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'Sherlock' Season 2: Steven Moffat talks Holmes, Moriarty and 'Stayin' Alive'

I should have asked "Sherlock" co-creator Stephen Moffat if he follows the first rule of showbiz, "Always leave them wanting more," because that's what he's done with both seasons of the popular reinterpretation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" mystery stories.

After a highly successful first season that drew 4.6 million viewers per each of three episodes on PBS' "Masterpiece Mystery!" last summer, the sleuth is back for three more installments (8 p.m. May 6, 13 and 20, WTTW in Chicago; 4 stars).

I can guarantee that by the end of "The Reichenbach Fall" on May 20, viewers will want to jump in the time machine featured in Moffat's other wildly popular series, "Doctor Who," and be transported to whatever date "Sherlock" Season 3 begins.

All three of the new stories, beginning Sunday with "A Scandal in Belgravia" and continuing May 13 with "The Hounds of Baskerville" before the May 20 finale, dazzle with imagination, wit and outstanding lead performances from Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson, Andrew Scott as Sherlock's arch enemy, James Moriarty, and Lara Pulver as his latest obsession, the dominatrix Irene Adler.

Going into Season 2, Moffat and co-creator Mark Gatiss kept what Detective Inspector Lestrade (Rupert Graves) said about Holmes in the first season in mind: "Sherlock Holmes is a great man and one day, if we're very lucky, he might be a good one."

"This is sort of his journey," Moffat told me during a phone interview. "When we see the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes [from the 1940s], he's completely accomplished and heroic and amazing and brilliant and the mighty sage of Baker Street. The Benedict Cumberbatch Holmes is still in the foothills of that. He's a bit autistic. He's a bit rude. He's more vulnerable because of those things. He's still wondering whether he's a psychopath. He's all those things.

"So this year is a big step forward for him in becoming the great man—or a good man—that Lestrade thinks he can be."

Moffat answered more questions about the new season, comparing Sherlock to Doctor Who and how Scott's marvelous take on Moriarty changed the writers' plans for the character. Watch Sherlock, Season 2 - Preview on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.

What’s in store for Sherlock this season?
Yes, people have talked about it being sort of almost a humanizing of him. But it’s more like it’s almost like Sherlock growing up, I suppose. He’s exposed to the big emotions. He encounters those deadly things of love and fear and loss, I suppose, is what he encounters, and, of course, he would emerge yet even stronger...

It’s funny you should bring up a Lestrade quote, because I was going to ask where that quote came from.
Well, that one’s ours. It’s not from the original. Yeah, it’s just we want that idea that Sherlock Holmes, even if you look at the original stories, Sherlock Holmes in “A Study in Scarlet” is humorless, autistic, cold, unpleasant. If you go a few stories later, he’s much warmer and funnier.

Now, he’s still a scary man. He’s still frightening. He’s still a bit psycho, but he’s become a lot more heroic. And by the time you get to [Doyle’s short story] “The Final Problem” [which is “The Reichenbach Fall” here] he’s moved so far from his original debut that he is prepared to lay down his life to stop Moriarty.

He’s become a hero. He’s become a good man, but a good man with considerable flaws, it must be said, and still a frightening and cold individual. But never forget that Sherlock Holmes is a hero and what we’re seeing is that hero being assembled year by year in our series.

It would be sort of impossible to write a show about a good man who had no flaws; it’d be kind of boring.
Well, I’m just trying to think. I suppose Superman has been quite a success and he’s pretty unflawed, isn't he? I think there's a version of it, but Sherlock Holmes has always been a sort of anti-hero. He’s always been someone who it was very clear that he’s not doing this in order to better the world; at least initially he isn't. He’s doing it just because it amuses him and he only takes the cases that entertain him. But he does sort of move beyond that a bit.

How long did it take you to come up with the resolution to the Season 1 cliffhanger in "A Scandal in Belgravia"? READERS: You can watch the first 7 minutes of the episode at the PBS Facebook page and see what I am talking about.
See, we never really took our cliffhanger on Series 1 seriously. We changed it, I’ll tell you that. We just thought it was great fun. And we didn't know the series was going to be a hit. We didn't even know if we’d get a second run. And for ages, that episode ended with Moriarty departing and Sherlock saying, “At last, the game begins,” or something like that. His big conflict with Moriarty begins. I think I suggested, “Well, why don’t we just do something bigger and more explosive—a big standoff?”

But we didn't take it that seriously, in the sense that I just thought it was such a standoff that they would just back away from each other realizing that they were at a stalemate. But then, of course, everybody went mad talking about that cliffhanger and so we talked a lot about what would be funny, what would be interesting, what's the only thing you could do that would be surprising. The building blowing up is a bit corny.

And I suggested, at some point, “Well, why doesn’t his phone just ring?” Moriarty’s phone rings; that's funny. And I told that to Sue, my wife who’s the producer, and she said, “Well, she’d just heard this very funny story that someone had gone to a funeral cremation and just at the point that the coffin was being lowered into the flames, someone’s mobile phone went off and it was “Staying Alive.” And I thought, “Well, that's it!” So we used “Staying Alive.”

After that pitch of melodrama and all that music building up, it gets such a roar of laugher when the next thing you hear is the Bee Gees, so it’s all thanks to the wife as usual.

It’s brilliant. And speaking about laughs, let’s talk about Andrew Scott and his demented take on Moriarty, which I also love. Is that mostly Andrew or was that written in that way?
How it came about was, originally, the very, very original version of the first series you weren't going to see Moriarty at all except in the role of gay Jim. If you remember he turns up and pretends to be Molly’s boyfriend who Sherlock deduces is gay. That was the only time you were going to see him and there wouldn't be any big pool resolution. But we needed to cast someone for that part who could play the demented Moriarty, and we did want a demented one. We moved away from the original just because every super villain since Moriarty has been a carbon copy of him. And if we did another suave, restrained, silky, sinister Moriarty, it would seem like the biggest cliche. It’s never much of an excuse to say, but it’s the original cliche.

So we wanted to move away from that, so we wrote up an audition scene in which Moriarty was being mental and scary and venomous. We auditioned various people for the part and Andrew Scott was so good at doing it, so frightening, that we thought not only would we cast him but we’d write him in. We actually decided we’ll do the poolside scene because we wanted to showcase him.

And we’ll see more of him this season, too, right?
Oh, yes, you’ll see. You’ll see him in a very major way in the third one, yeah.

Tell me about Irene Adler, your sort of feelings about her and her being Sherlock’s counterpart in intelligence and their little battle in the first episode.
Well, it’s one of the standbys of Sherlock Holmes movies. It has always been giving him the sexy female antagonist that possibly underneath the layers of glacier he might find quite attractive. And that’s always been one of the absolute standbys and is really rather good. I’m thinking of “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” or the wonderfully barmy Spider Woman with Basil Rathbone. It’s always worked really well. And all those characters are sort of based on the original, which is Irene Adler, who, when you read the story, isn't that bad or that clever. In fact, her big victory at the end is that she runs off with her husband and moves house. That's what she does in the original.

And indeed, the thing when I was a kid, and maybe this is what I’m responding to when I read the story, Sherlock Holmes makes a big fuss about how clever she was and how much smarter she was than him. You read the story and think there's no evidence of that at all in the original. You think, “No, Sherlock, you just fancied her and you don't know that's what you're talking about.” [Laughs.]

We’ve taken Irene Adler and added to her all the iterations of her sins, in a way, as much more devilish character, a much more sexual character—well, she’s fairly sexy in the original—and really [made their relationship] into sort of this battle of wits that seems to be a kind of foreplay for the brainy. But that's what it’s about and just letting Sherlock know it’s one of the stages of his development as a character, that he’s not immune to that sort of thing the way he thinks he is.

He usually comes off as asexual or at least disinterested in the other sex. It’s very interesting to see him be a little confused by her and his feelings toward her.
Yeah, I think it’s quite important to remember that Sherlock, in the original stories, is neither asexual nor unemotional. He’s quite an emotional man despite what he protests to the contrary. And what he says is he doesn’t want emotion and the whole business of romance to get in the way of his reasoning. He thinks if he allowed that into his life it would cause his brain to malfunction. You see, being gripped in a scientific instrument is what he says about it. He doesn't want it.

So we just dramatized that. He meets Irene Adler and he’s a doofus for about an hour. He can’t cope with it. He’s right. He can't allow this into the precision instrument of his intellect because it does cause him to malfunction.

How difficult or easier is it to take Conan Doyle’s stories and adapt them and modernize them than to write the original "Doctor Who" episodes?
We tend to take bits and pieces of the Doyle stories. What we we’re much more excited about is Doyle’s storytelling. He’s such a brilliant storyteller, just sticking to the principles of his characters. Most of his stories, the problem isn’t modernizing them at all. You can modernize them quite easily. You can modernize anything quite easily. The problem is they’re all about 20 minutes long. They’re all short stories.

So what we tend to do is cherry pick, or in the case of “A Scandal in Belgravia,” the first 20 minutes are sort of an adaptation of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” then it goes off into new territory because we’ve run out of story. In the case of “The Great Game,” Mark’s “The Great Game,” he took about five Conan Doyle stories and jammed them all together the way that the old Rathbone/Bruce movies used to do, which I think is the right way to do it. You take the sparkling jewels of the original and make a new thing out of them.

But we have no compunction about making up a brand new story. I think if you want Sherlock Holmes to be brand new you have to feel as though you tell your own stories. And what's important about the original isn't the detail of the story. It’s the detail of the characters and the style and as I say of storytelling principles of Doyle.

So it doesn't feel, Sherlock, oddly enough, like doing an adaptation, even though we are in love with the source material and in love with the style of it. I suppose it feels exactly the same as “Doctor Who” because, in “Doctor Who,” we’re also adapting an original. You know, we didn't invent it. It was there before we started. So it’s just about that kind of storytelling and that principle.

After Season 1 was such a big success, did that change things for when you sat down to start working on Season 2, more pressure? Did it change things once you started filming with the stars or anything?
People always ask if it’s more pressure and more stressful doing a second season when it’s been a hit. No, it’s not. It’s more joyous. It’s more exciting. You're rubbing your hands with glee saying, “Wait until they see this.”

I’ll tell you. I have done the alternative. I’ve done a second series of something that was absolute flop and that's stressful because you just sit there thinking how do we make people like it given that they already hate it. How are you going to persuade them that they like it this time? That was stress. Ignore what anyone has ever told you; success is not a burden and it is not a pain. It’s just enjoyable.

In terms of the filming, it’s completely different. People turn up, particularly if we’re shooting in pretend Baker Street. There's a whole line of people with cameras waiting to get a glimpse of Benedict Cumberbatch. And, when we were out shooting the first year, and my wife knows more about this than I do, but it is that people would recognize Martin Freeman from “The Office.” He’s quite a big star in Britain and is about to be an even bigger star all over the world, of course, [with "The Hobbit"] but not have the have the faintest idea who Benedict Cumberbatch was. He was as anonymous as me and possibly more so. Then, suddenly, in the space of 90 minutes, when that first episode went out, and he of course became the hottest actor in Britain, which was extraordinary.

So how would you compare Sherlock as a character to the Doctor?
Ah, the old, old question. I sometimes wonder do they really even have to be compared. But, actually, the big thing they’ve got in common is that they’re quirky and they're so of anti-heroes, I suppose. But beyond that is there much? They’re hugely clever. They're both hugely clever.

But the Doctor is lovely. He’s a lovely, lovely alien, at least on the surface and quite a long way underneath, he’s lovely. The line I always come out with is the Doctor is like an angel who aspires to be human, whereas Sherlock Holmes is like a man who aspires to be a god. So they’re tunneling in different directions and have different ambitions. Sherlock disdains all the business of humanity and wants to grow past it. The Doctor wants to go to a fairground and have fun. He loves all that. Sherlock is in love with his super intelligence, and, of course, the Doctor is even more super intelligent and is completely indifferent to it, in a way. He doesn't really mind. He just wants to have fun and help people and lark about.

You can read what Moffat told me about the upcoming season of "Doctor Who" and his plans for the 50th anniversary at this previous post: "Doctor Who" shockers

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Ravens' road to Super Bowl glory

The Baltimore Sun

Week 1: Ravens 16, Steelers 0
Pittsburgh – Three Rivers Stadium

The Ravens opened the 2000 season with a dominant defensive performance in a victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Ravens stifled a Steelers offense that failed to record a first down until the second quarter and couldn't cross the 50-yard line until the third. Led by defensive tackle Sam Adams and defensive end Rob Burnett, the Ravens held running back Jerome Bettis to 8 yards on nine carries.

Burnett pushed the Ravens to their first points of the game when he sacked Kent Graham in the first quarter, forcing a fumble that gave the visitors the ball in the redzone. Matt Stover kicked his first of three field goals four plays later. Quarterback Tony Banks then connected on a 53-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Qadry Ismail. Banks completed 18 of 32 passes for 199 yards, and running back Priest Holmes gained 119 yards on 27 carries.

"Everything we do got started here," defensive coordinator Marvin Lewis said.

Player of the Game: WR Qadry Ismail – seven receptions for 102 yards and a touchdown

Week 2: Ravens 39, Jaguars 36
PSINet Stadium

Ravens tight end Shannon Sharpe caught a touchdown pass in the final minute that sent the Ravens to their first win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The victory gave the Ravens sole possession of first place in the AFC Central two weeks into the season.

Sharpe's 29-yard touchdown reception completed a 75-yard scoring drive during a rugged comeback in which the Ravens erased a 17-point first-half deficit, took a 32-26 lead in the fourth quarter and fell behind in the final two minutes.

Quarterback Tony Banks threw a career-high five touchdown passes, completing 23 of 40 attempts for 262 yards.

"It's like we won the Super Bowl," Banks said.

Wide receiver Travis Taylor had two touchdown receptions, while wide receiver Jermaine Lewis and fullback Obafemi Ayanbadejo each had one.

The Ravens' defense yielded 386 passing yards to Jaguars quarterback Mark Brunell, but defensive backs Corey Harris and Kim Herring each had an interception.

Player of the Game: QB Tony Banks – 23-for-40 for 262 yards and five touchdowns

Week 3: Dolphins 19, Ravens 6
Miami – Pro Player Stadium

The Miami Dolphins' defense punished a porous Ravens offensive line in a rain-soaked, nationally televised victory.

The Dolphins sacked Tony Banks six times, including four in the first half, as Banks fumbled twice and was consistently hurried in the pocket. He managed to complete 19 of 31passes for 189 yards and one interception.

Miami's defense stuffed Jamal Lewis, and despite runs of 45, 17 and 10 yards, the rookie running back could not charge the Ravens into the end zone.

The Ravens spotted the Dolphins a 13-point lead before kicker Matt Stover booted a 27-yard field goal in the third quarter.

Stover added a 33-yard field goal in the fourth.

"They threw some different stuff at us, but this is the NFL," left guard Edwin Mulitalo said. "If you can't handle those kinds of things, you don't need to be here. When it came down to it, they got their job done, they got their game plan done, and we didn't."

Player of the Game: RB Jamal Lewis – 76 yards on nine carries and 22 yards on two receptions

Week 4: Ravens 37, Bengals 0
PSINet Stadium

The Ravens posted their second shutout of the season, and running backs Jamal Lewis and Priest Holmes combined for 167 rushing yards in a dominant performance against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Lewis scored his first NFL touchdown on an 11-yard rush in the second quarter and amassed 116 yards on 25 carries. The Ravens' defense set single-game team records for fewest rushing yards (4), passing yards (90), total yards (94) and first downs (seven) allowed. Defensive end Rob Burnett recorded 2.5 sacks, while defensive backs Duane Starks and Rod Woodson each had an interception.

"Team is what's going to win ballgames," tight end Shannon Sharpe said. "People keep saying we've got great defense. Well, Tampa has proved you can't win Super Bowls, can't win championships, by playing great defense and not having an offense."

Quarterback Tony Banks completed 20 of 36 passes for 196 yards and two touchdowns. Matt Stover added field goals from 19, 30 and 37 yards.

Player of the Game: RB Jamal Lewis – first NFL touchdown and 100-yard rushing performance

Week 5: Ravens 12, Browns 0
Cleveland – Cleveland Browns Stadium

The Ravens became the first NFL team in 15 years to post back-to-back shutouts, stuffing the Cleveland Browns. The victory was the Ravens' seventh straight against AFC Central opponents and second road shutout of the season.

Cornerback Robert Bailey set the tone in the second quarter by forcing Browns fullback Marc Edwards to fumble on consecutive plays inside the 10-yard line -- the second of which safety Rod Woodson recovered in the end zone for a touchback. Linebacker Ray Lewis, cornerback Duane Starks and Woodson each made an interception.

"Every NFL team has a $62 million salary cap," defensive end Rob Burnett said. "We're shutting them out, the best of the best, every week. We play the best available athletes money can buy. To be able to get a shutout in this league is phenomenal."

While the defense excelled, the offense faltered. Quarterback Tony Banks completed only 18 of 34 passes for 169 yards and one interception. Neither Jamal Lewis nor Priest Holmes could find the end zone despite combining for 168 rushing yards. Instead, the Ravens settled for four field goals by Matt Stover, including two from beyond 40 yards.

Player of the Game: MLB Ray Lewis – interception

Week 6: Ravens 15, Jaguars 10
Jacksonville, Fla. – Alltel Stadium

Another stifling defensive performance coupled with a career day for kicker Matt Stover helped the Ravens march to their first victory in Jacksonville.

Touchdowns were again at a premium, and the Jaguars scored the only one of the game, but it wasn't enough to overcome five field goals by Stover. The kicker matched his career high in field goals, and the Ravens' defense set a franchise mark with six take-aways, including fumble recoveries by linebacker Ray Lewis, cornerback Robert Bailey and defensive end Michael McCrary. Safeties Rod Woodson and Kim Herring and cornerback Chris McAlister each picked off Jaguars quarterback Mark Brunell.

"There's something special about this defensive group," coach Brian Billick said. "There's something special about this team. Yes, I would like to have done a few more things [offensively] to contribute. [But] if our job is to do just that, then that's what it's going to be."

The Ravens were without Pro Bowl tackle Jonathan Ogden ( sprained ankle), and center Jeff Mitchell was forced to leave with a high ankle sprain in the first quarter. After losing two of their best offensive linemen, the Ravens' stout rushing attack suffered. Running back Jamal Lewis was held to 44 yards on 17 carries, and Priest Holmes touched the ball twice for minus-6 yards.

Player of the Game: K Matt Stover – five field goals

Week 7: Redskins 10, Ravens 3
Landover – FedEx Field

A suddenly stagnant Ravens offense failed to score a touchdown for the third consecutive week in a loss to the Washington Redskins.

After yielding a 33-yard touchdown run to Redskins running back Stephen Davis early in the fourth quarter, the Ravens relinquished their hold on first place in the AFC Central and had scored only one touchdown through their first five road games. Quarterback Tony Banks faced first-and-goal from the 1-yard line with 10 seconds remaining in the first half but threw an interception to Redskins linebacker Kevin Mitchell that halted the Ravens' best scoring opportunity of the game.

"This here is ridiculous," tight end Shannon Sharpe said. "I'm very disappointed. I just told Tony: 'You're going to get all the blame, and you have to understand that. But you can't get down on yourself.'"

Banks went 16-for-27 passing for 135yards, and running back Jamal Lewis gained just 34 yards on 16 carries. Matt Stover again provided the Ravens' only offense of the game with a 51-yard field goal in the second quarter.

Player of the Game: OLB Jamie Sharper – forced fumble

Week 8: Titans 14, Ravens 6
PSINet Stadium

Quarterback Tony Banks threw three interceptions, and the Ravens' touchdown drought reached four games.

Tennessee Titans linebacker Randall Godfrey intercepted Banks twice, including one returned 24 yards for a touchdown. After throwing his third interception in four third-quarter possessions, Banks was pulled in favor of backup Trent Dilfer. The Ravens nearly scored on Dilfer's 33-yard pass to wide receiver Qadry Ismail on fourth down after failing to record a touchdown in the previous 17quarters with Banks. But the pass was ruled incomplete when an official review determined that Ismail failed to keep both feet inbounds.

"It's like a hex on us at the goal line now," right tackle Harry Swayne said. "It's like spirits come down to spook on us. They say, 'Not today.'"

Matt Stover connected on field goals of 21 and 38 yards to give the Ravens an early 6-0 lead. Stover had accounted for each of the Ravens' past 40 points. Banks threw for 229 yards, 104 of which went to tight end Shannon Sharpe.

Player of the Game: TE Shannon Sharpe – eight receptions for 104 yards

Week 9: Steelers 9, Ravens 6
PSINet Stadium

The touchdown drought reached five games in a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Ravens' third consecutive defeat.

The Ravens finished October without scoring a touchdown, accumulating only 42 points in five games. Matt Stover, who was responsible for every point during that span, connected on field goals of 51 and 49 yards in the second quarter against the Steelers. Quarterback Trent Dilfer made his first start in 11 months, completing 12 of 25 passes for 152 yards, but his two turnovers -- a fumble on the Steelers' 9-yard line and a third-quarter interception -- cost the Ravens valuable scoring opportunities.

"The perspective here has to change," coach Brian Billick said. "There are no easy answers for this. We're in a dead dogfight now to reach our main objective, which is to reach the playoffs."

The Ravens had not scored a touchdown since Obafemi Ayanbadejo went in from the 1-yard line in the fourth quarter of a Week 4 blowout victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.

Player of the Game: RB Jamal Lewis – 93 yards on 19 carries, 53 yards on three catches

Week 10: Ravens 27, Bengals 7
Cincinnati – Paul Brown Stadium

Quarterback Trent Dilfer's 14-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brandon Stokley ended the Ravens' touchdown drought in a victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Ravens went 21 quarters, 60 possessions, and 322 minutes, 32 seconds between Obafemi Ayanbadejo's 1-yard touchdown run Sept. 24 and Stokley's touchdown reception Nov. 5, marking the NFL's longest touchdown drought since the 1974 Chicago Bears went 22 quarters without one.

"It was kind of funny," Dilfer said, "because it was like we just won the Super Bowl. I had to sit back and say all we did was score a touchdown. I've scored a lot of touchdowns before."

Dilfer completed 23 of 34 passes for 244yards and three touchdowns, including two scoring receptions by tight end Shannon Sharpe. Running back Jamal Lewis rushed for 109 yards on 22 carries, while the Ravens' defense stuffed Bengals running back Corey Dillon, holding him to 23 yards on 16 carries.

Player of the Game: QB Trent Dilfer – 23-for-34 passing for 244 yards and three touchdowns

Week 11: Ravens 24, Titans 23
Nashville, Tenn. – Adelphia Coliseum

Quarterback Trent Dilfer orchestrated a nine-play, 70-yard touchdown drive in the final two minutes that sent the Tennessee Titans to their first Adelphia Coliseum loss.

Dilfer's 2-yard throw to wide receiver Patrick Johnson with 25 seconds remaining and Matt Stover's subsequent extra point completed an improbable drive in a hostile environment.

Dilfer connected on 23 of 36 passes for 281 yards and two touchdowns, including a 46-yard touchdown throw to wide receiver Qadry Ismail in the first quarter.

The Titans made a final drive, aided by a 20-yard scramble by quarterback Steve McNair that set up a 43-yard field-goal attempt for Al Del Greco, who missed wide right to end the game.

"I wouldn't be surprised if we have to come back here for the playoffs," right tackle Harry Swayne said. "If that's the case, it'd be like, 'We've been here; let's do it again.'"

The victory put the Ravens in an enviable position with four of the team's final five games to be played at home.

Player of the Game: TE Shannon Sharpe – eight receptions for 92 yards, including a 36-yard reception on the final drive

Week 12: Ravens 27, Cowboys 0
PSINet Stadium

The Ravens rolled to their fourth shutout of the season with a drubbing of the Dallas Cowboys.

Dallas never moved closer to the goal line than the Ravens' 28. The Ravens outgained the Cowboys 479-192 in total yards, and running back Jamal Lewis eclipsed the 100-yard plateau with four minutes remaining in the first half. The Ravens' 250 rushing yards set a franchise record, and the defense allowed Dallas to cross midfield only three times.

The defense forced Dallas quarterback Troy Aikman to throw three interceptions; safety Rod Woodson recorded his 58th career interception in the second quarter, and safety Corey Harris and linebacker Ray Lewis also had picks.

Jamal Lewis finished with the second-best rushing effort in Ravens history with 187 yards on 28 carries. Quarterback Trent Dilfer threw two touchdown passes -- a 40-yard strike to wide receiver Qadry Ismail in the first quarter and a 59-yard dart to tight end Shannon Sharpe in the second. Dilfer completed 18 of 24 passes for 242 yards.

Player of the Game: RB Jamal Lewis – 187yards on 28 carries; 20 yards on four receptions

Week 13: Ravens 44, Browns 7
PSINet Stadium

Jamal Lewis rushed for 170 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the Ravens' victory over the Cleveland Browns. Lewis broke Priest Holmes' single-season rushing record of 1,008 yards with 1,095 in only 10 starts.

"I'm not trying to be just any running back," Lewis said. "I'm trying to be great. I want to be great. Whatever is going to make me great, that's what I'm trying to do."

The Ravens gained 461 yards of offense as quarterback Trent Dilfer threw a 46-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Patrick Johnson and a 2-yard scoring pass to fullback Sam Gash in a 24-point second quarter. After Cleveland completed an 86-yard touchdown drive to start the game, the Ravens posted 44 unanswered points with a defensive effort that held the Browns to a season-low five first downs.

Player of the Game: RB Jamal Lewis – 170 yardson 30 carries, two touchdowns

Week 15: Ravens 24, Chargers 3
PSINet Stadium

The Ravens clinched their first playoff berth with a 24-3 victory over the lowly San Diego Chargers. The Ravens scored 21points off five San Diego turnovers, hassling Chargers quarterback Ryan Leaf for an interception by cornerback Chris McAlister and a second-quarter fumble that set up a 28-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Trent Dilfer to wide receiver Qadry Ismail.

Dilfer threw two interceptions as part of a sloppy Ravens offense that committed three turnovers in the first half. Running back Jamal Lewis rushed for 91 yards and one touchdown on 29 carries, marking his lowest rushing output since Week 8. Though it wasn't entirely pretty, the victory enabled coach Brian Billick to lift his moratorium on the P-word.

Player of the Game: WR Qadry Ismail – six catches for 80 yards and one touchdown

Week 16: Ravens 13, Cardinals 7
Tempe, Ariz. – Sun Devil Stadium

A 1-yard touchdown run by Jamal Lewis in the third quarter proved to be the difference in a victory over the Arizona Cardinals.

The Cardinals recorded more first downs and total yards than the Ravens but failed to finish a number of key drives. Quarterback Jake Plummer threw two interceptions, including one returned 30yards by cornerback Duane Starks, and linebacker Jamie Sharper forced a Cardinals fumble at the Ravens' 5-yard line with the clock winding down in the fourth quarter to seal the win and Baltimore's first home playoff game since 1977.

Lewis' touchdown highlighted a 126-yard rushing performance, while Dilfer completed 12 of 22 passes for only 70yards. A pair of 42-yard field goals by Matt Stover completed the Ravens' sixth consecutive victory.

Player of the Game: OLB Jamie Sharper – 45-yard INT return, forced fumble

Week 17: Ravens 34, Jets 20
PSINet Stadium

The Ravens closed the regular season with another sloppy offensive showing, but Jermaine Lewis returned two punts for touchdowns.

New York Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde posted a banner passing performance against the Ravens' vaunted defense, completing 36 of 69 passes for two touchdowns and 481 yards. The Jets totaled 524 yards to the Ravens' 142 and limited running back Jamal Lewis to 52 yards on 22 carries.

Despite the gaudy offensive numbers, the Jets committed six turnovers, including an interception that Ravens cornerback Chris McAlister returned 98 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter. The Ravens' defense finished the regular season with NFL records for fewest points (165) and rushing yards (970) allowed during a 16-game season.

Player of the Game: WR Jermaine Lewis – two punt-return touchdowns

Wild-Card Round: Ravens 21, Broncos 3
PSINet Stadium

A suffocating defensive effort coupled with a resurgent offense led the Ravens past the Denver Broncos in the AFC wild-card round.

Playing in frigid conditions, the Ravens allowed the Broncos past the 50-yard line only once as a PSINet Stadium-record crowd of 69,638 witnessed the city's first playoff game in 23 years.

"The emotion was high because it's been 23 years since this city had a playoff game," linebacker Ray Lewis said. "I was 2 years old the last playoff game that was in Baltimore. The thing now is to keep rolling. Nothing else matters but the next game."

Tight end Shannon Sharpe caught a tipped pass from quarterback Trent Dilfer in the second quarter and ran 58yards for a touchdown. Running back Jamal Lewis rushed for two touchdowns, including a 27-yard run in the third quarter that stamped the victory. Lewis finished the day with 110 yards on 30 carries.

Player of the Game: MLB Ray Lewis – interception, seven tackles

Divisional Round: Ravens 24, Titans 10
Nashville, Tenn. – Adelphia Coliseum

A pair of improbable fourth-quarter touchdowns sent the Ravens to an AFC championship game matchup with the Oakland Raiders.

Defensive lineman Keith Washington tipped a 37-yard field-goal attempt by the Tennessee Titans' Al Del Greco, and first-year special teams player Anthony Mitchell returned the ball 90yards for a touchdown that broke a tie at 10. Less than six minutes later, linebacker Ray Lewis intercepted Tennessee quarterback Steve McNair and charged 50 yards for his first career touchdown.

"It's a long time coming, but I feel like it is our time," Ravens defensive end Rob Burnett said. "Every dog has his day, so to speak. Or every bird has his day would be a better way to put it."

The Ravens entered the red zone only once, on a drive that ended with a 1-yard touchdown run by Jamal Lewis. The Titans, meanwhile, penetrated the Ravens' redzone four times but scored only 10 points on those drives. Del Greco suffered blocks of field-goal attempts from 45 and 37 yards and hit the left upright from 31 yards.

Player of the Game: DB Anthony Mitchell – returned a tipped field-goal attempt for a 90-yard touchdown

Championship Game: Ravens 16, Raiders 3
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Trent Dilfer's 96-yard touchdown pass to Shannon Sharpe set an NFL playoff record for longest passing play and helped the Ravens clinch a spot in the Super Bowl with a victory over the Oakland Raiders.

The Ravens' defense held Oakland's league-leading rushing attack to 24yards on 17 carries, and defensive tackle Tony Siragusa flattened the Raiders' Rich Gannon in the second quarter, forcing the quarterback to leave the game.

"Can defense win the Super Bowl? Damn right, defense can win the Super Bowl," Siragusa said. "But you can't count our offense out. They made big plays today."

The Ravens' duo of Jamal Lewis and Priest Holmes combined for 110 yards on the ground, and Dilfer completed nine of 18 passes for 190 yards. Matt Stover booted field goals of 31, 28 and 21 yards, and the defense held Oakland to a 24-yard field goal by Sebastian Janikowski in the third quarter.

Player of the Game: TE Shannon Sharpe – 96-yard touchdown reception in second quarter stands as the NFL record for longest pass in the postseason

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With 14 of the world’s 55 gigawatt solar panels installed in the country, China became the largest solar panel market in 2015. This rapid expansion of investment into solar energy can be attributed to the generous incentive programs that the country offers, as well as the government’s five-year plan to hit 100 gigawatt installations by 2020. Other studies, such as one conducted by Xinhua, forecast an even brighter outlook for the industry, with figures as large as 150 gigawatts by 2020 predicted.

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Revenue in China’s solar power generation industry rose at an annual rate of 145.3 percent between 2010 and 2015, totaling US$2.6 billion. This amount was largely spurred by rising household demand for electricity, which has caused several cases of power supply shortages in the past and brought exceptional demand for solar power generation.

Environmental consciousness and pollution problems have also contributed to the want to shift from a reliance on imported fossil fuels to renewable energies. Under the twelfth five-year plan, the State Energy Administration made aims to increase solar power generation capacity from 860 megawatts to 21 gigawatts. However, China’s solar power resources and infrastructure are fragmented, and a more cohesive and developed distribution network will be required to efficiently utilize its solar power generation capability.

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China’s solar panel manufacturing industry has also been developing at a fast pace: from 2010 to 2015, the industry saw an annual growth rate of 2.4 percent, with revenue totaling US$29.8 billion. Over the same period, Chinese solar cell output has been increasing by 21.3 percent per year, with an estimated output of 27.6 gigawatts in 2015.

Polysilicon solar panels are the most popular choice, as they are relatively cheaper and take less energy to produce. They accounted for the majority of the solar panel segment, making up 56.8 percent of total industry revenue in 2015. However, the conversion efficiency rate of polysilicon solar panels is only about 12.0 percent, whereas monocrystalline, which accounted for 28.6 percent of total industry revenue in 2015, converts between 15 and 24 percent.

It is estimated that over 90 percent of China’s territory has the potential to support some form of solar power generation, and although China is the world’s leading solar panel manufacturer, over 95 percent of its panels are exported.

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Corporate investment in solar installations is met with generous policies and incentives. In 2013, the Chinese government introduced new feed-in tariffs (FITs), deployed at both state and provincial levels to fuel the growth of distributed solar rooftop installations. The central government currently provides 20-year subsidies of US$0.06 per kilowatt-hour of output from solar rooftop projects. For surplus power, RMB 0.40 per kilowatt-hour is awarded from the state grid, for any surplus power they generate.

The National Energy Administration aims to deregulate the electricity market for small distributed solar generation, including rooftop projects. Projects producing fewer than six megawatts of energy are exempt from the application of a power generation license. Since 2014, a streamlining of payments and subsidies has existed to aid solar projects undertaken by individuals and private enterprises. Industrial and commercial entities setting up solar rooftop projects are offered a payback period of 7-9 years with an eight percent return rate.

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Two factors are combining to incentivize the Chinese government to strengthen the solar panel industry: increasing awareness of environmental pollution, and concerns over power supply and generation. While large solar power markets in Europe such as Germany and Italy begin to reduce subsidies for solar panels, endorsement in Beijing looks set to make China not only the leading manufacturer of solar panels, but  also the leading buyer.

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Both value and payment due date is set on Oct 26, and the to-be-issued notes tradable Oct 29.

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Are Evangelical Leaders Misrepresenting Evangelicals on Immigration Reform?

Update on Aug. 5, 2013:  In a response to this article from Jonathan Merritt, he noted he spoke to someone at CBS about its poll showing that 75 percent of evangelicals support a conditional pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. CBS, it turns out, made the same mistake as Merritt and used "evangelicals" when they meant "white evangelicals." We believe, though, that this new information makes the point of this analysis even stronger. Since non-white evangelicals are at least as likely to support immigration reform as white evangelicals, then the Evangelical Immigration Table does indeed represent the views of a supermajority of evangelicals.

Evangelical support for immigration reform is a top-down, "grasstops," elite-led movement with little support among the "grassroots," or the evangelicals in the pews, Jonathan Merritt and Mark Tooley have recently argued. Their arguments, though, are based upon an assumption that the views of all evangelicals are represented by the views of white evangelicals.

"As it turns out, the evangelical movement on immigration has been mostly top-down and not bottom-up. It has failed to do the difficult work of convincing and mobilizing (or at least neutralizing) the millions of evangelical churchgoers and voters," Merritt, an evangelical author, wrote July 23 for Religion News Service.

Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, agrees. Tooley cites Merritt in a Wednesday article for The American Spectator and warns evangelical leaders that they are in danger of following in the footsteps of mainline protestants.

In the 1960s, mainline Protestant leaders took liberal positions and became politically active on a range of issues. These "generals without armies," as one author described them, became increasingly irrelevant as lawmakers recognized that they were not representing the interests of the people they claimed to represent.

"Evangelical elites, when speaking politically for ecclesial bodies, should stick with issues to which Scripture and Christian tradition speak most directly. As representatives of mostly democratic polities, they should also strive to represent a consensus view within their churches. Otherwise they will create resentment among their members and are likely not to be taken seriously by policymakers or, ultimately, the media," Tooley wrote.

Merritt and Tooley are both, though, cherry-picking the data to make it seem as if evangelicals are more opposed to immigration reform than they actually are.

The evidence Merritt uses to support his view that evangelicals are opposed to immigration reform is a Public Religion Research Institute survey. Merritt claims the data shows that only 56 percent of evangelicals support a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants and 63 percent want to deport all illegal immigrants.

The data, though, does not actually show that. The numbers he cites is for white evangelicals, not all evangelicals. Tooley gets it right. When he paraphrases Merritt's argument, he uses the term "white evangelicals." The error may have simply been an oversight on Merritt's part, but the argument that both Merritt and Tooley make suggests a cultural bias.

Claiming that leaders who support immigration reform do not represent evangelicals, and then supporting that claim by looking at the views of only white evangelicals implies that the views of white evangelicals count more than the views of non-white evangelicals.

To know whether or not the evangelical leaders of the Evangelical Immigration Table, a coalition of evangelicals calling for reform of the immigration system, represent the views of evangelicals, should we not look at the views of all evangelicals, not just white evangelicals?

A recent CBS News poll showed that three out of four, 75 percent, of evangelicals support a conditional path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants.

The question of whether evangelicals are following their leaders on immigration reform is still a good one, though. Even if the pro-immigration reform evangelical leaders are representing a majority of evangelicals, as appears to be the case, the fact that a strong minority disagree is an issue deserving of further scrutiny. The Christian Post has reported on this very question before (here and here).

Ruth Melkonian-Hoover, associate professor of political science at Gordon College, Wenham, Mass., has studied this question. She found that support for immigration reform and positive feelings about immigrants increase for evangelicals when they hear positive messages about immigrants from their pastors.

Melkonian-Hoover notes, though, that it is still too early to tell what impact the EIT is having. In a Wednesday email to The Christian Post, she explained that she is currently working on a project to better understand the views of evangelicals on immigration. Though the results will not be available any time soon, she did conduct a pilot study on one politically conservative evangelical denomination and found strong support for comprehensive immigration reform with certain qualifications and a guest worker program.

With the nation still in the middle of a debate over immigration reform, the group's efforts will continue. Indeed, August will be a key month as House members will be home in their districts listening to their constituents. For some of them, what they hear from evangelicals, white and non-white, could have an impact on how they vote on an immigration reform bill.


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(Photo: YouTube Screen Shot)Two moms brawl at a kids' talent show.

Two moms have started a brawl at a kids' talent show in St Cloud, Florida, with a video of the embarrassing incident going viral on the Internet this week.

The shocking scene shows a large group of parents gathered to watch as their kids perform up on an elevated stage at the front. However, what should have been a friendly and enjoyable family school event was spoiled by two bickering moms who allowed their own issues to get the better of them.

The incident occurred last weekend at Lakeview Elementary School, and the two moms have been identified as Jessica Tyler and Latisha James.

Tyler can be seen sitting down in the foreground of the video trying to watch the kids on stage. However, her view is shown seemingly blocked by James who was standing up in front of her.

Tyler gets up twice to approach James and say something – the second time she takes out what appears to be a cellphone and walks in front of James to take a picture of the kids in stage.

Tyler then again goes back to her seat only for James to follow after her. James can then be seen standing over the other mom shouting something, and it doesn't take more than a few seconds before the two moms come to blows.

Other shocked parents can be seen in the hall quickly jumping up to try and intervene and calm things down. The two moms obviously became a complete distraction to the kids who were performing on stage.

Tyler has since said that she approached James to ask her to sit down. She claims that James cursed at her in response.

Tyler told WFTV: "I walked up to the lady, I asked her just to kneel down for a second, just so I could get a picture of my niece, and she said, 'No, I ain't ——- sitting down'."

Some reports have claimed that when Tyler went back and pushed in front of James to take her photo in front of her she may have accidentally knocked James' child who was standing next to her, and that sparked a fierce backlash from James.

James has said, "She said, 'I told you to move! … Honestly, I blacked out at that point … The lady came after me and grabbed me by the throat and hit me in the face."

James added: "I am very remorseful for what I've done, but I don't know what else I could have done … Whatever the police report says, I grabbed her and hit her. I did that … I want all the parents and Lakeview to know that I am really, really, sorry and that's not how I behave."

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After suffering his own limb loss and overcoming it, Kenmore resident Kevin Degnan is taking steps to help other amputees in the community.

In collaboration with Catholic Health, Degnan kicks off Moving Forward: Amputee Support Group of Western New York with a peer meeting on Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m. at Kenmore Mercy Hospital’s Community Room located at 2950 Elmwood Avenue in Kenmore.

Moving Forward will meet monthly, featuring various guest speakers and special resources for amputees and their families.

Having recently completed seven months of physical rehabilitation, and accomplishing his personal goal to run a 5K, Degnan wants to use his enthusiasm and determination to help motivate others. “I’m not a medical professional, but I have been through an amputation and know you can get through it,” he said. “Getting motivated again is just as much a mental process as it is a physical one.”

Degnan participated in Catholic Health’s Amputee Rehabilitation Program, which works with amputee patients throughout the course of their treatment and recovery, to provide seamless, high quality care and help them achieve their rehabilitation goals. “Moving Forward extends our efforts by offering patients the opportunity to share information ranging from research and new medications to how to cope with a limb loss,” said Karen Hughes, director of Outpatient Rehabilitation for Catholic Health.

Limb loss affects every generation from young to old and people from all walks of life. Currently, more than more than two million Americans live with limb loss from vascular complications (54%), trauma (45%), and cancer (less than 2%). Degnan’s lower left leg was amputated last September after battling complications from an injury he suffered 25 years ago after being hit by a car while running.

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Nathan Hall from Greentree Christian Church in Rolla, MO brings us these porch light blinder pieces.

This set was inspired by the Keith Urban and Gary Clark Jr. performance at at the 2014 Grammy’s. The centerpiece of the design was the exposed, antique light bulb light boxes. They were plywood frames, stained and covered with light sockets. They were held up by black iron pipe frames.

To fill up the remaining space, Nathan built some frames that held horizontal wooden slats. He also hung some additional antique light bulbs from the ceiling to carry the visual theme a bit further. The lumber was the most expensive element since he bought nice pieces of wood to give it a more finished look.

The piping was the next most expensive element of the design. He used varying, pre-cut lengths from his local hardware store and fittings to build the frames. The next biggest expense with the lightbulbs. They ran about $8 a piece. And there were a lot of them!

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With a World Series Championship under his belt, Bobby Bonilla sets his sights on his place in baseball history.

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"Ya' know, somebody mentioned when we were play-ing ball in Cincinnati last year that there are only five switch-hitters with more than 250 homers," Bonilla re-calls as he relaxes in the conference room of Performance Imaging, his home theater business, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, the player's hometown.

He names the hitters: "Mickey Mantle [536], Eddie Murray [504], Chili Davis [328], Reggie Smith [314] and me [262]. Only five switch-hitters in the history of baseball with 250," he repeats, flashing the smile. "I think 300 is a nice benchmark."

Nice, indeed. In more than 130 major league seasons, only 77 players--less than 1 percent--have hit 300 homers. Should Bonilla hit number 300, he will equal Hall of Famer Chuck Klein. Rogers Hornsby, doubtless the greatest all-around second baseman that ever lived, finished at 301. Bonilla considers the numbers the way kids once perused the backs of baseball cards.

If he plays five years and averages 28 per season, he's told, he'll pass 400. "Guys are staying in shape all year round because they don't have to work in the off-season," he says hopefully. If he gets to 400, he goes from 77th place to 26th place, passing Al Kaline at 399. If he does that, he'll be ahead of all but a fraction of one percent of all the players--only 25 men--who ever put on a uniform. "Now you have me interested," he says. He checks the figures. "I have a chance to do some things. It's refreshing to hear that, because so many people have gotten caught up only in the money; they have forgotten what you've done."

If Bobby Bonilla is indulging himself in a little game of what-if in the twilight of his career, he deserves it. After 12 years in the majors, many of them played under the onus of trying to live up to astronom-ical salaries that demanding fans felt he didn't deserve, the 35-year-old Florida Marlins third baseman has earned a measure of redemption. Last year, Bonilla helped the fledgling Marlins to a World Series championship after only five years as a team, the fastest-ever rise of an expansion organization. He has put aside the demons of the past--a long stint in the pressure cooker of the New York sports media, a rap that he couldn't perform in the big game--and it is now a time for dreaming.

Bonilla and "the Fish" swam against the steepest of probabilities last autumn, unexpectedly knocking off the Giants and Braves in the playoffs and then the Indians in the World Series. Neither the IndiansMarlin matchup, nor the outcome, could have been predicted by the most prescient sage or an oracle at Delphi.

Few baseball pronosticators pay much attention to expansion clubs, much less teams whose colors are teal and white and are named after saltwater fish with snouts. But the Marlins achieved their meteoric rise to the top by making use of the age-old elixir of timely pitching, hitting and defense. The Marlins had just enough scoring in the games in which they didn't pitch well and just enough pitching and defense in the ones in which they didn't hit well.

For Bobby Bonilla it was the culmination of a career that has included several standout seasons and several filled with disappointments and painful near-misses. It is not a time to rest on his laurels, however. Coming off postseason operations on his left Achilles' tendon and left wrist, he rejoins a team that has been ravaged. Wayne Huizenga, who owns the Marlins as well as Blockbuster Video, claimed that the team lost $35 million last year. In an attempt to dump salaries, the Marlins traded nine members of their World Championship squad. Not long after the uplifting strains of Gloria Estefan's "Reach" had filled a packed Pro Player Stadium celebration, a piranha chewed away at Florida's roster as well as its fandom, with its loyal pockets of ethnic enthusiasm reflecting the team's diversity. Gone are pitchers Kevin Brown (who made $4.8 million in 1997), Robb Nen ($3.08 million) and Dennis Cook ($850,000), and outfielders Moises Alou ($4.5 million), Devon White ($3.4 million) and Jeff Conine ($2.8 million). And that's just a portion of the dearly departed.

The victory lap that Bonilla and White took around the field after Game 7--following a dramatic, 11th-inning victory--had occurred only five months before. It felt like a lifetime.

Bonilla's road to diamond glory was circuitous and long. Before the green expanses of Florida and Connecticut, there was the infinite asphalt and gray tedium of the South Bronx. Roberto Martin Antonio Bonilla was born there on February 23, 1963. His earliest connection was to an electrician, that being his father, Roberto. Bobby's parents separated when he was eight years old, and his mother, Regina, gained custody of him.

One day he watched his father enter an old building, ascend a ladder and get knocked flat on his butt by an electric shock. Then he got right back up and climbed the ladder. "He had no fear of it," Bonilla marvels, even now. "He was impressive. I grew up in the Bronx with Mom, but he was always around, living in Flushing [Queens] not far away. There's no one I looked up to more than my dad."

Electronics did not move him though. "I was just looking at him and decided this is not for me," Bonilla says. But that's all he knew: what wasn't for him. The South Bronx turned out some good folks, but it also churned out a steady dose of teen marriages, drugs problems and plain old trouble. "Kids having kids--it's not something I wanted for myself," says Bonilla, explaining how the environment drove him to excel. "For some reason I was different. My brother would tell me stories about when he woke up I was swinging a bat. He said my mind was always going. I never wanted to be categorized, like 'oh damn, I'm 18 and got two kids.'"

He played baseball at Lehman High School, just across the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge from Shea Stadium, and found that he could drive the ball. "There were no fences on most fields and so you hit them over heads and ran and ran," Bonilla remembers. "Lehman had a fence in right field, into the lumber yard." When he was in 10th grade he met a ninth grader named Migdalia in the lunch room. The two dated, became high school sweethearts and eventually married.

A pinch of good fortune brought Bonilla's talent to the fore. His high school coach, Joe Levine, went to a seminar where a high school all-star team was being put together to play in Scandinavia. "Next thing you know, I'm picked. This was overwhelming to me. I was about 17, in 12th grade. That's when I started to think, 'Maybe, just maybe....'The school and my dad chipped in to get me the $1,000 to go.

"I wanted to go to Arizona State, but they didn't want to take me. Sid Thrift [then an executive in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization who was with his son on the Scandinavian trip] asked me, "Do you want to go to school or play ball?" I said, 'I didn't get picked at the school I wanted to go to, so I'll play ball.' Sid asked me if I wanted to sign and I said sure." Within weeks Bonilla was at a tryout in Bradenton, Florida.

"Now I go to the tryout and they say 'yes' and I go to Pirate City where their spring training is. There I see Willie Stargell's picture, [Roberto] Clemente's picture, Manny Sanguillen, Dick Groat, Bill Mazeroski. All I can remember is being in Bradenton and looking at a picture of Three Rivers Stadium and just staring at it and thinking, 'Shit, I'm going to be in this stadium.' "

The 18-year-old Bonilla signed with the Pirates organization on July 11, 1981. During that year and over the following four seasons--on clubs like Alexandria in the Carolina League and Nashua in the Eastern League--his play was mediocre, his highest average reaching only .262. Nonetheless, he was about ready for the big show in 1985 when he broke his ankle and went on the disabled list for four months. The White Sox selected him in a draft of unprotected minor league players in December 1985. He played 75 games with the Sox before they traded him back to Pittsburgh for pitcher Jose DeLeon on July 23, 1986. He got into 63 games with the Pirates that year, hitting just .240.

At the age of 24, in 1987, Bonilla started to show signs of potential. Playing 141 games, migrating between third, first and the outfield, he hit 15 homers and batted .300. In 1988, his first of six All-Star seasons, he hit .274, with 24 homers and 100 runs batted in. In 1990 he blasted 32 homers and knocked in a career-best 120 runs. But, in postseason the Pirates lost to the eventual world champion Reds, four games to two. Bonilla went 4-for-21 (.190) with no homers and one RBI.

The following year the Pirates sailed into the postseason, but the ship sunk again as they scored only 12 runs in a seven-game series against the Atlanta Braves. Bonilla was 7-for-23 (.304) but knocked in just one run.

Bonilla still remembers the buzz about those two playoff series. "People say 'You didn't hit well,' " says Bonilla. "You know what they say: good pitching stops good hitting.

"I always thought when you get in a short series it's not 'let's get 'em tomorrow.' It's about every pitch, every at bat--a little more intensified. And instead of just staying relaxed, you pick up your concentration so much that you can have a tendency to get tense."

Before the 1992 season, Bonilla turned free agent. The Pirates made him an offer of $16.5 million over four years, but Bonilla, through his agent, rejected the offer. The White Sox and Phillies both passed on his five-year, $28 million asking price. The next day, December 2, 1991, Bonilla signed with the Mets. After four hours of negotiation, Al Harazin, in the midst of a legendary spending spree as a first-year general manager of the Mets, put together a $29 million, five-year package. The $6.1 million Bonilla made in 1992 was the highest salary on the Mets, the highest salary for a right fielder, the highest in all of baseball.

After an auspicious start, the 1992 season turned into a bust. On opening day in St. Louis, Bonilla hit two homers, including a two-run blast in the 10th inning that gave the Mets a 4-2 victory. "At first it was nice being back in New York; my father was at the games," Bonilla recalls.

But his performance wouldn't remain at that level. "My first year was very difficult," Bonilla admits. "I tried to do a lot more than I was capable of doing. I'm no Albert Belle. But I was a pretty good RBI guy in Pittsburgh, bringing some solid numbers over. If I had just kept that in my mind, then I might have had a smoother transition. But I tried to give them 29 million reasons why I should get the money." Bonilla knocked in 70 runs and hit just .249, his worst full season in the major leagues.

Fans and the media compounded his woes. "I came from Pittsburgh and I was a good guy and then when I came to New York suddenly I'm a horseshit guy. I don't know why. I think you have to be a lot tougher to play here and have real thick skin." Bonilla admits to having said something that probably encouraged the treatment.

"You guys won't be able to knock the smile off my face," a smiling Bonilla told a gathering of reporters at the start of the 1992 season. "They might have taken that as a challenge," Bonilla observes now, "Like, 'Say what? You don't know where the fuck you're at, kid.' "

Some fiascos he might prefer to forget. On a Saturday game at Shea Stadium in late May, Bonilla, who was hitting just .130 at Shea to that point, took hitting coach Tom McGraw's suggestion to try ear plugs. He did not expect the plugs to drown out the boos, he said, but only to afford him a little more concentration. A firestorm of con-troversy ensued. Was he telling the boo birds where to get off? After the incident reached full boil two days later, he took out the plugs and hit a single, a double, a grand slam and knocked in six runs in a night game at Shea. Controversy defused. At least for a while.

Not a month later, Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux's one-hopper caromed off Bonilla's glove for an error. The Shea Stadium scoreboard flashed the "E" sign--and kept on flashing it--right over the right fielder's shoulder. "I don't know why that particular guy working the scoreboard decided to do that," says Bonilla. "That really pissed me off."

When Bonilla ran back to the dugout, the TV camera followed him to the phone that links up with the press box. After the game--a 9-2 Mets loss--Bonilla said he was calling Mets public relations dir-ector Jay Horowitz to check on his health. The next day he said he was "making light of the situation," merely joking about Horowitz's health the day before. But he offered no explanation of what he was calling about, and as a result he incurred the wrath of the beat writers on New York's four major dailies and with it the distrust of the fans.

When he returned to Pittsburgh later that week to play against his old team, he was booed by the Pirates fans. After a golf ball thrown from the stands hit him in the head, he went back to the dugout to get a helmet. The Pirates' organist played "Take the Money and Run."

Bonilla had a better year in 1993, reporting to camp with a thicker skin and a thinner body, hitting 34 homers and driving in 87 runs. But controversy continued to swirl around him when he threatened reporter Bob Klapisch, co-author of The Worst Team Money Could Buy, a clubhouse exposé that laid bare many of the team's peccadilloes from the previous year. "I'll hurt you," Bonilla said to Klapisch, as the writer approached his locker after a game. Horowitz had to hold Bonilla back.

By his third year in New York, Bonilla had grown more comfortable with the pressure. He said it all changed when a cartoon on the back of the Daily News portrayed him wearing diapers, with a headline reading "Baby Bonilla." "My wife looked at it and started cracking up," he says. "I said, 'Honey, you all right?' It was funny, genuinely funny. From then on I put everything else behind. It took me a while after that, but I realized it was a war you cannot win."

In 1994 he was hitting .290 with 20 homers and 67 RBI when a strike shut the season down in early August. He started the 1995 season strong, hitting 18 homers, 53 RBI and .325 into July, but the Orioles, who needed a cleanup hitter and right fielder, snatched up Bonilla.

"I was a little sad. I don't know if you can be sad and relieved at the same time, but that's what I was feeling," recalls Bonilla. "I saw my father, my family, my wife and kids and my brothers. I met some nice people at Shea, but I was also relieved because I didn't have to put up with any more shit."

Bonilla left some good in his wake. For five years he has run a bowling tournament in New York City that benefits the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. For his efforts, he received the Thurman Munson and Gary Carter awards for humanitarian concern in the community. A veritable who's who in baseball show up to bowl in his tournament. Cigar lovers Tino Martinez and Cecil Fielder bowl, as do Paul Molitor, Craig Biggio, Frank Thomas, Ken Griffey Jr., Kirby Puckett, and Ozzie Smith.

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City council March 12 rejected a proposed budget amendment increasing city attorney fees.

No one voted in favor of the amendment at the caucus meeting, which would have moved $35,000 from the city’s contracted services line item to the city’s attorney line item. The budgeted attorney fees would have then totaled $85,000.

Councilwoman Holly Isenhour was not present for the vote.

That followed a motion to table the issue, which also failed.

This was the second reading of one of three different budget amendment ordinances the city had first readings for, each of which had different ways of managing an increase in the budget for attorney fees.

Before the vote, council members Jim Cahill and Amy Balson both said they wouldn’t support the measure because of communication issues.

“This ordinance came from finance (committee) and it was based on communication,” Cahill said. “That’s what we talked about and I don’t feel like we’ve had communication. So I will not support this ordinance.”

“I think overall there’s a lack of communication between the administration and the council,” Balson said. “I will not support this.”

In a March 14 phone conversation, Mayor Mike Martin said the city will more than likely have another budget amendment at an future meeting. Two proposed ordinances have already had first readings, he said.

“We have attorney’s fees. We have issues that we’re dealing with. (It’s) part of what we do and what we have to do,” Martin said.

And if the council rejects further attempts to increase that budgeted amount?

“We’re going to have to cross that bridge when we get there,” Martin said. “I’m 100 percent confident this will get taken care of.”

According to the city’s January financial report, the city spent $41,339 on legal fees from July 2013 through January.

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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have been praised for maintaining their pale looks - experts predict they could help lower skin cancer rates among impressionable teenagers.

The British hunk shot to fame as vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight, while his co-star and rumored girlfriend Stewart is equally as pale-skinned in the movie franchise. And the pair has been credited with giving youngsters the confidence to step out without a tan - which will ultimately help lower cancer rates.

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News of Letterman’s retirement has been all over the web over the past several days, thanks to early rumors leaked via social media sites and some excellent and poignant video footage provided by CBS. There have been plenty of reactions to the initial announcement, with fans and other late night hosts alike being affected by the veteran host’s big news, but none has been more fitting than Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show tribute to the man, which came in the form of a “Top 10” list.

Fallon’s such a freaking fantastic fanboy in this post, humbly talking about Letterman being a great rolemodel for him and describing an evening when Letterman and Paul Shaffer made it on to his late night show. Letterman was hanging out backstage looking at Fallon’s setup when her remarked that he had nothing like it during his tenure at NBC, mentioning that he was “jealous of Fallon’s linoleum.” Hilarious, but I digress; let’s get in to Fallon’s “Top 10 Reasons Why Letterman Is Retiring.”

The total ripoff of Letterman’s famous segment includes items like “wants to quit while he’s still able to compete on Dancing with the Stars” and “he’s not retiring, he’s consciously unhosting.” The best nod is number one, though, where Fallon mentions Letterman has to retire because “Jimmy Fallon is stealing his bits.” Seriously, if you haven’t watched the video above, it’s time to give it a shot.

The late night talk show realm has really changed over the last several years. Leno is out and Fallon is in. Kimmel is competing in the more prominent timeslot, now. Hell, veteran Saturday Night Live writer Seth Meyers has earned his own show. Amidst this, the only program that has been stable has been David Letterman’s Late Show, which is why it is a bit of a shock and a letdown for many of fans to know the veteran host will be giving up the gig. Letterman is enough of an institution that he probably could have kept the gig for as long as he wanted (within reason), but it’s good to know that he will be retiring while he’s still on top, and won’t have the sort of exit Leno had.

We won’t be saying goodbye to Letterman just yet. The man will be on the air until 2015, when his contract with CBS will run out. We wish him the happiest of retirements, and best of luck on any future endeavors he decides to take on.

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10: Wants to quit while he's still able to compete on Dancing With the Stars.
9. Made millions selling crack to Rob Ford.
8. Time slot was getting to "Jimmyesque."
7. He's not retiring – he's "consciously unhosting."
6. Stop! Hammock time!
5. Hillary/Letterman 2016!
4. After 31 years, finally got through to the Obamacare website!
3. One word: E-Looprah
2. Jay Leno needs a partner for next season's Amazing Race.
1. Jimmy Fallon is stealing his bits.

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Parasites almost as destructive as Michael Bay himself.

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Plot Summary: The government isolates a small town where a 4th of July celebration turns deadly as a mysterious organism begins killing the citizens of the town from the inside out.
Release Date: November 2, 2012

Rating: C+
Commentary: The obvious “hidden” parasite in the poster is hard to make out in smaller form, but I don’t think it will gain dominance or interest on a theater wall.
Rating: B-
Commentary: Barry Levinson making a horror film is the most notable thing about this film. While the found footage style is everything that’s wrong with it, the idea isn’t too complicated and what’s shown on screen suggests a very visceral piece, which should please horror purists.
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Twitter tears into mobile developer services with Fabric

Twitter tears into mobile developer services with Fabric

Twitter is moving into mobile app services with Fabric, a new tool for developers that ties popular services together into one extension.

The problem with Twitter has always been monetization: Ads don't pull in the revenue needed to maintain the social network, and it doesn't have Facebook's pull to entice developers to build on top of the platform. But no more -- or at least so Twitter hopes.

Today at its Twitter Flight event, Twitter unveiled Fabric, a software development kit for mobile apps. The move represents the company's first foray into services and something of a new start for the social network.

Fabric is an extension that sits on top of existing iOS and Android development environments -- including the Android Native Development Kit and Apple's Xcode --  letting devs quickly and easily pop in features like bug and crash tracking, Twitter identity sign-in, Tweet embedding, Twitter ad plug-ins, beta app distribtuon, and Digits, a new app onboarding concept based on the user's phone number (more on that later).

"Fabric is deeply integrated with your existing workflow, so you can manage your entire toolset without ever having to leave your favorite coding environment," boasts Twitter on the official Fabric page.

In early 2013, Twitter made the then-baffling purchase of Crashlytics, a startup with a very popular bug tracking tool for developers. It made no sense: What does a social network need with crash tracking? Now, all is clear. The Crashlytics product represents the core of Fabric's value to app developers, who can now quickly add that functionality to their code in just a few clicks.

By simplifying everything from identity to crash tracking, without forcing users to rely on a proprietary IDE, Twitter wants to entice developers to build more apps on top of its platform, even if those apps have nothing to do with Twitter's own social graph. Of course, if you want your app to post to Twitter or have some other kind of social element, that's now easier, too.

But prepare for a wave of apps that use Twitter technology in ways that end users may never be aware of. Digits, especially, presents a huge opportunity: Twitter has figured out a system for authenticating users with just a phone number, rather than requiring an email address. In developing countries, where phone numbers are a lot more prevalent than email addresses, tying identity to something other than the inbox means a much larger potential user base.

The upside for Twitter here is that MoPub, Twitter's advertising offering (another acquisition, and similar to Apple iAds), is just as easy to integrate as other features. And, of course, Twitter takes a cut of that revenue.

The launch of Fabric is reminiscent of nothing so much as Salesforce's acquisition of Heroku; in both cases, the new offerings seemingly had nothing to do with the  product except to make it easier to build new apps atop the core offering and build out the platform. And in both cases, even when developers aren't working with the core product, they still win.

"After this, Twitter will now be Twitter the consumer app, and Twitter the mobile services company," Twitter's Kevin Weil, who's leading the Fabric effort, told Wired earlier today.

It's a lofty goal, but it may be a necessary one for the long-term survival of both aspects of Twitter. After all, building features onto an existing product is relatively easy compared to building a successful, viable platform. It seems like Twitter has found a new line of business that dovetails nicely with the core product that made it famous.

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Nokia's penny-pinching may come back and haunt some Lumia owners

Nokia's penny-pinching may come back and haunt some Lumia owners

Owners of the Lumia 530, 630 and 635 might not get a full-featured version of Windows 10

Owners of recent Lumia smartphones that have just 512MB of memory might not get a full-featured, smartphone version of Windows 10.

Microsoft is working on Windows 10 for smartphones with limited memory, including the popular Lumia 520, the company's Joe Belfiore said on Twitter on Sunday. The goal is to make the OS available for these devices, but features may vary, he added without offering more details.

In addition to the Lumia 520, last year's Lumia 530, 630 and 635 all have 512MB. To develop inexpensive smartphones, companies must make hard choices, but the lack of memory on these Lumia models was shortsighted.

The Lumia 530, 630 and 635 shipped at a time when 1GB of RAM was standard on similarly priced or even less expensive Android-based smartphones. Thus, owners of these smartphones can't be blamed for feeling ticked off at Nokia if they get a lightweight version of Windows 10. Nokia could have easily made the lack of RAM a non-issue by spending a bit more.

Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia was finalized at the end of April. The Lumia 530 was announced in July, but the features and specs were likely decided on long before that. Budget-priced Windows smartphones launched by Microsoft recently, including the Lumia 435 and 535, have 1GB of RAM.

When Microsoft demonstrated the smartphone version of Windows 10 last month, it said the goal was for the majority of Lumia phones running Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 to be upgraded. It singled out models such as the Lumia 435, the 735, and the high-end 930.

Windows 10 will feature notifications that stay in sync across smartphones and PCs, as well as more full-featured versions of Office apps and a new version of Cortana. Microsoft plans to make a preview version of Windows 10 for smartphones available this month, according to Belfiore.

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