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It's been a rough month for Bulgarian professional players taking part in major chess events held in my home country. The newly-fledged FIDE master Borislav Ivanov has taken on every GM and IM 'daring' to enter a chess tournament here in Bulgaria, and in his notorious and pure Houdini 3.0 style of play, he has beaten a number of titled compatriots, as well as visiting professional players representing other countries, that even Bulgaria's third best player, GM Kiril Georgiev, rated 2657, was literally demolished in a dramatic 10m+5s blitz game several weeks ago! In the meantime, there have been great efforts on the part of Bulgarian leading grandmasters and tournament organizers to curtail the trail of destruction Borislav Ivanov is leaving on the image and reputation of Bulgarian chess. With the Zadar cheating scandal having traveled the globe in less than a month earlier this year, speculations on why FIDE and the Bulgarian Chess Federation are doing little on the issue have escalated. Still, Ivanov was due to strike again last week, when he nearly grabbed the 1000 EUR first prize at yet another major international open in my country, only for a last-minute rule update and the selfless act of two Bulgarian chess masters to spoil his plans. The first "Old Capital" Open tournament started with 100 participants on Labor Day, but the final standings featured only 99. The first prize was ironically taken away from FM Ivanov, who was banned from the final standings due to his failure to comply to a small rule requiring no more than two unplayed games for him to qualify for the prizes. Unfortunately, Borislav had earned three points from forfeits after three of his opponents chose to boycott his play at the tournament and pay the high prize of losing a point and failing their immaculate participation, as well. Here is my latest report on the biggest chess cheating scandal happening this year:
If you want to follow this case from the very beginning, please check out my previous three videos with earlier reports and extensive game analysis.Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0J8SPENjM&hd=1
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7VvvRX-nOQ&hd=1
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhfCUdy2Tzk&hd=1
Last week they caught another one, Jens Kotainy (2400+ FIDE rated IM), cheating in an A-Open in Dortmund: http://www.chessbase.de/Home/TabId/176/PostId/4010703/finger-am-handy-060813.aspx
This guy was kicked out of the tournament and reported to the police for fraud.He had his hand in his pocket after every move and his cellphone was sending some type of vibrational morse signals.
Maybe Ivanov used the same technique, just a little bit more advanced, where he got the morse signal vibration by a special device somewhere on his body ? With quite simple equipment and a second cellphone he could even send such signals back with his toes without anyone noticing ..
I would propose a most single measure to any tournament in the future.
- Any player has the right, only once in a tournament, to play his opponent in private. For this game there will be no online transmission (or a delayed one only), only one arbiter shall be present.
- All electronic instruemnst are fobidden (no handy, no enotate.....)
- Both players have (in this private game) the right to object to any person, means they have to agree on the arbiter.
- If they dont agree on an arbiter, the game is counted as a draw.
- if two players claim on her right to play private a coin ist tossed.
This is quite simply to be organized at any tournament, only one room for private games has to be prepared.
This measure take the whole situation away from any rules or measures to identify a cheater - it just prevents him to be successful in the tournaments, the players will take care for that. Additionally, by being this measure successful a possible cheater leaves ever icreasing patterns of his difference in cheated play to own ones.
FM Lilov, is not a new hope.
1) if Ivanov is cheating using that lents you mentioned or any other thing, these techniques will get more sofisticated in the future so many other Ivanovs will be arising
2) The players who get double defeated by FIDE norms asking byes are just quitting their chances to get a deserved FIDE performance (beside the miserable prizes usually shared in chess)
So my suggestion is an inmediate police check up. No matter the laws this is what happens when somebody is subject to criminal activities. Maybe the simplest thing is to slightly change laws and qualify chess cheating as a criminal activity.
Yes manny, that´s what Lilov has done, matching the games with houdini moves. It´s also surprising that his opening knowledge is as great as a program opening book...
has anyone matched his moves with the moves oh Houdini 3? i.e. put opponent's moves into computer and see what Houdini spits out and cross reference those moves with what he has played?(assuming the engine spits out the same result each time, which should technically happen right? or is there something im missing?)
I wonder what "Houdini 3 style" could possibly mean - chess engines are configurable, and configuration determines outcome, not to mention the depth of a search. Is there a suggestion that Ivanov is able to match the configuration and depth of search of the engine that his auditors are using? Wow, he must be psychic :-)
There's no debate if he does or not. It's the TD's responsibility to ban him OR examine his eyes and wand (handheld metal detector) him without touching him (specifically his shoes). If he passes let him play. GM's aren't playing lowering the standard of the tournament. If not, let him play Super GM's and we'll see how they do with houdini.
I know Im coming late to the conversation, but has anyone been recording the audience? It seems to me that anyone creative enough to cheat (assuming he is) would be clever enough not to have the device on his person.
If you've got a couple of friends in the audience the number of hand signals they could give you alone goes well beyond the characters it would take for just standard chess notation. With a little practice you could even have many signals for the same character to avoid detection. A new take on a very old charlitain's carnival trick.
ICC (Internet chess club) and chess.com are regularly expelling cheaters for using computer assistance. They are understandably coy about exactly how they are doing it but I assume a statistical analysis of the quality of moves and correlations to engine moves. They claim that they only expel people if they are sure they are cheating so couldn't FIDE set up new rules that enable these analysis to be used as proof beyond reasonable doubt of cheating in OTB tournament games?
pousseur37 is not about "Houdini Style" is about Calculation.
You just get the tactical moves by calculation, and he never miss a tactic.
His games have perfect coincidence with H3, you don´t need memory to do that, you need H3 running for you to cheat.
At least in the games when he win against GMs, because when he plays as a human, he can lost and draw to 1800s.
To me, it is a lost battle. More and more young players are imitating strong software playing style. With a pretty good memory, the combination will be explosive. So called GM will soon face the harsh reality that their openings were never that good. I personally think that as long as a player is not using live computer assistance or any kind of high tech device during tournaments, no one has the right to accuse him of cheating. He is just using one of the multiple brain features: MEMORY. Banning a player just because he prefers Houdini style over Tarrasch's is just pointless.
I think he use some kind of beeper under his skin or maybe in his shoes under his toes. If the police took him to a hospital to scan him it shoudn't be difficult to find out how he does it.
@zezpawn: the only thing that is not right, is that those brave guys who denied the cheater the game, lost their chance for playing for the first place.
If he's using a bionic lense or somesuch, what if someone slapped him on the back part of the head, while walking by his table. I mean not a serious assault, just a little spanking so that the lense falls on the board.
I know this sounds unsportsmanlike, but this cheating could kill the fun of chess and bring the whole game into disrespute. In a couple of years lot's of people might use this. Just look at the bicycle racing sports, the tour de france etc. After all those doping affairs, they lost the public interest in their sports. In our country TVs refused to broadcast major cycling events because of all the cheating with doping, and the cycling teams lost a lot of sponsors. If today someone says, he's a professional cycler, everyone has the question in mind "does he dope ?".
We don't want that fraud athmosphere in chess, it will definitely turn people away from the game. This is why such things should be fought energetically and choked off whenever they occur. A laissez-faire attitude is wrong here.
(PS: sorry for bad english)
episode 5: the empire strikes back. was the star wars reference intended?
anyway, of course the responibility during the event to curtail cheating lies with the organizer but no action by the authorities for so long? theft is a criminal offense. insane.
Wait, so he was denied the prize simply because his opponents dropped out of the tounrament? That doesn't seem right...
I think I'm missing something here. How do we know this guy is cheating, and if everyone is so sure, why is nothing being done?
EDIT: Oh, you provided those youtube links. I should probably watch those.
I agree, it looks suspicious. Any theories how he is doing it?
Ok, I listened to your video by now. You clearly thought about it a lot and your reasoning makes sense. But I think not playing him doesn't solve the problem. What about other people that may use the same technology without raising red flags? For example there is no need to play computer moves only. A more sophisticated cheater would consult the engine in critical situations and not all the time. While this is not guaranteeing 100% against GMs it also removes the need to have to draw against 1800 players.
I guess jamming cell signals is a reasonably reliable and relatively low-tech technology that makes transmission of moves more difficult. Also, there is no need for anyone to have a cell phone switched on while playing. Ideally lockers to store electronic devices during the game should be provided. Also while some chess events perform ridiculous anti-doping measurements it might be an idea to randomly select people and search them for electronic devices. This could be done with a metal detector rather than a strip search. Participants should have to agree to this when they enter the tournament.
I also don't think that this is at smaller tournaments, but it might be worth considering as soon as the price fund becomes sufficiently attractive.
Nice work, Mr. Lilov. I'm quite upset by this, this guy is destroying our game.
Just banning him is not a solution because others might use this method as well. This guy should be asked how he was doing it (maybe after a few minutes of waterboarding) and then everything should be done to prevent such cheating.
Whenever someone now performs well in a tournament or even a single game, people will have suspicions, just because of such cheaters like this guy. He poisons the athmosphere and does much greater damage to chess than just cheating off his prizes.
real life accroding to his earlier reports..it's a shame, but where there is money and people desperate to have it, this is what happens. The bad thing is I could see this at club tourneys for fun as well, which I believe is a worse crime. This steals the fun people are having for no other reason for fame at a local level.
this is real game or online game he cheat?
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Game #24 Preview – Dash at Frederick
Game #24 – Away Game #14
Winston-Salem Dash (10-13) at Frederick Keys (7-16)
Sunday, May 1 – 2 p.m.
Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium (Frederick, MD)
Trailing 7-2 through seven innings, Winston-Salem sent 11 men to the plate and scored seven times in the eighth en route to a shocking 9-8 victory in Frederick on Saturday afternoon at NYMEO Field. The Dash go for their first sweep of the year and a season-high fourth straight win.
Hunter Jones – CF
Toby Thomas – 2B
Gerson Montilla – 3B
Nick Basto – 1B
Marcus Davis – DH
Mason Robbins – LF
Brett Austin – C
Louie Lechich – RF
Danny Mendick – SS
Jordan Stephens – RHP
The Dash's seven-run frame was one shy of the club's best single-inning performance of the year (eight in the 13th at Lynchburg on April 7) and two shy of the Dash-era record (nine in the 7th at Frederick on May 7, 2015). Mason Robbins' two-run double and Grant Massey's two-run single set up Montilla and Davis' heroics. Thanks to this eighth-inning surge, the Dash mustered their biggest come-from-behind win since erasing a six-run hole to stun Salem 9-8 on June 1, 2015.
Winston-Salem continues its strong play away from BB&T Ballpark. The Dash boast an 8-5 road record, including wins in seven of their last eight. This matches the franchise's best eight-game road stretch since the nickname change in 2009. The other two instances of a 7-1 surge on the road came during the first half of Winston-Salem's 81-win season of 2010. Since 2012, the Dash possess a 30-16 (.652) record in Frederick.
The Dash's offense is second in the league in batting average, and several key cogs delivered in Saturday's win. Davis snapped an 0-for-8 funk with the game-winning double. With two more hits, Montilla is hitting .386 (17-for-44) in his last 11 games. Robbins is 11-for-25 (.440) over the last six contests, including 3-for-5 on Saturday.
With another three-hit showing, already his seventh in 2016, Nick Basto jumped back atop the hits leaderboard in Minor League Baseball with 39. He enjoys a single-hit advantage over Stockton's James Harris for the top spot, while no other Minor Leaguer has more than 33 knocks. Basto's .433 average trails only Fort Wayne's Austin Allen (.460) among qualifiers, while his 1.147 OPS is fifth-best in the Minors.
The former fifth-round pick is riding a nine-game hitting streak, the longest from a Dash hitter in 2016 and the fourth-longest active run in the Carolina League. During this surge, Basto is hitting .538 (21-for-39) with three homers and eight RBIs. Overall on the circuit, Basto leads the way in average by .073, on-base percentage by .030, hits by seven and total bases by one. Basto did see his three-game home run streak, the first of its kind by a Winston hitter since July of 2012 (Trayce Thompson), come to an end.
Following this series finale, the final game for the Dash in Frederick in the first half, the club returns to BB&T Ballpark for three against Myrtle Beach and four against Salem. Against those two teams on their first homestand, the Dash went 1-6, tied for their worst multi-set homestand in BB&T Ballpark history.
Hunter Jones leads the CL in games (23) and at-bats (95).
Sunday's game will be broadcast live on wsdash.com/broadcast and the TuneIn Radio App. The Pregame Dash will begin at 1:45 p.m., with the first pitch at 2 p.m.
Game #23 Preview – Dash at Frederick
Game #23 – Away Game #13
Winston-Salem Dash (9-13) at Frederick Keys (7-15)
Saturday, April 30 – 2 p.m.
Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium (Frederick, MD)
One of Minor League Baseball's most prolific hitters delivered the game-winning knock Friday night. Nick Basto's leadoff homer in the ninth thrust the Dash past the Frederick Keys 3-2 in the first of three at NYMEO Field. The Dash look for their third straight win on Saturday, which would match their longest winning streak of the season.
Hunter Jones – CF
Danny Mendick – 2B
Gerson Montilla – 3B
Nick Basto – 1B
Marcus Davis – DH
Brett Austin – C
Louis Silverio – RF
Mason Robbins – LF
Grant Massey – SS
Thad Lowry – RHP
Basto's ninth-inning home run gives him 36 hits for the season. He is tied with Stockton's James Harris for the Minor League lead in hits, though Basto would have been alone at 37 if not for a scoring change after the game turned a sixth-inning single into an error on Frederick shortstop Anthony Caronia. Basto's .424 average trails only Fort Wayne's Austin Allen (.460) among qualifiers. Thanks to his homer, Basto's OPS jumped to 1.167, which is second to Tacoma's Mike Zunino (1.220) in the Minors.
The former fifth-round pick is riding an eight-game hitting streak, tied for the longest by a Winston-Salem hitter this season. During this run, Basto is hitting .529 (18-for-34). Also, Basto has gone deep in three consecutive games for the first time in his professional career. He is the first Dash slugger to accomplish this feat since Trayce Thompson did it from July 24-26, 2012.
Thanks to all of this great work, Basto's name is splattered throughout the CL's leaderboard. Basto enjoys a lead of .068 in batting average, six in hits and .010 in on-base percentage atop the CL. He also stands tied for first in total bases (58), second in slugging percentage (.682) and fourth in extra-base hits (12).
Dash right-hander Matt Cooper bested a career-high he set six days prior with a seven-inning gem on Friday in Frederick. During this outing, Cooper struck out eight, including three in a 10-pitch sixth inning, to push his 2016 total to 35. He is second in all of Minor League Baseball in whiffs, trailing only Atlanta prospect Lucas Sims. Sims has struck out 42 between Double-A Mississippi and Triple-A Gwinnett. Cooper, who has logged 17 strikeouts in his last two outings, is the only High-A hurler with more than 32 strikeouts on the season.
The Dash's 2-8 home start is the franchise's worst since moving into BB&T Ballpark in 2010, but the club is staying close to .500 due to its great work on the road. Winston-Salem is 7-5 away from the Triad, with three of those wins coming in its last at-bat. The Dash have claimed six of their last seven road games. Since 2012, Winston-Salem boasts a 29-16 (.644) record in Frederick. Remarkably, no team in the CL has a road record worse than a game below .500.
Over the last eight days, Winston-Salem has recorded two cycles: Montilla on Friday at Salem and Mason Robbins on Wednesday at home against Lynchburg. Montilla's cycle was the franchise's first since May 14, 2008 (Brandon Allen), a 2,900-day wait. Five days later, Robbins earned the first cycle for a Dash hitter in BB&T Ballpark history. Winston-Salem boasts two of the three cycles in Minor League Baseball this year, with Indianapolis' Josh Bell (April 22 vs. Louisville) owning the other one.
Kleven had given up a run in six of his first seven outings with the Dash before tossing two scoreless innings Friday.
Grant Massey went 1-for-3 in his High-A debut (started at shortstop).
Gerson Montilla is hitting .375 (15-for-40) with 9 RBIs and 12 runs in his last 10 games.
Saturday's game will be broadcast live on wsdash.com/broadcast and the TuneIn Radio App. The Pregame Dash will begin at 1:45 p.m., with the first pitch at 2 p.m.
Game #116 Preview – Dash at Potomac
Game #116 – Road Game #56
Winston-Salem Dash (29-16, 59-56) at Potomac Nationals (19-25, 52-62)
Wednesday, August 12 – 7:05 p.m.
Pfitzner Stadium (Woodbridge, Va.)
Both Winston-Salem and Potomac claimed a victory during Tuesday's makeshift doubleheader at Pfitzner Stadium. The Nationals rallied for an 8-5 victory in the continuation of the suspended contest from July 13 at BB&T Ballpark. However, the Dash did rebound in the seven-inning finale for a 1-0 win. The series continues Wednesday from Pfitzner Stadium.
Adam Engel – CF
Eddy Alvarez – SS
Jake Peter – 2B
Trey Michalczewski – 3B
Keon Barnum – 1B
Nick Basto – LF
Omar Narvaez – C
T.J. Williams – DH
Nolan Earley – RF
Yency Almonte – RHP
- Even though Potomac clinched the 8-5 win on Tuesday, the game is recorded as if everything happened on July 13 when the contest began. Thus, the Dash's win streak is intact, and the 1-0 victory in the finale pushed it to five. Winston-Salem has outscored its opposition 20-6 during these five contests. The Dash are one triumph shy of their longest winning streak of 2015. Winston won six in a row from July 26-31.
- Not only has Winston-Salem permitted just six runs in its last five games, but Dash hurlers have limited their opponents to a .193 average (28-for-145).
- The Dash's 3.27 team earned run average trails only Myrtle Beach (3.02) on the eight-team circuit. In the second half, Winston's staff boasts a 2.70 ERA, which is 0.92 lower than its mark in half one (3.62).
- In the bullpen, Winston-Salem has taken care of business. Brad Goldberg pushed the Dash's successful save conversion streak to 15, which dates back to July 1. The bullpen has cashed in on 24 of its last 25 save chances (32-for-40 overall this year).
- Andre Wheeler (4 IP), Jake Cose (2 IP) and Goldberg (1 IP) combined for the Dash's league-leading 12th shutout. The Dash now lead Salem and Potomac by one blanking for the CL's top spot, while Winston trails only FSL clubs Palm Beach (17) and Charlotte (17) in all of High-A.
- On June 30, Dash first baseman Keon Barnum was hitting just .235 with four homers and 23 RBIs in 44 games. Since then, Barnum has been one of the most productive hitters in Minor League Baseball. Barnum's 38 RBIs since July 1 lead all Minor League hitters, while he is a .269 hitter with four home runs and 12 runs scored. This surge has propelled Barnum into a share of fourth place in the CL in RBIs (61). Teammate Trey Michalczewski is third with 63.
- Barnum and Michalczewski have enjoyed many RBI chances thanks to the work of the men hitting above them. Within the CL, Adam Engel is first in runs (77) and second in hits (114), while Jake Peter is fourth in runs (68) and third in hits (112). Since joining Winston-Salem in late July, no CL hitter has a better average than Eddy Alvarez (.393). Engel (52) and Alvarez (49) are also fourth and fifth, respectively, in the Minor Leagues in stolen bases.
- The White Sox blanked the Angels on Tuesday thanks to a career-high 11 whiffs from Carlos Rodon and the first MLB home run from Trayce Thompson, both of whom are Dash alumni.
Wednesday's game will be available on wsdash.com/broadcast, along with the TuneIn Radio app. The Pregame Dash will begin at 6:50 p.m., with the first pitch at 7:05 p.m.
– Brian
Around the White Sox system – April
On Friday, we reviewed the first month of the season for the Dash (they did lead the Carolina League in ERA). Today, we will examine the rest of the Chicago White Sox system to see how their Aprils went, starting from the top:
Chicago White Sox (MLB): An offseason that saw the White Sox acquire RHPs Jeff Samardzija and David Robertson, LHP Zach Duke, 1B Adam LaRoche, OF Melky Cabrera and UTL Emilio Bonafacio led to some believing that Chicago would contend in the American League. However, the White Sox struggled in the season's first month and the rumbling has already begun about rebuilding around this core for 2016.
That being said, the core is the envy of nearly every team in baseball. Jose Abreu has mashed to a 126 wRC+, while Avisail Garcia has been a surprise to match that production so far. Meanwhile, the White Sox lineup has seen LaRoche (87 wRC+), Cabrera (75 wRC+), Alexei Ramirez (46 wRC+) and Adam Eaton (36 wRC+) get off to slow starts, meaning this talented lineup should start to turn things around and get hot at any moment.
The same could be said about the Chicago pitching staff. Both Chris Sale and Jose Quintana have posted ERAs above 5.00, with Samardzija currently at 4.78. The White Sox have also brought up top prospect and former Dash LHP Carlos Rodon, who has pitched to a 2.76 ERA in 6.1 innings thus far.
Although the White Sox are currently 7.0 games behind the Tigers, nearly everything has gone wrong for them so far, and turnarounds from what was supposed to be one of the deepest lineups and best starting pitching trios in baseball could make Chicago a team that makes a run later in the year.
Charlotte Knights (AAA): April saw Charlotte storm to a 13-7 start to take the early lead in the International League South division. Former Dash INF Carlos Sanchez has put together one of the best performances in all of Minor League Baseball. The 10th-ranked prospect in the White Sox system according to MLB.com, Sanchez is batting .407/.432/.582 with 10 doubles, two home runs and 15 RBIs. Nearly half of those RBIs came in a May 2 game against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, when Sanchez went 4-for-4 with two homers and a double to drive in seven runs. That capped a run that saw Sanchez reach base in 10 straight plate appearances, recording a hit in nine of those.
Former Dash OF Trayce Thompson, the No. 19 White Sox prospect, has raked to a .326/.365/.517 tune with three triples, two home runs and 11 RBIs thus far. On the mound, RHP Erik Johnson, who pitched for Winston-Salem in 2012, leads the club with a 3-1 record and 2.04 ERA, fanning 19 in 17.2 innings.
The flip of the calendar to May also saw the White Sox release OF Jared Mitchell. The 2010 first-round pick was batting just .050 this season for Charlotte and was a .205 hitter with 10 homers in 144 Triple-A games.
With a record of 14-9, the Knights are enjoying the perch of the division by one game over the Durham Bulls (Tampa Bay Rays).
Birmingham Barons (AA): Like the Dash, the Barons had an up-and-down opening month of the season, finishing an even 10-10. Former Dash INF Tim Anderson, who is now the top-ranked prospect in the Chicago system with Rodon in the bigs, has stolen 11 bases and batted .309 with 13 RBIs in the early going. Meanwhile, 2014 Dash members Jacob May (.337/.378/.424, 10 SB) and Jason Coats (.340/.354/.532, 9 2B) reinforced an offense that ranks in the top half of the league in both batting average and slugging percentage. Coats did earn a late-April bump to Charlotte thanks to his strong production.
In the rotation, Frankie Montas and Myles Jaye, who both pitched in Winston-Salem last year, have helped lead a pitching staff that is just four off the lead for most strikeouts in the Southern League. Montas has a 2.63 ERA and 16 strikeouts in 13.2 frames, while Jaye is 2-1 with a 3.65 ERA and 20 punchouts against six free passes in 20.1 innings.
The Barons are currently 2.5 games behind the Tennessee Smokies (Chicago Cubs) in the Southern League's North Division.
Kannapolis Intimidators (A): Former Dash manager Tommy Thompson and his Intimidators did not have a winning or losing streak of more than two games throughout April. LHP Jordan Guerrero (No. 29 White Sox prospect) has gotten off to a ridiculous start to the campaign. Guerrero has the sixth-best ERA (0.69) in all of Minor League Baseball, while his 0.77 WHIP ranks 18th. The southpaw is 3-0, has given up just 15 hits in 26.0 innings and fanned 26 against only five walks.
The Kannapolis offense has posted the third-best average and slugging percentage in the South Atlantic League. INF Chris Curley's 20 RBIs lead the club, and he has hit .281/.326/.551 while smashing a team-high nine doubles and five roundtrippers. C Brett Austin, Rodon's roommate at NC State, is batting .333/.453/.548 with three triples, and former Olympic silver medalist Eddy Alvarez has slashed .301/.396/.422 with six steals.
The Intimidators' 10-13 record has them at the bottom of the SAL Northern Division, 6.0 games behind the Hickory Crawdads (Texas Rangers).
Stay tuned for our Dash game preview as they wrap up a four-game set Monday with the Wilmington Blue Rocks.
FutureSox recognizes 18 former Dash stars
With Spring Training quickly approaching, the writers at FutureSox have compiled their Top 30 White Sox prospects, 18 of whom have played in Winston-Salem at some point.
The 2014 version of the Dash boasted 11 of the top 30, including four of the Sox five best prospects, per FutureSox. The full countdown and a description of each farmhand are available here (1-15) and here (16-30).
Here are the 18 Dash alumni on the list, with the members of the 2014 roster in italics.
1. LHP Carlos Rodon
2. INF Tim Anderson
3. RHP Frank Montas
5. RHP Tyler Danish
6. INF Micah Johnson
7. OF Courtney Hawkins
8. INF Carlos Sanchez
9. INF Trey Michalczewski
11. RHP Chris Beck
14. OF Jacob May
15. INF Cleuluis Rondon
16. INF Tyler Saladino
17. OF Trayce Thompson
20. INF Keon Barnum
21. C Kevan Smith
24. OF Adam Engel
27. INF Andy Wilkins
28. RHP Mike Recchia
A few thoughts:
- It should come as no surprise that Rodon checks in as the top prospect. He will almost certainly be atop every White Sox prospect list in advance of the 2015 season. Last week, MLBPipeline.com named Rodon the second-best southpaw prospect in the Minors.
- This time last season, both Danish and Montas were viewed as prospects, but not as the elite-level Minor League arms that they became in 2014. In Winston-Salem last year, the duo combined to go 9-3 with a 2.23 earned run average in 28 starts. There are still doubters, but both men continue to climb the Minor League ladder and collect more believers.
- Michalczewski figures to be the highest-ranked prospect to begin the 2015 season with the Dash. After enjoying significant success in Low-A Kannapolis, the White Sox sent the 19-year-old to Winston-Salem. Michalczewski hit just .194 in 19 games, but he did show some flashes of his noticeable talent, including his three-hit, three-RBI showing in that playoff-like final home Friday game against Carolina.
- Another likely returnee is Rondon, who continues to wow people with his glove. He held his own at the plate in Winston-Salem (.247) over 53 games, the majority of which featured him in the two-hole.
- It is great to see someone like Recchia on this list. The former Minor League free agent zoomed through CL offenses before jumping to Double-A Birmingham, where he performed well. His story is fascinating. His personality is great. Now, his status as a true prospect in the system is starting to show.
The Dash's 2015 season begins in exactly 70 days. Stay tuned for more information as Opening Day approaches.
– Brian
A look around the White Sox system
Each team in the system is at least 10 games into the season, so let's spin around the organization and see how each team is doing thus far this season.
MLB: Chicago White Sox (7-6)
Chris Sale improved to 3-0 this season after Friday's outing against the Indians, but the White Sox bats played a big role in the outcome. Sale grinded through five innings, allowing three runs and six hits while striking out five. The ace spoke with the Chicago Sun-Times following his start.
Infielder Marcus Semien has played well of late, recording hits in nine of his last ten games. Among those was this solo homer on Sunday against Cleveland:
In this whitesox.com article, learn more about Erik Johnson's standing in the Chicago pitching rotation. Plus, Semien takes part in Jackie Robinson Day festivities on Tuesday and who Sale credits for the development of his changeup:
Thanks to the season-ending shoulder injury to Avisail Garcia, outfielder Jordan Danks was called up from Triple-A Charlotte to help fill the void. The Dash alumnus spoke with CSN Chicago about the opportunity:
Triple-A: Charlotte Knights (6-6)
Catcher Josh Phegley is off to a solid start in 2014. His .286 batting average currently ranks second on the team among qualifying players, and he has scored four runs in eight games.
The Knights opened their sparkling new Uptown Charlotte facility, the second BB&T Ballpark, on Friday night against the Norfolk Tides. For a recap of their historic evening, click here.
Double-A: Birmingham Barons (5-5)
The defending Southern League champions won three of five games against the Jacksonville Suns to reach the .500 mark. The Barons were washed out at Mobile on Monday night, so a doubleheader is on tap this evening.
Former Dash outfielder Trayce Thompson was recently profiled on MiLB.com talking about some of the valuable lessons he learned during Spring Training with the White Sox.
Low-A: Kannapolis Intimidators (4-7)
The Intimidators were swept in a four-game series at Greenville this weekend, the last contest a heartbreaking 5-4 setback to the Drive in 14 innings. Kannapolis looks to regain its footing this week in Hickory. That series opener was also postponed, so the Intimidators and Crawdads will play two this evening.
Infielder Cleuluis Rondon continues his development at the Low-A level. The Venezuelan native, who celebrated his 20th birthday on Sunday, is batting .298 with six RBIs, three runs scored and three stolen bases in 11 games.
Stay tuned for a preview of tonight's homestand opener against Frederick.
– Dave
Johnson's catch, Sale's start and much more
The White Sox are already two weeks into their exhibition slate in Arizona, and some former Dash players are doing their best to impress the big club.
Infielder Micah Johnson is not only batting .455 and leading the team in runs scored this spring, but the 2013 Dash alum is also turning some heads with his defense. Johnson made this spectacular diving catch against the Brewers on Monday:
That catch made SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays at #4. Pretty impressive stuff.
A few former Winston-Salem hurlers are throwing well in Glendale. Southpaw Charlie Leesman has posted a 1.69 ERA in 4 Cactus League appearances, tossing 5.1 innings while striking out 5 batters. Despite those numbers, the 2010 Dash alum was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte on Wednesday, possibly because he has minor league options remaining on his contract. However, the strong spring showing should keep Leesman on the White Sox radar for the future.
Righty Erik Johnson has thrived in two starts this spring, garnering a 2.57 ERA while striking out 7 batters in 7.0 innings. The 2012 Dash standout is making a bid to join the White Sox rotation in 2014, and manager Robin Ventura has taken notice. "With what he did last year and so far what you see, you like what you see," Ventura recently told CSN Chicago.
Johnson is also getting some attention for his demeanor off the mound. Check out this recent Chicago Sun-Times article for more on that, which includes comments from fellow White Sox prospect and former Dash teammate Marcus Semien.
Finally, here are a few roster notes. First, the Sox have tabbed Chris Sale as their Opening Day starter for a second straight year. The 25-year-old, who made his professional debut with the Dash in 2010, says he appreciates the opportunity, per this whitesox.com article: "As much as you sit here and say 'Treat it like another start,' it's the first one of the year and you are obviously going to be amped up for it and excited for it."
The White Sox also made several roster moves on Wednesday involving Dash alumni. Outfielders Jared Mitchell and Trayce Thompson were optioned to Double-A Birmingham, while catcher Miguel Gonzalez, pitcher Scott Snodgress and outfielder Keenyn Walker were reassigned to minor league camp. This is common during Spring Training, as youngsters get a chance to work with the big club. Here's hoping these men use their experience well while continuing to climb the minor league ladder in 2014.
– Dave
FutureSox releases prospect list
Two weeks ago, Baseball America released its Top 10 White Sox prospect list. While this list is one of the most well-regarded compilations nationally, our friends at FutureSox put together the best list on the internet among White Sox-only sites. FutureSox's preseason Top 25 is out, and the Dash are well represented.
Of Chicago's 25 best prospects, a whopping 13 have played in Winston-Salem at some point in their minor league career. This number includes eight alums in the Top 12.
I encourage you to check out the entire list, which includes justification for the top 10 players. Here is the placement of the 13 former Dash players:
2. RHP Erik Johnson
4. INF Marcus Semien
6. OF Courtney Hawkins
7. RHP Chris Beck
9. INF Micah Johnson
10. OF Trayce Thompson
11. RHP Daniel Webb
12. INF Carlos Sanchez
15. RHP Jake Petricka
16. LHP Scott Snodgress
18. RHP Chris Bassitt
21. INF Rangel Ravelo
23. RHP Myles Jaye
A few notes from this list:
- If it weren't for the signing of Cuban slugger Jose Abreu, Erik Johnson would be the top prospect. The exciting thing for White Sox fans is that both should be in Chicago in April.
- It has been quite a 12-month period for Marcus Semien. At this point last year, he was coming off a solid season in Winston-Salem. Very few people could have predicted his quick rise near the top of the Sox prospect rankings, but he was one of the hardest workers I have seen in my two seasons here in Winston-Salem. I'm thrilled for him.
- This time last year, Carlos Sanchez was the hot prospect. Sure, he did not wow in 2013, but the Venezuela native is still only 21 years old. He is still a legitimate prospect in the system despite coming back to earth a bit in 2013.
- I'm happy to see Chris Bassitt appear on a prospect list. I think people were waiting to see if his strong end to the 2012 season as a starting pitcher would carry over into last season, and it certainly did. He should also appear on Baseball America's Top 30 rankings, which will come out later this offseason.
- Do not be surprised to see both Rangel Ravelo and Myles Jaye continue to climb from the low 20s. Both had strong efforts in 2013, and if they can find similar success in Double-A, they will garner even more praise.
As always, thanks to the guys at FutureSox. Matt Cassidy, one of the site's main writers, visited Winston-Salem late last season and compiled some great videos. They do a great job with their coverage, and I encourage you to check out all their content here.
The first 2014 White Sox prospect list
Baseball America is, in many ways, the bible of baseball prospects. Few publications examine Minor League Baseball more thoroughly than Baseball America, which has released its 2014 White Sox Top 10 Prospect list.
Over the last few seasons, Baseball America has been critical of the White Sox system, but the publication believes that the system is making significant progress:
For the first time since at least 2000, when the White Sox had the game's No. 2 farm system, the organization has prospect depth.
How can one best illustrate this depth? Let's take a look at Baseball America's Top 10 list from this time last year and compare it to this year's.
2013 White Sox Top 10:
1. OF Courtney Hawkins
2. OF Trayce Thompson
3. INF Carlos Sanchez
4. RHP Erik Johnson
5. OF Keenyn Walker
6. LHP Scott Snodgress
7. RHP Andre Rienzo
8. INF Keon Barnum
9. OF Jared Mitchell
10. RHP Chris Beck
2014 White Sox Top 10:
1. INF Jose Abreu
2. RHP Erik Johnson
3. INF Tim Anderson
4. INF Matt Davidson
5. INF Marcus Semien
6. INF Micah Johnson
7. OF Courtney Hawkins
8. OF Trayce Thompson
9. RHP Chris Beck
10. OF Jacob May
Only four members of the 2013 list appear on this year's edition. This reflects the benefits of the transactions the White Sox have made much more than the struggles of a few of these players over the last 12 months.
Not only have these players impressed the White Sox and other baseball people, but many of them have produced at or near the top of the organization. Three of the current Top 10 have played in the big leagues, with Jose Abreu likely to play much of next season on the South Side. Excluding Abreu, only Tim Anderson and Jacob May have yet to play in High-A, and both could start in Winston-Salem in 2014.
Beyond the Top 10 rankings, Baseball America's "Best Tools" and "Top 15 Players 25 and Under" lists, which can also be viewed here, feature more of Chicago's minor league depth.
The White Sox had a tough 2013 in The Show, but the farm system should instill plenty of hope in the fan base for 2014 and beyond.
– Brian
Sanchez, Thompson added to 40-man roster
Two Dash alumni have joined the White Sox 40-man roster. Infielder Carlos Sanchez and Trayce Thompson, key contributors during the Dash's magical 2012 season, have joined the top group in Chicago's organization.
For those who are unclear why this is so important, only the 40 players in this group can appear in the big leagues. Inclusion on a 40-man roster also promises a higher salary.
Sanchez spent his 2013 campaign with Triple-A Charlotte after a breakout 2012 throughout three levels of the system. The Venezuela native hit .241 with 28 RBIs, 50 runs scored and 16 stolen bases with the Knights. A year ago, Sanchez helped the Dash win a first-half division crown while finishing with the best qualifying batting average in the Carolina League.
Thompson was an everyday outfielder on Double-A Birmingham's championship team this year. The former second-round pick posted a .229 average to go along with 15 homers and 73 RBIs with the Barons. He shared the CL's home run lead (24) while spending much of the 2012 season in Winston-Salem.
Both prospects have participated in the Venezuelan Winter League with Tiburones de La Guaira this offseason, and Sanchez has been one of the club's best hitters.
Congratulations to both Carlos and Trayce on the accomplishment! Both will be on the White Sox radar in the coming years, and this is an important step in that process.
– Brian


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Aretha Louise Franklin, March 25, 1942
Music royalty Aretha Franklin was born on March 25, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee. The "Queen of Soul' has enjoyed a successful career that has spanned over fifty years and at 70 years old she doesn't show any signs of slowing down.
She started singing in her father's church in Detroit and in the 60's, she released her first single and the rest is history. Aretha Franklin has a timeless voice and people from many different generations can relate to her soulful sound. Recently she had a battle with her health, but after taking a little time off she is slowly but surely regaining her throne.
Aretha became "The Queen Soul' in the 60's…and she's still reigning today!
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One of my favorite songs by Aretha, 'Natural Woman'


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A court has declared France's "virginity lie" couple to be legally married, despite their appeal to annul their nuptial vows because the wife turned out not to be the virgin she had claimed to be. The case caused an uproar a few months ago because they were initially granted an annulment on the grounds that she had lied about an "essential quality" necessary for the marriage contract. The case was argued as if the issue were simply about a business contract where one party had lied about the goods being delivered, and the first court accepted it on those grounds.
New French Muslim chief on the "virginity lie" case
Mohammed Moussaoui, the newly elected head of France's Muslim council CFCM, has lost no time in criticising the case of a Muslim husband who had his marriage annulled because his wife had lied about being a virgin. The "virginity lie" case caused uproar in France, where critics warned against letting religious issues creep into civil law. Under public pressure, Justice Minister Rachida Dati (herself a Muslim who had a marriage annulled), dropped her original positive assessment and had the decision overturned. The couple remains married until September, when the case will be considered again.
Soundbites but no solutions in French "virginity lie" case
The "virginity lie" case gripping France for the past two days has given French politicians the opportunity to indulge in one of their favourite pastimes — expressing indignation. There's been much more heat than light in this story since it broke last Friday.


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Why Can't The Pope Apologize?
Pope Benedict XVI's American adventure has come to an end.
The Catholic leader performed his final mass at New York's Yankee stadium Sunday, during which he briefly addressed the sex abuse scandal, a running theme in his Stateside visit.
In a glancing reference to the sexual abuse of children by priests, he said that praying for the kingdom of God "means not losing heart in the face of adversity, resistance and scandal. It means overcoming every separation between faith and life, and countering false gospels of freedom and happiness.â€
Benedict and his colleagues obviously want to put the scandal behind them, but such an ending most likely won't come to pass.
There was anger even as the Pope offered his initial abuse address, as he flew over to Washington DC. And that anger does not seem to be dying down. MWC News Editor Robert Weitzel definitely isn't letting the issue be swept under the carpet. He penned a scathing review of the Pope's "apology" and also insists the Pope offer a few more apologies:
A "penitent" Benedict said that he was "deeply ashamed" of the pedophile priests who scandalized the Catholic Church in the U.S. He said, "It is a great suffering for the church in the United States and for the Church in general and for me personally that this could happen." He did not dwell on the suffering of the 13,000 victims, one of whom described what happened to her as an "abuse of her soul."
There are a number of other people to whom he needs to apologize: [such as the] gays whom he called emotionally immature and homosexuality "objectively disordered…
One can't help but wonder why the Pope can't muster an apology.
Perhaps it's his holiness' humility. As he said during his American tour: "No words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse. It is important that those who have suffered be given loving, pastoral attention." While that would make a convenient explanation, it sounds like a cop-out. More likely, the Pope refuses to say "I am sorry," because such a confession would inherently highlight the Church's guilty conscience. And the Pope can't have the international movement implicated in this largely American dust up. As the Catholic Church says,
The basic requirement for a good confession is to have the intention of returning to God like the "prodigal son" and to acknowledge our sins with true sorrow before the priest.
Modern society has lost a sense of sin. As a Catholic follower of Christ, I must make an effort to recognize sin in my daily actions, words and omissions.
As Ashley Hall points out, the Pope previously worked in the Vatican's legal department. He knows the exact depth and horror of the abuse, which, according to the Church, was afflicted on at least 13,000 kids. The Pope's knowledge, however, didn't make it into his claims of shame.
Like an ex-gay preacher man, Pope Benedict XVI's asking for suppression, rather than forgiveness. Thus, the Church's road to reconciliation remains unpaved.
I remember a friend telling me that the Papal letter his priest read out in church regarding the abuse was about a paragraph long and took a minute to read. The letter he read condemning equal marriage was four pages long and seemed to go on forever. One of the main tenets of their opposition to equal marriage was to "protect" children.
I'm sooo over with this POPE nonsense! useless!
The pope can't apologize because of MONEY, dears. If the church formally acknowledges not only the sexual abuse but the subsequent efforts to cover up the events and protect the priests involved, it leaves its considerable coffers exposed to lawsuits by the victims.
As usual with this or any other "religious" organization, it'a all about protecting the finances.
Strange that the pope was so insightful of the abuse problem that he just told them to back to a priest. That must be reassuring.
Catholicism has undoubtedly come face to face with an issue that has been alive and more than well for centuries. Curiously, clerical abuse has only become an issue after the insect and child abuse matter stuck it's ugly head out as a real psychotheraputic consideration. Freud had insisted that most instances of abuse were matters of projected imaginings by the patient. Alice Miller a German shrink wrote a number of books claiming that the imaginations were of real events. Then everyone started claiming the events as real and by golly it was the American priests. Funny that in other countries everyone thinks it would be shameful to finger a priest (go to hell?).
The idiocy behind Catholicism is very different than that behind the Petacostal and Baptist Brand of insanity. Thier beliefs don't have anything to do with the Bible but rather with church "philosophy" that comes down from Artiostotle thru Thomas Aquinas it has to do with a bunch of pretentious crap about what the "natural" purpose of sex = to have babies and nothing else. No jerking off, no pills, abortion, or having sex with your buddys. This is a hundreds of year old pretense of being "philosophical" . Stupid as hell philosohy, but they've been teaching it as "fact" forever and it's not going to change. They would have to admit that all of the Church fathers were full of Crap it they did.
BTW, in relation to incest and child abuse Alice Millar wrote a whole book about why the Germans had such a high incidence and connected it with the barbarism and conformity of Nazism.
He won't apologise since that means admiting that the church did something wrong, andthe Pope is "Infalible"=p.s. can't make mistakes..Doesn't he just look like the wicked old witch from the West!
Fuck her!
Nice hat! But shouldn't it be red to go with his donated Prada shoes.
What do you expect from Ratzi. He once said he had to join the Nazi Party as a youth in order to be able to attend school. I'll bet that made all of those Jewish college students who got gassed at the camps feel SO much better.
They've already paid out roughly three billion dollars to settle lawsuits, but EMB is right, that figure would rise exponentially if they admitted guilt with an apology.
In any case an apology for coddling and enabling boy rapists or for inciting violence against GLBT folks just won't cut it. It would even give them an out they don't deserve. During WWII the papacy supported Hitler's 'war on communismâ€, i.e. the murder of 22 million Soviet citizens. At the same time these dismal reactionaries refused to comment on the Holocaust although they knew all about it. Then, just a few years ago, the vatican 'apologized' and swept it all under the rug.
Instead of asking for one of their rancid apologies a better response might be to demand that Congress redefine them as (a bad) part of the entertainment industry and tax them to death. It seems like a fitting way to treat a death cult.
The priests are being thrown under the bus by the bishops, and this bishop of Rome. I think it's all a diversionary trick to keep attention off the enablers. Why are priests kicked out, but those in authority over them aren't? Why do they themselves lack the balls to resign forthwith?
And such is the Roman Catholic Church and it will always be: man-made bullshit that needs to be destroyed once and for all. Amen.
I got quite fed up of waiting for the church to "reform" and actually admit that it's done wrong over and over and over again… and impliment changes to sure these things don't happen again. Being from Greater Boston, I got to see this scandal up front and clear. Needless to say, between that and the fact they closed schools down in some cases right before kids were going to have their graduations… leaving the Church, as a confirmed catholic, was a much easier decision than I thought it would be. I'm quite glad the Pope isn't being apologetic, though, because the Catholic Church has surely been it's own worse enemy for a very, very long time.
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Fuck that old queen and all the others that came before him. The Catholic church is nothing but an evil, money making, empire and he is the C.E.O. The bullshit he put out is just trying to keep the shareholders from leaving and taking their cash with them. The church is dying a slow death but it will fight till the end, just wait
about 20 years and the only people praying with their rosaries will be in lunatic asylums.
he won't apologize for his harmful words against the gay community, we just have to hope for a more progressive pope next time
The Catholic priests call the police on a homeless person ,sleeping outside on the steps, rather than helping him.
Bottom line, they have no compassion for anyone, except to those who give money, or leave property to them in a will.
Catholic dogma is, , based on superstition, instilling sexual guilt and control. Shows how dumb the media is for reporting his visit 24/7, and the gullible public eats it up, as if he really was second in line to their god.
If you look close at this photo you can see he is holding a bottle of RUSH in his hands.
I seriously doubt that the church will ever refiorm on the m atters related to sex, they are to hard set in everything that they've taught as "phl losophy".
In doung some tangential research, I discovered that they made several new mortal sins, which I can't believe are takren that seriously: one against (1) "two much wealh" and one in opposition to 'social injustice".. both of which seem pretty hypocritical.


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Thinking It Through
Homer at home
I usually travel to my parents' house in Maine for Thanksgiving, and this year was no exception.
And though my parents have only lived in this house for about eight years, it's a place I know well: My grandfather grew up there, and we spent one or two weeks there each summer when I was a kid. On Friday we did one of my favorite activities: The Cliff Walk on Prouts Neck. Prouts Neck is a rocky peninsula just down the road from my parents' house, and the cliff walk winds around the peninsula, over sandy beaches and rocks, offering an expansive view of the sea. The area is best known as the home of the great American artist Winslow Homer, whose studio on Prouts Neck was recently refurbished by the Portland Museum of Art and opened to tour groups. Many of Homer's most famous paintings depict the rugged coastline of Prouts Neck and the pounding surf; his studio features a deck from which he could observe the ocean in all seasons and types of weather.
The first Homer painting I ever saw, a lithograph of the foreboding 1885 oil painting "The Fog Warning," belonged to my grandfather, whose parents knew Homer, and hung in his living room. My great-grandparents ran a hotel on Prouts Neck called the Checkley House and Homer stayed there before moving into his studio. I'm not sure how close my great-grandparents were to Homer, but the Checkley House did feed him; according to my father, Homer would lower a flag when he wanted food. This personal history probably helps explain why I'm such a big fan of Homer, but his work continues to touch and resonate with many people, as I discovered when I went to the Portland Museum of Art's "Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine" exhibit on Saturday.
The exhibit was timed to coincide with the opening of the Winslow Homer studio this fall, and features many of Homer's most notable works, such as "High Cliff, Coast of Maine," "Eight Bells" and "Fox Hunt." There's even an etching of "The Fog Warning," which made me think of my grandfather. The museum also has a webcam that provides visitors with real-time footage of the view from Homer's studio, which means that every time I do the cliff walk I'll appear on the TV that hangs in the lobby.
"Weatherbeaten" is well worth a visit, which shouldn't come as a surprise, considering it showcases some of the greatest works by one of America's greatest artists. Seeing all these paintings together, along with the informative blurbs on the museum walls, helped me understand Homer's worldview a bit better: His sense of man's smallness and insignificance in the face of an uncompromising natural world. To Homer, the natural world was a grim place, where death and danger lurked around every corner or just over the horizon, rather than a place of order and beauty. This is especially clear in his haunting painting "The Fox Hunt," which depicts a fox searching for food in the snow while crows circle ominously overhead.
"Weatherbeaten" ends on Dec. 30, but two other Homer-related exhibits run into February. One of them showcases contemporary photographs of Homer's studio taken by five different photographers, and the other examines the relationship between Homer and the Portland Society of Art, the precursor to the Portland Art Museum. This exhibit features watercolors and paintings by members of the Portland Society of Art, as well as architectural drawings and paintings by Homer himself. Both of these exhibits provide a nice complement to "Weatherbeaten," and present a rich and interesting portrait of the artist and the local arts community.
Of course, if you can't make it to Portland, Maine, anytime soon, the American art collection at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie features 21 Winslow Homer paintings.
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The woman has been in the Montgomery County Detention Facility since July 31, 2012 when she was arrested in the stabbing death of her roommate, Andrew Hawkins, 67, during an apparent argument that same day. Her birthday is Jan. 14.
Corbin is being held in jail on $75,000 bond. A Montgomery County Grand Jury has yet to hear her case.
Hawkins' death was the 14th homicide of 2012 in Montgomery.
The Statistics
Of the 32 homicides recorded in the city of Montgomery during 2012, six involved women. Three women were victims of murders committed by men, and three women are accused of murdering men in 2012.
According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, 9.6 percent of murders involve female offenders and male victims. Some 22.7 percent of murders involve male offenders and female victims.
The vast majority of murders nationally involve male offenders and male victims. That is true in Montgomery where 68 percent of the 25 solved murders apparently involved a male victim and male defendant.
Montgomery Police have arrested male offenders in these cases, but their cases haven't gone to trial yet.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports female victims are more likely than male victims to be killed by a friend or family member.
Women accused of murder
Other females charged by Montgomery Police with murder in 2012 include Yolanda Belser, 33, who is accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend, Tyron James, 42, on April 4, 2012, according to Montgomery Police.
Montgomery Police released that Belser stabbed James in the chest during an argument.
Belser is out of jail on $50,000 bond waiting for the Grand Jury to hear the case.
James' murder was Montgomery's sixth homicide of 2012.
Tasha Atchison, 30, is accused in the Aug. 5, 2012 murder of Paul Tatum Jr., 65.
Authorities believe Atchison and Tatum, who were acquaintances, got into a verbal argument that escalated and Atchison stabbed Tatum, court records stated. Tatum's body was found days later in Lowndes County.
Tatum's homicide was the 16th recorded in Montgomery in 2012.
Women homicide victims
Lori Skinner-Thomas was the first woman murdered in Montgomery in 2012.
Gordon Fowler, a man she was having a romantic relationship with at the time, was convicted in December in her murder.
According to testimony in his trial, Fowler slashed Thomas' throat during an argument in her home on Feb. 18, 2012.
Fowler will be sentenced on Jan. 10.
Glenndy Belle Smith, 46, was killed in a fatal shooting on July 4, 2012. Her boyfriend Gyanendra Willie Norman, 48, was charged with her murder.
Police say Norman shot Smith multiple times during an argument.
Norman has a long criminal history including a previous murder conviction. He is being held at the Montgomery County Detention Facility on $75,000 bond.
Smith was Montgomery's 13th homicide of 2012.
Alfreda Davidson was shot to death on Sept. 10, 2012, according to Montgomery Police. She apparently got caught in an argument with two males at a home on Mill Street.
Antonio Smiley, 23, is charged with reckless homicide in the shooting. He is being held on $75,000 bond in jail.
Davidson was Montgomery's 20th homicide of 2012.
(This article is the second in a series to appear on Al.com/Montgomery this week on homicides committed in Montgomery in 2012.)


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Westlake's Wigs for Kids has announced its 2012 Holiday Campaign to raise $65,000 and help dozens children who have lost their hair due to illness or injury.
Nearly 100 children have already received hairpieces in 2012, and 36 more are waiting to get their new look in 2013.
Children who apply to the organization have lost their hair due to cancer treatment, Alopecia, injury such as burns, or other medical issues.
Hairpieces, supplies, and training are provided at no charge to the child. Salons located near the child's home take measurements used to make the hairpiece and then fit and style it when it is completed.
As many as 30 individual hair donations are required to produce one hairpiece.
Wigs for Kids has received thousands of hair donations in the past year as a result of recent publicized collaborations with Disney on Ice, the Girl Scouts, and football players Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers, A.J. Hawk of the Green Bay Packers, and Thomas Morstead of the New Orleans Saints.
Volunteers are continually needed to sort the donations for shipment to the hairpiece manufacturer.
To find out how you can help, or to make a donation, visit wigsforkids.org
PICTURE PERFECT —Longtime Sun News readers will recognize the work of photographer Mark Madere, whose pictures appeared in Sun editions for several years. The Westlake Porter Public Library is currently hosting an exhibition by Madere that includes photos printed through a special process on an unusual medium, resulting in works that look more like paintings than photographs. Porter spokesperson Elaine Willis says the photos have a vibrant, luminous quality and truly must be seen in person to be appreciated. Visit westlakelibrary.org for viewing times.
NEW YEAR'S SKATE DATE — Rocky River's Hamilton Ice Arena will host a New Year's Eve Family Skate at 6:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. Dec. 31. The cost is $5 or $25 max per family. There will be free skate rental while supplies last. Skaters age 15 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Entertainment and refreshments will be provided for purchase. The event is sponsored by Kiwanis of Rocky River, Rocky River Presbyterian Church, St Christopher Church and Target. Proceeds benefit Recovery Resources Community Challenge.
BACK IN ST. OLAF — Congratulations to Natalie Aloi of Rocky River who recently performed in the annual St. Olaf Christmas Festival in Northfield, Minn. Aloi is a member of the St. Olaf Choir and the daughter of David and Katherine Aloi. The festival is one of the oldest musical celebrations of Christmas in the United States. Started in 1912 by F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf College Music Department, the festival features more than 500 student musicians who are members of five choirs and the St. Olaf Orchestra. The festival is regularly broadcast nationwide on public television and radio.
HITTING THE BOARDS — Gov. John Kasich announced last week that Westlake resident James D. Gottfried has received an appointment to the Ohio State Accountancy Board for a seven-year term which commenced Dec. 20.
CO-OP PRESCHOOL — Parents of children entering preschool during the 2013-14 academic year are invited to visit The Cooperative Preschool of Bay Village for an Open House at 7 p.m. Jan. 7. Open Registration will take place Jan. 14. The preschool is located at 29931 Lake Road. The Co-Op offers programs for children ages 3-5. The classes are limited to 12 children in the three-year-old class and 14 children in the four-year-old class. School is in session from early September to late May.
PAYING IT FORWARD —A Westlake business is playing Santa to five local charities this holiday season. Area agencies received donations totaling $10,000 from PartnerShip. The donations were made in lieu of thank you gifts to customers for their patronage. "The donations made the past three years were so well received by the benefiting agencies and inspired our employees so much that we decided to continue them again this year," said CEO John Finucane. Organizations receiving contributions from PartnerShip are included The Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association of America; ACS Hope Lodge in Cleveland; Ronald McDonald House; Emily's Hopeful Holiday of Amherst and Ames Family Hospice House in Westlake.
BOOK SIGNING — Author Kevin Hearne, who writes "The Iron Druid Chronicles," will be at Rocky River Public Library beginning at 7 p.m. Jan. 9. Hearne will discuss his series of urban fantasy novels set in present day Tempe, Ariz. The fourth novel, "Tricked," was a New York Times best seller. For more information, call Rocky River Public Library at 440-333-7610 or visit rrpl.org.
GREEN SCENE — Former Sun scribe Dave Kich, who now works in the marketing department at Cuyahoga County Community College, shares with us that Tri-C's Westshore Campus Health Careers and Sciences building has earned the College its second LEED Gold certification from the United States Green Building Council. Gold certification represents a significant improvement in operational efficiency, sustainability and health compared with a building simply built to code. "Sustainability at Tri-C means achieving the College's educational and community missions with a sense of responsibility for preserving the environment, promoting the economy and improving society as a whole," said campus President Dr. J. Michael Thomson. "The Health Careers and Sciences building offers expanded learning opportunities to our community and provides an enhanced academic experience in a healthy, resource-efficient space."
West Shore Chatter includes information on people, places and organizations from Bay Village, Rocky River and Westlake. Contact Joe Noga on Twitter @JoeNoga_SunNews or via email at email@example.com.


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Louisiana recorded 678 foreclosure filings in February, up 39.8 percent from January and 4.3 percent from February the year before, according to the California research firm RealtyTrac.
Louisiana ranked No. 40 among all states in the number of foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions. Nevada, Arizona and California posted the largest number of foreclosure filings.
"The increase in foreclosure activity from January to February is somewhat surprising, given that many of the foreclosure prevention efforts and moratoria in place in January were extended through most of February as well," said James Saccacio, chief executive of RealtyTrac.


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it might come back in wii form but we will have to see as for multiplayer in was in 2 so yeah probaly in it
OK, I heard this a few places and they got deleted so I'm hoping its true. Due to the delay of Metroid Prime 3 there is supposed to be a rerelease of the first 2 GC prime with new Wii contorls as shown during previous demonstrations. The games are supposed to come in a pack like zelda OOT and MM on GC, Can anyone confirm this and a release date as I didn't own a gamecube and would love to catch up on these games? Also will there be multiplayer?
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If you never try you may never fail, but you will also never succeed.
it might come back in wii form but we will have to see as for multiplayer in was in 2 so yeah probaly in it
I've not heard of them re-releasing any of the Prime games.
Supposing they did, the only reason I'd buy it is if the updated version had co-op.
i heard metroid prime 3 will not have multiplayer
You heard wrong yeah I didn't play the first two I mean I played em at friends houses and stuff but that's about it, it would be cool if all 3 came together they are a trilogy
Spoiler Alert!Metric: Tiger, you're posts always make me laugh. Then they make me feel a bit sorry for you. =\
The_Next_Tiger: Thanks man I love to make people laughSpoiler Alert!SAVE A COW EAT A VEGETARIANSpoiler Alert!Blackjack: video games come out on tuesdays, Though they do make exceptions.
Spoiler Alert!Sarai_132: who fuking cares! calm downSpoiler Alert!Chicagoan: I have Pokemon Rangers game, and I beated it.Spoiler Alert!JoonKimDDS: Sometimes wiimote requires too much muscle work to perform a move.Spoiler Alert!Mushroomedmario: the moral is only trust wikipedia...for everything
No one knows for sure yet.
Although I've heard a number of people here at wiichat who seem pretty dang sure of themselves that MP3 will have (online) multiplayer.
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Make no mistake, Major League Soccer has great affection for Eric Wynalda.
Preserved in a prominent location inside the league's Manhattan headquarters is the jersey and ball he used when scoring the first goal in MLS history. The shirt Wynalda's San Jose Clash wore that day in April 1996 is a garish mess of puke green, teal, red and several other colors. It's not on display because it's pretty. It's a tribute to a moment and the man who made it--a man who MLS executive VP Dan Courtemanche called "a legend in our league."
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- Substrate | Gallery of Computation
"Lines likes crystals grow on a computational substrate. A simple perpendicular growth rule creates intricate city-like structures."
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WARREN ELLIS is a graphic novelist and author of the NYT best-selling novel GUN MACHINE. His graphic novel GLOBAL FREQUENCY is being developed for television by Jerry Bruckheimer and FOX. He is the writer of the graphic novel RED, adapted into the film starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren. His next book is NORMAL from FSG.


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All Blog Posts Tagged 'vinyl' - TwiFans-Twilight Saga books and Movie Fansite 2016-10-24T16:06:15Z http://twifans.com/profiles/blog/feed?tag=vinyl&xn_auth=no Florence + The Machine Interview and Origami Vinyl Concert tag:twifans.com,2010-10-04:2644331:BlogPost:4399594 2010-10-04T20:57:23.000Z Alison Genet http://twifans.com/profile/AlisonGenet Thought you'd enjoy this little video interview with Florence plus her recent very intimate acoustic, last minute performance at Origami Vinyl in LA. I love small venues and performers who let their fans enjoy once in a lifetime performances. Enjoy.

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 Thanks Marni from… Thought you'd enjoy this little video interview with Florence plus her recent very intimate acoustic, last minute performance at Origami Vinyl in LA. I love small venues and performers who let their fans enjoy once in a lifetime performances. Enjoy.
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 Thanks Marni from SneakAttackMedia *WINNER ANNOUNCED* Win a limited edition UK only vinyl signed by Florence (Florence + The Machine)! tag:twifans.com,2010-09-21:2644331:BlogPost:4283361 2010-09-21T18:30:00.000Z Alison Genet http://twifans.com/profile/AlisonGenet

Florence of Florence + The Machine has autographed a limited edition 7" vinyl record to be given away from Twifans.com to it's members. YAY! Florence + The…

Florence of Florence + The Machine has autographed a limited edition 7" vinyl record to be given away from Twifans.com to it's members. YAY! Florence + The Machine's 'Heavy in your arms' is one of my favorite songs on the Eclipse soundtrack. Now you can own a piece of history from a band that will forever be linked with Eclipse.

To enter:
1. Be a member of Twifans.com, if not, JOIN!
2. Just gush about Florence + The Machine basically!
Consider this an essay...
Please tell us how much you love 'Heavy in your arms' by Florence + The Machine from the Eclipse soundtrack. Do you love it's placement in the movie? What do the lyrics mean to you? Is Florence speaking for Bella? Any fan-made videos with the song we need to see?

What you win:
Limited edition UK only vinyl signed by Florence!
"Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" 7" vinyl
 A. "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" / B. "Are You Hurting The One You Love"

Rules:

This contest is only open to the U.S. and Canada (sorry twifans...I don't make the rules on this one). Your entry must me entered by 9/24 by 12 p.m. PST.

 Want to be a Florence + The machine groupie!? Follow their every move...

http://florenceandthemachine.net/
http://www.facebook.com/florenceandthemachine
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Download "Cosmic Love (Short Club Remix)"
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Check out the video for 'Dog Days Are Over' that was performed at the 2010 MTV VMAS.

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Thank you Marni from Sneak Attack Media.

After a weekend of debating between the entries because there were such good entries the winner of the autographed album goes to......

MALLORY PROVERBS!

Here is Mallory's entry:

Heavy In Your Arms… that song alone makes me a fan of Florence+Machine!
 Wicked, Definitely Dangerously vigorous deeply…..EDWARD BELLA AND JACOB!!!

 Love it!

 One thing about Twilight soundtracks they tell the story of the movie to the t.
 "Heavy In your Arms is about the trio that is-Edward,Bella and Jacob. I
 first heard the song, when I purchased the Eclipse soundtrack from
 Itunes. Usually, when the twilight soundtrack comes out I have a habit
 of waiting to hear the movie, to see exactly where they placed the
 song. But, I absolutely had to listen to three songs from soundtrack
 (because of the artist and song title) Eclipse (All Yours) by Metric,
 Let's get lost by Beck & Bat for Lashes and Heavy In your Arms by
 Florence+The Machine!!!! First and foremost I couldn't wait to hear the
 title of the song in the actual song-and why it was titled that. Then I
 heard the song- and it literally made me cry-you could so tell Florence
 puts her energy and passion into the song-its like she sang from
 personal experience. She brings such soul to music she blazes the song
 with her energy. I could just picture the recording studio staff, when
 she sang the song they must have balled their eyes out!!! My sister and
 I played the song again and again after we saw Eclipse for the
 billionth time. It sends chills down your spine!! Not may artist can do
 that. Beeeeeautiful fervent voice plus she's a redhead!!!! And, she was
 soooooo wicked at the VMAS!

 After seeing Eclipse I just couldn't understand why HIYA wasn't placed
 in the actual movie!! Its such a paramount,pivotal conclusive song
 essentially revealing Bella's feeling towards Edward and Jacob and one
 of the most difficult choices in her life. I could just picture it
 now-if it was placed during the actual movie-In one of the final scene
 of Eclipse when Bella makes her choice known to Jacob-like there was
 even a choice! TEAM EDWARD! Lol. That would have been so monumental!!!

 The lyrics of "Heavy In Your Arms" is just basically sums up the angst
 and drama of way way back in Twilight to literally Eclipse- and of the
 love triangle that Is Twilight. To me it's mostly about how undecided
 and torn Bella is. To Bella she seems to be the only one who's getting
 older and weaker-compared to everyone else around her-due to the fact
 she's human. She's dragging her significant other down."' Is it worth
 that Edward and Jacob risking their families' lives-their lives.
 "And is it worth the wait,
 All this killing time?
 Are you strong enough to stand,
 Protecting both your heart and mine?"
 Bella often admits throughout the series that she is a burden ,baggage,
 too much for Edward. She sometimes even blames herself for her downfall
 (New Moon). Bella always felt she wasn't good enough for Edward- &
 what happened in New Moon didn't help! But, still Bella is unable to
 let go. "Wrapped around your ankles". But at the same time the song reflects **Edward/Bella** -their love
 ." My love has concrete feet, my love's an iron ball
 Wrapped around your ankles, over the waterfall"
 Edward has an unrelenting love for Bella-there's no turning back for him.

 "I was a heavy heart to carry
 My beloved was weighed down
 My arms around his neck
 My fingers laced a crown
 I was a heavy heart to carry
 My feet dragged across the ground

 Bella feels selfish for loving Edward-her problems (being human most of
 all-in the supernatural world that is Edwards life) adds problems to
 his own.
 The line:
 "And he took me to the river
 Where he slowly let me drow"
 Bella almost doesn't blame Edward for leaving her in New Moon, and her
 lack of faith in Edward's love,ended up slightly causing her to depend
 on someone else:Jacob!

 "Who is the betrayer the killer in the crowd? The one who creeps in corridors and never makes a sound" is most definitely a metaphor for love. She is too scared to admit her love like in the lines:

 "This will be my last confession
 "I love you" never felt like any blessing
 Whisper it like it's a secret
 Uttered to condemn the one who hears it
 With a heavy heart"
 Bella is basically torn between living the life she should live, and
 the life she wants. Regardless of what everyone has to say,or the fact
 that she broke her best friends heart (Jacob)-It is WHAT SHE WANTS-and
 it shall be!

 As I read New Moon, I could really feel the anguish and the extreme
 heartache Bella must have felt. Thinking about it now still makes my
 heart hurt for her. Then Edward comes back, and she's torn between the
 two of them. When I heard Heavy in your arms, and then I see the video
 its so dangerously raw. She is literally being dragged-its drastically
 creative. The black and white film adds that touch. I could so relate
 to it, a love that shouldn't exist but you can't seem to control it!
 Its best of things and it is the worst of things. It can either destroy
 your soul or you can't live without it-ITS CALLED LOVE! And, sometimes
 it bloody hurts.

 This song is sums up the whole twilight series up to eclipse. It's such
 an Eclipse'ish song. She could get both the men she loves killed. She
 feels guilty for her unrequited love for Jacob. She also felt guilty
 for hurting Edward as she tried to hang onto both of them.

 This line is basically like in the book when Bella realizes she loves Jacob, "I love you" never felt like any blessing"
 in the book she told Jacob, that he didn't gain anything by making her
 realize that she loves him because she's staying/choose Edward. WHO
 WOULDN'T OBVIOUSLY!

 The love of Bella and Edward is like anything else and the final line
 is about Edward. He's strong enough to protect them both. In the end
 Bella realizes that, she is worth his love. FOREVER!!
 "I was a heavy heart to carry
 But he never let me down
 When he held me in his arms
 My feet never touched the ground"

 I BLOODY love this song, the emotion in the lyrics is soooo Edward,
 Bella and Jacob. Its so Eclip………se. FLORENCE DID a friggin' great job!


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Many of our photo posts to date have been centered around a John Deere tractor, the flowers in the field around it, and big picture photos of events and tractors in action. Sometimes we should stop to see the beauty in the simplicity of a single item – the John Deere tractor tire. Many of us growing up on the farm can remember looking up and seeing how big those tires seemed. Today we pay homage to the John Deere tire:
Someone had the right idea for a place to relax – inside the tire of a tractor on display in the John Deere Museum in Moline, Illinois:
Hay is for horses…and tires:
Beautiful shot of a John Deere 3020 tractor tire:
Rear tire of a 1935 John Deere Model A tractor seen at an Arizona Flywheelers tractor show in Cottonwood, Arizona:


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The 'ego self', or 'mind', is not the 'true self'.
We are all part of the Great Unity, or Ultimate Source, and to recognise this fact and drop the illusion of separateness and self is the key to enlightenment.
Time is an illusion, and we should learn to live in the present or 'eternal Now'.
Our attempts to gain primary fulfilment from external pleasures - be they material possessions, political or work-related power, success and recognition, or even the perfect loving relationship - carry with them an equal likelihood of pain and disappointment. By contrast, real fulfilment is an inner 'state of being'.
red pill is materialism/biologism/hedonism
THE arguments which are in common use to justify a high opinion of woman have now been examined in all except a few points to which I shall recur, from the point of view of critical philosophy, and have been controverted. I hope that I have justified my deliberate choice of ground, although, indeed, Schopenhauer's fate should have been a warning to me. His depreciation of women in his philosophical work "On Women," has been frequently attributed to the circumstance that a beautiful Venetian girl, in whose company he was, fell in love with the extremely handsome personal appearance of Byron; as if a low opinion of women were not more likely to come to him who had had the best not the worst fortune with them. The practice of merely calling any one who assails woman a misogynist, instead of refuting argument by argument, has much to commend it. Hatred is never impartial, and, therefore, to describe a man as having an animus against the object of his criticism, is at once to lay him open to the charge of insincerity, immorality, and partiality, and one that can be made with a hyperbole of accusation and evasion of the point, which only equal its lack of justification. This sort of answer never fails in its object, which is to exempt the vindicator from refuting the actual statements. It is the oldest and handiest weapon of the large majority of men, who never wish to see woman as she is. No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
If she refuse to be kissed, kiss her all the same. She may struggle to begin with. "Horrid man!" she'll say; but if she fights, 'twill be a losing battle. Nevertheless, don't be too rough with her and hurt her dainty mouth. Don't give her cause to say that you're a brute. And if, after you've kissed her, you fail to take the rest, you don't deserve even what you've won. What more did you want to come to the fulfilment of your desires? Oh, shame on you! It was not your modesty, it was your stupid clownishness. You would have hurt her in the struggle, you say? But women like being hurt. What they like to give, they love to be robbed of. Every woman taken by force in a hurricane of passion is transported with delight; nothing you could give her pleases her like that. But when she comes forth scathless from a combat in which she might have been taken by assault, however pleased she may try to look, she is sorry in her heart. Phœbe was raped, and so, too, was her sister Elaira; and yet they loved their ravishers not a whit the less.
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Brookfield mayor's Milwaukee apartments rack up code violations
Broken windows, fire hazards among 50 filed
As a retired police officer, Brookfield Mayor Jeff Speaker says he believes in the "broken windows" theory of community policing, that being vigilant on nuisance issues will help stem bigger problems.
But a Milwaukee apartment building he has owned for a year has numerous broken windows, prompting some of the 50 property code violations that city inspectors filed against him this week.
Speaker said tenants have broken windows and refused to pay for the damage. Some tenants said some windows have been broken since before Speaker bought the foreclosed 20-unit building for $423,500 in May 2007.
Other code violations filed include an uncapped gas line, which a Milwaukee city official called a potential explosion hazard; fire extinguisher issues; two toilets not fully attached to the floor; a defective downspout; and water-damaged plaster.
The mayor said he has invested possibly $30,000 in repairs to the building that he says prior owners failed to maintain, and he plans to do much more. He planned to meet today with the Milwaukee Department of City Development to explore possible loan assistance.
"I'm looking to probably invest about $100,000 with the city's help,�? Speaker said.
He said he would install new roofing, new windows and better electrical equipment.
Tenants said Speaker and his on-site property manager have let problems languish for months and only began stepping up efforts after WISN-TV (Channel 12) did a report last week on the problems at his property at 4505 N. 36th St.
Speaker had five code violations in his year as landlord, the most recent issued in March for litter problems. But city inspectors added 50 violations after a visit this week.
The city gave him two weeks to fix the public safety problems, such as the gas line and fire extinguishers. He has three months to correct the remaining issues.
Speaker said he would work quickly to fix the problems but worried that three months might not be enough time.
"I would love to turn around tomorrow and make it look like a million bucks,�? he said.
He said he inherited some problematic tenants who have not paid rent, and he has tried to work with them. He said he has evicted tenants from about a half-dozen of his 20 units, taking two to court. But he said he also has some very good tenants.
The apartment building has a checkered past, with an above-average number of inspection visits in recent years, including under Speaker's ownership, said Todd Weiler, spokesman for the city's Department of Neighborhood Services, which handles inspections.
"I credit him for trying to turn it around,�? Weiler said. "We recognize it's difficult to bring it out of a crappy condition into a compliant condition.
"But you should know that when you buy it and have hammer and nail ready,�? Weiler said. "It's time. The proof will be in the pudding. We'll see what happens to his promises.�?
Debris cleanup
According to city records, Speaker did not respond to orders in January to remove debris and a junk vehicle, Weiler said, prompting the city to send contractors to do the work and then bill Speaker $442, including a $100 fee for repeated litter issues.
"When a (city) contractor has to go out, it's a sign of very poor management,�? Weiler said. "Whoever he has doing it is not on top of things.�?
Speaker said he never received a city letter. When his on-site property manager told him, Speaker checked and found no debris. He said the vehicle had no connection to his tenants and he was going to appeal the bill.
Speaker said the local alderman, Willie Wade, supports his revitalization plans and agrees more time is needed to undo damage.
Wade did not respond to requests for an interview.
Asked why he bought the Milwaukee apartment building instead of one in Brookfield, Speaker said he couldn't afford one in Brookfield.
"It's an investment, and they can be fairly lucrative if you have a good tenant mix,�? Speaker said of Milwaukee rental properties.
He said he would like to get tenants who are on rent assistance "because you're guaranteed your money.�? But he said he couldn't do that until he made more repairs.
"I'm trying to make a difference down there,�? he said.
Speaker said that when he goes to the building, some children greet him with hugs, and this week, he stopped to help one boy learn how to ride a bike. He wants to hold annual barbecues there.
One woman whom Speaker stopped short of evicting, Meleena Johnson, said Speaker was a nice guy who was trying to improve the building.
But she and tenants in two other units showed numerous problems Wednesday, including holes in walls and rotten wood under sinks. Speaker agreed that mice were an issue and said he has hired an exterminator to visit, possibly today.
Pearl Johnson, who said she has lived there for about two years with her aunt and three children, said she has had water damage in her ceilings, with rain falling through light fixtures. She showed how her toilet moved up and down off the ground, and the shower head didn't work.
Her living room window was broken about three months ago when her daughter threw a rock at it, but Speaker has refused to fix it unless Johnson pays for it.
She said the single-pane windows are cheap and she shouldn't have to pay, especially with other repairs not done. She admits she is behind in rent.


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The leaks are still coming out of the Jets' headquarters, despite some front-office turnover, and this latest one is pretty big.
The Jets could be interested in trading star cornerback Darrelle Revis, according to a report from CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora, who cites people close to Woody Johnson.
Revis, often regarded when healthy as the NFL's best cornerback, is scheduled to make $3 million in base salary plus $3 million in other bonuses next season and will be coming off a torn ACL he suffered early in 2012.
The Star-Ledger's Conor Orr notes Revis won't be this cheap for much longer and a trade makes sense from a budget standpoint.
New GM John Idzik says conversations about Revis are 'premature'. Idzik also said he doesn't see the Jets' cap situation as a hindrance, even though another GM candidate said it was a mess.
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