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NEW YORK -- The 64 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract. The contract information was obtained by The Associated Press from player and management sources. For players with minor league contracts, letter agreements for major league contracts are in parentheses:
BALTIMORE (1) -- Re-signed Nate McLouth, of, to a $2 million, one-year contract.
BOSTON (6) -- Re-signed David Ortiz, dh, to a $26 million, two-year contract; signed David Ross, c, Atlanta, to a $6.2 million, two-year contract; signed Jonny Gomes, of, Oakland, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Shane Victorino, of, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $39 million, three-year contract; signed Koji Uehara, rhp, to a $4.25 million, one-year contract; signed Ryan Dempster, rhp, Texas, to a $26.5 million, two-year contract.
CHICAGO (1) -- Signed Jeff Keppinger, 3b, Tampa Bay, to a $12 million, three-year contract.
DETROIT (2) -- Signed Torii Hunter, of, Los Angeles Angels, to a $26 million, two-year contract; re-signed Anibal Sanchez, rhp, to an $80 million, five-year contract.
HOUSTON (1) -- Signed Carlos Pena, 1b, to a $2.9 million, one-year contract.
KANSAS CITY (3) -- Re-signed Jeremy Guthrie, rhp, to a $25 million, three-year contract; signed George Sherrill, lhp, Seattle, to a minor league contract; signed Xavier Nady, of, San Francisco, to a minor league contract.
LOS ANGELES (4) -- Signed Ryan Madson, rhp, Cincinnati, to a $3.5 million, one-year contract; signed Joe Blanton, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $15 million, two-year contract; signed Sean Burnett, lhp, Washington, to an $8 million, two-year contract; signed Josh Hamilton, of, Texas, to a $125 million, five-year contract.
MINNESOTA (1) -- Signed Kevin Correia, rhp, Pittsburgh, to a $10 million, two-year contract.
NEW YORK (5) -- Re-signed Hiroki Kuroda, rhp, to a $15 million, one-year contract; re-signed Andy Pettitte, lhp, to a $12 million, one-year contract; re-signed Mariano Rivera, rhp, to a $10 million, one-year contract; signed Kevin Youkilis, 3b, Chicago White Sox, to a $12 million, one-year contract; re-signed Ichiro Suzuki, of, to a $13 million, two-year contract.
OAKLAND (1) -- Re-signed Bartolo Colon, rhp, to a $3 million, one-year contract.
SEATTLE (1) -- Re-signed Oliver Perez, lhp, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract.
TAMPA BAY (3) -- Re-signed Joel Peralta, rhp, to a $6 million, two-year contract; signed James Loney, 1b, Boston, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Roberto Hernandez, rhp, Cleveland, to a $3.25 million, one-year contract.
TEXAS (2) -- Re-signed Colby Lewis, rhp, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Joakim Soria, rhp, Texas, to an $8 million, two-year contract.
TORONTO (2) -- Signed Maicer Izturis, inf, Los Angeles Angels, to a $10 million, three-year contract; signed Melky Cabrera, of, San Francisco, to a $16 million, two-year contract.
ARIZONA (4) -- Signed Eric Hinske, 1b, Atlanta, to a $1.35 million, one-year contract; signed Eric Chavez, 3b, New York Yankees, to a $3 million, one-year contract; signed Brandon McCarthy, rhp, Oakland, to a $15.5 million, two-year contract; signed Cody Ross, of, Boston, to a $26 million, three-year contract.
ATLANTA (3) -- Signed Gerald Laird, c, Detroit, to a $3 million, two-year contract; signed B.J. Upton, of, Tampa Bay, to a $75.25 million, five-year contract; re-signed Reed Johnson, of, to a $1.75 million, one-year contract.
CHICAGO (4) -- Signed Scott Baker, rhp, Minnesota, to a $5.5 million, one-year contract; signed Dioner Navarro, c, Cincinnati, to a $1.75 million, one-year contract; re-signed Shawn Camp, rhp, to a $1.35 million, one-year contract; signed Scott Feldman, rhp, Texas, to a $6 million, one-year contract.
CINCINNATI (2) -- Re-signed Jonathan Broxton, rhp, to a $21 million, three-year contract; re-signed Ryan Ludwick, of, to a $15 million, two-year contract.
COLORADO (1) -- Re-signed Jeff Francis, lhp, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract.
LOS ANGELES (2) -- Re-signed Brandon League, rhp, to a $22.5 million, three-year contract; signed Zack Greinke, rhp, Los Angeles Angels, to a $147 million, three-year contract.
MIAMI (2) -- Signed Juan Pierre, of, Philadelphia, to a $1.6 million, one-year contract; signed Placido Polanco, 3b, Philadelphia, to a $2.75 million, one-year contract.
NEW YORK (1) -- Re-signed Tim Byrdak, lhp, to a minor league contract ($1 million).
PHILADELPHIA (1) -- Signed Mike Adams, rhp, Texas, to a $12 million, two-year contract.
PITTSBURGH (2) -- Signed Russell Martin, c, New York Yankees, to a $17 million, two-year contract; re-signed Jason Grilli, rhp, to a $6.75 million, two-year contract.
ST. LOUIS (2) -- Signed Randy Choate, lhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $7.5 million, three-year contract; signed Ty Wigginton, inf, Philadelphia, to a $5 million, two-year contract.
SAN DIEGO (1) -- Re-signed Jason Marquis, rhp, to a $3 million, one-year contract.
SAN FRANCISCO (3) -- Re-signed Jeremy Affeldt, lhp, to an $18 million, three-year contract; re-signed Angel Pagan, of, to a $40 million, four-year contract; re-signed Marco Scutaro, inf, to a $20 million, three-year contract.
WASHINGTON (2) -- Re-signed Zach Duke, lhp, to a $700,000, one-year contract; signed Dan Haren, rhp, Los Angeles Angels, to a $13 million, one-year contract.
RAKUTEN (1) -- Signed Andruw Jones, of, New York Yankees, to a $3.5 million, one-year contract.
Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press
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Bucs trade for pair of right-handed prospects
Pirates acquire Thornton from A's, Medina from Orioles for Resop, Navarro
By Tom Singer / MLB.com
Right-handed reliever Chris Resop, one of the seven arbitration-eligible Pirates players facing Friday's deadline to be tendered a contract, instead was dealt Friday evening to the Oakland A's. Pittsburgh received Zach Thornton, a 24-year-old righty who spent the 2012 season in Class A, from Oakland. In a separate transaction, the Bucs acquired another right-handed prospect, 19-year-old Jhondaniel Medina, from Baltimore in exchange for infielder Yamaico Navarro. Resop, 30, was an instrumental member of the Pirates bullpen since being acquired on waivers from Atlanta in August 2010. In two-and-a-half seasons with the Bucs, he appeared in 159 games, posting a 3.88 ERA. He appeared in 61 games last season, compiling an ERA of 3.91. Thornton posted 16 saves in 48 games at Stockton, and had 70 strikeouts in 53 2/3 innings. A 23rd-round Draft choice in 2010 out of the University of Oregon, Thornton has picked up 187 strikeouts in 169 2/3 innings as a professional. The Pirates had earlier designated for assignment Navarro, whom they had acquired a year ago in a trade from Kansas City. Medina made seven starts among his 11 appearances this season between the Orioles' Rookie and Class A farm clubs. He had a combined record of 1-3, with a 4.14 ERA and 50 strikeouts in as many innings.
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The poet Susan Howe is seventy-seven today. A few years ago, she and the musician David Grubbs collaborated on "Frolic Architecture," a series of multidisciplinary performances that sprang from a book of her collage poems by the same name. Harvard has posted a video of the performance, which is quietly, insistently disruptive. As it progresses, prerecorded shards of Howe's voice seem to fall into her live voice, and Grubbs fills the space with incidental sounds: insect chirps, gravel and snow and leaves variously underfoot. The performance seems at once to take on weight and ascend into the ether.
Howe remarked on the collage, and the process of recording it, in her 2012 Art of Poetry interview:
I am an Americanist. There's something that we do, a Romantic, utopian ideal of poetry as revelation at the same instant it's a fall into fracture and trespass. Frolic Architecture cuts itself to bits. It could be that because I am a woman, bullets are more like blanks. What fuels the poems in that collection is the sense of epic breaking into shards.
I've heard the recording of your performance of Frolic, and you actually speak—sound out—its fragments and phonemes, those shards. You treat your work as a score.
Collaborating with the musician-composer David Grubbs has brought vividly home to me how acoustic a seemingly collaged and visual work can be. Several years ago our first collaboration was for a performance at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, and was based around an early poem of mine called "Thorow." We collaborated again to produce Souls of the Labadie Tract. The work I have done with David has influenced the course of my later poetry by showing me a range of contemporary music with which I was unfamiliar. It also restored my earlier interest in Charles Ives. I love the way Ives's musical use of quotation throws connectives to the winds. His work is Romantic and iconoclastic at once.
And in the journal Lana Turner, Ben Lerner wrote with typical acuity about the performance:
I assumed Grubbs had digitally manipulated Howe's voice in order to mimic the fragmentation of the collages. And Grubbs did often and artfully alter her voice, but it turns out that many of the sounds I thought were digital slivers weren't. It simply did not occur to me that Howe would be capable of reading such diverse phonemes and even smaller linguistic particles in real time with such precision. But she is: I have never heard a person pronounce "nt" or "rl," for instance, so exactly. Howe can render even the most distressed text acoustic … Howe's recorded voice—sometimes digitally cut up, sometimes left alone—alternated or overlapped with the live performance, and Grubbs had made sure that there was little or no perceptible sonic difference between what was digital and what was happening before us; when I shut my eyes, I couldn't tell. This blurring of the boundary between the live and the recorded was a deft way to indicate how Howe's poems are at once originals and remnants.


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When police and fire crews arrived at the scene they found a man lying on the ground in the middle of one of the southbound lanes of Industrial Boulevard.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation, Olthoff said.
A preliminary investigation revealed the vehicle was traveling south on Industrial Boulevard when the man walked into the roadway and was hit. He was not in a crosswalk when he attempted to cross traffic, Olthoff said.
Alcohol or drugs are not believed to be a factor in the collision, police said. The cause of the collision remains under investigation.
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So it's been many a month since I last updated, but I have something of an excuse. Since my last post in February my life has turned upside down somewhat. Mainly because, as Janene has already blogged about, we're getting divorced, and I'm moving out as soon as I can scrape enough money together. To pre-empt the standard response of how sorry you are: don't be. This was clearly the best thing for everyone involved, we're still friends, and everyone involved is as happy about it as it's possible to be in such a situation. Naturally I'm not going to go into details, though. Except to say that I'm excited about the future and looking forward to what's coming.
For those of you eagerly awaiting an update on Japi scores - (a) why aren't you just looking at the results pages directly? and (b) the story over these 5 months has basically been that Japi gained the ability to recognize a method that the developers voluntarily mark as not implemented. This was a good thing - it was already known that a lot of methods in Classpath weren't implemented that Japi was unaware of, but the problem couldn't be quantified - but it meant that the score peaked very shortly after my last post - I believe with only two errors outside of swing.text.html. Now the results are more correct and still closing rapidly on 100% for all versions up to 1.4. No, I don't know what's up with the -generics results, I'll get around to looking into that eventually.
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I thought this thread was about pure touch gloves, lol. I guess you need a pure touch to catch those big bass. Eagle, enjoy your trip to Texas.
I thought this thread was about pure touch gloves, lol. I guess you need a pure touch to catch those big bass. Eagle, enjoy your trip to Texas.
Our rep was by this past Monday and showed us the Pure Touch gloves again. I forgot how good these things feel. We ordered a bunch for stock and im sure they will be good sellers. I love the packaging too, a real attention grabber.
Eagle, only problem is that you would only be able to wear one glove as they do not make a lefty version! :) Have a great trip.
The packaging is great, I enjoy the soft, smooth feel of it, a lot of like the glove. Makes you think you have a top of the line product before you even get it out of the package.
I wish they would sell these gloves in retail stores but looking to hopefully order some online
Been wearing the PTL's a month or two now. Awesome glove. I seem to hover between M, M/L and L with some manufacturers gloves but the fit on these (so far) has been spot on every time.
Expensive, but worth every penny.
They are a little higher than your average glove but then again they are limited aren't they?!
Got down here to Texas on Monday and out on the course Tuesday. Wore the PTL for the first time and now am hooked. Man, that is some glove. The extra expense is more than justified by the feel and touch of the glove. I definitely will be using this glove unless weather conditions dictate another choice, and then it is just another FJ glove for me.
never tried them but they sound nice
Eagle, glad to hear you liked the glove. How's the golf/bass fishing going? Have you tried the PTL with the rod yet?! =)
No. haven't tried the glove while fishing. It is reserved for Golf Only. Weather here in 80s during the day and low 50s at night. Just finished a round today and it was one of my best to date. Fishing is good, but size of bass has been small so far. Nothing to write home about. Will let you know if we start catching big ones. One thing going on down here, the guys are catching crappies that weigh 1 to 2 pounds. I have never seen that kind of size before.
I go to a farm pond just south of the city where they have crappie and black crappie that are about the same in weight and about 16 inches long. They are HUGE. Unlike most crappie you catch, they put up a fight and don't just float to the top because they are too tired LOL
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Tom Hintgen / OTTER TAIL FOCUS - Bruce and Allison Breun of Frazee appeared in Otter Tail County District Court on Monday to face 26 separate charges related to the abuse and neglect of 11 horses rescued from a farm north of Perham in November. The two individuals will each be assigned to court-appointed attorneys and will have their next court appearance at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, March 18. Judge Barbara Hanson released the defendants on their recognizance but ordered them to make and maintain contact with their attorneys and make all future court appearances. Assistant County Attorney Heather Brandborg described the horse case as, "a lengthy complaint." Charges relate to each of the 11 horses individually, and include mistreatment and lack of care for animals, depriving them of food, and cruelty. The horses were seized Nov. 9. Assisting with their rescue, in cooperation with law enforcement, was Charlotte Tuhy, who, along with Joel Hildebrandt, owns the Hightail Horse Ranch and Rescue near Hawley, Minn. Tuhy trains and heals rescued horses and ponies. Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office deputies had previously obtained a search warrant to gather
evidence at the farmstead. Also involved with the rescue was the Otter Tail County Humane Society. Authorities said the horses were dehydrated and dangerously underweight. Most were weak and unkempt. Hightail, as a noted in a previous article in the Perham Focus, takes in animals from all over the region, state and beyond. The ranch works with animal rescue groups and often takes in strays. Hightail is accepting donations to cover the cost of hay, feed, bedding, medicine and other needs. The ranch is also always looking for good volunteers to help feed, train and otherwise care for the animals.


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Braves sweep aside doubters with big weekend
By taking three games from A's, Atlanta reasserts itself as a postseason contender
By Mike Bauman / MLB.com
ATLANTA -- Anybody who had written off the Atlanta Braves as postseason contenders had all weekend to consider a retraction.
The Oakland Athletics arrived at Turner Field three nights ago with the best record in the Major Leagues. They left in a virtual tie for first place in the American League West after three straight losses to the Braves.
True, the Braves had lost 12 of their previous 15 games and their offense had struggled mightily in the process. This slump, combined with the improved play of the Washington Nationals had left Atlanta six games out of first place in the National League East.
But they didn't look like mere also-rans this weekend. In their three victories, the Braves produced strong pitching, timely hitting and solid defense. In other words, they played the way they should play.
When this series started the Braves had slipped to 61-60. They looked a lot better than that against the A's. They particularly looked a lot better than that to Oakland manager Bob Melvin.
"Seems like they're a lot better than their record," Melvin said. "Their lineup is deep. They play good defense. They have some guys that can do some things. You know, they've got certain guys who can hit for power, certain guys who can hit-and-run, certain guys that can run a little bit.
"We've seen them obviously good and we haven't played our best. They've got some guys in the bullpen, too. That's a pretty good team."
After 7-2 and 4-3 victories in the first two games of the series, the Braves faced their biggest challenge Sunday night. Recently acquired ace Jon Lester was on the hill for the Athletics, and he was 3-0 in three starts for Oakland. Atlanta had a left-hander of considerable potential, Mike Minor, going on the hill, but Minor's performance this season had been erratic (4-8, 5.33 ERA in 18 starts).
But this one didn't go at all the way the numbers suggested. Lester was chased in the seventh. He gave up a two-run homer to Justin Upton in the fourth and a home run to Chris Johnson leading off the seventh.
Minor, meanwhile, pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on four hits, with two walks and seven strikeouts. He gave up two solo homers to A's first baseman Nate Freiman, but nothing of substance to any other Oakland hitter. For the second night in a row, the Braves won, 4-3.
This was the 86th quality start by an Atlanta pitcher this season. The Braves lead the Majors in that category. They are fourth in team ERA in the NL. This is, once again and typically, the underpinning for whatever success this club will have.
And the pitching was the difference in this series. The Braves controlled the Oakland offense, an offense that leads both leagues in runs scored. It may be that the A's are not quite the same offense since Yoenis Cespedes was traded to Boston in the Lester deal. But Atlanta's pitching accomplished something worthwhile here.
"For me, it all starts with the starting pitching," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "We've had some really good starting pitching this series. And Mikey had a terrific game.
"I thought we had a helluva homestand facing three division leaders [Nationals, Dodgers and A's], and we come out of it 6-4."
Minor looked like he had turned a corner, and maybe his team had, as well
"I feel like I'm in a different mindset," Minor said. "I really don't feel like anything bothers me anymore. I just want to go after hitters and if things happen I want to pick up my teammates, because they pick me up all the time.
"Oakland coming in here, we wanted to win two out of three, realistically, and then we sweep them. It's huge. I feel like we've always had the confidence. I don't think anybody's been down. We've played some close games and finally they've gone our way now."
The last two nights the game finished the way so many Braves games finish -- with Craig Kimbrel getting the last three outs. Kimbrel, who had 50 saves in 54 opportunities last year, is encoring with 37 saves in 41 save opportunities this season.
The energy level, the decibel level, and the Braves' winning percentage all tend to increase when Kimbrel shows up in the ninth inning throwing 98-99 miles per hour. He ended the evening getting two strikeouts and a groundout Sunday. It was a one-run game, and yet, with Kimbrel throwing the way he can, there didn't seem to be a lot of doubt about the outcome.
It was a big series and a major revival for the Braves. They'll need more of this level of play. Maybe they don't beat the Nats for the NL East crown, but even now, they're just 1 1/2 games out of a Wild Card berth. Giving up on Atlanta would be either premature or wrong, or probably both.
Mike Bauman is a national columnist for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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After two decades of Impressionism in Irvine at a venue near the John Wayne Airport, art aficionados are honoring the city's premier museum on the style as it leaves its teenage years behind.
Celebrating its 20th with an exhibit of its most popular work, The Irvine Museum preserves California Impressionist art from 1890 to 1930 – an easy, free-flowing style that captures the light and movement in the Golden State landscape before today's mass urbanization and development.
On display through June 6, "Lasting Impressions: Twenty Years of The Irvine Museum" spotlights artists such as Franz A. Bischoff, George Brandriff, Alson S. Clark, Frank Cuprien, Paul de Longpré, William A. Griffith, Joseph Kleitsch, Granville Redmond, Guy Rose, Donna Schuster and William Wendt. Eight pieces of art by local children are also on display.
Hoping to build a museum as dynamic as the style itself, the founders made a point of sending parts of their collection on tour to educate audiences around the country. Of the more than 65 exhibitions that have adorned the museum's walls, 17 have gone abroad along with 18 of the institution's own books on the style.
The local mainstay has built a particular brand of loyalty among its audiences and its leadership. Of the four founders – Joan Irvine Smith, Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke, president James Irvine Swinden and executive director Jean Stern – Smith, Swinden and Stern are celebrating their own 20th along with the museum.
One of the founding fathers of the museum, Jean Stern has led the Irvine institution since it first opened its doors in January 1993. We asked him for his thoughts on the milestone.
Q: So this is your 20th. How does it feel?
A: I feel a great sense of accomplishment. It seems like it's only been a few months sometimes, and it's gone by very quickly, which is a good sign. It means that we're enjoying this, and I'm looking forward to another generation of children. The children are our hope for the future, and they're way ahead of the adults in terms of awareness about things like environment. They're the ones that we want to reach because we can still help shape their future. But we have a lot of faithful adult visitors, a lot of seniors that come to every show that we have, and we just want to make it bigger and better.
Q: Why was it important for you to be involved in the preservation of this style?
A: It's an art style that had long been overlooked. There were a lot of classes available in colleges throughout the country – this was 25 years ago – on American art, but they never entered California in terms of their area of study and it was a beautiful art style and significant art style that was ignored for a good part. My goal was to get this material out so people could see how beautiful it is; so that people in California could understand that they have a very important heritage in the American art world. These paintings show the land that existed in California before the mass development that happened after World War II, and though we all understand that we need houses and shopping centers and freeways, we want people to understand that we have a lot of beauty here, and that it should be preserved for future generations.
Q: What characterizes California Impressionism?
A: It has to do with painting outdoors, so you can capture that natural light. And it's also a great spiritual affinity to the land to the trees to the mountains, the sky, the rivers, and it's painted in a very quick manner because when you're outdoors you have to paint quickly. Otherwise, the sun moves, the shadows move, and after two hours it's a completely different painting in form and color. Generally, the way this type of painting is done is you do a preparatory sketch on the spot outdoors, and then you paint a larger painting in the studio. The task is to create the sense of being outdoors; there's always movement. Natural light never stands still. There's movement in the light, movement in the subject of the trees, the bushes, the grass. The quick choppy brushstroke is both a natural consequence of being in a hurry but also trying to create this sense of movement, which is very hard to do in the studio when you don't see what's happening and you're painting in very tight detail.
Q: How has the landscape of the museum changed in the last two decades?
A: When we founded the museum, we decided to define a museum not as a building but as a collection that travels and is available to be seen as many people as possible. We're still in a temporary – if you call 20 years temporary – locale but we have visited more than 40 other cities and even sent an exhibit to Europe. So the goal was to make the paintings available to as many people as possible. To make that happen, when we do tour our exhibits all over California and all across the U.S., we do not charge a rental fee.
Q: What will the next 20 years look like?
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Which Movie Star is a Glenn Beck Fanatic?
This movie star is not a Hollywood liberal, instead he's always watching Glenn Beck and ranting about "liberal socialists." This actress has weird eating habits and this NFL star was a jerk to his fans. Sounds like something Glenn Beck would do.
1. "This once A list, award-winning actor has dropped off the radar in the last few years. A source tells us he obsessively watches right-wing news and radio broadcasts like Glenn Beck, while stocking up on gold and weapons, preparing for 'the end.' His friends have tried to offer help, but he complains to our source that they are 'nothing but Hollywood liberal socialists' who have an agenda. His family and friends are worried as he's becoming more extreme, and the source also claims he's shelled out big bucks to install a bunker on his property." [BuzzFoto]
2. "This B- list television actress has been in this space before for some not so model behavior. She is on a hit show for this almost network and wants everyone in the world to think she is the perfect mom and girlfriend to her B list actor boyfriend who is also on a hit television show. Our actress has gone through a series of relationships with men and at the end she always makes it seem like the boyfriends were the awful ones and she was perfect. The realities? She sets aside time for sex with her boyfriends. They get three times a week but she only schedules it for 30 minutes. If you are late then that is your fault. When 30 minutes is up, she is up too. She considers it a necessity rather than fun. Oh, and don't forget that pre and post sex shower. Food? She only eats four things. Seriously. Just four. Chicken, rice, Total and apples. Nothing else. No seasonings or spices. If you are with her when you eat, then she insists you eat the same thing too. One of the actresses on her show who is getting to be almost A list said that if given the opportunity she would slip a chocolate bar or pot into the homemaker's food just so she could actually live a life for two minutes. Red carpet events? She tells her dates what to wear. Why do guys put up with it? Because she latches on to them and does not let go. They don't have a choice. If you ask her out and she says yes, she will be texting and calling and doing drop ins before you can say boo. She does not let go and it is very tough to get her out of your life." [CDaN]
3. "This star of an NFL team was dining out with a male friend at a steakhouse the other night. After dinner, they were sitting there texting and talking on their cell phones when a young fan came over. He explained that he didn't want an autograph or a photo, but that his 85-year-old grandmother was a lifelong fan of the team, and it would mean the world to her if the athlete would simply say hello to her as he was leaving the restaurant. The athlete looked up from his cell phone, glared at the fan for five or six seconds, looked over at the grandmother, and said "No! Now get the fuck away from my table!" The stunned fan retreated back to his table. A few minutes later, the athlete did manage to acknowledge the fan and his grandmother… by giving them the finger on his way out of the restaurant." [Blind Gossip]


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When you're an editor of anything, you get massive amounts of press releases. It was true when I was writing about rock music, and now that I write about cars, it's even more true. To make anything stand out of this unending torrent of media alerts, you have to work at it. So when I […] More »
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Victory parade a hit in Philly
Burrell and Elvis lead the World Series champs' celebration
Pat Burrell wasn't at the front of Philadelphia's parade for the World Series champions just because he's been with the Phillies since 2000.
"I'm sure he was elated by the way the Phillies, the way the city handled everything," Brett Myers told MLB.com. "That was unbelievable. [But he was up front] because of his dog. Somebody said he was going to ride with Elvis [his dog] because he was at every home game, and we didn't lose at home in the playoffs. A lot of credit goes to Elvis for slobbering on us. He was our good-luck charm."
Moyer has a hunch he'll stick with Phillies: Jamie Moyer might be a free agent, but the veteran left-hander has made it clear he'd like to return to the Phillies.
"I hope I am back here," Moyer, who will turn 46 on Nov. 18, told the Philadelphia Daily News. "I sense there is a good feeling that I may come back here. I have not talked to the club at all, but we'll see what happens."
Rollins sees fanatics offer support en masse: Without having to focus on hitting and catching baseballs, Jimmy Rollins turned into a spectator at the Phillies' championship parade on Friday.
"I was amazed," Rollins told MLB.com. "There were people on [Route] 76 just hanging out, I'm like, 'This is dangerous.' People acting like Spider-Man climbing on a light pole. I saw a guy stretched on the side of the building, with a beer in his hand. They've been wanting this for a long time. You know, when your ears start hurting because you're trying to think about what to do, but you can't think because you're ears hurt? That's what it was like. I wasn't even yelling, I was just barely talking [to teammates on the float] and my voice is gone."
Myers amazed at overflow parade crowd: Brett Myers was glad he didn't have to steer the truck carrying some teammates through the crowded downtown streets of Philadelphia.
"I had no idea what to expect," Myers told the Philadelphia Daily News. "There were certain stints where I thought people were going to get run over. It was unbelievable. I looked at Cole [Hamels] and I said, 'How the heck is this truck making it down the street right now without clipping somebody?' The streets were so crowded, it was unbelievable. It was so much fun."
Baldelli hopeful his future is with the Rays: After a roller-coaster ride in 2008 that saw Rocco Baldelli go from nearly being out of baseball to the World Series, the Tampa Bay right fielder is now a free agent.
"I don't know what's going on right now," Baldelli told raysbaseball.com about the prospect of returning to the Rays in 2009. "This has been the only place I've ever played, and I'm very comfortable here. Everyone's been very supportive through all this stuff I've been dealing with.
"I'm thankful for that, more than anything, because I know a lot of people, or a lot of teams, would have probably turned their back on me when I was going through a lot of these troubles -- because it is a business, and they treated me like a person. I love playing here. And I'm just going to wait and see what happens the next couple of weeks and months."
Carlos Pena takes pride in the journey: Carlos Pena and the Rays understand how far they've come as a team this year.
"I'm proud because my team thought the same way right up until the last pitch. At the same time, we have to tip our hats," he wrote in his MLBlogs.com. "You have to learn how to lose. The good thing is that now we know defeat, but we know defeat in the World Series. And we have tasted victory in the playoffs. So, for that, we're very grateful.
"Many great ones that have played this game have never gotten to this point to experience defeat or victory. And we understand that. We treat this with respect. We understand how blessed we are to get to this point. And let's not forget this has been an incredibly magical season, and one that nobody thought could ever be possible. So in a sense, we are victorious in all aspects, actually, just to get to this point."
Sabathia could be back in Milwaukee: The Milwaukee Brewers plan to make an offer to free agent left-hander CC Sabathia, who is expected to be the most sought after pitcher in this year's free agent class.
"It will be soon," Melvin told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "We're getting close to doing that."
The Brewers have exclusive negotiating rights to Sabathia for the first 15 days after the World Series.
Big Unit would be welcomed back to Arizona: The Arizona Diamondbacks would like to bring back Randy Johnson, who is four wins shy of No. 300.
"Certainly there's interest on our part in having Randy come back," CEO Jeff Moorad told the Arizona Republic. "We have a tremendous loyalty to him and what he's accomplished in a D-Backs uniform.
"If he wants to focus on the free-agent market and maxing out compensation, we're likely not to be his home next year. There certainly would be a fit at a number that fits our reality, given the fact that player salaries will go up across our roster from '08 to '09."
Wakefield to return to Red Sox in 2009: The Red Sox exercised Tim Wakefield's contract option for 2009, meaning the 42-year-old right-hander will be back with the team next season and have another club option for 2010, the Boston Globe reported.
Wakefield was 10-11 with a 4.13 ERA this past season for the Red Sox. He finished second on the team in innings pitch.
"I think wins and losses are -- at times that can be deceiving," Red Sox manager Terry Francona told the Boston Globe. "And I thought with Wake's year, it was deceiving."
Delgado quick to re-up with Mets: Carlos Delgado had his option picked up by the Mets, Newsday reported.
Through Memorial Day, Delgado was hitting .228 with a .389 slugging percentage. But the slugging first baseman batted .291 with 29 home runs and 83 RBIs over the following 92 games to help keep the Mets in contention for the NL East title until the final week of the season.
"Carlos is a key part of our plans for 2009, and we wanted to let him know as quickly as allowed that we wanted him back," general manager Omar Minaya told Newsday. "It was our full intent to promptly close our deal with Carlos, and that's what we did."
Andruw Jones preparing for charity event in Atlanta: Atlanta resident Andruw Jones is gearing up for the annual "Fairway Affair," an event he and his wife host each year to support survivors of domestic violence. The gala is held on Nov. 8 and tickets are $300 each. Organizers are hoping to raise $250,000 for the charity.
"I've got so much respect for my mom," Jones told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, explaining his passion for the cause. "My mom kept me on that straight path."
Meanwhile, Jones indicated he would like to return to Atlanta full time.
"I've got one more year in my contract," said Jones, now playing with the L.A. Dodgers. "Hopefully, I can come back to Atlanta. I would love to finish my career here."
Embree gets support in free-agent departure: The A's cut ties to reliever Alan Embree, making the 38-year-old lefty a free agent. Embree took the news well, even if some of his now former teammates did not.
"I enjoyed hanging out with the kids," Embree told the San Francisco Chronicle of the young and rebuilding A's. "But now I get a chance to pick where I want to go and make sure my role is what I want it to be."
"Alan is a huge loss for the team in the sense of leadership and experience, in the sense of having someone who's not afraid to step up and take charge," Huston Street said. "Alan is very conscious about being vocal when he needs to be and that was really invaluable for the young guys. We're losing a presence a young team absolutely needs. We'll need someone else to step up and assume that role."
Griffey, Jr. keeps Mariners on the radar: Now that he's officially a free agent, Ken Griffey, Jr. has made it clear he is open for a return to Seattle. Griffey broke into the big leagues with the Mariners, and the future Hall of Famer enjoyed his finest seasons in the Emerald City.
"It's no secret Junior has a special relationship with the people in Seattle from the ownership and front office all the way down to the fans and business people in town," agent Brian Goldberg told the Seattle Times.
"He's totally open-minded to talking to them, I'm sure. He'd be open to discuss anything with them. However, he owes it to himself to see what else is out there."
LaRue to stay with Cardinals next season: Within hours of having filed for free agency, Jason LaRue was brought back by the St. Louis Cardinals to back up Yadier Molina, in a move that St. Louis general manager essentially called a no-brainer.
"Jason was a great fit for our ballclub in the role that he served this past season," Mozeliak said in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in a statement released by the team. "His contributions carried not only onto the field, but also in the clubhouse and away from the ballpark, where he provided good veteran leadership."
Rincon hopes to return to Indians: Juan Rincon is among the many Major League players who have filed for free agency, but last month he made it clear that, if given the chance, he'd like to return to the Indians.
"I told them I don't want to be bouncing around," Rincon told MLB.com. "I hope we can work something out. I like the clubhouse and the atmosphere and my teammates here. They gave me a chance here, so why turn my back now? That's my feeling, but it's not up to me."
Tatis signs one-year deal with Mets: Fernando Tatis, the Players Choice Award winner as NL Comeback Player of the Year, signed a one-year deal with the Mets, MLB.com reported.
Tatis will likely share left field with Daniel Murphy next season. This year, he hit .297 with 11 home runs, 16 doubles and 47 RBIs in 273 at-bats. After being promoted from Triple-A New Orleans on May 13, Tatis started 35 games in right field, 28 in left field, two at third base and one at first base.
"Fernando got so many key hits for us last year," Mets general manager Omar Minaya said in a press release on Mets.com. "Not having him the last few weeks ... certainly hurt. His versatility certainly makes us a better team."
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By WARREN HOGE
Published: December 11, 2007
The chief prosecutor of the international war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia accused Serbia on Monday of blocking the arrests of the two suspected leaders of a violent campaign of ethnic expulsions and killings, including the 1995 massacre of Muslims in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica.
In a passionately delivered final address to the Security Council, Carla Del Ponte, the departing lead prosecutor of the Hague-based court, said Serbia had deliberately failed to apprehend the two, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, though both had been ''repeatedly sighted'' in Serbia.
Serbian authorities refused to conduct ''even the most basic investigative procedures,'' like searching the houses of relatives of fugitives, Ms. Del Ponte said.
''Although Serbia has the capacity and the know-how to act, it has repeatedly failed to act,'' she added.
Ms. Del Ponte said, ''It is a stain on the international tribunal's work that two individuals indicted for genocide and responsible for the worst crimes committed in Europe since the Second World War are still fugitives.''
Ms. Del Ponte, who is leaving after eight years in office, appealed to the Council to keep the court open past its scheduled close in 2010 if the two are not turned over.
She also urged the European Union to maintain its ''principled position'' that Serbia not be considered a candidate for admission unless it gave full cooperation to the court in apprehending the two suspects.
In January, Ms. Del Ponte, 60, will become the Swiss ambassador to Argentina, to be succeeded at the court by Serge Brammertz, 45, of Belgium, who for the past two years has led the United Nations investigation into the 2005 assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Taking mildly worded notice of the criticism, Pavle Jevremovic, the ambassador of Serbia, commended Ms. Del Ponte for her work.
He said his country's cooperation with the court had been ''significant and effective both in terms of arrests and transfers of indictees.''
He assured the Council that the four remaining people indicted by the court ''will be located and apprehended in the nearest future.''
Ilya I. Rogachev, a deputy ambassador of Russia, Serbia's chief ally, said the court must be shut down by the 2010 deadline established by the Security Council.
''The fact that certain indictees are not present cannot be considered as justification for unlimited extensions,'' he said.
PHOTO: Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor for a war crimes court, is leaving after eight years. (PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED ERNST/ASSOCIATED PRESS)


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Injuries have created a bottleneck at the top of Bellator's featherweight division, and Daniel Straus isn't waiting for it to clear.
"They're going to allow me to stay busy inside the cage with them, so I'm going to take a fight before I get this title fight with whoever wins between Pat (Curran) and [Patricio Freire]," Straus told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).
Straus (20-4 MMA, 7-1 BFC) meets UFC vet Alvin Robinson (12-6 MMA, 0-0 BFC) on the MTV2-televised main card of Bellator 78, which takes place Friday at Nutter Center in Fairborn, Ohio. Preliminary-card fights stream on Spike.com.
Although he could walk away from the fight with a loss, Straus said he isn't gambling his title shot by fighting Robinson, who returns to the cage for the first time in 13 months. Regardless of the outcome, he'll fight champ Curran or Freire.
"Everybody is just waiting for Pat to get healed up," Straus said. "He had an unfortunate injury training for his fight (with Freire), and unfortunately, the [featherweights] are just backed up right now. It's injuries – you can't blame anyone for them."
With less at risk, Straus could theoretically coast or fight in ways he otherwise wouldn't. But at least in the gym, he said he's prepared for the bout as if it were for a title, noting that Robinson received his jiu-jitsu black belt from Renzo Gracie.
"I'm not really scared to go to the ground with him," he said. "Although that's not really where I want the fight to be at. But I feel like I've been preparing in the right way, so I'm not worried about where it goes.
"I definitely want to get into this fight and finish him and not go the distance any more. I want to show what I have and show that I can beat these guys and be dominant."
Indeed, all but one of Straus' seven Bellator fights have gone to the scorecards. His sole loss in the promotion came against Freire, who outpointed him in the Season 4 tourney final. The Cincinnati native also has faced a half-dozen standouts selected or their potential to be champions, so he hasn't exactly had an easy road.
Straus hopes his bout will stay upright so he has a greater chance of finishing Robinson. But whether the matchup is a brief stopover or the hardest fight of his life, he's pressing ahead nonetheless.
"I'm going to go out there and show why I'm sitting in the position to have my next title fight," he said.
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While the rest of the world was busy obsessing over the Mad Men premiere, tonight's episode of Entourage featured cameos by Shawne Merriman and a ping pong obsessed John Stamos. Some things never change!
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It's clear that this episode was a filler, but as long as the show is still pandering the viewers with the private-jet-to-Vegas-hopping, beach-babes-sipping-tequila, Ari-Gold-making-moves fake Hollywood scenarios, it's hard to see the core audience going anywhere. Soon the only problem Vince will have will be that only three of the four supermodels he's dating will call him back.


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1. Do you feel Jacob was justified in going to the Cullens to confront Edward and possibly start a fight with the vampires even though he was going against Sam's orders?
2. Since we as readers knew Bella was pregnant, did her physical appearance surprise you in the way that she looked so sick and frail? How did you feel about the rapid growth of her pregnancy and the effect it had on her body?
3. The ever present tension between Rosalie and Bella has virtually vanished due to Bella's pregnancy. Were you surprised that Bella asked Rose to act as her protector? How did you feel about Edward's explanation on how the family was divided over the issue?
4. Edward says sevearl times in this chapter that Jacob understood Bella better than he did. Do you agree or disagree with that assessment? Could Edward's thoughts be clouded by his involvement in the pregnancy, or do you feel that he was correct in saying that Jacob did understand her better?
5. What did you feel about Edward's agreement with Jacob that if Bella died he would allow Jacob to kill him? Did you think it would come to that?


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Topic: Sasha Involv3r Party - Warehouse Leeds: Last night.
What a fantastic night, everyone who played was spot on Ejeca really sticks in the mind, But Sasha was really on it. Proper heads down, nagging melodic, twisted goodness. The best I've heard him play in ages, really not been into his sets lately.
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Even the album stuff sounded great loud, and on that system. Brilliant club, no frills - my kind of space. Crowd were well up for it, top bunch. Not danced so hard for a while.
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Lynx Fall 87-59 Against Los Angeles - Game Recap
Minnesota was run off the court by the Sparks on Friday as Los Angeles blasted the Lynx 87-59 at STAPLES Center.
Los Angeles was the ATS victor, as they covered the 3.5-point spread as a favorite. Over-Under bettors who played UNDER the total of 165.5 were rewarded at the payout window.
Los Angeles got 19 points from Kristi Toliver and another 18 points from Nneka Ogwumike. Nneka Ogwumike contributed 5 assists, while Nneka Ogwumike cleaned the glass with 8 rebounds.
Minnesota got 14 points from Monica Wright in a losing cause and another 10 points from Ta'shauna Rodgers. Monica Wright contributed 3 assists for the Lynx, while Ta'shauna Rodgers had 6 rebounds.
Los Angeles led at halftime, 50-24.
The rebound battle favored Los Angeles as they grabbed 43 boards, while Minnesota only had 31.
Los Angeles looks to continue their winning ways next game with a battle against the Mystics. The Lynx will aim to get back on the winning track vs Tulsa.


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BRUNSWICK, Ga. - The Brunswick Police Department is asking for the public's help in solving five cold cases dating back to 2007.
Barbar Garnto, 25, was found dead at about 11:45 a.m. June 6, 2007, in the park at the intersection of Johnston Street and N Street. She may have last been seen alive at about 1 a.m. that day near the 2200 block of Reynolds Street.
Drew Sweeney, 52, was found shot to death at about 9:50 p.m. May 15, 2009, in the 1700 block of Norwich Street. He may have last been seen walking in the 1700 block of Norwich Street carrying a pizza box from Fox's Pizza.
Tytus Alston, 18, was found shot to death at about 10:30 p.m. Aug. 31, 2011, in the 1400 block of Stonewall Street. He may have last been seen riding a motor scooter in the area near where he was found.
Calvin Powell, 53, was found shot to death at about 7:45 a.m. Oct. 19 the 1700 block of Ellis Street. He was reportedly last seen alive the previous evening in the 2400 block of Norwich Street.
Gregory Boone, 24, died at the Southeast Georgia Health System at about 12:40 a.m. Nov. 19 as the result of a gunshot. He was shot by an unknown assailant while seated in a brown 2006 Pontiac G6 in front of his home in the 2600 block of Union Street, police said.
Police are asking for anyone who has information about any these or any other homicides to call the Police Department at 912-267-5091 or the Silent Witness Hotline at 912-267-5516, or email information to email@example.com.
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Scioscia calls Abreu MVP for Angels
Manager points to balance veteran brings to lineup
By Lyle Spencer / MLB.com
"I think it's Bobby Abreu," Scioscia said when asked to name an MVP among a collection of excellent candidates. "One simple reason is the balance he provided on the offensive side.
"If Torii Hunter hadn't gotten injured [missing 32 games from early July to mid-August], Torii Hunter's the MVP in the American League."
Abreu, who signed a one-year free-agent deal for $5 million on Feb. 12, has hit several career milestones this season.
On Aug. 6, he homered in Chicago to join Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, Rickey Henderson, Joe Morgan and Craig Biggio as the only players in history to combine at least 250 homers, 2,000 hits, 1,000 runs scored, 1,000 RBIs and 300 steals.
Abreu reached 100 RBIs on Saturday with a two-run homer against the Athletics. It was the seventh season in a row he has hit triple-digits in RBIs, something only Albert Pujols has ongoing among other active players.
The American League Player of the Month for July, Abreu batted .380 that month with 28 RBIs in 26 games, helping his team vault into the AL West lead, where they have remained since July 11.
Abreu has had a tremendous impact on Angels hitters with his patient, disciplined approach and his ability to impart knowledge to younger teammates in a quiet yet forceful way.
"Bobby's helped everybody on this team in some way, believe me," said third baseman Chone Figgins, another of the team's MVP candidates. "He has a way of making things sound simple and helping guys but not changing them, just showing them little things that make them better.
"He's one of the best teammates I've had, right up there with Garret [Anderson] and Juan [Pierre] for helping me improve my game."
Among those Abreu has helped is Hunter, who was in the midst of a career year offensively when he had to go to the disabled list on July 10 with a strained adductor muscle in his groin area after violent collisions with walls pursuing fly balls at Dodger Stadium and in San Francisco.
"Bobby's been a tremendous influence -- and a tremendous player," Hunter said. "Playing with him every day has given me an appreciation of how great a player he is."
Hunter, an eight-time Gold Glove winner who had a streak of 265 consecutive errorless games end in Texas on Sept. 18, was batting .305 with a .380 on-base percentage and .558 slugging percentage when he went on the DL.
Coming into the four-game series against the Rangers, those numbers for Hunter were .298, .365 and .510, respectively.
Abreu is batting .292 with a .391 on-base percentage and .428 slugging percentage. He has scored 92 runs and is one stolen base away from 30, which would give him five seasons of 30-plus steals and 100-plus RBIs. Only Bonds in Major League history has done that.
Lyle Spencer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Price Chopper ponders expansion
According to documents provided to the Manchester town officials by Price Chopper's engineer for the project, Speath Engineering LLC., the proposed project involves the demolition of the western 21,200 square feet of the existing building at the northern wall of the Price Chopper store. That would be followed by an addition onto the northern wall of Price Chopper to the northwest a total of approximately 20,700 square feet of building space.
When asked if this project would call for any variances to the town's zoning ordinances, Planning Director and Zoning Administrator Lee Krohn said that at the present moment such variances are unknown but also unlikely.
"The building is already grandfathered as a pre-existing, non-conforming structure; this proposal would essentially replace existing square footage in a realigned configuration," he said.
Attempts to contact Ellis Speath of Speath Engineering LLC for comment were unsuccessful before press time.
About 14,300 square feet of the addition will be integrated into the current Price Chopper store. The other 6,400 square feet would be devoted to other uses, according to the documents, nearly doubling the size of the existing Price Chopper Store.
Improvements are also proposed to increase the number of practical parking spaces from 143 to 193 as well as improving the truck loading bay to the building.
In 2009, Price Chopper attempted to construct a 40,000 square foot store in High Ridge Plaza, where the Panda Garden Restaurant currently resides. That idea met stern opposition from local residents in the area, who argued that the location was unsuited for a large supermarket.
An attempt to amend zoning boundaries at High Ridge Plaza to allow for a building such as a Price Chopper superstore was put to a vote during town meeting in March 2010, and the article passed with by a narrow margin of four votes, 385-381. A special petition was then put together by local residents calling for a revote of the article during a special town meeting in May and the article was defeated.
When asked if the proposed project this time around would work better than the 2009 attempt Krohn said, "[This Project] is certainly an easier 'sell' in the political world to keep and expand the supermarket where it has historically been located," said Krohn. "From a zoning perspective, I see few, if any, legal impediments to their expanding on site."
Calls made to the Golub Corp., which currently owns Price Chopper Supermarkets, seeking further comment were not immediately returned before press time.
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Dalton CRA membership surging
DALTON -- The Dalton Community Recreation Association has, in one form or another, provided townspeople with a place to exercise, swim and commune since it was built in 1923.
But over the past decade, facing fierce competition from commercial gyms, membership to the old-style community house's fitness center had begun to slump.
That's changing: Over the past year, the number of paying members has nearly doubled, from 589 in May 2011 to more than 1,000 now.
Staff members attribute the turnaround to a series of changes and tweaks they've made to the their programs and pricing.
"There was a lot of competition out there," said CRA director Alison Peters. "We decided we needed a new strategy."
First, the CRA developed a series of programs and classes that focus on retirees and senior citizens, people who tend to populate the facility during the day, when the center typically sees the lightest use. They also introduced morning programs for youths.
Second, the organization cut membership rates, introducing a three-month membership for $75. The organization formerly charged $360 a year for an individual membership.
Peters said the response was immediate and positive.
"It's huge," she said. "We've been pulling numbers and comparing -- I think we found the right price for what we offer."
The organization has a $900,000 annual budget, over half of which is covered by members fees. The remainder comes from the town (6 percent of the CRA's annual budget) and donations from organizations like the United Way and the Crane Fund.
Once people get introduced to the community house, they tend to stick around, said Peters. In addition to myriad dance, exercise and other fitness classes, the facilities include a basketball court, an indoor pool, racquetball courts and a gym.
The increase in membership led the organization last month to invest more than $50,000 in new exercise equipment for the fitness center, including five treadmills, three elliptical machines and three exercise bikes. Prior to the purchase, the fitness center's equipment hadn't been updated since it was installed in 1995.
Fitness director Jennifer McNulty said the response to the new equipment has been positive.
"It was absolutely worth the investment," she said.
In addition to the community house, the Dalton CRA operates the Dalton Youth Center, as well as adult and youth community sports leagues.
For more information: daltoncra.org or (413) 684-0260.
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San Francisco's music event of the summer is here: Outside Lands is bringing awesome bands, performers and local food vendors to Golden Gate Park this weekend. Why not show off the best the city has to offer with a killer outfit built from locally-designed pieces?
Ladies, try staying warm in a cozy Micaela Greg sweater. Let your jewelry be fun and functional with a map necklace to keep you from getting lost and a watch to make sure you see your favorite sets on time. Gentlemen, take in the tunes in mocs from Taylor Stitch and keep the fog at bay with a jacket from local denim maker Tellason.
Check our list below to find the goods pictured above. Need something else for San Francisco's (colder and foggier) version of Coachella? Head to BeGood Clothing, who'll be hosting an Outside Lands sale on all the new shop's festival-worthy gear.
Pictured above, from left the right:
San Francisco Map necklace, $24.
Micaela Greg Diamond Lace sweater, $308.
501 Original Fit Levi's jeans, $78.
Taylor Stitch Red Patterned Chambray shirt, $125.
Convert + Jeffery Campbell Montauk sandal, $110.
Paolo Brown Buckle Ankle boots, $259.
Camilla Olson Silk-Chiffon Marigold scarf, $140.
Amour Vert Maxine Grey Stripes maxi dress, $114.
Ladies Steampunk Watch with Clockworks, $150.
Sarah Tejada Godfried bag, $176.
4sight unisex sunglasses, $49.
Young Love Outfitters Live Loud tote, $15.
Tellason Coverall jacket, $220.
Taylor Stitch Grey & Black California Bear Ballcap, $45.
Taylor Stitch Summer Linen Plaid shirt, $125.
Tellason Ankara Straight Leg jean, $198.
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The streetcar line will from Pioneer Square to the International District/Chinatown Station, then past Seattle University and First Hill hospitals, ending at Sound Transit's Capitol Hill light rail transit station on Broadway, currently under construction.
Seattle will manage design and construction, while Sound Transit funds nearly all the $134 million cost of the project. Streetcar service is scheduled to begin in 2014, somewhat later than the original target date of late 2013.
The streetcars will be assembled by Seattle-based Pacifica Marine, which describes itself as "a specialty fabrication and refurbishment company" that has done some rail work, including on Amtrak's Talgo fleet serving the Pacific Northwest. The streetcars will include onboard batteries for operational flexibility. The streetcars are designed by Ostrava, Czech Republic-based Inekon.
Seattle is pursuing a $2 million federal grant to plan a streetcar extension beyond Capitol Hill Station, continuing north to Roy Street and a major commercial district.


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That is so cool and useful, why have I not seen it before? I must re-read my Perl books, I must have missed tonnes of stuff like that.
In 5.10, I don't think there's going to be a corresponding feature for this:
//= $default;
You still have to write:
$value = $cgi->p($value) if defined $value;
This is one of the Perl 6 ideas that everyone wants back-porting I think.
I see that &&= is explained on page 92 of my Programming Perl 2nd edition. Not coming from a c background I missed the utility of some of these.


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By Radio.com Staff
Prince's band The Revolution has announced their first shows since his passing.
The performances will take place in Minneapolis at the venue First Avenue on September 2ndv and 3rd.
Related: Explore an 'Online Museum' of Prince's Digital Career
The Revolution's current lineup includes the Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, BrownMark, Dr. Fink, and Bobby Z. Dez Dickerson and André Cymone are listed as special guests for both performances.
The band released the following statement on First Avenue's website.
"With profound loss and apocalyptic grief, we, along with the world, mourned Prince upon the news of his passing. After seeing the response outside of First Avenue and around the rest of the world's monuments, we, as The Revolution–Wendy, Lisa, Brownmark, Dr. Fink, and Bobby Z–have decided to pay tribute to Prince at home in the city of Minneapolis."


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Christian Post has a great round up of election coverage from a Christian perspective.
Conservative Christians are not hiding their disappointment in the outcome of the 2012 election. Not only did the candidates that they supported not win but they also saw losses in the marriage and pro-life battles.
"'On every level – presidential, congressional, social – it was a bruising day for our movement that no amount of spin can improve," wrote Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council, in an email to supporters. "Americans had a choice, and they made it. Is the outcome what we want? Obviously not.'
GOP candidate Mitt Romney lost the presidential election to President Barack Obama after losing most key battleground states, including Ohio. Obama surpassed the 270 electoral votes needed to win a second term and also won the popular vote."
Read more here.
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Not very many people can say that their grandfather served in the Civil War, but Rice resident Joe Tweedle is one of those few. Although he never knew his grandfather, who died roughly a decade before he was born, Tweedle has been doing genealogy and historical research in addition to what his father told him about James B. Tweedle, M. D.
James was born in 1837 to English and Scottish immigrants and worked in the mines as a driver, then as a teacher while he studied medicine. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, James Tweedle enlisted in the army in Company A of the 28th Pennsylvania regiment under Colonel John Geary. He was given the task of hospital steward and acting assistant surgeon under Dr. H. Ernest Goodman until July of 1864. During that time he saw action in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Leesburg and Manassas. Dr. Tweedle was on the front lines of many of these battles, performing surgeries and giving medical care to wounded soldiers in what was often unsanitary and squalid conditions. Grandson
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Welcome back to 31 Days to Building a Cleaning Routine!
Day 6 task: Simple Cleaning Supply List
I've been looking at a lot of blogs that give Homemade Cleaning Recipes for awhile now, and pinning them. I'm so excited to try my hand at making them and cleaning!!
Having some new really motivates me to use it, even if it is a cleaner.
I specifically searched for cleaning recipes that would use inexpensive items (or items I already had on hand) and would serve more than one purpose.
You probably already know you can use both baking soda and vinegar in many ways. But I was surprised at HOW useful those two items really are!
Here are just the first few:
- Make all purpose cleaners by pouring with equal parts into a spray bottle
- Clean dirt off your computer and mouse with a little vinegar and a q tip
- Clean your drains with vinegar and baking soda
- Wipe away mildew
- Clean and polish chrome and stainless steel
- Use as a fruit wash-rinses away germs
Baking Soda
Again, just some of the uses:
44. Add a cup to the toilet, leave it for an hour, and then flush. It will clean the toilet and absorb the odor.
45. Use it to scrub sinks, showers, plastic and porcelain tubs
46. Spray it on walls, mirrors, and countertops.
47. Add a spoonful to your dishwasher to make scrubbing dishes easier.
48. Remove grease from pots and pans.
My Cleaning Supplies
Below are the cleaning supplies I've gathered. I may add a few more supplies, but this is what I'm mainly going to use:
– Super Washing Soda (Checkers) $2.71
– Borox (Walmart) $3.38
– Seventh Generation Dish Soap (Walmart) $2.97
– Fels Naptha Bar of Soap (Walmart) $0.97
I will be introducing the cleaning recipes I've used and loved starting next week. Although if you are impatient to get started, check out my 31 Days to Building a Cleaning Routine board.
Well, see you tomorrow!


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Notes: Hoping to minimize damage
Club focuses on lack of Game 1 success against Boston's best
By Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com
BOSTON -- Eric Wedge had seen the numbers. He just hadn't come up with a way to describe them. Wedge knows all too well that the Red Sox came into Saturday's Game 2 of the American League Championship Series with Nos. 3 and 4 hitters David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez having reached base in 29 of their 36 total plate appearances this postseason. That's an on-base percentage of .805. "I don't even know if there's a word for that," Wedge said. But what's more important to Wedge than finding a word for it is finding a defense for it. Whatever C.C. Sabathia and the Indians' relievers were trying to do against Big Papi and Manny in Friday night's 10-3 loss obviously didn't work. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Ortiz and Ramirez became the first pair of teammates to reach base in every plate appearance with at least five appearances apiece in a postseason game. Sabathia's problem was his uncharacteristic nibbling -- particularly when facing Ramirez, against whom he had an 0-2 count in the third inning, only to throw four straight balls for a bases-loaded walk. The bullpen wasn't any better. Aaron Fultz was brought out to face fellow left-hander Ortiz in the sixth, and he walked him on a full count. He walked Ramirez, as well. With five walks and a hit by pitch issued to Ortiz and Ramirez on the night, it was obvious the Indians' pitchers were doing everything in their power to avoid serving something down the middle. But the careful approach doesn't seem to do a team any favors, given what lurks behind them in the lineup. "You've got a guy behind them that only knocked in 120 [runs]," Wedge said, referring to Mike Lowell. "So it's not just about those two guys. But obviously, they're the backbone of what they do here offensively." Wedge believes his pitchers have to show a little more backbone when they face Ortiz and Ramirez in the remainder of this series. "You can't shy away from them," Wedge said. "We've still got to pitch to our strengths and pitch our game and go get them. If they're not chasing, they're not chasing. They're in that zone right now. There's nothing that we can do, in regard to controlling that. There are points in time I think you've got to maybe be a little bit more careful, but [Friday] night, I think we were maybe too much so." The Indians' mind-set in Game 1 was to attack the zone against Ortiz and Ramirez. Executing that game plan was another matter altogether. "We've got to make sure what we're trying to do won't work before we abandon it," pitching coach Carl Willis said. Breaking balls baffling: Opposing pitchers are throwing Franklin Gutierrez a curve. Dozens of them, in fact. Gutierrez has batted just .143 (2-for-14) in five postseason games, in large part because of the heavy dose of breaking balls he's been fed. In the fifth inning on Friday night, Red Sox starter Josh Beckett and Gutierrez battled through an eight-pitch at-bat in which only one fastball was thrown. Gutierrez fouled it off. On a 3-2 pitch, when it seemed Beckett might have to go back to the fastball, he instead reared back and threw another curve. Gutierrez watched it go by for strike three."He's been pulling off a little bit," Wedge said of Gutierrez. "He just needs to make adjustments off that and get back to his strengths and let the ball travel a little bit." Is the young Gutierrez pressing in his first postseason? "There's no reason for him to press," Wedge said. "He just needs to go out and focus on having good at-bats and not get result-oriented. If you start looking past the ball, you're not going to take care of what you need to do to get there. Hopefully, he'll get back to that." C.C. concern? Maybe it's been the extra rest between starts. Or the over-eagerness to come through on the postseason stage. Or maybe it's just simple fatigue after logging 240 regular-season innings. Whatever the case, it's clear that Sabathia isn't living up to his own standards in the postseason. While he was able to battle through five innings in an AL Division Series start against the Yankees on a night in which he was elevating his pitches but came out with a win, Sabathia was knocked around on Friday night by a Red Sox lineup that feasted on his fastball and successfully laid off his poorly placed secondary stuff. "He's just been a little bit off," Wedge said. "Against a team like this, that plays right into their hands. They really know how to take advantage of that." Much had been made of the Indians' decision not to pitch Sabathia on three days' rest in Game 4 of the ALDS. Now, the question is whether they'd even want to pitch him in Game 4 of this series, if the season were on the line. For now, the Indians' chief concern is getting Sabathia an opportunity to pitch in a Game 5. "Hopefully, he'll have a chance to continue to make those adjustments," general manager Mark Shapiro said. Red Sox roots: Sure, he grew up in Baltimore and was accordingly a devoted Orioles fan. But few people realize that Shapiro was born in nearby Cambridge, Mass., and has distinct ties to the Red Sox organization. Shapiro's father, Ron, who went on to become a player agent, attended law school at Harvard. While still in school, he worked at least one season with the Fenway Park grounds crew and was eventually asked to run the press room upstairs. The Shapiro family moved to Baltimore when Mark was still a baby, so his baseball background began at old Memorial Stadium. But he nonetheless has a fondness for Fenway. "They've done a marvelous job enhancing it without compromising the architectural integrity of it," Shapiro said. "I've got a lot of favorite parks, but, of the older parks, this is my favorite, by far. And there's some history here for me, too." Tribe tidbits: According to a report in The Boston Globe, Keith Foulke, the man the Indians signed to be their closer last winter, only to see him retire a day before Spring Training camp opened, is planning on mounting a comeback next season. Are the Indians interested? "My attention is what's going on in-season now," Shapiro said. "When we're done playing, we'll focus on the offseason." ... Dropping the first game of the ALCS is not without precedent for the Indians. In fact, they have never taken Game 1 of the series in four chances -- 1995, 1997, 1998 and, now, 2007. The Tribe, of course, recovered in '95 and '97 to advance to the World Series. ... In 37 previous ALCS matchups, the winner of Game 1 has gone on to win the series 60 percent of the time. On deck: The Indians and Red Sox will travel to Cleveland after Saturday night's game, with a workout scheduled for Sunday afternoon at Jacobs Field. Game 3 of the ALCS takes place at 7:10 p.m. ET on Monday, with right-hander Jake Westbrook (0-1, 10.80 ERA in 2007 postseason) opposing right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka (0-0, 5.79).
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So here's the last post I made, it's super long but if you want the background there it is!
When I spoke to my husband and gave him my idea of waiting 2 weeks after our squishy is born for his parents to come up he didn't quite understand why. I explained my issues with him and the fact that I'm severely high risk now and it's my body that this baby is coming out of so I get to decide who I want to be there. I told him I don't need the stress of feeling like I need to entertain his parents for a "late Christmas" which is what his mom wants to do. He insisted I didn't need to entertain them, until I got it through his head that there is no other way to take it. Well when DH (dear husband) gets upset he likes to jump to extremes and just make everything a little over the top. So he states, "Fine we won't have them come up until Easter and we can celebrate my birthday at the same time!". At that point I just ended the conversation because it really was silly. I wasn't thinking what a gift he'd just dropped in my lap.
So yesterday when I was thinking more clearly I sent him an email telling him how glad I was that he understood how much our family needed that time after squishy is born to bond and create a routine. How happy I was that he was protecting his family from unnecessary stress. And also how much it meant to me for him to tell his parents that there would be no visiting until Easter.
I think he had only said that thinking that I would think it was unfair and ask for them to come up earlier. However, after praising him for his thought on holding off on visits till Easter he is now super proud of himself and I'm hoping that he continues this path to "DHness".
I'm especially happy after the email that MIL (mother-in-law) sent me today proclaiming she would text me on one of my days off to remind me to email her the latest u/s picture because and I quote, " I will text you to remind you to send me those pics of the girls and Xander - EVERYONE has gotten to see him 'cept us ".
Entitlement will get you no where with me!