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Ellsbury sits out with left hand soreness
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- Jacoby Ellsbury will be out of the Yankees' starting lineup for at least one game as the outfielder rests a sore left hand that has been bothering him in recent games.
Manager Joe Girardi said that Ellsbury had tests on the hand during Monday's off-day, and no structural damage was found.
Girardi said that he was not sure how Ellsbury initially hurt the hand; Ellsbury was not available to speak to reporters before the Yankees' scheduled game against the Mariners on Tuesday.
"It's just been bothering him for a few days," Girardi said. "He's been playing through it. We sent him to take a test and the test came back good, which is good news."
Ellsbury would be available to play defense or pinch-run on Tuesday, Girardi said. Ellsbury was just 1-for-10 in the three-game series against the Angels over the weekend, dipping his season average to .311.
Brett Gardner replaced Ellsbury in center field, batting leadoff, with Ichiro Suzuki slotted to play left field.
Back strain to cost Pineda three to four weeks
NEW YORK -- The Yankees will be without Michael Pineda for longer than anticipated, as the right-hander ended his simulated game on Tuesday after just one inning when he felt tightness under his pitching arm.
Following an MRI exam, team physician Christopher Ahmad diagnosed Pineda with a Grade 1 strain of the teres major muscle in his upper back. The Yankees said that Pineda will be shut down from activity for 10 days, and the injury will cost him three to four weeks.
Pineda is currently on the restricted list, serving a 10-game suspension after being ejected for having pine tar -- an illegal substance -- on his neck in last Wednesday's game at Fenway Park.
That suspension is slated to end next Monday, when the right-hander was expected to pitch against the Angels in Anaheim. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said late Tuesday that he is looking into how the team will satisfy Pineda's suspension with his upcoming trip to the disabled list.
Pineda is 2-2 with a 1.83 ERA in four starts this season, having rung up 15 strikeouts against three walks in 19 2/3 innings. He did not pitch in the big leagues during the 2012 and '13 campaigns because of right labrum surgery.
Earlier on Tuesday, Girardi said that the club will continue to use David Phelps as a spot starter while Pineda is unavailable. Phelps owns a 3.86 ERA in nine relief appearances this season. He is scheduled to start on Wednesday against the Mariners and will be asked to throw 70-75 pitches.
Nova's elbow surgery performed as planned
NEW YORK -- Ivan Nova underwent Tommy John surgery on Tuesday to repair the partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, the Yankees announced.
Dr. James Andrews performed the procedure in Pensacola, Fla. The surgery went as expected, the team said.
Nova sustained the injury during an April 19 start against the Rays at Tropicana Field. He began the year as the No. 3 starter in New York's rotation and was 2-2 with an 8.27 ERA in four starts, including allowing a career-high four homers in his final outing.
The recovery time for Tommy John surgery is approximately 12-18 months.
Bombers bits
• Yankees manager Joe Girardi applauded the NBA's ruling to suspend Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life, with a $2.5 million fine, following racist comments that Sterling made in an audiotape that became public last weekend.
"I think the NBA handled the situation well," Girardi said. "I think they did their own investigation and basically made a statement that there is no room for racism. We're all people. We all need to get along and understand that we're all different. I applaud the NBA."
• Robinson Cano, who is making his first trip to the Bronx as a member of the Mariners this week, should be recognized for his extreme durability. As noted by The New York Times, Cano played in all but 14 of 1,134 possible regular-season games for the Yankees from 2007-13, or 99 percent. Beginning on May 3, 2005, Cano played in 1,374 out of a possible 1,432 regular-season games during his nine Yankees seasons, or 96 percent.
• On this date in 2006, the Yankees scored at least one run in every inning of a 17-6 win over the Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium. That marked the second time they had done so in franchise history, and just the sixth occurrence in American League history.
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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By Annie Reuter
Adele has achieved a milestone many artists can only dream about. For the second time, one of her albums has gone diamond. And this time it took less than a year.
Related: Adele on Quitting Smoking: 'I'm Convinced That's Made my Voice Weaker'
According to the RIAA, Adele's latest release, 25, reached diamond status last Thursday (Sept. 22). Adele received the 10X platinum plaque—which certifies the album for 10 million in sales in the U.S.—last night (Sept. 26) during her last of six shows at Madison Square Garden in New York.
25 went diamond just over 10 months after its release. Adele's debut album, 2011's 21, took nearly two years to hit diamond. But in an era of streaming and file sharing, just going platinum is a landmark achievement.
Adele is currently on her North American tour supporting 25 which ends on November 21.

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These Do-Gooder Moguls Let Their Foreign Servants Take Beatings
When the founders of AOL and eBay retired, they planned a life of philanthropy. They were so busy saving the world they apparently didn't notice their own workers were being brutalized.
The Maui Pineapple Company, majority-owned by AOL co-founder Steve Case, for years obtained its workers through recruiting firm Global Horizons. A Global Horizons agent routinely intimidated and beat Maui Pineapple workers with a knife, gun and baseball bat and threatened to deport them if they failed to meet quotas, workers say in the new issue of Mother Jones. They didn't get enough food rations and had to sneak past a chain-link fence to buy Ramen noodles, or boil bitter leaves if they couldn't afford ramen. At least one fled the pineapple compound and its guard on foot.
Maui Pineapple, of which eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is also a primary shareholder, eventually severed its relationship with Global Horizons and told Mother Jones it was not aware of the workers' allegations at the time they were employed. But why wasn't the company, or it's tech-mogul shareholders, paying more attention? Omidyar and his wife started an entire charity dedicated to eradicating to fighting the global slave trade, after all, and Case's family Case Foundation is supposed to be "empowering" citizens "in the U.S. and around the globe." Would it have been so hard for them to notice their contractor Global Horizons was charging individual workers tens of thousands of dollars each in recruiting fees, as Mother Jones found, leaving said workers deeply in debt to and effectively indentured servants to the company?
The owner of Global Horizons told Mother Jones farm workers typically owed his company 45 percent to 80 percent "over and above each workers' wages," as the magazine put it. That was for the privilege of doing farm work and, in theory, getting adequate food, housing and health care.
If that sounds like modern slavery to you, you're in good company: The Feds barred Global Horizons from recruiting guest workers in 2006 and the Department of Justice is now investigating the company for human trafficking.
Yes, it sounds unforgivably brutal to make a worker pay off a $25,000 debt by confiscating 80 percent of his $9.50/hour farmhand wage. But it must also be pretty rough for a billionaire to convince people he's a big-hearted philanthropist while simultaneously employing imported indentured servants via extortionate labor practices. It's enough to make you want to close your Hawaiian pineapple plantation.
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Whats dirty about a naked cowboy?
This spring, officials in a Pennsylvania school district banned Amy Timberlakes The Dirty Cowboy, a childrens picture book about a cowboy taking his annual bath. Illustrator Adam Rex thought he had avoided exposing any of the cowboys shocking parts through the strategic placement of birds, a boot and a cloud of dust.
Wrong! The parents of a student complained to the school board that the illustrations are pornographic and demanded that The Dirty Cowboy be removed from the districts elementary school libraries. More than 200 people signed a petition supporting the book, but the school board ordered it off library shelves. Students must have written permission to borrow it.
The banning of The Dirty Cowboy is one of the sillier examples of the kind of censorship that occurs in American schools and libraries every year. It would be laughable if there wasnt so much of it. The American Library Association reports that there were 326 book challenges in 2011. Over the last 30 years, ALA has counted more than 11,000 challenges.
Librarians, booksellers, publishers and authors launched Banned Books Week in 1982 to draw attention to the problem of book censorship. This years celebration of the freedom to read is being held today through Oct. 6.
People try to ban books for many reasons. The Harry Potter books were the most frequently challenged for several years because some people think they encourage belief in witchcraft and magic. Recently, there have been a growing number of complaints about books that promote homosexuality. And Tango Makes Three, a childrens picture book about two male penguins who raise a chick, topped the most challenged list from 2006 to 2008.
Most books are challenged because of sexual content, offensive language or violence.
Meghan Cox Gurdon, the childrens book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal, has described contemporary young adult literature as a hall of fun-house mirrors, constantly reflecting back hideously distorted portrayals of what life is. ... (A) careless young reader or one who seeks out depravitywill find himself surrounded by images not of joy or beauty but of damage, brutality and losses of the most horrendous kind.
The authors of young adult novels reply that kids need books that are realistic.
Books dont turn kids into murderers, or rapists, or alcoholics, Laurie Halse Anderson wrote. Books open hearts and minds, and help teenagers make sense of a dark and confusing world.
Her novel, Speak, a book about the problem of sexual violence, was denounced as soft-core pornography in Republic, Missouri. School officials rejected the challenge.
Sherman Alexie, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which has been one of the most frequently challenged books for several years, also replied.
I write for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers, he said. I write to give them weapons in the form of words and ideas that will help them fight their monsters.
People who are trying to ban books deny that they are engaged in censorship. They believe they are protecting children and defending the right of parents to decide what their children read.
But no one disputes the right of parents to request an alternate assignment if they object to a book their child is asked to read. What is at issue is the freedom of the other children to read books that have been chosen for them by teachers and librarians who have applied professional criteria to select the best books.
While most book challenges fail, too many succeed. The Texas ACLU reports that 17 books were banned in Texas last year. A survey of book challenges in Missouri public schools since 2008 has established that 12 of the 53 challenged books were removed. Even when books are retained, teachers may be afraid to teach them, or others like them, for fear of setting off another controversy.
Things would certainly be far worse if teachers, librarians, parents, students and even some administrators werent fighting back. Today, most libraries and school districts have a formal review process for handling complaints, which has helped reduce the number of book bans.
But the effort to censor books is something we cant laugh off. The battle for free speech must continue.
Christopher Finan is the president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the author of From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America.


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Dell has been sitting in the driver's seat for PC shipments
ever since the fourth quarter of 2003. That all changed during the third
quarter of this year as Hewlett-Packard eased
into the first place position. According to the latest figures from Gartner Dataquest, HP
saw its worldwide shipments climb by 15% to 9.65 million units. Dell, on the
other hand, saw its shipments rise by just under 4% to 9.54 million units.
"We are delighted to have reclaimed the number-one
share position in a period where we also achieved profitability and revenue
milestones," said HP executive CP Todd Bradley.
point to HP CEO Mark Hurd as the reason behind the company's change of
fortune. Hurd took over for Carly Fiorina in 2005 and has made great strides
in trimming HP's workforce, cuttings costs and boosting revenue.
Dell shares dropped by 6.19% to $23.17 today upon the
announcement of the news. Dell depends heavily on its US operations for PC
sales and a 7.1% slide in US shipments gave HP an opening. "The rate of
growth reflects our efforts to rebalance our execution in areas such as
pricing, growth outside the U.S. and improved customer experience," said a
spokeswoman for Dell.
An analyst for Banc of America Securities wasn't so optimistic.
"If the company is unable to meet revenue estimates during a robust PC
demand environment, how will the company be able to meet expectations during a
weaker, slowing growth environment," wrote Keith Bachman.


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Last week I had a NY pizza marathon here are the places I visited and some notes about each. All pies or slices were plain cheese to try to keep my assessments fair.
I decided to start my trip by enjoying some of the typical street pizza that the city is so famous for. My first stop was Ben's pizza at 3rd and McDougall. This was the classic NY street pizza, with very little sauce and lots of grande cheese. The crust was really great, but a tad airy for me. Overall a really great slice.
On my way to rays pizza I drove past another Ben's pizza, and it was much busier than the first, so I had to try it. I am not sure of the address, but it was very close to the first Ben's and the rays I visited next. All three of the street pizzas I tried were very very similar, but if I had to pick, this Ben's had the slight edge. The crust was a little thicker and chewier than the others, and there was a little more sauce than the other places. Again, Grande mozzarella.
The third slice joint I tried was the Ray's near prince and Mott. This could have been from the first Ben's, it tasted exactly the same, with maybe just a tad more sauce. Once again Grande for sure.
I had planned on only hitting the above three places on my first day, but when I realized that the rays was in the same neighborhood as Lombardi's I had to go. Lombardi's had the most char of any pizzeria I hit all week, but was not brittle at all. They have a really great balance of softness, but with lots of char flavor. I am guessing they had a dough with a higher hydration percentage than most other coal oven places. Also, it seems like their oven has a higher ambient temperature than some of the others. The whole pie chars equally even the top of the crust. Unfortunately compared to many of the other coal oven places the crust was somewhat breadlike possibly from a long mix. The used a cryo pack, or fresh not in water mozzarella, and were a little lighter on the cheese than other coal oven places. Lombardi's was really great, after trying the first three pizzas it was really apparent how much the high heat can help the crust texture and flavor. So much so that I decide to stick to coal/woodfired ovens for the rest of the trip. Lombardi's pizza had more sauce on it than any pie I tried all week. Although the sauce did not taste like san marzano's, it did seem to be an Italian style tomato rather than a California style like escalon or stanislaus.
On day two I decided to make the trek over to Brooklyn to try Grimaldi's since it was my favorite pizzeria from my last NY visit. Again this place did not disappoint. This crust might have been my second favorite of the trip. It is so chewy, light, puffy, and crispy all at the same time. Somehow it is not airy or breadlike. I still can't figure out why this place sometimes gets a bad rap. I would say it had medium to light char. Last time I was there it had quite a bit more char, almost like Lombardi's, so maybe they are a little inconsistent. They use a more cheese than Lombardi's, and a less sauce, which is more splotchy in application. To me this was one of the most balanced pies of the trip. Overall it is a very fresh tasting pie with a really good dough flavor. I could taste the slight tang of fermentation in the crust unlike many of the other coal places. I suspect I got there at the perfect time, just at the end of the lunch batch of dough. When I was walking out there were bags of Blooming Best flour being brought in the door.
Day three, aah day three, If I could only go back in time (or back to NY!). This was a magical day. On day three I had not only the best pizza, but the best food I have ever eaten in my life. I suspect that after trying all of these places I will mostly be visiting Una Pizza Napolitana from now on. I must admit that I think he is charging way to much for these individual sized pies. I can see where many people would be turned off by this. He is only open Thurs through sunday, and only serves pies until the dough runs out. Some people in line were telling stories about the place only really being open for about four hours sometimes. It sure would be nice if the place could stay open a little longer and get the prices down a little, but who am I to complain. I will no doubt return every time I make it to NY. There was a TON of sourdough flavor in the crust. It was somehow incredibly strong, yet so delicate and pleasant at the same time. Everything that went on this pie was the best I have ever tasted. I know realize that I have to go do some serious olive oil taste testing to find something like what Una Pizza uses. I am craving that flavor right now. Totally addictive. Even the basil seemed to be something special, and the buffalo mozzarella was very mild. This pizza was more about the olive oil and basil flavors than the cheese or the sauce. The pies with no sauce and cherry tomatoes were just as good as the sauce pies. Anyone serious about pizza needs to visit this place next time they make it to NYC. I did notice that they removed all the talk on the menu about using the old dough method for dough leavening. I suspect that they may have changed the way they prepare the dough after Marco's visit with Anthony the owner.
By this time the band I was recording got wind of my pizza obsession. Although they were only 18 years old, they had some very strong opinions about pizza. They wanted me to try their favorite place where they grew up in Long Island called Anconas. I knew I was in good hands when two of the guys in the band started arguing with each other about wether pecorino romano, or Parmesan was the appropriate accompaniment to fresh mozzarella cheese on a pie! As it turns out, their Ancona's had the absolute best tasting sauce of the whole trip. They use a cryo pack fresh mozzarella, and have two styles of pie, round and grandma pizza. The grandma is a square Sicilian style pizza with the same fresh cheese, and a different sauce. I did prefer the sauce of the round pie, but they both were great. This place was using gas fired deck ovens, so the crust was much more similar to a typical street pizza than the coal joints.
There is a mini chain called Brooklyn Coal Fired Pizza that is popping up in New Jersey. In Jersey they are still allowed to build new coal fired ovens unlike New York. I tried the Edgewater location and it was really quite good. It was totally on par with all of the famous coal oven places in Brooklyn and NY that I have tried. Their pies seem to be a knock off of Grimaldi's, and I remember reading somewhere that the place does have some loose affiliation. To me the crust was the only real difference, but not by much. It seemed a little closer to the Lehmann doughs that I have made at home when I use the high temps from the cleaning cycle. It could be that it is all the same ingredients as Grimaldi's, but they use King Arthur flour instead of the Blooming Best. One thing I have noticed about this place is that they never really let the pies stay in long enough to get very much char. Some of my friends prefer this lack of char, and like this place better than all the coal oven places for this reason. like Grimaldi's, Brooklyn Coal Fired Pizza had one of the better crusts of the whole trip.
My last day was a big one for pies. I hit Totonno's, Patsy's, and Johnny's on my way out of town. I hit the Totonno's location on the upper east side of Manhattan. All the pies I had on this trip were really good, but if I had to pick, I would say that this was my least favorite crust of the trip as far as the coal oven joints go. They used more cryo pack fresh mozzarella, and WAY more grated cheese than any of the other places, so if you like extra cheese you might really like this place. The dough was actually quite similar to Lombardi's, but even more breadlike. It just didn't seem to have the magic of all the other coal or wood fired pies. This was only my first time here, so I have a feeling I could change my opinion with a few more tries. I have heard really good things about this pizza from people I really trust, so I will give it a second chance.
Just up the street from this Totonnos is the original Patsy's location. I would not have even stopped here if I had not been driving right past it to get out of town. I remembered that they sold slices, and figured I would give it one more try. The last time I was in NY I tried this Patsy's location and my pie was pure black on the bottom. Well, I am sure glad that I gave it a second shot. When I got in I noticed that the pie that was comming out of the oven looked perfectly cooked. It was not Jose making the pies, but one of the new guys. I decided to get a whole pie, as they are so thin and they were really looking good. Now I can say that I totally understand what all the Hype is about. This pie was marvelous. You can tell the cheese and the sauce are not really top quality, but it doesn't hold back the great crust. It is SOOOO thin, and really soft and easily foldable. It almost reminded me of a caputo type neapolitan dough even though I know that it isn't. I could totally see that if they used better ingredients, this could be some of the best pie of all time. Next time I will order my pie with the fresh mozzarella. Overall this was still one of the best pies of the trip.
My last stop was Johnny's in Mt. Vernon NY. Jeff Varasano loves this place, and I can see why. This got the award for being the most addictive pizza (other than Una) of the whole trip. I don't know how they do it, but I could not stop eating this pie, even long after I was stuffed. The crust is wafer thin like patsy's, but because of the lower oven temperatures that are used it is much crunchier,crispier, and almost cracker like. It reminds me of a thinner version of Pepe's in New Haven. The pies are made in a gas oven, but have more char than everything that I tried but Lombardi's. The combination of sauce and cheese is what made this pie impossible to stop eating. The sliced processed cheese sits under the sauce. To me the cheese tasted like Stella brand Whole Milk Mozzarella. I have noticed that Stella tends to burn quite easily, so this could explain why they are putting the cheese under the sauce.
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That was a great trip report. Thanks for sharing the details with us.
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UPN is my top now too. Besides the sourdough flavor the other strong addition is the sea salt. You definitely taste it and that's probably what you were tasting in the olive oil. Now I'm hungry
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scott r,
What a dream experience. You have accomplished more in a handful of days than most people do in a pizza lifetime. I'm glad Patsy's was better this time around because it really is a fine example of traditional NY coal oven pie. Even with the cheap ingredients. Extreme heat and a smokey oven can only get you but so high on the pizza ladder or so I gather from your rank order.
The description of your pizza eating adventures was quite enjoyable to read. Since I've been to a few of the places you described, I almost felt like I was sitting beside you. I would be willing to bet that your home creations will somehow get better as a result of experiencing the best NY had to offer. Keep us informed of any tidbits that improve your efforts.
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You are absolutely right about the effect this trip has had on my home pies. I have to admit that with your help, and the many others on this forum that are so gracious with their knowledge, I have been able to come up with a pie that totally stood its own with all but one of these pizzerias. Unfortunately the one I couldn't touch was the one that I like the best -Una Pizza! What I took away from this trip was the realization that the electroux with the roller/scraper attachments just makes a much wetter dough than the majority of these places use. For a while I thought this was fine, but after seeing the drier doughs time after time I finally decided to to something I have never done before. Hand Knead. I have made three batches of dough so far and each and every one of them has turned out to be the pizza of my dreams. I really feel that it is 95% as good as what I had at Una Pizza. This is even in my crappy home oven! I suspect with a wood burning oven I would be there totally. The texture is perfect now without oil, I am just missing some smokey flavor. I am even getting that cool leoparding look that you see on real Neapolitan pizza. I urge everyone out there trying to make a real Neapolitan dough to follow Marcos instructions and recipe exactly. Just put away the mixer and be very nice to the dough. I honestly feel like you did PFT when you finally met Raquel. I am done with my neapolitan hunt. I can't imagine a better dough. As a bonus it handles like a DREAM! I have also noticed another major change in my pizza. I can let one sit out for hours and it still has this amazing soft easy chew that is pretty much the same as when it came right out of the oven. Before this my pies were cardboard after fully cooling unless I reheated them, and I needed to use oil to get enough softness.
On the positive side for everyone else out there with an electrolux, this hand kneading thing only seems necessary for the Caputo flour. The pies I have made with PFT's Raquel recipe or Pete-zza's Lehmann, starter culture, King Arthur Sir Lancelot flour, proper fermentation, and gentile dough handling are every bit as good as the best pies I had in NYC. Missing some coal flavor, yes, but the right texture and consistency.
Arthur, I totally agree about the salt. I am going to have to go out and try the crazy expensive stuff now. Does anyone know what brand Anthony at Una pizza uses?
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scott r,
Interesting comments about the DLX. I wonder if you could describe in more detail your wet dough concerns. I guess its not as simple as reducing the hydration. I tried to keep an open mind about the DLX but when the KitchenAid Professional 600 was redesigned and then outfitted with a spiral hook (which simulates hand-kneading perfectly), I knew which way I needed to go when it was time for me to trade-up. The next stop for me would be a fork mixer like the Santos but I would need a positive report by Bill/SFNM and confirmation that it could produce small batches of dough before investing.
Speaking of Bill/SFNM, he is currently producing the best looking Neapolitan pizza I have ever seen without the Santos. He calls it Pizza Lolita. I have no idea how it tastes or what the crumb looks like. But the topography looks like what you described about your latest efforts with leapording.
For the benefit of the community, kindly post your interpretation of pizzanapoletana's recipe in the Neapolitan section. That way, we can all try it out. Who knows, maybe we can start a UPN reverse engineering thread.
That would be interesting...
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PFT,as you know a 63% hydration dough with caputo is much different than one made with high gluten flour. At that hydration percentage with the caputo you are pretty much pouring the dough out of the proofing container like. It is pretty much impossible to stretch the dough like I saw Anthony at UPN doing. This "aqua fresca" dough might work better in a 1000 degree oven, but in mine the highest I can get the pizza stone and have the pie cook properly is 750 or 800 if I am really patient.
My problem with the electrolux could very well be user error. This is why I keep asking anyone who buys one to let me know if they can solve my issue. The beauty of the machine is the gentile roller and scraper mechanism. The dough hook attachment is also cool, but is much rougher on the dough, and kind of tears it toward the end of the mix. With the dough hook I can get it down to 60% like I want. With the roller and scraper It is really tough to accomplish a dough this dry. I can play games with the dough and poke it and bend the scraper out into the dough mass to get it a little closer to 60%, but again this creates a dough breaking or tearing action that I don't want. What happens is that as I am adding flour gradually (as suggested by Marco and many others) it hits that 63% mark and just turns into a solid ball. I can pour all the flour in that I want at this point and the doughball just rolls around in the mixer and does not pick any of the flour up. I did try one batch where I got it to this point with the mixer, then did a hand knead to get the last 3% of flour into it. This worked out great, and the texture and crumb turned out to be magical just like my fully hand kneaded batches. After a slow 68 degree 24 hour ferment the crust texture of the Marco dough was just like what I had at UPN, maybe a little more mild in sourdough flavor and a little less smoky tasting. It seems like Anthony might let his dough ferment even longer than 24 hrs for more sourdough flavor.
I think the missing link to duplicating the UPN pizza is finding the right olive oil, and locating some of this strain of basil. The buffalo mozzarella UPN was using was the same brand as what I have seen on Dom's table at Di Faras. It comes in a white styrofoam cooler with packing tape bearing the logo for the brand. I think the tape is blue. or blue and white. The sauce really tasted like crushed san marzanos, nothing else.
I would love to hear from anyone who has tried Una Pizza and a16 to hear the differences.
PFT, I will be away from home again working crazy hours for the next week or so, but when I get back I will post a simple step by step recipe and procedure for the Marco dough. Right now you can find everything you need to know by searching his posts, but they are very scattered, and it would be nice for everyone to have them all in one place. Hopefully Marco's book will just be finished soon, as I suspect he is going to have tips to get his dough even better than what we have had so far.
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European Day of Civil Justice in Bosnia-Herzegovina
The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HJPC), as an independent and autonomous state institution tasked to ensure the maintenance of an independent, impartial and professional judiciary, held a session in July 2006 and decided to promote the European Day of Civil Justice. I need to remind you that that this day will be celebrated for the first time in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Therefore, considering lack of information about the day, the HJPC decided to inform relevant institution within Bosnia and Herzegovina about significance of the day and modalities of celebration. The written memorandum was prepared and sent to 120 different institutions including all courts, prosecutor's offices, ministry of justices, bar associations, law faculties, association of judges and prosecutors.
Also, all these institutions were informed about a possibility to participate in winning "The Crystal Scales of Justice" prize for innovative practices contributing to the quality of civil justice. In order to assist the institutions, the HJPC has prepared a translation of a relevant material into a local language. The following documents were translated from: Rules, Entry form, as well as those projects that participated in 2005. In addition to this, the winning Finish project was completely translated. After the documents were translated, they were distributed among 120 different judicial institutions, and those institutions are advised to participate and were reminded of 31 August 2006 deadline for submitting applications.
The HJPC itself is in the process of preparing a candidature - entry for this Prize.
Apart from that, the HJPC itself has decided to promote the European Day of Civil Justice. So, the HJPC decided to organize on 25 October 2006 a "day of open doors" for law students from all law faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to that, there will be a press conference held at premises of the HJPC, and we expect the most prominent journalists to attend the conference.


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Roma kids photograph people in their community
Roma kids in Cserehat, Hungary were asked to become photographers of their community. These photos are taken by Roma children and offer a glimpse into how they view their world - through the lens of a camera.
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By Susan Black
What happens when a fourth-grader needs glasses but the child's family can't afford to pay for them?
In Lynn, Mass., where Claire Crane is in her 20th year as principal of the Robert L. Ford NASA Explorer School, a K-8 public school, it's not a problem. She's arranged for an eye care company in the city of 87,000, which is 10 miles north of Boston, to provide free glasses for her low-income students.
Crane also sees to it that no child in her school goes hungry, and no child goes without supervision during off-school hours. She's recruited volunteer tutors from General Electric and nearby colleges to work with children, and often their parents, during the day and in the evening.
The partnerships Crane has crafted help offset a plague of poverty in this once-thriving factory town. Still, some problems seem intractable. More than 90 percent of Crane's students live below the poverty line. Many are learning English as their second language.
Undaunted, Crane's motto is "Never say no." Every parent, student, and neighbor can find a "helping hand and a sympathetic ear" at her school, she says.
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Ex-GM Jim Bowden: Rangers should 'back up the truck' and trade for Jose Bautista
Former Reds and Nationals GM Jim Bowden joined Fitzsimmons and Durrett on KESN-FM this week to talk about the Rangers. Here are some highlights:
On what the Rangers should do at the trade deadline:
"If you can get a Cliff Lee or someone you can put at the top of (Yu) Darvish, that's always going to be my priority. That's always going to be Nolan Ryan and Jon Daniels' priority. That's how you win World Series. But you look at this lineup, and I want a corner outfield bat even if (Nelson) Cruz is not suspended. I want one to make (David) Murphy the fourth outfielder so there is going to be some out there. Josh Willingham will be out there, Alex Rios will be out there, Alfonso Soriano is out there but to me, the one guy that makes the most sense to me, and I don't know if the Rangers are would pay the price it would take but if the blue Jays don't turn it around between now and July 31, they've got to at least listen on Jose Bautista. They've got to at least find out if they can get a package that can turn that franchise around and put them in position for 2014 and beyond, and I'm not so sure that if Bautista came to Texas, I'm not sure he wouldn't be the difference for them. Back up the truck. Put everyone on the truck but (Jurickson) Profar. It would be a huge deal no doubt."
On if the Rangers should put Jurickson Profar in a package deal for Cliff Lee:
"The only way I'm putting Profar in a deal is if you tell me Giancarlo Stanton is coming back or Oscar Taveras is coming back. If I can get a young middle of the order bat that's not going to cost me any money, and I control it for six years, that's the deal I would make for him. I'm not going to trade Profar for a 34-year-old pitcher. I'm not going to put him in a package for a 32-year-old bat. You want to win long term. That kid's value is too high. You trade him, you make sure you're getting a young impact player in the package back."


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Gainesville, Fla. - There's no cure and the cause is unknown. Up to three million Americans have type 1 diabetes. It's already known that people with it have smaller pancreases, but a new discovery could carry a lot of weight when it comes to beating diabetes.
"I was like so tired and sick," said Jordan Perkins, who has type 1 diabetes.
Perkins was only eight when she found out.
"It was a surprise that I had diabetes," she said.
To manage her diabetes, Perkins explained that she has to do shots and prick her finger five times a day.
Her pancreas stopped making insulin when her immune system started attacking these insulin-producing beta cells. Now, we could be closer to finding out why that happens.
"It is a first of its kind," said Dr. Martha Campbell-Thompson, Professor of Pathology at the University of Florida.
Campbell-Thompson's team weighed pancreases from 164 deceased donors. The pathologist found pancreases at high risk for developing type 1 diabetes, weighed 25 percent less than normal ones.
"This implies that even before one becomes diabetic, you may have fewer insulin producing beta cells. It could be happening many years before signs of diabetes occur," Campbell-Thompson said.
She wants to work with ongoing diabetes studies to determine if people with varying degrees of diabetes risk also have smaller pancreases.
"Measure their pancreas volume using something like as simple and safe as ultrasound," Campbell-Thompson said.
Finding patterns in pancreas weight could help predict risk, treat the disease, and maybe even prevent kids like Jordan from ever having to deal with diabetes.
Thompson believes it will be relatively easy to add an ultrasound or MRI test to current diabetes studies to measure pancreas size. In the meantime, a pilot study at the University of Florida to further examine the findings is in the works. Thompson hopes it will eventually expand to sites across the country.
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BACKGROUND: Type 1 diabetes, affecting 5% of people with diabetes, is usually diagnosed in young adults and children. It was previously known as juvenile diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce enough insulin. Insulin is a hormone needed to transform starches, sugar, and other food into energy. In most cases of type 1 diabetes, people need to inherit risk factors from both parents. However, genes alone are not enough to trigger the disease. For example, identical twins have identical genes. One twin can have type 1 diabetes and the other has only a 50% chance of inheriting it also. Researchers believe that a predisposition to the disease can be inherited then something in that person's environment triggers it. They think one trigger might be related to cold weather because type 1 diabetes develops more often in winter than summer and is more common in colder climates. It is less common in people who were breastfed. (Source: www.diabetes.org)
YOUR CHILD'S RISK: Generally, if a man has type 1 diabetes, the odds of his child obtaining diabetes is one in 17. If a woman has type 1 diabetes and their child was born before they were 25, then her child's risk is one in 25; if the child was born after they turned 25, the child's risk is one in 100. If the parent developed diabetes before age 11, then the child's risk doubles. If both of the child's parents have type 1 diabetes, the risk is between one in 10 and one in four. However, there is an exception to these numbers. Close to one in every seven people with type 1 diabetes has a condition called type 2 polyglandular autoimmune syndrome. These people have thyroid disease, poorly working adrenal glands, and also have type 1 diabetes; some even have immune system disorders. If a parent has this syndrome, then their child's risk of getting the syndrome on top of type 1 diabetes is one in two. Researchers are learning how to predict a person's odds of getting diabetes. (Source: www.diabetes.org)
NEW TECHNOLOGY: Type 1 diabetes happens when the body attacks its own beta cells, which are found in the pancreas. Beta cells produce insulin. The study at the University of Florida has linked people with type 1 diabetes to having smaller pancreases. If there is a smaller pancreas in type 1 diabetes patients, then the number of insulin-producing beta cells is lowered too. During the study, researchers weighed 164 organ donors' pancreases. Results showed that people who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes or who were at risk for the disease had smaller than average-sized pancreases. A normal pancreas weighs 80 grams. A pancreas of people with type 1 diabetes weighed half that size. People at risk for the disease had a pancreas weight of approximately 60 grams. Researchers say that beta cells grow in utero and can continue to develop until the child is around five years old. The study's results stress the need to look earlier in people who are at risk for type 1 diabetes. So the next step in research is to look at younger people and measure the volume of their pancreases through MRI imaging. (Source: www.news.ufl.edu)
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Beltre: Transition to Rangers was easy
Third baseman enjoys playing with Texas teammates
Joining the Rangers was a very easy transition. All of my teammates made me feel like I've been playing here for a long time. The fans are great. They know their baseball and are great in supporting our team. Hopefully, it keeps getting better because I really like being here.
I have changed teams the last two seasons, and I've had easy transitions going last year to Boston and then coming to Texas this year. I think it has been easy for me because both teams have a lot of weapons in their lineups.
I didn't have to step up and be the main guy on either team. I was able to step in and contribute right away without a lot of the added pressure. If there was a time I wasn't producing, the other guys were able to pick me up. I could be myself and do what I do best.
I had a tough time adjusting the first time I switched teams. That was several years ago when I went from the Dodgers to the Mariners. It was the first time I was on a new team. Also, I had to adjust to a new league. At times it felt like I had to re-learn a lot of stuff. It was tough, but I think I learned a lot from those seasons in Seattle, and that has translated into success in Boston and here in Texas.
It is hard to say whether the biggest adjustment back then was changing teams or changing leagues. I think that it was equally hard to adjust to a new team and a new league. I had known nothing but Dodger Blue when I went to the Mariners.
One of the highlights of playing for Texas is that I am playing for a winning team with a lot of good players. One of those players is Josh Hamilton, and one adjustment I didn't have to make this summer was kind of funny.
I was penciled in to hit behind Josh at this year's All-Star Game. Of course, I've been hitting behind him all season, so I took it like just another game in that regard. I would have hit anywhere they wanted, but it's always nice to be paired up with one of my teammates.
Adrian Beltre's first season with the Rangers has been a success, as he made the All-Star team and helped Texas win the American League pennant for the second straight year. He hit 32 homers and drove in 105 runs in 124 games during the regular season. He's also been hot in the World Series, hitting .381 (8-21) through the first five games.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I know there are pages that link to each of training, perl.com, etc but no central site where I can search for any information on say using worldpay with perl or sending email.
I'd be interested in setting something like this up but don't have the capacity to host it, I contacted ask about organising a cabal to overhaul and manage the websites but got no reply. The TPF site still doesn't mention the LPW or any events in 200
is there an appropriate place that links to perl tutorials, slides, documentation?
I've always found the Perlmonks tutorial page [perlmonks.org] an excellent resource, and I regularly give our students a whirlwind tour of Perlmonks after class. Perlmonks links to some external content, but it's by no means a comprehensive list.
One way of making resources more visible (even if it doesn't form a comprehensive site) is to add them to The Open Directory Project [dmoz.org], which forms the basis of categorized directories for Google and many other search engines.
Some kind of knowledge base that people can add courses, talks, etc would be good.


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Dana Florian, director of Tech's Norman Career Services, was in charge of heading up the event. This was her second education fair since taking over as director.
Many of the institutions that planned to be at the fair were unable to accommodate the schedule change.
"This is the 19th annual educators fair," Florian said. "There were 44 institutions scheduled to attend, but due to the date change, stemming from in-climate weather, 30 were able to show."
"It's a fair for all education majors and non-traditional teacher licensing candidates," Florian said. "It's also a great opportunity to meet face to face and gather information."
Usually, the resume is left to tell the story, according to Florian. But the fair provides an upper-hand for students by allowing a time and place for potential employers and teachers to check if a position may promise a good fit.
"A great deal of preparation goes into the event," Florian said. " Career services provides resume' critiques as well as advise on professional clothing attire and interview tips."
Norman Career Services provides an effective variety of business and professional etiquette training for students and alumni preparing to search for employment.
"We will have an Engineering and Technology Fair in the W.O. Ballroom on April 10, from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m.," Florian said. "It will include computer science and information technology exhibitors as well," she added.
"I thought it was a really good fair and enjoyed it alot," said Amber Worley, an Early Childhood Education senior. "There were several good schools recruiting that were very friendly and informative."
Worley said she was recently asked for her hand in marriage by Justin Mishler. She is currently in the middle of an internship at Bryant's newest facility, Farm Hill Elementary.
"I hope my career will start with a full-time teaching job at Bryant Independent School District," she said. " They didn't say which grade is available, just that there are spots open in elementary."
"Arkansas Tech is our number one go to place," Russellville Schools assistant superintendent Alene Bynum said. "Tech does a great job with preparing teachers to teach the whole child."
The Russellville School District (RSD) facilitates teaching internships. According to Bynum, this is the most important job fair for RSD.
"We pull the largest number of interns from this fair," Bynum said. "We have a great partnership with Tech."
"Green Forest is 25 mile west of Harrison and the Mecca of the Ozarks," director of instruction at Green Forest School District Andrea Martin said.
"We have attended the Tech job fair for the last 10 years," said Martin. "We've had great success and the candidates are well prepared."


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I am beginning to question if Spring is right around the corner or not. While I hold out hope just a little bit longer I have found some inspiration to get me through. Huff Post Weddings gives us an early taste of spring with guest post by Kellee Khalil, founder and CEO of Lover.ly, "10 Perfect Spring Wedding Bouquets".
Khalil shares, "we adore bouquets filled with springtime blooms." So what are we to look for in a Spring wedding bouquet? Khalil keeps a bride's options open, "a floral bunch of pastel pretties, (one of the most popular trends) is equally as appropriate as a bouquet filled with brighter blooms."
Keep in mind Springtime has a different meaning for each person, and rightfully so your style and taste for a Spring wedding will be equally as unique. Perhaps you are a bride who is in love with this year's pastel, muted trend when planning your wedding flowers. Or on the other spectrum you are looking to pump up the volume with brightly colored floral hues.
The peach and coral wedding flower bouquet from weddingchicks.com on lover.ly, represents a softer, natural side of the Spring season. Ranunculus are a larger, full bloom that work well paried with a variety of other blooms or on it's own. Heartloveweddings.com on lover.ly pumps up the spectrum with their ranunculus, peonies, rose bouquet in vibrant in pink, orange and yellow. Ideal for a fun, modern or outdoor wedding.
Khalil gives our Springtime brides a variety of bouquet options with her top 10 picks. Consider a high intensity bouquet like the blue hydrangea bouquet that makes a statement with color but keeps it simple with one floral choice and a simple arrangement.
Tulips are the epitome of a Springtime flower. Create a beautiful, simple arrangement with loosely tied tulip stems or combine them with blooms as seen in everylastdetail.com on lover.ly. Sunshine yellow with tulips, billy balls and calla lilies.
To get your taste of Spring and great savings on silk wedding flowers shop afloral.com. Spring savings are here early!


text: I hava a questiin. Itachi mentioned that in MS there are two types of special techniques that can be awakened from the two eyes (like tsukuyominfrom itachi's left eye and amaterasu from his right eye) after which the third power is awakened. Then in case of Obito's eye why is it that both obito's right eye and his left eye(with kakashi) can use the same type of techniques? If suppose obito retrieves his left eye from kakashi and replaces the rinnegan with it, will he be able to activate susanoo??


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August 23, 2009
Kellan attacked by a ferret!
Thank you Gina :)
- Lorabell
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- AnonymousAugust 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM
I guess Emmett will have to change his diet to irritable ferretsReplyDelete
LOL - good call ;)ReplyDelete
- Lorabell
OMFG. my roommates and i saw this commercial yesterday on tv and laughed about it for at least 15 minutes. none of us realized it was kellan!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2009 at 11:43 PM
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL omg i love that ferret. its hilariousReplyDelete
Oh my effing god.Funny.ReplyDelete
I JUST made my husband rewind that commercial because I thought it was Kellan. I thought, "no way"---glad to know that my radar for all things Twilight is in good working order.ReplyDelete
I thought I was seeing things too when I saw Kellan and had to rewind to be sure before I took to the internet to find the video! The "leatherface" mask on the ferret is classic!! LOL!!!ReplyDelete
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Over at The Root, University of Maryland Law Professor Sherrilyn Ifill lists some of her picks for "The Best and Worst of 2011" in "Race and the Law." She continues her list below, with some additional selections from this past year.
Best Department of Justice Action: The DOJ's decision to go after Countrywide financial for discriminatory lending practices, culminated last week in a massive $335 million settlement. The action revealed that Countrywide had discriminated against at least 200,000 African American and Latino borrowers, by either steering minority borrowers with good enough credit to obtain prime lending loans into costly sub-prime loans, or by offering sub-prime loans with harsher lending terms to black and Latino borrowers, than to white borrowers with comparable credit profiles. This case is so important because the effort by conservatives to paint the financial crisis as the result of sub-prime lending to minorities, has glossed over the fact that minority borrowers were largely victims, not beneficiaries, of sub-prime loans. Even within the sub-prime market, Countrywide and other lenders recognized that even more profit could be made by falling back on that old American standby – racial discrimination.
Worst Law Enforcement Official: Sheriff Joe Arpaio is known for his tough anti-illegal immigrant position in Maricopa County, Ariz. Now the Department of Justice has cited the pugnacious sheriff for racially targeting Latinos in his sweeps of communities in which his police force seeks out undocumented immigrants. The DOJ report, the result of a nearly three-year investigation, charges the Sheriff with fostering a "culture of bias" in law enforcement in the county. The unrepentant, nearly 80 year-old Sheriff has called the DOJ report "politically motivated," and shows no signs of backing down. Instead, he has announced his endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry and vows to run for a fifth term in office. Latinos in Phoenix, where Arpaio has ruled the streets with the kind of aggressive swagger of Bull Connor, have filed a federal lawsuit charging the sheriff with ignoring the Fourth Amendment's requirement that a police officer have probable cause before stopping and searching criminal suspects.
Best Law Enforcement Official: Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez has restored the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department to its rightful place at the federal government's premier civil rights law enforcement organization. Lifting the Department from the depths to which it had sunk during the Bush years, when the likes of Monica Goodling and Bradley Schlotzman turned the Department into a repository for "loyal Bushies" with no demonstrated civil rights experience, Perez has aggressively focused the Department on its core mission – enforcement of our federal civil rights law. Under Perez the Civil Rights Division has taken on the discriminatory lending practices of Countrywide Financial [see above], is investigating and challenging police corruption and brutality in departments from Puerto Rico to Portland, and denied permission to South Carolina to impose government-issued photo ID requirements as a prerequisite to voting. Perez is leading the most robust, productive Civil Rights Division in decades.


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MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Even as this season was winding down, John Calipari was sowing seeds for 2013-14, laying out his Big Blueprint for the future of Kentucky basketball.
"We have talks as a team, and he's already told us he's cracking down next year," guard Archie Goodwin said after the Wildcats bowed out of the NIT with a 59-57 loss at Robert Morris on Tuesday. "He felt like he let us slip up this year and he was too light on us. He said he's never letting that happen again."
Calipari's fresh start will come with a revamped roster constructed with a national championship in mind. Just how it will look remains uncertain. Four Kentucky freshmen - Goodwin, Alex Poythress, Willie Cauley-Stein and injured Nerlens Noel - will have NBA decisions to make before the April deadline for entering the league's draft.
Goodwin, Poythress and Cauley-Stein said with varying degrees of certainty on Tuesday that they'll return, but those decisions can change with distance from a season finale.
Regardless, a recruiting class that already consists of twin guards Andrew Harrison and Aaron Harrison, swingman James Young and forwards Julius Randle, Marcus Lee, Dakari Johnson and Derek Willis sets up Kentucky to reload for an NCAA title run.
Kentucky may not be finished signing players. And if key veterans return, Calipari is set up to have the deepest team of his UK tenure.
"We may have three teams, so 15 guys that can play," Calipari said. "Let's go. It's what we need, kind of like my first year when we had all those players. We're gonna be a little young, but with guys coming back we'll still have some veteran guys."
There are complications with such a roster.
The most pressing may be working out a scholarship crunch. The NCAA allows men's basketball programs to have 13 players on scholarship.
In the unlikely event that no player on the current roster leaves, for the NBA or elsewhere, Kentucky would have 15 scholarship players next season: the Harrison twins, Randle, Young, Lee, Johnson, Willis, Noel, Goodwin, Poythress, Cauley-Stein, Ryan Harrow, Kyle Wiltjer, Jon Hood and Jarrod Polson.
Scholarships are renewed on an annual basis, however, and are not guaranteed for four years. Some attrition or changes in statues could lead to open scholarships.
Polson, for example, came to UK as a walk-on, and his scholarship has been awarded on a yearly basis because Calipari has had scholarships available.
Though Hood has said he plans to return next season, he is a fourth-year player on track to graduate this spring and would have the option of transferring to another Division I school and playing next season if he earns his degree.
And after a tumultuous season in which he missed four games due to a never-disclosed illness and an undisclosed family issue, then struggled to find consistency, Harrow was unclear Tuesday as to whether he'll be welcomed back, though he spoke like a man who intended to return.
"If I can come back, then I'll come back," Harrow said. "If I can't, then I just have to make decisions, really."
Johnson has not yet signed a national letter of intent with Kentucky, but has given no public indication that he'd consider any other school.
Beyond making the scholarship numbers work, Calipari could face a difficult challenge in distributing minutes and shot attempts on a roster potentially so stocked.
Goodwin said he won't let the prospect of a stacked team scare him into a jump to the NBA.
"I'm not scared to compete with anybody," he said. "Those guys are great players, but at the same time, I can play too. So I'm going to compete with them and we're just going to battle out. Whatever happens happens from there, but I'm not scared. I fear no one on the court."
Goodwin saw only positives in stocking the Cats' cupboard with talent.
"We're going to have great guard play and we're going to have a couple more athletic guys on the wings and down low," Goodwin said. "It's definitely going to help us out in areas we need, and we're going to have very competitive practices every day. That's going to help us out a lot."
A loaded team also would give Calipari an opportunity he said he regretted not having this season: sending players to the bench in order to teach them lessons about their play.
"The best thing that's going to happen to us next year is we're going to have unbelievable competition at every spot," Calipari said. "So there's no one here that's promised, 'OK, I played 30 minutes a game.' You may play five, but you will change. The stuff I had to accept this year, the program almost got hijacked. Never in my career have I surrendered in any way to any team, and I did at times this year. To try to save guys, to try to help guys, and it never works."
And even as Calipari looks to the future, Goodwin said Kentucky can take lessons from its recent past. The path to the 2012 NCAA title, he noted, started after the Cats reached the 2011 Final Four.
"If you recall, the only one that left was Brandon Knight - and Enes Kanter, but he didn't play," Goodwin said. "The other guys came back, and they got a championship out of it. Hopefully we can do the same thing with this group."


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As the summer driving season is set to begin, gas prices have fallen below $4 for the first time since February.
Prices at the pump plummeted to an average of $3.98 in New York City, according to AAA's Fuel Gauge Report.
Gas surpassed the $4 mark in late February, where it had remained for the past three months.
Historically, gas prices rise post Memorial Day as drivers take to the road for vacations and weekend getaways.
Over the past month, gas has fallen 20 cents. A year ago, drivers were paying $4.15 per gallon to fill up.
Nationally, the average cost for a gallon of gas is $3.63, five cents lower than last week.


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Long Trail head of school brings financial background
The position of Head of School became open when John Suitor, who was the previous Head of School for the last five years, resigned from the position. At the time, Dear, who was the chairman of the school's board of trustees for two years, stepped in as interim Head of School.
"The board actually came to me," said Dear. "The last number of years after retiring from Merrill Lynch was all strategic planning. When I first came in I came in working on the strategic plan for the school. When the opportunity came about to take that plan and execute that it interested me to see what we can do. There were just a number of opportunities going forward."
Gerrit Kouwenhoven, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Long Trail School, said that a search process was started by forming a search committee. "When Steven became interim head a search committee was formed and we began the process by interviewing two executive search firms that were good at identifying good heads of school," said Kouwenhoven. "This helped the search committee sharpen its perspective and clarify what exactly we wanted."
However, even after looking through numerous applications, the search committee and the Board decided that they had what they needed and wanted in Dear, said Kouwenhoven.
"It really became clear to the committee that with Steven, we had all that we were looking for," he said. "He was a parent of a student, he had been a treasurer, a member and chair of the board at a time of transition, which all played a vital role in choosing him and those are moments when you need somebody to steer an even course and he did it superbly."
Dear has an extensive background in financial matters and wants to apply that expertise at Long Trail, he said.
"My first job in Manchester was director of trading for a regional (financial services) firm. Then I was actually hired as head of financial consultant training, then after I was hired by Merrill Lynch and I was hired as international training director," said Dear. "I think one of the things the board was thinking about when they asked me to come into this role was to really look at this school as an educational business and not just as an education.
One of the focuses I had early on was financial sustainability."
Kouwenhoven said that Dear's financial background played a role in deciding to keep Dear on as permanent Head of School.
"What became clear as the economy tightened up is that we really needed to master the art of living within our means," said Kouwenhoven. "We were not, in any sense, in a crisis mode, but our financial and organizational systems seemed to outlive there usefulness for a small and intimate school." That financial sustainability has some schools around Vermont worried that they might have to cut some programs as taxes continue to rise in the wake of a recession that the United States has yet to completely climb out of.
"There is so much going on that is changing," said Dear. "Recently, with Mr. (Armando) Vilaseca becoming education secretary, we are waiting to see what is going to change. I think we are all in the same place and we want to make this a better place and experience for the students."
Dear believes the formula Long Trail School has with there tight teacher-student relationships that really help students learn and grow along with the programming the school provides will keep Long Trail growing for the future.
"The devotion and commitment from our teachers is beyond amazing," he said.
One program that the Long Trail School offers is called the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program, the first in the State of Vermont, that was implemented in May of 2010. According to Long Trail's website, the IB Diploma Program is a rigorous, pre-university course of study designed for highly motivated juniors and seniors. The IB curriculum emphasizes how to learn, how to think, and how to reach considered conclusions on many issues that will face students in the future.
Currently, the IB program is only offered to juniors and seniors as recommended for the first five years of the program, however Dear said he hopes to bring the IB program down to the lower grade levels.
"I want different tracks available to the students, not just the traditional track," he said. "I want to have an entire arts track to be available to the students. For me the IB has been a critical component to challenge the kids that want it. A part of that is called the Theory of Knowledge. One of our core beliefs here is to teach the kids how to think not what to think. With the Theory of Knowledge, it is all about experiences and how to make your own decisions."
Much of what Dear wants to accomplish as Head of School along with expanding the IB program is to also expand programming for the arts and continue working on financial sustainability.
"I want the arts to grow much stronger and we actually have some major plans coming soon," said Dear. "We have some incredibly committed teachers here. I will also continue to focus on financial sustainability. We always want to be able to pay our teachers the right amount."
Added Dear, "As long as I am hear we will always have a focus on the arts. Kids who take the risk and get on stage get more self-confidence and you see that translate into better grades."
Dear acknowledged the fact that there has been a shrinking number of students in Vermont and that it could be difficult of an independent school like Long Trail to remain competitive in enrollment.
"We have watched the demographics and the number of students in Vermont been shrinking," said Dear. "Last year we had our biggest graduating class of 34 in all, we normally graduate 22 or 23. I think because of our programs we are able to keep enrollment where we want it, hopefully around the 170 to 175 range."
Founded in 1975, Long Trail School has grown from a one-room rented space serving 14 students, to a state-of-the-art, 60,000 square foot facility on 14 acres of land serving students grades 6-12 with over 50 faculty and staff members. Long Trail services students from towns in southwestern Vermont and nearby New York state, as well as worldwide.
"I have never been more excited about this school, being in this new role, seeing everything at ground zero," said Dear. "I think we are going to do great things in the next few years."
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Focus on the details. The shots from the rear of the car in particular highlight how well the rear lights match up with the wheels. Instead of the wheels breaking up the blue, red, and black color scheme from the back they continue it. Notice how the exhaust tips are darkened to match the tires. If one is going to opt out of doing the typical brushed aluminum or chrome look addressing the tips to keep the color scheme going is a subtle but effective touch. Now notice the M5 side vent. It is also blacked out to match the tips. The trademark BMW kidney grilles also are blacked out. The theme is carried through well even through to the window tint and side mirror covers.
Onto the wheels themselves. The HRE center cap is the monogram carbon overlay design. Why not the traditional red accented HRE center cap? It would clash with the red of the rims and this way the center of the rim meshes well with the brake rotor itself. The caliper already comes blue from BMW but sometimes BMW provides the pieces for a theme and you have to put them together. The center cap, rotors, calipers, and rims all work well together. The sidemarker also is colored in to blend perfectly with the caliper and not break up the theme.
Is it too much? No. This owner paid attention to the details and managed to be different while keeping it classy. This is well executed cosmetic modding.


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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – Crews have suspended recovery efforts for a driver's body after a tractor-trailer plunged off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Thursday morning.
The U.S. Coast Guard said a witness contacted crews around 10 a.m. to report a tractor-trailer crashed over the side of the bridge near mile marker 15. A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium from Little Creek responded to the scene as well as the Cutter Beluga and a helicopter from Elizabeth City.
Photos: Tractor-trailer goes off CBBT
Tom Anderson, Deputy Director of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, told WAVY.com the tractor-trailer hit a maintenance vehicle before crashing through a guardrail and into the water.
Anderson said maintenance crews were there to patch cracks in the asphalt, and the driver did not see the lane closure until the last second and swerved. That caused the tractor-trailer to jackknife on the west side of the northbound span of the CBBT. No maintenance workers were hurt.
Video: Tractor-trailer in water after going off CBBT
The trucker's cab and trailer drifted through the pilings of the southbound bridge, and then the current took it about 1/4 of a mile west, into the Chesapeake Bay.
Crews with Navy Special Warfare Command were the first responders to make contact with the tractor-trailer. Amy Valdez with Virginia Beach Fire-Rescue said they attached a towline on the vehicle to control it as the truck began to drift into the bay.
Valdez also said the rescue mission transitioned to a recovery mission once divers found the driver.
"There were four Navy divers who were the first ones to be able to make contact with the victim trapped in the cab, and unfortunately, he was entrapped to a point where he was not easily pulled from the wreckage, and therefore, with the cab being submerged in the water, it made it a recovery instead of a rescue operation," Valdez told WAVY.com.
A Coast Guard boat worked security at the spot where the driver's remains and the cab were located. Around 3:30 p.m., a small craft advisory for rough seas sent the entire flotilla of first responders back to shore.
The Navy provided this official statement about its response:
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of the truck driver and all involved in the search and rescue efforts. Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman (SWCC), from an East Coast based Special Boat Team (SBT) were training in the area and able to assist the Coast Guard with Search and Rescue Operations until local authorities arrived on scene.
A Portsmouth dive team, called Crofton Diving Corporation, was called to recover the body and arrived at the scene around 6:30 p.m. in a 47-foot boat, according to Bob Crofton. Divers went into the water, but determined conditions were too rough and recovery efforts were suspended, at least until Friday morning.
10 On Your Side talked to diver Sam Smith about the attempt to recover the driver's body.
"It was pretty rough out there. We left the dock some time early this afternoon and we got out there, it was about four to five-foot swells," Smith said. "The diver got in the water, went down to the truck, was on the trailer, and we were able to get a cable and a line tied to an anchor to secure the trailer so it doesn't move."
Crofton said the tractor-trailer is now completely submerged in about 28 feet of water, resting right-side up on the bay floor. When weather conditions allow, Crofton said a team of 10 people will use a barge and crane to remove the tractor-trailer, a process that takes about six hours in ideal conditions.
"Cables will be run around the wreckage and then they'll probably have a crane go out and pick it up and put it on a barge and bring it in to our facility or another facility. It's a job and somebody's got to do it and you want to take care of business, and they got loved ones too," Crofton said.
WAVY.com also spoke with a witness who came upon the scene just minutes after the truck went off the bridge.
"Everybody got out of their vehicles and just sat there and stared," Christopher Hamilton said. "All I saw was the trailer of the vehicle and the back end was floating up in the water and couldn't see anything else, couldn't see the cab of the vehicle."
Video: Witness account of crash
One northbound lane of the bridge-tunnel remains closed at this time.
When WAVY.com arrived at the scene, workers were drilling away concrete that had been damaged by the truck. There were big chunks of concrete missing and about 10 to 12 metal poles that hold the railings were gone.
10 On Your Side asked Anderson to describe what maintenance crews use to warn drivers of a work site on the CBBT. He said yellow flashing lights that alternate, an electronic sign that would say something like "road work ahead" about 1100 feet from the work site and a flashing arrow board in the back of a maintenance truck that serves as a barrier for workers.
Anderson said crews are not planning to change that procedure following the crash.
Stay with WAVY.com for updates on this developing story.


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Post-Hearing Risk-Based Capital, Business Lending Bills Expected
Three credit union witnesses testified April 10 in a House Financial Services Committee Financial Institutions Subcommittee hearing that rules and regulations mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act are interfering with credit unions' ability to serve their members.
"I understand that it is often difficult to pinpoint specific rules and regulations that are especially burdensome for credit unions; rather it is the cumulative effect of new regulations being layered on top of old regulations," said Financial Institutions Subcommittee Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) during her opening remarks.
Robert Burrow, president/CEO of the $309 million Bayer Heritage FCU and who testified on behalf of NAFCU, told the committee that while a number of regulations may be worthwhile and well intentioned, they are often issued with little coordination between regulators and without eliminating outdated regulations that remain on the books.
The one-size-fits-all approach of Dodd-Frank was frequently criticized as imposes the same regulatory burdens on small institutions as larger ones. Pamela Stephens, president/CEO of the $55 million Security One FCU, stressed that for smaller credit unions like hers, the costs of compliance proportionately are a much greater burden.
"If a smaller credit union offers a service, it has to be concerned about complying with most of the same rules as a larger institution but can only spread those costs over a much smaller volume of business," she said. Stephens represented CUNA on the panel.
Stephens added that her credit union probably doesn't need to be regulated the same way as a large bank like Bank of America. "I can't envision the CEO of Bank of America sitting up at night reading regulations," she told Capito in response to a question about small institution burden.
Regulatory burden is so bad for small credit unions, Burrow said, his Proctor, W.V.-based cooperative merged in a $1 million credit union last year because of regulatory burden. The NCUA approached Bayer Heritage asking if it would merge RMH FCU of Glen Dale, W.V., he explained.
"They weren't hurting for capital, but they had a staff of just one and a half full-time employees and couldn't keep up anymore," he said. "So that's one less credit union out there simply because of the regulatory environment we're in."
Committee members appeared to be interested in finding solutions to regulatory burden. A few asked the panel, which also included General Counsel Mitchell Reiver of the $1.8 billion Melrose Credit Union, to name one regulation that could be eliminated or modified that would make the biggest difference at their institution. The response was overwhelming: direct the CFPB to implement an exemption for credit unions.
Members of the committee also indicated a desire for a regulatory legislative package that would benefit both community banks and credit unions. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) asked the question twice, saying he would be asking the same of community banker witnesses next week.
Regulation D, which restricts the transfer of funds from a savings account to just six per month, was one such rule mentioned that could be modified to benefit both credit unions and banks. The restriction, which Stephens said is difficult for members to understand, results in overdraft fees for members who rely upon overdraft protection from a savings account to keep their checking in the green.
Burrow said regulatory relief on Capitol Hill doesn't have to be either-or for credit unions and banks.
"If it works to the benefit of community banks getting more money into the hands of their customers, and we can do the same for our members, that's fine," he said. "If we could co-exist that way, we'd all win."
Two members of congress announced during their opening remarks that they would introduce bills that would provide regulatory relief for credit unions.
Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.), vice chairman of the committee, said he would introduce a bill that is expected to implement a risk-based capital system for credit unions and give the NCUA flexibility in critical areas, such as the ability to grant parity to a federal credit union on a broader state rule.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), a senior member of the committee, announced she plans to introduce a bill that would exempt loans for five years from the credit union member business lending cap when they are made after federally declared natural disasters.
"Exempting these loans will open up a new source of credit for struggling small businesses and untie the hands of credit unions that want to provide that assistance," she said.
The hearing was the second in a series the committee will call to focus on Dodd-Frank's regulatory burden and the resulting harmful economic consequences.


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Gun violence and children: Remove barriers to mental health treatment
As I listen to the national gun control debate following the tragic shootings in Newtown, I know in my heart this is not the right strategy. The real discussion should center on how our nation will embrace decades-old strategies to end the stigma surrounding mental illness and give the required resources to prevent and treat mental illness. This strategy is not only the most cost effective; it's also the most humane. Our nation must provide leadership in protecting children.
The U.S averages 2,200 child homicides by gun per year. A thousand more youngsters die annually by suicide using a gun. Yet as a country we have become strangely inured to these personal tragedies. Perhaps it takes a dramatic and very public event such as Newtown to make us realize our society has become complacent in protecting children.
Where our children are at risk, re-shuffling our spending priorities is the fundamental issue to address. It is far less expensive to promote mental health, implement preventive strategies, and treat existing illness than it is to allow stigma to drive us to other solutions that do not target the primary problem. Mental illnesses are real health conditions that are defined by alterations in thinking, mood or behavior -- all of which are mediated by the brain. Psychiatric treatment involves a complex blend of psychology, biology and compassion. It means never giving up on someone struggling for relief from unbearable pain. It is deciphering when an individual cannot care for him or herself and how to intuit danger and protect others while caring for our children, our communities and ourselves.
In 2006 the Institute of Medicine reported that mental health and physical health efforts are often fragmented and of uneven quality for children and again recommended a "public health network linking services to respond to the growing recognition that mental health is dependent on good physical health." In 2009, the Institute of Medicine took things a step further stating, "We recommend attention to areas that have heretofore been neglected, such as effectiveness in real-world situations, cost-effectiveness, integration of genetics and neuroscience with intervention research, and the careful monitoring of rates of disorder and present risk factors to assess whether population-based improvements can be achieved. Without adequate surveillance, what the burden of disorder is for the society or where best to direct national resources will not be fully known."
Yet in any given year less than one in five children in the U.S. who need mental health care will receive it. This statistic has been consistent since the first Surgeon General's report on mental illness in 1999 that stated: "We are now facing a public health crisis in mental health care for children and adolescents in which the systems of care created to take care of the needs of these children are failing them instead."
The nation has been admonished now for several decades by high level governmental and private organization reports that for children the promotion of mental health and the prevention of disorders must be tied to strategies that integrate mental health and physical health with a public health design that links families, health care providers and schools in an inclusive and de-stigmatizing approach.
Why is stigma so strong despite better public understanding of mental illness? The answer appears to be fear of violence, as people with mental illness, especially those with psychosis, are perceived to be more violent than the general population. Yet research suggests that the overall likelihood of violence from people suffering from mental illness is low. In fact, evidence from many sources including the Journal of Public Health (2002) underscores that social risk factors such as substance abuse, being a victim of violence during childhood, or living in high crime neighborhoods is more predictive of violence than having a mental illness.
In fact, the overall contribution of mental disorders to the total level of violence in society remains exceptionally small. But when it does occur it is highly visible due to stigma and fear. Yet the general public remains poorly informed about the nature of mental illness, further isolating those with mental illness.
A 2011 study by Leong and Kalibatseva demonstrated that more than half of all adults in the country will experience a mental illness during their lives: "But for members of ethnic and racial minority groups, the road to treatment is often blocked by cultural views of mental illness and therapy, lack of insurance and access to appropriate care, and a critical deficiency of studies pertaining to nonwhite populations."
Our efforts should be focused on removing the stigmatization of mental illness and deliver on the promise of decades of research and evidence that promoting mental health and treating mental illness is a very effective strategy to reduce violence. We must embrace common sense solutions such as providing mental health insurance coverage on par with medical care, supporting full implementation of the Affordable Care Act's coverage requirements that ensure all American access to the full range of mental health and addictive services while guaranteeing adequate funding of treatment services.
We cannot bring back the lives of the children lost in Newtown. But this strategy holds more promise than any other being debated in the political arena today to begin to dramatically decrease the number of deaths by guns of children. We should embrace the decades of scientific work that underscores that no matter the number of children killed by guns in a given year or in a given event, providing mental health prevention services at all levels of society will help us move away from violence as a solution to conflict and unmet emotional needs and replace it with critically needed professional and personal support.
Dr. Robert E. Simpson, Jr., is the president and chief executive officer of the Brattleboro Retreat. He has worked in the field of mental health as a clinician and an administrator for more than 40 years.
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Jeremy London denies rumors he and Rachel Uchitel are hooking up off-camera on "Celebrity Rehab," but he has good things to say about the woman linked to Tiger Woods' breakup.
"Without a doubt we are only friends. We never even kissed. We've never had an affair," said London, 37, who will be featured with Uchitel, 35, on the fourth season of VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
The "Party of Five" actor acknowledges he and Tiger Woods's alleged mistress have become close, but says it's more of "like brother and sister" than romance.
"She's an amazing person and [the media] keeps messing with her," says London. "I think I can identify with her because of that."
London, the former "Party of Five" star, told police a bizarre story in June of being kidnapped and forced to take drugs, will reportedly be paid $40,000 for his stint on the show. This is not his first time he's been to rehab: London was admitted to a clinic in September for an addiction to prescription drugs.
Uchitel and her attorney Gloria Allred canceled a news conference in March as reports circulated she had an affair with Woods. Since then, she has denied any romantic ties to Woods, though she did acknowledge having an affair with married actor David Boreanz. That admission came after a website released alleged text messages between the pair that she claimed were fake. There have been conflicting reports of what ailment she is being treated for on the VH1 reality rehab show.
Also in this year's Rehab cast are actor Eric Roberts, who is trying to kick prescription marijuana, "The Hills" star Jason Wahler, original supermodel Janice Dickinson, 1970s teen heartthrob Leif Garrett, troubled actor Jeremy London, socialite Jason Davis and Keyshia Cole's mother Frankie Lons.


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Ok, I really fell for the R1200RT I test drove today. The future purchase is a no brainer but the touring option seem rather expensive.
When I bought my 2010 Toyota 4Runner they wanted to sell me the "in the dash" GPS for over 3k. No, I'll just attach my GPS to the windshield and it cost me a few hundred.
The BMW dealer advised me to get the radio because on resale I would get far less on return.
This is probably my last bike and resale is not a concern plus spending 2.3k for a radio and whatever else comes with it seems very excessive.
The purchase will not be for a few months but I would really like your qualified opinions.
I do like listening to the road and exhaust noise.


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A look at crime in 2012
BRATTLEBORO -- A murder case that shook Brattleboro to its core was resolved when the man accused of killing Michael Martin, the Brattleboro Food Co-op's beer and wine manager, pleaded guilty in October and was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
On Aug. 9, 2011, Richard Gagnon walked into the Co-op and shot Martin, after Gagnon had received an unfavorable job review from Martin a few days before.
While members of Martin's family were unhappy with the plea agreement, the Windham County State's Attorney's Office explained the sentence levied against 59-year-old Gagnon would likely not have been much different if it had gone to trial. Deputy State's Attorney David Gartenstein said during the sentencing hearing that a trial would be "a burden on the community" and he wondered what more would be gained by having Co-op employees, Martin family members and others testify.
Less than two weeks before Martin's murder, Melissa Barratt of Brattleboro was found on the side of East West Road in Dummerston, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. Shortly after the discovery on July 29, 2011, Frank Caraballo of Holyoke, Mass., and Joshua Makhanda-Lopez of Springfield, Mass., were arrested as suspects in the slaying.
In 2012, Makhanda-Lopez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute drugs and possession of a firearm in connection with drug distribution and is scheduled to be sentenced this month.
Caraballo was sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty in September 2012 to distributing crack cocaine. He is expected to go on trial for the death of Barratt later this year.
In Chesterfield, N.H., in April, two men engaged in what may or may not have been a shoot-out, resulting in the death of one man and serious injury to the other. The New Hampshire Attorney General has still not released additional information on the incident.
Also in Chesterfield, a Hinsdale, N.H., man accused of shooting another man in a robbery attempt in April 2011 pleaded guilty in October 2012 to one count of first-degree assault and one count of attempted robbery. Neal R. Bolster was sentenced to five to 10 years to serve for the incident.
Banks in Bellows Falls and Brattleboro were robbed, as were a number of convenience stores on Canal Street.
A task force made up of officers from regional law enforcement agencies busted a multi-state burglary ring that was responsible for thefts from numerous homes in the tri-state region in 2009. Sentences were handed down to many of the participants, ranging from five to 15 years in prison. A number of other defendants will see their days in court over the course of this year.
Former Brattleboro Area Middle School coach and safety officer Robert Dykes, 42, was sentenced in February 2012 to eight to 20 years in prison for having sexual contact with a minor in late 2010 and early 2011.
A former Vermont Academy teacher was arrested for possessing and manufacturing child pornography. Brant Nelson, 47, was arrested in January 2012, and is currently being held in prison, awaiting trial.
John Grega, 50, who was convicted of murdering his wife in 1994 in West Dover, was released from jail after questions arose over DNA evidence. A local judge ordered him to stand for retrial, though no date has yet been set.
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Yesterday I flashed a new ROM and everything went fine. I tried to turn on my WiFi and it didn't want to turn on. It just turned off automatically without even scanning. I cleared data, factory reset, nothing. Fortunately I had a CWM backup so I just restored it.
Today I tried the same thing with a completely different ROM. Same thing happened. I decided to root my phone and I did it. Suddenly, the WiFi turned on like normal after rooting.
I am trying to flash a new ROM so I can have OTA updates back, but without WiFi, that ain't possible. Anyone had the same problem?
Press THANKS if I helped!