Mexico City Wants to Become the Next Times Square

The plan is as big as this mammoth city: Turn a seedy metro hub into Mexico City's Times Square; clear swarms of feisty vendors and remodel the historic Alameda Central; illuminate the plazas and walkways of a park twice the size of New York's Central Park.

Mexico City's government is trying to transform one of the world's largest cities by beautifying public spaces, parks and monuments buried beneath a sea of honking cars, street hawkers, billboards and grime following decades of dizzying urban growth.

It's time to tame the city. Today is about giving the city back to pedestrians.

- Juan Carlos de Leo Gandara, head of the Iberoamerican University's sustainable urban projects

Despite the challenges, the ambitious, multimillion-dollar program carried out by former center-left Mayor Marcelo Ebrard and continued by his successor, Miguel Angel Mancera, is winning praise from urban planners and many residents. And it's turning the metropolis into an experiment in how to soften urban sprawl.

"It's time to tame the city," said Juan Carlos de Leo Gandara, head of the Iberoamerican University's sustainable urban projects. "Today is about giving the city back to pedestrians."

In the Alameda, made iconic in the Diego Rivera mural "Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda," concrete sidewalks were replaced by marble, and makeshift vendor stands were kicked out ? a renovation that cost about $18.7 million. Instead of a motley patchwork of folding tables and tarps, the newly opened park, anchored by the art nouveau Palacio de Bellas Artes theater, is a sea of greenery and calm in the midst of racing traffic.

"It used to be very dark, with no lighting. It really wasn't a place to bring my son," said Alma Rosa Romero, a 32-year-old housewife standing by the new dancing-water fountains, holding her child's hand. "Now it's beautiful."

Other completed projects include a once-neglected plaza with an Arc de Triumph-style monument to Mexico's 1910 revolution, which has been remade at a cost of $28.6 million from a homeless encampment to an oasis where families frolic and children run through spurts of water gushing out of the pavement. The copper dome of what started out as the country's Congress building is newly polished and gleaming.

Downtown, at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception of Tlaxcoaque, the city has installed multi-colored fountains that light up at night and replaced a parking lot with a larger plaza for pedestrians. The city has also converted Francisco I. Madero street in the historic center into a pedestrian walkway stretching to the Zocalo, the plaza that's home to the National Palace and massive Metropolitan Cathedral. And under a popular bridge near the hip neighborhood of Condesa, the city made way for a taco joint and a playground.

"A city where people go out to the streets is safe, happier and raises the quality of life," said Daniel Escotto, chief architect of Mexico City's Public Areas Office, which was founded in 2008 to manage urban renewal. "We are renovating floors, facades and adding plants and lighting and more elements that can shape this concept."

Yet in a city defined in many ways by its disorder, the plan is also being slammed by those who take pride in surviving the urban jungle.

"Yes it's safer, and it's renovated, but what happens to the emblem of Mexico City?" said Baltazar Romeo, 47, a hospital worker eating a sandwich at the newly remodeled Alameda. Gone were the street performers who once dressed as the Three Wise Men during Christmas and charged tips for photos with children. "The city is becoming soulless," Romeo said.

One of the flagship renovation projects is the once-seedy, swarming Glorieta de Insurgentes, a roundabout and metro station in central Mexico City that sees hundreds of thousands of commuters pour through every day.

The circular plaza was sunk to let pedestrians stream below busy thoroughfares and catch their trains or buses or just hang out. Around its rim careen cars in a roundabout that briefly merges two of the city's biggest thoroughfares, the mighty Insurgentes and Chapultepec avenues.

When the plaza was built in 1969, the city's top priority was moving an onslaught of cars and people from one point to another. Highways and beltways elsewhere went up to cope with the population boom, and sprawl spread farther out. Once-famous and safe streets and plazas suffered from neglect by planners and became slum-like neighborhoods people avoided after sunset. A brown haze covered the new skyline as motorists became the focus of the new infrastructure.

The Insurgentes roundabout turned into a place to hurry through. Homeless people took over abandoned warehouses nearby while surrounding office and apartment buildings fell into disrepair. Many of the plaza's shops became sleazy Internet cafes cowering beneath giant billboards.

"It couldn't be more hostile to public life or pedestrian life," said Ken Greenberg, a Toronto-based architect and urban designer who recently visited Mexico. "The whole thing just has a kind of very harsh feeling of a highway right in the middle of the city."

Urban designers are now seeking to infuse the chaos with the glitzy excitement of Times Square or London's Piccadilly Circus. Sixty-foot cylinders covered with circular screens streaming LED tickers have already been erected. The crabgrass-filled flower beds and low benches used as skateboard launches have been bulldozed for a sleek open-air look bathed in white, patterned concrete.

The makeover is meant to create a more appealing space for commuters using bikes and public transit in a city that won infamy as the world's most painful for commuters in a 2011 IBM survey.

"What Mexico City needs is to emphasize its identity through its public spaces," Escotto said.

The government says the Insurgentes project will also debut a new model for restricting advertising to designated spots. In 2010, local government banned advertisements on all public and private buildings, threatening a $9,000 fine for those who refused to comply. Two years later, however, the city is still blanketed by billboards.

Future projects include a cleanup of 67 bridges around the city and more lighting for plazas and walkways throughout Chapultepec Park, Mexico City's grand urban green space.

Some projects, including the Insurgentes roundabout, are being completed with the help of private funds. The roundabout renovation includes $4.5 million from 15 advertising companies that are erecting the giant LED screens. Critics worry the arrangement will benefit private companies more than city residents. Much of the beautification of the historic center was paid for by telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim.

Some wonder whether Mancera, who is from Ebrard's party, will continue the effort and whether the city has the money to maintain its improvements. The question for this teeming city is whether its attempt to clean up will hold or whether the sprawl will ultimately prove more powerful.

"How is this work going to look in the next five months, or five years?" asked De Leo Gandara of the Iberoamerican University. "Will they preserve it? Will it still be clean? Are they keeping it together or is it forgotten again?"

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US Cellular?s Samsung Galaxy Note II gets the multi-window upgrade

US Cellular has joined the rest of the Galaxy Note II toting carriers and released an update to Android 4.1.1 (baseband R950VXALL1) which brings multi-window functionality along with a number of other changes.

The multi-window function is a distinguishing feature, and comes in super handy on the 5.5-inch phablet. The update also brings some bug fixes including solving an apparent problem with the burst-mode in the camera, which caused random black images. The Search feature has been fixed within the My Files application also.

The update is available over-the-air, just go to Settings >> About Device >> Software update.

Here is a rundown of the change log:

• Split screen functionality is supported (Multi-Window)
• The following U.S. Cellular pre-loads are included:

• City ID ? v. 1.25.1
• Daily Perks ? v. 4.5.14
• Your Navigator Deluxe ? v 3.1.4.7141069
• Tone Room Deluxe ? v. 2.0.31
• Gameloft Portal ? v. 2.1.1
• Mobi TV ? 5.1.1.6-216355
• Amazon Apps ? v. 2.6.53
• Amazon Audible ? v. 1.3.9
• Amazon IMDB ? v. 2.7.0
• Amazon MP3 ? v. 2.7.0
• Amazon Shopping ? v. 2.0.2
• Amazon Zappos ? v. 2.0.2
• Amazon Kindle ? v. 3.7.1.8
• Let?s Golf 3 ? 1.0.2
• Slacker Radio 3.2.1062
• Wi-Fi Now ? 4.4.67

• When taking pictures using ?BURST? mode sometimes when you go to gallery pictures would not be displayed they would be black images
• Devices would occasionally toggle between 3G and 1X which is not customer impacting but could generate calls
• Could not search image files by ?Search? option in My Files application
• UI changes
• In drop down menu ?Sync? was replaced with ?Multi-Window? option
• Sound icon (4th position) color was changed from Gray to Green

sources: US Cellular via Android Authority

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Top Five Stories of 2012 - #2 - Windows 8 and the Surface RT

To round out the rest of 2012, Windows Phone Daily is continuing our annual special edition of Top Five. Every day until the new year, we will be going back in time to recap a momentous 2012 for Microsoft and Windows Phone. Read Story #5, #4, and #3.

Despite the seismic activity surrounding Windows Phone 8 throughout the year, it should not come as a surprise that Microsoft prioritized the latest version of Windows proper this year. What should have come as a surprise was just how deftly Microsoft was able to renew their disparate services into a cohesive new ecosystem, completely reinvent their flagship operating system, and challenge the more affordable tablet market in a matter of months.

Looking back, we're surprised that Windows 8 was first shown off in mid-2011 during the D9 conference. Make no mistake though, because 2012 was the year of Windows 8 for Microsoft. After revealing that CES 2012 would be its last appearance at the show, Microsoft went on to host a series of hush-hush events that kept the media on their toes. Not only did the company unveil a reimagined version of their long-standing Windows logo,?but?a few weeks later the Consumer Preview was released for download online also accompanied by the soft-launch of the Windows Store.

In late May, Microsoft released its final pre-release build of Windows 8 to the public. That milestone release would lead to a huge June for the company. Microsoft of course attended E3 2012, and during its keynote unveiled Xbox SmartGlass ? an app which would unite mobile devices and Windows 8 devices alike to connect to the Xbox 360. The event was also where Microsoft announced Xbox Music, though details would not arrive for several months after. Shortly after their impressive event in Los Angeles, Microsoft quietly announced a surprise event for June 18th. Scheduled just days before a key Windows Phone event, there was much speculation about what this new event could be. in the end, Microsoft revealed the Surface RT and Surface Pro ? the first computers the company had built in its entire existence.

After releasing Windows 8's enticing upgrade price, the focus finally shifted towards launch day for Windows 8 and the Surface RT. Microsoft helped build up some attention through viral street art promoting the Surface, and eventually graduated to television commercials. Finally, October 26th came along and Microsoft held a number of massive events around the globe in celebration of the launch. None were as big as in New York City, where Microsoft crafted a 'Microtropolis' city composed of nearly all Windows 8 powered tablets and PCs to be released. In its first month on sale, Windows 8 sold 40 million licenses.

Come back every day until New Year's Day for the rest of our Top Five Stories of 2012!

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Mixed results for college hoops in the Bay Area on Saturday

With four teams in action Saturday, California?s Bay Area shifted its attention away from the San Francisco 49ers and Stanford?s upcoming bowl game and over to college hoops, where fans got mixed results. Take a look at the recap below:

No. 1 Duke 90, Santa Clara 77

The Broncos kept it close early, trailing by only two at halftime, but Duke?s size buried Santa Clara in foul trouble in the second half. Senior Kevin Foster was impressive with 29 points on the afternoon, including 18 in the first half that almost single-handedly kept Santa Clara in the game.

Against the nation?s No. 1 team, an up-tempo style helped to minimize Duke?s size advantage in the first half and Foster?s hot shooting was key. But Foster picked up his third foul less than 10 seconds into the second half and the Blue Devils found a way to neutralize Santa Clara?s full-court game and grind it down to a half-court bout. Seth Curry?s hot shooting overextended the Santa Clara defense and pushed it out to the perimeter, opening up opportunities for center Mason Plumlee on the inside.

It was a valiant Santa Clara effort, but Duke proved to be too much. The tough loss showed that the Broncos are likely the fourth-best team in the WCC, trailing national power Gonzaga, St. Mary?s, and BYU.

San Francisco 93, Dominican Cal 76

Cole Dickerson had a double-double of 30 points and 10 rebounds as the Dons cruised to a win Saturday night by dominating in nearly every key statistical category. San Francisco shot 56 percent from the floor and outrebounded Dominican 42-25. It is a bounce-back win for the Dons after going 1-2 in the Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii over the Christmas holiday.

They open conference play on Jan. 2 against Santa Clara.

Stanford 65, Lafayette 59

Stanford was never able to put Lafayette away, thanks in large part to 11-of-19 shooting from three-point range for the Leopards. Stanford?s zone defense had a difficult time rotating to shooters and was giving too much space on the perimeter, allowing a smaller Lafayette team to stay in the game.

Poor Cardinal shooting from the perimeter (3-of-19) only amplified the offensive problems, but a late-game push to get the ball inside to junior Dwight Powell exploited Stanford?s size advantage. Had the Cardinal not outrebounded Lafayette by such a large 42-24 margin, we likely would have had an upset at Maples Pavilion.

Keep an eye on Josh Huestis, who continues to be an impact player and a complement to Powell on the interior. He narrowly missed a double-double Saturday, scoring eight points and grabbing 14 rebounds.

Harvard 67, California 62

Cal ran into many of the same problems against Harvard that Stanford did against Lafayette. Laurent Rivard and Wesley Saunders combined for 37 points, including 7-of-15 shooting from three-point range to extend the California defense and power an upset Saturday. Harvard was patient offensively and controlled the clock in the second half to dictate the pace and force the Bears into uncomfortable half-court sets.

Allen Crabbe turned in another high-scoring performance with 27 points on 10-of-18 shooting, but a short Cal rotation hurt Mike Montgomery?s team down the stretch. Both Crabbe and Justin Cobbs had bouts with cramps late in the second half, likely a result of Harvard milking each offensive possession and forcing Cal to play 35 seconds of defense nearly every time down the floor.

The Crimson continue to get production from freshman point guard Siyani Chambers, if not as a scorer than as a facilitator. He shot just 2-of-15 from the floor Saturday, but had nine assists and just two turnovers.

Daniel Martin is a writer and editor at?JohnnyJungle.com, covering St. John?s. You can find him on Twitter:@DanielJMartin_

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Instant analysis: Texas 31, Oregon State 27

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Kissing Tips: 7 Ideas For An Epic New Year's Eve Kiss

Whether you're coupled up already or looking for the perfect excuse to steal a kiss from that cute guy/girl at the party, when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, give that special someone a kiss to remember.

Click through the slideshow below for 7 ideas for the perfect NYE smooch -- and click over here to share all your dating and health resolutions for 2013!

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Rare genetic faults identified in families with bowel cancer

Dec. 30, 2012 ? Rare DNA faults in two genes have been strongly linked to bowel cancer by Oxford University researchers, who sequenced the genomes of people from families with a strong history of developing the disease.

The researchers sequenced the entire DNA genomes of 20 people from families with a strong history of bowel cancer. Eight of the 20 people had developed bowel cancer, while the rest had a first-degree relative who had developed the disease. The findings are published in the journal Nature Genetics.

They found that everyone who had a faulty POLE or POLD1 gene developed bowel cancer or had a precancerous growth in the bowel.

To confirm their findings they then looked for faults in these two genes in almost 4,000 people with bowel cancer, and 6,700 people without the disease.

Neither of the genetic faults was found in people without bowel cancer. However, 12 people with a fault in the POLE gene were found in the bowel cancer group, and one person had a POLD1 gene fault.

The POLD1 fault was also found to increase the risk of getting womb cancer and possibly brain cancer, with seven people in the study being diagnosed with womb cancer and one developing two brain tumours.

Professor Ian Tomlinson, who led the research at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University, said: 'These are two rare faults, but if you inherit them your chance of bowel cancer is high. By testing people with a strong family history of the disease for these, we can identify those who are at high risk and try to prevent the disease by using colonoscopy and other methods.'

POLE and POLD1 are genes involved in processes that repair damage to DNA. Without these genes functioning properly, affected individuals can build up damage in their DNA which accumulates and it is thought this may lead to changes that cause bowel cancer.

'This research highlights how much more we still have to find out about the rare gene faults that can increase a person's risk of bowel cancer,' said Dr Julie Sharp, senior science information manager at Cancer Research UK, which part-funded the work.

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Daimler CEO wants Mercedes to regain top spot by 2020: paper

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche hopes to return the automaker to the top spot in the premium car market ahead of Audi and BMW by 2020, he said in an interview with a German paper.

"I am confident that we will be ahead of our rivals by 2020 at the latest," he told Boersen-Zeitung in an interview published on Saturday.

He said he hoped to reach that target during his time in office. Zetsche's contract currently runs until December 2013 but is expected to be extended by three years in February.

Daimler has already promised 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion)in cost cuts at the Mercedes-Benz division by the end of 2014 after warning in October that it would miss its operating profit target this year by 1 billion euros.

Zetsche told the paper Mercedes had failed to keep up with its rivals in the compact car market and in China.

(Reporting by Victoria Bryan; editing by Jane Baird)

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Asian nations giving enthusiastic welcome to 2013

Workers set up a stage as preparations are underway for the country's first ever public New Year's countdown celebration, at Myoma grounds in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Workers set up a stage as preparations are underway for the country's first ever public New Year's countdown celebration, at Myoma grounds in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

A woman passes by papers, bearing New Year wishes, tied to trees at Myeongdong Catholic Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 31, 2102. The cathedral is Korea?s oldest parish church and the symbol of Korean Catholics. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ? Fiscal cliff? Recession? Not in Asia, where the first countries to see 2013 dawn will enthusiastically welcome the new year.

Increasingly democratic Myanmar will have a public countdown for the first time. Jakarta plans a huge street party befitting Indonesia's powering economy.

In Sydney, eager revelers camped over Sunday night on the shores of the harbor to get the best vantage points as 1.5 million are expected to see the fireworks show centered on the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

In Hong Kong, this year's 12.5 million Hong Kong dollar ($1.6 million) fireworks display was being billed by organizers as the biggest ever in the southern Chinese city. Police expect as many as 100,000 people to watch, local news reports said.

The buoyant economies of the Asia-Pacific are prepared to party with renewed optimism despite the so-called fiscal cliff threatening to reverberate globally from the United States and the tattered economy of Europe.

Celebrations were planned around the world later Tuesday, with hundreds of thousands expected to fill Times Square in New York City to watch the drop of a Waterford crystal-studded ball.

One day after dancing in the snow to celebrate the first anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un's ascension to supreme commander, North Koreans were preparing Monday to mark the arrival of the new year, marked as "Juche 102" on North Korean calendars - the number referring to 102 years since the birth of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. "Juche" means self-reliance, the North Korean ideology of independence promoted by Kim, who was born in 1912. His grandson now rules North Korea.

In New Delhi, the festive mood was marred by the death Saturday of a young rape victim.

Several hotels, clubs and residents associations in Indian capital decided to cancel planned festivities and asked people to light candles to express their solidarity with the victim whose plight sparked public rallies for women's safety.

"Let there be no New Year celebrations across the country. It will be a major tribute to the departed soul," said Praveen Khandelwal, the secretary-general of the Confederation of All India Traders, an umbrella group of traders who run shops and businesses across the country.

In a field in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, workers early Monday were testing a giant digital countdown screen with the backdrop of the revered Shwedagon pagoda.

Arranged by local Forever Media group and Index Creative Village, a Thai major event organizer, the celebration will be the first public New Year countdown in Myanmar, a country ruled for almost five decades by military regimes that discouraged or banned big public gatherings.

"We are planning this public new year event because we want residents of Yangon to enjoy the public countdown like in other countries," said Win Thura Hlaing, managing director of Forever Blossom company, a subsidiary of Forever Media.

With live music performances by singers and celebrities, colorful light shows, food stalls, fireworks and other events at the venue, the countdown is expected to draw 50,000 people, Win Thura Hlaing said.

Jakarta's street party will center on a 7-kilometer (4-mile) main thoroughfare closed to all traffic from nightfall until after midnight. Workers were erecting 16 large stages along the normally car-clogged, 8-lane highway through the heart of the city. Indonesia's booming economy is a rare bright spot amid global gloom and bringing prosperity ? or the hope of it ? to Indonesians.

Spirits in the capital have been further raised by the election of a new, populist governor, who is pledging action in tackling the city's massive infrastructure problems.

Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said about 1.5 million spectators were expected to line the harbor to watch the 6.6 million Australian dollar ($6.9 million) fireworks display, while another 2 million Australians among a population of 22 million would watch it on television.

"This is really putting Australia on the map in terms of welcoming people to the new year," Moore told reporters at the harbor before the event.

Thousands lined the harbor shore in festive crowds under a blue summer sky by late afternoon, their number undiminished by Australian government warnings that the Washington deadlock on the U.S. debt crisis was partly to blame for a slowing Australian economy.

Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue is host for the event.

Florida tourist Melissa Sjostedt was among the thousands gathered near a southern pylon of the bridge. She said seeing the fireworks would fulfill an ambition started a decade ago when she read about them in a National Geographic magazine.

"Ever since that, I've always wanted to see this for real, live, in person," the 30-year-old said.

Despite the somber mood in the Philippines due to devastation from a recent typhoon, a key problem for authorities remained how to prevent revelers from setting off illegal huge firecrackers ? including some labeled "Goodbye Philippines" and "Bin Laden" ? that maim and injure hundreds of Filipinos each year, many of them children.

A government scare tactic, which involved doctors displaying brutal-looking surgical scalpels used for amputations of firecracker blast victims, has not fully worked in the past so health officials came up with a novel idea: Go Gangnam style.

A government health official, Eric Tayag, donned the splashy outfit of South Korean viral star PSY and danced to the tune of his Youtube-hit "Gangnam Style" video while preaching against the use of illegal firecrackers on TV, in schools and in public arenas.

"The campaign has become viral," Tayag said. "We've asked kids and adults to stay away from big firecrackers and just dance the Gangnam and they're doing it."

The number of firecracker injuries has gone down since the campaign was launched early this month.

Hong Kong feng shui master Raymond Lo predicted 2013 would be less turbulent than 2012 because the Chinese new year in February will usher in the year of the snake, bringing an end to the year of the dragon, which was associated with water. Water is one of the five elements in feng shui theory, the Chinese practice of arranging objects and choosing dates to improve luck.

"Water is fear. So that's why we have had so much turbulence especially in the winter months," such as doomsday prophecies, school shootings and concerns about the fiscal cliff, said Lo.

"But the good news is that the coming year of the snake is the first time that fire has come back since 2007. Fire actually is the opposite to water, fire is happiness. So therefore the year of the snake is a much more optimistic year. So you can see signs of economic recovery now," he added.

"The positive thing is that people are very optimistic, therefore it will have a very strong drive on the economic recovery. We expect the stock market will do well, the property market will do well," Lo said.

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Associated Press writers Aye Aye Win in Yangon, Jean Lee in Pyongyang, Chris Brummitt in Jakarta, Kelvin Chan in Hong Kong, Ashok Sharma in New Delhi and Jim Gomez in Manila contributed to this report

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The ESU Baseball program would like to invite T-ball, Little League, middle school and high school players to attend a developmental clinic series with college-level instruction in hitting, defense, and pitching. Players will participate in their age group. The clinic will be held at Koehler Fieldhouse, cost is $50 per session. Attend all six sessions get one free ($250). The sessions are as follows:

Sun, Jan. 20 ? 8-10 a.m. (Hitting)

Sun, Jan. 20 ? 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Defense/Pitcher/Catcher)

Sun, Jan. 27 ? 8-10 a.m. (Hitting)

Sun, Jan. 27 ? 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Defense/Pitcher/Catcher)

Sun, Feb. 3 ? 8-10 a.m. (Hitting)

Sun, Feb. 3 ? 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Defense/Pitcher/Catcher)

Prepare for the upcoming season. The hitting clinic consists of swing mechanics, station work, and live hitting. Defensive clinic consists of positional group work with pitchers and catchers working on proper mechanics and techniques.

To attend, please contact ESU head coach John Kochmansky at 570-422-3263 or jkochmansky@esu.edu. A registration form is also available on the ESU baseball website via www.esuwarriors.com.

TITANS BEGIN WINTER WORKOUTS

The NorthEast Titans baseball club will soon start its annual winter workouts and conduct tryouts for its travel baseball teams (age as of April 30, 2013). The workouts will incorporate proven methods that emphasize proper mechanics and baseball fundamentals. If you are interested in travel baseball and/or you want to receive quality offseason instruction from experienced coaches, please contact Blaine Fardella at b.fardella1@gmail.com for the 10U level or Kevin Dillon (northeasttitansbaseball@gmail.com) at the 8U and 9U levels. The workouts will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at Summit Lanes in Pocono Summit. Please note that you do not need to be a rostered player to participate in the workouts.

BASKETBALL

PYBA

The Pocono Youth Basketball association is gearing up for the 2012-2013 season. We will begin registration in August during the open house at the various Schools on the PMSD West campus. This program is open to all boys and girls in grades 2nd-12th who live or attend school in the west part of the district. We will also have online registration. We are looking for coaches and volunteers as well. For further information please call our hotline at (570) 894-2575 or check out our website at www.PYBA1.com.

S.T.A.R INSTRUCTIONAL BASKETBALL

This program is designed for boys and girls ages 6?12. The main goals of this program are to ensure that every child has fun and has the opportunity to learn the game of basketball and rules of play. Come join Coach Victor on Tuesdays from 6-7 p.m. at the YMCA. To pre-register, visit the YMCA at 809 Main Street, Stroudsburg, PA or register online at www.poconoymca.org. For more information please contact Nicole Hill at 570-421-2525 or nhill@poconoymca.org.

DOG SLEDDING

POCONO MANOR DOG CARTING

Arctic Paws Dog Sled Tours is a family owned local business that has been winter dog sledding at the Inn at Pocono Manor for the past eight years. Dog carting, uses a specially designed cart to exercise and train the Huskies. The sessions will be from 12-7 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays from April to November. Cost is $45 per person (must be at least five-years-old). For more information, see our website at www.arcticpawsdogsledtours.com. Or, call (570) 216-2551 or email pawscarting@yahoo.com.

FISHING

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FLY-TYING CLASSES

With the recent arrival of winter, now is the perfect time to hone and refine your essential fly-tying skills. In its continuing effort to provide free fly-tying classes and workshops to the general public, as well as its own members, the Brodhead Chapter of Trout Unlimited is offering a unique Saturday morning program to kick off its winter fly-tying programs and activities. On three consecutive Saturdays, Jan. 5, 12 and 19 from 9 am until 12 p.m., members of BTU will be on-hand at the Monroe County Environmental Education Center located at 8050 Running Valley Road in Bartonsville, right off Route 611, to teach their favorite and highly effective Pocono trout-catching patterns! The chief instructor for this course is PA State Champion fly-tier Scott Cesari, and he will be joined by the Master Fly-Tiers of the Brodhead TU Chapter. Bring your vise and fly-tying tools and learn how to tie flies that really catch trout from some of the best fly-tiers in the northeast, including Eric Baird, Tom Battista, Don Baylor, Gerry Bortz, Todd Burns, Will Daskal and Bob Stevens. As always, instruction for this comprehensive course is absolutely free; however, there is a small $15 fee that simply covers the material packets required to tie several flies for each of the patterns covered in class.

For more information and to register for this ever-popular fly-tying class, contact BTU Chapter President, Tom Battista, at 570-236-1734, or send Tom an email at: mooseowl511@gmail.com. In addition, you can always get up to date information on the Chapter's website which is always just a click away at the following URL: http://www.BrodheadTU.org

SKIING

BIG POCONO SKI CLUB

Come join the Big Pocono Ski Club for a more active life and a chance to meet new friends. Besides skiing, we also participate in tennis, biking, kayaking and golf. Day trips, picnics, seasonal parties and monthly dinners called "Mahogany Ridge" are also fun activities. We have monthly meetings on the second Thursday of each month. We meet at the Chateau Resort on Cameback Road. For more information about our club, call (570) 620-9272 or (570) 646-0221. Members, please check your newsletter for other private club events.

Jan. 4 ? Ski day at Elk Mountain - meet 9 Am in the lodge at Elk

Jan. 10 ? General Membership Meeting - Chateau Resort, 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 11 ? Skiing at Jack Frost - meet in lodge at Jack Frost - 9 a.m.

Jan. 23 ? Mahogany Ridge - Studebaker's in Bartonsville 7 p.m.

Feb. 4 ? Skiing at Camelback - meet in the West Cafeteria at Camelback - 8:30 AM

Feb. 8-9 ? Ski trip to Wyndham, New York - call for more information

Feb. 14 ? General Membership Meeting - Chateau Resort - 7:30 p.m. (special meeting about Snowmass trip)

Feb. 23 to March 2 ? Annual Ski trip - Snowmass, Colorado (trip is closed).

March 14 ? General Membership Meeting - Chateau Resort - 7:30 p.m.

March 16th ? Bowling at Skylanes and dinner at Peppe's - more info to follow

SOCCER

NEW CHALLENGER SOCCER DIVISION

Our new Challenger Soccer division will be presented through our partnerships with the Pocono Family YMCA and the Pocono Mountain School District and join the current offerings of baseball and basketball. These programs are for youth who are developmentally and/or physically challenged. Our newest offering is designed to help players to enjoy the sport of soccer in a fun, safe and non-competitive environment. Challenger sports opportunities began six years ago with the baseball team sponsored through our partnership with the Big Pocono Little League and has had terrific response. With our partnership organizations and sponsorships the Challenger crew is able to provide the opportunities for all kids to be participants, rather than spectators cheering for their siblings. In order to be able to move forward, we need the support of local companies for sponsorships of the four new soccer teams and donations from the community to help purchase equipment for the teams. Our goal is $1,500 of which $1,000 is via sponsorships. We have already received a commitment for one team sponsorship. Our season begins on Sunday, Oct. 6 and runs through Sunday, Nov. 11. If you have questions about our organization, please email bob.cooney@yahoo.com or call 973-896-4208.

SPRING INTRAMURAL SOCCER SIGN-UPS

FC Pocono offers the region's best, most cost-effective intramural soccer program. In person sign-ups for the Spring 2013 season will be held on Friday, Feb. 1 and Monday, Feb. 4 at Waterfront Park in East Stroudsburg/Marshalls Creek from 6-8 p.m. You can also sign up online starting Jan. 1. Program Benefits: Game Referees, Physical Exercise, Opportunities to Advance, Coaches Training, Intra-Club Competition, Low Stress/GREAT FUN! Sign up: www.fcpocono.org for players and coaches.

YOUTH SPORTS CLASSES

HIP HOP, BALLET AND TUMBLING

The YMCA will be offering three new classes starting running on a monthly basis. The classes will include Hip Hop, Ballet and Tumbling. All classes will be approx. 45 minutes. Please pre-register at least one week before the start of classes. Tumbling & Ballet Combo for ages 3-6 will be held on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. Tumbling Ages 7 & up from 11:15-12 p.m. Hip Hop for ages 3-6 will be held on Mondays at 5:30 p.m. and at 6:15 p.m. for ages 7 & up. For more information contact Nicole at 570-421-2525 ext. 124 or stop by the YMCA to register in person or register online at www.poconoymca.org. Please register at least one week prior to the start of the program.

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WINTER SOCCER LEAGUE

Session I Indoor Soccer Leagues: 6v6 (5 plus keeper)

8 week Season ? games played Monday, Tuesday, and Sunday evenings

Leagues begin Jan. 20

Boys and Girls Divisions ? U10, U12, U14, High School

Adult Divisions ? Men's League, Women's League

Team or individual registrations available

Registration: visit www.poconodome.com for league schedule, pricing, and information

Contact: Robert Sabola at Rsabola@neimansportsgroup.com

Registration Deadline: Jan. 14

LACROSSE LEAGUES

Indoor Winter Lacrosse Leagues: 7v7 (6 plus keeper)

6 week season ? games played Friday evenings

Leagues begin Friday, Jan. 25.

Grade School and High School Boys Divisions ? U9, U11, U13, U15, High School

Team or individual registrations available

Registration: visit www.poconodome.com for league schedule, pricing, and information

Contact: Robert Sabola at Rsabola@neimansportsgroup.com

Registration Deadline: Jan. 18

FIELD HOCKEY LEAGUES

Session I Indoor Field Hockey Leagues: 6v6 (5 plus keeper)

8 week season ? games played Tuesday evenings

Leagues begin Tuesday, Jan. 22

Grade School, High School, and Adult Divisions ? U14, U16, U19, Women's Open

Team or individual registrations available

Registration: visit www.poconodome.com for league schedule, pricing, and information

Contact: Robert Sabola at Rsabola@neimansportsgroup.com

Registration Deadline: January 14, 2013

BASEBALL LEAGUES

Session I Indoor Baseball Leagues: 9v9

8 Week Season ? games played Wednesday evenings

Leagues begin Wednesday, Jan. 23

Youth Divisions ? U8, U10, U12, U14

Team or individual registrations available

Registration: visit www.poconodome.com for league schedule, pricing, and information

Contact: Tim Bremen at Tbremen@neimansportsgroup.com

Registration Deadline: Jan. 14.

SOFTBALL LEAGUES

Session I Indoor Softball Leagues: 9v9

8 week season ? games played Thursday evenings

Leagues begin Thursday Jan. 24.

Fast-Pitch Grade School and High School Divisions: U12, U14, U16, U18

Slow-Pitch Adult League ? Open Men's Division

Team or individual registrations available

Registration: visit www.poconodome.com for league schedule, pricing, and information

Contact: Tim Bremen at Tbremen@neimansportsgroup.com

Registration Deadline: Jan. 14.

FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUES

Session I Indoor Flag Football Leagues

8 week season ? games played Sunday evenings

Leagues begin Sunday, Jan. 13.

Youth Divisions: U8, U10, U12

Registration: visit www.poconodome.com for league schedule, pricing, and information

Contact: Tim Bremen at Tbremen@neimansportsgroup.com. Registration Deadline: Jan. 7.

DODGEBALL/ULTIMATE FRISBEE LEAGUES

High School and Adult Recreation League Divisions: 10v10 Dodgeball and Kickball

8 week season ? games played on Friday night

Leagues begin, Feb. 1.

Team or individual registrations available

Ultimate Frisbee Open League: Age (16+) 8v8 Ultimate Frisbee

8 week season ? games played on Sunday night

Registration: visit www.poconodome.com for league schedule, pricing, and information

Contact: Robert Sabola at Rsabola@neimansportsgroup.com. Registration Deadline: Jan. 21.

AGILITY TRAINING

Athletes and non-athletes in grades 6?12 who would like to reach your full potential mentally and physically by improving your speed, agility, quickness, flexibility and muscle recruitment, this is the program for you. If you are willing to work hard and bring energy to each session, you can improve your physical fitness while learning teamwork, sportsmanship and building self confidence.

WHO ? 6th to 12th graders (boys and girls)

Where ? Swiftwater Elementary Center

When ? Session 1: Jan. 8-31, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30?7:30 p.m.; Session 2: Feb. 5-28, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30?7:30 p.m.

Cost ? Each session is $99. Register for both sessions for $175.

To register contact Kim Ernsberger, HJP Parks Recreation Manager at 570-629-0966 or e-mail Recmanager@hjpparks.org.

TRACK & FIELD

Holiday Clinic at ESU

The staff of ESU track & field will be hosting its 5th annual Holiday Field Clinic at Koehler Fieldhouse Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 27-29 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. These are for field events ? Shot, Discus, Javelin, Long Jump, Triple Jump, High Jump. Learn the techniques and drills we teach our Warrior athletes to get ready for your upcoming season. Coach Merli will be providing hurdle sessions on Thursday and Friday. Cost is $55 per session and includes lunch. Come to one, two or all three sessions. There will be an indoor shot and indoor weight competition Saturday at 1 p.m. Details on the ESU Warriors website under the Men's or Women's Track Link. Contact Coach Merli at 570-422-3249 or cmerli@esu.edu. Don't forget our 26th annual Red & Black HS/Open Indoor track meet on Friday, Jan. 11 at 5 p.m. Your school does not have to sponsor indoor track to participate. Ages- youth through post collegiate and masters welcome. Details also on the ESU Warriors website under the track links.

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Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Hyun Black Edition Debuts in China

Car News, China ? By Earlsimx on December 30, 2012 at 8:24 am ? No Comments

Jeep has introduced the Grand Cherokee SRT8 Hyun Black Edition in China. This particular version is similar to the SRT-8 Vapor Edition meaning the only difference is in their names. Just like the name suggests, this Jeep comes in a piano black paint with a black grille, exhaust pipes and also the 20 inch five-spoke alloys are black with some alu not to mention the tinted bi-xenon headlights.

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Havard Rugland does not have the pedigree one might expect for someone who has become an Internet sensation for kicking an American football. He knows next to nothing about the sport. Just ask him to name the quarterback of the New England Patriots or the Denver Broncos.

"I have no idea," said Rugland, a 28-year-old from Norway.

When asked how many yards an offense is penalized for a false start, Rugland paused. "I'd just be guessing," he finally admitted.

"Look, I don't know much about football," Rugland said by telephone from his home in Aalgaard, a small town near the southwestern coast of Norway. "But I'm fascinated by it. There's great athletes and speed and big hits. I thought it was interesting. So I wondered, What can I do?"

Using tools not typically associated with athletic prowess ? YouTube, Facebook, Skype and Gmail ? Rugland parlayed a homemade video that went viral into a tryout as a placekicker with the New York Jets last week. He might be the first professional prospect to replace college football experience with social media savvy.

In the four-minute video, posted in mid-September under the title "Kickalicious," the left-footed Rugland pulls off some of the most amusing tricks with a football since Lucy began duping Charlie Brown. And sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, it was viewed for the millionth time.

In one clip Rugland kicks the ball from a dock to someone in a canoe floating about 25 yards away. Twice. In another, he kicks the ball into the arms of someone standing through a car's sunroof. That might not seem so spectacular, except the car is cruising along a country road. The most eye-popping trick is saved for last. Rugland punts one ball high into the air and then quickly kicks a second ball off a tee. The balls collide in midair.

"That last kick, it took about eight tries," said Rugland, who added that coming up with creative ideas for kicks and punts was often tougher than executing them. "The basketball kick, I wanted it to go straight in, but it kept hitting the rim. That actually took a while. That could have been like 40 tries."

Rugland is so accurate on so many difficult kicks that his video almost seems too good to be true. It brings to mind doctored videos featuring other athletes, like one of the Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant leaping over a speeding Aston Martin (Bryant never would have risked his knees). But Rugland insists his video is real. (The could not independently verify this, though Rugland said that NRK, Norway's public broadcasting network, reviewed the raw videos and concluded they were legitimate.)

"I actually used Windows Movie Maker to edit the film," Rugland said. "The program isn't very good, so it actually crashed a few times. So it's kind of funny hearing people accusing me of things like, ?Oh, this is fake and it's easy to see.' I don't know how I would be able to try and do that."

Regardless of the video's legitimacy, Rugland ended up at the Jets' doorstep, quite an accomplishment for anyone, let alone a Norwegian who had never played football at any level. His journey to New York provides a blueprint of sorts for anyone looking to turn a homemade video into a global hit.

It all started when Rugland's club soccer team disbanded a year and a half ago. He began looking for another hobby to go along with his interest in video cameras. He got the bug for football after watching a live feed of the Super Bowl in the middle of the night. Rugland said he always had a booming leg in soccer and wondered if his talent would transfer to this new, obscure sport.

So Rugland went on the Internet and studied videos of placekickers. He also read up on kicking statistics. Asked to identify the longest field goal in NFL history, Rugland quickly answered: "Sixty-three yards by Janikowski, and Tom Dempsey in 1970. Didn't Akers do it this year when it hit the post and went over?"

Actually, David Akers' kick bounced off the crossbar, and Jason Elam also tied the record. But still.

With the assistance of two of his brothers and a friend, Rugland made the video in about five days in September. He said they did it for fun, bringing along a video camera whenever they went to the beach or took a drive. In the weeks after Rugland put the video online, it reached 5,000 hits, thanks mostly to friends of the four who reposted it on Facebook. That was 4,950 more hits than Rugland had expected. One of those viewers was Michael Husted, who kicked in the NFL for nine seasons. Husted, a kicking teacher, connected with Rugland on Facebook.

"I was just enamored by his size and his stature," Husted said of Rugland, who is 6 feet 2 inches and 242 pounds. "I thought there was some potential there. NFL teams like these big kickers."

Soon, Husted and Rugland began discussing the art of the trade over Skype.

In mid-October, NRK, the Norwegian television station, did a story on Rugland's minor celebrity. Within a week after the broadcast, Rugland said, the video reached 500,000 views. Soon his Gmail account was flooded with interest from small colleges like Henderson State University in Arkansas and Lincoln University in Missouri. In late November, Rugland received an email message from someone with more clout: Scott Cohen, assistant general manager of the Jets.

"Of course, my first thought was, ?Who of my friends have sent me this email?"' Rugland said. "I thought it was a joke."

After being assured by Rugland that he was serious about pursuing a career as a placekicker, Cohen suggested that he train for a few weeks with a kicking coach in the United States. Cohen even suggested a few names, including Husted.

"He had never seen a snap or a hold," Cohen said. "I told him, ?If you pay your way over here and work hard, I'll fly you to New York before you fly back to Norway."'

It was a significant cost for Rugland, who works as a counselor in a state-run facility for at-risk youths. But he had some vacation stored up and did not want to regret missing the next chapter of this surreal voyage. So he bought a ticket to San Diego, where Husted is based.

Husted is well connected in the fraternity of current and former NFL kickers. In addition to giving Rugland his first formal lesson on kicking in late November, he arranged to have Nate Kaeding, who signed with the Miami Dolphins recently, evaluate Rugland's technique.

"Put him out on the field with all of us NFL kickers, he's going to kick it as high and as far as the rest of us," said Kaeding, the most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history. "The way that he flights the ball and how he hits it, the pop he puts in it, is like a professional caliber. He can hit from 55, 60 yards."

Cohen was reluctant to give details about last week's workout but said the Jets also saw enough to conclude that Rugland had a chance to play in the NFL. Rugland said the Jets wanted him to return for a workout in March. He added that he planned to spend the next few months in Norway practicing field goals and kickoffs (he is leaving the trick shots behind).

Rugland has also hired an agent, Jill McBride Baxter, who represents a few kickers. She hopes Rugland can sign with an NFL team in the offseason and vie for a spot on a 53-man roster next season.

"After the Jets workout, I got a call from the Raiders," Baxter said. "And then Michael got a call from Green Bay and he got a call from Philadelphia," she said, referring to Husted. "So yeah, there's interest."

Still, Rugland remains an untested commodity. Kaeding said there was little room for creativity in kicking and noted that Rugland's lack of game experience was a glaring obstacle.

"There's a lot of emotion and psychological hurdles you have to navigate," Kaeding said. "In high school and college, you learn how to deal with the nuances of the position. He's fighting against time because he hasn't had that experience."

Rugland would not be the first Norwegian kicker to play in the NFL. Jan Stenerud, a Hall of Famer who played for the Chiefs, the Packers and the Vikings over 19 seasons, is also from Norway.

But even if the Jets tryout turns out to be Rugland's only taste of the NFL, he has broken new ground. He has managed to make kicking look sexy while bringing it to the masses in the 21st century.

"It's almost like the world has gotten a little bit smaller," Rugland said. "I have no background in American football. You couldn't be more green than me. I made a video and it's possible for America to watch it. And it ends up with a tryout with the Jets. And let's hope a lot more."

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