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Magnus the Red
"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."
-Ecclesiastes 1:18
-Leman Russ
Magnus the Red is the primarch of the Thousand Sons, and (is takeda shingen in space) rules over the Planet of the Sorcerers. He is directly after the Emperor the mightiest Psyker/Sorcerer in the whole Warhammer 40k Universe. He is notable for having a big ol' red eye right in the middle of his forehead (or one eye which was cut out depending on who you ask), red skin and being huge like a peacock, even as far as SPESS MEHREENS go. He is also the Primarch of the Blood Ravens (supposedly but not officially confirmed), which would explain both their color scheme and high percentage of psykers. Of all the Primarchs, with the exception of Vulkan, Sanguinius and Jaghatai Khan, Magnus was one of the most open minded and compassionate to the discriminated, what being psyker and all.
He along with old Morty are one of the few traitor Primarchs who actually hates/despise their respective Chaos Gods. Mortarian for his general disdain for all things psychic in nature and Magnus for being humiliated and played like a puppet by Tzeentch. If anything, Magnus would buy the chance to get free from that blue bird if he sees even the slightest opportunity of the bird losing concentration on him and most likely go rogue due to losing trust to both the Imperium and Chaos and maybe form his own empire and stuff. Then again, this might be wishful thinking as it may push the plotline of 40k which is a big no no to the higher ups.
The Great Crusade[edit]
Magnus landed on the planet of Prospero (A planet whose ancient civilization was composed predominantly of psykers, who had fled there because they were persecuted by humanity at large for being psykers.) As Magnus was himself such a being, he formed a kinship with the people of Prospero in short order. Taken in by Prospero's people, he absorbed knowledge like a sponge, and became crazy powerful, and in time far exceeded the power and control of all of his teachers. After a while, he became the single most powerful thing on the fucking planet, and he led a campaign to eradicate a race of predators on Prospero known as the Psychneuein, which had overrun many of Prospero's early cities, and had an unhealthy fondness for laying their eggs in unsuspecting psykers' brains. Which was probably why the beasts had destroyed the entire population of Prospero, save for its capital city, Tizca. One by one, bit by bit, Magnus' forces retook the planet, putting the Psychneuein to the sword, and within a year, Magnus had completely reclaimed the entire world (except for the Desolation of Prospero, which was everything except for Tizca).
Once the Psychneuein were destroyed, Magnus became the planetary leader by popular demand. Magnus decided to be fucking awesome, and he rebuilt the cities (or mostly just Tizca). Like a somehow perfectly stable fortress lasting some 50 years in Dwarf Fortress, Tizca became arguably the most beautiful city in Imperial space, with crystalline spires and pyramids, long marble roads, and psychically-resonant crystals in key locations; designed to calm the turbulent minds of younger psykers and help them control their burgeoning psionic potential. The city quickly became known as a shining jewel of humanity, and one that showed proudly how far its citizens had come from the brink of near-extinction. Prospero also had one of the most technically advanced defensive networks in the Imperium, all of which was hilariously wasted except for the shields when Magnus, in a fit of Primarch-scale angst over his "I screwed everything Dad was doing and failed my own purpose entirely in the process" whoopsy-daisy, decided that the Space Wolves should get the rabbit punch.
All this time, Magnus continued to codify and systematize everything he could about the 'Great Ocean' - the name the Prosperans had given the Warp. Huge libraries filled with knowledge about psychic powers and the warp were established, and Magnus himself used his powers to peer into the Empyrean itself, claiming many of its secrets, though at terrible risk to himself. While this was exceptionally dangerous, much of what the Imperium's Inquisition currently knows about the Warp came directly from several of his manuscripts that survived.
With such a powerful mind heading into the warp, it was inevitable that the Emprah (who happened to be out and about the galaxy looking for his lost sons) would eventually take notice. So he eventually came to Prospero, and he and Magnus psychically brofisted before talking for several days. The Emperor taught him even more about psychic powers, but cautioned Magnus to slow down and be careful, since foul horrors lurked in the warp and liked nothing better than forcibly sodomizing an unprepared Psyker's soul. Magnus took much of this to heart - but what the Emperor did not know was why - Magnus' forays into the warp had already come at a price - his right eye, sacrificed ala Odin when he had consorted with warp-entities whose nature he did not understand until the Emperor explained shit.
Magnus was put in charge of the Thousand Sons, but would not immediately embark on the Great Crusade - since many of his Legion were psykers, and there had been so many small mutations that a number of them couldn't survive the gene-seeding process. Even worse, during combat psykers ran the risk of losing control of their psychic powers and undergoing the "Flesh Change", where their body mutated rampantly out of control at all the Warp energy running through them (we call them something else, but won't speak its name as...wait, I didn't say it's naSHHTLSUROHSONTOOLS!) Magnus had been aware of the mutations his people were suffering, and he had entered the warp previously to gain answers as to the cause and cure - though Magnus didn't know it, he had consorted with Tzeentch right before he arrived, and the god of Just as planned saw a lot of potential in this one. In return for a way to stop the flesh-change (Tzeentch backing off), he traded his eye so hard that he never had it in the first place, disregarding the advice of the Emperor to "save" his sons.
In any case, because of the setbacks that had befallen the Thousand Sons, the selfless efforts of Magnus to save them, their shared psychic talents, and the continuing suspicion of many in the Imperium and among the other Space Marine Legions towards the Thousand Sons' use of psychic abilities and the rampant mutations present in their gene-seed, the Primarch and his Astartes developed an extremely close emotional and psychic bond - arguably the strongest such bond among all Primarchs and their Space Marine Legions, exceeding even the Luna Wolves' dedication to Horus and the Blood Angels' dedication to Sanguinius.
Finally, about midway into the Great Crusade, 100 Terran years after it had begun, the now "stable" and full-strength Thousand Sons Legion, with Magnus leading them into the field, were permitted to take part in the effort, as the 28th Expeditionary Fleet of the Great Crusade. And it was glorious. When they were called to the field, the Sons were a sight to behold, flinging forth psychic storms to consume enemies of the Emperor and striking with both precision and prescience, using their abilities to ascertain enemies' weak-points. Magnus was unique among the Primarchs in that he would always try diplomatic routes first, however - in this way, the Thousand Sons won many battles without so much as a shot fired. This did not sit well with Rogal Dorn or Guilliman, who viewed this as unmanly. Likewise, Magnus drew constant distrust from Mortarion and Leman Russ, who distrusted the Sons' sorcerous ways and were somewhat concerned by a trait the Sons had picked up: after conquering or annexing a world, they would take huge amounts of knowledge - books, scrolls with forgotten lore, and ancient artifacts - back to Prospero for study, analysis, and codification. And this doesn't sound like the Blood Ravens, some say? Nicking everything shiny and not nailed down was the Thousand Sons thing, and nobody looted so prolifically. The White Scars aligned themselves with the Thousand Sons and Blood Angels to set up the Libraries, but actually did so to impose some restraints on psykers and make them more acceptable to everyone else, and avoiding the dangers that the Sons were so cavalier about. Their worries only intensified when it emerged that the Sons had little warp critters call "tutelaries" buzzing around them and acting as warp power-packs.
Though when diplomacy didn't work Thousand Sons was known to fuck entire armies with lightnings, fireballs, mass mind control and precision strikes dealing so much devastation with only few marines, that entire companies of Iron Warriors would weep in tears of jealousy, if they ever cross Sons during Great Crusade. Magnus himself once fought Ork gargants by himself, and despite being able to zap, melt or transmute their hulls with just power of his mind he instead scaled himself to the size of Warlord class titan, and beat the shit out of Gargants with his bare hands.
It wasn't long before Magnus was called to task by his brothers. The Sons' obsession with preserving valuable knowledge - whatever the source - pissed off several of the other Primarchs. The Thousand Sons' political opponents among the other Astartes Legions found their methods useless, and arguably counter-productive to the goals of the Great Crusade which sought to spread the specifically Imperial strain of human civilization across the galaxy, and possibly dangerous to boot, since the Warp was so dangerous. Arguments between Magnus and the other Primarchs became so pitched and so violent that on one occasion, Leman Russ and Magnus got into a giant fucking brawl on the council floor, and it only didn't end in bloodshed because Lorgar managed to talk both of them down, causing Russ to grudgingly holster his weapon and Magnus to stop chargin' his lazar. Finally the Emperor stepped in, bitch-slapped everyone for acting like a retard, and pointed out that whilst dangerous, Psychic powers were extremely necessary to the Imperium writ large. Chaplains were added to Space Marine chapters in order to ensure adherence to the Imperial creed, Psykers were to abstain from using their powers, and Jaghatai Khan was to facepalm whilst groaning that this is exactly what he'd warned Magnus about. Magnus was ticked off, but calmed down a bit a little later and continued the Crusade with the new restrictions in place (actually, they carried on with their arcane ways in secret. Read A Thousand Sons).
Horus Heresy[edit]
When Magnus learned that Horus intended to betray the Emperor and slaughter the other Astartes Legions, he resolved to use any method possible to warn the Emperor. With no other option, he made a deal with Tzeentch that combined their powers and smashed open the Webway from the warp (because Magnus could not be bothered to find an entrance) and used it to travel within range of the Emperor. Unfortunately, his doing so destroyed a top-secret Webway project that the Emperor had been working on for Over 9000 Years, which would have rendered dangerous warp-travel obsolete and would connect the Imperium of man using a human-engineered version of the Eldar's webway gates. He called Magnus to task for using Sorcery to activate the webway on top of this, refused to listen to Magnus about Horus, and declared Magnus a DOUBLE HERETIC. Magnus fled the scene rather than fight with his own father, realizing that the Imperium was comprehensively fucked and that he needed to do all he could to protect it and Prospero. Really, the Emperor probably should have told his super-psychic son about his psychically-sensitive all-important project THAT MAGNUS WAS DESTINED TO OPERATE, but Magnus should not have been using sorcery at all.
When Horus learned of Magnus' attempt, he was quietly amused. The Emperor ordered Horus to have Russ bring Magnus back to Terra to stand trial for what he had done, and Horus, being a dick, quietly altered Russ' orders to lay waste to Prospero and slaughter the Thousand Sons. As Magnus was already a declared double heretic and he hated Magnus even before this, Russ took to this like a Furry to Ironclaw (barring a last-ditch attempt to Skype Magnus through a psyker). Accompanying the Space Wolves were a full contingent of Adeptus Custodes, millions of Imperial Army troops, and the elite Imperial anti-psyker unit, the Sisters of Silence (think a unit full of Culexus Assassins and you get the general idea).
Magnus, sensing this, and realizing that this had been Just as planned and that Tzeentch had done this intending to completely destroy both the Thousand Sons and the Space Wolves, decided to dick with the Lord of all Fate: He decided to accept the destruction of everything that he had worked for, so that Tzeentch's ultimate goal would only be half-fulfilled. Tzeentch was richly amused by this. As Prospero burned, Tzeentch and Magnus engaged in act after act of dickery and counter-dickery, with Magnus finally pushed into a towering rage and taking to the battlefield at his capital, crushing his enemies with volleys of MIND BULLETS before he engaged Leman Russ in close-combat. The two fought fiercely, when Magnus managed to Falcon pawnch Russ so hard it shattered his breastplate and punctured one of his hearts. Russ was still in the battle (mostly because he had back up in the form of two fucking massive wolves and Magnus' concentration was elsewhere) and after getting lucky and taking out Magnus' awesome eye, performed a back breaker on him and ended the fight. Tzeentch was greatly amused by all how this panned out - it's rare that anyone, let alone a mortal man, could try to out-manipulate the architect of fate himself. He thus made Magnus an offer: Become Tzeentch's servant, and preserve what was left of his legion and homeworld, or watch what was left of both burn as he lay dying.
...For Magnus, it never really was a choice. The response of Magnus' new patron was immediate - for once, Tzeentch was true to his word. The City of Light was transported into the Eye of Terror to a new Daemon World. Prospero was destroyed that day, but Magnus and his Legion survived. By the time the Thousand Sons were seen next, they had joined up with Horus' force of Traitor Legions on their way to lay siege to Terra (not actually confirmed), and Magnus the Red had become the most powerful of all Tzeentch's daemonic servants. Magnus had never served Tzeentch willingly, but now had no choice - exactly as Tzeentch had planned from the very beginning, and now he was committed to the very cause he had tried to foil. JUST AS PLANNED!
Some head-scratching does arise at why Magnus didn't a) simply tell his Legion to lay down their weapons and try and talk Russ out of obliterating the entire world or b) take the hara-kiri option, which would have at least brought everything to an end a little earlier. Though admittedly even Fulgrim couldn't top himself after killing Ferrus Manus.
Magnus was stuck in limbo for a while, until Jaghatai Khan rocked up to Prospero to find out what had happened and found a shade of his brother down in the caves. Magnus served up a nice big info-dump and in return Jaghatai banished him from Prospero. Magnus then travelled to the planet Tzeentch had set up for him (apparently Lorgar had kept trying to persuade him to join the Heresy during this period, though we don't know how when he couldn't reach his Legion).
And so, the Horus Heresy came and went. The Siege of Terra occurred, Horus had fought the Emperor and (SPOILER WARNING) failed, and the Traitor Legions were driven to the Eye of Terror. However, the Thousand Sons now had to deal with more immediate problems: with their serving of Tzeentch, the Flesh Change returned with a vengeance. Magnus made efforts to stop this, but being a servant of the God of Mutation has its drawbacks and before long Magnus seemed to have given up. Growing desperate, Ahzek Ahriman, the Chief Librarian and First Captain, took matters into his own hands. Having lost his brother to the Flesh Change before they found Prospero, Ahriman gathered a cabal of other sorcerers, the Book of Magnus, and performed the Rubric of Ahriman in an attempt to stop the Flesh Change. The results were not what Ahriman expected: while it stopped the Flesh Change and further empowered all psychic Thousand Sons, all non-psyker Thousand Sons had their bodies turned to dust and sealed within their Power Armour, becoming little more than robots needing guidance from a Thousand Son sorcerer.
Magnus was furious. Confronting Ahriman, once his most favored son, Magnus was about to kill Ahriman when Tzeentch spoke to him: "Magnus, why do you seek to kill my pawn?" Once again, Magnus had been used. Broken, Magnus simply exiled Ahriman from the Planet of Sorcerers. For the last ten thousand years, Magnus has labored to restore his Sons bodies to their original forms, failing all the while.
Unknown to everyone, save perhaps Tzeentch itself, the failed rubric also had a side-effect: Magnus's conscience and psychic might fragmented into several alter-egos, each with different personality's and goals.
He later showed up on FENRIS ITSELF and became the second Daemon Primarch after Angron to get shit done, rampaging through imperial lines and laying waste to everything in his path with MIND BULLETS and RAW PHYSICAL POWER until the Space Wolves responded and after a extremely hard fight
managed to banish him back Magnus phased out himself and teleported all his marines out of the Fang, after reaching his goal, sabotaging an experimental Space Wolf geneseed mutation cure, and killing an entire Great Company HQ, Great Wolf (turns out wolfing a Wolf Lord's wolf means warping your hands inside him and ripping his hearts out) and almost killing Bjorn the Fell-Handed himself as a nice bonus. To be fair, Space Wolves almost managed to actually banish him back to Warp, and Magnus was almost out of energy and barely able to sustain physical form at the end of battle because he had dementia from his time in warp (and because, daemon prince or not, that many wolves, Bjorn and an exploding tank of promethium will fuck you up). Khorne was so impressed by this badassery that he decided to give a little leeway to Khornate sorcerers.
Funny how two out of two Daemon Primarchs to have gotten shit done ended up being repelled by the actions of the Space Wolves. And the best thing? Unlike Draigo "beat Mortarion and the Death Guard silly singlehandedly" faggotry, this fluff is actually somewhat well written, with the Space Wolves being pushed to their very limits trying to repel the chosen of Tzeentch, and they only got off easy once he fucked off after his main objective was finished.
Daemon Primarch Magnus gets a plastic model[edit][1], Games Workshop not only troll us hard, but they actually do it with the truth, what could be more Tzeentchian than that? So yes, it seems we Warhammer 40,000 atomic clock is moving 2 minutes to midnight.
Model wise, he appears to take minor inspiration from his EPIC monkey form (which is a good thing.) His armor appears to be to have changed from golden to silver (but it still has its nipple horns), and the motif of a bird skull apears everywhere. Also, he's standing on a Space Wolf Contemptor dreadnought arm. Make of that what you will.
- If you translate his name into latin, you get Magnus Rubricatus , meaning red is great. Also it has "rubric" in it. Sly GW strikes again!
See Also[edit]
|The Primarchs of the Space Marine Legions
| Loyalist
Corvus Corax - Ferrus Manus - Jaghatai Khan
Leman Russ - Lion El'Jonson - Roboute Guilliman
Rogal Dorn - Sanguinius - Vulkan
| Traitor
Alpharius/Omegon - Angron - Fulgrim - Horus
Konrad Curze/Night Haunter - Lorgar
Magnus the Red - Mortarion - Perturabo


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Sgt. Ed Koehler, a prankster who enjoyed riding motorcycles across the country with his wife, was laid to rest Saturday in Georgia as hundreds of soldiers, Marines and family members paid their respects.
Koehler, a Pennsylvania National Guardsman, was killed near Bagram, Afghanistan, on July 18 when a roadside bomb exploded as he was transporting supplies. Originally from Lebanon, Koehler moved to Ringgold, in the far northwest corner of Georgia, a few years ago after meeting Cheryl, the woman he would eventually marry.
Koehler served in the Marine Corps from 1982 to 1988 and then enlisted with the Pennsylvania National Guard in 1997. In the National Guard, he was a truck driver, so it made sense that when he was home that he and his wife would earn money by driving a truck together.
"Ed's not there," Harden said. "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. This should be a day of rejoicing."
Koehler spoke with his wife nearly every day by phone, Skype or instant messenger, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported. Despite the 7 1/2-hour time difference between Georgia and Afghanistan, if Cheryl's phone started ringing, she would answer.
Cheryl had a black Honda motorcycle and Koehler bought the identical bike — but purple. Their courtship involved dirt-track races, cooking off a portable stove at rest stops and riding across the country.
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By Jeff Tittel
The problems in Barnegat Bay are getting worse and Gov. Chris Christie's administration is focusing on photo-ops instead of putting forward a real plan and policies to clean it up. The governor's 10-point plan is meaningless because it does not address the biggest culprits in the bay's deteriorating health: poor land use, sprawl development, overdrawing of aquifers and excessive nutrients entering the bay.
Instead of focusing on these policy issues, the Christie administration is using events such as the Barnegat Bay Blitz to obscure its appalling environmental record that weakens protections to help the bay. Many people came out to help the bay at the Blitz and we applaud their efforts and their genuine concern. However, politicians are using these citizens who want to clean up Barnegat Bay to cover up the fact they are not taking real action to protect it.
The health of the bay continues to decline. Last month, the state Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Science released a study concluding that Barnegat Bay continues to deteriorate due to too much nitrogen and phosphorus nutrient pollution. We have seen dissolved oxygen levels dropping, creating dead zones. This summer, Seawood Harbor in Brick was a stinky public health hazard as rotting vegetation from the record-high 91-degree bay endangered the community.
Barnegat Bay continues to suffer invasions of jellyfish and algal blooms as a result of continued nutrient pollution. We have seen beach closings because of jellyfish, clam beds closed due to pollution, and loss of eel grass and other ecological indicators are getting worse.
We have seen a drop in freshwater inflows to the bay, making the bay saltier and more polluted. In 2011, there were 50 percent more beach closings than in 2010.
The governor has vetoed three important bills that would have protected the bay. We have turned Barnegat Bay into the state's largest storm water detention basin, and if we do not work to clean up the storm water, the bay will die.
The administration is rolling back clean water protections. Officials are weakening protections for Category 1 waterways, stream buffer rules, flood hazards and the storm water rules that will add more pollution to the bay. Sixty million gallons of freshwater are pumped out to the ocean each day by sewer treatment plants.
The governor's deal with Oyster Creek nuclear plant will allow the plant to dump superheated water into the bay for the next nine years. Without cooling towers, the plant will continue to kill millions of pounds of aquatic life each year.
If the governor really cared about cleaning up Barnegat Bay, he would:
• Upgrade all streams and tributaries in the watershed to the highest level of protection, Category 1.
• Pull back all existing, unused water withdrawal permits until a standard is developed to ensure adequate stream flows.
• Remove environmentally sensitive areas from sewer service areas.
• Revise impervious cover limits under the Coastal Area Facility Review Act to lessen the impact of development on the bay.
• Develop a regional plan and regulatory protection, including a comprehensive storm water management plan.
• End the exemption for redevelopment from the storm water rules.
• Change infrastructure and develop plans to bring more freshwater into the bay.
• Mandate cooling towers for Oyster Creek.
The governor's 10-point plan is a meaningless maneuver to look like he is doing something when he is not. The plan does not address land-use development, sprawl or nutrient pollution.
Without those issues, the plan is just another gimmick. The governor refuses to take strong actions to protect the bay. If we do not act quickly to clean up the bay, we will jeopardize the $3.3 billion-a-year coastal tourism industry and $100 billion in ratables around the bay.
If the bay dies, people will lose their investments, impacting jobs. More important, we will lose one of the most important places on the Jersey Shore.
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In addition, the customer can bring his own conceptions to the design of the objects, which then bear his mark and yet are fabricated in a precise manner. This novel method of art production recently made its debut at the KUKA Roboter GmbH booth at K 2013 in Düsseldorf.
The flexible 6-axis robots of the KUKA KR AGILUS series used here are compact and thus space-saving; they are among the fastest and most reliable of their class – and they meet all of the artist's requirements for automated production. The single-screw extruder (type ME B 30/4 with 30 mm screw diameter) was supplied by IDE.
Meanwhile, KUKA Robotics and Bernhard Ide GmbH & Co. KG, a specialist company from Swabia with more than 50 years of experience in building plastic extruders, have collaborated with ETTO Design Lab to develop an automated production system. It is no longer the artist, but rather a robot that moves the mold beneath the stream of plastic; in this case a robot from the KUKA KR AGILUS series. This innovation makes it possible to supply what was once a one-off item either in a limited edition of consistently high quality or as a mass-produced designer piece at low cost. Yaron Elyasi has a hopeful outlook: "I can imagine many more creative products that can be custom-made using a robotic production facility."


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Police began investigating the case on Feb. 14, according to Cpl. Christopher Levy, public information officer for MPD.
It's unclear how much money has been spent on the stolen credit cards.
Anyone with information on the suspects can call MPD at 251-208-7211.
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A 51-year-old woman who embezzled more than $30,000 from the city of Westfir when she worked as city recorder was sentenced Thursday in Eugene to two years in prison.
Deanna Lynn Cape pleaded guilty in Lane County Circuit Court to felony theft charges. She told investigators she stole money from the city to feed a gambling habit.
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They've been one of America's greatest bands for years now, so don't expect that to change now that they've got their own record label.
While still recording in their hometown of Chicago, this eighth Wilco album was recorded for their own label of dBpm Records, operating out of the mid-sized community of Easthampton, Mass.
They kicked the label off in June with the release of a single of this album's most pop-oriented song "I Might," backed with the non-album B-side cover of Nick Lowe's "I Love My Label."
Produced by Wilco's frontman Jeff Tweedy, along with guitarist/keyboardist Patrick Sansone and Tom Schick, the latter best known for his work with Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams and Norah Jones.
Together, they've assembled a set that moves from mysterious, keyboard-driven tracks to bouncing pop, dark ballads and shades of psychedelia. The sound won't be foreign to longtime Wilco fans, yet the group does sound more convincing in its approach to a lot of the material.
The mystery is there at the outset in "Art of Almost" a seven-minute-plus cut full of keyboards, a haunting air and a surging, psychedelic guitar solo. And that's not even the longest song on the album. That honor is reserved for the bookend track "One Sunday Morning," (song for Jane Smiley's boyfriend) which closes the album in fevered fashion after 12 minutes of swirling, lyrically-reflective acoustic/electric fare, accentuated by piano.
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BOSTON -- Fund investors who want to put their money to work as cheaply as possible have a couple of basic options. They can go with an index mutual fund or a comparable exchange-traded fund.
It's an either-or proposition. There are index funds and ETFs that invest in the same segments of the market. Whether they hold stocks or bonds, the key distinctions are expenses and restrictions on how investors can get in and out.
Now, however, the nation's largest fund company is venturing onto a third path, one that's likely to become well-traveled in coming years.
Vanguard plans to launch 19 new funds later this month that will be first-of-their kind in the industry. Like most broker-sold mutual funds, they will be offered in different share classes, differentiating how an investor pays the sales fee for a fund. But with Vanguard's new funds, the share class will designate whether someone is investing in a mutual fund or an ETF that holds the same underlying investments.
Another milestone
Perhaps more important for individual investors, Vanguard also is launching an ETF version of the Vanguard 500 Index, an $87 billion behemoth tracking the Standard & Poor's 500. It's another milestone for a 34-year-old fund that became the first index fund available to individual investors.
The novel mutual fund-ETF hybrid structure grew out of a patent that Vanguard secured before it sought regulators' permission in June to introduce the soon-to-be-launched products.
It creates a new wrinkle in the traditional index fund-vs.-ETF competition. Some investors might choose to keep some cash in an index fund, and another chunk in the same fund's ETF class, rather than one or the other.
"Vanguard is very smart to create an 'and' solution, rather than an 'either/or' solution," said John Osbon, who manages about $45 million at Boston-based Osbon Capital Management, investing clients' money exclusively in ETFs. "You can buy an ETF version and a mutual fund version, whichever flavor works for you."
Pricing of funds
Mutual funds are priced once a day. This means that when an investor sells, the value is determined by the fund's price at the close of the market. ETFs are priced throughout the trading day and are traded like stocks. That makes it possible to lock in a preferred price without waiting for a closing price, unlike with mutual funds.
Although both are typically cheap, many ETFs now undercut comparable index funds on costs. And ETFs consistently have drawn more cash in recent years than traditional mutual funds, especially actively managed funds that tend to be costlier than index products. Still, mutual funds hold more than 10 times as much as ETFs.
"The trend has legs, and investors are wise to weigh whether an ETF is the better bet for them versus a comparable index fund," says Christine Benz, personal finance director at Morningstar, the fund tracker.
Because of its latest move, Vanguard could see some investors switch from the established mutual fund share class of its 500 Index (VFINX) in favor of the flagship fund's new ETF share class. Vanguard expects the ETF version will charge an annual expense ratio of 0.06 percent. An expense ratio measures the ongoing charges that investors pay, expressed as a percentage of assets.
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For most investors in the Vanguard 500 Index, expenses are three times as much: 0.18 percent. That's still inexpensive, but the difference could really add up for an investor sticking with the fund for years. Investors with substantial investments, $100,000 or more, pay a discounted 0.07 percent, slightly higher than the new ETF share class.
Most of the other 19 new Vanguard funds are geared toward institutional clients and financial advisers, requiring minimum investments of $5 million.
But there's more than just cost to consider when weighing an ETF or a similar index fund, whether or not they're offered as part of the same fund.
One thing to keep in mind: Although the intra-day trading capability expands an investor's options, ETFs can be held for years without any trading activity. Frequent trading is often ill-advised because it's almost impossible to consistently time your moves correctly. Trading also can trigger brokerage charges, though many ETF providers, including Vanguard, now offer commission-free ETF trades to their own account holders.
The questions to ask:
Costs. Look beyond expense ratio comparisons and consider any commissions you might pay by switching from an index fund to an ETF. Morningstar's website offers a cost analyzer that can help sort this out.
Taxes. If you hold an investment in a taxable account, something other than 401(k)s or IRAs, for example, you could be hit with paying capital gains taxes on a fund's annual distributions. Whether you're in an index fund or an ETF, chances are the fund's index-investing approach helps shield investors from capital gains. An index fund doesn't buy or sell its holdings as frequently as actively managed funds move in and out of stocks or bonds. So it's less likely to trigger a tax hit for shareholders. However, because of the way ETFs are structured, they tend to have more tools at their disposal than index funds to limit taxes.
Trading: If you want the daily trading flexibility ETFs offer, they may be a better option.
How much to put in: If you've little cash to invest, ETFs don't set a minimum level to get in, above the cost of a single share, typically, less than $100. Mutual funds require minimum investments of $500 and up, and sometimes as much as $25,000, which could be off-limits for some.
But Benz says costs are still a key comparison to make, especially now with investors still trying to recover from market crashes, most recently in 2008:
"We've been through a 10-year period where stocks have returned almost nothing. So investors are wisely paying attention to what they're paying for their investments."
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EVO80 ACID74 replacements with Quad?
Hi there,
Got quite interested in the Quads lately and was also a bit suprised about the widths.. Since I had to repair my ACID74 beneeth the footpad on the most used jumping side, it seems like replacement time. I think I will understand the Quad shape much more when you can explain how it stands compared to Evo and ACID.
I sail an EVO80 '08 and Acid74 '07 on the North Sea in the Netherlands (with 82kg). I love to be powered up (on the foamy inside) and will use 5.7 blade '09 (uptill 30 knt)' on the EVO80. The swith to 5.0 (25+ knt) normally means I get the acid74 out. The Evo80 for me has the nice backfoot turn up and easy pop-back from the top on smaller waves. The Acid has a calmer ride and feels save & fast on the wave faces. Of course you all know this..
Regarding this description can you tell me (when you had the choice), which board would you replace first, Evo80 or Acid74, by a Quad of what size? What board would you remain beside a Quad, in case you lived in Holland, with less then perfect waves (5/6 seconds interval) rolling in? Or would a replacement of both boards to a convertable be better (what size?)??
Thanks a lot and have fun ripping!
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|24th July 2009, 02:43 AM
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I know your conditions and actually sailed in Scheveningen once, but it was a long time ago.
First, you have two awesome boards already that you seem to know well and like. As long as they can be patched up, there is no absolute _need_ to replace anything.
But sometimes new stuff is fun and can also inspire to more fun sailing. It is not easy to say which of your boards that you would benefit the most by changing. If the Acid is breaking down, that would of course be a reason to replace that one. But lets forget that and just look at the shape and ride qualities. Then I think the EVO 80 would be the one to change. The E80 is an amazing light wind wave board and I had it myself for many years and had some amazing sessions on it. But even last year after starting to rie the Evil twins I felt the E80 felt a bit dull. I changed my sailing style a bit and went out on ET74 or 70 (the ET70 is an amazing schlogging board despite its small size), sacrificing comfort and "power" for more looseness. But now with the Quads I've been super happy on the 76 and 81. Both are very loose, yet have an amazing amount of drive and grip in the turns. The 76 and 81 are pretty much as wide, but the 81 is a bit longer and will surely handle 5.7 better at your weight.
If you would like to replace the Acid 74, I think the Quad 71 is the natural choice. While the 76 is still a good board for 4.2 been for me at 70 kilos as I wrote above, the Q76 is still far bigger than the Acid 74 and to close to an EVO 80 or Quad 81 to have both (for most people).
The Q71 will offer more grip and acceleration in the turns, better upwind and just super cool feel in the waves. The Acid will still have an edge when it comes to that immaculate sharpness and the feel of the rail cutting through the water, but on the Q71 it is easier to drive the board vertical and you can push it any way you want in a top turn without the board ever giving you surprises. So, as I see it the Q71 is an upgrade. But that said, the Acid 74 is still so very good at what it does and a very "contemporary" board. So in the end it's a question about style between those two.
But with in the big size, I think it's just not a fair match anymore. As good as the EVO 80 is, and it's indeed a classic by now, I just can not think of anybody that likes the E80 that wouldn't be blown away by the Quad 81. There are many similarities on general feel, but the Q81 will plane up easier, go better upwind, be looser and easier to initiate turns on, be easier to nail the top turn at speed and still offer more top turn power at slow speeds, have a wider range of wave riding speeds where it excels generally and so on. And I think that if you get the Q81, you will sail it more that you sail the E80 now since it does not start to feel big as early. So if will offer a lot of sailing for for the money, I reckon.
Personally, I don't think you need to go for the convertible. The only reason would (maybe) be a tiny smidgen of extra (feel of) speed in a straight line. But as soon as you're in waves, particularly the conditions you have, the upwind power of the quad setup will kill the single fin setup easily.
|24th July 2009, 12:57 PM
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Thanks Ola!!!
This gives me exactly the understanding of Quad characteristics, you interpret my questions well!! I notice that the quad is slightly more towards the short turning stuff, which leaves a little gap for the Acid on these bigger-down-the-line days. Since these days are seldom overhere, I am still tempted to turn to the Q76 as a single choice board though. The E80 now gives me a slightly too early "wide" feel at around 25knts (with 58,5cm). So getting a cm off with the Q76, might be my choice. Compromise the early planing a bit for more solid fun! And when it indeed would hold 4.2, I might go for single board usage. In my experience one really starts to understnad a board, by riding it in all conditions, which improves ones overall performance (and makes the choice simple!). Also saw some other comments on this site that seem to make the Q76 a slight favourite...
Thanks again!
Jan WIllem
|24th July 2009, 03:22 PM
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Yeah, that might be worth a go and I agree it's good to really learn a board. But i would still keep the Acid 74 until you tried the Q76 a few really windy days.
|27th July 2009, 01:28 AM
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Hi Ola,
Is the Q76 able to carry 5.6 S1's with 80Kg's ?
In terms of outline width (tail and overall width) it is a small difference when you compare the Q76 and Q81; how is your sailing experience ?
Low-wind planing vs high wind control ?
currently owning the evo 74-06 and evo 80-09; looks like a quad of the right size can cover both, might be great.
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|28th July 2009, 10:37 PM
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Yes, as far as I (weighting in at 72) can tell 5.6 should be perfectly OK on the 76. For me 5.5 felt FAR from the limit. Rather kind kind of sweet spot. I think this is a board that has a very wide range and even at my weight it is surprisingly easy to handle with a 4.2. The limiting factor for me on this board is wave riding speed. At higher speeds it comes a point when there is too much tail to handle in the top turn. But I would still say this point is further up the speed range on the Q76 than on the EVO 74 and 75.
So, the Q76 could very well also for you be the perfect one board to replace both your current one.
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Lee said six experiments on board will ask basic questions. Why is Mercury so dense? What is its geologic history? What is the nature of its magnetic field? What is the structure of Mercury's core? What are the unusual materials at Mercury's poles, and could there be ice? And what volatiles are important at Mercury?
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Right-hander Guillermo Moscoso will start. Moscoso went 8-10 with a 3.28 ERA in 23 games, including 21 starts, for the Athletics last year. Moscoso, 28, actually made his first appearance in a Rockies uniform Friday in an intrqasquad game, when he gave up one run and two hits, with one strikeout, in two innings.
The Rockies also are starting Tyler Colvin in left field. The Rockies acquired Colvin and infielder DJ LeMaheiu, who is listed as a reserve today, from the Cubs for third baseman Ian Stewart and right-handed pitcher Casey Weathers. Stewart, a regular with the Rockies until he descended into a slump last season, will start for the Cubs.
On the Rockies' pitching schedule are right-handed prospect Chad Bettis, right-hander Alex White, righty Josh Roenicke, lefty Matt Reynolds and righties Zach Putnam, Mike Ekstrom and Edgmer Escalona.
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Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, who was scratched from the lineup before Monday's game against the D-backs because of illness, reported feeling better Tuesday. Outfielder Tim Wheeler, also sent home Monday, is listed as a reserve today. There was no plan to play first baseman Todd Helton today. Helton also was sent home because of the illness Monday but was at the clubhouse Tuesday.
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Dexter Fowler, CF
Jordan Pacheco, 1B
Michael Cuddyer, RF
Ramon Hernandez, C
Casey Blake, 3B
Brandon Wood, SS
Tyler Colvin, LF
Chris Nelson, 2B
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— Lefty Jorge De La Rosa, who led the Rockies in wins last season with 16, can become a free agent at season's end. De La Rosa said his ambition is to have a strong year to earn the right to stay with Colorado.
— Left-hander Jeff Francis not only is healthy after missing last year with shoulder problems, but he's actually ahead of many of the other pitchers because of the intense offseason work. Francis faced hitters in the Dominican Republic a few weeks ago.
— Righty Greg Reynolds, the team's top pick in the 2006 Draft, underwent surgery after the season to correct an issue with his labrum. Almost amazingly so, Reynolds is healthy enough to begin the spring without restrictions. Pitching coach Bob Apodaca said Reynolds' motion — which the club believes was at the root of his troubles — has cleaned up considerably.
— The Rockies will have 32 pitchers in camp. Righty Taylor Buchholz, who underwent Tommy John elbow ligament transfer surgery last season and hopes to return to the Majors in June, is the only pitcher not healthy enough to be a factor.
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Florida coach Will Muschamp told the Gainesville Sun Monday that right tackle Chaz Green suffered a torn labrum during a practice last week and is out for the season.
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Oswego, NY -- The two Central New York entries in the 2011 GENIUS Olympiad at the State University College at Oswego won bronze medals.
AnhThi Tanguyen, 17, Syracuse Academy of Science, and Hannah Valentino, 16, home-schooled in New Haven, both won bronze awards. They were two of nearly 180 students from 41 countries and 32 states who presented their science projects and art works as part of the first GENIUS Olympiad in late June.
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BAY COUNTY, MI — Voters in four Bay County townships will be asked this November to decide the fate of road millages in their respective communities.
Fraser, Hampton, Kawkawlin and Merritt townships would each use the money for road repair.
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A new 1-mill tax levy is needed to start making needed repairs, said township supervisor George Augustyniak.
"If we don't get at it now, it can cost $130,000 per mile to reconstruct a road," Augustyniak noted.
If approved, the millage would raise approximately $89,500 in the first year.
The plan, he said, is to crush and shape the roads in poorest condition in the first year and add three to four inches of crushed gravel. Then, in the next year, two layers of chip and seal, and in the third and fourth years, additional coats of chip and seal would be applied.
The roads done with this process would last 20 to 25 years, if chip and seal was applied every five years, Augustyniak added.
There are approximately eight miles of roads through the township and in Linwood that would be repaired if the millage is approved.
Hampton Township
A renewal of the roads millage is a step toward eventually paving all township roads with blacktop, said township treasurer William Tacey.
At present, about half of the township's roads are blacktopped, he noted, adding that the lifespan of paving a road with blacktop is 15 to 17 years versus using the chip and seal approach, which must be redone every 3 to 5 years.
Fixing a road with chip and seal involves putting a thin layer of asphalt over the existing road, then spraying fine gravel on top.
The renewal, which would last 10 years, would continue the current rate of 0.65 mills and would raise approximately $290,000 per year. That is an anticipated decrease of more than $4,500 from the amount collected under the current millage.
"The worst roads are fixed in a permanent way with blacktop," he noted. "We're very hopeful to pass this to continue to improve our roads."
Kawkawlin Township
If approved, the new 1-mill tax is expected to raise $120,000 to $125,000 in its first year. Currently, the township's budget for roads is $160,000, which presents challenges to road maintenance, said township clerk Greg Petrimoulx.
"We can't get much done every year," he said, adding that if the millage passes, priorities for the township next year would include improvements to River and Old Beaver roads in the form of chip and seal.
The proposed tax levy would expire in four years.
Merritt Township
Residents are being asked to consider a five-year renewal of its current millage which expires at the end of this year. The current rate of 1.5 mills would be extended through the end of 2017 if approved.
Township Clerk Kathy Bremer said revenue from the millage would be used in the same way as funds from the current millage.
"Each year we do an analysis for which roads need repair," Bremer said.
The current millage raised $78,364.03 this year, and is expected to bring in $79,129.94 next year if renewed, she noted.


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HACKETTSTOWN—Centenary senior Meredith Bruce (Bridgewater) scored eleven seconds into the game, quickly followed by a second goal a minute later by junior Allie Swartz (Marlton) giving the Cyclones all the momentum needed to defeat Cazenovia College.
Centenary continually pressured the Wildcats in the opening minutes of the first half, leading to five goals in all before Cazenovia would respond with a goal at the 13:53 mark to narrow the Centenary lead to 5-1. The scoring went on hiatus for over ten minutes until the Cyclones received a third goal from Swartz who would go on to score four goals on the day.
The Cyclones would notch another goal less than a minute later when freshman Brittlyn Dendy (Waldwick) raced around a defender to deliver the ball into the net. Cazenovia, determined to remain within striking distance, closed the gap to 7-3 on two goals by Christy Foster in the final two minutes of the half including a free position goal while a man-up to send the game into the half with Centenary leading 7-3.
The Cyclones opened the second half much like the first by scoring two goals in the first two minutes when Bruce and Dendy each fired balls past the Cazenovia goalie, Christina Marra. Centenary put two more goals on the board on free position shots by Bruce and senior Danielle Bay (Phillipsburg) to push the lead to 11-3 five minutes into the second half.
In addition to the continued offense, Centenary tightened up the defense in the second half as well, allowing nine shots by Cazenovia compared to the 13 shots fired by the Wildcats in the opening half. Junior goalie Danielle Trucksess (Collingswood) was strong in goal for the Cyclones making ten saves on the afternoon while allowing just four goals en route to a 15-4 win.
In addition to the performances by Bruce and Swartz, Danielle Bay finished with a game high five goals while assisting on another. Defensively, the Cyclones were helped by senior Kim Kupper (Lyndhurst) who caused three Cazenovia turnovers and picked up three groundballs.
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The August issue of our regular newsletter has a global flavour - there's news from Hong Kong of how the M40.1 has a wonderful write-up from staff and reviewers of a respected audio magazine, details of our new distributor in Peru and how an entire shipment of M40.1 flagship speakers to the USA sold out inside a week.
News from Britain includes a warning to professional audio engineers about an audio health hazard, how Harbeth speakers have been chosen by a British school, and Alan spills the beans on his secret RADIAL formula.
Also there is a link to Part 1 of our home-spun video series where I've interviewed Alan at work to illuminate some of the many issues he has to balance in designing a speaker like the Monitor 40.1. In this introductory clip he shows us around the outside of his R&D retreat, deep in the heart of the English countryside. In the next edition, I'll be interviewing him.
You can find the link to part one of our little video in Designer Notebook Chapter 7 here.
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if for no other reason i would cycle it for your head.
I just realized that eating canned salmon every day in different ways is very cheap and nutritious (we're talking <$5 for meals every day!). However, I read somewhere that overconsuming omega-3s is actually detrimental to your health because you have excess n-3 over n-6. Would it be okay to do long term, or should I cycle in some expensive meat now and then? I just remember the Eskimo documentary, and it seems like they mainly eat fish as their protein.
if for no other reason i would cycle it for your head.
I guess I could get tired of it, but usually when I get really excited about eating something, I could eat it for weeks. XD
i eat canned salmon all the time. i prefer it over tuna anyday.
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." -- William Shakespeare
my weight loss story...
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I think it'd be pretty hard to overdo the O-3 if you not popping fish oils. Eggs alone should get you back to 1:1.
It would be very bad.
Bad bad bad.
Or maybe I should buy meat to eat on Mondays just for Darth =P
But on a more serious note, over consumption of larger predator fish may have some risk of mercury or other toxicity. The toxins tend to concentrate the higher up you go in the food chain. Smaller fishes are probably less risky for daily consumption. The completely unscientific opinion I heard was salmon or tuna 2-3x a week or so. Google it, and see what you think.


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Helton welcomes Hudson to Coors Field
This has been a beautiful day in Denver. The temperature on the Coors Field scoreboard reads 86, the breeze is gentle.
But forgive Braves pitcher Tim Hudson if he thinks he has just arrived at prison and the Rockies' Todd Helton is the warden.
Hudson is 0-2 with a 7.77 ERA in four career starts at Coors. And Helton is 9-for-1o against Hudson at his home.
What's funny is the numbers are the total opposite at Turner Field, where Helton is 4-0 with a 1.84 ERA in four career starts against the Rockies, and has held Helton to 1-for-5.
The Rockies have brought up onetime White Sox right-hander Carlos Torres, who went 2-1 with a 2.88 ERA in five starts at Triple-A Colorado Springs. Torres, 29, will be used as a long man in the bullpen. Depending on how he's used the next couple of days, he could be called upon to start Tuesday against the Padres if right-hander Jeremy Guthrie is not ready to return from a recent shoulder injury.
Guthrie, by the way, threw a touch-and-feel bullpen session today and will face hitters at Coors before Saturday night's game with the Braves.
Braves veteran Chipper Jones announced this spring that this would be his final season. He's going out with a blast. The Braves have gone 11-2 with him in the starting lineup and Jones has had at least one hit in eight of those 13 starts. He's hitting second for the Braves tonight.
As Mark Bowman of MLB.com notes, Jones batted just .191 with a home run and a .623 OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage) in his first 11 regular season games at Coors Field. Since then, however, Jones has batted .356 with 11 home runs and a 1.104 OPS in his past 46 road games against the Rockies. No wonder he has shaken off a sore left knee to be in the lineup tonight.
Rockies center fielder Dexter Fowler grew up in the Atlanta area, and the stats suggest he still loves the Braves. Fowler has batted .306 in 20 career games against the Braves. Helton (.332), the sizzling Carlos Gonzalez (.318) and shortstop Troy Tulowitzki (.311) also are better than .300 against the Braves.
Now for the lineups.
1. Michael Bourn, CF (.321, 0 HR, 6 RBIs)
2. Chipper Jones, 3B (.273, 4 HR, 14 RBIs)
3. Freddie Freeman, 1B (.280, 4 HR, 19 RBIs)
4. Brian McCann, C (.241, 5 HR, 14 RBIs)
5. Dan Uggla, 2B (.265, 3 HR, 15 RBIs)
6. Jason Heyward, RF (.272, 2 HR, 11 RBIs)
7. Eric Hinske, LF (.357, 0 HR, 4 RBIs)
8. Jack Wilson, SS (.138, 0 HR, 3 RBIs)
9. Tim Hudson, RHP (1-0, 3.60 ERA)
1. Marco Scutaro, 2B (.275, 0 HR, 1 RBI)
2. Jonathan Herrera, 3B (.265, 1 HR, 3 RBIs)
3. Carlos Gonzalez, LF (.310, 7 HRs, 23 RBIs)
4. Troy Tulowtizki, SS (.280, 3 HR, 13 RBIs)
5. Todd Helton, 1B (.236, 4 HR, 17 RBIs)
6. Michael Cuddyer, RF (.282, 2 HR, 12 RBIs)
7. Ramon Hernandez, C (.279, 4 HR, 14 RBIs)
8. Dexter Fowler, CF (.240, 4 HR, 11 RBIs)
9. Guillermo Moscoso, RHP (0-1, 10.80 ERA)
Carlos Torres to get the call for Rockies; Blackmon to Triple-A DL
Right-handed pitcher Carlos Torres, who pitched for the White Sox in 2009 and 2010 and spent last season in Japan and has made five starts at Triple-A Colorado Springs, will join the Rockies on Friday for the weekend series with the Braves at Coors Field.
Torres, 29, who was 1-3 with a 6.86 ERA in 13 games including six starts with the White Sox, takes the roster spot of right-handed pitcher Jhoulys Chacin, who was sent down to Colorado Springs on Wednesday.
Torres is 2-1 with a 2.88 ERA in five starts for the Sky Sox. He has 25 strikeouts against 11 walks, with five of those walks coming in his first outing of the season.
The Sky Sox had scheduled him to start Friday night's game at Sacramento.
Last season, Torres went 1-2 with a 6.26 ERA in six starts for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan.
For now the Rockies plan to use Torres as a long man out of the bullpen. It's not clear who will start Monday night, which would have been Chacin's next turn.
The Sky Sox replaced Torres with Brandon Hynick, a onetime prospect who threw a perfect game for the Sky Sox in 2009. Hynick was traded to the White Sox in late 2009 for right-handed pitcher Jose Contreras. Hynick rejoined the Rockies' organization after being released by the Reds this spring, and has been pitching at the Rockies' extended spring training.
In another move, left-handed hitting outfield prospect Charlie Blackmon was placed on the Colorado Springs seven-day disabled list with turf toe in his right big toe. It was the same injury that helped short-circuit his chances of making the Rockies during Spring Training.
Blackmon is hitting .203 with one home run and five RBIs in 17 games since being activated.
Rockies deem Arenado not quite ready
The Rockies determiend that their top prospect, third baseman Nolan Arenado, is not yet ready.
Arenado, who turns 21 on April 16, was one of six players sent out of Major League camp on Friday. The Rockies wanted to take a long look at him in camp but were careful not to put pressure on him to break with the big club. Arenado had his moments, but also hit .192 with four doubles and five RBIs in 12 games.
Making it to the Majors would have been a push for Arenado, the club's second-round Draft pick in 2009 out of El Toro (Calif.) High School. The team invited him to camp as a non-roster player after a big 2011 season — he hit .298 with 20 home runs and led Minor Leaguers with 122 RBIs at Class-A Modesto, and followed that up by earning Most Valuable Player honors in the Arizona Fall League. The Rockies did not announce the level of the Minors that Arenado would begin this season.
Officially, the Rockies optioned Arenado and right-handed Zach Putnam to the Minors and reassigned non-roster right-handed pither Carlos Torres, first baseman Chad Tracy (son of manager Jim Tracy) and outfielder Tim Wheeler — another highly regarded prospect, who hit .263 with a home run and two RBIs in 14 games.
The Rockies had earlier optioned infielder DJ LeMahieu to the Minors but kept him with the big club; however, on Saturday LeMahieu was reassigned to Minor League camp.
The Rockies still have 39 players in big-league camp, including six non-roster invitees.
Moyer to throw Minor League game; Rockies' 'regular' lineup set for game vs. Angels
Rockies left-hander Jamie Moyer, scratched from a start on Friday because of soreness in his left leg, will throw in a Minor League game at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick.
Coming back from elbow surgery at 49 involves more than just making sure the arm is sound. Moyer has always put himself through difficult full-body workouts during Spring Training and between starts. He has continued to do so this spring, but he'll have to find a balance.
"My last couple years of playing, I've tried to modify that," said Moyer, who suffered his injury in the middle of the 2010 season while with the Phillies and spent last season out of baseball, before signing a non-roster contract with the Rockies. "It's not like this year I'm trying to do something completely different. It's trying to work smart, recover quickly and appropriately and continue to prepare for my next outing."
In the main game, against the Angels at 1:05 p.m. at Salt River Fields, right-hander Juan Nicasio will start.
With veteran third baseman Casey Blake returning after missing a week with neck soreness, the Rockies are using what could be their Opening Day starting position player batting order.
Here are is the Rockies lineup:
Dexter Fowler, CF
Marco Scutaro, 2B
Carlos Gonzalez, LF
Troy Tulowitzki, SS
Todd Helton, 1B
Michael Cuddyer, RF
Ramon Hernandez, C
Casey Blake, 3B
Juan Nicasio, RHP
Esmil Rogers, RHP
Josh Roenicke, RHP
Carlos Torres, RHP
Zach Putnam, RHP
Pomeranz leads Rockies vs. Royals; also, Rox face M's in B game
Rockies left-hander Drew Pomeranz hopes to build on his scoreless two innings in the team's Cactus League opener, a 1-1 tie with the D-backs on Friday afternoon, when he faces the Royals today. Fans can see the contest via a webcast. The game will start at 1:10 p.m. at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. Felipe Paulino, formerly with the Rockies, will pitch for Kansas City.
Additionally, the Rockies and Mariners will play a B game at Salt River Fields at 10 a.m. on Field 1, which is just beyond the right-field corner of the main stadium.
Here is the Rockies' batting order for the main game:
Dexter Fowler, CF
Jonathan Herrera, 2B
Jordan Pacheco, 1B
Jason Giambi, DH
Ramon Hernandez, C
Tyler Colvin, RF
Casey Blake, 3B
Chris Nelson, SS
Tim Wheeler, LF
Here is the pitching plan:
Drew Pomeranz, LHP
Josh Outman, LHP
Matt Belisle, RHP
Edgmer Escalona, RHP
Dustin Molleken, RHP
Edwar Cabrera, LHP
Joe Gardner, RHP
Here is the Rockies' lineup for the the B game against the Mariners:
Eric Young Jr., 2B
Brendan Harris, RF
Brandon Wood, 3B
Chad Tracy, 1B
Ben Paulsen, DH
Andrew Brown, LF
DJ LeMahieu, SS
Jamie Hoffmann, CF
Lars Davis, C
Here is the pitching plan for the B game:
Rob Scahill, RHP
Carlos Torres, RHP
Josh Sullivan, RHP
Mike Ekstrom, RHP
Josh Roenicke, RHP


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Like most in the area, Habitat for Humanity Northeast Michigan hopes warm weather arrives soon to stay.
To encourage weather-weary residents, the non-profit agency has planned a ReStore Summer event this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The public is invited to the Habitat ReStore on Chisholm Street to get a first look at the store's summer stock as well as to enjoy refreshments, drawings and raffles.
The event also is intended as an opportunity to show off the ReStore's newly remodeled space.
"We're planning on having an open house type of atmosphere, showing off our newly remodeled store and more customer friendly displays," said ReStore Manager Doug Talent. "There also will be a craft corner or repurposing corner with one of our volunteers showing how you can repurpose items."
The staff will bring out all of the store's summer merchandise, which has been in storage. This includes patio tables and chairs, gardening items such as pots, planters and tools, summer sporting goods and items used for yard clean-up.
Prototypes of Habitat-built Adirondack chairs and picnic tables will also be on display Saturday. Those interested can pre-order the furniture, which is then made as a fundraiser for the ReStore.
"We're going to try and do it all in one fell swoop and spring into the summer season," Talent said.
Because Saturday also happens to be Armed Forces Day, Habitat is offering a 10 percent discount on all items purchased by military personnel.
Refreshments available on site will include hotdogs, chips and pop. A lot of the planning for ReStore Summer was done by ReStore Assistant Mike Oliver, who will be taking on more responsibility for running store as Talent transitions into his new position as construction supervisor.
Habitat is gearing up for the summer construction season, with proceeds from Saturday's event earmarked for various local projects.
"We have a home on Second Avenue that's a total rehab project," said Habitat Executive Director Stacy Todd. "We're in the process of selecting a family to occupy that home."
Todd also said the agency has several A Brush with Kindness projects to undertake throughout Alpena, Alcona and Presque Isle counties. These smaller scale projects involve such tasks as installing handicap ramps and doing roofing work.
"All of the money raised goes back into the community to help families and to fulfill the Habitat vision of creating a world where everyone has a safe place to live," Todd said. "Coming into the ReStore and participating in this fun event enables Habitat to do even more in the communities we serve."
For information about the ReStore or Saturday's event, call 354-5555. For more information about Habitat for Humanity or to volunteer, call 356-3509.


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Hanging On By A Thread
I really did not expect it to make it through the last wind and snowstorm. After all, the mud-clad sphere was hanging by what appeared to be a thread from the tree overhanging the road. It's a large, fascinating structure obviously built by some very busy wasps or such insects.
It has been waving in the breeze from its lofty spot above GC&P Road since late last summer. From its size I imagine there were many workers involved in its creation. I've noticed a few similar nests or hives or whatever they are technically called, scattered about the countryside. Might have to call on Scott Shalaway for some more information, but for now I am content to monitor it throughout this sometimes brutal winter.
There is something to be said for insects, animals of the fields and humans who successfully and bravely endure the harshest of conditions. The recent arctic deep freeze that gripped the area provided another opportunity for us to display our ingenuity. Some of us managed to outsmart frozen waterlines and door locks. We learned to heed the warnings to layer ourselves like the Michelin Man. And with another round of frozen temperatures headed our way next week, perhaps we will take it all in stride.
It's no secret that a large segment of the Mountain State population has shown the rest of the world they can survive whatever is thrown at them.
The recent water crisis in nine counties in the middle and southern portions of the state, caused by a chemical spill into the Elk River, brought out the best in a lot of people. The residents of those nine counties could not turn on their faucets for anything. There was no cooking, bathing, teeth brushing, washing clothes or the simple act of enjoying a glass of tap water. While water officials raced to correct the problem, the residents of those communities held strong.
They did not wail and cry, but help came anyway from across the state because that's what West Virginians do for one another. Past disputes between counties or politicians were laid aside. Within a day of the chemical spill, this newspaper and other media outlets told local residents that collection sites for water and other needed items were being arranged at area churches and other facilities.
As a result, stores in Wheeling reported a rush of customers buying up bottled water, paper goods, baby formula and food products to send to their fellow Mountaineers downstate. The response was overwhelming, heartfelt and much appreciated, according to those arranging the water drives.
These acts of humanity are simply an extension of the Mountaineer creed. We may be wild but we are also definitely wonderful.
We humans can be buffeted and bruised by life's curve balls. Sometimes we may feel as though our lives are dangling by a thread. And then there is a knock on the door and a case of water or baby food appears. Hang in there.
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Many Americans are waking up to the reality that rights they have held for four decades may no longer be secure.
- See the New York screening of the video and watch reproductive rights leaders discuss Roe at Risk
- Read AFJ's new report In Their Words: The Supreme Court Justices on Abortion
Actress and activist Amy Brenneman, star of Judging Amy and Private Practice, narrates the film, which describes the full scope of attacks on women's constitutional rights nationwide, while telling the story through the prism of women's day-to-day struggles in Mississippi and Texas. These two states are facing the dramatic and wrenching consequences of radical anti-abortion legislation. But they're also places where women and their allies are fighting back, standing up strongly for their constitutional right to reproductive freedom and justice.
Spread the word: www.roeatrisk.org
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Clackamas County receives grant funds from three HUD programs: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Home Investment Partnership (HOME), and Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG). In order to receive these funds the County must prepare a number of plans. The most important is the Consolidated Plan. The development of the Consolidated Plan has been designed as a collaborative process allowing cities and community organizations and residents to participate in creating a unified vision for community improvements in their neighborhoods.
Key components of the plan include:
- Assessment of housing and community development needs and development of long-range strategies;
- Description of how the County intends to use the federal funds to implement the strategic goals of the consolidated plan;
- Maps identifying concentrations of low and moderate income residents
- An examination of the impediments or barriers that limit fair and equal housing opportunities to County residents
If you have a question or would like to request more information, please call 503-655-8591.
Citizen Participation Plan for 2017–2021
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VICKSBURG, MI – The village of Vicksburg has a new strategic plan for the coming year. Now the work continues to see how much of it can be done.
The strategic plan, first started last April in a visioning session with more than 50 residents, was approved with no discussion Monday by the Vicksburg Village Council.
The plan details what residents, the council, village staff and others specifically want to see done over the next year, and more generally over the next five years.
Listing the village's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, the document focuses on five areas to address most immediately, with at least three of them already getting plenty of attention from Village President Bill Adams and the rest of the council.
The five focuses include project funding, mostly obtaining funds for needed projects and to reduce the village's debt; communications, such as getting fiber optics into the village for businesses and residents; redevelop the Mill of South County and surrounding property; come up with a business plan for the village-owned Angels Crossing Club; and identify opportunities for youth development and education.
The last two are more down the road, council members said. The first three are already underway.
Finding funds for various projects and reducing the village's debt by refinancing higher percentage loans to a lower figure have been the charge of Adams. The village would like to refinance its $3.5 million in debt that include a $1.4 million land contract at 6 percent interest and $1.6 million in bonds at nearly 6 percent.
The most recent possibility, he said, would be interest rates anywhere from .6 percent to about 3 percent.
"We would like to refinance all of them under 2 percent," Adams said. "We could potentially save $150,000 to $200,000 by refinancing. We're getting closer."
One of the biggest problems in that area is that the state has told the village that its debt is too high. The village submitted a plan to refinance that $3.5 million in debt that included selling village properties not needed, but the state rejected it.
A new plan is being worked on, and in the meantime Adams said he continues to explore potential refinancing interest rates that can help the village better handle it debt and potentially save some money.
Redeveloping the old paper mill property is also an active project. Council Trustee Chris Newman said "the end is in sight " for the village to acquire a portion of the property, The village has been working with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Kalamazoo County Treasurer Mary Balkema, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and others on the various steps needed for the village to take ownership of the site and redevelop it.
Newman said there are several issues to deal with, including asbestos abatement, clearing out fire-damaged areas from arson last year and negotiations with the current owners.
The ultimate goal, council members said, is to redevelop the old mill into new businesses, housing or whatever else might want to be there.
One of those new businesses, for example, could be a telecommunications company that would provide fiber optics in the village.
Council Trustee Colin Bailey has been meeting with telecommunications companies to determine the potential costs for fiber optics and improved communication technology in the village that both businesses and residents could benefit from.
The village is working with Vicksburg Community Schools on the study-project since Vicksburg High School already has fiber optics capability. One possibility, he said, would be to have fiber optics lines run along W Avenue to the high school, with a company potentially setting up a business in the old mill.
"The hub in the mill would be privately owned, a small company," Bailey said.
But the fiber optics study, he said, is just beginning and several potential companies will need to be contacted to determine costs and interest.
The strategic plan, council members said, will be actively followed and used, not a simple wish list for the council and residents.
It can be read on the new village website at www.vicksburgmi.org. The website itself is an offshoot of the strategic plan, and is a work in progress.
Tom Haroldson covers Portage, Vicksburg and Schoolcraft for MLive/Kalamazoo Gazette. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Sunday night's "Game of Thrones" featured an epic, episode-long battle at the Wall when thousands of Wildlings stormed Castle Black. Jon Snow was reunited with his Wildling fling, Ygritte, and there were axes to heads and swords through eyes. But the MVPs were the long-feared Giants, who came riding in with their massive mammoths.
Mythical creatures appear sparingly on "Thrones." But a few times a season, we'll get a pure fantasy treat with Daenerys' dragon children or the spine-chilling, ghastly White Walkers.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Traffic is very heavy on the Brooklyn-bound Staten Island Expressway where two vehicles have been involved in an accident near the Bradley Avenue exit.
A white sport-utility vehicle and a passenger car collided just west of the exit. The left lane remains blocked, according to reports from the scene.
The highway is backed up to the Goethals Bridge.
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MUSKEGON — A Dutch tourism official from North Holland who has real-world experience with an offshore wind farm reignited the debate in Michigan about wind turbines on the Great Lakes.
veracious1 doesn't want a wind turbine near a vacation beach.
I wouldn't personally want a wind farm near the beaches I go to. Why ruin a naturally skyline with huge hunks of metal? Not to mention the power output from these things is unreliable and has to be backed up by other power plants for large portions of the year which causes the costs to rise even more.But for markG and other readers, it is question of alternative energy produced here or reliance on Middle East oil.
I think the point of the article was to point out that if the installation of the turbins is 6-9 miles offshore, you can't see them, or maybe just a speck of them in perfect visibility conditions. Therefore they state the impact on tourism would be negligible. And I don't understand your assertion of these windmills being "unreliable". If anything, the politics of the troubled middle east is more unreliable....I'll take our wind over OPEC anyday...detroitpcb would agree:
Yeah, private property owners who don't want to look at a speck in their bay window get to keep our State dependant on oil from the Middle East, old nuclear power plants that threaten radiation leaks and the problem of storage for radioactive waste, and coal fired plants that are a source of greenhouse gas and toxic waste (fly ash).The anti-wind energy forces aren't buying the Dutch experience. B'wana posted:
"You can only see the wind farm in very good weather … and that's not very often," Stam said of the view from the local beaches. "They don't affect our tourist on the beaches. They are really too far out to see them." Maybe they don't affect tourism because as you stated the weather isn't good very often, so I doubt there was much of a tourist industry to disrupt in the first place.
With what's going on in Europe these days, some question whether following the Dutch is really smart. One of the European skeptics is SageofthePage.
They are doing dumb stuff in Europe. Therefore, we should try doing dumb stuff, too, like dumping cheap coal power for expensive and not-too-practical wind power. Dumb. It's the new way.
So, would offshore wind turbines harm the beach-community tourism businesses along the Lake Michigan shore? Is wind energy vs. coal-power plants the real option? Join the debate.
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text: The Cattaraugus County Museum's summer-long Civil War event series continues on Wednesday as the Union Volunteers Fife and Drum Corps will give a program of Civil War martial music. The Union Volunteers Fife and Drum Corps is a historically authentic musical group specializing in the martial field music of the Civil War. Attired in uniforms of northern Union musicians and performing on beautiful replica period instruments, they perform at parades, civic and patriotic events, memorials, and ceremonies as well as presentations for schools and community organizations. Formed in 2009 by Jim Pace (fife) and Brian Seibel (drum), they are well known amongst Civil War re-enactors in the Western New York area.