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After nearly 30 years of traveling through the Himalayas and finding his true meaning of happiness, Maui filmmaker Tom Vendetti also found his second Emmy Award nomination.
"When the Mountain Calls: Nepal, Tibet & Bhutan," a film edited and produced on Maui, was nominated for the best Historical/Cultural-Program/Special on Wednesday at the 42nd Northern California Area Emmy Awards in San Francisco.
"It's always a wonderful feeling," said the Waiehu resident during a phone call Saturday. "It's especially unique when you're evaluated by your peers, so it makes it special when they honor you at that level."
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Maui filmmaker Tom Vendetti (right) and music producer Paul Horn pose for a photo in Bhutan. After capturing an Emmy for their film "BHUTAN: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness" (2007), the duo reunited for "When the Mountain Calls: Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan" (2011) and have received their second Emmy Award nomination.
Photo courtesy of Tom Vendetti
Tom Vendetti (right) and Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay pose for a photo in Nepal in 1983. Norgay was one of the first individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest, along with Edmund Hillary. Both make appearances in Vendetti's film "When the Mountain Calls: Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan" (2011).
Photo courtesy Tom Vendetti
The hourlong documentary, released in November 2011, chronicles Vendetti's journey from the early 1980s to the late 2000s and includes interviews with influential figures such as the Dalai Lama and mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
"What truly made it different was that I was the subject," Vendetti said. "For me, I've been a licensed psychologist for 22 years and I've always been interested in what is happiness."
Primarily working as a mental health professional at Maui Memorial Medical Center, Vendetti spent his free time compiling the movie with co-producer and fellow Maui resident Robert Stone.
"To go through all that footage was quite enlightening in the process," Vendetti said of the film, which includes footage from his Emmy Award-winning documentary "BHUTAN: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness" (2007).
"The end result is that (happiness) really comes from within. 'When the Mountain Calls,' is a metaphor for that and what is really important in life.
"Living in our world today, trying to keep up with the materialistic world and news, gets us really stressed out. When I traveled to the Himalayas, it provided a beautiful environment and quiet place to get in touch with what is really important in life, which is family - but it's different for everyone."
Stone has worked with Vendetti for about 15 years as a cameraman and producer on several of his films. The Pukalani resident has more than 35 years of film and video production experience, including voice work for local 30-second television spots and commercials.
"The challenge was how do you take all this footage and weave it into a larger story about his 30 years of traveling," Stone said during a phone call Friday. "That's why Tom was really instrumental in helping us find the connection."
Co-narrated by associate producer Ann Mortifee, the film was originally going to be told by Vendetti.
"But then he said, 'I don't want to hear my voice,' " Stone said. "Tom asked if I could speak his voice and tell his story. We had two narrators tell their part, and that's what I feel made it sort of interesting. It was also interesting to hear my voice for 56 minutes."
After reviewing movies for about 35 years, Rick Chatenever, a contributor to The Maui News and former editor of Maui Scene, made his scriptwriting debut with the film.
"I had covered Tom's films for many years in my capacity at The Maui News," he said. "He came to me at The Maui News and was telling me about this project and I told him, 'Hey tell me when you get that film made because I'd look forward to writing about it.' He said, 'No you're actually going to be writing it.' "
Dubbing the film "Tom Vendetti's Greatest Hits," Chatenever said that they created the film backward by taking the footage and materials and creating continuity within the story.
"I created a window in which I had the video and then I created a text box next to that, so I was looking at the video and writing the text on screen," Chatenever said during a phone call Friday. "I had some sense of where (the narration) would play, but that was a brand new experience for me because I was just making it up as a I went along.
"So getting an award nomination is mind-blowing to me. It's really exciting."
Hana resident and performer Kris Kristofferson and former Maui resident Blaise Noto also contributed to the film. The music is provided by Christopher Hedge and two-time Grammy Award-winning composer Paul Horn, who both worked with Vendetti on his previous award-winning film.
"We've become quite a team, and without them we wouldn't have been nominated for an Emmy," Vendetti said. "They bring all those images to life."
The Maui-based team is not finished yet, though, as it is actively working on another documentary film - and this time it is a little closer to home.
The film, "The Quietest Place on Earth," takes place in Haleakala Crater and is inspired by sound engineering reports that Vendetti read about while flying to Oahu.
"When I first saw the article, I thought, 'Where could this place possibly be,' " he said. "And when I continued reading I was like, 'Wow it's right in my backyard.' I was thinking it was in some faraway country . . . but then I realized it's around you all the time."
Filming for his latest adventure has already begun, with the script and music nearly complete. Interviews and locational shooting have also started to ramp up, Vendetti said.
Notable contributors to the new film include Clifford Naeole, the cultural adviser for The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua, who is serving as an adviser for the film, and Gary Greenberg, who is a leading microscopic photographer.
"We're trying to get at essences of things, rather than have a talking head presenting facts," Chatenever said. "It's about finding an internal place of peace and quiet."
Vendetti said that film is in the production stage and will take months to complete but hopes to release it by next year.
"The advantage is that it's here on Maui, so I don't have to travel across the world to the Himalayas to get the shots that I need," he said. "So that makes it really nice."
The Emmy Awards ceremony will be held June 15 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.
For more information on the film, visit www.whenthemountaincalls.com.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Twenty-five drawings by Michelangelo on a two-city exhibition tour include works never before seen in the United States and many that offer a glimpse into the mind of the master and the tumultuous times in which he lived.
"Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpiece Drawings From the Casa Buonarroti" is on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg through April 14, then moves to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where it will run April 21-June 30.
While the collection is divided between figures and dazzling architectural drawings of libraries, churches and fortifications, the centerpieces are "Madonna and Child" and "Cleopatra." These two works open and close the Muscarelle exhibit, which is presented in a stark setting with each drawing individually illuminated on burgundy walls.
The work typically is viewed only by scholars who must travel to the Casa Buonarroti museum in Florence, Italy, the city where Michelangelo spent most of his 89 years.
The Muscarelle was able to snag the exhibition because of the long relationship between the museum's assistant director, John T. Spike, and Pina Ragionieri, the elegant 86-year-old director of Casa Buonarroti. The exhibit honors her and the Muscarelle's founding 30 years ago. They call it the most important Michelangelo show in the U.S. in decades.
"We sent to the Muscarelle our best because I have old friends here," Ragionieri said during a playful, bilingual discussion with Spike in the museum prior to its opening.
Spike selected the show from about 230 drawings that are held by Casa Buonarroti, the home of Michelangelo's descendants. He burned many of his drawings, Ragionieri said.
"He said all that remained of his had to be perfect," she said.
Muscarelle's director, Aaron De Groft, said Michelangelo destroyed the bulk of his drawings for another reason: "He was protecting his brand. He didn't want other people to go and execute his paintings."
The drawings were done after Michelangelo completed the Sistine Chapel in 1512, when he was 37.
"Over the next three decades, he set his heart on the impossible task of surpassing himself," Spike writes in an introduction to the show. "Michelangelo between the ages of 40 and 60 labored incessantly on projects too huge to complete on time or as planned."
The drawings, however, are treasured for the hand that created them and the stories they tell.
"I don't use the word 'unfinished' because it is abused in this sense," Ragionieri said. "It's something that comes from the deepest part of the artist."
Michelangelo's "Cleopatra," drawn in black chalk, pleasantly confronts visitors as they enter the exhibit: Her head is cast to the side, looking over her shoulder, an asp on her breast, her face "an emblem of divine beauty," Spike said.
But circle around the drawing and Michelangelo has conjured a terrifying vision on the reverse, hidden until 1988 by another piece of paper. Her eyes are blank, she appears anguished, her features blunt.
"It's not for delicate eyes, it's so shocking," Spike said. "She looks diabolical."
The show draws its name from these two contrasts: the sacred and the profane, meaning mortal or earthly.
Spikes writes that the jarring contrasts are intended to suggest that "the opposite face of mortal beauty is the danger of submitting to sensual pleasures and, ultimately, destruction."
The "Madonna and Child," separated by a panel from the rest of the exhibit, is a showstopper as well. It depicts a muscular infant at the breast of his mother, who is looking away from the child. The Madonna is drawn sparingly with black chalk, while the child's torso is highlighted with red chalk, appearing very much like polished marble.
"She looks very remote," Spike said. "She's not supposed to look with foreboding with what is to come."
Spike said the iconography is personal to Michelangelo.
"He seems to have suffered from the loss of his mother at age 5 and because of this alienation — or the disappearing mother — he does this three times in different sculptures," Spike said.
While the "Madonna and Child" and "Cleopatra" are studies in sensuality, many of the other drawings rendered in pen, ink and chalk are dizzying in their complex geometry: the fortifications for the gates of Florence; the facade for the church of San Lorenzo, which was never built; and the plan for the Church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome, which again was never realized.
The work represents Michelangelo's "tormented middle decades of his life," Spike said. The period included the Protestant Reformation, turmoil among the pope-producing Medici family and the sacking of Rome. At one point, fearing for his life, Michelangelo went into hiding as his fellow Florentines were executed.
"It's possible," Ragionieri said, "if you begin from the beginning to follow the life of Michelangelo to the last moment. They are the most wonderful drawings."
Michelangelo spent the final 30 years of his life in Rome. He died in 1564.
A parallel exhibit at the Muscarelle is "A Brush with Passion: Mattie Preti." It will feature 15 paintings on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the artist's birth.
If you go
What: "Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpiece Drawings From the Casa Buonarroti."
Where: Muscarelle Museum of Art, campus of the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
When: Open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Exhibit on view through April 14 before moving to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, April 21-June 30.
How much: Admission $15; free for under age 12.
More Info: www.wm.edu/muscarelle
Pina Ragionieri, director of the Casa Buonarroti museum in Florence, Italy, in shown of a Michelangelo drawing of "Cleopatra" in Williamsburg, Va.×
This image provided by the Muscarelle Museum of Art shows a drawing by Renaissance artist Michelangelo of "Cleopatra" that was found on the back another image of Cleopatra that is on display at the museum in Williamsburg, Va.×
A visitor views a Michelangelo drawing of "Madonna and Chile" at the Muscarelle museum last month in Williamsburg, Va.×
Pina Ragionieri (left), director of the Casa Buonarroti museum in Florence, and John Spike, assistant director of the Muscarelle Museum at the College of William and Mary, discuss the Michelangelo drawing of "Cleopatra" in Williamsburg, Va.×
A Michelangelo drawing of "Cleopatra" is the lead image in an exhibition of artwork at the Muscarelle Museum in Williamsburg, Va.×
A drawing of "Madonna and Child" is on display.×
This drawing of "Cleopatra" by Renaissance artist Michelangelo is among 25 works on display through April 14 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. The drawings also will be exhibited in Boston.×

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On the nature front, and as was reported in the P&C recently, the feral hog problem in South Carolina has just gotten totally out of control. In response, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources has authorized from March 1 to July 1 a special hunting season, whereby those who register their hunting properties with DNR can hunt hogs (plus coyotes and armadillos) at night with any legal weapon, plus bait, lights and even night-vision technology.
There's something of a romantic sense that the feral hog population, at least in certain parts of the state, is genetically connected to wild Russian stock that was imported to the Biltmore Estate back in the Gilded Age of the Vanderbilts. And this may be true, but the gene pool has been diluted by domesticated pigs that have escaped captivity over the decades and reverted to the wild. It's actually a study of devolution that I imagine someone like Charles Darwin would find fascinating.
The appearance of the pigs found in the woods generally represents a dramatic change over a compressed period of time. They acquire thick, bristly coats ranging in various colors from black to browns and tawny grays, a relative flattening and elongation of the forehead and snout, whose massive shoulders and necks are protected by a dense "shield" of gristle that's resistant to almost everything, including a variety of shot. Small gleamy eyes reflect an innate intelligence, and their demeanor while tearing through the woods reflects a danger and fierceness that can be unsettling.
The larger boars develop fearsome tusks that are primarily used to fight other boars, but which nonetheless can rip a dog (or human being) to shreds in a flash. (Sows have tusks as well although they're not nearly as big.) Many dogs are killed each year in the pursuit of wild hogs, and it's a wonder that there aren't stories out there of people getting killed as well, because just one sufficiently deep goring would more than do the job. As it so happens, this hasn't happened (yet), but it's conceivable that it will as the wild hog population grows and as more people get involved hunting them.
Smart and dangerous
These animals are smart enough to figure out ways to get well-fed, and although I'm not very experienced with them, I have yet to see emaciated wild hog in the woods. They'll probe incessantly for invertebrates, small amphibians and reptiles, and will absolutely lay waste to food plots, farmlands, sensitive estuaries, swampland and even backyards and public lands. Any newborn animal is at risk for being killed, and any bird that roosts on the ground will lose her entire brood if discovered by these foragers.
Feral hogs have been known to kill pasture animals in the process of giving birth and also larger sick, injured or disabled animals. With such voracious feeding habits, it's not surprising that their size potential is huge — literally. Reports of 300-plus pound boars in South Carolina are not uncommon. An animal this size can be expected to have 3- to 4-inch visible tusks, which does not include the extra 3 to 5 inches beneath the gum line that anchor each into the jaw or skull. The upper and lower tusks rub against each other constantly and file the longitudinal contact lines into razor-sharp edges that aren't fully appreciated shy of a hands-on inspection. And then suddenly, you realize that, no, you would never want to get in the way of one on these things.
New problem
A couple of generations ago, there really wasn't a feral hog problem in South Carolina. In fact, seeing the mythical "wild boar" was an uncommon event, and their relative scarcity dissuaded many people from hunting them.
For a variety of reasons, the population exploded and has now become — in some parts of the state, at least — a real problem. And it gets exponentially worse over fixed periods of time, owing to sows' ability to produce three litters per season. Someone recently told me that about 70 percent of the herd needs to be culled each year just to keep the population in check!
Hunting techniques vary. The single-shot approach may be an effective way to bag a single hog but will disperse the herd, and you can't have a bunch of people shooting every which way at ground level with high-powered rifles and buckshot. An increasingly popular way to hunt feral hogs is with an overwhelming force of bay hounds (which track the scent and locate the hogs) and trained pit bulls (which subdue the animals), so that hunters in rapid pursuit (sometimes on Marsh Tacky horses) can dispatch their quarry in close quarters. Sows in particular can be used for a variety of outstanding table fare.
It's brutal, perhaps more than a little dangerous, adrenaline-surging, and just one of several ways hunters and property owners will try to get some control over an increasingly difficult problem. And yet it has gotten quite clear that something needs to be done.
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quote: (although Macs are already over that if you factor out corporate Window sales).
quote: Factor MAC's out of our school systems and Mac would be down to 1 maybe 2%
quote: In the real world it is extremely unlikely that there is going to be a magic moment, magic event or turning point which will somehow demolish the brand reputation Apple has.
quote: In the real world Mac's have a firmly entrenched reputation for security, mostly because actual existing malicious security problems occur on another platform.
quote: But MS are learning, little by little and have made some progress in their AV software, but now its Apples turn. They shouldn't be blind to the fact that the need to be more responsive to possible threats the more market share they get.
quote: No one can have missed the commotion caused by Microsoft Windows of late. It began with the announcement by Google that they'd been hacked by China. Then the revelation that way too many Google computers were running Windows and way too many of them were running the intergalactically shunned IE6 web browser, bane of web designers and security consultants everywhere.
quote: Here's what's important to understand: if a Windows system bottoms out in a BSOD, then there's something very wrong at kernel level.
quote: Windows programmers like to talk about processor ring levels. Intel processors have different so-called rings. The Intel processors run code at different levels and keep track of where they are at all times. Apple computers of today use Intel processors too, so the concept is applicable on Mac OS X as well.
quote: Mac OS X is a variation on a vanilla Unix theme. All the important system files are locked away and out of bounds to ordinary users. Take a look yourself.
quote: So take the time now to pay a visit to the other side of town. See how the poor unfortunate live. The recent issues with Windows BSODs have to do with a rootkit that seems to have spread to a lot of computers. What's a rootkit?
quote: The most powerful file attribute in MS-DOS is the 'read-only' attribute. With this attribute set, applications can't write to files. But because MS-DOS is a single user system, anyone - any process - can remove this attribute on a whim.
quote: Unix systems have several ways to achieve this, such as su ('substitute user') and the even more effective sudo ('substitute user and do'). Users need not log in to Unix systems with the root account but can temporarily escalate to root status provided they are able to supply the proper credentials.
quote: Windows doesn't have a good way to do this. Windows doesn't have a secure way to do this. Windows doesn't have a viable counterpart at all.
quote: Watching those Windows fools panic everytime there's a catastrophe can be infuriating or frustrating or enervating. But sitting on a secure system where none of this ever applies has to elicit a smile. Slashdot had a huge thread on the topic the other day. Some of the quotes there are precious. Precious few contain any helpful insights. But they're all extraordinarily amusing.
quote: In past jobs I left my workstation on 24/7 and would always find it at the login screen after a set of updates along with the stupid balloon about how Windows happily restarted itself for me once I was logged in. My user account was centrally managed with limited privileges of course. And since the company had no IT person pushing out updates, MS was doing all of the work.So yes EVEN IF you're only logged in as a LUA, Windows will still perform the updates and reboot itself. If you decide to shut down, Windows will apply the updates without any privilege escalation, even as a limited user (and you'll get the 'do not turn off or unplug your computer' warnings).
quote: windows xp: control panel -> automatic updates. Here you can turn off automatic updates.
quote: All the world has gone Unix except the boys in Seattle and there is a reason for that.
quote: system preferences -> software update, check "check for updates" and set a schedule, check download updates automatically. It might not "install" them with out your authorization ".
quote: I've never heard of any virus/hacker exploiting the windows update system.
quote: If it is structurally possible in an OS to escalate permissions to the level where software can be actively installed and run on your system without your permission
quote: In the real world Macs are more popular than they have ever been in the last 25 years.


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HONOLULU - So close.
The Lahainaluna High School football team was a play away from sealing its first state football title, but lost 36-33 to Iolani in the First Hawaiian Bank Division II Championship final Friday night at Aloha Stadium.
It appeared the Lunas had the result they wanted when Scott-Isaac Medeiros-Tangatailoa intercepted a pass by Iolani's Reece Foy with 1 minute, 59 seconds to play. Receiver Tanner Nishioka swooped in and forced a fumble after Medeiros-Tangatailoa took a couple of steps, however, and offensive lineman Kamu Borden recovered for a first down on Lahainaluna's 26-yard line.
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Lahainaluna High School's Sione Filikitonga heads upfield during the Lunas' 36-33 loss to Iolani on Friday in the First Hawaiian Bank Division II State Football Championship title game at Aloha Stadium.
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Kiko Kohler-Fonohema scores a touchdown for Lahainaluna.
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Lahainaluna's Semisi Filikitonga catches a pass in front of Iolani's Mata Leota.
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The Lunas' Joshua Coston sacks the Raiders' Reece Foy as Samiuela Filiai closes in.
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On the next play, Foy hit Nishioka over the middle for a touchdown that gave the Raiders their final lead of the night.
Iolani won its sixth straight D-II state title, a streak that began with a 28-21 win over Lahainaluna in 2007 - those are the only two state finals the Lunas have ever reached.
King Kekaulike's 2006 D-II state crown remains the Maui Interscholastic League's only state football title.
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Friday's championship games
At Aloha Stadium
Kahuku 42, Punahou 20
Iolani 36, Lahainaluna 33
"You can see now why they are the six-time defending champions," said Lunas co-head coach Garret Tihada. "I mean, they are awesome."
Lahainaluna got to the Iolani 32 on its final possession, but J.T. Los Banos grabbed his third interception of the night with 27 seconds left.
"All we had to do was get in field-goal range," Tihada said. "It's not like we had to score a touchdown. We thought we would be able to do the job. These kids never give up. It's a tribute to their upbringing, their parents. We have got some tough kids, I'm proud of them."
Iolani coach Wendell Look watched the double-turnover play and shook his head.
"That's where champion-ships are won, on plays like that," he said. "The Lunas were everything I expected. I have been telling everybody all week that I have a very close relationship with them. I have the utmost respect for them. I told everyone that we are going to face one of the toughest teams we have seen all year. You saw it out there tonight, that is a hell of a team that deserves to win a state championship also."
The Lunas fell behind 15-0, then shaved the deficit to one point on a 21-yard touchdown run by sophomore quarterback Sione Filikitonga and 26-yard scoring pass from Filikitonga to Medeiros-Tanagatailoa with 32 seconds left before halftime.
Then came a potential back-breaker - the Raiders marched 65 yards in five plays, taking a 22-14 lead with three seconds left in the half when Chad Hanaoka caught a 2-yard touchdown pass from Foy. The big play was a 47-yard catch by Yuuya Kato to the 2.
The Raiders upped the lead to 29-20 on Hanaoka's third scoring catch of the night, an 18-yarder with 3:35 remaining in the third quarter.
The Lunas responded by showing what they have been about all season.
Filikitonga's 19-yard touchdown pass to Tytus Lucas cut the deficit to 29-26 with 3:35 to go in the third.
Lahainaluna forced a punt on the next possession and took over on its own 16.
Jared Rocha-Isalas, one of three Lunas to finish with more than 100 rushing yards, ran twice for 24 yards total. Christian Whitehead, who had gained 39 yards on nine carries in the MIL season, broke off a 25-yarder that put him over 100 on the night, and two plays later Filikitonga ran for 25 yards to the 4 to go over the century mark himself.
Kiko Kohler-Fonohema, the regular quarterback for the first eight games of the season, took over in the shotgun formation and scored three plays later to give the Lunas a 33-29 lead with 7:21 to play.
"We knew what we could do and our defense got going after we settled down," Tihada said. "That's all I think we could ask because they are so precise at what they do. They are a really, really well-coached team and we knew that they were going to score some points."
Rocha-Isalas finished with 106 yards on 11 carries, Filikitonga had 103 and two touchdowns on 14 carries and Whitehead finished with 101 on 11 carries.
The Lunas gained 441 of their 518 yards of total offense on the ground.
"We are not a passing team so we just wanted to come in and do what we do best," Tihada said. "If they stopped us then we would have to adjust, but we did a decent job running the ball against them."
Iolani could manage only one first down on its next possession, but the Lunas were forced to punt with 4:00 left and the Raiders took over on their own 44. They reached the Lahainaluna 19 before Borden's fumble recovery.
Iolani finished with 414 yards. Foy passed for 299.
Tihada said that work on next year "starts very soon."
The team will lose key seniors Lucas, Semisi Filikitonga, Pousima Galoia and Samiuela Filiai, but a large number of contributors return.
Lahainaluna junior Hercules Mataafa had a team-high eight tackles, two for a losses.
"We played hard every whistle," Mataafa said. "I'm proud of my teammates. That's all we can ask for, a close game. We came back from 15-0 and made it a game at the end. I'm proud of my boys."
Semisi Filikitonga had six tackles, ran four times for 23 yards, caught a pass for 13 yards and returned two kickoffs for 51 yards.
He was emotional after the team saluted its fans with the alma mater and a prayer following the game.
"I'm just thankful for my O-line, without them, I couldn't run or nothing," he said. "And I couldn't make tackles without my D-line. I'm just thankful for this team and these coaches who have my back. Pushing forward, even though we don't have the win, we have the spirit."
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Lahainaluna ..... 0 ..... 14 ..... 13 ..... 6-33
Iolani ................ 7 ..... 15 ....... 7 ..... 7-36
First Quarter
I- Chad Hanaoka 7 pass from Reece Foy (Jordan Genovia kick), 0:55.
Second Quarter
I-Tanner Nishioka 26 pass from For (Max Look run), 11:16.
L-Sione Filikitonga 21 run (Kiko Kohler-Fonohema kick), 3:39.
L-Scott-Isaac Medeiros-Tangatailoa 26 pass from Filikitonga (Kohler-Fonohema kick), 0:32.
I-Hanaoka 2 pass from Foy (Genovia kick), 0:03.
Third Quarter
L-Filikitonga 7 run (Kohler-Fonohema kick), 8:54.
I-Hanaoka 18 pass from For (Genovia kick), 3:35.
L-Tytus Lucas 19 run (Kohler-Fonohema kick), 0:41.
Fourth Quarter
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I-Nishioka 26 pass from Foy (Genovia kick), 1:53.
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PASSING-L, Sione Filikitonga 5-14-3-77. I, Foy 22-36-2-299.
Receiving-L, Medeiros-Tangatailoa 1-26, Lucas 1-17, Semisi Filikitonga 1-13, Rocha-Isalas 1-13, Kohler-Fonohema 1-8. I, Nishioka 8-134, Hanaoka 6-50, Kato 4-76, Chase Kanekuni 3-36, Austin Ohira 1-3.
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PHILADELPHIA - Gov. Tom Corbett on Thursday attacked anti-drilling activists as the "unreasoning opposition" who accept the nation can land a space vehicle on Mars but don't believe energy companies can safely harvest gas a mile under the earth's surface.
Corbett, speaking Thursday at a Marcellus Shale industry conference in Philadelphia, touted the economic benefits of shale-gas development and hailed drillers as the "tip of the spear" of a new industrial revolution.
"After all the predictions of disaster and the fearful warnings from people with no understanding of the industry, Pennsylvania is reaping a bounty," said the Republican governor.
As Corbett spoke, a few hundred anti-drilling activists protested outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Opponents portray shale-gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing - the technique that's allowed drillers to extract natural gas from shale deposits deep underground - as bad for the environment and a danger to public health.
"Please open your eyes. We're destroying the precious resources that God has provided us with to sustain life," said protester Tammy Manning, of Franklin Forks, Pa., who has filed a lawsuit alleging a gas driller contaminated her water well. The driller denies responsibility.
The second annual Shale Gas Insight conference drew about 1,600 people at a time of tremendous change for the drilling industry. Companies are shifting rigs to drill for natural gas liquids and oil in the face of historically low natural gas prices. They're adjusting to a major overhaul of state drilling regulations and recently paid a first-ever state "impact fee" of more than $200 million.
And they are still struggling to gain wide public acceptance.
Addressing the conference, XTO Energy President Jack Williams acknowledged that "some Americans continue to demonstrate a high level of concern about the impact of shale development activity on their communities and the environment. ... Our industry must take steps to strengthen public confidence."
Still, Williams hailed a "golden age of gas" and said it is spurring a revival of U.S. manufacturing.
In Pennsylvania, Shell Oil Co. has proposed a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant in western Pennsylvania that, with the help of state tax credits, would convert the bountiful Marcellus gas into more profitable chemicals such as ethylene, which is used to make plastics, tires, antifreeze and other products. In Philadelphia, a Sunoco oil refinery destined for closure will instead remain open and expand its use of shale gas.
"Marcellus has reached into some very old corners of our economy and our state and brought them back to life," Corbett said.
His environmental secretary, Michael Krancer, later took part in a panel discussion on natural gas and the presidential race. Playing the role of surrogate for GOP nominee Mitt Romney, Krancer attacked President Barack Obama's energy policy as "nothing but what's above the ground, or wind and solar above all" while touting Romney's energy plan.
Krancer, a harsh critic of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, also denounced his federal counterparts as "rogue and out-of-control."
Krancer's spokeswoman said he took a personal day and paid his own way to the event.
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Pope Francis, with his humility and simple lifestyle, has already made a positive impression on the tens of millions who watched the coverage of last week's papal conclave. After the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio greeted the massive crowds at the Vatican as the new pope, he boarded a bus with the other cardinals. Then, the following morning, he returned to the modest hotel where he'd been staying to pick up his luggage and pay his bill. He made it a point to go around to greet the staff. Not too many popes would take care of such business themselves, and Pope Francis probably won't have the time to tend to such duties in the busy days ahead, but it was refreshing to see that his election had not changed him. It remains to be seen how he will deal with the big questions facing the Catholic Church, such as the role of women, the Vatican's finances and fallout from the pedophile scandal. The new pope is a Jesuit, which must have made the priests at all the Jesuit colleges very happy. ... The race between County Executive Barry Grossman and Kathy Dahlkemper promises to be an exciting one. Dahlkemper lost to U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly in 2010, but she is a proven vote-getter, especially among Democrats. This could be the most hotly contested Democratic race since Mario Bagnoni challenged Mayor Lou Tullio and nearly unseated him.
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When you get a very dry mouth probably from smoking any number of items or not drinking anything in ages.
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xerostomia, dryness of the mouth
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Running game: A-
C.J. Spiller was brilliant yet again. He ran 22 times for 138 yards, a 6.3 average. Most came on one big chunk, a career-long 62-yard run in the second quarter. But as colleague Mark Gaughan noted in the press box right then, the Bills needed him to score. They ended up kicking a field goal. Spiller agreed. He said those are runs he must take the distance. Other Bills combined for 16 yards.
Passing game: F+
The Bills struggled mightily in every facet of the passing game. Injuries didn't help, losing tight end Scott Chandler (knee) in the first quarter and H-back Dorin Dickerson (ankle) in the fourth. Ryan Fitzpatrick was scattershot, got sacked twice, threw an interception and lost a fumble. Stevie Johnson fumbled his first catch and dropped some passes. Dickerson fumbled after a catch.
Run defense: F
The Bills were flummoxed by the read-option yet again. The Dolphins installed more creative plays since losing at Ralph Wilson Stadium five weeks ago. In that game, Daniel Thomas and Reggie Bush rushed for only 53 yards. With Thomas on injured reserve for the rematch, Bush and rookie Lamar Miller totaled 138 yards and a touchdown. Rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill rushed for 44 yards.
Pass defense: C
The Bills didn't generate much heat on Tannehill outside of defensive tackle Marcell Dareus, who notched both of their sacks and two of their three quarterback hits. Mario Williams had two tackles and a deflected pass. Kyle Williams had one tackle. The Bills did have five pass breakups, a decent number. Only one of them, however, was made by a defensive back.
Special teams: C-
Defensive tackle Alex Carrington blocked his fourth kick of the season, denying a 46-yard Nate Kaeding attempt on the opening drive. The return game struggled, with Brad Smith's hesitation leading to a 12-yard kickoff return. The Bills' coverage units were mediocre. Rookie punter Shawn Powell had a 23-yard punt to Miami's 38-yard line early in second quarter.
Coaching: F
The Bills didn't produce on offense and failed to stop the Dolphins when it mattered. The Bills came out flat and played with no sense of urgency when down by 21 points with a full quarter to play. Their hurry-up offense didn't look too eager. The Bills were minus-4 in turnovers and committed 11 penalties for 93 yards. The Dolphins didn't have any penalties until there were less than five minutes to play.
Running game: A
The Dolphins essentially did whatever they wanted in the run game and averaged more yards per carry (5.2) than they did per pass (4.4). Bush ran 19 times for 65 yards and a touchdown, and he had the lowest average. Miller had the best day of his career with 10 carries for 73 yards. Tannehill took a read-option play up the right sideline for 31 yards and would have scored with better wheels.
Passing game: B
Tannehill was efficient in compiling a 93.8 passer rating despite being without slot receiver Davone Bess, one of the NFL's top third-down targets. Tannehill completed 13 of his 25 throws for only 130 yards, but he made them count. He connected with Bush for a pair of touchdown passes. More than half of Tannehill's completions were for first downs. He committed no turnovers.
Run defense: C-
The Dolphins went into Sunday with the NFL's No. 8 rushing defense and were without linebacker Koa Misi. Spiller had a robust stat line, but aside from his 62-yard run, the Dolphins remained in control. Remove that one big gain, and the Bills averaged 3.4 yards a carry. Of the Bills' 10 longest plays, only two of them were runs. The Bills had just six rushing first downs.
Pass defense: B+
In their previous seven games, the Dolphins forced one turnover — an interception of Tom Brady, no less. They hit the jackpot against the Bills. They forced three fumbles in the passing game, two after receptions and one while Fitzpatrick tried to throw. They also intercepted Fitzpatrick and knocked him around. The Dolphins did all this despite finishing the game without their starting cornerbacks.
Special teams: C
Not much to see here. Aside from Kaeding's blocked kick, the Dolphins' special-teams units were decent but without much impact. Punter Brandon Fields had a strong game in helping keep the Bills tethered to their own end zone, dropping kicks at the 10- and 8-yard lines. Unlike the first game in Week 11, return man Marcus Thigpen was contained. He averaged 25 yards on kickoffs and 13 yards on punts.
Coaching: B+
The Dolphins looked like a totally different team than the one that got walloped in Orchard Park. Rookie head coach Joe Philbin installed some new wrinkles to give the offense a jolt. Defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle deftly managed a wounded unit that was down an important linebacker and two cornerbacks.
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23 July 2012
To celebrate 10 years of tea-making, and to raise awareness of the conservation work they intrinsically do as part of their business, Pukka Herbs are working with us to raise over £50,000 through their 'Beautiful World' campaign, which will support WWF conservation projects across the world. And you can get involved by uploading your own beautiful images...
With a new, specially blended tea - Peppermint & Licorice - Pukka will donate 20p to WWF with each sale. (We helped in the creation of the FairWild Standard for sustainable use of wild collected plant ingredients.)
Throughout the summer, Pukka will be inviting everyone to upload photos and video clips of their own, personal 'beautiful world' to their website.
Tag it #beautifulworld and your video or photo could end up in our final film, which will launch nationally in November. You'll also be entered into a weekly competition to win lots of lovely Pukka stuff. Take a look at the gallery for inspiration.
Sebastian Pole, co-founder and herbal director of Pukka Herbs, says: "When we started Pukka in 2002, we wanted to create a totally organic business that inspired people to live healthier, more sustainable lives. It seems only natural that as we celebrate 10 years of bringing the power of plants into people's lives, we also take the time to remember and celebrate the amazing planet that lets us do this."
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I actually win something and it ends up being because it's one of those everyone wins kinda things
One question, Dan. How are you going to know if the people e-mailing you are actually the people who posted the images?
I have no clue which e-mail address I used to sign up for C9 many years ago so I'm going to e-mail you from my dentaku.web account on gmail.
Clint, I COULD have animated it but I don't think C9 supports animated .GIFs
all these mistakes from dan this show - maybe the effect of the holiday
any way some comments
1-youtube vs azure : i can assume that azure will be better but will it be free as youtube ?if it is free this is great
2-so is this new reader from CES a way to compete againest kindle?
and i really missed your contest
if i knew that i will get office 2007 for free i would've done it
ok new lesson to me to enter any contest you make
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Yeah, I definitely felt rusty, it must have been the vacation
Azure does cost money so no, it's not free. A fair comparison for Azure is Amazon's S3 storage and Azure isn't trying to be a YouTube service the way the now-discontinued Soapbox service was.
As for Blio versus Kindle, the Blio hardware hasn't been released so it's really the Blio versus Kindle software and the Blio team is betting that customers will prefer richness (color, interactivity) over the current Kindle experience.
Woohoo! Prizes!
Email sent. Can't beat free stuff.
Is SparkView going to be officially supported by Microsoft in the future?
I would love to see a movie / gif of that happening.
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I can't believe I've been using Credit Karma all these months and never wrote up a quick review of the service! I've done walkthroughs of their Credit Score Report Card, but never about the entire service. Tsk tsk, what a bad blogger I am.
Credit Karma offers a lot of nice juicy information but the only thing I'm really pumped about is the fact that you get your TransUnion credit score absolutely free. When you sign up, you have to provide a lot of sensitive personal information because it's needed to pull your credit score from TransUnion. Since the service is free, the only barrier to using it is your comfort level with providing this information to a third party.
Here's what my dashboard looked like:
There are several reasons why I like Credit Karma:
- It's free. When other companies are charging you to look at your own credit score, it's nice to be able to see it for free. You don't have to provide a credit card number, there's no "trial," and there's no sneaky catch in there. It's free and they never ask for a penny. That's very refreshing.
- Check as often as you want. Many of the trial services let you check your score once. After that, you need to pay. With Credit Karma, you can check it as often as you'd like. The real limit is once a month because that's how often various creditors will report data. So you can check daily, but it won't change unless your report changes.
- It helps protect against identity theft. Now that the barrier to see your score once a month (or daily if you prefer) has been reduce to $0, it's possible to use this as part of your do it yourself identity theft protection. If someone opens an account with your credit and the account uses TransUnion to check your score, your score will inexplicably go down. While this doesn't trump checking your report every year through AnnualCreditReport.com, the fact that it's free makes it a no brainer for you to check at least once a month, rather than once every twelve.
- The credit simulator is fun to play with. If you've ever been confused about your credit, such as what can hurt or harm it, the credit simulator is a great intuitive way to learn how your actions affect your score. Open a new account? Score falls. Pay off a debt? Score rises.
Here are some reasons why I don't like it:
- It's not a FICO credit score. Credit Karma does not give you a FICO credit score, they give you a TransUnion credit score. TransUnion is one of the three credit bureaus, so it's a score from a credit bureau; it's just not one using the FICO credit score equation. If you're planning on getting a loan, you'll want a FICO score. If you just want to see what your score is, this score is good enough.
- It's a security risk. Giving a third party your sensitive information, even if it is protected and secure, is always a risk. For me, the risk is acceptable but you have to make that determination for yourself. It's just like the warning I give every time I write about personal finance tools like Mint or Quicken, you take a calculated risk whenever you give your sensitive financial and personal information to at third party. If something happens, ultimately you are responsible.
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CLEMSON - Funny thing about quarterback Deshaun Watson's perceived impact on the wide receivers who officially committed to Clemson last month.
Clemson's early-enrolled wide receivers taking part in spring practices, with a quick scouting report from junior receiver Charone Peake
Demarre Kitt, 6-1, 195, Fayetteville, Ga.
Peake says: "Very smart and very athletic. He knows the playbook really good. He answers questions in the meeting room you wouldn't think he'd be able to answer."
Kyrin Priester, 6-1, 185, Lilburn, Ga.
Peake says: "He's very athletic, fast, good with the ball."
Artavis Scott, 5-11, 185, Oldsmar, Fla.
Peake says: "He's a burner. He's really good. Very mature on the field."
Demarre Kitt, Artavis Scott and Kyrin Priester have a reasonably better chance to help the Tigers win in 2014 rather than down the road.
"They look good early," said junior wide receiver Charone Peake, still recovering from a knee injury suffered last fall. "Most guys come into fall camp and it's hard to get all the playbook in. I'm glad they came in early to get it in. We need those guys next year."
Watson's the trumpeted future face of the program, but he's also a decided underdog to win the starting job just eight months after reaching campus. Senior Cole Stoudt and/or redshirt sophomore Chad Kelly are the safer bets.
Wide receivers share the field, it's easier for rookies to play right away, and there's just as massive a void to fill. Tajh Boyd needs his quarterback successor, but life after Sammy Watkins and Martavis Bryant isn't exactly an easy pill to swallow.
Enter Priester, who was sent to prep school in Virginia after failing to academically qualify in 2013, plus fellow early enrollees Kitt and Scott out of high school - and the U.S. Army All-American game Jan. 4.
"They're going to be good freshmen, but they're going to be really, really good career players here, barring any injuries or setbacks," head coach Dabo Swinney said. "Because they have all the qualities you could possibly want - very coachable and different in their own ways."
Priester and Kitt are each cross-training at Clemson's "5" and "9" spots on the field, which is respectively where Watkins and Bryant lined up the last few years. Particularly for Kitt, a top-200 recruit at all positions, opportunity beckons since sophomore Germone Hopper is being held out for the rest of spring practices to focus on academics.
"Demarre is going to remind a lot of people a little bit of a Nuk (DeAndre) Hopkins type of guy," Swinney said, referring to Clemson's 2012 leading receiver. "He's not as long or gangly as Nuk, but he's slinky and smooth like Nuk. He's got a great knack for getting his body in position to make plays."
Priester made the most of his one year at Fork Union Military Academy, earning the No. 3 national prep school player ranking from 247Sports.com. He's the same 6-1 height as Kitt (and, for that matter, Watkins), bringing with him a blend of speed and toughness.
As for Scott, he's backing up veteran Adam Humphries in Clemson's "2" spot. He's not the biggest receiver (5-11, 185), but he's one of the fastest.
"Artavis reminds me a lot of Jacoby (Ford)," Swinney said. "More polished than Jacoby at this stage coming in out of high school. Not quite as fast - there's not many human beings as fast as Jacoby - but that's who he reminds me of."
For Humphries, the most experienced of Clemson's returning receivers, it's not a question of playmaking or natural ability.
"They're making plays left and right out there. It's more about, can we rely on you from play to play?" Humphries said. "With our tempo offense, are they going to be able to run back and do what you're supposed to do? That's really what we have to see from them."
But physically? Not an issue for the young trio.
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NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – A 26-year-old city man was being treated at Erie County Medical Center after he was injured in a single-vehicle crash on the Niagara Parkway Sunday night, Niagara Regional Police said.
The incident took place just before 11 p.m. when the driver, who was northbound on the parkway in a 1999 White Mercury Gran Marquis, drifted off the right side of the road, near Sherk Road, and struck a maple tree.
Investigators said the man's injuries initially appeared to be life-threatening. He was taken to ECMC where he was listed in stable but serious condition.
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A conference aimed at taking the local food movement beyond farmers' markets and specialty restaurants is bringing together national leaders in the field with Western New York's farmers, chefs, artisan food producers and food buyers at the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute.
The "Connections Conference," formerly called the Farmer-Chef Conference, will take place Feb. 24 and 25. The first day, Sunday, is geared toward the general public; the Monday program is more focused on players in the food community.
"What we've set out to do is engage farmers, chefs and food buyers, and create an economic driver here," said organizer Lisa Tucker, co-founder of the Field & Fork Network. "The underlying theme has been to be a catalyst to build a regional food system. We're really trying to engage all of those movable parts."
One of the keynote speakers is Dr. Oran Hesterman, author of "Fair Food: Growing a Healthy and Sustainable Food System," and a nationally recognized expert in sustainable agriculture. He helped establish Michigan's food policy council. He is scheduled to speak at 11:15 a.m. Sunday.
Hesterman plans to share experiences in projects around the country that help farmers and provide lower-income families with access to affordable, healthy food.
In Detroit, for instance, he has helped start a program called "Double Up Food Bucks" in which people can get double the value of their food stamps when buying fresh produce.
"If we can capture a portion of that economy to support local farming, local food businesses and a healthier diet for low income kids, it's a win-win-win," Hesterman said.
At the conference, workshops will be offered in an array of topics; there will be demonstrations on cheesemaking and bread baking, and discussions about shaping food policy and the roles of food co-ops.
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Ben Schachter, associate professor of fine arts at Saint Vincent College, is currently participating in two simultaneous international exhibitions. The first exhibition, "This Token Partnership: The Materiality of a Jewish Spatial Practice," is being shown at the Yale University Institute for Sacred Music from October 10 to December 14. The second, "It's a Thin Line: The Eruv and the Jewish Community in New York and Beyond," is at the Yeshiva University Museum. It opened on September 28 and will be shown through June 30. Both exhibits focus on historical and contemporary reflections on the eruv. The Yale exhibit includes an international roster of artists including Shirin Nishat, Sophie Calle and Mel Alexenberg. A series of lectures is scheduled to accompany the show. The Yeshiva exhibit brings together maps and memorabilia from their collection and contemporary art installations that reflect upon the subject including New York-based artist Yona Verwer. Mr. Schachter is displaying "The Residents of Chelm Visit the Yeshiva University Museum" which continues themes he began at the Mattress Factory several years ago. Both exhibitions will also include Mr. Schachter's paintings on paper. "Each is based on the map of an eruv and uses thread to emulate the wire that is often used to define the boundary," he explained. "Some paintings depict well-established eruvs including Squirrel Hill and Boston, while others depict controversial ones such as the Westhampton Beach in which lawsuits have been brought regarding the separation of Church and State." "An eruv is a symbolic Jewish enclosure that delimits a communal boundary," Mr. Schachter continued. "More than a physical limit, the eruv temporarily blends individual houses into one home on the Sabbath. Practically speaking, it allows persons to carry food and push strollers from one house to another on the Sabbath, activities ordinarily prohibited. While some see this as a loophole in religious doctrine, others favor the community the eruv engenders. " Mr. Schachter's research brings together Jewish Law and contemporary art. He finds many similarities between the way rules are applied in both realms. These overlooked correspondences inform both his artwork and writing. His work contributes to the growing field of contemporary Jewish Art as seen by the above exhibitions.
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West Virginia's Supreme Court has taken an important step to improve the state's economic prospects by opening the new West Virginia Business Court Division headquarters, in Martinsburg.
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When people hear tales of young women and underage girls forced into prostitution, they think of places like Malaysia and South Africa, not Amherst and Cheektowaga.
But it was in Buffalo's suburbs where two women and a girl claim they were coerced and enticed into a world of sex for money, sometimes meeting seven or eight men a day.
Their story is unfolding in a downtown Buffalo courtroom, as federal prosecutors bring their case against Kenneth Graham of Amherst.
Graham is accused of running a sex-trafficking operation out of several suburban hotels and motels from late 2010 to August of last year.
To hear the victims talk, Graham recruited them, and then used threats, intimidation and violence to keep them working long after they wanted out of the business.
"He put his hands on me," one of the victims testified last week. "He put me up against the wall, put his hands around my neck and said, 'I'll kill you.' "
The government's case against Graham – prosecutors claim he knew two of his three victims were underage – revolves around the testimony of the woman and two girls who allegedly worked for him. One of the two girls is now 18.
Two of the three testified last week, and the third is expected to take the stand Monday.
One, a Batavia girl who says she was only 15 when she went to work for Graham, testified that Graham recruited her, posted her online sex ads and took her from client to client.
The girl said Graham learned of her age shortly after they met but never stopped taking her to appointments with men.
"He said, 'You'll have to work for it,' " she said of one occasion when she asked to borrow some money.
If convicted, Graham faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life.
The allegations against Graham provide a glimpse into the world of human trafficking and what experts say is a trend toward more and more domestic instances of women and children exploited for sex.
No longer is child prostitution unheard of in towns such as Tonawanda, Orchard Park and Hamburg.
"They've been through a lot," Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert C. Moscati said of the victims. "They didn't have the ability to consent. And you're going to hear riveting testimony that they wanted it stopped."
Moscati is being assisted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen A. Lynch.
Graham has yet to provide a formal defense, but his lawyer has made every attempt to poke holes in the victims' stories in an effort to raise questions about their honesty and motivation.
He claims, for instance, that the victims were involved in prostitution long before they met Graham, a fact two of the victims acknowledged last week.
"You're going to hear enough evidence to come away with reasonable, solid questions about their credibility and why they may be lying," defense lawyer Michael S. Deal told the jury hearing the case.
During his cross examination of the two victims who testified last week, Deal also pointed out what he called discrepancies in the victims' allegations against his client.
They range from differing reports of what hotel they were at to inconsistencies in how and when they met Graham.
"He never coerced or forced anyone to do anything," Deal said of his client at one point.
Now entering its fifth day, most of Graham's trial before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara has been devoted to testimony by law enforcement officials and other witnesses familiar with the three incidents that led to the charges against him.
Several Cheektowaga police officers testified about finding one of the underage girls in a hotel room near Buffalo Niagara International Airport as part of an undercover sting operation last August.
They also reported seeing Graham leaving the hotel just as police arrived.
Amherst police also crossed paths with Graham and his alleged victims.
The first time was in May of last year, when undercover police arrested the second underage girl as part of a separate sting operation, and then again in June when they arrested the third woman, who was in her 20s.
"I loved the money, but I hated the work," the older woman told the jury. "In the beginning, it was OK. But after a while, I got tired and exhausted. It was like living two lives."
She acknowledged meeting Graham after he called one of her online sex ads looking for an appointment, and she said the two quickly fell into a romantic relationship.
Their relationship turned sour when Graham suggested she come work for him, and he quickly ramped up the number of men he expected her to see each day, she testified.
"It went up," she said. "It went from about three or four to seven or eight a day."
When Moscati asked why she stayed with Graham, the woman said she had feelings for him and still does.
"Did there come a time when you had had enough?" Moscati asked her.
The woman said that time came when she was in the hospital after a miscarriage – she said it was Graham's baby – and Graham left her to be with one of the two girls.
"He just left me in the hospital," she told the jury. "It seemed like there was no way out."
Law enforcement officials also testified about an incident involving Graham and one of the underage girls at one of her friend's home in Buffalo in March of last year.
Carleen Barbuto, the friend's mother, testified that the girl was afraid of Graham and refused to leave with him when he came to pick her up at Barbuto's house.
When she told him as much, he ran into the house and searched unsuccessfully for the girl, she said.
"She was in the basement," Barbuto said. "She was hiding because she was frightened."
Deal has tried to find inconsistencies in the victims' stories and at times has suggested they may be protecting others, including an adult boyfriend who was with one of the underage girls when she was arrested in Amherst.
"You know the difference between the truth and a lie, don't you?" he asked one of the victims.
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The thefts weren't just a one-time crime.
Instead, they followed a long-term pattern of a Catholic nun's systematic stealing from two churches and their parishioners.
Those crimes included taking money from the weekly collection basket, depositing checks made out to the church into her personal bank account and carrying on a campaign of dishonesty for five full years – all to feed her gambling addiction – authorities said Monday.
That's why Sister Mary Anne Rapp, a 68-year-old Catholic nun from Lewiston, is going to jail after having pleaded guilty to stealing almost $130,000 from two churches.
Orleans County Judge James P. Punch on Monday sentenced Rapp to 90 days in jail, five years' probation, 100 hours of community service and $128,000 in restitution payments.
"She's unquestionably done a lot of good things for a lot of people and causes for many years," Orleans County District Attorney Joseph V. Cardone said. "But you can't ignore the extent of the dishonesty."
That's why Cardone concluded that it was an "appropriate sentence."
"I'd hoped that she would not be sentenced to any term of incarceration," defense attorney James P. Harrington countered. "But she knew this might happen, and she was prepared for any sentence."
Rapp went to Orleans County Jail immediately after the late-morning sentencing. She's expected to serve 60 days of that sentence, meaning she could be out in early September.
A veteran of prison ministry, Rapp plans to continue that role in jail, working with female prisoners, especially those with their own addiction problems.
"She knows she can do some good when she's in the Orleans County Jail," Harrington said.
The nun spoke briefly in court, admitting that what she did was wrong and apologizing for any embarrassment to the parishioners and her order, the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity, courtroom observers said.
Rapp could have faced up to six months in jail after having pleaded guilty to grand larceny. She admitted stealing the money from two rural Catholic churches, in the Town of Kendall and the Village of Holley, between March 2006 and April 2011.
So the 90-day sentence was a midpoint between no jail time and the six-month maximum.
"I think jail was appropriate," Cardone, the district attorney, said, referring to the long-term systematic thefts.
Harrington, the defense attorney, had a different view of her personal punishment.
"I don't think sending her to jail was necessary to do that," he said. "She is the type of person who's punishing herself internally all the time. She stole money from her friends and from people who counted on her. She knows that."
But Harrington, referring to the jail sentence, quickly added, "I understand why the judge did it."
Investigators have that said she stole the money to feed a gambling addiction carried out in Western New York casinos. Sources have said that she spent much of that money in the state-operated casino at the Batavia Downs harness-racing track.
Cardone cited all the times that defense attorneys come in and explain that their clients have a heroin or cocaine addiction or a gambling problem.
"It's not an excuse that you have an addiction," the district attorney said.
Harrington pointed to the "remarkable ability" that Rapp has shown in battling her addiction.
She spent 9½ months in a treatment facility for gambling addicts and has continued her recovery through counseling and support groups.
"She's an addict, she'll be in recovery for the rest of her life, and she knows she'll have to struggle with that for the rest of her life," Harrington said. "She knows that she needs the support of people who have gone through this to make sure she doesn't go back."
The veteran Buffalo defense attorney, who has represented plenty of addicts in his lengthy career, then talked about the gambling addiction.
"I look at the casinos as the crack cocaine of regular people," he said of those who can't curtail their gambling. "They get to the point where they can't control it, like any other addiction."
Hearing that a nun was going to jail because of thefts triggered by a gambling addiction didn't shock Mary McConnell, Ph.D., a certified gambling treatment counselor with Jewish Family Service of Buffalo and Erie County.
"This is not a surprise to me," she said. "We have had priests and other clergy. It's like any other addiction. It can happen to anybody."
Like any other addiction, a gambling habit probably starts with just going out to have some fun.
"It's not illegal," McConnell said. "It's like a minivacation, if you have a lot of stress or everyday problems. It's sort of like a mini-Disneyland."
But in some cases, the adrenaline rush of winning turns into an addiction. Then, the addicted gambler starts thinking that maybe one big win can erase any mounting debt.
"Gamblers live on 'maybe,' " McConnell added. "And 'maybe' makes their blood run."
Sister Edith Wyss, provincial minister for the 133 members of the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity, based at Stella Niagara in Lewiston, issued a statement saying, "We feel great empathy for the two church communities affected by her actions. Sister Mary Anne is a member of our community, and we will continue to help and support her."
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BALTIMORE, MD (1/25/11) - Alexander M. Sanchez, Secretary of Labor, Licensing and
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held at 7.4% for the fourth consecutive month. During December, just over 6,300
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