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The names of the high schools are familiar but the circumstances surrounding this year's PIAA Class AAA Team Tournament are different from last season.
Defending champion Canon-McMillan enters with a 15-0 record, but the Big Macs are not charging so much as limping into Thursday's first-round dual meet against Spring Grove (8 p.m.) at the Giant Center in Hershey. Last year, the Big Macs ended Central Dauphin's state-record 95-match win streak with a thrilling 28-25 victory in the semifinals.
Central Dauphin, the six-time District 3 champion, has won 21 straight dual meets this season, but has holes in its lineup after state champion Garrett Peppelman and silver medalist Shyheim Brown graduated. Erie McDowell, last year's finalist, returns as District 10 champions but without some key parts, including Steve Spearman, the 138-pound state champion last year who also was lost to graduation.
Easton won another District 11 title, but did so without the graduated Mitchell Minotti, who placed third and first in the last two state individual titles.
"It's going to be really tough," said Connor Schram, Canon-McMillan's 126-pounder who has three individual state medals – one of them gold – in as many seasons. "If (our injured wrestlers) come back, we have a great shot. If not, it's going to be a lot tougher."
Canon-McMillan, the No. 1 team in the O-R Wrestling Rankings and ranked ninth in the country by Intermat, could be without Solomon Chishko, who lost to Spearman in last year's PIAA individual semifinals and finished third at 138 pounds. Chishko has not wrestled since fracturing his elbow in the Super 32 tournament held two weeks before the first varsity practice date. Malachi Krenzelak, a 145-pound junior, has missed the past three weeks with an injury, and William Pihiou, a 152-pound senior, is just getting back into mat shape after missing two weeks with a shoulder problem.
"We go one day at a time," said head coach Chris Mary, who has led Canon-Mc-Millan to a WPIAL-record four straight Class AAA team titles. "There will be some great teams there with Easton, Central Dauphin, McDowell, Parkland. We'll see McDowell early and Easton is on our side of the bracket. It's going to be a great tournament."
The Big Macs lost three key cogs from last year's team to graduation: Colt Shorts, Dario Dobbin and Cody Klempay. But in Schram, Dalton Macri (120), Brendon Price (106), Alex Campbell (220), Angelo Broglia (Hvy) and defending state champion Cody Wiercioch (170), the Big Macs have enough firepower to score bonus points, and those often are the difference in a dual meet.
In Class AA, South Fayette is making its first trip to Hershey for the team tournament. While there was disappointmentintheLions'lockerroom after losing to Burrell in the Class AA team tournament finals, SouthFayettecaughtone break in the bracket: BethlehemCatholic, theoverwhelming favorite to win the team title, isontheotherside.
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Joshua Lee Smith, 38, of 100 Garden St., North Strabane, was charged with false imprisonment, endangering the welfare of children, simple assault and harassment.
Police were called about 7:30 p.m. to Smith's home for a domestic dispute. While en route, police were told by the 911 dispatcher that they had received three calls about the incident.
When police arrived, they were directed to the kitchen by Lori Seman. Smith was kneeling next to the boy. Officer Michael Miller could see the boy was sitting at the dinner table with a plate of food in front of him.
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The boy said he became sick and vomited some of the food. Smith reportedly told the boy he was not moving until he ate everything on his plate.
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Frank Vulcano Jr. from Chartiers Valley High School has been selected for the PIAA District VII Athletic Director of the Year Award. He will be honored March 14 during the Pennsylvania State Athletic Directors Association conference in Hershey.
As an athletic director, he has been active for as many as 13 years with the association and other certifications.
His service to his local Athletic Director Association and Leagues consist of various activities. He was a part of the WPIAL from July 2007-June 2011, serving as president for two years, and vice president for two years. He also served as a Board of Control Member from 2007-2009.
In addition, Vulcano is the Chairman of the WPIAL Wrestling Committee and has been the director for all sectional and district tournaments for the past nine years and has hosted 275 WPIAL play-off games and nearly 50 District VII championship events.
His service to the state includes serving on the PIAA Wrestling Steering Committee since 2004, vice president of the Washington County Chapter of PIAA Wrestling Officials for 20 years and official since 1982. Vulcano has officiated in five PIAA state individual tournaments, 18 Southwest Regional events and a PIAA state team tournament final.
Named Wrestling USA's 2002-2003 Pennsylvania Man of the Year, Vulcano was inducted into the California University of Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, as well as the Southwestern Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2005.
In 2010, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Washington/Greene County Hall of Fame.
For 10 years, he has been a member of the Chartiers-Houston School District School Board. He had been a committee member for 17 years and a co-director of the Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic for 14 years. For the past 27 years, he has served as director of the Powerade Wrestling Tournament, one of the top scholastic wrestling events in the country.
After Vulcano graduated from Chartiers-Houston High School, he continued his education at California University of Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor of science, business administration and management degree in 1985 and his master's of arts degree, geography and regional planning in 1987.
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If you're traveling through McDonald, the home and office of Loretta Kendall, attorney at law, is hard to miss.
Although there's nothing particularly noteworthy about the blue, aluminum-sided ranch on East Lincoln Street, the inhabitants of the small courtyard next to the house may make you think you're not in Kansas, er, Pennsylvania anymore.
A small yard next to the house is adorned with metallic figures representing the main characters from "The Wizard of Oz." Statues of Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch – and a ceramic representation of Dorothy's little dog, Toto, too – stand guard along a stretch of red (not yellow) brick sidewalk.
For owner Loretta Kendall, they are a silent tribute to her late father, Richard Kendall, known around town as "Herk."
"He just built things out of the leftover pieces that were on the farm," Kendall said.
The works, just two in the beginning, were originally commissioned as Mr. and Mrs. Valvoline and once adorned a nearby trucking yard Loretta owned. But when the garage shut its doors in the '90s, Herk converted them into Dorothy and the Tin Man, the first of the statues built in the Oz tradition.
"People in the town would come along and say, 'Hey, where's the lion? Where's the scarecrow?'" Kendall said. "So, he went back and made them."
Using galvanized steel mufflers and chrome parts left over from farm machines and old trucks, Herk worked busily in his shop until he had created all of the characters from the popular novel and motion picture.
Once the statues were complete, Herk continued to fix up the area. He hauled fill to flatten out the deep slope that originally ran down from the roadway. He built the brick sidewalk and a white picket fence, dug a pond and installed a fountain.
"He just wanted to make a nice area," Kendall said. "It's just something he wanted to do to make that part nicer looking."
Kendall said building the miniature park was a labor of love for her father, one that took him years to complete.
"He transported the fill one load at a time with a pickup truck," Kendall said. "A lot of people comment on how nice it looks, and if you sit out there on a nice day, the number of passersby that walk by and look at the pond and look at the statues is amazing.
"That's what he loved, to sit out there and listen to the fountain and talk to all the people who enjoyed it – that was something he really loved during his final years."
The house on East Lincoln Street was a fixture of the McDonald community long before the statues made their way into town.
"The home has been in my family since 1950," Kendall said. "My grandmother owned it and … in the '50s she had a little ice cream stand."
To this day, people occasionally stop in to reminisce about the Cozy Corners ice cream parlor that was once operated from the front porch.
Kendall said the current courtyard configuration has been around since the early 2000s, although it hasn't always been smooth sailing.
"I used to have koi fish that lived in the pond," Kendall said. "But a blue heron came and picked them off, one by one. After that, I decided there would be no more fish."
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If Mario Lemieux in his prime was a 100, Sidney Crosby in 2013 is a _________.
You can fill in the blank with whatever number that you think fits. After watching Crosby for the past several games, I noticed that I was beginning to think the same things that I used to think while watching a healthy Mario Lemieux. Night after night, the separation between Crosby and everyone else on skates is starting to approach a level of absurdity.
Other players skate. Crosby does something else while wearing ice skates. Forget the scoring, which separates him enough, seeing as how he went into the weekend leading the league in scoring. The things he can do while moving full speed on skates makes him different from every person on the planet.
A long time ago, I decided that Lemieux was the best player I have ever seen in a team sport at any time, anywhere. The 199-point season he had in 1989 is the best year an NHL player has ever had, including Wayne Gretzky's record 215.
Crosby has never blown away the rest of the league the way Lemieux used to, but he also does things - mostly in the defensive end, in the corners, along the boards and in the faceoff circle - that Lemieux never did. He's playing against better and bigger goalies who are wearing about 50 percent more equipment.
Of course, Lemieux played in the NHL's Dumb Era, when the league was so stupid that it thought it was a good idea to not enforce the rules that allowed skilled players to excel and, more importantly, entertain. Crosby doesn't have to deal with the clutching and grabbing that Lemieux had to put up with, and he doesn't have to worry about the two-line pass.
It's always difficult to compare players from different eras, and I'm not prepared to say that Crosby has equaled Lemieux yet. But, he's close. I would fill in the blank with the number 95.
That's how good I think Crosby is.
I wanted to see if there were others out there who agreed with me, so I surveyed 10 members of the local sports media, who covered Lemieux in his prime and are still covering Crosby now.
I promised not to reveal their names, but they are all people you would probably recognize.
The consensus seems to be that Crosby is somewhere between 90 and 95 to Lemieux's 100. The lowest number was 70. And there was one 100.
One respondent, who's not local, was John Buccigross of ESPN, who grew up in Steubenville, Ohio. He tweeted "Lemieux didn't have to play 200 x 85," and filled in the blank with 99.
The biggest difference between Lemieux and Crosby might be that Lemieux's brilliance could be appreciated just by watching highlights of his ridiculous goals and passes. To really appreciate Crosby, you have to see him play an entire game or series of games.
By the way, Crosby is a year older than Lemieux was when he put up the 199 points. Of course, he's missed a year and half because of concussion issues and the lockout.
• There's more evidence that it might be time to forget about football and outlaw it. And it has nothing to do with the salary cap or the Steelers' disintegrating in front of our eyes.
The NFL Competition Committee wants a new rule that makes it a personal foul for either a runner or a tackler to engage in head-first contact with the crown of a helmet when running into each other outside the tackle box.
There are serious people, including at least one NFL head coach, who want to eliminate the kickoff, which the league is already doing by moving the kickoff closer to the goal posts. During the last postseason, I saw a roughing the passer penalty called on a lineman whose fingers tapped a quartback's helmet after he let go off the ball.
Have these guys ever played football?
Have they been watching the NFL lately? This is another judgment call that officials are going to be asked to make in real time so that they can have the play looked at on videotape for 15 minutes to see if they got it right.
Don't we have enough of those? Or will they say it's not reviewable?
Penalty flags thrown by officials, who couldn't possibly be able to consistently interpret or enforce the ever-increasing menu of possible infractions on every play, are ruining the sport.
We're only a few more stupid rules away from just eliminating contact altogether. That would really cut down on the threatened lawsuits.
There might still be some hope, though. The NFL and General Electric just announced that they will be working together to develop a better helmet, one that would be lighter and include sensors that could detect concussions.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell went as far as to say that they need to find a helmet that would not serve as a weapon.
That's a good, overdue step in the right direction.
Now, if they can come up with a plan to shrink all the artificially grown players, they might have a chance to save the sport.
John Steigerwald writes a Sunday column for the Observer-Reporter. His website is justwatchthegame.com.
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"Smash" had a great start on NBC in the 2012 mid-season, but then all but fell apart under the weight of an unfocused plot and a head-spinning population explosion in the cast. For many viewers, the extended Uma Thurman story arc was a final first-season straw.
It's rare for shows this broken to get fixed – even the first season of "Parks & Recreation" wasn't as screwed up as "Smash" became – but thanks to some tough decision-making and the arrival of a new executive producer, TV's backstage musical "Smash" is back and again ready to become the hit it deserves to be.
The second season kicks off with a terrific two-hour show Tuesday night that should be a text-book example to other show runners on how to bring the audience along as you make significant changes to a troubled show.
And in case we don't get that there's a new game afoot, co-star Katharine McPhee starts the show with a number from the in-development musical "Bombshell" called "Moving On."
That new game is overseen by Joshua Safran ("Gossip Girl"), the new executive producer, who is jettisoning several characters in the story about the creation of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe.
Heading for the exit are Julia Houston's (Debra Messing) husband and teenage son, Leo; the viperous Ellis Boyd, blessedly fired last season as personal assistant to producer Eileen Rand (Angelica Huston); and Karen's cheating ex-boyfriend, Dev, among others.
The primary focus remains on the musical written by Julia and Tom Levitt (Christian Borle), and on whether Eileen can get it onto a Broadway stage with Karen Cartwright (McPhee) winning the lead role over arch-rival, and Broadway veteran, Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty), who'd been sleeping with the brilliant but insensitive director Derek Wills (Jack Davenport).
In the first season, the Karen-Ivy rivalry should have worked as the central plot line, but over time, it became tiresome.
Meanwhile, Julia's extra-marital affair, not to mention Karen's boyfriend cheating on her with Ivy, became little more than ugly distractions. Maybe we could believe Julia cheating on her husband once, but a second time? It just felt like a far too convenient plot mechanism with little grounding in Julia's character.
Some of the musical numbers still worked, but then there was that over-the-top Bollywood production number that was so giddily ridiculous, it almost felt like a classic jumping-the-shark moment. If it was, the shark was picking its teeth afterward.
The second-season premiere and subsequent episode re-chart the overall course for the show, giving us a somewhat more credible sense of how a Broadway show gets made and bringing the process into modern times with the introduction of two new characters.
Don't worry: The young songwriting team of Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan, "Newsies" on Broadway) and Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus, "Carrie," Off-Broadway) are much more than just two other guys you have to keep track of.
While Tom, Julia and Derek work in Manhattan and Eileen does business at fancy lunches, Jimmy and Kyle support themselves as bartender and waiter while toiling away on their own rock musical in their cramped Brooklyn apartment.
Their world seems more than a couple of miles away from that of the "Bombshell" team, but the inevitable and believable intersection of "old" and "new" musical theater adds real life and renewed potential to "Smash."
There are other changes as well. Karen and Ivy aren't at each other's throats all the time but, instead, focused more on moving on, as the song says, one way or the other.
Karen, for one, is no longer the wide-eyed Midwesterner in the big city but instead is developing that all important thicker skin as a theater pro.
Also undergoing renovation, and none too soon, is Julia's wardrobe: At last, with Tom's urging, she'll ditch the scarves and stop resembling a mobile Bedouin tent whenever she enters a room.
The show also makes a much smarter use of music in the first two episodes than it had as its first season wore on. Instead of a heavy focus on production numbers from "Bombshell," there's more variety in the new songs, thanks largely to the young Brooklyn songwriters who craft tunes in a more contemporary Broadway style.
It doesn't hurt to have Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson on hand in a multi-episode guest starring role as singer Veronica Moore, a Tony winner with a controlling "mom-ager" played by Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Her musical numbers, including a red-hot blues production number, as well as "I Got Love" and the original song, "I Can't Let Go" in the second episode, are not only terrific by themselves, they announce loud and clear that "Smash" is back on track. Let's hope it stays that way.
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At a racetrack where an estimated three horses die each year, two mares died within about 15 minutes Monday afternoon at The Meadows.
Preparing for race 14, Lislea Isabella, an 8-year-old, appeared to "choke down" – an industry term for a type of inability to breathe – said Brady Brown, the driver. Virginia Schoeffel and Kathy Schoeffel owned the horse, and Steve Schoeffel was the trainer.
Then, during race 15, Little Bit Tricky, a 7-year-old driven by Brett Miller, died. The cause was not known. Michael Puff was the owner and Carl Cocciolone the trainer.
The deaths, neither involving an accident, astounded at least two officials at the harness track in North Strabane Township.
"I haven't seen this in the 20 years I've been around," said Mike Jeannot, president of Meadows Racing at The Meadows Racetrack & Casino. "My understanding is we lose an average of three horses a year for different reasons."
Kim Hankins, executive director of the Meadows Standardbred Owners Association, gave a lower number. "I've been here for six years, and we've had no more than five or 10 horses that either had to be put down or have died on the track," Hankins said.
Hankins believes this double set of circumstances is almost unfathomable.
"I've been around racing all my life," he said. "This is very, very unusual. They are competitive animals, and this does happen, but twice is so phenomenally coincidental. It's unbelievable."
Hankins said horses are more likely to die on thoroughbred tracks because of the way they are gated in that version of the sport. "There's more pressure on each hoof. They have breakdowns much, much more often than (harness racing)."
The deaths did not result in injuries to any drivers, and no other horses were involved.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is investigating. Jeannot said department officials were at the site of the two autopsies on the aminals near Greensburg Tuesday.
Calls to the Agriculture Department and the Pennsylvania Harness Racing Commission were not returned.
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PITTSBURGH – It was all set up for a fantastic finish for Cody Wiercioch.
The 170-pound wrestler from Canon-McMillan High School was slated as the final bout for the Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic Sunday at Pitt's Fitzgerald Fieldhouse.
And the Pennsylvania Team he was wrestling on had just won two straight bouts to cut the United States Team's seven-point lead down to one, 19-18.
All Wiercioch needed was a decision to cap a great rally for the Pennsylvania Team.
Instead, the dual meet turned into a fantastic finish for Zach Beard of Tuttle, Okla., who shocked Wiercioch with a 7-4 decision that sewed up a 22-18 victory for the United States.
In the opener, the WPIAL made it three straight wins over Virginia in the history of this event with a 28-19 victory in which four area wrestlers competed.
Not only did Beard beat Wiercioch, but he did something no other wrestler had been able to do for two scholastic seasons – take him down. Beard, a four-time Oklahoma champion with a 163-9 record, did it three times. The first of two in the first period brought ooohs from the capacity crowd.
Wiercioch's loss came in the same building he'll be wrestling in next fall. He committed to Pitt before the high school season began.
"Cody might be a little shell-shocked right now," said Canon-McMillan head coach Chris Mary, who coached the Pennsylvania and WPIAL teams. "But he'll bounce back."
A distraught Wiercioch refused comment after his bout.
Beard led 4-2 after one period, taking Wiercioch down twice, but Wiercioch cut the lead to 4-3 with an escape in the second period. Beard escaped to start the third and put the match away with another takedown with 1:07 left.
"(Beard) was a big underdog, but he did what he had to do to win," said Mary. "This is a stepping stone for Cody. This doesn't take away anything he did over the last four years. I'm really proud of him."
Wiercioch compiled a 168-5 record to go along with his three gold medals and one silver. He has one more event on his schedule: the Dream Team Classic in Chicago next month.
Beard was named Outstanding Wrestling for the United States team and Benton's Zain Retherford, who upset undefeated Anthony Ashnault (170-0, 4 titles) from South Plainfield, N.J., 1-0 at 138, was OW for Pennsylvania.
Wiercioch's Canon-McMillan teammate, Connor Schram, nearly pulled the upset of the tournament when he took Joey Dance, a four-time state champion from Christiansburg, Va., into overtime. Dance, who had a 186-14 record in his scholastic career, managed to win the bout by riding out Schram in overtime.
"He's pretty tough to take down," said Schram, who is headed for Stanford next fall. "He scrambles really well. I thought I was going to get out, but he had some big lifts."
After a scoreless first period, Schram was let up to take a 1-0 lead. Dance escaped three seconds into the third period. After a scoreless first overtime, Dance escaped then rode out Schram in the next OT to win it.
"This was an awesome experience," said Schram, a four-time PIAA finalist and two-time champion. "The best kids in the country are here. I didn't win, but that happens. We're all friends here. It was a good way to end my career."
The WPIAL Team got a 4-2 win by Seth Carr of South Fayette over Sean Badua of Osbourne Park in the first bout and never looked back.
Angelo Broglia of Canon-McMillan also chalked up a win, 3-2, over Justin Williams of Skyline.
Dustin Conti of Jefferson-Morgan lost a 5-2 decision to Zach Epperly of Christiansburg and Garrett Vulcano of Chartiers-Houston fell to Zach Roseberry of Brentsville, 12-3, at 220 pounds.
Carr opened a 2-0 lead on Badua with a takedown with five seconds left in the first period, then got a penalty for an illegal hold in the second period to make it 3-0. Badua finally scored with a takedown with 13 seconds to go, gave Carr an escape but couldn't take him down.
Conti trailed Epperly 3-2 after one period and couldn't get that final shot in for a takedown. Epperly, a four-time Virginia champion, got a late takedown on a desperation shot by Conti.
"I knew he was going to be a tough kid," said Conti. "He was ranked No. 2 in the country. I knew it would be a grinder."
Roseberry took Vulcano down five times in their bout and turned him for two more in the first period.
Broglia rallied from a 2-1 deficit with a takedown with 46 seconds to go for the one-point win.
"I didn't even know what the (Wrestling Classic) was until the beginning of this year," said Broglia. "I found out I was going at the (PIAA) tournament. If you decline something like this, that's a shame. It's the most fun I had."
Four new members were inducted into the Southwestern Pennsylvania hall of Fame: Aaron Gatten, a two-time state champion from Washington High School; George O'Korn, a two-time state champion from Canon-McMillan High School; Greg Jones, a state champion from Greensburg Salem High School; and Jake Herbert, a state champion from North Allegheny and two-time NCAA champ from Northwestern.
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Defense delivers BP girls first WPIAL title
Defense isn't just the cry of the Steelers. It's the anthem of the Bethel Park girls' basketball team as well. And, just like past Super Bowl winners from Pittsburgh, the Lady Hawks applied such a vice to Chartiers Valley and claimed their first championship with a 48-34 victory in the WPIAL Quad-A final at the A.J. Palumbo Center.
"Defense has been our MO all season. It's something that we have relied upon," said BP floor boss Jonna Burke. "The kids believe in it.
"We tell them that you better play good defense because the ball may not always go in the hole. We can control and trust our defense."
Defense forced CV to turn the ball over and take bad shots as BP cruised to a 12-6 lead after one quarter. The Lady Hawks made nine of their first 21 shots.
The Lady Hawks led at intermission, 18-11, and 25-16 after three quarters before breaking open the contest in the final frame.
"They defended the heck out of us and really got after it," explained CV head coach Spencer Stefko. "I don't feel like our kids had anything to be ashamed of.
"Blame for the loss falls on my shoulders and the kids in the Bethel Park locker room. They played really good defense. They earned it."
Harper Zimmer helped BP earn it as she scored eight points in the first half, six in the first frame. Her 3-pointer in the fourth quarter gave her 11 markers for the game and enabled BP to open up a 30-21 lead with 5:11 to play.
"Harper is our spark plug," Burke said. "She always plays good defense. She hit a few shots early and they helped because people always try to key on Megan (Marecic).
"Harper is our fiery leader," continued Burke. "She's the one that says 'let's go' and we do."
Mariah Penascino got the Lady Hawks going in the second half. Scoreless in the first two quarters, the senior exploded for a game-high 15 points. She sealed BP's triumph at the free throw, connecting on 9 of 12 attempts in the final four minutes of play.
Marecic and Paige Kochka-Puskar pitched in seven points each for the Lady Hawks, who improved to 23-3 overall. Marecic pulled down 11 rebounds.
Jenna DaVinney led the Lady Colts (19-7) in scoring. She finished with nine points, all on 3-point field goals. She connected on three of her five shots from beyond the arc.
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Patrick, with great power comes great responsibility...or in other words, if your going to be the first with the figures, bust out some pics!!
My sub figures arrived today - out of the 3 it is hard to pick a favorite. Love Dekkers color scheme, Castle Grayskullman is SO COOL, love his accessories and face sculpt and then we have Randor, truly as Filmation as it gets. PROBABLY have to go Randor, it's like finally having a friend come home, lol. GREAT MOTUC MONTH!
Patrick, with great power comes great responsibility...or in other words, if your going to be the first with the figures, bust out some pics!!
Hey Super 7, Snake Mountain rocks! Let's Kickstart it!
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
MOTUC Most Wanted: 1) Stridor 2) Road Ripper 3) Dragon Walker 4) Land Shark
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Cool, does CGSM have a sword holder on his back?
Thanks Patrick! They look great! I can't wait for these, especially CGM!
Hey Super 7, Snake Mountain rocks! Let's Kickstart it!
Randor is the first figure in this line that does absolutely nothing for me. Really excited for the other two, though. Cannot wait!
Photog is here! thank you, Mattel!
Now how about some mini-comics love (like Lodar, Geldor, Dakon......)? And Mermista?
No fair Patrick! Just messin. Those look great. Thanks for the pics, I'm gettin excited.....
love the pics! Thanks very much for sharing these with us!
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I thought they said his hair was going to be a whitish green?
BTW, looks like I'll be getting my figures on Friday because DR does not understand the concept of changing an address despite calling them and changing it on their site.
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
MOTUC Most Wanted: 1) Stridor 2) Road Ripper 3) Dragon Walker 4) Land Shark
They look great.
I said on the matty forums,I will say it here. If it was not for bad luck,dr kain would have no luck at all.
Comedian on the matty forums.
I am SO excited to have all three of these guys!! Sorry about the horrible ipad pic, but it is truly awesome to have a brand new figure representing each major era of MOTU. And before the NA and POP peeps tear me a new one for that, I'm counting Randor as covering all vintage.
And Patrick, I'm 100% with you on all of your OP!
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The Cradle Will Rock As I'm Drivin' Down Highway 40 In My Big Ol' Pick Up Truck.
Castle Grayskullman is amazing. Too bad it's the only one I'll have to order separately as I don't have a 30th anniversary sub...
Dekker is a good figure, but I wouldn't have bought him if I had no subscription - the green Clawful shield is perfect for him. It makes him feel complete.
Couldn't be less interested in that Randor, so mine will be sold (next month when he arrives...).
Press down on dragon's head. It sprays enemies with a jet of water!
Press down on a camera's shutter release. It will take pictures that tell stories!
Hope they release GSM's weapons in a future weapons pack. I like them, but not spending $30+ just to get them.
Also wished we got an extra Randor head that was crownless, or had the 200X crown... would have liked to have used it on the first version of Randor.
Anyone used Randor's goblet with Skeletor yet? That's where mine shall be going.
I'm so jealous right now LoL. Mine were only shipped yesterday...
Maybe i'm mixing up my Randor's but weren't there a number of ppl who were clamouring for this version of him? Or was it Captain Randor from 200X? He doesn't seem to be a popular choice of a variant from what i gather.
Most Wanted MOTU Classics:
*200X ~ WMD Roboto/Sorceress *Filmation ~ Teela' Na/Hawke *Play-Sets ~ Eternia/Crystal Castle *Vehicles ~ Land Shark/Roton *Beasts ~ Stridor/Dragoon
Well, I´m truly happy for all fans and collectors that enjoy this particular Randor, much as I hope for equal happiness if I should ever get Hawke from the 200x series. And I do honor what he means for MOTUC in regards of the implementation of Filmation characters. But he is SOOOOOOOO boring to me. The color scheme hurts in my eyes, the bathrobe doesn´t do anything for me and the yellow colors to better match the cartoon look instead of gold (which in the cartoon show was just a matter of impossibility, not of design choice).... If he weren´t in the sub, I would have never got him. And I have every other figure ever made. Even Spector and Laser-Lot. And even though I really don´t enjoy these two too much, they will be much more prominent on display than just-got-out-of-bed-Randor.
Positivity, folks!
Let´s all agree to love MOTU enough to let others love MOTU, too!
Thanks for the quick pics. I'll be ordering CGM in a few short hours.
But like others have said in this thread and elsewhere, Randor does nothing for me. The excited reactions to him that Pixel Dan describes at SDCC and Power Con make no sense to me. Could it be that these shows had hardcore Filmation fans? Are they or we who don't like him the "vocal minority?"
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Dekker and Randor look AMAZING, Dekker better than I expected as much as I liked him before this pic makes me LOVE him.
I think he will be my favourite for the month, though Randor is so nostalgic, and for me a perfect figure to get for Christmas time!
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How quickly from the top of the hour does Matty.com load the live ordering? I have to leave to get my daughter from daycare at quarter past, so I'm hoping they go live ASAP.
My only other experience with Matty.com was the 30 for $30 set of He-Man and Battle Cat. That took forever to go live.
Take it easy,
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Mine will be showing up tomorrow. This is a rare month where I couldn't care less about any of the MOTUC figures I'm getting. I'm actually more excited about the John Constantine figure that I'm ordering in a few than any of the MOTUCs. Now next month...bring on Granamyr!


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The Rum Howler Awards – Part 1
Posted by Arctic Wolf on October 19, 2010
It is hard to believe that my blog has been online for one year now. I have sampled over 70 bottles of rum, and over 40 bottles of whisky in that time, (and built 4 new bookcases to hold all the bottles). Of course the question I always get from people who read the blog is, "So what is your favourite Rum or Whisky?"
Today I am going to attempt to answer the question by presenting the first annual Rum Howler Awards! Of course, everyone should understand that I must introduce some provisos when I make the claim to tell you what I like best. I obviously cannot judge any spirit which I have not tasted during the past year. I also cannot make a comparative final tasting when the sample I received for my review, was so small that I now have none left to compare. Fortunately, in most cases I saved a small sample of my favourite rums and whiskies just for this purpose, as to be honest my Rum howler Awards have been in the works for a while now. So without more adieu perhaps I will begin.
The first Rum Howler Award is presented for the Best White Rum in a Daiquiri (I consider the daiquiri to be the quintessential cocktail for white rum).
Kōloa White Rum
Honorable mention to El Dorado 3 Year, and Bermudez Ron Viejo Blanco.
Judging this category involved me making me a daiquiri using each nominated rum and doing a side by side comparison on a hot summer evening. The Kōloa daiquiri was the runaway favourite. A surprising result perhaps, but then again this rum is so clean and pure perhaps I should have anticipated its magnificence in a classic cocktail like the daiquiri!
The next award is for the best overall white rum. White rum has recently experienced a substantial category change where we have the new so-called premium white rums which have been aged for up to six years (perhaps more) and then filtered clear to give the rum a superior sipping and mixing profile. This means a second award for White Rum is in order.
El Dorado 3 Year
Honourable mention to Bermudez Ron Viejo Blanco, and Highwood Imported White who were the other nominees.
For this category I considered not only the flavour in a daiquiri but also the overall flavour in The Cuba Libre, and the Mojito, (the triumvirate of classic white rum cocktails). I took that overall score and gave it 50 % of the weighting, then I also compared the taste of each rum neat which accounted for the other 50 percent of the score.
The spiced/flavoured category of rum is all the rage right now. For my awards I decided I would include the so-called Black Rums and the dark Navy Rums in this category as they appear to my palate to be essentially the same as flavoured rums.
The Rum Howler award for the Best Spiced or Flavoured Rum is:
Gosling's Black Seal
Honourable mention goes to Juan Santos Coffee Rum,and Lambs Blacksheep Rum.
Of course this category was difficult to judge based upon the extreme differences in the rums involved. So I could not follow a rigorous format. I decided to go to the producers websites and see if i could build the recommended cocktail for each spirit. I balanced this off with the flavour drinking the spirit neat. It was a very close battle between the Gosling's Black Seal which was tremendous in a Dark 'n Stormy versus the Juan Santos Coffee Rum which is a great sipping dessert rum.
Now I am going to turn my attention to Whisky. Anyone who has read my blog realizes that I love to mix cocktails and bar drinks. I believe that the vast majority of whisky drinkers do the same. The Horse's Neck (Whisky and ginger-ale) is the quintessential bar drink that I like to serve, and as such a suitable drink to use for judging the mixability of whisky.
Therefore, I created The Rum Howler Award for the Best Whisky in a Horse's Neck:
Gibson's Finest 12 YR
Honourable mention to Hiram Walker Special Old and Centennial 10 Year Old.
I loved judging this one. I made small whisky and ginger ale drinks from just about every one of my Canadian Whiskies and tasted them over several nights to arrive at the last three. (I also tried several American, Irish and Scotch Whiskies as well but they just didn't measure up.) The final three were judged side by side in a final evening of pure enjoyment.
Next I turned my attention to Blended Whisky. I did not discriminate between age, or cost. If the whisky was labeled as a blend it qualified for an award.
The Rum Howler Award for the Best Blended Whisky goes to:
Wiser's 18 Years Old
Honourable mention goes to Johnny Walker Black Label, and Forty Creek Portwood Reserve.
I decided to judge this award based first upon the whiskies flavour in two classic whisky cocktails, The Old Fashioned, and the Manhattan. 50 percent of the score was derived from the flavour the whisky presented in these cocktails. The other 50 % of the score was derived from the flavour the whisky displayed when drank neat. I sampled three Scottish whiskies, Johnnie Walker Black Label, Johnnie Walker Gold Label, and Old Parr Superior. As well I sampled three other Canadian Whiskies, Forty Creek Portwood Reserve, Crown Royal Cask No. 16, and of course Wiser's 18 Years Old.
The Wiser's 18 Year Old won by the slimmest of margins in a final taste off with a whisky which continues to surprise me, Johnnie Walker Black Label.
Of Course if I select the best Blended Whisky, I should also select the best Single Grain Whisky. Included in this category is any whisky which is made from a single grain with the exclusion of Single Malt Whiskies.
The Rum Howler Award for the Best Single Grain Whisky goes to:
Greenore Single Grain Irish Whiskey
Honourable mention to Alberta Premium Rye 25Yr Old, and Century Reserve 21 Yr Old.
I decided to judge this award in the same manner as I judged the best blended Whisky. Based first upon the whisky flavour in the two classic whisky cocktails, The Old Fashioned, and the Manhattan. Then based upon the flavour the whisky displayed when drank neat. I was very surprised when the side by side comparison revealed a winner which was not Alberta Premium 25 yr Old (one of one of my personal favourites) . Instead the Greenore Single Grain Whisky from Ireland reigned supreme!
And there you have it, the first six Rum Howler Awards:
The Best White Rum in a Daiquiri, Kōloa White Rum.
The Best White Rum Overall, El Dorado 3 Year.
The Best Whisky in a Horses Neck, Gibson's Finest 12 YR.
The Best Blended Whisky, Wiser's 18 Years Old.
The Best Spiced or Flavoured Rum, Gosling's Black Seal.
The Best Single Grain Whisky, Greenore Single Grain Irish Whiskey.
More Rum Howler Awards will be posted over the next several days as I continue to award the rums and the whiskies which pleased my palate the most since I began my blog a year ago. Stay tuned!
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State senator Tim Solobay has introduced a bill he said will help streamline the way small games of chance run by nonprofits are regulated in order to open up a valuable source of revenue for organizations.
"After last year's law was signed, VFWs, American legions, athletic clubs, churches and all other types of small nonprofit organizations found what they had been doing all along was suddenly illegal," Solobay, D-Canonsburg, said by phone Feb. 2. "This new bill will let them go back and operate similar to what they were doing all along."
Last year, a group of legislators, including Solobay, convinced Gov. Tom Corbett to suspend the reporting requirements of Act 2 and Act 184 legislation originally enacted in February 2012. Under the law, organizations had to report revenues generated from small games of chance and were regulated by the state liquor control board.
Many groups argued the stricter rules made it impossible for them to maintain valuable fundraising efforts.
"Many organizations that conduct games of chance are facing serious financial pressures and rely on a dwindling pool of volunteers," Solobay said in a news release released Feb. 2. "The reporting requirements added last year created a huge burden."
Solobay, a former fire chief and member of Canonsburg Volunteer Fire Department since 1978, sponsored Senate Bill 390 after what he described as months of meetings with different organizations.
"We hope this bill will come through to give some relief to the nonprofits out there," Solobay said. "The intent was to accomplish some oversight and regulation, but at the same time give flexibility to those nonprofits."
The bill would allow organizations to keep a greater portion of the donations collected through activities like 50/50 raffles, Chinese and silent auctions and activities like "Night at the Races." Under the new law, enforcement of the small games code would fall under county attorneys rather than liquor control agents. It also would exempt organizations from filing the rigorous paperwork involved with small games if their event generated less that $150,000.
Solobay said the new legislation would clarify the law in the eyes of both law enforcement officials and organizers and bring fundraising activities that were formerly in legal limbo into the daylight.
"This will make all of those games of chance legal, so as not to make criminals out of people doing nothing more than trying to raise money for their organizations," Solobay said. "They're giving back to community. That money can be uses to fund all of those activities that make the community stronger."
In addition to redefining games of chance, the bill also would allow groups greater freedoms in using carryover funds beyond the calendar year. Clubs will now be able to use small games proceeds on charitable and philanthropic events, and organizations would not have to record the name and address of contest winners with prizes of less than $600.
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As I reported earlier this year, the world is scheduled to end – again – on Dec. 21. This is according to the Mayan calendar, which also predicted the Pirates would finish under .500 again this year. What more proof do we need?
Most people probably dread the end of the world. I, however, am actually glad it's coming. Why? Because it will both render moot the Fiscal Cliff and put an end to Republican whining over Barack Obama's re-election.
Till then I had planned to romp outdoors as never before, taking advantage of the springlike weather and the great pre-End of the World Doorbuster sales. However, a news item has made me think we may all be better off ensconced indoors for the next two weeks.
According to FBI data, background checks for gun purchases on Black Friday rose 20 percent from the same day in 2011. Well, Obama's re-election probably accounts for some of that. But in an interview on KIRO-FM in Seattle, Dave Workman, senior editor at TheGunMag.com, said part of the reason for the increase is fear of zombies.
"A lot of people appear to be really enthralled by this," Workman said. "I've seen lines of zombie targets. I know one or two ammunition companies have introduced boxes, lines of cartridges they called zombie cartridges, shotgun shells and rifle shells."
One line of shells has a picture of a zombie on the box. Sure, sales are brisk: look what having a picture of the undead on the box did for the Frankenberry and Count Chocula cereals.
So I'm staying inside till Dec. 21. I don't want to miss the End of the World because I was outside at 7 a.m. Dec. 20, staggering to the car from an abundance of alcohol or a dearth of caffeine, and had my head blown off by a neighborhood Zombie Watch volunteer. You laugh, but you don't live in southern Allegheny County.
Perhaps you thought we would be safe from this furor. After all, in June the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta released a statement saying that the center "does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)." But people aren't buying it, probably because in all the end-of-the-world scenarios I've read about or seen on film, the government always lies.
And then there's that AMC show "The Walking Dead." From what I've seen, the real zombies in that series are the lead actors. Most of them apparently went to the Charlton Heston Damn Dirty Ape Academy of Using One Facial Expression to Indicate Anger, Fear and Love. But viewers apparently think it's a documentary. It worked for Orson Welles in 1938.
People are really zonked about zombies. "Zombies" has become the third most-popular search term on Google. In May, Miami police shot a man who was eating the face of a man he had attacked. A bit later, an engineering student in Maryland allegedly stabbed a man to death, then ate his heart and brain.
Hold on there just a darn minute, Dave, you say. Those people were alive! They were cannibals, not zombies! And you'd be right. But an NRA consumer panel gave Cannibal Ammo a thumbs down, and marketing's the name of the game.
In any case, should the world fail to end Dec. 21, allowing the Fiscal Cliff to engender the Zombie Apocalypse, we needn't worry even if the people buying anti-undead ammo run out of slugs.
Eaters of brains, the zombies will starve to death.
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Now, to news of a failed cosmetic takeover.
Avon, the global cosmetics company known for its door-to-door sales, has rejected a $10 billion takeover bid from Coty. That company is best known for things like its Lady Gaga and Calvin Klein fragrances.
NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that Avon believed the offer was just too low.
WENDY KAUFMAN, BYLINE: Avon has been around since the late 1880s. The company offered many American women a way to earn their own money decades before they earned the right to vote. And by the early 1960s, the company's ad's had become iconic.
ANNOUNCER: Collect your favorite color from a rainbow range of shades. Your Avon representative will be calling soon to show you Avon's new Lipstick Deluxe and other makeup news.
KAUFMAN: Avon has annual revenue of more than $11 billion. But R.J. Hottovy, an analyst at Morningstar says the company also has problems.
RJ HOTTOVY: Avon has been a much beleaguered company the past 18 months, struggling in some of its markets, management issues, including turnover and just a lack of fundamentals.
TRACY SAMILTON, BYLINE: And Hottovy says Coty saw an opportunity as it tries to expand globally.
HOTTOVY: Avon does participate in several emerging markets including Brazil, China and Russia.
KAUFMAN: He suggests Coty wanted to leverage Avon's name and its fleet of direct sales representatives to accelerate international growth.
But merging the two companies with their very different retail approaches would have been difficult, even if they could have agreed on price.
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In today's modern economy, corporations are faced with many challenging new issues, not the least of which is minding their bits and bytes. Most of us, if not all, by now, have been confronted with a litigation hold and the challenges they can generate. But in case you are just awakening from a Rip Van Winkle-like nap, a litigation hold is a written notice advising corporations and custodians of electronically stored information (ESI) to preserve potentially relevant records and information that pertain to pending or anticipated litigation.
So with that refresher, the important question is: How do you cost effectively respond to a litigation hold? After all, litigation, especially electronic discovery in hotly contested litigation, can become quite expensive. As in-house counsel, you are responsible to effectively manage these costs and the company's exposure. Below are a few tips to help you in this regard and at the same time assist in preserving the company's bottom line:
1. Be Prompt. The duty to preserve information immediately arises upon receipt of a complaint or notice of a lawsuit, receipt of a subpoena as a third-party to an existing lawsuit, receipt of a formal order of investigation from a regulatory body, or knowledge of a potential claim. Failure to timely institute and maintain a litigation hold can have serious consequences, including monetary penalties, adverse jury instructions, preclusion of evidence, and in the worst cases, default judgment or dismissal. Pension Committee of the Univ. of Montreal Pension Plan v. Banc of America Securities. In other words, the worst thing—and potentially most costly thing—you can do is delay.
2. Define Scope. A typical litigation hold letter describes the litigation and the type of evidence that should be preserved. Be sure to understand the scope of the evidence that may become subject to the litigation, and identify the key personnel in your company affected by the litigation hold. Once you understand the scope, respond in writing (or have your counsel do so) stating the measures you are taking to identify and preserve relevant information. Responding in writing provides you with the important opportunity to establish the parameters of what you consider relevant and responsive to the litigation hold, and helps to shift the burden to the opposing party to articulate why those parameters should be broader. In addition, opening such dialogue with the opposing party creates a forum for reaching agreements as to the relevant scope early in the process which has proven to save companies both time and money. Obviously, the narrower the scope, the less costly and burdensome.
3. Have A Plan. Have an action plan in place for handling litigation holds and designate a team, including an IT professional, to be responsible for litigation holds. The litigation hold team should be able to promptly initiate the litigation hold action plan and work with key personnel involved in the litigation to identify the custodians of relevant records and notify them of the litigation hold. Keep in mind that relevant evidence may exist in paper or in today's world more likely electronic form, and may be located in several places, including: employee files and workspaces, document warehouses; employee homes; emails and voicemails (both corporate and personal); company network storage; computer hard drives and external hard drives (both corporate and personal); corporate back-up tapes; and cellular telephones, PDA's, and smart phones. Having a designated IT professional on your team who is knowledgeable in responding to litigation holds will help you manage the company's exposure in the litigation and minimize disruptions to the general workforce.
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Frigid temperatures didn't stop a group of spectators from forming around the edges of a movie set in Washington Tuesday.
Most of the spectators were women, and almost all of them were there in order to catch a glimpse of lead actor Channing Tatum. Many had been gathered around the set in the parking lot of Citizens Library as early as 5 a.m.
"I just want to see Channing," said Katie Frank, a 19-year-old freshman at Washington & Jefferson College. "I love him. I want to tell all my friends I saw him from 30 yards away."
Frank, of Scenery Hill, said this wasn't her first movie set. Although she had been to the set of "Abduction" and had seen Taylor Lautner, she was much more excited to see Tatum.
"I'll just be speechless," Frank said.
Tatum is in town along with Mark Ruffalo shooting scenes for a movie entitled "Foxcatcher," which is expected to be released in 2013. Bennett Miller, who received an Academy Award nomination for the movie "Moneyball," is the director of this true-life story about two brothers who earned gold medals in wrestling during the 1984 Olympics.
For the film, the parking lot of Citizens Library was converted into the outside of a gymnasium. The outdoor scene called for authentic era vehicles, which is what brought Sam Norling to the set.
"I had my car advertised for sale in AutoTrader, and I get a call asking if I wanted it to be in a movie," Norling said.
Norling made the trip from his home in New Middletown, Ohio, for $125 and gas reimbursement. After he got into town about 7 a.m., crew members fitted his 1981 light blue Monte Carlo with retro license plates and parked it alongside other vehicles of that era.
He said the 1.5-hour, 75-mile trip was worth it.
"It's in a pretty good location," Norling said. "I think you'll be able to see it in the movie."
W&J student Samara Silverstein, 19, from Charleston, W.Va., said she hoped for an autograph from Tatum.
"I want him to sign my yearbook," Silverstein said. "We seriously brought our yearbooks. We didn't know what else to ask him to sign."
Not all of the women gathered at the corner of East Cherry and Shaefer avenues were recent high school graduates. Jennifer Markley, 39, of Washington said she had been rearranging her schedule all week in hopes of meeting the "Magic Mike" star. The general manager of LA's Sports Grille on East Maiden Street, Markley was really hoping for a celebrity endorsement.
"I know in Latrobe he went to a local sports bar," Markley said. "I would love him to come to our place for some wings."
The marketing strategy worked well for Markley. Although she didn't get to meet Tatum, she did persuade Ruffalo's driver to allow her to bring a few boxes of wings and some T-shirts to his trailer. She said set workers also came to the restaurant for lunch.
"I'm not disappointed," Markley said. Tatum "was still working. Mark was able to eat because he was finished.
"They said Tatum loves shirts from local places and that he'll definitely wear the shirt."
Eventually, fans were able to see Tatum filming several takes of a scene in which he walks from a side door of the library to his car. In 34-degree weather, the actor showed dedication to the scene, sporting only a T-shirt and gym shorts.
W&J student Alexis Allan, 21, from Lower Burrell, said the long wait was well worth it for a glimpse of her favorite actor.
"Scene nine of 'Magic Mike' is one of the most magical, provocative things I've ever seen," Allan said. "I did not care about the Batman movie. I'm solely here for Tatum."
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While courts are becoming more accepting of predictive coding as a concept, its use on a given matter is still subject to legal, procedural, technical, and strategic hurdles. As repeated surveys have demonstrated, predictive coding is still rarely used for "predictive coding". The uncertainty and risk associated with the preseent immaturity of predictive coding methodologies have kept this technology largely limited to filtering and QC.
The potential challenges to the use of predictive coding on a given case are both lengthy and substantive. As someone who has worked to encourage the adoption of advanced decision analytics and optimization in other industries, I've found that acknowledging technical and procedural issues and addressing them directly through methodology is the best approach to accelerate its acceptance. To imply that predictive coding is "mainstream" or applicable to cases involving as few as 10,000 documents leads to unsustainable expectations and industry backlash.
What exactly are judges becoming "savvy" about? There is no mention of judges sitting with programmers or developers. They are just becoming more accepting. I recently sat in a discussion where a judge described how decisions had been made regarding predictive coding thresholds in one of his cases soley using F1, then one of the statisticians that developed F1 told him they had used it incorrectly. Does that sound like "savvy"?
But it is also fervent to be "absolutely happy to endorse…predictive coding" and to "require it be used" when it is only described as "a process."
Yes, it is futile to discuss objecting to Predictive Coding when it is only described as "a process."
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