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Federal Way cop resigns over alleged sexual misconduct
A Federal Way police officer has resigned over allegations of sexual misconduct, which included sending lewd photos and text messages to a crime victim.
Officer Ashley Crispin submitted his resignation June 24, just one day after being placed on paid administrative leave. The resignation in lieu of termination became official July 8.
On Tuesday, The Mirror obtained results of an internal investigation by the Federal Way Police Department into the sexual misconduct charges. The department also released results of a separate investigation over a violent arrest in which Crispin punched a woman. The latter report concluded that Crispin's use of force was justified.
Sexual misconduct
In April, the department received a tip about Crispin from a Lynnwood police recruit. A woman who worked as a housekeeper for a hotel in Seatac had confided in the recruit that a Federal Way police officer was making unwanted sexual advances toward her. The woman said the officer was also sending sexual photos and videos.
The 33-year-old woman first met Crispin on April 10, when the officer arrested a trespasser who broke into her mother's Federal Way house.
After the encounter, Crispin began calling the woman, at first to let her know he was checking on the property. The woman, who asked that her name be withheld, told The Mirror that Crispin began talking about how he and his wife were having problems, then at one point, asked if they could get together for sex on his days off.
According to phone records obtained by The Mirror, Crispin called the woman 15 times between April 16 and April 21 from his personal cellphone. Crispin declined to comment for this story.
When confronted by his supervisor in April, Crispin denied the allegations. Crispin contacted the woman and encouraged her to delete all the pictures and to not cooperate with the investigation, according to documents. The woman did not cooperate, and the case was closed in May.
However, the investigation was reopened in June when Crispin said he received a harassing phone call from the woman. This time, the woman cooperated with the investigation.
Police recovered deleted images from the woman's cellphone. One photo of a man lying on a bed — and wearing only underpants — was identified as one of the photos sent by Crispin. The woman said she received text messages from Crispin that included photos of a man's penis and a video of a man masturbating. One photo showed Crispin in his police uniform, sitting in his police car, according to documents.
The woman, who showed the photos to her friends, told police she and Crispin never got together. She also admitted to reciprocating at one point by texting him a nude photo of herself.
According to documents, Crispin declined to participate in any interviews for the investigation. "That requires us to accept as true the assertions made by (the victim) and other witnesses," according to a report by Cmdr. Kyle Sumpter, who was Crispin's supervisor.
The department's investigation, along with Crispin's personnel files, also reveal that:
• Two other victims were identified as receiving inappropriate contact from Crispin. One woman was a local apartment complex manager, with whom Crispin was reportedly flirtatious and trying to coax into going on a ride-along. During the misconduct investigation, another victim came forward. In this case, the police department has launched a criminal investigation of official misconduct with sexual motivation, according to documents. The victim is a woman whom Crispin arrested.
• Crispin was suspended for 40 hours without pay in 2009 for pursuing sex with a Federal Way Police Explorer. The Explorers is a program for young adults interested in law enforcement careers. Intimate relationships between officers and Explorers are not allowed. According to personnel files, Crispin tried to arrange — via text messages — a "three-way" sexual rendezvous with the Explorer and a "buddy." Crispin and the married Explorer went on ride-alongs together and engaged in frank discussions about their personal lives, according to the report.
• Crispin received a 40-hour suspension in 2011 for being the at-fault driver in a collision on SW Dash Point Road in Dec. 2010.
• Crispin received a 20-hour suspension in 2007 for his involvement in a collision while pursuing a fight call. According to documents, Crispin failed to use his siren and make sure the intersection was clear before proceeding.
In a written statement, Chief Brian Wilson said: "The sustained misconduct of Mr. Crispin does not represent the professionalism, character and integrity of the men and women of the Federal Way Police Department. ... We are responsible and accountable to our citizens, our police department, and the law enforcement profession."
Wilson also recommended that Crispin be decertified as a commissioned police officer in Washington state.
(Pictured: This photo shows Megan Graham after her release from jail in May)
Another investigation
Crispin's use of force during a violent arrest on May 27 in Federal Way attracted widespread media attention.
The Port of Seattle investigated the case and concluded that "the use of force in this incident was reasonable and, in fact, one of the least intrusive of the multiple force options available to the officers."
Crispin had punched Kirkland resident Megan Graham in the face after she resisted arrest in a Federal Way apartment complex parking lot. An audio recording of the incident was captured after Graham dialed 911 during the arrest.
Crispin had arrived for backup after another officer attempted to arrest Graham, who was initially pulled over for talking on her cellphone while driving. According to the Federal Way police report, Graham was resisting arrest and ignoring police commands before she assumed a fighting stance. "Crispin then responded with closed fist strikes to Graham's face, which brought her to the ground where she was handcuffed," the report said.
Post-arrest photos show Graham with a swollen eye and a bruise that takes up the left side of her face. She has pleaded not guilty to felony assault of an officer, and she is currently fighting her case in court.
The Port of Seattle report noted: "As a result of Officer Crispin using closed fist strikes on Ms. Graham, the officers were able to end the encounter before anyone was more seriously injured and without having to escalate to a higher level of force."
In an administrative review, the Federal Way Police Department concluded that "other tactics may have been more effective and/or less intrusive to affect the arrest," and that "future defensive tactics training … will emphasize lessons learned from this incident." The department's "use of force policy" will remain as written.
Career in Federal Way
Crispin began working as a Federal Way police officer in January 2006. According to personnel files, Crispin had a promising career in Federal Way.
In May, Crispin was honored after responding to a robbery call in which the female victim received a severe laceration. Crispin's application of a tourniquet saved her life, according to Federal Way police.
In 2011, he received a SPIRIT Award (Service, Pride, Integrity, Responsibility, Innovation and Teamwork) from Mayor Skip Priest. The nomination came from Crispin's supervisor at the time. The nomination stated that Crispin was the department's "go-to guy when a search warrant needs to be written," and that he was "one of the hardest working officers in our department."
A 2009 performance review said Crispin was "a dedicated member of the team" and "the most proactive officer" on his shift. Evaluations in his personnel file noted that either met or exceeded expectations in every category.
Crispin has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Central Washington University. In his time at the Federal Way Police Department, he earned steady pay raises, eventually reaching a monthly salary of $6,157, or nearly $74,000 a year.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story included a photo that The Mirror has chosen to no longer publish.
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Junior varsity matches begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by varsity action at 7:30 p.m.
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On Saturday, the Dodgers placed fifth at the Cedar Rapids Jefferson Invitational. Tenth-ranked (Class 3A) junior Duke Egli (160) captured his third invitational crown of the season, posting three falls on the day. Senior Ben Schnurr (220) turned in a runner-up performance as well for FDSH. Egli (20-3 overall), 132-pound senior Reed Russell (18-6), 182-pound senior Michael Licht (16-11) and Schnurr (16-7) anchor the Dodgers on the mat.
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Volunteers in all areas make every aspect of Hill Country Memorial possible. They provide the extra level of service to patients, visitors and the community for which HCM is known. Among other activities, volunteers man the gift shop and thrift shop, support staff throughout the hospital, provide companionship to hospice patients, and assist fundraising efforts.
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so far, i played F-Zero GX and it loaded and saved successfully
I tried playing Resident Evil 4 today and I cannot proceed past the "continue without saving" screen. I've ran into this issue with most of my titles with the exception of a few games that will continue past the screen without a Gamecube memory card.
Has anyone else ran into this issue when trying to play Gamecube games without a memory card?
wait...you play RE4 without a memory card?
so far, i played F-Zero GX and it loaded and saved successfully
Not normally, but I cant seem to find my memory card. I have a new coming in the mail, but until then, I cant seem to get most games to get past that "continue without saving" screen. So thats why I am wondering if it's my Wii console that is faulty.Originally Posted by RaptorZX3
i don't play games without a memory card....but then, try RE4 on a Gamecube to see if it's doing it there too.
Nintendo should have made it so that you can put GC saves on the Wii's internal memory.
Can someone try a RE4 on their Wii without a memory card and tell us what the outcome is? Thanks!
And how would you propose that? The coding to save anywhere other than a GC memory card just isn't there in the games.Originally Posted by paintba||er
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The New York Red Bulls have signed a multiyear agreement with the Madison Square Garden Network, ensuring it will continue as the local television home of the MLS team.
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Is that cheating if you use the resources or settings you have on your camera, rather than using the manual setting? Your Ricoh is better then some DSLR I've seen... That setting looks like your lens is a little fogged up.
Cheating? No. Every photograph is a distorted 2-D visual representation of an instant in time in a dynamic 3-D world. Whatever you do, your camera manipulates the image. I used one of the camera's filters to create an effect that, to my eye, re-creates the essence of motion that was a very big part of the real 3-D scene but is lost completely in a simple photograph. I could possibly have achieved a similar effect by using a very wide aperture - to give a tiny depth of field - and by vertically panning the camera - to keep the truck in focus. But I didn't have $3000 worth of DSLR in my pocket and I didn't have 60 minutes to set up the shot. So this is my Ricoh's best attempt. And I think it has the "feel" of standing on a footbridge over the highway in Gwangju on a damp night. :-)
I assumed you felt you cheated using a "scene mode" which that one made a good effect. $3,000! Dang, I bought used cars less than that. :)
Looks like you used a Lensbaby or Tilt Shift lens. Good results with just a "scene" on your point and shoot.
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Alicia Silverstone will be at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing at 7 p.m. April 23 to talk about her new book "The Kind Mama." Never as clueless as she sometimes seemed onscreen, the actress has developed an online community, "The Kind Life," around wellness and healthy living. There are lots of recipes.
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"Minutes before she was murdered in a church where the family had sought refuge from machete-wielding Hutus, Ndamwizeye held his mother's hand—and felt all the security that personal touch brings, especially at the age of 5," the story says.
"It's the memory that flashes back like it happened yesterday," Ndamwizeye said of his mother's slaying, the story continues. "I never understood the whole thing and I still don't understand … . Sometimes I asked myself why I was saved, and I never get to an answer. It's just that God saved me from that place, because they could have killed me."
The fact that he lived—especially amid the magnitude and horror of the genocide—made him a survivor on multiple levels.
"I pretty much grew up with my brother and his wife," Ndamwizeye recalled of what happened next, going on to recount his journey, first to Zambia in 2001 with the husband of one of his sisters, and then, at age 15 in 2005, to the U.S.
"When he was coming to the states," Ndamwizeye said of that brother-in-law, "he said he would bring me with him. This is something I'd always dreamed about."
When he went to Zambia as a refugee, Ndamwizeye didn't know how to speak any English, and was in a foreign place where he didn't know anyone.
A dozen years later, he's a college graduate with a good job who not only speaks English fluently but is very articulate, is building a career as a motivational speaker, and is digitally savvy and versed in social media—but most of all is committed to using his life and story as the foundation for giving back and making a difference.
"When I came here, everything just happened," Ndamwizeye said of America, admitting that it was a lot of work. In the U.S., though, there was a return of familial support, and values, in part because a sister was already here—having come as a refugee—and because he found a much larger family among the teachers and students at Bassick High School in Bridgeport, and then at SCSU.
He graduated from Bassick in 2008, where, according to his website bio, he was his senior class vice president, captain of the volleyball and cross-country teams, and a member of the Yearbook Club, Key Club, National Honor Society and bowling team. At Bassick, he earned MVP awards for volleyball and cross-country, and a sportsmanship award for volleyball, the bio says, adding that he was the Male Athlete of Year, and voted Most Likely to Succeed, Teacher's Pet and Best Dressed at his senior banquet.
Ndamwizeye graduated last May from SCSU with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, with a concentration in business management.
By that point, the future path of inspiring others and giving back was already clear for Ndamwizeye, who says, "It's just amazing how life rolls out."
The foundation actually began to take shape in 2009, when he was a freshman in college. Someone with a refined sense of style—he even has a style blog—Ndamwizeye recalled designing "stop homophobia" T-shirts. "I started selling them to my friends on campus," with 10 percent of money from sale of the T-shirts going to support challenged kids he was sponsoring as part of his nascent business with a social conscience.
The initiative succeeded so well that people started requesting the T-shirts, and the business that spawned the foundation became a thriving enterprise even as Ndamwizeye was going to school full-time and already working at TD Bank.
Meanwhile, Ndamwizeye also began to emerge as a motivational speaker, not just for his story of surviving the Rwandan genocide but also for "how I had the guts to come out to my family" and "accept myself for who I am."
The speaking engagements—with requests eventually coming from such major colleges as the University of Florida and University of Connecticut—began when a social studies teacher at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, whose curriculum covered the genocide and the Holocaust, asked him to share his story with students.
"There were like 400 kids in the auditorium," he recalled. His presentation drew a great response from students and teachers. He went on to be the keynote speaker at a University of New Haven student leadership event, and then True Colors, a Hartford area nonprofit, invited him for a conference with 3,000 kids. "So that was huge," he said, adding, "The more my story has been out there, the more people have been asking me to speak."


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Nolan clocked a 44.99 in the evening finals at IU Natatorium to knock off defending champ and California senior Tom Shields. That makes two NCAA individual gold medals in two nights for Nolan, who built a stellar high school career at Hershey under the tutelage of Greg and Jeff Fastrich.
The 12-time PIAA gold medalist rallied on the anchor leg (freestyle) on Thursday to win NCAA gold in the 200 IM, nipping Florida junior Marcin Cieslak by .24 seconds.
Can Nolan pull off the individual trifecta?
He's seeded fourth in Saturday morning's 200 backstroke preliminaries, but he also was seeded fourth in the 200 IM and 100 backstroke finals before winning both events.
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Out of hundreds of entries across the country, Melanie came in the top ten, which was voted for by the public. The judging panel were wowed by Melanie and chose her to be the face and new ambassador for the clinic.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Jefferson County had already recovered approximately $140,000 of the $329,010 it had given a McAdory youth association for athletic facilities by the time the county filed a lawsuit last week seeking the entire amount back, a county attorney confirmed Monday.
And the association plans to return the remaining money, an attorney for the group said Monday.
The county's lawsuit filed Friday against the Greater McAdory Athletic Association claims the association breached two agreements when it didn't spend the money on projects it was supposed to and when it funneled about $140,000 to another group. The association also failed to give required accounting of how the money was spent, the county claims in the lawsuit.
The county demands repayment of the entire $329,010 in its lawsuit.
French McMillan, an attorney with Jefferson County, however, confirmed Monday that the county had previously received $140,000 from the group that had received it from the athletic association.
Romika Wells, one of the attorneys representing the association, this morning identified the group that got the nearly $140,000 as the McCalla Youth Athletic Association. One member of the McCalla association board referred questions to the group's president. Efforts to reach the president have not been successful.
Eric Guster, an attorney for the Greater McAdory Athletic Association, said Monday the association plans to pay back the remaining money. "I have no doubt that this will end in about two or three weeks," he said of the lawsuit.
Guster said that last year a new board took over and two members, without the knowledge of the other board members, transferred nearly $140,000 to another youth athletic group.
The county states in its lawsuit that it had met with Greater McAdory Athletic Association officials in May and gave them a June 20 deadline to repay all the money. After they didn't meet the deadline the Jefferson County Commission in July authorized a lawsuit.
Guster said the association had waited on paying money back because they wanted to make sure they were not going to be held responsible for the entire amount - including the $140,000.
It's not clear the date the other group gave the $140,000 to the county, but it was prior to the filing of Friday's lawsuit.
The county had given the money to Greater McAdory Athletic Association in two chunks: $279,010 on Oct. 16, 2006 for design and construction of a concession stand, bathrooms and a storage building/press box, at the football field; and $50,000 on Jan. 26, 2010 for the group to excavate and sand field, install irrigation system, purchase and lay sod and install fencing at the McCalla Sports Complex on Old Tuscaloosa Highway.
The reason the money wasn't spent at the time was that the Greater McAdory Athletic Association had its field taken away by construction of the new McAdory Middle School and then the land that had been given the association on Old Tuscaloosa High School wasn't feasible for a football complex, Guster said.
Groundbreaking on McAdory Middle School was in November 2008 and the school opened in 2010.
Updated at 8:37 a.m. Dec. 24 to note the co-counsel for the athletic association is Romika Wells Updated at 11:40 p.m. Dec. 24 to identify the group that received and returned the $140,000


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Abdullah went 12-15 in singles and 16-16 in doubles for the Broncs as a senior.
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Gmail Now Allows You To Attach Files Using Drive, Raises 25MB Limit To 10GB
Google continues the tight integration between their services. This time, they have integrated Google Drive into Gmail. As you probably know, if you try to attach files to an email, you're hit with a 25MB limit. Attaching 10 photos off of a camera after an event is impossible. That painful time is finally over, because you can just press "Insert files… Read more


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ALLEGAN COUNTY – After a crying woman called and said, "Oh my God," before hanging up, Allegan County dispatchers managed to "ping" her cell phone to determine her location.
Sheriff's deputies responded Monday to a home in Wayland Township and found the woman. Police had been to the home before on reports of domestic violence.
The woman was upset, but unhurt, and police found no evidence she had been assaulted.
The woman told police she wanted to pack up and leave. Deputies stood by until she was safely out of the home.
Dispatchers tracked the caller down after she twice hung up. They believed the cell-phone call came from Wayland Township because it was routed through Barry County Central Dispatch.
Dispatchers were able to "ping" her cell phone to determine her location.
Sheriff's Lt. Frank Baker said newer cell phones have global-positioning systems. In emergencies, a telephone company can provide a GPS location that is then mapped to help find an address. If the situation meets phone company's criteria, they will provide the information to law enforcement, Baker said.
He said it can prove crucial if a cell phone caller has an emergency but doesn't know where he or she is. For instance, a motorist could be involved in a crash but be unfamiliar with the roads.
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Twitter users following Gov. Rick Snyder's State of the State Address have been posting their thoughts under the #MISOTS hashtag. As Snyder aimed for levity early in the speech, some users returned the favor. Here are some of the sharper humorous tweets so far:
@ChristineBarry: "Things Gov Snyder won't say: "I'm sorry I raised taxes on your retired dad."
Ryan_Eaton: "fun fact: republicans are on both sides of the aisle because there are so many more republicans than democrats"
@paulegan4: "Uncharacteristically, Gov Snyder entered the chamber 2 minutes late. That's 10 minutes in dog years."
@ProgressMich: "What Gov. Snyder meant to say: "Thanks to all our public servants. Now here's a pay cut."
@theresthatbear: "I knew Snyder always looks down his nose at us, but I never realized he talks out of it, too!"
@NPRSonari: "How is @onetoughnerd talking and tweeting at the same time? #MISOTS One of them aint him!
@DawnKettinger: "We'll resolve cities' problems by taking them all over! Mwaaaahhahaaaa!!!"
@berkow10: "Cliff notes in case you missed the #MISOTS - random buzzwords, random story about a haircut, and random ideas with no substance.
@mlomonacopr: "So refreshing to have a Gov that doesn't need a TelePrompTer to deliver an effective speech"
@dustinpwalsh: "The best way to follow up #misots is by watching and participating in an episode of Drinking Made Easy."
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Mario Shows His Skills
I can't believe I've never seen this before. Remember when Daniel recreated Level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros.?
Well, someone took the original video of the guy who broke his arm trying to climb some homemade crate-stairs Mario-style and animated Mario in there. Genius.
It's kind of like Mario doing his take on our "I'm better than you, na-na na-na boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo." You show that broken-boned loser, Mario.
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The Washington man who died in a plane crash Saturday near Astoria was a member of the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association and known for his smile and positive attitude.
Kevin Dooney, of Ilwaco, was piloting the PA-24 when the plane lost power at 5:40 p.m., shortly after take-off, and crashed one mile from the airport, according to Mike Fergus, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Dooney owned the single engine, fixed-wing plane and was the only one on board the plane when it crashed. A friend and co-worker Capt. Robert Johnson, said Dooney was an experienced pilot.
Dooney began piloting with the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association in 2008 and recently joined the association's governing board.
"He was an asset to the group. We are small enough to really come to depend on each other for management," Johnson said.
River pilots board inbound ships near the Columbia River entrance and navigate the ships past the Astoria-Megler Bridge.
Johnson remembered a man who always had a smile on his face and was "always happy."
Dooney's journey as a river pilot began years ago when he was a third mate to a shipmaster eventually working his way up.
River pilots must have years of specialized training and those with the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association must have at least two years as master of oceangoing vessel. Most have been at sea for 20 plus years, Dooney included.
"People like Kevin, who become pilots, are a unique group," Johnson said. "To become a pilot represents a considerable accomplishment."
The association does not have any memorial planned just yet but Johnson said he's sure the group will hold some event in Dooney's honor.
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Welcome To My Talk Page!! Edit
Welcome to my talk page minna! Feel free to ask any question~ please ask, don't hesitate!
Latios And Latias 06:11, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
Message WallEdit
The Message Wall function has been disabled, due to it's lack of information and due to the notification walls.
Fubuki風吹 Volt Tackle 10:23, March 1, 2013 (UTC)
Talk PageEdit
Like what Sam said, the message wall was diabled by him. It was a bit...annoying (I don't have the right word) and I do think talk pages are better @.@
Well I can't explain it good enough. Sorry.
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re: Wrong againEdit
If you make articles.. just delete them and make a new page for categories.. (I don't think such questions are reasonable :/)
Fubuki風吹 Volt Tackle 13:36, March 24, 2013 (UTC)
I need to talk about something...Edit
Otonashi, a poll is ok. You can make one.
btw, the wiki was somehow messed up by you guys. Explorers and Rescue teams are not the same! Wigglytuff's guild isn't present in rescue teams. And I'll try to tidy up the data. I'm sorry I have not much time here and leave the wiki for a while before, but now I'll have more time here.
~Swiftblizzard~PMD BLUE~ 13:18, March 26, 2013 (UTC)
It sounds pretty... stupid... For the Pokemon I level them up myself (That's why I often take so long) but sometimes I steal a few information from other websites :P And the items, I cheated one time before so I've got all the items for the description, even for those which can't be obtained normally. That was a loooooong time ago, and I saved all the descriptions. So now I just fench them out and copy and paste. XD I doesn't cheat anymore. And for the screenshots, I do them myself too.
~Swiftblizzard~PMD BLUE~ 13:12, March 27, 2013 (UTC)
There's one FAQ which helped me very much when I was first clearing the game. It's very helpful. Check it out~!
~Swiftblizzard~PMD BLUE~ 06:54, March 31, 2013 (UTC)
You said you wished to change the Fubuki picture in your signature, right~? Do you still want to change it now~? Because I know how to do it! Just show me the picture you want to change it into because the photos you posted before was no longer there. See? I changed my signature too! :D I based it on yours and eventually found out how to do it!
Swiftblizzard ~Articuno~ 02:53, April 1, 2013 (UTC)
Template Help!!!Edit
Hello? uh, I'm not asking you to help me make a template, but please look at this template I made! http://pmd-red-and-blue.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Dungeon
Do you think the colour is too bright? Please tell me~!
Swiftblizzard ~Articuno~ 13:48, April 2, 2013 (UTC)
Thank you! >< I'm having some kind of problem with templates though. I used the templates from the Inazuma Eleven wiki as a base! Don't tell them! XD
Swiftblizzard ~Articuno~ 09:50, April 3, 2013 (UTC)
No stealing!Edit
NO MORE STEALING PICTURES FROM BULBAPEDIA PLEASE. nor Serebii.net. >:(
^ Mad after having a tragic Maths test result^
Swiftblizzard ~Articuno~ =GLACEON= 13:43, April 13, 2013 (UTC)
But that's still stealing...Right...? = =|||
Try not to steal so many images from Google, since it is not known if the original owner allows it or not. Bulbapedia is fair use, but I don't know about other websites.
...I think I saw those images somewhere on the lparchieve, with Meowth and Squirtle as the main characters....?
Swiftblizzard ~Articuno~ =GLACEON= 03:24, April 14, 2013 (UTC)
Are you here? Edit
I see you haven't edited here in a long time, but I also notice you've logged in to wikia recently. Any interest in coming back to PMD Red and Blue Wiki?


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Hundreds bid farewell to Matt Gumbel
In the words of Marvin Reed, a former school teacher to Matt Gumbel: "Too young. Too soon. Too difficult. Too much to bear."
Reed spoke of Matt's premature death while reminiscing of his former student who "had his mother's smile — winning smile — and his father's quiet ways."
More than 450 family members and friends packed both levels of the Oak Harbor High School performing arts center Saturday at a memorial service for Matt, one of seven Tesoro Refinery employees who died as a result of a fiery explosion April 2 at the Anacortes plant. He may only have lived 34 short years but Matt's personality touched thousands of people, and the story of his struggle to survive for five weeks and one day after the incident reached across the nation and around the world.
Matt's smile shone around the room on enlarged photographs and in dozens of images that flashed by on a big screen slide show. Stories with re-occuring themes of Matt's quiet ways, compassion and love of fast cars were shared by his mother Shauna Gumbel, sister Amy Gumbel, uncle Jeff Miksell, fiance Kritin Griffith, friends and coworkers.
At the center of the stage, surrounded by flowers, a red Ferrari F-40 model rested atop Matt's wooden urn.
"I didn't know Matt as well as I knew some of the others," confessed Steve Garey, one of Matt's coworkers. Yet since the fire, Garey's gotten to know the Gumbel family through conversations at the hospital and through a blog called CaringBridge.org.
"The night of the incident he showed such strength and spirit and character to protect himself and find shelter. That strength of spirit and character, it's so obvious that it comes from the family. I want to thank you for teaching us, Gumbels, for how to share not just grief, but hope. And how to be not just better people, but better citizens in our community. I can't forget Matt because I cannot forget the Gumbels," Garey said.
Matt's sister Amy described the way her brother embraced his friends just like he would his own flesh and blood.
"We were always there for each other when it counted. That's what it means to be family," she said. "And he was like that with everyone. Not just me. Everyone."
His passing is not and never will be easy, she said. However, the community can honor Matt by remembering his life.
"I won't offer anyone my apologies or condolences and I don't want them in return. But I will offer my memories. Memories of what happened, of the stories that I've heard. About the other people that were lost. Memories of my brother and a promise that I won't ever forget," she said. "Don't ask me how I'll make it through him being gone. Ask me how we shared the time we had. "
Amy thanked the people who helped Matt after the fire and gave the Gumbels more time with their loved one.
"They gave me three more weeks with my brother. ... They gave all of us that gift and a chance to say goodbye."
It's that struggle to survive, and the Gumbels' embrace of the community, that may have left the greatest impression, Pastor David Engle said.
"Part of Matt's greatest legacy to our community, to all of you, to me, is as he struggled ... he fought that good fight so many of you described," he said.
"Matt has left a legacy and it's one that he hadn't expected to. But it's one that is greater than he'd ever dreamed would be possible.
"Matt didn't intent to touch the whole community, the whole state, the whole nation and even other countries, but the lord had other plans," Engle said.
Andy Kline, a childhood friend since age 7, will forever miss Matt's steadfast friendship.
"He was a great listener. He was a very strong, strong man. He didn't show it very often but the man was a rock, an absolute rock. And being that rock, he was kind of a cornerstone to me," Kline said. "That cornerstone is now removed and there will forever be a draft there in that corner of my life now because Matt Gumbel is gone."
The memorial service, which began at 2 p.m., continued until 6 at the high school, then moved to the home of Paul and Shauna Gumbel.
With one simple example, sister Amy blessed Matt's trip to heaven and summed up his ability to enrich the lives of those around him.
"My parents taught me how to drive, but my brother taught me how to enjoy it. So drive fast, Matt, because there's no tickets in Heaven."
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Public Works plans Tremont meeting
The city of Port Orchard will move from the preliminary to the near-imminent with respect to the Tremont Corridor next week as Public Works Director Maher Abed will introduce a consultant hired to help purchase right-of-way land from property owners along Tremont.
The property acquisition comes as part of the overall Tremont Corridor Expansion, in which the city plans to improve Tremont Street from State Route 16 to Port Orchard Boulevard.
Construction is set to begin in 2008 and will include expanding Tremont Street to two lanes going each direction, installing a landscaped median from SR-16 to the intersection at Roland, bike lanes and two roundabouts located at Tremonts intersections at South Kitsap and Pottery Avenue.
The improvements are meant to expedite traffic through the area and improve what is considered the gateway of Port Orchard.
At a public meeting on Nov. 8, Abed will introduce Barbara Meeking of Universal Field Services, who will be overseeing the acquisition of right-of-way property.
Residents are asked to offer input on the projects recent issues, such as vehicular access for properties, placement of utility services, location of retaining walls and construction detours.
At previous meetings, residents discussed the safety and impact of the two roundabouts. Mayoral candidate Lary Coppolas Wet Apple Media and Action Chiropractic abut the roundabout at Pottery.
Coppola and Action Chiropractics Brian Willyard worried the roundabout would encroach on their property. An early diagram of the roundabout even crossed over standing structures.
Abed has met with the residents most affected by the roundabout, but some concerns still remain.
Coppola said his concerns were shared but by other nearby residents.
Im still very concerned, he said. When I was doorbelling over there, I heard a lot of concerns from residents.
Coppola said his hope to develop the corner of property next to the roundabout has been delayed by this process, and he is still worried about the safety of the roundabouts and the possible costs accrued from accident reports.
Abed said the roundabout is predicted to save the city $500,000 over 20 years, amounting to $25,000 per year.
Residents and property owners worried about the roundabouts are welcome to ask questions and collect information, but the main focus of next weeks meeting will be on utilities and property acquisition.
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Police say staff risked their own safety when they scuffled with a man who was trying to take his own life at an Edmonton shooting range.
The man is recovering from a neck wound after the Tuesday night incident at the range inside West Edmonton Mall.
Investigators say he rented a handgun and tried to use it commit suicide.
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MARSHALL - In a hard-fought game where the Southwest Minnesota State men's basketball team led by as many as 13, it all came down to the final 27 seconds in Friday's Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference showdown.
"When you play a game like this against a quality opponent, you come in and just try to outwork them, play scrappy," said SMSU head coach Brad Bigler. "We knew we had a size disadvantage and that extra effort was going to have to be there to make up for it."
A pair of free throws by Minnesota State-Mankato's Wooten Gage gave the Mavericks only their second lead of the second half.
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Southwest Minnesota State's Lavione West (22)?is knocked off balance by Minnesota State-Mankato's Connor O'Brien (42) during the first half of Friday's Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference game at the R/A Facility at SMSU.
"We hit a couple shots," said Mankato head coach Matt Margenthaler, whose team won 85-84. "We haven't been shooting the ball well and we didn't shoot the ball well for about 38 minutes tonight."
With Mankato, which is ranked No. 21 in the nation, up 82-81 the Mustangs had the opportunity to take the last shot of the game, but the Maverick defense had other plans.
With time winding down, SMSU's Matt Zager drove and missed the layup. Nick Smith was forced to foul, sending Mankato's Jarvis Williams to the line with nine seconds on the clock.
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Jarvis Williams 7-15 13-14 27, Zach Monaghan 6-9 5-7 20, Gage Wooten 0-3 2-4 2, Connor O'Brien 0-3 2-2 2, Assem Marei 9-13 5-12 23, Jaymeson Moten 1-3 0-0 3, Alex Hanks 0-2 0-0 0, Jimmy Whitehead 2-7 0-0 5, Zach Romashko 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 26-58 27-39 85. 3-pointers 6-16 (Monaghan 3-4, Moten 1-3, Whitehead 1-2, Romashko 1-2, Hanks 0-1, Wooten 0-2, O'Brien 0-2) Rebounds 40 (Marei 11, Williams 9) Assists 11 (Monaghan 5) Steals 5 (Monaghan 3) Blocks 2 Fouls 16 Turnovers 10.
Tramel Barnes 3-7 2-3 8, Vinard Birch 2-6 1-3 5, Jordan Miller 8-14 6-6 25, Matt Zager 4-7 0-0 8, Nick Smith 10-15 0-1 20, William Giddings 2-6 0-1 4, Jordan Buddenhagen 0-1 0-0 0, Shaun Condon 3-3 0-0 6, Lavione West 3-9 2-2 8. Totals 35-68 11-16 84. 3-pointers 3-8 (Miller 3-5, Zager 0-1, Giddings 0-1, Buddenhagen 0-1) Rebounds 36 (Barnes 8, Smith 7) Assists 16 (Barnes 4, Miller 3) Steals 5 (Miller 3) Blocks 3 (Miller 2) Fouls 24 Turnovers 8.
Halftime Score: MSU 41, SMSU 38.
Williams hit both free throws, extending the lead to 84-81.
Mankato (7-1, 3-1 NSIC) didn't allow the Mustangs (5-6, 2-2 NSIC) a chance to tie when Jaymeson Moten fouled Vinard Birch near mid-court, sending him to the line to shoot two with 6.4 seconds left on the clock.
Birch missed the front end of the bonus, forcing Smith to foul the Mavericks' Assem Marei with 5.5 seconds left.
Marei hit the first of two, which meant Jordan Miller's 3-pointer as the clock expired put the Mustangs just short, falling to Mankato 85-84, despite shooting a season-high point total.
"We were fortunate to make some plays down the stretch," Margenthaler said. "(SMSU) made some great plays all night long and just didn't execute some things down the stretch."
Bigler added, "We had our opportunities to win the game and unfortunately we missed two layups and the front end of a 1-and-1 when we needed it the most."
SMSU started the game strong, jumping out to an early eight-point lead before Mankato was able to take its first lead of the game at 27-26 with 6:45 left in the half.
SMSU regained the lead for a brief time before the Mavericks took the final lead of the half, 41-38.
"At halftime you have a lot of game left," Bigler said. "You never panic, you're never too high or low, you just try to fix some things.
"We went over our game plan and corrected what we were making mistakes on."
In the second half Miller and Smith turned it on, scoring a combined 17 of their 45 points in a stretch that lasted just over nine-and-a-half minutes. Miller and Smith had season-high totals of 25 and 20, respectively, in the loss.
With 9:53 on the clock, the Mustangs had their largest lead of the night, 61-48.
Mankato slowly chipped into the lead, cutting it down to a single point with 1:13 left to play.
SMSU, which only shot 16 total free throws to the Maverick's 39, missed two crucial free throws, which were both on the front end of the bonus, including one that was re-shot for a lane violation.
The Mustangs were also out-rebounded on the offensive glass, with several of the Mankato rebounds coming on missed free throws.
"That would be a very big disappointment. We work on that almost every other day in practice," Bigler said. "It's something that we've tried to correct, we know it's a weakness and we've addressed it, but now we need to carry it over to games."
SMSU was unable to hold on down the stretch, falling to Mankato 85-84.
The Mustangs turn around and play host to Concordia-St. Paul tonight. The Golden Bears (1-6, 0-4 NSIC) fell to the University of Sioux Falls on Friday night, 77-68.
"Being able to have a short memory is always important," Bigler said. "It was a tough one, but fortunately we have an opportunity to come back and get after it. We'll see where we are at (tonight)."


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My personal project I've been working on for the year is in full swing still. The tentative title "Fantasy 5 Project" chronicles me playing Fantasy 5 every single day for the entire year of 2009. It of course started out a bit rough, the first day to be exact. My mind was in Mega Millions mode which meant it slipped my mind that ticket sales end before 7:30pm at night. I happened to pick up my ticket a bit past 9 that day and didn't realize that until I got home and decided to check it.
Yes, major brain fart. Why on earth would I expect to win on a drawing that happened nearly 2 hours prior to my purchase? If that were even possible I'd scored the numbers and then play them. But as much as me and every other lottery player, I wish I could turn back time. If I could find some way. I'd take back all the numbers that would hurt you...and you'd say. Ok, enough of the cheesy hokey Cher flash backs. In fact, I swear to never make another reference to Cher EVER. Honest! So it was a Sunny day today.
Back to the task at hand, Fantasy 5 Project has been going great and I have been doing it every single day since the beginning. I've been writing down all winning numbers as well as the numbers I've been getting. The numbers I receive are all of course EZ picks and I have no idea what they will be when I get the ticket. I have been noticing a high amount of 38's and 39's when I check my excel sheet. Those numbers have rarely been drawn and when they are I don't have them. I have managed so far to win 2 $2 bucks from the first 19 days. Its day 21 right now but the other tickets are just sitting in my pocket waiting to be drawn. That's the current update and I will try to do it once a month, maybe twice if there's something deemed worthy enough.
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CROCKERY TOWNSHIP — Fire officials responded to a mobile home fire around 4:08 p.m. Wednesday.
An elderly resident inside the mobile home at 10 Ronda, Nunica, was rescued by firefighters and transported to North Ottawa Community Hospital for treatment, according to a fire official.
It wasn't clear if others were inside the mobile home when the fire ignited.
The mobile home is located at Crockery Mobile Home Park, 13251 State, Nunica.
Fruitport Township Fire Department officials assisted the Crockery Township Fire Department at the scene. It wasn't immediately clear what other departments assisted at the scene.
The Chronicle will continue to update this story.
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Albany, NY – Someone is exploiting curiosity over the death of Osama bin Laden to infect people's computers with malicious software, the state Division of Consumer Protection warned this morning.
The spammers are sending email containing links that claim to connect recipients to images, videos and other information related to bin Laden's death, but actually infect the user's computer with malware and viruses, officials said. The spam containing the links sometimes uses the name and logo of the FBI.
To prevent infection, don't open unsolicited email and don't connect to links contained in these messages, division officials said.
They also suggested that consumers:
- Boost privacy settings on social networking sites that they frequent to make it harder for people to post content on their pages.
- Do not agree to download software to view videos.
- Read email carefully – fraudulent ones often contain misspellings, bad grammar and poor English.
- Report email that claims to come from the FBI to the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov. The FBI never sends unsolicited email but spammers sometimes use the agency's name and logo to make their message seem legitimate.
The New York Department of State has more scam prevention tips at www.nysconsumer.gov.


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STAMFORD, Connecticut-- The SoBe Gravity Games Amateur Skatepark Series, a nationwide network of 35 amateur skateboard and bike competitions, is scheduled to launch on Saturday, May 17 at 12:00 Noon at the Rye Airfield in Rye, New Hampshire, it was announced today. The winner of Saturday's competition wins an all-expense-paid trip to the 2003 Gravity Games in Cleveland, September 10-14, to participate in the Amateur Skate and Bike Finals.
Open since April 2002, Rye Airfield bills itself as "New England's premier skateboard park and BMX track".
"I can't think of a better place to start this amateur series than in Rye, an area known to draw some of the fiercest local talent around", said Don Meek, President of Gravity Games, LLC.
Added Mike Joyce, Director of Integrated Marketing at SoBe: "We're psyched to give kids who skate a chance to get involved
and the opportunity to skate at the Gravity Games in front of a packed house and on national television".
Entering its fifth year, Gravity Games features more than 200 of the world's best professional action sports athletes competing in Freestyle Motocross, Skateboarding, Wakeboarding, BMX and Aggressive In-Line Skating. The event takes place at Cleveland's North Coast Harbor, behind the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Promoters expect the 2003 event and to include performances from "some of today's top recording artists" and draw more than 200,000 spectators.
NBC Sports reportedly will broadcast the event live from Cleveland on the final day of competition, and then for rebroadcast the event five consecutive Sundays following the event, from September 21 - October 19. Check local listings for dates and times.
SoBe products are made by the South Beach Beverage Company in Norwalk, Connecticut. Their product line focuses on herbally enhanced sports and refreshment beverages. SoBe is an "operating unit of Pepsi-Cola North America".
The Gravity Games is a jointly owned strategic partnership between PRIMEDIA (NYSE:PRM), the leading targeted media company, and Octagon, the global sports and entertainment event marketing arm of The Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) and NBC Sports. Reportedly NBC Sports reaches more than 12 million households per year and has garnered a total of seven Emmy Nominations.
For questions regarding the Gravity Games, Contact Scot Cru, (323) 782-2443. For questions about SoBe or the their involvement with the 2003 Gravity Games, contact Kristine Hinck at (203) 899.7163.
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City Assessor Glen Beekman is getting used to the question: "How come my property taxes will go up when my property value just went down?"
Two-thirds of the 57,000 property tax assessments Beekman mailed out last week reflected a drop in assessed value. Yet, most homeowners will get a tax bill that is 2.3 percent higher to reflect last year's inflation rate.
Beekman said the explanation lies in Proposal A, the 1994 constitutional amendment that capped property taxes at the level of inflation while property values were allowed to rise with the housing market.
That trend changed last year when housing prices fell an average of 2 percent across the city, Beekman said. "I've been in this business for 30 years, and this is the first time I've seen a reduction like this," he said.
Though home prices fell, few of the assessed values fell far enough to fall below their taxable value, Beekman said.
Recent homebuyers whose assessed value was close to their taxable values may be among the few who enjoy a lower tax bill this year, he said.
Beekman said his department broke the city down by neighborhoods to reflect which areas suffered the greatest, and areas where property values have held up.
Core city neighborhoods that showed double-digit price increases in recent years were flat this year. Homes in newer suburban-style neighborhoods showed some of the largest declines.
Beekman based his report on a study of 2,242 home sales last year. While previous reports were based on a two-year study, Beekman said the latest study is based on a single year to reflect the market drop in home prices.
For the first time, this year's study also included 370 homes that were sold out of foreclosures, Beekman said. Those homes typically sold at a 20 percent discount to their market value and contributed to the city's overall decline, he said.
If foreclosure sales had not been included in the study, Beekman said property values would have been flat for the year.
Condominiums, which are studied separately fell, 1.28 percent, he said. Commercial properties remained flat while industrial property rebounded with an average increase of 4 percent.
Though homeowners may be unhappy about seeing their tax bills go up in the face of falling home prices, Beekman expects fewer homeowners to appeal their lower assessments.


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Here's another people-pleasing nut recipe, completely different in style. Jennifer Buras of New Orleans says that she likes to put these in decorative jelly jars with lots of ribbon and a recipe card on each.
"Everyone eats them before they get home!" she reports. The recipe is easily doubled.
Makes 3 cups
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1 tablespoon dried, crumbled rosemary
1 ½ teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper (or more or less to taste)
3 cups mixed nuts (whatever you like)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients together in a bowl, then place in a single layer on a cookie sheet lined with parchment. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes. Allow to cool, then place in decorative jars or wrap in plastic wrap and tie with ribbons.


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"What is unique and valuable about the program is that as a pre-service teacher, I spent much time and effort clarifying my vision, reflecting on my practice, and defining my pedagogical philosophy."
"Throughout the whole year, I was supported by a circle of knowledgeable and experienced educators (Professors, Subject Area Specialists, College Supervisor, and Cooperating Teacher) who gave me valuable advice and helped me identify my strengths and areas of improvement. The student teaching aspect of the program was the most challenging and rewarding; it was in the classroom where all the theory I learned was finally put into practice and I am grateful to my students for teaching me so much. By the end of the program, I realized that I had built a solid foundation on my path as a critical pedagogue and an unfinished learner."
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Taking nightscape shots handheld with the settings set to a high ISO speed, a wide aperture, and a fast shutter speed can be fun too, but one of the true joys of nightscapes is putting the camera on a tripod and using a long exposure time to capture trails of light. Timing is everything for these shots, in which the light moving while the shutter is open draws trails across the image. Even if the trails don't come out quite as you expected, you can take a number of shots and then pick from among them later.
Here I captured trails of light from planes taking off from the airport in the sky over the Tokyo Gate Bridge.
The silhouettes of people who are moving during exposure are expressed as blur in nightscapes.
If the exposure time is too long, it won't be noticeable, so try adjusting the ISO speed, aperture, and the length of time the shutter is open to get just the right amount of blur. Also, your own silhouette illuminated by a streetlight can make for an interesting subject.
This is a function found on the CX4/CX5/CX6. It automatically combines multiple images taken at a high sensitivity and records the result, which reduces the camera shake and noise that occur when shooting nightscapes. It helps you achieve clear, beautiful nightscape pictures. You can enjoy shooting nightscapes handheld, without using a tripod.


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Man arrested for dumping 200-300 scrap tires in Tyrone
A John's Creek man was arrested on felony charges Wednesday in connection with the illegal dumping of 200-300 scrap tires on property in Tyrone.
Charles Ejemba, 44, of John's Creek, was arrested at his home by John's Creek Police on felony charges of unlawful dumping for commercial purposes and was transported to the Fayette County Jail, said Tyrone Police Chief Brandon Perkins.
Perkins said Tyrone Police had received a complaint on April 19 that a large quantity of used tires had been dumped on private property in the town limits and began an investigation. Officers at the scene found 200-300 scrap tires on property at a Spencer Lane address.
Perkins said evidence located in the pile of tires led police to Manheim Auto Auction in Red Oak and then to the suspect, who operates a scrap tire removal service.
"Aside from being unsightly and expensive to dispose of, scrap tires pose a public health risk because water pools inside them, making them a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes," Perkins said.
The Georgia Environmental Protection Division is also looking into charges that the suspect falsified state manifests and used another carrier's ID number on the paperwork, Perkins said.


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ROBERT "BOB" SIMONS JR., 52, died on July 7, 2014 following a motorcycle accident.
Simons graduated from Reeths Puffer High School in 1979 and went on create a successful Tool and Die business. He enjoyed kayaking, fishing, riding his motorcycle and spending time with family and friends. His loved ones said he was generous and had an outgoing, big personality.
Memorial contributions may be made to Mercy Health Johnson Family Cancer Center.
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Thousands of people spice up their day with ethnic food and dancing at the 2nd annual Broome County Ethnic fest.
More than 58 vendors put their heritage on display at the Broome County Veteran's Memorial Arena.
Cultures across the world, and the Southern Tier, converge here in downtown Binghamton.
The American Lebanese Club says the festival connects people from all different backgrounds.
"After all America is made from different cultures. And if we don't display our cultures, and show the people who we are. People won't know who we are, so we have to be out in the community," said Andre Haykal of the American Lebanese Club.
"Here you get to see everything that's going on in the Broome County Area. All the different heritages. And I think it's wonderful," said Mary Francis Testani of the Silver Star Lodge.
There's a lot for you to see, smell, and taste.
More than 20 different ethnicities put their heritage on display. Not only by hanging their flags, but also by giving the community a little taste of their culture.
The Kopernic Society of Broome County, made these traditional Polish pastries.
"We have the Kavatschky. They're little pastries made with cream cheese dough. And they're filled with nut, lequebar, and apricot," said Valentina Kozlowski of the Kopernik Society of Broome County.
Angie Schleider was busy making Italian cookies called pizzeles.
"My mother used to make them. At that time they didn't have an electric Iron. They had the gas light and was a one iron thing. And it was heavier than the dickens," she said.
The cooking instruments may have changed, but the ingredients are still the same.


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Hackers Hijack Xbox, PlayStation Twitch Feeds
Between the Xbox and Sony press conferences at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany this week, excitement among gamers is running high. Of course, excitement translates easily enough into destructive potential, so it's perhaps not surprising that hackers compromised the Xbox and PlayStation Twitch channels (Twitch is a service that lets gamers livestream their play sessions and developers livestream their press conferences) and filled them with malicious slurs.
A number of users noticed the oddities when they visited the Twitch streams to check out pre-recorded videos. (Hijacking a livestream is incredibly difficult, and so far, both the Xbox and PlayStation ones remain unmolested.) Ben Hanson, a video producer for Game Informer, took a screenshot of the PlayStation page, which was filled with nonsensical profanity; the pages for Xbox and the eSports League (ESL) looked similar.
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Most of the hacks were just video names and descriptions replaced with random curse words, but a few choicer bits, such as "XBOX IS FOR F***OTS" reveal that the attacker probably wanted to stir up some console war resentment, too. It's not yet clear who was behind the infraction.
For now, Microsoft, Sony and ESL have all removed their pre-recorded highlight videos until they figure out how the issue happened and can prevent it from happening again. All three livestreams are still working just fine, but you'll probably have to wait a few days before getting access to Twitch's full Gamescom coverage for each company.
Individual users have nothing to worry about, even if they watched the hacked streams, as the attack did not target any user information. However, the attacks do suggest that Twitch is at least somewhat vulnerable to malefactors, which could have unfortunate implications for one of the world's most popular game broadcast streaming services.
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Man attacked with hammer testifies in Grass Valley attempted murder trial
March 28, 2014
Prosecutors in a trial charging a Grass Valley man with the November 2012 attempted murder of his aunt and uncle argued Wednesday that the defendant, Eric Hodges, attacked his relatives with a hammer after learning that his uncle, Brent Scott, accused his own father, Hodges' grandfather, of abusing him as a child.
"Brent believed he was sexually molested by his father. He exposed it and it caused a rift within the family," Assistant District Attorney Anna Ferguson told jurors during opening statements Wednesday. "That's what was driving all of the violence and anger the day Eric Hodges attacked his aunt and uncle."
But Hodges' defense attorney, Larry Montgomery, told jurors Wednesday the evidence will show Hodges was acting in self-defense while at his uncle's house and that it was not a premeditated attack.
"Eric Hodges defended himself," Montgomery said. "He went over with the intent to talk. He was invited in and the talk escalated to an argument. The argument escalated to a fight initiated by his aunt, Suzie Scott."
"I went out and I saw Eric on top of Suzie, hitting her with a hammer."
Brent Scott testifying against defendant Eric Hodges
Hodges, 37, is charged with allegedly breaking into the Maiden Lane residence of Brent and Suzie Scott the afternoon of Nov. 30, 2012, and attacking them with a hammer. He is charged with two counts of attempted murder and making a criminal threat in connection with the case.
At trial Wednesday, Brent Scott testified that he has experienced mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress his entire life. Through therapy, Brent Scott said, he recently recovered a repressed memory that alleged his father sexually molested him when he was 7.
"I repressed that memory when I was younger because I was scared," Brent Scott told jurors. "But I didn't want my parents to know. I wanted them to live without them knowing this."
Brent Scott testified that he told his sister, Vicky, about the abuse but asked her not to tell anyone. However, she eventually told other people in their family, causing several confrontations between Brent Scott and the rest of his family.
Brent Scott described to jurors a time when he confronted his mother at his Maiden Lane home about the alleged sexual abuse by his father. Brent Scott said, though, that his wife, Suzie Scott, asked his mother to leave when she got upset, and the two women began to yell and curse at each other, threatening to beat each other up.
According to prosecutors, during the days leading up to the attack, Hodges had phone conversations with Suzie Scott about Brent Scott's accusations. During one conversation, prosecutors allege that Hodges threatened Suzie Scott's life, though she didn't take it seriously.
Brent Scott testified Wednesday that the day he was reportedly attacked, he was sleeping in his bedroom when he heard a "thump, thump, thump" noise coming from the living room.
"I heard, 'You're going to die you f***in b***h!" Brent Scott told jurors. "I went out and I saw Eric on top of Suzie, hitting her with a hammer."
Brent Scott said he turned and grabbed the phone to call 911, but was hit in the back of the head by Hodges with the claw-end of the hammer.
The two men then began to grapple, Brent Scott said he was able to get Hodges into a headlock while the two fell onto a bed.
"(Hodges) yelled out, 'My grandfather didn't molest you!'" Brent Scott said.
"'Yes he did!' I said back to him."
Brent Scott said he was then able to retrieve the hammer from Hodges' hand, but Hodges then punched him in the jaw and said, "You f****n didn't see me," then fled from the house.
"I was disoriented, I was confused. I didn't know whether Suzie was dead or not," Brent Scott said.
Daniel Mathewson, Brent and Suzie Scott's neighbor, told jurors Wednesday that he attended to Suzie Scott after hearing cries of help coming from her home.
"I heard her yelling 'Dan help! Dan help! Dan help!'" Mathewson said.
"She came out near my door and it looked like something had went through her temple and pushed the eye in and out of the socket."
Mathewson told jurors that he immediately called the police, and while on the phone he saw a man fleeing from Brent Scott's driveway. Mathewson said the man walked toward him, then stopped in front of his home.
"He was glaring at me intently," Mathewson told jurors.
"He went up the hill and got into a black Ford Explorer and cut down Washington Street."
In court Wednesday, Mathewson identified Hodges as the man he saw flee the area the day of the attack.
While much of the testimony pointed to Hodges as the man who attacked Brent and Suzie Scott with a hammer, Montgomery pointed to the couple's reported history of violent behavior toward one another. Montgomery asked Brent Scott about the five different restraining orders he has filed against his wife since August 2009.
"'I fear for my life, it's not safe staying with her,' Do you remember telling police that on July 27, 2010?" Montgomery asked Brent Scott.
Brent Scott admitted that there were two instances in which his wife had attacked him, jumping on top of him and slapping him, and often throwing objects at him while at their home.
Montgomery also prodded Brent Scott on his interview with police, in which he admitted to detectives that he had been abducted by aliens and has seen UFOs throughout his life — one time in particular with his father as a child.
"It may have been my first delusion, or it may have been my first experience with an extraterrestrial being," Brent Scott said. "I don't know."
The trial will continue 9 a.m. today. Prosecutors are scheduled to call on the second alleged victim, Suzie Scott, to testify before the jury.
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One of the problems (and there are many) with the current Jefferson County Commission is that the five commissioners don't seem to get it that the county is a financial wreck. Oh, they talk about having to file bankruptcy or how to keep from filing bankruptcy. They discuss cutting back here and there and everywhere. But their actions tell a different story. (Read our editorial here.)
How in the world, with the county under such financial stress, do commissioners not understand how awarding their appointed staff big raises isn't sending the wrong message? No, not all of the commissioners pushed for raises for appointed secretaries and administrative assistants. But not one seems to understand how it looks to county residents.
Those taxpayers who aren't already so disgusted with the commission that little else would surprise them are surely miffed by politicians who, as the county goes belly-up, want to make sure their political appointees are well paid as that happens.
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MILWAUKEE -- On sunny afternoons, the shadows spilling into Miller Park cut a wide swath over the infield. The pitcher operates in darkness. Sometimes, the batter is bathed in light. When the ball is released, its spin and velocity are hidden until the last moment, which can make hitting a miserable venture.
Such was the scene in the eighth inning Monday. With the Mets trailing, Eric Gagne racked up an 0-2 count on Carlos Delgado. The veteran slugger had trouble picking up the ball, as Gagne had overpowered him with two fastballs in the mid-90s. Delgado -- an intelligent hitter -- checked his mental Rolodex. Gagne also throws a changeup, and Delgado figured this was the perfect count for the reliever to deliver the pitch.
Instead, he got another fastball. Having seen it twice already, Delgado had a bead on it. And the Mets showed once again that no team or situation will intimidate them.
Delgado's two-run homer put the Mets ahead in a game they would eventually win, 4-2. Once again, the Mets authored a comeback when it looked as if they were destined for another loss. Look at the characteristics of playoff teams, and courage in late innings is one of them.
"Good teams, they do this," Delgado said. "We've been grinding it out, we've been fighting, we're not giving up, we're playing all 27 outs. That's important and it goes to show you that you can do it."
The Brewers feature a powerful lineup and a sturdy rotation of starting pitchers. Perhaps their only weakness is a bullpen prone to failure, something the Mets can certainly empathize with. As Gagne later stalked off the mound to a chorus of boos, it recalled images of defeated relievers at Shea Stadium.
If the season ended Tuesday, these two teams would face each other in the National League Division Series. So in a nod toward October, it's only fair that the sold-out crowd of 41,476 here had a treat of a pitching matchup to enjoy on Labor Day.
Johan Santana against Ben Sheets -- looks nice on a playoff ticket, doesn't it?
Sheets left with a groin injury and lasted just 54 pitches. Having thrown five scoreless innings in that span, no Met was sad to see him go. Santana pitched nearly as well, surrendering two runs and striking out 10 in six innings. The only reason the Brewers even pierced him was a sixth-inning balk that brought in a run, and a misplay from Daniel Murphy in left that led to a run in the first.
Those two mistakes gave the Brewers a 2-0 lead. Without Sheets, though, Milwaukee manager Ned Yost had to tear out a page from the Mets playbook. So mix-and-match he went with his bullpen.
The Mets halved their deficit in the seventh when Carlos Beltran scored on a wild pitch. After Delgado's 31st homer gave the team a 3-2 lead in the eighth, Ryan Church added an RBI double later in the inning.
Church also complained about the shadows, saying he didn't "know what he was swinging at." That run came with a price, though. Beltran bruised his right knee when he slid into home-plate umpire Ed Rapuano. The Mets are cautiously optimistic regarding Beltran's status.
Then it came down to the bullpen. Interim manager Jerry Manuel likes the matchups with his right-handed relievers. Outside of lefty slugger Prince Fielder, the Brewers are weighted heavily with right-handers. So perhaps it was no surprise in the eighth when Pedro Feliciano fanned Fielder with a cutter, or when Joe Smith struck out Corey Hart and Mike Cameron.
"They're a very aggressive club," Manuel said. "We were able to get it done."
Luis Ayala came on in the ninth and picked up his fourth save with a perfect inning.
Once it was over, the Mets grabbed paper plates of food and settled into couches. The Phillies were playing the Nationals, and suddenly everyone in the room was a Washington fan. When the Phillies made the final out in their 7-4 loss, shouts of "Vamos" (let's go) filled the room.
The lead in the National League East is now two games.
What a way to start September.


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Non-profit organizations around Kalamazoo County provide opportunities for people to volunteer and "take a day on rather than a day off" on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The MLK Day of Service starts at 8 a.m. Monday at Kalamazoo City Hall, 241 W. South St. After volunteers are served a continental breakfast and pick up a t-shirt, they will be dispatched through the county for various volunteer projects.
Volunteers can register online at volunteerkalamazoo.org through Friday or by calling (269) 382-8350 by 4 p.m. Friday.
Volunteers also have the option of arriving at City Hall Monday and being assigned a volunteer opening instead of registering in advance.
Several opportunities listed on Volunteer Kalamazoo's website still need volunteers, including party assistants for the Ecumenical Senior Center, data entry volunteers for Kalamazoo Free Store, Vine Neighborhood Clean-up, organizing and clean-up for Fresh Fire Church, Fancy Pants Theater rehab, natural area restoration for Stewards of Kleinstuck and summer camp preparation for Kalamazoo Nature Center.
The 12th annual Day of Service in Kalamazoo is sponsored by Volunteer Kalamazoo, the city of Kalamazoo, Fifth Third Bank, Life EMS, Schupan & Sons, the Kalamazoo Community Foundation and Western Michigan University.