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Rising talent Teni Hodge-Siano plays naive romantic Jill in Sam Bobrick's "Weekend Comedy." In this Station Dinner Theatre production, a secluded cabin in the Catskills is inadvertently double-booked. A middle-aged couple and a younger one decide to share it, creating comical cross-generational clashes.
Hodge-Siano shares her enthusiasm for the show and the theater.
Station Debut
"I've attended many shows at the Station, but this is the first one I'm in. I am looking forward to doing dinner theater. Interacting with the audience during the course of the play and serving dinner will be a new, exciting experience."
What Makes Acting Fun
"Being someone else! Escaping into another person's life and seeing things with a new perspective, basically not being yourself. Hearing responses (and) feedback from the audience is the most rewarding part, whether it is laughing, crying or just discussing a part of the play they loved. It's always curious to see what others thought."
Cast Chemistry
"I had the pleasure of working with Betsy Butoryak in 'A Murder is Announced' at All An Act. Rodger Dobry and Tony Lewandowski are seasoned actors and have welcomed me in the Station family. The four of us have great chemistry which allows each role to flow together naturally. Direction is given with a combination of both creative instinct and open communication."
Blossoming Performer
"'Weekend Comedy' will be my fifth production in less than a year. I take away more knowledge (and) experience with each show, director and the extremely talented cast members I shared the stage with. No role has remotely been the same. The small cast of 'Weekend Comedy' has given me a chance to gain more trust in myself and really define my character."
Relatable SHOW
"Couples of any age in any stage of a relationship will relate to one or both of these couples. There will be something said or a reaction that will make them remember a similar moment causing laughter. Whether you are single, married, living together or divorced, 'Weekend Comedy' is a play that shows how each generation defines and acts in a relationship."


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Okay, I am officially Pick and Rolled out. After watching all these games, whether NBA, college or even high school, I am starting to see pick and rolls in my sleep. It is a pick and roll epidemic out there.
Up until a few years ago, I used to ask college coaches why they didn't use pick and rolls as a part of their offenses. They usually answered that they didn't run the two- man game because defenses would just double them, taking them out of it. Well, I no longer ask anybody why they don't run pick and rolls anymore. Pick and rolls are now being used in college ad nauseum. It's been used in the NBA ad nauseum forever.
You see pick and rolls run from the wing, run from the corners, from the middle, from the elbows. Sometimes run 30-35 feet from the basket, other times within good shooting range. Pick and rolls are used to swing the ball from one side of the court to the other. They are used for jump shots, used to hit the roll man, used to penetrate. You see combinations of guards and centers involved, forwards and centers, guards and forwards, forwards and forwards, guards and guards. The other night I saw a point guard pass to a center, and go over to set a pick on the center to run a pick and roll. Crazy! You see pick and rolls run as a set offensive play, or run just randomly, when players don't know what else to do. Surprisingly, what you do not see very often is the dribbler pulling up and shooting after coming off the screen, which was the original point of the pick and roll.
Now I am not against the pick and roll. It can be a fine offensive play, especially if run correctly, or run by two guys named Stockton and Malone. But to be run really effectively, they need to be run precisely. And that is what bothers me when watching these games.
The execution of these plays are generally not very good in college, or for that matter in the pros. I guess I am too much of a perfectionist, for even if run poorly, pick and rolls seem to be effective, that is until they meet solid defenses. The most common mistake is the dribbler leaving too early, thereby not allowing the screener to set the screen. Also, often the screener sets the screen at a poor angle. Most of the time, the screen should be set at an angle so that the dribbler is going to the basket, not away from the basket. Too often the screener, if the dribbler has waited, stops short of the defender. The screener needs to keep in mind that the responsibility of the screener is to make contact with the ball handler's defender, and not be a "ship passing another ship in the middle of the night". If things are done correctly, which happens occasionally, then the dribbler should keep in mind the options available. If no hedge by the screener's defender, then a shot should be there. If not, assuming the right angle has been used, then there is an opportunity to penetrate. If there is a hedge, the dribbler should attack the defender and not just dribble out, going away from the basket. Of course, there are a lot more details about correctly executing the pick and roll, but we will talk about that in more detail later on this site.
So what do I have against so many pick and rolls being run? First of all, I like games with ball and player movement. Too often when teams run the "two- man" game, it is just that, a two man game. The other three players often just stand around, spotting up. I love to see good cuts, give and goes, back door passes. I like seeing a player come off a screen, turn and face, and take the defender while other players are moving. Most importantly, at least in keeping in mind of the intent of this site, I think that running too many pick and rolls with younger players inhibits their development as players. They don't learn how to cut, move, read defenses, pass, or make one on one plays.
I was talking to a 10 year old friend of mine the other day. He loves basketball and is playing on a 4th grade AAU team. I asked him to show me what plays they run, and of course, he drew up a play with a pick and roll. No passing or cutting, just a pick and roll. If I remember correctly, when I was coaching my boys when they were young, we had the rule where when they passed, they had three options. They could cut, screen away or move away for floor balance. They were not allowed to set a screen at the point of the ball. My intent was to teach them how to play the game. Pick and rolls could come later. As a scout, it always bothered me if a player's answer to a break down was to always run a pick and roll. It made me wonder if the player really knew how to play.
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Super paper Mario because it had a story, new characters, you could as other characters that aren't Mario, it had exp so there was an incentive to fight enemies, count bleck and dimentio weren't mute and bland like bowser is in sticker star, you didn't have to rely soley on stickers to win battles, if you have to find something you actually know where to look in sticker star if you have to search for something you don't even know where to look, and luigi now has even less of a role than he had in pm64 and ttyd so yup super paper Mario was a masterpiece compared to sticker star
Super because it's a better game. SPM is better than PM1 imo (well, PM:SS is too).
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Absolutely loved SPM and hated PM:SS. The former was deep and engrossing with a great story, amazing worlds, well-implemented multiple characters, a challenging Po100T, and a surprisingly effective combination of RPG stat elements with platforming action/combat.
The latter is a soulless shell of a game.
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Super Paper Mario by a longshot.
+New and interesting characters to care about and are never boring to be around (Count Bleck and his immediate minions, Merlon, the Bridge Bros., Francis, Tippi)
+A story that affects gameplay structure (the introduction of the 3D gimmick in Chapter 1, the first thing that happens in Chapter 3, how Chapter 6 ends and segues, the first 3 levels of Chapter 7, all of Chapter 8).
+Fun worlds.
+A 2D/3D gimmick that, although most of the landscape was square platforms or edged, was still kind of cool.
The only two things I didn't care for were the third level of Chapter 2 (may it suffer a Game Over) and the last puzzle that happens in the first level of Chapter 5 (more annoying than funny). But other than that, it was better and at least had a passion behind it.
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SlargTheGnome 4 years ago#6
SPM, because you actually cared about what happened to the characters.
Also the villains were god tier (personality wise).
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The only two things I didn't care for were the third level of Chapter 2 (may it suffer a Game Over) and the last puzzle that happens in the first level of Chapter 5 (more annoying than funny). But other than that, it was better and at least had a passion behind it.
I memorized both of those passwords just so I could get the last laugh on those "puzzles". They were fun, though. I can't say I want to see 2-3 again in a future game, but I wouldn't want it to be cut.
SPM also gave you the ability to heal outside of combat, and to choose what enemy to attack, both of which are critical features SS lacked. The cooking system, while pointless because enemy attack was so low, was still fun to use and more interesting to 100% than the museum.
I really liked 5-4, too, because it made me think but I wasn't stuck for too long, and being stuck there was fun. Those situations are very rare in modern games.
I gotta go with Sticker Star. I rather like just the cut and dry mechanics of the game. Glad there was really no story, it makes the game move faster. It gets tedious scrolling the characters talking all of the time. I just want to play the game, not read a whole bunch of stupid stuff.
Super Paper Mario because the story was very touching and had a great ending. Also, Super Paper Mario actually had sidequests that were fun to complete. I had a blast doing the pit of 100 trials and the other pit of 100 trials, fighting all of the sammer guys, completing all the recipes, and collecting all the cards. In Sticker Star, not fun at all trying to complete the Sticker Museum, it was tedious.
GloryChaos 4 years ago#10
Sticker Star because it had better gameplay across the board. Better music too.
Super Paper Mario was a game that I ONLY played for the story. After the first brobot battle, I hardly enjoyed the gameplay anymore. The bosses were all jokes (Bowser kills the final boss in three hits for crying out loud.) and playing the game felt like a chore. I got to the 99th floor of the Flipside put of 100 trials and called it quits.
The characters and dialougue were great though.
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I've spoken with NFL personnel (scouts, coaches, players, capologists and general managers) over the last five years that I've been doing draft coverage and I've come to find some very interesting info about how these personnel view different positions.
Middle Linebacker/Linebacker: The MLB position is a position that has dropped significantly in terms of first round priority over the past decade. Why? Well more and more teams have gone to three WR sets and not just on third downs which means more MLBs are asked to do more in coverage. In the past, many MLBs were run-stuffers but were somewhat limited in pass coverage. Now, teams are just taking their weakest pass coverage LB out (sometimes MLB) and going nickel when the offensive personnel dictates it. So now teams have to determine whether a LB is "2 down" (meaning he comes out on 3rd downs) or a "3 down" (meaning he is good in pass coverage). With LBs playing less of a role in pass coverage and with the league going to more pass oriented offenses, the value of LBs in the first two rounds, in general, has gone down somewhat.
Cornerbacks: The worst thing that an agent can hear is that his CB client is considered a "cover 2" CB. For most CBs that means that they aren't very fast and what that means to the agent is that his client is going to go lower than he wants. Cover 2 CBs aren't asked to be man-to-man lockdown CBs. They typically lack speed but are decent in zone coverage and have good instincts and need to be decent tacklers since they play closer to the line of scrimmage than a man-to-man CB will. A pure cover corner needs to have good speed and teams also look for how quickly the player locates the ball when it is in the air. Chris Houston has great measurables but has a hard time finding the ball when it is in the air while Maryland CB Josh Wilson is a smaller CB who is good at locating the ball and making plays on it.
First round CBs need to be 5'10 at a minimum, need to have good speed, need to be able to play man to man and need to have a solid vertical leap (prevent jump balls near redzone). With teams blitzing so much these days, having a CB who is able to play man without help from a safety becomes invaluable to a defense which is why a good CB gets top priority. Denver was willing to trade Clinton Portis, who had two tremendous seasons in their system, heads up for CB Champ Bailey. That should tell you something. Cover corners are looked at within the first two rounds while cover 2 CBs aren't usually looked at until the 3rd round at the earliest. Cal CB Daymeion Hughes is now considered a cover 2 CB because of his poor 40 times and will probably fall to the third round.
Guards: Let's talk about the difference between two different types of guards that are out there. We hear a lot of talk about zone blocking, but many teams have elements in their offense. However, teams that use it primarily need to have the right personnel up front. The key for a zone guard is foot quickness and technique. These guards aren't asked to fire off on guys and push them around. Instead, they are asked to move their feet quickly and beat players to a spot while using leverage and technique. Foot quickness is also important because many times they have to chip on a defensive lineman and then get to the next level and put a helmet on a LB or even cut block a LB. The traditional guards are known as "in-line blockers". They need to be stronger in order to battle heads-up on DTs but their foot quickness isn't always as important as their overall strength. Teams who prefer to run between the tackles typically like having these kinds of guards. However, when you can get a guard like Alan Faneca in Pittsburgh or Will Shields in Kansas City, who have strength and good feet, then you can mix it up with smash mouth football between the tackles while also pulling your guards on counters and power plays. Guards don't get top 25 grades most of the time, but a good guard is coveted by the late first round all the way to the late third. Guards who are very good fits in a zone scheme can typically be found in the middle rounds and beyond because good feet are one of their strengths while overall strength isn't. In-line blockers are generally drafted a little earlier while guards who can do it both sneak into the first round.


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Posted 09 April 2014 - 09:17 PM
He's RFA this season in the KHL
Posted 13 April 2014 - 02:17 AM
I was under the impression his two year deal was through the 2014-2015 season.
Posted 18 April 2014 - 11:21 AM
Better for us
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Posted 20 April 2014 - 12:14 AM
Have you seen any other talk on him coming over?
I've searched a few times and haven't found a thing.
Posted 27 April 2014 - 06:16 AM
rumor of Salavet Yulaev Ufa putting in an offer to Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg for his services. I get the feeling this might be to see if the Redwings are
really interested in him. From what i've seen of him he is worth a gamble on a 1 year contract, solid 2 way player who has represented Russia this year
and looks like making the worlds roster too.
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Posted 05 June 2014 - 10:26 AM
He's RFA this season in the KHL
So was Emmerton (in the NHL) and he's leaving... maybe a swap there? Haha... don't go after our guys if you want to hold your guy to an RFA contract?
Posted 05 June 2014 - 07:29 PM
According to elite prospects his rights were transferred to AK
Posted 09 June 2014 - 12:51 PM
yep on a 2 year deal as well
Posted 10 June 2014 - 04:11 PM
His rights? Does that mean he's not locked up yet?
Posted 12 June 2014 - 05:27 PM
People get way too caught up on these guys. Fedorille Brunnerstromov is just another guy who has torn up Europe and has a lot to learn about what it takes to be more than a role player in the NHL.
I bought some Maple Lea Tea. It cost a fortune and didn't come with a Cup.
Posted 13 June 2014 - 10:12 PM
I see what you did there.
People get way too caught up on these guys. Fedorille Brunnerstromov is just another guy who has torn up Europe and has a lot to learn about what it takes to be more than a role player in the NHL.
Posted 10 August 2014 - 06:57 PM
Any updates on this guy? I still can't figure out if he's locked up through 2014-15 in Russia what with the Kazan trade
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I don't know much about this Malykhin guy, other than a few articles I've read but as far as Jarnkrok goes, I think Nosek is our replacement for him. And to be honest I think he has a good chance at being a better player than Jarnkrok. He definitely has the size advantage and he absolutely has the skills. I really like what I've seen from him thus far in training camp and preseason. He's in the lineup tonight and I expect him to get on the scoresheet at least once.
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With little more than a $25 donation and a dream, Grand Rapids entrepreneur Lee Hutchins took a bold step and pursued his vision of perpetuating the moral, physical, and mental welfare of the city and its people by creating the Grand Rapids Foundation in 1922.
In just seven years, the Foundation attracted its first major donation - an estate gift from George and Mary Metz. For the next 30 years, the Foundation continued to grow when, in 1958, Curtis M. Wylie, a local real estate and businessman, bequeathed a trust worth $6.2 million to the Foundation. His gift is one of the largest ever received by a public foundation in Michigan. The Wylie gift, which is now valued at $21 million is a shining example of the power of endowment and sustainability.
Since 1930, when the Foundation made its first grant, hundreds of thousands of people's lives have been enriched through grants and scholarships totaling over $100 million. The role of the Foundation has grown from simple grantmaker to a community leader seeking long-term solutions to diverse community challenges.
Timeline of Community Foundation Events
Lee Hutchins, president of a Grand Rapids pharmaceutical company, leads an effort to develop the Grand Rapids Community Foundation with a $25 gift from S. George Graves, president of the Grand Rapids Association of Commerce. The Foundation becomes Michigan's first community foundation.
In 1929, the Foundation receives its first major gift of $100,000 from George and Mary Metz, owners of tanneries in Holland and Grand Rapids. The gift is critical to the community because by the time the income from the Metz trust becomes available to distribute, the country is reeling from the stock market crash. As the decade-long Great Depression takes its toll, the Foundation is able to support essential programs that provide relief to families.
As the Foundation's assets soar to approximately $200,000, it appoints its first development officer and embarks on a community study designed to ensure a more objective allocation of funds. The Foundation distributes $55,600 in grants - nearly all of which is distributed to social service agencies, including D.A. Blodgett Homes for Children and Blodgett Clinic for Infant Feeding.
Wartime conditions heighten the shortage of local nurses, compelling the Foundation in 1945 to initiate a post graduate scholarship program for nurses and faculty from area hospitals. Scholarships of up to $1,000 per person per year are given.
Grants reflect an interest in employing professional personnel and techniques in the search for solutions to community problems. In addition, the Foundation issues its first capital grant of $5,000 for the Public Museum's planetarium. Other grants are made for: Butterworth Hospital Outpatient Clinic, Indian Trails Camp start-up operations, and Kent County Tuberculosis Society X-ray bus. In 1958, Curtis M. Wylie, a local real estate and businessman, leaves a trust worth $6.2 million to the Foundation. His gift is one of the largest ever received by a public foundation in Michigan. It transforms the Grand Rapids Community Foundation into a major community funding agent. In 1959, the Foundation hires its first director, Harry B. Wagner, on a part-time basis.
The Foundation's resources expand tenfold with the Wylie bequest, generating an additional annual income of approximately $200,000. With an emphasis on grants issued toward humanities - specifically education - the Foundation issues its largest gift to date: $50,000 to start Grand Valley State College. Capital projects are also funded for Calvin College's Knollcrest Campus and the Grand Rapids Public Library's downtown location.
Additional grants for a dental clinic for children from low income families and a half-way house for rehabilitating prison parolees reflect the Trustees' increasing activism in dealing with social issues affecting the community.
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The Foundation's grant-giving reflects a heightened interest in environmental concerns, cultural activities and social issues, such as grants to the Tourette Syndrome Association and The Hispanic Center of West Michigan. The Foundation also reaches out to 10 inner-city neighborhood associations. The AIDS Resource Center receives start-up funds, and the YMCA and YWCA are both awarded renovation funds. The Grand Rapids Community Foundation (and other community foundations) benefits from a new Michigan State tax credit for community foundations and many new donors are made aware of the benefits of community foundation giving (this tax credit was eliminated in 2011).
The Foundation forges new partnerships with other area organizations and becomes a key player in the development of low-income housing to strengthen community neighborhoods. Other grants include: Cherry Street Services for the West Side Clinic; Children's Assessment Center for child sexual abuse treatment; Faith, Inc. for job training for Heartside residents; Grand Action Foundation for Van Andel Arena; Grand Valley State University for the Water Resources Institute; Frederik Meijer Botanic Gardens for construction and the Public Museum of Grand Rapids for Van Andel Museum Center construction.
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In 1997, the Foundation celebrates its 75th anniversary with more than $80 million in assets and approximately $3 million distributed in grants annually.
In 2000, the Foundation formally changes its name to Grand Rapids Community Foundation to better reflect its unique role and formation. A new "community leadership model" is adopted emphasizing the Foundation's roles of convening, leveraging funds, advocacy, and initiatives as well as grantmaking.
In 2005, the Foundation Board of Trustees votes to change its governance model from one of appointed members from various community entities to a wholly board appointed model. This new model is accepted practice in the community foundation field and helps to remove potential conflicts of interest.
After many years in the Water's Building, the Community Foundation purchased its first real home in 2007. After a year of planning and renovating and successful capital campaign, the Community Foundation moved in and dedicated its permanent home at 185 Oakes Street SW on November 21, 2008. Learn more about our home here.
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The 40-year-old Brit, coming off a seventh-place finish in the Masters last week, carded rounds of 65, 66, 71 and 68 for the wire-to-wire victory. He ended up at 18-under 270 to earn his 23rd title on the European Tour and first since the 2012 Nordea Masters.
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Westwood noted that his recent work with a new instructor, and the return of his former caddie, is paying off. "I started working with a new coach a few weeks ago, Mike Walker, and Billy Foster came back on the bag at the end of last year, so I was going back to what I had done before because it had worked," he said.
"It's started to work already - the last couple of weeks I've played well in Houston and the Masters last week, and this week I've obviously played very well," added Westwood, who also won the tournament in 1997 when it was on the Asian Tour.
Jason Knutson was the highest-finishing American at 7-under 281, good for a tie for 13th.
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JEREMY ROSAS OF Local 242 (Spokane, Wash.) won the James F. Precht Award as the top apprentice in the 21st annual Western States Area Outstanding Graduate Apprentice Competition held May 12-14 at Local 242. Brian VanDam of Local 182 (Salt Lake City, Utah) placed second.
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Title: RE: Namespace name: better to use URN or URL? This is how I feel too, however, I think we may be in the minority. Maybe the difference is the word "philosophically" - in my philosophy, a URN provides a better fit, but I think many (most?) people prefer a URL, since they can then put something there, which will provide a benefit in their situation. Philosophically, they look at the whole situation, and specifically XML Namespaces, differently than I do. (The point has also been made that it's easier to create a unique URL than a unique URN, but I'm not convinced that that's true.) Side note: RDDL changes things a little bit, for me. If I was going to describe my namespace in RDDL, I would have no trouble, philosophically, using a URL for my namespace name. Well, maybe a little trouble, since I would still be a little uncomfortable with the tying of name and RDDL document location... (From a puritanical standpoint, I would probably prefer some other kind of attribute that points to an RDDL document.) David -----Original Message----- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:59 AM To: Roger L. Costello; xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: Namespace name: better to use URN or URL? Philosophically, I prefer a URN. As you say, it is clear what it is, and practically, the systems I work with don't color it blue and make it clickable; that is, it isn't a hyperlink. Practically, some of us are tool thralls and the tool vendors make that choice for us. We've debated it endlessly, but I think using a URL binds it to the web by using a system specific location identifier in the namespace, and that pollutes the namespace in situations where the information could be reused on non-Internet systems. One has to decide if the information is ever to be repurposed off the internet. When we had this argument some time ago, it came down to, do you ever plan to resolve it? If it is *really just a label*, no winking, no nudging but honest clean design, one has to choose for themselves and decide if http://anything really is a name or a location. Identity is not the horse you want to ride for that argument. Systems sit inside systems and that is the problem and solution to describing a namespace. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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Before the opening credits even finish rolling, you hear lines like this: "Flaubert is right. Art is the only answer." And: "Oh, my dear friend, if you tore my breast open, you'd find that question etched deep in my heart." This three-hour movie about the building of the Statue of Liberty comes off as pretentious as a high school sophomore trying to act like a college freshman. Frank Langella is Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor who is said to have designed Liberty with the body of his love (played by Corine Touzot) and, the show hints, the face of his nagging mom (played by Claire Bloom). Chris (Dog Day Afternoon) Sarandon, wearing an incessantly neurotic face, is Jack Marchand, a coppersmith and a friend of Carrie Fisher as poet Emma Lazarus, whose words adorn the Lady's pedestal. Fine. You have all the lofty motivation of Hands Across America, with some history and art thrown in. But Miss Liberty herself ends up looking more lifelike than any of the people who created her.
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COTTON PLANTING was just about half done in late May for Wesley Butchee, Gaines County, Texas farmer.
Market a question mark
"Our biggest fear this year is the market," he says. He says cotton "enjoyed high prices" for two years. "Funds came in and destroyed the market. They knocked producers out, and it was hard for us to price cotton. If the buyer can't price cotton, the grower can't either."
He says cotton farmers have to figure out a price to sell, and they may be looking at oversupply.
Contracts are hard to find, especially acreage contracts. "Buyers want bale contracts," Butchee says. "But weather is a big if for yields."
He says acreage contracts have not been offered. "I've had acreage contracts for years and always delivered my cotton, even when I over-produced."
Not being able to lock in a price on at least part of his acreage makes it difficult to figure returns. Production costs, he says, are excessive. "Fuel and fertilizer are still high, and we have no way to hedge those costs. The cost/price squeeze is worse than it was five years ago."
He says the precipitous rise of cotton prices two years ago to $2 is misleading. "Producers got a lot less than that. Most farmers averaged from 82 cents to 85 cents a pound. And production costs tripled."
He said holding cotton until harvest could be tough on farmers, especially if they end up putting cotton into the loan. "The loan is a program that keeps us from losing too much," he says. "It's below the cost of production. And we have to pay it back when the cotton comes out."
Butchee says he tries "not to be dismal, but we have to be careful about what we do out here."
He says farmers face a lot of perils they can't control. "Farm programs were put in place years ago to balance out against foreign governments. We can't control China, and that's a big factor in the market."
He says farm organizations are helping with the politics of agriculture and "keeping producers in business." It's critical for more than just farm families, he adds. "Agriculture and medical centers are what keep Lubbock's economy going."
He's also concerned about the weakening of farm programs. "We no longer have a safety net," he says. "We need a counter cyclical payment option but we're not going to get it. We can't grow cotton at a loss. We also need to see production costs come down."
Available credit is also a key. "Most of agriculture runs off borrowed money, and we have to maintain the ability to secure loans."
He has production tools to rely on.


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Cant wait to explore everything. My life is just gonna stop. It looks huuuuge.
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lets fast forward to next spring..skip the holidays, this will be MY holiday gift
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I'll pick this up eventually, but not until a significant price drop occurs.
I just don't understand why GTA games are as popular as they are : They're all essentially video game ripoffs of more innovatively done cinematic portrayals of criminal life. To top it off, the whole 'go anywhere, do anything' theme that is a major selling point of the series is patently false.
While the entire map is usually easily accessible, in actuality the amount of places to go or things to do is severely limited : Most of the buildings are inaccessible filler made to give the appearance of scope, half of the accessible ones are simply a new paste job on an already established one (burger joint vs. taco joint), the mission variety has been pretty rehashed since 'Vice City' and usually only consist of the standard "go here, kill him" type, and activities to do while not on a mission usually repeat themselves fairly frequently and typically involve buying clothes, purchasing a house, hitting up a bar to play pool or darts, or participating in street races to pass the time.
Don't get me wrong : They're fun as hell for a while, but usually after about 20 hours they lose my intrest.
While I'm also a fan of similarly limited "go anywhere, do anything" type games - 9 times of of 10 they're RPG games set in a previous (technologically limited) time period, so having limits on what you can do seems productive to that kind of genre. Whereas I expect more from a similarly marketed game that's rooted in a modern society. Much more.
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Im excited for this... Everything sounds great except you cant purchase property. I love that part of it.. Oh well.
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I mostly do the missions on GTA games, its just a good story, fun to play, its a criminal life movie that u get to play, i have never been dissapointed with GTA games
Damn i feel like playing GTA now, ima go buy one of them old school ones
Which should i buy
San Andreas
Vice City
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COLLINGSWOOD -- The Camden County community of Woodlynne has police protection for another year.
Collingswood had been providing police service to its neighbor but announced in April that it was ending the arrangement. That set Woodlynne on a search for a new police department.
But on Tuesday, the towns struck a deal that keeps Collingswood police in Woodlynne through June 2010.
New Jersey officials have been pushing towns to become more efficient by sharing services and even merging. But in places like Collingswood and Woodlynne, the deals have often been testy.


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TRENTON — Nick Mazzocchi boasts his demolition company could have taken down the Empire State Building.
Built up over four decades, Mazzocchi commanded the state's largest army of excavators, high rise cranes, and heavy trucks.
But Mazzocchi said none of that mattered when it came to winning public contracts in the Garden State. Under bruising cross-examination in federal court Wednesday, Mazzocchi told jurors his road to success was paved with bribes and political contributions.
"In these municipalities they can control whatever they want," Mazzocchi said in federal court. "They can throw all the bids out and re-bid it until their favorite son gets the job."
On Mazzocchi's third day on the stand in the corruption trial of former Newark Deputy Mayor Ronald Salahuddin, he painted a portrait of a state beset with corruption, where money speaks louder than qualifications.
It wasn't enough to have the largest demolition firm in the state, Mazzocchi said to Salahuddin's defense attorney, Thomas Ashley. He said he would be shut out of bids were it not for the hundreds of thousands of dollars he had paid in bribes and political donations.
Though Mazzocchi, 56, admitted to bribing numerous public officials, union leaders and political bosses, he said he never bribed Salahuddin, 61, or his co-defendant Sonnie Cooper, 68. Both are on trial in U.S. District Court in Trenton on charges of bribery and extortion.
"Did you ever give Mr. Salahuddin one dime for his efforts?" Ashley asked. Mazzocchi said no.
What Mazzocchi did give Salahuddin was thousands of dollars in political contributions for Booker and Newark Now, the mayor's nonprofit organization. Shortly thereafter Mazzocchi received contracts worth more than a million dollars in city demolition work, according to testimony and tapes.
U.S. Attorneys contend Salahuddin had a financial stake in Cooper's local demolition business and used his sway in City Hall to steer the contracts to Mazzocchi, who then subcontracted to Cooper.
After catching Mazzocchi bribing another contractor in 2005, the FBI hauled him in and said he would be prosecuted unless he wore a wire in dealings throughout the state, according to testimony.
An FBI videotape shows Mazzocchi giving a $5,000 check to Salahuddin, who said he would take it to Mayor Cory Booker's then-chief of staff, Pablo Fonseca. "When I hand him this with mine and Sonnie's (donations), it's locked in," Salahuddin said of the contracts.
Mazzocchi said that in the world of New Jersey municipal contracting there is no distinction between a bribe and a political contribution. Without paying one or the other, he said, there was little chance of his company scoring contracts.
"That is a shakedown," Mazzocchi said. In earlier testimony he had said, "I make political contributions because I learned over the years that not making them, I lost tens of millions of dollars."
For that reason, Mazzocchi said, he has donated to Gov. Chris Christie, former Bayonne mayor Joseph Doria and Booker, among others.
"Was Cory Booker shaking you down?" Ashley asked Mazzocchi.
"I believe so," he replied. "I believe all politicians are shaking you down."
But in his decades-long career, Mazzocchi said, he also made hundreds of thousands of dollars in actual bribes to public officials.
Mazzocchi sold his business in 2007 to LVI Services, a national demolition firm, for about $26.5 million. He stayed on for several years to manage the company's transition.
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Petrobras selling its assets in Argentina; YPF one of the interested companies
Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras is putting its Argentine assets up for sale and will start accepting bids from interested buyers as early as this week, Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion reported Friday.
Petrobras has hired Scotiabank Brasil to handle the sale, and talks have been held with four Argentine oil companies: state-run YPF SA, Tecpetrol, Pluspetrol, and Bridas, La Nacion said, citing local oil executives. A Petrobras spokesperson declined to comment on the report.
Petrobras possible sale of its operations in Argentina--which are largely held by its Petrobras Argentine SA subsidiary--would mark an abrupt change in the Brazilian energy giant's international strategy.
In April, Petrobras Chief Executive Maria das Gracas Foster said the company would continue to invest in Argentina, though developing ultra-deepwater fields found off Brazil's coast is a top priority.
Petrobras Argentina sold a refinery and gas stations to an Argentine investor almost two years ago, and today its assets include a stake in an electric utility as well as oil and gas fields.
Petrobras Argentina share price has cratered this year after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez nationalized YPF in April. Its shares in New York fell 5.3% to 4.83 dollars on Thursday, giving the company a market capitalization of about 1.33bn. The shares stood at a 52-week high of 8.62 in January.
Argentina has proven a difficult market for foreign energy companies due to government policies aimed at keeping domestic oil and gas prices low for consumers and industry. Oil and gas exports are subject to steep export taxes, and up until recently gas prices were capped at levels well below international rates.
President Cristina Fernandez administration recently more than tripled what her government pays YPF for new natural gas production, raising the price to 7.5 dollars per million British thermal units, in a move that signals greater willingness to offer higher prices to attract badly needed investment in Argentina's vast shale gas and oil deposits.


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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - An international arbitration panel ended its appeal hearing Tuesday of a four-year drug ban imposed on triple Olympic gold medalist Michelle Smith-De Bruin, with a plea from her lawyer to overturn the punishment and award the swimmer damages.
"Her entire life has been turned upside down," said lawyer Peter Lennon. "Before these charges she was an athlete held in high repute."
Lennon renewed accusations that there were major flaws in the testing procedures which led to Smith-De Bruin being expelled from the sport.
"I think she is entitled to the benefit of the doubt in this particular case," he told the three-man International Court of Arbitration for Sport, as his client listened nervously.
Tribunal chairman Yves Fortier refused to say when the verdict of the two-day hearing would be made public.
"I think in the fullness of time, the parties will be informed of our award. The ball is now in our court," he told reporters.
The swimming world governing body, FINA, imposed the ban last August after accusing Smith-De Bruin of tampering with an out-of-competition urine test taken at her Irish home, contaminating it with large amounts of alcohol.
The Irish swimmer denied the charge and appealed the ban which would disqualify her from the 2000 Olympics and 2001 World Championships and effectively end her career.
FINA lawyer Jean-Pierre Morand dismissed claims by Smith-de Bruin that someone else had manipulated the sample.
"There's not a single element of concrete evidence," he said in his closing argument. He maintained that the culprit "could only be the appellant."
Much of the evidence at Tuesday's hearing focused on whether it was possible to tamper with the urine sample container without leaving signs.
Monica Bonfanti, who works for the Lausanne Forensic Institute which conducted the tests, said her experiments to open three sample containers all left marks. But the proof wasn't conclusive, she told the court.
"It's possible there is another method which enables the canister to be opened without leaving a trace'," she said.
Earlier this year, a test conducted in Britain showed it was possible to open and close containers used to transport urine samples without leaving any marks simply by immersing them in boiling water.
Smith had a mediocre record before capturing three gold medals and a bronze at the Atlanta Games, three years after Erik de Bruin became her coach.
Her marriage to de Bruin, the Dutch discus and shot put champion banned for four years after testing positive to excessive testosterone, stirred speculation that her rise had been aided by drugs.
But she said she had been tested more often than her rivals and each time the result was negative.
In his closing summary, Lennon said Smith-De Bruin had no need to take performance-enhancing drugs because at the time of the fateful test she was recovering from a road traffic injury.
He said the drug testers weren't qualified and the procedures were wrong. In addition to overturning the ban, FINA should pay court costs and award undisclosed damages, Lennon said.
"FINA has been looking to get Michelle de Bruin for a very considerable period of time," he said.
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For the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, last week's agreement to lease its 13 cemeteries for $89 million over 35 years promises to be a salve to the local Catholic Church's financial wounds.
But for independent Philadelphia-area funeral directors, the announcement that Levittown-based StoneMor Partners L.P. - one of the nation's largest operators of cemeteries and funeral homes - will manage those burial grounds has set off alarm bells.
"To say that we're disappointed is the understatement of the century," said David Lambie, a funeral director at Lambie Funeral Home in Northeast Philadelphia and president of the Philadelphia Funeral Directors Association.
The experience of area funeral directors with Service Corp. International and Stewart Enterprises Inc., two funeral-home and cemetery giants, has them fearing frequent and big price increases from StoneMor, Lambie said.


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Dave: You can go to Control Panel, right-click Network Connections,
choose Create Shortcut, and then click OK to put a shortcut on the Desktop.
You can then move it to the Tool Bar for even quicker access than the
"Connect To" shortcut in the Task Bar (see below).
OR (second method)
Right-click the Taskbar and choose: Properties
Click the tab: Start Menu
Click the button: Customize
Click the tab: Advanced
In the section titled: Start Menu Items
scroll down the list until you see: Network Connectons
Then check the bullet: Display as Connect to menu
Click OK twice
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On 15 Jul 2005 05:45:24 -0700, "dave"
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-|only my "Wireless Network Connection," no matter what I do. My "Local
-|Area Connection" is active, yet doesn't appear. Yes, I have turned off
-|the "Connect To" menu and turned it back on; no change.
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Hook for attaching ceiling grid accessories; for use with 5P pole.
No more damaged ceiling tiles from jamming paper clips under the grids. Decorate your classroom in half the time it usually does with the J-Snap hanger hook. No more damaged ceiling tiles and when you are done, the hooks are easily removed. Or leave them in place for the next event. They are made from a clear poly and are virtually unseen along the ceiling. A great time saver.
Plastic grid ceiling attachment clip. Plastic fixture employs a twist-on principle to lock onto metal channel of grid ceilings. Permanent location allows easy replacement of hanging displays and eliminates damage to ceiling tiles. Use with 4006C2 & 4012C12 C-hooks.
Grid Ceiling Attachment Clip with string. Plastic fixture employs a twist-on principle to lock onto metal channel of grid ceilings. Permanent location allows easy replacement of hanging displays and eliminates damage to objects tiles. Used to hang signs, banners & other light objects. Ideal for the classroom.
6" C-Hook used to attach display material to grid ceiling panel clips. Used with 7100W attachment clip.
Attendance slip holder, spring loaded clip. Holds everything.
Replacement nylon rings for the Snap-On style drop ceiling hangers.
Safer than standing on a chair to hang your classroom decorations. Aluminum telescoping pole for use with the Twist-On attachments to hang lightweight items from 1" ceiling gridwork. Telescopes 3' to 10'.
Semi-permanent ceiling connector squeezes onto standard 1" ceiling grid. Excellent connector to hang lightweight signs, decorations & mobiles. Sold in bags of 100.
PC Paper Clip nylon attachments are the alternative to scotch tape, thumb tacks and wall wax. Just punch a hole in the object you wish to hang, slide the PC paper clip over the object and insert tab through the hole. The object is ready to hang. Tie a string and RO ring to the clip and hang from the JH ceiling hook. Hundreds of uses and won't damage walls and ceilings like tape or tacks. Keeps your classroom looking neat, clean and without distractions to the students.
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