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Since the All Star Break, Joba Chamberlain has had two fairly impressive starts. Well, impressive when compared to his previous starts. We're not exactly talking vintage Maddux here.
Here's his line from his last three starts before the Break:
Date Opponent IP H R ER BB SO HR Pitches Game Score June 30 Seattle 5.1 9 3 3 3 4 1 96 39 July 5 Toronto 3.2 9 8 3 1 1 2 86 21 July 10 Los Angeles 4.1 9 5 4 1 4 1 94 30
And his last two:
Date Opponent IP H R ER BB SO HR Pitches Game Score July 19 Detroit 6.2 3 1 1 3 8 1 107 69 July 24 Oakland 7.0 2 1 1 3 6 0 100 72
Chamberlain has given up fewer hits, struck out more, and consequently has allowed fewer runs and pitched deeper into the game.
Now there's nothing that special about these last two starts, and normally it wouldn't even be worth studying. But reading the recaps after the Oakland game, something caught my eye.
|Joba Chamberlain appears to be back on track after the All Star break. (Icon/SMI)
Numerous Yankees were attributing Chamberlain's success to improving his pacing.
Apparently the team had noticed Joba taking a lot of time between pitches, to the point where it was affecting his concentration. Jorge Posada provided an illustration of just how bad it had become:
"He was wandering. I'd look up and half the time he wasn't on the mound, especially with men on base."
Manager Joe Girardi and pitching coach Dave Eiland agreed with that assessment. Girardi stressed the importance of pace, explaining
"It's understanding what you have to do very quickly. Knowing exactly what you want to do with the baseball and doing it."
Even the Captain, Derek Jeter, weighed in:
"He did a lot better job of working quick. The last thing you want to do when you're out there playing defense is have someone working slow. And offensively, pitchers that work quick give you a problem too. His pace of game was a lot better."
That's all well and good and sounds completely plausible. But did it really happen?
Luckily for us, the PITCHf/x data gives us the exact moment (well, precise to the second anyway) when each pitch was thrown. If there's anything to what the Yankees are claiming, we'd expect to see the time between Chamberlain's pitches go down in his most recent starts.
The methodology I used is pretty simple. Look at each one of Joba's appearances, count the time between pitches and figure out the average for that appearance. Following in Mike Fast's footsteps, I've thrown out any set of pitches with more than one minute between them under the assumption that some non-pitcher related happened (a coach's visit, for example).
Let's start off with a graph showing Joba's average time between pitches for all his appearances since 2008 (when the pitch time became available).
The red dotted line is the average time between pitches across all measured pitches. For this set of data, it's just over 26 seconds.
Chamberlain has been all over the map in terms of his pacing. This graph is a little misleading though. Many of his appearances over this time frame were relief appearances, and suffer from small sample size concerns and well as possibly a difference in approach.
Here's another chart showing the same information, but only for appearances with more than 30 pitches.
Many of the peaks and valleys from the previous graph have disappeared in this view. The line representing his average time between pitches has stayed at roughly 26 seconds.
It is true that Chamberlain had slowed down in June, and has gotten faster in July. Of course the average difference is only somewhere between two and three seconds per pitch. I'm not sure how noticeable that really is on the field. It is five to 10 percent faster, but does it really make that much of a difference to the game play?
One way to find out is to compare Chamberlain's game score with the time between pitches. Although game scores aren't that scientific, they do give a pretty good indication of a good start versus a bad start. So if there's anything to be found, game scores might give an indication.
It doesn't look like much of relationship, does it? He has both good and bad starts at both ends of the time spectrum. The red line represents the best-fit equation, which tries to mathematically describe the relationship. As you can see from the R2 value in the upper right corner, the best-fit line doesn't do a very good job of explaining the data.
Jeter gave us a couple of other places to explore for a noticeable effect on the game. He suggested that the fielders might play better when a pitcher pitches faster, and that batters tend not to like pitchers who work quickly.
Let's consider the fielders first. This isn't new ground. In his article "Short work," Mike Fast looked for any effects of "bored" fielders, breaking it down a variety of ways. He concluded an effect might exist, but it is small, and visible mostly at the extremes. I'm not going to rehash his work here. Instead, I'm going to see if Joba breaks away from the norm and demonstrates some noticeable effect.
This next graph shows the relationship between the time Joba takes between pitches and the defensive efficiency (DER) of the fielders behind him. I limited my data to only those appearances in which Chamberlain allowed at least 10 balls in play.
There are definitely sample size concerns here, so it's impossible to make any firm conclusions, but there's nothing that looks very promising. Some of the worst fielding performances happened when Joba took the most time between pitches, but some of the others happened when he pitched his quickest.
It doesn't look very likely that the fielders perform any better or worse for Chamberlain depending on how quickly he gets back to the rubber and releases the next pitch.
What about batters? How is their performance affected by Chamberlain pitching faster?
I'll be honest and say I'm not entirely certain where to look. What stats would indicate that batters have trouble with pitchers who pitch fast? It would have helped if Jeter had been a little more clear as to why pitchers who work fast cause problems for batters. Oh well.
Also, it's very tough to disentangle the batter's performance from Chamberlain's. Anything indication of something going on could be the result of Joba pacing himself better, or it could be the result of Chamberlain just plain pitching better. So it's almost certain we won't be able to come to any sort of conclusion on this one.
A couple of places to look might be swing rate and contact rate. If a batter is a little out of sorts he might get a little jumpy and swing at more pitches. Of those pitches he swings at, perhaps he misses a higher percentage of them. Of course I could see it working the other way too. A batter who's thrown off his game by the pitcher's pacing might not feel ready to swing and take more pitches. Let's see if there's a noticeable difference when Joba is pitching.
First, we'll look at the percentage of pitches a batter swings at for different levels of pacing.
Again, there's really not a whole lot there. Definitely nothing to indicate that batters are more or less likely to swing based on the time Joba takes between pitches.
What about contact rate? Are batters swinging and missing more when Chamberlain works faster?
Still a whole lot of nothing in the data.
There's absolutely no indication from these two measures that batters are at all affected by how much time a pitcher takes between his pitches.
We haven't found a lot of evidence to support the Yankees' theory that Joba Chamberlain is a better pitcher when he takes less time between pitches. We did see that he has spent less time in between pitches over his last few starts, especially compared to his starts just before the All Star break. But the total amount of time over 100 pitches is something like five minutes, which probably isn't all that noticeable.
We looked at his overall performance in his starts, as measured by game score, and found little to no relationship to his pacing there. We also struck out while examining Derek Jeter's claims that it's better for the defense and harder on the hitters when a pitcher speeds up his game.
It's getting pretty hard to lend any credence to the idea that a pitcher's pacing has anything to do with his performance in a game.
There are some reasons to think we might not have the whole story though. First off, we're working with a very small sample size – a handful of pitches in a handful of appearances. Any effects might be hidden by random noise in our data set.
Second, our measurement tool might not accurately affect Chamberlain's pace. The batter may step in and out of the box causing a lot of time to pass between pitches even if Chamberlain is ready to throw. Also, Posada mentioned that Chamberlain was often wandering around the mound between pitches. Perhaps the improvement noticed by the team is mental focus and faster preparation as opposed to faster delivery.
Finally, maybe we're not looking at the right metrics to detect an improvement. Maybe overall defensive efficiency isn't the right measure because we should only be looking at tough plays. Or maybe batters aren't more likely to swing at bad pitches, they're instead more likely to hit the ball weakly.
So there are definitely some further avenues to explore. But based on our initial look at this, I'm going to have to call this one busted.


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5. The Superintendent of Police, Sri A. Sivanarayana, IPS submitted a report about the incident of 8-11-1994 and set out therein that Sri K. Siddaiah who was a practising Advocate of Anantapur, was given Congress (I) Ticket to contest from 163, Gorantla Assembly Constituency and the sitting M.L.A., Sri Ravindra Reddy of Pamudurthi who was aspiring for Congress (I) Ticket, could not get it. He, therefore, decided to file his nomination as an independent candidate and for that purpose he and his followers assembled at the office of Mandal Revenue Officer on 8-11-1994. In the meantime, at about 1-00 p.m. on 8-11-1994, Inspector of Police, Sri Satya Sai Rural Circle, got information that Sri K. Siddaiah, Congress (I) candidate, along with his followers, while proceeding from Anantapur to Gorantla via Puttaparthi to file his nomination paper was got abducted at about 11-30 a.m. by Sri P. Ravindra Reddy, sitting M.L.A. who could not get Congress (1) Ticket, by his men who took him and his follower Sri G. Narasimhulu, Advocate, away to unknown destination. This information was passed on to superior officers and district S.B. Control on VHF set and a case was registered as Crime No. 93/1994 Under Sections 147, 148, 342, 323, 365 and 149, I.P.C. at Police Station, Gorantla, at 1-15 p.m. on 8-11-1994. All border Police Stations were alerted and search parties were deputed to different directions. During the course of investigation, it was ascertained that Commander Jeep No. AP 04 6336 was used in abducting the Congress (I) candidate and his follower. The Jeep was traced at 1-00 a.m. on 9-11-1994 near Gorantla Town and was seized. In the meantime information was received by the police in the early hours of 9-11-1994 that both the abducted persons had reached their houses at Anantapur at about mid-night. Sri K. Siddaiah and his friend and follower Sri G. Narasimhulu were examined by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Penukonda, and they stated that they were abducted on the instigation of Sri P. Ravindra Reddy, sitting M.L.A. by his men and were detained in the hillocks of Pamudurthi hilly area from 1-00 p.m. to 7-00 p.m., which prevented Sri K. Siddaiah from filing his nomination paper by 3-00 p.m. on 8-11-1994.
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|From: Stephen Bloch (sbloch at adelphi.edu)
Date: Mon May 3 12:55:04 EDT 2010
On May 3, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > It might also be considered a strength to compute rather than print, > and teaching programming by showing printf's might be considered a > weaknesses. Absolutely. I can't tell you how many students I've had in upper-level classes who think any function that doesn't do some input, then some computation, then some output, isn't a "real" function. As a result, they have a lot of rewriting to do when I tell them the function now has to take its input from a Web page, or a file, and produce its output as a mail message or through a speech synthesizer. If they had separated I/O from computation in the first place, this would be much easier. Teaching I/O at the beginning of a first course -- in ANY language -- encourages this kind of bad habit. Even when I'm teaching a first course in Java, I try to use little or no I/O until at least halfway through the semester, and no "public static void main(String[] args)" until even later. Of course, the ability to pospone I/O from the first day depends on your IDE: DrScheme, DrJava, ProfessorJ, and BlueJ all make it fairly easy. I'm teaching a "programming for non-majors" course this semester, and we're not getting to I/O at all. (I was hoping to, in the last week of classes, but things got behind schedule.) Stephen Bloch sbloch at adelphi.edu
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Cumann na Saoirse Náisiúnta
National Irish Freedom Committee
The 105th Árd Fheis of
Sinn Féin Dublin Ireland Nov 14th-15th
Members of Cumann Na Saoirse Náisiúnta attended the 105th
Árd Fheis of Sinn Féin, held in Dublin on November 14 and 15,
2009. It was an historic occasion as veteran leader Ruairí O
Brádaigh was stepping down from the post of president of the
organization he joined in 1949. Thankfully, Ruairí will
continue to defend the legitimate Irish Republic proclaimed in
1916 in his new post as a member of the Árd Chomaírle (National
On Sat 14th, Mr. Ó
Brádaigh spoke from the podium in recognition of the ongoing
American contribution to the cause of Irish freedom and
especially Radio Free Eireann's commitment to presenting the
Irish Republican position to the free world.
John Mc Donagh, co-host of Radio
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interview over the New York airwaves. This project was also
video taped in its entirety.
On Sunday the 15th prior
to his farewell Presidential Address by, Ruairí O Brádaigh,
(see video no 1) John presented
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Náisiúnta and its supporters in recognition of his life long
outstanding service in defense of an Irish Republic. John
explained that the painting, by renowned Fenian American Artist,
Brian Mor Ó Baoighill echoed Robert Emmett's last possession;
the leaded glass amulet, engraved with the image of the ancient
Celtic symbol;
(see video no
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and surviving. The amulet and painting's shared title:
Alas, My Country perfectly
summed up Mr. O'Bradaighs life long dedication to the ancient
goal of Irish Freedom.
John concluded by paying a special
tribute to Patsy Ó Brádaigh who resolutely worked side by side
with her illustrious husband Ruairí and steered their family
most successfully through very difficult times. Patsy was the
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Lotsa music, surprises at 3-day Lollapalooza
CHICAGO – Lollapalooza, the three-day festival in Grant Park, was not short on surprises, with a record 300,000 attendees, a newly announced 2013 fest in Tel Aviv and a storm evacuation Saturday. And, yes, there was music, plenty of it. From a hotly anticipated Frank Ocean set to crowd favorite Jack White, the lineup spanned genres and eras. USA TODAY surveyed the action.
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For the band thenewno2, thefearofmissingout isn't just the name of its new album. It also represents what's going on with society. "That's what social media is all about — it's not about where you are, it's about where you aren't," says Dhani Harrison (son of Beatle George). So what do band members fear they're missing out on at Lollapalooza? "I missed Nero," Harrison says. Adds Paul Hicks: "Well, I'd have had a little boogie to Porter Robinson if we weren't playing (at the same time Friday)." Their electro-tinged rock had a looser style live than on the record.
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Fashion forward: It has been an interesting year for electro/pop/hip-hop singer Dev. "Having a baby (daughter Emilia, 8 months old) and putting out an album (debut The Night the Sun Came Up) are two of the gnarliest things that could have happened at the same time," she says. She and Emilia's father, professional skateboarder Jimmy Gorecki, are engaged, though they haven't set a date. "I did buy my wedding dress, which is a little bit backward, but it doesn't matter because the dress is so awesome."
Dance and romance: Last month, Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos canceled tour dates "to work on improving my mental health," he wrote on the band's site. If anything was ailing him, however, it didn't show. Launching with Take a Walk, he was buoyant, as was the crowd. Though songs from new album Gossamer traversed the singer's darkly personal issues, the set — wrapped in swaths of synth — was more exuberant catharsis. By comparison, The Shins and their crowd were a more mellow, though pretty, affair. Reflective songs such as field-wide singalong Phantom Limb and spine-tingly classic New Slang were crowd favorites.
Big time: The Black Keys have moved up the Lollapalooza ladder, a move that made sense, judging from the crowd's utter rapture. Frontman Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney rounded out their heady, stomping blues-rock with a bassist and keyboardist, which gave songs such as Money Maker even more swagger. Lonely Boy incited an impromptu dance pit that built until set's end, leaving the booty-shakers sweat-soaked and dusty.
Opening-slot winners: It can be a challenge to get noticed when any band launches. That was the case for indie-folk quintet Milo Greene. But the group found an inventive way to get attention by making up a fictional, but functional, character. "I created 'Milo Greene' to kind of go out and promote (us)," Robbie Arnett says. "We created this Gmail account, this MySpace, and called people. We put on a (British) accent and they took us more seriously." The band has the live chops to back up its business savvy. Saturday's songs, such as Perfectly Aligned, with its multi-part harmonies and "Oh, whoa, oh, ohs," were immediately catchy.
Back to the fun. Post-storm ponds formed around the grounds, making navigation more precarious, but that didn't stop the party. "Let's just sing along and dance, all right?" declared fun. singer Nate Ruess, to which the large crowd happily obliged.
Nice lights: Swedish DJ and producer Avicii boasted a spectacular light show and a decently large crowd, shaking it to Le7els and a remix of Florence + The Machine's Spectrum (Say My Name).
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Fresh faces from overseas: Of Monsters And Men and Sigur Rós both performed Sunday in what has to be the first time two Icelandic acts have played Lollapalooza at the same time. "It's kind of strange someone can understand me," Monsters singer/guitarist Nanna Hilmarsdottir said, laughing. So what has the trajectory to fest fame been like for the Icelanders, known for their infectious, folky songs? "It's weird going into catering and At the Drive-In is there," she says. "You hear about these bands, now they're around you."
After the show, it's the afterparty: Artists on the festival bill, such as Frank Ocean, the Afghan Whigs and Avicii, played sold-out aftershows, but bands that didn't perform at the festival made splashes, too. They ranged from big acts, including Jane's Addiction, to newcomers Rosco Bandana. The group was signed by new label Hard Rock Records, who presented Rosco Bandana at an official Lollapalooza afterparty. The label was created to give new bands a leg up, says James Buell, co-head of artists and repertoire for Hard Rock Records. "We don't look for any take from sales of CDs or touring, there's no 360 deals with us. It's all going back to the band." The Mississippi group's debut album, Time to Begin, is out Sept. 25.
Driven to reunite: When At the Drive-In was at the height of its popularity in 2001, having recently released the critically acclaimed Relationship of Command, the group suddenly called it quits. A decade later, the influential group reformed to play a handful of announced dates, including the Lollapalooza reunion show. Founding members Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Jim Ward launched separate bands, splitting the band for their next projects. (Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler formed Mars Volta, while Jim Ward took bandmates Paul Hinojos and Tony Hajjar to launch Sparta.)
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And though the relationship appears fruitful the second time around, At the Drive-In's recording future is more nebulous. "We're just playing the shows that we booked," Ward says, adding they've not been working on new material. "We have no master plan."
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Bachelor Matt met the fams last night, and while most of the parents were totally boring, Shayne's parents were priceless. Of course, her father is Lorenzo Lamas (I wonder how Shayne would rate on Lamas' show Are You Hot?), but his meet and greet with The Bach wasn't as awesome as I expected. But luckily, Shayne's mom, Michelle, was as wonderful as I could have dreamed. Shauna Sand (another Lamas ex), behold YOUR FUTURE.
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As a young architect a few years out of Notre Dame in the late 1960s, John Torti, FAIA, had an awakening. "I was working at a boutique firm in the Midwest, idealistic and starving, and realized you couldn't make money doing the kind of architecture you dream about in school," he says. "I bundled up all those ideals and put them in a box under my bed." In 1973 he took a job with CHK Architects and Planners, an established production housing firm in Silver Spring, Md., and contented himself with designing unimaginative suburban subdivisions.
But this awakening was a false one. He didn't realize it until the recession of the early '90s, when the formerly prosperous CHK plunged into dire straits. Two of the original partners, Jack Cohen and Leonard Haft, had long since retired. In 1993 the third, an ailing Jack Kerxton, did, too, after naming Torti his successor as president. Now in charge of a foundering firm and with little to lose, Torti made a bold decision. Combining a New Urbanist philosophy with company CFO Tom Gallas' recommendation that CHK pursue a more diverse client base, he announced a radically different, design-oriented direction for the 40-year-old firm. This gutsy move marked John Torti's true awakening. And it led to a rebirth of the firm now known as Torti Gallas and Partners.
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Of course, the full story is a bit more complicated. CHK had built a solid reputation as a firm that could deliver cost-effective developer housing. During the 1950s, '60s, and '70s it designed more than 200,000 homes in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. In the 1980s it branched out into hotels, office buildings, and high-rises but always kept merchant housing as its backbone. "They did not have an agenda that related to making great cities, towns, communities," says current principal Neal Payton, AIA, who also worked for the firm in its CHK days. "They made great housing, but it didn't relate to anything larger."
That was OK with Cohen, Haft, and Kerxton. They knew they'd never be esteemed in design circles. Their strength lay in their ability to give developers what they wanted, on time and on budget. Their tight professional and social relationships with clients meant they didn't have to market at all, and their employees were well compensated financially. Talented designers like John Torti came to the firm and stayed, because it gave them a chance to practice architecture while earning a comfortable living.
Cohen, Haft, and Kerxton were strong businessmen, but their training was still in design rather than financial matters. When Cohen and Haft began to phase out in the mid-80s, Kerxton cast his net for a business director to handle the company's affairs. He ended up hiring a hotshot Price Waterhouse accountant named Tom Gallas in 1985, and the other half of the Torti Gallas equation clicked into place. Gallas wasn't a designer, and to CHK that was one of his strengths. He could look at the way the firm functioned and make judgments based on his experience in the financial world. The fresh eye he brought to the firm would eventually become the catalyst Torti needed to make his design vision a reality.
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By the time Torti officially took control, CHK's deep well of clients had dried up. It wasn't that they'd gone to another architect--they'd simply gone out of business. CHK's payroll dropped from 165 people to 37. If the firm didn't find new sources of work soon, it was in serious danger of going the same way its clients had.
At Torti's suggestion, Gallas started a marketing division. He researched the possibility of working with recession-resistant, public-sector clients like the military, city housing agencies, and local governments. Though CHK had no experience in such areas, Gallas managed to convince Torti that the future of the firm lay with public-sector work. "Because Tom knew the firm so well, he was not shy about telling the partners what to do," says Torti. "Three years later, two-thirds of our business was with public clients, up from zero for the 40 years before that." Gallas also began pursuing national private clients to take the place of the bankrupt local ones.
In addition to the change in client base, the firm underwent a drastic structural revamping. The planning, design, and project-management divisions of CHK had always been entirely separate. "Under the old system, the designer did the design and then walked away," says Gallas. Not anymore. Under the new model, a design team would be responsible for a project from start to finish--getting the job, designing the site plan and architecture, and overseeing construction until the last brick was mortared into place.
The system gave the architects more control over the execution of their work, and it got CHK closer to its goal of achieving high-quality design while still turning a handsome profit. For the first time, the firm started a profit-sharing program that involved every employee, as well as a bonus system based on project team performance rather than individual accomplishments. "When your team succeeds, you succeed," explains Gallas. "It creates an interdependence."
plan of attack
CHK's new setup wouldn't matter much if the firm couldn't sell itself to the new client types it wanted so badly. That was where John Torti's conversion to New Urbanism came in. Having grown up in a front-stoop-and-corner-store neighborhood in the Bronx, N.Y., he knew well the charms and benefits of urban living. But he hadn't considered the marketability of old strategies in new neighborhoods until he heard the charismatic New Urbanist pioneer Andres Duany, FAIA, speak at Catholic University's summer lecture series. "I began to listen to him in the '80s," Torti says. "It tapped into my own discontent with what I was doing in the suburbs, compared with my goals as a young architect."
Listening to Duany's ideas moved Torti to educate himself about Traditional town planning, and then to decide that CHK should become a completely New Urbanist firm. He didn't approach that goal halfheartedly. He learned the movement's principles inside and out, joining the Congress for the New Urbanism and eventually becoming an influential member. And he aggressively recruited talent from the worlds of academia and practice, seeking out others who shared his desire to create pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use communities.
As they'd agreed, he and Gallas redirected their energies toward public and national private clients. They used New Urbanism to market themselves, trying to convince potential customers they could offer something different from standard developments. The going was tough at first. Because CHK had no experience working on the kinds of projects it now wanted to do, developers harbored understandable skepticism. The firm's background seemed so unsuited for public-sector work that the Navy actually asked Torti and Gallas to stop applying for work on its bases, telling them (mistakenly, as it turned out) it would never hire them.
But they'd already committed themselves to pursuing new client types and to New Urbanism, and they weren't turning back. In 1994 they had two breakthroughs--a commission for public housing in Baltimore under HUD's HOPE VI program, and a Progressive Architecture award in urban design for the plan of South Riding, a Traditional Neighborhood Development in Virginia. Shrewdly, Torti and Gallas talked up these successes into other opportunities. Spinning them as examples of their firm's ability to create thriving neighborhoods, they began to land key commissions--Army base housing at Fort Meade, Md.; a TND called King Farm in Rockville, Md.; more and further-flung HOPE VI commissions. Persuaded by Torti's convincing rhetoric, one gifted architect after another joined the firm. "Our work, especially the HOPE VI work, is an exact mirror of my interests in architecture and urban design," says principal Cheryl O'Neill, Associate AIA. "It's rare to find that."
turning point
By 1995, it began to look as if Torti, Gallas, and their rapidly growing staff were going to pull off the transformation of CHK. But their very success worried Torti. He feared that a firm taking on so many new jobs and employees would lose its hard-won focus. So he instituted a "Design Discourse"--a two-year series of debates and lectures on urban design given by in-house architects and attended by everyone from principals to administrative staff. "The Design Discourse sent a signal out that we believed in something," says Payton. "It said we were committed to a value system."
The outside world was catching on. In 1997 the firm won a national AIA Honor Award for regional and urban design, for the Baltimore HOPE VI project, Lafayette Courts. By that point CHK had work going on all over the country: military privatization, seniors housing, downtown mixed-use complexes, and Neo-Traditional neighborhoods. It was even designing a couple of new towns in Turkey. It had gotten so far away from the CHK model of suburban tract housing, in fact, that the time had arrived for a name change. CHK became Torti Gallas and Partners that year. Torti's name represents the firm's strength in design and Gallas' its business acumen. "We're one-hundred percent design, one-hundred percent business," Torti says. "That's the pact Tom and I made."
Wisely, they didn't throw away the entire CHK legacy. The old incarnation may not have won AIA Honor Awards, but it knew how to produce housing that people wanted to buy and live in. "It's not like they had a bad heritage," says Jonathan Barnett, FAIA, head of the urban design department at the University of Pennsylvania. "They had a good heritage that they had to transform. Their technical knowledge about the implementation of housing has been one of the reasons for their success." Architect Maurice Cox, who is also the mayor of Charlottesville, Va., concurs. A commercial-corridor study Torti Gallas did for his city won an AIA Honor Award in 2003, the firm's fifth to date. "Not only are they urban designers, but because of their long experience in building houses they were able to speak to the housing types needed in Charlottesville," Cox says.
here and now
Now, in 2004, the question of whether Torti Gallas could successfully transform itself has long been answered. The 51-year-old, 150-person firm has projects going on in 47 cities across the country, and its principals are regulars on the urban design and development lecture circuit. In 2003 it had its best financial year ever.
Developers sing its praises. "They combine style and vision with practicality, and they truly respect the community," says Maureen McAvey, a senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute who has also worked with Torti Gallas on the developer side. The firm's high percentage of winning RFPs has allowed it to take unusual risks with its fee structure. In certain cases, it's started to charge developers a reduced design rate in exchange for an extra "success" fee if its plan is selected.
The appeal of its phoenixlike history notwithstanding, the most interesting piece of the Torti Gallas puzzle is its continuing effort at self-improvement. Torti and Gallas seem to have drawn courage from the initial CHK makeover, for they and the other 15 principals are constantly tweaking the way they operate. The quality of the firm's architecture is uneven at times, especially compared with its urban design. Rather than accept this situation, they're challenging themselves head-on. They've started up a second Design Discourse that is devoted specifically to architecture, much as the previous one centered on planning. "We're trying to develop an ideology around our work that is identifiable and explainable," Torti says. "As a large firm, we need a way of coming to some common ground." In addition to how-to workshops and philosophical discussions, the series also includes studies of work by architects the firm admires, such as Robert A.M. Stern, Pyatok Architects, Michael Dennis, and Hartman-Cox.
Gallas, now executive vice president, has led an effort to expand the firm's sustainable design capabilities by bolstering its roster of LEED-certified architects and bringing in green-building experts to speak to the staff. As a result, Torti Gallas has several sustainable projects in the works, including Fort Irwin, energy-efficient military housing in the California desert, and Salishan, a new rainwater-conservation community in Tacoma, Wash. The firm is also forging ahead with innovative retail design ideas for its many mixed-use projects. "We're trying to rethink some of retail's basic concepts," explains principal Maurice Walters, AIA. "We want to figure out how to bring mom-and-pop businesses back in by taking affordable housing ideas to retail."
The vogue for New Urbanism among developers may be an obvious trend now, but it wasn't in 1993. By remaking CHK the way they did, Torti and Gallas took a huge gamble. Most firms in their position would have waited for the economy to turn around, hoping that they'd get their clients back and be able to do the kind of work they'd always done. But John Torti's ideals escaped that box under his bed. And they're not going back.


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The California Highway Patrol issued a SigAlert at 7:47 a.m. on the westbound 10 Freeway near Waterman Avenue after an 18-year-old woman drove a 1997 Toyota into the path of the tractor-trailer hauling pallets of candy, according to a CHP news release. As of 7 p.m., one lane was still closed, according to reports.
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Dispatch logs indicate the truck driver may have been thrown from the big rig but authorities later clarified that had not happened and that both the tractor-trailer driver and the woman had to be extricated from the wreckage.
Both drivers were taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center reportedly with minor to moderate injuries.
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By Steven Barceló and Samuel Mao
Univ of California at Berkeley
Schematics of an airplane that uses a proton exchange membrane fuel cell/lithium-ion battery hybrid system to power the propeller.
High prices, scarce resources, pollution, climate change and national security are all driving the push for newer, cleaner sources of energy to soften US dependence on fossil fuels. The transportation industry as a whole accounts for about 50% of total liquid fuel usage and almost 30% of overall energy consumption in the US.
This has inspired a long list of innovative technologies, from solar-powered cars to jet fuel derived from corn and specially designed bacteria, that could inspire any technophile. However, in the search for newer and better power sources, a promising technology of the future isn't so new after all—hydrogen fuel cells.
Fuel cells generate electricity through an electrochemical process first reported in 1838, but the technology is still being refined today while obstacles exist. As a fuel, hydrogen can be used for either conventional combustion engines or fuel cells—but, while hydrogen combustion typically has an efficiency of about 40%, fuel cells can have an efficiency of greater than 70%.
Another advantage of hydrogen is that the reaction is pollutant-free, as the only byproduct is water. Finally, fuel cells can be relatively lightweight and compact, since hydrogen gas has the highest energy density per unit mass of any fuel.
These advantages make fuel cells attractive for both mobile transportation and stationary applications. Capable of power output of up to a few hundred kilowatts, they are clear alternatives for distributed power for either industry or residential buildings.
They are also well suited for applications where quick startup and response to load changes are required, such as transportation or auxiliary power systems. The high power density and low operating temperature permit intermittent operation without significant energy loss.
This is different from batteries, where rapid cycling and load changes can degrade performance and lead to shorter system life times. There are a number of fuel cell technologies, each with a different range of operating conditions best suited to a particular application.
For example, polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells (which are also known as proton exchange membrane fuel cells) typically operate just below 100° C, making them convenient for mobile applications.
Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) operate at much higher temperatures—typically over 500° C—but their high efficiency, low cost and long life make them suitable for stationary large-scale power generation.
Molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) are another high-temperature variety, typically operating above 650° C. MCFCs have characteristics similar to those of SOFCs—like high efficiency and resistance to poisoning—but have reduced durability due to their use of corrosive high-temperature liquids.
At present, PEM fuel cells are the most commonly investigated fuel cell technology for mobile transportation applications, so it's worth describing how they work in more detail. In PEM fuel cells, hydrogen and oxygen are combined electrochemically to produce electricity, heat and water, as shown in the figures on this page and p 72.
The heart of a PEM fuel cell is the membrane-electrode assembly (MEA), which consists of an electrolyte membrane sandwiched between 2 porous and highly conductive carbon electrodes. A thin catalyst layer—usually platinum particles—is distributed across the interface between the membrane and the electrodes.
Basic electrochemical reactions at anode and cathode for PEM fuel cells.
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In the ground transportation industry, many leading automobile manufacturers have already developed vehicles powered by PEM fuel cells. The emission-free nature of these vehicles is an attractive way to reduce smog problems in large cities.
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Your star in And So It Goes, Michael Douglas, was so great as Liberace in Behind the candelabra.
And just below us, somewhere among the candelabra and euphorbia trees, were a handful of Diceros bicornis: the black rhino.
If Behind the candelabra were the last movie I made, I would be very happy.
Here, brilliant with candelabra, was set out a great table, from which an expensive collation was served by more gorgeous footmen.
Her husband clung to the candelabra and burst into a violent perspiration.
Such candle holders have been found in Etruscan graves, but the candelabra met with at Pompeii were all designed to carry lamps.
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Father Peter's last blow with the candelabra had been aimed at his head, but Likovay caught it with his hand, and so maimed it.
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1811, from Latin candelabrum, which meant "candlestick," from candela (see candle). Old English had candeltreow "candle-tree" in same sense. The word was borrowed earlier (late 14c.) from Old French as chaundelabre with the Latin sense. Candelabra is the Latin plural.


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Subject: [D-Col] Harmon ABell b abt 1811 in New York
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:36:10 -0600
I am looking for birth, siblings, etc. information about Harmon ABELL who
was born abt 1811 somewhere in New York. Several of us have always
thought that he was of Dutch ancestry, but *all of his children* said
that he was born in New York when they replied to the 1880 census. There
was an adult baptism/christening of Harmon ABELL in Schagticoke, New
York, into the Dutch reformed church. But I don't know if he was 'my'
Harmon ABELL or not.
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2nd - would it be likely for someone who was not Dutch to be baptized /
christened into the Dutch reformed church in 1834 ??
3rd - how old would a person have to be, to be considered an adult for an
adult christening ??
4th - I find no land records in his name yet he was a farmer. If he
did not own his land, what kind of records would exist for the rental (or
whatever) of the land ??
5th - finally - of course - anyone else connected to this character ??
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MasterChef's series one bad boy Chris Badenoch will return to the small screen as a challenger on Iron Chef Australia.
Channel Seven this morning announced the line-up of competitors for the local version of the cult stadium cook-off, to be hosted by Sunrise weatherman Grant Denyer.
Badenoch will be joined in the program's Kitchen Stadium by girlfriend and business partner Julia Jenkins, also a former MasterChef contestant.
Head chefs Dan Hong (Lotus Bistro and Bar Sydney), Sacha Meier (Ba Ba Lu Victoria) Judyta Slupnicki (Phore Seasons Adelaide), Matt Stone (Greenhouse Restaurant Perth) and Herb Faust (Scotch College Perth) complete the line-up.
The seven emerging professionals will compete against acclaimed Australian chefs Neil Perry, Guy Grossi and Guillaume Brahimi in a series of timed challenges set around a secret ingredient. Each will be required to prepare four dishes featuring it.
Their efforts will be judged by an expert panel of food critics made up of Leo Schofield, Larissa Dubecki and Simon Thomsen. Food writer and Fairfax contributor Richard Cornish will commentate alongside host Denyer, who last month admitted he was "not a foodie."
Badenoch and Jenkins both made the final six in MasterChef's debut season and are due to open a restaurant together in Melbourne later this year. To be called Josie Bones, they have described the venture as a "high-end" beer bar with food matching and Badenoch's signature "nose-to-tail" food style is likely to feature in his Iron Chef Australia performance.
Meanwhile, Hong lists his style as Asian-European fusion, Meier's as Spanish tapas, Stone is a champion of healthy and sustainable gourmet and Slupnicki plans to showcase recipes from her Polish background on the show.
Faust, who caters for 150 boarding school students and staff at Scotch College, lists his specialty as "a good curry".
Badenoch has previously complained of tabloid media scrutiny of his personal life and his portrayal as the "villain" by MasterChef producers.
"They never showed me smiling, ever. I spent most of the time I can remember joking all the time but they kindly didn't edit any of that in,'' he told Fairfax in April.
''You get people saying, 'Well it's what you signed up for.' But no, I actually signed up to do a cooking show and to hopefully pursue food as part of my career, that's what I signed up for and I don't think you should have your private life dragged all over the media just because you've appeared on a television show."
Production on Iron Chef Australia began in Melbourne in late September.
Shine Australia, which is producing the program, is also behind Junior MasterChef, currently screening on Channel Ten.
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Wease Show Rundown 7-18-13
Driving Distractions
Wease opens the show talking about how he almost his a bicyclist this morning in the Dunkin Donuts drive-thru. It didn't happen, but was close, and Wease apologized profusely. The cyclist still wasn't happy with the Wease. Marianne talks about how as a cyclist herself she notices how drivers are distracted by many things in their cars, but she also admits she plays with her phone and music on the bike.
Syfy says there WILL BE a "Sharknado 2", where the tornado of killer sharks switches coasts . . . and attacks New York City. There aren't any more details at this time, so it's unclear if any of the cast members will be back. The sequel will air sometime NEXT year. This leads to discussion of the popularity of sharks, and how Marianne's family loves "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel. Wease talks about the time he went on a fishing trip in NJ with buddies, and caught a shark. Turns out there is minor league baseball team in Jersey called the Camden Riversharks. Billy and Wease might need shirts.
Tools With Sports
Not much going on in sports right now, but the Espy's were broadcast on ESPN last night with Jon Hamm killing as host. We're curious who wrote his jokes, and talk about how many people think TV hosts write (or make up) their own stuff.
A-Rod is going to be joining the Yankees Triple-A team in Scranton-Wilkes Barre before rejoining the Yanks. In the lower minors he's 5 for 28, whick Wease and Johnny say is around .250 It takes Billy to tell them that it's under .200, which they disagree with until they figure it out for themselves.
According to a new Harris Interactive poll, MICHAEL JORDAN and SERENA WILLIAMS are the most popular male and female sports stars. Which is interesting in Jordan's case since he hasn't played ball in a DECADE.
Here are the Top MALE Sports Stars:
1. Michael Jordan
2. LeBron James
3. Tiger Woods
4. Peyton Manning
5. Tom Brady
6. Derek Jeter
7. Kobe Bryant
8. Tim Tebow
9. Phil Mickelson
10. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Here are the Top FEMALE Sports Stars
1. Serena Williams
2. Danica Patrick
3. Venus Williams
4. Maria Sharapova
5. Mia Hamm
6. Layla Ali
7. Lindsey Vonn
8. Hope Solo
9. Shawn Johnson
10. Soccer star Abby Wambach
Good for our home girl Abby for making the list, but how is she not ahead of Layla Ali... I haven't heard her name in a decade.
Music And Sex Stuff
We bump with the beautiful new Elton John single "Home Again", how he's playing the I Heart Radio Music Festival (you have a chance to win tickets at 9 and 11 this morning), and how hard it is for classic artist to get new music on the radio.
This leads to Wease talking about a radio talk show he heard last night where a couple 35ish y.o. guys talk about how thechnology today is both awesome and awful... it's desensitized kids towards sex... there's no mystery to sex nowadays, and kids can see anything they want on the computer. A joke about beastiality leads to this story...
On Monday, a 23-year-old woman in Oklahoma City pulled a KNIFE on her 72-year-old neighbor and threatened to kill him. The cops found out it was because she mistakenly believed the neighbor found out she'd had SEX WITH HER CAT . . . and was telling people. No, we can't figure out the logistics of a woman having sex with a cat either. She was arrested for felony assault.
Marianne Googled "cat penis" and was disgusted.
Grillin' and Chillin
Last night we went to Kelly Wall's house in Greece where she and contest winner Tina Santini hosted Grillin' and Chillin' where we were treated amazing, and had a great backyard cookout. This included swimming in their pool. Shirtless pics of Pauly and Billy soon, but we're assuming you'd rather see Marianne in a bikini.
Doug With News
- Fatal Motorcycle Crash In Penfield
- Cal-Mum Community Remembers Crash Victims
- Rolling Stone Defends Boston Bomber Cover
This Day In Rock History
25 years ago . . . in 1988 - A California appeals court dismissed a ridiculous case against OZZY OSBOURNE and CBS Records.
In 1984 a teenager killed himself, supposedly after listening to Ozzy's song "Suicide Solution", and the parents tried to hold Ozzy and CBS Records responsible. If Wease is listening to Ozzy he wants you to kill him.
A caller talks about how "Suicide Solution" is an anti-suicide song, but is misunderstood by people.
Wimmen's Is Still Crazy
Today's "Crazy Woman Of The Day" is Marianne Sierk... during the commercial Marianne was eating her yogurt, and decided it tasted like vomit. Wease demanded to taste, and it was delicious. Pauly would try, but he's afraid of the germs after Marianne and Wease have already eaten from the container. Pauly is also crazy.
In The News
KFC wants to get fancy on you. They're opening their first UPSCALE RESTAURANT next month, near their headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. It's called KFC Eleven, it won't feature COLONEL SANDERS in the logo, and it'll only serve salads, flatbreads, and boneless chicken . . . not traditional fried chicken. They want it to compete with chains like Chipotle and Panera. Pauly correctly guesses that the "Eleven" in the restaurant's name is after KFC's 11 herbs and spices.
Is a chain still a chain if you're in the city where the place originated when it was just one mom & pop store, like Wegmans for us in Rochester?
Bad Parenting In The News....
I don't have any kids, so I could be totally wrong here. But I don't think leaving your offspring in the car while you try to rub elbows with Lil Wayne, T.I. and Tiny falls under the "good parenting" umbrella.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office would appear to agree, as Florida resident and dedicated groupie Brittany Harris was arrested for reportedly doing just that. Police charged Harris with two counts of child neglect.
A more detailed account can be read here, but in short, Harris got a backstage pass to the show from T.I.'s wife Tiny, and instead of leaving her kids, ages 5 and 3, with a babysitter or a grandparent during the show, she decided to leave them in her car. I'm pretty sure if this was a multiple choice test, that would be like the first answer to get eliminated.
But then again, I'm not a parent.
Local Lottery Winner
We get a call from Wayne Johnson, a local man who recently won a million bucks on a scratch-off lottery ticket. It turns out he's a fan of the show who had met Wease at remotes in the past. He bought the ticket at the bowling alley next to where he works. Wayne is an awesome dude, and is gonna let us know what his final take is.
Gay Marriage Commentary
Tomorrow evening there is a Gay Pride Parade at Manhattan Square Park here in Rochester, so Wease talks about that a bit before reading today's column written by Bob Lonsberry. Read it HERE. Wease admits that Bob is a great writer, and can put words together better than anyone he knows, but disagrees with everything in this piece of writing, including how a parents homosexuality affects kids.
Geezers Vs. Douchebags
Wease and Billy vs. Pauly and Brooksie in a test of pop culture knowledge about each others generation....
From the Dbags to the Geezers..
Who's Mama June? (A- Honey Boo Boo's Mom.. ) Wease and Billy both know
I'm gonna play you a lil' clip from the current #1 song in the country according to The Billboard 100. It's called Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke featuring THIS RAPPER. Who's voice is this? (A- T.I.. ) Billy nails it.
Which two Real Housewives franchises are airing right now? Hint.. one airs on Sunday nights and one airs on Monday nights. (A- New Jersey and Orange County.. ) Got this wrong.
From Geezers to Dbags
Today would've been Yul Brenner's 93rd birthday. Name something he was famous for. The King and I, baldness, and doing an anti-smoking commercial after dying of lung cancer all accepted.
Glee is in the news this week, but there was another show about singing and dancing teenagers that starred Debbie Allen, and had characters like Coco, Leroy, Bruno, and Mr. Sharofsky. The younger dudes didn't know "Fame" even after being told they'd live forever.
Under The Dome is currently the #1 show on TV. It's based on a Stephen King novel. For 1/3 of a point each name 3 other books King has written (besides Carrie, which we talked about yesterday). He's written over 60 best sellers. Pauly and Brooksie named Thinner, The Stand, and It.
Time to get rid of your most attractive friends. According to a new survey, more than TWO-THIRDS of men say they've fantasized about their wife or girlfriend's friends in the past, and plenty of them still do it now. 45% have done it in the past but try not to anymore . . . 25% did it in the past and plan to keep on doing it in the future.
How are guys supposed to answer when their significant other asks "which of my friends would you want to bang"? Lie.
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Which BBQ Joint is Best in Alabama?
Who serves up the Best BBQ in Alabama? There will be lots of opportunities to find out, both this weekend at the Hog Wild Festival & BBQ Championship -- to benefit United Cerebral Palsy -- and starting Monday, you can vote for your favorite BBQ statewide as part of the state's "Year of Alabama Food" tourism promotion.
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QBE received a one notch downgrade from A3 to Baa1, after a Moody's review which started in November last year.
"The downgrade of the rating primarily reflects the group's weakened earnings, internal capital generation and debt-service coverage measures, as well as QBE's sustained elevated financial and operational leverage profile, considered on both a nominal and tangible basis,"
QBE's 2012 earnings have been hit by claims from Superstorm Sandy, drought and reserve strengthening in its US business. The listed insurer reported an 8 per cent rise in net profit for the year to December 31 to $US761 million. Bloomberg quoted consensus forecasts at $US884 million.
Moody's decision relates to QBE's issuer and senior debt ratings. It does encompass the company's financial strength ratings which represent the key measure of an insurer's ability to meet its policy and insurance obligations.
Moody's has also placed QBE's credit ratings outlook on negative watch.
The negative outlook reflected the rating agency's concerns about QBE's cost-cutting initiatives and the timetable for changes to boost performance, among other factors.
"Moody's, in my opinion, has been a bit harsh on the basis of the fact their [QBE's] regulatory position and their reserving position today look better than what it was 12 months ago," Mr Hanton said.
Last week, New York regulators reached a settlement with QBE in which the insurer forked out $US10 million in civil penalties and revised practices to cover troubled mortgage loans. QBE's share price rose 1.8 per cent to $13.14 on Monday.
The Australian Financial Review


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Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the expected upcoming Senate votes on gun control are only the beginning of the White House's fight.The fate of gun control legislation is unclear. A vote on a Senate bill, including expanded background checks and harsher penalties for gun trafficking, is expected next month.
The White House also has been pushing for limits on military style assault weapons and high capacity magazines, but those provisions won't be part of the Senate bill. Instead they are to be offered as amendments, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says they don't have enough support to pass.
"That doesn't mean this is the end of the process. This is the beginning of the process," Biden said during a conference call organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns pushing for the gun control measures.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the expected upcoming Senate votes on gun control are only the beginning of the White House's fight.The fate of gun control legislation is unclear. A vote on a Senate bill, including expanded background checks and harsher penalties for gun trafficking, is expected next month.
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Back when Mark Glaze was executive director of Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and later Everytown for Gun Safety, he went to great lengths to portray his master's anti-gun positions as moderate. Glaze used ...
Friday, July 21, 2017
On July 17, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit confirmed that law enforcement officials in New York acted unlawfully with respect to guns confiscated from a Nassau County woman in 2012.
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A group of Maryland citizens, with the support of the National Rifle Association, filed a petition to the United States Supreme Court on Friday seeking to reverse a Court of Appeals ruling that stripped some of America's most ...
Friday, July 21, 2017
A report from the Crime Prevention Research Center estimates that the number of concealed carry permits issued last year was the largest increase ever – continuing a four year trend of record setting increases in ...
Friday, July 21, 2017
Numbers don't lie. But gun control groups and the news media do. That explains why so many accounts of last Friday's so-called Women's March From #NRA2DOJ bear no resemblance to the event those of us ...
Friday, July 21, 2017
Back in 2013, when Washington State's anti-gun groups rolled out Initiative 594, they promised voters this "universal background check" law would save lives by keeping "firearms out of dangerous hands" because private gun sales would ...
Friday, July 21, 2017
Gun control is pushed as a strategy to keep Americans safe in their homes, schools and workplaces. It is presented as the key component in safer streets, neighborhoods and families. But what happens when gun ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
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Thursday, July 20, 2017
The safety record of America's gun owners is nothing short of stunning.
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What I Learned At Morgan State University…
Who's going to Morgan U's homecoming this year? I haven't been to a MSU homecoming since the early 90's Mobb Deep days. I remember how badly Morgan State wanted to come from under the shadow of Howard University. They would do anything to establish themselves as the top historically Black college in the metro Beltway area. If you ever went to a Greekfest picnic at Virginia Beach (pronounced VAAAAAH Beech) then you already know that Morgan gets little to no respect as far as HBCU's are concerned.
It's like this… Howard U is the top, then you got Hampton, Spelman was next (because they had all the stripper bitches), then Norfolk State, then North Carolina Central, then Fam U, Morehouse was always considered a fag school and Grambling had the world's best marching band for decades. Morgan State didn't even rate in the top 10 Black colleges. You couldn't leave MSU with a bachelor's degree and get anywhere in the world. You still need to get some paperwork from a classy white college if you want to have a career outside of managing a Foot Locker. At least the pre-law classes in Morgan State have benefited some of the MSU students.
By suing Lil' Wang for a million clams these two young ladies are going to make their college degrees worth more than the paper they are printed on. You could work for forty years with an HBCU degree and never earn a million dollars. At least these ladies will get something out of their college experience other than a whole lot of empty condom wrappers from tattooed nose ring rappers. In some respects it seems a little unfair to Lil' Wang that he should be getting sued because these ladies were clumsy and got themselves hurt. I mean, isn't that why people run toward the stage during a Young Money concert? For the moment when these fools throw money at the crowd. Duh. I think these chicks might just be mad that they didn't score any of the singles that Lil' Wang threw in the air. They obviously weren't hardbody enough so now they are trying to sue to get some of that Cash Money cash.
If I were Lil' Wang I wouldn't give these bitches shit.. Young Money don't give these bitches no money, just dick in their tummy. Hey, they said that shit, don't get mad at me because some scandalous broads want to file lawsuits to get their chips up. That's another reason that Morgan State stays losing, because if this were Howard University these broads would get their money right by marrying rich. Just look at the broad that Chris Rock saddled up on. She lets him dip off and stab up white panties as long as he doesn't make no more babies. Howard U bitches have the game on smash. I think I'm going back to their homecoming this year, for the fifty eleventh time.
Copp that new Lil' Wang album for Kwanzaa so he can pay off these trifling hos.


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Yantis nails down runner-up spot in district baseball
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April 28, 2008 - FRUITVALE - The Yantis Owls nailed down the runner-up slot in District 19-A baseball Friday with a 3-1 win over Martins Mill in a game that broke a tie in the standings.
Daniel Cerretani struck out eight and gave up just three hits for the win.
The Owls had seven hits led by Jordan Davis, who had two hits and two RBI.
"Jordan picked a good time to start hitting for us and Cerretani was tough on the mound," Yantis coach Larry Tucker said. "Cerretani started hurting in the fourth inning, but he wanted to finish and he really came through. With the exception of a few mental lapses, we played pretty well."
The Owls will now face Beckville at Kilgore's Driller Park this Friday. It is the Owl's third playoff appearance in the past four years.
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Parks to adopt reservation system, campers unhappy
Oconee's county parks are on their way toward a reservation system for camp spaces. And some of the county's most faithful users at the parks expressed their dissatisfaction during last night's county council meeting. Walhalla resident Duane Wilson presented 175 signatures of park users opposed to a reservation system that'll open county park camp sites nationally through an online network called Reserve America. Wilson and others say they like the current system of being able to reserve a spot for up to 30 days on a first come, first served basis. But Phil Shirley, director of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, said he has greater efficiency in mind and a move to offset slack park attendance outside of the major summer holidays.


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