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PITTSBURGH, PA.- To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, The Andy Warhol Museum will present the exhibition, November 22, 1963: Image, Memory, Myth from November 22, 2003 through March 21, 2004. Organized in collaboration with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, the exhibition presents the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the myth of the JFK era through hundreds of photographs, dozens of examples of broadcast and print media coverage, home movies, eyewitness testimonies, evidence, investigative committees reports, and ensuing conspiracy theories. From the unforgettable photograph of a young John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting his fathers casket, to the grainy stills of the infamous Zapruder film, images of the assassination have left an indelible mark on Americas shared memory. Through the interpretations of journalists, historians and artists including Andy Warhol, the exhibition examines how the power and drama of those images have shaped our understanding of the event and its impact.
On view throughout The Warhols sixth and seventh floor galleries, November 22, 1963: Image, Memory, Myth will open with a brief look at the Kennedy era. The exhibition will then delve into a presentation of the events of the assassination as they unfolded in Dallas. Well-known news photographs depict JFK and a smiling Jackie Kennedy deplaning from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field, police officers taking their places and excited bystanders awaiting the presidential motorcade on Elm Street. The photographs will also depict the panicked crowds, confused reporters and the shock, fear and sorrow of the nation as it learned that JFK had been shot. Video monitors in the exhibition space will feature selections from the unprecedented and nearly constant television coverage of the tragic event * from network reports to extensive, never-before-exhibited coverage from local Dallas stations. Documents from federal investigations into the JFK assassination, the evidence that fueled them, and the ensuing conspiracy theories, will also be included in the exhibition. Several home movies, including footage by Orville Nix and the infamous Zapruder film, will be screened in the gallery space. Copies of the Warren Commission report, charts depicting the path of the "magic bullet" and large-scale photographic reproductions of the crime scene will invite visitors to draw their own conclusions about one of the most debated investigations of the twentieth century.
Visitors will also be encouraged to explore the concept of memory, particularly "flash bulb" memories * deep, vivid experiences of highly emotional events such as the JFK assassination. A compilation video of oral histories of the event, prepared by The Sixth Floor Museum, will be on view together with other personal stories and quotes drawn from those who remember the assassination.
According to Thomas Sokolowski, director of The Warhol and curator of the exhibition, "The JFK assassination is one of the few historical events that spurs immediate, vivid and personal memories among the Americans who experienced it. Four decades later, there are now several generations who did not live through that event. With this exhibition we want to look at what images and elements from the assassination live on and how the memories of those who were alive in 1963 shape the understanding of those who were not."
Several galleries will continue to explore memory through artist interpretations of the JFK assassination. Andy Warhol created two bodies of work related to event: a 1964 series of portraits of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, and the print portfolios known as Flash-November 22, 1963.
Shortly after the assassination in 1963, Warhol set for himself the task of creating hundreds of small portraits of Jackie Kennedy as the grieving widow. Already the spin-doctor for every product, person and issue that dominated the 1960s, Warhol appreciated Jackies ability to use stagecraft and iconography in order to assure her husbands legacy and craft a presidential myth so idealized that it was called Camelot. More than 50 paintings in the Jackie series, from the collection of The Warhol, will be on view in order to illustrate how Jackie Kennedy became the embodiment of the nations sorrow and an icon in Warhols oeuvre. Also on view in the exhibition will be two portfolios from Flash-November 22, 1963, a rarely-seen series of 11 screenprints with text that replicates news wire copy. The Flash series is an examination of the events of the assassination and its aftermath filtered through Warhols observations of the continuous barrage of media coverage.
Contemporary artists also continue to use the assassination and its memorable images as inspiration for their work. One such artist represented in the exhibition will be the Serbian-born Zoran Naskovski. In his acclaimed video piece, Death in Dallas, Naskovski pairs footage of JFKs life and assassination with a Balkan ballad about tragedy.
The Andy Warhol Museum receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The 2003 exhibition program has been supported, in part, by The Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, Inc.
Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhols birth, The Warhol is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.


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BALTIMORE – UMBC women's soccer's sophomore forward Alexa Quaranta (Baltimore, Md./Perry Hall) scored her second game-winning goal of the week, this one coming 1:04 into the second half, as the black and gold picked up a 3-1 victory against Albany in America East action at Retriever Soccer Park on Sunday afternoon.
After dropping a pair of contests last week, UMBC has won two straight to improve to 7-4-2 overall and 2-1-0 in America East play, while Albany drops to 1-10-1 overall and 0-2-1 in conference. The victory marks the first conference win for the black and gold at Retriever Soccer Park since Oct. 11, 2009.
UMBC jumped out in front 12:18 into the opening half and would take the 1-0 advantage into the break. Quaranta sent a centering pass toward the direction of freshman forward Victoria Burress (Bristow, Va./Patriot), but was deflected away by an Albany defender. Freshman midfielder Meg Kowalski (Freehold, N.J./Freehold Township) gathered the deflection and connected on a left footed shot into the far left corner of the net, for her first collegiate goal.
Quaranta registered the eventual game-winner 1:04 into the second period, collecting a pass from red-shirt junior Jessy Brown (Plantation, Fla./American Heritage) and lofting a shot over the head of Albany goalkeeper Alana Brennan for the 2-0 lead. The goal was Quaranta's team-leading fourth of the season and her second in as many games, while Brown notched her seventh point of the 2013 campaign.
The Great Danes cut their deficit to one, 2-1, with 9:57 to go in the contest. Albany found itself open inside the 18 yard box, using three straight passes to find its shooter Caitlyn Paltsios, who blasted a shot at UMBC netminder Lauren Kadet (Oakville, Ontario/St. Thomas Aquinas). Kadet deflected the ball up, but the momentum of the shot sent the ball over the head of Kadet and into the back of the net.
It took the Retrievers just 1:18 to take back its two-goal advantage and solidify the victory. A UAlbany foul led to a free kick outside the 18 yard box for sophomore back Amira Walcott (Beltsville, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt). Walcott booted a shot into the far right corner of the net for her third score of the season.
UMBC outshot Albany 22-11 in the contest, including a 13-4 differential in the opening half. Quaranta recorded a career-high 10 shots, the second-most for an America East player this season.
Kadet stopped five shots in the victory, while Brennan, the conference's saves per game leader, finished the afternoon with eight stops.
The Retrievers return to action on Thursday, Oct. 10 when they kickoff Homecoming Weekend by hosting Vermont at Retriever Soccer Park. Game time is set for 7 p.m., with the first 250 fans receiving free hot dogs. Thursday also marks Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day at Retriever Soccer Park, where all faculty, staff and their families get a discounted admission fee to the contest.
Game Notes
-UMBC's two conference wins matches its most since 2008, when it finished America East play with a 2-6 record.
-The Retrievers America East home victory is its first since Oct. 11, 2009, when it defeated Hartford, 2-1.
-UMBC takes control of the all-time series, 6-5.
-The Retrievers' 16 goals on the season are the most in a campaign since it registered 16 scores in 2007.
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Pats player Hernandez taken from home in handcuffs
ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was taken from his home in handcuffs Wednesday morning, more than a week after a Boston semi-pro football player was found dead in an industrial park a mile from Hernandez's house.
Later in the morning, the Patriots released the Connecticut native, who is from Bristol and played his high school football there.
Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semi-pro football player for the Boston Bandits, was found slain June 17. Officials ruled the death a homicide but did not say how Lloyd died.
Lloyd's relatives said he was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, that the two men were friends and that both men were out together on the last night of Lloyd's life.
It's unclear why Hernandez was being taken into custody Wednesday before 9 a.m. and put into the back of a police cruiser. He was wearing a white V-neck T-shirt, with his arms inside the shirt and behind his back as he was led from his North Attleborough home. He casually spit into some bushes on his way to the car.
Hernandez was arrested on a state police warrant and was being booked at the North Attleborough police station, state police said on the agency's Twitter account. State police said they won't discuss the charge against Hernandez until it's presented in Attleboro District Court later Wednesday.
The Associated Press emailed a message to his attorney, Michael Fee, who hasn't discussed the investigation beyond acknowledging media reports about it. A message also was left with the Bristol County district attorney's office.
Lloyd's mother, Ursula Ward, declined to comment at her Boston home Wednesday morning.
"Nothing to say, please. Thank you," she said, before shutting the door.
A Patriots team spokesman said Monday morning that the team had no comment.
State police have searched in and around Hernandez's sprawling home in North Attleborough several times. At least three search warrants have been issued in connection with the investigation.
Reporters have been camped for days outside the home on the Rhode Island line, not far from the stadium where the Patriots play. They reported Tuesday that Hernandez got a visit from Boston defense attorney James Sultan.
The Patriots drafted Hernandez, who is originally from Bristol, Conn., out of the University of Florida in 2010. Last summer, the team gave him a five-year contract worth $40 million.
Patriots spokesman Stacey James has said the team did not anticipate commenting publicly during the police investigation.
Associated Press writers Bridget Murphy in Boston and Howard Ulman contributed to this story.


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My Experience Comes of Age Today
I really hate November 29th, I have had a tendency to recess into a shell on that day and do not talk or communicate with anyone. But last year was the 20th November 29th, and my psyche is getting better and I am writing about it, so maybe writing does heal sometimes. The people who know me know that I have always hidden the fact of what happened on that day from most of the world.
People know I played professional ball somewhere, but most do not even know my jersey number. The worst part about 21 years ago is I was not a replacement player playing during the 23 day strike by NFL players. I was one of the guys sitting at home wanting to be on the field. Maybe that is why that day hit me so hard. It was the first game in 3 weeks and I had alot of adreneline stored up for someone.
I would have never thought in 1984 when I signed my first contract that I would be sitting here on MLBlogs in 2008 spilling out the days' events of my life's worst experience. I had just signed a multi-year contract for 2.5 million dollars, which included a $ 250,000. signing bonus. That put me in the mood to want to explode out of the gate and show the world what i could do on the turf.
I thought I was getting myself set for life, or at least set for 40 odd years. I was 24, and thought I had the world ahead of me, and could dream on any star in the night's sky. Little did I know what would happen 3 short years later would turn my fairy tale into a nightmare.
I was drafted duirng the first day, but not in the top rounds, but I was one of the top 20 corners to come off the board during the day. But, I felt like I was a bit dishonored by my hometown team one pick earlier. They had called and expressed a deep interest in signing and drafting me. That put me in a instant state of euphoria that quickly slumped into disappointment and second guessing. They passed on me for a slow Offensive Lineman that didn't make the team out of preseason camp.
I would not have looked any better with a winking pirate on my helmet than a horseshoe, but the certain fact that I would have had familiar faces in the stands, and actually played better in front of my home crowd. I might not have even had the injury if I had been picked by this team that played on natural grass, and not Astroturf.
I had a pretty good 3 years until that home game in late November 1987. They had a second down and 15 yards to go for a first down. I was in man to man coverage with a slick wideout from a school in my hometown who had made it to the starting 11 by playing inspired and energetic football. He could not outrun me, but he could however, deke me into over committing at times with a hip roll or shoulder bob. He had only beat me once that day for 5 yards and knew I could hit like a locomotive if I got some steam up before hitting him.
I felt like the next one was going to send a violent message to him.
He started off the line faking a curl pattern, before stopping and pivoted to run a inside post route. I did not bite on it and was in a great position to intercept or punish him if the QB made the throw. I hit him as the ball was about to hit his hands, and somehow got my right mit in there to push the ball out of his grasp. A great cover play, but the end result was not a triumph by any measure of the word.
I came down between an Astroturf seam on the field. These seams could cut you like a knife, and being the first edition of turf developed, had seams that sometimes moved and got bigger during a game. During this play, my chinstrap buckle got caught in the seam somehow and it jerk my head to the side like a cowboy pulling in a calf with a rope. It was a violent and fast motion that left me vulnerable.
To make matters worse, one of the safeties and a middle linebacker were also covering on the play and did not see the ball come out from their angle. Thinking it was a live play, they came in hard trying to helping me take down this reciever and added to the intial force on me. That was a combined 3 players worth of forward motion and force steaming full speed into the falling pile of football players. It is the defenses' job to dish out justice, and I was the one being judged at that moment, not the reciever.
My chinstrap was caught in the seam and jerked my head around to where I thought I saw the name on the back of my jersey. During this, my helmet stayed in the seam area and the full force of all of us hitting the turf rested on my neck and shoulder area.
I instantly felt a pain that I can not even put into words today. It was like a lightning bolt of eletricity had burned into my skin and gone to the bone and burned into it. I felt a sensation like the skin was melting from my body and muscles to an intense reverb from it exiting my body.
I instantly fell under the wide out, and I felt a uneasy and tingly feeling that I knew was not about the great hit, or the impending crash to the turf. My helmet was 3 yards to the east of me still caught in the turf seam. My head was pounding and spinning and I felt like I only had a slight concussion or just lost the wind in my lungs.
I laid there for a few moments and thought I was getting up from the turf. I never got up off that turf that day. I instantly felt the sharp and electric pain again going down my arms and legs to spike at my fingertips and toes. The trainers did not even try to move me. There were a protruding set of telltale bumps on my neck above my shoulders pads that pulsed with my hearbeats and sent a weird pulse of pain down the sides of my body. I was in a neck collar, taped to a board and off the turf in a matter of minutes.
You can't keep the players standing around getting cold. You can not let another player or your team see you as vulnerable, we were warriors and we needed to stay in focus to do our jobs with authority. You want your team mates minds be on the game, not on a mortality of the cripple on the turf.
Yeah,I know, I used the "C" word.
It was not until I saw the team doctor not look me in the eye that I knew it was bad. I could see out of the corner of my eyes, the opposing teams' cheerleader with a hand to her mouth, and my defensive guys not looking at me, and standing away from me but within listening distance.
I had one player say something to me. He said," We need you back as soon as possible. Hits like that keep us in these games." We were a winning team that year. This was the first time in the past 10 years that the spirit and tradition of those blue and white uniforms had come back to the elite forefront of the game. I did not hear anyone else say anything to me. He was the last member of my team I heard from for some time.
I was hysterical on the cart and in the ambulance. I was put under with a sedative because I was frantically trying to move my lower body and arms. My hands and feet did not move, but my torso was wrecking havoc on the straps holding me down.
When I got to the ER, I was still in my game gear. The ER nurses' and interns seemed to strip my body of the gear in seconds. I could never of gotten that stuff off that fast myself. I just laid there naked for the world to see. I still could not move my arms or legs. It was not because of the straps, they were now gone with the gurney back into the ambulance. I was given another IV and I dozed off as they worked on me.
I awoke 16 hours later in a room with a few people I did not know. No one close to me was there. I did not have a large local group of people I hung out with up there, it was 1,200 miles from my true home. I awoke with an unusual contraption on my head. I had been given a halo for my head, but not the angel's kind. I had these screws in the temples and was in a transendental state of motion feeling more robotic than human.
I had almost completely crushed the C discs in my spine above my shoulder blades. I got lucky that my helmet was not tight on my chin or I would be either be getting fitted for wings, or a pitchfork. The doctor said it was a slight fraction of an inch either way and the result would not be to my liking. I had a DNR letter in my contract paperwork that said if I did not have the full use of my facilities, to not save my sorry butt.
The team did not deliver this to the hositpal, and they proceeded to work on me right away that night. With the swelling and the proluding disc in my neck, I had a 40 percent chance of full recovery. I did the thing you would expect at that moment and cursed anything and anyone within hearing range. I forbide my friends to either come in and comfort or pity me in my state. I got cards and letters from fans and the team wishing for a speedy recovery. I even got a card from the rookie wideout. Funny, we had never played against each other in High School even though we were rival schools.
Seriously, a player can not see another player like that. It ruins the inner fiber of confidence to become "the machine" and really wreck hovoc on that feeling invincible on game day. I could, and would not let another player see me until I could hit the ground walking on my own. I got the feeling back in my fingers and legs about 2 days later after the intial swelling went down.
The nerves was damaged, but the human body seems to heal those who have the will and determination at times. I do not mean to dismiss or even patronize anyone who can not get back to their old selves after an accident. I felt blessed and honored at that time to be able to feel my extremities, and knew the road had just started to some type of recovery.
I stayed up there for another 6 months doing the pool and weights for the PT people. I gained full mobility slowly at first again and was told that after the swelling went down, two of the discs popped back into place, but the last one was forever damaged and I would feel its effects at times. To this day, if I try to pop my neck at any time, it sounds like a popcorn machine in my head. It still freaks out some people close to me because it is loud and sounds painful.
These odd side effects were a small thing compared to the pain and uncertainty those first 3 weeks. I got into a recovery training routine and was excited to try and to play again. The only problem was, spinal situations in 1987 are not like todays' surgeries. There was a 80 percent chance that if I hit my neck like that again, I could be in a chair or worse upon impact, and a 90 percent chance if I hit the disc on anything hard.
With that, I did not retire. I still thought I could find a miracle or situation that would let me play again. But with time, I felt my future family deserved a healthy Dad who could play and frolic with the kids. With that realization, I said farewell to my athletic life and began my post-sports life. I had been a jock for 27 years at that point, since my first time I walked I had been chasing this dream. And I did not know anything else but sports.
I had no direction and spent my money like it was water. I applied for disability payments from the league, but since I was only an active player for 3 years, I had no pension or disability insurance. You could insure yourself for injuries, but most people like myself saw that as admitting we would fail or fall to an injury. That was not in the credo of a warrior in my mind at the time. A player with 5 years active in the league could look forward to a modest pension and some medical benefits.
Unlike the late 80's, the league today has ongoing studies and research into head and spinal injuries. I was once proud that I had over 10 minor concussions in the span of all those years ,and could still read a stock market portfolio and use a phone. I have since learned the real truth about those head injuries, and I still have effects to this day of their delayed reactions. Memories are dull and forgotten at times. But I would do it all again if asked for the glory of the game.
In those days, the league did not make you attend 3 day seminars on personal finance or financial foundations for when you finish playing the game. You did not have super agents who cried "foul" at the drop of a hat. I would not have drawn that type of attention to myself anyways, I did my own contract and knew the provisions by heart. I pretty much lost everything fast. Took care of family and bills, did a few great vacations involving baseball, mt second love at the time. I also splurged on some great friends and charities. I have no regrets or planned "do overs."
I lived a great life in those days and loved the attention and adolation. I might not have been an angel, but I was never in the paper for doing the wrong things, or even with the wrong crowds. I feel blessed to still be here. This was written for a cleansing for myself. I have never written about it since that day. I thought I needed to put it down in case something even happened to me because my daughters' have never heard me speak of those day like this. They were not even born during my career, and I have not had the time or energy to relive it again with them. I hope to some day, but not today….never on this day.


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The Crimson can take a big step toward clinching a spot in the Ivy League Tournament with a win on Friday (OAC).
The Storyline
The Harvard men's lacrosse team will play in front of a national television audience on ESPNU Friday as it takes to the field at No. 13/12 Princeton. First face off is scheduled for 6 p.m.
Fans can also follow the action via live stats through GoPrincetonTigers.com.
Harvard will commemorate all those affected by the tragedy at the Boston Marathon with a special helmet decal (pictured at right) which will be worn for the remainder of the season.
Where We Stand
Harvard and Princeton enter the weekend tied for third place in the Ivy League standings with a 2-2 record. Cornell remains atop the Ancient Eight with an unblemished 4-0 mark while Yale sits alone in second place at 3-2. These four teams will meet up on the finals day of play with the Crimson hosting the Bulldogs April 27 at 2 p.m. and the Tigers and Big Red doing battle at 4 p.m. at MetLife Stadium.
The top four teams in the league standings will make the 2013 Ivy League Tournament, set to be played May 3-5 on the campus of the No. 1 seed. Harvard can guarantee itself a spot in the tournament with wins over Princeton and Yale to close out the year, and can clinch on Friday with a win over the Tigers and a Brown loss to Cornell.
Last Time Out
Murphy Vandervelde completed his hat trick 1:18 into overtime to propel the Harvard men's lacrosse team to an 8-7 victory over No. 16/14 Penn Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium.
Harvard, playing its third ranked opponent in three weeks, saw a three-goal lead slip away in the fourth quarter before a score by Ian Ardrey put the team back on top, 7-6. Penn was quick to respond, however, scoring the equalizer with just 55 seconds remaining to set up Vandervelde's heroics. The sophomore sent a straight shot over the right shoulder of Quaker goaltender Brian Feeney for the win, Harvard's first over a ranked opponent since defeating then 14th-ranked Penn 12-8 in the Ivy League semifinals in 2011.
Despite Penn holding a 13-18 advantage at the X and outshooting the Crimson 43-26, Harvard made the most of every opportunity to take the win. The Crimson went 2-of-3 on the man advantage while holding the Quakers, who entered the game with the best man-up offense in the country, to just 1-of-5 thanks in large part to Harry Krieger who came away with 12 saves and six ground balls.
Vandervelde's third career hat trick highlighted the day on the offensive end as her converted 3-of-5 shots. Carl Zimmerman scored two goals and added one assist for three points while Devin Dwyer tallied three assists. Alex White also turned in three points with one goal and two assists.
Scouting Princeton
Princeton, ranked 13th in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 12th the USILA Coaches' Poll, carries a 7-4 overall record and a 2-2 mark in the Ivy League into play on Friday. The Tigers boast the eighth-best scoring offense in the country at 12.18 goals per game led by Tom Schreiber who has notched 45 points on 23 goals and 22 assists. Mike MacDonald has posted 38 points with a team-leading 27 goals, while Jeff Froccaro has chipped in 36 points with 26 goals.
Matt O'Connor has started all 11 games in goal for the Tigers and owns a 7-4 record with a 9.43 goals against average and a .514 save percentage. Justin Murphy sports a .533 winning percentage at the X as the team's face off specialist, helping the team to a .509 win percentage for the year. Derick Raabe has paced the defensive unit with 53 ground balls and nine caused turnovers.
Inside the Series
Harvard trails the all-time series with Princeton, 22-56-1, despite taking two of the last three meetings. The Crimson won back-to-back games with the Tigers in 2010 and 2011, but Princeton rebounded last year to take a 12-5 victory at Harvard Stadium.
Up Next
Harvard will close out the regular season next Saturday, April 27 at Harvard Stadium on Senior Day against No. 15/12 Yale. Face off is scheduled for 2 p.m.
CLASS Act
Captain Jason Gonos was one of 10 NCAA lacrosse student-athletes selected as a finalist for the 2013 Senior CLASS Award® in collegiate men's lacrosse. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
Gonos has anchored Harvard's defensive unit for the last four years, but even more impressive than his play on the field has been his work within the community. In November, he organized the Crimson's involvement in Lacrosse Mustache Madness which raised $6,979 for the HEADstrong Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the fight against blood cancer. Gonos has also spent time working with Happy Helpers for the Homeless in his home state of Maryland, helping to feed and clothe the homeless in Glen Burnie, Md.
Fans are encouraged to vote on the Senior CLASS Award website or on the Senior CLASS Award Facebook fan page through May 13. Fan votes will be combined with media and Division I head coaches' votes to determine the winner.
Rank and File
Inside Lacrosse released its midseason ranking of the top 25 freshmen from around the country on Wednesday which featured Harvard's Devin Dwyer at No. 3. Penn State's T.J. Sanders is listed at No. 1 with Notre Dame's Matt Kavanagh coming in at No. 2.
Related Link: 2013 Inside Lacrosse Midseason Freshmen Rankings
Harvard in the Inside Lacrosse Freshmen Rankings
2013 – Devin Dwyer, No. 3*
2011 – Daniel Eipp, No. 25
2009 – Jeff Cohen, No. 7
2008 – Dean Gibbons, No. 22
* - Midseason Ranking
Rookie of the Week
Freshmen Devin Dwyer earned his second straight Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor on April 15 after posting nine points (2 g, 7a) in a 2-0 week for the Crimson. He began with a career-high six points against Quinnipiac on Tuesday, scoring two goals and dishing out four assists. Dwyer added three assists on Saturday as Harvard knocked off No. 16/14 Penn in overtime, 8-7.
Dwyer was also named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on April 8 for his five-point performance against No. 2/2 Cornell. Dwyer found the back of the net twice against the Big Red, and handed out three assists.
Young Gun
Freshman Devin Dwyer currently leads the team and ranks fifth in the conference with 38 points. His 23 assists are also a team-high and are second best in the conference while his 15 goals rank second among the Crimson, 19th in the Ancient Eight.
Dwyer opened his career scoring in seven straight games, including a streak of five games in which he tallied multiple points, and has scored in 11 of Harvard's 12 contests this year. He is vying to become the first freshman to lead Harvard in scoring since Jeff Cohen '12 in 2009. Cohen tallied 41 points that season on 34 goals and seven assists.
Strength of Schedule
Harvard's 2013 schedule features eight opponents currently ranked in the top 25 of the NCAA's RPI; No. 6 Cornell, No. 7 Duke, No. 9 Penn, No. 11 Albany, No. 12 Yale, No. 19 Princeton, No. 21 UMass and No. 22 Hofstra. The Crimson, which is ranked No. 24 itself, is just 1-5 so far in these games but lost to Cornell, Duke and UMass by just two goals each.
Taking Advantage
Harvard leads the Ivy League with 22 goals on the man-advantage while converting on 45.8 percent of its opportunities, second best in the conference and seventh best in the NCAA. The Crimson has scored 16 man-up goals in its last five games, including four against Cornell and Quinnipiac.
Step Your Game Up
Sophomore Murphy Vandervelde, who had totaled zero goals in the first seven appearances of his career, has scored 13 goals over the team's last six outings and ranks fourth overall on the team. Vandervelde most recently recorded a hat trick against No. 16/14 Penn, with his third tally giving the Crimson an 8-7 overtime victory.
Overtime Upset
The Crimson earned an 8-7 overtime victory over No. 16/14 Penn on April 13, marking the team's first win over a ranked opponent since defeating then 14th-ranked Penn 12-8 in the Ivy League semifinals on May 6, 2011. The triumph was also the team's first in overtime since taking out Brown, 10-9, on March 17, 2012.
Player of the Week
Goalkeeper Harry Krieger has earned a pair of player of the week honors this season, most recently receiving the award from the Ivy League on March 25. The senior turned away 28 shots while allowing just 11 goals as the Crimson defeated both Bryant and Dartmouth, finishing the week with a .718 save percentage and a 5.50 goals against average. Krieger was also named the NEILA Player of the Week on March 11 after recording 12 saves in Harvard's 8-6 win over Georgetown.
Krieger enters the weekend ranked 26th in the NCAA with a 9.51 goals against average. His .556 save percentage is second in the Ivy League and 19th best overall while his 11.6 saves per game pace the conference and rank 19th nationally.
Getting Defensive
Freshmen Robert Duvnjak has started 10 games for the Crimson on defense and currently leads the team with 16 caused turnovers while ranking fifth with 20 ground balls. Duvnjak made his collegiate debut against UMass and registered four caused turnovers, then added four more as Harvard defeated Georgetown.
White Hot
Senior Alex White, who registered a hat trick in each of the Crimson's first two games, enters the weekend with a team-high 19 goals and ranked third overall on the squad with 26 points (19g, 7a) from the midfield. White entered the season with 31 career points (19g, 12a) after having played in 41 of Harvard's 42 games over the previous three seasons.
Facing Off
Senior Rick Molé had a career day at the face off X against Brown, winning 15-of-20 draws while collecting four ground balls. Molé, who entered the year having taken just 32 face offs in his career, boasts a .503 winning percentage at the X this season and ranks fourth in the Ivy League with 97 face offs won.
Staying Grounded
Junior Gabriel Mendola set a career-high with 10 ground balls at Brown. He is the first Crimson to recorded double-digit ground balls since Keegan Michel did so on April 10 of last season with 10 against Quinnipiac.
Sharing the Wealth
19 different members of the Crimson have combined to score 116 goals this season. Alex White leads the way with 19 tallies on the year, while Devin Dwyer and Peter Schwartz have added 15 goals apiece.
The Crimson has collected two two-game win streaks this season, most recently defeating Quinnipiac and No. 16/14 Penn in back-to-back contests. Harvard last won three straight games in 2011 when it defeated Princeton, Yale and Penn to reach the Ivy League Tournament finals.
Home Field Advantage
Harvard is 15-8 at home under Chris Wojcik '96, The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse, including a 4-4 mark in 2013. The Crimson boasts a 7-6 mark in Harvard Stadium and an 8-2 record at Soldiers Field Lacrosse Stadium.
Hats Off
2013 Hat Tricks
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In the Spotlight
The Crimson will play twice in front of a national television audience in 2013 beginning with its March 30 meeting with Duke. The game, which will be aired live on NBC Sports Network, will be played under the lights of Harvard Stadium at 7 p.m. The Crimson will also be featured on ESPNU when it takes the field at Princeton Friday, April 19 at 6 p.m.
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Harvard has announced that for the first time ever, each of the Crimson's nine home games will be available either through live or on-demand streaming. Eight of the nine will streamed live through GoCrimson.com while the Crimson's nationally televised matchup with No. 13/14 Duke will be available for on-demand viewing shortly after its completion.
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No. 2 Vikings Season Ends with Loss to No. 5 Marian
MARSHALL, MO -- The No. 2 Missouri Valley College Vikings saw their 2012 season come to an end in the NAIA Football Championship Series semifinals to No. 5 Marian University 20-17. The Knights kicked the game-winning field goal as time expired to pull off the victory.
Marian received the opening kickoff, but the Vikings were the first team to put points on the board. After receiving a Marian punt at their own 38-yard line, the Vikings put together the day's first scoring drive. The big play in the drive came when Sophomore Quarterback Bruce Reyes connected with Freshman Wide Receiver Seth Martinko for 33-yards putting the ball inside the Marian 10-yard line. The Vikings failed to move the ball on their next three downs, but got three points out of the drive as Senior Kicker Fabian Miramontes hit a 29-yard field goal to cap off a nine-play 50-yard drive early in the first quarter.
The Knights came right back with a scoring drive of their own. Marian moved the ball from its own 25-yard line to the Missouri Valley 30-yard line. The Viking defense stiffened and forced a 47-yard field goal from their kicker Mike Josifovski, which he made to tie the score at 3-3 with less than seven minutes remaining in the first quarter.
Neither team could get much offense going to end the first quarter and into the early parts of the second quarter. An odd play highlighted the action early in the second quarter as a Reyes pass was intercepted deep inside MVC territory. However Senior Running Back Zavier Steward was able to strip the ball, giving MVC a new possession. The Vikings capped the new possession by turning the ball over again, this time a fumble at their own 36-yard line, where Marian took over.
The Vikings held their ground despite deep inside their own territory allowing just 19-yards on nine-plays in the drive. Still, Josifovski was able to connect on a 34-yard field goal to give Marian a 6-3 lead with just over four minutes remaining in the first half.
MVC made sure the Marian lead was short lived by marching down the field for a score. Another Reyes-to-Martinko connection, this time for 35-yards, helped to move the Viking drive inside Marian territory. The two would connect again on a 34-yard touchdown strike on a third down play to put MVC back up on top. Miramontes connected on the extra point, and MVC took a 10-9 lead with just under two minutes remaining in the first half.
There was still enough time in the half for both teams to have another crack at scoring. The Vikings forced Marian to punt, and received a 22-yard return from Senior Defensive Back LaQuentin Black setting MVC up near midfield. On the first play of the drive, Reyes threw an interception giving Marian the ball back in Viking territory. Again, the Viking defense stood their ground and forced a 46-yard field goal, but this attempt sailed wide right, sending the game to halftime with MVC leading 10-9.
The Vikings got the first drive of the second half, starting near midfield, and put some more points on the board. This time it was a Reyes pass to Freshman Wide Receiver Jacoby Bellard for a 25-yard touchdown to cap off a seven-play 53-yard drive. Miramontes hit the extra point, and MVC took a 17-9 advantage early in the third quarter.
After forcing Marian to punt on the Knights' first possession of the half, the Vikings looked to take the game over. The offense moved the ball to the Marian 36-yard line, but failed on a fourth-down conversion attempt.
The Knights took over at their own 36-yard line and worked quickly. The first play of the drive was a 49-yard run by Running Back Tevin Lake to the MVC 15-yard line. Four plays later and the Knights found the end zone getting to within two points of the Vikings. Marian missed on the initial two-point conversion attempt, but a roughing the passer penalty gave the Knights a second crack, which they used to their advantage, converting the attempt and tying the game up at 17-17 with just over three minutes remaining in the third quarter.
The Vikings failed to get within field goal range on their next drive, and eventually turned the ball over on a Reyes interception, with Marian taking over at the Knights' 10-yard line. Marian failed to do anything after the interception, punting to MVC, but the Vikings failed to move the ball despite taking over at midfield, punting it back to Marian.
The Knights took over at their own 15-yard line with just over 11 minutes left in the game and put together one of the most impressive drives of the afternoon. The Knights ran Lake a total of eight times in a 14-play 70-yard drive that took nearly eight minutes off the clock. However, the Viking defense came up with a big stop, thanks in part to a Junior Linebacker Andrew Huhman tackle for loss on a third-down attempt, forcing Marian to kick a field goal. Despite gaining an offside penalty on the Vikings, Marian missed the 32-yard attempt wide right, giving MVC the ball back with just over three minutes remaining in the game, and the score still tied at 17-17.
After the missed field goal, the Vikings quickly found themselves with a third-down and six yard attempt, but the Marian defense came up with another pick, this time at their own 32-yard line, setting up the final drive of the game. The Knights moved the ball to the MVC 34-yard line and called a timeout with two seconds remaining in the game. Although he missed two shorter field goals, Josifovski hit a 51-yard attempt down the middle of the goal posts as time expired giving Marian the victory 20-17, allowing the Knights a chance to play for a National championship, and ending the National title hopes for the Vikings.
Leading the way for MVC on the ground was Steward who had 12-carries for 49-yards. Passing wise, Reyes went 19 of 37 for 258 yards with two touchdowns, but he also had four interceptions. Martinko led all receivers with nine receptions for 170 yards and one touchdown.
Defensively the Vikings were led by Senior Linebacker Mike Hall who had 12 total tackles, including one and a half sacks and two tackles for loss. Sophomore Defensive Lineman Ty Phillips finished with seven total tackles, two sacks, and three tackles for loss. Also getting a half a sack apiece were Huhman, Danny Reyes, and Taylor Moore.
The loss ends the Vikings' season with a 12-1 record. The Vikings were hoping to return to the National championship game for the first time since 1974. Marian improves to 11-1 with the win and will play Morningside in the 57th Annual Russell Athletic-NAIA Football Championship December 13 in Rome, Georgia.


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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – Welcome to the Denver Broncos 2013 job fair.
Offensive coordinator Mike McCoy has interviews for vacant head-coaching jobs set up all weekend.
If a few things fall certain ways, defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio could be next on a few teams' lists.
Such is life as an assistant coach of a winning team when there are plenty of losing teams out there looking for a turnaround.
Executives from up to four teams – Cardinals, Bills, Eagles and Bears – could wind up in Denver this weekend to visit with McCoy for what will essentially be a get-to-know-you interview for both the coach and the interested suitors.
McCoy has become as coveted an interview as there is since "Black Monday," the day seven NFL teams fired their coaches. He can afford to be picky. Knowing as much, he says he'll be asking as many questions as he answers when the process starts.
"If you're going into a new situation, you've got to make sure it's the right one," said McCoy, who interviewed with Miami last year and was, for a time, thought to be the leading candidate there. "It's not just about taking any job."
This year, McCoy coached the fourth-ranked offense in the league, a unit that scored 30 or more points in all but five games this season. True, he had Peyton Manning on his side, which can make almost any coach look like a genius. Just as impressive were his accomplishments in 2011, when he turned Tim Tebow into a playoff quarterback, reconstructing the playbook in midseason into a 1950s-style, run-based offense that won nine games despite the league's 31st-ranked passing offense.
"That's our job as a football coach, is to take advantage of your talent and that's the No. 1 job I have here," McCoy said. "We've got to make adjustments as a coaching staff, as players, and figure out, `What do we do best as an organization?'"
Other highlights on McCoy's resume are his nine years as an assistant for John Fox and a glowing endorsement from Manning.
"I think he's ready. I think he's paid his dues," Manning said. "Mike's a good leader. He's had some good coaches that have been mentors to him, different coaches that he's worked with in his years in the NFL that I think he's incorporated some of their leadership philosophies and his own philosophy."
Del Rio's path back to a head-coaching job could be a little trickier. So far, Del Rio said, there have been no requests for interviews this weekend, though things often develop quickly and unexpectedly on a coaching search.
He wasn't on anyone's radar when Jacksonville hired him in 2003, after three years as linebackers coach at Baltimore followed by a year in Carolina as Fox's defensive coordinator.
Over the nine years with the Jaguars, Del Rio went 69-73 and made two playoff appearances – a tenure with plenty of ups and downs, but during which he built a solid reputation as a coach who knows defense and connects with players. This year, he reunited with Fox, took several pieces already in place and molded them into the third-ranked defense in the league, led by Von Miller, who finished with a franchise record 18 1/2 sacks.
If he leaves, Denver will be looking for its eighth defensive coordinator in eight years.
"If it happens, it happens," cornerback Champ Bailey said. "It's really not my place to put my opinion on it."
But if Del Rio is to become a head coach again, he wants it to be with the right team, not just the next team that's looking.
"I'm certainly aware of the different strengths and weaknesses of different places," he said. "I know my own abilities, certainly much greater than I did when I was made a head coach 10 years ago. You gain experience in this league and you grow. I don't spend a lot of time looking through other people's football teams and what their issues are and how you'd solve them."
If asked to do that, however, he would.
Fact is, he simply loves coaching, which is why he returned to the field this year, the season after he got fired while still under contract in Jacksonville.
"I'm actually paying to be here," Del Rio said. "I could be laying on a beach somewhere making more money. But I took this job because I wanted to work. I do have a passion to teach, to help young men be better, and to be part of a team."
NFL rules call for all interviews of assistants on teams with a playoff bye to be complete by the end of the weekend. The Broncos added a caveat for their assistants, telling teams they'd have to come to Denver for the talks instead of having their assistants travel.
In one case, the Broncos shut down an interview opportunity – when AFC West rival San Diego asked about talking to director of player personnel Matt Russell for its open GM position.
Regardless of whether the Broncos coaches and executives are doing interviews, they insist there is only one focus: helping this team get to the Super Bowl.
"Everyone has individual goals, as a coach and a player, but it's team first here and we still have a lot left here," McCoy said. "Hopefully, one day I will become a head coach but we still have a lot of football ahead of us here and we'll see what happens down the road."
Notes: LB Wesley Woodyard, who led the team this season in tackles and a willingness to talk, was named the 2012 winner of the sixth annual Darrent Williams Good Guy Award, given by the Denver chapter of the Pro Football Writers Association to the player who best exemplifies the late cornerback's cooperation with the media. … RB Willis McGahee walked through the locker room Thursday with a big wrap on his surgically repaired right knee but without any noticeable limp. He's eligible to return to action if the Broncos reach the AFC championship.
By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer
(© Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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Grains and oilseeds closed mixed Friday on medium volume. May soybeans closed 8 ¾ cents lower at $14.43 ½, May corn 5 cents higher at $7.08 ½, and May wheat up 6 cents at $7.20 ½.
Soybeans were unable to carry yesterday's strength especially with weaker outside markets this morning from the Sequester fears. Equities were able to rebound before the day's close but energy prices stayed weak.
Informa released their South American production estimates at 10:30 but came in as expected. The USDA announced the sale of another couple of cargoes of new crop soybeans to China this morning. Otherwise there weren't any major headlines to affect pricing today.
Next week we have the March WASDE report on Friday the 8th. The planting intentions report will be on March 28th, which is one day earlier than normal due to Good Friday. This year's crop insurance prices are very similar to last year with the corn at $5.65 and soybeans at $12.87. That puts the soybean-corn ratio at 2.2779 for 2013 compared to 2.2095 last year. Now that we have guaranteed revenue known for US producers it may put downside pressure on new crop prices as we get through planting barring any weather problems.
Old crop products are in a very tight supply situation and may be the sole reason for prices to stay supported near-term. China has been a very aggressive buyer of US soybeans and with logistical concerns out of Brazil the situation could easily produce a lot of price volatility in the coming months. At this point in the year we already have contracted 1.2713 billion and have shipped 1.101 billion! That means we need to sell at a pace of only 2.6 million bushels per week (70,761.6 MTs) to meet the objective set. To put it in perspective, look at last year. From this week in 2012 until September 1st 2012 we sold another 362.8 million bushels of soybeans! Obviously we can't afford to do that this year or we would run out of soybeans. With the soybean volatility index running at only 20.63, it looks relatively cheap for buying options for upside potential against sales. Note how far below the 200 day moving average the index is as well as from last summer!
Soybean Volatility Index
Wheat is back to a large discount to March corn. With wheat comparatively cheap we have to assume that wheat feeding will increase substantially in the US again. Just take last year for example. Wheat was trading in-and-out of a discount to corn which helped propel wheat feeding by 213% from the year before! For the 2012/2013 marketing year we ended up feeding 350 million bushels of wheat. Since wheat has its own tight balance sheet and we are once again competitive on the world market, we may see wheat supported as long as old crop corn doesn't slip lower again.
For now we are staying with our current sale recommendations but with the insurance guarantee it may change how much downside coverage you need. If you would like to get the EHedger grain letter full time, please sign up using the link at the top of the page. Have a great weekend!
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Grains finished stronger with old crop soybeans leading the way. May soybeans settled 19 cents higher at $14.41, May corn 1 ½ cents higher at $6.37 ½, and May wheat 11 ¼ cents higher at $6.39 ¼.
Weekly export sales data was actually weak for soybeans and strong for corn. The majority of the corn sales were to Mexico and "unknown destinations". The USDA did announce some bean sales to China and unknown destinations before the day session began which were separate from the weekly sales report. The market continues to bid up old crop soybeans and July beans settled at a new high close going back to September 2011. The July – November soybean spread has really picked up speed and is now trading at +71 ¾ cents which is also a new high for the move (see chart).
Chart: July – November Soybeans
The other strong factor today was the US dollar trading lower. The June Dollar futures dropped 0.510 to 79.480 as of 4 pm today which helped commodities and equities across the board.
Weekly Export Sales Results:
Estimated Range 2011/2012 2012/2013
Corn 400,000 – 850,000 MTs 959,100 MTs 16,700 MTs
Soybeans 700,000 – 1,150,000 MTs 460,100 MTs 176,300 MTs
Wheat 350,000 – 650,000 MTs 452,100 MTs 90,400 MTs
Between now and June the market won't have a definitive answer of just how many acres switch back to soybeans from corn. There is plenty of hedging waiting to get done above these levels for corn which is keeping December resisted. The most resistance may be found above the insurance level of $5.68. With strong sales and stronger ethanol numbers with week, we may find old crop corn gains back some of its ground it has lost to soybeans in the short run. Soybean direction should be extra sensitive to crush and export numbers from here until the next stocks report as the market seems wired to buy it. The "managed money" is holding a massive net long position which was increased by a full 25,000+ net contracts on the last COT report. If we see exports stay strong until September they could keep taking beans higher. If we see cancellations or sales rolled to new crop, it would be very bearish with such a large spec position in these months. We will have to continue to monitor these numbers for direction.
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The largest fresco of Belgium can now be admired along the walls of the De Wand tram station in Laeken. Just a stone's throw from the Atomium along tramway lines 4, 19 and 23 the De Wand station is a symbolic crossing point between the suburbs and the city of Brussels. Entitled "The Walk", this […]Read more →


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Ysleta ISD offers free Pre-K at 15 schools open to all El Paso-area families free of cost, including those who typically don't qualify for free pre-kindergarten programs or live outside YISD boundaries.
Pre-K enrollment at YISD will be conducted on a first-come, first-served basis, with registration taking place in April at all participating YISD campuses. Interested parents must pick up and fill out a registration packet from the school or Pre-K center of their choice. There are a limited number of slots open at each participating campus, so parents are advised to sign up their children during the enrollment window. Parents will be notified of available slot.
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Our purpose is to provide a support system for the implementation of research-based instruction and best practices that guide children academically, socially, and emotionally.
The program is designed to promote children's knowledge and skills in all developmental areas— cognitive, social/emotional, physical, and aesthetic—and to establish a foundation for lifelong learning.
The prekindergarten program reflects the belief that children are active learners. They build meaning and understanding through full participation in their learning environments. This child-centered program combines high expectations for each child with respect for individual development.
Learning Centers
Prekindergarten uses the center approach to learning. Centers are areas with educational materials that provide opportunities for different types of learning during Work Time.
Learning Centers are pre-planned by the teacher to support the skills that are previously taught. A writing component is embedded within each center.
At the Reading and Writing Centers children learn:
- to respect and care for books
- to imagine events and situations
- storytelling and dictate stories
- and interest in words and books
- sequencing of pictures
- the sequence of a story
- left-to-right progression
- the interpretation of pictures and details of pictures
In the Art Center children learn:
- creativeness through planning, designing, and constructing an idea
- a satisfactory way of expressing ideas, impressions, and feelings
- experimentation with color, shapes, sizes, various textures, and configurations
- eye-hand coordination and better fine muscle control for later writing skills
- respect for the artistic expressions of others
- to develop their visual and tactile skills
In the Housekeeping/Dramatic Play Center children:
- have the opportunity to develop self-confidence through role-playing
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- develop muscle coordination, oral language skills, and math readiness
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- learn how to work and plan together
- become aware of organizing and measuring
- become aware of problem-solving technique
In the Math Center children learn:
- to recognize, describe, and name shapes
- to recognize patterns and relationships among objects
- to classify objects and explain how the grouping was done
- one-to-one correspondence
- how to make comparisons and to see relationships of concrete objects
- the use of manipulatives
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- to develop eye-hand coordination
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This is a newer (and more thorough) version of a previous post on this subject that was printed in the Express-News on Dec. 29.
On nights when the Majestic Theatre hosts symphony performances, traveling Broadway shows or concerts, there's electricity that flows through Houston Street.
Restaurants fill up hours before show time. Traffic clots especially around the entrance to parking garages nearby. And the hordes of people walking along Houston, beneath the bright lights of the Majestic marquee, signal that this is what downtowns are supposed to look and feel like.
Houston Street may never return to the days when it was the city's premier retail corridor, but the scene that transpires on these nights — the visual alone — is reminiscent of those times.
Credit must be given to a public-private partnership that the city entered with Maryland-based Federal Realty Investment Trust a little more than 13 years ago.
In December 1999, the Houston Street Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) was formally created by the City Council.
In a TIRZ, revenue gained by an increase in property value can be used to fund public improvements in the designated area.
In the case of the Houston Street TIRZ, revenues would fund $14.4 million in improvements — either projects developed by the city or Federal Realty.
Among these projects was the city's overhaul of the Presa Street Bridge near College Street, which better lined the River Walk to Houston Street. Federal Realty constructed the courtyard between the Frost Brothers and Joseph's buildings, across from the Majestic.
Under this agreement, last week, Federal Realty was allocated $1.78 million for facade work to the Kress Building that it had financed.
Restaurant Texas de Brazil opened on the building's ground floor in December 2010, but the upper floors have remained vacant.
In recent years, Federal Realty has tossed around the idea of converting those floors into high-end condos. But the trust seems to be back at the drawing board.
"We have no plans for the upper floors at this time," Jan Sweetnam, Federal Realty's vice president/western region chief operating officer, wrote in an email. "We are looking at some options which are very preliminary, and we do not know if any will make financial sense," Sweetnam continued.
"We have a long ways to go yet!"
Beyond the TIRZ revenue, the city and Federal Realty backed their own projects. The city built the St. Mary's Street Parking Garage a block north of Houston and Federal Realty built Hotel Valencia, among other improvements.
With the Houston Street TIRZ set to expire in September 2014, as we look back at the area's growth since 1999, has the plan worked?
In recent years, Baywood Hotels (also from Maryland) has converted the former South Texas and Neisner buildings into extended-stay hotels.
Houston Street has gone a whole year without a restaurant closing.
This may be small potatoes for other major cities. But for a major downtown street whose EKG was nearly flat-lined more than 10 years ago, these are auspicious times, indeed.
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International agencies on the front lines of the effort to increase food security will bring concerns on the impact of the economic crisis on small-holder farmers and on people's ability to afford food to the meeting of the Group of 8 Agriculture Ministers in the Italian province of Treviso on 18-20 April.
Dubbed "the agricultural summit", the G8 Ministers have invited the chiefs of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the coordinator of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Task Force on Food Security to brief them on how the UN is responding to the crisis. Their work is made more urgent as the economic crisis has pushed more people into malnourishment, hunger and poverty.
"In order to feed the nearly one billion hungry people and provide for the extra three billion people coming into the world by the year 2050, the world needs political leadership and well invested resources," said FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf. "World leaders looking for ways to save the global economy from disaster and to create jobs and income for millions of people in rural areas would be well advised to invest heavily in agriculture."
FAO is currently engaged in over 90 countries, in most cases supporting food production with the supply of improved seeds, fertilizers, other agricultural inputs and technical assistance of around $350 million in 2008. Nearly seven million smallholder farmers and their 35 million dependents - the majority women and children - benefited directly from this support.
"This meeting of the G8 Agriculture Ministers should be an opportunity to initiate the global political process for addressing the vital challenge of world food security," Mr. Diouf, vice-chair of the Task Force, noted.
Declining investment
After 20 years of declining investment in agriculture, recent global summits show that the international community realizes that this sector is central to promoting wider economic growth in developing countries, said Kanayo F. Nwanze, IFAD's new President.
"But declarations don't feed poor people, actions do. At the Treviso meeting we want to ensure that the voices of poor smallholder farmers from around the world are heard and that we come away with a commitment for action," he said.
Three quarters of the world's 1.4 billion extremely poor people live in rural areas. IFAD works with and for some 500 million smallholder farmers, men and women, enabling them to feed themselves, to access markets, to cope with climate change and to catalyse economic growth in poor rural areas.
"As the financial crisis unleashes more hunger by compounding the impact of the food crisis on the world's most vulnerable, G-8 leaders must put food security at the top of their agenda," said WFP's Executive Director, Josette Sheeran. "This includes ensuring access to food for all, as well as focusing on increased agricultural production."
Last year, WFP responded to the food crisis with an unprecedented emergency scale-up, adding 30 million people to its beneficiary lists. In 2009, WFP estimates it needs to feed more than 100 million people.
As well as providing food to vulnerable populations, WFP has undertaken a number of innovative projects to deal with hunger: cash and voucher distributions, local procurement to support small-scale farmers, and school feeding programmes to encourage parents to send their children to school and keep them there.
UN Assistant Secretary-General David Nabarro, the Task Force coordinator, said in advance of the Treviso meeting that "we need to be on the look out for an increase in levels of hunger as a result of people's falling purchasing power."
"We need to be ready to help countries with their investments in smallholder agriculture," Dr. Nabarro added, "as these offer rural communities, and urban groups who have been shed from mining, manufacturing and other employment, an opportunity to stave off the worst effects of the recession."
In addition to the G8 representatives, the Treviso meeting will draw ministers of agriculture from the G5 countries - Brazil, China, Mexico, India and South Africa. Its results will be forwarded to the main G8 Heads of State summit in July, on the Italian island of La Maddalena.
The G8 is expected to follow up on its commitment on food security, made at its 2008 summit in Hokkaido, Japan. Food security was also cited as a crucial part of the response to the economic crisis at the recent G20 meeting in London.
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Back to School Sales Hit by Lower Birthrates
MasterCard Advisors vice president Michael McNamara explains headwinds affecting the U.S. retail sales picture, including lower birthrates on back-to-school sales. Photo: AP.
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Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Meg Whitman received nearly $15.4 million in fiscal 2012, her first full year as chief executive officer, receiving only 70 percent of her targeted compensation as it posted a net loss for the year.
Whitman, who took a salary of $1 last year, reaped a performance-related bonus of $1.7 million, more than $7 million in stock awards and $6.4 million in options, Hewlett-Packard said in a filing yesterday. Whitman, who was already on the board, became CEO in September 2011, just before the end of that fiscal year. In that period, her compensation was $16.5 million.
Shares of Hewlett-Packard have declined 39 percent in the past year, as Whitman works to turn around the world's biggest supplier of personal computers after five straight quarters of declining sales and years of botched deals, management tumult and strategic missteps. Some units may be disposed if they don't meet goals, the company said in a Jan. 1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The stock decline has reduced some executives' pay from previous years, according to today's filing. The final amount of certain restricted stock awards for Hewlett-Packard executives granted in November 2009 depended on the company's share price performance against the Standard & Poor's 500 Index over three years.
The company underperformed the index by a large enough amount that the executives received none of the stock. It fell 70 percent after dividends in the period, while the S&P 500 returned 45 percent.
Compensation Overhaul
Hewlett-Packard overhauled the compensation program last year and scrapped the practice of comparing the company's stock performance to set pay. It's now handing out stock options that vest if the stock price exceeds certain thresholds.
Among other top executives, Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak earned $6.7 million last year, compared with $11 million in 2011. Executive vice president Todd Bradley, who heads the company's personal computer and printer group, made $7.4 million in 2012, compared with $10.7 million the prior year.
Hewlett-Packard plans to hold its annual shareholder meeting on March 20 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, where stockholders will be able to vote on the company's executive compensation plan and slate of directors.
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Let $\mathcal{T}$ be a commutative algebraic theory (for example sets, abelian groups, commutative monoids, but not groups etc.). References include the nlab and Borceux' Handbook of Categorical Algebra 2, section 3.10. Then $\mathsf{Mod}(\mathcal{T})$ is a monoidal category with internal homs.
Question 1. (Answered: Yes) Can we find a property of concrete categories which holds for $\mathsf{Mod}(\mathcal{T})$ if and only if $\mathcal{T}$ is commutative? In other words, does commutativity of an algebraic category not depend on the presentation?
Question 2. (Answered: No) Let $\mathcal{T}$ be a commutative algebraic theory and $C=\mathsf{Mod}(\mathcal{T})$. Assume that $X \in C$ is a Co-$C$-algebra, i.e. we have a factorization of $\hom(X,-) : C \to \mathsf{Set}$ over $C$. Does this have to coincide with the usual factorization? This is well-known to be true in the examples I have mentioned above, for example for every abelian group $A$ there is only one natural abelian group structure on the hom-sets $\mathrm{hom}(A,B)$. This should be all well-known, but I don't know a reference.


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I've been kind of sick. And also tired. Very tired. I have this tendency to work myself to the point of exhaustion. Which certainly doesn't help fight off sickness. 3 AM bedtimes do a real number on your immune system. School is also out, and as most parents of school children could probably attest to, life becomes a little more complicated when the kids are home 24-7. You have to do things like feed them and stuff.
Seriously, motherhood takes serious work, and oh my god, I'm not going into it in this post. So not the point. Assume it requires a ridiculous amount of time and physical and mental energy. But motherhood when the kids are home all the time? Well. It's beautiful. AWEsome. But. I have other activities, like volunteering or whatever. And then I have another job doing all my writerly and readerly stuff. I won't go into the laundry list. Who cares. But assume that on top of all the typical writerly/readerly and social networking stuff, I write. Obsessively. I write and revise and write more and revise and plot and research and write crap and write awesome and write more crap and write awesome and play with my kids and make them food and clean and play with my kids and then write crap/write awesome/write crap/write awesome and it just.goes.on.
So I'm busy. I stay up until 2 or later most nights. I don't watch TV. I watch a movie maybe every other week. I turn down girls' night out usually. Parties? Hmm.
Here's what I do allow myself: I give myself free time...to shower. Sometimes. I try to run a couple miles a few times a week. I take vitamins. I get the mail a few days a week. There you go.
But since the kids have been out of school, I sort of just...got tired. I became profoundly aware of the exhaustion settling deep inside of me. I discovered this need to sleep in late and then lounge in my pajamas, sitting inside my daughter's cardboard clubhouse watching iCarly, eating pita chips with hummus. I realized that I wanted to do nothing more than watch movie after movie after movie. I wanted to watch TV. I wanted to shop. Leisurely. I wanted to sit beside the pool, getting sweaty reading a book. I wanted to talk on the phone with my mom and my friends for hours on end. I wanted to play tag and jump on the trampoline and dance until my muscles were weak. In short, I wanted to rest.
So, sick and exhausted, I have rested. Like, letting Little Bean paint my toenails multiple colors and layers. Letting her brush my hair. With lotion. Spa day, don'tcha know. We went shopping. Picnic at the park. Movies. TV. Went to the drive-in last weekend--didn't even get home until 5 AM. Shoot, three movies in a row, but they were kickass. Totally worth it. We'll probably go again tomorrow. It's totally my fifth favorite thing to do. Today, we went to the water park. Four hours in the sun. Great fun. I even remembered to put sunscreen on. Most of me. Ouch. Still. Great fun.
This weekend, I'm going to make homemade pizza and maybe cream puffs with custard and chocolate ganache and possibly also a strawberry margarita(s). I'm going to watch loads of movies and dance and then I'm going to do nothing. Like totally nothing. Just maybe staring. Eat. Watch. Stare.
And if I try really, really hard, I won't even feel anxious. I won't think about the story waiting to unfold. Or the emails stacking up. Or messages left unanswered. Or the conference I need to pack for. I won't think about anything at all.


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