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Jon Heyman of CBS Sports said yesterday that the Mets will start with a six-year, $100 million offer, which includes an option, similar to what was agreed upon between Ryan Zimmerman and the Nationals last winter.
I, too, think this is the template. However, it's worth noting that Zimmerman's new deal essentially starts in 2014, after his current deal ends, which is why some people consider it an eight-year, $126 million contract (also with an option).
Based on Heyman's reporting, along with what I'm hearing, it suggests the Mets intend to offer a six-year deal to start after next season, during which Wright will be paid the $16 million option that completes his current deal. So, the current option (2013) plus the new deal would mean (starting next season) Wright would be under contract for seven years (2013-2019) with another option for 2020.
Naturally, Wright's camp will ask for more. I'm told they intend to milk talks and draw things out until at least after the World Series, in hopes of reaching a better compromise at the last minute.
I'm guessing here, but (based on the team's rumored starting point, plus Wright's assumed counter) I bet the two sides end up haggling over that 2020 option, arguing whether it should be guaranteed. If it's guaranteed, the result will be almost identical to the eight-year, $126 million number associated with Zimmerman.
Nevertheless, as one person close to the situation told me last season, "This is not going to be handled like last year's negotiations with Jose Reyes."
Thankfully, it seems everyone in the organization wants Wright to return, they're not going to be far off, and all signs indicate he genuinely hopes to stay put and retire having played with one team. Of course, he's quite clear about also wanting to win a World Series and his camp will let that be known.
For what it's worth, if a deal can't be worked out, the Mets will become more serious about trading Wright this winter, as opposed to waiting for next summer. It's just a feeling I get, based on talks with people around the league. Why? He'd have more value now, given his stats from 2012, and because his new team would get him for a full season. Also, the Mets aren't winning or selling a ton of tickets these days with Wright, so it might be easier to get new talent now and start marketing it before they take the field in 2013.
That said, unlike with Reyes, I believe the Mets and Wright will eventually work things out... making trade talk a non-issue.


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Marion County Democratic Women had their holiday meeting Thursday at Hilltop Manor. They had enchiladas made by Marion Senior Center. Sue Clough provided ice cream, and Janet Bryant took cookies made by Jan Wiens.
Clough conducted the business meeting, which was short.
The book "How Great Women Lead" was donated to Marion City Library as a memorial for Erna Mae Yeagley.
The reservation sheet for Kansas Day was signed. Tallgrass Express String Band will perform after a meal catered by Eastmoor United Methodist Women at the church.
A gift exchange closed the meeting with gifts purchased at thrift shops.

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COSTA MESA – Police have identified a Westminster man who apparently set himself on fire in a Costa Mesa nail salon after an argument with his estranged wife.
Nam Q. Thieu, 46, remained in critical condition at Western Medical Center on Tuesday with third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body, two days after witnesses say he poured a flammable liquid onto himself and ignited it with a cigarette lighter, a police statement said.
Officers shortly after noon Sunday responded to what authorities characterized as a domestic dispute at Creative Nails & Spa in the 3000 block of Bristol Street.
An employee had extinguished Thieu's burning body with a fire extinguisher, police said.
Sherry Skipper-Spurgeon, a longtime customer of the salon, reported witnessing the encounter between Thieu and his estranged wife, whom she knew only as Lena.
Thieu came into the salon and confronted Lena, the store's manager, screaming at her in Vietnamese, Skipper-Spurgeon said. He reportedly brought a bucket filled with a liquid that Skipper-Spurgeon described as smelling like gasoline and poured it over the top of his head.
Lena told employees and customers to leave the salon as she tried to reason with Thieu, saying the two of them were going through a divorce and that he was "really distraught," Skipper-Spurgeon said.
As Skipper-Spurgeon was calling 911, she reported seeing Thieu sit down on the floor in a puddle of the liquid.
As she was talking to the fire department, Thieu set himself on fire, Skipper-Spurgeon said, causing flames to cover his head until Lena's brother, who was at the shop to repair malfunctioning equipment, doused him with the extinguisher and other employees brought in towels to douse the flames.
Orange County Superior Court records show that on Nov. 30, a woman named Lena Nguyen sought a restraining order against a man named Nam Q. Thieu. Court records indicate that the restraining order was issued and that Thieu was also ordered to attend anger-management classes.
Court records also show that on Feb. 1, a Lena Nguyen petitioned for a separation from a Nam Q. Thieu. A summons was issued in the case, but there was no indication in court records that any hearings have taken place.
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"It's my right, Francis, to live as I please," said the noble man, "and I don't see why any savage heathen should have any right to say anything about it." Francis gawked at the man as arguments fought each other in his mind to see which one Francis would unleash upon the western noble. In India, it seemed that Francis spent most of his time battling the negative images of Christianity that the Europeans carried with them like their luggage and valuables. It was so easy for the poor of India to reject what Francis had to say because they had seen many men and women with the same attitude as the man who now stood before Francis looking pleased with himself and disgusted by the poverty around him.
"But you don't get it, friend," started Francis, "God loves these people, too, even if they aren't like us." Sure, it wasn't the best argument but it had taken some time for even Francis to arrive at it. He had been sent by his friend Ignatius of Loyola to be a missionary to the people of India.He had been called out of his worldly ambitions to serve the Church and seek a higher calling of love and mission work. When he arrived, he knew nothing of the Hindu, Buddhist, or Muslim religion and refused to have any conversation on the philosophy or thought of these religions. As his exposure to the people increased, however, he became enamored doesn't have the right to do as he or she pleases--we've given up that right." The man walked with the poor and needy left to suffer and die in the streets because of an accident of birth. "God is calling us to care for these people,"continued Francis. The man walked away--offended--and left Francis to wonder if there was any hope for salvation for foreign peoples if it seemed there was so little hope among his kindred.
Francis was criticized for caring for the poor instead of appealing to the noble-born and influential. It was argued that he could reach more by first reaching the far-reaching segments of society.Yet, Francis centered himself among the poor, needy, and untouchable portions of society because of his own increasing awareness of the calling upon his life to live as a servant of God's people. It had been a long time since he had been with Ignatius but he had learned well the power of prayer and active love for making a way for redemption in the hearts of men and women. Eventually, he moved on and traveled to Japan as a missionary. This time, he learned from his mistakes--he truly was a work in progress--and addressed the cultural and spiritual predispositionsof the Japanese people from the beginning. He quickly set to work spreading the Gospel among the Japanese people and caring for those that the society wished would simply disappear. Eventually, he had a small group of converts who would meet regularly and were reaching out to those around them. Having established a foothold, he wrote letters and appealed for more missionaries. For many years, the Jesuits were able to send many missionaries to Japan because Francis had prepared a foothold and a community to welcome them.
But, it is true that Francis was a work in progress. He was instrumental in beginning the Goa inquisition and leading to the torture and death of many people in Southeast Asia. For this, Francis is not celebrated but mourned. He failed to see the consequences of his actions and the inherent evil in what he was doing. Francis' sin was one that so many of us have made: a willingness to crush and harm another to make myself feel better. From this sin, Francis and we must repent.
Near the end of his life he set out for China because of a growing passion for the people of that nation and indubitably looked forward to meeting the people and sharing the good news with them. On his way, he fell very sick and had to be dropped off before reaching the mainland.Throughout his life, he had subsisted on very little food so that he could feed more of the hungry and got by with little medical attention so that he could aid the poor. Finally, his years of devotion to the suffering had brought him into the place of the sick and the needy. He died on an island off the coast of China and did so by himself. He had gone on to prepare another place for missionaries to go and had died in his service to the Lord who calls all followers to take up their cross and follow him.
Monday, December 3, 2012
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ENLIGHTENMENT: Black Onyx | Hematite | Buddha | Yoga Chakra Bracelet
Crystals were created as the earth formed and they have continued to metamorphose as the planet itself has changed. They are the earth's DNA, a chemical imprint for evolution. They are miniature storehouses containing the records of the development of the earth over millions of years, and bearing the indelible memory of the powerful forces that shaped it. Their crystalline structure can absorb, conserve, focus and emit energy, especially on the electromagnetic waveband.
Crystals make excellent jewelry for both men and women. Wearing gems used to be a royal or priestly prerogative. The high priest of Judaism wore a breastplate set with precious stones. It was much more than a badge of office; it conveyed power to the wearer. As far back as the Stone Age, men and women wore crystal jewelry and talismen. They had a protective as well as decorative function, guarding their wearer from harm.
Crystals have been used to heal and bring balance, working through resonance and vibration. Crystals are said to heal holistically - that is to say, they work on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of being.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that 20 public libraries throughout the nation have received $1,000 each for participation in a national reading-and-discussion program called Let's Talk About It.
"The National Endowment for the Humanities reaches all corners of American society, and Let's Talk About It is a great program to do just that," said NEH Chairman William R. Ferris. "Even in this age of interactive computer programs, there is still no better way to exchange ideas than in person. Libraries serve as community forums where people come to learn about their various worlds, and NEH can help them explore and share those worlds by providing outstanding reading-and-discussion programs."
Let's Talk About It is a highly successful book-discussion program pioneered by the American Library Association in the early 1980s with support from NEH. The program focuses on scholar-led discussions of series of books organized according to specific themes.
Each library has chosen one thematic series of the four that have been developed for Let's Talk About It: The Next Generation. The themes are "Readings for the Millennium," "Literature and Culture of African American Migration," "Children's Classics for Adults," and "Latino Literature in the U.S."
Over the past 15 years, Let's Talk About It has been adopted and adapted by hundreds of libraries nationwide.
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Our Country Would Never Deceive Us Into a War! No Chance!
Lets go back and look at some history, shall we?
"Remember the Maine! To Hell With Spain!"
We can start all way the back on February 15, 1898. On that day, the USS Maine, an American battleship, blew up and sank in the stillness of Havana Harbor, offshore from Cuba. Our government declared a month later that the ship blew up because of an explosive mine in the water. The tragedy was a precipitating cause of the Spanish-American War that began in April, 1898. At the time, it was used as pretext for war by those who were already inclined to go to war with Spain. The government used the rallying cry "Remember the Maine! Death to Spain"
As it turned out, the USS Maine was not blown up from an enemy mine. With the benefit of modern forensic science, the explosion is now widely believed to have been an accident caused by the spontaneous combustion of gunpowder magazines situated too close to heat sources. Modern analytical tools, especially computer simulations, have all but confirmed this. Furthermore, recently revealed government documents suggest that our government was aware that the USS Maine was not actually sunk by an enemy mine. In essence, the American citizens were lied to, and soldiers gave their lives for an expansionist war.
Avenge Pearl Harbor!
In recent years, many controversial texts have uncovered facts revealing that our government likely had knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack prior to December 7, 1941. On their accounts, not only had we broken Japan's codes, but a British double agent had also uncovered the plot to attack Pearl Harbor well before the attacks, and warned our government. But even if you don't buy into "Roosevelt knew" revelation, nobody can dispute that our government did everything possible to lure Japan into war.
FDR began his program of economic warfare by embargoing strategic goods. In September, he banned exports of iron and steel to Japan. In June 1941, he restricted oil shipments to Japan. Soon thereafter, FDR froze Japan's funds in the United States. This was followed by many public demands for Japanese capitulation. Roosevelt also refused to meet with Japan's Prime Minister.
Caught in an economic trap, Japan did not hide their intention of going to war with the US, and went so far as to speak of war if no settlement were reached by November of 1941.
In any event, Pearl Harbor happened, and it galvanized the American public's willingness to enter WWII behind the rallying cry "Avenge Pearl Harbor!" Regardless of whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, the point is, the citizens of the USA were likely lied to.
Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods was a government plan devised and approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and likely to be carried out with the help of the CIA, in order to manufacture consent for a war against Cuba in the early 1960's. The documents exhibit a considerable willingness on the part of our government to deceive, severely endanger, and/or kill its own civilians. In particular, the Joint Chiefs recommended the following actions:
1. Using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba.
2. Start false rumors about Cuba by using clandestine radios.
3. Stage mock attacks, sabotages and riots and blame it on Cuban forces
4. Sink an American ship at the Guantanamo Bay American military base - reminiscent of the USS Maine incident at Havana in 1898, which started the Spanish-American War - or destroy American aircraft and blame it on Cuban forces.
5. "Harassment of civil air, attacks on surface shipping and destruction of US military drone aircraft by MIG type [sic] planes would be useful as complementary actions."
6. Destroy a fake commercial aircraft supposedly full of "college students off on a holiday"
7. Stage a "terror campaign", including the "real or simulated" sinking of Cuban refugees:
8. "We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington. The terror campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the United States. We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute [sic] to Florida (real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized."
The plan was devised in 1962. For nearly 40 years, Operation Northwoods remained merely a "conspiracy theory" until it was finally uncovered via the Freedom of Information Act. But it clearly shows that our government has no problem with lying to us, or even considering harming us for the purpose of provocating war.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was presented to the American public as two attacks by North Vietnamese gunboats without provocation against two American destroyers (the USS Maddox and the USS C. Turner Joy) in August of 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Pentagon Papers, later revealed the Johnson administration of the United States had virtually fabricated the attacks. The US-supported South Vietnamese regime had been attacking oil processing facilities in North Vietnam, with planning and support from the CIA, for the very purpose of providing a pretext to initiate the Vietnam War.
9/11-- "We Will Never Forget!" Anthrax-- 'We Will Immediately Forget!'
I've discussed it at length before, and I won't go into it further today. You can look into my past posts at The Bulldog Manifesto to see what I think about 9/11, and how we were lied to there for the purpose of taking this country into a series of wars designed to capture valuable oil fields and oil pipelines. Heck, the Project for a New American Century, the Neocon think tank spelled it our for us. They planned many of the events of today, years ago. Namely, they planned to confiscate the Afghan oil pipelines and the Iraqi oil reserves. If you haven't opened your eyes to this yet, all I can say is, "wake up".
You should also be familiar with my views on Anthrax, and how those attacks were of major significance in scaring the pants off the American public. You should be aware that the Anthrax spores came from an army base at Fort Detrick, as you should also know that once the FBI uncovered this fact, the Anthrax story has been buried-- never to be discussed. But that never stopped Colin Powell from waving a vial of faux anthrax before the United Nations in the run up to the Iraqi War.
The Downing Street Memos
So now we come to the Downing Street Memos. Here we have a smoking gun document that shows that the American and British governments decided to "fix the facts and intelligence around the policy" of going to war in Iraq. And yet, even with all of our history, many otherwise reasonable people cannot bring themselves to admitting that "yes, we were lied to!"
What more does it take? How many lies does it take until you look at your government in the proper light? What does it take for you to hold your government accountable?
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I have a large collection of aerial photos with no georeferencing other than the Lat/Long location of the camera. Georeferencing them invididually is not an option (too much time, too many photos, some are oblique, some vertical). I need to automatically generate some kind of approximate polygonal footprint of each photo. I was thinking there must be some way to auto-generate a rectangle from a point layer using the point as the center and using numbers in the attribute fields as the dimensions. Or, barring that, just generating a circle at each point using an attribute as the diameter.
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The American Red Cross blood mobile will be in Marion from 2:15 to 6:45 p.m. March 11 at Eastmoor United Methodist Church.
More than 30 blood drives were canceled in January due to weather. Janet Bryant and Joni Crofoot are co-chairs of the drive. All blood types are needed.
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I've got some y(x) 2D data set. I would like to find a function fitting this data:
Is there any open source or free software to find a function to approximate a data sequence like the above?
Here is what I found so far:
- Fityk is a program for data processing and nonlinear curve fitting. The program can be used for any task that requires fitting a curve to 2D (x,y) data.
- Simfit is a free software OpenSource Windows/Linux package for simulation, curve fitting, statistics, and plotting, using a library of models or user-defined equations.
- Zunzun.com website. Here you can curve fit and surface fit your 2D and 3D data online with a rich set of error histograms, error plots, curve plots, surface plots, contour plots, VRML, auto-generated source code, and PDF file output.


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a blog of my experiences and observations of making over 1 million gold in World of Warcraft . . . . . . . . . .Includes the famous free Croda's Inscription Gold Guide
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Sunday, 8 July 2012
Setting up a Guild Bank
If you are entering a crafting market or markets in a serious fashion then storage space is a key resource. The ability to store raw materials as you buy them at low prices on the Auction House is an absolute requirement. The Bank and its bag slots are unlikely to prove sufficient and shuffling materials between alts will prove cumbersome. To resolve this, owning a guild and being the sole member will give you an additional 588 storage slots.
In the Guild, each tab has 98 item slots and tabs are purchased much like bag slots in Banks. The first tab costs 100 gold, the next 250 gold, then 500 gold and so on. To buy all 6 tabs you would spend 9350 gold.
Technically, you can get 8 guild tabs but your guild needs to reach at least level 5 and, lets face it, a guild of one person used for crafting is not going to advance.
Setting up a Guild Bank.
The good news is that setting up a guild bank is very easy, quick and has a low cost (easily under 100 gold).
1) Talk to the Guild Master NPC in a major city to purchase the Charter for 10 silver (see below for the names and locations – but asking a City Guard will give you the location).
2) You need three other players to agree to be members of your guild to get it up and running. So, go to the starter area and ask players to sign the Charter in exchange for 10 gold. All starter players, and even new alts, will be willing to do this. Don't be deceiving, explain that you only need their signatures and that they will be kicked from the guild when it is started. So whisper the question first, if the answer is yes then present the charter to be signed.
3) Once you have the three signatures get back to the Guild Master NPC to register the guild and start it up
4) Kick the signatory players and there you have your Guild.
Be aware that the players that signed your Charter can delete their character or sign another Charter and so remove their signatures from your Charter. So don't hang around once you have your four signatures. Also, be aware that it is one signature per player – so a player's alt cannot sign the charter.
The whole process should take less than half an hour.
The Downsides to having a Guild Bank.
1) That character can not belong to another guild –so say goodbye to raiding for that character.
2) It is hard to pass a guild bank to another alt –you will need a trusted friend online to allow you to pass the guild bank to them and then log on the alt to receive the guild bank.
Names and locations of the Guild Masters:
· Guild master Lysheana at the Craftsmen's Terrace in Darnassus
· Guild master Jondor Steelbrow at The Commons in Ironforge
· Guild master Aldwin Laughin at the Trade District in Stormwind
· Guild master Funaam at Trader's Tier in the Exodar
· Guild master Andrew Matthews at Dalaran Visitor Center in Dalaran
· Guild master Urtrun Clanbringer at the Valley of Strength in Orgrimmar
· Guild master Krumn in Lower Rise in Thunder Bluff
· Guild master Christopher Drakul at The Trade Quarter in Undercity
· Guild master Tandrine at the Walk of the Elders in Silvermoon
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Thanks for the timely post, I hadn't realised that the nerf to the number of signatures for a guild charter was quite so big.ReplyDelete
I have been scouting around to buy a level 25 guild for some perks and a 7th (or even 8th) tab. Unfortunately, while I would pay 100k for one, I'm yet to see one available for under 200k.
I passed up an opportunity to buy a level 14 guild for 30k (which is 10k on top of the cost of tabs). I figured since the more compelling perks are at a higher level I could save myself a guild rename (which cost regular currency) and 20k just starting one from scratch.Replies
i have never really considered buying a higher level guild - though the extra tabs would be helpful and some of the perks.Delete
I would imagine that the best time to buy is at the end of school holidays? perhaps now even if the slow content is causing people to leave despite Mists of Pandaria being around the corner?
There is an easier way to pass ownership too without giving another player the guild first. You can just have ANYONE join and invite your alt. They need no other power than invite power. You can then remove them from guild and get on Guild Master toon and type /gleader "nameofnewleader" without the quotations.ReplyDelete
Thx for article :)ReplyDelete
I'm actually looking for LvL 25 Guild but i have absolutely no idea how much it will cost ?
Based on tabs, exp, stocks, etc... i guess 200k is fair enough
Why did they make it so another player can sign my charter, I pay them 30g and then they delete their signature. Why? I stopped buying guilds cause of this.ReplyDelete
I hate the other players on my server for doing this..we have such a small server.
I dont understand this statement:?ReplyDelete
2) It is hard to pass a guild bank to another alt –you will need a trusted friend online to allow you to pass the guild bank to them and then log on the alt to receive the guild bank.Replies
You can not invite one of your alts to become a guild member because the alt will be offline (given you are online with another character). And given you will be the sole member of your guild bank it is therefore not so easy to pass your guild bank over to another alt if, for example, your character want to join a raiding guild.Delete
However, as the comments above have suggested, you only need to invite a third person, give them invite rights only, log off, log on your alt and get them to invite you. You can then log off that alt and log on again with your character to hand over guild leadership to the alt - the alt need not be online to do this. the third party involved can then be paid gold for their service and kicked from the guild, and your character can leave the guild.
Hence, there is risk in this than thought. Just need to find someone willing to be a member for 5 minutes and pay them gold for this.


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September hit and it's as if someone immediately set the switch to "Autumn." It's grey outside. The air smells cool and damp and good. I am decked out in cozy shades of navy + grey. I have a tawny tousled mane just like a lion.The garden is starting to wind down, but you'd never know it from the way the sunflowers and marigolds are carrying on.Heritage (Hetty, I call her,) refuses to stop the show. She is even prettier now than she was in the Spring.
Up in the studio, Things are Happening. Here is the first of a pair of socks for Tom, knit from my own handspun, as it lounges after a lavender-scented bath......and this is the beginnings of a hat fit for a Southwark-wandering Wackadoo......namely me.


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Along with E.L. James: PW's Publishing Person of the Year, we honor these notable people who changed the publishing world in 2012.
Markus Dohle, Chairman, CEO, Random House
Since being named CEO of Random House on June 1, 2008, Markus Dohle has brought a lot of change to the country's largest trade publisher, actions that helped it to weather both a deep recession and a wrenching digital publishing transition. His actions have included streamlining the company's extensive operations, remaking much of RH's top management by bringing in (or bringing back) new leadership, and continuing to upgrade the publisher's infrastructure through investments in new technology.
From his first day on the job, Dohle's objective has been to create a collaborative, inclusive, team-oriented culture that would become closer to both its authors and its customers. By most measures Dohle's transformation has succeeded. The publisher continues to lead the country in the number of bestsellers published annually while taking top literary prizes. And in a period when the very viability of traditional publishers has been called into question, Dohle has made Random House more profitable than at any point in its history. For the first six months of 2012, sales were up 20%, while operating EBIT jumped 64%.
A major factor in RH's 2012 success, of course, has been the phenomenal sales of E.L. James' Fifty Shades trilogy, but her success also highlights RH's ability to acquire a manuscript from a virtually unknown author and turn it into a global bestseller (RH publishes the trilogy in English, German, and Spanish worldwide). RH also continues to draw a higher proportion of its revenue from digital content, with digital sales accounting for 27% of U.S. revenue and 22% of worldwide sales in the first six months of 2012.
Despite the impressive run RH was putting together in the first part of 2012, the year took on an entirely different perspective when news broke in late October that Random House and Penguin—following regulatory approval sometime next year—will merge to form a new company that will be 53% owned by Bertelsmann and 47% owned by Pearson. As CEO of the newly formed Penguin Random House, Dohle will work with Penguin Group chairman John Makinson to meld the two companies into a new trade publisher that will be unprecedented in size and scope.
In one of four letters sent to different "stakeholders" in the forthcoming Penguin Random House, Dohle told RH employees, "my commitment to you and our new colleagues is to retain the distinct identities of both companies' imprints, where authors remain the center of everything we do.... I am deeply convinced that the creativity and experience of our publishers, aligned with our decentralized entrepreneurship, will enable us—together with our new colleagues—to more completely and immediately realize our vision to provide our content for everyone, everywhere, in every format, and on every platform."—Jim Milliot
John Makinson, Chairman, Penguin Group
John Makinson was at the center of the action in three of the biggest stories of 2012 and will certainly be front and center of industry events in 2013 as chairman of the fledgling superpublisher, Penguin Random House. Last spring, when the Department of Justice sued five publishers and Apple, charging them with colluding to fix e-book prices, Makinson, along with Macmillan CEO John Sargent, chose to fight the government rather than settle. "We have done nothing wrong," Makinson said in April in explaining why Penguin had not discussed a settlement with the DoJ or the states that also filed suit against the publishers and Apple. The implementation of the agency model, he added, "offers consumers the prospect of an open and competitive market for e-books." Makinson later acknowledged that Penguin could well need to make some accommodation with the government as discussions involving the approval of the Penguin-Random House merger move forward.
But before the news of the giant merger, in July, with the backing of Pearson, Penguin bought Author Solutions Inc., one the country's largest self-publishing vendors, for $116 million. The purchase followed Penguin's 2011 launch of Book Country, Penguin's writer community and self-publishing venture. Makinson said that since the creation of Book Country he had been looking at the self-publishing market "with growing respect and admiration," noting that "self-publishing is growing and converging with traditional publishing."
But despite standing up to the DoJ and making a big play in the self-publishing market, what Makinson will be best remembered for will be as the first chairman of Penguin Random House. Unsurprisingly, Makinson was enthusiastic about the benefits the combination of Penguin and Random House will bring in a quickly changing marketplace, noting in a letter to Penguin employees that the combined resources of Penguin Random House will allow it "to take risks with new authors, to defend our creative and editorial independence, [and] to publish the broadest range of books on the planet."
He also acknowledged that integrating the two companies will have its challenges.
"New companies take time to mature, however glorious and distinguished their antecedents. But I have no doubt that we have everything that we need—the authors, the imprints, the brands, the scale, and the people—to make this a company of which we can all be proud."—Jim Milliot
Sharis Pozen, Former acting assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
For Sharis Pozen, it was a brief tenure at the Department of Justice, but an eventful one—and one that cast a long shadow over the publishing industry in 2012.
As the acting assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, Pozen spearheaded the controversial federal lawsuit against Apple and five major publishers charging an e-book price-fixing conspiracy. And then, just weeks after she announced the DoJ's settlement with three of those publishers in April, Pozen left after three years with the government and only eight months as head of the DoJ's antitrust division. A former partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Hogan & Hartson, where she served as a director of the firm's Antitrust Practice Group, Pozen, who had announced in January she was leaving the DoJ on April 30, was on her way back to private practice, this time at the powerhouse firm of Skadden, Arps.
But in some ways, the e-book price-fixing investigation was a groundbreaker, as it was coordinated with state attorneys general as well as the European Commission, the first "global enforcement effort" of its kind, Pozen noted, for a civil antitrust enforcement matter.
In her public comments on the e-book case, Pozen was resolute. "By requiring the companies to allow retailers the freedom to lower the prices of their e-book titles, it will provide for a more open and fair marketplace," she maintained. Of course, the suit and the settlement have been widely criticized as beneficial only to the "real monopolist" in the e-book business—Amazon.com—rather than benefiting consumers.
While the DoJ settlement was swiftly approved in September, a trial is set for June with Macmillan, Penguin, and Apple fighting the charges.—Andrew Albanese
Michael Serbinis, CEO, Kobo
For a while, it seemed that the fast-growing e-book marketplace was likely to be dominated by Amazon and Barnes & Noble, with perhaps the iBookstore hard on their heels. But that was before Kobo and its youngish, indefatigable CEO, Michael Serbinis, showed up. From the beginning Serbinis said Kobo planned to compete aggressively on every front despite getting a bit of a late start in the e-book race. By 2011, Serbinis was managing the acquisition of the company—Kobo was originally owned by Canada's Indigo Books and Music chain—by Rakuten, the global Japanese e-commerce retailer, for $315 million, which provided the capital for a burst of international expansion over 2012. Kobo released its first generation of devices (e-ink and tablet) last year and upgraded them all this year, adding the Kobo Mini and Kobo Glo e-ink readers and a much-improved tablet, the Kobo Arc. The company already had a deal in place in 2011 with French mass marketer FNAC to sell its devices in FNAC's physical stores and via its Web site, and in 2012 Kobo inked similar deals to sell and display its devices at 100 WH Smith stores in the U.K. and with the Family Christian retail book chain and its 238 U.S. stores. Over the past year, Serbinis launched Kobo devices and online sites (with localized content) in Brazil, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latin America, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain—with more to come.
Serbinis also shepherded the release of Writing Life, Kobo's much-anticipated self-publishing platform, this past summer. He also inked a deal with the American Booksellers Association to replace Google Books' much-maligned indie bookstore e-book program with a similar Kobo plan that includes selling its devices. And by the way, at the PW co-sponsored CEO panel at Frankfurt, Serbinis said, "We built a partner model, which I think is unique in the industry, where we power booksellers and work with publishers to create a win-win." It wouldn't be the first time Serbinis and Kobo made good on a promise.—Calvin Reid
Niko Pfund, President, Oxford University Press, U.S.
It may be a nonprofit, but in 2012 Oxford University Press clocked in at #22 on the Global 50 list of the world's largest publishers, while also passing another milestone—it became a billion-dollar publisher. The press's strong performance over the past decade was helped by OUP's U.S. operation, where Niko Pfund was named president in 2011 after serving as acting head since 2010.
In fiscal 2012, OUP posted 10% growth in sales and a profit margin of roughly 18%. A cornerstone of the press's success has been the publisher's willingness to invest and experiment in digital. That kind of willingness to experiment has allowed OUP to expand its award-winning Oxford Scholarship Online platform to other university presses—University Press Scholarship Online—and to sign groundbreaking digital deals with major university presses, including Chicago and the University of California.
Pfund, who began his career as an editorial assistant at OUP, is quick to put the credit for the press's great results on the press's staff. "We have an extraordinarily fine group at the press who have now worked together for a long time. The sustained quality of our acquisitions—and, crucially, the way in which those books have been designed, marketed, publicized, and sold—are all significant components of our success."—Andrew Albanese


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In a thrilling and surprising finish, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia lost to Peter Svidler (Russia) and Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) at the London Candidates.
Because Carlsen and Kramnik were both 1.5 points ahead of the field, even the losses left them at the top of the crosstable. The challenger's spot thus went to Carlsen, with better tiebreaks (most wins).
In a press conference after the game, Carlsen said that he did not have time to look at Kramnik's position until after time control, when Magnus was already in a hopeless position.
Carlsen will face Anand later this year for the World Championship title.


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Wirework for Metalsmiths: Favorite Projects You'll Love
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After spending some time with wire manufacturers and wireworkers in Tucson last week, including my lovely and talented coworker Denise Peck, editor of Step by Step Wire Jewelry, and I have to say that my progression to wire enthusiast is right on track! I played with copper-core silver wire that looks, feels, and behaves like sterling wire but is a little easier on the wallet; I discovered surprisingly sturdy knitted wire with a lovely drape and just-right heft; and I tested hammers and metal stamps that make me eager to get back to my bench.
The more I played with wire and wirework tools, the more I realized how appealing it could be to a metalsmith–and how easy it is to achieve hints of metalsmithing designs with wire techniques. Though wirework doesn't require as many tools as metalsmithing, there are opportunities in wire jewelry-making to use cool metalsmithing tools such as hammers, torches, files, tumblers, mandrels, and metal stamps when working with wire, if you want to. It's a great transition skill, and some projects blend wire and metal techniques so well, it's hard to tell which jewelry-making category a design might fit into.
So after playing with wire in Tucson, all I needed was some inspiration. Serendipity! Denise's Wire Style 2 was waiting on me when I got home from Tucson, full of wirework inspiration that speaks to a metalwork enthusiast like me. Naturally the book has plenty of wire jewelry projects, but it has enough hammering, oxidizing and patinating, and torching to entice metalsmiths as well. Here are some of my favorite wirework projects from the book that have a metalsmithing feel.
So whether you're a metalsmith with an interest in wire (like me) or a wire jewelry maker wanting to branch out into metalsmithing, Wire Style 2 is a perfect crossover book with forty-five projects to inspire and instruct you. Get yours and join me as I bridge wirework and metalsmith jewelry making!


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ANTIOCH, Ill.—Authorities say a Benedictine monk from Wisconsin has been charged with trying to abduct an Illinois teenager.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports (http://bit.ly/1864id6) 57-year-old Thomas Chmura was arrested last week. He was charged with attempted child abduction and disorderly conduct and ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail Saturday.
Police allege the 14-year-old was walking in the northern Illinois community of Antioch when a man in a station wagon asked if she needed a ride. The girl ran and he drove off.
The teen recounted the description of the man and car to police. Chmura was arrested Friday.
He's been living at St. Benedict's Abbey in Benet Lake, Wis., for more than three decades.
It was immediately unclear if he has an attorney. Messages left at St. Benedict's weren't returned.
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Active KCFDC club members and KC region residents. (this is loosely enforced. it's basically in place to prevent bringing in ringers from outside the area.)I thought about reducing the requirement for women to just 1, but decided that is lame. We just need to get the ladies excited about taking part in this fun event. So again for 2013, 2 women per squad is required.I will be reducing the number of required masters aged players from 4 (in 2012) to just 3 this year.Each captain gets a spot.That means there will be 10 unrestricted spots on each team.3 starting spots on each team can be hand picked by their captain.No lottery required for starting 16, but one lottery for an alternate spot must be usedEach team is recommended to carry 2-3 alternates. Alternates can be used at will to start any round. (within class restrictions)West Side qualifiers:Final scores at the 2013 Kan-U-Wyco, 3 invitations will be offered for unrestricted players and 2 for Masters (40+). (declined invites will go to the next best score in that class).Four invitations (2 unrestricted, 1 masters and 1 woman) will be offered for the top scores at Summer league mini at Prairie Center on April 22Skills challenge as follows: 2 invitations awarded to best putting challenge scores and 2 invitations for best driving accuracy scores. I'll provide more details on the skills event later. But it will be held on a Sun. afternoon, May 6th, on the warmup field at Rosey.Alternates: one alt spot will be determined by lottery of all qualifying event participants. 2 more hand picked from "next best" efforts at the qualifying events.I will be doing the West side Captains picks and alternates selections at the conclusion of the skills qualifying event on May 6th. About the West side skills qualifying event:Putting challenge - You'll have 3 minutes to attempt 3 putts from each of 6 locations. Total made putts is your score. The players with the top 2 scores will get a spot on the team. Note: Two attempts at the circuit per person. You can bring as many or as few putters as you want. You can have a caddy help retrieve/clear discs. Driving accuracy challenge - Contestants will make 3 throws at each of 3 basket locations (270', 320' and 370'). The closest lie to each pin will be measured. The total of those 4 measured distances will be your score. The 2 players with the shortest total distance will get a spot on the team.Note: We'll do this in a rotation. That is, each player will get their mark from location 1. We'll seed throwing order by the first distance (longest first, shortest last), then throw at location 2. For locations 3 we'll seed throwing order by combined distance of rounds 1 and 2.
Apparently Prairie Center summer league is no more. As such, no qualifier for West Team will be held there. I will announce an alternative shortly.
West Side will invade Mo. territory for our final qualifier on May 9th at Water Works summer league.


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Randall Collins:
A Smart and Influential Theorist
Jonathan Turner, University of California-Riverside and University of California
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Professor Randall Collins has had a remarkable career. AB from Harvard College, MA from Stanford (in psychology), and MA and PhD from Berkeley (in sociology). His first academic job at the University of Wisconsin, first promoted at the University of California-San Diego, then professor at the University of Virginia, senior professor at the University of California-Riverside, and most recently, endowed Chair at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he has held many visiting positions at elite universities and institutes in the United States and around the globe. He has even quit academia occasionally to be a private scholar; and, on the side, he somehow managed to write engaging novels.
Randy has founded the two major theory journals in our discipline, served on the editorial board of just about every major journal, elected to chair several ASA sections, elected president of the Pacific Sociological Association and to ASA Council, received honorary doctorates, elected as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, received the ASA's Distinguished Scholarship Award for his truly monumental The Sociology of the Philosophies, lectured all over the world, and, not surprisingly, had seen many of his books translated into diverse languages. Randy is certainly one of the most cited sociologists ever, and he has published an enormous body of work. And now, he is the 102nd President the American Sociological Association, an honor that seemed (to me) almost inevitable for several decades.
Meeting the "Smartest Person"
It has been a distinct honor and pleasure to be Randy's friend for more than 30 years and, for 12 years, his colleague at University of California-Riverside (UCR). I cannot remember when we first met, but I had heard of him before I had read his work. Sometime in the mid-1970s, a colleague told me that he had just spent time with this incredibly smart assistant professor, Randall Collins, during a meeting at UC-San Diego. He proclaimed that Randy might be the smartest person he had ever met—a surprising admission since my colleague tended to see himself as this "smartest person." Impressed and intrigued, I eagerly bought and read Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science (1975) and began to think that my colleague might be right.
Of the many foundational works that Randy has written, Conflict Sociology is for me his best because it is an effort to develop a general theory—stated in a system of abstract laws—of human society at the micro, meso, and macro levels of social reality. This work introduces the early elements of his famous "interaction rituals," which Randy argues are the driving force of the micro, meso, and macro social orders. Over the decades, the conceptualization of interaction rituals has expanded considerably beyond its early Goffman and Durkheim roots into a more general theory of emotions and interaction processes from which all other socio-cultural formations are ultimately driven. Randy's most recent books—Interaction Ritual Chains (2004) and Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory (2008) and his in-progress book on Time-Dynamics of Conflict—all attest to the continuity in his theoretical approach since Conflict Sociology was first published (and republished this year by Paradigm Press).
Randy and I began to socialize frequently in the late 1970s when he was in San Diego and I still lived on the coast in Orange County. With his two children often in tow (who somehow managed to entertain themselves), we discussed theory and began a series of lifelong arguments from which I have learned a great deal. We would sometimes meet in places where one of us happened to be for an afternoon or day. For example, we met in Pasadena while Judy, his wife, visited her father and Randy prepared for a presentation later in the day in Los Angeles; we adjourned to a bar for lunch and on napkins began to write out ideas for what eventually became the journal Sociological Theory. During one of his self-inflicted "private scholar" phases after he resigned from the University of Virginia (to end the cross-country commute and be with his wife and children), he began teaching at UCR occasionally, then for a year, and to my delight, he joined our faculty full time in 1985. Even though he commuted from San Diego a day or two a week, we still managed to have many discussions, often with graduate students, about issues pertaining to sociological theory. We team taught several courses in a point-counterpoint format—even one with more faculty than students.
Collins the Colleague
Randy is the most responsive colleague I have ever had. He read my papers quickly and offered many comments and suggestions, and I also read his. In addition, he read papers from scholars from all over the world; he gave many talks on and off campus; he participated in public debates (mostly with me) for the benefit of our graduate students; and in general, Randy created an intellectual synergy and dynamism that is rare. He carried a large load of graduate students and brought out the best in them, just as he continues to do at the University of Pennsylvania. He even taught our very large introductory sociology class and enjoyed doing so. And, despite the long commute from San Diego (at times staying over night at my place) and his constant travels all over the world, he was not, in any intellectual sense, "absent." He has always been present in his capacity to get others, including me, to think about the issues.
Some of my own work has been enormously influenced by Randy's work and the many long-lasting debates that we had nurtured over the years. I would never have been pulled into the sociology of emotions, I suspect, had I not wanted to demonstrate that negative emotions as much as positive emotional energy drive interactions, nor would I have written the two books on institutions unless I desired to demonstrate (to Randy and the many doubters) that institutions are real emergent structures, not just reifications; I would not have begun to theorize at the micro social order unless I wanted to demonstrate that other key dynamics operate beyond interaction rituals. And so, a great deal of my productivity, and more importantly, the productivity of many others around the world has been kick-started by something that Randy has written. I had an often-loud dialogue with Randy, just as many others around the globe have used Randy's ideas to stimulate their work in a more silent dialogue. Thus, what marks Randy's intellectual achievements is not just their volume and obvious brilliance, but also their influence on generations of sociologists all over the world. Randy's books are widely translated and cited in almost every place on earth where social scientists think, talk, and write.
Another quality Randy possesses is that he is both an easy-going "good guy" and, at the same time, a constantly engaged intellectual—fun to talk to, drink and laugh with, and (in the old days when I was younger and foolish) to smoke cigars with, while still managing to discuss the state of affairs in sociology. There have been many lunches, dinners, parties, hikes, car rides, and sailing trips where we continued to talk sociology. Even on ceremonial occasions, such as when his wife (then, a superior court judge) officiated at the wedding of two of my children, we still managed to talk some sociology. Randy is a true intellectual, but he also knows how to have a good time and enjoy life.
Thus, I cannot think of anyone more deserving of the presidency of ASA than Randall Collins. It would seem that he has done all that at an academic can do, but I cannot imagine that he is finished. Indeed, his best work is likely to come in the years ahead. I am sure members will enjoy the 2011 ASA Annual Meeting for which Randy has chosen the theme, "Social Conflict: Multiple Dimensions and Arenas."


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Here's the elevator pitch on Mumford & Sons: U2 meets Old Crow Medicine Show at Bruce Springsteen's house. They have Old Crow's rootsy instrumentation and vintage wardrobe, and they share the Boss' heart-on-the-sleeve sincerity and world-conquering ambition. From U2 the band takes a melodramatic sense of musical dynamics, and singer-lyricist Marcus Mumford models Bono's strategy for rendering spiritual longing in terms that are accessible to a post-Christian world.
The Mumford blend of claw-hammering banjo, stand-up bass, thrashing acoustic guitar, and rolling piano blurs the line between the hoedown and the mosh pit. I know someone who plays fiddle in an old-time band and electric guitar in a thrash metal band; he says the only difference is the volume. In both cases, you're playing as fast as you can for people who are wildly jumping up and down. The Mumford boys, none of whom are really kin, have grasped that fact and run with it. Even songs like "Whisper in the Dark" that start out subdued and introspective end up thrashing and screaming.
Mumford's lyrics, meanwhile, seem to gnaw on matters romantic in terms biblical, and vice versa. Are the crumbling walls of the title track an image of a failed relationship or a literal reference to the Genesis story of human hubris? Mumford's father is a Church of England priest who became a major player in the evangelical Vineyard Fellowship, though Mumford the younger plays coy with interviewers about whether he even considers himself Christian. Still, lines like "Lord forget all my sins" and "Jesus told me all was well" at least point the listener toward considering the gospel story as a reference point for a post-modern life.
Mumford & Sons' music exudes a faith in faith, a belief in optimism against the odds and against the evidence, which is appealing in any time, under any label.
This article appeared on the December 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 12, pages 42-43)


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Victory Glass, Inc. was founded in 1979 by Steve Loots, to better
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Nicolas Charretier suspended for Anti-Doping violation
Anti-Doping France has announced that the Anti-Doping France Disciplinary Board has suspended Nicolas Charretier, a triathlete from France, from competition of six months after committing an anti-doping rule violation in an in-competition doping control test on 25 September 2011.
The ban begins 20 December 2011 and prohibits Charretier from entering or participating in any competition or activity authorised by ITU, its National Federations (NFs) and/or any other signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code.
Charretier's anti-doping rule violation was a result of an adverse analytical finding of prednisolone, a substance on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List, Annex 1 – Glucocorticoid substance (class S9).
As well as suspension Charretier will forfeit all individual results from 25 September 2011 including forfeiture of points, medals, awards and prizes.
French Triathlon Federation (FFTRI) distances itself from the use of doping products. FFTRI athletes are systematically informed and educated on how to behave and risks of doping.
ITU is strongly committed to maintaining the integrity of the sport by ensuring athletes are competing on a level-playing field by abiding to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code to help keep triathlon clean. ITU Anti-Doping Rules are written in compliance with the WADA Code. For a National Federation (NF) to be affiliated with ITU, it must abide by the WADA Code and ITU Rules.
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Topic: what are your favorite starwars vehicles?
what is(are) your favorits starwars vehicles?
Message Boards - Boba Fett Fan Club → Serious Geeking → what are your favorite starwars vehicles?
what is(are) your favorits starwars vehicles?
I would have to say Basilisks, LAAT, the fighter tank (preferably Republic style), and the classic X-Wing.
And of course a certain modified Firespray class attack ship.
mine would have to be a basilisk war droid(big surprise)
jedi starfighter (ep3)
boba fett's slave 1
imperial shuttle (like the Tydirium)
Vader's TIE fighter
the falcon
any ship equiped with that sonic space charge...how cool was that weapon?
Also, always a fan of the imperial chicken walker, that toy was a hoot.
you make me remember, i also liked ATATs.
the death star was classic
eh, it was more a station than a vehicle (although it was more like a planet of its own, considering it did orbit planets)
i guess your right
Slave I
Tie interceptor
Star destroyer
Hailfire droid
Slave 1 lol....
definitley the little carts that people are carried in on tatooine, seen in episode I.
i would have to say....
1.slave 1
2.tie interceptor
3.imperial landing craft
4.basilisk war droid
TIE fighter, definitely. The design is very cool, plus I always liked the sound they make.
I always liked the hellfire tanks because they are rolling high speed tires with missles. Oh and I really like the TIE Interceptors.
ps. Tie fighter noice = Elephant scream + car on wet pavement =P
Basilisk war droid
Imperial tanks (whatever they're called)
Jedi Starfighter (Aethersprite) and the Skysprite
Slave I, Basilisk War Droid, Ebon Hawk, TIE fighters, and the Falcon are my favorites.
The AT-AT, AT-TE, Speeder Bike, and Jango's Slave 1 (cu'z you get to see it do stuff in the movie).
Slave 1, Basilisk, Prince Xizor's Virago, TIE Defender, Sith Infiltrator(Scimitar-Darth Maul's ship), and the IG-2000.
For me it'd be:
Slave 1 (Given)
Speeder bike (ROTJ)
Basilisk (Thing's a beauty!)
And the list goes on. These are just my BIG TIME favourites. As a side note, they are in no particular order.
You know I also like the TIE fighter. There's something classic and heart-warming about it ( Did I just say heart-warming? There's something wrong with me....), you know it really brings me back to a good era in my life. Lol.....
Slave I
TIE Fighter
I'd have to say the ARC-170 starfighter. Pretty decent specs.
Mine is the Hailfire droid.
The Falcon
Slave I
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Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, Blues Traveler and Uncle Kracker will bring Springfield back to the 1990s during a show at the new BOS Plaza on Sunday.
Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath realized his dreams were coming true back in 1997.
Shortly before his band, which was touring with Smash Mouth, had its first huge hit with "Fly," Sugar Ray found a large crowd waiting outside a Springfield venue.
Both bands went on to sell millions of records, top the charts and tour the world, and they released some of the most popular songs of the 1990s.
"The whole '90s was surreal," McGrath said.
On Sunday, Sugar Ray and Smash Mouth will return to Springfield. The "Under the Sun Tour" also includes turn-of-the-millennium favorites Blues Traveler and Uncle Kracker. The show kicks off at 6 p.m. Sunday at the outdoor BOS Plaza, a new venue adjacent to the Prairie Capital Convention Center at Ninth and Adams streets (see information at end of this article for ticket details).
The tour unites four acts that, between them, have 15 Top 40 hits — including "Fly" and "Someday" for Sugar Ray, "Hook" and "Run-Around" for Blues Traveler, "All-Star" and "Walking on the Sun" for Smash Mouth, and "Follow Me" and "Drift Away" for Uncle Kracker.
"If you don't like No. 1 songs from the '90s, please don't come," McGrath said.
Embracing 1990s nostalgia
Sugar Ray and Smash Mouth both have played in Springfield — Sugar Ray opened for Goo Goo Dolls at the 1999 Illinois State Fair, and Smash Mouth played at the fair in 2003 with Everclear.
The touring groups' success on the radio dwindled in the new millennium, but their infectious hits are again radio favorites.
"People grow up in certain decades," McGrath said. "We wrote some hits that meant something to some people."
In the '90s, "the walls of music got broken down," McGrath explained, pointing to Lollapalooza. The annual music festival combines many genres.
It was "a really cool thing to be a part of," McGrath said. "Music is very powerful. It's not defined by coolness. It's defined by what you like."
While the four touring acts vary in genre, there is a common upbeat sound.
"Even if some of the lyrics might be a bit melancholy, you know, the music itself lends itself to being uplifting," McGrath said.
Besides music, McGrath also found success acting and hosting television shows, including "Extra."
He'll be in "Sharknado 2: The Second One," which premieres on the Syfy channel on July 30.
"I just kind of keep my head down, show up for work, and put a smile on my face and just thank God I've got another job," he said.
Music will always be his main passion.
"I love performing these Sugar Ray songs and, knock on wood, I always will," he said. "I pinch myself every day."
Back on the road
Smash Mouth bassist Paul De Lisle is looking forward to a summer driving around the country.
"Our hobbies became our jobs, which is the greatest thing ever," he said.
On the road, De Lisle and lead singer Steve Harwell, the two remaining original Smash Mouth members, watch the old Western "Bonanza." They have traveled together so long, they have put together a cookbook, "Recipes from the Road," to share their favorite food joints in towns throughout the United States.
"We have an interesting perspective," said De Lisle, who wrote stories about the band's trips to the cities profiled in the book.
Smash Mouth straddled both sides of the millennium, scoring its first big hit in 1997 with "Walking on the Sun," and continuing through the early 2000s with its remake of "I'm A Believer" for the first "Shrek" movie and "Pacific Coast Party."
With all of the changes in the recording industry and the ease of selling music as digital downloads, it's unlikely fans will see traditional records from either group. In fact, Sugar Ray doesn't even have a record label.
"We write music to play it live," McGrath added.
Still, for McGrath, nothing's better than seeing an old hit up next on a set list.
"'Fly' was the song that took us around the world," he said.
Sugar Ray/Smash Mouth/Blues Traveler/Uncle Kracker (rock/pop)
When: 6 p.m. Sunday
Where: BOS Plaza, outside the Prairie Capital Convention Center, Ninth and Adams streets
Tickets: $35/$49/$99, available at Ticketmaster.com, (800) 745-3000, or at the PCCC box office from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.


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Horse bedding, whether pine shavings or pine pellets is one of the greatest expenses for any horse farm owner. As stable owners ourselves, we recognize the importance of reducing animal bedding costs while maintaining the level of horse care and cost management you require. From manufacturer to manufacturer, wood shavings and wood pellets are not created equal. Year after year, we remain committed to providing the highest quality horse bedding options at the best possible prices.
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Our proprietary UHCBSł fiber binding technology produces the lowest dust, high absorbency formula in an animal bedding pellet. This unique process triple screens and high heat treats the pine fibers so they are clean, resilient, absorbent and long lasting under the weight of a horse.
The guardian horse bedding pine pellet will drastically reduce odors caused by ammonia and solids. The manure is essentially "dehydrated" by our pine fiber to reduce odor and stain causing moisture.
Great as a base under any of our shavings as well.
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With our high compression bag, we actually pack more shavings into our "smaller" finished size bag than other brands put in their larger, cumbersome bag. You'll get 1260 bags on every semi we ship to you! This is 15 - 20% more bags on the truck than other brands. You get more shavings overall and save money on every bag. What could make more sense? Give us a call 1-866-962-4686 or send us an email. We would be happy to quote a truckload of our superior horse bedding products delivered right to your farm or your store!
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Flor is a Mochila bag made by the Wayuu women of Guajira Colombia. It is 100% handmade and it has taken approximately 3 weeks to weave. The braided strap, its colors and patterns make of this bag a unique product, perfect for any occasion and style.
This bag is made was made using a double thread count, giving it a thick and strong weave. This weaving technique makes the bags both durable and long lasting, differentiating it from other traditional bags. The strap was made by the Wayuu men using an old traditional technique.
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These beautiful pieces are entirely hand woven by the expert women weavers of the Waguu tribe, with every stitch reflecting their moods, personality, creativity, wisdom and intelligence, making each and every Mochila Bag a special and unique item. The Wayuu women of Guajira Colombia spend four weeks to make these 100% handmade bags. Every Bag is handmade from cotton.
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text: 17 Dec 2013 08:00 airBaltic and Etihad Airways have marked the start of direct Riga-Abu Dhabi flights with a ceremony at Riga International Airport in Latvia. Attended by the Latvian Prime Minister, government officials, airline executives, business leaders, travel agents and media, the event also officially kicked off a new Etihad Airways-airBaltic codeshare partnership. From today airBaltic will operate an Airbus A319 aircraft four times a week between the Latvian capital and Etihad Airways' Abu Dhabi hub. The aircraft is configured with 14 seats in Business Class and 102 seats in Economy Class. Etihad Airways has placed its 'EY' flight code on the new airBaltic operated service, and beyond to 15 cities including: Alesund, Barcelona, Bergen, Billund, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Lappeenranta, Oslo, Prague, Stavanger, Stockholm, Tallinn, Turku, Vienna and Vilnius. Subject to regulatory approvals, airBaltic will soon place its 'BT' flight code on Etihad Airways flights beyond Abu Dhabi to Cairo, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Amman and Muscat. Speaking at the launch, Latvian Prime Ministir Vladis Dombrovskis, said: "Today marks the first time Riga has been linked by air with Abu Dhabi, one of the world's fastest growing cities, and a global hub for airBaltic's codeshare partner Etihad Airways. "This direct flight will open up a range of business and leisure opportunities, which previously never existed. It will support trade development between Latvia and the rest of the world, increase tourism in both directions, and result in a range of new connection options for customers of both airlines." Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic, said: "Today's event is about two airlines working together, using the strengths and opportunities of each carrier's network, and putting an attractive travel proposition to our most important target – the customer. "Working with Etihad Airways, we look forward to making this new route and the connectivity it offers over Riga and Abu Dhabi a great success, and we will continue to look at ways to expand our network in the future." Also present in Riga, Hareb Al Muhairy, Etihad Airways' Vice President UAE, said: "Global reach is beyond the capacity of any single airline and our view is that progress must come through partnership. Today marks the official start of our partnership with airBaltic, and the first time we have been able to offer Riga as an Etihad Airways codeshare destination. "Underpinning the route are growing commercial ties between the UAE and Latvia. The UAE is one of Latvia's main trading partners in the Gulf region and in 2012 Latvia's exports to the UAE reached EUR 72 million, 102 per cent up on 2011." "We very much look forward to welcoming airBaltic's customers on our flights beyond Abu Dhabi to key destinations across the globe. Equally, I have full confidence that airBaltic will extend their hospitality to our customers over Riga." Get in touch with us. Contact us Let us know what you think Send feedback Join our community Etihad Facebook Watch our latest videos Etihad YouTube Follow us Etihad Airways


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Analysts at Monness Crespi Hardt on Tuesday cut their rating on Dell Inc. DELL, +1.68% to neutral from buy based on valuation after a run-up in the stock on reports of buyout talks with private equity firms. The Wall Street Journal reported Dell's in negotiations with Silver Lake and TPG about a leveraged buyout. Shares rose 3.7% in premarket trades on Tuesday, on top of a 13% jump on Monday. "We believe Dell still has a ways to go in its turnaround, and intuitively expect a leveraged buyout would decelerate this transformation and takes the potential for a large transformational investment off the table," Monness Crespi analysts said.
Dell cut to neutral after stock run-up
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