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The terminus is the end, the boundary, and the border.
It is also a beginning, its own place, a site of experience and encounter.
Ethnographic Terminalia is an annual exhibition of international artists and researchers working at the intersection of art and anthropology. From 15-19 November 2011, Ethnographic Terminalia welcomes visitors at Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media and Interdisciplinary Art in Montréal, Canada. This year's show is organized in collaboration with Concordia University's Centre for Ethnographic Research & Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV) and is scheduled to coincide with the 110th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), which are convening in Canada for the first time. Ethnographic Terminalia brings anthropologists and artists together in the gallery space to investigate the borders and blurrings of contemporary art practice and alternative modes of cultural inquiry and representation. Ethnographic Terminalia is an exploration of what it might mean to exhibit anthropology – particularly in some of its less traditional forms – in proximity to and conversation with contemporary art practices.
Now in its third year (following New Orleans in 2010 and in Philadelphia in 2009), Ethnographic Terminalia represents an international array of creative material, conceptual, and new media engagements where anthropology and art intersect: sound, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, video, film, internet and multi-media. For Ethnographic Terminalia 2011: Montréal the curators have selected over twenty five artists and cultural researchers including: Humberto Vélez, Ian Kirkpatrick, Renée Ridgway, Jennifer Willett, Benjamin Funke, Chantal Francoeur, Venetia Dale, Barbara Rosenthal, Reynard Loki & Maciej Toporowicz (Momentech), Chantal Gibson, Andrew Norman Wilson, Steven Foster, Siraj Izhar, Henry Adam Svec, Shannon Dosemagen & Sara Wylie (PLOTS), La Cosa Preziosa (Susanne Caprara), Luc Messinezis, Laura Malacart, Alyssa Grossamn & Selena Kimball, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier & Marie-Josée Proulx, Lesley Braun, Sarah Christman, Aryo Danusiri, Valentina Ferrandes, Erin Newell, and projects from Concordia University's CEREV Workshop (Erica Lehrer, Florencia Marchetti, Monica Eileen Patterson, Joseph Rosen, Selina Antonucci, Ashley Clarkson, Katie King, Matthew Foster, Rachel Rotrand, and Alejandrom Yishizawa).
Location: Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media and Interdisciplinary Art, 7240 Clark, 2nd floor, Montréal, Quebec, H2R 2Y
Opening Reception: Friday 18 November 2011 7.30pm.
Gallery Hours 15-19 November 2011: Tues – Sat | 12pm-5pm
Cost: Entry is free
In addition to the main exhibition, other events sponsored by Ethnographic Terminalia include:
18 November 2011 –
- AAA "Terminalia Terminal": A Concordia University shuttle bus will offer free transportation for AAA delegates from the Palais des Congrès de Montréal to Eastern Bloc for the Opening Reception. A schedule of departures times will be available after 1 November 2011 at: www.ethnographicterminalia.org
- 5:30-7:00 p.m.: Conversation with artist Humberto Vélez, AGYU Assistant Director and Curator Emelie Chhangur, and Ethnographic Terminalia curators about research, ethics, and community. Documentation of Humberto Vélez's The Awakening (2011) will be screened.
- 7:30-10:00 p.m.: Opening Reception / Public Vernissage (free entry, open to public, cash bar)
19 November 2011 –
- 3:00-5:00 p.m.: Roundtable discussion at Eastern Bloc with Concordia/McGill faculty & exhibitors.
- 7:00 p.m.: Screening of a 35mm print of the ethnographic film, Sweetgrass (2010), with co-director Lucien Castaing-Taylor in attendance. DeSeve Cinema (Concordia University)
Visit www.ethnographicterminalia.org regularly for updates & details after 1 November 2011
Principle Curators:
Kate Hennessy, School of Interactive Arts + Technology, SFU (Vancouver, Canada)
Fiona McDonald, University College London (London, England)
Trudi Lynn Smith, York University (Toronto, Canada)
Partnering Curator:
Erica Lehrer, Concordia University (Montréal, Canada)
Stephanie Takaragawa, Chapman University (Orange, USA)
Craig Campbell, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, USA)
Maria Brodine, Columbia University (New York, USA)
Sponsors: CEREV Workshop, Concordia University, Canada Research Chairs, Making Culture Lab/Simon Fraser University, AAA Community Engagement Fund, Society for Visual Anthropology, Council of Museum Anthropology.
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In the high-stakes world of high finance, rewards are reaped by having the guts to take on risk.
A whiz who can win gains while narrowing risk would be worth $35 million to $45 million over the next five years, which is what the San Diego County pension system has agreed to pay consultant Lee Partridge of Houston.
After all, Partridge's investments earned 6.5 percent in the last fiscal year for the pension fund, or about $550 million. Had he used the same investment strategy as Orange County's pension system did, that number would have been $67 million.
Since many pension funds face a significant gap between the amount in their funds today and what they have promised pensioners in the future, corralling solid returns on investments while avoiding big losses is crucial.
The San Diego County Employees Retirement Association currently has about $79 for every $100 it expects to pay out to pensioners over the years. If SDCERA had earned Orange County's pension system returns last year, it would have only $74 for every $100 promised.
SDCERA says Partridge earns the fund more than 99 percent of its peers, taking on less risk than 81 percent of them.
But what is risk, how is it measured, and are the available measurements adequate to keep $9 billion of public money safe?
The Partridge files
- Pension board to outsource portfolio oversight
- Retirement board turns testy about expert's pay
- New role carved for portfolio strategist
- Pension guru could have large payday
- Pension fund missed out on Treasury gains
- County outsider calling some pension shots
- Pension officer claims risk limits breached
- Retirement board OKs risk in two fund classes
- County pension fund earns less than peers
- Pension officer raised risk issues, got fired
- Pension strategist when on risk: 'Bring it on!'
- Pension fund contract called 'way outrageous'
- Pension fund mix modified
- County pension charts path through risky waters
- F-minus for pension fund from trustee
- Pension fund posts 13.44 percent gain
- Was pension fund leverage approved?
- Pension board keeps manager for now
Partridge manages the county employee retirement fund based on an investment strategy called risk parity. It contends that traditional asset allocation used by many pensions concentrates too much risk in stocks.
A standard diversified portfolio that invests 60 percent of its money in stocks and 40 percent in bonds would have more than 90 percent of the risk tethered to the stock holdings, says Partridge, chief investment officer with Salient Partners.
"Risk parity strategies try to balance out risk so they have an equal contribution across different asset classes," he said in an interview with U-T San Diego.
SDCERA hasn't adopted a pure risk parity strategy, says Partridge. The fund doesn't strive to precisely achieve the same risk levels across stocks, bonds, real estate, private equity and other asset classes in the portfolio.
But the fund's strategy does lean toward risk parity principles.
"The reason we have been considered risk parity is we target risk rather than dollar allocation," says Partridge. "We tried to reduce the dominance of equities as the main risk factor that impacts the returns of the portfolio. That means we have lower equity allocation and a higher fixed-income allocation because we just need more dollars invested in fixed income to get a risk contribution that is noticeable."
Partridge brought another pillar of the risk parity along when he was hired to oversee SDCERA in 2009 — leverage through U.S. Treasury futures, global equity futures and other derivative investments. SDCERA's policies didn't allow leverage — which adds a layer of risk — until Partridge was retained and its board adopted new rules.
In addition, SDCERA's fund now has significantly higher stakes in so-called alternative investments — hedge funds, infrastructure and natural resources — compared with its peers.
The county's pension fund has been burned by a hedge fund investment before. In 2006, it lost $105 million when Amaranth Advisors collapsed.
"Once you get out of traditional equities or fixed income where there's a wealth of data — once you start getting into these alternatives — people start painting with too broad a brush in how they characterize their risk exposure," says Bradley Belt, a senior managing director of the Milken Institute and former head of the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
Risk is at issue
SDCERA manages benefits for approximately 36,000 current and former county workers. The pension fund is governed by a nine-member board — five members are elected by employees and retirees, and four are appointed or elected to serve.
The Board of Retirement fired its chief investment officer in March 2009 after the fund plunged in value by more than $2 billion during the economic meltdown of 2008. The job had been held by David Deutsch, who earned $209,000 a year.
In October 2009, the pension board hired Partridge on a consultant basis. Partridge, then an investment official at the Teachers Retirement System of Texas, turned down the staff job because it did not pay enough.
He came highly recommended. Partridge was introduced to the board by Hewitt Ennis Knupp, the company that took over risk-assessment duties after pension officials let their in-house chief risk officer go.
The Texas investment veteran moved to San Diego, opened his own company, and was given a 39-month contract worth up to $4.5 million — roughly six times what Deutsch was paid.
Partridge returned to Texas later in 2010, merged his firm with Salient Partners of Houston and became the company's chief investment officer. Today Salient manages almost $18 billion in assets, half of which belong to San Diego County.
Risk in the fund has been an issue in the news. A former county investment officer, Jeffrey Baker, was fired in 2011 by pension officials after raising questions about Partridge's investments. He said the consultant was exceeding the agency's risk limits.
Is the county pension fund taking on too much risk?
Yes 41% (25)
No 28% (17)
Time will tell 31% (19)
61 total votes.
Another agency consultant later calculated that the fund was exceeding its established limits. The pension system upped the limits to accommodate.
Now Baker is suing in the courts for wrongful termination, after losing his case before the county civil-service board.
Five days before Christmas, Salient was awarded a new contract that will pay the company 0.02 percent of the fund's value every quarter, which could be worth $35 million to $45 million over the next five years. Three of nine board members opposed the deal.
"We're looking at a one-man show," said Supervisor Dianne Jacob, who represents the board of supervisors on the retirement panel. "What's the added value here?"
Diversification helps
Measuring risk is far from a perfect science. It relies on past performance of stocks, bonds, real estate and other investments, which doesn't always paint a clear picture of the future. Some modern investment vehicles such as total return swaps are relatively new and thus lack a deep pool of data to judge risk.
To balance risk versus return, investors rely on diversification — spreading money among stocks, bonds, real estate, cash and other investments to limit losses without sacrificing too much in potential gains.
In 2008, before Partridge took over as strategist for SDCERA, the fund had 44.2 percent of its investments in U.S. and global stocks and 34.1 percent in fixed-income bonds. Real estate totaled 7.3 percent and private equity amounted to 4.2 percent.
In 2012 with Partridge at the helm, the fund held 25 percent in global and emerging-market stocks. Fixed income swelled to 44 percent, mostly in U.S. Treasuries, high-yield bonds and emerging-market debt. Real estate and private equity made up 11 percent and 10 percent respectively.
According to pension officials, this move away from stocks and toward other investments is what's allowing for higher returns with less risk.
"The strategic diversification that SDCERA has in place moderates the overall level of portfolio risk or volatility as compared to a more typical 60/40 approach," spokesman Dan Flores said.
Adding leverage
Low-risk investments typically offer low returns. So risk parity managers add leverage. In San Diego County's case, the pension fund has 35 percent leverage layered on top of its base assets.
"When you're constructing one of these risk parity strategies, you're going to have a fairly high allocation to fixed income because of the low volatility," said Josh Charleson, senior fund analyst with Morningstar. "But on top of that you have certain return targets. So basically in order to preserve the allocation to bonds, you have to apply leverage in order to increase the expected returns in the bond part of the portfolio."
Leverage in SDCERA's case means using futures — sophisticated investments that bet on the direction of future prices without actually buying a stock, bond, commodity or other asset.
Futures contracts are secured by escrow-like deposits. The deposits are a fraction of the agreed-upon, contract price of the asset. So investors can enter into many contracts with small deposits — thus leveraging their money.
If prices move the way an investor wanted, they gather hefty returns because of the extra exposure from leverage. But if prices move against them, losses are magnified.
"A modest amount of leverage is certainly something worth considering," says Belt of the Milken Institute. "But it's a wrong answer — capital W — if you're simply introducing leverage into the portfolio to juice returns and try to earn your way out of a funding shortfall."
Partridge says SDCERA's leveraged assets — mostly U.S. Treasury futures, global equity futures and total return swaps — are held in well-established futures exchanges. SDCERA is long — or a buyer — in these markets and doesn't dabble in exotic trading strategies, he says, adding that futures are a low-cost way to boost SDCERA's exposure to certain markets with low volatility.
For example, the NYSE 10-year Treasury Futures Index averages price swings about one-third as severe as large U.S. company stocks, according to a report from J.P. Morgan.
"Our exposure in terms of futures is much less than what our peer group's is to equities," says Partridge.
Alternative investments
Fixed-income bonds have been good investments for several years. But market watchers see an end coming for the bond bull run — which could be bad news for a leverage bond portfolio.
"People who are skeptical of risk parity strategies say you're levering up bonds right at the point where bonds are kind of at the peak of a cycle," says Charleson, the Morningstar analyst.
In addition to leverage, SDCERA has a sizable percentage of the total fund tied up in alternative investments. Twenty percent of its money is allocated to hedge funds. The 1,000 largest public pension funds nationwide on average had less than 4 percent of their money in alternative investments, according to Pension & Investments, an industry research publisher.
Activists who study public pensions say there is an inescapable link between profits and risk, and say earning higher returns is not possible without taking more chances.
"There's no way to avoid the relationship between risk and return," says Dan Pellissier of California Pension Reform. "People who invest money on the taxpayers' behalf should be more conservative than they are in their private life because the only way to make up for losses is through taxes."


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I'm in a bit of daze right now since I'm so confused on what school is a better choice for me. I got accepted into both John Marshall Law school in Chicago, with a scholarship of 28,000 for the entire three years (if I remain in the top 1/3 of my class). I also got accepted into New England Law school in Boston which offered me nothing but loans. I'm extremely attracted to public interest focus at NELS, but having no financial aid besides loans SCARES me (as it would anyone else). The clinics at NELS are similar to what I want to do with my career. I'm not in love with the clinics at JMLS. How difficult is it to transfer out of JMLS and into a better school in any other state?... opinions? Advice? Personal experiences? Thanks!!!
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That sort of debt shouldn't scare you, it should absolutely TERRIFY you. You're looking at, respectively, the absolute worst school in Chicago, one of the most hyper competitive markets in the country, and one of the worst schools in the Northeast, in a similarly extremely competitive market. Either one of these schools is unlikely to get you a legal job AT ALL, but getting one that will service the massive amount of debt you'd be signing onto is virtually impossible. Do not go to either school at those prices, it would likely be the biggest mistake you have ever made.
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First and foremost take everything you read on this board or others under heavy scruinty including everything I say. Anonymous internet posters myself included usually have no idea what they are talking about, but I have been through law school which gives me a modicum of credibility, but nothing more. Every law student and lawyer had a different law school experience and you will find plenty of people that loved attending these schools and plenty of people that hated them. Whether you love or hate your experience is largely up to you and there is no accurate way to predict how it will turn out.
In response to the actual question there are some real factors to consider.
1) Location Chicago and Boston are in complete different locations probably not a news flash to you, but the city you go to law school in makes a big difference. If you have friends & family in Boston or Chicago that should play a big role as those connections will be good support through law school and those relationships usually help you get your career started. You are also going to get an apartment, probably start a romantic relationship if your not in one already, make friends, and just build roots in Boston or Chicago over three years and odds are you will stay there the rest of your life. 0L's really don't think location through enough. It is true that people do just move back home, but when you have made many friends possibly started up a relationshp moving across country is not easy especially if you have a a lot of debt.
2) Cost. This is always something to think about and be wary of scholraship conditions there is a 66% chance you will not be in the top 1/3 at JMLS. Every student at every ABA school is smart, hard working, and sincerely believes they will be in the top 10%, but 90% are wrong. This NY times article does a good job explaining it.
A major thing the students in that article did wrong is they did not ask questions. Do not make the same mistake 28,000 over three years is nearly 90,000 dollars on the line. If you had 90,000 on the line for anything else you would ask some serious question and this situation should not be treated any differently. You should also negotiate for better conditions and also don't be afraid to tell New England about your scholarship offer at JMSL they might throw you some money. That is what I did and it got me an extra 15k in scholarship money I did nothing more than ask. They will not revoke your acceptance for asking they have determined you to be a qualified applicant and they want you in their seat, but if your willing to silently sit by and pay full price they won't encourage you pay to less. Remember above all else that law schools are a business and your a customer. Be reasonable and decent to the adminstrators, but if you don't say anything they have no problem taking your money.
3) Transferring:
NEVER plan on transferring. If it happens that is great, but as stated before there is a 90% chance you will not be in the top 10%. Even if you are in the top 10% you make a lot of friends first year and you get roots dug in and there is a strong likelihood you will not leave. If you end up in the top 10% then think about it, but odds are it won't come up so plan on transferring.
4) Subjective feeling about the school.
From your post it sounds like you really enjoy NESL. That is really something ot think about every school has a culture and a feel to it and if there are activities there that speak to you that is something to consider. Back when I was choosing some schools felt right to me while others did not. If you love the professors, admins, programs, and everything about a particular school it might be worth the extra money.
Certainly visit both schools and see how you feel if visiting is not an option in Chicago I would recommend not just showing up first day of school and seeing how it goes. This is a very serious decision.
5) The reality of legal education is that in reality it is all the same. Whether you attend JMSL or NESL you are going to take torts, contracts, civ pro, property, crim pro, and when it is all done you will join people from Ivy League and T4 schools in BarBri where you pay an additional 5k and stress out together. There are electives which make a difference and the clincials you discussed may be different than at other schools, but the core educaiton is the same at every single law school.
Nobody can really tell you what to do not take anonymous interent poster, U.S. News, or any other random information to seriously in making this decision. This is your life, your money, and your legal career and people that know nothing about you, your situation, your likes, your dislikes cannot give you any solid advice as to which school to choose.
No matter what you decide whether you make it in this profession will be heavily dependent on you. The name of your school only takes you so far and at the end of the day whether you sink or swim in this profession is largely up to you. Good luck to you whatever you decide.
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In the idyllic region of Bohumilec village, Czech Republic, a fancy home with wood paneling got our attention. The work of Mimosa Architekti, the House in Bohumilec project, defined in 2010, consists in a contemporary house, with rustic details. Inspired by the region's natural landscape and by its simplicity, the house is an expressive countryside home, surrounded by lush vegetation and a very green and healthy environment. The architects concentrated on creating a breezy atmosphere: the ground floor became a fluid, interconnected space.
They adjoined the kitchen with the living room and the dining area, augmenting the feeling of freedom and space. The first floor accommodates the bedrooms, which offer an amazing view over the "pure and fresh" surroundings and the lake. The clients requested something simple, liveable and beautiful. Without seeking sophistication, they wanted a harmonic approach towards modern design and the simplicity of authentic details. Believe it or not, the change of seasons has a large influence on how the house gets to be perceived. Here's what the architects say: "The wooden husk of the house hides the interior in white colors. Colorfulness of the house steps back the colorfulness of the surrounding green. The colors of the surroundings infiltrate the house and change it during the seasons."


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This mom is getting a workation. OK, in all honesty it's really a vacation but I'm excited to pepper it with voice-over work. As I write this, I am on a plane ALONE headed to San Fransisco, where I will attempt to buy new sunglasses and then board another plane BY MYSELF to Maui. Did you hear me? I said I'm traveling ALONE.
The nitty gritty is that my big brother went and knocked up his wife and they now have a beautiful baby girl. My husband, who values family above most everything (single speed bicycles and date night being the exceptions) insisted, when we learned that bro was spawning, that I had to get myself to Hawaii and meet my niece.
It took a couple of months for me to decide that it would not be selfish to spend somewhere around a grand on myself. It would be perfectly fine to take a vacation by myself. It would be a much needed break for me and perhaps even for my husband and children. I believe all of that now, but when this discussion started I really had a hard time even entertaining the thought. Doesn't my husband also deserve a vacation? Couldn't we save that money and put it back into the business or into something for the whole family? He insisted that it was time for just me and to take it while I could.
It's no secret that I have little to no outside help keeping the girls from running amok during the week while I'm also working at a job that requires said children to often be quiet. I love my work and I love my children so I consider myself lucky. I also consider myself strung out, exhausted, in over my head, freaked out, and any number of things. Totally normal, right? Right?
I certainly need this break. And the closer the date of departure came, the more excited I got. Until two days before, a Sunday, when I got nervous. I realized I was going to miss my two little girls. I hadn't been away from the youngest at all and the oldest, almost 4, only missed me for one night when I was off giving birth to her sister. I came home the next day. And as for my husband, the fantastic father and generous husband who insisted on this trip, we've been apart less than a week total in the more than eight years we've been married. And before that... well, let's just say I haven't traveled alone in well over eight years.
When I got to the airport in Boston I almost cried kissing them all goodbye. Thoughts of tragedy kept entering my head (and I'm not an alarmist -- I flew right after September 11 when people were still in panic mode and you couldn't bring much on board with you). My hands were shaking and my heart was beating like crazy. I walked alone into that terminal and I thought I'd break down. I've traveled a lot in the last several years and have never felt nervous. Was I worried that I wouldn't see my family again? Was a sad? Was it just because I didn't have the distraction of car seats and sippy cups and a huge stroller? Or was it because I wasn't sure what I was going to do ALONE?


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Congratulations to the titans on a district championship. Game started slow, scoring wise, but in the end, OG's athleticism won out as the lady titans pulled away the last 2 and a half quarters. OG will now face Akron Hoban Tues. at 6:15 in Ontario.
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Hoban and OG have met 1 time previous, in 2005 in the Regionals (won by Hoban).
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The New York City Public Advocate, who acts as an ombudsman, last week threatened to expel the airline from New York's John F Kennedy Airport because it refuses to sell tickets to Israeli-passport holders.
Bill de Blasio said the discrimination breached US federal law.
The airline's director general, Khalid al-Melhem, said the discrimination policy was acceptable because Saudi Arabia does not recognise Israel as a country.
"If there is an absence of political relations between [Saudi Arabia] and any other country, we will not allow that country's citizens into the kingdom," Melhem told the Saudi Al-Watan newspaper.
"[Diplomatic relations] also apply to transit passengers. In case the plane is delayed, the passenger will have to enter the country, and at that point it would be very difficult to let him into [Saudi Arabia] if there are no diplomatic relations."
De Blasio said he had formally written to the airline warning that unless it changed its policy he would move to have it banned from US airports.
"Saudi Arabian Airlines uses US airports and yet bans Israeli citizens from being able to fly on their airline," Bill de Blasio was quoted as saying in the New York Post.
"[If the airline does not change its policy] we will act to make sure they're excluded from United States airports, starting with JFK."
US federal law states that an "air carrier or foreign air carrier may not subject a person in air transportation to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex or ancestry".
It is the second time Saudia's policy towards Israelis has caused anger in the US, which is the Jewish state's closest ally.
In 2011, the American Jewish community protested against the alliance between Saudia and American carrier Delta based on its rumoured policy not to allow Israeli passport holders on board.
De Blasio said while the discriminatory policy was only a rumour in 2011, it was now clearly official.
"It's quite formal now. You can see with your own eyes on their website," he told The Algemeiner newspaper.
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Threshers pitch North to All-Star win
Pettibone, Cosart, May, Rodriguez perfect in one-inning stints
By Guy Curtright / Special to MLB.com | June 18, 2011 7:07 PM
Four of the Threshers' five starters made the North Division squad. Each pitched an inning; none allowed a baserunner.
The North All-Stars posted a 5-3 victory over the South, and the 5,134 fans at Bright House Field couldn't have been surprised with what they saw from the Clearwater pitchers. They've seen it all year.
"We're always pushing to one-up each other," winning pitcher Trevor May said. "But I don't know who you would say was the best tonight."
Jon Pettibone started and was followed by Jarred Cosart in third inning, May in the fifth and Julio Rodriguez in the seventh. The results were all the same.
"We've got a lot of guys who can get the job done," May said. "It's amazing to get four starters in the All-Star Game. To have them all pitch a perfect inning is phenomenal."
Bradenton Marauders first baseman Aaron Baker of the South All-Stars won the Top Star Award, thanks to a two-run homer and a pair of walks. But none of his four trips to the plate came with a Thresher on the mound.
"They have some great arms. I didn't mind not having to face them," Baker said. "But there are a lot of good pitchers in this league."
The South, which never led, totaled six hits, all of them in the fourth and ninth innings. The North had 10 hits, two each by Rob Lyerly of the Tampa Yankees and Mike Brenly of the Daytona Cubs. Greg Sexton of the Charlotte Stone Crabs had a pair of hits for the South.
"I was pumped," said Lyerly, Tampa's only All-Star representative. "It was a lot of fun."
After Pettibone set down the South in order to start the game, the crowd got some early excitement from the North hitters. Lyerly, who later doubled, singled with two outs. A.J. Jimenez of the Dunedin Blue Jays followed with a drive that caromed oddly off the center-field fence. St. Lucie's Matt den Dekker couldn't pick up the ball cleanly after chasing it down and Jimenez came all the way around, just beating the throw.
Instead of an inside-the-park home run, Jimenez was credited with a triple and den Dekker was charged with an error as the North took a 2-0 lead.
The South finally got a hit when Bradenton's Ramon Cabrera led off the fourth with a single and Baker hit the first pitch from Daytona's Aaron Kurcz over the right-center field fence.
"It was a changeup," Baker said. "I don't think it was where he wanted it."
The North quickly regained the lead, scoring twice in the fifth against St. Lucie's Scott Moviel. Matt Cerda, who replaced Lyerly at third base, had a tie-breaking double and scored on a single by Brenly, his Cubs teammate.
The North got an insurance run in the eighth as Home Run Derby runnerup Brad Glenn of Dunedin doubled and scored on a single by Julio Rodriguez of the Lakeland Flying Tigers.
The South scored in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Charlotte's Brett Nommensen, but Dunedin's Wes Etheridge, who leads the league with 23 saves, came in with the tying run at the plate and got Charlotte's Tyler Bortnick to bounce into a game-ending forceout.
South hitters struck out 11 times, with Dunedin's Deck McGuire and Lakeland's Kenny Faulk each fanning three in an inning.
It was a night when pitching took center stage, and Clearwater hurlers were the headliners.
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