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A joint webcast on the latest insights from The Conference Board and The McKinsey Global Institute
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In the past year the debate on the role of manufacturing to help the economic revival of mature economies has intensified. As emerging economies are capturing increasingly large parts of global manufacturing activity, what is left for mature economies? Will the latter be able to retain their role at the top end of the value chain, or is everything up for grabs? And what is the best way for global companies to benefit from the shifts in manufacturing around the globe?
At the occasion of The Conference Board's annual release of its latest productivity data, the Productivity and Competitiveness team will be joined by Katy George and James Manyika (McKinsey Global Institute) to discuss some of the insights from MGI's latest study on Manufacturing the Future: The Next Era of Global Growth and Innovation. We'll discuss the most important insights for that study, and the implications for innovation, competitiveness and job creation in different part of the world. We will also discuss strategic implication for any type of business involved in the global value chain for manufacturing products.
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During the month, residential sales were down from 2014 but in line with historical levels, while the number of active listings for sale in the city continued at elevated levels, according to the Association of Regina Realtors®.
There were 317 residential sales reported in all geographic areas, down 14% from 2014 when 386 sales were reported. Single family detached home sales were down 13% - while other types of housing sales, mostly condominiums, were down 16%. There were 254 sales reported in the city, a decrease of 11% from 2014 when 286 sales occurred.
For September, the MLS® Home Price Index (HPI), reported a composite index level of 262.5 and residential price of $276,600 for the city. These are down 4.1% from last years levels of 274.6 and $288,500. This indicates that residential selling prices have fallen on the Regina market over the past year. The HPI also shows selling prices as being down 7.3% over the past three year period. The HPI is a much more accurate measure of housing price trends than the average price.
In the city there were 516 new listings in the city placed on the MLS® System, down 8% from 562 in 2014. At the end of the month there were 1,359 homes for sale, up slightly from last year's 1,349 and the lowest since March of this year.
Despite being down from an exceptional September last year, the number of sales was actually good and in line with historical levels for the month. Elevated supply levels in the city are continuing to provide buyers with a great deal of choice in most areas and price ranges. As we enter the final quarter of the year, market conditions are not expected to change significantly.
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"I'm prepared to go out and play with whomever," the Pro Bowl wide receiver said. "I've played with a million quarterbacks it seems like. I try not to focus on who is throwing the ball. My job is to catch it. You do your job."
Fitzgerald and his teammates got no answers on the subject Monday. Coach Ken Whisenhunt did indeed name a starting quarterback, but not for the season, just for the Thursday's preseason finale against Denver. As if to keep everyone guessing, that starter will be rookie sixth-round draft pick Ryan Lindley. Barring injury, the men battling for the "real" starting job – Kevin Kolb and John Skelton – won't even play against the Broncos.
As for when the final Skelton/Kolb decision will come, "we'll let you know," Whisenhunt said.
Whisenhunt explained his reasoning for starting Lindley, which was two-fold. It gives a player like Lindley – who had looked good against deeper backups – to play against Broncos who are higher on the depth chart. Yet because Denver will likely not play key players long if at all in the final preseason game, Whisenhunt didn't see the point of trying to dole out comparable playing time to Kolb and Skelton.
The coach was emphatic on the issue of Lindley's spot in the mix for permanent starter. "I want to make sure I am clear on this," Whisenhunt said. "Ryan Lindley is not going to emerge from this game as our starter, no matter how he does."
Lindley wasn't saying much – "I'm just thankful for the opportunity" – but the choice was more about the guys who won't be playing than who will. With neither Kolb nor Skelton starting and with both finishing with two preseason starts, no insight could be gleaned on which man might get the nod for the regular season.
Whenever Whisenhunt decides to provide that nod.
"I don't expect anything," Kolb said. "I just roll with the punches. The head coach always sees a little more than what we do. I know he's got a plan."
Said Skelton, "Like everything, I'm taking it all in stride. I think the team knows the sooner we have a decision the sooner we can move forward but it hasn't worked out that way."
Whisenhunt said he wanted to see practice Monday and Tuesday with the quarterbacks to further evaluate the situation, as well as continue to monitor their progress in meetings. It's possible Whisenhunt has already made a choice in his own mind and chooses instead to hold on to that announcement, but "I don't see why he would do that," Skelton said.
As far as the quarterbacks know, a decision has yet to come.
"That's what he is telling us," Kolb said. "And that's what you get used to, going to practice all the time and not worrying about the distractions."
The final preseason game will have a mix of starters and others. The Cards officially elevated D'Anthony Batiste to starting left tackle and rookie
The quarterback question will remain a little longer.
"I know there are a lot of fans that want to know the answer," Whisenhunt said. "But when we are ready to announce that, we will do that."


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Funeral services for Walter Jett will be held 11a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 at Springlake M.B. Church.
Walter Jett was born March 19, 1950 to the late Charles and Willie Lee Jett Sr. in Lexa. He was one of four children born to this union. Walter lived in the Lexa-Southland community all of his life. Walter worked for Sprayrite Chemical Co. for many years until his health begin to fail. Walter loved spending time with his family, playing various games, and attending cookouts. He confessed a hope in Christ at an early age at Springlake Missionary Baptist Church. His parents, Charles and Willie Lee Jett Sr. and a brother, Charles Jett Jr. preceded Walter in death. On Oct. 28, 2013, Walter departed this life at his home in Helena-West Helena. Walter leaves to cherish his memory, a brother, Melvin (Dolly) Jett of Zion, Ill.; a sister, Mary Jean Ford of Zion, Ill.; an uncle, Ivory (Dorothy) Gatlin of Chicago, Ill.; three aunts, Rebecca Gatlin of Lexa, Dorothy Gatlin, of Helena-West Helena and Celestine Davis of Little Rock; two special nieces, Stephanie (John) Johnson of Zion, Ill. and Marlo M. Jett of Kenosha, Wis.; eight nephews, Selassie Ford, Jr. of Zion, Christopher Scott of Chicago, Melvin Jett Jr. of North Chicago, Anthony Jett of Kenosha, Andre Jett of Zion, Charles Jett III of Chattanooga, Tenn., Phillip Jett of Chattanooga, and Darrell Grigsby of Waukegan, Ill.; 12 great nieces; nine great nephews; three great-grand nieces; two great-grand nephews; and a host of cousins and dear friends. Funeral services for Walter Jett will be held 11a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 at Springlake M.B. Church. Rev. Robert Taylor will officiate. Visitation will be 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9at Springlake M.B. Church. Family and friends may sign the guestbook at: http://www.brownshomeforfuneralsinc.com/.


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NYC – Strange Tales Party
April 8, 2011 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, Comic Books, New York, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television
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Marvel Comics' Strange Tales I and II are finally complete and collected! To celebrate this amazing assortment of alternative and independent cartoonists, the CBLDF and THE BEAT are hosting a party for contributors and fans! DON'T MISS OUT on this rare opportunity to meet this wide variety of creators, all in one fun spot!
hosted by CBLDF and THE BEAT
Nick Bertozzi
Kate Beaton
Chris Chua
Jim Campbell
Jacob Chabot
Becky Cloonan
Toby Cypress
Nick Gurewitch
Tim Hamilton
Dean Haspiel
Jillian Tamaki
Paul Horneschemier
Benjamin Marra
Alex Robinson
7-9- pm. Saturday April 9th
The Mad Hatter
360 Third Ave (at 26th St.), New York, NY 10016
Just around the Corner from MoCCA
Copies of STRANGE TALES I and II will be available at the party,
donations benefiting the CBLDF.
The Beat: A few BEA thoughts
June 2, 2009 by Brian Pate
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Heidi MacDonald shares some of her "more random thoughts" concerning the recent BookExpo America on The Beat. Follow the link.


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Java Universal Network/Graph Framework
JUNG the Java Universal Network/Graph Framework--is a software library that provides a common and extendible language for the modeling, analysis, and visualization of data that can be represented as a graph or network. It is written in Java, which allows JUNG-based applications to make use of the extensive built-in capabilities of the Java API, as well as those of other existing third-party Java libraries.
The JUNG architecture is designed to support a variety of representations of entities and their relations, such as directed and undirected graphs, multi-modal graphs, graphs with parallel edges, and hypergraphs. It provides a mechanism for annotating graphs, entities, and relations with metadata. This facilitates the creation of analytic tools for complex data sets that can examine the relations between entities as well as the metadata attached to each entity and relation.
The current distribution of JUNG includes implementations of a number of algorithms from graph theory, data mining, and social network analysis, such as routines for clustering, decomposition, optimization, random graph generation, statistical analysis, and calculation of network distances, flows, and importance measures (centrality, PageRank, HITS, etc.).
JUNG also provides a visualization framework that makes it easy to construct tools for the interactive exploration of network data. Users can use one of the layout algorithms provided, or use the framework to create their own custom layouts. In addition, filtering mechanisms are provided which allow users to focus their attention, or their algorithms, on specific portions of the graph.
As an open-source library, JUNG provides a common framework for graph/network analysis and visualization. We hope that JUNG will make it easier for those who work with relational data to make use of one anothers' development efforts, and thus avoid continually re-inventing the wheel.
The JUNG Framework Development Team
GraphEditorDemo) added.
19 October 2005: JUNG 1.7.1 released
26 September 2005: JUNG 1.7.0 released.
Several new demonstration applets. Also a
new visualization guide
is available on the documentation page.
11 April 2005: JUNG 1.6.0 released;
Tom Nelson and Jens Krefeldt have joined the JUNG development team.
PluggableRendererDemo has been significantly enhanced.
26 February 2005: JUNG 1.5.4 released
28 January 2005: JUNG 1.5.3 released;
PluggableRendererDemo slightly updated to show new PR capabilities.
16 December 2004: JUNG 1.5.2 released
9 December 2004: JUNG 1.5.1 relased, and
Developer's FAQ updated with some new questions and some new answers to
existing questions.
9 November 2004: JUNG 1.5 released
(also see the new addition to the sample applets.)
28 June 2004: Developer's FAQ added
to address most common support and development issues.
24 June 2004: "Tutorials" renamed "Presentations"; some new
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21 June 2004: JUNG 1.4.3 released
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That carrot is a beaut! Now create a children's story about how this carrot came to be. It looks like it is an entire "family" with only 1 top?
could be from nucular fallout or genetic engineering. What if every carrot produced in the world looked like this carrot? Then what?
And do you call it "a carrot" or is it plural, "carrots"?
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Troy police arrested two teenagers found with marijuana and a digital scale in the parking lot of a Troy elementary school.
Officers stopped to investigate a vehicle parked at Costello Elementary located at 1333 Hamman at 10:42 p.m. July 10. Police found two 16-year-olds in the vehicle, one from Sterling Heights and the other from Royal Oak. Troy police said officers found a "large amount" of marijuana and a digital scale.
Both were arrested for possession of marijuana with intent to sell and possession of narcotic paraphernalia.
— Staff writer Andrew Kidd


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text: Tensioners to the stakes. I don't use a tensioner on the ridgeline. If I think it is going to rain, I will stake the tensioners almost to full extension. This pulls the tarp down on the ridgeline of the hammock. When I get in the hammock will drop a little and the tensioners will still have some tension. This keeps the tarp near the hammock ridgeline and coverage is great. This works for the MacCat and SG style tarps. If the weather is good I just tie the tarp higher.Are you saying a tarp tensioner on the ridgeline, the tarp to stakes, or both? And you are talking about tieing to the hammock and not the trees? Have you done this using the stock asym tarp?


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The Chef: Dharma's
The Menu: A freakin' smorgasbord of awesome vegan yumminess from one of our favorite restaurants! Starting from 12 o'clock and moving clockwise, we've got a soup, salad, and rice combination, then the Dan Dan Noodles—cooked noodles in a peanut-sesame sauce with fresh cucumber, tofu, and green onions—then the BBQ Tofu-de-Beast, which looked way more beautiful than beastly with its side servings of mashed potatoes, gravy, and vegetables. Finally, over on the left side you see the Tofu Rancheros, which featured ice-cream-scoop-sized dollops of guacamole, fresh salsa, tofu scramble, and black beans, all on a corn tortilla. Um, yum.
The Goods: Yes, it's an awesome day when your prestigious publishers have an early morning meeting in Santa Cruz and are nice enough to pick up lunch for everyone before coming back to the office. Joseph and Colleen are, without a doubt, our favorite delivery people! Considering the popularity of our cover contest over on VegNews.com, here's another challenge for you: can you match the dish to the VN staffer? Colleen was able to guess who had ordered each dish without any hints at all—but since you don't have the benefit of working with all of us every day, we'll help you out. OK, there are four dishes visible, and six staffer options (Aurelia, Colleen, Elizabeth, Lyndsay, Melissa, and Stacy—Joseph was too full from breakfast to eat lunch!). Elizabeth and Stacy got the same dish, as did Aurelia and Lyndsay. Let's see how well you know your VegNews-ers! The first person to correctly match all the diners with their dishes will receive a Hawaiian Ruby Guava gift set! Ready? Go!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Delicious Delivery
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Labels: Aurelia, barbecue sauce, Colleen, Dharma's, Elizabeth, guacamole, Joseph, Lyndsay, mashed potatoes, Melissa, Stacy, tofu scramble, vegan, VegNews, VegNews.com
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Um, delicious. No shakes?
Soup/salad/rice : Colleen
Tofu-de-Beast: Aurlia/Lyndsay
Tofu Rancheros: Eliz/Stacy
and that leaves Dan Dan: Melissa
OMG, tell me I won!!!
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Congratulations, Pickle! You are officially the winner.
- February 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM
haha. Fair enough.
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hey! how fun!
I ate at Dharma's yesterday too. Too bad I missed you all.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - A U.S. federal official says Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, head of the brutal Zetas drug cartel, has been captured in northern Mexico.
Trevino Morales, known as "Z-40," was captured in Nuevo Laredo, in the biggest victory in President Enrique Pena Nieto's efforts against cartels, according to Mexican media.
The U.S. official who confirmed the capture was not authorized to speak to the press and asked not to be identified.
Trevino Morales took control of the Zetas following the death of group founder Heriberto Lazcano in October 2012.
The U.S. State Department had offered a $5 million reward for Trevino Morales.


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Student Organization Policy: Active Status
Student organizations may be placed on inactive status for various reasons. Inactive status may be either permanent or temporary. Permanent inactive status means the organization must submit a new student organization registration packet to the Office of Student Activities & Leadership which is reviewed by the Organization Review Board. Upon review of the registration packet, the Organization Review Board will issue a recommendation to the Director of Student Activities & Leadership. Temporary inactive status means the organization need only remedy the circumstance that was the cause for such classification. Generally, the cause for inactive status can be attributed to the lack of attention to University Regulations, the Student Handbook, or Policies & Procedures governing recognized student organizations. It is, therefore, imperative that organizations be familiar with these regulations and keep abreast of any changes. The following are general requirements that the president and advisor should be knowledgeable of to maintain active status:
- Organization Registration Packet: The University requires that these forms are submitted no later than the 30th day of September or officially posted deadline each academic year regardless of any changes. In addition, the organization is required within ten (10) days to resubmit the registration packet after an organizational election or other changes in organizational leadership.
a) Summer terms are excluded.
b) Failure to submit this packet for two (2) consecutive semester will automatically place the organization on permanent inactive status.
- Outstanding Debts: If an organization is past due on any debts to an office of the University, the organization will be placed on temporary inactive status pending payment of the indebtedness.
- University Regulations: Each student organization is expected and required to obey applicable University Regulations as set forth in the Recognized Student Organizations Policy and Procedures Manual.
NOTE: When a conflict between university policy and procedures governing student organizations and the respective student organizations constitution and bylaws arises, university policy and procedures will supersede the respective organizations constitution and bylaws to alleviate and/or resolve any discrepancies and/or conflict.
It is the purpose of the University regulations to protect individual student organizations and the University from decisions which are "capricious or arbitrary". It is in this regard that the regulations should be interpreted. In addition, it is important to note that only approved organizational officers and/or the advisor are empowered to conduct official organizational business with the University.


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Open Hearts Art Center is one of the most quiet organizations in Asheville. The fact that I had never heard of it before I was contacted about doing a story on the organization is no real surprise. Sometimes when I get going in one direction, I miss everything that happens around me. But it seems I'm not the only person who hasn't heard about Open Hearts and all of the wonderful, exciting things these folks do for 'differently-abled' adults from ages 18 to 70-something.
Open hearts is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2004 by three women who had a passion for creating a program that combined their love for art with their desire to make a difference in the lives of these extraordinary adults.
Don't miss my conversation with Salley Williamson, just one of the artists that give of themselves in order to make others feel proud and talented.


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Avoid raw types
Raw types refer to using a generic type without specifying a type parameter. For example, List is a raw type, while List<String> is a parameterized type.
When generics were introduced in JDK 1.5, raw types were retained only to maintain backwards compatibility with older versions of Java. Although using raw types is still possible, they should be avoided:
- they usually require casts
- they aren't type safe, and some important kinds of errors will only appear at runtime
- they are less expressive, and don't self-document in the same way as parameterized types
import java.util.*; public final class AvoidRawTypes { void withRawType(){ //Raw List doesn't self-document, //doesn't state explicitly what it can contain List stars = Arrays.asList("Arcturus", "Vega", "Altair"); Iterator iter = stars.iterator(); while(iter.hasNext()) { String star = (String) iter.next(); //cast needed log(star); } } void withParameterizedType(){ List<String> stars = Arrays.asList("Spica", "Regulus", "Antares"); for(String star : stars){ log(star); } } private void log(Object aMessage) { System.out.println(String.valueOf(aMessage)); } }
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Doug Davis
Doug Davis, 51, of Conway went to be with his Heavenly Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. He was born Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1962 in El Dorado, to Jim R. Davis and Gloria (Pyle) Wisdom.
Doug was a good father, faithful and loyal husband, who was strong, independent, loved the Lord, and cared for his family. He was hard-working and "bullet proof."
He was a great son-in-law and brother-in-law, who was more of a son and brother to his family. Known as a handyman, he could fix anything. He was an outdoorsman, who wasn't much of a shot, but loved it all the same. If you needed it, he'd gladly give you the shirt off his back. He had a great sense of humor and loved to tell stories.
He was preceded in death by a nephew, Drake Everett Walker; and a stepsister, Charity Humphrey.
Doug is survived by his loving wife, Paula (Johnson) Davis; two sons, Jeremy Davis and Jordan Davis; his father, Jim Davis and wife Dean Davis; his mother, Gloria (Pyle) Wisdom; a brother, Don Davis and wife Sandra; a stepsister, April Ashworth; aunts; uncles; nieces; nephews; and other extended family and friends.
Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m., on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at Life Line Baptist Church on Baseline Road in Little Rock with the Rev. Jeff Dial officiating. A committal service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Crestlawn Memorial Park in Conway.
Visitation is set from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, at Roller-McNutt Funeral Home in Conway.
In lieu of flowers, memorial may be made to: Drake Everett Walker Foundation, P.O. Box 11622, Conway, AR 72034.
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Liz Kittleman has been named
Columbia's head women's lacrosse coach, M. Dianne Murphy, Director,
Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education announced today. As an assistant coach at The University
of Pennsylvania, Kittleman helped the Quakers to four consecutive Ivy League
Women's Lacrosse Championships and an appearance at the NCAA Women's Lacrosse
Championship game in 2008.
Kittleman, an assistant at Penn for the last four years, worked with both Penn's offense and defense while helping them advance to the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship semifinal round in 2007, NCAA final in 2008, and win four consecutive Ivy League titles during her tenure.
"Liz is a wonderful leader
and teacher, with all of the qualities and competencies we looked for in
Columbia's next head coach of lacrosse," Murphy said. "She is a talented and
energetic leader, with a wonderful knowledge of the game. We are thrilled to
have her lead our program to the next level."
Prior to coaching at Penn, Kittleman served as an assistant women's lacrosse coach at Haverford College in 2005 and 2006, and managed the United States Women's Elite Lacrosse Team from January 2006 to October 2007. Kittleman also served as an assistant women's lacrosse coach at Stanford University from 2001-2004, helping the Cardinal to their first top-20 ranking in school history.
"I am so excited to serve as the next head women's lacrosse coach at Columbia University," Kittleman said. "I'm very grateful to Dr. [M. Dianne] Murphy for this outstanding opportunity. I look forward to the challenge of building an Ivy League Championship caliber team and am honored to lead a program at this world-renowned University."
A four-year letterwinner (1994-98) in lacrosse at Union College in New York, Kittleman earned first-team UCAA honors as a senior. She also competed on the women's soccer team for four years, captaining the team in 1997 and 1998, and was a member of the women's ice hockey team in 1995. While at Union, Kittleman earned her bachelor's degree in art history.


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Steelers follow familiar formula to break skid
Steelers follow familiar formula to break skid
Oct. 14, 2013
PITTSBURGH (AP) — It wasn't, Mike Tomlin allows, like winning the lottery.
Then again, to hit the lottery, all you need is a little luck. The Pittsburgh Steelers coach knows his team removed chance from the equation during a solid if not spectacular 19-6 dismantling of the New York Jets on Sunday.
For 60 minutes, the Steelers took care of the ball when they had it and took it away from the Jets when they didn't. They protected Ben Roethlisberger and got after New York quarterback Geno Smith. It wasn't rocket science. It a blueprint that's worked since the first football was snapped.
"The defense got turnovers finally and our offense didn't have them," defensive end Brett Keisel said. "That's a winning formula."
One the Steelers found elusive during a miserable opening month when they got off to the franchise's worst start in 45 years. It's one that came sharply back into focus against the erratic Jets.
The difference wasn't the gameplan but the execution. When given an opportunity to make one of the "splash plays" that was missing through the first four weeks, Pittsburgh made them.
Ryan Clark picked off Smith to snuff out one New York drive, the first turnover created by the Steelers in 287 days. Lawrence Timmons sealed Pittsburgh's first victory of any variety in nearly 10 months with an interception of his own in the fourth quarter.
Clark joked he wasn't sure if he was happier to grab his 14th career interception or simply end a drought that pushed the Steelers to the brink of NFL history. No team had ever gone through its first five games without creating at least one turnover. Pittsburgh sidestepped that ignominious distinction by pushing around New York and giving the locker room hope that all is not lost.
The Steelers (1-4) are 2½ games behind first-place Cincinnati but can start to make inroads on the rest of the division this week when they host rival Baltimore (3-3) on Sunday.
"We're not going to give up," Keisel said. "We're not going to quit. Obviously, it wasn't the start we wanted, but the men in this locker room believe that there's a chance that something great can come out of this if we all work towards it."
It's far too early to consider Pittsburgh back. Yet there were signs of progress after two months of backpedaling.
Roethlisberger completed 23 of 30 passes and didn't throw it to the other team. The running game produced 61 yards in the second half, allowing the Steelers to control the game.
It was a decision Roethlisberger made in concert with offensive coordinator Todd Haley. Given a two-score lead in the fourth quarter, Roethlisberger and Haley decided to ditch passing the ball in favor of trying to win the game on the ground. Considering their past history, it was football's version of detente.
Faced with a short-yardage situation in the fourth quarter and rookie Le'Veon Bell on the sidelines, Haley sent in Jonathan Dwyer and asked the starter-turned-backup to close it out. Dwyer responded by gashing the Jets for a first down, effectively ending the competitive portion of things.
"When (Haley) called it, I was a little hesitant at first and I thought we should grind it in there because the guys have done a good job," Roethlisberger said. "After we broke the huddle, I thought that this was a good play call and that it could be good for us."
Playing with the lead, of course, was a luxury Roethlisberger hadn't enjoyed much this season. Yet the Steelers were never in any real danger as the defense made life uncomfortable for the typically unflappable Smith, whose final interception resulted from a heavy rush by linebacker Jarvis Jones. The rookie hit Smith's arm and turned his pass attempt into a balloon that Timmons easily corralled.
"We got back to running and hitting," Clark said. "Lawrence Timmons was all over the field making big plays. That's the Steelers' defense."
The key now will be to build off it. Sunday's game begins a stretch where Pittsburgh will likely define its season.
"Hopefully it was a springboard of things to come," Tomlin said.
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FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. — For thousands of Civil War re-enactors, the next four years are a chance to capitalize on the public's curiosity about a century-old hobby that demands such attention to detail that the fights seem almost real.
The die-hards converging soon at the site where the War Between the States began 150 years ago with a Confederate artillery barrage on Union-held Fort Sumter can't wait to help others understand why they spend weekends tramping through the rain, sleeping in tents in snow-covered fields, cooking on open campfires and enduring mock battles in wool coats under the hot Southern sun.
They're expecting a surge of interest in a pastime that has roots at the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913, when Confederate veterans retraced Pickett's Charge. Re-enacting took hold for good five decades ago during the Civil War's centennial.
"The 150th cycle is going to be great. It's going to bring us some new re-enactors and it's going to bring a lot of attention and publicity," said Reece Sexton, publisher of the Civil War Courier newspaper and two companion magazines considered bibles by enthusiasts.
"The hobby is not going to die. It does need some new blood."
There is no nationwide association for re-enactors, but Sexton estimates as many as 50,000 take part at least occasionally. An estimated 1,000 re-enactors will be in Charleston, S.C., for the festivities surrounding the April 12, 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, the first shots of the war. Organizers will explode a starburst shell over the fort, signaling re-enactors manning some 30 cannons ringing the harbor to begin a 30-minute barrage.
Sexton expects up to 12,000 re-enactors in Virginia for the 150th anniversary of Bull Run, the first major battle of the war, in July.
But the capstone will come in 2013, when the Gettysburg anniversary could draw as many as 25,000 re-enactors and four times that many spectators to the fields of Pennsylvania.
There are re-enactments yearly of many major Civil War battles and of numerous smaller skirmishes at locations near the battlefields. None is permitted on the actual battlegrounds.
But the next four years will be special.
"Among a lot of re-enactors I'm talking to, this is it. This is the anniversary they have been waiting for," said George Wunderlich, a re-enactor and executive director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Md.
Interest in re-enacting has ebbed and flowed over the decades.
"You get the Ken Burns series on the Civil War coming out and everyone wants to be a re-enactor. Then it ebbed." said Mike Stivers of Summerville, S.C., who has been re-enacting more than 10 years.
There was renewed interest in the early 2000s when the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was raised and "now with the 150th, you're going to have another resurgence," Stivers said.
The 150th anniversary will expose even more people to the war, just as the centennial was a chance to educate young people half a century ago, said Katie Lawhon, a spokeswoman for Gettysburg National Military Park.
"I know a lot of people who tell me when they first got interested in the Civil War, it was because they were here in 1963," Lawhon said.
For Wayne Jones, of Aiken, S.C. — who portrays Confederate Maj. Gen. Jeb Stuart — bringing history alive for kids is a big part of the excitement surrounding the sesquicentennial.
"It's a chance for us to teach by giving people a real opportunity to use their five senses to understand," he said.
For re-enactors, the hobby isn't cheap. A replica musket jackets, pants, brogans and shirts can easily cost $1,400. That's for a basic kit. It's more if you portray an officer or a Calvary soldier, or if you are in the artillery you have to buy a cannon.
Civil War supplies can be had online or from merchants who sell items to soldiers in the field at re-enactments.
"It's a lot of money. It's a lot of time, but it's something you really have a love for," said David Coon of Aiken, S.C., a re-enactor for 16 years.
Re-enactors like Buddy Jarrels of Conway, S.C., say more young people are joining the ranks where he has marched for 35 years.
"There are enough of us who have engrained in the younger ones that love of history," he said. "I think with the 150th the hobby is safe. I really don't see it dying or going away."
Enthusiasts say women, too, are increasingly involved. Wendy Pena-Smith moved to Charleston from Boston six months ago and took up the hobby after checking off other wishes such as learning to blow glass and traveling to Scotland. "I picked this as one of the things to learn for my bucket list," said Pena-Smith, 51.
Linda Berry of Johns Island, S.C., joins her daughter at re-enactments portraying a family who are refugees of war.
"A weekend with no shower and cooking over a stove makes me realize what my ancestors went through," she said.
Associated Press writer Dave Dishneau in Hagerstown, Md., contributed to this report.


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New Zealand tennis players Rubin Statham and Michael Venus have made good progress in the Traralgon Futures event in Victoria, Australia.
Both are in the singles quarterfinals and, as a combination, they have made it through to the doubles final of the US$15,000 tournament.
Statham defeated Australians Daniel Guccione in straight sets in the first round and Jacob Grills in the second round in three sets. He faces another local player, Luke Saville, in the quarterfinals.
Venus beat Leon Frost followed by Nick Lindahl and now plays second seed Matt Reid for a place in the semifinals.
In the doubles, Statham and Venus beat Adam Feeney and Jonathan Millman 4-6 6-3 10-8 in the semifinals to set up a title match against another Australian pair, Matthew Barton and Matthew Look.
Meanwhile, in the United States at the Birmingham Futures, Kiwi player Marvin Barker and his American doubles partner Dennis Nevolo have been beaten in the semifinals by the American doubles pair of Bjorn Fratangelo and Mitchell Krueger 7-6(5) 6-3.


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I just started organising the backups on my external HDD, and I realised that I only need to backup photos and documents.
Most music I can re-rip from CDs, programs I can re-download, videos I only watch once.
I started with a 720GB backup, and realised that I only really need 15GB. (and I can probably trim that)
I take a 120GB offsite backup disk of my photos and docs everywhere with me in the boot of my car. (paranoid or what!) But I realised how little I really needed.


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December 04, 2011
University of Mount Union's Student Woodwind Quintet will perform Wednesday, December 7 at 8 p.m. in Presser Recital Hall.
The quintet will perform a variety of musical selections including Serenade and Five Easy Dances.
Presser Recital Hall is located in Cope Music Hall on the corner of Simpson Street and Union Avenue. The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Mount Union's Department of Music at (330) 823-2180.


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WASHINGTON — The pomp surrounding the inauguration of the president of the United States can carry a hefty price tag, but the cost of this inauguration won't be as big as the last one for President Obama.
Taxpayers will not cover the cost of the balls and other celebratory events, just things like preparing the inaugural platform, sprucing up the Capitol grounds, and providing security. A solid chunk of the tab for the 57th inauguration next month will be picked up by loyal supporters and other private donors, as it has been for years.
In 2009, Obama raised $53 million in private money for his inauguration, when a record 1.8 million people braved the winter chill to see him take his place in history as America's first black president.
Previous inaugural committees have raised big cash, too, though not as much as Obama. President George W. Bush had about $40 million raised for each of his inaugurals. For President Bill Clinton, it was about $30 million in 1997.
This time around, with the economy still sputtering out of the worst downturn since the Great Depression, Obama is scaling back the celebrations a bit.
But the precise cost of the inaugural has yet to be determined.
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Gulfstream News & Notes
Citrus Kid Begins Comeback in Harlan's Holiday
Purple Egg Pointed to Gulfstream Park Derby
Perfect Shirl on Comeback Trail for Attfield
Golden Goose Enterprises, James Covello and Michael Imperio's 5-year-old Citrus Kid makes an ambitious return to competition from a 15-month layoff in Sunday's $100,000 Harlan's Holiday Stakes at Gulfstream Park with jockey Joe Rocco, Jr. aboard for trainer John Terranova.
A son of Lemon Drop Kid, Citrus Kid made his last nine starts on turf during the 2010-11 seasons, placing in Graded stakes and finishing a close-up fourth in the Hollywood Derby (G1) when beaten less than a length for it all. He won allowance races at Gulfstream and Keeneland during that time.
"We've been looking for a spot to bring him back," said Terranova Friday morning from Palm Meadows. "We had him entered in the Tropical Park Turf (G3) at Calder (Nov. 30), but the course there got a little rough at the end of the meet, so we scratched.
"This may not be the ideal spot, but he needs to get going again. He has run well on dirt and won the Dover Stakes (Delaware Park) as a 2-year-old, and he trains fantastic on dirt. More than likely he'll end up back on turf in the bigger races here later in the season."
Citrus Kid also finished third on dirt in the Remsen Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct after the Dover victory before switching to turf the next summer at Saratoga. The Harlan's Holiday will mark his first start since finishing second in the PTHA President's Cup at Parx on Sept. 17, 2011.
"We stopped on him because of a series of minor problems that took time," said Terranova. "We turned him out for a while. He never had a problem that required surgery, but we had to stop on him a couple of times as we tried to bring him back. He's a neat old class horse and we're looking forward to getting him going again."
Purple Egg Pointed to Gulfstream Park Derby
When Purple Egg couldn't even handle participating in the post parade and was scratched twice at Monmouth Park last summer, it would have been difficult to believe that he would go on to become a major contender for the $100,000 Gulfstream Park Derby on Jan. 1.
Some might have said that trainer Jane Cibelli got what she paid for with the $22,000 yearling purchase.
In the post parade for his debut, the well-bred son of Lion Heart acted up and unseated his rider.
"He had schooled in the paddock; he schooled with a pony…I have my own pony. He'd done everything right," Cibelli said. "But when we handed him off to the pony in the post parade, he just lost it and dropped the rider."
Writing it off as first-race jitters, Cibelli went back to schooling Purple Egg before dropping him back into the Monmouth entry box. Unfortunately, he once again acted up in the post parade and dropped his rider again, prompting his trainer to make a difficult decision.
"It broke my heart to geld him," Cibelli said. "But I don't think he would have made it as a colt."
Gelding Purple Egg proved to be the right decision, as evidenced by three straight impressive victories to launch a now very promising career. Cibelli wasn't exactly surprised by Purple Egg's performance once he finally made it to the starting gate.
"The first time I saw this horse gallop, I said, 'What a stride!' He did things so easily," said Cibelli, recalling his early training at Tampa Bay Downs last season. "When I watched him gallop, I said, 'His stride is about twice as long as everybody else's.'"
That physical talent was very much in evidence when he captured his debut at Monmouth on Aug. 23 by nearly five lengths. He came right back to handily win an entry-level allowance race at Parx by nearly seven lengths. Purple Egg was tested in the $75,000 Inaugural at Tampa Bay on Dec. 1, and he came through with a gutsy off-the-place victory over multiple stakes-winner Brave Dave by a length.
"It certainly was his toughest race. His first two races came somewhat easily to him. (Brave Dave) had already shown that he was accomplished. When they ran the first quarter in 23 (seconds), I honestly didn't think (Purple Egg) could win it at that point," Cibelli said. "I said, 'There's no way he's going to win that race. (Brave Dave) has got everything his way. He's a speed horse and after getting the first quarter in 23, he's going to have some kick left.' My horse impressed me to beat that horse on his own terms."
With a six-furlong stakes victory on Purple Egg's resume, Cibelli is looking at the one-mile, one-turn Gulfstream Park Derby as a perfect opportunity to start the process of stretching out her gelding.
"I've always thought that he wanted to go long," said Cibelli, the two-time Monmouth training titlist who has divisions at both Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs.
Perfect Shirl on Comeback Trail for Attfield
Charles Fipke's 5-year-old Kentucky homebred mare Perfect Shirl, upset winner of the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) at Churchill Downs in 2011, made only one start after that when finishing a disappointing eighth as the favorite in the $100,000 The Very One Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 25 this year.
"She got injured after that race, a condylar fracture in her right foreleg," said veteran horseman Roger Attfield from his winter headquarters at Payson Park Friday morning. Attfield was inducted into the Saratoga Hall of Fame this summer.
"They put three screws in the leg. I had hoped to get her back to the Breeders' Cup again this year (Santa Anita), but I just ran out of time. So then I gave her even more time. She's coming along well now, jogging and galloping. Hopefully, we'll get her back to racing here sometime in February or March."
More immediately, Attfield has a top turf stakes performer that may see action over the Gulfstream course in next Saturday's (Dec. 22) $75,000 El Prado Stakes at one mile. Robert Harvey's 5-year-old Canadian homebred gelding Hollinger will likely be one of the favorites if he starts following a game runner-up finish in the Tropical Park Turf (G3) at Calder on Nov. 30.
"I'm looking to run him right now. He's been unlucky a time or two this season," said Attfield, referring to the fact that that the roan/gray son of Black Minnaloushe has finished second four times in eight starts this year with no wins and only one trip to the winners' circle in two years.
Two of those runner-up efforts came in stakes over the Gulfstream course in January when he finished a close-up third in the Ft. Lauderdale Stakes (G3) and was moved up to second on a disqualification, and then a tough loss when second by a half-length behind Get Stormy in the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (G1) in February, his major goal this winter again if all goes well.
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Wednesday is the first day of spring, but Newton School Superintendent David A. Fleishman is not ready to formally set the final day of school after losing six schools days this academic year to snow and Hurricane Sandy.
"I usually do it in early April,'' Fleishman said of picking the June day that marks the 180th class day, as required by state law. "I am going to hold out for a little bit.''
Fleishman, who ordered Newton's schools closed Tuesday because of the latest snowstorm, is not alone. Many districts across the state are facing the prospect of tweaking their academic calendars to make up for weather-related cancellations that began in October with Sandy and continued with a wave of late-winter storms.
In Marshfield and neighboring Scituate, schools have been closed for eight days this year because storms flooded out large chunks of the South Shore communities.
In a letter sent to parents Tuesday, Scituate Superintendent John McCarthy released his revised game plan for the end of the school year.
McCarthy dismissed the idea of holding class during April vacation as too disruptive to family life for both students and staff.
Instead, he said, he will convert April 3 and April 4, originally planned as parent and teacher conference days, into regular school days. And the last day of school has been moved from June 24 to June 27 for now.
"Hopefully, there are no more surprise spring storms in our future,'' wrote McCarthy, who noted the high school graduation date remains as planned, June 7.
In Boston, the School Department has shut down its system for five days. But the city can stick to its original closing day, June 28, because its 180-day academic year allows for five snow days.
The shutdown in October for Sandy is the earliest weather-related closure for Boston in the past 10 years, and the shutdown Tuesday was the latest in the season in the same period, said School Department spokesman Lee McGuire,.
The decision to cancel school can be a weighty one for superintendents, who must weigh weather reports, snow-removal resources, parents' considerations, and instinct.
"It's not easy," said Paul Andrews, a former Woburn superintendent who is director of professional development and governmental services for the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents. "There's no quadratic equation or simple formula that makes this work," Andrews said.
The additional dilemma with pushing classes further into the summer instead of scheduling a half day, which does not count against the 180-day minimum, is also weather-related.
"Many schools are not air-conditioned, so you're ending up with students in buildings that can get extremely warm," Andrews said. "That's not conducive to learning."
While he has not yet made it official, Fleishman expects his system will still be holding class on June 26, one day longer than the originally planned when school began last September.
"It's not ideal for some students who will be starting their summer activities,'' Fleishman said. "It's not ideal, but it's a very unusual year.''Correspondent Todd Feathers contributed to this report. John R. Ellement can be reached at email@example.com.


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The Nurse's Ball begins next month on ABC's GENERAL HOSPITAL in conjuction with the show's 50th anniversary. The Emmy-winning daytime drama took a new photo to celebrate.
Back row: Bergen Williams, Sean Kanan, Kelly Sullivan, Carolyn Hennesy, Lisa LoCicero, Sean Blackmore, Derk Cheetwood
Third row: Drew Cheetwood, Tyler Christopher, Rebecca Herbst, Bradford Anderson, Kelly Monaco, Brandon Barash, Kirsten Storms, John J. York, Kristina Wagner, Jack Wagner, Sonya Eddy
Second row: Lynn Herring, Jacklyn Zeman, Ian Buchanan, Kimberly McCullough, Finola Hughes, Leslie Charleson, Jane Elliot, Anthony Geary, Genie Francis, Maurice Benard, Laura Wright, Jason Thompson, Nancy Lee Grahn
Front row: Marc Anthony Samuel, Teresa Castillo, Emily Wilson, Chad Duell, Haley Pullos, Tequan Richmond, Jimmy Deshler
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Thefts reported
• A Dell computer was reported stolen from a locked vehicle parked between 5 and 9:30 p.m. Sept. 23 in the 1800 block of Butterfield Road. The vehicle's driver-side window was reported shattered in the apparent vehicle burglary.
• An IPass transponder and registration paperwork and sticker were reported stolen from a locked vehicle parked between 8 a.m. Sept. 14 and 11:30 a.m. Sept. 17 in the 7330 block of Northgate Way.
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A Reader's Guide to the Century
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
Modern Times, Modern Places
A History of the World in the Twentieth Century
The Century
The American Century
The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century
The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century
Why the American Century?
The Twentieth Century: A World History
Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century
Chronicle of the 20th Century
National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century
If we removed all the page numbers from War and Peace, it would not take anything away from the meaning of the novel. Nor would restoring the numbers deepen the story. The numbers are there to help us return to a passage in an artifact to whose meaning they are irrelevant. When different editions of Tolstoy's Russian novel, or of its translations, make Peter's words show up on differently numbered pages, the words are unaffected. The numbering of years and centuries and millennia is as arbitrary a way of flagging reality as is pagination. The flow of life is not deeply altered by the fact that December 31 is assigned to one year, January 1 to another—or by saying that we are twentieth-century creatures now but will become twenty-first- centuryites in five (or in seventeen) months. Reality does not come to us in neatly labeled packages. We impose the labels. Even our talk of "this century" is a Eurocentric convention, ignoring the existence of other calendars in China or Thailand. It was comparatively recently that parts of Europe itself ceased having two calendars, the Julian and the Gregorian (Russia did not give up the former until 1917, and Greece not till 1923). Farther back in time, Europe began the new year in March, not January. What happened on either date was not altered by what was no more than a different "page number."
One attempt to escape arbitrary units simply reifies in a more drastic way some stretch of time as an entity. I have been told, for instance, that the "real" 1960s, as opposed to the calendar 1960s, ran from (say) 1963, from Dr. King's March on Washington and President Kennedy's assassination, to 1974, to American withdrawal from Vietnam and the Watergate investigations. But for whom was this time unit the reality? Not, presumably, for a poor mother in Africa, who could not care much about America's designs on Vietnam.
As some people search for the "real" Sixties, others now want to define the "real" twentieth century. The most famous of these is the respected historian Eric Hobsbawm, in The Age of Extremes, a book he published in 1994. He could analyze the period so early since his twentieth century runs only from 1914 to 1991, a "short century" to go with his "long nineteenth century," described in an earlier trilogy—a century which ran from the 1780s to 1914. That long period, Hobsbawm claimed, was an age of "revolution, capital, and empire." Our later, shorter time is just an age of "extremes," concluded by the fall of the Soviet Empire. Naming these periods as if they were single things is a dubious exercise. The eighteenth century, called by many the age of reason, was as much a time of Pamela's tears and Rousseau's sentiment as of Newton's Optics. The Romantic Era, so called, was the time when science and the…
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Courtney Mirabella reached base for the third time, turned toward her dugout and said, "I got so lucky."
That was after Mirabella collected her third hit and knocked in her fourth run.
"I was hitting the ball pretty decent, but it never fell," the Braden River senior said. "I had some not-so-good hits and they fell tonight. So I got lucky tonight."
Along with her "lucky" hitting, Mirabella pitched a two-hit shutout with 12 strikeouts, as the Pirates turned back visiting Manatee, 10-0, in a Class 7A-District 11 game stopped in the bottom of the sixth inning because of the 10-run mercy rule.
"I'm more proud of my hitting tonight," she said.
Mirabella had a two-run single in the first to get the Pirates (6-1; 5-0 in 7A-11) going. She had a RBI hit in the third and another in the sixth.
She did her usual damage in the circle with deadly accuracy.
The right-hander fanned the side in the first and the second and had two in each inning, except the third. Mirabella threw 64 pitches, 55 strikes. That's right, only nine balls. She threw first-pitch strikes to 16 of the 20 batters she faced.
"I felt really good," Mirabella said.
"Courtney was on," Braden River coach Erin Spivey said. "Can't ask for much more than that."
It was the Pirates' fifth straight shutout, second over Manatee (5-2; 4-1 in 7A-11). Braden River outscored the opposition, 28-0, during the streak.
"We're trying to change our approach and go small ball, do anything we can to put the ball in play and not strikeout," said Hurricanes coach John Carlock, whose club was no-hit by Mirabella in the earlier game. "We were a little bit better."
Hailey Hopkins had the lone two hits off Mirabella, singles in the second and fifth.
"She's a good hitter," Mirabella said. "They are good competition to pitch to. I like pitching to them, because they are good competition."
"She gets more pumped up when it's people she knows, obviously, Spivey said. "She enjoys the challenge."
Braden River leadoff hitter Kenya Yancy, a .580 slap hitter from the left side, hit right-handed for the third game this season and collected a couple of hits and scored a run. Ashley Allard had two hits and two runs batted in. Cleanup hitter Hannah Loyer had hits in her first three at-bats, scored three runs and knocked in another.
"We played great tonight. I can't argue about that," Spivey said. "Our team is just having fun. They really are."
Carlock found out before the game starting catcher Kassidy Pellien suffered an arm injury to go with her shoulder woes.
"She aggravated it. We didn't want to take any more chances," Carlock said. "She's seeing a doctor tomorrow for her shoulder. She could have played tonight.
"Whether it made a difference or not, I don't think so. They're a good team. "


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Cristiano Ronaldo has fuelled the fire ahead of Real Madrid's highly anticipated Champions League clash against Manchester United.
The Portuguese international will face his old club in a competitive fixture for the first time since leaving Old Trafford in 2009, with the Spanish giants paying £80million to bring the player to the Santiago Bernabeu.
During his time with Los Blancos, Ronaldo has failed to lift Europe's biggest prize, but he's confident Jose Mourinho's side can get past the Premier League leaders over two legs.
"I believe things will go well. In my opinion Real Madrid have a better team, but we have to show that on the pitch because United are a very united team and always have been in recent years," he told the official UEFA Champions League magazine.
"They're a team that always do well, every year they're at the top and therefore a team we respect a lot. It will be an extremely difficult match, especially in Manchester."
Despite enjoying six successful years with the Red Devils, the FIFA Ballon d'Or runner-up will have no problem focusing on the task at hand when Madrid travel to Old Trafford.
The winger predicted that Madrid would draw Manchester United, and whilst Ronaldo admits it will be a strange feeling, he's desperate to reach the quarter-finals of the competition.
"I actually said beforehand that I believed we would draw Manchester United. I've wanted to face them for some time. I have great memories from my time there," Ronaldo added.
"It will be a match in which I will feel a lot. I was there for six years. I have a lot of friends there, people I will see with great pleasure, it will be a match with a lot of emotions."
The first leg takes place in the Spanish capital on February 13th, before Madrid travel to Manchester on March 5th for the return fixture.
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Had a great ride early this morning and was just disgusted by how many craters from horses are all over the trail, especially the new trail area just north of GR Drive. I don't get how the horse groups fit into the WTA, KC, and Evergreen. It seems like most of the groups are on the same page, respect the trails, and work HARD to maintain the trails. Maybe I am missing this, but I don't see the horse groups doing anything except destroying the trails.
Almost took a big digger this morning around a nice corner as my front wheel buried into to huge holes from a horse. I believe these holes cause safety issues for hikers and bikers - ankle breakers and diggers for bikes. It looked like the horse went off the side of the trail and maybe got spooked, because there are craters all over one spot. Just pisses me off. They can crap anywhere they want and destroy the trails and it seems like it is OK without any repercussion. If MTBR's were trashing trails like this, all hell would break loose. And I won't even talk about dogs crapping on the trails.
I also walk and run on these trails. There is a ton of traffic and to me, it just doesn't make sense why horses would be allowed on this trail. It is narrow, there are blind spots, and more traffic than I see on any other trail system I ride. What about restricting horses to go North from the Black Nugget trail that comes out just past the north side of the new trail area? There is a lot more traffic on the south side and it sure seems like a safety hazard with all the walkers, runners, bikers, and dogs.
Rant over, just kills me to see these horses destroying a great new section of trail that everyone worked so hard on. I don't see the logic of horses specifically on GR. Their asses need to be out there fixing the damage their horses are causing.


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The Premier League already boasts some of the best strikers in world football, the likes of Robin Van Persie, Luis Suarez and Carlos Tevez, but if the speculation is to be believed, there could be one or two additions to this elite club come January.
A number of top clubs are in desperate need of a new forward - not least Liverpool and Chelsea - while Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United have all been linked with moves for new strikers.
When the New Year rolls around, these clubs are unlikely to be pilfering the bargain buckets in the January sales - they will be at football's top table, shopping for the best and brightest of world football.
So, with that in mind, GMF profiles five of the best strikers who could be playing their football in England come January 31…
Radamel Falcao | Estimated price: £46m | Reported interest: Chelsea, Manchester City
Other than the freakishly good Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, nobody has scored more goals in La Liga than Radamel Falcao since 2011.
The Colombian international moved to Atletico Madrid for £36m in 2011 - so he won't come cheap. He's admitted he's keen to try his hand away from La Liga, piquing the interest of Chelsea and Manchester City, and the Premier League looks a good fit for this bull of a centre-forward.
Strong in the air, and good with either foot, Falcao has been mooted as a possible long-term replacement for Didier Drogba at Stamford Bridge. And with 35 goals in 46 league games, the Colombian has the pedigree to do the job.
Chance of Premier League move: 5/10
Atletico Madrid's determination to keep hold of Falcao makes a summer move more likely
Adrian | Estimated price: £12m | Reported interest: Arsenal
The Gunners are reportedly on the lookout for a striker in January, and this young Spanish international fits the bill.
Falcao's strike partner at Atletico Madrid is less of an out-and-out number nine, but still gets among the goals, and Adrian certainly possesses all the attributes to shine in the Premier League.
The 21-year-old is thought to have a £12m minimum fee release clause in his contract, which puts him well within Arsenal's budget for the January transfer window.
But Atletico are unlikely to want to lose Adrian and Falcao in the same window. If Arsenal want to secure their man, they'll have to move fast.
Chance of Premier League move: 8/10
Arsenal have money to spend in January, and the Gunners boss is reportedly keen on Adrian
Robert Lewandowski | Estimated price: £12m | Reported interest: Manchester United
The Old Trafford club have no shortage of top quality strikers - but the Robert Lewandowski to United link just won't go away.
The latest news is that a move is likely to happen in the summer, and while a price in the region of £12m has been rumoured, that sounds a little cheap for a player of this class.
Borussia Dortmund are believed to value Lewandowski a little closer to £24m, and the 24-year-old certainly looks to be worth every penny.
He's already helped to dump title rivals Manchester City out of the Champions League, and the Poland international has an incredible goalscoring record in Germany - 39 goals in 79 league games.
Dortmund reportedly paid €4.5m to Lech Poznan for Lewandowski in June 2010 - they can expect a lot more if they decide to sell.
Chance of Premier League move: 5/10
Manchester United are in no rush, and Borussia Dortmund are reluctant to sell - this one could drag on until summer
Klaas Jan-Huntelaar | Estimated price: £6m | Reported interest: Liverpool, Arsenal
The Holland international is reportedly set to leave Schalke at the end of the season, leading to speculation he could be available for a knock-down price in January.
Rather than risk losing him for free, recent reports have suggested Huntelaar's on the table for £6m, and at that price there's sure to be a cluster of Premier League clubs eager to snap him up.
The 29-year-old Dutchman gave Arsenal a glimpse of what he's capable of, scoring against them twice in the Champions League group stage this season.
And the Emirates Stadium looks like the most likely destination for the former-Real Madrid striker. The Gunners lack a goal poacher - Huntelaar is exactly that.
Chance of Premier League move: 8/10
Very likely. A host of Premier League suitors, and an expiring contract makes a move probable.
Fernando Llorente | Estimated price: free | Reported interest: Tottenham and just about everybody else
"Yes, I'm leaving [Athletic Bilbao] on June 30." The words that Premier League managers across England had been waiting to hear.
Earlier this week, Fernando Llorente finally revealed he will indeed be leaving Bilbao, sparking a scramble for his signature that is sure to be played out on the back pages for weeks to come.
Premier League clubs can sign a pre-contract agreement with Llorente from January 1 onwards, and with Spurs, City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea all keen on snapping up one of the bargains of the season, there could be a few twists and turns in January.
Chance of Premier League move: 9/10
Extremely likely. The Spaniard is coveted by a number of top clubs, and has said he's ready to try something new - it's a toss-up between Serie 'A' and the Premier League.
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Published: 2013/01/31
by Mike Greenhaus
Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood: Still A Go Go
"At this point, we're a band," keyboardist John Medeski says about Medeski Martin & Wood's occasional collaboration with guitarist John Scofield. Though Medeski's statement seems obvious, MMW's interactive with Scofield has changed considerably since the trio first backed the former Miles Davis guitarist on his 1998 groove classic A Go Go. During their initial recordings sessions with Sco, Medeski, bassist Chris Wood and drummer Billy Martin functioned primarily as support musicians. The quartet never formally toured with Scofield and, when they did come together for select festival dates or one-off appearances, they were billed as something of a collaborative super-group.
It wasn't until the musicians reconvened to record 2006's Out Louder, they truly started to combine their DNA and form a tried-and-true band of equals—they even shuffled their name to Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood highlight their new approach.
With the exception of a live album, MSMW haven't released any music during the past seven years but they continue to play together when their other commitments allow. While on Jam Cruise, the four musicians sat down for a rare joint interview to discuss MSMW's continued evolution and their recent live shows. Scofield also gave us the scoop on his new studio album, which will reunite him with his classic Uberjam ensemble.
John, after playing more straight-ahead jazz and even some gospel music in recent years, you are going to focus on your groove-jam project Uberjam this year. Who is in the group at this point and who will appear on your new album?
John Scofield: It is the original Uberjam lineup, except Andy Hess is on bass [instead of Jesse Murphy, who plays in Brazilian Girls]. He was on the second album we did, Up All Night. Adam Deitch is on drums and Avi Bortnick is on guitar and samples. Special guest John Medeski is on keyboards, and Louis Cato also played drums on a few tracks. You might know him as the bassist in Eric Krasno's solo project Chapter 2. He is an amazing drummer as well [Cato and Deitch will alternate dates with the band in 2013.]
It has been a decade since you have recorded with this band. What inspired you to reunite these players and have you been writing new music for the project all along?
JS: It is cool to give it a lot of time—I like doing different types of projects. I had some stuff I hadn't really finished and Avi had a bunch of music. He was nice enough to let me take his music and add to it—and vice versa. So we co-wrote a bunch of tunes.
Where did you record the album?
JS: We recorded it Sear Sounds on W. 48 in New York City. It is called Uberjam Dos and it will come out this spring.
Moving to your current collaboration with MMW, do you plan to enter the studio anytime soon?
JS: We are trying to do some new stuff. It is always great to play with these guys.
Chris Wood: We've been talking about doing some recording but nothing has been planned so far. As of now, all we have on the books for MSMW is Jam Cruise and the two gigs we did in December.
John Medeski: At this point, we're a band. The first time we got together was for John's album, A Go Go.
JS: There is a little contention on when we first met, actually. Nobody can quite remember when it was but that album was released in 1998. I think 1996 was when I made the initial phone call.
CW: You had already heard Shack-Man then, right?
JS: I'd been stalking you guys, and I had heard all your records. I was on Gramavision, too. That is actually the first time I heard you—your first record with them. I had heard of Billy and John, too. Bass you don't think of because it is bass [Laughter.] They were around the New York scene.
Of course, there is the famous story of how you did not know how to contact them so you called their fan hotline.
JS: We are pre-internet!
John Medeski, you mention that you guys are a real band now. Can you talk about how the band's dynamics have shifted since you first played with John? At first, you really just backed him on his record.
JM: We had the first record with John [after which John, Chris and James Brown drummer Clyde Stubblefield backed Scofield, though Martin missed the tour since he was on his honeymoon]. After that we did a few festivals and would play together on occasion. There was a lot of cross-pollination—certain things we had in common. A Go Go was the record where people turned around and said to us, "We love A Go Go, we love that record." So we got together and made another record, Out Louder. We went out and toured on that record and it felt great—it is always so natural when we play together. For that year when we toured behind the record, we played together a lot then we all went off and did different projects. But we kept running into each other and doing different things and we'd always say, "We got to do this again." Every once and a while we will get a festival offer and try to fit a few dates in.
Billy Martin: From the very beginning, when we did A Go Go, it was so easy. It was this instant connection. We all have so much in common: jazz and an interest in New Orleans music and this rhythmic, Afro-stuff. It is always so easy to play with John: all we have to do is set up a gig. It's not like we have to have a rehearsal. It is very effortless.
JM: We collaborated on [the writing for] Out Louder. What happened was every night when we were on tour we had these spontaneous moments.
JS: We improvised a lot…


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It doesn't matter what their favorite Thanksgiving food is or why they showed up.
Hundreds filed in to be a part of the Herrin's Civic Centers Thanksgiving feast.
While guest enjoyed the company of others and of course the delicious food, volunteers worked hard making sure it all came together.
"It's so fulfilling because people are so willing to open up their hearts and just give you a big ol' hug," says Darlene Fooid, a four year volunteer. "I love to see the smile on people's faces and I really enjoy it every year," says Fooid.
What's a dinner without a little entertainment?
Donnie Falknor, a Herrin native, never thought twice about making the trip from Florida to be a part of the feast for the 11th year in a row.
"That's what it's all about, that's the name, being thankful for what we have and recognizing all of those things together on one day," says Falknor "Whether it's family, friends, the things that you have yourself or an opportunity to share with others."
Falknor sang Christmas tunes during the meal, and people weren't hesitant to get up and dance, but there is something else he enjoys the most about Thanksgiving.
"When I see a couple in their eighties and they are sitting close together, maybe one of them is in a wheelchair and when I'm doing a song, whether it's a Christmas song or 'Unforgettable' by Nat King Cole and I see them get closer together and grab each other's hand, it's priceless."
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Brand reverses decisionPublished: 2/18/13 @ 12:00
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
After backlash from customers, the producer of Maker's Mark bourbon is reversing a decision to cut the amount of alcohol in bottles of its famous whiskey.
Rob Samuels, Maker's Mark's chief operating officer, said Sunday that it is restoring the alcohol volume of its product to its historic level of 45 percent, or 90 proof. Last week, it said it was lowering the amount to 42 percent, or 84 proof, because of a supply shortage.
"We've been tremendously humbled over the last week or so," Samuels, grandson of the brand's founder, said of customers' reactions.
The brand known for its square bottles sealed in red wax has struggled to keep up with demand. Distribution has been squeezed, and the brand had to curtail shipments to some overseas markets.
In a tweet Sunday, the company said to its followers: "You spoke. We listened."
Fans of the whiskey applauded the move and questioned why the company moved to change in the first place.
"Some things you just got to leave alone," Todd Matthews, 42, of Livingston, Tenn., said.
Company officials said much customer feedback came from Twitter and Facebook. On those sites, comments on Sunday's change of course ranged from angry to celebratory to self-congratulatory. The statement on Maker's Mark's Facebook page drew more than 14,000 "likes" and 2,200 comments within two hours of Sunday's announcement.
The change in recipe started with a shortage of the bourbon amid an ongoing expansion of the company's operations that cost tens of millions of dollars.
Maker's Mark Chairman Emeritus Bill Samuels, the founder's son, said the company focused almost exclusively on not altering the taste of the bourbon while stretching the available product and didn't consider the emotional attachment that customers have to the brand and its composition.
Bill Samuels said the company tinkered with how much water to add and keep the taste the same for about three months before making the announcement about the change. It marked the first time the bourbon brand, more than a half-century old, had altered its proof or alcohol volume.
"Our focus was on the supply problem. That led to us focusing on a solution," Bill Samuels said. "We got it totally wrong."
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Making music for animation: A masterclass with Luigi AllemanoFilms
A while back, we shared with you a handful of quick tips for making music for your animation films. The tips had been carefully prepared by composer Luigi Allemano, who knows quite a lot about these things, seeing that (as his website informs us), his work has appeared in "Oscar-nominated animation films, television series, Juno-Award winning commercial recordings, jingles and film soundtracks."
The tips, custom-made for the internets (Twitter, more specifically), were taken from a workshop Allemano gave during the 2011 edition of Get Animated!, our yearly animation bash. Well guess what. In our infinite generosity and wisdom, we decided to go ahead and digitize a video recording of the masterclass, which we offer you here, without further ado:
Making Music for Animation, , provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Should you watch the clip and find it useful, please do drop us a note in the comments section to let us know. We're eternally curious to know what you, dear readers, want to read and watch. Enjoy!


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Although he didn't know it at the time, Jason Potter got his first taste of event promotion while studying business at Indiana University.
That's when he and his friends created a grassroots movement to market Indiana's football program, which he admits playfully, "is not a story to program." But it certainly was a learning experience, and one that the now 34-year-old Potter draws on often in his role as director of promotions and event presentation for the Memphis Grizzlies.
"When I look back, I had no idea that I could do this as a job," Potter said. "But the things that we did there were working with the athletics department and trying to build excitement around Indiana football. Now it's on a bigger scale, but that's what we do – try to build a coalition of fans and community partners to get excited around a program. In that case, it's Indiana football. In this case, it's Memphis Grizzlies basketball."
Potter moved back home to Memphis upon graduating from Indiana in 2000. That was the year AutoZone Park opened its doors, and also when Potter picked up on one of his favorite aspects of Memphis to this day: access.
"I was attending a lot of games and through some friends, made some introductions with people there," Potter said. "Next thing I know, I was an intern with the Redbirds pulling tarp, selling ads and tickets."
That summer, the Grizzlies came to town. Through Potter's experience with the Redbirds, he had an opportunity to strike up some conversations with the right people, and landed a job working with the NBA basketball team full-time during their first season in 2001.
"That's a credit to Memphis I think," Potter said. "I've found in my experience everyone to be very approachable when you express interest and do your homework. I've got to imagine that to be a much more challenging prospect in a larger market."
Potter's team is responsible for the in-arena fan experience at FedExForum for Grizzlies games. In other words, any form of entertainment for home games that doesn't include the basketball players.
That includes pre-game plaza events and the pre-game show, the Grizz mascot, the Grizz Girls, the Claw Crew, Grizz Line, Grizzlies Grannies and Grandpas, and all of the audio and video elements in conjunction with the broadcast team.
"We oversee all of the lighting, the bells, the whistles," Potter said.
Potter's job also entails showcasing corporate partners' brands. And as evidenced by a recent write-up in The Wall Street Journal, he's pretty good at it.
The publication featured the Grizzlies' half court shot promotion – something that two-thirds of NBA teams will do throughout the season. But here's the catch: instead of a cash prize, Potter arranged with sponsor Sonic Drive-In to award any fan who hits the shot a lifetime supply of tater tots.
–Jason Potter Director of promotions and event presentation, Memphis Grizzlies
"My team has a philosophy that there's really not a lot that you can do that's new," Potter said. "We view ourselves as being good at enhancing existing ideas – building on it, putting our own personal spin on it and making it ours. How can we get attention for something in a new way to deliver attention for our sponsor? That's the goal in your corporate partnerships is breaking through that clutter."
Meanwhile, Potter's team creates a unique in-game song selection that was the focal point of an article on sports website The Score last month. Writer Andrew Unterberger said when it comes to NBA arena music, "there is no equal for FedExForum."
That's due in part to FedExForum standards like Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is" and The Gap Band's, "You Dropped a Bomb on Me." But home games aren't complete without Memphis-centric beats like "Whoop That Trick" from "Hustle and Flow" and the Grizzlies' signature victory song, DJ Khaled's "All I Do is Win" – with a special Grizzlies-specific verse from Memphis rapper Freesol.
And it goes beyond those still somewhat mainstream songs. The music heard during actual game action is unique to FedExForum, as the music selection that is queued up for the Grizzlies' halftime sets are as diverse as the crowd, ranging from The Budos Band, the Pixies and A Tribe Called Quest to local rappers and Memphis Stax standards.
Potter again attributes that recognition to his team's innovation and invention.
"There's certain things you would expect when you come into an arena – you're thinking of certain hits, the big songs for the big moments, the Jock Jams and all of that stuff," Potter said. "But we wanted to have a little more personality with it. We wanted to make it a part of Memphis and really weave into the great musical fabric that exists in our community."
When he's not pumping up Grizzlies fans, Potter is an avid cyclist. Last year he helped form a team called Boscos Cycling that raised more than $30,000 for multiple sclerosis awareness and research.
Potter also enjoys hanging out with his wife, April, in their Cooper-Young neighborhood. The couple just had their first child and is "having fun with the new scheduling" that she brings.


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Chatham[1] is at the "elbow" of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Its beautiful beaches, harbors, coastal scenes and its interesting village shops make it a popular day-trip destination as well as a top-notch vacation area.
In 2007 Chatham was recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations[2].
Get in
By car
From Route 6 take Exit 11; go left off the ramp onto Route 137 South; go straight through one set of lights (by car dealership); go straight at the four way stop at Queen Anne Rd. ( The Corner Store on corner); continue to the Route 28 intersection (the road will end). Turning right (west) will bring you into the South Chatham neighborhood, while turning left (east) will lead you through Chatham's Main Street (the local name for Route 28). Driving straight (or more precisely, left and then an immediate right up a driveway) brings you to Chatham's Tourist Information Center, sponsored by the local chamber of commerce. This is an excellent first stop, as the Center's volunteers can provide local context and suggestions.
By airplane
Get around
Art Galleries
Hotels and Motels
Inns and Bed & Breakfasts
Get out
Remember that traffic is heavy on summer weekends. If leaving on Sunday, try to avoid mid-day.


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Old School
Earlier this year, the Civic Center was renamed to honor former mayor Frank Fasi. Here's an insider's look at the lessons to be learned from this local political legend.
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I first met Frank Fasi in 1962, two days after I arrived in Honolulu. Like me, Frank was originally from Hartford, Conn., and several people there had given me his name as a contact. If anyone ever needed a contact, I did—5,000 miles from home with no job, and a wife and baby to support. So I called Frank, and to my surprise, he invited us to dinner the following night. We had a delightful time, but he said nothing about helping me find a job. That was a Saturday night.
On Monday morning, the phone in our little hotel room rang; it was Frank, with the names of two local businessmen who had agreed to meet with me. Almost every morning for the next two weeks, Frank called with one or two more names. It was typical of Frank's generosity; most of the men and women who worked for him over the years have similar stories to tell, and it explains why most of them were so loyal to him.
In 1970, after he had been mayor for two years, I joined Frank's Cabinet as head of the Office of Information and Complaint, a job I held for eight years. During that time Frank created the city bus system, the Satellite City Halls and the Peoples' Open Markets. We went through four political campaigns, two for Frank's re-election as mayor and two when he ran for governor. And, of course, there were continuing conflicts with the media, the City Council and other assorted politicians.
Few will deny that Frank left a bigger positive impact on the face of Honolulu than any other political figure in recent memory. Maybe ever. For good reason, he's already the stuff of legends. If today's politicians want to go down in history, they should take a few lessons from Frank.
Demand a recount
In 1972, Frank ran for re-election against then state Sen. D. G. "Andy" Anderson, his Republican opponent. Political insiders knew that this was really just a practice run for Frank, who would almost certainly run for governor in 1974 against George Ariyoshi. The polls all said Frank would defeat Anderson handily, and he did, but the results were much closer than anyone expected. Frank, in fact, was convinced that someone working for Ariyoshi had tampered with the ballots to make him appear vulnerable for the upcoming governor's race. Who else but Frank Fasi would have won an election by 7,500 votes and then demand a recount? (No formal recount was done, but random checks of a number of precincts confirmed that the election results were accurate.)
According to Anne Pulfrey, of the City and County archives, Fasi loved posing for photos. Here he's with an RCA TV camera.
Watch your opponents closely
Ariyoshi proved to be a political nemesis for Frank, who ran against him twice for governor, both times unsuccessfully. The two were almost polar opposites in most respects: Frank's style was flamboyant, creative and innovative; Ariyoshi's was predictable, stolid, even dull. Day-to-day media coverage couldn't help but highlight these differences and Frank took great delight in regularly tweaking Ariyoshi. At the end of most days, it was my habit to wander into Frank's office, where the two of us would watch the local TV newscasts. On one such occasion, we were watching a clip of the governor indignantly responding to something Frank had said earlier in the day. In the middle of the clip, Frank gleefully pointed at the screen. "Look at his eyebrows," he said. "I can always tell when I really get to George because his eyebrows start bouncing up and down." I had never made the connection before, but from that moment on, the twitching eyebrows would clue me to whenever Ariyoshi was agitated.
Fight for Your Turf
Frank was always looking for ways to annoy Ariyoshi, and once noticed that "Keep off the Grass" signs had appeared on the lawn surrounding the State Capitol, which he acknowledged was Ariyoshi's turf. Delightedly proclaiming that it was wrong for the public to be denied access to public property, Frank immediately had signs put up all around City Hall, his turf. The signs read, "Please Walk on the Grass."
Once in a while, Ariyoshi would get back at Frank. When Emperor Hirohito of Japan visited Honolulu in 1975, Ariyoshi had a luncheon in the emperor's honor at Washington Place. Protocol dictated that the mayor be invited, but Frank was seated in the far corner, facing the kitchen, with his back to the head table. It was the worst seat in the room.