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UCI workshop explores friendlier technology
The idea behind Dossier is simple enough – an app to aggregate all the latest information about a person from the Internet, allowing someone to quickly catch up on the recent activities of their friends or contacts before seeing them face to face.
While Dossier is the kind of Technology that's rapidly approaching reality, for a group of six doctoral students at UC Irvine it's just an idea they're exploring this week to better understand the values arising out of and being built into technology. Will people be expected to read up on friends before meeting them in person? Will the software use location information to allow users to avoid people?
"We're thinking about how existing technologies taken to their logical extreme might end up meaning you need to produce a computer to be a better friend," said Jed Brubaker, joking, "clearly, the solution when it comes to bad interpersonal relationships is some software."
The Values In design lab launched earlier this year at UCI brings together researchers from computer science, Engineering and the Humanities in an effort to devise ways to design technology for the future that is responsible and inclusive, in turn enabling organizations to create better relationships with their users later on. Researchers in the lab focus on building values like privacy, community, trust, dignity, security, respect and freedom from bias into future technological systems and this week 36 doctoral students from North America and Europe are at UCI working with faculty in a weeklong workshop on the subject.
"It's been really fun as we've been brainstorming to pay attention to this tension between the things that are...creepy and the things that sound like they actually can be helpful," said Brubaker. "As a designer, I'm thinking about how these things that maybe feel creepy may become something I might actually want."
Examples of issues the researchers look at include privacy policies and user agreements, lengthy documents that are rarely read and aren't necessarily conceived with the user's interests as a serious consideration. If they were designed with those values in mind, argues professor Cory Knobel, then you wouldn't have outraged users later when the policy changes.
"If you start that process thinking about what users value your policies are more aligned with what people want," said Knobel. "Technology is developed by computer scientists. ... Really rarely are there the discussions about 'What does this technology mean to the people who use it?"
Knobel suggests that if simplicity and transparency are important values then perhaps a privacy policy could be presented as a kind of infographic, letting users see visually "what they're getting themselves into."
Geoff Bowker is one of the researchers who set up the lab earlier this year. He studies search engines and databases, looking at the ways information is skewed or made invisible by these systems. He points out how Google delivers Wikipedia and the United States government as better search results for a country like Cameroon than results from the country itself. Bowker said the solution is to include more voices in the design process.
"How do we get more participation and more breadth of participation in our design work?" asked Bowker. "We all need to become designers."
The workshop concludes Saturday when the students present their projects.
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My family likes to have variety for breakfast during the week. Most of the time I just switch the type of cereal I serve, but I also throw in things like healthy breakfast cookies and toast with jam to change things up. This English muffin bread is one of our favorites. If you are a fan of the circular English muffins that come from the grocery store, you will love this bread even more. It has all of the same English muffin taste wrapped up into simple, good-for-you, whole wheat yeast bread. One of the best parts about this bread is that it only needs to rise once, so it takes half the time to make than a traditional yeast bread recipe. It also makes two loaves – a total bonus in my book. You can choose to eat one loaf right away and freeze the other for another time, or like in my house, the day after the first loaf is devoured. The strawberry preserves we like to eat with this bread is ridiculously easy to make. I'll warn you though, once you taste fresh, homemade strawberry preserves you will have a really hard time going back to store-bought jam. I take full responsibility for raising the bar in that department.
To get things started, gather up your Hodgson Mill products. You will need Hodgson Mill Yellow Corn Meal, Hodgson Mill Naturally White Flour, Hodgson Mill White Whole Wheat Flour and Hodgson Mill Active Dry Yeast. The premium qualities these ingredients bring to this bread make all of the difference. Don't skimp!
First off, you need to proof the yeast i.e. wake the little guys up. Put ½ cup warm water in a small dish and sprinkle 4 teaspoons (1 ½ packages) of Hodgson Mill Active Dry Yeast on top. Add a pinch of brown sugar and stir until things are pretty well dissolved – not completely, but close. Leave the mixture alone until it gets nice and foamy like this, about 10 minutes.
Next, generously butter the bottoms and sides of two standard-sized loaf pans. Sprinkle them with about three tablespoons each of Hodgson Mill Yellow Corn Meal. Shake the pans until the corn meal is covering all of the surfaces and then tap out the leftover corn meal into your trash or sink. NOTE: Don't skip this step. The corn meal that attaches itself to the loaf gives it a wonderful taste and crumbly texture and really adds something special to this bread.
You can prepare the dough by hand in a large mixing bowl or let your bread machine do the work for you. I like to lean on my bread machine, so that's what I use. This bread is so easy to make that I wouldn't hesitate to do it by hand if I didn't love my machine so much. **Bread Machine Note** you will not be completing the dough cycle. Only use the machine to mix the dough and then remove it from the pan.
The dough will be soft and sticky – notice the little bits stuck to my fingers? With most yeast breads, that means you need more flour. In this recipe, it's okay for the dough to be soft and sticky – not goopy, but not firm either. This is just perfect.
Divide the dough into two portions and press into the prepared pans. Use your fingers to push it into the corners as best as possible. Cover with plastic wrap spritzed with cooking spray and set aside in a warm spot for about 90 minutes.
When the dough is even with the rim of the pan, remove the plastic wrap and bake in a 350˚F oven for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove the pans from the oven and slide the loaves out onto a rack to cool.
While the bread is cooling, wash, hull and halve two pints of fresh strawberries. Aren't these gorgeous?!
Put the strawberries in a medium saucepan and smash slightly with a fork or potato masher. Heat the strawberries over medium heat for 8 minutes. Add the sugar and stir until dissolved and then stir in the lemon juice and zest. Continue to cook over medium heat for 20 -25 minutes or until thick. Transfer the strawberry preserves to a jar and let cool. Take a bow and congratulate yourself – you have entered the world of jam making. No looking back now!
The preserve can be kept in a tightly sealed jar, in the refrigerator for up to three weeks – if it lasts that long.
My children are notorious for moving slow in the morning, especially Monday mornings (the apples didn't fall far from the tree on that one), but if they know I have a slice of English Muffin Bread spread with homemade strawberry preserves waiting for them at the breakfast table, they move much faster. My husband and I do, too! Enjoy!
Fill a small bowl with ½ cup warm water and sprinkle 4 teaspoons of yeast on top. Add a pinch of brown sugar and stir to combine. Set bowl aside for about 10 minutes to allow the yeast to proof and become foamy.
Grease the bottoms and sides of two loaf pans with softened butter. Sprinkle 3 tablespoons of corn meal into each pan and shake until all surfaces are coated with corn meal. Discard any remaining loose meal. Set pans aside
In a large mixing bowl or bread machine pan, combine the warm milk, sugar, egg, melted butter, salt and half of the all purpose flour. Mix for one minute until thick and sticky. Add the yeast and baking soda mixtures and mix for another minute more. Add the remaining white flour and white whole wheat flour ½ cup at a time until completely incorporated – about two minutes. The batter will be soft and sticky. **The bread machine is used for mixing purposes only. Do not complete the dough cycle**
Evenly divide dough between the two loaf pans. Press the dough into the corners as best as possible. Loosely cover the pans with plastic wrap that has been lightly sprayed with cooking spray. Set aside to rise at room temperature until dough is even with the rim of the pans.
Remove plastic wrap and bake bread in a 350ºF oven for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove the pans from the oven and slide out bread onto racks to cool. Slice into thick pieces and toast. Serve with butter and quick strawberry preserves.
Adapted from Bread For Breakfast, by Beth Hensperger
Put the strawberries in a small saucepan and smash slightly with a fork or potato masher. Heat them over medium heat for 8 minutes. Add the sugar and stir until dissolved. Add the lemon zest and juice. Stir to combine and continue heating over medium heat for 20-25 minutes or until thick. Transfer the preserve into a small jar and allow to cool. Serve with toasted English Muffin bread for a delicious breakfast treat. Preserve will keep in a tightly covered jar in the refrigerator for about 3 weeks.
I do enjoy a breakfast treat that "sticks to my ribs," "has some meat to it," i.e. isn't completely 100% white flour that turns to sugar in your system and messes with your blood sugar. Thanks for this recipe! I like to find inventive ways to avoid using cling wrap, and for this recipe, I simply rubbed my palms with some butter and patted the dough down and into the corners of the loaf pans, and I got a nice result! Honey, and cinnamon sugar are also good toppings!


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The chair may be the most designed and redesigned piece in the entire lexicon of furniture.
Although historically not all cultures used chairs as seating, today they are virtually universal. Yet the most interesting thing about seating is that seldom do two people agree on the comfort of a specific chair.
Q.I am looking for a comfortable chair for occasional use in our family room; currently the room has contemporary upholstered seating. We would like to add a wooden or "un-upholstered" chair, and everything that we have seen is either too small or uncomfortable.
A. The so-called occasional chair is usually small and not used for lounging; however, uncomfortable is not a good definition for any chair.
Since I do not know what, if any, specific task the chair is to serve, why not look at a rocking chair? They are usually wooden and comfortable. There are not many contemporary or modern designed rocking chairs, but every now and then we see one in a designer showroom. And I must say they attract a lot of attention.
You may be interested in the chair pictured, which is made by Thom. Moser. This company offers a number of interesting lines of wooden furniture, which appears more crafted than manufactured.
It has recently introduced this new contemporary rocking chair as part of the Edo collection inspired by Japanese design. It's quite an interpretation of the classic rocking chair.
You might even consider a more traditional ladder-back design rocking chair. Those of us who remember the Kennedy years saw the president comfortably seated in the Cape Cod version in ceremonial rooms and the Oval Office, and somehow it never looked strange.
But if I were to use a traditional design, I would paint it a shiny black or even a bolder lacquered color to complement and accent the color of my room.


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This review is from: D-Link GO-SW-8GE 8-Port Gigabit Unmanaged Metal Desktop Switch
Pros: Solid throughput and excellent ping
Cons: Not the same Dlink, but their offbrand called DlinkGo, which is a lower cost, weaker warranty unit.
Other Thoughts: Excellent ping, stronger than my trusted Trendnet Gigaswitch.READ FULL REVIEW
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Pros: Solid performance. Only seldom hung ups with reboots.
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Jack (Jacob) H. DeWitt, a Zeeland resident who co-founded Big Dutchman Inc., died Friday, January 6, 2012 at his home.
He was born January 30, 1911, in Grand Rapids. His early years were spent in Zeeland where he attended school at the New Groningen one-room schoolhouse.
Jack, along with his brother Dick, founded Big Dutchman Inc., a world-wide supplier of automatic poultry equipment now head-quartered in Germany. In 1962, the company was the recipient of a service award from the U.S. Department of Commerce for contributions to foreign trade. Recognition from the federal government was forthcoming again in 1964, when the Presidential "E" award was presented for the company's outstanding contribution to the U.S. Export Expansion Program.
On one his many overseas trips, Jack met his wife, Marlies, in 1966, in Germany. After selling Big Dutchman in 1968, Jack went on to invest in Biotec Inc., a Zeeland-based manufacturer of operatory furnishings and equipment for dental offices. Jack's role at Biotec also included a stint as owner/operator and continued with his service on the company's board of directors and as part-owner.
A graduate of Hope College, Jack was a long-time president of the college's Second Century Club and often delighted its members when he spoke in Dutch to begin his speeches. Jack was a recipient of the college's Distinguished Alumnus award in 1974 and a principal donor in the construction of the DeWitt Student and Cultural Center on Hope's campus.
He was a charter member of the Zeeland Lions Club, and a member of Second Reformed Church in Zeeland, where he served as an elder. Jack served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II.
Jack is survived by his wife, Marlies, four children, 11 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.
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Daniel Negreanu managed to make it to the final table of SCOOP Event #6-H after busting the medium and low equivalent, despite playing the wrong game initially. He tweeted that he was playing the "2-7 single draw" event before realising he was actually playing 5-card draw high.
However, once he started realising that holding 75432 was not the nuts, he began to build up chips and made it to the final table alongside fellow PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier.After a 90-minute heads-up battle following the elimination of ElkY in third, Negreanu finally got all his chips in and drew three against Maestro Shao's two. In the end, Negreanu could only muster J9973 versus AT555 to settle for second.The final table payouts were as follows:1st: Maestro Shao ($22,890) 2nd: KidPoker ($15,330) 3rd: ElkY ($11,760)4th: Gagarin007 ($7,980)5th: Metalguru84 ($5,880)6th: Iftarii ($4,410)Join Negreanu and ElkY at the PokerStars tables for SCOOP with a first deposit bonus of up to £400. Sign up here.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
The sixth annual edition of Grosvenor Casinos' Goliath tournament series may have begun last week but players are being advised that there is still time to qualify for seats into its prestigious £120 buy-in main event.
Land-based and online gaming products innovator Scientific Games Corporation is set to run its second annual Shuffle Master Classic event next month offering one lucky poker player the chance to walk away with $100,000 in cash.
Land-based casino operator Estoril Sol has been awarded the first online gaming license for Portugal and has teamed up with platform provider Gaming1 to launch the new EstorilSolCasinos.pt domain.
With 5,000 expected entries, £250,000 guaranteed in prizes and only £120 to play, its no wonder Coventry is the place to be between July 30 and August 7.
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Barack Obama will mark his 100th day in office on Wednesday, but the new President is eager to give Pennsylvania an accounting of what his response to the "worst economic crisis since the Great Depression."
Funds from the $787 stimulus bill, otherwise known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), have already started to flow in a massive effort on the part of Obama administration and Congress to kickstart the economy.
On Friday, the President released a report that shows how his policies have impacted Pennsylvania in the first three months of his administration. The following are the details of the memo released Friday by the White House:
Working Families:
Making Work Pay: The President's tax-cut - which covers more Americans than any in history - is putting more than $2.5 billion back in the pockets of more than 4.8 million hard-working Pennsylvania families.
$60,146,767 to support child care for working families.
$102,508,400 in block grants to foster energy efficiency in building, transportation, and a wide range of other improvements.
$252,793,062 to support the weatherization of homes, including adding more insulation, sealing leaks and modernizing heating and air conditioning equipment.
$99,684,000 to the State Energy Program, available for rebates to consumers for energy saving improvements; development of renewable energy projects; promotion of Energy Star products; efficiency upgrades for state and local government buildings; and other innovative state efforts to help save families money on their energy bills.
2,943,894,440 dollars potentially available to Pennsylvania to lay the foundation for a generation of education reform and help save thousands of teaching jobs at risk due to state and local budget cuts.
Health Care:
$6,716,568 to fund 6 new Community Health Centers, which will serve an estimated 39,930patients and create a projected 295 jobs.
$9,448,774 to expand services at 36 existing Community Health Centers, which will expand service to an additional 59,603 patients and create or save a projected 180 jobs.
$4,485,834 to provide meals to low-income seniors.
$680,278,921 made available in Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) to protect health care for the families hit hard by the economic crisis and some of the nation's most vulnerable citizens.
$8,159,088 in vaccines and grants to ensure more underserved Americans receive the vaccines they need.
$1,026,429,012 in highway funds to help build and repair roads and bridges.
$343,703,209 to repair and build public transportation infrastructure.
Law Enforcement:
More than $72.3 million for state and local law enforcement assistance available through the Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program. The JAG Program supports a variety of efforts such as hiring and support for law enforcement officers; multijurisdictional drug and gang task forces; crime prevention and domestic violence programs; and courts, corrections, treatment, and justice information sharing initiatives.


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October 22, 2006 - October 28, 2006 Archives
In Iowa's ongoing saga, yesterday's Ames Tribune, the paper that originally carried Republican lieutenant governor candidate Bob Vander Plaats' comments supporting the teaching of intelligent design in schools, contained an article noting Republican governor candidate Jim Nussle's dismissal of Vander Plaats' idea:
(Continued at Aetiology)…
Remember how Dembski, despite common sense, argued that the design inference was free of false positives. And yet, history has shown countless examples of false positives. Nevertheless, IDers seem to get a lot of mileage from their Mount Rushmore example. So here is a another example of 'design'
The feature can be studied in more details on Google Maps
Perhaps ID activists can explain why this example would not count as yet another false positive? Hat tip to Jim Armstrong on the ASA Reflector. Also noticeable is how the 'Indian' seems to be listening to what may very well have been the world's first iPod….
I mentioned the situation with Lieutenant Governor candidate Bob Vander Plaats and his support of intelligent design last week (posts here and here). A group of us have put together an editorial discussing Vander Plaats' position and why it matters to Iowa voters (letter and signatories can be found here at the Iowa Citizens for Science site). Yesterday, a columnist for the Des Moines register also wrote up the story, and our response to it:
(Continued at Aetiology).
Ken Miller speaking in Ohio: An announcement from Patricia Princehouse of Ohio is below. Kenneth Miller is evidently trying to break some sort of record – he is speaking seven times in three days, starting Thursday at Case Western Reserve University, in a talk which will be webcast.
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Over on the hopefully-named "ID the Future" podcast website run by the Discovery Institute, Casey Luskin has posted a short interview with Michael Behe – evidently recorded in-studio rather than over the phone, although, for some reason, Behe sounds like he is sitting in a cave.
Anyway, the topic of the interview is Behe's response to the Pallen and Matzke (2006) article on flagellum evolution in Nature Reviews Microbiology. As I pointed out on PT last month, among other things, the NRM article showed that the ID advocates didn't know what they were talking about on the topics of (1) number of required flagellum parts, and (2) number of "unique", i.e. non-homologous, flagellum parts. These points are obviously important, since the ID advocates themselves have emphasized them repeatedly – almost in hypnotically repetitious fashion, actually – as major reasons that the flagellum could not have evolved gradually.
OK, maybe I'm jumping the gun, and The Panda's Thumb is not a politics blog.
But it is really refreshing to hear a national politician say forthrightly that "Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels."
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There is a treasure trove in China: the well-preserved phosphatized embryos of the Doushantuo formation, a sampling of the developmental events in ancient metazoans between 551 and 635 million years ago. These are splendid specimens that give us a peek at some awesomely fragile organisms, and modern technology helps by giving us new tools, like x-ray computed tomography (CT), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thin-section petrography, synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM), and computer-aided visualization, that allow us to dig into the fine detail inside these delicate specimens and display and manipulate the data. A new paper in Science describes a survey of a large collection of these embryos, probed with these new techniques, and rendered for our viewing pleasure…that is, we've got pretty pictures!
Continue reading "Dissecting embryos from half a billion years ago" (on Pharyngula)
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Thank God for Kent Hovind. Otherwise, the USA might have to relinquish its title as home of the world's looniest creationist crazybags.
Neanderthal man walks among us, Poland's far-right says
Poland's far-right League of Polish Families (LPR), which is part of the coalition government, claims Darwin's theory of evolution is all wrong, that humans lived alongside dinosaurs and that Neanderthal man is still among us.
Last week, Poland's deputy education minister Miroslaw Orzechowski, a member of the LPR, bluntly rejected British naturalist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and his postulate that man is descended from apes. […]
This weekend, Orzechowski was given some high-level support when European lawmaker for the far-right party, Maciej Giertych – the father of LPR leader Roman Giertych – told a seminar that Neanderthal man still roams the planet, notably in the United States where examples can be spotted in a boxing ring.
"A scientist showed me a picture of an American boxer. He had all the traits of Neanderthal man. These people are among us. They are part of the human race, probably more prevalent once upon a time, but who still exist," Giertych, who has a doctorate in biology, told the seminar.
Taking up the mantra of creationists – who have a strong following among Christian fundamentalists in the United States, but whose theory that God created all living creatures at the same time has not won a huge following in Europe – Giertych also propounded that man and dinosaurs roamed the earth together.
"Research shows that dinosaurs and man were contemporaries. In every culture, there are indications that we remember (dinosaurs). The Scots have Loch Ness, we Poles have Wawel dragon (in Krakow), Marco Polo spoke of an imperial carriage in China which was pulled by a dragon," Giertych said.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Design and Deceit (Chapter 8)
Jonathan Wells (2006) The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Regnery Publishing, Inc. Washington, DC.Amazon
In chapter eight Wells recapitulates the standard "intelligent design" mantra that design can be established via an eliminative process. That is, if it can be established that a particular phenomenon is not the result either of natural laws or chance, then design emerges as the only remaining possibility. Readers familiar with ID will recognize this as the same, tired argument that "intelligent design" activists have been offering for more than a decade. Indeed, Wells merely parrots the assertions of William Dembski, giving neither acknowledgement of nor consideration to any of the numerous refutations of Dembski's work produced over the years.
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at the Indiana University in Bloomington has a whitepaper on Intelligent Design titled Intelligent Design, Science Education, and Public Reason
Crouch, Miller and Sideris express their concerns with "growing challenges to science and science education across the United States over the past several years". They point out that:
Many of these efforts have been driven by religious believers and express theological convictions about the origins and development of human and non-human life. Whatever the ultimate outcome of these antievolution measures, the mere fact that such efforts are so frequent across so much of the United States is something that has engendered a legitimate worry among educators at both the secondary school and university levels. We write to address educators, policy makers, and the interested public with an eye to clarifying basic concerns regarding the scientific, religious, educational, and legal dimensions of this recent challenge.
The authors continue to give a good overview of the roots of Intelligent Design, the vacuity of its claims and address the often heard claim "teach the controversy". As the authors observe "But describing the "teach the controversy" slogan in this way distorts what is at issue."
This is a guest appearance by Peter Olofsson. I have not contributed anything to this essay and am posting it as a courtesy to Peter. Professor of mathematics Olofsson is the author of two excellent books on probability and related subjects, of which one is a textbook used by universities.
Here starts Peter's text:
William Demsbki's "explanatory filter" is a proposed method to infer intelligent design in nature. While it has been criticized from many points of view, there seems to have not yet been a comprehensive treatment within the framework of mathematical statistics. In this article I argue that even if many of Dembski's assumptions are accepted, the filter still runs into serious trouble when it comes to biological applications.
Continue reading A troubled alliance at Talk Reason


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One of the great sports volumes ever produced – the Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball – lists the 1878 Springfield Ponies of the International Association as the first minor league team to play in Western Massachusetts.
Since then, many minor league franchises have played at various times in Springfield, Northampton, Holyoke and Pittsfield.
Over all those years, how many players from Western Massachusetts minor league teams have gone on to make the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Did you say four?
Yes, and the fourth just arrived, elected Wednesday. That would be Greg Maddux, a 355-game winner whose exemplary career included a brief stay with the 1986 Pittsfield Cubs of the Double A Eastern League.
The others are Early Wynn, who went 16-12 in 1941 for a first-place Springfield club in the Eastern League; Juan Marichal, who won 18 games for another Springfield first-place team in 1959; and Carlton Fisk, who hit .243 and caught 97 games for the Eastern League's Pittsfield Red Sox in 1969.
Maddux was 20 years old when he opened the '86 season at Wahconah Park as a third-year farmhand of the Chicago Cubs. He went 4-3 over eight starts, then got promoted to Triple A Iowa. There, he went 10-1 and was on his way to the big leagues.
CHEERS FROM CHAMP: Alfred Kimani of the University of Massachusetts boxing team had a champion cheering for him on opening night of the Western New England Golden Gloves Tournament at the Log Cabin, Holyoke.
That's Josh Lopez, a South Hadley resident who won national collegiate championships in 2012 and 2013 as the star of coach Rocky Snow's UMass team.
"It was great to have Josh there, rooting for UMass," Snow said.
Lopez, who graduated last May with a 4.0 academic average, now works as a second-grade teacher in Enfield, Conn.
Kimani responded to the cheers by coming on strong to post a decision over Josh Hernandez of Springfield in the 178-pound class.
"Alfred had trouble in the first round when Mr. Hernandez came out throwing bombs. But Alfred stayed with it, and eventually outboxed him. It was a thing of beauty – and he's now 4-0," his proud coach said.
OLYMPIC ICE MAN: In 2006, former Westfield State player Peter Lavoilette coached Team USA in the Winter Olympics at Turin, Italy. That same year, his Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup.
In October, Lavoilette was fired as coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, but he hasn't lost his zest for the game. He will be back in the Olympics, this time as an assistant to Team USA coach Dan Bylsma of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Todd Richards, coach of Springfield's parent Columbus Blue Jackets, also will be an assistant.
BEST BET for the weekend: Blingo, in the San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita.
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A journey from the minor leagues to Hall of Fame greatness
One of the great sports volumes ever produced – the Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball – lists the 1878 Springfield Ponies of the International Association as the first minor league team to play in Western Massachusetts.


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A Plainfield Township man kicked an Upper Nazareth Township police officer in the thigh and another in the crotch during an arrest Saturday, according to authorities.
Police were dispatched to the area of the 7-Eleven store, 14
E. Lawn Road, just after midnight for reports of a man and woman fighting, court
papers say. Police say they found a couple matching the caller's description walking
toward Sicily Restaurant.
Officers stopped the pair for questioning and a man, later identified as Charles James Scheibener, 30, of the 6600 block of Sullivan Trail in Plainfield Township, immediately grew combative, court papers say.
Scheibener yelled at officers, telling them he was being illegally detained and refusing to speak with police, court records say. Officers say Scheibener appeared intoxicated and his clothes looked disheveled and soiled.
Police tried to calm Scheibener, but he continued to yell, court records say. Neighbors began turning on their lights and peering outside to investigate the noise, authorities say. At that point, police said, they initiated an arrest for public drunkenness and Scheibener remained uncooperative.
Police say Scheibener struggled while police tried to handcuff him. He allegedly kicked officer Amal Brown in the thigh and refused to sit in the police cruiser. Scheibener threatened to kill officers, police say, before finally being forced to sit in the car.
Crystal Vanloan, the woman walking with Scheibener, told police they'd been drinking at a friend's house earlier in the night, court papers say. She said she didn't know why the 30-year-old was "acting crazy," but said she believed it probably had to do with his drinking, according to court documents.
Police say Scheibener banged his head and feet inside the police cruiser and kicked at the window. At the Upper Nazareth Township police headquarters, Scheibener allegedly continued to scream obscenities at officers, threatening to harm them.
Police say while in the holding cell, Scheibener claimed he had to use the restroom and an officer began to escort him out of the cell. He allegedly lunged backward and mule-kicked the officer in the crotch. The officer was able to push Scheibener back into his cell, court papers say.
Scheibener was arraigned before District Judge Patricia Romig-Passaro on two counts of aggravated assault and one count each of resisting arrest, terroristic threats, harassment and public drunkenness. He was sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of 10 percent of $10,000.


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Making headlines across Pennsylvania today:
- Allentown Fairgrounds security chief James T. Spang Jr. has been charged with sexual assault, the Allentown Morning Call reports. Spang, 53, allegedly grabbed a man's crotch four or five times at a bar in the Sands Casino in Bethlehem, court records showed.
- Joey Vento, founder and owner of Geno's Steaks in Philadelphia, died of a heart attack yesterday. In his obituary today, The Philadelphia Inquirer says Vento was "a multimillionaire who started with little more than the change in his pocket."
- A Pittsburgh-area boy charged with killing his father's pregnant fiancee will be tried as a juvenile, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Jordan Brown, now 14, allegedly shot Kenzie Houk with a shotgun as she slept in February 2009.
- Former basketball stars at McCaskey High School faced separate criminal charges in Lancaster County Court, according to Lancaster Newspapers. Lamar Patterson and Leontae Turner were teammates at McCaskey in 2007 and '08, Brett Hambright reports.
- A Lehigh County couple whose 1-year-old child died after a drunk driver crashed into their minivan won't face charges for having their daughter out of her car seat, the Easton Express-Times reports. "They have exacted enough punishment on themselves," Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin told the Express-Times.


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As seas of pink and red commercialized Valentine items flood into retail stores, Old Sturbridge Village offers its guests the chance to appreciate a time when Valentines were more personal.
"Be Mine: Chocolate and Valentines" is set to take place at Old Sturbridge Village on Saturday and Sunday. The event will allow guests to see what Valentine's Day was like in the 1830s and how central Massachusetts played a large role in making the holiday what it is today.
"Local connections are always interesting to people," said Kate Brandt, marketing and communication coordinator. "When we introduced the event there was a lot of interest, and because it's relatively new our interpreters enjoy hosting it."
The third annual event will include demonstrations of traditional chocolate making, displays of antique Valentines, the chance to make your own traditional valentines, and a historian portraying Esther Howland who spearheaded the Valentines industry in Worcester in 1848.
This event will allow children, who will soon be bringing Valentines of their own to school holiday parties, to see how different handcrafted Valentines of the 1830s were; compared to today's store bought cards adorned with pop stars or animal pictures.
"Kids always take away so much because it's a hands-on, real world application and they can look at their valentines they pass out at school and compare them to these," Brandt explained.
In 1848, at the age of 19, Esther Howland started making her own Valentines after being inspired by an elaborate Valentine sent from one of her father's business associates. Howland made her card out of imported lace and floral decorations, and soon got her friends to help with the project. By 1860 she was making between $50,000 and $100,000 on these cards annually.
Howland sold her Valentine business to the Whitney Valentine Company in Worcester, a business that remained at the center of the Valentine industry until World War II.
Aside from paper Valentines, chocolate will be a large component of the event. Today many people go out and purchase large heart shaped boxes of chocolate, but at Old Sturbridge Village they are making it from scratch.
"Everyone is familiar with chocolate," Brandt said. "Now they can look at how it was made thousands of years ago from bean to product in Mexico. It also shows the different way chocolate was enjoyed in the early nineteenth century, as a drink."
The interpreters will be using recipes from the 19th century along with traditional techniques of creating the chocolate by hand starting with cacao seeds which are melted down to create a chocolate liquor. This method is a traditional Mexican method in which the seeds are ground on a stone slab with the use of a grinding utensil called a "mano."
Brandt explained how the interpreters at Old Sturbridge Village get to step out of their normal, agriculture based, jobs during the chocolate making event.
"This process is really sort of a Mexican, Central American process, so it gives our interpreters a little change from their daily routines."
Old Sturbridge Village will offer the "Be Mine: Chocolate and Valentines" program with relatively the same schedule on both Saturday and Sunday. Brandt explained that normal Old Sturbridge Village routines will be taking place as well. Old Sturbridge Village will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.
Admission is $24 for adults; $22 for ages 65 and older; $8 for ages 3 to 17; and free for ages 2 and under. Admission includes free parking and free second visit within a 10-day period.


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After nearly three decades living on Regina Street in Harrisburg's crime-ridden Allison Hill neighborhood, Stephen Kershaw is no longer bothered by the sound of gunshots in the middle of the night.
"I hear shots all the time," Kershaw said from his front porch Tuesday afternoon. "If you were here 28 years, you're going to hear that stuff."
But the gunfire isn't OK with everyone, notably Harrisburg police, who will be stepping up their presence in Allison Hill after three shootings in and around the neighborhood Monday left two dead and two injured.
Starting Tuesday, police upped their patrols by about 25 percent, Police Chief Pierre Ritter said. In addition, a nonuniformed street crimes unit, created last May, will start concentrating on Hill violence, he said.
The two killings Monday brought the city's homicide count to seven about halfway through the year. There were 17 homicides in 2009 in what was Harrisburg's deadliest year in about two decades.
Three shootings in a day is unusual, and Ritter speculated the long holiday weekend might have had something to do with it.
"Hopefully, this won't be the same type of trend as last summer," he said.
The city had a lot of officers assigned to the Harrisburg Jazz and Multi-Cultural Festival on the riverfront Monday, Ritter said. The increase in officers there didn't cause any staffing shortages anywhere else, he said.
From the beginning of her campaign through her election, Mayor Linda Thompson has pushed for increased police walking and biking in neighborhoods and the opening of police substations to address the city's crime problem.
Thompson's spokeswoman, the Rev. Brenda Alton, did not respond to questions for this story nor a request to make the mayor available for comment.
The foot patrols have been going on between 2 and 10 p.m. but were moved this week to 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. to target curfew enforcement, Ritter said.
Those types of patrols have been effective this year, Ritter said, but probably would not have stopped Monday's shootings.
Jhonn Louis Leon-Olivencia, 19, of the 1600 block of Market Street, was arrested and charged with homicide, aggravated assault and related charges in the 12:30 a.m. shooting that killed Gordon E. Kochenour Jr., 41, of Halifax, and injured Valentine Hernandez, 31, of Harrisburg.
Leon-Olivencia intervened in a fight between the two men and another man over a cell phone, Ritter said.
Hernandez was shot five times but was stable enough at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to talk to police, Ritter said. None of the bullets hit vital organs.
Leon-Olivencia is being held at Dauphin County Prison without bail.
Less than two hours later, Tariq W. Ray was shot in the head after an argument that started after Ray got mad at two women for crossing the street too slowly, Ritter said. Ray, 20, yelled at the women from his car while another man came to the women's defense, shouting at Ray to stop yelling at them, Ritter said.
Ray then tied a T-shirt around his face like a bandanna, got out of his car and confronted the man, who shot him in the head, Ritter said.
Police were interviewing the women but have not identified a suspect, Ritter said.
Between the homicides, a 19-year-old woman was shot in the hip outside a club in the 100 block of South Cameron Street. Her injuries were not life-threatening, police said.
Despite about 20 people being outside the club when the shooting happened, none gave police any information.
Police have been using a substation near 15th and Derry streets for a few years and a substation in Hall Manor, another neighborhood prone to violence, for about six months, Ritter said. Last month, police and city officials dedicated a substation in a shopping center at North Sixth and Peffer streets in the city's midtown neighborhood.
There are no plans to open any more substations due to financial and staffing concerns, he said.
Substations and foot patrols help increase police presence in the neighborhood, which officials believe helps deter crime. However, it can't always prevent violence from happening, Ritter said.
"If [officers] had been two blocks away, it would have happened anyway," Ritter said of Monday's shootings. "People are going to commit crimes regardless if police are in the general vicinity or not."


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WASHINGTON — As families head to the airport today on one of the busiest travel days of the year, the head of the Transportation Security Administration has a request: Opt in.
TSA Administrator John Pistole urged the flying public not to join a proposed national boycott of full-body scans at the nation's airports, warning that widespread participation in the planned protest of the controversial screening technology could snarl holiday travel for everyone.
"There is concern," Pistole said during a nationwide conference call Tuesday afternoon.
But, he said "my concern is more for the rest of the traveling public that we will process people as quickly and as efficiently as possible."
Critics have derided the full-body scanners as "virtual strip searches" for their ability to see through passengers' clothes, and called the more aggressive pat-downs "gropes" and even legalized "sexual assault," after complaints of screeners touching passengers' genitals. The scanners are optional, though passengers face an automatic pat-down if they opt out.
Despite the complaints and anger, Pistole has said that while the screening process could be modified to address privacy concerns, it will not be changed.
Ordinarily, 98 percent of passengers agree to be scanned, according to the TSA. The concern today is that if more passenger chose to opt out of the full-body scans, there could be a backlog resulting to missed flights, flaring tempers and an all-around unhappy Thanksgiving travel experience.
How many travelers will even get the chance to opt out is a question mark, with relatively few scanners in operation at the region's three major airports.
There are eight scanners in place at Newark Liberty International Airport, fewer than one for every five screening lanes. Six of the scanners are in Terminal B, which handles mainly international flights and not high percentage of Thanksgiving travelers. Two scanners recently were installed at Terminal C, the airport's busiest.
In the event a majority of travelers do opt out of the full body scans, security checkpoints will be fully staffed throughout the holiday to minimize delays, Pistole said.
"We will screen people as quickly as we can," he said.
And if they opt out and refuse the pat-down?
"... Then the process is to ask them to leave the checkpoint, because they're not going to get on that plane," he said.
Growing opposition to the pat-downs was highlight Tuesday by an announcement from state Sen. Michael Doherty (R-Warren) that he would introduce a bill next month criminalizing pat-downs deemed to have gone too far.
"If an individual is touched in a private area during a search, when there is no arrest or probable cause that is affirmed by oath or affirmation, the person who violated that individual's privacy will be guilty of the crime of "sexual assault" and will not be immune from prosecution in the state of New Jersey," Doherty said.
The TSA is reviewing an incident at Newark on Sunday when an ABC News employee said she was touched inside her underwear in a pat-down she described as humiliating and inappropriate.
Meanwhile, transportation security experts said they doubted many fliers would take part in today's boycott because they are unlikely to jeopardize their own travel plans.
"If they do end up crippling the travel day, it'll make many more innocent people (mad) and it may work against them," said David Aggleton of Aggleton & Associates of Tarrytown, N.Y. "I could see the rest of the people standing in line getting angry about it, especially if there's a possibility of them missing flights."


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Posted on | March 1, 2006
Written by | Kristen Wolfe Bieler
By the time the wine industry began to view [yellow tail] as a force to be reckoned with, the revolution was already well underway. The seemingly innocuous Australian brand, which W.J. Deutsch & Sons, Ltd. launched in 2001, was certainly not the first competitively priced Aussie wine to hit our shores; in fact, it arrived when many believed the segment was at a saturation point with brands like Lindemans, Rosemount and Penfolds which were already wildly successful. But "wildly successful" was a term that [yellow tail] quickly redefined when it leapt from zero to 112,000 cases in its first year to 7.5 million cases in 2005.
To say that [yellow tail] is one of the most dynamic brands we've seen in decades is not an understatement. In 2003, [yellow tail] earned the top spot in the imported wine category by overtaking Concho y Toro, and this summer, it surpassed Sutter Home to become the country's number one supermarket brand. So how did a small family importer build the hottest wine brand in the industry?
That is the question we posed to William J. ("Bill") Deutsch, chairman and chief executive officer. He founded W.J. Deutsch & Sons, Ltd. 25 years ago, with a solid 20 years of experience in beverage alcohol behind him at companies like Austin Nichols and Somerset Wine Company. "In 1980, I came to the realization that by being a family importer working closely with family wine producers selling to family distributors and family retailers and restaurants, we could carve out a niche and work around the big corporate wine and spirits companies," Deutsch explains. "We've always had a greater sensitivity to their needs and can act on things much more rapidly than the big corporations." But it's safe to say he had no idea how large a little Australian brand his company introduced in 2001 (in partnership with the Australian-based Casella family) would become. "[yellow tail] was priced well ($5.99-$6.99), packaged in a unique way (one of the first to have an animal on the label) and immediately struck retailers as over-delivering on quality for the price. Retailers began recommending it to customers who recommended it to their friends and families and the momentum began to grow east coast to west." Which all sounds fairly uncomplicated and straightforward.
"Quite a Mouthful"
Convinced there was more to this puzzle, we asked Peter Deutsch, president and chief operating officer, who joined his father's company in 1985, the exact question his competitors pay marketing firms millions of dollars to try to answer: How does one create a brand like [yellow tail]? "It's a question that doesn't have a simple answer," he says. "There are a lot of successful brands in the marketplace, but when you see a brand like [yellow tail] that has so quickly achieved such size and velocity, you have to look back at a number of components." First, he credits the product, an unbelievably consumer-friendly wine which "the American consumer has an enormous affinity for." Wine drinkers, he observed, quickly came to see [yellow tail] as "quite a mouthful of wine for the price." Second, there is the complicated process of bringing a product to market in the U.S. with fifty different sub-markets governed by different laws. "Our distributor relationships enormously impacted the speed with which this success took place. It is very difficult to launch a new product in a consolidating marketplace. A lot of people don't want to put the time and effort into building something from scratch, but we were lucky to have really strong relationships with our distributors." Third, Peter points to the $24 million marketing campaign – perhaps one of the most aggressive ever for a wine brand – which continues to catapult the brand forward as well as maintain its integrity. As a result, he believes "consumers still see [yellow tail] as a discovery brand; it isn't perceived as mass market." And finally, a very sucessful partnership with the Casella family in Australia has contributed immensely.
The bottom line, according to Peter, who has spoken to scores of retailers and restaurants, is that no competitor has yet come to market with a better quality wine for the price with the same resonating package and message. "We know our customers have tried other brands, but they seem to keep coming back to [yellow tail]. I don't think our competitors have yet solved the riddle."
And it's not for lack of trying. In the past few years the market has witnessed a deluge of animal-themed labels, many with more than an uncanny resemblance to the [yellow tail] moniker. Some have since disappeared, and those that remain enjoy only a fraction of [yellow tail] volume. Partly, this has to do with the uncommonly high level of consumer loyalty the brand has earned, which translates into retailer support, says Roy Danis, executive vice president, sales and marketing. "Retailers know they can stock [yellow tail] and be assured of repeat business, or they can take a chance on a competitor and hope that the consumer comes back and purchases again. As a result, our retailers naturally choose to support a brand like [yellow tail]; it's a sure cash register ring. Right now there is no other wine brand in the industry that moves with that kind of velocity."
The W.J. Deutsch World Beyond [yellow tail]
One might imagine it would be hard for any other wine to co-exist in the same portfolio as a brand this successful, but it seems that quite the opposite is true. Rather than being drowned out by the blinding spotlight on the Australian behemoth, W.J. Deutsch & Sons' other brands are basking in its light, benefiting from the increased leverage with distributors and manpower investments that [yellow tail] has afforded the entire portfolio. "One of the things we've been successful at is balancing what's required to take a dominant brand like [yellow tail] to market and also manage the niche brands in our portfolio by keeping them top of mind at the wholesale tier and with our sales force," says Roy. "Our distributor partners know that there is a lot more to our portfolio than just [yellow tail]."
The W.J. Deutsch & Sons portfolio today consists of just over 20 international suppliers, including Georges Duboeuf, Pommery Champagne, Carmen, La Francesca, Kunde Estate, Artesa, Esser Vineyards, J. Vidal Fluery (owned by Guigal), Andre Lurton, Sparr and Osborne among others. "Our portfolio is not chosen on volume alone; we want diversity," says Bill, who adds that they insist that each brand they acquire possess five elements, or "the five 'P's: People, product, package, promotability and pricing." The last element is particularly important to him: "We get very upset by so many wines out there that are overpriced and ripping off the consumer! I get thanks from retailers all the time for our price continuity. So many importers raise prices after a brand catches on. Restaurants add our wines by the glass because we try our best to maintain price consistency."
[yellow tail] aside, the W.J. Deutsch team has an impressive track record of brand building. Bill, Peter and Roy have a combined wine experience of over 100 years. They've watched consumer behavior evolve and they apparently know what the market is looking for. "The most evident change with consumers is the movement toward fruit-forward, easy drinking wines, which has really evolved in the last 5 to 7 years, and [yellow tail] has had a lot to do with that change," says Roy. Consumers have gotten more sophisticated and more educated about value. They've gotten smarter about what sort of quality they can get for what they are paying." But while sophistication levels are rising, Peter is adamant. "Sophistication doesn't mean complexity. Consumers have been tortured with a sea of new products, regions and labels and they are telling us that they value simplicity."
Bill believes that the retailer's evolution has been just as dramatic. "Back in the early 1980's, retailers used to sit behind the counter and wait for customers to come in. Today they're knowledgeable and on the floor, hand-selling wines. Their stores are fine-wine oriented and they've become so creative in their advertising." The vastness of the wine world today has made the game much more competitive; all the more reason to understand what the retailer wants and needs. According to Peter, "the retailer should be paying attention to our portfolio because we have a record of winning brands; it's not a collection of hopeful opportunities. Secondly, we have a long-term strategy, and the retailer can count on a major investment in our brands to raise consumer awareness. We want the retailer making money with our brands. It's worthwhile for the retailer to consider that when they decide where they want to put their time and energy."
Looking into the Crystal Ball…
If W.J. Deutsch has shown it is good at one thing, it's forecasting future consumer behavior. [yellow tail] is staying ahead of the curve, releasing a 2004 Pinot Grigio last May; the first Pinot Grigio to leave Australian shores (their partner, Casella, had to plant their own vines since the grape virtually doesn't exist Down Under). All 200,000 cases were sold soon after its release and Casella is scrambling to make more. The brand's Riesling will hit shelves this Spring, and they anticipate similar reaction. After that, the baseline will remain unchanged and the company will continue to focus on the [yellow tail] Reserve line which they launched two years ago. Last year, the line added three new varietals for a total of five. Peter explains: "It's been challenging to get the same rate of turnover as we have on the base brand, but the reserve tier is starting to pick up steam. It's been a way for us to solidify in the consumer mind that we are a brand based on quality." The Reserves – which retail for $10 and above – "offer greater margin opportunities for all our trade partners," says Roy. "We think we can become the dominant under $10 brand in America and the dominant over $10 brand in America."
But even though [yellow tail] might be one big basket, the Deutsches aren't about to put all their eggs in it. "Let's be realistic. [yellow tail] brands don't come along that often. If we're going to continue to be successful, we need to build many other successful brands," says Roy. "We have a track record of building brands from case one. We have, in fact, done that with La Francesca, our Pinot Grigio from Italy. This year we're projected to sell 150,000 cases." The company is about to explore new terrain with an entry in the spirits category. "We'll always be committed to wine, but we see tremendous opportunity in the imported spirits category, and we'll be launching a new entry this spring," he shares. The team will also unveil their new fine wine division, which will essentially split their portfolio into two companies and open the door to more acquisitions at the high end. "We want to accommodate those products that might be a bit more niche, and require a bit more of a hand-sell than the more mainstream brands," Peter describes. "We'll be making a significant investment in manpower and marketing to drive that section of our business."
And although they have volumes and profits similar to many of the big companies, they remain different in many important ways. "We're a family company, so we have no quarterly dividends to meet," says Peter. "We know that a short term play, that will only include problems down the road, isn't right for us, so we focus on a long term strategy. This is one thing that separates us from the competition." While W.J. Deutsch is a radically different company than it was five years ago, it is still surprisingly lean; 161 employees (96 salespeople) moving nearly 10 million cases, up 630% from 2001. "Because we're not saddled with red tape, we can do things our competitors can't, like move swiftly in response to current trends," Roy says. "We launched [yellow tail] in 2001 and had three new varieties within six months. Big corporate companies have difficulty moving that fast."
Proud of what they've accomplished, the three take nothing for granted. "The industry is changing. We believe that the companies that anticipate those changes, and can react, are the ones that will be successful," says Peter. "The importance consumers place on third-party endorsements when they are buying a bottle of wine will not disappear, but retailers are the ones that place our bottles in the hands of our customers. No matter how big we become, that's how my father has operated for 25 years and we'll never forget that moving forward."


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In 1969...At the Mississippi River Rock Festival, The Band were upstaged when their boss, Bob Dylan, joined them onstage for three songs. He was introduced as "Elmer Johnson."
Bob Dylan performs for a sold out crowd at the Live Aid concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1985. Photo by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect.
In 1977...Elvis Costello played with The Attractions as his backing band for the first time in Penzance, Cornwall.
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In 1980...Former Beatles and Stones manager Allen Klein began a two-month sentence for cheating on his tax return.
In 1982...Alan Parker's film, Pink Floyd's The Wall, premiered at the Leicester Square Empire in London.
LONDON - JULY 02: (L to R) David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright from the band Pink Floyd on stage at "Live 8 London" in Hyde Park on July 2, 2005 in London, England. The free concert is one of ten simultaneous international gigs including Philadelphia, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Barrie, Tokyo, Cornwall, Moscow and Johannesburg. The concerts precede the G8 summit (July 6-8) to raising awareness for MAKEpovertyHISTORY. (Photo by MJ Kim/Getty Images)
In 1988...Michael Jackson performed the first of a record seven sellout dates at London's Wembley Stadium. Customs officials refused to let his chimpanzee, Bubbles, into the country.
LONDON- JULY 15 : Michael Jackson performs on stage during his "BAD" concert tour held at Wembley Stadium ,London on the 15th of July 1988.While performing in London, England Michael breaks a world record (as shown in the Guinness Book Of World Records) with 504,000 people attending 7 sold out shows at Wembley Stadium, more than any other artist.(Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images)UK NEWSPAPERS OUT WITHOUT PRIOR CONSENT FROM DAVE HOGAN. PLEASE CONTACT SALES TEAM WITH ENQUIRIES
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In 1989...Cyndi Lauper's video for "My First Night Without You" premiered.
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In 1989...Alice Cooper released his "Poison" comeback single. It went to number seven on the charts, his biggest hit since 1972's "School's Out."
381192 06: Rocker Alice Cooper performs October 31, 2000 at Roseland Ballroom in New York City. (Photo by George De Sota/Newsmakers)
In 1995...After he failed to free himself from his contract with Sony, George Michael announced that Dreamworks SKG had bought out his contract for 40-million dollars.
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Molly Johnson of Vashon Island defeated Coupeville's Allie Hanigan 6-3, 6-3 in a play-in match at Coupeville Monday, May 14, for a berth in the tri-district tennis tournament.
Hanigan finished third in the district tournament but received the opportunity to compete in the play-in match because the second-place finisher had a conflict and isn't able to play at tri-district.
Coach Ken Stange said, "Allie played well but fell a bit short in both sets. Her season may be over, but she showed considerable growth this year as a player and next year she will be a difficult opponent to beat."
District champions Emily Burchfield, singles, and Amanda d'Almeida and Lexi Blanchette, doubles, will represent Coupeville at tri-district in Seattle Thursday, May 17, at the Amy Yee Tennis Center.
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