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Will 2010 be the year that titanium stages a comeback? The jury is still out, but there's little argument that commercial aerospace will play the key role.
If a sharp rebound isn't in the works for 2010, the industry is at least looking for the stage to be set for what it hopes might be a solid upturn the following year after a downturn that hasn't been as disruptive as past slumps.
While industrial and other non-aerospace markets typically account for about half of global titanium demand, it's a far different story in the United States. More than 70 percent of the more than 14,400 tonnes (31.75 million pounds) of titanium mill products shipped in the United States in the first half of 2009down 5.5 percent from 15,240 tonnes (33.6 million pounds) in the same period a year earlierwent to aerospace, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, with the majority for commercial transports.
From a mill perspective, 2010 is likely to continue as "a challenging year" for producers, according to William A. Pallante, senior vice president of commercial at Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals Inc.
Taken together, the amount of titanium mill products shipped by the nation's three major producersRTI, Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI), also based in Pittsburgh, and Dallas-based Titanium Metals Inc. (Timet)dropped to 35 million pounds in the first nine months of 2009, down 26 percent from 46.7 million pounds a year earlier. (ATI's figures include shipments from its High Performance Metals group, which accounts for most of its aerospace titanium.)
In 2009, the market continued to dig itself out of an inventory overhang resulting from a buying and expansion surge that peaked in mid-2006 as the industry braced for the impact of Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner, whose order book of 850 planes requiring an estimated 250,000 pounds of titanium buy weight per copy promised unprecedented demand. But delays on the 787 adding up to more than two years have helped create a surplus in the supply chain that's estimated at 30 million to 35 million pounds, although some of the material in ingot form could be shifted to other programs besides the Dreamliner.
Destocking continues, Pallante said, adding that the amount being moved out of excess warehouse stocks could "reduce or dampen demand" at the mill level in 2010.
Build rates on existing airliners aren't expected to increase in 2010 as selected cutbacks on programs such as the Boeing 777 will be implemented. And as airline flight hours continue at low levels, that could mean the 2010 engine spares market might not be much better than it was in 2009.
However, if build rates on single-aisle aircraft don't otherwise fall, and if inventory destocking levels off, that could argue against a further decline in 2010. "That might lead to a little more of an improvement, but I don't think it will be significant," said an executive of VSMPO-Avisma Corp., based in Verkhnyaya Salda, Russia. On the other hand, compared with past titanium down cycles the current decline hasn't been as bad as it might have been, he said, attributing much of that to support from the commercial transport sector.
Indeed, Boeing, which has long-term titanium supply agreements on its commercial aircraft programs with VSMPOalong with ATI and Timethas said previously that despite the 787 delays it would continue to honor provisions of its long-term deals and accept shipments from mills. While this probably helped contribute to the supply chain surplus, it likely also was a factor in U.S. mill product shipments reaching a historical high of 76.6 million pounds in 2008. But at least one new long-term agreementwith Timetwas negotiated recently, although the details of Boeing's obligations to take material under the new agreement weren't disclosed.
Frank Perryman, president and chief executive officer of Perryman Co., a Houston, Pa.-based producer of titanium bar, rod and fastener stock, sees indications of a "flat to slight increase" in 2010, reflecting a normal order pattern in contrast to the sporadic conditions that characterized the industry during the past 18 months or so.
Perryman said that in contrast to some earlier characterizations there's no longer any reason to describe titanium prices as in a free-fall, usually a symptom that inventory is being dumped. "We're not seeing that now," he said at the end of November, citing a rebound in scrap prices, a sign in his view that the market might be on the "verge" of a positive turn.
If 2010 won't be the year titanium takes off again, one major service center thinks it's at least likely to set the stage for a comeback. "My hope is that 2010 is going to be like 2004," said Jerry St. Clair, president of Vulcanium Metals Inc., Northbrook, Ill., referring to the first year after the last titanium market cycle hit its low point. He described a period when prices were stabilizing and shipments were picking up but few people were inclined to see the recovery under way because they were still looking over their shoulders at the post-Sept. 11, 2001, recession.
St. Clair sees 2010 marked by the continued work-off of surplus inventories and stabilization in order rates, and agrees with Perryman's assessment that the free-fall in prices has already been stemmed.
Spot prices for standard 6 aluminum/4 vanadium aerospace ingot declined to an estimated $8.25 to $9.25 per pound in the third quarter of 2009 from a high of nearly $30 per pound in mid-2006, according to AMM data.
Jeff Wise, vice president of sales and marketing for Rockaway, N.J.-based distributor Titanium Industries Inc., holds the relatively optimistic view that volume will begin to increase sometime in 2010 and gain momentum toward year-end. He believes production capacity has already been reduced to such a low level that any uptick in volume is likely to help support a price hike, especially with distributor inventories now "commensurate with market demand."
Wise pointed out that while prices reached historical peaks during the now-ended boom, mills have actually done a good job "ratcheting them down" without letting prices "fall off a cliff," which had been the pattern during past slumps. Frank Haflich
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Friday in the Boulder area is expected to be partly sunny with highs in the mid-50s, but snow is in the forecast for the weekend.
There's a small chance of rain Saturday afternoon, followed by possible snow Saturday night, according to the National Weather Service.
On Sunday, there's a 20 percent chance of snow before noon, according to the weather service.
The service issued a "hazardous weather outlook" for areas including Boulder County and Broomfield, saying any snow accumulation will be light Saturday but that a stronger cold front is expected to reach the area by Sunday, with a "better chance of snowfall to the mountains and northeast Colorado plains."


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Class of 2002: Persistence paid off for Fitch grad
Erin Jansen surfaced from her studies at the University of Connecticut in 2008 armed with a master's degree in cell and molecular biology and quickly confronted an abysmal job market.
The 2002 Fitch High School graduate finished her studies during a time that seemed to her to be the height of the economic collapse.
"It was really hard to find a job in my field," she said. "It was definitely demoralizing at the time. I started to wonder if I'd ever find anything, but figured if I just kept putting in the effort with the search, eventually I'd catch a break and find something."
Jansen says she probably sent out more than 200 resumes during a months-long search but had just a handful of interviews. She was, however, undeterred and eventually landed a job in a field she loves.
Ten years after her graduation from Fitch, Erin Jansen is now Erin Bastien, channeling her love of science into work toward a cure for cancer.
She is also raising a daughter while working as a research assistant in the biophysics lab at the University of Rhode Island.
"It's really interesting work. I heard about this lab through networking when I was looking for work and read up on what they were studying and was really excited about it," she said.
She summarized her work in an email: "All of our work is centered in a patented peptide called pHLIP (pH Low Insertion Peptide). All types of cancer cells tend to have lower pH than normal cells as a result of differences in metabolism (known as the Warburg Effect.) This peptide will only insert itself into the membrane of cells with low pH (i.e., cancer cells), thus it has major implications for both treatment and diagnosis of all types of cancer, depending on whether you attach a dye molecule (diagnosis) or a drug (treatment.)"
She said the work harkens back to her love of science as a child.
It was a love nurtured at Fitch, where she was not only involved with science clubs and activities but also co-captain of the tennis team and a high honors student who spent many after-school hours in community service.
"I haven't seen her in many years but I'm not surprised at all to hear how successful she has become," said Charmaine Mizak, head of the science department at Fitch. "I'm thrilled that she chose to pursue a career in science. It always seemed to be her first love. She was always motivated and mature beyond her years. She did phenomenal work."
Bastien said a hearing impairment she's lived with since the age of 2, which led to her wearing hearing aids, is "pretty much a non-issue these days since everyone generally communicates through email/text or in person rather than phone calls."
She said she sees the hearing aids as an accessory, "just something to put on every morning before I leave my house, similar to how someone who wears glasses would feel about them."
Bastien said it was a natural progression after her graduation from Fitch to major in science. Much of her work at UConn focused on epigenetics, studying "various modification of DNA independent of changes in the sequence, which can cause various changes in gene expression," she wrote.
The work is associated with cancer research since various types of cancers tend to have high levels of these types of modifications to DNA, she said.
"So, in principle, if drugs could be developed to reverse the changes, it could be used to treat cancer ... " she said.
Shortly after landing the job at URI, she married Steven Bastien II, whom she met through a friend at Mystic Seaport in 2004. Her husband and friend both worked at the Seaport in between semesters at UConn.
She was married at St. Sophia's Church in New London with a reception at the Branford House at Avery Point. Her daughter, Alaina, is now 20 months old - "a really delightful child, very talkative, always happy."
The family lives in Stonington but plans a move to Mystic later this month.
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Justin Bieber will be charged in Los Angeles Wednesday with misdemeanor vandalism for allegedly egging his neighbor's house, TMZ reports.
Pssst, kid! If you high-tail it now, maybe you can make it back to Canada before the coppers come.
(Then we'll lock the door behind you).
TMZ says the 20-year-old bad-boy singer is slated to be arraigned 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Van Nuys, although reports say he will not be present.
Reportedly, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office will file the charge, ending months of debate as to whether to slap the singer with a felony count. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reportedly lobbied for felony charges to be filed, as the alleged January egging incident in Calabasas resulted in $20,000 damage done to Bieber's neighbor's house.
Bieber has since sold his mansion to Khloe Kardashian.
The singer also faces a DUI charge in Florida.
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In doubles play, the Blue Devils lost the doubles point for only the second time this year. On court one, the duo of senior Mary Clayton and sophomore Ester Goldfeld fell to third-ranked Brooke Bolender and Emina Bektas, 8-1, while the tandem of junior Hanna Mar and sophomore Monica Turewicz were edged by the Wolverines No. 41 ranked team of Ronit Yurovsky and Sarah Lee, 8-2. In the third position, junior Marianne Jodoin and sophomore Annie Mulholland held a 6-5 edge when the doubles point was clinched.
Duke struggled to slow Michigan's momentum in singles action, as the squad fell to early deficits on five of the six courts. In the top position, No. 13 Mar was downed by 41st-ranked Bektas, 6-1, 6-2, while Mulholland, a native of Portland, Ore., was downed by Zhu, 6-2, 6-4, playing on court five to give the Wolverines a 3-0 lead.
Clayton lost the first set to No. 75 Lee, 6-3, on court three and dropped the first two games in the second set before winning five straight games to take the second set, 6-3. In the third set, No. 62 Clayton broke serve to take a 3-0 lead en route to a 6-2 victory.
In the sixth position, Jodoin and Nguyen traded games in the first set, carrying the set into a tiebreaker at 6-6. Nguyer jumped out to an early 2-1 lead in the tiebreaker, but Jodoin was able to break serve to take a 3-2 edge and carried that momentum to take the set, 7-6. After claiming the first set, Jodoin continued her solid play to take the match, 7-6, 6-1.
Goldfeld, ranked No. 38 in the most recent ITA poll, fell 6-3 in the first set against Yurovsky, but rallied to grab a 3-2 lead in the second set after breaking serve. Goldfeld carried that momentum to take the second set, 6-4, but could not slow Yurovsky in the third set, falling behind 5-2. Goldfeld responded by breaking serve twice to level the match at 5-5, but was unable to overcome Yurovsky and dropped the set, 7-5, clinching the match for Michigan.
On court four, Turewicz fell behind 3-1 early to Bolender, but battled back to level the match at 4-4. After winning consecutive games to draw even, Turewicz could not hold serve and dropped the first set, 6-4. In the second, Turewicz led 6-5, but was unable to break serve, pushing the match into a tiebreaker. In the tiebreaker, Turewicz took a 4-2 lead and continued to roll to take the set, 7-6. Turewicz rolled 6-3 in the third set to record her 23rd consecutive singles victory, however, the Wolverines had already clinched the match.
Duke will travel to South Bend, Ind., to play No. 18 Notre Dame Sunday, March 3, at 11 a.m. For live stats, visit GoDuke.com.
Michigan 4, Duke 3
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No. 1 -- No. 41 Emina Bektas (U-M) d. No. 13 Hanna Mar (Duke), 6-1, 6-2
No. 2 -- No. 33 Ronit Yurovsky (U-M) d. No. 38 Ester Goldfeld (Duke), 6-3, 4-6, 7-5
No. 3 -- No. 62 Mary Clayton (Duke) d. No. 75 Sarah Lee (U-M), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
No. 4 -- Monica Turewicz (Duke) d. Brooke Bolender (U-M), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3
No. 5 -- Amy Zhu (U-M) d. Annie Mulholland (Duke), 6-2, 6-4
No. 6 -- No. 100 Marianne Jodoin (Duke) d. Mimi Nguyen (U-M), 7-6 (4), 6-1
No. 1 -- No. 3 Brooke Bolender/Emina Bektas (U-M) d. No. 10 Ester Goldfeld/Mary Clayton (Duke), 8-1
No. 2 -- No. 41 Ronit Yurovsky/Sarah Lee (U-M) d. Hanna Mar/Monica Turewicz (Duke), 8-2
No. 3 -- Mimi Nguyen/Amy Zhu (U-M) vs. Annie Mulholland/Marianne Jodoin (Duke), 5-6 DNF
Order of Completion: Doubles 1-2; Singles 1-5-3-6-2-4


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The monks have been building a sand mandala in Jersey City's municipal building since Monday. It's a flat, multicolored display that is created and then destroyed in a ceremony meant to symbolize the fleeting nature of life.
The Jersey Journal (http://bit.ly/1feKs6a ) reports the young boy climbed over a rope barrier Friday and got onto the 4-foot-square display. The sides and middle were smudged as a result.
Some of the monks were working to restore the sand Friday before its ritual destruction.
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ATLANTA, Ga. – Sophomore Anima Banks, competing in the final event before the NCAA first round meet in two weeks, clocked the fourth-fastest 800-meter time in Duke history at the Georgia Tech Invitational in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday afternoon.
Banks, a product of Mamaroneck, N.Y., placed third in the women's 800, running a time of 2:05.80. Banks previously held a personal-best time of 2:06.74, run at the ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Chapel Hill, N.C., earlier this season. The time currently ranks 30th in the nation at the distance.
Freshman Haley Meier and sophomore Madison Granger joined Banks in the competition, as Meier ran a collegiate personal-best time of 2:09.44, placing her eighth overall. The finishing time marks the second personal-record for Meier this weekend, as the Grosse Point Farms, Mich., native clocked a personal-best time of 4:21.03 one day earlier in the 1,500. Granger, competing in her first collegiate 800, finished 25th overall in a time of 2:13.19.
The NCAA first round meet begins Thursday, May 29, in Jacksonville, Fla., and runs until Saturday, May 31. A full list of declared competitors will be released later this week.#GoDuke


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OUR OPINION: Legislators have failed us again
THE ISSUE: Texting while driving
OUR OPINION: Legislators have failed us again
It's hard to imagine why some lawmakers can't understand how dangerous it is for motorists to be texting while driving.
However, recently, a House committee shelved a bill which would have banned it.
Technically, the bill is not dead, but the House Calendar Committee tabled it. While the bill's author, Rep. Curtis McDaniel, D-Smithville, hopes to rally the troops and convince the 15 members to bring it back it up, there's probably little hope of that occurring
Among those on the committee whose vote help derail it was State Rep. Josh Cockroft, R-Tecumseh.
According to an Associated Press account, Cockroft, a member of the Calendar Committee, cited these reasons for his opposition to the bill.
He said House Speaker T.SW. Shannon's opposition over concerns about the government's encroachment on an individual's personal freedom were among the reasons he voted to table the measure.
Yet, he was quoted in the story saying "I'll be the first to say it's dangerous and foolish to text while driving. But where do you stop? Can I not eat a cheeseburger in my car?"
There's a considerable difference between eating a cheeseburger in one's car and texting while driving. Texting requires a certain amount of concentration and focusing and eating a burger really doesn't.
What texting and driving really boils down to is a public safety issue.
According to the AP story, Oklahoma Highway Patrol chief Kerry Pettingill said Oklahoma drivers can be cited for distracted driving, but only as a secondary offense, which means an officer would have to witness them breaking a traffic law, such as following too closely or changing lanes improperly.
A driver cannot be stopped or ticketed simply for using a cellphone, even if an officer witnessed them texting while driving.
Cockroft should do what is right here, and take the lead in trying to convince other members of the committee to reconsider this legislation. If he voted against it based primarily on his support for the House Speaker, then why doesn't he go to Speaker Shannon and tell him this bill really does need to be revived.
Some kind of legislation is needed to House Bill 2276 signed into law several years ago by then Gov. Brad Henry. That bill requires law enforcement officers to observe driving that "poses an articulable danger to other drivers."
That was a start, but as Chief Pettingill pointed out officers are only allowed to cite motorists for distracted driving as a secondary offense,
They should be able to issue a citation as a primary offense.
Motorists might be less likely to text and drive if they knew the threat of receiving a citation for it could be handed out and it could get in their pocketbooks.
Not only is this a safety issue, it could mean the difference between life and death.


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Doesn't online shopping sound rather serene this season, given gas prices and the feel-good knowledge that fewer mall trips can help the environment? What's more, online shopping alleviates holiday shopping rage – no fights for a parking space, no traffic and no lines.
Web sites like http://www.coolsavings.com/ can help you find good deals and a range of offers from retailers and manufacturers. Many web sites, like http://www.freestylerewards.com/, offer rewards programs to earn points for shopping at their stores.
Another shopping comparison site is http://shopping.msn.com/ that features gifts from merchants like Avon, Babies 'R' Us, Eddie Bauer, JC Penney, Neiman Marcus, Red Envelope, Target and Wal-Mart. The portal also tells you which sites offers free shipping, MSN says.
But shopping online isn't always easy. Sometimes it can be confusing to tell if the shopping cart is full or not. Before hitting the buy button, confirm the quantities in your cart, and make sure that you have any discount codes or other items you'll need for checkout handy to avoid time-out issues on some sites, says Matt Heist, Yahoo's online shopping expert (http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ).
Also, to ensure you're on a safe site, look for an unbroken key or padlock icon somewhere on the page of the site telling you it's protected. Heist says, "Read their terms of service and privacy policy if you're not clear. You can also check in with other consumers who have shopped a particular merchant if you're curious as to what other experiences have been. Sites like Y! Shopping offer robust ratings and reviews so consumers can get a feel for exactly what type of experience they can expect with a particular online merchant."
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Senior right-hander Drew Van Orden threw his first career shutout and the Blue Devils belted three home runs to defeat Georgia Tech 6-0 in ACC Tournament action Thursday afternoon at NewBridge Bank Park.
With the Blue Devils needing a win to stay alive in the tournament, Van Orden (6-5) scattered five hits while striking out eight batters and walking just one. Following a Daniel Spingola single in the third, Van Orden did not allow another hit until the eighth and retired 13 of the next 15 batters he faced. He struck out at least one batter in seven frames, including back-to-back strikeouts to conclude the seventh.
"Couldn't have come at a better time," Van Orden said. "I struggled the last two weeks a little bit so it was good to try and come back and give the team everything I had and give them a chance to win. It was great out there. The defense played great behind me, and Coach called great pitches so everything was working."
Redshirt senior Ryan Deitrich continued his hot streak at the plate, amassing a season-high four hits including his fourth home run in as many games. Over Duke's past four contests, Deitrich batting is a torrid .625 (10-of-16) with four home runs, two doubles and nine RBI.
Deitrich was one of three Blue Devils to drive a ball out of the park as junior Andy Perez and senior Jordan Betts added a solo shot and two-run homer, respectively.
"We got very timely hitting, (and) we were very good with our situational hitting," said head coach Chris Pollard. "I thought our approach was very good, especially a day after I didn't think our approach was very good (in Wednesday's 5-3 loss to Clemson). I thought our guys really responded. We had one of the most dialed in rounds of BP today I can remember us having, and guys worked hard to make adjustments. I think it carried over on the field with 14 hits."
Deitrich opened the scoring in the top of the second, driving his team-best ninth home run of the season off the scoreboard.
Up 1-0, Perez added a solo home run of his own the next inning to give Duke the 2-0 cushion. Two frames later, Betts got in on the action, blasting his fifth homer of the year to left. The Betts' bomb also scored Lumpa, who drew his 50th walk to leadoff the frame.
The four runs proved to be ample offense for Van Orden as the Manhattan Beach, Calif., native worked out of a jam in the eighth. Following a Brandon Gold double and Spingola walk, Van Orden fanned Matt Gonzalez for the final out to stranding runners at second and third.
Duke tacked on insurance runs in the both the eighth and ninth innings. Senior Matt Berezo singled and scored on Lumpa's RBI double in the eighth before Deitrich drove in Betts with an RBI base hit in the ninth. Betts began the final frame with a leadoff double, his 20th of the season and 69th of his career.
Van Orden then closed out the game, facing four batters in the ninth. A.J. Murray singled with one out, but Van Orden sat down the next two Yellow Jackets to seal the victory.
Ben Parr (5-4) started on the mound for Georgia Tech and took the loss. The left-hander allowed eight hits and a pair of earned runs before departing with one out in the sixth. Three relievers combined to yield six hits and the final four Duke runs.
Duke closes out pool play Saturday, May 22, taking on Miami at 11 a.m. from NewBridge Bank Park.


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"So you like this guy?"
It was one of those customers who like to argue about books. Arguing about books is a fine old pastime, if you're in the mood, but I do wish these folk would find each other instead of me.
"What guy?" says I. "The author of that $350 book you're holding up and would you mind holding it with both hands so you don't drop it?"
"Yeah, him. So you like him, huh?"
"Well, as I recall, he was a wife-beater and a thorough grouch, whose books drip with venom and hatred of mankind and just a general lack of niceness. I can't say I ever met him but no, based on his reputation, I'd have t say I don't like him much."
"So why are you asking $350 for his book?"
I cannot answer this question as I would wish. I would like to say, "Well, if you paid for that suit and those shoes, I would estimate that YOU are worth a million or so, and I'm not sure I like you much."
There are volunteers who worry about the same sort of thing. "I think people would pay five bucks for this book, but it's certainly not worth more than fifty cents." They at least have the right idea: the price of the book doesn't reflect what we think of it. It may work the other way, in fact. One volunteer said, "If they're going to insult the Newberry by buying this book here, they should pay twice as much."
It's hard to steer clear of emotion when considering books, but we can't sell just the books we like. One volunteer in days gone by hated The Joy of Cooking, while another has borne a grudge for years against Pat the Bunny (her name was Pat, see.) There are people who hate whole sections of the Book Fair: romances, for example, or Cliff's Notes, or any book printed in Mexico. (He wanted to argue about immigration; I said books didn't need green cards and he snarled at me.)
To get back to the man with the spiffy shoes, I told him, "The book sells for $500 or more to people who take an interest in that author's work, and I thought there would be customers clever enough to spot the bargain and pay $350."
The outcome hung by a hair, and then he handed me the book. "Good luck with that," he said.
I can't win 'em all.


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Kirksville Police says it has a suspect in downtown incident
The Kirksville Police Department confirmed it has a suspect in the downtown gun shot incident reported over the weekend, but declined to release any additional information citing the ongoing investigation.
Lt. Steve Farnsworth said Tuesday that a suspect is being pursued by law enforcement in reference to the early Saturday morning report of a gun shot in the 300 block of W. McPherson St.
He declined to release any information on the suspect, citing an ongoing investigation and attempt to locate the person.
Farnsworth did confirm that a female was taken into custody at the scene Saturday, but said she was placed in protective custody and it did not appear she was connected to the shooting.
The incident in question was reported around 1:30 a.m. Saturday when an officer on a foot patrol reported hearing at least one gun shot near the downtown area near Wrongdaddy's and Geno's 70s Club.
Officers at the scene Saturday said the shot did not appear to strike anyone.


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Vulgar Opinions: Our Garbage Media (NSFW)
Bear with me, I had to delete large portions of this and completely change the tone midstream. Originally I was going to chronicle the bloggers vs. media war and finger blame on both sides.
That was before I called The Buffalo News Sports Department to satisfy a personal curiosity. I've been largely critical of the reception to You Can Play in Buffalo. I believe the Sabres did run a piece on it shortly after Pominville's contribution, but I (and everyone I've talked to) have never seen his specific spot on in the First Niagara Center. When coupled with the team's abject refusal to part ways with the LGBT-discriminatory Salvation Army, it looks like they're hiding from being pro-equality at best.
So I wondered if perhaps the local paper had covered either the project as a whole, or Pominville's specific contribution. An internet search revealed no answer, so I decided to just call The Buffalo News Sports Department and ask. That conversation went as follows (and note that the quotes I use where I do not admit I'm paraphrasing due to lack of memory are verbatim within a word or two):
GUY – Hello (person does not identify themselves)
ME – Hi my name is Alex, I run a blog devoted to LGBT issues and I'm doing some research for an article on the reception to the You Can Play Project. I thought that given Sabres' captain Jason Pominville's involvement, The Buffalo News would be a good place to start. I'm looking for any articles that TBN's writers may have authored that responded either to Pominville's involvement or to the project in general.
GUY – Okay…uh…You Can Play, what is that?
ME – Well it was founded by Patrick Burke, the son of Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke and is devoted to fighting homophobia and bullying in sports.
GUY – Yeah yeah, I gotcha now, no we haven't done anything on that. (I think he started to get into a stern rant about how they cover SPORTS and SPORTS ONLY, but I cut him off.)
ME – Well, I wasn't sure what department to call, perhaps I'm looking in the wrong area?
GUY – Yeah, maybe the city desk, that's not really our thing (paraphrasing). Let me transfer you. (After maybe 15 seconds) Okay, I can't transfer you for some reason, that number is (number), bye.
(I call the city-desk number. The guy that answers the phone is immediately more friendly.)
GUY – Hello, this is the city desk.
ME – (I go through my speech again, mentioning that I just called sports and they had nothing.)
GUY – Not to my knowledge, but let me check our archives.
ME – Yeah, I tried looking online, but I didn't really find anything.
GUY – Yeah the online search isn't the greatest, let me take a look real quick.
(Maybe 20 seconds elapse)
GUY – No the only thing I have on it is an editorial piece (likely this one (warning:cached mess)). It sounds like something that we should be covering, can you tell me more about it?
ME – I go through the part about Burke and the project's goals for him.
GUY – Yeah definitely, is this new?
ME – Well, it's coming up on about a year old. I'm focusing on the reception of the project, which from what I can see has been overwhelmingly positive.
GUY – Yeah, it sounds like something we should cover, we'll probably give our sports department first crack at it. (Interested to see how that goes.)
ME – Alright, well thanks, I'll keep looking around.
GUY – Thanks, bye.
I have to take a moment to apologize to all the hard working bloggers out there (read: not me). Originally I had characterized the dispute as a few people on both sides going at each other with the media generally refusing to admit any fault whatsoever by any of their compatriots. I was wrong. Outlander and Barrister were right.
This is a media with several members that are either willfully or ignorantly bad at their jobs. The bloggers call them on it, and the media members act like the bloggers don't have a leg to stand on because…well…they're bloggers. As a response the bloggers push back and the media uses it to characterize all bloggers as pathetic, feces, noun, adjective, noun…take your pick.
I like to think that back in the 1940s and 1950s, members of The Buffalo News Sports Department were running around trying to figure out who that Jackie Robinson guy was. LGBT kids are four times as likely as their peers to commit suicide, and a majority of that is because of the type of bullying You Can Play seeks to end. It is a big deal.
And it hasn't exactly flown under the radar. It's been covered by:
- Yahoo and Puck Daddy
- The Washington Post
- Out Sports
- The Washington Blade
- NBC Sports
- The Washington Capitals (and other teams) Websites
- Global Toronto
- The Washington Times
- The Huffington Post
- AOL's Sporting News
- Kevin Sylvester on Sabres Hockey Network (I specifically tweeted him about it.)
- UCLA, UConn and numerous major colleges
- A handful of local CBS affiliates
- TSN's Darren Dregger, Bob McKenzie, James Duthie, and Pierre LeBrun
- Another Buffalo area paper which I am not mentioning by name or linking to
- And that doesn't even account for the extremely active Twitter accounts of Patrick Burke himself and most of the Puck Daddy staff.
If you're a human being that likes sports, not even hockey, but sports in general, you should be happening across one or two of those with some regularity. If you ACTUALLY COVER HOCKEY FOR A LIVING, you should be browsing many of them daily.
You know…unless you're bad at your job.
And that's the focal point of the entire conflict, and it's why the media often paints bloggers as a bunch of losers who have too much time on their hands. Who would read Puck Daddy and other publications regularly other than someone with TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS. Or someone who gives more of a crap and is better at navigating online sources than anyone currently at TBN will ever be. Hell, Barrister has a newborn child and a full time job and he still found the time to torch Jeremy White not just once on Twitter, but again on Dear God Why Us Sports. If he can do that and manage to sound halfway coherent on no sleep, what is anyone at TBN's or WGR's excuse?
That's probably a bad question because we've heard hundreds of them before. TBN "broke" the Pegula story but didn't post it first because they had to vet it. Sports media members routinely get fooled by fake Twitter accounts because the internet is tricky. Mike Harrington's journalism degree gives him license to routinely make the simplest grammar screw-ups on Twitter. He uses 'heck' in columns and sounds like he lives in 1950s Alabama because swearing is immature. John Vogl likened Twitter to feces because NO HE DIDN'T, IT'S NOT THERE ANYMORE! (Which might be the worst in a lack of professionalism out of TBN. Nothing to see here!) Jeremy White and others have access to more opinions than we do and they just know more damnit!
The irony of it all is that there are probably very few people that legitimately want a job at The Buffalo News or WGR. Most of us are pretty happy where we are because our real jobs pay better, and because it's fun and occasionally useful to use words like shit and fuck. And because of that misconception, we get the responses we've seen from so many Buffalo media members. They think they can hold onto their position by discrediting bloggers and thinning out the competition, not realizing that bloggers don't have to literally be after their jobs to be a threat. The changing nature of media and sports reporting, and those in the business refusing to adapt are what's killing them. The bloggers are just taking advantage.
Many (with the paper in particular) are quick to point out that they'll always be in business because they will always have access to things that bloggers don't. None of that is actually true, especially on the heels of three Blogger Summits, and increased access for bloggers. There are only so many ways you can recap a game and present a box score and once fans move beyond that, the monopolized Buffalo media has little to offer aside from the same tired opinions.
The paper and the radio station are fighting the wrong battle. Their jobs aren't at risk because bloggers are profane, vitriolic, lack experience or professionalism, or any of the things they think bloggers are. They're at risk because so many bloggers are better and their immediate response is everything under the sun before it's 'I need to step up my game.' Because the bloggers will.
Mike permalink10/18/12 9:26 PM
TBN is a provincial paper catering to a larger provincial town. Not trying to hate on Buffalo because provincialism can be a good thing in some ways, this just isn't one of the ways in which it can be good. The average TBN sports page reader is 50, white, and has a college education if they're lucky. If they support gay rights at all, it's likely only very grudgingly. They'd rather read Jerry Sullivan's latest diatribe because they like to be pissed off than read anything about You Can Play. I'd be shocked if they ever did anything about it.
Contrast that to the Post's readership which all likely have graduate degrees or will soon, is extraordinarily diverse, is around 40, and is likely to not care about hockey. The way the Post can get such people to even read its sports section is to do a big story about You Can Play. It comes down in some way to just writing for your audience.


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Not since 2007 have county Democrats been as divided as they were in 2012. Democrat went after fellow Democrat, leaving county Republicans to make advances not seen since the era of Republican Gov. Tom Kean in the 1980s.
Republican Gov. Christopher Christie had his fingers deep in the political pie and pulled out a number of plums in anticipation of his reelection bid in 2013, strengthening his ties with Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer (also up for re-election next November) while also keeping alive the political prospects of state Sen. and Union City Mayor Brian Stack.
Stack and North Bergen Mayor/State Sen. Nicholas Sacco, the latter of whom is allied with the Hudson County Democratic Organization, continued their war against each other.
Pascrell vs. Rothman
Redistricting played havoc with congressional districts, and resulted in one of the most bitter political conflicts in recent memory, when Rep. Steven Rothman decided not to risk facing off against power Tea Party Republican Scott Garrett. He moved back into the 9th District and went after fellow liberal Democrat Bill Pascrell in the primary.
Rothman engaged Hudson County's premier political firm Vision Media, which ran its typical campaign of endorsements and attack ads. But as with its previous efforts against Mayor Stack and more recently, West New York Mayor Felix Roque, the campaign could not overcome the team Pascrell put together, many of whom have since come into Hudson County to work for Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy's 2013 reelection bid. Pascrell emerged as the victor and won again in November against a Republican.
Nia Gill vs. Tom Payne Jr.
Perhaps more divisive for the Hudson County Democratic Organization was the race in the expanded 10th District that included larger portions of Jersey City and Bayonne. The death of Rep. Tom Payne Sr. in February created a void that a number of prominent political figures tried to fill.
In Hudson County, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop supported Tom Payne Jr. for the seat, only to have HCDO Chairman Mark Smith, the mayor of Bayonne, support Nia Gill. This created a fissure that would only widen later as the Jersey City mayoral race came into focus and Smith endorsed Healy, while Menendez loyalists such as former HCDO Chairman Bernard Kenny and his law partner (Ed Florio, legal counsel to the Hudson County freeholders) endorsed Fulop.
Roque's arrest and indictment
Menendez became fuel for further speculation when his one-time ally, Roque, endorsed Republican Joe Kyrillos against Menendez early in the year, fracturing Democrats in North Hudson by forcing many former Roque supporters such as Rep. Albio Sires and Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner to step away from Roque. Then, in May, Roque – along with his son – was charged and eventually indicted for allegedly hacking into the website of an anti-Roque group.
Some prominent political figures speculated about the coincidence, noting how frequently people who opposed Menendez found themselves probed by federal authorities.
Roque's indictment will play out early in 2013 when he and his son go to trial. Many expect him to step down, making way for a special election. Commissioner Count Wiley has already declared his candidacy for mayor, and others are expected to leap into the race.
Stack vs. Sacco
Roque's problems have a greater impact on his neighbor and ally, Mayor Stack, robbing him of the countywide clout he needs in his ongoing feud with Sacco.
The Sacco and Stack feud is so nasty many of those caught in the middle want to duck for cover and wait until one or the other falls. Sacco's people have desperately tried to isolate Stack in order to keep him from getting power outside Union City. Sires, Turner, and other one time allies are now sitting on the sidelines as Sacco's armies make moves to keep Stack from aligning with powerful people like Fulop, partly by provoking Stack with internet advertisements and citizen gadflies, while Stack conducts similar campaigns against Sacco in North Bergen.
But the guilty plea from James Wiley, a former supervisor for the North Bergen Department of Public works, and rumored impending indictments of other people in the Sacco camp may well weaken some of Sacco's clout in a war for control of Hudson County.
Until this year, Sacco was seen as the most powerful political boss in the county, but he could be hurt by the loss of key people. And much of the attack on Stack may be an effort to deflect attention away from his own trouble, or to drive away Stack supporters and thus leave both North Hudson political bosses significantly weakened.
Menendez returns?
Menendez's reelection victory may well explain why former Menendez people such as Kenny are reappearing on the scene – and could lead to a play to take back the HCDO from Mayor Smith, whose support of Gill in the primary earlier this year put him at odds with Menendez. Many believe that who ever gets elected as mayor of Jersey City next May will also inherit the mantle of HCDO chairman.
This is something of a quandary to Democrats who already see former Democratic dominance waning with the rise of people like Hoboken Mayor Zimmer, Union City Mayor Stack, and West New York Mayor Roque, who are willing to support some Republican agendas. The election of Fulop as mayor of Jersey City could expand on this erosion, although this would also increase the power of the office of Hudson County executive, which flourished during the time when Republican Bret Schundler was mayor of Jersey City.
Fulop vs. Healy
Early in 2012, the mayoral race in Jersey City seemed a little like shadow boxing, with Fulop taking a lot of swings at a nearly invisible and presumably politically impotent Mayor Healy. Fulop was seen as the overwhelming favorite who with his large political war chest seemed unstoppable.
But some believe Fulop – after a stunning string of victories in school board elections and committee fights – stumbled when he failed to introduce a full ticket of candidates earlier this year in what some are calling his "no name ticket," while Healy began to regain strength and began building a ticket of council candidates that might allow him to steal the election next May.
By year's end, Fulop finds himself in a serious race that some believe may well be a tossup, a far cry from shadow boxing, especially when the shadow can now hit back.
Dawn Zimmer's power grows
Even before the disastrous impact Hurricane Sandy had on Hoboken, Zimmer had been consolidating her power and becoming someone who will be very difficult to beat when she runs again in November 2013. Once seen as someone who could not win a citywide election, Zimmer not only managed to get a school board ticket elected, but two key referendums that allowed for November municipal election and did away with runoff elections. Her access to key state and national leaders during Sandy also boosted her status, and combined with her close association with Gov. Christie, who will be running for reelection when she does in 2013, she has positioned herself to possibly even keep control of the City Council.
Zimmer's main adversary, Councilwoman Beth Mason, has been working hard to position herself for higher office, meeting with officials throughout the county for a possible rumored run for state Assembly on a ticket led by Senator Stack or possibly for county executive – since rumors are rampant that County Executive Tom DeGise might retire early. But others such as Jersey City Freeholder Bill O'Dea are also positioning themselves for that seat if DeGise should indeed step down.
Obama reelected
For Hudson County, the reelection of Democratic President Barack Obama this year is great news – even if Democrats are fractured. With strong national Democrats such as U.S. Sen. Menendez and Reps. Albio Sires, Bill Pascrell, and Tom Payne Jr. representing the county, federal dollars are likely to follow more freely into the local economy over the next four years – including significant dollars to repair the county's road and other infrastructure as a result of age or Hurricane Sandy.
The rise and stumble of the blogging community
Although the internet community in Hoboken ran into some legal issues during 2012, elsewhere in the county, the internet has become a viable political tool, especially in Jersey City, where bloggers are getting up on their soap boxes more often. In North Hudson, the internet has become a new battleground for various political factions, especially those supporting North Bergen's political machine. This growing powerful voice may lead to Roque's downfall, as internet savvy political figures use on-line venues to bolster their already ample bag of political tricks. The fact that this internet community may be responsible for bringing down one mayor (Roque) has already bolstered efforts to go after other perceived political enemies on a level that would have made former President Richard Nixon envious.
Gonnelli grows stronger in Secaucus
The last year has been very kind to Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli, whose political clout grew both locally and in the county. He took out his rival Tom Troyer in the school board races, and faced off against powerful Freeholder O'Dea in a political fight over parking revenues near the county park. Going into an election next year, Gonnelli – regardless of his often expressed fears – has no serious political opposition, and barring any serious blunders, might well carry his ticket into reelection next fall.
Restructuring of Hudson Republicans
As pointed out, Republicans have made advances in places like Hoboken, but also in Jersey City, where transplants from Republican rich suburbs are beginning to challenge old guard Republicans. This new wave became evident in 2012, where Republicans began to emerge as a viable party. If they help Christie get reelected next year, they might well develop into something that will rival the dominance of the shattered Hudson County Democratic Organization.
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Former Taft High baseball player Caleb Lopez competes in Colorado
Going to college is a challenge in itself. Throw in a different state, a higher elevation and competition level and it could be too much for most players.
Former Taft High baseball player Caleb Lopez has adapted to those hurdles as he continues to compete in his freshman year for the Colorado School of Mines baseball team.
"He's worked hard to get better on things," said CSM head coach Jerod Goodale. "He's shown some flashes of doing good things."
"It's been really great moving out and starting life on my own," said Lopez. "I am really enjoying my time here."
Heading out of high school, Lopez applied to places like Cal Poly and several junior colleges in Los Angeles.
However, Lopez was interested in petroleum engineering and looked up the best schools in the country for that. He found Colorado School of Mines and after talking to the coach he decided to go there.
"I liked the baseball coach so I went that direction," said Lopez. "Once I was accepted it was pretty easy for me."
With the change, Lopez had to get used to a higher altitude. According to www.cityofgolden.net, the city where the university is, the altitude is 5,675 feet above sea level.
"When I first got here I felt like I was out of shape," he said. "I quickly got used to it."
Another change was the weather. According to weather.com, the average high temperature for March is 56 degrees while the low is 27. In February, the average high is 49 degrees while the average low is 20 degrees.
"That has been one of the hardest things we have to get used to," said Lopez. "It's a different element but I am still enjoying it."
Lopez says that the team doesn't have too many opportunities to get onto the field.
Along with the weather and the elevation, Lopez is facing a higher level of competition than he was used to in high school.
"The level of competition is far greater," he said. "It's almost like a job. It's tough but it's very rewarding."
A little over a quarter of the season has passed for the Colorado School Mines team and so far Lopez has been the designated hitter.
"His ability to hit the fastball is really good," said Goodale.
According to Goodale, Lopez has not played in the field so far this season.
This was a switch from last year when Lopez led the Wildcat team in batting with a .455 average and runs batted in with 23, was second on the team in runs scored with 28 and third in hits with 30.
So far this season, Lopez has a .083 batting average with one run scored and a hit in five games.
"It's definitely tough to handle but its put me in a good place," he said. "It's really great for me to go through this."
Despite the change, Lopez says he is learning.
"I am learning a variety of new things," he said. "I still learn every day."
The adjustments are not limited to the baseball diamond. Yet like his team on the field he has help.
"It's extremely tough academically," he said. "All of the students work together. It's like a big team."
Lopez says the main focus at Colorado School of Mines is a street class schedule "designed to make us look good to companies."
Lopez says it helps.
"Knowing all of the job opportunities in the future, it makes it that much easier," he said. "It puts you in an easier place mentally."
In his first semester alone, Lopez was taking 19 units while he is taking 17 ½ units this semester.
"It's definitely a pretty solid work load," he said.
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It's become such a matter of course to turn traumatic real events into big-screen dramas that viewers aren't expected to question why real-life pain and confusion carry inherent entertainment value: It happened, therefore it's fodder, ripe for processing in any number of ways, from the thoughtfully artistic to the unapologetically exploitative.
But precisely because "Blue Caprice" is made with such sensitivity and good taste, it raises troubling questions, not just about its subjects — John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, and the "Beltway sniper" shootings they committed over three weeks in 2002 — but about its purpose. There's no denying that writer-director Alexandre Moors has made an impressive feature debut with a film that unfolds less as a re-creation than a fragmentary, impressionistic portrait of psychological dependence and manipulation.
And Isaiah Washington, who plays Muhammad and also executive produced "Blue Caprice," delivers the kind of attention-getting performance he's long deserved, playing a man who both bristles with rage and paranoia, but also possesses a soft-spoken, charismatic command presence.
As "Blue Caprice" opens, Muhammad is seen from afar by Malvo (Tequan Richmond), a 16-year-old living in Antigua who spies longingly on the older man as he plays with his three young children. At one point, Muhammad saves Malvo from drowning, a metaphor for what will become a surrogate father-son relationship (and, eventually, two-man cult) for both of them. Muhammad, estranged from his kids by his ex-wife, pours all his bile and patriarchal guidance into Malvo, who has been abandoned by a feckless mother.
"Blue Caprice" focuses on the time the men spent together before coming to suburban Washington to carry out their deranged plan: Most of the film takes place in Tacoma, Wash., where the two live with a military buddy of Muhammad's, take up target shooting and begin to concoct a plan to destabilize the system that Muhammad believes is responsible for his broken relationship with his family.
When "Blue Caprice" finally gets to those harrowing days in October, Moors handles the murders with finesse that borders on bloodlessness: We see the bodies, and the clinical way the criminals size up and fell their purposefully random targets, the barrel of the gun poking out from a discreet hole in the back of the Chevrolet they drive. In bringing those grievous events back to life, the filmmaker never succumbs to sensationalism or speechy, showy Moments of Truth: Even Muhammad and Malvo's arrest — which any conventional movie would have staged as a climactic moment — is kept low-key and off screen.
As admirable as Moors' oblique style is, though, "Blue Caprice" doesn't offer the sense of catharsis or closure, let alone new information, that makes it more than a cold, if disciplined, directorial exercise. Muhammad, who was executed in 2009, and Malvo, who is serving a series of consecutive life sentences, remain enigmatic, remorseless figures, their depravity never deeply examined past their emotional problems and psychological ills. Rather, they just are, an existential fact and mournful mystery that Moors captures but resists probing.
At a time when our collective life is increasingly thrown back at us on screen in virtual real time, the rigor and restraint of "Blue Caprice" are gratifying. But 11 years later, not just the events in question but the movie about them leave audiences with the persistent question: Why?
Two and a half stars. R. Contains disturbing violent content, profanity and brief drug use. 93 minutes.
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Hey Joker how bout this...I took the glasses off so you could see his face.
Hey Joker how bout this...I took the glasses off so you could see his face.
just go w/ a new look... fu manchu baby along w/ all your pirate accessories
this is your life and its ending one minute at a time
team dye hard
Hey, doesn't look too bad, Tom
Thordic....Well now he just looks naked
Here's a few new looks for Tom:
Van Dyke anyone?
Tom as a Villan
Tom with Wolverine type burns
Oh Lord, lead me not into temptation.., I can find my own way. --Stile
lol this is a good thread!
Give him the Fu Man Chu...let's see the 'stache dangle some...make him look as mean as an SFL Emag.
"When you get married, you learn really quick that there's a good time, and a not so good time, to start playin' snap-shooting-from-behind-the-couch moves with a brand new $1,000 paintball gun." -Jack & Coke
yeah.. bling bling
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Team Nutz
Tom Lo Pan
I was going to go with the fro, you beat me to it!
Tom LoPAN HHAHAHAHA
This is too funny!
Hmmmm.... If you took the fro, and added a nice long fu-man-chu with the dingle-berry under the lower lip, we're talking style! Sad part is that Tom won't heed these style tips.
WAIT! One word: MULLET!!!!! He can put up a couple cars on blocks in AGD's parking lot, put an old couch or two by the front door, crank 'Skinnard.... Sweet!
As requested:
Fu Man Chu Tom!
He ain't nuttin but a hound dawg
Duh I keep hitting the submit button instead of the browse for file
Tom Marley
Ohh this is too funny, I am busting a gut!
Right on,
This should be a constantly running thread. There have to be a million more variations possible.
Attention all AOers! :
Keep this thread alive and post your 'Tom's New Look' pics today!
lol lol lol.this is some great funny. i say that tom keeps the 'stache but he definitely needs to change it around a bit. try going with a really thin one. that always is classic
They should make a contest of this
I'm diggin' the Tom Marley version. Each new Level 10 comes with some Doritos and a roach clip!
The version with the dew-rag reminded me old kung fu movie actors.
Precious! And a doobie for a barrel plug!I'm diggin' the Tom Marley version. Each new Level 10 comes with some Doritos and a roach clip!
Hooowaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!! Too cool. Too cool.Originally posted by the JoKeR
Or for you old metal-heads out there, LEMMY!!
Zygote you beat me to it! That's a good one too.
Hehe...thanks. I wanted to do Khan but I couldn't find a picture of him looking in the right direction
Hey have you seen Shrek's brother?
Look It's Sponge Tom!!!
Oh man you guys are so mean!!!
Tom, this is what you get for posting pictures of yourself on the internet.
But if i must toss my hat into the circle, i agree with Joker, go with the Handlbars!!!
The doctor said I wouldn�t have so many nose bleeds if I kept my finger out of there


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Troubleshooting Verilog
I've recently been building vtach. The code isn't complete yet, and like all first versions it has some bugs and some incomplete features. This time around, I want to squash a bug as a way to show how you "debug" Verilog hardware designs (or, at least, one way to do so).
Recall that vtach uses one hot encoding for its four states. The states go from 1 to 2, to 4, to 8 — a single bit represents each state uniquely. The states have the following purposes:
1 — Load next instruction
2 — Hold next instruction, load "bug" for next address, load operand address
3 — Get result of instruction
4 — Store result
The test program in vtach_tb.v (tb, by the way, stands for "test bench," a common term for some test fixture that doesn't end up in the final product, but is useful for verification) look like this:
dut.mem.row0[0]=13'h101; // load location 1 into acc (acc=500) dut.mem.row0[1]=13'h500; // output location 0 (print 101) dut.mem.row0[2]=13'h033; // Input to location 33 (X) dut.mem.row0[3]=13'h533; // output location 33 dut.mem.row0[4]=13'h200; // add acc + location 0 (500+101=601) dut.mem.row0[5]=13'h733; // sub acc - location 33 (601-X) dut.mem.row0[6]=13'h610; // store acc to location 10 dut.mem.row0[7]=13'h510; // output location 10 dut.mem.row0[8]=13'h820; // goto location 20 dut.mem.row2[0]=13'h599; // output return address from jump (should be 9) dut.mem.row2[1]=13'h900; // halt!
The first line dutifully loads 500 into the accumulator when you use the "go" script (you can tell because the future math output is correct). That script is just a lazy way to execute iverilog (Icarus Verilog[[]]), which translates your Verilog into an executable simulation and then runs the simulation. This isn't the final goal, of course. The final goal is to use the Verilog to configure an FPGA, but it is easier to test with a software simulation first.
Like all test cases, that second line is only as good as the data it tests. Just because you get the correct output doesn't necessarily mean the test will work for any data. For example, location 20 contains 599 (a different instruction). If you change the code, you'll find the first bug:
dut.mem.row0[0]=13'h120; // load location 20 into acc (acc=599) dut.mem.row0[1]=13'h500; // output location 0 (print 101)
The output from both runs with 0 input appears below, side by side:
Uh oh. The original computed 500+101=601. The new code should be computing 599+120=719. If you are good at balancing a checkbook, you might be able to see what must be happening, but for the sake of argument, let's say the cause is a mystery. How do you figure out what's happening?
The vtach_tb.v file contains two important lines that start with dollar signs ($). These lines tell the simulator to do something special and don't affect the final result from a hardware translator:
$dumpfile("vtach_tb.vcd"); $dumvars;
These lines tell the simulator to write all the variables out to vtach_tb.vcd (the vcd extension indicates a Verliog value change dump. Several tools can use this format, but I'll use GTKWave.
The figure below shows the vcd file from the run that erroneously outputs 620. From top to bottom, you can see the clock trace, the clock phase, the instruction register, and the accumulator value. Below that is the data bus and the current memory address. The final trace shows the reset signal. You can ignore everything that happens while reset is high. Note that until the first load, the simulator didn't know what was in the accumulator, so it shows it as xxxx and in red.
It is tempting to think of the clock phase as "lasting" the entire duration of the numbers in the phase row of the figure. That's not right, though. Remember the flip flops in vtach sample the inputs at the rising edge of the clock. So, phase 2, for example, occurs right at the rising edge of the clock when phase is already 2. Then it immediately shifts the phase to 4 (which won't really occur until the next rising clock edge).
Armed with that you should be able to trace the execution of the program and you can see that even though we asked the program to load the value in address 21 (ir=121), it is still getting 500 loaded! The memory address shows 20, but not when the accumulator changes. By the time it changes, the memory address is 01 (the next instruction) and the data at address 1 is what gets loaded into the accumulator.
The Verilog logic that loads the accumulator is in alu.v. Specifically:
4'b0001: // CLA (store memory address to accumulator) begin if (phase==4'b0010) acc<=dbus; end
Can you spot the error? This is really an instruction execution, but it occurs in phase 2. It needs to occur in the next phase (the third phase which is number 4 because of the one hot encoding). Changing 4'b0010 to 4'b0100 gives this output:
120 000 719 009
That's correct, of course. The figure below shows the correct timing diagram after fixing the phase in the CLA instruction.
A simple mistake but potentially very difficult to find without the simulation and visualization tools. GTK Wave can "probe" anywhere in your circuit effortlessly.
This exercise also gives you an idea about how the edge-triggered nature of flip flops works. I'll talk more about that next time.


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Serves 4
Preparation time: 20 minutes; Cook time: 40 minutes
Source: Vito De Carolis
In this salad recipe, the cool cooked pasta is serve with "Peperonata" (stewed bell peppers). This colorful creation it's simple to make and tasty to eat.
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- 1 large Red Bell Pepper, seeded and cut into strips 1/4 inch wide
- 1 large Green Bell Pepper, seeded and cut into strips 1/4 inch wide
- 1 Red Onion, Finely Sliced
- 4 Ripe Plum Tomatoes, blanched, peeled, seeded and diced
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- 1 1/2 gallons Cold Water
- 4 Tablespoons Coarse Sea Salt * *
- 8 Silver skinned Anchovies Fillets, preserved in olive oil, drained and diced* *
- 8 Fresh Basil Leaves, cut into strips just before use them
- 1 teaspoon Fresh Ground Black Peppercorn
- 2 Tablespoons Extra virgin olive oil* *
- 2 ounces "Hard Ricotta cheese"
- Warm 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in a large nonstick frying pan over low heat; add bell peppers strips, sliced onion, diced tomatoes and seaon with sea salt. Cover with a lid and simmer for 30 minutes stirring occasionally. When done set aside to cool.
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Preparation time: 60 minutes
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Nerone Rice Salad
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- 11 oz Nerone rice from Cascina Belvedere * *
- 5 oz can Italian Kidney Beans
- 1 Sweet Red Bell Pepper, washed
- 1 Sweet Yellow Bell Pepper, washed
- 6 Tablespoons Cassini S'ciappau * *
- 3.5 oz Fresh Basil Leaves
- 4 Tablespoons Cooking/ All purpose cooking oil* *
- 1 clove Garlic, peeled
- 1 lb. Pink Shrimp with heads, shells and veins removed
- 1/2 cup Dry White Wine
- 1 Tablespoon Fresh Lemon Juice
- tatse Sea Salt* *
- 1 Tablespoon Chives, chopped
- to taste fresh ground black pepper* *
- Clean and remove strings from the green beans.
- Bring 1 gallon of water to a boil, salt the water (2 tablespoons for 1 gallon of water).
- Cook the green beans in the salty water until tender (about 10 minute or less). When cooked, remove the beans and place them in ice water to stop the cooking process. Drain green beans and cut them crosswise into 1/4 inch pieces. Set aside.
- Bring cooking water back to boil and stir in Nerone rice. Cook for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Ten minutes before the rice is cooked, open the can of Italian kidney beans and rinse them under cold water. Add to the rice and cook together for another 8 minutes.
- While the rice and kidney beans are cooking, cut the red and yellow sweet bell peppers in small square pieces 1/4 by 1/4 inch. Combine peppers with the prepared green beans and 2 tablespoons of the Cassini S'ciappau extra virgin olive oil. Toss together and set aside.
- When the rice and beans are cooked, drain them if necessary and place in a large bowl. Add 2 tablespoons of Cassini S'ciappau extra virgin olive oil, stir and set them aside as well.
- Put the basil leaves and 2 tablespoons of Cassini S'ciappau extra virgin olive oil in a blender or food processor and process until creamy.
- In a large sauté pan, heat 4 tablespoons of cooking olive oil. Add the peeled clove of garlic and fry it until it is light brown and then remove and discard. Do not allow it to over cook or it will make the dish bitter.
- In the same heated pan, cook the cleaned shrimp for a few minutes; add the dry white wine and lemon juice and cook for 5 minutes more. Stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.
- When the shrimp is cooked, you are ready to serve the salad. Combine the prepared green beans and peppers with the cooked rice and beans in a large bowl. Season to taste with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Arrange cooked shrimp on the top of rice mixture and pour the basil oil all over. Sprinkle with chopped chives and serve.
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DeVon Edwards turned in what his coach called a "magic night." It's a big reason why Duke is assured of a winning season for the first time in nearly two decades.DURHAM, N.C. —
Edwards scored three touchdowns —two on interception returns in a span of 16 seconds in the fourth quarter — to help Duke beat North Carolina State 38-20 on Saturday.
Edwards also had a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown late in the third quarter for the Blue Devils (7-2, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who went from trailing in a close game to winning in a romp with a stunning flurry of late-game touchdowns.
Duke hadn't managed a winning season since going 8-4 in 1994. Duke went winless four times and had two one-win seasons since before returning to a bowl game for the first time since '94 last year. Now the Blue Devils are bowl eligible in consecutive years for the first time in program history and taking yet another step under sixth-year coach David Cutcliffe.
Last year's team started 6-2 only to lose its last five games. This group is determined to finish strong.
"This, I hope, creates hunger," Cutcliffe said. "It's what it should do. I can't predict that, but I hope that's what it does."
Brandon Connette put Duke up for good with a 5-yard keeper with 3:31 left for a 24-20 lead. That's when Edwards put on a show, first returning an interception 25 yards for a score than following with a 45-yard TD return on consecutive passes to blow the game open.
The redshirt freshman is the first Bowl Subdivision player to score three non-offensive touchdowns in the same game since Oklahoma's Antonio Perkins returned three punts for scores against UCLA in September 2003, according to STATS LLC.
"We're not done yet through," Edwards said. "We've still got a long way to go. We're going for the ACC championship by any means, so that's our goal right now."
N.C. State (3-6, 0-6) has its worst league record since going 0-6 in 1959. The season-long offensive struggles continued, with quarterbacks Brandon Mitchell and Pete Thomas struggling through the air in error-filled performances.
"We're going to continue to work and build this football program the right way," first-year coach Dave Doeren said. "There will never be quit and I will not accept losing and neither will these guys. We're sick of it, and we're going to keep battling until we don't taste it anymore."
The Wolfpack had a 73-yard punt return for a touchdown from Rashard Smith and led briefly in the third quarter before Edwards' big return. Then N.C. State got an 80-yard touchdown pass from Mitchell to Quintin Payton to go back in front at 20-17 with 6:37 left.
On Payton's touchdown, Edwards had the last chance to bring him down, but the receiver broke free around the 10 and ran into the end zone.
Edwards got that one back, following Connette's keeper with a terrific individual effort to tip Mitchell's desperation pass into the air, haul it in and run it back for the 25-yard score that gave Duke a 31-20 lead. And his 45-yard interception return on the next offensive snap ensured that the Blue Devils wouldn't let this one get away.
Duke won despite having four turnovers for the second-straight game, with starting quarterback Anthony Boone throwing seven interceptions in those games. Connette took over for Boone late in the third.
"It's always whatever it takes to win a game," Connette said. "You always want to have a group of men that are willing to do whatever it takes to win a game. ... Luckily (the defense) made a couple of stops for us today. And DeVon just played great today."
Duke's Jamison Crowder added seven catches for 134 yards, including a 75-yard catch in the opening quarter to set up a 4-yard touchdown keeper by Boone.
Shadrach Thornton ran for 103 yards to lead the Wolfpack, but Mitchell and Thomas combined to throw for 248 yards on 13-for-33 passing with three interceptions.
When it was over, Duke's players jogged to the student section of Wallace Wade Stadium to celebrate while the Wolfpack walked dejectedly back to the locker room with five straight losses.
"I hadn't seen (a finish like that) in a while," linebacker Brandon Pittman said. "Probably back in middle school. But it hurts losing one like that."
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Managed Threads Are Different From Windows Threads
.NET Framework works with managed threads and they aren't the same than Windows threads. Therefore, it isn't a good idea to use Windows API thread management functions with managed threads.When you create tasks in .NET Framework 4, managed threads are going to support the potential parallelization of their work. However, there isn't a direct relationship between the number of tasks created and the managed threads that support their execution. I talked about the relationship between tasks and managed threads in my previous post "Task Are Not Threads in .NET 4 Beta 1". Its content is still valid for .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate.
You can also assign work to managed threads through the thread pool manager, i.e., the System.Threading.ThreadPool class. Besides, it is possible to create your own managed threads by creating instances of the System.Threading.Thread class.
Developers that are used to work with Windows threads usually try to help the scheduler to assign a thread to the most appropriate hardware thread, i.e., the most convenient logical core. This way, they make sure that each thread runs in a separate hardware thread. This technique is known as "thread affinity".
Managed threads don't support methods to assign the most appropriate hardware thread to try to force the scheduler to use a specific hardware thread to execute a managed thread. .NET Compact Framework for Xbox 360 offers the SetProcessorAffinity method to the Thread class to allow developers to select the ideal hardware thread for XNA Framework games that target Xbox 360. However, this method isn't available in .NET Framework.
The problem is that a single managed thread can use one or more Windows threads to support its execution. Therefore, there isn't a one-to-one relationship between managed threads and Windows threads. In fact, a managed thread could use a Windows fiber to support its execution instead of a Windows thread according to the decisions taken by the managed scheduler.
A managed thread offers access to its ManagedThreadId property. This value also appears in the Threads Window. For example, a managed thread created by the thread pool manager, named "ThreadPool thread" has a value of 11 for its ManagedThreadId property (see Figure 1).
This ManagedThreadId value is an identifier for managed threads and it doesn't represent an Id for the Windows thread that supports its execution. Therefore, it can't be used in Windows API thread management functions. For example, it doesn't make sense to call the SetThreadAffinityMask function with a ManagedThreadId as the handle to the thread whose affinity mask is to be set (hThread). This function has the following C++ syntax definition:
DWORD_PTR WINAPI SetThreadAffinityMask( __in HANDLE hThread, __in DWORD_PTR dwThreadAffinityMask );
It is possible to determine the Windows thread that is executing the code for a managed thread and to retrieve its handle. However, it still doesn't make sense to call the SetThreadAffinityMask function for this Windows thread, because the managed scheduler can continue the execution of a managed thread in another Windows thread.
If you work with tasks in .NET Framework 4 (Release Candidate) or managed threads, the managed scheduler is going to try to set the best affinity. If you believe that you really need to work with thread affinity in your algorithms, you will have to work with the Windows API or other threading libraries.


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I guess I'll start a new one here since my PBN feedback thread is the old style and I dont know how to convert to the new style.
There's my old PBN one:
I guess I'll start a new one here since my PBN feedback thread is the old style and I dont know how to convert to the new style.
There's my old PBN one:
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A woman has pleaded no contest to an attempted obstruction charge after she reportedly allowed an escaped inmate stay at her Leavenworth apartment.
A woman has pleaded no contest to an attempted obstruction charge after she reportedly allowed an escaped inmate stay at her Leavenworth apartment.
Amber D. Hall, 23, entered the plea Friday in Leavenworth County District Court.
She had been charged with obstructing apprehension or prosecution in connection to Raheem K. Armstead, who escaped from custody at the Leavenworth County Jail Dec. 29. He was apprehended Dec. 31.
The charge against Hall was amended to attempted obstruction Friday as part of a plea agreement.
"We finalized the discussions just a few minutes ago," Assistant County Attorney Sherri Becker said.
Hall had been scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Friday. But she waived the hearing and entered the plea.
Becker reviewed facts of the case Friday, saying authorities had found Armstead hiding in a closet in an apartment in the 700 block of North 13th Street.
Becker said the apartment was the residence of Hall and a co-defendant, Joshua A. Showalter.
The prosecutor said Hall was interviewed by authorities and admitted knowing that Armstead had escaped from jail and allowing him to stay at the residence.
Hall likely will be sentenced to probation. As a condition of the plea agreement, the prosecution will not request that Hall spend any "shock time" in jail, according to her attorney, Roger Horsky.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 6.
Showalter, 26, also appeared in court Friday. He faces a charge of obstructing apprehension or prosecution.
He also was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Friday, but he waived that hearing.
Showalter's attorney, Benjamin Casad, said he believed there will be a plea agreement in the case but he asked for additional time to finalize matters. Arraignment for Showalter was scheduled for Feb. 8.
Showalter also is facing possible revocation of probation in two earlier cases.
Another man, James R. Hill, also is charged in connection to Armstead's escape. Hill faces a charge of aiding an escape.
Hill, 29, appeared in court Friday with an attorney. A status hearing in his case was scheduled for Feb. 6.
Last week, Armstead, 29, pleaded guilty to aggravated escape from custody. Sentencing in his case is scheduled for Feb. 22.


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MIZZOU'S SPECIAL BUG The insect is considered a new aphid because of its five-segmented antenna, shape of abdomen and black head, thorax and abdomen. APHIS MIZZOU is only found on St. John's Wort.
New insect species identified on MU campus
MIZZOU'S SPECIAL BUG The insect is considered a new aphid because of its five-segmented antenna, shape of abdomen and black head, thorax and abdomen.
Scientist has identified seven new plant feeding insect species during his career
The University of Missouri has Jesse Hall and Truman the Tiger. It now has its own insect.
Aphis mizzou, a member of the aphid family, has been officially described last fall in Zootaxa, a peer-reviewed scientific journal that describes newly identified organisms.
Aphis mizzou has been found only on the Mizzou campus so far, specifically around the recreation center. It lives on St. John's wort plants, said the bug's discoverer, Ben Puttler, assistant professor emeritus of plant sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. This is the seventh bug Puttler has discovered.
Puttler first noticed the insect in 2005 when he was investigating how parasitic wasps feed on another aphid, the Aphis hyperici. When he noticed the dark-colored insects again, he cataloged their differences. He worked with a colleague, Doris Lagos in the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois, to confirm that the insect was unknown.
As the discoverer of the bug, Puttler got naming rights. He said that since the insects are known only to live on the MU campus, it was natural to name them after Mizzou.
Aphids are insects that feed on the sap of plants. Nearly all plants including shrubs and trees are potential hosts for aphids, which can be found from a plant's tips to its roots. Aphid feeding can distort plant tissues, crumpling leaves and stunting and bending stems. Aphids excrete honeydew, a sugar source when digested by other insects, including ants.
While there are approximately 5,000 described species of aphids in the world, only 150 of them live in North America. Approximately 10 percent of aphids can damage cultivated crops or spread plant viruses.
Puttler's research details the biological control of pests — how naturally occurring insects and other biotic agents can fight crop pests and weeds.
Aphis mizzou is considered a new aphid because of its five-segmented antenna, shape of the abdomen and color. Its head, thorax and abdomen are black, and seem to be dusted with a white wax. An individual Aphis mizzou is smaller than a grain of pepper.
Aphis mizzou doesn't seem to be hurting other plants by its presence, Puttler said. Its existence is simple: feeding on leaves of the St. John's wort.