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on February 7, 2013 - 1:00 AM
Team competitions are a big part of the high school experience. Usually, people associate team activities with sports. However, many schools offer Mock Trial, which involve students in a courtroom experience unlike any other.
Although New York State does not participate in the National Mock Trial Tournament, it does hold its own statewide competition, which takes place from January to May. This competition includes more than 350 teams from across the state, and the final round takes place in Albany. Only six teams make it to the final round each year. In Western New York, there are about 25 teams that compete to reach the final round. Judges, lawyers and others who work in law-related jobs are the judges for the competitions, which can be beneficial to the students who receive feedback at the end.
To prepare for the competition, each participating school receives a court case, written by lawyers from the New York State Bar Association. Each team proceeds to split into the plaintiff (or prosecution) and the defense sides of the case. For each side, three students play the parts of witnesses and six students play lawyers. Each team works with at least one attorney adviser to help them through the trial process. During the competition, the teams compete as either the defense or plaintiff. Both the lawyers and the witnesses receive scores, and the team with the highest score wins.
The case this year is Morgan Martin v. Cattaraugus Programming University, a case concerning deceptive business practices. It centers on Martin, a recent graduate of CPU who cannot pay back student loans. Upset that the diploma earned at CPU only results in a minimum wage job, Martin sues CPU under the New York State General Business Law, alleging that the university used fraudulent practices to lead Martin to a worthless job and $80,000 in debt.
All the witness names are gender neutral in the case to give equal opportunity to everyone trying out for a witness role, so the case includes Dr. Chris Cringle, the head of a college accreditation company, and Jordan Phillips, a former CPU admissions counselor joining Martin on the plaintiff side. On the defense, Dr. Shannon Charlton, the dean of admissions at CPU; Dana Detter, a current admissions and financial aid counselor at CPU; and Casey Key, the valedictorian of Martin's class at CPU, strive to prove that CPU did not commit fraud.
Mock Trial introduces students to the legal system through teamwork and friendly competition, and students do not need to be law school-bound to join a team. Witnesses and lawyers alike need to be able to think on their feet throughout the course of the competition, so anyone who has a remote interest in the law or role-playing can join. If your school does have a team, go to a trial and see how complex and enjoyable the competitions are. If your school does not have a team and you are interested in forming one, visit the New York State Bar Association's website for more information.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - The creeping crud seems to be going around the village right now. The best way to avoid it is to stay outside - do not go into a closed area with people that are sick.
Instead, go to the Hacienda's anniversary party tonight (Jan. 24) before going into hibernation. Hope this stuff ends quickly as we have a lot of winter left at Tahoe. Plus with the Super Bowl ahead, no one wants to miss out on the parties that will be on in Tahoe this year. Of course for the Lions, Packers and Vikings fans living here (we all know who you are), there is always next year!
Remember that we have several events happening this weekend in the village. First up is the annual Community Snowshoe Hike to Snowflake Lodge. It is on Friday night, Jan. 25, and you need to sign up to participate. Stop at the Rec. Center to sign up or call 775-832-1177.
On Saturday, Jan. 26, the Incline High School Crab and Pasta Feed is at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom. For information visit www.inclinecrabfeed.com.
Tahoe Safe Alliance has a couple of events coming up. A ski day at Sugar Bowl is Sunday, Feb. 3 and the annual Father/Daughter Dance at the Tahoe Biltmore is Friday, Feb. 8. Information for both events can be found by visiting www.tahoesafealliance.org.
The Ullrfest activities at Diamond Peak will take place from Friday, Feb. 8, to Sunday, Feb. 10. They do have a poker tournament on Thursday night, Feb. 7, too. For a complete list of events visit www.dpsef.org and plan to attend. The annual Torchlight Parade is always spectacular.
Congratulations to local artist Ronnie Rector. Her painting "Faire Queen" is now hanging in the Reno Little Theater on Pueblo Street. The painting will be displayed until April 29, so head down and take a look.
Also anyone interested in ordering Girl Scout cookies should call Ronnie Rector at 775-832-2210. Orders will be delivered at the end of February.
Happy Anniversary on Jan. 31 to John and Suzy Lusk. Congratulations.
Birthdays to celebrate this week include: Katie Nelson on Jan. 17; Pandora Bahlman, Keagan Belletich, Kane Sasani-Bleers and Laurel Jones on Jan. 25; Justin April, Hank Echter, Samantha Gough, Aaron Muzio, Jaclyn Ream, Jan Schumacher and Brad Wilson on Jan. 27; and Brad Brink, Josh Lindsey, Patrick McCune and Jim Whitson on Jan. 30. Happy Birthday!
For deals and steals this week I do not think we can find a better deal than free skiing at Diamond Peak next week. All residents with a current IVGID picture pass or punch cards who don't have a season pass can ski or ride free each day from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3. Go enjoy your mountain!
As always send in your birthdays, anniversaries and news, along with the best deals and steals you can find, to firstname.lastname@example.com. Don't forget to send in Super Bowl Party ideas, too.


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Ceylan synthetically constructs his portrait of bi-continental Turkish national identity from the tissues of high-modernist European and Middle Eastern masters, from the metaphysical phantasmagoria of Tarkovsky to the cosmological landscapes of Kiarostami. With the sun setting on the autumnal latter, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia descends into an endless digital expanse of sensual blacks, cut by glowing high-beams, which in turn will give way to an unforgettable gas-lit interlude. Ceylan's latest, easily his best, is 2011's most inexhaustible work of cinema.
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, Hungary/
France/Germany/Switzerland/United States)
Purportedly Hungarian master Tarr's final film, The Turin Horse provides the most distilled expression of the director's style to date: Tarr's heavily choreographed, phenomenological long-takes bleakly inscribe a series of quotidian gestures on a perpetually windswept Central European plane. No less signature is Tarr's Nietzschean take on a European civilization that has already collapsed. This is Tarr bringing both his corpus and Europe's fin de siècle late modernism - in form and in content - to a highly masterful conclusion.
A sign of life in an increasingly endangered corner of world cinema, Farhadi builds one of the art's more comprehensive portraits of human relations under theocratic rule, constructing a private social sphere in which virtually nothing exists outside the sight of fundamentalist Islam's invisible monitors. A Separation's consistently transparent architectural spaces fulfill an especially crucial role in enabling the the surveillance that provides the film with its inherently critical subject. A masterpiece of Iran's latest filmic wave.
4. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, United States)
A rare example of a genuinely American art cinema - and easily the year's most ambitious work - The Tree of Life reproduces God's Book of Job answer to his human interrogators, combining the beauty of divine creation that provides this response with a form of confessional autobiography that looks to the director's adolescent origins. The latter sequences showcase the exceptional impressionistic power of Malick's subjective film craft, which ultimately outweighs Malick's reliance on New Age cliché.
5. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran)
A home movie of unparalleled personal courage, festival auteur Panahi (under house-arrest and a twenty year ban from filmmaking at the time of production) and documentarian Mirtahmasb combine a series of tangential forms - surveillance, the reading and blocking of a screenplay, the scouting of a location - that stand outside Panahi's prevailing narrative practice. Constructed out of the medium's remainders, few works have ever made what is forbidden to Panahi any more meaningful.
Ever the most Mizoguchian of contemporary directors, Davies's latest tragic masterstroke reprises the disjunctive Proustian temporality of the director's very great Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes in cinematically adapting Terrence Rattigan's eponymous 1952 play. Davies remains gloriously stuck in the postwar moment of his legit source material, nostalgically remembering a bygone working class public that the filmmaker elegantly casts in a warm amber glow.
7. Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/France/Germany)
Espousing the virtue of humanistic resistance in the face of punitive immigration-law enforcement, leading Finnish auteur Kaurismäki's first French-set film in almost two decades finds the director in his default deadpan comedic style and preferred proletarian milieu. The level of Kaurismäki's filmmaking however exceeds his standard high quality, with the the director employing a thematically significant, metronomic economy of primary colors that offers a parallel source of formal interest.
Old Dog (Pema Tseden, China)
A modern-day classic of humanist cinema that reinforces the art's perpetual role in dramatizing the contested arrival of modernity, one of the medium's primary subjects for the past 120 years, Old Dog situates Tibet and Tibetan culture as sites of exploitation for a newly wealthy urban China. Directed with great intelligence by Pema Tseden, Old Dog is a breakthrough for a newly emergent Tibetan cinema, and the nation's art cinema more generally.
A profoundly humanistic companion-piece to Le Havre, The Kid with a Bike similarly features an at-risk youth who finds his savior in a charitable adult stranger. Where Kaurismäki engages with contemporary politics, the Dardenne brothers opt for a more archetypal, though no less personally urgent narrative treating the appeal of adolescent gang life. Breathlessly rendering their on-the-move young subject with equally mobile camera work, The Kid with a Bike is boundlessly cinematic.


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Back to school means back to bullying. But this year might be different when it comes to bullying.
A law that was put into action July 1 takes a stand against bullying and harassment. The Dignity for All Students Act protects public school students from bullying and harassment. Bullying against race, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religious practice, religion, sexual orientation, gender or disability is not allowed in any public school across New York State. If any student is caught bullying and there is proof of it, a teacher must report it.
Violating the law can result in a punishment of up to one year in jail or a fine of $1,000.
So the question is, will this really have an effect on bullying?
"I think this has fixed bullying, but I also believe it's a bit over the top with the fining of $1,000 or having to go to jail for a year," said Katie Colby, a freshman at Niagara Wheatfield High School. "But the dignity act did help with bullying for me. I was a victim of bullying, at school and cyberbullying. It has helped because I feel like I can express myself more and not be afraid to do so."
Andrew Zuccari, a sophomore at Niagara Wheatfield, said, " I think due to the punishments this act will cut down bullying and stop fighting to make the school safer."
Tammy Dobe, a teacher at Niagara Wheatfield, also thinks that this law will help with bullying.
"I think the students will think twice before doing something immature because they know it will result in an investigation," she said.
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Perry, Dewhurst, Straus call for state cancer agency to stop making awards
Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus have called for a moratorium on all future grants from Texas' troubled cancer-fighting agency until the agency fully addresses concerns.
They told the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to "fully address the concerns that have been raised about its processes and operations prior to future grants being awarded." The three leaders addressed the letter to CPRIT's oversight board. Perry, Dewhurst and Straus appoint most of the agency's board members.
The letter was released today following announcements by two Texas state senators. Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, had written to Perry this morning calling for reforms, including a moratorium on grants to companies. Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, has also filed legislation calling for reforms.
Read our CPRIT archives. For live updates, follow @DMNInvestigates on Twitter and like the DMN Investigates page on Facebook.


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It was great to mete Pete Brown at MIX10, and the timing of the OData / WinPhone7 release couldn't have been more exciting. Thanks to PeteB for doing the interview!
Here's a bit of info about MimeCloud. We're still finalising a few things at the moment and have switched the CodePlex hosting over to Mercurial, so a code refresh on there is still around a fortnight away (mid-April 2010), but if you are like the folks who've contacted us wanting a stable open-source .NET image/asset management system it'll be worth the wait
MimeCloud isn't just for Umbraco, you can actually use it with anything even if it's internal and "offline" - it's essentially a framework that you can integrate with your existing systems or use standalone. We're providing a Silverlight and HTML client out of the box, and it can upload to FTP or cloud hosting - plus you can write your own providers too.
Here's the "elevator pitch" - a phrase I only learnt off Pete Brown at the start of the interview!
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The Senate lauds attorney for combating crimes
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- Santo Domingo- The Senate recognized the prominent attorney Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) for his contributions to the war on drug trafficking, corruption and organized crime. The resolution submitted by Barahona senator Eddy Mateo also highlights Castillo's work to advance the best interests of the nation. Senate president Reinaldo Pared who headed the activity, said the lawyers life is comparable with the late president Juan Bosch's thought when he said the nation isn't used, it's served. If you speak about fighting corruption, Vincho Castillo has also been at the forefront, in the first line, the front row. If to fight all the evils which he feels certain sectors of our society carry with them, we've also had Vincho as the first soldier fighting on behalf of this nation we love so much and which is called the Dominican Republic, the lawmakers said. Castillo has been the target of at least one documented assassination attempt, and two of his bodyguards have been gunned down under unclear circumstances during the last two years. Read original at
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So, I was feeling rather blank and kept waiting for the elusive inspiration to come! Finally, one afternoon Addie made a random little comment: she said that she wanted to "make flags for all of her friends". And I finally had ideas, with which I made a loose sketches to keep for later.
When I had some time, I went through my bin of fabric and paper scraps and selected out many appealing bits (Adelaide helped with this). Using my sharpest scissors and an exacto knife, I cut out lots of triangles and other shapes, and with them made my composition. I then scanned them into photoshop, where I cleaned up my image and decided what was missing, and scanned and added accordingly.
When satisfied with my image, I saved my file into a .tif and placed it in Illustrator. I do this because I despise working with typography in Photoshop, Illustrator is much better for this kind of work. There I then added the copy, going back to slightly tweak the background image in Photoshop a couple of times until it worked out best for the space. The typeface I used is from the Neutraface family, a font which I adore!
One completed, I printed them out onto heavy watercolour paper using my (Epson Stylus Photo 1400) desktop printer, trimmed them down using a sharp new xacto blade and metal ruler on a cutting mat, and rounded the corners using my corner rounder. Ready to go!
In this age of evites and emails, invitations seem almost redundant, but I love the idea of having made an invitation for my daughter each year, collecting them up just for her. My goal, eventually, is to frame them up all together, year by year, for her to keep for always.
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Fitch Parking
As most of you know, Cubs pitchers and catchers have reported to Fitch Park, and a number of infielders and outfielders are also in camp.
The pitchers are presently working in four groups, with the four groups rotating periodically from the batting cage, to the ten pac (pitch and catch), to Field #2 for PFP (Pitchers Fielding Practice), and to Field #3 for pick-off drills. A loud blaring horn alerts the pitchers when it's time to move to another location.
Andrew Cashner
Ryan Dempster
John Gaub
Tom Gorzelanny
Sean Marshall
Carlos Silva
Carlos Zambrano
Mitch Atkins
Casey Coleman
J. R. Mathes
Mike Parisi
David Patton
Jeff Stevens
Justin Berg
Esmailin Caridad
Rafael Dolis
John Grabow
Carlos Marmol
Jeff Samardzija
Randy Wells
Thomas Diamond
Jeff Kennard
Marcos Mateo
Blake Parker
Vince Perkins
James Russell
Jeff Gray (strained groin), Angel Guzman (knee surgery rehab), and Ted Lilly (shoulder surgery rehab and a sore knee) did not participate in drills today.
And Carlos Silva is hopelessly out of shape, barely able to move, although he is participating in PFP & pick-off drills. I suspect Silva might end up spending much of the next two seasons on the 60-day DL.
The seven catchers in camp (Geovany Soto, Welington Castillo, Koyie Hill, Robinson Chirinos, Steve Clevenger, Blake Lalli, and Chris Robinson) spend most of their morning catching pitchers throwing in the ten pac pit (six or seven pitchers throw simultaneously), and then after the pitchers have completed their work, the catchers break up into two groups and take BP (with coaches throwing) on Field #3 (Soto, K. Hill, W. Castillo, and Chirinos) and Field #2 (Clevenger Lalli, and Robinson). So far, Geovany Soto has been the Star of Camp, hitting a number of balls out onto 8th Street in BP. He also has lost a lot of weight and looks to be in great shape
Meanwhile, the non-catcher position players who have arrived take BP and fielding practice on Field #1. Non-Roster Invitee 1B-OF Bryan Lahair (ex-SEA) has been wowing Fitch Park onlookers with prodigious BP power demonstrations, and NRI 1B-3B Chad Tracy (ex-AZ) looks to finally be 100% healthy after battling knee problems (including microfracture surgery) the last couple of years. Tracy has been taking lots of grounders at both 1B and 3B and shows good mobility. (Tracy is also one of the best pinch-hitters in baseball). New hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo has been spending a lot of time working with "pet project" Andres Blanco.
In addition to the big league coaching staff in camp, a number of minor league managers and coaches and Spring Training instructors are also present, including Special Instructor Billy Williams, Special Instructor Greg Maddux, Minor League Field Coordinator Dave Bialas, Latin American Field Coordinator Carmelo Martinez, Minor League Hitting Coordinator Dave Keller, Minor League Pitching Coordinator Mark Riggins, Minor League Infield & Bunting Instructor Franklin Font, Minor League Outfield & Baserunning Instructor Bobby Dernier, Minor League Catching Instructor Marty Pevey, Iowa Manager Ryne Sandberg, Iowa Pitching Coach Mike Mason, Iowa Hitting Coach Von Joshua, Tennessee Manager Bill Dancy, Tennessee Pitching Coach Dennis Lewallyn, Tennessee hitting coach Tom Beyers, and Fitch Park Rehab Pitching Coach Brad Kelley.
And veteran SK Wyverns (KBO - South Korea) reliever Woong-Chun Cho is a Special Guest Spring Training Instructor at Fitch Park. (The Cubs might be checking him out to see if they want to hire him as a full-time minor league coach, since the Cubs have signed a lot of the best young players out of South Korea the past couple of years).
Also, note that there has been one late Spring Training number change, as NRI 1B-OF Kevin Millar has been assigned #15, bumping Bobby Scales to #19. Otherwise the Spring Training numbers remain the same as they have been for the past few weeks (see right side-bar).
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awesome as always Phil, thanks for the detail.
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Excellent. Has Maddux taken on any "pet projects", AZPhil?
Quotes from Lou today
extra roster spot come playoffs...
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Interesting idea about Riggins. Welcome to the Dump-LR club, Cousin, at any rate.
I just don't think Maddux will want to go near the minor leagues. He's no Sandberg. He may just want to get in line ahead of Randy Bush.
Quotes from Lou today
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So Lou is a huge Kevin Millar fan. Wonderful. *eye roll*
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milton bradley bad...carlos silva and kevin millar good.
2010 offseason here we come.
SEA gets a LF who can play RF in a pinch (i think ichiro's got that job down, imo)...we get a DL roster spot holder and a couple million in payroll flexibility over the next 2 years.
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You have to take some liberties to distill the Milton Bradley experience down to:
SEA gets a LF who can play RF in a pinch
.... love you, crunch.
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well, they do got a guy in RF named ichiro. that's what LF is about...nothing's changed about his arm this offseason.
they got a .350+ ob% guy with pop who can play both corners in milton.
we got one of the worst pitchers in the game and 2m bucks extra to spend on a 140m roster.
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...which we quickly throw away on a fourth outfielder.
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We also get a rest from all the whining about Bradley.
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You must mean "about Bradley".
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Dynamite post...Phil...thanks
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So happy to be getting on-the-scene reports from Arizona Phil again!
I have to say I like the possibility of Tracy as a lefty off the bench. Of course, that assumes that the last two years were an aberration rather than a trend. But we're allowed to think like that in Februrary, right?
Batting Cages?
on the video at cubs.com it showed what looked like some covered batting cages...did you notice if they built them as was rumored earlier in the offseason? or have these been there for awhile?
(around 1:35-2:00 on the video if it works for you)...
10 odd baseball injuries
Dr. Hecht did one awhile back for us...
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umpire ed motague retires...damn. 34 years.
accompanying Silva photo
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warning to other readers that you probably don't want to click on that...
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I'll be the number 2 to say that.
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*high five*
That was nasty... damm...
Seriously, though, about Silva... what a waste of a human being.
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for future reference feel free to delete stuff like that if it crosses a line you don't want crossed...or add a warning like you did.
i'll try to be less shitty in the future and a lot more clear about what i'm posting.
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I wasn't going to click on it until you warned me not too.
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and that's why you're too cool for school.
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incredible texture to that photo
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Carlos Silva was endorsed by Carl's Jr. in the offseason.
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Breakdown on Zambrano's pitches with a focus on the cutter.
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This is good stuff TRN.
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Yeah it is, but I mistrust the spotting of the pitches. If you count arm slots, Z probably throws 20 different pitches.
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made my head spin...
also don't necessarily trust Pitch F/x on some of their pitch identities...but assuming all that is accurate.
the charts from the catcher's point of view? doesn't the cutter move inside on lefties, so what's the point of reference on the vertical line? release point? middle of the plate?
wouldn't it have been easier to break out the slash lines against each pitch and swing and miss rates than whatever rv100 and rv100e? I'm sure the math is all wonderful and I read the explanation, but it sure would have made it a lot easier to understand.
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To go with his new attitude, Zambrano said he plans to ditch the cut fastball from his repertoire. He hasn't displayed enough control of it to keep throwing it regularly so he decided to go back to what made him successful in the past.
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Now if you told me Joe West was retiring, I would throw a party.
Don't get me started on "umpires".
AZ PHIL on Soto?
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So, can we expect to see Soto attempting stolen bases this year, PHIL? lol
Seriously, can you notice better footwork or more zip on his throws due to the weight loss?
And, do you still feel that Castillo still has the "arm" edge on Gio?
On Lou past 2010
Chad Tracy finally 100%
Sounds like terrible news for Micah Hoffpauir, especially with LaHair showing off power too.
Jaramillo spending time on Blanco's hitting lends a little more credence (along with AZ Phil's comments in the previous thread) to the theory that Blanco still has some offensive upside beyond being a .250/.300/.320 guy. What OBP would he have to manage to equal Theriot's overall value? .330? .340? (Guess that depends a bit on what Theriot hits.)
Too early to start believing that Soto will return to his .280/.360 20+ HR form?
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cj wilson (TEX) is being a little outspoken this spring...
"It's no secret I don't think I should be limited to the set-up role. I have too many weapons," said Wilson. "Here is the reality. It is real simple. There are not very many guys that have the stuff that I do that would be willing to sign here if they were free agents. There is no experienced pitcher that has my stuff that would sign here, historically."
...way to say you really really really really want to be that 5th starter, dude.
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theriot lost arb. case
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I guess the Keystone Cops baserunning video did the trick.
Now, lets see if that $800K burns a hole in Hendry's pocket for a difference maker like Chan Ho Park.
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his agent's stupid fault...
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Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.
rain delay...thanks obama.
Thanks again Phil. We actually were in Mesa and drove around. Hopefully, I am back for some Fall League. If not I have all of spring training (like the smart people who move here!)
What Rob G said. I can't speak for Piittsburgh, but the other end of the state has had absolute crap weather for two days. Perfect day to take it easy.
tarp came off 10 minutes ago...let's do this.
He will not pitch another game for Cubs
/Unless injury in playoffs
Today is bullpen day
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In 1736 to was agreed to award a medal to the value of £5 either for the most important scientific discovery or for the greatest contribution made by experiment. In 1831 the conditions were changed again so that it was awarded to the author of the research that the Council of the Society decided was the most deserving the honour.
In 1881 Sir Joseph Copley donated £1666 13s. 4d. so that the interest would pay £50 per year to cover the costs of the Copley Medal.
The Copley Medal is awarded for scientific work in any field so the list we give has been restricted to those whose biographies appear in this Archive.
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1746 Benjamin Robins
1753 Benjamin Franklin
1775 Nevil Maskelyne
1778 Charles Hutton
1784 Edward Waring
1795 Jesse Ramsden
1796 George Atwood
1809 Edward Troughton
1814 James Ivory
1821 John Herschel
1825 Francois Arago
1825 Peter Barlow
1831 George Airy
1832 Siméon Poisson
1834 Giovanni Plana
1838 Karl Gauss
1840 Charles-Francois Sturm
1841 George Ohm
1842 James MacCullagh
1846 Urbain Le Verrier
1847 John Herschel
1848 John Couch Adams
1859 Wilhelm Weber
1865 Michel Chasles
1866 Julius Plücker
1873 Hermann Helmholtz
1879 Rudolf Clausius
1880 James Sylvester
1882 Arthur Cayley
1883 William Thomson
1886 Franz Neumann
1889 George Salmon
1890 Simon Newcomb
1893 George Stokes
1895 Carl Weierstrass
1899 Lord Rayleigh
1901 Joseph Willard Gibbs
1909 George William Hill
1910 Francis Galton
1911 George Howard Darwin
1912 Felix Klein
1918 Hendrik Lorentz
1921 Joseph Larmor
1923 Horace Lamb
1925 Albert Einstein
1929 Max Planck
1938 Niels Bohr
1944 Geoffrey Taylor
1947 Godfrey H Hardy
1952 Paul A M Dirac
1954 Edmund T Whittaker
1955 Ronald A Fisher
1958 John E Littlewood
1960 Harold Jeffreys
1964 Sydney Chapman
1974 William V D Hodge
1984 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1988 Michael F Atiyah
1998 James Lighthill
2002 John Pople
2006 Stephen Hawking
2008 Roger Penrose
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A Letter Home is an album that ranges across the intersections of Irish and Scottish music with an instrumental voice and style informed by the fiddler's American experiences. "I called this album A Letter Home because it's really like a set of landmarks, it's my favorite pieces of music over the last ten years," says fiddler and composer Athena Tergis. "I've been playing with other musicians my whole life, bands and recordings and other projects, but this is the first time I've made an album of my own."
Kicking off with a set of reels including "Johnny McGreevy's", "Owney Davey's", "O'Callaghan's" and "Margaree Reel", Tergis shows her gift for phrasing which underscores the emotional essence of the tunes. The album moves quickly into a lively set of barn dances and a Scottish strathspey. The collection winds through fourteen tracks of jigs, reels, highlands, set dance tunes and flings with origins in Galway, Cork, Antrim, and Donegal to those from the Scottish Highlands, the Irish community of Chicago and the heart of Cape Breton. A Letter Home concludes with the haunting slow air, "Bi Falbh O'n Uinneig" [Be Gone From The Window], a tune which Tergis learned from her childhood mentor and teacher, Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser.
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It takes a little more than a half hour for Jennifer Lawrence to show up on screen and rescue "Silver Linings Playbook." The camera of director David O. Russell is as smitten with the occasion as I was – and the film's hero, Pat, too. The shot suddenly freezes in close-up and, as they say in script world, gives you the stunned POV of a man who is almost bowled over by his attraction to a woman.
Until that point, the dossier of Pat – terrifically well-played by Bradley Cooper in a breakout role – is this: He is, by his own admission, an undiagnosed bipolar who says weird things brought on by stress. He has spent eight well-medicated months in a mental hospital as part of a plea deal for beating the stuffing out of a fellow teacher he caught having sex with his wife in the shower. (Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour" – their wedding song – was playing outside the bathroom at the time on a boom box. The mere sound of it now triggers helpless rage.)
He was allowed to walk out of the hospital because his mother insisted on springing him after the court's mandated eight months were up. There's a big, fat restraining order in place keeping him a safe distance from his wife and her workplace.
Meanwhile, his personal motto is "excelsior." Pat hates negativity. And he knows he'll find a silver lining somewhere – even though he is still obsessed with a woman who cheated on him in the shower to their wedding song and then got a restraining order.
Lawrence – so busy on screen these days and so successful ("The Hunger Games") – plays Tiffany, the widow of a cop who died in a freak highway accident. She was always a little, uh, unusual, but the tragedy set her off. She was fired for sleeping with everyone in her office. (Women, too? asks Pat. Women, too.) Psychotherapy, of course, ensued and her own lavish experiences with a smorgasbord of behavior-modifying medications.
Anyone casting aspersions on some of Tiffany's life choices will be told, "There's always going to be part of me that's sloppy and dirty, but I like that."
Oh yes. She's a dancer, too. She set up the ground floor of her garage apartment as a dance studio.
So here we are with a wacked-out Boy Meets Girl black comedy. In the world of David O. Russell – a specialist in unbalanced behavior and dysfunctional families – these two people clearly were made for each other.
In Russell's world, a screwball comedy has to have real screwballs in it. (In the case of Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" and Carole Lombard and Mischa Auer in "My Man Godfrey," they never had to suffer the indignity of diagnosis. They could just be "crazy" and hilarious.)
There isn't a single wasted second of "Silver Linings Playbook" when Jennifer Lawrence is on screen. She makes the film not only watchable but also more than a little lovable.
Cooper? Not so much. It's not his fault, really, but he's been given a comically dysfunctional Philadelphia Eagles-worshipping family that is not so terribly different from the not-so-comic, Buffalo Bills-worshipping family of the dreaded Vincent Gallo in "Buffalo '66."
Dad is an Eagles fan with his own anger "issues." He was banned from entering the stadium again after pounding the stuffing out of people rooting for opposing teams. (Given the recent death of an ejected fan outside Ralph Wilson Stadium, this part of the film is more disturbing than it undoubtedly will be to people in other cities.)
It is to the film's credit that it is more often funny, charming and lovable than it is obnoxious and annoying. Unfortunately, the annoyance quotient to me was, nevertheless, substantial.
Russell, in life, is famous in Hollywood for being genuinely obnoxious in his own way. There are hair-raising on-set tirades by him on YouTube. George Clooney and he, famously, came to blows.
Annoyance is usual for me in Russell's films, whether we're talking about "Three Kings," "Flirting with Disaster" or "I Heart Huckabees." The only film of his I'd exempt would be "The Fighter,"a superb film all around with remarkable performances.
I interviewed Russell before the release of "The Fighter," and he said he'd become a different fellow from the tempestuous younger man he is on YouTube and the anecdotes of George Clooney.
It's of no concern of us in the audience, of course, how he behaves on movie sets.
I do think, though, that Russell usually assumes an affection for genuinely obnoxious behavior that I personally don't entirely share. Better people, no doubt, feel differently, but there you have it.
Unfortunately, the finale of the story feels completely ginned up to me, as nicely worked out as it is. We're forced to admire a narrative parallelism that wouldn't necessarily work in a novel, either – a big Eagles game against the Dallas Cowboys and a Big Dance Competition a la "Dancing With the Stars" are comically counterpointed to determine just how unhinged these people will be when the evening's over.
Well, sure. OK. If that's the movie you want to make.
Performances, as always in his movies, are very fine. No matter what, it seems liberating for actors to work for a director so enamored of behavioral instability.
The character of Pat's father – a bookie with OCD and a temper of his own looking for one big kill to get himself into the restaurant business – isn't all that believable, but Robert De Niro is so good to have around you won't always mind.
Cooper, on the other hand, is so good in his bipolarity that there are times I might have voted for a restraining order for the movie myself.
It's Lawrence's film. She's beautiful, hugely talented, and happy, on the film publicity trail, to go on late night TV and tell Jay Leno about getting change for a $50 tip to a geriatric lap dancer because the dancer wouldn't give her full satisfaction.
An unusual young actress, to be sure – especially one so fully enfranchised in contemporary Hollywood.
No way of knowing this, of course, but I'd be willing to bet that Katharine Hepburn and Carole Lombard would have gotten a kick out of her, too.
"Silver Linings Playbook"
Three stars (Out of four)
Starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro and Chris Tucker. 122 minutes. Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity.
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"Let me get this straight," Billie Joe Armstrong said to the playwright and screenwriter Rolin Jones over drinks last year. "You're going to rewrite Shakespeare, and I'm going to rewrite the Beatles?"
The improbable show Mr. Jones was pitching to Mr. Armstrong, the Green Day frontman, opens next week at Yale Repertory Theater with the title "These Paper Bullets!" and the helpful subtitle, "A Modish Rip-Off of William Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing.' " Mr. Jones's notion — to reset that prickly romantic comedy in Swinging '60s London, and to reimagine the play's returning war heroes as a popular rock quartet just back from conquering the United States — required nearly an album's worth of period-appropriate songs.
Cue Mr. Armstrong, for whom Mr. Jones is writing a film adaptation of the stage musical "American Idiot" (based on the Green Day album), and who happens to be a pop music scholar of sorts as well as a tireless tunesmith.
"Billie's got this archive that he sits on — a bunch of songs that aren't really appropriate for Green Day, and some of them sound like the Beatles," Mr. Jones said recently, on a break from rehearsals in New Haven. "And he's always writing new things." Just a few days after their meeting, Mr. Jones received a demo recording of a brand-new tune from Mr. Armstrong, who warned him he'd eventually "have a plethora to choose from."
Mr. Armstrong, who had relished the experience of seeing "American Idiot" adapted for the stage, and even joined the cast for several weeks on Broadway, said in a recent phone interview that he jumped at the chance to write more for the theater: "I got so inspired. I was listening to all those early Beatles records, and I read the book 'Revolution in the Head' and just started banging these songs out."
Mr. Jones and the play's director, Jackson Gay, are careful not to call "These Paper Bullets!" a musical, though they've also employed the choreographer Monica Bill Barnes to stage some dances, and they've cast singing actor-musicians in the roles of the fictional band the Quartos. Yale Rep has stepped up in turn with money from its Binger Center for New Theater, a program designed not only to commission new plays but also to enhance their productions, both at Yale and elsewhere. That largess helps to bankroll the cast of 19, the added costs of including original live music, and the ambitious designs of Michael Yeargan's sets and Jessica Ford's costumes.
It has all come together with what, for the theater, is lightning speed. The idea was hatched only a little more than a year ago, amid rehearsals for Mr. Jones's play "The Jammer" at the Atlantic Theater Company, which Ms. Gay directed.
"Yale Rep was interested in doing a Shakespeare play, and they had asked me, was there anything I wanted to do?" recalled Ms. Gay, who was a colleague of Mr. Jones's at the Yale School of Drama. "I was telling Rolin about that, and he said, 'I actually have a really stupid idea for "Much Ado.' "
Mr. Jones credited the 1993 Kenneth Branagh film, which opens with the male heroes galloping triumphantly into sun-dappled Messina, Sicily, with planting the seed. "As they ride in, everyone's going insane, like: 'They're coming! They're coming!' And it's like: 'What the hell? It's like they were the Beatles or something.' "
Ms. Gay, who easily assumes the role of the skeptical grown-up to Mr. Jones's boyish effusions, "had a lot of questions for me," he said, "like: Does that work all the way through? You don't want one of these productions where you put Shakespeare in another world and a time, and then about two-thirds of the way through, it just falls apart."
"These Paper Bullets!" is the latest in a recent wave of pop-Shakespeare adaptations that have updated the settings and found music to match, from last summer's fratty "Love's Labour's Lost" at Shakespeare in the Park to "The Last Goodbye," the Old Globe Theater's grafting of "Romeo and Juliet" onto the Jeff Buckley song catalog. As far back as 1971, Galt McDermot and John Guare turned "Two Gentlemen of Verona" into an exuberant rock musical for the Public Theater.
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eagle runner knight=erk
all hand inf and musk have bonus vs light inf , but they have slightly lower bonus in compare to cav proper
knight_br:Optimal explanation .. very succinctly
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Regardless of their strange look and tags, erk and coyotes simply act as dragoons and hand cav. with close to the same multipliers ect.
And ankur was right about the cannon thing vs light inf.
The coders added some special tags for the Aztec civ. For example, note the "Arrow Knight" entry in the damage bonus section for the Organ gun:
The reason for this is that Arrow Knights are essentially the Aztec culverin/mortar combo unit and the Organ Gun has a negative multiplier versus other artillery.
Also, note that the Organ gun doesn't per se have an infantry multiplier like the Horse Artillery does.
One think I like about Organ Guns is that they set up better than Horse Artillery, which often twist and turn trying to place themselves into a formation until some culverin notices and kills them before they even get set up.
LordStefanIII:What I would like to know is if Light Cannons have this negative multiplier vs arrow knights. LC out range AK so bad and can easily just shoot them.
ya and az don't stand a chance vs iro anyway haha
Horse art = 6 pop, lets say make 4 horse art = 24 pop
organ gun is 4 pop
24 pop of organs is 6, therefore more culvs needed/more shots needed, and can spread out damage more.
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LC range only two less than a culverin and two more than the Arrow Knight and have no detriments -- just bonuses. The rate of fire, however, is slower than most other artillery, which have a 4.0 ROF.
jeffro18:yeah but doesn't LC have faster set up time??
Would setup time be affected by the turn rate for a cannon? I know it effects their usfulness in turning to attack flanking units.
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From the above data it's also clear that Light Cannon are relatively slow-moving artillery, when compared to Organ Guns or, especially, Horse Artillery.
Organ Guns, like Japan's Flaming Arrows, seem to move around pretty well already set up -- at about the same speed as the infantry the accompany.


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By Timothy G. Kremer
In his budget, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo served up some bold new initiatives for schools – such as full-day prekindergarten and extended learning time. He also created a one-time stimulus package of $203 million.
I admire the governor for being bold and innovative. But the trend has been an erosion of educational opportunities for students, hurting their ability to compete for admission into their desired colleges and career paths.
As lawmakers work to meet the April 1 budget deadline, here are five ways they can help school districts provide a quality education to every student.
• Distribute state aid to schools equitably. On average, the governor's budget provides greater aid increases to poorer school districts, a laudable goal. We need to ensure that state aid is based on accurate data, so that poor districts are not actually perceived as wealthy.
• Do no harm. Under the governor's budget, nearly a quarter of districts receive a reduction in overall aid. The average cut is about $258,000, or 2.4 percent. The decrease in aid will wreak havoc on budgets, as board members struggle to maintain programs without escalating property taxes. At the least, lawmakers should restore aid to districts receiving a cut under the governor's plan. Better yet, they should remove all schools from the so-called Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) – a fancy term for cutting state aid to schools. The GEA – and its ugly forerunner, the Deficit Reduction Assessment – has taken $8.4 billion from New York schools since 2009.
• Provide more stability in state aid. Two years ago, state leaders adopted a cap that limits year-to-year increases to the rate of personal income growth. But that process leaves districts guessing about their state aid. This year, for example, initial forecasts predicted a nearly 4.7 percent aid increase. Yet that estimate has dropped to 3 percent. The changes reduced the projected increase for next year from $950 million to $610 million – a drop of $340 million. The unpredictability can lead school districts to draw more on reserves and eliminate instructional programs. Instead, lawmakers should put in place a 10-year average of personal income growth in calculating the state aid cap.
• Redirect competitive grants to basic operating aid. The governor proposes a hefty $125 million in competitive grants for programs ranging from extended learning time to community schools. But with schools cutting music, art, sports and Advanced Placement programs, that funding is better directed toward basic operating aid.
• Let school districts form regional secondary schools. Regional high schools are a good alternative for communities with declining enrollment.
If the governor and lawmakers adopt these reforms, schools will be much better off – and so will our communities.
Timothy G. Kremer is executive director of the New York State School Boards Association.


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Last week, I talked about pleasant surprises in the garden - flowers popping up where they weren't planted and plants that I thought were dead making a reappearance.
But unfortunately, Mother Nature being the fickle mistress that she is, there are sometimes things in the garden that simply don't work out at all.
May I present Exhibit A: A large pot of attractive greens in the cottage garden.
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This pot was supposed to be full of flowers, but my investment in stock flowers didn't pay off.
Sitting in the center of some prolific and lush impatiens, the pot of greens is pretty enough, but that wasn't what I had planned. What I'd wanted was a pot full of daisies. I'd specifically chosen a variety that would grow in the partial shade of the cottage garden, but though I have lots of healthy-looking leaves, not a single flower came up.
Exhibit B is in my full-sun container garden. One of the new varieties of flower I decided to try this year was stock. Though the name might not be familiar, anyone who's received an arrangement from the florist has probably had some stock on display. I was looking forward to the showy double blooms promised on the seed packet.
But once again, I wound up with a pot full of healthy foliage but no flowers. Supposedly, this variety of stock is hardy and heat-resistant, but something about my environment made this stock a bad option.
Exhibit C is perhaps my greatest gardening disappointment this year. Nearly every year I plant a garden, I plant morning glories. The blooms of the "Heavenly Blue" variety are, in my opinion, the most perfect shade of blue. Last year, I decided to take a break from morning glories and try a few new things, but I found that I missed those bright blue flowers too much. I successfully grew some non-climbing morning glories this year - the "Blue Ensign" variety - but though the dark blue flowers were pretty, I wanted the climbing "Heavenly Blues," too.
I planted them late, but my morning glories usually start blooming in August and into September, so I wasn't too concerned. And sure enough, the plants grew quickly and entwined themselves around the back porch railing. But then, disaster. I know that morning glories don't like to be overwatered, and just when I began to notice the signs that the plants might like a couple of days to dry out, it rained for nearly an entire week. The plants never fully recovered, and I didn't get a single flower.
I'm hanging on to a desperate hope that the plants still might bounce back, but that hope is getting slimmer by the day.
The beauty of gardening is that there's always next year. I don't think I'll be gambling on stock when I start planning my garden for 2013, but I will likely try the daisies somewhere else, and my morning glories will be in the ground a little earlier.
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The direct opposite of a selfy or selfie. It is the act of taking very unattractive or weird faces of yourself. The camera is up close and brings out those qualities you do not want someone to see. It is like seeing those pictures of a drunken party a day later that someone snapped of you.
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On Tuesday, Montag Tweeted, "Watch out Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Here comes Heidi," and linked to an online report that said she and husband Spencer Pratt were in talks with producers to possibly join the Real Housewives franchise.
But Watch What Happens Live host, Bravo executive and Real Housewives whisperer Andy Cohen finds the idea preposterous.
"Professionally, I'm not supposed to discuss any negotiations so I have to parse my words here," Cohen said on his show Thursday. "That trash is delusional and I would sooner stab ... knives into my own eyes than see her on this network."
While Cohen made his feelings toward the reality star clear, he also gave her a bit of what the former Hills star has never shied away from – publicity.
"But good news, Heidi, you're on my show tonight," Cohen continued, "because you're the Jackhole of the Week."
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Kathleen "Katie" Brown has been selected to present a poster at the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Annual Meeting at the Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego. She will present her research at a special session entitled Highlights: Graduate Student Research in Pathology. The session will be held Saturday, April 21st. The ASIP seeks to promote basic and translational research into experimental pathology, and this special session features pathology-focused graduate student research. Sessions such as this allow faculty and students to meet and experience a variety of research interests.
Katie researches in the laboratory of Marshall's School of Medicine Biomedical Sciences professor and researcher, Dr. Piyali Dasgupta. Her poster is entitled "The alpha7-nicotinic receptor antagonist induces robust apoptosis in human SCLC." The alpha-7 nicotinic receptor (a7 nAChR) is a subtype of this group of receptors. These receptors can block apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Activation of these nicotinic receptors, such as in exposure to cigarette smoke, in human small cell lung cancer (SCLC) can allow cancerous cells to survive and reproduce. Antagonizing these receptors may allow the body to more adequately eliminate such cancerous cells. These receptors also have been found to be the main type of nicotinic receptor in charge of angiogenesis, or growth of new blood cells. Cancer cannot thrive or spread without an adequate blood supply, making angiogenesis an important issue for cancer treatment.
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A 21-year-old Herman Street man was charged with criminal possession of marijuana after Buffalo police pulled his car over in the 600 block of Hopkins Street shortly after midnight today to check on the dark tint on his vehicle's windows. Ernest Fuller was spared a traffic charge for the windows but police found four plastic baggies of marijuana and a just-smoked marijuana "roach" in the center front ash try. He was charged with both unlawful possession of marijuana and criminal possession of marijuana.


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Willow Smith's New Video: Too Racy for Her Age?
They say that kids grow up too fast these days – and apparently Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's daughter, Willow Smith, is no exception.
The young actress and singer has come under fire this week for her new music video for "Summer Fling," in which the 12-year-old is seen holding hands, hugging, cuddling and flirting with a seemingly much older boy.
Sample lyrics include: "You tell me that I'm the one/I tell you it's just for fun," and "don't really care what we do tonight/good night kiss 'til the mood is right/laying by the beach with you/wishing it would never end."
The controversial video, which has almost a million views on Youtube, has some parents worried that it's too mature for Willow's age and some find fault with the chorus where Willow sings about having a fling. "It's just a couple months, but we do it anyway."
Still, others think the video – which also features Willow and other kids her age jumping on a trampoline, using water guns on each other, and playing on swings – is all in good fun.
Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have yet to comment on the controversy, but in an interview with PEOPLE last October, Jada explained that she thinks it's important to instill in Willow the power for individuality.
"I think that old school style of, 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work," she said. "What I establish with my children is a partnership. I'm not necessarily dictating what is happening in their lives."
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The Gillette Odor Sweat Shield for Greatness contest has come down to this. A man inflicted with cerebral palsy. An epileptic who loves the outdoors. A wounded US soldier. What do they all have in common? They are the finalists in the greatness challenge. They are three amazing stories of extraordinary achievement.
Steve Wampler, a man with cerebral palsy, climbed the 3,000 foot face of mountain El Capitan in Yosemite National Park by doing roughly 20,000 pull ups on an aluminum pulley, over 6 days. He has formed the Stephen J. Wampler Foundation for those inflicted with cerebral palsy and tells his incredible story below.
Joe Beimfohr is a soldier who was injured in Iraq by a wired IUD detonation. For 8 long days, he was placed in a medical coma. Despite losing his legs, he is now a competitive hand cyclist. He has competed in the New York and Chicago marathons as part of the Achilles International Freedom Team.
Colorado's 23-year old John Olson an epileptic who has had seizures since he was 4 years old. He scales mountains called "fourteeners," which are mountains that are 14,000 feet tall! John has climbed 8 of the more than 50 of these fourteeners which exist, to this point. He soon hopes to conquer the Mt. Saint Helens volcanic mountain. He works with the National Epilepsy Foundation.
All men have overcome their disabilities to achieve greatness. They have excelled in competition and strived to get the most out of life. Their videos help tell portions of their stories. While they are all winners, only one can win the contest. Check out the videos below and head on over to si.com/greatness to vote for your favorite. May the most incredible achievement of all win! Thanks for watching and don't forget to vote! Enjoy!


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broga: become fit and flexible. plus, chicks dig it!
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It's when you show up to yoga only to find the class is full of guys.
I couldn't relax during broga, waaaay too many dudes, so I just went to the bar instead.
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Southern Ky. eyesore transforming into park
Officials in a southern Kentucky city were taking action to transform a local eyesore into a small community park.
The Commonwealth Journal reported that City Council members in Somerset recently approved plans calling for some benches and possibly a fountain at a site where apartments once stood.
The apartment building was torn down in 2012 after standing vacant for about six years - ever since incurring damage from an explosion caused by a methamphetamine lab.
Businesses near the site expressed support for the plans.
City Councilor John Ricky Minton said the city should look at the possibility of building more small parks for residents.
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HILO (AP) - A former Alaska man whose girlfriend was found strangled is missing in Hawaii, and his family says he may also have been the victim of violence.
Tom and Kathy Johnson of Petersburg, Alaska, the parents of Boaz "Bo" Johnson, 22, also say their son has been unfairly portrayed as a suspect in the death of Brittany-Jane Royal, 25.
They and another son, Mark, traveled to the island and hope to find their son alive, they told the Hawaii Tribune Herald. Johnson and Royal had camped near an entry to a lava-viewing area in Kalapana, the elder Johnsons said, but information from police has been limited.
"We don't even know where the tent is located," Tom Johnson said. "They told us that they have had people out there for a few days and searched around maybe six square miles and they had helicopters out there looking for him or any evidence. But as far as anything else, nothing that I can recall."
The Johnsons last spoke to their son May 27, one day before Royal's body was found in fishing boat line off the lower coastline of Puna.
Lt. Greg Esteban of the Hilo Criminal Investigations Section said police are pursuing leads in the case but have not found Bo Johnson.
"As a result, he is still considered a missing person and he is not excluded as a suspect in the (homicide) case," he said.
Police photos of the campsite did not look like a crime scene, Kathy Johnson said.
"There was a photo that showed their guitars and ukulele neatly stacked up in the corner of the tent," she said. "If there was a struggle in the tent, they probably should have been knocked around and on the ground."
Police have sent evidence from the campsite to a forensic lab, Esteban said.
The Johnsons met Royal in April in Alaska and learned that she was pregnant. The couple then traveled to Tustin, Calif., to see Royal's parents.
They planned to buy 10 acres of land on the Kalapana lava field to build a home and start an organic farm. Johnson spoke of the plans in his last conversation with his father.
"He was upbeat because he was about to do the most important thing he'd ever done in his life; that was to get that property the next morning," he said.
Johnson didn't appear for the property appointment. Police issued a bulletin about his disappearance May 30.
One of Johnson's sisters said her brother had been threatened by a commercial lava tour operator after Johnson took a family out to see lava flows.
"He just showed up at my brother's house in Kalapana," she said. "He was under the impression that we'd been taking these people out to the lava for pay. He said he owned all 900 acres of the lava, that he owned it and that we weren't allowed to go out there."
The guide, she said, threatened to shoot up the house if Johnson persisted in giving tours.
Mark Johnson said he wants police to investigate the threats against his brother.
"Whatever channels it takes to go through the legal system, that's what we're gonna be willing to do," he said.
Tom Johnson said his son was not involved in Royal's death.
"He would not do that," he said. "This isn't just two people who met and camped together one night. They were in love. He loved her, and he was looking forward to having that baby and making a life for them out there. That was the most important thing to him."


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LOCKPORT – Steven R. Cassel Sr., charged with repeatedly having sex with a girl when she was between 10 and 14 years old, accepted a plea offer today, as jury selection for his trial was to have begun.
Cassel, 38, of Keil Street, North Tonawanda, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of attempted first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child, sparing the victim from having to testify.
Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas promised to give him the minimum sentence – 3½ years in state prison and five years of post-release supervision – when Cassel returns to court April 18.
The crimes occurred in North Tonawanda between 2006 and 2011. If Cassel had been convicted as charged in the indictment, he could have been sentenced to life in prison.


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A 75-year-old woman killed in a crash Wednesday on Interstate 894 eastbound/Interstate 43 northbound has been identified.
The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department said Darlene D. Lightfuss went off the road and hit a tree.
All of the lanes of traffic were reopened by 5:10 p.m. Wednesday.
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The 6 Most Horrifying Product Recalls in China
China has a population of all the people in China, and that is a hell of a lot. Are you from Butte? It's more than Butte. With all of those people, you'd be right to assume that a lot of shit gets done in China. Pandas have babies sometimes. Won ton soup gets made. Communism gets communized. There's lots to see and do. And yet, despite being a world superpower and a country with which one does not want to fuck, they have this habitual problem of not just making low budget and shoddy merchandise (that's what every other country that supplies Walmart is for), but making merchandise that has so transcended low budget and shoddy, it's actually mind-blowingly dangerous and borderline insane. Why do so many things in China need to be recalled for being the punchline of a really dark joke? No one knows. And with that, here's some dark punchlines. I'll fill in jokes around them.
#6. Donkey Meat With Fox
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Imagine how disgusted and violated and betrayed you would feel if you had just come home from shopping at your local Walmart and were about to put together a delicious meal for the dinner party you're hosting for friends only to discover that your main course, a delicious slab of premium grade Chinese donkey, was nothing more than run-of-the-mill fox meat? Yes, the oldest trick in the donkey meat book has happened again.
I could fill a small novella with the questions I have about how it comes to pass that someone first wanted donkey meat and ended up with fox meat. How is donkey more desirable than fox? How does fox get into donkey meat? Does that mean someone is farming fox and it's an inferior meat? Is fox meat a thing you can buy on its own in China if you want it? Are fox and donkey really so similar that you could pass one off as the other without people noticing, or was this just a really terribly perpetrated fraud? I want to know, and yet at the same time I don't.
Whatever the logistics of the fox/donkey substitution, at the end of the day, Chinese shoppers looking for donkey only want donkey, and fox is unacceptable. The result was a recall of the five-spice donkey meat from Walmart locations in China while officials look into how it came to pass that one of those five spices is a small, wild dog.
#5. Chemical Burn Flip-Flops
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I have a love/hate relationship with summer. For instance, you're more likely to see cleavage and/or boob in the summer, and I love that, but you're also more likely to see my boobs or cleavage, and that makes me sad, because I'm less Channing Tatum and more Channing Tater than is entirely healthy or attractive. Also flip-flops. I just don't get 'em. Wear shoes or, if you're going to be drinking near the beach or a fire later, wear sandals (which I hereby deem to be different footwear entirely). What the hell is a flip-flop for? No one knows.
The Dark Lord hath marked his supplicant with the Foot of the Beast!
I suspect the popularity of flip-flops has something to do with the fact that you can buy about six pairs for a buck at most stores, and this is equally true of Walmart. Unfortunately for Walmart and your feet, those flip-flops were of course made in China, where nothing is as it seems! In this case, where it seems like flip-flops should be made of maybe plastic and rubber, someone in China opted to make them from benzene and the angry spirits of dead Mogwai. The result was chronicled back in 2007 on the blog of Kerry Stiles (wicked name), who photographed her feet after wearing the flip-flops and developing a wicked rash/chemical burn that corresponded to the straps of her flip-flops. Over the course of a number of photos, you can watch her skin redden, bubble, lizardify, scab, slough, necrotize, and declare war on all things that walk in the light and embrace goodness.
Other people who bought the same kind of flip-flops reported similar issues, and eventually Walmart took the flip-flops off the shelves, insisting of the millions sold that only a few people were horribly mutilated, so no worries.
#4. Sewer Fish
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In my town, there's a river that runs right through the center of everything and is pretty impressive at some points, with waterfalls, lots of wildfowl, and all that nature-type crap people love. It's also notoriously polluted, and for as long as I can remember, people have joked about how awful it would be to eat any fish you caught in the river, because the decay of the environment around us is worth a chuckle or two. But then in China they raise fish in untreated sewage, so check and mate.
Not being a biologist, I wasn't aware that you could raise fish in raw sewage, but China is industrious, and they're getting seafood to at least mature in a nightmare before they bring it to market for us, and then, to make sure it's safe for human consumption, they seem to be treating it with drugs and chemicals that are deadly, but just in a decidedly different way from raw sewage.
The FDA has to consistently reject imports from China that are rancid with bacteria, carcinogens, and other gut-melting substances, because the FDA stands by a "please no poo-raised food" motto and, frankly, we should all support that.


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I remember she came out of her office and into the newsroom with that look on her face, the one where you can tell someone is about to get it. I don�t even know what she was angry about but she was loud and she was right. Someone had been wronged and she was having no part of it.
Later, when my co-worker had calmed down, I thanked her for being so honest with her emotions and for crossing that all-important line of niceness.
For years and years I tried to make sure I never ruffled any feathers or hurt anyone�s feelings. I knew exactly what society expected from nice people, and I tried to check everything off the list.
In the process, I confused giving in to what other people wanted with being humble and loving. I focused more on controlling what people saw on the outside � my curb appeal � than I did on doing the spiritual remodeling I needed on the inside.
The funny thing is, when the spiritual dust began to settle, it was kindness that started to take center stage. Niceness got tossed in the Dumpster.
With kindness I found I could listen to a friend, pay for a stranger�s lunch, send cards to soldiers and still do things that niceness wouldn�t allow � things that might make people uncomfortable.
I could write to the head of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services and state senators and representatives to tell them that three years in foster care is long enough for boy to be in limbo, especially when that boy is only 8.
I could eat dinner in a crowded, dilapidated home of migrant workers so that I could hear their side of the story with my own ears.
Before, when I practiced niceness, it required me to shy away from the battlefield of controversy but that�s where kindness shines. While niceness is a stagnant mask, kindness requires action.
My co-worker acted that day by challenging something she saw as unfair to others, and when I thanked her for it, she merely said that next time it would be my turn. I, too, could pick kindness, even if it�s loud.


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Thursday, June 13, 2013
For 46-year-old Tony Varella, fighting fires is all he knows…or wants to know. The son of a North Charleston fireman, Walter "Buzz" Varella, who died in the line of duty in 1973 when Tony was 6, one might think he would want nothing to do with fighting fires.
Not so.
"It's the greatest job in the world," said Varella, "it gets in your blood."
Varella, who just retired from the North Charleston Fire Department after 27 years, promptly applied to Isle of Palms, Goose Creek and Summerville fire departments. He accepted Summerville's offer and he works part time for the Pine Ridge Fire Department.
"I retired, when I did, because of uncertainty with the retirement system," explained Varella, who has a family to worry about – three kids, one of whom is starting college in the fall – so he wanted to make sure he made good choices with regard to retirement.
However, he could not imagine not working so having secured his retirement, he applied to other departments.
"I still wanted to continue serving," he explained.
He has been with Summerville for seven months, and has quickly become part of the "brotherhood."
A former division chief with NCFD, he has started over at SFD as a firefighter. Nonetheless, he brings years of training and knowledge with him, all of which benefits SFD.
He has been through the SC Fire Academy, is trained in technical rescue (structural collapse, search and rescue), has taken myriad courses in leadership, has mat (hazardous materials) and has an Associate's Degree in Fire Science.
Varella has been married for 20 years to Lynn, a nurse practitioner, and is the proud father of three kids – Trace, 19, Claudia, 15 and Jason, 13.
In his off time, he works 24-hour shifts with 48 hours off in between, he coaches his kids' various teams. Ensuring year-round coaching, he coaches football, basketball, baseball and softball.
He is also the proud "dad" of three dogs – two miniature dachshunds, Hershey and Chili, and a Dalmatian, Landry. Landry, the quintessential "fire dog," used to go to work with him at NCFD but not here. NCFD has a fenced yard where Landry could relax and Summerville does not.
Varella has seen a lot throughout his career. He has had close calls and he has been hailed a hero. He is the recipient, along with his team, of the Lifesaving Award in 2000, for saving a woman from a Houston Street house fire in No. Charleston. As part of a search team, he helped carry a woman from her burning house and administer CPR, saving her life.
He has plans to give 10-15 more years to firefighting, "as long as my health holds up," he said.
Varella loves "spending time with the fellows, laughing, cutting up …making memories."
"It's all about building relationships," said Varella, "we see a lot of stuff most people don't see, and you don't know when your life will be in their hands."
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on May 3, 2013 - 7:57 AM
The Miss Buffalo II harbor cruise boat left its winter home at Rich Marine on Wednesday and sailed up the Black Rock Channel to its summer dock in the Erie Basin Marina.
Company owner Mike Hayhurst reported that private charter cruises will begin May 14 and the public season will begin July 2 and continue until Labor Day.
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I've always been one to get excited for and help organize my high school and college reunions. After all, the saying is "they're the best four years of your life." While some people don't ever want to relive those four years over a weekend, this year my 25th high school reunion took on a whole new meaning.
On July 14, about 100 friends from the Williamsville East and Williamsville North classes of 1987 met at Santora's Restaurant on Transit Road to celebrate together. How much fun it was not only seeing classmates from my graduating class, but also those friends from middle school who became our high school rivals.
I mentioned Santora's specifically because the owner of that restaurant, David Cooper, Williamsville East class of 1987 who helped organize the reunion, died Aug. 9, just 26 days after our get-together. David's wife, Robyn Felman, was a North graduate of the same year. Other than their wedding, I don't know if I've ever seen Robyn and David any happier than having 100 of their friends together on that night. They truly were in their element, acting as hosts of a grand party for all to eat, drink and be merry.
When the shocking news came about David's sudden death, the power of our recently renewed connections extended across the country as the entire Williamsville North and East alumni banded together to show our support. Most took to Facebook to share their disbelief. Many classmates, having just reconnected after some time, asked each other how this could happen and why, at 43 years old, our friend had to pass so suddenly.
We shared stories about David's hockey prowess (he played for Amherst, SUNY Cortland and in the ECHL), his wonderful smile (which was always present), his beaming personality (which made him a great restaurant owner) and his love for his wife and three children (which truly defined him as a person). None of it made sense.
After a few days (they say time heals all wounds) and a beautiful funeral ceremony that was attended by hundreds of classmates and friends, many of us concluded that at least we had that special Saturday night to see David one last time.
We treasured our last conversation, laughed about our last joke, smiled about that last high school story and appreciated that last beer together. We realize that we were lucky to spend that weekend with David and to see him that night.
David was the kind of guy who allowed you to pick up a conversation whether you hadn't seen him in 20 minutes, 20 days, 20 weeks or 20 years. For those of us who attended the reunion, we now have recent pictures to share, new stories to tell and updated memories that we will cherish forever.
So, while you may think you have no friends who are going, or that you haven't aged well, or that you won't have any fun, I encourage you to jump at the next opportunity you have to reconnect with old friends and attend your next reunion. While we all have lots going on in our lives, it may be that one time you won't have to say, "I wish I had been there."
And while I know that the Williamsville East class of 1987 will always hurt from this, I am confident that in five more years and at every reunion going forward, we'll raise our glasses high to remember our friend and classmate.
In fact, we might even celebrate again with our friends at Williamsville North.