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Hey guys,
I thought it would be a cool idea for us all to post our experiences with Envato Marketplaces here, how Envato has changed your life, enabled you to buy your first car, or just given you enough money to buy that iPod you always wanted.
I think more authors will be attracted if they can read the great experiences people are having here.
I'll start…
I came here in April 07 just 3 months after starting to learn flash, i came here to buy a gallery for a friends website and i stuck around, i quickly realised there was money to be made so in October 07 i uploaded my first file, by december i was pulling in over $400 a month with very little work.
My skills have since improved greatly and since i started uploading i have earned over $7500 and as a reviewer i have earned much more, meaning in Jan 09, i quit my fulltime job and i haven't looked back.
I would reccommend Envato Marketplaces to anyone with a creative touch, whether you are looking for a few extra bucks to take your partner to dinner or if you are wanting to make life changing sums of money.
I signed up in september 2008 after finding this site during my work experience breaks in year 10. I fell in love with the site immediately, i remember going through all the image galleries exclaming how amazing they were. I never thought that i would be able to create flash items as good as the ones i saw back then, but over the past year and a bit my skills have improved a lot.
As i am currently still in school / college, i barely have any free time, so i generally spend the time less productively, posting on the marketplace forums and browsing the web etc. You can probably tell by the 2000+ posts that i spend a lot of time on the site. I hope to create more files of ever increasing quality until about june 2011 where there is bound to be a rush of files from then on throughout my gap year to try and increasy my stock portfolio.
Envato has been more of a hobby to me than work, although I hope to change that in the near future, where I would love to make a living from the marketplaces and hopefully never have to be employed.
I liked that part a lot, I would be glad if I can say that someday
"I signed up in september 2008 after finding this site during my work experience breaks in year 10. I fell in love with the site immediately, i remember going through all the image galleries exclaming how amazing they were. I never thought that i would be able to create flash items as good as the ones i saw back then, but over the past year and a bit my skills have improved a lot."
awesome stories guys, this thread is gonna be interesting
when I'm already here I say also something….
I signed up around january 2007 (the flashden only time) with the nickname "iDraw", I also fell in love with this addicted feeling to make some money I made some songs, uploaded them, and watched what happens… I made 1000 posts in no time and was also very well known in the community as a guy that posts a lot.. I started buying flash templates and watched how they made them….... I made my first smiley pack for flashden and was kinda happy with it…like over 10 comments on it…
I stopped with learning flash, deleted the account and made a very big break….. and in February 2009 I created a new account, this one… danielku…. I uploaded only 2 audio tracks cause I'm really busy, but now I'm back again and want to learn some flash and AS3
if I had the old account till today I maybe had like 5000 posts
it's the best community for me, mostly everyone here helps everyone
When I first found ActiveDen I was psyched that I could find certain Flash files that I wasn't quite yet capable of making on my own. I learned a lot just by working with those files and decided to try selling some on my own after I had become more experienced.
The extra cash is great but developing files for ActiveDen allows me to create things I never would as a freelancer for small business websites.
And the community here is just awesome. The forums allow me to take a mental break from what I'm doing and either learn a new AS trick or just have a good laugh
I first discovered FlashDen (Yes, back in the good old times it was still called FlashDen) back in December 2008, nearly a year ago. I had just learned / was learning some basics of Flash in Computer Science class, and was googling for some helpfull information. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that's when I stumbled upon a banner about FlashDen. I looked around for a bit, and figured there was money to be made.
Being the naive schoolkid I was (and still am, for the most part) I uploaded a preloader I so proudly created to aid me in my Mastermind game I had to create as a school project. I innitially wanted to sell my games (Mastermind was the 3rd project we had to do, after Tic Tac Toe and Towers of Hanoi), but came across an issue: the variables and objects had to be in English, the code had to be commented and the file had to be documented. This was enough of a barrier for me to only upload the preloader, which was only very little work to document. I noticed how there were so many preloaders on FlashDen, so I figured they could do with another one.
Sadly, it was rejected. Looking back on it, it was silly of me to think it would get through. Either way, it resulted on me not clicking my FlashDen bookmark for a long time, until..
Several months later, in May '09, during a 2 week holiday, I decided I had plenty of time on my hands and needed something usefull to do. I started off early one morning and translated all the objects and variable names of my 3 games (That's practically all I had done in Flash until then) to English. Over the next few days I commented my walls of code, and added txt files with documentation. I had learned my lesson, these files would not be rejected like my preloader!
In May, June and July I merely sold anything. I came up with a few more files along these months, but nothing too spectacular. My sales were stuck at around $30 a month, but as I'm a poor schoolboy, that was quite a profit. I kept on nagging my relatives about how I had another sale, proudly stating I now had 12 – a few days later even 13! (this data contains estimates)
Over the summer I didn't pay much attention to FlashDen – it wasn't making quite as much as I hoped it would. The last few files I had uploaded didn't sell too well. I couldn't come up with anything creative. Just before the holidays we had started learning PHP in class. I took a break and focussed on PHP (I build my dad's dance group a nice and shiny forum!).
Halfway into August, I had a stroke of inspiration again, and I produced a few files. Motivated by a few sales of my Thimblerig game, I decided to churn out a few over the last weeks of my holiday. I noticed my call was really in games, so I quickly learned how to use XML in combination with Flash, (I had used XML before, when implementing ajax on a news feed on a website) made an XML Quiz as well as a Higher/Lower game. Also, I created an XML banner rotator.(let he who is without sin cast the first stone), as I noticed these were selling quite good.
My sales went through the roof (on my book, that is). August made twice as much as June, even though sales only started rolling in halfway into the month. September made three times as much as August, making me hit around $180 in a month.
School started on September 1st, so I had less time to mindlessly stare at the screen to come up with a new idea – I simply finished my rotator and went on with my homework.
Nearing the end up September, I decided I could push out another file in between the scenes (a blackjack game, yes: again a game).
The way it's going at the moment, October is going to end up very close to September's highscore (not breaking it spectacularly, but oh well) although I havn't uploaded anything this month. Something I did do, though, was my first paid freelance work. I customized my XML Quiz for two clients, earning me a nice $120 extra!
Currently, I'm not working on anything Flash-wise (still got a PHP project for school lying around, and a programming competition for schoolkids I've spend the last weekend on).
Autumn break just started, so I'll try to find something Flash-related to create, so that I'll be warm for the winter when it's making me a few bucks.
Oh yeah.. I've still to withdraw my first earnings – I've decided to wait until I make $500, so that I can get it transfered to my bank account. Should be somewhere this month, though!
I konw flashDen since May 09, through a post of Actionscript community,regret not having got to know envato sooner
I just wanna say thank you envato thank you ActiveDen.
PS.sorry for my poor English
Stay here,I can learn English learn Flash and also earn money,how nice
More here for the great community, developing App for AD require time that i don't have and i have a good job and doing great for my self. I encounter people from all over the world from sound to flash /Photoshop developer, from Ozz land pass in the UK and Canada , the amount of talent here is amazing and there is no other place like this over the web/world .
The forum is my break time reading new stuff and try to trash Msfx in any opportunity i get and continuing my day, so thanks AD for that and thanks to Msfx for letting me trash him…….
But I will ignore Duro for now
I signed up and here I am. The end
I signed up and here I am. The end
Your story is really inspiring. Never tought of becoming a writer ?
I signed up and here I am. The endYour story is really inspiring. Never tought of becoming a writer ?
No, but I'll definitely consider that .


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In another conversation, it was brought up that  adds useless code, like this:

Link

To me that does seem pointless. But the HTML5 spec does say that the element does not have to contain a list and they provide this example:
A nav element doesn't have to contain a list, it can contain other kinds of content as well. In this navigation block, links are provided in prose:

You are on my home page. To the north lies my
blog, from whence the sounds of battle can be heard. To the east
you can see a large mountain, upon which many school papers are littered. Far up thus mountain
you can spy a little figure who appears to be me, desperately
scribbling a thesis.

To the west are several exits. One fun-looking exit is labeled "games". Another more
boring-looking exit is labeled <a

To the south lies a dark and dank contacts
page. Cobwebs cover its disused entrance, and at one point you
see a rat run quickly out of the page.

If that is the case, would this mean that it is possible to write the navigation this way:

Then, target  as you would targeted
, and target the internal  as you would
. Personally, though, I like having the three targets of
,
 and , whereas the above reduces that by one, and the previous adds one unnecessary. But would the above cause any unexpected problems?
I think it would run foul of accessibility guidelines:
Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links.
Yeah, that's what I figured. No loss to me, but I was just wondering.
I don't think  can contain inline elements or text itself, but only block-level elements. All the examples given on w3.org show only block-level content, but the "content model" is described as "flow content", but that is not actually defined anywhere that I can see. For comparison,
 is also "flow content", but
 is "phrasing content". But then
 and
 are also "flow content", so that doesn't necessarily help.
The example on w3schools shows the  directly containing  elements, separated by pipe symbols, which hardly seems to be the great leap forward for semantics, accessibility and separation of presentation from content that we would want to see.
Interesting. Hypothetically, can that be addressed by styling the  as display:block?
Of course not. I usually use border-left styling for that.
I haven't heard about it before, but i have read your post and wondered about it, as its very helpful for us.I have read that Html 5 brought very new tags, and its really very helpful specially for Designers.And i don't think it cause any Problem for me.
I don't think so. That only changes the display; the element remains an in-line element.
Nope. It's still an inline element, regardless of what styling you apply to it. In just the same way, you couldn't have
table div {display:table-row;}
table div span {display:table-cell;}
Remember that CSS is an optional hint as to how the author would like the page to be displayed, it doesn't affect the code or the page structure at all.
In the land of Fred the A element is basically flow content and most elements that are used in the body of those documents and applications are categorised as flow content though typically an outline would make sense.
Then what is the logic behind the idea that we can only nest inline elements in  if they themselves are nested in block level elements? That seems worse than just using a DIV with A elements for nav because right or wrong, at least you get a choice. I don't understand the reasoning.
Just the same as the logic that says you can't have loose text or inline objects directly in
,
 or . The containers are there to divide the page into sections, and then within each of those sections, you use the appropriate block-level elements to hold the text.
The reason its weird to me is that dividing the page is what DIVs and UL do already without the added restraints right? So why not just stick with those rather than have to place a block level within a block level? I suspect there is something I am not understanding correctly.
I guess what doesn't make sense to me is this:  seems to be created to be a DIV with the built-in semantic of being "navigation." The strange thing is, we don't build our navigations in DIVs but in lists and  does not replace
. So what is the point?
One of the reasons I asked the question is because I thought NAV was supposed to structurally replace the
 system of navigation where you have to remove the default formatting of bulleted lists and change alot of behaviors, because
s were never imagined to be used to create navigation right? It's kind of like how we used tables for layout, but that wasn't the intended purpose way back in the cave man days. We found a way to create navigation from
 when CSS was developed, when it was defaulted as a bulleted list. Semantically a navigation is a list, but I had thought the idea of the new  tag was to encourage the use of that tag with a series of  elements as above, rather than the
 element.
That's why I am confused as to the whole point of the new tag.
Personally, I will stick to my
's, but maybe this was implemented for ease-of-use or to make it easier for beginners, since, most of the time you will be using lists for navigation anyway...
Man, I hope that's not their reason.... (:
Pretty soon it's going to look like this:
I did notice this in the spec:
"User agents (such as screen readers) that are targeted at users who can benefit from navigation information being omitted in the initial rendering, or who can benefit from navigation information being immediately available, can use this element as a way to determine what content on the page to initially skip and/or provide on request."
Because the nav element is getting a native role of "navigation". You can manually add that role to anything (within reason, and so long as your added role doesn't conflict with the element's default role), but that's what they're talking about there.
However roles are a separate thing from the intended semantics.
Yes, you could
Product pages

hammers

nails

awesome power tools rawr

Offices Worldwide

and so on...

It might be better to think of nav as a replacement for a div you would have around a navigation section of your page. The current idea for a website's main menu is indeed the "extra" wrap:
site menu here...

Since other than the role nothing else is (yet) more semantic about nav, plus all the trouble it gives to crappier screen readers like Window Eyes, I'm just sticking to

for now. It works in newer screen readers on newer browsers today. Roles rule. Navigation is specifically a landmark role, so users with new enough software can (if they're aware of it) navigate the web page using those as hooks to jump around (esp handy if the page doesn't have any skip links).
Another bit salvaged from the sunken XHTML2 wreckage.
Would the  tag help SEO? For example, do you know if the search engine developers could use that to create more relevant results since DIV is meaningless to acomputer, but  has semantic meaning, isn't HTML5 really about preparing for the future of the Semantic Web as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee? It's a concept that I am starting to understand more now, and seeing how it has more possibilities that we can experience now. Does that mean that HTML5 is essentially laying the groundwork, the path, for computer interaction to become much more advanced in the future? If that is the case, maybe I can understand now, why HTML5 is introducing tags that may add extra markup, and don't seem to have perceived value now, but are setting the stage for the future. I am open to that.
Does the "role" attribute bring semantic meaning to the computer itself?
In theory, elements like  and  do open the way for a more semantic web. In terms of SEO, Google is pretty smart already, and I'm sure has good enough pattern recognition to be able to identify the navigation menu, header content and boilerplate footer on 95% + of websites, so it's unlikely to offer much of a benefit, especially as Google will still need to keep on figuring out sites that don't use the new elements.
It could be a great benefit to assistive technology (just like ARIA roles), but I suspect it will be a long while before that starts to make itself felt in the real world.


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Pirates claim GCL championship
Pittsburgh's Rookie-level affiliate ends 44-year wait for title
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | August 29, 2012 12:33 PM ET
There were essentially three managers in the Gulf Coast League Pirates' dugout on Wednesday afternoon, but they had no problem sharing one title.
With official skipper Tom Prince supervising and coach Milzer Reyes calling the shots, the Pirates pulled off a two-game sweep of the Red Sox with a 5-2 win to capture the club's first GCL Championship since joining the circuit in 1968.
And no one wanted the credit: Prince deferred to Reyes, who "has been running the club the last month and a half," and Reyes was quick to say, "This is for Woody Huyke."
How could it not be? Huyke, also a Pirates coach, managed Pittsburgh's GCL affiliate for 29 seasons without winning a title. He turns 75 next month and has an early birthday present to close his seventh year as an assistant on the bench.
"He was the manager for so many years. We gave him a huge hug," said Reyes, a former Bucs farmhand, who last played at Class A Advanced Bradenton in 2010. "It's very special for him and for us. These kids did such a good job. They celebrated after doing what we wanted to to do: improve."
Did anyone get better than starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow? Pittsburgh's fifth-round draftee in 2011 struck out a career-high seven batters over four one-hit scoreless innings. He said his ability to command his fastball and curveball paved the way for his success.
"Knowing it was a big game, I just tried to keep everything the same, treat it just like any other game," said Glasnow, who was informed he would be making the start not long after his appearance last Friday, in which he yielded a run on four walks and couldn't escape the first inning.
"He was pounding the zone today," Reyes said.
The 19-year-old right-hander finished his season by allowing two earned runs over his last nine outings, spanning 25 2/3 innings.
There was just enough offensive support. The Pirates scored the game's first runs not long after Glasnow's exit, with one out in the bottom of the fourth: Eighth-place hitting right fielder Luis Urena lifted a three-run longball off Red Sox reliever Francellis Montas (0-1).
"It was awesome to get that insurance," Glasnow said. "It was such a big hit."
"The big home run opened the rally," Reyes added of Urena, who batted an even .200 in 47 regular-season games. "He had been struggling. He did the job we believe he could do. We knew he had a good swing. He's got some tools."
Leadoff man and second baseman Dilson Herrera singled and walked in four plate appearances after flirting with the cycle in Tuesday's Game 1 win.
"He was very consistent, one of the keys [of the season]," Reyes said. "Everyone put something in to get where we are."
The Pirates added two runs in the fifth -- Eric Wood and Edwin Espinal each doubled during the rally -- and reliever Bryton Trepagnier (1-0) earned the win by pitching a scoreless seventh and eighth.
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No, this isn't that episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza tried to combine food and sex in a feverish fantasy . . . and if you can't handle some frank talk about an important part of your life, WARNING: hurry and delete this email.
Did you know that what you eat has EVERYTHING to do with your sex life? For you women who are having a hard time convincing your husband to get on board with your conversion to whole foods, this essay might be just the ticket. I used to be a marriage therapist, and my educational background emphasized human sexuality. If I went back to practicing now, I'd prescribe, as a starting place . . . green smoothies! Who'd have thought that owning a BlendTec Total Blender http://www.greensmoothiegirl.com/robyn-recommendations/blenders/best-blender/ could have anything to do with your sex life? Oh, but it does.
Food affects your sex drive profoundly. And I can prove it. 175 respondents participated in my green smoothie research, where I polled people who undertook a green smoothie habit for at least 30 days. If you want to participate in the research, or write your green smoothie testimonial, please go here:
So far, 20 percent of my respondents have reported an increased sex drive as a result of drinking blended greens. And keep in mind that not all respondents are sexually active, and some already had a very high libido so they ignored that question. Therefore, 20 percent is likely a lower number than what you can expect, those of you considering joining us in the Gospel of Green.
Guys, your wife isn't as into it as you are? There's no drug better than a quart of green smoothie a day (and kicking Hostess to the curb). Give it a try. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. If you want even more sexual energy, toss some maca or bee pollen in the blender.
In my experience working with people on their nutrition, I have found that being even 10 or 15 lbs. overweight can dramatically affect your sexuality in a negative way. So, green smoothies are an aphrodisiac. And donuts and Doritos are very literally the opposite: a sex-life stomper.
First of all, you don't like how you look 10 lbs. overweight. If you don't like what you see in the mirror with your clothes off, you aren't likely to be sexually willing, confident, playful, adventurous, and energetic. And what is the best way to lose ten pounds? Dieting? No way!
Just start eating the right foods like you learn to do in 12 Steps to Whole Foods http://www.greensmoothiegirl.com/12-step-blog/12-step-program/ No calorie counting or carb-gram-obsessing necessary. Eat whole plant foods (and stop eating processed foods) and you'll naturally be satisfied with whatever you eat in reasonable quantities.
That's because you don't have endocrine disruptors, hormone inhibitors, and addictive chemicals in the form of refined sugar, MSG, food dyes, refined salt, and much more destroying your sex drive and your sexual performance.
Second, when your energy is depleted, as it always will be on the Standard American Diet diet, you lose the sexual interest and stamina you once had. Sexual dysfunction happens the same way all degenerative disease does: it is linked to lifestyle choices. Your reproductive system, after all, is affected by the same things your cardiac, circulatory, and endocrine systems are—they are are inextricably linked, as they are all part of one complex organism.
When you eat lots of raw plant food, and go easy on (or eliminate) meat, dairy, and processed stuff, your body has its energy reserves available for all the fun and rewarding things in life.
For an experiment, eat at Tucano's or Rodizio's (or a Brazilian restaurant where they walk around offering you meat dishes until you can't eat anymore). How amorous do you feel that night? I'll answer for you: you don't want anything except SLEEP. And the sleep you do get is troubled, and you feel sick all night.
Now try eating 100% raw plant food for a day, or longer than that. Watch what happens to your libido. And a great sex life leads to a great relationship, from which many good things flow.
I hope you give this a try. I hope my bravest readers will let us know what your observations are after your experiment on these words. Blog anonymously if that's what it takes!
To Your Health,
–Robyn Openshaw
p.s. HAVE FUN! (And I mean that in the wildest, most passionate way possible.) Have you forgotten what that means? Then start drinking a DOUBLE SHOT of green smoothies!


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NEW YORK CITY -- Players from across the country -- and globe -- flocked to New York City to participate in the fifth annual Big Buck World Championship on Nov. 9 and 10. For the two days, the historic Altman Building in lower Manhattan was transformed into a rustic hunting lodge with six Big Buck Hunter coin-op videogames used for competition.
Large-screen monitors displaying bracket rankings and real-time social media messages, along with rock blasting from the speakers, kept adrenaline flowing. Supplementary Big Buck games, along with the new Snow Cross and Super Bikes games, were on the floor for spectators to play. The popular coin-op videogames are made by Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix.
In the championship virtual shooting match, the 64 competitors who earned a spot during qualifying matches that began at the end of summer were joined by nearly as many spectators to pack the floor. More than $50,000 in prize money was awarded. To earn one of the 64 spots in the World Championship, players competed on Big Buck HD, said to be the first 1080p high-definition arcade game, released earlier this summer. The 12 highest-scoring players in each region (North, South, East and West) advanced, along with 16 wild card spots for the highest cumulative scores.
By the end of the hard-fought competition, underdog Chris Fream, 29, of Minneapolis beat reigning Buck Hunter champ Nick Robbins in the final round. With the win, Fream took home Pappy's Jug, the Big Buck trophy, and $15,000. Returning women's champion, Sara Erlandson of Beldenville, WI, earned the top prize for the second annual Big Buck ladies tournament.
Despite his early loss to Robbins in the quarterfinals of the double-elimination tournament, Fream defeated Robbins in two Big Buck adventures in the finals. Fream, who spent the past year training for the World Championship, is a sales manager at Crispin Cider Co. in the Minneapolis area; he placed second at the World Championship in 2010, but did not participate in the 2011 tournament.
Erlandson, a freelance graphic designer, claimed $5,000 in prize money, along with the Jugs of Destiny trophy in the ladies event. Tournament organizers noted that it was a particularly strong year for female participation, which saw 28 competitors. Erlandson also finished fourth overall in the World Championship, netting her a total of $7,000 for the weekend.
Other high-profile competitors included Nascar and X Games star Travis Pastrana, who finished 11th in 2011, but dropped to 58th in the recent outing. The top New York-area finishers were Carley Szweda of New Jersey, who finished in 11th place, and Alex Derhohannesian of Brooklyn who earned 14th place.
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She's the muse of nearly every fashion designer and one of the biggest Instagram stars ever, but now fans will get to see Rihanna in a whole new way! RiRi will play the first Black lead character in Dreamworks' upcoming 3D animated film, Home. In it Rihanna will voice Tip, a teenage tomboy who helps a group of aliens find a new home.
According to Metro, director Tim Johnson describes the film as a post-apocalyptic-alien-invasion-buddy-comedy. Based on the novel The True Meaning of Smekday, the synopsis reads: "When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while the Boov get busy efficiently reorganising the planet."
And of course she's not stopping there. Rihanna will craft an album featuring original songs from the animated film.
The movie is scheduled to be released November 26.
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'The Sabres are a year older but, more importantly, they seem a year wiser. They needed to mature, and they're talking as if they have. To them, points now mean numbers in the standings rather than numbers on the score sheet. It's a good start.'
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Dr. Barry Solomon is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is interim chief of the division of general pediatrics and adolescent medicine and medical director of the Harriet Lane Clinic.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, he completed a residency at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and a fellowship in general academic pediatrics at Johns Hopkins. He holds an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Solomon's research and advocacy interests include injury and youth violence prevention, child and maternal mental health services, community pediatrics training and medical education. With colleagues in the School of Medicine and the Baltimore City community, Dr. Solomon has brought a variety of onsite health-related services to the Harriet Lane Clinic to enhance the clinic's ability to serve as a true medical home for patients and their families. These services include a family resource desk that links families to community-based resources, a mental health consultation model for children and adolescents, and a screening and referral program for mothers experiencing postpartum depression.
Dr. Solomon has a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health where he conducts research with colleagues in the Center for Injury Research & Policy. He is also an active teacher in the pediatric residency program and medical school. He previously served as a Taussig College Faculty Co-Leader in the Colleges Advisory Program in the School of Medicine and he is currently an Assistant Dean for Student Affairs.
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Thursday morning I had the best start to my workday I've ever had. I attended the advance production of this weekend's play at Clement Middle School, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever."
I remember walking away from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in particular, thinking it was perfect in every way, my little ones repeating the funny lines on the way home and giving those belly laughs that make a mama want to hold the moment forever.
I know families with children interested in drama often intradistrict transfer their students to Clement so they have the opportunity to be in this program.
Kay Roberts has been the Clement drama director for 16 years, since it opened as a middle school. Assistant director Rhea-Frances Tetley has been a team with Roberts for more than 20 years. They came over from Cope together.
They usually stage one show per year, in the spring, but this show must be done in the winter because of the holiday theme.
It's the story of what four bad kids did to a school's Christmas pageant, based on the children's book of the same name.
The production I saw was for the elementary children in five schools that feed into Clement. Either these children are all beautifully behaved, or they were captivated. They sure laughed and applauded enthusiastically.
Right off the bat Daniel Diaz, who plays little brother Charlie Bradley, stood out as a great acting talent. Then he sang. It was flawless. This isn't a musical, but he gets to sing a quick verse as part of his introduction.
I had warned Roberts that if the kids spoke too quickly or quietly I would put them on blast, but when Lea Clark kicked off the show projecting and enunciating her monologue, I knew my warning had been unnecessary. All the actors spoke out, clearly and unrushed.
The show is a comedy. The script is funny for children and, thank goodness, for adults too. Also there's some fantastic physical comedy. I appreciate when amateurs can pull this off.
The nuclear family the show centers on is well cast. Katie Hayes, the actress who plays the mom Grace Bradley, especially built a convincing character.
Roberts has obviously taught the cast well that someone is always looking at them, no matter their roles. Even actors in the background were doing something entertaining at all times.
The set of the Sunday school, with stained glass windows painted on it, made the children gasp when the curtains opened. And don't miss the family portrait on the wall in the Bradley home - an excellent touch.
Other props give a wink to Redlanders. Even The Sun newspaper and Stater Bros. shopping bags had cameos, which made the children giggle.
The "bad girls" wore hot pink high-top Converse. I would totally wear those shoes.
The Clement Vikings playing the bad kids sure did convince me they were rascals. Kudos for all of them for playing them as likable.
Sydney Prbycien, as queen bad girl Imo Gene, gave us a great multi-dimensional character with a tender side.
Be careful turning to look at the cast members that enter down the aisles if you're sitting in front. There's a spotlight that'll catch you in the eyes. I heard a bunch of kids mutter "ouch" right along with me.
The story is as sweet as it is funny, and it makes me wish my kids were still kids so we could make a night of it this weekend.
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Are you hungry? Because there are plenty of places to eat. They are replacing retail establishments everywhere. I have noted the disappearance of retail from and the conversion of stores into restaurants and bars in many of America's downtowns before, but the change really hit me late one evening, when I was in a cab cruising uptown in Manhattan, all the way from the Lower to the Upper East Side, and counted an average of three to four restaurants, bars, or fast food establishments of some sort in every single block. If you have money, you will not have to crawl for more than a few feet in Manhattan to feed yourself.
I noted the same density of food forums when I was at LaGuardia Airport, heading home to Cincinnati the next day. In the Delta terminal, the lone retail establishment remaining is a small outlet for electronics. The Brooks Brothers, newsstands, and tchotchke stores have all turned into various portals for victuals, with a magazine or two thrown in to give you something to do while you chow down.
Are we seeing the results of the migration of our buying activities to the web, leaving only that which is most directly and necessarily related to the body out there in meatspace? Perhaps, but the percentage of online sales in relationship to what we buy in stores is still much too small to account for this shift in our urban landscape. The spread of eating-places undoubtedly has a corollary with our own bodies' sprawl, as we simply eat more. In addition, we prepare a great deal less: Cooking has for many of us become a luxury, or a ritual in which we engage when we have the time. (I think I am down to cooking dinner about twice a week.) Finally, we no longer are content to accept just a few choices when we eat. We want both Greek- and American-style yogurt, Northern and Southern Mexican food, fat-free and reduced-fat treats, and as many different toppings on anything as possible. In short, we want more food and more food made for us.
As sprawl itself spreads, downtown areas become magnets for social activities, rather than for work, living, or shopping, and the bar or restaurant is the anchor of many such interactions. The landscape I see from the cab window is a middle-class and upper-middle-class one. Its corollary is the food desert that has blossomed in many of our disadvantaged neighborhoods. To come downtown from the better-off suburbs for dinner is to leave behind the wasteland of sprawl. The people who live in the wrong parts of the city may not have the means for better options.
Before too long, our downtown areas, as well as those hubs of activities, from sports stadia to airports, will become food jungles, the luxuriant growth of food vending choking out any other activity at ground level, allowing the high-rises for wealthy living or white collar work to rise out of that base of bars and restaurants, while elsewhere, gasoline-guzzling beasts go hunting for something to eat—and still others starve at home. A spatial politics governs whether you order seared tuna at your favorite downtown boite or travel to the city for StarKist in a can.


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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. General Services Administration issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) on January 7 for GSA's Smart ID Card procurement. The contract will provide federal agencies with an easy to use source for purchasing interoperable smart cards for physical and computer security needs. It will also cover smart card technology application development and provide agencies with access to integrated smart card solutions including both cards and services. Agencies will be able to reap the benefits of procuring smart cards that are interoperable throughout the federal government and, at the same time, will acquire specific services customized to meet their needs.
Smart cards were initially proposed for federal employees in the Administration's FY 1999 budget, and GSA has been promoting their use for the past several years, having been assigned that role earlier by OMB. Last year GSA's smart card program was placed under FTS Commissioner Dennis Fischer, who has called smart cards the "key to the future" in areas such as building access, secure computer access, and electronic purchasing. Charles Self, Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Information Technology Integration called the move a "perfect fit" for merging smart cards with other FTS emerging technologies and solutions programs.
GSA's Federal Technology Service, Federal Computer Acquisition Center issued the RFP and contract requirements were assembled by the Office of Smart Card Initiatives. FTS worked with GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy and representatives from agencies across the federal government. According to Office of Smart Card Initiatives Director Mickey Femino, GSA was asked by these representatives to "develop requirements for a common, interoperable government ID card and a contract vehicle that was easy and efficient for purchasing smart card services from multiple vendors." The Smart ID Card procurement will establish a primary contract vehicle for use by federal agencies to meet these requirements.
GSA's Office of Smart Card Initiatives is available to show agencies or organizations the advantages of this cutting edge technology and to demonstrate how smart cards can work for them. GSA jointly with the Navy operates a Smart Card Technology Center at GSA's Central Office in Washington, D.C. For a tour or additional information about GSA's smart card program call (202) 208-3055.
Additional information concerning the Smart ID Card procurement is available at http://www.fedcac.gsa.gov/SmartCard.htm or by calling David Monahan, contracting officer at (703) 605-9818.
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Ron Burgundy anchors evening newscast in North Dakota, interviews Peyton Manning on ESPN
Ron Burgundy co-anchored the KXMB evening news in Bismarck, North Dakota on Saturday, and it was awesome! You stay classy, North Dakota...
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Steven Finkelstein, assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Texas, will be the featured speaker at a Department of Physics and Astronomy colloquium. His talk is titled, "Tracking Galaxy Evolution in the Early Universe with HST."
The field of high-redshift galaxy evolution has experienced an explosion over the past three years, thanks to the installation of the infrared-sensitive Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. Finkelstein will highlight his ongoing work examining these enigmatic galaxies, first on understanding the colors of these galaxies, from which we have learned about the build-up of dust in the universe, as well as the possible presence of primordial stars. He will also show how we use these galaxies to probe the reionization of the intergalactic medium, which was likely ending around this epoch. Finally, he will discuss recent results on the luminosity functions of these distant galaxies, using the largest volume yet probed at these redshifts with the CANDELS survey.


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The bracket in the West Regional suddenly looks wide-open, given No. 1 Gonzaga's struggle to beat Southern in its opener and losses by No. 3 New Mexico and No. 5 Wisconsin.
No. 6 Arizona is heavily favored to defeat No. 14 Harvard on Saturday, but coach Sean Miller insists the Wildcats haven't notice the turmoil among the teams seeded ahead of them.
"No seed matters," he said. "It's about Arizona being at its very best doing the things we do the best we can and being ready to go. We know we have to play a great game [against Harvard]. If anything less than that happens, we'll be going home."
Don't call us Cinderella
When asked if he considers his 27-win Wichita State Shockers a "Cinderella" team, redshirt freshman Ron Baker gave an appropriate answer.
"To me, it's just an opinion to somebody else, really, if they call us a Cinderella team," he said. "You can call us whatever you want. We're just trying to get as far in the tournament as we can and just play every game as hard as we can."
Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall was a bit more receptive to the idea, but said that the majority of mid-major programs are no longer Cinderellas.
He pointed to Gonzaga, now the No. 1 team in the country, Butler, George Mason and VCU as programs who have emerged from the dust of being labeled a Cinderella.
"It's a five-step process," he said, "and we're on step one. Beating Gonzaga would possibly elevate us to step three."
Seats available
NCAA Tournament officials say 3,000 tickets remain for Saturday's Arizona-Harvard and Gonzaga-Wichita State games at EnergySolutions Arena.
The lower bowl is sold out. The remaining tickets are upper bowl only. They can be purchased at the arena box office or online at Smithstix.com.
More tickets are likely available on the secondary market following the departure of some fans from New Mexico, Pitt, Belmont and Southern, whose teams lost on Thursday.
On Thursday, the opening session of the West Regional featured Gonzaga's 64-58 win over Southern and Wichita State's 73-55 rout of Pittsburgh. It drew a crowd of 12,621.
The evening session crowd of 14,345 watched Arizona's 81-64 win over Belmont and Harvard's 68-62 upset of New Mexico.
Pangos is clutch
With his performance down the stretch against Southern, Gonzaga guard Kevin Pangos is making a reputation for himself as a clutch competitor who comes up big when the stakes are at its highest.
During Friday's news conferences, the sophomore found himself mentioned with some of the great Bulldogs guards past, like Matt Santangelo, Jeremy Pargo and Blake Stepp.
"It's an honor," Pangos said. "A lot of those guys are still around the program. I came to Gonzaga because they've had so many great guards in the past. I want to continue some of the things they've started."
Friends in high places
Harvard's players got plenty of phone calls, text messages and tweets after winning the first NCAA Tournament game in school history.
The school's famous alumni and supporters came out in droves to offer support. Houston Rockets guard Jeremy Lin spoke with some of his old teammates and coach Tommy Amaker said he got a call from another important Crimson figure.
"I did get a call from the president," Amaker said and paused, "… the president of Harvard."
"I should have left it like that and let you run with it," Amaker joked with reporters Friday.
Remember Alcindor? Shockers do
The last time Wichita State played the No. 1 team in the nation? Try Dec. 8, 1967 in Los Angeles, Calif., against the UCLA Bruins and Lew Alcindor (who later became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).
UCLA defeated Wichita State 120-86 that night, and the Bruins went on to defeat North Carolina to win the NCAA title that season.
The Shockers get their first chance in 45 years Saturday at EnergySolutions Arena, when they take on the No. 1-ranked Bulldogs.
"It's a wonderful opportunity," said Marshall. "Not only are they the No. 1 seed in our region and it's the third round of the NCAA Tournament, but they're the No. 1 team in the country."
Getting better?
Gonzaga's Elias Harris struggled against Southern, scoring just five points and not shooting well from the field. He knows that can't happen on Saturday against Wichita State if the Bulldogs are going to have a good chance to beat the Shockers.
"I just have to keep fighting," Harris said. "Yesterday wasn't the game I wanted to have, but I'm mature enough to know I have to keep attacking and rebounding."
No sleep 'til Atlanta
Harvard might just be one of the best-prepared teams for the NCAA Tournament's grueling schedule.
Ivy League teams play every Friday during the conference schedule, and follow that up with a game on Saturday.
"We're used to this in the Ivy League Friday, Saturday, back-to-back," senior Christian Webster said. "So it's nothing new for us."
Reporters Tony Jones, Steve Luhm, Chris Kamrani and Aaron Falk contributed to this story.


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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Issues Statement on the Passing of Steve Jobs
"California has lost a great leader with the passing of Steve Jobs. His character, intelligence, and creativity changed how the world works and how the world imagines itself. We are forever grateful and inspired by the gift he has given us. I send my thoughts and sympathies to Laurene and the entire Jobs family."


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30 Seconds To Mars' video reaches 1 million views
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The guys in 30 Seconds to Mars are quite happy with the reaction to their latest music video-slash-short film for the single "Up in the Air." The rockers officially unveiled the eight-minute clip on Friday, and on Sunday they took to Facebook to thank fans for pushing it past the one-million-views mark on Vevo.
Frontman Jared Leto - who directed the video under his alias Bartholomew Cubbins - recently described it to "Rolling Stone" as an "epic, bizarre and hallucinogenic journey through an incredibly surreal landscape."
In addition to Leto and his bandmates, the "Up in the Air" video also stars Damien Hirst, Dita Von Teese, and U.S. Olympic gymnasts McKayla Maroney and Jordyn Wieber.
"Up in the Air" is Thirty Seconds to Mars' first single from their fourth studio album, Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams, which is due out May 21st.


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An exhibit on Integrative Health is now on display at the Dana Medical Library. "Integrative Health: Local Resources, Luminaries and Community Connections" spotlights the research and publications of UVM professors Helene Langevin, MD and Ge Wu, Ph.D. The UVM College of Medicine is a member of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Health, joining 50 other academic centers to further understanding and knowledge in integrative health.
The exhibit defines integrative health and the overall goal of academic health centers to foster an exchange of constructive ideas, bridging Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Conventional Medicine. The UVM College of Medicine collaborates with the Laura Mann Center to help educate all interested health care providers and medical students about the integration of alternative and allopathic medicine. Also highlighted in the exhibit is the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the federal government's lead agency for scientific research on CAM.
Visit the Library to view the exhibit and Dana's resources on complementary and alternative medicine.


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Throughout the tumult of last season, a year which to that point could be considered Tyrone Corbin's most delicate assignment, the man at the forefront of the Utah Jazz's rebuilding effort had a piece of advice for the seven players on his team facing free agency.
"I told the guys last year, 'Play your game and be as good as you can be,' " the Jazz head coach said last week. " 'Whether you're here or somewhere else, the best you can do is represent yourself.' "
What then helped the former Jazz forward manage a potentially volatile locker room now serves as advice for Corbin himself. The coach, entering his third full season at the helm for the Jazz, is in the final year of his contract and, according to the man who represents him in negotiations with the Jazz, an extension is unlikely.
As training camp opens with Monday's media day, Corbin has been presented with yet another set of objectives: this time developing a promising, but untested, young core with unknown quantities on the bench and his general manager asking earlier this summer that the team not be judged on wins and losses.
Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey said last week that Corbin, whose career record is 87-89, has "performed really well under these circumstances," but declined to comment on anything related to his contract status. Corbin's agent, Los Angeles-based Steve Kauffman, said the sides have not begun negotiating an extension.
"I don't expect anything to be done," said Kauffman, whose other clients include Jeff Hornacek and Monty Williams.
Kauffman said he would prefer for Corbin to sign a longer-term deal after the season.
As it turns out, the Jazz's most important free agent next summer likely won't be a player.
In an NBA where knee-jerk coaching reactions are the norm the Lakers fired Mike Brown five games into last season, after all this isn't necessarily a bad sign for Corbin, said Jeff Van Gundy.
Van Gundy coached the Houston Rockets when Dennis Lindsey was a young executive in the front office. Now a television analyst for ESPN, Van Gundy said Corbin's circumstances would "be excruciatingly hard" in most instances, but the Jazz's history of "never blaming the coach" bodes well for Corbin.
"If you're a good ownership and good management," Van Gundy said, "you don't need to see the result of the season to know if you have the right guy or not. You get to work with him every day; you know what kind of coach and person he is."
Corbin began his Jazz coaching career in 2004 as an assistant to Jerry Sloan, and spent seven years on the bench next to the Hall of Famer until he was thrust into the head job when Sloan unexpectedly resigned in February 2011. Two weeks later, the Jazz shipped Deron Williams to New Jersey, stripping the franchise and Corbin's roster of its most reliable and marketable player.
"The changes," Corbin said, "it's not just me. It's the league. The way things are, there's a lot of changes from year to year. We've certainly had our share of them."
In 2011-12, Corbin coached the Jazz to a 36-30 record in the lockout-shortened season. Last year, he was tasked with keeping veterans such as Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap happy while former lottery picks including Gordon Hayward, Enes Kanter and Derrick Favors were fighting for enhanced roles.
Even with the success of the season resting largely on the shoulders of players who would not return to the Jazz, Corbin made the young players a priority. He spent time most days with one of the young players, a group that also included Alec Burks and Jeremy Evans, going over selected film clips a job head coaches often delegate to assistants.
At the end of the season, after the Jazz finished 43-39 and two games out of the playoffs, Lindsey gave Corbin as much of an endorsement as the measured executive has.
"Ty's our coach and has the Miller family's full support," Lindsey said on April 18 after players had emptied their lockers. "You guys know how we do it around here. It's the blame-the-coach culture in sports; we subscribe to a little different philosophy."
Lindsey's plaudits make it difficult to imagine the Jazz replacing Corbin barring total catastrophe this season.
In April, Lindsey added, "Ty's, one, the right person to lead us; two, he's really growing as a coach."
That sort of confidence from management fuels Van Gundy's belief that Corbin is in a position to succeed with the Jazz.
"[Players are] not going to go and subvert the coach by going to management to bitch and moan about what's going wrong," he said. "They know the coach is going to be in place. Ty Corbin has done a great job."
After a summer in which the Jazz did most of their addition by subtraction plus one bold draft-day move the team lost its leading scorer, rebounder and assists man. The Jazz have seven new players on the roster, including Trey Burke, the No. 9 pick in the draft and presumptive starting point guard. Corbin has spent much of the summer getting to know them, scheming for ways to develop his key players while also managing some wins in the beefed-up Western Conference.
As one of the few teams in the West to have not significantly improved this offseason, the challenges for the Jazz and their coach will be plentiful.
Just like his bosses, Corbin is taking a patient approach.
"I look at it from the standpoint I'm going into my 10th year with this organization I know and respect a lot," he said. "Unfortunately, I'm in the last year of my deal, but I have a job to do."
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NPR Continues To Whitewash The Extremism Out Of Certain Immigration Voices
NPR recently published [1] a laudatory (some would even say fawning) profile of the "one man" behind the controversial Alabama anti-immigration law, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. From it, we learn that Kobach "looked the part" of a "movie star," "handsome and loaded with charisma"; that he is "deified by his supporters" in part because of his Ivy League credentials (Harvard, Oxford, and Yale); and that the time spent on immigration issues has been very "lucrative." Gushed the reporter: "Official documents from Arizona indicate he made $300 an hour with a $1,500 monthly retainer, plus expenses."
Amid all the flattery, however, KCUR reporter Laura Ziegler dropped hints that Kobach isn't all Mr. Congeniality. But she failed to show how extreme a figure Kobach really is. The fact that he has a history [2] of anti-immigrant action and rhetoric [3] elicited barely a mention. Instead, here is what Ziegler reported [4]:
ZIEGLER: At a campaign event before the 2010 elections, candidate Kobach brought in Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Arizona, who's enforcing the immigration law there. Rallies outside the event, in a Kansas City suburb, showed how both had become lightning rods because of it.
MYRNA OROSKO: My name is Myrna Orosko and I came to the United States when I was four years old. And I came legally with a visa. However, like for many immigrants, it expired. I have to, you know, refuse to let men like Kris Kobach and Arpaio continue to spread a message of hate and intolerance for our immigrants around the country.
Zeigler didn't explain what Orosko meant nor did she point to any "message of hate and intolerance." She later added:
ZIEGLER: [Southern Poverty Law Center director of research Heidi] Beirich says Kobach is leading a strategic anti-immigrant crusade, which she says has a racial element.
BEIRICH: His decision to first start at the local level with laws in towns that were going through some strife over growing immigrant populations and then to take that to the state level shifted the entire terms of the debate.
While exhorting a government to enforce its immigration laws may not be racist, that's not the reason critics have given for blasting Kobach for "spread[ing] a message of hate and intolerance." Kobach works [5] on behalf of noted hate group FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. As a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he assigned students a book with an anti-Latino immigrant message.
The book warned:
The continuation of high levels of Mexican and Hispanic immigration plus the low rates of assimilation of these immigrants into American society and culture could eventually change America into a country of two languages, two cultures, and two peoples.
Kobach has relentlessly targeted Latinos for his anti-immigration laws and some believe made it easier [6] for police to harass them. Referring to the Arizona immigration bill, which directs police to check the immigration status of anyone they stop, he wrote [7] to Arizona Sheriff Russell Pearce: "When we drop out 'lawful contact' and replace it with 'a stop, detention, or rest, in the enforcement [of] a violation of any title or section of the Arizona code' we need to add 'or any county or municipal ordinance.' This will allow police to use violations of property codes (i.e. cars on blocks in the yard) or rental codes (too many occupants of a rental accommodation) to initiate queries as well."
As immigration attorney David Leopold remarked [7]: "Kobach's email to Pearce is chilling. Knowing full well that the phrase "lawful contact" must go ... he recommends tweaking the law in a manner that would appear to allow profiling. Why else would he be interested in using property or rental codes to ferret out undocumented people?"
And even more telling than his rhetoric is the company he keeps. Pearce, the primary architect of SB 1070, the Arizona law, has been associated [8] with J.T. Ready [9], a neo-Nazi [10] border vigilante leader. In 2009, Kobach attended [11] a joint tea party/anti-immigration rally with Billy Gilchrist, who was then a chapter leader of the Minutemen [12] border vigilante group. The group's armed volunteers patrolled the Southern border to stop immigrants from coming across. During the rally, Kobach reportedly "said illegal aliens who receive amnesty -- the vast majority of whom will be dependent on government -- after becoming citizens will consequently vote to keep in place the political system that benefits them."
And let's not forget Sheriff Arpaio, whose office has been inundated with lawsuits because of reported civil rights abuses [13]. He is now the focus [14] of a Justice Department investigation.
Kobach has also been known to brag [15] about his successful efforts at voter caging [16], which is an illegal way to suppress minority voters.
And while his time spent on immigration causes may be "lucrative," it has been the reverse [17] for the handful of cities and small towns that have followed his anti-immigrant counsel. Indeed, NPR didn't mention that his signature achievement is passing unconstitutional laws: Large parts of the Arizona law were held likely unconstitutional by an Arizona judge and the Ninth Circuit. A Georgia law modeled on the Arizona law suffered a similar fate. And even the Alabama law has not been allowed to go into full effect with a federal judge ruling that some portions were likely unconstitutional. The SPLC further reported [17]:
Some communities have begun to wake up to the perils of following Kobach and his colleagues into their legal jihad against undocumented immigrants. Early last year, the City Council of Albertville, Ala., took up the idea of hiring Kobach to draft an ordinance but backed off after consulting with others who had worked with him. "The advice I have gotten from towns which passed similar resolutions said they would not do it again," councilman Randy Amos said then.
Afterward, the publisher of the local Sand Mountain Reporter wrote a stinging editorial. "I fear Mr. Kobach targets towns like ours, and towns like Hazleton, Pa., Valley Park, Mo., and Farmers Branch, Texas, as financial windfalls," Ben Shurett wrote. "I think he preys on the legitimate concerns, the irrational fears and even some bigoted attitudes to convince cities to hire him to represent their interests in lawsuits that may not be winnable."
A few months ago, NPR gave the same glossy treatment [18] to Mark Krikorian, one of the nativist leaders of the right's anti-immigrant network. Absent from that interview, however, was any mention of who he really is or what platform he represents. Even a cursory glance through Krikorian's record would have shown that his extremist views on immigration never should have been treated [19] as sensible. Krikorian believes immigrants are considered truly American only if they embrace "Anglo-conformity." That bigoted statement alone should have disqualified him from being sought out as a credible voice in the immigration debate. But it didn't, and it doesn't.
As I wrote at the time, NPR has a right to interview whomever it chooses, but the fact that it avoided all mention of Krikorian's bigoted views on immigrants is curious. Why leave out the fact that Krikorian is anti-immigrant and works for a think tank started by John Tanton [20], "a man known for his racist statements about Latinos, his decades-long flirtation with white nationalists and Holocaust deniers, and his publication of ugly racist materials"? Or the fact that he believes [21] "the moral argument" for opposing immigration is "patriotism"? (Incidentally, FAIR is part of the Tanton network.)
Last week, in a post about how "we are all deconstructionists" in the sense that "none of us seems to accept any statement at face value anymore," NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos wrote [22]:
Hardly a day goes by without my receiving a complaint about "bias" on an NPR story. The dominant narrative has been that NPR is too liberal, though from time to time criticisms have flared from the left that NPR is too conservative -- that it has been cowed by the right and is bending too far to please it.
Three months into the job, I haven't found any trends of actual political bias one way or the other in NPR stories. I promise to keep looking. As my colleague John Felton, a wise retired NPR editor, reminds me, bias is reflected not only in how stories are presented, but also in which ones are picked. NPR might run more stories on the environment and social concerns than, say, Fox News. This type of bias, however, is not inherently bad if the stories are themselves legitimate and fairly presented.
But as Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker countered [23], "the selection of people as experts and how the reporters treat their views" is a more fundamental barometer of bias. In that sense, the Krikorian treatise, as well as this latest piece on Kobach, would count as "bias." NPR, deliberately or not, chose to withhold or gloss over critical parts of the story on Krikorian and Kobach, rending either piece neither "legitimate" nor "fairly presented." Hopefully, NPR hasn't put aside its journalistic integrity to appease its conservative critics.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Top 11 to wear #11 for the Twins
Some of these players wore more than one number during their time with the Twins. These rankings are strictly based on their time with the number 11 on their backs.
11. Al Woods (wore #11 in 1986)
rWAR 0.2, .321/.375/.571, 2 HR, 8 RBI
Woods was originally drafted by the Twins in 1972 but he would not appear in a game for the club until 1986. Most of his career was spent in the Blue Jays organization but his 23 games with the Twins were enough to squeeze him on the end of this list.
10. Sal Butera (wore #11 from 1980-1982)
rWAR 0.4, .251/.327/.283, 0 HR, 28 RBI
Sal, the father of Drew Butera, had two stints with the Twins during his career. He only wore the number 11 in his first trip through the bigs with the Twins. If Drew could get on base as much as his father, the Twins might not be in the market for a back up catcher.
9. George Banks (wore #11 from 1962-1964)
rWAR 0.5, .211/.327/.377, 7 HR, 23 RBI
Banks is not the title character of the same name from the Father of the Bride movies. He was primarily used as a pinch hitter during the course of his career and he struggled to find consistent playing time at a defensive position. The 1962 season was his best with the number 11 on his jersey.
8. Bernie Allen (wore #11 in 1966)
rWAR 0.4, .238/.299/.348, 5 HR, 30 RBI
Allen actually wore five different numbers during his time in the Twins organization. The 1966 season was the only one in which he donned the number 11 and it would be his last season with the Twins. The number did not help his offensive output but his defense at second base was good.
7. Brant Alyea (wore #11 from 1970-1971)
rWAR 0.8, .248/.333/.421, 18 HR, 76 RBI
Alyea's two seasons with the Twins were in stark contrast of one another. In 1970, Alyea was a solid producer in the a playoff bound line-up for the Twins. He had 16 home runs and 61 RBI while hitting a solid .291 in 290 plate appearances. The next season was a nightmare as his average dropped to .177 and he only mustered two home runs.
6. Ben Revere (wore #11 in 2011)
rWAR 0.8, .267/.310/.619, 0 HR, 30 RBI
The speedy Revere got a lot of time in 2011 because of various injuries in the Twins line-up. He made good use of that time and set the franchise rookie record for steals in a season. The high batting average he produced in the minors didn't carry over to the big leagues. His highlight reel catches were something for fans to watch in an otherwise abysmal season.
5. Ted Uhlaender (wore #11 from 1967-1969)
rWAR 2.4, .272/.315/.374, 21 HR, 163 RBI
The Twins signed Uhlaender as an amateur free agent during their first season in Minnesota. The number 11 was not the only number he wore with the Twins but he put up his best three seasons while wearing the number. He also has the third highest RBI total for anyone who wore the number 11 for the Twins.
4. Steve Brye (wore #11 from 1972-1976)
rWAR 3.2, .264/.314/.363, 19 HR, 143 RBI
The right-handed outfielder for the Twins was able to put up some decent numbers during his career with the club. The organization had used a first round pick on Brye in 1967 but he would never fully develop into any kind of star. His best seasons were when he wore number 11 but his numbers were not off the charts.
3. Tim Teufel (wore #11 from 1984-1985)
rWAR 4.1, .261/.343/.399, 24 HR, 111 RBI
The early 1980's were not exactly the peak seasons for the Twins and Tuefel was part of many of those squads. He showed some slight power in the early years of the Metrodome but the Twins passed him on to the Mets before the 1986 season. He and Pat Crosby were sent to New York for Billy Beane, Joe Klink, and Bill Latham.
2. Jacque Jones (wore #11 from 1999-2005)
rWAR 9.2, .279/.327/.455, 132 HR, 476 RBI
One of the core members of the revival of Twins baseball in the early 2000's, Jones helped to bring the Twins back from the verge of contraction. He and Torii Hunter manned the outfield of the Metrodome and formed part of the "Soul Patrol." His best season was in 2002 when he batted .300 with 27 home runs and 85 RBI. I still have a jersey shirt with his name and the number 11 on it.
1. Chuck Knoblach (wore #11 from 1991-1997)
rWAR 35.4, .304/.391/.416, 43 HR, 391 RBI
His rookie season in 1991 helped the Twins to win their second World Series title in five seasons. One of his most memorable plays might be the fake double play in Game 7 of that epic series. He would be a fixture on the Twins during the 1990's and he would represent the team in four All-Star games while winning two Silver Sluggers and a Gold Glove.
BONUS: The Worst Twins Player to Wear #11
Tom Nieto (wore #11 from 1987-1988)
rWAR -1.4, .152/.213/.224, 1 HR, 12 RBI
2 comments:
- Maija said...
Jaqcue will always be #11 for me.
- November 13, 2011 at 9:33 PM
- NoDak Twins Fan said...
I still have a jersey-shirt with Jones and #11
- November 14, 2011 at 7:53 PM
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Legendary Long Beach attorney Skip Keesal's first experience with the YMCA did not go well.
In fact, it almost killed him.
Before an audience of more than 700 at the 45th annual YMCA Good Friday breakfast at the Long Beach Convention Center, Keesal said he had mixed emotions about first experience at the Y.
"I was eight or nine and living in Oak Park, Illinois, when my mother thought it would be good for me to learn how to swim," he said. "We went to the pool at the Y, but there was no shallow end, or at least no place where I could stand on the bottom without water going over my head. I didn't know if the Y was trying to teach me how to swim or trying to kill me. Needless to say, I am not big in water sports." The audience laughed as Keesal said all was forgiven, and he has since grown to appreciate the outstanding work the Y does in the community, including teaching kids how to swim.
In fact, Keesal's gospel on this Easter weekend was to praise everyone in the room for helping those less fortunate than themselves.
"What I see in this room is the heart center of Long Beach and the region," he said. "Our village is here today, and we need to keep moving forward." In his introduction of Keesal, Don Knabe, Los Angeles County Supervisor and emcee, said Keesal was the most powerful person in Long Beach, "powerful meaning caring. Skip is a great philanthropist who has touched everyone in this room." When most people run around trying to claim credit for things they've done, they might want to take a page from Keesal.
"I'm a glass half-full kind of guy, not a half-empty guy," Keesal said in explaining his outlook on life. "I've learned the hard way on how to get through life." Keesal started out with practically nothing in his pockets after graduating from Cal State University Long Beach with a business degree in 1962 and from the USC Law School in 1965.
After five years of practice with two law firms, he founded the law firm of Keesal, Young & Logan in 1970. The firm has grown to be one of the most prestigious in California and the nation. Keesal himself has the distinction of being designated as a Best Lawyer in America in six categories. Keesal's philanthropic generosity and involvement in civic projects in Long Beach is legendary, most of it behind the scenes.
In an earlier interview with me, Keesal traced his strong work ethic and community outreach to his nickname, Skip. Hardly anyone calls him by his given name, Samuel.
When Keesal was a young boy living in the Chicago area, his father was away a lot because of a sales job.
"My mother told me I was the skipper of the house," he said. "The name stuck." So it has and Keesal, indeed, is the skipper of many things: his law firm, his charitable contributions and his community leadership.
Despite all the awards and accolades, Keesal remains a modest and humble person.
He told the breakfast audience Friday that they were the ones making Long Beach a better place to live.
"You folks are wonderful," he said. "Thank you for being the center of energy in the community." He challenged the audience to put themselves in the shoes of other people to better understand them and help them.
One simple way to help others is to tell an employee that he or she is doing a good job and how much you appreciate that, he said.
"Can you imagine what that does to someone so they can go home that day and tell their family, 'Someone at the office said I'm doing a good job.' They can hold their head up high." Keesal's final challenge was to tell attendees: "Everyone here should be able to say that, in some small way, I helped make things better for others. You can help in many ways, from business activities to charitable work to random acts of kindness.
Good things happen when you help others." When the breakfast ended and, as attendees were filing out, someone quoted the Bible: "Skip is a living testament to the verse that says those who humble themselves shall be exalted and those that exalt themselves shall be humbled." Many nodded in agreement.
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Yancy Sibrian '14 traveled about an hour each day over the summer from her Corona home to get to her internship at One Police Plaza where she worked in the Domestic Violence Unit of the New York City Police Department. Answering phone calls, sending emails, delivering mail, and reviewing domestic violence reports and U-Visas were just some of the duties Sibrian performed on a typical day. This was her first internship.
"I became interested in the Criminal Justice field as soon as I took my first Criminal Justice course at QCC," says Sibrian. She admits, however, that she was initially intrigued in the field because she was a fan of the popular TV show C.S.I. Countless episodes later, Sibrian is now pursuing her dream of becoming a Criminologist.
Sibrian decided to attend QCC because it was the most economical choice for her family and is close to home. She was also attracted to the Criminal Justice major which is a Dual/Joint Degree Program between QCC and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, her dream school. She plans to transfer upon completion here at QCC next year.
Sibrian says the NYPD Partners in Education Internship came about after she was referred to Ms. Grossman, the Internship Coordinator for the Office of Career Services. With the assistance of Ms. Grossman, Sibrian was able to earn academic credit for her work at NYPD's headquarters.
"My experience with the Career Services Office has been great so far," says Sibrian. "I am very happy that they were able to provide me an opportunity like this." She noted that through her experience as a working member of the Domestic Violence Unit she learned that there is more to the job of a policeman than just being on the streets. "There are people behind a desk working hard as well, to maintain order and keep every family safe."
Sibrian hopes her next internship will be in a court house where she can work as a translator. "As long as I can learn something and it can help me to achieve my goals, I wouldn't mind volunteering," she says. "It's actually fun!"
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