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In the second game of the second Kevin Garnett era the Memphis Grizzlies came to Target Center seeking revenge for their February 6th 90-89 defeat to the Wolves in which Ricky Rubio came up in the clutch with two free throws in the last ten seconds to take the lead. Since then our favorite team has changed quite a bit, the departures of Mo Williams,Thad Young, and Troy Daniels, the injury of Anthony Bennett, and the additions of Adreian Payne, Gary Neal, and KG have all contributed to the changing landscape.
Just watching pre-game warm-ups you could tell the atmosphere wasn't going to be quite as great as Wednesday's affair with the wizards, but in the last 7 years it definitely ranks way up there. The match-up that had me the most excited going into the game was Garnett on Zach Randolph. The two had met each other a bunch of times when Kevin was still in Minnesota with KG having the upper hand most of the time, but with Kevin obviously having only limited playing time it just made you need to enjoy what you get to see.
As Kevin gave the crowd a salute as the action got underway. The beginning of the game saw a rather sloppy style of play with both teams running up and down the floor, missing shots, turning the ball over, and committing offensive fouls. The game remained scoreless until Gorgui Dieng hit a free throw two and a half minutes in. In a stretch of two minutes in the first quarter KG had 3 steals,2 points, and an assist where Andrew Wiggins slammed it home. With the quarter halfway over the score was T-wolves 15-Grizzlies 7. Memphis kept the sloppiness deep into the quarter as the wolves ended the quarter with points off of turnovers. Once KG came off the floor after five minutes Andrew Wiggins stole the show ending the quarter with eight points. The score at the end of the quarter was 24-18 with the Wolves revamped defense flexing its muscles.
The second quarter began with a quick grizzlies run that got to 8-0 before Gary Neal hit a 15 foot jumper and got fouled for an and one which he converted. Despite the Grizzlies early dynamics both teams looked extremely sloppy for the second straight quarter with a stretch of 3 minutes without any effectiveness on offense for either teams. Four minutes into the quarter Zach Lavine had a slam, which reminded us all why he is the NBA's slam dunk champion. At this point the wolves led by one, and both teams were starting to look much more efficient on offense. That trend continued until Lavine showed us he is still a rookie, as he tuned the ball over on consecutive possessions much like he had in the wolves last game against the bulls.
With five and a half minutes left in the half Ricky and Kevin checked back in the game. With that the atmosphere of Target Center stepped up a few notches. A minute later a mysterious technical foul was called on Flip Saunders for which I couldn't figure the cause, then a minute later KG started taking at the refs and got a technical. Of course immediately afterwards the crowd chanted KG, KG, KG. He responded with an assist on a beautiful pass to K-mart on the next possession. With two minutes left in the quarter the wolves tied the game 44-44 on a 20 foot KG jump shot. With five seconds left in the half Garnett attempted a three that ended with Dieng getting a rebound, and afterwards fouled that resulted in two made free throws. After that the Wolves went into the half down by two 48-46.
Halftime stats and facts
- Andrew Wiggins was the best player in the first half with 12 points.
- The wolves had 9 steals in the first half, and 19 points off of turnovers from 15 turnovers overall.
- Kg ended the half with 2 points, 3 steals, and a thousand smiles.
- There were no sightings of Jiggle Boy. I repeat, NO SIGHTINGS OF JIGGLE BOY!
- Kevin Garnett wears sweats better than anyone, ever.
- Despite our field goal percentage being 44% compared to 63% we still stayed in the game very well.
- Garnett attempted his seventh 3 of the year missing. Making his season total 1/7.
- Dieng was perfect in the first half with 11 points on 3/3 shooting and 5 free throws that were all made.
The Grizzlies started the third quarter with a 4-0 run before Flip called a timeout, so his troops could regroup. After the timeout the Grizzlies continued their run to 6-0 before Dieng stuffed one in for two. With the Wolves down 54-48 Mike Conley penetrated the paint and forced KG to foul. He made the shot and converted on the free throw. On the next possession Kevin responded with another jumper to bring his point total to six. The game was over for Kevin though, on the next possession he fouled Conley, and out of frustration he threw the ball at the ground … think 1/8th of a Gronkowski spike. Somehow he got the technical for it, his second of the game resulting in his ejection. He walked to the tunnel saluting the crowd before disappearing into the locker room.
Immediately after that the Grizzlies continued their domination of the second half stretching the wolves deficit to 12. Despite Gorgui scoring on the next possession the grizzlies further co tinged the domination making their lead 15 with 5 minutes left in the third quarter. Andrew Wiggins scored six points on the next three possessions, and then Payne hit a jumper making the wolves have a 8-0 run, and suddenly a close game at 60-67. Ricky got a steal on the next possession, and got fouled to shoot two. He hit the first, and the second to make it a 5 point game, and to stretch the run to 10-0. The Grizzlies would end their drought with a Tony Allen lay up. Wiggins was than fouled and made both shots to bring it back to a 6 point game at 63-69. After that Marc Gasol got a technical, for hitting Payne in the eye, and coach Joerger received one for arguing. The Wolves made both free throws, and Gary Neal followed that up with a three making the score 68-69, and continuing the Wolves run to 16-2. With 0.6 seconds left in the third Rubio was fouled for god knows what reason, and made both shots to make the score 70-72 grizzlies going into the fourth.
Target Center was revved up for what was inevitably going to be a very exciting finish to a game that has included 5 technical fouls. Right away in the fourth Wiggins tied the game up, and the Wolves forced a turnover on the way back. Adrian Payne scored next, and despite my failing to mention him in this recap much, definitely had his best game in the league yet. Ricky Rubio hit a big 3 to take the lead 77-76 that was followed up by a Grizzlies air ball. The next minute was highlighted by great ball movement on the wolves part and an awesome offensive rebound by Gorgui that looked like he had no chance of grabbing.
The Wolves called a timeout to regroup. After the timeout Gary Neal assisted by Ricky hit a big time 3, and the Wolves continued their resurgence to take a 4 point lead because of it. For the second time In the game Zach Lavine got a steal and brought it the other way for a huge slam to make the wolves lead 5 after the grizzlies made one of two free throws on the position beforehand. It felt like the Wolves were getting dominated just moments before, but the Wolves had made their run 30-10.Halfway through the fourth the grizzlies tied the game on a Zach Randolph three point play on just his second bucket if the night. Z-BO would get his third bucket on the grizzlies next trio down to give them a two point lead with five minutes left in the game.
In an unusually quiet night for Kevin Martin he decided to hit from downtown to take the lead by one. The Wolves would have two unproductive trips that were answered by two grizzly buckets to give the visitors a three point lead. The Wolves would get back on the board with a Wiggins turnaround immediately responded by Memphis with a bucket of their own by Tony Allen. With 1:58 left in the game Marc Gasol headed to the line to shoot two, of which he made one. K-Mart hit another big 3 on the next try, and Target Center went OFF.
Gasol made another trip to the line, this time knocking them both down. Down to the last minute of the game Zach Randolph inexplicably,y fouled Rubio, and was benched. Oh yeah, that was responded by ANOTHER KMART THREE TO TIE THE GAME! Unfortunately Mike Conley responded with a three of his own, followed by K-Mart forcing up a bad shot that was put back in with no regard for human life by Andrew Wiggins! The Wolves would foul Conley, and he made both shots setting the Wolves up with a three point deficit, and 11.3 seconds to tie it up. Martin got open and took a shot from three, but he couldn't knock it down. After that the Pups fouled Tony Allen, after he made one of two Gary Neal put one up as the game ended that wouldn't have mattered as the Wolves' fate was sealed.
Another day, another loss in Loserville, USA right? I don't think so, as the Wolves look very different compared to a month ago. Well Adrian Payne and Gary Neal were huge off the bench tonight. Neal had 16 points and Payne seemed to be in the right spot at the right time the entire second half.
Andrew Wiggins continued his climb towards superstardom tonight with yet another 20+ point game, and had one of his first signature moments when he had the huge put back in the last minute of the game. Games like these will help his progression towards being the second Franchise player the team has had.
59.4%: that was the field goal percentage of the Grizzlies for the game. A season high for the second best team in the Western Conference, so how did the Pups stay close? …
32 points off turnovers: if it were not for the turnovers created by the Wolves it would have gotten ugly.
Where was Pek? He only played 12 minutes,and I never heard an explanation, so we'll have to pay attention to see if we have another injury to a key starter.
I was surprised that in Flip's presser his top priority was defending KG instead of praising the young guy's tremendous comeback effort. Games like this will help the team much more than they would hurt it.


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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirsby Elie Wiesel
From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt and faith, despair and trust, and ultimately, of wisdom. of photos.
A Beggar in Jerusalemby Elie Wiesel
When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory."This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.
A Beggar in Jerusalemby Elie Wiesel Lily Edelman
The prize-winning novel of a man haunted by love and war, and obsessed by a dream of life
Conversations with Elie Wieselby Elie Wiesel Richard D. Heffner
Heffner (communications and public policy, Rutgers U. ) conducted some two dozen interviews with Elie Wiesel for his public television productions "The Open Mind" and "Dialogues: A Series of Conversations on the Crucial Issues of Our Times. " These, in addition to a few conducted solely for this volume, were distilled to form the 11 chapters of this book, in which Nobel Peace Prize-winner Wiesel reflects on the moral responsibility of governments and individuals; the role of the state in our lives; the rise of nationalism; religion, politics, and tolerance; capital punishment; mercy killing; and the role of memory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Dawnby Elie Wiesel Frances Frenaye
Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn--and for death. One is a captured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner. Elisha's past is the nightmare memory of Nazi death camps. He is the only surviving member of his family. His future is a cherished dream of life in the promised homeland. But at daybreak his present will become the tortured reality of a principled man ordered to commit cold-blooded murder. Resonant with feeling, DAWN is an unforgettable journey into the human heart--and an eloquent statement about the moral basis of the new Israel.
Dayby Elie Wiesel Anne Borchardt
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man. The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author's classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which includes his memoir Night and novel Dawn. In Night it is the 'I' who speaks. In the other two, it is the 'I' who listens and questions. In its opening paragraphs, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and into the path of an oncoming taxi. Consequently, most of Wiesel's masterful portrayal of one man's exploration of the historical tragedy that befell him, his family, and his people transpires in the thoughts, daydreams, and memories of the novel's narrator. Torn between choosing life or death, Day again and again returns to the guiding questions that inform Wiesel's trilogy: the meaning and worth of surviving the annihilation of a race, the effects of the Holocaust upon the modern character of the Jewish people, and the loss of one's religious faith in the face of mass murder and human extermination.
Elie Wiesel's Night (Modern Critical Interpretations)by Harold Bloom Elie Wiesel
Critical essays discuss Elie Wiesel's autobiographical novel about his time spent in Auschwitz as a teenager.
The Fifth Sonby Elie Wiesel
When a Holocaust survivor's son discovers that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, the son also discovers that the Nazi is still alive. What begins as a quest for his fathers love becomes a re-enactment of the past as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge.
The Fifth Sonby Elie Wiesel Marion Wiesel
A Holocaust survivor's son discovers that his father is haunted by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer. But the son also finds out that the officer is still alive. The son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge.
The Forgottenby Elie Wiesel
A profoundly moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's struggle to remember both the heroic and the shameful events of his past, and about his American-born son's need to assimilate his father's life into his own. "A book of shattering force that offers a message of urgency to a world under the spell of trivia and the tyranny of amnesia."--Chicago Tribune Book World.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Forgottenby Elie Wiesel Stephen Becker
The novel centers on a psychotherapist Holocaust survivor who is losing his memory to an incurable disease. He resolves to tell his son about his past before it is too late, compelling his son to visit the Romanian village where the crime that haunts his father was committed.
Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholyby Elie Wiesel Theodore M. Hesburgh
Friendship and concern revolves around Hasidism that is against solitude. The concept is to live, share happiness and distress with others.
From the Kingdom of Memoryby Elie Wiesel
"One of the great writers of our generation" (The New Republic) weaves together memories of his life before the Holocaust and his great struggle to find meaning afterwards. Included are Wiesel's landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the trial of Klaus Barbie and his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscencesby Elie Wiesel
Wiesel weaves together memories of his life before the Holocaust and his struggle to find meaning afterwards. His powerful testimony at the trial of Klaus Barbie and his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech are included here.
The Golem: The Story of a Legendby Elie Wiesel Anne Borchardt
For centuries, Jews have remembered the Golem, a creature of clay said to have been given life by the mystical incantations of the mysterious Maharal, Rabbi Yehuda Loew, leader of the Jewish community of 16th-century Prague. Some versions have the Golem as a lovable, clumsy mute; others as a monster like Frankenstein's who turned against his creator, giving a vivid warning against magic and the occult. In this beautiful book, Elie Wiesel has collected many of the legends associated with this enigmatic and elusive figure and retold them as seen through the eyes of a wizened gravedigger who claims to have witnessed as a child the numerous miracles that legend attributes to the Golem. "I, Reuven, son of Yaakov," he begins, "declare under oath that 'Yossel the mute,' the 'Golem made of clay,' deserves to be remembered by our people, our persecuted and assassinated, and yet immortal people, We owe it to him to evoke his fate with love and gratitude ... He was a savior, I tell you." Reuven's Golem is no fool or monster, but a figure of intuition, intelligence, and compassion who may yet return, perhaps in our own generation, to protect the Jews from their enemies.
Hostageby Elie Wiesel
From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today's troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg--professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband--has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in Brooklyn, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, don't explain why the innocent Shaltiel has been chosen, just that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting commence, Shaltiel resorts to what he does best, telling stories--to himself and to the men who hold his fate in their hands. With beauty and sensitivity, Wiesel builds the world of Shaltiel's memories, haunted by the Holocaust and a Europe in the midst of radical change. A Communist brother, a childhood spent hiding from the Nazis in a cellar, the kindness of liberating Russian soldiers, the unrest of the 1960s--these are the stories that unfold in Shaltiel's captivity, as the outside world breathlessly follows his disappearance and the police move toward a final confrontation with his captors. Impassioned, provocative and insistently humane, Hostage is both a masterly thriller and a profoundly wise meditation on the power of memory to connect us to the past and our shared need for resolution.
The Jews of Silenceby Elie Wiesel
In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. "I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show window by Soviet authorities," wrote Wiesel. "They alone, in their anonymity, could describe the conditions under which they live; they alone could tell whether the reports I had heard were true or false--and whether their children and their grandchildren, despite everything, still wish to remain Jews. From them I would learn what we must do to help . . . or if they want our help at all." What he discovered astonished him: Jewish men and women, young and old, in Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, Vilna, Minsk, and Tbilisi, completely cut off from the outside world, overcoming their fear of the ever-present KGB to ask Wiesel about the lives of Jews in America, in Western Europe, and, most of all, in Israel. They have scant knowledge of Jewish history or current events; they celebrate Jewish holidays at considerable risk and with only the vaguest ideas of what these days commemorate. "Most of them come [to synagogue] not to pray," Wiesel writes, "but out of a desire to identify with the Jewish people--about whom they know next to nothing." Wiesel promises to bring the stories of these people to the outside world. And in the home of one dissident, he is given a gift--a Russian-language translation of Night, published illegally by the underground. "'My God,' I thought, 'this man risked arrest and prison just to make my writing available to people here!' I embraced him with tears in my eyes."From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Judgesby Elie Wiesel
From Elie Wiesel, a gripping novel of guilt, innocence, and the perilousness of judging both. A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather. A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband and found new love; Razziel, a religious teacher who was once a political prisoner; Yoav, a terminally ill Israeli commando; George, an archivist who is hiding a Holocaust secret that could bring down a certain politician; and Bruce, a would-be priest turned philanderer. Their host--an enigmatic and disquieting man who calls himself simply the Judge--begins to interrogate them, forcing them to face the truth and meaning of their lives. Soon he announces that one of them--the least worthy--will die.The Judges is a powerful novel that reflects the philosophical, religious, and moral questions that are at the heart of Elie Wiesel's work. From the Hardcover edition.
King Solomon and His Magic Ringby Elie Wiesel
So begins Elie Wiesel's harmonious retelling of twenty mysterious and wonderfully compelling stories about King Solomon--rarely heard tales that span the revered ruler's life, from the time he took the throne at age twelve, to the building of the Temple in Jerusalem, to the disintegration of the kingdom upon his death.
Legends of Our Timeby Elie Wiesel
A collection of tales immortalizing the heroic deeds and visions of people Wiesel knew during and after World War II.From the Trade Paperback edition.
A Lucky Childby Thomas Buergenthal Elie Wiesel
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with his mother and in 1951 arrived in the U.S. to start a new life.Now dedicated to helping those subjected to tyranny throughout the world, Buergenthal writes his story with a simple clarity that highlights the stark details of unimaginable hardship. A LUCKY CHILD is a book that demands to be read by all.
A Mad Desire to Danceby Elie Wiesel
From Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply thoughtful new novel about a life shaped by the worst horrors of the twentieth century and one man's attempt to reclaim happiness.Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die in an accident, together with his father, soon after. Doriel was a child during the war, and his knowledge of the Holocaust is largely limited to what he finds in movies, newsreels, and books--but it is enough. Doriel's parents and their secrets haunt him, leaving him filled with longing but unable to experience the most basic joys in life. He plunges into an intense study of Judaism, but instead of finding solace, he comes to believe that he is possessed by a dybbuk.Surrounded by ghosts, spurred on by demons, Doriel finally turns to Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt, a psychoanalyst who finds herself particularly intrigued by her patient. The two enter into an uneasy relationship based on exchange: of dreams, histories, and secrets. Despite Doriel's initial resistance, Dr. Goldschmidt helps to bring him to a crossroads--and to a shocking denouement.In Doriel's journey into the darkest regions of the soul, Elie Wiesel has written one of his most profoundly moving works of fiction, grounded always by his unparalleled moral compass.From the Hardcover edition.
Messengers of Godby Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel's classic look at Job and seven other Biblical characters as they grapple with their relationship with God and the question of his justice.Wiesel has never allowed himself to be diverted from the role of witness for the martyred Jews and survivors of the Holocaust, and by extension for all those who through the centuries have asked Job's question: "What is God doing and where is His justice?" Here in a masterful series of mythic portraits, drawing upon Bible tales and the Midrashim (a body of commentary), Wiesel explores "the distant and haunting figures that molded him": Adam, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Job. With the dramatic invention of a Father Mapple and the exquisite care of a Talmudic scholar, Wiesel interprets the wellsprings of Jewish religious tradition as the many faces of man's greatness facing the inexplicable. In an intimate relationship with God it is possible to complain, to demand. Adam and Eve in sinning "cried out" against the injustice of their entrapment; Cain assaulted God rather than his brother; and Abraham's agreement to sacrifice his son placed the burden of guilt on Him who demanded it. As for Job, Wiesel concludes that he abdicated his defiance as did the confessing Communists of Stalin's time to "underline the implausibility" of his trial, and thus become the accuser. Wiesel's concern with the imponderables of fate seems to move from strength to strength. --Kirkus Reviews
Nightby Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway
When Elie Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945, having also been in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buna, he imposed a ten-year vow of silence upon himself before trying to describe what had happened to him and over six million other Jews. When he finally broke that silence, he had trouble finding a publisher. Such depressing subject matter. When Night was finally published, over twenty-five years ago, few people wanted to read about the Holocaust. Such depressing subject matter. But we cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly if it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear-the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide.
Nightby Elie Wiesel Marion Wiesel
A new translation of Wiesel's landmark book Night, and the text of his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech.
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NORWOOD, Ohio (AP) -- A caring neighborhood hero and high school football star, Robert Bales is still referred to as "Our Bobby" in the working-class city where his upbringing focused on God, country and family.
The day after he was identified as the soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, former neighbors, teammates and others who knew him struggled to fit the boy they remembered with the Army staff sergeant under maximum security in Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
They know him as the youngest of five brothers, a key player and leader on a prep team that starred a future NFL player, and a respected and beloved neighbor who insisted that other kids behave, be safe and be considerate of older residents.
"It's our Bobby. He was the local hero, even before he was in the Army," said Michael Blevins, who grew up down the street from Bales in a working-class neighborhood of Norwood, a mostly blue-collar Cincinnati suburb of some 20,000 people. "He was just a very stand-up man."
Bales was the youngest of five boys, raised under the structure of "God, country, family and you," Blevins' sister, Michelle Caddell, said Saturday.
She recalled that Bales regularly spent time helping a child in the neighborhood who had special needs, making sure he got outside and saw the other children. They said he loved children in general.
She and Blevins said their mother and other neighborhood residents were in disbelief and brought to tears by the allegations against Bale. They said they last saw Bales four years ago when he came to their father's funeral.
"He was very concerned for our mother," Caddell said. Blevins said Bales took him to a bar to talk after the services and to try to console him.
That shock reached beyond the neighborhood.
"I'm just terribly surprised that it would have come to that," said Jack Bouldin, a retired Norwood High School physical education teacher and basketball coach. "Just mind-boggling."
He described Bales as "fairly happy-go-lucky," a good student who enjoyed P.E.
Steve Berling was a teammate of Bales' in the early 1990s at Norwood High School. Berling and Bouldin both said Saturday that they recognized Bales from the recent Army photo now in the news, and Berling recalled that Bales had joined the Army after an investment business didn't do well.
"This is some crazy stuff if it's true," Berling said of the Afghanistan allegations. He and Bales were all-league prep players on a team that starred running back Marc Edwards, who played for Notre Dame and NFL teams including the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots. Bales played offensive line and linebacker/defensive line in high school.
"He was a great guy with a huge heart," Berling said.
Bales was a team captain, and his leadership is described in a recent book by Aaron Smith about Edwards, titled: "Odyssey: From Blue Collar, Ohio to Super Bowl Champion." Edwards recounts being approached by Bales, who was disappointed when their coach moved the younger Edwards into his middle linebacker position and shifted Bales to nose tackle.
"I'd love to talk to you about different things I can help you with at middle linebacker," Edwards said Bales told him. Edwards said that showed him leadership and motivation.
"This guy was .... one of the stars of the team and he's sucking up his pride to help me out," Edwards said in the book.
Later in the book, Edwards recounted spending a weekend of playing golf and hitting pubs with Bales in Columbus a few years after high school.
Berling, who has an insurance agency, recalled Bales always having an interest in the military and war history. He was in an advanced placement history class with him and said Bales was far ahead of him in knowledge.
"I remember him and the teacher just going back and forth on something like talking about the details of the Battle of Bunker Hill," he said. "He knew history, all the wars."
Bales went on to attend Ohio State University from 1993 to 1996 and majored in economics but didn't graduate, according to the university.
Berling said Bales later worked handling investments but soured on that business when clients lost money during a market downturn, Berling said.
"I guess he didn't like it when people lost money," he said.
In another Cincinnati suburb, authorities patrolled a quiet neighborhood on Friday night and released a statement saying a relative of Bales' might live there.
He said Bales came from a large family, with other brothers who played football.
Police in another Cincinnati suburb patrolled a quiet neighborhood in Evendale on Friday night and released a statement saying one of Bales' relatives might live there. Police Chief Niel Korte asked reporters to refrain from identifying the resident out of worry that the safety of that person and neighborhood would be jeopardized.
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Bob Stevenson Joins Essemtec USA
Glassboro, NJ — Essemtec, a Swiss manufacturer of production systems for electronic assembly and packaging, has appointed Bob Stevenson to the position of business development manager in the U.S. Mr. Stevenson is responsible for strengthening the company's market presence in North America, bolstering the representative ...
Calumet Names Ben Bouman as NPI Manager
Calumet, MI — Calumet Electronics has recently named Ben Bouman as its new product introduction (NPI) manager. In the new position, Mr. Bouman will serve as a new customer representative, engineer and advocate for the company. His position is designed to support a smooth on-boarding process for new customers ...
Fernando Gomez Returns to Cascade Systems as President
Hillsboro, OR — Cascade welcomes back Fernando Gomez as company president, where he previously served as its operations manager. Mr. Gomez was brought back because of the staff's dedication, commitment of senior leadership to employees and customers, and his enjoyment of solving challenging problems.
IEWC Hires Paul Sullivan as Senior VP of Sales
Milwaukee, WI — IEWC has hired Paul Sullivan as its senior VP of North American sales. With over 40 years of progressive sales experience, Mr. Sullivan brings a wealth of commercial knowledge and business acumen to the role. Mr. Sullivan comes to IEWC from Anixter where he most recently served as vice president ...
KIC Brings in New COO
San Diego, CA — KIC has hired Isidre Rosello as its new Chief Operating Officer. Reporting directly to the company's president, Mr. Rosello will plan and direct KIC's operations, new product and services development, company objectives, initiatives, and drive to meet financial and operational goals. Mr. Rosello ...
SMT Maschinen Promotes Sales Director Florian Graf
Wertheim, Germany — SMT Maschinen und Vertriebs GmbH has promoted Florian Graf to the position of Sales Director for Europe/Germany. Mr. Graf has been a senior sales manager since 2015 and was responsible for the company's European sales. Now his field of responsibility has been expanded to cover Germany as ...
Tapecon Promotes Jay Ziegler to COO
Buffalo, NY — Tapecon, Inc. has promoted Jay Ziegler to the position of Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ziegler brings a wealth of industry experience and knowledge to his new role. Earlier in his career, he gained experience in the printing industry with entry-level positions of packaging and machine operation ...
Yamaha Promotes Takashi Kimura and Naofumi Tanaka
Kennesaw, GA — Yamaha Motor IM America, Inc., has promoted Takashi Kimura to the position of President, and has moved Naofumi Tanaka to the role of General Manager of Overseas SMT Sales and Marketing. Previously, Mr. Kimura worked for Yamaha Motor IM Suzhou as sales manager before his promotion. He has been ...
Bob Stevenson Joins Essemtec as Business Development Manager
Glassboro, NJ — Essemtec is strengthening its North American position with the addition of Bob Stevenson as its new Business Development Manager. Mr. Stevenson will be responsible for building the company's U.S. market presence and representative network. Mr. Stevenson is well-known throughout the semiconductor ...
C&K Components Names John Boucher CEO
Newton, MA — C&K Components, a manufacturer of switches, smart card readers, and high-rel connectors, has appointed John J. Boucher to the position of CEO. Mr. Boucher brings more than 30 years of diversified experience with leading global companies within the high-tech electronics manufacturing and services ...
Ellsworth Hires Shawn McClarnon as General Sales Manager
Germantown, WI — Ellsworth Adhesives, a distributor of adhesive products and equipment, has hired Keith Shawn McClarnon as its General Sales Manager for the East region. In this role, Mr. McClarnon will be responsible for sales management of the ESRs (engineered sales representatives), and for expanding the ...
Epec Appoints New Regional Sales Manager Ryan Sanford
New Bedford, MA — Epec Engineered Technologies, a provider of manufacturing services to OEMs, has expanded its sales team on the West Coast by hiring Ryan Sanford as its new Regional Sales Manager. He will be responsible for increasing West Coast sales coverage, which has been an issue for the company in the ...
Fuji America: Performance Awards to Paul Notti and Ricardo Fuentes
Vernon Hills, IL — Fuji America Corporation has given awards to Paul Notti and Ricardo Fuentes for different aspects of outstanding sales performance. Mr. Notti was named the company's "2015 Sales Representative of the Year" for his support in developing, quoting and securing overall business for the company ...
IEWC Adds John Mellowes to Board of Directors
Milwaukee, WI — IEWC, a global provider of connectivity solutions, has added John Mellowes to its board of directors. Mr. Mellowes currently serves as the CEO of Charter Manufacturing Company, Inc., a family-owned steel and iron production company, which consists of four manufacturing businesses. Charter employs ...
Morgan Newton Hires Todd Kingrey as VP of Marketing and Sales
Plano, TX — Morgan Newton, an established EMS provider, recently hired Todd Kingrey as its new Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Mr. Kingrey is an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in PCB design, fabrication and assembly. Morgan Newton was established in 1975 and has operated for four decades ...
Axus Technology Appoints Peter Wrschka Director of Process Technology
Chandler, AZ — Axus Technology has appointed Dr. Peter Wrschka to the position of Director of Process Technology. In this role, he will manage the process support team, as well as the Axus Technology Foundry and Process Development facility. Dr. Wrschka's responsibilities include process development and support ...
Bro Craig Joins Prototron Sales Team for Southwest
Tucson, AZ — PCB industry veteran Bro Craig has joined Prototron Circuits to handle the company's sales in its Southwest territory. A part of the industry for nearly 3 decades, Mr. Craig has held key sales positions at a number of companies, and also owned and managed a rep firm for many years. According to ...
CUI Hires Steve Mathis as VP of Global Sales
Tualatin, OR — CUI, Inc., a specialist in the field of power supply design, has hired Steve Mathis as its new Vice President of Global Sales. The appointment is part of CUI's drive to better serve the complex needs of its growing global OEM customer base. The company has expressed its confidence in Mr. Mathis ...
Indium Corporation Promotes Sze Lim and Jonas Sjoberg
Clinton, NY — Indium Corporation has promoted Sze Pei Lim to Regional Product Manager for Semiconductor Products in Asia, and Jonas Sjoberg to the position of Technical Manager for Asia.
Joel Wolnik Returns to Libra Industries as Production Manager
Mentor, OH — Libra Industries, a privately held EMS provider, has regained a veteran of the company, Joel Wolnik, as its Production Manager. Mr. Wolnik worked previously for Libra for more than 20 years in various roles, including as an IT manager and SMT supervisor. In his role as production manager, Mr. Wolnik ...
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What does sustainability mean to you?
Working together to maintain and improve the quality of life that we've established. No matter how much damage we inflict on the environment, our planet will outlive us. The question is, how long will our planet exist in a form that we can maintain our quality of life? Rising sea levels and accelerated climate change (two issues that undoubtedly inflict harm upon the environment) ultimately serve to make Earth less habitable to ourselves. In order to abate and repair the damage done, a mode of thinking and action needs to be adopted that considers the effects we have on our planet—this mode of thinking is sustainability.
What are you doing to help UB become more sustainable?
I lead UB's Chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World, a student club that works to educate both our university and the surrounding community on the benefits of sustainable engineering and sustainable practices. We work on several 'green' projects, which include our solar smoothie cart and our hydroponics project. We're also working with UB facilities to study the impacts and potential benefits of removing paper towels from campus. Outside of my involvement with ESW, I promote sustainability by yelling at strangers if they don't recycle.
How do you involve UB's faculty or staff in your sustainability work?
I've worked with Dr. James Jensen, as he is ESW's faculty adviser. He helps to promote our presence throughout UB, and helps us find research opportunities. Last year, I worked with him and several other ESW members to conduct a study on the effects and possible re-use of a waste effluent produced by UB's composting process.
How has sustainability impacted your academic pursuits?
It really shaped the direction I want to take my studies once I graduate from UB. I've applied for several sustainable themed graduate engineering programs, and I hope to eventually enter the field of sustainable energy generation. I never really saw myself pursuing this subject when I entered UB, but now I couldn't be more sure that it is an area to which I want to dedicate my career to. Besides my post-UB studies, I've tried to specialized within Mechanical Engineering in the area of sustainability - I'm currently engaged in two senior level engineering capstone type courses both of which concern developing renewable energy platforms.
What is the one thing you would like people to know that you do in your personal life to further sustainability?
Think before you throw something out. I've had the opportunity to visit the recycling sorting plant that services UB, and it is amazing the number of items that we recycle here. It further amazes me that so many people at our school choose not to recycle. I always take half a second to stop and think before I chuck something in the trash, and I think it's worth it.
How could UB improve its sustainability efforts?
The following thoughts jump to my mind:
● Bring back the NFTA stickers - these were very cool last year, I'd love to seem them come back in greater force. It'd be nice to have less restrictions on who can get them, and it'd be even better if they worked on the buses as well.
● Implement more post-consumer composting - We have a great pre-consumer composting program at UB, and I think it should continue to be expanded. The efforts to collect from on campus dining locations are awesome, but it would be great to see more opportunities to do post-consumer composting.
● Keep looking into
sources of renewable energy. The Solar Strand is a fantastic
addition to our campus, and I couldn't be happier that I was
able to witness its construction and opening. I'd love to see
UB continue to explore additional sources of alternative power; the
UCSD campus has a sweet fuel cell that is powered by excess gasses
from the city of San Diego's wastewater processing plant,
maybe the technology would transfer (hint hint). So


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CONROE, Texas - A lengthy undercover investigation by a federal task force led to the arrest of a man listed in court documents as a 'general' in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
According to federal court documents obtained by Local 2 Investigates, James Francis Sampsell, who went by the street name 'Skitz,' was arrested following a high speed at the end of January.
Federal investigators wrote that they began surveillance on Sampsell after getting a tip in December that he was staying at a motel in Cleveland and "had ounces of crystal methamphetamine."
Court documents say Sampsell was "known to be the Region 3 General of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas." A Texas Department of Criminal Justice PowerPoint presentation also listed Sampsell as a "steering committee" member for the Brotherhood.
Federal agents wrote that they recorded a transaction between Sampsell and a confidential informant involving the sale of a half ounce of crystal meth for $700 in the parking lot of a grocery store in New Caney. According to federal agents, during the undercover purchase of the drugs, the confidential informant tried to set up another deal with Sampsell to purchase a quarter pound of meth for $4,800.
On January 22, federal agents recorded Sampsell selling the confidential informant the quarter pound of meth in a Walmart parking in Conroe, court documents show.
Federal agents say they tried to arrest Sampsell as he drove out of the parking lot after the undercover purchase of drugs. Court documents claim Sampsell tried to run from Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers and Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies while "throwing baggies of crystal methamphetamine out of the driver's side window." Sampsell was arrested and charged with possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance.
In February, Sampsell was also named in a sweeping federal indictment involving several members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. Officials with the U.S. Attorney's office in Houston wrote Sampsell and other members of the brotherhood had been charged with engaging in racketeering activity, among other crimes.
Bruce Toney, Inspector General for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said the dynamic of the Brotherhood is changing. Toney said members of the Brotherhood traditionally derived their power only while in prison.
"Today, they operate just as efficiently, or more efficiently, on the outside," said Toney. "Their criminal enterprise on the outside today is 10 times what is was just a few years ago."
A statewide assessment of gang activity recently released by the Texas Department of Public Safety lists the Aryan Brotherhood as a "significant" threat.
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Washington: President Barack Obama on Tuesday called North Korea's latest nuclear test a "highly provocative act" that threatens US security and international peace. "The danger posed by North Korea's threatening activities warrants further swift and credible action by the international community," Obama said in a statement issued early on Tuesday.
"The US will also continue to take steps necessary to defend ourselves and our allies." North Korea said it successfully detonated a miniaturized nuclear device at a north-eastern test site on Tuesday. South Korean, US and Japanese seismic monitoring agencies said they detected an earthquake in North Korea with a magnitude between 4.9 and 5.2.
North Korea's official state media said the test was conducted in a safe manner and is aimed at coping with "outrageous" US hostility that "violently" undermines the North's peaceful, sovereign right to launch satellites. Last month, North Korea's National Defense Commission said the US was its prime target for a nuclear test and long-range rocket launches. "These provocations do not make North Korea more secure," Obama said. "Far from achieving its stated goal of becoming a strong and prosperous nation, North Korea has instead increasingly isolated and impoverished its people through its ill-advised pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery."
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday morning on North Korea's nuclear test. South Korea's UN Mission informed reporters early on Tuesday that the closed-door meeting will begin at 9am EST. On Monday, US secretary of state John Kerry discussed North Korea's "continued provocative rhetoric" in a phone call with China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi. That followed earlier conversations with Kerry's counterparts from Japan and South Korea, key US allies in the region.
State department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the three conversations "were remarkably similar" on the importance of implementing the commitments of a January UN resolution that toughened sanctions against Pyongyang and warned of "significant action" if it conducted a nuclear test. That resolution was supported by China, North Korea's only major ally.


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NEWARK, N.J. – Thirteen Rutgers University faculty members have demanded the resignation of the university president, and the New Jersey state assembly speaker has proposed public hearings into the abuse of players by former basketball coach Mike Rice.
The faculty members sent a letter to the Board of Trustees on Wednesday demanding the resignation of President Robert Barchi, alleging the school had hidden facts about Rice for months and fired him only after practice videos, showing Rice abusing players verbally and physically, were made public.
Rice was fired as the public university's basketball coach on Wednesday after ESPN broadcast videos showing him berating players with homophobic slurs over two years of practice sessions, grabbing and kicking them and throwing basketballs at their heads.
Athletic Director Tim Pernetti fined and suspended Rice in December when he was made aware of the video, later admitting after the videos came out that his discipline was not severe enough.
"Although President Barchi is now suggesting otherwise, he has known about Coach Rice's homophobic, misogynist and abusive behavior for several months now," the letter by the faculty members read. "Not only did he not fire Coach Rice, he in essence covered up the coach's actions by failing to tell the faculty and students about them."
State assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver called for public hearings Wednesday into how Rutgers handled the Rice incident.
No specific details on the hearings have been decided, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
The gay rights organization Garden State Equality also requested an outside investigation, alleging Rutgers violated anti-bullying laws passed after student Tyler Clementi's suicide in 2010.
Rutgers' former director of player development, Eric Murdock, reported Rice's behavior to the university and said he was fired last year for complaining about it. Pernetti denied those allegations to ESPN and said Murdock's contract was not renewed due to insubordination.
According to Murdock, at least three players transferred out of the Rutgers program due to Rice's behavior.
Pernetti suspended Rice for three games without pay and fined him $50,000 in December after reviewing hours of tapes that Murdock's lawyer provided.
In other developments:
– Assistant coach Jimmy Martelli resigned his post. People around the Scarlet Knights basketball program referred to Martelli as "Baby Rice", according to ESPN. Martelli exhibited some of the same coaching tactics as Rice, including physical abuse and harsh language.
— It was learned that Rice was entitled to a $100,000 retention bonus under his contract because he was not fired until after Rutgers' basketball season had ended, according to the university. Rutgers paid the coach $655,000 last year, the third year of a five-year contract.


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How do you usually change the value of an Illustrator artwork object's attribute? For example, how do you traditionally change the opacity of an object in your artwork?
In Illustrator CS5.1 (three steps):
- Select the object, and click the arrow of the Opacity field in the Control Panel
- Click and hold the Opacity slider control, move the slider, and release slider to view the new opacity of the object
- If the opacity is not exactly the one you need, repeat the previous step until you get the right opacity.
In Illustrator CS6 (one step):
- Select the object, position the mouse pointer over the Opacity field in the Control Panel, and scroll your mouse wheel.
That's it! It really is that simple. The artwork is modified as you scroll, and you can keep scrolling until you get the desired effect. You will notice an amazing advantage right away – you don't have to take your eyes off the artwork while you are modifying it!
Check out this video, for a short demo of the feature that I just described…
- One step at a time too slow for your workflow? Press SHIFT while you scroll, and the value of the opacity increases or decreases in steps of ten.
- Missing the slider? The opacity field now has a pop-out list, with increments in the tens (10%, 20%, etc.). It is much faster to set these values it with a pop-out list than with a slider. Pop-out lists containing standard increments are available for popular controls like font size or stroke weight. You're not going to be missing that slider for too long :-).
- Prefer your keyboard to get the right value, right away? While this is a departure from what you have experienced in Illustrator earlier (the slider not being available), in addition to the two new ways of changing the value (scrolling and the pop-out list), the previous two methods of changing the opacity have been retained:
- You can still manually type the exact value of the opacity you want
- You can click the opacity field, and use your keyboards up and down arrow keys to change the value.
All fields in Illustrator CS6 that have numeric values, or have lists with standard values, can be manipulated with just your scroll mouse.
There actually is a lot more! Adobe Illustrator CS6 is different from previous versions in many ways. While the team has toiled away at making it faster, providing native 64-bit support, and adding and fine-tuning features, there are quite a bit of smaller changes that have been made it into this version. Many of these are GUI-related value-adds and tweaks that make it easier and faster to work with the Illustrator CS6 interface. While we compile a comprehensive list of the rest of the changes in Illustrator CS6, I wanted to draw attention to this one useful aspect of the GUI.
Watch out for the entire list – coming soon!


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Christmas in April
Finally, an A.C. power source that's perfect for smaller boats.
By Capt. Bill Pike — April 2004
For a couple of years now, the Christmas Boat Parade we do here in Ochlockonee Bay, Florida, has caused me a spot of trouble. The reason's simple enough. Partly because my 23-foot boat, the Scrumpy Vixen, is a little small for a big ol' chunk of gasoline-fired auxiliary equipment, and partly because I'm into keeping things simple (boats included), I have no genset onboard.
While I sometimes chide myself with the apothegm that the smaller and simpler a watercraft is, the easier she is to use, maintain, and pay for (usually while ogling ads for three-stateroom trawlers with big gensets), every year since I began participating in the local yuletide parade I've had to rent a portable generator to power the Christmas lights I use on the Scrump. Such a state of affairs would be no big deal for most folks, I guess. But for me, a guy who's as sold on frugality as he is on simplicity, it's pretty disconcerting. Renting generators every Christmas costs me about a $100 a throw, in addition to lots of transportation time and inconvenience, since the nearest rental store is 40 miles away.
Next year's gonna be different, though. I just finished installing a compact, weather-resistant, 1,000-watt, true-sine-wave inverter from Charles Industries (retail price: $999.99), and from what I can tell so far, the thing works like a champ. Not only does my new On-the-Go inverter silently and unobtrusively power up stuff like boomboxes and laptop computers, it also energizes Christmas lights. But more about that later.
First, let me fill you in on some critical aspects of the installation, starting with a few words about the time and expertise required to do the job. Charles advertises On-the-Go as a "plug-n-play" unit so uncomplicated and complete that an average boater can rapidly install one himself, and perhaps even transfer it occasionally to an RV or truck for travel and tailgate parties. "Installation is as simple as attaching the ring terminals to the battery and screwing the unit to the boat," the company states. While all this may be true in some cases, the install on the Scrump turned out to be semipermanent and took more than six hours of planning and work, as well as a goodly number of power tools and no small amount of expertise in the realm of boat maintenance and repair.
Routing was my first challenge. I needed to somehow run two battery cables from the inverter unit (which I'd decided to put in the wheelhouse to keep it out of the weather) to the Scrump's battery bank, located under a hatch in the cockpit sole, about three feet forward of the transom. For starters, the four-foot, ring-terminal-equipped cables I'd received with the inverter unfortunately were not long enough to bridge the gap between the batteries and the inverter. So I had to ask Charles to send me a set of optional #2-gauge 10-foot battery cables. They cost $69 and arrived within a few days.
The ensuing hookup was not straightforward, however. Not long after starting the process, I realized I was going to have to forego attaching the cables directly to a battery as suggested in the inverter owner's manual—doing so would have required me to drill holes in some of the Scrump's watertight bulkheads, extend my cable runs to 20 feet or more, or route them over a welded-aluminum fuel tank, options that all seemed inelegant at best. Instead, with the help and advice of the technical folks at Charles, I decided to attach the cables to my three-way Perko battery switch, a strategy that seriously facilitated the installation. I did this by simply bolting the output end of the positive cable (red) onto the positive, engine-feed stud on the back of the switch and bolting the output end of the negative cable (black) to the ground terminal of the boat. I then attached one end of the green ground wire for the inverter to the boat's ground terminal.
Next page > Part 2: Once my On-the-Go inverter was completely installed, it worked superbly from the first flick of the switch. > Page 1, 2, 3
This article originally appeared in the March 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Spring Fling!
When L'Oréal called and asked if we'd like to cover the Cannes Film Festival, I'm pretty sure I choked and then said, "Yes, that'd be lovely, thanks."
So last Monday a car picked me up and drove me to the airport with three and a half hours until takeoff. At hour two, the panic set in. "This is a record," my driver said. "In all my years of driving to JFK, it's never taken this long." We check in with 59 seconds to spare (seriously), and even though Country Strong is a movie option, I sleep.
Eight hours later we land in Nice, and our driver, who looks like James Bond with crisp tanned skin, a sleek gray suit, and shiny Ray-Bans, weaves along the coast until we get to the Hotel Martinez on Le Croisette in Cannes. There are hundreds of people outside, and they start to cheer as the car door opens. I can only imagine their disappointment when I emerge, but on the way to my room, I'll pass Ryan Gosling and feel better knowing he'll have to leave eventually and the crowd will get a peek at someone worth the wait.
P.S. Nick Axelord, ELLE's fashion news writer, is in Cannes too, and this is me on his balcony pointing at all the little people (as in small from a distance). Also, I should mention that later I'll learn that one woman waited outside for seven hours just to see Patrick Dempsey hop from his car into the hotel lobby.
At 4:15 P.M., Stephane and Catherine rang my doorbell. The former would tackle my hair and the latter my makeup. The destination? The Palais de Festival for the premiere of Jodie Foster's The Beaver.
Catherine asked what I usually wear on my face. "A bit of blush, lots of mascara," I said. "Good!" she replied. "We will go natural."
Not quite. But it's the red carpet, so I went with the purple eye shadow and layers of eyeliner—it was fun!
I told Stephane I wanted loose, natural hair but pulled back off my face. I later found out that in their 14 years of sponsoring Cannes, L'Oréal's gone through 5,726 cans of Elnet hairspray. So Stephane handed me a shield and went to town fulfilling his hair-spraying duties.
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A KNIFEMAN threatened staff in a town centre travel agent before making off with stolen foreign currency.
Employees at Thomson Travel Agents in Blackburn Road, Accrington were threatened with a kitchen knife as the robber demanded money.
Detectives are now hunting a man in his 30s who entered the shop wearing dark clothing.
He forced staff to open the safe and escaped with an undisclosed sum of cash, in various currencies before leaving on foot through the main entrance at around 10am yesterday.
There were no customers in the store during the armed robbery. After the incident employees closed the shop to speak with police officers, directing customers to a main customer service number.
Traders and shoppers spoke of their shock following the incident, across the road from Accrington Market Hall.
One said: "I am quite concerned this has happened yards away from where I trade. I'm concerned about the staff too. They're nice people in the travel agents and shouldn't have had to go through this. I hope they catch him."
Shopper Natalie Owen, from Accrington said: "I think this is just awful. People should be able to go to work or go shopping without dealing with this happening."
Market hall cafe owner Peter Britcliffe said: "This is just terrible news and shocking it has happened on the doorstep. I hope the staff are OK and that police catch the person responsible. It is really quite horrible."
Detective Sergeant Ian Procter said: "Fortunately nobody was hurt during this robbery but this is a serious offence and I would reassure people that an investigation is underway. I'd also appeal to anybody that witnessed this incident or saw anybody acting suspiciously in the area around the time of the robbery to contact police."
The offender is described as being white, aged in his 30s and with a heavy build. He was wearing a dark jacket and dark hat. Anyone with information is asked to call independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or Lancashire police on 101.


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CLEVELAND (AP) -- A sex offender suspected of killing three Ohio women is due back in court for a pretrial hearing as his attorneys fight a possible death sentence.
Thirty-six-year-old Michael Madison is charged with killing the women and leaving their bodies in trash bags in a rundown East Cleveland neighborhood. He has pleaded not guilty.
A pretrial hearing is scheduled Thursday morning in Cleveland.
Defense attorneys want the judge to rule out the death penalty, which they say is imposed in an arbitrary and discriminatory fashion in Ohio.
The prosecutor decided after a review to seek the death penalty based on the three homicides and the risk he says Madison poses to the public.
The bodies were found in July after police were called about an odor coming from a garage.


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But it had not been in Tess's power - nor is it in anybody's power - to feel the whole truth of golden opinions while it is possible to profit by them. She - and how many more - might have ironically said to God with Saint Augustine, "Thou hast counselled a better course than thou hast permitted."
http://www.copticpope.org/This appears to be the announcement. Can someone translate?
Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in the delivery of full to the will of the Lord, and in full faith by submitting to his will, convey to the people of Egypt and the world and the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt and the world, The Departure of His Holiness our Father beloved Pope Shenouda III , Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Episcopate, the 117Saint of our times and patron of our sponsors and head Osaagaftna, who moved in the hope of resurrection and joined to the church of virgins and the ranks of the saints at a quarter past five pm Saturday, March 17, 2012 We pray for the departure of his soul pure, and condolences all of us will bring you the details successively after the convening of the Holy Synod.
Interestingly, in Arabic, he is called "Baba", which means "Daddy".
Sorrounded by so many cold and unwelcoming faces, I feel like I am embraced by angelic warmth whenever I see the face of H.H Pope Shenouda. He will be missed greatly. A tough challenge for the one who replaces his chair. Who are the potential candidates?
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The package of announcements from Shell will send a shiver through the oil and gas industry. After years of resisting investor pressure for more immediate gratification, the company which more than any other regards itself as a social institution dedicated to the long term, has blinked. Capex is to be radically reduced. Costs are to be cut with a sharp knife. $15bn of assets are to be sold – enough in themselves to form a medium sized company. And the dividend is to be increased. There is a touch of theatricality in combining a profits warning with a dividend increase but the show satisfied the immediate audience. The shares rose. For the rest of the sector, Shell's ability to deliver in this way poses a dangerous challenge.
Underperformance is endemic across the industry. Investment always needs to be increased, the rewards are always promised for tomorrow. Among investors are innumerable funds whose need for cash returns is urgent. Since the downturn of 2008 the market has clearly become more short term and less tolerant of those who live on promises of a golden future which is always just over the horizon. Under pressure Shell has been able to make the adjustment, demonstrating that it can quickly cut enough to deliver a material and sustainable dividend increase even when oil and gas prices are flat to falling. That is a real measure of strength, as is BP's ability to absorb a loss of $50bn to pay the bill for Macondo. Very few companies in the world have that capacity. Read more


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Click here, or on the image above, for some scenes from The Crimson Ghost (1946)
From the sublime to the ridiculous, but then again, it's nearly Halloween, and suddenly it struck me; why doesn't someone do a reboot of The Crimson Ghost, easily one of the most memorable criminal masterminds of the 1940s American cinema. Just take a look – the guy is a natural!
Sadly, as with many Republic films, The Crimson Ghost never made it to DVD; almost nobody knows about the character except for historians. The only reason most people know about The Crimson Ghost today is because the rock and roll band The Misfits adopted the Ghost's grim visage as their signature logo.
The original production was a 1946 serial that ran for twelve chapters, clocking in at an epic 167 minutes, completed at a total negative cost of just $161,174, which was still $23,262 over budget. Even today, adjusted for inflation, that's only $1,940,986.60. Budget it now at say, $10,000,000. Keep the CGI down, make it simply and cheaply, use a lot of great stuntmen for the fight sequences, and you've got a winner. It has to be better than the recent reboot of The Green Lantern, if tackled intelligently — which is always the problem. The original played it completely straight — a reboot, just like Batman Begins, would only succeed if it did the same.
The Crimson Ghost was produced by Republic Pictures, easily the best of the classic Hollywood action studios; the director, William Witney — assisted on the dialogue scenes by Fred C. Brannon — was a master of his craft, and one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite auteurs. The Crimson Ghost offered nonstop fight scenes, explosions, car crashes, and centered on the Crimson Ghost's inevitable plan for world domination, which he very nearly pulled off.
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Spring 2013 Newsletter
In this issue:
- From the Section Chair
- Upcoming Section Meeting
- Past Meetings
- Outreach Grants
- Opportunities for Students
- Spring 2013 Election
From the Section Chair
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Greetings! It has been two years since the publication of our last newsletter. How time flies! The NY Section has had another two outstanding years, the highlights of which we hope to bring to you in this issue. First, the membership. APS maintains statistical data related to its units at http://www.aps.org/membership/units/statistics.cfm. The chart below shows how our membership has held steady in the past five years, almost tracking the national trend. Our section makes up approximately 5.2% of the APS membership, thus making us one of the four largest sections.
Having a healthy membership is important because this is what generates our funding, with which we are able to run our biannual symposia, support students, teachers, and retirees, and fund outreach grants. We have room to grow however. There are approximately 4000 APS members who live in NY state but only 2500 of those are affiliated with the NY section. If you or one of your colleagues is an APS member who has not signed up for the NY section, please do this, or urge them to do so, now. Joining a section is free and it can be done with the click of a button at: http://www.aps.org/units/nyss. Please join now!
The New York Section promotes the latest physics and scientific research by bringing together physicists from industry, government laboratories and academia for topical symposia twice a year at a variety of locations around New York State. Students at all levels are most welcome and are strongly encouraged to register and attend, for each symposium is intended to be tutorial in nature. Students can register for a modest fee and we provide travel support for students up to $100 per student. Each symposium has a contributed poster session and cash awards are given for the best student posters; the amount of these awards has recently been increased. The Section also supports outreach activities through grants awarded twice a year. We now offer three outreach grants for a maximum of $1000 per grant. More information can be found on the APS-NYSS web site.
Several excellent symposia were held in the last two years. You will find highlights from each elsewhere in the newsletter. I would also like to draw your attention to our spring meeting. It will be hosted by Wells College in the beautiful Finger Lakes region on April 19th and 20th. The topic is "Recent Advances in Physics." Please register early. We look forward to seeing you there.
This year is once again an election year for us. We are looking to fill seven Executive Committee member-at-large positions in addition to the Secretary Treasurer and Vice Chair (Chair Elect). One of the open positions was caused by an early resignation. Our nominating committee has worked hard to put together an excellent slate. I urge you to participate and vote! Please also consider running for a position on the executive board at our next election two years from now.
Lastly, my tenure as chair of the NYS Section ends after the spring symposium. The Section remains in the hands of some very capable and dedicated people. Serving as chair was a great learning experience for me and I have enjoyed working with this group immensely. I would like to thank all of you who I have had the privilege of meeting and working with, and I look forward to continuing to serve our section in other ways.
Best Wishes,
Sunil Labroo
SUNY College at Oneonta
Spring 2013 Symposium
Our 108th Topical Symposium will be hosted by Wells College in Aurora, NY on April 19th and 20th. Aurora is located on the east shore of Cayuga Lake about mid-way between Auburn and Ithaca, and around 25 miles south of the NYS Thruway. Physics has enjoyed some major breakthroughs of late, both evolutionary and revolutionary, and so the conference organizers have chosen the theme "Recent Advances in Physics." The meeting will feature a session on the recent experimental confirmation of the Higgs boson, with a keynote talk by Carl Hagan of the University of Rochester, who with two other theorists predicted the Higgs boson in a famous 1967 Physical Review Letter. There will also be talks on advances in materials physics and medical/health physics, and on careers and outreach.
Further information about the program, travel and housing, registration, etc will be posted on the NYSSAPS.org web site as it becomes available.
Past meetings
A complete list of past NYSS meetings, which in their current form date from 1959, was compiled for our 2011 Newsletter and may be found on the APS web site at www.aps.org/units/nyss/meetings. It is interesting to see how the themes of the meetings have evolved over more than five decades! Also available at the same APS web page is a map of past meeting locations from 1977 to 1999.
Since Fall 2009 the upcoming meetings have been announced on the Section's "unofficial" web site at NYSSAPS.org. These announcements have been archived on the same web site as NYSSAPS.org/Fall2009 etc. Follow the links below to access this archived information - which includes the complete programs of talks presented - for the most recent past four Symposia.
104th Symposium, Spring 2011, CNSE, Albany
105th Symposium, Fall 2011, SUNY College at Oneonta
106th Symposium, Spring 2012, Binghamton University
107th Symposium, Fall 2012, Canisius College
Spring 2011 Meeting
Our 104th Topical Symposium on the "Physics of Carbon Electronics" was held April 8-9, 2011 at the Albany Nanotech Center. The meeting was hosted and supported in part by the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) in conjunction with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights. The organizers were Ji-ung Lee and Carl Ventrice from CNSE and Jim Hannon from IBM. Keynote speakers were Phillip Kim (Columbia University) and Manish Chhowalla (Rutgers University), who spoke on graphene-based electronics and the physical and chemical properties of graphene oxide, respectively. The lively Friday evening talk featured Alain Kaloyeros, CEO of CNSE. The high point of the meeting for many was the tour of the $7 billion nanotech fabrication facility on Saturday.
CNSE nano-fabrication facility
Student poster event
Fall 2011 Meeting
Our 105th Topical Symposium was held October 7-8, 2011, at SUNY College at Oneonta. The theme "Superconductivity and Applications" was chosen to celebrate the 100th year of the discovery of superconductivity. This was a joint meeting with the NYS Section of AAPT, and AAPT conducted a PTRA workshop for high school teachers on Saturday. The symposium was attended by approximately 120 students, academics, high school teachers, engineers, and physicists from around the state. Nine distinguished speakers delivered talks on the history, recent advances, and many applications of superconductivity. The highlight of the symposium was the after-dinner lecture by the 1973 Physics Nobel Laureate Dr. Ivar Giaever. There were seven student poster presentations and three of those won cash awards. The symposium was supported in part by funds from the SUNY Oneonta Provosts office and SuperPower Inc., a Schenectady based company.
Erika Snow once again brought a large group of Fredonia students
Student poster award winners (L to R):Phillip Arndt (SUNY Fredonia) Anthony Frachioni (SUNY Binghamton) Scott Suriano (SUNY Oneonta)
Keynote speaker: Dr Ivar Giaever (1973 Nobel Prize)
Spring 2012 Meeting
Following a fall that saw devastating flooding in upstate New York, the 106th Topical Symposium of the NYSS-APS took place at Binghamton University April 20-21, 2012. Over 110 people participated. The symposium topic was Energy Materials and it featured invited talks on materials issues associated with energy generation, storage, and transmission. (See below for a summary of the talks provided by Bruce White, the symposium organizer.) The keynote lecture was by Prof. Max Zhang (Cornell University) on energy policy. Twenty undergraduate and graduate students from around the state presented their research at the poster session. Graduate students Jun Yin, Debbie Williams, and Siva Adusumilli, and Binghamton undergraduate Mikell Senger, received best poster awards along with a cash prize of $200. Thanks to a generous donation from the Dean of Harpur College at Binghamton University, this exciting conference was revenue neutral for the New York State section.
Prof. Stan Whittingham (Binghamton University), inventor of the lithium ion battery, discussed the physics and materials science involved in producing next generation battery technologies for the transportation sector. In the area of high temperature superconductors, Dr. Qiang Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory) discussed prospects for using these materials for energy transmission as well as energy storage. Photovolatics were discussed with Prof. Eric Schiff (Syracuse University) focusing on light trapping technologies for photovoltaics and methods for exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit for efficiency while Dr. Oki Gunawan (IBM) discussed emerging thin film photovoltaics and progress towards generating terawatt scale photovoltaic energy generation using earth abundant photon absorbers. Prof. Louis Piper (Binghamton University) discussed the use of synchrotron based spectroscopy techniques to shine light on the physical mechanisms that currently limit solid oxide based fuel cells. Dr. Manisha Rane-Fondacaro (CNSE -University at Albany) discussed novel ionic liquid electrolytes and their use in supercapacitor based energy storage. Dr. Mark Soulierre (Corning Incorporated), discussed the prospects and issues associated with the use of thermoelectric materials in automobiles to reduce CO2 emissions and improve fuel efficiency. Finally, Mr. Anthony Frachioni, an undergraduate at Binghamton University, discussed opportunities for using Anderson localization of phonons in thermoelectric thin films to greatly improve their energy generating efficiency.
Conference dinner and poster session
Bruce White and Sunil Labroo
Fall 2012 Meeting
The Physics of Water was the topic of the 107th Topical Symposium, which was held on October 19-20, 2012 at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. The symposium was attended by about 90 participants from NY state and neighboring Pennsylvania. They included students, academics, high school teachers, engineers, and physicists. There were nine distinguished speakers that gave talks on such diverse topics as hydrology, cloud formation, hydrophobic surfaces, physical chemistry, and a quantum mechanical treatment of water. Dr. Robin Bell of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University gave the keynote lecture on changes to the ice sheet in Antarctica. The Friday afternoon talks were held in the Montante Cultural Center, a 74-year-old landmark Byzantine-Lombardic church that had been repurposed as a performing arts facility and campus auditorium. Seven students presented posters on their various research activities, with four receiving cash awards. The symposium was supported in part by the colleges Dean of Arts and Sciences and by TeachSpin, a Buffalo company that designs and markets innovative apparatus for advanced laboratory courses. After the conference, TeachSpin provided tours of their headquarters and factory.
Montante Cultural Center at Canisius College
Outreach Grants
An important NYSS-APS activity is the support we provide for projects that "increase public understanding and appreciation of physics" particularly for K-12 students. Grants are available up to a maximum of $1,000 with some additional funds available for personal expenses. Grant applications are considered at the semi-annual Executive Committee meetings and are due two weeks in advance of these meetings. For furher information visit the APS web page for our unit or contact Harold Hastings (email@example.com), chair of the outreach committee.
In the following we describe an exemplary outreach program in Buffalo, NY, supported in part by a recent NYS Section grant. The program was conceived and run by two graduate students at the University at Buffalo, George Lindberg and Justin Perron. (Perron is currently at the Joint Quantum Institute in Maryland.) The following description is the abstract for a talk entitled "Science Days: Graduate Student Run Outreach on a Budget" that they will present at the March APS meeting.
We will describe a new and ongoing program at the University at Buffalo (UB) aimed at exposing underrepresented K-12 students to the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. This program has been an entirely graduate student run effort, from idea to inception and finally through implementation. Graduate students, under supervision from faculty members, received a grant from NYSS-APS and matching funds from Physics, Chemistry, and Biology departments at UB. Graduate students set up an outreach program that buses students from inner city Buffalo to UB campus to participate in STEM-based activities. We have held two three-hour events so far. Each event involved ~30 students, 99% of which are from underrepresented demographics. Their responses to brief questionnaires showed overwhelming positive views of the event and their genuine interest in science. We will discuss what has made this program a success including what faculty members have done and can do, to support the effort while still leaving it entirely in the graduate students' hands.
George Lindberg will give a similar presentation at our upcoming Spring 2013 Section meeting, and has provided this picture from one of the outreach events.
Student Research and Presentation Opportunities
Our NYSS Topical Symposia provide a wonderful opportunity for regional undergraduate physics students to be exposed to a wide range of current physics topics and to meet and network with a variety of physicists and physics teachers who have pursued diverse careers. There are similar opportunities within New York State that can be just as rewarding, and we described three of them in detail in our 2011 newsletter. Here we update this information.
- The 32nd annual Rochester Symposium for Physics Students (RSPS) will take place on Saturday April 6th at the University of Rochester. For further information, visit the RSPS web site or contact Janet Fogg-Twichell at (585) 275-6679 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
- The Syracuse University Physics Department holds an "Undergraduate Research Day and Open House" each fall. The 7th annual URD took place on December 1st, 2012. We hear that the event "was a great success with 60-plus students and faculty from 8 institutions in New York State attending. The program included 12 student research talks, 16 student poster presentations, four research seminars from Syracuse faculty, a tour of Syracuse physics research laboratories, and a lecture on career options for physics majors delivered by a faculty member from the Physics Department at SUNY Oswego." The date of the 2013 URD has not yet been set. Contact Matthew LaHaye, physics chair at Syracuse, for further information.
- The Symposium on Undergraduate [Optics] Research is held in conjunction with the annual Frontiers in Optics (FiO) joint meetings of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society (APS-DLS). The 12th annual Symposium with over 40 student presentations took place in Rochester on Monday, October 15th, 2012. The Symposium began with a box lunch at which plenary speakers from the conference spoke informally with the students. The 2013 Symposium will be in Orlando on October 7th. Contact Harold Metcalf at Stony Brook for further information.
Research and presentation opportunities for high school students are also important for promoting physics. A number of such summer opportunities were described in our 2011 Newsletter. Two further opportunities are:
- The Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) at the City College of New York (CCNY) runs photonics training programs for young students from middle school through college.
- The Army Educational Outreach Program funds summer apprenticeship programs for high school students and undergraduates in a variety of fields. Physics opportunities in New York State are available at the University of Rochester and the City College of New York. See the summer apprenticeship programs web page for further information.
We hope that APS members will help disseminate this information to their local high schools and high school physics teachers.
Spring 2013 Election
The current makeup of the Executive Committee is shown below. Jill Linz (Skidmore College) was a member-at-large but has resigned for personal reasons. The committee thanks her for her past efforts and wishes her the best. Terms of office expire on May 1st of the year indicated. Michael Rogers will become Chair on May 1st, 2013 and the outgoing Chair will serve as APS Council Observer for a two-year term.
Sunil Labroo (SUNY Oneonta) [2011–2013]
Michael Rogers (Ithaca College) [2011–2013]
Gianfranco Vidali (Syracuse University) [2009–2013]
James Hannon (IBM TJ Watson Research Center) [2009–2013]
Michael Kotlarchyk (Rochester Institute of Technology) [2009–2013]
John Noé (SUNY Stony Brook) [2009–2013]
Stacie Nunes (SUNY New Paltz) [2009–2013]
Erica Snow (SUNY Fredonia) [2009–2013]
Bruce White (SUNY Binghamton) [2009–2013]
Harold Hastings (Hofstra University) [2011–2015]
Scott Heinekamp (Wells College) [2011–2015]
Jay Newman (Union College) [2011–2015]
David Trauernicht (Kodak R & D) [2011–2015]
Michael Wood (Canisius College) [2011–2015]
Candidates for the 2013 election were selected by a nominating committee that initially included three section members-at-large: Bodhi Rogers (chair), Jill Linz, and Harold Hastings. An additional, external, member, Jim Owens, was selected by the Executive Director of APS, Kate Kirby. Owens is a past NYS Section chair.
The election slate is given below. The resignation of Jill Linz created another 2 year opening for a member-at-large. Bruce White (SUNY Binghamton) will run for Chair-Elect and Gianfranco Vidali (Syracuse University) will run again for Secretary-Treasurer. There are a total of seven candidates for the seven at-large positions to be filled. Current members Sunil Labroo (SUNY Oneonta), John Noé (SUNY Stony Brook), and Erica Snow (SUNY Fredonia) have agreed to stand for re-election. The new nominees are Carl Ventrice (CNSE Albany), Mike Hennessy (MTECH Laboratory), Ken Podolak (SUNY Plattsburgh), and Natalia Connolly (Hamilton College).
You will have already received an email announcement from Gianfranco that contains a link to the APS election site. If you have not already done so, please study the biographies and statements from the candidates given there carefully and cast your vote for up to six of the candidates. (As we have done in the past, the candidate with the lowest vote count will serve the two year term.) The election will close on March 22nd so please cast your vote soon. The statements from the candidates can also be reached by clicking on their names below.
Candidate for Chair-Elect (unopposed)
- Bruce White (SUNY Binghamton)
Candidate for Secretary-Treasurer (unopposed)
- Gianfranco Vidali (Syracuse University)
Candidates for Member-at-Large († denotes current member)
- Natalia Connolly (Hamilton College)
- Mike Hennessy (MTECH Laboratory)
- Sunil Labroo (SUNY Oneonta) †
- John Noé (SUNY Stony Brook) †
- Ken Podolak (SUNY Plattsburgh)
- Erica Snow (SUNY Fredonia) †
- Carl Ventrice (CNSE, University at Albany)
This newsletter has been compiled and edited by John Noé (Stony Brook University), who is solely responsible for its content.


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