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The Plantation House Restaurant in Kapalua was closed Thursday after a fire Wednesday night that caused an estimated $600,000 in damage, officials said.
Other operations in the building that includes the golf clubhouse weren't affected by the fire, said Mike Jones, general manager of Kapalua Golf. He said Thursday that it hadn't been determined exactly when the restaurant would reopen, but "it'll be a short time."
About a half-dozen fans were placed by the clubhouse, adjacent to the restaurant, to blow the smell of smoke outside.
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Workers check the rooftop of the Plantation House Restaurant in Kapalua on Thursday. On Wednesday, a fire reported at 9 p.m. forced the evacuation of a few patrons and staff. Damage was estimated at $600,000.
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The fire was reported at 9 p.m. while the restaurant was open for business, said Fire Services Chief Lee Mainaga.
Jones said only a few guests and staff were in the restaurant and were easily evacuated.
Fire crews from Napili, Lahaina and Kahului responded to the fire at the restaurant on Plantation Club Drive. Fire crews arrived to find a 5-by-5-foot section of the roof on fire at the clubhouse and also fire in the attic area, Mainaga said.
The fire was under control at 10:30 p.m. and extinguished at 1 a.m. Thursday, he said.
Damage was estimated at $500,000 to the structure and $100,000 to its contents. No injuries were reported. The fire's cause remained under investigation.
"From a good point of view, no one was hurt and golf operations are up and running," Jones said.

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The alarm clock has come a long way. Most of us have gone the way of using our cell phones to angrily remind us to get up. Yet, like the traditional digital bed side alarm clock, it keeps the whole experience clinical and does nothing to make us eager to rise and shine. Gotta be a better option, right?
We've got that covered, and are offering up the Sony Dash for one lucky Digital Trends reader. Best described as an alarm clock on steroids, the Sony Dash provides you a bright screen that will bring your groggy tired eyes not only the time, but weather forecasts, stock reports, breaking news of the day, photos and more. The Dash also gives you the option to download apps for Facebook, Netflix and YouTube as well, so you can focus more on getting ready for the day instead of propping yourself up in front of the computer or turning on the TV with those way-too-cheery-to-be-human daytime anchors.
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We learned that the set of the action flick (which opens May 23) was a fun place to be, but Jackman, 45, revealed that it wasn't always easy to get Fassbender (who plays villainous mutant Magneto) to join the party.
"Michael is one of those actors you had to coax out of the trailer. He'll wait in there for hours and hours – he's very difficult, very ornery on set," Jackman joked. "So there was really only one song [that would get him to come out], and I used to get the sound guy to play it very loud in the studio as he came in, just so he could get his mojo up."
That song was Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines."
"I don't know what it was in that song or that video that got Michael going but there was something about it," Jackman said (the infamous video featured a bunch of naked models).
Norton then asked Fassbender, 37, to walk off stage and come back on as the hit played, and his costars played along.
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Former Nebraska QB Frazier says, "We would have won the game" had Huskers and PSU played in 1994
November 7, 2012 - Cory Giger
There's no doubt in Tommie Frazier's mind who would have won had Penn State played Nebraska for the 1994 national title.
"We would have won the game," the former Cornhuskers star quarterback said. "It would have been a tough, hard-fought game, but we would have won it because I think we were more mentally ready for that type of environment."
Frazier led Nebraska to both the 1994 and '95 national championships -- the only quarterback to win it back-to-back since the 1950s -- but it's that first one that will forever anger Nittany Lion fans.
Quarterback Kerry Collins led a juggernaut offense in 1994, and Penn State finished undefeated but No. 2 in the polls. The Lions went to the Rose Bowl and beat Oregon (38-20), while Nebraska beat Miami (24-17) in the Orange Bowl for coach Tom Osborne's first national title.
The debate has existed ever since then about what would have happened had the Lions played the Cornhuskers.
"Of course you would have loved for it to be settled on the field," Frazier, who still lives in Nebraska and hosts a radio show, said by phone Wednesday night. "But when you leave things up to people to vote on, it's also what people see in their opinions, and you have to go with people's opinions."
Many voters' opinions, of course, were changed after No. 1 Penn State beat Indiana, 35-29, in a game that was only that close because the Hoosiers scored two late touchdowns against backup defenders. Still, that close of a score against a weak Indiana team led to voters dropping PSU from No. 1 to No. 2, and that ultimately cost the Lions a shot at the national title.
"Everyone has a right to their opinion," Frazier said when asked what he would tell PSU fans who think the Lions were better. "The body of work that you do, it is tough to be No. 2 because No. 1 wins, and at No. 2 you're left out. ... They can be upset, but they should have been No. 1 going into the [championship] game."
Both teams had a number of players who went on to lengthy NFL careers, and Collins, who could not be reached for this story, was the last Big Ten quarterback drafted in the first round. Frazier was bothered by blood clots, went undrafted and never played in the NFL.
"I would love to have played that game because people would have really saw how good that '94 team that we had was," said Frazier, who went 33-3 as a starter at Nebraska. "Penn State had some great athletes, but great athletes don't necessarily mean it's a good team."
One reason Frazier believes the Cornhuskers would have beaten the Lions is because his team was more battle tested. Nebraska lost the 1993 national championship game to Florida State, 18-16 in the Orange Bowl, by missing a last-second 45-yard field goal.
"Considering that we had everything going in our favor, knowing that the year before we played a tough game versus Florida State, who had great athletes in that game and we missed a field goal at the end of the game, we were more prepared for going into an environment like that." Frazier said of a potential showdown with PSU in 1994.
Had the BCS been in place that year, the Cornhuskers and Lions would have met in the championship game. Instead, Penn State was locked into the Rose Bowl and couldn't play Nebraska.
"Hindsight is 20-20," Frazier said. "You can't say that back then had we played what would have happened. We went by the system that they had. Was that system wrong? You don't know. You look at the BCS now and say the BCS needs to be fixed. You have to go by what you have at that point in time and then go from there.
"I personally liked the old system better than the system now because when you start putting computers involved in deciding who's going to play in the championship, I think it's wrong."
The bottom line for Frazier is that his team won the title and that will never change.
"The facts are the facts," he said. "I'm not going to say Penn State would beat us because that means I don't have faith in my team. But guess what? That's the one question we'll never know."
Frazier had a phenomenal career at Nebraska, but the Huskers' current quarterback, junior Taylor Martinez, already has set the school's career record for total offense (8,166 yards). Martinez has enjoyed some success and has his team contending for a Rose Bowl, but he still has his share of detractors in Nebraska.
"Taylor is a very good athlete," Frazier said. "People question his play at quarterback because he is kind of like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- you don't know what you're going to get."
Martinez might be the best dual-threat quarterback PSU faces this season. He's not the runner that Ohio State's Braxton Miller is, but he's a better passer.
Martinez is coming off a big win last week against Michigan State as he led the Huskers back from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter.
"Taylor is pretty calm and has a lot of confidence," Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said. "Let's face it, he's getting better as a football player. As you get better, your confidence grows and you have some success and you have a belief that you can go into a situation like that and have success.
"I don't exactly want to find us in that situation again. He's a guy who can execute when need be."
Problem is, Martinez sometimes makes big mistakes with costly turnovers that cost his team dearly. He was picked off three times in the Huskers' 63-38 blowout loss to the Buckeyes.
"If he goes out and eliminates the mistakes he's been making offensively, as far as turning the ball over, they sky's the limit for him," Frazier said. "But until he does it on a more consistent basis, he's always going to have people out there being skeptical about what kind of quarterback he really is."


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Media Advisory - Dairy Farmers of Canada's Annual General Meeting
Media Advisory - Dairy Farmers of Canada's Annual General Meeting
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) is advising the media that it is holding its Annual General Meeting at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto (Ontario), on July 23 and 24, 2012.
See the agenda at: http://www.dairyfarmers.ca/news-centre/events
The meeting starts at 1 pm on July 23. DFC President Wally Smith will speak and there will be updates on marketing activities. On July 24, under the theme "We Are Dairy Farmers", the guest speakers will talk about the importance of branding.
Starting at 8:30:
The Power of Branding – Terry O'Reilly, Pirate Radio & Television – M. O'Reilly is a writer and director and spent 10 years as a copywriter at several of the most creative advertising agencies in Canada. Marketing Magazine named him one of Canada's "Most Influential" marketing people.
The Demand for Things Canadian and Local – Tony Johnstone, DDB Canada – Senior Vice-President, Director of Strategic Planning, M. Johnstone works with various clients (food, cars, financial services, milk, etc.). DDB advises DFC on the 100% Canadian Milk branding and cheese promotion.
Leveraging Farmers' Values – Tom Hoogendoorn, DFC Board member and dairy farmer from British Columbia
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DFC and DeLaval Canada will reveal the identity of the 2013 winners of the Dairy Farm Sustainability Award.


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quote: For some reason, Audi's are the best-selling luxury cars in the world, when they are more expensive, less reliable, and half poor fuel economy compared to virtually every model class from Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Lincoln and Cadillac.
quote: What's practical about a $45,000 VW Golf that is the A4?
quote: The AWD thing is a gimick, too. Most people will never take advantage of it, and I read awhile back that over 90% of Audi Quattro packages sold have the winter package declined, so they are driving year round with Summer or All-season tires at best.
quote: Any front or rear-wheel drive vehicle with Winter tires will outperform any AWD car with Summer or All-season tires in any task.
quote: You could have a vastly superior BMW 3-series or Merc C-class for 30% less, without the poor fuel economy, crap ride quality and needless repair costs of AWD.
quote: I agree. It has nothing to do with practicality.
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Tough times for California bashers
February 8, 2013
Something about California sets conservative teeth on edge....
Notice how Frooma says "We".
Didn't notice that.
"As if every Californian is gonna pay something."
Notice how s/he says "We". Sure did. What Cali does is their business and if you don't like it don't move there.
This truly demonstrates the conservative mindset. Obviously without knowing what the tax increases were, we have the typical shoot first and ask questions later. One of the increases was the sales tax that everyone will pay. Therefore, "every Californian" will pay, since everyone consumes something. Some more than others because they spend more, but everyone will pay.
"We will see if its "temporary"."
Just as we see the cons saying they want the "temporary" tax cuts from 2001 and 2003 to become permanent. Another do as I say not as I do approach. Have your irony poor blood checked.
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"Yeh, One. You wanna fess up about the others."
Yeh, there were only 2 that I found, so there are no "others" except 1. Now you obviously admit you have no clue, since you ask others to do the work. This is typical conservative mindset. Get someone else to do the work, for free of course, clearly indicating laziness and no intelligence. Notice I am not going to provide you with the other tax, as I will not fall for someone's laziness and do it for free. You want something, pay for it.
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How to Become an Author, in 5 Incredibly Difficult Steps
Editing and Editing and Editing ...
I actually lied up there again (I have trust issues. There was a whole thing with a cowboy and a public pool bathroom as a child -- we shouldn't get into it): I said I was writing the book right now. But that's not true. I already finished it. Months ago.
What I'm doing now is editing, and that process is a dozen times longer than the actual writing.
For those of you who can just bang out a draft in one go, clap your hands, whirl on your heel and exit the room, burning it behind you so that others might not defile it with their lesser genius -- most of us writers also have to double as self-editors.
Editing is just like writing, except hateful, and in reverse. Instead of birthing words and ideas out of nothing, you're murdering them in cold blood, culling them like sickly sheep weakening the flock. And since you're the one that brought them into the world in the first place, you feel a certain attachment to every single thing you mercilessly cut. Every time you delete a paragraph, you remember the three hours when you had to stop halfway through that sentence to research the sex lives of Romantic-era poets and what molecular alterations would turn human skin into a high explosive (yes, those were both real, actual things I had to do for the new book). But that can't matter when you're in editing mode; something works, or it doesn't, and it has to go.
After a while, it does get easier though. But only because you will rediscover, with every single sentence, what an incredibly talentless asshole you really are. Every stilted phrase, obvious typo or terrible analogy will have you grimacing and swearing tiny vendettas at the horrible hack who wrote all this garbage you now have to fix.
" 'They're is no end?' Really? Really?! Really, you incompetent poser?!"
Learning to edit is, quite simply, learning to hate yourself word by word. If you have a healthy sense of self-esteem right now, you should seriously consider a better career path than "professional writer." Might I suggest prostitute, or "guy that lets people spit in his mouth for a dollar"? After all, it's pretty comparable money.
Oh, that's right! We haven't touched on the money yet. Well, friend, now that you're done with your magnum opus, after these thousands of hours of toil, you're finally going to be ...
Collecting Your Shitty Money
There's no more sensitive subject than finance. In our money-centric society, pay-rates tell everybody exactly how much you're worth as a human being. Same as with any other job, no self-respecting writer wants to talk hard numbers. Luckily, I also edit for a living, so I've stabbed all that self-respect out with a mechanical pencil long, long ago. Let's talk numbers:
For my first book, I got an advance of $30,000.
Fuck! Not bad, right?
I mean, sure, those fancy guys who own cars and a complete pair of matching shoes may scoff at that money, but 30 grand is 30 more grand than no grands. It seems like a substantial sum. But just like dunking over a child, it becomes much less impressive once you stop and think about it.
"Oh, he's breaking the glass! Bad form, even here, in the child-taunting division of the NBA."
First, there are agent fees: 15 percent, right off the top. So that's down to $25,500. And of course, taxes take a bite of everything: 20 percent, state and federal. Down to a net $20,400. Still, that's like answering four questions right on a game show; you're lucky to be there in the first place, and it's fair compensation for doing something kind of fun. If you wanted to do this full time, all you'd have to do is pump out five of these short little books a year and you'd be ric- hahaha, sorry, I can't even finish typing that sentence.
From inception to completion, Everything is Going to Kill Everybody took me about a year and a half. And not a "just working on it in my spare time" year and a half, but 18 months at 40 to 50 hours a week, minimum. While simultaneously holding down another full-time job, of course, to keep paying the bills. All told, I netted roughly $6.50 an hour for writing my book. In the state of Oregon, where I lived while writing it, that's two dollars less than minimum wage.
Pictured: A more glamorous and fulfilling life than "author."
But then, that's the great thing about books: That 30 grand was just an advance. I still get royalties, and if the book keeps selling, then someday I'll reach that magic number where I pay off the advance, and it's all profit from there, baby.
That should be cake, too, because Everything is Going to Kill Everybody did pretty well, all told: During launch week, it hovered at around No. 31 on Amazon's sales rank list. Do you know what that means? For one solid week, it was the 31st bestselling book (out of all the fucking books in history) for the biggest bookseller in the world. That was just in the United States. In Canada (which I'm told uses for-realsies grown up money and everything), it peaked at No. 5. Just to reiterate: For one whole week, mine was the fifth bestselling book in Canada.
Which basically means "Ted bought a copy."
So what do those impressive sounding numbers translate to in sales? About 1,000 copies. For all of launch week. In September of last year, I got my first and only sales breakdown: The book has sold around 9,000 copies, total. I get about a dollar a book in royalties, and there's that pesky advance (remember, the year and a half at migrant worker pay?) to sell through before I see any of that. So only 21,000 copies more to go, then I get a dollar!
Still want to be a writer?
Yeah, me too.
I mean, obviously. I am writing another one, after all. Even knowing how unglamorous the whole thing is; even knowing that I'd be better compensated for my time if I spent my nights underneath the bleachers at a local football game with my mouth open, trying to swallow errant nickels; even knowing that the entire process is built on self-loathing and horrible, tedious monotony, I am still getting right back to work on the new book just as soon as this column is finished, because ... because ... shit. I don't know. It's a sickness?
You can buy Robert's book, Everything is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead, or follow him on Twitter and Facebook. But you should probably just take the subtle hint all those links were giving you and buy the book: You could be lucky number 20,999!
For more from Robert, check out 5 Disturbing Ways the Human Body Will Evolve in the Future and Revisiting Old-School Text Adventures as a Jaded Modern Gamer.


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Bradley Flavored Bisquettes
Bradley Flavored Bisquettes (BTX120) liven up your smoked foods by complementing the existing smoky flavor with the perfect touch of another. The added complexity you get from the bisquettes takes your favorite smoked foods to the next level. All Bradley Flavored Bisquettes are made from hardwood smoker chips, bonded together with just the right amount of pressure to create a smoking material that gives you a consistent burn every time you smoke your food.
Choose from a great selection of ten (10) flavors, each perfect for pairing with specific types of food. Try blending various flavors to further create your own personal touch.
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Top Definition
In Layman's Terms, ROADHEAD is when a guy gets a head, BJ, blow job, etc. while driving.
I had this girl give me ROADHEAD and she didnt swallow, got jizz on my pants - thats why I created the ROADHEAD EMERGENCY KIT.
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To recieve a blowjob while operating a motorized vehicle.
I recieved road head while driving to Minneapolis today.
di ass clown 08 febbraio 2003
The absolute greatest thing a sexually active male with a drivers licence and a car can wish for. Truly a slice of fried gold. Simply the most amazing feeling in the world. Although very dangerous to someone who needsto be consintrating while driving. However one needs not worry if they are spoted by an officer of the law while recieving road head, for in my experience they tend to applaude.
I was driving, my girlfriend was sitting next to me. It was a beautiful day, we had decided to take the longer, scenic route. Then suddenly she started giving me pleasure Lewinsky style, and i felt like a god. When it was over I turned to her and said, "Honey, you give the best road head in the world."
di The Dark Lord of Bass 27 settembre 2005
Getting sucked off while driving a car or vehicle
I got road-head on the way to a party last night, im so glad that girl swallowed.
di David #123 05 agosto 2006
to receive oral sex while driving a motor vehicle, usually on the interstate, but always more interesting while in heavy traffic
she was giving me road head and i almost caused a pile up when i blew my wad
di juice 03 novembre 2002
A blowjob that takes place inside a moving vehicle.
Whenever I politely ask my girlfriend to give me road-head, she always freaks out even if I offer to grab the wheel for her.
di Cheedy 18 gennaio 2009
its road head...when your driving your car on the "road" and your chick goes down on you.. cruse controll is recommened for this because of the lack of concentration
shelly gave me road head and i got pulled over for doing 3 in a 45..
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This coming fall, New Jersey will begin enrolling people in a new health insurance program that will help millions of New Jersey residents buy health insurance- some for the first time. Come learn about how this program, as well as changes to Medicare and Medicaid, could help YOU and what it means to cancer patients. The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), joined by:
Blair Horner, Vice President for Advocacy with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (CAN), New York & New Jersey.
Dr. Jaime Torres, DPM MS, Regional Director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid for New York & New Jersey
What: Educational Forum to Learn Details of the New Health Insurance Program in New Jersey & the Impact on Cancer Patients
Who Should Attend: All cancer patients and family members who want to learn about health care reform and how it will affect them. Medicare and Medicaid patients, uninsured or under-insured individuals, and individuals interested in purchasing health insurance through the newly created federally-run marketplace.
When: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 5:30-8:00pm
Where: Double Tree Hotel, Westminster Room *Dinner will be served.
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Special deals and shopping treks in the wee hours of the morning have always been part of Black Friday tradition, but this year some stores are opening even earlier than last year.
Early hours
Walmart plans to kick off three special sales events on Black Friday eve, starting at 8 p.m. Thursday. The three one-hour events are set for 8 and 10 p.m. Thursday and 5 a.m. Friday.
The one-hour events all have special pricing on certain items that will be available while supplies last. In addition, according to a corporate news release, there are three electronics items available at 10 p.m. that are guaranteed to be in stock for the one-hour sale.
Other stores are also on the early-opening bandwagon, including Logan Valley Mall.
The response from customers last year to midnight openings at other stores, including Target, Kohl's and Macy's, prompted the mall to open at midnight on Black Friday this year.
Group Marketing Director Joy Weidel said that while mall stores are not required to open at midnight - JCPenney, for instance, is waiting until 6 a.m. - that stores are being encouraged to do so.
"This year it's being promoted" for the first time, she said.
JCPenney store manager Bill Crouse said all JCPenney locations are opening later this year as part of an initiative by the company's new CEO, Ron Johnson.
"Last year we opened at around 3 a.m., so this is a big change for us," said Crouse.
There are other changes as well.
Starting Feb. 1, Johnson announced a new store strategy called fair and square, which promised a low price for customers every day without the need for coupons and sales. But, Crouse said, Black Friday is a special shopping day and items throughout the store will be discounted.
Crouse also promised a new "exciting promotion" that will be launching storewide that day and will continue through the Christmas season.
Other stores are pushing their opening times forward. Among them is Sears, which Weidel said will open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Last year it opened at 4 a.m.
According to Target's website, the store also plans to open its doors at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving, allowing customers to shop with special Black Friday prices in effect from Thanksgiving night through Saturday.
Sales under wraps
As far as special sales planned, JCPenney has a 48-page sale booklet preview on its website that shows which items are to be on sale, while Macy's offers a 20-page sale booklet along with many 20-percent-off coupons.
Kohl's Store Manager Jeff Matthews said the store will open at midnight on Black Friday and remain open until midnight the next morning. Specials are to be announced this weekend in a flier.
He also said that regular early bird specials will be in effect from the store's opening until 1 p.m.
Many stores have similar rules, with local store managers unable to disclose sale information until corporate offices are contacted.
Customers may line up
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The Buffalo teachers union and district officials reached an agreement on a teacher-evaluation plan Tuesday night at the union's Porter Avenue headquarters – likely staving off the loss of $33.4 million in state aid at nearly the last minute.
The agreement still has to pass muster with the state Education Department by Thursday if the district is to salvage the millions in state aid to Buffalo schools that is contingent on having an approved evaluation plan in place by then.
"Department staff is available around the clock to review submissions," state Education Department spokesman Jonathan Burman said in an email. "We will review any plans we receive between now and [Thursday] as expeditiously as possible, but we will not sacrifice quality for speed."
Officials from both sides said they were pleased with the plan.
"I think it's a fair agreement," Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore said. "There's compromise on both sides."
In a statement emailed after the agreement was signed and submitted to Albany, Superintendent Pamela C. Brown said state officials had already begun reviewing the pact.
Brown said the district looks forward to feedback from the state Education Department.
"We are hopeful to gain approval on this evaluation agreement at the earliest possible moment," she said.
The district also is thankful to state education staff for their willingness to handle the district's request for an expedited review so close to the deadline, she said.
Buffalo was one of 13 districts statewide late Tuesday still needing to modify and resubmit its plan to earn state approval. Another five districts, including New York City, had not submitted a plan as of Tuesday evening. Hamburg had submitted a plan, but its union had not agreed to it.
Most of the 669 districts whose plans have been approved have submitted one-year agreements, state officials said. Buffalo is among about 10 percent of districts to submit a two-year plan. The district's agreement, though, contains a provision stipulating that either side can reopen negotiations for the second year, Rumore said.
He signed the agreement at about 8:45 p.m., contingent on approval by either the union's Council of Delegates or its entire membership, he said. The agreement will be presented to the Council of Delegates at its Thursday evening meeting. After that, it will be emailed to all the teachers in the district. The Council of Delegates will vote on the agreement sometime in February, Rumore said.
He declined to release a copy of the agreement until it has been sent to teachers. A district spokeswoman also declined to release the plan Tuesday night.
According to Rumore, Buffalo is using Binghamton's plan as a model for some portions of its evaluation agreement. Binghamton was one of the first districts to have its plan approved and then held up by state officials as a possible model for other districts.
One of the key elements that Buffalo is borrowing from that plan is a method for factoring in high concentrations of student poverty, students with special-education needs and students whose native language is not English.
The higher the concentration of students in one or more of those groups, the lower the goal for student achievement. In a class with few students in one of those groups, 80 percent of students would be expected to meet a certain level of proficiency – for example, earning a certain score on the state's English test. The more high-need students in a particular class, the lower the percentage of students expected to reach proficiency.
Under Binghamton's plan, in a class with the greatest population of students in those groups, only half the students – rather than 80 percent – would have to meet the level of proficiency.
In Buffalo, union leaders and district officials spent much of Monday and part of Tuesday negotiating at Buffalo Teachers Federation headquarters on Porter Avenue.
Superintendent Brown was not directly involved in negotiations. The district was represented by Kelly Eisenried, executive director of labor relations; Debra Sykes, associate superintendent for school innovations and turnarounds; and Genelle Morris, assistant superintendent for shared accountability.
The union was represented by Rumore; Edith LeWin, vice president; Barbara Bielecki, presidential assistant and treasurer; and Nick Whitman, Deana Fox and Dennis Licherelli, labor relations specialists.
"One of the things that made it somewhat easier for both negotiating teams is that there was trust," Rumore said. "We didn't have to go into another room and hide and whisper to one another when we wanted to discuss something."
Districts that do not have approved evaluation plans in place by Thursday will forfeit this year's increase in state aid. For Buffalo, the amount at stake is $33.4 million.
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Deborah and Kenneth Nichols Sr., of Martinsburg, announce the engagement of their son, Kenneth E. Nichols Jr., to Roberta L. Philp, of Atlantic City, N.J. Kenneth is currently a scientist with Lonza Inc., in Walkersville, Md., he holds a M.S. from Hood College in Frederick, Md., a B.S. from Shepherd University and is a Hedgesville High School graduate. Roberta is a technical writer and currently working for the United States Government Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration in Pomona, N.J. The couple recently vacationed in the Caribbean to celebrate their engagement. A fall destination wedding has been planned.
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CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS -- State police have found pieces of a pickup truck belonging to homicide victim Gerald P. VanDyke.
Police said this morning that the 2003 Dodge truck belonging to VanDyke, 55, had been dismantled and much of it had been scrapped, but "identifiable pieces" were located on property near where investigators had recovered "other evidence" late last week.
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Joe DeLeo has the recipe for cooks seeking a bit of inspiration, know-how and fun.
His Kitchen & Gift, at 3415 Pleasant Valley Boulevard, Altoona, has been the site of various cooking classes since August. Students not only get to eat the finished product - which has ranged from Asian BTL wraps to pulled-pork sliders - but they're also invited to start the evening off with a complimentary alcoholic beverage.
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Book Review: "Chicago Cubs Yesterday & Today"
Steve Johnson, Chicago Cubs Yesterday & Today (Minneapolis: Voyageur Press) 2008. 144pp. $26.95
Any new addition to the collection of Chicago Cubs anthologies, encyclopedias and coffee table books is faced with the elemental problem of distinguishing itself from the dozens of other works competing for your beer money. In the case of Steve Johnson's Chicago Cubs Yesterday and Today, published by Voyageur Press, the pitch is twofold. First, instead of a chronological ordering that begins in the past and proceeds linearly towards the present, Johnson organized Yesterday and Today topically, juxtaposing pictures from different eras in Cubs history for side-by-side comparison. Hence the title. Second, Johnson presents an extensive and diverse selection of historical photos, many in color, from the archives of the Chicago Historical Society, the Hall of Fame, and private collections. While the execution of the whole "then and now concept" was about as consistent as a young Kerry Wood - full of promise, if alternatively brilliant and off target - the photo selection is more Greg Maddux - consistently great.
Topically, Johnson covers most every imaginable facet of Chicago Cubs history from the present back to the inaugural Chicago White Stockings team from 1870. Owners, G.M.s, Managers, each position, all of the distinctive elements of Wrigley Field, as well as earlier ballparks all get their own section. Then there are the more idiosyncratic sections, like "The Curse of the Billy Goat" or "Hard-Luck Players," Bad Boys" and "Game Day Snacks." Really, the only imaginable topic that could have been included but was lacking would be on the ballpark employees. Such pictures can be found throughout the book in different sections, most prominently the vendors in the Game Day Snacks section. But a fully fleshed out section specifically on ushers and grounds crews and vendors and whatnot could have made for a fun "yesterday and today" comparison. Kasper, Len gets an index entry when Kawano, Yosh, and Massman, Heinie, do not.
The topical organization tends to work against the creation of a continuous historical narravtive, and there are pretty big disparities in the execution of the different sections. The first few sections read very much like a conventional history of Chicago baseball, focusing pretty exclusively on the "Yesterday" part of the title. That conventional history comes to a quick halt, however, with the first of the truly distinctive topical sections, "The Curse of the Billy Goat." We get an overview of the relevant history - Billy Sianis and his goat, the 1945 World Series curse, the 1969 and 1984 collapses, the more recent attempts to reverse the curse, and Bartman. The accompanying pictures feature two of the Sianis family's got from 2003, neither particularly relevant or memorable, and a picture of Ryan Dempster turning a grounds crew hose on a Cardinals fan holding a pro-curse sign in the bleachers before the start of a 2006 game. Are there really no photos available from 1945? Or of the black cat from 1969? What purpose does the Dempster picture serve?
There are similar limitations to the concept's execution in several other sections. In the "Hard-Luck Players" section, does the paragraph and photo on Mark Prior, or the blurb on Jerome Walton as he "fell into the ranks of "also-rans" really belong in the company of Charlie Hollocher (career cut short due to depression, suicide at 44), Edde Waitkus (shot in the chest by a deranged fan, nearly dying from the wounds) or Ken Hubbs (died from crashing his airplane)? They had too much of the taste of forced "Today" add-ons for a section that would have been better served in limiting its focus to "Yesterday." Likewise, the insertion of a "Hit Men" section focusing on single-season and all-time base hits leaders between an otherwise continuous series of sections on the different defensive positions seemed arbitrary, and the corresponding Juan Pierre photograph and discussion another rough "Today" add-on.
The topical coverage of the positions mostly is solid, if again a bit beholden to the "Yesterday and Today" concept. It works best for a position like second base, where Johnson runs through Ross Barnes' .429 average in 1876 to blurbs on Johnny Evers, Rogers Hornsby, Billy Herman, Ken Hubbs, Glenn Beckert, and finishes with Ryne Sandberg, each with an accompanying photograph. Johnson appropriately concludes with "Nobody has been able to fill Sandberg's shoes since he retired, at second base or anywhere else on the field." Compare that to his entry on relievers, which includes important fore-runners to the modern reliever like Don Elston and Lindy McDaniel, aces like Bruce Sutter, Lee Smith, Randy Myers and Rod Beck, but also includes from the 2007 Cubs not just Ryan Dempster, but also Michael Wuertz and Will Ohman. Did Ohman really need three sentences? Things like that will quickly date the book. Or quickly justify a second edition, I suppose.
My favorite sections come near the end of Yesterday and Today. The "Bad Boys" piece tells us about the booze problems of King Kelly, Pete Alexander and Hack Wilson. Hornsby's gambling is mentioned, as is Gabby Hartnett's chat with Al and Sonny Capone at a 1931 charity game. The pictures of Hack Wilson's Home Run Club and Harnett grinning as he chats with Capone are real treats. While we also get blurbs and pictures on the Derrek Lee-Chris Young and Dodgers-Right Field Grandstand fights, the only photograph of Carlos Zambrano-Michael Barrett is a generic pitching-mound conversation. At least the next section, "Windy City Rivalry," compensates with a beautiful photograph of Barrett clocking A.J. Pierzynski.
The "Yesterday and Today" format is most useful for illustrating changes in the physical tool of the game, like uniforms, catchers' equipment and ballpark design. While there's a separate section for "Uniforms and Equipment" that includes nice pictures of catchers' gear, the best illustrations of these changes come in the sections on the different defensive positions. "Second Basemen," for instance, does the best job of illustrating the progression of uniforms from huge cotton dress pajamas to the nasty artificial stuff of the 1970s to Sandberg's jerseys from the 1990s. Johnny Evers looks like he can barely hold onto a bat as large as he is, in 1910, whereas Sandberg's bat looks like a toothpick in comparison. Similarly, the entries on "Early Ballparks," "Wrigley Field," "The Outfield Wall," "The Scoreboard," "The Playing Field," "Dugouts and Clubhouses," "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "Spring Training" are all terrific successes in illustrating the historical progression of modern baseball, even if some of the sections (especially Out to the Ballgame) seem a bit redundant.
The second calling card of Yesterday and Today is its archival photographs, which are uniformly excellent. Again, the most visually impressive and historically interesting photographs are of Wrigley Field and its predecessors. I am not sure that I have ever seen photographs of the old West Side Grounds, home of the Colts/Cubs from 1894 to 1915. I have a long-standing interest in the place of mob violence or the threat of mob violence in the early history of the game, and these pictures really bring out the close proximity between players and thousands of fans that at once made the early player-fan relationship intimate yet potentially menacing. A photograph on page 126 shows an overflow crowd from 1912, with maybe twenty rows of people sitting in foul territory and throughout the outfield - including in front of the dugout and maybe just five or ten paces behind the left fielder. Another shows a Pinkerton walking the line of rope separating the on-field spectators from the players in a 1907 contest. Even with the move to Wrigley, a photo from the 1930s shows fans leaving after a game by walking across the playing field. Although Johnson does not bring it up in the text, these pictures really illustrate how the sort of mob mayhem made most famous from Merkle's boner, but also found in countless other incidents, could routinely occur. They also reveal a historical point on which I had been ignorant: that the tradition of viewing ballgames from makeshift risers and rooftops across the street, and the effort to end those wildcat bleachers, goes back one hundred years to the West Side Grounds. Very neat.
The pictures of Wrigley Field, then and now, are equally revealing. There is a great black and white photo of the groundskeepers planting the ivy in 1937, with fantastic color pictures of Sammy Sosa leaping into the luscious green ivy, and Lance Berkman and Hunter Pence raising their hands by it, on the next two pages. There is a similar progression shown for the scoreboard. My favorite, however, has to be page 135, which features an army of popcorn vendors in an undated photograph, a toothsome woman identified as "Cigarette girl," also undated, and one of "Beer vendor," a jowly, pasty guy from 2002. Promotional photographs and illustrations from the White Stockings teams, official programs from the 1960s, turn of the twentieth century buttons and postcards, and a close-up picture that explains just why he was called "Three Finger" Brown are just some of the other unique treats Johnson presents. Voyageur was kind enough to provide me with a .pdf of some of these particular pages, which you can check out here. (The .pdf really doesn't do justice to the Sosa picture.)
Ultimately, Chicago Cubs Yesterday and Today does fill a couple of important holes in our Cubs library. It works as a coffee table book (if only I had a coffee table... perhaps it can be the focus of our next fund-raiser, Rob?) and as a general encyclopedia of Cubs history. While the "Yesterday and Today" concept stumbles here and there, the successes are impressive and illuminating enough to make the concept pay off. And the photographs are pretty darn cool. I'd recommend it form the new Cubs fan in the family, the fan who is just starting to become interested in Cubs history, the fan of the material culture of Cubs history, and the fan with a coffee table. Even though I personally only fit one of those four categories, I still give Chicago Cubs Yesterday and Today a solid rating of 37 Steve Trachsels for readability, 13 Shawon Dunstons for photography, 18 Chuck Raineys for historical content, and 9 Jose Cardenals for novelty.
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I did get a copy too but have only thumbed through it, so I defer to Transmission on the written content. The pictures are fantastic though. Great for anyone's coffee table, even the one Transmission is going to buy himself with his own money.
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the pictures from the PDF showing the West Side Grounds is a trip. I've read numerous times how they let fans on the field to handle overflow crowds but could never really picture it.
I think it lasted till about the 1930's sometime, maybe 40's. Something I'm sure Arizona Phil knows...
For awhile anything hit into the crowd was home run and then they changed the rule to a ground rule double.
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Nice work. I'm also especially interested in archival photos of the previous ballparks and Wrigley before the 1938 addition of the bleachers and current scoreboard. Sounds like this may be a good source for that.
One edit/correction: "Carl Hubbs (died from crashing his airplane)" should be Ken Hubbs.
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I haven't read Steve Johnson's book and so I apologize if this is covered in the book, but for those of you in the Chicago area who want to go see where the West Side Grounds were located, it was in the block surrounded by Polk on the north, the north alley of Taylor Street on the south, Wolcott on the west, and Wood Street on the east.
The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway (later merged into Chicago Rapid Transit, which became the CTA post-WWII) Douglas Park "L" line Polk Street station was located a block east of the park, at Polk & Paulina, so that it was very easy for fans to ride the "L" to the park, just like they do today when going to Wrigley Field.
There was a large vacant lot outside the ball park (to the north), located on the south side of Polk (extending to what would have been the south alley of Polk Street) between Wood & Wolcott. Otherwise, the park was surrounded by buildings very similar to the ones that now surround Wrigley Field.
The block is now (today) occupied by the University of Illinois Medical Center, and while there was no firehouse located across the street from the ballpark (the nearest firehouse and "first-due" Chicago F. D. company to the West Side Grounds was Engine Co. 31 at Congress & Damen), busy Cook County Hospital was (and still is) located on the north side of Polk, across the street from the site of the the old ball park. And Holy Trinity Church was located at the NW corner of Wolcott & Taylor, just down the street (and around the corner) from the ball park.
The so-called "wildcat" bleachers were located on rooftops of buildings located on the south side of the north alley of Taylor Street (beyond RF), and on the rooftops of buildings located on the east side of Wood Street (beyond LF). The ticket office building (a separate structure), the "Main Entrance," and home plate were located at the northwest corner of the ballpark (making LF--not RF--the "sun field"), and since the games usually started at 3 PM, there was a BIG problem with sun glaring into the left-fielders eyes. (And sun glasses weren't readily available until the 1920's).
The best thing about the West Side Grounds is that while the Cubs have never won a World Series playing in Wrigley Field, they won their only two while playing at the West Side Grounds (in 1907 and 1908). That's where Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance was born, and where Three Finger Brown and Cap Anson lived.
Maybe the Cubs never should have left the west side. The North side (and the neighborhood now known as "Wrigleyville") really belongs to the Chicago Whales (champions of the Federal League in 1915).
The Cubs had their best years and greatest success as a WEST side team, winning four pennants and their only two World Series all within a five-year period (1906-1910).
Maybe the Cubs never should have left the west side.
I used to work right there in the University of Illinois Medical Center and never knew it was hallowed ground. Of course it was difficult to find ANY ground, but still...
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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.
Who's asking?
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.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.


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Mike Knuble wants to finish his career in Detroit: 'Detroit would be a nice story since I was drafted there. Ill make no secret about that'.
I've always liked Knuble.. but I am not sure if there is room for another average forward on the roster..
He had a bit of an off year last year but has performed pretty consistently in the past so maybe an option if the Wings strike out on Ryan, Doan and Semin..


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Nanoparticles—man-made atoms with unique optical, electrical, and mechanical properties—have become key components in many fields of science. If nanoparticles could be coaxed into routinely assembling themselves into predictable complex structures and hierarchical patterns, devices could be mass-produced that are one thousand times smaller than today's microtechnologies. Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists have made progress toward this goal, successfully directing the self-assembly of nanoparticles into device-ready thin films, which have potential applications in fields ranging from computer memory storage to energy harvesting and storage, from catalysis to light management, and into the emerging new field of plasmonics.
Through a relatively easy and inexpensive technique where solutions of block copolymer supramolecules direct the self-assembly of nanoparticles, researchers produced multiple layers of thin films from highly ordered one-, two- and three-dimensional arrays of gold nanoparticles. Block copolymers are long sequences, or "blocks," of one type of monomer bound to blocks of another type of monomer that have an innate ability to self-assemble into well-defined arrays of nanosized structures over macroscopic distances. A supramolecule is a group of molecules that act as a single molecule able to perform a specific set of functions.
This research represents the first time that 2D nanoparticle assembly has been clearly achieved in multilayers in supramolecule-based nanocomposite thin films. Block copolymer supramolecules self-assemble to form a wide range of morphologies that feature microdomains smaller than tens of nanometers in size. Since their size is comparable to that of nanoparticles, the microdomains of block copolymer supramolecules provide an ideal structural framework for nanoparticle co-self-assembly.
This simple yet versatile supramolecular approach allows for the control of the 3D spatial organization of nanoparticles with single-particle precision over macroscopic distances in thin films. It does not require chemical modification to any of the components in the composite system and, in addition to providing a means of building nanoparticle-based devices, should also provide a powerful platform for studying nanoparticle structure–property correlations. The technique can easily produce much larger films, and it can be used on nanoparticles of many materials besides gold, making it well suited for scalable manufacturing.
Incorporating gold nanoparticles into solutions of block copolymer supramolecules forms films ranging in thickness between 100 to 200 nanometers. Upon incorporation of nanoparticles, the supramolecules experience conformational changes, resulting in entropy that determines the placement and distribution of the nanoparticles, as well as the overall morphology of the nanocomposite thin films. Results indicate that it should be possible to generate highly ordered lattices of nanoparticles within block copolymer microdomains and obtain 3D hierarchical assemblies of nanoparticles with precise structural control.
The nanocomposite films featured microdomains in one of two common morphologies: lamellar or cylindrical. In the lamellar microdomains, the nanoparticles formed hexagonally packed 2D sheets stacked into multiple layers parallel to the surface. For the cylindrical microdomains, the nanoparticles formed 1D chains (single-particle width) that were packed into distorted hexagonal lattices in parallel orientation with the surface.
To study these two morphologies, grazing-incidence small-angle x-ray scattering (GISAXS) was performed on ALS Beamline 7.3.3 to probe internal nanoparticle structures. The incident angle was selected to probe only the in-plane structure of nanoparticles at the film surface. In-plane diffraction peaks of up to the seventh order can be clearly seen, corresponding to highly ordered 2D lattice domains of hexagonally packed nanoparticles. To probe nanoparticle assemblies in the interior of the film, GISAXS patterns were collected at six incident angles below and above the critical angle of the film. The 2D in-plane nanoparticle assemblies remain similar at each incident angle, confirming that the nanoparticles formed hexagonally packed ordered arrays with similar grain sizes not only on the surface, but also in the interior of the film.
The interparticle distance between gold nanoparticles in the 1D chains and the 2D sheets was 8 to 10 nanometers, which raises intriguing possibilities with regards to plasmonics, the phenomenon by which a beam of light is confined to ultracramped spaces. Plasmonic technology holds great promise for advancing superfast computers and optical microscopy. One major challenge for developing plasmonics has been the difficulty of fabricating metamaterials with noble metal nanoparticles, like gold. The gold thin films in this study display strong plasmonic coupling along the interparticle spacing in the 1D chains and 2D sheets, therefore allowing for their use in the investigation of unique plasmonic properties for next-generation electronic and photonic devices.
Research conducted by: J. Kao, P. Bai, and V.P. Chuang (University of California, Berkeley); Z. Jiang (Advanced Photon Source); P. Ercius (Berkeley Lab); and T. Xu (UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab).
Research funding: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: J. Kao, P. Bai, V.P. Chuang, Z. Jiang, P. Ercius, and T. Xu, "Nanoparticle assemblies in thin films of supramolecular nanocomposites," Nano Lett. 12, 2610 (2012).
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Okay, my turn, I guess.
After reading that article by KHAAAAAAAN, discussing the Wings' options at the draft and the possibility of moving Colaiacovo, Emmerton, or Tootoo and perhaps buying out Bertuzzi or Samuelsson I started to get curious as to what exactly that could look like.
As far as I'm concerned, those are the extra pieces that - with the exception of Tootoo - need trimming, so it was certainly an encouraging article - even if it is all conjecture at this point.
Michael Ryder ($3.500m) / Pavel Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Henrik Zetterberg ($6.083m)
Damien Brunner ($1.350m) / Stephen Weiss ($3.100m) / Johan Franzen ($3.955m)
Tomas Tatar ($0.840m) / Darren Helm ($2.125m) / Gustav Nyquist ($0.788m)
Justin Abdelkader ($1.800m) / Joakim Andersson ($0.605m) / Drew Miller ($1.350m)
Jordin Tootoo ($1.900m) / Patrick Eaves ($1.200m)
Niklas Kronwall ($4.750m) / Jonathan Ericsson ($3.250m)
Kyle Quincey ($3.775m) / Brendan Smith ($0.827m)
Danny DeKeyser ($1.350m) / Jakub Kindl ($1.050m)
Brian Lashoff ($0.725m)
Jimmy Howard ($5.292m)
Jonas Gustavsson ($1.500m)
Buyout: Todd Bertuzzi ($0.000m)
Buyout: Mikael Samuelsson ($0.000m)
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $7,496,080
I know, it looks just like everyone else's.
Ignore the $7mil+ cap cushion, because I made no attempt to calculate the salaries of the UFA/RFA signings. I'm terrible at that, so there's no point. Feel free to substitute Ryder with any of the power forwards that have been mentioned here throughout the off-season, if you'd like.
In my perfect scenario, Colaiacovo is somehow moveable - perhaps packaged with Filppula's rights - and Sameulsson and Bertuzzi can be bought out. While, I like what Bertuzzi can bring to the line-up; he and Samuelsson are the most obvious buyout candidates and I don't see that changing at any point over the course of the next year.
I've accepted that the fact that this team will likely be unable to acquire a worthwhile defenseman and that they will move forward with the core that we saw in place at the end of last season.
I love that lineup! Adding Ryder and Weiss makes perfect sense. I think having Ryder play with both datsyuk and zetterberg is a good move. He would score 35 goals no doubt in my mind. I think Z could also notch 30 on that line.
A second line of mule- Weiss- nyq/brunner/Tatar would be very lethal and a very solid line going up against 2nd pairing d-men.
A third Line of two of Nyq/brunner/Tatar centered by helm would make for the best third line in hockey.
Then you role a 4th of Abby- Andy- eaves/miller
I love that lineup and ill throw it up against any other forward group in the league today.


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#2. The Internet Hates Satire
I'm not sure it's fair to blame the Internet for this, because at the end of the day, the Internet, like Soylent Green, is people. So basically, it's people who hate satire. They don't understand it. It confuses them. But I'm including this entry on my list because the Internet is super good at making people's disdain for satire clear.
And cats. The Internet also hates cats. Wait, no. Sorry. The opposite of that.
Sites like McSweeney's and the Onion rely on the Internet to find enough people in the world who appreciate the form to remain successful. But when you throw satire out to the masses, things go badly. I've written two columns about satirists being attacked by people who simply missed the joke, and I've certainly had mixed results when employing satire online.
One of my favorite columns was my defense of gay marriage from the point of view of a married heterosexual who only understood homosexuality from what he saw on TV. In it, I warned the gay community that if gay marriage were legal: 1) they'd have no excuse not to commit; 2) their sex would get less hot; and 3) the niche market for gay men as interior designers would suffer because married people aren't hip. Taken in whole, my objections to gay marriage were so stupid, it made a case for why gay marriage should be legal. That's sort of how satire works sometimes. Plenty of people got it, but lots of feisty folks wanted to know who the hell I was to tell them whether or not they had a right to get married. That was the day I learned that gay people could be just as stupid as heteros.
We're here. We're queer. And some of us are just as stupid as some of you!
And then there was my biggest failure, in which I bemoaned the death of the publishing industry at the hands of social media successes like the book and then sitcom based off the Twitter feed "Shit My Dad Says." Accordingly, I did a timeline about the rise and fall of a Twitter sensation called the Meh-ssiah who only tweeted "meh." About six people read it, and of those six, about four believed that everything I said was true.
It's hard to get too upset about these things anymore. Satire is just like color blindness for some. Eventually, you stop asking those people if your tie matches your suit.
#1. The Internet Has No Shame
The Internet has no shame for a couple of reasons. The first, everyone knows: The Internet is anonymous. We hide behind avatars and dummy accounts and user names. We can do things in secret and we run amok. That's why people are trolls and bullies. Actions have fewer consequences in the dark, and there's not much more to say about that.
But the Internet also has no shame when it comes to knowledge. In the last decade, the search engine has replaced intelligence to some degree. Somehow, the ability to find the answer to everything has made it acceptable to know nothing. Why take the time to learn facts and hold them in your mind when they can just be retrieved in a Google search box? People pride themselves more on knowing how to look for answers than having them.
Warning. This will crash your results page.
Even with a decade-plus of Internet, I can't get used to that. Maybe it's because I was the youngest of three kids, my brothers seven and 10 years older. When I overheard things I didn't understand, my first instinct was wanting to learn more. To get grounded in the same details so I could participate in the grown-up world going on around me. I was eager to consume, and I was fortunate to have parents who afforded me a chance to speak. The search engine mentality, however, is interested only in acquiring enough information to shut down the conversation. To explain why it's OK not to know.
Or maybe giving everyone equal access to knowledge has made some believe that we are all in equal possession of knowledge. But we're not. People who care about knowing will always have the edge, because they will use the Internet as a tool for more learning, instead of an excuse for indifference. And there is so much indifference online. It's almost hostility toward "excessive" learning. The Internet wants to be told just enough to keep it interested, but not so much that it gets confused or finds out how much there is that it still doesn't know. Just enough information to be repeated. That makes the Internet feel smart. But give it too much and you're being pretentious or pedantic or a hipster, even though that's not really what any of those words mean. But the Internet doesn't care about knowing what words mean, only that there's an app to look them up if it absolutely has to. And it doesn't have to. After all, you don't even know where the Internet lives or what it looks like.
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On the day that Google was fined $7 million for what may be the most far-reaching and despicable invasion of privacy in the Internet age, the company also announced that it was awarding nearly $15 million in bonuses to its former CEO and other key executives. The fine means nothing to a company whose net income is in the neighborhood of $32 million a day.
The violation was egregious and deserved more than a few moments in the corner. Google, while using cameras to catalog street-level images around the world, also collected private data left exposed by unencrypted wireless signals. It recorded passwords, emails and medical and financial information.
Google says the violations were committed by an unsupervised mid-level engineer without his bosses knowing and the company has expressed remorse over the program. But that is hardly an excuse, even if it is true. Given the obvious issues of privacy, it should have set up systems to prevent this kind of problem, and then quickly come clean about them instead of waiting for court action by 38 states – including New York – to force its hand.
We are already on the slippery slope. One of Google's next products, Google Glass, is a minicomputer that nestles in a pair of eyeglasses and can record whatever is going on around it. The potential for invasion of privacy on a massive scale is plain.
That's not to say anything can or should be done to prevent the marketing of this product. The technology genie is out of the tube and it's not going back in. But it is past time for society to come to grips with the daily invasions of privacy that already occur, if on a smaller scale than the suctioning up of millions of pieces of personal data.
The likelihood seems to be that all of us will have to live with less privacy. When we don't give it up voluntarily on social media sites, marketers track our online movements. It seems to be the new normal. But sometimes, a line needs to be drawn. Does the inevitability of Google Glass have to mean that it is no longer possible to have a private conversation?
That may be a question that the courts will eventually have to decide, but after the disgrace of the Google Streets project, it would be nice if Google did some reflecting on it beforehand.


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MARTINSBURG - Like many in the area, Philipsburg-Osceola's Chris Thompson hadn't been feeling very well.
"He wasn't in school yesterday," P-O coach Tim McCamley said. "He said 'I've got to get this over with in a hurry.'"
Thompson, the top-ranked 106-pounder in the Mirror rankings with a 9-0 record, definitely did, pinning Kayron Joseph in 10 seconds and tying for the area lead in the quickest pin category.
It was also an example of the Mounties' aggressive, pinning approach to the dual meet. P-O, which hadn't wrestled in a dual meet since the Dec. 20 win over Central Mountain, charged out to a 49-0 lead, finished with seven pins and beat the Scarlet Dragons, 61-12.
"I thought we wrestled pretty well," said McCamley of his 2-2 team. "A couple guys wrestled hard, but we made a lot of mistakes. There were a lot of escapes with one second [left in a period]. I'm not happy with that, but it gives you something to work on."
"They're a physical team," Central first-year coach Mike Shippy said. "Being at Northern Bedford last year, we noticed how physical they were. But [assistant coach] Jan [Clark] and I talked, and we're getting to that level too. We've made a lot of strides lately. We're pretty tickled with our effort."
There were three bouts that ended with regular decisions. The Dragons (5-6) won two of them, but P-O's Justin Millard won the first, 5-3, over Trae Shirey in the opening bout at 145. Millard's two first-period takedowns were enough to get the win.
From there, Andrew Greenawalt followed with a pin of Mike Mock in 1:09 at 152, and Connor Mann built a 6-1 lead on Lane Kreider at 160 before cradling him for a fall in 2:19.
At 170, Jay Prentice took Blake Burket down with a second left to earn a 16-8 major decision.
After Dennis Lumadue won by forfeit at 182 to hike his record to 11-0, R.J. Kephart, in a 2-2 195-pound bout with Isaac Little, reversed Little to his back and pinned him in 2:33, making the score 33-0.
Nick Gray increased P-O's lead with a pin of Robbie Weitzel in 3:42 at 220. Mason Pryde, who weighed in at 199, built a 9-1 lead on Wes Heuston at 285 before getting a fall in 3:13.
"He's eliminating at 195, and it's real close between him and R.J.," McCamley said of Pryde. "They're both good wrestlers. They're going to push each other."
Thompson's lightning-quick pin made the score 49-0, but Kale Burket, ranked second at 113, got the Dragons on the scoreboard with a fall over Chris Barnhart in 1:02 to push his record to 11-0.
P-O's Bryan Descavish pinned Colin Ulery in 42 seconds at 120 before the anticipated 126-pound bout between Brian Evans and Central freshman Jordan Quarello.
Quarello showed his dominance on top, though, charging out to an 11-2 lead with six nearfall points. But, Evans reversed at the end of the second and reversed Quarello to his back in the third, but Quarello won, 11-8.
"He came out pretty strong," Shippy said, "but we've got to teach him a couple things to hold back, especially when you're winning by seven or eight points. But, we don't want him to get away from being aggressive."
"Evans came back strong," McCamley said. "He gave up way too many back points at the beginning of the match."
The 132-pound bout between P-O's Dallas Kephart and Central's Terry Albright - the final one with Caleb Shively winning by forfeit at 138 - went to the tiebreaker tied, 5-5.
In the first 30-second rideout, Albright escaped and headlocked Kephart to his back for five points. Kephart escaped in the second rideout, but Albright won, 11-6.
"That was a big win for Terry," Shippy said. "[The headlock] is one of his weapons. When the opportunity comes, we allow him to do it."
145-Millard, PO, dec. Shirey, 5-3; 152-Greenawalt, PO, pinned Mock, 1:09; 160-Mann, PO, pinned Kreider, 2:19; 170-Prentice, PO, maj. dec. B. Burket, 16-8; 182-Lumadue, PO, won by forfeit; 195-R.J. Kephart, PO, pinned Little, 2:33; 220-Gray, PO, pinned Weitzel, 3:42.
285-Pryde, PO, pinned Heuston, 3:13; 106-Thompson, PO, pinned Joseph, :10; 113-K. Burket, C, pinned Barnhart, 1:02; 120-Descavish, PO, pinned Ulery, :42; 126-Quarello, C, dec. Evans, 11-8; 132-Albright, C, dec. D. Kephart, 11-6 OT TB; 138-Shively, PO, won by forfeit.
Records: Philipsburg-Osceola (2-2); Central (5-6).
JV winner: Shuey, P-O.