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Field Hockey Ready for Midweek Tilt
Oct. 21, 2013
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State (7-8, 3-1) prepares for a mid-week matchup with Central Michigan (5-8, 2-1). The game will take place at Ralph Young Field on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 3 p.m.
Weekend Recap
Scouting Central Michigan
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MSU Notes
Sixteen different players have recorded at least a goal or an assist this year for the Spartans. Allie Ahern and Abby Barker lead the attack with 10 and nine goals respectively, while captain Kristin Henn and has added four.
Jenni Smith leads the team with six assists, while Alli Helwig and Katherine Jamieson are second on the team with five each.
Junior back Jenni Smith has had a recent point surge, tallying eight points in the Spartans' last three games. Smith scored her first two goals of the season against Michigan and had an assist against Ball State last weekend before adding three more assist on Saturday against No. 5 Penn State.
Abby Barker recorded another goal this past weekend, making it three straight games with a goal and seven in the last five games. Barker recorded a hat trick against Indiana (10/4) and was the second Spartan to do so this year, as teammate Allie Ahern accomplished the feat against Pacific (9/1).
Allie Ahern has been a consistent force for the Michigan State offense all season, leading the team in both goals (10) and points (22), ranking sixth in the Big ten in points and fifth in goals.
Michigan State is seeing a one-two punch develop on its frontline with Abby Barker and Allie Ahern. The two account for just under half (19/40) of the teams goals. Barker and Ahern have each recorded three game-winning goals, tied for the third best mark in the Big Ten. Since Barker's return to the lineup against Northeastern (9/20), at least one of the two has scored in every game except for when the Spartans got shutout at Miami (Oh).
On the defensive side, goalkeeper Molly Cassidy has made 68 saves this season, the second most in the Big Ten. Cassidy turned away a season high 12 shots on Saturday against Penn State. She recorded her first shutout of the season against Northeastern (9/20) and Michigan State goalies have made a combined 74 saves this year, which ranks second in the Big Ten behind Indiana.
Alli Helwig has made all three defensive saves for MSU this season. Michigan State has scored first in all seven of their wins this year, recording team shutouts in three of those victories.
Freshman Adrea Donaldson, Megan Fenton, Kristen Matuala and Shelby Supica have all picked up their first career goals in the Green and White.
Relying on Experience
The Spartans roster features 12 underclassmen (11 freshmen, three sophomores), which means Michigan State will lean heavily on experience and team leadership. There are seven juniors and seniors on the roster that have started in all 14 games to start the season, and the top eight point scorers on the team are all upperclassmen.
Home Field Advantage
B1G Players to Watch
Playing the Best
Four Big Ten teams currently sit in the national poll. MSU defeated No. 16 Michigan and lost to No. 5 Penn State. Still on the slate for the Spartans is 11th ranked Northwestern and No. 18 Iowa.
The Spartan Staff
Molly Maloney enters her sixth season as an assistant coach for the Michigan State field hockey program. This offseason she was promoted to the program's top assistant position. Maloney joined the Spartans beginning in 2008, and Michigan State holds a record of 67-39, including three NCAA tournament appearances, in her tenure.
Jennifer Sciulli joins the Spartan field hockey staff for the 2013 campaign. She served as a student assistant coach at Ohio State in the fall of 2012 before graduating in December with a degree in Speech and Hearing sciences. Sciulli was a four-year varsity starter for the Ohio State field hockey team (2008-2011) where she was a First Team All-American and First Team All-Big Ten selection her senior year.
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August 2012 — The Friends of Greiner worked with the City of Dallas Graffiti Outreach Program on a graffiti wall mural at Greiner Arts Academy and Middle School in Oak Cliff. Greiner students were greeted by this 15' by 84' graffiti wall as they return to school on August 27.
Research indicates that when both staff and students take pride in themselves and their learning community, it improves the success of the school as a whole. This pride gives each student a feeling of connectedness and belonging to their school, community and their peers.
The graffiti mural, on a 15' x 84' wall above the entrance to the school's performance auditorium, is being custom- designed for Greiner. The center focal point is an image of Stevie Ray Vaughan for whom the auditorium is named, and the rest of the mural has images representing the different arts education offered at the school.
"We believe that using graffiti for the mural will appeal to the creative mindset of the middle school students and evoke a sense of pride and belonging in the school," says Rebecca Ordinario, Friends of Greiner co-founder. "I'm excited at seeing the look on the students' faces when they enter school and see the mural – that's a huge wall and it has been dark blue for many years!"
The City of Dallas Graffiti Outreach Program is focused on finding innovative ways to reduce illegal graffiti. The city is reaching out to street artists and taggers to encourage positive behavior by providing them with authorized public space for their artistic expression. These artists also help the community view graffiti in a different way — as a legitimate art form.
The artists responsible for designing and creating this mural include:
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Thanks to DeMond "X" Sims for taking pictures and videos throughout the process. Thanks also to Ms Stephanie Taylor, Greiner's principal and the Greiner custodial staff.
A special thank you goes to Scott Louie of The Paintyard in San Antonio for the great discount he gave us for the 250 cans of spray paint needed for this project. If you need paint for your graffiti art project, this is the place to go – www.ThePaintyard.com.


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Fact: When I was a child I wanted to be an ambulance.
This gif makes me happy. It reminds me of my childhood. My mom was an EMT and on "career day" my mom helped me make an ambulance out of a cardboard box. They knew my mom and were like "Aww, she wants to be an EMT like her mom!" To which I quickly snipped, "NO! I'm gonna be an amby-lance." To this day I hate those slaggy teachers for telling me I couldn't be what I wanted to be. Clearly this gif proves they ruined my adult life. CLEARLY!


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Aveillant, a spin-off company from France-based technology engineering specialist Altran, is developing a new radar designed to distinguish between aircraft and the rotating blades of wind turbines, eliminating the potential confusion wind farms could cause in ATC and allowing wind farms to be built closer to airports.
On today's ATC displays, a wind turbine appears exactly as an aircraft. ATC radar does not know the height of an object, unless it has a transponder. Since not all aircraft have transponders, it is important that primary radar continues to operate in wind farm areas, Craig Webster, Aveillant business development director, explained. Aveillant's radar can locate "non-cooperative objects" (aircraft without a transponder) amidst clutter such as wind farms.
"We have a short-range, three-dimensional system that is designed to sit in the vicinity of clutter," Webster said. It provides hemispherical coverage, unlike conventional scanning radars. Aveillant's radar "can measure clear differences between aircraft and wind turbines," Webster said.
"The development of Aveillant's technical solution is an important step for the development of clean energy production around the world," said Philippe Salle, chairman and CEO of the Altran group. For example, a system that eliminates the potential confusion wind farms could cause in ATC would solve an important problem in the UK, where concerns about the problem are delaying 66 percent of all wind-farm applications in the country, according to the company. Aveillant is now talking to both the wind farm and air transport industries to determine who will be among the first customers.
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They say you should never meet your heroes. Yet attendees at Trojan Horse was a Unicorn (THU) this year realized on Day Zero of the dig...
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It was dubbed "Operation Brilliant Orange" and the extensive undercover investigation has resulted in the arrests of 17 people on state and federal drug trafficking charges.
Among those arrested, a former Northwest Rankin High School football coach and his two children.
56-year-old David Coates of Pearl has been arrested on conspiracy to sell marijuana and possession charges, conspiracy to possess hashish and oxycodone. He was fired last year as head football coach of Northwest Rankin High School.
His son, 21-year-old Joseph Patrick Coates, also of Pearl, was arrested on several state and federal charges of sale and trafficking of drugs like LSD and MDMA or "Molly", oxycodone and amphetamine in Rankin, Madison and Lafayette counties.
Coates' daughter, 20-year-old Mary Alice Coates, also of Pearl, faces numerous counts of conspiracy to possess and deliver a variety of drugs including hashish and oxycodone.
The operation began targeting club drugs such as ecstacy in the Jackson metro area.
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I made this for our family's Thanksgiving feast. I had two issues with this dish- first, it takes a LONG time to make because the prep work on all the fruit is pretty extensive. Second, I rarely buy mangoes and happened to buy unripe ones for this recipe; and kumquats were really hard to find!!! If you live in an area that has access to good exotic fruit that is actually ripe when it is picked I think this dish would come out much better.
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msollid Posted: 11/30/10
I made this as a Thanksgiving side in the hopes of lightening up an otherwise quite brown and carb-heavy meal (though delicious, don't get me wrong...) Kumquats weren't in season yet, nor were blood oranges, but I found red navel oranges and used papaya - the honey/lime/chili vinaigrette made an already fabulous fruit salad edgy and special. The leftovers were stellar, too. Great one!
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I dislike fruit salads but they are virtually obligatory for brunch. This one, however, is stellar. Problem is getting ripe fruit. Can prepare jicama (wrap in plastic) and seed pomegranates (in a bowl under water) in advance to cut prep time. Definitely worth the effort!
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Super addition to our Thanksgiving menu! It was colorful, healthy and kind of exciting. My mom, who usually delights in salty stuffing and sugar-topped sweet potatoes, said this was her favorite dish of the whole meal. The hot flavor gave it a nice edge. Did I mention it was festive? Perfect recipe.


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Self-Serving Myth-Information, KR-style
A certain politician from the great state of Missouri was not the only one to jump the shark this week. "Super guru" Ken Rockwell posted a self-serving myth-information post, suggesting something along the lines of camera manufacturers sending the good cameras to their favorite big online retailers and bad cameras (the ones with bad pixels and other problems) to smaller local retailers. Or something like that. Judging by the various forum posts, the original KR post was edited some to "soften" some of the claims. No examples or proof were offered that this is actually happening.
We typically ignore the KR viral/bait-posts but this type of myth-information is very irresponsible. Not only that, but it reflects very poorly on the online retailers that are "promoted" through this.
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The Rescuers was one of my personal favorite Disney films growing up. This is a terrific film that is very entertaining from start to finish. This is a very good film that will appeal to anyone who loves Disney films. The Rescuers has great characters, a very good story and good ... read more
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the film that redeemed Disney during its fall in quality during the 1970's. So much care was put into making this film and in the end it worked. I get just as emotional watching this as 101 Dalmatians and The Lion King.
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I cant remeber much all I can remember was that it was boring and not very good.
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to hard for me to understand.
January 5, 2011
A pretty good kids movie, pretty fun, and sorta exciting, but if you ask me, it could have been a lot better.
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I enjoyed The Rescuers very much growing up, I just love Eva Gabor's little mouse voice.
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i cant believe im going to say this even for a disney film but SO FREAKING BORING. Im not ashamed to admit i liked it alot when i was little but when i watched it recently after not watching it for a while i couldnt even stand 20 minutes of it and shut it off.
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The Walt Disney animators returned to top form with this beautifully crafted and wonderfully expressive cartoon feature, the first major work to come out of the Disney studios in a decade. Full Review
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Henry Contemporaries Art Trip to Portland
Saturday, October 4, 2008, 12:45 - 3:30 AM
Henry Associate Curator Sara Krajewski led 27 Henry Patrons on a two-day tour of the Portland art scene. The group visited local galleries, several artist studios, museums, and enjoyed a festive group dinner at the acclaimed restaurant, clarklewis. Accommodations were provided by the Hotel deLuxe. For more information about upcoming Henry Art Excursions, please contact Karyn Gregory at 206.221.3244
The itinerary included the following stops:
Local galleries:
- Elizabeth Leach Gallery
- PDX Contemporary Art
- Pulliam Deffenbaugh
- Quality Pictures
- Fourteen30 Contemporary
Artists we met and studios we visited (alpha order):
- Christine Bourdette
- John Brodie
- Brenden Clenagnen
- Molly Dilworth
- MK Guth
- Stephen Hayes
- TJ Norris
- Blair Saxon-Hill
- Mark Smith
- Storm Tharp
- Marie Watt
- Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) TBA installations (Time Based Art)
- Museum of Contemporary Craft
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Very popular family destination park. Group camping; day use area; wheelchair access; drinking water; flush & pit toilets; showers; sani-station; fire rings; interpretive programs; hiking; playground; beach; swimming; canoeing; kayaking; boat launch; fishing; biking; scuba diving; windsurfing; water skiing.
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e-CHUG and e-TOKE anonymous, on-line surveys that provide detailed assessment of your alcohol and marijuana use as compared to other UCSD students (no personal data is stored).
Safe Ride sponsored by Associated Students. Sign up online!
Triton Recovery Group - a registered student group dedicated to creating a safe and fun space for UCSD students who want to have an amazing sober time in college. Events, game nights, activities and outings, and meetings every Tuesday 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the LGBT Resource Center in the Heritage Room. Contact email@example.com for more info.
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Student Health Advocates facilitate a variety of interactive, informative programs! We can help you equip your group or organization with the latest information to make healthy life choices.
All programs are provided free of charge and usually run about 1 hour. We request a minimum of 10 students per session. Plan ahead - allow at least 2 weeks to schedule a program. Listed below are ATOD programs. Sexual health programs and general health programs are also available.
Alcohol Jeopardy. Learn about alcohol facts, alcohol effects, alcohol and college life, and more in this interactive and fun game modeled after the famous TV show.
Be a Friend . . . Save a Life. Whether you are a drinker or a non-drinker, find out how to party safely, what alcohol does to your body, and how to help a friend.
CARRS: College Alcohol Risk Reduction Seminar. This fast-paced, interactive presentation looks at college students and the use of alcohol. Whether you are a drinker or non-drinker, explore action/consequences and ways to improve your decision-making in any scenario while learning how to party safely, what alcohol does to your body, how behavior is affected, and what resources we have on campus to help.
Cocaine. A comprehensive program that looks at the most recent studies on cocaine and its physical and mental effects on the body.
Alcohol & Energy Drinks = Trouble!. Discover more about the interaction between alcohol and energy drinks - the facts may surprise you. Also, learn about BAC and your behavior regardless of what you are mixing with alcohol.
Hookah: Hype or Hoax? An old tradition with a new flair. Find out what is in the tobacco used for the hookah and the issue of second hand smoke.
Marijuana - Fact or Fiction?. An interactive program looking at all the facts about marijuana.
Marijuana Jeopardy. Learn about maijuana, hookah, tobacco, college life and more in this interactive and fun game modeled after the famous TV show.
Great Triton Challenge: Marijuana Throwdown! A fast-paced and interactive "Team A" vs. "Team B" game that also promotes discussion about marijuana. Winner takes all!
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The comprehensive prevention approach that UCSD implements follows the Public Health Model of prevention by looking at combined strategies aimed at changing the physical, social, legal, and economic environments on campus and in surrounding communities. This environmental management approach recognizes that student behavior is influenced at multiple levels: personal, peer, institutional, community and public policy.
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Top five reasons why mixing alcohol with energy drinks is a really bad idea.
What Alcohol Does to Your Body - useful information from QuitAlcohol.com.
Alcohol Myths
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Go Ask Alice - how to help a friend.
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Alcoholics Anonymous - for complete information and a listing of all San Diego County meetings.
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The Danger of Mixing Alcohol and Medications - Mixing alcohol with certain medications can cause serious problems. It can make a medication less effective or even useless, or it may make the medication harmful or toxic to your body.
Half of Us - a very unique website that de-stigmatizes mental health, encourages more young people to seek out ways to improve their state of mind, and reaches those who need help the most. Sections on alcohol, depression, suicide, eating disorders, anxiety, and stress.
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California Office of Traffic Safety website.
How to Quit - Useful information from the CDC.
My Last Dip, a free online resource to help smokeless tobacco users quit.
Social Smoking and Birth Control
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Moffat: The Companion is the Main Character
Everyone loves a hero but does that necessarily mean we identify most with those that go that extra mile rather than characters like Amy or Rose who are meant to be our counterpart?
This is just the debate Steven Moffat has opened with his comment to BBC America (via Digital Spy) that the companion is the 'main character' in Doctor Who.
"Its always their story. It was Rose Tyler's story, its Amy Pond's story – the story of the time they knew the Doctor and how it began, how it developed and how it ended."
The old incarnation was a Trojan horse – a children's programme that sneaked some real science in with monsters and mystery – and while that still holds true of the new series Moffat's comments just reflect the fact that Doctor Who is now a big Saturday night primetime show.
A show that needs to cover as wide a demographic as possible – perhaps those who aren't tuned in to sci-fi – who need that placeholder character to ask, query and provoke a response from the Doctor and his universe.
It's like the difference between story and plot – the story is definitely the Doctor's. The adventures he instigates and the worlds he shows us are part of his wider story and go together to make his personal history. No show could capture the madness of that story.
The plot – the events that go towards making the show what it is week in and week out are the companions – it's that small section of the overall story that we spend all this time coveting.
It isn't the companion's story but that doesn't mean they aren't the main character just as it is the Doctor's story but he doesn't have to be the main character.
Or as Moffat himself says:
"The story begins again, not so much with a new Doctor, but with a new companion. The Doctor's the hero, but they're the main character."
There's no reason why you can't identify with the Doctor in any of his incarnations – the success of the classic series which firmly placed the Doctor as the main focus of the show was based around just that – children and adults identifying with a 900 odd year old Time Traveller.
Moffat himself has a clear idea of who the Doctor is and what he can and can't do such as spending time alone:
"I thought about the Doctor travelling on his own and it always faintly depresses me. I'm not sure what he does on his own but I don't think it would be healthy. He's far too old and he's seen too much."
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He's completely right. The very first story draws us in not by being written from the perspective of the Doctor or Susan, but by following two schoolteachers, Ian and Barbara, into a mysterious warehouse. It's almost always been about the companion's journey–both physically and metaphorically. The Doctor is the spark for the adventures, but with almost every companion we're following the arc of a simple "nobody" turning into something more. Lately, those story arcs have been a bit more grand (the transformations of Donna, Mickey and Rory being three of the best), but Ian and Barbara, Jo Grant, Sarah Jane, Adric…they all went through similar character development.
Not sure I agree. I think if one puts a definitive "rule" on the show, you become in danger of reducing its potential. I certainly agree that the companion at the forefront can create a strong mode of storytelling. I wouldn't disagree with Ian and Barbara's initial season, Ace's last season, Benny in the books and Rose or even Donna. I don't think it's something that is quintessential, particularly when the show has found its feet – which is precisely what happened at the start of Doctor Who, Ian and Babrara were our bridge to this alien concept – as was Rose in the show's restart, beyond that, once the show is established it doesn't need to do that – and it didn't. I don't really think it was Sarah Jane's story, or Jo Grant's story, or Leela's story. Certainly wasn't Romana's story – but they all complimented the travels of the Doctor.
I've never liked Terrance Dick's pigeon hole of the companion being a cypher for "what is it Doctor?" nor do I agree with Moffat (and I suspect RTDs) perspective that the companion is the driver of the drama. They can be both, but they don't NEED to be either.
For much of the first 26 years the Doctor was always the main focus, but the companion's story has always been the reason for him continuing his travels, more so than the exploring. He's always needed someone with him. Like ET he is an alien that wants to be more human. Doctor Who has always been more about relationships than the monsters. More so over the last 7 years the companion being the driver simply makes the show more accessible for the viewer. The great arcs of Rose, Donna and Amy have I'd say is the reason behind the increase in female fans since 2005. Whilst JNT did well to try to make the companions more interesting, he failed in giving most (bar perhaps Ace) an interesting and believable backstory. The companion is more mortal and easier to relate to than the Doctor. We've all wanted to travel in the TARDIS, whilst being the Doctor is difficult to get right but the companion is so much easier.
The ability to relate to the companion seems irrelevant to me. All my life I've watched Doctor Who because I like the Doctor and, if his companion is likeable, that's a bonus, not the crux of me being able to understand the Doctor. Do fans of Doctor Who seriously put themselves in the shoes of the companion? Most of us leave boring lives of quiet desperation, the last thing I want to see is the Doctor travelling with someone with tedious Earth-bound concerns. Didn't we get enough of that with Tegan forever whining about wanting to get back to Heathrow?
This sort of thing sounds a little too much like a line from a textbook on writing – must include someone for the viewer to relate to. I like Rose because I like the character. Make the companions interesting but not if you define "interesting" as dragging the Doctor down to the mundane world of their own problems. I want the show to touch the stars not drag the stars down to Earth. Around 2005 I saw an interview on TV with a young girl being asked if she liked the show and wasn't it Rose who was her favourite character. The interviewer had clearly read the BBC blurb about Rose being someone girls could identify with. The little girl rolled her eyes and said no, the Doctor was her favourite of course.
I see no problem with the viewer identifying with the Doctor directly rather than vicariously through a third party. For all that he's a 900 year old alien, it's very rare that the Doctor's reactions and motivations aren't human ones. He flies around the universe fighting baddies and protecting goodies. That may be fantasy but it's hardly beyond our terrestrial understanding.
P.S. Did the Romana I and II stories not work because the companion was just as (fictionally) remote from us as the Doctor himself?
I think it should be focussed on the companion. The Doctor isn't going anywhere, we have plenty of time to learn about him. The traits that separate each regeneration, yes, but what stays the same should be gradual, background, a little more at a time. Whereas we only have a few years tops with our companions, so we should focus on them.
PS The Doctor is the TARDIS's companion. *nods*


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This painting was hidden from public view from 1941 until 2004. As a result it is not included in Robert Descharnes catalogue raisonné or in any other exhibition prior to that point.
The open book in the foreground is in the process of transforming into a reclining nude woman. The knife separates the woman's buttocks. A similar theme can be seen in the 1936 Autumn Cannibalism.
Sunday Dalí: The Gran Opera, 1957. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
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Prince Alwaleed, owner of London's Savoy hotel, said in March that he would sever ties with [Forbes] after its annual rich list valued him at $20bn, not enough to place him in the coveted top 10. Despite being pronounced the richest man in the Arab world, Prince Alwaleed accused Forbes of "intentional biases and inconsistencies" and insisted his real value was nearly $30bn. He has now filed a defamation claim in London's High Court against Forbes's publisher, its editor, Randall Lane, and two of its journalists. Forbes said it stood by its story. [Telgraph]
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Prior to his turn as an investment banker/research analyst/junior trader/private wealth manager/PE guy in Money Never Sleeps, Shia Labeouf spent a lot of time on the Street, learning the tricks of the trade. At the Encino Charles Schwab office, he learned how to turn $20,000 into $489,000 in less than three months. A Citi, he learned how to program Bloomberg into his speed dial. At John Thomas Financial, he learned how to trade on his flip-phone. And at a diner in Lower Manhattan, after hesitating on American or Cheddar, he learned the hard way how one does and doesn't get a job at Goldman Sachs. Unfortunately, one bit of wisdom Shia's guru's never thought to instill in him was how to go head to head with Marilyn Manson or take a punch from a shirtless guy in Canada. Read more »
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It's not been a good week or so for the minor league affiliates of the St. Louis Blues.
The Peoria Rivermen of the AHL dropped one and won one this week by only putting up four goals. They fell 3-2 OT to Milwaukee Saturday and are now in 4th place in the Western Conference's Midwest Division.
The Evansville IceMen of the ECHL had lost three straight including a 7-3 drubbing by the Eastern Conference's North Division leading Cincinnati Cyclones. Their 36 team points puts them in last place in their division.
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- Evansville winger Nahtan Moon was named to the ECHL All Star Game. The 23 year old Belleville, ON native is third in team scoring with 12 goals and 28 points in 37 games.
- Peoria defenseman Mark Cundari will be the team's lone representative at the AHL All Star Game. The 22 year old Woodbridge, ON native leads the Rivermen in defensive scoring with 2 goals and 16 points in 35 games.
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- Enforcer forward Cody Beach will make the drive from Peoria to Evansville as he's been reassigned to the IceMen. Overall, he has a goal and five assists in 10 games with Peoria this season. In 22 games with Evansville he has two goals, nine points and 81 penalty minutes.
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Botox Makes You Happier
I don't know about you, girlfriends, but when I look in a mirror and see my mother's angry frown lines, the ones that lashed out at me when I had been a naughty girl, now making a big entrance on my own face, I do not feel happy.
Dr. Wendy Walsh: And when my furrowed brow relaxes and smoothes out, this vision in my bathroom mirror somehow lifts my spirits. I personally think Botox can make women feel happier. So am I being superficial? Perhaps not.
Psychiatrist Eva Ritvo even backs me up. Her book, The Beauty Prescription, which she co-authored with dermatologist Dr. Debra Luftman, makes a case that beauty improvements create a feedback loop in the environment. Pretty people get more rewards, and that helps fuel their brain with self-esteem and positive feelings. According to the book, "In our modern world, research shows that beautiful people earn more money, get a better break in the legal system, get more help from strangers, advance further in their careers and are generally happier."
Dr. Ritvo had a personal experience recently that confirmed her own suspicions that Botox can contribute to happiness. She had just come out of a very sad movie soon after receiving Botox injections around her eyes and had a strange reaction. "For some reason, the paralysis of the muscles in my glabellar area due to the injections of botulinum toxin A rendered me totally unable to cry. Curious," Ritvo said. "But even more surprisingly, when I couldn't cry, I quickly stopped feeling sad. I left the movie with my girlfriend, who was feeling very down, and I felt so odd that I couldn't find those emotions. I was ready to go to the next activity. Sadness was nowhere to be found. It was as if the emotion came up, couldn't be expressed, and so, went away."
Research is starting to back up the suspicions of both Dr. Ritvo and myself. According to Psychology Today, "It has long been an assumption that there is a link between physical expression of emotions and the intensity of those emotions, otherwise known as the 'facial feedback theory.' " An intriguing pilot study conducted in 2006 by dermatologist Eric Finzi, M.D., Ph.D., evaluated the effectiveness of Botox in treating depression. In the study, Finzi injected ten women (nine with depression and one with bipolar disorder) with Botox in their glabellar frown lines. "After two months, all nine with depression were diagnosed as no longer showing signs of depression. Even the woman with bipolar disorder reported improvements in mood."
Dr. Ritvo hopes to see more research in this area. Although clinical depression involves much more than feelings of sadness, finding a treatment for this symptom might help many people find relief.
Ritvo does admit that sadness is a normal part of the human psyche -- and suppressing sad feelings in an otherwise healthy person might not be the best idea. She's happy to report that as her Botox wore off, she found her tears again -- and is glad to have them back.
|Dr. Wendy Walsh holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and her area of interest is Attachment Theory, a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory that provides a descriptive and explanatory framework for understanding interpersonal relationships between human beings. As a psychological assistant registered with the California Board of Psychology, Dr. Walsh has treated individuals, couples and families for a variety of mental health concerns including personality disorders, anger management, eating and substance disorders, and depression. Connect with Dr. Walsh on Facebook.
Call me shallow, but after I lost 30 pounds recently, my life dramatically improved. I had renewed confidence in my ability to do whatever I put my mind to. I had confidence to demand the things want. I knew I was (am) pleasing, physically, to most people by current society standards, and that just gave me that little UP.
I also use Botox because I remember thinking my mom was ALWAYS mad (she had that "pinch"). I don't want my kids to think I'm forever bitchy.
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Ballet in two acts Choreography by John Cranko
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The (Potato) Smasher
How about some potatoes with all this beef? Mashed potatoes, of course — the classic accompaniment to a good steak. And you can mash them up with this fancy new Smasher, designed by British group DesignWright for Joseph Joseph. See how this spring-loaded Smasher works, below.
The designers say that the outer ring, which is spring-loaded, grabs the potato and forces it through the smasher plate. They also say it's easy to clean (really?) and that it's great fun to use. Now that we can believe. (Via dezeen)
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I don't like that style of masher. I prefer the wiggly wire one (for lack of a better way to describe it). They're much easier to clean than the ones with a flat perforated plate and I prefer my mashed potatoes to have some lumps.
Yeah, my first thought was that it would be annoying to clean too. I like the zig-zag sort.
haha, is there a name for that type of masher?
And mashed potatoes aren't that great to serve with steak (baked or twice-baked are better) because there's nothing to start the gravy with.


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International student scholarships are important tools in helping educate children in need. The Board of Director's established The Laurie St Pierre Scholarship Fund in 2009 to honor the memory of a dear friend to many of us at The Julia Project Foundation.
Laurie had a keen love of education, and a true passion for children. This educational scholarship fund for children in poverty was created to provide special education funding for those who have the desire and skills to further themselves, but are hindered by lack of finances to do so.
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Laurie home-schooled her own four children with a standard of excellence, and alongside her husband, Mark, they served as children's ministry leaders with a deep dedication.
Laurie had a natural talent to make learning fun, and was a very creative writer of children's skits and curriculum. She could work a hand puppet like no other, and few of us will forget the wit and humor she displayed bringing her friend "Fredrico" to life for all to enjoy — adults and children alike.
On our founder's first mission trip to Kenya in 2007, before The Julia Project Foundation was born, Jill (Carty) was overwhelmed with a mixture of sorrow and great joy, to receive Fredrico as a gift.
Jill gave him, and a suitcase of other puppet friends, to a Pastor's wife in Garissa, Kenya. Milly and her husband John, were pastoring a small church in the community, and had no supplies for their children's ministry.
When Jill asked whether they might need any resources, their abounding "yes" prompted an on-the-spot puppet show from behind the couch. Jill's puppeteer experience was limited, but the basic teaching was passed on.
All the puppets were left in their good care, and Jill brought back this heart warming story to the St. Pierre family. As other hands now reach up inside Fredrico, and bring him to life for the African children in Garissa, a piece of Laurie lives on. How great is that!
The Julia Project Foundation will award scholarships for international students to children, depending on the scholarship recommendation letter, who in the view of an educational worker, fulfill the criteria and the spirit of the scholarship.
The recommendation will be from someone known personally by The Julia Project Foundation board member(s), or from a referred person of someone known to us.
The international student scholarships will be awarded based on the following criteria:
In 2010, our first scholarship recipients, African children from Nairobi, were asked to send us their individual scholarship application letter. They shared testimonies of difficult family situations, mixed with their dreams for a better future.
Each student awarded the funds, wrote us their own scholarship thank-you letter with expressions of gratitude, promises to do their best, to help their families and others in their community. Our hearts were deeply touched.
These African children living in poverty are now assured of a daily meal through their school feeding program. For most, that will be their only meal that day.
They are assured of a sense of belonging and community, essential to the well being and development of any child. They have the hope of attaining their goals and finding careers to help them find the way out of their poverty and discouragement.
All donations towards these goals are gratefully accepted.
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Litquake tonight at the Hemlock Tavern!
I should have done this awhile ago, but hey – I'll borrow this item from my friend Jason Turbow over at The Baseball Codes: If you're in San Francisco tonight, don't have tickets to the Giants game, and want to check out a fabulous panel of sportswriters, stop by the Hemlock Tavern for Litquake's It's All Over but the Crying: A Night of Authors on Sports.
I'll be reading along with ESPN's Howard Bryant (The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron), Dan Epstein (Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s), Alan Black and David Henry Sterry (The Glorious World Cup) and old pal Jason Turbow (The Baseball Codes), along with iconic A's photographer Michael Zagaris.
Turbow writes on his blog: Having listened to him opine on several occasions, I can honestly say that giving Zagaris the mic for an hour would itself be worth the price of admission.
The event will be at 1131 Polk St. in San Francisco at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10, and can be purchased here.
I am especially looking forward to hearing Dan Epstein talking about Big Hair, a topic that I can really relate to.
On the radio
I can't wait for the post-season to start!
I am on my way right now to KQED, for a return trip to Forum with Michael Krasny. You can listen here, or on 88.5 FM in the Bay Area.
And here's a recent radio interview I had with Mychael Urban on his pregame show on KNBR while the Giants were still fighting for a playoff start: Dan Fost interview with Mychael Urban 9_18_2010
Where's my hat!
Part of the torture of this strange, wonderful, winning season is that the Giants hat that I have worn for years — a black, wool, fitted model with a 2002 World Series logo on the side — has gone missing.
I don't know where the hat could be, and maybe I should let it go – after all, the Giants are on a pretty good run, and superstition dictates not messing with it. (After all, Aubrey Huff has taken to wearing a thong around the clubhouse, and the team is 6-1 since he put it on.)
Maybe it's a sign that I'll be getting a new hat with a 2010 World Series championship logo stitched on the side. I will gladly pay for it!
But if I find that other hat, or a reasonable facsimile, I will be very happy indeed, and I'll start wearing it immediately.
Until then, I've taken out a white wool fitted Giants cap that I bought at the last game at Candlestick in 1992, the game that we all thought was the Giants' last in the Bay Area before they moved to St. Petersburg. The hat was $5 — SF hats would become almost worthless after that, I suppose the reasoning went. But it turned out to be the start of a great era for the Giants.
Taking it to the A's
The Giants and A's have a long history – one that predates their moves to the Bay Area. The New York Giants and Philadelphia A's met several times in the first decade of the World Series, with the Giants taking the 1905 classic behind Christy Mathewson's amazing three shutouts. Alas, the A's roared back to beat the Giants in the Series in 1911 and 1913 (and the Giants fell to the Red Sox in 1912 as well).
Before they ever even met in a World Series, Giant manager John McGraw referred to Connie Mack's A's as a bunch of "white elephants," part of McGraw's contempt for the American League that had cast him out. Mack showed McGraw, however, adopting the elephant as the team mascot – the forerunner of Oakland's friendly fuzzy pachyderm Stomper.
Of course, the A's moved to Kansas City in 1955, the Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958, and the A's moved to Oakland in 1968, bringing the rivalry to California. The move worked for the A's, who roared to three straight Series wins in 1972-1974, and with one more coming at the expense of the Giants in the earthquake-marred 1989 Bay Bridge World Series.
The two teams have been fairly competitive in the 20th century, with both of them seemingly in sync through playoff runs and rebuilding years. They appear fairly evenly matched now; the A's swept the Giants in Oakland in interleague play in May, and the Giants returned the favor, sweeping the A's in San Francisco in June.
And now – did I bury the lead? – the rivalry takes on a new dimension, when I bring my "Giants Past and Present" book tour into A's territory, and read and tell stories at Oakland's Laurel Bookstore, 4100 MacArthur Blvd., at 7 pm Thursday, June 24.
I hope to see you there!
Paging the Panda: Giant nicknames now on YouTube
Does baseball still give its players good nicknames? From my chapter on Nicknames in "Giants Past and Present":
Baseball players used to need nicknames like they needed gloves and bats. Getting a nickname was almost a rite of passage.
From the first Gothams team—featuring Dasher Troy, Buck Ewing, Tip O'Neill, and Smiling Mickey Welch—the Giants have featured some of baseball's most evocative nicknames.
Fortunately, the Giants have kept the tradition alive, all the way through today, with stars like The Freak and The Panda. I had some fun discussing the tradition in this video, now on my YouTube channel:
Borders by the Ballpark
Today is a big baseball day for me. At noon, my son Harry's Cubs play for the Mill Valley City Championship. From 3:30 to 6 pm, I'll be signing books at the Borders by AT&T Park. And then at 6:05, I'll hustle across the street for the Giants-A's game tonight.
It was great to see the Giants beat the A's last night. Tim Lincecum appears to have gotten his groove back, and the misery of the A's three game sweep of the Giants in Oakland last month is gone.
Borders Mission Bay store, at 200 King Street, San Francisco, has always seemed to me the ideal place to sell baseball books. Hundreds of fans stream by on their way to the ballgame. Stop in and say hello this afternoon!
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One of my favorite Giants blogs, El Lefty Malo, has a Q&A with me in which we discuss Horace Stoneham, Darryl Spencer, Barry Bonds, and more. It's a lot of fun, check it out!
Me and the Mad Dog
Last week, I received something precious in my e-mail: A digital recording of the half-hour I had spent on the radio with Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo. You can listen to it here (look for the link to Mad Dog on that page), and I figure with the Giants ready to take on the Mets in New York – the city of the Giants' birth and their greatest successes, and home base of one of their most avid fans – it would be appropriate to recount in greater detail that marvelous experience.
I have had some great radio experiences since my book was published, but none quite like the half hour I spent with Russo on "Mad Dog Radio" in New York in April. True to his nickname, Russo is a rabid Giants fan, with a deep knowledge that he can summon at a rapid rate.
Russo told me he became a Giants fan when he was eight years old. His father, a jeweler, took him to see the Giants play the Phillies in Philadelphia – this would have been around 1970 – and they went to the Giants' hotel. "I got all of their autographs, except Willie Mays," he told me. "Mays wouldn't sign."
Of such encounters, fandom begins, even for a kid on Long Island – even for someone who rose to become a kingpin of New York sports talk radio. Kudos to Russo for staying true to his team, in the face of all those Yankees and Mets fans! His Giants cred was sealed after the 2003 season, when he was still on WFAN on the "Mike and the Mad Dog" show; he went on a beautiful rant after that never-shoulda-happened loss to the Marlins, culminating in, "Just one lousy goddamn time!"
We had a spirited conversation, going through Giants history from John McGraw, through Bill Terry, Mel Ott and Leo Durocher, and through the 1960s, the Arctic years of the 1970s and '80s, and the return to glory with Will Clark and then Barry Bonds. We picked the 1962 Giants as the best team ever in San Francisco, although we also liked 1993 and 2002. He blamed Horace Stoneham for the failures in San Francisco; I agreed, but spread it a little wider.
We capped it off with a fantastic exercise, where Russo asked me to name my top 10 Giants of all time. With his help, our list: Mays, Christy Mathewson, Bonds, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Buck Ewing, Ott, Carl Hubbell, Orlando Cepeda (questionable only for the duration of his Giants' tenure) and Terry. We think Tim Lincecum is heading there, but hasn't played long enough to earn the spot.
We agreed that Willie Mays was the best Giant of all time. I pick him as best player of all time; Russo says that's Babe Ruth, because he could pitch as well; and that Joe DiMaggio was a better hitter.
Russo was also a generous host, and allowed my wife and son into the small Sirius studio; that's my son, Harry, in the photo with me and the Mad Dog. (Footnote to a near close-encounter: As we signed in at the Sirius studios on the 36th floor of the McGraw Hill building in midtown Manhattan, I could see that a few minutes earlier, author Kitty Kelley – touting her new book on Oprah Winfrey – had signed in on the same ledger.)
I love (my two days in) L.A.!
I survived. I wore a Giants cap and shirt to Los Angeles and lived to tell about it.
I was a panelist on Saturday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and can't say enough good things about the great time I had in enemy territory. My panel was titled "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," and featured Michael D'Antonio, author of "Forever Blue," about Walter O'Malley and the Dodgers' move out of Brooklyn, and Mark Frost, author of "Game Six," about the pivotal game of the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. Novelist Bruce Bauman, a knowledgeable and enthusiastic baseball fan, moderated.
I was clearly the novelty act. Bauman was surprised a Giant book was picked for the festival, but there are Giant fans in LA. And I think all five of them came to the panel. We have to stick together. I acknowledged being surprised myself that I was included, but noted my gratitude that festival staff was wearing orange and black t-shirts to make me feel comfortable. (That may not be the reason for the color choice, but I'm sticking with my story.)
The Times also did that one better: They sent a guy named Sandoval to write a post about the panel, and he did a great job capturing the laughter in the room. (Writer Joshua is no relation to Giant Pablo, but no matter to me!)
We had a lot of fun telling stories and talking baseball. D'Antonio told how he spent a year combing through O'Malley's personal documents – 30,000 of them – that had been stored in musty boxes, and revealed an incredible, never-before-told story that completely upended the modern myth of the Dodgers' departure from Brooklyn. O'Malley was not the diabolical villain who engineered Brooklyn's misery, but instead worked tirelessly to build a new ballpark in the borough, only to be thwarted at every turn by Robert Moses, the unelected autocrat who ruled New York City politics for decades.
Frost also offered up great untold stories, including about the alcoholic, inept owner of the Red Sox, Tom Yawkey, and the boozing, drug-addled, nearly forgotten hero of the sixth game, Bernie Carbo. And he told how that Series – featuring a dozen Hall of Famers – marked the end of an era, as six weeks later, free agency began and baseball changed forever. It also remains the single most watched baseball game of all time, with an audience of 76 million people – the "high water mark" for the pastime, Frost said.
We had a lively discussion of steroids and cheating, and I reiterated my belief that Barry Bonds should be in the Hall of Fame when his time comes. When Bauman offered one last chance to pitch our books to the audience, the best I could come with was, "I think Dodger fans will love the stories of Giant heartbreak and frustration that populate my book."
The festival itself is a marvelous celebration of the written word. I attended two other panels that inspired and encouraged, both featuring my friend, David Ulin, the book editor of the Los Angeles Times, as moderator. The first – featuring Nicholas Carr, David Shields, and Ander Monson – addressed how reading and writing will survive in an age of increasing fragmentation. Some conclusions were inspiring (the written word is constantly evolving, and there is more writing and reading now than ever) and some depressing (people are increasingly incapable of reading at any length). But by the afternoon, when Ulin engaged Dave Eggers in conversation, optimism ruled the day. Eggers was funny, witty, upbeat and inspiring on so many levels: as a writer, as a publishing business visionary, and as a pied piper of the written word, whose "826" centers in San Francisco and elsewhere teach so many young people the joy of writing.
I think it's rather a sad statement that Eggers is such a publishing visionary, because the simplicity of his vision reveals how broken the industry is. His publishing house, McSweeney's, looks merely to recoup its costs and make a little bit of money for its writers, and get great stories out to the public in the way that writers like to tell them. He is satisfied with little or no profits and an 8-person operation. He looks at publishing and sees that more people bought books last year than ever before. The sad part to me is that book publishers – like the newspaper publishers I know all too well – want to run a high volume, high profit business, and the disappearance of those big profits is what has the industry wringing its hands and declaring doom.
As if that wasn't enough, the weekend was full of many other personal highlights:
- A visit to friends at the Los Angeles Times, a magnificent Art Deco building that stands as a monument to great journalism, but which sadly now has vast empty sections as the paper struggles in the new economy.
- My first game at the Big A – Anaheim Stadium – where the Angels beat the Yankees Friday night. (Yes, I wore pinstripes.)
- Two outstanding meals at some of Los Angeles' legendary Jewish delis: pastrami at Junior's in Westwood on Saturday night, and matzo brei at Nate n Al in Beverly Hills Sunday morning. (Thank you, David Sax, author of "Save the Deli," for the inspiration.)
- Post-panel surprise encounters with two friends from my childhood in New Jersey. One of them came to my panel with a friend – the friend was there to see her friend, Mark Frost! The other, Carol Fitzgerald, was my babysitter; her mother, Sylvia Cicetti, had been my third grade teacher. Carol has run the site the Book Reporter for years now, and knows more about the publishing industry and the Internet than anybody I've ever met.
Yogi and the Giants
After a whirlwind week, I can finally take a breath and give a little more detail about the great event I had at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center – my first book event, and a homecoming at that.
About 70 people turned out, and it was great to see so many friends, relatives and former teachers from my formative years in New Jersey. And the Berra museum is the perfect venue for a baseball event. The auditorium is even set up like a baseball stadium, complete with scoreboard. The event received coverage in The Record newspaper, and on Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf.
Highlights for me included re-connecting with my seventh grade English teacher, Jean Anderson, nee Smolinski. She is the teacher who saw my love of writing and my love of sports, and my ability (or potential) at one but not the other, and launched me as a sportswriter for the local town newspaper, Bloomfield's Independent Press. (A lot of credit also goes to the late Russell Roemmele, a crusading local newspaperman who gave a teenager space to write every week.) Amazingly, Mrs. Anderson's son Brian accompanied her – he is a newly minted newspaper reporter himself! I look forward to staying in touch and following his career through these perilous times for the newspaper industry.
My third grade teacher Mrs. Sylvia Cicetti was there as well, with her husband, Al, another newspaper veteran. Mrs. Cicetti closed the event by noting that the tables were turned, and she had to listen to me for a change; afterward, she told me, "In Show and Tell in third grade, I'd always say it was time for the next child, and you'd say, 'But I just have one more thing to say.' You haven't changed a bit." (Her daughter Carol was one of my favorite babysitters – and now she's Carol Fitzgerald, running The Book Reporter, and we're going to connect at the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend!)
There were friends I have stayed in touch with, friends I hadn't seen in years, and most amazingly (to me), people who didn't even know me! One was a guy who still gloats to his Dodger buddy over Bobby Thomson's home run, taunting him with "Never forget, Howie!" Another was a niece of Eddie Brannick, a longtime Giants executive who unfortunately wound up cut from my book.
I also got to tell a story about Yogi Berra and the Giants. As luck would have it, I had the privilege of meeting Yogi at his museum three years ago. (That's him in the photo with my son Harry.) He told how he was present at the greatest moment in Giant history, the Bobby Thomson home run in 1951. He didn't say it, but he was the reigning American League MVP that year. The Yankees had already wrapped up the AL pennant and were waiting to see who they would play in the World Series, the Giants or the Dodgers. Yogi was rooting for the Giants, because the World Series shares were based on the gate, and the Polo Grounds held more people than Ebbetts Field. But with the Dodgers taking a 4-1 lead in the ninth, the game appeared to be in hand, and Yogi decided to beat the traffic and get home. So he missed possibly the greatest home run in baseball history, the Shot Heard 'Round the World.
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Stan Lee - This Man changed my life. Forever.
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Dorval, September 2, 2014 – Cat owners can now register their pets and obtain cat licenses at the front desk of City Hall. The cost is $10 for a cat neutered or spayed... (read more)
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Dorval, August 27, 2014 – After an unexpected success, the City of Dorval will resume the sale of old street signs in order to dispose of the remaining ones (listed... (read more)
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White Buffalo
The White Buffalo will be performing at the Casbah on Dec. 16.
A white buffalo is considered a sacred symbol in Native American folklore, so when the White Buffalo returns to the Casbah tonight, you'll certainly understand why Jake Smith deserves the moniker. He's towering onstage and sings in a low register, and though he's a singer/songwriter, the stories he narrates in his music have a depth and beauty that sets them apart from many others in the classification. The last time he was in town, I walked in on him in the Casbah office, and, despite being slightly intimidated by his stature, he introduced himself and couldn't have been a nicer guy. It makes me glad that he keeps on coming back.
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More performers to appear at Diamond Awards Concert
Wilburn & Wilburn is new duo to hit the gospel music scene this year. The group consists of 5-time Singing News Fan Award winner Jonathan Wilburn and his son Jordan. They will join Driven, Beyond the Ashes, and Christy Sutherland at this week's concert.