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Sequestration threat to our environment
As a parent of a child with asthma, I cringe at the thought of cuts to the funding of air-quality monitoring and enforcement due to sequestration.
It's estimated that Massachusetts will lose $4 million in environmental funding. Air pollution is a known trigger of asthma attacks. Parents of children with asthma need to pay attention to air quality reports to ensure the safety of their children. It is terrifying to watch your child struggle to breathe and not something I would wish for any parent.
Nearly one in 10 children in our state has asthma and their parents have the right-to-know what the air-pollution levels are in their communities in order to keep their kids safe.
A second concern is the cut to funding for enforcement of air-pollution laws. Without credible enforcement, violations of pollution standards are likely to increase. Across-the-board budget cuts are reckless and harmful to the many vulnerable people who rely on environmental regulation to protect them.
– SYLVIA BRANDT, Amherst
Use of drones shows President Obama's hypocrisy
I think we are headed to the point of no return when it is more important, for our politicians, to side with their political party instead of siding with their core values.
Case in point: the Democrats were up in arms at the Bush administration for using enhanced interrogations on the enemy combatants; however, most Democrats are siding with President Obama over his authorization to allow the use drones to kill American citizens in the United States.
We can't torture an enemy from another country but we can kill a U.S. citizen on American soil? At this point, the hypocrisy is an absolute joke.
– MARY-ELLEN BIROS, Chicopee
Anna Sullivan courageous in Sanger incident
The March 4 article in The Republican, "Holyoke's Sullivan left a proud legacy, " highlighted a courageous spirit who became a national champion in the exercise of free speech in the Margaret Sanger incident.
In October 1940, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, came to Holyoke to speak about the petition to overturn the law that made it illegal in Massachusetts for physicians to prescribe contraceptive care. In an attempt to prevent her from speaking at the First Congregational Church in Holyoke, the priest at Holyoke's St. Jerome Church coerced the board of directors at the Congregational Church to rescind the invitation. Also the directors of Turn Verein Hall (the German Lutheran social society of Holyoke) reneged after initially agreeing to let her speak there.
Anna B. Sullivan who was the secretary of Local 113 of the Textile Workers Union of America CIO in Holyoke offered the Union Hall to Sanger when she learned of these cancellations. According to the newspaper report, 70 to 100 people attended Sanger's talk. Anna Sullivan was quoted in the newspaper as saying, "I was burned up that in a town of this sort where I thought we had progressed to the point where freedom of speech was accepted, a group had to fight for a place to meet.
- ROBERT M. ABRAMS, South Hadley
Administration pushing U.S. much too far to left
Make no mistake about it this administration has the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of these United States hanging by a thread. Witness the filibuster by Senator Rand Paul against the use of drones on American citizens in this country. Witness the Department of Homeland Security buying millions of rounds of ammo, and being given used military light armored urban assault vehicles to refurbish for their own use.
Listen to the constant diatribe of anti-gun zealots, some calling National Rifle Association members "a bunch of right wing terrorists." Soon every law- abiding gun owner in the United States will be branded as a terrorist. If the 2014 mid-term election cycle gives control of the House of Representatives to the radical left, Obama will have free rein to implement his dream of European socialism.
With the United Nations in full assault mode for a worldwide weapons ban, it will not be long for total gun confiscation. With the president's total unwillingness to take the lead in trying to control our out-of-control debt, he seems to want to drive us closer to financial ruin.
In a previous missive sent to this forum, I wrote of nine countries that went socialist or communist that started with gun confiscation and ended with dictatorships and many millions of lives lost for disagreeing with the party line. Sadly it was not printed. It is a shame our first black president may go down in history as watching over the decline and fall of the greatest country the world will ever see.
– ROBERT MENARD, Chicopee
Sequestration a ploy by President Obama
I take issue with the March 6 editorial in The Republican, stating that the sequester cuts will indeed be painful for the country.
First of all, the so-called cuts are not cuts at all, but rather a 2.4 percent reduction in the rate of growth of federal spending. Even with the "cuts" in place, the federal government will still spend more this year than last year, and more next year than this year.
The fact is that the sequester was President Obama's idea in the first place. The proposed cuts in defense spending were supposed to be so unpalatable to Republicans that that they would cave and agree to more tax hikes. When the Republicans held firm against raising taxes, Obama went around the country predicting an apocalypse due to the impending sequester "cuts." It is in his and the Democrats' interest to make the cuts as painful for the American people as possible.
For example, tours of the White House for school children have been canceled and the reason given is sequester "cuts." Meanwhile, the president continues to jet around the country on Air Force One in campaign mode (even though he cannot run again), continues to play golf every other day, and the USDA continues to hold lavish conferences for its employees, all at a cost of millions of dollars.
The working people of this country took a real 2 percent cut, not a reduction in a proposed pay increase, on Jan. 1 when the payroll tax holiday expired. Yet, you heard nary a whimper.
Surely, if the working people can take a real cut of 2 percent without barely noticing, then the government should be able to take a 2.4 percent reduction in its rate growth without calamity.
If the sequester "cuts" are felt at all, it will be only because Obama wants you to feel them.
– STEVEN M. LOZYNIAK, Ludlow
Residents must look beyond casino glitter
As a 34-year resident of southeastern Connecticut, I have a few thoughts on the casino proposals for Western Massachusetts that I'd like to share.
To begin with, I'm not a tribal member nor a casino employee. None of my family or friends is either. I don't run a retail or hospitality business, so I have nothing to lose by the construction of a casino in your area.
First, don't expect tons of spinoff business from the casino. People go there for shows, yes, to shop (a little) and to eat (because they get hungry). Mostly, they go to gamble.
People with empty pockets or maxed-out credit cards don't stop in local stores to shop or restaurants to eat. If anything, they'll buy some gas for the trip home and that's about all area businesses will see of them.
Gambling's their mission. They'll do it until their money runs out then make a beeline for home – broke, dismissive, disgusted, and, quite possibly, drunk.
Second, as concert venues, sports arenas don't work. Their seating arrangements are intended for basketball games and their acoustics are awful.
Third, expect to see stories in the press of embezzling. Some people just can't sidestep temptation. Little of those funds will be repaid. For every story which becomes public, perhaps a dozen more broken families, bankruptcies, and foreclosed homes will occur which you may suspect but only hear rumors about.
Yes, casinos will provide some construction jobs at the outset and service level jobs later on. It may keep some off welfare or unemployment compensation. It may save a few workers' homes from foreclosure. (Foxwoods, now 20 years old, did at the time when the cold war was ending and the navy decided it no longer needed to build five Sea Wolf class submarines at Groton's Electric Boat.) Area workers will not be the entrepreneurs of the casinos. Largely, they'll be the downtrodden proletariat, hourly employees grinding out weekly paychecks with no hope of ever gaining an ownership stake.
I hope this diatribe helps Western Massachusetts residents make an informed decision. Jobs and slot machine rake-offs to the state notwithstanding, casinos are not all glitter.
- DEAN ANDERSON, Stonington, Conn.


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Joey Bada$$ and the entire Pro Era crew come together for a new compilation tape entitled "Peep The Aprocalypse." The project features the a slew of tracks from every member of PE and some very smooth outside help in the form production from Statik Selektah, Thelonious Martin, and Lee Bannon to name a few. Check below for a stream and download. Enjoy
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The invoices were for medical equipment patients use in their homes, such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, nebulizers and oxygen tents.
Concord resident Aleksandr Finkelshteyn, 35, and his sibling Robert Finkelshteyn, 32, of Brooklyn, submitted millions of dollars of bills to no-fault insurance carriers for such items, authorities maintain.
But the Finkelshteyns, who were in cahoots with the suppliers, never received that equipment -- and neither did patients -- allege prosecutors. And the prices on the invoices were jacked up to almost 15 times what the items typically cost, said court papers.
Now, the brothers have been charged with conspiring to defraud health-care benefit programs.
The alleged fraud and money-laundering scheme ran between April 2007 and August 2009. It involved the Finkelshteyns' company, Alrof, Inc. located in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst section.
The firm was incorporated in Brooklyn in February 2007 and was dissolved in July of this year, according to online records of the New York state Department of State.
The alleged scam worked this way, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court:
A cooperating witness told an FBI agent that he and co-conspirators formed 11 companies purporting to be wholesalers of durable medical equipment, said court papers. Such equipment can withstand repeated use in a patient's home and includes wheelchairs, hospital beds, catheters, nebulizers, iron lungs, and oxygen tents.
The cooperator told investigators that the Finkelshteyns and Alrof, acting as retailers, bought invoices from his wholesale companies.
The Finkelshteyns specified the information to be contained on the bogus invoices to include equipment types, quantities and prices, said court records.
No goods were delivered that corresponded to the items on the bills and the prices listed were 10 to 15 times higher than what the merchandise typically cost, the complaint alleges.
The Finkelshteyns then submitted the invoices to the insurance companies for payment.
The cooperator said the checks Alrof provided his company were laundered at a check-cashing establishment. After taking 5 to 8 percent for his cut, the cooperator delivered the remaining cash -- generally about 90 percent of the check's face value -- back to the Finkelshteyns, said court papers.
"Retailers," such as the Finkelshteyns paid kickbacks to medical clinics for the durable medical equipment prescriptions, the complaint contends.
Bank records showed that Alrof issued 144 checks and one wire transfer to the wholesale companies, totaling more than $2.9 million, court documents state.
The Finkelshteyns went a step farther, allegedly making fraudulent deductions on their business tax returns based upon the checks. They also under-reported Alrof's income by not declaring the cash received back from the cooperator as business income, alleges court records.
The cooperator, who pleaded guilty to health-care fraud, money laundering and defrauding the IRS is working with the government in the hope of obtaining leniency at sentencing, said court papers.
The Finkelshteyns are each free on $2 million bond, court documents show.
They potentially face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, said a spokesman for Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
The suspects did not immediately return telephone messages left Wednesday at their homes.


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Let's be clear from the start. If you consider power, speed, average and affordability, you can normally only have two or three in one player. For the sake of this article, and considering affordability a must in trade targets, most of these guys will not help your batting average.
That being said, these are trade targets who will boost your stolen bases without taking up a lineup space devoid of power. Unless your team is stocked with Adam Dunn-types and Dee Gordon-types, the 20/20 guys can make or break your team.
Keep in mind, my category-league teams rarely win the batting average category because I load up on 20/20 guys.


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My fellow constitutional conservative Manly Rash has on his site a copy of that faked photo in which the lowlife liberals at the Save Jersey From Conservatism blog make fun of Steve Lonegan's blindness. You can see it here.
The photo in question used to sit atop an article headlined "Steve Lonegan: The blind leading the blind into oblivion." It shows a driver wearing dark glasses about to crash a Toyota because he is doing his navigation via a cane held out the window. This attack on Lonegan so obviously violated liberal standards of political correctness that the photo was taken down. But Manly got hold of a cached copy and posted it for your viewing pleasure.
He also does a good job dissecting the liberal arguments against Lonegan, such as that absurd idea that the Abbott school-funding formula is in the state constitution, which I debunked in my prior post on this.
Manly concludes his analysis by pointing out the unfortunate fact that the man who defeated Lonegan in last year's GOP primary, Chris Christie, represents a party that makes nice noises about conservatism but is just as entwined with big government as the opposition:
It would be gratuitously magnanimous of me to say the GOP establishment in the Garden State labors under the delusion that, by veering leftward, they believe they can capture "the middle ground" and secure victory through compromise, for to do so is to imply they at least have some principles. But the sad fact is that most GOP Party operatives in New Jersey are nothing more than political hacks. They wear the Republican designation in the same manner one dons a house dinner jacket offered by the proprietor of a restaurant who requires that all male diners wear dinner jackets. For them it is not so much the principle but the process - and in New Jersey it's process uber alles, where back-room deals between Democrats and "Republicans" are as common as haggling in a Moroccan bazaar.


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NEW YORK -- The Mets placed John Maine on the disabled list Thursday with fatigue in his right shoulder, adding to an already staggering team injury total.
They did not immediately announce who will start in Maine's place Saturday at Yankee Stadium, but general manager Omar Minaya said it will likely be either reliever Fernando Nieve or someone from Triple-A Buffalo.
Maine was hit hard in his last start by the Washington Nationals, who tagged him for seven runs in four innings. After the Mets announced earlier Thursday that they would push Maine's start back from Friday to Saturday, Maine said he felt pain in his shoulder in the same area where he had surgery to remove a bone spur last offseason.
Minaya said an MRI taken earlier this week showed no structural damage in Maine's shoulder, but as a result of a vigorous offseason throwing program that Maine used to rehab from the surgery, his shoulder has shown signs of weakness.
"It's fatigued," Maine said. "It's dead. I tried to do all the right things ... but I may have pushed it too much. It started to lock up on me."
There was no immediate timetable given for Maine's return, but he said he was optimistic he would be able to recover quickly.
"I think it's the best thing," Maine said. "It's not going to be a long thing -- maybe a start or two. I just need to give it a couple of days and get a program to strength it back up."
Maine became the 11th Mets player to go on the DL this season -- and that doesn't account for Carlos Beltran, who has missed several games with various ailments but has avoided the DL. The Mets have eight players on the DL right now, forcing them to dramatically lower their short-term expectations.
The best they can hope for over the next month or two is to stay close enough to the Phillies to make a run late in the season. And even that will not be easy.
"We have to find a way," Minaya said. "Teams go through this, and any game we win now, it's important, especially because of the difficulty of the schedule right now, but also because we have to win without all our guys. Hopefully when we get our guys later on, it will help. We have to continue to stay close."
Minaya said the team will likely send Maine (5-4, 4.52 ERA) to rehab at its minor-league complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla. How quickly he returns will depend how quickly the strength in his shoulder comes back.
Tim Redding was shut down with a similar injury midway through spring training, and it took him two months to get back to the majors.
For now, the Mets will need to plug yet another hole in their roster. If Nieve does not take Maine's spot Saturday, Jon Niese or Nelson Figueroa will likely get the call from Buffalo.
The loss of Maine makes it even more imperative that the Mets get Oliver Perez back soon, but his return is far from imminent. Minaya said Perez has been throwing light side sessions in Port St. Lucie but his knee is still bothering him.


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Archery is the 'new' curling? I don't think so, NBC
Alan Wurtzel, NBC's president of research and development, said on the network's Olympics conference call Thursday that archery is the new curling.
As a former "vice skip"* on my high school's curling team, I have a message for Mr. Wurtzel: archery is no curling, sir.
Of course I am being a bit tongue-in-cheek here and I'm not that offended. Plus, Wurtzel has some compelling numbers to back up his claim.
He said curling was the most-viewed Olympics sport on cable this year, even ranking ahead of basketball and its TV-ready athletes like LeBron James
"Archery is the new curling. The numbers for archery have been nothing less than huge," said Wurtzel. "It delivered an average of 1.5 million cable viewers, the highest rated cable sport, beating out basketball. Now maybe it's the Hunger Games phenomenon, or Brady Ellison orKhatuna Lorig who taught Jennifer Lawrence how to shoot for the film, it really doesn't matter but we're going to keep an eye on that."
I have to admit that even I got caught up in the archery hype. I reveled in the nail-biting suspense of the U.S. archery team's silver medal performance Saturday and watched as members tried to nail bullseyes under pressure.
But as a former curler from Canada, I couldn't help but feel a little treasonous listening to NBC on Thursday. Curling is not as popular as hockey by any means but it's still one of the frozen national pastimes back home. And it's spilled over the border too–curling's popularity has been steadily growing in the U.S. since the last Winter Olympics, according to this AP story.
I highly doubt a curler in the winter would hang up their broom and slider for a bow and arrow. Or, based on the numbers Wurtzel cites, maybe they would. But I can tell you—and NBC this– those high tech bows used in the Olympics look mighty different than what Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss uses in The Hunger Games.
*A vice skip is like a vice captain, and throws third ahead of the skip. The skip is the captain of the four-person team and goes last*
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As a sagittarial proselytizer, I will also admit to having watched (and enjoyed) curling. Once. Ok, maybe twice. The fact that curling is a winter games sport, and archery is a year-round outdoor event seen also at the summer games tells me that I can enjoy both!
And of course, NBC is right, archery is so very new, having only been documented by historical evidence (arrow head points) to have been around oh, 50,000 years or so….
Name another Olympic sport where the US has had 18 yo and 52 yo women on the same team? Or where several para archers have also shot well enough to compete in the Olympics as well as the Paralympics? Archery is cool for many reasons, while curling is fun but cold, ice cold


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Bristol drops bond issue
BRISTOL – Following the defeat last week of an 8.1-mill emergency renewal levy, the Board of Education by a 3-1 vote Wednesday decided to withdraw a 5.15-mill bond issue it planned to run on the August special election ballot.
School district voters defeated the renewal levy in the May 6 primary election by 56.5 percent against to 43.4 percent for.
The board plans to try again with the renewal levy on the ballot in November, but President Dennis Lenney and members Don Mickel and Scott Chapman voted to take the bond issue off the August ballot.
"Because of the renewal levy defeat and the bond issue defeat last November, we felt it was not the time for a bond issue," Lenney said.
Board Vice President John Hickey, who cast the "no" vote, said he wanted to give the bond issue another try, noting repairs are needed to the high school building.
"No matter what, the problems in the building are not going to go away," he said.
Board member Kathie Johnson was absent from the meeting.
Lenney said the board will review and evaluate what can be maintained and what will need repaired in the high school building.
The bond issue would have raised the school district's local share toward an $18 million high school for grades seven to 12. If passed the bond would have generated $9.5 million, and the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission would have provided the other $8.7 million for construction.
Voters already rejected a 5.6-mill bond issue request in November 2013, by a 62 percent to 38 percent count.
The high school was constructed in 1918. School officials said despite maintenance efforts, rooms are either very hot or very cold, ceilings leak, and the building is not able to be modernized.
Plans were for a 150,000-square-foot building, smaller than the current, but with larger classrooms. The project would have also included remodeling current classrooms into new board offices.
Bristol was one of 19 districts from across the Buckeye state that received an offer of funding from the OSFC, which oversees the state's school facility renovation and construction program.


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Republicans Mitt Romney and Pete Hoekstra may be kindred political spirits.
But at least for now, they are going their separate ways despite facing remarkably similar challenges and a history of cooperating in past campaigns.
Romney, the son of a popular Michigan governor, is emerging from a crowded Republican field to become the front-runner in the battle to become the GOP's challenger to President Barack Obama.
Hoekstra is emerging as the front-runner in a similarly crowded field to become the GOP standard-bearer for the U.S. Senate seat held by U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat who has held the seat ever since knocking off Republican Spencer Abraham in 2000.
If both men win their separate primary battles, it could spell trouble for Obama and Stabenow in Michigan, according to Bill Ballenger, editor of Inside Michigan Politics.
Though no Republican presidential candidate has won in Michigan since 1988, Romney could use his status as a native son to make Michigan a battleground state, Ballenger said.
Having Romney on the top of the ticket could help Hoekstra in his Senate campaign, where no Michigan Republican has won since 1994 and Democrats have won 11 of the last 12 U.S. Senate races, Ballenger said.
If Romney is the presidential nominee, he is unlikely to concede his campaign in Michigan as John McCain did in 2008, Ballenger said. That abandonment hurt the rest of Michigan's GOP ticket, he said.
Although they have worked together in earlier, albeit unsuccessful campaigns, the two men are going their separate ways for the time being.
Hoekstra, who represented West Michigan in Congress for 18 years, has not endorsed Romney in the Michigan GOP presidential primary that will be held Feb. 28.
Likewise, Romney has not endorsed Hoekstra in Michigan's August primary election for the Senate nomination.
There has been no falling-out, both campaigns say.
It's just that neither candidate wants to hurt their own chances by stepping into the other candidate's ring, where their supporters may have other favorites.
"Pete and Mitt have a strong relationship, dating back to the presidential and gubernatorial elections," said Hoekstra spokeswoman Brittany Gross.
"He believes Mitt Romney is a strong candidate and a great leader, but he also shares these relationships and sentiments with the other candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich."
"Pete Hoekstra is a friend who supported Gov. Romney in 2008," said Ryan Williams, a spokesperson for Romney.
"Gov. Romney is focused on his own campaign and spreading his pro-jobs, pro-growth message in Michigan and across the country."
Still, Romney and Hoekstra have a lot in common – politically and historically.
Both men have put recent losses behind them.
In 2007, Hoekstra was an early supporter of Romney's presidential bid, using his congressional gravitas and Dutch heritage to stump for Romney in Iowa's Dutch enclaves. Romney lost to Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and was unable to recover in New Hampshire.
In 2009, Romney reciprocated and became an early supporter of Hoekstra's campaign for governor. Hoekstra lost in the primary to Gov. Rick Snyder, who campaigned as a political outsider.
"I think they have quite a bit in common," says Doug Koopman, a Calvin College political science professor who served as Hoekstra's chief of staff in 1993 and 1994.
"They are really in the same place in Republican Party. They are pretty uniformly conservative on social issues, on economic issues and foreign policy issues."
They have similar political styles, Koopman adds. "They are not 'movement' conservatives on social issues. They both lead with economic issues."
Both men could help each other on their home turf, Koopman said.
Romney could help Southeast Michigan Republican's accept Hoekstra's West Michigan roots, Koopman said. Likewise, Hoekstra can help conservative evangelical Christians in West Michigan accept Romney's Mormon roots.
Ballenger notes that despite Hoekstra's lead in the polls, he may need help in Southeast Michigan, where he could face a well-financed challenge from Clark Durant, a Detroit charter school founder, in a low turnout election.
"Right now it looks like Romney would have a good chance here in Michigan against Obama," Ballenger said. "And the stronger Romney is, the more it's going to help Hoekstra."
E-mail Jim Harger: firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHHarger


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SOUTH HADLEY – The town's Appropriations Committee recommended Monday a fiscal 2014 spending plan, but also used the gathering to criticize the selectboard for appointing an assistant town administrator in February - prior to their hiring the town administrator last month.
Several members of the appropriations committee, including chairman Thomas Terry, had questions.
Committee member Gregory R. Sheehan was among the most indignant, saying the selectboard "implemented a position without an approved job description - it seems, for lack of a better term . . . backwards," adding: "I feel like it was jammed down my throat," he said.
Committee member Stephen B. Hamlin said "the way it was done was very sketchy." Nancy Knadler asked: "Don't we have policies where we have to go out and post" the position.
The selectboard's February discussion and vote naming Jennifer Wolowicz to the assistant town administrator job was contentious, and divided the board. They voted 3 to 2 to appoint her.
At the April 22 appropriations committee meeting, the committee peppered town administrator Michael Sullivan, who has been on the job less than a month, with their concerns.
Terry also wanted to know the criteria Sullivan used to increase by $9,300 the deputy town administrator's salary to $78,644.
Sullivan spent nearly an hour responding to the myriad questions.
He said a report written by the Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston, which assisted the town in the town administrator search process, indicted to him that "the town administrator would appoint that position."
Sullivan also said: "I was a little bit surprised the salary wasn't set" for the assistant town administrator "before I got here."
Explaining the salary amount, the manager said he believed it was a good idea to keep her salary at the level she was paid while acting town administrator.
Noting that he has recommended against spending an additional $105,000 - $40,000 for an assistant town planner and $65,000 for a facilities manager - Sullivan said his office will see an increased workload to include economic development and building maintenance functions.
He said assistant town administrators in Amherst and Wilbraham are paid more than $78,000 and that the town's recently completed wage study recommended the job is worth $87,523 to $106,015.
By a majority vote, the appropriations committee is recommending a fiscal 2014 total budget of nearly $41.9 million - a projected 2 percent increase from current spending.
The recommended spending plan wipes out a deficit of $86,000.
Town meeting will act on the matter during the annual meeting on May 11 in the town hall auditorium, starting at 9 a.m.


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The St. Louis directory for 1848 /
Fire and Marine Insurance.
Protection & Ætna
Insurance Companies
of Hartford, CT.
John B. Camden and Moses Forbes, have been
appointed the permanent Agents of those old and substantial
Companies, and will continue the business of the agency at
their old office,
132 North First Street,
where they will be pleased to serve the public on the most favorable
terms of those well known institutions.
All losses will be adjusted and paid with liberality and
promptitude, at the agency office in this city.
The business of the Agency will be conducted under the
name and style of
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Sorry, I didn't realise that that was a false quote, I thought I got that one from the manga, it must've been wrong.Potterwatcher1997 (talk) 23:20, August 28, 2010 (UTC)
The Gig is up
No, you will not be making false accounts as the second one is seen they will be blocked. Stop, the issue is over. Status's are gone so there is no need to keep trying to troll. Now take this back to the bleach forums, status is no longer an issue, if you would like to become productive members of this site then wait out your block periods and come back and make useful edits. We have many projects that are open for all users to participate in. If you want to improve the articles here then sign up for them. --God (Pray) 18:23, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
Just to let you know, my post about the false accounts was made after the user Yawehisme registered, so my post was not the thing that started this. Also, I put "just kidding" by it so that nobody would take me seriously. The user Yawehisme is a completely new user, not a banned one coming back. Please understand that all of Bleach Forums was not involved in the appeal against Gin's status, it was only me and a few other users. I hope that you will not hold a grudge against Bleach Forums because of this. Just a few questions: You said something about me being blocked--am I? Also, how did you manage to find me on Bleach Forums? Please do not take my questions offensively, you do not have to answer them if you do not want to. I meant nothing insulting by asking them, I was just curious. Potterwatcher1997 (talk) 23:29, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
You are one of the few from the bleach forums that is not blocked. Here is the deal. I am going to make a general statement that you can take back there that should hopefully clear all of this up. Gin's status was decided on by a large amount of users. Everything you guys brought up had been discussed by the admins and they made the decision. Many of us agreed that it was best to list him as deceased until we could definitively prove he was alive. Many wanted to say he was still alive because good guys do not die in Bleach but Gin cannot be viewed as a good guy. He has way too much blood on his hands. Bharatram1 claimed to be right about Rangiku's status but he was not. He said Rangiku was alive which it turned out to be true however I had told him that I myself believed her to be alive but until we had definitive proof, we would not change it. The same happened with Gin. If he were to be shown alive tomorrow, we would have changed his status but we needed proof. As for what I saw and I assume many others saw, was a man on the verge of death. We had a policy on statuses and there were only a few options you could list a character as. The closest we had to Gin's state was deceased. You may not agree with that but that was the decision that was made and while new users are always welcomed to edit, once you have 50 or so good edits, your voice starts to carry more weight but if you come on the site purely to debate a status that was already decided on, we are not going to be all super nice and explain to you the process by which the decision was made because we get so many vandals that do this. I had taken it upon myself to try and let everyone know a bit about the decision process but I was cruelly attacked by many users and as you probably saw, many of them took to vandalizing the site when they got angry enough. I did not mean to get nasty with many users but the whole ordeal was pushing my patience. Every time I logged on I would see more and more users saying Gin was alive and their only proof was that his eyes were open when we last saw him. I don't know if you have ever seen a dead body but people do die with their eyes open. The movies portray characters as always closing their eyes upon death but this is not a rule of nature. Anyway, to avoid any further heated debates, we Salubri made the decision to remove statuses from every character article. We are hoping this cuts back on the vandalism. In all, if those users who were blocked do not agree with our policies, they do not have to edit here. We are different than many other wikis. If they want to wait out their block periods and come back here and edit, they are welcomed to as long as they do not stir up fights and make good edits that follow our rather simple policies. --God (Pray) 23:48, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
Wow, that thread really is pathetic and it's providing so much amusement for me!! I love how people think they're so awesome when they insult people over the internet and behind their backs where they can't see!! They even quoted me, thus I'm quite honoured they believed I was worth their time!! Silly people!! Somebody even said the majority agree with them, oh how those few make me laugh!! And I notice on the block list, Bharatram1 made an account under the exact name he used there!! Wow for someone that doesn't care...he really cares!! The community here are not idiots since we spend our time doing things that matter not moaning over who is right and wrong!! To those that said "oh we want to gloat" if gin does live, and I doubt he is alive, gloat all you want, I doubt anyone will care since the information on the site is constantly evolving at such a rapid rate, somebody's status is neither here nor there to be honest!! Good luck on your brave insults behind our backs, things here have order!! SunXia (talk) 00:01, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
Okay, so I'm NOT blocked? All right. And SunXia, you said something about there being a block list--Am I able to view this? Also, just a few more questions: When you say that a lot of people on BF were blocked, does this mean that they are no longer allowed to come on here or that they are just blocked for a period of time? Do you mind telling me the users that were bocked? And if you care to share, I was wondering why I was not picked to be blocked. Potterwatcher1997 (talk) 00:55, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
That is a list of all users who have been blocked. Some users are permanently blocked as they are abusing mutliple accounts but their original account should not have an indefinite ban on it. Most were blocked for three months. You were not blocked because you did not become a vandal, harass other users or abuse multiple accounts that we know of. You for the most part kept civil in which case we have no problem allowing you to stay as a user of this site. The others were blocked for violating multiple policies after they were all warned. --God (Pray) 01:04, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the list. I'll check it out. Potterwatcher1997 (talk) 01:30, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
Looks like I apparently have no association towards the "group" of any kind. Pity.
See you around the forums Potter. Kyrie Eleison (talk) 22:53, September 1, 2010 (UTC)


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What's widely being called "the most violent video game ever" has only been on the market in the U.S. a few days and hackers have already unlocked the adult content censored by the publisher in order to give it a marketable rating.
In 'Manhunt 2,' a game that was banned altogether in the United Kingdom, the player takes on the role of a man who escapes from an insane asylum and goes on a killing spree. Parts of the game were edited out or blurred to get a "mature" rating instead of "adults only," which few stores will carry.
Even without the bonus material, the game was already drawing criticism on many fronts.
Child advocates have urged parents to be aware of the content of this game and not to buy it for their children.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness issued a public statement against the game, saying it "Perpetuates and reinforces cruel, inaccurate perceptions that people who live with mental illnesses are violent. "
And top top it off, reviewers have pretty much slammed the game for delivering a lot of shock value without much fun.
What do you think? Does 'Manhunt 2' go too far to be available in stores with the "M" rating? Leave a comment below.


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|Anthony Mirakian began his karate training in Okinawa during the 1950's when he was stationed there as an airman with the U.S. Air Force. This was "The Golden Age" of Okinawan karate. It was "the time" when authentic, traditional Okinawan karate instruction was first opened to western participation.
|While there, Mirakian met and began his Okinawan karate training with Master Seikichi Toguchi, at his Shoreikan dojo in Nakanomachi, Okinawa. The weather was hot and very humid. The regimen was strict and the training was intensive - running 4 1/2 hours per day, 6 days per week. 100% effort was expected from all.
|At Toguchi's dojo, he was introduced to Master Ryuritsu Arakaki. Arakaki, a man in his mid-40's at the time, was a 7th degree black belt master who had studied with Goju-ryu Grandmaster Chojun Miyagi and his assistant, Grandmaster Seiko Higa. Mirakian began training with Arakaki. As their relationship grew, Arakaki befriended Mirakian and soon began treating him as a protégé. They had many long discussions about the old masters, Chojun Miyagi and his training in China, and Okinawan karate history. Arakaki also took Mirakian around to various dojo's and introduced him to many great Okinawan masters of the time.
|One day, Arakaki took Mirakian aside and said,
|Mirakian was initially reluctant, but Arakaki insisted,
|Arakaki spoke with Grandmaster Yagi and recommended that he consider accepting Mirakian as a student. He took Mirakian to meet Yagi at his dojo in Kume, Naha City. Mirakian's first impression upon meeting Grandmaster Yagi was that he was in the presence of a great master, and recalls saying to himself,
|Though Grandmaster Yagi was very gracious, he asked Mirakian many questions and had Mirakian perform a kata for him. When the kata was finished, Yagi remarked to Arakaki that Mirakian had a build like a spider - like the great Chinese Kempo masters. Finally, Grandmaster Yagi simply said,
|With that, Mirakian became the first westerner accepted as a student by Grandmaster Yagi. In keeping with Okinawan karate tradition, training under Yagi was challenging and arduous. All workout sessions were led by Yagi personally and ran for 4 hours, 5 nights a week. Testing occurred periodically and was rigorous. Mirakian practiced diligently, displayed great determination and skill, and became the first westerner ever to receive a black belt from Grandmaster Yagi. By the time he returned to the United States in 1960, Mirakian had been promoted by Yagi to 3rd degree black belt (Sandan)..
|Mirakian set up residence in Massachusetts and became the first teacher to offer instruction in traditional Okinawan Meibukan Goju-ryu Karate-do in the Americas. At that time, he began his lifetime effort to educate the American public on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits of a lifestyle that incorporates traditional karate-do study and training. Eventually, he opened the Okinawan Karate-do Academy in Watertown, MA, and still offers classes there today. .
|In 1972, Mirakian was appointed by Grandmaster Yagi to be the Overseas General Manager for the Meibukan Goju-ryu Karate-do Association, an international karate-do association association founded in 1960 by Yagi in Kume, Naha City, Okinawa.. Mirakian's academy in Watertown, MA was designated as the official North American Headquarters for that organization, and it remains so to this day.
|In 1985, Mirakian was invited to attend Grandmaster Yagi's 73rd birthday celebration in Okinawa by his older son, Meitatsu Yagi. As the official United States representative of Meibukan Goju-ryu karate-do, Mirakian attended the event with his family, gave a congratulatory address, and performed a Seenchin kata in Meitoku Yagi's honor. On the occasion of that visit, Grandmaster Yagi promoted Mirakian to 8th degree black belt (Hachidan, Kyoshi).
|In 1990, Mirakian returned to Okinawa again to attend and participate in the 30th Anniversary celebration of the founding of the Meibukan Goju-ryu Karate-do Association. It was held on August 18, 1990 at the Shimin Kaikan in Ginowan, Okinawa. Mirakian was accompanied by a number of his karate students, who also performed at this historic event. On the occasion of that visit, on October 21, 1990, Grandmaster Yagi promoted Mirakian to the very high rank of 9th degree black belt (Kudan, Hanshi). He is the first and only Goju-ryu master outside of Okinawa to be granted that honor to this day.
|Sensei Anthony Mirakian is currently the most senior active student of Grandmaster Meitoku Yagi. He has been teaching "the true art" for over 40 years. His Okinawan Karate-do Academy offers traditional Goju-ryu karate-do training in its purest traditional form - featuring a rigorous training program based on the intensive training he received under Grandmaster Yagi in Okinawa decades ago.
|He is a recognized and celebrated pioneer in promoting the practice of traditional Okinawan Goju-ryu karate-do outside of Okinawa. He has been featured, discussed, and quoted in a number of prominent martial arts books and journals on karate - such as the "Martial Arts - Traditions, History, People" by John Corcoran and Emil Farkas, "Martial Arts for Beginners" by Ron Sieh, "Fighting Arts International" Journal, "Professional Karate" magazine, etc. And, he is a living testament to the benefits of life-long karate-do practice.
|Sensei Mirakian currently has two international representatives that he has authorized to represent his authentic Okinawan Meibukan Goju-ryu karate-do tradition. They are:
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
"Chew some aspirin and get over it"
Now every single person on the planet can tell me that there is nothing to worry about and that getting an uneasy feeling about an unset lineup is foolish but I'm not drinking that kool-aid. I understand that Mike Modano is (or was) a great talent but I can't see the logic in chancing our future over a player who MIGHT want to play and MIGHT want to play with the Wings. Call it cynical, Call it bratty, call it whatever you please but I'm not a fan of any prima donna moments coming from any player. After playing for 21 years in the NHL, I'm fairly confidant that Mike Modano knows what he's capable of and he knows if he can play still. Making the Wings and it's fans wait is borderline disrespectful and I understand that many people disagree with that. I've been around hockey for the better portion of my life and I know that 99 times out of 100 when I player is done, he knows it. Mike Modano shouldn't have to talk himself into playing if he's still capable.
This whole month has been turned into ModanOHHHHHHH-NOOOOO July and I'm rather over it. So while Mike sips on mai tais enjoying his summer... er... mulling over this difficult decision, I'll be chewing some aspirin.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
So Lebda is gone now...
My brain apparently went straight to all the tags we include Brett's name to on twitter.
Once we knew Brett was going to Toronto the tag of MapleLebda appeared. LOLebda and LebdAreYouSerious were the emotions to describe the $2.9 million dollar contract.
As far as alcohol related things go you have your SoberLebdas and your DrunkLebdas (or LebDrunks if you will).
HappyLebda SadLebda MadLebda CheerfuLebda ShockedLebda AngryLebda WorriedLebda TiredLebda JeaLebda are all emotions that you experience in the Lebdaverse
Or you could take a scenic trip to the LebdaZoo to see the LebAnimals
BuffaLebda LebDove LebDog LebRAAGHDoodle LebFrog LebdaGorilla Lebdolphin LebCat LebFish LebdaTurtle LebdaStallion Lebdangaroo LebdaGoat SeahorseLebda GiraffeLebda LebdaHawk LebDingo LebDragon LebDalmatian
and the elusive DinoLebda (very hard to find but I managed to get a picture)
Although Brett wasn't the best player on the Red Wings, He will be missed (at least in some capacity).
Now I believe we should take the rest of the summer to figure out who will be the next "Red Wing Brunt of all Jokes"
Monday, July 5, 2010
Goodbye to the Greatest NHL Fighter
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you I have been changed for good
Bob Probert was a character in stories of hockey's good ole' days. A fearless fighter who accepted any challenge to a fight, dropped the gloves at a moments notice, and pummeled opponents into submission. He will be remembered the most as one of the greatest players to ever drop the gloves.
Through the trials and tribulations of Bob Probert's life, most of us wanted to see him succeed. Not just succeed in hockey, but succeed in life.
Thoughts and Prayers go out to the Probert Family in this their time of mourning.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Equal Rights To The Hall
Who are Angela James and Cammi Granato and what are they doing in the Hall of Fame?
Lindros, Mogilny, and Bure are all more worthy than those two.
I'm sorry but the Hall of Fame should be mainly what you did for hockey in general, and hockey in general is predominately a MEN'S game. Most people don't even know who these two are.
They deserve recognition, but not HHOF recognition.
So then have a Women's Hockey Hall of Fame if women's hockey is it's own separate sport.
To take them over Bure, Gilmour, Nieuwendyk, Andreychuk,Oates, hell, even Lindros, is ridiculous.
I have no problem with women in the Hall, but make it a separate category, like the builders.
How long before we run out of "great women" and Mrs Howe gets in?
I have never gotten this fired up reading a message board before. Throw your equal rights out ladies, We're going back to when we're only wanted in the kitchen apparently. I understand that there are players that didn't make the cut this year that some people feel should have. But that's quite a bold statement to say that not only should Women's Hockey Players not be treated as equals on the ice, they shouldn't be treated as equals in the hall either.
What do you call a woman playing hockey? A HOCKEY PLAYER. So to say that they should be moved into their own category, segregated if you will, is totally jank. "But... But... But... Hockey is a Men's game and.... No girls play it... Ever" Fat chance people. I've seen some women play that are better than some NHL/AHL players and if they were men they would have their place on a team without a doubt.
It is called the Hockey Hall of Fame. Contrary to popular belief it's not called the "Only NHL, No Girls Allowed, Only People We Want To See In There-Hall Of Fame". Angela James and Cammi Granato have contributed to the SPORT of HOCKEY. No, they didn't contribute the NHL. But then again, Women aren't exactly welcomed into the NHL with open arms. They must be worried that we might break a nail or must our hair or something.
"Yes, Women and Women in Hockey belong in the Hall… BUT not before this guy, that guy, and the other guy". When exactly SHOULD women have been allowed in the HHOF? A new "great" player retires every year. Thus, every year there is a "great" player eligible to go into the hall. If the Hall of Fame selection committee had followed the "better than the ladies" concept, Cammi and Angela might have gone in with the 2027 Hall of Fame Class. Oh wait, Crosby might be in that class... So that would have been a no go as well.
Cammi Granato earned 20 gold or silver medals playing hockey representing the United States in her 15 year career. She along with Geraldine Heaney and Angela James were inducted as the first women in the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame. Granato also became the first women inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009. She is the only women to have won Lester Patrick Trophy individually as well as with the 1998 U.S. Women's Hockey Team. Angela James has earned seven gold medals representing Canada in Ice Hockey and an additional two medals (gold and silver) in Roller Hockey. She is a member of the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, the Black hockey and sports hall of fame, and the Canadian sports hall of fame. In 2009, the city of North York changed the name of the Flemingdon Arena to the Angela James Arena. Both players, though retired from their playing careers, remain advocates for the sport of hockey. These ladies are two of the most decorated female hockey players in the world. They deserved to be recognized for it.


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- The East Jefferson General Hospital board of directors was meeting in private Monday morning, in advance of the Jefferson Parish Council's plan to select an outside company to lease and operate East Jefferson General and West Jefferson Medical Center. Take a reader poll on the issue.
- One factor in the hospitals lease debate is money. Another is public control, as Ben Myers explains.
- The Jefferson Board of Zoning Adjustments meets Monday at 4 p.m. in Gretna. The agenda includes nine cases from Metairie, three from Harvey and one each from Marrero and River Ridge.
- Kenner will host a round of public forums this month to gather input toward the city's new comprehensive land use plan. The first is Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
- Two Harahan City Council members are moving ahead with hiring a lawyer to advise the council on the Colonial Golf and Country Club rezoning. But they're clashing with Mayor Vinny Mosca, who wants to be in on interviews.
- The Westwego City Council gathers Monday night to consider regulating airboat swamp tour businesses. The latest proposal follows a string of discussions that began in July, when an airboat business owner asked for a permit to open shop in Westwego, leading city officials to confirm and later lift a 2005 moratorium on such operations.
More on hospitals lease, zoning, land use, Harahan, Westwego: Jefferson Parish politics links
East Jefferson General Hospital, left, and West Jefferson Medical Center, right, would be leased to private operators under a proposal that the Jefferson Parish Council will consider Thursday. (The Times-Picayune archive)


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PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- A federal grant program could help the Jackson County Port Authority tap into a new line of business, leaders said Tuesday after hiring a company to prepare its funding application.
The Jackson County Port Authority is seeking $20 million to $30 million in federal stimulus funds to develop a marine terminal on the old grain elevator site in Pascagoula.
The terminal would be fully intermodal, with truck, rail and ship access, and would help the port open up business to new and different types of ships, said Port Director Mark McAndrews.
The project represents "a segment of the maritime industry that in this country hasn't been tapped much," he said. "It would increase the number and capabilities of our facility."
In May, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced $1.5 billion in discretionary grants for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program (TIGER).
The TIGER grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to projects that can create jobs and benefit economically distressed areas, the department said at the time.
The grants can range from $20 million up to $300 million to support high impact transportation projects, and applications are due Sept. 15.
With the application deadline quickly approaching, the JCPA Board of Commissioners agreed Tuesday to hire Celtic Logistics to research the grant and prepare the complex application.
McAndrews called it a "long shot," because the port will be competing with multiple bridge, port and railroad projects, but said he was encouraged by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's admission that seaport projects would have some priority.
Also at Tuesday's port board meeting, commissioners agreed to ask the Jackson County Board of Supervisors to approve the borrowing of up to $25 million in Mississippi Development Bank bonds to upgrade and expand the county's industrial water supply system.
That decision will go before supervisors at their Sept. 14 meeting.
The industrial system takes in water from the Cumbest Bluff area, transports it to Kreole for treatment and then sends it to industrial sites such as Chevron for fire protection and other uses, McAndrews said.
The system transports and treats 30 million gallons of water per day.
The upgrade would not increase that capacity, he said, but rather provide new filters, a new distribution pipeline and flood protection for the system.


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Live Weapons
War Point
War point will consist of three opportunities to throw and stick from three different distances. 1 pt for each stick. Most sticks will get the war point! Come on out to support your kingdom!
Range Marshal
The Marshal's word is LAW. While Live Weapons are fun to throw, they can be very dangerous! Therefore, for everyone's safety, all of the Marshal's decisions are to be obeyed and failure to do so will result in disqualification from the Live Weapon Competition. The Marshal's rulings about scoring, safety and use of weapons are final.
The War Point Competition will be Knife, Axe and 8' Spear ONLY.
* Knife
Wednesday (1-4 pm): The Freya's Throw, Will be sponsored by Thor's Mountain. This is an all Ladies Throw Tourney. Bring your Axes, Knives and Spears and join the fun.
Range Safety
All live weapons are dangerous and can injure or kill a person. During the Middle Ages that was the whole point of learning to throw a weapon, but today WE DO NOT WANT ANY INJURIES FROM LIVE WEAPONS! Treat each weapon with the respect that it deserves! The Marshall's are very serious about safety and anyone, regardless of rank or title, will be disqualified from the Live Weapon Competition and asked to leave the range, for unsafe behavior.


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Miller Symphony Hall in Allentown has announced its event schedule for the upcoming 2014-2015 season.
This season features events from orchestras and ballets to cabaret and dance companies.
The following list highlights a few of the upcoming events:
Dave Roper Trio - 7: 30 p.m., Friday, June 13
- After 55 years, jazz pianist Dave Roper continues to entertain the Lehigh Valley. He is returning to the Rodale Room with his trio to perform a mix of jazz and classical music.
Tickets: $25 general admission and $10 student
The Enchanted Island - 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 16
- The English renditions of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are back for another season after a successful 2011-12 season.
Tickets: $17 adult, $15 senior and $10 student
Turtle Island Quartet with Nellie McKay: A Flower is a Lovesome Thing - 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28
- Two-time Grammy award winner Turtle Island Quartet teams up with actor, singer/songwriter and musician Nellie McKay to perform music of Billie Holiday and other musicians of the 1920s.
- Tickets: $30 general admission and $10 for students
A new addition for the summer season is the renovation of the balcony and its seating. The new seating area will have wider seats and aisles, more comfortable chairs, better lighting and safety rails, according to a news release. A sample seat will be available in the lobby for guests to view.
For a complete list of events at the Miller Symphony Hall follow this link.


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Name: Jason Jordan
Email address: jason (at) metal-observer.com
Function: Reviewer
Compatible styles: Black, Death and Grind
Incompatible styles: Power
Thoughts on the main Metal genres:
Black Metal: This sub-genre is easily one of my favourites and is what drew me to Metal in the first place. I love the extreme vocals, but subpar production is my least favourite thing about it. If a band writes quality songs (i.e. DARKTHRONE), though, then the production isn't such a problem.
Death Metal: Again, this sub-genre is another one of my faves. I like everything from brutal, to melodic, to anything else.
Thrash Metal: I've never been much of a fan of this style either. Don't know why, but I've had a tough time encountering groups that dabble in this particular paradigm.
Power Metal: This is the only Metal sub-genre that I can say I consistently don't like. The operatic vocals, though they require skill, turn me off and Power Metal has gotten so formulaic as of late. The genre does have its share of diamonds in the rough: ICED EARTH, JAG PANZER, et cetera.
Doom Metal: This is something I've never really gotten into. I can appreciate Doomsters like MY DYING BRIDE and such but – at the end of the day – I'll rarely listen to them. Sometimes, Doom Metal is just too damn slow.
Progressive Metal: For a while, this was my favourite sub-genre and I'd bask in albums from DREAM THEATER and SYMPHONY X. Somewhere along the line, I lost interest in it. I still drool over music with progressive tendencies such as records from QUO VADIS, ALARUM and CYNIC, however.
Gothic Metal: I like a few bands from other styles of Metal, but they're few and far between. I stick to mostly Black and Death and occasionally let technical stuff sneak in my CD player.
Heavy/Melodic Metal: I like a few bands from other styles of Metal, but they're few and far between. I stick to mostly Black and Death and occasionally let technical stuff sneak in my CD player.
Nicknames: circus_brimstone
Time at TMO: March 2005
How came to TMO: Alex approached me after he read a lot of my work at Ultimatemetal and Scandinavian Metal.
The best thing as a TMO writer: Meeting new people who like Metal as much, if not more, than I do. Oh yeah, the free CD's is a nice perk also. J
The worst thing as a TMO writer: Some of said free CD's can be pretty awful. L
Birth town:
Present location:
Job: Student
Languages: English of course and bastardized Spanish
Hobbies: Writing, reading and almost anything related to music
Pet peeves: A lot of stuff not worth mentioning here!
Phobia(s): None really, although I don't like flying or looking over the edge of a skyscraper
I, about myself: Hope to graduate in Spring of 2006 with an undergraduate degree in English with a writing concentration. From then on, I want to teach college writing while writing on the side. I write all sorts of things from reviews, to fiction, to nonfiction, to poetry.
Describe yourself in 5 words: Honest, loyal, dependable and avant-garde
Funny childhood story: I once told my younger brother (he was five; I was eight) to take a shit in our backyard and he did. He got in trouble both with the babysitter and our parents.
How I came into Heavy Metal: I was first exposed to TOURNIQUET and DREAM THEATER back in the mid-nineties. After that, I gobbled up what I could find and became much more sophisticated – in my musical tastes – later on.
First Metal CD ever bought: TOURNIQUET's "Stop The Bleeding." I still own three versions of it (cassette tape, original CD and re-release CD).
Most embarrassing CD in your collection: Any and all Screamo. I like it, though. J
First Metal concert: LIVING SACRIFICE?
What did Metal teach me about life: There are a lot of people out there who are hardworking and value art above all. Metal can also be a perfect encapsulation of emotion – positive or negative.
Favourite music listening place and why? I prefer my car to anyone place else, because I can drum along on my steering wheel.
Most prized Metal possession? Well, I suppose the entire OPETH discography – sans "
Band & previous band experiences: None too serious
Instrumental talents: I play drums and can fiddle around with the guitar.
Favourite bands: ARCTURUS, DARKTHRONE, EMPEROR, EXTOL, ISIS, KATATONIA, MAUDLIN OF THE WELL, NOVEMBRE, OPETH, SOLEFALD, STARFLYER 59, TOURNIQUET, UNDEROATH and ZAO
Least favourite bands: Nu-Metal bands
Sound you'd like to have banned: I think we need to put a cap on the Metalcore sub-genre. We've got enough of that already!
Most overrated bands: CRADLE OF FILTH and DIMMU BORGIR. I like both anyway, but…
Most underrated bands: EXTOL and ZAO
Most influential band: EXTOL / OPETH
Favourite musician: Hellhammer (MAYHEM, ARCTURUS, AGE OF SILENCE, WINDS, ANTESTOR, ex-THE KOVENANT)
Favourite album cover: Anything by EXTOL, OPETH and Travis Smith.
10 favourite albums: (with reasons for each album)
Age Of Silence – Acceleration
This was my favourite album of 2004 and just blew me away. The musicianship is top-notch, as is everything else. I imagine I'll be listening to this for many years to come.
Dream Theater – Awake
This had a significant impact on me back in my formidable years. I'm still astonished at the level of technicality that the band possesses. This was my favourite line-up too!
Emperor – Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
I love EMPEROR and "IX Equilibrium" was essentially my first exposure to Black Metal. "Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk" is arguably the finest in their catalogue.
Extol – Undeceived
EXTOL is one of my favourite bands and "Undeceived" proves that the band was unparalleled at the time. It's Progressive Death Metal at its peak.
Isis – Panopticon
The group carries a lot of clout and I think "Panopticon" is not only their best, but it's destined to become a classic that the Metal canon will subscribe to.
Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down
The KATATONIA discography is rich in quality, but the aforementioned album is lush with melody and troubled beauty.
Maudlin Of The Well – Leaving Your Body Map
I'm a sucker for the experimental and "Leaving Your Body Map" is what happens when a group funnels all their efforts to compose a masterpiece. I am still absolutely stunned by the juxtaposition between the heavy vocals and soft music.
Opeth –
I'm still up in arms about which OPETH release is the best. But, it's difficult to pick anything other than "
Tourniquet – Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
This was the best that TOURNIQUET had to offer. "Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance" runs rampant with Thrashy riffs, incredible drumming and medical-related lyrics and imagery.
Zao – Liberate Te Ex Inferis (Save Yourself From Hell)
American Metallers ZAO have toiled without really catching any big breaks. This album is exceptionally brooding and perhaps captures their pessimism to a tee.
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Favourite books: My favourite authors are Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Russo. I also enjoy Stephen King, the Barthelme brothers, Al Burian and Jack Kerouac.
Favourite food: Pizza rocks.
Favourite drink: Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum and Jägermeister
Favourite smokes: Not a smoker.
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Idol (s): Good writers.
Person you'd like to meet: It's definitely a tie between Jesus Christ and Satan.
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Biggest thrill in life (so far): Reading my work in public is actually pretty thrilling.
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In LSU's 41-24 AT&T Cotton Bowl victory against Texas A&M, Mathieu earned defensive MVP honors after recording seven tackles, a sack, an interception and a forced and recovered fumble. The two turnovers came in the fourth quarter to snuff out any chance the Aggies had of staging a rally.


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Yes, I am a sucker for the occasional bench-clearing ball. However, with toughness, just simply throwing punches at the opposing team is not what I am referring to. I also do not think Jeff Wilpon was referring to that either. "Toughness" is very much apart of a team's makeup and I am having trouble finding the last group of recent Met players that I would categorize as a "tough" team. Toughness goes beyond being able to hold your own in a baseball melee. It is however, about backing up your teammates, if in fact an opposing player attempts to send a message or, even worse, tries to intentionally hurt a member of your team. After all, isn't that what being part of a team is about?
Gone are the days of the tough and scrappy 80's Mets teams. You remember...the ones who treated a series against Rod Dibble and the Cincinnati Reds as one that resembled a pro wrestling battle royal instead of a 3-game baseball series. Yes, those Met teams were tough. Those Met teams were scrappy. But again, "tough" by team standards, is not just about knowing how to handle yourself physically, as much as it is about standing up for someone who shares both your uniform and your common goal. That is what those late 80's Mets teams had. That is baseball-toughness.
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In 1872, author Jules Verne's eccentric inventor Phileas Fogg -- on a bet -- conjured up the secret of flight and traveled around the world in 80 days. But he had nothing on the visual effects wizards who, in 2004, helped actors Steve Coogan (Fogg), Jackie Chan (sidekick Passepartout) and Cecile de France (Monique) cross the Atlantic in a digital paddle steamer and jury-rigged flying machine -- without setting foot in either.
The first Around the World in 80 Days film was made in 1914 and since then, the book has been revisited through at least four more features, a mini-series, an animated film and numerous knock-offs including The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963).
For the new Buena Vista version, visual effects supervisor Derek Spears masterminded 400 shots, 80 of which were created at Rhythm & Hues. Among the company's effects were the sail-powered paddle steamer boat and a pedal-powered flying machine that transport Fogg and crew on the final leg of their journey.
Rhythm & Hues modelers built the digital boat in Maya, referencing photographs of a practical half-boat used on location in Thailand. To age it, they relied on displacement maps. Animation was accomplished with the studio's proprietary VooDoo software, lighting with Side Effects Software's vMantra and rendering with the in-house Ren software.
The tricky part of the illusion was putting the boat in water. In Thailand, the crew shot background plates of a Thai tug chugging through the ocean to simulate the paddle boat's journey across the Atlantic. The tug's movement was later applied to the CG boat. "The plate gave us a wake and a good position for where the boat was supposed to be in the water," Spears said. The waterline was assembled from CG water created in Side Effects Software's Houdini using Martian Tools' Hydrous. "Integrating the boat into the water and adding the waterline took endless hours of slaving on an Inferno. It was a lot of tedious hand work."
The boat not only sailed through the water, it paddled, so the effects crew needed to move CG water through the paddlewheel. "We used a particle system, but particles look like dots," said Spears. "The tricky part of water is getting sheeting action. Particles try to stay local to one another, so it was hard to get them to not look like rain. We used smoothing techniques to stick the particles together so they'd look like streams of water coming off the wheel." Rendering techniques in vMantra helped turn some of the particles into a foamy spray as the wheel churned through the water.
To complete the illusion, Rhythm & Hues populated the boat with digital characters that walked, climbed ladders, and pulled on ropes, using animation cycles created from motion capture data altered by animators. Variations among the people on deck were created with texture maps; the actors were simulated using still photos taken on set. All the people were parented to the boat so as it rocked and rolled -- to match the movement of the tugboat tracked from the plate -- the digital people stayed firmly aboard.
With digital people, digital water streaming through the paddle wheel, digital sails with a bit of cloth simulation on them, and the boat moving through water that was, in part, digital, rendering with global illumination became impossible. "We tried to render the whole thing together, but it was too expensive," said Spears. "Instead, we had rings of lights follow the CG actors around. If they walked over a white part of the deck, white light would reflect on them. We also used ambient diffusion to get soft shadows, and ray tracing for the wet areas."
When Fogg, Monique, and Passepartout realize that they are not going to make it across the Atlantic in the boat in time to win the bet, they use pieces of the boat to build a pedal-powered flying machine. Fogg drives, Monique sits behind him, and Passepartout pedals. "Most of the flying machine shots were completely synthetic," said Spears, "although some have live-action backgrounds."
Working from Lidar laser scans of the practical flying machine, Rhythm & Hues built a digital equivalent and then staffed it with digital doubles of the actors. Because in one shot the characters are almost full frame, their faces were rendered with subsurface scattering techniques to add transparency to the flesh, and animated by hand using reference photos shot on set. The background sky was a matte painting enhanced with an occasional CG cloud formed by in-house volumetric tools. The water was practical unless camera moves made that impractical -- in which case the crew simulated water, again using Houdini and Hydrous.
Near the finish line at the Royal Academy of Science square in England, the CG plane flies into a practical set actually filmed in Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt. Waiting to cheer the intrepid travelers' homecoming after their remarkable journey are thousands of people moving, as on the boat, according to animation cycles from motion capture data. In these shots, the direction that the digital people moved was controlled by crowd simulation software, Softimage|Behavior. "The people are reasonably small, but they cover the screen," said Spears. "There are thousands of them running into the square from edge to edge."
Some of the shots in the sequence were greenscreen composites of the practical flying machine filmed on stage. "We used background plates shot in London that we had to change to match the period," Spears said. "We tracked in 2D paintings of buildings from other plates. London looks period from the ground, but when you look sideways, you see the modern buildings because they tend to be taller."
Re-creating Jules Verne's Victorian-age scientific fantasy on film for the illusion-savvy moviegoers of 2004 required tools and techniques that a Victorian scientist could hardly imagine.
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