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Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
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Metascore®Generally favorable reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
The summer's first action epic does exactly what it's supposed to do, more clearly than "M:i:I," and more likeably than "M:i:II."
In his feature debut, "Lost" creator J.J. Abrams, who got the job on the basis of "Alias," takes the driver's seat with both feet on the accelerator.
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Against sizable odds -- a sense that the franchise is played out and its star over-exposed -- Mission: Impossible III delivers.
A gratifyingly clever, booby-trapped thriller that has enough fun and imagination and dash to more than justify its existence.
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Pause for kids 13 & under
More boisterous and violent action; teens and up.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this movie includes frequent, intense scenes of violence, including a few (repeat) shots of a dead character's grisly face, whose loss causes some brief heartache for our hero). Secret agent action includes explosions (including tiny bombs that detonate inside agents' brains), shootouts with automatic weapons, missile fire, car and helicopter chases, falls, crashes, and torture (victims tied to chairs, showing sweaty faces and teary eyes). A couple kisses and then, following a quick hospital chapel wedding, has sex in a supply room (scene cuts away following removal of shirts); girl appears briefly in shower, head and shoulders up. Blood is visible following a few shootings. Ethan's face is repeatedly bruised and scraped. Characters drink wine, champagne, and beer. Villain smokes cigarettes a couple of times.
Messages: Ethan rides a motorcycle without a helmet; Ethan lies to his fiancee; villains kidnap Ethan's fiancee, tie her up, and hold guns on her; Ethan and IMF crew operate undercover, so they're lying for a living; villain/mole inside the U.S. government agency.
Violence: Action violence (explosions, fights, gunfire, missiles, two-chopper shootout, car chases, adrenalin shot to the heart, stabbing, throat-cutting, brain zapped by device through nasal passage); action sequences involve lots of shaky handheld camera; Ethan mourns his student's death (crying and holding body); threat of bioweapon ("Toxin 5"); gizmo called "rabbit's foot" (never explained) threatens world decimation; leaps off tall buildings (falling images); Ethan holds villain as if to drop him from a plane; Ethan zapped by weapon, convulses violently; fight in elevator (Ethan slams multiple men into walls); Ethan bites a villain to escape restraints; Ethan runs into people on the street in Shanghai to reach his destination; some slow-motion crashing and shooting; repeated threats to "kill you."
Sex: One agent wears a sexy red formal gown to go "undercover" at a party (shots emphasize men staring at her long legs and visible back/cleavage); Ethan and Julia show affection (kissing, nuzzling) and her siblings discuss the "new family" they'll be starting; Luther and Ethan joke about marriage to each other; sex scene post-marriage in hospital supply closet (brief and suggestive, shirts off, then cut away); Julia in shower (shoulders up), to establish vulnerability before her kidnapping.
Language: A couple uses each of "ass" and "hell," plus "damn," "sonofabitch," "t--s," and four s-words.
Consumerism: 7-11 store; Slurpee; Kodak camera; Lamborghini.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking (toast to engagement, champagne, martinis); villain smokes cigarettes; Ethan drinks a drug to become unconscious during ride to hideout.
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1975 Topps Mini Unopened Cello Box (24 Packs) Ex-Conlon
Starting Bid - $500, Sold For - $1,763
Complete original unopened cello box of 1975 Topps Mini baseball. This cello box was among the group of two unopened cases that were from the Charlie Conlon Estate that were consigned to the May 2009 REA auction. This lot has been consigned directly from the buyer of the two unopened 1975 Topps cello cases from the legendary Conlon collection. The box houses twenty-four cello packs, with each pack containing eighteen cards, for a total of 432 cards. The 1975 Topps Mini set includes the rookie cards of Hall of Famers George Brett, Robin Yount, and Gary Carter, and many other stars, including Schmidt, Aaron, Ryan, and Jackson. The 1975 Mini cards are 20% smaller than the standard Topps cards and were test marketed only in Michigan and certain areas of the West Coast. Aside from their smaller size, they are otherwise identical to the standard 1975 Topps cards. The colored flush-to-the-border design of the 1975 Topps Mini set makes this issue particularly challenging to collect in extremely high grade. While we cannot state with certainty, it is highly probable that within these packs are numerous cards, both stars and commons, that would be ideal candidates for professional grading. The packs are in Nr/Mt-Mt condition. The box is Excellent. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$2,000. SOLD FOR $1,763
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The Iowa City Regina Regals came to Sigourney last and used strong defense and impressive passing to get a three touchdown lead in the first half and won 35-7. Regina quarterback Jack Verducci connected with Zach Pechous for a twenty yard touchdown in the corner of the end zone. On the next drive Verducci would throw a 44 yard touchdown bomb to Daniel Larew. S-K would force a fumble in the second quarter deep in their own territory but the next play Regina's Berkley Grimm recovered a fumble at the eight and took it in for the third touchdown. With Regina up 21-0, the Cobras put together a strong drive that included a big pass play to Patrick Frank and a big fourth down pass to Eric Baetsle. But the drive stalled on the Regina five and it was 21-0 at the half. The Regals would score two more touchdowns including a 35 yard pass to Zach Pechous as they extended their lead to 35-0. With time running down fast in the fourth the Cobras did put together a drive starting at their 20, and on pretty much the last play of the game Andrew Utterback took it 25 yards escaping from at least three tackles to get the Cobras on the board and 35-7 was your final. Afterwards, Cobra Head Coach Mark Shilb says they had a hard time moving the football early on 80821 It wasn't til almost midway through the second that the Cobras got a first down. What did he tell his players after the game 80822 So the Cobras end their season 11-1 while the Regals improve to 12-0.
Regina will now head to the UNI-Dome to face North Fayette who beat Dyersville Beckman 34-21. So Regina meets North Fayette on Monday at 10:30 am. On the other side of the bracket Sheldon will play North Polk.


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Investigation by Secretary of State's office leads to liquidation of assets in Hamilton County stock-sale
Geist mansion belonging to Dorothy Geisler-Tragardh to be sold; assets returned to victims
INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 15, 2011) – The Secretary of State's Securities Division has reached an agreement to liquidate the assets of a Hamilton County woman who bilked investors through a fraudulent stock-sale scheme.
Dorothy Geisler-Tragardh, formerly of Geist, pocketed funds she raised from investors of a clean coal energy company called Praxis Resource Partners, LLC. The liquidation process, initiated by an asset freeze filed in a Marion County civil court by the Secretary of State's Securities Division in March 2009, involves assets of more than $1 million.
Geisler-Tragardh sold investors shares in Praxis Resource Partners characterized as "Class B," which were valued at $56, but would actually issue them her own shares of "Class A" stock worth only 36 cents a share.
Geisler-Tragardh then diverted the difference into an Indianapolis bank account for personal expenses, including the purchase of a home on Geist Reservoir.
"This case provides another clear example that illegitimate actors who violate Indiana securities laws will be stripped of the assets they've stolen from Hoosier investors, whether it be an SUV, expensive artwork or the roof over their head," Indiana Securities Commissioner Chris Naylor said. "We can now finish the work of returning the ill-gotten gains to the investors Geisler-Tragardh deceived."
Additional items in the asset liquidation, with proceeds benefitting the victims of the scheme, include a Picasso lithograph, Waterford crystal glasses, furs, jewelry and a boat.
In a separate but related action, Geisler-Tragardh will be sentenced in a Marion County criminal court on Wednesday on one count of securities fraud, a class C felony. The criminal case was based on the investigative work of the Secretary of State's Prosecution Assistance Unit, which referred the results of its investigation to the Marion County Prosecutor's office.
Pursuant to a plea agreement with the Marion County Prosecutor's office, Geisler-Tragardh will receive a 5-year sentence, with one year to be served on home detention and four years of probation.
About the Prosecution Assistance Unit
Created in 2004, the sole purpose of the unit is to assist police and prosecutors in investigating and prosecuting criminal violations of the Indiana Securities Act and the Indiana Loan Brokers Act. The investigators and attorneys in the unit collectively have more than 72 years of experience in investigating and prosecuting criminals.
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From Fr John Main, "Smashing the Mirror," MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 50-51.
I do not think it is any exaggeration to say that original sin is self-consciousness, the hyper-self-consciousness of egoism, because self-consciousness gives rise to divided consciousness.
This is like having a mirror between God and ourselves. Every time we look into the mirror we see ourselves. The purpose of meditation is to smash that mirror so that we no longer look at reflections of things and consequently see everything backwards, including ourselves. The essence of meditation is taking the kingdom of heaven by storm. The mirror must be smashed. And Jesus is talking about overcoming self-consciousness, the mirroring self, when he says no one can be a follower of His unless they leave self behind.
Now it does not take very much knowledge of life to perceive that this self-consciousness deludes us into seeing the whole universe revolve around ourselves; or to conclude that this self-consciousness is an appalling state to be in. Perhaps that is what brings most of us to meditation. We don't want to look into that mirror and see everything backwards for the rest of our lives. We want to look with courage into the infinite mystery of God. But when we begin to feel that first loss of self-consciousness and when we begin to enter into the deep silence that is meditation we can become disturbed and take fright. This is where we need the support of brethren. That is why our regular meetings are so important. We need to realize that faith is a gift – given to us, as St Paul tells us, in abundance if only we will be open to it and continue hammering at that mirror until it shatters utterly. We hammer [gently] at it with our mantra.
There is nothing passive whatsoever about meditation. It is a state of growing and deepening openness with the power source of all reality which we can only adequately describe in words as God-who-is-love. The aim of our life and the invitation of our life is nothing less than complete union, full resonance with that power source. What are the fruits of un-self-consciousness? Joy, peace, self-control, patience, fidelity – all the things that St Paul speaks about as the fruits of the Spirit. This is the state of being where we are free to be ourselves, free to receive the gift of our life without fear, in the state of grace, of love.
After meditation: an excerpt from "Heart-knowing and the jasmine scent of feeling near to God," THE SOUL OF RUMI (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), p. 324.
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I remember in the late eighties when Canseco was one of the hottest players in the majors (at least to a bunch of 10 year olds)
???Yeah,but are they real or are they steriods?
sold off his MVP and World Series rings for money.
Quote from: Dressel Rebel on January 11, 2007, 11:18 PM sold off his MVP and World Series rings for money. No ****? Things must have been bad for him to have to do that...
Retail price set at $32 for New Era's new modelBUFFALO, N.Y. One question facing baseball this season: Will cooler heads prevail?On opening day, the sport will doff the traditional wool cap in favor of a new polyester blend model designed to wick away sweat before it can stream down a player's face.The change is part of commissioner Bud Selig's focus on boosting player performance, a Major League Baseball official said, and follows a general trend toward moisture-managing "performance" materials in sports apparel."We started to think, 'How can those developments be applied to our headwear?'" said John DeWaal, vice president of brand communications at New Era Cap Co., the Buffalo-based manufacturer that holds the cap contract.Among early supporters of the new cap is AL Rookie of the Year Justin Verlander, who got a preview while shooting a commercial for New Era during the offseason in New York."They look exactly the same, they breathe more and they won't shrink," Verlander said. "The best thing is, when it rains, the hats won't stink like the wool ones did."In broaching the change, New Era was well aware of the 100 percent wool cap's long-standing place in baseball history, DeWaal said. Aside from tweaks here and there a switch from leather sweatbands to cloth in the 1980s, for example this is the first major overhaul of the baseball cap since the current, six-panel model was adopted in 1954, he said."There's a lot of tradition in baseball and we couldn't completely go against that tradition so we always had that as a parameter," DeWaal said, "but we wanted to take as open-minded a look at this as possible."Watching Street sweatSteve Vucinich, equipment manager of the Oakland A's, didn't think there was anything wrong with the old caps when he began testing the new ones with the team's pitchers about a year ago."This one is just so much better," he said after putting it through its paces atop Dan Haren, Joe Blanton, former UT star Huston Street and others.The key is the new cap's ability to absorb sweat so that it can quickly evaporate."The heat is from the inside of the cap where your head is," Vucinich explained. "Before, it would just sweat to the band and it would drip kind of towards the bill but drip off there. Now the sweat goes out of the cap, even on top, and then it dries naturally."And even though the new caps minus the sweat rings look and even feel just like the old ones, they are also designed to shrink less and fade less."If you watch a lot of baseball, you'll notice a number of different things on the players as the season progresses," said Steve Armus, vice president of consumer products at Major League Baseball. "Sweat stains, and you can't see it but they start to smell a bit, and also with certain colors they tend to bleed when the players sweat, so if you watch the Cardinals or teams that wear red caps, occasionally you'll see red bleeding into the white on logos."With these caps ... the water's not going to be absorbed into the headwear the way it is now," he said.There are also some changes to the cap's underside. The piece under the visor, for example, has gone from gray to black to reduce reflection and glare from the sun and stadium lights. The sweat band, now of the new "performance" material, has gone from white to black for no other reason than it simply hides dirt better.A batting practice cap teams are wearing for spring training also features "vapor management technology" to guard against odor, New Era said."By revolutionizing the cap, we're ensuring the players headwear provides the best performance while they play," New Era Chief Executive Officer Christopher Koch said.Vucinich, for one, isn't worried about breaking with tradition."Uniforms have changed over the course of the years, not only just colors, but materials," he said. "They've been made more comfortable, lighter. ... As far as tradition and wool? It doesn't matter."Nor is Detroit pitcher Joel Zumaya losing any sleep over the change."I didn't know about it, and I don't really care," he said. "I'd pitch without a hat."$32 worth of comfortArmus said the league is excited about the switch."We're proud to enact the commissioner's initiatives to bring performance to the field in a major way and really to make our players more comfortable," he said. "It's all about the performance initiative and this is the first major step in a lot of things that are going to be seen throughout the season which are really going to revolutionize our field."But for the fan who might have trouble letting go, New Era will continue to produce wool models, though of the fashion variety, in non-authentic colors and styles.The new caps will retail at about $32, up from the current $29, DeWaal said.
I have to say that this is the first I've heard of this and I am curious about how the general public will react. I have an extensive White Sox hat collection and I'm not looking forward to having to replace these with new ones...
Just wait until the end of October, after the Yankees win the World Series all of the other teams hats will be 1/2 off on clearance.
Quote from: I Am Sith on February 23, 2007, 09:09 AMI have to say that this is the first I've heard of this and I am curious about how the general public will react. I have an extensive White Sox hat collection and I'm not looking forward to having to replace these with new ones...Just wait until the end of October, after the Yankees win the World Series all of the other teams hats will be 1/2 off on clearance.
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The Other Credit Crisis: Naming Co-Founders
Are co-founders the unsung heroes of business? Or are they the tech industry's equivalent of executive producers in Hollywood--title bearers, mostly?
Consider Facebook. Founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is a household name. But even after the company's IPO, and a blockbuster movie fictionalizing the social network's rise, its co-founders remain lesser known outside of tech: Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Andrew McCollum.
According to Daniel Wu, an attorney at Fortis General Counsel LLP in Los Angeles, there's no legal definition of "co-founder." His firm helps early-stage startups with everything from company formation to fundraising and mergers.
Wu says, "There are no documents you can file to show you are the co-founder of a company. It's a community-verified thing, and sometimes people make false claims about it. But nobody, however, can make a false claim about being CEO."
The attorney explains: to incorporate and attain funding from angel or venture investors, businesses need to identify a CEO, president, chief financial officer or treasurer, and record keeper or secretary. One person can take multiple roles, of course. But no co-founders are required.
As Venture Capital Dispatch previously reported, investors--from venture capital firms to accelerators--tend to favor teams with two or three co-founders at an early stage. They also tend to discriminate against teams with too many co-founders. "Unless you're The Beatles," quips venture capitalist Jamie Goldstein, "more than three co-founders signals unneeded complexity to future investors."
In his work as a partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, Goldstein has served as a matchmaker of sorts. He introduced the two original co-founders of data center networking business, Plexxi, to their third and eventual technical lead, Mat Matthews.
Plexxi's hardware and software competes against related products from huge corporations like Juniper Networks, or Cisco Systems.
Accepting the co-founder mantel for Matthews meant walking away from a high-paying day job, and "agreeing to be one of the captains of the ship, in it through good times or bad," he says.
A partner at Lightbank, Paul H. Lee says the title means something different at every company. But he agrees that investors and startups should "hold co-founders to a higher standard of commitment. If recruiters from big companies come along, they are expected to resist the temptation to leave."
Giving an employee a co-founder title can be a handy bargaining chip, he adds. "It comes down to equity compensation--if someone asks for a certain number of points, and they say I'll take a lower number if you give me the title co-founder, why not?"
One of the three co-founders of ZocDoc, Chief Executive Cyrus Massoumi, takes the purist's view that a co-founder title shouldn't be given to anyone after the company is formed, and generating its earliest revenue. He says co-founders are like the "biological parents" of a company.
ZocDoc helps patients find doctors who accept their insurance, then book appointments and fill out paperwork ahead of time, online. The CEO recalls, "Early employees who sacrificed a great deal should be rewarded, and we did that with stock options, bonuses or other benefits and recognition."
"Being a solo entrepreneur is not as hard as resolving problems with a co-founder who isn't a good match," says Tracy Osborn, CEO of WeddingLovely, which offers guided wedding planning online.
After splitting with a co-founder in an earlier venture, Osborn observes, "I'm a designer who learned to program, so I can run really lean." Having raised a humble seed round of $50,000, WeddingLovely is amassing a directory of wedding vendors and products, to serve what Osborn says is a $56 billion market in the U.S.
There's a high cost to bringing on co-founders lightly, says Material Wrld co-founder Rie Yano.
Material Wrld created an online, luxury consignment shop, and raised $780,000 in seed funding last year from Great Oaks Venture Capital and entrepreneur and designer, Steven Alan.
Yano's earlier startup in Japan, StreetCanvas, failed due to disagreements between three co-founders, she admits. "We built a crowdsourcing platform for artists, but disagreed on how to progress, so we had to shut it down."
Before starting Material Wrld, Yano spent two months with her eventual co-founder, Jie Zheng, defining their roles and how they wanted to build this business.
Zheng left her job to work on Material Wrld full time, five months before Yano was able to, due to visa issues. She says: "That showed profound trust. And it helped investors see we had this ability to work together."
Successful co-founders must commit to "working 24-7," and share a vision for their business, she says.
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Our fifth week is complete! Today our contestants celebrate six weeks into the cockiest and rudest weight loss competition evahhhh! It's Biggest Cock & Rudest Loser 3!
Last week we took a look at a single meal that each of our contestants submitted. This week we're taking a look inside each of their refrigerators. Just what are they hiding inside? We're about to find out!
In my fridge are a wild and crazy assortment of take out food products. With Ty away for work, I have indulged my inner bachelor with all the food ordering options Brooklyn has to offer. Please note the half eaten piece of carrot cake (gross) and the assorted condiments that I save from my meals and eventually throw out.
Apparently I've found a time machine, and managed to reverse what little progress I'd made so far in the competition. Time to reassess and regroup for next week. As for the fridge… From the top going down, reading left to right: We store cereal, dishwasher detergent, and pain medication on top of the fridge. I didn't open up the freezer, but had I done so, you'd see ice cube trays and assorted frozen fruit, a few kinds of frozen pasta (ravioli mostly, for my kids mostly), and coffee grounds stored in the door. On the front of the freezer: a few photos of friends and their children, various coupons and papers, and fridge magnets, including our Puntabulous Memorial Magnet. Top shelf of the fridge: On the left, mostly jars, mostly condiments. On the right, beverages, primarily half-gallon glass bottles of milk, from a local dairy, and some fruit and veg juices. Next layer: cheeses (in the drawer), eggs (and dyed hard-boiled eggs in the cardboard container) Lowest shelf: Strawberries, apple sauce, juices, and some leftovers in the white bowl with blue lid. (Chicken and veg stir fry, if memory serves me correctly). Low bins: various shredded cheeses and tortillas on the left, various vegetables on the right. Door: The obligatory collection of salad dressings, steak sauce, and other random condiments, butter in the butter bin, random adult beverages on the lowest shelf.
So this week, we're doing our fridge photo. Mine is now filled with stuff on my diet: meat (steak, sausages, ham) and salad stuff (lettuce, carrots, celery, cheese, hard boiled eggs, etc) and plenty of condiments (ketchup, A-1 Steak sauce, several different kinds of salad dressing). The yogurt's been there a few weeks, too many carbs for me to eat too often. Diet Coke. Oh and that bottle of wine's been there since before Christmas…have to find just the right time to drink that.
A lot of the food here is actually my roommate's, especially in the freezer. My single serving ice creams are just off camera in the freezer door. The other items of note are the blue containers filled with the beans that I cooked last night ready to be taken with me to work.
My fridge is usually filled with pretty healthy stuff, lots of cheese products, meats, fruits, veggies and things for lunches like juice boxes, pudding, fruit cups, etc. Also lots of random stuff like pickles, salad dressing, condiments. And usually leftovers of some kind, we always seem to have leftovers.
Mr. Sombrero
Yeah, there's mostly veggie and dairy action goin' on in my refridge. Some soy and hummus goodies in between. And no, that's not dried up poop, that's a ginger root. Also, some cat food for Mr. Mini Sombrero.
Michelle M.
This is pretty much how the fridge always looks. Missing are containers of leftovers. I cook "real meals" about twice a week. Other nights we eat leftovers. The two nights a week Harry plays hockey, I usually have soup or rice. Weekends we go out for dinner or scrounge around in the cupboards. The container in the back is ground flax seed (which I always forget to sprinkle on stuff). The beer is Harry's, I drink the zinfandel. Other stuff you see are condiments, salad dressing, salsa (is salsa a condiment?), applesauce, fruit, veggies, salad, assorted juices and water, butter (boo!) and soda (boo!). Pretty healthy for the most part. I'm glad Adam didn't ask for a picture of the freezer. That's where the thin mints, tater tots and ice cream live.
I admit it: My fridge usually isn't this empty. I usually go grocery shopping on Sunday, but since last Sunday was some random Christian holiday, my grocery store was closed. So this week I'm just going to starve! Here's what I have… Freezer door: frozen corn, peas, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Freezer: frozen pitas and English muffins, 2 leftover frozen black bean burgers, and ice cube tray storage. Fridge door: ketchup, jelly, a few miscellaneous condiments, iced tea, seltzer water, almond "milk", garlic, and a giant bottle of Arrogant Bastard Ale that I got for my birthday (last July). Fridge: basket containing 3 apples, water, mozzarella-style vegan cheese, leftover pizza sauce, hummus, 2 whole wheat pitas, tofu, tempeh, and a bottle of diet root beer (hiding behind the water) that I can't drink because I stopped drinking soda. Woohoo!
And now the week's results:
Stay tuned each Thursday for the stunning weight-loss success stories of our eight contestants. Who will win this year's competition? Find out on May 31st … just in time for bikini season!


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Binary Cubes needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 23 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Service Learning Network
We are looking for a fresh and modern look to our homepage at http://slnetwork.org. The color should be based on the logo that has been created earlier at 99designs.com. Attached with this brief is the logo in jpeg format.
Our website currently runs on Drupal Content Management System which is based on blocks. We have positioned some blocks at our staging site at http://slnetwork.org. That should be a starting point for general layout of the site, but we are open to any new ideas for styling, fonts, colors, etc. You can also use the fusion-theme-regions.png as a guide for the layout.
Our target audience are mainly students and teachers, but will also include interested members of the public.
The logo must stay the same, although minimal styling/shading is okay.
The site should have either have a fixed width of 960px or be able to extend 100% width.
Require dropdown menus.. will need to see the mouseover and active menu in your psd.
Rotating images or youtube videos
Login box - either on the sidebar or horizontally in the header region.
Upcoming Events - Listing of events with date and time.
Upcoming Courses - Listing of courses with date and time.
Only require psd for a home page design. We will be happy to make additional payment If you are able to provide html/css.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Santos Laguna advanced to the final of the CONCACAF Champions League for a second straight year after drawing 1-1 against the Seattle Sounders on Tuesday night.
Colombian Carlos Darwin Quintero scored on a free kick after 20 minutes, but Lamar Neagle tied it in the 72nd for the MLS team. Neagle's goal added a touch of drama to the final minutes, but the Mexicans were able to endure for a 3-2 aggregate edge in the home-and-home series. Seattle lost 2-1 at home in the first leg.
Last year, Santos lost in the final to Mexican rival Monterrey, which faces the LA Galaxy of MLS on Wednesday night. Seattle, which last year was eliminated in the quarterfinals, lost a chance to qualify to the CONCACAF final for the first time.
After the first goal, Santos had several opportunities to widen the gap. In the 28th minute, Oribe Peralta sent a shot high, and in the 44th he hit the goal post.
In the second half, Seattle had a good chance early on with a shot by Cuban Osvaldo Alonso, but Oswaldo Sanchez made a great save.
Neagle's shot that tied the game came from 5 yards. The Sounders closed the game strongly and had two headers in the area that could've meant a victory and a place in the final.
In the 88th minute, Djimi Traore's shot was saved by Sanchez and Neagle had one more chance in the 90th minute, but shot wide.


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A self-professed drug dealer and serial criminal from North Charleston gave police detectives what they needed to make arrests in 17-year-old Marley Lion's killing.
Bobby Eugene Warthaw Jr., 25, got $13,200 for a tip leading the Charleston Police Department to four suspects and for setting up the purchase of the murder weapon on West Ashley's streets.
The revelation elicited gasps among some who watched Wednesday as Warthaw testified in the murder trial of Ryan P. Deleston, 32, in a downtown Charleston courtroom.
Related: Get live updates from the third day of testimony here.
But Circuit Public Defender Ashley Pennington stressed that Warthaw and other witnesses had checkered pasts and that their personal "beefs" were reasons for pointing the finger at Deleston. During the first two days of testimony by prosecutors' witnesses, Pennington has presented the theory that one of the suspected accomplices in Lion's death, 29-year-old Bryan Latrell Rivers, was the actual shooter.
Rivers and Julius Perrell Brown, 33, each have pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in an effort to avoid lengthier prison time. Both men have been implicated in past violent episodes. Rivers has been convicted of assault with intent to kill, and Brown had been accused of a 2000 homicide until the primary witness against him was slain.
Warthaw testified that Rivers had been seen on the day of Lion's death wearing white Nike Air Force 1 shoes similar to what other witnesses said were on Deleston's feet as he shot Lion. The sighting came at a shoot for a music video, where Rivers was seen waving a gun in the air, Warthaw acknowledged to Pennington.
George Ellis Brown, 28, who is charged with being an accessory before and after Lion's murder, also testified Wednesday that Rivers had once intervened in a fight between Deleston and his girlfriend.
That created bad blood between Deleston and Rivers.
The testimony evoked emotions among Lion's loved ones, who saw photographs of the bloodied pillow that Lion was resting on as someone fired a half-dozen bullets into his SUV.
But Rivers had a chance to explain his role in the events leading to the hail of gunfire. On Wednesday, he filled in some blanks to a narrative that was laid out on the first day of testimony.
He was part of the crew who went to downtown Charleston on June 15, 2012, and rode around in George Brown's GMC Suburban while looking for drunken people to rob. The group also included Julius Brown, Deleston and Julius Brown's brother.
Rivers used George Brown's pistol to rob a young couple, but he scored just a "dollar or two" in cash. They weren't satisfied.
While they considered robbing Famous Joe's Bar and Grill, the crew members returned to the Cashew Street house where Deleston and his girlfriend lived. They smoked more marijuana and drank more alcohol.
It's where Rivers had been staying since two weeks before the Lion killing, when he got out of prison on a drug-dealing conviction.
He, Rivers and Julius Brown soon set out again on foot. Deleston was wearing white Nike shoes that Rivers called "Willie D's." He tucked a pistol into his waistband, Rivers said.
Rivers blamed Deleston for passing up the "big fish," or the workers who left Famous Joe's with cash as Lion fetched a pillow and set up a spot to sleep in the back seat of his SUV.
"(Deleston) let that go," Rivers said.
Rivers said he disagreed with Deleston's Plan B — to rob Lion instead of the bar employees.
"I lost the spirit of even being in that situation," Rivers said. "My intention wasn't on robbing Marley Lion."
So Deleston did the job, Rivers said. He walked up to Lion's SUV, then ran back to the fence because Rivers said he thought Lion had set off the car's alarm.
"Get him. Get him. Get him," Julius Brown told Deleston, according to Rivers' testimony.
To Rivers, that meant for Deleston to continue with the robbery, "not shoot the man," he said.
But Deleston instead fired a half-dozen times into the SUV as Lion "yelled and screamed" in pain, Rivers said.
"I looked at him," Rivers said of Deleston. "I said, 'Why the (expletive) did you do that?'"
Others in the crew testified that Deleston returned to the Cashew Street house and expressed regret for the shooting and worry that he'd be sent to jail.
Rayshawn "Duke" Milligan, Julius Brown's brother who was at the house, and George Brown both testified that Deleston wrapped the gun in a sock or a towel and stashed it in a storage area.
The gun belonged to George Brown, but now that it had the stench of murder, he wanted to get rid of it.
He offered it for sale on the streets. He thought he had found a buyer, but the potential customer learned that the weapon was from Ardmore, the community where Lion was slain.
The man knew it was "hot," George Brown said.
Warthaw, who had been arrested for cocaine and robbery in Ardmore, learned about the pistol for sale. But, as he acknowledged to Pennington, he also had a beef with George Brown.
He contacted the police.
But before he could arrange a sale, Warthaw was jailed for missing a court date. He had been arrested twice during the month of Lion's death on charges of selling a pistol and having cocaine.
A police detective said he would have to pull some strings to get a judge to drop the arrest warrant, Warthaw testified. But it happened, and Warthaw was released.
Working with the police in July 2012, Warthaw said he and a friend arranged the gun buy with Deleston. Deleston had been asking for $80 — a price Warthaw said was unusually cheap for the streets.
But when the duo met with him outside a Piggly Wiggly, they gave Deleston $200 in cash provided by the police, Warthaw said.
The car and the informants were rigged with two cameras, video from which was played in the courtroom. The transaction was brief.
Warthaw said the gun was meant for his friend, but for an offer of $120 above Deleston's asking price to be believable, he said he demanded a $50 kickback from Deleston. Warthaw eventually gave that money back to the police.
He got $13,000 from Crime Stoppers for anonymously tipping off the authorities about the men implicated in Lion's slaying.
He got $200 from the police for getting them the murder weapon.
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Vettel to miss FP2
Sebastian Vettel will miss FP2 after sustaining an electrical problem during the first practice session of the Spanish GP.
Vettel completed just four laps on Friday morning before pulling up at the side of the road at Turn 6 after the issue damaged a wiring loom in his car. After helping the mechanics wheel his RB10 off the circuit, Vettel then took a fire extinguisher to the rear of the car before it was lifted onto the back of a truck.
After being asked to move over for Daniel Ricciardo in two consecutive races, Vettel was hoping to bounce back in Spain - with a chassis change made in the hope of "resetting" his fortunes. But after FP1 Red Bull confirmed Vettel will be forced to sit out Friday's session, a blow not only to the world champion but also the team, as it attempts to close the gap on Mercedes out in front.
Due to an electrical problem that has damaged the wiring loom of Car No. 1, Sebastian will not be able to take part in FP2... #SpanishGP— Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) May 9, 2014


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Before rolling into a LS, it's time for a not-so-brief look at the past week, not in terms of player movement (for now), but a big-picture look at the unquestioned shift in strategy for the Polo Shirt Mafia and their seemingly new outlook on contention. After what has been an obviously difficult tough couple of days for Indians' fans, I find myself playing the role of "bad guy" even in my own house, attempting to explain the rationale behind trading CP Lee and El Capitan to The DiaBride (who bought a Cliff Lee jersey for herself...her first ever with the #34 that he wore before Millwood arrived, then received her prized Victor jersey the following year), much less simply coming up with an answer on Saturday morning to The DiaperTribe, when he asked me why "Bicker Marteenez" wasn't hitting after Sin-Sin Choooo. It's a microcosm of the feelings that we're all dealing with as the names aren't quite as familiar from day to day as a result of the Indians effectively drawing a very distinct line in terms of the group of players that was thought to lead them to years of "consistent contention" to a seismic shift, in terms of players and, it seems, strategy. When the rebuild of 2002 started in earnest, the idea of building the team from within with impact players like CC, Victor, and Peralta had pieces like Lee, Sizemore, Hafner, and Westbrook all falling in line with the design that the team would mature together, then would be augmented from within to replace players lost either to ineffectiveness or injury or departure via Free Agency. At the time of the rebuild, Shapiro stated as much and stood behind his "Plan" to develop a group of players that would evolve together into a cohesive unit, designed to compete year after year for a playoff berth with more "waves" of arms and overall talent arriving in Cleveland every year to supplement the roster and to ensure that a great chasm of talent never arrived. When 2005 hit, the Front Office saw their best-laid-plans coming into full bloom with the idea that this consistent contention would certainly be possible through the players already in Cleveland by 2005 and with the talent thought to emerge from the Minors to augment the parent club for years to come, keeping the Indians relevant through by being a constant contender through the end of the decade, at least. The magic of the 2007 season seemed to justify that everything was truly right on track as Carmona, Cabrera, Gutierrez, Perez, and Lewis all emerged from the farm to fortify the Indians and lend credence to the idea that the Indians had figured out a built-in manner of reloading the 25-man roster with talent from their farm system. For a moment, think about the feelings after that 2007 season - the nearly universal feeling was that the Indians were standing at the precipice of a fantastic run of baseball, complete with young talent already topside and more on the way - and how those feelings have been modified to where we sit today. The last two years have revealed that, for a team like the Indians, nearly everything has to go right within their "best-laid plans" to even think about contending in any given year, much less on a consistent basis. And the sad fact of this week is that things went very wrong for the Indians as the idea that locking up Westbrook then Hafner, and later Carmona was supposed to lock those three into the top of the rotation and the middle of the lineup to serves as the pieces that kept the window of opportunity open while the team evolved on the fly to plug new pieces into the lineup and the rotation while the brunt of the pitching and offensive burden would be carried by known quantities. Obviously, over these last two years we have seen many things go wrong in terms of regressions by key players, injuries to key players, poor management of assets at the Big League level, and a jarring chasm in terms of player development created by years of subpar drafting and overestimation of the organization's own players. We entered 2008 with the hope that the Indians could make one last push with CC in the rotation, but our disappointment was tempered by the emergence of Cliff Lee and the excellence of Big League Choo as a middle-of-the-order presence. Coming into 2009, seeing the deficiencies that their farm system could not fill (in what has become a wildly consistent theme since 2007), the Indians replaced Casey Blake with Mark DeRosa and inked Kerry Wood to ostensibly settle the erratic bullpen that had played such a role in the capsizing of the 2008 season. Even with those moves of the off-season, made unquestionably to improve the team this year, proved not to be enough as Carmona's struggles "earned" him a trip to an extended Spring Training...in the middle of the season with no discernable injury, Westbrook remained shelved, Hafner's shoulder prevented him from playing multiple games in a row, and the young players either simply adjusted slowly to the MLB level (as young players are prone to do) while being asked to become immediate contributors to the team or were never given a long enough rope to prove themselves at said level. As the 2009 season sank deeper and deeper into the abyss of their own making, the Indians surveyed their roster and their organizational depth and forced some very hard questions upon themselves. Without necessarily laying the blame for the mess that had been created (and if that conversation isn't coming, shame on them) and knowing that the future of the organization, for the foreseeable future at least, was at stake in terms of whether they would simply muddle along for a number of years with the mix of a few exceptional players not supported by a largely untalented group of players, the Indians made the decision to move quickly and decisively by moving their two of their best players (a full year and a half away from their own FA decisions) for the pitching that was so badly lacking in the organization, a damning assessment of player development to even the most casual pair of eyes. Rather than simply take their chances that everything would break right for them in 2010 (and the argument can still be made that it wouldn't have taken that much in the weak AL Central) when everything had gone so wrong for them for two consecutive years, as well as 2006, the Indians made their moves for what they deemed to be the best offers on the table, not simply willing to reside in the state of limbo of "are they or aren't they" in terms of whether they were attempting to contend while rebuilding, having learned their lesson early on (Matt Lawton, anyone), in that such an endeavor is even more difficult than it sounds and that either you're going for it or you're re-tooling. The Front Office can spin laughable declarations that the Indians likely weren't going to contend in 2010 with Lee and Victor, then moments later state that 2010 contention is no possible with the mix of players received for the pair; but in reality, the Indians know what they are at this point and they know what direction they're headed...it's just not one that they foresaw for themselves in the halcyon days of late 2007. Ultimately, the Indians' brass came to the realization that, in their economic climate, the Indians cannot afford to make ANY mistakes or the whole dynamic of the team gets drastically altered to the negative. The contracts to Hafner and Westbrook and later Carmona and even Wood showed that the Indians took gambles on these guys to carry them through that window of opportunity; but when they failed to varying degrees, the middle ground of mediocrity (at best) was a terrible place to be standing. That's not unlike most of MLB as they can't simply buy their way out of mistakes the way that the Red Sox can (as they've done with Lugo and Dice-K this season) and simply have to make a decision to keep on with the current plan in an attempt to keep that "window of opportunity" open for the longest possible timeframe or rip it all up and give it another go when that time arrives. Which brings us all to this week, where the Indians' Front Office had to face some very disturbing realities to acknowledge that the idea of consistent contention was no longer viable for this organization as it was presently constructed. The question as to whether they could contend in 2010 likely bounced around, with compelling arguments being made both ways...in the end coming to the conclusion that 2010 wasn't going to be happening, particularly on what looked to be a tightening payroll and acted accordingly, taking the best offer they thought they got for both Lee and Victor. Once the decision was made, there was no going back and both Lee and Victor were going to be moved at what was deemed to be peak value (even if the returns for them underwhelmed most observers) as the strategy of the organization, in terms of the best way to have this team contend, seemed to take a drastic shift in thinking. The week saw the sobering realization that the Indians cannot realistically build that consistent contender and instead will opt for the "Tampa model" or the "Marlin model" of throwing a bunch of young talent together that should arrive in MLB at the same time and hope for the best. The window gets shorter, but the chances get better in that short window than they are trying to compete with those teams that simply throw money at their problems. The Indians came to the harsh reality that they're no different than about 25 of the 30 MLB teams and that they can't simply outsmart or analyze their way ahead of the curve given the landscape of MLB. Of course, it can be argued that other teams consistently contend in smaller markets than the Indians and that there always seems to be that one "David" amongst the "Goliaths" every post-season (with the Indians holding the stone in 2007), but the current construction of MLB allows one, maybe two, of these "Little Engines" every year to battle it out with the teams assumed to be there every year, by virtue of their payroll and by their organizational philosophy to simply spend their way into contention every year. This season has forced Shapiro to accept that he's no different than a whole group of GM's trying to find that perfect storm to compete with the perennial contenders, who put themselves in that perennial contention not by wisdom or perfect plans, but simply by being able to pay for what they need and keeping the market imbalanced. Don't take this as a "this is unfair" way to look at things as most of MLB has realized this and the Indians now, seemingly, are just getting the memo. Every couple of years, there is a team whose talent matures and evolves at exactly the same time, creating that magical run of a few seasons - the current group of Rays and Brewers come to mind - but the realization that their success is likely to be fleeting as top players move on to "greener" pastures when allowed is the certain end for these runs. While teams can fight off the inevitable through player development of augmentation from within (which simply did not happen for the Indians), a peak often is reached and the group of players left simply represents too little as a group, whether age (young or old) or injury or simple regression becomes the ultimate dagger. The Indians made the decision, at some point this week, that the pitching they had in the pipeline simply would not hold up in support of their unquestionably stronger position player grouping and instead of perpetuating the pattern that the Indians followed for too long (one year of all hitting, no pitching...the next of no hitting, all pitching) through 1980's and early 1990's in my lifetime, the trade of Victor and Lee, as well as others (for ostensibly all arms) signals that the Indians are attempting to create their own next perfect storm of players as ultimate maturation of the position players now thought to complement Sizemore, Choo, Cabrera, and maybe Hafner in the next season and a half (which at this point, I'd put as LaPorta, Santana, Weglarz, Brantley, etc.) are now designed to line up with the maturation of the newly acquired pitcher (Masterson, Carrasco, Perez, and Todd in the upper levels) to complement the likes of Huff, Laffey, Rondon, Gomez, and Sipp with the idea that the team is no longer necessarily counting on a return to form for Carmona, Perez, and Lewis...but would certainly welcome it to become more of the "let's throw it all against the wall and see what sticks" strategy that has now moved from just the bullpen to the entire pitching staff. Is the strategy or the shift in thinking a wise one? We won't know the answer until probably late in 2010 as these players not only begin to log serious time in MLB, but also as the wheat begins to separate from the inevitable chaff. This week's moves represent not just a seismic shift in terms of recognizable players and whether that group of players could have contended in 2010 (a question that will remain unanswered in perpetuity), but also represent a monumental change in thinking by the Indians' Front Office as the idea of simply loading up on as many young players, thought to be developmentally on the same timeframe, is now thought to be the most effective path to contention even if that contention comes in two to three year spurts instead of decade-long competitiveness. If that two-to-three-year spurt can be extended a little longer, so be it...but this week showed that everything has to go right, wise decisions have to consistently be made, players need to progress accordingly both at the MLB and MiLB levels for that extension of contention to even reasonably be an option. It's a brand new day at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario...you don't have to like it or agree with it, but the sun has set on the group of players that was thought to lead us into an age of consistent contention some seven years ago and the light is only peeking over the horizon on the new day. Wipe away the tears, take a deep breath, and turn the page...and with that, let's finally roll into a Lazy Sunday: Assuming that if you're here, you've likely been inundated with pieces on Lee and Martinez and analyses of the trades and the players coming back, I'll just throw a couple more out there that you may not have, if only to serve as a segue into the Lazy One. While it doesn't really break any new ground, Christina Kahrl at B-Pro takes a look at the whole haul, trying to put into context exactly what the Indians gave up and what came to them, though the Vic deal is not included:
Well, these weren't the worst deals, but they also weren't necessarily the best. Getting Barnes from the Giants for an entirely fungible first-base bat like Garko's was reasonable enough; he's not a high-velocity southpaw, but good command and an excellent changeup have yielded a 99/29 K/BB ratio in 98 IP while allowing just 3.3 runs per nine in the Cal League in what is his full-season debut as a 21-year-old. Knapp's interesting as a high-velocity arm pumping gas in the Sally League (as noted in the Phillies segment). Marson's a decent OBP type and a good receiver, but limited power potential makes him a better backup or second-division starter behind the plate, and his presence in the organization that employs Carlos Santana seems to suggest his future's as the Kelly Shoppach (Lite) to Santana's V-Mart; it's certainly not the whole potato, but it beats Bako bits as backstops go. Donald is an athletic shortstop, with a good swing that's far from slappy at the plate, but even allowing for the knee injury that has hampered him this season, he's a player who next year will be headed into his age-25 season with a track record of showing some power, but not a lot, and some speed, but not a lot. In this, he's very much like Asdrubal Cabrera, the man he'll be paired off with up the middle, giving the Indians a nifty pair of defenders around the bag, neither of whom should be offensive zeroes, but neither of whom look like burgeoning offensive stars either. The 2010 Indians will have to get their runs from other departments, and while Grady Sizemore's a start and Victor Martinez a part of a quality lineup, it's looking like 2009 is the year when they really did have to give up on all that and turn the page towards building anew. Now certainly, Knapp might be a part of that, not to mention Todd in the pen, and Marson and Donald could be supporting players on a future Indians contender as well. But for the Indians to really feel they got mileage out of this exchange, they're going to have to get good stuff from Carrasco. Placing that much pressure on a young arm might seem harsh, but the Indians will manage his workload appropriately as well as anyone in the industry might. He's not exactly been dominant in Triple-A, giving up 5.7 runs per nine but nevertheless striking out 112 in 114 2/3 IP, and walking just 38 (or just under three per nine). His power fastball/curve combo has delivered somewhat bass-ackwards results for the Iron Pigs (righties have touched him for a .457 SLG), and he's had troubles holding baserunners (potential thieves are 17-for-20 off of him), but these are things you work out over time or learn to live with, and the Tribe knew it wasn't getting a perfectly polished, ready-now blue chip prospect, but a quality arm who should be able to step into their rotation and stick sometime next season. As for the other odds and ends, it looks as if Andy Marte's taking over Garko's role as Victor Martinez's right-handed foil at first base, which is fine, while Crowe re-adopts a bench role; trading both Francisco and Garko should open up left field for, say, Matt LaPorta, but for whatever reason, he's not here yet.
For another national perspective on the whole week, Jayson Stark actually counts the Indians as among the five "winners" in Trade Deadline week, justifying it thusly:
They're not going to feel like winners in Cleveland right now. We know that. Trading away a rent-a-player such as DeRosa was one thing. Trading two pillars the likes of Martinez and Lee is another. So, as one AL front-office man put it, "I'm sure there are no smiles in Cleveland right now. You think about where they were in 2007, up 3-1 in the ALCS and one win away from the World Series. And next thing you know, they're the big sellers two years in a row in July. That can't feel real good." But of the teams that spent July selling off, nobody reeled in the quality haul of prospects the Indians did. They collected six solid young players who are either big-league-ready now or will be shortly (Chris Perez, Justin Masterson, Carlos Carrasco, Lou Marson, Jason Donald and Jess Todd). And they built both the Lee and Martinez deals around younger, 6-foot-5 flame-ballers who both project as No. 1 starters -- Jason Knapp and Nick Hagadone, respectively. So for what they were trying to accomplish, they did well. But "here's the tough part," said the same front-office man. "This is different than trading CC. At least they could do that and know the next year they still had Cliff Lee. But these trades mean they're not going to win for a couple of years. I'm sure they're excited about a lot of the guys they got back. But 81 times a year, you've got to sit there and watch it. And that's tough. I think they're going to end up being really good in about 2012. But in the meantime, it's going to be hard."
2012 looks to be a long way from today, and maybe I'm still that cockeyed optimist that I've always been (Billy Mumphrey-style), but I could still see this team as a factor in 2011, depending upon, quite obviously, a lot of things between then and now. Elsewhere, Tony Lastoria attempts to put some semblance of order in terms of the players that now find themselves in the Indians' organization after a hectic week. As Tony writes:
Of the 11 players added, nine of them are pitchers. Two were currently on a major league roster (Perez, Masterson), four in Triple-A (Carrasco, Donald, Larson, Todd), one at Double-A (Graham), two at High-A (Barnes, Price), and two at Low-A (Knapp, Hagadone). All 11 players are 24 years old or younger, and five of the 11 were in Keith Law's Top 100 ranking at the start of the 2009 season. Seven of the 11 were ranked among their respective club's top four prospects entering the season, nine of the 11 were ranked among the top ten and ten of the 11 were ranked among their respective club's top 12 prospects entering the season.
What was that whole "add pitchers to this mix of organizational talent" thing with the idea that they all arrive around the same time...much less these high-upside power pitchers like Hagadone that have been sorely lacking in the organization for years? Looking at Tony's list though, is anyone else having trouble keeping all of these guys straight? It's something that I talked about in this week's edition of "Smoke Signals", when I was joined by my guest co-host Jay Levin of LGT (who penned a great farewell to Vic) as we welcomed Anthony Castrovince and normal co-host (on "vacation" somewhere around Kinston, not so coincidentally), but it's hard to even keep track of the players that have entered the organization over the past week, much less attempt to figure out where it all fits...and when. While the show was done on Thursday night (and thus has no mention of the Vic trade specifically), if you have the time, I feel that it is definitely worth the listen as I was beyond pleased to get three of the most knowledgeable people on the Indians to join me for an hour...OK, an hour plus. In terms of the where we stand now on the ML level, that's a few days off as my head needs to stop spinning first. But in terms of the Minor leaguers, Adam Van Arsdale puts a wonderful attempt look at the Minors as a whole, attempting to quantify and put into context some of the arms that entered the organization as he updates how some of the highly rated arms in the system have progressed in the first half of the year. Some of the "numbers" may look new to you, and in that case, it would be helpful to read this and this as a primer for some of the values. One of the names that really jumps off of Adam's list, to me at least, is one Jesse Ray Todd (yes, he goes by "Jess Todd" but the guy is from Arkansas and the last Razorback who donned a Tribe uniform came to be known affectionately by his first and middle name, so I'll continue the tradition with Todd), who came over this week as the PTBNL in the DeRosa deal and could end up being the most immediately effective name off of the "newly acquired list". Not content to simply focus on the pitchers and all of the new names, Adam also took as look at the MiLB hitters, which serves as a quick reminder of why the Indians added all of these ML-ready arms to complement the likes of Santana, LaPorta (um...would now be a good time to bring him up, what with Trevor Crowe and Andy Marte starting at LF and 1B?), Weglarz, and Brantley all in the pipeline to essentially fill the holes that are now very apparent on the MLB roster. And with that, I'll try to turn that page too as the Indians obviously did this week, getting into some analysis of who all of these new players are and where they fit going forward. As much as this week has hurt as an Indians' fan, there will be other days and it is, after all, a game that we follow because we enjoy it, through the good times and the bad. Right now, there is no question that times are bad and, if you'll excuse me, I have to go talk up Justin Masterson and Carlos Santana to The DiaBride, who's likely to be wearing her Victor jersey today...and all black otherwise.


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A man was drinking from the water fountain in downtown Ashland's Plaza Saturday when sparks rained down on him from the nearby Iron Mike statue.
It turns out Iron Mike wasn't casting thunderbolts.
Instead, electricity that discharged from a faulty underground cable on Water Street had traveled to the statue, causing sparks to fly out of the top.
The man suffered no injuries, but the damaged cable left the downtown business district in Ashland without power for four hours.
Power wasn't restored in the Plaza island until Tuesday afternoon, forcing officials to use a portable lighting unit at night.
Mark Holden, director of the Ashland Electric Department, said the 40-foot cable, which serviced the Iron Mike statue, the information booth and the street lights in and around the Plaza, failed because of its age.
"The cable is about 20 years old, and it developed a micro-crack," he said. "If water gets into those cracks, the cable will fault."
He said he's not worried that any other cables are susceptible to such damage.
Ashland Electricity Department crews had to dig a hole on Water Street to reach the underground cable. The hole is covered by a steel plate and will have to be repaved, Holden said.
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Drosera rotundifolia (the common sundew or round-leaved sundew) is a species of sundew, a carnivorous plant often found in bogs, marshes and fens. One of the most widespread sundew species, it is generally circumboreal, being found in all of northern Europe, much of Siberia, large parts of northern North America, Korea, Japan and New Guinea.
The leaves of the common sundew are arranged in a basal rosette. The narrow, hairy, 1.3–5.0 cm long petioles support 4–10 mm long laminae. The upper surface of the lamina is densely covered with red glandular hairs that secrete a sticky mucilage.
A typical plant has a diameter of around 3-5 cm, with a 5–25 cm tall inflorescence. The flowers grow on one side of a single slender, hairless stalk that emanates from the centre of the leaf rosette. White or pink in colour, the five-petalled flowers produce 1.0–1.5 mm, light brown, slender, tapered seeds.[1]
In the winter, D. rotundifolia produces a hibernaculum to survive the cold conditions. This consists of a bud of tightly curled leaves at ground level.
The plant feeds on insects, which are attracted to its bright red colour and its glistening drops of mucilage, loaded with a sugary substance, covering its leaves. It has evolved this carnivorous behaviour in response to its habitat, which is usually poor in nutrients or is so acidic that nutrient availability is severely decreased. The plant uses enzymes to dissolve the insects – which become stuck to the glandular tentacles – and extracts ammonia (from proteins) and other nutrients from their bodies. The ammonia replaces the nitrogen that other plants absorb from the soil.


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Food Fight iOS is a version of a physical card game by Cryptozoic Entertainment, brought to the iDevices by Playdek, Inc. The game consists of players building a small army to try and beat the others by having higher numbers—like the card game "War"—but with lots of strategy and humor involved.
A typical game consists of battles for certain meals (these meals have values from 1 to 3 that add up eventually to win a game), and each player selects five cards from his hand to build an army to fight the chosen meal. The cards have different colors for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and most of the troops (from all of the meals) have abilities that will help you if you use a good strategy. The troop flipped in a serving with the highest number between the players wins one after meal mint. The player who ends up with the most after meal mints in the five servings wins the meal. Occasionally another element is introduced, the dog, when one player does not want to fight the same meal as the others. They then battle the dog for that meal, while the other players fight over the one that they selected.
The iOS implementation includes a few different game modes, including a campaign where you continuously unlock more cards for your initial hand and decks for each meal. As you progress you fight breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and then a boss. The bosses have special abilities, but once you defeat them you'll get their card to add to one of your three decks. There also is a successful and fun asynchronous multiplayer mode, a card gallery (trust me you want to check this out, the cards are hilarious), an offline mode where you can customize your game experience, and, thankfully, a tutorial. It takes a bit to get the hang of the game, but once you understand what is going on it becomes an absolute blast to play.
Cards: The art is unbelievably good, and most of them are uproariously funny.
Interface: Simple, probably better on an iPad but tapping and double tapping enlarge cards so that they can be read.
Modes: The multiplayer is well implemented, and the campaign is a good way to spend your time.
The game: Yes, this isn't a game created initially for the iDevices, but it's damn fun. I have played the physical card game, and can say that the iDevice version has been put together as well as it could be.
Blurred text: When scaled down on the iPhone and iPod Touch some of the card features are more difficult to read, but double tapping enlarges them.
Tutorial: The tutorial is good, but the way it is written is a bit confusing. It was creative to write it with a faux-French accent, but it could throw people off.
Food Fight iOS is a perfect example of how to bring a version of a card game to the iDevices, and how to do it well. The UI is simple and graphically pleasing, while the audio is not obtrusive. The game itself is a blast both in the physical version and the iOS one, and completely merits a "Must Have" rating.
Food Fight iOS was developed by Playdek, Inc. (and created by Cryptozoic Entertainment), and is available for $3.99 on the appstore. I played through version 1.0.1 on my iPod Touch 3G.


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The 15 year record of NAFTA demonstrates the devastating impact our current trade model has on developing nations. The displaced rural poor have had little choice but to immigrate to wealthy countries or join swelling urban workforces. As a recent exposé put it: "as cheap American foodstuffs flooded Mexico's markets and as U.S. agribusiness moved in, 1.1 million small farmers — and 1.4 million other Mexicans dependent upon the farm sector — were driven out of work between 1993 and 2005. Wages dropped so precipitously that today the income of a farm laborer is one-third that of what it was before NAFTA. As jobs disappeared and wages sank, many of these rural Mexicans emigrated, swelling the ranks of the 12 million illegal immigrants living incognito and competing for low-wage jobs in the United States." Indeed, a review of Mexican income growth rates, inequality, and manufacturing value-added shows that Mexico fared better before the introduction of neoliberalism in the 1990s relative to outcomes post-neoliberalism and post-NAFTA.
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Altec Lansing inMotion iMV712 Review
One of the things I most enjoy about buying a new product is the feeling you get when unwrapping and holding your shiny, new gadget. An even greater feeling is experienced later on down the road when you buy your gadget, and the now sullen, less shiny gadget gets new life.Since the release of the first iPod in 2001, we have seen many models come and go. We witnessed them go from no color to color, from small to big, and from photo to video. With each new iPod model came massive amounts of extra peripherals made by a countless number of companies, designed to enhance your experience when listening to or watching your iPod. And now a couple of months after I purchased my new, shiny iPod, I find myself looking for a way to rekindle the magic this little gadget once held. I had always enjoyed listening to my music and watching my movies and shows, but that was all I was doing. Listening and watching. It was time to find something that would enhance these activities and restore the iPod's charisma. Well, I wasn't the only one looking. Altec Lansing searched as well, and when they couldn't find it, they made it, and introduced the inMotion iMV712 portable audio system. But is this enough to renew the broken relationship?
"Altec Lansing is a leading manufacturer and marketer of high quality computer and home entertainment sound systems, and a line of headsets, headphones, and microphones for personal digital media. "Today the whole world is going digital. It's the most sweeping technology trend since color television or the internet. As you might expect, Altec Lansing is ahead of the curve. We've been designing and manufacturing digital powered audio systems for PCs and portable audio devices for more than a decade. And like no other company, we're producing sophisticated, third and fourth generation products in all price ranges that complement the style and electronics of the most advanced PCs, TVs, iPods, portable audio devices, smartphones, and entertainment centers - enhancing all these digital systems with sound quality that everyone can enjoy."No matter how advanced digital technologies become, we know that great sound will always be essential. Whether you need exceptional solutions for home, on the go, or personal enjoyment, you can count on Altec Lansing to deliver them."
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On the front of the package is a large photo of the iMV712 in action. The picture allows you a glimpse at how your favorite music videos will look on its built-in LCD screen. The amount of features this device has is more than enough to fill the back of the box, and they did. The backside sports a nice profile shot of the iMV712 and details all the features it includes.
Altec wasted no space on this package, and made all viewable sides attractive and informative. The top has the same profile picture, but larger, and lists the remaining specifications and extras. The side incorporates information regarding the iPod compatibility and the contents of the package.
The opposite side panel is accompanied by a picture of the iMV712 in a bedroom setting. Once again the main features are listed. After removing the device from its box, you will notice that Altec took great care to insure a safe delivery. The main unit is carefully wrapped in a lint-free cloth and then surrounded by plastic and tucked between two Styrofoam blocks.


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NBA Development League Enters New Season on Stable Footing
The stated goal for the NBA Development League is to have one affiliate for every NBA team. At present the number is 17 D-League squads coupled with 30 NBA franchises.
Many of those relationships are 1-to-1 such as the LA D-Fenders who are owned and operated by the Los Angeles Lakers. Others take hybrid model as the Miami Heat have done with assuming basketball operations and the Sioux Falls Skyforce continuing local control.
Nonetheless, the NBADL is gaining more credence as a talent pool and a place to groom players until the right situation arises. For example Houston Guard Aaron Brooks and Heat center Chris "Birdman" Andersen stand as the prime examples of D-League prospects turned into NBA players.
A record amount of player movement was seen last year between the NBA and the D-League. Even though the minor league squads are in training camp mode now, player movement has already begun with the Brooklyn Nets and Houston Rockets maneuvering before the ball goes up on November 22.
As the 2013 season begins, a sense of stability reigns supreme in the NBADL with no relocations or cessation of operations. All teams return from last year's campaign with the addition of a team in Delaware. It's the first time since 2008 that a similar setup occurred.
It's also apparent that the D-League is in growth mode with either 6 or 8 teams through the first five seasons of its existence. 2006 appears to be the watershed year for the NBADL by grabbing the strongest teams from the CBA like Dakota, Idaho and Sioux Falls plus some expansion teams such as Bakersfield, LA D-Fenders and Colorado. The 14ers and Wizards have since changed locations to Texas and Santa Cruz respectively.


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Harry Anderson's Watercolour Technique
And one of those was Harry Anderson.
From Norman Kent's text:
Harry Anderson always works with tempera, a prepared, opaque tube color, using only those colors advertised by their makers as absolutely permanent, namely: burnt sienna, burnt umber, raw umber, yellow ochre, cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, permanent green light, permanent green deep, pogany blue (near cerulean), cobalt blue, alizarin crimson, vermilion, show-card white. He uses no violets or black. For his darks, he combines pogany blue with alizarin or permanent green deep with alizarin.
He prefers a rough handmade watercolor paper, mounted on board in the heavy weights. His brushes are the finest grades red sables and oil bristle brushes, which he uses to paint any solid, opaque passages.
In painting a landscape - the picture reproduced here is his first portrait in watercolor - Anderson works directly from nature or from color slides. He makes no preliminary sketch, but works directly on the full sheet with brush and color. He has, however, a clear idea of the final composition by the time he puts brush to paper.
(Sorry, I just have to interrupt here and wonder aloud why Kent decided to show a - unintentionally menacing, I'm sure - self portrait of the artist when the bulk of the technique discussion focuses on how Anderson paints a landscape! Anyway, to continue...)
As he starts to paint, he lays in all the color areas as quickly as possible so that the arrangement becomes clear. he pays little attention to detail at this stage. Starting with the sky and the distance, Anderson works towards the foreground. he pays particular attention to the sky in his painting, believing that the sky should be a foil for the rest of the design.
When dry, his tempera color has almost the same appearance as transparent color. (For that matter, most colors found in any "transparent" palette are not really transparent, but appear so only because of their dilution with water.) Sometimes Anderson applies solid opaques in finishing painting. To lighten or change a passage, he hesitates to use solid, opaque color, and apply light on dark. He prefers to scrub out the area first and then repaint it.
Frequently, the artist uses his fingers or, more accurately, his thumbs in manipulating the color for different effects. He is always watchful for desirable "accidental" passages which, when found effective, he is careful to retain.
Anderson uses two different colors on a single bristle brush when he paints objects whose color might run from light to dark - such as a cylinder, for example. First he loads the brush with the lighter hue and then, with a section of the brush, he picks up the darker paint so that when the stroke is made, very interesting accidental effects result. This works very well on small objects.
At times he carries his partly finished outdoor paintings to the studio for completion. After he has tentatively finished a painting, he turns its face against a wall for several days and then brings it out for a fresh look. He may examine it upside down or in a mirror to detect any flaws. Following this, final corrections are made and the painting is ready for framing.
Below, a note from TI list member Kent Steine:
Hi Leif,
Nice to see the Harry article (originally published in a '56 American Artist, I believe). One of the most interesting aspects about Harry was his switch to opaque watercolors after he became alergic to turpentine.
He did in fact use tempera for a time while trying to find a substitute for the body and pull of oil paint, but ultimately settled on casein. Many of Harry's best paintings were produced with this media. He also found the task of actually finding casein difficult, and apparently switched back and forth from tempera to casein, favoring the latter.
By the time I met Harry, he hadn't been able to find it for a while. I actually purchased his last tubes of casein as a gift. It was a starter set of 12 hues, that had recently been introduced by Shiva. However, as I later found out, he had already pretty much decided to retire from painting.
My point. . . the difference between casein and tempera is the body and texture of the paint. They're both opaque watercolor media, but the casein is full bodied and very creamy right out of the tube. The opaque effects you can get with this stuff really looks like oil, with the exception of drying to a matte finish. I feel that all of Harry's great abilities and techniques worked best with casein. And for what it's worth, is the only paint I know of that actually has a pleasant fragrance. Great stuff.
It is also the oldest known form of pigmented media, going way back. The vehicle binder was traditionally made from rennin, from the gastric juices of calves. I believe there are additives for acrylics that can produce a similar effect of increasing the viscosity, or body of the paint (I think they're called "short and long" rheology formulas).
The photo of Harry (below) is from 1990, and one of the first times I met him. We're sitting at his kitchen table looking at one of my sketchbooks.
* Many thanks to Kent for sharing both this photo and his insight with us!
* My Harry Anderson Flickr set.
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It's great to see Harry Anderson back in TI, Leif. He was really an extraordinary painter (although I agree that the self-portrait is dismal). I would urge anyone who wants to see some real first class painting to check out your Flickr page for the Ladies Home Journal illustration of the little boy sick in bed. Yowza!ReplyDelete
Wow, Anderson is a master.ReplyDelete
Just a question. When they say tempera do they mean gouache ?
It sure looks like gouache.
I sure do love how he handled gouache. He and John Gannam are a couple of my faves because they used watercolors in such a painterly way. Have you profiled John Gannam here yet? There is so little out there on him it's a shame.ReplyDelete
- Chad10:03 AM
Wow what a painter Anderson was. I will say however that his watercolor technique looks like an imitation of an oil painting. Yes, we know about his allergy, but its not watercolor in the true sense is it? Fantastic result though,a very humble genius and that's a much overused term.ReplyDelete
It's my understanding that Anderson's medium of choice was casein, which is a type of tempera (as is egg tempera - casein comes from milk.) I'm sure he worked in gouache as well, or that the mediums were misidentified later, since they can look very similar. I love both these mediums, myself.ReplyDelete
His work has been an inspiration to me for many years.
Are there any other illustrators in this book?
That resemblance to oil painting was quite intentional from what I understand. Anderson style was that 'buttery' Chicago school of illustration made famous by Haddon Sundblom and, as you mentioned, couldn't work with oils because of his allergies, so found a way to make his watercolours look like oils. I suppose that must be part of the reason Norman Kent wanted him included in this book... to show just how versatile watercolour media could be when manipulated by a masterful artist. That's my guess, anyway. :^)
Michael; I have a set of Gannam illustrations on Flickr:ReplyDelete
And have written a little about him in passing, but you're right, we need to spend a proper week on his career. I just don't have a ton of info on him. Anyone out there interested in doing a week on John Gannam as a guest author?
I am looking for Harry Anderson's print Christ walking with children and with a little dog walking beside him. My mother had this print but it was lost when her house burned. I have been looking for it everywhere. It may be called The Children's Friend. I would like to purchase a copy. Please help! email@example.com


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Lady Antebellum Open 2012 CMT Music Awards With Hot Chelle Rae Mashup
Lady Antebellum both owned and opened the night at the 2012 CMT Music Awards by performing 'We Owned the Night.' After a verse and a chorus, the trio was quickly joined by those pop phenoms in Hot Chelle Rae. But the boys didn't jump in on Lady A's song, nor did Lady A cover the band's smash 'Tonight, Tonight.' They did something entirely new, different and customized.
Lady A and Hot Chelle Rae — yes, we know, that rhymes — crafted a clever mash up of both songs, since each factors the word (and idea) of "night" prominently in the mix. It was pretty seamless, despite the fact that both bands traffic in totally different genres.
It was fun to see and hear Lady A let loose and go pop for a few minutes on live TV. It was a high energy way to open the show, which looks to be filled with lots of from-out-in-left-field duets and collaborations for the rest of the night.
The only thing that sparkled more than Hillary Scott's lovely, purple and sequined blazer? The shiny, silvery one that Hot Chelle Rae's singer Ryan Keith Follesé wore.
Fun and fabulous. That's the long and the short of Lady A's show opening performance of the 2012 CMTs.
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Thanks to everyone who made it out for our last show of 2015! We had a blast, per usual, at Harvard & Stone with our friends Broken Arrow. Look out for some exciting B&S news in the New Year!
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