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Paul Kolody, MS, ATC, CSCS
Owner/Strength & Conditioning Coach
Paul Kolody earned his Bachelors of Science in Athletic Training from Pfeiffer College, N.C. and his Masters of Science in Physical Education, with a concentration in Exercise Science, from Bridgewater State College, MA. He is certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA/ATC) as an Athletic Trainer; the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA/CSCS) as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach; and USA Weightlifting as a Level One Club Coach.
Kolody started his career as an athletic trainer at Metuchen High School in 1995. He Became the Athletic Trainer and Strength Coach for the Somerset Patriots Baseball Club in 1998 and worked directly with the team through the 2004 season. In 2003 he helped open Somerset Medical Center's Sports Performance & Rehab Center, managing that facility until March 2011. At the center, Kolody trained athletes at the middle school, high school, college and professional levels. He most recently worked with the women's professional soccer team Sky Blue as its Athletic Trainer and Strength Coach during the 2010 season. Several of the players Kolody worked with competed in the Women's World Cup in 2011. Kolody is currently the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Hunterdon Central Regional High School.
Jason Laub, RKC, ISSA
Head Strength & Conditioning Coach
Jason Laub is a native of Middlesex, N.J., and a 1993 graduate of Middlesex High School, where played football, basketball and baseball. Laub was an All-State athlete in football and baseball, a freshman catcher for Middlesex High School's first state championship in 1990, and Courier News Player of the year in 1993. He went on to pursue his baseball career at Rutgers University and De Sales University, where he graduated in 1998 with a degree in sports management. Laub's professional baseball experience included time with the Allentown Ambassadors, Nashua Pride and Somerset Patriots. One of his proudest moments in baseball was playing with the Patriots in 1999 and being the starting catcher for the inaugural game at the new Somerset Patriots stadium.
Laub went on to work in corporate fitness for Pro-Fitness Health South in New Jersey and Connecticut, where he gained experience managing small fitness centers for various corporations. He became a certified fitness trainer with International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA). He moved to Florida to work as a fitness coach for an active senior community at The Villages in Lady Lake, Fla., which is one of the largest and most active retirement communities in the world. He started volunteering as a firefighter, attended the fire academy and E.M.T. school where he finished in the top of his class for both.
"The idea of doing a job that would push me to continue to train my body and mind, while making a living and learning many new skills was eye-opening, something I never considered up until then, " Laub said.
Laub the joined one of the largest and most respected fire departments in the country, Orange County Fire Rescue in Orlando, Fla. During his tenure there, he was honored, along with his crew, with the highest award in the department: the Distinguished Service Award for a rescue of a man from his sinking vehicle in a pond.
After eight years of service, Laub made the move back to his home state of New Jersey with his two young sons to be with his family and pursue his passion to coach, and teach fitness and baseball. He has become a certified Underground Strength Coach and has renewed his studies with ISSA as a certified fitness trainer. His energy and caring personality is noticed immediately.
"Teaming up with Paul and Advantage Performance is the beginning of amazing things to come and an opportunity to grow as a coach, person and business man."
Ryan Bennett
Strength & Conditioning Coach
Ryan Bennett grew up in Bound Brook, N.J. and attended Immaculata High School where he was a State Champion Tackle. After Immaculata, Ryan continued his career at Villanova as an offensive tackle and won a National Championship in 2009. While at Villanova, Bennett trained under Justus Galac, who is the head strength & conditioning coach of the New York Jets. Bennett is a strong individual and prides himself on his work ethic. His workout regiment will challenge athletes' ability and stability while also developing athletes' strength and power. Bennett is very energetic and always gets the most out of his athletes.
Strength & Conditioning Coach
Jared graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School in 2009. Was a competitive swimmer since the age of 5 all the way through high school where ended up being an all American swimmer in the 200 and the 500 yard freestyle.
Graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 2013 with a BS in Kinesiology and a minor in psychology.
Jared is currently a swim coach and lead strength coach for the Hunterdon County YMCA swim team along with working as an Aide at Procare Rehabilitation in Flemington NJ.
David McGriff
Strength & Conditioning Intern
David just completed his first year of study at Raritan Valley Community College. He will be attending Lafayette College in the Fall. While at Lafayette, he will compete for the Men's Track & Field Team in the discus and shot.
Davis graduated from Hunterdon Central in 2013. While at Central, he broke both the indoor and outdoor shot and discus record. He finished in 6th place in the discus, at the Meet of Champions, with a throw of 163-9.
Nick Maruca
Nick graduated in August 2014 from Temple University with a B.S. in Kinesiology, concentration in exercise and sport science. He has worked under John McKenna, the head strength and conditioning coach at Notre Dame High School in NJ, for the past 8 years as an assistant coach. He is also a graduate of Notre Dame, in 2010. He has also worked under Zach Even-Esh, the owner of the Underground Strength Gym. Nick is a certified Underground Strength Coach, Kettlebell Athletics Coach, and also posses a Master Level certification in alternative training styles from the Irish Strength Club. He brings years of experience and knowledge with him to APT, as well as a personality and a level of positive energy that is hard to match.
His journey began when he was 13 years old, working out at Notre Dame. A former athlete, he knew he would not be able to compete at the high school level, and also needed to find something that would allow him to be a challenge. Born with cerebral palsy, he was never treated differently than any other kid. His parents got him involved in sports, and did not allow his "disability" define him. He is a shining example of perseverance and dedication. As he began weight training, it became his passion, along with coaching football, which he has done for Notre Dame since 8th grade. He has a genuine love for coaching, because it gives him the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of many people, and show them that anything is possible as long as you believe in yourself. His puts his heart and soul into every athlete that he trains, and aims to not only build great athletes, but also great people, and great friendships.


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Daddy do it again
So is this just a rename of FogBugz? The web site seems really vague.
>>So is this just a rename of FogBugz? The web site seems really vague.
Look like it. FogBugz.com forwards.. Maybe new and they migrated their remaining customers.
SO having layoffs, FogBugz with no user base, forced to re-brand.. Joel an't doing so well...
Should have kept that blog up, and not killed the community. Hows he gonna promote his new stuff?
(I'm sure he don't need the money anyhow)
What I infer from this, and I'm pretty sure I'm right, is that the opportunity arose to purchase a common single english word domain name, so they did. Then they stuck something there.
There's no way in hell they invented a product called manuscript and then bought the domain.
Also, the name makes no sense for what it is. Ug.
> Based on the engine of FogBugz, the platform that pioneered bug tracking, Manuscript is a purpose built project management tool for software teams.
I read that as "This is FogBugz 1.2".
Was this another summer intern project?
Joel slogged away for years before he got it right with SO and Trello.
It's possible he will never be that successful again.
He's a multi-millionaire, he'll get by.
Is Trello "right"?
I've never used it, and know no one who has used it.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Trello got sold off to Atlassian for something crazy like half a billion.
> SO having layoffs,
> FogBugz with no user base, forced to re-brand..
> Joel an't doing so well...
He's fine.
Atlassian Pays $425 Million to Snap Up Trello | Fortune
The big question is...
...is Joel happy with his car doors?
Trello was released when kanban\lean was being hyped.
I wager it is the most used tool for that purpose.
> There's no way in hell they invented a product called manuscript and then bought the domain.
Why does Joel have such a stellar reputation for tech business? His reasoning seems to be crap.
That branding is pure SHIT. "Manuscript"... I think of a high end special purpose word processor - NOTHING to do with code.
Exactly. Gives the impression of monks with quill pens writing by candlelight. Yeah, that's the tool I want to use to develop code with.


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A 'food tray is an object used as a dish in Prison Architect.
When the eat regime is active (or just before), a cook will put clean food trays on a serving table in a canteen, along with food. Prisoners will take one food tray, along with cooked ingredients. When they have finished, they will leave a dirty food tray, which will be washed in a sink by a cook to reuse.
Food trays cannot be bought or sold, only dumped. The amount of food trays is controlled automatically: if there is not enough of them, more will be bought. Sometimes their amount goes beyond prisoner capacity.


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Chili Con Carnage will make you laugh. Not just a wry smile either, but properly laugh out loud. It's packed with off-the-wall humour that really brings the game to life and this playfulness is as much a part of the experience as, say, the crazy gun-slinging we've spoken about at length in our previous looks at the game. Take the opening cinematic for example - unlikely hero Ram stops by his Dad's office to drop off his birthday present, only to witness a combine harvester crashing through the wall and mincing his pop to pieces. When it turns out the local drug cartel is behind the murder, Ram vows to exact revenge for his departed dad, and so begins a trail of destruction that stretches from the backwaters of deepest Mexico to the crime-infested streets where the local mob kingpin is hiding out.
Chili Con Carnage has four game modes, two single-player and two multiplayer, with El Gringo Roco providing the main one-player meat of the game. It's worth noting at this point that despite visual similarities between Chili and GTA - a lot of the bizarre characters that run around Eidos's shooter wouldn't be out of place in a Rockstar game - the two couldn't be more dissimilar to play. Rather than serving up a free-roaming world, Chili Con Carnage sticks to a more linear storyline and is structured as a series of bite-sized levels you must complete to unlock the next. In this sense it has a lot more in common with a traditional shoot-'em-up, with players gunning down the enemy with an increasingly powerful arsenal of weapons and grabbing power-ups to dish out mega-death.
And carnage is what Chili is all about. Although there are various objectives to achieve throughout each level, whether it's to destroy three enemy silos or escape from a sinking ship, most of the game is simple spent shooting Mexican bad asses with an assortment of weapons, from puny pistols to lethal machineguns. Wipe out all the enemies in one area of the game and you're free to move onto the next, where you must massacre the next lot and so on. It's not particularly clever but then neither is Gears of War, plus there's much more to Chili than easy kills and blasting through the levels as quickly as possible.
You see, while killing is crucial in Chili, killing with style is far more important. Why take down an enemy with a bullet to the chest when you can pop a cap in their head while flipping through the air? Pulling off spectacular kills is key to getting the most out of the game, because the more impressive the attack the bigger the reward. As such, while a simple headshot rewards a respectable amount of points, that number is doubled if you do the same shot while diving through the air and twisting through 180-degrees. Likewise, execute the same stylish move while wearing a sombrero and you get even more points.
Your combo multiplyer increases with every bad guy you kill, so bag a dozen in a row and your score multiplies by 12. You have a few seconds to ensure the kill-a-thon continues too, because the combo meter drains slowly to allow you enough time to leg it to the next area and squeeze before the bonus runs out completely. And that's where Chili really comes into its own - players can romp through to the end, completing objectives with the minimum of effort and style, but that's not really the point. It's just as much about notching up the highest score possible as it is getting to the end, if not more so.


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LifeVantage offers several health products, such as Protandim, Axio, TrueScience and Canine Health, according to the company website. Protandim is a health supplement that aims to decrease aging symptoms on a cellular level.
Also called the Nrf2 Synergizer, Protandim promotes healthy living by reducing oxidative stress in users by an average of 40 percent in one month, according to LifeVantage. It is a daily dietary supplement that activates a protein called Nrf2 and boosts the body's ability to produce antioxidant enzymes. Protandim's formula is science-based and composed of natural plant ingredients.
Axio is an energy drink that contains no sugar and has less than 15 calories and 3 grams of carbohydrates, reports LifeVantage. It comes in two variants: Energy Volt and Endure Charged. Energy Volt is taken in the morning, while Endure Charged is recommended as an afternoon drink. Both products contain New Zealand pine bark, green tea extract, caffeine, magnesium and suntheanine. Axio energy drinks are gluten-free, vegan and developed with natural flavors and colors.
TrueScience is a four-step beauty regimen that includes a facial cleanser, lotion, eye serum and anti-aging cream, according to LifeVantage. The regimen comes with enhanced Nrf2 technologies that repairs visible signs of skin damage due to oxidative stress and protects the skin against sun damage.


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Paul Williams' tips for the 2011 WGC Bridgestone Invitational
With just a week to go before the final Major of the year, we take our annual trip to Akron, Ohio for the 3rd WGC event of the season at the fabulous Trent Jones-designed South Course at Firestone. The tough 7,400 yard par 70 features tight, tree-lined fairways leading to small bent/poa greens that will measure around 13 on the stimp; 6 of the par 4s are over 450 yards and the brutal 677 yard par 5 16th is a match for even the longest of hitters - all in all a course and event worthy of its WGC status.
The return of Tiger Woods is the big story this week from a media point of view, however prices generally in the 18/1 bracket (19/1 with BetClic) from most bookies put his perceived chances into perspective. Tiger loves this event - he's won it in 7 out of 10 attempts - but concerns over his recovery from the recent injury means that he's at the longest price to win a tournament seen for many a year. Without a crystal ball it's impossible to second guess how he'll fare - perhaps the best course of action is to cover him off with a no lose bet from BetClic: Bet £30 on Woods at their current price of 19/1 and win £570 (plus your £30 back) if he does win; if he doesn't win then you get your money back in full: Full details here. If you've already used up your BetClic free bet then there's some alternatives here: No Lose Bets
With the World's elite warming up for the PGA Championship, this is always a cracking event and you could justifiably make a case for almost all of the players. With such a stellar field on display, we're going to need to cut the number of contenders down to a manageable size before making our selections - thankfully there are some rock-solid trends to consider and I'll use these to narrow down to the likely candidates:
1. Other than Tiger Woods, nobody has won this event at their first attempt...let's assume that will continue. That removes 11 players including Matteo Mannassero, Gary Woodland and last week's winner in the US Scott Stallings.
2. Players with a link to Florida, Georgia or nearby Southern States succeed - every single winner since 1997 either has a residence there, schooled there or was brought up from one of those states. That removes a further 31 players including Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, both Molinaris and Rory McIlroy.
3. At 7,400 yards you will need to have at least moderate length off the tee to compete around here in my opinion. I've discounted anyone not inside the top 100 for their respective Tour stats for driving distance in 2011. That removes a further 15 players including World number 1 Luke Donald, fellow Englishmen Poulter and Rose, plus David Toms and Zach Johnson.
4. Every winner since 2000 has either a win or multiple top 5 finishes on their respective Tours in the season to date. That removes a further 8 players including defending champion Hunter Mahan, Tiger Woods and Rickie Fowler.
5. You need to putt extremely well here to survive the week - it's no surprise that Mahan and Ryan Palmer, last year's 1&2, were 1st and 2nd for overall putting at the end of the week. Anyone not inside the top 50 for putts per GIR on their respective Tour fails this hurdle: Bill Haas, Darren Clarke, Sean O'Hair, Louis Oosthuizen and Bubba Watson.
That leaves us a shortlist of just 8: Jonathan Byrd, Ernie Els, Lucas Glover, Dustin Johnson, Robert Karlsson, GMac, Alex Noren and Charl Schwartzel. I'm going to discount Byrd on current form (4 missed cuts on the trot), Els on his continued putter issues (can't believe he's still in the top 50 on the Euro tour for putting!) and Alex Noren who may be mentally fatigued after 2 tough wins in the last 2 months. My selections then:
1.5pts EW Graeme McDowell 70/1 with Bet £20 get £20 free here:
GMac may well be feeling a little left out after all the hullabaloo surrounding his Major-winning compatriots in recent weeks, however now he's got the US Open monkey well and truly off his back I think it's time for him to let his golf do the talking once again and he makes my top selection here at an outstanding price. The Irish Open has unlikely to be the time or place for him to get back on the winning trail with the media frenzy and hype that surrounded the Irish players, however 4 solid rounds produced a creditable 25th place finish - the perfect springboard for further improvement this week and he'll certainly be spurred on to greater things after the recent successes of his good friends.
The Florida-based Irishman is most at home on tough layouts where finding greens with precise ironplay is key - giving him the chance to make valuable birdies with his superb putting stroke. On the basis that an in-form Tiger Woods loves Firestone, it's also worth considering that GMac has played some of Tiger's favourite courses well in recent times - 6th at the Honda Classic this season and his incredible victory at the Chevron World Challenge over Tiger himself last December are 2 recent examples.
McDowell finished 22nd here last year for his best effort at Firestone to date and will be looking to improve on that further. The World number 12 has also gained a few yards with the driver in recent times which will help here and 70/1 could look extremely long come Sunday afternoon...RESULT: 65
1pt EW Charl Schwartzel 35/1 with Get up to £35 in free bets via this link:
Masters champions Schwartzel could well be ready to get himself into the winners circle once again and of course ticks all the boxes here. Another European with a Florida base for his US excursions, The World number 10 has been simmering away over the last few weeks with finishes of 26th at Sawgrass, 22nd at Memorial, 9th at Congressional, 16th at Sandwich and 9th in Canada - it's only going to take a small improvement to get really in the mix and this should suit him down to the ground on his preferred fast bentgrass-based greens despite indifferent form in this event on his 2 previous attempts at Firestone. RESULT: T53
1pt EW Dustin Johnson 20/1 with £100 In Free Bets, get it here:
Surely a Major winner of the future, Dustin Johnson has the power to win around Firestone for sure - ultimately it could come down to mental fortitude, and the fact this isn't a Major could work in DJ's favour here. 2nd in Kent a couple of weeks back was another creditable Major performance for the South Carolina native, backing up a strong 2011 with top-5 finishes at Torrey Pines, Doral and Memorial proving that he's just as at-home competing on tough, technical tracks as he is on wide-open bomber's courses. The World number 7 has improved at Firestone from 22nd (2009) to 15th here last year - perfect progression for a contending performance this week. RESULT: T48
0.75pts EW Lucas Glover 80/1 with NEW OFFER! Get a £30 free bet via this link:
The US Open champion of 2009 is a tough one to pin down in terms of form, however the newly-bearded Glover's win at Quail Hollow back in May proved that you can never write him off - particularly in this kind of event on a tough course. The South Carolina man flirted with the lead at Sandwich before finishing a creditable 12th - this will be much more to his liking and he could well go close this week, particularly if his putter continues to warm up as it has been in recent times. RESULT: T23
0.75pts EW Robert Karlsson 100/1 with £100 In Free Bets, get it here:
We scored a 50/1 winner with Karlsson in Dubai last year and of the 3-figure players on display the Swede holds the most interest. The 6' 5" giant struggled to control his ball flight in the wind at Sandwich, however form prior to that was solid with a playoff defeat at TPC Southwind and further top 10s on the European Tour in Bahrain and Qatar. Struggled again in Stockholm on a windy Sunday to ultimately finish 16th however the relatively calm forecast for Ohio will be much more to the liking of the Swede who ranks 1st for average putts and 3rd for putts per GIR on the European Tour for the season to date - a facet of his game which will be of great benefit this week I feel. 100/1 about the talented World number 18 player is just far too tempting to miss this week! RESULT: T17
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Whitefish in Yellow Curry, Thai inspired, Indian influenced, this is a curry that blends the best of two worlds. Deep turmeric tones and the light acidic touch of lemongrass and a hint of heat, paired with...Read More →
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The governor of Massachusetts recently announced a new plan to build thousands of new units of Affordable Housing in areas across the Commonwealth, while one Berkshire town submitted a proposal that help provide displaced residents with permanent housing. WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief Lucas Willard reports…
Yesterday, Governor Deval Patrick outlined a plan that he said would help build 10,000 new units of affordable housing annually in the Commonwealth. At the "Under One Roof" conference the Governor outlined what's called the Compact Neighborhoods Program, which promises to revitalize town centers by encourage residential development.
Undersecretary of Housing and Economic Development Aaron Gornstein said that the state government is asking cities and towns to zone for well-planned housing in urban centers.
As an example, Gornstein said the state could help communities make infrastructure upgrades.
Gornstein said that the Compact Neighborhood joins other recent programs, including the Housing Development Incentive Program – or HDIP – designed to revitalize housing in Gateway Cities. Pittsfield is the site of the first HDIP project for its Onota/Howard building, which will add 39-units of affordable housing and 10 units of retail space.
But for other smaller communities in the Berkshires, affordable housing can be hard to find, according to Cathy Yamamoto, chair of Williamstown's affordable housing committee.
According to Yamamoto when Hurricane Irene struck last year and wiped out most of the Spruces mobile home park, it created an even greater need for permanent, replacement affordable housing.
The Town of Williamstown has filed for 6.2 million dollars in funds through the Federal Emergency Management Agency – or FEMA – to purchase the Spruces from owners Morgan Management, demolish the park, and in its place construct a permanent structure for low to moderate income residents displaced by Irene.
Town Manager Peter Fohlin explains…
In memo released by Fohlin, it's stated that under Massachusetts state law, the residents of the Spruces will have at least 45 days to exercise their right of first refusal to purchase the park. Fohlin hopes however, that the plan will put the people remaining in the ruined park "out of harm's way."


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There are over a million individual words in English. Most of them are quite obscure and deserve better attention than they get. This week's is unctuous.
Unctuous – being over-the-top with flattery in an attempt to ingratiate; it also means greasy in the literal, not the behavioural, sense. It's from Middle English, ultimately of Latin derivation.
Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word.
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"It's hard to say just when the word 'hero' went bankrupt. But in the aftermath of 9/11, America became, to its own mind, a nation of heroes. We spread the word around like butter on toast. […] The men in these photographs are soldiers who were wounded in Iraq. […] No one has the right to say that these men are not heroes. But I also suspect that few people understand the contemporary hollowness of that word better than they do." Verlyn Klinkenborg in the introduction to The Damage Done.
(Thanks, Stan!)


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There was an interesting article in The Washington Post yesterday by Neil Irwin entitled "What Exactly is Dragging Down U.S. Economy". In this article, Irwin analyzes the output gap, which is defined as "the difference between what the U.S. economy is capable of producing and what it is actually producing."
This difference arises because the economy is operating at less than full employment and factories are not being fully utilized.
Irwin suggests that if the economy were operating at full capacity, economic activity would be higher by $973 billion compared to current levels. This $973 shortfall relative to potential represents over 6% of expected GDP for 2012.
Irwin then goes on to break down the components of the $973 billion output gap.
To do this, he uses data from 1985 to 2005 to determine the average contribution from each sector of the economy to overall economic output. He then uses those averages to determine how much would be produced by each sector of the economy in a world of full employment and normal factory utilization. And finally, he compares those theoretical values to the actual current levels of production by each sector of the economy. Using this method, Irwin is able to give us an idea as to which sectors of the economy are most responsible for our current GDP shortfall relative to potential.
The conclusions to Irwin's analysis are summarized in the chart below, and they should not be overly surprising to anyone.
The two biggest contributors to the output gap are residential investment and consumer spending on durable goods (goods last more than three years). The shortfall from these two sectors combined comes to $637 billion, or 65% of the total output gap.
The reasons for the weakness in these sectors are fairly obvious. During the past few years, we witnessed the bursting of twin bubbles in housing and credit. Plummeting housing prices and reduced access to consumer credit has led to lower spending on residential investment and more expensive consumer items (which generally are bought using credit). At the same time, consumers remain fearful of job loss and stagnant incomes, causing them to spend less freely than in the past. Despite aggressive monetary policy by the Fed, we have not been able to break out of this vicious cycle for several years.


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Horrific moment heroin addict stabs teen in neck with scissors in street clash
A YOUNG lad has been left unable to move his right hand after he was stabbed in the neck by a heroin addict in a city street brawl.
Joseph Giblin, 17, suffered spinal nerve damage after Gary Gilbertson stabbed the teen dangerously close to a major artery.
The injury – which could be permanent – has left him unable to use his right hand.
Gilbertson, of Kirkdale, in Liverpool, was jailed for 10 years and eight months for the attack.
Joseph had been singing and dancing with a group of around 25 people when Gilbertson began arguing with a young woman nearby, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
However, after she told him to leave he began rowing with another guy, 18, who had spotted the partially concealed scissors in the addict's jacket sleeve.
"You were behaving in an extremely aggressive manner"Judge Brian Cummings
The clip – captured by a witness on June 12 – shows Joseph trying to block Gilbertson, who tried to go after the other teen.
Gilbertson then swung his arm at Joseph, who fell to the ground after being stabbed in the neck by the scissors.
Gilbertson – who was punched and kicked by another member of the group – tried to flee the scene.
Lee Parry, who had been with Joseph, chased Gilbertson and held him until police arrived.
Judge Brian Cummings, QC, told Gilbertson: "You were behaving in an extremely aggressive manner.
"You had in your hand but plainly concealed by your sleeve a pair of scissors with the blade foremost."
Mr Cummings also warned him that he could have faced a life sentence for murder had the scissors struck Joseph's carotid artery.
Gilbertson, who has 38 previous convictions, said he had no memory of the attack.
He pleaded guilty to wounding with intent, attempted wounding with intent and possession of an offensive weapon.


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Manchester Crimewatch: City woman charged in connection with beer theft
April 24. 2013 2:29AM
MANCHESTER - A city woman who was in a Cumberland Farms store on Webster Street March 5 when a man stole a 30-pack of beer, and ran out of the story yelling "that man just robbed the store," was arraigned Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on a felony charge of falsifying physical evidence and a misdemeanor of theft of lost/mislaid property connected to the incident.
Police said Sheri Adams, 20, of 402 Rimmon St., picked up the beer from a Walnut Street driveway where the thief had abandoned it and gave it to friends.
Court documents show that an officer who investigated the March robbery, finding only two cans of beer in the Walnut Street driveway, was told by witnesses that a woman in a red Suburban had gone up the driveway where the beer had been left.
That officer, who went to a motor vehicle stop April 20, reported that in conversation Adams was identified as the woman who shouted about the robbery.
The documents also show Adams told police she had taken the stolen beer from the driveway and brought it to a friend's house because she doesn't drink beer.
Bail was continued at $1,000 cash/surety.
A probable cause hearing on the felony charge was set for May 7 and trial on the misdemeanor was set for June 4.
Changed the locks
When Caviator Alexander, 62, was arraigned Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on a misdemeanor charge of simple assault, accused of grabbing a woman by the neck and arm in an effort to force her out of his apartment at 374 Merrimack St., his $1,000 personal recognizance bail conditions barred him from returning to that address.
But Alexander's victim, who had been staying at his apartment, told police that when she returned to the Merrimack Street address, Alexander had changed the locks and was in the apartment.
Court documents show that when police went to the apartment, Alexander was there and he was arrested and charged with stalking for violating bail conditions.
He pleaded innocent at his arraignment on the stalking charge Tuesday in Circuit Court.
Because Alexander allegedly violated bail conditions, police prosecutors filed a motion to revoke his bail and a hearing was scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Trial on the new charge was set for June 19, the same day as trial on the assault charge.
Using force elevates crime
Brian Mains, 20, of 10 Country Club Drive, could enter no plea Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to a felony charge of robbery.
Mains is accused of entering the Market Basket, 460 Elm St., Monday and taking pizza, milk and a soft drink valued at $5.49 and leaving without paying. When he was confronted by a loss prevention officer and another store employee, he's accused of shoving both of them in an attempt to flee and of struggling until police arrived.
What would otherwise be a theft charge becomes a felony robbery charge when force is used in the commission of the offense. No plea can be entered to a felony in Circuit Court, so a probable cause hearing was set for May 7. Bail is $2,000 cash/surety.


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Pokemon Go has been all the rage. This type of augmented reality is not new – I saw stuff like this 2 years ago. What IS new is that this game captured an audience with a viral use-case. This cracked the ceiling, if you ask me. The acceptance of augmented reality will change – it's not on the public's radar. Futurist saw the use a while back, and the bleeding-edge were playing with it not that long ago. But now that Pikachu is roaming our streets, with folks chasing it around – let's see who steps up next to try to built on this success.
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Beneath the Surface is a documentary short, featuring Dawn Riley, Betsy Alison, and Amanda Callahan, is about the discrimination faced by women in the sport of sailing.
Taking the Helm Released in Paperback
Oyster Bay (N.Y.) October 8, 2013 — When it comes to breaking barriers in big-boat sailing, few women can be compared to Dawn Riley. She was the first woman to manage an America's Cup campaign, and the first American, male or female, to sail in three America's Cups and two Whitbread Round-the-World races. Today, she serves executive director of Oakcliff Sailing Center in Oyster Bay (N.Y.), a unique school that grooms the next generation of world-class sailors. But the bedrock of her leadership skills were developed during a round-the-world race that took place 20 years ago, in a grueling contest that for Riley was not unlike getting an MBA during a game of survival.
This month, Riley is reissuing the story of that seminal race with her book Taking the Helm, written with coauthor Cynthia Goss. Her adventure memoir tells the tale of skippering the 60-foot Heineken in the Whitbread Round-the-World Race. The next running of this race, now called the Volvo Ocean Race, begins in Spain in October 2014.
"I am amazed at how relevant the lessons of Heineken still are," said Riley. "That race taught me how to lead, how to trust my own decisions, and how to overcome challenges—many of which threatened our lives … I hope a new generation of readers will become armchair sailors with this book and, like me, experience a great adventure while getting a crash course in what it means to take a leadership role."
Taking the Helm tells the story of Riley and her crew in the 1993-94 Whitbread Round-the-World Race. Riley was telephoned after the first leg of this ocean marathon, when the crew on the only all-female entry in the race was riven by dissent, financial problems and personal conflicts; only a new captain could save this team from mutiny and lead the women to a successful finish. Riley quickly packed up her life and flew to Uruguay. After four days of hasty boat preparation and group training, the women set sail from sunny Punta del Este, unprepared for the perils of the treacherous Southern Ocean. The crew not only braved near-hurricane-force winds, numbing temperatures and jagged icebergs in the face of physical injury, dwindling supplies, equipment failure and overall exhaustion; they also faced bitter dissent amongst their crew. In the end, these women traveled much farther than the race's 32,000 miles: with each leg and each new test, they learned to rally under their captain's leadership. In recounting how she took responsibility for the lives of eleven other women, Riley tells an extraordinary story of self-discovery within the gripping context of the world's most demanding sailboat race.
Riley wrote Taking the Helm during a landmark era in women's sailing. After competing with Heineken in the Whitbread, she relocated to San Diego to sail with America3, the first all-women's America's Cup team. In the 2000 America's Cup, she used her leadership skills to launch and become CEO of the co-ed Cup team America True, which for Riley was the next evolution for women in sailing: the team set out to do something unique by finding the best sailor for each job onboard, whether male or female. Leading a team of talented sailors hungry to compete on the world stage who earned their spots by talent and not gender remains a highlight of her career. But as Riley surveys the state of women in sailing today, she sees some amazing achievements but also slow progress for truly integrating women into the sport.
"Women have done great things in sailing—and will continue to do great things," says Riley. "But as with any disadvantaged group, realizing they are disadvantaged is the first step, and then it's like a jolt, a wake-up call, and you make huge progress and have some successes; but you can get complacent and assume, we are just going to keep moving forward. That does not always happen. It takes energy, and it takes young people who will put themselves out there and make a difference."
At Oakcliff Sailing Center—located 30 miles from mid-town Manhattan in Oyster Bay, New York—Riley is busy grooming those sailors. Oakcliff is a high-level training center with a specialty of teaching 15- to 30-year-olds to become leaders in the sport (other adult programs are also available).
Riley is the mastermind of the Oakcliff program, and in 2009 was contacted by the Lawrence sailing family of Long Island, who had amassed a fleet of boats and shoreside facilities. They asked Riley to propose ways they could utilize those assets. One of her ideas was to create a top-level educational center that would train sailors not only on the water, but teach them the many skills needed to become a leader in the sport—such as an understanding of sponsorship and the business of racing, boat construction and technology, teamwork, and leadership and management skills. Riley's education was more a trial by fire: with Oakcliff, America now has a center where students learn all the skills needed to take a leadership role in competitive sailing.
Taking the Helm (originally published by Little, Brown and Company) is available in paperback ($17.95) and e-book ($6.99) formats from Amazon.com. The book has been republished by DR Ventures.
Dawn Riley is a past president of the Women's Sports Foundation and a sought-after motivational speaker. For more information, visit www.dawnriley.com. For more on Oakcliff Sailing Center, visit www.oakcliffsailing.org.
The 2014/15 Volvo Ocean Race starts in October 2014 from Alicante, Spain; the all-women's Team SCA will be competing in the race.
Our Friend Bart
Last August a few friends and I were sitting around a bottle of Moet at the St.FYC talking about the state of the America's Cup. I don't have a dog (or cat) in this race so I have purposefully tried to stay quite in public but in private I voiced my opinion. Stating you are going after the Facebook, not the Flintstone generation was one of the worst marking moves ever. It alienated the base of fans and funders in one sound bite. The claims of less cost were outright lies and the concept of making super sized yachts to make sailing super exciting doesn't make sense. The 45s and the 72s look just about the same when watching them on a television set. I was and am worried about the future of the America's Cup, an event that has consumed much of my adult life and provided most of my friends and one that I cherish.
I obviously have opinions including that from a management perspective, there was no adult supervision. One person was given all the keys to the castle with little or no checks and balances. There are some amazing things going on, specifically with television. But with at least initially unlimited funds they were never forced to make hard and well fought out choices.
That reckless decision making was foreshadowed by my friend Craig Monk on that night last summer. He said, Dawnsie someone is going to die on these boats, someone is going to die. Katie and I looked at each other and at Percy and Bart and got chills.
When a member of management says – "this was never on our radar" I have to ask, why the hell not? Every sailor did and now our friend is gone and I can't imagine the sadness of his true best friends who were there and could do nothing. My heart is broken on multiple levels and I'm having a hard time finding the silver lining.
A Window Seat Away from Oakcliff is St. Barth's
If anyone has been checking in on this site regularly they will have noticed that I haven't updated it very much. This is because for the past 3 plus years I have been fully immersed in starting up Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay New York. This is a full time project and we are doing amazing things. Everyone should sign up for the newsletter and read more at www.oakcliffsailing.org or you can click on the logo to the right.
Every once in a while I escape the day to day craziness of the fast growing non-profit that Oakcliff is and get to go sailing on my own. This latest time was the St. Barth's Bucket. I sailed on a Perini Navi again and the owners of this boat were first timers and they were wonderful. The rest of the story although was a story of team building.
Shortly after arriving, I met the Captain and we realized that we were short racing sailors, a minimim of 5 sailors short. So for three days between arrival and practice we scrambled and trolled the docks. Our local helmsperson Fritz Bus was able to find two friends, Garth from St. Maarten and Vincent from St. Barths. One of our Spanish crew found Diego off of a charter catamaran. And Bif the first mate called in Aussie rock star Nicky Souter. I was lucky enough to connect with German Wolf Dietz who I knew from Morning Glory Days as well as Valencia where he was leading the German America's Cup team when I was in charge of the French.
Across the 10 hours of practice time we managed to pull together a pretty good, if short handed team to hoist the absolutely HUGE sails on this 50 meter yacht. We got them up and down, worked on hand signals and leadership and systems and procedures. Oh and we learned each other's names.
Race Day One: We led for over 2 hours and 23 minutes and then eventually in this pursuit style racing the rest of the boats started to catch up. For a while it looked like we were being invaded as the 35 boats, all 100 feet and over were sailing sails spread, downwind coming for us. We managed to hold on to 5th place. Smiles all around.
Race Day Two: It poured with rain. The winds picked up well into the 30s and we split the leech of our main and were forced to retire. This is when the team really pulled together. We worked from a little after noon until dark, in the pouring rain to remove the 1200lb mainsail from the boom, get the 50 foot battens out, pack up the sail, winch it into the tender, which didn't quite sink but came close. Then it was all hands onto the make-shift North Sail Loft to push and pull and roll and muscle the sail under the huge sewing machine, then flake and pack and load and winch it back up onto the deck. This was all done in the pouring rain. It was COLD and we worked until we couldn't see anymore. And we were truly becoming a team – the race crew, the permenant crew and the owners – together.
Race Day Three: Up and at it by 6am and we managed to get battens in, tensioned, onto the boom, rolled onto the mandrel and then hoisted and lowered and only pulled out of the pre-feeder once and we were ready for the start! The chef made sausage and bacon and some kind of a stick food and eggs and coffee so everyone was able to get nourishment before we headed around the Island.
The start was magic. We got a good line sight, after three days of sailing this huge but slow accelerating and fast decelerating yacht we had a better idea of what 4 minutes on the water looked like. It was a downwind start with about 25 knots of wind and we were pushing it very close. At 40 seconds we hoisted the spinnaker and kept the sock down. At 30 seconds we were early and turned the ship towards the pin which was further downwind. At 20 seconds Fritz on the helm wanted to come up and I held him down. At 10 seconds we yelled 'Bucket Up' and the spinnaker began to be unveiled. We collectively held our breath and as the gun went off we were less than 3 feet from the line with the spinnaker up and a huge exhale and cheer went up. The rest of the race had excitement. A blown spinnaker sheet had all leap into action but the team handled it like they had been working together for months not days. Even the guest and owners were in the mix running the 30 meters forward and pulling the sail in. We finished mid-fleet but considered it a success.
As I mentioned to the owners, to me you win sailboat races and you loose sailboat races but what really matters is that you always work hard, through the finish line and improve as a team. That is the magic of sailboat racing to me no matter if it is on a Match 40 or a gorgeous Perini Navi.
A Different Bucket
St. Barth's felt very familiar this year and yet it turned out to be a whole new experience. This was my third Bucket Regatta with the Perni Navi family and probably the 10th time I have sailed into the Port of Gustavia.
On Monday, we joined the boat in St. Martin and had a bit of work to get done, plus the passage over to St. Barth's arriving well after dark. A quick bite in town and up to the Auberge to assign rooms and cots and make sure that everyone had a place to sleep and we hit the hay.
The Wednesday before I found out that Hank Halstead or normal helm and one of the founders of the Bucket was too ill to make the trip. On Thursday the Captain was fired. On Friday the fired Captain got married so it took me until Saturday to find out that the four other racers he had organized would not be joining us. In a bit of a panic, I managed to convince Meg Gaillard–Myles to join us. She had to bring her daughter Kate and their nanny Kendra. Thus the shuffle to make sure that everyone had a bed! I posted on Facebook: New team – fingers crossed!
The next morning I woke BRIGHT and early and feeling great as I headed down the road and up and down the mountains on a 55 minute hike to the end of the island and back.
Last year this was a quiet hike. This year there were construction workers every hundred yards or so as they were repairing the walls along the road. The craftsmanship was impressive as they were 3 or 4 artisans working in the quarry by the side of the road, hand chiseling local stone. A pretty hard job but in a beautiful setting and these guys have skills!
Now they probably weren't that used to seeing a woman in black shorts and a hot pink jog bra walking, at pace, past their job sites. But I am positive that they weren't used to seeing what they saw on the second day. I was inspired by all of the rocks around and choose two similar ones and proceeded to do 10 reps each of, bicep curls, triceps extensions, military presses, and a full set of shoulder sets continuously through the hike.
The first rock day, they kind of looked at me sideways. The second a few giggled and commented "Elle est forte!", after that they just started offering me bigger rocks to carry :-).
Tuesday was a scheduled practice day but it turned more into a boat-work day as three of our people had missed their connections and there was a fair amount to do. Wednesday was finally had a real practice day and we learned each other's names as we pulled together a training session.
Thursday the owners arrived so the permanent crew was fully in owner prep and the race crew helped with a few odd jobs and then got out of the way. This was the first time we had three women on board and I decided that in honor of that, instead of going to the most beautiful and natural beach, Saline Beach that we should find one where there were men in tight or no shirts who would serve us drinks. We ended up at Nikki Beach.
It turns out that when I was rubbing the belly of the genie and making my wish I wasn't quite specific enough. Turns out that there was a cruise ship in town with 2000 men! All men! Doh
Meg's husband Rob arrived to race with another boat and when he joined us their daughter Kate ran up to him to tell him about this great place where you can get drinks and then dance on the table. Double Doh! 🙂
Finally it was race day. Friday started out sunny and then went downhill from there. The rain started – torrential rain! – and it was cold. I shivered around the race course and the boat started to show some strain as well. Something shorted out in the electronics and on one reaching leg the on-deck crew pointed out that our boarding ladder had deployed and it was stuck!
Not a normal racing situation. We managed to fix it within about 15 minutes and had 5 minutes to spare before we hoisted the kite. We finished 4th and decided that the next day was going to be better.
Saturday was sunnier and we set off on the wiggly course. In a 'normal' racing boat it would have been a fun little 19-mile jaunt up and down and between the islands. In a cruising superyacht it was a handful, especially when we ended up with Bucket Issues – not as in the race but as in the bucket and spinnaker sock that is used to snuff these massive asymmetric sails. She wouldn't go up and then she wouldn't go down and then she wouldn't go up and then we twisted the spinnaker HARD. Just after we averted a shrimping incident I ran up to the bridge only to find Meteor headed towards us on Starboard. We immediately started the gybe, which is NOT a fast process on these boats and just as our main flopped over they radioed 'Consider Yourself Protested!'. Our day didn't get much better. After the finish as we had some mainsail issues and had to take her off of the mast. This sail must weigh in over 1000lbs.
We got to the dock only to rush up to defend ourselves at the protest meeting. It was a very hard one to defend being a Port / Starboard and two of the jury weren't really familiar with the operation of the different boats and we lost. At that point I also knew that the owners had decided not to race and go to the beach on Sunday … with the boat!
I tired to put a positive spin on the day to the rest of the team but it was difficult. We managed to get home and take a shower and the girls decided to put party dresses, with a smile on our face and head into town. Meg and Suzy decided that they weren't going to sail the final day but I knew if I was sitting on the beach watching the races I was going to feel horrible. Luckily enough one of our team, James knew the captain of a 56 meter Perini named Panthalassa and they had two spots open, for me and James. I told them that I was keen as long as they did need me. I wasn't into sitting around drinking champagne. At least not when racing!
Sunday morning I didn't work out, and I was a little bit nervous. I was also momentarily jealous of my roommate Suzy still sleeping and with a glorious beach day ahead of her. I got to the boat and we left the dock and we got stuck into racing. Very quickly my reservations all lifted and I slotted into the bridge with Pablo steering and Talpi tactician and Greg and Captain Greg as the safety officer and Clive navigating it was amazing to be surrounded by a tight team of great sailors and I was honored to be accepted in on the last day in the role of strategist.
We had a great start and started working our way through the fleet, picking off the other boats one by one. We came around the corner of the island and were happily in 4th place in fleet an 1st in class by a long way – like 20-minute lead! Going into the day we had to beat the boat in 1st and put 3 boats in between us to win. Unfortunately there ended up being only two boats in between so we tied in class and they won the tiebreaker but it didn't really matter. We had done the best we could. We won the race and we ended up 2nd in class and we won the Perini Cup as the Perini Navi who finished highest in the overall standings.
There was a little bit of celebration! I didn't swim with a turtle or dance on the table 6" from Jimmy Buffett but the evening turned out to be extra special none the less.
It also turned out that it was a very good thing I had been hiking the mountains as on Sunday night the taxis really don't run and Pablo and I ended up hiking up all the way past the airport and up and down two more crests to get to my apartment and car to go back and rescue the rest of the team so in the end I DID get my workout in and then some.
Monday I managed to miss my return flight and had a fun day with the Spaniards here are a few photos of the cultural experience they received 🙂
So as I reflect I realize that there are some days and some regattas that are like slow train wrecks but then one good day of sailing and meeting like-minded good people who happen to sail and it is like sorbet for the mind. We are truly blessed to do what we do!
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Jordan Farrell attends Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship in Chapel Hill, NC and is currently pursuing ordination in the Mennonite Church USA. He has a B.A. from the University of Sioux Falls and graduating in the May with an M.Div from Duke Divinity School.
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Why I Am Troubled by 'God's Not Dead'
From the opening scene to its closing postscript, God's Not Dead tells a story of persecution and courage, focusing on a young white man named Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper). "Mr. Wheaton," as he is referred to in various parts of the movie, finds himself in a predicament on the first day of his Philosophy 150 course. In a scene that echoes Rome's historic persecution of Christians, the powerful intellectual Professor Jeffrey Radisson (Kevin Sorbo) stands before his class of impressionable students and tells them they can skip the section of the course that discusses the existence of god, if each of them signs a piece of paper that says "god is dead." The professor makes it clear that this proposal is more of a threat when he slowly and emphatically informs his students that the section on god's existence is where "students have traditionally received their lowest grades of the semester." This is Mr. Wheaton's unexpected predicament: can he sign a piece of paper that proclaims god, as a philosophical category and concept, is dead? And if he decides not to sign that paper, can he have the courage to face the consequences?


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This is neat; I don't do Instagram because I don't do cell phones...but this is cool. I love black and white and the lonely country road is something I have always liked. Grew up in the mid-west and lots of country roads there. Have nice w/end.
Beautiful picture you show :) Hanne Bente
Beautiful view.
A great B&W composition!
I like this a lot! Great composition in b&w!Have a nice weekend:)
Good perspective.


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Opp readies for fight
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- Published 26.06.09
Patna, June 25 (PTI): The month-long monsoon session of Bihar legislature slated to begin from tomorrow is likely to be stormy with the Opposition gearing up to corner the NDA government on alleged breakdown of the law and order and corruption in the state.
"We are prepared to push the Nitish Kumar government towards a showdown. Breakdown in law and order, prevailing corruption in development and welfare schemes of central and state governments, will top our agenda," said the RJD's deputy leader in the Assembly, Shakeel Ahmed Khan.
Besides, he added, we will be putting pressure on the government for tabling the report on Land Reforms Commission and discrepancies in BPL lists.
Khan said his party would try to take other Opposition parties into confidence to present a unified show.
Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader in the House Ashok Kumar said the matter of floor co-ordination would be decided at a meeting of the state CLP tomorrow.
A meeting of leaders of all Opposition parties would be held tomorrow afternoon to list details of the failures to be raised inside and outside the Assembly, Singh said.
"There is rampant corruption in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guaranteed Act, Indira Awas Yojana and allotment and distribution of rations among BPL beneficiaries," he said.
"Leaders of all the three Left parties — CPM, CPI and CPI-ML(liberation) — will be meeting here tomorrow to formulate a common strategy to rake up the issues," said CPI-M MLA's Ramdeo Verma. Apart from law and order and corruption, the Left would also demand tabling of reports on Mahadalit Commission and Agriculture Commission in the House, he added.
Ruling JD(U) chief whip Shravan Kumar and BJP MLA Vinod Narayan Jha ridiculed the Opposition for its accusations against the government. "We are prepared to take on the Opposition's onslaught," Kumar said.
"They (Opposition) seems to have failed to digest their poll debacle in Bihar and therefore, they are trying to indulge in vilification campaign," he said. The session that will end on July 29 will have altogether 24 sittings, said the cabinet and co-ordination department principal secretary, Girish Shanker.


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I really dont like to solo rock, scares me... so I keep it way below lead level...You really cant compare soloing rock vrs. ice...
I will not say finest as those are personal but I will say the most memorable.Early 90s out in JTree a bunch of us soloed the Bong under a full moon what a beautiful place and the bong was fitting for the occasion. Ice I woke up one morning and it was going to be a great day so I called in sick and soloed Pinnacle gully under beautiful skies and I did not see another person until I down soloed the head wall in Tucks and got to the shelter.It was the best day I ever had on the summit of Mt Washington.
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Jon Matlack, the left handed starter for the Mets during the 1970's, is enjoying life as a minor league pitching coordinator for the Detroit Tigers.
Matlack, now 58, was a large part of the Mets pitching dominance of the 1970's. Matlack, along with Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman, helped form one of the strongest pitching staffs of the National League.
In the article penned by Anthony McCarron - NY Daily News, Matlack recounts a story of a young pitcher under Matlack's tutelage, came up to him a few years after being traded: "I looked you up. Heck, if I'd have known you did that stuff, I would've listened more."
When speaking of making an impact on a young player, Matlack says, "The light goes on in their mind or eyes and they've got it. There's a little piece of me that's going to wander around with them for eternity and that's pretty cool."
Matlack now makes his home in the Adirondacks. He last pitched for the Mets in 1977, when he was traded to Texas in December of that year. The trade was complicated, involving four teams:Braves, Pirates, Rangers, and Mets. The Mets received Willie Montanez, the Pirates received John Milner, and Bert Blyleven and the Rangers received Matlack.
In his first year in Texas, Matlack was 15-13 with a respectable 2.27 ERA. In 1979 he had surgery to repair his left elbow. Matlack was part of the negotiating committee during baseball's strike in 1981. After that, he found his role reduced. He has always wondered if it was a backlash for being part of the committee. The Rangers released him in 1983. His career record is a surprising 125 – 126. His pitching career ended at the young age of 33.
Early in his retirement, Matlack tried commercial real estate and then raising horses in Texas. He quickly got bored, and felt the urge to resume his life in baseball. He sent out resume's in 1988, and was hired by the Padres as a pitching coach for the rookie league team. He has been in baseball ever since.
An interesting story from Matlack recollecting the 'tense moments' of the final days of Spring Training for the NY Mets in 1972: "when he counted the lockers that still had uniforms in them to see if he had made the 25-man roster. 'I finished counting and gave a little fist pump and Gil Hodges had walked through the door and caught me,' Matlack says. "He said, 'That's right, kid, you made it.' He died a few days later."
Matlack went on to win the 1972 Rookie of the Year award, and was All Star Co-MVP in 1975.
Matlack was the pitcher that served up Roberto Clemente's final hit...#3,000. Says Matlack, "I had no idea he was sitting on 2,999. I was just trying to win a game. When I gave up the double - I think it short-hopped the center-field wall - there was all this hoopla. The ump presents him the ball at second and I'm glowering and thinking, 'Hey, we have a ballgame here.' I was just an oblivious rookie. Then I saw it on the scoreboard, that it was his 3,000th hit."
I was quite surprised to see that Matlack finished his career one game under .500. My memories were always that he was a winner. The rotation of those years, Seaver, Koosman, Matlack...what a great staff, and in all honesty, the only staff other than those three that would come close to them in dominance, might have been Gooden, Darling, and Fernandez, but I'm sure there would be quite a debate.


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The Oakland Raiders have the third overall pick in the NFL draft this year, and they can't afford to miss. They already didn't have a first-round pick last year and don't have a second-round pick this year.
After watching Manti Te'o against the Alabama Crimson Tide, that's no longer the direction I want to see the Raiders go in. Te'o looks more like a second- to third-round pick these days, but that isn't the end of the world for the Raiders.
There are plenty of things the Raiders can do with the No. 3 pick as well as throughout the draft. There are also some free agents whom the Raiders can mix with their draft picks to help them immensely.
The Raiders should definitely add some more size, toughness and physicality their roster. They also have a 3-4 coordinator and head coach, so their scheme and personnel should change to match.
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New Delhi: Defending his government'sdecision to hike minimum wages in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said money in the hands of the poor and middle class, and not "Ambani and Adani", will benefit the country's economy.
Kejriwal said it was to be seen whether BJP and Congress show the courage to take similar decisions in the states ruled by them. The Chief Minister was addressing a gathering of labour unions at his residence here.
"I told those who are threatening to strike work and shut industries that overall business is anyway bleak across the country since no one has money in hand. When money will reach the poor then it will have a positive effect on the economy as demand and subsequently consumption will rise," Kejriwal said.
Interestingly, ruling AAP's trade wing has warned of a strike in Delhi in case the decision to raise wages is not withdrawn. It is also going to the raise the issue with Lt Governor Najeeb Jung.
"Policies have to benefit the poor. There will be an escalation of cost, no doubt, but in the middle term and long term it will benefit everyone when money will reach the middle class and poor," Kejriwal said.
Repeatedly referring to "Ambani and Adani" in his address, Kejriwal alleged that government policies are "deliberately" framed to ensure profit for few families in the country, leading to "deepening" chasm in the society and spike in unemployment and crime.
"We will have to implement it in Delhi and then raise our voice across the country. I urge Modiji to look beyond Ambani and care for the people. If the Centre wants then it can implement the same across the country in one go," he said.
Kejriwal had announced the government's decision the raise wages his Independence Day speech.
As per the proposal, the minimum wages for unskilled person will be Rs 14,052 against the existing Rs 9,568 in the national capital. Besides, the same for semi-skilled and skilled persons will increase from Rs 10,582 to Rs 15,471 and from Rs 11,622 to 17,033 respectively. PTI
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Find the HCI appliance that meets your storage needs
For infrastructure and operations professionals, implementing a hyper-converged infrastructure is not easy; choosing the right HCI appliances is imperative.
Migrating to a hyper-converged infrastructure is no small investment. Infrastructure and operational professionals must carefully consider a number of factors before implementing the technology.
Hyper-converged storage is one of the most prominent changes to data center design to occur over the past 10 years. A hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliance unites storage, compute and networking in one modular system. Despite the apparent financial and technical rigidity that generally coincides with the use of a one-size-fits-all approach, an HCI appliance can have a number of cost-saving and business benefits over a custom data center architecture.
First, many hyper-converged storage systems come with their own software, which enables IT administrators to more easily manage virtualized infrastructures. Additionally, there are strong business cases for switching to a hyper-converged infrastructure, such as the total cost. An HCI appliance often has lower total costs of ownership because the most common alternative to hyper-convergence is a total migration to the cloud. Such a move could cost an organization a significant amount in terms of both Capex and Opex. But HCI appliances allow greater financial and technical flexibility and scaling. With hyper-convergence, admins can simply add and remove nodes as necessary, whereas hosted customers may have to migrate to another cloud if their current service provider cannot support their planned expansion.
There are key questions buyers must ask when they look at an HCI appliance: How many appliances does a business need, and which ones work within specific IT environments? How does such a product scale out? How easy is it for admins to implement? Answering these and other questions helps infrastructure and operations pros begin to select the right hyper-converged storage products for their enterprise. So does comparing the top HCI appliances and software.
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Before beginning the buying process for HCI appliances and implementing a hyper-converged storage strategy, it's important to know why businesses are shifting their data centers toward this type of architecture. Learn the key components of an HCI appliance and the various types of hyper-converged software they support, as well as how vendors sell their HCI appliances or hyper-converged software.
Defining the hyper-converged infrastructure appliance
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Maxta Inc. hyper-converged appliances offer configuration flexibility
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Nutanix Acropolis HCI software runs any app at scale
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Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged appliances offer ease of use
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Stratoscale Symphony hyper-converged software offers cloud build
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This story originally appeared at Truthdig. Robert Scheer is the author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books).
Bill Clinton bears as much responsibility as any politician for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the wild applause for his disingenuous speech at the Democratic National Convention last week is a sure sign of the poverty of what passes for progressive politics.
Do those convention delegates, and the fawning media that were wowed by the former president's rhetorical seductions, not recall that just before he left office Clinton signed off on the game-changing legislation that ended the sensible rules imposed on Wall Street during the Great Depression? It was Clinton who cooperated with the Republicans in reversing the legacy of FDR's New Deal, opening the floodgates of unfettered avarice that almost drowned the world's economy during the reign of George W. Bush.
How convenient to ignore the Financial Services Modernization Act, which Clinton signed into law to summarily end the Glass-Steagall barrier against the commingling of investment and commercial banking. Do the Democrats not remember that Citigroup, the first too-big-to-fail bank made legal by the law Clinton signed, became the $15 million employer of Robert Rubin, the Clinton treasury secretary who led the fight for the law that legalized the creation of Citigroup? Or that Citigroup—led by Sanford Weill, to whom Clinton gave one of the souvenir pens he used to approve that onerous legislation—went on to be a major player in the subprime mortgage swindles and had to be bailed out with more than $50 billion of taxpayer funds?
Those scams were based on bundling suspect mortgages into collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), backed by the phony insurance of credit default swaps (CDSs), all of which were given "legal certainty," to quote Lawrence Summers, who replaced Rubin as Clinton's treasury secretary. It was Summers who encouraged Clinton to sign the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which declared CDOs and CDSs immune to any existing regulatory law and the purview of any regulatory agency.
Timothy Geithner, a protégé of Rubin and Summers in the Clinton Treasury Department, was appointed, with Rubin's enthusiastic endorsement, to be head of the New York Fed while Bush was president. Geithner happily partnered with the Bush administration in saving AIG and funneling trillions of dollars to the banks that had caused the crisis. When Barack Obama appointed Geithner as treasury secretary, the new president committed to the Bush strategy of saving the bankers rather than those in the middle class who had much of their life savings tied up in the vanished equity in their homes.
The Democrats who boast so much about their inclusion of black and brown people have not seemed to notice that the accumulated wealth of both groups has declined by more than half since the onset of this crisis, wiping out much of the economic gains of the civil rights movement.


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Lauren + Brandon
Carolyn + Ryan are married!
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Mother/Daughter Bridal Show & AWESOME Saturday afternoon fun! Plus we are giving away $10,000 worth of sessions/gift cards!
Hands down THE biggest giveaway we have EVER done!!! We will be giving out special cards worth a FREE engagement session OR $100 towards wall portraits to the FIRST 100 who come see us at the show! AND, if that's not enough, we're also giving an awesome door prize – and so are the OTHER 10 vendors! Listen for the radio announcement next week, or pick up a Jumbalaya issue and check out the back cover!
A GREAT way to spend a Saturday afternoon with your mom or daughter!
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Racheal + Victor
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Racheal had the *cute* idea to spend their engagement session having a picnic – something her & Victor have always done while dating! I loved the idea. Here's what we created…
Check out their awesome picnic "basket"!
She brought Oreo's with them to share. SO cute! Great idea, chick! 😉
Good job, Victor! 🙂
Stay tuned for Racheal's GORGEOUS bridals – if she'll let me blog 'em! 😉 (I haven't asked yet. lol )
One sneak peak…
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our amazing model: Mandy Broussard
gown: Rene' Ruiz (on loan through The Perfect Fit Bridal Boutique)
hair: Kaley @ The Total Look Salon
makeup: Lisa Andry' @ The Total Look Salon
veil, jewelry, & tiara: donated peices (thanks to Kaley & myself lol)
Purpose: Promotional peice for an upcoming Bridal Fashion Show hosted by a group of sponsors & created by the ingenius "Patrick" with the Charleston Ballroom in downtown LC. More info to come! (Full back cover Jambalaya ad coming soon – look for it!)
Erin + Brandon
I had a blast shooting my cousin, Erin's, wedding! (Come to think of it, my last TWO weddings have both been "Erin"s… funny!)
This is just part one – hopefully more will come soon!
(Just depends on how I'm feeling and how productive I will be for the rest of the day… update: Friday morning I found out I have what's been going around that's so bad – a Viral upper respiratory infection. Blah! We're trying hard to keep Parker from getting it – it'd be RSV for him, I think. I still feel HORRIBLE and the Dr said you just have to "wait it out", so that's what I'm doing. :|)
Anyway, back on a positive note – LOTS more to come! Some things to come next on the blog: 1.) a sneak peak at a few from our bridal shoot we had last Monday and 2.) a peak at a few from a baby boutique's promo we had last Tuesday!
But for now, enjoy some of these awesome shots from an amazing couple's big day:
Green was definately part of their wedding day. LOVE the shoes.
I caught some funny expressions of Erin throughout the day – but none of us EVER stopped laughing, so that could've had something to do with it!
Gorgeous flowers.
Cracks me up every time!
Aunt Gayla lovin' on her pup.
Meanwhile, Brandon & his guys and fam were chillin' on the other side of town.
B with his mom.
These guys CRACKED ME UP. We literally laughed the entire time. Thank you, guys, for humoring me. 😉
Lookin' pretty slick.
fav shot of the G.
Amanda + Mark
Amazing people, these two! Hands down, the coolest, most "out there"/"whatever you want to do, Lindsey" peeps I've met in a while!
Awards for the coolest outfits of this year (so far) go to them! It really takes an "out there" outfit to impress me; after 6 years, I didn't really think an engagement couple's outfit would get me that excited anymore. But I hadn't met these two! A plaid bowtie, TO DIE FOR leopard shoes, with a LEOPARD skirt, bright blue shirt-dress, a plaid jacket…?! TO-TO-LLY awesome. Y'all just blew me away, you two! Not only with your clothing choices (which were really just accents to highlight their AMAZING personalities), but with your ease in front of the camera and the love & connection you both have for each other.
More coming on the story behind some of these funny images later. For now – bed. 😉
Thank you both for driving all the way from Baton Rouge on a random Wednesday! Amanda, I can't WAIT for your bridals! 🙂


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SummaryWho is Shamaz Keb?
The GoodWelcome, ladies and gentlemen, to our lecture "Game design -- how to do it right, for those who need it most." Ah, I see many familiar faces in the crowd today -- there's Westwood over there; most of the staff of Nihilistic, hi guys! And, yes, none of the German developers seems to be missing. Very good. Now, how do you get to know the secret of excellent game design? All of you should have received a copy of Outcast upon entering. Now do the following: Go home. Play Outcast. Learn. That's it. Class dismissed!
I do not want to go into the obvious details, such as the technical brilliancy or the immersive game world that make Outcast an outstanding experience. But there are a few things that are easily overlooked, and which add to the overall atmosphere and playability a lot. Outcast is full of ingenious answers to those little questions that come with the complexity of a huge world. How do I find a certain person in a crowd? By asking your way through, as anyone will point you to the one you seek. How do I find small objects in the wilderness? By following the marks that your visor draws around them. How do I cut a long walk to the other end of a continent short? By using portable teleporters that you can deploy anywhere you like. These features are small, yet a boon for fluent gameplay.
Another thing that has earned special attention are the excellent sound effects. From the smooth splashing of the waves in Okasankaar to the busy chatter in the city of Okriana -- the FX underline the character of each continent. From the soft humming of the teleport daokas to the shouts of approaching guards -- the FX help you orientate yourself. The FX are not only decorative, they're important -- but never obtrusive. This is a lesson that many a software company has yet to learn. Oh, and did I mention the impressive orchestral soundtrack and the perfect voice acting?
The BadWho is Shamaz Keb? This is a question that'll keep you occupied in Outcast. It's the only downside of Appeals' exotic game world: the names. It's okay to design a credible culture. But it's not necessary to scare inexperienced players with an overkill of expressions. In a typical mission, the Ulukai'd have to ride his Twon-ha through the daoka to Okasankaar and fight Gamors to collect zlingtog for Jeokaze in Okriana. See what I mean? As a consequence, you'll need quite some patience to make yourself familiar with Adelpha (that's the world's name, by the way).


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Investigators say Archie robbed the Cape Fear Credit Union in Cross Creek Commons of US 17 Friday morning. They say they identified Archie as the suspect within hours of the robbery and got a warrant for his arrest Monday.
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