against the rush. They rank among the national top five.
"We haven't given up much," Cater said.
Shepherd nullified Wesleyan's running attack last season, holding it to minus-15 yards on 18 attempts. It didn't keep the Rams from winning the game, however.
Wesleyan's top rusher, Malcolm Yowk, has 188 yards on the ground on 46 carries. That's not even 40 yards per game.
The Bobcats are going to throw, and they are going to throw some more. Wesleyan will keep throwing.
A key for Shepherd is making tackles and not extending underneath routes, nor allowing Wesleyan's receivers to get behind its defensive backs -something that's happened to Shepherd at times this season..
Chase Blackwell, Lavaughn Hughes and Donte Boston have all caught more than 20 passes thus far.
"They're going to stretch you, so we want to make them keep everything in front," Cater said. "That's one of the things we got to do."
And the Rams want to play keepaway, using its offense to keep Wesleyan's offense off the field.
Shepherd had a couple time-consuming, quality possessions last week in a win over Concord, the other team that defeated the Rams in 2011, and was able to keep the Mountain Lions' offense sidelined. Shepherd intercepted four passes a week ago, three of them by linebackers.
Cater often says his best defense is his offense - holding on to the ball for a long duration.
"They're going to complete some passes," Cater said. "We got to find a way to have some success with our offense."
Shepherd's running game has been improving over the season as the line has grown accostomed to each other and the running backs have found their places in the pecking order.
Original starter Kevin Williams is gone for the season, his backup, Jihad Rasheed has been injured, so the Rams have been forced to go deep into their depth chart. Mike Haynes and Marcus Smoot have filled in the gaps, but the Rams also needed to call on true freshman Allen Cross to help carry the load.
Cross ran for a touchdown last week to put the Rams in the lead for good against Concord. He rushed 13 times for 34 yards.
The Rams are averaging 134 yards rushing. They are producing almost 200 yards through the air behind quarterback Bobby Cooper and a talented receiving corps.
"It's a work in progress," Cater said.
It's what Shepherd has to do, though. It's all hands on deck.
Because of injuries a year ago, Shepherd moved a linebacker to defensive back when the Rams played Wesleyan. D.J. Scott returned to the lineup a week ago and returned a blocked field goal for a touchdown.
"We can't use the excuse that some guys are hurt, because that was the deal last year," Cater said. "We got to play with the next guy. ... We have some good players and the next one has to step up."
With a conference title on the line, even though it's still early, and playoff positioning still at stake, even though it's still early, Shepherd needs its whole team "to step up."


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7 Things to Watch for in Sunday's Colts-Saints Game
So creepy. So hard to understand.
Last week, the Colts made Andy Dalton look like Drew Brees. This week, they play Drew Brees. So yeah. Good luck with that, guys. Here's what to watch for:
1. Watch the mirror image. They came off the Super Bowl and saw their defense regress. They won 10 games in 2010, but lost a heartbreaking first round game to an inferior team. They've become a largely one dimensional offense, and on defense they can't stop the pass at all. Their entire franchise rests upon their quarterback who threw an uncharacteristically high number of interceptions in 2010.
The Colts? Nope. I'm talking about their NFC doppleganger, the Saints. The Saints ARE the Colts, only without the catastrophic injury to their Hall of Fame quarterback. They have nearly identical defensive metrics, and the only difference in the record comes down the fact that they've scored 29 points a game, and won a couple of close games.
2. Watch for inefficiency. The Colts run DVOA is up over 2010. Curtis Painter has been surprisingly effective at quarterback. Normally, those two components should mean a respectable offense. Even with the move to Painter, the Colts are still languishing at the bottom of the league in points and offensive efficiency. The question is why? The Colts are 30th in the NFL in first downs per game. They have the worst average starting field position in the NFL. They are 28th in drive success rate. The Colts have put together some big plays this year, mostly by Pierre Garcon. Those big plays are keeping them in games. They are prettying up some stat lines, but they are also hiding the fact that on the whole, the passing offense isn't generating consistent drives. The Colts aren't moving the chains and sustaining drives. Oh, they'll hit you for a big pass interference call 40 yards downfield, or Garcon will slip behind the defense, but most of the time, the offense is bogging down too quickly. The result is an offense where no one's numbers look to bad, but the team doesn't score enough to win.
3. Watch for time. Drew Brees is among the least sacked quarterbacks in the league and the Colts have one of the worst pass rushes in the league. Since Foster and Nevis went down, the Colts have only managed two sacks. Indy hasn't forced a turnover since the first half of the Steelers game. So what do you get when you combine the Colts secondary with a defensive front that isn't getting to the quarterback? Points. Lots and lots of them. The Colts have been ineffective blitzing in recent weeks, and if they don't figure out some way to get their hands on Drew Brees, it's going to be the second half of the Super Bowl all over again.
4. Watch the other ghost of playoffs past. Darren Sproles destroyed the Colts in the 2008 playoff loss in San Diego. He signed a 4 year $14 million contract to go to the Saints, where he has done a little bit of everything. He's averaging 7 yards a carry, but only 4 carries a game. He has 39 catches already. He scored a touchdown on a punt return. In other words, he's what Reggie Bush was supposed to be. If the Colts have any hope to win the game, they'll have to come up with a way to keep Sproles from making a big play. The problem is that there are so many ways he can beat you, you can't prepare for just one.
5. Watch for happy Purdue fans. Painter versus Brees! It's a Boiler-gasm down in ol' New Orleans! So, you are telling me that Joe Tiller recruited three NFL quarterbacks to play in West Lafayette? I'll grant you that Kyle Orton and Curtis Painter aren't amazing players, but someone remind me why Boiler fans were actually happen to get rid of a guy that gifted at recruiting NFL talent? Whatever. Hope you enjoyed those bowl games, Boilers. You aren't getting back there any time soon.
6. Watch the replay. You'll see it over and over again this weekend on the pregames and during the game. It'll be the same thing every time. Reggie Wayne will stumble. Porter will pick off the ball. It'll all be over. And they'll play it again five minutes later. It will be set up as this moment of supreme meaning. It's going to hurt every time they show it. And they are going to show it and show it and show it. Get ready now. It's going to be a long weekend.
7. Watch for a massacre. I wish I could say that I saw some path to victory for the Colts. I don't. Frankly, if it's even close, the Saints should be ashamed of themselves. I can't imagine Indy stays within 14 points. Saints 45 Colts 17.


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quote: You should read the Galaxy S4 reviews on the hanging and stuttering even on the 8 core processor. How many cores will it take before Android gets to smooth and stable?
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Drilling contractor fined $100,000
July 19, 2013
HUGHESVILLE — A natural gas company operating on Marquart Road in Penn Township was penalized Thursday for getting frack water into a tributary of the West Branch of the Susquehanna Rive....
XTO deserves this fine. It was negligence by not supervising some workers who allowed the leak to continue without action.
This type of error deserves big settlements, not from any harm, but from the stupidity of the mistake.
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" not from any harm..." Really? You pimps for these gas companies are a piece of work. Should add on punitive damages just to make it painful. Your kids and grandkids will certainly experience pain when they don't have enough clean water to survivie.
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When this spill occurred It was said to be done by vandals. Has this since changed?
Good did come out of this though. After this spill, you started seeing security at well sites and locks on the tank valves. This was a wake up call to the possibility of eco-terrorists.
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Just curious, when this story came out there was some concern about nearby water wells. Never heard any more about it and just wondered what happened. Hey Bornhere, if your on, this was the story I was accused of being an eco-terrorist.
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nosferatu, I suggest we have a frack water truck dump it's contents ontop of erik's private well and see if he makes his children drink the water.....on wait, I bet you he is on a public water supply.....
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erik...here we go again listening to a cheerleader for the gas industry...we know you don't care about our water and air so just go away!
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This fine is a joke...shut them down and it will send a clear message that PA wants to protect its water and air..but no, that will never happen because Tommy boy and his croanies are getting their pockets filled daily.
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Hey rick, we all know that you are a eco-terrorist who wears love beads and has a pony tail and lives in a hut and burns sticks for fuel!! I got a Focus BEV-FWD I love it, no more gasoline for me. I still think that the fine should have been more for this accident.
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Cool Bornhere, I have looked at that also. Glad you like it. I have heard good things about the Focus. A friend of mine in Reading has one. Now I have to go and get my ponytail trimmed.
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100,000 is pocket change, should have been closer to $500,000
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What a shame to charge so much and where is this fine money going I guarantee it will line the pockets of some pig and ps had we fined all the companies like international paper and all the others who dumped for years their would be no business on the river and ps the Susquehanna has been dealing win pollution long before oil and gas was here way before so go ahead and disagree but facts are facts
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What money is tommy boy getting that slippery Eddie didn't ?
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I agreed with the fines and pointed out the negligence.
But the morons that post here and who are so filled with hate of the gas industry cannot see that I support these fines.
What a bunch of buffoons!
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Erik, I for one was surprised when I read your comment because you normally do not comment on these issues, but I still think that the fine should have been more because of the negligence of the situation.
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I also agree with you erik. Sorry to disappoint you.I am one of the 5 that hit the agree button.
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sadly not surprised (again) at the title of this article. It should at least hint at what the driller was fined FOR. But i guess its not that important for the public to receive THAT info...
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quote: They rely on retailers to sell their consoles, games, PCs, software, mice, keyboards, etc. If they piss off retailers too much they'll stop pushing Microsoft products. If they do this, Microsoft would likely need to sell everything themselves (hardware and software) or come up with other retail alliances.


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Android Key Lime Pie allegedly pushed back, not coming to Google I/O 2013
0. phoneArena 23 Apr 2013, 05:49 posted on
Google's upcoming I/O 2013 taking place from May 15th to 17th was widely expected to become the stage for something big, but latest rumors say Google...
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1. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Mm interesting, that would explain why we haven't seen any leaks so far....
18. TechBizJP08 (Posts: 495; Member since: 25 Mar 2013)
It means the unavailing of MOTO X Phone while include KLP out of the box. The very first Android running KLP.. :O
31. omar300 (Posts: 209; Member since: 24 Jun 2012)
no it mean that MOTO X will be just another Galaxy S4. nothing special is going to be on it. best chances of it being different is that it will offer stock android, rather than Moto theme.
Also we all knew this year would be too early for a new nexus. also 5.0 android.
if you didnt see that come you are a blind fan boy. be realistic. it takes alot of time to program one tiny thing such as sphere camera let alone entire os.
53. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
The S4 has more new stuff than any other phone released this year has had since its predecessor, the One is literally a glorified Droid Dna.
55. omar300 (Posts: 209; Member since: 24 Jun 2012)
ignore the sensors because they wont come in any use. the only way s4 has hand above other phones is the digitizer which can be used while wearing gloves.
41. andro. (Posts: 1998; Member since: 16 Sep 2011)
I've heard from good informants within the business that its not gonna be called Key lime pie,its gonna be called Kettle-corn. They did say there might be a slight delays alright though
42. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
and this is why no one shouldnt read rumors cause they always give false information
49. noim1 (Posts: 297; Member since: 15 May 2012)
So Google will release the Latest X Phone & Latest Android OS in October or November..thats the time Apple releases new iPhones !!! I see a Head 2 Head collision coming up !!! Very excited !!!
2. darkvadervip (Posts: 365; Member since: 08 Dec 2010)
Could it be there waiting to see what ios7 is going to feature!
13. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Copycats™ will steal idear's from Android™
19. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13011; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Many of Android's ideas were taken from iOS, webOS, and even BB OS. Don't act like Android is entirely original since it is based off Linux.
24. ideal_josh (Posts: 33; Member since: 26 Nov 2012)
U make me laugh. That ur boring iOS. Bitch please
27. JunitoNH (Posts: 1791; Member since: 15 Feb 2012)
Oh......please grow up. Nothing wrong with having a difference of opinion. There wouldn't be an Android without iOS, keep that in mind; the guy did work for Apple. Think of the devices you had before 2007.
29. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Web os™
33. omar300 (Posts: 209; Member since: 24 Jun 2012)
i hope you are getting paid for trolling. or else i pity you.
37. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
I hope you educate you're tech side, and not post rubbish or BS what you don't no.
Say's the ios user fan™
Trolling, stating facts and honesty. There's nothing to Troll here. Ios fans are average joes, and don't live on techs, and geeks world. They believe everything what Apple and steve jobs say. In denial.
Please do you're self a favour get some knowledge on Tech world™
52. JunitoNH (Posts: 1791; Member since: 15 Feb 2012)
Learn how to read, I never stated iOS was the only OS back in the day.
36. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
It's cause of Webos that ios copied. Android is a family of Linux not scrap ios™
Ios is just an app launcher™
Get over it. Don't post BS™
30. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13011; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
You sound irate.
38. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Surely you pride and enjoy swiping left to right, and launching an app?
51. JunitoNH (Posts: 1791; Member since: 15 Feb 2012)
His not irate, just juvenile :P
25. buccob (Posts: 2566; Member since: 19 Jun 2012)
those ideas were taken at the beginning... but now android is mostly the OS that innovates while others follow.
Of course android still takes ideas from iOS, and others... but usually is the other way around
35. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Linux is Android, Android is Linux!
Idears of Android was taken from WebOs, while Linux xzisted befor ios! You're comparing half-baked Darwin OS to a full Linux!
It takes up 200mb of Ram to run ios, where's Android takes up more Ram to run it's Os!
Ios is on a diffrent league™
45. NexusKoolaid (Posts: 479; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
Don't act like iOS is entirely original, as it's based on OS X, which is based on Unix.
44. ITEngineer (Posts: 54; Member since: 26 Mar 2013)
In reality, what everyone wishes to find in the new IOS7 is what already exists in android since 2010.
So people are actually wishing for Android without knowing it, or do they?? hmm to be or not to be is the question!
57. pammypbhl1 (Posts: 1; Member since: 24 Apr 2013)
well saying that Android took ideas from iOS isnt completely correct. Each OS that comes out, puts all the features that the other OSes have plus its own features to make a better OS. We also cant say that if iOS didnt exist, then Android wouldnt of either, because the android project was started well before the iPhone was released. Back to copying ideas; its like saying microsoft copied Apple in its Windows OS. But Apple copied Xerox in its OS. Then Xerox probably copied from IBM and IBM probably copied some application. Ultimately, we cant say that one OS is copying another.They may have the same feature but that is because the consumers demand for it.
3. valapsp (Posts: 557; Member since: 12 Aug 2011)
So this year's I/O will not be as interesting as previous I/Os. ;(
6. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Unless Motorola makes it more interesting.
4. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Oh come on Google! WHY?!
I'm very disappointed right now! ;(
17. EXkurogane (Posts: 863; Member since: 07 Mar 2013)
Dont worry. 80% of all android devices wont get the update.If they do, they'll be delayed again and again.
21. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
.........and again......and AGAIN! :)
28. yyuu1000 (Posts: 207; Member since: 26 Jul 2012)
no the nexi will get it
22. sorcio46 (Posts: 435; Member since: 27 Jul 2011)
The news is 99% a fake, check the source. There you can read this:
"Our trusty internal sources have revealed"
which means nothing ;-)
No clues, no news!
23. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
And it says "Our trusty internal sources have revealed something that might not make you so happy. " :P
5. anGel_pLayer (Posts: 54; Member since: 29 Jun 2012)
I hope they will introduce a new nexus 7... The 32gb Nexus 4 isn't bad also...
7. ashisharbola (Posts: 62; Member since: 20 Oct 2012)
Am assuming they will launch it with there Motorola device.....
8. thunderising (Posts: 232; Member since: 25 Nov 2011)
Yup, me too!
14. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Yup, me to aswell™
9. Even4steven (Posts: 41; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
I would rather they wait, then release a buggy update. The pressure to hit all of these self-imposed deadlines has contributed to way too many half-baked updates. I am not looking for perfect, just prefer things a little more polished and finished.
10. scriptwriter (Posts: 396; Member since: 13 Nov 2012)
So no key lime pie, no X-phone, and a re-designed nexus 4. Im glad i didnt waste $1500 on Google I/O tickets. Sounds like they're probably gonna be focusing on Google glass with its non functionality and yet another year of waiting for a consumer version
11. thunderising (Posts: 232; Member since: 25 Nov 2011)
That is very very likely
12. draconic1991 (Posts: 195; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
manufacturers will now get an excuse not to push key lime pie to their phones :(
15. Tsepz_GP (Posts: 987; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
They have to wait for slow OEMs like Sony I guess, it's a damn shame.
Hopefully we'll see a new Nexus 7 with higher res display. They must keep that 8GB Nexus 4, it's a bargain for those who want a powerful Android without having to pay a premium price.
16. pokharkarsaga (Posts: 384; Member since: 23 Feb 2012)
So Google has finally realized of pushing updates every 3 months causes fragmentation.there is also a major problem google is not recognizing and it is hardware recommendation for every new version they launch.I think one major update every year will decrease fragmentation & also the os will be bug free.
20. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13011; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Might as well push it back. Jellybean is half a year old and yet it still has a very low adoption rate compared to ICS and Gingerbread. Releasing Key Lime Pie right now would just set the who scene backwards since many phones will be two upgrades behind.
26. boosook (Posts: 1437; Member since: 19 Nov 2012)
All right, we'll wait. My guess is that:
1) Software wise, Google is not in a hurry, because WP8 and iOS6 are still behind Jelly Bean and iOS7 will probably be released in Q3, so there's no urgency to update.
2) As the article said, OEMs are still updating to JB and Google does not want to cut their sales by releasing a new major release now. Also, developers are still starting to use the new JB APIs (for example, low latency audio... I've found just one piano app that uses it).
3) in my opinion, the HTC One and Facebook new homescreens convinced Google that a change is necessary, so they could have decided to delay KLP to implement something new on the homescreen (for example, a Google Now / Google Plus integrated home and lock screen).
32. ashisharbola (Posts: 62; Member since: 20 Oct 2012)
Good points (y)
34. Shrihari (Posts: 95; Member since: 29 Jan 2013)
what if we don't get the update officially there are developers to f**k the manufacturers and their evil plans...they are gonna develop the unofficial roms for the devices..
39. Meleagru (Posts: 92; Member since: 03 Dec 2012)
I hope this rumour is false. I want a slice of Key Lime Pie come May.
40. howardbarrett (Posts: 45; Member since: 11 Jan 2013)
manufacturers will always be behind the update curve. kind of pointless to delay KLP on account of that.
43. rahulz (Posts: 117; Member since: 25 Feb 2013)
dont be too hurry..it's better not to have a beta, laggy,half baked update.
Just take your time,& add some cool innovative features , update android ui to a more modern one, polish os and deep integrate social netwoking sites, and do whatever you can to make android os better :-)
46. ChrisG (Posts: 38; Member since: 22 Aug 2012)
Good to hear that Google is listening to users, who have long wished for (1) more storage space on the phone if they're not going to provide a microSD card slot and (2) LTE. If I weren't still over a year away from my next upgrade, I'd definitely consider upgrading my Galaxy Nexus to a 32GB Nexus 4 with LTE. :-)
47. fistigons (Posts: 330; Member since: 11 Feb 2012)
What's the point in even having Google I/O in May? Why waste the money when there's nothing to announce?
48. shamataa (Posts: 215; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
really hope this isn't true.
50. sharks (Posts: 236; Member since: 16 Feb 2013)
Well, that's disappointing! Other than the expected showcasing of the Google Glass project, there's not much to get very excited about. Android 5.0 should have definitely been the highlight of the upcoming Google event. Maybe they should have delayed the Google I/O until Android 5.0 and Motorola X phone was ready.
54. datsyuk (Posts: 179; Member since: 11 Jan 2012)
Even if they don't release it due to manufactors being slow it would be awesome if they released the source code for ROMs :P. Won't happen though haha. Hopefully they take their time and this Key Lime Pie is polished as can be.
56. ap1989 (Posts: 145; Member since: 12 Oct 2011)
what's the point of google I/O if there is no new Nexus phone or new Android version.
58. www.gadgetstronic.com (Posts: 1; Member since: 03 Jun 2013)
I/O will more interesting This Year....


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Attention Orchard Park and Sweet Home football programs: Please keep Week One of your 2014 season open. That is now the target for the kind of season-opening kickoff event that Western New York high school football deserves.
As I have been known to do for, oh, about a decade or so, I was planning to deliver a State of the Nonleague Football Games Address around this time. That's because January is the time of year when football schedules are filled out for the fall.
The timing is perfect for me to urge Section VI schools, particularly large schools, to schedule their Monsignor Martin counterparts in nonleague games, something that has been glaringly missing from the Western New York high school sports scene. The shoot-for-the-moon aspect of the idea – and really, why shoot for anything else? – is to urge Section VI schools to participate in a major, season-opening event, one that would pair up some of the best public schools with the best private schools (similar to basketball's Monsignor Martin-ECIC Challenge as well as many other events in many other sports).
The good news is that Section VI football chairman Ken Stoldt has had positive talks with Monsignor Martin president Brian Kiszewski, as well as representatives from ADPRO Sports (a very willing and interested sponsor), about setting up that exact kind of Week One event. It's an idea that has been floated before, in which Ralph Wilson Stadium or UB Stadium would be the site of a multi-game celebration of football, perhaps on the Sunday of the season's opening weekend.
The bad news is that the opportunity for a big event later on in 2013 is already lost. Section VI cannot figure out its schedule until it gets the enrollment numbers and classification guidelines from the state. That is expected to happen later this month. Part of the delay is due to a proposal that will be voted on Jan. 29, one in which classification guidelines may change for those schools which combine its athletic programs with other schools.
Monsignor Martin programs, understandably, have made arrangements to fill its Week One schedule (according to Kiszewski, Canisius again plays McQuaid, St. Joe's will host Long Island power St. Anthony's, Bishop Timon-St. Jude plays Aquinas and St. Francis is paired up with Archbishop Curley of Baltimore).
Which brings us back to the Quakers and the Panthers.
Last year programs like Williamsville South, Lockport and McKinley played private schools to outstanding reviews all-around. Teams like Jamestown and North Tonawanda have done it in recent years as well.
However, in order for the 2014 Kickoff Classic (or whatever it will be called) to be the great, galvanizing event it should be for Western New York football, stellar Section VI championship programs Orchard Park and Sweet Home need to be involved.
We won't even get into why this kind of event, or these kind of games, should have happened already. We're looking ahead.
Everyone has plenty of time to figure it all out. See you all for the announcement story about this time next year.
Make that Super Monday
The tradition of Western New York's hockey championships being held on a Super Sunday appears it will skip a season.
Who's fault would that be?
None other than Bon Jovi.
It was recently announced that Bon Jovi added a Buffalo date to its tour. That date would be Feb. 24, at the First Niagara Center, which is the traditional date for the finals for the Western New York Varsity Hockey Federation as well as the area's club leagues. I'm obviously all for high school sports, but I think anyone can understand the arena booking that date for what should be a major concert downtown.
According to Federation president Mark DiFilippo, the athletic director at Niagara-Wheatfield, the three Federation championships (large school, small school and private schools) will be moved to Monday, Feb. 25 at the arena while the club games are slated for Tuesday, Feb. 26.
"It actually works out better for us," said DiFilippo. "That Sunday is the end of the February break – with kids in school, we're hoping with that those six schools back to school Monday, we'll get a better crowd. Everyone is excited about it."
DiFilippo lauded the Sabres for the team's commitment to hosting the games despite the schedule change.
DiFilippo also said the Sabres were committed to hosting the high school games even if the ice was not set up for a possibly canceled NHL season.
"The Sabres have been great all along," he said. "They were going to find a way to make it happen."
PrepTalkTV Weekly tonight
Lauren Mariacher and I host PrepTalkTV Weekly tonight, and our guests will be New York State Basketball Hall of Fame coach Sister Maria Pares of Sacred Heart along with seniors La'Trice Hall and Hannah Rehbaum. We'll again have a review of the past week and a look ahead to this weekend's action at 9 p.m. at buffalonews.com.
State championship pages
The fourth edition of our state championship pages honoring teams from the fall will be dedicated to the Canisius boys soccer team on Monday.
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You've heard it a million times – fights over money are the No. 1 cause for divorce among American couples.
That goes for all walks of life and cuts across all income levels.
You would think our roughly 50 percent divorce rate would have more to do with things like who gets to hold the TV remote control, who doesn't take out the garbage or who snores like a bulldog.
But battles over money can get so bitter and be so divisive, they can spell the end for you and your honey.
According to a Utah State University study, couples who argued over money once a week were more than 30 percent more likely to get divorced than those who had similar fights a few times a month.
Now think: How often does it come up in your marriage?
In her book, "The Problem with Money? It's Not About the Money!" certified public accountant Jane Honeck says the way you and your spouse talk about money is just as important as how often you do it.
"Focusing on an overall vision and money plan will keep both of you moving in the same direction," she writes.
"Once you have done that, the small everyday decisions about what to spend your money on take care of themselves with little or no effort. When we have clear communication and know why we do something, the 'what to do' with our money is easy."
She offers some advice on how to navigate the rough waters of couples finance in order to keep your marriage on a smooth sail. Here are some choice tidbits:
• Talk about money early and often. You have to understand your partners feelings, ideas and concepts about money before you can do anything else.
• Share money responsibilities equally. Putting just one person in charge of paying the bills and feeding savings sets you up for a climate of blame, distrust and misunderstanding.
Instead, sit side by side and work things out together. That way, there are no surprises and you'll both be on the same page about everything.
You may get annoyed with each other at first, but it will get easier. I promise.
• Decide what is yours, mine and ours. The only right answer is what you decide together.
• Spell out a detailed plan for everyday financial housekeeping, covering everything from how the mail is collected and organized to who mails out the checks. Write out which responsibility is whose to maintain accountability.
• Address problems head on. Avoiding or covering up issues will only make them worse.
• Schedule what Honeck calls "money checkups" to make sure you're still on the same page from time to time.
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Adam Masters� mind is like a runaway whitewater rapid.
Chugging and churning, foaming and frothing. It won�t settle down, and it�s always racing to find the perfect line through the rocks and the roiling water that surround him.
So it�s no surprise that at age 32, the Asheville entrepreneur who has spent a lifetime exploring, crafting and designing new adventures for himself, has created not only a new invention, but a new sport and a new word for the English language: bellyak.
Bellyak is a noun � a type of boat and a sport. Set to hit the Asheville and worldwide market, the bellyak is a kayak that you ride on your belly.
�It�s like swimming, with a kayak under your belly,� said Masters, who lives on a farm in Marshall, N.C., with his wife of a year, Anna Woodruff-Masters, 31. The two founded Bellyak, which is headquartered just north of Asheville.
�Nobody has done anything like this. What I love about this, when you kayak a lot, you get to a point when you get to class 5 whitewater,� Masters said. �You have to maintain a certain edge, and the risk-to-reward ratio gets a little different. To increase the excitement, you have to increase your risk.
�You can take a Bellyak, a super-intimate way of riding the river, and (calmer waters) like the French Broad River, the Tuckasegee, all of sudden they become more fun. The experience is so dynamic. You can ride on your knees, on your butt, you can lay down and take a nap.�
He already has die-hard devotees of the Bellyak, and a new business, Asheville Adventure Rentals, that will be the exclusive carrier in Asheville of the new boats, which Masters believes are destined to be the next big wave in whitewater sports, which include kayaking and canoeing.
According to the 2012 Outdoor Foundation Outdoor Recreation Topline Report, participation in recreational kayaking is up nearly 32 percent in the last three years, and whitewater kayaking is up more than 24 percent. As a brand-new sport, bellyaking fits somewhere in between these two sports.
Masters grew up in Easley, S.C., with a father, Bill Masters, who started Perception Kayak in 1975.
�Perception grew to become the largest kayak manufacturer in the world,� Adam Masters said. �It was sold in 1998. ... I have always been around the manufacturing side of it, around the water, but was never a professional kayaker.�
One day in 2004, Masters was kayaking down a backyard creek after a flood in Sunset, S.C. He was trying to maneuver through a class II curl, but the space was too narrow to use a paddle.
So he covered the boat�s cockpit with a spray skirt and duct tape, hugged the boat tight to his belly and launched forward, using his hands as a paddle.
�I laid on top of my kayak to get my center of gravity lower,� he said. �That�s where bellyak was born.�
�With bellyak and bodyboating, there�s no spray skirt, no paddle to manage and no feeling of being �trapped� in a boat,� he said. �It�s a high-fun, low-risk way for anyone to get on the water, have fun and get an amazing workout.�
He said he �got the bellyak bug� again in 2010, started tinkering, cutting up kayaks and searching the Internet for insights into building a surfboard-kayak hybrid prototype.
His uncle, Allen Stancil, was a designer at Perception for 30 years and was one of the founders of LiquidLogic kayaks. Masters� right hand has been his wife, Woodruff-Masters.
�I grew up around here, taking raft trips down the river,� Woodruff-Masters said. �But I�m not a kayaker. Bellyak has been my version of getting out in the middle of the river without having to learn how to kayak.�
She said the learning curve for bellyaking is much lower than that for whitewater kayaking, where paddlers are snapped inside a tippy boat and must learn how to �wet exit� when they inevitably turn upside down.
�Bellyaking seems crazy and daring, but in a kayak, you�re in a spray skirt, you have to learn how to roll,� she said. �The Bellyak can be more accessible. We�re going for a different market niche � older people, younger people, women.�
To ride a Bellyak, you only need to be �moderately� athletic, know how to read lines � or safe passages � down a river, wear a helmet, life jacket and special webbed paddle gloves. Proficient bodyboaters can ride the Bellyak on their knees or in a sitting position, Adam Masters said.
Callan Welder, 33, a lifelong friend of Woodruff-Masters, is a recreational kayaker who now is a bellyak devotee.
�I kayaked for four to five years but never got really good,� said Welder, who lives in Marshall. �I had a fear of getting caught upside down in the rapids.�
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Ernest Finney rests in the shade on the back deck of his lakefront home in Columbia and grins at the thought of the state Supreme Court ruling he wrote in a case that holds the potential to improve many of South Carolina's chronically underperforming public schools.
What does 'minimally adequate education' mean?
When the S.C. Supreme Court ruled that the state is required by the constituition to provide children a "minimally adequate education," the court also included a three-point definition of what that meant:The ability to read, write and speak the English languge, and knowledge of mathematics and physical science.A fundamental knowledge of economic, social and political systems, and of history and governmental process.Academic and vocational skills.
"That was probably not the brightest moment in my career," the former chief justice says, then laughs.
In that 1999 ruling, Finney penned this sentence:
"The South Carolina Constitution's education clause requires the General Assembly to provide the opportunity for each child to receive a minimally adequate education."
Those last three words, "minimally adequate education," have become infamous, derided by critics of the state's public education system as emblematic of what's wrong with South Carolina.
Former Gov. Dick Riley, who championed improved public education during his two terms from 1979 to 1987, recently called the words "embarrassing." Riley, who also served as secretary of education under President Bill Clinton, said he doesn't know of another state that promises to provide its children with a minimally adequate education.
"We need, really, a movement toward focusing on education. ... If we're going to do anything for education, everybody in the state has to be focused in on it. We have to change our culture," Riley said.
And one way to start is "change minimally adequate education."
Keeping the suit alive
Many people believe Finney's three words are part of what the state's constitution prescribes. In actuality, the constitution says only that, "The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free public schools open to all children in the state."
Finney says he wrote those three words because he was afraid that he wouldn't have been able to persuade a majority of the five Supreme Court justices to go along if he didn't use that watered-down language.
He worried that stronger words dictating a quality education would prompt other justices to reject his argument, because it smacked of an effort by the court to legislate.
If that happened, a lawsuit attempting to force the state to improve public education in poor school districts would have died. And Finney didn't want it to die.
He saw the case as an opportunity for the Supreme Court to require the state to improve public education statewide.
Education is one of only two functions, other than the operation of state governmnent, that the constitution requires of the state. Finney felt the state's leaders shirked that duty with "an attitude that education was not the way we wanted to invest our assets."
"That seemed like a cop-out to me," Finney says. So he seized the opportunity the lawsuit gave him.
"I wanted to pressure the system, and at the same time provide for an expansion of education. I wish we could have done more. I had hoped that if we could preserve the basis of the lawsuit, we should do everything humanly possible to support quality education."
Finney's words worked. Three of his four fellow justices signed on to the ruling.
The lawsuit, filed in 1993 by 40 largely rural, poor and black school districts, sought to force the state to increase the amount of money for their schools. The districts, which included Berkeley County, claimed that without additional state money they could not adequately educate their children.
As a result of Finney's 1999 ruling, the so-called "school equity" lawsuit went to trial on the basis of whether the state provided the school districts with a minimally adequate education.
In 2005, Lee County Circuit Court Judge Thomas W. Cooper issued a split decision. He ruled that the constitution placed no requirement on the state for any specific level of education quality, only that it provide free and open public schools. However, he also ruled that the state did not do enough to educate preschool children.
That decision also was appealed to the state Supreme Court. The high court heard arguments late last year, and a decision is expected this year.
Hell from the black community
Finney, 81, retired from the Supreme Court a year after he wrote the "minimally adequate education" ruling. He smiles with satisfaction knowing that the high court now must determine if the state is providing such an education in many of the poor districts along the I-95 corridor and Mill Crescent.
Finney was the state's first black chief justice since Reconstruction, and confesses to an affinity for the school kids in those poor school districts. He came of age in racially segregated schools, and describes his father as a dedicated educator who instilled him with respect for education.
His dad taught high school in Conway and later served as dean at Claflin College in Orangeburg.
After Finney graduated in 1954 from law school at what is now South Carolina State University, he couldn't find a job as a lawyer, and moved to Conway to try his hand in teaching. Five years later he set up a law practice in Sumter where he championed individual civil rights.
His experience living and working in Sumter showed him that the state's main way of helping public education in rural counties didn't work. State leaders consistently contended that its focus on bringing in new industries provided the best hope for creating jobs, boosting the economy and ultimately increasing money for local schools.
Unfortunately, Finney says, that form of trickle-down education funding didn't work in most rural areas because most of the businesses the state recruited went to the state's metro areas. Sumter and most other rural counties got little direct benefit, he says.
That may change for Sumter since Continental Tire announced plans in 2011 to build a $500 million plant there and create about 1,600 new jobs.
Finney says that when he persuaded his fellow Supreme Court justices to go along with his three words, he worried that he would ignite a firestorm of opposition and accusations of judicial meddling in legislative affairs.
He also thought he was the only justice who wanted the Supreme Court to keep control of the state's role in education. "I felt I was alone ... I was busy working, trying to make sure the state stayed in. I was desperate."
To his surprise he got little opposition from the other justices, and the decision caused almost no major political or public outrage.
"Leadership historically in South Carolina did not endorse the idea of spending money to promote education for our children. I thought I'd get tarred and feathered and run out of the state," Finney says.
He did get his share of criticism, but it was more over his three words, not the potential impact of the ruling on the state's role in education.
"I caught as much hell from the black community for the use of that phrase as I did from the other. ... Minimally adequate! God Almighty, I must have been having a bad day."
Finney believes his words worked because they "implied the court was not going to be as forceful in achieving our goal. It did not upset the rich areas of the state. At the same time, it preserved hope."
"We need to improve education if we want to improve our state. Education is everything," Finney says.
"I don't understand what gets into us that we short-change education — and I'm being nice."
If leaders would put shoulder to the wheel, they should do everything humanly possible to support quality education."
While Finney's three words have drawn wide condemnation, less known is what else he slipped into the 1999 ruling a definition of what the high court meant by "minimally adequate education."
That definition beefed up minimally adequate. In addition to providing students with "adequate and safe facilities," the ruling requires that students have the opportunity to acquire not only reading, writing and arithmetic, but history, science, economics, civics and social studies.
All in all, Finney considers what he did "a good day's work," because it kept the case alive and didn't cause any strong backlash from opponents.
"We had to impress upon the citizens of our state that education was going to be the basis upon which we grew and prospered or else we would fail.
"My goal was to make sure the educational system would provide opportunity to all of our children to the best of our ability."
Former Justice Ernest Finney. (Doug Pardue/Staff)×
Ty'Sheoma Bethea wrote a letter to Congress complaining about the sorry conditions of her Dillon County junior high school. Her letter ended up with President Barack Obama, who invited her to attend a 2009 speech of his to Congress. Her letter resulted in $40 million in federal aid pouring into her school district, even though the state of South Carolina offered nothing.×


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Over the past several months, Broken Bow has had several "ah-ha" moments.
The ground has been broken and work begun on a new housing complex, new judicial offices, and a new car wash among other economic growth projects.
July 16 saw another cause to celebrate.
The second wind farm, owned by Sempra U.S Gas & Power will be up and producing electricity by October.
Broken Bow 2 will have 43 turbines, generating 75 megawatts, which would provide electricity to power 30,000 homes.
It is adjacent to Broken Bow 1, which is owned by Edison Mission Energy and has 50 turbines generating 80MW of power.
The wind farms are east of Broken Bow.
To thank the community and the area residents, Sempra worked with Melissa Garcia, Custer economic development corporation director and the Custer County Ag Society to make the event happen.
The Custer County Fairgrounds was the location, where invited guests came to hear about the project and to put their "John Hancock" on a blade that will be installed on one of the turbines at the wind farm.
Kevin Gillespie, director of operations for Sempra, served as emcee.
Patti Wagner, CEO of Sempra, gave her personal thank you to the community. From Minnesota as a youth, she had traveled through Nebraska.
"I liked Nebraska, and now have a reason to keep returning," she said.
Both Kevin and Patti emphasized the importance of community involvement they wish to have with Custer County and her residents.
Kevin stated this is the first ever blade signing they have done.
"To show the pride in this project and to invite the community to share it with us is why we did this," he said.
On hand were several Sempra employees, Nebraska Public Power District employees and directors, as well as staff representatives, Julie Brooker with U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer office, and Sallie Atkins, from U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns office.
Tom Hoff, Broken Bow resident and NPPD director stated, "We are in full support of this project. NPPD will be purchasing the electricity and have a 25-year contract. NPPD has as its goal to have 10 percent of the electricity we generate come from renewable resources by 2020. When this wind farm goes into production, NPPD will have 93 percent of that goal reached."
Eighteen turbines, with 3 topped off, are at the site presently, so the time frame of having them up and going by October will be quite the accomplishment.
Sempra will have another ceremony at the completion of the wind farm.
Also on hand were several land owners and their families, as well as Custer County Ag Society members Dave Haumont and Steve Horn, who were the beneficiaries of a check from Wagner and Gillespie for $5,000 to go towards the Custer County Fair.
Haumont and his family have turbines from Broken Bow 1 on their farm and will have turbines from Broken Bow 2 as well. He stated for KNOP-TV news that he has already received a check from Sempra for the leasing of his land.
Melissa Garcia emphasized the importance to the area's economy this project will have.
"Over 8 million dollars will be continually turned over in our area through the construction phase and beyond." Some 300 construction jobs will be needed to complete the project, which means added dollars to the lodging tax funds, as well as area grocery stores, banks and other businesses. ❖


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The couple, who split in December 2012 and filed for divorce a month later, had been fighting over their 4-year-old daughter, Bryn, but the matter has now been resolved, Hoppy's attorney says.
"My client is delighted that this custody battle has been resolved; that his co-parenting status has been acknowledged; that the parties' child will have the benefit of being raised by both parents; and most importantly, that his daughter will no longer be at the mercy of a high-profile courtroom battle," attorney Bernard Clair says in a statement to PEOPLE.
When the exes appeared in a New York courtroom on May 28, the former talk-show host, 43, was in tears as she testified that Hoppy allegedly said he would destroy her. Throughout the proceedings, both sides argued over who would be the better parent to their daughter.
Clair said that the specific terms of the settlement are confidential but added that "Jason wishes Bethenny only the best of luck, and he looks forward to sharing with her all of the joyous occasions, milestones and blessings that will be coming up in his daughter's future."
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Turn your next creation into a timeless masterpiece with everyone's favorite icing: Buttercream! With Roland Winbeckler, the father of American cake decorating, you'll make perfect decorating icing, roll your own parchment piping bags and even tint the icing right in the bag! Start with simple shells, swags and scrolls before diving into rustic rosettes, flawless filigree and dramatic drop strings. Also included is a buttercream technique for the hottest thing in cake these days: ombré ruffles. Roland will show you how to cultivate your skills on a practice board before heading to the turntable.
Meet your instructor, Roland Winbeckler, and learn his secrets for making buttercream icing, perfect for piping.
Roland leads an in-depth discussion on the variety of piping tips and piping bags available to decorators and then teaches you piping basics: Shells, swags, borders and roses.
Take the basic shell and learn how to add over-piping to create incredibly rich and delicate borders.
Simple scrolls turn into works of art as Roland demonstrates how to add layers of detail and then incorporates scroll designs onto a cake.
Pipe upward and downward facing ruffles and learn how to create a beautiful and trendy ombr� cake using ruffles or piped petals.
Learn to incorporate filigree accents, corner scrolls and lace into your cakes as you learn to pipe fine, delicate lines.
Advance your filigree education as you learn to make, apply and pipe on top of a filigree pattern. Then transfer that design to your cake.
Learn to create flawless piped swags and vertical drop strings as you finish your buttercream piping adventure.
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Those who enjoy Mexican hot chocolate will also like the subtle sweetness and slight heat found in every bite of this perked-up biscotti. —Chris Michalowski, Dallas, Texas
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1-1/2 teaspoons coffee liqueur
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground ancho chili pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 cups chopped pecans
- 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 ounce 53% cacao dark baking chocolate, grated
- In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in coffee liqueur and vanilla. Combine the flour, chili pepper, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in the pecans, chocolate chips and grated chocolate.
- Divide dough in half. On an ungreased baking sheet, shape each half into a 10-in. x 2-in. rectangle. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until set and lightly browned.
- Place pans on wire racks. When cool enough to handle, transfer to a cutting board; cut diagonally with a serrated knife into 3/4-in. slices. Place cut side down on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool completely. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 2 dozen.
Originally published as Mayan Chocolate Biscotti in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2011, p72
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Not a bad start to a pro career for Jim Knous.
But there�s a ways to go and several notable names hot on his heels.
Knous, a recent Colorado School of Mines graduate and runner-up at this year�s NCAA Division II Men�s Golf National Championships, fired a first-round 67 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead after the first of three rounds at the 51st annual Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club.
It was a strong start to Knous� first pro tournament, and only a double-bogey on the back nine kept him from going even lower. Still, other than the one bad shot that led to the big number, Knous obviously was pleased with the way he played, particularly the way he was able to putt on Hillcrest�s quick greens. He also added an eagle on hole No. 10.
�I was hitting the ball really well on the front nine, gave myself a lot of looks at birdie, which you need to do because the greens are hard, and you know you�re not going to make all the putts,� Knous said.
�It was really my putter on the last few holes ... I just wasn�t hitting it all that great on the last few holes, but I kept giving myself par chances.�
Pulling away, however, may be a tall order, given who�s lined up right behind him. Defending champ Micah Rudosky, last year�s runner-up Brad Besler and former Durango High School and Fort Lewis College golfer Devin Schreiner all shot 3-under 68s.
Besler, who was unable to hold off a Rudosky rally in his first NTO last year, was happy to get off to a quality start to put himself in contention yet again. He had five birdies and a pair of bogeys.
�Just playing here and having some experience and success, it helps you going to those rounds knowing you can score low out here,� he said.
Sitting at 2 under and two shots off the lead is another talented bunch. Former champions Luke Tanner and Bobby Kalinowski, Ricky Romano � who nearly aced the tricky par-three ninth with an eight iron � and Kane Webber all carded 69s.
Webber said he managed to get under par despite not being totally pleased with his driver, although he hit 15 fairways. His comfort level with the greens in his third Navajo Trail Open helped on a day where the strong putters moved to the top of the leaderboard.
�Hopefully (today) I can drive it a little better and give myself a couple more chances to score (low),� said the Australian-born Webber.
Getting off to a good start with the flat stick was a big confidence boost to Knous, as well.
�That�s the trick to this course. You�ve got to putt well, and being the first day, when you putt well the first day it gives you a lot of confidence going into the next two days,� the Day 1 leader and Basalt High School alumnus said.
The pros at 1-under 70 are Scott Gates, Klinton Krieger, former champion Mike Northern and Ron Faria, who holed out from nearly 60 yards for eagle on the par-four second. Joining that quartet are two amateurs of local interest: FLC alumnus Gavin Lyons and Montezuma-Cortez High School standout Jakob Rudosky, son of the defending champion, both are in the hunt after carding 70s.
The group at even par includes three-time champion Tom Kalinowski, former FLC golfer Jeremy Lederer, former MCHS golfer Shea Sena and Farmington professional Jeff Roth, who finished tied for 15th at last year�s U.S. Senior Open.


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2/23 GDT : Canucks 4 at Red Wings 3 (SO)
Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:01 PM
Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:30 PM
Maybe if you posted here more often you'd realize that Mike gets the GDTs up early all the time. We could be playing the Coyotes tonight and the thread would have been started at the same time.
Quit sniffing your own farts, you're not that special.
Or maybe he is, though not in the way he thinks. . Pavs out definitely makes it tougher but I've got a feeling Quincey is going to make an impact in his first game back in the Winged Wheel. (part of me wants to call him the giant Q due to the old Denis Leary routine about NyQuil). This should be a good game though, and I think the Wings will show up for the full 60.
Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:48 PM
My roomate is a massive Canucks fanboy so Ive got a case of beer and bragging rights riding on this game ... Pavel out is a HUGE blow, but f**k it, get it done boys! Really got a gut feeling this will be a playoff series this spring. This game could be the deciding factor in home ice advantage.
Even if you lose, just remind him how good that beer must taste coming out of a Stanley Cup since Vancouver doesn't have one. There's no possible way to come back from that.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:06 PM
Posted 22 February 2012 - 10:25 PM
The game is tomorrow, no?
Yea, I was confused too. They will just have to change the date. I got all excited I was going to get to watch a game tonight haha.
Like the previous two posters, I too, was very confused at the date. I had to ensure today was Wednesday not Thursday. Damn you!!!
Whoops...I didn't read the date properly. I thought the Wings were going to be flying home from the Hawks game last night to play tonight, hence the 2/22 GDT date. Earlier tonight I was extremely irritated when I turned on 97.1 and the Pistons were on, and no sports on AM 1270. I went online to look up if there was any station that was broadcasting the Wings.
My attitude quickly went from to to when I saw the game was indeed tomorrow, not tonight.
I sorry!
Edited by Hockeytown0001, 22 February 2012 - 11:13 PM.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 10:52 PM
Even if you lose, just remind him how good that beer must taste coming out of a Stanley Cup since Vancouver doesn't have one. There's no possible way to come back from that.
Yea, Canucks' fans are pretty sensitive about the fact their team is 0 for 40.
Posted 22 February 2012 - 11:34 PM
8-1 Wings. Benching 7ouongo in the 1st period, and sadly, ruining Jimmy's great game in the last minute of play. LGRW.
Great job, HT001 no matter which day it is.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 12:28 AM
We have to win without Datsyuk in the lineup. That's what good teams do. That just means a few key players will have to step up their game and play like they give a damn. I hope that we don't have to witness The Keystone Cops routine, that was our 2nd period against Chicago. Way too many turnovers. Way too many dumb passes. Keep it simple. Win #24 for Probie. And listen to all the whining from Wah-ncouver about how they would have won, but.....
8-1 Wings. Benching 7ouongo in the 1st period, and sadly, ruining Jimmy's great game in the last minute of play. LGRW.
Great job, HT001 no matter which day it is.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:32 AM
Or the fact that Mike tries to get them up the day before so it's there bright and early on game days.
Finally, someone who understands me.
"All done? Five bucks." - Pavel Datsyuk after an interview
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 02:28 AM
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 05:17 AM
Please keep the streak alive. I rather we lose to Columbus to end the streak than to Vancouver. I don't think I could stand listening to the crap the day after on the radio talk shows here.
I hear ya, neighbor. I don't need Pratt and Taylor busting my balls. Go Wings!
Posted 23 February 2012 - 05:56 AM
Of course this game is just begging for interesting headlines, I dont even want to wake up till about ten min before the anthems begins.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:09 AM
Ken Holland: Hes (Mursak) a young guy, provides energy, can skate, hes a puck hound.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:11 AM
I've come down on Monster a couple times in the past but to criticize Monster (and me by proxy) so heavily is a little unfair. He may be wrong about the timing of the GDT but he's certainly correct in saying this is a big game that's getting a lot of attention from fans (and the media). It's the two western conference powerhouses meeting for a game that could determine first place overall in the NHL - plus that whole streak thing you guys got going. It's one thing to criticize when there's a valid reason, but to criticize like you have based on a statement that is at least partially correct seems to me to be more reflective of how you feel about the Canucks and their fans rather than anything particularly shameful that Monster said.
I'm starting to realize how retarded you really are each and every time you post here. Please, spare us the extra stress on our eyes and just be quiet. You ensure us that we're not all crazy and Vancouver fans really are that dumb.
But to the game - whenever I see the GDT's here and the "Projected Starters" and "Injury Report" banners I assume those are hot-linked to another page but that never seems to happen. Maybe that's a FireFox issue though.
Vancouver Canucks' Starting Lineup:
D. Sedin - H. Sedin - Burrows
Booth - Kesler - Raymond
Hansen - Hodgson - Higgins
Weise - Malhotra - Lapierre
Hamhuis - Bieksa
Edler - Salo
Rome - Tanev
Tanev is a good young defenceman and is expected to crack the top four within a year or so.
Luongo is expected to start but I don't think that's been officially announced yet. Canucks play the Devils the next night so Schneider will most certainly get at least one of those games. He has been trusted to play big games against big teams but I'd expect Luongo to get the Wings game. The wild card in this is that I'm sure both Luongo and Coach Vig would like to see Luongo go head to head against Brodeur.
Higgins missed practice yesterday.
Murphy @sportsnetmurph
#canucks Higgins blocked a shot in 3rd period (against Nashville) and needed stitches to close a cut. His finger is not broken and he expects to play in DET.
Canuck Killers:
Pavel Datsyuk - 34GP, 9G, 15A, 24Pts
Henrik Zetterberg - 33GP, 10G, 13A, 23Pts
Nicklas Lidstrom - 76GP, 13G, 42A, 55Pts
Wing Killers:
Daniel Sedin - 41GP, 14G, 24A, 38Pts
Henrik Sedin - 43GP, 8G, 30A, 38Pts
Ryan Kesler - 25GP, 7G, 12A, 19Pts
The Canucks have a decided advantage on special teams but that means nothing come game time today. The fact that their powerplay is still first in the league only speaks to how dominant it was early in the season. It has struggled for a couple months now as has the entire team with the exception of the goaltending tandem which has managed to pull out the wins. The team struggles appear to have ended recently though.
I'm expecting a potential game of the year with a playoff atmosphere. Good luck guys and girls.
Edited by Chairman Maouth, 23 February 2012 - 02:18 PM.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:25 AM
Regular-Season Streaks
Overall: 1-game losing streak
Home: 23-game winning streak (4 shutouts, 1 overtime, 3 shootouts)
Historical Regular-Season Streaks v Vancouver
Overall: 1-game winning streak (shootout)
Home: 1-game winning streak (shutout)
Last Ten Games, Current Regular-Season
Overall: 7W-2L-0OTL-1SOL
Home: 10W
Last Ten Games, Historical Regular-Season v. Vancouver
Overall: 6W-4L
Home: 6W-2L-2OTL
Home Games / Away Games
This is a first of two consecutive home games, played over three calendar days
Record v. Vancouver
All-time, Overall v. Vancouver
All-time, Home v. Vancouver
Season Record v. Vancouver
This is the fourth, and final, game v. Vancouver this season. The Club's record in the previous three games:
This is the second, and final, home game v. Vancouver this season. The Club's record in the previous game:
Record on this Day
February 23
This is the 38th regular-season game played on this day. The Club's record in the previous 37 games:
This is the 3rd regular-season games v. Vancouver played on this day.The Club's record in he previous 2 games:
"Mess up tomorrow, don't mess up now".
- Harry James Benson, CBE.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:55 AM
Posted 23 February 2012 - 09:02 AM
"You can't chew yesterdays' breakfast." Jim Leyland
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Alternative to Google tracking you.... http://duckduckgo.com/
Posted 23 February 2012 - 09:06 AM
Messaged you with 4. Not sure if they're kosher to post here in public or not.
So, anyone have any streaming suggestions now that frwtv is out of business?
Thanks HM.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 09:38 AM
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Robert Christmann, the interim superindent of Grand Island schools, was glued to the television Friday, trying to learn the details of the shooting, just like millions of other Americans.
Christmann expects this will have as much impact on security at schools across the United States as the 1999 Columbine tragedy did.
"Columbine was a defining moment for public schools. Columbine changed everything," Christmann said.
"This event today will have as great an impact on public schools as Columbine did, because of the magnitude of it and the age of the students," he said. "It will bring the kinds of massive changes that Columbine brought – but I don't know what that will mean yet."
The first thing Hamburg Superintendent Steven Achramovitch did when he heard about the shooting was to remind all of his principals to make sure doors and access to the schools were secure. He told them to monitor everything and be prepared to answer questions from parents.
However, more needs to be learned about how and why this happened, so schools know what they need to do moving forward.
"I think part of what I don't understand right now is the reasons behind this," Achramovitch said, as details of the shooting got out Friday afternoon. "I'm sure this will raise some things that we haven't thought about before, but our first objective is to learn more about this."
Schools were closed in the Cheektowaga Central School District on Friday for staff-development day, so teachers and administrators didn't start hearing about the shootings until early afternoon, said Superintendent Dennis Kane.
There likely will be some new measures taken by schools in the aftermath, but the most immediate issue comes Monday, after students have had the weekend to hear about what happened and are asking some tough questions, Kane said.
Cheektowaga will try to have staff and counselors prepared.
"I think the biggest question, and most challenging question, kids will ask is: 'Can this happen to me?' Kane said.
Christmann said Grand Island will be planning for Monday, too.
"I think the best person to communicate about this would be their parents," Christmann said Friday afternoon. "Let's get them home today and have them talk to their parents."
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Every year at about this time comes the annual report to Congress by the "National Taxpayer Advocate." And every year we wonder why - in particular, why things never change and the annual recommendations relative to fixing this mess of a tax system seem to always be more or less the same.
Item: The Advocate's report designates the complexity of the tax code as the No. 1 most serious problem facing taxpayers and recommends that Congress take significant steps to simplify it.
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• Apply a "zero-based budgeting" approach to comprehensive tax reform that starts out with the assumption that all tax benefits will be eliminated and then adds a benefit back only if Members conclude that, on balance, the public policy benefits of providing that benefit through the tax code outweigh the complexity it imposes on taxpayers.
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