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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, January 25, 2010
A "Pott" of (Old) Gold
Here, in my mind, is an ad that honours the contract.
O'Reilly talks about how advertising creates its own predicament: "As an industry we create clutter," says O'Reilly, "and then we spend every waking moment trying to break through it." Well kudos to the ad agency that convinced Old Gold Cigarettes to produce this amazing ad back in 1944, because this ad breaks through the clutter.
This might just be the prettiest ad for cancer I've ever seen!
Advertisers and Art Directors take note: when is a pack shot a work of art? When you let an illustrator interpret it in his own unique, gorgeous style and to hell with photorealistic accuracy. I would gladly frame and hang this beautiful hand drawn cigarette pack 'still life' on my wall - and Old Gold would have
There are so many things about this ad I'd love to discuss and analyze, but most revelatory for me was the deciphering of the artist's signature. It took me a while to realize this Old Gold ad was the work of Rudy Pott.
Rudy Pott?
Unbelievable! I mean, I've been a huge fan of Rudy Pott's work for some years now, but this was Rudy Pott.
This was Rudy Pott.
This was Rudy Pott.
I've seen a lot of unsigned old ads done in this friendly, cartoony style as I've poured through my magazine collection... but I never imagined they might be the work of Rudy Pott.
(Yes folks, this is actually the kind of stuff that's gets us all hopped up and perky here at Today's Inspiration Central Command).
So that got me thinking... if that 1944 Old Gold ad was the work of Rudy Pott, then this 1947 Borden's Instant Coffee ad might just be by Rudy Pott as well.
The style is certainly very similar...
And that got me digging out my old back up CDs from the early pre-blog days of Today's Inspiration.
Could these old late '40s Duz detergent ads not also be the work of Rudy Pott?
Personally, I think they could very well be.
There's a little bit of info out there on H Rudolf Pott. He was born in 1899 in Philadelphia and attended art school there. Upon graduating in 1927 he immediately headed west, to New Mexico and Arizona, in the hopes of learning first hand the skills and subject matter that would make of him a first-rate Western artist in the tradition of Frederic Remington. Upon his return to the east Coast he discovered the market for Western artists was glutted.
Instead, Pott turned his skills to other subjects. He became a regular contributor to The Saturday Evening Post especially, as seen in the more realistic examples shown earlier above. And now we know his more humorous style was popular with advertisers as well - surely a lucrative source of income for the affable looking fellow seen here.
Rudy Pott died in 1974.
That's it for today. Hopefully I'll find out more about Rudy Pott in the future. When I do, I promise you'll be the first to know.
* My Rudy Pott Flickr set.
* You can hear Terry O'Reilly being interviewed on this "Q" podcast. The interview begins about 1/3 of the way along the time line.
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I loooove Rudy's work!! Definitely another craftsman I discovered through your flickr sets that I'm now koo-koo over. I just love an artist that incorporates a bit of the whimsical into their style. I suppose that often happens because they're not relying solely on their photo ref'.ReplyDelete
And geez! I gave up smoking in my mid 20s, but smoking something with "Apple Honey" sounds soooo good! Needless to say there was nothing even remotely resembling "apple honey" in those cigarettes.
Les; I'm with you brother - but I also find Rudy Pott's "straight" adventure style really appealing, much in the way I love Noel Sickles' work... or in Pott's case, I almost picture him as the painted illustration version of Milton Caniff, if you get my meaning.ReplyDelete
Great Pott smoking ad! (Hey, somebody had to make that obvious joke...)ReplyDelete
Seriously though, I agree that advertisers should delight and entertain us, whether in print ads or TV spots. That's why I find it so exasperating that today's advertisers, particularly on TV, do not delight me, but instead assault my senses with loud inane rock music and seizure inducing quick cuts. Whatever happened to Charlie the Tuna, The Keebler Elves, and charismatic James Garner with his Polaroid camera? Likewise in print ads - why do advertisers no longer want to use appealing imagery like these samples on your blog?
The dad in the picture with the dog licking te kid at the kitchen table looks like Pott was the model at least! Dead ringer.ReplyDelete
Pete; Thanks for your always thoughtful - and thought provoking comments. Regarding tv advertising these days, I do think we have to keep in mind that there are some very smart, very funny ads still being produced. For instance, in that podcast O'Reilly mentions the Mac guy/PC guy ads, which have been wonderful and had a very long run.ReplyDelete
But yes, you're absolutely right in general... and its my constant hope that there are many ADs checking out this blog on a regular basis and being inspired to at least try to push for clients to accept something other than the usual tired solutions.

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The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Encores BLINK & YOU MIGHT MISS ME Tonight
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center announces a special, ENCORE one-night-only performance of Larry Blum's enthralling solo show, Blink & You Might Miss Me, directed by Stan Zimmerman, at the Center's Village at Ed Gould Plaza in Hollywood. The critically acclaimed show returns to the Center's Renberg Theatre tonight, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m...after the SOLD-OUT performance in September!Blink & You Might Miss Me is a humorous look back at Larry Blum's personal journey in show business. Sharing engaging stories along with rare clips and photos from his long and varied career, Blum reflects on the unique opportunity he has had to experience celebrity up close and personal. Whether dancing in A Chorus Line onstage, in the feature film cult classic Xanadu, on TV's Solid Gold, or acting in every major daytime drama, Blum's love of the business has never waned. He also enjoys the honor of escorting the glamorous women of Hollywood as they ascend the stairs to the stage to accept various awards, including the Oscars. Though Blum's name may not be a household word, Blink & You Might Miss Me is his moment to take center stage. Blum began his career in show business dancing in productions of I Married An Angel, Bye Bye Birdie and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. After playing the role of Greg in A Chorus Line, he settled in Los Angeles and danced on The 3rd Barry Manilow Special, The Bea Arthur Special, The Tonight Show, the Opening Ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics, The People's Choice Awards and Solid Gold. His film credits include Xanadu and 18 Again, and he has appeared on the television series Roseanne, The Jeffersons, The Golden Girls and The Garry Shandling Show, among others.Stan Zimmerman is a writer, producer and director. He made his stage directing debut with the 30th anniversary revival of Gemini at Celebration Theatre, followed by A Tuna Christmas at Theatre Asylum and Spike Heels at Actor's Circle Theater. With his writing partner James Berg, Zimmerman worked on such classic series as The Golden Girls and Roseanne (penning the now famous 'lesbian kiss' episode), both of which received WGA Award nominations for Best Comedy Writing. Other television writing credits include The Gilmore Girls, the Lifetime sitcom Rita Rocks (which they also created) and both Brady Bunch movies. More information is available at www.blinkandyoumightmissme.com.
Net proceeds from the show will benefit the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center. The Renberg Theatre (200-seat mid-size theatre) is located at The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Blvd. Free parking.).
Tickets are $20 General Admission and ar available at lagaycenter.org/theatre or call 323-860-7300.
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center provides a broad array of services for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, welcoming nearly a quarter-million client visits from ethnically diverse youth and adults each year. Through its Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic and on-site pharmacy, the Center offers free and low-cost health, mental health, HIV/AIDS medical care and HIV/STD testing and prevention. The Center also offers legal, social, cultural and educational services, with unique programs for seniors, families and youth, including a 24-bed transitional living program for homeless youth. Information about the Gay & Lesbian Center is available on the Web at www.lagaycenter.org.


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City of Lincoln
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng will sign a proclamation declaring April 23 through 29 as "Infant Immunization Awareness Week" at a ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 24 in the Mayor's Conference Room. She will be joined by Beth Carlson, Chair of the Lincoln-Lancaster Immunization and Vaccine Effort Coalition; Bruce Dart, Director of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department; and children from the early childhood day care program at UNL.
"The recent outbreak of mumps illustrates the importance of having children immunized beginning at birth," said Mayor Seng. "I am calling on parents, caregivers and public and private health care providers to do all they can to ensure early and on-time immunization against preventable childhood diseases."
Carlson said most vaccine-preventable diseases have been reduced by 99 percent or more since the introduction of vaccines. "This makes vaccines one of the 20th century's most successful and cost-effective public health tools," she said.
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The 1960s
The Yale Epilepsy Center began about 40 years ago (1969) and was one of the very first such centers in the world. Dr. Gilbert Glaser, Chairman at Yale, recruited Dr. Richard Mattson in 1967 to join the faculty and develop a clinical epilepsy program to complement an ongoing basic science research activity. Dr. Mattson had fellowship training in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at the Mayo Clinic and while in the USAF had led a team in pioneering studies of the effect of sleep deprivation on the EEG and epilepsy.
Initial plans at Yale called for an inpatient diagnosis and treatment unit in the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), a newly constructed facility in the heart of the Yale Medical Center. A change in leadership in the psychiatry department led to shift in focus from medically oriented psychiatry to psychosocial and psychodynamic issues making development on their inpatient unit no longer an option. However, Drs. Richard Mattson and George Henninger (now Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry) collaborated in clinical neurophysiological studies of emotional stress on seizures. Stress interviews were conducted while polygraphic recording was conducted in another room. Newly developed videotape machines made it possible to record and easily play back the events simultaneously with the electrographic recordings.


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They have stated that their work in the West is a "kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
Islam divides the world into two implacably warring blocks - Dar al-Islam (the land that Islam controls) versus Dar al-Harb (the land of war which Islam does not yet control). Jihadists are instructed by the Koran to establish supremacy over kuffars (unbelievers) by any means necessary. Islam is a
classic meme or mind-virus whose primary objective is to propagate itself no matter how much suffering and death it causes in the process, just like the rabies virus.
Since Islam is a vicious, wicked and thoroughly disgusting cult with a particularly loathsome founder , it can't spread in the manner of other religions by voluntary conversion, but has to force itself on people by intimidation and terror. And that's where Jihad comes in.
We normally think of Jihad in terms of major attacks like 9/11, 7/7, Mumbai and the child rape and massacre at Beslan , but in fact the aggression can take on many subtler forms, not all of them illegal. The thin ends of a thousand wedges are slowly being inserted into the structure of Western civilisation.
Here are just a few of the forms that jihad can take, no doubt you can think of others:
ARMED JIHAD - The objective is not only to cause death and destruction , such as 9/11, 7/7 and Beslan, but also to force the kuffars to waste vast amounts of money and military manpower on security, thus furthering the Economic Jihad.
CENSORSHIP JIHAD - The Islamic belief system is primitive, tribal and illogical and cannot withstand the light of rational analysis . All criticism of Islam must therefore be shut down.
CORRUPTION JIHAD - The objective is to undermine kuffar public confidence in institutions such as the police, medical profession etc.
CULTURAL JIHAD Jihadists try to destroy infidels' monuments, sacred sites, heritage, culture and works of art.
DEMOGRAPHIC JIHAD - The objective is for jihadists to gain power by breeding faster than other sections of the population. Jihadist women are breeding machines who produce vast numbers of children and now that polygamy has been legalised jihadist men are free to import up to four wives each.
DOMINATION JIHAD - Jihadists try to dominate public space in the cities they are overrunning.
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL JIHAD - The objective is to weaken the economies of kuffar nations by whatever means are possible, including welfare parasitism , crime and breeding of large useless swarms of inbred retards.
EDUCATIONAL JIHAD - Jihadists are seeking to remove non-Islamic subjects from the school curriculum and to Islamify schools by introducing jihadist observances and revisions of history.
FOREST FIRE JIHAD - Jihadists cause death and environmental devastation by setting fire to forests in Australia and Israel.
HIT AND RUN JIHAD - Cars are used as weapons in 'accidents' to kill kuffars.
HUMILIATION JIHAD - Islam is a culture obsessed with honor/shame and domination/subjugation. Islam will therefore look for any opportunity to degrade and humiliate the kuffars, such as the popular 'jihad-snuff videos' where kuffars are made to beg for their lives and then ritually slaughtered anyway.
IMMIGRATION JIHAD - Jihadists are illegally swarming into Western Europe. Once established they bring in their very extended families by 'chain-migration' so that before you know it one jihadist has brought in his entire village.
INFILTRATION JIHAD - Similar to Corruption Jihad except that the objective is to infiltrate institutions in order to make them useful to jihadists.
INTIMIDATION JIHAD - Jihadists are quick to take offence at the slightest provovation . This makes the kuffars eager to appease their demands to avoid trouble. Of course appeasement only gives rise to further demands - give an inch and they'll take a mile.
LAWFARE OR LITIGATION JIHAD - Offended jihadists are very keen to sue kuffars on the slightest pretext. The objective is not necessarily to win the case but to harass the kuffars and force them to spend vast amounts of money on their legal defence.
MOSQUE-BLIGHT JIHAD - Having a mosque near you is about the worst form of property blight imaginable. Mosques act as the nuclei of jihadist ghettos around which ever-expanding no-go areas grow. Infidels are forced to sell their homes to jihadists at massively reduced prices by campaigns of intimidation.
NARCO JIHAD - Jihadists are the major suppliers of heroin. This trade supplies funding for jihad and helps destroy kuffar society.
SEXUAL JIHAD - Rape and paedophilia are and always have been essential weapons in jihad. Kuffar women and children are booty to be enjoyed by their conquerors. Paedophile abductions of kuffar children by jihadist pimps have become commonplace.
STREET JIHAD - Young kuffar boys, usually alone or in small groups, are set upon and viciously attacked by much larger groups of older youths and men. These crimes are usually hushed up by the media eg
Kriss Donald castrated, blinded and burned alive; Henry Webster skull smashed in three places and permanently brain-damaged, and many more only reported in the local press. Gays are particular targets for street jihad.
TOXIC JIHAD - Jihadists contaminate food to be served to kuffars with their feces and urine and human remains of their victims., plus mislabelled and dangerous food.
Latest - Water Supply and Salad bar jihad.
VICTIMHOOD JIHAD - Jihadist aggressors and supremacists usually try the role reversal trick. They claim victimhood for themselves and accuse their victims of 'racism', despite the fact that Islam is not a race.


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Thursday, April 17, 2008
In which the werewolf is admitted to paradise
Today I accepted one of those jobs. Now that I've visited the place and seen the details of the offer, it looks like a complete dream job. They'll have me teaching a light load of two courses per semester to bright and motivated students. This will give me plenty of time to focus on research, which is something they want me to do and which I can do very well. I'll have a lot of good colleagues -- the Philosophy department at NUS has 19 academic staff, including political philosopher and eminent Mill scholar C.L. Ten. Crooked Timber readers will note that one of my colleagues will be famous academic blogger John Holbo (whose super-cool wife is fellow Crooked Timberer Belle Waring). More good colleagues are probably on the way -- they were hiring 5 people this year. The food is amazing. Amazing tropical fruit and delicious Asian food with spices and weird meats and coconut milk are cheap and plentiful. And the money is enough to blow a grad student's mind. In going from TAing to an Assistant Professorship, my salary is going to multiply by something like 4 or 5. My plan is to live on half of it, save a quarter, and spend the rest on a variety of bold schemes to promote the good of humanity.
Now for a story that longtime readers might appreciate. Before giving my job talk, NUS had me give an hour-long presentation to the graduate students and advanced undergraduates to prepare them for the talk and also evaluate my teaching abilities. Since my talk was on the Humean theory of motivation, I taught them about the puzzle involving cognitivism, internalism, and the Humean theory -- if you accept all three, you end up having to say that humans can't make moral judgments, so you'd better deny at least one of the three. I'd planned the talk to include about 20 minutes of student questions, but a third of the way through, the students hadn't asked me anything.
So I looked at them and tried a trick that I had spontaneously come up with in the previous session of the lecture I've been teaching at Texas. I said, "If someone asks a question, and it's a good question, I'm going to dance." Amid lots of giggling, a brave young man raised his hand and asked a question -- I've forgotten what it was now, but it was good, and the students laughed again when they saw me dancing. After that, good questions flowed freely. When students see that their teacher is willing to do comical and mildly embarrassing things to reward student participation, they get the idea that class really is a place where they're suppose to participate.
I wondered at the time what the NUS faculty evaluating me thought of that stunt. They didn't express emotion in any obvious way, and it seemed kind of high-risk, high-reward -- would I look like a dynamic, exciting teacher, or a maniac?
Apparently they didn't think too badly of it, because they've offered me an amazing job.
21 comments:
- Matt said...
Congratulations, Neil! I hope it will be a very happy and rewarding experience for you.
- Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:16:00 pm
- brock said...
Congratulations, Neil!
- Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:38:00 pm
- Jonathan Ichikawa said...
Awesome! Congratulations!
- Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:46:00 pm
- Michael said...
That's awesome
- Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:06:00 pm
That really looked like an excellent job. I'm glad you got it, bub! Lots of hedons should accrue to you from now on.
And if you ever want me to come out and give a paper...
- Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:16:00 pm
- snarkout said...
Congratulations! Belle's description of Singapore street food suggest that you left out an important quality of life factor (one that lies somewhere between 5x salary and a light courseload)
- Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:15:00 pm
- Justin said...
I'm not sure whether I'm more wowed by the fact that you're going to meet Belle and John or that it sounds like a sweet job.
- Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:00:00 pm
- breakerslion said...
Congratulations. From Texas to Singapore, eh? Sounds like you have a penchant for meeting good people in culturally challenged places. Of course, that could be said about nearly every place in the world.
- Friday, April 18, 2008 7:02:00 am
- hoperu said...
Congratulations Neil! I am sure it is a relief to have things settled. I assume you get to teach classes in English? As for the food, location and all, you will have to start posting pictures once you get moved.
- Friday, April 18, 2008 10:21:00 am
- Tre said...
Congratulations! I'm excited for you. I'm jealous of all the time you'll get to spend in the food stalls.
- Friday, April 18, 2008 11:27:00 am
Although I told you so via alternative methods of communication earlier, congratulations again!
Also, it sounds like your method of using dance to combat lack of class participation is nicer than the one I used to use. I would look at the class, tell them they seemed sleepy, and then make them all stand up and do "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes." Of course, I picked this strategy up from a co-teacher in Japan. It's even more embarrassing for students at the college level.
Most potentially embarrassing thing done while teaching: Performing the scene from Fahrenheit 451 where the main character is yelling at the loud speaker on the train.
- Friday, April 18, 2008 2:21:00 pm
- Neil Sinhababu said...
Thanks to everybody for their good wishes, and congratulations to Jonathan, Robert, and anyone else who has found a wonderful job of their own!
- Friday, April 18, 2008 4:08:00 pm
- Janet D. Stemwedel said...
Awesome! Mazel tov!
What will you be teaching?
- Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:43:00 am
- Brandon said...
CONGRATULATIONS! I'm very excited and happy for you.
- Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:57:00 pm
- Dan said...
Enough suspense already! Was it the one-leg pogo or the no-legs shuffle?
- Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:43:00 pm
- Ian said...
Congratulations Neil! I'm delighted for you.
- Monday, April 21, 2008 8:17:00 am
- Neil Sinhababu said...
Fortunately, they'll have me teaching in English -- that's the language of the university.
Next semester they're going to have me teaching a grad seminar (I can't wait to teach on metaethics) and a historical course (I'll make it Hume and Kant, I think).
Then in the spring semester I'll be doing political philosophy (I'm thinking Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick) and another metaethics class on the undergrad side.
I actually stuck with two-legged dancing in these cases, Dan -- I've found that the pogo and the double amputee work best if I warm up the audience first with other moves, and I didn't really have time to do that.
- Monday, April 21, 2008 1:36:00 pm
congrats Neil!
- Monday, April 21, 2008 4:06:00 pm
Congrats Neil
- Monday, April 21, 2008 4:06:00 pm
- Kenny said...
- Monday, April 21, 2008 4:20:00 pm
Way to go, Neil! Belle is a great guide to the good steet food (I was there last summer). I was pretty fascinated with Singapore; it'd be a really fascinating place to stay for a while and get to know better.
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From the 'Catholic Family Prayer Book'
edited by Jacquelyn Lindsey
Many parishes and chapels have Eucharistic Adoration, either perpetual adoration around the clock or on certain days. During this devotion, the Sacred Host is taken from the tabernacle and placed in a monstrance so it can be seen and venerated by the faithful. Those partaking of this devotion may sit or kneel and silently pray or meditate before the Eucharist.
O Sacrament most holy, O Sacrament divine!
All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine!
Short Visit to the Blessed Sacrament
By Ven. John Henry Newman
I place myself in the presence of Him, in whose Incarnate Presence I am before I place myself there.
I adore You, O my Savior, present here as God and man, in soul and body, in true flesh and blood.
I acknowledge and confess that I kneel before the Sacred Humanity, which was conceived in Mary's womb, and lay in Mary's bosom; which grew up to man's estate, and by the Sea of Galilee called the Twelve, wrought miracles, and spoke words of wisdom and peace; which in due season hung on the cross, lay in the tomb, rose from the dead, and now reigns in heaven.
I praise and bless, and give myself wholly to Him, Who is the true Bread of my soul, and my everlasting joy.
(Ven. John Henry Newman, 1801-1890, converted from the Anglican Church to become a Cardinal and contributed to the rebirth of the Catholic Church in England.)
Before the Blessed Sacrament
Prayer from the Fátima Children
O most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore you profoundly. I offer you the most precious body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of sinners.
(In 1917 Our Lady appeared to three children: ten-year-old Lucia dos Santos and her cousins, nine-year-old Bl. Francisco and seven-year-old Bl. Jacinta Marto at Fátima, Portugal.)
Prayer of St. Peter Julian Eymard
Oh! Yes, Lord Jesus, come and reign! Let my body be Your temple, my heart Your throne, my will Your devoted servant; let me be Yours forever, living only in You and for you!
(St. Peter Julian Eymard, 1811-1868, a French priest, founded the Blessed Sacrament Fathers and Brothers, dedicated to devotion of the Eucharist. Feast: August 3.)
Act When Visiting the Most Holy Sacrament
By St. Alphonsus Liguori
My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love you bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit you; I believe that you are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore you from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank you for the many graces you have given me, and especially for having given me yourself in this Sacrament; for having given me Mary your Mother as my advocate, and for having called me to visit you in this church.
(St. Alphonsus Liguori, 1696-1787, Italian bishop and founder of the Redemptorists, was proclaimed a doctor of the Church and is patron of confessors and moralists. Feast: August 1.)
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Revs to help "Kick Out Cancer" with breast cancer awareness night on Saturday against Real Salt Lake
On Sunday, Sept. 26, the Revs conducted a full-team community service project at Children's Hospital Boston's Yawkey Family Inn in Brookline ... in conjunction with Major League Soccer's charitable arm, MLS W.O.R.K.S., and inspired by the White House's "United we serve" campaign, the Revs completed the installation of a year-round greenhouse outside the Inn - which the Revs and MLS W.O.R.K.S. donated - and finished plantings for both inside the greenhouse and outside landscaping ... following a fall theme, the team also oversaw fun fall activities, including pumpkin painting, cookie decorating and front-yard soccer action … the recently-opened Yawkey Family Inn is a housing unit for patient families relying on Children's Hospital Boston for low- or no-cost housing while young family members receive treatment at the hospital … for a full wrap-up of the event, visit revolutionsoccer.net.
With the draw against Columbus on Saturday night and coupled with several other results around the league, the Revs were officially eliminated from playoff consideration for the first time since 2001 … the Revs saw their run of eight straight playoff appearances – the longest current run in the league – snapped after having appeared in the postseason in each season from 2002 on … the eight-year run was also Boston's longest current playoff streak of the city's five professional sports teams.
Pat Phelan recorded his second goal of the season – and second goal of his career – on Saturday night when he connected with Marko Perovic's free kick in the second minute … before this season, the third-year midfielder had made 32 appearances without a goal … in fact, with two goals and one assist, Phelan has recorded his entire career's scoring numbers in 2010.
With assists in back-to-back games, Marko Perovic has changed his repertoire up … the Serb came to the Revs as a goal-scoring threat, but his play recently has shifted to set-up man … he picked up his first career MLS assist on Wednesday, Sept. 22, at Dallas, when he sent Ilija Stolica in for the team's second goal, and then his free kick on Saturday, Sept. 25, against Columbus, set up Pat Phelan's second-minute goal.
Entering Week 26 of the MLS schedule, the Revolution had not had a penalty kick called in any of its games in 2010 … but in the span of two games during Week 26, the Revs saw four PKs whistled – three against them, and one for … at Dallas on Wednesday, the Revs were twice called for penalties … FCD's David Ferreira had two attempts – his first he pushed wide right, and his second he converted … Saturday against Columbus, the Revs earned their first penalty kick of the season, which Shalrie Joseph converted … however, later in the match Joseph was whistled for handling the ball in the box, and Guillermo Barros Schelotto converted the Crew's attempt.


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Ferries to France: Great escapes across the Channel
It's easy to forget, in the era of cheap flying, just what an attractive option the north of France still makes for a holiday. From the rocky coves and sandy beaches of Brittany to the white cliffs and the rolling countryside of Normandy, from the cathedral cities of Rouen and Amiens to the plethora of excellent golf courses and art galleries, there are the ingredients for family holidays and short breaks of all kinds.
If you do fancy exploring farther afield, depending on where in the UK you start from, you may find it cheaper to take your own car than to fly and hire one at the airport, especially if you are travelling as a family. To help you plan your trip, our graphic below shows all the key crossings to the eight north-coast ferry terminals, and our table gives driving times and motorway tolls between each terminal and key destinations in other parts of France. Over the page, our Brittany and Normandy expert Greg Ward suggests two scenic day-drives, and Anthony Peregrine is shown around a Pas-de-Calais mining town by one of the locals.
Editor's note: Deals for National Ferry Fortnight are at the bottom of this article
Below is our complete guide to cross-Channel fares. Those given below are the lowest standard return between May and September for a car plus at least two passengers; cabins are the cheapest available for two or four people, and frequencies are the number of departures from the UK port at peak times. Crossing times may be slower on overnight legs. Note that the old LD Lines routes are now operated by DFDS Seaways, though you may still see them advertised under the LD branding. If you want to compare fares offered by different operators, the following websites provide a quick way of doing so: ferrysavers.co.uk; aferry.co.uk; ferryonline.co.uk; ferrybooker.com; and eurodrive.co.uk.
DFDS, which took over Norfolk Line last year, runs this as an alternative to the Calais link. There are fewer services, but you may be able to find a cheaper crossing, and Dunkirk is slightly nearer than Calais to the Belgian cities of Bruges and Ghent (though in truth, the longer crossing cancels out this advantage). You can also join the motorway network at a different point, either heading west to Calais on the A16 (where you can join the main A26 towards Reims and Troyes), or directly south towards Lille on the A25, which is a better option for routes into Belgium and northern Germany.
DFDS (0871 574 7235; dfds.co.uk)
Lowest return fare: £58 (car plus four passengers)
Fastest crossing time: two hours
Max frequency: 12 per day
Dover and Folkestone-Calais
The link to Calais (whether by ferry from Dover or Eurotunnel from Folkestone) remains the quickest and cheapest way to get to France. Unless you live within much easier reach of one of the other UK Channel ports, and speed is your priority, it will be quicker and probably cheaper to go via Calais to almost any destination in France. For example, the driving time from Calais to St Malo is about five hours, while the ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo takes eight.
You also have a huge number of departures, and four different operators to choose from. After the demise of SeaFrance, in November 2011, a new operator – the clumsily named MyFerryLink – restarted the route, using the same ships, in August last year.
While Calais isn't the most picturesque of ports, there are several attractive alternatives worthy of a weekend break (some with great golf courses) a short drive south, including Boulogne, Hardelot, Le Touquet, and, just inland, Montreuil.
Eurotunnel (0844 879 7371; eurotunnel.com)
Lowest standard return: £128 (car plus nine)
Fastest crossing time: 35 minutes
Max frequency: four per hour
P & O Ferries (0871 664 6464; poferries.com)
Lowest standard return: £70 (car plus nine)
Fastest crossing time: 90 minutes
Max frequency: 23 per day
MyFerryLink (0844 248 2100; myferrylink.com)
Lowest standard return: £58 (car plus nine)
Fastest crossing time: 90 minutes
Max frequency: 16 per day
DFDS (0871 574 7235; dfds.co.uk)
Lowest standard return: £58 (car plus four)
Fastest crossing time: 90 minutes
Max frequency: 10 per day
Dieppe is one of the most attractive of the north-coast ports, and makes a good weekend destination in its own right – especially if you like seafood. There is a great beach, and the castle on the headland has a good art collection, including works by Courbet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sickert. Along with Le Havre, it gives easy access to the northern stretches of the Normandy coast, especially Etretat and Pourville, two favourite resorts of the Impressionist painters, as well as the cities of Rouen and Amiens. Along with Le Havre, it is also only a couple of hours' drive from Paris, and fares are good value. Worth considering as an alternative to Calais.
DFDS (0800 917 1201; dfds.co.uk)
Lowest standard return: £154.50 (car plus two)
Cheapest overnight cabin: £50 (sleeps four)
Fastest crossing time: four hours
Max frequency: twice a day
Portsmouth-Le Havre
Until recently, Le Havre was out of favour with ferry operators from Britain. Now, with Brittany Ferries launching a new link on May 8, there are two services from Portsmouth. Unless you enjoy modernist town planning (and some fans come here specifically to see the work of the architect Auguste Perret, who rebuilt the port after the war), Le Havre is not a beautiful place, but it does have France's best museum of Impressionist paintings after the Musée d'Orsay.
All the big names are well-represented and there are lots paintings by Dufy, who was born here. It also gives the easiest access to some of the prettiest resorts on the Normandy coast, including Honfleur, Trouville and Deauville, and quick access into the French motorway system (A13 to Paris and the south, and A28 to the Loire and the south-west).
Brittany Ferries (0871 244 1400; brittanyferries.com)
Lowest standard return: £258 (car plus two)
Fastest crossing time: three hours 45 minutes
Max frequency: daily, Thurs-Sun, May 8 to September 16
DFDS (0800 917 1201; dfds.co.uk)
Lowest standard return: £169.50 (car plus two)
Cheapest overnight cabin: £65 (sleeps four)
Fastest crossing time: outbound eight hours; return five hours 30 minutes
Max frequency: daily
The crossing to Caen offers a good balance between speed, cost and direct access into Normandy and routes throughout France. It's actually quicker to get from Caen to Aix-en-Provence than from Calais, and not much more than a couple of hours to reach the Loire. Anyone exploring the D-Day beaches will find this a good option, and for a weekend break, there are few more attractive towns than Bayeux, which is only about 40 minutes' drive from the port.
Brittany Ferries (0871 244 1400; brittanyferries.com)
Lowest standard return: £198 (car plus two)
Cheapest overnight cabin: £55 (sleeps two)
Fastest crossing time: six hours
Max frequency: three times a day
Portsmouth and Poole-Cherbourg
Cherbourg isn't the most beautiful of ports, and at the top of the Cotentin Peninsula it is rather out on a limb and a long haul to the motorway. However, the crossing is relatively quick, and, as our Normandy expert Greg Ward points out (telegraph.co.uk/normandy), there are some lovely villages, ports (such as Barfleur) and beaches to explore.
Brittany Ferries fast craft from Portsmouth (0871 244 1400; brittanyferries.com)
Lowest standard return: £258 (car plus two)
Fastest crossing time: three hours
Max frequency: daily, May 8 to September 16
Condor from Portsmouth
(0845 609 1024; condorferries.com)
Lowest standard return: £200 (car plus two)
Fastest crossing time: six hours 30 minutes
Max frequency: Sundays only, May 26 to September 1
Brittany Ferries from Poole (0871 244 1400; brittanyferries.com)
Lowest standard return: £198 (car plus two)
Fastest crossing time: four hours
Max frequency: daily
Portsmouth, Poole and Weymouth-St Malo
St Malo is one of the most attractive decent-sized ports in Europe; a walled city with its own chateau, and a weekend destination in its own right. If you do take the car, the lovely resort of Dinard is just across the bay, the hilltop town of Dinan just up the estuary, Mont Saint-Michel is less than an hour away, and the beautiful pink-granite coastline stretches away to the west.
Brittany Ferries (0871 244 1400; brittanyferries.com)
Lowest standard return: £263 (car plus two)
Cheapest overnight cabin: £45 (sleeps two)
Fastest crossing time: eight hours
Max frequency: daily
Condor, fastcraft from Poole via Channel Islands (0845 609 1024; condorferries.com)
Lowest standard return: £265 (car plus two)
Fastest crossing time: seven hours 45 minutes
Max frequency: twice daily
Condor, fastcraft from Weymouth via Channel Islands (details as above)
Lowest standard return: £265 (car plus two)
Fastest crossing time: eight hours 15 minutes
Max frequency: daily (from July 17)
Roscoff is small and unprepossessing, but it is a pleasant six-hour crossing and if you live in the West Country it gives easy access to the west of France, and especially the key holiday destinations on the southern Brittany coast, such as Bénodet, the Golfe du Morbihan and Belle-Ile. See our guide (telegraph.co.uk/brittany) for more suggestions.
Brittany Ferries (0871 244 1400; brittanyferries.com)
Lowest standard return: £248 (car plus two)
Cheapest overnight cabin: £29 (sleeps two)
Fastest crossing time: six hours
Max frequency: twice daily
National Ferry Fortnight deals
During National Ferry Fortnight, which starts today (March 2), most of the ferry companies are promoting special deals. Some of these may offer savings on the standard fares listed above, but they will only be valid for bookings during the fortnight itself (the end date varies from March 16 to March 19 depending on the company). I've included a selection of these below together with some for crossings on the North Sea, Irish Sea and Isle of Wight routes. Use the specific weblink listed below for details.
Brittany Ferries (brittanyferries.com/nff) is offering free passage for children travelling with adults by car on crossings until the end of the year.
DFDS Seaways (dfds.co.uk/ferryfortnight) is offering 20 per cent discounts on its Channel crossings and also on the Newcastle-Amsterdam route – so a car plus two costs from £224 return including an en-suite cabin – and Harwich-Esbjerg (Denmark) where a car plus two costs from £446 return, also including an en-suite cabin.
Irish Ferries (irishferries.com/nff). Kids Go Free promotion is valid on all Irish Ferries services between Britain and Ireland, saving £30 per child on a return trip. Applies to four-15 year-olds travelling on any sailing before December 20 2013 (including peak season).
Red Funnel (redfunnel.co.uk/nff) is cutting return fares by 20 per cent for car crossings of two nights away or more before August 31.
Stena Line (stenaline.co.uk/NFF) has a similar Kids Go Free offer for all bookings with a car to Ireland, Britain and Holland made during National Ferry Fortnight.


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My girls and I love to read the book Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni. We love to see how the fish imagines the things that the frog describes to him as he ventures out into the world. We also like to imagine what other things might look like in Fish's mind so we decided we would draw some of those other things. I pulled out some crayon pastels because of their vibrant colors and let the girls get to work.
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NWSB insider and Portland Timbers blogger Blair Thomas brings us his reasons why the Portland Timbers failed to score a goal against the Houston Dynamo in their last match. In the brand new BBVA Compass Stadium, Timbers keeper Troy Perkins maintained a cleen sheet, but Timbers striker Kris Boyd was unable to give them the lead. The game played out to a 0-0 draw in front of nearly 30,000 Dyanmo faitful.
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It takes all of about 90 seconds for your brain to plug into the matrix of "Agatha Christie's the BBC Murders."
The four radio mysteries lavishly produced for the stage at Fort Lauderdale's Parker Playhouse were rescued from obscurity by theatrical impresario Zev Buffman after the BBC building was leveled by bombs during WWII. (Buffman is like Caesar returning to Rome at the Parker, a theater he helped put on the map.)
Your eyes adjust to the actors reading their lines at microphones — and stepping away for a little action here and there — just as they would have when these one-acts were presented in the studio during radio's heyday in the 1930s and '40s.
Your ears tune in and lock onto the intricately choreographed sound effects of the Foley artists stage right and the sound engineers at the back of the house. You hear the pouring of a stiff cocktail, the creak of a door opening, a train roaring into the station.
The four playlets presented here include:
"Butter in a Lordly Dish," a delicious revenge thriller.
"Three Blind Mice," a whodunit with a cast of characters stuck in a snowbound guesthouse (and the forerunner of the mega-hit "The Mousetrap").
"Personal Call," an atmospheric adventure with ghostly phone calls.
"Yellow Iris," in which Christie's famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves a mystery in a fashionable cabaret nightclub … between songs by Rupert Holmes ("Curtains," "The Mystery of Edwin Drood").
And, yes, that sound thing is a bravissimo effect, one that somehow manages to charm throughout the two-hour show with a 15-minute intermission. But it is the cast that makes it all work, from the round robin of characters to the wink-wink-nudge-nudge feel that makes up for the audience being waaaay ahead of the detectives in many cases.
Standouts include Amy Walker (a stunningly versatile actor), Phil Proctor (member of Firesign Theatre, which adapted the plays) and Gary Sandy (a veteran actor best known for "WKRP in Cincinnati").
This is old-fashioned storytelling, sumptuously updated in a theatrical construct that shouldn't flow nearly as well as it does. "The BBC Murders" is so close to perfect (that last mystery is a little ragged) we may just go ahead and offer a verdict: The show should make a killing.
'Agatha Christie's the BBC Murders' plays through Feb. 3 at Parker Playhouse, 707 NE Eighth St., in Fort Lauderdale. Performances are 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 7:30 p.m. Sundays. Matinees are 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays (also Wednesdays on Jan. 23 and Jan. 30). Tickets cost from $26.50 to $66.50. Call 954-462-0222 or go to BrowardCenter.org.


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In 2008, ever-popular audio accessory giant Monster Cable announced a partnership with legendary hip-hop producer Dr. Dre aimed at delivering a new line of custom headphones designed to bring studio-quality audio to the masses. It would appear that the company's goal to create a new breed of headphone listener has been successful, as today, the Beats by Dr. Dre brand is wildly popular and steadily putting the pressure on some of the other hip headphone makers like Skullcandy. With the Solo, we're happy to report that Monster and Dre provide a high-quality set of headphones that sounds every bit as slick as it looks, and even offers iPod control and iPhone talking features that are oft-looked over by other headphone manufacturers. Though not without their glitches, the bottom line is as follows – the Solo's benefits far outweigh their limitations and are a solid buy at the asking price of $199.00.
Out of the Box
The Solo headphones come attractively packaged in a high-gauge box that is as solid as the headphones themselves. Opening the bright red box like a book reveals the headphones folded and packed in a padded oval soft-case on the right side. The manual, a Monster-branded headphone cable and a micro-fiber cleaning cloth are seated on the left. There are no adapters or extension cables included with the Solo, so you'll need to purchase them separately if you plan on using them with a home audio receiver, in a recording studio, or through an airline audio connection.
Our first impressions of the Solo are that they are very well-built and apparently well-conceived. The use of wide-banded, high impact plastic and metal along with solid hinges and fittings makes for a lightweight pair of cans that doesn't feel cheap.
Features and Design
The Beats By Dr. Dre Solo headphones are available in two shades: Black and what we like to call "iPod white." Our white pair sported light grey trim and subtle red accents along with a not-so-subtly-red Monster-branded headphone cable. These on-ear headphones feature extremely soft and breathable leather ear-pads, fully articulated earcups for flexible positioning and a lightly padded headband that, while seemingly skimpy, serves its purpose very well. The headband is also highly adjustable to accommodate a large range of head sizes.
The multipurpose headphone cable is about one meter (3.3 ft) long and connects to the left side by way of 1/8" mini-jack. The other end of the cable is a three-conductor 1/8" mini-jack that supports the cable's built-in microphone and iPod control functions. On the microphone itself we find a single metallic "select" button along with a + and – key for volume adjustment and track advancement.


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Is it a good idea to change the limit of the nmbclusters value?
set kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768
What is the best way to change the nmbcluster value?
OpenBSD has no such value to modify, at least not by that name.
anyway, trying to optimize one OS based on (out-of-date?) blog-post
for another OS (albeit both are BSDs) is very close to shooting your own foot.
so I'll vote for it being a bad idea.
i suggest you to start a new thread asking for advice with whatever problem you were
trying to solve with that optimization, if there actually is a limit you're encountering.
It influences the number of mbufs available in the kernel.
kern.ipc.nmbclusters is FreeBSD specific, in OpenBSD mbufs allocated is a function of maxusers; if you are willing, you can recompile the kernel and set NMBCLUSTERS.
I believe there is a sysctl knob for mbuf clusters; no custom kernel should be required: kern.maxclusters.
However, before turning any knobs barti should read OpenBSD FAQ 6.6.
My information came from "Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security," although the official documentation should supercede third-party advice as noted by jggimi.
Books are static, the software is subject to change. The book was published in December 2004 and the sysctl was added just that year.
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: firstname.lastname@example.com 2004/04/19 16:52:33 Modified files: sys/kern : kern_sysctl.c uipc_mbuf.c sys/sys : sysctl.h sys/uvm : uvm_extern.h uvm_init.c uvm_km.c uvm_km.h Log message: introduce a new km_page allocator that gets pages from kernel_map using an interrupt safe thread. use this as the new backend for mbpool and mclpool, eliminating the mb_map. introduce a sysctl kern.maxclusters which controls the limit of clusters allocated. testing by many people, works everywhere but m68k. ok deraadt@ this essentially deprecates the NMBCLUSTERS option, don't use it. this should reduce pressure on the kmem_map and the uvm reserve of static map entries.
I heard that openbsd crashes under heavy loads
This is why I'm asking this.
Where did you "hear" this? Which architecture? Which release? Which applications? Define the term "heavy loads".
Keep in mind, barti, whatever you "heard" may have no relationship with mbuf cluster exhaustion.
Note that this information is also dated -- meaning that its application value to more recent versions of OpenBSD is questionable -- which is the point most of the project consistent make to users. In general, the tweaking of system parameters without significant knowledge & experience should be avoided altogether.
The soundbite phrase frequently quoted is "Knobs are for knobs".
Last edited by ocicat; 1st October 2012 at 08:33 PM. Reason: add clarity since archive information on this subject is also dated
As a final comment barti, you will not find high quality results by searching for OpenBSD-related information using a general-purpose search engine such as Google. Yes, Google may ultimately return hits to information found in the mailing lists, but those hits will not appear in on the first page of search results. The mailing lists simply do not receive enough traffic in order to get a search-order ranking equivalent to their value. This is why most information found the first page of Google searches is dreck.
The best information on OpenBSD is in the archives of the projects' mailing lists. To search the mailing lists specifically, look at any of the archive search engines discussed at the following:
barti, there was an interesting discussion of kern.maxclusters and synpoxy today on misc@.
The conversation was in followup to a newbie question that began in August here:
openbsd crashes
I heard this from a tech support in a well known company (never mind).
They sell dedicated servers with freebsd and openbsd and linux and .....
He told me that freebsd performs much better then openbsd and that openbsd crashes under heavy loads.
Thats all, no versions, no more.
I was very sad to hear this.
I read also that the openbsd developers will break things to make the system more secure.
Maybe openbsd it TO MUCH to the limit and the price is to high in terms of performance and stability ?
Information about openbsd is HARD to find, a lot of 2000-2004 stuff out there.
I'm desperate, freebsd is much better with info.
True or not true ?
Will openbsd crash under heavy loads?
Is it true that freebsd performs much better then openbsd?
Tested on 2003
Since OpenBSD has so many data points with dramatically higher latency, it is the clear loser in this benchmark
The clear winner in the graph is Linux 2.6. OpenBSD does not scale at all, and even panics under high load
Whoa! Obviously, something is seriously broken in the OpenBSD memory management. OpenBSD is so incredibly slow that compared to this performance, NetBSD looks like Warp 9, and Linux is not even on the same chart.
OpenBSD had big performance drops in the process, adding to the previous embarassment with mmap. I can really only warn of using OpenBSD for scalable network servers.
The clear loser is, again, OpenBSD. Don't use OpenBSD for network servers.
OpenBSD data points are all over the place in this graph; again, I would advise against using OpenBSD for scalable network servers
OpenBSD 3.4 was a real stinker in these tests. The installation routine sucks, the disk performance sucks, the kernel was unstable, and in the network scalability department it was even outperformed by it's father, NetBSD. OpenBSD also gets points deducted for the sabotage they did to their IPv6 stack. If you are using OpenBSD, you should move away now.
Does openbsd in later versions do better then this?
Did they fixed it?
Because now I'm thinking again to go back to freebsd (serious).
Thanks (and sorry)
In your history here, every time you have questioned the usability of this OS in this thread and in others, you cite third party information that has been incomplete, outdated, unsubstantiated, or misleading. Or you yourself may misunderstand. For example:
More information on ProPolice and W^X can be found in a number of the papers and presentations available through the Project website. Here's one that covers both of these technologies:
I'm sorry, barti, but I'm not going to try to defend the OS against every Internet posting you find in the wild and bring here. It is entirely up to you whether or not to use this OS. If you decide to do so, you should get your primary information on configuration, tuning, administration, and operation from official channels. And while I'm on the subject -- this forum, too, is third party and not an official channel.
Last edited by jggimi; 3rd October 2012 at 02:39 AM. Reason: typos, clarity
Openbsd main problem
There is no up to date information avaliable, All you have is some posts 10 years ago.
For beginner to get to know this system is very hard task.
Mailing lists don't help with big issues, usually people ask about some network card or some laptop compability.
I don't see any replies to this tread.
I did read about some people use it for high traffic servers but not many.
Any way, I'm going to try it and see how it goes.
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According to court documents, Gruetter was a personal injury attorney with offices in Bend and Portland, Oregon. As part of his guilty plea, Gruetter admitted that he and others illegally diverted more than $1.1 million in client settlement funds via interstate wire transfers. He further admitted that he and others used his clients' money to pay for personal and business expenses rather than to pay the clients or to pay the clients' legal, medical, insurance, or other associated costs as promised. On February 3, 2012, the Oregon State Bar took custody of defendant's law practice, and on March 9, 2012, defendant resigned his law license, desiring not to contest allegations that he neglected clients' legal matters, failed to communicate with clients, and failed to deliver funds to clients.
Sentencing is set for March 17, 2014, at 9 a.m.before Judge McShane. The maximum penalty for conspiracy to commit wire fraud is 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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With spring in sight, time to catch up on winter action
After the Red Sox paraded the World Series trophy around Boston on duck boats the second day of November, baseball put its toys away and began a winter of work to prepare for 2014.
Soon, the annual parade of signings and trades fueled the Hot Stove League, winding its way through the offseason with a wintry mix of rumor and reality. Along the route, the teams in pursuit of that coveted trophy began to take shape, with maneuvers from coast to coast and even across the Pacific Ocean.
After the Red Sox paraded the World Series trophy around Boston on duck boats the second day of November, baseball put its toys away and began a winter of work to prepare for 2014.
Soon, the annual parade of signings and trades fueled the Hot Stove League, winding its way through the offseason with a wintry mix of rumor and reality. Along the route, the teams in pursuit of that coveted trophy began to take shape, with maneuvers from coast to coast and even across the Pacific Ocean.
Now that baseball's procession of winter wheeling and dealing is coming to an end, here's a curbside look at the route this year's offseason parade of activity took toward the upcoming 2014 season:
November began, as always, with some street cleanup in one city and a collection of hardware about to be scattered all over the place. In 2013, it was Detroit's Miguel Cabrera scooping up the heavy metal, earning consecutive Most Valuable Player Awards in the American League for the first time in two decades, taking Players' Choice top honors and adding a Silver Slugger.
Other highlights from the annual Baseball Writers' Association of America awards included the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw with his second National League Cy Young Award in three years, and Jose Fernandez of the Marlins receiving the double reward of NL Rookie of the Year honors and a heartwarming reunion with his grandmother from Cuba.
With the end of the World Series came the beginning of free agency, and this class was noted for being top-heavy on position players. Robinson Cano, Jacoby Ellsbury and Shin-Soo Choo were the headliners in that realm, and already there was anticipation that the most coveted pitcher would be a Japanese star named Masahiro Tanaka, but only if the Rakuten Golden Eagles would in fact make him available to U.S. teams.
There's also the trade route and, boy, was there a blockbuster to really begin the winter with a bang. The Rangers acquired slugging first baseman Prince Fielder from the Tigers for second baseman Ian Kinsler on Nov. 20, a doozy of a deal featuring All-Star talent and big bucks that rocked the Hot Stove League awake. The Cardinals and Angels got together a couple of days later, with third baseman David Freese heading west and Peter Bourjos to St. Louis.
The first few weeks of the offseason also allowed for time to fill managerial openings on five teams. Taking over the reins: Bryan Price in Cincinnati, Matt Williams in Washington, Brad Ausmus in Detroit, Lloyd McClendon in Seattle and Rick Renteria with the Cubs -- and don't forget Ryne Sandberg in Philadelphia, a late-season addition.
December means the Winter Meetings, but a slew of moves before that annual convention began to reveal the route this offseason parade would take. The first sign of the Yankees being the Yankees again, for instance, came when they signed veteran catcher Brian McCann to a five-year, $85 million deal on Dec. 3.
That was part of a flurry of transactions before the Winter Meetings were to begin in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Among them, the A's traded for closer Jim Johnson and signed veteran starter Scott Kazmir, the Tigers picked up a bona fide closer in Joe Nathan while trading starter Doug Fister to the Nationals, and Norichika Aoki was dealt from the Brewers to the Royals.
Then came two huge pre-Meetings salvos, as Cano bolted for Seattle and the Yankees brought in Ellsbury -- monster deals for the two most coveted free agents on the market. Cano, signed and developed into a star in Yankees pinstripes, agreed to a 10-year, $240 million contract with the Mariners. The Yankees countered by swooping in to take Ellsbury away from the rival Red Sox with a seven-year, $153 million contract.
The first deal once the annual convention of rumors, trades and signings began saw Curtis Granderson land across town with the Mets -- complete with a playful "True New Yorkers are Mets fans" jab. The Meetings also begat a good, old-fashioned talent swap with a three-way trade sending slugger Mark Trumbo to Arizona to hit alongside breakout star Paul Goldschmidt, left-handed pitchers Tyler Skaggs and Hector Santiago heading to the Angels and outfielder Adam Eaton to the White Sox.
While the movers and shakers were doing their thing, three of the all-time great managers were honored with their election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame -- Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa and Joe Torre, all heading to Cooperstown in July.
The Yankees added veteran outfielder Carlos Beltran on a three-year deal with the holidays approaching, but it was the Rangers who really went all in for an outfielder. Texas swooped up the highest-rated position player remaining on the market, coming to terms with Choo on a seven-year deal worth $130 million.
On Christmas Eve, word finally came down that Tanaka would in fact be posted under a new system, which capped the posting fee at $20 million but opened up negotiations to any team that offered that fee. That's a refundable deposit a lot of teams were willing to put down as the calendar flipped to 2014.
January began with another trio bestowed with the highest honor in the sport. In an election that again was preceded by considerable debate, the BBWAA elected three first-timers on the Hall of Fame ballot: pitchers Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, and hitting star Frank Thomas. Maddux finished with 97.2 percent of the vote, the eighth-highest total of all time.
Pitching continued to be the focus in the first month of a new year, with a pair of 25-year-old stars in the spotlight.
Kershaw, the lefty with two Cy Young Awards and three straight NL ERA titles, agreed to the richest deal ever for a pitcher, signing a seven-year, $215 million contract through 2020. In the wake of Kershaw's long-term bonanza, the Tigers signed AL Cy Young winner Max Scherzer to a one-year, $15.5 million deal, and the Rays signed 2012 winner David Price, a frequent subject of trade rumors, to a one-year pact worth $14 million.
Meanwhile, Tanaka was headed for a big payday before his first Major League pitch. With a Jan. 24 deadline looming, the sweepstakes whittled down to five teams -- Cubs, D-backs, Dodgers, White Sox and Yankees. In the end, the Yankees finished first in pursuit of Tanaka, who signed a seven-year deal worth $155 million.
And, with that, the Yankees further embossed an indelible mark on this offseason's parade, either as a spectacularly opulent float or a wild herd of elephants, depending on one's perspective.
February is here, and only a few days remain before the first camps open, with the rest on board by Valentine's Day. Some interesting names remain available, so there's some work to be done. But, for the most part, rosters are constructed once again following another procession of activity this offseason.
Once all 30 teams reach their destinations in Arizona or Florida, another parade will begin. It's the one that gears up for a 162-game season, runs that marathon route into October and ends with the next opportunity to show off the World Series trophy.
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2011-11-01 TuesNite Chat
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msD: anybody here?
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msD: Hello
Seventies Soulchild: Hi di, we are in TuesNite chat... come join us!
msD: Hello Seventies
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Seventies Soulchild: Hey Khathu
Khathu: Hello Seventies
Seventies Soulchild: How are you tonight?
Khathu: Tired
Seventies Soulchild: Hard day at work?
Khathu: I'll be in NYC tomorrow night through Friday for my cousin's funeral
Seventies Soulchild: Sorry to hear that. Drive safely. Most of the snow is melted.
Khathu: hard day at work and a killer session with the trainer it snowed in NYC
Seventies Soulchild: yes on Saturday.
Khathu: so I need to wear my Tims
Seventies Soulchild: no.. it should be all cleared up by now.
Khathu: okay
Seventies Soulchild: Where will the funeral be? In Manhattan or another borough?
Khathu: Most likely in Brooklyn
Seventies Soulchild: ok on Atlantic Ave I bet.
Khathu: I am catching the Mega Bus
Seventies Soulchild: I heard the mega bus was like $5!
Khathu: So I should get to NYC around 9 or 10 that is one of those frequent miles or user thing
Seventies Soulchild: ok
Khathu: it is still cheap $13-$16 one way
Seventies Soulchild: that is very cheap. Hmmmm I may have to look into that. do they have a website?
Khathu: megabus.com, i think
Seventies Soulchild: ok
Khathu: have you gotten your result back from 23andMe
Seventies Soulchild: No.. They just e-mailed me this morning to let me know that my package was mailed out. I guess I'll be getting it either later this week or next week. I will have to mail the test outside of NY state.
Khathu: okay, i got the same email. i thought you had used them before
Seventies Soulchild: I'm going to mail it to my granddaddy and some other family members. and have them send it back.
Khathu: why is that? they ran out of kits
Seventies Soulchild: NY state doesn't allow them to do the medical testing because they are basically not licensed to do so in NYS
Khathu: my mother tried to obtain a free yesterday and they were charging $99
Seventies Soulchild: really???
Khathu: yeah...go to the site and check it out
Seventies Soulchild: Well I'll tell you what, if I don't use all my kits I'll send it off to your mom. Did someone just come into the chat.
Khathu: thank you! in exchange i will be your driver when you come down to DC if they did they into another room
Seventies Soulchild: Ok... It was di... I think she chose the wrong room. brb I don't think I'll be using all my kits.
Khathu: good evening msD
Seventies Soulchild: Hey msD... sorry I type the wrong name.
msD: Evening
Khathu: thanks seventies
msD: I went to the wrong room
Seventies Soulchild: So I'm considering doing African Ancestry again.
Khathu: Really? Why is that? How much do they charge? MsD is this your first time in chat?
Seventies Soulchild: Well I want specific data. I am still confused with the haplogroup thing. Its too much for the people I'll be dealing with. I'm waiting for the holiday specials Khathu
msD: No, but I haven't been here to often
Khathu: okay, well welcome back
msD: Thanks
Khathu: any new research findings or brickwalls?
msD: I've just been updating
Seventies Soulchild: hello deannie
deannie: evening
Khathu: hello deannie
msD: hi deanie
deannie: I was checking out some new things on Family search...some tax things. From mississippi
Seventies Soulchild: I LOVE the MS tax records. especially the older ones. It gives good information. lol Ok I mean the later ones. It shows where the people lived and worked. its a good substitute for the census. Did they have any for Jefferson Co.?
deannie: I just started the one's I looking at today is from 1866 Claiborne county,MS
Seventies Soulchild: brb
deannie: Jefferson county is also one of my county
msD: Hi Selma
Selma: Good evening everyone..
deannie: Hi Selma
Selma: Evening History Buff
deannie: My name for Jefferson county...TYLER, WESBTER.....
Khathu: Hello Selma and HistoryBuff
msD: hi history buff
HistoryBuff: Hey Selma, Deannie, Khathu, msD and Seventies.
deannie: Hi HistoryBuff
HistoryBuff: Hey Daviss
Selma: Seems as if family seach has made all the Mississippi researchers happy Evening Daviss
msD: hi Davisss
HistoryBuff: How so, Selma?
deannie: Hi Daviss
Davisss: hello HistoryBuff, Selma and msD
deannie: ditto
Davisss: hello deannie and seventies lol
Selma: they have uploaded a number of new Mississippi records..
deannie: It a lot of help....'
Davisss: oh and hi there khathu!
msD: It's about time they did something for MS
HistoryBuff: That's good. How is it helpful to a beginning researcher?
Khathu: Hello Daviss
Davisss: did they have any birth records in Ms
Khathu: Thanks again for the link to 23andMe I ordered just in time to get the free kit
Seventies Soulchild: Hi Daviss, HistoryBuff
Khathu: Daviss were you able to get the files from dropbox?
Davisss: good for you khathu
deannie: Not until after 1912...and black my not have been included
Davisss: yes Khathu, I thought I had told you thanks so much I really appreciate you
Khathu: You mentioned that you would try once you got back from the conference.
HistoryBuff: Kudos to you Khathu for getting in on the DNA free kit. I keep getting distracted from other demands.
Davisss: ahhhh well again I will say thanks much
Seventies Soulchild: Daviss, they don't have any birth certificates online for the MS records on family search hey Selma
Davisss: Khathu did you order two kits?
Selma: Hey seventies
Davisss: thx seventies
msD: I need death records from MS
Seventies Soulchild: LOL so funny I was intending on calling my aunt tonight about this DNA test and she ended up calling me
Khathu: I ordered one and then entered my grandmother's info and email
HistoryBuff: Where there any records of membership to associations, society's or any other groups.
Davisss: is she a yes auntie seventies
Seventies Soulchild: You will have to write for those msD... and it ain't cheap IMO
HistoryBuff: Good timing, Seventies. lol
Khathu: Yes, they have applications for the Daughters of the Republic of Texas applications
msD: Good ole Mississippi
Seventies Soulchild: LOL she's an oh h3ll no auntie!
HistoryBuff: Yep Ole Miss!
Davisss: :o
Seventies Soulchild: She's calmed down over the years though. Thank goodness! lol Naw, I was asking about how to approach my grandfather for the dna test.
Davisss: did she calm down enough to give a sample lol oh ok I forgot about gramps
Seventies Soulchild: She doesn't need to give me a sample. We've already gotten the lineage from me. She's my mother's sister
deannie: Has another tried Linda Rudd for MS death cert...she only charges $5.00
Seventies Soulchild: When I write the MDAH, I make sure that I listed a whole lot of people.
msD: Deannie, Remind me to get that info from you
deannie: That what I heard about MDAH
HistoryBuff: A 1st cousin and I have some research interests in Mississippi. I need to get her to write down for me which geographic areas in MS she's researching. In fact we can exchange info. She visited MS last year about this time and get to meet and stay with some relatives on her father's side of the family.
Seventies Soulchild: ok
msD: Where are you researching in MS
Davisss: good for your cousin HB
HistoryBuff: I would love to see any of the early 20th century college yearbooks for Alcorn State U.
Khathu: good everyone
Seventies Soulchild: Uh oh did you say Alcorn State U??
HistoryBuff: CYa Khathu
Davisss: oh yeah HB that would be nice
Seventies Soulchild: that's my mom's and many of my family member's alma mater But I don't know if they have any yearbooks.
HistoryBuff: Yes I did. A paternal great aunt, sister to my paternal grandmother is said to be an alumnae.
Seventies Soulchild: I have a year book from 1990-91, but I'm not in it.
HistoryBuff: Wow. That's very interesting, Seventies! I don't know of any current family members who attended. Perhaps, that 's a good lead also.
Seventies Soulchild: I actually met family members while attending. I have a few relatives who are attending right now. Daviss Iris' daughter just started this year.
HistoryBuff: Have you seen copies of any of their diplomas or academic records, Seventies?
Seventies Soulchild: My mom's and aun'ts diplomas. Alcorn State is our family school. My mom's family. Selma College and Tuskegee are my dad's family alma mater
Davisss: deannie i sent alt your email, thx loads
HistoryBuff: That's fantastic Seventies. I hope you have copies among your family artifacts. I just finally seen photographs of my great aunt, last year.
Seventies Soulchild: Who had her photos?
deannie: Thanks davisss...I just learnning to send things.....
Seventies Soulchild: lol
Davisss: you did good my friend
Seventies Soulchild: It'll get easier as time goes on. Any other good news?
HistoryBuff: Seventies, you could most likely provide a presentation of ancestry academic institutional history. That sounds very promising to augment HBCU history. :}
Davisss: well nite my friends
Seventies Soulchild: lol HistoryBuff... I would love to, BUT busy working on the James Galmore mystery.
HistoryBuff: What do you think about that, Sevenites?
Seventies Soulchild: Its something that I'll file away in my mind. :}
HistoryBuff: Well perhaps you could add that project to your wish list for collaboration with other family members.
Selma: Have to run folks... long day..have a good evening
HistoryBuff: ...You know down the road. Bye Selma.
Seventies Soulchild: I guess its just us MS folks left on here... lol
HistoryBuff: Ole Miss!
Seventies Soulchild: lol Ok well I guess I'd better head off too. I have had a long day as well. Have a good night.
HistoryBuff: Nite Seventies.
msD: Nite
deannie: what happen
msD: Seventies just left I better go get ready for tomorrow. Nite
HistoryBuff: I've gotten as far as obtaining census records for MS. I need to see marriage records and death records. Ok Deannie I'll turn off the lights. Have a good evening.
deannie: nite


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