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Cutters baffled by fastballs
July 27, 2013 - Mitch Rupert
Justin Parr and Nelson Prada agreed it's probably too early to start paying attention to where the Williamsport Crosscutters are in the Pinckney Division standings, but it was tough to ignore the damage of Saturday night's loss to Jamestown.
The 3-0 setback in which Williamsport recorded just three hits put the Crosscutters five games behind Jamestown in the division standings. But it wasn't so much that Williamsport lost last night at Bowman Field which concerned Prada. More concerning was how the Cutters lost for the third time in four games.
Williamsport's offense missed on fastballs all night, striking out 12 times and advancing just two runners to second base. Despite another strong performance from the Cutters' pitching staff, the offense couldn't find a spark to back it up.
"We didn't come prepared to play the game," Prada said. "We were flat the whole game. They throw a fastball and we can't hit it and they threw a fastball the whole game."
Williamsport didn't collect its first hit until Parr singled up the middle with two outs in the sixth inning. In fact, Parr, who was the Big 10 Player of the Year for Illinois this spring, had two of the Cutters' three hits.
The Crosscutters came in struggling against lefties this year, hitting 15 points worse than against righties, and it didn't get much better against Jammers starter Cody Dickson. The fourth-round pick out of Sam Houston State in last month's draft didn't allow a hit in his five innings.
With a fastball sitting around 93 mph and an above average breaking ball, Dickson faced the minimum of 15 batters in his five innings. His only blemish was a leadoff walk to Jiandido Tromp in the fourth inning which was quickly erased on a double play ball off the bat of Malquin Canelo.
Of his five strikeouts, four were on fastballs. Williamsport hasn't scored at least four runs in a game since July 17.
"I think that's probably the most frustrating thing right now because it's not like we're getting beat with really good pitching," Parr said. "They're just blowing fastballs by us early in the count, late in the count. They're challenging us with fastballs and we're not catching up."
It didn't get any better against reliever Henry Hirsch who struck out five in three innings of relief. Brett McKinney, who picked up his fourth save, struck out two in the ninth inning.
It came a night after striking out nine times in a 4-3 loss to the Jammers. Jamestown is 4-1 against the Cutters this year and its 25 wins are second-most in the league behind only Tri-City's 26.
"We're playing a good club. I'm not saying we can't beat good club, but we have to find a way to beat good clubs," Prada said. "That's the type of club we have to beta if we want to contend."
Despite the two-game sweep at the hands of Jamestown, Williamsport is still tied for second place in the Pinckney Division with State College. The Cutters are also tied with State College for second place in the wild card standings just 1 ½ games behind Lowell.
"Right now it still is a little too early to worry about that," Parr said. "Right now we're just trying to play good, fundamental baseball and take care of what we can take care of. Just play the game, hit the ball hard and see what happens."
Jamestown scored all three of its runs against Cutters starting pitcher Julio Reyes in the top of the fourth inning. Jammers catcher Jin-De Jhang, the No. 18 prospect in the Pirates system according to MLB.com, drove in the first run with the first of his two doubles.
After a wild pitch moved Jhang to third, a pop up in shallow center field fell between second baseman Sam Dove, Tromp in center field and right fielder Dylan Cozens because all three had a long way to go for the ball with the infield playing in. It allowed Jhang to score, giving Jamestown a 2-0 lead.
The Jammers added a third run on an RBI groundout by Edwin Espinal on what would have been a likely inning-ending double play ball had the Jammers not sent the runner at first to second on the pitch.
The three runs might as well have been 300 with as much as Williamsport's offense struggled last night. The Cutters sent just three batters to the plate in seven of nine innings, and it sent the tying run to the plate only once.
After Parr singled with two outs in the sixth, Tromp followed with a double to put runners on second and third. But Canelo struck out on a fastball up in the zone to end the threat. Parr led off the ninth inning with a single, but never advanced to second base.
"When Zach Green and Cozens are getting beat by fastballs, that worries you a little bit," Prada said. "(Today) we're not going to grab a bat until 5:05. We worked hard all week, so (today) we're going to take it easy. The next day we'll see how it goes. If I think they need another day, we'll give them another day to rest. We'll try to take these next two days to calm down a bit."
"We have a lot of hard-working guys and we have a good club," Parr said. "Right now things aren't clicking like they were at the start of the year. We just have to get back in the right groove because right now we're just not in a good rhythm, but we have the pieces to be in a good rhythm."
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Robert Seldon Lady: The Antiterror Spy Left Out in the Cold
Caught up in a terrorist rendition debacle, Robert Lady is wanted in Italy, lost his house and marriage, and says he has been abandoned by the CIA.
When the anniversary of 9/11 came around this year, Robert Seldon Lady was moving between low-end hotels around Miami. An international arrest warrant keeps him from returning to his home in Panama. He says he's flirting with personal bankruptcy, fears for his life, and is "getting pretty desperate." His marriage is broken. He blames this hard luck on his former employer, the Central Intelligence Agency.
A decade ago, Mr. Lady served on the front lines of America's antiterror efforts after 9/11, heading up the agency's base in Milan. In the 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush credited him and his colleagues, albeit not by name, for dismantling several al Qaeda cells in that Italian city. "We've got the terrorists on the run," Mr. Bush said. "We're keeping them on the run." Mr. Lady's Italian stint capped a near quarter-century covert CIA career in Latin America, Asia and Europe.
Three weeks later and a year before his planned retirement, Mr. Lady helped CIA contractors and agents snatch an Egyptian Islamist off the streets of Milan and deliver him to an interrogation cell in Cairo. This so-called extraordinary rendition—one of 130 or so carried out by the Bush administration—set in train events that soured America's relations with Italy and upended the life and career of Mr. Lady and other CIA agents.
Saying "I'm fed up with all this," Mr. Lady has some extraordinary steps in mind to change his fate. His actions and outspokenness are going to add to the discomfiture of his former bosses at Langley over this messy episode from the early days after 9/11.
On Feb. 17, 2003, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, a heavyset and bearded man in his early 40s, went missing en route to midday prayers at his mosque in Milan. The CIA and Italian police considered the man, better known as Abu Omar, to be a recruiter for al Qaeda. His family and the Italian police had no inkling where he'd gone.
Fourteen months later, Abu Omar emerged from jail, called his wife from Egypt and described his abduction and mistreatment in captivity. Italian authorities listened via a telephone tap on his home phone in Milan and started to look into a kidnapping.
Their investigation led to the CIA and its man in Milan. The political mood in Italy, initially sympathetic to the U.S. in the wake of 9/11, turned to outrage when the alleged breach of sovereignty was revealed in 2005. An aggressive magistrate named Armando Spataro got indictments for 26 Americans and five Italians, the first known time that employees of the CIA had ever been prosecuted by a friendly government for doing their jobs.
A judge brought separate terrorism charges against Abu Omar, but only the CIA case went to trial. The Americans were convicted in absentia. The debacle came to be known inside the agency as the "Italian job."
Mr. Lady, who had planned to retire and become a security consultant from a farm house he bought with his life savings in Italy's Piedmont region, received the stiffest sentence—eight years in prison, increased to nine on appeal. Before the case went to trial, Magistrate Spataro sued to seize the house and use the proceeds to pay damages to Abu Omar. Mr. Lady fled Italy in 2005 and lost the property. His 30-year marriage, he says, was another casualty.
Of all the convicted agents, Mr. Lady is the only one who still faces prison time, which was reduced by the justice ministry to six years in 2012. He's also the only one whom the Italians are actively trying to catch. He was told by the U.S. government that an arrest warrant was issued by Italy last year, though he has not seen it. Two months ago Panama detained him for 24 hours as he was crossing into Costa Rica, but ignored calls from Italy's justice minister to hold him longer. The U.S. told him to leave his home and business in Panama at his own expense, he says, and lie low in the U.S. for a couple of years. Mr. Lady, who is 59, says he needs to travel internationally to make a living.
Over dinner in Coral Gables with me and his lawyer, Tom Spencer, Mr. Lady calls himself "a piñata." After retiring from the CIA in 2004, he says he was on his own and an easy target: abandoned by the U.S. and scapegoated by the Italians. The intelligence agency "rallied around the [CIA] leadership to protect them," he adds. His cover in Milan was deputy consul working for the State Department, but the U.S. government didn't fight the Italians to honor his diplomatic immunity. The U.S. did assert diplomatic immunity for Jeffrey Castelli, the CIA's station chief in Italy and his boss, but it was eventually revoked by an Italian judge. Mr. Castelli was convicted on kidnapping charges in February and sentenced to seven years in prison, pending an appeal.
Washington has never admitted the agency was behind the rendition. "I'm a victim of American waffling," Mr. Lady says. "Italy is a very close ally" and the U.S. government "should have come up with a solution." He says he received some compensation from the government but will only say it wasn't enough to cover his losses. The agency isn't paying his legal or any other costs now, he says.
The politics of antiterrorism has changed in the U.S., and rendition is out of official favor even if it is still practiced. Mr. Lady says he has called phone numbers at CIA headquarters that he was once given, but with no luck: "I know they have instructions, 'Don't answer him.' It feels bad that I gave them 24 years of my life, and I get treated like that. . . . As far as they're concerned, if I put a gun to my head and blew my head off, they'd be happy. The problem would be over. They would bring out the champagne."
Telling his story, Mr. Lady layers his bitterness, which inevitably sounds self-serving at times, with an easy Latin manner. (He was born to an American father and Honduran mother and raised in Honduras.)
While his travails have gotten a little attention in the U.S., Mr. Lady is a poster child for Bush-era antiterror policy in Italy. He's taking his appeals now to the Italian government. On Sept. 11 this year, he sent a letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano to ask for "personal forgiveness and legal pardon."
Mr. Lady says he saved Italian and American lives by foiling multiple terror attacks. "I can assure you that at all times, I was informed that my activities were in accordance with United States, Italian and International law and vetted by very high officials," he wrote in the pardon appeal. Those officials who ordered and approved the Abu Omar rendition were never charged with a crime, he pointed out.
Mr. Lady says he won't wait forever for Italy to answer. He's ready to take responsibility—as he says his bosses never have—and turn himself in "on my own terms," serve his prison sentence, and get his life back. He may be calling a bluff. Italy has never asked the U.S. to extradite the convicted agents. "If Italy believes they have the political will to arrest a former CIA officer and keep him in jail for six years, my hat goes off to them," he says.
As the rendition drama has played out, Mr. Lady has been depicted—in the Italian courts, the media and in a 2010 book by Steve Hendricks, "A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial"—as either the central actor or a marginal CIA dissident. He puts forward the latter characterization, insisting that he fought the decision to abduct Abu Omar.
Sabrina de Sousa, a CIA operative in Rome and Milan who was also convicted in absentia by the Italians, told MSNBC this summer: "Bob absolutely did not want to have this rendition take place." Ms. de Sousa still sued Mr. Lady and their boss in Rome, Jeff Castelli, for ruining her career. The case was dismissed.
Mr. Lady says he opposed the Abu Omar snatch, but not rendition itself: "I think rendition is the second oldest profession, it has been happening forever."
He helped organize the capture of drug kingpin Ramón Matta-Ballesteros from Honduras and transfer to the U.S. in 1988, he says. In 1998, Rome asked the U.S. to help extract an Italian mafia boss from his Latin American exile, says Mr. Lady. "He was in a country where he could pay judges and everybody," he says, declining to name the country or the don. "We lured this guy to Panama, grabbed him and turned him over to the Italians. No extradition, nothing." The abducted man was convicted in Italy, Mr. Lady says.
More recently, Italy worked with the CIA to grab an al Qaeda member—a "high-level guy"—and put him into an Egyptian prison "forever," he says, but "I can't tell you the details."
Thinking of his current predicament, Mr. Lady says he's struck by "the hypocrisy of this whole thing." Bill Clinton approved extraordinary rendition and so has every president since. "In every case, in every rendition I have ever been involved in, the local government was a partner," Mr. Lady says, and Abu Omar was no exception.
Who in Italy knew what about the Omar rendition remains unclear and controversial. The government of Silvio Berlusconi, then in power, denied direct knowledge. The brass at the CIA's Italian counterpart, the SISMI, was aware of the operation. An Italian policeman, who testified that he was tapped by Mr. Lady to take part, stopped Abu Omar on the street to check his documents seconds before American agents threw the cleric into a white van. Mr. Lady denies he recruited the policeman for the rendition, saying "I'm convinced that he was forced to say that so he could get immunity."
He has no doubts the Italian government was on board. "Everything we did in Italy was joint. Everything," he says. "Italy is one of our closest allies. Our only interest in Italy was working on common targets."
Mr. Lady, who arrived in Milan in 2000, developed close personal relationships with Italian counterterrorism police. He says he brought Abu Omar to the Italians' attention a month before 9/11, identifying him as rising militant.
After the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, field operatives were under pressure to take "hard measures," as in the title of the memoir by former CIA clandestine service chief José Rodriguez, to produce "legitimate, actionable intelligence against terrorists," says Mr. Lady. "They were desperate times. We were working endless hours." He says his superior, Mr. Castelli, wanted to pull off a notable rendition just to help his own career. He calls Mr. Castelli "human exhaust" and suggests the feeling was mutual. "Castelli hated me so much," Mr. Lady says, "that he wouldn't let me near an operation like that." (Mr. Castelli, who has since left the CIA, didn't respond to requests for comment submitted through his office.)
The CIA station chief in Rome insisted on grabbing Abu Omar over objections from Mr. Lady and skepticism in Washington, according to Mr. Lady and Ms. de Sousa. Mr. Lady says Abu Omar was "a bad guy" but "not a major al Qaeda figure." His capture, the CIA agent worried, would irritate the Italian police, who had put in time and resources to monitor him.
Once Washington approved the rendition, Mr. Lady says he was told "either do it or get out of Dodge." Why not resign? "I was," he says with a long pause, "one year away from retirement. Would you throw away 23 years of your career and resign without a pension?"
As Italian investigators showed with excruciating detail, the "Italian job" was sloppy tradecraft. The several dozen agents brought in for the rendition—many more, says Mr. Lady, than the 20 identified by the Italians—used cellular phones and paid hotel bills with credit cards that were easily traced back to them.
Italian police raided Mr. Lady's house in 2005. They found a picture of Abu Omar on his computer and a flight reservation to Cairo from Zurich a few days after the Islamist's rendition. He says he took part in some of the interrogation sessions in Egypt, but never saw Abu Omar tortured. Mr. Lady says the photo came from the Italian police and wasn't classified, as press accounts suggested. Still, he made a cardinal mistake of bringing a spy's work home.
"We are not an organization equipped to do an operation that they tried to do," he says. "I think Ringling Brothers would do a better job." He was depicted as "the circus master," he says, "but I wasn't." Local CIA field operatives help but are kept at a distance from such operations to preserve "deniability," he says, adding that he didn't meet the agents who planned and executed the rendition.
The Abu Omar case poisoned relations with the Italians and embarrassed the CIA. The fallout has also hurt antiterror efforts, Mr. Lady says: "Politics in Italy has made it so difficult to go after these characters. Throughout Europe you almost have to catch them with a bomb in their hands, and then if it doesn't blow up, they say it's a toy." The CIA's bloated bureaucracy has demoralized field agents like him, he adds. That complaint is echoed in a recent agency internal report obtained by the Los Angeles Times in July.
After spending several years in the custody of Egypt's Mukharabat without charge, Abu Omar lives in Alexandria, Egypt. He's a wanted man in Italy.
Stuck in his own legal limbo, Mr. Lady says, "I'm a prisoner, serving time." He adds that the agency once told him it had picked up threats against him on al Qaeda Internet message boards. These days, he has "gone operational," keeping a low profile and "watching my back."
Sometimes, he says, "I wake up in the morning and say I want to shout to everyone, finally tell the truth about everything." The classified full story would cause a "scandal," in his words. "But I can't. I made a vow and frankly I think I'm going to die with that vow."
A vow to the CIA, the institution that you say betrayed you? "I made a vow to the flag. The institution, I clean my [expletive] with. My flag, I will never betray. I think the institution is betraying my country."
Mr. Kaminski is a member of the Journal's editorial board.


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on March 19, 2013 - 11:24 PM
Jan. 11, 1963 – March 18, 2013
Raymond A. Marien, of East Amherst, a certified public accountant, died Monday in Buffalo General Medical Center after a short illness. He was 50.
Born in Buffalo, he was a graduate of Amherst High School.
He earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Canisius College and his master's degree of business administration in accounting from the University at Buffalo.
He was a member of Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting honor fraternity.
A certified public accountant since 1990, he owned and operated his own accounting business in East Amherst.
He enjoyed nature photography, boating, bicycling, skiing and walking.
Surviving are a sister, Ellen A., and a close friend, Susan Crehan.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9 a.m. Friday in St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church, 200 St. Gregory Court at Maple Road, Amherst.


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"We're waiting for a decent swell to show up so we can check it out," said Jenny Harris of Ocean Surf Shop.
If you go
WHAT: Folly Beach County Park has reopened.
WHEN: 9 a.m. (Daily hours 9 a.m.-7 p.m.)
WHERE: 1100 W. Ashley Ave.
ADMISSION: $8 per vehicle.
PARKING: More than 200 spots.
FACILITIES: Lifeguards, portable restrooms and outdoor shower area, with snacks and drinks for sale.
Watch out, Washout. Folly Beach's east-end surfing mecca might have a little bit of a new rival on the west end. It would be an odd benefit from the controversial Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission project to save its nearly overwashed park grounds.
The renourished park reopened Wednesday.
For park planners, the prospect of a swell was unexpected, but not for surfers. Groins, it turns out, occasionally improve surfing, usually by creating a rip current along the "downstream" wall of the barrier. The rips make waves bigger, and a scoured deeper bottom downstream of the groin keeps waves together longer.
In fact, one of the occasional "off season" surf spots on Folly is the remnants of a groin built decades ago where the park begins.
Groins are barriers run from the beach into the surf to trap sand in the flow along the shore and to slow the erosion of the beach's sand. The renourishment project groin, built at the park's other end, is steel sheet piling with a concrete cap, armored with boulders and gravel at its end.
Groins are controversial because they divert sand from downstream beaches.
Park rules prohibit surfing, but the new groin is at the park's west, or downstream, end. In other words, the potential surfing sweet spot is across the groin from the park.
It would take just the right combination of wind and tides to kick up surf at the park groin. Most surfers are sticking to the Washout and other tried-and-true spots so far.
But more are trying the groin every day. Chris Stackley of Ladson took his kiteboard into the new chop recently.
"It has made it a little better down there, not that it was much of a surfing spot before," he said. "It needs almost a north swell to be any good. Whether it's going to be a great surf spot ... probably not."
Except that Folly Beach overall is now set to be renourished later this year, which will put a temporary damper on Washout waves. But the renourishment will end at the park, and that might enhance the groin waves.
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We will enslave and then bury you!
Pitiful human scum, only good for one thing, food!
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A rare last name mostly found in upstate South Carolina. Most Humans are trailer trash wanna-be musicians. They can be easily be spotted by their long hair and general bad personal hygiene. Whenever spotted, one should move as far away as possible.
Who is that hippy looking fella over there trying to play the bass guitar? Oh thats just a Human, don't pay him any attention, he'll return to his trailer soon enough.
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"god's" abortion....the human race
Humans:The most expendable form of life on the planet!!!!!
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a stupid, self-centered, and closed-minded race residing on this pitiful mudball and have jaded themselves to only worry about their own planet which is truly no more than a dot in this universe. luckily, they will be wiped out in less than a decade.
me: If you were human, where do you think you'd be?
Rayven" If I were human, I'd have shot myself two seconds after coming out of the womb.
Rayven" If I were human, I'd have shot myself two seconds after coming out of the womb.
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An omnivorous mammal, commonly known to the scientific community as, "homo sapiens", whose precise evolutionary origins remain in dispute. Though some believe that human beings are distinguished from other creatures through the unique possession of a "soul", others believe that it is the desire of humans to find a sense of "meaning" and "purpose" in their finite existence which separates man from other beasts. A poodle, for instance, cares not whether its existence serves any greater purpose than its own being. Such thoughts have probably never even occurred to any poodle through out history, nor a gorilla or even a dolphin for that matter. Nor are they ever likely to.
"Cheer up, you're only human."
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A human is you. I don't know why you'd look for this on the urban dictionary seeing as you most likely are one, but that's ok it's a free country.
(Unless it's not)
(Unless it's not)
You are probably a human if you're reading this
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one of the only animals that reproduces in group of 3 or more humans, they call this practice "orgies"
there is still no explanation for this practice, they just seem to like it
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"yesterday, I fucked 2 girls big time" the human sez
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Here are a few public-interest stories catching our eye in The Dallas Morning News and around the Web-o-sphere:
1. Happy Tax Day! Now sober up and consider this question: Is your tax preparer a crook? No problem, a Fort Worth Star-Telegram investigation finds. It focuses on a woman who has a history of financial crime but continues to work as a storefront tax preparer — a profession that Texas and most other states don't regulate. Nor are there national standards, the IRS admits. The Fort Worth woman now faces charges that she helped clients cheat the IRS out of millions by claiming bogus dependents and bogus business expenses.
2. Plano ISD is shelving a proposal to quit penalizing middle-schoolers for cheating or late assignments, Dallas Morning News reporter Matthew Haag reports. This comes just a week after Matt showed, using an open-records request, that teachers were dubious about the plan.
3. Dallas investor Barrett Wissman has pleaded guilty to securities fraud, The New York Times reports. Wissman (right) is cooperating with an ongoing investigation of corruption in the New York state pension fund. Wissman reportedly was a managing director for HFV Asset Management, a money manager for Dallas' big-name Hunt family. The Times reports that the Carlyle Group, the prominent private equity firm, is also under scrutiny in the New York investigation.
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The 2011 MLB season officially came to an end with the St. Louis Cardinals beating the Texas Rangers in Game 7 of the 2011 World Series.
It was a series that will undoubtedly go down in the annals of baseball history as one of the most intense and exciting ever, and it was a very fitting end to a year of baseball that is definitely worth remembering.
The final out marked the end of a great season that featured more than one memorable moment. Even though the play on the diamond is done, the memories will stick with us baseball fans for a very long time.
2011 was a season that saw incredible performances from some big name pitchers, hitters and teams.
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More than one young star was born, but even the veterans stepped up to show us that the old guard is still alive and well.
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FOSTORIA - Jason Willman took the individual win and four teammates finished in the top 15 Saturday as Seneca East cruised past Bryan 28-113 for the Fostoria Booster Invitational Red Division crown.
The Black Division also had a local individual winner in Old Fort's Marcus Meyer, while Hopewell-Loudon claimed second.
Willman crossed the line in 16:43.29 for the Tigers in the Red Division.
Carson Pipher claimed third (16:54.74), and Wes Pipher (17:00.99) and Jared Stockmaster (17:08.12) finished fifth and sixth. Karl Burgderfer added a 14th (17:35.41).
Michael Szabo (20th, 17:48.88) and Bryce Watson (26th, 18:05.17) rounded out the varsity contingent for Seneca East.
Columbian ended fifth (143) in the 15-team field, Upper Sandusky came in 11th (289) and Fostoria took 13th (314).
Brandon Gibson captured fourth (16:56.29) and Chris Gates clocked in seventh (17:20.69) for Columbian.
Upper Sandusky's Garrett Miller ran 16th (17:37.45) and Dominic Solis finished 32nd (18:13.38).
Fostoria got a 27th from C.J. Matheny (18:06.21) and a 38th from Salvador Cantero (18:28.93).
New Riegel did not field a full team. Caleb Welly ran 100th (20:08.08) and Brad Zoeller came in 149th (21:55.72).
In the Black Division, Meyers captured the individual title by finishing in 17:01.19 to lead the Stockaders to third with 141 points. Brad Bannister added a ninth (17:46.56) for Old Fort.
Pettisville beat H-L 75-96 for the team championship.
Robert Kniss (17:52.46) and Chet Swartzmiller (17:53.15) clocked in 14th and 15th to lead the runner-up Chieftains.
Marcus Ardner backed them with an 18th (18:00.37), Ryan Depinet ran 25th (18:19.53) and Dylan Napier came in 29th (18:28.66).
Carey took fourth (153) out of 16 teams, Mohawk ended ninth (199) and St. Wendelin finished 14th (381).
Brayden Leist's 19th (18:04.3) paced Carey and Ben Kromer finished 28th (18:27.78).
Mohawk's Mitch Brown ended 23rd (18:15.59) and Alex Hoerig came in 27th (18:26.34).
Jorden Nye captured 13th (17:49.6) for St. Wendelin, and Zach Dixon ended 105th (22:14.07).
H-L girls, Mohawk's Daniel race to second
FOSTORIA - Julia Daniel led the area individuals and Hopewell-Loudon did the same in the team standings Saturday as both captured second in the Fostoria Booster Invitational Black Division.
Daniel finished in 20:33.62 to help her team end 11th out of 16 squads with 254 points.
The runner-up Chieftains scored 103 points behind Kailey Coleman's eighth (21:34.82) and Shelby Raudebaugh's 14th (21:50.96).
Erin Reinhart-Anez added a 17th (21:57.64) for H-L, Leah Reinhart ran 32nd (22:47.13) and Haley Schreiner came in 48th (23:22.62).
St. Wendelin edged Carey 149-151 for fourth, thanks to Jocelyn Reinhart's seventh (21:22.04) and Victoria Volpe's 11th (21:41.45).
Carey got a 19th from Jaclyn Troiano (22:01.67) and a 22nd from Alivia Stephan (22:15.02).
Kayla Risner backed up Daniel by taking 47th (23:20.98) for Mohawk.
Seneca East came in 12th (287). Anna Willman captured fourth (21:13.61) for the Tigers and Alyssa England ended 60th (24:18.54).
Old Fort and Bettsville did not field full teams.
Alexis Rhodes claimed 13th (21:46.05) for New Riegel and Kayla Garza ran 15th (21:52.33). Alexis Davis ended 136th (32:51.07) for Bettsville and Kaitlyn Dymond came in 143rd (37:42.89).
Columbian finished fifth in the Red Division with 186 points behind Hanna Musil's 24th (21:35.24). Abrie Smith added a 32nd (21:58.02) for the Tornadoes.
Fostoria held off New Riegel 342-357 for 12th in the 17-team field, and Upper Sandusky took 16th (446).
Taylor Keeley ran 44th (22:10.01) for FHS and Raven Rodgers came in 73rd (23:01.45).
New Riegel got a 47th from Abby Cassidy (22:12.78) and a 50th from Ashley Mathias (22:19.49).
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Even though the Stetson men's soccer team earned seven points over the course of its last four league matches, which included a 2-2 overtime draw at Jacksonville Saturday night, it wasn't enough to earn the Hatters a berth in next week's Atlantic Sun Conference Championship.
With wins against Mercer and Florida Gulf Coast, and ties against USC Upstate and now Jacksonville, the Hatters (3-9-4, 2-4-2) end league play in a three-way tie with North Florida, and Jacksonville.
Since the Ospreys defeated Stetson and tied Jacksonville, they will be the fifth seed. The Dolphins, meanwhile, with ties against UNF and Stetson in their final two contests, earned the sixth seed in the tournament. The Hatters lost to UNF and tied Jacksonville, which put Stetson on the outside looking in.
"I was very proud of the effort from our guys," Stetson head coach T. Logan Fleck said. "I'm heartbroken for these guys that they didn't get into the tournament. They worked very, very hard, and it's unfortunate.
"This entire team grew throughout the season," Fleck continued. "They have become very fine young men and a great representation of Stetson University."
It was Stetson that scored first on Saturday night, as senior Raffaele Centofanti found freshman Ross Morison for his first career goal in the 37th minute of play.
The Hatters took that lead into halftime as senior Andreas Schnabl kept the slate clean during the first 45 minutes of action.
Jacksonville (4-10-3, 2-4-2) scored two goals in a span of four minutes to tie the game and then take the lead late in the second half. Shenaldo Parkes scored off of a free kick from Jack Burns in the 76th minute to make it 1-1, while Juan Arguedas scored unassisted on a free kick in the 80th minute to give the Dolphins the lead.
It was Stetson's Chase Rodgers who tied the game once again when he converted on a penalty kick with just 25 seconds to play in regulation.
Neither team was able to take the advantage during the 20 minutes of extra time so Stetson and Jacksonville left the field with a 2-2 draw.
The Dolphins outshot the Hatters 22-9, forcing Schnabl to make a total of seven saves in the contest. Jacksonville's Gavin Carlin did not make a save in the win.
Stetson will conclude the season with a non-conference contest at Florida Atlantic on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.


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2 Tbsp fresh parsley, minced for garnish
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Published November 21, 2013
More than 100 representatives from SUNY institutions across Western New York gathered at UB yesterday to talk about how they might develop more opportunities to share services in support of SUNY's vision of access, completion and success for its students.
The meeting, "Harnessing Systemness: Regional Discussions on Efficiency and Excellence," was the last of five regional forums sponsored by SUNY to foster greater collaboration among its campuses.
"It's all about working together; it's about finding these things that can ultimately help our campuses and ultimately help our students," Brian Hutzley, SUNY vice chancellor for shared services and regional economic development, told attendees, who represented a wide range of business functions, including IT, financial aid and human resources.
President Satish K. Tripathi welcomed participants to the meeting, held in the Center for Tomorrow, by pointing to the importance of collaborations among institutions in higher education. "By seeking partnerships with peer institutions in our region and across the nation and the world, we can improve academic programming, create new student opportunities, generate economic development in our communities through our research and innovation, and expand access to educational and economic opportunities," Tripathi said.
And while UB has successful relationships with its fellow SUNY institutions and others in Western New York, "there's always room for improvement," he said. The "Harnessing Systemness" meeting provides a "valuable opportunity to share ideas, concerns and questions in what has worked and what has not in terms of higher education collaborations and improving efficiency and excellence."
In a short presentation opening the meeting, Hutzley noted that Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, during her January 2013 State of the University Address, continually stressed three points: access, completion and success of SUNY students. "Why do we do anything? It's for those three things," he said.
The goal of shared services, Hutzley explained, is to improve the core services across the campuses for students, faculty and staff; meet and exceed students' expectations; and align resources — both funding and personnel — to meet SUNY's goals and address the needs of its students.
"So the new model is simply about working together," he said.
But with 64 campuses, SUNY is an "incredibly complicated system," he pointed out. "So there are going to be things that work together for 60 campuses, for 12 campuses, for six campuses," he said, noting that the SUNY campuses in Western New York have developed "the model" for working together.
Hutzley pointed out that after five years of budget cuts, the rational tuition plan implemented as part of NYSUNY 2020 has taken "some of the pressure off."
"So we're in a good place, and the best time to look at change and drive improvements is not when the pressure's on. Now's the time to be thinking about how we can operate more efficiently."
By working together – whether campus to campus, regionally or across the system — SUNY campuses can provide better service, create innovation, and improve the quality and efficiencies of services, he said.
"At the end of the day, if we're lucky, there's savings and then reinvestment" in such things as faculty hiring, scholarships and financial aid, he said.
Following Hutzley's remarks, participants broke up into separate discussion areas organized by functional area. The sessions were designed to provide participants an opportunity to meet and learn from their peers from other SUNY campuses. Participants were encouraged to share success stories and best practices from their institutions, while examining new opportunities to create collaborations.


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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis's straightforward, spontaneous style is quickly becoming the hallmark of his papacy.
On his first Sunday as pontiff, Francis startled crowds on the streets around the Vatican when he walked out a side gate to shake hands. He then celebrated Mass at the Vatican's tiny parish church St. Anna's, delivering a relatively brief six minute homily.
After Mass, Francis again put his security detail to the test, wading into the street just outside St. Anna's Gate and stepping up to the crowd to grasp outstretched hands. The atmosphere was so casual that several people even gripped Francis on the shoulder.
Later, he delighted a crowd of more than 100,000 in St. Peter's Square when he delivered off-the-cuff remarks about God's power to forgive instead of reading from a written speech during the first Sunday window appearance of his papacy. He also spoke only in Italian, instead of in several languages as his last few predecessors had done, telling the faithful "have a good lunch" at the end of his remarks.


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quote: If I was the top dog at Samsung, I'd cut them off and not supply them with any more parts. Sure it might hurt the bottom line a little, but seriously, screw Apple.
quote: Do the world a favor and stick it to that out of control company.


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Samsung Galaxy S IV to be impressive performer, but made out of plastic?
0. phoneArena 04 Mar 2013, 03:02 posted on
The Samsung Galaxy S IV puzzle is getting solved each day by the rumor and today's part is about the materials it is made of…
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1. dilse (Posts: 25; Member since: 24 Aug 2012)
4.99=5 inch..people want a phone not a phablet sammy....
11. tech2 (Posts: 3458; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
phablet is 5.5 inch with a stylus and almost all companies are going for 5 inch screen this year.
59. PhoenixWright (Posts: 102; Member since: 11 Feb 2013)
Isn't 5 inches the boundary for the phablet category?
Plus a Phablet doesn't necessarily need a stylus.
108. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1176; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
I have stated this before when someone asked the same question: a phablet is defined as a device BETWEEN (but not including) 5 inches and 7 inches. This means a phone with a screen size anywhere between 5.1-6.9 inches is defined as a phablet (at least for right now).
117. RiseAgainst94 (Posts: 281; Member since: 03 Mar 2012)
How is the term phablet even relevant? The only thing that's relevant is how big people perceive the phone to be.
141. PhoenixWright (Posts: 102; Member since: 11 Feb 2013)
Objection! I just stated boundary, I didn't say 5 was already a Phablet.
123. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5711; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
so the OG Note was not a Phablet? :p
138. haroonazeem638 (Posts: 141; Member since: 29 Mar 2011)
The OG Note was a Phablet. It had a 5.3 inch display.
27. a1000smiles4u (Posts: 84; Member since: 24 Apr 2012)
Once you use it.... Every other device with smaller size looks like a toy.
But then thr r ppl who won't stop complaining
55. clark (Posts: 51; Member since: 23 Feb 2013)
its just you who wants a phone with smaller screen not us.
66. shadez10 (Posts: 427; Member since: 15 Jan 2012)
maybe in the future you would want a 21" phone...
good luck with your pocket... xD
70. takay0 (Posts: 144; Member since: 25 Mar 2012)
I i want a smaller screen too! 5 inch its just too nig for comfortable use! if you are in bed/wanna use with 1 hand.. its too big! 4.5 its the biggest screen that you can use and still be comfortable!
84. jan25 (Posts: 470; Member since: 26 Feb 2012)
I think 4.7 inch is ideal, but 5 inch display with minimum bezel wont be a deal breaker.
91. gmracer1 (Posts: 646; Member since: 28 Dec 2012)
What's a 'phablet sammy?'
103. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
No one wants a 4" phone. U know who im talkn bout ;)
109. Taters (banned) (Posts: 6474; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
The biggest phone ever is the Lumia 920 and that only has a 4.5 inch screen. Also the Xperia ZL has a 5 inch screen and it is smaller than most 2012 flagships of varying screen sizes, including the 4.8 GS3, 4.7 One X. etc.
Also, the LG Optimus G measurements make it sound tiny but it actually feels huge compared to the GS3 because of the perfect blocky rectangle shape. So stop judging phone size on only one criteria. There are a lot of variables that go into it.
116. Nokianhero (banned) (Posts: 26; Member since: 04 Mar 2013)
Who wants to buy someting from samsung. Nokia has the best phones, fastest cpus and operating system
130. hiBreed (Posts: 90; Member since: 29 May 2012)
Lol, as much as i love nokia and their premium devices, i dont think u should write another manufacturer off, even huawei(say who are we) deserves a chance with their latest 'soldiers'
132. _PHug_ (Posts: 444; Member since: 11 Oct 2011)
Nokia fell off after the N95.
They are done, toss them in the river along with Blackberry, Windows phones and Palm
133. richardyarrell2011 (banned) (Posts: 510; Member since: 16 Mar 2011)
You poor soul working over their at Nokia must be pretty lonely. It's a reflection of Nokia and it's pitiful sales and Marketing share in 2012. Get off those drugs your smoking Samsung sold 213 million smartphones in 2012. 40% market share proves enough.
129. hiBreed (Posts: 90; Member since: 29 May 2012)
Whats with all the thumb downs? The dude is right, just cause samsung is doing it doesnt make it good. I love the note series, but when i want a phone, it actually means i want a phone, when i want a bridge (phone+tablet) i'll get the note okay!
134. richardyarrell2011 (banned) (Posts: 510; Member since: 16 Mar 2011)
Another lost soul. What's this world coming too.
139. scsa852k (Posts: 329; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
Well, get used to it.
There will be tons of 5 inch Full HD Quadcore phones thrown at our faces this year.
2. dil2abu (Posts: 305; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
Samsung don't know to make a Premium Phone..
Learn it from Sony..
3. Esf_Kid (Posts: 49; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
and nokia :D
4. dil2abu (Posts: 305; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
Yea.. I love their Lumia series..
28. belovedson (Posts: 988; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
samsung can make use of other materials over plastic for their phones. but will mostly not do so, they will repeat their builds until they have to change and right now plastic with bits of metal is fine
5. tech2 (Posts: 3458; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
premium phone is judged by what is inside not by its body. If sammy could make it more durable then who cares its plastic. BTW it might be polycarbonate which is the same material used by Nokia and few other manufacturers.
and whats the point to have a nicely designed phone but when u turn it on you have to look at outdated specs and TFT screen ?
10. naveenstuns (Posts: 172; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
"premium phone is judged by what is inside not by its body"
are you kidding
tell me one advantage you have in galaxy s4 comparing with galaxy s3 other than display.You can play all the apps in playstore with s3 then what is the need for better processors and spending more for that.
17. tech2 (Posts: 3458; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
If you can read my comment, I am not comparing S4 with S3 its with Sony and Nokia trolls. read the whole comment first before commenting
20. naveenstuns (Posts: 172; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
all apps u mentions are available on s3 then why s4?????
25. tech2 (Posts: 3458; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
Dude, WTF ! are a stupid bat ! Read my whole comment first !
I never mentioned S3 or compared with S3. I am comparing S4 with Nokia and Sony, thick headed !
64. nasznjoka (Posts: 402; Member since: 05 Oct 2012)
yeah man whats inside is what judges the premium phone. a phone with 'SMART FEATURES' to differentiate you from fellows' phones. IF ITS BY OUTSIDE LOOK sammy know that after a day or two YOU GON BUY A PLASTIC COVER FOR YOUR PHONE THEN HIDDING YOUR PREMIUM LOOKS BY 'cheap' PLASTIC.
140. juanyunis (Posts: 73; Member since: 31 Aug 2012)
That's a good point of view. The first thing i did for Galaxy Note II was, to buy a cover from elago for 10 bucks and the funny part is that now the phone feels more premium because the material used by elago is very good. So in the end you are right.
13. clark (Posts: 51; Member since: 23 Feb 2013)
I agree on you, it should be judged by specs not on body. What is the use of polycarbonate or aluminum body if the specs and features are crap? Watta waste.
106. Eonnaydra (Posts: 217; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
On specs?On features ?You are oficially an idiot!
Where is the innovation?A octo core which has the same speed as a dual core?13 Mpx camera from Sony?a plastic body?a 5 inch display which cannot fit my pocket?The industry is sleeping.
I don't need specs,I need innovation.Specs are useless without software optimisation.
111. ashisharbola (Posts: 62; Member since: 20 Oct 2012)
They r not making pH for u....ur not the only buyer....if u don't like it buy something else
68. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
your comment is so absurd you should feel sad.
Seriously? so premium now is based on the specs and not the body? you can make a super spec'd device but you can't always make it as premium as others.
Premium doesn't mean specs alone. It's a part of being premium but there are things to consider like build quality, materials used and design.
You can always use same material like what nokia used, but you can never say that it would be a premium product. You can use aluminum, but can still be look crappy if the design sucks. You can use polycarbonate plastic and great design, but with lack of build quality, it's nothing more like the chinese made products.
if you would want to comment such thing, you should not put yourself on a place where you favor a company.
All i can say is that samsung puts the best specs there is on a phone but the build quality of their products is not that impressive.
76. jsdechavez (Posts: 731; Member since: 20 Jul 2012)
Agree.. It has to look, feel, and work as a premium device should. The WOW factor starts on the outside.
80. tech2 (Posts: 3458; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
You need to understand that it was a reply to an earlier comment. So you should read the earlier comment first before calling me sad.
If you'd read that you would know I am saying is that if there is a TFT screen and u cant play all apps then whats the point of being a premium handset ? Ofcourse, everyone needs a phone with 'premium' finish but if it has less functions, is it worth it ?
Moreover, design is subjective, whereas material isnt, thats why I pointed out that its made out of polycarbonate and durability.
Put some thought when posting a comment next time !
92. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
I agree with you in the part where functionality should be also a factor to consider for a phone to be categorized as premium. But saying that "premium phone is judged by what is inside not by its body" makes me nod. That's what I'm pointing out here.
There are a lot of factors to consider. Not the specs alone. We could categorize something premium in papers, but we should also consider performance.
Also, do you think you could consider a phone with a super ridiculous design? I guess not. It comes hand in hand. I know we have personal preference when it comes to design, but it should be considered.
The part where you told that "u can't play all apps", I don't get it. So you're saying that if an ecosystem lacks apps, it can't be considered premium? I guess not. As long as the functionality and performance satisfies most consumer, it's enough.
110. Taters (banned) (Posts: 6474; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
LOL man people are stupid. First, yes premium is based on specs as well. BMW and Mercedes would not be premium cars if they had crappy engines, which are the equivalent of specs. You know, 500 horse power is a spec and that is basically what makes it premium.
Pricing at a premium also makes a product premium.
There is a lot that goes into and yes, some of it is subjective, but specs are not. It absolutely has to have the specifications to make it premium. The outside appearance less so since premium pre washed jeans with holes all over the place are like $500 and are considered premium.
That is besides the point though, regardless of how much of a Samsung hater you are, high end Samsung phones are premium. They use premium manufacturing processes using premium parts which include fast memory, ripping engine, big nice batteries.
Just because morons like you say that ooh cheap plastic, that isn't even cheap plastic(could be expensive for all we know), counters all the other premium elements it doesn't make it true.
YOU DO NOT decide what is premium or not, society does.
142. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
seriously man, you bashed all the way without comprehending my comment.
"Premium doesn't mean specs alone. It's a part of being premium but there are things to consider like build quality, materials used and design."
where's the part that i said that premium devices don't need to be high spec'd?
I'm not a hater. I love samsung. got a note 2 here. I can say that it's premium for the design and performance I experienced was superb. But it lacks one thing, having the best build quality. It has like just "acceptable".
you called me a moron without understanding what I said? Seriously? Stop being a fan boy for once before leaving such comment.
Please read again my comment. You're missing my point. There are a lot of things to consider, not specs alone.
93. picka_vi_materina (Posts: 174; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
Nothing is ever judged by what's inside. High specs make it a high specced device, not premium. Mercedes is a premium / luxury brand. They can put a 800cc Fiat Panda engine and still sell the car as premium quality. Put your plasticky looking Samsung toy next to an iPhone or Nokia on a table and see which looks more premium and gets more eyeballs.
102. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4216; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
So if they came out with a device with all of the specs of a G1 or original iphone, but the body was made out of titanium and the screen out of bullet resistant glass, it would be a premium device?
A premium device should have it all, specs and hardware. But this whole anything plastic is bad, anything metal is good is getting ridiculous. Metal feels stronger and more sturdy, but in a fall shock absorption would be worse. By that I mean the force of the shock would be transferred to a greater degree to the mainboard and the screen. And by the way, not all plastics are cheap. Go check out "unbreakable" outlet covers, they'll bend and flex all day long but won't crack or break. Now granted they don't feel like platinum, but they'd be a helluva lot more durable than anything we have now.
But it seems to be even less about durability, but about show off points. When you can say to people "my phone is made out of glass" you feel better about it. We've seen how glass phones hold up (iphones 4/s, nexus 4). While they look cool to some, they'll never be as durable as a metal or even a plastic bodied phone, but they have the cool factor and the "sense" of being premium.
112. Taters (banned) (Posts: 6474; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
You couldn't be more wrong. No one is going to buy an SL500 if the engine sucks.
127. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4216; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
Exactly. If Mercedes actually used a Fiat engine, there is not a soul other than blindly loyal Mercedes fans who would call it "premium". Case in point, the Cadillac Catera. They used a motor from a lower brand, I believe Saturn. It was a monumental failure.
I mean seriously, would anyone call a Sony TV with a metal case but with 1st gen lcd tech and a resolution of 480x320 "premium"? That's why, to me anyway, none of these phones are what I'd call "premium". Everyone is lacking one thing that would make it so. Samsung- build quality, HTC-battery, LG- all of the above, Apple-limited customization, etc. All of them always leave something out so we'll want to buy the next model.
135. richardyarrell2011 (banned) (Posts: 510; Member since: 16 Mar 2011)
You are 100 % correct on this one. Clearly 213 million smartphones sold in 2012 tells the total story here. 40% market share tells the story also Samsung has nothing to prove to anyone. People who purchase Samsung products understand exact what they are getting. They also know they have industry leading device with top of the line software implementation and industry leading feature solutions that NEVER WILL BE MATCHED. Sony is pitiful in the android space matter of fact Nokia is just as useless they are both pretty comical.
6. VJo003 (Posts: 357; Member since: 11 Mar 2012)
Define premium
22. dil2abu (Posts: 305; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
The Build Quality, Build Material, Unique Design
Which makes the phone fell premium when u Hold it.. Rich feel for the money u spend..
Xperia P, Ion & Z fo eg..
31. MrNobodyWTB (Posts: 27; Member since: 03 Jan 2012)
It could feel like a million bucks, but if whatever phone you have doesn't offer a great user experience, it wouldn't matter how it feels.
37. dil2abu (Posts: 305; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
I have used Xperia P & Ion.. It worth every single rupee I spent on it.. And no doubt with Xperia Z..
These are Premium and Enuf Powerful..
54. MrNobodyWTB (Posts: 27; Member since: 03 Jan 2012)
Excuse me. But please elaborate, with proper grammar so we can understand you, where great user experience directly translates to having "enuf powerful"?
TouchWiz (at least the Nature UX version) has actually been a pleasure for me to use.
60. MrJerry (Posts: 403; Member since: 05 Oct 2012)
Sorry those might have premiun feel for first grip but inside is full of s**t
Im not even talking about its inside components
You dont even need to know them
All you need is to play with them for like an hour and compare them with GS3. Then you will realize how s**tty sony phone is...
I got this conclusion after I played Xperia Z vs, the latest sony shiny stuff and now I know why sony is almost on the verge of bankruptcy;
"Dont make smartphones for your freaks"
"Make them for normal users"
136. richardyarrell2011 (banned) (Posts: 510; Member since: 16 Mar 2011)
Sony's standing in the android community is a total JOKE. Stick to Sony Play station and leave smartphones to the big dogs. Sony smartphones are garbage especially software wise. They NEVER UPDATE any handsets and are basically a total laughing stock.
83. Oxygen (Posts: 125; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
So true mate!
I made the switch from the "premium" Xperia S to the S3 since the user experience on the Xperia was plain, boring and horrible. No optimization, boring ui and it lagged often. My gf is happy with it though, since she's not a heavy user and because it's stylish and have a "premium" design.
94. picka_vi_materina (Posts: 174; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
That's still called premium. Vertu used Nokia's S40, and yet they were premium quality phones costing >1000 euros.
47. MrJerry (Posts: 403; Member since: 05 Oct 2012)
Please dont take your personal preference as PREMIUM
53. zuckerboy (banned) (Posts: 898; Member since: 22 Dec 2011)
but sony has no idea about how to make poweful phones
62. VJo003 (Posts: 357; Member since: 11 Mar 2012)
So as per you the physical appearance is a factor that supersedes the performance of the device.
As long a it's made of metal all is well.


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LISBON - A 23-year-old Leetonia woman was sentenced in Columbiana County Municipal Court Thursday to 180 days in jail for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle after taking her mother's car with permission to do so for only a short time and then failing to return it within 48 hours.
According to Assistant County Prosecutor Don Humphrey, Megan Detchon was taken into custody in a disreputable neighborhood in Youngstown, where she was with her boyfriend, who is a registered sex offender, and her 2 1/2-year-old daughter.
The boyfriend, Brooks Cartwright, 31, Rush Boulevard, Youngstown, was in court earlier in the week when he was bound over to the county grand jury on a charge of failure to notify authorities of his change of address as a registered sexual offender.
Detchon has been in custody for 10 days on the felony unauthorized use of a motor vehicle charge and was credited with that time served. While Humphrey and her defense attorney Eric Kibler recommended a plea agreement where she would serve only another 10 days, Judge Mark Frost did not suspend the remaining jail time. He did set the matter for review on Feb. 4, which would leave her serving at least another 11 days.
Humphrey said the days Detchon serves will afford time for her mother to find her another place to stay, hopefully with a substance abuse treatment program. Detchon passed a drug test ordered by Frost, but the judge did note she has already been in custody for some time.
Humphrey said there are additional issues including possible credit card misuse, which are being investigated, but no charges have been filed.
Another concern held by Humphrey was a claim by Detchon that she is currently pregnant. Detchon confirmed her belief of a pregnancy in the courtroom, adding she thinks Cartwright is the father and she could be more than eight months along. But she also admitted her condition has not yet been diagnosed by a physician. Detchon said a nurse at the jail has set her up an appointment with a doctor.
"I don't want the county paying for the delivery of this baby," Humphrey said of his recommendation for 10 days to serve with the remaining 160 suspended.
Detchon's daughter is reportedly now in the custody of grandparents, as ordered by Juvenile Court Judge Thomas Baronzzi. Frost said when Detchon is released she is not to interfere with the custody situation. Additionally he said when she is placed on probation he will order her to stay away from Cartwright and undergo more drug testing.
"The guy you were hanging around with that day has a record of doing bad stuff," Frost said to Detchon. "You took your daughter to a neighborhood with a bad reputation. That's where people get shot, you know that?"
Detchon piped up that she actually believed the south side of Youngstown to be one of the better areas in the city.
"Your mother was put into a position of doing something she probably didn't want to do," Frost said of the mother's decision to file charges, "but she did it because she loved her daughter and her granddaughter."
Frost continued that he was very concerned Detchon believes she is as much as eight and a half months pregnant, but had yet to see a doctor.
"There are drugs in this case, whether it's you or your boyfriend," Frost added. "I hope for the sake of your unborn child, it's not you."
The plea agreement included reducing the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle charge from a felony to a first-degree misdemeanor.