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This is the terrifying moment when a car spins out of control on an Ulster road before smashing into a ditch and continuing on.
Dramatic dash cam footage of the hair-raising incident, which took place near Lisburn, has been viewed over 100,000 times online.
The video, posted on Facebook by Mac Autoparts, shows a silver Renault Twingo narrowly avoiding a collision with a lorry after losing control on a bend in wet conditions on Barnfield Road. The car then spins into a roadside verge before, incredibly, regaining traction and driving on.
A lorry and a another car were forced to slam on the brakes as the driver behind the wheel of the Twingo careered into the verge.
"Just drive on as nothing ever happened," reads one Facebook comment. Another viewer quipped: "Casually put it into second and cruise on as if you took the corner immaculately."
Mac Autoparts, who captured the close call last month, posted: "Very lucky."
Police confirmed they received a report of a car crashing into a ditch on January 9. They said the driver of the vehicle was unharmed.
"Significant damaged was caused to the vehicle," a PSNI spokesman added.
Police said the driver would not be facing charges.

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Winners and Losers: Andrew Mason's Bad Week
Wall Street may have celebrated a bump in bonuses but several high-profile executive found themselves on the wrong side of Deal Journal's Winners and Losers. David Benoit joins Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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Brad Pitt's only killed people in movies so far, but if he had his way, he might go Lt. Aldo Raine on the people responsible for the Gulf oil spill.
The Hollywood superstar, who has been such a big advocate of post-Katrina New Orleans that there's been talk of a mayoral run, said he would consider the death penalty for the people responsible for the leak.
"I was never for the death penalty before – I am willing to look at it again," Pitt says in an upcoming Spike Lee documentary called "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise."
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Pitt, 46, has led the "Make it Right" project to build 150 affordable homes in one of the areas of New Orleans hit hard by the 2005 hurricane. But it was the Gulf Coast's latest disaster that sparked Pitt's ire.
The documentary was initially going to end on a triumphant note, with the hometown Saints winning the Super Bowl. But when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April, killing eleven workers and spewing 180 million gallons of oil into the ocean Lee went with it.
"This would have been a much more upbeat documentary for sure," Lee said.


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Are you bored of the same breakfast options every day? If it isn't something laden with sugar, as offered to us by most cereal companies, it's something salty and greasy. The problem is we are so used to these options that we struggle to be innovative and actually create something that is healthy and also made in about 5 minutes. So here is a little recipe if you ever fancy a change.
- 50g 100% Rye Bread (roughly 1 packaged slice)
- 8 teaspoons of pumpkin seeds
- 8 teaspoons of sesame seeds
- Half an avocado
- Salt & Pepper to taste and a pinch of chilli flakes
- A drizzle of olive oil
- 80g of accompanying 'grown above ground' vegetables such as spinach, rocket and mushrooms
1. Take a frying pan and place seeds in with salt pepper and the chilli flakes. Place on a hob and lightly toast for a few minutes until they begin popping or splitting.
2. Toast the Rye Bread. Rye bread usually tastes better when toasted well so maybe a few more minutes than normal bread
3. Wash the vegetables and place the ones you cook in the frying pan you used for the seeds and allow them to cook for a few minutes. The remaining water on the vegetables from washing will act as oil.
4. Peel half the avocado and create a mash and use it as butter on the rye toast.
5. Pour the seeds on to the rye toast on the plate.
6. Add the vegetables, drizzle with olive oil and enjoy.
If you feel like more protein then you can simply add a poached egg
As well as being rich in protein, the seeds contain good fats that can support skin health, the cardiovascular system, brain function and more. Pumpkin seeds are also rich in zinc, a key nutrient for immunity.
The inclusion of avocado can assist with lowering blood cholesterol, controlling blood pressure and act as an anti-inflammatory. Avocados also contain glutathione, an important antioxidant that can support the immune system.
Daniel O'Shaughnessy is an Independent qualified Nutritional Therapist and operates clinics in London. For details, please visit www.thenakednutritionist.co.uk.


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Edwin Edwards' last stand
GONZALES, LA. — Just down I-10 from Baton Rouge, south on state Highway 44 and a mile or so beyond the Do Right Full Gospel Baptist Church, Louisiana's legendary political lion is having the time of his life.
Edwin Washington Edwards — scoundrel, irresistible charmer, four-time governor, reality show star, convicted felon and the very last of the line of New Deal Southern Democrats — is running for Congress at age 86. That would be 12 years after he was sentenced to prison at the age of 75 on corruption charges. That would be 49 years after he was first elected to Congress in 1965 and his friend President Lyndon B. Johnson called him with congratulations and the phone number for Harold Barefoot Sanders, LBJ's chief legislative aide. Edwards was so moved that he stood up at his desk to take the call.
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And that would be eight months after the birth of a son, Eli, to Edwards and his third wife, Trina Scott Edwards, who is 35. They met as pen pals while he was in prison, where he proudly served as the facility's librarian. "I did what I could for my fellow inmates. I helped a number of them get their GEDs and I was helping several more when my term expired. Now, I have to be honest; I didn't stick around to see if they succeeded," Edwards says with a twinkle in his eye.
( PHOTOS: Edwin Edwards' life and career)
"Why am I running? Because it's what I want to do," Edwards tells a visitor in the wood-paneled office of his home in a Gonzales golf course development, with that soft Cajun accent born in Avoyelles Parish in 1927 still very much present. "Somebody told me the other day, you're 86 and retired, why don't you do what you wanna do? So, I am."
He faces an uphill battle for an open seat in a redrawn 6th District that now tilts Republican, but he's a decent bet to make a December runoff and the universal view is that, hey, this is Edwin Edwards, anything can happen and probably will.
"He is the best-known name in the race and there are many potential Republican candidates … so at this point, he is likely to make the runoff," says John Maginnis, a longtime syndicated Louisiana political columnist. "But … I don't see how he could win in a strong GOP-performance district like the 6th. But it should be entertaining."
"The most basic math of the Edwards race yields an 'it is not impossible' answer," says veteran state pollster Elliott Stonecipher.
( PHOTOS: 10 must-watch House races in 2014)
Former Gov. Buddy Roemer says that it is highly unlikely, but "yes, he can win."
It is not a feel-good story of redemption for much of the state's political class. Many of its members are wringing their hands and complaining that they are just now living down a reputation for endemic sleaziness that Edwards — EWE or just Edwin to virtually everyone here — almost single-handedly cast down on Louisiana like a biblical plague.
Nearly nine years after Hurricane Katrina and with the corruption convictions of former Congressman William Jefferson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin now finally in the state's rearview mirror, there is a feeling here that Louisiana may have finally turned the corner on its national image as Political Huckster Central. Gov. Bobby Jindal, while not overwhelmingly popular, is universally viewed as a bright, serious person. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu may be the state's most respected politician.
Edwards "cannot run for office and truthfully tell us he really cares about Louisiana," wrote longtime Louisiana Democratic operative Bob Mann, in a column for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. "If he cared about us, he'd stay home and raise his child. If he cared, he'd go fishing. If he cared, he'd ask for forgiveness for making us a national laughingstock for so many years."
( Also on POLITICO: LBJ's poignant paradoxes)
Roemer, who beat Edwards in 1987 but lost to him four years later, says Louisiana's population is shrinking dangerously and "the biggest hindrance to the growth of people coming from the rest of the country might be the perception of corruption. Edwards personifies that corruption. So yes, his election would be an indictment of our good people, but also an indictment of the corruption and decay in American politics. We must do better."
Edwards, who has viewed Roemer's reformist gospel as akin to dentistry without anesthesia for more than 30 years, says all the naysayers need to take a deep breath.
"People in Louisiana emphasize how it looks to them and assume people in Wyoming and Montana, they're getting up every morning and that's all that they're thinking about," he says of his colorful history and convicted felon status. "It's an issue but it's not nearly the issue that some in the press want to make it."
Edwards, still sharp as a razor except for diminished hearing and seemingly in remarkably vigorous health, says he intends to win, he plans to win and he's already mapping out his late-life career in Washington. He quizzed a visiting reporter at some length about the cheapest flights between New Orleans and Washington.
"There is a guy running for Congress in Florida [Republican Joe Newman] who is 101," Edwards deadpans, his hand on his visitor's shoulder as they stroll down his driveway. "At that point, I'll be in my eighth term."
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For decades, Louisiana has struggled to come to grips with Edwin Edwards. Is he simply an immensely entertaining and personable crook? Or he is more authentic, a populist son of a Cajun-Catholic sharecropper who, like his idols Earl, Huey and Russell Long, was decidedly no choir boy but also helped bring his state into the modern era?
The same Edwards that generations of prosecutors chased like Ahab for 30 years was a stalwart supporter of civil rights, appointing scores of black Louisianans to key positions. The same Edwards who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars during binge gambling trips to Las Vegas under aliases like "T. Wong" defeated the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in the 1991 governor's race almost out of sheer force of will. He was the unlikely Gary Cooper in a kind of "High Noon" on the bayou.
"Vote for the crook, it's important," the famous slogan of that campaign implored, pleading with voters to get beyond Edwards' slimy reputation (though he had, at that point, defeated all attempts to prosecute him). But those who watched Edwards in those final weeks — and this reporter was one of them — know how much that contest came to matter to him in a deeply personal way. He kept spinning one-liners — feigning concern, for example, that Duke risked smoke inhalation "because he's around so many burning crosses" — but he also saw himself as the one person who could save his state from humiliation and economic disaster.


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Trattoria Sapori
Time Out says
A pizzeria, bar, cafe and deli in Newington Green offering classic Italian dishes alongside those given a modern twist or two. The sourdough pizzas prove popular - they come cooked quickly in the wood-fired stone oven. The deli counter offers as much visual appeal as it does culinary.
Outside of the pizzas, dishes range from caprese salads, focaccia bread, fried zucchini and calamari to lasagne, risotto and penne with fennel sausage, asparagus, broccoli and pecorino cheese. Breakfasts of baked eggs, frittatas, freshly baked croissants and granola do brisk business during the week, with an extended brunch menu at the weekend drawing in late risers.
The wine list is focused on Italy, so if you're partial to prosecco, barolo, amarone, gavi di gavi and sangiovese, you should find something you like. If not, drops from France, Portugal and Spain are on offer too. Classic cocktails such as mojitos, bloody marys and cuba libres also feature, alongside Moretti and Peroni beers.
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Users say (32)
Average User Rating
4.1 / 5
Rating Breakdown
- 5 star:20
- 4 star:5
- 3 star:0
- 2 star:0
- 1 star:6
I've been a few times and mostly because I love their pizza, light and airy, service is fast and pleasent.
Perfect local restaurant with natural produce from Italy. You can really taste the difference. They serve a fab brunch too!
now thats what we call pizza. great stuff mate
great place to have lunch, their food is soooo good. Went there on Saturday as they now have this guitarist playing the blues. Blues, glass of Spritz and a great pizza for lunch. The service was friendly and attentive. Great place great good great service
Had a set italian Christmas meal with friends. 5 courses with appropriate wines for each course, selected by the house. Fantastic food, excellent wine well selected and great, attentive service. Recommended.
Great place if you are after authentic Italian food...awesome pizza, calzone. And if you are interested in learning about real Italian food, talk to the owner Tony~
This place has great service ,lovely staff , warm atmosphere and most important of all great food. Very good quality products . Not sure why Time out gives it just 2 stars !!!!?
had one of their delivery pizza and would order again. I have eaten in several times and thought of a pizza then called and they delivered it to me. great.
We came here with a small group of friends to their movie night, great concept and more so that you have your own room to watch a movie classic. But it was the food that was the big hit, the best pizza I've ever had, better than firezze, il bacio. The toppings were fresh and of a high quality, the pizza base light, crisp. The mozzarella was lovely. Will come back for their cakes as they look great.
why has this place got so many contrasting reviews, I have eaten many times as its my local and can say that it is one of the best Italian food joints you can possibly have. Their pizza are light and crispy and with real fresh toppings that the chef slices in front of you. great place to eat italian food.
The food here is great there is no doubt about that. I keep coming here time and time again for this reason, if they could tidy up their service then it would have gotten my 5 stars. I would suggest this place as a place to have good Italian food and wine. You should try their movie night deal.
Food is really great here but the service is pretty bad. I ordered a mint tea, a tap water and a pizza. I had to ask 10 minutes later for the mint tea (it was mid afternoon on a Tuesday and not busy). Then the pizza came and then I had to ask for the tap water. If they could improve the service this place would be great.
I keep coming back here again and again for their pizza, their service has improved so much recently but its the pizza that keeps me fixated with the place. PS: declan, why would you expect Salad or chutney along with your lasagna in an Italian place?????
I came to this place with my friend the other day, it was busy and they had frank sinatra in the background. I had one of their amazing pizza and a salad from their wide choice at the table. I love this place they change their salad bar every other day. A big plus now is the option of coffee: illy or monmouth. What a choice. PS: Declan why on earth would you want salad or chutney with your lasagna ( not lasanga ) its an Italian trattoria not a Tottenham court road fast food joint. Italians dont have salad never my chutney with their lasagna.
Im surprised this cafe has so many amazing reviews. because of this i have decided to be quite direct with my experiences. Ive been in twice recently and had very poor quality food, lasanga is especially avoidable. The staff were plentiful but in no rush to serve me or be polite. The prices were cheecky to say the least. It was £8.50 for a tiny lasange without a shred of salad or chutney. There are so many tasty places to eat on this stretch i for one wont be back.
came here on sunday and it was very busy with my type of trendy mid 30's. I had their eggs royal and monmouth coffee and I was in heaven. Service was a tad slow but the food made up for it. I will come back 100% and try their pizza next time.
I took my business partner to Trattoria this week for her birthday lunch. The place was busy when we arrived but there were plenty of staff around. Nevertheless the welcome was not good and the service to follow was slow. We ordered the soup of the day and a plate from the salad bar plus a glass of prosecco. The soup arrived lukewarm and tasted bland. the salad bar was forgettable. What really angered me was the 12.5% service charge that was added onto the bill at the end. this doesn't befit a local restaurant and I object. Despite the compensatory coffee at the end we won't be back in a hurry. Shame really as we work locally and would come here if it was worth it.
I went to trattoria yesterday and it was a usual busy saturday. I went for their Italian breakfast, yellow yoke free range eggs, grilled tomato, panchetta,Italian sausages, mushrooms and mmmm what a treat. Its a juicy,tasty,healthy way to start any saturday. PS: i booked my table which really helps if you want to get a table as they tend to be really busy, service can be on and off but seems to have improved a lot with the new front of house idea.
The best light and crispy pizza in london and great fresh pasta
This guys know their pizza and trust me I've tried many places, their toppings are fresh, base is light and crispy. I noticed on the pizza menu that they use the old traditional method of preparing their dough and that says something... it is always very busy on weekends with familes and young trandy couples, I am half Italian and have seen so many Italians coming here.
I don't know what the time out reviewer is talking about. This is an excellent restaurant with great quality and affordable pizza and salads (I've never tried the pasta). Service is perfectly friendly and as attentive as we want.
This place offers the best pizza in london, I am told that they prepare their dough 2 days before, this explains why the pizza's are thin, crunchy and light. The toppings are freshly sliced in the deli area and are full of the real flavours. The service was very good this time and so that is why they get my 5 starrs. I am going to go back for their movie nights
Glad to see that service has improved , and ever so glad the pizza have not as they are the best please do not change the way you do them.
BEST CALAMARI IN TOWN!...PLEASE IF U R A SQUID LOVER GET YURSELF DOWN HERE... we ordered calamari fritti as a starter along with Bruschetta Trattoria which we thouroughly enjoyed, i've eaten here before and i believe the new young manager is making radical changes to the customer service and general ambience of the place..WELL DONE!
Haven't been here for a while.. visited this evening for a meal with my kids and had a great experience all round! Friendly and efficient service and pizzas were amazing. Good to see the pizzas are still one of the best in London, service has improved dramatically and the homemade ice-cream went down a treat!!
Great food and great service yesterday night!! Is the guy with glasses the manager??? Why this guy is so stress?? I understand now why there are so many problem in this place.....
I had breakfast here last week and came away throughly depressed. Bad service, too many waiters, rude manager, overpriced cold breakfast with tasteless eggs with bits of shell. An insult to Italians.
I had a great pleasure recently in having one of the best breakfasts of all time, grilled panchetta, ciabatta and Italian sausages ( I mean who wants hash browns, beans and bacon now days .. ) And I got a free coffee of my choice included in the bill. Shame to see that others have not had the same positive experience, I would go back again and try the pizza this time.
Sorry, but judging by my last visit this place has gone down hill. We were there on Sunday and it was very busy. Nevertheless we got a nice table inside. To cut a long story short. We received two OK pizzas and our third order was totally forgotten. There were so many staff in there that it actually impeded communication and all attempts to remind them were unsuccessful. I therefore had to sit there for the entire meal watching the rest of my party eat. Eventually I did manage to get hold of a member of staff who actually seemed to care, and she wiped the bill clean so we did not pay anything. Interestingly she also hinted that the place was not the place it once was. I must admit that you can see signs of this. Badly water damaged lino renders part of the interior very scruffy indeed and the men's toilet is not the standard you would expect - validated by the fact that the last signature on the displayed cleaning log was some days before. I used to absolutely love this place due to the nice interior and the great quality food and coffee, so It pains me that such an asset to the neighbourhood could be showing such worrying signs. Come on guys, sort that lino out, sort the staff out and keep being the best pIace to chill, eat and drink in Newington Green!
I went to this place yesterday for breakfast and can only say it was one of the worst dining experiences I have had. The staff were incompetent, we waited 20 minutes for menus. Decaf coffee and regular coffee were mixed up and the waiters didn't know which was which. When the 'food' eventually arrived my friend was served a vegetarian breakfast when asked for meat, the veggie sausages we had ordered hadn't been cooked, eggs were raw or overcooked with shell in them, we were served barely toasted English muffins when we should have had toasted Ciabatta. When we complained I was told I was "very mean", despite complaining in a non-confrontational manner. Staff walked away from us and refused to get us the manager, when she eventually arrived she claimed that they were very busy - despite their being only a handful of tables and seeminlgly double the amount of staff. The manager helpfully told us that the confusion and time for food orders was mainly the customers fault for moving around and the waiters not knowing who their customers were. We hadn't moved tables and so this seemed a very odd response. I have never written a review before, I was so appalled by this excuse for a cafe thatI felt it necessary to write. This experience will never be repeated.
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Jim Porter: AAA sued for tow truck accident
Special to the Sun
TRUCKEE, Calif. – Many of us have AAA cards. That's who we call when we lock our keys in the car or land in a snow bank or are involved in an accident. Today's case, involving a tragic incident on the Long Beach freeway, offers insight into AAA and the training of AAA drivers.
Roadside Assistance
Automobile Club of Southern California and AAA (AAA) member Ruben Monarrez requested roadside assistance for a flat tire. AAA dispatched a flatbed car carrier driven by Juan Felix who arrived around 11:00 p.m. Monarrez's car was six inches from the "fog line," the white line that separates the freeway lanes from the shoulder.
Felix told Monarrez he was going to load and transport the car to the next exit to change the tire. He instructed Monarrez to get into his tow truck. Monarrez replied, "okay." When Felix was done loading the car, he looked up to see Monarrez next to the tow truck in the slow lane of the freeway, having been struck by a hit-and-run motorist.
Monarrez suffered serious brain injuries and requires 24-hour skilled nursing care for life. He and his family sued Juan Felix, the tow company he worked for, Hirad, Inc., and AAA.
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Hirad, who does business as AM/PM Towing, is described as an independent contractor in its AAA Roadside Assistance Contract. AAA may cancel the Contract at any time. 85 to 90 percent of Hirad's business comes from AAA and the tow trucks and uniforms bear the AAA logo.
Hirad must abide by a 150-page AAA Training Manual which requires neat and clean vehicles, neat, clean and uniformed drivers (tattoos, tennis shoes and smoking are unacceptable), and even scripted introductions described as "Things to Say" to members.
The things to say include, "Let's see what can be done!"; "Don't worry, this happens all the time."; "I know what it's like to be in your situation"; "Do you have a ride?" and "Don't forget your personal belongings." Sound familiar? Hirad is compensated by AAA on a per-call basis. Felix the driver is paid by Hirad, not AAA.
The Training Manual instructs drivers to put members in the tow truck with their seatbelt on and to keep members out of the traffic side of vehicles. The Manual has extensive language highlighting the importance of getting members into the cab of the tow truck.
Trial Court
The trial court accepted AAA's argument that it was not liable because Hirad was an independent contractor, not an agent or employee of AAA, just as the AAA Contract recited. The trial court found that AAA had no control of how Hirad performed emergency roadside service, and the Training Manual set out "mere guidelines." The Monarrez family appealed to the Court of Appeal.
A Significant Case
To my surprise, there apparently are no cases in California saying one way or another whether AAA's tow truck operators are independent contractors, such that AAA is not responsible for their actions, or that under the law tow companies are agents of AAA, making AAA responsible for a driver's negligence.
FedEx drivers were held in a similar case to be agents of FedEx given the control FedEx has over its drivers. FedEx drivers' negligence is imputed to FedEx. I assume this AAA case is significant as it will control whether AAA is responsible for its tow operators' negligence.
After reviewing the evidence: almost all of Hirad's business comes from AAA, customers are AAA customers, AAA trains the drivers, drivers are required to "talk the talk" of AAA, driver's trucks have AAA radios and AAA logos, drivers wear AAA uniforms, and on and on – the Court of Appeal determined the tow operators may be actual agents or ostensible agents of AAA. Ostensible agents because they give the appearance the tow truck and driver are AAA.
Ruben Monarrez can take his case to court, which right or wrong if he wins, will give AAA members two companies to sue: the tow truck operator and AAA. I would not be surprised if this case makes it to the California Supreme Court.
Jim Porter is an attorney with Porter Simon licensed in California and Nevada, with offices in Truckee and Tahoe City, California, and Reno, Nevada. He may be reached at email@example.com or at the firm's website http://www.portersimon.com.


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Schoolgirl's protest against magazine airbrushing is a success as Seventeen vows never to alter models' bodies again.
A petition started in April by 14-year-old Julia Bluhm gained 84,000 signatures Seventeen's editor-in-chief, Ann Shoket, responded to the campaign in the magazine's latest issue.
The 14-year-old girl who staged a protest against Seventeen magazine's use of Photoshop has won her battle.
Two months after delivering a petition with 84,000 signatures to the editor-in-chief, Julia Bluhm has convinced Seventeen against altering and airbrushing its models to tiny and blemish-free proportions.Seventeen's editor-in-chief, Ann Shoket, responded to the campaign in the magazine's latest issue with a letter to readers, vowing that the magazine will never change the shapes of girls' bodies or faces.
Ms Shoket acknowledged that the magazine had been contacted by readers who felt it was digitally enhancing photos and wondered if the magazine had 'gone too far,' after teenagers gathered outside Seventeen magazine's New York office to protest Seventeen's fervent use of airbrushing two months ago. The eight-grade student started the online petition to the teen magazine in hopes it would change its Photoshopping policies and in turn help promote more positive, and realistic, body images among teen readers.The teenagers also demanded that editors of the Hearst title 'commit to printing one unaltered – real – photo spread per month.'
Miss Bluhm wrote onTuesday in a message posted on Change.org, a social petition facilitation website.'They're saying they won't use Photoshop to digitally alter their models. This is a huge victory, and I'm so unbelievably happy.'After her success with Seventeen magazine, Miss Bluhm has now decided to tackle Teen Vogue, posting a new online petition asking the teen fashion magazine to follow Seventeen's example and 'pledge not to alter any model's body or face and to celebrate beauty in all its forms'. Miss Bluhm said during the May protest outside Seventeen magazine's offices: 'I know much how much pictures in the media have an effect in the self esteem of girls and their body image.'
Julia Bluhm, 14, stood outside the magazine's Midtown headquarters and led a protest against the industry's fervent use of Photoshop, before hand delivering her petition with 84,000 signatures
The magazine said it invited Miss Bluhm to its offices after seeing her petition, called Seventeen Magazine: Give Girls Images Of Real Girls! Ms Shokot's letter to readers also provides insight into the magazine's photography and why it decided to create a Body Peace Treaty, endorsed by the National Eating Disorders Association and the Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls, which it hopes will help young girls stop obsessing about their bodies.
Shokot said Seventeen retouches images, removing wrinkles in fabric, stray hairs, pimples and bra straps, but never alters the way the girls 'really' look. She admitted the petition campaign made her realise that the magazine had to be more public about its commitment, which led to the Body Peace Treaty. The treaty contains eight conditions that Seventeen magazine's staff must abide by, including 'never change girls' body or face shapes (Never have, never will).'The treaty says the magazine will 'celebrate every kind of beauty in our pages. Without a range of body types, skin tones, heights, hair textures, the magazine and the world would be boring.'
The teenager originally uploaded the Seventeen magazine petition on the campaigning website change.org.Spread through social media, Miss Bluhm's petition gained around 6,000 signatures in ten days. With the help of a press release from a San Francisco PR firm, major news sites and blogs picked up the story and the number quickly grew to over 20,000. 'This is really exciting,' Miss Bluhm told Jezebel in May. 'I now know that there are a lot of girls who feel the same way as I do about this.'Miss Bluhm, who is also a regular blogger for the 'girl-fueled' activist group Spark Summit, an organization that fights the sexualization of girls, wrote in her petition that 'those pretty women that we see in magazines are fake.'She continued: 'They're often Photoshopped, airbrushed, edited to look thinner and to appear like they have perfect skin. A girl you see in a magazine probably looks a lot different in real life.'
She also claimed that the constant use of airbrushing has led to low self-esteem levels among her friends.
The petition read: 'Girls want to be accepted, appreciated and liked. And when they don't fit the criteria, some girls like to fix themselves. This can lead to eating disorders, dieting, depression and low self-esteem.'
Miss Bluhm, who is also enrolled in ballet classes at her middle school, recalled some of the comments she hears at school, in the petition. They include 'It's a fat day' and 'I ate well today but I still feel fat.'The outspoken teenager also targeted the media, claiming that it 'tells us that pretty girls are impossibly thin with perfect skin.'While such criticism is often voiced and discussed among adults, the words are less commonly heard through children or teenagers.
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House Democrats, in turn, now are hoping that the piecemeal approach will adequately address workforce and human-rights issues affected by long-term congressional inaction on immigration reform, she said.
"Because the chairman (Goodlatte) has said 'I am not going to put up a comprehensive bill,' we're saying, 'All right, we need to do something, so bring the pieces and we'll see if we have a meal,'" Bonamici said.
Bonamici said she signed onto a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the House that is similar to a bill the Senate passed in June, but that bill has stalled.
The House comprehensive bill is similar to the Senate bill in that it includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a provision, Bonamici said, that makes the bill untenable to some House Republicans.
"The big difficulty," she said, "is there are a lot of people opposed to what is referred to as amnesty. They don't want to give anything to people who are undocumented."
Bonamici said the comprehensive reform bill, however, is far from an amnesty program.
"It's not like we are all of a sudden making these people citizens," she said. "They have to go to the end of the line. They have to earn the right to stay here. They have to pay back taxes."
Bonamici told the dozen or so farmers gathered at the Christmas tree farm that she hears from many of her constituents within the First District about the need for immigration reform, including constituents within the high-tech and the agricultural sectors.
Bonamici's district includes parts of Northwest Portland, all of Washington, Clackamas and Yamhill counties, bringing in urban, suburban, high-tech, agriculture, forestry and fishery interests, she said.
"I hope when we get back (Jan. 7) that we can do something and get this (immigration issue) resolved," she said. "Whether it be for the workforce issue or (for humanitarian reasons), I hope we get something through."
Farmers also expressed concerns over the inability of Congress to pass a farm bill, which now is in conference committee after different versions passed the House and the Senate earlier this year.
One big difference between the bills is the level of cuts proposed for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formally known as food stamps. The Democrat-controlled Senate has proposed cuts averaging $4 billion to SNAP over 10 years, while the Republican-controlled House has proposed cuts of $42 billion for the same period.
Bonamici said she believes the final bill will include cuts of "somewhere in between" the two figures.
"There are a lot of good things in that Farm Bill," Bonamici said, "including specialty crops and the Christmas tree checkoff program, so we want that to come out of conference in a way that is going to build the broad support that we need to have it get through both chambers and get passed into law."
Farmers also brought up concerns over the U.S. Department of Labor's use of the "hot goods" provision of U.S. labor laws when addressing alleged minimum wage law violations on farms.
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It hasn't specified which phones will be able to access the Kindle book collection, which currently rests at about 230,000 titles.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. – The No. 4-seed Georgia College men's tennis team (12-9) saw its season come to a close Tuesday, as the Bobcats fell to No. 1-seed Armstrong (26-0) 5-0 in the NCAA Southeast Region #1 Final.
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The first loss came at the third slot, as Eudaldo Bonet and Matus Mydla topped the Bobcat duo of Tyler Franks (Greensboro, Ga.) and Alex Schubert (Frankfurt, Germany) 8-3.
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The loss brings the season to a close for Bobcat men's tennis, a 12-9 year that saw GC finish fifth in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC). The Bobcat men finished strong, rattling off five straight wins to finish the regular season, and taking a win each in PBC Tournament and NCAA Regional action. Leborgne and Wadstein made All-PBC First Team doubles, while Leborgne was also named to the second team in singles.
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I apologize in advance if you feel as though this post should be filed under "duh" but it is worth talking about. A midst the media-driven caricature of the Jets as a "circus" and granted they are not doing much dispel that perception, there is something that seems to have gotten lost in the mix when it comes to what this team needs to do in order to once again compete for a Super Bowl.
Let me start by saying that the Jets problems are 100% fixable and this team does not have to be a multi-year rebuilding project as many are speculating but the goal has to be a little smaller. In lieu of declaring winning the Super Bowl as his annual mission statement, Rex Ryan would better be served by establishing slightly smaller but equally important goals. The first of which MUST be to win the division, which the Jets have not only done a handful of times over the course of their history and only once in the past decade. As we know, the road to the Super Bowl is much easier if you have the ability to play one or more of those games at home. If the Jets two AFC Championship Game runs have taught us anything, it's that winning three consecutive games on the road is not the ideal or easiest way to reach the Super Bowl.
The only problem with the Jets winning the division is that team a few miles to the north, who despite their propensity for cheating and lack of talent at certain key positions continue to win 12 games a year like clockwork. Just think about it, even great teams have down years or losing seasons but even when they lose their UGG-wearing, all-world quarterback the Patriots still manage to win 11 games. At times it has looked like the only way that the Jets could win the AFC East and ultimately host a playoff game was realignment. Unfortunately barring some sort of massive league expansion, that's not a realistic possibility.
Now the question becomes: how do we build this team to best compete and ultimately dethrone the Patriots? There is no simple or easy answer to that question but what I will say is that it is not to try and beat them at their own game. The Jets already went through the "New England Copycat Phase" with the Mangini era and the colossal bust of a draft pick that was Vernon Gholston. If Rex Ryan has shown anything over his four-year tenure as Jets head coach, it's that he knows how to prepare for and play against the Patriots however, many times his teams will shoot themselves in the foot in these games. The key to beating New England has always been to put pressure on Brady and make him uncomfortable in the pocket but in order to do so, Rex and the Jets have had to scheme up some very creative defenses due to a lack of pure pass-rushers.
Despite his short-comings when it comes to stocking personnel on the offensive side of the football, Ryan has had a keen eye for defensive talent and has built a formidable core of defensive linemen with Muhammad Wilkerson, Quinton Coples. and Kenrick Ellis when he finally starts to come on. This defense is being built to beat the Patriots but it is not quite there yet as the linebacking corps is due for an off-season overhaul, where three out of the four starters from this past season will likely be replaced. What the Jets decide to do in terms of restocking, especially at the outside linebacker position will go a long way in determining whether this team will have what it takes to overthrow the Patriots.
The defense is obviously a huge part of the equation but in order to beat the Patriots twice a season the Jets need to be able to score points and avoid the mental mistakes that have characterized their last four match-ups against the Pats. If you look back to every game these two teams have played over the last two seasons, if you take away two big mental mistakes in each game, the Jets win one (if not more) of them perhaps even by a decided advantage. The mistakes have been in all three phases of the game but the ones on offense have been most egregious *see Butt Fumble* and have stemmed from an erosion of talent and the subsequent devolution of their franchise quarterback.
Mark Sanchez has three wins against the Patriots on his resume but at this point, he is too mistake and turnover prone to really entrust with the task of out-dueling Tom Brady on an annual basis. It is a sad indictment on what Sanchez has turned into as the Jets don't need or ask for a lot in a quarterback, all they need in their quarterback is someone who can convert first downs and not turn the ball over and Sanchez has proven that he has immense difficulty in doing both. Whoever the quarterback of this team is has to fulfill those two parameters if the team is to be successful and the offensive line must be solidified as well if Rex remains steadfast in his desire to have a run-first team.
Granted, I might be putting the proverbial cart in front of the horse as there are a lot of variable and moving parts in the equation that need to be settled before any of these issues can be addressed. However, one thing remains true and that is the road to the AFC East and ultimately the Super Bowl runs and will probably continue to run through Foxboro and if Rex wants to know how to get this team to the big game, he might want to look up north both in terms of philosophy and the standings.


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For a second consecutive year, Hope College students are collecting a variety of items for members of the armed services who are overseas through the "March to Support" program.
The student members of the residential life team in the college's Kollen Hall residence hall are leading "March to Support" throughout the month to build awareness of the men and women in the U.S. armed forces who are overseas and to reach out to them during their time serving abroad.
The primary effort is a goods drive that is emphasizing items requested by some of the service people currently stationed in Iraq. The collection is taking place through Wednesday, March 31. Students have also been writing postcards with notes of thanks to the service people and will be distributing yellow ribbons as a sign of support.
The students organized the initial drive in March 2009 after talking with Hope staff member Matthew D'Oyly, who lives in Kollen Hall as a residential coordinator for the college. D'Oyly mentioned that one of his fraternity brothers from Otterbein College was beginning a third tour with the U.S. Marines in Iraq, and the students took things from there.
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There's nothing quite like an infant's smile to brighten a day.
With Carson, now 10 weeks young, the smiles are fairly random, although becoming increasingly more frequent as he gets older. It's impossible to really know what brings on these funny little grins, but my money is on gas.
No matter the circumstances, a baby's no-teeth smile is a special thing. Whether it's a little stomach relief or a well-placed tickle or scratch, it doesn't matter to me. All I know is I love it and feel blessed that I get to see at least one of those silly little smirks every day.
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Additionally, thanks largely to the new medication and constantly keeping Carson elevated, the frequency of the gas has decreased and is a lot less "pee uuu", as my older son Beckett is inclined to say while he runs away shaking his head with his pointer finger up his nose.
Cabin fever is in full effect, thanks to this ridiculous cold streak of late.
Fortunately, some warmer weather (mid-40s during the day) is expected to be here by today, but it could not arrive soon enough for me.
One of the unfortunate consequences of this unusual cold snap has been a little stir craziness. Although we have a nice-sized house, there's nothing quite like getting out for walks, runs and park visits. These little jaunts outdoors are particularly helpful with a toddler, who quickly becomes dissatisfied running around the house all day.
While we wait for the weather to warm and keep an anxious eye out for spring, there have been quite a few fun games developed to keep Beckett as active as possible while confined to the house.
He's become a master at identifying objects on flash cards, enjoys messing around with Play-Doh and is such an amazing stacker of boxes and cups that Pam thinks he's destined to be an architect. He also continues to be a fan of Diego and Dora (some new Christmas videos were left under the tree) and is quite adept at picking out colors (thanks to a few timely educational videos around the holidays).
Of all the activities we do around the house, the classic game of "hide and seek" seems to be his favorite at this point. He gets extremely excited and loves every minute of it.
It's funny how obsessed he becomes with it and how at 20 months we have to play the game under his rules and rarely can we deviate to mix things up. He determines everything.
He's all about the seeking and could care less about the hiding. He always wants to start his search in the same place (the kitchen, presumably just in case there's some food in there that's suddenly become available). Under no terms will he come looking for you unless you say something along the lines of, "where's Beckett?"
Over the months we have been playing this game, he's become skilled and usually has no problem locating me in short order. However, I do my best to make it a little challenging for him by coming up with new places to hide.
I am happy to report I stumped him the other night. He had easily snuffed me out throughout the afternoon, but I finally was able to fool him by hiding behind his high chair and under a blanket. I listened attentively to his little stomping footsteps as he searched around the living room. He looked around in all the familiar places he knew and was starting to get a little frustrated I sensed from the tone of his voice. His "dadas" descended from excitable shouts and shrieks to some whimpers and pouts.
To stave off a meltdown, I started making some sounds to give him a hint. Eventually, he tracked me down, and that's usually the best part of the game. Whenever he finds me, he lets out a huge belly laugh and runs away, saying, "mo, dees" or "more, please" in adult terms.
Although he's a big fan of "hide and seek", there are times when he just needs to get out of the house for a change of scenery. When I get desperate, I just pack him up and head to my office in Berlin and let him run loose for a while. The office's long hallways are ideal for a game of chase, which is always entertaining.
Even that gets old for the little guy and that's why Pam enrolled him in a "Little Kickers" program for 18 to 24-month-olds on Saturdays for the next two months. That gets underway this weekend, and I'm sure it's going to be an interesting and funny adventure for all of us.


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(RADIO.COM) – Bruno Mars will travel back to his past this Sunday, November 20th when he appears on 60 Minutes.
The pop star journeys to his native Hawaii, where he shows viewers the concrete cabin he shared with his father and brother for a short period following his parents' divorce when he was 12 years old. "My dad was just the king of finding these little spots for us to stay that we should never have been staying at," Mars says.
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I cannot believe the Register Citizen had the audacity to print the nonsense provided by the "Editorial courtesy of the Denver Post" which stated "GOP challenger Mitt Romney crushed" in his debate. It went further to say "President Obama. Pummeled him. Dominated." What were they smoking? As soon as the debate was over I switched to the liberal cable news CNN and they were in a state of chock wondering what happened to their President. Someone commented on as to why he even bothered to show up. Commentators on CNN were actually giving glowing words on Romney's performance. The last paragraph on the Denver Post' remarks were "The Denver event made for a promising beginning to the debate season." It certainly did. For Mitt Romney. Dream on Denver Post. And I hope the Register Citizen shows better taste in the future.
A truly shocking number that NO one believes, total employment, as measured by the Obama administration's Household Survey, rose by 873,000 in September, the biggest one month jump since June 1983. No one can explain this incredible gain or the reasons for the record breaking jump. Not one expert has been able to cite a single reason for this gigantic increase in hiring, further casting doubt on the credibility of the number is the fact that while the Administrations Household Survey showed a gain of 873,000 people newly employed in September - resulting in the surprise drop in the unemployment rate - while the highly scientific Establishment Survey of one in three business owners showed only a rise of 114,000 new jobs. The liberal-minded main stream press won't ask any questions of course.
After so many years every morning when I had my coffee, i felt I had a good partner, The Register Citizen. Now, I feel I have lost that partner. It is not the same anymore. Having my coffee isn't as enjoyable. My question is should I divorce this partner.
I have gotten The Register Citizen for the last 50 years and I have been a good customer. The Register Citizen has gone down hill, the latest the small print, and the wording of death lists. I think you ought to revise the whole thing and go back to what it used to be. Otherwise for 50 years I am very seriously thinking of canceling the paper.
Stern orders were issued by Barack Obama to all media outlets, with the exception of Fox News, that they were not to print or say anything remotely negative about the Democrat campaign, even gaffs and lies. Further they were to smear and bash Mitt Romney at every opportunity in order to suppress the Republican vote. Media watchers report that TV, radio and newspapers, including the Register Citizen, are following White House orders precisely and doing their best to cover up for Obama.
We have read a lot recently about the fire department trying to increase their call volume by responding to medical emergencies. But if this city was truly interested in enhancing first response they would utilize the police. One needs only to look at the surrounding cities and towns to see how this cost effective approach has worked. Winsted, Thomaston, and Bristol police first respond in those towns. Even smaller town utilize state police and have seen numerous lives saved. It makes sense both financially and strategically. There is even rumor that Waterbury police may be taking back medical response due to the severe wear and tear on city fire trucks. Torrington police patrol the city in sectors. The are never more than just a few minutes from any location. They are medically trained in the academy and many are EMTs. The fire department on the other hand has to respond from their downtown stations in 40,000 lbs fire trucks. Between the hours of 9 pm and 6 am they have to get out of bed to respond. Perhaps the citizens of Torrington would be better served if officials were more interested in saving lives rather than saving fire jobs.


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Omega, 2014: Derek Jeter announces this season is his last
If you pick up a Bible and thumb your way through to last book – the book of revelation – you'll find the story of the end of the world, otherwise known as the apocalypse. Flying, fire-breathing dragons, the harvest of the earth, and the final battle between good and evil are discussed, and it advises all readers to maintain faith. In its epilogue, the Bible's final line is, "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all."
Now, we will never know when, exactly, the apocalypse will transpire; it's an unknown phenomenon in terms of its timing. But if you're a member of Yankee Universe, you found out today the end of the world will come at the conclusion of the 2014 season.
Or at least the end of a significant era.
This afternoon Yankee Captain Derek Jeter announced (via his "Turn 2 Foundation" Facebook page) that this coming year will be his last, and he will retire when this forthcoming season is over.
"…it was months ago when I realized that this season would likely be my last. As I came to this conclusion and shared it with my friends and family, they all told me to hold off saying anything until I was absolutely 100% sure.
"And the thing is, I could not be more sure. I know it in my heart. The 2014 season will be my last playing professional baseball."
This is the end. The day we all had nightmares about.
Jeter has pretty much earned the right to hang 'em up though, having conquered basically everything there is to conquer in baseball. Cooperstown, for all we know, might already have a special room designated for the wonders of Jeter's career; there's no question he'll be enshrined in upstate New York's hallowed halls with the ghosts of baseball's past.
Here's a little bit of input on my part:
Why now?
For one, his age. Although in recent times certain players have been able to suit up and take the field at 40 years old (and beyond), eventually they can't do it anymore, for whatever reason. Some players, like Randy Johnson for example, hang around to meet career goals. In Johnson's case he stayed in the game to reach 300 wins, but he put his cleats away almost immediately after he reached the milestone.
Jeter has no more real goals to reach, being a five-time World Series champ, a World Series MVP, an All-Star game MVP; having 3,000 career hits, being the all-time Yankee hit leader . . . and so on and so forth. Think of doing something unfathomable in baseball, and then realize Jeter has been there and done that.
Summing it up, Jeter will be 40 in June and he has nothing left to accomplish on the field.
Another reason, clearly, was the injury to his ankle that he sustained in Game 1 of the 2012 ALCS. Since that fateful October night, nothing has been same for him. He only played 17 games in 2013 because his ankle wasn't quite right, batting an uncharacteristic .190 (12 hits in 63 at-bats) which was a sizable drop from the .316 BA he put up in 2012.
It was evident his afflictions impacted him in 2013. He didn't have it last year – and he knew it.
"Last year was a tough one for me. As I suffered through a bunch of injuries, I realized that some of the things that always came easily to me and were always fun had started to become a struggle.
"The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward."
One last piece of info Jeter slipped into his reason for retiring: his desire to be more of a businessman and start a family.
"Now it is time for the last chapter. I have new dreams and aspirations, and I want new challenges. There are many things I want to do in business and in philanthropic work, in addition to focusing more on my personal life and starting a family of my own . . ."
It's good the captain is willing to dive into the business world and try to master it the way he did the game of baseball. The question is, however, as far as beginning a familial lifestyle,
With whom will he start a family?
Given his glorious track record of dating attractive women, he can practically pick any woman he wants at this point, and then take it from there. Lucky guy.
How he announced it
Facebook. It shocked most people in the press, including myself.
Jeter isn't the type of person who takes to social media every time a thought pops into head (like the rest of us), so the fact that he wrote up a note and threw it on his foundation's Facebook page was a little bizarre. This writer even kept saying to himself, over and over again after the news broke,
"Facebook? Really?"
You would think he would've waited until Spring Training started, and called a press conference for all to see. At the very least it would've been a little more formal than a Facebook post, but kudos to Jeets going against the grain and breaking the huge news in an unconventional manner – well, at least unconventional by his standards.
He rose through the ranks of pro ball by being an uncommon player, so he might as well go out doing things in uncommon ways.
What it means for the Yankees
In a nutshell, they'll need a shortstop after this year. The questions about whether or not the Yankees will pursue Stephen Drew are already rising, though they aren't expected to make anymore deals now that the offseason is on the downswing. That and the fact they've already spent nearly half a $billion already.
Buster Olney, ESPN analyst and former Yankee beat writer, speculated that the Colorado Rockies – if their season starts to crumble and they're non-contenders before July 31 – might explore the idea of moving their All-Star SS Troy Tulowitzki.
Tulowitzki is owed somewhere around $140 million over the next several years. Who better to pick up that contract than the Yankees: a team notorious for having deep pockets and not being afraid to show it, especially when they're in need of a key player.
Discussing the topic, MLB Network brought up two other names who will apparently be free agents after this year: Hanley Ramirez (LA Dodgers) and J.J. Hardy (Baltimore Orioles). Ramirez however made a statement today claiming he "wants to be a Dodger for life."
Yet, should the Yankee brass offer him a larger sum of money than LA does, Ramirez might reword that statement. Robinson Cano made similar remarks about staying with the Yankees, and we all saw what happened there.
On the other hand the Yankees could go the in-house route to supplant Jeter next year, which could mean Eduardo Nunez is the guy going forward. But if they want to look beyond Nunez because of his defensive foibles, every shortstop in the farm system needs to perform well enough this season – or do something extraordinary enough this season – to prove they might just be the heir apparent.
Cito Culver, I'm looking at you.
The farewell tour
Like last year (for Mariano Rivera), fans from all over the place are going to flock to wherever the Yankees are just to see Jeter during his last hurrah. The Yankee captain is going to be like a giant neon light in 2014, and the fans are going to be like moths on hot summer nights, flying towards him.
If they can afford it, that is.
Ticket prices for the Thursday, Sept. 25 game vs. Baltimore – the Yankees' final home game of the 2014 regular season – have absolutely skyrocketed. Before Jeter announced his plans, it was just an average game. Now that his final appearance at Yankee Stadium could potentially fall on that date, you cannot buy a ticket for less than $397. At press time; that figure could be inflating as I'm typing this.
While Sept. 25 may be Jeter's final game at the big ballpark in the Bronx notwithstanding a playoff run, it's possible the Yankees honor him with a special day on Sunday, Sept. 21 at home vs. the Blue Jays. Tickets for that game have also become astronomical in terms of price, and it would make sense they pay homage to the captain on that day, being that the Yanks honored Rivera on Sunday, Sept. 22 this past year.
Either way, fans will be coming from near and far to see Jeter this year. 2014. The final year. The apocalypse. The end of the world, or at least the true end of the Yankee dynasty era.