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on November 4, 2012 - 1:18 AM
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Days after the Buffalo Bills' unsatisfactory 2000 season concluded, head coach Wade Phillips was summoned to Ralph Wilson's home in Palm Beach, Fla.
Expectations were different back then. The Bills lost four of their last five games to finish 8-8. They failed to make the playoffs for only the third time since 1987. In Phillips' previous two seasons, the Bills won double-digit games.
What a glorious run that would be these days.
But as the meeting unfolded then – or, in Phillips' case, unraveled – the mood grew increasingly uneasy.
"I asked him after we talked, 'Am I your coach?' " Phillips recounted for The Buffalo News this week.
"He wouldn't say."
Phillips had a year left on his contract. Wilson had fired General Manager John Butler three weeks earlier. Rumors swirled the Bills were about to hire Tom Donahoe to be the team's president.
Phillips was left to wonder for a few days. The East-West Shrine Game was taking place in San Francisco, where NFL coaches and scouts would inspect the incoming college prospects. Phillips wasn't sure what Wilson wanted.
"I called him and said, 'Can I go to the East-West Game?' " Phillips said. "That's what I would normally do as the head coach, you know?' He said, 'Oh, yeah. Go ahead and go.'
"Then as soon as I got there I got a phone call: 'You're gone.' "
With that, the last coach to guide Buffalo to the postseason was fired.
The Bills haven't been back for 12 straight years. They appear to be on the verge of extending the NFL's longest active drought again this year.
The Bills are 3-4 and have a defense that's trending among the worst in NFL history. They are double-digit underdogs this afternoon against the Houston Texans in Reliant Stadium.
A substantial reason the Texans are so heavily favored is because of their defense, ranked third overall and among the top nine in every important statistical category. Phillips is the Texans' defensive coordinator.
"He's unbelievable," Texans defensive end and MVP candidate J.J. Watt said. "He's a great coach and person. He's a guy you want to go out there and play for ... because you know he's going to put you in position to have success."
The Bills have tried to reinvent themselves several times since Phillips left.
Donahoe ran afoul of Wilson. Hotshot assistant coaches Gregg Williams and Mike Mularkey didn't work. Veteran coach Dick Jauron was no better. Marv Levy as GM proved pointless.
Fans are running out of patience with current GM Buddy Nix and coach Chan Gailey.
Phillips, meanwhile, has remained in demand. Although his time as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys generally is viewed as a failure because their Super Bowl promise never was fulfilled, his record there was 34-22, and he coached the Cowboys to their first playoff victory in a dozen years.
Ruben Brown, the perennial Pro Bowl guard, claimed the Bills snuffed their glory years when they fired Phillips.
"He had a good atmosphere going, and they lost it when he left," said Brown, who spent nine of his 13 seasons in the league with the Bills after they selected him in the first round of the 1995 draft. "It's hard to say what would happen, but getting rid of Wade was the final move to start all over with a new type of Buffalo Bills team.
"They've been trying to find that new type of Buffalo Bills team ever since."
Phillips always has been known as a player's coach. He absorbs blame for his players, emphasizes concepts like family and loyalty and is known for his easy-going demeanor – just like his dad, coaching folk hero Bum Phillips.
Wade Phillips went 29-19 with the Bills. Since his departure, the Bills are 41 games below .500 and have one winning season, averaging just 6.1 wins.
"The Bills have not recovered since they fired Wade," said former Bills center Billy Conaty, an attorney and certified player agent in Philadelphia. "Looking back on it, I certainly think Wade would have had success in Buffalo had he remained the coach.
"Wherever he's been he's had success. Even in Dallas, really, no one did better there – before or after."
Phillps' .573 regular-season win percentage for the Denver Broncos, Bills and Cowboys – and interim jobs for the New Orleans Saints (relieving his father) and Atlanta Falcons – ranks him ahead of Don Coryell, Bill Parcells, Chuck Noll, Marv Levy, Mike Ditka, Jimmy Johnson and Jon Gruden.
"The perception is that I'm a great defensive coordinator," Phillips said. He left the other half of the perception unsaid. "But that's the way it is when you hadn't won the big games – and I didn't. I realize that.
"Perception isn't always reality. But that's fine. I'm glad they think I'm a good defensive coordinator."
In each of Phillips' past five stops as a defensive coordinator, he has helped a non-playoff team get into the tournament his first season there.
Despite his success, many view Phillips as a loser because of his inability to win as a head coach in the playoffs. His career postseason record is 1-5.
The most devastating loss was the Music City Miracle, a controversial game even before it began. Doug Flutie started 15 games that season; the Bills won 10 of them. But Rob Johnson started against Tennessee.
So many theories abound over why the switch was made.
"Over the years," Brown said, "I've heard every story imaginable. I don't even know now."
Did Wilson force the move on Phillips? Did Phillips make the switch to quell a locker-room uprising against Flutie? Did Phillips make the call alone?
"The town was split. The locker room was split," Conaty said. "Wade was being pressured from the fans and even internally from players who thought we had a better chance with Doug or with Rob."
Phillips wouldn't revisit the decision during an interview with The Buffalo News.
"I'll just say the results were that we were ahead with 16 seconds left to go in the game, no matter who the quarterback was," Phillips said. "We scored enough points, played good enough defense to be ahead with 16 seconds left. I'll just leave it at that."
Phillips then was asked how much control he had over the decision to start Johnson.
"I just made my statement," Phillips replied.
The aftermath of that playoff loss in Nashville wasn't pretty. The Bills released legends Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed and Bruce Smith on the same day that offseason. The Flutie-Johnson controversy engulfed the town.
With special teams coach Bruce DeHaven sacrificed for the Music City Miracle touchdown, Phillips hired Ronnie Jones as the replacement. Jones, although a former NFL defensive coordinator, was overmatched in his new role.
Phillips seemed like a coach with no control of his team.
When Wilson eventually fired him, the owner declared Phillips' refusal to fire Jones was the chief reason.
"That wasn't really the case," Phillips said. "That's what they said, but there's always two sides to the story.
"I already told them that I was going to change Ronnie Jones. ... But then it was just questions of all my coaches. I said, 'If you don't like all my coaches, then you really don't like me.' I felt like I was standing up for the whole staff, not just one guy."
Phillips, unlikely to get another shot as a head coach, ostensibly was fired for being loyal to his staff. Within the football community, he gained more respect. But it added to the stigma that he couldn't be an effective head coach.
"I would be surprised," the 65-year-old Phillips said about getting another chance. "Not that I don't think I'd be good at it or don't deserve it, but I'd be surprised if somebody took me at this stage of my career – even though wins are important in this league, I think."
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Men's Volleyball Opens Season With St. Francis
MUNCIE, Ind. – The Ball State men's volleyball team opens up the 2013 campaign this weekend at home against St. Francis. The match is set to start at 7:30 p.m. at John E. Worthen Arena.
SCOUTING BALL STATE: The Cardinals lost two letter winners from last season due to graduation and returns nearly its entire line up. Jamion Hartley leads the returners in offense, having connected of 2.50 kills per set in 2012. Kevin Owens knocked in 182 kills last season and registered 1.05 blocks per set. Matt Leske, who was named to the preseason All-MIVA team, had 1.32 blocks per set last season to go with 1.59 kills per set. Graham McIlvane had 16 aces in 2012 to lead the team to go with 8.54 assists per set. Tommy Rouse was able to get under 224 digs for a 2.43 digs per set average.
LAST SEASON: The Cardinals finished up last season with a 14-12 mark including going 5-7 in MIVA play.
SCOUTING ST. FRANCIS: The Red Flash opened up its season with a 3-0 loss at the hands of No. 11 Ohio State (17-25, 22-25, 16-25). Logan Patterson led the way for the Red Flash with 11 kills and a .304 hitting percentage. Mike Krepp notched 25 assists and a team-high six digs. St. Francis will play IPFW on Friday evening at 7 p.m.
SERIES RECORD: Ball State leads the all-time series 11-4 and holds a 6-1 record against St. Francis in Muncie. The two squads split their matchups last season with the Red Flash winning in five sets on Jan. 13 (18-25, 19-25, 30-28, 25-22, 10-15) and the Cardinals coming back with a sweep on Jan. 21 (25-23, 26-24, 25-20).
LAST MEETING: Jamion Hartley led the offense for the Cardinals the last time these two teams faced off, notching 12 kills and connecting on a .320 hitting percentage. Tommy Rouse led BSU with 11 digs, while Matt Leske and Kevin Owens tied for a match-high five blocks a piece. Ball State finished with a .195 to .170 hitting advantage and out-blocked the Red Flash 11-5. St. Francis did hold the advantage in digs, 28-25.
You can keep track of the team on Twitter by following @BallStateMVB as well as on Facebook by liking "Ball State Men's Volleyball". Check ballstatesports.com for updates and information.

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Friday, September 20, 2013
A 30-year-old woman was caught shoplifting in a local store and the police were called by loss prevention officers, according to a report.
The report said the woman purchased $200 worth of merchandise, but also made it through the checkout line without paying for several items to include a pacifier, hair coloring, a box of candy, a pacifier clip and a pair of sunglasses.
Surveillance video shows the suspect placing herself between the cashier and the stolen items in order to hide them. The stolen items amounted to $35.
The suspect told police she had forgotten about the items and said she did not mean to steal them. However, she was charged with shoplifting and taken to the lock-up.
The pool in a posh neighborhood was closed for the summer, but one resident wanted to use it anyway. However, a pool attendant on hand to remind residents it was closed told the woman she could not enter. This resident didn't like being told what to do, according to a police report, and pushed the pool attendant.
The pool attendant told the responding officer what happened but said she did not want to press charges. She said she was directed by her employer to file a police report, should there be another problem with this particular resident.
Off to jail
A group of folks came to town to celebrate a birthday recently but things got out of control. The wife hosted the party at a local bar and arranged to have a designated driver take her and her husband, the birthday boy, home.
But her husband had too much to drink, she said, and as they were leaving he got into an argument with her. She walked toward the designated driver's car but the husband would not let her get into the vehicle and he pushed her down, she told police.
She was cut up on her hands and knees, and witnesses who saw the events take place agreed with her statement.
The report said her son jumped in to defend his mother and struck his step-dad in the head.
Police questioned the husband who denied pushing his wife down. But he was arrested on his birthday for Criminal Domestic Violence and taken to jail.
I don't smoke
Police pulled a driver over for going 61 mph in a 45 mph zone. He was issued a ticket for speeding and once that was out of the way, the officer told the driver he smelled marijuana. The driver was asked to step out of his car and explain himself. He insisted to the officer that he did not smoke weed and did not have anything in his car of the sort. The officer politely explained to the driver that he was not stupid and that he knows what marijuana smells like. He added that it was in the best interested of the drier to be truthful and tell the officer where the pot was.
The driver then went back to his car and removed a bag out of the backseat,He handed the officer a makeshift pipe and sad he "used" to smoke pot out of it. He insisted that was all he had in the car.
And again they went in circles. The officer told him he believed there was more in the car. And again the driver reached in the car and handed over a bag. This time it was a bag of marijuana. He was then issued tickets for simple possession and possession of paraphernalia.
I did not do anything
Officers responded to a local bar to get a disorderly man under control. When they approached he walked away, shouting that he had not done anything wrong. He kept walking and then abruptly laid on the ground, face up. He was told numerous times to sit up before he finally stood on his feet. The officers calmed the man down so they could interview him. His speech was slurred and he was unable to maintain his balance, according to the report.
He also did not know how he got to the bar or where his girlfriend had gone. During part of the interview the suspect would yell profanity toward the officers and to people in the parking lot. He was eventually arrested for pubic intoxication.
Raining money
Police were called to collect items off of the Ravenel bridge recently because they were causing a hazard issue. The items happen to be a wallet and money.
The money was blowing all over the roadway.
Police secured the wallet but didn't see any money. The owner of the wallet was contacted and claimed the wallet sans the bills. The officer asked him how he managed to lose his wallet on the bridge and he replied that he left it on the roof of his car and it fell off. He said another driver motioned to him while driving that it had fallen off, which is how he knew to call the police department and report the incident. Thankfully the wallet had already been retrieved.
He then said, in regard to his money, "money is money. I am just glad to have my identification documents back."
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Alissa didn't make the Olympic team in 2010 with more than two triple jumps, so she isn't going to make it in 2014 with just two. Anyway, she has to make it to Nationals first, and it's not even sure she can do that.
If you do the math, Alissa actually could have been 2nd place at 2010 Nationals if she skated cleanly with Lutz and Toe as her only Triples. With three Double Axels allowed in the LP back then (and their value being weighed so high), a program of 3Lutz+2Toe, 3Lutz, 3Toe+2Toe+2Loop, 3Toe, 2Axel+2Toe, 2Axel, 2Axel would have brought in enough points.
That same principle still holds true. Alissa only needs 3Lutz+2Toe, 3Toe, and 2Axel in the SP if she skates great. Her spins bring in more points than anyone else and her PCS will be high. In the LP, she could probably do one 3Lutz, a couple 3Toe's, a couple 2Axel's, and a couple 2Lutz's (plus maximize all the double jumps in combination) and make 3rd place. I am completely serious. Mirai will probably get too many < calls that negate her content, Christina Gao and Agnes Zawadski will probably make too many mistakes, and Courtney Hicks/Polina Edmunds/Samantha Cesario will all probably have a couple technical glitches, whether that be < calls or more obvious mistakes, and not get very competitive PCS.
You need to look no further than Laura Lepisto getting a bronze medal at 2010 Worlds with one 3Lutz and two 3Toe's as the only Triples in her Long Program!! And look at Carolina Kostner in the first part of the 2010-2011 season - she dropped her jump content down to the lowest it had ever been (no Lutz or Flip at all) and yet she won NHK and was 2nd at the GPF. Alissa's team NEEDS to understand this strategy and make it work. Design a LP jump layout like I talked about and really focus on the PCS aspects of her programs. Alissa DOES have a good shot at making this Olympic team if she is given the correct vehicles and really attacks the performances.
Given her precarious physical condition, Alissa may be incapable of "really attacking a performance". She is not Laura Lepisto or Carolina Kostner. She is a 26-year-old skater who has had two surgeries in the past year for a very serious hip condition and her recovery hasn't progressed as well as she and her coach had hoped.
If she had any shot at all of making the Olympic team, that shot is getting smaller every day.
I find irony in a thread about whether Gracie is overhyped that there hasn't been any mention of Gracie in a few posts now...
Actually, I think she went from having far too high expectations placed on her (Ashley - watch out! - people even assuming that Ashley'd lost the Nr 1 US ladies' spot to Gracie already) to - DOOOOOOMED!!!! (Well, a lot of the ladies were Doomed - so at last I started to think it was a question of who was the Least Doomed, rather than who was the best... ) Now, hopefully, she'll have some peace & quiet to sort herself out.
One mini-observation re Gracie Gold:
Disson's "Tribute to American Legends of the Ice" will air on NBC on Feb 1, which is the Saturday before the Olympics start. (The show is being taped in December.)
Along with its large cast of skating legends, the show will feature also a number of Sochi hopefuls, such as Wagner and Zawadzki. (In effect, the hopefuls are paying tribute to the legends, I suppose.)
Gold was not included when the cast originally was announced in mid-September -- and her name still does not appear on the event page on Disson's own website.
But ... it seems that Gold has joined the cast more recently. She is listed in the Oct 4 press release that was posted on IN and elsewhere.
And she is included on the event page of the website of the venue (the Izod Center in NJ).ETA, http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2013/...-for-epic-show (posted on IN on Oct 9)
The point is that "someone" must have decided that the presence of Gold was desirable and/or "necessary" -- as an addition to the originally-announced participation of Wagner and Zawadzki (who remain in the more recent press release too).
The question is who the "someone" is.
I agree that maybe out of the spotlight, Gracie will have a chance to get her bearings. And I hope she does. She has such vitality, and I'd love to see that harnessed and infused with artistic finesse. What a skater that would make.
Blades, if there were ever a time when I hoped you were absolutely right, this is the moment. Wouldn't I love to see Alissa find a way to stand on the podium at Nationals and finally make it to an Olympics--and do as well as she has it in her to do at Sochi. The things she's good at make her such an asset to skating, but her weaknesses have grown more pronounced in the past few years. Well, I'll hope that you've hit the target on this one, so that in Feb. or March you can tell everyone "I told you so."
Lepisto didn't have great programs and she was not capable of creating the kind of spell that Czisny can with her skating. Her coaches need to rework the programs and make them as beautiful as possible. Really think hard about how to present Czisny as the most mature and elegant American lady. It really shouldn't be difficult because that's already what she is. Just stay away from the the obvious CoP trappings. Give her a step sequence that is truly musical and creates an appealing shape on the ice - look at the second part of Yu-Na's step sequence in the LP at Worlds for an example of something that seemed like she was doing beautiful "resting" choreography, but were actually just slow steps/turns that were part of the leveled step sequence. Give Alissa spins that are choreographic showstoppers and not just the easiest positions for hitting the levels. These are her money moves so don't skimp! She should have the energy to throw into them anyway, considering it comes naturally to her and she has less jump content to tire herself on. Make her "choreography sequence" consist mainly of spirals, with a big split jump in there too if she is still capable (used to do those so well). Highlight her PLANNED double jumps as significant choreographic features.
CoP, for all of its faults, does put comparatively less emphasis on the jumps. Alissa has qualities most of the other ladies don't. She can get on that Olympic team with a low amount of Triples if the other ladies don't skate nearly perfect.
Dunno who among the cast is skating/performing and who merely is appearing. IMHO, all the hopefuls should be asked to skate (unless they are injured at the time of the taping, heaven forfend).
Hope that you have a good time at the show, R.D. And that you will tell us all about it.
I have seen Alissa skate live on many occasions and I was not overwhelmed by the quality of her overall skating. Her spins were lovely, yes, and sometimes her footwork was above average, when it wasn't done at a snail's pace. But she was so darned slow that much of her skating was underwhelming, and her jumps were well below par. Given that there are 7 jump elements in a free skate and only 3 spins, the odds are stacked against her now that she is struggling with her recovery. I think that you are expecting far too much from her, Blades of Passion. It may be way too much more than she can give with her failing body.


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ALBANY – Since taking office, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has mastered the art of coalescing allies and marginalizing opposition. He can count a long line of interests – from the Legislature to unions to business groups – that have learned a lesson that it's better to get along with Cuomo.
Then there's the Seneca Nation.
Unlike any other group, Seneca Nation leaders have not only done battle with the governor, but they have held their own, and been largely unmoved by rhetorical barbs coming from the Cuomo administration.
"We're the only people that the governor may ever have to deal with regarding state business who he has no direct power over," said Seneca Nation President Robert Odawi Porter.
"Everyone else is somehow tied to his power. We stand as a separate, sovereign nation," the Seneca leader said last week.
That feeling – that they are not some labor union seeking to curry favor or a legislator looking for some crucial local bill – is what the Senecas say is their leverage in the ever-growing range of disputes with the Cuomo administration.
The Cuomo administration offered a different perspective. "This administration has taken unprecedented steps to work with the Seneca, as well as the other tribes, to resolve disputes and reach agreements to advance key projects and initiatives. There are several issues that remain unresolved, and we hope that this positive collaboration and cooperation will continue," said Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto.
"However," he added, "in the end, this administration is accountable to and charged with protecting the interests of the people and the taxpayers of the state of New York."
It is, as one state official said privately, an especially sensitive time in relations between the Seneca Nation and the governor.
A road dispute threatened to scuttle crucial work on the tattered Southern Tier Expressway after state officials, at first, declined to pay a tribe-imposed administrative fee for highway work done on Indian lands. The dispute was settled last week, with the Senecas getting most of the nearly $1 million they originally wanted.
Still unresolved is the more than $400 million the Seneca Nation has refused to pay the state in revenue-sharing payments from its three casinos in Western New York. The Senecas stopped the payments a few years ago because, they insist, the state broke the terms of its decade-old compact by allowing expanded forms of gambling into the tribe's regional casino exclusivity zone.
On Friday, a new one surfaced, with Cuomo officials blasting a Seneca plan to build a convenience store and tax-free gas station on the grounds of their Niagara Falls casino – thereby undercutting nearby non-Native American retailers. The response, in essence, from the Senecas to Cuomo: Mind your own business.
The longest running feud – Seneca sales of tax-free cigarettes – still rages unresolved, with the American Indian businesses now selling highly profitable cigarettes made on Seneca territories to bypass a state law.
It is not uncommon for an American Indian tribe to butt heads with Albany. Gov. Mario Cuomo, the current governor's father, had run-ins with tribes including the St. Regis Mohawks. His successor, Gov. George E. Pataki, had to retreat from his tax-collection efforts on Indian cigarette sales after Senecas and others shut down the Thruway in a tire-burning demonstration punctuated by violent clashes with state troopers.
And Pataki's successors, Eliot L. Spitzer and David A. Paterson, both had their own tobacco tax wars with the Senecas.
But Seneca leaders today say they are seeing what they call a new disrespect by the current governor: Cuomo has declined requests to meet with leaders one-on-one, unlike past governors.
"That, itself, is an unprecedented disrespect to our nations," Porter said.
For the Senecas, who have become a financial and political powerhouse in Western New York with their tobacco and casino interests, Cuomo is insulting them by not personally meeting with their leaders. They say they have also been told by other New York tribes that no such leader-to-leader meetings have occurred.
"I guess I could say that Gov. Cuomo is the most uncommunicative governor we've never met," said Richard Nephew, chairman of the ruling Seneca Council.
Seneca leaders note the contrasts. Last week, a delegation of Senecas, including Porter and Nephew, traveled to Harrisburg for a personal meeting with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett. No major deals were made, but talks include the tribe's possible interest in business dealings in Pennsylvania near its Allegany reservation.
And Porter has traveled to the White House and met President Obama, including at a holiday dinner last year.
In New York, though, the rhetoric has been high for both Cuomo and the Seneca leaders as the number of disputes seem only to grow. Why are relations so bad between the two sides?
"I think you have to ask the governor to get the true answer. The evidence suggests that he believes the best way to do business with a sovereign government is pressure and intimidation," Porter said.
A year ago in May, things looked different, Porter said, when Cuomo dispatched Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy to Salamanca to meet with Seneca leaders. Porter and Duffy stayed in touch in the subsequent weeks, and it was Duffy who would go on to publicly say that the state would not, at least for the time being, impose taxes on Indian-made cigarettes. Duffy, and several top Cuomo advisors, met again with Seneca leaders last August at the Allegany reservation.
Indeed, the Cuomo administration said top officials – from leaders of the parks and transportation departments to the State Police – have met often with Seneca leaders on a host of matters since Cuomo took office 20 months ago. And Seneca leaders, and their lobbyists, have the cell and home numbers for Howard Glaser, Cuomo's state operations director, who has had dozens of communications with Seneca officials.
They say it was the Senecas, not Cuomo, who walked away from talks to resolve the casino payments dispute; the Senecas disagree. The administration noted that the Senecas last year declined to let Thruway inspectors check a bridge on the Cattaraugus reservation. That dispute led to a July letter from Cuomo to Porter asking for a quick resolution; the matter was later resolved.
"As leaders, I am confident that we can work together, respectful of sovereignty of your nation and our state, to address the complex issues that face us," Cuomo wrote in his letter to Porter, adding that he looked forward to meeting Porter "in the near future" for further dialogue. That meeting never happened.
That was a year ago, and Seneca leaders say Cuomo's approach since has been to strike out at them and that the governor has a fundamental misunderstanding of how to deal with the tribe. "You cannot bully us. It makes us more stubborn and makes it more difficult to resolve problems," said Porter, who claimed Cuomo has shown the Senecas "nothing but the back of his hand."
Nephew called the Seneca meeting with the Pennsylvania governor last week "a breath of fresh air."
For Nephew, relations with the Cuomo administration are important, he said, because there are many areas where the two sides need to cooperate, whether on environmental and economic development to law enforcement matters.
Nephew said the Seneca Nation is not like special-interest groups the governor often deals with that think in the present.
"We also have a responsibility to the past, [and to] all the people that came before us and protected our way of life from outside intrusion these many years," Nephew said. "This generation has the same responsibility, so there are some things we just can't back down on, and we won't."
The sour relations between Cuomo and the Seneca Nation have caused a bit of duck-and-cover.
Sen. George Maziarz, a Newfane Republican who chairs a new Senate committee on Indian relations, declined to comment; he is tight with both Cuomo and the Seneca leaders.
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Daytona Beach – The Stetson University women's golf team was unable to maintain the momentum built during Saturday's second round and slipped to seventh on the final day of the LPGA Xavier Invitational.
The Hatters (320-311-315=946) posted a final round score of 315 on Sunday and finished tied with McNeese State (318-314-314=946) in the 14-team tournament at LPGA International. Stetson's three-round score was one behind North Florida (317-316-312=945) and Daytona State (316-321-308=945), which tied for fifth.
Old Dominion (312-308-304=924) turned in the best team round of the tournament on Sunday, a 304, to move past Florida Gulf Coast (310-308-312=930) for the team title. The Eagles held a two shot lead after the first two days of play, but closed with a 312 to finish second, six shots behind the Monarchs.
Mercer (312-316-311=939) finished third, just ahead of the host team from Xavier (311-325-307=943).
Individually, Mercer's Lacey Fears (73-75-76=224) held off Samantha Morrell of Old Dominion, who posted three consecutive scores of 75 to finish one shot off the tournament lead.
For the second straight day, not a single player in the field managed to shoot as low as even par. Xavier's Shane Crutchfield, who finished fourth overall, was the only player in the tournament to shoot an even par round, finishing Friday's first round with a 72 before closing with rounds of 82 and 73. Her overall 227 was three shots off the lead and one behind Lina Lagergren of McNeese State (75-77-74=226).
Three of Stetson's five juniors finished the tournament within one shot of each other. None of them fared better than Claudia Redinger's 78 on Sunday. Sammi Smith (76-80-79=235) was the top finisher for the Hatters, posting a 79 on Sunday to finish tied for 17th with an overall score of 235.
Ryan Ashburn (78-78-80=236) and Mallory Viera (82-75-79=236) finished one shot back, tied for 19th. Jenna Hoecker (87-78-79=244) finished tied for 35th while Redinger (84-86-78=248) tied for 44th.
The Hatters will close out the fall portion of their schedule in two weeks when they host the Hatter Classic at Victoria Hills Golf Club on November 5-6.


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Cultures of safety: "Volunteers essential"
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They also agreed that volunteers are best placed to utilize local resources and knowledge for risk reduction.
The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 acknowledges that "civil society, including volunteers and community-based organizations, are vital stakeholders in supporting the implementation of disaster risk reduction at all levels".
At the 3rd Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction from 10-13 May, a UNV-sponsored side event 'Engaging the Community: Volunteerism and Disaster Management' aimed to build awareness of and offer recommendations on how to improve volunteer integration in disaster risk reduction approaches and activities.
The panel reflected three distinct but complementary perspectives, involving representatives from international, national and civil society.
Oliver Wittershagen, Disaster Risk Reduction focal point at UNV, provided a broad overview of the role volunteerism can play in transforming the nature and pace of development.
Speaking on behalf of Director General Ronald Jackson, Collette Roberts from the Office of Disaster Preparation and Emergency Management (ODPEM), shared the Jamaican experience of making volunteers the heart of national disaster management. In Jamaica, volunteers are central to managing community flood warning systems and emergency shelters, providing first aid, and conducting hazard identification and damage assessments.
Umesh Prasad Dhakal, Executive Director of the Nepal Red Cross, explained that the Red Cross's work in community-based disaster management is based on evidence that volunteer engagement builds solidarity prior, during and after disaster and creates the conditions for community resilience.
The panel provided recommendations to "make good" on the Hyogo Priorities for Action involving volunteers.
UNV advocated for the inclusion of volunteerism in national disaster management plans, policies and programmes.
ODPEM encouraged national authorities to examine what vulnerable communities can do for themselves and how to strengthen their efforts.
The Red Cross stressed the importance of establishing a systematic and institutional approach to volunteer management in preparation and response to disaster situations.


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The upgraded casting design features a larger and heavier bed for strength and support under slides and wheel housings. According to the company, the deeper bed design quickly carries away coolant and swarf in high-production applications. The machine also includes oversized modular dresser assemblies with linear needle roller bearings for accurate and repeatable wheel dressing, the company says. Dressers (even on CNC 1 models) are electrically driven and programmable. The full enclosure is designed for safety and air quality control. Also, CNC software enables simple programming of complex forms, the company says. Various machine models are available with 10- to 25-hp spindles and grinding wheel sizes ranging from 12" × 4" to 24" × 20".


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This is not the face of a manthis is the face of an Avatar, a life-like robot designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro, D.Eng.
Last week I attended The Global Future 2045 International Congress (www.gf2045.com) in New York. It was billed as a "congress [that] will discuss key topics such as the transformation of humanity, intelligent evolution, and the emergence of an immortal meta-intelligence at the planetary scale" and—this is what convinced me to go—"much more." Really? What else could I possibly ask for?
Actually, while parts of the conference were reminiscent of "New Age" meetings I went to in the late 1970s, most sessions were largely "scientific." But even some of these skirted extremely close to being in the realm of science fiction. However, when you looked at the program and cast an eye on the list of presenters, you found some impressive names. Moreover, these folks were dead-on serious and earnest about their research, a good chunk of which has already become a reality.
For example, there was George Church from Harvard talking about his team's development of Clusters of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR) devices. These are protein-RNA-DNA complexes that enable human genome and epigenome engineering with a reported 20-fold higher efficiency and over 100-fold easier programming than other methods.
Ed Boyden, who leads the synthetic neurobiology group at MIT, has come up with "optogenetic" tools for analyzing and engineering the brain. Ted Berger, from the USC Center for Neuroengineering, is building cognitive neural prostheses for restoring and enhancing memory function. He has already demonstrated proof-of-concept in rats.
On the other hand, artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky, also from MIT, took a somewhat contrarian view of all these remarkable scientific reports by noting that he doubts that we will be able to make people more intelligent and turn them into machines with replaceable parts by 2045. "But who knows," he added.
By far, the most fascinating presentation for me was that given by Martine Rothblatt, founder, chairperson, and CEO of United Therapeutics, which focuses on developing therapies for cardiovascular and infectious diseases and cancer. During her session, entitled "The Goal of Biotechnology is the End of Death," Rothblatt told the 1,000+ audience members about her concept of mindclones.
"The vanguard of biotechnology is in the digital domain where preparations are being made for transplanting the mind from a diseased brain, or an end-stage diseased body, to a computational substrate, i.e., a mindclone." She added that "it enables effective immortality for a person's consciousness."
Got that? If Rothblatt is right, our individual personality with all its memories, fears, thoughts, emotions, etc., may one day be transferred into some kind of digital device. Or maybe even a digital being. More about that later.
Before you completely pooh-pooh Ms. Rothblatt's ideas, keep this in mind. Prior to United Therapeutics, she founded and served as chairman and CEO of Sirius XM Satellite Radio. She also represented the radio astronomy interests of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Radio Frequencies before the Federal Communications Commission. And she led the International Bar Association's efforts to present the United Nations with a draft Human Genome Treaty. And serial entrepreneur, futurist, and "restless genius" (according to the Wall Street Journal) Ray Kurzweil is probably in her camp.
Turning back to mindclones, if and when they happen, these may wind up in Avatars—like the one you see in the videos below—created by Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the intelligent robotics laboratory in Osaka, Japan. When I first saw the avatar/robot sitting in a chair on the conference stage, I thought he was one of the speakers. It was only during Ishiguro's presentation that it was made known that this was an avatar.
I must admit that I left the conference skeptical about many of the things I heard about. But it will be interesting, to say the least, to see which of these projects pan out and which descend into obscurity.
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WBB Continues MAC Play Thursday at Western Michigan
Ball State vs.
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Thursday, 7 p.m. (EST)
University Arena (Capacity 5,421)
Kalamazoo, Mich
Internet: www.ballstatesports.com
Radio: WERK (104.9 FM) - Jay Garrison
WCRD (91.3) FM - Chris Renkel, Zach Huffman and Brad Huber
What's On Tap: Ball State begins a two game Mid-American Conference road swing Thursday when it travels to Western Michigan to take on the Broncos at 7 p.m. in University Arena. The Cardinals have faced only one MAC West Division opponent this season which resulted in a 57-51 win on the road at Northern Illinois, Jan. 13. Ball State is on a three game win streak after defeating Ohio Saturday 77-46 in Worthen Arena. The Cardinals are 8-11 overall and 5-1 in league action which is the best conference start for Ball State since the 2008-09 season. Western Michigan is looking to rebound from its 63-44 loss at Buffalo Saturday. Western Michigan is 6-13 overall and 2-4 in MAC play.
About Western Michigan: The Broncos have won two MAC contests this season,
defeating Akron (84-77) at home Jan. 19 and Northern Illinois (54-51) on the road Jan. 23. The Broncos are led by Corie Buchanan who is averaging 8.6 points per game while teammate Aurielle Anderson scores 8.1 points per contest. In non-conference action Western Michigan defeated American (57-53) Nov. 10, Northern Arizona (78-67) Nov. 23, Chicago State (80-38) Dec. 8 and Valparaiso (70-69) Dec. 19.
The Coaches: Ball State head coach Brady Sallee is in his first season at Ball State. Sallee's career coaching record is 144-120 and he is 8-11 overall and 5-1 in the MAC with the Cardinals. He was named the 11th head women's basketball coach in Ball State history May 10. During his tenure at Eastern Illinois, Sallee posted a 136-109 career record. He led the Panthers to the institution's first-ever Ohio Valley Conference title during the 2009-10 campaign. In 2011-12, Eastern Illinois was 22-9 overall, posted a 13-3 OVC mark and competed in the Women's National Invitation Tournament. Shane Clipfell is in his first season at Western Michigan as he was named the sixth women's basketball coach in program history April 13, 2012. Clipfell has strong ties in the state of Michigan, the Mid-American Conference and the Midwest and has worked at every level of women's basketball. For the last 14 years, Clipfell worked alongside Suzy Merchant who is the current head women's basketball coach at Michigan State. He started out as an assistant at Eastern Michigan for Merchant during the 1998-99 season and has been with the Spartans for the last five seasons.


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Competition for skilled workers is higher than ever with baby boomer's retiring at an accelerated pace and a lack of available, skilled candidates in the market. This makes it important for businesses to take strategic measures toward gaining a competitive edge in recruiting.
The National Career Readiness Certificate is an evidence-based credential that measures essential workplace skills including Reading for Information, Applied Mathematics, and Locating Information. It is a reliable predictor of workplace success. The results can be used for:
You seek to hire and keep good workers. The Certificate helps you do that. Individuals seek to get and keep good jobs and the Certificate helps them do that. The Certificate is the currency in the skills market. Markets work best when both sides, buyer and seller, have a full understanding of the transaction. In this case, the Certificate is a reliable credential that provides a clear measure of essential workplace skills. The Certificate provides the hiring manager with a clear view of the applicant's skills and the Certificate enables individuals to provide proof of their workplace skills to potential employers.
Iowa adopted this credentialing program in 2008 and promotes it through the National Career Readiness Advocates Take a Stand - We Did [pdf] promotion.
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Red Cross blood drives scheduled
MARTINSBURG - The American Red Cross has announced its next blood drives. To be eligible to donate, donors must be 17, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in reasonably good health. Donors can give every 56 days. All blood types are needed - especially O-, A- and B-negative.
1 to 6 p.m. today: South Jefferson Elementary School, Summit Point;
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday: Shepherd University;
1 to 7 p.m. Friday: Fellowship Church of the Brethren;
Noon to 6 p.m. Jan. 28: Martinsburg Mall;
1 to 7 p.m. Jan. 28: Central Chapel, Hedgesville;
11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Jan. 29: Blue Rige Community and Technical College;
1 to 7 p.m. Jan. 31: American Legion, Berkeley Springs.
For more information, call 800-732-0382 or visit www.redcrossblood.org.
Hospice helps with heart disease
MARTINSBURG - Individuals with advanced heart disease often struggle with symptoms that lead them to the emergency room and subsequent hospitalizations. Often, following hospitalization, heart disease patients never quite return to their former level of functioning.
Hospice of the Panhandle supports people with advanced heart disease by managing symptoms and providing comfort care at home, bringing relief to both patient and family. Directed by the patient's physician, the hospice team includes a nurse, aide, social worker, chaplain and volunteers to provide a high level of coordinated care.
If you or a loved one is experiencing difficulties breathing; reduced physical activity; chest pain; dizziness or fainting; history of cardiac arrest or increased visits to the emergency room, hospice may be able to help.
For more information, call the Hospice Access Center at 304-264-0406 or 800-345-6538.
CPR for health care providers course set
BERKELEY SPRINGS - War Memorial Hospital will offer the American Heart Association's CPR for Healthcare Providers Course from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in Education Room A at the hospital, 1 Healthy Way. This course is designed for licensed health care providers who need to obtain or renew their CPR certification. A $50 fee is charged for the course. Class size is limited so advance registration is required.
For more information or to register, call Deb Unger at 304-258-6525 or Paul Cooper at 304-258-6577.
Carpal tunnel luncheon on tap
FREDERICK , Md. - Arthritis expert Dr. Nathan Wei will be hosting a brown bag lunch talk on a revolutionary procedure to treat carpal tunnel from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. today at the Arthritis Treatment Center in Frederick. Wei will discuss how carpal tunnel release can be performed using a small needle.
According to Wei, "Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused when the median nerve, which runs from the forearm into the hand, becomes pressed or squeezed at the wrist. The result may be pain, weakness or numbness in the hand and wrist. Patients are typically treated with conservative measures such as splinting or steroid injections. When these fail, surgery has been performed."
For more information about the talk and to reserve a seat, call 301-694-5800. All attendees are welcome to bring lunch.
Wei is a board-certified rheumatologist. He is director of the Arthritis Treatment Center located in Frederick.
Life Line Screening can reduce risks
SHENANDOAH JUNCTION - Residents living in and around the Shenandoah Junction community can be screened to reduce their risk of having a stroke or bone fracture. Jefferson County Community Center, 235 Sam Michaels Lane, will host a Life Line Screening event Wednesday. Screenings identify potential cardiovascular conditions such as blocked arteries and irregular heart rhythm, abdominal aortic aneurysms and hardening of the arteries in the legs, which is a strong predicator of heart disease. A bone density screening is also offered and is appropriate for both men and women. Packages start at $149. All screenings take 60 to 90 minutes. Preregistration is required.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 877-237-1287 or visit www.lifelinescreening.com.
'Yoga meets Dance' brings synergy
Yoga Meets Dance can help you to discover your natural dancing ability while it gives you a powerful tool to increase body-mind harmony and general well-being. It's a synergy of gentle yoga and expressive dance that gradually builds from beginning to end. Movement, music and guided meditation go hand in hand during this class, leaving you feeling energized and relaxed at the same time. Whether your New Year's goal is to be fitter or to feel more joy, you'll find YMD inspiring and satisfying. Dates: Wednesday and Feb. 8, 22, March 8 and 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. at Harmony Healing Arts Center, 211 E. New St., Shepherdstown. Donations are gracefully accepted.
'Cancer and Our Genes' lecture set
SHEPHERDSTOWN - The Shepherd University Common Reading Program and Biology Department Seminar Series will host a lecture by Dr. Michael Dean, head of human genetics at the National Cancer Institute, at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies auditorium.
Dean's lecture, "Cancer and Our Genes: Applying What We Know to Prevention and Treatment," will be followed by a question and answer session. The event is free and open to the public.
Shepherd's Common Reading selection this academic year is "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" written by Rebecca Skloot. For more information about Shepherd's Common Reading Program, visit www.shepherd.edu/commonreading.
CPR and AED training offered
BEREKELEY SPRINGS - War Memorial Hospital will offer the American Heart Association's Heartsaver First Aid with CPR & AED training course from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in Education Room B at the hospital, 1 Healthy Way in Berkeley Springs.
This course is designed for laypersons, especially those in a workplace setting. Participants will learn general principles of first aid, what to do in a medical emergency, how to handle emergency injuries and environmental injuries as well as learn skills in CPR and how to operate an automated external defibrillator (AED). After successful completion of the class, individuals will be issued a participation card from the American Heart Association.
A $65 fee is charged for the course. Class size is limited so advance registration is required.
For more information or to register, call Deb Unger at 304-258-6525 or Paul Cooper at 304-258-6577.


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SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Datameer Inc., the leader in Hadoop big data analytics, today announced that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Matt Murphy has joined its Board of Directors. With extensive expertise in enterprise software, mobile solutions and cloud infrastructure technology, Murphy sits on or advises more than a dozen startups. Prior to joining the Datameer board, Murphy was a board observer at Google from the time of its initial investment to its IPO, and also advised several companies that were later acquired by the likes of Google, Dell, Groupon, and RIM.
In addition to his work advising enterprise startups, Murphy also manages the iFund, a collaborative initiative with Apple that focuses on funding and building defining applications on the iOS platform and the mobile Internet.
"As we open the first true marketplace for buying and selling pre-packaged Big Data analytic applications, we couldn't have welcomed Murphy onto our board at a better time," said Stefan Groschupf, CEO of Datameer. "His direct experience in enterprise software along with his work building out a meaningful ecosystem on the iOS platform will undoubtedly help accelerate Datameer's larger goal of the marketplace, which is to truly democratize Big Data analytics once and for all."
"Hadoop hit a major inflection in 2012, with businesses implementing analytics instead of just investigating the technology, but there is still work to be done before it truly becomes mainstream," commented Murphy. "Datameer's new platform for creating, buying, and selling pre-packaged Big Data analytics is exactly the kind of innovation business users need to finally harness the power of Big Data analytics. I look forward to working with Datameer during this exciting time."
Murphy currently sits on the board or works closely with management teams from Aerohive Networks, AppDynamics, Apperian, AutoNavi, Booyah!, Drawbridge, Egnyte, RGB Networks, Puppet Labs, SessionM, Shazam, shopkick, Simplivity, Stoke and textPlus. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
About Datameer
Datameer offers the first data analytics software, including the only Analytics Application Market that helps end users access, analyze and visualize data of any type, size, or source with no analytics experience required. Founded by Hadoop veterans in 2009, Datameer scales from a laptop to thousands of nodes and is available for all major Hadoop distributions including Apache, Cloudera, EMC, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR, Yahoo!, Amazon and Microsoft Azure. Datameer is based in San Mateo, Calif. For more information on Datameer, please visit www.datameer.com and follow them on Twitter @Datameer.
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hey im looking for a good manga if any one can tell me wut is good right now im finishing ragnarok
If you haven't read it yet, The Demon: Ororon is what you should go with!!! Or anything by Hakase Mizuki. You'll defintely be thanking yourself =P
I like Bizenghast, very good gothic like manga. Or Her Majesty's Dog. I'd have to dive into my archives and come up with some more.
negimia is a novel about a ten year old magician deathnotes/L should die/ I promise/You a better world/...
I think the Grenadier graphic novel series is good. there are some great comedy moments in it. i can't wait until the anime series comes out for it.
samuria deeper kyo & Kami Kaze are very good manga satsujin ken mumyo jinpu ryu mizuchi (With out light, Let the Divine Wind Flow)
Basilisk is good and rourini kenshin
i agree...kenshin all the way."people do not need violence to solve there problems."
kenshin is awesome "You know what you have to admire? A Catholic hit man who blesses himself just before he strangles someone."-George Carlin
elfen lied rulez
i think samuria deeper kyo is a good one well....i like it


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Another favorite French recipe, this time from New York City! You can find French cooking almost anywhere and everywhere!
From Balthazar
80 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012
Opened in 1997 by chef Keith McNally. Since it opened it can be difficult to find a table, so we thought we would bring it to you.
Serve a slice of this delicious tart as an appetizer, or a larger slice along with a salad as a main course.
1 3/4 cups (9 oz/280 g) flour
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup (4 oz/125 g) unsalted butter, cut into cubes
2 egg yokes, beaten
3-4 tablespoons cold water
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, sliced
Leaves from 1 fresh thyme sprig, minced
1 bay leaf
Salt and pepper to taste
8 ounces goat cheese at room temperature
8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
2 eggs
2/3 cup (5 fl oz/160ml) heavy cream
To make the pastry: In a medium bowl, stir the flour and salt together. Cut in the butter with a pastry cutter or 2 knives until mixture is the texture of course crumbs. Add the egg yolks and water and mix quickly with a fork. Press the dough together with you fingers. Pat the dough into a flat disk, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30-minutes.
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). On a flat surface, roll the pastry dough out to a 12-inch (30-cm) circle. Fit the pastry into a 10-inch (25-cm) tart pan with a removable bottom. Line with aluminum foil and fill with dried beans or pie weights. Place on a baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven for 9 to 10 minutes, or until set. Remove from the oven and remove the foil and weights. Prick the bottom of the shell with a fork. Return the shell to the oven and bake for 3 to 4 minutes, or intil lightly browned. Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan on a wire rack.
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). To make the filling: In a small saute pan or skillet over medium heat, heat the olive oil and saute the onions, thyme, and bay leaf for about 7-minutes, or until the onion is golden. Remove and discard the bay leaf. Season the onion mixture with salt and pepper and set aside.
In a blender or food processor combine the goat cheese, cream cheese, eggs, cream, salt and pepper to taste. Process until perfectly smooth.
Spread the onion mixture evenly on the bottom of the tart shell and fill with cheese mixture. bake in the perheated oven for 12-minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool slightly, or to room temperature. Cut the tart into wedges and serve.
Make 8 servings.


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when getting your female partner from behind, you pull out and spit on her back giving the illusion that you just "came" on her back, and when she turns around...BAM, you shoot your load in her face.
i totally pump faked my lady last night...but sadly it hit her in the eye...and now she is a cyclops
by Jordan T. Reed January 27, 2004
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Can you define these popular missing words?
to throw for a loop, to decieve or fool.
"I went to Brenda's house thinking that i was gonna smack the skins, but she pumpfaked me."
by grandpappy gametight September 23, 2007
Pumpfake/Pumpfaked/Pumpfaking: When someone says they will do something or go somewhere but doesn't; Going back on one's word; Renig;
My homie said he would meet me out here but then "pumpfaked" at the last minute when his baby moms called.
by AJ The Klassic August 16, 2011
To hold the blunt or joint in such a manner to where it looks to a fellow smoker as if you are attempting to pass it when in fact you are not.
Tyson goes to accept the blunt from Shane, and Shane quickly pulls it back to smoke. "I thought you were passing it," says Tyson. "Yeah, you really bit on that pump fake," Shane replies.
by carterthekid December 18, 2007
Verb. -Technique used at the gas-pump when you are short on cash and wish to fool the casual observer into thinking that you are not.
Here is an example of The Pump Fake: If you only have $10 to put in the tank, you subtly release the pump trigger a few times between the $8 and $10 mark. Hopefully, this will fool anyone who happens to be watching into thinking that you are simply topping off your gas tank before a long trip, and that you are not actually broke as hell!
by Stoolsample January 03, 2014
This sounds similar to the "gimp pirate" in which you do the above and after you come in her eye you kick her in the shin. Leaving her with her hand over her eye hopping on one leg... like a gimp pirate.
when I asked the guy who told me this if hed ever done it his response was "I never did it to my girlfriend," uhh realllly classy James...
by never been a gimp pirate January 29, 2004
when you are fucking the shit out of a girl doggy style, you slam her head into the pillow so she can't move, tell her you're going to nut, and secretly spit on her ass so she thinks you came. and when she turns around and winks at you you BLAST her right in the face with your whole load.
i pump faked the shit out of a girl last night
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HA in the Java Broker provides an Active/Passive mode of operation with Virtual hosts being the unit of replication. The Active node (referred to as the Master) accepts all work from all the clients. The Passive nodes (referred to as Replicas) are unavailable for work: the only task they must perform is to remain in synch with the Master node by consuming a replication stream containing all data and state.
If the Master node fails, a Replica node is elected to become the new Master node. All clients automatically failover [5] to the new Master and continue their work.
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But they were quick to qualify their enthusiasm.
"The overall increase of 4.4 percent is a little higher than most estimates I've been hearing," said Brian Schulz, treasurer of the West Seneca schools. "But the devil's always in the details."
That increase is a composite of increases in various specific aid categories and the introduction of some new types of aid.
The bottom line: As in past years, the actual aid increase will vary from district to district.
"It looks like a 4.4 percent increase. If we receive that in Williamsville, that will be very positive – however, I don't foresee that happening, based on how aid is distributed," Williamsville Superintendent Scott Martzloff said Tuesday afternoon.
Later in the day, when aid projections for specific districts were released, it became apparent that he was right.
The Williamsville schools stand to get only $40,220 more next year – a 0.15 percent increase – under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposed budget.
Buffalo – which accounts for more than half of the state aid to schools in Erie County – would see an increase of 2.15 percent, or $11 million.
The Springville schools would get slightly more than a 1 percent increase under the proposal. That district has adopted the national "community conversation" model for budgeting this year, and the discussion has been assuming aid will be flat.
"Anything else would be just wonderful," Superintendent Paul Connelly said, prior to the release of the district's projection. "Last year we laid off over 10 percent of our workforce. We really can't do much more."
In Erie and Niagara counties, four districts – Amherst, Cleveland Hill, Eden and Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda – would see an increase of less than 1 percent. Another three – East Aurora, Lewiston-Porter and Wilson – would actually see a decrease of 2.5 percent or more. Aid figures do not inclde building aid.
Officials in many districts spoke to the challenges of implementing a growing number of state requirements in an era of limited resources.
Niagara Wheatfield interim Superintendent James Knowles said his district is preparing its budget for next school year, and making sure there are enough resources to pay for state requirements is key.
"Anything the governor can do to come across with some funds – it's all well and good to have mandates, but if there is no funding for the mandates, it becomes difficult," he said.
Locally, the biggest winner under the proposed budget would be Sloan, with an increase of nearly 9 percent. Other districts benefiting most under the budget include Depew and Iroquois, which would each see about a 6 percent increase, and North Tonawanda and Lancaster, each with an increase of about 5 percent.
The biggest single chunk of the overall aid increase is a 3 percent – or $611 million – increase in general school aid. That means Cuomo is proposing a total increase of 3 percent statewide, but the specific increase will vary from district to district. That aid will be distributed using a formula that Cuomo has indicated will target most of the increase to high-need districts such as Buffalo.
He continues to link additional state aid to each district's approval of the teacher-evaluation process. Schools would have to have their 2013-14 teacher- and principal-evaluation plans in place by Sept. 1 to qualify for that year's increase in state aid.
Beyond that, the remaining 1.4 percent of the governor's proposed school aid increase is divided among several pots of money.
The one causing the most chatter among school officials is a one-time "fiscal stabilization" fund, intended to soften the blow of skyrocketing pension costs.
District contributions for employee pensions are tied to the health of the stock market. This year, for instance, districts have to pay 11.8 percent of a teacher's salary into the pension fund. Next year, that will increase to 16.5 percent.
Cuomo said schools would only pay 12.5 percent of teacher salaries toward pension costs next year, using his fiscal stabilization funds.
Local school officials welcomed that news from the governor, whose approach to school funding has generally found more critics than supporters in the ranks of district leaders.
"For him to take steps to smooth out the spike [in pension costs] this year is significant," said Mark P. Mondanaro, superintendent in Ken-Ton. "It's something we ask for almost yearly. It's ridiculous what's been happening [with the increases], and this is a step in the right direction."
Starpoint Superintendent C. Douglas Whelan was among those anxious for more details. The proposal to lock in pension rates is intriguing, he said.
But he echoed the sentiments of officials from schools across the region, saying it wasn't immediately clear how the plan would work.
The budget also builds on several initiatives proposed by the New NY Education Reform Commission. Cuomo's proposal:
• Encourages schools to extend the school day or school year with "academically enriched programming." The governor included $20 million for schools that agree to extend their learning time by 25 percent.
• Provides $25 million in competitive grants for full-day prekindergarten for higher-need students in poor districts.
• Seeks to increase early college high school programs in the state, similar to Middle Early College in Buffalo, by offering another $4 million for such programs. Those programs provide high school students who are struggling academically with the chance to take courses on a college campus and earn an associate degree.
• Rewards high-performing teachers with annual stipends of $15,000, starting with math and science teachers. Fifteen million dollars is allocated for these stipends.
• Includes $15 million for "community schools," which incorporate social services and medical services and also provide after-school programming.
Cuomo's budget plan was generally well received by a variety of statewide education groups, many of whom paired their praise with a call for more detail on how specific aspects of the plan would play out.
More aid for most schools
Proposed state aid for 2013-14, percent change from 2012-13. (Numbers do not include building aid.)
Erie County:
Alden $10,488,459 2.17%
Amherst $8,456,039 0.89%
Buffalo $525,637,681 2.15%
Cheektowaga $9,519,841 3.9%
Clarence $16,204,188 1.62%
Cleveland Hill $9,401,996 0.43%
Depew $13,445,248 5.84%
East Aurora $5,260,910 -4.37%
Eden $8,030,158 0.79%
Frontier $25,068,957 2.33%
Grand Island $12,709,430 1.94%
Hamburg $17,925,477 3.71%
Holland $6,560,478 1.14%
Iroquois $10,325,857 6%
Kenmore-Tonawanda $39,740,423 0.43%
Lackawanna $26,935,505 2.11%
Lake Shore $21,998,154 2.55%
Lancaster $25,531,995 4.93%
Maryvale $10,956,746 3.67%
North Collins $5,206,500 4.04%
Orchard Park $18,223,605 2.09%
Sloan $11,491,875 8.72%
Springville-Griffith $13,729,467 1.14%
Sweet Home $15,082,165 1.02%
Tonawanda $12,851,532 1.32%
West Seneca $35,094,560 3.41%
Williamsville $27,572,560 0.15%
Niagara County:
Lewiston-Porter $9,829,034 -4.55%
Lockport $34,836,975 1.9%
Newfane $14,091,430 3.9%
Niagara Falls $83,390,613 3.03%
Niagara Wheatfield $22,437,456 1.49%
North Tonawanda $27,081,676 4.9%
Royalton-Hartland $10,096,234 4.08%
Starpoint $13,171,044 2.87%
Wilson $9,050,755 -2.5%
Source: State Division of Budget
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Dear all,
Of late there have been a number of posts regarding new to APO, how to learn APO, questions around CIF along with regular functional and technical questions.
Hope this Wiki page (and more to come) will definitely help each of us. The number of posts on the Forum may come down since Wiki will be the first place for us to check before putting in a Forum Question. For easy access the Wiki FAQ link at the top of this forum links to the Wiki page directly.
If anyone has any suggestions or comments feel free to post. But there may not be any points since this is not marked as a question.
All Links:
scm Main
APO
APO-DP
APO-SNP
APO-PPDS
APO-GATP
APO-TPVS
CIF
EM
SPP
SNC/ICH
EWM
apo Technical - Related information
SCM Master Data
faq
APO DP FAQ
APO SNP FAQ
APO PPDS FAQ
APO General FAQ
cif FAQ
Edited by: Wilian Segatto on May 14, 2010 11:39 AM
Thanks for the effort Gali and Somnath
Somnath thank-you for showing the way to the FAQ SCM-APO Wiki!!
I hope the community will continue to help it grow so everyone benefits.
I have a question... How do you get to the CIF page listed above?
The link brings you to:
which you can get to by selecting Wiki from tab and then choosing:
My Home > Supply Chain Management > Main > SCM Advanced Planner & Optimizer
but how do you view/display the CIF data? I don't see a method besides hitting the link in this forum reply message.
Ken Snyder
Hi Ken,
The CIF (along with DP, SNP, PPDS) pages are all child to the SCM Advanced Planner & Optimizer Page.
Please check if you have Hide Children turned on.
Kindly bear with me while direct navigation links are put in.
All the links on this forum work fine...
But if I try to find the page from the main menu by selecting Wiki, SCM, APO, I don't see any other links to get to CIF, DP, SNP, etc...
Below is what I see (w/o any links to CIF, DP, SNP ,etc..)
But I may have found the path: You click on Additional Features on top right.
This displays the options...
This was NOT obvious...
I was expecting the links on the page itself...
SCM Advanced Planner & Optimizer
APO (Advanced Planning and Optimization) application is at the heart of SCM. It offers planning and optimization functionalities in different business processes of Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Supply and Demand Matching, Production Planning Detailed Scheduling, Global Available to Promise and Transportation Management.
Collaboration with Suppliers and Customers is also possible through newer application Supply Network Collaboration (SNC) till recently known as Inventory Collation Hub (ICH)
With SCM 5.0 a new set of functionalities under Services Parts Planning were added specifically catering to Spare Parts Management.
APO as a application is tightly integrated to execution (OLTP) system like ERP using a standard interface called Core Interface Function (CIF). It also has full BI (erstwhile BW) component for Data Mart as well as Reporting functionalities.
What about ATP ?
Hi Dieu,
I have created GATP page in SCM Wiki. Please feel free to add relevant content.
Hi Somanth,
There is a lot of useful stuff in wiki page. But for DP, I couldnot find any information related to CBF and Forecasting with BOM. Is it something that is not yet included or I am missing it? Can you helpme?
Where should we include OSS notes and other usefull information?
I have few consulting notes useful for all SCM consultants
Put in the relevant module specific pages. Already there are notes listed in APO-DP, APO-SNP pages.
Just add your into those.
It is really good info, It would be great if you can add CTM process and relevant stuff.
Hi Somnath,
I would like to add integration of CTM with GATP.
Please tell me how can I add it and the format to be used.
Pavan Verma
Great Work Somnath
Wikis hyperlink is not visible. Can you please make it as per the original. It is very dificult to check the links.
Thanks! Now links are visible!
Dear Moderators,
I have been looking for some answers, regarding to CIF & Planning Version at APO. along the Wiki but I didn't find anything useful. How can I post a thread exposing my issue?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,


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From The Hunger Games to Philomena, here's what to see and what to skip at the movies.
See ThisThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Hope, as it happens, is contagious. So is rage. With their glorious win over 22 other contestants in the annual televised child murder known as The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) inspired their countrymen with their made-for-TV love. They also unwittingly lit a fuse of rebellion that begins to grow in this deeper, darker sequel that plays better on the screen than it often did in the pages of Suzanne Collins's second entry in the trilogy.
Before the revolution gets anywhere close to being televised, though, President Snow (Donald Sutherland, as wily as ever) tries to stifle it by using the shell-shocked teens for political theater. First, he sends them on a dog-and-pony show through Panem's districts, then throws them back in the Games arena with past victors for a 75th anniversary Quarter Quell. (And why not? It's tough to stage a revolution when all of its symbols are dead.) While the details of who kills whom, and how, are intriguing, Catching Fire succeeds by deepening its already complex relationships and alliances.
Even as Katniss struggles with her feelings for longtime friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and the new ones for Peeta, Catching Fire never devolves into Team Guy A or Team Guy B silliness. Her ambivalence is meant more as a commentary on youth, loyalty and how time and experience change who we are and what we need.
That same ambiguity informs her relationships with new characters, like new Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who joins Katniss in condemning the excesses of the Capitol as they dance at a party, but turns around and devises a punishingly lethal Games arena in which she's all but certain to die. Or Finnick Odair (Sam Claflin), a gorgeous victor who seeks an alliance with our District 12 heroes, but warns Katniss that what he really deals in are secrets. And then there's Johanna Mason, played with delicious verve by Jena Malone. She's probably the most lethal victor, and Lord knows whose side she's on.
The higher stakes and new players mean more money on the screen, and it shows. Games host Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci) glows a bit oranger, while escort Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) pirouettes about in butterfly dresses and gold hair, both actors delighting in the ridiculousness of their Capitol personas. The effects are also better, with more of the Capitol on display. Even the victors' train, ferrying them through the districts looks cooler, somehow. Enjoy all this opulence and splendor now, the filmmakers seem to be saying. Because when the revolution does come, it's all going up in flames.
And ThisPhilomena
Judi Dench and Steve Coogan are funny, engaging and deeply affecting in this true-life British tale about a woman searching for the son taken from her 50 years earlier. As a young unmarried mother, Philomena (Dench) was sent to a Magdalene laundry, a convent where "wayward" girls toiled ceaselessly, many of whom had their children adopted against their will. As an adult, she teams with journalist Martin Sixsmith (Coogan) to find her boy, a journey that will be as fraught as it is funny, taking them halfway around the world. I know, it's an incredibly packed marquee at the movie theater right now, with tons of great options. But I promise, you will not regret making room for Philomena.
And If You're in a Generous Mood, See ThisDelivery Man
Vince Vaughn returns in his most subdued role yet as David Wozniak, a meat delivery man who's about to be a dad – more than 500 times over. Not only is David's sometime girlfriend, Emma (Cobie Smulders), pregnant, dozens of the 533 kids he fathered through a sperm bank have filed a lawsuit to unmask him. Best friend Brett (Chris Pratt) is on hand to provide legal advice, but David can't help checking up on the kids and trying to make their lives better. Granted, Delivery Man (a remake of the French-Canadian film Starbuck) dwells in the land of schmaltz, but it does so with such decent intentions and an open heart, that you can't help but let a chuckle or two escape.