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BABIP at PETCO
Following yesterday's signing by the Dodgers of Juan Uribe, a conversation broke out on twitter on Uribe's predecessor, Ryan Theriot, and how he might fit in with the Padres. Comparisons were made to Eckstein, and I suggested that Theriot is a player who benefits greatly from a high BABIP* and wondered out loud if PETCO might take this advantage away from him. Already a below-average hitter (career wRC+: 90), Theriot's a player who needs every advantage he can get. With his likely joblessness, he seems a potential fit for the Padres. My question is: does PETCO Park hurt a player's BABIP?
*Here's how Baseball Prospectus defines BABIP: Batting Average on balls put into play. A pitcher's average on batted balls ending a plate appearance, excluding home runs. Based on the research of Voros McCracken and others, BABIP is mostly a function of a pitcher's defense and luck, rather than persistent skill. Thus, pitchers with abnormally high or low BABIPs are good bets to see their performances regress to the mean. A typical BABIP is about .300.
Since 2004, when PETCO opened, the stadium has seen an overall BABIP (both offensively and defensively for the Padres) of .282. Away from home, the overall BABIP has been an average .303. Both samples exceed 29,000 at-bats (home: 29,459, away: 30,733).
This comes as little surprise. PETCO has always been a park that punishes hitters. Despite the siren song of its mammoth gaps, the ball just doesn't land here in San Diego and this is reflected in the stadium's BABIP. For a player like Theriot, who's skill set isn't going to breakthrough PETCO's problems, maybe this isn't the place for him.
I anticipate seeing him in a Padres uniform next season.
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In fact, how did the Genesis alone manage such a spectacular sequence with the Sega logo in Sonic 3D Blast, despite everything Knuckles Chaotix managed over a year earlier having had warranted the 32X?
What did the Playstation et al pull off graphically in 2D that the SNES couldn't?
What did you mean by "fixed"
Fixed? I don't understand.
What did you mean by "fixed", and how does one tell the difference between what the SNES was already capable of and what would've required additional or better hardware?
PROTIP: Paying attention to detail is required when hacking or creating a game (like your Earthbound-thing).
As for what the PSX can do in 2D that the SNES could not, I say FMVs? FMVs are just a single layer of 2D graphics, right?
My question was mainly about special effects within regular graphics, just to clear that up.Like, what separates things like zooming in (SMW, Turtles in Time), the ripple effect (Earthbound, LttP), the 3D countdown number from SNSM, and Earthbound's entire variety of battle backgrounds, from nearly everything that Knuckles Chaotix went out of its way to showcase that the original Sonic trilogy didn't pull off? Was that all just a matter of available ROMspace and efficiency?(For the record, I do plan on watching that whole SNES series that Jorpho linked to, before asking on Yahoo if there is anything similar about the Playstation.)
In fact, how did the Genesis alone manage such a spectacular sequence with the Sega logo in Sonic 3D Blast
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[ Teams ][ Accessories ][ Index ][ Links ][ Mail Me ]
Subbuteo is currently produced by Hasbro. Subbuteo is a registered trademark of Hasbro Inc. This is an unofficial tribute, and not connected with Hasbro in any way.
What's New? for 2020 - After a break, updates have returned.
List of older updates - Updates 2000-2018 for interest and amusement.
Thanks and Contributions plus Help Required - If you use the site regularly, please share any extra info you may have with other enthusiasts.
Subbuteo News - This page is designed to keep track of any new products produced of interest to Subbuteo players and collectors.
Netcam/Paul Lamond Subbuteo - Details of the current Subbuteo range.
The Basics.
If you don't want to plunge into the minute details of Subbuteo's range, these are the pages to try. The history is a brief tour of the Subbuteo range from 1947 to date. In keeping with the tradition of men and lists, the page of "Top Tens" features exactly that.
A Short History of Subbuteo: 1947-1979; 1980-2002. Slightly expanded from my old version.
Subbuteo Top Tens - Best/worst things about Subbuteo, and great things to try... and Liverpool away kits.
Player Types - A very quick guide to heavyweights, lightweights, zombies and the rest.
Index and Glossary - An A-Z of all things Subbuteo.
Football Boxed Editions.
Were you one of those rich kids who had a Stadium Edition, or did you start with a Club Edition like the rest of us? The boxed editions page features all the standard box sets produced, and charts the changes in content. The five-a-side page shows the versions of this smaller game, plus the junior games - Targetman and Sport Billy. Finally, the international box sets page features a few other sets not usually sold in Britain.
Subbuteo Boxed Editions: Sets 1947-69, 1970-80, 1980-89, 1990-2002
The five-a-side Editions and junior versions.
The International Box Sets.
Focus On.... 60110 The 2003 Italian Edition of the game, featuring a new player type....
Focus On.... Hasbro's Photo-real Subbuteo The 2005 box set. (See also Photoreal Subbuteo 2005-07)
Focus On.... 2012 Team Edition - The latest Subbuteo box set from Netcam/Paul Lamond Games.
(see also rugby editions, cricket editions, other sports, and racing games)
Part of Subbuteo's appeal was the
vast array of interesting accessories produced. Some were aids the gameplay
(e.g. the corner kickers), while others were merely cosmetic, (e.g. the ball boys).
The full text listing tables all the accessories that have been produced, whilst the illustrated list breaks this down into more manageable sections.
The "Focus On" series will look at certain accessories in even more detail.
The text listing of the Subbuteo Table Football Accessories.
The Early A-Z Range (Set A - Set M); (Set N - Set Z)
The illustrated Continental Range: (C100-C110); (C111-C120); (C121-C139); (C140-C169); (C170-C193).
The illustrated Waddingtons/Hasbro additions: (C200-61221), (61222-61240+reused numbers)
The Accessory Boxes: The Langton Green Years, and Tonbridge to Newport. A brief guide to dating Subbuteo by box type.
Focus On.... C174, The World Cup Winners Pack.
Focus On C131and C132 - A gallery of corner kickers and throw-in figures.
Parodi range and accessories. - Includes details of the new accessories produced by Edilio Parodi in 2003.
(See also - rugby accessories, cricket accessories, five-a-side accessories, miscellaneous accessories, NASL accessories)
Being able to buy your favourite
team was another one of Subbuteo's big strengths. Using the illustrated
catalogues from 1973 to 1996, (and scans of Subbuteo figures where catalogues
don't exist), the team colours project currently illustrates over 900 kits, and
is updated as often as possible. The list is now split into player types, and
attempts to show which kits were produced in which figures.
The appendices attempt to make the lists more useable by charting the numbers used by individual clubs.
The Team Colours Project: Introduction and Index.
Card and Celluloid Figures 1-55 - The early years of Subbuteo teams.
Old heavyweights 1-54 and the 1966 World Cup - The short sleeved figures of the 1960s.
Classic Heavyweights 1970s: Intro, 1-100, 101-200, 201-300, 301-322+, Un-catalogued teams . - The much loved figure.
The Zombie Page - Looks at which kits have been seen in this generally unloved 1970s figure.
Lightweights 1980s-90s: Intro, 1-100, 101-200, 201-300, 301-400
Lightweights 1980s-90s: 401-500, 501-600, 601-700, 701-800, 801+Hasbro
Parodi Production - Intro+2002, 2003-04 Part 1, 2003-04 Part 2, 2004-05
La Leggenda Partwork (lightweight), la leggenda vintage edition, la leggenda platinum edition - Teams produced for Italian partworks (2009-20).
Team Box Appendix - Forty years of box styles.
The Team Colours Project Appendices: English League sides, Scottish League sides, National Sides
Team Colours International Appendices: France, Italy, Germany, Belgium/Holland, Spain/Portugal, Scandinavia, Rest of Europe, and Rest of World.
World Cup 1966 Appendix: Details of "named" World Cup teams, and other World Cup issues.
Super Team Appendix: Details of the teams available in the Super Teams range of 1990.
The Italian Production Appendix: Details of Edilio Parodi's specials, and anomalies.
International Team Production - Overseas team production including Brazil, Spain and Portugal.
Team odds and ends - Unidentified teams, and things that don't really fit in anywhere else.
(See also the Rugby Team Colours page, the Zëugo colours page, and the Delacoste teams page).
Other Sports.
Filling out the range were attempts at several other sports. The most well known are rugby and cricket, which also had ranges of accessories and teams. Less well known are the "one-off" box sets of speedway, snooker, and hockey etc.
Subbuteo Cricket - Box Sets, Flat era accessories, Standard accessories
Subbuteo Rugby - Box sets, Accessory range, Team colours.
Racing Games - Speedway, Motor Racing, Horse Racing, and Cycle Speedway.
Other Sports - Hockey, Snooker, Angling.
This section gives details of the playing instructions for various Subbuteo games, and also shows off the different rule books that were produced.
Football 1947-1975; 1976-2002 - A look at the rules and rule books.
Cricket Rules. 1950s rules, (OO scale) 1960s-80s - Pages for both flat and OO scale versions
Rugby Rules. 1950s rules, (OO scale) 1960s-80s - Rules for two completely different rugby games.
International Production.
Some of these pages are in other indices on this page, but I thought it would help to make a new category for them as the miscellaneous section was getting bigger and bigger.
The Italian Production Appendix: Details of Edilio Parodi's specials, and anomalies.
Delacoste Introduction, Accessories, French teams, Other teams - Details of the 1970s French range.
Spainish production 1960s, Spanish teams 1960s Details of Aquila production.
The North American Experience - Details of the range of 1982-87 supporting the NASL set.
Subbuteo's Far Reaches - Subbuteo catalogues from Japan and New Zealand.
All the Subbuteo stuff which doesn't fit into the other categories.
Subbuteo Assns intro; The ETSA in the 1970s; The FISA and FISTF - A three page history of Subbuteo playing (mainly) in the UK.
The Subbuteo Catalogues - 1947-70, 1971-96, and additional flyers.
Miscellaneous Items 1947-1979; 1980-2002 - rosettes, plaques, chocolate editions, and the like.
Marketing, and unofficial items - Marketing, cross selling of other products, and unofficial stuff.
Football Rosettes Gallery - A look at the little rosette in a range of colours.
Subbuteo in the 1940s - A look at the early days.
Shop Displays - Trade display systems produced by Subbuteo, and obviously desired by collectors.
Photoreal Subbuteo 2005-07 Hasbro's attempt at a new Subbuteo for a new century.
Marks and Spencer range 2009 - A small range aimed at the "retro" adult market.
Card Games and Collectables - Soccer Market, famous footballers, and Squads.
Old Figures, new games - Football Clones , Cricket Clones - A look at games that use Subbuteo figures, or replicate gameplay.
The story of black players in Subbuteo - How the changing face of modern Britain (finally) reflected in our favourite game.
Charles Stadden and the Lost Range - Legendary model maker Charles Stadden designed many of the classic Subbuteo figures. His paperwork also reveals a lost range of items that he was asked to design, but which never made it into production.
Not Quite Subbuteo - The Aquila prototype, a Peter Adolph related baseball game, and the mystery of the Belgian Subbuteo Ice Hockey.
The Art Galleries.
If Subbuteo didn't cover your favourite team, why not paint your own? These superb painters show you how it's done.
The Art Galleries - Page1 - Joe and Stefano, Page 2: Wayne Smith and friends.
More Art Galleries - Page 3: Art through the Ages and Trevor Arthur.
The Rival Games.
Not Subbuteo pages at all, but a look at the games that were Subbuteo's rivals. First produced in 1929. Newfooty was both the precursor to Subbuteo and a bitter rival in the 1950s. The inventor, Will Keeling produced other games as well, which are also listed in this section. Striker is regarded as Subbuteo's main rival of the 1970s.
Newfooty History 1929-52; 1953-60s; Accessory lists; Keeling Games
Striker/Super Striker: Page 1: Parker Sets; Page 2 Palitoy and Peter Pan; Page 3: International Editions- Box sets, accessories and team lists all in one :-)
T.A.F. 4-2-4/Grandslam/Premier Table Soccer: History 1960s-2000s
Other Tabletop football Games: Page 1: 1950s-70s; Page2: 1980s-90s Magnetic soccer, Big League, Pro-Action Football and others.
Regrettably, The Thanks and Contributions list has had to move from this front page, simply due to the size of both the contents list above, and the thanks list itself. You can now find it on the combined Thanks and Help Required.
Further Reading.
Fifty Years of Flicking Football - This was the first history of Subbuteo available, written by expert collector Richard Payne in the mid 1990s. It was published as a large paperback by Yore Publications, a small press form with many interesting football titles. I avoided reading this for years, so I wasn't accused of pinching his work and also because I was enjoying doing my own research! But recently felt I could get away with reading it. Mr Payne got to meet Subbuteo inventor Peter Adolph, and has some very interesting facts about the early days of Subbuteo, and the rivalry of the time with another tabletop football game, New Footy. All in all, it's a great read, and well worth tracking down a copy :-)
Flick to Kick - Written by Daniel Tatarsky and published in 2004, this is a small hardback with well researched details of Subbuteo Sports Games Limited, and the leading characters involved in production.
Growing Up with Subbuteo - written by Mark Adolph, son of inventor Peter Adolph. Published in 2006 this biography fills in the personal details around the story in the other two books.
Text and Site Design - Copyright (c) 1999-2014 Peter Upton.


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Marketing Research, Winter 2005
Most readers will say, "It's about time!" Conjoint analysis has been around since Duncan Luce and John Tukey's work in the 1960s and yet there hasn't been a good, simple, readable, and informative book introducing the topic until now.
The 11 chapters in Bryan Orme's Getting Started with Conjoint Analysis are worthwhile reading for anyone interested in this topic. It's difficult to highlight special areas because nothing should be ignored. Even those who've conducted several conjoint analysis studies will find that something Orme restates clears up misunderstandings; the writing is always direct, understandable, and instructive.
Chapter 1 motivates managers to consider conjoint analysis as a viable marketing research methodology, and helps those new to conjoint analysis develop their speech patterns for talking about it. Then Chapter 2 lays out a simple conjoint analysis exercise, and bolsters confidence by having readers complete worksheets with calculations for part-worth utility scores and importances, and graph those values in charts.
Chapter 3 concisely explains conjoint analysis for managers, and makes sure that they don't misinterpret fundamental parts of it (e.g., simulating shares of preference and not market share). Those who've had to convince clients that conjoint analysis doesn't produce market shares directly—after a previous supplier mislabeled preference shares as market shares—will dog-ear section 3.4 for clients the next time it happens. Chapter 4 gives an excellent historical presentation of conjoint analysis that not only is interesting, but also helps readers put the methodology in perspective in later chapters.
Skipping through this book greatly reduces its value. For example, in his discussion of adaptive conjoint analysis, Orme slips in: "Dropping the importance questions from ACA [adaptive conjoint analysis] surveys may result in better market share predictions and greater discrimination among attributes (as long as hierarchical Bayes is used to estimate the part-worths)." Those new to conjoint analysis might end up spending a bit of time to discover that elsewhere.
Sample-size issues are not dealt with in many conjoint analysis articles, and Chapter 7 gives a valuable primer in that topic. Plus, Orme provides excellent answers to one of those questions that suppliers often hear: "How large a sample size do I need?" The nine questions in response are worth learning. He also offers helpful hints that would be hard to find in other sources—for example, Sawtooth Software founder Rich Johnson's rule of thumb on minimum sample size for aggregate level, full-profile, choice-based conjoint studies.
Chapter 8 presents another confidence-building exercise in which the readers analyze a small, traditional conjoint analysis problem using multiple regression in Excel. Then Chapter 9 focuses on the interpretation of conjoint analysis findings and includes an important section on price elasticity, price sensitivity, and willingness to pay (Orme cites Johnson's contributions.) The potentially misleading nature of converting differences between attribute levels to monetary values is the focus of a detailed discussion, followed by the recommended procedure of basing strategic decisions on the results of simulations. Orme introduces topics such as hierarchical Bayesian analysis and latent class analysis, and gradually educates readers in their use. He also provides references for further investigation.
Although the whole book is greatly rewarding to readers, the glossary is pure gold. This 52-page compendium of conjoint analysis terminology will be Orme's legacy in this field. Undoubtedly, many professors will pass it along to their students and many consultants will furnish it to their clients. He not only explains conjoint analysis terms in the glossary, but also illustrates many with examples and references. Orme supplies tips for better practice, which beginners can use to quickly leverage their strengths. My main suggestion for improving this book is for Orme to reference the glossary each time a term is introduced in the body of the book.
Bryan Orme certainly will be widely cited for this effort. And what better recommendation can any marketing research book receive than a foreword by Paul Green, emeritus professor of marketing? Well done!
Reprinted with permission from Marketing Research, published by the American Marketing Association, Ken Deal/Editor Chuck Chakrapani, Winter 2005, vol. 17 No. 4.


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Thursday, May 12, 2005
Whitney Biennial 2006 Update
Please note that the Whitney Biennial is not a juried exhibition and, therefore, there is no formal submission process. If you choose to send materials, mail them to the address below by August 1, 2005. Submission packages should be limited to one resume/CV and six to eight images. Acceptable image formats include slides, computer printouts, digital files on CD_ROM (PC Compatible), audio CDs or VHS videotapes. Additional materials, including original artwork, portfolios and catalogues, will not be accepted. Please provide a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your images returned. We are unable to answer individual inquiries regarding the status of a submission.
Biennial Coordinator
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021
The official 2006 Biennial website will be published later this year.
I hope they get a lot of submissions from artists all over. Previous posts on this are 12-06-04, 01-16-05, 01-28-05, and 02-05-05.
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- Anonymous said...
What has happened to the traditional "selected curator curates curated exhibition?" That the Whitney accepts submissions to the Biennial shocks me. I think all of this access, online and whatnot, is clouding the job of the curator - in simple terms - to seek out and gather under one roof art of note. What the heck with the submissions?
- Anonymous said...
To submit is great for those artists who are just beginning to show and have not gone to recognized East Coast Schools to get the NY connections (or are 'older' artists). Also many artists just beginning that I know do not have a conveniently located studio and have no permanent gallery representation (despite having shows).
- Anonymous said...
is it to late to submit for the 2006 biennial
- Anonymous said...
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Deep Dish TV's 13 part series Shocking and Awful - A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art 2006 Biennial. The series of half-hour documentaries challenges the purpose, legitimacy and conduct of the U.S. war on Iraq. It is a passionate and creative outpouring of indictments of the war. The programs are on continuous display (lower level) from March 2 to May 28.
Program Titles:
The Real Face of Occupation Standing With the Women of Iraq National Insecurities The Art of Resistance Dance of Death Erasing Memory– The Cultural Destruction of Iraq Globalization at Gunpoint The World Says NO to War Empire and Oil Channels of War: The Media is the Military Resistance at Home Baghdad. Fallujah.
The logo for the series includes designer Liz Murphy's rendition of images of Picasso's Guernica, a pointed reference to Colin Powell's demand that the UN cover up a copy of the anti-war masterpiece during his deceitful and failed effort to win support for the U.S. war. Visual Resistance, a New York art collective, has produced images from the painting for the Deep Dish display wall at the Whitney.
Artist Mary Frank says in The Art of Resistance, "Part of what I found really wonderful about the anti-Iraq war demonstrations was that so many people who are not artists and who don't make things in their daily life, thousands of them, took a piece of cardboard off a box…so many wonderful signs of every kind, words, images…some are funny, some were very cynical, but they were really full of life."
Shocking and Awful represents the work of over 100 artists, producers, editors and videographers from the U.S., Iraq, and Europe. It traces the dark, vengeful passions unleashed by the war; the anger of many military families; the bitterness of Fallujah refugees, exiled from their destroyed city; the strategic goals of the invasion; and the still growing global opposition. In a brief animated history of Iraq, that was censored from the American media, David Barsamian narrates the story of British subjugation and 38 year occupation of Iraq after the First World War, including their use of poison gas against the Kurdish rebellion. The words of British General Stanley Maud upon taking Baghdad in 1920 are eerily familiar: "Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators."
Launched by Paper Tiger TV after its videos were included in the 1986 Whitney Biennial, Deep Dish TV is celebrating it's 20th Anniversary of broadcasting independent documentaries via satellite to a network of 300 public access channels. Thousands of artists, videographers, producers and editors have contributed to over 200 hours of programming. The complete Deep Dish TV video collection is available at the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org).
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In a much needed intervention by the highest court of law, the Supreme Court on April 19, 2011, outlawed the evil practice of of protracted illegal honour killings by Khap Panchayats in India. The responsibility for controlling and eliminating such acts of the rural Khap Panchayats, many of which have a huge following, was placed on the State governments and the SC ruled that heavy penalties would result in the event of non-compliance.
The operative portion of Arumugam Servai & Ors. v. State of Tamil Nadu,
16. We have in recent years heard of `Khap Panchayats' (known as katta panchayats in Tamil Nadu) which often decree or encourage honour killings or other atrocities in an institutionalized way on boys and girls of different castes and religion, who wish to get married or have been married, or interfere with the personal lives of people. We are of the opinion that this is wholly illegal and has to be ruthlessly stamped out. As already stated in Lata Singh's case (here), there is nothing honourable in honour killing or other atrocities and, in fact, it is nothing but barbaric and shameful murder. Other atrocities in respect of personal lives of people committed by brutal, feudal minded persons deserve harsh punishment. Only in this way can we stamp out such acts of barbarism and feudal mentality. Moreover, these acts take the law into their own hands, and amount to kangaroo courts, which are wholly illegal.
17. Hence, we direct the administrative and police officials to take strong measures to prevent such atrocious acts. If any such incidents happen, apart from instituting criminal proceedings against those responsible for such atrocities, the State Government is directed to immediately suspend the District Magistrate/Collector and SSP/SPs of the district as well as other officials concerned and chargesheet them and proceed against them departmentally if they do not (1) prevent the incident if it has not already occurred but they have knowledge of it in advance, or (2) if it has occurred, they do not promptly apprehend the culprits and others involved and institute criminal proceedings against them, as in our opinion they will be deemed to be directly or indirectly accountable in this connection.
It was about time that there was some definite stand was taken on these patently illegal acts and in the absence of affirmative governmental action, it looks like the SC has yet again assumed the mantle of governance in India.
As expected, this judgment has not gone down very well with the Khaps.
Providing a fillip to this judgment, the same bench of the SC in Bhagwan Dass v. State of NCT, Delhi, laid down that honour killings satisfy 'the rarest of the rare' doctrine so as to attract the death penalty for its perpetrators.


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SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers Executive VP & General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has agreed to terms with C Jon Matsumoto and Matt Gilroy on one-year, two way contracts.
Matusmoto, 26, has played in 14 National Hockey League games with Carolina (2011-12) and Florida (2012), recording two assists and four PIM. The Ottawa, Ont native played in 60 games with the Worcester Sharks (AHL), recording 32 points (14-18-32) and recorded a goal in five games with the Chicago Wolves (AHL) last season.
The 6-foot, 184-pound center has registered 314 points (139-175-314) in the AHL in seven professional seasons after playing in three years of college hockey at Bowling Green State University. Matsumoto was originally acquired by Florida on Jan. 18, 2012 along with forward Mattias Lindstrom from Carolina for forwards Evgeni Dadonov and AJ Jenks.
Gilroy, 28, has appeared in 209 National Hockey League games, with the NY Rangers (2009-11, 2012-13), Tampa Bay (2011-12) and Ottawa (2012), registering 46 points (10-36-46) and 61 PIM. The North Bellmore, NY, native played in 15 games with the Rangers and posted 15 points (6-9-15) in 34 games with the Connecticut Whale (AHL) last year.
The 6-foot-1, 199-pound blueliner played four years of college hockey at Boston University, earning ECAC All-Star and All-American team honors in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Gilroy captained Boston to a National Championship while being awarded the Hobey Baker Memorial Award (Top US College Player) in his senior season in 2009 after posting 37 points (8-29-37) in 45 games.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Catnip will be difficult to look at in the same way after viewing Lawrence native Jason Willis' short film, "Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?"
The 7-minute, 1970s-classroom-documentary-style film — featuring narration of catnip research, pans of newspaper articles about it, psychedelic music and scads of wild-eyed, crazy-acting cats — was selected for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, set for Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Utah. It's one of 15 (and one of the more lighthearted) in the Documentary Short Films category.
"Catnip is all the rage with today's modern feline, but do we really understand it?" Willis writes in a teaser for the film. "Is it a source for harmless kicks, or a potentially crippling addiction? ... Once and for all the facts about this controversial substance are frankly discussed."
He isn't exactly sure how his film rose to the top of the thousands of entries Sundance received for its short-film program, but he suspects being featured at AFI (American Film Institute) Fest 2012 in November helped. He knows some Sundance programmers saw it there.
"I imagine it's the humor combined with how absurd the whole concept is," Willis says, in an email interview. "I tried to play the 'parody of a drug educational film' thing pretty straight, and spent a lot of time trying to nail the vibe."
Willis wrote, directed and produced the film, which has received mentions on theatlantic.com and filmindependent.org. Thanks in part to using his own cats for footage and a friend for narration, Willis says, the total budget for the film was $25 — all spent on catnip.
Willis, 43, graduated from Lawrence High School in 1987 and now lives in Tucson, Ariz., where he does freelance design, photography and video work. His website is JasonWillis.com.
Lawrence actually has a long history of contributing to the classroom documentary film genre, as Centron Films — one of the biggest suppliers of educational films nationwide — was based here for years, Willis says. As a child, Willis himself appeared in one of their films. See "Halloween Safety" in all its 1977 glory online.


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Yesterday, the Make-a-Wish foundation and the city of San Francisco brought tears to our eyes by enabling five-year-old Miles to play Batkid for a day. The San Francisco Chronicle got in on the act, printing a Gotham City Chronicle front page for the occasion.
Apparently, the Batkid page was so popular that the Chronicle decided to reproduce it inside the pages of today's Saturday edition of the Chronicle. But they also posted a lower resolution copy of the page online.
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Juergen Josef Goetzmann-xifix-one Chair, Stacking Chair
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Interview with Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Principle: To design a chair according to the philosophy of the Bauhaus - to use soft and fluent forms in accordance with Feng Shui - to integrate functions - - - Stacking chair - nesting as group chair or bench - corner chair. Idea: To develop a chair rack, consisting of one piece including th back rest. Inspiration: To find a form as a tribute to my hometown wich has a pyramid and a fan as an emblem - - - Chair rack as a pyramid - seat and back rest as a fan. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Few components - simple dismantling and exchange of the components without the use of tools - variable exchange of seat and back rest for a use indoors and outdoors - changing designs - protection by the parts themselves without screws and nuts - - - back rest secures seat against falling out. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : To find a company which will produce and distribute my chair. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : The concept is not finished yet. At present I am developing a supplement by armrests - a construction of seat and armrest consisting of one piece of pipe. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : To develop and design a chair means to assert oneself in the highest level of design. I was pursuing an inspiration. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : I plan to sell or lease my product. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Ambition. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : No .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Everybody, who enjoys design. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : The minimum of seperate parts and fixing parts. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : The name - xifix - is my pseudonym - - - Juergen Goetzmann - alias xifix - the one man group - - - one - it is my first chair .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Wire .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : The most unique aspect is that all my diverse requirements were realized in an elegant and filigree design. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : No .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : To reduce the technology to a minimum. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : No .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : The chair had to work with this particular form. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : To win an international design competition, which was tendered by Italy the mother country of design, would be my greatest fulfilment. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : In order to take part in this competition I had to learn a new CAD program, a shadow-construction-program. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : No - but I like to use this possibility to express thanks for the professional tendering and support of this competition. .
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ALEDO, Texas — Former Sterling golf star Kyle Gertner has added a trophy to his collection. This time the former Tiger picked up a second place trophy in the NJCAA Texas State Championship.
Gertner finished with scores of 75, 73, and 70 in the three day tournament, a combined score of 218.
Gertner also led his team, the Odessa College Wrangles, to the state championship. His teammates finished fourth, sixth and eighth.
"I played really solid all three rounds. It's hard to stay focused the first day because we have to play 36 holes and it's mentally draining, but my dad always tells me to grind, grind, grind, and that's exactly what I did all three rounds," Gertner said.
The tournament was played at Split Rail and Link Golf Course.
"I only hit with my driver twice in all three rounds. I was hitting my 3-wood 300 yards consistently and knew exactly where it was going all day so there was no need to hit driver," Gertner said.
With a championship now under his belt Gertner wanted to make sure to thank his family, friends and fans back home.
"Thanks to everyone for all of your support from back home! It means a lot."
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The "12-12-12" benefit concert - a sold-out, all-star lineup raising money to help people affected by Superstorm Sandy - starts at 6:30 p.m. Milwaukee Time Wednesday. And you don't have to be in Madison Square Garden to see it.
According to The Associated Press, 37 television channels are carrying the concert live. Among them: AMC, HBO, IFC, Hallmark Movie Channel, VH1 Classic and WEtv. Go here for a complete list.
The concert is also streaming on at least 30 websites, including Amctv.com, AOL, People.com, Time.com and the concert's official site (find more here - though, oddly, no direct links).
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Chris Traynor of Bush: "Guitar Has Given Me Everything I've Ever Dreamed of and More"
Posted 08/01/2012
It's 2 p.m. and I'm on my third glass of wine. I've just been through a hellish customs check, and I've discovered that no matter what country I'm in, beard equals terrorist or at the very least, "randomly selected for security search."
I've spent most of the past three months in underground labyrinths supporting Nickelback on an arena tour. And while I'm not really burned out, I am looking forward to going home for a week. I rented a home in Los Angeles days before Bush left for Southeast Asia and Australia.
That was in January. It's now the end of June, June 27 to be exact. I've spent a total of seven days in said house in said time period.
What makes it a home?
My girlfriend of 12 years (We should really get married), my beautiful daughter, my dog (He loves me more than anyone could) and my rack of guitars next to my bed. I always sleep with or near a guitar.
No lie.
When I was a child, I was struck by an article claiming Steve Vai took his guitar to the bathroom to practice while he was relieving himself. I haven't taken a shit without a guitar since.
I later read that Jimi Hendrix used to sleep on his bus with his guitar, and that "Manic Depression" was actually about his frustration about not being able to make love with his six-stringed beauty. Since then, I've always slept with my guitar in my bed, or at arms' length of myself in dream state.
While I will never ever be as good as either of those giants, I wholeheartedly believe my love for the instrument is in league with theirs. Life never gives you exactly what you imagine, or at least not how you imagine it.
Guitar has given me everything I have ever dreamed of and more.
And I am so thankful for it.
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Guitar Girl'd: Top 12 Hot Male Guitar Players for 2012
Can you believe it's been a year since the Guitar Girl'd column was born?
To celebrate, I thought it only fitting to resurrect my favorite column of the last 52 weeks: my list of the top 10 hot male guitar players.
Yep, last year when I broke this concept, I admit I was a bit perturbed by all those lists of hot female guitarists … with the word "hot" not defining their scathing performance skills. Oh no!
Little did I know I'd be back for another installment of my version of this little game -- and this time with 12 instead of 10 guys (It is 2012, after all).
"Tell us the criteria," you cry. "What are the rules? How does one appear on such a prestigious, yet beefcakey list?" Alas, the rules are mine and mine alone. Completely arbitrary. Subject to female vagaries. You got it: It's whatever turns me on at the time. Strikes my fancy. Catches my eye.
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I woke up this morning in the parking lot of a resort hotel in Orlando, Florida. Grabbed my guitar and room key and headed through the lobby to find the elevator bank.
There's a talking red parrot being heckled by chubby kids in shorts and swim goggles. I can't quite hear the parrot's retort.
I am pretty sure I'm being stared down by a man in a Hawaiian shirt and flip-flops. A woman corrals her Disney-clad children closer to her as I walk by.
I realize that while my bed-head hairdo and derelict-sheik clothing might look good on stage, it's currently making me look like a homeless dude who stumbled into the lobby with an acoustic guitar.
The fact that I didn't shower after last night's gig doesn't help. I'm usually pretty self-confident, but I don't feel cool right now. I actually feel quite lonely. The sight of kids on vacation with their parents laughing and skipping through the lobby makes me miss my girlfriend and our daughter terribly. I get hit with a wave of depression.
So far, my morning isn't starting out great. I consider the fact that our tour bus, conveniently located in the parking lot outside, is stocked with beer and liquor. I could drink my way through the day in a hammock on the man-made beach, watching stray alligators swim past sun-burnt tourists in paddle boats.
It's aptly named Hemingway Beach, which makes the thought of drinking all the more appealing. Considering how easy it would be to become a full-blown alcoholic on a tour with so many days off, I change my mind and continue up to my hotel room. I make a healthier choice and suit up for a 5-mile run around the resort golf course.
There's a saying in the music business: "I play the shows for free, it's the rest of the day I get paid for."
Like most men, I like to fill the holes in my life with tools and toys. Since my work is play, my tools are toys: guitars. I love guitars — lust for them, actually. I care more about guitars than I do about my own body. Case in point: I recently opted out of getting an abdominal MRI because when I heard how much it cost, all I could think about was how I could buy that gold top I've always wanted with the same money. I realize that kind of thinking is sheer insanity, but when love isn't crazy, it's not really love.
On the subject of love, I just bought a 1968 Martin D-35. I bought it from my friend Doug at Mountain Cat Guitars. The guitar is the rarer 12-fret model with a slotted headstock. I've wanted a D-35 ever since I saw Bernard Butler of Suede play one at an acoustic performance in the Bowery Ballroom.
It's got a beautiful three-piece Brazilian rosewood back and a super-slack tension that's great for fingerpicking or a deep Norman Blake-like bluegrass tone. Normally these guitars are pretty pricey. I've seen them at Guitar Center for upwards of $7,000, but that's for a super-clean one. Mine's dirty, and I like it that way — a real "player's guitar."
When I say "player's guitar" I don't mean it in a "Pimp My Ride" sort of way; nor is it a value judgement on the level of skill a guitarist has. A player's guitar is a familiar term in the vintage guitar business that means a great-playing vintage guitar that's probably cosmetically messed up with swapped-out parts.
Many guitarists prefer "player's guitars," because they were mostly likely played to death for a reason; they are great guitars to play. The ones that sat underneath someone's bed in pristine condition for 25 years were obviously not all that inspiring to pick up.
My newly acquired, yet beat-up old Martin is inspiring to pick up and to play. Each crack, ding and dent on it adds more character; just like your favorite pair of jeans or that threadbare T-shirt your girlfriend loves to sleep in.
Earlier in the week, I had a chance to walk around my friend's farm and play the guitar for six gigantic horses called Percherons. The youngest of the six giants tried to join in the jam by biting the headstock of my guitar. The horse's giant teeth and slobbery mouth nicked a bit of the old Martin logo off.
If the guitar were a mint-condition closet classic I'd probably be bothered, but on this old player Martin, a horse bite just adds character.
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Heading to My Hometown to Play Madison Square Garden (05-01-12)
It's the second week of the Bush and Nickelback tour and I've made it back to my hometown of NYC.
While a lot of people move to New York for a little while and claim to be New Yorkers, those of us who were born in Manhattan or one of the boroughs might beg to differ. My father is from Howard Beach, my mother is from Ozone Park, and I was born in Rosedale: the trifecta of Queens.
As an adult I lived in Manhattan for seven years and then moved into Brooklyn for more than a decade. I'm not telling you this to "out New York" anyone, because lord knows there's millions of us, but more to give you the sense of how strong my connection and roots are to this amazing city.
This week I was returning home to play Madison Square Garden for the first time. It's been a dream of mine ever since I saw Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same.
When I first saw the schedule for this tour, I noticed there were a few days off in the city. I was looking forward to some free time to hang out with my family and friends, hopefully filling up on some real pizza and bagels (why can't anyplace else get it quite right?) and hitting up Chinatown for dim sum.
Of course, if I had actually really read the tour schedule I would have noticed that my week was filled with press, television and special acoustic performances that were sure to keep me stuck in traffic in the back of a 15-passenger van with a driver who didn't know how to get to wherever the hell I was supposed to be (and once I got there, having to wait four hours until I performed for three minutes and 29 seconds).
We started the first morning with the entire band missing wake-up calls from the hotel. I was supposed to be in the lobby of the hotel at 7:45 a.m., but magically woke up at 7:43 a.m. without an alarm. I was in panic mode, and it wasn't a great way to start the morning of a major day time television appearance on The View.
I must admit when I first found out we were doing The View, I wondered how it made any sense to play a daytime talk show. But in the end it totally rocked and they had a great stage set up for us with fog machines and video walls. After four hours of waiting, and three minutes and 29 seconds of rocking, it was all worthwhile.
Afterwards we got to hang with Whoopi and Joy Behar, and Star Jones told me I have a "big career ahead of me." I hope she's right.
We hopped into a cavalcade of black SUV's (hybrid upon request) and headed downtown to sound check with a kids choir in preparation for a performance to benefit The Food Bank. The Food Bank is an amazing charity that remarkably feeds 400,000 people each day in NYC.
Stanley Tucci hosted the event and it won me major cool points with my daughter to have been hanging out with the Caesar Flickerman from The Hunger Games. The performance went off without a hitch and, due in large part to the wonderful singing and spirit of the kids in the choir, we got a standing ovation from Mario Batali, members of R.E.M., Kevin Bacon and, most importantly, Kenneth the page from NBC's 30 Rock.
I stole a bottle of wine and tequila from the party and took some friends back to the Standard to have drinks in my hotel room. I think I passed out around 4:30 in the morning.
My wake-up call rings harshly at 6:30 am. A rock tip: if you spend the night drinking tequila, don't leave the open bottle on your night table because the smell is absolutely nauseating the next morning. I manage to stumble out of my room wearing the full denim outfit I fell asleep in. We are off to do VH1's Big Morning Buzz and by the looks of the other band members, we've all had a good time last night.
When we perform our partially acoustic Bush sets, we call ourselves "Shush." We do "Shush" versions of "Baby Come Home" and "Comedown" on VH1 and I think they sound really great. The dudes in Nickelback are coming in the building as we are leaving, we hang and chat for a bit by the elevators. Gavin and I head out to the next television performance (Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf).
Talk Stoop is shot in Brooklyn, two blocks from where I lived for 10 years. It made me feel super comfortable to be in my old neighborhood again, and Gavin and I perform the first purely acoustic version of "The Sound Of Winter."
I realize we have never rehearsed it this way, just as I was trying to reach the 14th fret on my 12-fret Martin acoustic. Shortly after we finished filming, we break up a dog fight on the street and head back into our cars to go to the hotel. I have a late-afternoon run on the west side highway into Battery Park City, and it dawns on me how much I miss living in this town.
On the morning of the Garden show, I wake up with a stiff neck. I make an emergency call to my friend Dr. Paul Salinas at Park Ave. Spine, and he comes in for the afternoon to straighten me out. Paul is a Mets fan, but I don't hold it against him since he's such a great chiropractor. My phone doesn't stop ringing with texts, voice messages and emails from friends and family asking if they are on the list and if I'm nervous. Honestly the most nerve-wracking thing about playing the Garden was people asking if I was nervous.
We got stuck in traffic on the way over to MSG and the police blockaded the street we were supposed to enter on. So far my Garden experience is nothing like Led Zeppelin's Song Remains the Same movie.
We are sequestered in a cinder block room backstage that is similar to most every arena in the country. There is a photo of John Lennon performing at the Garden with his brown Les Paul special. I wonder what his experience was of playing there, and whether or not his mother was having trouble finding her name on the guest list 15 minutes before he was supposed to go on.
I remember seeing the Grateful Dead, Jane's Addiction, Peter Gabriel and numerous other classic acts at this venue, and I was really trying to channel into the historic energy of the building. I don't feel mentally nervous but my heart is palpitating as we are headed toward the stage. It's pitch black on deck and I'm actually nervous that my fingers might not be on D flat to start the opening riff of "Machine Head."
The flash pots blind me synchronistically with the thunderous sound of my guitar as I begin to play. The crowd goes off and takes the band with it. The rest is just a blur of adrenaline and snap shots of moments in my mind. We finish the set with the entire Garden singing the final chorus of "Comedown," and it just feels epic.
After the show I had a few drinks with my guests, and like any good New York boy I took my mother out for a Chinese dinner.
I had most of Friday free, and found myself doing what I love to do most: hanging out in a guitar store, playing guitar, and talking about guitars. I used to work in Dan's Chelsea guitars when I was a kid, and going back always makes me feel grounded. Dan is like a brother to me and he has some of the best guitars in the world. Here are some pics of me in the store, and a Fender Jaguar that I really, really want.
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|June 2012
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Valparaiso University head baseball coach Tracy Woodson has announced the hiring of Adam Piotrowicz as an assistant coach while also promoting Brian Schmack to associate head coach.
The past two seasons Piotrowicz coached at Heidelberg University,
where he was the hitting and catching coach.
In addition, his primary duties included recruiting and designing a
strength and agility program. The Heidelberg baseball
program finished fourth at the 2010 NCAA DIII World Series and in the past two
years has won the Ohio Athletic Conference regular season and conference tournament
titles. Additionally, Heidelberg was a participant in the NCAA DIII
Mideast Regional in 2009 and 2010. Under
Piotrowicz guidance, Heidelberg's
offense set nine school records and led the conference in numerous offensive
categories. In addition, five of Heidelberg's position
players received DIII All-American honors.
In 2010 Piotrowicz was the head coach for the Ty Cobb Reds in the Great South Summer Collegiate League, guiding the team to a third place finish.
As a player, Piotrowiczi was a standout at Manchester College from 2005-2008. As a senior in 2008, he was elected team captain and helped lead his team to a NCAA DIII Mideast Regional and Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference championship. He graduated from Manchester College in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business and earned a Masters degree in Education from Heidelberg University in 2010.
"Coach Piotrowicz joins our staff from the highly successful Heidelberg University program," said Woodson. "He has been successful in his years as a college player and coach and we have no doubt that mentality will carry over to our program. He will be working with all of our hitters as well as defensively with our catchers and outfielders. We are also excited about his recruiting connections in Ohio and much of the Midwest. His energy, enthusiasm, and work ethic will be a great addition to our baseball staff."
Entering his fifth season at Valpo, Schmack has served as pitching coach and recruiting coordinator since joining the Crusader program.
"This title better describes what Coach Schmack has done for our program the last four years and what he will continue to do hopefully for a long time," Woodson said. "I feel very lucky to have Brian working at my side and this promotion to associate head coach is one that is well-deserved and well-earned."
For the 2010 season, the Crusader pitching staff finished the year with a 5.82 earned run average, ranking third in the Horizon League. Most notably, junior right-handed pitcher Bryce Shafer was named the 2010 Horizon League Pitcher of the Year and was drafted in the 2010 Major League Baseball draft by the Chicago Cubs.
In 2009, Schmack guided a pitching staff which led the Horizon League in earned run average at 4.47. In addition, junior closer Jarad Miller became the school's save leader in just two years, while earning Third Team All-America accolades that same season.
"Brian is an extremely knowledgeable individual with a pro ball background," Woodson concluded. "He continues to do a standout job with our pitchers in developing them to not only succeed at Valparaiso, but also has the ability to help them make the transition to professional baseball."
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Features » July 11, 2011
Publicopoly Exposed
How ALEC, the Koch brothers and their corporate allies plan to privatize government.
ALEC openly advocates privatizing public education, transportation and the regulation of public health, consumer safety and environmental quality.
On February 25, 2011, Florida State Representative Chris Dorworth (R-Lake Mary) introduced HB 1021. The bill sought to curtail the political power of unions by prohibiting public employers from deducting any amount from an employee's pay for use by an employee organization (i.e., union dues) or for any political activity (i.e., the portion of union dues used for lobbying or for supporting candidates for office).
Furthermore, HB 1021 stated that, should a union seek to use any portion of dues independently collected from members for political activity, the union must obtain annual written authorization from each member.
In effect, this bill defunds public-sector unions–like AFSCME, SEIU, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association–by making the collection of member dues an onerous, costly task. With public-sector unions denatured, they would no longer be able to stand in the way of radical free marketeers who plan to profit from the privatization of public services.
Given the similarities between HB 1021 and a rash of like-minded bills in states across the country, including Wisconsin, on March 30 a public records request was sent to Dorworth's office seeking copies of all documents pertaining to the writing of HB 1021, including copies of any pieces of model legislation the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) may have provided.
Within an hour of submitting this request, Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon's (R-Winter Park) Communications Director Katherine Betta responded: "We received a note from Representative Dorworth's office regarding your request for records relating to the American Legislative Exchange Council and HB 1021. Please note that Mr. Dorworth's legislative offices did not receive any materials from ALEC relating to this bill or any 'model legislation' from other states."
But two weeks later Dorworth's office delivered 87 pages of documents, mostly bill drafts and emails, detailing the evolution of what was to become HB 1021. Buried at the bottom of the stack was an 11-page bundle of neatly typed material, labeled "Paycheck Protection," which consisted of three pieces of model legislation, with the words "Copyright, ALEC" at the end of each.
Dorworth legislative assistant Carolyn Johnson claims that, although Dorworth is an ALEC member, neither she nor her boss have any idea how the ALEC model legislation found its way into Dorworth's office. Dorworth could not be reached for comment.
Enter the Koch Brothers
Nov. 2, 2010 saw a radical cohort of Republicans swept into office in states across the country.
When the legislative sessions began in January, the American news-consuming public was shocked by the tenacity of this new breed of Grand Old Partier as it set to the task of breaking public employee unions, dismantling state government and privatizing civic services.
While battles still rage in the nation's legislatures and statehouses, mainstream media attention peaked in February and March with the culmination of the fight over Gov. Scott Walker's budget bill AB 11, which sought to curtail the collective bargaining rights of government employees and thus disempower Wisconsin's public sector unions.
When on February 23 the Buffalo Beast published recordings and transcripts of a prank call to Walker from a Beast reporter posing as billionaire GOP donor David Koch, it became apparent how intimately involved brothers David and Charles Koch were in Walker's efforts to break public sector unions.
Subsequently, bloggers and editorialists began batting around possible scenarios involving myriad right-wing public policy foundations funded by the Koch brothers and proceeds of Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Industries (and other Koch-controlled corporations). During such speculation, one name arose as the favorite villain behind the multitude of bills aimed squarely at public employee unions. That name was ALEC (see sidebar detailing the organization's Koch connections).
An exhaustive analysis of thousands of pages of documents obtained through public records requests from six states, as well as tax filings, lobby reports, legislative drafts and court records, reveal that these suddenly popular anti-public employee bills, while taking different forms from state to state, were indeed disseminated as "model legislation" by ALEC.
Not coincidentally, bills similar to those in Florida and Wisconsin have been introduced in Arizona, California, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Vermont.
The purported goal of this nationwide movement has been to reduce the budgetary burden posed by public employee salaries by limiting the right of public employees to collectively bargain for pay and other benefits. These restrictions, along with "paycheck protection" laws, curtail the political power of public employee unions by cutting off funds for political campaign and lobbying expenditures. These measures would effectively thwart attempts by public employee unions to resist privatization of government functions and to support candidates opposing elected officials who vote for corporate giveaways of public resources.
'Publicopoly' in play
ALEC contends that government agencies have an unfair monopoly on public goods and services. To change that situation, it has created a policy initiative to counter what it calls "Publicopoly." ALEC's stated aim is to provide "more effective, efficient government" via privatization–that is, the shifting of government functions to the private sector. ALEC lists its initiatives on its website (alec.org/publicopoly).
Though the specifics are secret and "restricted to members," ALEC openly advocates privatizing public education, transportation and the regulation of public health, consumer safety and environmental quality including bringing in corporations to administer:
Foster care, adoption services and child support payment processing.
School support services such as cafeteria meals, custodial staff and transportation.
Highway systems, with toll roads presented as a shining example.
Surveiling and detaining convicted criminals.
Ensuring the quality of wastewater treatment, drinking water, and solid waste services and facilities. (After all, when someone mentions a safe and secure public water supply, the voter's next immediate thought is: "Only if it's cost-effective!")
To accomplish these initiatives, ALEC contends that "state governments can take an active role in determining which products and services should be privatized." ALEC advocates three reforms: creating a "Private Enterprise Advisory Committee" to review if government agencies unfairly compete with the private sector; creating a special council that would contract with private vendors if they can "reduce the cost of government"; and creating legislation that would require government agencies to demonstrate "compelling public interest" in order to continue as public agencies. (Who then oversees these committees to ensure the private sector doesn't unfairly profit by monopolizing public goods and services? One can only assume it is the same "Private Enterprise Advisory Committee.")
ALEC nuts and bolts
ALEC is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that in recent years has reported about $6.5 million in annual revenue. ALEC's members include corporations, trade associations, think tanks and nearly a third (about 2,000) of the nation's state legislators (virtually all Republican). According to the group's promotional material, ALEC's mission is to "advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty, through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America's state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public."
ALEC currently claims more than 250 corporations and special interest groups as private sector members. While the organization refuses to make a complete list of these private members available to the public, some known members include Exxon Mobil, the Corrections Corporation of America, AT&T, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Verizon, Wal-Mart, Phillip Morris International and Koch Industries, along with a host of right-wing think tanks and foundations.
ALEC is composed of nine task forces–(1) Public Safety and Elections, (2) Civil Justice, (3) Education, (4) Energy, Environment and Agriculture, (5) Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development, (6) Telecommunications and Information Technology, (7) Health and Human Services, (8) Tax and Fiscal Policy and (9) International Relations–each comprised of "Public Sector" members (legislators) and "Private Sector" members (corporations and interest groups).
Each of these task forces, which serve as the core of ALEC's operations, generate model legislation that is then passed on to member lawmakers for introduction in their home assemblies. According to ALEC promotional material, each year member lawmakers introduce an average of 1,000 of these pieces of legislation nationwide, 17 percent of which are enacted. For 2009, ALEC claimed a total of 826 pieces of introduced legislation nationwide, 115 of which were passed into law–slightly below the average at 14 percent. ALEC does not offer its model legislation for public inspection.
ALEC refused to comment on any aspect of the material covered here.
'Paycheck Protection'
The three pieces of model legislation contained in the ALEC "Paycheck Protection" bundle (archived at dbapress.com here) provided by Rep. Dorworth's office were titled "Employee Rights Reform Act," "Labor Organization Deductions Act" and "Political Funding Reform Act."
Employee Rights Reform Act (ERRA): This bill establishes limitations on fees that may be charged to nonunion public employees who are part of a collective bargaining unit represented by a union.
ERRA states that no nonunion public employee may have more than a proportionate share of collective bargaining union costs withheld from their pay by a public employer. Chargeable activities are defined as expenditures for purposes of collective bargaining, contract administration and grievance adjustment. ERRA states that whether or not a public employer can deduct funds from a public employees pay for political activity–union organizing campaigns, contributing to political campaigns of elected officials, lobbying on behalf of their members, or raising money from their members to pay for union organizing campaigns–is dependent on "controlling court decisions."
Labor Organizations Deductions Act (LODA): This is the only piece of the "Paycheck Protection" trilogy not aimed specifically at public employee unions (although the bill does name both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers as entities that must comply with restrictions). LODA establishes a stringent set of criteria governing the means through which any labor organization may collect and use funds for political activity, such as lobbying, electoral and political activities, including contributions to any candidate, party or voter registration campaign.
LODA establishes criminal penalties for any labor organization found to have made a political contribution derived from dues or any other fee paid by union members. Further, LODA prohibits unions from soliciting funds for political use from any individual other than union members and their immediate family members.
Political Funding Reform Act (PFRA): While ERRA and LODA seek to significantly limit the amount and type of funds that may be deducted from employee pay–particularly as those funds may apply to union political activity–PFRA is designed to eliminate all withholding of public employee pay for use in any political activity. Simply put, under PFRA, unions would have to raise money for political purposes by directly fundraising to their members or other union supporters.
Florida: A case study
In the case of Florida's HB 1021, e-mails provided by Rep. Dorworth's office through a public records request reflect that the initial version of the bill had been drafted in January by then-Florida Chamber of Commerce (FCoC) Vice President of Government Affairs Adam Babington. A member of the FCoC Foundation's board of trustees, Cincy Marsiglio, the senior manager of public affairs and government relations in Florida for Wal-Mart, is the Florida ALEC "private sector" chair (see sidebar below for more on ALEC's public and private chairs). Babington's original draft (evidently based on ALEC "Paycheck Protection" model legislation) underwent a revision aimed at curtailing the political activity of public employee unions. This revision was made by Florida State Senate staff who were working with Babington to create a Senate companion version of the bill.
This companion bill, SB 830, was sponsored by Sen. John Thrasher (R-Jacksonville). Thrasher worked for the influential Tallahassee lobby firm of Southern Strategy Group, Inc., from 2002 through his election to the Florida Senate in 2009, where he represented several FCoC and ALEC member corporations, many with interests in the privatization of state governmental functions (particularly in the areas of mental health and healthcare service contracting).
The primary actor on the Senate end of HB 1021's formation was Andy Bardos, special counsel to Senate President Mike Haridopolos (R-Merrit Island). After a stringent anti-public employee union dues collecting provision was added by Bardos, Babington wrote in an e-mail to Dorworth and Johnson: "So, paycheck protection is about to go on steroids. Apparently the Senate wants to be more aggressive."
Bardos, prior to joining the office of Senate President Haridopolos in early 2011, had worked since 2005 for the Florida law firm of GrayRobinson as an attorney specializing in governmental affairs.
Bardos' former colleague, GrayRobinson attorney Fred Leonhardt, is currently on the board of directors of the FCoC, of which he was the former chair. Leonhardt is a member of Enterprise Florida, Inc., a "public-private partnership" that works as the economic development arm of the state.
Another director of Enterprise Florida is former Florida House Speaker Allan Bense (R-Panama City). Bense is the present chairman of FCoC, who derives a large portion of his annual income from a company he co-owns: GAC Contractors, Inc. As reported on his 2009 statement of financial interests (filed pursuant to his membership on the board of the quasi-public Enterprise Florida), Bense held nearly $5 million in GAC asssets, much of which was money earned from contracts to repair state and federal highways.
GAC is a prominent member of Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC), which through its legislative efforts seeks to encourage the free flow of public-sector cash to nonunion private companies. ABC bills itself as being the nonunion "construction industry's voice within the legislative, executive and judicial branches" of government. The bundled "Paycheck Protection" package containing ERRA, LODA and PFRA in Dorworth's office had originated in ABC's 2010 "legislative handbook."
In addition to his FCoC, GAC and ABC connections, Bense is chair of the Florida-based, Koch-funded, ALEC-member public policy foundation, the James Madison Institute (JMI). FCoC baord member Leonhardt serves on the JMI board with Bense.
When asked why the FCoC was so deeply concerned with protecting the paychecks of public employees (to the point where FCoC top lobbyists were drafting legislation to such effect), FCoC Director of Public Affairs Edie Ousley declined to comment.
Both HB 1021 and SB 830 died in their respective chambers following pressure exerted on the FCoC by public employee union members.
According to materials obtained through a public records request, news of a large-scale opposition action made its way back to Dorworth in the form of an e-mail from Ousley, with the terse subject line "here's the issue." That e-mail contained a press release from a coalition of unions known as Floridians Outraged at the Chamber of Commerce's Attack on Workers, which read in part: "Wednesday, April 20…Workers respond to attacks from the Chamber of Commerce… Labor organizations and members withdrew close to $10 million in funds from the Chamber's largest banks." The press release went on to indicate that the group was prepared to issue further "wave(s) of withdrawals" and other actions.
Weeks later, on May 7, the bills' sponsors withdrew both bills from legislative hearings calendars.
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The AP does some fancy document reconstruction and figures out the details of that Facebook-Zuckerberg-Winklevoss settlement:
Under their settlement, Facebook agreed to pay ConnectU $20 million in cash and 1,253,326 shares of common stock. The stock was worth $45 million, based on the Microsoft valuation, but only $11 million under Facebook's own appraisal.
Facebook's "own appraisal," you'll recall, was $3.7 billion, a bit of a discount off the $15 billion valuation they got from Microsoft (for a different security and an ad deal).
Now, however, that $11 million of Facebook common stock is probably worth about $7 million or so. So scratch that "$65 million" settlement and rewrite it as $25-$30 million.
Still, not bad for some ideas thrown around in a dorm room.