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Three Jersey City men have been charged in the shooting death of a Jersey City man last week, the same homicide in which the man who gunned down Police Officer Melvin Santiago was wanted, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office announced this morning.
Daniel Wilson, 23, Rashid A. Bronk, 22, and Rafael A. Torres Jr., 27, have been charged with with felony murder and carjacking degree in the death of 26-year-old Michael Siegel on Jewett Avenue on July 10.
Wilson, who authorities said was being sought along with Lawrence Campbell after Campbell was killed by police after he fatally shot Santiago, was arrested and charged with firearms and drug offenses later that day.
Bronk's bail was set at $350,000 cash only, while bail for Wilson was set at $500,000 cash only and bail for Torres was set at $250,000 cash or bond, Hudson County Acting Prosecutor Guy Gregory said in a news release.
Bronk had just gotten out of prison on May 3 after serving nearly two years for drug distribution on school property and escaping, according to state Department of Corrections records.
The Prosecutor's Homicide Unit, along with Jersey City police, arrested a wheelchair-bound Torres yesterday afternoon on Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City, near the building where Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop was meeting with local clergy to discuss the recent spate of violence. Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Gene Rubino confirmed the man in the wheelchair is Torres.
Bronk turned himself in to homicide detectives last night, Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Gene Rubino said.
At a press conference after Santiago was shot dead on Sunday, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop said that Campbell was wanted in a recent murder and that Wilson was a "person of interest" in the case.
Siegel was sitting in his car near West Side Avenue at 4 a.m. when he was shot in the chest and he was rushed to the Jersey City Medical Center. He died at 12:20 a.m. on July 11, authorities said.


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Former LSU basketball player Chris Johnson was claimed off waivers by the Hornets the team announced on Tuesday. bThe terms of the deal were not announced.
Johnson, 26, was waived by Portland March 15 after playing in 20 games for the Blazers this season and 10 last year after being signed in march of 2011. He also played four games for the Boston Celtics during the 2010-11 season.
A native Washington D.C., Johnson was a member of the NBA Development League's Dakota Wizards during the 2010-11 season. He appeared in 35 games (34 starts) for the Wizards, averaging 16.2 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game en route to being named a 2011 NBA Development League All-Star and the 2010-11 Defensive Player of the Year for the league. He also placed second in the NBA D-League Showcase Dunk Contest during All-Star weekend.
Johnson (6-11, 210) played four seasons for LSU, averaging 7.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.00 blocks in 88 games. He posted collegiate bests of 7.2 rebounds and 2.71 blocks during his senior season in Baton Rouge in 2008-09. Following his time at LSU, Johnson played overseas in Turkey and Poland before his time in Dakota.


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WYOMING, Michigan — A month ago, it was one of the best fights in the East Michigan Golden Gloves tournament.
Saturday night, Samuel Browning of Port Huron and Calvin Seay of Pontiac will reprise that battle on a larger stage.
Both boxers dominated their opponents Friday night in the semifinals of the Michigan Golden Gloves and will meet for the 152-pound state novice title at the Grand Valley National Guard Armory.
Seay pounded out a 5-0 decision over Dominique Rocha, rocking the Lansing boxer repeatedly with hard rights and forcing two standing eight-counts in the second round.
Browning then battered Jenison's Tyler Kohl for nearly three minutes before the referee stopped the fight midway through the second round.
Tonight's final should be much closer.
Browning has two split decisions over Seay in his 9-2 record, including the East Michigan semifinals on March 19. Browning went on to beat Genesee's Nate Selley in the final, but when Selley suffered an injury in the fight, trainer Jesse Ascencio pulled him out of the state tournament.
That allowed Seay (6-5) to get back in contention and set up the rematch.
"It's a good battle," said Browning. "The guy (Seay) has power in both his hands and he's long and lanky.
"The last two fights have been good, so we're going to put on a show here."
Jonathan Jeshurun put on a good show at 201 novice, coming back from a first-round knockdown to floor Grandville's Eric McCombs at 57 seconds of the second round. A straight right put McCombs on the canvas for about a minute.
"He caught me with a nice right hand on the chin because I was dropping my hand a little," said Jeshurun, a Lake Orion resident boxing for Pontiac Unity. "My coach told me to keep that left hand real high. I was able to block his punches and it turned the fight around."
Saginaw boxers acquitted themselves well, led by defending national champion Ernie Garza, who earned a mandatory stoppage of Alex Newton with three standing eight-counts in the second round at 119 open.
National quarterfinalist Jose Bernal (152 open) and Robert Sims (201+ novice) won unanimous decisions, and even Morris Young drew a partial standing ovation despite his loss at 141 open.
"I got a lot of heart. Everybody tells me that," said Morris, who absorbed a barrage of punches in the third round but kept swinging to the end. "I just tried to last and bang with him."
West Michigan leads the team competition 13-8.
Winners of tonight's open division finals advance to the national tournament May 4-9 in Salt Lake City.
Michigan Golden Gloves
Novice Division
112 pounds — Delbert Sutherland (Grand Rapids) dec. Michael Hernandez (Adrian) 5-0
119 — Defrim Beqiri (Kentwood) dec. Michael Abraham (Davison) 5-0
132 — Ruben Robelin (Grand Rapids) def. Bryan Cicerchi (Adrian) RSC-II 1:11
132 — Burim Beqiri (Kentwood) dec. Danny Cirilo (Bridgeport) 5-0
141 — Ricardo Rios (Cedar Springs) def. Robert Rushing (Mt. Morris) RSC-II :45
152 — Calvin Seay (Pontiac) dec. Dominique Rocha (Lansing) 5-0
152 — Samuel Browning (Port Huron) def. Tyler Kohl (Jenison) RSC-II 1:17
165 — Jake Morse (Manitou Beach) dec. Bryant Picon (Michigan City) 3-2
178 — Cory McLean (Petoskey) dec. Albert Wilson (Pontiac) 3-2.
201 — Ryan Scholten (Marne) dec. Ismael Delgado (Pontiac) 4-1
201 — Jonathan Jeshurun (Lake Orion) def. Eric McCombs (Grandville) RSC-II :57
201+ — Robert Sims (Saginaw) dec. Thad Berkhousen (St. Johns) 5-0
Open Division
119 — Ernie Garza (Bridgeport) def. Alex Newton (Michigan City) RSC-II 3:00
125 — Vincent Jennings (Grand Rapids) dec. Merrill Martinez (Unionville) 4-1
141 — Johnnie Garcia (Muskegon) dec. Morris Young (Saginaw) 4-1
141 — Michael White (Muskegon) dec. Arnold Smith (Saginaw) 5-0
152 — Jose Bernal (Saginaw) dec. William Johnson (Grand Rapids) 5-0
165 — DeAnthony Walker-Hadley (Benton Harbor) dec. Fabian Ramirez (Akron) 5-0
165 — Brandon Larvadon (Lansing) dec. Spencer Weiss (Jackson) 5-0
178 — Vernon Washington (Saginaw) dec. Antwan Herndon (Benton Harbor) 5-0
201+ — Kyle McNutt (Battle Creek) dec. Matt Maciag (Bay City) 5-0
Results key — dec.-decision, def.-defeated; RSC-referee stopped contest; RSCH-referee stopped contest head blows; I-first round; II-second round; III-third round, ret.-retired, DQ-disqualification.


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The Family Acid
August 19, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
This is the last week to see the photography of Roger Steffens and the Family Acid at Benrubi Gallery, in New York. Taken mainly in the sixties and seventies, Steffens's self-consciously psychedelic pictures "imagine a different America, one of strange beauty and mystic truth," as his son Devon put it. The photos are on display through August 26.
The Bard Blazed, and Other News
August 11, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Shakespeare scholars are reeling from a discovery so major, so irrefutably epochal, that it sets the entire field on its head: four clay pipes found in his Stratford-upon-Avon garden contain cannabis residue. Historians may never know for certain if Shakespeare composed his masterworks among purple plumes of the dankest kush, but for the sake of sensationalism, we of the media have no choice but to assume he did. T-shirts featuring the Bard ripping tubes, smoking bowls, and otherwise enjoying a good old-fashioned toke will be available in novelty shops near you by C.O.B. today. I had nothing to do with them.
- A 1991 letter from Elena Ferrante to her Italian publisher, Sandra Ozzola, lays out her approach to promotion with the utmost candor: "I've already done enough for this long story: I wrote it. If the book is worth anything, that should be sufficient. I won't participate in discussions and conferences, if I'm invited. I won't go and accept prizes, if any are awarded to me. I will never promote the book, especially on television, not in Italy or, as the case may be, abroad … I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won't."
- In which Avies Platt, "an art mistress at Wellingborough County High School for Girls in Northamptonshire," has a stirring encounter with an aging W. B. Yeats: "she met the seventy-two-year-old Yeats at an open meeting of the Sex Education Society, a group headed by controversial sexologist Norman Haire … As the evening progressed it became obvious that the elderly poet's interest in Platt went further than conversation—she mentions him sitting outside the Athenaeum club in Pall Mall and expressing his regrets at 'the stupid rule that we may not take ladies in after midnight.' "
- Let's talk about trolling, and while we're at it, let's throw some existentialism in there, too: "If the Internet was predicated on everyone co-existing on a level playing field, able to distribute and share knowledge without the previous gatekeepers of status or affiliation to slow things down (perhaps one of the main benefits of having user names rather than real names), trolling takes that utopian possibility and throws it by the wayside … trolling is a destructive way of addressing the ambivalent state of being that is life online, that is, being connected to millions and even billions of people simultaneously, but being incredibly isolated, separated from the nuance of subtle body language, body odor, touch, taste, et cetera."
- Today in new applications for 3-D printing: haute couture. At Paris Fashion Week, Chanel presented a version of its classic two-piece suit: "Using selective laser sintering—a high powered laser fusing together tiny particles—much of the suit vest was sculpted, appearing boxlike, with no sewing necessary … With endless possibilities in shape, texture and transparency, the experimentation of 3-D printing techniques and materials has a worthy place on the cutting edge of couture. But fashion designers must learn how to generate computer files and complex computer-aided drafting techniques for the printing process to work."
Baudelaire Gets Baked
April 20, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
From Les Paradis Artificiels (Artificial Paradises), Baudelaire's 1860 book on hashish, a drug he referred to as "the playground of the seraphim" and "a little green sweetmeat." Along with Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Honoré de Balzac, and others, Baudelaire belonged to Club des Hashischins, a Paris group that conducted monthly séances at the Hôtel de Lauzun to experiment with drugs. Translated from French by Aleister Crowley, 1895.
Generally speaking, there are three phases in hashish intoxication, easy enough to distinguish … Most novices, on their first initiation, complain of the slowness of the effects: they wait for them with a puerile impatience, and, the drug not acting quickly enough for their liking, they bluster long rigmaroles of incredulity, which are amusing enough for the old hands who know how hashish acts. The first attacks, like the symptoms of a storm which has held off for a long while, appear and multiply themselves in the bosom of this very incredulity. At first it is a certain hilarity, absurdly irresistible, which possesses you. These accesses of gaiety, without due cause, of which you are almost ashamed, frequently occur and divide the intervals of stupor, during which you seek in vain to pull yourself together. The simplest words, the most trivial ideas, take on a new and strange physiognomy. You are surprised at yourself for having up to now found them so simple. Incongruous likenesses and correspondences, impossible to foresee, interminable puns, comic sketches, spout eternally from your brain. The demon has encompassed you; it is useless to kick against the pricks of this hilarity, as painful as tickling is! From time to time you laugh to yourself at your stupidity and your madness, and your comrades, if you are with others, laugh also, both at your state and their own; but as they laugh without malice, so you are without resentment. Read More »
An Exciting Career in Forensic Sculpting, and Other News
January 21, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- "They lost their identity … We're going to give it back to them." In which the New York City medical examiner's office teams up with fine art students in a last-ditch effort to ID crime victims: "Each student was given a skull—a replica made by the medical examiner's office of each victim—and a block of clay to sculpt a face. The students were told to incorporate whatever information investigators recorded in finding and examining the skeleton, including estimates of the victim's age and height, maybe a hair type or style, and possible clothing sizes." (Listen to the sound of hundreds of television executives thinking, Could this be our next big crime series?)
- Leslie Jamison on the enigma of natural beauty in Whitman's Specimen Days: "Part of our pleasure in reading his book … is not just feeling close to his sensory perceptions, but feeling invited more deeply into our own—to feel the world more fully in all its snorting ice and malachite cabbages and whirling locusts and wriggling worms."
- In the thirties, a Grade A swinging-dick asshole named Harry Anslinger took over the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, then on the verge of being dissolved. So he set himself a reasonable goal: lock away Billie Holiday for drug abuse. Jazz to him sounded "like the jungles in the dead of night." His agents wrote that "many among the jazzmen think they are playing magnificently when under the influence of marihuana but they are actually becoming hopelessly confused and playing horribly."
- In sci-fi, where exactly do the science and fiction collide? "Science writing isn't the same as fiction writing. Sometimes people who read popular science about scientific theories like loop quantum gravity say 'it's like reading science fiction.' But no, it isn't."
- Painting and boozing in Belgium: Two years after Waterloo, J. M. W. Turner "visited the Belgian battlefield where the Brits, Prussians, Dutch and Belgians finally put paid to Napoleon's dreams of empire. The resulting painting, an unnerving clash between dark, roiling clouds and corpses illuminated by the torches of the bereaved, is no paean to victory … What does a thirsty man—which Turner was, by all accounts—drink after a day sketching carnage?"
Stephen Marche and Arthur Phillips on Shakespeare
July 21, 2011 | by The Paris Review
The cult of Shakespeare is one of the weirdest and most persistent in literature. This spring, Arthur Phillips and Stephen Marche each published books on the obsession. Phillips's novel The Tragedy of Arthur portrays the son of a con man who attempts to establish whether a quarto of a lost Shakespeare play—reproduced in stunning convincingness in the book—was actually written by Shakespeare. Stephen Marche's How Shakespeare Changed Everything confronts the various ways that Shakespeare has affected everything, from sex to the English language, the assassination of Lincoln, and the mania for skulls on clothing. They discussed their various journeys into the heart of this cult by e-mail.
Recently a South African archeologist named Francis Thackeray—which to me sounds like the most made-up real name ever—proposed digging up Shakespeare's body so he could tell whether Shakespeare smoked pot. Two questions occured to me when the story emerged: Why the hell do people keep wanting to dig up Shakespeare? And isn't there something better we could do with his body than tell whether he smoked pot?
Let's just stipulate that he did smoke pot. Constantly. Now what? What does that tell us about his working habits? About his daily life? What does that tell us about the plays, poems, et cetera? About Elizabethan theatrical life? Nothing. All it does is make it easier for some despairing high school teachers to feel like they can now "connect" with their kids.
I know. I sort of feel that way at every biographical revelation about Shakespeare. If he was a pot smoker, does that explain how he wrote "Light thickens, and the crows make way to the rooky wood"? I know many, many pot smokers. They do not remind me of Shakespeare. But I felt that way even with Greenblatt's Will in the World. Lets give him a title: "Catholic." So what? If he was a Catholic he was just about the most unusual Catholic who ever lived. People seem to want to reduce him, to avoid the mystery of him.
Pot, High School, and Chuck Norris
January 12, 2011 | by Josh MacIvor-Andersen
Part three of a five-part story. Click here to read part 1 and part 2.
Hillbilly Jim went through a few incarnations on his path to becoming Hillbilly. Long before he met the Earthquake, he was simply Jim Morris, a large kid from a small town in Kentucky. Then he started wrestling in Tennessee, Canada, working small-time gigs as "Harley Davidson," an enormous, leather-clad biker. Things got big for Hillbilly when he met with WWF representatives who figured it had been a long enough stretch since a country-boy character had gone national (Haystack Calhoun and the Scufflin' Hillbillies had retired years before).
They gave him a shot: put him in overalls, wrote him a theme song, threw him into a story line that included getting trained by the most popular wrestler of all time, Hulk Hogan. And now the fans love him. Fourteen-year-old me loves him, too. He is action figured. He wrestles in front of 94,000 people, one of the largest indoor crowds ever assembled, and everyone screams his name.
I'm getting a little experience with crowds myself. I've been broadcasting between Fox's morning and afternoon cartoons for a while now, building up a following of kids who send in their jokes and artwork, hoping I might highlight them on TV. It is Josh's Jokes, Josh's Gallery, Josh popping up right after Animaniacs, sixty seconds at a time, talking about composting while Nashville's children gobble up their after-school cereal. But not just kids. I've become a household name for everyone between the ages of five and twenty-five, and all the parents know me, too, because they are the ones who have to drive their kids to our events, to the wave pool or the zoo or the Nashville Knights hockey games.
The hockey games are the scariest. Ten thousand drunk fans who just want to see blood. The TV people put me in ice skates. I'm asked to waddle out into the rink before the game starts, right before the national anthem is sung by a local country western star, and I'm supposed to invite everyone to come to our Fox Kids Club booth after the first period for an autograph. I don't slip, but as I thank everyone for their attention and wave good-bye, the "fuck you!"'s and "suck on it!"'s drown out my loud-speakered voice.


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NORTH ARLINGTON - Officials in a Bergen County town are cracking down on residents who throw snow from sidewalks and driveways onto freshly plowed roads.
North Arlington authorities are asking for the public's help to keep roads clear for emergency vehicles during the storm.
Mayor Peter Massa is reminding people that it is illegal to dump snow into the street because it poses a safety hazard. It means plows have to come back and emergency vehicles can have a tougher time navigating roads.
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The ordinance also says that during snowfall of 5 inches or more, residents must move their vehicles from those streets.
Keeping the streets clear in North Arlington is such a priority that one councilman is considering forming a volunteer committee that would clear off and move the cars of the elderly from borough streets.


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Firefighters extinguished a car fire in Wellesley Saturday afternoon.
Wellesley police and fire were called to the scene on Waban Street, according to a tweet from the police department.
The fire was started by an electrical problem under the hood, the fire department said. A woman driving the car pulled over and got out when she noticed smoke and called authorities.
No one was hurt in the fire, police said.


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Scale reading validation for estimating age from tagged fish recapture in a brown tro
By Renaud Rifflart, Frederic Marchand, Etienne Rivot, Jean-Luc Bagliniere
Fisheries Research, Volume 78, Issues 2-3, May 2006, Pages 380-384, ISSN 0165-7836, DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2005.11.018.
This study presents the validation of a scale-reading method for age estimation of brown trout (Salmo trutta). Age estimated from the scale reading was compared with the true age from recaptured fishes pit-tagged at the 0+ stage. Recapture was performed via electrofishing or trapping during migration up to 6 years later. A sample of 375 fish was analysed, including freshwater (363 fish) with two sub-groups (resident and migratory) and anadromous forms (12 fish). Average percentage of error in the scale reading was low (6.4%) in the whole sample. Error rate dramatically increases with age. There was no error in the sea trout sample. When considering freshwater fish alone, average error rate remained low (6.6%) and was higher in resident fish (older individuals) than in migratory fish (younger individuals). No statistical difference was observed between the true age and the age estimated from scales, thus confirming the reliability of scale reading for age estimation.
Keywords: Validation; Scale-reading; Pit-tagging; Age; Ageing error; Brown trout; Salmo trutta
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The dinner is served from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, at the church, 3400 S.E. 43rd. Ave. Prices are $11 for adults, $10 for seniors, $5 for children (free for ages under 5). Takeout is available. For more information call 503-777-1491 or check the parish website.
A sign of the times: Target says for the first time it is dedicating shelf space to ethnic cookware and appliances in every store nationwide. Items include paella pans, fajita and tortilla griddles, quesadilla pans, tortilla warmers, woks and bamboo steamers. The company says it has identified Hispanic housewares as "an emerging and highly underserved category with huge growth potential."
Know your balsamic: When shopping for balsamic vinegar, most people understand that the good stuff — authentic aged balsamic — is expensive. But that's about all most cooks know. And since there's such a range of uses, from salad dressing to dribbling on strawberries, it makes sense to use the right variety. Now there's a new rating system that has been adopted by several producers, under the Consorzio Aceto Balsamico di Modena. Balsamic vinegar is made from aged wine vinegar, grape must and young wine vinegar, but each formulation is different. To help consumers decide on which to buy, the consortium analyzed several qualities (color, fruitiness, sweetness, olfactive intensity, pungency, body and flavor balance) and assigned from one to four leaves for the vinegars' labels:
- "One leaf (bronze banner) indicates a zesty, lightly sweet balsamic vinegar, delicate in aroma and consistency, perfect in salad dressings and with fresh cheeses, and for other everyday uses.
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- "Three leaves (gold banner) indicate vinegar that is full-bodied, boldly aromatic and well-balanced, ideal for drizzling on roasted meats and grilled fish, into pasta sauces and in reduction sauces.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A bill that would have required a tooth-decay warning label on "sippy cups" and another that would have commemorated the War of 1812 were among more than 30 vetoed Friday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo also signed more than 90 measures into law, including one that should make chemotherapy taken orally more available under insurance and another that ends the toll-free use of the state Thruway by off-duty state employees, according to the stack of bills approved by the Legislature and acted on by Cuomo.
A bill creating a "certificate of still birth," a measure that for a time roused abortion rights foes and activists, was signed into law. The state already provided death certificates when children are born dead, but this law will allow parents to obtain certificate with the specific wording.
Opposition by abortion rights groups ended after the certificate was changed from "certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth" to "certificate of still birth." The abortion battle has long been fought over the definition of fetus and child, which complicated the wording in the bill.
The proposed labels for sippy cups and baby bottles would have warned about the dangers of tooth decay during longtime use.
The proposed label stated: "Warning. Allowing your child to use this product for prolonged periods separate from regular mealtimes or to go to sleep while drinking liquids, other than water, from this baby bottle or sippy cup may cause or contribute to early childhood tooth decay."
Opponents of the measure, including lobbyists for the industry, decried the bill as product of a "nanny state" that is too involved in controlling people's lives. Cuomo didn't immediately say why he vetoed the bills.
The War of 1812 measure would have created a commission to organize events to note the 200th anniversary of the war that included several battles in New York. The War of 1812 project, aimed at boosting tourism in upstate areas, has been rejected by past governors as too expensive and duplicative of local efforts.
The so-called oral chemotherapy option has been available as a relatively new development in treating cancer. But its listing under prescription drugs rather than major medical coverage limited its use because of the additional cost to patients. The new law changes that.


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So, anyone else interested in coming? ATLAS? You Eugene guys are a hop skip and a jump from there?!! Would like to have a decent turn out this year.
Posted 18 May 2004 - 12:51 PM
if its a yes for me, I will need directions and times-
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Crappola. One thing I forgot, was talking to a friend thats also going up, there is another permit that we need in order to actually stay the night out on the sand, it's the Northwest Forest Pass, we need one in each vehicle, much like the ATV permit, the good thing is that all associated passengers are covered under the one permit, so if you have 5 people in one rig, they all camp regardless. Last two years they didn't come up to where we set up camp and check so I dunno. I'm getting one this year because I know the whole 3 strikes your out, Karmic retrobution thing will bite me in the @$$ if I don't.
Posted 19 May 2004 - 09:14 PM
Is this the Park over out of Florence...??????
If so, I may See about going....?
let me know, John.....
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Springfield School Superintendent suspends Commerce Senior Sharvin Sands for punch throwing incident
By Scott Coen
January 08, 2011, 2:05PM
In a decision reached on Friday, Springfield School Superintendent Dr. Alan Ingram has suspended Commerce basketball player Sharvin Sands for a punch throwing incident that occurred on December 22. Full story »
Video of Commerce's Sharvin Sands punching Westfield's Joe Meade hits Youtube
By Scott Coen
January 08, 2011, 11:50AM
Commerce acted within the letter of the MIAA law, and lost a great opportunity to send a strong message to its student-athletes about what constitutes proper behavior. Full story »
Hampshire and Sabis girls use their star power to score impressive wins
By Scott Coen
January 05, 2011, 7:56AM
Tuesday night two high school girls teams rolled to impressive wins using a balanced attack and the skills and determination of their best players. Full story »
Northampton beats Central 63-61 and shows it's one of the teams to beat in WMass
By Scott Coen
January 04, 2011, 1:45AM
Central led by 10 at the half, by 7 after three quarters, and then Hamp rallied to win 63-61. Full story »
West Side and Holyoke offer up an early season preview of the WMass Tournament
By Scott Coen
December 29, 2010, 1:46AM
Last night's 67-57 Westside win over Holyoke will most certainly go down as one of the best games of the season. Full story »
Former All-American and Smith Academy star Kelly Dostal headed to Louisville to coach Field Hockey
By Scott Coen
December 20, 2010, 8:06AM
Kelly Dostal was one of the greatest field hockey players to ever play the game. At Smith Academy she led the Falcons to a 22-0 record and a state championship. Full story »
Continuing Coverage of WMass Sports on ESPN1450's 'Saturday Sports Spectacular'
By Scott Coen
December 18, 2010, 7:49AM
Hey WMass Sports fans it's another Saturday morning here in the Pioneer Valley and we have another edition of the ESPN 1450 Saturday Sports Spectacular teed up for you this morning. Full story »
Continuing Coverage of WMass Sports on ESPN1450's 'Saturday Sports Spectacular'
By Scott Coen
December 11, 2010, 7:40AM
The seasons may change but the attention we pay to our WMass athletes never waivers, especially when it comes to Saturday mornings on 'ESPN1450's Saturday Sports Spectacular'. Full story »
Bill Guerin and Mike Mercadante make for a Manic Monday in Wilbraham
By Scott Coen
December 07, 2010, 7:20AM
A memorable Monday for the town of Wilbraham as two of its favorite sons were making news and being honored for their accomplishments. Full story »
Former UMass star James Ihedigbo provided the only Jets highlight from Monday's 45-3 loss to the Patriots in Foxboro
By Scott Coen
December 07, 2010, 1:47AM
James is one of us. A local kid who played his college football at UMass. And it was great to see him get his moment in the national limelight. Full story »
Continuing Coverage of WMass Super Bowl Saturday on ESPN1450's 'Saturday Sports Spectacular'
By Scott Coen
December 04, 2010, 8:03AM
You can listen live to Scott Coen, Russ Held, and John 'The Dude' as they preview all of todays WMass Super Bowl games on ESPN1450AM The Hall. Full story »
In Washington State Jesus and High School Football just don't mix
By Scott Coen
December 02, 2010, 12:23AM
In the state of Washington apparently Jesus and high school football don't always mix. Full story »
Highlights from 'Super Tuesday' on the Western Mass. high school football fields
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December 01, 2010, 1:52AM
On a cool and rainy night across the Pioneer Valley the top high school football teams took to the field one more time. And all they wanted was a chance to play one more time, on Super Bowl Saturday. Full story »
Jeff Tirrell and Shawn Hubert form the longest running broadcast team in WMass high school sports
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November 30, 2010, 2:24AM
Jeff Tirrell and Shawn Hubert form one of the longest running broadcast teams in New England. Full story »
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Who is in town this weekend? I'm guilty of consuming 5 different desserts on Thanksgiving, 3 of which had chocolate....I'll be at the Georgetown stop at 9:20.....
I have no remorse, and I shall continue my gluttony today, and possibly tomorrow also. I liveth without sin when it comes to food.
I may need you to come over here on Sunday to continue your gluttony another day if Lawrence doesn't eat a lot more before he leaves tomorrow night.
Say no more!!!! I will be there with wings on my feet, and nothing in my tummy.


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Northwest NEWS
eptember 30, 2002
Free workshops scheduled for streamside landowners
Being close to nature and recreation is an important part of why people live here. Those lucky enough to live on streams have a little bit of nature in their own back yards. The beauty of the water, the sound of the flow, and maybe even the thrill of watching salmon spawn are things most people never experience.
By caring for the streams and rivers that make this area so special, residents can leave a lasting legacy for future generations.
Anyone who is a streamside landowner, teacher, consultant, or who cares about clean water, fish and wildlife will benefit from this workshop.
DEEP WATER - A Streamside Landowner's Guide to Flooding and Drainage
Ą Is your stream too big for its britches?
Ą Are you trying to live with beavers?
Ą Do you have shoreline erosion, wet feet, wet land, wet dog?
Ą Do you want to leave healthy streams and clean water for your children and grandchildren?
This workshop will provide streamside landowners with a general understanding of why streams flood, laws, permits, environmental issues and how to get help.
It will also cover what lives in and around creeks (besides landowners), and how to work around streams without harming water quality and wildlife.
Each workshop will begin in a classroom and end with a trip to a nearby salmon stream.
Workshops will be held:
Saturday, Oct. 5, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Mount Pilchuck Elementary School, 12806 20th St NE, Lake Stevens.
Saturday, Oct. 19, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Salem Woods Elementary School, 12802 Wagner Road, Monroe.
Saturday, Oct. 26, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Martha Lake Elementary School, 17500 Larch Way, Lynnwood.
Note: These workshops will not cover large river flooding issues.
The workshops and field trips are free, but space is limited.
Please RSVP at least one week before the event date to Dave Ward, (425) 388-3464 ext. 4667 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dave Ward
Public Involvement Coordinator
Snohomish County Surface Water Management
425-388-3464 ext. 4667
425-388-6455 fax
2731 Wetmore Avenue, Suite 300
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This is a user review from ign.com
Need for Speed Carbon
Just a carbon copy, or the real deal?
I like to drive fast. I've had more speeding tickets in my life than I care to say, but I still crave that exhilarating rush you get when your flying down the road, pushing the limits, literally feeling the edge of your car's abilities and knowing just when to pull it back in so that you don't end up an oily spot on the pavement somewhere. There haven't been many games in the last few years to truly unite the sense of speed and intuitive control of a race car. That is until EA released Need for Speed: Carbon for the Wii.
I've read a lot about how, in general, EA's creative juices have been re-awakened by Nintendo's new controller and upon popping the game into your Wii Carbon is just so happens to be one of those examples where the development team sat down and hammered out as many ways one could use the Wii's new controller to intuitively control an automobile. Bottom line: they FRIGGIN' nailed it!
Whether you use the Wii-mote NES style via Excite Truck, or utilize the Nunchuk as the steering wheel by tilting it left or right and the Wii-mote as accelerator/brake, your in for an exciting gaming experience, and one of the most fun times I personally have had with a racing game in recent memory.
As a comparator I also own Carbon on the Xbox 360, and other than the obligatory graphical differences (which the 360 does obviously outshine the Wii, but not by as much as you might think) the Wii build just 'feels' faster and allows the player to get more in-tune with the game. By the same token the 360 controls well, but isn't nearly as interesting to play, and I found myself disregarding the Wii's somewhat lower resolution graphics for a bitchin' time racing.
The game finds its niche somewhere in-between Underground and Burnout in the game play with an interesting choice of stylized live-action cut sequences over CGI fare (and though the acting can be a bit ridiculous at times, it comes off pretty well and can be skipped for those with no patience, like me).
You progress through the game by traveling through different districts of the city that are controlled by rival crews (gangs) and either challenging these crews to races or accepting challenges from them. Once an area has been unlocked after a race is complete, you can select events using the world map.
Another similarity to the Underground series is the ability to totally customize your car from the ground up with any and everything you could imagine. Once you unlock different cars and build up enough cash to do so that is.
All in all I found this game to be completely addicting. It definitely has the potential for 10-12 hours of game play just in finishing the central plotline, but I have continued to come back just to have fun driving around the city, evading cops and causing major catastrophes to slow them down. Head-to-Head is a blast as well. Highly recommended!
Reader's Ratings for Need for Speed Carbon
Rating Description
out of 10
8.5 Presentation
Slick interface with logical use of Wii-mote buttons. Cut scenes can be a bit silly but no more so than other EA efforts.
9.0 Graphics
Definitely not Gamecube! This game moves pretty fast and the Wii shows what it can do with few hichups. Good lighting effects as well as physics.
7.5 Sound
Good overall but this unfortunately can't measure up to the 5.1 surround sound clarity available on the other versions of the game.
9.5 Gameplay
It's awesome to see EA invigorated by the Wii to the extent that they have developed such unique and intuitive control scheme's for a driving game. Tight control with a minimal learning curve.
8.5 Lasting Appeal
The solo game will go by fairly quick, but you'll find yourself coming back just to utilize the amazing new control methods. Imagine what a Gran Turismo game would be like on this system!
(out of 10 / not an average)
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Thanks man, even though that review seems a bit bias, I must say I can not wait to pick this game up.
Good review! Its a great game......I was having a hard time picking out the racing game I wanted and it seems from playing the others that I picked the right one!
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What kind of exercises can I do to target my love handles and get rid of them once and for all?
This answer is the same one I have for any spot-reducing question you guys could ask. Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.
That said, I'm actually experimenting with different stretches and light isolation exercises to try for specific areas of the body. These stretches will bring blood, and thus oxygen, to these problem areas — my theory is that the oxidization will help break down the fat. And hey, stretching is always beneficial! For love handles, try this side-bend stretch in conjunction with diet, exercise, sodium reduction, and 80 ounces of water a day:
Side Bend (Do this stretch at least three times a day throughout the day.)
- Purpose: To stretch the triceps, upper back, abdominals, and obliques.
- Here's how you do it: Bend to one side, while holding your opposite arm overhead, then quickly stretch to the other side, raising the other arm. This drill should be done in a controlled, continuous fashion for 10 stretches on each side of your body.
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Developing applications in cloud environments tends to result in a similar set of issues as distributed systems development involving cross-node communication, protocols, and exposed services. This development can be further complicated by the presence of multiple programming languages, each with its own type system, requiring translation of types between clients and servers to ensure that all entities in the group speak the same formats. Even when a system is developed in the same programming language, interactions require that the objects be communicated in an efficient and unambiguous way. Add one or more languages, and the complexity of the system and scope of work increase dramatically.
A key problem in distributed systems development is that of communication
among the software elements. A simplification of this type of service
allows software to abstract distributed interactions underneath procedure
calls. One of the first implementations of what is called remote
procedure calls (RPCs) was introduced by Xerox in 1981 in a
protocol called Courier. This protocol provided primitives to
allow applications written in the Mesa programming language to communicate
across a network, but these applications required manual intervention to
serialize and deserialize the calls. This concept has been widely applied
since then in many applications. Other examples of RPCs include the Common
Object Request Broker Architecture, the Google Protocol Buffers
protobufs) package, Apache Avro, and many others.
In 2007, Facebook released into the open source domain a new RPC implementation with mostly seamless multilanguage support that has now become an Apache project called Thrift. Thrift supports a large number of programming languages (with variable levels of language support), including Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, Haskell, Erlang, Java™, Node.js, PHP, Go, D, and C/C++.
Origin of Apache Thrift
Before becoming an Apache open source project, Thrift was a software library and set of code-generation tools used internally at Facebook. It's goal was to enable efficient communication across programming languages using a transparent high-performance software bridge.
Thrift is a framework for scalable cross-language services development that provides not only code-generation support for a multitude of languages but a software stack that simplifies the development of network-based services. Let's explore some of the underlying ideas in Thrift and work toward a demonstration of its capabilities.
Apache Thrift as a lingua franca
Apache Thrift implements a software stack that helps to simplify the development of communicating multilanguage applications. Figure 1 provides a simple illustration of the software stack. At the bottom of the stack is the physical interface (which could be a network interface or something as simple as a file). That interface influences higher levels of the stack.
Figure 1. The Thrift software stack
Thrift provides several transport and protocol layers that define how data
is moved and what format it takes (using a
Processor, which
encapsulates input and output streams). For example,
TBinaryProtocol defines an efficient binary protocol for
communication that can be used over the
TSocket transport to
communicate between network end points. Alternatively, you can use
TJSONProtocol to communicate using the JavaScript Object
Notation (JSON) format with the
TMemoryTransport for
shared-memory communication.
At the top level are server types that you can implement with the aid of
Thrift. This configuration can include a single-threaded server for
debugging (
TSimpleServer), an HTTP-based server that can
provide Representational State Transfer-like URLs
THttpServer), or a multiprocess server that forks a process
for each request received (
TForkingServer). Thrift is written
not only to simplify communication across a variety of approaches
(protocols and transports) but also to simplify server development using a
variety of server styles.
Not shown in Figure 1 is a type system that permits communication across the languages that Thrift supports. This system supports types such as byte, short, int double, string, and more advanced types such as containers (lists, maps) and structures. This generic type system provides a common basis for communication of data.
Installing Thrift
You can install Thrift from source, which is a relatively simple process,
or through a package manager such as
apt or
To install from source, simply download the gzipped tarball, configure it,
and then build with
make. When Thrift is built, you can
easily install it using
make's install target. Depending on
your language choice, more packages may be necessary (for example,
C++ clients and servers require the Boost package).
If you're running a recent version of a Linux® distribution, you may be able to install the Thrift compiler through your package manager. For example, in Ubuntu, you could try the following:
$ sudo apt-get install thrift-compiler
See the installation resource for details.
RPC, type-systems, and interface definition
From the software stack shown in Figure 1, the solution appears to be quite complicated. Although there is some complication in Thrift (as there would be in any multilanguage RPC scheme), the reality of using Thrift is much simpler.
The first step in using Thrift to build an RPC application is to define an interface definition file (see Figure 2). This file allows you to define the types and services that you'll expose. This file is language independent and uses Thrift types and definitions. Using this file, the Thrift compiler generates source files (for both the client and the server) in the language of your choice.
Figure 2. sing the Thrift compiler for source generation
Let's look at a simple example that illustrates this concept, and then move to a working example. The general use of the Thrift compiler is:
$ thrift --gen <language> >.thrift file>
Consider a simple application of a networked arithmetic service. This
service provides fundamental math services to remote clients through a
simple application programming interface. To define this service, I create
a Thrift file as shown in Listing 1. This file
provides name spaces for the various language users (
representing Python and
rb representing Ruby). I then define
the service that I want to expose. Using the Thrift definition, I use the
service keyword and a name to represent the service (in this case,
MyMath). Define your services in a language-independent way.
This service consists of four exposed functions, each of which takes a set
of input values and returns a result.
Listing 1. Sample .thrift file defining your interface (proj.thrift)
# proj.thrift namespace py demoserver namespace rb demoserver /* All operands are 32-bit integers called a Value */ typedef i32 Value typedef i32 Result /* Math service exposes an some math function */ service MyMath { Result add( 1: Value op1, 2: Value op2 ), Result mul( 1: Value op1, 2: Value op2 ), Result min( 1: Value op1, 2: Value op2 ), Result max( 1: Value op1, 2: Value op2 ) }
To compile this interface definition into code, I define my desired programming language (in this case, Python) to Thrift as:
$ thrift --gen py proj.thrift
This process results in a subdirectory called gen-py that
contains a number of files defining the types, constants, and code. The
full contents of this subdirectory of generated code is shown below. Of
interest is the code generated for the types (ttypes.py) and software
stack for the service (MyMath.py). Also notice
which I explore shortly as a way to test the new service.
$ ls gen-py/* gen-py/__init__.py gen-py/demoserver: constants.py __init__.py __init__.pyc MyMath.py MyMath.pyc MyMath-remote ttypes.py ttypes.pyc $
To fully demonstrate Thrift and appreciate what it provides, however, you need more than one language. Consider a client written in Ruby. To support a Ruby client, you must generate a Thrift code set for Ruby using the Thrift compiler:
$ thrift --gen rb proj.thrift
If you peek inside the newly created gen-rb subdirectory, you'll find the files for a Ruby implementation. Each language provides a different implementation of the Thrift software stack, and as you see below, the file results differ while still providing the types, constants, and service implementation.
$ ls gen-rb/ my_math.rb proj_constants.rb proj_types.rb $
With the Thrift job complete on the service interface definition file, I'm now ready to implement a server that uses the service implementation in Python.
Building a Thrift server
Based on the service definition in Listing 1, I
implement those services within Python. As shown in Listing 2, my Python server is quite simple. I first expose the
Python modules by appending the path to the Thrift-generated code, and
then import the necessary modules that I'll use. Note that these modules
are the software stack as shown in Figure 1. I define
my derived class of the math implementation based on the base class built
from Thrift (
demoserver.MyMath.Iface). This class defines the
implementation for my services, simply organized in Python.
The final part of Listing 2 is the main portion of the script, which
assembles the components of the Thrift stack. I create the processor,
initializing it with my
MathImpl class. I also create the
protocol and transport elements of the stack and assemble the stack within
TThreadedServer. A final call to the
method of the server instance enables processing of threaded requests.
Listing 2. Python Thrift server (server.py)
#!/usr/bin/python import sys sys.path.append('./gen.py') from thrift.transport import TSocket from thrift.transport import TTransport from thrift.protocol import TBinaryProtocol from thrift.server import TServer import demoserver.MyMath class MathImpl( demoserver.MyMath.Iface ): def add( self, op1, op2 ): return op1 + op2 def mul( self, op1, op2 ): return op1 * op2 def max( self, op1, op2 ): return max([op1, op2]) def min( self, op1, op2 ): return min([op1, op2]) if __name__ == '__main__': processor = demoserver.MyMath.Processor( MathImpl() ) transport = TSocket.TServerSocket( port = 18181 ) tbfactory = TTransport.TBufferedTransportFactory() pbfactory = TBinaryProtocol.TBinaryProtocolFactory() server = TServer.TThreadedServer( processor, transport, tbfactory, pbfactory ) print 'Starting the Math Server...' server.serve();
Recall the
MyMath-remote utility built for the Python service.
Thrift generated this file to permit testing of my Python server. To use
this test application, I first need to expose the generated files into the
Python path:
$ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:./gen-py
With this defined, I can now test my server using this command-line
utility. Listing 3 presents a sample use of this application along with a
look at the help information that the utility exposes. The utility expects
a definition of the host (where the server resides and its port number),
the function to be invoked, and a set of arguments. Because my server runs
on the same node as the client, I use the
localhost and my
defined port number along with the desired test function and arguments.
Listing 3. Using the provided test application
$ ./gen-py/demoserver/MyMath-remote --help Usage: ./gen-py/demoserver/MyMath-remote [-h host[:port]] [-u url] [-f[ramed]] function [arg1 [arg2...]] Functions: Result add(Value op1, Value op2) Result mul(Value op1, Value op2) Result min(Value op1, Value op2) Result max(Value op1, Value op2) $ ./gen-py/demoserver/MyMath-remote -h localhost:18181 max 5 7 7 $ ./gen-py/demoserver/MyMath-remote -h localhost:18181 mul 9 8 72 $
The auto-generated test application provides a nice way to test my server before the client is ready. Speaking of client, let's now look at a corresponding Thrift client implemented in Ruby.
Building a Thrift client
To verify the operation of my server, I next build a client using Thrift and the Ruby language. This process will help illustrate the differences in using Thrift with multiple languages (Python and Ruby, in this case) and provide a nice multilanguage test environment.
Listing 4 provides the full source for a simple Thrift client in Ruby. I begin by making visible the Thrift modules by defining the load path for my generated Thrift Ruby code. Similar to the Python server, my Ruby client builds its software stack from the generated code in the Ruby modules. I create a socket (initialized with the server's node and port location) and connect it to my transport layer. This socket is initialized into my protocol instance, which is further initialized with the services.
After creating a connection to the server (via the
open method
to the
transport instance), I'm able to make calls to the
service functions that are serialized to the server beneath the covers.
When that's complete, I close the transport, which releases the thread at
the server.
Listing 4. Ruby Thrift client (client.rb)
# Make thrift-generated code visible $:.push('./gen-rb') require 'thrift' require 'my_math' begin # Build up the Thrift stack transport = Thrift::BufferedTransport.new(Thrift::Socket.new('localhost', 18181)) protocol = Thrift::BinaryProtocol.new(transport) client = Demoserver::MyMath::Client.new(protocol) transport.open() # Try an add operation result = client.add( 1, 5 ) puts result.inspect # Try a max operation result = client.max( 9, 7 ) puts result.inspect transport.close() end
Executing my sample client against the running Python server results in the output shown in Listing 5. That's a small amount of code for the language-sensitive abstractions that have been presented. The Thrift-generated code shows the stack services being used (MyMath.py, my_math.rb), which for a simple service like this are considerable.
Listing 5. Testing the Ruby client
$ ruby client.rb 6 9 $
As demonstrated, Thrift makes it easy to build client and server applications that expose services. Thrift makes it even easier to build such applications in multiple languages through a unifying interface definition format.
Securing Thrift communication
For production applications or Web-facing applications, security is key.
Thrift can support secure communication through the transport layer using
TSSLTransportFactory class. This transport implementation
wraps the
TSocket and
implementations with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) capabilities. Coupled with
an RSA key pair, you can safely and securely communicate between a Thrift
client and server.
Going further
Although Thrift is a great way to bridge multi-application environments and their communication, it's not for the faint of heart. Scarce and out-of-date documentation and differing support in each language make for a sometimes frustrating experience. The Thrift documentation lacks examples for many of the supported languages, requiring deep inspection of the generated code to understand how to make it work.
But looking beyond some of the immaturity of Thrift, the utility automates much of the detailed code for communication, serialization, and service construction. This behind-the-scenes work allows you to focus on your applications and quickly build multilanguage distributed applications.
- The Apache Thrift website is the primary source for information on Thrift. You can get the latest release of Thrift and learn about how to use Thrift from its documentation and tutorials.
- Installing Thrift is a relatively painless procedure. If you run into issues or are unsure of the requirements for using Thrift, check out this list of build requirements.
- Thrift: Scalable Cross-Language Services Implementation by Mark Slee, Aditya Agarwal, and Marc Kwiatkowski of Facebook provides a great introduction to Thrift, it's motivation, and some of the interesting design trade-offs and implementation details.
- Meet the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (M. Tim Jones, developerWorks, September 2009) introduces XMPP and its application as an instant messaging protocol. XMPP uses XML under the covers to manage serialization and communication between clients and servers. Although it doesn't address the identical requirements of Thrift, XMPP is another example of communication between applications with multilanguage support.
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Wacky Wyatt's in Baldwinsville was rockin' and rollin' last Saturday night.
The bar and restaurant played host to the Custom Taylor Band for a fundraiser for lead singer Chris Taylor. Taylor has teamed up with fellow Central New York musician Sarah Horner to audition for a spot on the upcoming Country Music Television show "Can You Duet." The pair is scheduled to audition this coming Saturday in Nashville, and the recent concert helped raise money for the trip.
"It worked out great for him and it worked out great for us," said Wacky Wyatt's owner John DeFrancesco. Wacky Wyatt's has a Tex-Mex theme, which is what Taylor was looking for when he booked the event, DeFrancesco said. His angle was a hit since between 400 and 500 people attended during the time the band played 7 to 11 p.m., DeFrancesco said.
"When you're dealing with that type of people and you know everyone, it's different," he said. "Usually you run into some type of problem with that many people but everyone was polite and very well-mannered."
Wacky Wyatt's, 6 Mechanic St., Baldwinsville, hosts live entertainment every Friday and Saturday night.
For a photo gallery of the Custom Taylor Band playing at Wacky Wyatt's, visit www.syracuse.com/photos/cny/.


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Boutiques & Fashion:
A clothier that offers high-end clothing for adults and children.
(843) 884-7913
Air & Earth
A full-service kite shop specializing in kitesurfing, kiteboarding, stunt kiting, buggying, kite flying and kite repair. This local kite shop features a variety of gear and accessories, as well as offering lessons, tips and tricks, and kiteboarding/kitesurfing vacations.
(843) 388-9300
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Display session, Friday, January 09
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Preliminary results are reported on the efficacy of using infrared (J-K) color maps from imaging observations of several spiral galaxies to infer the stellar abundance gradients across spiral disks. The galaxy sample includes a handful of Virgo spirals of differing gas deficiency for which abundance profiles have already been studied using extant HII region data. The current investigation is motivated by the following considerations: HII regions cannot be used to determine abundances where there is not much gas or many large OB stars, as is usually the case in systems which have been stripped through interactions within clusters; and (2) it is desirable from galactic chemical evolution considerations to probe the relation between stellar and interstellar abundance ratios.
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Police this morning released details of the Oct. 11 incident. John Terhune of Roselle Park was helping family members with a construction project at 6 Davis St. when he became ill. Terhune was painting on the landing of a second-floor stairway when he collapsed. Terhune was not breathing and family members were unable to find a pulse.
Somebody called 9-1-1 and Readington police received the call for assistance at 1:13 p.m. Within a minute of the call for help, Sgt. William du Fosse and Patrolman Robert Medvetz arrived at the house. They were joined shortly thereafter by Cpl. Carlos Ferreiro.
According to police, this is what happened next: Medvetz and du Fosse immediately began CPR. Medvetz started chest compressions while du Fosse gave the patient oxygen. Ferreiro set up the AED and applied the pads to the patient.
The AED advised the officers to shock the patient. Ferreiro completed the shock and officers resumed CPR. Officer du Fosse took over chest compressions while Ferreiro ventilated. A second shock was called for and given. After a third round of compressions, the patient began to gasp for air and the officers noticed his eyes beginning to roll in his head.
At this point, members of the Whitehouse Rescue Squad were on scene and took over care of the patient. Patrolman Joseph Hartmann arrived and the four officers helped to remove the patient from his precarious location on the unfinished stairwell landing. The patient was then transported to the Hunterdon Medical Center.
Lt. Scott Crater, who was off duty but in the area, stopped to offer his assistance. Crater drove several family members to the hospital.
The following day, a friend of the family stopped by police headquarters to thank the police for their life saving effort. The friend said that Terhune was in stable condition at the hospital and the officers were directly responsible for saving his life. He further related that he was impressed by the response of the Readington Police and their proficiency in CPR and use of the AED.
The Police Department said today it wanted to be sure of Terhune's recovery before issuing a press release about the incident.
The Readington police in 2009 received a grant from the American Red Cross of New Jersey for five HeartStart automatic external defibrillators and their accessories. This grant gave the police department the capability of having an AED in every patrol car. This allows officer an opportunity to deploy this life-saving equipment within the time frame necessary to save lives.


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Mon., 4:49pm: Trespassing fracking activist wants ban lifted
A high-profile anti-fracking activist who often gives tours of natural gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region has asked a judge for relief from an order barring her from stepping foot on more than 300 square miles of land owned or leased by one of the state's leading natural gas drillers.
Vera Scroggins says the injunction has effectively prevented her from traveling to her favorite grocery store, eye doctor, hospital, restaurants, businesses and friends' homes because all of them have leased land to Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.
Her attorneys asked Susquehanna County Judge Kenneth Seamans on Monday to lift or modify his order. A ruling could come this week.
A company spokesman says Cabot is only interested in preventing Scroggins from trespassing on its active drilling sites.


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CINCINNATI (AP) — Running back Larry Johnson signed with the Cincinnati Bengals in a backup role Tuesday, giving the AFC North leaders depth at the position for the rest of the season.
The Bengals waived defensive tackle Orien Harris to open a roster spot for Johnson, who will be fourth on the depth chart at the outset.
The move comes eight days after the Kansas City Chiefs let him go as he was set to return from his second suspension in the last 12 months. The Bengals have one of the NFL's leading rushers this season in Cedric Benson, but he has a strained hip muscle.
Coach Marvin Lewis first spoke with Johnson last Thursday and told him he would be last on the depth chart. He said he told Johnson he essentially will be an insurance policy in case Benson or one of the other running backs got hurt during what's shaping up as a playoff season.
Benson had to leave an 18-12 win in Pittsburgh on Sunday with a hip injury. The Bengals (7-2) think he could play Sunday in Oakland.
Johnson is moving into a low-profile role. Lewis plans to use him on the scout team in practice, where he would pretend he's the other team's running back. Lewis doesn't expect him to be active for any games soon.
Johnson turns 30 on Thursday, and his production has declined in recent years. The Chiefs let him go following several controversies, releasing him last week on the day he was due back from his second suspension in the last 12 months.
He found a second chance in Cincinnati, which has a history of providing them for troubled players. Owner Mike Brown has referred to himself as a "redeemer." He brought Chris Henry back to the team before the 2008 season — over Lewis' disagreement — and the receiver has stayed out of trouble since then. Henry is out for the rest of the season with a broken left arm.
When injuries decimated their group of running backs last season, the Bengals signed Benson to a one-year deal despite his off-field problems. He had two alcohol-related arrests in Texas. The cases were dropped when grand juries declined to indict, and the Bengals offered a deal.
Benson has revitalized his career in Cincinnati — he ranks sixth in the league in rushing with 859 yards and leads the NFL with 205 carries, only nine shy of his career high with roughly half a season to go. His backup, Bernard Scott, is a rookie chosen in the sixth round from Abilene Christian.
Lewis has assured Benson he will be the top running back with Johnson in town. During an interview Tuesday with Sirius XM Radio, Benson sounded open to it.
"Yeah, I mean, well, you know, it's good for him," Benson said. "I was once in that position, and he's getting his opportunity again. In all aspects we definitely plan on it to be a contribution to the team. If he can help the team in a positive way, then I'm all for that."
Johnson was benched for three games in 2008 by former Chiefs coach Herm Edwards for violating team rules. The NFL added a game for violating its player conduct policy. He later was sentenced to two years' probation after pleading guilty to disturbing the peace at a Kansas City night spot.
Three weeks ago, he posted a gay slur on his Twitter account and questioned the competence of coach Todd Haley, drawing a two-week suspension. The Chiefs decided to cut ties with him rather than let him return.


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Walter E. Williams
Posted: 08/03/2004
What is socialism? We miss the boat if we say it's the agenda of left-wingers and Democrats. According to Marxist doctrine, socialism is a stage of society between capitalism and communism where private ownership and control over property are eliminated. The essence of socialism is the attenuation and ultimate abolition of private property rights.
Attacks on private property include, but are not limited to, confiscating the rightful property of one person and giving it to another to whom it doesn't belong. When this is done privately, we call it theft. When it's done collectively, we use euphemisms: income transfers or redistribution. It's not just left-wingers and Democrats who call for and admire socialism but right-wingers and Republicans as well. Republicans and right-wingers support taking the earnings of one
and giving them to farmers, banks, airlines and other failing businesses. Democrats and left-wingers support taking the earnings of one
n and giving them to poor people, cities and artists.
Both agree on taking one
n's earnings to give to another; they simply differ on the recipients. This kind of congressional activity constitutes at least two-thirds of the federal budget. Regardless of the purpose, such behavior is immoral. It's a reduced form of
After all, what is the essence of
It's the forceful use of one person to serve the purposes of another person. When Congress, through the tax code, takes the earnings of one person and turns around to give it to another person in the forms of prescription drugs, Social Security, food stamps, farm subsidies or airline bailouts, it is forcibly using one person to serve the purposes of another. The moral question stands out in starker relief when we acknowledge that those spending programs coming out of Congress do not represent lawmakers reaching into their own pockets and sending out the money. Moreover, there's no tooth fairy or Santa Claus giving them the money. The fact that government has no resources of its very own forces us to acknowledge that the only way government can give one
n a dollar is to first -- through intimidation, threats and coercion -- take that dollar from some other
Some might rejoin that all of this is a result of a democratic process and it's legal. Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral.
was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa's apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral? Can a moral case be made for taking the rightful property of one
and giving it to another to whom it does not belong? I think not. That's why
socialism is evil.
It uses evil means (coercion) to achieve what are seen as good ends (helping people). We might also note that an act that is inherently evil does not become moral simply because there's a majority consensus. An argument against legalized theft should not be construed as an argument against helping one's fellow man in need. Charity is a noble instinct; theft, legal or illegal, is despicable. Or, put another way: Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
For the Christians among us, socialism and the welfare state must be seen as sinful. When God gave Moses the commandment "Thou shalt not steal," I'm sure He didn't mean thou shalt not steal unless there's a majority vote. And I'm sure that if you asked God if it's OK just being a recipient of stolen property, He would deem that a sin as well
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Native Staten Islander Jennifer Gambardella Puglise, 36, of Lake Ridge, Va., an aerobics instructor who was proud of her Italian-American heritage, died Thursday at home after a six-year battle with colon cancer.
She was born Jennifer Gambardella in Mariners Harbor and brought to Toms River, N.J., as a young child. She moved to Virginia in 1991.
A graduate of Hayfield High School in Alexandria, Va., Mrs. Puglise earned a bachelor's degree in history from Mary Washington University in Fredricksberg, Va.
She was a member of the National Italian American Foundation and also very active in Chris4Life – an organization dedicated to finding a cure of colon cancer and helping people affected by the disease.
Surviving are her husband of 13 years, Joseph Puglisi; her son, Rocco Puglisi; her father, James Gambardella; her mother, Mona; stepmother, Brenda; stepbrother, Jake Metelits; and sisters, Jackie McGowan and Tanya Gambardella.
A memorial mass will be held on Staten Island on Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Roch's R.C. Church, Port Richmond. Burial of ashes will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, West Brighton. Funeral arrangements, including cremation, are from the Miller Funeral Home in Woodbridge, Va.


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Dean King's "Skeletons on the Zahara" tells the gripping true story of shipwrecked crew mates who are enslaved and mercilessly forced to march across the Sahara Desert, a place only slightly less hospitable than the surface of Mars.
To a small degree, South Louisiana speckled trout anglers can relate.
The summer, normally a season of heavy ice chests and full freezers, was about as speckled-trout friendly as the Great Lakes. Constant winds kept most anglers at home, and those who ventured out found more honey holes clouded by filthy water than they did actual speckled trout.
That miserable summer culminated in an exceptionally long transitionary period in August and September when the fish were everywhere and nowhere. You were just about assured to catch some, but you sure weren't going to catch many. They were more spread out than defenders trying to cover every weapon in the Saints offense.
Anglers scratched their heads and shook their fists, but biologists and guides searched for and found a silver lining: Since a relatively small number of specks were caught this summer, more would survive to terrorize anglers' baits in the fall.
It was small consolation in July when a high sun pushed scorching rays through the breezes that blew invariably out of the west, but now anglers have crossed the desert and are reveling in the cool oasis of October.
As the calendar has turned the page, the fish have turned the corner, and Capt. Jack Payne, for one, couldn't be more thrilled.
"I'm terribly happy it's fall," he said. "It's a really good thing. It's easy on the pocketbook -- no long boat rides -- you don't have to get beat up, and you catch plenty of fish. It's a beautiful time of year."
But this October seems extra special. The waters around Payne's Sweetwater Marina in Delacroix are choked with speckled trout in numbers he's never seen before. The fish aren't exactly trophies. In fact, there are a lot of throwbacks in the mix, but the sheer volume all but ensures anglers who keep at it will go home with enough for a neighborhood fish fry.
The action is so good that Payne has been catching limits off his dock in Bayou Terre aux Boeufs.
"I think it's going to be a special year this year," he said. "I've never caught numbers of trout off my dock like we've been catching, so maybe that's a sign of something special to come."
Payne took a short scouting trip Tuesday afternoon in preparation for a long stretch of charter trips. He wanted to see what impact this weekend's cold front had on the trout numbers and locations.
What he found is that it did nothing but help. Payne hit about a dozen spots from Lake John to Four Horse Lake to Pato Caballo, and found feeding speckled trout everywhere he stopped. Twice he left fish that were biting every cast to see where else he could find them.
"It's cooler; it's easier," Payne said. "There's a lot of action -- an unbelievable amount of action -- out here in the marsh in October. It seems like in a week's time, they all show up. Usually the first week of October is the magical time for Delacroix. Everything's coming to get the white shrimp and get fat for the winter."
The fish are that plentiful, and their numbers are only going to climb as the weeks move along and the water temperatures continue to fall.
"Probably half of the trout that are coming are already here in October," Payne said. "It seems like a little bit later -- mid November -- you seem to catch more trout ranging from 14 to 17 inches."
Putting a nice box together requires first identifying areas that are likely to hold big numbers of fish. Payne said a little prep time ahead of a trip can pay big dividends.
"Look at the maps, and figure out the little bays that have lots of bayous dumping into them," he advised. "The fish will get out in the middle of those bays and wait for the tide to bring bait to them.
"They usually don't get too far from the edges of the channels where the bayous meet the bays."
Depending on recent wind conditions, Payne will also sometimes focus on bays and lakes that have a lot of subaquatic vegetation. That's especially important while fishing out of Delacroix because of the unmitigated and ghastly erosion the area has seen in recent years.
"Since there's very little marsh left and everything's almost wide-open now, the good thing the grass does is filter the water in Delacroix," he said while working a bait in the middle of Lake John. "We're fishing water today that's beautiful considering how hard it blew for the last two days.
"That has a lot to do with the underwater grass filtering out the sediment."
The grass will also serve to concentrate the fish, he said.
"If you get some good grass lines you can fish down, they're like a wall," he said. "The fish just patrol the sides of those grass beds. We catch a lot of trout and redfish right next to the grass."
Payne and other Southeast Louisiana anglers were concerned last week about the impacts Tropical Storm Karen might have on the freshwater-dependent subaquatic vegetation, but Payne was relieved to see on Tuesday's trip that the grass is as healthy as ever.
In the interior lakes and bays, Payne throws popping cork-suspended soft-plastics, and he works the cork like he had 14 cups of coffee before the trip. Almost never is the float resting idly on the water's surface.
"You get in those little bays where the water's 5 feet deep, and you're 2 1/2 or 3 feet under a cork. You're covering everything you need to cover," he said. "The fish that are on the bottom are going to see the bait while you're popping the cork."
Payne enjoys fishing tight-lined soft-plastics and will switch over frequently, particularly in deeper water, but corks, he said, are always more efficient.
He pays much closer attention to locating fish and presenting a bait well than he does to bait type or color. He encourages anglers to find a color that works in a particular area and stick with it. A color that frequently produces in Delacroix is shrimp creole, he said.
Payne also got schooled recently by his own father throwing a bait that has taken South Louisiana by storm.
"That new Vudu Shrimp, it works. I saw it firsthand," he said. "My dad and I were fishing, and he caught a lot more fish than I did on that Vudu Shrimp. I haven't tried one yet, but they definitely work."
As far as live shrimp in the marshes go, Payne is seeing a few, but not near the numbers the area held last fall. Because of that, anglers have to find their own fish without any help from their feathered friends.
"We're seeing a few (shrimp) popping here and there, but I have yet to see any birds working," he said. "Usually when you see that, there's a school of shrimp under them, but I haven't seen it yet this fall."
What he's seeing plenty of this year, however, are mullet and pogies. The lakes, bays and ponds are loaded with them.
Payne couldn't care less what exactly is holding the fish in his area. He's just thrilled they're there.
"You'll find them pretty fast right now," he said. "This is a special time. This is when most people come who don't typically have a lot of success catching fish. They have a lot of success this time of year."
Their thirst for speckled trout is being quenched by the oasis of October.
Todd Masson can be reached at email@example.com or 504.232.3054.


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NEW YORK -- It's a quiet pregame here in the Bronx, where no former closers are getting traded away, no ace pitchers are about to undergo season-ending surgery, and no rehabbing relievers are being scratched from minor league starts.
No, it's just a normal -- or abnormally -- calm afternoon at Yankee Stadium, where the Yanks, coming off another emotional series against the hated Red Sox, prepare to entertain the Texas Rangers. Things were so quiet that Yankee manager Joe Girardi's pregame media briefing lasted bare five minutes, and Girardi remarked that "It's like a Sunday morning, here. Where's the coffee?''
The big news of the day? Rehabbing Brett Gardner, coming back from a broken thumb, took some swings in the batting practice cage for the first time since he went on the DL. He also threw a little bit, ran a little bit, and said he expects to be ready to play in about a week.
"Everything felt pretty good - it was pretty light, 50 or 60 percent (intensity),'' Gardner said of his swings. "Just ease back into things and progress it up every day.''
The other major news is that Girardi announced his pitching rotation for the weekend series against the Chicago White Sox. C.C. Sabathia will pitch Friday night, Sergio Mitre will go Saturday afternoon, and Joba Chamberlain, Tuesday's starter, will go Sunday, on regular rest.
As for the Yankees lineup Tuesday, it's pretty standard-looking. Here it is:
1 Derek Jeter, SS
2 Johnny Damon, LF
3 Mark Teixeira, 1B
4 Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5 Hideki Matsui, DH
6 Jorge Posada, C
7 Robinson Cano, 2B
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Adrienne tends to release her stress through being incredibly sarcastic and this, combined with her ruthless personality and drive can make her a difficult person to work with. She has, however found the perfect partner in Jeremiah Snow. His devotion to religion, and the purging of demons make him a fanatical ally, with her leadership skills keeping him in line. As a team, they work well together, his muscle and her brains.
Unsurprisingly, for a scholar, Adrienne carries four leather-bound tomes on her person at all times, in a large canvas holdall on her back. Three of these contain the true names and conditions of banishment of over five thousand demons. These books are locked with hexagrammic locks, which can only be opened by someone with Adrienne's gift. The fourth, is a particularly nasty spell-book, containing several summoning rituals for major and minor demons alike.
Also contained within the holdall, are several throwing knives, also carrying pentagrammic wards, over a dozen scrolls of banishment, vials of blessed acid and a hatchet, for when the sabre really isn't enough to bring down a persistent demon.
The smith that forged Snow's longsword created a sabre for Adrienne, modified to fit her needs as a demon-hunter. The blade fits her traditional fighting style well, the curved, top heavy blade perfect for broad cuts and slashes, balanced by the wire-wrapped basket hilt. Hammered into the steel blade are pentagrammic wards, each one designed to cause utter agony to the demon or unholy.
Last, but not least, is Zane. Zane has been with Adrienne for a while, a faithful and loving companion. Unfortunately, Zane is a demon trapped inside the body of a Capuchin monkey. A scrawny affair, Zane tends to ride atop Adrienne's shoulder, yapping and glaring malevolently at passers by. The demon within the monkey is rather dangerous, but cannot do any more harm than the average monkey.
Adrienne is a savant, with the majority of her magical ability focussing around the gathering of information. Once invoked, she can gather information about the history and content of any inanimate object simply by touching it. This can be incredibly useful for tracking prey, but the risks of touching a tainted item can be massive, especially powerful ones. Using this power for long periods of time can be immensely draining.