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Hedge Fund Gold Bets Reach Six-Month High After Rally
Date: Monday, August 26, 2013
Author: Debarati Roy, Bloomberg
Hedge funds and other speculators raised bets on higher gold prices to the most in six months as signs of slowing U.S. growth drove bullion above $1,400 an ounce for the first time since June.
The net-long position increased 29 percent to 73,216 futures and options by Aug. 20, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Short contracts fell for a second week and to the lowest since Feb. 12. Net-bullish holdings across 18 U.S.-traded commodities jumped 34 percent, the most since July 2010, as wagers on copper and soybeans more than doubled.
Gold, down 27 percent from its record high, has rallied 18 percent from a 34-month low in June. Asian demand for jewelry surged as prices tumbled into a bear market. Sales of new homes in the U.S. declined more than 13 percent in July and consumer confidence fell in the week ended Aug. 18, increasing speculation the Federal Reserve will look for more signs of growth before easing stimulus that debases the dollar.
Physical demand is very strong, and that is lending support to prices, and we think its time to increase our holdings, said Michael Mullaney, the Boston-based chief investment officer for Fiduciary Trust Co., which manages about $10 billion of assets. The economy is improving, but there are some misses, which intensify the debate on tapering and increases demand for gold as a safe-haven investment.
Gold Rally
Futures were little changed at $1,394.50 by 7:11 a.m. on the Comex in New York. They jumped 1.8 percent to $1,395.80 last week and spot prices topped $1,400 on Aug. 23. The Standard & Poors GSCI Spot Index of 24 commodities rose 0.4 percent today, and the MSCI All-Country World Index of equities fell 0.1 percent. The Bloomberg Dollar Index, a gauge against 10 major trading partners, rose 0.1 percent. Spot gold fell 0.2 percent to $1,394.99 by 12:17 p.m. in London.
Policy makers are weighing when to begin curbing $85 billion of monthly bond purchases that they pledged to maintain until the job market improves. Gold rose 70 percent from December 2008 to June 2011 as the U.S. central bank pumped more than $2 trillion into the financial system by purchasing debt, increasing investors concern about currency debasement and accelerating inflation.
Fed Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, who has supported record Fed stimulus, said on Aug. 23 the central bank should pledge not to raise record-low interest rates as long as inflation is below 1.5 percent. The metal may rally to $1,482 as soon as October if Fed tapering is delayed to December, Barclays Plc said Aug. 23.
Waning Faith
Golds rally probably will fade by the end of the year as the dollar strengthens, bond yields rise and investor faith in the metal as a store of value wanes, Morgan Stanley said in a report dated Aug. 22. Prices fell 17 percent this year, heading for the first annual decline since 2000.
Its hard to be bullish on gold when there is no inflation and the global economy is healing, said John Stephenson, who helps oversee about C$2.7 billion ($2.6 billion) at First Asset Investment Management Inc. in Toronto.
The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee policy meeting in July, released Aug. 21, said central bankers were broadly comfortable with Chairman Ben S. Bernankes plan to start reducing bond buying later this year if the economy improves. The officials are scheduled to meet next in September.
Twelve analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect gold to fall this week, eight were bullish and two neutral. Thats the highest proportion of bears since June 21, a week before prices plunged to $1,179.40, the lowest since August 2010.
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Investors sold 684.64 metric tons of gold held in exchange-traded products this year, erasing $54.3 billion from the combined value of the funds. The decline may reach 700 tons in 2013, Barclays estimates.
As gold dropped into a bear market during the second quarter, billionaires George Soros and Daniel Loeb sold their entire investments in the SPDR Gold Trust, the largest ETP, filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed Aug. 14. Paulson & Co., the largest investor in the fund, cut its stake by 53 percent, the data show.
The slump in prices forced mining companies to announce at least $26 billion of writedowns in the past two months, and Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp., the biggest producer, said Aug. 1 it may sell, close or curb output at 12 mines from Peru to Papua New Guinea.
Physical Demand
The drop in prices spurred a surge in demand for gold in Asia, helping bullion to rally for a second month. Sales of jewelry, coins and bars will reach as much as 1,000 tons in both India and China in 2013, valued at a combined $87.6 billion, the World Gold Council estimates. That would beat Chinas 2011 record of 778.6 tons and be near Indias all-time high of 1,006.5 tons in 2010.
Bank of America Corp. predicts a fourth-quarter average of $1,495 and JPMorgan Chase & Co. anticipates rising averages in every quarter through the end of next year.
Money managers added $421 million to precious-metal funds in the week ended Aug. 21, the most in 33 weeks, according to Cambridge, Massachusetts-based EPFR Global, which tracks money flows. Commodity funds had inflows of $583 million.
Commodity Holdings
Net-long positions in copper jumped 104 percent to 14,356 contracts, CFTC data show. Money managers turned bullish a week earlier, after betting on lower prices for 24 consecutive weeks, the longest bearish stretch since July 2009. Prices are heading for the biggest monthly gain since September amid speculation that Chinas growth is gaining traction.
A preliminary purchasing managers index for China by HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics rose to 50.1 from 47.7 in July, exceeding all 16 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.
Bullish bets on crude oil slipped for the fourth straight week, to 302,762 contracts, CFTC data show. Prices are heading for the third straight monthly gain amid concern that violence in the Middle East may disrupt supply.
A measure of net-long positions across 11 agricultural products more than doubled to 215,958 futures and options, government data show. The S&P GSCI Agriculture Index of eight commodities rose for the second straight week.
Soybean holdings jumped 112 percent to 99,988 contracts, while the net-short position in corn shrank to 91,778 contracts, from a record 123,221 a week earlier.
Billion Bushels
The U.S. corn harvest will be 13.46 billion bushels, less than the 13.763 billion estimated this month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cedar Falls, Iowa-based Professional Farmers of America said in a report Aug. 23. That followed a four-day tour last week of 2,600 fields in seven Midwest states. Soybean output will be 3.158 billion bushels, below the USDA forecast of 3.255 billion. The U.S. is the worlds largest grower of both crops.
We have seen renewed interest in commodities, said Walter Bucky Hellwig, who helps manage $17 billion of assets at B&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama. News out of China coupled with expectations of continued easing from the Fed will keep the commodities pack stronger.
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Game 1: Farmingdale State - 14, Maritime - 5 (9 inning)
Game 2: Farmingdale State - 4, Maritime - 3 (7 inning)
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State baseball team opened the Skyline Conference schedule against Maritime College on Saturday afternoon and won both games, 14-5 and 4-3, to improve to 10-3, 2-0 in conference play. The Privateers dropped to 2-9, 1-2.
For conference doubleheaders, the Rams play a 9-inning game and then a 7-inning game. The 9-inning game is used as a tiebreaker for the Playoffs.
In the first game, Farmingdale State built an 8-1 lead after two innings and never looked back as they rolled to the 14-5 victory. Sophomore lefty Kevin Cashman (Hicksville, N.Y.) improved to 2-0 with a 3-inning outing, allowing just one hit with three strikeouts and no walks.
Junior shortstop Tom Rydzewski (Franklin Square, N.Y.) led the Rams offensively with four hits, five runs scored an RBI and two stolen bases. Junior rightfielder Michael Marino (Franklin Square, N.Y.) had an inside the park homer in the fifth and finished 3-for-5 with 4 RBI's and three runs scored. Junior second baseman Mike Scarlato (Holbrook, N.Y.) went 3-for5 with two runs and 2 RBI's, while freshman leftfielder Richard Sullivan (Farmingdale, N.Y.) was 3-for-4 with one run scored.
In game two, Farmingdale got on the board first for a 2-0 lead after a double by senior centerfielder Edward Bergmann (East Meadow, N.Y.) and RBI singles from freshman third baseman Andrew Karkota (Manorville, N.Y.) and freshman catcher Kenneth Johntry (Yaphank, N.Y.). Maritime scored three runs in the top of the sixth to grab a 3-2 lead, before the Rams responded with two runs in the bottom of the inning.
A sac fly to right field by freshman pinch hitter Kevin de Castro (Bethpage, N.Y.) would bring in Richard Sullivan for the first run, followed by a single through the right side by Rydzewski for the eventual game-winning run, a 4-3 Farmingdale lead.
In the seventh, sophomore righty Alex Weingarten (East Rockaway, N.Y.) struck out the first two batters. With two outs, Maritime knocked a single to left and then stole second, but Weingarten struck out the last batter for the third out to secure the 4-3 win.
Weingarten allowed just four hits over seven innings, with no earned runs, one walk and six strikeouts for his third win of the season (3-0). Rydzewski was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Marino had two hits and Bergmann went 1-for-1 with a walk and two runs scored. Karkota went 1-for-2 with a walk, run scored RBI and two stolen bases.
The Rams will now face the College of Mount Saint Vincent on Saturday, March 29th at Van Cortlandt Park in a Skyline doubleheader starting at Noon.

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'The concept was to create a four-level diaphanous structure, which integrates all functions of living and working and yet offers enough privacy. All rooms and apartments are interlaced into each other and open not only to the outside but to the inside as well. This radically breaks with the classical scheme of a cube, which is bordered by four walls. '
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Bari Newport, Artistic Director, and Marcie Bramucci, Managing Director, announced today Penobscot Theatre Company's 2012-2013 season. Newport, who joined PTC in January, is excited for her first full season with the organization.
"We have an amazing line-up for our 39th season," said Newport. "It's been a wonderful experience getting to know the people in this area over the past few months, compiling their feedback and using that information to craft a very exciting season. Laughter, romance, music, alien abduction, and adventure – there's truly something for everyone!
The 2012-2013 season will commence with "Always… Patsy Cline," Sept. 5-23. Through this award-winning musical, author Ted Swindley tells the true story of Patsy Cline's enduring friendship with a straight-shootin' Houston housewife. It is a heart-warming and funny foot-stomp through the music and memories of two special women.
Next on stage is the Maine premiere of "Becky's New Car," Oct. 17-Nov. 4. Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage—with no prospects for change on the horizon. Then one night a socially inept and grief-struck millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where Becky works. Called a "smart, comic cruise down the road less traveled," audience members will play a vital role in how the story unfolds, so come ready to participate!
Leapin' Lizards! The holiday season brings America's most beloved little redhead to the stage in "Annie," Dec. 5-29. A delightful musical for the entire family, "Annie" brings the audience on adventure after fun-filled adventure with her lovable mutt, Sandy, and a cast of twenty that is sure to create an unforgettable experience.
The New Year will begin with the Maine Premiere of "The Sugar Bean Sisters," Jan. 30-Feb. 17. This imaginative, southern gothic comedy, tells the story of three sisters who each cling to seemingly impossible dreams. The scene is set in a Florida swamp near Disney World where romance, murder, and alien abduction ensue. This fantastically wacky play will have you wondering what will happen next.
Penobscot Theatre is thrilled to present the Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, "WIT," Mar. 13-31. This modern classic tells the story of Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. During the course of her illness, Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a humor that is transformative both for her and the audience.
Wrapping up the mainstage season is a brand new adaptation of one of the greatest adventures of all time, "Around the World in Eighty Days," May 15-June 2. The Jules Verne tale of adventure, romance and stampeding elephants is not one to be missed. Often produced with trampolines and water guns, "Around The World in Eighty Days" is the perfect finale to a season that can only be described as a lot of fun!
These productions, coupled with the seventh annual Northern Writes New Play Festival, June 10-21, 2013, a Youth Theatre production of the classic children's story "The Little Prince" April 11-14 and several special events will add to an already exciting 2012-2013.
Single tickets and subscriptions are on sale now. Season subscribers not only save up to 40% on ticket prices, but join the community in acting as producers for the next season, supporting the vision and mission of the organization and investing in its future. For more information, please call the Box Office at 207-942-3333 or visit PTC online at www.penobscottheatre.org.
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Jeep's a tough breed of car and a tough brand - which is just as well given the knocks it's taken over the last few years. But it's back, with forward-thinking ownership from Fiat - and fresh models like this rejuvenated Compass, here to take on well established rivals in the Nissan Qashqai-dominated mid-sized SUV sector.
Jeep has a heritage going all the way back to 1941, but models capable of competing in volume areas of the SUV sector have only arrived in fairly recent years, cars like this much improved Compass. Previously, the brand tried to campaign in the mid-sized part of this segment with its Cherokee range, but that model's now been pushed up-market a little to compete with slightly more serious volume-band mid-sized SUVs like upper versions of Toyota's RAV4 and Honda's CR-V. In the past, Jeep has compromised on-tarmac prowess in pursuit of rock-hopping credibility. No longer. This Compass will still go further in the muck than most of its Qashqai-class rivals but the idea now is that you shouldn't be constantly reminded of the fact on the school run. Just as importantly, this model's smarter 'mini-Grand Cherokee' looks will need to be more than skin-deep, blended with a value proposition strong enough to lift this Compass clear of other class competitors. If Jeep has pulled all of this off in this car, then its prospects may yet look bright.
Driving Experience
The Compass line-up is based around a Multijet diesel engine range. There's a 120bhp 1.6-litre unit and a 2.0-litre powerplant available in either 140 or 170bhp guises. There's also a 1.4-litre petrol unit with 140 or 170bhp. Four wheel drive is only available on the 170bhp petrol model or the 2.0-litre diesel. The 170bhp 2.0-litre diesel comes with a 9-speed auto gearbox, boasts a lusty 380Nm of pulling power and will be the primary choice of towers. This Compass model shares its underpinnings with Jeep's Cherokee, so you'd expect even mainstream variants to be more capable than the average family Crossover if you ever take to the wilds. Four-wheel drive models get rear-axle disconnect, which improves efficiency by switching to two-wheel drive when all-wheel drive isn't required. In the unlikely event that you're likely to be off roading frequently, you might be interested in the flagship Compass Trailhawk variant, which uses the top 170bhp 2.0-litre diesel engine and features extra body cladding, higher ground clearance, a low-range gearbox and steeper approach angles. This derivative features the 'Jeep Active Drive II' chassis that gets a two speed power transfer unit, which includes torque management and low range gears to lock the front and rear drive shafts for low speed grunt.
Design and Build
The exterior looks of this Compass model are less daring than is the case with the brand's smaller Renegade SUV. Trademark Jeep elements include the large, seven-slot front grille and the trapezoidal wheel arches and the contrast colour roof is a smart touch. The sharp LED headlights look good too. Inside, the fascia features plenty of soft-touch plastics but the overall design isn't as characerful as is the case with rivals like Peugeot's 3008. A few touches of black gloss plastic lift the ambience and the seats look smart and feel supportive. As with most new Fiat Group models, in the centre of the dash of this one, you'll find a 'Uconnect' infotainment screen, available in either 5, 7 or 8.4-inch sizes, depending on the model you select. This monitor controls the navigation, entertainment and other in-cabin heating systems: we'd prefer if the ventilation controls had remained with old-fashioned knobs. It's not always very intuitive to be stabbing away at a touchscreen. At the back, shoulder room and legroom are both good, but if you get a version fitted with the panoramic sunroof, adult headroom is restricted. The 438-litre boot is roomy too - a fraction larger than a rival Qashqai's. It's annoying though, that you can't flatten to the rear bench without coming round to the side doors.
Market and Model
Jeep is slotting this Compass in between its Renegade and Cherokee models. Pricing is in the £23,000 to £36,000 bracket and there are three trim levels, 'Sport', 'Longitude' and 'Limited', plus a further off road-orientated 'Trailhawk' variant at the top of the range. Standard equipment across the range includes air conditioning, a 'Uconnect' touchcreen infotainment system with a DAB audio set-up and Bluetooth, alloy wheels, tyre pressure monitoring, and remote central locking. Plusher models add larger aluminium wheels, roof rails, body coloured door mirrors and handles, cruise control and front fog lamps, plus a larger 8.4-inch screen with sat nav for the 'Uconnect' infotainment set-up. On to safety. All models get the expected things - Isofix childseat fastenings, tyre pressure monitoring, an energy-absorbing steering column, hill start assist to stop you from drifting backwards on uphill junctions and twin front, side and curtain airbags. To try and make sure those 'bags won't be needed, there's plenty of electronic assistance. ESC stability control and Electronic Roll Mitigation of course, plus 'All speed traction control' and a 'Brake Traction Control System' to offer extra grip on start-off or through the bends. The ABS braking system features 'Panic brake assist' and 'Ready Alert Braking' to quicken emergency stops. There's a 'DST' 'Driving Steering Torque' system to counter scary oversteer on low-grip surfaces. And 'Trailer Sway Control' will come in useful too if you'll be fitting a towbar and doing some towing.
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Jeep has worked hard to improve the efficiency of this Compass model. As well as improving the efficiency over its brick-like forebear, the nine-speed transmission in top variants offers a contribution to lowering frictional losses. With fewer open shift elements in the gearbox, drag losses due to multiple parts rotating relative to one another are reduced, improving fuel efficiency. The MultiJet common rail injection system's engine management, also optimises economy, introducing tiny quantities of fuel with the main injection cycle. The 2.0-litre turbo diesel engine also incorporates "Stop/Start" technology that improves fuel efficiency and reduces CO2 emissions. Drivers can deactivate this via a button on the dashboard and an icon displays in the instrument panel to indicate the Stop/Start status. The rear axle disconnect feature on 4x4 variants further helps to improve fuel efficiency. So to the figures. The volume 138bhp 4WD variant manages 49.6mpg on the combined cycle and 148g/km of CO2. Of course, the ultimate figures you achieve will depend very much on how you drive, something you can monitor and improve if you've downloaded the infotainment system's 'Uconnect LIVE' app onto your smartphone. This gives you an 'eco:Drive' section that enables you to develop your driving style, save fuel and check your car's CO2 emissions in real time. During each trip, 'eco:Drive monitors four driving parameters: acceleration, deceleration, changing gears and speed variation.
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John Oliver, a Father of Plate Tectonics, Dies
Former Lamont scientist Jack Oliver died Jan. 5 at his home in Ithaca, NY.
Dr. John Ertle "Jack" Oliver, a geophysicist with roots at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory whose research helped revolutionize our understanding of the basic forces shaping the planet, died of cancer at his home in Ithaca, N.Y., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. He was 87.
Together with fellow Lamonters Bryan Isacks and Lynn Sykes, he wrote a paper in 1968, "Seismology and the new Global Tectonics," which made a compelling geophysical case for the then-novel theory of plate tectonics, a theory that now forms the basis for all our current understanding of how the Earth works.
"It was literally the bible for understanding seismology," said Larry D. Brown, a former student of Oliver's who is now chairman of Cornell's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. "It was one of the top five seminal papers on plate tectonics."
"Jack Oliver, along with Bryan Isacks, Lynn Sykes, and others in the Lamont seismology group, showed how the properties of earthquakes were a near-perfect fit to the emerging theory of plate tectonics," said Arthur L. Lerner-Lam, associate director of the seismology division at Lamont. "Their work was key in convincing scientists of the explanatory power of the 'new global tectonics,' and opened up new areas of research that even today remain fundamental."
Born on Sept. 26, 1923 in Massillon, Ohio, to Chester Oliver and Marie Ertle Oliver, Oliver attended Columbia on a football scholarship, earned his bachelor's degree in 1947 and went to earn his masters degree in physics and a PhD. in geophysics at Lamont, working under Maurice "Doc" Ewing, in 1953.
He headed the seismology program at Lamont from 1955-71 and chaired the Department of Geology at Columbia University from 1969-71.
He was one of the first scientists to understand how to detect nuclear explosions using seismic waves, and that work led to his becoming an advisor for the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1958-59, and a delegate to the negotiations in Geneva. He moved to Cornell University in 1971 to be chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences, and founding director of the Institute for the Study of the Continents at Cornell.
Jack Oliver, left, and fellow Lamont scientist Ken Hunkins check a seismograph record.
He helped establish the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling Project, which pioneered in the large-scale exploration of the continental lithosphere using seismic reflection techniques.
"Most people saw Jack as a seismologist. To me, Jack was an explorer, in the best scientific sense of the word," Brown said. "Jack was always seeking the grand mysteries. Thus it came as no surprise to me when a mutual colleague reported that during a phone call just last week, Jack was actually excited about finally finding out what was 'on the other side.'"
Oliver was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and president of both the Seismological Society of America and the Geological Society of America. He authored or co-authored over 200 scientific papers and visited over 55 countries during his years of geophysics research. He wrote several books, including The Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery and Shocks and Rocks; Seismology in the Plate Tectonics Revolution, and Shakespeare Got It Wrong: It's Not "to Be," It's "to Do": Autobiographical Memoirs of a Lucky Geophysicist.
At the end of his autobiography, available online, Oliver indulges in a weakness for limericks, and included this one among many:
The youth wondered what he should be.
His prof said, "You're missing the key.
Life's not to be, but to do.
Pick a task, follow through.
You'll live ever after most happily."
An avid hiker, Oliver was married to the late Gertrude N. Oliver, whom he met in a hiking club outside New York City. He leaves his brother, William Oliver of Massillon, Ohio, daughter Cornelia (Nell) Oliver of Pacific Palisades, CA, daughter Amy Mascolo (Richard) of Doylestown, PA, and grandchildren Philippa, Katherine and Georgina Thomas of Pacific Palisades, CA, and Monica, Christina, and Jack Mascolo of Doylestown, PA.
A funeral Mass was scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, at St. Catherine of Siena Church. A reception was to be held at 1 p.m. at Kendal of Ithaca, the retirement community where Oliver lived.
The family asks that instead of flowers, donations be made to Hospicare, 172 East King Road, Ithaca, NY 14850; Kendal of Ithaca's Rainy Day Fund, 2230 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY 14850; or the Washington High School Scholarship Fund, c/o Washington High School Alumni Association, 207 Oak Avenue SE, Massillon, OH 44646.


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Well now, doesn't this feel funny -
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My little Norwegian g-g-grandmas will be turning in their graves, collectively thinking: "Where did we go wrong?" But, what the heck, it's time to make a run for it and hope that the Viking God of Humility can be forgiving, as well as humble.
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Who's the Gal with the Legs? 12/31/2007
Pictured (l to r): Doris Johnson, Bennie Johnson, George Johnson, and Phyllis Johnson. Leonard, Clearwater CO, MN, ca. 1930.
Cousins in drag. Even farm kids have to find some comic relief now and then. This is one of my favorite pics in my mother's large collection. One summer day, my mother and aunt decided to trade clothes with their boy cousins. Someone grabbed the old Brownie and snapped a photo. I'll bet the boys were cringing a few years after this one!
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Wish Books and Hardwood Floors 12/19/2007
Pictured: Downtown Richmond, CA, 1959.
Christmas shopping with the Wheeler family in the early 1960s: anticipation, Richmond rain, early Montgomery Wards, wet wool, figgety little sisters, and more rain.
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Woolly Dog Nights: Tale of a Prairie Blizzard 11/15/2007
Pictured: Saron Lutheran Church, Chippewa CO., MN, ca. 1900.
The January 1873 blizzard in the Midwest was of devastating proportions. Read about its effects on the charter members of the future Saron Lutheran Church of Chippewa County, Minnesota. What happened when 35 men were stuck at Ole Anderson's cabin for several days during the big storm?
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Thanksgiving on the Other Side 10/29/2007
Pictured: Bill Wheeler & his turkey, El Cerrito, CA, ca. 1966.
Thanksgiving with the "other side" of my family: my dad's non-Norwegian side. Uncles, aunts, and cousins form a different sort of a grouping for one young girl.
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No Ode to Lutefisk 12/3/2007
Pictured (ugh): reconstituted cod.
Do not pass the lutefisk, please:
the history behind the custom of serving reconstituted cod at holiday meals, plus a family story or two.


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The repeal and enactment of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act ("CEAA") and amendments to other federal legislation is the most significant change in federal environmental assessment (EA) since the legislation was enacted. The amendments are aimed at increasing investment in extractive industries by encouraging certainty, reducing regulatory duplication and reducing delays. The implications of these changes are vast and it is too early to determine their impacts on the mining industry.
This is the fourth article in our series on changes to the federal environmental assessment regime and what that means for mining in Ontario. Our first article provided a general overview while our second article addressed changes in CEAA related to Aboriginal consultation. Our third article discussed what the new Aboriginal consultation regime meant for mining in Ontario. In this article we discuss the Fisheries Act amendments, their implications for Aboriginal consultation and other matters relevant to miners taking into account further Fisheries Act revisions proposed in Bill C-45.
Prior to the recent amendments, the Fisheries Act was a powerful environmental and resource management tool of general application. It was applied with force to protected fish habitat across the country. The changes to the Fisheries Act enacted last year and the proposed revisions in Bill C-45 limit the focus from the protection of almost all fish habitat to only the protection of "fish that are part of a commercial, recreational or Aboriginal fishery, or to fish that support that fishery". The Fisheries Act will apply less often and in more narrow circumstances. It is no longer a statute of general application across Canada but one that will apply only to a limited number of lakes and rivers in limited parts of Canada.
The transition to the new Fisheries Act will occur in two phases. The first amendments to the Fisheries Act were made this past summer. Some of these amendments are placeholders enabling Federal-Provincial negotiations on agreements and protocols and the drafting of new regulations and definitions critical to implementation.
For example, Bill C-38 included two amendments each to Sections 35 and 37 of the Fisheries Act. The first set of amendments that came into force this past summer, maintain the emphasis on protecting almost all fish habitat by expanding the prohibition from only "works and undertakings" that damage fish habitat to include all activities that damage fish habitat as well. The second set of revisions limits the application of the Fisheries Act to only commercial, recreational and aboriginal fisheries or fish that support these fisheries. The second set of revisions will come in to force on a date ordered by federal cabinet, presumably when Federal-Provincial negotiations for new agreements and protocols are complete.
While waiting for the changes from federal cabinet, does nothing change in the interim? No, the place holding amendments diminish the current administrative restrictions and override existing protocols on habitat protection by providing for greater administrative discretion. Staffing and administrative resource cuts underscore the effects of these changes. Even though federal cabined has not approved the second set of amendments, Fisheries and Oceans Canada is processing application as if the legislative changes were in force.
While many of the changes to the Fisheries Act were intended to facilitate mining development, they may not have their intended purpose, at least in the short term. Uncertainty as to the Fisheries Act's application to mining projects may prevail for some time. Fisheries Act implementation has historically involved the participation of Provincial ministries and agencies to shape implementation agreements and develop an accepted scientific body of practice that defined the measures taken to ensure compliance with the habitat protection provisions.
The refocused Fisheries Act requires development of a new scientific body of practice to implement the more limited habitat protection focus. This will take time and much judgment and consultation will be required, particularly where Aboriginal fisheries are concerned. With staffing and budget reductions, especially among scientists, the resources needed to implement the changes effectively may not be there.
For mining projects, there may be three major impacts. Over larger areas, approvals may become quicker and less expensive to obtain. Projects with existing Fisheries Act approvals will be able to apply to have their permit requirements reduced in accordance with the new Act. However, for projects caught by the new approvals requirements, there may be additional uncertainty as the new science and body of practice are developed.
It may take years to implement the new Fisheries Act and re-establish the science and administrative practices needed for competent implementation. The withdrawal of federal protection for most fisheries could in theory be replaced by additional provincial oversight but this is unlikely to happen in Ontario given the budgetary problems and expected staffing reductions at the Ministry of Natural Resources. But the messaging is clear. The Fisheries Act won't be the powerful decision-making tool it was in the past.
George McKibbon (McKibbon Wakefield Inc.) helped prepare this article.


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Moscow's highest court panel is examining an appeal by three members of the punk band Pussy Riot against their conviction for an anti-Putin protest.
Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora legal aid group which represents the band, said Wednesday that Moscow City Court's presidium has requested files of the guilty verdict for "hooliganism" they received in August for a performance in Moscow's main cathedral.
Russia's human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has filed a supporting affidavit asking for the conviction to be overturned. Lukin's affidavits have special legal status and have frequently helped free defendants in a country where 99 percent of trials end in convictions.
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The Toronto Blue Jays are a year removed from creating a big buzz in baseball circles with a pair of blockbuster trades that labelled them as certified contenders for 2013.
Pity they forgot about the importance of catching while seeming to overpay in deals with the Miami Marlins and New York Mets for essentially mediocre pitching help.
Cue to this off-season where the Jays are doing more subtraction than addition, despite finishing a miserable seven games below .500 in 2013. They have an owner with 5.2 billion reasons suddenly to be distracted by hockey, and the ball team has succeeded so far only in playing musical catchers.
Here is where the Jays stand this off-season with baseball's annual winter meetings set for next week at Disney World in Florida. No Mickey Mouse jokes yet, please, we'll give Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos a chance to redeem himself first:
They have allowed starting pitcher Josh Johnson to walk away. He was a key acquisition in the 12-player trade last year with Florida.
They have essentially released catcher J.P. Arencibia after determining in trade talks that nobody else wanted him either.
They have signed free agent catcher Dioner Navarro to a two-year, $8-million contract. Anthopoulos indicated Tuesday the 29-year-old has been pencilled in as the first-stringer with soft-hitting backup Josh Thole returning as knuckleballer R.A. Dickey's personal catcher. The news will not set off a stampede at the box office. Navarro hasn't been a first-string catcher since Tampa Bay, 2007-09.
Catchers the Jays have dumped since 2010:
Jeff Mathis, who had a strong season as a backup in 2012, was included in the 12-man trade with the Marlins.
John Buck, who hit .281 with 20 homers and 66 RBI with the Jays in 2010, was reacquired in 2012 from the Marlins but then was packaged to the Mets in the Dickey-Thole deal.
Yan Gomes, who provided a solid bat mainly as a third baseman in 2012, was traded to Cleveland that November and emerged as a star behind the plate in 2013, hitting .294 with 11 homers and 38 RBI.
Jose Molina, a good all-round contributor in 2010 and 2011, was still sound at 38 in Tampa Bay last season and has signed a two-year deal to return to the Rays.
Travis d'Arnaud, who was dealt along with pitcher Noah Syndergaard as part of the Dickey-Thole trade in 2012. They are now the Mets' top two prospects.
J.P.Arencibia, who struggled at the plate and behind it for most of the 2013 season. The Jays decided this week not to tender him a contract.
Free-agent catchers who have signed elsewhere:
Brian McCann, with Yankees, five years, $85 million
Jose Molina, re-signs with Tampa, two years, $4.5 million
Brayan Pena, with Cincinnati, two years, $2.275 million
A.J. Pierzynski, with Boston, one year, $8.25 million
Carlos Ruiz, re-signs with Philadelphia, three years, $26 million
Geovany Soto, re-signs with Texas, one year, $3.05 million
Free agent catchers still available
John Buck, Pittsburgh, could be headed back to Mets as a backup
Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Boston, has an offer from Miami to complement Jeff Mathis
Kurt Suzuki, Oakland, could be headed to Texas
The big trades, one year later
Star shortstop Jose Reyes, 30, and left-handed starter Mark Buehrle, 34, remain from the 12-player Miami trade.
Utility man Emilio Bonifacio, ,28, was traded to Kansas City for a player to be named or cash. Catcher John Buck, 33, was traded to the Mets and Josh Johnson, 29, has signed with San Diego as a free agent.
The Jays gave up Yunel Escobar, 31, first-string shortstop with Tampa; Adeiny Hechavarria, 24, first-string shortstop with Miami; pitcher Henderson Alvarez, 21, who had a no-hitter with the Marlins; Jeff Mathis, 30, backup catcher with the Marlins; minor league outfielder Jake Marisnick, 22, and pitching prospects Justin Nicolino, 22, and Anthony DeSclafani, 23.
Starting pitcher R.A. Dickey, 39, and backup catcher Josh Thole, 27, remain from the Mets trade. Catcher Mike Nickeas, 30, likely is destined to remain in the minors.
The Jays gave up top prospects catcher Travis d'Arnaud, 24, and pitcher Noah Syndergaard, 21, in the seven-player deal. D'Arnaud is expected to be the Mets' first-string catcher in 2014 after being slowed by injuries in 2013. Syndergaard is a candidate to make the pitching rotation. Outfielder Wuilmer Becerra is a 19-year outfield prospect now in the Mets chain, while catcher John Buck, 33, was traded to Pittsburgh and now is a free agent.
Blue Jays speculation
There is rumoured interest in Oakland left-hander Brett Anderson, 25, who struggled with injuries in 2013.
Should the Chicago Cubs decide to trade right-hander Jeff Samardzija, 29, the Jays are one of several teams interested.
Talk has faded about the Jays trading left-hander Buehrle, but not regarding fellow lefty J.A. Happ.


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Loic Remy ended Newcastle's barren run with a dramatic injury-time winner as Aston Villa finally succumbed at St James' Park.
The striker claimed his 12th goal of the season in injury time of a game the Magpies should have had wrapped up long before. It clinched a first victory since January 18 and ended a run of five successive home defeats.
Remy and strike-partner Papiss Cisse had earlier wasted glorious opportunities to put Alan Pardew's men ahead in a game which rarely hit the heights, but the former's late contribution proved enough to seal a 1-0 win.
Villa gave as good as they got for long periods, but looked to be fortunate not to concede an 81st-minute penalty when the ball appeared to strike defender Leandro Bacuna's arm inside the box.
Newcastle went into the game having lost each of their last five fixtures in all competitions at St James' and with the club moving to deny that Pardew's job was on the line if he did not remedy that situation today.
The initial signs were positive as a team strengthened significantly by the return of Fabricio Coloccini and Cheick Tiote from injury and Remy from suspension set about their task in determined fashion.
Remy forced a second-minute save from Brad Guzan with a well-struck effort and Cisse almost embarrassed the American eight minutes later with a drilled effort which he spilled, fortunately at the feet of team-mate Nathan Baker.
However, the wheels then rather came off for the Magpies as Villa found their feet and started to hit their hosts on the counter with the pace of Gabriel Agbonlahor a particular threat.
Midfielder Karim El Ahmadi had already fired across the face of goal twice when Agbonlahor forced a 19th-minute save from Tim Krul after Ashley Westwood had set him up, and he blasted a long-range effort inches over the crossbar seconds later.
Pardew, who had signalled his intention to play two strikers for the remainder of the season in his programme notes, swiftly abandoned the system in favour of a 4-5-1 formation, and while that helped to stem the tide, it did little to improve Newcastle's creativity.
Remy saw a 44th-minute free-kick just wide, but Cisse really should have scored in first half-injury time after being picked out by the Frenchman in front of goal, but his shot was too high.
Villa's efforts to deny the home side time and space proved effective and the Magpies became increasingly frustrated as they struggled to find any cohesion.
They did, however, with 53 minutes gone when Remy flicked Moussa Sissoko's pass into the path of Yoan Gouffran, whose right-foot shot flew just wide.
But with neither side able to retain possession for more than a handful of rudimentary passes, chances were few and far between.
However, left-back Paul Dummett went desperately close when he curled a 20-yard shot just over with 63 minutes gone, and Gouffran volleyed high and wide two minutes later with Newcastle pressing.
Tiote fired tamely at Guzan and Sissoko scuffed harmlessly wide as the home, then Remy forced a diving save from Guzan with a well-struck effort 10 minutes from time.
The home side were furious not to be awarded a penalty seconds later after the ball appeared to strike Bacuna's arm.
The Magpies should have snatched victory when substitute Luuk de Jong robbed Ron Vlaar on the goal-line and squared for Remy, who contrived to hit the upright.
But the France international redeemed himself two minutes into stoppage time when he spun inside the box to thump home left-foot volley past the helpless Guzan.
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It hasn't been two weeks since San Francisco won the World Series, and the sport of baseball is already getting ready to spend millions of dollars on a new crop of free agents. Meanwhile, gamers around the country are getting ready to spend their own collective millions, this time on the Kinect, Microsoft's revolutionary motion-gaming unit.
Turns out, there may be a mutual benefit here that neither side expected.
Over the last few years, the loss of over a billion dollars to injuries has become a critical topic of discussion for baseball teams, but few are doing much about it. Medical budgets for teams are significantly less than the cost of a mediocre player, and the willingness to let a player be rebuilt by renowned surgeons like James Andrews or Neal ElAttrache holds sway over simple prevention.
When the Washington Nationals lost young pitcher Stephen Strasburg to a torn ulnar collateral ligament this past summer, it seemed a nadir of pitcher development. Still, the Nats have "no plans," according to one front office source, to start using more advanced methods (such as biomechanical analysis) in order to prevent the next such injury.
Glenn Fleisig is the top biomechanist in baseball, heading up the research labs at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. Set up by Andrews in the 1980s, ASMI has worked to improve the health and mechanics of baseball players at all levels. Its research has led to pitch restrictions on Little League players, a move that has reduced the occurrence of injuries to prepubescent pitchers.
Fleisig himself has been trying to get teams to send pitchers to his lab for years, getting a couple of takers, such as the Moneyball-era Oakland Athletics, but currently only three teams have any formal program of biomechanical analysis.
Some of it is the glacial pace of change in baseball, but cost is also a consideration. The Milwaukee Brewers are the only team to own and run their own biomechanical lab. The cost for the cameras, computers and software, as well as the engineers and doctors to do the analysis, can run in the neighborhood of a million dollars. But the team's ability to get data on the arms of every pitcher in the organization is already starting to give it an information advantage. Now, that cost might soon be coming down, thanks to an unexpected source: Microsoft.
Earlier this month, Microsoft introduced its Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360. The peripheral uses a series of infrared and visual-spectrum cameras to construct a simple model that, in the words of Microsoft, turns "you into the controller."
The model it uses is hardly as high-quality as the ones used by ASMI or the Brewers, but there's reason to think it may yet be useful. If custom biomechanics software can be written that makes full use of the Kinect's capabilities, its low cost and potential for broad distribution would allow for widespread initial screening, especially for youth-league pitchers. Pitchers that fall outside a set of accepted parameters could then be referred for more sensitive (and expensive) testing.
Proprietary research has shown that there are predictable limits to the amount of force the elbow and shoulder of a pitcher can take. While there are individual tolerance differences, calculating the force in the elbow – a simple hinge joint – is a reasonably accurate predictive exercise.
While Microsoft refused comment on any medical use for its peripheral, one game designer at a company that's developing for the Kinect confirmed for Wired.com that the system does have the necessary capabilities to make those types of measurements. "There are already games that simulate the motion of tennis, of volleyball and other sports," he told me. "Having one that simulates a baseball throw (and swing) is an easy one and could put baseball back on the gaming map.
"If the game is already calculating arm position and rotation in order to create realistic responses, there's no reason that [data] couldn't be collected and used the way motion capture is now."
Fleisig had not yet seen the Kinect system when contacted for comment, but said that he was looking into the system for use in biomechanics. While few baseball sources seem to be familiar with the system – a Major League Baseball pitching coach reached by Wired.com knew that his son had an Xbox, but had not yet heard of the Kinect – the next six months will readily show whether the Kinect is a hit, both in living rooms and training rooms.
Will Carroll is a sportswriter with a focus on sports medicine and injuries. A three-time Fantasy Sports Writers Association award winner and member of both the Baseball Writers' Association of America and Professional Football Writers of America, he writes about football injuries at SI.com and is on Twitter at @injuryexpert.
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If you look up the phrase 'glorious racket,' chances are a picture of the Velvet Underground's second album, 'White Light, White Heat' will appear. That description fits each and every one of its 40 minutes perfectly. Unlike the haunting beauty of their flawless debut album, 'White Light,' which was released on Jan. 30, 1968, drops a bit of the artiness and supplements it with rage and raw power.
From the moment the needle hits the opening burst of the first track, it's safe to say your speakers may be in danger. "We were intent on recording this album live, because we were so good live at this point," said John Cale in his autobiography, 'What's Welsh For Zen.' "To keep that animalism there, we insisted on playing at the volume we played on stage."
One of countless brilliantly simple riffs Lou Reed had a knack for writing, the title cut kicks off this chaos-drenched ride without pretense or disguise, letting loose on the listener's senses via its amphetamine-laced punch. The song was later covered, very nicely, by David Bowie. 'The Gift' is a John Cale narrative set to a motorik groove. The brittle guitars and heartbeat drums of Maureen Tucker pump this along like blood to the heart, while Cale tells the amusingly bloody tale of Waldo Jeffers and how not to use the postal service.
'Lady Godiva's Operation' is almost folk-rock in its framework, with a very Byrds-like, almost jangling riff driving the song. However, in the hands of the Velvets, it takes on a shape all its own. The part where Reed chimes in on 'Sweetly' and 'neatly pump air' still sounds so odd, as the vocals are mixed so loudly there. Every time it plays, you know it's coming, but it's still jarring. 'Here She Comes Now' is probably the most mellow moment on the album and a nice way to end Side One. It features an understated vocal from Reed and in some ways, foreshadows album No. 3 in its overall vibe. A real beauty indeed.
Okay, so we've flipped the LP over and upon doing so, we are knocked out of our seats. 'I Heard Her Call My Name' is a brutal four-minute ride about hearing the voice of a now-deceased love, with some of the most charged feedback ever committed to tape. After Reed sings the line "and then my mind split open," there is a pregnant pause before the burst of feedback and guitar tears apart the cones of your speakers. The beauty and power of the electric guitar might just be summed up on this track.
And then, we have arrived at our final destination, a little song called 'Sister Ray.' 17-plus minutes of raw-as-can-be rock and roll with a riff that just never stops. It's not so much a proper 'song' as it is a riff — a riff that never lets up and by the power of its insistence, becomes a song. And what a song it is. Reed's lyrics roll out like a stream of consciousness blur of sex, drugs and death. All the while, the guitars and organ fuse together into a sonic overload as Tucker never lets up for a moment. At the end of the 17-minute ride, we're exhausted! "We were working in a very small studio with no isolation so it was all this noise just smashing into more noise" said Cale, "We never quite realized that there were technical problems in turning everything past nine."
Recorded in late-1967, the effects of the "Summer of Love" were nowhere to be found here. The New York City that spawned this band and this album was a long was from warm San Franciscan nights and flowers in anyone's hair. The cover alone is the antithesis of the psychedelic explosion, all black with the band name and LP title very formally sitting at the top. They even managed to beat the Beatles to the punch of the 'White Album' artwork with this darker take on a similar motif. It goes without saying that the album sold next to nothing, but would continue to gain notoriety over the years.
Neither the Velvets, Lou Reed, nor John Cale ever made another record like 'White Light, White Heat' again. Though its influence guaranteed that many others would try, no one has ever come close. It feels entirely of the moment. Its power so genuine, the emotion so raw, it simply could never be copied, even by those who made it. We're not saying it's the best VU album — there may not be a 'best' VU album since they are really all very different animals — but it is certainly their most vicious and demanding platter. It's heavy without being metal, and it's metal without being heavy. The years has not snuffed out its fire. Someone check back in another 45 and see if it's still smoldering.


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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Home is where the posts are
Lots of things are going well. I love Hopeful Parents and I love being a part of such a wonderful community of parents and writers. I like helping to direct new readers there. I like having a deadline that forces me to write something at least once a month. I've been introduced to some great new parents and I've broadened my perspective on raising a child with special needs.
Some things are not going as well, though. The main issue is this: If you're a writer, you may understand what I mean when I say that sometimes writing feels like parenting. You start with raw material - a blank page - and you breathe life into it. You shape it, assess it, redirect it, and then marvel as it begins to take on a life of its own. Your essays - your stories - your blog posts - begin to feel like your children.
Well, these days, with my Hopeful Parents posting, I feel like I've randomly selected a few of my children and shipped them off to go live with another family. Don't get me wrong - it's a nice family; it's a lovely family. But I miss having my kids at home.
I've also discovered a fascinating trend in readership - or, in readership as evidenced by comments, at any rate. There's a significant subset of people who often comment here, but don't comment there. They contact me by e-mail instead or they make a comment related to my Hopeful Parents post on an unrelated post here. Some, I think, just don't comment at all. I've been wondering why this is and I've developed two theories:
First, there's a lot of coming and going over at Hopeful Parents. A new kid moves in every twelve hours or so. So, you might get introduced to my kid, leave for a while, and then return to continue the conversation, only to find that several new kids are sitting in his place. You could go searching for my kid, but really, time is short, and it's just easier to wait for another opportunity to chat.
That dynamic is less true over here, where life is lived at a much slower pace and my kids may linger at the table, helping themselves to one more piece of pie, for days or weeks before anyone else sits down with them. Here, there's a lot more space - physically and psychologically - for chatting.
My second theory is this: As I've said before, I think (and hope) that when people visit this blog, they feel like they're sitting down in a virtual living room with a steaming cup of coffee and a few good friends. I think the living room environment itself invites conversation. But I think, maybe, that commenting over at Hopeful Parents makes people feel like they're dropping in unannounced at my office. They never know if it's a good time and they're afraid they might be interrupting something - so they make their visits brief and they try to be unobtrusive.
So, that's the overview of my 90-day review. On balance, things are going well, but I've decided to take my cue from Jess at A Diary of a Mom and make one small change. I'll still ship my kids off once a month to the loving family at Hopeful Parents and I'll let them spend some time there on their own. I hope you'll visit them to see how they're doing. And then, after a little time has passed and I start missing them too much, I'll bring them home and reprint them here. They can keep a bag a Hopeful Parents and spend as much time there as they like. But I hope they'll always feel at home here.
I hope you will, too.
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This is my first visit to your blog. I think this was a lovely post. I really like the way you write. I also think it's a neat decision to reprint your HP stuff back on your own blog. That's pretty cool. :-)
- October 19, 2010 11:22 PM
- Leigh-ann said...
I am a frequent reader, though I rarely (if ever)comment. I love reading anything you write...here, there, whereever :) I, too, have a son with PDD-NOS, and I can very easily relate to many of the stories you have shared. I find hope in your words and feel so grateful that someone out there with such a gift for sharing is willing to do that :) Thanks so much! Best wishes to you and Bud!
- October 20, 2010 1:02 AM
- *m* said...
Sounds like a good plan. I love your posts wherever I find 'em.
- October 20, 2010 6:49 AM
What *m* said. Plus, when I get way behind in my blog reading, it's somehow easier to hit "mark all as read" on the group blogs than it is to weed through the posts to find my favorites.
- October 20, 2010 7:50 AM
you know, it's funny .. i'd never done that before this last one (reposted a post from hopeful parents), but it was much as you described - i felt very attached to that particular post and i needed it back 'home'. i'm thrilled to have you at hp. i can't imagine a mom who better embodies the spirit or whose writing i'd rather read. xo
- October 20, 2010 9:53 AM
- kim mccafferty said...
Loved the analogy as well as your style. Your blog is a recent discovery, I look forward to catching up on the "back-story"!
- October 20, 2010 11:03 AM
- Natalie said...
When it comes to posts, there's no place like home! But MOM-NOS, I'd read you anywhere! Your posts are always so beautifully written, and I just love your unique perspective and understanding. Bud is one lucky boy, and we are all lucky to be your readers!
- October 20, 2010 4:56 PM
- KAL said...
Love you, and love your kids!
- October 20, 2010 11:30 PM
I am reading this in my actual living room with an actual cup of coffee and feel very much like I am among friends. Thank you, you are now on my 'favorites' list.
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I love that this post has prompted comments from people I haven't heard from before. Welcome!
I'm going to go stock up on coffee...
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He lives, he sings and he's recording again. After a career of full of surprises, it perhaps shouldn't be a shock that David Bowie released his first new recording in a decade on his 66th birthday on Tuesday, a song called Where Are We Now?
What's more, he's offering not just a single but the promise of an album of new material in March called The Next Day.
It's fair to say Bowie was assumed to have retired. Ill health (a heart attack in 2004), no tours since the 2004 shows were cancelled, no album since 2003, the last of his public appearances being in 2007 and the fact that his second child, Alexandria, was born in 2000 all suggested a veil being drawn across a career that began in the Mod years of the mid-'60s.
But here is Where Are We Now?, a bruised, sadly beautiful, contemplative song which does that very rare Bowie thing of looking back. In this case it's back to Berlin in the late 1970s when, physically and emotionally spent after a decade of constant reinvention, mind-warping fame and more cocaine than is ever healthy – a "man lost in time", to quote from the new song – he regained sanity, health and his musical inspiration "on Nurnberger Strasse".
In the song, Bowie sounds older, certainly, maybe even more fragile. It's reflective and overlaid with a kind of sadness that's not exactly a farewell but certainly leaves room for us to think that The Next Day may be his last recorded work. "As long as there's sun, as long as there's rain ... as long as there's me, as long as there's you."
The film clip, where Bowie's lived-in, weary face is projected onto the body of a furry toy, has scattered mementos and, projected behind him, grainy footage of Berlin decades ago and new, almost home-video shots. It's odd and slightly disturbing but compelling, in typical Bowie fashion.
Why does this matter? After all, he hasn't had a hit in decades and this song isn't going to challenge Pink or Kanye West for attention. It matters because, like Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, Bowie has not only earned the right to be listened to after a lifetime of creative reward but he still offers something fresh and of his time – not our time, but his – in a way that speaks volumes.


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Okay, okay, I think I might have to take it all back. Often enough, I've complained that the other media, the out-of-town media in particular, have done all too many "Berserkeley" stories, too many stories purporting to show that the silly season is year-round around here.
But then a story like this one comes along. The local CBS television outlet has skewered our recently re-elected mayor for his latest dog-in-the-manger move, attempting to rearrange the chairs on the Titanic—er, I mean on the Berkeley City Council dais.
Here's the whole story, complete with a video clip that tells all.
It's a story right out of junior high. Tommy just can't bear to sit next to that nasty boy who makes fun of him, even though that nice girl Linda is already on the other side to keep him company. Who knows, Kriss might even punch him some time. So Tommy gets his best friend to switch seats with Kriss. Now it's love, love, love on all sides for Tommy.
Or at least to the right of him and the left of him. Out in front, at least in one minute segments, a few of the mouthier kids might still able to stick out their tongues to give Tommy a Bronx cheer. But he'll probably figure out a way to stop that too.
On one level, it's not too surprising that the politician who launched his reign by stuffing copies of a newspaper which endorsed his opponent in the trash should have a few more juvenile moves like this one on his agenda. Anyone who watches the Berkeley City Council meetings (all 47 of us) has seen plenty of childish tantrums from Bates in his ten years in office.
But Berkeley voters don't seem to care, or most charitably they don't seem to know, what's been happening. Either that, or this is the kind of carryings-on that they think befits the chief elected official in a city with more than 100,000 residents, since they enthusiastically voted him into a 5th term this November.
Meanwhile, things on the ground in the real world continue to go from bad to worse. Berkeley made the front page of today's Chronicle with a story about how the personal data of people who've been taken to the hospital in Berkeley Fire Department emergency vehicles has been stolen from a contractor company that collects bills from patients. The problem surfaced in September, but the city has only recently started to inform potential identity fraud victims that they might be at risk.
But seriously—can't we all just get along?
Kriss Worthington and Jesse Arreguin continue to doggedly propose sensible solutions to Berkeley's many problems, even as the neo-moderate Bates crowd continues to offer quick dumb fixes like Measures S and T which solve nothing and create ill will. Sometimes the progressive councilmembers' ideas even get legs—the workshop about Telegraph Avenue on Tuesday at least gave an airing to some of Worthington's better suggestions for how to improve the main drag in his district. Whether anything translates into action will depend on whether the council majority actually wants to make things work or not.
Of course, there were a lot of bad ideas aired too. You can watch it all here if you're interested—but don't expect anything to happen any time soon.
One project that could make things either better or worse, which you can see on the video, is UC Berkeley's scheme to replace the admittedly plug-ugly Eshleman building, a non-descript 60s office block, with a more up-to-date shopping mall facing onto Bancroft, a street that has been almost criminally degraded by the blank wall of the university's sports palace, which takes up a large portion of the Bancroft street frontage west of the university entrance.
Those with even longer memories than mine (they may all be dead by now) remember that the fabled Sproul plaza itself, not to mention Eshleman and Zellerbach Auditorium, stand on the site of what was once a thriving commercial area starting just outside Sather Gate. It was urban-renewed by public domain enabled demolition sometime in the 50s, I think, and that's what really began Telegraph's decline.
Will turning the campus entrance into a mall make things nicer? Don't hold your breath.
Meanwhile, speaking of nice, neither Bates nor Worthington seems to be able to make nice with Ken Sarachan, who happens to hold title to several corner parcels on two major intersections on Telegraph. At the workshop Ken claimed that he had renovation and building projects ready to go for the old Cody's corner and the vacant lot diagonally across from it, but couldn't get the city's planning office to okay them.
Sarachan is certainly—a colorful individual—but he's got a lot of imagination and a lot of property. I'd be glad to sit down at a tea table with all three guys plus the planning director and try to help them to work out a sensible plan for turning Ken's holdings into an asset for Berkeley, if they'd all get down off their high horses for an hour or two.
Sadly, that's not how things work in Berserkeley, however. The mayor, who has little actual power but a bully pulpit, could choose to exercise some sort of leadership by reaching across the virtual aisle and trying to get along with the three progressives who speak for flatland Berkeley, but instead he's chosen to pick a needless fight, and Berkeleyans are blithely letting him get away with it.
Meanwhile, the rain falls, and I have no doubt that the traditional flooding in South and West Berkeley will follow, enabled by ten years of delayed maintenance of storm water drains under the Bates regime.
As I believe I may have said in this space before, I'm reluctantly concluding that Berkeley deserves what it gets.


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The company also will increase its commercial paper program from $700 million to $1 billion, the company said in a statement.


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Twins Daily Minor League Hitter of the Year
Earlier in the week, we announced the Minor league Relief Pitcher of the Year and the Minor League Starting Pitcher of the Year for the Twins. Today, it's time to point out the hitters that performed very well in the Twins minor league system. There were a lot of great performances and performers that don't even make the top six for various reasons, be it injury, big league time or simply playing in a short-season league. Here are three honorable mentions that I think will illustrate just how good the top 6 are!
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- Chris Parmelee – Rochester Red Wings – 77-228 - .338/.457/.645 (1.102) – 17-2B, 1-3B, 17-HR, 49-RBI, 45-R
- Nate Roberts – Beloit Snappers – 84-281 - .299/.433/.427 (.860) – 18-2B, 3-3B, 4-HR, 33-RBI, 60-R
- Max Kepler – Elizabethton Twins – 69-232 - .297/.387/.539 (.925) – 16-2B, 5-3B, 10-HR, 49-RBI, 40-R
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There were a lot more good hitters up for Hitter of the Year consideration, or at least mention, than there were
#6 – Eddie Rosario – Beloit Snappers (123-411 - .299/.347/.499 (.846), with 35 doubles, 4 triples, 13 HR, 74 RBI, 62 R)
Consider the numbers Rosario put up for the Snappers in 2012, and then remember that he missed about six weeks of the season after surgery on his mouth. What could he have done with another 120 plate appearances? After hitting 21 homers in E-Town in 2011, it is no surprise that he hit less home runs in the bigger ballparks, but he still hit for average and hit a lot of doubles. Rosario is so good at letting the ball get deep and uses the whole field well. And, his transition to 2B went well in year one, although there is still much room for improvement.
#5 – Josmil Pinto – Ft. Myers Miracle / New Britain Rock Cats (117-396 - .295/.362/.482 (.844), with 26 doubles, 3 triples, 14 HR, 60 RBI, 53 R)
One of the organization's more interesting decisions when the offseason starts involves Pinto. The catcher had a tremendous 2012 season. After hitting .295 with 22 doubles and 12 homers in 93 games with the Miracle, he was promoted to New Britain to help them in their playoff push as their DH. He hit .298 with seven extra base hits (including two homers) in the final 12 games. The 23-year-old can become a six-year minor league free agent following the World Series.
#4 – Chris Colabello – New Britain Rock Cats (141-496 - .284/.358/.478 (.836), with 37 doubles, 1 triple, 19 HR, 98 RBI, 78 R)
A year ago at this time, Colabello was finishing another season, his seventh, with the Worcester Tornadoes of the independent Can-Am League. Baseball America would soon name him their Independent League Player of the Year. The Twins, needing another bat for New Britain, gave him an opportunity. He made the best of it! The 28-year-old who had never played a single game for an affiliated team was a very consistent producer in the middle of the Rock Cats lineup all season long.
#3 – Aaron Hicks – New Britain Rock Cats (.286/.384/.460 (.844), with 21 doubles, 11 triples, 13 HR, 61 RBI, 100 R, 32 SB)
When the Twins used the 14th pick in the 2008 draft, scouts loved it because Hicks is a great athlete with the potential to be a 5-tool player. As is normal for young players, Hicks struggled in Beloit for a season-and-a-half and last year in Ft. Myers. The Twins pushed him to the AFL last season where he put up very good numbers. They again pushed him to New Britain to start this season, and he responded. Following the All Star break, he hit .301/.409/.480. He did post an OPS of .881 against lefties. Very important, he posted a very good .828 OPS against right-handed pitchers, an area he needed to improve upon. Once Hicks was moved to the leadoff position, his patience at the plate worked to his advantage. He got on base, stole bases and scored a lot of runs. The well-rounded game of Hicks finally started filling up box scores and stat lines!
#2 – Miguel Sano – Beloit Snappers (118-457 - .258/.373/.521 (893), with 28 doubles, 4 triples, 28 HR, 100 RBI, 75 R)
Expectations were high for Sano when the 2012 season began. I think it's safe to say that Sano met all expectations. He didn't hit for much average, but he hit for a lot of power. He drove in runs. He struckout a ton (144 times), and he committed a lot of errors (42). He certainly showed improvement throughout the season. His first-half OPS was .841. After the All-Star break, his OPS was .955. He had less than half as many errors in the second half as in the first. He was named the MWL Prospect of the Year and the Snappers named him their co-MVP. It was a nice first full-season performance for the 19-year-old.
Hitter of the Year –
Oswaldo Arcia – Ft. Myers Miracle / New Britain Rock Cats (150-469 - .320/.388/.539 (.925), with 36 doubles, 8 triples, 17 HR, 98 RBI, 76 R)
Signed in July of 2007, Arcia was an easy choice to add to the Twins 40 man roster last offseason. In 2010, he was the Appy League Player of the Year when he hit .375 with an OPS of 1.096. In 2011, he spent a month in Beloit before elbow surgery. Upon his return, he went to Ft. Myers. That's where he began the 2012 season. In 55 games, he hit .309 with 26 extra base hits. He played in the FSL All Star game and had a double off of Jameson Taillon in the Futures Game before being promoted to New Britain. That's when his offensive game really took off. In 69 games with the Rock Cats, he hit .328 with 35 extra base hits. He was an RBI machine. He plays a very good outfield with a strong arm. Arcia will return to big league spring training in 2013, and depending upon offseason moves, he will get a chance to impress the coaching staff with his power.
So there you have it. There were some really terrific offensively performances by Twins minor leaguers in 2012. It's especially nice to see big years coming from some of the team's top prospects. Feel free to discuss.


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