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Thomas is pretty worthless. He receives a salary of $213,900 for sitting on his ass.
I think I like him better with his mouth shut. He should keep it that way.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!!!
He proved how mentally sick he is when he lied about Anita Hill---the woman had nothing to gain and everything to lose by telling the truth about this self loathing hypocrite.
This was Bush#1 choice for the court. Just like Bush was pushed to chose Danny Boy for his VP. Bush was pushe dto pick Thomas to the court.
One hopes that Thomas represents the nadir in appointments to the Supreme Court.
Use your energy and your keyboard/mouse for something worth-while. Stop searching for that garbage. I'm starting to think it's a turn-on for the both of you.
You have missed the point of the post. Google "cynicism" and "metaphor"You and Rareboy have this odd fixation with ramming white guys in Black-face down our throats.
Do you represent the vox populi?Nobody wants to see the pictures and we don't want to see the videos
Trying to sell this as a visual aid is not working.
My energy is mine to use as I please.Use your energy and your keyboard/mouse for something worth-while*.
I don't have to search. See GOP.Stop searching for that garbage.
You are not qualified to judge what is a turn-on and what is not.I'm starting to think it's a turn-on for the both of you.
I recall Justice Thomas saying that his reticence in speaking at the oral arguments before the Supreme Court to be related to two factors:
1. his growing up in the racist south, where he learn not to say things that racist people would throw back in his face, and
2. the fact that he does not glean much information about the constitutionality of an issue beyond hearing the parties present their stories. He seems not to be impressed by answers given to questions from the bench.
If someone can quote one of his written opinions with which the disagree, fine...but if this is all you people have, well...I am just going to have to conclude that you are racists.
He's a token, whooped doo.
Oh, one more thing. I have read that Justice Thomas believes that peppering the attorneys in court is not only impolite, but does not affect the dedision. The justices, for the most part, have already made up their minds before they arrive at the oral arguments.
So, not only is Thomas a first-rate jurist; he is also polite. Go figure.
And it is because of his extreme Republican (not conservative) views, that you are siding with him now.
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Nice try, Just, but the Republicans helped increase the deficit when they controlled Congress and held the Presidency...hardly a conservative position.
Justice Thomas is certainly an Originalist. He does not believe in a "Living Constitution".
I agree, Kev. That's why I am saying Republicans are not conservatives. Real conservatives would not have passed unfunded tax cuts paid for in borrowed money. Real conservatives would not have entered in two wars they could not pay for. Real conservatives would have never passed one of the worst infringements of individual freedom and liberty: The Patriot Act. The Republican party does not represent conservatism. As a registered Democrat, I am more conservative than the Republican leadership. I'm glad we see eye to eye.
An "originalist" is an unrecognized, self-described paradox that is inconsistent with the passage of time. An originalist would have kept slavery. After all, it was part of the original Constitution. Clarence Thomas is black, therefore in his own view, he should not be a Supreme Court justice or even a citizen of the United States. Hence, the paradox why this self-description lacks a political following of legitimate merit, and is generally unrecognized in political spectrums.
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Originalists don't believe that things cannot change, that the Constitution has to remain the way it was when passed; they believe that you can amend the constitution to, say, abolish slavery. Thank goodness that happened, eh?
^ Do you have a citation that appropriately defines Originalism, and one that links to the belief system you are attributing Clarence Thomas to believe in? Your insistence that Thomas does not believe in a "Living Constitution" is contradictory to the fundamental change that the abolition of slavery was to the U.S. Constitution. It was the first time in American history, where one amendment literally crossed out the other.
Otherwise, I can only assume you're making this up as you go in your own interpretation of how you believe the U.S. Constitution should be followed, and an opinion of how you think Clarence Thomas views law.
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You seem to have no ability to understand context or to appreciate that when the pic is posted...it is a commentary on how the white guys (in the case you are referring to in my instance, they were Republicans trying to make themselves seem more 'black' by expressing their fondness for black music or black cuisine in order to appeal to the black voters) seem to think that being black in America means. For many of these crackers....their idea of blackness is something that white people can just paint on their face...or ideas....or institutions and that that will be good enough to pass for black or to satisfy the blacks that they are being represented.
And this is pretty much what they did with the Thomas appointment to the bench. Fortunately the times have changed and now that the US actually elected, a black president...hopefully these days of Uncle Tomming and window dressing are over.
But you seem to be tone deaf on this, as well as so many other things. This kind of stuff just seems to fly right over your head.
JB, the legal abolition of slavery in this country occurred due to a constitutional amendment (no cite needed...if you don't believe it, you look it up). This is not an example of a "Living Constitution", which implies Supreme Court Justices just deciding that they think the Constitution says x, y, or z because that is just how they feel. Originalists view the Constitution in light of how the issues were decided at the time they were decided.
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SOUTH COVENTRY — Want to make a difference on Make a Difference Day? Clean out your closets and bring a bag of canned goods, non-perishable foods and paper products to the Owen J. Roberts High School Wildcat Stadium on Saturday starting at 10 a.m.
For the eighth year, Owen J. Roberts School District students and staff are celebrating Make a Difference Day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. by trying to fill a bus with food, paper goods and personal care items that will be donated to the Coventry Food Pantry (formerly the North Coventry Food Pantry).
"We're hoping we can definitely fill one bus. And not just fill the seats, but fill it so it's overflowing into the aisles," said pantry volunteer Susan Deegan-Watson.
Make a Difference Day is a national day of helping others, held each year on the fourth Saturday in October. This year, the Owen J. Roberts School District is taking things a step further, not only stuffing a school bus chock full with donations, but also sponsoring a Breast Cancer Awareness Walk-a-Thon at the stadium at the same time.
The walk-a-thon will support United for Her, an organization dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of those dealing with breast cancer.
While the walk-a-thon is now in its second year, this year, filling the bus — and sometimes as many as three buses — has become a favorite October tradition with the Owen J. Roberts students. To meet their goal, the schools hold collections for weeks in advance. Often, teachers and administrators foster competitions to encourage students to donate, with winning classes earning pizza parties or other rewards.
While it can be fun for the students, the drive itself is serious business, Deegan-Watson observed.
"This is our biggest fundraiser of the year. The supplies we get now will last us until March," she said.
Those supplies will provide a crucial supplement to families throughout northern Chester County for months to come. And now, more people than ever before are relying on the Coventry Food Pantry to help them make it through tough times.
The pantry, which is located in the basement of the North Coventry Township municipal building, holds a monthly distribution on the first Tuesday of every month. Often as many as 100 clients show up, according to Deegan-Watson.
"Often these are working families who just can't quite swing it," she's found.
Recently the pantry began offering a weekend backpack program, providing backpacks filled with food and snacks to Owen J. Roberts students who may not otherwise get enough to eat over the weekend. A total of 17 students are currently weekly recipients.
"This is Chester County, and people think that because we're one of the top 10 wealthiest counties in the country we don't have poor people. Yes we do," Deegan Watson said.
In addition to food, the pantry provides personal care items and paper products, which can prove cost prohibitive for people struggling to put food on the table. Toilet paper, toothpaste and feminine products are always in need, and pantry volunteers hope people are generous in donating them on Saturday.
"While food is important, so is the other stuff," explained Deegan-Watson. "Aluminum foil and plastic bags, that's huge."
Donations are in demand year round, but the need is greater in November and December, when the pantry provides special holiday provisions on top of the regular monthly distribution. It's important, therefore, that the pantry has adequate supplies.
The Make-a-Difference Day bus really will make a difference in the lives of many families, said Deegan-Watson.
"Right now we're just praying for massive donations," she said.

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Harry Binswanger reckons this US election is the most important since the Goldwater-Johnson election of 1964, which, "had Goldwater won, the entire course of world history would have been different… no 'War on Poverty,' no Johnson-era expansion of government intervention, no Vietnam War, and, perhaps, no New Left."
Not because the two candidates are as wildly different as Johnson and Goldwater were--"the candidates, as men, are ciphers," reckons Binswanger. "The election is about the clash of symbols."
Obama symbolizes collectivism, and its psychological corollary and breeding ground: second-handerism. Romney doesn't symbolize much of anything, except that he's the non-Obama. This mean he symbolizes non-collectivism and pre-post-modern America. To his definite credit, Romney has said several times that he will not apologize for his success (at Bain Capital).
I continue to predict a Romney victory, in fact a solid one. But I have to admit that I'm scared. Can it be that all the polls are so wrong? It can be—but that doesn't mean they are. Still, I have made my bets, based on factors I've discussed here before: Obama has only lost supporters since 2008, and the failure of his policies is pretty easy to discern. In 2008, Obama was the One, the Messiah, our Deliverer. Now he's just that grim graying dude who scolds us and blames everybody else.
By this time tomorrow night we should know if the American sense of life still exists. If it does, "You didn't build that" and "We're all in it together" will have been slapped down. If it does not, we'll survive for many years as a nation, but not as America.


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If you don't know, monthly magazine's released in Japan have a strange pattern of naming issues one month ahead of the actual release date. So if it is mentioned that the next chapter is going to be released in the November issue they actually mean October - in other words, the next chapter is going to be released in the next month as usual...
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It might be a little too early to say this, but I think that, after the current "Rescue Moka" arc is over, there should be a small arc concentrated solely on Tsukune's "humanity" and the effects of Tsukune's "vampire transformation"...
After all, considering how much Tsukune identified himself as a "human", in the previous arcs, despite having Moka's vampire blood in his veins, now that Tsukune has been given some strong evidence (his recent berserk incident, which Tsukune "remembers" ) that he is becoming something , that he can't be considered a human anymore, I think that Tsukune's character development would "lack" something, if he didn't have any thoughts on the matter of his vampire transformation, and what is going to happen to him, because of it.
Not to mention, both Moka's still remain unaware of Tsukune's latest transformation, and they are going to be quite surprised, once they learn, how much Tsukune has changed during their one month separation...
In other words, I think that Ikeda has made the best circumstances to answer some part of the questions that we have about Tsukune's transformation, and I would be quite disappointed if there wouldn't be anything mentioned on this particular topic, when the current arc is over...
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About Tsukune... i just re-read the first few pages of chapter 42 and after i did i know that Tsukune has two sources of demon energy, his Shinso power and the demon energy inside his reborn body (i like "reborn", it sounds more epic) that is produced by the "amplified channel", i don't know how many of you know this but i'm just throwing this out there for the heck of it, it's been bugging me for a while.
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In my understanding of the developments that happened to Tsukune so far, there can be only one source of youkai energy present in Tsukune's body and that is the Shinso blood that Moka injected into him, which later - most likely, merged with Tsukune's human blood and caused the initial changes in Tsukune's body, which resulted in his first berserk incident.
Unless... (what follows is my pure speculations, without much relation to the actual facts, based solely on the fact that Tohou Fuhai's modification ritual is called a human modification technique ) Tohou Fuhai's ritual was originally intended to be used on normal humans that don't have any youkai powers within them to begin with...
What I meant to say that Tohou Fuhai could have made some kind of artificial youkai source within their bodies that could be later used as the energy source of their youkai techniques...
Well, I'm quite aware of the fact that this theory seems absurd, and their are a lot of problems with this theory, like for example, where the youkai energy comes from, since it's not like something "artificially made" can produce something from nothing... unless you want to make me say that it uses the humans "life energy" and forcefully changes that to "youkai energy" at the cost of the humans remaining life span...
: OMG , that sounds awfully close to Tohou Fuhai's problem, since it has been mentioned that Tohou Fuhai changes into an "old guy" form to converse his remaining lifespan... you don't want to tell me that...
... I have to say, I WILL definitely look toward Ikeda's explanation on this topic, now excuse me, while I go and CLEAR my head a little bit...
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for the record, I always read it as precisley what you decribed, him artificially creating both a source of youkai powers and pathways to channel/use it - hence yeah, tsukune should have a double source so to speak, the artificial youkai power granted by fuhai and the shinzo thingy ... you now succeeded in confusing me deeply by stating this is not neccessarrily so
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Tsukune's case is like Yusuke's case from Yu Yu Hakusho. Yusuke had two sources of power, his spiritual energy (reiki) and his demon energy (youki), however Tsukune's case is different but similar to Yusuke's, Tsukune has both demon energy (which is the energy that is now produced by the "amplified channel" that has been intergrated inside his body by Touhou, this is probably how a youkai's body naturally produces energy, but for Tsukune his body was modified to do this, the "amplified channel" i mean) and of course his Shinso energy (which was acquired through Akasha's Shinso blood that he inherited from Moka), i have no doubts that he has two sources of energy, but for now hes using the demon energy produced by his new body and in 42 he is still wearing the Holy Lock so his Shinso blood has been re-sealed of course, Ikeda probably made it this way to prevent him from reacting to Alucard until a critical part of the storyline.
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I will try to explain how I think the youkai energy system works, and why I belive that the amplified chanel that Tohou Fuhai inserted into Tsukune's body is not an independent source of power as some of you claim it to be...
In the first placee, let's talk about naturally born ayashi, which all have naturall source's of power, like it was explained in the manga (vampires - thier blood, Sucubii have the power of love, wherewolf's - moon )...
Now, it wouldn't be a strectch to claim that all ayashi have some sort of natural organ that is responsible for converting the energy that they recive from their source of power (which is probably something that their bodies can't use directly ) into an energy that their bodies can use (which is called youkai energy)...
In the case of humans, they obviously don't have such organs, since their bodies are difrennt then the body of a naturally born ayashi, in other words they are completly unable to have youkai energy being produced in their bodies, since their bodies aren't adapted to it ...
So, what happens when such an normal human is injected with the blood of an ayashi, which is basically a foregin and poisenous substance to his human body, which probably can't get rid of it, and has no choice but to adapt to it - in other words mutate ...
Now one of the things that the human body must do in other to survive the injection of an ayashi's blood into it's system, is develop an organ that would be capable of converting the energy recived from the ayashi's source of power into an energy that the body can use (youkai energy), which is something an human body dosen't posses...
In other words a human body needs to endure some pretty drastic sudden and spontaneous changes, and if the subject can survive that, well he will be capable of using youkai powers, similar to the ones that the ayashi who injected him with his / her posseses...
But do you think, for a moment that organs carefully developed in the course of generations that naturally born ayashi have has the same quality as organs quickly developed in a sudden and spontaneous change made to a foremly human body... the answer is that they can't be compared and the organs that a former human has developed during his mutation are obviously inferior to the organs that naturally born humans have...
The result is that a humans youkai energy is unstable and hard to take control of, which finally leads us to the topic of Tohou Fuhai's modification technique...
Now, I don't think that Tohou Fuhai is capable of changing the spices of an ayashi or adding another source of power to someone's body, as some of the other pepole in this forum claim, since he obviously isin't a god, and has some limitations on what he is capable of doing....
So, how could he help a former human who already has a fine source of ayashi power, but isin't capable of properly using them, due to the inferioririty of his body organs, well there is only one anwser, and that is to modify the organs that a human has developed in the course of his mutation, and under his careful guidence change them into properly developed organs that naturaly born ayashi have...
Which basically leaves us with chapter 42, where Tohou Fuhai speaks about the Amplified chanel that produces youkai energy within Tsukune's body, which to my understanding dosen't mean that the source of Tsukune's youkai energy has been changed, since like I said I don't think that Tohou Fuhai is capable of changing the kind of spiecies that Tsukune is becoming...
It just means that the organ responsible for producing Tsukune's youkai energy has been changed into a much more stable one , which should solve some of Tsukune's problems of his Shinso powers going out of control, now that Tsukune's body has become a lot more adjusted to the power of his Shinso blood...
At least that's how I understand all the mess that chapter 42 brought us, and unless Ikeda mentiones something more about this development, nothing is going to convince me to change my mind about it...
I just might change my theory a little bit, if someone finds some error's in it...
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Students and teachers at St. Bridget Elementary School in Loves Park are evacuated after hearing what they thought was an explosion and smelling smoke.
The fire alarm sounded and at least four hundred students at St. Bridget filed out of classrooms into the cold, many without coats.
"The lights started flickering and we just heard a big crack before all the lights went off," says Sammie Gray, a student at St. Bridget.
Fire fighters say a telephone pole across the street is to blame. All of the wires come down through metal sleeve attached to the pole, and fire fighters say it was worn out.
"Probably the years of the wind blowing and rubbing took its toll and burnt the primary completely in half," says Loves Park Fire Chief Phil Foley.
And Foley says anytime there is a power shortage wires start smoking. The bang, he says, came when the wire actually snapped. "The sound I imagine they thought the building was ready to collapse, and echoing through the halls, it probably sounded pretty bad."
With all the police and firefighters on the scene, parents say it looked pretty bad too. "You're thinking, oh my gosh, seeing all the police, but I trust the school and I know they take care of the kids," says Terry Gray, a St. Bridget mom.
The fire department did shut down all power to the school. But ComEd crews were quick to the scene. They expect the power to be restored later tonight.


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UPPER MERION — The Upper Merion Vikings came out firing on all cylinders, while the Academy Park Knight's engines never really started.
Upper Merion took an early 12-1 lead and never looked back, winning 69-40 over the Academy Park Knights who never found a groove for the duration of the boy's varsity basketball matchup at Upper Merion Thursday night. The Vikings had the benefit of a diverse array of attacking opportunities thanks to excellent guard-play on the perimeter, and centers who used their size and strength to feast in the lane.
"I lulled them to sleep with a slow dribble, and then used my speed to beat them to the basket," said Justin Lewis, who had a game-high 19 points, ten of which he scored in the first quarter.
Lulled, maybe, but at times his moves were dazzling, while Academy could only watch in vain. Cutting to the basketball with speed and finesse and throwing up windmill layups that always seem to kiss the glass just right, Lewis set the rhythm for the Vikings that never subsided for 32 minutes.
"Lewis is a senior leader, a four-year varsity player," said Upper Merion Coach Francis Bowe. "He knows when to attack, when to shoot and when to set up his man."
In the second quarter, Academy Park switched to a zone defense in an attempt to stifle the matchup problems they were having with Upper Merion. But, the Viking's centers were simply bigger and stronger, or at least they played that way. Senior Center, Connor McGrath, finished with 12 points and 8 rebounds, dominating the glass. Add that with four timely steals, he was able to give his team valuable possessions that not only sustained the lead, but grew it substantially.
"In the off-season we've worked hard on rebounding and doing weightlifting in the gym to get ready for games like this," said McGrath.
"We beat their zone with really strong guard play, and then when they switched back to man-to-man, we were able to beat them inside with our bigs."
In the third quarter, Upper Merion went on an 18-0 run that saw their lead grow from 9 points, to nearly doubling that of Academy Park. Whether they were getting beat off the dribble on the perimeter, being out-rebounded on the offensive and defensive glass, committing neglectful turnovers or just plain missing open looks, Academy Park never looked comfortable.
"Some teams say it's all about the bigs, but if you don't have good guard play on the perimeter, you are not going to win many games," said Bowe. "We just have the benefit of having both, with two big centers who can make plays."
The chemistry that the team plays with has pulled Upper Merion out of the proverbial gutter with this win — Upper Merion is now on a four-game winning streak and 5-4 on the season.
"We're playing good defense, we have shooting guards and bigs that all playing well on the offensive end," said McGrath.
"Our team chemistry has been great, from veterans like Connor and Justin who are leading this team, to Riece (Jenerette) who is our sparkplug, coming off the bench and giving us that boost, they've given me my first four-game winning streak," said Rowe. "It's been a privilege coaching this team."
Upper Merion's winning streak will be put to the test when they travel to a tough matchup on Friday at Plymouth Whitemarsh.
"We need to be ready, we need every player who comes off the bench to energize our team and keep this success going."


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Memorizing mottoes was a long-standing tradition in early American education and was practiced at F.S.N.S. from the 1880s to the 1940s. Each school day opened with Morning Chapel exercises that included a short religious program, school announcements, and the quotation to be memorized by the students.
The students recorded all their daily mottoes in a notebook, known as their "motto book." These quotes or parts of poems were intended to inspire students to work hard, develop a good moral character, be successful students, and be good citizens. This is a page from the 1886-87 motto book of F.S.N.S. student Dora Bither.


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Former-Brazil striker Ronaldo is heading to London to begin studying advertising, according to the Daily Mail.
The ex-Real Madrid, Barcelona and Inter Milan forward will live in the capital and study towards a qualification in advertising, before beginning a work placement with London-based communications group WPP.
Reports in Brazilian magazine Veja claim Ronaldo will spend two years in London beginning in 2013, as he looks to hit the library and become a student.
Ronaldo quit football in 2011, after returning to Brazil with Corinthians. The Brazil striker was blighted by injury during his career, but is widely regarded to be one of the greatest strikers of all-time. He holds the record for most goals in World Cups Finals with 15.
Since calling time on his playing career, Ronaldo has taken a more hands-on role at 9ine, his sports marketing agency. And the Samba star hopes to receive guidance and advice from one of the biggest names in marketing, WPP founder Sir Martin Sorrell.
Ronaldo's spokesman said: "He intends to go to England, which he will receive advice and guidance from Mr Sorrell, who's the head of the world's largest advertising company."
The 36-year-old World Cup winner has a place on the organising committees for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
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Submission + - Google starts running fiber in Kansas City, Kansas (kansascity.com)
Kiyyik writes: "After weeks of wrangling over shared space on utility poles, Google and the KC Board of Public Utilities have gotten their act together and Google is starting to wire Kansas City Kansas today. They will be paying attachment fees and hanging the fiber optic liens in the space on the poles reserved for telecommunications. The Kansas City MO side is still on track to begin a few months behind the Kansas side."


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The Wabash and Manchester boys' basketball teams were meeting for the second time this season Friday night at Coolman gym. Back on Dec. 27, the Apaches knocked off the Squires 63-56 in the Wabash County tourney, so the Squires had revenge on their minds. Manchester did get their revenge, but it took an extra quarter when Apache Jordan Blair hit three free throws with no time remaining to send it to OT, as the Squires survived a 61-58 overtime slug fest.
The game went just as most figured. The largest lead of the night was 7 points by Wabash, which they did in the second and third quarters.
Wabash got off to a 2-0 lead on a Kodi Clemons bucket that was answered with buckets from Clayton Petrie and Claudell Dickantone to give Manchester a 4-2 lead. The two teams would trade leads or be tied six more times when Manchester led 11-9 with a few seconds to go. Jordan Blair would then bang home a shot at the buzzer and the game was where it was when it started, tied.
Grant Sailors would get Wabash the lead to start the second quarter and was followed with a three pointer from Roger Davis to put the Apaches up 16-11. After a Manchester time out, the Apaches would strike again with a Sailors bucket to increase the lead to 18-11. Chase Fierstos would hit to stop the 7 point Wabash run, but was answered by Cody King to make it 20-13. The Squires would cut the lead to three when Clayton Petrie and Chase Fierstos connected, but Roger Davis shut the door with a three as Wabash led 23-17 at the half.
After a Chase Fierstos bucket got the second half going, Grant Sailors would hit, followed by a Roger Davis free throw and the Apaches had their largest lead of the night at 26-19. Clayton Petrie and Claudell Dickantone would hit buckets around a Christian Hall basket as the Apache lead was 29-23. Two Claudell Dickantone free throws with 1:00 left made it 29-26 when Cody King hit again to make it 31-26. Chase Fierstos would hit the final bucket of the quarter, which was a three to draw the Squires to within two at 31-29 when the horn went off.
Claudell Dickantone would quickly tie the game to start the fourth, but was answered by a Christian Hall three to give Wabash a 34-31 lead. The Squires would then get a three from Chase Fierstos to tie the score and then get their first lead since the first quarter on a Claudell Dickantone bucket to make it 36-34 Manchester. Grant Sailors would tie the game for the 9th time with two free throws with 3:45 left.
Two more free throws from Sailors with 1:50 remaining gave Wabash a 38-36 lead, but a back door play to Dickantone knotted the score at 38. Chase Fierstos would give Manchester their second lead of 40-38 with 58.9 on the clock, but a Squire foul put the Apaches on the free throw line. Roger Davis hit one of two with 52.3 left. After a Squire rebound the Apaches first tried high pressure defense to get the ball, but ended up fouling with 16.7 on the clock. Claudell Dickantone would calmly sink both free throws to give Manchester a 42-39 lead and the Apaches needed a three with 13.7 left.
Roger Davis would throw up a three that was no good, but after a scrum on the floor the Apaches got a time out with 1.7 remaining. Wabash set up a play that found Jordan Blair in the corner, but Blair missed the three as time expired, but was fouled. With Blair having three free throws and no time on the clock, Manchester called time out to freeze the shooter. With no time on the clock, no players were aloud to stand around the paint as Blair stood alone. With the crowd going crazy, knowing Blair couldn't miss one free throw or the game was over, Jordan Blair had ice in his veins draining all three to send the game to overtime.
Manchester got the first lead in overtime on two Chase Fierstos free throws, but the Apaches bounced right back with a three from Davis and an offensive rebound bucket from Davis to lead 47-44. The Squires would then go on a 6-0 run with buckets from Fierstos, Dickantone and Phoenix Goad to lead 50-47 with 12.0 remaining. A Manchester foul with 10.3 left gave Wabash some hope with Hall hitting one to make it 50-48. A Wabash foul would then put Fierstos on the line with 6.5 left, with Fierstos hitting one to make it 51-48 and the Apaches still had life. With heavy full court defense applied by the Squires, Wabash was forced to a half court buzzer beater by Davis that fell short with Manchester escaping 51-48.
Claudell Dickantone and Chase Fierstos led Manchester with 19 points each. Clayton Petrie added 11, Phoenix Goad 2.
Roger Davis led Wabash with 16 points. Grant Sailors added 10, Christian Hall 8, Jordan Blair added 5, Cody King 5, Kodi Clemons 2, Chase Dirig 2.
Manchester won the junior varsity game 46-35.
Leading the Squires was David McAtee with 16 points. Austin Brewer added 11, Keelan Norwood 7, Bailey Ness 7, Levi Hicks 5.
Leading Wabash was Tyler Hough with 14 points. Travis Easthom added 11, Owen Yeadon 4, Jordan Burnsworth 4, Juwan Carter 2.


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On March 2 1991, a young Welshman replaced Denis Irwin for Manchester United at home to Everton.
On March 2 2013, the very same, and now not so young, Welshman may well start for Manchester United at home to Norwich. 999 professional appearances later, Ryan Giggs is still a huge threat in the Manchester United squad.
At just 17, Ryan Giggs made his Manchester United debut almost 23 years ago.
There are so many facts, stats and figures that can make one's jaw drop when referring to Ryan Giggs.
In modern day football where a career has the potential to last just a few years, Giggs is a phenomenon. His longevity is something to be marvelled at, his maintained levels of fitness are stunning. Moreover, his ability to adapt, however, is what may well be the reason for his continued success.
It's easy to fall into clichés about Giggs, to reel off the same incredible sounding statistics, but for once in football they certainly ring true. A goal in every season of the Premier League since its inception cannot be matched.
It's hard to see anyone else reaching 1000 professional games especially at the highest level for one single club (and country). The way Giggs has looked after his body and changed his role within the game is testament to his professionalism.
Ryan Giggs will be the first person to admit to you that he no longer possesses the devastating pace he used to tear defences apart with. It's impossible to keep such speed for such a long amount of time.
But his conditioning of his body through self-disciplined exercise, adaptability and utter and unrivalled professionalism is what has set Giggs apart from the pack.
Knowing full well his body would deteriorate over his career, and his pace wouldn't last forever, Giggs, along with Sir Alex Ferguson, altered his role. He moved infield. A subtle change, yes, but one that has arguably prolonged Giggs' career by years.
The wing is a notoriously hard position to play in. The ability to beat a man at pace with the ball is now an art that few have truly mastered in the same way Giggs had throughout earlier stages in his career. Personified by that goal against Arsenal in The FA Cup semi-final replay in 1999, Giggs' pace with the ball was frightening defenders the world over.
Arguably, he was the one player who could have made a huge difference to the English national side's infamous left side of midfield problems if he had chosen England over Wales. But as of the late 2000s, said pace wasn't as blistering and as devastating anymore; with some critics stating that this was the beginning of the end, Giggs reinvented his style of play.
His move from the wing to a more central position and began to influence games in a new way. His knowledge of wing play allowed him to make a pass to where he knew a good winger should be. Whilst fellow veteran Paul Scholes was sidelined with an eye problem for much of 2006, Giggs arguably took over the role of the quarterback and did so with aplomb.
The faith shown in him in his later years by Sir Alex Ferguson is testament to his unrivalled stamina and hunger at this top level. Giggs has won everything there is to win, 12 Premiership trophies, 2 Champions Leagues, 4 FA Cups and 3 League Cups isn't too bad a haul.
It would be easy for Giggs to walk away. The fact he hasn't demonstrates his passion for football and for Manchester United. The rarity of a one-club-man these days is something to be marvelled at, and in Giggs it certainly is. His new one year contract extension means that, thankfully, as fans of football first and foremost, we get the honour of seeing him play for longer.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Goucher College (1-0) scored 11 second half goals to upend the Birmingham-Southern Men's Lacrosse team (1-1) 13-9 in a neutral site contest Saturday at Appenzeller Field in Greensboro, N.C.
The Panthers held a 4-2 halftime lead. Reed Butler and Evan Lelande scored goals to give BSC a 2-1 lead at the end of the first quarter. Luke Herline, who had two goals and three assists, on the day, gave BSC a 3-1 lead with 5:16 left in the second quarter. Matt Ivie, who had four goals on the day, added the final goal of the first half with 2:21 remaining.
Goucher scored five goals in the third quarter to tie the game, 7-7, heading into the final period.
Ivie scored all three of the Panthers fourth quarter goals with Herline assisting on two goals.
Herline and Nicco DeRossa tallied fourth quarter goals for BSC.
Huffman had 11 saves for the Panthers in goal while Goucher's Connor Mishaw totaled 15 saves in 58 minutes.
Pierce Ingram led Goucher with four goals and two assists followed by Zachary Fratella with three goals followed by Sam Morgan had with two goals and two assists.
The Panthers return to the field in another neutral site game against Carthage on Saturday at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn. , a time to be announced.


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SEATTLE — The Army says it will seek the death penalty against the soldier accused of massacring 16 Afghan villagers during pre-dawn raids in March.
The announcement Wednesday followed a pretrial hearing last month for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who faces premeditated murder and other charges in the attack on two villages in southern Afghanistan.
Prosecutors say Bales left his remote base in southern Afghanistan early on March 11. Prosecutors say he first attacked one village, returned to the base, and then slipped away again to attack another nearby compound. Sixteen people were killed, nine of them children.
No date has been set for his court martial, which will be held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle.


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01:51:27 HENRY: There it is. You see that helicopter right there?
01:51:31 Right up there. I think it's been following me all morning.
01:51:34 - Get the **** out. Are you nuts? - I'm telling you.
Watching the above Chinook overhead yesterday in Brooklyn reminded me of Henry in Goodfellas being tailed by a much smaller chopper
WTF is the OP talking about?
There are giant ominous military helicopters flying over Brooklyn, filling sleepy neighbourhoods with their drone. It's a little unusual, different from your regular perpetrator-chasing police chopper.
It's weird enough to remind me of a scene in Good Fellas where Ray Liotta is driving around looking at the the sky for police helicopters following him.
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Bay Oaks Social Senior Vinnie Mulinaro celebrated his 102nd birthday with a smile, a song and a dance at BOSS' monthly potluck luncheon at Chapel by the Sea last week.
"God Bless everybody and may they live to be as old as me or older," he said right before blowing out the candles of his cake.
Mulinaro, wearing his vintage Fedora hat, is still fairly active with his Beach group, taking part in lunch trips, bocce, dances and other activities. He joined BOSS when he was 94 years old.
"He went out to the Lunch Box in Captiva with us last week," said BOSS coordinator Kevin McCarthy. "He's always is there for the activities day and playing dominoes and Mexican Train card game."
Mulinaro doesn't have any major health problems, except for his macular degeneration and poor hearing. Family friend Diane Bartell said those impediments do not keep him off the dance floor,
"He never misses a dance, especially at Bayside (Estates)," she said. "He loves to go to the Olive Garden and Red Lobster. He'll eat steak, pork chops or sausage."
Bartell has known Vinnie for many years. Her parents retired at the same time as he did and moved to the area about the same time as he did.
"My husband always called him The Godfather, because he was the Italian guy who used to ride his bike around and stop by to visit," she said.
Mulinaro, who hails from Carbondale, Penn., doesn't appear to be any older than he did at his 101st birthday party a year ago. Shake his hand, but do not expect a feeble grip in return.
"He eats like a horse," said another BOSS member. "I don't know how he can do it."


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Congratulations to doubles champions Alistair Felton and Andy Nguyen of Harvard, 9-7 winners over Kendrick Au and Charlie Posner of Brown. And congratulations to singles champion Sven Vloedgraven of SUNY Binghamton, a 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 victor over Marc Powers of Yale.
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January 21, 2013
Juwaan Espinal and Centreville High's jubilant, undefeated freshman football team celebrate the season together.
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Centreville High football players mean the world to Juwaan.
Juwaan Espinal, 15, was born with cerebral palsy and is wheelchair-bound. But that doesn't mean he can't live a life as full of joy and meaning as possible.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Polls are open for Oklahoma voters casting ballots in this year's primary runoff election.
The highest-profile race comes in the 2nd Congressional District, where two Republicans and two Democrats are vying for their parties' nominations. The contests will decide who advances to the November general election in a race to replace the only Democrat in Oklahoma's congressional delegation, retiring U.S. Rep. Dan Boren.
Polls opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday and will close at 7 p.m.
Oklahoma has a closed primary system, so only registered Republicans and Democrats can vote for their own primary candidates. The 26 counties that make up the 2nd District are expected to have the heaviest turnout.
Locally, Pushmataha County will elect a new sheriff Tuesday, and we'll know who'll be on the November ballot for sheriff in Bryan, Coal, and Johnston counties. Plus voters are being asked to consider school bond issues in Madill, Calera, Silo, Lone Grove, and Fox.
Stay with First News on the air and online for complete election coverage.
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Mike Murphy, the chief strategist for Meg Whitman's gubernatorial campaign, has been itching to release his own internal polling showing that his boss has resumed her dominance over her GOP rival, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.
Campaign sources say that, with two weeks left in the race, he may gather reporters real soon for a conference call trumpeting Whitman's internal numbers, now that polls appear to be consistently going her way.
Last week, Murphy had downplayed the Public Policy Institute of California survey showing Poizner closing to within 9 percentage points, saying it hadn't captured a mood shift that was breaking Whitman's way big time — after she'd blown a 50 percentage-point lead.
A SurveyUSA poll, released Sunday night, gave glimpse to that apparent momentum shift, with Whitman stretching her lead from 2 percentage points to 27 (54 percent to 27).
The SurveyUSA poll, which critics don't much like because of the robo-call, push-button mechanics, had more certainty than one commissioned by Daily Kos, which gave Whitman a 10 percentage point lead and had more undecided voters. Murphy said the SurveyUSA poll matched up with numbers he's seeing in other private polls. Republican primary voters, he said, are returning to Whitman after giving her a second look.
"Every private track and our own internals are showing similar numbers, give or take 5 or 6 points," he said. "To me, that's a confirmation that things are moving our way."
Murphy said that a number of factors have turned the momentum around. First, Democrats' attacks on Whitman have backfired. "Republicans are starting to understand that Jerry Brown is doing everything he can to help Steve Poizner. That's the wrong kind of endorsement."
Murphy said he is convinced that the much-maligned ad of Whitman speaking directly to the camera and complaining about Poizner's attacks worked.
"It worked like a charm," Murphy said. "People are starved for information. They like ads when candidates talk to the camera. So we did 60 seconds to break through the clutter and push back on two things bothering voters the most" about Whitman's campaign, which were her position on immigration and her past endorsement of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. Here it is:
Pivoting off that ad, the campaign put up new 30-second spots tearing into Poizner as a liberal, as seen here:
And the ads were supplemented by a heavy voter-to-voter contact effort — unanswered by Poizner: through the mail and by phone.
Poizner's "one-note" campaign — hammering the anti-illegal immigrant issue (seen here:)
helped raise his profile, but "he hasn't done anything" to fill out a larger picture of who he is and how he'd govern, Murphy said.
He noted that Poizner's team, which touted internal polls a couple weeks ago when it was riding a strong anti-Whitman wave, hasn't been so loud about its internals lately.
Jarrod Agen, spokesman for Poizner, said that polls — internal and public — are showing "this race is much closer and that we're within striking distance. The reality is it's going to come down to the last two weeks and which candidate can convince more undecided voters."
Poizner's tough, bracing talk on illegal immigration is "cutting through" to voters and works better with primary voters than the establishment backing Whitman has played up, Agen said. Whitman on Monday released an ad with Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential candidate (and her ex-boss), Condoleezza Rice, the former Secretary of State, and Jon Coupal, president of Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, showing their support:
"We think that's a huge error on their part, showing other establishment Republicans endorsing Meg," Agen said. "Last week, we saw everybody who used that method lost (in primaries around the country). We're in a cycle of changing the status quo, reforming the establishment. And Meg is running as the establishment candidate."
Poizner's team doesn't plan on showing internals any time soon, but not because they lack for confidence, Agen said. "When we released them last time, we were in a gap when there weren't any polls out and we wanted to show people that things were shifting. With the PPIC poll just out and others to come out, there's no reason to release another poll."
Unless you're Mike Murphy, and you have another momentum shift you'd like to share.


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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Pierre Jackson scored 18 points to lead Baylor to an 82-48 win over Texas Tech Tuesday night.
"I shot a lot of shots earlier today," Jackson said. "I like the feel of the gym, it felt good every time it left my hands."
Cory Jefferson and Isaiah Austin each added 17 points, with Jefferson also grabbing eight rebounds for the Bears (10-4, 2-0 Big 12). Brady Heslip added 11 points.
"I came in knowing that we already have scorers like Pierre Jackson and Brady Heslip," Austin said of his contribution as a true freshman. "I've been taking my role as a scorer for us too."
Jaye Crockett led the Red Raiders (8-5, 1-1) with 13 points. Freshman Josh Gray added eight points.
The Bears went on a 24-5 run, led by Jefferson and Jackson, which lasted over eight minutes in the middle of the first half. Baylor used a 22-7 stretch in the second half as they continued to wear out the Red Raiders' defense.
Jefferson scored 13 points in the first half and Jackson added 12 to put the Bears up 42-23.
Baylor was without head coach Scott Drew, who served the second game of a two-game suspension. Jerome Tang filled in for Drew, who sat out the first two Big 12 games over failure to monitor the sending of text messages and making phone calls beyond the NCAA's limit.
"I feel like my brother let me borrow his really expensive car and all I wanted to do was bring it back to him with no dents, full of gas," Tang said.
Baylor shot 57.1 percent from the 3-point line, hitting 8 of 14, while the Red Raiders only connected on 5 of 24, for 20.8 percent.
The Bears took the lead early and spent the rest of the game building on it, handing the Red Raiders their worst loss of the season.
The Bears led by as many as 39 points with 5:38 left in the game. Texas Tech didn't get a lot closer at the end.
Baylor shot 51.7 percent from the field in the first half, while the Red Raiders shot only 31 percent. The Bears saw improvement in the second half, shooting 55.6 percent, while the Red Raiders hopes continued to dwindle, shooting only 30 percent.
Austin and Jefferson combined to be a force on the inside as the Bears outscored the Red Raiders in the paint 36-24.
Rico Gathers was an asset on the glass, grabbing 11 boards for Baylor. Walton joined Jefferson with eight rebounds.
Heslip went 3 of 4 beyond the arc, while Jackson went 3 of 6, Austin 2 of 2. Baylor won the battle of the boards 41-31 -- and 31-19 defensively.
Baylor capitalized more effectively on turnovers, translating theirs into 22 points and limiting Texas Tech to only 11.
"When you play against a team like Baylor, they make you pay for every mistake," Texas Tech coach Chris Walker said. "That's what talent does, it makes you pay for every mistake."
Toddrick Gotcher led Texas Tech in rebounds with seven, while Crockett and Kader Tapsoba each added five. The Red Raiders have seven newcomers on their roster.


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Jacob Rees-Mogg says he will try to amend the Bill to allow Catholics to become monarch
A Catholic MP has called the Bill reforming Britain's succession laws an "attack" on the Catholic Church because it still forbids Catholics from ascending to the throne.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP for North East Somerset, said during a debate in the House of Commons that he would like to amend the Bill to allow a Catholic to become monarch.
Mr Rees-Mogg criticised the Bill in both its content and the speed with which it is being processed. He said the Bill was being "done in a rush as if it is counter-terrorism legislation". He added: "It is an insult to the nation… to our sovereign and indeed to Parliament."
Throughout the debate, Mr Rees-Mogg voiced concerns about the implications of allowing royal heirs to marry Catholics considering the legislation stopped a Catholic from becoming monarch. He said, in relation to this dilemma: "By amending the statutes, we are saying that all the provisions are modernised, and that the Act of Settlement and all its anti-Catholic provisions are acceptable in a modern world."
Sir Gerald Howarth MP ended the debate saying: "There is a paradox in the situation in which we find ourselves. The Government are seeking to end part of a discriminatory law, and yet have resurrected rather a lot of hurt."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: "The current law says that our monarch can't be married to a Catholic. This legal ban doesn't apply to any other faith."
He added: "Today we do not support laws which discriminate on either religious or gender grounds. They have no place in modern Britain, and certainly not in our monarchy."
Mr Clegg proposed the Bill to amend what he termed the "bygone laws" enabling a female first-born heir to be superseded in line to the throne by her younger brothers.


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The Raptors joined the NBA along with the Vancouver Grizzlies in 1995. After the Grizzlies moved south to Memphis, the Raptors became the only NBA team based outside of the United States. The NBA's roots in Canada go back its very first game, which was played between the Knicks and the Toronto Huskies. The Raptors play in the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario.
After a trade at the 1998 draft to acquire Vince Carter, the Raptors had their first taste of success. Carter—a future Hall of Famer who is still playing in the NBA at 40 years old—won Rookie of the Year in his first season and led the Raptors to their first playoff berth in his second year. The Raptors and Carter made the playoffs for three consecutive years from 2000-2002, where they went as far as a game seven in the second round.
The Raptors furthest playoff run came in the 2015-16 season, in which they also won an Atlantic Division title. Led by point guard Kyle Lowry and shooting guard DeMar DeRozan – and supported from the sidelines by famed Tornoto native and superstar rapper Drake -- the Raptors made their first appearance in the Eastern Conference Finals. They faced the eventual champion Cleveland Cavaliers and took the series to six games before losing.
Last season, the Raptors finished with the third seed in the Eastern Conference. They went to the second round of the playoffs before losing to the Cavaliers for a second straight year. The Raptors have made the playoffs a franchise-high four seasons in a row.
The Raptors figure to be one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference next season. Lowry and DeRozan both set career highs in points per game last year. Next season will be Serge Ibaka's first full season with the Raptors, and the team also added C.J. Miles, who could start at small forward and is a major three-point threat, in free agency.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS -- From the outside, 4 Joshua Road still looks like the dream house it was built to be. Inside, though, it's a nightmare.
The basement has been taken over by black mold. The hardwood floors are buckled and warped from water damage. A portion of the ceiling in the dining room has caved in.
All of this is a result of the two-month stay of the home's previous owner, whose impact on the life of Rose Oropallo will be felt longer than the house will be in ruins.
Rose and her husband, Timothy Oropallo, first started dealing with Arthur Strasnick in 2003, two years after she spent nearly 60 days assigned to the World Trade Center as a New York Army National Guard nurse in the aftermath of 9/11.
That tour of duty, she told a judge last week, committed her to "a very real death sentence."
Oropallo developed asbestosis -- a debilitating lung condition -- as a result of her service at Ground Zero. The sergeant who served with her died in 2005 of lung cancer.
Oropallo said more than 800 other first responders have died since 2001 because of health issues associated with 9/11. The World Trade Center Fund awarded her $1.2 million in damages for her affliction.
In 2003, Strasnick operated Backstreet Associates as a financial and investment adviser who Oropallo said she and her husband vetted thoroughly before trusting him with her settlement money.
Initially, Strasnick sent the Oropallos monthly checks and investment statements representing, he said, interest earnings of between 12 and 20 percent.
"He was just paying my money back to us to earn our trust," Rose said. "We trusted him implicitly."
The Oropallos were not Strasnick's only victims in the Ponzi scheme. Court documents indicate there was at least one other victim.
Strasnick had access to all of the Oropallos' accounts and information, and he used it to take all the money they had.
After years, though, he turned to their assets.
Oropallo said she and her husband had always dreamed of flipping houses in Saratoga County. With her settlement money, they bought and renovated one for themselves on Saratoga Lake, a home she called "Paradise."
The Oropallos were still in the process of selling their former home in 2005 when they also finished their biggest project: a ground-up build at 4 Joshua Road.
"We were building someone's dream house," Oropallo said while standing in the house last week as contractors assessed how much it would cost to repair the years of damage.
When the home was built, the Oropallos spared no expense. It had top-of-the-line appliances, three fireplaces and granite countertops in the kitchen and bathrooms.
"This house was built to sell," Oropallo said. "I couldn't afford to live in this house."
In September 2005, Strasnick told the Oropallos he would buy the house himself.
"We popped the champagne," she said.
He agreed to take over the roughly $900,000 mortgage on the home and pay the Oropallos the difference between that and the asking price on the property -- $300,000.
They signed over the title, and Strasnick moved in Oct. 8, Oropallo said.
But after she hadn't seen a dime in months, she sensed something was wrong and went to the police. Then, Strasnick's lies began to unravel.
Strasnick vacated the house by Dec. 22.
"He fled," she said, but the house was still in his name.
The mortgage, on the other hand, was not. Court documents indicate he forged documents to obtain the mortgage in the Oropallos' name.
Without the monthly checks from Strasnick, the Oropallos couldn't afford the mortgage payments on "Paradise," on their former home that had not yet sold or on 4 Joshua Road.
Therefore, they were forced to sell "Paradise" and their former home for what they owed the banks.
"We left the closings with $1 in our pocket," Oropallo said.
But while the mortgage was in the Oropallos' name, the title of 4 Joshua Road was not, so they had no way of selling it or getting out from under the mortgage.
"He devastated us. He left us for dead," Oropallo said.
They moved into a $465-per-month apartment, all they could afford.
"We had to yank our kids out of school. It was devastating," Timothy Oropallo said. "You can't do anything without credit in 2012."
The investigation and subsequent court case took five years. During that time, the 4 Joshua Road property -- which sat vacant -- was never winterized. Legally, it did not belong to the Oropallos, so they couldn't do it themselves.
The pipes burst, causing major damage in the once pristine home.
Strasnick, 64, pleaded guilty Sept. 12, 2011, in federal court to two counts of mail fraud and one count of identity theft.
He was sentenced last Monday to five years in federal prison. He was also ordered to pay about $2 million in restitution.
Strasnick's address, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, is in New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
That isn't the address the Saratoga County Clerk's Office has on file for Strasnick, though, who owed $551 in taxes to the city of Saratoga Springs for a parcel of land on Doten Avenue -- the Oropallos' backyard. The couple bought the 50-by-40-foot parcel separately from the house, so on tax maps they are listed as two different parcels.
When Strasnick didn't pay, the city auctioned it off.
The Oropallos were just legally re-acquainted with 4 Joshua Road this past Monday.
Last week, Oropallo pleaded her case to the City Council before asking the city to return her backyard.
The lot -- listed on the county deed as belonging to Arthur Strasnick of 4 Joshua Road -- was part of the city property auction held July 14. It sold for $21,000.
Tuesday, when the City Council was scheduled to accept the auction bids and sell the parcels, the council pulled the Doten Avenue property from the list. The city has 30 days to decide what to do with it -- whether to accept the bid or nullify the sale and return it to Oropallo.
"We don't want to take anyone's property," said city Finance Commissioner Michele Madigan, whose department organized the auction.
City Attorney Joseph Scala said he is evaluating the situation.
"It's a process," he said. "We're figuring out, legally, what the next step is."
Scala said he could not comment on the specifics of the issue.
"It's not over," Oropallo said, standing in the foyer of 4 Joshua Road. She said not only does she have to reclaim their backyard, but Bank of America still has a lien on their house and her credit is ruined from the fraud.
At the same time, the house is destroyed, the appliances have been stolen and she says the house needs to be gutted.
Oropallo said she will have to address the repairs one at a time.
"I'll save $30,000 and I'll do the sheetrock," she said. "Then I'll save up and do the plumbing."
Some of the contractors, she said, such as Granite and Marble Works, have been helping her at cost.
"I'll take whatever help I can get," Oropallo said.
Anyone who wishes to help should contact her at (808) 987-7392.


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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Knitting at a Slow Pace
Now that it's summer (in spirit if not in fact), I've been hearing the siren call of lace again. Lace is great for the summer because, even with a nearly complete shawl, the pile of wool in your lap is light and airy and entirly tolerable. I've been working on Icarus in part because I feel guilty for neglecting it for so long but also because I have it in my mind to finish it before the Goddess Knits Anniversary Mystery Shawl KAL starts up. That goal might be a tad bit too ambitious, as the first clue comes out a week from Saturday. At the moment I'm in the fourth of five repeats of rows 19-42 of chart 1 in Icarus. It looks bigger than the last time you saw it, but not by much (for scale, that's a 32" US 3 Knit Picks circular in there):
(I do realize that's a awful photo, but it was the best of several that I took. It's already difficult to capture bright red on camera, and as fate would have it, we're having an overcast, rainy day just when I want to do a photo shoot.)
The knitting on this shawl is going very slowly, even though the pattern isn't very tricky at the moment. This yarn, while labeled laceweight, is actually closer to cobweb weight, and added to that is its tendency to snag on rough spots on my fingers, so I have to be very careful and deliberate in my knitting movements.
I discovered last night that a really bad thing to do when you're trying to knit lace with what is essentially thread is to watch a playoff hockey game, particularly when the Cup is on the line. I had a couple of scary moments where I nearly dropped stitches, and I decided it would be best to put the knitting away after the second period. Fortunately the lace was fine, and the game ended for the best (and no, I didn't stay up until the end).
Depending on how brave I am, I may actually bring the shawl to Hurricane Knitting tomorrow night (7 p.m. at the Waterworks Barnes & Noble) -- but maybe I should be safe and just bring socks. You'll have to be there to see!
4 comments:
- Jenn said...
I have to start some socks to bring with me tomorrow night. I don't have a printed copy of the pattern I'm using because I'm out of ink and so I'm knitting it right from the Knitty website. I am so lame.
And since you mentioned the game, I'm probably going to be late tomorrow night because the Pirates AND the Penguins are playing, meaning there's a perfect storm of traffic crap.
- DPUTiger said...
Even if ASU wins tonight, I'm not sure I can get home early enough to make it out to Waterworks, so you will all just have to knit along without me.
And no offense, but a potentially series-ending hockey game may win over Hurricane knitting anyway. Have fun without me!
- Carrie K said...
Most lace looks like nothing, nothing! until it's blocked. I love the color though.
And I don't care what the weather looks like, June is summer. Not that you can tell by the weather.
- guiltypleasures said...
I really dislike photographing red and black. Tricky, tricky. Good for you for picking the lace knitting back up and continuing with the shawl. It will all pay off when you block it.


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John Rey remembers reading about an Arkansas project that tried to improve literacy by giving children in low-income homes their own bookcases and small starter libraries.
Rey bookmarked the article in August 2011 and was inspired to start a similar project by spearheading the DeKalb/Sycamore Bookcase Project for children of the Two Rivers Head Start program in Sycamore.
"[I thought] it was a very practical project that would be doable in the DeKalb community," said Rey, who is the project chairman.
Last year, the new initiative provided more than 50 preschoolers with locally constructed bookcases complete with personalized nameplates and a bag full of books. The program will present 50 more Head Start preschoolers with their own bookcases and minilibraries in May.
"People step up in various ways throughout the community, and that's exciting to see that volunteer contribution effort," Rey said. "We're in a very giving community."
One of those volunteers is Carol Abrahamson, who joined the project in December and currently serves on the book donation committee. Abrahamson joined the project because she believed strongly in literacy.
"It is just such an important skill for everybody as far as having a shot at the American Dream," she said.
The project also encourages families to read together, which Abrahamson said is another reason she supports the effort.
Organizers hope to collect at least 1,800 books this year, allowing each preschooler to receive about 30 books. The program has received several hundred books already, but Abrahamson said they can never have too many.
The program is looking for age-appropriate picture books that will hold the preschoolers' interests, as well as slightly more sophisticated books that parents and relatives can read to them.
There are some limitations on the types of books people can donate. The program discourages books affiliated with any religion or religious holiday, as well as books that are in poor condition.
Northern Illinois University elementary education students will go through the books in April to determine which books are appropriate for the children.
The children will receive their bookcases and books May 4 at the Literacy Banquet at Huntley Middle School.
"Hopefully they catch the love of reading, and that will save a lot of resources down the road," Rey said.
Community members are encouraged to donate any new or gently used books for preschoolers ages 3 to 4 at various locations throughout DeKalb, including any DeKalb District 428 school.
What: Bookcase Project Book Drives
When: now - April 5
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DeKalb County Housing Authority, 310 N. Sixth St.
Resource Bank, 555 Bethany Road
Resource Bank, 775 S. Annie Glidden Road
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/09/rackspace_mobile_cloud/
Rackspace cosies up to mobile developers
Brews mobile gumbo from open source ingredients
Posted in Cloud, 9th April 2013 05:04 GMT
Texan cloud prospector Rackspace hopes to strike gold by partnering up with mobile-focused companies to mine a rich vein of developer services.
The company announced on Tuesday a scheme that sees it offer free "mobile cloud stacks" service to developers, while partnering with mobile-specialist companies for additional services.
This sees Rackspace package up a set of open source technologies commonly used in mobile applications to be run on top of the company's OpenStack-backed range of cloud servers.
When deployed, this technology forms the underlay for a mobile application, the company's CTO John Engates said. He described the free mobile development recipe as "a timesaver... a frustration saver."
The stack is a package of open source software that sits on top of Rackspace's OpenStack-based cloud servers. It consists of a standard LAMP stack – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP – along with a PHP accelerator named Varnish, MemcacheD, and some additional undisclosed tools designed to aid mobile applications.
"Rackspace knows these tools – it's already stitched these together," Engates said. "You don't have to reinvent the wheel."
It is deployed via an unnamed piece of deployment software developed internally at Rackspace.
The software package pairs up with an expanded partnership scheme to see Rackspace make overtures to developers – a decision that means that company is going a different route to its cloud contemporaries, which have either created mobile-specific layers on top of their platform-as-a-service technologies (Google, Microsoft), or who have made available more low-level IaaS services from which to create a mobile-specific stack (Amazon Web Services.)
Instead, the company has developed its stack package technology so it can stick to its professed goals of being an open cloud company – all the technologies within the cloud stack are open source and can be swapped in and out.
"We've seen this same pattern over and over again with lots of customers," Engates says.
The company has also partnered with FeedHenry, New Relic, Sencha, SOASTA, StackMob, and Trigger.io to make sure the companies' various technologies – mobile SDKs, push services, testing and monitoring capabilities and mobile backend platforms – all play nicely with Rackspace's cloud.
With the twin pressures of an increasingly mobile workforce and a dramatic increase in the capability and battery life of phones and tablets, many companies are betting big on mobile features as a way of growing share. For cloud computing, where companies hunt developers first and profits second, the mobile stacks are Rackspace's way of enticing people to locate their applications on its cloud, rather than others.


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Among the payables the Log Lane Village Board of Trustees approved Wednesday was a bill for $267.20 from Ransom Boone Excavating.
That was the total outside cost to the town for repairs of damage caused by the September flood, according to Log Lane Public Works Director Bert Kammerzell.
The work Ransom Boone did was helping Kammerzell repair a wastewater pipe that got damaged when water bent and broke the pipe. It also affected about six feet of ditch bank.
Kammerzell said he and then-part-time worker Hal Meredith were able to bend the pipe back in place, and Ransom Boone resealed it.
"That's not a bad price for a catastrophe," Kammerzell said.
He said the town got very lucky.
"The things I saw going down the river that night, it was an act of God we didn't lose more," Kammerzell said. "I just can't believe we didn't suffer more damage than we did."
Log Lane Mayor Ed Parker agreed.
"I'm just glad we didn't get hit as hard as we could have," Parker said. "It really wouldn't have been a good thing. Not too many of have flood insurance."
In other public works news, Kammerzell reported that the town's water tank's cathodic protection had checked out OK and that the divers likely would be in town the third week of October to inspect the inside for silt and buildup.
He also said he was still looking for crew members for a couple days' work to help with the crack sealer and repairing roads.
Other action
The board also revisited a number of older issues, none of which resulted in action.
Notably, a motion by Trustee Rose Condos to "initiate removal proceedings for the town clerk" failed on a 3-3-1 vote, with Trustees Dee Jimenez, Jeanie Cardona and Condos voting yes, Trustees Martha Manion and Fred Cook and the mayor voting no and Trustee Rick Alva abstaining.
The board also defeated 4-3 a motion to approve the design of decals Condos had purchased for town vehicles to label them as such. Trustees in favor were Condos, Jimenez and Cardona, and Manion, Cook, Parker and Alva were against.
The board also held an executive session to receive legal advice regarding the attempts to remove the town clerk from Andy Nathan, a lawyer for the town's insurer, CIRSA.
Afterward, Parker reported back in open session that Town Clerk Kim Alva requested that such proceedings be made public, which is her right as an employee.
Nathan also told the board that Colorado statutes would supercede any local rules regarding termination proceedings.
"It seems to me that you're wasting time at this point," he said, referencing the earlier failed vote.
But further related action would need to happen in a public forum, Nathan said, since that's what Kim Alva had requested.
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Channel Ten sacks Helen Kapalos
Channel Ten newsreader Helen Kapalos has been sacked by the embattled network, which will go to a single reader format with veteran Mal Walden from December 1.
The popular news presenter had worked for Ten for the past six years, before the shock decision was made after the Friday night bulletin.
Kapalos declined to comment as she boarded a plane for New York, but sent a tweet at 10.50am: "Fall down seven times get up eight".
A Network Ten spokeswoman said: "We will not be renewing Helen's contract, the details of which we will not discuss publicly."
The staff cuts are believed to be part of new austerity measures introduced by the network as it battles a massive slump in ratings.
Earlier, Fairfax incorrectly reported that Sydney presented Bill Woods had also been sacked.
Speaking to Fairfax, Woods said it was "not true" that he had been sacked and that he was looking forward to returning to work on Monday.
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The new schedules remove a day from the 2,600-mile Toronto to Vancouver transcontinental trains and two days from the 2,200-mile Vancouver to Chicago train service.
"With lower dwell times in our terminals, more efficient transit times, and optimized asset utilization, we can provide this improved service," said Canadian Pacific Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Jane O'Hagan. "As part of the global supply chain, we want to help our customers be more competitive in the markets they serve."
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If you enjoy cookies, crackers or ice cream flavored with peanut butter, well, don't for now.
Federal officials are warning Americans to avoid any snack food that includes peanut butter in the ingredients. They say that dozens of products made with peanut butter should not be eaten, because they may be contaminated with salmonella. The warning does not include peanut butter jars on grocery store shelves.
The nationwide outbreak is now linked to 470 illnesses and six deaths across 43 states. The investigation into what is causing the outbreak is taking on new urgency as officials confirmed salmonella contamination at a Georgia facility owned by the Peanut Corporation of America, which ships peanut products to 85 food companies.
Federal officials are scrutinizing some of the companies that Peanut Corp. supplies and urging the companies to test their products or pull them off the shelves. One of the companies, Kellogg's, has voluntarily recalled 16 of its baked products including Keebler Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, Keebler Soft Batch Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies and some snack-size packs of Famous Amos Peanut Butter Cookies. The recall was announced despite more tests being needed to see if the salmonella found at the Peanut Corp. plant matches the strain that has made people sick.
Caroline Smith DeWaal, the Food Safety Director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, says that to be cautious, consumers might want to avoid the peanut crackers and candy bars that could be linked to this outbreak, at least until the companies are cleared by the FDA as not having used this peanut butter.
"The evidence isn't terribly good, but given the size of the outbreak and severity of the illnesses, it's critically important that the government move as fast as it can to really nail down the food source." DeWaal said. "Companies that have taken this peanut butter and mixed it in to other products, used it to create cracker, peanut crackers for example, are probably very concerned that their products could be linked to the outbreak."
Dr. William Schaffner, chair of the Dept. of Preventative Medicine at Vanderbilt Medical Center, says it is going to take time to determine the source of the outbreak. "This is a serious outbreak," Dr. Schaffner said. "Seeing that these cases that are scattered, doing the lab work and implicating the peanut butter is very, very difficult."
One reason there have been so many outbreaks of illness related to the peanut butter might be that Peanut Corp. sold to companies that distributed to schools, hospitals and nursing homes. Salmonella is particularly dangerous to the elderly and children, so health officials have been urging those institutions to throw out specific containers of peanut butter linked to the outbreak. They believe there may be more victims out there.
"It's generally estimated that for every case that we hear about there are approximately 38 other cases out there in the community that got sick or had some kind of illness. But were never sick enough to go to the doctor." said Stephanie Meyer of the Minnesota Department of Health.
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Revealed: new Mercedes E-Class
A Merc stalwart returns with a new set of specs and safety from its S-Class brother…
German taxi drivers of the future, rejoice! Meet the new Mercedes E-Class, revealed here spruced, nipped, facelifted and ready for 2013.
OK, so the 'German taxi' jibe was a little strong, but there's no faulting the current E-Class and its tussle with the BMW 5-Series for class honours. And just because minicabbists like it, doesn't mean you shouldn't.
And there's more to like now with the new E-Class. Specifically, that front end that's had a thorough going over, bringing in the 'four-headlamp' design favoured by its predecessor into the new-generation Mercedes family 'face'. Smart, isn't it?
They're partial LEDs too (with full LEDs an option), and sit aside a new radiator grille, front bumper design, new bonnet and front wings. Very tidy indeed. There's mild surgery at the back too, with sharper two-tone tail-lights and a new rear bumper.
The cabin hasn't been changed wholesale, but benefits from a two-part trim available in wood or aluminium, a three-tube instrument cluster, a new air-vent design and a new analogue clock. OK, they're not exactly reinventing the bratwurst, but with subtle revisions to the centre console and steering wheel, everything looks...neat. Luggsurious.
Merc has also upgraded its four-pot petrol; it now gets spray-guided direct injection (like in the V6s and V8s), along with exhaust-gas recirculation and which helps it emit just 135g/km of CO2. There's two versions of this 2.0-litre petrol: either 184bhp or 211bhp in the E200 and E250, respectively.
Diesel highlights include the E220 CDI with 170bhp, and the rather lovely E300 Hybrid, using an electric motor to achieve 24kpl. We rather liked this engine. They sit with four suspension configurations (comfort, sport, AMG and air suspension), together with an electromechanical direct steer rack. Got it?
What Mercedes is proud of most with this new E however, is the safety. The new E-Class debuts a few of the next S-Class's systems, somewhat stealing the march on its tech-laden brother. You get a multi-purpose camera mounted around the rear-view mirror that provides a 3D view up to 50m ahead of the car. These images are then sent to the Merc's various software monkeys to keep you out of trouble. Know what this means? The new E-Class actually has spatial awareness.
There's a collision prevention assist system fitted as standard that works on the brakes, there's attention assist to stop you from dozing off, a system that centres the car in the lane, the 'pre-safe' pedestrian detection and rear-end collision prevention system, and of course, traffic sign assist amongst other stuff. Though if you need help reading traffic signs, you really should think about jumping in a taxi instead...
Let us know what you think of the new Mercedes E-Class below.
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