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One City, Three Games
So we know the New York Mets hosted a rain-out inspired doubleheader starting at 12:10 on April 13, 1997, and the New York Yankees hosted their own weather-induced twin bill beginning at 1:30 the same day.
We are also advised – thanks to research Buster Olney did for the New York Times back in '97 – that the last year that the Dodgers, Giants, and Yanks shared New York there were no fewer than eight dueling doubleheaders.
And we know that on September 1, 1890, during the last desperate month of the worst year in baseball history – the season the players walked out on the owners of the two established leagues to found their own circuit (with disastrous attendance consequences) – the National League Brooklyn Bridegrooms pulled a harrowing stunt – a triple header against Pittsburgh (and they swept them).
But we do not know is when New York fans (or fans in anybother multi-team city) were last afforded the chance they are given today. The Mets began their doubleheader against the Rockies at 12:12 and have vaguely scheduled the nightcap fir 3:40 PM. The Yankees have their night game against Baltimore scheduled in the Bronx for about 7:10. With the slothfulness of play these days, to
say nothing of rush hour traffic, it seems unlikely anybody could see
all nine innings of all three games – but you can get pretty close.
And it surely will be your last chance for awhile!
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You must be in baseball hog heaven today, enjoy your tripleheader! 🙂
You must be in baseball hog heaven today; enjoy your triple header! 🙂
Hey Bella, Keith will go down in the Baseball Hog of Fame! I'd love to see one Yankees game before I die…in person…not just on TV. Also, folks can do like my dad did to catch multiple games…sports page on lap…earphone in ear and game on TV. Po man's triple! Wheeee! ("Take me out to the ballgame" plays out.)
Never seen three in one day, but I did see two games in one day in two cities in 2005. Reds – Nats day game at RFK Stadium, Angels – Orioles night game at Camden Yards, then caught the Reds – Pirates game the next night at PNC Park on the way back to Ohio. Saw Griffey Jr hit one out two days in a row.
Keith, don't know if you are tracking Mr. Hayhurst's work at durham. He went six innings and got the win the other day… are they trying him as a starter ?
I once watched a twi-night double header at Candlestick Park. I had to be treated for hypothermia afterwards.
NYC traffic jams is why they built the subways.
Hmmm, it's still way early in the season, but I see the Yanks are 9 and 5 and the Bosox are 4 and 10…
I wonder if Giardi showed that picture of you schmoozing with Franconen in the locker room along with your predictions…
I hope so…
How about the Mets having to play back-to-back doubleheaders? Two on Thursday and two on Saturday. You don't see that too often. Your post reminds me of the Sammy Davis Jr. song "New York's My Home": "It's a city where a man can fulfill his dreams/The only town that's left that's got three baseball teams." Obviously recorded pre-1958.
I once saw 2 Rangers game on the same day…Yanks vs. Rangers on Opening Day at the Stadium; Rangers vs. my favorite hockey team (whoever's visiting 🙂 that evening.
I could think of nothing better to do with a week day. You probably had to take a shower after the Mets game. I know watching the Mets makes me feel kinda yucky.
I belong to a club of Central Illinois baseball fans called "The Raccoons". We would check Sox and Cub schedules for the rare days that both teams would be in town on the same day, get tickets and enjoy a day game at Wrigley, dinner at The Berghoff, and then on to the Southside to watch my beloved Pale Hose. One year we were lucky enough to catch a rain-out double header between the Cubs and Pirates then see the Sox vs, A's. What a day!!!
Last SCHEDULED doubleheader at Fenway Park. Red Sox v. Senators, July 4, 1969. It was one of six doubleheaders that day (Yankees hosted one Pirates, Giants, White Sox and Royals did too). I was there, got to see Frank Howard take BP at Fenway Park, an utterly awesome display, and he hit his 28th homer that day, in the 82nd day of the non-steroidal season.
The next year, 1970, there was one Independence Day doubleheader, and that was at Wrigley where the nightcap had to be over by 8 p.m. or so. July 4th was, however a Saturday that year, 1971, a Sunday, no July 4 twin bills; weekday Independence days then returned with three double headers in 1972, two in '73, '74, '75, four on Bicentennial Day in 1976; then two in '77 and '78 and then none in 1978, but Pittsburgh and New York resumed the practice by each hosting doubleheaders in 1979 (those two cities had kept up the tradition through the 70s) and 1980, there was a strike in 1981, Pit and NY resumed in 82; but in 83 the Yanks had Boston in and went with one game, but Pittsburgh and Wrigley each had a doubleheader, but there the Pirate and N.Y. home team tradition ended.
it was S.F. only in 84 and finally not a single Independence Day doubleheader in 1985 (although the Braves and Mets did manage to play 19 innings of 16-13, 6 hour 10 minute, 46 base hit, 47 LOB baseball in which Ron Darling should have been credited, just on general principal, with what would have been his only major league save).
The next July 4 doubleheader wasn't until the Mets played 2 in 1992, but even there, it looks like the previous day was a rainout; the Cubs hosted two in 1999, the Giants in 2001; the Indians in 2005 which is the last independence day doubleheader scheduled, and one of only two this century and 6 since 1990.
1960 may have been the last year of every team scheduling a July 4th doubleheader, although Yankees only played one in Washington, but the schedule that year had all the teams scheduled for a one-day, two-game series on July 4, but the Senators and Yanks played one on the 4th and one on the 5th, so I suspect there may have been a Game 2 rainout. Granted, this was still the Griffin era, so he may well have tried to stretch the series to a second admission, but Washington tallying 20,000 paid on Tuesday July 5 makes me think that 16,000 of those admissions were the people with rainchecks from the second game of the Monday July 4 doubleheader. The last year when every club actually played two on Independence Day was 1958, they were pretty consistent on weekday holidays through the 60s.
As for Canada Day, or Dominion Day, as it used to be called, Le Jour de la Confédération, The Expos played 2 on July 2 71, 78 and 82, and had a night-before twilight/night (in Marty Glickman's term) in 73 and 77, and the Jays played two the day after in 77 and 87 and two on Canada Day in 1978, the only time there was an MLB doubleheader on Canada's national holiday during a Tory government..
The last year when every club actually played two on Independence Day was 1958, they were pretty consistent on weekday holidays through the 60s.
As for Canada Day, or Dominion Day, as it used to be called, Le Jour de la Confédération, The Expos played 2 on July 2 71, 78 and 82, and had a night-before twilight/night (in Marty Glickman's term) in 73 and 77, and the Jays played two the day after in 77 and 87 and two on Canada Day in 1978, the only time there was an MLB doubleheader on Canada's national holiday during a Tory government..


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1st Gear: Ray DeGiorgio
A few days ago, there was a piece in Fortune about engineer Ray DeGiorgio, the man at the center of the Cobalt/Ion recall. The headline was "How one rogue employee can upend a whole company" and it was based on a reading of the internal Valukas Report that indicated something sketchy about DeGiorgio.
I feel like that's kind of bullshit because it takes an entire culture to produce the kind of problems that occurred, but I was also struck in combing through the report that, yeah, something is strange about this guy.
Then here comes this scoop from Nathan Bomey at the Freep about the latest recall.
GM spokesman Alan Adler confirmed in an e-mail that ignition switch engineer Ray DeGiorgio — who was recently fired after investigators concluded he played a key role in hiding a deadly defect in the other vehicles — was the "release engineer" for the ignition switches on the newly recalled cars.
That's about 2.59 million cars originally, 3.16 million cars now, and we're almost at 6 million from one guy.
2nd Gear: A History Of Euphemisms At GM
The GM banned word list got a lot of play around here (and on John Oliver and lots of places), but was it really that bad? Brent Snavely and Alisa Priddle looked into it.
Turns out that, yeah, the idea of banned word lists are nothing new, although GM's is pretty bad even by corporate-speak standards.
Amy Edmondson, a professor of management at Harvard Business School, said she was surprised by how exhaustive GM's list was.
"Sometimes, concerns about regulatory and legal issues are more dangerous than the issues themselves because it can lead people to communicate in incomplete and inaccurate ways, often giving rise to the very risks that they are attempting to avoid," Edmondson said.
Friedman said corporate-speak often downplays or clouds the actual meaning of the problem.
"It can create a communication gap between a company and its audiences. And sometimes it can come across as a company being disingenuous," he said.
That's how I feel, too.
3rd Gear: It Gets Harder, Not Easier, For Barra
It's hard to remember that a few months ago many of us were talking about how easy its was for Mary Barra as CEO of GM. She's stepped into a company that was out of bankruptcy, was growing in sales, and started to receive some goodwill.
The company is safely out of bankruptcy, and sales are still growing, but they've basically lost almost all the warm feelings – or even the neutral ones – they'd worked so hard to get back.
Barra goes back before Congress and it's going to be absolutely fucked, but it only gets more fucked from there as Daniel Howes rightly points out.
But it's only a start. Like its hometown, GM is burdened by legitimate suspicions it cannot change, cannot slay the demons of its past to become a functioning member of corporate America not wedded to the worst habits of a golden era now long gone. Switchgate, despite all the New GM rhetoric, only reinforces suspicions compounded by the fact that most of Barra's leadership team are products of Old GM.
Managing the path back to respectability transcends the new metal in showrooms, and any New GM will be demonstrated by what it actually does. It's Job One for Barra, whom her predecessor, Dan Akerson, touted for her ability to "drive change" in a company still badly in need of it. He got that part right.
4th Gear: Why Don't We Get TSBs?
If you want to find a technical service bulletin about your car you can wait for NHTSA to post them, in limited form, and you can also search some complaints, but unless you're a reporter with a lot of time and a lot of interns making sense of it isn't easy.
This comes up in The Wall Street Journal today and they ask the important question: Dealers get them, why not everyone else?
The most recent struggle over TSBs was during negotiations over a 2012 reauthorization of highway programs. In the final language, Congress required the Transportation Department to publish, on a publicly available website, all of the auto makers' "communications to dealers" about identified defects. Safety advocates say the bulletins certainly fall in that category.
But NHTSA interprets the law narrowly, saying it doesn't require the agency to post the bulletin until the problem has technically been classified as a "safety defect." Until a safety defect has been identified, the agency says, it doesn't publish the whole bulletins because they are copyrighted documents.
A spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said the bulletins are copyrighted, and technical communications that aren't aimed at the consumer, but rather trained service technicians and service advisers who do the work. He added that consumers could buy the reports from outside service providers.
Yeah, fuck that. To GM's credit, they're actually in support of this.
5th Gear: Geely/Volvo Is The Most Important Chinese Merger
Can China actually make Volvo work? That's the question a lot of people had and, largely, still have. Managing a global auto brand isn't something that China has been able to achieve yet.
That being said, could they possibly do worse than Ford?
Definitely read this Reuters piece linked above to get a look into the grand ambitions Geely has for Volvo. Here's the important bit:
A senior Volvo executive said the Swedish automaker would start exporting Chinese-made sedans, a long-wheel-based version of the S60 called the S60L, to the United States and the XC90 utility crossover to Russia as early as the end of next year.
There have been some interesting forays into the North American market from China, starting with V6 engines in the Chevy Equinox and the occasional Honda Fit. But a luxury car?
If they can pull it off it'll be quite the accomplishment. As will getting Volvos into the hands of Chinese consumers who, all of a sudden, love entry-level luxury cars.
Reverse: O.J. Simpson leads L.A. police on a high-speed chase
Viewers across the nation are glued to their television screens on this day in 1994, watching as a fleet of black-and-white police cars pursues a white Ford Bronco along Interstate-405 in Los Angeles, California. Inside the Bronco is Orenthal James "O.J." Simpson, a former professional football player, actor and sports commentator whom police suspected of involvement in the recent murders of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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Pirates' bullpen falters in eighth frame vs. Fish
With Watson unavailable, Wilson and Co. walk four in five-run inning
PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates were without their star center fielder Tuesday night, but that is not what bit them. It was the absence of their setup man.
The Marlins scored five times in the eighth -- the tying and go-ahead runs coming on bases-loaded walks by Justin Wilson -- and came back to beat the Bucs, 6-3, at PNC Park. The Marlins sent 11 hitters to the plate and the Pirates went through four relievers in the deciding frame.
Usual eighth-inning pitcher Tony Watson was unavailable after pitching an inning in all three of the Bucs' games in Arizona this past weekend -- including a 22-pitch showing on Sunday -- before the team's off-day on Monday. An All-Star, the lefty has a 1.52 ERA, 1.050 WHIP and 25 holds in 52 games this season.
"[Watson] was just not going to pitch tonight," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "That was predetermined before the game. He was not in a position to pitch."
Jared Hughes took over for starter Charlie Morton in the eighth with a 2-1 lead. Hughes got one out before issuing a walk to Giancarlo Stanton on four pitches.
"I got to get ahead in the count right there, I got to," said Hughes, who was charged with the loss. "Walking the tying run with nobody on base, it's going to come back to get you, and it did today."
Casey McGehee followed Stanton's walk by reaching on an error by third baseman Josh Harrison, ending Hughes' night. Wilson entered the game and faced three batters. Pinch-hitter Jeff Baker singled, and the next two -- Marcell Ozuna and Jarrod Saltalamacchia -- drew walks with the bags full to send Wilson off the mound to an unhappy crowd.
The inning managed to go further downhill for the Pirates' bullpen. Jeanmar Gomez gave up two hits and an RBI groundout, as three more runs scored. Finally, Stolmy Pimental came in and ended the quagmire with a three-pitch strikeout of Stanton with the bases loaded.
The Pirates' final eighth-inning pitching line was: five runs (three earned runs) three hits, four walks, 42 pitches (21 strikes), four pitchers.
"There were walks involved, there was an error," Hurdle said. "We just didn't get the things done that we needed to get done with a one-run lead."
On the flip side, Marlins manager Mike Redmond, whose team drew eight walks in the game, said his team had "great at-bats" to reverse their fortunes late in the contest.
"I don't think we're known for a team that takes a lot of walks," Redmond said. "We were able to zone it up and be patient at times when we needed it."
The bullpen breakdown spoiled an effective outing from Morton. The sinkerballer gave up just one run in seven frames, scattering six hits and striking out four.
The only run against Morton came in the fourth inning when former Pirates first baseman Garret Jones singled and Ozuna drove him in with a double. Morton also worked around four free passes of his own, and he was aided by double plays in the fourth and sixth innings.
"Tonight, for the most part, I was lucky and had some great plays made behind me," Morton said. "And I made some pitches in key situations to get some double plays."
Gregory Polanco slapped what at the time was the go-ahead single in the seventh inning to score Neil Walker, but that was long forgotten by the time the top half of the eighth concluded. The other sources of Pirates' offense came on a Jordy Mercer double in the third to open the scoring and a Chris Stewart RBI single in the ninth.
Polanco was the last batter for Miami starter Brad Hand, who kept the Pirates quiet and had three 1-2-3 innings. Hand lasted 6 1/3, allowed two runs on six hits, struck out four and walked one.
Starling Marte was activated from the seven-day concussion disabled list earlier in the day and got the start in center field with Andrew McCutchen sidelined with a fractured rib. Marte went 1-for-4 and scored a run in his first game since July 21.


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As the population of people on the autism spectrum grows, the industry of autism service provision burgeons. This is both the good news and the bad news. Lack of opportunities and options—especially for adults with ASD—means that many families are desperate for support. An increase in attention to our population's needs will undoubtedly mean that more people can be served and helped. But it can also mean that the industry expands quickly and without responsible standards of practice.
It is incumbent on families of adults with autism to engage in dialogue about best practice and to hold service providers accountable for meeting our population's needs well and responsibly. We need service providers who understand the intricacies of working with adults with autism and who understand the complexities of interacting with their families. We must insist that companies that seek our dollars—either privately or as taxpayers—actually deliver the goods, not just lip service. These dollars are very dear, and must last.
Adults with autism and their families are vulnerable as consumers, precisely because there are so few services available. Marketing staffs know this. They know what to say to us to tempt us to sign on. The most enticing promise is that of potential employment. Acquisition of independent living skills is another big sell, as is the ability to self-advocate. We yearn not only for increased independence for our children, but normalization for our families. And so service providers fill their brochures and websites with glossy pictures of smiling adults at work, with friends, in the community. We imagine our adult children in those snapshots.
Pretty pictures aren't enough, however. There must be something behind the spin. We need to ask service providers to talk in terms of program methodology, efficacy, efficiency and outcome. In the article, "Researchers report Wanh, Wanh, Wanh, Wuh-Wahn, Waaahn" [3] by Sophia Colamarino, we focused on how to evaluate science reports regarding autism. The same principles outlined there can be applied when it comes to service provision. It is not unreasonable to expect service providers to know and report on their rate of success in what they do. And it is not unreasonable to expect these companies to gather and report this information responsibly. If a provider purports to develop employability, for example, consumers need to ask how many of the clients who've passed through the program have obtained and maintained jobs. Be wary of the "data" which provides statistics without information on how the study was conducted. In other words, let's say 100 adults with autism have exited a program. It is not meaningful to contact 10 of them—especially if they are not randomly chosen—find five people who have held some type of job and report that "50% of former clients surveyed are employed" without also describing the sample size and how the participants were chosen. If examining the acquisition of independent living skills, it is important to understand how these skills were measured at intake, and how they are being measured now. Parents sometimes assume that an adult with ASD has limited skills because they've never pushed for demonstration of those skills. If skill assessment is based on parent report, the "baseline" of existing skills can be inaccurate and the success of the service provider can be exaggerated.
As a community, we need to be focusing on the development of affordable services of quality. We need to feel sufficiently empowered as consumers to ask for real, meaningful outcome data. When the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [4](IDEA) was created and reauthorized, it was mandated that IEPs contain goals that are measurable. We should expect adult services to measure progress as well. Yes, it's difficult. Yes, if a provider has only been around for a few years, data will be limited. But a service provider worth its salt will quickly turn its attention to self-evaluation. Not only to provide consumers with accurate information, but to ensure that its model is functioning as intended.
At AA16 we view it as central to our mission to search out, analyze, and report on innovative, responsible service providers. We're interested in specific companies, but we're more interested in models of service delivery that work. We want to understand how the stand-out companies do what they do and how families across the country can access or replicate those models. We need many more services for adults with autism. But we can't afford for these services to be ineffective or wasteful. As individual families, and as a country, we must insist that this infant industry grow up strong.


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One of the most unusual things about Internet-based businesses is that few of them try very hard to make money. Of course, with a very few exceptions (such as Wikipedia) making money is certainly in the business plan, or there wouldn't be all that venture capital floating around, but in general the approach has been to come up with a good product or service first, and only look for ways to make it profitable after it's acquired a steady clientele. Hugely important and successful ventures like Google, YouTube and Facebook all started out operating at a significant loss. This pattern continues today: it's already hard to imagine the Internet without Twitter, but so far that service isn't earning its makers much money (though you can be sure they're looking for ways to do that.)
This is the second part of a two-part blog. The first part looked at some of the more straightforward ways of making money online such as sales, fee-for-service, subscription and brokerage.
After the controversy surrounding last year's proposed copyright bill C-61, which eventually died on the order table when Parliament was prorogued, the Federal government has decided to hold consultations across Canada before introducing a new version of the bill. While only time will tell how responsive the government will be to the public's submissions, the series of town halls and round tables is definitely a good start in making the process transparent and taking the views of a wide variety of Canadians into account. Below is an expanded version of MNet's submission to the Round Table held in Gatineau, Quebec on July 29th 2009.
If asked to think about community television (or public-access television, as a similar institution is called in the US) most people would probably conjure up the movie Wayne's World or its real-life analogue, The Tom Green Show: TV made by people who would, under normal circumstances, never appear on TV, shot in someone's basement or living room. Or perhaps they'd think of earnest, low-budget shows that showcase community events that wouldn't otherwise be televised, such as ethnic festivals or the Canadian Improv Games.
My name is Andrea Tomkins and I am the new MediaSmarts Mom. I am thrilled to be in this space and sharing my first post with you today.
The issue of copyright is one that many of us probably know a little bit about. Copying is stealing – and stealing is bad - but it can still be a grey area in a social media world which is very PRO sharing.
Once upon a time Screen-Free Week used to be known as TV Turnoff and Digital Detox Week. Participating in TV Turnoff was a bit easier when my daughters were younger because laptops, tablets and iPhones weren't nearly as pervasive as they are today.
Our kids are coming of age at a time that things like online shopping, Facetime, and texting are all normal everyday occurrences. Technology is enabling people to do some pretty amazing things, and even communicate in a whole new way using a new language. You may know this as texting.
I feel like such an old lady when I'm listening to the radio sometimes. When I'm in the car with my husband we often find ourselves having the I Can't Believe What Kids Are Listening to These Days conversation, one that often ends with me hitting the OFF button in disgust.
The beginning of another school year is approaching quickly, and as it does many parents are beginning to wonder how they can help their kids ease out of summertime media habits. In addition to having to establish new rules for media use, parents may also face a barrage of requests and questions from their kids regarding digital technology, such as: Am I old enough to have a cell phone? Can I bring it to school? How about my iPod? What about Facebook – all my friends are on it, I need it to talk to them about my homework!


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I'm so glad some of you want to join in on the fun. For the rest of you, don't count yourself out just yet! If you start to feel left out feel free to join in at any time. Maybe for you it's 25 for 25 or 15 for 15. Whatever works for you. Till then, I realize that I've picked up a few readers (Hello!) since the original 30 for 30, so for those of you who are new, here is what "30 for 30" means.
Last April, for the whole month I gave up shopping. To encourage myself to not shop I picked out 30 items and remixed them into 30 outfits, hence the name 30 for 30. It was tough, even grueling at times, but completely worth it. Worth it enough that I'm doing it again this summer, starting next Monday, July 5th. Along the way I learned a few things that might help you in your remixing, rather it be for this challenge or in your own closet everyday.
1. Be true to who you are. I'm not going to get all Dr. Suess on you, but I mean it. When I did my original challenge, I threw in more pants than skirts -- which is not me at all. So I struggled wearing all of those pants, when I really wanted to wear skirts. If you really like wearing skirts, throw in a few more skirts than pants, or vice verse. If it's cold where you are, throw in a few jackets or items to layer, etc.
2. Stay neutral towards neutrals. With the exception of a few things, most of my items in my last re-mix were neutral colors. I thought that it would be easiest to remix a more neutral based wardrobe, morever than a colorful one. This may be true to some extent but in the end all I wanted to wear was color. This time around, I've found it easier to pick out a few neutral tops and a few neutral bottoms but I also picked out a few wild cards with colors and patterns. (We'll see how it goes)
3. Limit the shoes. I know, I know -- what the what am I talking about? In my last challenge I had more shoes than I knew what to do with and I ended up only wearing a few of them. So pick your favorite heels, a pair of wedges, sandals, boots or flats and go with it. Trust me -- you'll need more tops and bottoms than shoes.
4. Plan ahead of time. I'm a bit of an over-planner and a list maker, which if you are a free spirit like my husband this aspect of me will drive you insane. BUT it's really helpful when it comes to planning out 30 outfits out of 30 items. I made a spreadsheet (I know, I know) that lists out all of my items and what I will mix them with. A spreadsheet may not be the answer for you, but planning ahead will take out the sting of the remixing.
5. Workout clothes, pajamas, etc. are not included. :) Of coures they are not forbidden either -- if you want to rock your gym shorts with some heels, who am I to judge?
And to those of you who are on the fence, I have one pro that might just tip you over: The amount of laundry decreses by 50%. In fact, I don't even remember doing laundry for the month of April. Who needs more of a prompt than that?
Now, there is one more thing that I'd forgotten when I started this challenge again for the summer: No shopping for 30 days. Conveniently, I forgot about that aspect of this challenge. But if you're in, I'm in. Plus, we've got a few more days before June 5th, right? Right??
I haven't posted my items yet due to an emergency trip to visit my parents. No worries -- everyone is fine. My parents were just getting sick of not seeing me so they bought us last minute plane tickets to come see them. I'll try to get my remix items posted early next week. Don't blame me, blame my mother.
One more thing -- don't worry about posting your outfits within 30 days. I wouldn't be so dare or brave to think that I could post 30 outfits in 1 month. I hope to be done with this challenge by the first of August, but again it's no rush. There are no time limits to fashion, my friends.
See a list of the remixers here. If you have joined in on the remix challenge feel free to place the banner below on your posts so others can play along as well.
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(CNN) - President Barack Obama will hold a news conference Monday at 11:15 a.m. ET, the White House announced.
Obama will make an opening statement about the debt limit, according to a White House official. The debt limit is poised to become the next battle between the White House and Congress - Republicans want spending cuts attached to any measure raising the debt limit, while Obama has said he won't negotiate on raising the ceiling.
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luckjoe – just come out of your coma when Bush left office?
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I'm loving my president. Yes Repubs he is hard core, yes the DYNAMIC" of America is changing into what she was always intended to be, a real melting pot... if you're a white gun-toting christian who hates others not like them and fears you are losing your country I would say you're not in the melting pot called America. We are not changing the inscription at Staten island to say "gives us your elitist, your oligarchy, or your entitled... you might want to put on your big boy pants now.


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The Bolivarian bus – without brakes or transmission, with flattened tires and lacking a driver – is plunging into a deep ravine, carrying a Venezuelan people that appear to be infected with a societal death wish.
Some of the passengers apparently think they'll survive the plunge and continue gorging on freebies and thievery.
Others think that the Bolivarian revolution is immortal – that chavismo without Chavez will somehow prevail.
Still others apparently believe that they can strike deals to insure that they'll walk away without a scratch from the imminent impact.
Fools, knaves, imbeciles and opportunistic bottom-feeders abound on the Bolivarian bus.
Hugo Chavez is dying, kept alive now only by 24/7 life support in a Havana oncology center, the moment of his death hastened by the incomparably incompetent Cuban physicians that Fidel and Raul Castro reportedly handpicked to treat Chavez's cancer.
Thank you, Fidel and Raul, for ridding Venezuela of this pestilential plague named Hugo Chavez.…but was it accidental, or deliberate?
What we're seeing now is a power struggle that pits chavistas against chavistas against more chavistas, like buzzards dancing around a moribund cadaver pecking each other in a feeding frenzy.
On the other side of the divide, the political opposition – aptly called the MUD – is more confused than anyone in this tragicomic drama.
MUD is irrelevant in these times.
The notion that MUD is united is laughable.
Who, and where, are the opposition's leaders?
Henrique Capriles Radonski, Leopoldo Lopez, Pablo Perez, Maria Corina Machado, Antonio Ledezma, Henry Ramos Allup and all the many other parrots and crows that flock together in the MUD?
Sure, Capriles Radonski officially captured over 40% of the vote in last October's elections, but he still lost to a dying man who – let's face it – is worshipped mythically by most of the country's poor pueblo.
Capriles Radonski also won re-election as governor of Miranda, but certainly not by a landslide. He barely squeaked against a contender – Elias Jaua – that even most chavistas dismiss as a pathetic clown.
However, how many votes would Capriles Radonski likely win in new presidential elections where he confronts a larger field of presidential wannabes including most/all of the above opposition "leaders"?
Would AD and UNT support a new Capriles Radonski presidential candidacy, or try to make backroom deals instead with diverse factions of chavismo?
Reports of secret meetings between various factions of the MUD and the likes of Nicolas Maduro, Diosdado Cabello and Jose Vicente Rangel hint at double- and triple-crosses brewing inside the MUD.
It seems that everyone in the MUD nowadays has a Plan B under way to ensure their personal/political ascendancy – and screw the pueblo.
The State Department has confirmed it has been in contact with Vice President Nicolas Maduro, officially Chavez's designated heir as "leader of the revolution."
However, the US government is interested only in the military and civilian drug traffickers inside the dying Chavez regime, including First Brother Adan Chavez and Division General Cliver Alcala.
Venezuela under Chavez has become Latin America's premier hub for drug trafficking and money laundering, bigger even than Mexico by some accounts.
The US government wants to shut down Venezuela's drug traffickers, extradite them to the US and lock them up forever and a day.
Beyond that single US policy priority, the US government doesn't give a damn what else happens in Venezuela, provided that the Consitution of Venezuela is upheld and respected.
It's up to Venezuelans to deal with Venezuela's problems, State Department official Roberta Jacobsen said very recently.
However, Maduro, Cabello, Jaua and the other Bolivarian gangsters determined to perpetuate their criminal regime already have announced that they will not abide by the Constitution's explicit rules of the game.
So it's very likely that the governments of the US, Canada, Spain and other democratic states will announce on 11 January or very shortly thereafter that they will not recognize the legitimacy of the Bolivarian government.
Venezuela's government will be an illegitimate outlaw regime as of 12:01 AM on 11 January.
Cabello announced today that a bunch of world leaders will visit Venezuela on 10 January to show their support for the continuation of the Bolivarian government that, per the constitution, ends on 10 January and must be renewed officially with a presidential oath of office administered to President Hugo Chavez.
We'll know in three days who's coming to Caracas to praise the dying red Caesar.
Very possibly Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Cristina Kirchner, and Daniel Ortega will show up. They know that when Chavez kicks the bucket, their days in power also will shorten dramatically after the Bolivarian financial spigot is shut off for good.
Possibly Raul Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could make appearances in Caracas as well on 10 January, although I wouldn't bet on it.
Perhaps the Chinese and Russians will send someone important.
But my Russian, Chinese, Brazilian and even Cuban contacts report that their political and business bosses were all growing tired of Hugo Chavez's worsening craziness in recent years.
It's likely that not a single "critical world capital" will light a candle for Chavez or hasten to defend the continuation of Venezuela's illegitimate Bolivarian government after 10 January.
Sure, professional idiots like Oliver Stone and Sean Penn may sputter gobbledygook.
But that's to be expected, considering Hollywood's longtime reputation as a haven for multi-millionaire communist jackanapes who collectively are dumber politically than a bowl of soup.
Wealthy armchair revolutionaries are surely a pathetic bunch of losers.
Give me Douglas Bravo any day. He has integrity, even if he is an unrepentant communist.
The political, economic and social situation in Venezuela is untenable.
The coming crash certainly will eclipse every previous crisis that Venezuela has experienced over the past 100 years or so.
Supposing for discussion that Nicolas Maduro manages to stay in the presidency after 10 January while Chavez lingers at death's door, held back only by machines and an array of tubes to feed him and evacuate his piss and shit.
How will Maduro explain to the Venezuelan people why their economy has plunged into the ravine with the Bolivarian bus?
China won't come to Maduro's rescue financially.
Sure, the Chinese have loaned Venezuela about $50 billion since 2008, but that's spit compared to the roughly $2 trillion to $3 trillion of dollar reserves held by China. More to the point, China's real financial risk in Venezuela is a paltry $4 billion to $6 billion, according to my banker friends.
China can write off $6 billion without batting an eye.
The Chinese and Russians also are confident that après Chavez, and après the Boligangsters like Maduro and Cabello are out of the way, they can do more productive business with a legitimately elected Venezuelan government that will desperately need every cent it can obtain abroad to ensure that the country doesn't plunge into a civil conflict as a result of a structural crisis that will take at least two decades to repair.
The chavistas will go for each other's throats like starved rats trapped inside a barrel in a sinking ship. Count on that.
The MUD will be on the sidelines, making lots of noise but packing little punch.
Don't expect the Bolivarian armed forces to ride to the rescue either.
A once-in-a-lifetime perfect storm is about to engulf Venezuela, and it could last for weeks and even months.
Batten down the hatches, mates, and ride it out as best you can.


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Morning Five: 02.14.14 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on February 14th, 2014
- The biggest news in college basketball right now is not the games that are being played, but instead the ones that are not being played. For the second night in a row, a significant game (or games–depending on your threshold) was postponed. Louisville–Temple and Southern Methodist–Rutgers might not have the national appeal of Wednesday night's postponed Duke-North Carolina game, but they both have a significant impact on the NCAA Tournament picture. Unlike the Duke-UNC game, which will be played more than a week later, these two games will be played just one day later so it should not affect the teams scheduling too much. If you don't think that timing of rescheduling makes that big of a difference wait until you hear the people on ESPN talking about Duke's ridiculous eight-day stretch starting on Saturday–hosting Maryland for the last time in the foreseeable future, at Georgia Tech, at UNC, and home against Syracuse.
- We have heard of a lot of reasons for suspensions (mostly unofficial because schools are so vague with their reasoning), but we have never heard of a player being suspended for cursing, but that appears to be why Memphis suspended freshman Dominic Woodson. According to reports, Josh Pastner, who does not curse, became agitated enough with Woodson's language during Wednesday's game against UCF that he told Woodson to leave the bench and subsequently suspended him so he will not make the trip to Connecticut for the team's game on Saturday. We are not sure if it was a specific word that Woodson said that set Pastner off, but it is an interesting precedent given how many players and well-known coaches use profane language during games.
- Speaking of suspensions, prior to last night's game against St. John's, Kevin Willard announced that he had suspended seniors Brian Oliver and Eugene Teague indefinitely for coming to a practice "with not great attitudes". If that is actually the sole reason for their suspension we suspect that indefinite won't be that good. We would suspect that there probably is something more going on here than just this one practice, but with the current state of Seton Hall and their one-point loss last night (a combined 22.1 points and 11.3 rebounds per game could have been useful) we doubt that they will be out very long even if Kevin Willard's contact goes through the 2019-20 season.
- This week's edition of Luke Winn's Power Rankings starts off point guard-heavy, but the statistics that jumped out to us were the statistical comparisons for Duke and Michigan based on their Ken Pomeroy adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency scores. There are not any particularly strong predictors for how those teams fare in the NCAA Tournament, but it is interesting to see the historical comparisons. It was also amusing to see how ridiculous the adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency numbers were for the 2005-06 Gonzaga team was. If you are having trouble placing that team, their season ended with Adam Morrison crying on the court.
- With this weekend being NBA All-Star Weekend, SI.com decided to put together their own NCAA All-Star teams using a two team draft. Our biggest takeaway from this is that as usual we tend to agree with Luke Winn that the draft order was inexcusable (sorry, Chris). The two teams obviously end up being pretty solid even if we would question the starting lineups. We cannot understand starting Nik Stauskas over Gary Harris (assuming that he is healthy, which is how it appears that this seems to be done). We would be a bit more interested in seeing how this would turn out with a few more people picking teams since the talent is so concentrated with just two teams being formed.


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Sharon is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1765 and was previously called Stoughton (Stoughtonham). It can be found in Norfolk county. For more information, contact the county at 90 S. Main St., Sharon 02067. On the attached map, Sharon is shown as 17 in Norfolk county.
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These long-distance travelers migrate from the Arctic for our mild winters
The swans have landed.
In November, tundra swans succeed osprey as Chesapeake Country's big new birds.
The snow-white swans average four feet in length and weigh between 13 to 20 pounds.
Tundra swans travel over 3,000 miles from above the Arctic Circle in Canada and Alaska, where they make their nests and babies. Upwards of 95,000 tundra swans winter in the relative warmth of the East Coast, from New Jersey to North Carolina, with the Chesapeake a prime winter haven.
Swans travel in flocks. Cygnets fly with their parents, learning the migration routes and stopover sites that lead to their wintering grounds.
The flocks move just ahead of winter, so their stops are infrequent. Flying in V-formations, with a slow and steady wing beat, they announce their impending arrival with loud, high-pitched hoo-hos.
Swans fly by day and night, moving south ahead of the freezing of their shallow-water feeding grounds. The big birds are dabblers, tipping upside-down to feed on marsh grasses.
Tundra swan numbers peak in January, and they stay with us through winter.


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Grapefruit with cottage cheese, dried fruit and a drizzle of honey.
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Yield: 4 x 1-cup servings
Remove flesh from grapefruit and cut into segments.
In a bowl, combine grapefruit, raisins and apricots together with cheese and spoon into grapefruit shells. Top with a drizzle of honey.
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LONDON – The message from Novak Djokovic could not have been more emphatic after the Serb retained his title at the ATP World Tour Finals with a crushing victory over Rafael Nadal on Monday.
Nadal deservedly ends the year on top of the rankings after an incredible comeback from injury but Djokovic delivered an ominous show of force at the O2 Arena, running the man who replaced him as world No 1 ragged.
It was a one hour, 36 minute masterclass in power and precision from Djokovic and if anything the 6-3 6-4 scoreline flattered Nadal, who spent most of the match dancing to his opponent's tune.
After a week of sell-out crowds at the spectacular Thames-side arena it was fitting that the world's top two players should meet for the 39th time in the most prolific rivalry in the modern era and one that is eclipsing the great battles between Nadal and Roger Federer.
Both players had won all their round-robin matches before cruising through Sunday's semifinals.
Nadal was bidding to land the title for the first time to cap a year that saw him roar back to the top of the rankings with 10 titles, including the US Open and French Open, while Djokovic was finishing the season like a runaway steamroller since losing to Nadal in the Flushing Meadows final.
Apart from a few jaw-dropping rallies, however, the fireworks were confined to those that lit up the court as Djokovic got his hands on the trophy named in honour of the late ATP executive chairman Brad Drewett, who died this year.
"Look, the year-end No 1 is deservedly in Nadal's hands because he had two grand slam wins, the best season out of all players, the most titles," said Djokovic, who in capturing the title for a third time stretched his winning run to 22.
"But next to the run that I had in 2011, this is definitely the second best I've had," he told reporters.
"The most positive thing that I can take from this two and a half months is the fact that I managed to regroup after a few big losses after Nadal, especially Roland Garros, US Open final and Wimbledon final.
"I've worked harder and played better, become an even more skilful player. This is definitely the best possible way that I can finish the season," added Djokovic, who next week will lead Serbia against the Czech Republic in the Davis Cup final.
Nadal tried to put a brave face on his defeat.
"I think at the beginning he was playing much better than me, the first three games no doubt," the Spaniard said.
"After that I didn't see the difference."
The statistics offered a clue, however.
Djokovic hit 19 winners to Nadal's nine, committed less errors and served much better than his opponent, who threw in two costly double faults at 3-4 in the opening set.
Djokovic dominated virtually from start to finish and despite the 17 000 crowd willing Nadal to drag the match into a decider, he was powerless to fight off an opponent who peppered the lines with relentless accuracy.
The Serb, who ceded top spot to Nadal in October, began the final as if he had a point to prove and playing immaculate tennis he raced to a 3-0 lead as an edgy Nadal struggled for timing.
Nadal finally began to get on the front foot and won the next three games as Djokovic's level dipped briefly.
Djokovic edged back in front again and broke serve with one of the points of the tournament, a spellbinding rally in which he sprinted across the baseline to produce an inch-perfect lob, danced into the net and won a quickfire exchange of volleys before raising his fists to the crowd.
Having lost the first set Nadal could ill afford handing Djokovic a lead in the second but his forehand continued to misfire and the Serb took the invitation to seize complete control with another break of serve.
Djokovic looked to be running away with it and moved in for the kill but Nadal's pride dug him out of a deep hole.
The Spaniard saved match point at 5-3, and again when he chased down a drop shot at 5-4, but Djokovic merely sucked in some air, stared down the other end and blasted down his sixth ace before clinching victory when Nadal sent a forehand wide.
While there was disappointment for Nadal, compatriots Fernando Verdasco and David Marrero gave Spain a lift with victory over Bob and Mike Bryan in the doubles final.
Verdasco and Marrero, the sixth seeds, upset the favourites 7-5 6-7(3) 10-7 as the title went to a Spanish pair for the second successive year following the triumph of Marcel Granollers and Mark Lopez 12 months ago.
The Californian Bryan twins were looking to win their 12th title of 2013 and surpass the 11 they won in 2007 and 2010, but were edged out in a match tiebreak. – Reuters


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What is Head and Neck Surgery?
Head and neck surgery is a subspecialty that provides advanced surgical care for the head, face, neck, and throat. Most head and neck surgeons begin their careers as otolaryngologists (ENTs) or plastic surgeons, but becoming certified as a head and neck surgeon requires additional training.
A surgeon who treats the head and neck has very specific considerations to take into account when operating. The delicate structures of the head and neck control our senses, our speech, our ability to chew and swallow food, and even our ability to breathe. A head and neck surgeon has to be careful to preserve the many functions of the head and neck when performing an operation. Also, when operating on or around the face, extreme care must be taken to leave as few scars as possible, since the face is a critical part of identity and social interaction. It all adds up to a tricky job.
Some of the issues a head and neck surgeon might treat include:
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- Thyroid disorders requiring surgery
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- Cleft palate repair
- Disorders of the larynx (voice box)
Cancers, especially of the esophagus, mouth, lips, and skin around the face or throat, are one of the most common issues requiring head or neck surgery. Most often, head and neck cancers are related to tobacco use. Chewing tobacco in particular affects the lips and mouth. Other risk factors for head and neck cancers include alcohol use and sun exposure.
Often after surgery, but particularly after the removal of a tumor, head and neck surgeons will perform reconstructive surgery, including microvascular surgery to connect or replace skin tissue. The goal is to restore not only a patient's function but also their appearance in this critical area of the body, improving self-esteem.


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At 45, sharp-suited Chinese art dealer and businessman Gao Ping (高平) has climbed high in life, even being photographed with Spain's King Juan Carlos and China's President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤).
Now he is in a cell in Madrid, waiting to go before a judge, accused of heading a gang that laundered millions of euros, officials and media reports said — though his defenders said he was an easy target.
A police official said on Friday that Gao was among more than 80 people arrested this week in "Operation Emperor" and that he was suspected of being the leader of the network busted in the series of raids.
He was expected to go before the judge yesterday, a judicial source added, after 19 suspects who were due to be questioned on Friday — mostly Chinese suspected of laundering money.
The judge will rule on possible bail and whether to keep Gao in detention.
Spanish television broadcast pictures of Gao, dressed in a brown leather jacket, covering his face as police detained him and searched his Gao Magee Gallery in an arty area of downtown Madrid.
Police vans surrounded his white-pillared mansion in the posh western Madrid suburb of Somosaguas.
"People who know him tell me they are very surprised," said Jorge Garcia, a Madrid-based consultant who chairs a Spanish-Chinese chamber of commerce and works with investors in both countries.
"He is a businessman who started from the bottom, with a small shop, and his business grew. He was a philanthropist who helped a lot of people in need and was the face of Spanish art in China in recent years," he added. "He seems to have been a humble and much-loved person."
Over 500 police took part in "Operation Emperor." They seized 10 million euros (US$13 million) in cash in raids across the country as well as some 200 vehicles, guns, jewels and works of art.
Top anti-corruption prosecutor Antonio Salinas said the network laundered between 200,000 euros and 300,000 euros a year, dodging taxes, bribing officials and forging documents.
He said the racket was made up of traders who sold contraband goods in Spain, laundered the money and transferred it to China.
The Spanish National Court, which ran a two-year investigation, said the gang also channeled money from rackets involving prostitution and extortion to tax havens with the help of Spanish and Israeli intermediaries.
Spanish newspapers cited unnamed sources saying his vast network used hitmen and thugs to intimidate late-payers, though police and prosecutors refused to comment on these details pending the hearings.
El Mundo newspaper cited National Court documents, which have not been publicly released, saying the gang used a unit called the Shangdon Group "which worked on collecting payments using violence when necessary."
Defenders of Gao Ping say Spain's big Chinese community, which owns many wholesale distributors and bargain-basement shops in major cities, is an easy target at a time when Spaniards are angry with the government in a bitter recession.
In its efforts to fix its public finances, the Spanish government has announced measures to recover tax revenues which included an amnesty for some back taxes owed on big fortunes.
The government said the money-laundering harmed the Spanish economy.
"The government doesn't want to touch the big tax evaders, because they are friends of the state — bankers, politicians, businessmen," Garcia said.


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With a heavy and somewhat soggy sigh I made my way back to a more accurate starting point. Within a couple of minutes I made short work of this find.
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Rosin Allergy
Rosin (colophony) allergy
What is rosin and where is it found?
Rosin, also known as colophony, is the sap or sticky substance that comes from pine and spruce trees. Its "stickiness" lends itself to being used in a wide range of products. The table below shows only some of the many products that contain rosin we may come into contact with either at home or at work.
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LONDON – For the second time in a year, reigning Olympic champion Evan Lysacek has announced his return to competitive skating with the intention of qualifying for a third straight Winter Games.
The difference is this time Lysacek resolved his differences with U.S. Figure Skating before the announcement, which the skating federation confirmed in a release.
"Everything is worked out," he told the Tribune an hour after going on the Today Show in London Friday to reveal what essentially had been a foregone conclusion since he switched agents last spring. "They are big supporters of my comeback."
Lysacek left Creative Artists Agency, which knew nothing and cared less about skating, to team up with Michelle Kwan's agent, Shep Goldberg, a figure skating insider for more than two decades.
The Naperville native's first competition since the 2010 Winter Olympics is to be Skate America Oct. 19-21 in Kent, Wash. He intended to compete at least at the U.S. Championships last season but could not come to an agreement with USFS about financial and sponsorship terms of its athlete contract.
Lysacek, who turned 27 in June, said he will be working with both his longtime coach, Frank Carroll, two or three days a week at a rink in Ontario, Calif., and with Kwan's sister, Karen, the rest of the time. He has been training with Carroll in Lake Arrowhead this summer.
"I think the most positive thing of delaying a year is I have had a whole year to train before jumping back into competition," he said. "I feel much more prepared than I was a year ago."
He has been performing parts of a planned long program to music from Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" in shows for several months. His short program will be to Flamenco music.
Lysacek said his efforts to add a quadruple toe loop jump are going well. Evgeny Plushenko of Russia, runner-up to Lysacek in Vancouver, was outspoken in decrying the idea of a man winning the gold medal without a quad.
Plushenko, the 2006 Olympic champion, had taken three years off before returning for the 2010 Olympics.
"It was very impressive what he did in a year," Lysacek said of Plushenko. "I need the extra year to get my world ranking points up so I can do the World Team Trophy this season. There will be a team event in the 2014 Olympics, and I would like to be part of that."
The other reigning Olympic champion, Kim Yuna of South Korea, announced a couple months ago she also was coming back for 2014. Kim competed at the 2011 world championships, winning a silver medal, but took last season off.


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Fandemonium Day 1 – Part 4
This was our sixth year at Fandemonium, a string of attendance that dates back to meeting a guy called Borneo in the coffee shop at a Fred Meyers in Boise. We talked gaming and Doctor Who and general geekery and then we moved on to conventions.
I went to my first convention at Gen Con in the early 80s and the last con I went to I don't even remember its name. I was headed home with a maintenance team and our base was socked in with thunderstorms and we were diverted to Oklahoma City, and the hotel they put us up in had a convention going. I rode the elevator up between a Klingon and a wizard, I was sweaty and my uniform was covered in grease and reeked of jet fuel and those two looked at me like I was nuts.
To get back on subject, I've seen conventions grow and become less about fans and more about money. So, Borneo looks at me and tells me that he has something called Fandemonium that I need to check out. I did. I've been back every year (and every event) since.
So, on to the pictures!
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An Experiment in Green Living
A version of this article appears in the November/December 2007 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
November 01, 2007
Prairie Crossing, a community outside of Chicago, offers families energy-efficient, green living.
By spending just an hour on a Metra commuter train, residents can efficiently travel from their home in the Prairie Crossing project to their jobs in downtown Chicago. And when they return home in the evening, these same residents can indulge in just one of the many amenities offered by their residential green community. Perhaps they will pick their children up from the LEED-certified community school, or swing by the farm to pick up some eggs, or even paddle a canoe over the surface of Lake Aldo Leopold, named after the great Wisconsin conservationist. Prairie Crossing, located in Grayslake, Illinois, is an experiment in green living that was designed with responsible development ethics, good mass transport opportunities, and land preservation in mind. The land on which Prairie Crossing was built was purchased in 1987 by a group of neighbors who wanted to preserve open space and agricultural land. They formed a company with the goal of developing the 677 acres responsibly. George and Victoria Post Ranney, a husband-and-wife team, have guided the development of Prairie Crossing since its beginning. All 359 of the single-family homes have been sold, and the first residents are moving into 36 condos in the latest phase. Given the success ...
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