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BRIDGEPORT -- When Matt Norko moved downtown in 2010, he was thrilled that he could walk to the train station to get to his Westport job and his partner could walk to his downtown job.
He just wished picking up fresh fruit or half-and-half for his coffee was as easy. Even buying a gallon of milk was a mile-long venture for downtown residents since Rite Aid closed its Main Street location 18 months ago.
That will change this spring when Ripka's Bridgeport Market, now under construction in the Arcade Mall, opens in May -- offering fresh dairy, produce, seafood, fruits and vegetables in the heart of the neighborhood.
"I'm definitely looking forward to it," said Norko, 30. "It's nice to have something downtown where you can go and get groceries."
He won't be alone. With the recent addition of residential units at 333 State St. and the new units coming at the former Mechanics and Farmers Bank and other sites downtown, the neighborhood is undergoing a renaissance. It has reached a critical mass of residents necessary to sustain a market, said David Kooris, the city's economic development director.
"It's one of those staples that are a necessary component of a neighborhood like this," he said.
The market will open in a 7,500-square-foot storefront along Main Street and will offer a bakery, butchery, produce and seafood sections, as well as a small cafe in the back with a full liquor license.
Fresh goods will be produced in the bakery, sausage made in the butchery and prepared foods served fresh to walk-in customers and corporate clients. The business is a new venture for Clyde Ripka, owner of the Bull's Head Market brand, which provides corporate catering, cafeteria services and operates cafes in Norwalk and Stamford.
While those sites offer fresh cheeses and a full salad bar to help customers fill in missing ingredients for a dinner party, the Bridgeport market will provide more basic grocery items, Ripka said. It will also create roughly 30 jobs.
"You'll be able to go in there and get your groceries for the week ... or go right to the counter and pick up dinner," Ripka said. "We will cover the basics, but we're not an 80,000-square-foot Stop & Shop. It's a very much scaled-down Whole Foods type of scenario."
There will be access to the market from the street and from inside the Arcade's indoor mall, which is now occupied by the Bridgeport Arts and Cultural Council and the Main Street Pharmacy.
"I think it's so perfect for the Arcade because it takes such an old-school concept of having the butcher next to the baker and next to the cheese store," Kooris said.
The 1889 Ornamental Gothic Revival iron-and-glass structure -- listed on the National Register of Historic Places -- has had few businesses open since its renovation was completed years ago.
The small grocery store has been in the works for the last six years, but Ripka, who signed a lease two years ago, said finding the right time and the financing took time. The project received a state infusion of $2 million for fitting out the space.
Ripka's opening is tentatively scheduled for May 15.
"I can't wait to cut the ribbon," said Mayor Bill Finch. "This is a pivotal moment in the continuing renaissance of our downtown. Ripka's Market will be a wonderful addition to the downtown and will fulfill a critical need. It's obvious that we are reaching a critical mass of population and businesses that can support a full-service market for residents and downtown employees."
The market opening will coincide with the launch of a state-funded pilot program, CreateHereNow Bridgeport, which will match up-and-coming small businesses with empty spaces within the Arcade Mall.
So far, 50 applications have been turned in, including one for a weaving school. The program, modeled after New Haven's Project Storefronts, is a collaboration between the state Department of Economic and Community Development, the city of Bridgeport, the Downtown Special Services District and The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County.
Those chosen will be given three months free rent inside the Arcade and a stipend up to $500 to build out the space. The first business to open it to be Robin Gilmore's Made in Bridgeport. The shop, now housed in the CreateHereNow headquarters on John Street, features jewelry and other craft items created by Gilmore using materials she finds, like gaskets, broken plates and paper.
Soon, downtown visitors and residents will also see vacant storefronts decorated with works of art from local artists.
"I've been living down here almost eight years now," said Eve Liptak, project manager for CreateHereNow and a resident of the downtown Read's Artspace. "But within just the last two or three years, I've really seen downtown gain a lot of momentum."
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During the 2012 campaign, the president and his top advisers liked to make the argument that if he was re-elected, the "fever" would break. Washington would no longer be the graveyard of progress, the crypt of consensus. Once dystopian Republicans accepted that Obama was not running again, they would start cooperating with him.
But it's beginning to sink in that the opposite may be true.
The president called a press conference to mark the first 100 days of his second term, and he quickly ended up playing defense, dwelling on how hemmed in he feels.
ABC News's Jonathan Karl asked Obama if he was already out of "juice" to pass his agenda, citing the president's inability to get a watered-down gun bill passed in the Senate, Congress swatting away Obama on the sequester cuts, and the recent passage of a cybersecurity bill in the House with 92 Democrats on board, despite a veto threat from the White House.
"Well, if you put it that way, Jonathan, maybe I should just pack up and go home," President Obama said with a flash of irritation, before tossing off a Mark Twain line: "Rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated at this point."
Then he put on his best professorial mien to give his high-minded philosophy of governance: Reason together and do what's right.
"But, Jonathan," he lectured Karl, "you seem to suggest that somehow, these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave. That's their job. They are elected, members of Congress are elected in order to do what's right for their constituencies and for the American people."
Actually, it is his job to get them to behave. The job of the former community organizer and self-styled uniter is to somehow get this dunderheaded Congress, which is mind-bendingly awful, to do the stuff he wants them to do. It's called leadership.
He still thinks he'll do his thing from the balcony and everyone else will follow along below. That's not how it works.
How can the president star in a White House Correspondents' Association dinner satirical film pretending to be Daniel Day-Lewis playing Barack Obama in Steven Spielberg's movie "Obama," and not have absorbed the lessons of "Lincoln"?
"Some folks still don't think I spend enough time with Congress," he said in an alleged joke at the dinner Saturday night. " 'Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?' they ask. Really? Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell."
He insisted primly on Tuesday: "I cannot force Republicans to embrace those common-sense solutions. I can urge them to. I can put pressure on them. I can, you know, rally the American people around those common-sense solutions, but, ultimately, they themselves are going to have to say 'We want to do the right thing.' "
He said that if lawmakers are worried about primaries and afraid that working with him will be seen as "a betrayal," he can try to "create a permission structure for them to be able to do what's going to be best for the country."
A permission structure?
He might do better to remember what Jeremy Irons's pope says on "The Borgias," "Do you not see that even the impression of weakness begets weakness?"
After Syria, Obama discussed another issue where he came across like a frustrated witness to history, rather than shaper of it. After putting the moral quandary aside for political reasons, he finally began urging once more that the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, be closed. A hundred prisoners there, held for a decade without trial, are on a hunger strike, some being force-fed Ensure through tubes in their noses, despite opprobrium from the American Medical Association.
Dianne Feinstein, who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to the White House Thursday urging the administration to review the status of 86 low-level detainees who were designated for potential transfer more than three years ago but remain in Cuba.
Asked about the hunger strike, the former constitutional law professor in the White House expressed the proper moral outrage at holding so many men "in no-man's land in perpetuity." But it sounded as though he didn't fully understand his own policy.
Closing Guantánamo doesn't address the fundamental problem of rights. Obama's solution, blocked by Congress, is to move the hornet's nest to a Supermax prison in Illinois — dubbed "Gitmo North" — and keep holding men as POWs in a war that has no end. They're not hunger-striking for a change in scenery.
It's true that Congress put restrictions on transfers of individuals to other countries with bad security situations. But, since 2012, Congress has granted authority to the secretary of defense to waive those restrictions on a case-by-case basis. The administration hasn't made use of that power once. So it's a little stale to blame Congress at this point.
The senior senator from Kentucky has been a leader in Keep-Terrorists-Offshore. Maybe, if the president really wants to close Gitmo, he should have a drink with Mitch McConnell. Really.


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1-room studio 28 m2. Cosy and wooden furniture furnishings: living/sleeping room with 1 sofabed, 1 double bed, dining nook, cable TV and radio. Exit to the balcony. Kitchenette (2 hot plates, microwave). Shower/WC. Balcony. Beautiful panoramic view of the mountains and the countryside. Facilities: telephone, safe, hair dryer. Internet (WiFi, free). Please note: non-smokers only. The rooms are equipped either with carpet or with wood floor.House/Residence
Tieflehn: Comfortable apartment block "Pitztal". In a sunny position, 500 m from the skiing area. For shared use: garden. In the house: breakfast room, sauna (extra). Infrared sauna, storage room for skis. Bread roll service and breakfast on request. Parking at the house, communal covered parking. Grocery 700 m, restaurant, bar, bus stop 40 m, bathing lake 10 km. Riding stable 20 m, walking paths from the house, cycle lane 40 m, skisport facilities 700 m, ski bus stop 40 m, ski school, sled run 500 m, cross country ski track 40 m, children's playground 500 m. Well-known ski regions can easily be reached: Pitztaler Gletscher 2 km, Rifflsee 700 m, Hochzeiger 27 km. Please note: the catalogue photo is just an example. There are more similar properties for rent in this same residence.
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1'182 - 3'440 m a.s.l. >>The rear Pitz valley has an excellent reputation with Alpine fans in both winter and summer. The glacier world of the Pitz valley offers mountain fans a breathtaking panorama unequalled in the Alpine region. Cosy, idyllic, family-friendly holiday resort, in a valley, 38 km south from Imst, 94 km west from Innsbruck. In the resort: grocery, bakery, post office, bank, restaurant, bar, disco. Indoor aquatic centre, sauna, solarium, massage, thalassotherapy. Besides: pharmacy, doctor. More possibilities for shopping and entertainment 20 km. With the highest cable car in Austria, the glacial ice caves, numerous natural waterfalls, the bungy-jumping bridge in Arzl, infinite climbing walls - a veritable eldorado for High Alpine enthusiasts.Summer
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The do-or-die nature of the NCAA Tournament is nothing new to Tennessee.
The Volunteers (24-12) have been playing with virtually no margin for error since late February, after they split their first 14 Southeastern Conference games. That made them primed for the postseason by the time they were awarded an NCAA bid.
The 11th-seeded Vols are streaking into Friday's Midwest Regional semifinal against No. 2 seed Michigan (27-8) with eight wins in their past nine games. After beating Iowa in the First Four, Tennessee ousted No. 6 seed Massachusetts and No. 14 seed Mercer.
"I think it did a good job of just putting us on edge every day," Tennessee guard Josh Richardson said. "I think we kind of had an advantage going into the Iowa game because we'd been playing the do-or-die games for a couple of weeks at that point."
The Vols dismiss the notion that their rise from the First Four to the regional semifinals is a Cinderella story, but they've enjoyed responding to the skepticism that surrounded them much of the season.
"I wouldn't call us a Cinderella because we have guys who were highly recruited out of high school, and we have veterans," Tennessee forward Jarnell Stokes said. "I wouldn't call us a Cinderella, but it's definitely motivation that people have doubted us. We've been in so many close games this year, and we just haven't found a way to win up until now. This is the right time to be winning."
One month ago, Tennessee was 16-11 and in danger of missing the NCAA Tournament. Critics of Tennessee coach Cuonzo Martin had even started an online petition to bring back former coach Bruce Pearl, who has since been hired at Auburn.
"We're just fighting for each other, fighting for our coach through all this," Tennessee guard Jordan McRae said. "We just make sure we stay together as a family throughout this."
Tennessee now looks like a completely different team. The Vols' past eight wins have been decided by an average margin of 20.9 points.
In their tournament opener, the Vols trailed Iowa most of the way before rallying for a 78-65 overtime victory that ended their season-long habit of losing close games. Tennessee followed that up with an 86-67 trouncing of Massachusetts and an 83-63 blowout of Mercer.
Stokes has averaged 20.3 points and 15 rebounds in three tournament games. Richardson has scored 19.3 points per game in the tournament after averaging 9.2 points per game beforehand. Senior point guard Antonio Barton hasn't committed a turnover in the tournament. Tennessee has outrebounded tournament foes by an average of 11 boards per game.
"I do think it was nerves the first 10 minutes of that (Iowa) game, just (thinking), 'Man, we are in the NCAA tournament,'" Martin said. "We didn't flow right defensively. We lost assignments, and then once we settled down and especially got that thing in overtime, we started to play well, and we've been playing well ever since."
The change in Tennessee's fortunes has introduced a different side of Martin. For much of the season, fans grumbled on talk radio and message boards that Martin didn't show enough emotion, particularly in comparison to the gregarious Pearl. But he's let a little more of his personality show lately.
Late in the regular season, Martin sang a few bars of "One Shining Moment" while talking to reporters about how he played that song for his team to remind them the NCAA tournament remained within reach. And as Tennessee celebrated its victory over Mercer, Martin captured the moment by taking a selfie of the team and putting it on his Twitter account.
Martin claimed he had never taken a selfie before someone brought up the idea Sunday night.
"My daughter has taken 1,000 of them," Martin said, "but not me."


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HOW TO USE: Take this medication by mouth with or without food, as directed by your doctor. If you are taking the tablets that dissolve in the mouth, carefully remove each tablet from the blister pack immediately before taking your dose. Allow the tablets to dissolve on your tongue and swallow. You do not need to take the dissolving tablets with water. Discard any dissolving tablets that have been previously exposed to air due to opened/damaged packaging. Do not save them for your next dose.It is important to begin taking this drug at a low dose, increasing your dose slowly, to lessen side effects such as dizziness, drowsiness and seizures. Follow your doctor's instructions exactly. Your dosage is based on your medical condition and response to therapy. Since clozapine can cause a decrease in white blood cells, you will need to get blood tests done regularly as directed. Be sure to keep all appointments for these laboratory tests.If you miss your doses for longer than a day or two, consult your doctor for a new schedule to get back to the dose you were on (see Missed Dose section). Use this medication regularly in order to get the most benefit from it. To help you remember, use it at the same time(s) each day.Do not stop taking clozapine without consulting your doctor. Some conditions may become worse when the drug is suddenly stopped. Also, you may experience symptoms such as severe sweating, headache, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. To prevent these symptoms while you are stopping treatment with this drug, your doctor may reduce your dose gradually. Consult your doctor or pharmacist for more details. Report any new or worsening symptoms immediately.It may take several weeks before the full benefit of this drug takes effect. Inform your doctor if your condition persists or worsens.
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SIDE EFFECTS: Drooling, drowsiness, dizziness, headache, shaking (tremor), vision problems (e.g., blurred vision), weight gain, and constipation may occur. Many of these effects (especially drowsiness) lessen as your body gets used to the medication. If any of these effects persist or worsen, contact your doctor or pharmacist promptly.To prevent constipation, maintain a diet adequate in fiber, drink plenty of water, and exercise. If you become constipated while using this drug, consult your pharmacist for help in selecting a laxative (e.g., stimulant-type with stool softener).Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.This medication may infrequently make your blood sugar level rise, which can cause or worsen diabetes. Rarely, very serious conditions such as diabetic coma may occur. Tell your doctor immediately if you develop symptoms of high blood sugar, such as increased thirst and urination. If you already have diabetes, be sure to check your blood sugars regularly. Your doctor may need to adjust your diabetes medication, exercise program, or diet.This drug may also cause significant weight gain and a rise in your cholesterol (or triglyceride) levels. These effects, along with diabetes, may increase your risk for developing heart disease. Discuss the risks and benefits of treatment with your doctor.Tell your doctor immediately if any of these unlikely but serious side effects occur: facial/muscle twitching, signs of infection (e.g., severe tiredness, fever, persistent sore throat), seizures, uncontrollable movements.Seek immediate medical attention if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: severe dizziness, fainting, mental/mood changes, difficulty breathing with exercise, swollen legs/feet, sudden weakness, pain/redness/swelling of the arms/legs, chest pain, persistent nausea/vomiting, stomach/abdominal pain, yellowing of eyes/skin.This medication may rarely cause a very serious condition called neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS). Get medical help right away if you have any of the following symptoms: fever, muscle stiffness/pain/tenderness/weakness, severe tiredness, severe confusion, sweating, fast/irregular heartbeat, dark urine, change in the amount of urine.A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is unlikely, but seek immediate medical attention if it occurs. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.In the US -Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
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PRECAUTIONS: See also Warning and Side Effects sections.Before taking clozapine, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.This medication should not be used if you have certain medical conditions. Before using this medicine, consult your doctor or pharmacist if you have: history of blood disorders (e.g., leukemia, low white blood cell count), history of blood disorders caused by clozapine, serious bowel problems (e.g., paralytic ileus), seizures not controlled by medication.Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: bowel problems (e.g., irritable bowel syndrome), breathing problems, diabetes/family history of diabetes, high cholesterol/triglyceride levels, glaucoma, heart problems, kidney problems, liver problems, obesity/family history of obesity, seizures, difficulty urinating (e.g., prostate problems).Clozapine may cause a condition that affects the heart rhythm (QT prolongation). QT prolongation can infrequently result in serious (rarely fatal) fast/irregular heartbeat and other symptoms (such as severe dizziness, fainting) that need medical attention right away.The risk of QT prolongation may be increased if you have certain medical conditions or are taking other drugs that may affect the heart rhythm. Before using clozapine, tell your doctor or pharmacist of all the drugs you take and if you have any of the following conditions: certain heart problems (heart failure, slow heartbeat, QT prolongation in the EKG), family history of certain heart problems (QT prolongation in the EKG, sudden cardiac death).Low levels of potassium or magnesium in the blood may also increase your risk of QT prolongation. This risk may increase if you use certain drugs (such as diuretics/"water pills") or if you have conditions such as severe sweating, diarrhea, or vomiting. Talk to your doctor about using clozapine safely.This drug may make you dizzy or drowsy or cause blurred vision. Do not drive, use machinery, or do any activity that requires alertness or clear vision until you are sure you can perform such activities safely. Limit alcoholic beverages.To minimize dizziness and lightheadedness, get up slowly when rising from a seated or lying position.Tell your doctor if you are a descendent of Ashkenazi Jews because you may be at a higher risk for a drop in your white blood cells.Before having surgery, tell your doctor or dentist that you are using this medication.The rapidly dissolving form of this drug may contain aspartame or phenylalanine. If you have phenylketonuria (PKU) or any other condition that requires you to restrict your intake of aspartame (or phenylalanine), consult your doctor or pharmacist about the safe use of this medicine.Older adults may be more sensitive to the side effects of this drug, especially constipation, dizziness, and QT prolongation (see above). Dizziness can increase the risk of falling.During pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor. Do not stop taking this medication unless directed by your doctor. Babies born to mothers who have used this drug during the last 3 months of pregnancy may infrequently develop symptoms including muscle stiffness or shakiness, drowsiness, feeding/breathing difficulties, or constant crying. If you notice any of these symptoms in your newborn anytime during their first month, tell the doctor right away.This medication may pass into breast milk and have undesirable effects on a nursing infant. Breast feeding is not recommended while taking clozapine. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
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OVERDOSE: If overdose is suspected, contact a poison control center or emergency room immediately. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center.
NOTES: Do not share this medication with others.Laboratory tests (e.g., blood tests) should be performed weekly for the first 6 months of treatment. During the next 6 months, they should be performed at least every 2 weeks. After that, they should be performed regularly no less often than once a month while you are on clozapine and for at least 4 weeks after you stop taking it. Your testing schedule may be changed if you develop a low white blood cell count, or if your treatment is interrupted. Your doctor may also order other laboratory and/or medical tests (e.g., liver function, blood sugar, weight, blood cholesterol/triglyceride levels) from time to time. Consult your doctor for more details.
MISSED DOSE: If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule. If you miss doses for longer than a day or two, consult your doctor for a new schedule to get back to the dose you were taking. Do not double the dose to catch up.
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We continue to push our simple philosophy of value, respect and natural farming to create outstanding flavour.
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It's all about the quality.
Good food begins with good suppliers.
Quality, respect and passion coupled with traditional techniques defines the foundations of our family business.
Part of the joy of sourcing from small, family run farms is that the rearing of livestock isn't just a business, but a way of life. Cattle farmers are seriously dedicated to their herd and their land - something that we believe truly reflects in the quality of the meat they're able to offer as a result.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Albert Pujols tripled and doubled to back a scoreless start by Garrett Richards in the Los Angeles Angels' 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday.
Richards, the No. 3 starter in a revamped rotation, gave the Angels the kind of pitching performance they've been looking for in his fourth spring start. He allowed three hits over 6 1-3 shutout innings in his fourth spring start, lowering his ERA to 3.50. The right-hander went 7-8 with a 4.16 ERA in 47 games, including 17 starts, during his first full season with the Angels in 2013.
"I got ahead of guys," Richards said. "The early ground balls were nice. ... I'm just building momentum with each start. The guys are going to put up runs. My job is to keep them in games."
After a slow start, Pujols brought his spring average up to .326 with two extra-base hits in two at-bats. Josh Hamilton had two hits in three at-bats with two RBIs.
Pujols tripled to right-center in the first to score Mike Trout. Hamilton's grounder drove in Pujols, who also doubled in the fifth to set up Hamilton's sacrifice fly.
"I liked the drive to right-center, let's just put it that way," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "I liked the 0-2 (count) at-bat (by Hamilton) that got Albert in from third.
"(Hamilton has) worked very hard. He knows he has a way to go before he's locked in."
Cleveland starter Zach McAllister rebounded from a poor outing with six competitive innings. He allowed three runs and six hits with a walk and three strikeouts. McCallister gave up six runs and nine hits against San Francisco in his previous game. The right-hander went 9-9 with a 3.75 ERA last year.
Ian Stewart homered for the Angels off Josh Outman in the eighth.
Scioscia liked what he saw from Richards on Sunday.
"When he stays within his delivery that ball comes out of his hand hot," Scioscia said. "He was very consistent with his delivery."
Newly acquired Angels' left-hander Jose Alvarez allowed three hits and struck out five in 3 1-3 shutout innings in a minor league game in Tempe on Sunday.
Alvarez was acquired from Detroit earlier in the week in the deal that sent Andrew Romine to Detroit and is a long shot to land a spot at the back of the rotation.
"We want him to get comfortable and we'll evaluate where he fits in," said Scioscia, who is dealing with injuries to relievers Sean Burnett and Dane De La Rosa.
Before Sunday's game, the Angels released first baseman Carlos Pena, catcher Yorvit Torrealba and corner infielder Chad Tracy.
Pena figured to have a strong shot at making the club coming into camp as Pujols' backup at first, but hit just .139 with five hits in 36 at-bats and 14 strikeouts this spring.
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MSRP: $24,005.00Dealer Discounts: $1,228.00 Dealer Discount of $1,228.00 has been applied. Price and special offer are subject to change Take the wheel and get going with the 2019 Chevrolet Cruze. A big piece of success is looking the part, and the Cruze is every bit dressed to impress. With an aggressive new front fascia and grille, sleek aerodynamic styling and the choice between sedan and hatchback body styles, plus an array of exterior colors and trims for all types, you just have to decide which lasting mark youd like to make. Inside, youll be totally comfortable even as you cross new boundaries, with available upgrades like heated front seats, a heated leather-wrapped steering wheel and ambient lighting. The Cruze offers 47.2 cu. ft. of cargo space when the second row is folded down. With the powerfully efficient standard 1.4L turbo engine your drive gets the boost its been looking for. The Cruze connects you to more than just the road with technology features, including an infotainment system, smartphone integration, standard 7-inch diagonal color touchscreen display, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, Wi-Fi hotspot and Bluetooth integration. Youll also find a comprehensive suite of safety features such as rear vision camera, low speed forward automatic braking, rear park assist, lane keep assist with lane departure warning, lane change alert with side blind zone alert and rear cross traffic alert. The 2019 Chevrolet Cruze is ready to hustle.


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PepsiCo Inc. is removing a controversial ingredient from its Gatorade sports drink in response to customer complaints.
A spokeswoman for the company, Molly Carter, said today the move was in the works for the past year after the company began "hearing rumblings" from consumers about the ingredient. She said it was not a response to a recent petition on Change.org by a Mississippi teenager.
The ingredient is also listed in other drinks, including some flavours of Powerade, made by rival Coca-Cola Co. The Atlanta-based company did not say whether it would remove the ingredient from Powerade as well but noted that it takes customers' concerns into account when looking for ways to improve its drinks.
Ingredients in food and drinks have come under greater scrutiny in recent years, helped by the ability of consumers to mobilise online. The petition on Change.org noted that the ingredient, brominated vegetable oil, has been patented as a flame retardant and is banned in Japan and the European Union.
It had more than 200,000 supporters today.
For Gatorade, Carter said the ingredient is used as an "emulsifier," meaning it distributes flavouring more evenly so that it does not collect at the surface. She said it was used only in select flavours including such as orange and citrus.
Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, is still used in other drinks, including Coca-Cola's Fanta and PepsiCo's Mountain Dew.
Carter noted that the ingredient is not banned by the US Food and Drug Administration and that the decision was not the result of any health or safety concerns. She said it was to address concerns expressed specifically by Gatorade customers.
PepsiCo is replacing BVO in Gatorade with an ingredient called sucrose acetate isobutyrate, which will maintain the flavour and taste of the drinks.
PepsiCo's decision to remove the ingredient from Gatorade was first reported by the trade journal Beverage Digest.


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The Admira Malaga is a Spanish-built classical guitar that allows players to improve their technique on an exquisitely crafted instrument.
The Admira Malaga body fits perfectly against the body, with its lightweight, slender shape perfectly accommodating those with a shorter reach. In order to generate a robust yet subtle timbre, the body has been made using a delightful combination of sapele for the back and sides paired with a solid cedar top. The sapele ensures a solid mid to low-mid character. The solid cedar top cuts through with a delightful clarity, preventing the timbre ever becoming muddied so that articulation is present throughout each and every note.
The neck is similar to that of Admira's very popular Almeria classical guitar, but has a much slimmer neck - perfect for little fingers. Samanguila has been used for the neck, as it is a sturdy yet supple tonewood that is comfortable to navigate. Married to the neck is a mongoy fingerboard, which is a resilient wood that has excellent strength and durability. Playing along this neck and fingerboard combination is a joy, and is the perfect platform to improve dexterity and navigation.
The head is home to nickel tuning machines that maintain tuning integrity with a firm hold, allowing you to play confidently with reassurance in the Malaga's ability to remain in-tune. The mongoy bridge creates a seamless connection between the strings and the body, creating the optimum environment for impeccable sustain.
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Real Estate Terms Explained: MAO & ARVby Al Susoeff
This is another excerpt from an upcoming book and set of training tools I am working on. Feel free to comment all you want; that's what will help me make this product better for all my students!
MAO and ARV These are the two terms I am going to mostly deal with in this text. MAO stands for Maximum Allowable Offer and ARV is After Repaired Value. It is imperative to your survival that you understand EXACTLY what these are and how they work, because this is the way we analyze deals on the front end, and how we construct deals on the back end when we are dealing with wholesale flips or rehabbers; what many guru's including my personal mentor, Ron Legrand refer to as the Ugly House business.
MAO is the maximum we would be willing got pay for the house and it is a function of two things, first off it is a function of the after repaired value. You are going to get the after repaired value from the CMA you are going to have your realtor do for you. Do not use Zillow.com; but you can use it to back up the realtors work. Do not use Google; but you can use it to back up the CMA. Do not use any of 100 different sources online; or at least do not use them exclusively. Remember when we talked about due diligence? This is where you are going to have to be PAINFULLY honest with yourself, or you are going to find yourself screwed to the wall. And, don't come whining to me when you do it, because the first thing I am going to ask is "where did your numbers come from" and "did you do it the way I showed you".
You MUST impress upon your agent, the importance of good comps and you better learn how to read them yourself without him/her. My agents know that not only do I want the CMA, I want their BPO based on a 30 day turn around. In other words, I want to know what it is going to sell for…not what we are going to list it for, not what we are going to negotiate about, not any pie in the sky bullshit…WHAT IT WILL SELL FOR IN THRITY DAYS OR LESS. This my friends is your after repaired value.
Here is the formula I want you to use:
MAO = (70%)*(ARV) – repairs
Your Maximum Allowable offer can be no more than 60% of the After Repaired Value based on a strong CMA and other evidence minus any repairs that are needed.
Now, that being said, there are some variations to this rule. For example, if you are going to just wholesale the house, which is to get in under contract and then flip the contract to another investor, you need to use a percentage LESS than 60% in order to leave room for the next investor to make money. If you do this it will not be long before you have a large list of investors eager to by the homes you have under contract. Trust me on this, most investors out there have no idea how to do what I am teaching you and can only find homes through the MLS. When you are able to provide them homes cheaper than they can get them with an agent and do it regularly, word will get around and you could feasibly make a living just from wholesaling alone. How do you think I know this?
Also, if you plan to keep it as a rental , then you can go a little higher, say 70%, but be careful with this. I have seen more than one person cut his own throat by getting too aggressive. Think of it this way, You be even more conservative than a bank would be if you asked then for a loan to buy one of these junkers. I can all but guarantee that unless you have a credit score of 780 and look like solid gold on and off paper, you are NOT getting a loan for more than 80% LTV. And banks are going belly up all over the country right now…do you want to be like them? If you are going to err, err on the side of conservatism. Trust me, in this market there is a "deal of a century" just about every day!
Oh, I also wanted to point out that I will go into great detail about repairs later so for those of you who just said, "I don't know a freakin thing about construction", no worries guys, all will be revealed!
Finally, if you turn to Appendix A, at the back of this text, I have included a glossary of terms for your future education. The more you sound like you know what you are talking about with professionals in the business like bankers and title folks, the easier it is going to be to get things done. Besides, you did say you wanted to do this for a career right? Why WOULDN'T you want to know all that stuff
Al Susoeff
Al Susoeff, Jr. is a Real Estate Investor, Trainer, Coach, Author and Civil Engineer from Central Arkansas. You can read more of his articles at www.ASusoeff.com


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|Interactive apps make learning more fun.
For someone who has written 36 books, and who was pleased when royalty checks arriving for 20 years, this was an important realization. Simply put: I had to change, or perhaps more accurately, I had to evolve as the publishing industry evolved. I certainly did not want to become a dinosaur – although I am happy with being called "The Godfather of Photography" (the name given to me by the young Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs fame).
This was illustrated this morning when my friend David Leveen, who is working on a new Digital Rebel DVD with me, sent me this article: Confessions of a Publisher: "We're in Amazon's Sights and They're Going to Kill Us."
Minutes later, my friend Juan Pons, who co-hosts the DPE Podcast with me, sent me this article: Apple Announces Free iBooks Author OSX App.
It was a smart decision for me to move into the world of e-publishing - and I encourage photographers and authors to get into e-publishing and to self-publish. That means you!
Pictures look great on the iPad and iPhone.
Although I will be getting into iBooks and more PDF e-books, here's why I currently like apps (which is why I have seven). By the way, you can do the same with iBooks:
• You have total control over content.
• You can update content.
• You can track results every day with programs like AppVis.
• You get paid monthly.
• Your pictures look better on the iPad than on paper.
• Your sales are worldwide.
• You can sell at a lower price than a book so your audience is increased.
• Apps can also be viewed on Apple TV. Some, like my iHDR app, can also be viewed on an Apple computer.
|AppVis lets you track app sales worldwide. I track sales daily. See what I mean about worldwide.
By the way, my apps are basically how-to e-books. It's fun and fast producing them.
My on-line classes at Kelby Training are also making my walks to the mailbox fun again - as they are for my friends at Kelby training.
PDF e-books are another self-publishing alternative. Sales of my first e-book – Travel and Nature Photography A - Z – with photographer Steve Dreyer has inspired us to do more in our Select Series. PDF e-books are easier and more affordable to produce than apps, and again, your pictures will look better on the iPad or a computer monitor than on a piece of paper.
In the past, book publishers offered distribution and publicity - a key to selling books. Today, you can be the co-distributor (through your site/blog, Amazon and iTunes) and PR person (through social media). Here is an article I wrote on social media about the importance of social media.
So fellow traditional book authors, ya gotta change with the times. Here is a quote that drives home that point: You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there. - Zig Ziglar
Explore the light and . . . please keep your head above water.
P.S. Is there a place for traditional book publishing? Sure. My Exploring the Light book, my favorite book, is still selling. And I am sure that my pal's Scott Kelby's books are selling well. But it's a fact that we are moving more and more toward e-publishing. So maybe the new expression will be "E-publish or perish."


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Professor Aloimonos holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester.
His research is devoted to the principles governing the design and analysis of real-time systems that possess perceptual capabilities, for the purpose of both explaining animal vision and designing seeing machines. Such capabilities have to do with the ability of the system to control its motion and the motion of its parts using visual input (navigation and manipulation) and the ability of the system to break up its environment into a set of categories relevant to its tasks and recognize these categories (categorization and recognition).
The work is being done in the framework of Active and Purposive Vision, a paradigm also known as Animate or Behavioral Vision. In simple terms, this approach suggests that Vision has a purpose, a goal. This goal is action; it can be theoretical, practical or aesthetic. When Vision is considered in conjunction with action, it becomes easier. The reason is that the descriptions of space-time that the system needs to derive are not general purpose, but are purposive. This means that these descriptions are good for restricted sets of tasks, such as tasks related to navigation, manipulation and recognition.
If Vision is the process of deriving purposive space-time descriptions as opposed to general ones, one is faced with the difficult question of where to star t (with which descriptions)? Understanding moving images is a capability shared by all "seeing" biological systems. It was therefore decided to start with descriptions that involve time. Another reason for this is that motion problems are purely geometric and understanding the geometry amounts to solving the problems. This led to a consideration of the problems of navigation. Within navigation, once again, one faces the same question: in which order should navigational capabilities be developed? This led to the development of a synthetic approach, according to which the order of development is related to the complexity of the underlying model. The appropriate starting point is the capability of understanding self-motion. By performing a geometric analysis of motion fields, global patterns of partial aspects of motion fields were found to be associated with particular 3D motion. This gave rise to a series of algorithms for recovering egomotion through pattern matching. The qualitative nature of the algorithms in conjunction with a nature of the well-defined input (the input is the normal flow, i.e. the component of the flow along the gradient of the image) makes the solution stable against noise.
Other problems, higher in the hierarchy of navigation, are independent motion detection, estimation of ordinal depth, and learning of space. To illustrate these topics, consider the case of ordinal depth. Traditionally, systems were supposed to estimate depth. Such metric information is too much to expect from systems that are supposed to just navigate successfully. Many tasks can be achieved by using an ordinal depth representation. Such a representation can be extracted without knowledge of the exact image motion or displacement. Recent studies on visual space distortion have triggered a new framework for understanding visual shape. A study of a spectrum of shape representations lying between the projective and Euclidean layers is currently underway.
The learning of space can be based on the principle of learning routes. A system knows the space around it if it can successfully visit a set of locations. With more memory available, relationships between the representations of different routes give rise to partial geocentric maps.
In hand-eye coordination, the concept of a perceptual kinematic map has been introduced. This is a map from the robot's joints to image features. Currently under investigation is the problem of creating a classification of the singularities of this map.
The work on active, anthropomorphic vision led to the study of fixation and the development of TALOS (TALOS), a system that implements dynamic fixation. Since fixation is a principle of Active Vision and fixating observers build representations relative to fixations, it is important to solve fixation in real time and demonstrate it in hardware. TALOS consists of a binocular head/eye system augmented with additional sensors. It is designed to perform fixation as it is moving, in real time.
The ideas of Purposive Vision have led to the study of Intelligence as a purposive activity. A four-valued logic is being developed for handling reasoning in a system of interacting purposive agents.


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April 2011 Bridal Market Review - One Word: "Amazing!"
April 9-11, 2011 in NYC was THE place to be for the latest bridal fashions and trends!
And before we get into the FABULOUS details, you must know this: LWD has SO much in store for brides in the coming months, so JUST WAIT until you see the new collections by Justina McCaffrey (um, she's the cutest thing ever!), Anaiss On Weddings and - yes, say it ain't so - the one and only Badgley Mischka! Also to come? More stunning jewelry and beautiful hair ornaments by Paris by Debra Moreland and Maria Elena Headpieces, and fab handbags by Sondra Roberts. June-September will be an exciting time with all of the new arrivals!
So, back to telling you about Bridal Market last week...!!!
Unlike the Bridal Market (called "Market" in the wedding industry) that takes place every October in New York, April's Market is much quieter, yet - fortunately for us - SO MANY fabulous gown and accessory designers were on hand throughout the city, from the Wedding Channel Couture Show at the Intercontinental Barclay to New York International Bridal Week at Pier 94, the designer showrooms on 7th Avenue, and ultra sophisticated Essex House.
Venues: The more relaxed, intimate vibe of April's Market is super conducive to spending quality time with each designer. Pier 94 tends to centralize designers in one location so that buyers (like LWD!) don't have to travel all over the city to get things done. Thank you New York International Bridal Week at Pier 94!
Accessories: Crystal, sequined and floral sashes and belts remain a super popular bridal fashion trend with most bridal gown designers including sashes in their new collections. (Wait until you see the Badgley Mischka sashes that we'll have in store…STUNNING!) From fascinators to hats, and russian blushers to feathered flowers, designer accoutrements were in abundance! There will always be a special place in our hearts for the traditional veil, but alternatives continue to grow in popularity. Fancy New York's new collection includes one-of-a-kind vintage bridal hats with netting and feathers. Some of New York's finest millinery houses have even added vintage inspired couture bridal hats, fascinators and retro headpieces to their collections.
Bridal gowns: Over-the-top dresses with amazing, elaborate skirts for the fashion statement bride, and quite plain dresses with asymmetrical rusched bodices and no lace or beadwork for the keep-it-simple bride - both available in their own unique variations with most designers. Several dresses in the new collections balance these two extremes very nicely in modified mermaid or fit and flare silhouettes, with simple rusched bodices and stylized, beautiful skirts together in one dress. Head-to-toe slender lace silhouettes are still available and seem to become more beautiful each season.
"Pick ups" on skirts continue to be a trend that is ending or has ended, and skirts now have softer drapings of fabrics or elaborate, statement features.
Ready-to-wear influences are noticeable in a more "relaxed" collection by some designers, including Fancy New York's new bridal separates - mix-and-match skirts, blouses and sweater options - ideal for the unconventional, casual or 2nd/3rd time bride! (Recently featured in WWD!)
Claire Pettibone continues her MAGIC and presented a well-edited selection of five new gowns, three of which are priced under $2,650.
We look forward to showing you the results of April Market buying trip at LWD!
Here's a look at our upcoming designer events:
May 20-29, 2011: Badgley Mischka Trunk Show at LWD! See the new collection straight off the runway
June 25-26, 2011: Sassi Holford English Tea Trunk Show at LWD! Kate Middleton visited Sassi's shop in London several months ago!
July 11-24, 2011: Justina McCaffrey Trunk Show at LWD! Meet the designer of the number one best selling gowns at Kleinfeld 3 years in a row!
June-September: Stay tuned for MORE new arrivals from Paris, Maria Elena, Claire Pettibone, Anaiss on Weddings, Justina McCaffrey and Badgley Mischka!


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He said 'should'.
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Posted 02 December 2015 - 02:28 PM
Reading is hard.
Also, Jakku is fucking gorgeous.
Also... videogames.
Posted 03 December 2015 - 09:16 AM
I have yet to play this game. I think about playing it a lot. Then I know my Settlers need my help in the Commonwealth.
Posted 30 December 2015 - 04:26 PM
Pros: next-genniest game ever. Games will be compared to this, visually, for the entire gen's life cycle. Sound is amazing, animations are perfect. Dat Star wars tho.
Cons: I think nightshade summed it up best: "We've seen everything this game has to offer at this point." 2 nights into our journey. There's just not enough "there" there. There are only 5 planets, and 2 of them are deserts. The flight controls are simplistic beyond reason. This is the casualest game of all time. Which, yeah, OK, but a game can still have some depth but still be casual.
End result, this is a $40 game, at best, or wait for it to hit the EA Vault in about a year.
Posted 30 December 2015 - 08:08 PM
This game sounds like it'll be worth $60 once it's worth $110.
Posted 08 January 2016 - 04:44 PM
Posted 09 January 2016 - 04:15 PM
I ended up wandering back to Battlefield 4 after a couple dozen hours with this... we still play every now and then, but Battlefield is a better game (in every department other than visuals and sound design).
Shut up, you don't play with us at all, anymore. At least Gamble responds to messages rather than just going offline.
Seriously, shut up.
Posted 11 January 2016 - 06:05 PM
If someone is online on my account (which shouldn't be possible, I changed my PSN password...) it most certainly isn't me.
Edit: Or it is my brother using my account, he got his own PS4 and since I'm not exactly using my account at the moment I'm letting him use it until Plus expires.
Edited by Drew, 11 January 2016 - 06:08 PM.
Posted 12 January 2016 - 09:08 AM
Yeah, "Drew McDuffy" has been online.
Life is dangerous in that trap game.
Posted 12 January 2016 - 03:16 PM
Everything was stolen when I was out of town, late October... The cops were completely unhelpful (breaking news) and my insurance company is dilly-dallying on paying me for the losses, partly, I'm guessing, because it's a relatively large claim. Thankfully, they were either in too much of a hurry, or just too stupid, to recognize the value of my computers (and headphones). My TV's are mounted and pad locked, so that was out of the question as well.
Still, though... nothing is more unsettling than knowing some thugs were digging through your room and stealing your shit. They wen't through all of our dresser drawers and my filing cabinet, but somehow missed my wife's jewelry and my gun... so that's good, I guess...
I'm getting another PS4 as soon as I get the check from insurance, but at this point, I really don't know when that will be.
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In the Stanley Cup Finals, the greatest showcase
of all playoff rounds, the NHL is stuck with despicable biting and now a frightening blindside hit that resulted in a player being stretchered off the ice to the hospital.
You could say the NHL is getting what it deserves. Blackhawks fans would say it.
The biting is reprehensible, the blindside hit is deplorable. Both classless acts were unleashed by -- ta-da! -- the Vancouver Canucks. But you could've guessed that, right?
Alex Burrows, the cowardly hair-puller, chomped on Patrice Bergeron's finger in Game 1. Then in Game 3 on Monday, Aaron Rome lined up a defenseless Nathan Horton with a vicious and ridiculous hit to the head.
The Bruins got motivated. The league got dirtied.
Thing is, the NHL might've avoided the continued cheap and gutless play of the Canucks and spared the league further shame amid the jewel of its season if somebody had brains or backbone when the cheap and gutless Canucks faced the Blackhawks.
If you recall in the first series, fourth-line punk Raffi Torres blindsided Hawks defenseman Brent Seabrook behind the net. Seabrook was looking to his left as Torres roared in from the right. Seabrook never played the puck. Torres played Seabrook's head. Concussion to follow.
But no suspension.
The NHL found nothing wrong with the play. Colin Campbell said it was some kind of danger zone or action zone or Gasoline Alley behind the net. Players had never heard of it, but apparently, anything goes, especially Campbell, who was removed as the NHL's warden before we even got to the finals. Connect the dots, people.
Everybody in the world outside of Vancouver and Campbell's office knew that was a suspendable offense.
But no.
The NHL allowed a ranking executive to embarrass itself at the height of its campaign to eliminate hits to the head like the one unleashed by the cheap and gutless Canucks.
You can imagine how the cheap and gutless Canucks felt emboldened. If you can get away with that, you can get away with anything. Or you can at least try.
And so, in Game 1 of the NHL's prized playoff round, the cheap and gutless Canucks left the league with a mouthful of stupid. Burrows bit Bergeron, but the man replacing Campbell found nothing wrong. If that office couldn't identify a blatant cheap shot like Torres', then it was never going to figure out Burrows' biting.
On the ice, the cheap and gutless Canucks flaunted the act for which Burrows went unpunished, and it was Burrows who scored a remarkable overtime winner to put the cheap and gutless Canucks up two games to none. For those of you scoring at home, the cheap and gutless Canucks got the game-winner in the opener from the guy who blindsided Seabrook.
It seemed impossible to avoid a suspension for Rome, who was given a four-game suspension. Apparently, even the NHL can see a blindside hit to the head, no puck, laid out,
Hey, wait, that's exactly what happened to Seabrook, but there was no punishment beyond the shame the league endured. The NHL did the right thing with Rome, making the lack of suspension for Torres an even bigger joke. I thought the NHL had made progress in rules and applying them consistently, but I guess you still never know when the NHL will step on its stick.


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Youth development is strictly business
By anybody's standards, it's an impressive piece of business. Three years ago, Chelsea signed Romelu Lukaku from Anderlecht for 11 million pounds, with a further 7 million payable depending on whether the young forward met a variety of performance and achievement targets. Given that he made only 10 Premier League appearances for the Stamford Bridge side, it is unlikely he managed to do so.
On Wednesday, Chelsea sold him to Everton for a fee that could rise as high as 28 million pounds. Take away the wages they paid him for his first season at Chelsea -- about 60,000 per week, or about 3 million -- and the same again for the portion they covered during his two loan spells, first at West Bromwich Albion in 2012-13 and then at Goodison Park last season, and you are still left with a potential profit in the order of 11 million pounds.
Well done, then, to all concerned. Cigars all round.
At first glance, there are no losers in the story of Lukaku's time in west London. Chelsea have their profit. Everton have their striker. Lukaku is a full Belgian international, a top-class Premier League forward, and a very rich man with the peak years of his career still ahead of him.
True, perhaps if he had remained at Anderlecht for the last three years, he would now be on the verge of joining one of Europe's superpowers -- a Barcelona, a Real Madrid, a Chelsea -- and, true, perhaps if Anderlecht had held on to him for longer, the Belgian side might have gotten an eye-watering fee for him. But they did not do too badly -- 11 million pounds, minus a 3.3 million payment to his family -- and who knows whether Lukaku would have fulfilled his potential playing in the altogether less-rarefied surrounds of his homeland. Everyone, when all is said and done, is a winner.
And yet there is something slightly unedifying about the entire episode. It is this: In terms of football's traditional values, the story of Lukaku and Chelsea is a failure. The club signed one of Europe's most promising players, at some considerable cost, to be the heir to Didier Drogba, and it did not work out. But in terms of football's new reality, that does not matter at all. Chelsea will not feel any embarrassment about signing Lukaku in 2011. They will be delighted they did so.
This is because player development, at the world's largest clubs, is no longer about football. It is about business. It is not about honing talent. It is about making profits. It is run according to the rules of the hedge fund -- spread your risk to ensure your reward -- with a mindset borrowed from property development. Nurturing young players is not a team's primary concern, just as a developer does not refit houses to live in them. Chelsea and their peers are not crafting young players. They are flipping them.
It is not just Chelsea. Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham are all doing it. Barcelona's attempts to join in the fun ended up with them being hit with a FIFA transfer ban (which has since been suspended). Porto and Benfica, Udinese and Parma, Ajax and Feyenoord: The methods and aims vary, but the principle is the same. Agents Jorge Mendes and Gestifute, Nelio Lucas and Doyen do it, as does the Aspire Academy in Qatar.
Chelsea, though, are doing it best. Their structure and their process are ingenious. They trawl Europe -- and, occasionally, further afield -- for young players. They sign them from their native clubs, bring them to their Cobham training base, and give them the benefit of some of the best facilities and coaching in the world.
Then the club send them out on loan, often to Vitesse Arnhem, their partner club in Holland, but sometimes -- as with Lukaku -- to other clubs in the Premier League (or, as in the case of Thibaut Courtois to Atletico Madrid, to a suitable side abroad).
A very few, like Courtois, will one day be brought back and assimilated into the first team. If manager Jose Mourinho is telling the truth, then the same might have happened to Lukaku, if he had been prepared to prove his worth. The majority, though, will never make the grade for Chelsea. They will, at some point, be sold on, a premium fee guaranteed by having attended finishing school at one of the world's elite clubs. Chelsea are essentially running a recruitment and development business completely unrelated to their first team.
Their motive is not just the accrual of profit. Mourinho pointed out Wednesday, as he discussed Lukaku's sale, that Chelsea's strategy is designed to maximise efficiency under the rules of Financial Fair Play. Investment in their youth structures is exempt from FFP. But the money the club raise by selling players is not. They are making their money work for them. As one observer put it to me Wednesday, they are "gaming" FFP.
This is not illegal. It is completely within the rules. It is also not immoral. Chelsea would claim that they are, in fact, giving these young players the best chance of fulfilling their potential, by giving them access to the sort of coaching and facilities that most can only dream about. That is certainly the view of Aspire, the Qatar-funded project that has given a chance to dozens of players from Africa that they would not otherwise get. Like the Lukaku deal, it is a win-win for all concerned.
Except, of course, that it is not. The Netherlands squad at this summer's World Cup contained a host of players from Feyenoord, the Dutch club whose financial strictures had forced it to trust its youth system to provide the core of its side over the course of the last six years. For five years in a row, they have been voted the best academy in Holland.
Damien Hertog, the man who oversees their work, knows that the likes of Stefan de Vrij, Jordy Clasie and Bruno Martins Indi will move on as soon as they have made it. Indeed, Feyenoord not only accept that they will go but, to some extent, encourage it. Those fees are how they sustain themselves and ensure that they never again skirt with financial oblivion.
But, speaking to The Times last month, Hertog admitted that when English clubs come and poach young players before they are ripe -- as was the case with Rodney Kongolo, the 16-year-old brother of Terence, who moved to Manchester City -- it "is not good for the club as the fee is not as big, it is not good for the player because they need to play to develop, and it is probably not good for the English national team, either, to have so many places in academies taken up by foreign players."
By scouring the world for youngsters, the vulture clubs are depriving the game's lesser powers of crucial funds, and by extension, are starving their native leagues of quality. For every Lukaku who makes it, there are many others who do not, who return to their homelands without the scope for a successful career, and to base a judgment of what is right or praiseworthy on the exception is foolhardy in the extreme.
Indeed, if Lukaku -- who cost 11 million pounds and was already playing first-team football -- cannot make it, then what about the chances of those who are signed earlier in their development, who do not have the Belgian's unquestionable ability?
Just because Lukaku did develop into a Premier League player in Chelsea's system does not mean that it's the only way to bring young players through, or even that it's the best. Hertog, like many others, identifies playing high-level, competitive football as the crucial final stage in any player's development. For the few sent on loan to Atletico or Porto or Vitesse, that stage comes. For those farmed out to the lower leagues, or not at all, it does not.
Chelsea and the others are hedging their risk, but they are also interfering with the natural course of events. Hertog knows there is little that can be done to stop it. EU law means that this harvesting of young talent will continue; it is hard to chastise Chelsea and the others for doing it when it is not illegal and it is not wrong.
Perhaps, then, what is required is a clearer understanding of what that offer from a top Premier League club to a young prospect means. It is not a dream move. It is simply a business deal. They will polish you up. They will coach you and train you and guide you through. They may turn you into a player, if you are the lucky one of many.
However, they will likely not turn you into a player for them because, to them, you are a commodity, a property, and you are there to be flipped.
Rory Smith is a columnist for ESPN FC and The Times. Follow him on Twitter @RorySmithTimes.


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Almost a week after the snowfall captured in my previous post, we had another overnight snowfall allowing me to capture the portraits of Kyle cavorting in a local park the next day [also in a previous post], and to capture the snow up close and personal, rather than from the warmth and dry of my home.
Below are some of the other photos I captured.
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PARIS (AP) — Finally, the Tour de France is giving women a more visible role than just congratulating the male riders.
On July 27 cycling's best-known race will host "La Course by Le Tour de France" — a one-day women's competition staged hours before Tour riders race on the same circuit to finish the three-week event on Paris' Champs-Elysées.
The International Cycling Union announced the innovation Saturday as part of its 2014 racing calendar. Tour organizers, the Amaury Sport Organization, say they aim to make the women's competition "one of the most decisive races of the season."
Until now, the 110-year-old Tour has been almost exclusively a male preserve, with women sometimes employed as team staffers or on the winners' podium handing out flowers.
A number of women's races have collapsed in recent years and some competitors have criticized poor funding and promotion. A "Tour Feminin" event in France was staged in the past, but not since 2009.
"Women's races have had financial difficulties — little television exposure, little media fallout and, as a result, few sponsors," said UCI sport director Philippe Chevallier in a phone interview. "We are working hard so that will change," he said, acknowledging that "it's a long-term job."
A group of cyclists, including Olympic gold medalist and road race world champion Marianne Vos of the Netherlands and Olympian Emma Pooley of Britain, launched a petition last summer to push for a professional women's race in parallel to the Tour de France over the same distances.
"There was a petition, which I found inappropriate by the way, during the Tour de France," Tour director Christian Prudhomme told The Associated Press by telephone.
"After the Tour, in September, October, a delegation of (women's) champions came to see me, led by Marianne Vos," Prudhomme said. "What they asked us was for a bit of spotlight, they insisted upon the fact that women's cycling does not get enough media coverage and only this event — and only organization ASO — could help them to get more coverage for their race."
Vos said she was "delighted" about the announcement of "La Course" event.
"I am particularly happy to take part, especially thinking about the majestic finish on the Champs-Elysées," she was quoted as saying in a statement from Tour organizers. "The birth of this race is a revolutionary development in our sport. The Tour is the pinnacle of professional cycling … (this) could open up a new era for women's cycling."
In contrast, Prudhomme emphasized the challenge of running two races at the same time.
"It's complicated. You have to do things step by step from a logistical point of view," and in terms of security, Prudhomme said. "We're totally incapable, logistically and technically, to run two events at the same time, whatever they may be. We don't know how to do it, (so) we'll have to wait to see what happens."
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