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(Weybridge, Surrey, UK) – Lynx® Golf – the iconic equipment brand trusted by multiple major championship winners over its storied history – unveils LynxGolfUSA.com, a new website providing American golfers access to the manufacturer's innovative lines, including the new Black Cat Series.
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Fifty-plus years ago, on a spring night in New York City, 35-year-old Marilyn Monroe -- sewn into a sparkling, jaw-droppingly tight dress -- stood alone in a spotlight on a dark stage. She took a breath, began to sing -- and 15,000 men and women who filled the old Madison Square Garden that night knew, simply knew, that they were seeing and hearing something that they would never, ever forget.
The song, of course, was "Happy Birthday," and Marilyn's breathy, intimate rendition — sung, as if the two of them were utterly alone, to President John F. Kennedy — has been celebrated, analyzed and lovingly parodied countless times in the five decades since that indelible performance. But beyond the buzz that Marilyn's "Happy Birthday" generated — including, of course, tossing fuel on the already smoldering rumors about an affair between the movie star and the president — the moment, captured from above by photographer Bill Ray in his iconic picture of Monroe, played a key role in the legends that eventually grew around both the actress and JFK. Marilyn, after all, died less than three months later; Kennedy was assassinated the following fall. For stargazers and dusty old historians alike, the night that Marilyn sang to JFK remains an uncanny, once-in-a-lifetime collision of sex, politics, power and pop culture.
[WATCH: Bill Ray discusses how he got his famous shot of Marilyn.]
"For most people my age," remembers Ray, who was 26 in 1962, "Kennedy was something of a god. We were so relieved to have a young, good-looking person in the White House after Eisenhower."
Of the setup for the birthday gala that night in the Garden, Ray recalls that "all of the photographers were in front in the beginning of the show, but it was another one of these events where security says, 'Hey, we're really glad you came. Take a few pictures — and get your ass out!' The Secret Service started clearing everybody out after a few shots. I was afraid of being held in a cattle pen with the rest of the photographers, so I got away and started moving around the Garden on my own."
Trying to find an angle from which he might be able to get both Marilyn and JFK in the same frame, Ray moved higher and higher up in the Garden. He had made his way on to a catwalk, literally up among the building's girders, when the moment that would forever define the evening suddenly arrived.
"It had been a noisy night, a very 'rah rah rah' kind of atmosphere," Ray told LIFE.com. "Then boom, on comes this spotlight. There was no sound. No sound at all. It was like we were in outer space." Marilyn was onstage, taking off a white fur to reveal that utterly gorgeous, scandalous dress underneath. "It was skin-colored, and it was skin-tight. It was sewn on, covered with brilliant crystals. There was this long, long pause . . . and finally, she comes out with this unbelievably breathy, 'Happy biiiiirthday to youuuu,' and everybody just went into a swoon. I was praying [that I could get the shot] because I had to guess at the exposure. It was a very long lens, and I had no tripod, so I had to rest the lens itself on the railing, and tried very, very hard not to breathe."
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The office of Republican Rep. Todd Akin is reacting angrily to a quote attributed to GOP activist Karl Rove that joked about the idea of the Missouri Senate candidate being murdered.
Bloomberg Businessweek's website reported Friday that Rove's comment came at a GOP donors' breakfast at the Tampa Club in Florida. The site says Rove quipped to the audience: "We should sink Todd Akin. If he's found mysteriously murdered, don't look for my whereabouts!"
A Rove spokesman didn't immediately return a call and email from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Akin's office issued a statement calling the quote deeply disturbing, given that the FBI has been investigating threats against Akin after his comments that women's bodies can shut down pregnancy in cases of what he called "legitimate rape."


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McDuffies wrote:That would be wonderful, although I don't like to encourage people to review a comic that hasn't updated for ages.
LibertyCabbage wrote:Extra information on medieval Spain would've been a nice touch, however, sort of like how the creator of Without Moonlight elaborates on World War II-era Greece.
The table also doesn't make it clear how long the comic is, as while it has links for 143 pages, the real page count's probably closer to around 300.
Malena also makes a very reasonable point: If she really is the best swordfighter in Spain, then she deserves to be acknowledged and rewarded for it. Even her superior fighting style is criticized, however, being called "girlish," showing how resistant the society is to anything that deviates from tradition.
King Alfonso and some other characters hypocritically twist this dynamic, however, proclaiming Christian righteousness as the motivation to fulfill their selfish desires.
While Little White Knight demonstrates a great amount of skill in its writing, it's impossible to ignore the Serbian creator's major shortcomings in translating the dialogue and captions to English. Spelling and grammatical mistakes are the norm, typos are common, and practically every sentence in the comic's written in a way that's awkward and unnatural. The dialogue's also noticeably plain, and lacks the playful, stylistic flair a capable English writer's expected to deliver.
Scott McCloud has a section in his book Understanding Comics that explains why simplistic figures are easier to relate to, and this contrast encourages the reader to root for Malena's success right from her first appearance.
This is an outstanding graphic novel that's a step up in quality from the rest of the webcomics scene.
McDuffies wrote:I have a funny idea of finding someone with actual education in the field to write me an about page, a sort of like how in graphic novels there's sometimes a preface written by others.
McDuffies wrote:It's a sort of a bonus for knowledgeable, Malena fights in style that didn't exist in her time, back when swordfighting was more about straightforward test of strength and endurance and less about agility. It's a cute little anachronism but not something I'd want to flaunt at reader's face.
McDuffies wrote:I was hoping not to make any strongly antagonistic characters... to me, they were all doing what was in their best interest and operating under the mindset that is far removed from today's... medieval man acting like medieval man is not backward or anything. Like Alfonso, I wanted him to be comical and flawed, but also likeable, after all from a westerner's perspective, he was doing something good, and naturally he had to make some rough cuts... like, at the time he was one of the early rulers who favored diplomacy over war, which certainly puts him in my good book, but it's natural that most of the characters would think that he was betraying the idea of chivalry and manliness, even though I don't. But he's certainly an interesting character, that kind of persistence must have come from some peculiar emotional baggage. So, I don't know how it came out in the end.
McDuffies wrote: Sadly. But I should note that I avoided any faux-medieval flavour. To my mind, you have to have them sound to today's readers the way they would sound to an observer from that time.
Except I tried not to have any slang. That would have been silly.
McDuffies wrote:If I remember well, he postulated that simplistic art style is more intrinsically symbolic so you are more free to project to it? That was actually one part of the book that is dubious to me, that whole pyramid looks like a pure academic exercise... I think that simple artwork is simply easier on the eyes, gives you basic information instantly and with less distraction. Also people love skinny characters with big eyes.
McDuffies wrote:Shucks. I didn't expect you'd praise me that much.
His diplomatic efforts are somewhat commendable, but I get the impression it has a lot to do with wanting to avoid the responsibility of managing a war, and apparently the king's expected to fight alongside his soldiers, which is something Alfonso clearly isn't equipped for.
And as for the hypocrisy part, I don't consider it to be "strongly antagonistic," but there's a certain degree of vice involved with publicly appearing motivated by a strong sense of religious devotion, while privately showing no regard for Christian principles. Contrast this with the blacksmith, who basically says, "Poor people like me are immoral, too, but at least we don't act like we're better than everybody else." In any case, he's definitely an interesting character.
However, that isn't what I was referring to when I complained about the dialogue being "plain," and it would still be plain if you'd used a modern setting. By "plain" I mean that it does a good job of conveying information, but it lacks a noteworthy artistic, individualistic touch. Only the particularly skilled English writers do it, though, and in this case it's somewhat irrelevant in the context of the comic's huge technical problems.
McDuffies wrote:I see that you have an image of him as a right bastard, which is not something I intended. Historically, he did fight with his soldiers though, now I realize that I have never showed him on a battlefield. Sometimes I forget which chapters I finished and which I did, and I know that the later ones do show him on battlefield.
McDuffies wrote:It was medieval times though. It was times when it was commonly believed that king indeed was sent directly by god to rule the land with pretty much free range, a belief that is shared by all characters of the comic (well except those in dreams I guess).
McDuffies wrote:I guess that's one of many reasons why I chose comics instead of prose.
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That was fun, and congratulations to Diana for winning the signed copy of the book! Totally jealous of you right now. :P
I'm pretty excited!
Check out mah iPhone/iPad app (Japanese card game, Koi-Koi): Kiki's Koi-Koi.
Can't wait till next Wednesday so we can find out what we're reading next!
Until then I'm going to read other things
Alright it only took a completely new set of forums for me to log back in and update the book club status. Seriously though I'm sorry it's taken so long, school and apartment/house hunting has been taking up a lot of my time. For our next book we will be reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman which I am super excited about. I will make a doodle and post it in here very very soon. I hope you are are doing well and are excited about reading Neverwhere.
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Let's get this part started again! Any suggestions on what we should kick off Book Club 3.0 with and possibly how to make it better? Maybe a book club podcast every month or something like that?
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Rivers of London/known as Midnight Riot in the US? It's the first book in a series about a Police Officer investigating supernatural crimes in London, and I want everyone to read it.
Maybe a book club blog/using this forum to post our thoughts under a spoiler tag when we're done reading it, and people can read through them as they finish the book?
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I'd be open to the book club starting up again. I've barely read any new books lately and I could use a reason to read new ones.
Let's get it going finally!
I'm reading a few books rn. Can post some ideas while I'm bored at work tomorrow .
I didn't even know this was a thing until it was mentioned during the marathon. A book club sounds great!


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5 ways to make a 3-sided pool fence safer
For safety, you just can't beat a 4-sided pool fence, with a self-closing, self-latching gate. There is no better layer of protection for your pool, to keep guests, family and neighbors safe.
They don't win any beauty contests, especially when they're this close to the pool, but they do the job.
Many areas are now requiring a 4-sided fence of a certain type to be installed around new pool construction. But back in the day, a 3-sided fence was common, with the fourth side being the house.
In some areas, not so long ago - pools were built without any fence at all, as long as it had an automatic cover. Or in rural areas, where inspection may be lacking, pool fences are too.
The majority of pools that I see, in my travels, are built rather close to the house, and a perimeter fence is installed that connects to the house. Over time, the fence will sag and the gates become rickety. But all in all, a 3 sided fence provides decent protection from those who would come in from the outside.
But! The danger of drowning is usually higher from the people that are inside the house, not those that are outside, like pool-hopping neighbors or lost dogs. What can you do to secure the fourth-side of your pool perimeter, that is the real question - and the topic of this blog post.
5 pool fence safety tips
1. Lock the doors! Automatic close and lock doors are available, even for sliding glass doors. Small signs can help too, placed just above the lock.
2. Door Alarms: Every egress to the pool, from the house should have a door alarm, that will beep when the door is opened.
3. Secondary perimeter fence. Install an interior fence, between the back of the house and the pool. Install wide gates on wheels, and you can open the inside fence fully during periods of high pool use. Mesh safety fencing is another option that can be easily removed by an adult.
4. Pool Alarms: An in-pool alarm acts as a secondary layer of protection, after the door alarms. If an person or animal falls in the pool, these alarms sound loudly at the pool, and in the house at a remote area.
5. Safety Cover: If you have a complete deck around your pool, you can install a mesh safety cover that can be put on quickly to secure the pool, and also be a winter cover (for those that need one).
This spring, take some time to review your pool fence, and if you have a 3-sided fence, or even worse, no fence at all - take some steps to make the pool more secure for 2012. A preventable tragedy in your backyard, would take all the fun out of owning a pool.


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Funeral mass for brutal gangster 'Whitey' Bulger: 'We entrust our final judgment to God'
Notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger was found dead in prison. He eluded authorities for 16 years before being captured. USA TODAY
A private funeral mass for gangster James "Whitey'' Bulger was held Thursday in South Boston, the same area where Bulger grew up and once ran his ruthless gang.
Bulger, 89, was found beaten to death in a West Virginia prison on Oct. 30, shortly after he was transferred to the location. He was serving a life sentence in connection with a reign of terror that included gun trafficking and murder.
Thursday's mass was held St. Monica Church, according to the archdiocese of Boston. Bulger's body was present at the service, which was attended only by immediate family members.
The priest who offered the Mass issued a statement to WBZ-TV, saying the service was offered "at the request of and out of pastoral care for the Bulger family."
"The Church is certainly aware of the deep pain that innocent victims of crime and violence live with every day," the statement from Rev. James Flavin, pastor of St. Monica-St. Augustine Church, read.
"As Catholic priests we are called to bury the dead and pray for God's justice and mercy. We entrust our final judgement to God."
Among the family members who attended the mass: William "Billy'' Bulger — brother of "Whitey'' Bulger — and one of Massachusetts' most powerful politicians who served as president of the state Senate for 18 years.
Bulger was nicknamed "Whitey" for his bright platinum hair. Known as one of the nation's most notorious criminals and fugitives, he was the head of a violent South Boston crime ring known as the Winter Hill Gang from the 1970s into the 1990s.
Several movies, including Black Mass and The Departed, depicted his life of crime.
The FBI has contended that Bulger was a longtime informant. He denied that claim.
Officials have said two mobsters are under suspicion in Bulger's killing, but no charges have yet been brought.
Contributing: Jorge L. Ortiz and Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY; The Associated Press.


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** Oscar Bias Against Conservatives Nixes Award for Best-Selling Doc '2016'
The two conservative filmmakers behind this year's most popular documentary, 2016: OBAMA'S AMERICA, claim political bias "against anything from a conservative point of view" is behind the Oscar snub of their movie.
2016 was deemed ineligible for the Best Documentary Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, even though it made more money at the box office, $33.4 million, than the combined earnings of the 15 movies deemed Oscar worthy.
"I want to thank the Academy for not nominating our film," Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative pundit behind the movie version of his new book, joked.
"By ignoring 2016, the top-performing box-office hit of 2012, and pretending that films like SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN and THIS IS NOT A FILM are more deserving of an Oscar, our friends in Hollywood have removed any doubt average Americans may have had that liberal political ideology, not excellence, is the true standard of what receives awards."
"Dinesh warned me this might happen," Producer Gerald Molen, who produced the Oscar-winning SCHINDLER'S LIST said with a laugh.
"The action confirms my opinion that the bias against anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival in Hollywood circles," he added. "The film's outstanding success means that America went to see the documentary in spite of how Hollywood feels about it."
Among the 15 movies deemed eligible by the Academy included movies with liberal, politically correct content like CHASING ICE, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, BULLY, and THE WAITING ROOM.
Like Mr. D'Souza, MOVIEGUIDE® isn't surprised by the Oscar snub for 2016. Being a liberal in Hollywood is like joining an elite club. So, many people working in the entertainment industry, especially people trying to establish a career in that industry, decide to join that club to get jobs, recognition, partners, and friendships.
Liberal blacklists against conservatives, which go back to the 1930s, have proven to be far more powerful than the specious anti-communist blacklist that had its heyday in the 1950s.
Ironically, when Communist dictator Joseph Stalin signed a pact with National Socialist dictator Adolph Hitler in 1939, many of the strongest leftists in Hollywood went along with it. Significantly, a new documentary on American history by leftist filmmaker Oliver Stone makes excuses for Stalin's decision, a move that has had a long history among the Left in America and elsewhere.
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There are very few name clashes in Ireland for town of over 800 inhabitants. Use the common name without a county appendage - otherwise the map looks very cluttered. Sometimes it is necessary to append a county e.g. to distinguish between Newport Mayo and Newport Tipperary. Only add the county if absolutely necessary. In Dublin city the name Dublin is not very useful so please use the suburb names as they appear in the 1:15000 Ordnance Survey maps (available in petrol stations and many shops). Don't append - Dublin, (Dublin) or other qualifier as this makes the map very unwieldy.


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My 30 year career in the field of education has given me the opportunity not only to work with many wonderful youngsters, but also develop my crafting skills. Along with creating for fun and non-profits, I've decided to "do my own thing" and set up a business turning oyster shells into stunning earrings and pendants. Part of my blog will journal my experiences as a new business owner and blogger, as well as other crafty things that cross my path and places my path crosses. View all posts by Letha Eller


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Word on the street is that Doug Collins is the front-runner for the Chicago Bulls' head coaching position.
Didn't we just fire this guy?
Oh, wait… that was Scott Skiles. This is Doug Collins, a Midwestern mind that was the first overall pick in the 1973 NBA draft. My mistake.
Collins has won 53.6% of his games as a coach (332 wins and 287 losses). He's had moderate success in the post-season with a career record of 15-23 in the playoffs. He's branded as a defensive-minded, old-school coach that is hailed as a guy that develops younger players.
Doesn't this sound familiar?
Scott Skiles, the guy that was fired from this position on Christmas Eve, has won 52.8% of his games. In comparison, he's gone 15-20 in the post-season. Skiles is a coach that focuses on defense. He's old-school. He was branded as a great teacher.
As I've gotten older, I've noticed that opportunities arise depending on who you know rather than what you know. Doug Collins is a good coach and he knows the game. If you've listened to his comments during TNT broadcasts, you'll likely agree with me.
However, this move reeks of "good ol' boy." Collins has some sway in league circles; he's in the know. Take a look around at other teams' recent hires — Mike D'Antoni, Larry Brown, Rick Carlisle, Scott Skiles and Erik Spoelstra. Everyone but Spoelstra is on at least their third coaching stop. Is fraternity really that thick?
Paxson can't find someone fresher than Collins? He has been out of coaching for five years. Since leaving the Washington Wizards, he's made it very clear that he was no longer willing partake in the plight of an NBA coach.
I don't blame John Paxson for sticking to his guns and hiring an old-school guy. Paxson realizes that it takes defense to make noise in the playoffs — as evidenced by this year's NBA final four. He can re-tool a bit and draft Michael Beasley or Derrick Rose. But he's leveraging his suddenly attractive coaching spot to grab a re-thread?
Maybe we should've just re-hired Skiles.
I guess I'll just have to wait 10 years.


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More than 500 riot police, some firing tear gas, are clashing with protesters squatting in a wooded area of western France to oppose the building of a new airport there.
In a muddy, rainy standoff starting early Friday, protesters responded to police attempts to remove them by hurling sticks, stones and gasoline bombs. For two weeks, protesters have illegally occupied the site of the planned Notre-Dame-Des-Landes airport set to start operating in 2017.
Environmentalists and the far-left Green Party complain the airport will mean pollution; supporters insist on its economic benefits.
The issue has driven a wedge in the Socialist-led government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, which includes some Green Party members. Ayrault is the longtime mayor of the nearby city of Nantes and has championed the airport plan.


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France star Paul Pogba, fresh from his European Championships semi-final triumph last night, is still being linked with a £100m move from Juventus to Manchester United, according to newspaper reports.
Both The Daily Telegraph and the Guardian are reporting that the move could be sorted in the coming weeks.
The Telegraph says new United boss Jose Mourinho hopes to finalise the move before the Community Shield at the start of August. The Guardian says the player's agent is to meet Juventus officials after the European Championship final.
Two newspapers are linking another Euro 2016 star, Wales' Joe Allen, with a move away from Liverpool.
The Daily Telegraph says his former club Swansea City are among six in the race for his signature, while the Daily Mirror confirm he is one of up to eight players who boss Jurgen Klopp may offload.
West Ham United could be losing one striker and gaining another. Diafra Sakho has handed in a transfer request, while Turkey's Gokham Tore could be joining on a season-long loan from Besiktas, according to the Daily Mail.
Another striker on the move could be Julian Draxler as Arsenal look to capture the German from Wolfsburg for up to £43m, says the Sun.


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By CHRISTOPHER WILLS
SPRINGFIELD — Just weeks after signing a major tax increase into law, Gov. Pat Quinn gets the privilege of telling Illinois lawmakers and taxpayers that the state's budget is still a mess.
Even with higher income taxes, Illinois won't have enough money to pay all its expenses for the coming year, let alone cover the billions in old bills that have been allowed to pile up.
When Quinn delivers his budget proposal Wednesday, he's likely to call for significant spending cuts in some areas. He will undoubtedly renew his call for borrowing $8.7 billion to pay old bills. And a document from his budget office indicates he wants to take another try at raising cigarette taxes.
Quinn has largely stayed out of sight in the run-up to his budget address, but in an appearance Friday the Chicago Democrat talked about the importance of money for education, health care and public safety. At the same time, he warned Illinois must be "very, very frugal."
State budget director David Vaught said Quinn will make it clear that raising taxes by two-thirds did not solve Illinois' budget problems.
"The General Assembly and the public will see the spending pressures," Vaught said in an interview with The Associated Press last week. "They'll see where we plan to spend and where we don't. We'll make clear not just that we're saying no but why we're saying no."
The Quinn administration has been studying possible cuts to human services - cuts that advocates for the poor describe as draconian.
"We're terrified," said Maria Whelan, president of Illinois Action for Children. "Our hope is the pain will be shared and the most vulnerable people in our state do not bear the brunt."
State employees and retirees may also be targeted, if not by Quinn then by the Legislature.
House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, recently warned lawmakers of tough decisions that lie ahead and even suggested cutting pension benefits for current state employees, a move generally considered unconstitutional.
"If you come here and you don't want to cast a difficult vote, well, you ought to go back home and give the job to somebody else," Madigan said.
It's not clear just how big a deficit Illinois faces in the budget year that starts July 1. The Quinn administration has avoided direct answers to that question.
A three-year budget outline from Quinn's office shows he's counting on some revenue measures that haven't been approved yet, notably a $330 million increase in cigarette taxes.
A review of the document suggests a gap of more than $3 billion between income and expenses in the coming year. On top of that, the state owes about $8.7 billion to groups that provide services on government's behalf, to corporations waiting for tax refunds and to the program that provides medical care for government employees.
So the total deficit could top $12 billion. That's one-third of state government's total spending from general funds.
Quinn and Democratic legislative leaders want to borrow money to pay the overdue bills quickly. They argue it's more responsible for government to take on the debt directly rather than borrowing it unofficially by simply not paying what it owes.
Republicans generally oppose the idea, but Quinn has been trying to build public support. He has set up a website promoting the plan - which he calls debt restructuring instead of borrowing - and is urging vendors to demand their money.
The budget outline also counts on federal aid remaining steady even though the economic stimulus program that has propped up state budgets is ending. It's not clear how Quinn expects to avoid a drop-off that would further add to the deficit.
Vaught made the task of balancing the budget sound like playing a Whac-a-Mole game. Officials reduce employee costs but pension expenses jump. They cut drug-addiction treatment yet medical costs keep climbing.
"If you push it down over here, it pops up over there," Vaught said.
Quinn's latest budget will include a new wrinkle: a cap on spending.
The law that raised Illinois income taxes to 5 percent, up from 3 percent, also set a specific limit on how much money the state can spend in each of the next three years.
The cap for the first year includes plenty of room for spending the roughly $7 billion the higher taxes should generate, but later years could see more pain. Rising expenses are likely to bump up against the limits, forcing cuts in discretionary spending.
Vaught said Illinois must seize what he calls a "great opportunity."
The tax increase will bring in much-needed cash, he said, and borrowing to pay old bills would resolve a nagging problem. Together, the two measures will get state government out of crisis mode.
"They give you a fresh start," Vaught said.
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Johnny Manziel mania sweeps through Cleveland
BEREA, Ohio — Johnny Manziel spent the final hours of a tumultuous draft day like only Johnny Football could — drinking champagne in the wee hours of Friday morning with popular rapper Drake, and chatting by phone with LeBron James.
"He spoke very highly of Cleveland," Manziel told USA TODAY Sports about his conversation with James. "Obviously, his exiting situation wasn't taken exactly the right way, but I think he still has love for this city, and I think he's excited for me to be here."
Within hours of the Browns' choice to draft Manziel with the 22nd pick Thursday night, it was clear — the Johnny Football Era would be unlike anything Browns fans have ever seen.
ANALYSIS:Pick-by-pick coverage of the draft
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ON THE MOVE:How the Browns landed Manziel
Manziel is a legitimate superstar. He parties with rappers and sits courtside at NBA games all while trailed by paparazzi.
Cleveland, meet Johnny Football.
Manziel's arrival apparently inspired more than 2,300 people to purchase season tickets.
Fans lined up outside the team store before it opened to be among the first to purchase the No. 2 Manziel jerseys being printed on site at FirstEnergy Stadium. Others spent most of the day waiting on the sidewalk across the street from the team facility hoping for a glimpse of the quarterback.
Manziel heard their chants of "Super Bowl!" and understands the pressure that comes with being the next great hope in a city starved for a winner.
"I get that there is a crowd that can get drawn in, there's buzz and all that, but I don't necessarily see myself as a celebrity," Manziel said. "The buzz and the hype, it could be good, it could be bad, but I look at it in a positive light knowing that those guys will support me and support this team."
Yet as Manziel settled into a chair in a conference room Friday afternoon and took off a Browns ball cap, he looked more like a regular rookie football player and less like Johnny Football.
Manziel exhaled, rubbed his face, and said was relieved to have the draft behind him.
"I'm sure it's a little crazy still, but there's a weight that's been lifted off. I finally know where I'm going to be spending the next few years of my life, with the coaches, with the city," Manziel said. "Draft day wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but the days before I headed to New York were probably the most nerve wracking. You can't do anything. You're just hoping one of these 32 teams likes you enough to take you."
That evaluation process was trickier when it came to Manziel, because everything that made Johnny Football the most famous name in college football was part of the package NFL teams had to consider — the good or bad.
Manziel understood his life would be scrutinized, and he made a concerted effort since his sophomore season at Texas A&M ended to control his image.
He left Texas and moved to California, where he spent months training with quarterback guru George Whitfield, and he was careful about what he posted on his social media accounts. His pictures were mostly football related – shots of him working out, throwing or going through drills, or images of him and his family.
"There were times last year where I may have played into the persona a little bit. This year, when I decided to make the decision to enter the draft, I moved out to San Diego and tried to stay more low key," Manziel said. "I tried to make it more about my business, more about football. It always has been, it's just been portrayed in a different light. I went a little bit on the extreme, because I wanted teams to know that I was all business."
It worked with the Browns, who were enamored with Manziel's unique and dynamic quarterback style, his competitive nature and strong leadership skills. Those are traits general manager Ray Farmer saw in person when he went to College Station, Texas, last fall to watch Manziel's Aggies play the University of Alabama.
Farmer focused his attention on the sideline to see how Manziel would behave with his teammates. How would he react to a bad play? How would he react to a good one? How would he react if his team was losing? Would he sulk, or would he rally his teammates?
Farmer loved what he saw.
First-year Browns head coach Mike Pettine got the same feeling after meeting Manziel this spring.
Among Pettine's questions were if Manziel truly loved playing football, or if he just loved the perks that came along with being so very good at it.
Had Pettine gotten the sense that Manziel craved fame more than football, Manziel would have been scratched from atop the Browns' quarterback rankings.
VIDEO: Manziel says 'You can't measure heart'
"When he gets inside the building — we talked about it at length when we visited with him — what accompanies him isn't really him. He's a competitor. He's a great teammate. He loves to get in and he's passionate about football," Pettine said. "I don't think that (celebrity) comes into the building. We looked at it as an opportunity to add a tremendous competitor to this roster. What follows him for us was not a big factor in the decision."
The Browns, meanwhile, are preparing now for the intense spotlight that will follow Manziel.
His press conference drew more reporters and television cameras than anyone around Berea could remember — more than when a new coach was hired, or an old coach was fired, and more than for any recent draft pick, even local kid (and first-round pick) Brady Quinn in 2007.
Pettine was the defensive coordinator with the New York Jets in 2012 when the Jets' added Tim Tebow to the roster, and spent the season in the center of a media circus.
The situation is not identical here in Cleveland, but Pettine admitted the organization will have discussions on how to handle the brighter spotlight.
Manziel has his own plans. He's going home to Tyler, Texas for a few days but will be back in Berea by early next week, where he'll join veteran players for meetings and conditioning work.
He'll take his first snaps as a professional at a rookies-only minicamp next week. The next month or so, he'll be consumed by football, and not by being Johnny Football.
"I'm not going to say I'm not going to take a trip, or not have a little bit of down time before you get into the thick of a long NFL season. I'm going to continue to enjoy this time in my life, but at the same time, my main thing is football, and working to bridge this gap of the things I need to learn in this offense," Manziel said.
"My time will be spent here, making sure I do everything I need to do in this building, but at the same time, making sure I'm in shape to hopefully play this season."
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Sex in space: Out of this world! Allegedly, I mean, as it's never been conducted by astronauts (in space, at least) or, as we learned this weekend courtesy the completely stuffy Russian government, cosmonauts:
"There is no official or unofficial evidence that there were instances of sexual intercourse or the carrying out of sexual experiments in space," Valery Bogomolov, the deputy director of the Moscow-based Institute of Biomedical Problems, told the news agency Interfax. "At least, in the history of Russian or Soviet space exploration, this most certainly was not the case."
NASA, as we all probably know by now, has stated several times in the past that there's been absolutely zero hanky-panky in orbit, on the ISS, in a shuttle or with green eggs and ham. They've said this repeatedly, even though there is no official policy on sex in space within the agency.
That sounds like a challenge to me or a little of the ol' "thou dost protest too much," but I've never been in space locked up tight with a bunch of other fit, wickedly intelligent scientists and military men and women so what do I know. [MSNBC]


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Super Micro awaits the Xeon E5 launch
Disk shortage bites box shipments
The shortages of disk drives due to flooding in Thailand continues to take its toll on IT suppliers, with motherboard and whitebox system maker Super Micro joining the club of companies adversely impacted by the shortages.
In the second quarter of fiscal 2012 ended in December, Super Micro's sales were $249.9m. This is up 3.8 per cent compared to the year ago period, but lower than the company had hoped – not only because of the disk shortages but because of Intel's decision to ship its "Sandy Bridge" Xeon E5 processors for two-socket servers in the first quarter of 2012 instead of last fall as Super Micro had been expecting.
Disk drive prices, research and development budgets, and other costs rose much faster than revenues in the quarter as Super Micro prepares for a Xeon E5 assault. The company also brought a new factory online in Taiwan on January 6 to better serve its Asia/Pacific customers. (The company has a factory in the Netherlands to support European customers and its main factory in Silicon Gulch to service customers globally.) So it is no surprise that profits were under pressure at the king of the whiteboxers. In the quarter, net income fell by 24.2 per cent to $8.8m.
The good news is that with Super Micro now having a better handle on the disk drive situation and working with suppliers to get more platters, and with Intel expecting to launch the Xeon E5s in the current calendar quarter, Super Micro actually expects sequential revenue growth moving from the just-finished fiscal Q2 to fiscal Q3, the current quarter.
In a conference call with Wall Street analysts, Charles Liang, Super Micro's founder and CEO, said that demand for Super Micro's products was "strong" and that it had a "strong backlog" of orders that depend on disk drives, including servers and storage arrays based on server platforms. (The disk shortage hit the market just as Super Micro was ramping up its super-dense storage arrays.) Liang said that in the December quarter, Super Micro did a "good job seeding its Sandy Bridge samples" and added that it had many high-volume customers who were evaluating the new Xeon E5 gear and was making sure everyone knows Super Micro is ready to ship as soon as Intel is.
Moreover, Super Micro has boosted its engineering staff by 15 per cent in the past two quarters because it believes that it needs faster time to market and a wider variety of Xeon E5 products to take on the tier one incumbents and attract the hyperscale cloud operators who tend to build their own boxes. That's one of the reasons why R&D costs were up 29.6 per cent in the past six months to $29.5m. The company had 1,395 employees as December came to a close, and added 57 people – most of them engineers.
On the systems front, Liang said that its MicroCloud microservers and eight-way SuperServers "continue to grow steadily," and that it was also getting uptake for its whitebox network switches, too. Howard Hideshima, Super Micro's CFO, said in the call that the company's SuperBlade blade servers as well as the MicroCloud cookie sheet machines were the fastest growing products in fiscal Q2. Rack servers and GPU-accelerated servers grew, but not by as much.
In the quarter, the company sold approximately 62,000 complete systems, up 1.6 per cent from a year ago. But because companies are buying fatter boxes to support virtualization or database workloads, system revenues were actually up 12.2 per cent to $110m in the quarter for Super Micro. When you do the math, server average selling prices kissed $1,800, up from $1,600 last year and $1,400 two years ago. The company sold 998,000 subsystems and accessories in the quarter, an increase of 4.3 per cent compared to Q2 of fiscal 2011, but revenues for components actually fell by 2.1 per cent to $140m. Hideshima said that Super Micro has 500 customers, and none of them represented more than 10 per cent of its sales.
Super Micro doesn't carve out its revenues by product segment, but does talk about how much dough it derives from the internet data center racket, which stood at 5.7 per cent of total revenues, or $14.2m, an increase of 9.2 per cent sequentially. Sales of servers and parts to OEM partners and directly to customers accounted for $110.5m in revenues in the quarter. The US accounted for 56.7 per cent of the Super Micro revenue pie in fiscal Q2, compared to 23 per cent for EMEA, 18 per cent for Asia, and a tiny 2.3 per cent for other regions. Looks like it is time for Super Micro to open a factory in Brazil. . . .
Thanks to the Xeon E5 bump and the improving disk situation, Super Micro is now projecting for sales of between $240m and $270m in the fiscal third quarter ending in March, with non-GAAP earnings per share in the range of 19 cents to 27 cents. The wide range depends on how well or poorly Super Micro scrounges for disk drives. ®
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Sclerotinia fungal disease infects nearly 360 different plants, including such favorites as beans, cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, sunflowers, petunias, zinnias, and poppies. It's not the kind of disease you want to encourage in the garden
New research, however, indicates that by feeding birds, we may unknowingly be doing just that. Steve Nameth, a researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus, started noticing sunflower seeds infected with sclerotinia fungus while feeding his birds. The fungal infected seeds are about the same size as healthy seeds, but are irregularly shaped and white inside if broken open. As any good researcher would, he became curious about how much sclerotinia infected seed is in a bag of sunflower seeds.
Nameth bought a random sample of 10 commercial bird seed mixes and found that half had sclerotinia present in the feed. Birds won't eat sunflower seeds infected with the fungus, so they drop to the ground under the feeders, sometimes right next to plants they can infect. The fungus can stay dormant for years waiting for the right weather conditions to infect nearby plants.
If you're noticing disease on stems and flowers of plants near your bird feeder, particularly if infected parts are covered with white fluffy growth, consider moving your feeder away from your gardens. It's also important to keep the area around the base of the plants clean of plant debris, and to pick up and destroy dropped seed. Don't use the dropped seed as mulch in the garden or in the compost unless your compost pile heats up to 160° F.


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Welcome to the first installment of the monthly France Blogging Roundtable, a project organized by Christine Cantera of WhyGo France. The group includes Christine and four others of us who blog about France: Jennifer of Chez Lou Lou, Jamie of Life's a Feast, EuroCheapo, and me. Each month we'll share our unique perspectives on a predetermined topic about France. This month's topic is "Favorite Art in France." So pull up a chair to our Roundtable, have a croissant or an eclair, and join in on the conversation. We'd love to hear your take on each month's topic and your comments.
Two things initially brought me to Vaux le Vicomte. First, I'm a sucker for French castles. If there's a castle in the area, I'm there. Even though I'm usually mocking the eccentricities of the very rich, I have to give them credit. Their eccentricities and patronage have brought us great works of art. Also, being a huge fan of Alexandre Dumas and his many books that take place in France, I went to Vaux le Vicomte in search of "The Man in the Iron Mask." There was no man in a mask. Instead I fell in love with the castle and its gardens. Restored to their original grandeur, the castle and the gardens tell the story of its past and are whimsical enough to invite inspiratioin, wonder and new creativity.
The castle was the idea of Nicolas Fouquet, minister of finances for King Louis XIV. He set out to build the finest chateau in France and hired the architect, Louis le Vau, the interior designer, Charles le Brun, and the landscape artist, Andre LeNotre to help. Unfortunately for Fouquet, he was a little too successful. His creatiion also set in motion his demise. King Louis XIV asked to see the place. Fouquet had a feast prepared for the king and an evening of lavish entertainment that ended in an elaborate fireworks display, one that had them coming from everywhere, even the top of the castle's dome.
The king didn't like being upstaged by one of his employees, and three weeks after the fete, Fouquet was arrested for embezzlement. A trumped up charge, Fouquet spent the rest of his life in prison, dying 19 years later. King Louis XIV took le Vau, le Brun and LeNotre and had them create a new castle, bigger and better than Vaux le Vicomte. Versailles was born, its size and its gardens tripling that of Vaux le Vicomte. The king also took statues, tapesties and the orange trees from Vaux le Vicomte.
Though it's no longer the biggest castle in France, Vaux le Vicomte has been restored to its majestic form, one which dominates the gardens from every angle and where its reflection shimmers in the garden's lakes. My favorite part of the castle is the domed Grand Salon, and well of course, the kitchen. The kitchen, too, has been fixed and furnished as it was in Fouquet's time (late 1600s). The gardens are what I love the most. Can a garden be considered art? I think so. Meticulously placed lakes, ponds, grottoes, fountains, sculptures and shrubs fill the garden, while a square shaped canal frames the castle. The garden is the place where art and nature come together and inspire.
"To Create a Garden is to paint a landscape." ~ Alexander Pope
A summer's eve at Vaux le Vicomte
In the summer, candlelights are set throughout the gardens and along the castle's window sills. The fountains come alive to a musical display. There's also another reason to love Vaux le Vicomte. For the last four years during the first weekend in November, the castle has been transformed into un Palais du Chocolat. Chocolate and chocolatiers take over for the weekend and turn the castle into a chocolate lover's paradise. Just missing the chocolate festivities this year, (I'll make sure to see them next year, though) I visited the castle again this Autumn to find the garden just as beautiful and adorned with the colors of Fall.
Inside the Castle:
The kitchen restored its the 17th century look
The castle, rarely crowded, is an easy 25-minute ride on the train or RER from Paris to Merlun. On the weekends, there is a shuttle bus that will take you to and from the Merlun train station. On other days, you need to take a taxi from Merlun's station. If you're visiting Paris during December, Vaux le Vicomte celebrates Christmas at the castle.
Check out what the others have to say about art in France:
- Favorite French Art from WhyGo France
- Favorite Art in France from Chez Lou Lou
- Paris Art Museums: Admission, Charges and Discounts from EuroCheapo
What is your favorite art in France?


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Wildlife officials estimate Maine deer kill at 21K, up 11 percent from 2011
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � Wildlife officials say hunters killed more than 21,000 deer in Maine this fall, representing an 11 percent increase from 2011.
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife on Monday released its estimate for this year's deer harvest, with the official tally scheduled to come out in February.
Biologist Lee Kantar said the increase is due in large part to last winter's mild weather, resulting in a high survival of fawns that produced a bumper yearling crop.
The deer harvest has been low the past five years, with the state issuing fewer hunter permits to allow the population to recover following harsh winters in 2008 and 2009 that thinned the herd.
The harvest the past five years has ranged from about 18,000 to 21,000 animals.


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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that it has awarded a total of $710,000 in summer stipends to 142 U.S. scholars for their individual research in the humanities. Sixteen of these projects have been named We the People projects, a special recognition by the NEH for model projects that advance the study, teaching, and understanding of American history and culture.
"NEH Summer Stipends provide opportunities for scholars to devote two uninterrupted months to their research and writing," said NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. "Their intensive work should contribute to deepening our knowledge and understanding of our nation and our world."
Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools.
Among the NEH Summer Stipends awarded this year are the following:
- Peter Holliday, California State University, Long Beach, for "Historical Commemoration in the Hellenistic Age";
- Celia Schultz, Yale University, New Haven, Ct., for "Addressing the Gods: Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic";
- Dovile Budryte, Brenau University, Gainesville, Ga., for "The Transformation of Nationalism in the Baltic States, 1991-2003";
- Richard Sha, American University, Washington, D.C., for "William Blake and Medicine"; and
- Thaddeus Metz, University of Missouri, St. Louis, for "What Makes Knowledge Important."
The 16 We the People Summer Stipends include awards to Nicole Etcheson, University of Texas, El Paso, for "The Union Home Front: Putnam County, Indiana, in the Civil War Era"; James Davis, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., for "On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams"; and Susan Ryan, University of Louisville, for "The Moral Economies of American Authorship, 1830-1870."
The Endowment received 968 eligible applications for NEH Summer Stipends, which provide $5,000 to each recipient for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing in the humanities. Stipends support individuals pursuing research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. This year's Summer Stipend recipients represent 40 states and the District of Columbia.
A list of the stipends awarded is available as an attachment in the box above.


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Just wondering if it would be possible to add a characteristic of "Parallel" to cards to make them easier to filter through during trading. Basically, I'm just really tired of having to sort through 100's of pages of base cards. Personally, I don't list my base cards for trade. I'm still willing to trade them, but you can ask, or send a list if you want some. I want to shoot myself every time I see a trader with them listed.
I realize there are filters out there for serial numbered, but there's lots of unnumbered parallels I collect too. And currently no way to separate them from the millions of base cards.
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After leading the Cheyenne Mountain boys basketball team to the Class 4A state semifinals this season, coach J'on St. Clair stepped down as head coach to return to Rampart.
Cheyenne Mountain finished with a record of 21-6 in 2014. In three years, St. Clair guided the Indians to a record of 57-20.
"I'm going back home," St. Clair said during a phone call. "… I've always said if I had another opportunity to go back to Rampart, I'd take it."
St. Clair was head coach of the Rampart boys basketball team from 2005-10. He built the program up from a team that won just eight games in each of his first two seasons to a powerhouse in his final two. After the 2009-10 season, he left to coach girls basketball at Doherty, leading the team to an 18-7 record.


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It's been a while since my last post, hasn't it? While I took a bit of a break from blogging and being online much to enjoy the 48 days of no rain (!) in Washington, I assure you I was still busy knitting away and designing as much as possible these past few months! :)
Just a few days ago on Ravelry and today on Craftsy, I released the pattern for Troian:
It features cables against a reverse stockinette background:
Fun toggle and snap closures, for a little something different than the norm:
And, it's knit from the top-down using set in sleeve construction.
This was my first design using this top down construction and I absolutely loved it! I was able to use some fun and pretty nifty techniques that I haven't been able to use very often, including the Invisible Provisional Cast On, which I also made a YouTube video for. Be sure to check it out below and let me know what you think!
Overall, I'm incredibly happy with how this piece turned out and hope you love it, too! :)
Troian (pronounced troy-an) is a sexy but sophisticated cardigan featuring cables, stockinette, and simple rib details. The cuffed, elbow length sleeves draw the eye up and to the textured front and fun snap and toggle closures placed from the collar to just below the bust.
This cardigan is knit seamlessly from the top down using set-in sleeve construction. The yoke and bodice are knit first to the bottom hem. Stitches are then picked up around the armholes for the sleeves, which are initially shaped by using short rows and then worked seamlessly in the round from the top down.
At high bust, button bands overlapping: 27 ½ (29 ¼, 32, 34, 36, 37 ¼, 40, 41 ½, 44, 45 ¼, 48 ½, 50)" / 70 (74, 81, 86, 91, 95, 102, 105, 112, 115, 123, 127) cm
Finished Measurements noted represent the circumference of the finished knitted piece at high bust (the circumference of your chest at underarm level) when worn closed and button bands are overlapping. When worn open, cardigan has no ease. This cardigan is intended to be worn with approx 2" (5 cm) negative ease at the bustline. In order to achieve the fit as shown, choose a size with a finished measurement that is approx 2" (5 cm) smaller than your actual bust measurement.
946 (1006, 1100, 1169, 1238, 1281, 1376, 1427, 1512, 1556, 1668, 1719) yards / 865 (920, 1006, 1069, 1132, 1171, 1258, 1305, 1383, 1423, 1525, 1572) meters DK weight yarn. Use a plied yarn for best results.
- Brown Cardigan shown in 32" (81 cm) size and Pigeonroof Studios Cassiopeia DK DK, 75% Superwash Merino Wool, 15% Cashmere, 10% Silk, 260 yards (238 meters) per 100 gram (3.5 oz) skein in colorway 'Etude.'
- Teal Cardigan, also shown in 32" (81 cm) size, used Madelinetosh Tosh DK DK, 100% Superwash Merino Wool, 225 yards (206 meters) per 100 gram (3.5 oz) skein in colorway 'Norway Spruce.'
- US 6 (4 mm) circular needle, 32" (81 cm) or longer
- US 4 (3.5 mm) circular needle, 32" (81 cm) or longer
- Appropriate needles of the same two sizes for your preferred method of knitting sleeves in the round
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20 stitches and 28 rows = 4" (10 cm) in stockinette stitch, using larger needles
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Signed to Minor League deal, slugger likely to make Opening Day roster
CLEVELAND -- When Jason Giambi penned his name on a new contract with the Indians this week, the veteran put himself in a position to have two decades of big league baseball on his resume. Even after all he has accomplished, Giambi finds that hard to fathom.
Twenty years.
"I think you only dream about it," Giambi said on Friday. "You go through your certain stepping stones of your career, where it's, 'I need to get to the big leagues,' and then, 'I need to stay in the big leagues,' and then, 'I need to try to last in the big leagues and get my 10 years in.'
"Then, everything is kind of gravy after that. So I'm definitely blessed and I'm truly grateful for this opportunity. Not in my wildest dreams did I think I'd still be here."
Here is Cleveland, and the 42-year-old Giambi insists there is no place he would rather be in 2014. That is why on Thursday -- the first day eligible players could file for free agency -- he took himself off the open market by signing a Minor League contract to return to the Indians. Giambi will head into Spring Training as a non-roster invitee, but the Opening Day roster will surely have a spot tentatively reserved.
During this past season, the Tribe brought Giambi into the fold as a part-time designated hitter, pinch-hitter and clubhouse leader. He went from a managerial candidate with the Rockies to a leader for the Indians, delivering in critical situations off the bench with his bat and keeping the team focused within the clubhouse with his words.
Whether Giambi wanted to move forward as a player or coach, Cleveland made it crystal clear that it wanted him back for at least one more year.
"We would like to continue our relationship with G," manager Terry Francona said at the end of the season, "probably as long as he would like to."
Giambi is not ready to close his bat bag for good just yet.
"I told them I'd really love to play," Giambi said.
And Giambi is not sure he will ever definitively declare any season his last.
"I don't know if there will ever come a time that I'll say that," Giambi said. "But I think your body will just give you a point and say, 'I just can't do it anymore.' There is going to come a point."
Part of Giambi's drive to keep playing surely stems from the fact that a World Series ring has eluded him in each of his past 19 seasons in the big leagues. He reached the Fall Classic with the Yankees in 2003, but New York lost in six games to the Marlins. This past season, the Indians won 92 games and clinched the top American League Wild Card spot, only to lose to the Rays in the AL Wild Card Game.
Giambi believes Cleveland is on the cusp of contending for multiple years.
"I think what we have here in Cleveland is something special," Giambi said. "I think this is a team that can have an opportunity to win a World Series. We definitely have the pitching to do it. We have the offense to make those strides. We're growing as a team, and I think we're going to keep getting better and better."
Giambi is not the offensive force he was in his prime with the A's and Yankees, but the aging slugger -- with 438 career home runs under his belt -- was still a presence at the plate for the Tribe in 2013. He hit only .183 in 71 games, but Giambi posted a 1.181 OPS in the ninth inning, averaged one RBI per six at-bats and hit at a .271 clip (.960 OPS) with runners in scoring position.
Giambi launched three pinch-hit home runs and twice established a Major League record as the oldest player to hit a walk-off home run. Hank Aaron held that mark since 1976 until Giambi's walk-off shot against the White Sox on July 29, and then the DH broke his own record with a pinch-hit, two-run walk-off blast against White Sox closer Addison Reed on Sept. 24.
That was the kind of blast Indians fans had dreamt about.
As for Giambi's 20th season in the Majors, that dream is becoming very real.
"It's kind of funny," Giambi said. "They used to call me 'kid' all the time when I was playing [in Oakland]. Now, I'm calling [Jason] Kipnis that. It gets passed on. I really think that's the gift of the game. You pass it back down, and even when you're out of this game, that's how you still live in the game."


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June 28, 2014
BERLIN — After being injured fighting the Syrian government, 31-year-old Mohannad reached his home in Frankfurt, Germany, with a simple plan: rest, recuperate, then rejoin the fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
As related in German newspaper accounts, which by law couldn't identify him by his full name, Mohannad even transferred the equivalent of $6,800 to a Syrian bank for use by the terror organization. With that as evidence that he was supporting a terrorist organization, German authorities seized his passport and prevented him from returning to Turkey — the jumping-off point for radicals seeking to join the fight in Syria.
But Mohannad was the exception. Officials concede that they rarely have such an extensive file against so-called "jihadi-tourists" to stop them from reaching Turkey — and Syria beyond.
At least 320 Germans and more than 2,000 other Europeans are thought to have made the trip — so many that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked European nations to stop their citizens wanting to join the fight in Syria and now Iraq from traveling to Turkey.
"Preventing people from traveling is really difficult," said Stefan Mayer, spokesman for Germany's national intelligence agency. "We need actionable evidence, evidence we can use in court. Unless we can prove they've worked for a foreign terror organization before, the law doesn't make it easy to stop someone from making the journey."
German courts consistently have returned seized passports before the bearers have actually broken any laws.
European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove this month noted that the phenomenon of young Muslims leaving Europe to fight elsewhere is decades old. But the current numbers dwarf previous migrations. He described the current flow as "huge."
"Compared to previous jihads, it's unprecedented," he said.
The trend is openly discussed in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy. Europe has long needed immigrant labor, but it has done little to integrate those who come from Muslim regions — North Africa, Pakistan and the Middle East. Their children often grow up without close ties to their adopted nations and end up finding a sense of community online and in the radical splinters of Islam set up to prey upon the lost.
Claudia Dantschke, a German specialist in Islam who tries to identify and counsel families where the young people are at risk of choosing the fight, says the official reaction struggles to keep up with the increased intensity of recruiting actions.
"The public awareness for the problem of young people from Germany joining the jihad has increased, so more families are turning to us for help," she wrote in an email.
But that search for help is countered by what she said was "a massive increase in propaganda from recruiters" for ISIL, triggered by the group's expansion in Syria and Iraq, where in the past three weeks it has seized control of major cities.
"A higher number of young people (are) leaving the country with the aim to join the group," Dantschke said. "They have Germans spreading their propaganda on Facebook in German, in groups frequented by teenagers and on pages of people they identify with. The extent and effect of this radical direct approach is a new thing."
How they get into Syria has been much simpler: Turkey.
For at least two years, Turkey has done little to stop would-be fighters from crossing its border into Syria. The lack of official action was an attempt to support the forces opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad, and it had unofficial support from nations around the world, including the United States.
But while some of those forces were and remain moderate and dedicated to increasing freedom and democracy in a repressive nation, more and more of the new recruits were seeking to join forces such as the Nusra Front, an al-Qaida affiliate, and ISIL, an organization that began as al-Qaida in Iraq and has split from al-Qaida over tactics and goals.
How many foreigners have fought in Syria is uncertain. Some reports have placed the number of foreigners fighting on the Syrian rebels' behalf at 12,000, with the European share of that at 2,000. But a European Union official who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn't allowed to speak on the record said the number could be higher. "The numbers are more a floor than a ceiling," he said.
Perhaps most worrying to anti-terror experts is that ISIL is now thought to have a war chest worth from several hundred million dollars up to $2 billion. Magnus Ranstorp, a leading anti-terror expert now at the Swedish Defense College, said the concern comes from the fact that instead of relying on donations, ISIL now has what he called "360-degree revenue streams" — meaning revenue from all directions.
For comparison' sake, the current ISIL war chest is thought to be at least 50 times larger than what Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida had at its disposal at its peak. The revenue comes in through kidnapping ransoms, the sale of antiquities, the sale of oil and natural gas from the fields ISIL has seized, plunder from captured banks, as well as road tolls and taxes levied on populations where ISIL holds sway.
The funds allow ISIL to better equip, and better maintain, a larger force.
Ranstorp said he is certain that estimates of the number of Europeans who've joined the fight are far below the actual numbers. With ISIL's success in Iraq, there's no reason to think the trend will reverse soon.
"We've had huge waves going down there after the last couple periods of Ramadan," Ranstop said, referring to the Muslim holy month of fasting that begins this weekend. "We'll see what happens this year."
Also alarming is that although Europeans in the past generally made short trips into Syria and then returned home, many now appear to be committed to stay.
"ISIS today is burning their passports, then issuing their own," Ranstop noted, referring to ISIL's alternate name, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The ISIL passport isn't valid for international travel, but that's not the point in a movement meant to cement an identity through religious zeal.
Anti-terror workers and experts are concerned that those who do return are coming back both radicalized and trained in how to use small arms and explosives.
Already, 100 fighters have returned to Germany. German intelligence officials say that most appear to have no interest in actions in Europe. Still, Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the German national intelligence agency, recently called these people "a special security risk. They are closely monitored."
Still, overall, there are an estimated 43,000 "radical Islamists" in Germany alone. With such large numbers, not all can be monitored all the time. In May, at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, three people were shot to death, allegedly by a returning fighter. Anti-terror officials have warned Europeans to expect more, similar, attacks.
Thomas Strobl, a member of the German Parliament, recently suggested a law allowing the nation to strip "German jihadists" of citizenship. But removing citizenship is difficult, unpopular and isn't thought likely to be successful.
More and more, Europeans are convinced that the only real success in this fight against radical fighters who return is to get to the next generation before they leave to join the fight.
(Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Foreign Staff)