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At The Hotel Hacienda you'll encounter a friendly staff that makes your comfort is their number one concern. Intimate but spacious, the hotel has 7 tastefully decorated bedrooms, each with it's own motief, all with large ensuite bathrooms. Enjoy tea and coffee at the kitchen and a made-to-order continental breakfast when you wake to the magnificent sun-rise over the bay. Enjoy the endless landscapes, world renowned fishing on the Sea of Cortez, Scuba Diving, Snorkeling, Hiking, Kayaking, Swimming, Biking in one of the most peaceful and beautiful place on earth.
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Drake's Lyrics Get Parodied in 'S— Drake Says' Video
The latest viral trend of "S— Says" videos have created a host of spin-offs. While some of them don't quite hit the mark, they are a few that will make you chuckle. One video that caught our eye is the 'S— Drake Says' clip, which pokes fun at rap superstar Drake.
In the video, Drake's lyrics are parodied into everyday conversational settings. Lyrics from 'Forever,' 'Best I Ever Had,' 'Headlines,' 'Marvin's Room,' 'Find Your Love,' 'Proud of You,' 'Take Care' and his latest hit, 'The Motto' are used to hilarious effect. Even Drake's flickering hand is exaggerated in the clip.
The only quibble we have with the video is the guy who is playing Drake doesn't really embodied the character. For example, Drizzy doesn't wear shades or a beanie. But props to 21-year-old comedian Yousef Erakat for coming up with a funny idea. We are quite sure there will be more Drake parody videos done by others in the coming weeks.
We still can't forget Affion Crockett's dead-on impression of Drake in his 'Headlines' video parody. Most recently, the igneous folks at Ego Trip posted their hilarious 'Imagine' video featuring Drizzy and Common settling their beef and hanging out with each other.
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Indian culture in Shrewsbury and Westborough expands
At the multiplex on Route 9 in Westborough, it's a rare day when a Bollywood movie, in Hindi with English subtitles, isn't playing. The concession stand serves samosas and chai alongside tubs of popcorn.
A few miles west in Shrewsbury, Patel Brothers is so popular that owners of the Indian grocery store had to move one of its entrances farther from Route 9.
And this summer, Shrewsbury had its first full cricket season, on a new pitch built on town land with private donations. So many children signed up for a summer clinic that some had to be turned away.
More than 5,000 Indian Americans have settled in the neighboring towns, forming one of the largest Indian populations in the state, and transforming the area into a fulcrum of Indian culture and commerce.
"So many small businesses are popping up, especially Patel Brothers,'' said Rithika Kulathila, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Boston who lives in Shrewsbury. "Whenever you see a Patel Brothers, you know there's a lot of South Asians.''
The India Society of Worcester, created in 1963 to help stave off homesickness for students living in an area then devoid of their Indian culture, has built a large center in Shrewsbury and now has more than 1,000 members, including many who were born in the United States.
Dr. Sahdev Passey, a former India Society president, came to the area in 1973 as a resident at the now-closed Worcester City Hospital.
"There was no Indian restaurant,'' Passey said. "There was nothing you could buy or do in the Worcester area that was related to India.''
And yet, many of the young doctors were Indian, he said. Because Worcester City Hospital and St. Vincent Hospital, also in Worcester, were not university hospitals, Passey said, few American doctors applied for residencies there. Of the 30 spots available for interns and residents the year he arrived, Passey said, more than 90 percent were filled with international medical school graduates, and most were from India.
Like Passey and his peers, many Indians moved to the towns near Worcester in the 1960s and '70s for jobs in medicine and teaching. The tech boom brought more Indian immigrants in the 1980s. Many Indian families settled in Shrewsbury for its proximity to Route 128 and its schools.
And the growth has continued. Between 2000 and 2010, the number of Indians statewide increased by 76 percent, according to the US Census; Westborough's Indian population rose 192 percent and Shrewsbury's 173 percent.
Shrewsbury, with 3,137 Indians, or nearly 9 percent of its population, ranks third in the state, after Boston and Cambridge. Westborough ranks seventh in the state, with 2,160 Indians, or almost 12 percent of its population. (These numbers include only Indian Americans who report a single ethnicity.)
"They're attracted for a lot of the reasons that other people are attracted to this region,'' said Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass Boston. "High tech, universities, biomedicine — all of those things are factors in attracting people from these populations.''
Indian businesses began to spring up, including a salon for women. Restaurateurs who had successfully opened one Indian restaurant are opening others, Passey said.
A few years ago, Saqib Syed and Fazal Alam, Shrewsbury residents and former cricket players, wanted to introduce local Indian children to a game many had only seen on television. They talked to town officials, who agreed they could use a town softball field.
But the field wasn't the right size for cricket, which is similar to baseball, but played on a rectangular, 22-yard-long pitch. Syed raised money to build a proper pitch, and this year the field had its first full season.
More Indian restaurants have opened in the area over the last few years, including Khatta Mitha and Ming III, side-by-side Westborough restaurants serving different styles of Indian food that opened by the same family in 2010, and Mayuri Indian Cuisine, which opened this spring in Westborough.
Sailaja Maddali opened her takeout restaurant, Mommy's Home Kitchen, in Shrewsbury in August 2010. She had first started a catering service in her home that was so popular she and her husband began looking for retail space. Now she does a steady business from a kitchen on Route 9, beside Tacos Acapulco.
Kulathila, whose mother is Indian and whose father is Sri Lankan, moved with her family from New Jersey to Shrewsbury in 2004.
Even in the past eight years, she has seen a growth in local Indian businesses, including the opening of Patel Brothers, the country's largest Indian grocery store chain.
"Patel Brothers is just crazy,'' she said. "There's always people coming in and out. People had to park in the Borders parking lot.''
To Kulathila, another sign of the growing community is Usha Beauty Salon & Facial Spa – an Indian salon on Route 9 in Shrewsbury.
Kulathila is working to get more Indians involved in politics: "I know, politics, the uncharted field that our generation has yet to conquer,'' she wrote in an essay for the India Society website.
Watanabe says he doesn't know of any Indian Americans who have been elected to the state Legislature, although some have served in Massachusetts as city councilors and selectmen. The reasons for the lack of representation, he said, have more to do with the state's political structure than any immigrant group.
"You could ask this about almost any group except white or males in Massachusetts,'' he said. "It's nothing particular to South Asians. It has to do with a lot of things, including the power of incumbency in the state.''
Even in Shrewsbury and Westborough, Indians are not running for local office. Passey believes this is because many Indian parents traditionally encouraged their children to seek jobs in medicine or engineering. But he thinks that has begun to change.
"We don't have much of a political presence in Massachusetts,'' Passey said. "I have a hope that within the next five to 10 years, we will have people running for election.''


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President Barack Obama thanked supporters Sunday as he urged Americans to come together to take action that will pay tribute to the nation's history and its future.
"All of you here understood and were committed to the basic notion that when we put our shoulders to the wheel of history, it moves. It moves forward," he said at a reception at the National Building Museum, his final public event before Monday's inaugural festivities.
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The remarks came after that a day that began with formal oaths of office for Obama and Biden. The president was officially sworn in to a second term at a private event at the White House on Sunday, with Chief Justice John Roberts administering the oath of office. The ceremonial Inauguration will take place Monday.
His right hand held high, Obama recited the 35-word oath and officially launched the second four years of his presidency. He was joined by the first lady and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, in the Blue Room, which overlooks the South Lawn.
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"I want all of you to know that even as we celebrate over the next couple of days — and feel free to stay up as late as you want, tomorrow's not a school night — … make sure that you know that what we're celebrating is not the election or swearing in of a president," he said. "What we're doing is celebrating each other and celebrating this incredible nation that we call home. And after we celebrate, let's make sure we work as hard as we can to pass on an America that is worthy not only of our past but of our future."
First lady Michelle Obama sounded a similar note as she introduced her husband, telling the crowd to enjoy the weekend but to keep in mind " the opportunities we have to make a real difference in peoples' lives."
"Keep pushing forward," she added, echoing the 2012 Obama campaign slogan.
The president kept his remarks brief, noting that he has another speech to give on Monday and "there are a limited amount of good lines and you don't want to use them all up tonight."
The president was joined onstage by first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and second lady Dr. Jill Biden, who all spoke before him. His speech was followed by a performance from Stevie Wonder.
"Whenever I think about the challenges that Joe and I — and Jill and Michelle — face, we know that we stand amongst friends and colleagues and fellow citizens and that the work is not just ours, that we are working together," Obama said. "So I just want to say thank you, thank you very much, thank you."
Speaking before the president, the vice president listed a string of first-term accomplishments and then assured the crowd: "I want you to know something else about this guy, Barack Obama. He's just getting started."


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What would you do if you were shipwrecked on a Caribbean island frequented by cannibals, all on your lonesome except for the captain's dog and two cats? Well, if you were Robinson Crusoe this would not be a hypothetical question, and you would dry grapes into raisins and hunt with handcrafted tools until you were rescued decades later. But in John Rush's awesome Economic Principles & Problems class, our man Crusoe has much to teach us about the "utility function" that is the bread and butter of economic theory.
Okay, in case you're just catching wind of this, John Rush is Marlboro's new economics professor, joining us from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (so he has some tips to share on island survival), where he received his doctoral degree. According to John, economics is all about "choices," and how we make choices to maximize our good friend the utility function. What is it worth to us to eat mac-n-cheese every day, for example? To sled down library hill on a dining hall tray? To hang out with friends and watch Game of Thrones? None of these things are options if you are shipwrecked, of course. However, Robinson Crusoe made many other choices—like, should he kill the marauding cannibals who don't know they are committing an abomination?—and John's class is reading this timeless classic to get at the heart of economics.
But the real economic question on everyone's mind is whether John Rush and recent Marlboro graduate Patrick Magee '14 are twins separated at birth. I mean, not only is there a marked similarity between the two gentlemen, they are both economics scholars with uncanny knowledge about things like resources and actors and scarcities and market equilibriums and the like. Sure, Patrick's Plan was about the impact of U.S. agricultural policy on small farms, and John's work has focused on natural disasters and inequality in developing countries, but they are both unusually kind and sensibly dressed. I wonder if they both include mac-n-cheese in their utility function?


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Durant mum on move to D.C. | Report: Suns, Bledsoe nearing 'irreparable' relationship | Parker glad he took summer off
No. 1: Durant praises LeBron's move, stays mum on own future — With LeBron James returning to his hometown of Cleveland over the summer, there's been some buzz in the NBA world about whether or not Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant will pull a similar move come 2016. Durant will become an unrestricted free agent that summer and there's hope among some in his hometown of Washington, D.C., that he'll perhaps sign with the Wizards. ESPNLosAngeles.com's Ramona Shelburne caught up with Durant during Team USA's practice in Las Vegas:
Kevin Durant made a point not to ask his friend LeBron James any questions. He gets enough of those already. Besides, James answered just about every question asked of him with the letter he penned in Sports Illustrated, in which he explained his decision to leave the Miami Heat and come home to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
But Durant did reach out to congratulate James soon after he announced his decision.
"I thought it was well-thought-out. It was classy. It was a great move to do it as a letter," Durant said after a training camp session with USA Basketball on Tuesday. "That was pretty cool. It's funny seeing guys think about more than just basketball for once. He thought about the city where he comes from, about Northeast Ohio and how he can affect so many of the kids just being there playing basketball. I love that. So many guys get criticized for making the decision that's best for them, instead of what's best for everybody else. He's a guy that did that. You gotta respect that. I applauded him, I texted him and told him congratulations on the decision and told him I was happy for him. As a fan of the game, it's going to be pretty cool to see him back in Cleveland."
Asked Tuesday if he might make a similar homecoming when he can become a free agent in two years, Durant said that was too far in the future to discuss in a serious way right now.
"I'm going to do what's best for me," Durant said. "It's hard to talk about that right now when I've got two years left in Oklahoma City. I'm just going to focus on that. I'm not going to make a decision based on what anybody else does. I grew up watching the Bullets/Wizards. I grew up taking the train to that arena, all the time, to watch Georgetown, the Bullets, the Washington Mystics. That whole city is a part of me. It's in my blood. I love going back home, seeing my family and playing there, but I love Oklahoma City too."
Still, the speculation is hard to escape. Durant said he went home this summer for a family reunion but didn't go out much. Asked if that was because he's constantly asked about coming back to the D.C. area someday, Durant smiled and laughed.
"Look, we going to put it out on tape," Durant said. "It's been talked about. Everybody's asked me about it every time I go on Instagram or Twitter. All my friends ask me about it. So I'm not going to sit here and act like I'm naïve to the fact that people think about that stuff. But I just tell everybody that I'm here in Oklahoma City, [and] I love it here. Who knows what will happen? I never close the door on anything. But I like where I'm at right now, so I can't answer that question."
No. 2: Report: Relationship between Suns, Bledsoe nearly 'irrepairable' — If you missed it yesterday, our Jeff Caplan spelled out some of the issues that might be keeping the Phoenix Suns and rising star guard Eric Bledsoe from agreeing to a contract. According to Chris Haynes of CSNNW.com, the relationship between Bledsoe and the team might be deteriorating fast as the two have trouble ironing out a deal:
According to league sources, an "ominous development" has arisen with sides still "very far apart" in contract negotiations. It has even escalated to the point where the "relationship is on the express lane to being ruined," a source with knowledge of the situation informed CSNNW.com.
The Suns offered Bledsoe a four-year, $48 million deal with declining salaries each year, two sources said. That proposal was quickly turned down. Bledsoe's camp is putting a max price tag on the player Suns Head Coach Jeff Hornacek called "a Top-10 player in the NBA in coming years", another source said.
Phoenix has made it known publicly and repeatedly that they intend to match any offer sheets competitors issue out to Bledsoe. This tactic has succeeded in scaring away any potential suitors so far. However, the effort by the Suns to undermine Bledsoe's market is what has angered Bledsoe and his reps and led to a standoff in which the relationship is now on the verge of being irreparable, we're told.
Other teams that are/were in the process of dealing with their own restricted free agents (Utah, Detroit, Houston) chose not to use the public scare tactics this summer, another factor that has Bledsoe feeling chilly at the thought of a return to the desert, a source said.
No. 3: Parker glad he took summer off — Much like his San Antonio teammate Manu Ginobili, Spurs guard Tony Parker has more often than not had busy offseasons participating in international basketball with his home country of France. But like Ginobili — who was recently advised by the Spurs to not participate in the FIBA World Cup — Parker took the summer off and also won't be in the FIBA World Cup this summer. The time off has been just what Parker hoped it would be, writes Dan McCarney of the San Antonio Express-News:
It is Tony Parker's first full summer off in four years, and he is taking full advantage.
The six-time All-Star recently returned to San Antonio from a jaunt to Las Vegas. He's got another trip planned to an undisclosed destination with his fiancee and infant son Josh, followed by a visit to France before the Spurs begin training camp in October.
"It's great," he said Tuesday during his appearance at the Spurs' summer basketball youth camp. "I'm enjoying every moment, having a lot of fun."
But there's also a bittersweet twinge, knowing that France has begun preparations for the upcoming FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain without their captain, who begged off international duties for the first time since 2010. Parker played a total of 27 games for France over the previous three summers, including last year's championship at EuroBasket 2013 for his country's first major title.
So as much as Parker would love to be with Les Bleus getting ready for the World Cup, he's more than happy to have some time off.
"Obviously it's always tough to see my teammates start without me," he said. "It feels like my second family is playing right now. But I have to be smart. I think it's the right decision for me, for the Spurs if I want to play a long career. I want to play two more summers (with France) and then I'll be done.
"I think for all those years, being with San Antonio, (Spurs coach Gregg Popovich) has always been great with me and the national team. I felt like this was a summer I can give back to the Spurs."
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: Dan LeBatard's radio program tried to buy a LeBron-bashing ad in The Plain Dealer … It's likely we'll see Cavs vs. Heat on Christmas Day … The Mavs may end up signing Rashard Lewis after his knee surgery is done … Metta World Peace could be closing in on a deal with the Chinese Basketball Association … Ex-Pistons reserve guard Peyton Siva will sign an unguaranteed contract with the Magic … Hawks forward Mike Scott might be closing in on a deal with CSKA Moscow … Former Knicks star Earl Monroe thinks New York can be a top-four team in the East this season … Arron Afflalo hopes to take on a leadership role with the Nuggets this season


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Jackson responded with "It makes a lot of sense."
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RapDevPro necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 66 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
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UPDATE (Sat, 9/26, 9pm California, USA time): Thanks everyone. We have some really good candidates now. BUT, I do want to let any current and prospective competitors now that this contest is still WIDE OPEN. I like that we now have some compelling Rickshaw-inspired logos. But we truly welcome other interpretations! What else communicates auto repair and Japan? What else about Japan? Maybe Mt. Fuji. Maybe a sense of quality. Maybe sushi? Who knows? Whatever?
This is the first time this logo has been reimagined in nearly 30 years and we're open to new ideas! Thanks again ... we really do appreciate it!
UPDATE: I really want to see someone replicate the old logo (linked to in a comment) as a starting point. That doesn't mean that that's gong to win, but doing just that will put you in the lead (as of now with 3+ days to go).
Japanese Auto Center is located in Southern California and is for anyone needing auto repair (i.e., just about anyone). Family owned and operated for over 25 years, this is the auto-repair shop we all wish we had close by. Honest, efficient, a great value, and run by a fun-loving red-haired Irish guy. Irish doing Japanese; who knew?! But actually, they work on any car these days ... they started with a focus on Japanese but expanded over the years as their work and reputation expanded.
Anyone needing auto repair.
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Client has a sense of humor and likes a whimsical, playful style. Hence the fun "rickshaw-like" old logo. We'd like to see some takes with the rickshaw as it is in the old logo, but also welcome entirely new takes.
You may notice "APJ" on the shirt in the old logo. That stands for Auto Parts of Japan and can be ignored when designing the new logo.
For what it's worth, the company is located in Southern California in the Torrance, Los Angeles area.
We want the resulting logo to look good across a variety of mediums such as print material, the web, and t-shirts & hats.
There really is no "brand" per-se for the company now; this logo and font chosen for "Japanese Auto Center" will set the groundwork for brand and will influence a website redesign which is planned.
Will want resultant design in vector format and also rendered in different-sized png's / jpg's; will also want versions rendered that just have the graphical element and that just have the textual element.
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Porn advertised on a forum that is supposed to be devoted to the abolition of spam, junk mail and porn.
I would think the WebMaster should take a lesson on his own subject.
Not only that...it has been on the board for 11 hours. It should have been taken down in minutes.
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Churches of Bon Homme County, Dakota
Territory: A Varicolored Tunic
By Maxine Schuurmans Kinsley
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota, 2005, 142 pages, softcover
The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection is pleased to publish this most important work of Maxine Schuurmans Kinsley, Springfield, South Dakota. Kinsley's work presents a valuable contribution to the historical publications of the era of Dakota Territory especially relating to the importance of churches and religion in southeastern South Dakota. Bon Homme County is important in the history and culture of the first Germans from Russia settlements in Dakota Territory.
The Dedication by the author reads: "I dedicate this endeavor to the Czech, Dutch, and German ancestors whose legacy my children and I share. Their courage and faith sustained them on this capricious prairie, as ours must today."
This new history of southeastern South Dakota focuses on the ethnic backgrounds of immigrants in Bon Homme County and particularly the churches the newcomers established at first opportunity.
Prairie Churches of Bon Homme County, Dakota Territory; a Varicolored Tunic presents a well-illustrated detailed description of sixty pioneer churches in fourteen denominations which once flourished in the county. The text is complemented by a fourteen-page detailed index which lists titles, places, names, and surnames sure to be helpful in genealogical research.
Bon Homme County historian Maxine Schuurmans Kinsley became "hooked" on the subject while researching abandoned and isolated cemeteries which once lay alongside rural churches. A retired librarian, Kinsley continues to indulge in her hobby of writing local history.
Kinsley notes that the first settlers in Bon Homme County included American English, Germans, and Irish from the East, some of whom were Civil War Veterans. They established English-speaking church societies, both Protestant and Catholic, near Bon Homme Village, Springfield, Running Water and Scotland.
However, the majority of church societies were founded in the 1870s by Germans from Russia with Reformed, Congregational, Baptist, and Lutheran backgrounds. During that decade, Czech immigrants brought to the prairie their Old-Country Catholic and Evangelical faiths as did Norwegians their Lutheran Church and the Dutch their Reformed.
Of the once many pioneer rural churches, only three remain, all with German heritage: Danzig Baptist Church northeast of Avon, Freidensberg Mennonite Church (now Bible Church) south of Avon, and the Hutterite Colony Anabaptist Church in southeast Bon Homme County.
Pioneer missionaries in every denomination helped to organize churches. Among them were Episcopalian Bishops Wm. Hobart Hare and Melanchton Hoyt and Catholic Bishop Martin Marty. The Catholic Church survived, the Episcopalian did not. Others that disappeared were the German Reformed, once numerous, and the German Evangelical Church. Mergers between churches and even denominations became necessary, both because of scarcity of pastors and cost of supporting church and salary.
Kinsley admits that her research is incomplete, that it sometimes depends on faulty records and hearsay information. However, it also has raised perplexing questions that, she hopes, someone, someday may be able to answer.
Yankton Sioux Indian Agency at Greenwood, Charles Mix County. From Kingsbury, History of Dakota Territory.
Tyndall Congregational Church, sold to Baptists in 1926.
St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church Today.
First St. Wensceslaus Catholic Church, Tabor.
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IBM reported its earnings for the third quarter of 2012 yesterday, with its net income growing to $3.8 billion, nearly flat year-over-year, and its revenues shrinking 5% to $24.7 billion. Most of the decline in revenue growth can be attributed to the economic slowdown in Europe and other parts of the world.
Virginia Rometty, IBM chairman, president and CEO, said:
"In the third quarter, we continued to drive margin, profit and earnings growth through our focus on higher-value businesses, strategic growth initiatives and productivity.
Looking ahead, we see good opportunity with a strong product lineup heading into this quarter and annuity businesses that provide a solid base of revenue, profit and cash. We are reiterating our full-year 2012 operating earnings per share expectation of at least $15.10."
IBM makes money primarily from three segments — services, software and hardware. Its technology services revenue declined 4% to $9.9 billion while business services revenue declined 6% to $4.5 billion.
Software revenue declined marginally to $5.8 billion, while hardware revenue totaled $3.9 billion, down 13% year-over-year. The global financing segment contributed $472 million to its top line.
IBM's cash and cash equivalents grew to almost $12 billion this quarter.
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Buddy Morrow, a trombonist who carried on the tradition of big-band greats by leading the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra for decades, has died. He was 91.
Morrow, whose career spanned more than 75 years, died Sept. 27 at his longtime home in Maitland, Fla., his family said.
In 1977, Morrow was mulling retirement when he was asked to lead the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, which had continued after Dorsey's death in 1956. Morrow agreed to fill in temporarily.
After two weeks, "I realized that this was what I wanted to do," Morrow told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 1995. "So I called the agent and said, 'Don't look for anyone else, I'm keeping it!' "
He last appeared with the orchestra Sept. 24 in Ormond Beach, Fla. Although he needed to be helped onstage, he played his classic trombone solo on "Night Train," a catchy R&B-influenced interpretation of the song that was a hit for him in 1952.
In the late 1930s, swing-era bandleader Bunny Berigan heard a teenage Morrow sitting in on a jam session in New York and persuaded him to join the Artie Shaw Orchestra.
Morrow went on to play in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in 1938 and was featured in bands led by Eddy Duchin, Paul Whiteman and others.
In 1950, Morrow formed his own orchestra, which often had success by giving an R&B twist to older standards. The band's hits included "One Mint Julep" and "Hey Mrs. Jones."
Morrow was born Muni Zudekoff on Feb. 8, 1919, in New Haven, Conn., to immigrants from Poland and Russia. The fifth of six children in a musical family, he ended up learning trombone at age 12 because an older brother had already claimed the trumpet.
Within a year, Morrow was performing in local dance bands, and by 15 he was playing at college dances and parties with the Yale Collegians.
After moving to New York City, he accompanied a roommate to an audition at the Juilliard School and was mistakenly asked to try out. Caught unprepared, he played from memory difficult passages from "Arban's Famous Method for Trombone," considered a bible of sorts for trombone players, said Terry Myers, a friend and musician.
Juilliard offered him a full scholarship when he was 16, and he attended the school for a year before he was recruited for the Artie Shaw Orchestra.
In the early 1940s, he served in the U.S. Navy musicians unit and adopted the name Buddy Morrow.
"I was stateside during World War II, working as a 'morale booster,' they called us," he told the Democrat-Gazette. "We did dances practically every night."
After the war, he joined the Jimmy Dorsey Band — run by Tommy Dorsey's brother — and filled in for the conductor when he fell ill.
In the 1960s, Morrow regularly performed with NBC's "The Tonight Show" and was a studio musician for much of the 1960s and 1970s.
Of the big-band music that long dominated his life, Morrow told the Elmira, N.Y., Star-Gazette in 2001: "It's still very much a part of Americana and what we export to the world. It was developed here, and it will be here long after you and I are gone."
Morrow is survived by Carol, his wife of 40 years; two daughters, Sara Morrow of Los Angeles and Catherine Morrow-Miller of Atlanta; a son, Peter Morrow, of Hillsdale, N.J.; and three grandchildren.


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2012 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up
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The 2012 Summer School will feature a series of lectures on electron transport in Nanotransistors, combined with lectures and hands-on tutorials using the NEMO5 nanoelectronic modeling software. Another set of lectures will show researchers, educators, and students how to take advantage of the nanoHUB.org, a cyberinfrastructure for science.
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NCN's Electronics from the Bottom Up (EBU) is an innovative educational initiative co-sponsored by Intel, NCN, and Purdue University – to introduce students to new ways of thinking about electronic materials and devices. New concepts and approaches, emerging from current research on nanoscience, are applied to non- equilibrium problems like nanoscale transistors, energy conversion devices and bio-sensors. Lectures are designed to be broadly accessible to students with a BS in engineering, physics, and chemistry. The goal is to provide students with a deeper understanding of how structures at the atomistic and nanoscale affect performance at the micro and macrosopic scales. EBU shows students how a broad understanding of fundamental concepts helps understand cutting edge research in nanoscience and technology.
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"Electronics from the Bottom Up" is an educational initiative designed to bring a new perspective to the field of nano device engineering. It is co-sponsored by the Intel Foundation and the Network for Computational Nanotechnology.
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An Overlap Between Art and Design: The Home Studio of Andrew Neyer
It's easy to notice the charm, wit, and sly playfulness behind the work of Andrew Neyer -- so it's no surprise that his signature aesthetic should also make an appearance in his Cincinnati-based home office. Take a tour of the designer, art director, and illustrator's bright, inspired space, a combination of clean lines, pops of color, attitude, and, quite fittingly, seating by Charles and Ray Eames.
Tell us about your background.
As a kid I grew up drawing logos, cartoons, and Nintendo game characters with my older brother, Brad. I was always more attracted to simple graphics. Along with drawing I was always taking something apart and trying to rebuild it or re-purpose scrap components for something else. Every day I was making some type of Rube Goldberg machine or drawing in my sketch pad (an 18″ x 24″ spiral bound).
I got my BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. I moved back to Cincinnati after graduating and got married to my wife Jennifer. We considered moving somewhere else, but made the choice to stay and invest in the city and continue to grow the amazing friendships we had here.
What year was your studio established?
I started doing freelance work during college, but I would say I really began right after I graduated in 2008. While doing freelance I also worked for about three years as a Display Artist for Urban Outfitters. It was a good job out of school for me and I got to travel to help with displays for new store openings around the country. While working there, I was able to really figure out the type of freelance work I wanted to be doing and never had to take a job I didn't want just for money. Once the timing was right, I made the switch to full-time freelance in October of 2011. Now I am able to balance my time between my freelance and personal work a lot better.
What are you passionate about, what inspires you, and where are you going?
I like art, but I love my family and friends.
Most of my inspiration comes from word puns, strange human interactions, and the overlap between Art and Design. Some of my favorite artists include Henri Matisse, Charley Harper, Saul Steinberg, M.C. Escher, Paul Rand, René Magritte, and Josef Albers.
I have always wanted to build our own house. I love the concept of the Eames House, Case Study House #8, and the environment it created for their work.
Tell us about your space.
Any special considerations that influenced its set up? The studio is the top floor of our house. I used to have my studio downtown, but after we moved we compressed our residence onto just the first floor to allow for a studio to be combined. The setup is great because I have all my workspaces on one floor.
There is a main studio where I make most of my work, a workshop with all my tools and materials, a music room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. The space is very efficient. I can walk downstairs at any time to see my family, eat a snack, hang out, and head back upstairs to work. The idea of the home studio is extremely appealing and I would love to have it also function as a guest house for friends and other artists.
You have a few pieces by Charles and Ray Eames in your office. Why did you choose them?
They are just as nice to look at as they are to sit in. Every line is so simple and beautiful. They are easily the best chairs we own.
(Images: Andrew Neyer)
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Monday, May 13, 2013
The Case for Extending Jose Altuve
Rizzo will be 24 years old in August, and he has accrued 680 PAs in the Majors, hitting .253/.331/.454 in those PAs, but is hitting .280/.352/.538 in 37 games for the Cubs at 1B. Yet that is enough to lock up Rizzo to a long-term deal.
Tampa Bay signed Evan Longoria to a 6yr/$17.5m deal on April 18, 2008 (this contract has since been extended to 15yrs/$144.5m). He had been in the Majors for six days. Now, Altuve is obviously not Evan Longoria, but we're in an era in baseball where, if you have young talent, you lock that talent up
Jose Altuve, on the other hand, just turned 23 years old. He has played in 241 games, logging 1030 PAs, and is hitting .294/.336/.397 at second base, a more premium position than first base. Altuve is about the only player anyone on a national scale knows. Well, in a positive light, anyway.
Looking at Altuve's similarity scores on his Baseball-Reference page, the player most similar to Altuve through their Age 22 season is Rod Carew. Hall of Famer Rod Carew. Rod Carew. Carew. Also on the list of similar batters through their Age 22 season is Steve Sax, Pete Rose, and Lou Whitaker. But...Rod Carew.
Altuve debuted in 2011 and hit .276/.297/.357 in 57 games. He walked five times in 234 plate appearances - a 2.1% walk rate. In 2012 Altuve was the Astros' lone All-Star (a feat likely to be repeated in 2013 - but that's a rant for two months from now), hitting .290/.340/.399 and walking 40 times in 576 plate appearances - a 6.9% walk rate. This isn't great, but it's better. So far in 2013, Altuve is tied for 3rd in the Majors in hits, with 51.
Last year, Altuve hit .264/.317/.360 off RHPs. This year he's hitting .318/.350/.402. (He's pretty much always killed LHPs). He is chasing - right now, anyway - more pitches out of the zone: 32.3% in 2013 compared to 29.4%, but fewer pitches are being thrown in the strike zone to him. Point is, Altuve is only getting better.
Signing Altuve to a long-term deal would appeal to the fanbase. Crane and Luhnow have been saying that they'll spend money when the time is right. The Astros have a 23-year old among the best second basemen in the game. There are five 2Bs with a higher OPS than Altuve in 2013: Robinson Cano, Ian Kinsler, Chase Utley, Kelly Johnson, and Dustin Pedroia. Dustin Pedroia is 29. Robinson Cano and Ian Kinsler are 30. Kelly Johnson is 31. Chase Utley is 34, and his knees are at least twice that old. Altuve is hanging with the game's best at his position, and just turned 23.
You could make a strong case (and we have before) that Altuve is exactly what the Astros are looking for: Young, cheap, and under team-control for a long time. He won't be arbitration-eligible until the 2015 season and won't be a free agent until following the 2017 season. But if he continues to get better, he'll be coming off his 25-year old season going into arbitration, and those can be some expensive one-year contracts.
So if the Astros let it play out, they'll get the 2014 season for around $500,000, and then three years of arbitration starts. At that point, the Astros could be looking at buying out a multi-year All-Star, potential Silver Slugger, potential MVP candidate (not that I think he'll be an MVP on a 65-win team, but I could see him getting votes), one year at a time. If the Astros give Altuve, say, a 6-year deal at $40m, they buy out his prime years, and he'd only be 29 when he became a free agent, at which point they could let him walk, or wait a couple of years and renegotiate his contract a la Evan Longoria.
Making a long-term commitment, and putting to bed the whispers (they don't even qualify as rumors) that they might move Altuve at some point would settle down not only the fans - because at least it shows they're willing to commit to something at the Major League level - but the national media, as well. I think the National Media, when it comes to the Astros, is lazy and just looking for the Easy Joke. But, like it or not, they dictate how a lot of fans view the Astros. Signing Altuve to a long-term deal would ease the fast/furious criticisms of the direction of the organization. And who knows, it might just save them some money.
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hahahaha. they gonna trade him after his first or second arb year. we are now the marlins. this is our future.
- May 13, 2013 at 6:01 PM
- Trevor Harris said...
Couldn't agree more with this piece. Whether it is this offseason or during the next season, I would be surprised to see 'tuve not extended. He is a special kind of ball player that is a great identity for this team. I hope he is around for years because he has the chance to be someone great.
- May 13, 2013 at 6:06 PM
He's an outstanding player but I wonder what could the Astros get back for him and Norris if they would be traded like I said I just wonder? What do you think?
- May 13, 2013 at 7:13 PM
Mm Naah. Nope. I'll pass. It just makes too much Goddamn sense.
- May 13, 2013 at 8:50 PM
- Seth said...
People who wonder what Altuve would bring back would have traded Bagwell and Biggio in the early 90s. You're all crazy. You're all prospect worshipers.
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As we get ready to prepare for the big feast this Thursday (by the way, LACMA is closed on Thanksgiving Day but open normal hours on Friday) it's interesting to note what foods were served at the original feast in 1621 between the Plymouth colony and the Wampanoag tribe.
Using images from the departments of LACMA's permanent collection, here's a pictorial look at what would (and would not) have been eaten in Plymouth almost four hundred years ago:
George Fuller, Girl with Turkeys, circa 1883-1884, gift of William T. Cresmer
Pablo Picasso, The Turkey, 1936, gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Wild turkeys were abundant in the area, but they may not have been the focus of the meal. Other types of poultry were also caught and served . . .
Korea, Lidded Ewer with Willows, Reeds, and Waterfowl, Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), 13th-14th century, Anonymous gift
In addition to poultry, venison was also served as one of the main courses.
China, Kneeling Deer, Tang dynasty, 618-906, gift of Carl Holmes
Living off the East Coast, seafood was definitely a main food staple! Fish, lobster, shellfish, and other bounty caught from the ocean were also a part of the main meal.
Republic of the Fiji Islands, Breast Ornament (civa vonovono), circa 1850, whale ivory, pearl shell, and fiber, purchased with funds provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation with additional funding by Jane and Terry Semel, the David Bohnett Foundation, Camilla Chandler Frost, Gayle and Edward P. Roski and The Ahmanson Foundation
These are just a sampling of the vegetables and nuts that would have been included at the Thanksgiving table.
Japan, Okimono in the Form of a Rat on a Corn Cob, late 19th century, gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman
Mexico, Colima, Squash Vessel, 200 B.C. - A.D. 500, The Proctor Stafford Collection, purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch
William Merritt Chase, Just Onions (Onions; Still Life), 1912, Signed lower left: WM. M. Chase, Mary D. Keeler Bequest Egypt
These are just a sampling of the vegetables and nuts that would have been included at the Thanksgiving table. But take a look what wouldn't have been served because potatoes didn't become popular in North America until the 1700s after colonists had brought them over from Europe, which explorers had brought back from South America.
Cranberries may have been present in the North America around 1621, but there was no written records found to prove that they were served at the meal.
Harold Edgerton, Cranberry Juice into Milk, 1960, printed 1985, gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
All of us at LACMA wish you a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday!
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Sarah here! How'd your week go? Mine was nuts and insane. I'm part of my local girl scout troop and they adore putting me to work. In case you didn't know, this year marks the 100-year-anniversary of Girl Scouts. Can you imagine? 100 years? So, they're hosting a week-long event in Washington, DC. Four out of eight of the juniors in our troop are going. $4000 for them to go (including their parents), and that's with hiring a charter bus. :O CRAZY. So, we're hosting fundraisers and the like. I've been helping.
Anyways, there's a point to that tangent. I figured, since I've been doing SO much with Girl Scouts (and NOW Boy Scouts because of my son), I'd share one of my go-to products, created by our own Connie Prince.
Perfect, right? I use it SO often. Well, okay, now onto the news around Gingerscraps!!
Discussions of the Hunger Games have started!! There are separate threads for Books 2 & 3 (Girl on Fire & Mockingjay), so you won't get spoiled if you haven't read Books 2 & 3. Come join us!! Give us your opinion on the books, the characters, the author. All that good stuff!!
ChristinaP wants to know if anyone is watching Survivor. I'm not personally, but if you are, join in with the chat. 😀
ChristinaP also found a thread on another Facebook saying "Digi isn't real". Several members really didn't like hearing (well, reading that). What's your opinion? What do you think of Digi? Hopefully if you're reading this, you believe it's real, and a lot of fun!!
It's been a pretty quiet week all around. Now, it's WAY late for me (lost an hour to Daylight Savings Time!! Did you?), and I'm hungry, so I'm going to just say "Ciao" and see you next week!!


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Harry Eisen, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who founded Norco Ranch Inc. in western Riverside County in the 1950s and built it into one of the state's leading egg producers, processors and distributors, has died. He was 95.
Eisen died July 19 of complications of lung disease at his home in Beverly Hills, said his daughter, Frances Miller.
When Eisen and his Polish-born wife, Hilda, immigrated to Los Angeles in 1948, they had no money and spoke no English.
Eisen had managed a sausage factory and three outlets in Warsaw before World War II, but with his lack of English he could only get a job cleaning out meat barrels in a hot-dog factory in Vernon.
But after saving money to buy his first 100 chickens, he launched a backyard operation in Arcadia and peddled the eggs in his neighborhood.
Language was no barrier for launching his new business. As Eisen jokingly told the Riverside Press-Enterprise in 1993: "I talked Jewish to my chickens and they laid eggs."
The Eisens moved their growing operation to Norco in the 1950s.
In 2000, when Eisen sold Norco Ranch Inc. to Missouri-based Moark, it had a staff of about 450 people and a list of major customers that included the Ralphs division of Kroger, the Vons division of Safeway, Albertson's, Costco, Trader Joe's and Jack-in-the-Box.
"It's the American dream," former Norco City Councilman Steve Nathan, an Eisen family friend, told the Press-Enterprise at the time of the sale. "He started small with a bunch of chickens, he worked hard and became a multimillionaire."
Eisen was born May 15, 1917, in Izbica Kujawska, a small village in Poland. He left home at 13 and got a job in a Warsaw sausage factory.
Drafted into the Polish cavalry before World War II, he was captured during the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and ultimately ended up in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was put to work in coal mines.
"I was nothing more than a number," Eisen, who still bore his tattooed number — 144492 — on his left arm, told the Press-Enterprise in 1993.
After the Soviet Red Army began approaching Auschwitz and prisoners were forced on a "death march" toward another camp in January 1945, Eisen, his stepbrother Abe and another man managed to escape.
After the war, Eisen returned to his village, where he had gone to school with Hilda.
With the exception of his brother Moshe and his stepbrother Abe, Eisen's entire family had been killed in the Chelmno death camp.
Hilda, who had joined the Jewish Resistance after persuading a Nazi guard to open the Lublin ghetto gate for her in 1942, lost her parents and her six brothers and sisters in Nazi death camps.
The Eisens, who were married in Munich in 1945, talked about their Holocaust experiences with their four children over the years but didn't go into details.
"They didn't feel comfortable burdening their children with horror stories," Miller said.
But, she said, "they were able to take their grief and become very philanthropic about it and very Zionistic and very into giving back. They felt fortunate to be on the giving end of charity rather than the receiving end."
Eisen was a member of several Holocaust survivor organizations and served as president of the Lodzer Organization of California, a philanthropic Holocaust survivor group.
The Eisens contributed financially to the building of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and attended its 1993 dedication with family members. Eisen talked about his years in Auschwitz in a videotaped interview for the museum's permanent oral history collection.
"We are the eyewitnesses.... We went through the hell," he said in the 1993 interview.
In addition to his daughter Frances, Eisen is survived by his wife of 67 years; his other daughters, Ruth Eisen and Mary Cramer; his son, Howard; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.


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Apolo Anton Ohno was disqualified in the 500-meter short track speedskating final after he appeared to push off a Canadian skater to gain a last gasp second finish -- but later made up for the mistake by anchoring the U.S. relay team to a bronze medal finish.
The 500-meter race was quickly reviewed after the conclusion and a judge ruled that Ohno caused the crash that eliminated two skaters and saw him take silver.
While trailing in last place during the final lap, Ohno put his right hand on an opposing racer's hip -- causing his opponent, Francois-Louis Tremblay, to wipe out and crash, along with a second player. There didn't appear to be any love lost among the skaters as they shook hands after the race.
Charles Hamelin of Canada won the gold medal, while Sung Si-Bak of South Korea took silver and Tremblay won the bronze.
Ohno told NBC Sports he disagreed with the disqualification, saying he used his hand to protect himself from skating into Tremblay and denied pushing off the Canadian skater. He suggested the head referee, a Canadian, was influenced by the home crowd.
"Going into the last corner, you know, I ran up on the Canadian guy, and he slipped, and the Korean slipped ... I don't know why they called me for the disqualification, because I was fourth in the race," Ohno told NBC.
In the quarterfinals and semifinals of the short track earlier, Ohno was the beneficiary of two crashes that he was able to nimbly avoid to advance.
Later, Ohno made amends and set an American record of eight Winter Olympic medals when he skated in the 5,000-meter team relay event, anchoring the U.S. team to a bronze medal finish.
Ohno became the most decorated Winter Olympian in United States history with a bronze Saturday night in the men's 1,000 meter race.
Ohno's teammate, Katherine Reutter, fared better taking silver in the women's 1,000-meter short track. Reutter won her second medal of the Vancouver Games, having also been part of the U.S. relay team that won bronze. China's Wang Meng won her third gold medal of the Games in the event and South Korea's Park Seung-hi claimed the bronze.
Earlier Friday, hockey was making headlines.
Team U.S.A.'s men will play for Olympic gold in hockey against rival Canada after the U.S. crushed Finland 6-1 in a game that saw them put the win beyond doubt in the first period.
The Americans shocked Finland with six first period goals setting up an encounter Sunday between the winner of the Canada-Slovakia semifinal.
"We haven't won anything yet," forward Zach Parise said. "We're getting better and that'd the most important and rewarding thing."
Canada reached the final, to be played Sunday, after beating Slovakia 3-2.
U.S. men have not won a gold medal in hockey since the 1980 Miracle on Ice at Lake Placid, N.Y. Yesterday, Team U.S.A.'s women got the silver in hockey.
Meanwhile, star skiier Lindsey Vonn's Olympics ended in disappointment when she crashed in the final slalom event and did not finish.
The men's hockey squad has enjoyed a storied run to the medal round, giving many hope that this will be the U.S.A.'s year.
"Ten days ago if you had said the United States would be 4-0 and the top seed and guaranteed to play in a medal game, well, to paraphrase Coach Ron Wilson, you would be facing drug charges," wrote Sports Illustrated's Michael Farber. "But this team has grown up before a nation's eyes."
Canada won the women's hockey gold Thursday with a 2-0 victory over the U.S., earning a third straight Olympic title.
The men's team has won each of its four games in the Olympic tourney, but getting past Finland was no given. The Fins reached the gold medal game four years ago in Torino and lost to Sweden. The Canadians, meanwhile, bounced back from the loss to the United States last Sunday with dominating wins over Germany and Russia to reach the semifinals.
On the slopes, Vonn's woes continued Friday when she straddled a gate in the beginning of her run in the slalom -- ending her Games with a gold and a bronze medal and three "did not finishes."
"I went out there fighting and it just wasn't my day," said Vonn. "I'm totally satisfied with everything I have done here. I have the gold medal I came here for," Vonn said. "Everybody had a lot of expectations of me and you just have to stay realistic. You have to keep in perspective what your goals are."
Her teammate, Julia Mancuso, decided not to run amid reports of tension between the two. Vonn's performance during the Games was disappointing considering she was a favorite to medal in all five of her events. But injuries -- including a broken pinkie from a crash Wednesday -- may have hampered her.
Asked why she bothered to race the slalom, given her injuries, Vonn said, "That's just my personality. I never want to give up."
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Moody's Investors Service, the giant bond-rating firm, has been accused of withholding evidence documenting its role in the housing and Wall Street meltdown. Court action has been instituted to force Moody's to explain why it gave its highest ratings to "risky and toxic" mortgage-backed securities that ultimately cost investors and taxpayers billions of dollars.
Moody's and other credit rating agencies ignored red flags in the run-up to the collapse in housing prices and gave stellar ratings to shaky securities, which made those investments appear as safe as government-issued Treasury bonds.
Moody's and other ratings agencies worked behind the scenes with the same Wall Street firms that created the securities, earning billions of dollars in revenue from those firms at a rate nearly double what they earned for rating other securities.
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced the court action.
Brown's action comes seven months after the Attorney General subpoenaed Moody's, but the firm has refused to comply with the subpoena.
The subpoena issued by Brown's office on Sept. 17, 2009, seeks to determine:
– Whether Moody's knew that the AAA ratings it gave to high-risk securities weren't warranted
– Whether Moody's made fraudulent representations about the quality of its ratings
– Whether Moody's made fraudulent representations concerning the independence of its ratings
– Whether Moody's conspired with companies it rated to the detriment of investors
– Whether Moody's profited from giving inaccurate ratings to some securities
– Whether Moody's compromised its own standards and safeguards in order to increase its own profits.
Moody's and other Wall Street ratings agencies grade the credit worthiness of the bonds and securities that corporations and municipalities issue. Investors depend on these ratings to gauge risk in making investments. At the peak of the housing boom, these agencies gave their highest ratings to complicated, high-risk financial instruments that soon accelerated the financial collapse.
Banks, pension funds and other investors, in California and elsewhere, relied on these ratings when they purchased trillions of dollars of securities backed by risky mortgages, seeking high returns and reassured by ratings indicating the issues were low-risk. Those purchases helped inflate the housing bubble by enabling ever-riskier mortgages.
When the speculative bubble burst, those risky mortgages defaulted in record numbers and investors were left unable to sell now-worthless securities. The agencies then downgraded the credit ratings of more than $1.9 trillion in residential mortgage-backed securities, a tacit acknowledgement they had ignored or did not understand the risks of the debt they rated.
Moody's is one of the most profitable companies in the country. It had the highest profit margin of any company in the S&P 500 in the years leading up to 2008 – higher than Google or Microsoft, according to U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Brown's investigation of Moody's is one of many actions by his office to fight financial abuses relating to the mortgage meltdown, including his 2008 lawsuit that resulted in an $8.68 billion settlement with Countrywide Home Loans over its fraudulent lending practices, as well as recent crackdowns by the Attorney General on foreclosure consultants and loan-modification scammers.
"The need for court action to enforce a state subpoena is highly unusual," Brown said, "because companies almost always comply without such a drastic step being necessary." But he said Moody's, which played a central role in the run-up to the collapse of housing prices, has refused to explain its ratings practices to the state. Moody's said responding to the state subpoena would be a "waste of time."
"The state's subpoena seeks information regarding Moody's decision to give its highest credit ratings to securities backed by risky and toxic mortgage-backed securities," Brown said.
"By taking this step, I intend to stop Moody's from ignoring the state's subpoena," Brown said. "The people of California have the right to know how this credit rating agency got it so wrong and whether it violated California law in the process."
"But investors swiftly learned that the ratings were as worthless as the securities themselves," he said.
"A central question in the aftermath of the financial meltdown is whether Moody's gave investment banks and other securities packagers unwarranted high ratings at the expense of investors, who depended upon the integrity and independence of Moody's ratings," Brown said.


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No go for crow: county health department shuts down wild game dinner
NEW WOODSTOCK >> The Madison County Health Department shut down New Woodstock church's annual wild game dinner earlier this month.
Health officials found the Open Door Baptist Church was violating the state Sanitary Code that applies to any event that is open to the public.
The 28th annual event took place without food on Feb. 9. Health Department officials say they attempted to someone from the church without success on February 8. After several phone attempts, the department issued an email that highlighted concerns over the event.
In the past, various dishes have been featured squirrel, crow, venison and woodchuck.
"If the meat is properly processed by a state permitted facility, it can be served at public events," said Madison County Health Department Director of Environmental Health Geoffrey Snyder. Dishes made from animals like crow that are carrion feeders or road kill cannot be approved for this type of dinner. Snyder said that Elk and Venison have been served at Health Department approved events.
According to information provided by the Health Department, the State Sanitary Code states that an organization serving food to the public must obtain it from an approved source and have permission from the Health Department. Church and other charitable groups are required to follow these rules, though any application fees are waived.
Because the event was not limited to church members, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Health Department. If the event had stayed confined to a specific group it would have been okay and in conjunction with sanitary codes. Snyder explained that these events are left open and participants "consume at their own risk."
A sanitarian was sent to the event to inspect the food that was to be served and deemed it in violation. People who provided dishes were told to remove them from the premises. She also informed participants of the event of the dangers of violating State Sanitary Code. Consuming wild game can be detriment to your health. These items are not FDA approved, and as such could be contaminated with various bacteria. In addition, any organization found in contest with the sanitary code could be fined
Snyder explained that the Health Department and the church are working together to make future events comply to the sanitary codes. Pastor David DeLeon has apologized to the Health Department for treatment the sanitarian has received from people outside the church congregation.
"We try to work with these groups to make things work properly and that the public is properly protected," said Snyder. "We wanted to reach out to make sure that the church didn't face any lawsuits if people got sick."
Snyder also pointed out the dangers of violating the sanitary code. A similar dinner held in Oneida County cost the Health Department valuable time and resources after attendants became ill from consuming venison that contained wasting disease.
Church officials declines to comment until they have spoken with the Health Department on how to learn what they need to do in order to comply with the sanitary code and protect the public.
The event was brought to the attention of the Health Department on Feb. 8 by an ad in the Hi, Neighbor weekly newspaper that said the event was open to the public and that wild game would be served.
"Other County and State Health Departments have similarly encountered events that, while well intended, presented public health risks related to food being served from unapproved sources," said Snyder. "While publicly unpopular and vilified through the media, they took the same action as did this office. It's part of our job and a consequence of our dedication to protecting public health."


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Sync your iOS with iTunes on your computer using USB
With iTunes, you can sync your music, movies, TV shows, photos and more. After you sync, the content on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch matches the content in your iTunes Library on your computer.
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Before syncing with iTunes, consider using iCloud or similar services to keep your content automatically up to date on all of your devices.
If you prefer to use iTunes to sync your content, follow the steps below to set up syncing in iTunes using USB.
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- Photos and videos. To sync photos and videos using iTunes, you can use a supported photos app or sync from a specific folder on your computer. Learn more about how to keep your photos and videos up to date on all of your devices.
- Contacts and calendars.
- Device backups that you made using iTunes.
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Follow these steps to manually sync the content from your computer to your iOS device:
- Open iTunes. Make sure that you have the latest version.
- Connect your device to your computer using the included USB cable. Your connected device appears as an icon in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window.
3. Click on the device icon. Look under Settings on the left side of the iTunes window for a list of the content types that you can sync from your iTunes library to your device.
If you don't have certain content in your iTunes library, you might not see some tabs. For example, if you don't have any podcasts in your library, you won't see a Podcast tab.
iTunes can't sync certain content, including mail accounts, notes, or bookmarks. Use iCloud to manage your mail, notes, and bookmarks across your devices. Some iOS apps might use iTunes's File Sharing feature to transfer content instead of syncing.
4. Click the content type that you want to sync.
5. In the main iTunes window, click the box next to Sync to turn on syncing for that content type. If there's a check in the box, syncing for that content type is already on.
If you see a message that your iOS device is synced with another iTunes library after clicking the box, your iOS device was previously connected to another computer. If you click "Erase and Sync" in that message, all content of the selected type on your iOS device is replaced with content from your computer. Content that you didn't turn on syncing for isn't deleted from your iOS device. You can only sync your iOS device with one iTunes library at a time.
6. After you turn on syncing for a content type, you'll see additional options to customize your sync settings. Use these options to make sure that you're syncing the content that you want synced.
7. Repeat steps 4–6 for each content type that you want to sync.
8. Click the Apply button in the lower-right corner of the screen to save your sync settings. If syncing doesn't start automatically, click the Sync button.
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- Open iTunes. Make sure that you have the latest version.
- Connect your device to your computer using the included USB cable. Your connected device appears as an icon in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window. Learn what to do if you don't see the icon.
- Click on the device icon
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My husband is a way better husband than I am a wife. Ok, that's so not true, but he is really hot and he builds me things. He wears a tool belt and cowboy hat at night and a suit during the day. What more could a girl ask for?
After reading this my husband's boss called to ask if he is a stripper by night. Not. Kidding. For clarity, he is also wearing jeans, a t-shirt and work boots with his hat and belt. Not a stripper. I did once date a stripper. Not a good story.
My sixteen year old, Keenan, is a professional eye rolling, door slamming, looking at me like I am an idiot teenager. I love him anyway. I really do. No. Really. He brings me to my knees with his heart and his fabulous sense of humor. He has a passion for lacrosse that takes my breath away. And? He watches football with me. He and his friend have developed an app that you are going to love. It's called Tagg Dreams. Coming soon, Can't wait to share it. You will want your kids to use it. It will motivate them to set their goals and dreams in high school. Stay tuned.
My fifteen year old, Noah, is the sweetest and happiest child there is. He hugs me at least ten times a day and tells me he loves me. Which, I think is all an act to get what he wants out of me. It works. Don't cross him though, because he stays mad for days, sometimes weeks. You will have long forgotten that you pissed him off and he will walk by you in the kitchen and just "accidentally" bump into you a little harder than he should. True story. Noah has a passion for comedy. Perhaps his most amazing talent is his ability to quote movie lines. For Christmas I stenciled them all over his room. One of his favorites? I love lamp. He is also one heck of a receiver. Which? Scares me to no end. He also has a site that is about to launch. It's message? Acceptance and intolerance for bullies. Stay tuned.
My six year old, Colton, thinks he is fourteen. I see you nodding your head like you understand. But. You don't. I mean really. He really, really believes he is fourteen. Just ask him. I know he isn't because unlike his older brothers, he doesn't smell like a locker room. And he may never. He has told us in no uncertain terms that he never wants to play sports. But? He also told us he wanted to pursue a career in acting. After one class? He said he hated it. He is most excited to tell you that in only seven years he can get a cell phone.