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We feel that not only has Sweet Pea hijacked this blog with his "supposed" health issues, he has also hijacked our mom's heart and attention for well over a month now. Even worse, Sweet Pea pre-empted our Halloween by posting a scary cat skeleton xray of himself yesterday!
Apu: Dear Mother, have you even noticed that I'm losing my beautiful black furs again because I'm getting all nervous with Sweet Pea sneak attacking me and you don't say anything!! Now, Apu you know that's not true. I do say something when I see it. I can't police you cats every minute that I'm home you know. I keep telling you if you wouldn't act so scared and run away, he would stop chasing you.
Woody: Dear Mommy, every morning when you sits on the couch listening to your classical music to wake up, Sweet Pea jumps in your lap and kneads and sucks on your fluffy robe. You pet him and I hear you talk sweet things to him. I can't count how many times (really, I don't know how to count) when I try to do the same thing, you push me off and say "not now Woody". So, I just lie down next to you hoping you will notice me and give me a pat or two. Oh Woody, I know. I feel bad, but Sweet Pea really has taken up so much of my time worrying that I have neglected you. I promise to do better and to have some private lap time just with you!
Oliver: Dear Lady who feeds me, I really just want to say...keep feeding me. Oh, and....
I know, I know, this is last year's photo. I've never been able to get another photo of all the three halloween cats together since then. Have a spooktacular Halloween everyone!!!


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EAST HILLS, NY -- After a six-month investigation, a Nassau County (NY) district attorney alleges that a 22-year-old former receptionist at the Sid Jacobsen Jewish Community Center in East Hills, NY, stole the credit card information of 18 JCC members and racked up more than $15,000 in bills from high-end department stores over the course of three months. If convicted, Elizabeth Young faces a maximum of seven years in prison.
In late August, a grand jury returned a 20-count indictment of Young. The charges claim that between Sept. 15 and Nov. 30, 2006, Young stole the name, credit card number and other personal information from the charge slips of JCC members and others using the facilities who made payments for memberships and classes at the JCC.
Young then used that information for herself or sold it to acquaintances, according to the Nassau County district attorney's office. Young and others allegedly used the identity and credit card information to order high-priced items from Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue, racking up charges between $15,000 and $20,000 in less than three months.
"When the JCC members received their monthly statements, they saw the charges sandwiched in between legitimate charges they recognized," a statement on the district attorney's Web site reads. "All of the charges were eventually reversed, and the losses were incurred by Neiman Marcus (which owns Bergdorf Goodman) and Saks."
Susan Bender, executive director of the Sid Jacobsen JCC, told Newsday that Young passed a background check before she was hired as an evening receptionist.
Last December, Young was arrested and charged with five counts of larceny, identity theft and scheming to defraud.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice told all JCC members to check their credit card statements and report any discrepancies.
A second defendant, who purchased three stolen credit card numbers from Young and used them to make purchases, also was arrested last December. In April, Brigitte Thompson pleaded guilty to identity theft and scheme to defraud.
Young was charged with third-degree grand larceny, two counts of first-degree scheme to defraud, three counts of first-degree identity theft, five counts of second-degree identity theft, eight counts of first-degree falsifying business records and third-degree unlawful possession of personal identification information.

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Inside the Dodgers Tour
The long-awaited tour is coming up at the end of the month (June 27)…and at your request, we'll also arrange for a group section of tickets for those who want to go to the game that night, too.
Plus, we have some great news to share. I spoke with Frank McCourt about your idea of bringing out OldBrooklynFan and he immediately agreed that we have to do it. So, OldBrooklynFan, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll work out the details. The Dodger organization is thrilled to have you out here!
For the rest of you, here's what you need to do:
If you're interested in the group tour at 11:30, please email Dustin at firstname.lastname@example.com and he'll take credit card info, etc. to get you set up.
If you want to attend the game that night against the Mariners, please contact Kris at firstname.lastname@example.com or 323.224.1308.
Hope you can all make it out…
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WOW! Thank you Josh! Thank you Mr. McCourt!! This is going to be so cool. i am so proud to be a Dodger fan!
Greetings from New Hampshire! I got here Sunday and my luggage was not delivered so I am at work here wearing jeans and sneakers. I had to buy a few things to get me by.
looking forward to meeting you all there! I hope you can make it Brooklyin fan. Even if I already have season ticket, I want to sit with all of you so when I get a chance here, I'll email you.
red mark. i'll email about the tour and the ticket when I get a chance. i've taken quite a few tours but I want to take it with all of you. i get a tour for two with my season tickets but I give them aways to out of town friends.
The ITD get together day is a day before my bday! I am so looking forward to meeting you all.
I am soooo excited about the tour. I will be ordering my tickets soon.
JOSH thanks so much for everything and specially thanks that OLDBROOKLYN will get his chance to fly down and take a tour. I just hope he can make it! I guess we THANK Frank aswell.
EMMA I was there for yesterdays game. Kids did not get to try the kids corral thing since they had to be with their Little League Team. But of course I went to check it out. The Phillies were out praticing and we were by center field. A fly ball comes our way and some guy jumps to try a catch it but knocks the temporary railing thats put up. Well he tramples over one of the little sister of one of our team mate. Not a Phillies fan, but the Phillie Player (sorry I did not know who he was) he was really nice and walked up to the Little girl and handed her a ball. Little girl is only 3 and will not remember but her parents will. I was mad that the adult men were the ones pushing all the kids up front. Come on let the kids enjoy their moment. Dissappointed that we lost that game. My seats were terrible, all the way on top FACING THE SUN. Sucked, couldn't really enjoy the game.
Thank-you, Josh. The head of our group will be taking care of securing the tickets for both the tour and the game. And, a special thank-you to the Dodgers Organization for making it possible for Oldbrooklynfan to be with us!
Good morning ITD, Dodgerfaithful,
Thanks for all the work Josh, and thank you to the McCourts and the Dodgers for helping OldBrooklinFan attend this event.
dodger4life, crzblue and msrussyethier ~ I'M SO EXCITED!!!!
I'm just like a kid going to Disneyland!
I can not wait. Even my husband is excited. We always talk about a tour but always put it off, since it is local for us. But this is going to finally happen! WOOOOHOOOO!
sorry we lost the game. I was at the hotel watching the game and wishing I was there. The kid's corral is the one by the Dodger dugout. Not sure what they call the one by centerfield. That is so cool the little girl got the baseball. that fence is always coming down. I know the guys there could be so agressive going after a ball. I went there the first time it was open and then I just go to the kid's corral but I only stay very briefly to give other kids a chance.
Hey between the tour and the game we have some time. Maybe we can go have lunch somewhere close by…Chinatown, Phillipe's or ?
Josh-Very cool. The tour, arranged seating, and bringing out the old fan. I'm sure that everyone that makes it will be sure to show much appreciation. Thank you very much and could you please thank your boss on my behalf. Very cool.
Good morning ITD boys and girls!!!
OMG!!! Wow!!! OldBrooklynFan/JoePierre will be with us!!! THANK YOU FRANK!!! JoePierre is such a critical ITDer, that I cannot imagine our tour without him!!! Kudos to you Frank!!! I'll e-mail about the tour!!! For those who care (and even if you don't), my husband and I already have tickets for that evening: Infield Reserved, Aisle 1, Row M!!! I am soooo excited about this!!! I can't wait to meet my fellow ITDers!!!
EMMA: OOOh so I must of been in the Wild Kids Corral…LOL. Next time I'll make sure and go to the right one. Well I'll make sure my kids are with me. Love your idea about all of us eating together…my suggestion: Eat at the Dodgers Cafeteria and try out the Dodgers Chef cuisine….who is with me…I know I know I am asking for tooo much. I am just happy OLDBROOKLYN might come down. Where is he? I might not even make it to the game after…BOOOOHOOOO…I have a party at night. But I'm hoping my husband decides to ditch that party for a better one at Dodgers Stadium.
Hey Rose!!! Don't even think of not coming!!! 🙂
I am going to the tour…..that I am not skipping…but the game I might have to skip. But I am praying hard that my husband decides to ditch his aunt's retirement party so that we can be at the game.
Okay Rose, that's better. It'll be even better if you can come to the game that night!!! 🙂
CPO I will work on that! Donw't want to miss it. I can't wait……GOOOO DODGERS! Gotta get my camera ready.
Oh, and Emma, if you're still around, I just noticed on your earlier post that the tour is the day before your birthday!!! Well, it's three days after mine!!!
Oh yeah Rose, my camera will be ready too!!!
How exciting! a DODGER stadium tour! =) I'm taking my nephew, he is so excited that he said if he has a game that day (he plays for Torrance Babe Ruth League) he would rather miss that than the tour!
So we must get the Chef to bake a birthday cake for both of YOU…EMMA & CPO!
JEANNETTE can't wait to meet you. This is Dodgersrule1655 but I went for a name change for the new season! Your nephew knows what's best. I'll be taking my husband and two kids.
Carol! Cool! Your birthday too! Last month I got a graduation cake for my friend Lore. She got her masters and I embarrassed her by putting a balloon on her seat and sharing a cake from Portos with the fans and workers around. I can take a cake but I don't know how many of us will be there. Maybe I'll just take cookies…we'll see.
Hey Josh, I think I can speak for all of us on ITD and give you and Frank and Jamie a profound and heart felt THANK YOU for bringing Oldbrooklynfan out for the tour. Out of all of us regulars, I can think of no one that's anymore of an optimistic and diehard fan of our beloved Dodgers.
WELL DONE and again, THANK YOU FROM ALL OF US!!!
OOOOHH PORTO'S IS GOOOOOOD! Fruit cakes & lil' cute pastries….mmmmm mmmmm! Thanks EMMA!
And Josh, no worries – bear and I won't be there!!!!
WHAT…Enchanted! You are a "Must Attend" person!
Hey Rose…yeah he knows what's best! he better..he learned from me!! lol I took him to Thursday's game and he was all like "Jeanette…when I play here i'll get you some seats right behind home plate alright?" lol Before the game I was like "you sure you wanna go, there's a laker game?" he was like "its baseball..i live for this!" lol he's more like the little brother I never had, he's 13, i'm 23 and he's taller lol
can't wait to meet you too!! =)
I'm with you, msrussyethier. We need Enchanted there!!!
JEANNETTE…kids! Love them. We went to yesterday's game. The Little League had their parade there yesterday and my son was all excited thinking he was going to play with the Dodgers. He says he will play with them when he gets "BIG". He is only 4, so the promises to buy stuff has not started yet.
Just can't. Have to go down to Houston about a week or so after the tour and can't do both.
Besides that I gave my word to Josh that if they got Brooklyn out there I'd stay in NM 🙂
Maybe we should all tattoo our screen names on our foreheads. I won't know anyone by their real name. enchanted and messagebear, wish you were coming!
yeah he's too young to start promising, my nephew has promised to buy a large house for the WHOLE family to live in, I was like "can I get my own??" lol And since my "dream" is to work for a baseball team in the community relations or media relations dept. he's like "imagine if you work for the same team I play with??" hey Rose do you have a facebook or myspace so I can add ya?? =)
I'll just ask dodgereric say something controversial and rude and it'll almost be like I'm there. LMAO 🙂
Well E I hope you change your mind. Well I'm sure JP was looking forward to meeting ya!
KAHLI – we probably have to wear those HELLO MY NAME IS labels.
I'll be going by Rosie or Rose..
msrussyethier ~ That's funny. And, to bad Manny won't be back in time to greet Messagebear! lol
Enchanted ~ I'm sure that can be arranged with Dodgereric! lol
A. Pujols hit sacrifice fly to deep left, S. Schumaker and C. Rasmus scored
Did anyone see the replay of the Rockies and Cards game yesterday?
When did we trade Pierre back to the Rockies???
TRU – Oh well…no Manny. I wonder if his locker is still set up? Can he just be there for that day?
I just read the blog on yahoo.
I know enchanted make you think does it.
Thanks, kahli for expressing the idea that you'll miss me from the tour. While I'm only up in Washington state instead of across the country, I am in my post retirement period and really can't swing the cost of that kind of trip. Love baseball and the Dodgers greatly, but we have to observe some other priorities. Look forward to all your chats and description of what went on.
Hope you all have a great deal of fun. Enchanted and I will keep some of the negative coals smoldering in the background.
I'm just so excited for Joe Pierre. That is just way too cool. Guess I'll stop bagging on management.
At least until after the 27th…
It wasn't even Hawpe in LF it was Gonzales that was part of the Holliday trade to Oakland.
Can the Tracy lowly Rockies do it and sweep the Cardinals?
Enchanted ~ 🙂 and, at least we know they do read what we have to say.
Messagebear & E hopefully there are others oppurtinies to were ITD get get together and you two can meet with the crew! The tour will be missing the special touch you people bring to this blog.
msrussyethier ~ I think we are going to try to make the ITD Tour an annual event. When we are there, we can talk to those in charge about the idea. That way, if a date is put on the Dodgers schedule, people will have more time to plan for the tour.
Russy – my "special touch" is like sculpting with a sledgehammer.
Tru – that must mean the Ned's got some of my songs hanging up in his office for sure!!!
I'll bet he does, Enchanted! He may even have Dodgereric's entire book of lyrics! Wouldn't that be a riot?!
I am guessing tru is referring to me on the tickets. I have to wait and here from Ward Dear and see what he thinks we should do about game tickets. Even though Wally and Beav aren't going (just heartbreaking), our real kids are going, and I am assuming they will want to sit together.
messagebear – it would have been to have you there as well.
TRU – That is a great idea. That way those that missed it can get another chance.
ENCHANTED – Your special touch, the "I HATE JP" touch, but we all know deep down you love him. Deep deep down you know Dodgers are not the same without JP…LOL!
Josh – That is just a wonderful thing you are doing for OldBrooklynfan – just fabulous!!!!!
Now I don't hate JP russy – without him on the team, I would have no inspiration for song! I've actually been praising JP here and there lately – ask Nells.
NED probably has a KARAOKE machine and he sings along with DODGER'S LYRICS….
He has been Rose, and it is just scary at times too.
Wow!!!!! This is finally coming to fruition!!!! I can't believe it!!!
Josh Rawitch and Frank McCourt- Thank you both for making this a reality, and especially for the absolutely CLASSY step of getting oldbrooklynfan out here!!! We are all very excited, and appreciate this great event!!
Enchanted has been so kind to JP it was like an out-of-body experience!
Maybe it was an out-of-mind experience!
ENCHANTED – I know you don't really hate JP and it is all a front. It makes it fun. But if you really did hate JP you wouldn't spend your time writing about him.
TRU – Hasn't E been out-of-his mind the whole time, even before the whole we-love-jp-phase!
LMAO, Msrussyethier!
If you remember he was the very first one to go off into the deepend and the rest of us have followed since then. He is trying to resurface now and go to the shallow end, but there is no going back to the shallow end once you've been in the deepend.
LOL, NellyJune!
The Rox just swept the Cards………….How about that?!?
NELLY – There is hope for Enchanted…thanks to the Dodgers new seating section. He should continue to resurface to the shallow end and eventually he will end up in the DODGERS BEACH BLEACHER section.
I want to echo the thanks from everyone else around here for the Tour, the game, and last but certainly not least, the offer to bring joepierre out here. It really is a wonderful gesture. I'm impressed. I can't wait to hear his response. But regardless, tell Frank that he's ALMOST got me turned to his side of things. 🙂 Hell, I've already stopped slamming Ned. Now, if Torre would just take Russ out of the middle of the lineup, people around here will start accusing me of drinking the Kool-Aid!
Junie, if you think I'm going to come all the way to Dodger Stadium on a game day and NOT take in the game, you don't know me as well as I think you do. (I just have to check with the missus to see if it's ok)
And the answer to the question on the last post is "D".
See Rose,……………this is the real enchanted 🙂
There is one record that isn't on there… Juan Pierre's record of 5 consecutive years of at least 450 slappy outs. LMAO!!
By enchantedsunset on June 8, 2009 10:11 AM
Enchanted in the bleacher beach section= a story about being stalked by a lifegaurd. LOL!!!!!
*lifeguard, Im a little off today….
Damn Bear, its gonna be loney around here the 27th with just you, I and jhall (all without parental supervision I might add.)
What are the odds any of us could possibly get into trouble?
Ward Dear – I know you are going. That wasn't the question on whether you were going or not. The question was do we need to make sure our "own" children are sitting next to each other – LOL!!!!!
Opps, forgot the "L" – so used to spelling Loney I forgot!!!
OH yeah NELLY I forgot about the LIFEGUARD…damn no wonder he won't resurface, he is waiting for the LIFEGUARD to rescue him!
DodgerEric I loved that last post with the Trivia by the way..:-)
It's okay enchanted I seriously have the same issue with "either" and "ethier"…………..sometimes on purpose, but most of the time not. Enchanted, Jhall and Messagebear with no supervision. That is a very scary thought indeed.
NELLY you might need a sitter for them!
You guys, be warned. Junie'll have her phone and she'll be checking up on you while we're gone! No wild parties! I'm marking all the booze bottles!
Well, enchanted – at least three minds relatively of a kind will be at work away from the ITD get-together. For my own part, I'm trying to develop a reverse 12 step method to become a Manniac, since the date when he returns is getting closer. Unless your prediction of a possible 100 game suspension comes about, I'll have to deal with the fact that you know who will be back in Dodger blue. In a game situation how do you not root for a Dodger? There's probably a song in there somewhere, but I'm not a song guy. Maybe you can help.
I think we can rest assured that on the 27th, no moons will arise.
Enchanted, Jhall and Messagebear you people will be on check. So behave. Well gotta go now. Boss is sending me on a mission. Everyone have a wonderful day.
I was so looking forward to meeting Enchanted in his thong and high-heels!
Just by admitting you have a problem Bear, you've taken the first step… LMAO.
How about a little Paul Simon – 50 Ways To Love Your Manny?
Just hop on the bus Russ,
Cuz your hitting disgusts us,
Cuz Manny's the key see,
T' settin' Messagebear free…
"Love Is A Manny Splendid Thing"
"Love Is A Manny Splendid Thing"
Sorry, I did only hit the button once.
After our recent tour of Bristol's favorite NL East, we've come out 10-5, including sweeping the Mets and going 4-3 against the Worlds Champions. And we still are #1 on Bristol's Power Ranks, with #2 being Joe Torre's old ballclub.
Sitting pretty right now, but not getting too comfortable until the end.
And thanks to Josh and Mr. McCourt for doing the right thing.
Hey Josh – Nice publicity shot for you on ITD Day – Joe Torre on one side, Juan Pierre on the other, and Joe Pierre (oldbrooklynfan) in between.
That would be cool….woudn't it enchanted? THAT is a very good idea.
Agreed enchanted! And a video of all of us singing the Loney song? 🙂
Gotta get Don Newcombe in that pic too. OldBrooklynFan is one lucky fella to have the Dodgers owned by the McCourts instead of Fox.
I am looking forward to the tour with this wild and crazy group.
Maybe you can choreograph a few moves to go with the song Peru!!
Hope you all have a great time!!!
32and52 ~ should be lots of fun.
I don't know what kind of arrangements there will be for those of us who want to see the game later. Can we hang out at the Stadium Club until game time? If we have to leave the stadium after the tour, can we leave some cars there and carpool down to Phillippe's for some French dip sandwiches and brewskis and wait for the gates to open back up?
I'm just trying to get desensitized of the idea of Manny coming back soon by playing that old Al Jolson favorite "Give me my Mammy".
I got back from work and dinner and I was told my luggage had been placed in my room! Ahhh, is so good to be reunited with my luggage.
So I see we have not heard from Pierre. Maybe I'll go looking for him at other blogs like Tommy's blog.
When I get back to L.A. I will send you the picures I took of you and your wife.
Messagebear ~ between now and July 3rd, I'm sure you will be bombarded with Manny songs! LMAO!!!
Josh, thanks so much for putting this all together.
Oldbrooklynfan/joepierre, I'm so glad you are going to be able to come out for the tour. That's great news):
The dodgers gained a half game tonight because the Marlins beat the Giants 4 – 0!
Look like another long extra innings game between Pirates/Braves.
Shad ~ are you going on the ITD Tour?
Pretty quiet here tonight Tru.
Dodgers had played four more games than Gnats…hence, only 6-game lead in the loss column. Nice to have one of those games played…and with a result in that wonderful loss column!
Good Evening ITD readers and writers!!!! Going back to the last thread, and the answer "D". So, at one point the players agreed not to be paid. How did it go from that to what it is today……………….pretty amazing, isn't it? That players were willing to play for free back 1858 and now , in today's times, some won't play for a few million less than what they asked for.
Geez I can't believe yahoo made this mistake and this is why the Angels needs to get rid of the LA by there name. Yahoo has it on the wrong team lol. You guy need to check this out and I didn't think we had Adenhart on our team.
We should be stronger now Kahli with Kuroda back. He's almost like a mid-season pick up. Even with no offense these last 10 games we're still playing .500 ball.
I don't worry about he Gnats – they're playing about as well as they can and are still going to be what they are – a .500 team. Last I looked, they were still one of, if not the worst in league OBP.
Like him or hate him, this team will only get stronger with Manny back as well.
Sorry Tru but I'm not really sure what I have plan on that day but it's still a long way away
Evening Nells! I'm as excited for the tour for you guys as if I was going.
Kudo's to you Josh, Frank, and the Dodgers!!! Classy move all the way around. I too am excited and happy for all of you attending. It is wonderful that the Dodgers are going to get Brooklyn there if he can make it. I applaud them. As for the ITD board, Wally, and Beaver, and Bear, Oh My!!! Throw in a flying monkey or two and we're off to see the wizard!!! LOL!!!!
Shad, you've got to be there!!! Make it so!!!
jhall is in the ITD House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wally, Beav and Bear…………….Oh my!!!!!!!
BonJoir Nelle' mon amie!!!!! LOL!!!!
Beav, you take care of the booze, I'll get the strippers, and Bear can bring the food. PARTYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
No Beav, you can't be one of the strippers!! LOL!!!!
Sorry buddy!!!!! LOL!!!
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you really want that jhall? I seem to remember enchanted is a guy, or did we ever really figure that one out? There was some confusion at one point. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, thought I was on the Giants blog…
Good food, lots of booze, and naked women, darn, sounds like more fun than a Dodger tour!!! LOL!!! Sorry, going back to my primal instincts!!!! LMTO!!!!! Baseball is reverent, but those things are basal instincts!!!!
I guess that means the assless chaps are out.
I don't think I could handle Beavette!!!! Sensory overload!!!!
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess that would be so enchanted 🙂
Sorry. No one handles the Beavette.
…Unless you buy it a couple drinks and cab fare home.
LMFTO Beav!!! Yep buddy, leave those to the Village People!!! I would venture to guess that Phan seceretly is the gay cop of that group!!!! LOL!!!!!
Right about now Josh is thinking, "I'm really glad that Wally and Beav guy aren't coming."
Trumom might bail on you all to catch Beav in a**less chaps!!! LOL!!!!
……..and at the same time thinking what are we going to do about Ward and June Darlin'?
LOL!!! They really aren't ready for us my brother!!!
They may not be ready for Wally and Beav but Ward and Junie are 😦
I hope Dad gets to meet Ned!!! It'll be like Ward dealing with Lumpy's dad!!! LOL!!!
Tell you what guys, since I can't be there, if you get to meet Ned and JP maybe you could get them to each autograph a song I wrote about them and send them to me sometime – that would make my millennium.
Oh you and Dad wouldn't want a couple of goofs like us tagging along. Wally and I'd probably sneak off in search of the girl's locker room or somethin'.
Ward Dear – that's your job!!! LOL!!! (jk) That would be very cool enchanted.
CP actually got Andre to sign the song she did for him. Now, the difference being, her song was a nice song about Andre.
Beav and I might be too much, but Bear really would give'em hell'!!!!!
Darn straight Beav!!!
Hey Ned has a good sense of humor – he signed Tomko once didn't he?!!
Nelly, I've got a couple of good Andre songs on the Lyrics. Get one autographed. Maybe the one about you. Just a thought!!!
Ouch Beav!! LOL!!
I think Frank has more sense of humor as Ned is still employed!!!! Double ouch!!!!
No Beav, the pole is not for YOU to dance on!!!!! LOL!!!
I think Ned, JP and Frank would all be waiting in a dark corner of the stadium for me to pass by…
I think you could take them all Beav!!!
You do to, evidently!!! :)))
Gotta figure Wally that whoever Ned hired to help would already be hurt. JP never hits anything very hard, and Frank wouldn't be able to to anything without a camera nearby.
LOL Beav!! So true!!!
"to do" not "to to".
Evidently the two Tylenol PMs and two shots of tequila are starting to to their job.
What happened to Mom? Sure hope she wan't sore enough to tell Dad about he assless chaps.
Oh yeah, Josh is happy I'm not coming…
Go get'em gang!! Gonna hit the old rack. You all have fun, and we'll hold the fort!!!! Excelsior True Blue Believers!!!
Night Wally!!!
Guess I'd better hit it too. Catch everyone tomorrow!!
Good Night Boys!!!! See you tomorrow sometime I am sure 🙂
I just see Cox won his 2,000 win in a Braves uniform. Congratulation to Cox.
ITD is everyone voting for your dodgers?!?!?!?!?!?!
u dont have to make 20 emails to vote multiple times!
ALL U NEED IS 2 TWO… email accounts and just alternate when voting….the last email should reset the first one used!
PLEASE VOTE! its preety pathetic seeing garbage jimmy rollins leading for SS!
once again all u need is TWWWWOOOOO email accounts and just alternate..
the email doesnt work if u try to use it twice in a row but if u alternate it should refresh the one u used first!
i dont come to this site as often but i know the regulars like…
please i know u guys spend a lot of time on this blog but at the same time i know u guys are not voting as much as u should. i have like 10 email accounts and ive already voted 5 or more times on each of em and i have collected at least 7000 ballots! at this point we can only hope for hudson, martin, and ramirez! broxton n bills will be locke din for pitching!
WOW! I have been so busy this is the first chance I had to check in. Thanks Josh and the Dodger organization for this great opportunity! I can't wait!! And what fun to do it with the best Dodger fans on the planet!!!!
Good Morning ITDland ~ Things were slow around here last night around 9:00 pm, so I decided to shut down. And, then all the fun began! I'm sorry I missed all the antics with Enchanted, NellyJune and Jhall! If Enchanted, Jhall ad Messagebear were all coming on the ITD Tour, it would be a non-stop, a**kicking riot!!! I'm laughing out loud just thinking about having them all together!
Have a great game tonight, Dodger Blue!!!!
I am looking foward to following the game thread here and listening to the game in my hotel room. That is the thing I don't like about being on the East Coast but only two games this week so I can put up with that. Maybe a little nap prior to the game will do the trick.
Go Chad! Go Dodgers!
With the MLB draft happening today, every team owner and GM should read this article:
……and tell Boras and all the other agents who don't give a crap about the future of this great game to go pound sand when they start demanding that these kids be paid like proven veterans. Lord, I wish they'd stand up to them.
Good Morning ITD, Dodger Faithful
After an actual day off, the Boy's have a rare two game stint with the Padre's today and tomorrow. As alway's we are hoping for a sweep, Lets come out firing on all cylinders tonight. Go Get Em Dodgers!!!!
Have a great day and enjoy the series everyone.
McDonald finally had a good outing at ABQ lasting 7 innings without being wild and with 10K's. It would be a Godsend if he could get his form back.
In the meantime, GO DODGERS – win all the games you can before Manny comes back. Things are bound to get screwed up after he returns, not necessarily because he won't hit, but because Joe will need to find playing time for JP – like he's said, he wants JP to start about two games a week. Just figure out at whose expense that might be, and what it'll do to the team to have him patroling CF.
Fire Joe,
Fire the guy who hired Joe,
Fire the guy who hired the guy who hired Joe.
Just practicing up before the ITD Tour.
30 games without Manny. 20 more to go. We aare the best team in the National league without Manny so that won't change when he comes back. Now's the time to trade Pierre/
Don't to forget to vote over and over again for your favorite Dodgers which in my opinion is all of them. i voted hundreds of times already. Keep those votes coming in.
Messagebear ~ I think I'll wear my Manny dreadlocks at the ITD Tour in your honor! lol
Manny Happy Returns to you, Messagebear!
I understand that the game the night of the ITD Tour is against the Mariners. At least I can see all of the Mariners' games on my local TV, so I'm looking forward to that one. Will see if they pan the crowd and I can pick up the ITD Group somewhere in the stands.
MESSAGEBEAR – The seating sections that will be available for the ITD pips to buy is Section 3, which is towards the center behind the pitcher but up high.
TRU – please DO wear those dreadlocks…LOL My kids will be taking pictures for you. My 4 year old keeps asking for Manny. I'll just tell him that you are Manny. LOL!
msrussyethier ~ LOL!!!! I'd much rather wear my Ethier shirt! I wish we had "ETHIERAHOLIC" shirts, because nobody else would have them and everyone would be able to spot us!
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It's awfully quiet in here for a team that's about to win its ten thousandth game by pummeling the Puds. Go Dodgers!!!!!
Manny, Manny, Manny, Manny, Manny, Manny, Manny –
just practicing acceptance of the inevitable.
LOL, Messagebear!
Hi Crash. How are you today?
Anybody know where one can buy silver-gray hair dreadlocks?
And I have been looking for Dreadlocks R Us!
I just want to echo the sentiments expressed here in grattitude for you and the organization agreeing to bring OldBrooklynFan/JoePierre/Pierreeastmeetswest out to Dodger Stadium for this. A couple of seasons ago Jungar and some others started talking about the idea of getting together, and helping him come. It's a fantastic gesture for a fan that deserves it, in the middle of a season that will be truly worth it.
My regret here is that I won't be able to join (I might have even suspended for one day my boycott of unholy and evil illegal inter-league games), since I am in Washington DC. And it's a shame that I am away from home during this season–I am following as closely as possible, but not being to listen in on the radio on a drive home or go to Dodger Stadium makes you realize how good we as Dodger fans have it.
I hope everyone is doing well here. It's been a great start to the season, and I feel that there is a slight slump underway, but I think they will pick it up and continue to play excellnt baseball. The free agent signings (O-Dawg, Blake, etc.) have worked brilliantly. Ethier is coming back on, Martin will pick it up, Loney is driving in runs and will drive the ball more. And Juan Pierre has played fantastically (in the end, do I think that when Manny returns, he's one of the best three outfielders? No, but I am happy he has stepped in to produce). And Kershaw is going to improve. And Matt Kemp stands to do much better (of course–this is unfair from me–Kemp's already having a monster season, but I am pretty sure that I could watch Matt Kemp hit 40 home runs and think, "you know, Kemp should easily be able to hit 50-55").
Just a final note on this tour, and the Dodgers arranging for JoePierre to attend. I have said this before, but I think this demonstrates my belief that Frank McCourt is doing a good job as owner–and more importantly demonstrated that while there are undoubtedly mistakes and flaws, he cares about the team, the fans, and is doing his best. Nothing's perfect, but I think we have the philosophy down, and it's starting to pay dividends on the field. I'll try to check in, but 2009 is not just a good year for the team, it's the first year (maybe really the second, or year and a half) of the beginning of a young Dodger dynasty finally coming to fruition from everything we were hoping for back in 2005 when we had one eye on the 91-loss major league team and one eye on Jacksonville and the rest of the Farm system.
It's (the ITD Tour) on June 27th at 11:30 AM.
Sorry, posted and answer to a question on the tour on the new thread on this one by mistake.


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You know those museums that are really quiet and you can't touch anything? These are definitely not those museums. Take the Boston Children's Museum. It's one-of-a-kind, world-renowned center for enrichment. But the kids don't care about that. They just like that it's as fun as a barrel of monkeys. The Museum of Science has scary dinosaurs, loud electric bursts, and an Imax screen the size of a basketball court, and it's still extremely educational. The Kidspace at Mass MoCA has really mind-blowing art, including some uniquely interactive work. At the Discovery Museums in Acton, kids can bounce a ball three stories high or engineer their own train track. Of course, if your family loves those quiet museums, we have plenty of those too.
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In 1957, 101 exhibitors and 2,000 bargain hunters braved the wind and rain of Hurricane Audrey at the Memorial Art Gallery's first Clothesline Festival. From these inauspicious beginnings, Clothesline has grown into a major community happening.
In the early days, paintings really did hang on clotheslines, but over the years, the show has grown dramatically, spilling over the grounds of MAG and showcasing artists from across New York state.
The early careers of such notables as Wendell Castle, Peter Berg and Kathy Calderwood have all been linked to the Clothesline Festival. And the possibility of finding future luminaries who will go on to command greater fame and higher prices has always been part of the excitement. Clothesline home
Recently, an installation by Tom Otterness for Centennial Sculpture Park has evoked a great deal of commentary. But it's not the first time in MAG's 100+ year history that an artist has caused a stir. George Bellows (1919), Leon Salter (1945) and Judy Chicago (1979) also made headlines here. Read the whole story
"A rich, powerful and silvery cascade of complex elegance." That's how Hans Davidsson, professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music, described the sound of ESM's new Italian Baroque instrument.
Discovered in an antique shop in Florence and meticulously restored in Germany, the organ arrived in the US via container ship and in July 2005 arrived at its new home at MAG. Here, an international team of experts unpacked, reassembled, "voiced" and tuned the instrument in time for its triumphant inaugural concert in October. Read the whole story
Fall 1990: MAG staff gathered in the Vanden Brul Pavilion for a group portrait. Nine of those pictured were still on staff at the time of the Gallery's 100th anniversary on October 8, 2013. (Can you find them?)
See a recent picture of staff, taken at the 2013 rededication.
February 14, 1940. The Rochester newspapers were filled with the ominous events that would soon lead America into war. Closer to home, the winter's worst snowstorm snarled traffic and closed schools. Yet for the Memorial Art Gallery, it was a very bright day indeed, as the Gallery's Women's Council held its first meeting. Like so much at the Gallery, the Council's beginnings were inextricably linked with the Herdle family. Read the whole story
Pictured: In 1955, MAG director Gertrude Herdle Moore (second from right) took tea with Council members in the Fountain Court.
William Ordway Partridge's iconic sculpture Memory (shown being moved in October 2009) now greets visitors to the second floor, as she did in the early days of the Gallery. The 1913 work was commissioned by MAG founder Emily Sibley Watson as a memorial to her son, James G. Averell. More about Memory
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In 1988, when Anne Fadiman met Lia Lee, then 5, for the first time, she wrote down her impressions in four spare lines that now read like found poetry:
barefoot mother gently rocking silent child
diaper, sweater, strings around wrist
like a baby, but she's so big
mother kisses and strokes her
The story of Lia, the severely brain-damaged daughter of Hmong refugees who had resettled in California, became the subject of Ms. Fadiman's first book, "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," published in 1997.
Its title is the English translation of the condition known as qaug dab peg (pronounced "kow da pay"), the Hmong term for epilepsy, from which Lia had suffered since infancy.
In traditional Hmong belief, qaug dab peg, like many illnesses, is spiritual in origin, caused when the soul becomes separated from the body. A traditional cure might entail visits from a shaman, who would attempt to reunite body and soul.
A work of narrative nonfiction, Ms. Fadiman's book is a cautionary tale about the cultural chasm between Lia's family, with its generations-old animist beliefs, and her rationalist American doctors.
"In some sense, I was trying to provide a way of controlling her seizures with Western methods and Western medicines," said Dr. Neil Ernst, who with his wife, Dr. Peggy Philp, was one of the pediatricians who treated Lia early on. "And in some sense, the Lees were giving up control of their child to a system that they didn't understand."
That cultural divide — despite the best intentions of both sides, Ms. Fadiman wrote — may have brought about Lia's condition, a consequence of a catastrophic seizure when she was 4.
Over the years, whenever Ms. Fadiman lectured about the book, readers would press a single question on her before any other: "Is Lia still alive?"
Lia Lee died in Sacramento on Aug. 31. (Her death was not widely reported outside California.) The immediate cause was pneumonia, Ms. Fadiman said. But Lia's underlying medical issues were more complex still, for she had lived the last 26 of her 30 years in a persistent vegetative state. Today, most people in that condition die within three to five years.
Acclaimed by reviewers, "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" won a National Book Critics Circle Award. It has sold almost 900,000 copies, according to its publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and remains widely assigned in medical schools and in university classes in social work, anthropology, journalism and other fields.
As a result, Lia's story, as few other narratives have done, has had a significant effect on the ways in which American medicine is practiced across cultures, and on the training of doctors.
"A lot of people in medicine were talking about that book for a very long time after it was published," Sherwin B. Nuland, the physician and National Book Award-winning author, said on Wednesday. He added:
"There's a big difference between what we call 'disease' and what we call 'illness.' A disease is a pathological entity; an illness is the effect of the disease on the patient's entire way of life. And suddenly you read a book like this and you say to yourself, 'Oh, my God; what have I been doing?' "
A labor of eight years, "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" is also the story of the immense benefits of tradition, which can furnish, Ms. Fadiman makes clear, a level of familial devotion less often seen among modern Americans. Lia spent her entire life at home, assiduously cared for by her family, and it was this devotion, Ms. Fadiman came to feel, that kept her alive for so long.
"She was never shunted to the periphery," Ms. Fadiman, the daughter of the author and television personality Clifton Fadiman and the journalist Annalee Jacoby Fadiman, said on Wednesday. "I remember her most in her mother's arms. Family life went on around her and in some ways revolved around her."
The 14th of 15 children born to her mother, Foua Yang, and her father, Nao Kao Lee, Lia Lee was born on July 19, 1982, in Merced, Calif. — the first of her parents' children born in the United States, and the first born in a hospital. She was plump, porcelain-skinned, lively and beautiful.
The Lees had arrived in the United States two years earlier with their seven living children, a blanket, a mortar and pestle and little else. They had been farmers in their native Laos; three of their children died there when they were very young.
During the Vietnam War, many Hmong were recruited by the United States to fight the North Vietnamese in Laos; after Laos fell to the Communists in 1975, 150,000 Hmong, in fear of their lives, fled the country. The Lees were among them.
It took the family until 1980 to reach the United States. Along the way they endured a perilous odyssey that included an attempt to flee their village before being forced back at gunpoint by Vietnamese soldiers, and a later attempt, culminating in a 26-day walk to Thailand, where they spent a year in refugee camps. During these five years, three more of their children died.
In the United States, the Lees eventually settled in a modest apartment in Merced, about 120 miles southeast of San Francisco. By the time Ms. Fadiman met them, Merced's population was one-sixth Hmong.
Lia had her first seizure when she was about 3 months old. At Merced Community Medical Center, a resident misdiagnosed her condition. Communication was impossible: the Lees spoke no English, and the hospital had no Hmong interpreter.
"My parents weren't able to convey exactly that she was having seizures," Lia's sister Mai, now 32, said in an interview on Wednesday. "The word 'seizure' didn't come out. To them, they saw it as her soul being tampered with by something of a different realm."
Lia's seizures continued; epilepsy was eventually diagnosed and anti-seizure medication prescribed. But to her parents, qaug dab peg was literally a mixed blessing: on the one hand, Lia's soul had been taken from her and she needed it back; on the other, her condition portended spiritual giftedness, something many traditional cultures ascribe to epilepsy. Perhaps, the Lees believed, Lia was destined to become a shaman herself.
The Lees did not always give Lia her medication, Ms. Fadiman wrote, because they did not want to interfere with qaug dab peg entirely.
To encourage her soul's return, her parents gave her herbs and amulets. She was sometimes visited by a Hmong shaman, who performed a ritual that included chanting, beating a gong and sacrificing a chicken or pig. (The strings around Lia's wrist noted by Ms. Fadiman are used in Hmong tradition to help protect people from malevolent spirits.)
All this baffled Lia's doctors. "I felt that I was trying to penetrate a very dense wall — a cultural wall — and didn't have the tools to do it," Dr. Ernst said.
The seizures worsened; by the time Lia was 4 ½, she had made more than 100 outpatient visits to medical facilities and been admitted to the hospital 17 times. When she was not quite 3, in frustration at what he viewed as her parents' refusal to administer her medication, Dr. Ernst had Lia legally removed from the family home.
She spent a year in foster care — a time, Ms. Fadiman reported, of great trauma for Lia and great bitterness for her family — before being returned to her parents. (In recent years, Dr. Ernst and Mai Lee said, there has been a rapprochement between Lia's family and her doctors.)
In 1986, when Lia was 4, she suffered a grand mal seizure that lasted nearly two hours before doctors were able to bring it under control. At some point, amid the many procedures her condition required that day, an infection set in. She went into septic shock, and her organs began to fail.
By the time she was stabilized, Lia had lost higher brain function. Her doctors expected her to die.
She did not die. She could breathe and whimper but could not speak; she was capable of little voluntary movement but could still feel pain. It was unclear how much she could see or hear.
Lia no longer had seizures, because she now had vastly reduced electrical activity in her cerebral cortex, the brain's outermost layer. She grew only slightly, as is typical of children with severe brain damage: by the age of 30, she was 4 feet 7 inches and weighed 47 pounds.
For 26 years, her days varied little: her parents bathed her, fed her, flexed her stiffened limbs, kissed, caressed and tenderly talked to her. There were visits to doctors in Merced and later in Sacramento, where the family moved in 1996. There were periodic visits from a shaman, intended not so much to cure Lia as to ease her suffering.
"Everything that my parents had done for her is all manual labor," Mai Lee said on Wednesday. "Carrying her from place to place, transporting her to appointments here and there, it was all done manually. They did that for a very long time."
Nao Kao Lee, Lia's father, died in 2003. Besides her mother, Foua Yang, and her sister Mai, her survivors include a brother, Cheng, and six other sisters, Chong, Zoua, May, Yer, True and Pang.
In Merced and far beyond, Lia's legacy is pervasive. In 1996, largely in response to her case, Healthy House, a social-service agency that facilitates medical care for Merced County's non-English-speaking residents, was founded in Merced, the county seat. Among its services is an interpreter training program, which provides medical interpreters in a half-dozen languages, including Hmong.
At Mercy Medical Center Merced, the current incarnation of Merced Community Medical Center, Hmong shamans are now allowed to visit patients and practice a limited number of their traditional arts. (Animal sacrifice is excluded.)
"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," continuously in print and released this year in an updated edition, has extended Lia's reach to a new generation of doctors. At the Yale School of Medicine, for instance, the incoming class is required to read it — a tradition that was begun a dozen years ago, well before Ms. Fadiman herself began teaching at Yale, where she is the Francis writer in residence.
And as hospital wards across the country become ever more diverse, seasoned doctors, too, have found there is much to be learned from Lia's story. Among them is Dr. Nuland, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, who received his medical training in New Haven in the 1950s.
"Most wards were filled with Italians, Irish and Jews," he said, recalling those years. "We had an occasional Gypsy, an occasional Chinese person and some Hispanics, and we would walk among them with our lordly presence. You'd learn a couple of words of Italian, a couple of words of whatever, and you'd use them with patients and think you were being very clever."
He added: "In our day, the whole thing was to assimilate, to look and act like a WASP. We could have provided so much comfort to patients who looked like our parents. And we just didn't."


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The parent of Irvine-based Mimi's Cafe announced the sale of the restaurant chain to LeDuff America Inc. of Dallas for $50 million.
The deal, which is expected to close in the next 45 days, includes $20 million in cash and a $30 million note.
Mimi's counts 145 restaurants in 24 states with annual sales of about $380 million.
Mimi's is expected to keep its headquarters in Irvine, according to an announcement from Bob Evans.
"This transaction is a positive development for Bob Evans as well as for Mimi's Cafe," said Bob Evans Chief Executive Steve Davis in a statement. "After closing the sale, Bob Evans will have reset itself to better focus efforts and investments on achieving our long-term commitment to grow earnings per share 8% to 12% annually."
A sale has been expected. Bob Evans announced in November that it was reviewing strategic alternatives, including a potential sale, of the struggling chain.
Mimi's has been grappling with a prolonged sales slump with the chain not having seen annual same-store sales growth since 2007. It launched a bakery-cafe concept in October, offering customers coffee, specialty drinks, croissants and other items as an alternative to the chain's traditional sit-down dining service.
LeDuff America operates several café-bakery and coffee-house chains, including La Madeleine Country French Cafe and Bruegger's Bagels.


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FARMINGTON — One of the largest animal cruelty cases local authorities say they have ever seen has been transferred from Rochester Circuit Court to Strafford County Superior Court as the legal process steadily moves along.
Assistant Stafford County Attorney Tim Sullivan explained the two Farmington women — Shirley Patch, 59, of 576 Chestnut Hill Road, and her niece, Caroline Wilkins, 41, of the same address — charged collectively with 13 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty, will soon face a preliminary pretrial conference in superior court, though a date has yet to be set. A hearing in Rochester Circuit Court scheduled for Tuesday morning has also been canceled.
Sullivan explained in this case, the penalties don't change but the women now have a right to a jury trial at the superior court level. He said if the case went through court at the district level, they would be given the opportunity to appeal the final ruling and then move to the jury stage.
Both defendants have been placed with "misdemeanor information," the equivalent of an indictment applied to those charged with felony counts.
Wilkins and Patch both entered "not guilty" pleas during their October arraignments in Rochester and their arraignments for superior court following the "nol pros" motion in Rochester court have been waived. The pair were previously released on personal recognizance bail — Patch on $5,000 for her 12 counts and Wilkins on $2,500 for one count.
In early September, Patch was charged with animal cruelty for the condition of 12 animals found on her property by Farmington police: there were five horses in her care, as well as one miniature horse, one pony, two goats, two dogs and two chickens. All were found malnourished and in varying degrees of health. Court documents identify some of the horses as a Chestnut mare named Zina, a white mare named Swindle, a white and gray stallion named Tonka, a miniature bay horse name Rosie and a miniature gray stallion named Chip.
Wilkins, who was identified as Patch's niece in court documents and who reportedly has lived at the Chestnut Hill property since 2002, was charged for one count for her treatment of Dolly, a 32-year-old Chestnut horse found lame on her front two legs. Dolly weighed less than half of her normal size when she was discovered last summer, with her rib cage visibly sticking out through her dull coat.
All of the seized animals and have been undergoing rehabilitation with the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NHSPCA) in Stratham. The NHSPCA noted Dolly died of colic in mid-October. She was the companion horse of Blue, a horse killed in an alleged hit-and-run accident in 2011. The previous owner of Dolly told Foster's she gave the animal to Wilkins trusting she would take care of her properly following the accident.
According to court documents, during the Rochester court proceedings, an attorney for the NHSPCA also filed a "motion to intervene" in the case, citing the association had already expended $20,447.19 caring for the 12 animals previously in Patch's care. They cited expenses associated with food, shelter and veterinarian visits including approximately $1,300 for "emergency hospitalization." A motion for the NHSPCA attorney to participate in the proceedings was denied by Judge Daniel Cappiello, who noted the request for reimbursement may be granted if Patch is found guilty in court proceedings.
Sullivan said he could not comment on the NHSPCA attorney's motion and it is unknown if another request to intervene may go before superior court in Dover.
Patch previously told Foster's following her October hearing her situation had been inaccurately portrayed and her story was "turned around."
"All I have to say is, I love my animals," she said, "and everybody knows that."


text: Fashion is going back to the future for Spring 2011. Modern shapes, plastic fabrics and crazy cutouts are a huge trend on the runways. Sculptured silhouettes in unique shapes, and abstract designs are popular among top designers like Alexander Wang and Rag & Bone. Monochromatic looks in white and geometric prints in unusual plastics give these designs a "Space Age-y" effect. Overall, the collections look clean and simple, but these modern designs are breaking us into a new year for 2011 full speed ahead.


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Band name: Brighton, MA
Sound: On its just-released "Billboard Sun" EP, the indie-rock quintet channels the ragged glory of the Walkmen, veering between loosely anthemic rockers ("New Underground") and more introspective turns like the bruised "V-Day."
Need to know: The band has opened for Spoon, the Arcade Fire and the Walkmen, and its music has been featured on a diverse array of television programs, including "Community" and "Gossip Girl." In Dec. 2011, Brighton's song "Good Kind of Crazy" appeared in a holiday advertisement for Jack Daniels. The group recently finished basic tracking for its next, still-untitled full-length album, which it hopes to release sometime this spring.
Interviewed: Matt Kerstein, 30, Ukrainian Village
It seems like there's a lot of action surrounding the band now after a long stretch of inactivity.
That's definitely the case. I guess you'd call it growing pains. We switched up a couple key band members ... and it took a long time for this new lineup to come into its own. We also had a lot of recordings we went back and changed up. There was generally just a lot of fidgeting with things.
Did you have to have one of those "Rocky"-style musical training montages to prepare yourselves for this return?
[Laughs.] Something like that. But we have a lot of those, so it's not really anything special.
Jack Daniels featured "Good Kind of Crazy" in a recent advertisement. I'm guessing you guys aren't strangers to their product.
Oh yeah. It would have been a little hypocritical for us to be like, "Oh, we're not doing a whiskey ad." We all drink a lot of whiskey--or at least have it in our lives--so we definitely weren't opposed to doing an ad. It wasn't like that "Brady Bunch" episode where they were going to do that ad campaign but first they were like, "Well, we don't use that dish detergent, so we have to see if it works before we can sign up for the ad." We know it works.
Did you happen to catch the Twitter dustup between Avalanches and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver about the ad he did for Bushmills Irish Whiskey?
Dude, someone totally sent that to us and they were like, "You guys totally have something in common with Bon Iver." You're always going to have people who think you shouldn't be a part of something like that, but I think times are changing. The bottom line for us is we want to be making records and they cost money.
Oh, no doubt. Your music has also appeared on "Community," "Gossip Girl" and "One Tree Hill." But if you could choose any program to have a song appear on what would it be?
A buddy of ours, Nathan Xander, got a tune on "Eastbound & Down," and I was kind of jealous of that. That's one show I would love to be on.
Brighton, MA is named for your childhood hometown. What's your fondest memory from growing up there?
I was born there and I lived there till I was 6 or 7, then we moved to the next town over. Our family was close friends with the family upstairs, and I have really good memories of roaming the neighborhood with our upstairs friends, like a little kid gang just running around the neighborhood causing trouble.
Have you ever been back to play a show in Brighton as Brighton, MA?
We haven't played there as Brighton, MA. Last time we played that are we were at the Middle East in Cambridge. But one of the clubs there just got reopened as Brighton Music Hall, so I'm hoping we get to play there soon.
With a name like Brighton, MA, I'm wondering how you are with geography in general?
I'm OK.
Could you name all the state capitols?
Probably at one time I could have, but no.
Then why lie and say you're 'okay' with geography?
[Laughs.] I thought maybe I could fake my way through. Maybe you and I just have a different standard. So I guess by your standards, no, I'm not very good with geography.
What's the last album you bought? "Young Jesus' new one at their CD release show."
Song you've listened to on repeat recently? "Positively 4th Street" by Bob Dylan
Song you never want to hear again? "One of those Adele songs I've been hearing non-stop. I can't think of the name right now."
Best concert you've seen in the last year? "The Conor Redig memorial show at the Hideout."
Favorite movie ever? "My favorite movie ever would have to be '8 1/2.'"
Chicago's best music venue? "Man, that's tough. I guess you'd have to go with Metro."
Brighton, MA
When: Thursday, Jan. 19, 8 p.m.
Where: Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave.
Tickets: $10 (18+); 773-525-2508


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Some may call it back-peddling, some may call it damage control; but denouncing my involvement in The Grid's recent cover story 'Dawn Of A New Gay'by Paul Aguirre-Livingston is incredibly important to me regardless of how it may be perceived.
Aguirre-Livingston's article has drawn criticism from just about every queer individual in this city, and rightfully so. A personal essay disguised as the new gay manifesto, the piece went to great lengths to describe a life of privilege where the comforts afforded to him are not only taken for granted, but also misguidedly portrayed as universal to the gay community.
I grew up in Dubai, U.A.E where homosexuality is punishable by death. I sought refuge in Canada, and have only recently, finally been granted permanent resident status. The fear of having to go back home should I not have been approved haunted me every single day that I lived here. The Grid's article was a major slap in the face to those not as privileged as Aguirre-Livingston, and to many others in rural areas of this country and in countries around the world.
As happy as I am to hear that there are queer folk out there who have loving homes and accepting parents, the last time my parent's addressed my possible gayness was at an intervention when I was 13. Where Aguirre-Livingston got cottage privileges from his parents, I had a three hour beating. My mom's last words that night were "being gay starts with AIDS and ends with AIDS". She said she would have no problem forgetting that she had a son named Elie should I choose to be gay. As happy as I am to hear that according to the writer, gay youth can come out without facing much prejudice, I know that I was bullied and harassed every single day until I stepped on a plane to leave the Middle East…a far cry from the ideal world Aguirre-Livingston arrogantly assumes we all live in. It is now also a world for which I am a cover model and ambassador on every newsstand in the city. I, unlike Aguirre-Livingston don't take my safety in Canada lightly; my brothers and sisters all over the world are persecuted on a daily basis and would find his as disturbing and offensive as I do.
Beyond the embarrassment of foolishly agreeing to have my face and name used for something that I wasn't diligent enough to have read or researched prior to my involvement (I wasn't interviewed for the piece nor do I know the extent of the writer's research), I'm saddened at the squandered potential a Grid cover story could have afforded. With gay bullying being as rampant as it is, the recent 'Kill The Gays' crisis in Uganda, and the fact that transgendered individuals still haven't been awarded equal rights in Canada, it shocks me that Aguirre-Livingston chose to claim that our struggle for equality and justice ('cause according to him, everything's fine!) as LGBT individuals is accomplished. He argues that gay rights have taken a backseat thanks to the birth of Girl Power, the sexual prowess of Britney Spears, the relative normalcy of Will from Will & Grace, and then somehow makes the absurd interjection – quite proudly – that he, the new po-mo gay need not freak out should he occasionally or carelessly have unprotected sex.
Initially pitched as a piece that highlights "the new generation of gays who feel they shouldn't be so radically defined by their sexual orientation" and why we "want more than just to be "the gay guy" – because that doesn't inform our place in society or what we do, only who we sleep with – I naively assumed this would discuss the evolution of the modern gay identity within the context of a metropolitan city such as Toronto. This is something that I struggle with, as do many others. I do think Aguirre-Livingston does attempt to tackle the issue, albeit from a very narrow perspective.
In a time when we have more civil rights than ever before, there will come a day when the fight will be over and we'll be left wondering what to do with ourselves. But we're not even close to getting there yet.
As a contributor to The Gaily, I was personally attracted to the notion that the article would start a dialogue on how the 'new gay identity' would exist in a world that was pro-women and pro-trans, while being anti-racist and anti-classist. Unfortunately, the evident elitism prevalent throughout 'Dawn of the New Gay' seems not to be a step forward toward a truly progressive future but a step to the 'right' where rich gay men with "fabulously rustic country homes" apparently only sleep with 'straight acting' guys. Had The Grid actually published my answer to one of the five questions the 9 cover boys were emailed regarding what 'straight acting' means to me, Torontonians would have been treated to the following response:
"Straight looking" and anything that sounds like that is as much of an insult to me as being called a fag or any other derogatory term. Having your sexual preferences is one thing but marginilizing people if they happen to be effiniminate is hypocritical and dangerous. I'm me. Sometimes I'm flamboyant, sometimes I'm not and being asked to express myself any other way is just as bad as being asked to make my way back into that dusty old closet."
Clearly that answer didn't correspond with the direction the article was taking but I'm quite confident in my assumption that many gay men, unlike the author, would've agreed with me on this matter.
Another major issue community members have with the article is Aguirre-Livingston's choice to regard the Toronto gay village as an empty, tired shell of it's former self, mostly because of his personal preference of not wanting to party there. As someone who doesn't particularly enjoy partying in the village, mostly because I don't often feel like I belong there, I guess I can kind of see his point. But not wanting to party there is one thing, and completely glossing over the essential services that millions of queers utilize everyday to aid them though a multitude of issues such as HIV treatment, coming out, or homelessness is just irresponsible and ignorant. Though I don't personally frequent the village often, I never for one second claim that it isn't an integral part of the gay community. Furthermore, while attending Pride may seem like a chore for the writer, I'll be attending in solidarity with the millions of people who made it okay for me to kiss my boyfriend on Queen West and in support of the millions out there who aren't as lucky as I am to immigrate to Canada and escape the horrific injustices inflicted on them in their countries and in their homes. Yes, I will be there. I just won't be wearing ass-less chaps.
What was set up to be a progressive look at life as a gay individual – with the 'I'm here, I'm queer' fight not being as prevalent as it used to be – ended up being a severely nearsighted diary entry by a writer arrogantly looking down on the blood, sweat, and tears of the millions of LGBT individuals who fought tooth and nail to afford him the freedoms he has today. Call it backpedaling, but I'm ashamed to be have been a part of it and deeply regret not asking more questions before I slapped on that crooked bow-tie and gave my best Pee-Wee Herman smile for the camera.
I'm not a victim here and I made a conscious choice to be a part of the cover shoot but I never in a million years imagined the article would be as repulsive as it is. In saying that, the beauty of such a debacle is that in a few short hours, an angry fire in the belly of every queer individual in this city was lit, in turn re-igniting a passion often dormant among many casual members of the gay community.
Read the response from The Gaily's Executive Editor here.


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Texture: It's all right, a good chew, as most Stride gum is. Not much to report here.
Presentation: Ok, so in my imaginary Stride Tropical Trance development model, the marketing people received this sweet, nondescript gum and were charged with coming up with something that might entice a consumer to purchase it. Somebody in that office flipped through their backlog of ideas that don't pertain to any flavor in particular, and found this one, which seemed to everybody to be a pretty cool idea. Thus, Tropical Trance was born. Whether or not anybody researched the hypnotic nature of the swirly design on the package is yet to be determined, so let me know if you start acting out of the ordinary and doing something really strange like buying this gum more than once.
Overall: You're getting sleepy... yes... yes... you're getting sleeeeepy. Now spit out the gum... yes, that's right... and move on to another flavor. This one's gross.
Rating: o (one gumball)


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High Tolls, Daunting Barriers: China's Road to Cleaner Skies
By Michael Dunne
Before China's explosive growth in car sales kicked in, consumers used to describe their hesitation to buy with a pithy phrase: "I can afford a car. But I cannot afford the maintenance costs." With Chinese consumers now purchasing five million more new cars annually than Americans, and with sales projected to zoom past 20 million in 2013, it's the government that appears reluctant to deal with the "maintenance costs" of the country's automobile obsession – in particular the oppressive air pollution that engulfed many Chinese cities this month.
Getting to cleaner skies in China will require removal of last generation vehicles, plus much stricter emission and fuel quality standards.
And that gets expensive in a hurry.
Hong Kong this week announced a $1.3 billion subsidy to retire 80,000 trucks that run on older diesel engines. Matching such an effort would require China to withdraw tens of millions of older trucks and buses from circulation, at a cost many many times the Hong Kong figure.
Clearing out the clunkers is just the start. For China to really achieve acceptable air quality, there must be dramatic improvements in fuel quality standards.
Gas stations across China -- outside of Beijing and Shanghai – routinely distribute grades of fuel that would be rejected in every developed country, and even in other developing economies like Thailand and Malaysia. As an executive from Volvo Truck once put it to me: "If you put s--- in the engine, then you will always get s--- out. " Even today's most advanced engines cannot offset second-rate fuel.
There is little doubt that leaders in Beijing desire cleaner skies. What they cannot agree on is who should pay the bill for better fuel.
Fuel prices are set by the state ostensibly to protect the economy – and especially the rural areas - from affordability shocks.
State-owned oil companies China National Petroleum Corp and Sinopec have been reluctant to invest in world-class refineries that produce high quality fuel because doing so would increase costs that they cannot pass on to the consumer. Therefore, CNPC and Sinopec continue to distribute the kind of fuel that gums up engines and the skies with equal efficiency. Conveniently, these two powerful companies control the group that sets fuel quality standards in China.
Beyond the massive financial requirements, there are also serious political roadblocks to cleaner emissions. If Beijing officials were to mandate world-class emissions tomorrow, many Chinese auto manufacturers would be forced to shut down. Chinese companies are building better engines than ever before. But when it comes to emissions, truck and bus makers still trail global leaders by at least 5 years.
So, what's the road map to cleaner skies?
In recent years, there has been mounting hope in electric vehicles as a breakthrough solution. At least for now, though, electrics remain pinned down by a trifecta of liabilities: high battery costs, limited range and a perception of risk to safety in the event of an accident. And then there's the ironic fact that electric vehicles in China draw most of their energy from coal-fired power stations, leading some to derisively (if accurately) call EVs "coal burning cars."
Given the daunting barriers to change, it's no wonder that China has been reluctant to force improvements in fuel quality. Look for this uninspired pattern to continue, at least until the cacophony of coughing and hacking grows to a level that makes the folks inside Beijing's Zhongnanhai leadership compound really sweat about imminent threats to social harmony.
Michael Dunne is president of Dunne & Company, a Hong Kong-based consultancy specializing in Asian car markets, and a leading expert on China's auto industry. He and his company do or have done consulting work in China for Audi, Mercedes-Benz General Motors, Acura, Ford, and other global and Chinese auto makers and parts suppliers. He is the author of "American Wheels, Chinese Roads: The Story of General Motors in China." Follow him on Twitter @DunneCarsAsia
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If the Republican and Democratic conventions seem like long-drawn-out, made-for-TV campaign rallies, it's because they are.
But that doesn't mean they don't play key roles in the democratic process.
"They're symbolic events, but symbols are very important in politics," said Michael Heaney, a convention scholar at the University of Michigan. "Each party will try to use their convention as a symbol of what the party stands for, and use it to explain to the public what it's all about."
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That was not how they were originally intended. Through the 1960s, the conventions' main purpose was to nominate each party's candidate for president. That generated lots of genuine, unscripted drama that at best resembled British parliamentary debates and at worst circuses. Convention floors churned with angry interruptions and outright fights -- not the kind of behavior that party leaders wanted the American public to see. Which was why, after television began covering them, the shouting was kept behind closed doors and the protesters pushed outside.
That coincided with a movement to give more voice to rank-and-file party members in the nominating process. The modern primary system was born. The conventions remained the place where delegates formally nominated their candidates, but they evolved into intensely planned events aimed at projecting a cohesive campaign image.
Now we know just about everything that's going to happen beforehand, including speeches timed for primetime television. More than 15,000 journalists are expected to cover each of this year's conventions (the Republicans in Tampa Aug. 27-30, and the Democrats in Charlotte Sept. 3-6). That's roughly three times the number of delegates who'll attend.
"The purpose a convention serves today is to present the party to the rest of the nation," said Seth Masket, who researches elections at the University of Denver. "You say, 'This is who our people are,' and you have four days to lay out the argument why your side should be elected."
Conventions also serve an important purpose within the party, as delegates who normally do not come together under the same roof discuss future policy positions and pass new rules, Heaney said.
Typically, the Democratic convention includes caucuses representing various demographic and ethnic groups. The GOP convention organizes its meetings according to state delegations.
Another benefit is that, for the better part of a week, your side eats up a disproportionate amount of media coverage, Masket said. That feeds what is known as the "convention bounce," a surge of support in the polls in the days following the event.
Once in a while, you get a little dissent. Like in 2008, when some Hillary Clinton supporters went into the Democratic convention still pushing for her to get the nomination. Masket said he'll watch for some sort of clamoring by Ron Paul loyalists in Tampa, and defiance in Charlotte from Democrats unhappy with President Obama's handling of the war on terror.
"I'm always curious to see how the party tries to get over those differences at the convention," Masket said.
But for the most part, we know what to expect. The only real moments of unpredictability will occur outside the convention halls, where the protestors will be. How they behave, and how the police deal with them, could divert the media's attention from the script.
(Of course, Tropical Storm Isaac is also adding a new element of unpredictability, as forecasters try to determine if it will dump a lot of rain on the Republican convention Monday or do much worse.)
Finally, after the last convention day, the campaign between Obama and Mitt Romney begins in earnest (although it already seems to be running at full steam).
"People start paying a lot more attention to who the candidates are," Heaney said. "If someone is still undecided during the conventions, they'll start making up their minds."


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I have a Gmail tab open in the browser (Firefox 4.0) all the time with chat enabled. However, when I move to a different tab for a while, then move back to the Gmail tab my chat status has changed to idle (orange).
Is there a way to prevent it moving to idle while when the tab is not active?
Update: Happens on Chrome too.


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Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Find The Fault No 5
25 comments:
- Diplomate said...
Oh dear oh dear - I see a deck chair accident about to happen. Careless use of the notch-adjustable back stay leading to uneven weight distribution will sure to cause a YBF moment when Granma returns to her seat. Always check you have located the transom in the corresponding notches at both sides - or else .....!
- 24 March 2009 at 09:00
- Jon Dudley said...
Bucket's got the handle on the wrong end. Union Jack may be flying upside down but difficult to make out. Yours, pathetically, a seaside resident.
- 24 March 2009 at 09:18
- Peter Ashley said...
I wondered about the deckchair Diplo. Obviously put in there as a red herring. Mr.Dudley gets the Spam sandwich with sand in it. Card does indeed say: Handle should be on top of child's bucket.
- 24 March 2009 at 09:35
- Jon Dudley said...
Hurrah! hurrah! please may we go and watch the Punch and Judy now? and please, please may I have one of those legionnaire-style white caps with a green celluloid peak and a flap at the back to protect my neck from the scorching sun - please?
- 24 March 2009 at 09:49
- Affer said...
Oh for goodness sake! You three are PARENTS - and yet you cannot see that this little girl is being allowed to play without a) a Sir Liam Donaldson regulation sun hat (Parenting Rule 37c as Amended 2007, part vi) and b) being slathered in Factor 328 sun cream? That and the fact that she is near a copy of The Sun which, should she see Sunny Sue's Summer Sizzlers on Page 3, will inevitably lead to her becoming a sex-crazed lesbian nymphomaniac teenage mum.
- 24 March 2009 at 10:07
- Peter Ashley said...
Crank up the charabanc, we're off! Affer, you can be the custodian to watch over us with an Acme Thunderer whistle and a wagging finger.
- 24 March 2009 at 10:35
- Jon Dudley said...
Ah, Mr.A religion and the seaside always used to go together so well. Much more conducive to the appreciation of The Good Lord's word when the sun's out and there's a free bottle of pop after singing a couple of rousing hymns. And always a smattering of attractive young vicars daughters to keep the hoi-poloi amused. Ding! ding! hold very tight please, next stop Frinton!
- 24 March 2009 at 11:19
- Peter Ashley said...
Don't get me going Jon. Religion on holiday. After the early years in Lincolnshire it was your south coast. (Southdown or East Kent coaches, green electric trains to Sandling.)First thing we did on arrival in places like Hythe was to trudge the streets to find a likely chapel for the following morning. If my father didn't like the look of it we trudged on. Ended up in the Hythe Salvation Army Citadel once. That was brilliant actually, evening sun shining on tubas. Pardon?
- 24 March 2009 at 11:29
- Jon Dudley said...
That sounds very attractive...if only it didn't have to form a such a rigid part of your everyday life. The Sally Army play carols around our way at Christmas...v.festive and it's moonlight on tubas then. We make our obligatory donation and scamper back indoors for a soothing glass or two of Port. Religion done for another year. I too was made to attend bible study classes as a youth...
- 24 March 2009 at 11:50
- Diplomate said...
Don't see it myself - that's a standard Daymer Bay '67 issue sand castle builder's bucket with the handle thoughtfully placed at the closd end, allowing smooth mould release with a slight twist and up-ward action. The Deck Chair answer is obviously correct and I suspect your answer is a printing error at the factory - let's keep our eyes open for the card to which the bucket handle solution actually applies !
- 24 March 2009 at 12:28
- CarolineLD said...
To answer your first question, definitely not fed up yet! Do keep them coming.
Great memories of childhood holidays - although mine always seemed to involve becoming ridiculously sunburned by the end of the first day.
- 24 March 2009 at 12:31
- Jon Dudley said...
Admit it Diplo, this is the one card missing from your otherwise identical pack.
- 24 March 2009 at 12:34
- Philip Wilkinson said...
Look. Diplo's obviously right. That deckchair is a can of worms. Whoever put the answers on the cards had obviously had one too many glasses of post-Sally-Army port.
- 24 March 2009 at 13:40
- Philip Wilkinson said...
And another thing. When was there a newspaper called the 'Daily Sun'?
- 24 March 2009 at 13:43
- Affer said...
I do think Diplo has a case - albeit not as strong as my charge of bad parenting. In fact, given the obvious deficiencies of those parents, it seems more likely that the chair is not so much badly drawn as badly erected. Meanwhile, I am now concerned that the boom vang on that marconi rig is improperly mounted and could cause a breech. The bucket is just a side issue - got one just like that myself.
- 24 March 2009 at 13:47
- Peter Ashley said...
You know, I'm starting to lean a little towards Diplo's thinking here. I think the original puzzle was the deckchair, but the artist got overuled in favour of the bucket. With a covert snigger to him/herself the first idea stayed in there. And Wilko. Yes, there is a Daily Sun. In Arizona, which probably doesn't count.
- 24 March 2009 at 14:00
- Jon Dudley said...
I refer you back to my comment on perspective, - puzzles passim. Being so clearly the winner I am already enjoying the first bottle of the case of Puligny Montrachet 2006 that Mr.Ashley so kindly sent me as a prize. Fancy you poor sports stooping so low as to attempt a pincer movement in a kind of rally round the deckchair sort of move...just started the second bottle. Very nice it is too - my! victory is sweet!
- 24 March 2009 at 14:49
- bikerted said...
Wow someone else who has spent time at the Creek. Ian's father used to have a caravan on the Sunkist site, the first on the right as you turn off the Chapel to Sutton Road. A peaceful haven away from the amusement arcade madness that is the norm for this stretch of the East Coast.
A bit late but we did get the bucket at the second attempt.
- 24 March 2009 at 18:02
- Thud said...
Keep the puzzles coming.my childhood hols where spent staying with family in Totnes or Nantglyn doing pretty much the same stuff as described,wonderful stuff.
- 24 March 2009 at 18:12
- Ron Combo said...
Peter: as you know I only started going to Lincolnshire in the 1990s on The 51 Club weekends. Sodding static caravan in Ingoldmells surrounded by about 1,200 other sodding caravans. Champagne breakfasts at The Little Acorn caff with the day's specials on those cut-out orange fluorescent star cards stuck to the windows and walls. And then on to The Bell and merciful oblivion about ten hours later in Skeg. Wonderful.
Thud: Totnes eh? You didn't know a Katy Thomas by any chance did you? Chemist's daughter as I recall.
- 24 March 2009 at 20:14
- Philip Wilkinson said...
Lincs loomed large in my childhood too. And after a few days in my grandfather's silent cottage in the middle of a field (cowpats a speciality) about 4 miles inland from Theddlethorpe, I was ready for the amusement arcades of Skeg and Mablethorpe, I can tell you.
- 24 March 2009 at 21:45
- Thud said...
Ron,fraid not...I do remember the main chemists was on the top left of the high street though..my fav shop was the tackle shop that sold ice cream.
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Cibulkova exits Den Bosch; Halep stays hot on grass
Den Bosch, Netherlands (Sports Network) - Second seed Dominika Cibulkova was a quarterfinal loser, while Romanian Simona Halep remained perfect on grass in 2013 at the $235,000 Topshelf Open, a final Wimbledon tune-up.
Spanish qualifier Garbine Muguruza took down the Slovakian Cibulkova 6-4, 6-4, while Halep leveled lucky loser and fellow non-seed Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine 6-3, 6-1 on Day 5 at Autotron Rosmalen.
The 21-year-old Halep is fresh off her first-ever WTA title in Germany last week and now 8-0 on grass this year.
Also on Thursday, third-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro overcame Bulgarian grass-court specialist Tsvetana Pironkova 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 and fourth- seeded Belgian Kirsten Flipkens doused seventh-seeded Pole Urszula Radwanska 6-4, 6-4. Radwanska was last year's Den Bosch runner-up to Russia's Nadia Petrova.
Friday's semifinals will pit Suarez Navarro against Halep and Flipkens versus Muguruza.
This week's champion will earn $43,000.


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Steve Harvey's new talk show was a long time in the making, even if he didn't know it before.
"It was something I've always dreamed of doing," the veteran comedian told Savannah Guthrie on the "Today" show Wednesday — not that he realized daytime would prove his niche.
"I thought it was nighttime TV a while back. But my life changed, and I evolved as a person. And so daytime — with the empowerment angles I've taken in my book for women and everything — just seemed like a pretty natural fit," he explained.
That long personal evolution involved penning the 2009 bestseller "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man," later given the Hollywood treatment. He told the New York Post last week that after that success unexpectedly launched him into the general market, he started to rethink his nighttime aspirations.
His new syndicated daytime show, which will focus on ordinary people's relationships and air on this NBC station, emerged from that and from his background, he told "Today" on Wednesday.
"I've had an interesting life. My life has been full circle," he said. "You know, I've been a parent, a husband, unemployed, homeless, successful."
He said he has another thing going for him, too: "I smile harder than anybody on TV, and I'm funnier."
Harvey stressed that his one-hour show would focus on the relationship travails of ordinary people, not celebrities, because he wants viewers to relate to them.
"I want to talk to everyday people. They're the most interesting people. Plus, they show up," he joked. "And you don't have to put pink M&Ms in their dressing rooms and black roses and stuff."
"Steve Harvey" premieres Sept. 4 on this local NBC owned television station. Check your local listings for times.
Steve Harvey "Always Dreamed" of Talk Show
"I smile harder than anybody on TV, and I'm funnier," Harvey tells "Today"
Steve Harvey's new talk show was a long time in the making, even if he didn't know it before.