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You probably weren't at the Orange Bowl on June 24. You probably spent that Saturday rejoicing at the end of a week of torrential rain. Maybe you went to the beach, or headed out to a park for a picnic. There's a good chance you were at home, using a blow dryer to dehydrate your living room.
In any event, you probably missed the Canadian Football League's debut in Miami. Under a gray but rainless sky, the Birmingham Barracudas lost to Baltimore in a game of football the likes of which the Orange Bowl had never seen. The field was 110 yards long, a good fire truck longer than normal. The field was wider, too, by eleven and a half yards. There were twelve men to a team instead of eleven, and three downs per possession instead of four. That's right - on the turf where Joe Namath won his Super Bowl, where Bob Griese led the Dolphins to an undefeated season, and where Bruce Dern crashed his blimp in the movie Black Sunday, a huge red maple leaf was stenciled onto the turf, right on the 55-yard line.
The thought of such a heretical game being played in such a football shrine was anathema to most Miamians, who avoided the event as if it were a bad vaudeville show -- unnecessary entertainment in an entertainment-rich city. Why invest the time and effort to see second-rate Canadian football when the legendary Hurricanes and the revered Dolphins (of the truly professional National Football League) beckon for your attention. And on that pleasant Saturday evening after the interminable rains, you surely had something better to do. You probably weren't there.
Or maybe you were. Maybe you were in the surprisingly large announced crowd of 20,250 -- an attendance figure so unbelievable that most reporters covering the game flat out didn't believe it. Maybe you were bused in with your church group or your youth group or your summer camp or some other organization that was showered with free tickets. Maybe you were one of the very few people who actually paid to attend the game.
More than likely, though, if you were there, you were a person who had some stake in the outcome, a person such as Miami Mayor Steve Clark, City Manager Cesar Odio, or City Commissioner Victor De Yurre, the leadership cadre desperate to find something, anything, no matter what the cost, to occupy the stadium and fill the void left by the Dolphins (who split in 1987) and the collegiate Orange Bowl event (set to split after one more post-season extravaganza).
Canadian Football League commissioner Larry Smith also was there, along with other league executives, most of whom spent the bulk of the game in the VIP box high above the stadium, eating cubes of cheddar cheese, drinking from the free bar, and watching the crowd more than anything, trying to determine if their financially shaky league could make it in Miami. It would be nice to have a team in such a major market instead of in typical small-time Shreveport or Regina, Saskatchewan. A Miami team could certainly help the league get the network TV contract it needs to survive. But a Miami squad would also be the first CFL team to compete for fan interest head-to-head against an NFL team. Could it be done? Was there room for both?
Bruce Frey was there, of course. He is the eternally tan Palm Beach Gardens millionaire who created this exhibition contest. In just five weeks, he found the teams, an airline to fly them down, and hotels to put them up. Working full-time on the project, he rounded up sponsors and seduced City of Miami officials so completely that they gave him the Orange Bowl free of charge. The game was broadcast on cable TV to 23 million potential viewers.
Frey cooked up the idea of such a game because he needed to show Commissioner Smith that the CFL could work in Miami, a crucial test in light of the fact that Frey needed to own a football team. Owning a professional sports franchise would give him something to do in semi-retirement besides hanging around his Palm Beach Gardens home playing with his three dogs. And he adored football.
He had dreamed of owning a professional football team since he was a kid on Chicago's South Side, watching such Monsters of the Midway as linebacker Bill George and tight end Mike Ditka play for the Chicago Bears. The desire intensified dramatically with age and the accumulation of wealth and was frustrated by two failed efforts to buy the Miami Dolphins and another to purchase the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Despite those setbacks, the commanding sense of purpose that helped Frey make millions in the obscure but lucrative field of distressed real estate also kept him focused on the goal of ownership. Even if that meant the crazy Canadian Football League; even if the conventional wisdom held that the league will not, cannot, make it in Miami; even if people began publicly questioning his sanity. He was going to own a football team. It was going to be called the Miami Manatees. It would play in the Orange Bowl. And it would be a success.
From the moment Frey announced that an exhibition game would be held in the Orange Bowl, attendance was the principal issue. If he could draw a large crowd to the stands, he could more easily convince the CFL that Miami was ready for its peculiar brand of football. Frey did what he could to ensure a good turnout: All proceeds would be donated to the surviving victims of the Oklahoma City bombing; kids who brought a get-well card for Oklahoma would get in free; and, for safety's sake, 35,000 free tickets were handed out. "If only 7000 people show up," Frey said a day before the event, "I'll be at the corner bar knocking back a drink."
Most of the freebies were given to Miami city employees and to any businesses associated with the game. Frey boasted about the level of corporate support, but judging from the posters that lined the playing field, that didn't stretch much past the radio-station variety: Continental Airlines, which flew the teams down; the Eden Roc Hotel, which hosted one team; and Kenny Rogers Roasters, which provided the garlic potatoes for the press, received one poster apiece. Most of the posters touted the City of Miami or the International Trade Board or some other governmental body. The major private sponsor was PacifiCare, the fourth-largest managed health care company in the nation. For $30,000 PacifiCare got its name printed on the tickets and was allowed to make an announcement at halftime. "The sole attractive piece to me was the link to charity and the link to Oklahoma," said Rich Harris, a PacifiCare vice president. "It was more along those lines than the merit of the CFL at this moment."
The saturation of the market with free tickets was obvious outside the stadium only minutes before kickoff. Scalpers had surrendered long before, realizing that not even three dollars was cheap enough for the fans. Dozens of men attempted to unload scores of tickets they'd picked up at their places of work. "Anybody need tickets? Anybody want tickets?" shouted Frank, an older man wearing a white Notre Dame baseball cap. He stood at the west end of the stadium. "I can't give 'em away," he lamented, adding that Canadian football is an exciting game. "This will catch on some day, but I don't know about down here. They've already got the Dolphins."
A few yards away, another man -- an employee of the Miami parks and recreation department -- nearly harassed passersby into taking some tickets off his hands. "I had a busload of 119 kids that were supposed to be here," he grumbled, "but only two showed up."
Maybe the kids simply didn't want to see Canadian football, a watered-down cousin of the NFL. Founded in 1891, the Canadian Football League is one of the oldest professional sports leagues in existence. It is also one of the oddest. Its legendary teams are in remote locales such as Winnipeg and Edmonton. The league's star players are NFL washouts such as Doug Flutie and his brother Darren. Two CFL teams share the same nickname, while one team doesn't have a nickname at all. One franchise actually drafted a player who had been dead for several months.
In the late 1950s, the CFL was roughly equal to the National Football League in both the number of teams and attendance rates. Then the NFL signed on with CBS television, which helped make it the premier sports league in the world. Without a network contract, the CFL drifted into obscurity. Once popular teams like the Edmonton Eskimos saw their season-ticket sales drop from 52,000 in 1983 to only 15,000 last year. The Montreal team folded. Teams in Toronto, Ottawa, and Regina threatened to follow suit.
Larry Smith was given the task of saving the enterprise. A former running back for Montreal, Smith was working as an executive at the Labatt's Brewing Company in 1992 when the league named him its new commissioner. He accepted the job with a mandate for growth. Expansion remains critical to the financially strapped league because each new team kicks in three million dollars as a sort of initiation fee, money that is then used to prop up the struggling Canadian clubs. The more new teams, the more money there is to go around. In 1993, recognizing the limits of growth within Canada, Smith decided to expand into the United States. Franchises were awarded over the next two years to Las Vegas, Sacramento, Baltimore, Shreveport, Birmingham, and San Antonio.
Since then, the first two American franchises have moved or folded. And the nicknameless Baltimore club, considered the big success story because of its league-leading attendance last year, actually lost more than a million dollars and padded its gate by giving away more than 10,000 tickets every game.
The owner of the Las Vegas Posse never bothered to conduct any market research and as a result didn't know that Las Vegas is a horrible sports town. He budgeted for sellouts every game at the 32,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium. He spent thousands of dollars he didn't have on advertising. He even spent $100,000 just for the rights to negotiate with Charlie Ward, the Heisman Trophy winner from Florida State University. (Ward chose to play basketball for the New York Knicks instead.)
Because of such mismanagement, the Posse folded after only one season. In the draft that disbursed the Posse's players around the league, the Ottawa Rough Riders selected a guard named Derrell Robertson, unaware that Robertson had died in a car crash months earlier. "I don't know how it happened," Ottawa coach Jim Golstrap told reporters.
It was about this time that Bruce Frey was flipping around his cable TV and ended up clicking on ESPN2 and a Canadian Football League contest. He noticed that this version of the game was faster and generally more exciting than NFL games. He also noticed A and this was most important -- that the Las Vegas Posse was available. Through the flickering glow of a television screen, Bruce Frey saw his destiny.
It goes without saying that Frey is a devoted football fan. He believes the sport teaches discipline, teamwork, friendship, and a host of other positive character traits. At the Harvard School for Boys in Chicago, an elite private high school, he played for the team as a lineman. After graduation and some time in the Marines, he joined the offensive line at tiny Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. Frey would have graduated with the class of 1964 had he not dropped out after two years. "He was well liked by the other football players and he had a good collegiate sense of humor," says Gordon Soenksen, the college's chief fundraiser. "Let's just say that he and his friends enjoyed their college time."
Frey, who is a generous financial supporter of Guilford and its football program despite not being a bona fide alumnus, says he dropped out because of a broken leg. He couldn't play football any more and he was eager to make a living, so he moved back to Chicago. He and his young wife moved into a model home and earned money by showing it to prospective buyers. Frey's real estate career was born.
He hooked up with Downs Mohl & Company, one of the first property-management firms in the nation. From an entry-level position, Frey says he worked enough late nights, early mornings, and long weekends to eventually become the company's president and principal shareholder.
At his own company, formed in 1975 and named the BJF Group in his honor, Frey earned a solid reputation for rescuing the real estate holdings of struggling savings and loans, insurance companies, and government agencies. The reputation paid off in the Reagan-Bush Eighties as the BJF Group secured lucrative contracts with the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation and the Resolution Trust Corporation.
Frey's ties to South Florida began in 1980, when he and some partners purchased the Village of Kings Creek apartment development in Kendall and converted it to condominiums. He lived in the city briefly before buying a winter home in Palm Beach Gardens. The winter home became the permanent home about three years ago, Frey says, when his asthma was so irritated by Chicago pollen that he was occasionally hospitalized.
As his business prospered and grew, Frey pulled back from its daily operations, worked on his tan, and began looking for other opportunities to exercise his considerable energy.
"Sometimes, when you get to my age, making money doesn't seem that important any more," he says. "I'm 54 years old. I've made my way. I'm done. But maybe I can still leave my mark on society."
As he looked for a way to leave his mark, he also looked at what he loved: football. He maintains season tickets to the Bears and the Dolphins. Probably his best friend in the whole world is Liffort Hobley, the former Dolphin he hired to tutor his son Brian as a cornerback. Frey's favorite current Chicago Bears player is kicker Kevin Butler, largely because they once did some business together. It's great hanging around these men of grace, agility, and ability, basking in the palpable electricity of their presence. Frey will never forget the buzz in the crowd the day he brought his idol Mike Ditka to a Dolphins game. People swarmed around the former player and coach, eager to touch him and talk to him.
This is what Frey wanted. And so he decided to buy the Miami Dolphins.
Joe Robbie, the Dolphins' original owner, died in 1990, and his wife followed him not long after that. The deaths left the Robbie children an NFL team, a stadium, and nearly $50 million in inheritance taxes. After fractious debates about how to proceed, the family members decided they had to sell. On June 14, 1993, Frey and his Boca Raton partner, industrialist Nelson Peltz, signed a letter of intent to buy the team. It was that simple.
Or maybe not. By July 30 the proposal had collapsed, no explanation given, but those close to the deal recognized the fingerprints of Wayne Huizenga. The trash hauler turned sports mogul had crept into the Dolphins picture soon after Joe Robbie's death, when the disastrously high taxes came to light. Huizenga provided financial assistance to the family; all he asked in return was half of Joe Robbie Stadium, a measly fifteen percent share of the Dolphins, and one tiny extra: the right of first refusal should the team be put up for sale, which meant he had the option of matching anyone else's bid for the team.
The Dolphins were still for sale, despite the unexplained failure of Frey's first effort. Undeterred, he tried again, this time with a new partner, commodities trader John Henry. Together they bid $142 million for Dolphins ownership. Some members of the Robbie family heatedly lobbied their brother Tim, the team president, to accept the high offer, and to give each of them a few extra dollars to play with. But on this bid, Huizenga's presence was out in the open. The video king wanted to secure the stadium for his Marlins baseball team, so he took his option for the team and also purchased the remaining 50 percent of the stadium. Huizenga became the first man to own professional sports teams in three of the four major leagues. Frey owned sports teams in none of them.
At what could have been Frey's lowest moment, a man in Tampa died. His name was Hugh Culverhouse and he owned the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, of the National Football League. Culverhouse was practical; he didn't want the sale of his team to tear apart his family the way the sale of the Dolphins had torn apart the Robbies. Culverhouse put the team in a trust designed to transfer ownership smoothly.
Frey found yet another partner and once again set out to leave his mark. With a concentration that bordered on madness (Frey admits he spent "every minute of the day" considering the deal), he attempted to buy the team. But the bidding, which reached $191 million, was out of his league. Frey was a three-time loser.
That's why, as he flipped through the cable channels one evening, the sight of the Canadian Football League was so alluring. Frey could purchase a team for only three million dollars. He could try to move the Las Vegas Posse down here or put in a bid for one of the many expansion teams. Through the CFL, he could find something to do with himself.
If everything were to go according to plan, the Miami Manatees would take the field in June 1996. And they would be Miami's own team, Frey says. While every other sport in South Florida seems to be moving north to Broward County, the Manatees would swim against the tide by staying in the heart of the city. Frey would call the team the Manatees -- those lumbering sea cows best known for running into motorboat propellers -- because they are local. A friend already designed a logo, a manatee holding a football under its right flipper. "We're not too thrilled with the logo choice," CFL Commissioner Larry Smith admitted as he pointed to a Manatees poster in an Orange Bowl elevator. "Look at that guy. There's no way he's going to run very fast."
Before the Manatees could run at all, they needed a stadium. That was a no-brainer. In March, Frey approached then-Orange Bowl stadium manager Max Cruz to see if the city might be interested in helping bring a new football team to Miami. This was roughly the equivalent of bringing a keg of malt liquor to an AA meeting. Miami has been desperate for a tenant at the Orange Bowl, long one of the area's most identifiable landmarks, as well as an economic engine.
The stadium opened in the early 1930s as the 4000-seat Wooden Bowl. In 1937 the federal government transformed it into the concrete-and-steel Orange Bowl, a name that became synonymous with the New Year's Day football game that had been added to the Festival of the Palms to bring tourists to town a month earlier.
Professional football's first team to inhabit the bowl failed miserably. The Miami Seahawks lost every game in their inaugural 1946 season and moved immediately to Baltimore, where they became the Colts. The Miami Dolphins, who began to play in the Orange Bowl in 1967, had more success. For twenty years they were one of the best teams in pro sports, winning Super Bowls and making Miami a championship town.
Then they left. Dolphins owner Joe Robbie, tired of waiting for improvements to the Orange Bowl, built his own stadium near the Broward County line. The structure included luxury skyboxes, modern lockers, updated electronics, and such other amenities that the National Collegiate Athletic Association pressured the Orange Bowl Committee to move its annual game there as well, beginning January 1, 1997.
Now city officials were ready to throw themselves at the Canadian Football League. Not only were they eager to let Frey use the stadium without charge for the exhibition, they also were willing to waive any rent for the next three years should he snag a CFL team. "We are willing and able [to host the CFL] if the league wants us and if Mr. Frey works out the finances," Miami City Manager Cesar Odio told reporters. "Miami is behind the effort 100 percent, both in the political and civic realm." Adding to that ringing endorsement was the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, which formally made the acquisition of a CFL team a top priority.
For the exhibition game, the International Trade Board kicked in some money. So did the Sports and Exhibition Authority. The city, the county, and other governmental bodies handed over more than $150,000 of taxpayers' money, according to City Commissioner Victor De Yurre, chairman of the Sports and Exhibition Authority. "We might take a bath with this game, but it's something we have to do," De Yurre said. "We're trying to bring events into the city."
The money spent on the exhibition is only a fraction of what it would cost to maintain a Canadian League team, judging by the experiences of other CFL cities. For example, Baltimore charges its CFL team virtually no rent at Municipal Stadium, and after only one season, city and state authorities contributed nearly two million dollars in improvements, despite the team's losing money and despite a sharp drop in the number of season tickets sold. "It's not profitable, no," says Molin Perit of the Baltimore Department of Recreation and Parks. "But we're pleased because it is such a huge facility and somebody is occupying it."
Because Canadian football is played on a wider field than is the American version, renovations are necessary at a number of stadiums where expansion teams play. The Orange Bowl, because it is being remodeled to accommodate a wide Olympic soccer field next summer, will not have to incur this cost, but that doesn't mean there won't be other, CFL-specific expenses. Birmingham, Alabama, also an Olympic soccer site, has spent $200,000 in renovations for the Barracudas alone.
Despite these figures, Frey has convinced Miami officials that the Manatees will be a moneymaker. Using highly optimistic and unscientific attendance projections of 25,000 fans per event (which would make Miami one of the most popular teams in the league), Frey predicts the city will earn $625,000 per year in concession and parking proceeds. Commissioner De Yurre, in a television interview a day before the game, bumped that estimate up to two million dollars per year. (Later he admitted his estimate was not necessarily accurate. "If it's not two million dollars, it's one and a half million dollars," he said. "We're looking at making a good chunk of money over the next ten years.")
Allen R. Sanderson, a University of Chicago professor who teaches the economics of sports, noted in a recent interview that sports teams actually provide few economic benefits to a city. Most of the money generated by such teams is local money, he explained, which Miamians would have spent in Miami anyway. "A lot of expenditures are largely substitutions in a family's recreation budget," Sanderson said. "If I'm going to watch a pro football game or whatever, I just won't play golf that afternoon. This is where the Chamber of Commerce gets into the biggest trouble. Every report of ticket sales and beer revenues is a decrease someplace else."
Beyond the dubious economic benefits of hosting any team, Sanderson worries about how well the Canadian league would draw in a locale that already has an NFL team. People pay to see the best, he said, and they tend to ignore anything less. To illustrate his point, he turned to Denver, where the Zephyrs, the top minor-league baseball team of the Milwaukee Brewers, played their home games in Denver's Mile High Stadium. Two years ago, when the Major League Colorado Rockies replaced the Zephyrs in Mile High, attendance increased tenfold. "It was kind of staggering to me that there was that much more interest between Triple-A and Major League baseball," Sanderson said. "It suggests that if a CFL team were to come into Miami and participate against the Dolphins and against the Miami Hurricanes football teams, well, my guess is they won't draw worth a darn."
But Frey and city officials stubbornly believe there is an untapped market of fans in Miami willing to pay about fifteen dollars to watch professional football in the Orange Bowl. The Manatees would play a summer season with little overlap on the Dolphins, who start in the fall. According to Frey and his supporters at city hall, if the Manatees were stocked with former Hurricane, Seminole, and Gator players, they could do fantastically well. Of course, Frey and his advocates have no research to back up that belief; they are simply convinced it will work.
That conviction might have been put to the test at the exhibition game (a snoozer won by Baltimore 43-0), where the attendance figures became a matter of controversy. Early in the second quarter, a city official casually estimated there were about 12,000 people in the stands. Several reporters in the press box did double takes. "That is nuts," said one. There only appeared to be about 8000 people in the stadium, perilously close to the figure Frey said would send him drinking at the corner bar.
The official attendance was announced late in the fourth quarter. When a voice over the P.A. put the number at 20,250, loud sarcastic jeers rained down from the press box. "That's hysterical!" howled one reporter. "Maybe they counted the homeless people within a three-block radius of the stadium," said another. "I guess the attendance was calculated using the Canadian exchange rate," joked a third. One reporter called a stadium official to see if the security guards and other stadium workers had been included in the total. They had been.
Frey maintained his enthusiasm, if somewhat defensively, after the figures were announced. And he kept his zeal even after the Sunday papers lampooned the game and mocked the turnout. Sports writers can think what they want, he said; they get paid to be controversial. "The only person who has to be satisfied with the crowd estimate is me," he insisted. "And I'm satisfied." He did agree that the attendance figures were probably inaccurate. "What's the difference -- 20,000 fans, 16,000 fans? There were a lot of people at the game."
Before flying back to Toronto, league commissioner Larry Smith parroted the party line: The attendance was encouraging. He did not go so far, though, as to endorse the Manatees' entry into the league. "Do I support a team coming to Miami? We will go through due diligence and see if there is proper interest from the fans in Miami and if there is proper corporate support. I'm not unenthusiastic," Smith said unenthusiastically before slipping into a sports metaphor. "But right now we are in the first quarter."
The commissioner's neutral posturing was a rousing endorsement compared to the assessment of one member of the CFL expansion committee, who responded to a question about Miami's chances of landing a team by bluntly stating, "It's not going to happen."
Four days after the game, Bruce Frey sat at his desk in a Deerfield Beach office park. A white football helmet rested atop a cabinet, the helmet decorated with a Miami Manatees sticker. Pictures, postcards, and a T-shirt stuck to one wall depicted manatees swimming in the ocean. On another wall hung a full-color, framed blueprint for a championship ring Frey designed. The raised gold letters on the ring stated, "CFL Benefit Game. Orange Bowl. Miami Manatees." It was the kind of ring associated with a victory.
Manatee Central was up and running. Frey left a message for the owner of the Baltimore CFL team. He took a phone call from Commissioner Smith in Toronto. He told his assistant to order 100 Miami Manatee caps, each an award to the first 100 people who reserved season tickets.
So far only 75 people had qualified for a hat, and Frey needed to sell 10,000 season tickets before the league would even consider awarding him a team. Make that 12,500 tickets: Commissioner Smith called to bump up the total. Frey pleaded with the commissioner to be reasonable, to be fair, and not to make it easier for other cities such as Hartford or Columbus to get a team instead. Smith replied that Miami was a unique situation; with competition from the Dolphins, he said, "All bets were off."
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In front of Frey's desk sat a television monitor playing a videotape of the exhibition game. At one point the camera scanned a relatively crowded section of the Orange Bowl. "Look at that! Look at that! Stop the tape!" he shouted to his assistant, who scurried to press the VCR pause button. "No, rewind a little. Forward. Okay, stop it there. Look at the crowd. And they said there was nobody there. Just look at that."
He appeared tired. His trademark tan seemed to have drained from his face. After five intense weeks of planning the game, the postmortem was unsettling. With October the vague deadline for winning or losing the opportunity to purchase a team, Frey said he planned to meet with Miami Herald publisher Dave Lawrence in an effort to ensure more favorable press coverage. "Then," he added, "I'm going to personally knock on the doors of every corporation in Miami to get them to buy some season tickets.
"I think in this town it takes a long while until everyone believes," he continued, exhaling and slowly rubbing his cheeks with his palms. "I believe right now. I'm going to get a team. It's going to happen.


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Clippers All-Star forward Blake Griffin is known for his jaw-dropping, high-flying plays, but the highlights almost always come on the offensive end. During a Friday game against the Nets at the Barclays Center, Griffin made a little magic happen on the other end.
Nets All-Star guard Deron Williams drove hard to his left, attacking the post past Chris Paul. Griffin and Clippers center Ryan Hollins came over to provide rim protection from the weakside. Williams went for it, undeterred by their dual presence, attempting to slam a right-handed dunk over the top of both. Griffin met him at the apex with his own right hand, snatching the ball clean from Williams before falling back to the ground, possession in hand, and outletting to Paul before he hit the deck. The Clippers squandered the transition opportunity with a turnover, but that didn't take any of the luster off of Griffin's gem. The block kept the score knotted at 25 just before the end of the first quarter.
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Through the chemical clouds of Nu-Earth strides a lone figure, hunting a traitor amidst the endless war between the Norts and the Southers... On a toxic planet ravaged by war, he is the last of the blue-skinned genetically-modified infantrymen, the sole survivor of a doomed battlion hunting the Traitor General. He is the Rogue Trooper.
Joined by the disembodied voices of his dead comrades - Helm, Bagman, and Gunner, whose digitised personalities are stored in his equipment - Rogue is one of the all-time classics from 2000 AD, re-released for the North American market.
ROGUE TROOPER: Tales of Nu-Earth 01 is a brand new 400-page North American edition that includes scripts by comic book legends such as Gerry Finley-Day and Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), as well as visceral artwork from Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Colin Wilson (Young Blueberry), and Brett Ewins (Johnny Nemo).
Mixing World War Two tropes with amazing future tech, Rogue Trooper is as brutal as it is enjoyable. Look for it in book stores May 15th priced at $19.99.
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In Memoriam
Daniel SadaBy Francisco Goldman
Roberto Bolaño considered Daniel Sada to be without rival among Mexican writers of their generation. Both were born in 1953. Bolaño spent his adolescence in Mexico, and even though some of his greatest novels and stories have Mexican settings, he never set foot there again after moving to Spain in his early twenties. I imagine that Bolaño must have relied, at least to some extent, on Sada's novels—Sada's perfect ear and exuberant re-creation of Mexican voices, the voices of the Mexican desert north especially—while writing his own Mexican masterpieces. Sada's works were a polyphonic parade of voices, a Mexican cacophony: shouts, laughter, violent, lewd curses, sweet whispers, song.
"It was a place rarely visited, but attractive, four kilometers to the south of Sombrerete. There was a barranca whose abyss made you want to stop and contemplate it, and a cascade of crystalline water, thin and capricious." So opens, modestly enough, Sada's novel A la vista, published months before his death this year, on November 18. In the next sentence, Sada strikes a more characteristic note: "También había un ornato de árobles por doquier"—that ornato is a peculiar and Sada-esque word, impossible to translate, the whole phrase delicious to pronounce, though all it means, really, is that there were also a lot of trees around, and "a temperate year-round climate." "The great thing about that place," Sada goes on to write, "was that it was limited to the efficacy of words, as no photograph existed to give a more precise notion of the supposed marvel." The description, the reader realizes by the end of the paragraph, is a set-up for a real estate scam. (As it turns out, there is no cascade, and no trees, only that abyss, and the climate.)
Bolaño compared Sada's baroque writing style to Lezama Lima's, by way of making the point that because the Cuban Lezama's baroque reflected the crowded natural effulgence of the tropics, Sada's baroque is a more impressive verbal invention, a baroque of the desert. Read More


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Only a select few Marvel characters have been given "Through the Ages" box sets entirely dedicated to them: Iron Man, Captain America, Wolverine and soon Venom will make the cut. Well, the next "Through the Ages" set has been announced by Diamond Select Toys, and it features Marvel's heaviest hitter, the Hulk!
Four figures representing different eras in Hulk's life are included in the set:
- Joe Fixit, his grey-skinned enforcer persona from his time in Las Vegas; his Minimate will have a removable jacket, hat and tommy gun;
- Maestro, his evil future self who has defeated all of Earth's heroes; he will include a removable cape, crown and a trophy display;
- Barbarian Hulk, from his time living in Subterranea among the Moloids;
- Composite Hulk, when he was briefly merged with his red counterpart.
This set will be released in spring 2013 to comic shops and specialty stores only, and will be available for pre-order starting this Friday, so reserve a set with your local shop or your favorite online retailer.


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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—One reason Atlanta Braves right fielder Jason Heyward set career bests in runs (93), homers (27), hits (158), RBIs (82) and stolen bases (21) last year: He was playing in only his third season. He hasn't a lot of time to set his standards.
But that isn't the main reason.
Heyward was able to establish so many career bests because of the one stat to which he pays attention: games played. He played in 158 last season, 30 more than in his disappointing second season in 2011.
"I very easily could have played 162," Heyward said Friday morning before the Braves' first full-squad workout of the spring. "Well, maybe not easily but I was right there. There were a couple of days off that (manager Fredi Gonzalez) gave me that I didn't have to have. One was early in the season in Arizona, one later in San Francisco that I wanted to play."
After battling a sore shoulder for most of 2011, the only injury that sidelined Heyward last year was a "little oblique" issue that cost him all of one game and part of the next.
After such a healthy season, Heyward did little to change his offseason regimen.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," he said.
Heyward said he took three weeks off after the season before he began working out. After about three weeks, he was right where he wanted to be. He reported to camp at about the same weight as last year, 235, but says "I'm a little slimmer, a little more lean and I've grown a little more muscle mass. But that's from getting older."
More McNeal: Braves have the majors' best outfield
And he is ready to run with his new mates in the outfield, B.J. and Justin Upton.
"I'm feeling really athletic, really solid," he said. "At 235, not heavy at all."
Though he is only 23, Heyward has been around long enough to lose a bit of the spring in his step.
"You're never going to have that feeling like you had your first spring training," he said. "Your body has wear and tear from the game, especially the way I play."
Still, Heyward says he is good to go for 162.
"That's why I have to make sure I put the work in, stay dedicated to my body," he said. "Everything else will take care of itself."


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ONE of the country's finest church musicians is staging a special concert to raise money for the
church he got married in.
Award–winning composer, Francis Grier, who now lives in North London, is holding the concert at Inkberrow parish church to raise money for the Abbots Morton Bell Tower Appeal.
As previously reported, £40,000 is needed to repair the masonry of the bell tower of Abbots Morton's Grade I listed St Peter's church, Abbots Morton, near Inkberrow.
Mr Grier, who won a British Composer of the Year award in 2012 for his MIssa Brevis mass he wrote for St Paul's Cathedral, is performing in The Grier Trio on Saturday, July 19, along with his two daughters, 21-year-old violinist Savitri Grier and 19-year-old cellist Indira Grier.
The composer - who married his wife Anjali 24 years ago in St Peter's Church - will be playing a grand piano hired especially for the occasion from Vale Pianos
"I've a great affection for that beautiful Norman church and for the village, where my sister, Lynda, still lives," he said.
"I wanted to do what I could to help restore the church's 14th century bell tower and this concert with my two daughters seemed the natural thing to do".
Tickets are £15 and are available from The Forge Shop, in Inkberrow, or from Lynne Pemberton on 01386 792549. Doors at St Peter's church, Inkberrow, open at 7pm for the concert at 7.30pm.


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As visitors walk through the Queensborough Community College (QCC) Art Gallery, they are taken through the experiences of Rosemarie Koczÿ, who at three years old had her life turned upside down.
Koczÿ was born in 1939 in Recklinghausen, Germany and three years later was taken to a concentration camp together with her family. At a young age, Koczÿ witnessed death, loss and the struggle to survive.
Years later, still having the hardships she shared with many others strong in her mind and making it as a survivor of the Holocaust, Koczÿ began keeping records of the memories through different methods of artwork. The artist began with creating tapestries then moved to drawings, paintings and sculptures. Koczÿ died in 2007. Since September, QCC has had close to 140 pieces of Koczÿ's art, created over nearly 30 years, on display in an exhibit titled "Art As A Witness" at the campus' historic Oakland Building.
The series of close to 100 drawings, done with ink on paper, involved in the exhibit are called "I Weave You A Shroud." Koczÿ used each of the drawings to remember those she saw suffer and die while in the concentration camps.
"They are burials I offer to those I saw die in the camps where I was deported…" Koczÿ wrote in an initial description of her series. "In the Jewish burials the dead are washed; a woman washes the body of a dead woman, a man washes the body of a dead man. The body is then wrapped in a shroud. Sewing a shroud is an act of respect and a rite."
The exhibit also features wood sculptures and paintings titled "Standing Man," where Koczÿ honors an unknown prisoner who ultimately gave his life to help and protect her in the camp.
Some of the pieces are owned by the QCC Art Gallery of the City University of New York, other paintings are loaned by the Stichting Collectie de Stadshof in The Netherlands, drawings from the Musée Création Franche in France and sculptures are from private collectors.
One of Koczÿ's sculptures is permanently on display at QCC's Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, while another piece, a tapestry made in 1975, is hung above the main desk in the admissions office.
QCC is located at 222-05 56th Avenue in Bayside and "Art As A Witness" is free to the public and will be up until Sunday, January 5.
The QCC Art Gallery is closed Monday and opened Tuesday and Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and weekends noon to 5 p.m.


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Help Make Earth Day About Overpopulation
Overpopulation is at the root of all environmental problems, but you wouldn't know it from listening to most environmental groups. The topic is rarely discussed, even though unsustainable human population growth is eating up wildlife habitat, polluting water, overfishing the oceans, and driving species extinct.
Overpopulation is the most important -- and most ignored -- environmental problem on the planet. Help us change that by donating to our Earth Day Overpopulation Fund.
Building on the spectacular success of our Valentine's Day launch of the Endangered Species Condom project, we will distribute a quarter of a million funny, edgy, conversation-provoking Endangered Species Condoms in all 50 states this Earth Day, April 22. With your help, it will be one of the biggest overpopulation campaigns in U.S. history.
Our six condom packages have beautiful drawings of endangered species and funny sayings like "Wear with care, save the polar bear" on the outside. Inside, they explain how species are being crowded off the planet by an ever-growing human population, and what people can do about it.
The packages are designed to get people talking about overpopulation. And boy, do they work. We tested them on Valentine's Day, expecting 100 volunteer distributors to come forward. An astounding 5,000 people volunteered taking all 100,000 condoms in just a couple of days!
As planned, the media ate it up. We generated funny but deadly serious conversations about overpopulation and the extinction crisis in hundreds of newspapers including The New York Times, L.A. Times, Miami Herald, and Boston Globe. More than 300,000 blogs and Web sites covered the issue.
Please help us ramp up the campaign now with a generous gift to our Earth Day Overpopulation Fund. It's the perfect opportunity to reach hundreds of thousands of people at Earth Day events across the country. We need to raise $50,000 in the next week to make it happen. With $50,000, our staff can produce and distribute a quarter-million Endangered Species Condoms on Earth Day and double our overpopulation activist network.
It is imperative that we break the wall of silence around overpopulation. If we don't, all the environmental progress we make will be overwhelmed by the sheer mass of people pushing into the last wildlife habitats, eating the last fish, and damming the last wild rivers.
I hope you'll commit now to support this critical, creative project and help us distribute a quarter of a million condoms for Earth Day 2010.
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NEW YORK -- AnnTaylor Stores announced that, based upon stronger than anticipated fourth quarter sales, including positive comparable sales at both the Ann Taylor and LOFT brands, the company expects to report top-line and bottom-line results for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2010 that will exceed the current consensus of analyst expectations and be substantially higher than the fourth quarter of 2009. The company said it also expects to report substantially stronger sales and earnings for fiscal year 2010 over fiscal year 2009.
Total company net sales for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2010 are expected to be $515 million, compared with its previous outlook for fourth quarter sales to approach $500 million.
Comparable sales for the fourth quarter of 2010 increased approximately 11%, as compared with the company's prior outlook for a comparable sales increase in the mid- to high-single-digit range. By brand, comparable sales at the Ann Taylor brand increased approximately 21%, and at the LOFT brand comparable sales increased approximately 4%.
Kay Krill, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "We are very pleased with our fourth quarter performance, driven by stronger-than-anticipated sales. Importantly, we generated positive comparable sales at both brands in each month of the quarter. The higher sales performance more than offset the impact of several significant weather events as well as margin pressure at LOFT and enabled us to deliver strong bottom line results and a clean inventory position at the end of the quarter. Overall, the quarter represented a solid finish to a strong fiscal 2010, with sales and earnings for the year that are substantially higher than fiscal 2009 levels."


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KELSEYVILLE -- The Lake County Wine Alliance announced The Cole Creek Equestrian Center as the location for this year's wine auction.
The 14th annual event will take place Sept. 21 at the center located at 4965 Steelhead Drive.
This major fundraising event benefits nonprofit arts, health services and community organizations in Lake County.
It will also be a landmark year for the wine alliance because they are projected to break $1 million in money raised.


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Alright, so Wrestlemania is in the books for the year. And after sitting through the 4 hour PPV, here are my thoughts in my first ever blog post.
First things first, I was one of the unfortunate people who choose to order the PPV online from WWE.com. And I got to see the "Our Apologies - this service is unavailable message".
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POMONA — Western University of Health Sciences last weekend celebrated its 35th anniversary and the successful conclusion of its capital campaign at its annual "A Tribute to Caring" gala in Anaheim.
The event Saturday raised about $125,000 for student scholarships. Half of the proceeds will go directly to scholarships this year and half will be placed into an endowment, which now exceeds $900,000.
It acknowledges the staff, faculty, supporters and students of the university which began in 1977 as the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. WesternU gave special recognition to A Tribute to Caring Silver Sponsors: Wells Fargo Bank, AmerisourceBergen/GNP and Fairplex/Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center/The Learning Centers at Fairplex.
WesternU's capital campaign, which had a goal of raising $35 million by the university's anniversary on Sept. 4, was completed in excess of $54 million.
Donors who contributed $1 million or more to the campaign were given special recognition: Drs. Daljit and Elaine Sarkaria; Masterfoods USA Inc.; Don A. Anderson; Banfield Pet Hospital; the Harold W. Harris Foundation; Lawrence F. Gosenfeld; FamilyCare Health Plans Inc.; Dr. and Mrs. Philip Pumerantz; and Dr. and Mrs. Richard Bond.
Gifts between $500,000 and $1 million were also acknowledged from AmerisourceBergen/GNP; The Fletcher Jones Foundation; Jonathan Y.H. Wu; and The San Diego Foundation.


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Little Toys, Huge Popularity...
When Hasbro leapt into the constructible toys scene with Kre-O I dont think even they could have anticipated how popular their toys would become. With full size Transformers and mini-figure Kreons, the Kre-O are here to stay and are only getting better. This year will bring all sorts of new sets and figures, starting with a full lineup of Beast Hunters including new versions of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Trailcutter, Ripclaw (with flapping wing action), and of course Predaking! Theres also the Autobot Command Center, a base/playset with beast jail and repair station, a full size Predacon and Kreons of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, and Arcee.
Microchangers are blind bagged mini-figures with two modes, and following Wave 1 (out now) are Wave 2 with Blot, Bombshell, Acidwing, Bulkhead, Groove, Acree, Powerglide, Scourge, Vehicon, Lugnut, Perceptor, and Hoist, then Wave 3 with Beachcomber, Kickback, Guzzle, Huffer, Longhaul, Nemesis Prime, Cheetor, Thrust, Ramjet, Seawing, Sharkticon, and Nosecone! Combiners give you a team of Microchanger Kre-O that can also join together to form a large robot. Available now are Devastator, Superion, Predaking, and Bruticus. Joining those are upcoming Defensor, Pirhanacon, and Abominus! Finally, a new non-blind assortment of deluze Kreons will be offered in limited editions and then retired. They will include extra parts, vac-metallized and translucent components, and more. On deck for this special series are Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Megatron, Soundwave, and Starscream.
Check out all the new Transformers Kre-O in our Toy Fair gallery HERE!
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Tyler, the problem here is that survivor accounts are notoriously contradictory and even when they agree, you still have the matter of trying to make sense of what you see, if anything, in the dark.don't believe in this theory. There's no valid in it. Forgive me for sounding mean, but I hate that loser, Roger Long. He know nothing about the Titanic, her passengers, crew, & Captain. His "theory" goes against every survivor accounts.
As a sailor myself, I know all too well just how deceptive it can be out there on the ocean, in the dark, even under ideal conditions, and with no moon out that night, conditions were not ideal.
There are survivor accounts which assert that the ship broke up and at least as many which assert that the ship went down intact. Since we have the wreck itself to go by, we know beyond question or debate that those who said the ship went down intact were just plain wrong.
What Roger Long did was nothing less then what any good scientist does and that was to work on the problem, run tests and mathamatical models to try and best explain what was [i]actually observed.
Regarding the angle of the break, that much is, I'll conceed, a matter of some controversy. The nature of science is that there is always some room for refining a theory or discarding it entirely if new evidence justifies doing so, and I think Mr. Long would be the very first to tell you that. What he never said was that the ship was weak. He suspected it may have been, but the testing data didn't support it and he conceeded as much.
The hull girder was well designed and plenty strong enough to take whatever the North Atlantic could dish out. What it wasn't strong enough to do was survive the consequences of human fallibility which stressed the hull to the breaking point.


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THE organisers of Winchester Poetry Festival are taking poetry into the market towns and villages over the next few weeks.
The four readings, entitled at one with Love, at one with Grief, will feature Hampshire Poet 2014, Joan McGavin and Winchester poet Stephen Boyce (co-artistic director of the festival) plus two guest poets at each venue.
The tour will promote the Poetry Festival to be held on September 12-14.
The events will reflect the themes of the festival itself – commemorating the poetry of World War One, celebrating Hampshire's contribution to literature and highlighting the best of contemporary poetry.
Guest poets include Maggie Sawkins, recent winner of the Ted Hughes award, Denise Bennett, Robyn Bolam, Paul Gardner, Hugh Greasley, John Haynes, Sylvia Oldroyd and Lynda O'Neill.
Joan McGavin said: "There's a terrific appetite for poetry and these evenings of reflection and entertainment will give people a lively insight into the work of Hampshire poets now as well as paying tribute to the poetry of the First World War in this centenary year."
The tour has already taken in Bishop's Waltham Library and Perins School in Alresford.
The remaining schedule is:
• July 31, 7.30pm: Library, Station Road, Romsey. Guest poets Robyn Bolam and Paul Gardner;
• Saturday August 2, 6pm: All Saints Church, Denmead. Guest poets John Haynes and Lynda O'Neill.
Tickets are £3.50 on the door.
- Meanwhile students across Hampshire are getting ready for the Winchester Poetry Festival's 'Slam Dunk' and the Student Poetry Slam Final at the Discovery Centre on Friday September 12.
Students at Alton, Amery Hill, Barton Peveril, Bay House, Brockenhurst, Itchen, Peter Symonds and St Vincent's, are writing poems which they will be perform at in-house heats, with the top three from each going on to represent their colleges at the 'Slam Dunk' Final.
Paul Davies, Head of English Literature at Symonds, said: "Performance poetry is all about the delivery. The judges will award points for the quality of the poem, but it is the performance and the audience reaction to the poem that matters most."
Every participating student will have a poem published in a book being produced by the festival.
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Camp Cost: $279.00
The Rider University All Skills Baseball Day Camp in Lawrenceville, New Jersey will be a great chance for players to learn the proper mechanics in hitting, pitching, catching, defensive positions and base running. It offers both personal and group instruction.
Camp is designed for players aged 8-12 and will run from 9:00am to 3:00pm each day. All players will be grouped according to age and ability.
Our staff is made up of former and current college players as well as Rider University assistant coaches and area college and high school coaches.
The northeast is a great baseball area with tremendous potential for continued player development. Rider University looks forward to working with area youth to develop their skills not only in the game of baseball, but on personal and social levels as well. Each camp will provide the player with a solid foundation in baseball fundamentals which will, in turn, make you a better player.
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Topic: alternative help??
My mother is stage 4 unresectable and we were told that palliative chemo was our only option, but she is too weak for that at this point. On that note she is still able to take care of herself, prepare things and general hygiene as well, but it is an effort for her and she is very tired by late afternoon. This is a very sensitive time right now and I feel desperate to find something that can provide any help to her while she still has some energy to do so. We are fighting against the clock unfortunately! Sometimes it is such a hard battle to try to determine what is best when it comes to alternative, conventional. or both. It is evident for her though that our only choice is alternative care since our oncologist won't give her chemo at this point which obviously made the decision very easy for us. Is there anyone that knows of any really advanced and well recognized alternative treatment clinics?? We are even willing to travel if not too far. We are located in Alberta, Canada. Can anyone give me any reccomendations?? I feel pretty helpless and want to help her so bad!?
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I am calling them FCSs: fiscal cliff stocks. They are the shares that it would make too much sense to sell, simply because tax rates do matter a great deal when you own stocks in taxable accounts.
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Administrative Directory - Administrative Judges - Outside NYC
Justice Alan Scheinkman
Justice Alan D. Scheinkman was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial District in November, 2006.
Justice Scheinkman serves as the Administrative Judge for the Ninth Judicial District. He is a member of the Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions - Civil of the Supreme Court Justices Association. He is also a member of the Chief Judge's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. He served as an Associate Justice of the Appellate Term for the Ninth and Tenth Judicial Districts from 2007-2009.
Justice Scheinkman was born May 1, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey and was raised in New Rochelle, New York, where he graduated in 1968 from New Rochelle High School. He attended college at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1972. During college, he worked as a staff assistant to Representative Richard L. Ottinger and as a desk assistant at NBC News. Justice Scheinkman studied law at St. John's University School of Law, Jamaica, New York, graduating in 1975, after serving as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review and as research assistant to Professor David D. Siegel, a leading authority on New York civil practice.
Justice Scheinkman began his legal career as law clerk to Hon. Matthew J. Jasen, Senior Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, our State's highest Court. After his clerkship, he practiced law with major New York law firms until 1982, when he joined the full-time faculty at St. John's Law School, teaching New York Practice, Family Law, Torts, and Professional Responsibility, among other subjects. In 1990, he returned to the full-time practice law, establishing his own firm in White Plains, New York. In January 1998, he was appointed and confirmed as Westchester County Attorney, serving as the attorney and legal advisor to the County Executive, Board of Legislators, and each department and officer of county government. He served as a Vice President of the County Attorneys Association of the State of New York. In 2001, he joined Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C. in New York County and in 2003, became the partner in charge of litigation for DelBello, Donnellan, Weingarten, Tartaglia, Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP.
In 1982, he was selected by West Publishing Company to write Practice Commentaries on New York's Domestic Relations Law, materials which have been cited in hundreds of judicial decisions. For approximately 15 years, he was Reporter to the State Supreme Court Justices Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions – Civil, which is responsible for formulating standard jury instructions in civil cases and giving judges guidance on civil trial practice. He was one of the first non-judges to be selected to lecture at the Annual Judicial Seminars for full-time New York judges and continued his participation each year for 15 years. He has also lectured at programs for newly-elected and appointed judges, for Appellate Term justices, and for law assistants to judges. He is the author of a two-volume treatise on Domestic Relations Law and the directing editor of a 12 volumes of text and forms for McKinney's. He served as Executive Director of the New York State Bar Association Task Force on Administrative Adjudication and is a member of Association's Committee on Appellate Courts. He is a coauthor, with Professor David D. Siegel, of both the Second Edition of the New York State Bar Association's Practitioner's Handbook on Practice in the Appellate Divisions and the Third Edition of the Association's Handbook on Practice in the New York Court of Appeals. He continues to teach as an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law and also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Pace University School of Law and at Rutgers University School of Law, Newark.
In addition to being admitted to practice in New York State, he is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second and District of Columbia Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York.
Information about Judge Scheinkman is also available on the Judicial Directory.


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Estate Planning Issues for Unmarried Couples
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 7.7 million unmarried partners living in the same households in 2010. Yet there are several laws that are potentially beneficial to married couples that are not available to unmarried partners, especially when it comes to estate planning. That's why it's important to recognize the risks faced by unmarried partners and some potential ways to help mitigate them.
Wills or trusts
All states have probate laws that provide some protections for the surviving spouse, but generally no such protections exist for a surviving domestic partner. Therefore, it's vitally important for live-in partners to prepare estate planning documents including wills and, in some cases, trusts. Through wills and trusts, you can provide for the financial support of your surviving partner after your death.
Titling assets
How your assets are titled can determine their disposition upon your death. For example, if you want your partner to receive your home at your death, you could title it in both names as joint tenants with rights of survivorship. However, retitling your home in this manner gives your partner ownership rights in the property. Also, depending on the value of the home, there may be gift tax implications, and the home may be exposed to claims of your partner's creditors.
While you could simply leave your home to your partner through your will or trust, you may want other family members to ultimately receive the home after your partner dies. In this case, you could create a life estate for your partner, allowing him or her the right to remain in the home for life, while naming other beneficiaries to receive title to the property at the death of your partner.
Beneficiary designations
Certain types of assets allow for their transfer at death through beneficiary designations. IRAs, life insurance, annuities, and 401(k)s are some examples. However, it's important to remember that generally, the beneficiaries named in these assets will receive them at your death, even if you make other provisions in your will or trust. So be sure your beneficiary designations are current and comply with your wishes.
Power of attorney and health-care documents
A durable power of attorney is a legal document that allows you to authorize someone to carry on your financial affairs and protect your property if you are unable to do so during a period of incapacity. Without this type of authorization, the courts may appoint one or more persons to act on your behalf. This proceeding can be expensive and time consuming, and you may not have any control over the person(s) appointed by the court. More importantly, your partner may not have access to needed financial support through your assets.
A health-care power of attorney or health-care proxy is a legal document in which you give your appointed agent the right to make certain health-care decisions on your behalf if you are unable to do so. Without this document, doctors and hospitals often rely on family members to make health-care decisions for someone who's incapacitated. Often state law does not recognize unmarried couples as family, so if you want your partner to be able to make these decisions on your behalf, you should name your partner as your health-care agent.
Domestic partnership agreement
Generally, the law does not always spell out the financial rights and responsibilities of domestic partners. To address these issues, live-in partners can use a domestic partnership agreement (if recognized in their state), which is a contract that addresses the sharing of income, expenses, and property.
Unmarried couples face potential estate planning pitfalls. And state laws vary, so it's important to consult an attorney or advisor who is familiar with state and federal laws that affect unmarried couples.


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There Red Hulk has been causing mayhem and laying ruin to everything in his path and it is time for this big red bully to be put down like a stray dog. The Green Hulk is ready to put the red gamma-filled imposter in his place and prove once and for all that he is no match for the original. Thanks to Kotobukiya and the craftsmanship of the talented Kreative3 headlined by master sculptor Erick Sosa, fans can now own the definitive Green Hulk statue.
PACKAGING: The new Hulk statue is housed within a simple yet elegant white box with gold foil lettering. The back of the box features an image gallery of the Hulk statue from different angles. The package also features a mini-bio and photo of artist Erick Sosa discussing the inspiration behind sculpting this piece. The top flap of the box features the word "HULK" embossed into it, which is barely visible from certain angle,s but a nice added touch regardless.
SCULPT: The level of detail put into this Hulk statue is truly incredible and captures the design and style of comic artist Ed McGuiness with a classic twist to it. The Hulk's monstrous and chiseled physique is rendered flawlessly in this three-dimensional resin piece. Hulk's body is dynamically posed lunging forward as if he is ready to plow anything in his way with his fists. The pose on Hulk looks great as a stand-alone piece but even better when displayed next to the Red Hulk statue.
The big green behemoth measures approximately 13 inches in height from base to the top of his head; conveniently fitting inside most curio cabinets or shelving units. The facial expression on the piece depicts traits of both raging anger and rabid insanity which characterizes the Hulk's fierce and volatile nature. The statue stands a top a realistic mountainous terrain base which is crumbling beneath the green behemoth's feet.
PAINT: There is a reason why Kotobukiya has named their Marvel statue collection "Fine Art Series". The vibrantly detailed paint work on Hulk breathes life into the already epic piece with its wide range of light and dark green hues. The facial details on Hulk are meticulously painted with accuracy and precision which results in a fantastic looking piece. The rocky display base is beautifully detailed with a broad range of paint techniques and colors which give it a life-like environmental look. This new Marvel Fine Art statue is painted as such and Hulk looks so good that it seems as if he is literally jumping right out of the pages of the comics.
OVERALL: Kotobukiya's Marvel Fine Art line keeps getting better and better with every new release and this amazing new Hulk statue, collectors can now display both Hulks facing off. Whether you are a general Marvel or Hulk fan, adding this statue to your collection is a no-brainer as it will ultimately dominate your statue collection.
The Kotobukiya Fine Art Hulk statue will be released this month for approximately $200.00 and is available for pre-order right now through Kotobukiya's website.
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November 7, 2013
John Dailey, SVP of Northeast region ad sales at HGTV and DIY Networks, and Kevin Paradis, VP of Northeastern region ad sales at Food Network and Cooking Channel, shared challenges and insights from delivering 360-degree marketing integration to two Scripps Networks advertisers.
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What WSJ Canada Is Reading Tuesday
By Karen Johnson
In a surprise move, Canada blocked a deal led by Egyptian telecom entrepreneur Naguib Sawiris for a Manitoba Telecom unit, citing national security.
Carl Icahn said that he has bought nearly 6% of Talisman Energy, the Canadian oil-and-gas firm whose efforts to restructure have had mixed results.
President Dilma Rousseff has demanded an end to electronic eavesdropping by the U.S. and its allies "once and for all" after a report claimed the Canadian government had spied on Brazil's Mines and Energy Ministry.
Alexander "Sandro" Lisi's attempt last March to swap drugs for a stolen cellular phone believed to belong to Mayor Rob Ford helped kickstart a top-secret police investigation, the Toronto Star reports.
Chronic electrical surges at the massive new data-storage facility central to the National Security Agency's spying operation have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of machinery and delayed the center's opening for a year.
The Toronto Blue Jays is parting ways with its hitting coach and first base coach after a disappointing season.
It's more about the people and less about the highrise. A short history of tall buildings, part of a continuing series by the National Film Board of Canada, in The New York Times.


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What is this medicine?PIPERACILLIN (pi PER a sil in) is a penicillin antibiotic. It is used to treat certain kinds of bacterial infections. It will not work for colds, flu, or other viral infections.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
How should I use this medicine?This medicine is for infusion into a vein or injection deep into a muscle. It is usually given by a health care professional in a hospital or clinic setting.
If you get this medicine at home, you will be taught how to prepare and give this medicine. Use exactly as directed. Take your medicine at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed.
It is important that you put your used needles and syringes in a special sharps container. Do not put them in a trash can. If you do not have a sharps container, call your pharmacist or healthcare provider to get one.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
What if I miss a dose?If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
What may interact with this medicine?
What should I watch for while using this medicine?Tell your doctor or healthcare professional if your symptoms do not start to get better or if they get worse. Your doctor will monitor your condition and blood work as needed.
Do not treat diarrhea with over the counter products. Contact your doctor if you have diarrhea that lasts more than 2 days or if it is severe and watery.
This medicine can interfere with some urine glucose tests. If you use such tests, talk with your health care professional.
What side effects may I notice from receiving this medicine?Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
Where should I keep my medicine?Keep out of the reach of children.
If you are using this medicine at home, you will be instructed on how to store this medicine. Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date on the label.
Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medication only for the indication prescribed.


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I was a Pacers fan before Reggie Miller, I will be a Pacers fan after Reggie Miller retires.
Out of all of the seasons he's played for the team I can only think of about 2 years where he was my favorite Pacer. In truth during the 90's he ranked probably no higher than 3 on my fav. list.
I couldn't stand his trash talking when he was young. I wanted to kill him when he bowed in Chicago & then Kukoc hit the game winner. I could never stand the fact that the man shot to many damn three's. I will always believe he could have scored 5-8 more ppg if he would have taken the mid-range game that he ruled at. I couldn't stand the way he baited the refs., nobody in the history of the NBA has more "T's" after getting the benefit of a call. Early on I could not stand the way he played defense. I will always beleive that Reggie could have been more. He was every bit as good as Alex English was & if he would have dedicated to the mid-range game more he would have been even better.
At the end of the day that is where I was always at with Reggie, I wanted more from him because I thought he was capable of giving it.
But for all of his faults, for all of my complaints I will say this. I have never been prouder of a Pacer.
There has never been a player more identified with this franchise than Reggie & there has rarely been a better spokesperson for the community & for our team.
I often underestimate how popular Reggie really is. I've been so used to him for so long that I have often taken him for granted. But even right here in our own forum all you have to do is look for the young kids who weren't even born when Reggie came here & see their fanatical loyalty to him to understand this isn't an ordinary player. Even J.O. just got a dose of this at his press conferance for the charity thing when that little 5 year old though he was Reggie.
To this day you can go to a game & we could win or lose by 20 & Reggie could be 0-10 from the field but if he pulls up & hits a three it's like everybody in the fieldhouse just won the lottery.
So I'm going to take this vow. Since it is really over & there is nothing higher to aspire to for Reggie I will say this.
From this day forward I will not say anything critical of Reggie Miller. I will just be a fan & try & enjoy what days we have left together. If the team wants to start him & let him play 40 min. a game that's fine with me. If I thought we had a chance to see him win it all then I would feel differantly, but since we don't have that chance I just want Reggie to do what Reggie wants to do.
Now on a personnal note I really wish there was some way to bring Dale home right now. I wanted Dale & Reggie to out together.
So from this day forward it's nothing but R.A.S. for me.


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Facts are stubborn things
This page is about the saying "Facts are stubborn things"
Possible interpretation:
We cannot avoid the truth, even when it is not what we want to hear or express.
fact (noun): something that is undeniably true (snow is white; 2 + 2 = 4; the sun is hot) | stubborn (adj.): having determination not to change; difficult to move or remove
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A Woodland man, allegedly brandishing a handgun, was shot and killed by Woodland police early Friday morning after he apparently took a hostage.
The Yolo County Sheriff's Office identified the man as Brandon Lee Macias Jimenez, 26.
As of late Friday afternoon, details on the shooting were still being put together, but police reported around 9:40 a.m. that the incident began at 1:56 a.m. at the Quik Stop Market, 1400 E. Main St. Police responded to the scene but the suspect had fled the area on foot while allegedly holding a woman hostage.
A search of the area was conducted by responding officers, who found the unidentified adult matching the description of Jimenez and a woman, on Thomas Street at the intersection of Echo Place.
Police officials reported officers attempted to talk with the suspect but the man held a gun to the woman's head and refused to release her, police reported.
An officer shot Jimenez to protect the hostage.
The suspect was declared dead at the scene by medical personnel at 2:14 a.m.
Neither the hostage nor the officers were injured during the incident. Neither had been identified by police.
The investigation continued at the scene until mid-afternoon when traffic was reopened on Thomas Street between Collette and Colfax, which is about two blocks south of East Main Street. The area had been shut down earlier with only local residents allowed in or out under police supervision.
Shortly after the shooting, Woodland Fire crews and an ambulance crew were dispatched to the scene as was a helicopter. However, all were released from the scene around 2:14 a.m., which was when officials reported the time of death occurred.
As is typical in any officer-involved shooting, an outside agency will be brought in to conduct an investigation, in this case the California Highway Patrol.
There was reportedly an earlier "shooting" on Oak Avenue late Thursday night, police were able to confirm. However, the specifics of that incident were not immediately made known or whether it was related to the early Friday morning officer-involved shooting.
Woodland's last shooting occurred on April 27 this year, in a murder-suicide situation at 294 Riverside Drive.
The last officer-involved shooting within city limits was with Yolo County Sheriff's deputies. On April 30, 2009 Luis Gutierrez, 26, was walking on the East Gum Avenue and Highway 113 overpass when he was stopped by three plainclothes deputies, all from the county's anti-gang task force.
Gutierrez ran and — according to deputy testimony — drew a knife and slashed when one of the deputies caught up to him.
All three deputies said they thought they were in danger, and as Gutierrez turned away, two of them fired their guns, striking Gutierrez and killing him.
A federal court exonerated the deputies from any wrongdoing after Gutierrez's parents filed a civil lawsuit.
Meanwhile, Thomas Street, the scene of Friday's shooting, has a long history of crime.
Woodlander Melvin Crouch, then 37, murdered his landlord Andrew Keith Campos on Oct. 23, 2009. Autopsy reports reveal Campos was stabbed a total of 10 times.
According to WPD Detective Richard Wright's testimony, once Crouch had determined Campos was dead he said "sorry," smoked a cigarette and called 911.
During the trial, Crouch's attorney David Muller said Campos was attempting to illegally evict Crouch and had posted an ad on Craigslist saying he had a "horrible tenant."
Crouch agreed to a plea deal that will make him eligible for parole in about 25 years.
In 2010, gang member Ramiro Leon Jr., then 18, was sentenced from 55 years to life for his role in a September 2008 drive-by shooting at Campbell Park, 701 Thomas St. The mid-afternoon shooting was believed to have resulted from gang friction earlier that day on a school bus returning from Cache Creek High School.
Leon shot several times from a passenger seat of a car as it was passing the park. One young man was hit and seriously injured. Bullets also struck a car that was parked along the park, narrowly missing a young woman sitting in it.
Residents living around the park said at the time, it was a known area of gang activity.
Also in 2010, Woodland police responded to a stabbing in Campbell Park, 701 Thomas St. The victim, a Sacramento boy, 16, suffered several non-life threatening stab wounds to his torso and along his arms, according to officials.


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Video: NuForce Icon 2, Icon HDP & uDac-2
Dave Bar worked for Crutchfield from 1981 until his retirement in 2016. After a 23-year stint in the sales department, he joined the home A/V writing staff. Dave's expertise and good humor will be sorely missed.
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More of us are listening to our music on computers these days. The NuForce Icon amps and uDac digital-to-analog converters improve the quality of the music you hear through your headphones and computer speakers.
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Lots of us are listening to music on our computers and our iPods these days, but sometimes we find that the sound quality that comes out of the headphone jack on those devices doesn't always really sound that great. NuForce makes lots of products that help us get better sound from our music files stored on our computers.
First we're going to look at the NuForce uDac-2. This pocketable, tiny travel sized USB DAC is a great addition for the laptop road warrior music lover that just can't get the kind of sound they really want from the headphone jack on their computer.
Next we're going to look at the NuForce Icon 2. If you have a desktop with speakers or headphones this makes a great all in one solution. This connects to your computer by USB and bypasses the sound card inside of your computer to give you higher quality sound and this particular USB DAC also can handle high-res 2496 sources for people who love to download really high quality music on the internet. Whether you're listening to your music through your headphones, through a pair of powered speakers, or even a pair of bookshelf speakers driven right off the amp inside you'll get the kind of clarity and detail from your music that your tunes really deserve.
The Icon HDP makes a really great choice for people with high end headphones that tend to be sort of hard to drive that need that extra power to really bring out the best sound quality that they have available. When I listened to it on my system at home I could really hear the production, the engineering, all of those things that add a level of realism to the sound. You can plug your headphones directly into the front and take advantage of the high quality headphone amplifier built in. It also has preamp outputs on the back that let you connect to an external power amplifier that you can then use to drive your bookshelf or even floor standing speakers. It also has coaxial and optical digital inputs so if you have a CD player and you want to bypass the DAC in that CD player you can use the digital inputs into the HDP instead and take advantage of the high quality digital to analog converter built into this rather than the DAC built into your CD player.
So today we've looked at a few of the NuForce products that help you get better sound from your computer. For even more information and help picking out the right one just give us a call.