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Borough Councilman Millard Rooks called for fellow Councilman Louis Cartabona's resignation Tuesday, two weeks after a minor dust-up between Cartabona and another elected official.
During Tuesday's council meeting, Rooks asked for Cartabona to resign, arguing that a physical fight between Councilman Harry Zikas Jr. and Cartabona after council's Jan. 28 meeting violated the Alpha municipal handbook.
Rooks' motion died without support, and council took no action.
A heated discussion ensued between Rooks and Cartabona over whether the fight is a court issue or a municipal matter. Zikas has filed a complaint with police and Cartabona said he's in the process of filing his own harassment complaint.
Cartabona said officials should wait for the courts to weigh in before making any kind of decision.
"My view of the whole situation is that maybe the courts would want Councilman Zikas to resign," he said. "Why wouldn't you wait until the courts have a say in this before you make such an absurd recommendation?"Reached by phone Wednesday, Cartabona said he planned to file his own municipal court complaint but couldn't do so immediately because the court clerk was out of the office Wednesday. He tried to give Zikas an opportunity to "take the high road" and withdraw his complaint so they could handle the matter in-house.
Zikas' complaint stands and he's still waiting for an apology, he said Wednesday.
Rooks insisted the matter is not a court issue but rather a municipal matter. A complaint filed with police has nothing to do with violating the municipal handbook as violating an in-house municipal rule isn't necessarily a criminal matter, he said.Rooks then made a motion that Cartabona be removed from council pending an investigation.
"I wish Councilman Rooks had come and asked me about my version of events," Cartabona said.
Reached by phone Wednesday, Rooks said he called for Cartabona's resignation based upon a conversation with Mayor Ed Hanics, a witness to the dust-up. Hanics said Wednesday he didn't want to comment on the ordeal.
Rooks said he believes Cartabona initiated physical contact in violation of a borough policy about harassment, violence and bullying. Borough officials should hold themselves to the same standard they hold employees, Rooks said.
"It is not something you can take back after the fact," Rooks said. "He clearly acted inappropriately, and thus, he needs to be removed from that position or resign if he will."
Cartabona said he felt threatened by Zikas during the ordeal. He didn't push Zikas to hurt him, only to get him out of his personal space, he said. Zikas said he wasn't intimidating Cartabona; he only wanted to get a question answered.
Cartabona said the call for his resignation was an effort by Rooks and Zikas to concentrate public attention on a "nonevent" rather than failed policies of Zikas' tenure.
"They don't know what to do with a guy who tells the truth and pushes for accountability, so they continue to masquerade around with their political theater instead of addressing the real issues that the governing body needs to address," he said.
Zikas also said Wednesday the affair is diverting officials' attention from more important problems.
"It's unfortunate that something like this had to occur and distract us from the real issues we need to face. We still have a budget to put away for this year," Zikas said. "There's other ways to handle a disagreement, and that's not by putting your hands on someone."
Councilman Michael Schwar asked attorney John Caleca, who was filling in for borough attorney Christopher Troxell, about whether this was a matter normally handled by a borough and whether it could be done by resolution.
There was some debate about whether the handbook applies to this situation as council members are not employees and are instead elected officials, who can be defeated in an election.
"I hate to put Mr. Caleca in this realm. He is not our legal attorney here," Hanics said. "I don't know if he is willing to even make a statement."
Schwar said he was hesitant to address the issue.
"I personally am not willing to second the motion until we have the legality straightened out," he said.
Reporter Sarah Peters contributed to this report.

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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Havoc coach Glenn Detulleo was "speechless." Goaltender Jesse Kallechy said "it's tough to put in words right now."
Indeed, the Huntsville Havoc pretty much defies description right now.
In fact, it defies belief.
The Havoc is one win away from winning the second Southern Professional Hockey League President's Cup in franchise history. Huntsville plays at Pensacola at 7:05 Sunday in the third game of the best-of-three championship series.
"We know it's going to take work (to win)," Detulleo said. "It's going to take 60 minutes."
The Havoc and Ice Flyers have split a 2-1 victories on home ice, with Pensacola winning late in overtime last Tuesday, the Havoc winning Friday when Justin Fox scored with 8.9 seconds remaining in regulation.
"It's hard to explain," Kallechy said. "We're a team that's hungry and we never give up."
The Heart Attack Havoc is 5-2 in postseason, four times going into overtime, winning two of those. Though Detulleo may have a calm appearance on the bench, he said he is "like a duck on the water. Calm on the top and feet are going 100 miles an hour."
Ironically, the 22-year-old Kallechy finished the 2011-12 season with the Ice Flyers and started this year in their camp.
He was acquired in a late-season trade from Knoxville and went 6-2-1 with a 1.86 goals-against average and a .931 save percentage in nine games.
However, he was cut in preseason, then signed by Louisiana in October, then waived Feb. 2 and picked up by Huntsville.
He was in a backup role to Dan McWhinney, who underwent an emergency appendectomy days before the playoffs opened.
"He's made saves he had to, plus the game-changing saves," Detulleo said of Kallechy. "Whenever we've had a breakdown, he's been there to make the big save."
Kallechy has made 279 saves in seven playoff games, with a 1.79 goals-against average. That's 112 more saves than Pensacola goalie Ross MacKinnon has made, though the Ice Flyers have played one fewer game; Friday's loss ended a 5-0 postseason run for Pensacola.
"There's pressure all the time, but this team wouldn't have been here without Dan McWhinney," Kallechy said. "He's a guy that I knew I couldn't come in and replace. I just wanted to give the guys a chance every single night. It's been a fun ride. Dan has been unbelievable helping me, letting me know what he sees."
With five of seven decided by one goal, you'd think Kallechy is working on an ulcer by now.
Instead, he said, "I've got the best job in the world. I get to play hockey and it's April and I'm in the best city in the SPHL. It's fun."


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When 8-year-old Tristan Wilcox Morseburg went to play near the skate park at Tillicum Park last week little did he know that just by being observant he was about to become a hero.
While playing in the park last Tuesday, Tristan and several other boys spoke with a man that was hanging out near them.
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When asked how he feels about his award Tristan said "I love it."
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That reform deserves to be a priority. With eight federal investigations of possible civil rights violations by NOPD officers under way -- including the shooting of unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge and a subsequent police cover-up -- the department clearly needs to focus on police misconduct. The decision to put the bureau under the control of a new civilian deputy superintendent is an indication of how the department's new leader plans to meet that objective.
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One of the most common errors I encounter, even among experienced players, is playing fast when the opponent is in time pressure (and you are not). It's very tempting to do so, and there are some advantages to playing quickly in those situations but, on the average, it's a big mistake, with a couple of clear exceptions. By the way, the following assumes you are playing a game with a small or zero increment or time delay. When your opponent has a large increment, then he's never in as severe time trouble as he could be in the zero/small case. Similarly, a sudden death time control, where the opponent has to make all his moves in a specific amount of time, would be more applicable than one where the opponent only has to make a few moves to make time control (but even here I've seen players erroneously playing fast).
The logic behind playing fast when the opponent is in time trouble is seemingly compelling: by playing quickly you don't give the opponent, who is short on time, the advantage of thinking on your time to find reasonable moves. Making this even more enticing is the logic that you have the time "in reserve" so that, although you are playing quickly too, you can slow down any time you want or need to, while the opponent never can. Seems like a great idea, no? No!
There are multiple problems with this approach which more than outweigh the logic to play quickly with the opponent in time pressure, both theoretical and practical.
The practical is just circumstantial evidence, but I have a lot of personal: I have seen players play unnecessarily quickly in their opponent's time trouble hundreds of times and it very rarely works. For each game where it helped the player win, I have seen many where it hurt them badly. Moreover, even the games where it did help them win might likely have been won anyway if they had played more deliberately. The balance: as I expected, it just doesn't work very well in practice.
The theoretical reasons for playing slowly are strong. One main reason is that you can't think nearly as efficiently on your opponent's time if you don't know what they are going to do. Even though your playing slowly somewhat helps the time trouble player compared to his not thinking at all if you play quickly, he can't use the time very well guessing at your move. For example, if you have several reasonable candidates, you can concentrate on the one(s) that you are likely to play, while the opponent has to guess and spend time on all the possible moves, or if he guesses and concentrates on one or two he could miss badly. The extra time is a big advantage for you in trying to figure out the necessary analysis on the move you are actually going to play - only you know what that is. Moreover, you don't know the opponent is guessing what move you are going to play and analyzing it clearly - he could just be panicking and waiting to see what you do(!) In that case, moving quickly is a double disaster, as you could have used your time wisely and he would not have at used it much at all!
But even if we assume the opponent is thinking on your time, and even if he happens to guess it correctly sometimes, you still get to think as long as you want as to how to refute his move, but if you move quickly you are greatly minimizing that opportunity. Remember, both sides are trying to refute the others' move and his time trouble, even in the odd moment he is guessing well, can often create moves that you might be able to refute with a little thought. Don't get caught up thinking that by moving fast you are just helping prevent him from refuting your moves; you are also greatly lowering your chances of refuting his.
The bottom line is that any player moving quickly on the opponent's time is actually giving the opponent a big handicap that negates that player's time advantage. It's a big advantage to have a lot more time, but not if you don't use it.
As I mentioned earlier, there are exceptions: two clear cases where making a move (or moves) quickly when your opponent is in time pressure is very wise.
The first is if you have a forced move, or a move that you can quickly calculate is clearly best. If you are sure about your move, then your opponent can likely be sure also, and playing too slowly on that move allows the opponent to assume your move with almost perfect efficiency, giving him more time to calculate a good reply than he could if you had made it once you realized it was clearly best or forced. Just because your move is clearly best does not mean the reply to it is easy, so giving the opponent more time to find such a reply is clearly illogical.
The other time playing quickly in the opponent's time trouble even though you have lots of time is if your position is otherwise resignable, but you are playing on only due to the shortness of the opponent's time. When your position is resignable, a random game is much more helpful to the player who is losing. Allowing your opponent to think in such a good position, even inefficiently on your time, will allow him a greater probability of finding at least safe, reasonable moves, which is all he needs. Although your chances of blundering skyrocket when you play fast too, the risk-reward ratio swings greatly in your favor since you are lost anyway, and it is the opponent that has everything to lose when both players move quickly. So, if you are playing on instead of resigning when the opponent is short on time, stop keeping score (if OTB, when you are allowed to stop keeping score when either side has less than 5 minutes left), and blitz out the remainder of the game. You've got little to lose.
But otherwise, when you have a big time advantage and the opponent is short on time, use your advantage wisely. If you don't believe me, set up a long series of games with a friend rated near your level with 20-2 odds (no increment) and see if taking almost all your 20 minutes is more helpful than also taking 2 and leaving yourself about 18 (or slightly fewer) minutes each game.
PS: in today's Chessbase.com annotations to the Ivanchuk-Aronian game in the 3rd round of the London 2013 Candidates, it states:
"31.c4 At this point, the times left for both players were five SECONDS for White, and 40 minutes for Black. Rb6 In blitz and bullet games it is not unheard of to play nonsense moves to simply kill the opponent's time, and this rook sacrifice might seem like that, but it is actually the best move, and Aronian spent nearly five minutes before playing it. "
Note the annotator said in blitz and bullet games it is not unheard of to play nonsense (fast) moves, not serious games. And, despite Ivanchuk only having 5 seconds left to make 10 moves, his opponent, Aronian, properly played slowly and took 5 minutes for his move!
PPS: In round 4 of the Candidates Grischuk got in time trouble against Carlsen. But on most moves, Carlsen took his time (and won), which made sense since on most moves he had several intriguing alternatives. In Susan Polgar's blog, the Pete Doggers' report on this game noted "It was just impossible to reach the time control without making mistakes, and Carlsen profited from these mistakes by not paying attention to his opponent's time trouble too much."
BTW, I have seen strong players take fpawn's suggestion about "storing" 2-4 moves (see his interesting comment) with success. It's not so easy, and perhaps a little dangerous, for inexperienced players to try Michael's suggestion, but it does have some advantages if you are very careful in attempting to do so. Thanks for the comment, Michael! Always glad to hear from you.
Against Grischuk Carlsen showed how to play when opponent intentionally gets into a time trouble. That game should be always annotated with remaining time for both players.
Interesting, I agree totally
Excellent advice!
Another good reason NOT to play too quickly when the opponent is short on time is that it just gives away your advantage. There are no extra points or prizes awarded for ending a game with extra time on your clock. If you don't use your time, you are letting the opponent put YOU in time trouble, too!
Aronian was right to do it. As Chucky is a head case and absolutely brilliant calculator. Best to mess with his head.
If possible, try to calculate 2, 3 or 4 moves ahead. Take your time and double check all of your moves. Then bang out your prepared line quickly. Your opponent will probably be ready for your first move, but when you immediately play your second and third, chances are that he can't keep up. Caveat: If opponent makes a response that you didn't expect, you will need to stop to think.
I wonder if Aronian is reading this! :-)
I lost my first round game in the recently concluded Amateur Team North because I played too quickly when my opponent was in severe time trouble, costing my the draw (He had 30 seconds with 5 second delay, and I had about a minute and a half and I played a move purely because I thought I could flag him with it, needless to say it was a horrible practical and objective mistake).
One idea I have always found helpful when my opponent is in time trouble and I am not, in addition to playing thoughtfully, is to select the more complex line when given a choice. It gives the time short opponent a bigger opportunity to make a mistake.
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The college football website Saturday Blitz recently took a look at the Syracuse Orange's prospects for the upcoming season, with the focus on SU's defense and whether or not it can reverse the struggles the unit had last season.
Writer Kyle Kensing notes that Syracuse allowed almost 10 more points per game last season than it did in 2010, when the defense ranked among the top 20 in the nation in that stat. One of the main reasons was a pass defense that went from seventh in the nation in passing yards per game (165.3 in 2010) to 98th (258.3) last season.
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Head coach Doug Marrone addressed his team's secondary issues with the hire of new defensive backs coach Donnie Henderson. He joins coordinator Scott Shafer's efforts to improve SU on that side of the ball, but they will have to do so without the most productive member of last year's secondary. Free safety Phillip Thomas led the Orange in both tackles (82) and interceptions (six). His departure leaves a significant void in an already depleted unit.
That leaves even more of the burden on an experienced front seven. Linebackers Dan Vaughan, Marquis Spruill and Dyshawn Davis combined for 177 tackles (25.5 for loss) and eight sacks. Cameron Lynch was another big contributor at linebacker with a pair of sacks and 35 tackles. Cause for optimism for the program's long term outlook is that all but Vaughan will retain eligibility at season's end.
Kensing noted that the departure of first-round NFL Draft pick Chandler Jones is the unit's biggest loss, but returnees Jay Bromley, Deon Goggins and Brandon Sharpe could soften the blow to the defensive line.
SU will have to rely on their ability to collapse opposing pockets before receivers can (complete) their routes. Otherwise, there could be a lot of scenes with defensive backs two or three steps behind a receiving galloping down the sideline.
Read the full report: Big East Week: One big question for Syracuse, how will Orange defense change?
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The increased police presence is the first part of "Operation Protect Our Children," which Mayor Gary Starr launched in response to the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
Starr conferred with Safety Director Sandra Kerber and Police Chief John Maddox over the weekend to develop the plan. He also plans to work with the cities of Berea and Brook Park and Superintendent Michael Sheppard to study the district's security plans.
The Middleburg program will "significantly increase police patrols and protection" on a permanent basis at Big Creek Elementary School, the Academy of St. Bartholomew, Midpark High School and Polaris Career Center. However, the specific details of the plan will not be revealed for safety reasons, Starr said.
He said the city can manage the increased patrols with its existing staffing, so the program will not create any additional cost.
The second phase will focus on weaponry and protective gear, including equipping each police vehicle with police assault rifles in addition to the existing handguns. The rifles were already planned prior to Dec. 14, he said.
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He called the assault on children in Connecticut a "horrendous and unspeakable crime."
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A meeting will also take place in January with Sheppard and the mayors, police chiefs and safety directors of the three cities in the Berea school district, along with representatives from St. Bartholomew Academy and Polaris. The group will discuss further evaluations of the buildings and safety plans, and how to coordinate safety efforts.
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Superintendent Michael Sheppard said the district always had and will continue to work with all its cities regarding safety in the schools. He said the district has "great" working relations with the cities and their police and fire chiefs who are on the district's Safety and Security Committee.
He said he looks at Middleburg Heights' program as an additional resource for the schools. "We just have wonderful people who work in our school district," Sheppard said. "They care deeply about the children and students that come to school every day in every one of our schools."
Berea Mayor Cyril M. Kleem said the three mayors and school district had already talked about meeting as the district consolidates next year. He said Berea High School has a School Resource Office that has police, school, security and counseling training. The officer visits other public and private schools in the city.
"We, as a group, want to determine the best way to appropriately meet the school district's needs," Kleem said. "We want to look at this from A to Z to make sure all bases are covered."
SunNews reporters Joanne Berger DuMound and Chris Mosby contributed to this story.
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This past weekend was a busy one. The Emerica signing at Active Ride Shop in Temecula, California was insane. Emerica pros Heath Kirchart, Kevin "Spanky" Long, Bryan Herman, Leo Romero, Austin Stephens and am Brandon Westgate signed posters for two hours straight. Thanks to everyone who came out to meet the team, and to Active for having us!
The Damn Am contest also took place over the weekend at the Volcom warehouse in Costa Mesa, California. 178 ams showed up to skate. The qualifier heats were on Friday and Saturday. Emerica ams Braydon Szafranski and Brandon Westgate skated on Friday and am Matt Allen skated on Saturday.
European Emerica rider Maxime Genin quailifed in 2nd place on Friday after some amazing runs. Canadian Emerica rider Antoine Asselin ripped all weekend long and ended up in 5th place overall.
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No one likes red tape, especially when bureaucratic rules and requirements throw a whole wrench into the works. But there are times when you should just give up and not try to fight the power. Take this couple from Egypt who were traveling with their 5-month-old son: they should have just followed protocol, but instead they did something very stupid. They stuffed their baby in a bag and put him through the airport's x-ray machine.
What led them to do something so idiotic?
According to the Gulf News, the family arrived at the Sharjah International Airport in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday morning but did not have a visa for their baby. Customs officials told them they would have to wait until the next day to clear that matter up. Instead, the couple took a piece of their carry-on luggage, put their baby inside, zipped the bag up and put it through the x-ray machine at security. Of course, the screener saw that there was a baby inside and the couple got busted.
Not only was it a dumb move to think that their baby would go through customs undetected, but putting him through the x-ray machine is a big no-no in itself. "This machine is very dangerous for anyone, let alone a baby in a bag to pass through," a police official said. The couple was arrested on charges of child endangerment and "infiltration."
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It has been a record setting year for Bears football and we are so glad we had so many wonderful people to enjoy it with us.
The looks on the boys' faces when the parents and cheerleaders gave us the "send off" for the last playoff game was priceless and the players and coaches will never forget it. From the school clap-offs to the middle school staff and students cheering us through the parking lot, it has truly been a special season.
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While this could certainly be a great chance to further my writing career, I can't help but think the question should have a New Jersey connection to make it unique from the same questions NASCAR's most popular driver answers on a daily basis. For this reason I am turning to you, the race fans of the Garden State, for some suggestions.
I have thought about asking him something in reference to Martin Truex Jr. Perhaps, what does he think would have happened to DEI had his father not passed away? Would he and Truex be teammates today? Does he still spend any time with Martin away from the track?
I also know throughout the years there have been several other Jersey connections to Dale Jr. such as employees, and crew members. Maybe one of my readers knows one of these people, and can provide me with some details for a question.
Maybe I should ask him if he has ever been to the Jersey Shore. How about the possibility of a NASCAR Sprint Cup race ever happening in New Jersey sometime in the future? We do have a road course that ARCA races on in South Jersey, and there are plans to build a 3/4 mile oval speedway there in the future.
Would he ever consider attending the annual Turkey Derby held at Wall Stadium Speedway every Thanksgiving weekend? How about the Indoor Races in Atlantic City? Before you dismiss this consider that names like Kenny Schrader, Ray Evernham, Johnny Benson, and even 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart have visited the Garden State for one of these two events.
While I am on the subject of Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Diet Mountain Dew, I have to tell you they sent me a sample of what fans get when they sign up to be part of the "Dew Crew." The package included a nice hat, drink holder, and a mesh bag, all in the Diet Mountain Dew, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. colors. All of it is free just for signing up, so if you are either a Diet Mountain Dew or Dale Jr. fan I highly recommend it. The easiest way to do this would be go to Diet Mountain Dew's Facebook page.
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We used NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery, biomass density maps, fuel consumption estimates, and a carbon emission factor to estimate the total carbon (C) emissions from the spring 1998 fires in tropical Mexico. All eight states in southeast Mexico were affected by the wildfires, although the activity was concentrated near the common border of Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Veracruz. The fires burned approximately 482,000 ha and the land use/land cover classes most extensively impacted were the tall/medium selvas (tropical evergreen forests), open/fragmented forests, and perturbed areas. The total prompt emissions were 4.6 TgC during the two-month period of our study, contributing an additional 24% to the region's average annual net C emissions from forestry and land-use change. Mexico in 1998 experienced its driest spring since 1941, setting the stage for the widespread burning. If fire episodes such as the one that occurred in Mexico and around the world become the norm due to warmer and drier conditions, then an increase in C emissions may represent a significant positive feedback to global climate change.
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Syracuse, NY -- There is no single way to stop Syracuse's growing gun violence, the group sitting this afternoon in the parlor of Charles Garland's funeral home agreed.
Family, church, community -- all must exert their own influences to keep young people off the path of violence, they concluded. Young people must lead the way. And the conversation that began this afternoon must continue in the coming weeks, they said, starting in church and spreading from there.
More than 20 community members, ministers and youth workers joined the discussion convened by the Syracuse chapter of the National Action Network as part of the call by NAN's founder, Rev. Al Sharpton, for an national "emergency day of outrage" Monday against gun violence.
The choice of Garland Brothers Funeral Home as the meeting place was deliberate, said Walter Dixie, president of NAN's Syracuse chapter. Sharpton, he said, advocated that the talks be held in a place representative of death.
Dixie urged the participants to focus on hope and the possibility "that we can build something greater than ourselves."
For some participants, hope must begin at home.
"Our children need good role models," parents who work and be positive and not abusive toward their children, Garland said.
When a child doesn't sense he is valued at home, said Rev. H. Bernard Alex, he seeks it in the streets.
Community members must help by keeping an eye out for youth and not being afraid to speak up when the need arises, said Annette White.
Belief in God cannot be forgotten in the effort, said Rev. Nebraski Carter.
Neither can belief in oneself and one's ability to succeed, said Melvin Baker, program director for YouthBuild, a division of Jubilee Homes that helps young adults complete the education while learning construction skills.
Individuals too often use their unfortunate circumstances as an excuse for giving up, Baker said.
"We have taken an explanation and made it a crutch," Baker said. "They live on crutches on healthy ankles until someone comes along and says, 'Drop the crutches and live.' "
Tajoura Walley, 19, a YouthBuild participant, said she came away encouraged by the afternoon's conversation.
"Doing this might give people hope" for a solution to gun violence, she said. "Not as quickly as we want it to be but it's a good first step."


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Many local elementary school officials didn't want to assume their students knew about Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., and didn't think it was the school's place to break the news to them on Monday, the first day of classes since 20-year-old Adam Lanza reportedly killed 20 young students, six teachers and staff, his mother and himself.
Josh Dann, principal of Saranac Lake's Petrova Elementary School, said faculty and staff mostly moved forward with their regular routine, while being alert for kids who might be worried. He had emailed teachers Sunday night, asking them to remind kids that they are safe at Petrova, if the subject came up.
"Because some of the kids don't know, we didn't want to be the ones to tell them at this point," Dann said. "Our job was to seek out the ones that did need help, which, so far, there weren't any."
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Flowers are left in memory of the victims of a school shooting in Connecticut. Lake Placid resident Karen Angelopoulos and her daughter bought flowers of their own to leave at a makeshift memorial near Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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To memorialize the victims of Friday's killings in Newtown, Conn., the town of Harrietstown and village of Saranac Lake put bows around the columns at the entrance of the Harrietstown Town Hall in downtown Saranac Lake. The bows are green and white — the colors of Sandy Hook Elementary School, where Adam Lanza is believed to have killed 26 people, then himself — and purple, a traditional color of mourning.
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"This sounds terribly callous, but we're trying to go business as usual but still be sensitive to the kids' needs," Lake Placid Central School District Superintendent Randy Richards said. He said the district issued guidelines to teachers and staff about how to discuss the shooting with students. He said attendance was normal on Monday.
Mary Michelfelder, the Lake Placid Elementary School's counselor, said she supplied teachers with articles from education journals containing advice on how to talk to students following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
For elementary students, Michelfelder said too much exposure to news stories, especially television coverage, can be harmful. In a memo issued to educators, the Crisis Management Institute urges parents and teachers to turn off the television.
"The visuals are going to stay imprinted in their brain more than a kind and comforting discussion with a parent," Michelfelder said.
"This whole thing is so senseless," Richards said. "We can't begin to make any reason out of this horrible thing."
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Michelfelder also encouraged adults to take care of themselves.
"The best thing anyone can do to be helpful to kids is to be OK yourself," she said. "Make sure that you're in good shape when you're going to have that discussion with a child, so that if a kid asks questions, you've thought a little bit about what you're going to say. You want to clear up any myths.
"The biggest thing is the reassurance, as best you can, that if you're a teacher, that you'll take great care of the kids at school, and if you're a parent, you'll do everything in your power to make sure the kids are safe."
Michelfelder said most experts think parents and teachers should avoid saying things like, "This will never happen."
"Because they just learned it can happen," she said. "But you can say, 'I will do everything in my power to make sure you are safe, and you can count on that.' Something that is reassuring and yet still accurate."
Michelfelder said discussing the incident itself should be developmentally appropriate. Younger children, for example, don't need to know details.
"Be a good listener, and let the kids tell you what they're concerned about," Michelfelder said.
Michelfelder said LPES provided individual support for students on Monday. She added that there was a heightened adult presence at the school.
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Keene Central School Principal Dan Mayberry said the main goal at his school was to "try to keep everything as normal and regular as possible, and still be there to support our students.
"Anyone that needed to come speak to a counselor or myself, we were there to support," he said. "We're sending information home to families as well. Just some tips - ways to help your children get through this type of situation.
"I did not get wind of anything major going on today - anyone having a really hard time with it. But I think, over the next couple of days, we'll probably see something as it really sinks in for some kids."
Mayberry said his school is also looking at its security protocols.
"We're trying to balance what we do with what we conceivably can change, if we need to change anything," he said.
Things went similarly at St. Bernard's, a Catholic elementary school in Saranac Lake. Principal Ray Dora said the school's 50 or so students weren't heard talking about the shooting, even in parent chaperones' cars on a fourth- and fifth-grade field trip.
"I talked to the teachers before the school day, basically told them, if you get any questions, try to answer them honestly but try not to get into any class-wide discussions.
"For the most part, you wouldn't know anything went on," he said.
Personally, Dora said he was "devastated" by the news from Newtown Friday.
"It's one of things that's just hard to imagine, hard to figure what someone's thinking who does something like that," he said. "Some of these people who want revenge on the world, it seems they tend to take it out on the most defenseless."
He said he emphasized with teachers that this is a rare occurrence, "although we seem to be getting more of them. The past few years, we seem to have one each year."
Local schools are also reviewing safety and security protocols in the tragedy's wake.
Tupper Lake Central School District Superintendent Seth McGowan recorded a message for the parents of the school district and sent it out via the district's emergency calling system, which lets district officials call all the parents in the district at the same time. The message is also posted on the district's website.
"While the incident is considered to be an isolated event and poses no credible threat to any other school, it is a reminder of the growing list of schools besieged by violent acts," McGowan's message reads. "It reminds us of the vigilance we must have in protecting our most vulnerable population, and our most precious - our children."
He assured parents that the safety of children is his highest priority every day and noted that the district's safety plans have been tested with the help of local law enforcement and emergency services officials. But he said the Connecticut shootings have prompted a review of the district's current safety plan.
"You may begin to see the results of this review almost immediately, and it may be considered an inconvenience to some," McGowan said. "But I believe that the safety and well-being of our children is paramount to our routines as educators and parents."
McGowan noted that while he has family members in the school district, he considers the lives and safety of each child in the district as if they are his own.
Ron LaScala, a Tupper Laker whose wife works for the district and who has two daughters who attend school there, said he was glad McGowan sent out the message.
"I was actually happy that he did it," LaScala said. "Talking to people around town, it was on people's minds. This type of thing can happen anyplace."
LaScala said he has full confidence in the employees of the district to do everything they can to protect the students, and to do a full review of school policies and procedures to make sure they are the best they can be.
Saranac Lake school board members plan to discuss school safety at their first meeting in January, according to board member Esther Arlan.
"I think the important thing we should all take away from this is we should think ahead and plan ahead," Arlan said. "In workshops I've attended, locking the doors gives you a false sense of security. Locking the door is not the solution to the problem. It has to be a combination of things."
Dora said the incident made him think about security, although he couldn't think of much to change. St. Bernard's already locks all the doors to both its buildings, except the main office door, during the school day. The door to the smaller building sometimes doesn't close properly, however, so he's reminding teachers to make sure it's pulled tight.
Local tributes
Some Tri-Lakers have reached out to the Sandy Hook community with flowers and notes of support. Lake Placid school district Clerk Karen Angelopoulos told the Enterprise that she and her daughter, Alexa, a sophomore at Elmira College, brought flowers and a handmade sign to a memorial near Sandy Hook school in Newtown. They were in the area for a Lake Placid boys hockey game in Brewster, N.Y.
"The flowers were left with the other flowers," Angelopoulos said. "There were so many. ... The cars were backed all the way up, so Alexa and I had to walk down. As soon as you get off the highway to go to the town, there is stuff everywhere, from balloons on the bridge, angels in the side of a hill, posts on doors of heartfelt sorrow, Christmas trees decorated."
Meanwhile, municipal officials in Saranac Lake memorialized the Newtown victims by hanging bows on the columns of the Harrietstown Town Hall: green and white, the Sandy Hook school colors, and purple, a traditional color of mourning.
"Last Friday, tragedy struck a town much like our own, and we all grieve for the 26 lives needlessly lost that day," Harrietstown Supervisor Bob Bevilacqua and Saranac Lake village Mayor Clyde Rabideau said in a joint statement. "On this Christmas, we all are from Newtown, and we need to celebrate for them; for the families of the mothers, daughters and wives who died while trying to protect 'their kids' and for those 20 young souls taken far too soon."
Enterprise Senior Staff Writer Chris Knight contributed to this report.


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Hip-Hop Chess Federation Founder, Adisa Banjoko recently spoke at Harvard about the connections between Hip-Hop, chess and martial arts. Here is a short clip from that talk. A longer audio version will be ready soon. Learn more about upcoming HHCF events at www.bishopchronicles.com or follow on Twitter @hiphopchess
lol... I'm sure all the pseudos are going to love this.
"Chess has always been a huge part of American culture".
pretentious imo. All the superlatives, most this most that, best this best that
I'd respect rappers more, if they could actually sing a melody or play an instrument,
This guy could be a visiting professor at Harvard these days or maybe a Nobel Peace Prize candidate or winner. But when it comes to chess, if the Harvard students want to learn anything ... they should visit Webster University ... home of the Champions!
This whole thing is awful..
Just a few things that annoyed me:
1. How does playing chess "give a person a moral compass?". Of course you don't need religion to have a moral compass, but I don't see how Chess fits into the equation. It's just a game.
2. "Where is the Rock equivilant of 50 Cent, telling what he did.." "There is none!" Uh.. There are plenty of Rock musicians that have come out with autobiographies talking about how they made it.. And more importantly, what does this have to do with anything?
3. Martial arts, Hip-hop, and Chess all came to America at the same time? I don't think so. At most we can discern that a few rappers also liked chess and martial arts movies. Don't get me wrong, it's good that they are trying to teach kids positive thinking, but everything else about this video is just stupid.
Does this really need an edit every 2 seconds?
My thoughts exactly, JohnAcker.
Pretty deep stuff.....Alright my new goal in life apart from architecture... Chess, Chess & Chess!!
Martial Arts is a side-kick and well Hip-hop! I dono!!...let's see :)
Can you feel him?
He said "I'm doin' what I gotta do stayin' true to tha crew"He said "I'm deep down and dirty I grew up hella early"He said "I fantasize about tha dreams havin' big fancy things"
He said "I can still remember when I stole my first diamond ring"
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I am the founder of Steely Dan Stanley Kubrick chess. Look for my lecture DVD coming to your nearest shopping mall.
Now-a-days the "cool", "in" thing is to dump religion and worship the earth, the moon, a plant, an animal, or even put one's self up as God. Those both in and out of their ivory towers endeavor to find connective tissue between various subjects and put forth their abstract ideas on how it will pan out.
No offense to California or those who make a career of organizing, but the ideas/theories and results are purely political and most of the scenarios would only be viable in a Utopia and don't hold water in the real world.
hip-hop, chess, and martial arts are all cool but this guy's reasoning is kinda flawed. does chess really give us a moral compass without a forced religious dogma? i think most chessplayers would agree that this is drawing a long bow.
There are always these "new" ideas put out there. Look back, and you will see they aren't the answer.
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AUGUSTA, Georgia -- In the end, a guy who swings a mean, bright pink driver won the Masters. And his name is Bubba. He has a degree from the University of Georgia, by way of Faulkner State Community College in Bay Minette.
It was perfect. But mostly, it was an improbable final round.
On a day that featured a little bit of everything, free-swinging, long-hitting Bubba Watson won the Masters with a two-putt on the second playoff hole, where he shaped a shot -- an improbable, almost impossible, did-you-see-that? shot -- from a clearing among the Georgia pines, resting on a bed of pine straw.
You know, routine stuff.
It was the best shot of a day in which Watson's playing partner, Louis Oosthuizen, scored a double eagle, the first ever on the second hole in Masters play and only the fourth in the tournament's history. Oosthuizen went from 7 under to 10 under with one swing of the club.
That was just the start. Bo Van Pelt, who started the day at 7 over and ended the day at 1 under, made a hole-in-one at No. 16, shortly after an eagle on 13, a birdie at 14 and another birdie on 18 to shoot 30 on the back nine.
A short time later, Adam Scott stepped to the No. 16 tee and repeated Van Pelt's shot, making an ace as well. He started the day 2 over and ended it at 4 under.
Who would have guessed that Phil Mickelson, with three previous wins, the gallery strongly behind him, and coming off such a strong round Saturday, would end where he started the day, at 8 under? If the winning score was 10 under, how was it not Mickelson? Or Peter Hanson, who started the day with the lead at 9 under and finished at 8 under, 1 over for the final 36 holes?
Who would have figured Mickelson would toss away his chances on a par-3 hole? He hit his tee shot over the corner of the grandstands at No. 4 and into bamboo trees. Instead of taking a drop or re-teeing, the left-hander decided to try to advance the ball by hitting right-handed. It barely came out, leaving another bad lie, which he also hit right-handed, across his shoes. His flop shot was a flop, landed in the trap, and he finished with a triple-bogey six, his second triple-bogey of the tournament.
Watson made four straight birdies beginning at 13 to put himself in the hunt. Lee Westwood made three straight birdies, also beginning at 13, finished with a birdie at 18, but made too many mistakes and missed too many opportunities.
Sharing the lead and on the 18th tee, Watson blasted his drive down the middle and Oosthuizen followed. The two men, trying to win a major championship, shared a laugh walking off the tee. Really? In that situation? Improbable most any other time, but not Sunday.
In the playoff, they returned to 18, repeated their drives and their par scores and headed to 10, walking toward history.
The Masters is a tournament won over four days, not one, and certainly not on one shot, yet there are three single shots that fashioned Sunday's finish: Oosthuizen's double eagle that put him in the lead. Mickelson's tee shot on 4 that led to bad decisions. And Watson's recovery on the second playoff hole that won the tournament.
In describing the win, Watson said he never got this far in his dreams. No one dreams that big.
Improbable? Yes. But, man, was it cool.
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After the game, after NJIT had captured its first title Saturday afternoon, head coach Jim Engles had a different message for his team. He wanted the players to appreciate what they had done, the history that they had made at the small Newark school. But what had he wanted most from them?
To keep it going.
"The locker room wasn't crazy," Engles said by phone Saturday. "The guys were happy, but I told them, 'This isn't over. This is one championship.' We have to win a second championship in two weeks. This is not over."
It's strange to think that winning ways are now being talked about so freely at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, whose 69-58 win over Houston Baptist secured the regular-season Great West Conference championship and earned it the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, which will begin on March 14 at Chicago State.
The turnaround is one of the more incredible ones in college basketball.
Just four seasons ago, NJIT (16-11, 6-1 Great West) became the first team in Division I men's basketball history to go 0-29 for the season. Senior Chris Flores — who was a recruit during that 0-29 season — led the way with 21 points and six rebounds.
Over the span of three seasons, they set an NCAA record for consecutive losses with 51. Engles, who is in his fifth year, endured a 1-30 first season as head coach.
So despite the coach trying to keep everyone's emotions in check, there was some sense of satisfaction that NJIT was able to accomplish what most thought was impossible.
"It was a fun college basketball environment," Engles said. "It was just a fun game to be involved with. And we won, which made it even better."


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Rome qualifies for London Olympics
MARYSVILLE — In an intense and emotional week of 2012 Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore., local athlete Jarred Rome made the cut on June 28, with a final discus toss of 207 feet, 10 inches, bumping him up to a second-place finish overall.
"To make my second Olympic team was the greatest feeling ever," said Rome. "After I hit that throw, I knew I made the team."
Rome, who was in fourth place after the fifth round, has earned a place on the U.S. Olympic Team headed for London this year. It will be his second time as an Olympian — he was also a member of the 2004 Olympic Team in Athens.
"The first time I made the team, I went from third to first and this time I went from fourth to second," said Rome. "It was one of the greatest feelings of my career. It was like a whole ton of bricks was lifted off my shoulders."
The weather during the trials was problematic as constant precipitation left the ground slick. "I had to slow down a lot to keep from slipping," said Rome. "On my final throw I thought, 'I'm just going to go for it.'"
Rome leaves with the rest of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team for training camp on July 15. He'll spend a month training for the August event. "It's some pretty intense training," said Rome. "You get a couple of weeks to get rid of the jet lag. It's a really good environment. The whole U.S. Track and Field team is there."
Being an Olympian came as a bit of a surprise for the Marysville-Pilchuck graduate.
"I played baseball and football all the way from elementary to high school," said Rome, who had also done track and field since 10th grade. "I got hurt in my senior year of football and still wanted to get a scholarship so I focused on track and field."
Rome upped the ante and received a scholarship for Boise State University. He thought he would work on getting his degree and figured he would eventually quit competing after college. But he was so successful at shot put and discus that he just kept going.
"I was a six-time All-American," said Rome. "I had a really successful collegiate career." And the success didn't stop there. One year into post-collegiate competition, Rome placed fifth at the U.S. Nationals.
"I began to train for the 2004 Olympics and won the trials and made the U.S. Olympic Team. It was the greatest day of my life. I had a new dream," said Rome.
"I never thought I'd make it to the Olympics," said Rome, of his first time on the team in 2004. "There's no bigger stage. With 205 countries competing and I'm representing my own — it's the greatest feeling I've had." That is, until Thursday, June 28, when Rome made it into the top three in the trials.
"It's the last time I'm going out for the Olympic team," said Rome. "It feels really nice to get on this team, and now it's all about getting a medal. I've done everything I imagined and more. It would be wonderful to bring myself, my family, Marysville, Washington and my country a medal."
Rome is set to compete Aug. 6 and 7.
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Montgomery Police are investigating the city's 30th homicide which occurred Tuesday night near downtown.
MPD officers and fire medics responded to the report of two shots fired in the 600 block of Winnie Street, Montgomery Police released. Upon arrival, police found an adult male who had sustained a fatal gunshot wound.
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Continuing to film their "Jersey Shore" spin-off in Jersey City, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWoww" Farley had some extra company yesterday, The Jersey Journal reports.
Snooki's fiance Jionni LaValle was seen walking around Downtown Jersey City yesterday morning after his pregnant partner visited K9dergarten on Newark Avenue. The pint-sized mom-to-be was sporting a "faculty" jacket and hat and spent two hours at the pet-grooming establishment.
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HPV vaccine
The HPV vaccine protects against infection by certain strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV). HPV can cause cervical cancer and genital warts.
Alternative Names
Vaccine - HPV; Immunization - HPV; Gardasil; Cervarix; HPV2; HPV4; Vaccine to prevent cervical cancer
HPV is a common virus that is spread through sexual contact. There are many different types of HPV. Many types do not cause problems. But certain types of HPV can lead to:
- Cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancer in women
- Genital warts in men and women
- Cancer of the penis or anus in men
Two vaccines called HPV2 (Cervarix) and HPV4 (Gardasil) are approved:
- Both vaccines protect against the two types of HPV that cause most cases of cervical cancer. Other, less common types of HPV can still cause cervical cancer.
- HPV4 (Gardasil) also protects against two other types of HPV that cause most cases of genital warts in women and men.
These vaccines do not treat cervical cancer.
HPV4 (Gardasil) is approved for:
- Females ages 9 to 26 to protect against cervical cancer and to prevent genital warts
- Males ages 9 to 26 to prevent genital warts
HPV2 (Cervarix) is approved for:
- Females age 10 to 26 to help protect against cervical cancer
Girls ages 11 and 12 should receive the HPV vaccine series:
- The vaccine is given in three shots over a 6-month period. The second and third shots are given 2 and 6 months after the first shot.
- One brand of vaccine can be substituted for another in the 3-dose series. The HPV vaccine can be given at the same time as other vaccines.
- Girls as young as age 9 can receive the vaccine if their doctor recommends it.
Girls and women ages 13 to 26:
- Those who have not received the HPV vaccine in the past should get a series of three shots.
- Those who have not completed the full vaccine series should catch up on missed shots.
Boys ages 11 to 12 should receive the HPV4 (Gardasil) vaccine series:
- To reduce the chance of becoming infected with genital and anal warts. The vaccine also reduces the risk of cancer of the penis and anus.
- The vaccine is given in three shots over a 6-month period. The second and third shots are given 2 and 6 months after the first shot.
- Boys as young as age 9 can receive the vaccine if their doctor recommends it.
Boys and men ages 13 to 21:
- Those who have not received the vaccine in the past should get a series of three shots.
- Those who have not completed the full vaccine series should catch up on missed shots.
Men ages 22 to 26:
- Those who have not received the vaccine in the past may still get the series of three shots. Talk to your health care provider.
- Those who have not finished the full vaccine series may catch up on missed shots. Talk to your health care provider.
- You should get the vaccine if you have sex with men.
- You should get the vaccine if your immune system is weak due to HIV, other conditions, or medication.
Pregnant women should not receive this vaccine. But there have been no problems found in women who received the vaccine during pregnancy, before they knew they were pregnant.
The most common side effects are fainting, dizziness, nausea, headache, and skin reactions at the site where the shot was given.
The HPV vaccine does not protect against all types of HPV that lead to cervical cancer. Girls and women should still receive regular screening (Pap smear) to look for early signs of cervical cancer.
The HPV vaccine does not protect against other infections that can be spread during sexual contact.
- You are not sure whether you or your child should receive the HPV vaccine
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- You have other questions or concerns about the HPV vaccine
American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Infectious Diseases. Policy Statement: HPV vaccine recommendations. Pediatrics. 2012. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-3865.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0 Through 18 Years and Adults Aged 19 Years and Older — United States, 2013. MMWR. 2013;62(Suppl1):1-19.
Kahn JA. HPV vaccination for the prevention of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. N Engl J Med. 2009;361:271-278.
Slade BA, Leidel L, Vellozzi C, Woo EJ, Hua W, Sutherland A, et al. Postlicensure safety surveillance for quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine. JAMA. 2009 Aug 19;302(7):750-757.
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Five goals Saturday night, nine goals Sunday afternoon.
Who said the Springfield Falcons have trouble scoring?
They certainly did Friday night, when they lost 6-2 at Hartford.
Obviously embarrassed in falling for the fourth straight time to the lowly Wolf Pack, players vowed to return to the style of play that has made them a first-place team throughout this American Hockey League season.
They did just that, even though they were facing a game at Adirondack Saturday night in Glens Falls, N.Y., and an afternoon game against Portland Sunday afternoon in Lewiston, Maine.
When coach Brad Larsen's Falcons are at their best, they grab the early lead. In Saturday's 5-3 victory, they led 2-0 after one period. In their 9-3 breeze Sunday, they led 4-0 after one. In games when they score first, the Falcons are 27-5-0-2 .
They came out of the weekend in good shape, eight points ahead of Albany in the Northeast Division with 15 games left.
Against Adirondack, veteran and alternate captain Cody Bass led the charge with two goals. Captain Ryan Craig also scored (after getting two in Hartford), and newcomers Denny Urban and Paul Thompson completed the output.
Against Portland, the Falcons had an array of scorers – two goals from Jack Skille (within 26 seconds) and one each from Patrick McNeill, Sean Collins, newcomer Dana Tyrell, Darryl Boyce, Michael Chaput, Andrew Joudrey and Austin Madaisky.
Joudrey's goal came with the Falcons short-handed. Madaisky's came unassisted.
The victory at Portland – achieved after a five-hour trip following the game in Glens Falls – marked the Falcons' biggest output since Nov. 4, 2012, when they won 10-2 at Hartford.
The most goals scored by a Falcons team in one game? That happened Dec. 30, 1999, in a 14-2 home victory over the Providence Bruins.
A crowd of 4,207 took delight that night in hooting at Kay Whitmore, the starting goaltender for Providence. The Falcons took a 6-0 lead against him in the first period, then drove him out with three more in the second. Relief goalie John Grahame didn't do much better as the Falcons built a 10-1 lead after two.
When the fans hooted at Whitmore, he responded by pointing to the Calder Cup banner he had helped the Springfield Indians win in the 1990-91 season.
That record-setting night began with a goal by Tavis Hansen only 12 seconds in. He also scored Springfield's fifth goal in the first.
Craig Mills, Daniel Briere, Brad Tiley and Shawn McCann also scored in the period. Shayne Toporowski had back-to-back goals in the second, when Ryan Huska and Francois Leroux also scored.
In the third, Wyatt Smith, Daniel Cohen, John Kosobud and Jean-Guy Trudel completed the Springfield scoring.
Details of that 14-goal game in 1999 were provided by Jason Chaimovitch, the AHL's vice president of communications.
The 1999-2000 Falcons made the playoffs, but lost in the first round. Trudel led them with 34 goals. Briere had 29 as a Falcons rookie.
Records for some local hockey seasons are incomplete, making it impossible to determine if 14 is the top total scored by a Springfield team. Ralph Slate, the Springfield resident who runs the Hockeydb website, said he can pinpoint at least two instances of the Indians scoring 14 goals – against the Philadelphia Rockets Dec. 8, 1948, and the Cleveland Barons Oct. 29, 1958.
As for today's Falcons, they resume practice Tuesday morning, in preparation for Friday, when they'll play Albany in their first home game since March 1. The Falcons also play at home Saturday night, against Providence.
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The Gary La Pelusa Association will be giving away free food the week of November 5 at the St. Vincent de Paul Church in Bayonne to help those in need
The pizza and hot foods will be given out to the public until Friday, November 9 at the church basement located 979 Avenue C in Bayonne. It will is a place for people to keep warm, eat, drink and see others and charge phones if needed.
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What is your $40 Wu-Tang Clan ticket ($50 at the Dec. 27 Lancaster Chameleon Club door) going to get you?
The Village Voice's preview of the Wu's Dec. 23 NYC show promises a rabid nostalgia fest that may or may not include Method Man and the RZA.
I wouldn't expect anything different. Heck, it was the same back in 1994 (?) when the Clan played Club Met the day before hair band legend Kip Winger rocked the same Cameron Street venue.
I didn't make that Wu show but did hear countless stories about a terribly short set, more support members on stage than Clan members and a listless show despite the excited local audience.
And that was back when the Clan was at the height of their power. Their debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), was the apple of every critic and hip-hop fans eye.
The nine-man team was hip-hop's savior. Their nostalgia-driven beats and rhymes really were bringing back 1987-88 Golden Age of Hip-Hop.
A legendary series of RZA-produced solo albums shortly followed. Wu's supremacy would last forever; hip-hop in its truest essence would reign.
Right? Wrong. Fourteen years later, the Wu are remembered more as a novelty act or an eclectic cult than as the hip-hop masters I expected to sustain an art form.
Their latest album, 2007's 8 Diagrams, flopped and spoke of severe dissension in the once iron-bound Clan.
That contention was crystallized by Ghostface Killah's -- the Wu's last popularly relevant member -- public insult of the album and decision to release his own solo album on the same day.
So who is going to show up at the Chameleon Club?
Judging from the below footage of classic GZA and Raekwon solo material taped on Dec. 11 in Fort Collins, Colo., it looks like everyone except Method Man!
It appears to be a fun, raucous show. I might have to travel to Lancaster after all. Be forewarned, NSFW.
Doors open at 8:30. Opening are playful Lancaster rappers 46 Acorns and introspective York rhymer Phynite.


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Paulin, Drew; Gilbert, Sarah; Haythornthwaite, Caroline A.; Gruzd, Anatoliy; Absar, Rafa (iSchools, 2015-03-15)Conferences provide opportunities for participants to learn with each other through social discovery, interaction and knowledge development. Increasingly, Twitter provides an online backchannel surrounding conference ...
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Sixty-seven bishops from 27 countries gather for communion, in Braga, Portugal, August 2-11.[more]
It could be said that 21 February 1966 is the date of the beginning of the Focolare Movement in Portugal. This was the day when two young Brazilian women arrived in Lisbon to open a focolare house. Chiara Lubich herself had wanted it in Lisbon so as to have a place of welcome for the first focolarini who were leaving from or arriving in Europe, because at that time many flights from South America stopped off there. In 1967 the some men arrived in the city as well, opening a second focolare house.
Many people met the spirituality of unity in Portugal in those early years: adults, lay people, religious and priests, but above young people who, attracted by a gospel way of living that was simple and totally committed, threw themselves with enthusiasm into telling others of this new discovery that had given fulfilment to their lives: 'God is love, God loves us immensely,' they proclaimed. Urged on by the presence of Jesus among them, with no worry about age-differences, they worked among the poor, organized day meetings and concerts to spread the Ideal of unity. Like this they managed to contribute to building a more united world. And in this way a community like that of the early Christians grew up – where everything was shared by all, spiritual and material goods, sufferings and joys.
On 25 April 1974, with the collapse of Salazar's dictatorship, the thirteen-year colonial war came to an end. The Movement had expanded greatly: the Mariapolises (typical Focolare meetings over a few days with people from all walks of life) were attended by thousands of people. Similarly the day meetings for young people, both in Lisbon and Porto, were attended by large numbers. The growing number of vocations to the focolare and other kinds of commitment within the Movement were also being consolidated.
Today throughout the country (and its islands) the Movement has more than 2000 members and thousands of sympathizers adhering to its spirituality, ten focolare houses in Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and Faro and, at 50 km from Lisbon, the little town of Arco-iris which is the living heart of the Movement in Portugal.
Some of the pioneers of the Focolare in Portugal are no longer on this earth, but their witness has left the perfume of genuine gospel love.
Others have given their lives to God to build unity and universal brotherhood in the world. At this moment there are Portuguese focolarini in Japan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, USA, Canada, France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium…
Publishing House: as an instrument to spread the spirituality and to offer the chance for formation in it, in 1973 the publishing house Cidade Nova was founded. It has so far published 83 titles by Chiara Lubich and other authors. In 1976 the magazine Cidade Nova was launched and it now comes out monthly.
In the world of the Church: the Focolare Movement in Portugal is characterized by its participation, both locally and nationally, in activities run by the Roman Catholic Church. It is part of the National Assembly of the Laity and is present in diocesan commissions for the pastoral care of families, of young people and for ecumenism.
Social Commitment: the NGO Acções para um Mundo Unido (Action for a United World, Portugal) supports projects in disadvantaged areas with problems of social cohesion. It has also set up small self-help schemes in Portuguese-speaking African counties and offers study grants to students from these same countries.
Family: the Focolare's New Families Movement is involved – as it is in many parts of the world – in the 'Adoption at a Distance' project. In Portugal there are currently 73 children supported in African, Asia and Latin America.
Economy of Communion: in May 1999 during a visit to Brazil, in response to social and political inequality, Chiara Lubich set up the Economy of Communion. It has spread to Portugal and now 12 businesses freely invest their profits three ways: in aid to the most needy, education to support a 'culture of giving' and the further development of the business itself. Some of these businesses are based in the industrial zone 'Giosi Guella' established in 2010 in the little town of Arco-iris. The Association for an Economy of Communion and Action for a United World, Portugal, have also promoted academic study of the Economy of Communion by means of conferences, forums and regular meetings of specialists from the economic and social fields.
The little town Arco-iris is to be found in Abrigada, in the municipal area of Alenquer. It began in 1997 and is appreciated by Church and by civil authorities who recognize its possible public benefits. The Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, present at the little town's inauguration, said his hope was that it should be 'a fixed point of unity, in communion, to demonstrate that unity among all is possible.'
There are about 50 inhabitants: adults, families, young people, children and a priest who the Cardinal has also made the parish priest of Abrigada. It is in constant development and encourages the growth of the spirituality of unity through practical experience of the gospel lived. A moment of outreach that goes beyond the members of the Focolare and appeals, most especially, to young people is the gathering of youth every 1 May for a day of sharing and celebration. The little town is a privileged space for dialogue with civil society and with people of every conviction and culture.
Sixty-seven bishops from 27 countries gather for communion, in Braga, Portugal, August 2-11.[more]
A ten-day worldwide initiative aims at creating awareness about the daily effort to build peace. Some flash from the Holy Land, Syria, Congo, Argentina, Hong Kong, Macau, Germany, Slovakia and Portugal.[more]
The 7th anniversary of Chiara Lubich's death, March 14, 2008, was celebrated across the world with political events and ceremonies within the walls of prestigious institutes, at Eucharistic celebrations and day-long gatherings, at artistic performances and cultural events – all focused on the topic of universal brotherhood.[more]