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Friday, April 13, 2012
The Inaugural 2012 Tweet Bag - Burning Questions, Smouldering Answers
Let's start with @donmcdougald, who asks: Would the Jays be better if Tony Fernandez was hitting coach? He understood how to keep ab's alive and get the ball in play.
Fernandez is unquestionably one of the great Jays, but you're assuming that his skill can simply be transferred. Legendary hitting coaches like Rudy Jaramillo or Charley Lau were never especially great hitters (or even all that good), while a great player like Ted Williams wasn't much of a manager, posting a .429 winning percentage. The point is that instruction is a skill in and of itself.
The example that you raise of Fernandez and his ability to foul off pitches also doesn't strike us as a transferable skill. It wasn't a strategy that Tony brought into each at bat - "I'm just gonna keep fouling off pitches this entire at bat!" - so much as it was a tactic that was facilitated by great hand-eye coordination - "I've got two strikes, so I'm gonna put my bat on anything close to the zone!"
Don't fret for Tony, though. He's gainfully employed as a special assistant to Texas Rangers GM Jon Daniels.
Next, @BlakeGShaw asks: What are the chances the team gets a new stadium in the next 5 years?? Beeston KIND OF hinted at it in reference to grass turf.
In the next five years? No chance. We think you're really reading into those comments from the State of the Franchise, and Beeston has backed away from them subsequently.
Rogers has plowed a bunch of money into the stadium over the last few years, and you should probably figure that this will be the Jays' home park for the next decade or two at the very least. What might be a big help to the Jays in the interim would be settling on them as the exclusive tenant of the stadium, and making adjustments to the field of play that would include having standard infield cut outs, as is done in Tampa.
Next batter! @Mike_Fahmy asks: Ok do you expect the @BlueJays to trade Snider before the deadline?
We doubt it. There's little urgency to do anything with Snider until after this season. If he gets it together and emerges this year as an Alex Gordon type of eventually-blooming prospect, then the Jays have him under control for four more years.
There could be an argument that he has to make the team out of Spring Training next year, so maybe you trade backwards and take a prospect who is further away if there's already enough big league talent in the system to fill that role. But that's a long way off, and Eric Thames has yet to establish himself as the long-term solution in an outfield corner.
And another one! @karmaloop__rep asks: When the time comes to make a D'Arnaud-JPA decision, should JPAs apparent closeness with Lawrie/Romero/rest of core be a factor?
Not really. Having a catcher who has a good relationship with his pitching staff and teammates is a nice plus, but a pleasant demeanour isn't exactly a difficult skill to master.
We watched d'Arnaud catch a couple of innings at the Jays' minor league facility this spring, and while we're literally talking about minutes of exposure to his game, the first thing that struck us was the way that he took command on the field. He was always communicating with his fielders, his pitcher, and generally looked at ease behind the plate. Which is to say nothing of his bat, which will slide nicely into the middle of a big league order eventually. J.P.'s got a nice upper-cut power swing, but average and on-base look as though they will always be challenges for him. Both players can probably co-exist for a season or two together, though, so there's no big rush to move Arencibia in the near term.
The bottom line is that these guys are all professionals. They can maintain friendships after players leave, and make new friendships when new guys arrive. There's a reason why they call it clubhouse chemistry, which is that it is fluid and always changing. Otherwise, they'd call it clubhouse masonry.
From @BitterRaptorFan: "Could you see a downside if Farrell announced that Jays will "close-by-committee" for the rest of eternity?"
That term really comes off as a pejorative, doesn't it? Who could love a committee? Can a committee inspire confidence? Does a committee start its business with pyrotechnics and heavy metal entrances?
We tend to agree with John Farrell's recently stated philosophy that he wants pitchers in the bullpen to have roles, so that they can mentally prepare themselves for the situations in which they'll be used. It will still be somewhat dynamic, but Casey Janssen and Darren Oliver know they'll come in for an inning in the seventh or eighth, Coco Cordero knows that he'll get the eighth and the occasional ninth inning work, and Santos knows he'll take the ninth or the end of the game. It certainly helps to have bullpen depth if this is the approach you want to take.
Having said that, we hate the save stat, and think that a saves should be merged into the "holds" stat so that managers no longer have the rationale that allows them to hold onto their best bullpen arms in high-leverage situations because they want to make sure that the "closer" gets the "save".
Next up, @RickVaughn_99 asks: Can you see the Blue Jays moving Lind in the offseason move Bautista to 1st and Rasmus to RF if Gose impresses that much?
There are a few questions here that aren't necessarily interdependent, but here's the quick answers:
-Yes, we can see the Jays moving Lind, though we don't think he'll have much of a market.
-Yes, we can see the Jays moving Bautista to first, provided he thinks he belongs there. Which might be a challenge.
-Yes, we can see the Jays moving Rasmus to an outfield corner to accommodate Anthony Gose, provided his bat is productive enough to hold down the spot and Gose shows that he's ready for the big leagues.
But ultimately, you tally up all of those conditional positive responses, and it seems as though the full scenario you've painted is unlikely. It also happens to be one of the more ideal scenarios that we've seen for the 2013 Jays. (Are we talking about 2013 already?)
Talking about the farm, @seanvail asks: What do you expect the Jays to do with their AAA franchise? Seems like Vegas is a pretty poor fit in almost every way.
The problem is that there are only so many franchises that are looking to shift their affiliations each year, and the Jays got stuck with Vegas last time around. As much as the Jays might want to get out, there may be limited options for them when their affiliation agreement expires this offseason. The ideal would be a team in Buffalo, but there's nothing that indicates to us that the Mets and Bisons won't renew that agreement.
A decent fallback scenario might involve New Orleans, which seems to be the second-least desirable Triple-A franchise for MLB teams. At least it's not in the Pacific Coast League. (UPDATE: Yes it is. D'oh. Never mind us. We're just too dumb to live.)
And don't even talk to us about baseball in Ottawa. Don't pick that scab.
Let's move into the rapid fire questions, shall we?
@james_in_to: What possible situations do you foresee Encarnacion patrolling left field?
Interleague games versus lefties. Extended injury to Rajai Davis. Extended suckage by Eric Thames.
@dee_tam asks: Why are there day games?
Isn't the greater question, why are there night games? Baseball was meant to be played during the day. Giant light towers are not a naturally occurring phenomenon.
@ScottReaume: Who will be the first AA pitcher called up to start? Not Brett Cecil I think.
Actually, we'd say that from the Double-A team, he's the most likely to get the call first. The Jays won't just let him rot down there. If he can't get his starter's stuff together, he'll be back as a bullpen arm before the next generation of prospects come up. (UPDATE: And then they go and call up Evan Crawford to replace Sergio Santos while he's on papa duty. Wrong again Tao!)
@SloaneScholar1: If Brett Lawrie were a type of cheese, what would he be?
Probably some sort of havarti cheese, with lots of hot chilis and maybe some Red Bull infused into it.
@charuk92: How many marriage proposals from female fans will Lawrie receive this season?
We figure at least three per home game, and figure in one per road start. Maybe 10-15 per game in Seattle. Tally it up, and we'd guess about 4860.
That's it for this edition of the Tweet Bag, though there are four more salient questions that we'll answer throughout the next week. And don't be a stranger: Send us your queries and tomfoolery any time. We're happy to oblige with the best answers we can.
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- Peter DeMarco said...
"Which is to say nothing of his (D'Arnauld) bat, which will slide nicely into the middle of a big league order eventually."
Let's please not over-hype this kid the way we have done with Lawrie. I don't think we should expect much more than a .270 Avg., .350 OBP and about 10 home runs for D'Arnauld, which is hardly a middle of the order hitter.
- April 13, 2012 at 1:25 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
"Middle of the order" was probably a touch overenthusiastic. But would it help if I mentioned that I was envisioning him as a 6th hitter when I wrote that?
Hitting more than 20 bombs in the Eastern League shows a bat that has a lot of power potential. I think a 15-20 homer catcher with a .350 OBP sounds pretty great.
- April 13, 2012 at 1:47 PM
You still have the best fucking Jays' site. It's unreal. Keep up the great work. Oh I like the new logo too.
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- April 13, 2012 at 6:17 PM
- Tony said...
Uh, Tao, New Orleans IS in the PCL.
- April 13, 2012 at 7:33 PM
- Unknown said...
@Tao of Stieb
I wouldn't say middle of the order is too overenthusiastic, Kevin Goldstein of BP has used it multiple times
- April 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM
- mathesond said...
They may have called up Crawford before Cecil, but the question was which AA pitcher will get called up first to start. I'd be surprised to see young Evan throwing out the real first pitch any time soon
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Hamlet (1948), contrastingly photographed in moody black-and-white, is almost a film noir. Though Olivier controversially cut the four-hour play down to a more exhibitor-friendly two-and-a-half hours, it was a commercial and critical smash, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Olivier).
Richard III (1955), though well-regarded, received the least praise originally, though today many consider it Olivier's best and certainly one of his greatest screen performances. The movie was made in the super-sharp widescreen process VistaVision, and Olivier, very cognizant of its qualities, seems to have married his own visual concepts and staging with the process, maximizing its potential. Visually it embraces a classicism closer to Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film of Hamlet (itself filmed in super-sharp 65mm) rather than Olivier's Hamlet.
The results are classical and lush, though the bulk of the film's audience, seeing only standard 35mm reduction prints or, worse, as an ill-conceived simultaneous U.S. premiere on American network television (where 99% of the viewing audience would have experienced the color film in black-and-white) were largely denied much of what makes Richard III such a masterpiece.
However, this 2012 Film Foundation 4K restoration, from the original 8-perf VistaVision camera negative, this Richard III is a sumptuous viewing experience. Criterion's Blu-ray also includes many complimentary extra features, most notably a one-hour television interview with Olivier conducted by theater critic (and, at the time, Olivier critic-turned-collaborator) Kenneth Tynan.
Even as his older brother (Cedric Hardwicke) is crowned King of England, the malformed Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Laurence Olivier), is already plotting to usurp the throne. He frames his other brother, George, Duke of Clarence (John Gielgud) for a murder plot, and he's banished to the Tower of London. Edward, in failing health, issues a pardon for George but Richard intercepts it, and instead sends two ruffians (Michael Gough and Michael Ripper, roles originally intended for Richard Attenborough and John Mills) to murder George, drowning him in a butt of Malmsey. Meanwhile, Richard busies himself seducing Lady Anne (Claire Bloom), whose husband and father Richard had only recently murdered.
On his deathbed the King appoints Richard Lord Protector, and in league with his cousin, the devious Duke of Buckingham (Ralph Richardson), Richard methodically plots and murders his way to the throne.
I first saw Richard III about 20 years ago and my reaction then was not what I expected: I found it rather funny. That is, specifically, I found Olivier's uniquely eccentric performance darkly, drolly amusing. He had played the role on the British stage with great success in 1944 (in a production co-starring Ralph Richardson), this despite Donald Wolfit having played what was then regarded as the definitive interpretation only a short time before.
For the film version Olivier dialed back Richard's physical abnormalities, reducing the size of his hump, deemphasizing his limp and withered arm, and so on, while realigning Richard's delicious soliloquies with an eye on the intimacy afforded by the VistaVision camera. Rare for the time, during these soliloquies the Crookback King looks straight into the camera lens, sharing his innermost thoughts with the viewer, in turn rendering him more likeable and frightening at once.
Olivier's Richard is a marvel. On one hand the character has ice water in his veins. He's a unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer who, in contrast to, say, Macbeth, never gives a second thought to his evil deeds, while intimating a kind of sadistic pleasure with each arrest or murder. Olivier's clipped delivery (even for him) and strange, almost bird-like expressions and movements always struck me as wonderfully authentic (Olivier's submerges himself completely; unlike many other film performances, here his acting is all but invisible) but where does it come from, I wondered?
Olivier's 1966 interview with Kenneth Tynan provides the answer. He based the voice on old actors' imitations of Victorian thespian Henry Irving. (Irving, coincidentally, is said to have been the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.) He emphasized Richard's long black locks and nose partly to suggest a witch and a general femininity in his performance, while in his physical movements Olivier was inspired by a Broadway producer he loathed, Jed Harris, who had also inspired Walt Disney's Big Bad Wolf characterization in The Three Little Pigs.
The first three-quarters of the picture were photographed on large interior sets and equally lavish soundstage exteriors. However, for the climatic Battle of Bosworth Field Olivier took his cast and crew to Spain, a decidedly un-English looking countryside complete with a mountain range in the distance. Olivier tries to obscure some of this with clever use of matte paintings, but the effect only partially succeeds.
Olivier's staging for the camera, whether Richard is alone or surrounded by the Royal Court, is extremely imaginative, with both actors and the camera constantly repositioning themselves to underscore character relationships, shifting power, allegiances, etc.
This also serves to add dynamism to Olivier's frequent use of long, uninterrupted takes. Something I hadn't considered until Olivier brought it up in his interview with Tynan is that while ordinary 35mm film cameras would have allowed 10-minute takes (as was done in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope), VistaVision's horizontal, eight-perf frames effective cut this time in half, thereby requiring Olivier and his actors more precise timing (and on-set tension) during these reel-long takes.
The film was famous for the four knighted actors in its cast, Sirs Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Richardson, and John Gielgud, all of whom have substantial parts. Each had their own particular approach to acting Shakespeare, yet the film casts them in roles playing to their unique strengths. It's not the fascinating but uneven jumble of acting styles found in several of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films, and plays more the unified work.
Disregarding the fact that much of Richard III's effectiveness depends on the clarity and color of its VistaVision presentation, U.S. distributor Lopert Pictures perversely opted to premiere it in theaters and on network television the very same day. The heavily promoted TV premiere, broadcast in color but at a time when color TVs cost as much as automobiles, it was seen by most in black-and-white on screens 12-inches or smaller. The film was a financial failure, thwarting Olivier's hopes to film Macbeth next, with then-wife Vivien Leigh as his co-star.
Video & Audio
Richard III was cut through the years, first for its U.S. release in 1956, and then again for a '60s reissue. The restoration restores the film to its original 158-minute running time. (Well, technically, less than three minutes shy of its 161-minute original release version, though it's not clear if the difference might consist of intermission cards and the like.) The restoration, funded by the Foreign Press Association and the Film Foundation, in association with the BFI, ITV, the Museum of Modern Art, and Romulus Films, is glorious. A small handful of footage lacks the extreme sharpness of the rest of the film, culled from the 1.66:1 VistaVision camera negative, but overall it looks amazingly good. The mono audio, sourced from an optical track print, is also excellent. The disc is Region A encoded.
Extra Features
Supplements include a very good, mostly literary reading of the film by playwright and stage director Russell Lees and former Royal Shakespeare Company governor John Wilders. Of more immediate interest is the aforementioned 1966 TV interview with Oliver and Kenneth Tynan, which covers Olivier's early career as well as the plays and films of Henry V, Hamlet, Richard III, and Othello (1965-66), all with illustrative (if black and white) video excerpts. An extensive gallery cleverly intersperses gorgeous behind-the-scenes stills and poster art with excerpts about Richard III from Olivier's 1986 autobiography, On Acting. Martin Scorsese hosts an excellent restoration demonstration, while in addition to a standard British theatrical trailer there's an odd, extended one apparently prepared for British television. That black and white film includes behind-the-scenes footage featuring members of the crew. Finally, a booklet essay by Amy Taubin sheds yet more light on the production.
Parting Thoughts
A peerless home video presentation of one of the all-time great Shakespeare films, Richard III is an absolute must, one of the year's best releases, and a DVD Talk Collector Series title.
Stuart Galbraith IV is a Kyoto-based film historian whose work includes film history books, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries and special features. Visit Stuart's Cine Blogarama here.

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Is this skills drop rate bugged, or merely a placeholder? If it's not in the game it might to nice to remove it from the skill list.
Does Mirror Shield exist?
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At the annual World Economic Forum this past weekend in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Director Rajiv Shah stood beside CEOs from Monsanto and other infamous giant corporations, and announced U.S. support for a "New Vision for Agriculture."
Yes, you should be worried.
Claiming that "large-scale private sector partnerships [can] achieve significant impact on global hunger and nutrition," Shah introduced the initiative's 17 agribusiness "champions": Archer Daniels Midland, BASF, Bunge Limited, Cargill, Coca-Cola, DuPont, General Mills, Kraft Foods, Metro AG, Monsanto Company, Nestlé, PepsiCo, SABMiller, Syngenta, Unilever, Wal-Mart, and Yara International.
What!?! Are you kidding me? Most of these agribusiness giants could be listed in an edition of Who's Who in Environmental Destruction, Hunger and Human Rights Violations. A few minutes' of investigation on GRAIN, CorpWatch, Food & Water Watch or PAN's chemical cartel page will prove this point.
Feeding the corporations
The plan, USAID tells us, is for the U.S. to leverage private sector investments for agricultural "growth," using our taxpayer dollars through Obama's Feed the Future initiative. Back in September, I wrote about the corporate Trojan Horse lurking within Feed the Future. There's always been some green window dressing scattered throughout the plan, claiming that the initiative will follow Southern country priorities, support gender equity, respect local and Indigenous knowledge, etc.
Back then, Rajiv Shah & Co. were making only thinly veiled references to the Initiative's plan to "discover" and "deliver breakthrough technologies" (guess whose) to poor hapless farmers in the global South.
Now, however, USAID has abandoned all pretenses of respecting a people's agenda, and baldly acknowledges that large-scale private sector partnerships with some of the world's worst corporate actors lies at the core of Feed the Future. We are given the example of Feed the Future's project in Tanzania, where an "investment blueprint" to establish "profitable, modern commercial farming and agribusiness" and designed to last for "years to come" has been set up with Monsanto, Syngenta, Yara and General Mills, among other multinational corporations. USAID "hopes to expand the blueprint in the future to at least five additional African countries."
Not so hidden agenda
I think it's no coincidence that this week's bare-faced embrace of corporate solutions follows directly on Obama's State of the Union speech. On that day, our president signaled clearly his intention to push neoliberal trade agreements and U.S. exports as the solution to our country's woes. Never mind that fast-tracking trade liberalization has harmed, not helped, farmers and workers in the U.S. By restricting poor governments' ability to manage domestic food production and supply, it also undermines efforts to strengthen global food and livelihood security. As the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy explains,
Trade and food security policy should focus on rebuilding local food systems in the North and South. This does not mean abandoning trade or closing markets, but considering ways to ensure that trade complements, rather than substitutes for, local food production.
Unfortunately, the Administration's approach to internationalism looks more like this: If a country hesitates to import our products for their own reasons, we unleash sustained retaliatory measures, as revealed by the recent Wiki Leaks' release of a U.S. plan to punish France and indeed the entire EU for France's unwillingness to import U.S. GMO products:
Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits. The list should be measured rather than vicious and must be sustainable over the long term, since we should not expect an early victory.
That's how we deal with our European "allies." But we target poor countries even more insidiously, especially when they are made vulnerable by devastating floods or earthquakes: we simply start pouring in agricultural inputs designed to get them onto the corporate industrial agriculture treadmill and thus crack open their markets.
Get 'em while they're down
In Pakistan, over 20 million were displaced and 2,000 people killed during last year's massive floods, triggering an outpouring of aid in the form of massive amounts of industrial agricultural inputs. Is this aid helpful? Our sister organization, PAN Asia Pacific and local community groups say no.
With Bayer, BASF, Monsanto, Du Pont, Dow Chemical and Cargill among the long list of donors to Pakistan's rehabilitation, the suspicion is high that these companies can use the situation to get their GM seeds on the ground and make contamination a done deal.
"The destruction isn't over yet. A big threat looms in the way the government is rebuilding agriculture, in partnership with big agribusiness companies, in the flood-stricken areas of Pakistan," says Azra Sayeed of Roots for Equity, a Karachi-based grassroots NGO that works with small and landless peasants in the flooded areas.
Similarly, Haitians have had to fight back to retain local control of resources, in the face of U.S. and Monsanto "earthquake aid" packages. As global food policy analyst Devinder Sharma wrote on Huffington Post, "Every global crisis provides an opportunity for business. Multinational giants are quick to grab it."
Farmers have been saying loudly and clearly for quite some time that they don't want corporations taking over their food systems. They want food sovereignty: control over their own food and farming decisions. Many of the solutions needed to feed the world fairly and sustainably will be showcased and debated next week at the people's alternative to the World Economic Forum: the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal. Stay tuned.
This morning (Thursday, Feb 3), a USAID team had a 2 hr "stakeholder" cum webinar meeting to present the findings of their Gender Team on integrating gender into Feed the Future. It was mostly basic stuff (nothing new or startling). Very good presentations by NGOs: Ritu Sharma at Women Thrive Worldwide and John Coonrod at The Hunger Project.
In the last 5 minutes, the facilitators read my question posted via web:
"Can you comment on how USAID's announcement of Feed the Future's partnership with 17 agribusiness champions (listed below*) in Davos last week will impact your ability to achieve the kind of radical social transformation & empowerment of rural women, described as essential by Ritu Sharma & John Coonrod?
Are these corporations likely to be able to radically increase rural women's access & control over resources including land, seeds, germplasm, water & decisionmaking in national policymaking processes?
(*17 agribusiness "champions": Archer Daniels Midland, BASF, Bunge Limited, Cargill, Coca-Cola, DuPont, General Mills, Kraft Foods, Metro AG, Monsanto Company, Nestlé, PepsiCo, SABMiller, Syngenta, Unilever, Wal-Mart, and Yara International)."
A USAID person (woman) responded:
"Sustainability will come from private sector led growth. We need to bring big players to the table while still talking about smallholders. The driver [of change] will be the commercial side, so we've gotta always be thinking about that, and make sure that connections from the smallholders on up will work. We must make sure that benefits translate to women. To the questioner, please take a look at our M&E framework on our website."
Well, I didn't really expect USAID to grapple with the question more seriously. At least they read it aloud before a roomful of mostly pretty pro-USAID folks.
I appreciate your information PAN. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana and was surprised to learn how the Feed the Future Initiative was helping to fund my service. Not to mention, my assigned partner organization with Peace Corps (Masara N'ariki) promoted industrial maize with hybrid seeds and chemicals. I went through a long process forgiving Peace Corps and my own pain for leaving. It was not pretty. I decided to post it online because your articles helped me figure out the truth. Thanks for being an inspiration---I cite this article in one of my posts. http://tastesofmyfailedpeacecorpsservice.blogspot.com/


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While season seven of Showtime's critically acclaimed serial killer drama (I prefer serial killer comedies) Dexter doesn't start until Sunday, the Facebook app that allows fans to play episode-specific trivia is already alive and kicking.
Challenging players to answer questions about lines spoken and actions taken during the first episode of season seven, "Are you...?", Dexter's Disciples right now is an excellent way to spoil key moments of the show for yourself. By answering questions, correctly or incorrectly, you can sort of piece together what's going to happen on Sunday. So you might want to hold off.
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still my favourite movie of all time (so far).
I finally got around to seeing Days of Heaven. The only Malick film I haven't purchased. Beautiful film but I don't think I'll buy this one. Really gorgeous movie.
Bigelow, Malick eye 'Held by the Taliban'Based on New York Times reporter's five-part seriesSource: Hollywood Reporter It's a testament to the strength of the material that "Taliban" is attracting Malick, a filmmaker reknown for being extraordinarily picky about his projects. While Malick's past projects, including "The Lost World" and "The Thin Red Line," keep him in the director's chair about once per decade...
untitled love story he's written and directed. Shooting begins this fall.
"[The audition] was mute," Kurylenko reveals. "I spent an hour doing five different scenes that he had described. I had to say nothing. It was all in the eyes. Can you believe that? That was difficult, believe me."
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She's got one of the biggest songs of 2012 and now she's got two GRAMMY nominations. When Carly Rae Jepsen was interviewed backstage at Chicago's B96 Pepsi Jingle Bash on Sunday, December 16, she revealed the moment she knew "Call Me Maybe" was more than your average pop song.
"I wrote it with two of my best friends, Josh Ramsay and Tavish Crowe," Jepsen explained. "The three of us, we'd written a few songs beforehand and we continued to write after together."
Carly said the process of writing a song is always exciting.
"You never really know which song is going to take off and connect with people," she admitted. "The first time I realized 'Call Me Maybe' maybe had a little something to it was when I played it for my family. My aunt, who is a little bit of tomboy and never dances or anything, got off the couch and started gyrating. I was like…'Okay, it's a good sign.'"
Jepsen said she was thrilled with the nomination, even though she thought she'd been passed over.
"I was pretty blown away," she said. "Leading up to the GRAMMYs, the announcement I guess — the week prior, I'd had a couple of people interview me and say, 'Are you expecting it?' I was like, 'No!' But then, the night before I got kind of hopeful…It was kind of hilarious, the way I found out. I actually looked on the wrong website. I went through the process of what it felt like to not get a nomination and then all of the sudden to discovered that I had [gotten] one. Two!"
But all her success isn't a weight, Jepsen said.
"I think I just feel grateful that this was the year of my life so far. I look at it as a good platform to keep making music, which is my favorite thing to do. No, I don't really feel the pressure [to replicate her hit single]. I look at it as more a great beginning, a great start. I just want to keep going and going."
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This fantastic loop was designed by my friend Gary Gellin. It incorporates three parks on both sides of Skyline Blvd, tons of sweet single track under lush redwood forest, a couple good hill climbs, and views to Half Moon Bay and the Pacific Coastline. The loop is 17.5+ miles and has 3,000+ of elevation gain. There is only one mile of repetition along Greer Road at the beginning and end.
The run starts at the landing pad near Historic Woodside and enters Huddart park along Greer Road. You enter an area nice redwoods fairly quickly along Richard Road Trail which is followed by more redwoods on the Mirramontes Trail in Phleger Estate. The first hillclimb (1,200+ feet in 2.3 miles) begins in earnest at the intersection with the Mount Redondo Trail in Phleger. The Mount Redondo trail works its way straight up the slope, sometimes steeply, to the intersection with the Lonely Trail, which is aptly named. The Lonely Trail continues to climb with a steep section near the top that always leave me breathing very hard.
When you get to the next intersection below the Kings Mountain fire station, take a right turn up the hill and find the informal path paralleling the east side of Skyline Blvd heading north. This rolling path amongst redwoods terminates in about 0.5 mile. Run the road a short distance and look for another informal single track path on the westside of Skyline Blvd. This path also parallels Skylne Blvd. (except on the westside) and continues all the way to just before the Purisima Creek parking lot.
From here there is a few miles of generally downhill running where over 1,000 feet of elevation is lost. Start down the North Ridge trail and veer right for the single track option. From the next intersection head straight onto the Harkins Ridge Trail and look out across the forested canyons and meadowy hillsides to Half Moon Bay and the Pacific Coastline – a spectacular view! Take a left turn onto the Soda Gulch Trail and continue down into the depths of the redwood forest. A particularly lush and dark grove of enchanting redwoods is reached at Soda Gulch. This stretch of soft single track is a highlight.
Eventually you pop out onto the Purisima Creek Trail which is a fireroad. The following 1.8 miles features the second hillclimb of the route with ~1,000 feet of gain back up to Skyline Blvd. At Skyline Blvd., cross back over to the westside of Skyline Blvd. into Huddart Park taking the Skyline Ridge Trail to the Chinquapin Trail. The fun single track running continues with the Dean Trail and Bay Tree Trail back to the east meadow and Greer road outlet.
This is one of the best loops in the area!
- Miles: 17.54
- Time: 2:17
- Pace: 7:48 /mile
- Starting Elevation: ~400 ft
- High Point: ~2,080 ft
- Total Gain: 3,000+ ft
Route Itinerary:
- Trail next to Kings Mountain Road
- Greer Road Trail
- Richards Road Trail
- Mirramontes Trail
- Mount Redondo Trail
- Lonely Trail
- Informal Skyline Blvd Trails
- North Ridge single track trail
- Harkins Ridge Trail
- Soda Gulch Trail
- Purisima Creek Trail
- Skyline Ridge Trail
- Chinquapin Trail
- Dean Trail
- Crystal Springs Trail
- Bay Tree Trail
- Greer Road Trail
- Kings Mountain Road Trail
- Top of Lonely Trail: 44:05
- Purisima parking lot: 56:45
- Soda Gulch/Purisima Creek Intersection: 1:25:07
- Skyline Blvd: 1:40:50
- Finish: 2:17:00


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Hollywood, Calif. • Mazda has been beating the drum about its SkyActiv technology for a couple of years, using media events to spread the word regarding its revolutionary internal-combustion engine and transmission technologies. Now it's time for consumers to check it out as the refreshed-for-2012 Mazda3 hits the streets.
In addition to some cosmetic alterations, such as a new front fascia and rear bumper, interior tweaks such as new cloth seat material and changes to the trim such as aluminum accents, the big news for 2012 is the addition of the 2.0-litre SkyActiv-G engine and all-new six-speed manual and automatic SkyActiv-Drive transmissions.
Actually, the 2012 Mazda3 isn't getting the total SkyActiv treatment — the full package, including chassis changes, will make its debut on the CX-5, which made its global debut at the recent Frankfurt auto show and will begin arriving in showrooms early next year. The engine in the Mazda3 lacks the 4-2-1 exhaust manifold, an integral part of the new engine technology. Simply, this four-tube exhaust header system wouldn't fit into the current Mazda3 platform, so the engineers had a choice: Hold off introducing the technology until the next-generation platform is introduced or slip the package in now, sacrificing a small amount of performance (about 1% of mid- and high-end torque). Mazda decided the efficiency improvements were worth introducing now.
Without the exhaust manifold, the new four-cylinder is limited to a still heady 12:1 compression ratio; with the manifold, it's bumped to 13:1 on regular-grade gasoline in North America and 14:1 on premium fuel in overseas markets. Despite the slightly lower compression ratio, however, this engine still pumps 155 horsepower out of its two litres of displacement at 6,000 rpm and 148 pound-feet of torque at 4,100 rpm.
Based on a decade of study, Mazda engineers discovered techniques that improve combustion and reduce mechanical inefficiencies, resulting in 5% more power and 10% more torque than the previous 2.0L engine, while fuel economy is a class-leading 4.9 litres per 100 kilometres on the highway and 7.1 in city driving.
The only snag is that the SkyActiv system will only be available on one of the Mazda3's trio of trim levels. However, that model is its volume leader — the mid-range GS. The base GX makes do with the current 2.0L 148-hp four, while the top-line GT includes the 2.5L four-cylinder, which kicks out 167 hp. The engine packaging applies to both the four-door sedan and the five-door Sport hatchback. The Mazdaspeed3 continues to be powered by a 2.3L turbocharged four.
Mazda concedes limiting the SkyActiv to the mid-range models is partly due to maintaining the base sedan's price, which has been trimmed by $700 to $15,595 for 2012. (The GS sedan starts at $18,995, a $600 reduction, while the GT is $23,695, a decrease of $730. Opting for the five-door Sport adds $1,000 to sedan prices across the lineup.) The other mitigating factor is engine availability as Mazda, like other Japanese manufacturers, is rebuilding its supply links after the natural disasters in the homeland earlier this year. You can expect the SkyActiv four to replace the 2.0L engine in the Mazda3 lineup in the not-too-distant future.
A key element in any Mazda is its ability to connect with the driver; simply, the cars are fun to drive. Since the Mazda3 is the third-best-selling car in Canada and accounts for 50% of Mazda's overall sales, the automaker had to ensure the 2012 version continued to be an exciting sport compact when it set out to refresh the car. More refined performance, more precise throttle and steering response, better ride and handling and crisper gear changes as well as improved fuel economy were the priorities.
The car's driving dynamics were improved with increased chassis rigidity, thanks to a stiffer front crossmember, added bracing, increased weld points and a thicker B-frame under the cabin. These changes also helped reduce the intrusion of road noise into the cabin by 4%.
Aerodynamics, too, were improved on both the sedan and the hatchback with the addition of a new front fascia, front tire deflectors, an engine undercover as well as one under the floor. These aero upgrades helped improve the car's stability on the road.
During a day of driving on twisty mountain roads north of Los Angeles, I couldn't help but be impressed with the ride, handling and quietness of the new Mazda3. In comparison drives with competitive models, the Mazda3's handling characteristics and response were noticeably superior. Indeed, it was far more fun to drive.
The performance of the SkyActiv four-cylinder, too, was solid, easily able to cruise at highway speeds while still offering enough reserve power to make overtaking moves safely. While I didn't have an opportunity to check out the manual gearbox, the new automatic delivered on its promise of quick shifts, especially in manual mode. When I stirred it myself, the box held on to the gear until I changed it — up or down — and made the shift crisply.
The only issue with the car was a dead spot discovered after slowing down abruptly to about 10 kilometres an hour, then stepping on the accelerator with vigour. It took about three seconds for the transmission to respond. A Mazda engineer said he'd heard a similar complaint during the launch and was asking his colleagues to look into recalibrating the tranny to overcome the issue.
That complaint aside, the new SkyActiv package is a huge step forward in the continuing development of the internal-combustion engine. At a time when hybrids and EVs are the hot tickets and some experts are predicting the imminent demise of internal-combustion power, Mazda has developed a gasoline-fuelled engine that will be a viable powerplant for years to come — and tucked it in a sporty compact that's a pleasure to drive.


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Conservation and Environment in South Africa: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Southern Africa - Monthly Update September - October 2015
We had such an amazing discovery for our project; we got the first picture of an aardwark (Orycteropus afer) on our camera traps. The aardvark is a nocturnal, shy and difficult animal to see, his diet consists of termites and ants. Due to tracks and digging holes, we knew that they were on the property but we never had any pictures of them.
In the last two months there has been a lot of incredible sightings; spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) killing a baby elephant, bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis), leopard (Panthera pardus), spoors of lions (Panthera leo), giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) fighting, porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) around the camp, a big heard of eland and numerous sighting of elephants (Oxodonta africana).
We hope that you enjoy this latest update and learn a lot of interesting facts about African wildlife and life in the bush. The bush is an everyday adventure, every day is different and we just can't get enough!
Snare removal
Volunteers and staff removed 120 snares during the period of September and October; 174 snares have been removed since the beginning of the year! Sadly some are not as lucky and have been caught in these horrific traps. During these 2 months we sadly saw a dead impala caught in the snare and a baby elephant with a snare around his leg that had been killed by hyenas. If the hyena hadn't ended its misery the poor young elephant would have died of infection. If you want to have more information about anti-poaching, please refer to the report of March and April 2015.
Fire fight
Fire is always an enemy during the drought. Everything (grasses, bushes and trees) is so dry that lightning reaching the ground can start a fire. This is what happened at the end of October. Volunteers and staff were brave and fought it during several days.
The techniques to stop a fire can be multiple: back burn is the best but needs to be handled by experts. You do not want your fire to become unpredictable. Using branches, shovels and water to stop fire is also a good technique. The wind during these few days was just unbelievable, that makes the task much harder. Luckily with dedicated volunteers and the help of the villagers we have been able to stop the fire. A lot of trees have perished, the grasses are gone, and animals start to move where food is available.
Camera trap survey
The last 2 months we have been surveying the north of the property thanks to our camera traps. The goal was to know the species present there. We placed 3 cameras, two in front of a waterhole which have been filled up with the early rain of August and one on a path used by the wildlife. We have pictures of pretty much all species: elephant, giraffe, leopard, spotted hyena, black-backed jackal, impala, eland, greater kudu, plain zebra and the shy aardwark. Such a discovery! It is really interesting to know all this wildlife is living there, where the water is rare.
Sophie Juget
Conservation Manager


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Listing Date02/11/19
Year Built1988
AreaCascade Village
Lot Size0.51 Acres (22,346 SqFt)
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The offering is for both sides of a walk-to-the-lift duplex w/hotel services and amenities provided by the Grand Hyatt. Blue Spruce Fusion Residences are approx. 3000SF each w/4 BD, 4.5 BA which have been completely remodeled and are in move-in condition. A unique opportunity to purchase an exclusive complex. Perfect for families who want to be together yet separate. Mature landscaping provides privacy and a level back yard which are adjacent to open space. West unit assessor #R031109
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We were super lucky to be invited to check out Edaville's Festival of Lights this season.
I have never been and with Emma's love of Christmas lights, it was perfect!
David had to work and my best friend was home visiting from Las Vegas so we met up to take the kids even though it was raining a bit.
We arrived just after 6 pm and were able to quickly walk in because the line moved super fast.
Our first stop was the carousel! The Princess just LOVES carousels!
A short walk led us to a building with a huge sign for Santa!
Inside the building they also had model trains set up, holiday decorations, and the second floor was full of carnival rides like another carousel, a ball pit, a car track, and a party room! They were even showing How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
We could have spent all night just playing on the second floor but the Festival of Lights train left at 7 pm so it was time to head down! We passed by more carnival games, a ferris wheel, lots of lights, and a couple of food vendors on our short walk to the train.
We grabbed a brownie and some hot cocoa from the depot next to the trains and hopped right on!
The train ride lasted just about a half hour, weaving through lots of light displays. My three year old would get excited and call out what was coming next before we even got there! She loved it!
Even with the rain, it was a magical night at Edaville Railroad!
I can't wait for Edaville to reopen in the Spring so we can go to even more events!


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Together? Apart? Day in day out…
Last week they were spotted in Cannes together on Spielberg's boat, with Lukas Haas, hugging, just a day after Page Six reported that the two had been skulking about the Hotel du Cap. Blake however was not with Leo as he held court at a private villa in the South of France for three nights straight after that, in the company of models, sometimes several at a time.
Then it was off to Portofino, where the two were photographed shopping together – click here to see. Something tells me Leo would rather have photos of him with Blake than photos of him doing what he does with the models at the parties.
The next day, Leo showed up for Naomi Campbell's birthday party. No Blake. He was still there yesterday, on a boat, hanging with a group of friends, wearing some kind of blue hairband. Photo Assumption these shots of him with a man who looks like Vladimir Doronin, Naomi's billionaire boyfriend. Flirty? That's obviously wishful thinking on my part. But cute, right?
So are they or aren't they? I mean Leo and Blake, of course, and not Leo and Vlady. Like I've said countless times, Leo and Blake are good for gossip. I wish it to be. Having said that, I'm not sure it's anything …yet. The problem is, he knows it's good for gossip too. The question is – are Blake's goods good enough to make it worthwhile being good for gossip?
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Professional standards
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These Standards also apply to candidates and pre-candidates.
Article 1
Professional Address
a) Members of the Association shall declare a single professional address. It shall be published in the Association's list of members and shall be used, inter alia, as a basis for setting up regions.
b) Members in the permanent employment of an organisation's language department must declare in the list of members that they are employed by that organisation. Their professional address shall be at the place of their registered employment.
c) Given the Association's regional structure and in order to ensure that members are able to exercise their voting rights at statutory regional meetings and that the rules pertaining to dues are respected, any change in professional address from one region to another shall not be permitted for a period of less than six months. Any such change must be notified to the secretariat at least one month before the intended date in order to ensure that it can be published in the Association's list of members in good time. The Secretariat shall inform the Bureaux of the two regions concerned.
Article 2
Contracts For Recruitment
a) In order to avoid any difficulty between the parties, members of the Association should not accept any contract for recruitment unless they know the precise conditions thereof and are certain that their identity and remuneration are known to the organiser of the conference (in cases where the organiser of the conference is not its initiator particular conditions shall apply as laid down in Annex 2).
b) The Association shall provide standard forms of contract for those of its members wishing to use them.
c) Any contract for the employment of a member of the Association must stipulate that the interpretation is intended solely for the immediate audition in the conference room. No recording, not even by those listening, may be made without the prior consent of the interpreters involved, in accordance with the provisions of international copyright agreements.
Article 3
Cancellation of Contract
1. Cancellation by the interpreter
Members of the Association shall not withdraw from a contract unless they are able:
a) to give sufficient notice;
b) to give sound reasons, and
c) to suggest a replacement to the recruiting interpreter or, if there is no recruiting interpreter, directly to the conference organiser, unless the latter prefer to recruit the replacement themselves;
d) at all events, to secure the conference organiser's approval of the change as quickly as possible.
2. Cancellation by the organiser
Contracts should include a clause covering the possible cancellation of an assignment by the organiser, as appropriate.
Article 4
Except for those cases where the Association has signed an Agreement, members are free to set their level of remuneration.
Article 5
Non-Remunerated Work
Whenever members of the Association provide their services free-of-charge for conferences of a charitable or humanitarian nature, they shall respect the conditions laid down in the Code of Professional Ethics and in these Professional Standards.
Article 6
Teams of Interpreters
Given the physical and mental fatigue that are caused by sustained concentration, certain constraints will necessarily apply to the composition of teams in order to guarantee that the work done will be of an optimum quality.
The minimum number of interpreters required to make up a team is a function of these constraints as well as the mode of interpretation, the number of languages used, the language classifications of the interpreters making up the team, the nature of the conference, its duration and the workload.
1. Consecutive Interpretation
Number of languages used:
Minimum number of interpreters:
Two languages into two
Three languages into three
Under exceptional circumstances and provided the principles of quality and health are taken into full consideration, it shall be possible to recruit just one interpreter instead of two or two interpreters instead of three.
2. Whispered Interpretation
For a conference involving the interpretation of one or two languages into one other language and where there are no more than two listeners, whether or not consecutive interpretation is provided in the other direction, at least two interpreters shall be required.
3. Simultaneous Interpretation
Teams of interpreters must be put together in such a way as to avoid the systematic use of relay. However, when there is no alternative to the use of relay for a given language, the team shall comprise at least two interpreters able to provide a relay from that language. In addition, if the relay is provided from a two-way booth, at least three interpreters shall work in that booth.
As a general rule, a team is composed of at least two interpreters per language and per booth. This is to ensure adequate coverage of all language combinations and to guarantee the necessary quality.
The number of interpretation booths is the same as the number of target languages, except for the case of two-language conferences where a single booth may suffice.
See Team Strength Table below.
Team strength table for simultaneous interpretation in booths
Number of languages used in the conference room
Number of booths
Number of interpreters (1)
One-language conference:
into one other language
into two other languages
... (2)
Two-language conference:
into one of the languages used
into both languages used
into three languages (2+1)
into four languages (2+2)
... (2)
1 or 2
Three-language conference:
into one of the languages used
into two of the languages used
into all three languages used
into four languages (3+1)
into five languages (3+2)
... (2)
Four-language conference:
into one of the languages used
into two of the languages used
into three of the languages used
into all four languages
into five languages (4+1)
into six languages (4+2)
... (2)
Five-language conference
into one of the languages used
into two of the languages used
into three of the languages used
into four of the languages used
into all five languages used
into six languages (5+1)
into seven languages (5+2)
... (2)
Notes on the Team Strength Table
(1) This number shall be increased if:
- the language combinations are such that the minimum number of interpreters shown on the table is insufficient to cover them;
- the working hours are long;
- the conference involves the presentation of a large number of written statements or is of a technical or scientific nature requiring extensive preparation.
(2) And so on: each booth working non-stop must have at least two interpreters. Moreover, in the case of relay via a two-way booth, such booth shall have at least three interpreters.
* An interpreter shall not, as a general rule, work alone in a simultaneous interpretation booth, without the availability of a colleague to relieve her or him should the need arise.
** One of whom must be able to relieve each of the other two. In certain circumstances this number may be reduced to two (particularly for short meetings or meetings of a general nature, provided that each of the two interpreters can work into both languages).
*** Under certain circumstances and providing the principles of quality and health are fully respected, this number may be reduced by one (short meetings or meetings of a general nature).
4. Videoconferences
The Association shall adopt special rules covering interpreters' work for videoconferences.
Article 7
Interpreter's Working Day
Given the constraints related to quality and health, the normal duration of an interpreter's working day shall not exceed two sessions of between two-and-a-half and three hours each.
Article 8
Non-Working Days
Contracts should include a clause covering non-working days as well as travel days, days permitted for adaptation following a long journey and briefing days, as appropriate.
Article 9
Contracts should include a clause covering travel arrangements, as appropriate.
Article 10
Rest Days
Travel conditions should be such that they do not impair either the interpreter's health or the quality of her/his work following a journey.
After a long journey, or after a journey involving a major shift in time zones, scheduling of rest days should be considered.
Article 11
Accommodation and Subsistence
Contracts should include a clause covering accommodation and subsistence arrangements, as appropriate.
The Secretariat shall maintain a list of hotel prices practised throughout the world and a list of hotels granting reductions to members and shall make them available to members upon request.
Article 12
Members shall be unconditionally bound by the conditions applicable to freelance members working for organisations that have signed an agreement with the Association and which are contained in said agreements that are the result of negotiations dealing, in particular, with working conditions, remuneration, team strength and social security.
Article 13
Intergovernmental Conferences outside the Agreement Sector
A number of particular conditions may apply to the work done by members for certain intergovernmental conferences that are not covered by an agreement signed with the Association.
Article 14
Staff Interpreters
The Association shall adopt recommendations concerning the working conditions of staff interpreters (Staff Interpreters' Charter).
Article 15
Amendment Procedure
These Professional Standards may be modified by a decision of the Assembly taken with a two-thirds majority of votes cast; if appropriate, legal opinion may be sought before the proposals are submitted to the Assembly.
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Maryland trooper shoots, wounds armed Harford County man
State police: Man points shotgun at uniformed trooper
A state trooper shot and wounded a man who pointed a shotgun at him Monday afternoon, according to Maryland State Police.
Police said a woman called them at about 1:30 p.m. to report that her boyfriend was armed with a gun, saying he wanted to be killed by police. Troopers then went out to the house in Harford County to investigate.
State police said John E. Murphy, 52, pointed a shotgun at troopers who were setting up a perimeter around his house in the 1400 block of Norrisville Road in White Hall.
When Murphy didn't drop his weapon as ordered, Trooper First Class Quinn Dobbins fired a single shot from his shotgun, striking Murphy in the left shoulder and arm, State Police said.
Murphy was taken to Shock Trauma for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Troopers executing a search warrant found a .410 Bolt Action shotgun, state police said.
On Wednesday, state police homicide investigators arrested Murphy on a warrant charging him with two counts of first- and second-degree assault in addition to reckless endangerment and the of use of a dangerous weapon with the intent to injure charges.
A court commissioner conducting an initial appearance at Murphy's guarded bedside at Shock Trauma, where he remained under treatment for his gunshot wound. Murphy was ordered held on $250,000 bond.
Dobbins, an eight-year veteran of the Maryland State Police, was placed on routine administrative leave per procedure in police-involved shootings.
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$800,000 Raised At Second Annual Els for Autism Charity Pro-Am Golf Tournament
Twenty-two professional golfers, including Hall of Famers Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd, and 66 amateur golf aficionados teed it up Monday for the second annual Els for Autism charity pro-am golf tournament on the Champion course at PGA National Golf Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. While the wind was up, it was a spectacular day of golf and camaraderie in the name of helping find a cure for the epidemic of autism in children. The day's good vibes were enhanced by the victory of host Ernie Els on Sunday at the World Golf Championship-CA Championship at the Doral Golf Resort in Miami.
Between the live auction at the pairings dinner on Sunday night and the contributions made by the corporate sponsors of the event, more than $800,000 was raised for the Els for Autism Foundation. The foundation was created last year by Ernie and Liezl Els, with the help of Marvin R. Shanken, the editor and publisher of Wine Spectator and Cigar Aficionado magazines. The main goal of the foundation is to build a Center for Excellence in Florida dedicated to the education of autistic children, and to fund new research into the causes of autism, and develop new treatments for the disorder. The organization's goal is to raise $30 million for the center. Els has already committed $6 million to the cause, and is actively seeking donors.
Ernie Els tees off at the second annual Els for Autism pro-am at PGA National.
"Liezl and I are foreigners in your country," said Els, a native of South Africa and now a resident of the United States, "and this is the kind of generosity that you show. It is simply unbelievable. Words cannot express how we feel." Els revealed to the world in 2008 that his then 5-year-old son Ben was autistic.
Els also directly thanked the professional golfers who took part in the day's events because he knew that Monday is usually an off day for them as they head to their next tournament. The PGA Tour professionals who took part included Els, Steve Stricker (the world's number two-ranked golfer), Charl Schwartzl, Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby, Justin Leonard, Rory Sabbatini, and Briny Baird, among others. Two legends of the game, Jack Nicklaus, who holds more major victories than any other golfer, and Raymond Floyd, who won four major championships, also played, as did Champions Tour regulars Bruce Fleisher, Bob Murphy and Fuzzy Zoeller.
The cosponsors of the event were M. Shanken Communications and the Richemont Group, with its chairman Johann Rupert. Corporate sponsors included Bacardi, Barnes & Noble, Brown-Forman, Callaway Golf, Diageo, Moët Hennessey, Patrón Spirits, PGA National, The Related Group, Royal Bank of Canada, Robert Talbott, Skyy Spirits, and the PGA.
The star-studded group of PGA Tour, Champions Tour and Hall of Fame golfers who gave up their rest day to band together to find a cure for autism at the second annual Els for Autism pro-am.
The live auction lots, which raised $145,000, included a golfing safari trip to South Africa provided by Mantis and South African Airways, an Irish golf odyssey provided by Irish Links, a golf cart by Club Car and Solar Drive, and a round of golf with Ernie Els.
Five cigar companies also pitched in, donating cigars to ease everyone through the day. The companies in attendance included Arturo Fuente, represented by Wayne Suarez; La Flor Dominicana, with co-owners Litto Gomez and Ines Lorenzo-Gomez; Padrón Cigars Inc. with Marcos Padrón; Rocky Patel, owner of Rocky Patel Premium Cigars Inc.; Alan Rubin, the owner of Alec Bradley Cigar Co.; and Cory Bappert, a senior account executive with Oliva Cigar Co.
By the end of the day, as food was served at the awards ceremony (the team of Bruce Fleisher/Bill Deutsch won the pro-am competition), everyone in attendance recognized that they were part of a serious effort to help cure autism. Everyone was already on board for next year.
Click here to read about how Cigar Aficionado editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken conceived the idea for the charity golf tournament.
Click here for coverage of last year's Els for Autism tournament.
Click here to see a video about last year's Els for Autism tournament.