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The Tribune's White Sox beat writer answers reader questions throughout the season. This week, he addresses power hitters bunting, whether weight training is bad for pitchers and yet more on the Brian Anderson subject.
In your previous mailbag, you wrote "I'd hate to see Jim Thome or Paul Konerko pull a hamstring while trying to leg out a drag bunt" as a seemingly sarcastic response to a reader who suggested these guys bunt when the situation presents itself. I know the idea is that you don't take the bat out of your best hitters' hands, but these guys are slow-footed double-play types who can turn a first and second with no outs situation into a relatively harmless runner on third with two outs in one bad swing. Plus, look no further than our enemies to the North, the Twinkies. They have won again and again with no payroll because they play the game right. And guess who bunted not once but twice the other night? Yep, defending AL batting champ Joe Mauer. --Brian Pollina, Chicago
Brian, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. You make a good point about Mauer. I've seen Barry Bonds bunt against Atlanta in the late 1990s to cross up the Braves' shift against him. Jim Thome has a high-maintenance body, from what we're seeing with him on the disabled list. I had a great chat last August with hitting coach Greg Walker on the number of double plays late last season, and it had to do more with approach and trying to do too much (trying to pull the ball) instead of hitting the other way, hitting behind the runner, etc.
Hey Mark, I have been a life long sox fan and I am just 15 years old. My favorite player is Frank Thomas. Ever since he left the Windy City I have always regretted Ken Williams' decision. I know they left on bad terms, but do you believe that there might be any chance that the Big Hurt will come back to Chicago to retire? --Andre, Victorville, Calif.
Andre, they say that time heals all wounds, but this will take a while. I can't see Frank finishing his career with the White Sox, but I can see him being honored once he retires.
What's up with AJ throwing his bat and helmet around like he's a 10 year old in Little League? Has anyone from the organization ever said anything to him? How 'bout the umps? Isn't throwing equipment against the rules? I love AJ, but he looks like a 30-year-old brat when he reacts like this to getting out. Your thoughts? --Drew, Chicago
A.J. is frustrated by his low batting average, and has had his share of tough-luck outs. I know throwing equipment doesn't look good in the eyes of fans and kids. At least he hasn't punched a wall and hurt his hand.
The Tribune quoted Billy Pierce yesterday as suggesting that one reason for modern pitchers' decreased durability is that pitchers now do more weight training than pitchers traditionally did. I recall Ron Santo making a similar comment many years ago (way before Wood and Prior). Recognizing that, like Jim Hendry, neither Billy Pierce nor Santo is an MD (and nor am I), this makes common sense to me. Is this a mainstream view within baseball? If so, why aren't more teams stressing more aerobic training rather than weight training for pitchers? --Dan, Chicago
Dan, this is a great debate, just like the number of pitches thrown by starters in bullpen sessions between starts or skipping those sessions to preserve the freshness in their arms. Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson are known for their off-season and between-starts weight work. My observation is that some pitchers get too bulky and limit the flexibility they need.
As of now, it seems to be paying off that Mark Buehrle hired a personal trainer and started throwing earlier in the off-season at the suggestion of pitching coach Don Cooper. It will be interesting to see if Mark can continue to throw around the 90 mph range, but I think we're all seeing a noticeable improvement from 2006, when he was feeling the effects of a taxing 2005 season.
Mark, always enjoyable to read your comments. This is more of a baseball question. What are the stipulations on placing someone on the disabled list? How does placing someone on the 15-day DL as opposed to the 60-day DL help or hurt a ball club? --Derek, Chicago
A player on the 60-day DL doesn't count against the team's 40-man roster. If the Sox knew that catcher Toby Hall would be out at least 60 days, they could have put him on the 60-day DL and opened up a spot on the 40-man roster instead of outrighting first baseman Casey Rogowski.
Mark, in the first game of the set with the Royals, MacDougal was pitching in the eighth. Ross Gload was announced to pinch hit, and headed to the plate. So then Ozzie brings in Matt Thornton for the lefty-lefty matchup. Then, Reggie Sanders, a righty, pinch hits for Gload giving the Royals the matchup they want. Correct me if I'm wrong, but once Gload is announced as a pinch hitter, the Royals cannot pinch hit for him again, right? Or was Gload not actually announced? If, so, did Ozzie make a mistake here and make the switch to Thornton too soon? It obviously hurt us as Sanders delivered a run-scoring single. Thanks. --JD, Ventura, Calif.
Ozzie waited until Gload's name was announced before pulling MacDougal. Gload can be lifted for a pinch-hitter and was then out of the game.
Mark, random frustrations and observations: Juan Uribe has returned to his undisciplined self at the plate. McDougal needs to pitch inside more and throw more strikes. He has a good backup fastball to righties. He needs to use it to make his slider more effective. It was hard to see Ross Gload in a Royals uniform. He's a great team player, a good hitter, and a better outfielder than Ozzie gave him credit for. Your thoughts? --Kurt Livingston, Marion, Iowa
Don't you like Juan's Cliff Johnson-like swing? Just kidding. He does tend to overswing but he is making improvement in the walk department, and his defense has been stellar. I'd like to see Mike throw more fastballs because it has natural sink. I'm happy for Ross Gload. One of the true professionals in the game and glad he's getting a chance to play more. If the Sox beat Detroit for a playoff spot by one game, you can thank Ross Gload. In an April 18 game at Detroit, Ross' hustle allowed him to avoid a game-ending double play that alllowed the Royals to beat the Tigers in extra innings.
Mark, do relief pitchers command a particular temperment and set of skills that sets them apart from starters and do they privately aspire to the starting position? I know years ago there was talk Keith Foulke might move into the starting rotation. --Brad Womack, Chicago
I covered Keith Foulke as a rookie starter with the Giants in 1996, and he didn't possess the velocity at the time. In a role where a pitcher throws a finite amount of pitches or innings, their velocity usually increases.
The closer's role takes a special mindset that only a special group possesses. I always liked Danny Graves' mindset when he was effective for Cincinnati without a blazing fastball.
Don't you think it's time the Sox gave up on Podsednik? He has become the Wood/Prior of the White Sox. --Fred, Denver
Fred, I thought the Sox would seek another leadoff batter last off-season, but Kenny Williams recognized the skyrocketing costs of leadoff batters (Matthews, Pierre, etc.) and figured Podsednik would be a bargain in a hopeful rebound year. Scott might have as many as four months to redeem himself from a frustrating start, so I wouldn't close the door on him yet.
Love your column, Mark. I can't for the life of me figure out why, down 4 runs with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth and bases loaded against the Detroit Tigers, Guillen didn't pinch-hit for Brian Anderson. The guy is now 0-for-9 in bases loaded situations. Jim Thome and Jermaine Dye weren't in the lineup! Doesn't it make sense to pinch hit one of them to try to steal a win against a division rival? --Matthew Corum, Hemet, Calif.
Matthew, thanks for the kind words and sorry for not answering this sooner. We all saw what happened to Thome in his next at-bat (aggravating his ribcage injury and going on the DL). Dye had been pulled out of two previous games because of back problems, so the reward might not have matched the risk.
Was Brandon McCarthy so popular in the Sox clubhouse that the hitters, en masse, have decided to abandon John Danks because he came in the BMac deal? --Larry Bristow, Clavert City, Ky.
Larry, I don't think so. The fielders love it when Danks throws strikes with regularity. Every pitching staff has a tough-luck pitcher, and John has been stuck with that distinction since the regular season started.
Ozuna still vainly chasing fly balls, Mackowiak still playing singles into doubles, Anderson at DHDH!pitchers still beginning work in the second inning: Sox don't seem to learn very quickly, do they? --St. Petersburg, Fla.
David, congrats on your move from one coast to the other. We're finding out that his season will be an on-going work in progress.
Hey Mark, I was hoping you might have a clue as to why so many fans have been down on Darin Erstad from the start? Either they're big Brian Anderson fans(for reasons unknown?) or they simply do not have recollection of how good Erstad has been for several years in this league (only player in MLB history w/gold gloves at two diff. positions!). --Adam F., Lisle
Can you explain to me why Brian Anderson was the DH against the Tigers instead of playing left or right field in place of Ozuna or Mackowiak? --Tom Horvath, Highland, Ind.
Ok, I guess I'll keep the questions coming about Brian Anderson. Tonight's game, Wednesday vs. Detroit, saw BA as the DH. When will the Ozuna in LF experiment end? Why wouldn't BA be in LF and Ozuna at DH? --Jim, Chicago
Aa-ron Row-and!! Aa-ron Row-and!! --Alex Bartkus, Coconut Creek, Fla.
I know a lot of people believe that we need to let Brian Anderson get some more at-bats, but have these people watched the few at bats he has had? I think that he looks overmatched and sometimes ridiculous. Erstad looks almost as bad. What is the likelihood that we trade some of our young minor league pitching or current starting pitching for a center fielder that can actually hit the ball before the trade deadline? --Carl Bennett, Lynchburg, Va.
It's hard sometimes to keep up from out of town, but I've been expecting to see Brian Anderson start in the outfield for a few games now and haven't seen him. Last night, since I actually got to watch a game on ESPN, I figured they'd put him in for sure when Mackowiak went down. I'm still puzzled as to why Ozzie would use an infielder in right when BA is supposedly his best defensive outfielder. --Eileen, Columbus, Ohio
If Kenny and Ozzie come to their senses and send Brian Anderson to Charlotte, who's the most-likely replacement? --Norm Cohen, Kings Park, N.Y.
In response to the poll question of what the outfield should be , don't the White Sox have to play Anderson or trade him now? With Sweeney and Fields and others in the minors, it seems they need to find out immediately whether Anderson can play. Inconsistent playing time isn't helping his development or future trade value. --James, Santa Monica, Calif.
Hey Mark, How much longer are the Sox going to play Anderson and Cintron. Both belong in the minors for some other club. --Cliff Zeider, Port St. Joe, Fla.
I'll try to answer these questions as thoroughly as I can.
I think now we're seeing why Kenny Williams signed Erstad. He covers a lot of ground, is unselfish and is hitting with authority after a slow start. He didn't play that much last year (because of an ankle injury), so I think management understood the time it took for him to get untracked. I was surprised that Darin didn't hit for more power while with the Angels, but I've enjoyed the way he prepares for each game and each situation.
As for Anderson as the designated hitter last Wednesday against Detroit, Ozzie felt it was better to have Mackowiak in the lineup at one of the corner outfield spots in the event of a late-inning switch. As many of you know, Andy Gonzalez is a true infielder. But he played 11 games in the outfield last year at Triple-A Charlotte.
Call it being shorthanded, but if Anderson would have moved from DH to right field, the Sox would have been forced to have the pitcher's spot hit twice. And the Sox's depth already was stretched with injuries.
As for Rowand, his hot start probably doesn't make him available at this point. Interesting that as Brian Anderson was being optioned to Triple-A Charlotte, Brady Clark was delivering a game-winning double for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Milwaukee had interest this spring in acquiring Mackowiak for Clark (who was dealt to LA for pitcher Elmer Dessens), but the Sox would have lost one of their best left-handed pinch-hitters and a corner outfielder who can also play third and second. Does Jason Ellison (traded from San Francisco to Seattle before the start of the season) excite you? He can play center field, run and hit right-handed, but I'd rather have Brian in the role he was in for the first month without having to give up someone for Ellison.
During the Sox's last trip to Minnesota in late September, one of Kenny's regrets was not landing a right-handed hitting backup center fielder. In my opinion, Erstad was too good to pass up as a starting center fielder in January despite the fact the Sox were vulnerable in games against left-handed starters last season. Shannon Stewart and Preston Wilson weren't the answer, in my opinion.
I think Kenny will be as patient as possible in evaluating Brian's progress. The best thing that can happen is for Brian to get his at-bats and stroke back and help Darin down the stretch when Brian is ready.
As for Alex Cintron, he is the Sox's most dependable backup shortstop, and those are very hard to find. It's why Mike Benjamin lasted so long in the majors.
A friend of mine was telling me that on the road the Sox players share hotel rooms. Is this true? It's hard for me to picture these multi-millionaires sharing rooms. If they do share rooms do they get to pick their roomates? --Mike S., St. Charles
Each player gets his own room on the road.
No question here. I want to urge fans to vote early and often for Sox All-Stars. I believe the fan vote is BS. But since we have it, let's not let Yank and BoSox fans be the only ones stuffing the ballot boxes. Chicagoans are supposed to be known for doing that well, anyway. --Les, Manteno
Hey, here's a great story for you: Since last year, I've joked with A.J. about being selected or voted to the 2007 American League all-star team. The reason: the game will be played in San Francisco, where he was barbecued in 2004 but got the last laugh when he joined the Sox.
He'd consider it an honor to be named to any all-star team, but this selection would be amusing.
Since none of the Sox pitchers seems to be able to get out of the first inning without being scored upon (This was last year also) Why not change the routine? Maybe have them pitch to 3-4 batters in the bullpen. Maybe have them run a bit to get rid of the nerves. --John Strelecky, Winter Garden, Fla.
John, pitching coach Don Cooper has spoken to several starters about their routines, whether it's warming up longer or simply focusing more. It's one of the many early-season mysteries.
Isn't it time Ozzie has a sit down talk with the team and indicate to them that it appears they are just going through the motions? --Frank Johnson, Watertown, N.Y.
Ozzie's late-spring criticism of the pitching staff seems to have worked well, and I wouldn't be surprised if he has a chat soon. But the lineup is without Thome, and Seattle is one of the worst hitters' parks.
Welcome back Mark. I enjoyed your column a great deal last season and am happy to see you back. I hope your winter was a good one. I'm curious if you've had much of a chance to see Gavin Floyd pitch. With McCarthy being hit hard in Texas, the deal for Danks and Masset is looking like a steal, but the parting of Garcia might not look so great. Also, I've had a hard time understanding why Kenny chose to shell out some cash to tie up Javy Vazquez. When he's good he's good, but we never know when that's going to be, and he isn't getting any younger. Any thoughts? --Tyson Shroyer, Peoria
I've followed Gavin's starts closely since he was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte, and I was impressed with his ability to rebound from a rocky first inning last Wednesday against Toledo. He needs to keep improving because the Sox may need him to start in one of the games against Minnesota on July 6, if not sooner or later due to injury.
As for Vazquez's contract, he has proven to be as durable as any pitcher on the staff, and we're seeing glimpses of his upside and success that he possessed in Montreal.
Its a shame to see some very strong pitching performances being wasted by a total lack of any run support whatsoever. Other than some after-the-fact admissions by Ozzie that perhaps the approach to Spring Training was faulty for our hitters not being primed and ready to go at the start of the season, how can a team with this many proven, solid hitters continue to struggle at virtually every position? At what point do you start to look at the hitting coach Greg Walker and his apparent ineffectiveness? --Daryl White, Dana Point, Calif.
Daryl, great to hear someone from the beautiful town of Dana Point. I'm baffled as much as anyone by this prolonged slump. I'm not a hitting coach, but I think Greg and Mike Gellinger have searched for several cures. Some problems are obvious (trying to pull the ball, tough opponents such as C.C. Sabathia, tough luck), others aren't.
But contrary to what one e-mail alleged, I don't think the Sox's victories have been lucky. They've had their share of satisfying road wins, but that needs to carry over to U.S. Cellular Field. The travel has been rough, but the long stretch of games in Chicago in May should allow them to get extra work in.
Thanks for your questions and interest.


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The Market Shops Spring Concert Series features great music on the lawn on Sundays in March and April from 1-3pm... What a perfect way to spend Sunday afternoons this spring in South Walton, Florida!
The Spring Concert Series features a different local or regional artist or band every Sunday afternoon through April. Concerts are free and open to the public. Rain or shine, concerts are from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. on The Market Shops lawn. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs and blankets. In the event of rainy weather, the concert will be relocated to the covered patio outside of Bijoux at The Market Shops. The live entertainment acts are as follows:
March 12 - Hugh Mitchell & The High Tide
March 19 – David Seering
March 26 – Chuck Lawson
April 2 – Fuzion
April 9 – Luke Langford & 331 South Band
April 16 – Donnie Sundal
April 23 – Chris Alvarado
April 30 – The Wildlife Specials
Located at the entrance of Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, The Market Shops is an upscale, neighborhood-style shopping, dining and entertainment center.
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Harrison's 2014 debut spoiled by Mariners rally
SEATTLE -- Matt Harrison, pitching in the Major Leagues for the first time in over a year, looked strong for six innings. Alexi Ogando, trying to help reward Harrison with a victory, looked overpowering for two batters, striking out Robinson Cano and Corey Hart with just six pitches.
Then it all unraveled in just a few minutes and the Rangers were sunk by the one Mariners hitter who gives them more trouble than the rest of the team combined.View Full Game Coverage
SEATTLE -- Matt Harrison, pitching in the Major Leagues for the first time in over a year, looked strong for six innings. Alexi Ogando, trying to help reward Harrison with a victory, looked overpowering for two batters, striking out Robinson Cano and Corey Hart with just six pitches.
Then it all unraveled in just a few minutes and the Rangers were sunk by the one Mariners hitter who gives them more trouble than the rest of the team combined.View Full Game Coverage
Kyle Seager hit a three-run home run off Ogando in the bottom of the eighth that lifted the Mariners to a 6-5 victory over the Rangers on Sunday afternoon at Safeco Field. Seager, who entered the game hitting .213, also had a seventh-inning home run off Shawn Tolleson and is hitting .322 with a .573 slugging percentage in his career against the Rangers.
"I thought we had him," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "For a moment I thought he was in a slump. I guess he's not. That's why you've got to get 27 outs. I felt like we were in good position, we just didn't put it away."
The loss was the Rangers second in three games against the Mariners after they began the road trip by sweeping the Athletics. In both losses the Rangers took a lead into the bottom of the eighth inning.
"It was a tough loss but it was still a pretty good road trip," shortstop Elvin Andrus said. "All losses are tough but those days are going to happen," second baseman Josh Wilson said. "You're going to lose some tough ones but that's the good thing about baseball. There's always a game tomorrow so you have a chance to come back and erase it."
Ogando looked like he was ready to get the ball to closer Joakim Soria for the ninth after blowing away Cano and Hart. He also threw two quick strikes to Justin Smoak, giving him a chance to strike out the side on nine pitches. That appeared more likely than what eventually happened.
"Ogando was throwing the ball well," Washington said. "Good changeup, good slider. They just beat him. He looked sharp, real sharp."
Smoak laid off one fastball up and away then hit a long double down the left-field line that just eluded outfielder Michael Choice. Pinch-hitter Dustin Ackley hit a high chopper over third baseman Adrian Beltre that Andrus fielded going to his right but had no play anywhere. That left runners at first and third for Seager.
"(Ogando) has so much good stuff you just have to look for something over the middle of the plate," Seager said. "You just got to hope for a mistake pitch because his stuff is really good."
Ogando threw two changeups. One missed the strike zone and the other didn't.
"It was supposed to be down and away, it was middle up," catcher Robinson Chirinos said.
Seager smashed it into the right-field stands pretty much in the same area code as his seventh-inning home run off of Tolleson. This is the third time this season the Rangers have lost despite leading after seven innings.
"It was a tough loss," Harrison said. "It seems like Seager has had our number the past few years. We battled all the way, it just didn't turn out the way we had hoped."
The positive for the Rangers is how Harrison pitched in his first Major League game since April 6, 2013, allowing two runs on just three hits. He walked two and struck out four while setting down the side in order in four of six innings.
He ended up throwing 95 pitches in his first start after being absent from the Major Leagues for over a year while dealing with the back problems that required two surgeries to correct. Sunday's game started with the Pacific Northwest temperature at 52 degrees but Harrison only seemed to have one problem and that was during an extended fourth inning.
"He was pretty good," Washington said. "Good slider, good changeup, kept the ball down. He did a great job for having not been out there for awhile."
Harrison retired the first nine batters he faced through three innings. Then he had to sit through a prolonged top of the fourth as the Rangers scored three runs while sending eight batters to the plate. There was one pitching change and 36 pitches thrown in the inning, but it still gave the Rangers a 5-0 lead.
Harrison started the bottom of the inning by walking Michael Saunders after getting ahead 1-2 in the count. Stefen Romero then smashed a line drive back to the mound that Harrison knocked down with his glove and got the force at second base.
Cano followed with a double to right-center, scoring Romero, and Harrison then walked Hart. That brought Washington, pitching coach Mike Maddux and trainer Matt Lucero to the mound to check on Harrison.
"We thought maybe he got stiff but he said he was fine," Washington said.
"My back felt fine, I just couldn't get my arm loose," Harrison said. "Fortunately I was able to lock it back in and make some pitches when I had to."
Harrison struck out two of the next three hitters to keep it 5-1. He retired the side in order in the fifth before allowing one more run in the sixth on a wild pitch. He left with the Rangers leading 5-2.
"He's a good pitcher," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. "He's a pitcher that's won big games in the past for them. We were very fortunate to get some pitches that we could handle in the zone off him. He's usually pretty tough. I believe this was his first time back so I suspect next time we face him we'll have to battle a little tougher. He pitched pretty good."
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger.


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|Lonely Lisa doll
Throughout the years of miniature sightseeing and hunting, I've come to realize that most mini tea sets tend to have such vibrant floral patterns. However much I love tea sets, the floral prints just don't bode well with my style. That's why I'm very excited to feature my new tea set called "cream lace". It looks like it has a simple fleur-de-lis pattern on it. Otherwise, no over the top floral prints, whatsoever.
I saw this set at a place called Distinctly Tea, during my brief visit to Stratford almost two weeks ago. If you read my blog entry before this one, you'll be familiar with the "chocolate trail", which is how I came across this shop that sells all sorts of flavoured tea leaves as well as tea sets. I came originally for my chocolate flavoured tea for the trail but I could not resist an awesomely non-floral miniature tea set that I saw on display! The rest is history....And now Lonely Lisa is lonely no more as she drinks tea with friends, her trusty (and dirty) sidekick Rosco and Anne.
Oh, and for those of you wondering, the chocolate cappucino tea that I chose was quite yummy!
|Lisa with Rosco and Anne of Green Gables doll
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LottaZay vs John Hohn Da Don Freestyle Battle [Grind Time New York]
"One of the undercard battles from GTNY's "Escape From New York" event. John John travels all the way from Atlanta back to his home state to battle the undefeated LottaZay - former 106th and Park champion & grind time top gunner. Who will take it? " - Grind Time
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Joost de Valk needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Robin Stevens is an internationally certfied NLP trainer who trains people to become NLP practicioner, coaches them or otherwise helps them improve their life. This website should convey his professionalism but also have a personal touch to it.
Robin Stevens
We'd like a design of 4 pages:- homepage
- product / workshop page
- blog archive
- article / single page
Using the following wireframes:- http://uploads.yoast.com/Wireframes1.png
- http://uploads.yoast.com/Wireframes2.png
- http://uploads.yoast.com/Wireframes3.png
- http://uploads.yoast.com/Wireframes4.png
The logo can be found here:- http://uploads.yoast.com/robin_stevens.ai
- http://uploads.yoast.com/robin_stevens.eps
- A design with all / 99% of the text in "actual" text, so we can easily translate it when we've codedit into a theme
- Feel free to change things around in the wireframe if you think that's necessary / better, but make sure all the functionality is available.
- The image in the "Who is Robin" section should be changeable without too much effort.
- Multiple types of type, more than two font faces will not be appreciated.
- Very image heavy designs, it needs to be possible to code it into a fast loading website.


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Join Jason Scott (RIM), Mike Hostetler (appendTo) and Jonathan Creamer (appendTo) on November 15th from 2-3 pm EST for an exciting online presentation about using the official BlackBerry® 10 theme for jQuery Mobile.
During this one-hour webinar, our speakers will show developers how they can build Web applications that easily integrate the design elements and UI of the BlackBerry 10 user experience. Our speakers will provide a walkthrough on building and deploying a BlackBerry 10 app using jQuery Mobile, and will also demonstrate how to use backbone.js to create data bindings and a MVC architecture in your jQuery Mobile application.
As always, attendees are welcome to join into the discussion, as questions will be answered by these experts from the jQuery Mobile development community.


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Codecademy Launches New Lessons for SendGrid APIsDaniel Randa
Today, Codecademy launched a partnership with SendGrid and nine other companies to help novice developers learn how to leverage APIs to create new projects, sites, and apps.
SendGrid has always been dedicated to making developers' lives easier with flexible, well-documented APIs. With the launch of Codecademy's API lessons, learning to integrate with SendGrid has become even easier. Now, new developers can get a step by step tutorial on how to send email with SendGrid without having to just rely on our documentation.
Codecademy has been an amazing resource for people to learn the basics of programming, and the addition of API lessons will allow its users to harness the power of existing technologies within their own creations. We have already seen amazing products built on top of SendGrid's APIs, so we are really excited to see what Codecademy's new developers will create. 2013 will be a fun year for knowledge sharing at SendGrid and we're very happy to kick it off with this great partnership.
Check out the new SendGrid API course and other API lessons from new Codecademy partners such as Twilio, NPR, Parse, and YouTube.


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It wasn't as well received at the box office as the pictures that preceded it or followed it, but Peter Hunt's On Her Majesty's Secret Service is one of the finest of the James Bond movies. James Bond, portrayed here by George Lazenby (in his only performance in the role) has spent nearly two years trying to track down Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), the head of SPECTRE. He has been taken off the case by his chief (Bernard Lee), an action the pushes him to the point of considering resigning from Her Majesty's Secret Service, just as he opens a possible new avenue of attack on his quarry. Whilst in the field, Bond has chanced to cross paths with the Contessa Teresa Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg), a beautiful but desperately unhappy woman, whom he rescues from one apparent suicide attempt and an embarrassing moment at a casino gaming table -- the Contessa, who prefers to be called Tracy ("Teresa was a saint"), is the daughter of Marc Ange Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), an industrial and construction magnate and also a crime boss, who is impressed with Bond personally as well as professionally, and would like to see him marry his daughter. Bond is, at first, unwilling to involve himself with a woman -- any woman -- on that level, but Draco's underworld contacts give Bond a vital clue to Blofeld's whereabouts that get him back on the case and hot on the man's trail. Journeying incognito to Blofeld's mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, Bond finds the criminal mastermind posing as a would-be nobleman and also as a philanthropist, running a clinic devoted to the treatment and eradication of allergies. It's all a front for a surprisingly sinister (and scientifically valid) plot for international blackmail that would make any previous Bond villain quake in fear. And in the process of staying alive long enough to have a chance of stopping Blofeld, Bond discovers the Tracy is truly like no woman he's ever known before -- one special enough that he finds himself willing to give up his life as a free-living, free-loving bachelor. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise
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As you hopefully recall, Aereo is the online TV service, backed by Barry Diller, that sets you up with your very own physical TV antenna on a rooftop in Brooklyn, connected to a device that will then stream to you online what that antenna picks up. This ridiculously convoluted setup is an attempt to route around the ridiculous setup of today's copyright law -- something that Oman was intimately involved in creating with the 1976 Copyright Act. The TV networks sued Aereo, but were unable to get an injunction blocking the service. Oman's amicus brief seeks to have that ruling overturned, and argues that an injunction is proper.
But he goes much further than that in his argument, even to the point of claiming that with the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress specifically intended new technologies to first apply to Congress for permission, before releasing new products on the market that might upset existing business models:
Whenever possible, when the law is ambiguous or silent on the issue at bar, the courts should let those who want to market new technologies carry the burden of persuasion that a new exception to the broad rights enacted by Congress should be established. That is especially so if that technology poses grave dangers to the exclusive rights that Congress has given copyright owners. Commercial exploiters of new technologies should be required to convince Congress to sanction a new delivery system and/or exempt it from copyright liability. That is what Congress intended.This is, to put it mildly, crazy talk. He is arguing that anything even remotely disruptive and innovative, must first go through the ridiculous process of convincing Congress that it should be allowed, rather than relying on what the law says and letting the courts sort out any issues. In other words, in cases of disruptive innovation, assume that new technologies are illegal until proven otherwise. That's a recipe for killing innovation.
Under those rules, it's unlikely that we would have radio, cable TV, VCRs, DVRs, mp3 players, YouTube and much, much more. That's not how innovation or the law works. You don't assume everything innovative is illegal just because it upsets some obsolete business models. But that appears to be how Oman thinks the world should act. Stunningly, he even seems to admit that he'd be fine with none of the above being able to come to market without Congressional approval, because he approvingly cites the dissent in the Betamax case (which made clear that the VCR was legal), which argues that the VCR should only be deemed legal with an act of Congress to modify the Copyright Act. You would think that the success of the VCR in revitalizing the movie industry would show just how ridiculous that is... but in Oman's copyright-centric world, the rules are "first, do not allow any innovation that upsets my friends."
Elsewhere, he argues -- quite correctly -- that Aereo's design was clearly done with the help of lawyers to stay on the legal side of the line, but he gets the exact wrong lesson out of that:
The Aereo system was not designed for the purpose of speed, convenience and efficiency. With its thousands of dime-sized antennae and its electronic loop-the-loops, it appears to have been designed by a copyright lawyer peering over the shoulder of an engineer to exploit what appeared to Aereo to be a loophole in the law and shoehorn the Aereo business model into the Cablevision decision.In other words, he's admitting that the system was designed carefully to remain on the right side of the law... but he's somehow upset that this is possible. In his incredible worldview, you should not be able to design around the contours and exceptions to copyright law -- because anything that upsets Hollywood is, by default, illegal.
Perhaps we've learned who put the clause in the '76 Act that explicitly says that the law should be used to stop disruptive innovation if it gets in the way of the status quo.
Either way, he goes on at length, claiming that his efforts in helping to put together the '76 Act and his other work on copyright were continually focused on benefiting the copyright holder. He never mentions that this is not the purpose of copyright law. It is the means. But the intent is to benefit the public. Oman does not ever seem to take that into consideration.
Indisputably, Congress drafted the Copyright Act to prevent the creative efforts of authors from being usurped by new technologies. That core principle is at the heart of the Copyright Act. Congressional intent would be undercut by any decision that would sanction the use of technologies which could be used indirectly to undermine its goals. Congress enacted a forward-looking statute that would protect those who create precisely so they have incentives to create.Actually, that's quite disputable. The Copyright Act can only be designed to benefit the public. The means of doing so is by creating the ability of copyright holders to exclude, but that is hardly the only incentive to create. Allowing new technologies that disrupt old business models does not necessarily remove the incentive to create. Instead, as we've shown over and over again, the incentive to create appears to have increased greatly, even as respect for copyright has weakened tremendously over the past decade. So I fail to see how Congress' "intent" could possibly be undermined by new disruptive technologies coming along -- without permission -- and creating new and expansive markets that both help the public and provide new opportunities for content creators.


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Dow tops 15K as central bankers prime pump
NEW YORK The U.S. stock market joined a global rally Tuesday, as the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 15,000 mark for the first time.
Wall Street followed Japanese and European markets higher. Those indexes rose in response to good news about central bank stimulus and the German economy.
In the U.S., the market got a lift after satellite TV company DirecTV and watchmaker Fossil reported higher quarterly profits.
- Market sets new high on "flash crash" anniversary
- U.S. job postings fell in March; hiring slowed
- Japan's Nikkei outperforms to reach 5-year high
The Dow rose 87 points to end the day at 15,056, an increase of 0.6 percent. The Dow first crossed above 15,000 on Friday. The Dow is headed for its 17th straight Tuesdays of increases. The only day of the week with a longer series of consecutive gains is Wednesday, which logged a streak of 24, according to Schaeffer's Detrick.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 8 points to close at a record high of 1,626, up 0.5 percent. The Nasdaq composite edged up 4 points to 3,397, or 0.1 percent.
The Dow and broader Standard & Poor's 500 index are trading at record levels, driven by optimism that the U.S. economy is continuing to recover and as the Federal Reserve maintains its stimulus program.
The Dow punched through 15,000 Friday after the U.S. government reported a sharp pickup in hiring last month. The index is 14.8 percent higher this year.
"We don't think people are giving enough credit to the strength of the economy," said Ryan Detrick, a senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research. "We still like the market."
More than 80 percent of companies in the S&P 500 index have reported first-quarter earnings, and profits are at a record level.
Of companies that have reported, almost 70 percent have beaten the expectations of Wall Street analysts for income, according to S&P Capital IQ data. Those analysts expect earnings to rise 5 percent for the first quarter and to keep on climbing throughout the year.
Fossil, a maker of watches and handbags, was among companies reporting earnings Tuesday. The stock leapt $9.80, or 10 percent, to $108.76 after the company said its earnings rose 24 percent on higher sales. DirecTV, the country's largest provider of satellite TV services, rose $3.89, or 6.7 percent, to $61.85 after its earnings beat expectations of financial analysts. The company's saw subscriber growth in the U.S. and Latin America.
Other global markets also rose.
Japanese stocks surged, pushing the Nikkei up 3.6 percent to 14,180.24 on its first day of trading following the Golden Week holiday. The index is trading above 14,000 for the first time in nearly five years. The Nikkei has jumped 36 percent this year after the Bank of Japan announced a new aggressive monetary policy to get the country out of its two-decade stagnation.
In Europe, Germany's DAX touched a record of 8,195 after surprisingly strong industrial orders, before giving up some of its gain. The index closed up 69 points, or 0.9 percent, at 8,181.
Detrick said he was particularly encouraged by the resurgence in smaller stocks, which suggested a broad recovery beyond larger companies. The Russell 2000 index of small companies has gained 13.6 percent this year.
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note climbed to 1.79 percent from 1.76 percent Monday. The yield has risen this week after going as low as 1.63 percent last week, its lowest level of the year. The rising yield means demand is slipping for low-risk U.S. government debt as traders shift money into riskier assets like stocks.
The price of crude oil fell 58 cents to $95.57 a barrel in New York, and the price of gold was down $19, or 1.3 percent, to $1,449. The dollar was lower against euro and the Japanese yen.


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Background: The new insurance agency officially opened in October and is a branch of the Charlsen Insurance Agency in Halstead.
Staff: Agent Patrick Charlsen said he is excited about setting up shop in Newton. He has worked in the industry about four years and previously worked at his father's Halstead office. He grew up in Newton and attended Emporia State University.
Services offered: Home, auto, business, farm and life insurance, and more. Charlsen Insurance Agency is an independent, locally-owned agency.
About the expansion: Charlsen said the expansion is part of the business's efforts to better reach out to customers in the Newton area. He wants to become involved in the community and help others through his business. "I thought it would be fun to give back in the way I saw people giving back when I was in high school," he said. Deciding what insurance is the best option can be a complicated process, and Charlsen said he always is available to help people with questions, even if they aren't customers.
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I was exploring Twitter this morning after the 1st round of the draft and I came across Pete Carroll's profile and I couldn't believe what I saw. I took this photo at the Seahawks vs. Bucs game back in 2007 and later posted it to Wikipedia for everyone to use. I'm proud to call this photo mine and pumped my favorite team's head coach chose it for his profile.
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In our role as consumer champions we got our hands, faces and desks covered in crumbs to find out which supermarket mince pies are the best.
Supermarket mince pies
Co-op, Irresistible Luxury Mince Pies
Crammed with vine fruits, apple, brandy, almonds, cherries and walnuts, Co-op's Luxury Mince Pies are a mouthwatering must-have for any Christmas party.
Rating: ★★★★★
Asda, Extra Special 6 Luxury All-Butter Mince Pies
With rich ruby port, French brandy and spiced vine fruits, Asda's mince pies are a taste sensation.
Rating: ★★★★
Waitrose, Mince Pies
These top end treats are filled with a rich mincemeat containing apricot, glace cherries, almonds and brandy and will make a nice afternoon snack.
Rating: ★★★
Aldi, Specially Selected Cognac Mince Pies
Filled with plump vine fruits and cranberries, plus Aldi's own award winning cognac, these low price pies are the best value for money.
Rating: ★★★
Lidl Deluxe Luxury Mince Pies
The nicest pastry, but light on filling. Not the richest but far from bland.
Rating: ★★★
Sainsbury's Taste the Difference, All Butter Mince Pies
These pies are pretty as a picture and although not the sweetest of the bunch, you'll not turn one down.
Rating: ★★
M&S All Butter Mince Pies
These basic shortcrust mince pies aren't as rich-tasting as the others on offer but will still go down nicely with a cuppa.
Rating: ★★
Bursting with rich, boozy-tasting filling, crammed into buttery pastry and finished with powdered sugar, our taste testers rated Co-Op's offering the highest.
M&S, meanwhile, brought up the rear with our team rating budget supermarkets Lidl and Aldi higher than the high street's kings of food porn.


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TORONTO — UJA Federation of Greater Toronto has reached out to tens of thousands of people in its database to help victims of Hurricane Sandy in the Jewish and general populations.
An Oct. 30 email called the hurricane "a storm of unprecedented magnitude" that left 48 people in the United States dead, and "countless more injured, homeless and unsure of what comes next."
The email said that 100 per cent of proceeds collected for the UJA Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund will be distributed by the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) as part of a North America-wide response.
JFNA offices in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., are closed in Sandy's wake, according to the JFNA's website.
Steven Shulman, UJA Federation's campaign director and cousel, told The CJN that JFNA is working with "local Jewish federations on the ground in the affected areas, and conferring with emergency management officials to assess the damage and determine where dollars can best be allocated."
He added that members of the Jewish community "want to respond, and in particular they want to do so through an organization they trust, and at the same time make a statement about Jewish values."
As of Monday, more than $15,000 had been raised by Toronto's Jewish community for the victims of Sandy, Shulman said.
"I would expect donations to continue rather steadily as the extent of the devastation" becomes clearer to Canadian donors, he added.
To contribute to UJA Federation's fund, go to ujadonations.com/sandy, or call 416-631-5705.
Federations in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Ottawa have also set up funds, and Montreal's Federation CJA had raised $3,320 as of Monday.
Jewish Federations of Canada – UIA (JFC-UIA), which serves federated and non-federated communties, also set up a donation site at www.jewishcanada.org for people who "do not live in a federated community or if their federated community does not have its own fund," the organization said.
As of Monday, it had raised more than $6,000 from communities across the country, excluding Montreal and Toronto.
On Nov. 5, JFNA's emergency committee authorized $500,000 to be disbursed for the immediate needs of victims, half of which was given to the UJA-Federation of New York. The other $250,000 was distributed among 10 federations in New Jersey, according to a JFNA statement.
Meanwhile, UJA-Federation of New York announced it had released $10 million in emergency relief aid to its network agencies and synagogues.
The agency made the funds available on Nov. 5. Its board of directors had decided unanimously to make the money available in a special session the previous evening.
"The emotional and economic impact, especially on the isolated elderly and the poor, is acute and will remain so for a long time," the agency said in a statement.
UJA-Federation of New York had set up a Hurricane Sandy relief fund shortly after the storm hit on Oct. 29.
The week before Sandy struck the greater New York area, the federation raised a record $45 million at its annual campaign kickoff event.
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In related news, two young Jews were killed in Brooklyn, N.Y., by a falling tree during the hurricane.
The pair were out walking a dog on Oct. 29 in the storm's high winds.
The dead were identified by the New York Observer as Jessie Streich-Kest, 24, who worked as a high school teacher in the city, and Jacob Vogelman, a student at Brooklyn College. The two had reportedly been friends since middle school.
In addition to the 48 Americans killed, 68 people outside the United States died in the one-of-a-kind storm, and more than seven million people in 13 U.S. states were without power at times last week.
With files from JTA
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Sepultura To Embark on North American Tour With Death Angel
The Brazilian metal thrashers in Sepultura are gearing up for a North America tour with Bay Area legends Death Angel and support from Krisiun and Havok dubbed the 'Relentless Worldwide' tour.
With the release of their latest album 'Kairos' on July 12, Sepultura now have an arsenal of 12 studio albums to bring to the live stage, but there's no promising the stage will still be standing when they're done.
Guitarist Andreas Kisser spoke about the tour: "We are so excited to go back to North America." He continued, saying, "Last year was great but this time we have the new album 'Kairos' out and people already know the new stuff."
Kisser also commented on the killer lineup: "It's the first time we are touring with our long time friends in Death Angel and our brothers from Brazil, Krisiun. Finally we have a chance to tour with a Brazilian band outside Brazil; a long time wish! So prepare yourselves for an amazing and historical tour. North America deserves some real extreme and intense metal!"
The tour kicks off at the beginning of April in Santa Ana, Calif., and crosses the United States and Canada, wrapping up at the end of April in South Burlington, Vt.
Sepultura, Death Angel, Krisiun & Havok Tour Dates:
4/10 Yost Theater – Santa Ana, Calif.
4/11 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, Calif. (No Death Angel)
4/12 Branx – Portland, Ore.
4/13 Studio Seven – Seattle, Wash.
4/14 In The Venue – Salt Lake City, Utah.
4/15 Gothic Theatre – Englewood, Colo.
4/16 Manny's – Billings, Mont.
4/17 The Exchange – Regina, Saskatchewan
4/18 Pyramid Cabaret – Winnipeg, Manitoba
4/20 Majestic Theater – Madison, Wis.
4/21 Mojoe's – Joliet, Ill.
4/22 Water Street Music Hall – Rochester, N.Y.
4/23 The Opera House – Toronto, Ontario
4/24 Imperial Theater – Quebec City, Quebec
4/25 Club Soda – Montreal, Quebec
4/26 Bogies – Albany, N.Y.
4/27 Sonar – Baltimore, Md. (No Death Angel)
4/29 Higher Ground – South Burlington, Vt.
4/30 Irving Plaza - New York, N.Y. (No Death Angel)


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Thirty years on since graduating college, there are only two things I learned in classrooms there that have truly stayed with me. A Journalism instructor, whose night job was reporter for New York's Daily News, admonished us that "when in doubt, throw it out," and that bit of rhyming advice has paid off handsomely throughout my career.
The second was my poli-sci professor's near-constant refrain that "the three principles of American governance are compromise, compromise, compromise." That oft-repeated alliterative utterance, along with my studies of American history in and out of school, has ever since informed my view of politics and especially of partisanship in this country.
And that is why I could only shake my head in sad disbelief when I learned that yet again the national politics of our times have proven to be so besotten by partisanship that its practictioners would sooner see our Republic mired in the quicksand of finger-pointing than have either side offer the other even the thinnest reed of compromise that they might then together pull our federal government out of the ghastly hole of inaction in which it is intractably if not permamently now stuck.
I am speaking of course of the widely reported failure of the so-called Super Committee of Congress to end the debt crisis.
As The Wall Street Journal put it, "The deficit-reduction super committee, stuck in a partisan deadlock, faces an almost certain collapse—raising the threat of disruptive military spending cuts and a resurgent public anger at Congress as it struggles with the basic tasks of governance.... the committee is expected to announce Monday that it failed to reach its mandated goal of writing a bipartisan bill to reduce deficits over the next 10 years by at least $1.2 trillion."
Note well that the committee's "mandated goal" wasn't just about hitting a specific number, but also doing so in a bipartisan manner.
"The stalemate was the latest sign of partisan deadlock in Washington, which members of both parties do not expect to lift until the 2012 election has clarified which party has the upper hand," noted a report in The New York Times.
But what should be coming first from these servants of We The People-- what they think they need to do to win an election (that is STILL a year away) or doing what is best for our country and all its citizens right now via compromise?
When did the ship of state run so far aground that no less an eminence-- and one of the few political commentators still around who can be taken as non-partisan-- than David Gergen ends up asking as he did online, "Have they gone nuts in Washington?" He could have just as well titled his opinion piece: "Founding fathers spinning in their graves."
In his post, Gergen argues that while "everyone knew that members of the super-committee had deep differences... such contentious disagreements have characterized our politics since the dawn of the republic, and in almost all crises of the past, political leaders have worked out compromises. As Thomas Jefferson put it in 1790, 'In general I think it necessary to give as well as take in a government like ours.' George Washington agreed and pushed continually for what he called 'a spirit of accommodation.'"
"In general I think it necessary to give as well as take in a government like ours."-- Thomas Jefferson
Obviously, I am with Gergen on this. He goes on to say, and I agree wholeheartedly, that "this failure of the super committee represents a reckless, irresponsible gamble by our 'leaders' in Washington. It's difficult to remember a Congress that has put the nation so much at risk in the service of ideology and to hold onto office. Partisans on both sides are grievously failing the country."
He rightly does not stop with just blaming our good-for-nothing Congress. "An honest assessment would lay blame on the White House doorstep, too," Gergen argues. "Yes, the President finally put up a plan a few weeks back and made a few phone calls. But he has been exercising the most passive leadership imaginable. Nor have the Republican candidates for president been any more engaged."
And where does all this leave us, the American people and our business and personal interests? Up the proverbial creek without a paddle let alone a Washington, Jefferson, Adams or Hamilton to get us to the other side, to name just a few of Our Founders-- all of whom must be spinning as furiously in their graves as the wheels in Washington are in the rut to which they have been consigned by the myopic and apparently woefully uneducated politicians with whom we are now saddled.
The only saving grace is there is an election coming up. But will enough Americans bestir themselves to turn out in droves enough to truly vote for change in how Washington works? That iwill be a true test of our democracy.


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A man has been charged with using his mobile phone to film up the skirts of teenage girls at a shopping centre in Sydney's inner west.
Police say they were on foot patrol in a Burwood shopping complex on Monday afternoon when they witnessed a man, 53, approach two young women, before placing a mobile phone up their skirts.
After following the man for a short period, officers allegedly saw him use a phone to video under the skirts of two 14-year-old girls.
He was arrested, with an examination of his phone revealing further offences, police allege.
The Croydon man was charged with 13 counts of filming a person's private parts, one of attempting the same and two counts of possessing cannabis.
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Coffee mills are also called coffee grinders, although there is a difference in the way each grinds the coffee. Large floor-standing or counter-model coffee mills were used in the nineteenth-century country store. Small home mills were first made about 1894. They lost favor by the 1930s. The one-wheel store model was patented in 1870 and the two-wheel model was made in 1873. The renewed interest in fresh-ground coffee has produced many modern electric mills, hand mills, and grinders. Reproductions of the old styles are being made.
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Rudi wrote:So my suggestion would be to buy the spare that will be the same as what you have now, but will also match the tires you will get when you replace the other 4. That way no questions, you will know what you have and what the ratings are. Safety first.
OK, I think I have a consenus, and will track down a rim over the next few days, then check out whether I will stick with the same type I have now for a (near-) future purchase, or go with something else. Thanks for the input.
The good news is that I don't have a long distance trip planned till DSCF (assuming I take a tractor), and there is always Christmas and I have 3 sisters!!!!!


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Kevin Sousa abruptly ended his entire recruiting process on Tuesday with a surprise commitment to the University of Michigan, where he visited for the past two days.
We tracked him down at the Detroit Metro Airport on Tuesday evening, "Getting on a flight now, but yeah, I committed to Michigan today," Sousa said. "Just being around the people who were there I realized it would be the perfect fit for me. It's the University of Michigan ... can't turn that down."
His head coach at Lake Nona Andy Hamre wasn't surprised, of course as he's been right there along for the ride.
"No, as a matter of fact I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner," Hamre said. "We've been in contact with Michigan as well as a few other schools. Michigan kinda waited until later in the process here, but they got in to be really serious with Kevin."
Michigan made it's official offer to Sousa on Thursday of last week, and after that Sousa announced he had trimmed his list to Michigan, West Virginia, Illinois, Vanderbilt, FIU, Wake Forest, Middle Tennessee and Louisville.
"We were thinking West Virginia, Illinois or Vanderbilt would be the frontrunners, but we were kinda hoping that a Michigan or a Notre Dame, someone like that, would come along and Michigan did," Hamre said. "So Kevin wanted to get up there to check it out immediately."
Sousa, who has only played organized football for a little more than two years now, with his first big season coming last year for the first-year school Lake Nona, has been an intriguing prospect. The 6-foot-4, 217-pound specimen of an athlete looks more like a linebacker and throws more like Randy "Big Unit" Johnson.
But, under the guidance of Lake Nona assistant coach Anthony Paradiso, he's blossomed into one of the most talked-about prospects of the 2011 recruiting class. Through camps and combines and non-stop dedication to perfecting his delivery from his toes to his finger tips, Sousa has somewhat ironed out his accuracy issues, solidified his footwork and will continue to try and develop a more compact delivery with Paradiso by his side.
And he not only throws the ball, he can also run and when he gets that big body moving at a 4.5-second 40-yard dash clip, it makes him a dual-threat that not a lot of tacklers want to end up staring down.
Sousa, the No. 14-ranked player in the Sentinel's 2011 Central Florida Super60 and also ranked as the No. 98 player in the state in the Sentinel's Florida Top 100 by Bill Buchalter, passed for 1,346 yards and eight touchdowns and six interceptions in eight games. He also ran for 916 yards and five touchdowns.
Sousa enters a situation at Michigan that currently has six quarterbacks on the roster. Last year's starter is back in sophomore Tate Forcier, while sophomore Denard Robinson has also impressed the coaching staff and started the spring game, while senior-to-be Nick Sheridan is third on the depth chart, but incoming freshman Devin Gardener is likely the actual No. 3. The Wolverines also have two other QBs on the current roster in redshirt freshman Nader Furhaa and redshirt sophomore Jack Kennedy.
But he's not really concerned about playing time at this juncture.
"I really want to learn the game first and keep developing as a quarterback," Sousa said. "Whenever I'm able to play, then I'll be ready to play. They told me that every QB has a shot at being the starter."
And if it ever came down to playing other positions at Michigan, Sousa said, "I'll do whatever they tell me to do."
Sousa's parents have kind of stepped away from the whole football process and let Paradiso do his thing, but when it comes to everything else, Sousa said they have been very important parts of his development as a person and are very excited about his choice.
His mom lives in Orlando, while his father works outside Boston, a career decision the family made a few years ago. The whole family was going to move to Boston, but mom agreed to stay back after Kevin hooked up with Paradiso and the coach assured them he could be a special player if he followed through with the coach.
"She's excited and she's thankful," Kevin said of his mother. "Both of my parents are very supportive and they pay for all this stuff that's going on and I thank them a lot for it."
So here he is, two years removed from being a soccer player and potential basketball star, to one of the most high-profile quarterbacks in the nation -- and now a Michigan Wolverine. Quite a meteoric rise and a big surprise to a lot of people. But not Sousa.
"I already knew this was going to occur," Sousa said of making it to the big time and the Big House. "Coach Paradiso said it would happen if I just listened to him. But I still have a lot to prove because there are still people who doubt me."
About 20 other coaches certainly didn't doubt him, and Sousa will start thanking those coaches who recruited him, like FIU's Mario Cristobal, who was hard after Sousa from the beginning.
"That was my first offer, FIU," Sousa said. "I really respect coach Cristobal an everything he's done.
"I'm going to let every coach who recruited me know I committed and be very respectful toward them and thankful for them recruiting me."
And as for any of those coaches coming back at him to try to persuade him elsewhere?
"Right now I am committed to being a Wolverine," he said. "And the only person who could change my mind is coach Paradiso."
Chris Hays is the Sentinel's recruiting coverage coordinator and can be reached at email@example.com.


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In the few months since Francisca Ansah returned to her job in Ghana after completing the Service Learning for Women program at New Mexico State University, she reports that she has approached both her professional and personal life with heightened levels of confidence and assertiveness.
The coordinator of the Food Security and Livelihood Programme for the organization Concern Universal, she is one of four African women, all professionals in agriculture-related fields, who participated in the second year of this NMSU professional development program.
Other participants expressed similar improvement in self-confidence and awareness of their leadership potential.
Ansah says that many of the program's activities have strengthened her professionally in other ways, too.
"I have built upon lessons from the training and field visits during my stay at NMSU to improve upon my project activities," she said recently. "The knowledge I gained through the program has enhanced my proposal-writing skills and the diffusion of innovation course has helped me to effectively use community dynamics in targeting appropriate recipients for project interventions."
The other women in the 2012 SLW cohort were Angela Manjichi from Mozambique, manager at a business incubator center at the Instituto Superior Politecnico de Manica; Asimenye Nthakomwa from Malawi, project coordinator for the Catholic Development Commission Enhancing Community Resilience Project; and Catherine Sakala from Zambia, an entomologist and tsetse control biologist for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
Service Learning for Women is a month-long NMSU program designed "to empower women from developing nations to achieve their highest potential and be catalysts for positive change in their home countries through a cross-cultural exchange at New Mexico State University," according to the program's website.
The program is the brain-child of Linda Stout, an NMSU alumna whose love of travel and sense of social justice have led to a realization that supporting women's education is a key to making the world a better place.
Through her reading and her travels, she came to understand that in many developing countries, especially in Africa, "women tend to do the majority of farm work while men tend to hold most of the corporate, academic, and governmental positions of power where policy is made about agriculture.
"My intent is to give women agricultural scientists an edge in reaching for those important positions," she said.
She approached NMSU in 2010 to discuss how she and the university could collaborate in developing a new professional development program that would provide an intensive learning experience for a small set of women from sub-Saharan Africa.
Her conversations involved individuals in NMSU's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, as well as the provost and the president.
Teaching the teachers would be the approach the program would take, and the women chosen to participate would be ones who work with women involved in agricultural activities.
Ultimately, Stout has not only funded SLW, she has been an integral part of the planning and support network, even accompanying the participants in their activities and teaching the leadership training component.
An important partner in the endeavor has been Brenda Seevers, a professor in NMSU's Department of Agricultural and Extension Education who shares Stout's views and values. She was asked to coordinate the program, and has participated in goal-setting, developing an appropriate set of activities, and recruiting faculty mentors and teachers for the participants.
The program's agenda included workshops in grant writing and teaching methods, leadership training, visits to NMSU classes, field trips to NMSU and private agricultural facilities and local food processing operations, and an array of cultural activities.
A key aspect of the program that the planners hope will have lasting impact on the participants' home countries was the "diffusion of innovations" workshop.
"The concept was how you take an innovation or an idea, diffuse it to a population you want to work with, and then have them adopt that idea," Seevers said.
On one of the program's field trips, Ansah was struck by New Mexico's iconic chile roasters. Food security and extending food availability beyond the harvest season are priorities for her in her work, and she wondered if the basic chile roaster could somehow be modified into an enclosed, rotating, solar food dryer for use back in Ghana. Traditional food-drying methods in that country typically involve spreading the fruits and vegetables out on the ground to be dried by the sun. Drawbacks to this method include loss and contamination.
Ansah worked with her NMSU mentor Willis Fedio, the director of NMSU's Food Safety Laboratory, and with Kenny Stevens, a faculty member in NMSU's Civil Engineering Technology program, to ensure that the device she was designing would be effective and could be produced from locally available materials.
Since her return to Ghana, she has continued to develop the idea with a colleague who is a food engineering professor.
"We are currently working on determining the amount of energy it can trap to sufficiently dry food, the time it will take to process commonly dried products under certain air temperatures, and the quantity of food it can dry, so the final product can be as effective and efficient as possible," she reported.
She said they will build a prototype and test it before promoting the approach to local communities.
The other innovation ideas developed by this year's participants were Manjichi's variation of the food dryer concept for a business incubation context in Mozambique, Nthakomwa's adoption of the "sack garden" concept to enhance the earning potential of farm women in Malawi, and Sakala's pilot project to involve local women in data collection related to tsetse fly impact on both humans and livestock in parts of Zambia.
A new aspect of the program is a documentary film project that Stout and Seevers hope will capture the participants' experiences both in New Mexico and back in their home countries.
Philip Lewis, a professor in NMSU's Creative Media Institute, agreed to direct the film. He, along with student assistants, documented many of the program's activities this year and interviewed participants individually. He will follow up with a visit to Africa in July with Stout and a student crew member, where he will get updates from participants from both the 2012 and 2011 programs and document their activities in the communities they serve.
"My vision for the documentary is not only to introduce to girls new possibilities for their lives via these role models," Stout said, "but also to educate women about what it takes to raise a daughter to be like these amazing scientists."
Stout and Seevers both stress that the program provides a two-way street, having enriched the lives of everyone involved.
"The exciting thing about working with Service Learning for Women is not just what this program has been able to do for the eight participants from the past two years," Seevers said. "When their NMSU mentors and other people who have worked closely with the project were asked what it has meant to them, the response is always the same: 'I, too, have been changed for the better.' It's a win-win for everyone."
For more information about the program, go to http://aces.nmsu.edu/slw/
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