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The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America,[1] based in New York City.[2] They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.
- Best novel (since 1954)
- Best first novel by an American author (since 1946)
- Best paperback original (since 1970)
- Best short story (since 1951)
- Best fact crime (since 1948)
- Best critical/biographical work (since 1977)
- Best young adult (since 1989)
- Best juvenile (since 1961)
- Best episode in a TV series (since 1952)
- Best TV feature or miniseries (since 1972)
- Best motion picture screenplay (since 1946)
- Best play (since 1950, irregular)
- Special Award (since 1949, irregular)
- Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for first mystery short story (since 1984)
- Raven Award (since 1953)
- Grand Master Award (since 1955)
- Ellery Queen Award (since 1983)
- Mary Higgins Clark Award (since 2001)
- Best radio drama (1946–1960)
- Outstanding Mystery Criticism (1946–1967)
- Best foreign film (1949–1966)
- Best book jacket (1955–1975)
Best Novel award winners
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Winners and, where known, shortlisted titles for each year:
- 1954 Charlotte Jay, Beat Not the Bones
- 1955 Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
- 1956 Margaret Millar, Beast in View
- The Gordons, The Case of the Talking Bug
- Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
- 1957 Charlotte Armstrong, A Dram of Poison
- Charles Samuels, and Louise Samuels Night Fell on Georgia" (award winner for Best Fact Crime)
- Margot Bennett, The Man Who Didn't Fly
- 1958 Ed Lacy, Room to Swing
- Arthur Upfield, The Bushman Who Came Back
- Bill Ballinger, The Longest Second
- Marjorie Carleton, The Night of the Good Children
- 1959 Stanley Ellin, The Eighth Circle
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis, A Gentleman Called
- David Alexander, The Madhouse in Washington Square
- Lee Blackstock, The Woman in the Woods (aka Miss Fenny as Charity Blackstock)
- 1960 Celia Fremlin, The Hours Before Dawn
- Philip MacDonald, The List of Adrian Messenger
- 1961 Julian Symons, The Progress of a Crime
- Peter Curtis, The Devil's Own
- Herbert Brean, The Traces of Brillhart
- Geoffrey Household, Watcher in the Shadows
- 1962 J. J. Marric, Gideon's Fire
- Lionel Davidson, The Night of Wenceslas
- Anne Blaisdell, Nightmare
- Suzanne Blanc, The Green Stone
- Ross Macdonald, The Wycherly Woman
- 1963 Ellis Peters, Death and the Joyful Woman
- Dell Shannon, Knave of Hearts
- Mark McShane, Seance
- Shelley Smith, The Ballad of the Running Man
- Jean Potts, The Evil Wish
- Ross Macdonald, The Zebra-Striped Hearse
- 1964 Eric Ambler, The Light of Day
- Stanton Forbes, Grieve for the Past
- Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
- Elizabeth Fenwick, The Make-Believe Man
- Ellery Queen, The Player on the Other Side
- Margaret Millar, The Fiend
- Hans Hellmut Kirst, The Night of the Generals
- Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic
- Mary Stewart, Airs Above the Ground
- Len Deighton, Funeral in Berlin
- Ross Macdonald, The Far Side of the Dollar
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis, The Pale Betrayer
- H. R. F. Keating, The Perfect Murder
- 1967 Nicolas Freeling, King of the Rainy Country
- Ngaio Marsh, Killer Dolphin
- Dick Francis, Odds Against
- Donald E. Westlake, The Busy Body
- 1968 Donald E. Westlake, God Save the Mark
- George Baxt, A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures
- Dick Francis, Flying Finish
- Charlotte Armstrong, Lemon in the Basket
- Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby
- Charlotte Armstrong, The Gift Shop
- Peter Dickinson, A Glass-Sided Ants' Nest
- Dick Francis, Blood Sport
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross, God Speed the Night
- Heron Carvic, Picture Miss Seeton
- Stanley Ellin, The Valentine Estate
- 1970 Dick Francis, Forfeit
- Chester Himes, Blind Man with a Pistol
- Shaun Herron, Miro
- Peter Dickinson, The Old English Peep Show
- Emma Lathen, When in Greece
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Where the Dark Streets Go
- Pat Stadley, Autumn of a Hunter
- Margaret Millar, Beyond this Point Are Monsters
- Patricia Moyes, Many Deadly Returns
- Donald E. Westlake, The Hot Rock
- Shaun Herron, The Hound and the Fox and the Harper
- P. D. James, Shroud for a Nightingale
- G. F. Newman, Sir, You Bastard
- Tony Hillerman, The Fly on the Wall
- Arthur Wise, Who Killed Enoch Powell?
- 1973 Warren Kiefer, The Lingala Code
- Martin Cruz Smith, Canto for a Gypsy
- John Ball, Five Pieces of Jade
- Hugh C. Rae, The Shooting Gallery
- Ngaio Marsh, Tied Up in Tinsel
- Francis Clifford, Amigo, Amigo
- P. D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
- Jean Stubbs, Dear Laura
- Victor Canning, The Rainbird Pattern
- 1975 Jon Cleary, Peter's Pence
- Francis Clifford, Goodbye and Amen
- Andrew Garve, The Lester Affair
- Malcolm Bosse, The Man Who Loved Zoos
- Paul Erdman, The Silver Bears
- 1976 Brian Garfield, Hopscotch
- Gerald Seymour, Harry's Game
- Maggie Rennert, Operation Alcestic
- Marvin Albert, The Gargoyle Conspiracy
- Ross Thomas, The Money Harvest
- Richard Neely, A Madness of the Heart
- Thomas Gifford, The Cavanaugh Quest
- Gerald Seymour, The Glory Boys
- Trevanian, The Main
- 1978 William Hallahan, Catch Me: Kill Me
- 1979 Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle
- Ruth Rendell, A Sleeping Life
- Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman
- Jack S. Scott, The Shallow Grave
- John Godey, The Snake
- 1980 Arthur Maling, The Rheingold Route [3]
- C. P. Snow, A Coat of Varnish
- Robert Barnard, Death of a Mystery Writer
- Frank Parrish, Fire in the Barley
- Ruth Rendell, Make Death Love Me
- 1981 Dick Francis, Whip Hand
- B. M. Gill, Death Drop
- Robert Barnard, Death of a Literary Widow
- A. J. Quinnell, Man on Fire
- Reginald Hill, The Spy's Wife
- 1982 William Bayer, Peregrine
- Patrick McGinley, Bogmail
- Robert Barnard, Death in a Cold Climate
- Liza Cody, Dupe
- Robert Littell, The Amateur
- Ted Allbeury, The Other Side of Silence
- 1983 Rick Boyer, Billingsgate Shoal
- Lawrence Block, Eight Million Ways To Die
- Donald E. Westlake, Kahawa
- Elmore Leonard, Split Images
- Seymour Shubin, The Captain
- 1984 Elmore Leonard, La Brava
- 1985 Ross Thomas, Briarpatch
- 1986 L. R. Wright, The Suspect
- 1987 Barbara Vine, A Dark-Adapted Eye
- 1988 Aaron Elkins, Old Bones
- 1989 Stuart M. Kaminsky, A Cold Red Sunrise
- 1990 James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues
- 1991 Julie Smith, New Orleans Mourning
- 1992 Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
- 1993 Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter
- 1994 Minette Walters, The Sculptress
- 1995 Mary Willis Walker, The Red Scream
- 1996 Dick Francis, Come to Grief
- 1997 Thomas H. Cook, The Chatham School Affair
- 1998 James Lee Burke, Cimarron Rose
- 1999 Robert Clark, Mr. White's Confession
- 2000 Jan Burke, Bones
- 2001 Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms
- 2002 T. Jefferson Parker, Silent Joe
- 2003 S. J. Rozan, Winter and Night
- 2004 Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men
- 2005 T. Jefferson Parker, California Girl
- 2006 Jess Walter, Citizen Vince
- 2007 Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree
- 2008 John Hart, Down River
- 2009 C. J. Box, Blue Heaven
- 2010 John Hart, The Last Child
- 2011 Steve Hamilton, The Lock Artist
- 2012 Mo Hayder, Gone
- 2013 Dennis Lehane, Live by Night
- 2014 William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace
- 2015 Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
- 2016 Lori Roy, Let Me Die in His Footsteps
- 2017 Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
- 2018 Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird
1972 winners
- Book Jacket: If You Want to See Your Wife Again by John Craig
2010 winners
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2010, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, and film published or produced in 2009, are:
- Best Novel: The Last Child by John Hart
- Best First Novel by an American Author: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
- Best Paperback Original: Body Blows by Marc Strange
- Best Fact Crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen
- Best Critical/Biographical: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler
- Best Short Story: "Amapola" – Phoenix Noir by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Best Juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
- Best Young Adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
- Best Television Episode Teleplay: "A Place of Execution" by Patrick Harbinson
The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award was presented to "A Dreadful Day" – Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine by Dan Warthman (Dell Magazines).[4]
2012 winners
For works published in 2011.
- Best Novel: Gone by Mo Hayder
- Best First Novel: Bent Road by Lori Roy
- Best Paperback Original: The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Best Fact Crime: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
- Best Critical/Biographical: On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
- Best Short Story: "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull
- Best Juvenile: Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby
- Best Young Adult: The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall
- Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Pilot" - Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff
- Best Play: The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig
- Robert L. Fish Memorial: "A Good Man of Business" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Ingram
- Mary Higgins Clark: Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry
- Grand Master: Martha Grimes
- Raven: M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA / Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries
- Ellery Queen Award: Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group
2013 winners
- Best Novel: Live by Night by Dennis Lehane[5]
- Best First Novel by an American Author: The Expats by Chris Pavone
- Best Paperback Original: The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters[5]
- Best Fact Crime: Midnight in Peking by Paul French
- Best Critical/Biographical: The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O'Brien
- Best Short Story: "The Unremarkable Heart" - Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance by Karin Slaughter
- Best Juvenile: The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo
- Best Young Adult: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Best Television Episode Teleplay: "A Scandal in Belgravia" - Sherlock, teleplay by Steven Moffat
- Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "When They Are Done With Us" - Staten Island Noir by Patricia Smith
- Grand Master: Ken Follett and Margaret Maron
- Raven Awards: Oline Cogdill, Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore San Diego and Redondo Beach, CA
- Ellery Queen Award: Akashic Books
- The Simon & Schuster-Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan
2014 winners
- Best Novel: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
- Best First Novel by an American Author: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
- Best Paperback Original: The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
- Best Fact Crime: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
- Best Critical/Biographical: America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture by Erik Dussere
- Best Short Story: "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" - Bibliomysteries by John Connolly
- Best Juvenile: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
- Best Young Adult: Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
- Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Episode 1" - The Fall, teleplay by Allan Cubitt
- Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Wentworth Letter" - Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional by Jeff Soloway
- Grand Master: Robert Crais and Carolyn Hart[6]
- Raven Awards: Aunt Agatha's in Ann Arbor, Michigan[6]
2015 winners
- Best Novel: Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
- Best First Novel: Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman
- Best Paperback Original: The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani
- Best Fact Crime: Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann
- Best Critical/Biographical: Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker
- Best Short Story: "What Do You Do?"- Rogues by Gillian Flynn
- Best Juvenile: Greenglass House by Kate Milford
- Best Young Adult: The Art of Secrets by James Klise
- Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Episode 1" - Happy Valley by Sally Wainwright
- Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Getaway Girl" - Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine by Zoe Z. Bell
- Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey
- Grand Master: Lois Duncan and James Ellroy
- Raven Award: Ruth and Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine and Kathryn Kennison, Magna Cum Murder
- Ellery Queen Award: Charles Ardai
2016 winners
- Best Novel: Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy
- Best First Novel: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Best Paperback Original: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
- Best Fact Crime: Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil
- Best Critical/Biographical: The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
- Best Short Story: "Obits" – from the collection Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
- Best Juvenile: Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy by Susan Vaught
- Best Young Adult: A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
- Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Gently with the Women" - George Gently by Peter Flannery
- Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick" – Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine by Russell W. Johnson
- Mary Higgins Clark Award: Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day
- Grand Master: Walter Mosley
- Raven Award: Margaret Kinsman and Sisters in Crime
- Ellery Queen Award: Janet Rudolph
2017 winners
- Best Novel: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- Best First Novel: Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry
- Best Paperback Original: Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
- Best Fact Crime: The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
- Best Critical/Biographical: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
- Best Short Story: "Autumn at the Automat" – from the collection In Sunlight or in Shadow by Lawrence Block
- Best Juvenile: OCDaniel by Wesley King
- Best Young Adult: Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
- Best Television Episode Teleplay: "A Blade of Grass" - Penny Dreadful by John Logan
- Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Truth of the Moment" – Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine by E. Gabriel Flores
- Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd
- Grand Master: Max Allan Collins, Ellen Hart
- Raven Award: Dru Ann Love
- Ellery Queen Award: Neil Nyren
See also
- ^ Neimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture", collected in The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-79727-6. p. 206.
- ^ "Contact the National Office of Mystery Writers of America". Retrieved 2013-04-21.
- ^ "Edgar Award Winners and Nominees Database". Theedgars.com. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
- ^ 2010 Edgar Winners Press Release
- ^ a b "2013 Nominees". Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- ^ a b "MWA Announces 2014 Grand Master and Raven Awards". mysterywriters.org. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edgar Award winners.
- Mystery Writers of America
- The official website of Edgar Awards (includes nominees)
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards at IMDb


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We all know that we're supposed to "use a fucking condom, use a condom fucking"*. But are we? In his response on "Why Smart Men Date Dumb Women" yesterday, Michael mentioned that he "didn't know many people who use those wraps anymore." Which is surprising, because it's not like they're hard to find. So I asked the office population of 20-something, well educated New York women how often they actually use condoms. Here is how often we use condoms (let us know how often you use them, too):
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|2012-09-02, 00:31
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|2012-09-02, 00:31
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Ibana VA did was not involve at all right?
|2012-09-02, 00:47
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That's how bullying works. There's no way this stunt could've been pulled off without the cast and core staff all in on it together.
(BTW, active participants include the show's director and sound director, so they can't exactly distance themselves from the prank. They're the ones who held the audition, wrote the lines, gave the instructions, made the video, etc.)
|2012-09-02, 01:05
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I guess basically this whole story depends on the fact that the actor in question did not know he was being setup; that, in fact, the real acting job he was being paid for was to play this role of the gipped voice actor (sort of an act within an act). That, in truth, even this role was all part of his promo job for this production. But I guess it also depends on what all the actors and other players knew, or thought they knew.
In the end, for all the controversy this has caused, I can see how a lot of the people involved may have been under the impression that everyone else was "in" on the joke (including the actor in question), when in fact some people may not have been told and then had to make up for themselves whether this is a joke or not. The problem is that we may never know for sure; even if the central actor involved came forward now and said "no, this was all an act, and I knew about it beforehand", people would say that he was bullied/coerced into making that statement just so the controversy goes away. So, in the end, it'll just end up as a sort of urban legend that they hope time will bury.
Personally, I have a really hard time believing that so many people were involved in a stunt that was designed strictly to play on someone's misery and be aware that the person involved wouldn't know and that they wouldn't realize this was part of the act. If that's actually what happened, then I just see it as a case of a stray idea that went terribly wrong in the execution, rather than something that's outright sinister. Like I could see someone saying afterwards "wait, wait, wait... you didn't tell him?!" "Well, we thought it'd be more realistic this way..." "You idiot..."
|2012-09-02, 01:10
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This incident mirrors the recent school bullying that happened in Japan, only little less serious. People involved in bullying also pretty much swept it over as if it's nothing unusual. As much as I like Japanese Culture, sometimes, they play real dumb by letting some offenders go with the light punishments.
Is Japan having a show 'Punk'd' of their own? At least the victim should receive some repercussion fee for public humiliation.
|2012-09-02, 01:29
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And you know, we don't allow unauthorized use of video and audio, so we are gonna try and punish the people who released these things and got us into trouble! Damn, I hate those guys! If it wasn't for them... If it wasn't for them...!"
In other words:
Luke: "I'm not wrong! I'm not wrong!"
PS:If the staff REALLY feels sorry like the message says, they should maybe quit or something. After all, it seems that it isn't the first time Yamanaka has bullied someone.
PSS: Hyaha!
The staff has finally started to move, trying to delete anything involved with the incident.
By the way, this video has the VAs (explained in video explanation) talking about the incident or talking to the victim. In general, Sugita and Mingos gives a good impression while the first two (rather no-names) were having................... their good times.
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This all seems very weak to me - a pathetic attempt to try and recast what happened in a less incriminating light. I really don't think most people are going to buy it, and in fact it just increases the contempt I feel for the perps - even now that they've been caught red-handed - on video no less - they won't own up. They're still trying to pretend it's all a misunderstanding. Public figures just never learn - it's rarely the act that ruins you, it's the coverup.
In terms of Kokoro Connect "overcoming" this, I'm not sure what that even means. It wasn't going to sell well, and it wasn't going to have a second season either way. I think it'll finish airing and probably see all the extra eps finished, so in the end I don't think this will have mattered for the show apart from a few hundred fewer discs sold. I hope it doesn't effect the writer and illustrator, who had nothing to do with any of it. The ones who may not "overcome" this are Yamanaka and the two VAs directly involved - their careers may well suffer for this, and they probably should. I don't think their careers should end as a result, but they certainly have no basis to complain if work gets a little harder to come by for a while.
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"We're very sorry from the smallest corner somewhere in our hearts"
Oh well, if they think this is gonna help then screw them. Otaku would still boycott their products, and who else but otaku ever buys them?
|2012-09-02, 03:08
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Yeah, I'm completely with Guardian Enzo on this. This really sounds like grasping at straws for PR Damage Control to me.
I like Kokoro Connect and it's really unfortunate that something like this has happened to the KC franchise (I especially feel for the writer of the KC novels), but it was selling poorly (as an anime) anyway. It's not like this controversy makes the difference between a likely 2nd season and no 2nd season - a 2nd season was unlikely in any event. This just makes it even more unlikely.
|2012-09-02, 03:15
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1. Overcome as in the general franchise, meaning this incident wouldn't be hitting the novels or the manga.
2. While I have to say I usually don't say much about a second season, it is to my belief that a second season is still quite possible. Regardless of the profitability of the anime, it has done a pretty nice job as advertisement. Of course, I tend to be optimistic when it comes to my favored series, but given where the anime is supposed to stop, not making a second season is probably going to be a bit hard to swallow among the core fans.
|2012-09-02, 03:16
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Soliloquy: This is the reason why I made that connection between this incident and Jigoku Shoujo is because the story is roughly the same. It shows the really, really bad side of Japanese culture — no, scratch that — make that human nature.
Yeah, it sucks that KitaEri had to suffer because of some rumor that linked her with one of the culprits. I hope that the wounds created by this fiasco on Eri's heart would heal soon.
|2012-09-02, 03:37
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If the studio and their staffs who are involved in the incident are truly victim of a smear campaign as they claim they are, why the need for such measures ?
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In fact, with that kind of... damage control... or at least I'm trying to say that believably (I'm being a bit sarcastic here), it's going to do the reverse...?
Seems people there (speaking from a "I don't know how people there do things" POV) depend on "erase the 'evidence,' let it die out" a lot huh?
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As for the PR response now...it's like they're reading from the "The Bad PR Handbook". They're already going with the "it's taken out of context" move and also trying the "hey, we're the victims here" (illegal upload of stuff), along with the "we're sorry you got offended" move. What's next, Kikuchi going with the "my Twitter was hacked" or the equally believable "my brother/friend got a hold of my phone" moves? The apology is like shooting oneself in the foot, then pouring gasoline all over it and then lighting it on fire. Kokoro Connect sales were going to tank; are they trying to get all of King Records' shows to tank in the future? It would have been better if there was no "apology", seriously.
|2012-09-02, 04:55
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Ichiki broke his silence.
He just says that while it's true that he was kept in the dark about the audition being fake, he just takes the disappointment in his stride as part of the job. He didn't expect the entire thing to get out of hand, too as he didn't harbour any ill will towards those supposed "bullies". Everything was taken out of context and Ichiki chided those who makes things seem worse than they really are. Finally, he express his apologies to those who are now under disterss because of the percieved crime aganist him.
How one makes of this statement is his own decision. Ichiki might be sincere about this or he could be under order to downplay the issue for fear of losing his job. At least we get a comment from the victim now. The timing between the blog entry and the official apology is kind of uncanny though.
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Bears Fall in Shootout at Binghamtonby Scott Stuccio / Washington Capitals
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – Mika Zibanejad, Stephane Da Costa and Jack Downing all tallied shootout goals to end an entertaining game, as the Binghamton Senators took a 3-2 victory from the HERSHEY BEARS on Saturday night at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.
Both of the goaltenders in the game were tested early. Senators netminder Robin Lehner denied a drive down the slot by Jeff Taffe with a blocker save, and shortly afterward, Dany Sabourin got his right pad on a breakaway shot by Corey Cowick. But the BEARS managed to grab a 1-0 lead not long afterward. Ryan Stoa let fly with a wrist shot from the right circle that sailed past a screened Lehner and into the net off of the left post.
Binghamton trailed for the next ten minutes but a tough bounce off of the boards behind Taffe left Mike Hoffman with the puck, and a defender between him and Sabourin. Hoffman picked the low left corner and beat Sabourin with a snap shot at 17:21 to tie the game.
Neither team was assessed a penalty in the opening period.
The Senators then grabbed their first lead of the night just 2:02 into the second, when Mark Stone beat Sabourin with a backhander off of helpers from Derek Grant and David Dziurzynski.
That lead lasted just over four minutes. Steve Oleksy led a rush into the offensive zone, faked the Binghamton defense and carried all the way around the net and back to the center point. He let a slap shot fly that sailed over Lehner's glove at 6:51, tying the game 2-2.
The teams traded two power play chances each in the third period, but both team's penalty killing units played solidly. The BEARS had the best chance to win the game when Grant backhanded a puck out of play in the defensive zone, giving the BEARS a chance on the man advantage with 1:07 left in regulation. The carry-over power play resulted in a four-on-three opportunity in overtime, but Lehner stood tall.
After a scoreless overtime, the Senators then rattled off all three goals in succession, after allowing the BEARS the first shot. Lehner denied Garrett Mitchell, Ryan Potulny and Taffe to preserve the win.
Sabourin fell to 6-6-1, making 28 saves in regulation and overtime. Lehner improved to 16-5-1 with 38 saves through 65 minutes. The two teams each ended the night 0-for-3 on the power play.
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What's in a name? The answer is, plenty, as it happens, writes Glenda Kwek.
It has been said that words have meaning and names have power. When the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles released a press statement this month announcing it was dropping the name "Manly" in favour of sponsors Kaspersky, there was immediate shock - and derision.
It took less than two hours for the rugby league club to issue a second media release, clarifying that the new name would only be used internally and at corporate events.
"Kaspersky Sea Eagles" wasn't the only tongue-twisting, and a bit short-lived, name change this year. OneSteel morphed into Arrium, Intersuisse and Austock into Octa Phillip Securities, and Photon into Enero.
Whether to distance themselves from past problems or to reflect a company's new outlook, corporate name changes are not uncommon. But as the reaction to the Sea Eagles announcement showed, not all are well received.
"When companies choose to rename, it's a clear and overt signal of change," said Tom Brigstocke of consultancy Principals. "[But] naming is always a far more demanding process than most people realise."
Mr Brigstocke, whose firm was responsible for naming UBank, NAB's internet-based subsidiary, and remodelling Clay Brick and Pavers Institute into Think Brick, said the best names had to be memorable, authentic, simple, and mean something.
Centro Retail switched to Federation Centres, a move its chairman, Bob Edgar, said was not just a "simple name change" but about demonstrating the transformation the once debt-plagued shopping centre owner had taken in the past year.
"We now have a clear path forward with a new board, refreshed management team and a clear strategic direction," he said.
Paul Harrison, a marketing lecturer at Deakin Business School, said Centro's renaming was a reasonable decision, given the firm's need to jettison its troubled past.
"It's fairly naive to think that by changing the name itself, you'll change everybody's attitude to it," he said. "But I guess in this situation it's about who the target market is. Does it really matter if they change from Centro Retail to Federation Centres? Probably not, for their target market."
OneSteel's decision to choose Arrium as its new name in April was for a different reason - it said the old name made attracting overseas investors harder. The firm wanted to distance itself from the struggling steel industry, while reflecting its exposure to iron ore and the mining services sectors. The choice of Arrium was strategic, its chief executive, Geoff Plummer, said.
"It's a made-up word. But when it has to work in all those countries and it's got to be safe when you Google it, you often fall back [on] made-up words," he told the ABC. The letters "ium" were meant to sound like an element on the periodic table.
Mr Brigstocke said Arrium was one example of how we are now in the world of neology - the coining of new words - brought about when the dotcom boom "sucked up most words in the dictionary".
A new name also comes with a price tag. OneSteel's rebranding exercise was "quite cheap" at about $1 million; other firms could pay between $5 million and $10 million for a name and image overhaul.
But ultimately, whatever name is chosen, companies needed to own it, Mr Harrison said. "Just coming up with a new name isn't enough. Once you decide that this is the name you want, you have to own it and live with it and work with it for as long as you possibly can, because if you don't believe in the name, then your target market won't believe in it either."
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The Mount Vernon Junior High cheerleaders attended a cheer camp August 7-9 at Mount Vernon High School. The seventh and eighth grade cheerleaders worked on various cheers, chants, dances and stunts with the help of the high school cheerleaders. See the Aug. 15 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for details.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Several Bucknell University groups will participate in the annual Lewisburg Arts Festival on the weekends of April 26 and May 3.
The festival includes two main events: the Market Street Festival, with 120 juried artists, entertainment, and food along Market Street, on Saturday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Lewisburg Live! – 13 bands in venues throughout downtown – on Saturday, May 3, from 6 p.m. to midnight.
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The annual Duck Derby to benefit Bucknell's chapter of Habitat for Humanity begins at 2:30 p.m. in Hufnagle Park, located between Fifth and Sixth streets. Ducks – in singles or six-quacks – can be sponsored prior to the race at the Habitat table in the Park or from roving duck-sellers along Market Street.
Festival entertainment in the Park will begin with a pet parade at 10 a.m. and include hourly music by several groups including the Bucknell Jazz Band as well as the Hearts of Pennsylvania Chorus women's barbershop group and Taikoza Japanese drummers.
Dance groups including the Cloverleaf Cloggers, Tir Na Nog School of Irish Dance, and the Susquehanna Ballroom Dance Society will perform at Post Office Square.
The Bucknell Jugglers Club and Bucknell's Silhouettes female a cappella group will provide strolling entertainment along Market Street throughout the festival.
Soldiers Memorial Park near the Lewisburg Bridge will be the site for an Interactive Arts Park for children from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and a Middle Ages encampment with the Society for Creative Anachronism from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A highlight of Saturday's celebration includes a view of the first section of a mural at the Donald Heiter Community Center on North Fifth Street. The mural, designed by artist Michael Pilato, is a service project of Bucknell's Management 101 class and features scenes and people from the community.
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The Association for the Arts at Bucknell will host its Spring Arts Weekend April 25 to 27. Events at the university include:
• The Annual Student Art Show in the Samek Art Gallery, located on the third floor of the Elaine Langone Center.
• The Spring Dance Performance on Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, at 8 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.
• A concert by the Rooke Chapel Ringers on Saturday, April 26, at 8 p.m. in Rooke Chapel.
• A concert by the Rooke Chapel Choir on Sunday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Rooke Chapel. The preview concert features works from the Choir's tour to Argentina and Uruguay in May.
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The Lewisburg Arts Festival continues Saturday, May 3, with Lewisburg Live!, an evening of free music at locations in downtown Lewisburg and at Bucknell, where Adams & Haynes: The Hammond Brothers will perform at 8:30 p.m. in Bucknell Hall.
Groups scheduled to perform downtown include Averie Clark and Cool Blue, Little Paris Jazz Trio, Lawson and Disorder, Artie the Cat, Alphonse Ciaccio, Paul Smith, Hannah Bingman and Doug McMinn, Bruce Derr, Folk Justice Band, Earl Pickens and the Band Named Thunder, Kinsey, and Blind Chitlin Kahunas.
In addition, The Campus Theatre in Lewisburg will host the Susquehanna Shorts Film Festival on Friday, May 9, from 7 to 11 p.m., and Saturday, May 10, from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
The Lewisburg Arts Festival is sponsored by the Lewisburg Arts Council, formed in 1968, to encourage and showcase the arts in the community. For more information, visit http://www.lewisburgartscouncil.com/.
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Americans exhausted by the long lines, the decision-making and sometimes the disappointment involved with holiday gift-giving are expected to opt for simple gift cards in record numbers this year.
A survey done last month by America's Research Group has found that an all-time-high 51 percent plan to put gift certificate cards under the tree this year, or maybe even something much more basic: cash.
America's Research Group chairman Britt Beemer said gift-givers and gift recipients like the convenience. He said with a gift card, there's no searching for the perfect gift -- and little risk of receiving something useless or unwanted.
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That queasy feeling in your stomach right about now has nothing to do any lingering effects from your Easter dinner.
If you're a Bruins backer, you have to be a little worried about what your team is going to do now the it's going to take the ice in Montreal for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with a 3-2 games lead in the series.
After all, the Canadiens might have the Bruins right where they want them considering Boston's recent history of not being able to finish.
Human nature tells us that we all learn from our mistakes. However, there's no telling how many times the Bruins have to screw up before they finally right themselves. For three years, there have been a lot of mistakes and a lot of lessons taken to heart, yet those lessons haven't translated to actions
Obviously, you start with the fact that three straight seasons have ended in a Game 7 loss. The Bruins got ahead of themselves in 2009, when they fell behind 3-1 to an underdog Carolina team before pushing that second-round series to the limit. No one has to rehash how things went last spring after the Bruins started grabbed a seemingly insurmountable lead on Philadelphia.
Even their historic collapse of last season didn't seem to faze the Bruins this year. They've squandered their share of leads late in games, including famously falling in Montreal in overtime Jan. 8 after leading 2-0 with less than two minutes to play. Earlier this month, they gave up a 3-0 lead at Madison Square Garden. During the opening months of the season, it seemed like the Bruins were spotting the opposition a goal or two lead every night rather than taking the game to their foes early on.
Even in their current playoff series, the Bruins didn't start playing their style of game and performing at an above-average level in some key aspects of the game until Game 3.
They've since managed to dig out of their 0-2 hole and pull within one victory of advancing to the second. A lot of the talk in the Bruins' dressing room during the two days off between Game 5 and 6 centered around what the Bruins learned from last season. Of course, they all repeated some form of this cliché: "the fourth win is always the hardest." Similar sentiments came from the Bruins' mouths last spring from the time they went up 3-0 on the Flyers.
Let's face it, though, what are they supposed to say? They have to say they believe they have the proper killer instinct, even if only their actions can prove it. They have to speak and act as though they're not taking anything for granted, even if taking victories for granted has been their undoing the last several seasons.
Until they do put the final nail in the coffin without a struggle, the Bruins can't be considered closers. It's worth noting that in each of their last two season-ending series, they were the higher seed and couldn't finish things off. Sure in 2009 they swept Montreal, but that was a Habs team in disarray playing for a general manager/interim coach that seemed to have lost a handle on the club.
Last season the Bruins closed out the Sabres in Boston without returning to Buffalo for a Game 7. That speaks to one of the most impressive characteristics of recent Bruins teams under head coach Claude Julien – resiliency. Their ability to thrive as underdogs or when others are counting them out is impeccable. They've battled through major injuries to the likes of Patrice Bergeron, Marc Savard, Marco Sturm and others over the years and won division titles and earned playoff berths. The Bruins are impossible to count out when the odds are against them.
Success, however, tends to sidetrack Julien's Bruins. Satisfaction and complacency seem to easily seep in when things are going well. Perhaps before they take the ice in Montreal tomorrow, the Bruins should summon the resiliency that they tap into when the chips are down and pretend as though they're the ones fighting for their lives rather than the club trying to close.
Because if they don't figure out a way to end things early in Game 6, the Bruins' season would come down to a coin-flip-like Game 7. Anyone like the Bruins' odds in another Game 7, regardless of the opponent or the venue?
Considering the results of their latest playoff appearances, the Bruins have a right have the same butterflies in their gut that their fans are probably feeling. The only way to kill those butterflies is to turn their talk about killer instinct into some series-ending actions at the Bell Centre in Game 6.


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New London — Police arrested an Oakdale man on drug and assault charges early this morning after they say he fought with police and tried to grab their handguns.
Just before 1 a.m. police stopped a vehicle driven by James Floyd Jr., 43, of 161 Connecticut Ave., on Williams Street near Garfield Avenue.
Police said that after Floyd got out of his vehicle to retrieve documents from the trunk, police searched him and found narcotics hidden inside his coat.
He then began to violently struggle with officers and at several points attempted to grab their service weapons from their holsters. Floyd then fled on foot. After a brief foot pursuit officers were able to catch up to Floyd, who again began to struggle with officers who were able to finally subdue and arrest him after what police called an intense struggle.
Police said Floyd had 33 grams of cocaine packaged for sale and 26 assorted prescription pills. He also $1,327 in cash which police believe to be proceeds from his narcotics sales.
Floyd and two of the arresting officers were brought to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital where they were treated and released for injuries.
Floyd was charged with three counts of assault on a police officer, interfering with a police officer, two counts of possession of narcotics, two counts of possession of narcotics with intent to sell and three counts of illegal sale of prescription drugs. He was arraigned in New London Superior Court today.
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On Friday, The Vitamin Shoppe announced plans to establish its first Virginia distribution facility in Hanover County. The operation will be located at the Virginia Transportation Park in Ashland, Va., and will bring a $39.4 million investment and 174 new jobs to the Central Virginia region.
The Vitamin Shoppe's accelerated growth and desire to be closer to its mid-Atlantic customer base were primary reasons for building the warehouse and fulfillment center in Virginia. The company has grown from one store in 1977 to more than 550 company-owned retail stores today.
Virginia successfully competed against North Carolina due to the Commonwealth's strategic location, competitive business costs, and premier workforce.
The Hanover County location offers visibility to I-95, allowing the company to easily access Virginia's premier transportation network, which includes six major interstate highways, 14 railroads, nine commercial airports and the international Port of Virginia.
Virginia's competitive operating environment includes a six percent corporate tax rate that remains unchanged since 1972, construction costs 16 percent below the national average, and a low unemployment tax rate 32 percent below the national average.
According to Ashland Mayor Faye Prichard, "The Town of Ashland and The Vitamin Shoppe share core values of community involvement and healthy living…. Their decision to locate in Ashland and Hanover builds upon the reputation of this region serving as a strategic location for supply chain centers in the mid-Atlantic."
The Vitamin Shoppe joins the company of Ace Hardware, Amazon.com, Backcountry.com, Home Depot, McKesson Corp, QVC, Target and Wal-Mart, all of which have established fulfillment and distribution operations in the Commonwealth.
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No. 8 MSU Grabs Rivalry Win Over No. 4 Michigan, 75-52
The Spartans move to first place in the Big 10
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan State turned a highly anticipated, historic matchup into a showcase of what its proud program is capable of doing this season.
Gary Harris scored 17 points and Derrick Nix had 14 to help the eighth-ranked Spartans rout No. 4 Michigan 75-52 on Tuesday night in the rivalry's first matchup of top 10 teams.
''It was the perfect storm,'' Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. ''We played about as well as we can.''
The Spartans (21-4, 10-2 Big Ten) broke a first-place tie in the conference with No. 1 Indiana, which plays at Michigan State next Tuesday after the Spartans try to avoid a letdown Saturday night at Nebraska.
Michigan State's Keith Appling acknowledged he was a little bit surprised by the lopsided victory - the school's largest since beating Michigan by 27 points in 2002 - but shrugged off the significance of it with much of the regular season remaining.
''We just have to take it for what it is and prepare for our next game,'' Appling said.
The Wolverines (21-4, 8-4) have lost three of four, but the closely contested setbacks on the road against the Hoosiers and at Wisconsin were nothing like the latest when they were held to a season-low point total.
''It was an embarrassing loss,'' guard Trey Burke said.
Michigan State didn't trail once, led by as many as 16 points in the first half and enjoyed 30-point leads in the second. The game was so lopsided that both coaches filled the court with reserves during the final minutes.
''We probably played our best game in three years,'' Izzo said. ''And, they probably played one of their worst.''
Michigan coach John Beilein agreed.
''That was the worst we've played in a long, long time and credit Michigan State for that,'' he said.
Burke scored 18 points for the Wolverines and didn't get much help from his teammate offensively, or defensively.
Tim Hardaway Jr. was held scoreless until making a layup in the opening minute of the second half - after turning down Beilein's suggestion to work on his shot during halftime warmups - and didn't score again. Hardaway was 1 of 11 from the field and scored a season-low two points.
''They bullied us - point blank,'' he said. ''I've got nothing else to say.''
Glen Robinson III was 1 of 4 and scored two points to match his season low.
The Wolverines, who pride themselves on taking care of the basketball, had a season-high 16 turnovers and didn't have much success getting the ball away from the turnover-prone Spartans. Michigan made fewer than 40 percent of its shots and scored one fewer point than it did in a three-point loss at Ohio State.
''We couldn't get anywhere we wanted to and when we had open looks, we didn't hit anything,'' Beilein said. ''Somehow, we did not play with poise that we need to have to make shots.''
Everything went right for Michigan State, which had just eight turnovers and made 48-plus percent of its shots.
Harris scored from the outside, making five 3-pointers, and Nix had his way on the inside as part of a balanced offense.
Appling had 11 points and Branden Dawson scored 10 before leaving the court late in the game because Michigan's Mitch McGary hit him in the face inadvertently with his right arm..
Izzo said Dawson got hit in the nose and had a cut on his lip.
''I do think he's going to be OK,'' Izzo said.
Matt Costello scored a season-high eight points and fellow freshman Denzel Valentine had seven points to help Michigan State win its second straight in the series after losing three in a row following a run of dominance for the Spartans.
The highly anticipated game drew Gov. Rick Snyder, Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio, who mingled with Michigan football coach Brady Hoke, as they stood near ex-Wolverines football coach Lloyd Carr.
The white-clad fans in the stands were fired up before the game even started and they stayed enthusiastic, standing for much of the game, because the home team gave them plenty of reasons to cheer from start to finish.
''The crowd was just awesome,'' Izzo said. ''It kind of reminded me of back in the day.''
In the first matchup of 20-win teams in Division I basketball this season, Michigan State showed it might not be a rebuilding this season.
''I'm not sure we're as good as we played, but I'll take it,'' Izzo said. ''It was a big win for Michigan State.''


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Check out this blog by Alexander Kramer for some insight to what one of the high school sessions (featuring Ted Kooser, Terrance Hayes, Matthew Dickman and Valzhyna Mort).
Some notes from his blog, but there are more on all the poets that read if you're interested--
Terrance Hayes:
He explained that lying is fun, especially in fiction like poetry. Even though most people think poems are autobiographical, he said poets just make stuff up. "If you're boring you gotta make stuff up."
His poem Shakur was about this story he heard from one of his friends in Nebraska, "probably the only black man in Nebraska. I don't remember his name, but you probably know who I'm talking about," he said to Kooser. The story behind the poem was about these kids that got high on meth, drove out during a snowstorm, and died from exposure when they decided to take a nap in the car.
"I heard this story, and I was wondering what music they were listening to as they froze to death out there," said Terrance. "Turns out, they were listening to Tupac Shakur; thus the name." In the poem, there's a line about "the drugs that made them think they were warm enough to chill."
Anyway, great notes on Alexander's blog about a session that many of us (since we're not high schoolers) couldn't attend.


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All factions see need for more wolf research
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
PULLMAN, Wash. -- While the sight of a cougar, bear or wolf may evoke fear in many people, it represents just another day at the office for Robert Wielgus.
Wielgus, director of the Large Carnivore Conservation Laboratory at Washington State University, studies predators and how they interact with other animals, including wildlife and livestock.
His colleagues and students study grizzly and black bears, cougars and lynx in the Pacific Northwest by collaring the animals -- and their prey -- with satellite-tracking transmitters. Then they track them in an effort to understand their habits and how best to manage them, Wielgus said.
"Instead of making assumptions that we think they're doing this, we actually go out and find out what they're up to," he said.
The work is less dramatic than it might seem, he said.
"I've radio-collared hundreds of these animals, and none of them have ever been involved in an attack on a human being or anything like that," he said. "The number that were involved in attacks on livestock, I could count on less than one hand. I can't think of any."
The worst case Wielgus ever experienced was a lightning strike on three cow-calf pairs that were under a tree. A grizzly bear ate their carcasses.
Wolf concerns
The influx of wolves from Canada, Idaho and Oregon has caused the most concern lately among ranchers. In northeast Washington, state wildlife managers had to kill seven members of the Wedge Wolf Pack this year after they repeatedly attacked and killed cattle.
Wielgus believes there are two extremes to the wolf management argument: Either wolves are not a problem at all, or every cow that goes missing was killed by wolves. Somewhere in the middle lies the truth, he said.
"It would be great to find out, instead of hyperbole and whoever screams the loudest," Wielgus said.
From the outside, he observed the situation with the Wedge Wolf Pack.
"I don't know that I would have handled it differently," Wielgus said of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife managers' actions. But, he said, "I would have liked to have more science on the ground."
Wielgus said he would have had a graduate student on site, tracking and monitoring the wolves and determining the exact number of cattle they killed.
Wielgus has extensive data on wolf and livestock interactions in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. In some cases there's depredation and some there aren't, he said.
Wielgus is working to determine why wolves kill in some cases and not in others. Factors could include animal husbandry practices, the ages of the wolves or sexual competition among them. Other factors could be the season, terrain and forest type.
Based on that information, Wielgus could then determine the areas in Washington where conflicts are likely to develop and what can be done to reduce that conflict.
Wolf supporters have called for nonlethal methods like range riders, flags or rubber bullets. The ranchers did what they could on the rugged terrain of northeast Washington, but said most of those options were not realistic or effective.
Wielgus said the effectiveness of the solutions depends on the situation.
"These things could be costly," he said. "We want no-cost solutions to these problems."
In February, the lab will be working with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and WSU Extension on a training program for extension advisers, who will in turn train ranchers about what to do if wolves show up.
"We're trying to get all the players together and get proactive on this, so we don't experience too many problems," Wielgus said.
State follows wolves
Donny Martorello, carnivore section manager for the Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the state primarily focuses on keeping up with the recolonization of wolves, identifying locations of pack activity and collaring them.
State officials routinely talk with Wielgus and other researchers about questions, but are not ready to start a comprehensive research project on wolves just yet, Martorello said.
He expects to need further information on Washington's wolf population down the road, a year or two at least, at which point the lab will be considered as a research partner.
The lab typically has six graduate students, three getting their doctorates and three getting their master's degrees, as well as Wielgus and an assistant director, plus partners from state and federal agencies.
Lab workers' times are divided evenly between indoor work and work in the field, Wielgus said. All data are collected in the field and examined in the laboratory.
The lab focuses on Washington, but has worked in northern Idaho, northern Oregon and southern British Columbia and southern Alberta.
New cougar tactics
Graduate student Kaylie Peebles grew up on a ranch near Boise, Idaho. She has studied many of the complaints the state received about cougars over the past six years. She believes the biggest misunderstanding is what the cougars are after.
"Don't leave your pet food outside, don't leave your pets outside, don't leave chickens unattended," she said, attributing much of the cougar-rancher interactions to a failure to pen small livestock or feeding other wildlife.
"When you're feeding deer, you're actually bringing in their predators," she said.
Earlier this year, the lab released its findings on using the sport harvest of cougars to reduce complaints about cougars preying on livestock and pets.
Wielgus found that killing too many cougars resulted in the elimination of older tom cougars and created a surplus of adolescent males. Without the presence of the older males, the adolescents would try to kill cubs, causing the females to flee to human-occupied areas or agricultural landscapes to protect their cubs.
"It was just assumed that of course increased sport hunting would reduce predators and conflicts, but it had never actually been studied," Wielgus said. "When we finally looked at it, it was the exact opposite."
In reply, the state is adopting a new program to harvest less than 14 percent of cougar populations, effective in January.
Martorello expects stable cougar populations with "minimal" interactions with the public as a result of the lab's research.
"We have some of the best information on living cougar populations anywhere in the country," he said.
The lab's findings drew some criticism from members of the livestock industry.
Jack Field, executive vice president of the Washington Cattlemen's Association, said he is wary of the potential impact the lab's science could have on Fish and Wildlife protocols.
Field wants to wait and see how the change in cougar management plays out, but doesn't think a similar approach would be of benefit when it comes to wolves.
"I can't really convince somebody that had a dead calf or a horse chewed up (that) the answer is not getting a hound out and killing that cat, it's waiting and killing less cats," he said. "It's going to be extremely difficult for livestock producers to embrace the idea if indeed that same rationale were to come through if they were to do wolf work."
Field said he would like to see a focus on wolves' diet. There must be an accurate survey of what wolves are eating and where to expect them to turn up in order to prevent their diets from shifting to livestock, he said.
He said there needs to be more information about wolves, even if further research shows the only effective management involves aggression.
"The sooner you can instill fear into them so that when they see people, they better get the heck out of there, the better off we are," he said.
'Win-win' scenario
With proper management, Wielgus said, agriculture can achieve the same results without killing any animals. That would be a win-win scenario for producers, hunters and animal rights supporters, Wielgus said.
"All the data is there, I simply don't have the funding for a grad student to crunch the numbers," he said.
The lab has received a mix of federal, state and private funds from forest products companies. Wielgus said the lab has never received funding from conservation or agriculture groups, but he's trying to reach out to agriculture for future efforts.
Dan Bernardo, WSU vice president of agriculture, said funding opportunities will primarily come from state and federal grant programs.
Movement toward wolf research might help attract funding, as wolves and their interaction with agriculture and society become a more contentious issue, Bernardo said.
"We don't know enough about wolf management and basic wolf behavior," he said. "Rob's lab is well-equipped to fill in some of those voids in knowledge, which can assist policy makers in steering us in the right course."
WSU's Agricultural Research Center has prioritized funds to be allocated to food, agriculture and natural resource issues. Wolf research certainly qualifies, Bernardo said, noting Wielgus' work could potentially be funded through internal grants, but that has not been determined.
The livestock industry isn't likely to directly fund research, as they have limited funding due to restrictions on checkoff funds, Bernardo said.
"There's little question that there's a greater possibility for funding over the next several years around wolf behavior than cougar behavior," Bernardo said. "Whether or not there are funds available remains to be seen."
Wielgus estimated the lab's annual budget is typically $250,000, but funding has dropped to essentially nothing in the last three years with the financial crisis, he said. Students are self-funded.
With the bulk of scientific funds going to human biomedical research, Wielgus says there's not a lot left over for wildlife research.
"Until it's in the public's eye, no one really cares," he said.


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Asian shares gained on Monday in morning trade as a weakening yen strengthened the earnings outlook for Japanese exporters and U.S. consumer spending surged during the Thanksgiving weekend.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index advanced 0.4% to 123 as of 10:57 a.m. in Tokyo. Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 0.7%, a third day of gains. Japanese investors expect rally to extend after polls showed opposition leader Shinzo Abe – a proponent of unlimited monetary easing and a higher inflation target - will win a 16 December election.
Contributing to the positive sentiment, the yen weakened against all 16 major currencies after minutes of last month's Bank of Japan policy meeting showed members calling for powerful monetary easing.
In the U.S., shoppers spent 13% more during the four-day Thanksgiving weekend. Spending increased to $59.1 billion from 22 November through 25 November from $52.4 billion last year, the National Retail Federation said.
In Europe, Eurozone finance ministers return to Brussels today to discuss the clearance of an aid payment to Greece, raising new hope.
In South Korea, consumer confidence rebounded from a nine-month low this month as the economy began to show signs of improvement.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was little changed and China's Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.2%. South Korea's Kospi Index slid 0.3% and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index rose 0.2%. Singapore's Straits Times Index climbed 0.4% and Taiwen's Taiex Index jumped 0.8%.
Toyota Motor Corp., Asia's largest carmaker, advanced 2.3% as the yen declined to a seven-month low against the dollar. Kangwon Land Inc. jumped 9% in Seoul after the government approved plans for the casino and hotel operator to expand.
Samsung Electronics Co. was down 1.7%, after closing at a record high in Seoul on 23 November, as Apple Inc. sought to add infringement claims over six more Samsung products to its multi-billion-dollar patent lawsuit against the company.


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Bradley coach Geno Ford discussed Wednesday's 7:05 p.m. game against UE at the Ford Center on Monday's Missouri Valley coaches teleconference.
The Braves, after a last-second win over the weekend against Missouri State, are 12-7 overall and 4-3 in MVC play, good for fourth ahead of the fifth-place Aces.
Bradley's already exceeded last season's seven win total, marking the fifth-best improvement so far from last year. "I think we're a lot tougher than we were," Ford said. "I think anytime you walk into a situation like we did when you have to rebuild from the bottom, you spend most of your energy like we still do in just the process of improvement and what's lacking in the program. We were the softest team I've ever seen 18 months ago. Now we've still got strides that need to be made for us to become an upper-division team in this league, but at least we're trending in the right direction right now."
Last season UE beat Bradley 90-67 at the Ford Center and won 92-62 on the road. "A year ago, Evansville beat us twice," Ford Center. "I mean, it was almost 70 points combined in the two games. They beat us worse than anyone in the league except for maybe Wichita. It would have been close between those two. But we just didn't have any toughness really in the program and didn't have any mentality for that stuff. I think we've made some improvements, and it's shown up in our wins and losses. But we're not world beaters yet, so we've got to stick with the process of knowing where we've been and where we want to get to."
Ford said he has seen UE's losses last week to Drake and Indiana State, both games where the Aces' offense sputtered in the second half: "Watching them on tape, I think a couple things. Like all of us, they looked a little bit maybe leg weary last week in film more so than what they did earlier in the year. I think all our teams go through that. We kind of went through that two weeks ago. I'm sure they'll bounce back. They're without question one of the toughest teams in the league both mentally, and they're very physical. They're under-sized, which they use to their advantage. They get up underneath you, they bang you, and they do a good job showing their hands. They're probably right up there with Wichita for the most physical team in the league."
Ford on UE's team overall: "You've got four seniors that have been through it and know how to play and know what Marty (Simmons) wants offensively. They do a good job of sharing the ball. I've been very impressed with them on tape. I think when this whole thing shakes out, they're still going to be in the mix for that three seed when it all ends."
The Braves will have sixth-year senior Will Egolf available against UE. Ford suspended the 6-foot-9 Egolf four games from Jan. 2-12 after the forward/center was arrested on drug charges. Having Egolf back has "helped two ways," Ford said. "First, offensively he's our best spot-up shooter and he starts at center for us, so it draws the other team's bigs away from the rim which gives some space for our two guards — (Walt) Lemon and (Dyricus) Simms-Edwards — to drive the ball. So he's essential for us on that end even if he's not making shots because people have to guard him. And then on the defensive end, he's the best communicating big guy I've had in a long time. And then when you factor in that he's our leading defensive rebounder, leader in blocked shots and leader in charges taken — he's taken more charges than the rest of our team combined…We are 100 times better with him than without him. That's a fact."


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DENVER – The Colorado Rockies announced today that the club has agreed to a three-year contract with Manager Walt Weiss. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, per club policy.
"I am very excited and grateful to have the opportunity to lead this club as we work toward building a championship level team," said Weiss.
Weiss, 49, led the Rockies to a 74-88 record in his first season as the club's Manager in 2013. The Rockies 74-88 mark was a 10-game improvement over their 2012 record (64-98). Weiss returned to the Rockies organization in 2013, a place where he played four seasons (1994-97) during his 14-year Major League career and where he spent seven seasons from 2002-2008 as a Special Assistant to the General Manager.
In addition to his time in Colorado, the former All-Star shortstop spent his time in the Major Leagues with Oakland (1987-1992), Florida (1993) and Atlanta (1998-2000). In those 14 seasons he compiled a batting average of .258 (1207-for-4686) with 182 doubles, 31 triples, 25 home runs, 386 RBI, 96 stolen bases, 658 walks and 658 strikeouts in 1,495 games.
The Tuxedo, NY native was a member of four World Series teams, including the 1989 World Champion Oakland Athletics. Weiss was named the 1988 AL Rookie of the Year after hitting .250 (113-for-452) with 17 doubles, 3 triples, 3 home runs and 39 RBI in 147 games, all at shortstop, for the American League Champion Oakland Athletics. The switch-hitter made his lone All-Star Game appearance as an Atlanta Brave in the 1998 game played at Coors Field. In the field, Weiss posted a career .970 fielding percentage in 1,462 games, including turning 854 doubles plays and logging 11,932.1 innings, all at shortstop.
Weiss is the sixth manager in Rockies franchise history, having been preceded by Don Baylor (1993-1998), Jim Leyland (1999), Buddy Bell (2000-2002), Clint Hurdle (2002-09) and Jim Tracy (2009-12).


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London, England, Feb 21, 2013 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict's move allowing Anglican converts to enter the Catholic Church as a group makes him "the Pope of Christian Unity," says the head of the United Kingdom's structure for these communities.
"I think it just shows his fatherly care to open his arms to those who came from different traditions, but shared a common faith," Monsignor Keith Newton told CNA Feb. 13.
Msgr. Newton leads the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham – an ecclesial structure in the U.K. for Anglicans who enter the Catholic Church in groups and who wish to maintain elements of their spiritual and liturgical heritage.
"I'm more than happy to call him the Pope of Christian Unity, because for me that's exactly what he's been, and for those who entered the Catholic Church through that provision."
On Feb. 11, Pope Benedict XVI announced that effective Feb. 28, he would be stepping down from his position as Pope, due to advanced age and declining strength. After the Pope leaves office, Cardinals from around the world will meet in Rome to elect a new Pope in a special closed meeting called a conclave. A papal resignation has not occurred in nearly 600 years.
Pope Benedict in known for achieving an ecumenism victory in his 2009 apostolic constitution "Anglicanorum coetibus" which provided for ordinariates, or Anglican communities wishing to enter into the Catholic Church. In addition to that of Our Lady of Walsingham, there are also Ordinariates in North America and in Australia.
"I think it was unique and I think it showed his fatherly care; it was a response to requests that were made to him through Vatican channels over a number of years," Msgr. Newton expressed.
"It seems to me that the Holy Father's done something, rather than just talk about things…the ordinariates are a small experiment, but are actually doing something about seeing how receptive ecumenism could work."
The monsignor continued, "You can spend your time talking about these things and nothing happens, and that's the been the sad result of a lot of ecumenical dialogue over the years, and it seems to me that the ordinariates were both a result of the ecumenical dialogue between Anglicans and Catholics, I don't think it would have happened" without the first two rounds of Catholic-Anglican dialogue.
Anglican ordinariates, he said, show that "the universal Church of Jesus Christ does not have to be monochrome, it can represent lots of diverse traditions, provided that they're all in communion with one another, and they all share a common faith."
Pope Benedict's offer of ordinariates was for Msgr. Newton an "incredible gift.""The fact we're all in communion with each other…I think it's all because of the Petrine office, which holds the communion together, and that's an incredible gift. Personally, its made me feel much more spiritually content and happy."
On the impact of the ordinariates for Pope Benedict's legacy, Msgr. Newton said that in "looking back from some years ahead, that you'll be able to see that this was, as he described it himself, 'a prophetic gesture'. Now prophetic gestures, I don't think you see the realization of them in short-term time."
"So I think it will be something we look back on, and I think it has been an ecumenical gesture. And it will be very interesting to see whether a similar provision could be made for other tradition…Lutherans for instance, whether that grows from it."
Msgr. Newton said he had been speaking recently with members of the Walsingham ordinariate who said "how thankful they were" for Pope Benedict "because they probably wouldn't have made that step" of converting from Anglicanism, "except they did it together with a group of like-minded people."
The head of the North American ordinariate echoed the words of Msgr. Newton.
"One of Pope Benedict XVI's greatest legacies will be the largest reconciliation of Anglican groups with the Catholic Church in 500 years," Monsignor Jeffrey Steenson wrote Feb. 11.
"The members of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter will be forever grateful to Pope Benedict for his pastoral concern and vision for Catholic unity. In a very personal and significant manner, he has changed our lives as he has welcomed us and our Anglican patrimony into the Catholic faith this past year."
Msgr. Steenson converted to the Catholic Church under Pope Benedict's papacy, and said he and the members of the American ordinariate have a deep joy "knowing that we are the fruit of his vision for Catholic unity."
Pope Benedict, he said, "laid a permanent foundation for the Ordinariate to be the means to reconcile Anglican groups to the Catholic Church and that the Anglican patrimony might be shared with the Catholic Church."
"For this, we say thank you, thank you for giving us this beautiful gift of communion."


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An investigation this week into drug sales in the Chatham neighborhood resulted in two South Side men charged with possessing more than a kilogram of heroin, police said.
After getting information about possible drug sales in the area of the 400 block of East 80th Street, Chicago police began surveillance there Tuesday. Officers saw Albert Askew, 61, who lives on that block, "take possession of a package" containing about 1,000 grams of suspected heroin, police said in a release.
Police watched Askew take the package a couple of blocks away to the 7800 block of South Calumet Avenue, where he met up with Jeffery Watson, 44, of the 200 block of East 32nd Street, and helped put it into a black pickup truck Watson was driving, police said.
A short time later both men were arrested, and police said they confiscated the truck, more than $1,500 in cash and more than 1,000 grams of heroin, worth more than $100,000.
Each man was charged with felony possession of heroin -- more than 900 grams, police said.
Both men appeared in bond court Wednesday. Watson was ordered held with bail, and his next court date was set for Friday. Bail of $100,000 was set for Askew, and his next court date was set for May 30.


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Ancient VVisdom
May 2013
Released: 2013, Label Prosthetic Records
Rating: 4.0/5
Reviewer: Metal-Rules.com UK Team
Expectations from this album were very high, on my part anyway especially following the release of their previous and beautiful album "A God Like Inferno".With so many good songs in one album is always hard to top up but "Deathlike" does it!
My favourites from this band so far include was their first single, released earlier this year, the fourth track "Deathlike", followed by "I Am Rebirth" and "Never Live Again". One can't ignore the first riffs of "I Am Rebirth" sounding extremely similar to 'Lost Civilisation' from their previous album, but hey Metallica did a few version of "The Unforgiven" so why not?!
No this album is not fast paced, technical or brutal hardcore , but it's evil as f*ck! The semi acoustic sound is very rare on metal cds nowadays and Ancient Vvisdom is the proud carrier of the flag.
Light up some candles, close the door, curtains and isolate yourself, play it loud while enjoying a glass or three of your favourite drink (ok I have to mention the abuse of alcohol is bad for your health…they say!) and you will thank me later for the experience.
Well if you don't enjoy it fair enough, but these guys deserve more recognition and I am very looking forward to seeing them live again. I'm always trying to push this band, as I believe there is success waiting for them to happen! Enjoy you spawns of Satan!
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Here's a topic that gets touched on briefly and often mentioned randomly in posts, but never have I seen a full-blown thread dedicated to it.
Do you prefer a mono steel knife or a clad/san-mai knife?
Is there a benefit of forged v ground?
It appears to me that mono steel knives are most often ground from solid stock, as in the case of {most if not all} lasers (although not always - they may be forged), and clad knives are most often forged (although not always - they may be ground from pre-made stock).
I can see both styles (if you will) have pros and cons, and I'm not sure I have strong preference. I do like a thin knife however, and often clad knives tend to be on the thicker side.
On the topic - here's a question - in the case of a mono steel laser that is ground, where in the process of fabrication is the heat treatment done? Once the knife has been cut and ground to shape, but before final finish, edge and handle attachment? Cheers! mpp