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Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission Agenda
Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission
Notice is hereby given that the Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission will hold a meeting on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 8:00 a.m. in the County-City Building, 555 S. 10th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska, in Room 214 on the 2nd Floor. For more information, please contact the Lincoln City/Lancaster County Planning Department at 402-441-7491.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
- Approval of meeting record of November 8, 2012.
- Update on Centennial Mall progress, including Certificate of Appropriateness for donor recognition and other design elements.
- Certificate of Appropriateness for demolition of 1236 H Street in the Capitol Environs District.
- Update and Miscellaneous.


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- Feeling Stuck, Page 22 (PAGE FULL)
- Sex and intimacy after betrayal
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- Stupid S#*t Cheaters Say
- Separating/Divorcing Page 9
- Finding Out, Part 6
- Books for the Betrayed
- Separating and Divorcing, Page 10
- Feeling Stuck, Part 23
- MORE Stupid S#*t Cheaters Say
- Share Your Story Part 6 (Part 5 is full)
- Sex & Intimacy After Betrayal Part 2 (Part 1 is full)
Sunday, December 5, 2010
It's the Most Difficult Time of the Year
What can I say about the...holidays. I live suspended somewhere between the fantasy of what I think they SHOULD look like. And my reality of what they've – with few exceptions – always been.
If something lousy was going to happen to me (and it usually did), it happened around the holidays, ensuring that my Christmas stockings were largely filled with bitterness, resentment and tears.
And somehow anything bad is magnified by the holidays. Because we expect everything to be wonderful, when it's not.... Like, for example, you just found out your husband has been shtoinking his assistant for...well...far too long to insist that it was a "mistake"...it seems sooo much worse.
And yet, this year, after a lifetime of disappointing holidays, still has me thinking it's going to be wonderful.
And the strange thing is, after my D-Day on December 10, 2006 which had me driving around the OW's neighborhood on Christmas morning – sobbing, incoherent, suicidal – the holidays have actually become better than they ever were.
Crazy, huh?
The thing about hitting bottom is that you've got nowhere to go but up.
So after that Black Christmas of 2006 (which was my last Christmas before my mom died, and I spent it barely functional), I let go of any expectations of ever having a greeting card Christmas. Ever. Indeed, I was ready to declare a moratorium on Christmas altogether.
My childhood holidays were notable for the drunken fights between various relatives, including my parents. My young adult holidays were notable for the dismissive way my boyfriend's family treated me. And my married holidays were notable for my husband's distinct lack of enthusiasm and my in-law's distinct rudeness.
So when D-Day came and went, I simply waved the white flag. I gave up. I decided, without telling a soul, that I would go through the motions for my children. But, as far as I was concerned, the holidays were just more days to mark off the calendar.
And that's when my own Christmas miracle occurred.
Christmas 2007 was...nice. I made sure that we marked D-Day by being together (I knew I'd be a mess if we were apart and my imagination was free to create an entire demon fantasy world) and going...Christmas shopping. Something we'd never done together. And since we were both surprised and grateful that we were still together after all the past year had held, it was...nice. Maybe not greeting card material. But nice. Even with my mom gone. Even with my father grieving.
Christmas 2008 was...better. By this time I'd freed myself of any obligations that did not serve myself or my marriage well. If my husband wanted to spend time with his dysfunctional family, that was fine with me. But I had decided that it only led to resentment and bitterness. And I was done with holidays defined by those two nasty elves.
Christmas 2009 was...better still. By this time, we had developed some of our own traditions based on what worked for us as a family. Based on what we felt fed our family's value system and definition of a great holiday.
This year? Well. Remains to be seen. We have a beloved dog battling cancer and a house undergoing SERIOUS renovations. The place, frankly, is a mess. So my love of a beautifully decorated house has had to give way to an acceptance of a sorta-decorated house.
But I can look back to four years ago, when I thought I would never again experience joy. And certainly NEVER peace.
Yet here I am. Joyful. And filled with peace.
D-Day is now woven into the fabric of holiday memories. Most bad. But some, more recently, quite...nice.
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- takilasunrise (formerly known as Anonymous II)December 8, 2010 at 11:39 AM
This will be my first Christmas after D-Day #1, 5 months ago today. Though I'm at a better place than I was 4 months ago, this upcoming Christmas has been a trigger because of the big lie he told me (where he was going to be on Christmas but was really with "her"), then came home and pulled the big puppy dog eyes and said he should have been home with me on Christmas instead of with his brother. Knowing that, I'm going to make sure that I make Christmas a nice memory for my adult daughters and my grandson and not dwell on where he was a year ago! My wayward husband moved out (separated) 2 months ago and won't be a part of our holidays this year! His loss.........ReplyDelete
Good for you! Sounds as if you've created a good holiday for you and your family. And though his absence will be noted, certainly, I hope it's simply part of the background and not the focus. His loss, indeed.ReplyDelete
My husband and I are having problems with a christmas party invitation we received from the revolting mother in law.ReplyDelete
We told her that we would not be attending any christmas events and would just be spending time together as a family.
She went ahead and planned a christmas lunch and invited us to it. After talking to her on the phone she is chucking what can only be described as a tantrum because we are not going to her lunch.
My husband has put his mother ahead of his family so many times before. It will not be happening this christmas or for anything else for that matter.
However we are still left with the prickly situation of her tantrum and now it's interfering with my husband and myself- just the very thing we have been trying to avoid.
I've had a LOT of mother-in-law issues over the years. And when D-Day occurred, it finally gave me the freedom/permission to start putting myself first and stop trying to please -- and helping my husband please -- my mother-in-law.ReplyDelete
There were definitely some "countermoves" as my therapist calls them. Any time you shift dynamics in a relationship (ie you start instilling boundaries where formerly there were none), you're going to get countermoves. Barbara Coloroso, a parenting expert, writes beautifully about them. She's referring to kids' response to parent's boundaries but her theory works for everyone. You'll ALWAYS get one of three "cons": the first is "weeping, wailing, begging, bribing, gnashing of teeth"; the second is anger and aggression; and the third is sulking. When you know to expect them, I find it's easier to simply note to yourself that "okay, here we go with a Con 2" or whatever. It allows you to remove yourself from it, not take it personally (even when you're hearing the "you don't care about me" or "you're being so selfish" or whatever) and recognize it as simply a natural human reaction to you changing the rules of the game.
Hang in there and do your very best NOT to get involved. It's really between your husband and his mother. Often a third person getting involved really just allows both of them to blame you, on some level. You can choose to not go and allow your husband to make his own choice. After awhile, I discovered, that my NOT being there forced my husband to truly deal with his family...and once he stopped defending them to me (because I no longer criticized, got angry, etc), he saw them for what they were. And we were suddenly back on the same team.
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2012 at 2:32 AM
Christmas 2011 was my d-day. Good to see the holiday season ma not be entirely lost. The holidays were always a special time for family but also a time of trying to please lots of people- parents and in-laws. This year ironically we had decided to try Christmas without visiting family. I probably would not have found out on Christmas if we were with our families. And since the other woman bought my Christmas presents this year, that woud have been another dark moment eventually. No one has noticed except cheating spouse that they went from under the tree to a box in the garage late on christmas night. Day by day. Hour by hour is maybe a better description here.ReplyDelete
Minute by minute, second by second... Whatever gets you to the next second, minute, day, week. Eventually you'll notice you're not crying as much, or numb as much. I distinctly recall the moment when I realized I wasn't thinking about "it" -- and by recognizing that moment, I was able to trust that there would be more of them.ReplyDelete
Betrayal does change who we are. Never again will I be that blindly trusting wife. But though I miss those Pollyanna days, I also really like who I've become. I'm far nicer to myself. I no longer try and please so many people (cause, frankly, look where it got me!!). I'm far more focussed on being the best "me"...which gives my kids (and anyone else who cares to notice) permission to be their best "me".
Once you can see past the pain (and it does take awhile!!), you'll be amazed at the gifts that arise out of this. Not to sound trite or all new-age freaky on you, but if you're open to it, this is a chance to rewrite the rest of your life. Don't put up with dishonesty or inconsideration or any of the crap that men so often dish out when they're in an affair (and sometimes even when they're not). Insist that he get himself straightened out to find out why he would risk losing a family he obviously loves. Trust that you are worth fighting for – by him, but also by you.
And trust that, someday, holidays will be magical again.

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I'm giving away three copies of the Oracle WebCenter 11g Handbook to the top 3 bloggers/tweeters about Oracle WebCenter during Oracle OpenWorld 2009 (Oct 11-15).
To be considered for the price, all you need to do is post a link to your blog and/or twitter name here as a comment.
The book is scheduled to be released in December 2009. I will announce the winners here and contact them in person to discuss shipping information.
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Centrally located at Carrara on the beautiful Gold Coast, only a stone's throw from Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach, Carrara Markets is the biggest permanent weekend marketplace in Australia. With over 400 stalls covering 24 acres it's a treasure trove of the curious and the unusual. It's also the original home of discount shopping when it comes to fresh produce, fashion, homewares, pots, plants, bric a brac, souvenirs, arts and crafts and just about everything else.
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Online bullying
Being bullied can make you feel upset, lonely, isolated or worried about telling someone what's happening. If you're being bullied online, by text message, on a social network or in a game it might feel like there is no escape. It can be scary too if you don't know who's being nasty or why.
Whatever has happened, online bullying can be stopped.
Speak out
If you are being bullied it's NEVER OK. It's not your fault and you have the right to get help to make it stop.
There are a lot of different ways to cope with bullying, an important first step is to tell someone what's happening.
You might not feel ready to talk to an adult, but do speak to a friend. Or, if you want to talk to someone who doesn't know you, you can talk to someone at Childline confidentially by calling 0800 1111.
Don't hide it!
If you're being bullied, an important first step is to tell someone what's happening. Watch this video of how a boy dealt with online bullying by calling Childline.
Don't retaliate or sink to the level of the bullies.
Don't feel it's ever your fault, it isn't. There are many reasons why people bully, but it is never your fault.
Don't believe the things they are telling you, they are not your friends and do not have your best interests at heart.
Don't take your feelings out on others even if the bullying is making you feel or frustrated.
Don't be a bystander: if you see someone being bullied report it and tell them they can get help at Childline
5 steps to take if you're being bullied online
Tell an adult you trust.
Bullying can be hard to talk about but you shouldn't feel that you have to handle it alone. Talk to an adult you trust. This could be your mum or dad, your aunt or a teacher. They will support you and help you to make it stop.
Talk to someone your age.
Talk to a friend or if you don't want to talk to someone you know, you can post messages and get advice on Childline's Message boards.
Block the bullies.
Most websites will let you block people to stop them communicating with you. Find out how on most popular sites
Keep the evidence.
Keep any nasty emails, texts or web pages so you can show someone what's been going on.
Report mean videos, pictures, comments or pages to the website you've found them on.
Learn how to do this different sites here.
Where to get help
If you're being bullied there's lots of help and advice out there.
Talk to someone
On the Childline site you can find out more about online bullying. Being bullied can really knock your confidence so they also provide tips on ways to be assertive which can help deal with bullying and build up your self-esteem.
You can also speak to a counsellor on 0800 1111.


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Back in summer 2011, comedy site FunnyOrDie.com presented the world with its unique take on the Captain Planet series. The short video featured Oscar nominated actor Don Cheadle as the environmental superhero helping the Planeteers - and going a bit haywire with his ability to turn evildoers into trees. In the end, he basically flips off the world, turns one of the sobbing Planeteers into a shrub, and flies away.
It was brilliant.
Yesterday, FunnyOrDie released a sequel with Cheadle once again suiting up, turning blue, and showing us a side to the Captain that bodes ill for humanity. Basically, he's become a supreme dictator of all things green and has started turning people not only into trees, but also rabbits, broccoli, manatees, etc. Even the Planeteers have been reduced to only one - Ma-Ti (Heart).
The site is promising a Part III, so we'll have to see if the Captain can be reasoned with not to wipe out humanity. Check out the video below.
"Captain Planet" is an animated series created by Ted Turner in the 1990s. MNN.com is the primary source for "Captain Planet" episodes on the Web.
Captain Planet is a superhero whose powers are implemented by a team of five Planeteers (as well as himself), each of whom helps combat environmental catastrophes like pollution, animal poaching, water scarcity and more. Each episode of "Captain Planet" involves the captain and his planeteers tackling different dilemmas and nefarious eco-villains.
Numerous celebrities contributed voice work to the show, including Meg Ryan, Jeff Goldblum, Whoopi Goldberg and many others. You can watch all the Captain Planet episodes on MNN and you can learn more about the series by going behind the scenes with the creators and major players.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2003 News Releases > May 2003 > Wayland expands summer missions
Wayland expands summer missions
PLAINVIEW - With finals safely tucked behind them and the start of the Fall 2003 semester 15 weeks away, many students return home for a little R-and-R. A few brave souls, however, will barely have time to take a breath before hitting the mission field for a summer full of evangelism.
Wayland Baptist University is opening a new chapter in its summer missions programs this year. Along with Rejoice and the WBU REC teams, which operate as employees of the university, working in church and youth camps throughout the summer, a new group will offer it services to area churches.
Sponsored by the Office of Church Services and the Baptist Student Ministries, the Lighting the Way revival team will visit 10 churches in West Texas this summer, serving in a variety of areas.
The team is fashioned after the Shine Out revival teams that were sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Texas several years ago.
"They were teams of three or four individuals that went out and conducted youth revivals, did surveying, canvassing, evangelism and things in a local church for a week," explained WBU Director of Church Services Micheal Summers
Summers explained that the Shine Out teams were phased out in recent years due to budget concerns, but there is still a need for that type of ministry. So when the area Directors of Missions and several church leaders approached Wayland with the idea, Summers jumped at the opportunity.
"Wayland is trying to be very responsive to churches' needs," Summers said. "The request came in this school year and we have put a team together. We are responding as soon as we can."
The team will be led by sophomore Shawn Mahannah, who will serve as the speaker/preacher of the group. Senior Josh Rieff will lead worship while freshman Anne Weaver and sophomore Britany Lewis will work with the children and youth respectively.
The summer will open with an on-campus retreat May 28-30 in which Summers and Baptist Student Ministries Director Donnie Brown will work with the group to prepare them for what they will face.
"One of the things we will get from each of the churches before the training retreat is an outline of what they are wanting to do and perhaps even the teaching materials so we will know ahead of time what the week will hold in store," Summers said.
Lining up 10 churches to participate in the endeavor was no problem.
"The need is greater than what we can supply," Summers said. "There is no doubt in my mind that we could easily find another 10 churches to serve in."
Summers and Brown will evaluate the group this year and hopefully be able to increase the ministry next year, adding at least one more Lighting the Way team.
"It may be better to have one team in the beginning to make sure it is successful and work out any bugs and kinks," Summers said. "Then we will build on that relationship with the churches and the testimony of the students to see if God can provide two teams next year."
The groups' activities this summer will consist of everything from working with Genesis Baptist Church, an Hispanic church which has been restarted just a few blocks from the Wayland Campus in Plainview, to leading a youth camp at the beach for First Baptist Church Junction.
While the university sponsors the team, Summers said, unlike Rejoice and the REC teams, the Lighting the Way team is not employed by the school. The four members of the team work on a volunteer basis. Churches are asked to provide $250 for travel expenses and to take care of the team's room and board for the week, but no salary is involved. Churches will take a love offering that will be divided among the students and Wayland will credit them with the equivalent of a micro-term's tuition as their only remuneration.
"This is definitely a missions commitment," Summers said, "to give 10 weeks of your summer to be in different churches every week with a different pastor every week, doing different activities every week."


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SQL Azure Use Case: Web-based Applications
This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx
Some applications lend themselves for the entire architecture to be placed on an outside provider such as Azure. And in some cases, you're interested in using a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS):
- Web application with fast meta-data search requirements
- Web application requiring high levels of consistency and/or atomicity
- Common-use data, shared among multiple web applications
- Durable data storage for stateless applications
Unless you need the data to be kept local (see the hybrid application use-case), SQL Azure makes a good fit.SQL Azure shares the same logical "backbone" as Windows Azure, so an Azure application that needs structured storage, either exclusively or alongside Blob or Windows Azure Table storage (Key/Value pair, more akin to NoSQL in architecture than RDBMS).
This is actually one of the easiest concepts to display for a SQL Azure architecture. It's logically the same as keeping the application completely local, with the exception that you don't have to install or maintain anything. Note that although Windows Azure applications are a common use, you can use any web program to access the SQL Azure database:
Considerations here include the decisions on when to use structured storage for a datum or some other storage. In many configurations, you might want multiple storage paradigms. Here is one such example architecture, although many others are possible:
In this diagram I'm indicating a simple shopping-cart application. A Windows Azure Web Role provides a "front end" or presentation layer to the client. A Worker Role provides computation functions, and the Queue maintains the state information so that the application is scalable. SQL Azure stores meta-data about the items in a catalogue of items a user can purchase, such as name, size, price and so on. This provides fast lookup, and allows re-use of code that existed on an on-premise SQL Server.
Once the item is located, a reference in a SQL Azure column (from a standard SQL query) locates the GUID for the object's picture, stored in Windows Azure Blob storage, and displays that to the user. The Worker Role moves the information for the customer's order from the Queue to a Windows Azure Table object.
Of course, you could architect all of these data elements into only one or another kind of storage. In this case, the cost, performance and other characteristics of each data requirement dictated this selection.
Storage and their abstractions: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/05/10/windows-azure-storage-abstractions-and-their-scalability-targets.aspx


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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This dissertation presents a new methodology for the sustainable and optimal allocation of water for a river basin management area that maximizes sustainable net economic benefit over the long-term planning horizon. The model distinguishes between short and long-term planning horizons and goals using a short-term modeling component (STM) and a long term modeling component (LTM) respectively. An STM optimizes a monthly allocation schedule on an annual basis in terms of maximum net economic benefit. A cost of depletion based upon Hotelling's exhaustible resource theory is included in the STM net benefit calculation to address the non-use value of groundwater. An …
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On Sunday, the Tigers Rick Porcello ripped through the Twins lineup with relative ease. With the exception of a handful of doubles from Delmon Young, Jim Thome and Danny Valenica, the right-hander kept the Twins at bay, limiting them to two runs on five hits over six innings of work.
Porcello, a career 51% ground ball rate, is just another earth-scorching starter that has dispatched the Twins in recent weeks. Add Cleveland's Fausto Carmona (career 59.3% ground ball rate) and Justin Masterson (career 56.5% ground ball rate) to that list as well. There is a reason behind this and that is that the Twins have been truly awful against ground ball pitching this season.
According to Baseball-Reference.com, the Twins have the lowest OPS against ground ball pitchers in 2011:
AL Teams OPS vs Ground Ball Pitchers (2011) Team OPS BOS 827 NYY 796 CHI 772 BAL 771 KC 769 DET 757 TEX 725 TOR 719 *LGE AVG* *711* LAA 697 CLE 685 TB 658 OAK 623 SEA 595 MIN 551
Even the toothpick-swinging Mariners have managed a better showing.
MLB.com's Jordan Schelling tells us that Ron Gardenhire was plenty disappointed in Francisco Liriano's outing.
During the broadcast, fill-in analyst Roy Smalley made it clear that command of the fastball was going to be the focal point for Liriano in this start. Liriano, however, could not find the strike zone with it. According to Inside Edge, just 21 of his 46 fastballs (46%) wandered into the strike zone airspace. Credit the Tigers for not helping out the Twins lefty as they only chased on two of the 25 out-of-zone fastballs. The lone bright spot is that for a pitcher who held the league's lowest first-pitch strike rate, Liriano actually managed to get ahead of 12 of 17 of the Tigers' hitters before falling behind. That's…progress?
On Saturday, the Baltimore Sun's Dan Connelly said the Twins have heavy interest in the Orioles' Koji Uehara, sending one of their top pro scouts, Bob Hegman, to Camden Yards while Baltimore's professional scouting director, Lee MacPhail, was at Target Field.
Uehera would be an outstanding addition to the Twins bullpen. Over the past two seasons, Uehera's .183 average has been the eighth-lowest in baseball while his 8.77 strikeouts-to-walks ratio has been the second-best behind only Edward Mujica. What's more is that Uehara thrives in making right-handed hitters look absolutely foolish. Since 2010, he has held a .169 average against, a baseball-best 0.64 WHIP versus righties with an otherworldly 54.00 strikeouts-to-walk ratio.
In addition to having a terrific season as a lights-out set-up man, Uehara's contract is extremely team-friendly. Having a little over a million left on his contract this season, Uehara has a vesting option for the 2012 season for $4 million if he reaches 55 games (or 25 games finished). So far he's 10 appearances (or six more games finished) away from having that triggered. For the Twins whose future in their 'pen is still wideout, Uehara would provide a solid arm that could potentially close at low cost if Nathan or Capps are not retained.
For multiple reasons, back in December I lobbied the Twins to make a run at Uehara. It sounded like there were conversations but the pitcher, who had settled his family in the Baltimore-area, really wanted to remain an Oriole. Now would be a great time to pry Uehara away from the east coast. Teams often stick to one or two trading partners and the Twins have a comfortable relationship with Baltimore (and the Orioles should be more than pleased with their return on Hardy), so it would make plenty of sense for the two teams to hook-up.
During the appropriately titled, Ron Gardenhire Show, the manager told 1500ESPN's Tom Pelissero that he wanted a "veteran bat" for off the bench, a switch-hitting one at that, in addition to a relief arm.
A quick scour of the soon-to-be selling teams reveals little to no options that fit that description. If the sticking point is a switch-hitter, only the Dodgers' Aaron Miles, Athletics' Coco Crisp or the White Sox's Omar Vizquel qualifies.
While I can see Gardenhire being enamored by the diminutive Miles's scrap-and-grit, his .284/.322/.355 career batting line does nothing for me. Crisp has performed well against lefties this season and has been above-average on the bases and in the outfield. However, the Twins have plenty of outfield options as is and trying to squeeze Crisp into the fray with Denard Span, Delmon Young, Jason Kubel, Michael Cuddyer and Ben Revere makes for a crowded room.
1500ESPN's Darren Wolfson tweeted to me that he believed that Seattle's Chone Figgins would be a possibility given his struggles in the Northwest. Over the past two seasons since signing with the Mariners, Figgins has been every kind of awful there is at the plate. By any metric available, you can see that he has not performed. His OPS (594) is the second-worst in baseball. His slugging (.285) has been the worst among qualified starters. His wOBA (.275) is the fourth-worst (interestingly enough, four of the top five worst wOBAs belong to Mariners). There is little redeeming value for the Twins in Figgins.
It's hard to pinpoint what happen to him that allowed him to spirl out of control. Since switching from the Angels, Figgins has expanded his swing zone, chasing after more balls and putting a greater amount of bad pitches in play. Could a different location with a different lineup allow Figgins to bounce back to pre-2010 form? It's possible, as it seems that Seattle is the place where offense and dreams go to die.
On top of his struggles, Figgins is shackled to a fairly monsterous contract that includes paydays of $9 and $8 million in 2012 and 2013. It is hard to see Seattle agreeing to chew through a lot of that in order to make it more friendly for the Twins to take a flier out on Figgins. At the end of the day, the Twins need a hitter that can perform now, not a project like Figgins.
Beyond a crowded outfield, the Twins also have a plate full of designated hitting-types in Jim Thome and Jason Kubel. This means that the more veteran options with that oh-so-valuable "post-season" experience that are likely to be flipped (Hideki Matsui,Jason Giambi) have little versatility to offer.
St Louis Post-Dispatch's Joe Strauss claims that the Cardinals, who have a need for pitching - both starting and a left-handed specialist - have been in contact with the Minnesota Twins.
This certainly could be an interesting landing spot for Kevin Slowey where the Cardinals love their strike-throwing starters and have done well reviving careers. At the same time, there is little St. Louis likely has available that would help the Twins immediately. There are a few intruging bullpen arms including the 27-year-old Mitchell Boggs who is arbitration-eligible at the end of the season. The Cardinals haven't asked Boggs to work too many high leverage innings but he has compiled a decent season. For the Twins, he would be a nice right-handed option to reprive Alex Burnett in the 6th or 7th inning.
Because of limited amount of talent that could help the Twins this year, I would bet that the two teams are unlikely bedfellows.
According to Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (hat-tip MLBTradeRumors.com), the Pirates are not pursuing Kevin Slowey.
On any other year of the millennium, the Pirates may have been a worthy partner to pry a decent relief arm away from but as current frontrunners of the NL Central, the Bucs are not likely to surrender any useful pieces.
Still, it's interesting that Biertempfel says the team isn't pursuing Slowey. While Slowey and his health is a mystery, it's somewhat surprising the Pirates are not more interested in the right-hander. After all, the Pirates' rotation, despite boasting the NL's fifth-best ERA (3.61) also has the highest xFIP (4.09) suggesting that the sunny days might not last forever with this current group. Additionally, Pittsburgh's starters have amassed the third-least amount of innings (586.2) indicating they may need some new blood.
The Star Tribune's Joe Christensen wonders is Kyle Gibson's recent struggles in AAA have possibly made the decision to move Kevin Slowey for relief help that much more difficult.
Gibson's most recent outing in Indianapolis yielded four runs on seven hits and a career-high five walks to just one strikeout. According to Gibson, he had difficulties with his off-speed offerings:
"I felt pretty decent, but my off-speed wasn't really as good as it has been, so when I was behind in the count I couldn't really use that to get myself back in the count."
This has been somewhat of a disappointing string of starts for Gibson who, in the month of July, has allowed 24 hits in the past 14 innings of work. Of course, while the tangible issues with his secondary offerings are substantial, Gibson likely has some reason to gripe about his defense. Gibson owns the second-highest ground ball rate in the International League (57%) but backs that up with the third-highest batting average on balls in play (.346).
The Twins recently held an open tryout camp in Fort Myers and for the first time in six years, the team actually signed a participant: Custer, South Dakota native, J.R. Krogstad.
Evaluators were impressed with Krogstad's 91 mile per hour fastball complemented by an 87 mile per hour slider. They signed the 6-foot-2 right-hander and shipped him to the Gulf Coast League were the former paleontologist is attempting to rise in the system. Krogstad is an interesting story even if it becomes a footnote in Twins history.


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China's measures to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic are achieving visible progress as the battle has reached a crucial time, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a phone conversation with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday.
On February 5th, a company in Nansha Free Trade Zone planned to purchase masks from abroad with the supplier demanding payment within the same day.
As of midnight, February 17th, Guangdong had reported 6 new cases, pushing the total number of infected patients to 1328. Zero cases were reported in Guangzhou on February 17th.
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Marlins' system teeming with southpaw talent
MLB Pipeline checks in from spring camp, unveils Miami's Top 20 Prospects
JUPITER, Fla. -- It's typically seen as a farm-system triumph when an organization's top two prospects graduate to the big leagues and make positive contributions. When one of them wins the National League Rookie of the Year Award, goes to the All-Star Game and finishes third in the NL Cy Young Award voting, it's a cause for celebration.
It also can leave a thin system bare. Christian Yelich was one of the few potential impact bats coming through the Marlins' pipeline. And while there is certainly a Jose Fernandez-sized hole down on the farm, there are many more arms on the way to Miami.
Most of them are left-handed, almost an embarrassment of southpaw riches. In the new Marlins' Top 20 Prospects list, four of the top 10 -- and three of the top five -- are lefties. All of them -- top prospect Andrew Heaney, who's also ranked as the No. 1 left-handed pitching prospect in the game; No. 4 Justin Nicolino; No. 5 Adam Conley; and No. 7 Brian Flynn -- are in the upper levels of the system and could potentially be ready to contribute in 2014.
"Our depth at present is upper-level pitching," Marlins farm director Brian Chattin said. "Fortunately, we have some starting-pitching depth that's not far away from impacting our Major League club. If you want to be strong somewhere, I think that's where you want to be.
"We have more left-handed starting-pitching depth at the upper levels than we're accustomed to. And we have some down-the-way guys who are left-handed, as well, who we project to have in rotations who we have high hopes for. It's a good thing."
While 12 of the Top 20 are pitchers -- and seven of the Top 10 -- there are some bats worth keeping an eye on. The big one, of couse, belongs to No. 2 prospect Colin Moran. Ranked No. 51 on the overall Top 100, Moran was targeted by the Marlins with their first-round pick, No. 6 overall, as the top college bat in the 2013 class. He and Jake Marisnick are the top bats among the sea of arms in the system, but the Marlins have gone out of their way to make sure Moran understands that he doesn't have to single-handedly be the offensive savior while the pitching continues to ascend.
"We've been clear with Colin from the beginning that we don't want to put any extra pressure on him," said Chattin, who thinks Moran is likely to start the year with Class A Advanced Jupiter, with the hope of reaching Double-A at some point in 2014. "He'll get there when he's ready. We don't want to put undue stress on him to get there quickly. We've been very pleased with him since he arrived on the scene, impressed with his approach. You see why he was drafted No. 6 overall. He knows who he is. He wants to succeed. He appreciates the challenge ahead. Working with him, watching his development so far, I don't see him as a guy who's going to put too much pressure on himself to get there quickly. He understands the process."
Three questions with Moran
MLBPipeline.com: You had such a long year in 2013, with the college season, the Draft, your pro debut, even playing in the Arizona Fall League. What did you do after that to catch your breath?
Moran: I took a week or two to do nothing. I just relaxed. I tried to get my mind off of it. After that, I tried to get back into the weight room and worked hard during the offseason to get this year going.
MLBPipeline.com: When people look at this system, the first thing that jumps out are the arms. You've been seen as "the bat." Is it hard not to put any extra pressure on yourself as that guy who's expected to be that guy?
Moran: I don't think about anything like that. I just try to get in here and do my job, try to get better every day. There is a lot of pitching. I've faced a bunch of them. We have a lot of arms, we're really deep. It's fun to watch.
MLBPipeline.com: How often do you talk to your uncle, B.J. Surhoff, especially heading into this first full year of pro ball for you? And how does it help in terms of monitoring your expectations? And what you think you can get out of this year?
Moran: Every once in a while, I shoot him a text, try to pick his brain, too. I worked a little bit with him during the offseason. That was a lot of fun, and I think I learned a lot from him. I try to ask him questions every once in a while to get his thoughts on things.
Camp standout: Conley
Heaney and Nicolino might be the southpaws on the Top 100, but Conley has been as impressive as anyone during the early phases of big league camp.
The 2011 second-round pick was a reliever and a starter at Washington State, but the Marlins believed in Conley's ability to stick in a rotation. They appear to be right. Conley spent the 2013 season in the Double-A Southern League and led the organization in wins while finishing second in strikeouts.
Conley has always had plenty on his fastball, an above-average heater with excellent life. His changeup has been solid as well, but his long-term role was always tied to just how much his slider could develop. That, and the way he's locating his fastball this spring, could make the discussions about Conley heading to the bullpen vanish entirely.
"From what he's done on the mound so far, what we've seen in his bullpens, the inning he threw [against University of Miami], we've seen much better command of the fastball to both sides of the plate," said Chattin. "His slider, the main pitch we're working on with him, is showing signs of being a very usable third pitch for him. He's always been such a good worker in the offseason. He came into camp in great shape like we knew he would. What he's been doing on the mound so far is very encouraging."
Breakout candidate: Jarlin Garcia
That's right, another left-handed pitcher with the chance to be a starting pitcher. Garcia, however, is a ways off, part of that next wave of arms just getting started.
Signed in August 2010 out of the Dominican Republic, Garcia spent last summer with Batavia in the short-season New York-Penn League, where he finished fifth in strikeouts. He's ready for a full-season assignment at age 21.
"I think he's poised to put himself on the map, as far as a guy in the next wave," Chattin said. "It's a great arm, it's left-handed, he throws strikes. He's a mature young man from Latin America. He has a pretty good breaking ball and a feel for a change. You have the makings of usable weapons from a rotation, and the intangibles are there you would look for in order for a guy to have success."


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SACRAMENTO - A Tracy man pleaded guilty Monday to mail fraud charges in connection with a mortgage fraud operation.
SACRAMENTO - A Tracy man pleaded guilty Monday to mail fraud charges in connection with a mortgage fraud operation.
Reginald Dodson Sr., 42, was a loan officer in a scheme to squeeze large kickbacks from unknowing financial institutions, federal prosecutors say.
Prosecutors say the main conspirator, Buena Marshall, 67, of Sacramento recruited unqualified buyer Temika Reed, 32, of Bay Point to act as the person purchasing seven properties.
Marshall acted as the agent on some of the properties. Another woman, 55-year-old Deborah Loudermilk of Suisun City, was the agent on two of sales.
Dodson, a loan officer for W.B. Financial, helped get three of the properties financed.
The seven properties identified in the scheme were sold at inflated prices, and in most cases using 100 percent financing, prosecutors said.
Marshall and Loudermilk structured the deals to provide large kickbacks in a cash-back-to-buyer scheme.
If convicted, the defendants face a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a three-year term of supervised release. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.


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Is 'Cleaning My Rifle' So Often Making Me Lazy? — Ask Dr. Harry Fisch
When I stopped masturbating for a while I had more energy, my weightlifting strength improved and some stubborn depression went away. Is this all just a coincidence? -- Matthew S., 19, Phoenix
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25th World Congress of Philosophy will be held at the Melbourne Convention Centre July 2-10 2023 hosted by the AAP.
The decision to bring the World Congress to Melbourne was made at the General Assembly of FISP (the International Federation of Philosophy Associations), during the 24th World Congress of Philosophy, held in Beijing in August 2018.
The AAP wishes to express its appreciation to the Melbourne Convention Bureau -- and, in particular, to Marko Sanovic -- for support for the Melbourne bid. It also acknowledges the hard work of the members of the Local Organising Committee: Alan Hajek, Stuart Brock, Tan Sor Hoon, Karyn Lai, and Monima Chadha.
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The Umstead Hotel and Spa provides five-star service with SAS® Data Management
You approach a hotel registration desk. After asking for your name, the friendly reservation clerk asks if you would like the same suite you had last time. Or a dinner reservation at the same table you enjoyed last time. He even asks how your dog, Roy, is doing.
This is the level of personal attention that luxury hotels must provide. After all, hotels aren't defined simply by their amenities. A five-star property earns its reputation by its level of service. And it's why The Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary, NC works hard to anticipate a guest's needs – even before a request is made.
No, this doesn't require every employee to have a photographic memory. Instead, The Umstead has integrated data from its spa, dining and reservations systems. These distinct systems once operated independently, making it difficult to see the total value of the customer.
To deliver a more personalized experience for each guest, data from these systems is integrated in a single system using SAS Data Management. Now, when a staff member greets a guest, they can see details of every facet of that customer's previous stays – all on a web-based dashboard. And better customer service is only a click away.
Delivering a unified view of services
With 150 guest rooms, a spa and a Forbes Five Star restaurant, The Umstead has all the elements of a luxury hotel. What staff needed was a better way to delight guests with the information they already had.
"The challenges that we faced were simply trying to get information about our guests and use it quickly," says George Viall, Director of Revenue Management for The Umstead. "You could conceivably go into all of our pre-existing systems to figure out what each guest likes, but that wasn't efficient, especially while you had a guest on the line for a reservation."
"We know what makes our guests happy and what will keep them coming back. That's been the biggest advantage thus far, and it's a differentiator for our hotel in this market."
To fuel better interactions, Viall turned to SAS Data Management, and its embedded data quality capabilities, to create a "golden record" for guest data. The solution pulls data from existing systems, cleanses it and integrates it into a single view of customer interactions. It can then display this data in a single interface that all customer-facing staff can access.
"With SAS, we've been able to tailor our service around that complete guest profile," Viall explains. "The single record for each guest allows you to be much more anticipatory of the guests' needs. Often, we know what they want, even before they ask.
"Any technology that can fuel this level of service is invaluable to us. It makes a big impression on the guest. They know that we are attentive to their needs and that we use that to inform our services."
Building the foundation for personal attention
Building a more unified view of guest information started with an integration of existing records. Naturally, there was a significant overlap across these systems, and seeing an aggregated view of customer information led to some interesting discussions on Viall's team.
"We reduced our duplicate profiles by 52 percent, which had a variety of impacts," Viall says. "Not only are we more confident of our level of service, but better data means that our marketing is now more targeted. Once we merged all that information, we could see regions or customer types that might be interesting to explore as new markets."
With new customers coming in, The Umstead relies on its data management system to keep them happy. A luxury property thrives on repeat business and personal referrals, and the only way to achieve these is through exceptional service.
"We really know who's coming in and what they're coming in for," Viall says. "Just as important, we know what makes our guests happy and what will keep them coming back. That's been the biggest advantage thus far, and it's a differentiator for our hotel in this market."
- Drive more lasting customer relationships through personalized experiences.
- Understand and anticipate customer needs.
- Create a unified view of each guest.
- Provided better, more anticipatory service to guests through a unified set of data about previous activities within the hotel.
- Integrated three systems containing guest information: reservations (Opera), spa (SpaSoft) and dining (OpenTable).
- Reduced duplicate profiles by 52 percent and uncovered new target areas for marketing.


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Buzz lost on Australian viewers stuck with late Leftovers
Australian viewers will have to wait to see the new, critically acclaimed HBO series Leftovers, from one of the co-creators of Lost.
Four years after Lost concluded, having captivated and frustrated millions of viewers in equal measure, one of its co-creators is back on the small screen with a new series for HBO.
Damon Lindelof hasn't worked in television since the sci-fi show's controversial finale aired in 2010 - he even quit Twitter last year, tired of sparring with aggrieved viewers still bearing a grudge. He has spent his time writing screenplays for feature films instead: Star Trek Into Darkness, World War Z, Cowboys and Aliens, Prometheus.
The good news for those who have missed Lindelof's baffling serial twists is that he has co-created a show for TV called The Leftovers. The bad news is that although it made its debut in the US last week; it won't be screening in Australia until October.
The show is based on a novel of the same name, and Lindelof has adapted it with its author, Tom Perrota.
It's set in the fictional small town Mapleton, New York, three years after a rapture-like event has taken place in which 2 per cent of the world's population has vanished with no explanation; babies, mothers, drug dealers, teachers; the Pope; Gary Busey - the event was indiscriminate.
The focus of the show is not the Departure (as it is called), but the aftermath: what happens to the people who are left? How do they get on with their lives? Do they try to explain it, or do they just move on?
It's a bit like the wonderful French series The Returned, if the actual Returned had never come back.
The first episode sets up plenty of mysteries and offers few answers. Lindelof, talking to Hitfix.com's Alan Sepinwall, said: ''If you were frustrated the last time [with Lost], don't watch The Leftovers.'' He's probably being a little glib: the show moves at a glacial pace, it's true, but anyone who has watched The Wire, True Detective or any Scandi noir should have no trouble with that.
It has a fine cast, including Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Ann Dowd, Michael Gaston and Justin Theroux and has received rave reviews.
Time's James Poniewozik admitted it began slowly and was ''as gloomy as hell'' but said ''then comes the fantastic third episode, which follows Mapleton pastor Matt Jamison (Eccleston) through a crisis of faith, all through a story as neatly and twistily crafted as a Twilight Zone episode.''
The AV Club's Todd VanDerWerff wrote: "The Leftovers is some of the most desolate, despairing television on air. It's also frequently brilliant."
Plaudits like these and Lindelof's involvement have created a real buzz, but pay TV channel Showcase, which have the rights to the show in Australia, have decided not to air it here until October.
The Leftovers is some of the most desolate, despairing television on air. It's also frequently brilliant
It's a curious - and risky - decision. At 10 episodes long, the first season will be over by then, and any answered mystery long spoilt for keen viewers by Twitter streams, Facebook feeds and recaps on US entertainment sites.
Fast-tracking shows has made a difference in the number of viewers willing to watch a show on television rather than torrenting it, Games of Thrones aside. Who wouldn't rather just switch on the TV?
And The Leftovers, being a genre show from a genre creator (Lindelof), is going to appeal to tech-savvy viewers who are more likely to torrent than say, those who watch Call the Midwife (probably).
Showcase were approached for comment for this story but have so far only confirmed an October air date.
In the meantime, interested viewers can content themselves with Perrota's book, the catalyst for Lindelof's involvement. He was so affected by it, he told Hitfix, that he cried. "I very rarely have an emotional experience reading a book, but I did here."


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Drake Reveals Title of Next Albumby Karen Lanza | PopCrush
Drake has a crazy amount of projects on his plate — including hosting the ESPY Awards on Wednesday (July 16) — but that hasn't stopped him from adding yet one more. He announced the title of his upcoming fourth album will be 'Views From the 6,' Billboard reports.
Serious work on the album apparently has yet to begin, and other details have not been disclosed, but Drake did allude to an early 2015 release for his own project (as well as those of members of his October's Very Own crew) in recent track '0 to 100′: "We already got Spring 2015 pippin'," he raps. "PND droppin', Reps Up P droppin', Majid Jordan droppin', OB droppin', not to mention me droppin'."
As for the album's title, it's not yet known what the '6' means, although it's believed to be a reference to the Canadian rapper's Toronto hometown.
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Career-making among cinematographers and film editors in the Danish film industryMathieu, Chris; Stjerne, Iben Sandal (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This chapter analyzes subjective and objective dimensions of developing a career to a large extent based on one or several strong dyadic relationships to directors who invariably overshadow editors and cinematographers, and the personal and professional advantages (maybe even necessity) and dilemmas encountered in this process. We focus on processes of reputation, but above all, association. With regard to association we examine its two-fold dimensions. On the one hand we look at dynamics inherent in the dyadic relationship (relationship-internal dynamics) as these are central to both subjective experience of one's career (i.e. meaningfulness, quality of working life, ambitions, and accomplishments), as well as its more objective trajectories. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8445
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Film festival prize juriesMathieu, Chris; Bertelsen, Marianne (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This case focuses on juries that award prizes at film festivals. Prize juries usually award a preordained set of prizes to a preselected slate of films, but on grounds or criteria that are usually up to the actual jury itself to formally or informally establish and administer. The consequences of film festival prize jury allocations can accrue to many different groups and individuals. The most obvious beneficiaries are the persons associated with the films and roles that win prizes, though what the tangible benefits of winning prizes are depend both on what prize at what festival and still is a matter of debate. The film festivals themselves and their leadership also are impacted by the jury and its decisions, as these build or erode legitimacy and publicity for the festival. Likewise, the jury members themselves may receive a number of benefits from their jury work, as elaborated on below. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8661
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The ideological symbiosis of 'auteur' and 'craftsperson'Mathieu, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This chapter explores some of the central cultural tenets of career and film making among elite members of the Danish film industry, or what is less than elegantly and somewhat grammatically incorrectly referred to as 'the cultural of production and career' in the title of this chapter. The theoretical reasons for this formulation is to train focus on the ideational dimensions of culture in the Danish film industry, especially as refracted through reflections on work and career by film workers. In this sense the approach, though less inclusive and ambitious, resembles Caldwell's interest in 'indigenous interpretive frameworks in Production Culture.i The chapter also argues that production and career decisions and actions are inextricable intertwined. Sometimes the two are consciously and manifestly related to each other, in terms of deliberating the implications that working on a given film, with given persons, in a given manner, etc. will have on one's further work possibilities; or the reverse, how career considerations impact how films get made in terms of who works on them and what resources, skills, tastes, and perspectives are brought into and realized in a production. Sometimes the interrelation of these considerations remains latent. This chapter explores how certain cultural underpinnings support these mutually intertwined considerations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8446
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text: One more US retailer could scoop up the iPad 2, if a leaked photo can be trusted. While online shipping time is now less than a month, retailers are still finding that stock flies out of their shelves faster than they can keep them stocked. If Apple can get more stock in from Taiwan, this rumoured partnership with Toys R' Us could be fruitful. [ModMyI via Macrumors]


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Odd Words' Fringe Fest Curtain Call: 'Shylock' Reviewed November 21, 2011Posted by The Typist in New Orleans, Odd Words, Toulouse Street.
Tags: Backyard Ballroom, Fringe Festival, M. Brady McKellar, Mark Leiren-Young, Shylock
My last review for NOLA Defender from Fringe Fest is up front and center. Shylock was such an amazing play it deserves the placement. It's just too bad it only had a two night run as it deserved an SRO week. I neglected to call out the director, Elsa Dimitriadis, who deserves her share of the credit for such an excellent production.
Reviews of local plays is a new thing, but I'm having so much fun doing it look for more reviews either on the blog or on other local sites. The weekend of reviewing started with a play I had to pan, but I had the privilege of covering an amazing night of performance poetry at Writing the Edge and to finish with Shylock was a treat. Sadly I couldn't manage a whirlwind weekend of plays as I did last year but if I had tried that and writing reviews, I'd probably be convalescing somewhere in an oxygen tent on a B-12 and steroid drip by now.
Out of the three events I covered two were solid hits so I have to say it a wonderful Fringe Fest here on Toulouse Street. A big thanks to Ben and Stephen at NOLA Defender for adding me to their reviewing corps (and it takes a corps of talented people to cover as many events as NoDef managed from the extensive Fringe schedule).
- 1. Glenn Meche - November 21, 2011
Two outta three … that's good 😉


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I'm currently down in San Francisco (well, Richmond actually) to see Ride play. Ride, for those keeping score, were the best of a crop of bands known way back in the early 1990s as shoegazers. Like most British bands that survived into those dark years of the mid-1990s, when a collective craze for slow motion guitar solos and untucked shirts overcome white Britannia, Ride too went horribly wrong (i.e. Britpop) in the end before calling it a day in 1996. They only released one bad album (and it was awful) but then Andy Bell formed Hurricane #1, a truly horrendous (way) sub-Seahorses audition for Oasis. Bell went on to play in Oasis and then that other Liam Gallagher band who can't have been all bad as they covered World of Twist's "Sons of the Stage."
This is all a roundabout way of saying that the prospect of a Ride reunion made me, understandably I think, rather nervous. They released a clutch of fantastic EPs, three great albums, and only one steaming, stinker -- but it was their final album, and a direction Bell pursued with his following bands so would he insist that Tarantula haters like myself got it wrong and try to prove his point by subjecting audiences to "The Dawn Patrol" and "Starlight Motel" or worse, "Just Another Illusion"? All of my fears were put to rest when I listened to them play a short set on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic," which included five songs from their brilliant debut, Nowhere, and its equally classic follow-up, Going Blank Again. They sounded great. I meant to dust off my old Ride T-shirt with the mud stains and holes but perhaps wisely forgot (it's really holey).
Shoegazers were sometimes criticized for hiding their lack of songs behind walls of feedback... but listening to "Morning Becomes Eclectic" for the first time in fifteen years as I waited for Ride to play I was treated to a barrage of forgettable, tuneless, garblers in Native American headdresses singing whoa-oh-oh-y car insurance jingles (or at least that's what it sounded like to me). You know, Coachellacore or the stuff that plays during Spotify ads when sensible users remove their earbuds. Ride, on the other hand, wrote some of the tightest (I'll never use that word again to describe music, I promise) melodies, sang the pretties harmonies, channeled The Byrds, Love, and Buffalo Springfield, and then added a healthy squall of guitar noise that make me wonder why all the "nu-gazers" are so bland and limp (...oh yeah, Slowdive).
Ride played at Coachella the other night, apparently. They're playing at the Warfield tonight. They're playing in Pomona at the Fox Theater tomorrow.
Now allow me to get all listicle and give you the Top 13 Ride Songs:
"Vapour Trail" from Nowhere (1990)


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This New York Times headline feels like deja vu all over again: Diplomats Desperately Try to Save Mideast Talks. What imperils the talks? Those warlike Israelis are thinking about building houses again!
Israel's decision this weekend to end its freeze on West Bank Jewish settlement construction sent diplomats on three continents into desperate activity on Monday as they tried to keep Middle East peace talks alive. And although the discussions covered many topics, in the end they came down to one stubborn goal: how to end settlement construction.
The question, the world's leaders say, is not how to end suicide bombing or missile launching or threats of nuclear destruction, but how to end home-building! We live in a world gone mad. Concern about the possibility that Jews might build houses spread quickly around the world:
While Israeli and Palestinian negotiators huddled in Washington, Tony Blair, the international envoy to the process and former British prime minister, shuttled around Jerusalem. And in Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France met with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and extended an invitation to him and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, for a meeting there next month. Both accepted.
Mr. Sarkozy called on Monday for an end to Jewish settlement building, as did the United Nations secretary general and the American and British governments.
If only the "international community," such as it is, could get as exercised over mass murder and threatened genocide as over the prospect that Jews might live on the West Bank, the heart of historical Israel.
All of this hysteria is directed toward the overriding objective that "peace talks" go forward–that is, that the Palestinians not walk out on them. Why the world's governments should care so much about peace talks that have gone on for decades without leading to peace, in a tiny corner of the globe that has little or no tangible influence on the rest of the world–sort of like Sudan, say, but with a tiny fraction of the violence–is a mystery.
PAUL adds: It isn't just houses that threaten peace. Israeli settlers in the West Bank celebrated the end of the building moratorium by pouring concrete for a new day care center, the construction of which had been halted due to the ten-month ban. The notion that such construction is a threat to peace tells us everything we need to know about the "peace process."


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and I know you're out there–I've communicated with a few of you. (Paul Jankowski at jankowskis.com!)
I recently corresponded with Fr. Tom Extejt who kindly leaves tidbits of knowledge here in the comments. He's filled us in with a bit of his family. So I thought perhaps this post may connect a few others researching the Jankowskis. I'm not related to many, mainly through marriage (two of Martin Plenzler's daughters, Edna and Florence, married a Jankowski).
I thought however that I would share Fr. Extejt's story of his Jankowski connections and of his great-great-grandmother, Dorota Jankowski. If anyone has additional information, let me know here via comment or via email and I will pass it along to him.
Fr. Extejt's great-aunt on his mother's father's side, Katarzyna Rejent, married Marcin Jankowski.
They are buried in Section 33 of Calvary. She died in 1937; he died in 1943. Their children were Florian (Jonesey), who never married, and Martha Jankowska Kaczorowska. So far, there is no known husband's name or if there are any children or what their names could be.
Father also recently learned that the maiden name of his great-great-grandmother, Dorota Extejt, was Jankowska. Her place of birth is not known, nor are her parents' names known. But per Fr. Extejt,
"she was born 2-5-1796 and died on 2-2-1902. So she almost made it to her 106th birthday, having lived in parts of 3 centuries, from the last days of George Washington's second term to the early part of the Theodore Roosevelt administration. She was 80 years old when the came to Toledo, and liked it so well she stayed for almost 26 years! Her obit was the headline story on Page 1 of the Blade; it mentioned that she went to the January '02 Rosary-Altar meeting at St. Anthony's, went to Mass the Sunday before she died, and helped with the housework until 48 hours before she died. Talk about an iron constitution!"
What a wonderful story! If you have details, please feel free to share. If you email, I will follow up as soon as possible, usually within a few days.


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BIG problem in Marriage- Agreeing on a Sport's team. ADVICE PLEASE
This Sunday, my husband and I plan to go to a 49er vs. Cowboys NFL preseason game. Our son, Carter, is 15 months old and we decided that we should take him to his first football game with us. The only problem is that I am a big 49er fan and Michael is an even bigger Cowboys fan. I remember in elementary school Michael would wear his Cowboys jersey almost every day and I thought he was a loser for it. Why is this a big problem you ask? Well, if we do bring Carter, do we put him in 49er clothing or Cowboys clothing?! What kind of fan would I be if I allowed my son to wear Cowboys gear at a Home 49er game!? Michael, obviously, really wants Carter in Cowboys gear, which I do understand since it is his son too and it may prevent anyone from trying start a fight with him. Should I just bring both jerseys and do a little outfit change? Here are some pictures of Carter wearing Cowboys and 49er gear. What do you think we should do????
and trust me, we have the same issue when it comes to baseball season. I'm a SF Giants fan and Michael loves the Oakland Athletics
and I am exaggerating when I say "Big Problem". It is actually kind of funny and you don't really think about these things until you have a kid together lol


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Red Sox keep roster intact for World Series
Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) - The Boston Red Sox made no changes to their roster for the World Series.
The same 25 men won both the American League Division Series against the Rays and the American League Championship Series against Detroit.
Boston again went with 11 pitchers, including scheduled Game 1 starter Jon Lester. Also available for manager John Farrell will be Clay Buchholz, John Lackey, Jake Peavy, Craig Breslow, Ryan Dempster, Felix Doubront, Franklin Morales, Junichi Tazawa, Brandon Workman and closer Koji Uehara.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia and David Ross are the only catchers on the roster, while the infielders include Mike Napoli, Dustin Pedroia, Stephen Drew, Will Middlebrooks and Xander Bogaerts.
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