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After 24 hours to digest the Zach Randolph trade, I'm still not impressed with it. From a talent perspective, the Knicks were a clear winner - an outright home run. Frye's value has probably peaked, and there were only a handful of teams that would be willing to deal for Francis. There's still a chance that the Knicks could gain from this trade from a chemistry perspective as well - but it's going to mean more trades to shoehorn him into the Knicks' style of play, and some hard work from Zeke just to get through to his newest project.
So where does Zach Randolph fit in right now? Well, the obvious answer is that he's the team's obligatory power forward, at least until the Knicks get sick of him or he's moved again. But let's look at what I expect from him from a variety of perspectives.
On Offense
It's hard to gauge Randolph's offensive ability based on his time in Portland. There, he was option #1. In New York, he'll be one of four primary options (maybe five, if Zeke can bring in Rashard Lewis without giving up Crawford). So I don't think he's going to be shooting his 19 shots per game, and he certainly won't be scoring 23+ points per game - but he'll still be a fine option on offense when needed.
What he will do is bring a real solid mid-range game, where the Knicks will be able to use him as either a primary or a secondary option, depending on the play being run. This is where the trade makes the most sense to me. He's not going to tangle up Curry, since he's primarily a jump shooter who will take it inside occasionally. He's a big target for Curry and Marbury to pass to, and they should be able to take advantage of him to get themselves free immediately. I think Zach's presence will open up the Knicks' offense, so the "dump it to Curry" and "watch Crawford try to create" plays will probably take on a few extra nuances - that is, if he is willing to run the plays that are set for other guys.
Guys like Balkman and Lee aren't likely to see their usage rates drop, simply because they're more opportunistic scorers. They are likely to see their minutes drop, as Randolph deserves a lot more playing time than Frye. And unless there's an injury, Malik Rose may gracefully drop off the face of the Earth without Knicks' fans noticing much - which is a shame, he's a great locker room leader and still a serviceable forward.
On Defense
Well, unless either Curry or Randolph are moved, the Knicks are now locked into having the worst pair of frontcourt defenders in the league for at least the next two or three years. Bar none. I've looked at all thirty teams. There is not a single team with a less intimidating front line on D. If you thought Curry was a weak shot-blocker, get ready for Randolph's line - .2 blocks per game last season. After rounding up, that's a total of about .8 blocks per game between the two of them in about 35 minutes each.
That, combined with a perimeter defense that is somewhere between weak and mediocre, means the Knicks will - once again - be seeing some huge scoring nights from average NBA guards. Note to Smush Parker, Earl Boykins, and Mo Williams: it's okay if you want to giggle like a bunch of schoolgirls now.
I really hope either Curry or Randolph steps it up, and my money - if I thought either would be likely - would be on Curry. I think Curry just has more desire than Randolph, and Curry also has the longer reach. Hopefully, they will be able to sacrifice for the team - but once again, we'll have to wait and see, since neither has really ever shown a lick of interest in that side of the ball in their combined twelve seasons, which is why I think Randolph really doesn't fit with the Knicks as they currently stand.
Rebounding, Loose Balls
For the same reason I don't see Randolph maintaining his scoring average in New York, I don't see him maintaining his rebounding numbers either. In Portland, there wasn't anyone else capable of bringing down a rebound, and Zach's numbers are inflated accordingly. So for anyone trying to guess how many rebounds the Knicks will average next year, I see Randolph getting about 8, and Curry and Lee dropping a bit as well, but the total going up by about 5 - which is great news for a team that was near the top of the league in rebounding last year.
Also, Randolph does tend to secure the ball at the end of games, which will help out Curry, who traditionally doesn't rebound when it counts. I don't think Randolph would have let Cliff Robinson - for example - sky over him to tap in the game-winner.
If the Knicks get creative, I think Randolph's rebounding presence could also mean that they can afford to send less guards to the boards now. He may be the missing piece that lets the swingmen and guards take off to the races when there's a rebound, instead of helping Curry and Frye do their jobs. That may make Zach worth the price of admission right there, as the Knicks haven't really utilized the tremendous speed of their backcourt since... well, ever. Lenny Wilkens used it best, but even then, the Knicks were never a fast-break team.
As for loose balls, I don't expect to see Randolph ever dive on the floor.
Team Chemistry
Here's where the trade looks real bad. You can look at Randolph's rap sheet, but his issues go deeper than that. He takes an enormous amount of shots, and although he was the primary scorer in Portland, he still complained when he didn't get enough. That's where things may get dicey. The Knicks already have Marbury sacrificing a lot of his scoring output for Curry and Crawford, and Randolph is going to be one more mouth to feed. If the Knicks don't plan on re-signing Marbury, he may become antsy to show he can still produce as his contract nears its end. Once again, we'll have to wait and see, but it doesn't take an active imagination to see this coming.
And then there's his attitude about games. I could talk about how he doesn't seem to care unless the ball is in his hands, but I think that's only a small part of his lack of interest in playing winning NBA basketball. So let's look at his most recent screw-up in Portland: After his girlfriend's cousin passed away, he was granted bereavement leave to go to Indiana to be with her family. Instead, he was caught at a strip club - in Portland, while the Blazers were in the middle of playing a home game. This isn't ancient history, this is last season. If you can be at the strip club, you can be at the game - that is, unless you're just another punk in the NBA laughing all the way to the bank.
I don't know if I want a guy like that influencing a young team. Even if he's never caught outright doing anything as gutless as using a death to skip a game in New York, he still brings a certain attitude about being in the NBA that I don't want to rub off on the Knicks' young guys.
Well, as I indicated in an earlier post, the Knicks weren't going to be significantly under the cap in 2008-09 anyway, despite Zeke saying otherwise. Randolph will just make sure that they're not under the cap at all until 2010. Here's the bright spot - his contract ends at the same time as Eddy Curry's, Jamal Crawford's, and Jared Jeffries', which means the Knicks will have a chance to reevaluate their roster without having any huge long-term contracts in their hands - that is, if Zeke isn't tempted to add more salary past then.
Overall, I think Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph could be the best one-two frontcourt punch in the lague, at least on offense. Their games complement each other well there, and if Zeke can manage Zach's personality, then we may see an improved effort on defense. But, it could be just as likely that they blow up and work out about as well as Stephon Marbury and Steve Francis. They're are very similar in many ways - effort comes to mind - and neither makes up for the other's weaknesses - in fact, on defense they'll probably just magnify each other's lack of interest.
The Knicks' best shot at making this work is for Zeke to get through to Randolph from day 1, and let him know that he can be successful in New York if he chooses to be. Randolph needs to realize that there's only room for so much ego on the Knicks, and Zeke takes up all of it - and that's a good thing from a coach. If Zeke uses Randolph to give Curry a bail-out option, and the guards a chance to run, then there's a chance that this pairing will work. But unless Randolph gets religion as soon as he steps off the plane in New York, then he's going to make Knick fans absolutely miserable.
Let's see if Zeke can do it. He's had some success with some difficult players - Stephon Marbury, Jamal Crawford, and Eddy Curry, to an extent. But he's also had some failures with players who don't even come close to Randolph's level of wasted talent - like Mo Taylor, Jalen Rose, Steve Francis, Penny Hardaway, Nate Robinson, and Tim Thomas. And none of them even had this much of a history of not caring about their team, let alone an extensive rap sheet like Randolph does.
Zeke, this one's on you to make it work. Make it happen.


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Lee Allen was watching the Louisville-Duke basketball game in his room on Easter Sunday when he heard the wailing of the smoke alarm. It went off shortly after Cardinal player Kevin Ware suffered a gruesome leg injury during the Midwest regional final of the men's NCAA tournament. Allen, 67, said he was still reeling from witnessing the graphic scene on television when he was forced to flee the house on Esplanade Avenue that dates back to the 1890s.
He ran down the hallway, banging on the doors of his fellow tenants before local TV cameras captured him stumbling down the front steps, shirtless and engulfed in smoke, as the firemen rushed in.
Owner Joan Brooks, described on the scene as being visibly distraught by a NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune reporter, stood on the neutral ground watching as the 4-alarm fire consumed her house. "I look at that building and it hurts my heart," Brooks said of the property at 1347 Esplanade Ave.
Brooks said the blaze was caused by vagrants smoking under the house, but the fire department has not yet determined the cause, according to the public information office.
Five months ago a 5-alarm fire in the 1400 block of Esplanade Avenue destroyed two Greek revival mansions and damaged several neighboring buildings.
Pat O'Brien, who lives just a few blocks away in the 7th Ward and over the course of 44 years has renovated 22 properties, said Brooks' reputation for keeping up her properties is less than favorable.
"I don't know her personally but she is known not to maintain her buildings and is considered to be an owner of blighted property," O'Brien said.
Brooks became angry when asked about the comments. "They are wrong. I can tell you I have properties that I maintain and the tenants are very happy," she said. "I would love to confront anyone and everyone who has a complaint against Joan Brooks. I want names. I will put my credentials against anyone in this neighborhood."
Brooks ' credentials, however, include a long list of city citations, She owns 13 buildings in Treme, Lakeview and Uptown that have 51 blight verdicts rendered against them over the past two decades and are the subjects of four open cases, according to the city's blight status website.
After the city declares properties to be blighted, the owners have 30 days to bring them into compliance. If they don't the city can take control of the properties and sell them at a sheriff's sale. The majority of Brook's properties, while vacant and boarded up, are in compliance.
Brooks also owes the city $17,558 in back taxes, including a $13,802 code enforcement lien from 2011, on her house at 6594 Bellaire Drive, according to the Orleans Parish Assessor's Office.
For some in the community, the Easter fire sparked memories from 1999 when Brooks' property directly across Esplanade Avenue went up in flames, taking the life of a 74-year-old man named Peter Mullings. He died of smoke inhalation and burns covering most of his body. The fire department at the time suspected the blaze was started by someone smoking in bed.
That property, 1342 Esplanade Ave., remains vacant; it's covered in a coat of peach paint but crumbling at the seams and has become a popular destination for the homeless.
Brooks also owns the Empress, a 36-room hotel on Ursulines Street. The website describes it as having "Euro-style accommodations," but neighbors say it mainly attracts drug users, prostitutes and drunks.
But Brooks has her supporters who say she has done much to improve the community.
New Orleans Police Department spokesman Frank Robertson said there have been "a couple of robberies around the Empress Hotel but with Mrs. Brooks assistance the crimes were immediately solved." He declined to comment further.
Elaine Samuel, who has lived on Esplanade Avenue since 1972, said before Brooks started buying up property on the historic thoroughfare it was riddled with abandoned houses populated by drug addicts.
"It was a dismal stretch of Esplanade when Joan started investing and renovating," Samuel said. "Her singular actions brought up this block amazingly through the late 80s and early 90s."
Brooks and her family own five properties in the 1300 block of Esplanade Avenue. The house that was the victim of the Easter fire was one of the largest in the area though its decrepit condition made it stick out among the more beautiful and well-maintained homes surrounding it.
One of the most common complaints against Brooks is that she rents cheap rooms to unsavory people, but Samuel said Brooks is offering a much-needed service in post-Katrina New Orleans, affordable housing.
"Unlike other landlords she's not closed to people coming from problematic circumstances. She doesn't put people through background checks because she knows they are trying to turn their lives around and need a chance," Samuel said. "So I don't think any of her properties are substandard. They may not be luxury but she keeps them together."
Brooks said many of her buildings are vacant because they suffered significant damage during Hurricane Katrina and she hasn't been able to keep up financially with repairs. "I didn't have any properties that had problems before," she said.
Many of the blight rulings against her properties, however, took place before the storm in 2005. The house at 1347 Esplanade had code violations dating to the early 2000s, including a 2002 judgment for general maintenance and repairs, grass cutting, and rat harborage, said mayoral spokesman Ryan Berni.
The property at 1342 Esplanade that was damaged by a fire in 1999 has 11 blight rulings, only one of which took place after the storm. Brooks owns a vacant building at 1122 Marais St. that has nine blight rulings including six that took place between 2000 and 2001.
Neighbors of Brooks' property at 6594 Bellaire Drive said when they toured the house in 2010 with a city inspector nothing had been removed since the storm, including the refrigerator and its rotting contents. Both of Brooks' Lakeview homes had been unoccupied and in a state of disrepair for years prior to Katrina, said neighbor Richard Lane.
There are also questions about the rental arrangements at the 1347 Esplanade house.
Allen's lease required a $50 deposit and a weekly rental payment of $165 for a dormitory style room with a communal bathroom and kitchen. There were eight people living in the house at the time of the March 31 fire.
To legally operate a short-term rental establishment -- classified as properties rented for less than 60 days in the French Quarter or less than 30 days anywhere else in the city -- it has to be registered with the city. Brooks said 1347 Esplanade is officially licensed, but it is not listed in the city's database of short-term rentals.
In response to people who said the building was in poor condition, Brooks said it was constantly undergoing renovations, that she was always "painting and fixing things."
The only renovations Allen said he witnessed during the six months he lived at the house included the installation of a peach toilet seat, a new toilet handle, rubber strips on the fire escape steps and a pedestal wash basin. Brooks installed a new water heater under the house just weeks before the fire; prior to that, the house never had hot water, Allen said.
When he first moved in, Allen said, the walls and the ceiling of his room were covered in black mold and water poured through the ceiling when it rained.
"It took a month to fix that but then it just rained right outside of my door," Allen said. "So when you walked outside your room raindrops would hit you in the hallway."
When Allen told Brooks he saw a rat on top of the refrigerator he said she told him, "'This is New Orleans. There are rats everywhere.' But there were holes in the kitchen floor where you could see daylight so there was no way to keep the rats out," Allen said.
Brooks said she does everything she can to help her tenants, allowing them to stay even when they are months behind in rent, but Allen said he didn't see that spirit of generosity in the wake of the fire.
While the tenants were standing outside in the gusting wind, choking down smoke as they watched their possessions burn, Allen said Brooks told them to go the Empress Hotel. He figured she was going to put them up for free, but when he arrived, the desk clerk asked for a housing voucher from the Red Cross. After he explained that the Red Cross only gave them money for food and clothing, Allen said the clerk told him he would have to pay, and the only rooms available cost $50 per night, double what he was paying at 1347 Esplanade Ave.
The final insult came when she showed him his room.
"(The desk clerk) said, 'The toilet doesn't work. You need a bucket, fill it up in the shower and put it in the toilet to make it work,'" Allen said.
For that inconvenience, he managed to talk them down from $50 per night to $44.50.

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If you thought I was just slacking last week and not being mr. busy beaver state tv writer boy, check out today's double shot of journalism by yrs truly: Here's a column on the shortcomings of KPTV local news; Here's where I would put up a link to a profile of KPOJ-AM/Air America radio talk show host Thom Hartmann (who is taking over Al Franken's slot on AA as of today). Only that one didn't end up online, for mysterious reasons, so I can't do that. Freaky-styley. I have no idea why or how or how come, but that's the cyber-breaks.
But because your'e good, here's a link to yesterday's ecstatic review of "Slings & Arrows," which you need to rent/buy/borrow in dvd form to see the first two seasons, then either check out season 3 on Sundance, or wait for the DVD's to come out, and then see that. It's really good, is the thing.
Elseways: Did I mention that "Studio 60" is doomed? I think I did, but here it is again. Does this mean I don't have to watch the five episodes I currently have backed up on the ol' TiVo? Here's the progress that show made in my TV universe:
Step 1: Appointment TV, viewed as it happened, commercials and all. This lasted two weeks.
Step 2: TiVO'd, caught up with the next night: Maybe three weeks.
Step 3: TiVO'd, seen by the end of the week, definitely. A week or two.
Step 4: TiVO'd, viewed within a week, but skipped through the slow parts (an epi)
Step 5: TiVO'd, somehow never quite seen; ever since.
No regrets, mate. None at all.


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The Times-Picayune is ranking the 57 BCS bowl games played over the past 13 seasons from worst to first. The BCS championship game will be played in New Orleans on Jan. 9, 2012.
The Trojans announced their re-emergence as a national power by beating the Hawkeyes in the first of seven consecutive BCS bowl appearances, six of which they won.
USC quarterback and Heisman winner Carson Palmer was MVP, throwing for 303 yards and a touchdown. The Trojans had five scoring drives in excess of 60 yards, helping them build a 16-minute advantage in time of possession.
Three of those touchdown drives came in the third quarter as Southern Cal blew open a game that had been tied at 10 at halftime.
The victory was the seventh against a Top 25 team for the Trojans, whose only loss to Washington State kept them out of the Rose Bowl.
After the game, USC Coach Pete Carroll talked about how well his team was playing, adding, "We'd like to keep it going."
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We have used our general atmosphere code {\tt PHOENIX} (version 10.8) to generate radiative equilibrium models of irradiated planets located near a dM6 and a G2 primary. The external radiation, represented by synthetic spectra from a previous set of {\tt PHOENIX} model atmospheres, was explicitly included in the solution of the radiative transfer equation. We do not use precomputed, ad hoc, temperature-pressure profiles. A cool ({{\rm T}\rm eff} = 500 {\rm K}) and a hot ({{\rm T}\rm eff} = 1000{\rm K}) planet were modeled at various orbital separations from both the dM6 and the G2 primary. In all scenarios, we compared the effects of the irradiation in two extreme cases: one where dust clouds form and remain suspended in the atmosphere and another where dust clouds form but completely settle out of the atmosphere. The atmospheric structure and emergent spectrum strongly depend on the presence or absence of dust clouds.
Several models have also been computed by solving the spherically symmetric radiative transfer equation instead of assuming plane parallel geometry, as is usually done for EGPs. We find that the plane parallel solution may, in some circumstances, significantly underestimate the flux near the planetary limb and should, therefore, be used with caution.
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This year's Traverse City Film Festival unearthed a couple of bits of interesting news about the documentary filmmaker and festival founder. Among them: He's starting a comedy festival in Traverse City and he may be taking a permanent hiatus from the documentary genre.
But perhaps the most surprising news has managed to stay under the radar until now. According to Karina Longworth of Spout Blog, which covers the world of independent film, Moore made an announcement at TCFF that he's planning on starring in a one-man show on Broadway within the next 24 months.
Broadway magazine now has a blurb talking about the announcement and comparing the effort to a one-man show he did on the theater circuit in London in 2002. Apparently, it won critical praise in the U.K.
Gulliver Cragg of The Independent said, "Moore's talent is in steering popular indignation or derision at world leaders towards more intelligent analysis, while using what is largely the language of the pub."


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It wasn't supposed to be this way. Last year's Arab Spring uprisings were hopeful harbingers of more honest governance and better lives for the oppressed.
But progress has been slow and circuitous. In Tunisia and Egypt, Islamist currents buffet secular institutions once held in place by dictatorial rulers. Egypt is caught between the surging fortunes of the Muslim Brotherhood, hard-line Salafists and a military establishment reluctant to cede power. One casualty may be the uneasy Egyptian-Israeli detente dating to the Camp David accords of 1978.
Popular frustration is building. When riots at a soccer match in Port Said last week exploded, killing 74, it was promptly blamed on the military. Meanwhile, the regime has angered Washington — and imperiled $1.5 billion in U.S. aid — by ordering trials for 19 Americans and others working with non-government organizations to build free institutions.
Just months ago, U.S. and NATO air support helped end Moammar Gadhafi's dictatorship in Libya. Now, democracy protesters in Syria face fierce resistance from Bashar al-Assad. Like Gadhafi, Assad is willing to slaughter his own people: Continued government shelling of Homs, Syria's third-largest city, has claimed hundreds of lives, pushing the toll since March past 5,600.
Unlike Gadhafi, Assad has a firm grip on power. The Obama administration has done well to unite with its allies against Assad. But Saturday Russia and China scuttled a U.N. Security Council initiative. Russia continues to supply arms to Assad, and Washington must pressure Moscow to stop before this major oil-producing state spirals into utter chaos.
In Iran, Islamists are celebrating 33 years in power — though it would take a tea-leaf reader to interpret the power flows between the mullahs and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran's quest for nuclear weapons is an open secret, despite the oil-rich nation's bland assurance it only seeks nuclear power. Israel's leaders say they will thwart Iran's ambition by any means necessary — not surprising, since Iran's leaders vow to destroy Israel by any means at their disposal.
The Obama administration has built a formidable international consensus against Iran, including crippling sanctions. Arab states also fear a nuclear Iran and promise an arms race if Tehran does get the bomb. Obama's vow in his State of the Union address last month bears repeating. "America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal," he said. "But a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible, and far better."
After a presidential term that included ending combat in Iraq, troop drawdowns in Afghanistan, elimination of Osama bin Laden and a successful Libya campaign — and with the Israeli-Palestinian standoff barely registering on the radar screen — Obama may be facing his greatest test.


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This was unexpected, yet was eluded to during the last call. I for one believe that they may have turned the corner here, and might just pull the rabbit outta the hat. Lets watch a million shares trade hands today, lets watch everyone try to get on the train at the same time today.....To all of those whom been buying at this level, .45 to .49, congrats, your foresight will pay off.....
Out of buisness. By end of year...10k....if you understand the numbers you can see jones has no chance unless they can dilute to survive, but that won,t happen
the important part,
"Jones Soda has renewed listings with Whole Foods in the Northern California market, as
well as other California boutique grocery chains such as Bristol Farms, Gelson's and
Mollie Stone's. Jones Stripped will be distributed across the country by UNFI, Nature's
Best and KeHe."
it was good news that was wholly ignored. With more news to follow in the next 30 days, I realize it is a long way till the first week of August. Lets see where the stock price is by then. Nuttie and his BK dilutional outlook is just that. He has been spewing BK for 3 years now, and his axe is no sharper now than 3 years ago. Keep grinding away there buddy......
and there is no volume because they lost allllllllllll credibility already. they are going to have actually execute on something with actual results to reverse that. it can be done. but not like they are doing it. i mean the last PR was about decorating the lobby. mom!! mom!! can we put up some pictures for our soda business??
oh horseh-t. go on the web site and get information on the vaunted jones stripped. i mean try. there is no ingredient information... the whole point of the product is the ingredients, yet no information. seriously? is this hard? does it take an MBA to figure out how to describe your product? natural sweeteners? what about natural flavors? other ingredients? a staff of 20 people sit around unable to put a description of ingredients on a web page when the ENTIRE concept of the product is supposedly better ingredients? sorry alderson. they just can not seem to do anything at a professional level. it is all being run out of mom and dad's basement.


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The Jersey Journal's Hudson County Science Fair is pleased to announce the 2014 High School Bronze Medalists:
Mekhin Ong, High Tech High School in North Bergen: Animal Science
Usvah Rizvi, Dickinson High School in Jersey City: Behavioral Science
Sarwat Siddiqui, McNair Academic High School in Jersey City: Behavioral Science
Khusbu Modi, Dickinson: Biochemistry
Devanshi Gami, McNair Academic: Chemistry
Miraj Patel, Dickinson: Chemistry
Daniel Barberena, McNair Academic: Earth Science
Jennifer Chunchi, Union City High School: Earth Science
Lorely Solano, Dickinson: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Isaac Ortega, Union City High School: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Rina Rosales, Union City High School: Energy and Transportation
Olvis Hernandez, Union City High School: Materials and Bioengineering
Shyam Patel, McNair Academic: Materials and Bioengineering
Alesandra Alcantara, Union City High School: Environmental Management
Gissela Vega, Union City High School: Environmental Management
Precious Martinez, Union City High School: Environmental Science/Analysis
Eddie Torres, Union City High School: Environmental Science/Analysis
Abanoub Boules, Bayonne High School: Mathematics
Ravindu Gunawardana, Union City High School: Mathematics
Arleni Liriano, Union City High School: Medicine and Health
Stuti Parikh, McNair Academic: Medicine and Health
Roxanne Casio, St. Dominic Academy in Jersey City: Physics and Astronomy
David Villacis, Union City High School: Physics and Astronomy
Jezabel Nunez, Union City High School: Plant Science
Jay Patel, Dickinson: Plant Science
Usama Mahmood, Dickinson: Plant Science
Complete listings of medal recipients and special award winners are being announced daily through Monday.
In all, 231 students in elementary and high school competed in the 56th annual fair on Monday at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. Yesterday, we announced the silver medalists and took a look at the 13 high school gold medalists who competed in super-judging.
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The Jersey Journal's Hudson County Science Fair is sponsored by Fidelity Investments, Liberty Science Center, the CarePoint Foundation, Saint Peter's University, Jersey City Medical Center, Comcast and New Jersey City University.


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Candidates for Bainbridge Island City Council must pay a filing fee of $72, equal to 1 percent of the annual salary. There is no filing fee for the other island offices on the ballot.
We hope to have a lot of activity here next week, said Auditor Karen Flynn said.
Filing begins at 8 a.m. Monday, and continues each day until 4:30 p.m. Friday.
Filing can be done by mail, so long as the declaration is notarized, and the filing fee should be enclosed. But to be valid, filings by mail must actually be received in Flynns office by 4:30 p.m. Friday the postmark is of no consequence.
If no candidate files for a given office, the period will be re-opened for three days the following week.
For offices that represent a defined geographic area, candidates must be a resident of the area both at the time of filing and at the time of election.
The following offices are up for grabs this year:
City council: Four seats are up for election one representing the north ward, two in the southwest ward, and one at-large. Incumbent Christine Nasser Rolfes will defend the two-year southwest ward position, and Michael Pollock the at-large seat. Other announced candidates include businessman and former councilman Jim Llewellyn for the four-year post in the southwest ward; sheep farmer and former councilwoman Annette Stollman in the northwest ward; and retired television producer Christopher Kit Spier challenging Pollock for the at-large seat.
The north ward is generally north of Koura Road. The southwest ward takes in the entire island south of Eagle Harbor, as well as west of Miller Road south of Koura, and includes the entire Battle Point peninsula.
School board: Two seats are up for election. Incumbents Bruce Weiland and Cheryl Dale will defend their seats representing District 1 (north Bainbridge) and District 3 (west Winslow and Eagledale), respectively.
Park board: Four of the five seats are up for election. Incumbents Dave Shorett, Ken DeWitt and Kirk Robinson will defend their seats, while Dane Spencer will vacate his position.
Fire board: One seat on the three-person board is open, with Earl Johnson the only announced candidate.
Kitsap County Sewer District 7: Only one position on the three-person board is up. Incumbent commissioner Sarah Lee will seek another six-year term.
Crystal Springs Water District: Three seats are up for election. The incumbents plans are not known.
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Why being obsessed with 1st page :s
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first page?
Basically a whole game...
First page a little anticlimactic, but good puzzle.
Also, this problem is like half a game, I'm sure... You definitely don't need to calculate all the moves beforehand, imo. In fact, I'd say the problem is just far too long.
Only got half way.
really long!
Finally a really difficult one!
first page
very complicated only solved 85% of problem
Tarrasch's Trap (ie. one of the main reasons why Steinitz variation of Ruy Lopez became unpopular)
Was all of the moves for black in this puzzle forced? I'm sure that in at least one of the 11 moves in the problem, black could have played an alternative line to go on with an equal position.
One to remember !
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• The Obama administration announced right before the July 4 holiday it was delaying until 2015 the healthcare overhaul lovingly called Obamacare.
There's a theory ag journalists have: If you want to end a drought, write about it. In other words, if drought has plagued the area and you write a story or two on it, it is sure to start raining the day before the stories hit homes and make the stories look like old news before they've even been read.
With that in mind, I wasn't at all surprised when the Obama administration, through the Treasury Department, announced right before the July 4 holiday that it was delaying until 2015 the healthcare overhaul lovingly called Obamacare, particularly the provision in it that mandated employers over a certain size offer healthcare to employees.
It was supposed to go into effect Jan. 1, 2014. Six months from now. Who the heck knows if the thing will even take root now.
Why was I not surprised the administration had a mind change on this? Because I had just written a story for Southeast Farm Press on what farmers, particularly fruit and vegetable farmers who have large employee basis, either fulltime or seasonal, need to be doing now to get ready for the Jan. 1, 2014 launch (or crash) of Obamacare.
The story's OK. The best I could do on what is a very hard thing to get your mind around. Even smart folks like Charles Cook were having trouble explaining it and all the what-ifs and what-nots. He's vice-president with BB&T – J. Rolfe Davis Insurance, based in Maitland, Fla. He was the head speaker at the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association meeting I went to back in June called "Health Care Reform: Next Steps for Employers."
The association partnered up with BB&T to help its members get a grasp on what the looming Obamacare mandates meant to them and what they could do to either avoid them or best handle them. The meeting was informative. FFVA had more meeting lined up through the rest of the summer to cover all of Florida. Those FFVA meetings on healthcare reform have since been postponed, too.


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When school officials from Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties meet this Friday, they'll be seeking an agreement to ask voters for approval of a 10-year income tax that spans three counties.
The thrust behind a 10-year tax is to provide financial stability, as opposed to the constant slash-and-beg cycle schools have engaged in after Measure 5's curb on tax revenues.
If you know any Portland teachers, you've probably already heard their anger at the consequences of Measure 5 and Salem's failure to deal with it. This year, some high-school class sizes are topping 40 kids.
You've also heard the fear, since things will get worse-much worse-next year. That's when $50 million disappears from the Portland schools budget-the equivalent of slashing 700 teachers or cutting 10 weeks of schools.
The situation has gotten so bleak that City Commissioner Randy Leonard says he has been practicing his responses to be ready for the "S-question" when he's out recruiting businesses for the region. "How are your schools?"
Says Leonard, "It's embarrassing to try to answer that question in the most positive way possible. It's like, 'Uh, they're really nice buildings: We invested in them a generation ago. Have I told you about the ocean? We have a really great ocean.'"
So local officials are trying to come up with a ballot measure that will stay the guillotine-or at least make it not cut so deep-when the voter-approved Multnomah County income tax for schools, public safety and social services runs out next year.
A 10-year income tax might sound like a pipe-dream for the 17 school districts meeting this Friday. But political consultant Mark Wiener, who is working with the schools group, says preliminary polling shows the idea has a chance. "The polling asked, 'Is there any way to get to yes' on this? And there was," says Wiener.
Polling also helped figure out what tax rate might be palatable: Currently, income-tax backers are talking about a rate that would translate to a $150 to $180 range each year for the average taxpayer in the three counties.
That's smaller than the $300-or-so average annual expense for the 1.25 percent income tax currently in place in Multnomah County.
Besides the details of the 10-year tax, perhaps the biggest question is whether to expand it beyond Multnomah County.
The advantage of including Washington and Clackamas counties would be to eliminate tax differentials among counties. The downside: dealing with Clackamas County's penny-pinching voting bloc, which could sink the whole thing.
The deciding issue in whether to go regional is whether school proponents can get all districts on board; currently two districts have expressed special concerns with the income-tax idea: Beaverton and Hillsboro. And North Clackamas is also wavering.
If everyone cannot agree, then the backup plan may revert to just a Multnomah County or even Portland-only measure.
Portland Public Schools Superintendent Vicki Phillips has said she wants the measure to go to voters in May, so that the new tax could be in place in time for the 2006-07 school year.


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If you want to shop for Christmas early or birthdays and happen to be near a Disney Store Outlet, check out their clearance section.
While some prices are still high, there were some pretty good deals on plush dolls for $5.99, water bottles for $1.99, shirts for $5.99, dress up accessories for $3.99 and more.


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by Member on Jul. 11, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Yep. My DD is 18 months old and she helps clean up her toys. If I ask her she listens an picks them up. I try to make it fun for her so she doesn't mind doing it.
My 20 month old and 3 yr old are great helpers. They take their dirty laundry to the hampers, give us their empty plates and picks up their toys.
by Bronze Member on Jul. 11, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Yes! He loves to help clean! He helps me clean his high chair tray, put away the towels, his clothes and DF's socks when I do laundry. He tries to help me vacuum. He will use his toy dust buster when I use mine to get into the couches.
by Kat on Jul. 11, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Not yet. She brings me everything and says thank you but isn't much help. She is only 13 months.
I make them help! LOL Now my baby girl doesn't, but she is only 11 months and doesn't walk.
She will if i show/tell her exactly what to pick up and what to do with it
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i cant wait. AMD ran so close to intel last year and intel had hyperthreading, while AMD was running single thread processors.
now AMD has multithreading; so who knows how fast they are going to be
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To give their customers more travel options, NJ Transit is still cross-honoring which allows passengers to use tickets and passes for one mode of transportation on another.
NJ Transit bus service has been restored but riders in Northern and Central N.J. have been warned to allow extra travel time and expect delays due to local road conditions.
NJ Transit rail service is still running on an enhanced holiday schedule. According to 1010 WINS, riders on the North Jersey Coast line should expect 20 to 30 minute delays. Also, other lines are running on 15 minute delays.
1010 WINS reports that Hudson-Bergen Light Rail service is running irregularly and is on a 20 minute schedule.
According to Port Authority, PATH train service between Newark and Journal Square has finally been restored. The Journal Square to 33rd Street via Hoboken line and the Journal Square to World Trade Center line are operating on a 15-minute schedule. Trains to all PATH destinations are now available from Journal Square.
Drivers in Secaucus on the southbound eastern spur of the New Jersey Turnpike can expect 6 to 10 minute delays before Interchange 15X. The delays were caused by a disabled bus which has since been cleared from the road, 1010 WINS reports.
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Paul Postma
St. John's IceCaps' defenceman Paul Postma has been named to the American Hockey League's 2011-12 first all-star team.
Postma has 13 goals and 31 assists for 44 points with the Atlantic Division champion IceCaps. That's one point shy of his career high he set last year as a member of the Chicago Wolves, but his totals for this year came in 14 fewer games. Due to injuries — Postma is one of 11 IceCaps in the infirmary this week — and a three-game call-up to the parent Winnipeg Jets earlier this season, Postma has appeared in only 55 of the IceCaps 71 games to date.
This is the second all-star honour of the season for Postma, a 23-year-old native of Red Deer, Alta. He made his second consecutive appearance in the AHL's all-star game in January.
The AHL's year-end all-star teams were selected through a vote by coaches, players and media in each of the league's 30 member cities. Postma is one of five players from the league's Eastern Conference named to the first team.
2011-12 AHL First All-Star Team
G Yann Danis, Oklahoma City Barons (40GP, 25-12-2, 2.11 GAA, .924 save percentage)
D Mark Barberio, Norfolk Admirals (69 GP, 12-47-59, +23 rating)
D Paul Postma, St. John's IceCaps (55GP, 13-31-44, 24 PP pts)
LW Chris Bourque, Hershey Bears (67gp, 26-64-90, 50 PP pts)
C Keith Aucoin, Hershey Bears (43 GP, 11-59-70pts., 38 PP pts)
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Come and celebrate with the students and their families on Wednesday, April 2, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the annual Young Picasso Pizza Party in Yester House. Music by the Long Trail Band will be featured along with art activities, refreshments and, of course, pizza. The reception is free and open to the public.
All of the artwork in the show is produced by students from pre-kindergarten through high school and arranged by their art teachers. The creativity and talent displayed in the exhibition is a wonderful testament to the outstanding instruction and guidance local students receive from their teachers.
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Drew Brees is back in a familiar role for the first time this season as the New Orleans Saints quarterback has been nominated for the FedEx Air Player of the Week. Brees went 29 of 45 for 370 yards and four touchdowns in the Saints' 31-24 victory over the San Diego Chargers. Brees threw a touchdown in his 48th straight game, breaking Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas' record.
The Colts' Andrew Luck and the 49ers' Alex Smith are the other two finalists./p>
Luck threw for 362 yards on 31 of 55 attempts and two TDs as the Colts beat the Green Bay Packers 30-27. Smith completed 18 of 24 passes for 303 yards and three scores. He finished the day with a 156.3 passer rating in the 49ers' 45-3 defeat of the Buffalo Bills.


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Blue rallies in second half to defeat Red
LISBON-At halftime of the Columbiana County Classic girls basketball game-with the atmosphere loose and relaxed-East Liverpool's Kiara Cowart wandered over to midcourt and began a playful bit of teasing with one of her opponents for the night, Shartece Taylor from Wellsville.
"Her and (Wellsville senior) Brittany Clendenning got lost coming to the game and were just laughing about that," Cowart said.
Cowart then went out and teased Taylor, Clendenning and the rest of the Red team with her game in the second half, storming to 10 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Blue team to a 49-45 comeback win Tuesday at Lisbon High School.
Cowart did all of her scoring in the second half and was named MVP of the Blue Team. Playing against her friends and rivals from Wellsville (Clendenning and Taylor) and Beaver Local (Dana Talbott and Sierra Wright) made the effort all the more fun.
"I really like playing against those girls," Cowart said. "I've grown up with them and have known them for a long time. It's always fun when we play."
After getting some help finding Lisbon High School, Clendenning and Taylor hustled into the gym as starting lineups were being introduced, threw on their gear and jumped into the game. The rushed entry had no effect on Clendenning, who scored and rebounded early and often, helping the Red team to a quick double-digit lead. Clendenning finished with 10 points and six rebounds on her way to claiming MVP honors for the Red team.
"We were running late anyway because Shartece had track and then we made a few wrong turns," Clendenning laughed. "We ended up having to follow somebody here."
Clendenning loved going against Cowart and East Liverpool in non-conference play during her career and relished going back-and-forth with her one more time.
"I always look forward to playing her," Clendenning said. "She is great rebounder and is great at boxing out, which is my main weakness. I like that we have opposite styles because it forced me to work harder against her."
United point guard Mackenzie Gatchel had a solid effort for the Blue team, finishing with 10 points. Her two first half three-pointers helped her team claw back after falling behind early 12-2.
After a Cowart put-back gave the Blue team its first lead with seven minutes left, Crestview's Emilee Chlebus hit two key baseline jumpers down the stretch to preserve the slim margin. She finished with eight points, while her Crestview teammate Ana Hardenbrook had nine points.
"It's tough to get into a flow when you don't play with each other all year," Cowart said. "In the second half we started playing together a lot better and started knocking down some shots."
Clendenning was held scoreless in the second half, but Beaver Local's Danna Talbott gave the red team a lift with seven points. Bri Gingher from Columbiana also had seven points, while her Clipper teammate Aleah Whitacre had six points.
RED SCORING: Danna Talbott (Beaver Local) 3-1-7, Sierra Wright (Beaver Local) 0-0-0, Mollie Donnelly (Columbiana) 1-0-2, Bri Gingher (Columbiana) 3-0-7, Aleah Whitacre (Columbiana) 3-0-6, Emily Schneider (Leetonia) 1-0-2, Haley Scoville (Leetonia) 2-0-4, Madison Pennington (Heartland) 1-0-2, Brittany Clendenning (Wellsville) 4-2-10, Shartece Taylor (Wellsville) 2-0-5. TEAM TOTALS: 20, 4-6: 45.
BLUE SCORING: Emilee Chlebus (Crestview) 4-0-8, Ana Hardenbrook (Crestview) 2-5-9, Kiara Cowart (East Liverpool) 5-0-10, Chelsea Possage (East Liverpool) 2-1-5, Kelsey McKim (East Palestine) 0-0-0, Courtney Weber (East Palestine) 2-1-5, Sarah Boyd (Lisbon) 0-0-0, Jenna Dickson (Lisbon) 0-0-0, Becka Phillis (Southern) 1-0-2, Mackenzie Gatchel (United) 4-0-10. TEAM TOTALS: 19, 7-13: 49.
Three-point goals: Red 2 (Gingher, Taylor), Blue 2 (Gatchel 2).


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Steve Cohen is not selling art to pay his bills
All too often the business press falls prey to reductive explanations. For instance, during the debt ceiling crisis, every time the market fell it was reported that stocks were down "on shutdown, debt ceiling concerns" or "as debt ceiling nears". It was literally impossible for the market to fall without the debt ceiling being blamed — and of course there was no evidence at all to prove causation.
Steve Cohen's art purchases similarly fall victim to this problem. Peter Lattman and Carol Vogel explained in Dealbook last week that Cohen is selling a number of works this November at the Sotheby's contemporary art auction in New York, in addition to stocks, in order "to meet withdrawal requests from skittish investors".
There are a number of problems with this analysis, starting with the fact that it cannot be confirmed that these are Cohen's works in the first place (the sourcing is anonymous and Sotheby's won't confirm). Secondly, Cohen buys and sells work all the time. Last year, he reportedly took three minutes to make the decision to buy Picasso's "Le Rêve" from Steve Wynn for $150 million. In 2009, Sotheby's had a museum-quality show of the $450 million worth of Cohen art — all in the single genre of women's portraits. It's fair to assume that most of the works were for sale, at the right price. Pick any modern or contemporary auction in the last five years and there is a decent chance that Steve Cohen was somehow involved.
Finally — and most importantly — if you need cash, selling your art (publicly, no less!) is the option of last resort. The auction isn't until November. If his work sells, Cohen will be somewhere between $30 million and $60 million more liquid two months from now. For someone of Cohen's net worth, that amount is negligible in relation to billions of dollars in investor withdrawal requests. And that's if it does sell. It might not even sell, and it will instead sit on his wall for another five years before he can try again. If Cohen really was selling his work for the cash, he'd be selling it privately through Larry Gagosian, and we'd never know about it unless there was a nasty lawsuit over the details.
It's really doubtful that in his $10 billion holdings, he doesn't have a better way of scrounging up $50 million than selling a few Warhols and a Gerhard Richter. Besides, investor withdrawals pay for themselves: you just liquidate the investors' holdings which never really belonged to you in the first place, and return them. A billion-dollar fine would be a different matter — but even that will almost certainly be paid out of investments. Which won't stop the financial press from declaring, every time that Cohen sells a piece, that he might need the cash to meet other obligations.


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The most recent recipient of the Kettle Moraine High School Fund Scholarship is Ian Wetterau. Read comments from Ian below.
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I am looking forward to learning about the dairy and agricultural industry. I am also looking forward to the different agricultural clubs and community opportunities to give back.
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My interests and hobbies include hunting, showing Belgian draft horses and dairy cows. I also enjoy working on dairy farms and I enjoy playing basketball.
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Thank you the University of Wisconsin-Platteville for selecting me as a recipient of the Kettle Moraine High School Community Scholarship. This scholarship will allow me to continue my passion for the dairy industry. I am eagerly waiting to start my education at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and I hope to find opportunities to give back to the community of Platteville.


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Mary Wang: Seeing Through the FogMay 2016
A two part series on how ancient philosophy and medicine come up against pollution and modernization in China
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If not for flawed tracking, medical mistakes would be the third-leading cause of death, researchers at Johns Hopkins say.
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A lifelong practitioner has a prescription for medicine.
SubcorticalMarch 2015
Boundaries of Gender: In the early seventies, I began sleeping with a married doctor who wanted to cure homosexuality.
Anne Boyer: Data's Work is Never DoneMarch 2015
Boundaries of Gender: In medicine, the work of care and the work of data converge.
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The surgeon and public health journalist on the gaps in healthcare policy, the sharp elbows of politics, and dignity in end-of-life care.
Courtney Moreno: An Ambulance in Los AngelesSeptember 2014
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A mother confronts the waning paternalism of doctors and comes to terms with needing the care of others.
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When surgical team members endorsed the robot in an ad, controversy ensued.
Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber: Generic or Name Brand?November 2013
With billions in potential savings for Medicare at stake, we asked drug experts and practitioners alike why more doctors don't recommend generics when they can.
Lewis H. Lapham: Memento MoriSeptember 2013
The death of American exceptionalism—and of me.
Michael Grabell: The $13 Test That Saved My Baby's LifeSeptember 2013
Why isn't required for every newborn?
Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Jennifer LaFleur: 'Extreme' PrescribersJune 2013
An Inspector General's report faults Medicare for not tracking abuses in prescriptions.
Charles Seife and Rob Garver: FDA Approved New Drug Despite Ongoing Investigation of Lab MisconductApril 2013
Though agents found blatant fraud in a Houston lab, the FDA refused to question drug safety.
Robert Garver and Charles Seife: Double DoseApril 2013
In a second case of flawed drug research, FDA response was slow and secretive.
Jeff Gerth: "Burn the Data"March 2013
Did a company try to hide risks of MRI dye Omniscan?
Blair Hickman: When Doctors Feel Pain After a Medical MistakeJanuary 2013
The best remedy is transparency.
Marshall Allen: What a New Doctor Learned About Medical Mistakes From Her Mom's DeathJanuary 2013
A personal encounter with the complexity and errors of the modern healthcare system.
Marshall Allen: Death on the Operating TableNovember 2012
Journalist Mina Kimes discusses illegal drug experiments and medical catastrophe.
Roslyn Bernstein: Frank Moore's Dark ThoughtsNovember 2012
"Toxic Beauty," a retrospective at NYU's Grey Gallery, brings together the writing and visual work of an extraordinarily socially engaged artist.


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Army of Two: The 40th Day
Salem and Rios return to action in Army of Two: The 40th Day. The sequel to the popular Army of Two title, players must unravel the mysteries behind an epic disaster taking place in Shanghai China. Army of Two: The 40th Day includes fluid co-op play, a fresh arsenal of customizable weapons, and a new story to follow. Developed by EA Montreal and published by Electronic Arts, Army of Two: The 40th Day is available for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Playstation Portable.
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EA releases a new development diary video for the Army of Two: The 40th Day DLC.March 09, 2010
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EA announces new DLC for Army of Two: The 40th Day featuring two co-op campaign maps.February 23, 2010
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Can we beat the Juggernaut?December 16, 2009
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More bro moments captured on film, like the awesome rock-scissor-paper battle.December 16, 2009
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Another day in Shanghai goes completely wrong.December 16, 2009
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EA Montreal shows off a stylish trailer featuring lots and lots of explosions.December 10, 2009
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The army has such wonderful, eccentric guns, like a zebra-themed rifle.November 18, 2009
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same old
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Bwaa, i might rent it for the weekend but i really cant stand tps games especialy ones as sketchy as army of two fun like video crack but, wears thin after the campaing is...
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Friday the 13th with guns...
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This game is for teens, it sucks just like the first one only with better graphic.
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But as far as the morality choices go, I'm one who doesn't think there's any point to watching a movie or reading a book unless you're able to sympathize with characters...
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January 24, 2010 0 0
These reviews are way too generous
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To me fully purchasing a game this short with it's meager online mode is a bad bet. Army of Two tries to be like Uncharted 2 and fails in all the ways that make Uncharted...
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Wow,iam suprised!
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This game is fuckin awesome ok!
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EA has done it yet again.
Score: A+
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This game was crazy fun. Guns ablazing.
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solid B game
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that was my same conclusion after playing through the first few chapters yesterday. the controls are solid (i actually kinda like the cover system, i have no problem...
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Sequel to take the popular route and avoid being anywhere near Modern Warfare 2.August 13, 2009 12 22
Army of Two's Tone 'Didn't Work', Says Producer
EA Montreal plans to remedy the game's issues with tone for the sequel.May 13, 2009 11 24
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Your "morality" might affect how much you talk about Wu-Tang Clan in the next Army of Two.December 15, 2009 0 13
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I actually liked the Punch and Judy aspects of the Insiders board - it kept everyone on their toes.
The problem, as I see it, is that we now have this forum for serious, "keep the pinky pointed outwards when sipping tea" discourse, while Insiders is going to be policed away from the norm of people net-screaming.
I love melts, and political melts most of all, and hope that this place evolves into a refuge of sanity, while Insiders remains the vituperative carnival of hate we all know and love, providing a place to "take it outside" as the situation merits.
No matter the board, you never fail to crack me up.
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A Portland police officer escalated a tense situation when he tried to grab a dog weaving its way through a homeless camp beneath the Morrison Bridge as police came to wake up and move along a group of transients one October morning, the Police Bureau found.
By reaching for the dog, Officer Todd Engstrom inappropriately "placed himself in a position where the use of force became necessary,'' the bureau found after an internal investigation.
The dog bit Engstrom, and he then tried to grab it by the "scruff of the neck with both hands and pinned it to the ground'' to avoid getting bit a second time, according to the investigation.
But the officer's actions inflamed the crowd, and the encounter went south from there, police found.
Police and security officers from Portland Patrol Inc. tried to keep the angry crowd back from the dog and Engstrom.
During the chaos, Angel Tomas Lopez -- a homeless man who was underneath the bridge -- complained that Engstrom pushed him without provocation and then pepper-sprayed several people without warning. Lopez also said Engstrom ended up grabbing his arm and threw him to the ground, punched him in the face and shoved his knee into his back.
Lopez, now 20, filed a complaint with the city's Independent Police Review Division shortly after the Oct. 1 encounter. The division, the intake center for complaints against police, interviewed Lopez and other witnesses and sent the matter to the Police Bureau's internal affairs division for a full investigation.
While the bureau upheld the complaint that Engstrom inappropriately put himself in a position "where the use of force became necessary,'' it did not find the officers' use of force inappropriate.
Lopez has appealed the findings to the Citizen Review Committee. The committee hears the appeal, reviews the evidence and can either accept the bureau's findings or recommend to the police chief a change in findings.
Constantin Severe, director of the Independent Police Review Division, told the citizen committee at its monthly meeting Wednesday night that everyone agreed that the officer's actions "had inflamed the crowd.''
Portland police internal affairs Lt. Jeffrey Bell said Engstrom -- referred to as "Officer A" throughout the meeting -- "already took a tense situation and boiled it over.''
Engstrom, a 19-year bureau veteran, told investigators that he had not considered the dog a danger when he went to grab it, Bell said.
Engstrom told investigators that the dog was "underfoot, in the way," according to Bell. "He just simply wanted to grab the dog by the collar and figure out whose dog it was. He didn't expect it to react the way it did."
Engstrom said he pepper-sprayed Lopez when he saw Lopez push another officer, according to a case summary. He grabbed Lopez's left arm to take him down and arrest him. Unable to get him to the ground, the officer said he put Lopez against the hood of a police car. With the help of another officer, Lopez was taken to the ground, handcuffed and brought to jail.
Lopez was accused of interfering with officers, harassment, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. In January, he pleaded no contest to resisting arrest and the other charges were dropped. He was placed on probation for 12 months.
Citizen Review Committee members are expected to hold a full hearing on Lopez's appeal at its monthly meeting in August.
Members of the Independent Police Review Division had tried to track Lopez down to attend Wednesday night's meeting but were unsuccessful. His appeal can proceed without him being present, Severe said.
Committee members asked at Wednesday's meeting if there's a history of police "building friction'' when clearing homeless camps, and what training officers get about how to de-escalate conflicts in crowd-control situations.
Dan Handelman of the police watchdog group Portland Copwatch questioned how the bureau can conclude the officer inappropriately put himself in a situation where he had to use force, but that the force was justified.
Members of the private security detail Portland Patrol Inc., which has a contract with the city, did not return calls from the Independent Police Review Division when the division first began to do an inquiry into the case, Severe said. That was "very concerning,'' he said, particularly when the agency is working closely with city officers whose actions are being reviewed.
Later, however, when the matter was forwarded to police internal affairs, the security officers were interviewed, Severe said.
Handelman said the case highlights the need to create more accountability and oversight of the private security officers who do work for the city.
"If they're going to be doing official business for the city of Portland,'' Handelman said, "there has to be a better system.''
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Syracuse, NY -- For five years, Douglas Barga has made the trip from Columbus, Ohio, to Syracuse every two weeks.
"I get in a cab at the airport, and they say, 'Guess what they did since you were here last.' Everybody knows what I'm doing there."
Barga is the project architect for the Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital, which opens for public tours Sept. 12 and 13.
» More images from a tour of the new children's hospital.
He dreamed up what the hospital would look like and drew what he envisioned so it could be built. His design came to fruition the day the colored glass was put into place in what he calls the treehouse, and construction workers said he may as well have been singing and dancing, such was his delight.
Barga is a vice president at Karlsberger Architecture, which specializes in health care architecture and has worked on 70 children's hospitals in the United States and Canada. The buzzword today is "patient-centered family care," meaning a design that's child-friendly, with accommodation for family members, and that is functional and efficient for medical staff.
"What we wanted to do is create an experience that unfolds and captures the visitor's imagination in diverse ways, creating a sense of wonder and delight, the notion of children as explorers on a journey to health," Barga explains.
"We wanted to create an environment that was as much about discovery as it is about recovery - to ease boredom, uplift spirits and help them heal and get back to the business of being kids."
Here are some of the features designed to accomplish that:
"For children, the hospital experience begins the minute they leave home. They approach the building from a distance, and they see the colors. Our intent was for them to be positive and the children to feel welcome, so it becomes a place they can emotionally resonate with."
"The intent was to infuse the patient areas with natural light, to provide a healing environment for patients and a calming environment for family and staff."
"Views out of windows are oriented to eye level. Eye level for a child or a patient in a bed is different than for a standing adult."
Children can look from their rooms into the hallways "to see other patients and staff, to have a sense that they are not walking alone on this healing journey."
"Children, especially have a natural curiosity and a visual interest in their environment. Discovering playful and hidden elements provide a stress-relieving distraction for both children and their families."
* Separate entrance.
The Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital is really a hospital within a hospital. To create a separate identity, the children's hospital has a separate entrance, "to reduce the anxiety of entering a hospital facility."
It also assures people they've arrived at the children's hospital. "When you get there, you want to know, intrinsically by the strength of the architecture, that you've arrived where you're supposed to be.
* Raised into the sky.
"This initiates the idea that it's a special place for children, like a clubhouse, where you have to know the password to enter, and adults have to be invited.
"It instills a different perspective, literally, with respect to the ground floor, and figuratively in that you are entering a world specially designed for children."