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Are there many guys in the system considered as flamethrowers, Im talking high 90s?
Are there many guys in the system considered as flamethrowers, Im talking high 90s?
A few guys that spruing to mind immediately:
Scott Gaffney
Jeff Jeffords
Junior Martinez
Ondrusek can touch 97, IIRC.
Junior Martinez is the hardest thrower in the organization. To say he has a long way to go as a prospect would be putting it mildly. Philippe Valiquette throws hard. Andrew Bowman would be near the top but is not as consistent with his velocity. Curtis Partch is in that same mold. Josh Ravin would rank in the top group. Terrell Young (pre-injury).
Yes, they are mostly A-ballers and generally the guys in that group have not had a lot of success. That tells you a couple of things. One, if a guy has a plus fastball, he will get second and third chances in A-ball to figure it out, even if he is not pitching effectively. Secondly, once he gets higher than A-ball, if all he has is velocity, he will get pummeled. Therefore, you see many of those kind of raw throwers in A-ball and the majority don't make it, but the hope is that if a pitching coach can have some success with one of those kind of guys, then you have a prospect with a plus tool.
You said high 90s. The only guys in the organization that I have personally seen in the high 90s in 2008-09 were Martinez and Zach Stewart, although I have not seen Ondrusek.
Also, I will differentiate a bit between hardest thrower and best fastball. Hardest thrower, to me, means highest radar gun reading. Best fastball takes into account movement and command and is much more important.
Three best fastballs in the farm system over the last 15 years (in no particular order): Homer Bailey, Johnny Cueto, Zach Stewart.
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Ondrusek does, if the gun at Louisville can be believed. He hit 97 regularly, though it did look flat at times.
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I stand corrected then, Doug do you agee with Scrap about the flatness of the pitch?
I should pose this question however, how does guy who throws that hard only post below average K/9 numbers in the minors? Or instead of asking that how does Logan Ondrusek manage to do this as I know how it happens to most.
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Boxberger? Upper 90's in short stints right?
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Discussion in 'The Howard Stern Show' started by FishySausage, Feb 11, 2013.
Hopefully Beth and him have pneumonia from the snow photo shoot.
This should get interesting.
Because most of the time, there is no live show.
When he returns, a better question will be, "why is the show live today?"
Touch up on the hair. Apparently, it takes a week for wig glue to dry
they still haven't topped this. they keep trying and coming close, but this is just WOW.
Why? Because fuck you. Fuck fans. Howard likes to piss on them. That's why.
Watching that video again.....Beth looks nothing like her brothers. NOTHING.
Granted, it's hard to judge because she hasn't had her original face in so long.
Why even care? I listened while in the shower to Beetlejuice and Camille juice and it was more interesting/entertaining than anything the wigged cunt does these days.
It's always weird now too to hear Robin when she was in the studio as it seems like it's been forever since she's been there.
What a joke he is!
Beef used to have that same dimpled chin that her oldest brother Brutus has. Other than that, Judy O. my have been getting some on the side back in the day.
This needs to be on the next front page of thedirty.com. Where's Garry Puppet ? He knows what to do
C'mom! Howard has gone 5 weeks without a week off. That is a whopping 15 days worth of work. That is near sweat shop like conditions. The poor guy deserves a week off after such a grueling schedule.
Why in the world would they go to the Hamptons when they knew that blizzard was coming in?

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A 14-year-old boy was ordered held in custody today, charged with sexually assaulting and robbing a 16-year-old girl in the West Englewood neighborhood this week, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Because he is a juvenile, police declined to identify the suspect, who is cited with aggravated criminal sexual assault and armed robbery. Police originally had said he was 15, but he is 14, said state's attorney's spokeswoman Tandra Simonton.
In a hearing today before Juvenile Court Judge Stuart Katz today, the boy was ordered held in juvenile custody, pending a hearing March 8, Simonton said.
A male she does not know, armed with a gun, confronted the girl and forced her into a gangway in the 6300 block of South Paulina Street at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
She was sexually assaulted and robbed of money and an iPod, officials said.
After the attack, the girl was taken to Comer Children's Hospital, where her condition had stabilized, police said.
The suspect was taken into custody Wednesday, but details of the arrest were not released.


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The snow guns are busy at work, making as much snow as possible between now and opening day of Hawk Island Snowpark.
"This is the first time anything like this has ever been done in an urban area," said Aengus McIntosh, the President of Friends of Ingham County Parks.
You won't need to drive hundreds of miles to hit the slopes, because Ingham County Parks is bringing the snow to you.
"This is designed for activities of all ages, all age groups," said McIntosh. "It's to bring people in and get them comfortable with these sports and, if they take it on the road to a ski resort, more power to them."
On one side of the massive hill there will be snowboarding with 15 rail jams. A tow rope in the middle of the hill will run people back up to the top. The other side will be covered with sledding and tubing.
The snow guns can run 24 hours a day if the humidity and temperature are right.
The park also recently acquired a $250,000 snow groomer that will spread the snow around.
"Going on the tubing hill, it was an absolute blast," said McIntosh. "I mean you sit down on the tube, [the tow rope] carries you up the hill and you go down the hill. I thought I would be here for a couple hours. I was here for seven or eight hours."
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Posted on 01/21/2010 7:00:35 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (AP) - U.S. President Barack Obama showed willingness Thursday to visit the atomic-bombed city Hiroshima during his meeting with visiting Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba.
Akiba, who met Obama at the White House with around 230 members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, requested Obama to visit Hiroshima. The president responded, "I would like to come," although he did not elaborate, Akiba told reporters in Washington after the meeting.
The Hiroshima mayor also suggested that he expects Obama to visit his city in November when Japan hosts the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Yokohama.
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He'll love some of those "celebrations" - one big guilt fest...
What a fool!
This idiot kenyan will bow again. I'm surprised he's not a hunchback by now..
Now that would be a perceived good tourism spot for His Abjectness.
Where is Enola Gay when you need her? Time for another run!
What a tool. Under no circumstances should Obama be allowed to make a speech from Hiroshima.
Sure. Jet off to Japan.
Nothing needs to be done here in America.
"Japan had every right for the sneak attack on our Navy on September 11.... Um, December 7th."
Great. He'll be the biggest bomb to hit the place since 1945.
The Big Fool is a compulsive apologizer/straw-man blamer. Typical of a narcissistic personality.
Not only is the stupid bastard going to apologize for winning World War II, he's probably going to apologize for our guys shooting back during Pearl Harbor. I can't stand very much more of this. THE MAN ISN'T AN AMERICAN, and I'm not talking about where he was born.
If he is illiterate enough to apologize to the Japanese for Hiroshima, after all they did in World War II ... words fail me. It seems to me that imperial Japan sowed to the wind and reaped the whirlwind.
I would not be surprised, however, if Obama has no clue.
When I saw the subject of this thread I cam to post the very words you posted :)
"Where is Enola Gay when you need her? Time for another run!"
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NEW YORK, STAMFORD, Conn. and PRINCETON, N.J. – For the second consecutive year, the Columbia men's basketball team will be featured three times on television after the Ivy League announced its complete broadcasting schedule for the upcoming 2013-14 season on Thursday.
The Lions first game in the spotlight will be their Nov. 15 tilt at Michigan State that will be aired on the Big Ten Network at 9 p.m. Columbia can be seen on FOX Sports 1 on Dec. 28 at 2:30 p.m., when they take on St. John's at Barclays Center as part of the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival. Finally, as part of the Ivy League's television package with NBC Sports, the Lions' contest against Yale at Levien Gymnasium has been changed to Sunday, Feb. 23 at 1:30 p.m. and will be aired on NBCSN.
The Ivy League and NBC Sports Network's partnership is in its second season in 2013-14 with a 10-game schedule featuring all eight Ancient Eight teams. Former Lions standout Dalen Cuff '06CC will be the lead analyst and will be joined by Randy Moss on play-by-play.
In addition, a minimum of 19 games (including 13 Ivy League home and away contests) will be streamed live with video and audio on the newly launched Ivy League Digital Network. For more information or to sign up, click here.


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If you thought Roy and Georgette Frank found their volunteer spirit only after their son Lance Cpl. Phillip E. Frank was killed in action on April 8, 2004, you would be wrong.
"We've volunteered our whole married life," says Roy Frank from their Elk Grove Village home, which is the headquarters for the Heart of a Marine Foundation.
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Still, after Phil Frank was killed in Iraq, "we literally had no idea what we were going to do," Frank said. "We wanted to improve the lives of military personnel, but we had no experience. We thought, hopefully, situations would arise that would help us focus."
Those situations came -- and kept coming.
"It's very unusual," Frank says. "Every time we run out of things to do, (new ideas) miraculously appear."
He's become convinced that God has blessed the foundation and helped it be more productive.
"It's truly a joyous experience," he says.
Helping vets walk tall
The Heart of a Marine Foundation's first project? Canes. Orthopedic canes.
One day, the Franks, who are from New Jersey, heard a story from the Marine Corps League of New Jersey. League personnel were visiting the wounded at Bethesda and Walter Reed when one vet, a guy with a serious leg injury, winced as he pushed himself up from a chair.
The vet showed them the palm of his hand, which was blistered and bleeding.
"All the guys have this," he shrugged. It was caused by hook canes the wounded were given to help them walk, which put undue pressure on their palms.
A League rep ran to his car and came back with an orthopedic cane his doctor had prescribed. The cane had an ergonomically structured handle for a right-handed person with an adjustable staff.
"Use this for a month," the rep offered, "and we'll talk."
When they returned four weeks later, the vet triumphantly held up his hand. His palm had healed.
"I only have one question," the vet said. "Do I have to give it back?"
Roy and Georgette Frank thought, this sounds like a great project for us. Frank, who used to be in purchasing, found the manufacturer and worked a deal to buy the orthopedic canes in volume. The foundation sends them to Walter Reed, Bethesda, the Brooke Army Medical Center, the Balboa Naval Medical Center and Hines VA Hospital in Maywood.
Today, the foundation just passed the 6,000 cane mark.
5 words to 44
A 23-year-old Army Ranger, suffering from traumatic brain injury, came to the Minneapolis VA Hospital. The Ranger had survived a horrific bomb blast, but his resultant aphasia left him with a mere five-word vocabulary.
His parents, says Frank, were hysterical.
The VA medical personnel agreed the Ranger should start with the aphasia exercises on their computers. After the first tutorial, the Ranger's vocabulary had increased to 44 words.
A VA rep called the Heart Of A Marine Foundation, which supplied the computer software he used.
"And you don't think you sent us a miracle?" she told the Franks.
Traumatic Brain Injury is an epidemic among wounded troops, and the foundation's Aphasia Program "is very close to my heart," Frank said. Once each vet with TBI has a speech pathology analysis on his or her condition, the computer program actually teaches them to relearn to speak.
But for many years the computer programs were hard to come by. Vets would have to travel, often great distances, to use the program, and not all of them had ready access to transportation.
Today, the foundation supplies computers and the aphasia software to Level 1 and 2 polytrauma centers all over the country, including Hines and North Chicago.
'He got the job'
Heart Of A Marine buys gas cards and CTA passes for vets who can't afford the gas to get to job interviews or don't have cars to drive. It works with Salute Inc. to help military personnel and their families fill specific needs. They package up goods for active duty personnel and provide individual assistance to families that need it.
Someday, Frank says, he and Georgette would like to step back, secure in the knowledge that Heart Of A Marine will roll along just fine without them.
"We do this seven days a week, and it's exhausting," Frank admits. It's Georgette, he says, who is the phenomenal organizer, the one with the magic touch.
"She instills in others the drive, the sense of mission," he says.
In New Jersey, she organized a food-buying club through a local supermarket. Members, many of them single moms, bought $40 worth of food each month for $12 and, in exchange, volunteered for two hours each month -- many of them baby-sitting for each other's children while that mom was on a job interview or errand.
At its peak, the program had 250 orders a month, with volunteers organized to pick up the food, truck it to a local church where other volunteers unloaded it. Boy Scouts carried the orders to the cars, while another crew of volunteers cleaned up the church space.
"It was such a joy," said Frank, who usually got drafted to pick up the food in the wee hours of the morning. "It filled you with this incredible feeling that, for a couple of hours a month, you can change lives."
Now, he said, they are dealing with people who have sacrificed so much, but who now are wounded -- mentally and physically.
Other Gold Star parents have come, and some gone, from Roy and Georgette's lives.
"Everybody is different," he says. "People who have gone through what we have gone through, sometimes these (projects) become too much of a bitter reminder, they rekindle the melancholy, and they have to step back."
The Franks accept what others do -- and can't do. But, for them, the rewards just keep on coming.
"One of my all time great days came three days ago," Roy Frank says. He had given gas cards to a veteran outreach coordinator with the Illinois Department of Employment Securities to hand out as the IDES saw fit, mostly to help veterans get to job interviews.
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HARRISBURG — Lawyers for Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett are arguing that a judge made a host of mistakes in a decision more than a week ago when throwing out the state's requirement that voters display photo identification.
The legal team of private lawyers and the attorney general's office on Monday filed 39 pages of post-trial arguments that ask for the law to be reinstated, the decision revised or a new trial ordered.
The filing takes aim at how Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard McGinley came to his conclusions, saying he wrongly based his decision that the law was unconstitutional because of how it was implemented.
If Corbett wins, he plans to ask that the law not be in place for this year's election, to avoid "even the chance" that voters may be confused.


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Hola mi experiencia en el apartamento fue muy agradable el pido estama muy bien. La anfitriona no la vi pero me detallo en yodo momento como acceder al piso y todos los detalles.se le olvido dejar secador de pelo,la emvie un correo y en menos de 30 minutos mando a alguien para darmelo asi que el trato genial. Oo unico el colchón de la habitación es muy blando supongo que seria el cansancio el que me dejaba dormir por lo demas yodo estuvo muy bien es muy acogedor un saludo
Very nice apartment. Well positioned, only 15 minutes from London. However, there was no adapter for French phone. Some stains on the sheets and hot water after two showers.
Très bel appartement. Bien positionné, seulement 15 minutes de Londres. Cependant, il n'y avait pas adaptateur pour téléphone français. Quelques tâches sur les draps et plus d'eau chaude après deux douches.
Okay, nice apartment, clean, well located, very spacious, but lack toast and salad spinner, and ESPECIALLY Blackout curtains at night it's Day! Otherwise very convenient for visiting London, the station 10 minutes walk takes you by express train directly to Victoria Station, from there by taking the metro green line we visit all of London. Thank you very helpful to neighbors (they lent us a toaster and a salad spin) Thanks Annalisa
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BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal's push to privatize all but one of the LSU-run hospitals across south Louisiana, including Chabert Medical Center in Houma, will cost the state an estimated $42 million in layoff costs, according to an audit released today.
The review by Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera's office says privatization of six hospitals in the LSU Health Care Services Division would require an estimated $29 million for termination pay and another $13 million for unemployment payments.
LSU told auditors that Jindal's Division of Administration and the Department of Health and Hospitals know of the projected costs and "are working to find a mechanism to fund them."
More than 5,200 workers at the hospitals and associated clinics face layoffs because of privatization. They can reapply for their jobs with the private hospital operators that are assuming management of the facilities and the health services.
Some of the workers are expected to retire early, rather than reapply for their jobs, boosting other costs for the university system.
The audit says because of the outsourcing deals, LSU estimates it will have to pay $26 million annually for new retiree health insurance and life insurance premiums.
"HCSD will have limited future income to pay health benefits legacy cost, and the termination and unemployment cost was not planned for in the 2013 budget," the audit says.
Jindal pitched the LSU hospital privatization as a way to cut costs, to continue safety net health care across the state for the poor and uninsured, and to improve graduate medical training programs.
The Republican governor sought the change in hospital management after Louisiana received a cut to the federal Medicaid financing on which the LSU hospitals rely. Jindal levied the bulk of the cut on the public hospitals rather than on private Medicaid providers. His administration projects hefty savings in the 2013-14 budget year because of the privatization.
Administration leaders said savings will come from the private hospital operators making lease payments that will be used to draw down federal matching dollars through the Medicaid program.
Lawmakers have questioned whether the privatization efforts are moving too quickly, with too few details and incorrect savings assumptions. But the Jindal administration hasn't sought legislative approval for the arrangements, which have been buoyed by an attorney general's opinion that the Legislature doesn't need to sign off on the deals.
Only three of the privatization contracts are complete — in New Orleans and Lafayette, where private hospital operators are taking over LSU hospital management on June 24, and Baton Rouge, where the LSU hospital was shuttered last month, with most of its services transferred to a private hospital in the city.
Deals for the Houma and Lake Charles hospitals are being crafted, while no privatization arrangement has been announced for the facility in Bogalusa.
The audit does not look at the three LSU hospitals in north and central Louisiana, which are run separately from the Health Care Services Division.
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State could face $42 million in layoff costs as hospitals go private, audit says
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal's push to privatize all but one of the LSU-run hospitals across south Louisiana, including Chabert Medical Center in Houma, will cost the state an estimated $42 million in layoff costs, according to an audit released today.


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Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is not a new phenomenon in capture fisheries nor is it confined to high seas fisheries. It also occurs in the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of coastal States by national and foreign vessels and in river and inland fisheries. However, in marine fisheries, while it is difficult to estimate precisely the total IUU catch in tonnage or value terms, the level of IUU fishing has reached major proportions for some species. These catches, in many cases, are being made by both authorized and non-authorized fishers; that is, the catches are not being taken only by vessels operating under 'flags of non-compliance' (FOC).
The root cause of IUU fishing is a lack of effective flag State control. In a perfect world where there is full and effective flag State control the incidence of IUU fishing would be greatly reduced. However, the world is not perfect and some States, after authorizing vessels to fly their flags, fail to meet their obligations under international law with respect to the supervision and control of these vessels. Furthermore, some States do not provide proper authorizations for their vessels to fish once they assume the State's flag. This lack of supervision and authorization to fish enables such vessels to engage in IUU fishing with impunity.
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The failure of some States to meet their international obligations concerning flag State responsibility under international law has led the international community to seek innovative ways of addressing IUU fishing.
At the national level countries are implementing measures to deny access to known IUU fishing vessels to ports, taking steps to strengthening real-time monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) and raising public awareness about the long-term impacts of IUU fishing.
The implementation of a comprehensive suite of port State measures is required to help combat IUU fishing and reduce its impacts. There is a need to harmonize these measures regionally and to ensure that cooperative regional action underpins their implementation. Importantly, port State measures are an efficient and cost-effective tool to help in the eradication of IUU fishing.
Some regional fishery management organizations (RFMOs) and arrangements have moved to develop catch certification schemes as means of discouraging IUU fishing. The purpose of these schemes, which are already being used by the Commission for the Conservation and Management of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), is to track catches in trade. RFMOs regard these schemes as an important tool to fight IUU fishing. FAO is working with RFMOs to standardize these documentation schemes, to the extent that this is possible.
FOC vessels
A matter of concern with respect to IUU fishing is age and capability of the FOC fleet. It had been assumed, perhaps implicitly, that vessels re-flagging to open registers or switching to such registries to circumvent regionally agreed conservation and measures were old vessels, fully depreciated and nearing the end of their productive lives. However, recent fleet analysis by FAO shows, based on data available from Lloyds Maritime Information Services, that this is not the case. An increasing number of young and recently constructed vessels are moving to open registers. This means that the FOC fleet is not an old and aging fleet as had been thought previously. With the high correlation between FOC vessels and IUU fishing in the convention areas of CCAMLR, CCSBT and ICCAT, for example, the EC has pointed out that fishing by FOC vessels represent a considerable treat to the survival of fisheries worldwide.
The International Coalition of Fisheries Associations (IFCA) has urged the World Trade Organization (WTO) to support the use of trade measures as a means of encouraging compliance with global and regional fisheries conservation and management measures. IFCA maintains that trade measures can be very effective in discouraging and eliminating FOC fishing operations and IUU fishing.
In 2001 the Members of FAO concluded, within the framework of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, an International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IPOA-IUU). It complements certain aspects of the 1993 FAO Compliance Agreement and the 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement.
To support the implementation of the IPOA-IUU, FAO has prepared a technical guideline designed to provide practical advice on how States should implement the IPOA. In particular, the IPOA encourages States, to develop national plans of action to implement the IPOA-IUU. A simple language publication entitled "Stopping IUU Fishing" which is designed to sensitize fishers and fishing communities about the effects of IUU fishing is also being widely disseminated by FAO.
Port State measures
Negotiations for the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures were concluded in 2009 and following approval by the FAO Conference. The Agreement opened for signature for one year on 22 November 2009. The Agreement will enter into force 30 days after the date of the deposit of the twenty-fifth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession with the FAO Depositary:
The Agreement, on its own, will not solve the world's IUU fishing problems. They must be addressed comprehensively and in different, mutually reinforcing ways. However, blocking the movement of IUU-caught fish into ports and onto national and international markets should cost-effectively reduce the incentive for fishers to engage in IUU fishing and related activities.
Global record
The Global Record of Fishing Vessels Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels (Global Record) is a voluntary, phased and collaborative global initiative intending to make information available on vessel identification and other relevant data with the aim of providing a reliable and rapid way to contrast data with other sources. Fishing vessels are included but also other vessels involved in fishing operations are included.
Flag State performance
The Technical Consultation on Flag State Performance was held at FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy, from 2 to 6 May 2011, and resumed from 5 to 9 March 2012 and from 4 to 8 February 2013. The Technical Consultation came to a close at the second resumed session with agreement being reached on "Voluntary Guidelines for Flag State Performance". The Guidelines were then endorsed by the 31st session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries.
IUU fishing must be addressed effectively if long-term, sustainable and responsible conservation and management arrangements are to be put in place. It is a major fisheries issue that is being grappled with by many national fisheries administrations and in many RFMOs. It is not a problem that will disappear from the fisheries agenda in the short term.
Further IUU fishing work is required. Some of these issues that need to be addressed include developing criteria for flag-State performace; raising the awareness of FOC States about the effects their vessels are having on fisheries conservation and management; assessing further the linkage between industry subsidies, fishing capacity and IUU fishing; and strengthening regional and international MCS networks to report and disseminate information, in real time, about the operations of IUU fishers.


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NEW YORK - The Columbia men's swimming and diving team will compete in its last meet of the calendar year this weekend at the first annual Brown Invitational. The Lions will head to Providence, R.I. from Friday, Nov. 30 through Sunday December 1 to face the seven-team field of Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Army, Rider, New Hampshire, and host Brown.
Preliminaries will start at 11 a.m. with finals beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, preliminaries will begin at 10 a.m. followed by the finals at 5 p.m.
Live results will be available through the Active Network's Meet Mobile application available as a free download from either iTunes or Google Play. The app provides fans with the ability to view real-time results and splits, as well as heat sheets, final results, and team scores.
Last Time Out
The Lions grabbed its second dual meet win of the season at Army on Saturday, Nov. 17 defeating the Knights 183-117 to improve to 2-2 and 1-1 Ivy League on the season. The Lions won 12 of 16 events and sophomores David Jakl, Kevin Quinn, and junior Philipp Gaissert each posted a pair of individual wins to lead Columbia in one of its best team performances on the year.
So Far In 2012
Stellar individual performances have continued to spark the Lions early this season. Sophomore Kevin Quinn is a welcomed newcomer this season brining his talents from the University of California. Quinn has five individual wins in four meets with three coming in the 200 back over Penn (1:50.67), Harvard (1:50.72), and Army (1:51.00).
Video: Sophomore Kevin Quinn Talks Start Of His First Season
Phillipp Gaissert has stepped up in his junior season tallying three victories in the 50 free this season. Gaissert posted wins over Penn (20.93), Yale (20.97), and Army (20.73). Sophomore Omar Arafa also has three wins to start the season in the 100 back to help lead the Lions. With wins over Penn (51.49), Yale (50.87), and Harvard (51.04), he holds one the top times in the event this year in the Ivy League.
With two wins in the 200 Free and a win in the 500 free, Dominik Koll has been a model of consistancy for the Lions this season. The Austria native posted a time of 1:39.84 at Yale in the 200 Free, only two seconds off the NCAA qualifying time.
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It's April soon! The clocks went back yesterday and we have more hours of sunlight – hurrah! The sun peeped out to say hello for a while and I have dug out the SPF and some sunglasses to keep the pesky UV away.
April will be Base special month! Each week, there will be a focus on a particular type of products; Primers, Eye Primers, Powder Foundations and finally Foundations. There will also be the giveaways every week too, and my first video review/tutorial type thing coming up shortly.
Also, I will start working on the swatch library (I plan on documenting every single cosmetic item I own – eek! to have as a reference library type thing), and the new rating system will come into effect soon.
All giveaways will be posted out tomorrow – I am very sorry about the delay especially to those who won a few weeks back but I really have been so busy, and Cosmetic Candy is a one woman (and occasionally one boyf, plus 2 cats) run show!
Thank you all for still reading and commenting (if you do) it's nice to know there are people out there?
I am thinking about having a new category – Photography. Despite my crappy product photos I am a trained photographer (I spend too much time in studios with huge cameras to do the same at home) so I am thinking of having beauty-related-photography tips on the blog. What do you think?


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GENESEO — Ronald W. Nelson, 57, of Geneseo passed away Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, at his home.
Ron was born on April 8, 1956, in Princeton, the son of Carl and Mabel (McAtee) Nelson. He graduated from Manlius High School in 1974 and went to the University of Illinois where he earned an agricultural engineering degree in 1978. He was united in marriage to Kelly K. Oloffson on June 11, 1977, in Manlius. Ron worked as an engineer for 33 years at John-Deere Harvester Works in East Moline.
He was a member of the First Lutheran Church in Geneseo. Ron was also a member of the Joyfull Hearts Worship and Praise Band at First Lutheran. He coached baseball and basketball teams for his sons in their youth. Ron also thoroughly enjoyed accompanying his daughter Tracie to her horse shows and would do all the grooming on the show days for her. Ron enjoyed playing guitar and spending time with his grandchildren.
Survivors include his wife Kelly; one daughter, Tracie (Brian) Douglas of Geneseo; two sons, Peter (Natalie Winter) Nelson of Peoria and Tim (Laura) Nelson of Naperville; four grandchildren, Hayden, Baylie and Joshua Douglas, and Claire Nelson; two brothers, Robert (Judy) Nelson of Michigan and Richard (Ka) Nelson of Washington; three sisters, Nyla (Roy) Wachter of Washington, Ind., Nancy (Jim) Hopkins of Oregon, Ill., and Norita (Steve) Cunningham of Sugar Grove; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
A funeral service celebrating his life will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Lutheran Church in Geneseo with the Rev. Dr. Arthur Bergren officiating. Burial will follow in Oakwood Cemetery.
A visitation for Ron will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Vandemore Funeral Homes Ltd, Geneseo.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials may be made to the Ron Nelson Memorial Fund.
Online condolences may be left at www.vandemorefuneralhome.com.
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GENESEO — Ronald W. Nelson, 57, of Geneseo passed away Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, at his home.


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G.L.W. Jan. 19th 2012
Tournament DirectorTHE "BEAST" OF THE WOODS
About this tournament
CCDG presents "G.L.W." twice monthly at Woodmansee park starting Jan.19th at 7pm. "G.L.W." is a glow game featuring a LONE WOLF format. LONE WOLF is a game of points that combines team/doubles rules with a revolving order of players turn at the top of the box. Each player gets a number(#), that# is the order you will play in, the order cycles by the hole. Example; If your # is #2 you tee off first on hole #2, but last on hole #3, second to last on hole #4, and so on. If you are first to tee off on the hole, you have a choice to be a LONE WOLF on the hole, or pick a partner. If you are LONE WOLF and you win the hole you get 5 points, If you choose a partner, you and the partner win the hole(best ball) you each get 2 points. If you as LONE WOLF or you and your partner lose the hole, each of the players in the team(all other players at the hole) who also are playing best ball each get 1 point. To choose a partner you must pick only after they have thrown, but before the next player in order has thrown. The cards provided at players meeting will help you keep track of the order and score. Total points wins, winner takes all. The buy in is only $5. Bring glow discs, glow stix, lighted discs, baskets will be illuminated. This format keeps the group moving fast, so keep up. Good luck, see you out there.
Here is the 2012 schedule
Here is the 2012 schedule
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West Ham defender Guy Demel signs two-year contract extension
West Ham defender Guy Demel has signed an extension to his contract which commits him to Upton Park until 2015.
Last Updated: 23/01/13 12:58pm
The Ivorian defender had an injury-ravaged start to his Hammers career after he joined from Hamburg in the summer of 2011.
But the former Arsenal full-back battled back to fitness and has established himself as a first-team regular under Sam Allardyce.
"It's really good for me and I'm really happy to have a new deal with West Ham," said Demel, who has made 17 appearances so far this season.
"I've had a good year this season, and even last year was good, despite the fact that I was injured for so long and struggled a bit.
"I'm happy to be at West Ham and in the team. The lads are really good with me as are the people working for the club. I hope I will stay that long to play in the new stadium as well."


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Microsoft® Office Excel® 2010: Level 3
GHC Computer Applications Training provided by Learning & Development will be approximately 3-4 hours in length unlike the courseware designation of 6 hours. Therefore, actual content covered in class will vary from this outline.
Course Description
Course Objective: You will automate some common Excel tasks, apply advanced analysis techniques to more complex data sets, troubleshoot errors, collaborate on worksheets, and share Excel data with other applications.
Target Student: This course was designed for students desiring to gain the skills necessary to create macros, collaborate with others, audit and analyze worksheet data, incorporate multiple data sources, and import and export data.
Prerequisites: To ensure your success, students should take Excel Level 1 and Excel Level 2 or have equivalent knowledge.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- enhance productivity and efficiency by streamlining the workflow.
- collaborate with other workbook users.
- audit worksheets.
- analyze data.
- work with multiple workbooks.
- import and export data.
- integrate Excel data with the web.
- structure workbooks with XML.
Course Content
Lesson 1: Streamlining Workflow
Topic 1A: Update Workbook Properties
Topic 1B: Create a Macro
Topic 1C: Edit a Macro
Topic 1D: Apply Conditional Formatting
Topic 1E: Add Data Validation Criteria
Lesson 2: Collaborating with Other Users
Topic 2A: Protect Files
Topic 2B: Share a Workbook
Topic 2C: Set Revision Tracking
Topic 2D: Review Tracked Revisions
Topic 2E: Merge Workbooks
Topic 2F: Administer Digital Signatures
Topic 2G: Restrict Document Access
Lesson 3: Auditing Worksheets
Topic 3A: Trace Cells
Topic 3B: Troubleshoot Invalid Data and Formula Errors
Topic 3C: Watch and Evaluate Formulas
Topic 3D: Create a Data List Outline
Lesson 4: Analyzing Data
Topic 4A: Create a Trendline
Topic 4B: Create Sparklines
Topic 4C: Create Scenarios
Topic 4D: Perform a What-If Analysis
Topic 4E: Perform a Statistical Analysis with the Analysis ToolPak
Lesson 5: Working with Multiple Workbooks
Topic 5A: Create a Workspace
Topic 5B: Consolidate Data
Topic 5C: Link Cells in Different Workbooks
Topic 5D: Edit Links
Lesson 6: Importing and Exporting Data
Topic 6A: Export Excel Data
Topic 6B: Import a Delimited Text File
Lesson 7: Integrating Excel Data with the Web
Topic 7A: Publish a Worksheet to the Web
Topic 7B: Import Data from the Web
Topic 7C: Create a Web Query
Lesson 8: Structuring Workbooks with XML
Topic 8A: Develop XML Maps
Topic 8B: Import and Export XML Data


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Is there any technical reason why the desktop Firefox can't / won't support ChromeCast???
Have you asked Google?
Maybe we need an integrated e-mail client, too...oh, wait. Hang on a minute...
People are moaning why desktop Firefox isn't going to cast a tab at the same time as the Android Firefox will. Firstly, I believe they *aren't* using the Chromecast SDK so the chances are good that desktop Firefox will follow not too long after Android Firefox. Secondly, no Android browser can currently cast a tab, so Mozilla are actually heading for a platform first - embarrassingly beating Google to it! - if they concentrate on Android Firefox first for tab casting.
I wish you were right, but I've spoke with one of the main developers about this and Firefox is indeed using the SDK.
Unless Google opens up things on the desktop, Firefox will likely not be getting Chromecast support anytime soon.
Chromecast is a great device, and concept, however it is more or less limited to Google's Chrome browser and supported apps. That seems to be changing: Mozilla is working on bringing Chromecast support to its Firefox browser...Hoping to have Netcast and Chromecast support landed by the end of the week.
So the Firefox app will now support Chromecast, so Chromecast will no longer be limited to apps that support Chromecast. Got it.
pushing-robot is doing a lot of mental gymnastics here so he can to make his post relevant. Unfortunately, he doesn't have any original ideas or information so this is all we get.
For those that aren't familiar, the Google Chromecast (retail $35) is a locked device that only supports official approved applications with approved streams. The only exceptions to that are videos "cast" from Google Chrome on your desktop or a hacked device if you were lucky enough to get one.
The difference between the apps and vi
Firefox will now work with the plain, free, non-$7.99 version via a browser which can cast onto your TV.
Prepare to see a lot more of "The content owner has not made this video available on mobile web. [Add to playlist to watch later on a PC] [Download our app from Google Play Store]"
Disks travel in packs.


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WIU-QC Receives YPA Community Impact Award
May 3, 2013
MOLINE, IL -- The Western Illinois University-Quad Cities campus has been selected as a recipient of the Network of Young Professionals of Quad Cities chapter's Community Impact Award.
WIU-QC was chosen for the organization's 2013 "Liveability Award," which recognizes the institution's commitment to making the Quad Cities "a more accessible, liveable and attractive place to call home."
Joe Rives, vice president of the Quad Cities and planning, accepted the award on the behalf of the University at the Young Professionals program May 2.
"We are honored to be recognized by the Network of Young Professionals of the Quad Cities," Rives noted. "Our mission is to offer expanded public higher education opportunities to the residents of this region, and to work with community organizations to promote the Quad Cities as an ideal place to live, work and learn. We are grateful for all of the community support as the Quad Cities continues to grow and thrive."
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Fatima joined Polar Capital in April 2006 and has 11 years' experience. She is a fund manager on the Polar Capital Technology Fund, Polar Capital Technology Trust and Polar Capital Automation and Artificial Intelligence Fund. She is responsible for the coverage of European Technology, Global Security, Networking, Clean Energy and Medical Technology. Prior to joining Polar, Fatima spent 18 months working at Citigroup Asset Management with a focus on consumer products and pharmaceuticals. Fatima holds an MSc in Medicinal Chemistry from Imperial College of Science & Technology in London. She is also a CFA Charterholder.
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March 24, 2010 > Fremont Table Tennis Club dominates
Fremont Table Tennis Club (FTTC) players have had nine first-place finishes and two second-place finishes in rated events at open Northern California tournaments over the past three months.Top promising students who have reached finals are 13-year-old Shruti Prasanna, Jared Wong (11), Kiran Prabakar (10) and Shreyas Prasanna (7). They are coached by Shashin Shodhan who came close to making the 2000 US Olympic Team and has won 15 national and international titles. Shodhan, a graduate of Mission San Jose High School, won the Under 2500 event at the 2009 ICC California State Open last December.Jared Wong won six first-place trophies in one week at the 2010 Western Open on the UC Berkeley campus and the California State Open in Milpitas last month. Wong won the Under 800, 950 and 1100 events at the Western Open and the Under 600, 900 and 1200 events at the California State Open.Wong also added a second-place trophy to his collection in the Under 1250 event at the Sacramento Winter Open, as well as a third-place finish in the Under 1000 event, while improving his rating the most among the 650-plus participants at the US Nationals in Las Vegas in December, 2009.The brother-and-sister duo of Shruti Prasanna and Shreyas Prasanna both reached the finals of the Under 250 event at the California State Open. Shruti came back from a 9-6 deficit in the fifth and final game to win over younger brother Shreyas. Shruti attends Horner Junior High and Shreyas attends James Leitch Elementary School.Ardenwood Elementary School student Kiran Prabakar won the Under 500 event at the 2010 Sacramento Winter Open.FTTC has been in existence since 2007 and dominates the lower-rated events at Northern California tournaments. FTTC is a full-time, table-tennis club open three days a week for open play; twice a week for round robins; twice a week for junior programs; and every day for private lessons.FTTC students will look to continue to win more trophies and win higher-rated events as they move up in their ratings. For more information, please visit www.fremonttabletennis.com. Those interested in learning table tennis, contact Shodhan at firstname.lastname@example.com or 510-366-5234.


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THE mother of a 16-month-old boy who sustained serious head injuries at a Kangaroo Flat home on Tuesday is assisting police with their inquiry.
The 29-year-old woman was questioned along with a 32-year-old man about the incident.
A police spokesman said the pair were brought in for questioning at the same time but released three hours apart – the woman at 6pm and the man at 9pm – pending further investigations.
"Neither are facing any charges at this stage and will continue to help police in their inquiry," he said.
It is unknown what the man's relationship is to the child but police were able to confirm that he is not a biological relation.
Police and paramedics were called to the High Street home on Tuesday, shortly before 11am, following reports of a medical emergency.
However, when they arrived they discovered the child suffering from head injuries and the incident was upgraded to an accident.
Acting Sergeant Mick McCrann said the child required urgent medical attention.
"While the child was stable at all times, the treatment required was of an urgent nature," he said.
Police were later seen leaving the house with evidence bags.
The area was cordoned off with police tape. The 16-month-old was transferred from Bendigo Hospital to The Royal Children's Hospital on Tuesday night.
A Royal Children's Hospital spokeswoman reported the child as stable last night.
A police spokesman said investigations were continuing into the cause of the child's injuries.


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IncrediBots - Main Page
What is IncrediBots?Incredibots is a browser-based physics game based on the Box2D engine. Originally created by Grubby Games, it is now open source and free for anyone to modify. Critical updates will be made to the open source version as necessary via the SourceForge page, but we also keep a "Jaybit Edition" of IncrediBots there that will remain much more updated than the open source version.
DownloadsThere are two official versions of IncrediBots, the open source version located here, and the closed source (but more updated) version located here. You can access the main SourceForge page here.
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- When a woman has to choose between death and marriage to a total stranger, she must be in a dire predicament.... And for Jolie McKibben, about to pay by hanging for a terrible crime she didn't commit, salvation by marriage couldn't come a moment too soon. Housekeeping for Daniel Beckham, a widower who invoked the town's wedding ordinance to rescue Jolie from the gallows, is better than the alternative...but understanding the silent stranger who is now her husband might just about kill her. Daniel doesn't believe in Jolie's innocence. And despite his willingness to marry the pretty, defiant "outlaw" on the spot, the prosperous farmer had little to say to her after "I do." But for Jolie, their arrangement of convenience soon deepens into a rich and vibrant attraction that sets her trembling with desire in Daniel's presence. Somehow, she would win his love, body and soul. Unless the desperados on her trail shatter the fragile, trusting bond of husband and wife.... Linda Lael Miller's beloved novel of the American West shimmers with the unbridled passion of two adventurous hearts!
- Copyright:
- 1992
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- 9781451655346
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781451611274
- Publisher:
- Pocket Books
- Date of Addition:
- 08/30/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Linda Lael Miller
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Romance, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.


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Submission + - Torvalds clarifies Linux's Windows 8 Secure Boot position (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: No one, but no one, in the Linux community likes Microsoft's mandated deployment of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot option in Windows 8 certified PCs. But, how Linux should handle the fixes required to deal with this problem remains a hot-button issue. Now, as the debate continues hot and heavy, Linus Torvalds, Linux's founder and de facto leader, spells out how he thinks Linux should deal with Secure Boot keys.


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2005-06 Women's Basketball
Manchester 75, Bluffton 60
Bluffton drops first HCAC contest of 2005-06 at Manchester 75-60
By Bill Hanefeld Jr., sports information director
January 4, 2006
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's basketball team fell to 2-10 on the season with a 75-60 loss at Manchester (9-3, 1-0) on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference opener for both teams. The Beavers struggled from the field as they hit only 23-61 shots (38 percent), including 1-13 from outside the three-point arc.
Both teams struggled to find the hoop in the early stages of the game, but the Spartans quickly found their range and opened up a 10-2 lead over Bluffton at the 15 minute mark of the first half when Sarah Bose picked off a Beaver pass and took it in for the score. Sophomores Ashleigh Stallkamp (Paulding/Paulding) and Lindsay Bush (Howard/East Knox) each hit a pair of baskets from in close to help the Beavers crawl back to within six points (16-10) less than two minutes later. Stacey Wendel capped an eight point Manchester run when she freed herself in the paint to put the Spartans up 24-10. Amanda Bell (Napoleon/Liberty Center) and Angie Lee (Mt. Blanchard/Vanlue) both hit a pair of shots from the charity stripe to keep the Beavers within striking range 30-18 with less than five minutes to play in the first half. Heather Terflinger finished an 11-4 Spartan run when she knocked down a jumper with just under a minute on the clock. Stallkamp countered with a trifecta to help the Beavers close to within 16 points (41-25) at the half.
Back-to-back layups by Stallkamp and Bush closed the gap to 12 points three and a half minutes into the second half. Wendel dialed long distance to cap a 14-7 Spartan run which put Manchester up 59-40 midway through the second stanza. Bush scored eight of Bluffton's 11 points during a three minute span to whittle the Spartan advantage to nine (62-53) at the five minute mark. Junior guard Tanya Rickenberg (Paulding/Paulding) found the hoop twice in the waning minutes of the game but it was not enough as Manchester held on to take the first HCAC contest of 2006 by a final score of 75-60.
Bush paced the Beavers with her third career double-double, 18 points and 12 rebounds. Stallkamp also posted her third career double-double, 18 points and 11 boards. She finished with five steals against the Spartans. Freshman Lauren Fisher (Cincinnati/Turpin) chipped in with four points and three steals.
Bluffton returns to action on Saturday, January 7, 2006 when it travels to Hanover College. Tip-off is scheduled for 1 p.m.


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Three training workshops on SEA were organized in three border provinces of Belarus. The workshops aimed to enhance understanding of and strengthen capacity for the implementation of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, and in particular the Convention's Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment, in Belarus. Objective of the workshops is to improve participants understanding of the benefits of and possibilities for using SEA as a tool in strategic decision making and to enable participants to independently utilize SEA in their own work.
The workshops were organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus, UNEP, UNDP and UNECE in the framework of the Environment and Security Initiative (EnvSec) project "Managing Environmental Security Risks with EIA and SEA", and the "Greening economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood" (EaP GREEN) Programme.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Some of Kansas' best and brightest college students came to the Statehouse on Thursday.
The Capitol Graduate Research Summit drew the brightest minds from KU, KU Med, Wichita State, K-State and more. Their goal was to show legislators how research can have a positive impact on the state of Kansas and the economy.
Many of these students represented are among the top researchers in their schools.


text: gardening Morning Edition, Tuesday at 8:50am: THE ANXIOUS GARDNENER'S BOOK OF ANSWERS by Teri Dunn Chace There are gardeners who instinctively seem to know exactly what each plant needs and their gardens thrive; there are gardeners who dream of having a thriving garden, but just don't seem to be able to get there. Then, there are the anxious gardeners who never know what a plant will do and are constantly watching and worrying. Gardener and author, Teri Dunn Chace, says she wrote this simple book to answer the most often asked questions about gardening, and the most often made mistakes and how they can be fixed. For anyone who loves to garden, this discussion is fun and informative.


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ONNY and Crane join together to make "A Night at the Opera" a real operatic experience in Potsdam Saturday
POTSDAM – The drama, the pomp and plenty of high Cs promise to thrill lovers of arias and larger-than-life story lines when the Orchestra of Northern New York celebrates the premier of its 23rd concert season with "A Night at the Opera" on Saturday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Hosmer Hall, SUNY Potsdam.
The concert, under the direction of ONNY founder, music director and conductor Kenneth Andrews, will feature guest soloists from The Crane School of Music's vocal artist/ faculty: Sopranos, Deborah Massell, Kathleen Miller, and Jill Pearon; Mezzo-Soprano Lorraine Yaros Sullivan; Tenor Lonel Woods; and Baritone David Pittman-Jennings. All artists will delight the audience with solo and ensemble selections by great composers for the operatic stage.The orchestra will open the concert with the overture to Giuseppe Verdi's La Forza del Destino, followed by an ensemble number from Beethoven's Fidelio.
Soloists Yaros Sullivan and Miller will then present arias from Così fan tutte (Mozart) and Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss Jr.) respectively, followed by a double serving of George Bizet to conclude the first half: Woods and Pittman-Jennings will sing a spectacular duet from The Pearl Fishers followed by Orchestral Suites from Carmen.
The second half of the concert will open with Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" and an aria from his opera Tannhäuser, sung by Pittman-Jennings. Selections from Dvořák's Rusalka and Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann will feature Pearon, Miller and Yaros Sullivan, followed by Puccini arias from La Bohème and Tosca, sung by Massell and Woods.
After a brief Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, all soloists will again take the stage with the full orchestra in a celebratory ensemble number, "Libiamo…" from Verdi's La Traviata.
Immediately following the concert there will be a reception at Julian's Restaurant, 38 Market St., Potsdam. The reception is open to the public and admission is free ($10 suggested donation).
Concert tickets are available in Potsdam at Northern Music & Video and the CPS Box Office at SUNY Potsdam, and in Canton at the St. Lawrence University's Brewer Bookstore and the Pear Tree.
Ticket prices are $18 for adults, $16 for seniors, students $10, and children twelve and under are free.
Tickets are also available by phone at the orchestra office, 267-3251, or at www.onny.org.


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The Editor's Back Fence
Things Will Be a Little Late This Week
Friday April 12, 2013 - 12:48:00 PM
For early birds who've been eagerly checking for the "next issue", this one has been slow to post. Several articles are still waiting for photos to be processed, but I'm releasing this as the current issue anyhow. The new editorial is even slower to appear, so the old one will be left in place until it is replaced.
Patience, patience, little by little.


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We've been told that just as they finished placing flags up to Randy and Carol Blass's home last Thursday, an eagle appeared overhead.
At interment services Tuesday at North Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Spencer, right after two Black Hawk helicopters flew over, two eagles locked talons overhead.
And who says God doesn't love America.
Thank you, Estherville
The entire community of Estherville can pride itself on conducting a very dignified service for Stagg Sgt. Steve Blass. The turnout for placing the flags provided by The Flag Man, Larry Eckhardt, was remarkable. Equally remarkable was the fact that there was a great turnout to take the flags down so Larry could be on his way to his next service. And thank you, Larry, for bringing pride and dignity to our community and making a difference for a lot of people.
A lot of thanks should go out as well to the law enforcement who exhibited the epitome of professionalism. They were there for the Blass family and for the Estherville community as a solid, quiet presence. These guys have a lot of class and we should be proud of every last one of them.
Thanks should also go to the regular Army, National Guard members and veterans who gave tremendous dignity to Tuesday's service. And who will every be able to forget the performances of Glenn Henriksen and Billy Hansen who gave Carnegie Hall-level performances to those present.
And, finally, thanks should go to the wonderful people who made a difference for the Blass family just by showing up - whether it was at Tuesday's services or along the entourage route after services.
Your presence did not go unnoticed.