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Guest blogger and co-host of Waiver Wired's Ducks on the Pond podcast Nick Sweeney has read both Moneyball and Three Nights in August and wanted to share what he knows with our reading public. We're hoping that Sweens continues reading sports books and writes reviews of them for us, so keep an eye out for more to come…
If you know me, you know I'm that guy who says you should read the book before you watch the movie. I'm also that guy who plays his fantasy baseball team like a man possessed. I'm also an avid reader, and I'm thinking this off-season, after you wonder how Mike Trout got the MVP, how the Mets could get rid of a pitcher like R.A. Dickey, and try to understand why this last World Series between the Giants and the Tigers was one of the least watched in recently history, you should pick up a book. Two actually: Moneyball by Michael Lewis, and 3 Nights in August by Buzz Bissinger.
Yes, that Moneyball. The last movie before Jonah Hill got skinny. And yes, that Buzz Bissinger, who did us all a great service in writing Friday Night Lights. Go out and pick them up now.
Most baseball fans know about Moneyball, more or less. Either they agree with the new philosophy or don't, they've seen the movie or they haven't, or they've wondered why a movie made about statistics was a contender in the Oscars. The book talks about the changing financial landscape of baseball, the "adapt or die" attitudes small market teams have to make in order to win, and how players should and shouldn't be evaluated. It talks about Bill James and the importance of a run and why bunting is strategic suicide. Some names pop up, recently retired players like Mike Sweeney and Miguel Tejada, well known players now like Kevin Youklis and Carlos Pena, and unknowns like Kirk Saarloos and Jeremy Brown. Make no mistake, this isn't about the passion of playing a game, it's about winning.
The book's primary focus is on Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics and the most recent Executive of the Year. He was also a highly touted five-tool prospect who drafted by the Mets after they picked Darryl Strawberry. The value of the five-tool player, an albatross of a title for any prospect, is an obvious theme mentioned in the book. Billy was picked by the scouts for his talents, for everything one thinks of when you imagine a good ball player. What happens after is the most common ending for any prospect; long and dragged out failure. If the book later described here, 3 Nights in August, describes life in the big leagues, Moneyball shows the pitfalls of the journey to it. In baseball, there are no points for being humble, no rings for the losers. If you can't afford to buy that five-tool player, make on. The idea was simple; create the five- tool player out of spare minor leaguer and washed up veteran parts; creating the MLB equivalent of Frankenstein's monster. Obviously, this doesn't sit well with the majority of baseball. The book shows the battle of old school versus new school, how men that had never played baseball would soon run the game off laptops and try to play the game like a chess match. It is a book that will stick with the reader, causing you to analyze your favorite team and see what works and what doesn't. Maybe you'll even download one of those baseball managing games and take a swirl yourself.
It's a side of baseball few ever really get around to think about. Instead of detailing how the system worked in 2002, let's try this out. Billy Beane gets rid of his top three top pitching producers in Trevor Cahill, Andrew Bailey, and Gio Gonzalez for Josh Reddick, Jarrod Parker, Ryan Cook, Tommy Milone, and Derek Norris. Not exactly names you throw around at the dinner table. All of the players he got in return are players that deserved to be on a fantasy team at any given point of this last season. In addition, as Jonah Hill says "like an island of misfit toys" Beane goes on a free agency frenzy and picks up Brandon Moss, Jonny Homes, Stephen Drew and Brandon Inge, among others. Small pieces, small names. Then he goes out and picks up the Cuban sensation, Yoenis Cespedes, who creates a damn good rookie season if it wasn't for that guy playing for that Los Angeles team. Very few headliners on this team, and yet, well I'll let you remember what happened just over a month ago. And even I had Texas pegged for the World Series. With the tools Beane has, this is how the new system works, and how it doesn't. It showed that a team with little budget was able to mop up against teams like the Rangers, Angels, and even force a game five with the Tigers in a division series. The system is not perfect though.
Just this last year, I ran my fantasy baseball team with Moneyball being its bible. I read it cover to cover and looked up and down websites for prospects coming up that would change the entire season. Dan Straily, an Oakland product, was supposed to strike out everything in this hemisphere. He did what was expected of him. Trevor Bauer was too, but that didn't work out as planned. This is how the game works, you are deemed a success if three out of ten moves are successful. I looked at stats and made over seventy roster moves throughout the season. Some were good (picking Mike Trout on the wire) and some were…regrettable (giving up on R.A. Dickey) and some were straight up stupid (threatening to dump Giancarlo Stanton for nothing because he wasn't producing at the time.) But I had fallen into my own trap, I had overvalued my own players and that cost me bragging rights. I had also lost part of the game that excited me the most, the enjoyment of the game itself. Ironically, I made it to the championship, after being in first place by a considerable lead all season, only to get swept, absolutely crushed. Fitting, I suppose.
"It's wrong to say that the new breed doesn't care about baseball. But it's not wrong to say that that there is no way they could possible love it": that's how 3 Nights in August starts, explaining how it's the anti-Moneyball. In reality, the two books belong together. It even acknowledges how the game has changed since then, itself creating a genre of baseball books about small budget teams and their constant changes to the how the game is managed. Buzz Bissinger makes no bones about it, you can't make a team based off stats alone, there must be a time and a place. La Russa even explains it himself, he is a stat addict as everyone else is by then, but he does so with knowledge of being in the game for nearly half a century. This is not left versus right politics, this is about growth, and this is about the multiple facets of the greatest and most complicated game on earth. This book shows part of the enormous reputation Moneyball has today.
3 Nights in August is exactly what it tells the reader it will be. It shows the readers the ins and outs of a three game series between the Cardinals versus their division rival Cubs during the hot days of summer. The book's structure is without doubt a huge selling point. Its patient, it allows for tangents and side stories to suck in the reader and it allows the reader to enjoy the games as if they were actually there. When Mark Prior pitches in Game 1, Tony LaRussa thinks about his own prospect tragedy in the story of Rick Ankiel. At the time the book was written, both Prior and Ankiel had begun towards their descent into wasted talent. When Kerry Wood begins to pitch in Game 2, a considerable amount of page space is dedicated to the art, politics, and nature of the "retaliation beaning" that is controversial in baseball to this day. Tony La Russa explains his take on it, where it developed from, and the pros and cons of doing such a thing. The book is about managing the forced family of the 25-man team; it's about managing injuries and egos and about pride. It's about the use of the bunt and the hit- and-run and why being aggressive pays off.
Basically, it will make the Moneyball fans cry.
Readers will enjoy learning how pitching coach Dave Duncan transformed pitchers lost in their ways like Matt Morris and Woody Williams and understand why J.D. Drew's big-money contract was his downfall in Saint Louis. The book covers everything important in baseball in the last two decades; including our addiction to the home-run and the player's use of steroids. Tony La Russa talks about Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire and how the game changed after the strike in 1994. Baseball has a history like no other sport, a history that can be learned during the game, between pitches and between innings. The game itself is so intricate that we sometimes forget the stories that come along with it. We forget the Kerry Robinsons and Cal Elreds of the world. This is a book that would look like a good movie, no need to beef it up and make it a story like that of Moneyball; it's already there.
The reason why I picked up these two books is simple: I remember (and still believe) that the Big Three of the Oakland A's including Barry Zito, Tim Hudson, and Mark Mulder can rival and beat just about any starting three pitchers from their era, and I remember wondering how Matt Morris felt after Darryl Kile passed away suddenly. For me, those names mean something, just like Turk Wendell, Joe McEwing, and Benny Agbayani mean something (Greg Kaplan is surely tearing up at this point of the essay). I remember the rise and fall of Mark Prior and wish nothing more than for guys like him and Rick Ankiel to go out and just pitch one more time, just to prove they can. I remember the home-run chase and rooting for Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa because even on the field, they acted like friends chasing their childhood dreams.
But these are all just memories. Long story short, Moneyball is about the importance of statistics and 3 Nights in August is about the emotions and use of those statistics. It gives the casual fan something to understand, as opposed to just calling their favorite players bums. Together, they are a complete image of baseball today, and will change how you watch it drastically. For any fan of baseball that wants to walk down memory lane, when we were too busy playing Gameboy and laughing at Spongebob Squarepants or whatever you watched when you were young, I advise you to read these books. You'll be happy to see some old names in there, names our fathers cursed for and against, names we heard just in passing on highlights during Sports Center. That alone will be worth it. So pick them up, match them up against each other, and eagerly wait for Spring Training, so we can see these stories unfold once again.


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Upon hearing the news on Tuesday from Mike Francesa that the Mets and Jason Bay had reached terms on a contract, I texted a few friends about the news in case they hadn't heard. One of those friends was occasional Blue & Orange contributor Joe A Dig, who responded with the text, "Oh goody. The solution to none of our problems. Unless maybe he's secretly a pitcher too."
This has not been an uncommon reaction to the Bay signing, most of which has been somewhat muted. Joe Janish from MetsToday tweeted something similar after the signing, and perennial nitwit John Harper buries the Mets for not acquiring John Lackey, even though the Red Sox gave Lackey more years and more guaranteed money than the Mets gave Bay, despite both being the same age, despite Lackey's recent history of injury issues, despite Lackey being a pitcher and thus being more susceptible to injuries anyway, and despite Lackey's downward trending peripherals.
Anyway, the point of this is not to defend the Bay deal. It seems like a typical Omar Minaya deal, especially if it's backloaded, in that it will be good in the short-term, potentially disastrous in the long-term, especially with the Mets' salary commitments in 2012 (Santana at $24m, Bay at ~$19m, Wright's $15m option, and of course, the bane of this blog's existance, the Frankie $17.5m vesting option, giving the Mets a whopping $75.5 million in potential salary on the books for three seasons from now). It's more to discuss this idea that the Mets need to solely concentrate on pitching this offseason, because anybody that watched last year's team would have to see that there was a lot more wrong with the 2009 Mets than starting pitching.
Last year, the Mets were 25th in the major leagues in runs scored, and 16th in runs allowed. This does not mean to suggest that they were somehow "better" at preventing runs than they were at scoring them, because they were below average in both categories. Plus, Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran are both scheduled to return in 2010, and hopefully both will be back as close to 100% as possible, which will help both run scoring and run prevention, since both are excellent all-around players. Additionally, the Mets play most of their home games at Citi Field, and while we still don't have enough evidence to say for certain, early returns are that Citi Field does play like a pitcher's park, which will make the Mets' runs scored ledger look worse and their runs allowed ledger look better than their true skill levels.
Still, it's hard to argue that the Mets needed another good position player. After Wright, Beltran, and Reyes, there is a steep drop in talent present in the lineup. Assuming the Mets eventually sign Bengie Molina (an unfortuante inevitability), the rest of the Mets lineup will likely consist of Molina, Daniel Murphy, Luis Castillo, and Jeff Francoeur, and if the Mets hadn't signed Bay, they likely would have started Angel Pagan in RF. These are simply not players capable of playing competitive baseball. Their deficencies range from an inability to get on base (Molina, Francoeur, Murphy), a lack of power (Castillo, Murphy, Pagan), and poor defensive skills (Castillo). That is too many flaws surrounding the core.  I mean, Angel Pagan was clearly the best of these players in 2009, ironic considering he's the player most likely to become a bench player in 2010, as the Mets set out to prove that Jeff Francoeur's 956 plate appearances with the Braves from 2008 to 2009 was the sample size fluke, not his 308 Mets plate appearances.
While Bay brings his own defensive inabilities to the team, there's no doubting the potent combination of power and on-base skills he immediately adds to the Mets lineup. Considering that the Carlos Delgado of 2008 is gone, and likely never coming back, this team is going to need that sort of bat if they are to return to their 2008 levels of production, where they finished the year tied for eighth in baseball in runs scored. He's not the great all-around player that Beltran, Wright, and Reyes are, or even that Matt Holliday is, but it's also likely that Bay becomes the best hitter on the team the second his contract is official. Considering the Mets' unfortunate history at the corner outfield spot dating back to late 90's, he's not a terrible player to acquire, especially since the Mets' focus right now should be to win now, with Beltran's contract set to expire soon and Wright and Reyes soon to become expensive.
The Mets focus shouldn't be confined to simply focusing on hitting and pitching. It should be on finding the most efficient way to outscore the competition. Granted, signing Jason Bay doesn't necessarily achieve that, but neither does simply signing John Lackey. Pitching doesn't win championships by itself, but putting together the best combination of hitting and pitching together does. Look at the last three World Series champions. The 2009 Yankees finished first in runs scored, 14th in runs allowed, and second in run differential. The 2008 Phillies also weren't a pure pitching team; they were 5th in runs allowed and tied for 8th with the Mets in runs scored, good for the third best run differential in the majors. The 2007 Red Sox followed a similar path, ranking 4th in runs scored and first in runs allowed to put together the best run differential in baseball. Run prevention is obviously important, but all of these teams could score some runs, too. None finished lower than third in baseball in run differential, and that's with the randomness of the baseball postseason working against them.
I'm not saying that the Mets don't need a starting pitcher. While I like Mike Pelfrey and Jon Niese more than most, the team obviously can't go into 2010 and expect John Maine to be healthy enough to last an entire season when recent history shows that he probably can't, and the team can't rely on Oliver Perez to be good. But there are still plenty of good starting pitchers available. Ben Sheets is still on the market, as is Joel Piniero, Doug Davis, Jon Garland, and a bunch of other rotation filler guys. Guys like Aaron Harang, Bronson Arroyo, and other starters making way too much money for their current teams are also available for a minimal prospect cost. There are plenty of ways for the Mets to upgrade their pitching, to say nothing of improving their middle infield defense by dumping Castillo for Orlando Hudson or Adam Kennedy, who would make Pelfrey look a whole lot better than he was in 2009.Â
The Mets can, and likely will, address their run prevention in the upcoming weeks. It remains to be seen if their offense will score enough runs, as even with the addition of Bay, the Mets are likely to have three OBP ciphers at the low end of their lineup in Murphy, Francoeuer, and Molina, which will hurt their ability to score runs. Still, having Bay can only help this team's run scoring in 2010, and that is an area where the team was lacking in 2010. Even if the team does eventually resign Carlos Delgado, they can't expect the Delgado of 2008 to return, so adding another bat like Bay's to the lineup will only benefit the team next year. Adding Bay helps the Mets improve their ability to outscore the competition, at least in the short-term, and for that, the move was a decent one.


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When the weather is cold and snowy in January and other winter months, it is so very tempting to stay at home, drink hot chocolate, and genealogy-surf on your home computer. There are many sites you can go to again and again since new data is added frequently these days.
The Martin family of Opelika, Alabama was growing and prospering in 1926. The patriarch, Barnett Martin (known everywhere as "Dad"), and his wife Mollie had 7 living children, the oldest of whom were grown and married. One day in June, 46-year-old Mollie suddenly collapsed and died of a brain aneurysm.
Since February is the month of love, I thought I would mention a book titled Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800 by Robert K Headley, Jr. I was doing some research for one of my ancestors and found the title on the shelf. It was too catchy to pass up. I found some references to surnames I had been looking for.
Our branch manager, Cheryl, has just recently returned from being in Utah at RootsTech 2014, their fourth annual conference focusing on the cutting edge of technology in the genealogy field. I remember last year at this time when I took advantage of the RootsTech classes online and watched some of them live, providing me with new ideas and technology directions to "chew on" for months ahead.
Did your ancestors come from Ireland? Do you want to see if you can find out where in Ireland he or she came from? Do you want to know what their lives were like in Ireland? Or maybe, you are just stuck? If you are just starting out, find as much as you can about your ancestor using United States records/place of arrival records. Finding a clue that will give you at least a country of origin in Ireland is a must.
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Oregon Revised Statutes require ESDs to provide registration services for students not enrolled in public or private school, but for whom parents have chosen home schooling. The WESD provides a centralized registration process for students residing within the 21 school districts throughout Marion, Polk, and Yamhill Counties. Registration of home school students is required for children ages 7 through 18. If your child turns 7 after September 1, you are not required to register until the following school year.
Parents who choose to home school their children must comply with the following legal requirement as well as testing which is discussed in more detail below:
Provide written notice to the WESD of the intent to home school within 10 days of the date of withdrawal (or choice not to enroll) in public school. (If the child is continuing to home school from the previous year, it is not necessary to provide written notice each school year.)
In order to improve service to home school families within our service area, WESD is using a new computerized system that will give parent(s)/guardian(s) of home school students the ability to manage their own home school data and print documents needed from their account. The on-line system provides the following benefits:
- DMV Statement of Enrollment (required by DMV to obtain permit).
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Required state testing focuses on satisfactory progress in academic areas. Academic content standards and curriculum goals have been developed by ODE and are available on their website. These academic content standards provide a framework for all content areas and are arranged as standards for grades 3, 5, 8, and 10. You may review Content Standards by grade and subject via the ODE website. Parents/Gaurdians are not required to use state content standards for their home school student.
Testing Requirements & Resources
Home-schooled children must be tested before the end of grades 3, 5, 8, and 10. The end of the school year is defined before August 15. If the child never attended public or private school, the child must be tested before August 15 following the end of grade 3. If the child was withdrawn from public or private school, the first required examination is not administered within the first 18 months of home schooling even if during that 18-month period is in grade 3, 5, 8, or 10.
Example 1: If a child is withdrawn at the start of his 2nd grade year, the 18 month period will be over midway through 3rd grade and he must be tested by August 15th of 3rd grade.
Example 2: If a child is withdrawn from school at the start of his 3rd grade year, the 18 month period will be over midway through 4th grade. Testing is only required in 3, 5, 8, and 10, therefore, he will not be required to test until the end of 5th grade.
Authorized Testers
The test examiner must be a "neutral" person and one who is qualified to administer such test to the child, and has been approved as a tester by ODE. The "neutral person" is defined as an individual who is selected by the parent or guardian of the child to be taught at home who has no relationship by bloodline or marriage to the child. The Oregon Department of Education supplies a current list of approved testers. The ESD may request test results and parents or guardians must provide the results of the test within a reasonable amount of time.
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In 1999, SB 487 was passed and became effective September 1, 2000. It requires proof of enrollment before issuing a drivers permit or license to children under the age of 18. If the student is under the age of 18 and would like to get an Oregon driver's permit or license, the DMV requires all students to show proof of school enrollment. A "Statement of Enrollment" is available online to the parent by logging in to the WESD home school web application. The law also allows a school district to request the DMV to suspend the driving privileges of a student who no longer complies with Oregon law.
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A home school student interested in participating in interscholastic activities must reside within the district boundaries of the school. Eligibility is contingent upon the student receiving a test score at or above the 23rd percentile on all required examinations. Examinations must be taken by August 15th of each school year and shall be used to determine eligibility for the upcoming school year. The test results must be submitted to the resident school district, not WESD, before activities commence. If a student has taken the examination and is awaiting results, they may participate in activities, including practicing with the team. Guidelines are available through the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) for review.
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By Michael Arbeiter, Hollywood.com Staff
It's not always so easy to identify what differentiates the "good" and "bad" episodes of a given television show. When it comes to comedy series, we know we're after laughs but what is the formula that makes some jokes land while others fall flat? As far as How I Met Your Mother goes, in which cases do the antics of Ted, Robin, Marshall, Lily, and Barney thrill and elate, and in which do they irk and bore?
The latter phenomenon has become all but the norm for HIMYM. Week after week through the present eighth season, we've suffered through stale dialogue, lazy acting, and plots that'd make your brain peter into sawdust. But as we haven't given up on the show just yet, we must hang onto some semblance of faith that the CBS sitcom still has a few tricks up its sleeve. A few doozies packed away for sweeps week, or the odd mid-season winner. And such a winner transpires this week with the unexpected delight "P.S. I Love You," the funniest episode of How I Met Your Mother I've seen in months. Perhaps the only truly funny episode yet this season.
We catch up with Ted, plugging along on his journey of romantic exploration, locking eyes with a lovely young woman on the subway who just so happens to be reading the very same book as he. The two are separated before even meeting, but Ted vows to scour the plains of Manhattan Isle to find this stranger deterred by Marshall and Lily when they deem his devotion to the woman creepy and worthy of the denomination "stalker." When Ted just so happens to bump into the woman outside of his school building in the midst of a fire alarm conglomeration, Marshall and Lily's tune changes: they begin to call her the crazy psycho stalker, much to Ted's chagrin.
As the episode progresses, we learn more and more about Ted's new lady friend's mental state of being. She caused the ad hoc fire drill (and not by pulling the alarm, but by actually setting a fire). She had tracked Ted down to the school after following and watching him for, as it turns out, about a year and a half. And as Ted gradually approaches the truth about his new lady friend's psychosis, all he can do is bask in his periodically inflating ego over how much she seems to like him.
What Makes This One Work: Hard to say, as suggested above. But the kooky character with whom Ted is now romantically involved seems a good compliment to his own supply of nutso. The storyline's ability to showcase Ted as both the straight man of the relationship, reacting to her temperate insanity, while still exhibiting his own mental problems (namely, his crazy vanity and insecurity) in a lighthearted and fun way is what spins gold of this plotline and we haven't seen the last of it, as the unhinged character is set to return on next week's episode, thankfully.
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On the other side of the episode, we have an even greater deal of fun. And this one owes itself to a lot more straightforward an explanation: Robin Sparkles. After Robin admits to having herself been a stalker back in her teen years (but without indentifying the object of her desires), Barney breaks into her apartment wait, they're engaged but they don't live together? I'm just realizing this. Is that weird? to peruse her old diaries, stumbling upon the repeated phrase "P.S. I Love You," but never the figure's name. As such, Barney flees to Canada to interrogate all of Robin's ex lovers (including a costumed James Van Der Beek!), learning from his mission that the truth lies within a VH1 Beind the Music (rather, Canada's version of that) special about Robin Sparkles. And so, the gang gathers together to watch yet another exploit of our dear departed '90s pop star-of-the-North friend.
And although we're not exactly invigorated to the point of going to the mall, the new Alanis Morisettey/grungy ballad by an angrier, grittier Robin Sparkles number "P.S. I Love You" is enough to make you giddy. Plus, a slew of Canadian cameos offering their enthusiastically dramatic points of view on the historic shift, not to mention on the mystery of who "P.S. I Love You" is about. Alex Trebek, Jason Priestley, Luc Robitaille, Steven Page, and many others (including good ol' self-parodying Dave Couiler!) gather together to throw in their two cents, many of whom assigning the song to one Robin Thicke. But in truth, Robin admits finally to her affections having lain with Paul Schaffer (the P.S.), settling Barney's obsession and proving to him that just about anyone can go a little nuts.
What Makes This One Work: Again, this is a much easier one. First off, any '90s pop parody works wonders on this show. If Carter Bays and Craig Thomas know one thing well, it's '90s pop culture. The assortment of Canadian B-list celebrities, all fully devoted to the self-jabbing routine, makes for a fun extended gag even Barney's succumbing to the obsession of his fiancée's old flame is good for some laughs.
All in all, though it doesn't quite further us down the road of Ted's mother-meeting journey or Barney's engagement to Robin, this week's ep works in the vein of comedy. Although HIMYM has hardened a bit in recent years, this proves that it hasn't quite lost its touch altogether. And we might even be provoked to look forward to a few more laughers yet to come.
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This timeline attempts to represent the broad sweep of the history of the Broward County Courthouse from 1915 until the present.
It is intended to represent many of the major events and people comprising the history of the Broward County Courthouse over time. It is neither
comprehensive nor exhaustive.
Focusing on many of the judiciary, it attempts to be inclusive and representative of as many 'firsts' as may be supported by the facts.
The construction of the timeline is an evolving project, which, over time, will include additional significant people and events that tell the story of an everchanging
Broward County Courthouse whose Main Courthouse and branches now serve a county of nearly two million people.
Any errors in the timeline are solely the responsibility of the author.
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Photo Left: View from the inside of the 1928 Broward CountyCourthouse tower clock shortly before its demolition, taken on November 24,1960,
looking north toward downtown Fort Lauderdale. Courtesy, Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, Gene Hyde Collection (H21772.5).
Photo credits: Photos of Judge Gonzalez and all other Judges, Courtesy, Broward County Bar Association. Photo credits: Elizabeth Athanasakos, courtesy, National Federation of Business and Professional Women, Inc.; Judge Burnstein, courtesy of Judge Burnstein; Judge Hastings, courtesy, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 – Present. Judge Taylor, courtesy, Fourth District Court of Appeal; all photos from 1915 to 1962, courtesy, Broward County Historical Commission and the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society; all other photos, courtesy, Broward County Bar Association.
Sources: "Bench and Bar of Florida," H. Evans, Tallahassee, Fla., 1935; Angeline Weir, ed., Broward Bar Bulletin, June 1958-Feb.1963; James H. Gilbert, Jr., "History of the Judicial System of Broward County," New River News, January 31, 1967; "Bench and Bar of Broward County," Broward County Bar Association, 1975; Roger Fleming and Ron Cole, "Lawyers and Law in Early Fort Lauderdale," New River News, Vol. XXII, No. 2 (Fall 1983),
pp. 4-13; "Broward County Bar Association: 1994-1995," Broward County Bar Association;
William G. Crawford, Jr., "Judge Vincent Giblin: Broward's First Circuit Judge was Capone's Lawyer,
Dade Judge in the '50s," Broward Legacy, Summer/Fall 1995; William G. Crawford, Jr., "Broward County Courthouse History - the Forties," Broward Legacy, Winter/Spring 1994; "Celebrating Florida's First 150 Women Lawyers," compiled and edited by Wendy S. Loquasto, The Florida Bar/Florida Ass'n of Women Lawyers, Lexis Publishing, Charlottesville, Va., 2000; Judges of the United States Courts, www.fjc.gov. Oral history interviews by author of Judges Barbara Bridge, Miette K. Burnstein, and Leroy H. Moe. Personal courthouse files of Lamar G. Warren in possession of the author.
About the author: A member of The Florida Bar and the Broward County Bar Association since 1975, William G. Crawford, Jr., is a shareholder in the Fort Lauderdale law firm of McDonald & Crawford, P.A. He is a native of Fort Lauderdale, past president and trustee of the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, and past Chair and a longtime member of the Broward County Historical Commission. He has published numerous scholarly articles on state and local history, including Broward County legal and courthouse history. Crawford is the 2008 winner of the Rembert Patrick Award for the Best Book on Florida History presented by the Florida Historical Society for his book, Florida's Big Dig: the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville to Miami, 1881 to 1935.
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Bruce Kovner founded Caxton Associates in 1983 and the fund's remarkable performance since then- it's been particularly consistent in limiting periods of negative return- has given Kovner a net worth of $4.5 billion. The fund has been managed by Andrew Law since 2008. In November, Caxton filed its 13F with the SEC and thus reported many of its long equity positions that it had owned at the end of September to the general public. See the fund's holdings or read on for our analysis of its five largest equity positions.
Caxton made a big move over the course of the quarter by moving heavily into one of the hottest stocks in the market among hedge funds- American International Group (NYSE: AIG). AIG rocketed onto our list of the ten most popular stocks among hedge funds as 110 funds and other notable investors in our database of 13F filings reported a position. A number of investors are likely still sour on AIG for blowing up during the financial crisis, with skepticism of the stock leading to a P/B of 0.5 and a forward P/E of 9 despite substantial growth. We're with the hedge funds on this one- AIG looks like it is undervalued.
The fund also bought Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), which is known as Warren Buffett's favorite bank stock. Find more of Berkshire Hathaway's top stock picks. While many other bank stocks have been up strongly in the last few months, Wells Fargo is about flat since the end of May; Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase have all risen at least 20% over the same period. This has left Wells Fargo's P/E multiples at a fairly low premium to these weaker banks, though the bank's P/B ratio is still 1.2. It's a tough call for us- JPMorgan Chase seems slightly cheaper, and Citi even lower priced, but those banks' business performance seems about in line with their multiples.
We hadn't considered Bank of America to be as good a buy as those three- its earnings multiples certainly aren't great relative to its peers, and earnings have collapsed recently- but it had been another of Caxton's top picks. Bank of America trades at 10 times forward earnings estimates, and while its P/B is very low at 0.5 we can't help but notice the 26% decline in revenue that the bank took last quarter compared to the third quarter of 2011. The company was only barely profitable for the quarter as well. Until the company is better able to monetize its assets, we think that JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Wells Fargo would be better for an investor's portfolio.
Regions Financial (NYSE: RF), a regional bank which primarily operates in the Southeastern U.S., is rebounding strongly from the aftereffects of the financial crisis. Its net income nearly doubled in the third quarter of 2012 compared to a year earlier, with revenue up strongly as well. Even with a 59% gain in the stock price over the last year, the P/B ratio here is only 0.6. Caxton owned 6 million shares at the end of September, nearly triple what it had at the beginning of July. We'd be interested in taking a closer look at the company.
Finishing out the pattern of financial stocks at the top of the fund's portfolio was Synovus Financial (NYSE: SNV); Caxton reported a position of 14 million shares in the $1.8 billion market cap regional bank (which, like Regions, is concentrated in the Southeast). Synovus's earnings have actually been about flat, and its market cap is much closer to the book value of its equity with a P/B of 0.9. It looks to us like whether or not Regions is a good deal, it is a better buy than Synovus.
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More men are being diagnosed with bowel cancer, but it's a disease that can be beaten.
A report from Cancer Research UK published last month found that a man's chances of contracting bowel cancer (also referred to as colorectal cancer) have doubled since the 1970s.
In 1975, the lifetime risk of contracting the disease was one in 29. Today, it's one in 15. And though a woman's risk has also increased, the rise is less pronounced.
Why are so many men now at risk of bowel cancer, and what can we all do to minimise our chances of getting the disease? Here are the facts all men need to know.
How prevalent is bowel cancer?
Bowel cancer is Britain's third most common cancer, with nearly 40,000 people diagnosed with the disease every year. It's the second biggest cancer killer after lung cancer.
According to the charity Bowel Cancer UK, someone in this country is diagnosed with the disease every 15 minutes.
Who gets bowel cancer?
Both men and women get bowel cancer, but in 2008 over 4,000 more men were diagnosed. The latest figures from Cancer Research UK suggest that the gap is likely to increase.
"These new figures do not come as a surprise," says Mark Flannagan, chief executive of charity Beating Bowel Cancer. "Bowel cancer incidence is steadily increasing and, as these figures show, men do have a slightly higher risk of developing the disease than women."
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According to charity Beating Bowel Cancer, men have a slightly higher risk of developing bowel cancer than women
Bowel cancer is to some extent a disease of aging, and your risk increases greatly after the age of 50. The authors of the Cancer Research study think that one of the main reasons our lifetime risk is increasing is because we're living longer.
"As people are living longer the numbers getting cancer have increased and the lifetime risk of developing bowel cancer has gone up," said epidemiologist Professor Peter Sasieni, an author of the report.
But it's not just the middle aged and elderly that get bowel cancer. Around 2,000 cases are diagnosed in the under 50s every year, and figures obtained in 2009 showed that there had been a 120% rise in cases in people under 30 in just 10 years.
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What are the risk factors?
Age is a major risk factor for bowel cancer. Around 95% of cases are diagnosed in people over 50. But that's no reason to be complacent. Bowel cancer can strike considerably younger men, and the lifestyle factors you adopt now can help to increase or reduce your risk of the disease in years to come.
Family history is also a factor. If you have a first degree relative (parent, sibling or child) who was diagnosed with the disease before the age of 45 it's worth letting your GP know if they don't already, because they may be able to arrange extra screening.
The same is true if you have two first degree relatives who contracted bowel cancer at any age. Experts aren't 100% certain about the causes of the disease, but hereditary factors appear to have some significance.
And after genetics comes lifestyle. You know the drill by now. Exercise, eat plenty of fruit, veg and fibre, cut down your alcohol intake and quit smoking. They're all thought to be risk factors for bowel cancer, as for so much else.
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Excessive consumption of processed meats like bacon, ham and salami is believed to increase the risk of developing bowel cancer
Your meat intake is something else to think about. Red meat is thought to increase your risk of the disease. But an even stronger link exists with processed meats like bacon, sausage, ham and salami.
In May this year the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) published the most authoritative report yet on the links between diet and bowel cancer.
"On meat, the clear message that comes out of our report is that red and processed meat increase risk of bowel cancer and that people who want to reduce their risk should consider cutting down the amount they eat," said Professor Alan Jackson, chair of the WCRF.
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What are the symptoms of bowel cancer?
The first thing to say is that if you're an otherwise healthy young man you're unlikely to have bowel cancer, even if you notice one of the following symptoms. But you must get them checked out, just in case.
One obvious symptom is a change in your normal bowel habit that lasts four weeks or more, perhaps involving more constipation or more runny stools. A good idea is to get to know your bowel habits now so you'll know when something's wrong.
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If you experience any symptoms that relate to bowel cancer, don't hesitate to get them checked out by your GP
Bleeding from the bottom or blood in stools is also a symptom of bowel cancer, though it could easily be piles (haemorrhoids). Also look out for unexplained extreme tiredness and/or unexplained weight loss, and a pain or lump in your abdomen.
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Most symptoms will not be bowel cancer, but they need to be checked out anyway. And the good news is that - if caught early - bowel cancer is a treatable disease. The chances of surviving for 10 years after diagnosis is now close to 90% when the disease is caught in its early stages.
So remember, more men may be getting bowel cancer, but that's at least partly because more men are living longer. And the positive news is that some basic lifestyle changes can cut your risk dramatically. Make bowel health a priority.
Related links
- Cancer Research UK
- Bowel Cancer UK
- Beating Bowel Cancer
- World Cancer Research Fund
- NHS Choices: bowel cancer information
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Every auto writer loves to make fun of bad cars, and the thought of creating a list of the worst makes me absolutely giddy. This list is "The Worst Cars Sold in the US during the 1970's," a time of muscle cars, "Nimitz" class family sedans, and quick rusting steel.
Ford Pinto – The mother of all bad cars. This car is an abomination, with an exploding gas tank that killed thousands of people, and maimed even more. Ford actually had a radio spot that claimed, "Pinto leaves you with that warm feeling," can you believe it? A better "saddle" tank was used in the Capri, but the bean counters decided a human life (worth $200,725 dollars) and the lawsuits were cheaper than spending $5.08 per car to fix the problem. When the Pinto was hit, the doors would crumble, trapping owners inside the burning car. Even though Ford tested the Pinto 40 times in secret, with it exploding every time, they still refused to fix it. The Ford Pinto is the most reprehensible decision in the history of American engineering.
Ford Mustang II – Based on the Pinto, the Mustang II was Ford's answer to the oil crisis of 1973. The standard car had 88hp, and the high-end version had 105hp, not swift by any definition. Shorter, and smaller than the old Mustang, it looked overly styled, bulky and was an embarrassment to the Mustang name.
Ford Maverick/Mercury Comet – Ford was cute with this one…giving you paint options like Anti-Establish Mint, Freudian Gilt, Thanks Vermillion, Dresden Blue (Remember how pretty Dresden was after we got through with it?) and the luxury version was (I am not lying) targeted as an alternative to BMW, Mercedes and Audi (More crack please!).
Lincoln Versailles – A very thinly disguised Granada…everyone hated it, and it turned out to be the Lincoln equivalent of the Cimarron.
Ford Fairmont/Mercury Zephyr – This was the car that chased poor E.T. until he dropped, and the base models were trash. Doors were the width of pennies, felt about as heavy, and the dash looked like it was made in grade school. Cheap was taken to a completely new level with the Fairmont.
AMC Gremlin – This car was fugly, and the cute comments asking, "Where's the rest of your car" were really saying, "God, you are one stupid idiot for buying that piece of crap." Yes, it was a tiny subcompact with a V6 option, but it makes no difference. The car was named after a small gnome that destroys equipment. It was introduced on April Fool's Day, and the original design was drawn on a Northwest Orient airsickness bag. Because they ran out of money, they actually cut the back of the design off, and had carpeting as an option. AMC had to be an insane asylum, where no one took their meds… there is no other explanation.
AMC Hornet – Three years and one million man-hours of design, and this is the best they could develop. My father drove one courtesy of the US Air Force, and I remember it as being cheap, ugly and one of the oldest feeling new cars I ever drove, like driving a coffee grinder. Even in the show room, these cars looked used.
AMV Matador Coupe – This car is so ugly, they should have had an option to tint other people's windows. It was too fat, the hood was too long, and the wheels were lost under all that overhanging sheet metal. Only when it was setup for NASCAR did the car finally look normal. The Matador Coupe was the ultimate in bad taste.
Notable – AMC Pacer – The Pacer is ugly and memorable, like that banjo playing kid from Deliverance, but I am not going to be like everyone else and call it the worst car ever made. Sure, during the summer the terrarium glass made everything in the car melt into a viscous pool on the floor, including the passengers. Yes, the heavy doors did not match (one was 4 inches longer) and they would eventually sag like an old woman's chest; but the car was unique, and credit should be given to AMC for having the sack to take a chance.
Plymouth Arrow – Just when I thought there was nothing bad enough from Chrysler to get on the list, I stumble on the Arrow, a car whose rear suspension was taken from an earlier model: the ox cart. Also known as the Arrow Jet, and Fire Arrow, the car was a collection of sad parts, bad names and gaudy decals designed to decay in less time than it took to go from 0-60.
Plymouth Cricket – Yes, like the insect, this car would make annoying noises until you killed it.
Plymouth Sapporo – A hideous car that never sold well and looked like a Japanese import, raised on American Big Macs.
Dodge Omni / Plymouth TC3 – This was one horrible car. Chrysler came out with a Shelby version that was only slightly better, but I can never forgive them for the de Thomaso "red tomato" edition, not to mention what they later did to the Maserati name. Chrysler did more to ruin Italian heritage than Mussolini and Sacco & Vanzetti combined.
Downsized GM cars – Almost everything from the "downsize" era at GM was ugly, with the exception of Cadillac. Straight lines, poor quality, no power, and bad paint jobs helped make GM what they are today…bankrupt. Great models like the Cutlass were trashed by boxy replacements that fell apart in the showrooms. If I ever meet the people responsible for this period in car design, I shall beat them severely.
Chevy Monza – Why did GM do this to us? This car was a hideous joke, with a fat tail and a terrible design. Anyone who bought this car deserved the pain it caused, and the fact that Oldsmobile called it a Starfire was an insult to a great line of cars.
Chevy Vega – If this car was built by anyone else, it would have been great, but instead it was brought to us by GM. Everything, except the look was cheap and worthless.
Chevy Chevette – I knew someone that owned one, and I loved to drive it. It was small, cheap and durable with almost nothing inside. It was like a four-door motorcycle, and I loved the fact that you could reach everything from the driver's seat, including the rear hatch.
Foreign Cars – I was one of those people who never made the switch from American to Japanese cars. When the imports first arrived, they were not pleasant, and I remember aiming my land yacht at more than a few of them. Cars like the Honda Z600, and the little Subaru were targets, which needed to be destroyed, and later models like the Nissan B210 Honeybee and the 200SX were just silly. Mazda didn't help things with their GLC (Goofy Losers Car), Cosmo, or the 808 Mizer and its 50hp engine.
European cars were even worse, and buyers were brought to tears by the crap being sold on our shores. Italy was the worst of the lot, sending us the Fiat X 1/9 and Strada, and the miserable Lancia. France was second for the Renault 12 and LeCar, the Citroen 2CV (imported before 1970, but bad enough to make the list), CX Diesel, and the Mehari (a summer sun car made from plastic that eroded in sunlight). Third were British cars like the Triumph Stag and MG Midget, which made Anglophiles across the country hide in their homes in fear of retaliation. Even Germany, who gave us the beautiful Audi Fox, let us down with the VW Thing, a car that reminded us of Nazis. It took many years of counseling for us to heal from this abuse, but we will never let it happen again…hear that Chrysler? Never again.
The 1970's were a time of great cars and hideous trash. I am sure there are a few atrocities I have missed, but I think everyone will agree that these are the worst offenders.
Article courtesy of Chris Raymond
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In this time of economic uncertainty and rapidly evolving technology, classic favorites and brands offering quality craftsmanship, targeted services and proven performance won out. Interbrand Zürich's managing director Michel Gabriel noted that with consistent brand management, "Brands create value and they secure future revenues, as well as customer demand and customer loyalty.˝
With a brand value of 11'101 Million CHF, Nescafé continues to take the top spot on the list of the 50 best brands in Switzerland in the study Interbrand, in cooperation with Swiss business magazine BILANZ, has released. The top three is rounded out with pharmaceutical companies Roche and Novartis, with 7'313 million CHF and 6'825 million CHF respectively.
Sixteen of the on the top 50 list are watch brands. "The strong presence of watch brands is not really surprising," explains Michel Gabriel. "Because brands like Rolex, Omega or IWC continuously create particular brand worlds for their products and thus offer their clients an effective and lasting emotional brand value."
Also strongly represented is the financial services sector. Eight banks and three insurance companies made the list. Credit Suisse with 3'748 Million CHF ranks 7th and UBS with 3'481 Million CHF ranks 8th. Gabriel notes that despite "enormous value adjustments by the leading institutes the front placement of Credit Suisse and UBS can be explained first and foremost due to their clear brand strength."
Kantonalbanken, thanks to direct customer focus, their solidity (being down-to-earth) and a deep-seated local presence, ranked it at 11. Julius Bär came in at 15 and Vontobel, proving its brand promise "Leistung schafft Vertrauen" (Trust through Performance), ranked 19th.
B2Bs were notably absent from the list this year. Companies that focused on public presence, reaching out to customers and building brand recognition succeeded. In creating a strong and lasting impression, brands such as Schindler, the leading provider of elevators and escalators, and SIKA, a specialty chemical company, were able to create strong brand identities and engage consumers. Michel Garbeil concluded, "Investment in your brand definitely pays off."
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Teaching students how to build airplanes, robots and simulations is serious business, but Designing Digitally, Inc. plans to make it a game — literally. Join us for the Metanomics Community Forum on Thursday, June 9th at 12pm PDT/ SLT when Andrew Hughes of Designing Digitally updates us on his firm's virtual activities. He claims that he is bringing a secret guest who has very real information on exactly how Designing Digitally gets things done.
Designing Digitally, Inc., the web-based training firm that specializes in E-learning, virtual worlds, and 3D simulations, was recently awarded a 2011 Air Force Virtual World contract from the United States Air Force Research Laboratory located in Dayton, Ohio. This means the simulation experts at Designing Digitally, Inc. will dedicate the next year to creating an OpenSim virtual world grid, called Virtual Discovery Lab (ViDL), in which high school and college students can explore these technical topics in a hands-on, educational environment.
"We are extremely honored to have been selected for this contract," said Andrew Hughes, President of Designing Digitally, Inc. "It is going to be a fantastic and rewarding challenge to create the OpenSim virtual world infrastructure for United States Air Force Research Laboratory's Discovery Lab."
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Barry University sophomore Nancy Vergara, who never had won a college golf tournament, picked a great time for her first title — the 2013 Division II national championship.
Her stroke average for the year was 76.60. But this past weekend in Daytona Beach, she averaged 72.75 to become the first Barry student — male or female — to win an individual golf national title.
Vergara held her first lead in the tournament on the 72nd and final hole, when she sank a 4-foot putt for par, beating Nova Southeastern freshman Linnea Johansson by one stroke.
"Winning feels amazing," said Vergara, a native of Caracas who shot a 3-over-par 291. "I'm very happy for my trophy."
Vergara's win was only one of the stunning story lines at the tournament. Nova, which had won four consecutive team titles and had led throughout, lost by three strokes to Lynn.
Barry finished third, seven shots off the lead, and the entire Bucs team was there to support Vergara as she navigated her way through the final holes.
And once it was over, there was a surprise waiting for Vergara.
"When I came outside the scorer's tent, they threw water on me," she said. "They poured about 10 bottles on me, which was good since it was pretty warm outside."
Vergara, who chose to attend Barry, in part, because her father, David, lives in Miami, got an extra treat when her mother, Nancy Cortes, took a plane from Caracas to Daytona Beach to watch her play.
First-year Barry coach Shannon Sykora also was part of the support system. He walked the entire final round with Vergara, coaching her every step of the way.
Sykora said he was "not completely surprised" by Vergara's win.
The only obstacles she had faced were injuries to her wrists — the left one last year and the right one this spring. She ultimately skipped three tournaments this spring to allow healing time.
"I told her that even if she missed time, talent never leaves you," Sykora said. "She has experience playing big tournaments. She plays for the Venezuelan national team, and she has had good performances here when she's been healthy."
Before Vergara, the highest finish for a Barry women's golfer at nationals was in 2002, when 62-year-old Judy Street finished eighth.
Vergara, more than four decades younger than Street was then, is a consistent ball-striker who can be "streaky" with her putting, according to Sykora.
Trailing by three strokes with just 13 holes to play, Vergara didn't think she had a chance to win the title but kept putting the pressure on Johansson.
Vergara finally caught Johansson on the 16th hole, when the former made par and the latter had a bogey.
"On the last hole, Nancy had a big tree she had to avoid," Sykora said.
Vergara did just that, landing her approach on the green while Johansson was farther back. When Vergara again made par to Johansson's bogey, the improbable title was hers.
"Every time I thought I might win," Vergara said, "I tried to calm myself down."
Nova finished with three golfers in the top 10 — Johansson, Daniela Ortiz (third) and Abbey Gittings (tied for seventh). Gittings is the only senior on the team, which means the Sharks can be expected to contend for another national title next year.
Barry returns four top-20 golfers: Vergara, freshman Maria Paola Fiorio, freshman Nicky Ferre and sophomore Daniela Murray. The only senior on the roster was Taylor Babcock, who also finished in the top 20.
"We're building," Sykora said.
"Hopefully, we can win it all as a team and have an individual champion next year."


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President John Gilbert says the chain has a strong foundation despite struggling same-store sales.
John Gilbert, president of Romano's Macaroni Grill
Ignite Restaurant Group Inc. in March named John Gilbert president of its 203-unit Romano's Macaroni Grill division.
The Houston-based parent to casual-dining chains Joe's Crab Shack and Brick House Tavern + Tap tapped Gilbert, former chief executive of Minneapolis-based Famous Dave's of America Inc., to lead Macaroni Grill, which it acquired in April 2013.
Macaroni Grill's same-store sales results have recently dragged down Ignite's earnings. In the Dec. 30-ended fourth quarter, same-store sales fell 9 percent at Macaroni Grill, while they rose 1.9 percent at Joe's Crab Shack and increased 6.6 percent at Brick House.
• Ignite names new presidents for Macaroni Grill, Brick House
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But Gilbert told Nation's Restaurant News in an interview earlier this month that he saw great potential in Macaroni Grill.
"It's a great brand," he said. "It's an exciting time to be here."
What attracted you to Macaroni Grill?
It's always been one of my favorite brands. Right after my wife and I got married, we spent a lot of time going to the Mac Grill in Louisville, Ky. We fell in love with it. It's such a combination of all the senses. It was such an experiential brand back then — the unit, the footprint, the space looked and felt different from everybody else. They had the deli cases with all the neat stuff in there that you could take home. They had the pasta hanging and drying and the sauté station was on fire — literally. I have a long experience with the brand but, like for many American consumers, that lapsed over time.
What aspects of Macaroni Grill are especially strong?
It ties back to Phil Romano and his vision as expressed in the original restaurants, which to me feels incredibly contemporary today, 25-plus years later. Mac Grill had the No. 1 atmosphere in Nation's Restaurant News' latest [Consumer Picks] survey and confirmed something that I believe is true of this brand. It was designed with an open dining room, a display kitchen, capacity for multiple lines of business (dine-in, to-go, catering). That was incredible foresight.
And the restaurants themselves?
The Mac Grill unit is timeless and ready for the next generation of consumers. That's part of the dynamic, is the malleability or flexibility of the box. That doesn't sound very restaurateur-ish, but it's quite an alive space. That's opposed to a lot of the casual-dining brands that were built 25 years ago or more and they feel that old. There's something about the installed base of restaurants that is compelling. We also get great scores on food.
How do you view recent changes, such as added service staff?
Since Ignite took over the brand, and I can take no credit for this, the focus on operations has yielded some terrific improvements. The brand is incredibly vibrant. Sure, there is a lot of work for us to do, but I'm attracted to turnaround and opportunity situations. It's been a hallmark of my career.


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