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Daniel Walker/Special to the Herald
ANGEL FIRE, N.M. � Instant replay is alive and well at the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike Championships.
In a performance virtually identical to Friday�s dominance in the cross country races, the Fort Lewis College cycling team repeated Saturday morning with two more national titles in the short track endurance races at Angel Fire Resort.
Lauren Catlin of the Skyhawks won her second consecutive national championship with Saturday�s short track victory in a race that featured a crash at the starting line.
Replay: She also won Friday�s cross country race.
FLC teammate Rotem Ishay won his third consecutive men�s national short track title, holding off teammate Howard Grotts.
Replay: The two finished in reverse order in the Division I cross country race.
The reruns continued Saturday for the Skyhawks, with freshman Garrett Lundberg finishing fourth and sophomore Payson McElveen fifth.
�Watching our boys go 1-2-4-5, I was like ... now I have to perform,� Catlin said amid the raucous finish-line celebration.
The FLC rider from Fairfax, Calif., managed to avoid a tangled mess of bicycles at the start when several riders went down as they powered into their first pedal strokes.
�I started on the third row, and I think that saved me,� Catlin said. �It (crash) happened on my right; I had room and went to my left and didn�t get caught up.�
She escaped the carnage and bolted to the front on the first short, steep climb on the circuituous half-mile short track course at the base of Angel Fire Resort.
She rode alone out front for the remainder of the 33-minute race.
�Last year, I was the one who got caught up at the begnning, so I know what that feels like,� said Catlin, quick to praise the work of her FLC teammates.
Sarah Sturm, who was the runner-up in Friday�s cross country race, started on the front row Saturday morning and was among those who had to free her bike from a tangled mess before starting on the first lap.
She eventually worked back up through the short track field and finished fifth.
Sofia Gomez, slowed midway through by a mechanical issue, still managed to take third place for the Skyhawks in her first U.S. national championship.
Deidre York of the University of Colorado finished second.
�There were so many crashes at the start, it was really hectic,� Gomez said.
�Then we really hammered that first climb. Little by little, I made my way up,� said Gomez, a native of Argentina who raced the high school circuit in Northern California before enrolling at FLC.
�I was in second for a little bit. Then my chain got stuck between the frame (and the cassette). I stopped and fixed it, and I started riding. But it still wasn�t on,� she said.
With the chain finally in its appointed gear, Gomez pedaled ahead. CU�s York passed her for second, but Gomez was more than happy with her bronze medal.
�I�m excited to be racing my first year collegiate,� Gomez said. �The team did awesome. Hopefully the downhill will go the same, and we�ll get the team overall because really that�s all that matters.�
The FLC men boosted the Skyhawks� quest for the team omnium with Ishay�s third short track victory in a row at collegiate nationals.
�I was really motivated,� Ishay said of his final collegiate endurance race. �I was stressed.�
His self-imposed pressure, he said, made Saturday�s national title the sweetest of his three short track crowns.
�I felt kind of flat (Friday). I really wanted to get the victory (Saturday),� said Ishay, who then headed off to prepare for his gravity events. As an omnium contender, Ishay also raced Saturday�s downhill and will compete in today�s dual slalom at nationals.
He said that he and Grotts had a good battle with both riding in control for the Skyhawks� team points.
�We rode safe for the team,� Ishay said.
Ishay and Grotts rode away from the rest of the 75 riders just as they did Friday.
�He (Rotem) was definitely pushing the pace the entire race,� said Grotts, the only American to win a Junior World Cup mountain bike race and now a three-time national collegiate cross country champion.
�I buried myself to get up with him (at the start),� Grotts said. �You don�t let him get away on that first lap.�
Grotts, a Durango High School alumnus and the son of Don Grotts and Debbie Williams, said Ishay was determined in his final collegiate endurance race.
�I think that would give you a great deal of motivation,� said Grotts, a junior, of the finality of the senior�s situation.
McElveen, also sporting a huge smile for FLC, said the team was focused on a strong all-around performance Saturday.
�We knew, if we all had solid days, we were capable of this,� said McElveen, the Texas native who won the Squawker Classic cross country race in Durango this year.
�But you have to actually make it happen on race day,� he said.
The Skyhawks made it happen, with CU�s Samuel Morrison in third, the only non-Skyhawks� cyclist in the top five.
Defending collegiate omnium winner Kerry Werner of Lees-McRae College in North Carolina finished sixth in Saturday�s short track.
�It was awesome to hear Payson and Garrett were up there (during the race),� Ishay said of his young teammates who would finish fifth and fourth, respectively.
�The Fort Lewis program has done so much for me,� Ishay said. �It�s great to see I�m leaving the program to freshmen guys who are faster than when I started as a freshman.�


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This story tells you how England recruited people from India under "contract" to replace the African labour in agriculture after slavery was abolished in 1834. It is believed that these Indians were tricked into leaving India to go places like Guyana, Fiji & Africa, to work as "Indentured Labourers".
In this documentary one man is looking for any sign of his great grand father who came to Guyana. Another man also looks for his roots in Fiji. Indians had to deal with SOME of the same living conditions and cruelty that the Africans, and others, endured earlier under slavery, before 1834
In this case, however, unlike under African based slavery, there was a time limit for their labour, even though it was harsh at times. They were free after their five year "contract" to renew their contract, or return to India or accept land in lieu of their passage home as was the case in in British Guiana (Guyana).
In British Guiana, After slavery was abolished the Africans got their "freedom" but no land or compensation for over 200 years labour by them and their ancestors. They had to work and save to buy abandoned estates to form their first villages like Victoria, Beterverwagting and Buxton on the East Coast of Demerara.
In Guyana's 2002 Census, people claiming to be East Indian made up 43.45% of the population of 751,233. ( see Census Reports here)

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Final Cashner AFL Start Simply Indefensible
Nick Evans (NYM), Mike Moustakas (KC), and Colin Curtis (NYY) each crushed two-run homers, and Ian Kennedy (NYY) threw five innings of one-run ball, leading the Surprise Rafters to a 9-2 drubbing of the Mesa Solar Sox in Arizona Fall League action at HoHoKam Park in Mesa this afternoon, in what was Andrew Cashner's final AFL start.
Cashner allowed three runs (two ER) on four hits and a walk, with three strikeouts, over his three innings of work, but he actually looked very good. He threw a shutout top of the 1st, issuing a one-out walk to Daniel Descalso (STL) and allowing an Ike Davis (NYM) two-out single through the box to CF (the ball went off a diving Starlin Castro's glove and trickled into CF, as Castro ranged far behind the 2nd base bag) around a ground out, a strikeout, and a fly out.
Cashner should have had an easy 1-2-3 2nd inning, getting an infield pop up, a weak ground ball to second, and a strikeout. But his defense let him down.
Third-baseman Casey Kelly (BOS) insisted on calling Starlin Castro off the infield pop up, and then proceeded to drop the ball behind the mound, allowing Mike Moustakas to reach base on an E-5. So with Moustakas at 1st and nobody out, Daryl Jones (STL) hit a routine ground ball to Solar Sox second-baseman Steve Singleton (MIN), who figured instead of taking the sure-out at 1st, maybe he should try and get the lead runner (Moustakas) at 2nd base. Unfortunately, it was a hit & run play, so Moustakas beat the throw to 2nd, allowing Jones to reach base on a FC
An exasperated Cashner decided he probably needed to get the outs himself, so he reared-back and threw a couple of 96 MPH heaters and a wipe-out slider past Bryan Anderson (STL), striking out the Rafters catcher. However, the next two batters (Ruben Tejada and Jarrod Dyson) ripped RBI hits, resulting in three runs scoring.
Cashner got out of the 2nd on a DP fly out to CF (Dyson was running on the pitch and he never stopped running), and then threw a shutout 3rd inning (lead-off single by Colin Curtis, followed by an Ike Davis strikeout and two pop ups). But because of the extra pitches he had to throw in the 2nd, Cashner was removed from the game after only three innings of work (63 pitches - 41 strikes).
Starlin Castro played SS and hit 2nd for the Solar Sox, and went 2-4 (raising his batting average to .387).
In his first AB in the bottom of the 1st inning, Castro laced a line-drive single to CF on the 1st pitch he saw, stole second, advanced to third on a bloop single to center, and scored on a bloop hit to LF. He was swinging first pitch again when he ripped an opposite-field single to RF with one out in the bottom of the 3rd, stole second (again), and advanced to third on a fly ball to CF, before being left stranded. He was retired on a lazy fly ball,(F-9) and topped out to third (outstanding barehand pick-up and throw by Rafters 3B Mike Moustakas, just barely nipping Castro at 1st) in his other two plate appearances.
Besides his activity at the plate, Castro also made the defensive play of the day, coming in full-speed behind the mound to grab a ball that was deflected by the pitcher, and then throwing out the batter (Nick Evans) by half-a-step.
Michael Brenly was the catcher today (with father Bob once again in attendance), and batted 9th. He fisted an RBI bloop double down the LF line in the bottom of the 7th, but grounded out weakly 3-U, 6-3, and 4-3 in his other three plate appearances.
LHP James Russell worked the top of the 9th for the Solar Sox and pitched another shutout inning, allowing just a lead-off 1st pitch opposite field single to Ike Davis, before retiring the side on a ground out (Castro's defensive gem) and two strikeouts (and both of Russell's strikeout victims were left-handed hitters). Russell has looked VERY good so far.
Josh Vitters did not play again today (he was a last-minute scratch yesterday), and RHP Blake Parker and LHP John Gaub are scheduled to work out of the bullpen tomorrow night at Scottsdale. Both Parker and Gaub are waiting to find out if they will be added to the Cubs 40-man roster (the deadline is Friday).
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What's the deal with Vitters? This kid is always sidelined with some kind of "minor" injury, it's been this way since he was drafted. Before he was drafted actually, he was hurt in HS too. He's beginning to look like a VERY fragile player. No question Castro has moved past him at this point. Has the window passed on Vitters' max value?
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at least let the guy get old enough to buy a drink before we start pegging down his max ceiling. he is a bumps/bruises player so far, though.
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What's the deal with Vitters? This kid is always sidelined with some kind of "minor" injury
Well he came to the right organization.
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Wasn't his 'injury' in High School mono?
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I thought it was pneumonia, but unless we are referring to something other than what affected him most of his senior year, I'm pretty sure it was an illness of some kind, not an injury.
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He gets illnesses? What a pussy. Probably caught Prior's vaginitis.
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Jesus! What's with the continuing of the Prior "Vagina" thing? Let it go...The dude is out of baseball (sort of) for fuck's sake!
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who the hell is prior?
hard to believe he hasn't been in a pro game since mid-06.
it's easy to give him hell, but he was a mega-ultra-level talent who exceeded expectations except for the very highest until he got injured.
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Referencing Prior's vagina in a thread that started with an accusation that a player might be fragile could be ironic, too. That's how I read it.
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What's wrong E-Man? Sand in your vagina?
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wtf ryno?!
did i insult you or anyone in the comment?
that's the best you can do with your shallow "wit"?
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Did anyone else see Marty Funkhouser's joke to Jerry Seinfeld on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" this past Sunday?
Gold, Jerry, GOld
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Dude, I was speaking ironically. We were talking about Silent Towel's endless vagina witticisms in a different thread. It annoyed me when people likened a weakness to femininity. I figured the fact that I accused the guy of being a pussy for getting an illness made the sarcasm clear enough. Apparently not.
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nope. sorry. know all too well about ST here and missed the irony as well as the "sand in the vagina" thing.
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No problem. Sarcasm doesn't always translate in type.
Sabermetric chubby....
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Dallas News writer on Cubs sending Bradley back to them...
But once you get past the stats and the dollars and get down to the type of teammate Bradley is, the type of strain Bradley's presence puts on the clubhouse and the type of message it sends to the team, there are a slew of reasons why the Rangers aren't exactly jumping at this "bargain."
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Clearly the Dallas News doesn't read TCR...
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That article expresses what I have said about Bradley nicely.....
That said, he played 124 games last year and 126 in 2008. It's virtually impossible to be considered a starter, not spend time on the DL, and play any fewer games in a season. He has been in the league now 10 years and never played in 90 percent (146 games) of his team's games. His career high is 141 games and the last two years he's averaged playing in 77 percent of his team's games.
A healthy Bradley means roughly 25% of the time you have to play a man down on the 25 man roster. Thats a hell of a burden to pay for a guy deemed the "starter."
Does this sound familiar?
After the All-Star break, he played in just 46 of the team's final 66 games (70 percent), citing various minor injuries, occasionally pulling himself out of the lineup late and causing a significant amount of frustration among teammates who were trying to post the Rangers' first winning record since 2004.
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a Bruce Levine online Q&A, from yesterday...some decent stuff (if you can muddle thru the WSux crud)
When will Bradley get traded....And to What Team???
Bruce Levine (1:07 PM)
I have to admit that I might have jumped the gun last week. I thought he would be gone by now. But a couple of the scenarios for Hendry haven't taken place. Right now it's still Tampa and Texas as the most viable deals. It appears Kevin Millwood would be coming back from Texas and Pat Burrell if the deal is made with Tampa.
What are the odds of the Chicago Cubs resigning Rich Harden? I have heard he wants to stay as a cub.
Bruce Levine (1:37 PM)
Zero. Harden's 25 starts per year is not what the Cubs are looking for, especially if he's going to make somewhere between $7M and $10M. Harden probably will take a one-year deal with an option somewhere else.
$7 million on Grabow is an absurd waste of money. Can you say Mike Remlinger or Latroy Hawkins or Scott Eyre? John Gaub will be just as good as Grabow and for 1/20 of the price.
Bruce Levine (1:50 PM)
Grabow is a very good left-handed set-up man. Those guys aren't easy to find. Unfortunatley for the Cubs, the market for a left-handed set-up man alreayd is set by other good and bad contracts. Real market value for Grabow is $3M to $4M. He will sign with the Cubs.
What do you thnk the chances are of the Cubs going after a second basemen like Orlando Hudson? Second base seems to be up in the at the moment with both Fontenot and Baker being arbitration eligible
Bruce Levine (1:54 PM)
Hudson would be a nice one-year call for the Cubs. It would allow Castro to have more seasoning at Double-A and Triple-A before he's moved up to play short. The problem with Castro playing short is Theriot moving to second, a position he hasn't played for four years. That's not an easy adjustment, especially playing with your back to the runner coming down on double plays. Still Hudson would be a nice addition for one year. Orlando Cabrera wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Bruce,if Hendry does trade Castro or cashner doesn't that contradict what Ricketts mentioned during his press conference about building the minor league system?
Bruce Levine (1:59 PM)
Castro will not be traded. He is the shortstop of the very near future. Teams do not trade players like this unless they have a young stud at the position already. Cashner would only go in a blockbuster trade where the Cubs are getting other young people back. That would not contradict Ricketts' statement considering you're bringing in other young players.
What are the chances of the Cubs bringing back DeRosa?
Bruce Levine (2:01 PM)
Maybe DeRosa would be the right answer for the Cubs' new marketing director. The team did say it was going to have a high-profile, well-known guy to take that role. But seriously I don't see where DeRosa fits for this team. He's going to play at age 35 coming off wrist surgery. His best positions are first and third. I do miss him, though, in the clubhouse.
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Interesting that Levine notes Castro and Cashner are the untouchables, but pointedly does not mention Vitters. Of course, it IS Levine....he probably just read the BA list and used their top 2 for his examples. I'd put more credence in suppositions like these if they came from Miles.
I didn't mean to come across as quick-to-the-hip in bashing Vitters' upside, I was just making the observation that he sure seems to have an awful lot of nagging injuries. Each year he's been with the Cubs he has missed time due to something--wrist, back, what-not. I hope he pans out big-time, but this consistency of missing time at such a young age is either typical Cubs bad luck, or indicative of a fragile kid. I hope the former since luck is bound to change at some point, but I fear the latter. A 19-yo Joe Crede isn't going to do the Cubs much good in the long run.
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AZ Phil had also mentioned that out of all the top prospects the Cubs have, he seems the most likely to go nowhere.
Pedro rumor
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs reportedly are possible landing spots for Martinez, who did prove in his short time with the Phillies that he has something left after having consecutive injury-riddled seasons with the New York Mets from 2007-08.
granted it's a rumor and all, but Harden's 25 starts a year are a problem, but let's go get Pedro?
(hat tip to waxpaperbeercup for the link)
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Well, 25 starts at $10 million is the problem, right? What would Pedro cost? Half that? A third? Plus incentives?
Between the 2, I'd prefer a healthy Harden, but I'm just guessing "healthy" and "Harden" aren't going together well next year.
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Pedro will get at least $6M I'm guessing and maybe $8M in incentives and be half as good...
Re: Pedro rumor
Remember the Cubs were allegedly scouting him last year. Also the money isn't likely to be the same. Also you're comparing news fromt two different sources and wondering why there is a discrepancy.
Re: Pedro rumor
I have not read anywhere that the Cubs were even considering this at all. I am interested to know who is "reporting" this. Sounds like water cooler talk to me.
Re: Pedro rumor
Probably as credible as the Lee-for-Vazquez rumors last week.
Re: Pedro rumor
I'm not against signing Pedro as a 2nd half guy on a Clemens type plan. He can probably be a solid 5th starter. If things falter elsewhere, I wouldn't be against that.
Signing him for a whole year, though, seems like a fool's errand. Just hard for me to believe he can maintain a high level all year long.
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I think a possible sign for the Cubs would be Omar Vizquel. He would come cheap and be an excellent mentor for Starlin Castro. Theriot could then move back to second and/or end being the super utility man they originally thought he would be. Even if they go after a second baseman, I think Vizquel would be a good signing that would give them a strong veteran presence in the clubhouse.
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I think the Cubs can sign Vizquel, regardless of his ability to mentor Castro (who should be in AA or AAA to start the season). Vizquel can play 2nd, short and 3rd better than our starters there.
Robothal believes..
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"The Tigers, Cubs and Dodgers are among the other clubs that could be in the market for a second baseman."
What would Scutaro cost us?
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Our minds.
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The problem with Scutaro is that, if I'm not mistaken, he's type A. I'm not against Scutaro on a short deal, say, 2 years 7-9 million, as he could give us a better top of the order option than Theriot and make for a decent, albeit expensive, backup in 2011 (assuming Starlin is up). that said, I'm not willing to give up a pick for him, and he probably could land a better deal than 2/7-9.
No Fire Sale in Detroit
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No one's ever suggested that they would fire sale - just that they'd try to move some contracts. If you're going to move guys and save some money Willis, Bonderman and Ordonez don't fit the bill.
I am pretty sure if Dombrowski goes to Illich (right?) and says "We can get Tommy Hanson for Willis and Ordonez" then the deal gets done.
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well someone must have said it or Dombrowski wouldn't have felt the need to shoot it down...
as per how it relates to the Cubs, I hold by my initial stance that they'll move Granderson only if they can move a bad contract with it...
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Similar to the Halladay and Wells for prospects deal of July.
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I don't know. I could see them moving him for like Cameron Maybin and a rookie/1st year starter. If the Orioles were to offer Pie and Maskawutsis - theyd probably bite. Even a Soto and Wells package would probably get them thinking about it.
In the larger scheme of things, I agree that $9 million, or whatever those two are scheduled to make isn't going to make or break the organization.
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Sorry Neal...Lol..it's not like Matusz is that close to MAskawahtsis..I thought for a crazy second that you meant Markakis...but I know you're smarter than that.
Good advice...
The cases where the value of metrics like UZR are the most contentious are when the results diverge significantly from what the perceived scouting wisdom says about a player. Often times, the reaction to counterintuitive data is to dismiss it entirely, offering up the example as evidence that the metric is flawed beyond use. Or, on the other side, to offer up the player's numbers as proof that scouts just don't get it, and that subjective opinions are worthless
In reality though, both positions are wrong. Re-quoting the assistant GM from Crasnick's piece:
"If there's some kind of discrepancy, you need to use your best judgment," the assistant says. "If a scout says, 'This guy stinks,' but the numbers say he's excellent, the truth probably lies somewhere in between."
UZR is a tool. Scouts are a tool. They can be used together to produce better information than either can on their own. It is not an either/or proposition. Use both.
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UZR is useless.
mike cameron disagrees...brad hawpe, mark tiexera, and jason bay agree.
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Are there center fielders with bad UZR scores? It was almost a non-possiblity with the +/- system.
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I don't get the Bill James site, but I do recall defensive win shares being very kind to centerfielders, but I can't check +/- ratings.
Edmonds was -14.3 for the Cubs/Padres in UZR last year.
you can sort by UZR on Fangraphs, I find 9 that qualified that were below average in 2009, the worst being Ellsbury, Wells, Fowler, Fukudome.
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My Hardball times seems to have been put into storage. If memory servers the average center fielder got an A-, the average Right Fielder a C and the average left fielder a C-.
How do you qualify for a fielding metric?
Re: Russell
I keep waiting for Russell to break out (a bit). I mean, decent fb, plus change, solid curve. Plenty of lefties have had less to work with and built solid careers. I'm hopeful that maybe this is a sign of things to come. That said, I would prefer to see Russell working on his arsenal as a starter in Iowa, particularly if Gaub will take the main LOOGY role in Iowa (I'm figuring Grabow and either Marshall and/or Gorzelanny will be in the pen, negating a need to bump Gaub up).
Re: Russell
Well Marshall/Gorzelanny will be starting, at least at this point, and none of them are strictly LOOGY's so I could see all four being on the team. If we have four right starters (to start the season) then it seems like a good idea to have a long guy who is a lefty. If we're going to have a 7 or 8 man pen, may as well have Gaub part of it - assuming there are enough high leverage cituations for him to work in, and he actually succeeds at it.
To those who want to trade Bradley for Little Sarge
" Would the Angels be willing to do a swap of Gary Mathews Jr. to the Cubs for Milton Bradley? With both players seeming likely to be on the move and their contracts similar, it seems like a fit for both clubs and players. Do you think that could happen?
-- Eric Y., Chino Hills, Calif.
This is an intriguing suggestion. The Cubs could use Matthews' defense in center field and his ability to lead off, and Bradley had his best season in the AL West with Texas in 2008. Bradley can play a corner outfield spot, but he is probably best suited to DH. But I don't think there's a pressing need there, which means Matthews' versatility probably makes him more valuable to the Angels in spite of Bradley's superior offensive numbers. "
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I followed John Beasley's link, which eventually led me to discover an updated version of "Casey at the Bat" entitled, "Bradley at the Bat":
It's worth reading for a good chuckle.
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matthews ability to leadoff?
never say never and all, but Angels felt burned by Jose Guillen and I doubt they'd take Bradley on without the Cubs paying the entire freight. Bradley burned his bridges with the L.A. media as well, so they'll pounce on him if he comes back.
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The leadoff thing, while stupid, wasn't nearly as stupid as the center field thing. Bradley probably plays a better center than Matthews at this point.
Cubs not in on DeRosa
as expected..
offseason has been kind of boring so far...hasn't it?
Re: offseason has been kind of boring so far...hasn't it?
Hendry has no money. He's lost.
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I had to drive to Peoria and back today, 3 hours each way. On the way back I wanted to shoot Jim Memolo, resident punk at WGN radio (and why does WGN radio only hire jackasses to do sports? Between Memolo and Kaplan I can't stand WGN sports reports) At 4:11pm Memolo comes on and says "plenty of baseball hotstove rumors, more at 5pm." His next report was at 4:35, doesn't mention baseball rumors at all, but he teased for 5 o'clock and I'll be in the car another two hours anyway. At 5:11 he comes on, doesn't mention baseball rumors at all. 5:35, again, no mention of baseball rumors. At 6:11 he comes on and says, "plenty of Cubs and Sox trade rumors out there. The Phillies are considered the leaders for Mark Derosa." That's it. Thank you, Memolo. Learn the basics of journalism, you scab.
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Yeah, that's the kind of shit that would send me raging.
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Kudos Paul. Most accurate post in the history of the internet.
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Should be listening to WSCR.
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Yea... the Score is a beacon of accuracy, breaking news, and top-notch reporting.
Oh wait.
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Lol...true Lowitzki...but it's still better than Jim Memolo....ugh.
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Gitmo prisoners should have to listen to WSCR
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Schmidt is probably retiring.
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This actually made me laugh.
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Just for old time's sake! I'm gonna miss that guy.
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FINE...i'll do it.
dude, that's 3/44.
Re: Grabow
Diamond doing well in Mexico
Sickels AFL Post/Q&A
Sickels Q&A has a few comments on Cubs prospects.
Sickels likes Castro
Scouts questioning Vitters
Cashner should be a reliever eventually
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j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
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Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.


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National Public Radio Morning Edition Covers Children's Mental Health Issues
In Part 1: Mental Illness Diagnosis in Children on the Rise doctors are diagnosing an increasing number of children at younger ages with serious mental disorders. Many of those children are being treated with psychiatric drugs developed for adults. Experts say the trend is worrisome because most of the medications have never been tested for safety or effectiveness in children.
In Part 2: Bipolar Disorder in Children, NPR's Michelle Trudeau introduces one family whose young son has bipolar disorder. In growing numbers, psychiatric researchers agree that bipolar disorder -- sometimes called manic depression -- occurs in children and not just in adults. Children as young as five can suffer from the manic highs and deep depressions that characterize the disorder.
In Part 3: Mental Illness in Children, NPR's Michelle Trudeau reports that bipolar disorder in children may have particularly severe symptoms. Bipolar disorder can occur in children as young as five or six years old. The disorder is also known as manic depression, for the mood swings that shift -- sometimes quickly and often -- from manic highs to deep depressions.
In Part 4: Mental Illness in Children, the number of American children diagnosed and medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder more than tripled in the 1990s. Some scientists say it's good that children are getting treatment, while others worry that kids are being drugged for having normal childhood problems.


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0.49.2 Bugs
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Posted 27 November 2004 - 04:38 PM
If you turn off the internal DVD player, both DVDs and audio cds launch the MS dash.
Posted 27 November 2004 - 06:13 PM
Just noticed one thing, that might be a little bug. I tested the DVD-Player with some of my DVDs and they are all RC 2 DVDs (as I live in Europe). However the DVD-Player in Avalaunch wants to tell me that they are all RC 1 DVDs. Not even a little bit annoying but perhaps something that could be fixes (one day).
Posted 27 November 2004 - 07:46 PM
I have noticed one small bug. My NTSC version of "The One" will not play on the integrated dvd player but will play on the MS dashboard and dvdx2. Maybe your dvd player isn't handling CSS properly. Other than that great work and thank you for such a wonderful free dashboard!!
Posted 27 November 2004 - 10:51 PM
and second, how do I enable progressive scan at 720? The dash boots up as 1080i and 720p no problem, but when I check in info in the built in dash it says 1280X720 and it's running interlaced at 60 fps.
I have tried disabling 720p and 1080i in the ms dash, and the built in dvd player is still stuck at 480i
Posted 28 November 2004 - 12:01 AM
Keep up the good work
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Posted 28 November 2004 - 12:24 AM
i'm not sure if this will be in .50 and up but i thought i would mention it
Posted 28 November 2004 - 01:24 AM
I don't know if it's a bug but I've had an issue with newsfeed.
In the previous version when an url was wrong a popup appeared with "web engine 404 error" text.
After upgrade (auto from AVA) my Xbox freeze when AVA check the url witch was wrong instead of display the error message.
After change the url for a working url all is ok and no freeze.
My config :
Xbox crystal 1.4
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Posted 28 November 2004 - 02:29 AM
can enable, cant disable unless you pick one of the others then disable it again
also the kai implementation is a little shakey, the game list disapears on a lot of rooms after going down a couple items.
Posted 28 November 2004 - 02:55 AM
Having similar problems playing certain dvds. Superbit Heavy Metal won't play.
Am I correct in assuming the bootimage can be in the skin folder now? I have tried this with a couple skins and can't get it to work. All I get is the default bootimage.
Posted 28 November 2004 - 03:31 AM
When running in 720p or 1080i, the "Now loading <insert app here>" text, along with the icon, are displayed with a hard-coded resolution, not dynamically centered, so a higher resolution throws it smaller and into the left hand corner.
Posted 28 November 2004 - 03:35 AM
One thing i noticed with the kai is that when you assign a room to a game, if you are in the actual room and press (A), avalaunch locks up. but if you are in the main arena that has the rooms (Americas, Europe, etc...) and press (A) on Americas it sets it to default and doesn't lock up. but if you go into, say, Americas and press (A) it locks.
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Two people were injured in a three-car accident during rush hour this morning on the Scajaquada Expressway near Grant Street, according to Northwest District police.
The accident occurred at about 7:45 a.m. when one of the vehicles apparently spun out. At least two people were injured and taken to Erie County Medical Center, police said, but their injuries were not believed to be serious. Police are continuing to investigate but suspect weather conditions contributed to the accident.


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When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with this bird of his dreams. Rio will be presented in 3D animation when it hits movie theaters. Rio is directed by Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age, Robots, Ice Age: Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs) and stars Neil Patrick Harris and Anne Hathaway.


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on December 15, 2012 - 9:37 PM
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WASHINGTON – For a nation of millions of broken hearts grasping for something, anything, to prevent yet another schoolhouse slaughter, the solution sounds simple:
If we could just get the mentally ill the proper care, then the nation would be spared the agony of one more Newtown.
The trouble is, that's too simple a solution, and one that's unlikely to work on its own, psychiatrists say.
Yes, they say, access to mental health services is not as easy as it should be. There's a shortage of psychiatrists in Buffalo, for example, and insurance problems in many places that often mean psychiatric patients don't get the care they need.
Yet other confounding facts prove that better mental health services alone are not the preventative medicine for mass shootings like the one that claimed the lives of 20 school children and eight adults, including the killer, in Connecticut on Friday.
For one thing, while we don't know if the Connecticut killer, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, was under psychiatric care, we know that some previous mass murderers were – and that it did nothing to stem the bloodshed.
What's more, psychiatrists say it's nearly impossible to identify who among the mentally ill is truly dangerous, and that any effort to do so will only further stigmatize a category of illness where many people already shun treatment out of embarrassment and fear.
And there's one last important fact: The vast majority of mentally ill people are not prone to violence.
Add it all up, and psychiatrists say that improving access to mental health services is likely to be only one of the measures the nation must take if it really wants to get serious about preventing bloodbaths like the one that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"My fear is always that people will write this off as just about another mentally ill person," said Dr. Charles P. Ewing, a forensic psychologist and attorney at the University at Buffalo who specializes in the psychology of crime. "It's about way more than mental illness."
In fact, at this point we can't even be sure that Lanza was officially diagnosed as mentally ill. In a story that's been marked by misinformation from the start, all we know is that former classmates have said they believe that Lanza had Asperger syndrome, a form of autism marked by social awkwardness and odd use of language.
While we don't know many details of Lanza's mental state, we do know that many people inside and outside the medical profession are calling for better access to mental health services in the wake of the Connecticut massacre.
That's especially true in Buffalo, where a shortage of psychiatrists worries many medical professionals.
Dr. Steven L. Dubovsky, professor and chairman of psychiatry at the University at Buffalo Medical School, said that the shortage stems in part from the fact that some local insurers reimburse those psychiatrists in a comparatively paltry way.
For example, some insurers reimburse psychiatrists only $5 more for a 45-minute patient visit than for a one- to 20-minute patient visit.
The result: Local psychiatric patients often don't get the treatment they need from the right specialist – and often end up in the emergency room with problems that otherwise might have been kept under control, Dubovsky said.
"It doesn't work well for people with serious problems," he said.
Then again, access to the best psychiatric care is not a problem limited to Buffalo.
Dr. Claudia M. Gold, a pediatrician, writer and director of the Early Childhood Social Emotional Health program at Newton-Wellesley Hospital near Boston, said research strongly suggests that early treatment is very important for young children with behavioral problems that could mushroom into violence later.
Yet she runs into a problem when she tries to refer young patients and their parents to top mental health professionals.
"The best therapists often don't take insurance," she said.
Once troubled youngsters become adults, the mental health system can leave people untreated for another reason.
"One complicating factor is that in order to get treatment, people have to want to get treatment – unless they are seen as an immediate danger to themselves or others," said Amanda Nickerson, a psychologist and associate professor at UB's Graduate School of Education. "And even that is difficult to determine."
What's more, there's no guarantee that psychiatric treatment will stop any one mad mind from lashing out. After all, James Holmes was seeing a University of Colorado psychiatrist before he shot 12 people at a showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in Colorado in July.
And Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people and then himself at Virginia Tech University in 2007, was under court-ordered psychiatric treatment that did nothing to prevent his rampage.
"Most of these people are getting some sort of treatment," Dubovsky said.
Obviously, in the Colorado and Virginia Tech episodes, that treatment was by no means adequate.
If you think you should institutionalize any mental patient prone to any level of violence, the numbers are indeed daunting. Dr. Alec Buchanan, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University, has calculated that you would have to lock up between five and 10 troubled people to have a decent chance of preventing a single one from acting violently.
Even then, you would likely miss some dangerous individuals, noted Dr. Marvin Swartz, who served with Buchanan on an American Psychiatric Association Work Group on Violence Risk earlier this year that concluded: While psychiatrists can often identify circumstances associated with an increased likelihood of violent behavior, they cannot predict dangerousness with definitive accuracy."
The problem, Ewing said, is that finding the violent among the mentally ill is "totally unpredictable."
What's more, violence is actually rare among the mentally ill. Research shows that between 92 and 96 percent of mental patients do not have violent tendencies, said Dr. Daniel Antonius, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University at Buffalo.
"Their relative contribution to violence is so small," Antonius said.
So if locking up the mentally ill won't solve the problem, what will work better?
"I think we have to look at how the seriously mentally ill have access to weapons like this," said Ewing, who is a SUNY distinguished service professor and vice dean for academic affairs at the UB Law School. "Obviously they do. And doing so, they can do great damage."
Swartz agreed, noting that academic research shows gun control to be a better deterrent to violence than any attempt to identify dangerous individuals before they strike.
"The more efficient way to reduce the rates of violence is to make guns less available," he said.
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The final phase of the $11.9 million capital project for the Tonawanda City School District is ready to go out for bidding. Officials hope to take advantage of the building season to complete a new Clint Small Stadium by fall.
Representatives from the Pike Co. and Wendel Architects gave the Tonawanda Board of Education an update on the project during its regular meeting this week. Peter Buckley of Pike reported lots of interest from contractors, and officials hope to approve a bid for construction by the end of February.
Construction would begin in the spring, with the majority of work being completed during the summer.
The capital project would revamp the Tonawanda High/Middle School athletic campus, centered around the new stadium, which would be located next to a district building for the first time. A revised parking lot and bus loop also are expected to be completed this summer, with a new wing for music classrooms in the secondary building to be finished in the first month of the 2013-14 school year.


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I was just plaing Tera for 2 weeks or so, and I wanted to do a dungeon.
As what I learned from WoW, youtube it, to prevent nasty surprises.
But the movies were (...) while scouring for a better 1, I noticed "Blade and Soul online" vids. (long live sensable search on youtube)
I was thinking...whats this? Decided towatch a vid. It was 1 from Stepparu.
I went...that looks awesome!
And searched for more, watched more. And the more I watched the more I went: "screw Tera! this rocks!"
So after 7 days trial + 30 days subscription, I was already burned out of Tera becus of Blade and Soul clips.
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Check in at our hotels near the Baltimore Airport and then hit the light rail to let your adventures in downtown Baltimore or the Inner Harbor begin. Take in the sights at Mt. Vernon, see a show at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center and indulge in a Berger cookie as you wander by row houses and decipher the unique Baltimorese of passersby.
Not long after landing at the Baltimore Airport, hotel guests will have an easy time understanding why Baltimore is referred to as the "Charm City." Dazzling waterfront attractions, boundless scenic views, and a seemingly endless supply of fresh crabs abound. A trip to the National Aquarium is a must, followed by a visit to the USS <i>Constellation</i>, where you can experience first-hand the lives of Navy sailors.
When staying at Baltimore Airport area hotels, you'll also want to delve into the city's passionate sports culture. Grab a hot dog and cheer on the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards, or head to M&T Bank Stadium to see the Baltimore Ravens play towards another Super Bowl victory. And be sure to polish up your "Maryland, My Maryland" lyrics before the horse races begin at the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the US Triple Crown.


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The provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Newfoundland and Labrador are engaged in a social experiment. Each of these areas requires its high school students to put in anywhere from 25 to 40 hours volunteering in their communities in order to graduate.
The hope is that by forcing teens to give back, they will be encouraged to be good citizens and volunteers as adults. And, of course, non-profits will also benefit from an unpaid labour force.
"We do have very clear research that shows the earlier we get citizens involved in volunteering, the more likely they are to be lifelong volunteers," says Marlene Deboisbriand, president of Volunteer Canada from her office in Ottawa.
But there is one big drawback to the plan: Volunteering is something you choose to do because you want to, not because you have to. What message are we sending teens if we are equating mandatory community service with volunteering? Volunteer or risk not graduating?
"We make kids do things all the time, presumably for their own good," says Linda Graff, president of Linda Graff and Associates Inc., an international consulting firm based in Dundas, Ont., that specializes in volunteerism and non-profit management.
"To call mandatory community service 'volunteering' is a problem because then we begin to confuse the distinction between an activity that is freely chosen and something that is obligatory and perhaps not always rewarding. Volunteering should be something you choose to do because you want to do it, not because somebody made you do it."
"Over time, if we're not careful, I think we can erode that ethos of caring that really distinguishes us as a nation," says Ms. Graff. "We are known around the world as good, caring, helpful people, and that is important to who we are, what our identity is and what our communities are about. If we start to confuse that with being made to do something that is sometimes unpleasant, it's not a good thing."
According to Imagine Canada's most recent national research on volunteering, teenagers have higher rates of volunteering than any other age group. In 2004, 45% of Canadians in general volunteered, compared with 65% of teenagers.
The volunteer numbers include mandatory community service, defined by the survey as an organization that requires volunteering as a condition of membership, court-ordered community service, school requirements and employer requirements.
When the survey came out last year, Ms. Deboisbriand went on her own fact-finding mission, visiting provinces where mandatory community service was not a requirement to graduate high school.
"I wanted to see if we were skewing the numbers by including these hours. But even in provinces where they don't have mandatory community service in their schools, the rate of volunteering is higher among teenagers than the rest of the population."
It is too soon to tell whether students required to volunteer will carry that sense of duty into adulthood.
Ontario was one of the first to introduce its mandatory volunteer program, in September, 1999.
"What we do know," says Ms. Deboisbriand, "is that for these types of programs to work, the volunteer experience has to be a positive one for the student."
It has to be more than a forced work program such as Ontario's, that simply requires the student accumulate a certain number of "volunteer hours," says Ms. Graff. "The research out of the United States says the schools need to work with the community to co-operatively identify work that is meaningful to the kids and that is connected back to curriculum in the classroom. The experience needs to be put in some kind of context so they understand the larger meaning. The Ontario program completely misses both of these requirements.
"My guess is that where this program is successful it is happenstance, not by design."
What of all those hours and able bodies made available free of charge to the 160,000-plus registered non-profits in Canada? "Unpaid labour is not necessarily free," says Ms. Deboisbriand. "The student needs training, monitoring, support, [and] without any guarantee the young person will engage beyond the 40 hours, what have you gained?"
For her part, Gail Nyberg, executive director of the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto, sees the program as mutually beneficial. "We help the kids get their hours and they help us get a lot of work done."
And the students? Many are stuck licking envelopes or mucking out stalls, which is how Grade 9 student Christina Lynn met her volunteer hours requirement.
"I volunteered at the stable where I ride," says Ms. Lyn, who lives in Oakville, Ont. "I chose something I enjoy and it was a good experience." As for volunteering as an adult, the 15-yearold said she would, so long as it was something she was interested in and had time for. Does that spell success?


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Ñāṇa wrote:Sarva wrote:Do you know if it is considered that inactive consciousness continues through sleep? For example, in dream sleep there is a certain consciousness of dream, later on awaking we are consicous that we slept deeply and/or that we drempt. I am curious if there is such a consciousness in scripture or spoken of elsewhere that you may know?
I can't recall offhand what the Theravāda commentaries have to say on this (and I can't think of where to look in the commentaries for a discussion of it). Of the top of my head I would guess that the underlying continuum (bhavanga-sota & bhavanga-citta) continues during deep, dreamless sleep, and that mental consciousness (manoviññāṇa) occurs when dreaming. However, there may be a more precise description of the mental processes during the dream state.
Thanks again Ñāṇa! Having followed up on the links you kindly provided it appears to me that the topic is more profound than thought; there are more than 2 terms which can be translated into the English word "Consciousness" and hence I am not 100% clear on how these were used. I feel I have two options: 1) perhaps someone can point me towards some indepth research so I can study further or 2) let the topic rest


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LEWISTOWN - Though families of the Juniata Valley are getting ready for Halloween with candy and costumes, it won't be long before the to-do list is filled with Christmas shopping and holiday baking. In fact, the Juniata River Valley Visitor's Bureau has already started its Christmas list, with the Festival of Ice as the top priority.
For the first time in 10 years, the annual event is being organized and run by a community committee, said Jim Tunall, president and executive director. With plans to shake things up and add a bunch of new activities, attendees should be expecting an increase in holiday cheer at this year's festival.
"Everything we've been doing has worked, but the event was becoming stagnant - people knew what they were getting every year," Tunall said. "We felt it was important to switch things around and find new ways to engage the community."
The event committee began planning in August around the theme "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas," and have made a number of changes and additions in an effort to make the festival feel like new again.
The Festival of Ice, scheduled for Dec. 5 and 6, will be condensed to the four block area around Monument Square, instead of four blocks down Market Street, to create a more cohesive presentation of vendors, activities and ice sculptures.
"The idea isn't to run from one end of the festival to the other anymore," said Jenny Landis, festival co-chair. "It's about coming to hang out as a family. A lot of our new things are interactive. We want people to get involved and stay
a while."
The first evening of the festival will kick off with an opening procession, in which the community is invited to participate, Landis said. Anyone who wants to be in the parade will meet at St. John's Lutheran Church and pick out a puppet to hold or a costume to wear. Along with a surprise parade leader and musical accompaniment, the parade will then circle the festival.
In addition to the procession, Thursday evening will include a caroling group for community members to join that walk to area residences and senior facilities.
The two-day festival will also feature a new JVB Holiday Market, with more than 23 vendors clustered in the Juniata Valley Bank parking lot, and the South Hills Cafe, serving gourmet hot chocolate and lattes.
The proprietors of Chestnut Manor will also be present to collect Christmas wishes from festival goers. After going on display, the wishes will then be submitted to the prayer box at Granville Methodist Church.
"There's no guarantee that any of (the wishes) will come true, but we're sure this activity will generate good will and a bit of Christmas compassion for those taking the time to read them," Tunall said.
The event committee also has big plans for activities for children including the addition of letters to Santa, carnival games, cookie decorating, pony rides and crafts.
"We're talking with many people about many new ideas," said Janet Walker, festival co-chair. "Animals are always a big attraction for kids, so we'll have more of them this year, as well as new games to play."
Thanks to Habitat for Humanity, families will also have the chance to purchase their Christmas tree or Christmas wreath at the festival.
"We're hoping these exciting new changes will draw more people in," Landis said.
Tunall expects attendance to at least double.
For more information about the 2013 Festival of Ice, contact the Juniata River Valley Visitor's Bureau at 248-6713 or visit www.juniatarivervalley.org. Those interested in becoming a sponsor or vendor can find the appropriate forms online.


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on March 21, 2013 - 8:47 PM
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman faces as long as seven years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to masterminding a forged-check operation last year.
Tasheen N. Dillard, 33, of Cedar Avenue, admitted to third-degree grand larceny in an operation that netted between $40,000 and $50,000, Assistant District Attorney Joseph A. Scalzo said. Dillard will be sentenced May 29 by State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr.
No restitution will be required. Scalzo said, "The civilian victims have been made whole by their banks." Using account information gleaned by stealing checks from mailboxes, Dillard printed up bogus checks and deposited them. Four other persons previously pleaded guilty to various charges and are awaiting sentencing.
They are Shana L. Wallace, 24, of Lockport; Demetrius M. Davis, 33, of Niagara Falls; Akeyta M. Fambo, 29, of Buffalo; and Krystal H. Pesoncko, 22, of Johnson City.


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Oxford BioMedica has agreed to produce clinical trial material using its LentiVector® gene delivery technology for Novartis' use as part of its CTL019 leukemia program, a collaboration with scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, the company announced today.
Through this production agreement, Oxford BioMedica will be responsible for manufacturing a lentiviral vector-encoding CTL019 technology, which Novartis et al., will use to transduce patients' T-cells ex vivo before they are reinfused. In its announcement, Oxford BioMedica notes that CTL019 targets the protein CD19, which is associated with a number of B-cell malignancies, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia, B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia, and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Under the terms of the agreement, Oxford BioMedica stands to make anywhere from £2.5 million ($3.9 million) to £4 million ($6.2 million) during the first year of collaboration, the firm added.
According to Edison Research Investment, Oxford BioMedica's deal with Novartis is expected to raise the gene-based therapy firm's valuation from £58.5 million ($91 million) to £60.1 million ($93.6 million) in that same timeframe.
Edison calls the transaction "an attractive deal of Oxford BioMedica," adding that it could eventually lead to a longer-term supply agreement.
In a statement, Oxford BioMedica CEO John Dawson said that Novartis' "strategic investment in our specialist manufacturing capabilities is a pivotal step towards building a financially self-sustaining business," adding that "this collaboration is an example of how we can commercialize our expertise."
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The Stetson men's tennis team dropped to 3-4 on the season with a 5-2 loss to visiting South Alabama at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center Wednesday afternoon.
"South Alabama was the better team today," Stetson associate head coach Christophe Noblet said. "They came out strong in doubles and carried the momentum over to the singles. We kept fighting until the end though and I am proud of the guys for that."
The Jaguars jumped on the Hatters out of the gate, winning the first two doubles matches to secure the first point of the day. Stetson junior Chester Espie and sophomore Laurynas Antropikas were tied 5-5 at the number two doubles position before the match went unfinished.
South Alabama extended its lead to 3-0 after winning in straight sets at the number five and six singles courts. Espie finally got Stetson on the board when he won 6-3, 6-4 at number four singles to make it 3-1 in favor of the Jaguars.
The Hatters lost at the one and three position, but took one final point to make the final score 5-2. Antropikas won 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 at number two singles to earn his fourth singles win of the season.
Stetson will continue non-conference action on Friday, playing host to Presbyterian at 9:00 a.m.
"Presbyterian on Friday will be another good match and we need to be ready for it," Noblet concluded.


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The buzz on the streets and the blossoms on the trees should tell us it's near, but it's still hard to believe that the eighth BB&T Charleston Wine + Food Festival is just days away.
Beginning Feb. 28, you'll see an influx of chefs, authors and culinary luminaries like at no other time in Charleston. In addition to an array of beverage, chef and local personalities who will be signing their books, keep your eyes out for these visiting cookbook authors.
Bruce Aidells
"The Great Meat Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Cook Today's Meat"
The founder of the Aidells gourmet sausage empire, which he sold in 2002, Bruce Aidells has become a noted expert in meat. He is a contributor to numerous magazines and has written 11 cookbooks. His first book, "Hot Links and Country Flavors" written with Denis Kelly, received the IACP Julia Child Award for the best single-subject cookbook in 1991. Aidells is married to Nancy Oakes, executive chef and co-owner of the San Francisco restaurants Prospect and Boulevard. The latter recently was awarded the James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant.
Sam Beall
"The Foothills Cuisine of Blackberry Farm: Recipes and Wisdom From Our Artisans, Chefs, and Smoky Mountain Ancestors"
Sam Beall grew up on Blackberry Farm in Tennessee, attended the University of Tennessee and the California Culinary Academy and apprenticed at The French Laundry. As the proprietor of the farm's inn, Beall has been responsible for the accumulation of one of the nation's best wine cellars as well as the development of Blackberry's The FarmStead with its heirloom gardens, dairy, creamery, salumeria, honeyhouse and preservation kitchen. The Beall family has turned Blackberry's 4,000-plus acres into one of the most celebrated properties in the world. This is his second book about Blackberry Farm.
April Bloomfield
"A Girl and Her Pig"
Restaurant: The Spotted Pig, The Breslin Bar & Dining Room + The John Dory Oyster Bar, New York City
A native of Birmingham, England, April Bloomfield honed her craft through kitchens throughout London and Northern Ireland. She spent the summer of 2003 at the legendary Chez Panisse. In February 2004, Bloomfield and restaurateur Ken Friedman opened New York City's first gastropub, The Spotted Pig. Under her direction, The Spotted Pig has earned one star from the Michelin Guide for six consecutive years. Since 2010, Bloomfield and Friedman's The Breslin Bar & Dining Room also earned a Michelin star. Named a Food & Wine Magazine "Best New Chef," Bloomfield and Friedman opened The John Dory Oyster Bar in fall 2010.
Sheri Castle
"The New Southern Garden Cookbook: Enjoying the Best From Homegrown Gardens, Farmers' Markets, Roadside Stands and CSA Boxes"
Sheri Castle is a professional food writer, recipe developer, recipe tester and culinary instructor whose work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and cookbook anthologies. Castle is a member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Slow Foods USA and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. She lives with her family in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Chris Cosentino
"Beginnings: My Way to Start a Meal"
A graduate of Johnson & Wales University, Chris Cosentino built his resume at Red Sage in Washington, D.C., and Rubicon, Chez Panisse, Belon and Redwood Park in the San Francisco Bay area. Cosentino became executive chef at Incanto in 2002 in San Francisco, where he features his interpretations of rustic Italian fare. Cosentino is also a co-creator of Boccalone artisanal salumeria and has gained international acclaim as a leading expert in charcuterie. As the Season Four winner of Bravo's "Top Chef Masters" television series, his winnings were dedicated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research.
Charlotte Druckman
"Skirt Steak"
Charlotte Druckman is a journalist whose food writing has appeared in various publications, including The New York Times T Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Bon Appetit. She recently started a Pastry of the Week column for the Bon Appetit blog and is co-founder of Food52's Tournament of Cookbooks. Expanding on her Gastronomica article, "Why Are There No Great Women Chefs?" Druckman goes behind the kitchen doors of more than 70 female chefs in the United States in her first book, "Skirt Steak." She lives in New York City.
Hedy Goldsmith
"Baking Out Loud: Fun Desserts With Big Flavors"
Hedy Goldsmith has a bachelor's degree in photography and film from the Philadelphia College of Art and graduated with honors from the Culinary Institute of America. Recently awarded a James Beard nomination for Outstanding Pastry Chef 2012, she is the executive pastry chef of The Genuine Hospitality Group of restaurants (Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in Miami and Grand Cayman, Harry's Pizzeria in Miami). Goldsmith supports a number of causes, including Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, which helps raise money and awareness of childhood cancer.
Allison Hooper
"In a Cheesemaker's Kitchen"
Allison Hooper was one of the first artisan cheesemakers in the United States. Hooper and Bob Reese co-founded the Vermont Butter & Cheese Company in 1984 and started bringing French cheeses to the American table. At the helm of the artisan cheese movement in Vermont and as president of the American Cheese Society 2005-08, Hooper has been a voice for and mentor to U.S. cheesemakers. Vermont Butter & Cheese's creations have won more than 100 awards nationally and internationally.
Gena Knox
"Southern My Way"
A native of a small town in south Georgia, Gena Knox was influenced by her mother's love of cooking, the abundance of fresh produce from the garden and the fact that all good meals in her area were home-cooked. In addition to writing cookbooks, Knox and her husband are the founders of Fire & Flavor, a cooking and grilling product company that they started in their garage in 2003. Today, the company sells products such as grilling planks, charcoal and other flavor enhancements to more than 14,000 grocery stores nationwide.
Rebecca Lang
"Southern Living's Around the Southern Table"
As a contributing editor for Southern Living, Rebecca Lang has been featured in more than 50 cooking segments on the nationally syndicated show "Daytime." She is a contributing editor for myrecipes.com and is the author of the popular column "Girls' Night In" on the site. Lang has worked on the editorial aspect of more than 30 books, is a noted cooking instructor and the author of four cookbooks. She lives with her family in Athens, Ga.
Ginny McCormack
"Sunday in the South"
Ginny McCormack is a speaker, food writer, cooking instructor and author. She appears regularly on regional and national television and radio. She was a TV chef and home life consultant for the nationally broadcast show "EveryDay" on Family Net Television. She also is a resident judge for Culinary Fight Night in Atlanta and a food columnist for Southern Journal Magazine. She lives with her family in Marietta, Ga.
Zakary Pelaccio
"Eat With Your Hands"
Chef Zakary Pelaccio, founder of the acclaimed New York City restaurants Fatty Crab and Fatty 'Cue, moved to Old Chatham, N.Y., last year to open a new restaurant in nearby Hudson, Fish & Game. Pelaccio is an active member of Slow Food and is on the advisory board of Heritage Foods USA, which focuses on preserving rare breeds of animals indigenous to the United States. In 2011, he founded the nonprofit The Cooking Room to promote food literacy to students in kindergarten through the fifth grade.
Kathleen Purvis
"Pecans: A Savor the South Cookbook"
Kathleen Purvis has been a journalist since 1978 and food editor, writer and columnist with the Charlotte Observer since 1989. She also is a member and past officer of the Association of Food Journalists and a member of the Southern Foodways Alliance and James Beard Foundation, for which she serves as chair of the JBF Leadership Awards. She is a winner of the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award in addition to awards from the Association of Food Journalists and the N.C. Press Association.
Art Smith
"Back to the Family"
The executive chef and co-owner of restaurants Table fifty-two and Art in Chicago and Art and Soul in Washington, D.C., as well as LYFE Kitchen in Palo Alto, Calif., and Southern Art in Atlanta, Art Smith spent 10 years as the personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and still coordinates and cooks for the special events that Winfrey hosts around the world. In addition to having served as the special events chef for Martha Stewart Living magazine and a contributing editor to O, the Oprah Magazine, Smith also is the author of three award-winning cookbooks. In 2007, the James Beard Foundation named him Humanitarian of the Year.
John Martin (Hoppin' John) Taylor
"Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking"
John Martin Taylor is the author of four cookbooks. His work has appeared in journals and reviews in Europe and the United States. He is the former food editor of the French-language magazine Ici New York. Taylor is the owner of HoppinJohns.com, a culinary website and mail-order business that grew out of his internationally known Charleston bookstore and cooking school, Hoppin' John's, which he opened in 1986. He is considered a leading authority on the culinary history of the South and an expert on Lowcountry cooking.
Fred Thompson
"Fred Thompson's Southern Sides"
Fred Thompson is a food, wine and travel writer. He is the author of 10 cookbooks, including "Barbecue Nation" and "The Big Book of Fish and Shellfish."
He is the Weekend Gourmet columnist for the Raleigh News & Observer and publisher of Edible Piedmont, which focuses on food in the Piedmont area of North Carolina.


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Pursuant to Section 50.40.4 of the Beaverton Development Code, public notice of the following development application is being provided:
DR2012-0113 (Vernier Building Expansion)
The applicant is seeking approval of a 16,265 square foot building expansion and associated site improvements. The proposed expansion is two stories in height and includes a roof top patio. The subject site is located at 13979 SW Millikan Way which contains an existing single story, approximately 30,000 square foot commercial building.
To be addressed in the staff report, written comments on the above development proposal shall be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Mailed written comments shall be sent to the Development Services Division, PO Box 4755, Beaverton, OR 97076. Written comments submitted in person shall be delivered to the Development Services Division, 2nd Floor, Beaverton City Hall, 4755 SW Griffith Drive.
The decision-making authority for the above application is the Director. Any decision on the above development application shall be based on the Approval Criteria contained in Section 40.25 of the Beaverton Development Code.
Pursuant to Section 50.40.10, the Director shall issue a written decision on the above development application on or around Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Copies of the staff report will be made on the City's website or may be purchased at the Planning Division Counter for a reasonable cost.
For more information contact the Planning Division at (503) 526-2420.
Dated this 14th day of February, 2013.
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|CORPES 11: International Workshop on Strong Correlations and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
July 18–22, 2011
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California
An international workshop entitled "Strong Correlations and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy", or CORPES11, was held at Berkeley Lab from July 18-22, 2011. This workshop, following the successful versions in Dresden, Germany (2005, 2007) and at the Swiss Light Source (2009), brought together approximately 120 of the world's leaders in both experiment and theory in this active and exciting area. Highlights included invited talks from this year's Oliver E. Buckley Prize winners Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford), Peter Johnson (Brookhaven), and Juan Carlos Campuzano (Argonne) as well as many talks on the newly discovered topological insulators. A number of talks on Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) and ultrafast time-resolved photoemission were also popular, representing the growth of these important new fields of research.
Participants praised the high quality of research presented, the intimate atmosphere, and the ample time for discussion, generally centering around the poster sessions. Poster awards for young researchers were awarded to Nicholas Plumb (Paul Scherrer Institut), Naota Tsuji (ETH, Zurich), and Andrew Wray (Berkeley Lab).
The conference co-chairs, Dan Dessau (University of Colorado) and Zahid Hussain (Berkeley Lab), would like to thank program committee members Philipp Aebi, Konrad Matho, Luc Patthey, Michael Potthoff, Kenya Shimada, Takami Tohyama, as well as James McDaniel, Derrick Crofoot, and Todd Anderson for their support. A big thank you to Joy Kono, Jill Stark, Mayra Rivas, Grace Covarrubias, Cynthia Perez, and Adriana Reza for their invaluable administrative support. We look forward to CORPES13, which will be held in beautiful Hamburg in July 2013!


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David Letterman shows two of the spice cream flavors he created using fruit-flavored wing sauce and vanilla ice cream at his Lewistown warehouse in the MCIDC Plaza.
Sentinel photos by BUFFIE BOYER
The spice cream flavors include, from left, Sweet Peachey Heat Wave, Jumping Jack Apple Splash and Rolling Berry Blastoff.
Spice cream began with Letterman's wing sauces.
LEWISTOWN - Not many people would think of adding hot sauce to a bowl of ice cream for a summer treat, but David Letterman isn't most people. Known for Bonfatto's Wing Sauce and Marinades, based in State College, Letterman thought it made perfect sense to mix ice cream with one of his award winning sauces during one of the company's 2011 summer sauce competitions.
"It was a really hot day so my wife walked down the boardwalk to buy some ice cream," Letterman said. "When she came back, I started thinking about how good the ice cream would taste mixed with my sauce. We tried it and passed it around to the other competitors. Everyone seemed to love it."
When Letterman returned to his State College home, he sought out the ice cream experts at Big Spoon Creamery, located in Lewistown at the time, to see if his new idea could work as a future Bonfatto product. After a couple days of experimenting with Big Spoon's equipment, Letterman created his first pint of Spice Cream.
"When I tried the flavor, I thought, 'That's pretty good, I'm going to run with it,'" Letterman said. "I spent the next year or so developing a quality vanilla ice cream as a base and deciding which sauces I wanted to incorporate."
By July 2012, Letterman had three spice cream flavors ready for the judging and food show circuit: Jumping Jack Apple Splash, made with vanilla ice cream, pecans and Bonfatto's Apple Pepper Jack Sauce; Sweet Peachy Heat Wave, a mixture of vanilla ice cream infused with Bonfatto's Peaches N' Scream Sauce and pieces of homemade granola; and Rolling Berry Blastoff, made with vanilla ice cream and Bonfatto's Razz Hab sauce, mixed with peanut butter cups.
"The focus is really on flavor first," Letterman said. "We have a specific process that infuses the hot sauce into the ice cream without overpowering it. The heat is nice and subtle."
A few months and four national food shows later, spice cream finally won its first awards at ZestFest, held in Texas, in January. Letterman's new creation earned four medals in the ZestFest Fiery Food Challenge, including first place in Best Zesty Sweets for Rolling Berry Blastoff and third place for Best New Product: Consumer Ready Food.
"A lot of people walk by our table and take a sample, without realizing what it is, and move on," Letterman said. "They always circle back around, demanding to know what they just ate and where they can get some. I needed to get this stuff on the market."
After coming home with the win, Letterman began to focus on getting spice cream into stores and available across multiple states. He obtained a warehouse in the Mifflin County Industrial Development Corporation Plaza and got to work.
"The only people on staff right now are my son-in-law and me," Letterman said. "We spend 12 hour days in the warehouse making ice cream and packaging it for distribution. As things continue to grow, I'll hire an actual staff, but right now it's really on an as needed basis."
Over the past few months, spice cream became available in a number of local grocery stores. Letterman also made a recent deal with BK Specialty Food Distributors, of Philadelphia, to place spice cream in more than 20 stores across New Jersey.
"I'd love to see spice cream go international with export sales across the world," Letterman said. "But the most important thing right now is to keep the business going and expand awareness of the product in various markets. I think once we get one big distributor interested, others will follow."
Letterman also is exploring local ice cream stores and creameries in the interest of selling spice cream flavors over the summer season. It would be a great way to develop a local market one cone at a time, he said.
More information about spice cream is available at www.spicecream.com and the Bonfatto's Facebook page.


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The Best SUV Ever
by Crusader from Utah | December 14, 2012
1994 Toyota Land Cruiser 172000 Miles. As strong as ever. The one car you should never sell. Maintain it, fix it if you have too. It will last a lift time.
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bought this '94 Land cruiser....tuned it up and fixed minor things to repair. spent at least $,1500.00 now I enjoy driving it anywhere. I just loved it!
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Unquenchable thirst for gas
by Land Cruiser Driver from Lander, WY | July 25, 2010
They say in life we get what we pay for right? When purchasing a used vehicle this couldn't be more true. I purchased a '94 Land Cruiser with 183k miles and without the service records or knowing the previous owner. There is no question this purchase was a huge gamble. The only thing I could count on was the Land Cruiser's reputation for being a very reliable rig. Obviously the previous owner tried to improve the performance by installing an after market exhaust system (Magnaflow), a K&N air filter system and plug wires. Japanese engineers know what they are doing and the previous owner couldn't leave well enough alone. After purchasing the vehicle I put about $1,800 into the vehicle to undo what the previous owner did, the only thing that remains is the Magnaflow exhaust. Everything else is stock Toyota. The Land Cruiser does not use a rubber timing belt so you do not have to worry about replacing the timing belt every 60k - 70k miles. However, the issue you do need to be aware of every 60k - 75k miles is the front axle seal being replaced and repacked. I need to have this done and am currently seeking bids from mechanics. I believe this repair will be in the $750 - $1,500 range ($10 in parts and a $1,000 in labor). Thankfully it is not an annual repair, but once every 5 or 6 yrs under normal driving conditions. Overall the vehicle lives up to its reputation, its a tank. My only complaint is the dismal gas mileage. On a good tank I can get 17-18 MPG. Like any used vehicle purchase, be aware that you will have to put some money into it on top of the purchase price. It is wise to have some extra cash if the vehicle needs a timing belt replaced, new tires, new battery, shocks, brakes, or whatever else is needed to get the vehicle in good running order. If you know the previous owner and have a history of the service records your a well informed consumer and can make a good informed decision. If your fllying blind like I did when I purchased this Land Cruiser, make sure your buying a vehicle with a stout reputation. I hope this review helps someone considering buying a used Land Cruiser. The only thing I would recommend is making sure your gas card has a steady stream of cash.
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NIAGARA FALLS – A Niagara Falls woman was charged this week with two counts of petit larceny and accused of aiding three women in the theft of nearly $800 worth of clothing and food.
Brittany N. Panepinto, 21, of Hennepin Avenue, was charged in two incidents of theft that took place Sept. 9 and 11 in the Walmart supercenter on Military Road.
Store security officers told city police Panepinto was seen on security video on both dates passing clothing and food on the conveyor to three women, but not scanning the items. According to police, a total of $578 worth of items were stolen by the three women in the first case and $219 worth of items by one of the same women in the second case. Store security told police they intend to press charges against the three women, as well, if they can be identified.
Panepinto – who left on maternity leave prior to the September incidents, according to store security – was fired by the store before being charged by police on Wednesday.