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Frank Curreri, UFC – By the end of the third round, one of Urijah Faber's cornermen carried the battered fighter to a stool. The hometown superstar could barely stand on his left leg, the unfortunate recipient of dozens of devastating kicks from former semi-pro soccer player Jose Aldo. The world featherweight champion from Brazil, who hasn't lost in over four years, had ravaged his charismatic and courageous challenger with wicked kicks to the ribs and legs, and also repeatedly pounded The California Kid's body with hard punches.
SACRAMENTO – By the end of the third round, one of Urijah Faber's cornermen carried the battered fighter to a stool. The hometown superstar could barely stand on his left leg, the unfortunate recipient of dozens of devastating kicks from former semi-pro soccer player Jose Aldo. The world featherweight champion from Brazil, who hasn't lost in over four years, had ravaged his charismatic and courageous challenger with wicked kicks to the ribs and legs, and also repeatedly pounded The California Kid's body with hard punches. Video: Watch post-fight interviews with all of the night's winners
On at least three occasions Aldo's super-quick leg kicks – arguably the fastest in all of MMA – swept Faber off his feet and onto his rump. And for the better part of five rounds, an unscathed Aldo methodically punished Faber and left everyone wondering – not if Faber could magically end the fight – but if he would survive until the end. Once it became apparent that Aldo owned Faber on their feet – late in the second round -- Sacramento fans kept hoping Faber could score a takedown. Despite several diving efforts, he could not, as Aldo easily rebuffed the former Division I wrestler's attempts.
"I trained to defend those leg kicks … but it was impossible to get something going when he's attacking like that," Faber would say later.
It was a breakout performance for the incredibly talented Aldo (17-1), who won the title in November by stopping Mike Thomas Brown and was competing for the first time on pay-per-view, in a main event no less. Basically everywhere the fight went, the champion shined. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt cracked Faber with a high kick and knocked his legs out from under him in round four, then trapped Faber in a beatdown position and rained down dozens of mini-punches and elbows. Fans briefly got excited when Faber escaped from Aldo's back control and hunted in vain for a guillotine choke. To Faber's credit, he came out very aggressive in the first round and took the fight to the champion – though despite his activity, few of Faber's strikes landed. Faber (23-4) also showed uncommon valor when most fighters would have found a way out. There was no quit in Faber as he absorbed the carnage, which continued in round five when Aldo made him double over with a hard shot to the midsection.
Aldo conceded afterward that he played it a little bit safe in the later rounds because Faber continually switched to a southpaw stance to try and avoid further damage to his left leg.
"I didn't want to go outside of my limits and do something I couldn't because he has a very strong right cross and I didn't want to get caught by that," Aldo said.
In the end, judges awarded Aldo a unanimous decision by scores of 50-45, 49-45 and 49-45.
Faber, meanwhile, had to be helped from the cage by his trainers and seemed physically exhausted.
"I had limited mobility," Faber said afterward, as if straining to talk. "He's very good and very fast. It was a tough fight and I tried my best."
In the evening's co-main event, Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone and Benson Henderson squared off in a lightweight championship rematch. Cerrone is known as a notoriously slow starter and Henderson exploited that vulnerability Saturday, becoming the first man to finish the five-round machine. Henderson kept Cerrone from finding his groove by clinching with the challenger and bashing him with knees to his thigh area. Henderson then scored a takedown, and when Cerrone transitioned to a turtle position, the champ applied a tight guillotine choke – similar to the choke Henderson had used to dethrone former champ Jamie Varner a few months back. Unable to free his neck, Cerrone was forced to tap for the first time in his career.
"My hat's off to Ben," said Cerrone, who lost for the third time in a world title fight. "He's a great fighter."
Henderson had made his 11th straight victory look easy, quite the contrary to his last go-round with Cerrone four months ago. In that epic five-rounder, Henderson survived some nasty submission attempts en route to a razor-thin unanimous decision triumph. The glory was temporarily replaced by misery as Henderson spent the night in the hospital battling dehydration.
In other action Saturday:
Manny Gamburyan has always been known for having tremendous power – power in the clinch, powerful takedowns, and incredibly strong submission holds. But his punching power was an entirely different story. He was one of those guys who punched the mitts hard, or impressed when he hit the heavy bag, but that never really translated inside of the cage. In fact, 10 years into his pro career, the Armenian-born fighter had but one knockout on his record.
So when Mike Thomas Brown claimed in the build-up to this fight that Gamburyan didn't like getting hit, it didn't seem that far-fetched. Yet when Brown hit Gamburyan with a 1-2 to the chin in the first round Saturday night, Gamburyan calmly stayed in the pocket and uncorked a short right hand to the jaw that dropped the former featherweight champion. A bevy of punches later, after winning his third straight since cutting to the 145-pound division, Gamburyan was screaming at the top of his lungs in jubilation and is now a potential No. 1 contender.
"All I'm doing is improving," Gamburyan said. "I did it!"
It was a disappointing night for Brown (23-6), who felt confident with the matchup and particularly with his ability to exploit Gamburyan on their feet. Sacramento is where Brown had toppled Faber in a championship rematch, and fans here actually cheered Brown before this bout. The defeat spoiled Brown's hopes for a potential shot at the world featherweight title, which he relinquished to Jose Aldo last November.
Shane Roller notched his third straight win, choking out the always-dangerous Anthony Njokuani midway through the first round. It's no secret that standing for too long against Njokuani would be a bad idea – as evidenced by the Nigerian-born fighter's three Knockout of The Night awards – and Roller imposed his will early with a takedown. The former Division I All-American wrestler quickly transitioned from mount to back control, and trapped Njokuani in a tight body lock before cinching the choke and earning the tapout.
"It's fun when you train something the entire time in training camp and you execute it; it feels good," said Roller, who improved to 8-2 with seven finishes.
Njokuani, who like Roller trains out of Las Vegas, fell to 12-3.
Heading into this rematch, Scott Jorgensen vowed he would not leave the verdict to the judges, believing he had been "robbed" when Banuelos won a controversial split decision in their first encounter 11 months ago. So the Idahoan sucked all suspense from the outcome this time around, stalking and battering Banuelos in the final two rounds of Saturday's sequel en route to his fourth straight victory. It was a stark change of momentum given that Banuelos had outclassed Jorgensen in a first-round boxing match, even snapping "Young Guns'" head back with punches and flooring him with a powerful left hand to the jaw. But Jorgensen never wavered, relentlessly stalking Banuelos about the ring and starting to find his mark with lead jabs and potent combinations that eventually made a bloody mess of Banuelos' face. A right hand by Jorgensen dropped the Chuck Liddell understudy in the second round, and he let loose a hail of punches as Banuelos turtled up but survived the round.
The third round was a continuation of the second, with Jorgensen landing his own head-snapping punch and again dropping Banuelos. But Banuelos had no quit in him, surviving a rear naked choke and a ground and pound onslaught and even defiantly tagging Jorgensen with punches – as Jorgensen clung to his back.
The judges gave the nod to Jorgensen by scores of 29-28 across the board. He improved to 9-3; Banuelos fell to 17-6-1.
Fight of the Year candidate? Try Fight of The Decade! In all probability, the 15-minute slugfest that Chan Sung Jung and Leonard Garcia waged will go down in history as an all-time great. Pretty much every line I write about this fight could rightfully be concluded with an exclamation point.
So wild and gripping was the action that cageside commentator Joe Rogan, a longtime fight fan, dubbed it perhaps "the craziest fight that I've seen in my entire life."
UFC matchmaker Joe Silva, who can be a harsh critic when he needs to be, concluded it may have been the best fight he had ever seen.
Words on this page will not do justice to the dramatic theater, which began with the men punching each other in the face, and ended the same way. It was a sprint from the beginning between an American and Korean fighter who are essentially mirror images of each other – gunslingers with granite chins. They swung for the fences in round one, everything hard and wild, bringing fans at Arco Arena to their feet. Garcia (14-5-1) clipped Jung (10-2) with an overhand right, and it was back and forth from there. Suddenly, Jung dropped Garcia with a wicked left hook on the button. Jung, nicknamed "The Korean Zombie" because of his incredible durability, pounced on the Greg Jackson protégé, but could not finish him. Instead, Garcia gamely bought himself some time by transitioning to an armbar attempt, then to an omo plata. As Jung pinned Garcia against the cage and punched away, Garcia smiled and stuck out his tongue, showing that he relished being in a scrap. Garcia would return to his feet, a golfball-sized welt forming under his left eye.
As the final seconds ticked away for the first round, Garcia and Jung shot each other a smile and the packed crowd erupted into a rousing ovation. It seemed like the lid to the arena was going to blow. Spectators just started looking at each other like, 'Is this real? Am I really watching this?'
As the fighters came out for round two, the wear and tear of the first round was obvious. Both fighters hold their hands unusually low, but their battle with fatigue meant defense was pretty much out the window. Big questions hung over each man: "Whose stamina can hold up? Whose will can hold up? Whose will can hold up?"
Jung kicked off the second by cracking Garcia with a hard right, and in the breathtaking toe-to-toe exchange that followed The Korean Zombie hit the deck. The crowd was on its feet, many collectively chanting "Garcia! Garcia! Garcia!"
And Jung came to his feet, head down, still swinging away wildly. Everything was unleashed. Knees. Spinning back fists. Haymakers. Garcia had blood on his face. Both men appeared to be standing on wobbly legs, as if the slightest push might cause them to fall. Still they swung away, Jung landing a hard right and then jumping on Garcia's back and sinking in both hooks. Garcia escaped and sprung to his feet, where the wildness resumed. In the final minute of the round Jung poured it on thick with another hard combination and Garcia smiled back and unleashed his own bombs.
In round three, Garcia – a brawler by nature – surprised Jung by resorting to an uncharacteristic and methodical approach. He danced a bit more, jabbing more and scoring with leg kicks. With the fight up in the air, there were more toe-to-toe exchanges sprinkled in, but a rejuvenated Garcia seemed to steal the round with his intelligent approach and the occasional 1-2-3 combination.
By the end of the fight, fans were again on their feet chanting "Garcia! Garcia! Garcia!" as the two warriors swung away.
Garcia, who had taken the bout on only three weeks' notice as a replacement, prevailed by split decision by judges' scores of 29-28 across the board. Some in the crowd booed the decision.
"I'm not a judge, man, I've been on the bad side of it," Garcia said. "My job is to give you guys the very best fight that I can and that's what I do every time.
"I broke my hand in the first round and my corner said, 'It doesn't matter, keep fighting.'"
In the build-up to this fight, Karalexis had generously referred to 23-year-old Pettis as "The Future" but vowed the rising lightweight star was not quite ready to handle a wily veteran such as himself. It turns out, based on his sterling display on Saturday, that the man they call "Showtime" just might be banging down the door to the Big Time.
Karalexis was cornered by Mark DelaGrotte and NFL All-Pro defensive lineman Jared Allen, and waged a spirited campaign early. The 32-year-old Bostonian took Pettis down early and scored with ground and pound shots. Back on their feet in the clinch, Karalexis added some effective uppercuts. Yet just when Karalexis was doing his best work in the round, Pettis turned the tide with high kick that seemed to rock Karalexis and force him to retreat to regain his senses. Later, with the round up for grabs, Pettis unleashed vicious leg kicks to Karalexis' left knee and rib cage, one after the other, that compelled Karalexis to retreat and even switch his stance.
In the second stanza, Karalexis resorted to swinging for the fences and used the ruse to score a double leg takedown. On top, Karalexis landed a hard punch to the body, but Pettis popped to his feet and the seasoned kickboxer faithfully went right back to his leg kicks. Going into this bout, Karalexis was well-aware that Pettis is slick and dangerous on the ground. Yet Karalexis nevertheless found himself trapped in a tight triangle choke, eating punches as well, and was forced to tap at 1:35 of round two.
Pettis improved to 9-1; Karalexis fell to 10-5.
Who says British guys can't grapple? Brad Pickett devoured that argument with a nonstop assault that saw him repeatedly slam Demetrious Johnson throughout a riveting 15-minute bout that was a strong candidate for Fight of The Night. Johnson captivated the crowd on his feet, showing extraordinary energy while darting about the cage and peppering his British adversary with flying knees, punches and kicks. The only way for Pickett to negate that speed was to put the Matt Hume protégé on his back, which he did in every round. Yet no matter how dominant the positions Pickett established were – he mounted Johnson on a few occasions, trapped him in the so-called "Beatdown" position and rained down punches – and yet Johnson kept coming and coming and coming.
But every time a round seemed to be turning in Johnson's favor, Pickett would hoist the unbeaten fighter high in the air and send him crashing thunderously to the canvas.
In the end, Pickett won a unanimous decision.
"I think my size helped a little bit," Pickett said. "He's a bit of a small guy for the 135 … I swear I broke my collar bone in the second round, man, it was hurting."
Mendes, a promising featherweight who trains at Team Alpha Male in Sacramento, entered to a rousing ovation. Once the action started, he quickly learned that it might not be such a good idea to stand with Morrison – courtesy of several Morrison jabs that found their mark. Mendes soon scored a takedown and during a scramble sunk in a deep arm-in guillotine that caused "Cheesesteak" to tap at 2:13 of round one, igniting another encore from the fired up crowd.
"Anthony was using his jab pretty well, trying to keep me away," said Mendes, a past NCAA Division I wrestling national runner-up who improved to 7-0. "I've been practicing that choke for the last two weeks."
Morrison, the pride of Philadelphia, fell to 15-8.
As is his custom, Yahya furiously hunted for a takedown early and successfully executed a double leg, only to watch a defiant Mizugaki immediately spring back to his feet. Yahya clung to a body lock, jumped on the Japanese fighter's back and then switched his focus to a front choke, in vain. In the first three minutes of action, Yahya attacked and Mizugaki deftly defended the chokes, occasionally scoring with elbows. While Yahya controlled for most of the round, the last two minutes saw Mizugaki tagging the Brazilian with punches, causing a trickle of blood to stream from Yahya's left eye. Yahya swung away wildly at times, failing to land anything of consequence. Mizugaki also took Yahya down with a trip from a bear hug and clearly inflicted the most damage in the round.
Mizugaki kicked off round two – literally – with a few leg kicks and a hard overhand right that found its target. The round saw Mizugaki again dictating in the standup realm and Yahya unable to score takedowns and resorting to pulling guard.
In the final stanza, it seemed Yahya probably needed a stoppage to prevail, and he came up big – taking Mizugaki down and taking his back with both hooks in. But Mizugaki eventually escaped, preserving a unanimous decision victory.
In a battle of finishers, Visher and Toner exchanged blows early and often, and the plot thickened when Toner whacked the Hawaiian with a high kick to the head. Though Visher managed to partially block the shot, he was clearly agitated and charged forward, tagging Toner with two solid right hands. Toner, who was five inches taller than his 5-feet-3-inch foe, stayed on the outside and unleashed another high kick that glanced Visher's head – then immediately followed up with a powerful left hand that landed flush and floored Visher. As the stunned Visher desperately turned to his knees and clung to a single leg, Toner rained down a bevy of unanswered elbows to the face, forcing a referee stoppage at 2:36 of round one.
"I had a cold all week, I didn't know if I would be able to come out here and perform, but the crowd fired me up," said Toner, who improved to 10-1 with the triumph. "When I followed him down I thought I was going to crack but I ended up hitting the mat, I hope I didn't do any damage."
Visher, a rising star in Hawaii known for having one-punch knockout power, suffered the first loss of his career after 13 straight wins.
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Democracy, or vigilante justice? History says steroids should not be a consideration for writers in Hall of Fame voting
By DAVID MURPHY
Most writers have a little bit of drama queen inside of them. It is part of our nature, part of the reason why we spend so much of our time living other people's lives instead of our own. We are the original reality television producers. So the annual melodrama about the steroid era and the Hall of Fame is understandable. In addition to our infatuation with narrative, many of us have an unrealistic sense of self-importance, and when you combine those two characteristics with our ever-present need to meet deadlines and fill space, then the decision to make us the official selectors for the Baseball Hall of Fame has resulted in exactly what you would expect: a Grishamesque volume of stories that tend to over-inflate the ramifications and cultural significance of both election to the HOF and the writers' role in facilitating that process.
But this is not a screed arguing against the inclusion of writers in the voting process. I have written plenty about that before. For disclosure purposes, the only thing that matters in this instance is that I am not eligible to vote for the Hall of Fame because I have not been a member of the Baseball Writers Association for 10 years (although I feel like I am getting frighteningly close to that threshold).
As far as this piece is concerned, the only thing that matters is that the 2013 Hall of Fame class will be selected by eligible baseball writers, and that this year's election appears to have devolved from a democratic process guided by a specific set of rules to a system of vigilante justice meted out under the guise of a popular vote.
Many writers will have you believe that there is a special choice to be made in this election, that ballot members like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro create a situation where this particular vote will serve as an important referendum on the validity of the so-called Steroid Era in baseball. Some paint it as a moral decision. Some see it in more pragmatic terms. All of them -- at least all of those in this particular faction -- see it as a way to render judgment on the scourge of performance-enhancing drugs in the game of baseball.
None of this is logical.
The reality of the situation is that baseball has already decided what voters should do, and any writer who attempts to argue otherwise is simply attempting to add a level of power to his vote that does not exist (and, frankly, that should not exist for anybody who considers themselves a journalist). The fact that baseball has deemed players like Bonds, Palmeiro, Sosa and Mark McGwire eligible of being on the Hall of Fame ballot means that they have deemed said players eligible for the Hall of Fame. It's that simple.
Writers who view this election as some sort of existential dilemma, many of whom I respect greatly, do so only because they want to experience such a dilemma. That want is understandable. Many of these writers have covered the game for decades. They love the game, and they view the Steroid Era as having eroded the integrity of the game. No doubt, there is a little bit of projection going on; some writers harbor a bit of self-loathing at having been duped into mythologizing players who now appears to have been blessed more by science than by God (unless you attribute science to God, but we'll save that discussion for another day).
The source of all of this angst is the so-called character clause included in the voting instructions that accompany each ballot. Those instructions read, "Voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character and contribution to the team(s) on which the player played."
The instructions are ridiculous, as Joe Posnanski notes here. They are vague and abstract, bordering on meaningless, no doubt the work of some committee that spent too many hours attempting to accommodate everyone's opinion on the matter. But they are not nearly as open to interoperation as some people take them to be.
Record, playing ability, and "contribution to team" leave no room for a voter to issue demerits based on steroids.
Integrity would seem to be a qualification negated by steroid use, except that the instructions as written do not refer to a player's integrity within the framework of the game of baseball. They refer simply to a "player's. . .integrity. . ." Integrity, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is "firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values," or, "an unimpaired condition," or, "the quality or state of being complete or undivided." Steroids are not a moral issue. They are against the law, but so is speeding. Legality does not equal morality. Morality is universal. Legality is jurisdictional. If you are a woman and you visit some countries, it is illegal for you to be alone in private with a man who is not a relative. But if you choose to break that law, are you being immoral? What if a player who used steroids did so in a country where steroid use is legal? The HOF voting instructions say to consider morality, but they do not specify the moral code within which to consider it.
Same goes for character, because integrity is essentially a measure of a person's ability to maintain a specific level of character.
Finally, we get to sportsmanship, which is the one category where the use of steroids would apply. Because the use of steroids was against the rules of baseball, even if there was not method in place to enforce those rules. Sportsmanship is not contingent upon systems of enforcement or deterrent. A player who used steroids against the rules clearly did not display "conduct (as fairness, respect for one's opponent, and graciousness in winning or losing) becoming to one participating in a sport," as Merriam-Webster defines the word.
Thing is, the voting instructions do not say that one category should be valued more than another. If they are listed in order of importance, then sportsmanship is only a fourth consideration.
Long story short, the only way somebody can read the HOF voting instructions as a mandate to keep steroid users out of HOF is if that somebody wants to read the instructions that way. They are completely open to interpretation. And if somebody wants to argue that steroid use counts against a player because of the "sportsmanship clause," then I can argue that steroid use should count FOR that player because of the "contribution to the team(s) on which the player played" clause. After all, if Barry Bonds' steroid use helped him break Hank Aaron's home run record, then it also must have helped the Giants reach the World Series.
The truth is, the rules are completely open to interpretation. And when rules are open to interpretation -- like, say, the legal code -- then they are usually interpreted based on precedent. This is how the Supreme Court operates. It examines the case at hand, the letter of the law, and the manner in which the letter of the law was interpreted in previous relevant cases. Which is what we must do here. And once we do it, the case for disqualification of steroid users evaporates.
The important case occurred in 1989, when baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti banned Pete Rose from baseball because of his involvement in gambling on baseball games. In an interview from earlier that year, the New York Times reported that Giamatti "implied that the rulebook, not his own personal opinion, would seal Rose's fate."
"Baseball is moralistic about baseball," Giamatti said in the interview with the Times. "With all these elaborate rules and regulations and customs and wrongs and rights and fair and foul, it's the most highly moralized game in the world, at least to Americans. That's why Americans love it so much. It's a kind of people's legal system."
Astros owner John McMullen, in the same article, told the times, "Bart Giamatti has no vendetta. He's just doing what he's supposed to do."
Later, Giamatti said, "Baseball has always been very clear about its ethical standards. Games are highly ethical, and everything off the field is viewed as to how it impinges on the field. There is an ultimate product."
Giamatti essentially argues that the integrity of the sport of baseball is something that needs to be protected by the office of the commissioner, that the commissioner's job description requires him to act as he did in placing Pete Rose on the permanently ineligible list and thus banishing him from the Hall of Fame.
Rose v. Giamatti reinforces the right for the commissioner of baseball to make a player permanently ineligible from the game. It reinforces the status of the office of the commisioner as judge, jury and executioner for all matters pertaining to the preservation of the sanctity of the game of baseball. He is the one who metes out punishment to those whose actions he deems to have delivered long-standing damage to the integrity of the sport. The decision to exercise this right was previously invoked in the cases of William Cos, Jimmy O'Connell, Phil Douglas, Lee Magee, Benny Kauff and the Black Sox Eight, among others. Yankees pitcher Steve Howe was once banned for drug use, although he was reinstated.
In 1991, the Hall of Fame voted to make members of the "permanently ineligible list" ineligible for inclusion in the Hall of Fame. Their names do not appear on the ballot.
As of today, commissioner Bud Selig has not placed any players from the so-called Steroid Era on the permanently ineligible list. He has the right to do so. If he does, then that player is ineligible for the Hall of Fame. That player will not be on the ballot.
Given the precedent established by commissioners like Giamatti, Bowie Kuhn and Kennesaw Mountain Landis, Selig's decision not to ban steroid users effectually labels them as fit to be judged solely on their on-field production. Every player that has been banned, after all, has been banned for issues relating to character, integrity or sportsmanship (mostly gambling, although auto theft and drug use are other sins that have resulted in bans). It stands to reason that, in the absence of specific instructions otherwise, every player who has not been been banned has been deemed by baseball as possessing sufficient character, integrity and sportsmanship to warrant continued conclusion in the sport, and, thus, potential inclusion in the Hall of Fame.
This is the precedent established by baseball. If a writer acts otherwise, he does so on his own. He decides that he is more responsible for "protecting the game of baseball" than baseball itself.
The way I see it, logic and legal history proves beyond a reasonable doubt that any writer who does not vote for a player because he used steroids is exceeding his mandate (and that's before we even get to the players who are not included on the mere suspicion of steroid use).
But again, we writers often pay more attention to the heart than the mind, to the power of narrative over the power of rationalism. So in that case, I will conclude with this: Long-time executive Larry MacPhail is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1947, MacPhail was one of the more vocal opponents of Branch Rickey's decision to break baseball's color barrier with the promotion of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. According to Leslie A. Heaphy in "The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960," MacPhail said of Rickey, "He double-crossed his associates for his own personal advantage, raided the Negro Leagues and took players without compensation."
Rickey is a member of the Hall of Fame, despite the fact that he was an alleged "double-crosser" who operated outside baseball's established rules for "his own personal advantage." MacPhail is a member of the Hall of Fame despite the fact that his insistence at excluding black baseball players from the game is a violation of the moral code that most of us hold in modern day America.
Any way you look at it, baseball's history tells us that election to the Hall of Fame should be based on eligibility and performance. Every player who is on the ballot is eligible, and thus should be judged on performance. Regardless of what the voting instructions can be twisted to say.

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Did You See This Yellow Bike? It Was Stolen From Roosevelt Island Subway Bike Rack
Received the following message from a Roosevelt Island resident who had the bicycle pictured above stolen from the Roosevelt Island Subway Bike Rack.
Last Tuesday at 9 AM I locked my bicycle in the bike rack near the
subway station, as I usually do every day. Around 7:30 PM, when I
returned, I found only a broken chain on the floor. I communicated the PSD about the situation right away (I heard that this is not the first case). Well, the stolen bicycle is a yellow folding one and it was almost new (I bought it 3 months ago). If you see somebody riding a bike like the one in the pictures, please tell a police officer.
P.S.: I'm living in here since last April, and when I was searching
for an apartment, the rental agent told me that the zip code 10044 is
the safest in NYC :-(


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OnSunday June 9, thirty-two undergraduate students from across the United States willarrive in California for the fifth annual Student Airborne Research Program(SARP). The thirty-two students hail from thirty-two colleges and universities in twenty-two states andPuerto Rico.
The majors of the students in thisinterdisciplinary group cover a wide range of scientific, mathematical, andengineering disciplines. Students were competitively selected based ontheir outstanding academic performance, future career plans, ability to work inteams, and interest in Earth system science. One of the great strengthsof SARP is that students from different disciplines learn from each other andwork together toward common research goals. Students also form lastingpersonal and professional relationships that they will carry into their futurecareers.
Thefirst two weeks of the program will take place at the Dryden Aircraft OperationsFacility (DAOF), where students will be introduced to NASA's Earth Scienceresearch programs by NASA scientists, engineers, and program managers and by universityfaculty members. Students will then flyonboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory where they will measure pollution andair-quality in the Los Angeles basin and in California's Central Valley, anduse remote sensing instruments to study forest ecology in the Sierra NevadaMountains and ocean biology along the California coast. In addition to airbornedata collection, students will take measurements at field sites.
Thefinal six weeks of the program will take place at the University of California,Irvine where students will analyze and interpret the data they collectedonboard the aircraft. At the conclusionof the program, each student will deliver a final presentation on his/herresults and conclusions. Many studentsin the past have gone on to present their research at conferences such as theAmerican Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
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With no government ties, Bitcoin is used to buy everything from blogging services to Brooklyn-made cupcakes. Theoretically, millions of dollars are being kept in the digital currency, and it's increasingly being used by specialized online gambling websites. But is Bitcoin gambling legal?
Purely in the interests of journalism, I decided to get my hands on some of the currency. When I did so, Bitcoin, which has been around for a few years now, was fetching around $17 on most exchange sites. It has since risen to more than $20.
It turns out that it's really easy for someone to give you Bitcoin, but it's less easy to just buy them from a third party. I ended up asking a friend with some Bitcoin to help — I told him I'd buy him a couple beers later. So, I created a Bitcoin account, and he shot me a few.
The first gambling site I tried was SatoshiDice, an online dice game specifically designed for Bitcoin. Honestly, it's a pretty boring game. You just bet on whether a random dice roll will come up below a certain value.
After I bet 0.02 Bitcoin, SatoshiDice sent an email saying I won. So, I bet the equivalent of 34 cents and I won 38 cents, meaning I came out a little bit ahead.
The federal government says online gambling is a no-no. In the last few years, the Justice Department has made it very clear: You can't just open up an offshore casino online and start taking bets using actual money from the United States.
But last year, a couple of entrepreneurs asked themselves — what if you were only betting with Bitcoin?
"What Bitcoin does is that it totally circumvents that," says Jerry Brito, who studies the currency as part of his work as a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. "There is no Bitcoin company, there's no Bitcoin building that regulators can get their hands on. It's basically cash."
This month, Brito has been following news of SatoshiDice's financial reports. The dice-game company says it made the equivalent of over half a million dollars in profits in just six months of operation in 2012, accepting bets in Bitcoin. But that betting could turn into a legal black hole.
After all, no one knows if Bitcoin is money, a financial instrument or something else.
"We don't have a bank account at Seals with Clubs," says Bryan Micon, the spokesperson for SealsWithClubs.eu, a Bitcoin-based poker site. "There's no bank account. There's no bank of any sort that we do. We only do this one weird brand-new Internet protocol transaction that some of the nerds out there are calling money."
Micon says it might be tough for the Feds to regulate what is just a piece of computer code and not real money.
I started to wonder if I broke the law by gambling online using Bitcoin. So I called the Justice Department. It declined to comment for this story.
But here's the thing with gambling with Bitcoin: My winnings are still in Bitcoin. It's up to me to convert those back into dollars. And that extra step is deliberate, says Brito of George Mason University.
"The fact that they are doing that seems to suggest that they themselves are not 100 percent sure that this will be seen as perfectly legal by regulators," he says, "wherever they're based."
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.


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CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James is going back to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
James told Sports Illustrated Friday that he's decided to go home. It's a move that would have seemed
unfathomable four years ago, after the venomous fallout that followed his decision to leave Cleveland
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James told SI in a first-person story: "My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than
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He spent his first seven NBA seasons in Cleveland. In four years with the Heat, he went to the NBA Finals
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Genealogical information is very broad and can be extremely detailed. Displaying it poses a challenge that Gramps takes on by dividing and organizing the information into a series of Categories, each with their own Views. Each View displays a portion of the total information, selected according to a particular category. This will become clearer as we explore the different Categories.
- 1 Categories of the Navigator
- 2 Dashboard Category
- 3 People Category
- 4 Relationships Category
- 5 Families Category
- 6 Charts Category
- 7 Events Category
- 8 Places Category
- 9 Geography Category
- 10 Sources Category
- 11 Citations Category
- 12 Repositories Category
- 13 Media Category
- 14 Notes Category
- 15 Hidden Html View Category
The different Categories of the Navigator: The navigator is located at the left of the window and allows selection of the different categories (See: Fig. ?.?)
- Dashboard: Displays different general purpose Gramplets, small widgets that can help in your genealogical research.
- People: Displays the people in the family tree without their connections. This Category contains the PeopleListView and the PeopleTreeView.
- Relationships: Shows the relationships between the Active Person and other people in a textual way. This includes parents, spouses, and children.
- Families: Shows the families in the family tree.
- Charts: Displays graphical trees for the selected person.
- Events: Displays the events in the family tree.
- Places: Displays the places in the family tree.
- Geography: Displays data of your family tree on a map.
- Sources: Displays the sources in the family tree.
- Citations: Displays the citations in the family tree.
- Repositories: Displays the repositories in the family tree.
- Media: Displays the media objects in the family tree.
- Notes: Displays the notes in the family tree.
The categories can contain several ways of presenting the data. Each specific way is called a View. Before we launch into a description of each View, let's first explain how to switch between Views.
Dashboard Category
This contains the Dashboard, which shows a number of widgets, called Gramplets, that can help you in your research. Two Gramplets are shown on start-up (the Welcome and Top Surname Gramplets). By right-clicking on the Gramplet View, a popup comes up with the possibility of adding other Gramplets.
- Age on Date Gramplet - see the people alive and their ages on a particular date
- Age Stats Gramplet - see age span graphs
- Attributes Gramplets - see active person's attributes
- Calendar Gramplet - see people's events on a particular date, or in a month in the past
- Descendants Gramplet - see the active person's descendants
- Fan Chart Gramplet - see the active person's pedigree, in a circular fan chart
- Given Name Cloud Gramplet - most popular given names
- Pedigree Gramplet - see a complete pedigree in compressed text
- Quick View - run a Quick View on the current person
- Records Gramplet - see world's records of your data
- Relatives Gramplet - see the relatives of the active person
- Session Log Gramplet - keep track of what you have done, and what records you have visited
- Statistics Gramplet - see stats on the database
- Surname Cloud Gramplet - most popular surnames as a "text cloud"
- To Do Gramplet - a notepad to keep tabs on your research
- Top Surnames Gramplet - top 10 most popular surnames
- Welcome Gramplet - a Gramps welcome message
- What's Next Gramplet - what needs to be done next
In addition, there are a number of additional Gramplets that you can easily install and use. These include:
- Headline News Gramplet - current, breaking news from Gramps
- Data Entry Gramplet - edit active person's name, birth date and place, death date and place, and add people
- Python Gramplet - a Python shell
- FAQ Gramplet - frequently asked questions
- Note Gramplet - see and edit active person's primary Person Note
and many others. See Third-party Plugins for more details.
For more detailed information on using the installed Gramplets, see Gramplets.
People Category
The People View lists the people stored in the database(See Fig. People ListView). People are grouped according to their family names. To the left of each family name is typically either an arrow or some other type of indicator (eg: +). Clicking it once will reveal the entire list of people sharing that name. Clicking the indicator again will "roll up" the list and show only the family name.
By default, the People View List, displays several columns of information about each person.
Relationships Category
The Relationships Category displays all the relationships of the Active Person (the selected person). Specifically, it shows his or her parents, siblings, spouses, and children.
The Relationships Category is designed to allow for quick navigation. You can quickly change the Active Person simply by clicking the name of any person listed on the page. Each name is actually a hypertext link, similar to a web page.
The name of the Active Person is in bold style. Other names are shown either with or without bold and italic emphasis depending on whether certain relationships exist for the named person. For a person listed as a parent or spouse of the Active Person, the name is emphasized if that person has a parent family. For a person listed as a sibling or child of the Active Person, the name is emphasized if that person has children.
Dates are normally in regular style, and in italic style if the displayed event is a fallback event, i.e., a substitute event for another missing event. That may be christening event for birth event, burial event for death event, etc.
The Relationships Category displays the following sections:
- Active Person: At the top of the screen, name, ID, birth, and death information, calculated age of the Active Person is displayed. If a photo of the person is available, it is shown on the right hand side. Next to the person's name is a symbol indicating gender, and an Edit button. Clicking the Edit button will allow you to edit all of the person's individual information in an Edit Person dialog.
- Parents: The next section, the Parents section, displays the families in which the person is a child. Since it is possible for a person to have multiple sets of parents, it is possible to have several Parents sections.
You can control how much information is displayed by using the View menu. The view menu allows you to show or hide details (the birth and death information) and to show or hide siblings. Next to each person listed is an Edit button, which will allow you to edit all the details of that particular person.
You may add a set of parents by either selecting the Add Parents or the Share Parents buttons. The Add Parents button will create a new family with the Active Person listed as a child. The Share Parents button will allow you to choose from a list of existing families, and then add the person as a child to that family.
You may edit an existing parents by selecting the Edit button next to the parents. If you select the - button next to a set of parents, then the Active Person will be removed as a child from the parents. This button does not delete the parents' relationship.
- Family: Similar to the Parents section is the Family section, which displays families where the Active Person is a parent. Because it is possible to have multiple families, it is possible to have multiple Family sections. Each family section displays the spouse and any children.
You may add a family by selecting the Add Spouse button in the toolbar. This will create a new family with the Active Person listed as a father or mother.
Selecting the Edit button next to the spouse will allow you to edit the displayed family. Clicking the - button will remove the person from the displayed family.
Removing a person from a family Removing a person from a family does not delete the family. The person is removed as the father or mother, and any other relationships in the family continue to exist. |
You can reorder the parents and spouses by selecting the Reorder button. This option will only be enabled if more than one set of parents or more than one set of spouses exists for the Active Person. Selecting this button will display a dialog that will allow you to reorder the families.
You can configure the view from the display by calling up the Configure dialog from the menu View -> Configure... or click on the toolbar Configure View... button.
Families Category
The Families List Category View displays a list of all families in the database(see Fig. 4.7). From this view, you may add, edit, or delete families. The default display lists the ID, Father, Mother, Relationship and Marriage Date. Children cannot be displayed on the screen in this view.
Charts Category
The Charts Category shows several graphical representations of the ancestry or descendants of the active person. By default Gramps shows the Pedigree View; With the Fan Chart View and Descendant Fan View being selectable from the toolbar. Installation of additional downloadable addons contain extra views.
Pedigree View
The Pedigree View shows up to five generations, depending on the size of the window. Each person is indicated by a box labeled with his or her name, birth information (indicated by an asterisk * sign), death information (indicated by a plus + sign), a black stripe across the top left corner of the box if the person is deceased (or determined by Gramps to be no longer alive) and optionally an image if available. Two lines branch from each box. The top one shows the person's father and the bottom one the mother. Solid lines represent birth relations, while dashed lines represent non-birth relations such as adoption, step-parenthood, guardianship, etc.
To the left of the Active Person is a left arrow button. If the Active Person has children, clicking this button expands a list of the Active Person's children. Selecting one of the children makes that child the Active Person.
The appearance of the children's names in the menu differentiates the dead ends of the tree from the continuing branches.
Children who have children themselves appear in the menu in the boldface and italic type, while children without children (dead ends) appear in a regular font. If the Active Person has only one child, no menu will be displayed (since there is only one choice) and the child will become the Active Person when the arrow button is clicked.
The right-hand side of the window shows two right arrow buttons. When the top button is clicked, the Father of the Active Person becomes the Active Person. When the bottom button is clicked, the Mother of the Active Person becomes the Active Person.
Right-clicking on any person's box in the Pedigree View will bring up the "context menu".
Among other useful items, the context menu has sub-menus listing Spouses , Siblings , Children , and Parents of that person.
"Greyed-out" sub-menus indicate the absence of the data in the appropriate category. Similar to the children menu above, Childrens' and Parents' menus distinguish continuing lines from dead ends.
Screencasts You can see videos for adding or editing a family (parents, children, siblings) from Pedigree View. |
Fan Chart View
This view shows the ancestry but as a pie chart. Clicking on a name in the chart will double the section of the pie allocated to that person. A second click brings the chart back to the original form. Right click brings up a context menu like in the pedigree view, allowing to navigate to other people.
This view enables to see large ancestries in a more compact manner, and to see very quickly which parts of an ancestry need further research.
You can rotate the view by click and drag outside the fan chart. You can move the view by click and drag inside the inner (white) region.
- The view can be a circle, a halfcircle or a quadrant of a circle. The last are always attached to the bottom or side of the view
- Children of the center person are shown with a nice children ring at the center
- Drag and drop people to the center to change the active person
- Color options
- Colors of the boxes based on the age of the people
- Colors of the boxes depending on the time period the person lived in
- White, classic, gender based, and user defined colors
- Filtering: use the person filter in the sidebar to quickly obtain insight in the people shown. For example: which people have birth events, who has the attribute blue eyes, ... . Filtered results have bold font, the ones that don't satisfy the filter are shown transparent
- Show up to 11 generations in the view.
- Print the view from the toolbar. The view as you see it (after rotating, expanding, changing color) can via the print button be printed or saved as svg (to edit further in Inkscape and view in eg Firefox), pdf or ps.
- The font used can be selected and becomes automatically smaller to fit the boxes. On a dark color, the font is white, otherwise black
To understand all, watch the screencast
Descendant Fan View
Events Category
Events can be shared between multiple people and multiple families. The Events View lists the all the events recorded in the database.
The columns available for display are: Description , ID , Type , Main Participants , Date , Place and Last Changed.
The default view displays the Description , ID , Type , Date and Place of the event. The Column Editor dialog can be used to add, remove and rearrange the displayed columns. This can be accessed from the Configure View... button on the toolbar.
The list of Events can be sorted in the usual manner, by clicking on the column heading. Clicking once sorts in ascending order, clicking again sorts in descending order.
Places Category
The Places Views lists the geographical places in which the events of the database took place. These could be places of birth, death, and marriages of people, as well as their home, employment, education addresses, or any other conceivable reference to the geographical location. The Places View lists the places' Name , ID , Church Parish , City , County , State , and Country . All of these columns can be used for sorting by clicking on a column heading.
Clicking once sorts in ascending order, clicking again sorts in descending order. The Column Editor dialog may be used to add, remove and rearrange the displayed columns.
If a place has been highlighted, you may select the Google Maps, loading... button to attempt to display the place in a web browser. The map service can be chosen from the drop down list under the black triangle to the right of the map button.
Your default web browser should open, attempting to use either the longitude and latitude coordinates or the place name to display the location using the Google Maps web site. Different map services might have different requirements for the location description.
This feature is limited, and may not always produce the results you desire.
- Place Tree View and Place List View
The two views in this category show the places grouped or ungrouped. The Place Tree View tries to group the places in logical groups: country, county, ... .
This view is new in Gramps version 4.0.0. (In future versions the aim is to make the grouping more intelligent. ???)
The Place List View on the other hand just shows all the places in one long list.
Geography Category
Note The Geography category is only present if OsmGpsMap is present that Gramps can use. |
This category is for showing data on a map. It contains the Geographic View, which allows you to see the people and their events placed on a map via an internet map provider (OpenStreetMap or Google maps).
The Geographic View can:
- show all places in your family tree
- show a filtered selection of places
- show all places connected to the active person
- show all places connected to the active family
- show all places connected to all events
- show all places connected to a filtered selection of events
These options are accessible via the buttons on the toolbar. To filter on places or events, activate the filter sidebar via the menu View->Filter Sidebar
Furthermore, the Geographic view can help you add new places to your family tree, or add latitude-longitude coordinates to existing places. To activate this, use the add location button, or the link location button in the toolbar.
The top of the Geographic View shows two lines with information, allowing you to change the information shown. The second line always shows in bold what is shown on the map.
The first line has:
- Place list button and selection field.
- The button shows how many places are present in the map. The selection fields allows you to jump to one of these places. You can clear the selection field by clicking the places list button.
- Place page buttons
- If there are many places, the map is no longer useful because too much information is shown. Therefore, the places will be divided in pages. You can navigate the pages and see the map change via the Place page buttons: << goes back a page, >> goes forward a page, and the middle button shows how many pages there are and what is shown at the moment.
- Places with no latitude-longitude
- The Geographic View can only show places with a valid latitude-longitude. A list of all places that satisfy the selection, but cannot be put on the map, is available via the button with a number and the ? sign. You can add latitude-longitude to these places in one of the following ways:
- Use the place link button on the Geographic View
- Go to the Place View, and use the Go button to search the place and it's location
- Download the Place completion tool via the menu Help->Plugin Manager. If you download the data of your country, this tool can add latitude-longitude to all your places.
- lock zoom level.
- If you zoom the map to a resolution you want to keep, then you can press the lock zoom level button, and every time the Geographic View redraws the map, this zoomlevel will be used.
- provider selection change
- Gramps uses OpenStreetMap or Google Maps to provide the map that is displayed. With this button you can quickly change from one to the other. The advantage of OpenStreetMap is that it is a free project, so you can update the maps yourself with missing information via their website.
Via the toolbar Configure View... button (or via the menu View, the following functionality is available:
- Map options
- add crosshair in center of map, usefull to add or link places to the correct latitude-longitude coordinates
- show coordinates in the statusbar
- Time period: this changes how the view divides events in groups
- Network: This view needs an internet connection. If your connection drops away from time to time, or is not always on, you can set here to have the Geographic view retry the internet connection. Like this, the Geographic view will become active the moment your internet connection returns, without you needing to take manual action.
Sources Category
Sources View lists the sources of certain information stored in the database.
There are two views in this category. The default (Citation Tree View) shows all the sources, and for each it allows the user to see the Citations associated with that source by clicking on the disclosure triangle. The alternative view only shows the Sources.
Sources can include various documents (birth, death, and marriage certificates, etc.), books, films, journals, private diaries, - nearly anything that can provide genealogical evidence. Gramps gives you the option to provide a citation to a source for each event you record (births, deaths, marriages, etc.). The Sources View lists the Title , ID , and Author of the source, as well as any Publication information that may be associated with it.
The list of Sources can be sorted by clicking on a column heading.
Clicking once sorts in ascending order, clicking again sorts in descending order. The Column Editor dialog can be used to add, remove and rearrange the displayed columns.
Citations Category
Citation View lists the citations for certain information stored in the database.
Citations specify which parts of a source are relevant to the information in the database. For example, a Source may be a book, and the citation may be a particular page in the book. Gramps gives you the option to provide a citation for each event you record (births, deaths, marriages, etc.). The Citations View lists the Volume/Page , ID , and Date of the citation, as well as any Confidence in the evidence.
The list of Citations can be sorted by clicking on a column heading.
Clicking once sorts in ascending order, clicking again sorts in descending order. The Column Editor dialog can be used to add, remove and rearrange the displayed columns.
Repositories Category
A repository can be thought of as a collection of sources.
Each source in the database can reference a repository (such as a library) in which it belongs. The functionality of the Repositories View is similar to the other views.
Media Category
The Media View is a list of Media Objects used in the database.
Media Objects are any files that relate somehow to the stored genealogical data.
Technically, any file can be stored as a Media Object.
Most frequently, these are images, audio files, animation files, etc. The list box on the bottom lists the Name , ID , Type , and Path of the Media Object.
The Column Editor dialog may be used to rearrange the displayed columns, which obey usual sorting rules. The top part of the Gramps window shows a preview (if available) and information about the Media Object.
Notes Category
A Note is pure text, as stored in the other objects.
The functionality of the notes View is similar to the other views. The view lists all Notes stored in the Family Tree. Using the menu View ->Configure View... you open the Column Editor and you can change the displayed columns. The possibilities are Preview, ID, Type and Marker.
The Type can be (amongst others): Event Note, Address Note,Source text, Place Note
Double-clicking on a Note in the list will bring up a window where you can edit the Note. You can change fonts, font color and background color. A spellchecker is available for English and your local language.
Hidden Html View Category
In order to make this view avaiable:
- You must ensure that the webkit module is available.
- Once you have started Gramps with the webkit module available, you can go into Help ->Plugin Manager, find the Html View item,select it and click on Hide/Unhide.
- You must then quit Gramps and start it up again.
- When you have done this, the new Web Category will appear.
The Html View (Web) category allows you to browse web pages from within Gramps.
Simply type the web address, and the page will be displayed in the normal way.
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