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Happ deals with sore back, new rotation contenders
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- It appears as though the competition for jobs at Spring Training has just gotten a whole lot more interesting after general manager Alex Anthopoulos admitted for the first time that two spots in the starting rotation could be up for grabs.
Toronto previously stated that there were four pitchers locked into the starting five: R.A. Dickey, Brandon Morrow, Mark Buehrle and J.A. Happ. That stance has now changed, with Happ battling a sore back and having struggled during his first two outings this spring.
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- It appears as though the competition for jobs at Spring Training has just gotten a whole lot more interesting after general manager Alex Anthopoulos admitted for the first time that two spots in the starting rotation could be up for grabs.
Toronto previously stated that there were four pitchers locked into the starting five: R.A. Dickey, Brandon Morrow, Mark Buehrle and J.A. Happ. That stance has now changed, with Happ battling a sore back and having struggled during his first two outings this spring.
The news paves the way for a whole slew of candidates to be considered for a job and has rookie Marcus Stroman all of a sudden jumping to the forefront of that discussion.
"There could be two," Anthopoulos conceded during a scrum with a group of reporters. "I think we're going to take the best team north. Especially right now, we have J.A. and the back, the performance, things like that; we have to get him on track, stay healthy.
"Obviously R.A., Mark and Brandon. Again, we expect J.A. to be in the rotation, but at the same time, the back's flared up on him twice. I just don't know. Look, if guys perform well and they force our hand, we'll take the best team."
Happ's back issues were first revealed to the public by manager John Gibbons on Tuesday afternoon. That came just one day after Happ was unable to pitch his way out of the first inning during a start against the Twins. In that outing, Happ allowed four runs on two hits while struggling to find the strike zone and issuing four walks.
There was no mention of an injury from Happ following the start and it appears as though he is loath to use it as an excuse for his rough pair of outings this spring. But the narrative has been set and in order to secure a spot in the starting rotation, Happ will now not only have to prove he's healthy, but that he can start throwing strikes on a more consistent basis.
Command has always been Happ's Achilles' heel as a big league starter. He tends to get into deep counts on a regular basis and throw a lot of pitches. The hope was that a lowered arm slot would improve his control this spring, but so far that hasn't come to pass.
"Velocity is great -- he's up to 93, 94 mph. It's just command," Anthopoulos said. "I just wonder if his back wasn't bothering him the way it is, I think the command would be a lot better. That's my opinion. He hasn't said it, he hasn't made any excuses, I just don't think we're seeing him at 100 percent even though he'll tell you up and down he can get through it.
"We'll watch him, we'll evaluate it. Right now, I don't think he's on schedule to miss any time. Maybe he gets moved back a day or two, but from what I understand, it would be no more than two or three days that he would be moved back, if that happens."
Right-hander Drew Hutchison previously emerged as a frontrunner for the final spot in Toronto's rotation. He has been one of the biggest storylines in camp and appears to be showing no ill effects from his 2012 Tommy John surgery. Hutchison velocity has been consistently hitting the mid-90s on the radar gun, and Anthopoulos has given him nothing but rave reviews.
Stroman previously was considered by many to be a long shot to head north with the Blue Jays at the end of spring. He has yet to appear in the Major Leagues and seemed probable to start the year with Triple-A Buffalo, but Anthopoulos also went out of his way to praise the 22-year-old.
If the Blue Jays delayed the start of Stroman's tenure in the big leagues, it would buy them a seventh year of service time before he was eligible for free agency. That's something the club would have strongly considered in the past, but with Toronto looking to contend this year it's not something that is going to factor into its decision.
Stroman is now competing against Happ, while out-of-options pitchers Todd Redmond and Esmil Rogers also will receive at least some consideration.
"No doubt about it, the best team [will be selected]," Anthopoulos said. "Where it becomes a little more interesting, if you have multiple players, if it's close and someone has options and someone's out of options, you keep the depth. If it's not close, then you take the best players. That's always the way it's been.
"That's why those players that have options left have to be that much better than the guys they're competing against, and I've told the players that to their faces. But those guys that are out of options, if they're not performing and guys are clearly an upgrade over them and will make a big difference for them, we'll go with the best team."
Stroman has generally been considered by a lot of experts to be ready for the Major Leagues. He has an overpowering fastball and a wipeout slider, but until last year, there was a glaring need for another pitch. He has since started to use a changeup on a regular basis, and it seems to have gone a long way in keeping opposing hitters off balance.
The final three weeks of spring will ultimately dictate what final decision the club decides to make, but it's safe to say that Stroman is no longer a long shot; he is very much in the mix.
"He has a chance," said Anthopoulos, who added that Stroman will not be on an innings limit this year. "I don't know what the chances are, the percentages, but there's a reason he's getting stretched out, there's a reason we're giving him the innings. We want to take a look. If he can impress and really come on, he's going to make it hard on us, which is what we want."
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.

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Latest Leak Shows Microsoft Handed The NSA And FBI Unencrypted Access To Outlook, SkyDrive And Skype
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Microsoft has painted a picture that its relationship with the NSA and FBI isn't a cozy one, but one based on forced compliance. The company has recently been taking shots at Google with its "Scroogled" campaign, claiming it kept users' data more secure. Then news surfaced that Microsoft was providing intelligence agencies with zero-day exploits for deployment by the agencies before getting around to patching them, leading to questions as to its expressed concern for its customers.
The latest leak released by the Guardian paints the company as a willing "team player" working closely with the FBI and NSA to allow unfettered access to the data of its customers.
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.This damaging set of documents indicates that Microsoft talks a pretty good game when it comes to privacy, but the protection it actually offers is less than skin deep.
The documents show that:
• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;
• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;
• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;
• Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;
• Skype, which was bought by Microsoft in October 2011, worked with intelligence agencies last year to allow Prism to collect video of conversations as well as audio;
• Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".
Microsoft's latest marketing campaign, launched in April, emphasizes its commitment to privacy with the slogan: "Your privacy is our priority."Microsoft's actions say otherwise. Skype alone gives the NSA and FBI access to over 600 million users worldwide despite Skype's earlier claims that these calls couldn't be tapped.
Similarly, Skype's privacy policy states: "Skype is committed to respecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal data, traffic data and communications content."
Microsoft has responded to this leak with a statement claiming its actions are above-board and completely legal. The NSA released a statement as well, claiming, as Microsoft does, that everything detailed is fully compliant with applicable laws. As usual, the NSA statement makes reference to "strict oversight" and "careful monitoring," empty phrases its deployed before that are ultimately meaningless without any corresponding transparency.
Again, speaking to the "legality" of these actions is nothing more than self-serving rhetoric. As has been expressed before, the real scandal isn't that large-scale surveillance is happening. It's that it's legal. Secret courts issuing secret interpretations that companies like Microsoft are compelled to comply with. Microsoft may say it "rejects" demands that it doesn't deem "valid," but does anyone not think these rejections aren't simply overridden?
There are ways to comply with government requests which don't take the form of working closely with intelligence agencies to undercut the same privacy you're telling the public you're so interested in protecting. (Maybe ask Twitter for some advice...) Giving intelligence carte blanche access to data pre-encryption doesn't sound like the actions of a company that regularly challenges government requests. It sounds more like the compliance of a company who'd rather not jeopardize OS sales and support to one of its biggest customers.
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establishing new financial company whose name is Centaur Capital Management
A Centaur is a greek mythological figure which is half man half horse-the idea is that the company has two different capabilities
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I bought two versions of the Hada Labo (who make amazing cheap-ish skincare) BB Moist, purely because I wanted to see what the Japanese interpretation of BB cream was and also because I love their skincare range.
On top of this they had a 'Dark Beige' shade which a few people told me ran quite dark (nearly all BB Creams I use are too light).
I bought the emulsion and cream versions…I do it for you, readers:
Hada-Labo's BB Moist Cream and Emulsion both come with SPF50 which is great! Saves me the trouble of using a SPF (not that I ever remember). You get around 40ml of product which is ok if you treat this as a foundation product.
The packaging……is nothing special at all. It's simple and practical but that's how a lot of Hada-Labo products are.
The Emulsion version is the thin liquid one and the cream is a thickish…well, cream. Both textures are very useable and easy to blend in. It totally depends on what you need. Dry skin will do better with the cream (and it provides slightly more coverage).
Oily skins will do better with the fluid although it'd suggest that this is best for the summer months too.
I will use the emulsion when it gets warmer and the cream day to day purely because my skin is quite dry.
I noticed a slight shade variation – the Emulsion is a tad darker:
Now…for my NC35 skintone both of these are still a bit too light. How annoying!!! Basically the fluid matches better than the cream which is about 2 shades too light. However I have been evening both of these out by using a RMK powder which I have in a matte bronze.
Then you can't tell at all that it's the wrong shade.
Here is the cream on my face. The coverage is excellent (the emulsion is quite good and buildable too):
However – the most extraordinary thing about this product is how amazing it makes my skin look. Just brilliant. I have been using this product as my daily base for 3 weeks and the condition of my skin has improved a lot. The tone is better and more even too.
Also, the point of BB creams is that as well as being a base and a treatment, it is supposed to help with things like pigmentation and scarring which this does (or at least, my scars look less visible).
Despite the fact the shade isn't 100% right for me, this is the best BB cream/emulsion I have ever tried – I have zero breakouts (Korean BB cream give me spots) and my skin is glowing.
A must have if you want to try a BB cream.
I bought this from Adambeauty.com for about £10. It comes in 2 shades, Light Beige and Dark Beige.


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Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell narrowly avoided disaster after the helicopter they were travelling in almost crashed into trees in the driving rain, according to air traffic reports.
The couple were travelling back from the launch of Sir Paul's daughter Mary's new cookery book in London to their home in London when the incident happened in May.
According to reports released by the Air Accidents Investigations Branch, that monitors air traffic, the helicopter came within "two feet" of crashing into the trees.
The report said that the "commander" of the helicopter became disorientated in bad weather and skimmed the trees while trying to land.
In the end, the unnamed 55-year-old pilot, was forced to abort the landing and instead land at nearby Lydd Airport in Kent.
The near miss was recorded as a "serious incident", which it defines as "involving circumstances indicating that nan accident nearly occurred".
No action will be taken against the charter company Air Harrods, although recommendations have been made over flight safety.
The firm, that is also used by Tony Blair, charges £3,000 an hour for helicopter flights.
Sir Paul, 70, married his 52-year-old third wife Nancy Shevell last year.
His eldest daughter Mary McCartney, has written a cookbook on vegetarian dishes.
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William Read (1736 – 1803) & Mary Pollard (1742 – 1821)
This is the line of Cozens Read's eldest son, William and his wife. There is a slight problem with this couple!! You will see from my notes below that I am not entirely sure this is the correct marriage for William. I am actually thinking that this Mary Pollard is a second wife or even William's son's wife. I haven't yet checked this further and really need to sort it out!!
Descendants of William READ (1736 – 1803)
Generation No. 1
1. WILLIAM4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1736 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 1803 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He married MARY POLLARD 07 Feb 1782 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. She was born 1742 in Oakley, Buckinghamshire, and died 1821 in Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
Notes for WILLIAM READ:
I am not entirely sure that Mary Pollard is the wife of William or is maybe his second wife!! For this marriage he would have been about 46 years old. His son William born in 1761 means that he was born 21 years before William senr. married Mary Pollard.
From details given to me by others, it would seem that it is the William Read (William senr.'s son) born in 1761 who married Mary Pollard in 1782 and that William junr. and his wife Mary had the two children, Mary born 1783 and William born 1784. I really need to check this and if this is correct, then who did William senr. marry?
Children of WILLIAM READ and MARY POLLARD are:
2. i. MARY5 READ, b. 1783, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire; d. 1850, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
ii. WILLIAM READ, b. 1784, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire1; d. 1785, Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire2.
Generation No. 2
2. MARY5 READ (WILLIAM4, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1783 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 1850 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. She married JOHN MOORES 08 Aug 1804 in St. Mary Magdalene, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He was born 1783, and died 1855.
Children of MARY READ and JOHN MOORES are:
i. WILLIAM6 MOORES, b. 1805, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire3; d. 1806, Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire4.
More About WILLIAM MOORES:
Baptism: 16 Aug 1805, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire
ii. JOHN MOORES, b. 1805, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire5; d. 1806, Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire6.
iii. WILLIAM MOORES, b. 1807, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire7.
1. Upper Winchendon Parish Register, Baptisms 1784September 19th William Son of Willm. Read and Mary his wife. Paid 3d.
2. Lower Winchendon Parish Register, Burials – March 24th 1785.
3. Upper Winchendon Parish Register, Baptized 1805August 16th William and John twin born sons of John and Mary Moores.
4. Lower Winchendon Parish Register, Burials – April 1806.
5. Upper Winchendon Parish Register, Baptized 1805August 16th William and John twin born sons of John and Mary Moores.
6. Lower Winchendon Parish Register, Burials – June 18th 1806.
7. Upper Winchendon Parish Register, Baptized 1807Jany. 4th William Son of John and Mary Moores.


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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
MICHAEL FASSBENDER: (as Carl Jung) I'm Dr. Jung. I admitted you yesterday. Let me explain what I have in mind. I propose that we meet here most days to talk for an hour or two.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY: (as Sabina Spielrein) Talk?
FASSBENDER: (as Carl Jung) Yes. Just talk. See if we can identify what's troubling you. So as to distract you as little as possible I'm going to sit there, behind you. I'm going to ask you to try not to turn around and look at me under any circumstances.
GROSS: That's my guest Michael Fassbender playing Carl Jung in the film "A Dangerous Method," trying out the talking cure on his patient Sabina Spielrein. Fassbender has starred in four movies in the past year, "A Dangerous Method" was about the relationship between Jung and Sigmund Freud. In "Jane Eyre" he was Mr. Rochester. In "X-Men: First Class" he was a mutant villain. Fassbender played a sex addict in "Shame," which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. "Shame" was directed by Steve McQueen, who also directed Fassbender in his starring role in "Hunger," portraying Bobby Sands, the IRA leader who died leading a hunger strike in prison.
Fassbender not only got to co-star in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," he got to do a classic Tarantino Mexican standoff. We'll talk about Tarantino later after we talk about Fassbender's recent films.
Michael Fassbender, welcome to FRESH AIR. I think it's almost funny that back-to-back you did a movie about a sex addict and about Freud and Jung debating about whether the roots of all neuroses are sexual.
FASSBENDER: Yeah.
GROSS: So did the things - I don't know what the sequence was that you shot it in, but did the research you were doing to Freud and Jung come into play in understanding your character in "Shame," your sex-addicted character?
FASSBENDER: Not really, to be honest. The way that I work is that when I'm involved in something I get so really intensely involved in that. But then I'm pretty good at sort of washing it away once I finish it. And pretty much - well, forgetting it is a bit of an extreme word, but definitely sort of it's no longer in my psyche.
By the time I got to "Shame" I wasn't really thinking at all about Carl Gustav Jung. It was just then about really sort of getting inside the head of the character. And the bulk of my work would come down to the script. I spend a lot of time with the script - reading it, rereading it, rereading, rereading, rereading, rereading until you go kind of a little bit crazy with it and then read some more.
GROSS: If I was interviewing your character of Brandon in "Shame" a question I'd want to ask is do you get any pleasure from sex at all? Because although he's consumed with sex and has as much of it as he can and is on the Internet porn sites all the time, it doesn't seem to actually give him pleasure.
FASSBENDER: You know, I think there is definitely an element of pleasure in there. It would be the similar circumstance if you think, let's sort of make that parallel to an alcoholic, where obviously there, you know, an alcoholic does enjoy a drink. But it gets to a point where when you wake up in the morning you have to get a bottle of liquor in your system just in order to function. For me, looking at it as trying to sort of understand the character and actually trying to reveal what's going on within the character or the psyche of the character, I did take each individual sex scene as a way for me to show the audience what was going on inside the character's head.
When you see Brandon at the beginning engaging with a prostitute you understand that there is an element of control there within his sexual relationships - that he is controlling the scenario, that he paid the prostitute, she performs a ritual for him, he pays her money, she leaves, she takes her baggage with her and that's it. It's clean for him. It's easy. There's no emotional responsibility there, definitely not that emotional intimacy. So that's the first glimpse of that. Skip ahead to the scene with Marianne, his office worker, played by Nicole Beharie, he is desperately trying to find intimacy and that's why he sort of goes and sort of engages in this relationship and does it very clumsily. He takes her to the hotel and essentially can't perform because this is becoming too intimate for him. And immediately after that, we see him very physically engaging with the random woman up against the window and it's almost like he's reaffirming himself.
And then, of course, we have that sort of, you know, the threesome scene or the foursome, because it's almost like the camera and the audience are in there, in the scene with the characters. You kind of see everything combined there - the need for the hit, the desperation, the self-loathing and the lust, you know? And so that kind of helped me sort of, you know, get over the embarrassment about sort of, you know, being naked and sort of, you know, performing these - how would I put it - compromising positions. You know, I really wanted to concentrate on what the character was going through, so it's not about titillation, it's more about sort of investigation.
GROSS: So I don't know if you mind my bringing this up. There seems to be a lot of subtext in "Shame." And what I kind of read into the script is that Brandon, your character, has had some kind of incestuous relationship in the past with his sister, played by Carey Mulligan, because the first time he sees her she's kind of moved into his apartment without his permission. And he opens up the bathroom door and there she is naked in the shower and she doesn't flinch. It's kind of clear he's seen this before. And he is angry with her and makes her put her towel on but you know that they have some kind of history. Do you mind my saying that?
FASSBENDER: Yeah.
GROSS: And do...
FASSBENDER: No, not at all.
GROSS: Mm-hmm.
FASSBENDER: I mean, you know, that's exactly what we wanted to show and the...
GROSS: So you talked about that. You talked about the subtext and the history even though we don't absolutely know it.
FASSBENDER: Yeah, for sure we did, yeah. Absolutely. We had discussions and then we all had our individual, I think, takes on it and we never really, really fixed anything definite on it. And what we didn't want was we didn't want, you know, a scene where they're sitting down going hey, remember that summer when whatever? You know, it's like I'm already checked out when I hear that sort of stuff. It's like let the audience fill in the blanks; they're intelligent enough to do that. And also we didn't want to have any sort of cop-out; you know, well, this is what happened so therefore, this is the behavior. No, what was very clear to me from the beginning was I wanted Brandon to be an everyday guy. I wanted him to be somebody that you would recognize at work or out in a bar or on the tube, the subway, and I wanted to keep him very close to myself and not have any sort of cop-out - oh, wow, look at the, you know, sex addicts - they're the guys in the sort of rain macs with the sweaty palms in the corner. You know, I wanted him very much to be one of us, one of everybody.
GROSS: Yeah, so why don't we hear a clip from "Shame."
GROSS: And this is you and Carey Mulligan, who plays your sister, and you're sitting on the couch together. This is after she's moved in uninvited. This is after you've really tried to get her to leave. She makes you so uncomfortable. You are just incredibly like neat, almost to the point of having like a sterile apartment. She's kind of really messy.
FASSBENDER: Absolutely.
GROSS: You're this like emotionally shut-in. She's really emotionally needy and emotionally big and broad. So you're basically telling her it's time for her to leave and you're sitting on the couch in your living room. So here's my guest Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan.
FASSBENDER: (as Brandon) This isn't working out, obviously. You need to find somewhere else to live.
CAREY MULLIGAN: (as Sissy) I don't have anywhere else to go. This isn't about him. I make you angry all the time and I don't know why.
FASSBENDER: (as Brandon) No, you trap me. You force me into a corner and you trap me. I've got nowhere else to go. I mean what the (bleep) is that?
MULLIGAN: (as Sissy) You're my brother.
FASSBENDER: (as Brandon) So what? I'm responsible for you?
MULLIGAN: (as Sissy) Yes.
FASSBENDER: (as Brandon) No I'm not.
MULLIGAN: (as Sissy) Yes you (bleep) are.
FASSBENDER: (as Brandon) No. I didn't give birth to you. I didn't bring you into this world.
MULLIGAN: (as Sissy) You're my brother, I'm your sister, we're family, we're meant to look after each other.
FASSBENDER: (as Brandon) You're not looking after me.
MULLIGAN: (as Sissy) I'm...
FASSBENDER: (as Brandon) I'm looking after myself.
MULLIGAN: (as Sissy) I'm trying. I'm trying to help you.
FASSBENDER: (as Brandon) How are you helping me, huh? How are you helping me? How are you helping me?
GROSS: That's a scene from "Shame" with my guest Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan as his sister. We'll talk more with Michael Fassbender after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: My guest is Michael Fassbender, the star of "Shame," "A Dangerous Method" and "Jane Eyre." We're going to talk about co-starring in "Inglourious Basterds," the 2009 World War II film, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
I want to play you just a really brief excerpt of the interview I did with him, in which he talked about his dialogue. So here's Quentin Tarantino.
QUENTIN TARANTINO: There's a poetic quality to my dialogue. I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's not song lyrics but it's kind of like song lyrics. It's not rap but it's kind of like rap. And it's not stand-up comedy but it is kind of like stand-up comedy. It's all those things together.
And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to be able to sell my jokes.
GROSS: So that's Quentin Tarantino talking about what he requires in an actor to do his dialogue. So when you worked with Tarantino on "Inglourious Basterds," did he talk to you at all about the rhythms, about selling his jokes, about all the stuff we just heard him discuss?
FASSBENDER: Yeah. I mean that...
GROSS: Or does he expect you to just get it?
FASSBENDER: Well, I think, you know, actors get it because the dialogue, you really just have to follow the dialogue and, you know, 80 percent of the work is done, with Quentin's work for sure. And sometimes he will give you the cadence correctly if you're not getting the rhythms right. But it was something that I luckily came across pretty early when I decided that I wanted to sort of do acting. You know, I put on a play of "Reservoir Dogs" in Killarney, the town that I grew up in, and so, you know, me and - one of my classmates and I, we just, you know, we would work on this script and we all, you know, at the age of 18 we were like this script is amazing, isn't it, the rhythms and the flow. And so you...
GROSS: Were in high school when you did this or college?
FASSBENDER: High school.
GROSS: This is great. So like you're in high school, you're doing a theater adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs," which is about all these guys pulling a heist and getting followed by the police and so on. So it's a really violent film.
FASSBENDER: Yeah.
GROSS: And in one of the scenes in the movie one of the characters takes a razor, does this little dance and then cuts off the character's ear. And we don't see it being cut off but it hurts a lot anyways, and people think that they saw even though they didn't. So did your teacher think great idea, yes, great scene, guys?
FASSBENDER: Yeah. I can't - I don't know that we disclosed what we were doing but I, you know, they were very supportive because - we started off, I had joined this sort of theater company for the sort of five months before, so I had been doing pantomime and pub theater and various sketch forms of theater. And then I sort of, you know, got together with my friends and we decided to actually film our version of "Reservoir Dogs" in the locker room at school. And so we didn't have a camera so...
FASSBENDER: So one of the teachers, you know, had a camera, he gave us that and - Mr. Leahy, I think that was - and sort of they were like off you go. I think, you know, that my school was always sort of encouraging, you know, if you're being productive and if you're taking on, you know, challenges and, you know, we were trying to create, they were very supportive.
GROSS: So did Quentin Tarantino know about this when he cast you in "Inglourious Basterds?"
FASSBENDER: Well, I told him when I went in for the audition. And I was like look, you know, we gave all the money to charity. He was like, that's cool, man, as long as you're not making any money off my (bleep).
FASSBENDER: So I was like - and so, you know, that was a nice little icebreaker and then we sat down and we, you know, I auditioned for him. And, you know, the great thing about Quentin is, you know, his passion for film and for text and for all his sort of characters no matter how small. You know, there'd be a character that's got two lines in his script but he knows that whole back-story of the character, he loves the character very much and so he reads all the other characters with you. So that was quite surreal.
GROSS: You know, it's really funny, you know, Quentin Tarantino is like such a great writer of dialogue and, you know, he compares it to writing poetry or music or rap. But most of your part in "Inglourious Basterds" is done in German. You're a British film critic who's now in the military, it's World War II, and you're recruited to be in something called Operation Kino. And the idea is that the leadership of the Nazis are going to this Nazi propaganda film debut. So the goal is to kind of kill them while they're all gathered together there. So you're supposed to be meeting a German film star who is actually a spy for the British.
FASSBENDER: Yeah.
GROSS: And she set up this meeting in a little pub in Occupied France and unfortunately, the pub is filled with German soldiers when you meet her there. And it's a basement pub so they're...
...this meeting in a little pub in occupied France and unfortunately, the pub is filled with German soldiers when you meet her there. And it's a basement pub so there's no easy escape and so you have to fake that you're a German soldier. So the dialogue's all in German. And did Quentin understand a word of German?
FASSBENDER: You know, it's funny. I'll just sort of say, who else would have a film critic heading out as a sort of an undercover spy?
GROSS: Of course. So funny. Yeah.
FASSBENDER: I love it. You know, Quentin doesn't speak German and he doesn't speak French but there were times when, you know, French actors were speaking French and they changed something in his dialogue and he'd be like, wait a second? He was like, what'd you do there?
FASSBENDER: And they were like, nothing. And they were like - he was like, you changed something. And they were like, yeah, just a little bit. And he's like don't do that. You know, and the same with the German. He's got a great - I don't know. He's got a great intuition and ear for rhythms and tone, I think.
And so even if he may not understand it sort of word for word, he's almost sort of tapped into the sort of rhythm and tone of the piece.
GROSS: OK. So this is going to be weird but I'm going to play a clip of you in that pub.
FASSBENDER: In German.
GROSS: Speaking in German and trying to convince this German officer, this, you know, German soldier who kind of knows something's fishy going on and he doesn't really think you have a very believable German accent. And he...
FASSBENDER: Shall I do the subtitles?
GROSS: Yes.
GROSS: Well, why don't we hear it and then you could do...
FASSBENDER: No, I'm just kidding.
GROSS: ...the subtitles. Yes. So you're trying to convince him that you're an officer, you're his superior, and it's time for him to leave because he's being intrusive.
FASSBENDER: Yeah.
GROSS: So here's you and then we hear the German soldier at the very end.
FASSBENDER: (as Lt. Archie Hicox) (Speaks German)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as German soldier) (Speaks German)
GROSS: So what the German soldier is saying at the end is excuse me, captain, but your accent is very unusual. Where are you from?
FASSBENDER: Yeah, exactly.
GROSS: So how did you...
FASSBENDER: That's when you go oh, no.
GROSS: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you know, trouble ahead. And, boy, it gets really bloody after a while. How did you learn to speak German? I know you were born in Germany, lived there till the age of 2 and then moved to Ireland with your family. So your father is German, your mother is Irish. So did you already know German when you shot "Inglourious Basterds"?
FASSBENDER: You know, I sort of, you know, my mum when they moved to Germany, I think all in all they were there for 6 years and so my mum sort of learned German as well. So both of them, you know, obviously fluent in German and they used to try and speak German at home with me but, I don't know, I never really wanted to. I guess I was kind of embarrassed or something silly.
But I can understand the bulk of it, but speaking it I would definitely give away that - it would be obvious immediately that I wasn't German with my accent. And so I just had to sort of - I worked with a fantastic voice coach and we just - I just - you know, she recorded, I recorded, and then I just sort of played it back, you know, over and over again and just, you know, again the sort of repetition thing to really sort of hone in on sort of, you know, the sounds and to get the rhythms right, so that it wouldn't be sort of so obvious to a German public that they'd be like, well, he's obviously not German, you know.
GROSS: My guest is Michael Fassbender. We'll talk more after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: My guest is Michael Fassbender. In the past year he's starred in "Shame," "A Dangerous Method," "X-Men First Class" and "Jane Eyre." So I want to ask you about "Jane Eyre," in which you played Mr. Rochester. I know when I read the book, like, in high school I guess, I really couldn't understand why the young Jane Eyre fell for Mr. Rochester who was so much older.
He seemed an old, like, an old, uptight man to me.
FASSBENDER: An old grumpy git.
GROSS: Yeah. Right. Exactly. Exactly. But in the film, you know, I haven't reread the novel since then so I can't really speak to what's in the novel. I should be able to but I can't. But anyways, in the film I just really felt this, like, intellectual connection that Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester establish with each other; that they're both in their own way outside of the boundaries of conventional society and no one understands either of them but they understand each other.
FASSBENDER: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: Do you remember what you thought of the novel when you first read it?
FASSBENDER: Yeah. I mean, all those things you were thinking. I was like, well, you know, where does the attraction come here from? You know? And it's funny with the Bronte sisters. You know, it's like I don't know how many times Rochester tells her to sit down and come here and sort of orders her around. It's kind of, I don't know, some sort of power play, I guess.
I really wanted to focus on what you said. You know, the fact that Rochester talks on an equal level with the governess alone would've been not good in that time period, talking about social etiquettes, Victorian England. I mean, that was not the done thing. And, you know, the fact that he is a sort of rebel within that he, does not like, you know, this sort of social class that he's a part of.
And, you know, the intellectual side of him is there but, you know, you said that they sort of understand each other. He really needs her more than she needs him, I think, and that's what I always thought. That she has the capability of saving him from, you know, this sort of - he's such a closed sort of package, you know, because he's like - the times that he has opened himself up he's got burnt, you know? And pretty badly. So he prefers to sort of keep a cold exterior on things and protect himself. But, slowly but surely, she manages to sort of peel away these sort of defenses. And my problem was really, you know, he's locked his wife up in the attic. No wonder she's trying to burn the house down.
FASSBENDER: You know? Again, we're talking about Victorian England and, you know, if a woman was sexually active in that time she would be seen to sort of perhaps have a mental illness. So I kind of had to sort of, you know, just tell myself, no, she's crazy for sure. It runs in the family. He tried his best. You know, but that's pretty dark, that concept alone.
GROSS: So let's hear a scene from "Jane Eyre" and this is, you know, early on when Jane Eyre has just recently become the governess and she's just met Mr. Rochester, the owner of the estate in which she's working. And they're sitting by the fire talking and I think this kind of shows the kind of mix of condescension and respect that Mr. Rochester is demonstrating towards Jane Eyre. So this is my guest Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska.
FASSBENDER: (as Mr. Rochester) Come, speak to me. The fact is, Ms. Eyre, I'd like to draw you out. Rather a look of another world about you. I don't wish to treat you as inferior.
MIA WASIKOWSKA: (as Jane Eyre) Yet you command me to speak.
FASSBENDER: (as Mr. Rochester) You're very hurt by my tone of command.
WASIKOWSKA: (as Jane Eyre) There are few masters who trouble to inquire whether their paid subordinates were hurt by their commands.
FASSBENDER: (as Mr. Rochester) Paid subordinate? I'd forgotten the salary. Well, on that mercenary ground, will you consent to speak as my equal without thinking that the request arises from insolence?
WASIKOWSKA: (as Jane Eyre) I'd never mistake informality for insolence, sir. One I rather like; the other, nothing freeborn should ever submit to.
FASSBENDER: (as Mr. Rochester) Humbug.
WASIKOWSKA: (as Jane Eyre) Even for a salary.
FASSBENDER: (as Mr. Rochester) Most freeborn things would submit to anything for a salary. But I mentally shake hands with you for your answer. Not 3 in 3,000 schoolgirl governesses would've answered me as you've just done.
WASIKOWSKA: (as Jane Eyre) Then you've not spent much time in our company, sir. I'm the same plain kind of bird as all the rest. I have my common tale of woe.
FASSBENDER: (as Mr. Rochester) I envy you.
WASIKOWSKA: (as Jane Eyre) How?
FASSBENDER: (as Mr. Rochester) Your openness, your unpolluted mind. When I was your age, fate dealt me a blow and since happiness is denied me, I have a right to get pleasure in its stead. And I will get it, cost what it may.
GROSS: That's my guest, Michael Fassbender, and Mia Wasikowska in a scene from "Jane Eyre." So you're getting a lot of recognition now. You were nominated for a Golden Globe. Did you ever expect to be in the world of, like, award shows and stuff like that in Hollywood?
FASSBENDER: Yes.
FASSBENDER: You know, when you start off you sort of really - I think, because the business is so - you're so dependent on others in terms of sort of getting any work, that you have to have a very strong self-belief system. And, you know, from the beginning when I decided that I wanted to do it, I believed that I could, you know, I could do this job well and that I could - I always said I'm good enough to be working.
That was always the mantra when, you know, when I sort of wasn't working for long periods of time. So I always thought, yes, you know, I had the possibility of achieving great heights within it and to keep that sort of, you know, strong. But essentially, the main thing that I always told myself was that I was good enough to be working.
I'm good enough to be a jobbing actor. And of course, you know, this position now is the dream. You know, you dream about sort of getting to this position. It's a position that you couldn't get to without people helping you enormously along the way and luck and timing. Not so much luck. People always say luck, but I think it's more about timing - being in the right place at the right time. Getting the right role. Having the right director sort of work with you on that role. All those things.
GROSS: So it's been great to talk with you.
FASSBENDER: Likewise, Terry.
GROSS: Thank you very much.
FASSBENDER: Thank you.
GROSS: Good luck in any of the upcoming award ceremonies.
FASSBENDER: Cheers. Thanks a lot.
GROSS: Michael Fassbender stars in the current films "Shame" and "A Dangerous Method." His film "Jane Eyre" is now out on DVD.
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The National Electric Flight Rally reached its 27th year in 2015, and tried a new location; the NAAS field just south of Tharwa on the edge of Canberra that covers a huge area in a picturesque valley. The central venue attracted fliers from South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Thirty fliers registered and over 40 people attended the annual dinner.
The NAAS club did a magnificent job of catering. On the last evening they served a spit roast. Legs of lamb cooked in a collection of Weber BBQs were served with roast vegetables, peas and gravy, on the field as a sit-down meal – almost surreal! The lamb roast was followed by upside down pineapple cake, also cooked in the BBQs and served hot.
The NEFR has typically been a jamboree of electric flight events – some more serious and some just for fun. In recent years the rally has been mostly electric glider and electric old timer tasks, with an electric scramble, electric foamy pylon and electric scale added in.
The electric glider events are planned at three levels – Radian glider for fun and for the less experienced, F5J for those interested in thermal glider competition, and Limited Electric Glider for those with high powered gliders aiming at maximum flight time from minimum motor run.
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saw 27 people register for the event. In most rounds up to 24 Radian gliders were all launched at once and 13 rounds were completed over the weekend without one midair. 6 year-old Owen Solanov flew his own Radian in every heat and was presented with a special award for the youngest flier.
25 fliers registered for F5J and five rounds were flown over 2.5 days. Two classes were flown; open F5J and under 2.5m wingspan. This has become the premier and most popular electric gliding event.
Limited Electric Glider is waning in popularity but gained 10 entrants; those who still have high-powered gliders to compete in a limited motor run event. It was a quick and hotly contested event.
Foamy Pylon Racing is a blast, racing foam models with pusher motors around two pylons. The event is designed by Bob Hickman to be easy to run. The course is about 120 meters long. 4-minute heats are flown with the requirement "fly fast and turn left". Seven aircraft entered this year's racing and completed every round.
Electric scale is a low key event to encourage the participation of modelers who would never enter a traditional Scale competition. Documentation is not required, though keener participants usually provide some. Half of the total points are awarded during static judging and the other half for flying. ARFs are encouraged, but with extra points allocated for owner-built models and for complexity. Scale is always a colourful event and 2015 was no exception.
Electric Scramble is a seriously "fun" event. The aim is to accumulate as much flying time as possible during a 45-minute working period, doing flights of no more than 2-minutes. Battery changes are permitted. The model must takeoff from the same point for each flight and must land and come to a complete stop before taking off again.
Electric Old Timer is one of the flying codes well represented at the 2015 National Electric Flight Rally in Australia. Nearly a dozen EOT fliers assembled in Canberra to contest a range of events, including Texaco, 1/2A Texaco, Duration, Height-limited EOT and Nostalgia. You can see in the results pages that we had a different winner in each event and 8 of the 11 entrants managed a place in at least one event, an excellent result. The use of an open format, when pilots flew two rounds of a designated event at times of their own choosing within a half hour window, allowed us to complete rounds quickly when rain delayed proceedings. It meant that when individual pilots had model problems the impact on the program was kept to a minimum. Overall it was a fantastic event, enjoyed by all who attended.
There was time during the 2.5 day program for some free flying and demonstration flights.
Bring along any electric model to the NEFR in 2016 and enjoy flying with friends!
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In case you hadn't heard already, Electronic Arts' Origin is more than just a petty attempt to undermine Steam. It's an insidious petty attempt to undermine Steam. The service has upset gamers since it reserves the right to act like Spyware, allowing EA to dig around in your hard drive as explicitly stated in the terms of service.
The EULA says that EA can identify your computer, operating system, installed/uninstalled software/hardware, and use that information for marketing purposes while merrily sharing it with third party companies. It's all fairly disgusting, and there's no opt-out offer. If you don't want EA to know everything about you and pass the information along, your only recourse is to not install Origin -- which will mean you can't play Battlefield 3 on PC at all.
Reddit, known for its anger over everything, is naturally furious over this one, and is organizing the masses to complain. It's certainly a complaint I can get behind. Origin was already an annoying waste of time, but this nasty little parasitism takes it to a whole new level of sleaze. Origin really can slurp the interior of every anus in town.
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John Stebbins Lee (1820-1902) was born in Vernon, Vermont and was educated at Amherst College, graduating in 1841. He became a respected minister in the Universalist church and held teaching positions and pastorates in New Hampshire and Vermont. From 1858 to 1869, Lee taught Latin and Greek at St. Lawrence University, while also serving as the college's first President. After travelling through Europe and the Holy Land, Lee returned to SLU and taught at the Theological School for many years. He died in 1902 in Canton.
John Clarence Lee (1856-1940) attended local schools and entered St. Lawrence in 1872, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1876. He was ordained into the Universalist clergy in 1881 and held pastorates in Perry, NY and St. Albans, VT. From 1896-1899, John Clarence Lee served as the 5th President in the history of St. Lawrence. He died in September 1940 in Cambridge, MA.


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Originally Posted by peeiempee: How can anyone recover from a 200 unit bankroll loss in 2 days??? You can't grow with today's action. You'll need a 1000 unit bankroll. If that's the case then you should go hang wit john morrison
To be fair shouldn't you post the results from March 15 and March 17-29? If you did you'd see those results are +177.45from going 97-46-5 which won at 67.83% .
Here's the summary daily recap for each night based on the sent tickets.March 15, +9.86 units while going 13-4-0March 17, +36.25 units while going 13-7-0March 18, +10.90 units while going 16-4-0 March 19, -41.36 units while going 3-11-0 March 20, +25.67 units while going 6-1-0 March 21, +1.55 units while going 4-2-1 March 22, +10.39 units while going 8-4-2 March 23, +33.82 units while going 10-5-0 March 24, -7.03 units while going 12-4-1 March 25, -4.00 units while going 3-2-0 March 26, +35.60 units while going 2-0-1 March 27, +26.30 units while going 3-1-0 March 28, +41.00 units while going 4-0-0 March 29, -1.50 units while going 0-1-0
Let me add that Friday todaysaction went 5-2-0 picking up 3.20 units. So that now makes them going 102-48-5 and +180.65 units since you "lost 200 units". That's a 68% run. If you think you're going to win every ticket, there's a serious problem. It tells me you were underfunded in both amount of funds and overvalued your unit. Their service plays to win and they're good at it.
Well it looks like its time for Big Keith to chime back in on this post.
This reply is going to be somewhat long and as close to the cusp as I can be via online.
You can take what from it you may and or you can come to your own conclusions as you may.
HERE are a Few facts about Long-term gamblers that most don't know.
1. They all use additional work from many sources, most being either one or the other.
People in the know !!!! What is that defined as !. Players themselves,asst coaches, media personall that know what is happening behind the scenes, wives,girlfriends, hookers, and their team trainers and or doctors, And it some cases actually umpires and or reffs that really are in the know. Less then 1 % will ever have access to this information EVER.
Its not sold on the open market their is no special website to go to. Its all based on personal relationship's that have taken years to build. And you will certainly not see this type of info on a Board such as this and or any other gambling board.
2. Services.
The million dollar question what service to use ? Whom is good and who sucks ?
What defines a service ? However before we go back into this question of the Century !
Lets look at YOU.
Bankroll Bankroll Bankroll Bankroll Bankroll.
In my humble opinion if you don't not have at least 800 units of Bankroll You shouldn't GAMBLE
There isn't 1 Crew or Solo top sports bettor that doesn't have at least this if not more complied over years and years of work. If you are looking for a Month of Winners DON'T GAMBLE
The largest single gambler in the sports world is Not Billy Walters not even Close.
Its the China man known as Q. He has a 25 million dollar bankroll and he plays 50 Grand a game on average. In 2010 he took Pinnacle for around 4.5 million dollars. he has months that he has lost upwards or 700 K or higher. However like the Pro that he is. He knows after season after season the profits come. He plays less then 0.0002 % per wager.
If you are struggling to pay a service such as Today's Action or Black belt cappers Why would you Wager from their selections ?
And then Lose and come on here and COMPLAIN ? WHY
And on top of it don't play the way you really should to make long-term profits ?
Which is ? ALL YEAR AROUND. Not 1 sport. You don't have enough funding and or EXP to do this. You think you do ? YOU DON'T.
I have told everyone from Day 1 if you are going to play with such services as T/A or BB You have to play year to date. Not 1 month Not 3 months and certainly not 1 sport ?
Look at it this way. I am assuming many you have 401 plans from work or an IRA account ?
When your money is debited to go into the fund do they take it every other month or every 3 rd month. NO THEY DON'T.
Its paycheck to paycheck or monthly NON-STOP year after year ?
Sports wagering is the same thing. Year after Year NON-STOP. Get this thru your Fu--ing Heads.
Lets tackle the ordeal with Today's Action this this poster whom by the way has 8 posts and I know for a FACT hasn't been with this above service more then a couple of months.
He claims T/A Lost 200 units in College hoops NOT TRUE. Did they take a hit sure did.
However Lets examine NFL + 103 UNITS Last years MLB + 150 Units NHL was at over a 100 units a couple of weeks ago. Breeders cup with 10 Thousand in winnings ALONE.
NBA is + 60 units/ Today's Action is 4th generation Cappers. Terry alone has been capping for 50 years.
Since the CBB Debacle they have won back close to 100 units in less then 10 days.
How do you judge a services Worth ??? By exactly what Terry and his Boys have done. The took a hit and what do you know ? They came Right Back and within 2 to 3 weeks we will not alone have all monies back we again be Ahead ?
Black belt cappers took a hit in Jan THEY LOST. What have they don't since WIN..................
Again its an ALL YEAR AROUND INVESTMENT.
Don't buy the service if you cannot control your bankroll or YOU are Underfunded.
I Will never lose a Dollar with Today's Action and or Blackbelt EVER.............................
WHY. Because I have the proper bankroll in Check.
Terry won 1000 Units last year....................... And yet some Slap person is crying about dropping some loses because he is UNDERFUNDED and or Full of garbage.
Suggestion " Stay buying John Morrison's crap until you learn how to Wager properly.
Here is a question for everyone ? How much is your Over-leveraged House Worth ????
If anyone has any questions feel free to Email me. By the way I don't work and or am I either one of these services. I play my own picks and use them as additional Selections.
On the days that Terry doesn't release at least 10 picks I am all over him.Most of the time he is Min 15 to 20 tickets a day ? Why because Volume WINS.
30 to 40 selections a day is A Nice day. I don't play 2 picks a day. That is for the guys at the office whom have nothing else to do with their lives. I PLAY TO WIN.
Learn how to Wager before you JUMP IN................................. Sad part is. Both of these services above will be more then happy to help you with that ? JUST ASK.
1st off you are 100 % Full of garbage if you think I am Shill for ANYONE.
I dont need to be. I dont depend on any 1 service to support my wagering. I use them an addtional supplement to my income.
The above services I have been writing about for quite sometime and other posts in regards to proper bankroll. I dont know what they told you or didnt tell you, that isnt my job to be a Fly on the Wall.
It has been stated for years by some of the largest players in the world in regards on what to do with Bankroll.
Bottom line You were UNDERFUNDED. Plain and Simple.
Shame on you for taking on a service that plays High Volume and can skew up and down on a regular basis and yet still maintain high profits at end of year.
Maybe you should learn to Wager before paying for Any Service ?
I have said it a 1000 times. Play all year around and Not 1 Sport and even a Guy like you might make some cash.
This is a lesson for everyone on the board that is viewing this Thread about playing year to date and not for a couple of months and or even weeks.
I was told Terry uses $100 units and to match units for the tickets sent. I've done that but I use $50 for my unit and made a nice amount of money.
I started with todaysaction with a monthly plan a while back, took some time off, rejoined a little later between my job and them I made enough money to pick up thier yearly plan. When I started on the monthly, I was told to have 100 units.
Okay, call me 'green' but if one loses 200 units, how can that not be 200 units? I understand the math you're showing but, to me, if you lose 200 units, it's 200 units (not a percentage).
When I asked Terry and Will about units won and was told, that's how they judge themselves. Check out their win percentages for the various sports they're all at or above 56% which tells me they don't use a higher unit saving type ticket to have profits.
Thanks Saints !!!!
At the end of the day you as a Bettor need to decide what you can afford to play with and whom you cant ? Plain and simple.
This poster has no business in my opinion using Todays Action Period.
You cant afford them and you dont know enough about bankroll. I mean you are on here attempting to find people to split BB service with you ?
With all due respect you really shouldnt be gambling with that type of Thinking. I am sorry.
If anyone wants to play to win LONG-TERM. What is Long term as least 1 year perferable 2 to 3 years YOU need 800 to 1000 units of stash ready to go.
I dont give a garbage what service you use or how you play ? Without the stash you are Dead man Walking.
I had a half dozen emails personally sent to me asking me the same stuff ? how many units can I make or how long have they been winning ?
How much money do you have ? If you are going to play to win over a couple of year period you need at 25 grand and play every selection.
Its that Simple. If you dont have the above either you find another service that is cheaper and or save your money when you are ready to get into the Major"s of Sports wagering.
There isnt anymore to discuss and THAT IS friggin THAT.
Not only that but did 'you' notice that some people only post when a service doesn't do well? The way some act, they expect to win every ticket, every day forever.
Bottom line, know the service you're working with. As for myself, I like return I've gotten from Terry and his sons.


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June 2010
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Create your profile on ngfn.org to make sure your work shows up in the National Good Food Network's database of experts, organizations, and information.
- Briefings bring Capitol Hill good news about mid-scale farms
- Consensus coming to risk-based food safety approach
- USDA digs in on regional food hubs
- Local and regional food systems. What's the difference?
- Food Safety Report
- Good Food Media Digest
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Briefings bring Capitol Hill good news about mid-scale farms
The classic story about farms in economics textbooks is that they are price takers; that is, they must accept what buyers are willing to pay because farmers' products are so generic and their legions so uncoordinated that they have no power to walk away from a bad deal. Under this story line, the disappearance of mid-scale family farms, too small for global markets and too large for direct markets, is an outcome that policy makers have come to expect and accept.
But that story is changing, and not just for the smaller operations that first broke through the "price taker" barrier with unique products, and fitting prices, at farmers markets and the like. This is the good news about mid-scale farms, those at the core of America's agricultural economy, which a group of sustainable agriculture organizations brought to Capitol Hill last week with a full day of briefings for lawmakers and agency staff.
The June 9 "Agriculture of the Middle" briefings featured mid-scale farmers from across the country who explained that they are growing sales and jobs by partnering with distributors and others in the food supply chain to bring new choices to market. These new "values-based food supply chains," or food value chains, are helping producers and related businesses satisfy growing demand for food that comes with more tastes, nutrition, and economic, environmental, and social benefits.
"Yesterday's panel gave four solid examples of new business models that are already playing a role in revitalizing mid-sized family farms, said Ferd Hoefner, Policy Director at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), one of the sponsors of the briefing. "USDA staff and Congressional staff got to hear directly from a group of successful producers about the challenges and opportunities facing the shrinking "agriculture of the middle," and specific ways to shape legislation and implement programs that support, rather than stifle, innovation," he said.
Diana Endicott of Kansas was one of the speakers. She founded Good Natured Family Farms (GNFF), a cooperative alliance of more than 150 family farms in Kansas and Missouri that logged $4 million in wholesale sales last year to 38 supermarket and institutional customers. These sales amounted to $8.5 million in economic activity for the rural communities where the co-op's members are located.
Endicott and others on the panel explained how programs in USDA's Know Your Farmer portfolio, such as Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) grants, have helped them develop their businesses. Another speaker was Karl Kupers, who co-founded Shepherd's Grain, an alliance of 33 family farms in the Pacific Northwest producing and milling wheat for consumers in their region.
Shepherd's Grain this year received a working capital grant from USDA's Value Added Producer Grant Program, another program in the agency's Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food portfolio. Kupers urged full funding for SARE, VAPG, and Farm to School programs because of their role in supporting the growth and development of food value chains and the more regional food systems where they often operate.
These programs, he said, "can play a large role in revitalizing our national economy and the rural fabric of our society, a fabric made up of not only economics but the equally important cultural/community aspect of our nation's identity."
The presence of a larger scale grain producer like Kupers was a surprise to some at the briefings who might expect that Know Your Farmer benefits are limited to smaller operations, said Hoefner.
"These farms look just like their (mainstream, mid-scale) neighbors, but they are not in the commodity market like their neighbors," he said. "They are not taking prices but setting prices based on their unique products; there is a big difference between being a price taker and a price maker."
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Consensus coming to risk-based food safety approach
They do not agree on the details, but four agriculture and consumer group leaders interviewed by the National Good Food Network about pending food safety legislation do say that the regulatory burden, and the regulatory effort, should be lower where risk for outbreaks of food borne illnesses is lower.
A new report from the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences says much the same. In a June 8 news release, the IOM and NAS spelled out their thinking on how to make the best use of time and money.
"To more proactively target potential food safety problems, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should implement a risk-based approach in which data and expertise are marshaled to pinpoint where along the food production, distribution, and handling chains there is the greatest potential for contamination and other problems."
Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to examine FDA's food safety system and suggest improvements. The report concludes that the FDA should stop reacting on a case-by-case basis and start targeting its resources in a systematic way.
A sticking point among consumer, agriculture, and retail groups involved in negotiations is whether and how different types of operations or market outlets are more or less risky. Learn more about these discussions from the NGFN's Food Safety Talks series and from the NGFN Food Safety working group. This group covers the legislative process as well as industry steps toward certification systems, such as group approaches, that reduce cost and compliance burdens for small and mid-scale operations.
Kicking off the NGFN Food Safety Talks series, Brian Snyder of the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture, calls for new food safety regulations to recognize and reward the risk reduction inherent in his world of highly diversified farms. He compares it to the larger industry's more centralized flow of commingled commodities.
"We contend that massive aggregation of food actually creates more food safety problems than it solves. Our assumption is the more diversification -- on a single farm, in a region, or in a marketplace -- the better."
Tony Corbo of Food & Water Watch says the consumer advocacy group supports the "identity preserved products" idea that Snyder and others present, for regulators to require less paperwork from operations that keep a producer's identity with products that travel direct from farm to market. But Food & Water Watch questions how simple identity verification can be and wants more facilities to be registered and inspected no matter who they are and what they do.
Currently, Corbo says, "FDA inspects food facilities under its jurisdiction maybe every five to 10 years, compared to USDA daily inspection of meat processing plants and on-site inspection at slaughter."
Robert Guenther of the United Fresh Produce Association, which represents a broad range of growers in the commodity produce industry, says regulations should be scale appropriate and focused on items that are known to pose higher risk, such as lettuce compared to whole cantaloupe. Traceability requirements should be mandatory for those higher risk items no matter where they come from, he said.
"On packaging many of our members and farmers have their family names on their fresh produce commodities. The ability to maintain a so-called "identity preserved" food is not a new concept no matter what size your production level and is well established in fresh produce."
The Association supports less oversight for the most verifiably direct and local sales but does not see the need to make further room for operations that are more diverse in production and marketing than those in commodity markets.
Ferd Hoefner of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition is the final interview in the series. His group has helped negotiate some pending amendments to the Senate bill that would require further analysis of risk, including how different types of production, processing, and marketing affect it.
The Coalition's concern for making sure FDA follows through on risk analysis and risk targeting includes the challenge of making the best use of limited funds and the relative costs and benefits to different parts of the produce industry.
"The FDA's budget has been going up pretty steadily the past three to four years, but it's nowhere near the $2 billion jump the agency is projected to need for this." Unless FDA targets its resources to highest risk, he says, the public could get the idea, from publicity over passage of the bill, that food safety problems are solved when, in fact, enforcement is still spotty and potentially harmful to some of the less risky operations.
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USDA digs in on regional food hubs
USDA officials say the primary purpose of their Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative is to organize the agency's resources so they best fit and support on-the-ground needs and opportunities in emerging local and regional food markets.
It's not surprising then that the initiative now has a tactical team dedicated to figuring out how to help food and farm businesses bridge huge gaps in regional distribution, smaller scale processing, and aggregation of farmers' products.
"We're constantly hearing about the lack of these types of services," said James Barham of USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service who heads up the tactical team. He said the team is at the beginning of a yearlong process in which it will reach out across the country to take stock of all the different approaches already in place, or in development, and learn what works and what doesn't.
USDA is using a wide-angle lens in this research, as explained in this recent presentation. Its inventory will cover examples ranging from "virtual" online foods hubs and traditional wholesale/retail locations to different approaches that producer groups and nonprofits have taken to provide aggregation, distribution, and processing, and related services.
The team will produce a resource guide from that practical research to both support people trying to build this needed regional market infrastructure and tailor USDA funding accordingly.
"USDA has various grant and loan programs that could possibly support regional food hubs, and might already be supporting them," Barham said. "We want to see which programs fit this purpose and where the gaps are."
One example is the USDA Rural Development Community Facilities grant program, which offers key financing of physical assets, like buildings and equipment. But this program is currently limited to very rural communities, he said. Yet some of the biggest opportunities are for rural producers to supply urban consumers, which can mean those physical assets have to be located in cities.
The regional food hub tactical team will also be working on defining what it means by the term. It's starting with a working definition in which a regional food hub is "a centrally located facility with a business management structure facilitating the aggregation, storage, processing, distribution, and/or marketing of locally/regionally produced food products."
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Local and regional food systems. What's the difference?
As activity and interest in local and regional food system grows, so too does the amount of attention to what each means and how they are evolving.
Two recent publications dive into the topic and provide helpful data and observations.
One is a new report from the USDA Economic Research Service called Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues. Another is the recent issue of the Choices journal, from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
Along with several articles on the local food theme, Choices features a take on the broader regional dimension of food system development, called Is Local Enough? Some Arguments in Favor of Regional Food Systems. In a recent National Good Food Network webinar available here, authors Kate Clancy and Kathy Ruhf also discussed their regional food system ideas along with recent developments in the Northeast.
Clancy and Ruhf explain that regional includes "local" but is "larger geographically and in terms of functions—volume/supply, food needs, variety, supply chains, markets, land use, and policy."
A regional food system, they write, "includes multiple "locals" within a state, and those that cross state boundaries. Regional food systems operate in relation to other regions as well as to the national and global food systems." The paper covers four framing dimensions to regional food system work: food supply, natural resource sustainability, economic development, and diversity.
The Economic Research Service report pulls together much of the known universe of information about the growth of interest in local foods and market responses to it. Much of the report focuses on direct marketing as a proxy for "local," which is difficult to define. It does broach the growing business of regional food markets in the section on "Barriers to Market Entry and Expansion."
As noted in a review of the report by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, "the report highlights farmer capacity for marketing activities and quality assurance, supply chain infrastructure like storage facilities or processing plants, recordkeeping, and regulatory uncertainties as some of the major barriers to increasing supply to match market demand."
The ERS report calls for more research on the economic and other effects of growth in local food markets, something which the Choices discussion on regional food systems by Clancy and Ruhf helps frame.
NGFN Exclusive
The April 15, 2010 NGFN webinar featured Kate Clancy and Kathy Ruhf discussing their Choices paper, among other topics. View the recording just below. We also have the slides from this presentation available.
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Food Safety Report
Two invitations to comment on produce safety
The GAP Harmonization initiative led by the United Fresh Produce Association has reached an important milestone. We have developed a draft standard after 6 months of hard work. I have found the process to be welcoming of the interests of producers of all scales, including small- and mid-sized producers. Continuing in this spirit of inclusiveness, United Fresh has created a blog so that anyone may comment on the draft. I strongly encourage you to comment: the draft needs the practical critique of the farmers, aggregators, and anyone who would eventually use the standard to meet buyer requirements in the retail and wholesale supply chain. For more information on this opportunity, read my article "GAP Harmonization: An Invitation to the Table," and read the memo from United Fresh.
The Food and Drug Administration has extended the comment period for its produce handling guideline to July 23. Michelle Smith, the FDA GAP project leader specifically suggested that this opportunity can give aggregators a chance to state whether they have a particular view regarding on-farm food safety and how responsibility for food safety can and should be handled by aggregators. If any network members would like help developing a position, let us know (email@example.com). To submit your comments directly, visit this regulations.gov page.
USDA GAP research and pilot project
USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is moving forward on some comparative training and auditing of individual farms and groups of farms during the current growing season. The Wallace Center and the National Good Food Network are working to help USDA Audit Program Coordinator Ken Petersen identify potential groups, both emergent and existing, for participation in this pilot research project. Funds are limited and the time frame is swift. The framework involves comparing the time and monetary costs of three different GAP certification protocols: a "standard" one farm/one audit approach, a group certification approach, and a combined organic and food safety audit.
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Good Food Media Digest
More Support for Child Nutrition Bill
A new bill has been introduced in the House that requests $ 8 million over 10 years to aid existing nutrition programs geared towards children. This bill is similar to the Senate version that is inclusive of a $4.5 billion over 10 years increase in funding, that is currently pending.
Fair Trade, right at home
Farmer Direct Co-operative Ltd. is the first co-op to receive the
Domestic Fair Trade Certification. "People usually associate fair trade
with coffee, sugar, bananas and other crops from the global south, but
fair wages to farm workers and fair prices to farmers are just as much a
concern in industrialized nations like Canada and the United States."
Farmer of the Year Nominations
The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service is currently receiving nominations for 2011 Organic Farmer of the Year. This award is "given to an organic farmers practicing outstanding land stewardship, innovation and outreach."
Traceability? There's an app for that!
Dole Food Company, Inc. has developed an iPhone application which allows consumers to "find where its organic fruit (bananas and/or pineapples) is coming from,
as well as the satellite image of the farm, right on their phone, only
by entering the 3 digits DPC shown on the fruit´s sticker or tag."
Local supermarket, warehouse club store and farmer's market all under one roof
A new values-focused grocery store, SmartCo Foods, will open its first store on June 23. The store is offering a blend of nationally and regionally produced and made foods, bulk bins, paper products and is committed to giving back to the communities it serves.
Would you like a panini with that tank of gas?
As a way to keep up with the small profit margin on gas, service
stations in Los Angeles are diversifying their selection of foods and
expanding into prepared foods such as "croissants, paninis, salads and
breakfast burritos." Could this concept be expanded to help alleviate
food deserts?
Largest chicken processor is going local
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation has launched a line of locally grown and
processed chicken products that will bear the "Fresh from Florida"
branding from the Florida Department of Agriculture.
"Just say no!" to Endosulfan, says EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to stop the use of
the insecticide Endosulfan within the US. This chemical that is "used
on vegetables, fruits and cotton, can pose unacceptable neurological and
reproductive risks to farmworkers and wildlife and can persist in the
Diet for manufacturers
Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF), a collaboration of large
food processing and manufacturing companies, has recently pledged to
"reduce annual calories by 1.5 trillion by the end of 2015." This
pledge has support from First Lady Michelle Obama and the Partnership
for a Healthier America.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/partnering-fight-childhood-obesity and http://www.healthyweightcommit.org/
Confronting America's Obesity Epidemic
A new report from the Center for American Progress examines how the
new Health Care Reform's Law "will help prevent and reduce obesity."
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