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Stoner's medical advisors in Australia told the 27-year-old that surgery was necessary after viewing his X-rays and MRIs.
Stoner turned in a gutsy ride on Sunday in the Red Bull Indy Grand Prix, finishing fourth on the ankle he'd injured just 24 hours prior. He then flew to Brno intending to race this weekend in the Czech Republic Grand Prix before getting word from his doctors that surgery was needed.
Stoner announced at the French Grand Prix earlier in the season that this would be his final year of competing in series.
At today's press conference, Stoner said: "I can't wait for a fairy tale ending. This could happen next year if I stayed."
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"I'm hugely disappointed for my team and all the guys around me," Stoner said. "We've been waiting since Indianapolis for my doctor in Australia to receive the discs of the MRI scan and X-rays to fully understand the situation. The doctors in America were fantastic, but I needed a specialist to study them and give me his report and explain exactly what's gone wrong. We were hoping that once they had seen the scans that it wouldn't be as bad as I first suspected and that we could race here, but in fact it was the opposite and a lot worse than first expected. We only found out at lunchtime today that it was game over, but it seems this is our only option at this point. We don't have a timescale for my return yet – it depends on the surgery and how fast I can recover. We still have a season to complete and this isn't just me giving up; I want to get back to racing as soon as possible. I have a job to do and a career to see through to the end and for it to finish like this would be a disaster, so I'll be back as soon as I can to take part in as many races as I can before the end of the season."


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Session 75 - 2MASS.
Display session, Wednesday, January 17
North Banquet Hall, Convention Center
During its prototyping phase, the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) has surveyed more than 200 square degrees of the sky. Infrared (1.61--1.64\um) spectra of 206 bright (\Ks \leq5.0 mag.) sources identified by the prototype survey have been acquired at the KPNO 0.9m Coudé Feed telescope using the University of Massachusetts NICMOS3 camera (NICMASS) during four observing runs in 1994-95. Many of these stars are heavily obscured and have faint visible counterparts. At the focal plane of the coudé feed telescope, the NICMASS system has a spectral resolving power of R=7200 per pixel pair (20 km s^-1/pixel). The 1.61--1.64\um\ window was chosen for its low telluric absorption and its large number of atomic and molecular lines. There are molecular transitions of CO, OH, and CN in this wavelength region, as well as many metallic lines. The CO bands in particular are diagnostic of effective temperature and luminosity class.
Spectral classification of a subset of the sources indicates that approximately 65% have spectral types typical of asymptotic giant branch stars (M, C, and S). These spectra have high SNR, and there is sufficient detail to differentiate between M, C, and S stars and to determine spectral type to within two subclasses.
We are able to measure relative velocities to a precision of \sim5 km s^-1 by cross correlation. Our long range goal is to use radial velocities together with photometrically determined distances for spectrally identified AGB stars to probe the underlying structure of the Galaxy.
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In the fifth, he thought about rounding third and heading for home.
Avila had two triples Thursday night in a 4-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners to become just the third Tigers catcher since at least 1919 to have two triples in one game.
"Hamstrings are a little tight right now," Avila joked after the game.
His teammates had some fun at his expense as well.
"I was making fun of him," pitcher Justin Verlander said. "I told him I didn't think he hit the proverbial wall between second and third on that first one. I thought he hit a real wall. He just kind of stopped in his tracks. I was just giving him a hard time."
Avila slid/barreled into third for his triple in the third inning as the ball got away from third baseman Luis Rodriguez.
"He probably should not have come (to third on) the first triple," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "But that's OK. He's done a heck of a job for us."
On the triple in the fifth, the ball took a hard bounce off the wall in right-center to allow Avila to reach third standing up. That triple knocked in the first run of the game for the Tigers and tied the score at 1-all.
"It crossed my mind to run through the stop sign," Avila said with a smile, "but I figured, well, there's no outs, so I'll stay at third."
Avila later scored the go-ahead run on a single by Don Kelly.
Verlander grinned when someone suggested that Avila considered going for the inside-the-park home run in the fifth.
"That would have been something," he said. "We would have never heard the end of that one."
Avila's two triples give him three for the season, which ties him for the team lead with Austin Jackson.
"This park is conducive to extra-base hits," he said. "You hit them in the right spot, you can get it, no matter how slow you are, I guess."
Avila joked with media members for a while, but he felt the need to playfully defend himself after the questions about his two triples dragged on and on.
"I mean, I'm not that slow," he said, smiling. "I mean, I can joke about it, but I've still got two steals."
Only two Tigers – Jackson (nine) and Miguel Cabrera (three) – have more steals than Avila.


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Well it was a bummer way to finish the season [race cancelled] .... anti climatic....but when you have things like this happen there is really nothing you can do. I want to remind everyone that Shawnigan Lake School had a lot of stuff going on with the snow on Saturday; buildings without power and water...students apparently go a little wild when it snows....so the bike race was not a priority for them. They have been great hosts in the past and we hope that we can go back there again in 2011.As it turns out we were up there on Sunday to pick up the trailer and there was one guy that did show up to race while we were there! As fun as the race would have been I am not sure it would have been the best finish to what has been a very competitive season. A lot would and could have gone wrong for a lot of racers....but it sure would have been fun! We do look forward to a snow race some day!What has been decided is that the series points stand after six races. The seventh race will be considered everyone's drop or 0 point/low score race. There was no perfect manner in which to do this and we did not have any set rules, but at the onset of the series we said that six races of the series would count. So that is what we are doing. I know that it benefits some, and those are the people that showed up to race at all or almost all of the races and had consistent results. So we feel that the spirit of the competitive series is good and our method is valid. I hope everyone agrees.2010 Series WinnersIntermediate Men1st Place: Mitchell Thacker2nd Place: Regan Pringle3rd Place: Chris DickensonMasters Men1st Place: Jamie Emery2nd Place: Brent Stubbs3rd Place: Peter WellsmanOpen Women1st Place: Dawn Anderson2nd Place: Joele Guynup3rd Place: Amanda WakleingExpert1st Place: Drew MacKenzie2nd Place: Dylan Tremblay3rd Place: Steve BachopBest Rookie Season - Jeff Drew. After winning a couple of races in Intermediate Jeff moved up to Expert and had a few top-10 performances. In the last race in Port Alberni he was on track for a top-5 until an untimely flat on the last lap of the race.Most Improved Female - Amanda Wakeling. After a great rookie season two years ago, where she dominated the women's beginner category at 13 years old...last year Amanda was 11th in the Open Women for the series. A few DNF's. Sickness and some sub-par results. This year she came back and got stronger towards the end of the season and placed third overall for the series. All at 15 years old. Plus she was the youngest female at National Champs racing the elite women.Most Improved Male - Regan Pringle. After wallowing mid to back of the pack of Intermediate in 2009, Regan stepped it up and won three races in the intermediate category this season.See the full report with photos etc


text: Who is MTV's Cherry Girl? By Alice Yoo April 22, 2009 Ooo this should be interesting. MTV has created a new, funky character called 'Cherry Girl' who's part of MTVNI's ongoing commitment to environmental issues through MTV Switch, a youth-focused, global, multiplatform campaign designed to inspire and promote environmental issues. She's an impulsive character, who finds that her actions, which are seemingly self-indulgent, can have a positive effect on the people and environment around her. This new, sexy, freaky 18 year old girl is plugged into social media - she even has her own blog, Flickr and Twitter and Facebook account. This mysterious symbol of a new generation has piqued my interest. Love that she's quirky and interesting. Watch this video, directed by Johnny Hardstaff, to find out more about her. "The brief [for the film] was simply the story," says Johnny Hardstaff. "A girl makes unpredictable things happen through what might seem to be initially selfish actions. I designed the character, the film, and directed it. What wasn't live-action was created in-house at RSA 3D, and the flame work was handled by Framestore CFC. "My aim was to make as quirky a film as I could within the constraints. I like it when you see tourists wandering around London with sweatshirts bearing broken English text. I wanted to make the visual equivalent to that. It doesn't quite make sense, but you get the feeling." What do you think about Cherry Girl? Tags: cherry, experience, girl, mtv, social Email me when people comment – Follow


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The race for the Mid-Atlantic Prep League championship begins on Friday afternoon as Peddie will play host to Hill (Pa.) in the first MAPL game of the fall at 4 p.m. in Hightstown.
Hill defeated Peddie, 10-0, last fall in Pottstown, Pa.
The rest of the six-team league will begin conference play on Saturday and Sunday.
Hun, the defending MAPL champion, will play host to Blair on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in Princeton, while Lawrenceville will play at Mercersburg (Pa.) at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Pennington, which does not compete in the MAPL, will play host to Germantown (Pa.) on Friday night at 7 p.m. in Pennington.
Here is the complete weekend prep football schedule:
Hill (Pa.) at Peddie, 4 p.m.
Germantown (Pa.) at Pennington, 7 p.m.
Blair at Hun, 3:30 p.m.
Lawrenceville at Mercersburg (Pa.), 1 p.m. STORY: Lawrenceville's Randall West named Times of Trenton's Offensive Player of the Week
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Osi Umenyiora's season highlights are almost all of the same variety. He lines up wide on the right side of the defensive line. He rushes past — and sometimes through — an overmatched left tackle. He encounters an unsuspecting quarterback, ably knocking the ball out of the passer's grip while hitting him from behind.
Umenyiora is second in the NFL with eight sacks, although his 2010 season is distinguished by what he does besides simply sacking opposing quarterbacks. Umenyiora has forced seven fumbles, three more than anyone else in the NFL. He has stripped the ball on 11 of his last 15 sacks.
"We always mess with him because even when he gets those sacks, he never tackles the quarterback. He just knocks the ball out," defensive tackle Chris Canty said. "He doesn't want to get his uniform dirty, I guess."
Even after Umenyiora recorded two sacks — both forced fumbles — in Sunday's 28-20 win over the Detroit Lions, he remained understated. Umenyiora called sacks "just a glorified tackle for a loss" and described his attitude as "thankful" for the opportunity to make plays.
"If you're able to get the ball out and force a turnover, you put the offense in the position to really help the team win," Umenyiora said, continuing his concerted effort to maintain a less volatile public profile.
It comes after a 2009 season in which Umenyiora grew frustrated — abruptly leaving the team's practice facility in the preseason and later expressing unhappiness about his demotion during the season — and an offseason in which Umenyiora publicly questioned his future with the team.
Those concerns were not quieted when the Giants drafted DE Jason Pierre-Paul in the first round of April's draft. But defensive coordinator Perry Fewell devised ways to play Justin Tuck, Mathias Kiwanuka and Umenyiora, all defensive ends, together before Kiwanuka was sidelined with a neck injury.
Since then, Umenyiora has seldom exited the field. He has managed a knee injury that keeps him out of Wednesday practices, but participates on Thursdays and Fridays. Coach Tom Coughlin said Umenyiora remains attentive while studying practice films.
Most of all, Umenyiora appears happy.
When asked what's different about Umenyiora this season compared to the offseason, Coughlin smiled out of annoyance that he was reminded of a more volatile time.
"Osi's played well, and he's made up his mind to play well," Coughlin said. "I think his teammates, the encouragement, what he brings to the table in terms of his ability, his conviction, his desire to be the very best that he can be, that's I think where he is."
His production has not been limited to simply rushing the quarterback. Umenyiora's frustration with the organization in the past was not entirely about his starting role, but also because of a fostered perception that he struggled against the run.
Monday Coughlin said Umenyiora has played "well against the run and well against the pass."
Tuck said last week "people forget" that Umenyiora had 70 tackles in 2005.
"We like to stop the run," Tuck said. "But we know stopping the run leads to opportunities rushing the passer."
That's what has happened this season. The Giants have the seventh best rushing defense in the NFL. They have the second most sacks in the league. Fittingly, Umenyiora is on pace for a career season.
"I don't know if this guy has a cape on or something," Canty said. "We're trying to figure out ways as other defensive linemen to slow him down so we can get some sacks."
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U.S. stock futures are moving higher as the Federal Reserve wraps up a two-day meeting. There is a broad anticipation that economic policymakers will either extend a program of buying long-term bonds to keep rates low, or at least signal a readiness to act should the economy sputter.
Dow Jones industrial average futures are up 23 points to 12,785. Standard & Poor's 500 futures are rising 2.7 points to 1,353.30 and Nasdaq futures have added 8.75 points to 2,621.25.
The potential of a boost from the Fed overshadowed news from Procter & Gamble Co., which cut its fourth-quarter earnings and revenue forecasts Wednesday. Some of the same weakness that the Fed is battling has forced the consumer products company to reign in price increases as people cut back on spending.


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By RUSS HELD
They are one big happy family, those track and field teams from Northampton High School.
And Saturday, they could be one big, happier family.
Both Blue Devils teams enter the All-Western Massachusetts Championships as serious contenders for team honors. Action begins Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at Westfield State College.
"We train together, on the same track ... we definitely feed off each other," Northampton boys coach Jim Clayton said. "We are pretty much one big family out there. They are all buddies, all friends, co-workers on the track."
"We love that both teams went undefeated during the regular season. We would love to win Western Mass. It's nice to win, especially when both teams can do it," Northampton junior Natalia Paine said. "There are no rivalries between the teams."
Clayton and girls coach Nate Kraft share coaching responsibilities between teams and each said the formula and camaraderie works like a charm.
"You can look at what we've done in the past and you can look at the seeds ... but to do anything, we have to go out and perform Saturday," Kraft said.
The boys team enters as defending champion, with a group that has also helped the program win back-to-back indoor season titles.
"The boys have higher expectations now," Clayton said. "Before, it was 'Oh, well. Let's see what happens.' Now we are champions and we know we have to put it all on the line. We have raised the bar and the kids feel proud about the success they have achieved."
The girls are coming off a team win at the Western Mass. Division I meet last week and a win Saturday would be their first sectional meet title since 1990.
Northampton's boys team will be challenged by Ludlow.
Each team - Northampton's Erik Dunn-Gaudet (mile) and Ludlow's Derek Simpson (triple jump) - have No. 1 seeds.
"Last year, we had some talented athletes that could win races for us," Clayton said. "Now, our wealth is spread across many events. It's going to boil down to depth, the guys who finish in fourth, fifth and six place."
Top boys individuals include: Sci-Tech's Chrys Malone (100); Michael Jordan of Ludlow and Athol's Jeremy Buckland in the 200; Quasim Bias (400) of Putnam; Tyler Cumberlander (800) of Westfield; Zach Pietras (mile) of Ludlow; Anthony Hatwood (high hurdles, high jump) of Cathedral; Justin Siekierski (discus, javelin) of Minnechaug; and shot-putters Justin Chartier of Agawam and Dante Hill of Longmeadow.
Monument Mountain and Chicopee are also expected to contend.
On the girls side, Northampton has more balance this year.
"We have the ability to score more points in field events, more than in the past," said Kraft, of a team that finished fourth at this meet in 2008.
Paine (defending 400 champion), Phoebe Hopkins (400 hurdles) and the Blue Devils' 4x100 and 4x400 relays are all seeded No. 1. The 4x400 team of Alannah Driscoll-Sbar, Phoebe Hopkins, Emma Larson and Paine has posted the second fastest time (3:57.9) in the state this season.
The list of top girls athletes includes: Jen Christian (100) of Central; Julie McGilpin (800) of Westfield; Kristen Veit (two mile) and Aubree Mercure (triple jump, high jump) of Holyoke Catholic; Marissa Avery (high hurdles, high jump) of Mohawk trail; Jenise Everett (long jump) of East Longmeadow; and Sanya Foster (discus, shot put) of New Leadership.
In the team chase, look for Central, East Longmeadow, Agawam, Holyoke Catholic to contend.
The top four individual finishers in each event will advance to the All-State Championships, set for June 6 at Fitchburg State College.


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The man who "wrote the book" on DUI prosecutions in Pennsylvania says attorneys should be aware of the need to convert serum blood BAC to whole blood BAC.
According to Max Little, transportation safety resource prosecutor for the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association (PDAA), "most that I'm aware of do" know the difference between serum and whole blood tests.
"There's case law on the subject," Little said. "The information is out there."
There is also Little's book.
He is the author of "Investigating, Charging, and Litigating DUI Cases: A Manual for Pennsylvania Prosecutors 2013."
Information about the need to convert BAC from serum tests "is in there," he said.
Little provided electronic copies of three pages of the book.
One passage reads:
"Prosecutors must be aware of the various types of blood testing. For example, serum or plasma testing is usually performed in emergency-room situations. When 'whole blood' testing is not performed, a scientifically-acceptable conversion factor must be introduced. It is advisable to give the Defendant the benefit of the doubt and use the factor which yields the lowest 'converted' BAC. Otherwise, the defense can argue some bias on the part of the Commonwealth."
That book is only the latest edition of a DUI manual made available to prosecutors "for a long time," he said. "From that perspective, we've certainly tried to make the information available."
Little also runs "DUI boot camps" for attorneys.
The idea of converting blood alcohol results is at least 20 years old.
"Before I became district attorney in Sullivan County, I was assistant district attorney in Bradford County," Little said. During one of his first cases "we had to introduce the conversion factor. This was in 1994."
Little is familiar with the situation in Warren County. "I did look at what (Warren County District Attorney) Rob (Greene) had come up with as far as a tally of cases affected," he said. "It's an unfortunate situation."
"We've tried to be of assistance," Little said of the association. "We're sympathetic to walking into a situation like that."
He said there are many more defense challenges to DUIs than even 10 years ago.
"When I started prosecuting DUIs, it was almost never challenged if you had a good (BAC) number," Little said. "For the most part, the defense bar really was not looking to attack the labs the way they do now."
"That in itself is a fairly recent phenomenon," he said. "Some of the defense bar have really done their homework, visited labs. All of that is a trend that 10 years ago you didn't see that much."


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ST. GEORGE -- The recently completed Cops and Kids Gardening Project to beautify the front of the 120 Precinct in St. George brought young people and police officers together as they interacted in a positive manner to bring back the neglected gardens at the precinct.
Dana Rachlin, coordinator for the Greenpoint Youth Court, and colleague Heather Butts, founder of H.E.A.L.T.H. for Youths, collaborated to bring together more than 75 youths from Staten Island and Brooklyn convicted of low-level offenses and police officers to plant flowers, shrubs and trees in the garden beds in front of the precinct.
The first of three garden beds at the 120 Precinct was completed last year, and then Ms. Butts and Ms. Rachlin co-wrote a grant proposal to gain enough funds to tackle the other two beds, which they finished in September.
In addition to taking pride in their gardening work, young people also learned about nutrition, fitness and growing their own food.
After two years, the group put the finishing touches on the garden with the planting of a tree donated by NY Trees dedicated to all of the first responders from the 120 Precinct on Sept. 11, 2001.
Following the tree planting, an officer noticed the American flag was flying without illumination at night in front of the precinct.
The officer worked with Ms. Rachlin and Ms. Butts, who then used part of a grant recently awarded to H.E.A.L.T.H. for Youths to purchase a light for the flag, which was placed on the pole to illuminate the flag with the assistance of the precinct's Deputy Inspector John Sprague.


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Multiprocessing is marketed as the next silver bullet for higher performance, as stated in a paper from ST-Ericsson written by Marco Cornero and Andreas Anyuru, and an excellent excerpt by David Manners. Discussing the rationale of processor makers to introduce multicore processors, the paper claims the reason is pure marketing as mobile software won't benefit beyond a dual-core. It also repeats the old myth that software parallelization is hard or impossible. We'd like to bust this oft-repeated myth once and for all:
In the paper, Cornero and Anyuru re-iterate the myth that parallelizing existing sequential software is virtually impossible. "Too bad that software parallelization is still one of the toughest challenges in computing in general, for which no satisfying general-purpose solution in terms of productivity has been found yet, despite the initial enthusiasm and for many intrinsically serial applications there are no solutions at all", says the paper. This is a sentiment that gets repeated a lot in the software industry. Let's verify this myth with two examples mentioned by the authors: gaming and multimedia.
Indeed, many applications out there are sequential and not written with multiprocessing in mind. The general story that "parallelization is hard" further sustains this equilibrium. But is it really true? Can you take a serial application and turn it into a parallel implementation, improving the performance?
Well, that's exactly what we wanted to find out. We took the IdTech4 engine that underlies the again popular Doom3 PC game. Half a million lines of code, almost all sequential, optimized for single core processing. Our engineer Maurice Kastelijn achieved a 15% speedup on a quad core by parallelizing a few critical loops in the rendering engine only. A 15% improvement is equivalent to a generation upgrade of video cards on PCs. Did Maurice have to do extensive refactoring? No, he changed a few hundred lines of code: that is roughly a promille, 0.1%, of the code! Did it take an expert team of game development and parallelization experts with the effort of months? No, it took just 3 weeks for one single guy with no prior experience with the code.
Is this an isolated case? Actually, it isn't. We also parallelized Bullet, a common physics engine, 90k lines of code. Similar statistics: one guy, not an expert with the code, roughly 2 weeks of effort, 50% performance increase on a 4-core, changed about one hundred lines of code.
But parallelization is not just for gaming. We built an Android app to showcase the OpenCV "inpainting" application (remove scratches from old photographs). You can run it yourself to see the results: 3.6x speedup on a 4-core phone. Effort? Two weeks of analysis and a little bit of coding.
So is multiprocessing a pure marketing stunt? No, code can really benefit from multiple cores, and parallelization is not as hard as you might think. But let's be frank - it's not a silver bullet, either. Not all code is parallelizable. Your calendar and chat applications just won't benefit.
The myth of difficulty of parallel programming permeates the software industry, discouraging people from even trying to benefit from multiprocessing. However, our experience shows this to be indeed only a myth, and a one that was already in a great need of busting.
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NEW ORLEANS – 2014 NBA All-Star weekend kicked off Friday night with the Rising Stars Challenge.
Portland Trail Blazers sophomore point guard Damian Lillard and his Team Hill outlast Team Webber 142-136.
Damian Lillard (Portland, Soph.)
Bradley Beal (Washington, Soph.)
Andre Drummond (Detroit, Soph.)
Harrison Barnes (Golden State, Soph.)
Terrence Jones (Houston, Soph.)
Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee, Rookie)
Jonas Valanciunas (Toronto, Soph.)
Dion Waiters (Cleveland, Soph.)
Miles Plumlee (Phoenix, Soph.)
Anthony Davis (New Orleans, Soph.)
Michael Carter-Williams (Philadelphia, Rookie)
Tim Hardaway Jr. (New York, Rookie)
Trey Burke (Utah, Rookie)
Jared Sullinger (Boston, Soph.)
Mason Plumlee (Brooklyn, Rookie)
Victor Oladipo (Orlando, Rookie)
Steven Adams (OKC, Rookie)
Kelly Olynyk (Boston, Rookie)
Final: Team Hill 142, Team Webber 136
Andre Drummond 30 points, 25 rebounds. Dion Waiters with 31 points and 7 assists. Damian Lillard finishes with 13 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals.
36 points for Tim Hardaway Jr.
Halftime: Team Hill 67, Team Webber 66
Damian Lillard with 11 points, 2 rebounds, 2 steals an assist and 2 turnovers. Andre Drummond has 17 points, 11 rebounds. 13 points and 3 rebounds for Bradley Beal. Terrence Jones has 8 points and 5 rebounds.
Michael Carter-Williams with 15 points, 5 assists and 3 rebounds. 10 points off the bench for Tim Hardaway Jr.
Lillard highlights from the Blazers:
2014 All-Star Friday Night Mini-Movie from the NBA:
Rising Stars Duel: Tim Hardaway Jr. vs Dion Waiters from the NBA:


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Berryville Officer T.W. Fritts wears a video camera clipped to the right pocket of his uniform. A gift from the Virginia Municipal League's insurance program, the cameras provide video that can be used in court as evidence. (Photo by Scott Mason/The Winchester Star)
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I'd love to see your genuine thoughts on this as we head into this week's holiday.
I'd love to see your genuine thoughts on this as we head into this week's holiday.
I am thankful for friends who are there for me through thick and thin. The friends who don't care what time I call when I am troubled or if I have you really good news to share. The friends who will listen to me vent or rant or simply ramble on about nothing at all. These angels are the greatest treasures anyone could ever ask for. You know who you are! You are most appreciated:>) I thank God for you all everyday.
What is your American Dream?
I am thankful for sleep. Without it, and with three children under 6, I would be insane.
Well, more insane, at least.
who helped me through a very very bad time.
My memories of my father, who constantly and endlessly demands that I be better than I am.
My children, who still respect me and ask my advice... and aren't afraid to keep growing on their own, and who still like to go drinking with me.
My passion for life and living that takes me ever higher. My natural curiosity that keeps me seeking more and more knowledge. My big mouth that dares people to be different and think in different ways. The ability to love selflessly, be loyal deathlessly, and know who my friends are, who my drinking buddies are, and how to tell the difference.
And a few private friends (and things) no one on the 'outside circle' of my life understands or knows about, that keep me strong, keep me going, and make me happy.
Family and for our good health. I am also thankful for the friends that I have, I try hard to be there friend too. I am thankful for the guidance that was bestowed in me by my parents, so that I can treat my fellowman with love and patience, through trials and tribulations. I am very grateful for the opportunity to live in this town called Bluffton, it is the best place in the whole world.(Please don't tell anyone that I said that. LOL)
With total sincerity, I am deeply grateful for Bluffton Today, both the newspaper and the blogs.
You have given a voice to the injured and suffering, to the homeless, to the helpless newborn, to the crippled and the castoff. Bluffton Today has made it possible for this community to open their hearts to these voiceless ones, and be blessed by their Creator.
I am especially grateful for Stephanie Ingersoll who tirelessly takes up the cause every time she sees a creature in need, who has the courage of a lioness and the compassion of a saint for an animal in trouble.
God has blessed our mission at Maranatha Farm. We could do so little without you. Bluffton Today is all the "papers" any of these dogs need!
Karen Wilkins
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My dear husband Skip. All our friends and family that have been by our side all these years. I am grateful to all the people thatI have gotten to speak to on line. The list goes on and on. I am thankful for new beginnings every day. For hope, goodness and kindness. Many Blessings from both of us. Marie L. in Florida.
for finding the wonderful town of Bluffton. The people here are the most friendliest, heartwarming people. I have met some very nice and caring people who will go out of their way to help with anything I may need. Thank you Bluffton.
I have so much to be thankful for - all the good of course, but even for some of the adversities which proved in the long run beneficial in moulding me as a human. But at the top of my lengthy list to whom I owe gratitude are the following: my Creator Who not only gave me life, but also a devoted wife who has stood beside me for very close to half a century (both of whom have taught me the meaning of forgiving hearts). Then I must include my children all of whom I am deeply proud. As for circumstanses, I am thankful that I have been privileged to be born and reared in the geatest country in the world. Fnally, but not least, I am grateful for the men and women who are currently guarding or defending that country. Please remember them in your prayers. - naturally for all those in the past who have done the same.
mostly thankful that God thinks I am worthy of carrying.
I look down and there is only one set of footprints in the sand.
I could not make this journey by myself.
The best feeling in the whole world is seeing only one set of footprints!
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I am thankful for not all restaurants are closed on Thanksgiving Day, for I will go hungry! lol
Life's a bi-atch, We don't need one for President!
That I do not have to shovel snow and "bundle up" to run to the store!
I could make a list that might clog the blog, but one that stands our now is the technology we have today. I grew up with no telephones or electricity. A wood burning stove and a pitcher pump in the kitchen. Taking a bath in a tub with water heated on the wood stove. The transition from then to now in one lifetime is truly amazing.
One example of this technology is this blog, where we can communicate with people like neighbors next door, even though we are many miles apart. We can even communicate instantly with someone across the world. We can have conversations with a person like a best friend, not knowing what they look like or how much money they have. The blog is a great equalizer that lets us talk without pretensions. It's a great time to live.
I'm thankful that BT is going to run my Sand Gants column come March.
for totally awesome folks like cobraguy!!! BIG smiles to ya!!!!!!
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I am very thankful that God put me on this earth so I would be able to enjoy and love my Family and my wonderful son in which my Husband helped me bring into this world.All of the ones that I loved just as much that aren't here on this earth any longer.The great friends that I have that are spread out all over the place but are still close to my heart and I adore deeply.I can't forget my sweet dog who loves me no matter what.Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
I hate the thought of you causing some poor waitress to have to work on Thanksgiving. How about come out to Maranatha Farm and help Yellow Jacket and I eat a big old turkey?
I made my Peanut Buttercream pie, with chocolate drizzles.
We'll sit down to eat about 1:00 I imagine, we have some lightning-damaged trees to fell before that. Directions are on the website, or give us a call. Come on out, now?
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I am thankful each morning that I wake up. I am thankful for my wonderful family and friends. I am thankful for the men and women that sacrifice their lives so that I may enjoy every day free from fear. I am thankful for the way God looks over me and the ones I love.
I hope you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
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SPRINGFIELD — The Department of Public Works, which has been providing trash collection for many multi-family apartment complexes and commercial properties, will halt that practice effective Aug. 1, as the city braces for budget cuts and layoffs.
Approximately 3,500 city-barrels will be reclaimed by the city from various apartment complexes (exceeding three apartments) and commercial properties under the new policy, Public Works Director Allan R. Chwalek said Thursday. Letters were mailed to more than 500 affected owners Wednesday, who will now have to make arrangements for private collection services, he said.
The change in the policy in expected to save the city approximately $250,000 a year, Chwalek said.
While most apartment buildings and businesses have private rubbish service, others were "grandfathered," meaning they were allowed to continue with the city service, Chwalek said. The grandfather clause will end Aug. 1, and the city service will be solely for residences, specifically one-, two-, and three-family houses.
The new policy will curtail collection for charitable organizations, medical office buildings, gas and service stations, restaurants, funeral homes, and other sites, as well as certain Springfield Housing Authority properties not already under a private collection service, he said.
Many condominiums already have private rubbish service. Condominiums with city barrels will continue to be picked up by the city, Chwalek said.
In recent years, the city has charged a regular annual trash fee of $75 per barrel. In some cases, the owners would pay for many barrels for many tenants.
The city made the decision in the 1980s to not take on any additional commercial and multi-family accounts, but allowed those already served to be grandfathered, Chwalek said.
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From the New York Times' Bob Hebert:
From 2004 through 2009, in a policy that has gotten completely out of control, New York City police officers stopped people on the street and checked them out nearly three million times, frisking and otherwise humiliating many of them.
Upward of 90 percent of the people stopped are completely innocent of any wrongdoing. And yet the New York Police Department is compounding this intolerable indignity by compiling an enormous and permanent computerized database of these encounters between innocent New Yorkers and the police.
Not only are most of the people innocent, but a vast majority are either black or Hispanic. There is no defense for this policy. It's a gruesome, racist practice that should offend all New Yorkers, and it should cease.
Police Department statistics show that 2,798,461 stops were made in that six-year period. In 2,467,150 of those instances, the people stopped had done nothing wrong. That's 88.2 percent of all stops over six years. Black people were stopped during that period a staggering 1,444,559 times. Hispanics accounted for 843,817 of the stops and whites 287,218.
While crime has been going down, the number of people getting stopped by the police is going up. Last year, more than 575,000 stops were made — a record. But 504,594 of those stops were of people who had done nothing wrong. They had committed no crime, were issued no summonses and were carrying no weapons or illegal substances.
Still, day after day, the cops continue harassing and degrading these innocent New Yorkers, often making them line up against walls, or lean spread-eagled on the hoods of cars, or sprawl face down in the street to be searched like criminals in front of curious, sometimes frightened, sometimes giggling, sometimes outraged onlookers.
If the police officers were treating white middle-class or wealthy individuals this way, the movers and shakers in this town would be apoplectic. The mayor would be called to account in an atmosphere of thunderous outrage, and the police commissioner would be gone.
But the people getting stopped and frisked are mostly young, and most of them are black or brown and poor. So Police Commissioner Ray Kelly could feel completely comfortable with his department issuing the order in 2006 that reports of all stops and frisks be forwarded and compiled "for input into the Department's database."
"They have been collecting the names and all sorts of other information about everybody who is stopped and frisked on the streets," said Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, which is fighting the department's stop-and-frisk policy and its compiling of data on people who are innocent. "This is a massive database of innocent, overwhelmingly black and Latino people," she said.
Police Commissioner Kelly has made it clear that this monstrous database, growing by a half-million or so stops each year, is to be a permanent feature of the department's operations. In a letter last summer to Peter Vallone Jr., the chairman of the City Council's Public Safety Committee, the commissioner said:
"Information contained in the stop, question and frisk database remains there indefinitely, for use in future investigations. Therefore, there are no existing Police Department guidelines that mandate the removal of information once it has been entered into the database."
He added, "Information contained within the stop, question and frisk database is used primarily by department investigators during the course of a criminal investigation."
So the department is collecting random information on innocent, primarily poor, black and brown New Yorkers for use in some anticipated future criminal investigation. But it is not collecting and storing massive amounts of information on innocent middle-class or wealthy white people. Why is that, exactly?
Councilman Vallone is a supporter of the stop-and-frisk policy, but he is concerned about the innocent people in the database. As he told me on Monday, "I don't support the indefinite keeping of this information regarding people who were not arrested or charged with any crime."
The Police Department has no intention of changing its policy. A spokesman for Commissioner Kelly told me that information collected when the police stop an innocent individual "may be useful" in future investigations. The stored data may become useful "in the same way" that license plate information is useful, he said.
He cited the hypothetical example of someone in the course of a criminal investigation saying that he or she was at "a certain place at a certain time." The information permanently stored in the stop-and-frisk database, he said, could help the police determine if "they were or they weren't."
His example would suggest that the innocent people stopped are nevertheless permanently under suspicion, which is, of course, the case.
I already know the arguments as to why this type of thing is cool: African Americans and Latinos commit more crime. They deserved to be search. That's not racist, that's good policing.
Give me a break. The statistics show that the vast majority of people stopped did absolutely nothing wrong. That it is somehow OK for all black and brown people to be penalized for the tiny percentage of those who do commit crimes is simply flawed and racist. Why is it acceptable for all of us -- the vast majority of us -- who go to work everyday, take care of our families and follow the letter of the law, to be judged by the very few of us who don't? Why are my rights less than yours because a small fraction of other people who share a common ancestry with me have committed crimes? There is no justification. Even if one trots out homicide statistics that show African Americans commit a disproportionate number of homicides in this country, that number is still less than 1 percent of the 20 million African Americans in this country. What other group is held so responsible -- and is less deserving of their civil rights -- because of the actions of the tiniest minority among them? Why are African Americans and Latinos so seldom judged by the most of them and so often judged by the least of them? Just wondering.


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Workers at Cascade Steel Rolling Mills Inc. in McMinnville voted down the company's most recent contract offer today and authorized its union to call for a strike.
Joe Munger, president of the United Steel Workers Local 8378, declined to release the vote tally. But he said the local had 398 members voting, for about 90 percent turnout, and that they voted "overwhelmingly" against the contract. Munger said a key sticking point was what he described as "union strengthening" language that the company wanted to dilute at the last minute.
Munger said he expects the company to call him Friday morning, and that he hopes to resume contract talks.
Cascade Steel is a subsidiary of Schnitzer Steel in Portland. Company officials were unavailable for comment Thursday.
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The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle's HerRochester weekly newsletter recently published a story about local (Rochester) restaurant meals that are said to induce labor for impatient pregnant women.
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MTV Games and Harmonix have convinced Apple Corps, the Beatles' music company, to put some of their tunes on Rock Band. Included in the deal will be:
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- The Beatles: Rock Band Standalone Guitars - Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii: $99.99.
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Hey, Xbox 360 owners, you ready to go head-to-head with the Gear Live crew? If you'd been wondering when you would have the opportunity to obliterate us (yeah right!) in a fighting game, then look no further than this tonight's Xbox Live Community Playdate. Why's that, you ask? Because for the first time, Gear Live hosts the Community Playdate, and we aren't messing around. We are bringing our A-game and challenging the community to one-on-one competition in Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Download the game, and then send an invite to any of the following Gamertags this evening between the hours of 8-11 PM EST (5-8PM PST):
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Hey, Xbox 360 owners, you ready to go head-to-head with the Gear Live crew? If you'd been wondering when you would have the opportunity to obliterate us (yeah right!) in a fighting game, then look no further than this weekends Xbox Live Community Playdate. Why's that, you ask? Because for the first time, Gear Live hosts the Community Playdate, and we aren't messing around. We are bringing our A-game and challenging the community to one-on-one competition in Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Download the game, and then send an invite to any of the following Gamertags this Sunday, January 25, between the hours of 8-11 PM EST (5-8PM PST):
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Amazon selling Xbox Live Gold subscriptions for $29.97
We are gonna go out on a limb and say this is likely the best gaming deal you'll see today. Over at Amazon, they are selling the 1-year Xbox Live Gold subscription at just $29.97. That's a little over $20 off the standard price of $50 that most of us pay on a yearly basis to stay connected to the Xbox Live golden world, or in other words, a full 40% off. If you are nearing the end of your subscription, you'll wanna grab one, certainly. Heck, I'm gonna pick up a few just so I can stay stocked up. At $30, why not?
Interestingly enough, this isn't the first sale of its kind, as Buy.com was also pulling a similar stunt last week. Could we be seeing the beginnings of an Xbox Live Gold price drop? Maybe?
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Bleeding Edge TV 296: New Xbox Experience definitive walkthrough video
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We know a lot of you Xbox 360 owners are counting down the days to November 19th, which is the day that everyone will be able to download the New Xbox Experience dashboard update. Until then, we figured we'd give you a nice, full walkthrough of the update and its interface. Our friends up in Redmond were able to send the update to one of our two Xbox 360 consoles, which in turn, allows us to bring you this exclusive first-look walkthrough.
We show you everything, from the boot-up video, the new HDTV display output options, Xbox avatars, Netflix, and a whole lot more. Our early thoughts? We love it. In fact, we love it so much, that we now hate our second Xbox 360, which still has the old, busted blade interface. We want NXE on that one as well.
One thing we mentioned in the video that we need to clarify, though. As it turns out, Netflix HD streaming should be available on other Netflix-enabled hardware devices on November 19th as well, as opposed to HD streaming being exclusive to the Xbox 360 at first.
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Xbox 360 system update released, preparation for new Xbox experience
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Nevertheless, go ahead and hit the install, just don't expect anything fancy to come of it.
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Best part of the whole thing was how the Microsoft peeps were rushing to get photos of him and were almost bending over backwards to cater to him. They even asked if he would make an Xbox Avatar of himself, but as you hear in the video, he declines because he "has to scoot."
Bleeding Edge TV 280: E3 2008 Xbox Media Briefing
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In this episode, coming to you straight from E3 2008, we chat with Xbox's Heather Snavely about all the news that Microsoft announced during their Xbox Media Briefing. We have keynote clips here as well, in case you missed it and want to see all that went down, while Heather gives us a bit more detail and answers a few questions we had about some of the specific announcements.
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E3 2008: Xbox Media Briefing: Gears of War 2, Lips, Guitar Hero Tunes, Final Fantasy XIII announced
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We've entered the auditorium here in the West Hall, and are currently waiting for the E3 2008 Xbox Media Briefing to begin. Very nice setup in here, by the way. Bunch of stage lighting, high definition displays, and…oh, even a mock living room setup. Snazzy. Anyhow, keep it locked here, as we will be bringing you live updates from the keynote as it happens. Any predictions on what we will be seeing announced today?
Oh, as for images, we will update the post with a bunch of those after the keynote ends. We wanna focus on bringing you the text updates for now, mkay?
We start with some Xbox 360 Street Talk, where apparently Microsoft went around town and interviewed people off the streets, and asked them about what they like about Xbox 360. Obviously, all good comments here. Now we get answers for questions like "What is a noob?", "What does it mean to be 'pwned'?", "What does melee mean?", "What does RPG mean?", etc. Basically, what do average people know about video game terms. This is kind of like sitting through the advertisement trailers in the movie theater, the ones that come before the actual trailers.
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MadCatz releases Xbox 360 HDMI Conversion Kit
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You can now play your Xbox 360 games in 1080p HD with the Mad Catz HDMI Conversion Kit. Plug the adapter into the back of your Xbox, run the HDMI cord to your HDTV and voilà, you have a converted signal. All cables are in the kit, including one for an optical audio port which supports stereo and multi-channel surround sound and Dolby Digital and DTS. You can plug and play with your new gadget for $89.99 with a five year warranty and plenty of customer assistance on their site.
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We are likely to get sprayed with a few bursts of intense snow showers today.
A fairly small but strong disturbance in the upper atmosphere just west of Buffalo is moving east and is forecast to be arriving very late this morning. It should take a couple of hours to make its sweep across our area. In its wake this afternoon, there will be additional snow showers. They will be a little less concentrated, more scattered about.
Around Syracuse, accumulations should stay under an inch. However higher elevations around Central New York where the air will be a few degrees colder the snow could accumulate 2 or 3 inches.


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Brothers Pastries finished the T-M Major regular season at 13-0 by beating the NY Dynasty and the SI Pirates Sunday.
Combined with an 11-0-2 record in the Fred Muche League, manager Joe Calabrese's club is a combined 24-0-2 overall.
Tom Peterson continued his outstanding pitching, scattering five hits and walking one as Brothers defeated the Dynasty 5-0.
Brothers used seven walks by Dynasty starter Brian McClenin and a two-run double by Joe Baione to build a 4-0 lead.
Brothers Pastries 13, SI Pirates 2: Baione and Joe Fiore teamed on a five-hitter and Brothers pounded Pirates pitching for 16 hits.
Chris DiDonna and Kevin Fitzgibbons had two hits each and Mike Cavallo and Greg Collona doubled.
SI Astros 6, Victory Sports 1: Nick Amatucci, who took a no-hitter into the seventh, tossed a two-hitter and fanned four.
Frank Torres led off the game with a solo home run and in the second inning, a single by Nick Pavia, a double by Ryan Brown and Rich Collyer's sac fly made the score 3-0.
In the fourth, Joe Carrubba's RBI single made the score 4-0 and in the sixth, an RBI double by Pavia and a sac fly by Brown gave Victory a 6-0 lead.
Reyes Progreso 9, SI Pirates 0: Paul Schulman had four hits, Miguel Sosa had three hits, Javier Carreon had two doubles and four RBI and Raul Carreon had two hits and two RBI. Andy Wells (17 Ks) tossed a one-hitter.
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Mug Shots Indians 15, Design Plumbing 2: Brian Trimboli had three hits and four RBI, Kyle Ligamari had two hits and two RBI, Vin Vetere two hits and three RBI and Mohammad Hamad two hits. Andrew Collette picked up the win.
Mug Shots Indians 10, Matthew Funeral Home 2: Ligamari had four hits and two RBI, Hamad had two hits and two RBI and Trimboli three RBI. Chris Torres tossed a six-hitter.
Team DMZ 7, Design Plumbing 1: John Hagan had two doubles and two RBI, Dom Romano had two hits and Tom Considine two RBI. Phil Balseca (five-hitter, six Ks) was the winner.
Team DMZ 4, Matthew Funeral Home 2: Frank Russo had a two run triple and Glen Morisano (five-hitter, nine Ks) picked up the win.
Falcons 14, Victory State Bank 2: Bryan Mullin (triple), Justin Popenik and Chris Frazetta had two hits and two RBI each and Pat Coriell had a three run triple. Jim Mardikos was the winning pitcher.
Dannyboy's Tavern 11, Siegel Family 0: Terry Engles (nine Ks) tossed a one-hitter as the winners finished the regular season 12-2.
Nick Surowiec (three RBI), Russ Hansen and Tom Stucken had two hits each.
Angels 4, Robert Curatolo Rangers 1: Rob Manning had two hits and Tony Perez, Saverio Nardone and Mike Myerson an RBI each. Mike Dieda was the winning pitcher.
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Barone's Cyclones 13, Cue Time Reds 3: Adam Skjeie had four hits (double, two triples) and five RBI and John Mulham picked up the win.
Joe D'Elia had two hits and three RBI and Chhris Melaragno two hits.
Afternoone's Braves 5, CC&R Royals 4: Sean McAuliffe had two hits, including the winning RBI single in the bottom of the eighth.
Cody Cummings picked up the win in relief and Anthony Babino had two hits.
Wolfpack 7, Mid Island Tigers 1: Ryan Mannello (win, 10 Ks) and Gary Peterson had three hits each. Mike Baroz had two RBI.
Beer Garden Cubs 4, Cardinals 2: Sean Brett tossed a one-hitter, striking out six.
Frank Napolitano, Joe McGough and Matt Gustavino had RBI.
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BERNARDSVILLE, N.J. — Jose Matamoros (three hits) and Paul Giuffre (two hits, two RBI) paced the Takyama Dragons to a 5-3 U.S. Over-40 League win over the Basking Ridge Giants. Art McCarthy, Ron Scott and Kevin Robbins teamed to strike out seven.
Rob Sosa (3 for 5, 4 RBI) homered twice to lead the J&J Raiders to a 13-3 victory over the Bergen Mets. Devin Kitchens (3 for 5, 2 RBI) and Mike Cuccinello (2 for 4, 2 RBI) helped Tom Timmons get the win.
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — John Brosnan (two hits) ripped a bases-clearing triple and Brett Beard (two hits) drove in three with a double as the Staten Island Bombers (13-1) beat the N.J. 40s 17-9 in a U.S. Over-40 game.
Glen Gerhard (five strikouts) pitched a complete game as the Stingrays (Mid-Island) topped the Dodgers (Great Kills) 5-3 in a Babe Ruth Interleague 17s game. Anthony Varrone was 2 for 2 with an RBI and Jonathan Naranjo added two RBI.
Matt Petraglia and Dave Murray (9IP) got the wins as the SI Cadets defeated the Robert Curatolo Rangers 6-4, 4-2 to capture the SI United federation 18s playoff championship.
Rob Murray had three hits and two RBI and Kevin Fitzpatrick and Bobby Drake two hits and two RBI each in the first game.
Winning pitcher Dave Murray homered twice and Joe Padovano had an RBI in the second game.


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Does anyone know how to remove the rear seat cushion from a 2012 Grand Cherokee Laredo - I have a major seat belt snarl under the seat and need to remove the seat cushion to get to the seat belt buckles.
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We were able to work the attachment tongue out through the opening in the rear seat cushion by sliding the back seat cusion back and forth on the recliner track. The chrome and black attachment point was in the latch and was trapped under the seat cushion.
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We propose and demonstrate an all-fiber self-Q-switched erbium laser system that is saturable-absorber Q switched by the mismatch of the mode-field areas in the resonator and stabilized with a saturable-amplifier pump switch. Sequential pulses with a pulse energy of 8–6 μJ and a pulse duration of 80–320 ns, corresponding to a pulse repetition rate of 0.25–1 kHz, were obtained using a cw 980 nm laser-diode pump. A peak pulse power of near 100 W was achieved.
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30 per cent of Holden workers show interest in redundancies
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MORE than a third of workers at Holden's Elizabeth plant have shown interest in taking a voluntary redundancy package, their union says.
The Australian Worker's Union met with Holden bosses today to discuss the company's target to cut 400 jobs.
Union state secretary John Camillo said about 750 of the factory's 2100 workers had filled in an expression of interest form.
"Of that though, only 270 have signed a piece of paper to say they want to go," Mr Camillo said.
"Holden are now looking through those applications to see which of those skills they might need to keep and which of those 270 they can say yes to."
Mr Camillo was previously concerned the plant might not get the 400 voluntary redundancies it was seeking because only 430 workers had shown interest as of last week.
He was surprised by the high number considering a package but hoped it would mean no forced redundancies.
"There's still a bit of uncertainty on the shop floor as people are concerned about job security and whether they'll be tapped on the shoulder, but hopefully we can have that sorted out in the next couple of weeks," Mr Camillo said.
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"Jobs That Bite!" visits a Gulf Coast shrimper. Press Kit Theater. TV tweet of the day so far.
TV Linkzilla Daily for 11/13/13 starts now.
A new National Geographic Wild series about people who work with critters, "Jobs that Bite!" debuted a few days ago. Its premiere, which features a segment in which host Jeremy Brandt goes to work with a Gulf of Mexico shrimper, repeats at 9 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 13). The show's regular time slot is 8 p.m. Saturday.
The shrimp, of course, don't bite. But the mechanics of getting them on and off the boat can be perilous. So that segment wasn't the toughest for Brandt.
The obvious question: What was?
"One was herding ostrich at a 300-acre ranch in Texas," said Brandt during the Summer TV Tour in Hollywood. "Jurassic Ranch it's called, 300 ostrich running around, and we're on horseback, me and about five other wranglers, trying to catch ostrich on horseback. They can outrun us. They run way faster than a horse. I'm not comfortable on a horse, so when my horse starts running with the other horses, trying to chase the ostrich, I'm getting bounced around. And I'm trying to go straight, but I'm digging my heel into the horse on the right, so he's going this way and trying to drag me off under the branches of the trees.
"That was a whole different thing right there. That was pretty fun, but pretty hard."
Further reading about "Jobs that Bite!:"
Mark Perigard @ BostonHerald.com:
In the hourlong premiere, he helps clean the teeth of a lion — a sedated lion — hides some treats for chimps, casts a net for shrimp, examines the private parts of a newborn giraffe and bottlefeeds baby goats.
Squeezably adorable baby goats.
You might feel the urge to run out and adopt one.
Keep watching.
As Brandt discovers, baby goats grow into feisty critters. It's not easy grabbing, restraining and trimming the hooves of a 180-pound adult.
David Moye @ HuffingtonPost.com:
"Hump Day" doesn't have to be on Wednesday. At the Oasis Camel Dairy in Ramona, Calif., it's anytime the camels choose to, well, hump.
That's what Jeremy Brandt, star of the NatGeo Wild series "Jobs That Bite," discovered while spending a day with dairy owners Gil and Nancy Riegler for an episode airing Nov. 16.
David Hinckley @ NYDailyNews.com:
VISITING your own regular dentist is not the same thing as prying open a lion's jaw and saying, "Good news, King of Beasts! You have no broken teeth! All you need is a cleaning!"
Jeremy Brandt has done both this year. But only the lion part of his dental experiencet will be featured on "Jobs That Bite," a show that premieres Saturday night at 9 on Nat Geo Wild.
"I don't actually get bitten very often," says Brandt. "But in every case, the possibility exists."
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Hoya Corp. posted a net profit of 33.9 billion yen (US$842 million), up 139 percent year- on-year, on group total sales of 212.6 billion yen (US$2.62 billion), up 5.4 percent, according to JPEA Photo Electro News.
While the growth rate of its group total sales stood at 5.4 percent, sales of its information/communica- tions business unit handling products under the Pentax brand and electronic devices grew 9.9 percent to 111.9 billion yen (US$1.38 billion). The business unit posted an operating profit of 23.3 billion yen (US$287.6 million), up 86.7 percent. Sales of its entry-level DSLR cameras were brisk, which gave a positive impact on interchangeable lens sales, while demand by other camera makers for lens units and camera modules were strong.


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Charlie Gasparino
|Charles (Charlie) Gasparino
|Charles Gasparino
Bronx, NY
|Pace University,
University of Missouri
|Business journalist
|Roman Catholic
|Virginia Juliano
Charles "Charlie" Gasparino (born January 28, 1962) is a senior correspondent for the Fox Business Network, where he reports on major developments in the world of finance and politics, as well as a blogger, occasional radio host, New York Times bestselling author, and print journalist. He lives and works in New York City. He also frequently serves as a guest panelist on the FOX Business Network program segment The Cost Of Freedom, and the stocks/business news program Cashin' In that both appear on the network.
A former amateur boxer born to an Italian-American family in the Bronx, Gasparino graduated with a B.A. from Pace University before earning his master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.[1][2][3] A lifelong New Yorker outside of his time in higher education, Gasparino was previously a senior writer for Newsweek, where he covered politics, Wall Street, and corporate America, and among other stories broke the news of the controversial pay package of former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's controversial (and eventually withdrawn) nomination to run the US Department of Homeland Security, and the dispute surrounding former New York Attorney General (and eventual Governor) Eliot Spitzer's crackdown on corporate crime.[1][2] Before working at Newsweek, Gasparino was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. During his time at the WSJ he wrote extensively on issues on Wall Street, including pension funds, mutual funds and regulatory issues. He won the New York Press Club award for coverage of Wall Street research scandals.[1] Gasparino then moved to cable business network CNBC where he reported extensively on Wall Street. During the financial crisis of 2008-2009, Gasparino played a major role in CNBC's coverage, breaking a number of stories, including the news that the U.S. Government was going to bail out insurer AIG, as well as news of the US government's broader bailout of the financial system, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).[4]
Gasparino, known for being highly combative on-air (Marketwatch described him as "Fox's Rocky Balboa"), was reported in the Washington Post as saying that "[his] job was to rip the lungs out of the competition for Fox Business Network."[3][5] A Financial Times profile of Gasparino illustrates his combativeness, describing him as a "pugnacious pundit Wall Street can't ignore", citing as examples Gasparino's frequent run-ins with colleagues, including then-fellow CNBC reporter Dennis Kneale (See, e.g., this video), and cycling star Lance Armstrong.[6] Despite his aggressiveness, his reporting frequently has a dramatic impact on the markets. The Financial Times quotes Goldman Sachs's then-chief spokesman Lucas Van Praag as saying "Most trading floors have CNBC on with the sound turned down, but when Charlie comes on, they listen.... [H]e does move stock prices."[6] Similarly, Gasparino's then-colleague at CNBC Larry Kudlow said of him: "He broke some great stories. I give Charlie a lot of credit for having great sources and, to tell you the truth, most of his steers have been good. He has got us ahead of the game."[6]
Move to Fox[edit]
In February 2010, Gasparino left CNBC for the fledgling Fox Business Network.[4] In addition to his book writing, Gasparino appears on Fox Business and Fox News Channel with news reports and commentary, as well as contributing regularly to The New York Post and Forbes and online for The Daily Beast, FoxBusiness.com, and the Huffington Post.[7] At Fox, Gasparino has broken stories on, among others, the US government's plans to sell its stake in Citigroup and the government's pressure on Bank of America to shrink itself.[8][9] In one dig at his former channel, while CNBC was interviewing John Mack, chairman of Morgan Stanley, who declared on air that "[t]his doesn't feel like the crisis that I went through [in 2008], so I feel a lot better about it," Gasparino timed his report of Morgan Stanley's laying off 1,200 workers and closing up to 300 branches so that it aired opposite the interview.[10] Although notably combative towards his former network ("My job is to come up with a scoop (everyday) and promote that scoop," he said. "Just jam it down CNBC's throat every single day."), Gasparino has also spoken highly of his former colleagues, calling Maria Bartiromo "a good reporter," Erin Burnett "a class act -- I used to love doing TV with her," and of Jim Cramer, "I like Jim personally."[3] In response to accusations of being as much a showman as a journalist, Gasparino has said, "You want to be entertaining when you present news. People don't want a droll Charlie Gasparino droning on about Merrill Lynch." [3]
In 2010, Marketwatch named Gasparino one of "12 Broadcasters Who Are Making a Difference", and The Daily Beast called him one of the "Top 15 "Economic and Business Commentators" (and the only television journalist on the list).[11][12]
Gasparino also posts breaking news updates on Twitter and for several years regularly filled in for John Batchelor on Friday nights as the host of "The John Batchelor Show" on WABC-AM in New York City.
In 2005, Gasparino wrote Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors, published by Free Press.[13] In November 2007, HarperCollins released Gasparino's second book, King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange, which covered the rise and fall of former New York Stock Exchange head Richard Grasso, from the outrage occasioned by his near-$140 million compensation package.[14]
Gasparino's latest book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street, was published by Sentinel, a division of publisher Penguin Putnam.[15] on October 5, 2010. His previous book, covering the financial crisis from its inception in the 1970s to the present day, its impact on the economy and on the financial markets, is entitled The Sellout: How Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed America's Global Financial System, and was published by HarperCollins in November 2009.[16] A New York Times bestseller, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Library Journal all named it one of the best business books of 2009, and it received the 2009 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Books.[17][18][19][20]
- Listing
- Blood on the Street. ISBN 978-0-7432-7651-1
- King of the Club. ISBN 978-0-06-089833-5
- The Sellout. ISBN 978-0-06-169716-6
- Bought and Paid For. ISBN 978-1-59523-071-3
- ^ a b c FoxBusiness.com bio of Gasparino
- ^ a b "The Haute Insiders. Charles Gasparino: Guide to New York", Haute Living magazine. Retrieved on 2010-03-10.
- ^ a b c d Jon Friedman, "Charlie Gasparino: Fox's Rocky Balboa", marketwatch.com, 2010-05-05. Retrieved on 2010-06-17.
- ^ a b Brian Stelter "Fox Business Hires Reporter From CNBC", The New York Times, 2010-02-16. Retrieved on 2010-02-17.
- ^ Howard Kurtz "Fox Business Lures Gasparino Away From CNBC", Washington Post, 2010-02-16. Retrieved on 2010-02-17.
- ^ a b c John Gapper "A Pugnacious Pundit Wall Street Can't Ignore", Financial Times, 2009-07-17. Retrieved on 2010-02-17.
- ^ Chris Ariens "Where's Charlie Gasparino?", MediaBistro, 2009-04-15. Retrieved on 2010-02-17.
- ^ Charles Gasparino "Regulators Honing in on BofA's Size", foxbusiness.com, 2010-03-10. Retrieved on 2010-03-10.
- ^ Charles Gasparino "U.S. Government May Soon Ease Out of Citi Stake", foxbusiness.com, 2010-03-09. Retrieved on 2010-03-10.
- ^ Kevin Allocca, "As CNBC Interviews Morgan Stanley Chairman, FBN's Gasparino Breaks News on the Company", mediabistro.com, 2010-06-07. Retrieved on 2010-06-17.
- ^ Jon Friedman, "12 broadcasters who are making a difference", Marketwatch.com, 2010-09-17. Retrieved on 2010-10-07.
- ^ Tunku Varadarajan, "Top Economic and Business Commentators", The Daily Beast, 2010-10-03. Retrieved on 2010-10-07.
- ^ Blood on the Street
- ^ King of the Club
- ^ Publishers Marketplace.com deal announcement
- ^ The Sellout
- ^ Mark Lasswell "Standout Selections", The Wall Street Journal, 2009-12-18. Retrieved on 2010-02-17.
- ^ Gary Rawlins "Year's best business books to make sense of the financial crisis", USA Today, 2009-12-24. Retrieved on 2010-02-17.
- ^ Sarah Statz Cords "LJ Best of 2009 Business Books", Library Journal, 2010-03-04. Retrieved on 2010-03-10.
- ^ List of IRE Awards winners. Retrieved on 2010-10-07.
External links[edit]
- Gasparino's Twitter page
- Gasparino's articles, video, and blog on FoxBusiness.com
- Gasparino's articles for the Huffington Post
- Gasparino's articles for The Daily Beast
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- American bloggers
- American broadcast news analysts
- American columnists
- American television personalities
- American radio personalities
- American writers of Italian descent
- People from the Bronx
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4 tablespoons bacon grease
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½ teaspoon cayenne
Salt and black pepper
In a heavy medium saucepan, melt bacon grease and butter. Add flour and stir over medium-low heat until the roux turns a chocolate color, 10 to 12 minutes.
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