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Old Man Winter isn't done yet. Bone-chilling winds caused whiteouts across the local area Thursday afternoon and are expected to continue until this morning.
With a winter storm warning in effect through this morning, state Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a statewide state of emergency Thursday. In regard to the storm that is impacting the Northeast, he urged people to "seriously consider staying in their homes."
According to the National Weather Service in Buffalo, Dunkirk will be under snowfall again until this afternoon; receiving up to 7 inches in some areas.
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The section of Washington Avenue between Second Street and Third Street closed Thursday due to bad weather.
Meteorologist Jim Mitchell said all of western New York received general light snowfall and it is not lake effect.
"The roads will remain snow covered and slick," he said. "Drifting snow will cause poor visibility."
Mitchell said a wind chill advisory would be in effect until this afternoon.
"Wind chill is expected to drop down to 20 below zero (Thursday) night," he said.
Fredonia Department of Public Works Superintendent Jack Boland said everyone was out in force Thursday to plow the streets.
"Everything is going as planned," he said. "All the plows are working."
Boland said it has been a non-stop response.
"It would be nice to get a break so everyone can catch their breath," he said.
Dunkirk Department of Public Works Director Tony Gugino said plows have been non-stop all of Thursday.
"The biggest challenge is the extreme wind and cold," he said. "We have been plugging away trying to get the snow cleared."
Gugino said he strongly advises people to stay inside and not go out.
"Do not travel unless it is an emergency," he said. "People could be driving on clear roads and due to the strong wind, it could cause snow drifts to blow into the road and cut off visibility."
The Erie County Department of Health reminds everyone to take appropriate precautions during this week's extremely cold temperatures and to stay indoors if you can; if not then dress in layers.
"When winter temperatures are this cold and with a significant wind chill making it feel colder, staying warm and safe can become a challenge" said Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein. "Prolonged exposure to cold temperatures, whether indoors or outside, can cause serious or life-threatening health problems. Individuals of any age can be affected, but infants and the elderly are particularly at risk. To keep yourself and your family safe, prevent cold weather-related health problems by being aware of the weather conditions and planning and dressing appropriately."
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Bill Harp, Almond Board of California board chairman and almond grower, says plenty of optimism exists for the future of the California almond industry.
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ARLINGTON — Its goals are green, but its members are increasingly gray, by their own admission.
The Arlington Garden Club drew roughly half a dozen volunteers to help spread wood chips around their community garden Oct. 16, including two Arlington High School students, but the rest of its workers that morning were not quite as spry.
Bea Randall, the community garden coordinator, was quick to tout the benefits of age and experience in the Garden Club's membership, but she'd also be happy to see some younger faces in the crowd as well.
"Keith Sarkisian is a former agriculture teacher at Arlington High School," Randall said of the 87-year-old man who quietly tended one patch of soil. "Even his replacement at the school has retired. Even as someone who's gone through the Master Gardeners program myself, I'm still learning all sorts of things from him. He moved across the street just to be near this garden."
Northwest Sawdust donated two dump truck loads' worth of wood chips to the Arlington Garden Club for their day's labors. Randall noted that it took the group nine years to use up the last pile that was donated to them.
"It keeps the weeds out," Randall said. "Weeds don't come up through the wood chips. We can't spray for weeds, because then those crops can't be taken to organic farmers markets"
According to Randall, 18 people currently tend 26 plant beds at the community garden. As a chill wind cut through the volunteers, while they shoveled wood chips into wheelbarrows and spread them over the soil, Randall reflected on what lay ahead for the gardeners.
"The crops aren't growing so good this year," Randall said. "It's been lousy. The year Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 was bad, but this year is even worse, I think. There's been a real lack of sun, and this winter is supposed to be especially cold."
Randall invited community members to pitch in on behalf of the Arlington Garden Club's Nov. 27 wreath-making at the Regency Care Center at Arlington. For more information, log onto www.arlingtongardenclub.org.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Have you thought about having the Easter Bunny drop off one of its own in your child's basket on Easter Sunday?
Perhaps your kid has always yearned for their very own Peter Cottontail.
Well, you're not the only one, said Nicole Cook, marketing and events coordinator for the Humane Society of West Michigan.
Every year after Easter, the Humane Society sees an influx of unwanted rabbits dropped off, usually after parents thought the gift of a bunny was a good idea, Cook said.
"A lot of people get them as an 'Easter bunny' and then the novelty wears off and then they bring them (here)," she said. "People get them home and realize they're more work than what they thought, so they send them to us."
John Van Iwaarden of V.I. Pets, 7640 Riverview Drive in Jenison, said buying rabbits for the Easter holiday is something he and his staff "strongly discourage."
He said he and staff ask questions about what the intended use of the rabbits will be, and do not recommend anyone buy a rabbit specifically for the holiday.
Chain pet stores also don't endorse the practice. A manager at PetSmart in Grandville said that not only does the store not supply rabbits, it also doesn't offer any specials on supplies during the season.
Another Easter trend was noted by the New York Times: giving baby chicks as Easter pets, but chicks dyed in pastel colors.
The dye is nontoxic, the Times reports, but local hatcheries frown on the practice. First and foremost, they want to avoid getting in the pet business.
Not to mention that in Michigan, that practice is illegal, said Jack Geerlings, owner of Townline Hatchery in Zeeland.
"It used to be a practice years ago," he said. "I'm not aware of anyone that does that or sells (dyed) chicks."
The New York Times reported that the chicks, like rabbits, are often given up after the holiday.
Springtime and Easter are still popular times to purchase chicks, but for an entirely different reason.
"It's kind of rule of thumb that Easter is a sign of spring," Geerlings explained. "That was always a sign of that was a time to start getting baby chicks to raise for summer and fall ... which is a sign of now it's time to where poultry people start their flocks."
In fact, it's more common locally to give children ducks, not chicks for Easter, said Jack Brezina, owner of Cedar Creek Poultry Farm and Hatchery in Twin Lake.
"Chicks come in all different colors, many varieties of colors," he said. "We do not dye them. They're already cool enough, most kids wouldn't care if it was a regular blue-looking chick or a purple, (they'd give the) same reaction."


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WASHINGTON -- Taxpayers for Common Sense, a non-profit group that built its reputation on taking an unflinching look at how Congress spends money, decided to use its talent and considerable database to look at Congress' productivity.
You probably can guess the results that the group presented on Wednesday. They were not pretty.
``Despite assurances that it would be different this time (heard that one before?), as of July 4th the 110th Congress has passed 260 laws--the lowest over the last three decades,'' the report says.
``This breaks the previous record low of 293 for the 104th Congress, which was the first after the 1994 `Republican Revolution'. Of the 260 public laws passed in the 110th, 74 are for naming post offices and only about 148 could be called 'substantive' laws, a term used loosely considering that this substantive legislation includes a law requiring the flag be flown on Father's Day. And eight of the 148 were `must pass' appropriations bills.''
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TOP 10 CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTIONS OF THE 110th CONGRESS*
1. S.RES.440: A resolution recognizing soil as an essential natural resource, and soils professionals as playing a critical role in managing our Nation's soil resources.
2. S.RES.262: A resolution designating July 2007 as "National Watermelon Month".
3. H.RES.216: Congratulating the men's volleyball team of the University of California, Irvine, for winning the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Volleyball National Championship.
4. S.RES.180: A resolution recognizing the 70th anniversary of the Idaho Potato Commission and designating May 2007 as "Idaho Potato Month".
5. H.RES.630: Congratulating the Warner Robins Little League Baseball Team from Warner Robins, Georgia, on winning the 2007 Little League World Series Championship.
6. H.RES.970: Expressing support for designation of June 30 as "National Corvette Day".
7. H.RES.1050: Recognizing Pittsfield, Massachusetts, as being home to the earliest known reference to the word "baseball" in the United States as well as being the birthplace of college baseball.
8. H.RES.89: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a day should be established as Dutch-American Friendship Day to celebrate the historic ties of the United States and the Netherlands.
9. H.RES.892: Expressing support for designation of a "National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day".
10. H.RES.483: Recognizing the 63rd Anniversary of Big Bend National Park, established on June 12, 1944.
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When it comes to New York street food, most people envision eating a hot dog or soft pretzel from an uninspiring cart off the street, but the city has an entire world of street food available for adventurous eaters, from halal chicken-and-rice carts to high-end food trucks run by chefs and everything in between. A new book, New York a la Cart: Recipes and Stories from the Big Apple's Best Food Trucks (Running Press, 2013) by Alexandra Penfold and Siobhan Wallace, gives the low-down on the NYC street food scene—and even provides recipes to make street food favorites at home. We wanted to get the inside scoop on the book and on the best street food New York has to offer, so we chatted with Penfold over email about the city's street food and what a visitor should look out for.
Describe the New York street food scene, for someone who's never been here. What do you think distinguishes it from other cities? The New York street food scene is unique because it's been an important part of city life for well over one hundred years. Three beloved Lower East Side institutions—Russ and Daughters (179 E. Houston St.), Guss' Pickles (now mail-order only) and Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery (137 E. Houston St.)—all started as push carts. For years different immigrant groups have made their mark on the Big Apple's culinary landscape with their foods and that legacy continues today. New York street food is so much more than hot dogs and pretzels, the diversity of our street food culture is unparalleled. Where else can you find Korean, Italian, Jamaican, Austrian, German, Taiwanese, Greek, Israeli, Belgian, Indian, Bangladeshi, Trinidadian-Pakistani, Moroccan and Mexican street food within walking distance of each other?
Everyone knows about pretzels and hot dogs, but are there other street food eats that are particularly common/popular in NYC? "Street meat," a.k.a. halal chicken or lamb over rice, which typically comes with "white sauce" and "hot sauce," is probably one of the most common street foods in the city. What exactly goes into the white sauce and the hot sauce depends on the vendor, though white sauce is typically a mayo-, yogurt-, or sour cream-based concoction. While there are lots of carts serving up pretty generic renditions, Kwik Meal (W. 45th St./6th Ave.), the "Famous" Halal Guys (W. 53rd St./6th Ave.), Uncle Gussy's Greek Truck (E. 51st St./Park Ave.) and the Comme Ci Comme Ca (locations vary) truck serve exceptional platters. Every year the popular blog Midtown Lunch runs a Street Meat Palooza (http://midtownlunch.com/category/street-meat-palooza/) where it pulls together a panel of lunchers and friends and blind taste-test street meat platters from carts around midtown. Some of those older posts are a terrific place to learn about the nuances of the different carts with regard to how they prepare their meat, rice and sauces.
Falafel is also very popular here. Many of the halal carts serve falafel, but there are also terrific vendors that specialize in falafel, like Freddy King of Falafel, located in Astoria (Broadway/29th St., Queens) and Midtown (E. 53rd St./Park Ave.) and Taim Mobile (locations vary). Ever since LA's Kogi truck launched the Korean Taco phenomenon, we've definitely been seeing more and more Korean-fusion street food in New York which can be found at the Kimchi Taco Truck, Korilla BBQ, Big D's Grub Truck, Seoul Food and the Bob & Jo Truck (locations all vary).
If a person wanted to try just three street food spots to get a good sense of street food in NY, what would they be? I'd recommend Kwik Meal (W. 45th St./6th Ave.) for their Lamb Over Rice (be sure to ask for their killer white sauce and hot sauce), Hallo Berlin (54th St./5th Ave.) for real, authentic wursts, tasty sauerkraut and sinus-clearing mustard that put any sad dirty water dogs to shame; and for an awesome introduction to the city's Latin street food, the Red Hook Food Vendors on weekends from April to October (Bay St./Clinton St., Brooklyn). There are 10 vendors that sell in Red Hook park and they sell some of the city's tastiest Mexican, Dominican, Salvadoran, Ecuadorian, Guatemalan and Colombian food.
Are there any neighborhoods that are particularly great for street food? If you're visiting NYC during the work week, Midtown is an awesome spot for chowing down on street eats. With the high concentration of office workers, there are always tons of options from both stationary carts like Kwik Meal (W. 45th St./6th Ave.), Biryani Cart (W. 46th St./6th Ave.), Trini-Paki Boys (W. 43rd St./6th Ave.) and tons of trucks visit the neighborhood as well. The area near Rockefeller Center is especially popular, as is Park Avenue from 47th to 52nd. Roosevelt Avenue in Queens has an amazing selection of Latin vendors as does Red Hook Park (Bay St./Clinton St., Brooklyn) on the weekends from April to October.
If someone wanted to seek out great street eats in NYC, what's the best place to start? Besides our book, New York a la Cart: Recipes and Stories from the Big Apple's Best Food Trucks? Seriously, though, we wrote the book to put the vendors and their incredibly inspiring stories front and center. We hope that it will serve as a good primer on New York's robust street food history and whet people's appetites to visit the carts and trucks (and recreate great street food at home).
For excellent blog street food coverage to plan your own street food adventure, I recommend checking out Serious Eats (seriouseats.com), Midtown Lunch (midtownlunch.com) and New York Street Food (newyorkstreetfood.com). For a hands-on experience, pick up tickets for one of the terrific NY-based tours run by Turnstile Tours (turnstiletours.com) or Jeffrey Tastes (iwantmorefood.com).


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CC AwardsThere are less than four days left to vote for the Canadian Cyclist of the Year Awards. Currently, Lori-Ann Muenzer holds a slim 6 vote lead over Marie-Helene Premont in the Female Cyclist category, while Michael Barry leads Geoff Kabush by less than 40 votes among the Male Cyclists. In the Individual Performance category, it is Lori-Ann Muenzer with a commanding lead - nearly three-times as many votes as Charles Dionne in second place, with Marie-Helene Premont just behind Dionne in third.Voting closes January 1st at Noon (EST). You can vote by clicking on the banner running throughout the website, or by clicking Here'Cross World Cup #7 - Hofstade, Belgium1 Sven Nys (Bel) Rabobank 1:03:232 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Fidea Cyclo-cross team at 0:173 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Saeco s.t.4 Bart Wellens (Bel) Fidea Cyclocrossteam 0:355 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 0:476 Davy Commeyne (Bel) MrBookmaker.com - Palmans 1:117 Ben Berden (Bel) Saey-Deschacht s.t.8 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com - Palmans 1:259 Christian Heule (Sui) Stevens International Cyclocross Team10 Wilant van Gils (Ned) Rietveld WTC wielerteam 1:3311 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Quickstep - Davitamon 1:4012 Petr Dlask (Cze) Author Praha 1:5013 Jiri Pospisil (Cze) Stevens International Cyclocross Team 2:0214 John Gadret (Fra) Chocolade Jacques 2:0615 Lars Boom (Ned) 2:4016 Bart Aernouts (Bel) Rabobank 3:0117 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Bejan/AA 3:0818 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) Author Praha 3:1519 Francis Mourey (Fra) 3:2020 Wim Jacobs (Bel) Fidea Cyclocrossteam 3:3221 Kamil Ausbuher (Cze) Cyklo Team Budvar Tabor 3:4022 Michael Baumgartner (Sui) 3:5123 Zdenek Mlynar (Cze) AC Sparta Praha 4:1324 Ondrej Lukes (Cze) Tatramleko 4:2825 Ryan Trebon (USA) Kona/Clarks/LesGets 4:3226 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) s.t.27 Vladimir Kyzivat (Cze) Johnson Controls AS MB 4:5528 David Derepas (Fra) 5:0829 Steffen Weigold (Ger) 6:0230 Tadeusz Korzeniewski (Pol) 6:1031 Roman Peter (Sui) 6:1532 Ralph Naf (Sui) 6:2333 Eddy van IJzendoorn (Ned) s.t.34 Jan Ramsauer (Sui) 6:2735 David Rusch (Sui) 6:3636 Jan Verstraeten (Bel) Saey-Deschacht 6:5337 Martin Gujan (Sui) 7:0138 Jean-Pierre Leijten (Ned) 7:0839 Finn Heitmann (Ger) Stevens International Cyclocross Team 7:2140 Joachim Parbo (Den) Cycling Aarhus41 Martin Zlamalik (Cze) Cyklo Team Budvar Tabor both s.t.42 Jody Crawforth (GBr) 7:2843 Barry Wicks (USA) Kona/Clarks/LesGets s.t.44 Jonathan Page (USA) Cervelo-HotTubes-Adidas-Mavic 7:5345 Steve Chainel (Fra) 14:5346 Anders Klinkby (Den) Vejen BC47 Reto Matt (Ger)48 Vaclav Metlicka (Svk) CK ZP Sport A.S.49 Eric Tonkin (USA) Kona/Clarks/LesGets50 Marco Bianco (Ita)51 Mike Muller (Ger)52 Tommy Nielsen (Den)53 Gusty Bausch (Lux)54 Peter Presslauer (Aut) Stevens International Cyclocross Team55 Thorsten Struch (Ger)56 Jens Reuker (Ger)57 Tsujira Keiichi (Jpn)58 Bruno Lafontaine (Can)59 Greg Reain (Can)Blizzard New Years Ride - Fort St. John, BCCourtesy Pat FerrisIt is the 20th anniversary, Saturday, for the Blizzard Bike Club's annual New Years Day Ride. It will be leaving the A & W at 1 pm. This year's ride will be going out to Wim '1200 km' Kok's house, under, hopefully, decent winter conditions.Jim Peltier and Tim Ferris started the New Years Day Ride back in 1984. It was a 'formal' event with tweed coats mandatory and road bikes optional but those were the days before mountain bikes. Mountain bikes and cyclo cross bikes have taken over as has warmer clothing. The tweeds and caps are history. Some years have been colder than others. There was a very short ride done in the late 80's in -39 C. conditions. Others have not been quite so cold but were also short. 1985 was so sunny and warm the riders went out for a 40-kilometer ride. The weather was glorious so it was not much of a novelty ride at all.The turnouts are generally from three to twelve cyclists depending on the weather and how desperate they are to get out for a mid-winter cycle.Weather rumour has it that Saturday will be a balmy plus 5, which was better than last years' minus 25. Meet at the A & W at 1 pm. Dress warm, please.Note: If you have a New Year's Day ride taking place, let us know - email@example.com


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Dallas' Side Dish blog asked their readers that question this morning.
So far, commenters have recommended Olenjack's Grille, Portager Cafe, and drive to Fort Worth or Dallas instead.
If you missed it, the Side Dish blog threw a few haymakers after the Seattle Weekly's "amateur" (how about inaccurate?) pot-stirring yesterday, with their soberly headlined "Former Dallas Observer Critic Hanna Raskin is Off Her Rocker." Food for thought. (Oh, and RCTID).
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NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Aviation Safety Program, has awarded approximately $246,000 to the University of Michigan for work in "Proactive System Design and Evaluation: Supporting Pilot-Automation Interaction Through Empirical and Modeling Analyses."
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The Aviation Safety Program conducts research dedicated to improving the safety of current and future aircraft operating in the National Airspace System. The research will focus on the way vehicles are designed, built, operated, and maintained.
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This word has turned up on occasion in recent years in the computing field, where it is used as the opposite of the much more common downsizing with the sense: "(the action of) replacing a smaller system with a larger one, especially one with networking capabilities" (or, as some wags have put it: "bringing the mainframe back from the dead"). It may be about to become a fashionable word in business, if we are to judge from an article in the Economist, which asked "Will upsizing be the next management fad?" and answered its own question with a qualified "yes". The word's root sense in this context is "increasing the size of an organisation (by hiring staff)", but — like downsizing — it has undertones of a formal policy forcefully pursued, perhaps for doctrinaire reasons. The management gurus argue that upsizing is the natural consequence of downsizing: companies which have shed surplus staff and returned to their core competencies are now beginning to recruit staff better suited to their new needs. Opponents of downsizing — and they are now many — say that upsizing is needed because businesses have reduced in size too vigorously and find they can't even carry out their core functions properly. The agent noun upsizer and the verb upsize are also used.
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After conversations we take everyone to the same place. We have found a little cemetery that has tons of paranormal activity. We take the newbies out and give them equipment and see how they handle everything. We also have to see how they interact with our team. If you do not get along with all of us, then it is probably not gonna work out.
We do have a brief probationary period. We do not charge a fee for membership. We want the potential newbie to understand all aspects of paranormal investigating. We want them to go through the analysis as well.
We have been rather lucky and haven't really had any bad experiences with anyone. I think our process let's us eliminate people before it would get too far.
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(WBNG Binghamton) In a news release issued Thursday, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office said it has begun receiving inquiries and reports of potential frauds and scams.
According to the news release:
Some are home grown, but the majority originate from afar and are being set to you via cyberspace. I am taking this opportunity to revisit some pertinent information published earlier concerning same.
Tis the season for an influx of roving contractors. Some repair scams abound. Fly-by-night con artists promise low prices and speedy repairs. They often are never seen again once they receive a deposit. If they do perform the work, it is often shoddy, unfinished or unsafe. In an effort to avoid being scammed, demand to be shown a copy of a contractor's liability insurance policy and contact the insurer to make sure that the policy is valid. A legitimate local contractor will often ask for one-third of the project before commencement; another third midway through and the remainder at the completion of the project. Some people have overpaid because they were anxious to get the problem solved quickly. It is always a good idea to solicit quotes from more than one contractor.
Major Scams: Beware of giving your personal or financial information to someone contacting you with a matter of urgency or promise of unanticipated wealth. Scam artists use the element of surprise to trick you into compromising your identity, which makes you vulnerable to identity theft.
Some scams involve alerting you that a friend or family member is being detained or is stranded in a foreign country and needs financial assistance to get home. Another involves giving you a windfall of a few million dollars in exchange for a few hundred dollars which will be used as a transaction fee. Remember: If the offer appears too good to be true, be suspicious and if there is urgency attached, be doubly suspicious.
*Do not respond to any unsolicited (spam) incoming e-mails, including clicking links contained within those messages because they may contain computer viruses.
*Be aware of organizations with copy-cat names similar to but not exactly the same as those of reputable charities.
*Rather than following a purported link to a website, verify the legitimacy of non-profit organizations by utilizing various Internet-based resources that may assist in confirming the group's existence and its non-profit status.
*Do not be pressured into making speedy expenditures, as reputable entities do not use such tactics.
*Verify, Verify, Verify everything. Be alert, be cautious, and be suspicious. Question what seems illogical and listen to your instincts when they are shouting to you, "This can't be right."
Most scam artists cannot gain access to your money or information without your assistance. You are the front line of defense. Be on guard.


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A Little Bit About Chief Sellers
Posted by Travis Kiger in Big Brother on October 10, 2011
Here's a re-post of a story that Travis did in March 2010 on now AWOL Chief Sellers. It seems that Sellers was pretty good at slingin' the ol'community policing lingo and didn't seem like the sort of guy that would cultivate a corrupt, out of control goon squad.
What neither Travis nor any of us knew was that Sellers was doing very little to impress this philosophy onto the crew of thugs, misfits, whackjobs, and pickpockets he inherited from Pat McPension. Unfortunately for us, Chief McPension had cultivated quite a nasty little garden over his 17 year command.
But let's not shed any misplaced tears for Sellers. Even tho' McPension left him a considerable criminal element, he appears to have done nothing to weed out the noxious blooms in the FPD flower bed during his abortive, two-year stint as Chief.
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Last week Sharon Quirk-Silva invited me to join her public chat with Fullerton Police Chief Michael Sellers at the Fullerton Museum Center. Chief Sellers answered a variety of questions from Fullerton's usual cluster of civic participants. Some were there to ask legitimate questions, while others used the open Q&A format to primarily talk about themselves under the guise of asking a question (the excessive use of the perpendicular pronoun reveals the intentions of the self-important).
The most vacuous question of the night came from school board candidate Aaruni Thakur, who was interested in the number of Baker to Vegas trophies displayed in the lobby of the police department. While some of us at FFFF would never question the opportunity to make a mockery of the 'ol dog and pony show, it struck me as a missed opportunity for the untested school board candidate who should have been impressing us with his civic insight.
So on to Chief Sellers. He gave most of the answers that one would expect, citing crime statistics elaborating on existing department policies. Nothing surprising or terribly revealing.
But here's what struck me: I listened to the Chief of Police for an hour and a half, and not once did I catch a hint of the authoritarianism that tends to seep out of career law enforcement bureaucrats. He never implied that he "knew what's best for the people". His responses to controversial questions on marijuana dispensaries and homeless disturbances were telling – Sellers said he can only enforce the laws that the People enact, regardless of his personal feelings on the issues.
Sellers came across as genuinely amiable to policing methods that seek to reduce crime through community interaction, rather than relying purely on brute-force suppression and mindless "law and order" approaches that alienate law enforcement agencies from the people whom they are supposed to serve. Officers are encouraged to build relationships and find long-term solutions to crime problems, rather than just cycle junkies and gang bangers through our failing prison system.
I left feeling surprisingly satisfied with the police chief appointment that our city council made last year. Hopefully Sellers turns out to be "tough on crime" without being tough on the rest of us.
Who Else Took The School Union Endorsement?
Posted by Travis Kiger in Fullerton 2010, Fullerton School Board, Union Goons on September 5, 2010
Last week this blog criticized school board candidate Janny Meyer for announcing her acceptance of the endorsement of the Fullerton teachers' union while simultaneously claiming to be a fiscal conservative. Shortly thereafter we had learned that Bev Berryman and Aaruni Thakur had also accepted union support, albeit much more quietly.
For Aaruni, the endorsement was a given. Being a union tool is practically a requirement for the modern Democrat politician. Who can fault a guy for latching onto the massive union political machine which has helped put so many Democrats into office? Well, I suppose Republicans could find that to be a cause for concern.
Berryman's acceptance, on the other hand, is much more disappointing. She won her first school board campaign without any union support, so she certainly didn't need it now that she is an incumbent. Saying "no" to this powerful special interest would have been the best way for her to preserve her independence. She certainly has opened herself up to closer scrutiny on future votes.
On the bright side, Bev does have a history of taking stands on important issues that put her at odds with the union. She led the charge against the most recent attempt to launch a parcel tax on Fullerton voters. Bev also was the only school boarder who has repeatedly said no to imposing the expensive Apple laptop fees on parents throughout the entire One-to-One laptop fiasco. And she has never been on the receiving end of union's negotiating power as a government employee.
So that begs the question: Why did the union endorse her anyway?


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Dugualla gravel pit: Too many negatives
The effect of operating a surface gravel mine in this location poses nothing but negative effects to our community. The aquifer providing fresh water for our 200 plus homes is located south of our community and directly below this proposed mining operation. Any breach or contamination of this aquifer with spilled hydraulic fluids, fuels, industrial lubricants or solvents commonly used in such operations would be devastating to our neighborhood. Once occurring, there is simply no way to reverse the destruction of our fresh water source leaving myself and our neighbors and families without potable water. Such spills and environmental damage, while not frequent, does happen and is statistically likely to happen over the proposed 25 years of operation of the mine.
Heavy commercial traffic from the mine would ultimately destroy the minor roads in the area. Frostad Road, in particular, is in need of frequent reinforcement of its foundation, has many limited sight distance areas, and has no shoulders along much of it. Additionally, many school bus stops line the roads north and south of the proposed mine, exposing our children to heavy trucking.
Our island and community enjoys a Category A wetland in this area. It is home to bald eagles, blue herons, raptors etc., all of which are protected animals. The trees and native plants clear cut for the operation would wipe out habitat for these animals and significantly alter the populations of these animals in this wetland area.
Finally, a major gravel mining pit operation, such as proposed here, within 1,000 feet of a residential neighborhood would significantly decrease property values. Lower property values means smaller tax revenues for the county in a time of significant fiscal constraints already hounding our county, Should the aquifer be breached and destroyed as feared, the millions of dollars of values of our homes would plummet to near zero as the home become uninhabitable and unable to be sold. All citizens who have worked hard to have their own homes and neighborhoods dont deserve to lose their value or source of fresh water to accommodate a gravel pit.
While I am a strong supporter of property rights, these rights do not extend beyond their property lines to threaten the property and property rights of others. Its that simple.
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Marshall Herman, a 9-year-old aspiring chef and Morris County resident who attends Far Hills Country Day School has entered the Uncle Ben's Beginners Cooking Contest by submitting a video of himself preparing a meal that incorporates Uncle Ben's Rice. This nationwide contest was designed to help children learn to make healthier choices, at an early age, by getting them interested in cooking. Children across the country, in Kindergarten through 8th grade, have entered.
Marshall, with his black cape, magic hat, and magic wand appears as "Marshall the Magnificent, aka: The Meal Magician" in his video entry as he makes a "magical" meal of chicken and raisins. If selected as a grand prize winner or finalist Marshall will receive $15,000 toward college, $30,000 for his school, and an appearance on the Rachael Ray show!
Marshall and his family are asking for the community's help by voting for his video titled "Chicken & Raisins" or by entering the following web address: http://bit.ly/GJ5BFR. His video can be previewed beforehand at the same address. Voting begins Oct.9 at noon and runs through Oct. 27. You can vote once every 24 hours. Help Marshall win for his future and for his school.


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Yes, that'll be Counting Crows 'Round Here'
Adam Duritz and his mates in Counting Crows will bring some of their favorite young bands to The Outlaw Roadshow on Wednesday night at the F.X. Matt Brewery Courtyard in Utica.
The San Francisco-based outfit first landed big with the 1994 hits "Mr. Jones" and " 'Round Here."
Says Duritz on the roadshow site: "We handpicked every venue ourselves to get out of the cookie-cutter places and into cooler outdoor gigs that we wanted to play and we're pretty sure you are gonna dig."
Also coming to Utica will be Good Old War, Foreign Fields and Fillgar.
WHAT: The Outlaw Roadshow with Counting Crows, Good Old War and Filligar.
WHEN: 7 p.m. Wednesday.
WHERE: F.X. Matt Brewery Courtyard, 811 Edward St., Utica.
TICKETS: $30 in advance, available at The Brewery Shop, Sound Garden in Armory Square, saranac.com, 888-512-7469; $40 at the gate.
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And if you posted it for me specifically why not PM me?
You know posting more like this will cause people to get defensive and want to have a huge discussion or fight whatever you want to call it.
I think you thrive on drama.
If you are so passionate about LC being so bad, why don't you take it else where? Start your own website? Write a book about your experience.
No-one is doubting your experience is wrong, but LC was wrong for YOU, we all know this. But we are all different and I think you forget that. Do you not have something better to do than worry about what the rest of us are doing?
I don't think this is the right place for your mission to save the world, since those who are LC are mostly doing great, and if not its usually a simple thing to fix, and those who are not low carb don't need your help either.
What exactly dont llyou agree with.
I am straight uo telling YOU that low carb is not right for YOU. You should know this by now but you seem hell bent on destroying your health.
Zach, I got it that you have attempted to set yourself up as some kind of expert and that you want to save us all from following Mark's advice. HOWEVER, this is his website and we are here b/c we've read his book and found it valuable and useful in our lives. We are all grown-ups and don't need you to be our savior. Please STOP.
You don't know me, and CANNOT tell me it is wrong for me. Where do you get off?
LC is a NEW thing compared to 12 years of up and down and crap eating. What part of that don't you get?
Why does it matter to you whether I am destroying my health or not anyway.
Which I am not. But really, why?
That blog is a gem - thanks for the link!
My granny would call this sh*t stirring and baiting. Even my own post is just fueling it. Ignoring is probably the best response overall. There is nothing to argue about if a thread gets zero replies.
Nobody has the right, no matter how well meaning, to dictate to someone else what is best for them.
ZB don't you know LC damaged Zach so it will damage everyone else, which he keeps reminding us it was not good for him.
But remember we have no idea what else was going on because that is all he says. But I think posting his entire story might be more helpful if he really is on this crusade to "stop everyone hurting themselves".


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With the withdrawal of militant Islamist group al-Shabaab fighters from Mogadishu, a power vacuum has emerged in their former strongholds. Unless Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and African Union peacekeeping forces, known as AMISOM, quickly establish control, locals fear that warlords will once again ignite a new era of clan warfare.
After the fall of military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia plunged into a fractured conflict where warlords and clans divided up territories. The era of the Mogadishu warlords was ended by the Islamic Courts Union, which in 2006 seized control of the capital only to be removed shortly after by an Ethiopian invasion. The ensuing insurgency and Ethiopian occupation, followed by the African Union peacekeeping mission that props up the government, helped keep a lid on the warlords.
However, these men have not gone away, and most have retained their forces while working with the government in some capacity. The fear now is that they may come out of hibernation with new territory up for grabs.
"The warlord alarm bell began to ring when the insurgents fled Mogadishu; in fact they were only 100km from the capital when people started worrying if warlords would emerge or clan warfare might begin," Mohamed Khadar, a former military intelligence official told Somalia Report.
The recent decision by the president to declare a state of emergency for the positions vacated by the insurgents and IDP camps in the capital has generated speculation that warlords might try to position themselves as the leaders of those areas or that 'junior' or 'new' warlords might try and establish clan militias.
"The fall of al-Shabaab came with the help of junior warlords who either directly or indirectly were involved or connected with the government and the military," Col. Abdikadir Muse, a TFG military official, told Somalia Report.
He added that some junior warlords have their own freelance militias that have been used by government forces, blurring the lines between pro and anti-government forces.
"They can organize their militia as both government forces and clan militia," explained the colonel.
Analysts and residents worry that if the warlords reawaken, clan rivalries could hinder government efforts to restore peace to areas vacated by al-Shabaab, as they have proven their capabilities in recent clashes.
"Territories recently seized by the government forces were overwhelmed by clan militia and this has impressed the military leaders," Mohamed Isse, a political analyst in Mogadishu told Somalia Report.
The question if warlords can or will fight to regain their status of being a powerful elite in Mogadishu despite TFG-AMISOM attempts to maintain security remains. African Union officials have long privately expressed concern that the loose alliance of government forces could fall apart as the warlords break free, with some even calling it a bigger concern than al-Shabaab. However, one AU official said that the warlords would have to face a formidable force should they return to their old ways.
"Al-Shabaab has confirmed that its fighters could not continue with conventional warfare against TFG and AMISOM forces before pulling out from the capital," an African Union peacekeeping official told Somalia Report on the condition of anonymity. "That is what clan militias and warlords could not face if they try to replace al-Shabaab."
The United Nations Representative of General Secretary for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga, also hinted about the possible return of warlords as a power unless government and AMISOM force maintain and secure the positions left by the insurgents.
However, Muse Sudi Yalahow, a former warlord and member of parliament, said on state-run radio station said that warlords did not intend to replace the militants.
"We are lawmakers in the parliament and we do not wish return as a power to challenge the government," he said.
Amongs the most well-known warlords are:
- Mohamed Omer Habeeb is a former Mayor of Mogadishu who belongs to Abgal, a subclan of Hawiye. He oversees a force of 400 clan militia based in the northern parts in Mogadishu.
- Yusuf Mohamed Siyad (Indha-Adde) belongs to the Ayr, a sub clan of Habargidir of Hawiye clan, and is a former warlord in the Lower Shabelle region. He was promoted to general in the Somali military and has a strong force of about 400 to 500 clan militia in the southern parts of Mogadishu. His militia is paid for by the government and are considered government forces, although General Yusuf has rejected offers from the government that his militia formally join TFG forces.
- General Abdikarim Gacma-dulle, belongs to Wa'eysle, a sub clan of Abgal clan of Hawiye, and is a former militia leader in the northern parts of Mogadishu. His 500-700 strong militia fought in Shibis, Karan and Abdi-aziz districts in the northern parts of Mogadishu alongside TFG and AMISOM forces.
- General Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdid belongs to the Sa'ad sub clan of Habargidir of Hawiye and is a former police commander with about 500 clan militia under his control that mainly serve as TFG police. The general is a former aide of General Mohamed Farah Aideed and is known for his antagonistic views against al-Shabaab. He also fought against the Islamic Courts Union in 2006.
- Mohamed Qanyare hails from Murunsade, a sub clan of Hawiye, and is currently a lawmaker. He was a warlord but lost his militia and does not appear to be willing return to lead a clan militia. In an interview, he said that just he has four AK-47 assault rifles for his safety.
- Abdi-nuure Siyad belongs to Ayr, a sub clan of Habargidir of Hawiye. His militia of 150-200 men has the ability to mobilize to fight for clan positions in Mogadishu's northern positions in the Huriwaa, pasta factory and Suukha Hoolaha.
- Yusuf Hagar (Daba-geed) belongs to Hawadle, a sub clan of Hawiye, and is a former warlord in Hiran region with a powerful armed militia of approximately 700 well-armed men. He receives logistical and training support from Ethiopia. Hagar struggles with evicting al-Shabaaab from Hiran.
- General Barre Aden Shire (Hirale) is from Marehan, a sub clan of Darod, and is a former defense minister who was recently released from an Ethiopian detention center. The general and current MP has a strong force of about 800 men, trained and equipped by Ethiopia which fights against al-Shabaab in Gedo region. They are mainly from the Marehan clan and although they use Ahlu Suna Wal Jamaa as their cover, they are considered as both clan militia and TFG force.
- Mohamoud Sayid Aden from Mareehan is affilated with a sub clan of the Darod and is a prominent politician from the Gedo region. He leads his militia similar to the style of General Barre Hirale and he himself has connections with Ethiopia but his forces are less than those of Hirale.


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Over a decade later, with only a few shifts in personnel, Miss Ohio will celebrate the release of its new EP "Whippoorwill Road" at Hoboken's Northern Soul on Saturday, June 7. And to quote another long-lived rock group, what a long, strange road it's been.
Miss Ohio, as currently constituted, includes David Wilson on lead vocals and guitar, with Ed Roessler on lead guitar, Pietro Lorino on bass, and Brandon Loikits on drums. The quartet has managed to transcend a decade's worth of developing careers, growing families, and major shifts in the local music scene to arrive a place where they still enjoy being in a band and still take music very seriously.
"I think the secret to our longevity has been that we were never in it to become big stars or have successful careers in the music industry," said Wilson, speaking from his home in Jersey City. "It was always about having fun and just expressing ourselves, and we've managed to keep that spirit going and still have a really good time getting together after all this time."
Miss Ohio began when Wilson and former member Jim Kaznovsky met at Rutgers College and started jamming together. "Being in New Brunswick in the late Nineties, we were just writing songs and basically just fooling around with music, recording demos on four track, but we were inspired by all the great bands that were there at the time," Wilson recalled. In 2003, the pair began to take a more serious approach and recruited drums and bass to fill out the lineup, and Miss Ohio released its first EP, the alt-country infused "Another Wasted Summer," in 2005.
"The defining moment for our band happened a few years later when we were doing recording our record 'Low' with Wayne Dorrell at the Pigeon Club (in Hoboken,) and we played a gig at the Lakeside Lounge in Manhattan," Wilson continued. "The owner of the club, Eric Ambel, was at the show and really liked us, and said he wanted to produce a record with us." Since Miss Ohio was already in the process of recording, Ambel stepped in to mix the record and suggested Miss Ohio start playing a monthly residency at his club.
"That lasted for four years and it was both the greatest thing that ever happened to us and probably the worst thing too," Wilson said. With day jobs, marriages, and children entering the picture, all of the members had less time to spend on the band. "But we knew we had that Lakeside show once a month, so we just kept rehearsing and writing and all our friends would come out and see us play there, and it was great. The bad thing is that since we knew we always had that show, we stopped looking for other shows and basically fell off the map in terms of booking."
After the Lakeside Lounge closed in 2012, Miss Ohio started to reach out to other Jersey bands also composed of guys in the same age group and circumstances (Eastern Anchors' Dave Urbano, another veteran of the Nineties New Brunswick scene, calls it "dad-rock") and has managed to put together a small coalition of like-minded musicians who are also juggling music with families, mortgages, and careers.
"We've become really good friends with groups like the Brixton Riot, the 65's, Anderson Council, all around our age. Some guys play golf on Saturdays or whatever; we don't do anything like that so we just keep the band going," Wilson said. "I really think there is a whole group of bands like that in New Jersey. Maybe it doesn't make sense to anybody else that we keep doing it, but all those bands keep doing it at a really high level, so why not?"
"Whippoorwill Road," Miss Ohio's new EP, combines the crunchy Nineties alt-rock of bands like Soul Asylum with the catchy melodies and flippant lyrics of Fountains Of Wayne, a combination that proves both engaging and entertaining. "We recorded the EP with Wayne Dorrell at the new studio he's working at in Union City," Wilson noted. "It's not as homey as the Pigeon Club (which was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy,) but it was great working with Wayne again, and we're really happy with how it turned out."
"I really like slower, moodier songs, which you can hear on some of our earlier EP's," he continued. "But we figured, hey, we're playing bars, we should really speed it up a little. So this record rocks a little more. When you listen to the record, I'm the guitar playing all the softer melodic stuff and Ed (Roessler) is the one doing all the crazy solos."
"I always loved the Replacements and I always thought that was the way to do things, act like you don't give a crap and people will find the music," he added. "Now that I'm older and wiser, I know that doesn't actually work. But I think the fact that we never had to worry about success or failure has been the secret to our longevity. We just keep doing it and never put any pressure on ourselves. We take the music part of it very seriously. The rest of it we're just not very good at. We don't really know what to do after that. But one thing I'll say is thall the records we've made I still like listening to. If nothing else, we're proud of those songs."
Miss Ohio has made one concession to the realities of the music business, teaming up with the bands Galanos and The 65's to form their own label, Pyrrhic Victory Recordings. "We used to just release everything ourselves but forming a collective with other bands makes a lot of sense," Wilson explained. For more information on the label, visit www.pyrrhicvictoryrecordings.com.
Another big change in the New Jersey scene since Miss Ohio started has been the loss of so many rock venues. When Wilson was a student at Rutgers in the Nineties, New Brunswick had six or seven venues for live original music and Hoboken had three or four. Those numbers have dwindled to a precious few.
"When I book shows now, I try to work with places that will let me book the whole night, so we can get a couple of our friends' bands on the bill and all of our friends and families can come out to see us together," Wilson said. "With the EP ready to come out, we wanted to do a release show before the summer really started so Northern Soul was a great fit, so we're looking forward to playing there."
"When we started, we had one goal, to play Maxwell's," Wilson said. "Maxwell's to us seemed like the coolest place in the world, and if we could just get a show there, we'd be set. And then, if we got to play Maxwell's, then maybe one day we could get to play the Mercury Lounge in Manhattan. Well, we played both of those places. So everything else from here on in is just gravy."
Miss Ohio will perform at Northern Soul (557 First Street, Hoboken) on Saturday, June 7. Showtime is 8 p.m. and admission is free.


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Mind Over Matter: Billy Rymer
Pacing back and forth while trying to seem mellow, Billy Rymer can scarcely hide his disappointment that DRUM! already has a copy of The Dillinger Escape Plan's new record, One Of Us Is The Killer.
The 28-year-old drummer was hoping it hadn't been kicked out into the wider world just yet. Like a new parent, Rymer wasn't quire ready to let go of this baby. "I'm my own harshest critic," he says from his pad in the Washington, D.C. area, where he just moved with a girlfriend. "You can critique yourself until you go off the deep end."
To prep for Dillinger's upcoming tour, he has been playing along solo to all the stems from Killer several times a day during the last ten days or so. It seems like overkill. Having already committed 11 studio-caliber takes to pixels, how much more airtight can he get them? For the band's resident mathochist, committing drum parts to memory is only half the battle. "There are things I want to change," he says. "Stuff I already know I'm going to do differently. Like, I could have had some flair here or done this fill differently. I already know the song, now it's just getting that intensity all the way through.
"Plus, there's concepts I want to pursue that I should have gotten down with years ago," he continues. "Like that whole Mike Mangini "ladder climb" four-way drumming, where it's left hand/right foot, right hand/left foot, and played with accents in either triplets or fives or fours and just get fluid and comfortable with it. It really makes my mind tingle to do that exercise. Who knows where I'll be with that in two months but hopefully I can apply it somewhere. Having said that my motivation now is practicing the s__t out of these songs so they crush live."
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Touring the world leaves scant time for anything else, but Rymer refuses to be intimidated by a busy schedule: The more drum-related things he can cram into his daily existence, the better. He just started giving drum lessons via Bandhappy, the online platform recently started by a buddy, Periphery drummer Matt Halpern. Rymer is bringing two kits out on tour, one for the gig and another he can put dampening heads on to play in the trailer or somewhere in the venue. Lessons are paid for in advance through the website, and he can teach five or six students at once. It's harnessing the power of the Internet but keeping the face-to-face model of instruction intact. "I'm really looking forward to teaching in person on tour," he says. "I think [Bandhappy] is a great, organized service. It doesn't create any awkwardness with money; that's already sorted out for you. They do a direct deposit in your account.
"It's well deserving of their cut," he continues. "They're putting a lot of time and money into this to make it the ultimate online music service that's probably going to get pretty massive in the next ten years."
We saw this coming. Rymer was giving lessons at the DRUM! booth on a Warped Tour stop a few years ago not long after we profiled him for the April 2010 issue. Sweaty and exhausted after Dillinger's set, the drummer braved the scorching sun to deliver a scintillating demo of chops and trigonometric beats to passers-by and offering tips. But the impromptu lesson wasn't just him doing us a solid – this is what he likes to do.
Parlaying downtime on the road into an educational and moneymaking opportunity is one thing, but Rymer is after something simpler: working with friends in a family-run business. When Dillinger shared the stage with Periphery during the band's previous tour cycle, Rymer and Halpern hit it off, hanging in each other's hotel rooms, swapping licks, and trying to out do each other. You've heard stories like this before, but what started out as a casual bro-down became a business model. "The cool thing about that whole time was that I have never been more warmed up before going on stage because we would just nerd out on pads. 'Check out this flam-a-macue.' It's exciting when you vibe with people like that."
Then there are Rymer's drum clinics, which have been more frequent in Europe than in the U.S., but that's hopefully about to change with the help of a booking agent he recently tapped to help gin up steady work. Even so, clinics have to turn on a dime, taking place during a Dillinger tour on the day when the band is in town, preferably in the mid afternoon when kids are getting out of school and would be able to attend, yet leaving enough time for sound check later. Logistical nightmares that they sometimes are, Rymer is hooked. "I've learned more from [clinics] than most drum lessons I've had," he says. "Hanging out and shedding, sharing ideas. I'm constantly like, 'Dude, what was that fill you just did? Hold on, I'm pulling up my iPhone. I got to get that.'
Crowd-sourcing the next drum phenom has been the paradigm for a few years now, but it's also turning the education industry on its head, a development that Rymer finds it inspiring. He cites 23-year-old Matt Garstka and his YouTube video on beat displacement as one example of how the learning curve has gotten shorter and shorter. "That made me love that kid even more because at the time when I saw that video, I had been on beat displacement for maybe a month, and then I see him basically going through the exact examples I was."


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Gibbs, a Scotch Plains native, had until midnight today to make his decision.
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Inappropriate use of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for nonacute indications is more common in white patients and men as well as those who have private insurance or are treated at a suburban hospital. The seemingly counterintuitive findings, from a paper published online September 18, 2013, ahead of print in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, suggest that disparities in health care may stem from not only underuse but also overuse, researchers say.
Paul S. Chan, MD, MSc, of Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute (Kansas City, MO), and colleagues identified 221,254 elective PCIs in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) CathPCI Registry performed between July 2009 and March 2011.
In all, 25,749 cases (12.2%) were classified as 'inappropriate' based on the 2009 appropriate use criteria (AUC) jointly developed by the American College of Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), American Heart Association, and several other professional organizations.
Multivariable analysis found numerous demographic, clinical, and hospital factors independently associated with either higher or lower odds of inappropriate PCI (table 1).
Table 1. Factors Associated with Odds of Inappropriate PCI
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Hospital's Mean D2B Time for STEMI, per 10 Minutes
Yet in an editorial accompanying the paper, Karen E. Joynt, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, MA), highlighted the study's "lack of a broader denominator. We are missing the non-PCI patients from the NCDR database, and therefore it is difficult to know what the 'right' rates of PCI in these populations really are. It is quite feasible—and given the wealth of data suggesting that PCI is underused in women and black patients, even likely—that there is concurrent underuse and overuse, and that the optimal use lies somewhere in between."
Even so, the existence of overuse is not surprising, Dr. Chan told TCTMD in a telephone interview, given the documented examples of underuse. He reported that he hopes to soon use NCDR data on diagnostic catheterization to better pinpoint which patients do not go on to receive PCI.
"I don't think physicians in the exam room who are talking with patients think about disparities. I don't think that's how people operate. Even where there are huge differences, we're not overtly trying to hurt one population over another," Dr. Chan noted. More likely, the differences arise from larger socioeconomic forces, he explained.
Study Gives a 'Bird's-eye View'
SCAI president Theodore A. Bass, MD, of the University of Florida College of Medicine (Jacksonville, FL), emphasized in a telephone interview with TCTMD that the current study does not measure how well patients did, but rather how they were treated. "We don't want to practice to appropriateness. We want to practice to outcomes. There's a difference there," he commented.
"Are there disparities in terms of social and economic delivery of health care in cardiovascular medicine? Yes there are, and we are concerned about [both under- and overutilization]," Dr. Bass said. "Our goal is always to do the right thing to the right patient at the right time in the most cost effective way possible. We're walking that walk, but it's taking a while to define what these [AUC] are as evidence emerges, and to get these things right."
As to what could explain overuse, he suggested that "people who are in a position to have choice" participate in their health care. For example, a middle aged, white man with mild symptoms who is already on some medications may have a "different benchmark" for quality of life, Dr. Bass explained. "Everyone wants to lead a good life but [some patients] also have options available [to them]. Not only that, but they have the availability to make some choices."
In a telephone interview, Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM, of Columbia University Medical Center (New York, NY), stressed that the study says more about the big picture than it does about daily practice. "This is a bird's-eye view of what ultimately is a clinical problem experienced by individual patients," he said to TCTMD. "And I think the general trends that are observed, although intriguing, don't shed light on the individual decisions that were made for these patients."
Dr. Kirtane also raised concerns that the current findings may be counterintuitive. "The fact that this study observed less inappropriate care in populations of patients that are traditionally underserved and treated more poorly than privately insured patients suggests that there may be something else going on with the practice patterns being observed herein,"
What is 'Inappropriate'?
Approximately three-quarters of the "inappropriate" cases fell into categories 12 and 14, for which previous research has shown much discordance among physician ratings, Dr. Kirtane said, citing a 2011 JACC paper by Dr. Chan and others.
In fact, "inappropriate" will soon be replaced in the AUC by the term "rarely appropriate," all 3 physicians noted. Dr. Kirtane said that this change comes in recognition of the fact that the optimal rate of inappropriately rated PCI is not actually zero, given that some cases might clinically be in the best interest of the patient.
"The rationale for the change is that the word . . . has some loaded meaning not only for the physicians and press but also the lay public," Dr. Chan said. "There is some confusion, of course, about what 'inappropriate' means after some of the more highlighted cases of actual fraud by cardiologists treating patients without coronary stenoses. We're not talking about those cases [here]."
And according to Dr. Bass, the study findings may be out of date since the AUC had "just hit the ground" in 2009.
Dr. Kirtane concurred. "The study end date of 2011 was before physicians and hospitals began doing a better job of systematically documenting patient medications and antecedent testing, and emphasizing some of the quality initiatives in recognition of the original AUC efforts," he said.
Similarly, Dr. Bass noted positive changes in the way cardiovascular medicine is practiced. "We have quality assurance, we have cath lab review committees, and we have better tools to determine who needs the procedure. . . . I think we're moving in the right direction," he concluded.
2. Joynt KE. Tradeoffs in appropriateness of percutaneous coronary intervention [editorial]. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013;Epub ahead of print.
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The re-signing of Valtteri Filppula pushes the Red Wings close to the NHL's upper salary limit, a figure that Red Wings GM Ken Holland expects to exceed by a small amount if he's able to ink restricted free agent defenceman Kyle Quincey and unrestricted free agents Chris Chelios, Darren McCarty, and Aaron Downey to contracts.
Holland told the Detroit Free Press's George Sipple that any headaches he'll deal with in squeezing out some cap space in late September were worth what is an averaged $3 million-per-season investment in Filppula's future:
July 31, Detroit Free Press: Holland said Filppula, a restricted free agent, likely would have received a two-year contract worth about $1.5 million per season had he gone to arbitration. An arbitration hearing was scheduled for Friday.
Holland agreed to give Filppula more money over the first two years of his new contract -- $2 million for 2008-09 and $2.5 million in 2009-10 -- in hopes that the $3.5 million per season over the final three years will turn out to be a bargain.
"Fil does so many things that don't show up on the scoreboard," Holland said. "He's versatile, a left wing-center. He's got real good speed. He plays hard. He plays hurt. He's got character. ... Where's he going to top out offensively? I don't know that anyone knows."
Filppula scored 10 goals and seven assists in 73 games in 2006-07. Last season, he had 19 goals and 17 assists in 78 games. He played in all 22 playoff games and scored five goals and six assists as the Wings won the Stanley Cup.
Holland's unconcerned about what appears to be a roster crunch:
"I think we're in a good position," Holland said. "We love our depth. Why get rid of someone in August? I'd rather deal from a position of strength than a position of weakness."
As the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan notes, of that "position of strength" is due to Chris Chelios's willingness to wait until the Red Wings' other major free agents had been signed to agree to a contract based upon the cap space that was left. The Wings' biggest roster issue presents itself defence, where (theoretically, anyway) Andreas Lilja, Brett Lebda, Chelios, Quincey, and Derek Meech will be fighting for four spots:
July 31, Detroit News: Chelios, 46, should agree to a one-year contract soon. The only hang up was how much Chelios would make after the Wings completed contracts with their other players. The Wings would be over the salary cap after Chelios and Quincey are signed, forcing Holland to make a trade.
"We have decisions to make because of the issues surrounding our 23-man roster and the salary cap," said Holland, who doesn't have to be under the cap until the day before the regular season begins (Oct. 8). "We'll go into training camp and we'll see how things play out."
The Wings will likely trade a defenseman, Quincey (who is out of minor league options) or Derek Meech. Defenseman Jonathan Ericsson can, and likely will be, sent to Grand Rapids.
If Ericsson's sent to Grand Rapids, it will be for the same reason that Jimmy Howard could be finding himself in the AHL come October--if the two don't earn NHL jobs by wowing the Wings during camp and the exhibition season, they'll be sent down because the option to maximize their developmental time is there. That's why the Wings let Filppula flourish in the AHL before graduating to the NHL full-time in the 06-07 season, and that move paid off:
"[Filppula] does a little bit of everything for us," general manager Ken Holland said. "He kills penalties, he's on the power play, he can play wing or center. The coaches trust him. We think he's going to continue to develop into a very, very good player."
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LANSING -- A contract with the ACT for all high school juniors to take the exam as part of the Michigan Merit Exam may be expiring this May, but the state will still offer a free college entrance exam for all students.
State Superintendent Mike Flanagan confirmed that the state will still offer an exam to all high school juniors even after the state makes changes to how it tests students with the retirement of the MEAP.
"Michigan high school students will continue to receive a free college entrance exam as long as the legislature continues to fund it," Flanagan said in a statement Thursday. "Principals, guidance counselors, parents, and students can be assured of that."
Some school counselors had been told the state would discontinue offering the exam, according to Flanagan's statement.
The state's contract with ACT to provide the exam, which was signed in 2006, expires in May. Education department officials said the state is in the bidding process and expects to award a new contract for an exam later this year.
"This will be one of the traditional college entrance exams," Flanagan said.
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Below is a snapshot of Synched in action. The window is divided into two parts: the display on the left and the control panel on the right. The details of each are described below. Synched also has the capability of simulating several different models. For a description of all these models and some references, see the model description.
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Over the weekend, several prep athletes turned in impressive performances -- some record-breaking -- at the 22nd Annual Allstate Sugar Bowl Track and Field Classic.
LSU signee and St. Augustine football star Leonard Fournette ran the 200-meter dash Saturday, and certainly finished with an inspiring time (21.78) for a 230 pounder, but that time was only good enough for second place. Higgins' Darius Birden clocked in at 21.64 seconds and clinched first. Watch the race here.
Although Fournette didn't finish first in the 200 meters, he did help lead the Purple Knights' 4x100-meter relay team to a first-place finish over Karr and Oak Ridge of Texas.
McMain's Aleia Hobbs set a new 100 meter record in 11.58 seconds. The previous record, 11.66, was set at last year's meet by Marcquita Stalbert.
Also at the Sugar Bowl Classic, St. Paul's Zachary Albright grabbed the Sugar Bowl meet record in the 1,600 meters (4:12.65). Just 30 minutes after this race, Albright placed fifth in the 800 meters (1:59.57).
Even though the basketball state champions were crowned earlier in the month, fans got one more glimpse of the talented players across the state in the 2014 LHSCA All-Star Game.
Brother Martin standout and Tennessee signee, Jordan Cornish, drained a 3-pointer with 6.5 seconds left to lift the East team to a 101-99 victory over the West. Cornish earned MVP honors with his game-high 22 points and seven rebounds.
In the final baseball game of the Gerard Oubre Memorial Tournament on Sunday, Hahnville's Todd Porche pitched the Tigers to a 4-1 victory over Jesuit. Porche pitched all seven innings and struck out five.
Covington's Josh Bickham broke all of the LHSAA state records in the 198-pound class in the state powerlifting meet, and he then shattered his state-record deadlift by 55 pounds with a 725-pound lift.
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This is fate. This is how its supposed to be. Phil Jackson… currently tied with Red Auerbach with 9 NBA championships… must beat Red's Celtics to claim the top spot on the list.
And here's a memo to the players: This matters to us.
I'd rather watch '2 girls 1 cup' with my mom than watch Phil Jackson beat the Celtics and pass Red to become the most successful NBA coach of all time. Phil can't win #10 this way. Not against the Celtics. Not after this season. No way.
The coaches and the players have to put the focus in the right place:
Rivers distanced himself from the issue Monday and Pierce followed suit yesterday.
"It's not about Red and Phil," said Pierce. "It's about the Celtics and the Lakers."
But they should know… Celtics fans want this prevented at all costs… and Lakers fans want this to happen here more than anywhere else.
Speaking of coaching… Doc Rivers might have an interesting choice to make in these Finals. Will Tony Allen come in to guard Kobe Bryant? TA made some kind of miraculous recovery from an ankle injury (which went like this: Tony hurt his ankle… said he can't play… doctors say he's fine… and suddenly he realizes he's fine. Tony doesn't need doctors… he needs the Jedi mind trick). So he could be considered an option on the defensive end. In my opinion, the only way he sees time is if he's their last hope. He's too much of a liability on offense right now.
Herald: The stuff of legends | Lakers loyalty gone to Pierce | Rondo unfazed by questions | Larry Bird not buying KG conspiracy theory | Perk eyes battle with Pau | Cassell puts championship experience to good use | Defense won't rest when stars collide | Kobe: Ray Allen feud a non-issue | Globe: Red Zone | Thibodeau: C's defensive guru | Test of strength | Tony Allen looks healthier | Mike Gorman notes 1-sided picks | KG's new NBA Finals sneaker | Moving pieces make for a chess game | Bird-Magic old rivals, friends | SI: Who wins in all-time C's versus all-time Lakers?
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DIKE - Ellen Swartz and Mikayla Fisher both won their first singles matches of the season and then the duo teamed up to win in doubles Tuesday as the South Hardin girls tennis team used those three victories to edge Dike-New Hartford, 5-4.
"It was a nice showing by our team," South Hardin coach Scott Swartz said. "Dike-New Hartford is always a good team and this year is no different. It was a nice night from our four seniors as they had solid wins in the 1-4 singles positions."
Swartz beat Lexi Schmitz 8-3 at No. 1 singles, while Fisher topped Rachel Koop 8-4 at No. 2 singles and then the duo beat Schmitz and Koop 8-3 in doubles.
Hannah Reifschneider and Kailey Richard both earned wins in singles to seal the win for the Tigers. Richard's win was the first of her varsity career.
Coach Swartz said the biggest reason the Tigers lost two of three matches in doubles was because the squad hasn't had a ton of time practicing with their partners because of poor weather conditions.
"We will improve as the season goes on," said Coach Swartz.
STC/East Marshall soccer loses in 2-OT
TAMA - Outplaying the Collins-Maxwell-Baxter girls soccer team for the first 90 minutes, South Tama County/East Marshall dropped a 1-0 loss in double overtime on Tuesday night.
The Trojans had seven more corner kicks (10-3), took 13 more shots and had 12 more shots on goal but couldn't push the ball past the Raider goalkeeper.
"This was a tough loss for our players," said STC/EM coach Bob McBain. "We totally outplayed and out-hustled CMB, won all the 50-50 balls and were the aggressive team this evening. The goals will come as the chances were there and the players were taking the shots."
The STC/EM junior varsity team began the season with a 3-2 win over CMB. Alyssa Patro, Jade Baeza and Guadalupe Chavez all scored goals for the Trojans.
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Mai Khao Beach is around 10 kilometres long and one of the longest beaches of Phuket. Some people also call it the Airport or Sanambin Beach. It is part of Sirinat National Park so it fairly uncommercial and less developed than others on the island. Here visitors can walk for miles, enjoying the sunshine and the sounds of the waves. The beach slopes sharply, so this is a deep water beach that is affected by strong currents and waves so great caution needs to be taken in regard swimming. It an be very dangerous and tourists have drown here. The far north sector is known as Hat Sai Khao and has tall Casuarina green trees set fairly thickly along it.
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