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Vandal Attempts to Break Into ATM in Hamilton
The Hamilton Police Department is investigating a vandalism and attempted burglary of an ATM at Farmer's State Bank on North 1st Street in Hamilton.
Detective Stephen Murphy said the incident occurred in the early morning hours of Monday October 28th.
The suspect's image was captured on a video recorder and he is suspected in two other businesses which were vandalized in the Hamilton area.
Murphy, in a news release, said the suspect is believed to be armed and should not be approached. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Hamilton Police Department at (406) 363-2100 or Crimestoppers at (406) 363-0062.
The video is on the Hamilton Police Department Facebook page.


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DMCA Nonsense: Your Default Login Page Is A Ripoff Of Our Default Login Page!
from the username-then-password,-what-a-work-of-art dept
No matter how brazenly people abuse the DMCA takedown process, and no matter how ridiculous the notices get, it seems like there's always someone waiting to do something even stupider. This latest incident, submitted by Anonymous American, is a serious contender for the
crown dunce cap: a DMCA takedown over a login page.
And not just any login page, but the barely-modified default login page of an open source website platform, which the operators of iPhotographyCourse.com claim infringes on... their own barely-modified default login page of a different open source website platform. Yeah. Jenny McCann, who runs the Institute of Photography website built on the Moodle content management system, received a takedown notice claiming that her login page was infringing. When she asked for clarification, she was simply told "entire page copied". Here's the supposedly infringing page:
And here's the "original":
Even at first glance, the claim is obviously idiotic. There is nothing similar about the pages beyond the purely functional login page elements. But things get really amusing when you realize that the iPhotographyCourse page is virtually unaltered from the default Wordpress login page:
The only expressive choices—a requirement of copyright protection—are the inclusion of the logo (the rather poor inclusion, as there are visible artifacts at the top of the image that show the logo was sloppily clipped from the site's front page banner, meaning the designer didn't even have a copy of it on hand) and the rounding of the button corners (which may actually just be a Wordpress version discrepancy). As if that wasn't enough, the supposedly infringing login page is itself just a minor modification of the default Moodle page:
A new frame, color scheme and accent image—nothing major, but actually significantly more design changes than the iPhotographyCourse page, and far more likely to qualify for some level of copyright protection. And, quite clearly, in no way an infringing copy.
According to later comments from McCann on the Moodle forum thread, the login page was specifically included among other items in the takedown which related to actual content on the site. It could be that there is more merit to the other complaints, but McCann does not believe there is, and judging from the utter stupidity of this example, I'm inclined to suspect she's right. Either way, the people behind iPhotographyCourse, like so many before them, have exposed their true intentions by targeting such an obviously non-infringing page: this isn't about protecting intellectual property, but interfering with competition by abusing the DMCA process. Either that, or they are tragic victims of our ownership culture who also haven't logged into a website in the past ten years.
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Debbie Croft: As wildflowers bloom, foothills come alive with activities
Winter's frost has disappeared in the foothills, and spring's wildflowers are in bloom. From music to minerals, from Easter celebrations to outdoor adventures, visitors will find much to enjoy this month in the Sierra Nevada communities:
• Enjoy a gourmet Easter Brunch this Sunday.
In Yosemite the Ahwahnee, the Wawona Hotel and Tenaya Lodge will offer a special holiday menu featuring garden produce and select recipes from their kitchens.
Times, prices and menus vary. Visit the following websites for further information: http://www.yosemitepark.com/easter-brunch.aspx or http://www.tenayalodge.com/Experience-Special-Events.aspx.
Reservations are recommended and park entrance is free this weekend.
An Easter Buffet will be served at the Historic National Hotel and Restaurant in Jamestown. See www.national-hotel.com, or call (800) 894-3446 for details.
And the Cellar Door Restaurant at the Groveland Hotel will hold an Easter Brunch and an Easter Dinner. Reservations are being accepted by email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or by phone, (800) 273-3314 or (209) 962-4000.
• A Victorian Easter celebration takes place every year in Columbia's Historic State Park. Put on your Easter finery and join the Easter Parade on Main Street. Registration begins at 11 a.m., and the parade starts at 12:30 p.m. Kids and pets are welcome. Prizes will go to the fanciest and best dressed.
Two days before Easter, Nelson's Candy Kitchen boils 2,000 eggs in large copper kettles. After cooling in water, a few local kids color the eggs. Volunteers hide them early Sunday morning for the egg hunts taking place that afternoon. Bring your Easter baskets, and watch for Thaddeus E. Hare (aka the Easter Bunny) walking through town.
There's more to experience year-round in the Gold Rush town of Columbia. For details and a list of events see www.visitcolumbiacalifornia.com, or call (209) 536-1672.
• How does one tell a topaz from a citrine, or an agate from a garnet? Is a diamond a gemstone, a mineral or both? And how does one determine the difference between pyrite and gold? At Mariposa's Gem and Mineral Show this weekend, visitors can ask questions and learn fascinating facts about gems, minerals and more.
The show will be held at the California State Mineral and Mining Museum, located at the Mariposa County Fairgrounds. Admission is $3 and parking is free. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit www.parks.ca.gov for more information, or call (209) 742-7625.
• "Big Band Goes Latin" is the season finale concert with the Columbia College Jazz Series. According to director Rod Harris, two bands will combine to form a 28-piece salsa orchestra. The college vocal jazz quartet will also perform.
The concert takes place Saturday at 7 p.m. in the college Dogwood Theater. Popular Northern California musicians will play mambo, tango, bossa nova, samba and salsa music. Reserved seating tickets are $15 each and available at the college bookstore and Sonora's Mountain Bookshop. Call (209) 588-5211 for more information.
• National Park Week begins Saturday and lasts through April 27. Yosemite National Park has activities planned all week long to celebrate America's parks and Earth Day, April 22. You don't want to miss seeing Yosemite in the springtime.
Storytelling, nature hikes, a bike ride, a photo walk and class, movies and a Junior Ranger Exploration Fair are just a few items on the schedule. Visit the National Park Service website for details: www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/guide.htm.
• Kids fly for free (aged 8-17) at the Mariposa Air Fair and Family Adventure Day on April 26. A pancake breakfast starts the day at 8 a.m. Classic and antique planes will be on display, as well as experimental craft, warbirds and vintage cars.
This event lasts until 3 p.m., and arriving early is encouraged. Admission for adults is only $2; children 10 and younger are free with an adult. Parking is also free. Food and craft vendors will be on site.
The fair will take place at the Mariposa Airport at 5020 Macready Way, located along State Highway 49 North, four miles outside of Mariposa.
• Artists desiring to participate in the Sierra Art Trails Open Studio Tour should send in their applications by May 1. The tour is held each year on the first weekend of October.
During this annual event art studios across Madera and Mariposa counties will be open to visitors, allowing a personal glimpse into the lives and work of Yosemite region artists. Details are available at the website: www.sierraarttrails.org.


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Outreach Programs promotes higher education by providing academic services and diverse enrichment programs that ensure the success and support of K-12 students and schools, and families. Services range from campus visits, college presentations, program tutoring, advising, mentoring, college application assistance, summer programs, motivational activities and cultural educational events.
Programs include Early Outreach (EO), TRIO Talent Search (TS), and TRIO Upward Bound (UB).


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Testosterone treatment: The folks at adidas have done well to integrate current streetwear trends — geometric patterns, color blocking, neons — into their men's adiZero collection. As a whole, this was the best look for the 2011 U.S. Open, seen on Juan Monaco, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Fernando Verdasco, Alexandr Dolgopolov, among others.
More: See the individual pieces (that triangled warm-up's our fave) — after the cut…
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Assessment of the Performance of Engineered Waste Containment Barriers (May 2007)Report in Brief
President Carter's 1980 declaration of a state of emergency at Love Canal, New York recognized that residents' health had been affected by nearby chemical waste sites. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, enacted in 1976, had just ushered in a new era of waste management disposal designed to protect the public from harm. It required that modern waste containment systems use "engineered" barriers designed to isolate hazardous and toxic wastes and prevent them from seeping into the environment. These containment systems are now employed at thousands of waste sites around the United States, and their effectiveness must be continually monitored. At the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, this National Research Council report assesses the performance of waste containment barriers to date. Existing data suggest that waste containment systems with liners and covers, when constructed and maintained in accordance with current regulations, are performing well thus far. However, they have not been in existence long enough to assess long-term (postclosure) performance, which may extend for hundreds of years. The report recommends expansion of data collection and reporting, improvement of models, and development of new monitoring techniques to improve future assessments and increase confidence in predictions of barrier system performance.


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No one's really sure what was going through Michael Garvin's mind when he broke into an Ada, Okla. eye care store. All police and store employees have is the aftermath of one very bizarre night.
Ada police released surveillance video of the Jan. 4 break-in at Ada Family Eye Care. Something bad must have happened because police say Garvin, 22, called 911 from the business' phone, Oklahoma City's News 9 reports.
Video footage shows him wandering around the store, rummaging through shelves and tearing down displays with golf club. It appeared that he thought himself trapped inside as he tried to bash his way out the front door.
"He obviously wasn't in the right state of mind, I'm sure," store owner Chris Gurley told News 9. "He ended up wearing some of my staff's lab coats, and tried on different clothing."
When police arrived, Garvin reportedly threw a hand mirror at them and retreated to the attic. He was later arrested and booked into Ponotoc County jail. He is now out on $1,000 bond.


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Overwhelmed and understimulated
Monday, March 8, 2010
Do you ever feel that way?
I feel that way and have for about 2 weeks. I feel like no matter what I do in my life, there will always be adversity - something waiting just around the corner to knock me back down again.
While I'm still not ready or able to tell you what's been going on with me recently, I just had to come say that I'm FLIPPING OUT.
And I'm alone.
The only ones I have are my children, and I have to be strong, for them.
But it's hard... Life is sooo hard right now.


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Exclusive flagship store
In April 2014 Volt opened its largest store ever at the centre of Stockholm's high street. The new flagship store, situated at the well-known PK house, is a 1000 square meter large premium store in fashion and lifestyle clothing for men. And it is illuminated with LED.
Volts exclusive new store concept has been running for a year. The Volt brand target fashion conscious young men who are confident in their style and know what kind of clothing they want. The stores want to inspire and offer clothing and footwear for both casual and dressy occasions.
Two in one
Volt is a bit different than other concepts since they have decided to split up their shops in two distinctive parts. One part is called Magazine and it displays more suits and shirts. The other part is called Library where more relaxed outfits are presented.
Carefully planned interior
Volt has about 50 stores in the Nordic region and Fagerhult has been a partner with Volt for more than a year. Together we have collaborated to create the exclusive carefully planned layout and an interior with integrated lighting and exciting lighting elements for their premium store.
– Volt is a brand that really sees to the whole concept which is built on smaller delicate parts of interior with unique décor elements, the outcome is a characteristic and elegant atmosphere, says Kristian Renström, Key Account Manager at Fagerhult.
The new store in Stockholm is now the world's biggest Volt premium store that broke record turnover already at the grand opening day.
In the Volt lighting concept each area's lighting need is carefully planned with recessed spotlights and integrated light. The décor elements, such as wooden walls, golden-framed paintings, book columns and crystal crowns provide a luxurious atmosphere.
A successful mix of design and technology
It was important for Volt to have the right type of luminaires, both when it comes to design and technology. An elegant design feature that adds to the atmosphere is the green luminaires over the display tables and cashier. A three-meter tall crystal chandelier also decorates the entrance and smaller chandeliers gives the extra luxurious feeling to the dressing rooms. The recessed spotlights that offer the customized lighting have a uniform design that suits the interior well.
Flexible Marathon LED
To reduce the heating problems Volt needed a LED solution that discards the need for extra ventilation and installations. White recessed LED luminaires of Marathon LED were installed around the ceiling. It is a flexible spotlight and the recessed version offers a good tilt and rotation action with a classic cylindrical shape together with a minimal front ring. It can be used as a discreet downlight, semi-recessed spotlight or fully extended spotlight, depending on the lighting need.
– To enhance this great store concept it was important to harmonise the lighting to the existing feelings of the shop, a colour rendering of Ra 90 with 3000 Kelvin was chosen to display the items in the shop in a successful way. The recessed lighting also gave a nice depth in the store, Kristian concludes.


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Cassell, 1962 - Religion - 255 pages
Born in India in the sixth century B.C., it became the religion of Ceylon, Siam, Burma and Cambodia, which adhere to the older or Southern School, while the developed Mahayana School is found in various forms in Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea, and Japan. Buddhism includes the most exalted philosophy yet achieved by man, a psychology from which the West is slowly beginning to learn, a religion which has satisfied millions for 2,500 years, a Middle Way of self-development to self-enlightenment and a range and depth of spiritual science, mysticism and religious art which cannot be found elsewhere.An acknowledged expert during his lifetime, Christmas Humphreys outlines and introduces the many strands of this religion-philosophy in his fascinating and now famous book.
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You should know that GeForce 3D Vision is not only intended to be used just for gaming, but also for watching 3D Stereo digital images and even for 3D movies. But in order to use the shutter glasses for watching moves you should first get a special player that can play 3D stereo movies the right way and they you should get movies that are supported. Nvidia provides a free Stereoscopic 3D Video Player that should be more than enough to get you started in the world of 3D movies, but there are also some other solutions that I'm going to talk about some other time. Nivida's Stereoscopic 3D Video Player has built in support for playing back 3D Stereo videos in the following file formats: AVI, AVIS, WMV, WMVS, ASF, MPG, MPGS, MPEG, M1V, MP2, M2TS, VOB, MP4, SVI and SPP. There is also support for playing 3D Stereo movies in DVD Video format if you own any of these of course and they are in the right format. And by the right format I mean movies that are not encoded for anaglyph viewing, but provide a video with two full separate frames for each eye. You should know that most of the DVD video 3D movies are designed for paper anaglyph glasses and these will not work with the shutter glasses form the GeForce 3D Vision kit!
To get you started there are some short videos in 3D Stereo that are looking quite well when played with the Stereoscopic 3D Video Player and the GeForce 3D Vision kit. There are 6 short movies, two of which are animated and the other 4 are of different real world scenes and places so you can actually see the difference. You can also look around over the net for more compatible videos, these should be quite a few more that will look and work great with the added depth perception. Have in mind that all those videos can be viewed in normal 2D mode on a normal or 3D-compatible monitor and in 3D Stereo only on a compatible display. When you run the player and a movie on a Samsung 2233RZ for instance when you switch to full screen the movies automatically goes in 3D mode, otherwise when it is being displayed in a small window it is in 2D mode by default.
– To download Nivida's Stereoscopic 3D Video Player
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My Watched Topics | My Favorites | My Profile Private IMs Register Log in Help | Stats | Members | Groups Search Forum Takeshi Kitano was in Paris this week HKSS.com Forum Index -> Gossip and News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message nganhFanJoined: 10 Oct 2003Posts: 74Location: France Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:42 pm Post subject: Takeshi Kitano was in Paris this week Takeshi Kitano was in Paris this week. Niicky saw him live !!!!!! He walked about 1m close to her !!! I'll let her tell all the story. Back to top Mikey_Life is good. Be inspired.Joined: 04 Oct 2003Posts: 1322Location: Fountain Valley, California (USA) Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:40 pm Post subject: Well, Niicky? Michael _________________Founder, Webmaster http://www.hkss.com Free Entertainment since 1996. Back to top Guest Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject: that's cool. did you get his autograph? I watched his movie "Returner" last week, it's dope. Back to top Mikey_Life is good. Be inspired.Joined: 04 Oct 2003Posts: 1322Location: Fountain Valley, California (USA) Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:40 pm Post subject: Dude! Long time no see! Michael_________________Founder, Webmaster http://www.hkss.com Free Entertainment since 1996. Back to top NniickyFanJoined: 06 Oct 2003Posts: 97Location: France Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:07 am Post subject: It was just an interview. Cameras were forbidden so that we couldn't take photos and there was no autograph... But it was great ! Kitano is really impressive ! He is very small (less than 1meter60 I think, he is just a little taller than me) and very funny... He didn't show off or anything like that... He was always telling jokes when he answered the questions (silly questions BTW, the guy who interviewed him was really... tssss). A very cool guy !!!! When he entered the room, he walked just at 1 or 2 meters far from me !!!! He weared a classic black tuxedo. His hair was cut short because of his last movie Zatoichi (released 11 nov 2003 in France). This interview was organised by the Fnac (a French megastore) for the new movie Zaitoichi. Zatoichi is the name of a Japanese movie and series character, very famous in Japan. Zatoichi was a samourai (a ronin) thas was blind and his cover was to tell ppl that he was a "masseur" (someone who does massages). Zatoichi's weapon is a long "sword" (saber ?) hidden in a cane. Kitano was asked to make an adaptation about the character of Zatoichi (it has been 14years since there was no film made about Zatoichi) in memory of the actor that used to play the role of Zatoichi (there was a guy in Japan who was famous all his life for having played the role of Zatoichi, I don't remember the name of this man but when you hear his name, it is synonymous of Zatoichi now, and vice versa). Kitano accepted to make this movie but he wanted to have freedom for the making of the movie (speed movements of the video camera, the importance of the percussions, Zatoichi dyed in blond lolol, the cane in red instead of in white etc). So did he. In the serie talking about Zatoichi, the rythm was very slow. Kitano thought it was better to change it because it was outdated, he thought it was more modern to use speed movements of the camera and to multiply the number of "shots" (I don't know the appropriate vocabulary sorry) in order to add speed. He explained that he chosed that because they had to shoot in studios so he had to move the camera because the actors couldn't move much. It was also to avoid ppl to notice the small details in the background that could be considered as anachronism. I have many more to say about this interview but I don't have muche time right now, so I'll continue this later..._________________^_____________^. 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My newest DIY project!
I'm back from school and my room is a MESS trying to get everything into place.. I always wanted to have a bookshelf with pretty stuff on top! so I took a break from unpacking and organizing to do this project!
in hindsight.. I maybe should've picked a different word other than "j'adore" since I have the LOVE sign.. oh well! I still love it!
vase- 1.00@ walmart
2 sets of flowers- .97 each @ walmart
letter: 1.97 @ walmart
I used a round glue gun stick and dipped it in white paint to make the circles lol
zebra ribbon- .97 @ Michael's
pink ribbon-.47 @ Michaels's
frame- found in my closet & painted black
paper- white printer paper
I typed j'adore in microsft word (Digs My Heart font found at www.kevinandamanda.com) then I traced it straight from the computer screen with pencil and painted over it with black paint!
put it all together:
ta-da! =)


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Ronald L. Motley, the hard-charging Mount Pleasant trial attorney who spearheaded billion-dollar lawsuits against the asbestos and tobacco industries, then launched a daring legal crusade to identify al-Qaida's financiers, died Thursday. He was 68.
An outsized character in and out of the courtroom, Motley was a pioneer in the use of class-action lawsuits against companies that poisoned workers, or in the case of tobacco, sold products that caused widespread health problems.
Joe Rice, co-founder of Motley Rice, said that Motley's life was "marked by unmatched courage in going after any wrongdoer, no matter how big and powerful."
"He was absolutely a giant in the law," added Linda Lipsen, chief executive officer of American Association for Justice, the nation's largest trial lawyer group. "What differentiated him from other lawyers was that he took cases that no one thought had a chance. He is the reason why hundreds of thousands of people across the world who never got a fair shake were compensated. He broke the mold."
In interviews, Motley portrayed himself and his firm as counterweights to profit-hungry corporations and a government that failed to address serious issues of public health and safety. He often mentioned his humble roots as a son of a gas station owner in North Charleston. And at his height, his plain-talking style charmed and entertained juries. To make a point, he once shot a squirt gun at a defense lawyer. Another time, he walked into a courtroom wearing medical scrubs. For luck, he occasionally wore a pair of ostrich-skin boots he bought after an early asbestos win.
Armed with a library of incriminating documents, whistleblowers, expert witnesses and Motley's courtroom charisma, Motley's teams often walked away with multimillion-dollar verdicts. The National Law Journal called him "one of the most influential lawyers in America."
His success also made him a target of critics who said trial lawyers had created multimillion-dollar lawsuit factories that raked in massive fees while sometimes leaving clients with pennies on the dollar. He received death threats because of his work on tobacco and terrorism cases, and he frequently traveled with a bodyguard.
While Motley enjoyed enormous success in courtrooms, his personal life was marked by tragedy. His younger brother died when Motley was 13. His mother, a heavy smoker, died of emphysema in 1984, an experience he said fueled his desire to tackle Big Tobacco. His son, Mark, died in 2000 from a medical error at a hospital in Florida.
He was known to work hard and celebrate even harder. In 1999, he hired Earth, Wind & Fire to perform at what was then his third wedding. His extravagant lifestyle and binges were well documented in books and magazine articles. Colleagues talk with amazement about his ability to party into the wee hours and then go for early morning runs before court. His firm reported the cause of death as respiratory complications, but colleagues reported that his hard living had taken a toll, and that his overall health had declined dramatically in recent years.
Motley was born October 21, 1944. He graduated from Chicora High School in North Charleston, and earned his undergraduate degree from University of South Carolina and his law degree from USC's School of Law. He took risks early. Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, also an attorney, remembers a case early in Motley's career. "He spent so much time investigating it, and at that time he didn't have much money," Riley said. "He didn't win that case, but I remember how gutsy he was, and how he was prepared to give everything on behalf of his client."
While practicing in Barnwell in the mid-1970s, Motley began suing companies on behalf of people exposed to asbestos fibers, including clients who frequented his father's Amoco station and worked at the Charleston's Naval Shipyard. After a few wins, he took on more clients, which led to even more. Within a few years, he represented about 200,000 victims.
Motley perfected the technique of mass torts, a legal strategy in which lawyers combine hundreds and sometimes thousands of clients' cases into a single high-stakes lawsuit. To carry out these cases, his firm, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, developed a nationwide network of local attorneys. These lawyers did the field work, identifying clients and filing the appropriate claims and motions in their hometown courts. If a case came to trial — and the potential for huge verdicts often led to settlements out of court — Motley and his team parachuted in like a special-forces unit.
It was in the courtroom where Motley earned his reputation. Lawyers speak with awe about his ability to recall a detail from a seemingly inconsequential deposition and use it to shred a witness.
"He's just a legend," said Rod Jernigan, president of the South Carolina Association for Justice. "Think about asbestos: Schools, churches and old homes were full of it, and Ron Motley changed the entire construction industry so it was removed. If you're breathing clean air now because it doesn't have asbestos, you can thank Ron Motley."
Largely because of his firm's work, more than 30 asbestos companies declared bankruptcy. Then, using money made from asbestos lawsuits, he took on the tobacco companies, spending $30 million to represent states suing over the public health costs of smoking. Motley, wrote Martha Derthick in the 2011 book "Up in Smoke," was a "one-man embodiment of nationally coordinated tort actions. High-living, hard-drinking, passionate, profane, and very smart, Motley flew in his Cessna Citation III, from one deposition to another, one document cache to another, one negotiation to another, all over the country."
Motley worked closely with Joe Rice, with Motley doing the heavy lifting in court and Rice working the levers at the negotiating table. Their success came to a head in 1998, when tobacco companies agreed to pay states more than $246 billion over the next 25 years, the largest civil settlement in U.S. history.
Mike Moore, the former Mississippi Attorney General who led the tobacco litigation, remembers a key moment when burly tobacco company lawyers tried to intimidate a witness, prompting Motley to tell them to "wipe that smirk off your face." "He put them in their place," Moore said. The scene was later depicted in the 1999 movie, "The Insider." "Defense lawyers feared him because they didn't know what he was going to do next."
Motley kept in his office framed copies of tobacco industry bank deposit slips, one for Mississippi worth $170 million and one for Texas for $15.3 billion. It has been widely reported that his firm earned $2 billion from the settlement. Front and center on Motley's desk was a large round glass ashtray that had "Thank you for smoking" embossed on it.
Over the years, Motley acquired the trappings of his corporate targets, including private aircraft and a mansion on Kiawah Island. His 156-foot yacht, Themis, named after the Greek titaness of law, was often moored at the City Marina. In 2002, more than a dozen attorneys left Ness Motley to form their own firm. The split degenerated into lawsuits over the use of the firm's $13.6 million jet, legal fees from past cases and other issues. As a result, partners changed the firm's name from Ness Motley to Motley Rice.
Motley's success had a ripple effect throughout Charleston. Flush with tobacco and asbestos cash, he and current and former partners made large donations to area causes. He created the Mark Elliot Motley Foundation, in memory of his son. "He was a transformative figure in the practice of law in Charleston, the state and our country," Riley said. "The fact that he was here and led the firm to national prominence was a huge benefit to the community."
Though wealthy, Motley also came off as vulnerable, and close associates were fiercely protective about his binges and other foibles. In a series of interviews with The Post and Courier in 2003, Motley spoke often about the pain of his son's death.
By then, Motley had immersed himself in one of his most ambitious legal campaigns – lawsuits on behalf of more than 6,000 Sept. 11 victims. To identify al-Qaida's financiers, he and a cadre of lawyers and special investigators used data-collection techniques befitting a government intelligence unit. Agents for the firm acquired documents from warlords in Afghanistan and dispatched attorneys worldwide to interview potential witnesses.
Motley and other attorneys eventually filed lawsuits against more than 200 entities for $1 trillion in damages, including three Saudi princes, some of the world's most prominent Islamic charities and an assortment of Middle Eastern banks and billionaires.
But unlike his fights against Big Tobacco and asbestos industries, the terrorism litigation made little headway. Many defendants were dismissed; other aspects of the litigation are still working through appellate courts. Despite the mixed results, the firm's work attracted international attention and spawned other human rights cases. In 2005, the firm filed lawsuits on behalf of children sold into slavery to become camel-race jockeys in the United Arab Emirates. The firm pursued Hamas ties to Middle Eastern banks. Motley Rice now has more than 65 attorneys working on cases ranging from asbestos to zinc in denture cream, and is one of the largest plaintiffs' firms in the country.
Co-founder Rice said Motley's death was not only a personal loss to him and Motley's family, "but also for so many more for whom Ron also was a devoted friend, mentor, collaborator, legal adversary and fellow crusader for justice."
During the course of his career, Motley received many national awards, including the American Association for Justice's lifetime achievement award. In early August, the S.C. Association for Justice presented him with the group's Founders' Award.
"He was the best trial lawyer South Carolina ever produced," former U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings said, adding that Motley had his share of personal flaws, "but was always the kindest fellow to others. He contributed to organizations locally, and he built one of the leading trial firms in the country, right here in Charleston."
He leaves behind a daughter, Jennifer, and his wife, Stephanie Poston Motley. Stuhr's Downtown Chapel is handling funeral arrangements.


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Real estate developer Dave Wilson has a vision for a new $15 million to $20 million shopping and condo complex he wants to build in Bergen Park.
Wilson wants to redevelop a slightly more than 10-acre parcel that includes the former BMC lumber yard east of the Evergreen Mercantile building at 1232 Bergen Parkway. It also includes the Wild Game Rendezvous Tap & Kitchen entertainment complex and a former U.S. Postal Service substation that's currently empty.
Local developer Scott Smith is buying Bergen Park Church, possibly as part of a plan to develop neighboring property, including land he owns next to Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage.
Both Smith and Bergen Park Church Pastor Jim Demolar confirmed that Smith — operating as Bergen Park Development Co. LLC — is buying the church, at 1318 County Road 65 in Bergen Park.
Bristlecone Shooting, Training and Retail Center in Lakewood has been very busy since it opened.
Owners Bryan and Jacquelyn Clark of Evergreen expected it to be that way. The couple moved to Evergreen from Atlanta recently and started looking for a nearby shooting range they could join. When they found that the Clear Creek Sportsman Club in Dumont has an estimated two-year wait, and the Boulder Rifle Club has an estimated seven-year wait (according to group websites), they realized there was a market for a new range.
Imagine volunteers would work for free to make phone calls to promote your business.
Or maybe they'd address envelopes or help prepare your taxes. They could type up information and do industry research, or help interview potential new employees.
How quickly could your business grow?
Evergreen Nursing Services — started by Mary Pat DeWald in Evergreen — is about to find out.
The new board co-chairs for the Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce are calling 2015 the year of the member as they make it the organization's mission to communicate its value.
The co-chairs, Lisa Austin and Kevin Ruble, agree the services are in place; now it's time to make sure members and potential members know how to take advantage of those services.
T&G Flooring has added its expertise to the furnishing businesses in the Evergreen Design Center on Meadow Drive.
Chris Keale bought the Denver business in 2007 and decided to bring it to Evergreen in October. It specializes in pre-finished and on-site-finished hardwood flooring.
Keale said he worked for global technology businesses for years. He bought the flooring business so he could work for himself and so he could leave something behind with lasting beauty.
Lin Browning, president and CEO of the Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce, has resigned from the job, citing personal reasons. Her last day at work was Jan. 14.
"As some of you may know," she said in an e-mail letter to chamber members, "I've been dealing with major family health issues and have decided to take this time in my life to focus on being a mom and a daughter."
A new O'Reilly Auto Parts store could be built this summer on the spot on Bryant Drive where Gallerie Quilt currently is located.
The iconic A-frame building at 30406 Bryant Drive would be demolished, and a 6,500-square-foot auto parts store with about 20 parking spaces would be built in its place, according to preliminary plans received by the Jefferson County planning department. The land is currently listed for sale at $549,000.
In a year that saw the stock market soar and the overall economy improve, Evergreen had more businesses opening than closing, a welcome trend compared with the past few years. It was also a year for businesses moving and getting new owners.
Following is a recap of some of the business stories that appeared in the Canyon Courier in 2014.
The new businesses
The owner of the land across from El Rancho where the Observatory restaurant once thrived is hoping to rezone the property to continue to allow a billboard along Interstate 70 and future commercial development.
Steve Richards, president of Mile High Outdoor, which owns the 7 acres north of the RTD Park-n-Ride along Evergreen Parkway, has submitted a pre-application for the rezoning and plans to submit a formal application in January.
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Through Sick and Gin
They say you never appreciate your health and home until you're eight hundred miles away from home hacking up a proverbial lung in a not-so-proverbial Microtel with suspicious sheets and a broken A/C unit.
Now, I know what you're thinking. Who are these mysterious "they?" And how do they gain their all-encompassing knowledge? And what, exactly, do sheets have to be suspicious OF?
(Have I mentioned yet that I've been taking a lot of Robitussin? No? Excellent.)
And so, in conclusion, I'm writing myself a Get Well post from all of you. Because I know you care. And I probably won't remember any of this tomorrow anyway. (Another hot toddy? Don't mind if I do!)
And hey, I'm right here!
I mean, just because someone is humming the theme song to 2001 while rocking a doll made entirely of used Kleenex doesn't mean she can't hear you.
(Daaaa. Daaaa...DAA DUMMM!!)
(For that matter, neither are the Dr. Pepper enemas.)
(In fact, I'm starting to wonder if some of these anonymous chat room doctors might not be entirely trustworthy.)
Well, I'm pretty sure that's a daisy.
So I guess that's one long shot that paid off in the end.
(Think it's solid buttercream?)
(And syringe cakes: do they really *need* a point?)
('Cuz I'd say that cheeky baker really injected some fun into his bottom line!)
(Something something spankin' new rear view mirror. Or something.)
Aaaand that's a bum wrap.


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The Small Houses album Exactly Where You Wanted To Be is set for a February 26th release but we have the first video from the album for 'Oh, Hiding Out' right now! You can watch it above or on the Small Houses Extras page right here.
Reminder that the pre-order goes live on Tuesday, January 22nd over at our label Bandcamp page.


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Obama Administration Weighs In on Gay Marriage Case
The Obama administration has submitted a "friend-of-the-court" brief on the legal challenge to California's gay marriage ban, which will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26.
U.S. Catholics Divided On Church's Direction Under New Pope
As the pontificate of Benedict XVI winds down, three-quarters of American Catholics express a favorable view of the pontiff. Meanwhile, most U.S. Catholics say it would be good if the next pope allows priests to marry. And fully six-in-ten say it would be good if the next pope hails from a developing region like South America, Asia or Africa.
Illinois Senate Approves Same-Sex Marriage Bill
The Global Catholic Population
Over the past century, the number of Catholics worldwide has more than tripled. But the world's overall population also has risen rapidly from 1910 to 2010. As a result, Catholics have made up a remarkably stable share of all people on Earth, though their geographic distribution has changed substantially.
The Contraception Mandate and Religious Liberty
On Feb. 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released new rules for how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate applies to religious nonprofits, including houses of worship, schools and hospitals. Church-state law scholars Ira C. Lupu and Robert Tuttle explain the new rules and the legal arguments that religious groups might make.
How Important is the Abortion Issue?
The public is split on whether abortion is a critical or important issue or whether it is not that important an issue. But this masks stark differences in opinion between regular churchgoers and those who attend religious services less often.
Religious Groups' Official Positions on Abortion
A breakdown of 17 major religious groups' views on the issue of abortion.
A History of Key Abortion Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court
During the past 35 years, federal courts, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, have superseded states as the driving force in crafting abortion policy.
Roe v. Wade at 40: Most Oppose Overturning Abortion Decision
As the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision approaches, the public remains opposed to completely overturning the historic ruling on abortion. More than six-in-ten (63%) say they would not like to see the court completely overturn the Roe v. Wade decision.


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Bold wire saw project with SpeedCut
Bohus Bergsprängning has created a 22-meter deep shaft and a 7-meter long cross tunnel in Röda Sten in Gothenburg. The shaft was made entirely without blasting, instead using a wire saw from Atlas Copco.
June 28, 2016
When Chile's El Sauce copper mine launched an investigation into the reasons for its declining productivity, the low availability of its drilling equipment was identified as key factor. What came next became as industry "first".
The El Sauce mine in Chile, owned by the Las Cenizas Mining Group, is believed to be the first company in the mining industry to renew its entire fleet of rock drills as the pathway to a more profitable future. Located about 170 km north of Santiago, the capital, El Sauce had been suffering for some time from declining productivity, and in mid-2014 an investigation was launched to indentify the cause.
After several months, investigators announced they had found the source of the problem; excessive downtime of production drilling equipment due to insufficient service and maintenance of rock drills. As a result, a plan was launched to optimize rock drill availability with the support of experts from Atlas Copco – a cooperation that subsequently led to the renewal of all rock drills and hoses.
"Previously, it took a crew of skilled drillers four minutes to drill 48 holes. Today, with the new rock drills, the same crew does the same number of holes in two and a half minutes. This means we are now drilling a face in about two and half hours, which is fantastic."
Atlas Copco repurchased the complete range of existing rock drills (a total of 27) and then replaced them with 12 new ones. These comprised four COP 1435 and eight COP 1838HD+ models. In addition, Atlas Copco provided technical assistance with fitting the new drills in the underground workshops and with optimizing their performance at the various drilling sites.
Besides this exchange program, the team found that the under-performing rock drills were also affected by the reliability and availability of the fleet's hydraulic hoses which were being changed too often, adding even more to the cost of maintenance. As a result, all the hoses were also upgraded. These initiatives proved to be the catalyst for a dramatic improvement. Prior to 2014, the availability rating for drilling equipment was 60%. Today, it is 90%.
Raul Fara Engber, Head of Maintenance at El Sauce, says the benefits are easy to see in terms of productivity.
"Previously, it took a crew of skilled drillers four minutes to drill 48 holes," he says. "Today, with the new rock drills, the same crew does the same number of holes in two and a half minutes. This means we are now drilling a face in about two and half hours, which is fantastic."
Replacing the rock drill stock also revealed a surprising bonus. Tests conducted with the COP 1838HD+ showed that these models are multipurpose despite being designed for face drilling. Mounted on the fleet's Simba rigs, they could be used for long hole ring drilling with equal efficiency and zero failures. It was also found that the new COP 1435 was sufficiently powerful and robust to install 2.5 m long rock bolts, a task that could not be achieved before the renewal.
Read the full story at Mining & Construction online.
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The Impact of Immigration on Native Workers: A Fresh Look at the Evidence
This report examines the debate over the "competition question" of whether immigrants depress wages and displace native workers in the U.S. labor market. It provides an overview of research since the mid-1990s studying the impact of immigration on native wages and job displacement, and reviews additional factors that may affect how labor markets adjust to immigrant flows.
While many earlier studies indicate that immigration has little to no impact on the wages of natives, the report finds that recent scholarship on wage impacts have been divergent. Some studies have shown substantial negative wage effects, particularly among African American workers and natives in occupations with large shares of Latino immigrants; other studies suggest that complementarities between high-skilled immigrants and similarly skilled natives, as well as between low-skilled immigrants and more highly skilled native workers, contribute to higher wages for natives. Studies examining other factors that potentially mitigate wage and employment impacts, such as the out-migration or upward mobility of natives and changes in the way local labor markets and businesses absorb immigrant workers, also appear to lack consensus.
On the other hand, recent literature on job displacement consistently links immigration to at least some level of job displacement among natives and the growing exclusion of native workers from certain industries. However, the report raises concern over the narrow focus of these studies. With the "competition question" still largely up for debate, the authors caution that wage and employment concerns should be viewed as only one of many ways to look at the complex picture of immigrants, their contributions, and their costs in the United States.


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Okay, everyone seems to be looking back on the glorious victories and crippling failures of this year as it quickly vanishes into the chasms of time, so I'm going to join in a bit.
I'm quite happy that I've managed to put out a lot of new stuff this year, including a new on-going series amongst other bits and bobs. I've had my first gallery and even scored some paid freelance illustration gigs as well as making a small sum with online sales. The Comics Evenings at Travelling Man are thriving and the comic workshops myself and Daniel are putting on have been met with a lot of success as well.
I reckon now that I'm finally making enough money to justify spending one or two days a week drawing and creating stuff that 2010 should be even better though. I've just built this DIY macro photography studio which I'm hoping will get a lot of use when snapping new products for Etsy. I'm also going to make a concerted effort to keep Big Bang rolling along at a steady pace, because I've never had the patience to do that before.
But that's all boring. In terms of real comic book accomplishments I'd like to turn your attention to some triumphs in the published and self-published world that have excited me beyond comparable belief this year:
Favourite On-Going Series
This is a tie between Uptight by Jordan Crane and Cursed Pirate Girl by Jeremy Bastian.
The former is a beautifully mundane and bizarrely captivating look at the melodramatic, grizzly underbelly of spouse-dom in domestica. Riddled with panic and suspicion, played out masterfully and drawn meticulously, this is a series that has not failed to make me squeal like a little girl when I've seen new issues advertised in Previews. The humanism of it all stays with you like the residual hum of whisky on the tongue, and this series, coupled with the handful of other delights that the creator has to offer, has made me convert to his cause indefinitely. If his name is on it, I'll pick it up, and you should too.
The latter came completely out of nowhere for me. If I'm being completely honest, I picked up the first issue of this purely because of its design. It's a chunky booklet, wrapped in a textured brown card cover, with imprints and dashes of colour placed around it, reminiscent of that package you sometimes get in the mail that looks so aesthetically pleasing that you almost don't want to tear into it. But, of course, you do and sometimes, like in this case, it's totally worth it. Jeremy Bastian uses ink made from the tears of angels, and applies it to the paper using unicorn horns and the bones of great dead artists. His line-work, sense of composition and not least of all the confidence and flair with which he approaches our well-formed ideas of comic book conventions, is as refreshing as it is breathtaking. What's more, the story is like all of those "cool" pirate movies and books and comics that were popular not so long ago, but if they actually were really, really cool.
Favourite Graphic Novel
2008 saw the release of Joshua W. Cotter's Skyscrapers of the Midwest, which made this category a cake walk last year. This year is a little trickier. There have been a decent number of books that got me excited, but at the end of the day I'd have to give the cup to John Pham for Sublife vol.1. Some of the material in this volume was originally serialised in Mome, which I'm a devout reader of, so whether or not that had some major influence on my anticipation for its release or my investment in the characters prior to its release I'm not sure. Either way, reading the whole thing together in one gorgeously produced book was a whole other kettle of fish.
Much like the title suggests, this is a walk through suburban life on one particular street in some unnamed location of America. The subtleties of the surroundings and the overbearing sense of fear and insecurity they bring makes the world almost equally important to what's happening in it, and nails a perspective for you to take on the characters, even as the story is just starting out. There are a lot of loose story lines that sometimes briefly intersect, but I suspect the longer the story gets, the more significant each neighbour will become to one another and the more loose ends will tie together. Not that they need to, mind, but I've got a feeling they might. Even in this slim volume enough happens to satisfy your buck, and if John Pham decided to never release a second book there's enough in there for it to stand alone, in my opinion.
But that's irrelevant, because he is releasing a second volume, I've seen pictures of it, so there.
Triumphs of the Small Press Community
There have been loads of these, and I'd like to name-drop every single member of the Paper Jam Comics Collective for their group and solo efforts this year. We've made a ton of progress on becoming the ultimate comics juggernaut and everybody is stepping up, or has stepped up, their game. However, I think the cup for Most-Progress-Made would have to go to one Andy Waugh for the multitude of mediums and audience he has monopolized this year.
Andy put out this really succinct, really witty, really sweet and unbearably funny comic ages ago called Melanchomic, and instead of living off continual sales from this masterpiece, as he could have done, he decided to make himself known to we poor saps at the Comics Evenings and proceeded to "show us how it's done". You can read all about his accomplishments in the comic world and outside of it on his blog, but what I'd really like to draw your attention to is his latest title Coupledom.
Okay, it's another auto-bio comic, it's small press and it's A5. Some people can't get behind that formula to begin with and some people plainly find auto-bio self-indulgent. If you're one of these people, you might not get a lot out of Coupledom, but you will get something. That's because Andy uses this tried-and-tested method simply as a mouth-piece for what he wants to say. And true, sometimes he just wants to say "boobies" but we all like to say "boobies" once in a while, it's what makes us human. Indeed, it's what makes Andy's work human.
Now, some think that everything a person does should be at least 180 degrees in some other direction to the things they've done previously, and while Coupledom might not be miles away from Melanchomic, they're not exactly twins. More like friends of the family who you only see at Christmas. There is a wealth of originality in there. Not least of all is Andy's penmanship, which over the course of the years seems to have careened from Chris Ware-esque rigidness to Eddie Campbell-esqe sketchy-but-not-messy flowiness and back again with ease. It's the ease that really gets to me. I've never really asked Andy how long it takes him to produce something or how many times he throws a rage and rips everything up, but even if he is a bubbling cauldron of self-defeat like I am, he hides it really well. His lines move like ballerinas on ice.
Anyway, he's not the only one who has done well for himself. Here's a list of comics you should check out next time you're in Travelling Man:
Grainger Street and Nightbus 1 and 2 by Gary Bainbridge
Tales of Hollow Earth by Paul Thompson
All free zines by Mike Duckett, not least of all Bothy Zine
Wor Diary > go here.
Robots... and that
Space Monkey... and that
Toasty Cats 1-4 by Magda Boreysza
Tales of Extraordinariness featuring The Investigatist by Oscillating Brow
Anything by Terry Wiley, wow.
Anything by Ben Clark, bow wow.
Anything by those Banal Pig lads, wiggedy wow.
Things to look out for in the new year:
A showcase anthology that Andy Waugh is editing (working title: Show and Tell)
An anthology that Daniel Clifford is editing (working title: Adventure Arena)
A zombie apocalypse story that Martin Newman has everybody involved in and psyched about (working title: Project Z)
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In an October 10, 2011 interview on "The Marc Bernier Show" on WNDB-AM in Daytona Beach, Florida's Governor Rick Scott favors spending money on science and math degrees; however, was quoted saying that Florida "doesn't need a lot more anthropologists in this state." Read Michael C. Bender's entire post on The Buzz – a political blog of the St. Petersburg Times
As a political leader with significant national and international influence, we at the American Anthropological Association think it is unfortunate that Governor Scott would characterize anthropology in such a short-sighted way. As a discipline that has a rich and robust history, anthropology has made numerous contributions to the study of cultures both foreign and domestic, and has helped us understand humankind. Anthropologists are leaders in our nation's top science fields, from groundbreaking discoveries in public health to homeland security, and anthropologists work in various arenas, due to the diversity of the field in science and the humanities.
Download (.pdf) the official response to Governor Scott from the American Anthropological Association: http://www.aaanet.org/issues/policy-advocacy/upload/Letter-to-Gov-Scott.PDF
View the comments made to the October 11 blog post.
Read member commentary:
- One recent grad speaks out on their blog – benthropology
- A perspective from a biological anthropologist – Powered by Osteons
- Neuroanthropology nicely rounds-up the coverage
- Written Dispatch – Anthropologists Shouldn't Hate Governor Scott…
- Anthropology 4F03: Archaeological Theory Hub – We don't need no stinkin' anthropologists
- Savage Minds – Ryan asks readers "Should anthropologists be completely focused on producing jobs, or are there other elements that matter in a valuable and worthwhile education?"
- Living Anthropologically – Anthropologist Unite – Florida Edition
- John Hawk Weblog – Florida: Anthropologists not wanted
- Response to Governor Scott by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (via Neuroanthropology)
- Students of USF respond with a presentation called This Is Anthropology
- Neuroanthropology – Oh Wait, Rick Scott Loves Anthropolgy
- Savage Minds – Anthropology, Dialog and "Intellectual Reconstuction"
- Neuroanthropology – Why We Protest
The press picked up the conversation with gusto and even revealed that Scott's daughter earned her degree in Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. Daniel Lende has done an excellent summary of the press coverage on his blog Neuroanthropology.
- Article in The Economist
- Why Invest In Jobs That Don't Exist? Ocala.com
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
What I'll remember about the 2008 season, Volume I: Mencherson
May 9, 2008. Who could forget the day. The day the Toronto Blue Jays, in an attempt to spark a waning offense, pulled off not one, but two transactions to ultimately deliver us one mythical outfielder.
May 9, 2008, will forever be known in Blue Jays history as the day Mencherson was born.
We may have had our rough times, Brevin, but we go through them with everyone - right Vernon? You hear what I'm saying, Alex? Tell the man, AJ. No no no, not you Doc - you're exempt. But don't shortchange yourself, Brev - we shared some good times all the same.
Remember the walkoff single where you managed to score yourself (see photo above, where you are punching yourself in the face)? Remember scraping balls off the outfield wall and selling it to the hapless ump for an out? Remember the numerous (and flawless, I might add) pinch-running appearances? Remember removing the burden of facing crafty ol' Timmy Wakefield from Sniderman and Young Adam Lind? Those were all you, guy. Those were all you.
Brevin Mencherson - just one of the things I'll remember about the 2008 season.
11 comments:
- eyebleaf said...
Mencherson has got to be one of the worst pinch runner's in the history of pinch running.
But you're right, I don't think we'll ever forget Brevin Mencherson.
- October 4, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Did anyone else catch Sportsnet putting up a graphic about Kevin Mench's first HR of the season when Wilkerson put one out in one of the last games of the season? Or was I just imagining things?
- October 4, 2008 at 4:19 PM
- Question Mark said...
Don't forget Wilkerson's slam against the Royals. I had just finished complaining to my friends that "Wilkerson is terrible, he's a bum, if he goes yard I'll buy us all beers," and then boom. Fortunately, my friends released me from the bet, thus saving me the five grand it would've taken for six Rogers Centre beers.
- October 4, 2008 at 5:02 PM
awww Barajas looks so happy in that photograph
- October 4, 2008 at 6:11 PM
- dave said...
I'm not going to lie, I'll forget them pretty quick.
Also, the Sportsnet title mixup is here: http://teofinglett.blogspot.com/2008/09/menchersons-homer.html
- October 4, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Manch and Wilkie don't add up to Manny's toenail. Let's end this BS talk and tell Rogers to open up his pocketbook and get Manny. PERIOD! IF AJ leaves(he will) pick up garaland and a reclamation projectlike Pavano. Yeah, it'll cost 40 mill extra BUT with Manny on the team anything can happen.
- October 4, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Ah, yes. the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of the 2008 Toronto Blue Jays.
- October 6, 2008 at 10:07 AM
- John Brattain said...
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- October 7, 2008 at 12:01 PM
- John Brattain said...
But you're right, I don't think we'll ever forget Brevin Mencherson.
Not that I won't give it my best shot.
Mench actually had a batter BA/SLG against RHP this year.
My thoughts on Wilkerson have already been covered in depth, repeatedly, almost to the exclusion of all else.
"in an attempt to spark a waning offense" ... he used up two roster spots and received .226/.301/.340 production (with two more DP than HR)--the Rangers and Twins received better production from their pitchers batting during interleague play.
They provided less offense than what was league average for any position in either league in 2008. The following somewhat notable players outperformed or played almost as well as Mencherson offensively in 2008: Kevin Cash, Chad Moeller, Wilson Betemit, Alex Cintron, Pablo Ozuna, Sal Fasano, Jamey Carroll, Esteban German, Miguel Olivo, Macier Izturis, Robb Quinlan, Emil Brown, Yuniesky Betancourt, Miguel Cairo, Willie Bloomquist, Tadahito Iguchi, Damion Easley, Ramon Castro, Angel Pagan, Raul Casanova, Wes Helms, Ruben Gotay, Aaron Boone, Ryan Langerhans, Wil Nieves, Ronny Cedeno, Henry Blanco, Daryl Ward, Mark Loretta, Jason LaRue, Andy Phillips, Doug Mientkiewicz, Juan Pierre, Tony Clark, Augie Ojeda, Will Venable, Yorvit Torrealba, Scott Podsednik, Rich Aurilia plus pitchers Mark Hendrickson, Carlos Zambrano, Sean Marshall, Brandon Backe, Braden Looper, Adam Wainwright, Micah Owings and Jake Peavy was close.
I wonder what an act of sabotage would look like?
Don Fehr: "Mr. Das, if Barry Lamar Bonds was not being colluded against by the clubs of major league baseball then I would like an explanation as to the presence of Brevin Mencherson on the roster of the Toronto Blue Jays. To the best of the knowledge of the major league baseball players association, Jays' general manager J.P. Ricciardi does not have a substance abuse problem, is of reasonably sound mind, is employed by the Blue Jays with the presumed mandate to put a winning club on the field and not being paid under the table by the other franchises in the American league East and has not incurred significant gambling debts to the person of Brevin Mencherson. We feel that only a collusive understanding not to employ Mr. Bonds is the only reasonable explanation as to why Mr. Mencherson is considered 'an attempt to spark a waning offense' yet Mr. Bonds is not."
Best Regards
- October 7, 2008 at 12:03 PM
- The Ack said...
BRB in the house.....
so, wait, what? John, are you trying to tell me that Mencherson wasn't a capable replacement? Even with those accomplishments that I listed? Come on......
- October 7, 2008 at 12:19 PM
- John Brattain said...
so, wait, what? John, are you trying to tell me that Mencherson wasn't a capable replacement? Even with those accomplishments that I listed? Come on......
I think I may have alluded to it--I was trying my best to be subtle.
Mencherson would've been a suitable replacement--in the Paralympics. The only AL and NL where they might have had an impact were the Adipoceral League and the Necropolitan League.
It's amazing the timing, could you imagine had Ricciardi waited a little longer he might have had a shot at Jim Edmonds?
Coulda-woulda-shoulda eh?
I have to admit, this series has real potential--I can't wait for the next installments.
Best Regards
- October 7, 2008 at 2:18 PM


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Low Elo Podcast EP. 60 - Share the Chest Hair
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Browns release troubled wide receiver Bess after one season
CLEVELAND — The Browns have parted ways with wide receiver Davone Bess, following one disappointing season and a disturbing off season.
Cleveland released the troubled wide receiver on Wednesday, an expected ending after Bess was arrested in January for assaulting a law enforcement officer at an airport and other bizarre behavior.
Bess is still owed $3.06 million for 2014, but the Browns may try to recoup some of that money.
The 28-year-old Bess was acquired last April in a trade with Miami and the Browns immediately signed him to a three-year, $11.5 million contract extension that included $5.75 million guaranteed. The Browns believed the sure-handed Bess would fill a hole at slot receiver and bring leadership to a young group of wideouts.
However, Bess didn't deliver on the field and his personal problems built up in recent months.
Bess finished with career-lows in catches (42) and yards (362) last season, and he had several crucial drops that hurt the Browns. Bess, who spent his first five NFL seasons with the Dolphins, also muffed a punt in Kansas City, costing the Browns a chance to upset the then-unbeaten Chiefs. He never ducked any criticism for the poor performance, owned up to his mistakes and bounced back with two touchdown catches the following week in a win over Baltimore.
However, he missed Cleveland's final two games for personal reasons.
In Jan. 16, Bess posted a photo on his Twitter page of a small package containing what appeared to be marijuana. The photo was later deleted.
The next day, Bess was charged with assault on an officer, resisting arrest without violence and disorderly conduct following a confrontation at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. According to the police report, Bess was "acting irrationally, dancing, singing with his pants repeatedly falling down." Bess also reportedly took up a "fighting stance" with the officer, who hit Bess on the leg with a baton to no effect.
It was later learned that Bess had a run-in with police shortly before he was traded to Cleveland and his family had him hospitalized against his will.
The Browns initially vowed to support Bess, who may still face NFL discipline for his legal misstep. It's not yet clear if he plans to continue his football career.
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Milpitas, CA, May 25, 2011 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Pliant Technology, Inc., a leading developer of enterprise solid state drives (SSD). With the completion of the transaction, Pliant Technology becomes SanDisk's Enterprise Storage Solutions business.
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