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O's Name Dan Duquette Executive VP
Duquette Comes To Baltimore With Plenty Of GM Experience
BALTIMORE -- Massachusetts-native Dan Duquette says his affinity for the Baltimore Orioles started in his childhood. As an adult, he gets to lead the storied organization, he hopes, to championships.
"I'm here to tell you how excited I am about this opportunity with the Orioles," Duquette said Tuesday morning, when the team announced his arrival. "I'm here to build a contending team that everyone in Baltimore can be proud of."
The Orioles have named Duquette as Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations. Duquette is a veteran of over two decades in baseball operations at the Major League level, including 10 of those seasons as general manager with the Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox.
"I am pleased to welcome Dan Duquette to the Orioles organization," said Orioles Majority Owner Peter Angelos. "With an emphasis on developing players from within as well as acquiring players through the international and trade markets, Dan built the Red Sox and Expos into formidable franchises during his tenures. His record of success, extensive baseball operations leadership and strong scouting background give Dan the experience and skills essential for this position."
"During our meetings last week it was obvious to me that Mr. Angelos and I share a passion for organization, efficiency and a commitment to build a competitive team in the American League East, which I know from experience is baseball's most competitive division," Duquette said. "I'm going to do everything in my power to help this club succeed."
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"My affinity with the Orioles started a long time ago back in the back yard when my brother Dennis and I would play whiffle ball at, frankly, what we called Lilac Stadium because the lilac hedges would go down the third base line and over to left field, and we would be the Red Sox of '67 and the Orioles of 1966 and we would emulate the great sluggers from those teams. He was Mark Belanger and I was Brooks Robinson and, believe it or not, our childhood friend who would play third base was named Boog Powell. So, it goes back a long time."
- Dan Duquette
Duquette said he has already identified key areas to address firsthand.
"The organization has a couple of specific needs. One is a scouting director, which I'm going to start work on right away. I think that's an important position that we need to fill. We also need a minor league pitching coordinator and I've started a list of candidates in my search on that level, too. Those will be two key hires that you may not see the impact of right away, but we've already started working on that," Duquette said.
"You have a core group of players here to build around along with the strength of the management team and I believe we'll be able to find some players to fill in, in terms of gaining depth to the pitching staff and gaining depth to the overall lineup. But I think the foundation is there. How long is it going to take? It depends on how quickly we can sign the players we need. I think you have the establishment of a core group of players here that are at a good age that the fans can identify with and we can certainly build around," Duquette said.
Duquette's eight seasons as general manager of the Red Sox from 1994 through 2001 included three playoff teams (1995, 1998 and 1999), and his acquisitions helped lay the groundwork for the club's first World Series championship in 86 years in 2004. The club made the playoffs in back-to-back years in 1998 and 1999, the first time in 80 seasons the franchise had accomplished the feat. Seven key contributors -- Pedro Martinez, Derek Lowe, Manny Ramirez, Jason Varitek, Trot Nixon, Tim Wakefield and Johnny Damon -- on the 2004 team were acquired during Duquette's tenure. Under his leadership, Boston compiled a .544 winning percentage (695-582).
Duquette Ties International Market To Building Farm Team
"When you don't have the resources that the top two clubs have, you have to work harder and you have to work smarter, and you have to do a better job in scouting and you have to do a better job in player development. If you can build up the players in your farm system, and you've got core players coming in to your Major League team, then you've got something to talk about. The team that has the best farm system is the team that competes year in and year out. Irrespective of your market size, it all starts with signing good players and bringing them up to your team," Duquette said. "The best players are going to have to come up through our farm system."
Dan Duquette: Leverage Int'l Players To Build Farm System
Duquette showed a commitment to expanding Boston's reach in the international market, finishing the 2001 season with 12 of the players on the club's 40-man roster born outside the United States. At Boston's 2002 spring training camp, players from 10 different countries were represented.
"A lot of the pitching that we signed and developed on the international market was to trade for established Major League players. So, keep in mind that there are two ways you can use that farm system: You can bring up core players for your major league team, or you can use the other players to trade for top performers for your Major League team. We used some of the inventory in Boston to trade for some of the great pitchers, for Pedro Martinez," Duquette said.
The Red Sox Minor League system was shaped into a feeder system for the major league club under Duquette's watch, with homegrown players including Nomar Garciaparra, Shea Hillenbrand, Casey Fossum and Trot Nixon making contributions to the team. Future Major League players Kevin Youkilis, David Eckstein, Hanley Ramirez and Freddy Sanchez were also drafted or signed during Duquette's tenure. The talent in the Red Sox Minor League system also enabled Duquette to trade for Pedro Martinez, and for Boston to later acquire Curt Schilling and Josh Beckett.
"It doesn't matter to me where they end up. The important thing is to sign a number of good ones at the amateur level and have a functional Minor League where you can get them up to the Major League level," Duquette said. "If somebody thinks those young pitchers are more valuable to them before they're ready for us well then we would make that deal."
Can Duquette Turn Orioles Around?
Red Sox Minor League affiliates finished with an overall record over .500 in five of Duquette's last six seasons with the organization.
"This challenge is the kind of challenge that I look for and that I successfully met in the two places that I've been in Montreal and Boston. I took over teams that were below .500, and I wouldn't be here standing before you today if I didn't believe that I could have an impact on this franchise to get it to be competitive and then to get it to the championship level. I'm a builder. Every place you go has its own distinct challenges, it doesn't matter which market you're in," Duquette said.
Dan Duquette: 'I'm A Builder'
Duquette began his career in baseball with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1981, working in the scouting department under former Orioles general manager Harry Dalton. He spent a total of seven years in scouting and player development with the Brewers from 1981 through 1987, the last two as scouting coordinator.
"My affinity with the Orioles started a long time ago back in the back yard when my brother Dennis and I would play whiffle ball at, frankly, what we called Lilac Stadium because the lilac hedges would go down the third base line and over to left field, and we would be the Red Sox of '67 and the Orioles of 1966 and we would emulate the great sluggers from those teams. He was Mark Belanger and I was Brooks Robinson and, believe it or not, our childhood friend who would play third base was named Boog Powell. So, it goes back a long time," Duquette said.
"I learned everything I know about pitching from the Oriole way. The value of pitching to a Major League team, I couldn't overstate that to you today," Duquette said. "If we're going to talk about where we're going to start to build a contending team, it's going to start right there on the mound. Those principles that I learned from Dalton: Aggressive scouting will building you a wining ballclub. Aggressive international scouting, I believe, will build you a championship ballclub. You weave that in with a sound player development operation."
In 2003, Duquette founded and built the Dan Duquette Sports Academy, a Massachusetts-based baseball, softball and soccer camp and tournament facility for youth. In 2004, he purchased the Pittsfield Dukes of the New England Collegiate Baseball League and in 2007 Duquette was a founding member and director of player development of the Israel Baseball League.
A native of Dalton, Mass., Duquette, 53, earned a degree in English from Amherst College and played on the school's baseball and football teams.
"Im glad that Im here. My experience with big and smaller market clubs, I think, is what distinguished me from the other candidates," Duquette said.


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In Singapore's equivalent of food courts, hawkers sell steaming bowls of noodles, giant crabs in pepper sauce and slices of pungent durian. In Barcelona, patrons at the La Boqueria nibble finely aged ham and buy fresh produce to prepare at home. In the United States? Historically, it's been a wasteland of spongy pretzels, giant sodas, greasy fried rice and endless burgers.
But that was Food Court 1.0. Recently, shoppers from New York to Seattle have witnessed a reboot of the food court experience, as sumptuous farmers markets-slash-gourmet eateries become increasingly common.
"They're exciting, delicious, affordable, democratic places to eat," says Stephen Werther, the chief executive officer of Wink Retail Group, which has partnered with food personality Anthony Bourdain to create a New York food hall — today's preferred nomenclature — featuring dishes from around the world. "It's really just America catching up with some of the wonderful ways the rest of the world eats."
Bourdain joins other name-brand chefs such as Todd English, who opened a food hall in New York's Plaza Hotel in 2010 and Mario Batali, whose Italian-themed Eataly, now in New York and Chicago, may be the best known of the country's food halls.
"In history, markets and collective food areas have been around forever," says Sam Oches, editor of QSR Magazine, which covers the quick service and fast-casual dining industry. "What Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain are doing is to brand it and make it something that's a little bit bigger in terms of its scale and its exposure."
And that has paved the way for others, Oches says. In Washington, D.C., retail developer Edens revived a vintage venue to create Union Market, a 40-artisan food hall that is just over a year old. In Seattle, a high-end "shellfish deli" and other local vendors reside in Melrose Market, a four-year-old project housed in a renovated auto garage that smacks of cool. In Chicago, the French Market brings together more than 30 vendors, from a crepe shop to a kosher deli and a bakery from Top Chef veteran Stephanie Izard.
"Customers really want authenticity, they want the story behind the food," Oches says. "With customers wanting to connect to the food, taking this old model of a market goes a long way. A market can tell a lot of different stories."
Markets, of course, have been around for decades, even in the United States. Venues such as Seattle's Pike Place Market and North Market in Columbus, Ohio have long attracted tourists. And of course there is San Francisco's Ferry Building Marketplace, a farmers market and collection of high-end purveyors such as Recchiuti Confections and Cowgirl Creamery that opened in 2003.
But for most Americans, the food hall experience has mostly been limited to the mall food court, a pale imitation of what the rest of the world has long enjoyed.
The spate of new options caters to the country's emerging culinary sophistication. When market operator Sebastien Bensidoun opened his first market in a Chicago suburb 16 years ago, he says it nearly failed. But when he launched Chicago French Market in the West Loop in 2009, the country was ready, says Bensidoun, whose family is the largest operator of markets in and around Paris.
"People are cooking much more than they used to be," says Bensidoun, who now operates 16 markets in the Chicago area. "You can see the young generation coming to the market. In 1997 that was not the case. People were not buying as they are now."
Bensidoun says he often receives calls from other regions asking him to come open a market. Recent interest, he says, has come from cities in Florida, California and Texas. His next project, he says, will be to open a food hall in New York City.
Difficult economic times also have fostered the trend of multiple independent vendors in a communal space. At the same time large retailers have been reluctant to take on new spaces, smaller merchants have seen an opportunity to share rent, utilities and other costs. The growth of Internet shopping, some say, also has supported the trend toward food halls.
"Food and beverage venues can afford to pay the rent in renovated buildings like ours or in new buildings versus retailers that are getting squeezed by the Internet and the big box stores," says Scott Shapiro, co-developer of Seattle's Melrose Market. "Looking at it from a landlord's perspective, our tenants are people who can have a sustainable business. It tends to be more food and beverage focused."
The shopping mall food court pre-dates today's food halls by at least several decades, according to figures from the International Council of Shopping Centers, a New York-based trade association that tracks the first shopping mall food court as we know it to a Paramus, N.J., shopping center in 1974. Industry experts say even these venues are evolving.
"The food court still exists, but it's giving the consumer multiple different options," says ICSC spokesman Jesse Tron, noting that healthier and more diverse options are becoming increasingly common at shopping centers. Well-known chefs also are opening mall venues, Tron says, and even kiosks are sometimes being used for experiences such as rotating sushi.
But true food halls likely will continue to represent the top of the food chain in communal eating.
"Food halls are not a new idea," Bourdain's partner Werther says. "Food halls are a wonderful old idea whose time has come around again."
Michele Kayal is deputy managing editor of https://www.americanfoodroots.com/

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Height/Weight: 6-3/180
Hometown: North Augusta, S.C.
College commitment: South Carolina
Birthdate: Dec. 1, 1992
SCOUTING PROFILE: Guerrieri has been lauded as perhaps the fastest riser in the 2011 draft class, going from a moderately-ranked follow to a potential top-half of the first-round draft choice. While that might be the national perception of Guerrieri, the fact of the matter is that the athletic South Carolina native showed pretty much the same stuff on occasion during the 2010 summer season as he does now, just never at a traditional showcase event or as consistently. Guerrieri, who transferred from North Augusta High to Spring Valley High for his senior year, pitched for the South Carolina-based Diamond Devils at both the 17-and-under and 18-and-under World Wood Bat Association national championships in Marietta, Ga., in July, both times on the heavily-scouted primary fields at the East Cobb complex. In those two games, he topped out at 95 and 94 mph, both times hitting those velocities in the sixth inning. He also flashed a plus curveball. It was unfortunate that the Aflac All-American teams had already been selected by that point as Guerrieri was clearly that level of talent. The biggest key for Guerrieri this spring has been his consistency. During the summer, his fastball might register 88-90 mph one inning and 93-95 the next, but he has been steadily 93-96 mph through entire games this spring, and reportedly has touched 98 mph many times. His ability to maintain that kind of velocity deep into pitch counts is highly unusual for an 18-year-old and is the product of a-low effort delivery that he's done a much better job lately of repeating. Guerrieri has a good feel for getting both running and cutting action on his fastball, and scouts believe that his cutter could develop into a nice slider in the future. What separates Guerrieri from other hard throwers is the quality of his curveball. It's a low-80s power pitch that has hard, late biting action from the same release point as his fastball. The improvement in consistency on the pitch from last summer to now is noteworthy. He would flash that plus curve last summer, but was just as likely to hang a flat spinner as he was break off a hammer. Although he doesn't throw it often, Guerrieri's mid-80s changeup is also a potential solid third or fourth pitch. There is little downside that scouts can find in his overall package now as he throws three present pitches with the promise of a fourth, has an easy, low-maintenance delivery, a projectable build and a perfectly clean health record. While Oklahoma prep righthander Dylan Bundy is considered by many to be the top high-school pitching prospect in the nation, Guerrieri has his supporters for that distinction as well.
Projected Draft Position: First round / Top half.
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2009 WWBA PG National Invitational
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VATICAN CITY — Vatican journalists will be treated Friday to an appearance by Placido Domingo, who's showing up for a press conference to unveil a new CD of songs based on the poetry of Pope John Paul II.
One could hope that Vatican officials will dispense with the usual press hall format of lengthy speeches and simply hand the tenor the mike. I wouldn't bet on that, though.
The CD, on the Deutsche Grammophon label, is being released in Italy in time for Christmas. It will be interesting to see how closely the songs follow the text of the poems, and what kind of liberties were taken in the arrangements.
A CD released in late 2005 featured Vatican Radio's Sean Patrick Lovett reading Pope John Paul's poems. In 1988 the U.S. singer Sarah Vaughan recorded an album of the late pope's poetry sung to jazz accompaniment (excerpts available here.)
Domingo, a Spanish-Mexican tenor, sang Cesar Franck's "Panis Angelicus" (Bread of Angels) at Pope John Paul's Mass in New York's Central Park in 1995. Last April he reprised the hymn during Pope Benedict's Mass in Washington, D.C.
Check out the YouTube video of his April performance, and note the reaction of music-loving Pope Benedict — he actually walks over during the liturgy to embrace the artist.


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Brad Paisley moved into the rock zone with REO Speedwagon during Sony Music's concert and dinner aboard the General Jackson showboat in Nashville. One of the highlights surrounding Country Radio Seminar, the Thursday night (Feb. 28) cruise on the Cumberland River attracted radio industry executives from throughout the nation.
Miranda Lambert opened the show with her latest single "Mama's Broken Heart," and then called husband Blake Shelton to the stage. Shelton, who records for Warner Bros, joked, "I never thought I'd be on the RCA or Sony — or whatever the hell you call it — boat."
The couple sang an acoustic version of "Over You" before leaving the stage, but Lambert returned quickly as a member of the Pistol Annies with bandmates Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. After performing "Hell on Heels," the trio introduced "Hush Hush," a new song to be featured on their upcoming album.
The show also featured brief sets by Jerrod Niemann and Chris Young along with two new acts — the Henningsens and The X Factor season two winner Tate Stevens.
Kelly Clarkson bounded to the stage wearing a T-shirt with the logo of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE). With a joking reference to the revelry the radio programmers have experienced during CRS, she said, "I'm wearing the 'don't do drugs' shirt. Nobody told me about the alcohol."
When Clarkson performed "Don't Rush," singer-songwriter Jason Sellers filled in for Vince Gill , who provided vocal harmonies on the recording. Clarkson got some additional vocal assistance from the Pistol Annies when she gave the crowd a taste of her new music with "Ain't Gonna Like This," an upbeat song that name checks Trisha Yearwood and Aretha Franklin.
Paisley performed two songs from his upcoming Wheelhouse album, opening on an acoustic note with "Harvey Bodine," a comical song about an unhappy husband who happily discovers a legal loophole after being declared dead but revived by a defibrillator machine.
Things got a lot louder when Paisley strapped on his electric guitar for his latest single, "Beat This Summer." He has a well-deserved reputation as a great musician, but the solos in the song allowed him to explore some unexpected territory as a slide guitarist.
Finishing the song, he segued into the first verse of REO Speedwagon's "Take It on the Run," providing the cue for the rock band to hit the stage to perform the hit as they originally intended it to sound. With Sara Evans occasionally providing harmony vocals, Paisley and his band essentially merged with REO Speedwagon.
Lead vocalist Kevin Cronin noted that the lines between country music and their style of rock have now become more blurred than ever and that many of his band's hits would sound like country music if they performed them acoustically.
"It's all country music," Cronin said. "It's good songs. It's all country music."
As the boat prepared to return to the downtown dock, Paisley and REO Speedwagon guitarist Dave Amato shared leads on several of band's most popular songs, including "Music Man," "Keep on Lovin' You," "Time for Me to Fly" and "Ridin' the Storm Out."


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Supermodel and Food Expert Stars in Steamy New Ad for Hardee's and Carls Jr. Burger
Mar 26, 2009
Padma Lakshmi's Life-long Love Affair with the Western Bacon Cheeseburger Drew the Attention of Hardee's and Sister Chain Carl's Jr.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – March 26, 2009 – Ravishing supermodel, Padma Lakshmi, is best known today as the no-nonsense host of Bravo's hit TV show, "Top Chef," where her culinary expertise and opinions can make or break the aspirations of competing young chefs. And, though she has sampled the most sophisticated and exotic cuisines from around the globe, Padma's palate still craves a beloved burger from her youth that helped solidify her transition from a vegetarian to a full-blown carnivore. That burger was the iconic Western Bacon Cheeseburger® from Carl's Jr. and now available at Hardee's.
"I…started wolfing down bacon Western cheeseburgers [sic] after school at Carl's Jr. The sublimely pleasurable taste of bacon…was further enhanced by its mingling with the barbecue sauce, greedily licked off as it dripped down my teenage fingers," wrote Padma in her latest cookbook, "Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet," published in 2007.
That revelation drew the attention of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's advertising agency, Mendelsohn|Zien, which had been tasked with creating a new television campaign for Hardee's introduction of its very own Western Bacon Thickburger®. The resulting ads will begin running on March 30th in markets throughout the Midwest and Southeast and will also be shown in limited Carl's Jr. markets on the West Coast beginning March 31st.
"When we found out Padma was such a fan of the Carl's Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburger, she was a natural fit to star in the television campaign for Hardee's new Western Bacon Thickburger," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for Hardee's and Carl's Jr. restaurants. "In many ways, she was the perfect choice for our 'Young, Hungry, Guy' customers because she's beautiful, she's a culinary expert, she's beautiful, she's very smart, and she's beautiful. In the ads, she just tells the story of her long love affair with this classic burger, and she looks great doing it."
"I think it's a beautiful love song to food," Lakshmi says of her new ad. "I think eating in itself is an act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction. I was excited to be able to talk about a food item that I have fond, personal memories of. I grew up wolfing down Western Bacon Cheeseburgers at Carl's Jr., as I said in my book. So, I was happy to be able to share that story with a whole new group of burger lovers."
The Western Bacon Cheeseburger has been a core menu item in Carl's Jr. markets throughout the Western states since 1981. Hardee's version, the Western Bacon Thickburger, was introduced in restaurants last week and will be available for a limited time. The charbroiled, 1/3-lb., 100% Black Angus Beef burger has the same tangy BBQ sauce that Padma recalls so fondly and is topped with smoky bacon, American cheese and crispy beer-battered onion rings on a sesame seed bun.
The ad was created by Los Angeles-based advertising agency, Mendelsohn|Zien, also the masterminds of many iconic Carl's Jr. and Hardee's ads including the memorable Paris Hilton commercial, "That's Hot," from 2005. They continue in the tradition of pairing beautiful women with decadent burgers, all filmed in cinematic quality. The ads were directed by Chris Applebaum, the same talented director who brought Paris Hilton to the small screen in her famous commercial ode to great burgers and clean cars. The commercials will also air in a limited run on the West Coast in Carl's Jr. markets for that chain's Western Bacon Six Dollar Burger®. See both ads on the Hardee's and Carl's Jr. YouTube channels, and visit www.Hardees.com and www.CarlsJr.com to learn more about Padma.
The Hardee's Western Bacon Thickburger is available for $3.89 or for $5.89 in a small combo with a side item and a drink. The beer-battered onion rings are also available for a limited time as a side item. The Carl's Jr. Western Bacon Six Dollar Burger is available for $4.85.
About CKE Restaurants
Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are wholly-owned subsidiaries of CKE Resturants, Inc, a publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CKR." As of the third fiscal quarter ended November 3, 2008, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,110 franchised or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,185 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,912 Hardee's restaurants. For more information about CKE Resturants, please go to www.ckr.com.
About Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi is known internationally as an actress, food expert, model and award-winning writer. Lakshmi is the host of Bravo's "Top Chef" and has an eponymous jewelry line coming out in May. Lakshmi established herself as a food expert early on in her career, having hosted two successful cooking shows and writing a best-selling and award winning cookbook Easy Exotic. Lakshmi followed this success with her second cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet. Lakshmi is also an actress ("The Ten Commandments," "Sharpe's Challenge") and a magazine correspondent (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar).


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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers and 2012 MLS Cup Champion LA Galaxy will partner for the third consecutive season to offer fans special ticket packages to attend tomorrow's LA Galaxy Night at Dodger Stadium game (vs. Arizona at 7:10 p.m.) and Dodger Night with the LA Galaxy at The Home Depot Center (May 26 vs. Seattle Sounders at 8:00 p.m.) at a discounted rate and featuring exclusive offers.
LA Galaxy Night at Dodger Stadium is tomorrow. The Dodgers are offering LA Galaxy fans a ticket package starting at $27 that includes a ticket in the All-You-Can-Eat-Pavilion and access to a pre-game autograph session from 5:40 p.m. to 6:20 p.m. in the right field pavilion with LA Galaxy players scheduled to attend: Colin Clark, Greg Cochrane, Todd Dunivant, Sean Franklin, Rafael Garcia, Bryan Gaul, Chandler Hoffman, Hector Jimenez, Kofi Opare, Brian Rowe, Charlie Rugg, Oscar Sorto, Kenny Walker and Gyasi Zardes as well as Associate Head Coach Dave Sarachan.
Fans that purchase tickets by visiting www.dodgers.com/galaxy will be able to get autographs from these players and pose for photos with the 2011 and 2012 MLS Cup Trophies. LA Galaxy players will participate in pregame jersey exchange and the ceremonial first pitch. Galaxy fans can enjoy Dodger favorite concession items including unlimited Dodger dogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts and Coca-Cola products all included in the price of their ticket.
At Dodger Night with the Galaxy at The Home Depot Center on May 26, All-Star Dodger first baseman Adrian Gonzalez will join the Galaxy that evening for pregame ceremonies. Fans that purchase a VIP Package have the chance to meet Gonzalez in a private autograph session. Space is limited to the first 50 buyers with a portion of the proceeds going to the LA Galaxy Foundation. The VIP package ($175) includes one Home Depot Center midfield club seat, in seat food and non-alcoholic drink service and a commemorative Galaxy/Dodger scarf for the first 400 buyers.
The general admission package includes one general admission ticket ($30), or endline ticket ($35) or sideline ticket ($42) and a commemorative Galaxy/Dodger scarf for the first 400 buyers. All fans that purchase the special Dodger Night offer for the Galaxy match on May 26 will have the opportunity to enter to win a Galaxy and Dodgers co-signed baseball. Fans can follow @dodgers and @LAGalaxy for more details.
Fans can purchase tickets by calling (310) 630-2244 or by visiting www.dodgers.com/galaxy or www.lagalaxy.com/dodgers.
Tickets to LA Galaxy at Dodger Stadium tomorrow can be purchased by visiting www.dodgers.com/galaxy.
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thenobodies80 wrote:Sorry but what does that change solves? changing the bonus you did nothing else that make the values ridicolous...no one will go for a bonus anymore in bigger games.
Sorry but i don't think this is a solution, maybe the easier way to go to have longer games, but definitively not a solution. You still have a map on which a player could start with an advantage.
A question did you run the prob tools and looked at the percentages? I have too, but as said I don't think they are bad without sp with 3 regions bonuses.
The only issue without sp is to not make possible to start with the 2 region bonus.
Gimme some hours....it's not hard to balance the drop without change the bonuses, I'll post my proposal this evening, then if you want to lower the bonuses anyway...then it's you map and I'll send the update. But i'm sure we can balance the drop without making the value of a 3 region+3 borders only +1. Com'on, you know that's a nonsense!
nolefan5311 wrote:there is a 5.5% chance someone drops one of the 3 region bonuses as well
nolefan5311 wrote:This is more worrisome, to me, then someone only getting a +1 for a 3 region bonus zone.
koontz1973 wrote:Right now, my main concern is this, will the coded neutral mean that the extra troop in 2 and 3 player games mean more bonuses dropped?
koontz1973 wrote:Final thought to leave you with, if the large game is such a problem with this small map, can we limit the amount of players on the map? Either 6 like AOR or just a straight forward 1v1 map only.
thenobodies80 wrote:koontz1973 wrote:Right now, my main concern is this, will the coded neutral mean that the extra troop in 2 and 3 player games mean more bonuses dropped?
Could you please rephrase the question?
bristow47 wrote:Love the map - it's almost whimsical. My only problem is that it's really hard to see the opponent as green font
koontz1973 wrote:I am allright leaving the xml as is for now to get a good comparison. But can you do these map files so players can see the green better.
ManBungalow wrote:Okay, but they still look kinda jittery; not nice and rounded like the other animals.
thenobodies80 wrote:Updated!
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text: Resources Banking and Finance Cell Phones Textbooks Shopping Eating Out Travel and Transportation Bicycle Information How to Ride a Bus How to Get a Driver's License How to Rent a Car Banking and Finance How to open a Bank Account While many banks offer services to open accounts online, international students do not fit nicely into their categories. As such, it is best to personally visit a branch to open an account. You may want to open an account as soon as you arrive in Minnesota. 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Shopping Hamline is located close to many major shopping centers. With the excellent public transportation system, you can get to many of these places with ease. Here are several shopping locations that might be of interest to you. Visit their website for more details. Be sure to cross check with GoogleMaps or MetroTransit for more accurate directions. If you have further questions, feel free to contact the GEC. Rosedale Center 10 Rosedale center Roseville, MN 55113 (651) 633-0872 www.myrosedale.com/ Available at Rosedale: Macy's, Herberger's, JC Penney, a variety of wireless services outlets (AT & T, T-Mobile, Sprint), a large variety of men and women's apparel outlets, restaurants and a 14-screen AMC theater. HarMar Mall 2100 Snelling Ave North Roseville, Minnesota 55113 (651) 631-0340 www.harmarmall.com/ Available at HarMar: Marshall's, Barnes & Noble, CubFoods, Dress Barn, Famous Footwear, and others. Mall of America 60 East BroadwayBloomington, MN 55425 952-883-8800 www.mallofamerica.com/ Available at MoA: The biggest mall in America, it has more than 520 stores, several food courts, a large variety of restaurants, an indoor amusement park and Aquarium plus tones of other entertainment options. Grand Ave www.grandave.com/ Available at Grand Ave: A variety of specialty stores, apparel stores and award-winning restaurants. MidWay Available at MidWay: Target, Walmart, CubFoods, multiple restaurants, wireless services, banks and many others. Ethnic Grocery Stores close to Hamline: Shanghai Market 1546 Como Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108 Dragon Star Oriental Foods 633 Minnehaha Ave WSt Paul, MN 55104 (651) 488-2567 Shuang Hur Oriental Market 654 University Avenue W St Paul, MN 55145 Kim's Oriental Market (Korean) 689 Snelling AveSt Paul, MN 55104 (651) 646-0428 El Burrito Mercado 175 Cesar Chavez St St Paul, MN 55107 (651) 227-2192 Yelp page Eating Out There are plenty of options to eat out in pretty much any neighborhood in the Twin Cities. Cuisines from all over the world and in all price ranges are available to choose from for hungry Hamline students. Some great websites to check out restaurants, diners, pubs, and bars are Yelp (http://www.yelp.com), Zomato (https://www.zomato.com/twin-cities) or OpenTable (http://www.opentable.com). Each of them lets you search in many different ways, filtering results by neighborhood, style, price range, user ratings and many more. Often times you will also find detailed information on opening hours, location, or special happy hours offers with great discounts on food and drinks. Some of the places to grab a bite closest to campus are located in Saint Paul's Midway neighborhood between the Anderson Center and University Avenue along Snelling Avenue. Here are some ideas – all within one mile of Hamline's campus: Black Sea: Turkish restaurant, http://www.blacksearestaurant.com/ Mirror of Korea: Korean restaurant, On Zomato Fasika: Ethiopian restaurant, http://www.fasika.com/ On's Kitchen: Thai restaurant, http://www.onskitchen.com/ Peking Garden: Chinese restaurant, http://www.pekinggardenmn.com/ Sole Café: Korean restaurant, http://solecafe.weebly.com/ Other great areas for food, drinks, and more are Rosedale Shopping Center (four miles north of campus), and many areas in or near both downtown Saint Paul and downtown Minneapolis. 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If in doubt, ask the bus driver for help and information. How to Get a Driver's License General Information While studying at Hamline University, you may need to obtain a Minnesota driver's license and have your car registered. Identification Requirements In order to apply for a driver's license, you need to present a combination of one primary and one secondary form of identification. Please see Identification Requirements. Test Requirements Knowledge (Written) Test: Knowledge (Written) tests are available on a walk-in basis at a Driver and Vehicle Services Exam Station during certain hours. You must show proper identification when you are ready to take the test. The knowledge (written) test contains multiple choice and True/False questions that show how well you know and understand Minnesota traffic laws and road signs. Only one test is allowed per day. 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Pupils at Horningsham Primary School have celebrated the opening of their exhibition in conjunction with Longleat Safari and Adventure Park, inspired by the National Gallery's Take One Picture programme.
The exhibition is a collection based on four exhibits at Longleat House, with each class at the village school, near Warminster, asked to create something to help young people with enquiry-based learning.
Reception and Year One explored the Great Hall, Year 2 and 3 investigated the State Dining Room and Year 4, 5 and 6 were set the challenge of making a carriage for Lord Bath.
The children's work, which was displayed until January 10 at the school, also helped Longleat achieve accreditation as a National Gallery Take One Provider for UK schools. Headteacher Carole Andrews said: "We are thrilled that our work has helped Longleat to acquire full accreditation from the National Gallery."
The school has also embarked on a recycling project, called Take One Wall.
Pupils are drawing inspiration from the wallpaper of one wall within Longleat House to reduce, reuse and recycle their own paper into elaborate creations.
South West Wiltshire MP Andrew Murrison, who visited the exhibition last Friday, said: "I was really impressed with the exhibition and the project clearly involved a huge variety of skills."


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Deaths on television are usually reserved for the big dramas in which murder is interwoven into the story. An episode of The Walking Dead that doesn't include the deaths of at least two characters is considered a snooze. But comedy rarely feels the icy touch of the reaper, because it's all about feel-good stories and, you know, making you laugh. Death isn't very funny.
ABC's Modern Family would seem to be a pretty safe and healthy space for its characters, but in the upcoming season -- DUN DUN -- someone is DYING. That fact came from none other than series co-creator Christopher Lloyd, who told Entertainment Weekly that a "significant character" will meet their maker in Season 10.
"We're handling some bigger life events in this season," Lloyd said. "We do deal with a death, which is certainly a topic that families have to deal with, and on television, it's not easy to do because that's a heavy subject. But at the same time, it would seem unusual for a family not to go through it."
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The word "significant" could mean different things to Lloyd and us. Whereas we're looking at one the main cast members as a potential corpse, Lloyd could have a soft spot for Nathan Lane's Pepper or another guest star who's recurred on the show, or even someone with less of a role. Given the relentlessness of old age, there's also the possibility that one of the main characters' senior parents can bite the dust, like Phil's father Frank (played by Fred Willard). Granted, no TV scene featuring Fred Willard dying will come close to this.
Further adding to the mystery is the fact that Modern Family is closing in on its end, and there's a slight possibility that this is the final season. That would open up the possibilities of the dead, but would the show really kill off a main character? That would be one hell of a way to go out. I say do it, Modern Family!
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It's the same dress that I made at the Heather Ross Weekend Sewing Workshop this past January. Except I never finished that one so...... I figured I'd make a new one. I had just sent my deposit payment to Heather Ross for the WSW in Palm Springs for next January. I was all pumped and wanted to make something.
It's Anna Maria Horner's Evening Empire Dress for the bodice and the skirt panels from Heather Ross' Weekend Sewing (Yard Sale Skirt). Rather than line fabric with interfacing, I chose to go with some AMH home dec fabric for the top. The bottom is a light yellow linen/rayon blend.
I added 3 small pleats to the back to keep the skirt seams symmetrical.
I actually finished the dress the night before the wedding and with all the seam ripping and re-sewing, the dress bodice ended up a little floppy. I am on the fence as to whether or not this was appropriate to wear to a wedding. It seems to have come out a little to "summer dress" than "wedding appropriate."
The inside is lined with some Good Folks.
The zipper install came out okay.....
I moved the straps out a lot!
I made some bias trim to go around the bottom.
I really like how it turned out.
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If you have a teenage daughter or grand-daughter then all you've been hearing about is "prom". Who is she taking? How will she style her hair? What will she wear? Well, that's where I can help you out. Check out some of the most flattering prom dresses for each body type, with a variety of prices to meet any budget!


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Episode 97 :: Adam Tebbe :: Sweeping ZenDec 30, 2011
Adam TebbeSweeping Zen founder Adam Tebbe joins us to speak about contemporary issues in Buddhism.
Many of you have heard me say in the past, "Question with confidence." That is, we should foster the development of an environment to have open and free inquiry into our beliefs, even those deeply cherished. That idea, question with confidence, was put very well long ago by Thomas Jefferson, who said, "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
Few people have represented the idea of free inquiry in our Buddhist practice as today's guest. Adam Tebbe is senior editor at The Buddhist Dispatch. He is also the founder of Sweeping Zen and Kannonji Zen Retreat in Second Life, a sangha which hosts events from Buddhist clergy using the virtual technology of Second Life. He trained to become a licensed chemical dependency counselor but found that he enjoys this work far better. He generally keeps his opining to his blog at Sweeping Zen. Adam also does some news gathering for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, owned by the Shambhala Sun Foundation.
So, sit back, relax, and have a nice Dr. Pepper. How long has that been?
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I've seen enough. Injury prone label be damned, Stephen Curry rises to the second tier of the point guard rankings. I've always loved the talent but that ankle injury is frightening (I drafted him in the 2nd round last year…sigh). Through 25 games this year Curry has stayed healthy and hasn't missed a start. He's also averaging 19.4 points (career high), 4.1 boards, 6.4 assists (career high), 1.6 steals, 2.6 three's (career high), 89.7% FT, and 42.2% FG (career low). Yeah that's right, 19.4 points on a career low FG… and it's not even close to his second lowest percent of 46.2% his rookie season. The guy is a stud and COULD be better if his FG% rises some. Did I also mention his 3P% is a career low 41.7%? These percentages will keep rising, especially since Klay Thompson has regained some of his shooting touch. If you have Curry, you're probably sitting in a good place because of the draft value you got for him.
Quick Hits: I'm relenting on Damian Lillard, he's moved up a bit. Jason Kidd has been too hot for too long so I've moved up him in front of his teammate Ray Felton. Ricky Rubio is playing again and his impending monstrous assist numbers put him in the same tier as Tony Parker and Kemba Walker. Gerald Henderson gets a generous boost with his return to the starting lineup. Jordan Crawford gets a similar boost.
Point Guards:
Top 3 overall, idiot: Chris Paul
Nom nom nom: Russell Westbrook, Kyrie Irving, Stephen Curry
Nom nom: Brandon Jennings, Deron Williams, Goran Dragic
Nom: Mike Conley, Damian Lillard, Rajon Rondo, Kyle Lowry, Ty Lawson
Wow there are a lot of sweet PGs this year: Kemba Walker, Tony Parker, Jrue Holiday, George Hill, Ricky Rubio
Boom or Bust: Jason Kidd, Raymond Felton, Jeremy Lin, Steve Nash, John Wall
Upside!!!!: Greivis Vasquez, Mo Williams
Upside: Jeff Teague, Darren Collison
Upside down: Jose Calderon, Brandon Knight, Luke Ridnour, Jameer Nelson
Downside: Jarrett Jack, Eric Bledsoe, Andre Miller, Kirk Hinrich, E'Twaun Moore, Aaron Brooks, Isaiah Thomas, Mario Chalmers, Steve Blake, J.J. Barea
By the wayside: Nate Robinson, Devin Harris, A.J. Price, D.J. Augustin, Ramon Sessions
Shooting Guards:
People may murder me again for this: James Harden, Kobe Bryant
The Dwyane Wade Tier: Dwyane Wade
Middling: Monta Ellis, Joe Johnson
Oh Hell Yeah: Kevin Martin, Wesley Matthews, Klay Thompson, O.J. Mayo
Biting my toenails: Tyreke Evans, Ray Allen, Marcus Thornton, Dion Waiters, Manu Ginobili
Potential Teases: Lou Williams, Jordan Crawford, Gerald Henderson, Jamal Crawford, Kyle Korver, J.R. Smith, Jason Richardson, Bradley Beal, J.J. Redick
Will probably get burned: Vince Carter, Gordon Hayward, Alonzo Gee, Randy Foye, Arron Afflalo, Jason Terry, Eric Gordon, Rodney Stuckey
Your icepack for the previous tier: DeMar DeRozan, Daniel Green, Courtney Lee
Frostbitten: Alan Anderson, MarShon Brooks, Tony Allen, Ben Gordon, Chauncey Billups


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You may not have your iPad by this time next week, Microsoft researchers create a way for your voice to speak multiple languages, and Google's attempt to thwart hackers blows up in their face.
- iPad Shipping Time Now 2 to 3 Weeks: If you pre-ordered Apple's new iPad, then you may have to wait longer than you anticipated. While Apple initially stated those pre-ordering the new iPad would receive it on March 16 (only to have it bumped up to March 19 soon after the announcement of the new iPad on March 7), it seems as if you will have to wait even longer. According to Apple's website, the estimated shipping time is approximately "2-3 weeks." [Mashable]
- Software Translates Your Voice into Another Language: The researchers over at Microsoft have developed software that is able to learn the sound of your voice, then use your voice to speak another language. In theory, if you ever wanted to communicate with someone who speaks Chinese but you do not, all you would have to do is use this software and they would hear your voice speaking fluent Chinese. [Technology Review]
- Google's Trap for Chrome Exploit Writers Leads to Crashes for Users: In hopes that contestants at this year's Pwn2Own contest would not use a Flash exploit to hack Chrome, Google restricted the allowed size of Flash JIT (just-in-time) pages to a value that these types of exploits would exceed. However, it caused an array of problems Google did not anticipate, such as interfering with Flash games such as Sims Social and applications such as Audiotool and Paychex Online. [Computer World]
- AT&T to Expand LTE Network to Cleveland, New Orleans and Others: AT&T is expected to release LTE in twelve new cities in the next few months. AT&T users that live in cities such as Staten Island, St. Louis, Naples, FL, Bryan-College Station, TX and more will all have the ability to use the LTE network. [TUAW]
- Dropbox's URL Shortener Abused by Spammers: Those pesky spammers are always finding new ways to sell you questionable products you do not need, and the newest way they are trying to spam you is via Dropbox's URL shortener. Since Dropbox contains a public folder that allows anyone to create a link to view a particular file in the folder, spammers are sending shortened URLs to images that contain a spam page along with a link to the website selling the product displayed in the image. How prevalent is this method of spam? According to Nick Johnston, a senior software engineer at Symantec, they saw, "…over 1,200 unique Dropbox URLs being used in spam over a 48-hour period. We have informed Dropbox, providing them with the full list of URLs." [Macworld]
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Darien holds off Greenwich in girls lacrosse
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If someone did not look at the scoreboard and just tried to determine the winner of the Darien and Greenwich girls lacrosse game by simply judging the reaction of the teams coming off the field, they may have guessed Greenwich was the winner.
Greenwich was not the winner.
In fact, The Blue Wave held on to defeat the Cardinals 17-15 in a game rescheduled from Wednesday because of rain.
The reason behind the mixed reactions after the contest was a second half which saw the Cardinals outscore the Wave 10-4 after trailing 13-5 at the half.
Darien coach Lisa Lindley was glad to walk out with a win, but said there were obvious areas of concern.
"Greenwich played well but our defense was awful today," Lindley said. "I think it was the worst game this year we played defensively. We had to make some adjustments, and luckily we scored two more than they did."
Greenwich --which lost to Darien in last year's Class L championship -- came out intent to stand toe-to-toe with the two-time defending FCIAC champions, jumping out to a 5-1 lead six minutes into the game.
The early charge was led by Carolyn Paletta, who was in on every score, tallying three goals and two assists during the run.
Paletta scored six goals on the afternoon to lead the Cardinals.
Greenwich (4-4, 4-2 FCIAC) stuck to its game plan and was pleased with the result despite not picking up the win
"Our team just needed the boost," GHS coach Caitlin Keane said. "Playing Darien, we were prepared for it, we wanted to play well and our whole goal was not necessarily to win. It was to come off, be proud of ourselves and know that we played the best that we could. And if it didn't come out as a victory we could take that and work toward it the next time we see them. You saw after the game they were as happy as if they had won because this is what we wanted."
Darien (9-1, 7-0 FCIAC) ran off 12 straight goals to close the first half, led by five tallies from Dillon Schoen.
Schoen finished with seven goals for the day and said after the slow start the Blue Wave were able to control draws and get into an offensive rhythm.
"I think we came out a little flat and we just wanted to get into our groove and get the draws," Schoen said. "Whoever was getting the draws was scoring the goals, so we thought that would be the key thing to getting the lead and it worked. We aren't very satisfied with this win because it just wasn't clean and was way too close."
Greenwich went on a 6-0 run to open the second half, getting within 13-11, but could never get closer than two the rest of the way before Darien was able to win a late draw and run out the clock.
Darien 17, Greenwich 15
Scoring: D--Dillon Schoen 7g, 1a; Mariah Matheis 3g, 1a; Emily Stein 2g; Gabby Noto 1g; Caroline Benitez 2g. G--Hannah Koorbusch 3g; Carolyn Paletta 6g, 3a; Maddy Graves 1g; Grace Paletta 2g; Paige Mautner 2g; Natalie Paletta 1g.
Goalies: D--Kyra Gardner 15 saves; G--Kylie Ginsberg 8 saves
Records: D 9-1, 7-0 FCIAC; G--4-4, 4-2 FCIAC


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"Some people think they have to go to exotic places or the far ends of the earth to find excitement. I've always liked the idea of finding interest at home; just walking around the block can be an experience." – Chuck Forsman
Colorado artist and photographer Chuck Forsman brings three paintings and more than 50 black and white photographs from two bodies of work, Western Rider and Walking Magpie, for this exhibition. Western Rider looks at Western landscapes from the most familiar vantage point of the present age—the driver's seat of a car—Forsman surveys places that range from Indian reservations to urban oil refineries, from a cemetery in the famous copper smelting town of Anaconda, Montana, to a gleaming reservoir in Hells Canyon, Idaho. Walking Magpie takes a coast-to-coast inventory of American landscapes as Forsman saw the country while walking his dog Magpie.
For more than 40 years, Chuck Forsman has been a pioneering landscape artist whose paintings and photographs have engaged environmental and land-use issues from unique personal viewpoints. Forsman is credited as being among the first contemporary artists to link landscape painting and environmental issues. His eye for form, detail, and the occasional quiet joke challenge ordinary perceptions of landscape and community and awaken a new sense of how and where we live. With few exceptions, his photographs concentrate on everyday places rather than on scenic attractions. He stays away from lenses or vantage points that distort how things appear so that his subjects look much the way anyone else would find them.
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Footage shared by the Shakopee Police Department shows 11 ducklings waddle towards their mother as they are released back into their natural habitat.
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Mr. Gregorian: "Whatever. Anyway, I'm here now."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
*giggles*....did he happen to have a hearing aid visible at all?
says to myself "check back in six years"....*laughs some more*
I am amazed that he came back after 6 years!!! LOL!
OMG- before I can even comment on this post, I have the box open that I am typing this into, and then the handy dandy little "captcha" thing below it that confirms I am in fact a human. It seems ironically timed to me, having just read the post below about the English language and "intercourse". I've already forgotten what witty little something I was going to type, instead I shall sum this up so I can go enter the captcha- "ingrish"!
Hahahhahahahhahaha. Sorry. It made me giggle.
wow - I can almost manage to get my kids to the dentist every six months and I always forget the thing about the car every ...however many months or mile...who remembers someting after six year. I wouldn't even expect my doc to be there after six years, with everyone moving around so much.
As a veterinarian, I deal with this *all* the time...along with stupid people . There's almost enough stories to fill my *own* blog! But at least, I always smile & relate with yours, thanks!!!
So, did you tell him to come back in another 6 years?
Hey, kudos to the guy for remembering, since he couldn't possibly have written it down on a 2009 calendar back in '03.
That would probably be me. If I'm feeling ok, why go back! I know!!
At least the guy doesn't have any memory problems and is trying to be left in your waiting room for the day while his daughter goes to a meeting...could be worse, right?
I would really love to come and work in your office...just for the non-stop entertainment.
I like Mr. Knucklehead's comment about not being able to write it on a calender back in '03...
you know, Dr. G you are one of 3 bookmarks on my blackberry. I can't usually log in and leave a comment, but I never, ever miss reading you! (shhh, but you are my all time fave...)
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Colorado Springs, Colo. (April 17, 2008) – U.S. ice dancers Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, the five-time U.S. champions, three-time World medalists and 2006 Olympic silver medalists, announced Thursday, April 17 that they will end their 10-year professional relationship with coach Igor Shpilband and choreographer Marina Zoueva and will begin training with 1980 Olympic and two-time World ice dancing champions Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov at the IceWorks Skating Complex in Aston, Pa.
Belbin and Agosto said the decision to leave Shpilband and Zoueva was a difficult one, but they felt it was necessary to gain fresh input and bring a new perspective to their skating.
"They are a remarkable coaching pair, and we have great admiration for them," Agosto said.
"We never would have achieved our current level of success without Igor and Marina, and we are very grateful for their friendship and their guidance over the past years," Belbin said.
Linichuk and Karponsov have trained several prominent ice dancing teams including two-time Olympic champions Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov, two-time World champions Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov, and two-time World champions Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski.
"Natalia and Gennadi are highly accomplished coaches, and we are very excited about working with them to take our skating performance to a new level," Agosto said.
The 2007-08 season saw Belbin and Agosto take home gold from Skate America and Skate Canada, and earn a silver at the Grand Prix Final in Italy. They went on to win their fifth straight U.S. title and ended their season with a fourth-place finish at the World Figure Skating Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The team is disappointed to be leaving Detroit but is looking forward to training in Aston.
"Detroit will always be like home for us, but sometimes to grow you need to leave home and explore new opportunities," Agosto said.


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The total number of participants invested in a professionally managed allocation has more than doubled from 17% at the end of 2007, according to Vanguard's recently released How America Saves 2013 report.
By 2017, Vanguard estimates that 55% of all participants will be entirely invested in a professionally managed investment option.
The annual report notes that in 2012, 36% of all participants in 401(k) retirement plans at Vanguard invested their plan assets in a professionally managed investment option, "dramatically improving their portfolio diversification and potentially making them more financially prepared for retirement compared with participants making investment choices on their own."
Jean Young, co-author of How America Saves, said in a statement that "the number of participants completely turning their portfolio construction over to a professional, or obtaining advice from professionals, is an important trend in the potential future financial security of retirees. It represents a shift in responsibility for investment decision-making away from participants—many of whom may be inexperienced investors—to investment and advice programs that have been vetted by employers as part of their fiduciary obligations."
The study also notes that 27% of all participants in 2012 were invested in a single target-date fund, 6% held a single traditional balanced fund, and 3% used a managed account advisory program. Also, 14% of participants who were offered an investment advice service through their plan adopted one.
The report also points out that average plan account balances rose by 10% in 2012, to $86,212, which reflects both "the effect of both ongoing contributions and market returns," Vanguard says.
For participants with a balance at both the end of 2007 and the end of 2012—the worst five-year period in the markets in most people's lifetimes—the median account balance grew 67% for the same reasons, Vanguard notes. "Nearly 90% of participants in this group saw their balances rise during this time."
Steve Utkus, director of the Vanguard Center for Retirement Research, and co-author of How America Saves, says that "Some may look solely at plan account balances and underestimate the retirement readiness of Americans, saying that most of us still aren't financially prepared for retirement." However, he said, "when you look at the data comprehensively, the fact remains that many Americans are doing a good job accumulating private savings to supplement Social Security in retirement."
Indeed, Vanguard says that many participants are "strong savers" in their plan. One-fifth of them saved 10% or more, 11% saved the maximum allowed, and 15% of participants over age 50 made catch-up contributions in 2012. "Taking into account both contributions made by participants and those made by employers to participants' accounts, the average total savings rate was 10.5% in 2012," the report notes. However, one-third of participants contributed less than 4% to their plan. The average participant deferral rate was 7% in 2012, down slightly from the peak of 7.3% in 2007, the report states, which is largely due to the default contribution rates set by many automatic enrollment plans. "Although automatic enrollment raises plan participation rates and thus helps to ensure that more people overall save for retirement, the default rates are often set too low (3% or less) and thus pull down the overall average savings rate," the report states.
Following are other highlights of the report:
- Fifty-one percent of all participants were invested in one or more target-date funds.
- Thirty-two percent of Vanguard plans had adopted automatic enrollment, up 3 percentage points from 2011. More than half of all contributing participants in 2012 were in plans with automatic enrollment. Seven in 10 such plans had implemented automatic annual deferral-rate increases. And 97% of automatic enrollment plans defaulted their participants into a balanced investment strategy, with nine in 10 choosing a target-date fund as the default.
- The Roth 401(k) feature was adopted by 49% of Vanguard plans, and 11% of participants within these plans had elected the option.
- More participants had access to low-cost index funds. Factoring in index target-date funds, 82% of participants held equity index investments.
- The percentage of plan assets invested in equities, which stood at 73% in 2007 just after the peak of global stock prices, declined to 66%.
- Only 12% of plan participants traded within their accounts. On a net basis, participants who traded shifted 1.7% of assets to fixed income, representing small changes to their overall portfolios. Only 1% of all participants abandoned equities altogether.
- About 30% of all participants could have taken their account as a distribution because they left their employer in 2012 or prior years. The majority of them (82%) preserved their plan assets for retirement by remaining in their employer's plan or rolling over their savings to an IRA or to a new employer's plan.
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Today is April 20th but besides that it is also 420. What is 420?
What does 420 mean? There are varying theories on the origin of 420. Some say that 420 originated from a police code that announces marijuana use is taking place. Yet another story is that a group of guys (Waldo's) in the 1970's made 4:20 their official meeting time to smoke marijuana after school. Whether or not 4:20 p.m. is the best time of day for your first hit depends on your own body, your own needs. Some folks feel that waiting until 4:20 enhances ones appreciation of the herb. Of course, your mileage may vary.
In the 21st Century, 420 is firmly established as a code amongst tokers, a time of day and even sort of a toker's New Year's Day. It's in our culture now and only time will tell where it ends up.
April 20th (4/20) is another usage, meaning that it is time for to plant before the summer.
Whatever the real story is, 420 has been an important part of the marijuana culture since the 1970's. The significance of 420 has been kept underground and is mostly known only among marijuana smokers. Many non-smokers aren't aware of the symbolism when they see someone wearing a T-shirt or baseball cap that says 420 across the front.
When the 420 icon is somehow discreetly worked into a mainstream product like a film, marijuana users take notice. The film Pulp Fiction is rumored to have had all clocks throughout the movie set to 4:20. Marijuana smokers familiar with the symbol picked up on it—most people, however, did not.
While some marijuana smokers are using 420 as a code that enables them to openly speak about marijuana in front of parents or teachers. 420 has been to some, a sacred symbol for nearly 30 years.
Simply put, 420 is a symbol of cannabis and its culture. Today, April 20th events are international, and 4:20 pm has become sort of a world wide "burn time".
Damn pot heads! Ruining society and destroying their bodys! or are theyy….Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half – The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies. – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm
U.S. Government Repressed Marijuana-Tumor ResearchAlternet, May 31, 2000
Title: Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74
Author: Raymond Cushing
Faculty Evaluator: Mary King M.D.
Student researchers: Jennifer Swift, Licia Marshall,
Corporate media coverage: AP and UPI news wires 2/29/00
A Spanish medical team's study released in Madrid in February 2000 has shown that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuana, destroys tumors in lab rats. These findings, however, are not news to the U.S. government. A study in Virginia in 1974 yielded similar results but was suppressed by the DEA, and in 1983 the Reagan/Bush administration tried to persuade U.S. universities and researchers to destroy all cannabis research work done between 1966 and 1976, including compendiums in libraries…http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/22-us-government-repressed-marijuana-tumor-research/
"Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids," an article in a 1975 Journal of the National Cancer Institute –The summary of the Virginia study begins, "Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinol (CBN)" — two types of cannabinoids, a family of active components in marijuana. "Mice treated for 20 consecutive days with THC and CBN had reduced primary tumor size."
The 1975 journal article doesn't mention breast cancer tumors, which featured in the only newspaper story ever to appear about the 1974 study — in the Local section of the Washington Post on August 18, 1974. Under the headline, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," it read in part:
"The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity reaction that causes rejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered." The researchers "found that THC slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent." – http://www.alternet.org/story/9257/comments/?page=2


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Spanish government figures show that the number of people registered as unemployed edged down by a little under 5,000 in March, the first reduction for the month in five years.
The Labor Ministry said Tuesday that the decline showed the government's policies are working. The scale of the task remains huge though as the number registered as unemployed stands at 5.04 million.
Spain is battling to emerge from its second recession in just over three years.
Among its problems, the Spanish economy is trying to recover from the collapse of the once-booming real estate sector, which has partly contributed to an unemployment rate of around 26 percent.


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