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Creative Scotland / Alba Chruthachail : "encouraging and supporting artistic and other creative endeavours which contribute to an understanding of Scotland's national culture in its broad sense as a way of life"Public Services Reform (Scotland) Bill (Ex)
Stage 3 (debate, meeting of the Parliament) Thursday 25 March 2010
Amendments should be lodged by 4.30 pm on Friday 19 March with the clerks to the Finance Committee
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I am emailing you as a constituent. As my MSP, I am asking you to vote against proposals to establish Creative Scotland, and for the universal pursuit of cultural rights in Scotland.
Reforms of cultural provision may be long overdue, but Creative Scotland has wider-reaching implications than the supercession of Scottish Screen and The Scottish Arts Council.
Creative Scotland solicits a fundamental change of a key aspect of democratic society. It would escalate risk and debt and restrict public discourse along narrow ideological lines. This change has significant implications for the many ways in which knowledge is currently produced and communicated in Scotland.
The unintended consequences of this shift towards an entrepreneurial ideology in the public provision of culture have not been properly investigated. Such fundamental research was not undertaken. Yet marketplace "truths" require far greater scrutiny, as has been amply demonstrated by the financial crisis.
I ask you vote against the establishment of Creative Scotland, and for fulfilling UNESCO treaty commitments towards a diversity of cultural expression in Scotland.


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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Recipe for Mozzarella Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed peppers are a handy supper dish, but many of the 'traditional' versions (i.e. filled with minced meat and rice) are too heavy for me. Recently I've tried couple of lighter versions, and this one was well received at a recent dinner with friends. The recipe is adapted from an old issue of British Tesco Recipe Magazine (March 2003, I believe). The dish contains very few ingredients, but had surprisingly plenty of flavour, so I'll definitely try this again.
PS Sorry for the small hiatus - I was participating at a workshop in Finland, spending most of the last week in Tampere and Helsinki. It wasn't all work, however, as my dear K. joined me for the weekend of special shopping and delicious eating in Helsinki.
Mozzarella-stuffed Peppers
(Mozzarellaga täidetud paprikad)
Serves 3 as a main course or 6 as a starter
3 bell peppers (a red, yellow and orange one, perhaps?)
1 Tbsp olive oil
150 g fresh mozzarella cheese, cubed
8-12 cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered
half of a red onion, thinly sliced
a generous handful of fresh basil leaves
freshly ground black pepper
Halve the peppers, remove the seeds. Brush the pepper halves with oil, both inside and out, and place snugly next to each other in an oven dish.
Divide mozzarella cubes, halved or quartered cherry tomatoes, onion slices and half of the basil leaves between the pepper halves.
Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil.
Bake in the middle of a 180 C/350 F for 30-40 minutes, until mozzarella has melted.
Sprinkle the rest of basil leaves on top, drizzle with some more olive oil and serve with a crusty bread.
Other stuffed peppers recipes @ Nami-Nami:
Red peppers with cumin-scented halloumi cubes
Pointed red peppers stuffed with spinach & mushrooms
13 comments:
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Pille, the versions with meat are too heavy for me too - I absolutely love your idea!
- 3:40 pm, October 28, 2008
- ChichaJo said...
Delicious way with pepper Pille! Will you be posting about your shopping and eating in Helsinki and Tampere? I remember both places with fondness :)
- 5:17 pm, October 28, 2008
- Dagmar - A Cat in the Kitchen said...
The peppers look and sound delicious!
I hope you had a nice time in Finland!
- 5:28 pm, October 28, 2008
- Yulinka said...
These peppers would be great as appetizers. I made something similar with roasted eggplant slices topped with cheese and tomatoes.
- 5:46 pm, October 28, 2008
Tere! Meie elame siis ka Helsingis, ja tuleme meelsasti popi keeduinimesega poppi kohvimajja vajaduse ja võimaluse korral! Maris
- 7:53 pm, October 28, 2008
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
This looks like something that would be delicious with many different types of cheese -- and so simple to prepare. Thanks for the recipe!
- 8:30 pm, October 28, 2008
- Nicole said...
This looks absolutely delicious! I love peppers and cheese.
- 1:48 am, October 30, 2008
- Jo said...
That looks delicious! I've been looking for some good easy vegetarian recipes, and that one will go on the list...
- 1:39 pm, October 30, 2008
- Lisa said...
That's a stuffed pepper I could definitely enjoy!
- 7:46 pm, October 30, 2008
- Amber said...
The only stuffed pepper I created that I loved was a Moroccan version. But these look luscious. I love creamy vegetarian versions of things.
- 2:37 am, November 02, 2008
- Farmgirl Susan said...
This looks so good I've had the page open for days so I can keep going back and drooling over it! : )
- 7:14 pm, November 03, 2008
- Jeanne said...
I love ALL stuffed peppers, but I love the summery lightness of these! Definitely bookmarked.
- 7:47 pm, November 17, 2008
- Pille said...
Patricia - I'm definitely on a meatless stuffed pepper mood!
ChichaJo - I should have posted about Helsinki and Tampere, but it's too late now :(
Dagmar - I had lovely time in Finland indeed, even if it was work-related..
Yulinka - they're quite filling (cheese!!!), so we enjoyed them as the main course, but certainly they'd work as appetizers, too.
Lydia -you're so right!
Nicole, JO, Lisa, Amber, Susan, Jeanne - thank yoU!
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asteria needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
4 winners were selected from 46 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
Asteria Solutions Group
We develop custom and out-of-the-box software solutions that contain a telephony component. We have proprietary call center and auto-dialing products, but do lots of custom development and implementations of Asterisk, which is an open-source PBX product.
We are working with a designer on a new website for our company. It is not yet in production. We are still tweaking it, but I will post .jpgs of where we are now so you can get a feel for the what the website will look like.
This contest is for a front page banner for our new website. Not an ad, but a banner that includes our logo and a graphic or tag line.
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CARNESVILLE - Cosette Miller Lewallen, 97, passed away Saturday, August 18, 2012, surrounded by her family at St. Mary's Hospital.
A daughter of the late James and Nina Franks Miller, she was born April 4, 1915, in Franklin County, having lived most of her life in Banks County. She was the oldest member of the Prospect United Methodist Church. She was a dedicated member of the Nails Creek Community. She enjoyed her family, friends and helping others. She always boasted, "I've never earned a paycheck, but I've worked every day of my life." Mrs. Lewallen was preceded in death by her husband, Golden Lewallen in 1972; and two sons, Edwin and Max Lewallen.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Brenda and Wilton Bellamy, Carnesville; daughters-in-law, Avis Lewallen and Jeannette Lewallen, both of Carnesville; grandchildren, Nancy and Freddie Dalton, Susan and Steve Collins, Tim Lewallen, Toni Lewallen, Traci and David Dulaney, Michelle and Keith Curcio and Kristie and Carlton Speed; great-grandchildren, Thomas and Kami Dalton, Jennifer Dalton, Ashley Bending, Richard Bending, Nora Dulaney, Gabriel Curcio, Conner Speed, Taylor Speed, Shelby Speed and Lauren Speed; and one great-great-grandchild, Wade Dalton.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, August 21, 2 p.m. at the Prospect United Methodist Church with the Revs. Dennis Wilkes and Duane Eller officiating. Pallbearers will be Tim Lewallen, Freddie Dalton, Thomas Dalton, Carlton Speed, Conner Speed and Richard Bending.
The family will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Bellamy, Carnesville, and will receive friends at Acree-Davis Funeral Home on Monday, August 20, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Interment will follow in Nails Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Prospect United Methodist Church, 5064 Prospect Rd., Toccoa, GA 30577, or Nails Creek Baptist Church Restoration Fund, 2743 Highway 51, North, Homer, GA 30547, in memory of Mrs. Cosette Miller Lewallen.
Online condolences can be made by visiting the website at www.acree-davisfh.com
Acree-Davis Funeral Home, Toccoa, is in charge of arrangements.
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gainedm needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 56 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
ShiftShade - http://www.shiftshade.com
ShiftShade is an innovative solution to a longstanding problem for shift workers, medical staff, and napping moms and babies alike. ShiftShade is a window shade that completely blocks outside light from entering the room, enabling daytime sleep for those who need it.
ShiftShade was invented 4 years ago by a shift worker himself. The product has sold well in that time, but we need a new, fresh look to carry us into the future. This is the first step in a new marketing push to grow the company, which we hope will lead to new products, new brands, and even more design work. We're looking for a designer that will be available for future updates, additions, and more. We're looking to build a brand around this design.
The site should target ShiftShade's 3 major markets: factory/shift workers, medical personnel, and parents of napping babies.
Shift workers and medical personnel are usually going to bed as the rest of us wake to start our day. Unfortunately for them, it's difficult to sleep when the daylight floods the bedroom. For the same reason, mothers and caregivers struggle when babies aren't able to get a full nap. ShiftShade is the product they need, but many don't know it exists. When they land on our site, we want the message to be clear and focused: ShiftShade can provide complete darkness for daytime sleep, and it's extremely easy to install.
We don't want to be boxed into these markets, as ShiftShade can also provide meaningful solutions for other markets like game/media rooms, but these 3 targets are the core of our business.
We want the new site to be the antithesis of the current site. Our current site is extremely wordy, unprofessional, and cumbersome. We are looking for something that is clear, simple, and modern. We want it to have a clear design, but will not approve anything that is "over-designed". Please use the existing site (http://www.shiftshade.com) to learn about the product, but nothing about the layout or structure is sacred.
We're looking for a full home page design, but we must be able to use it, perhaps with minor tweaks, throughout the site. Please don't design a splash type page that doesn't provide a good base for internal pages. The design should incorporate a logo and tagline. We'll provide a logo, but you're free to make any changes to it or completely redesign it. Our current tag line is "For a Good Night's Sleep... All Day!", but I've said nothing is sacred.
The home page should incorporate an area for a very simple description of the product, focused area with a picture/drawing of the product (maybe a video), an area for rotating testimonials, and a prominent Buy Now/Get Started type of button/link/element of some kind.
Please incorporate your take on a new navigation menu.
We currently have 6 menu options. To simplify it, I'd love to get down to 4 options, but the main thing is that we're looking for a little more creativity with the labels.
Menu structure commentary:
About - would like to keep something like this as a bio of the inventor... interested in a more creative label (like "The Man Behind The Shade" or something like that). This may not need to be a menu option, but just a link off the homepage.
Description - obviously we'll need something like this to include a description and installation instructions, but a more personable label would be nice.
FAQ - We need an option like this to address concerns/questions, but I've never been a fan of the FAQ acronym.
Testimonials - we'd rather have a rotating section on the homepage for this instead of a menu option.
Order - Maybe something more prominent for this... a Buy Now type of thing.
Contact - Contact information for the company.
We do not like the wordiness and overall confusion of our current site. The grey and blue are bland, and the eye doesn't really know where to look.
This is our competitor. We do not like their site AT ALL, but we like the way they have an interesting drawing of their product that draws your attention.
We REALLY like this site. It has the clean, professional look that we are after. It also has targeted links for signing up, which is what we're looking for with our Buy Now option. We want the users' eyes to be drawn to the product, and then to either a Buy Now or Learn More option.


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Per Mike Sando: Hawks rank DEAD LAST in the NFL in run defense since week 7. Giving up 5.3 yards per carry (only 3.3 ypc week 1-6 which ranked 2nd in the league).
Week 7 SF: 32 attempts, 175 yards
Week 8 Detroit: 22 attempts, 84 yards
Week 9 Minn: 27 attempts, 195 yards
Week 10 NY: 22 attempts, 84 yards
Week 12 Miami: 28 attempts, 189 yards
Week 13 Chicago: 33 attempts, 132 yards
Week 14 Arizona: 16 attempts, 43 yards
Week 15 Buffalo: 21 attempts, 118 yards
It doesn't take a genius to know where the soft spot is on this team. If I was Harbaugh, I'd run it all day and then some. Now that they have Kaepernick, they can mix in the zone read option as well. I expect to see a dizzying array of run formations by the 49ers this Sunday to try and confuse the defense. Assuming Sherman will play I doubt Kaepernick will be throwing down field a lot like they did last week against the soft secondary of NE. This will be dirty smash mouth football with Gore and Kaepernick getting most of the carries. I could even see some gadget reverse plays with Crabtree.
Of all the positions, Seattle's defensive line is the key to this Sunday's game IMO. The pressure is directly on Red Bryant, Branch, and Mebane to show up. Lately, all of them have been subpar at best. I feel bad for Red and his plantar fasciitis (I've had it and no doubt it sucks) but he needs to numb the pain somehow and elevate his game as he's been the worst of the lot. If we can't stop their run game it's gonna be a long and frustrating night.


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Laser pointers are becoming increasingly popular and are used in a variety of ways ranging from use in teaching environments to toys to entertain our pets. While popular, laser pointers can be hazardous if not used properly and dangerous if used in unintended ways – for example due to concerns over impacts on pilots, some countries have banned over the counter laser sales. Most laser pointers are considered Class 3R laser products meaning their power "rating" range is from 1-5 milliwatts (mW); however the rating system is often inaccurate. Research has demonstrated that laser pointers with power less than 5 mW that conform to specifications can be used safely in the classroom and in other settings if used as directed.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis claims he isn't much of a polyglot, but apparently he had no problem giving New Year's greetings in Hebrew.
In a meeting Sept. 2 with a delegation from the World Jewish Congress, the pope wished its president, Ronald Lauder, and Jews worldwide, "Shana Tova" or "good year" as the Jewish New Year of 5774 begins on Rosh Hashanah, Wednesday evening.
The pope also called on world leaders to "do everything to avoid war" and to foster increased dialogue, especially among the world's religious communities, according to a statement released by the New York-based international organization.
It wasn't the first time the pope met with an international group of Jewish leaders; in fact, he reiterated the same forceful phrase he pronounced during a June meeting with an international Jewish coalition, in which he said, "Due to our common roots, a Christian cannot be anti-Semitic!" Christians must learn about and understand Jewish history and traditions, the pope added at yesterday's meeting, according to the WJC.
The group said the pope promised to get his point man on relations with Jews, Cardinal Kurt Koch, to do what he could concerning Poland's ban on the kosher slaughter of animals. The papal meeting also including discussions about attacks against religious minorities, such as the Coptic Christians in Egypt, and increasing restrictions against male circumcision.
Ronald Lauder praised the church for its work in improving Catholic-Jewish relations and said Pope Francis' leadership "has not only reinvigorated the Catholic Church, but also given new momentum to relations with Judaism." As Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, the future pope was close to many Jewish leaders and made numerous inroads to improving inter-religious relations.
As a token of thanks during the meeting, Lauder gave the pope a Kiddush cup, used for the blessing of wine on Jewish holidays, and a traditional Rosh Hashanah dessert of honey cake.
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A level is used in construction to make sure something is perfectly horizontal or vertical. This level was made in 1870 by Charles M. and Edwin A. Stratton, brothers who came to Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1848. In 1869, they invented this level and patented it. They built it from rosewood, a tropical wood found in Brazil and elsewhere. This very dense, durable wood could withstand accidental dropping and other rough use. Brass fittings hold glass cylinders filled with a liquid, often alcohol, containing one large bubble. The user reads the instrument by aligning the bubble in the liquid between lines indicating the base of the level is parallel to the ground. The Stratton Spirit Level Company manufactured a whole range of levels in Greenfield. They brought in another brother, Oscar G. Stratton, who worked with them. Charles died in 1893, seventy years old. Edwin's son-in-law, Raymond O. Stetson, purchased the company in 1902. He sold it in 1912 to the Goodell-Pratt Company. In the late 1920s, the firm merged with the Millers Falls Company, which had its own line of levels, and the Stratton brand disappeared. However, the company still operated the Stratton firm's original factory in Greenfield.
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Happy Halloween! And Merry Christmas? Hey, if the retail world can break into the yuletide spirit two months in advance, then so can Bing Crosby. "White Christmas" isn't just a seasonal favorite – the DMDB ranks it as the #1 song of all time.
Much of its rating can be attributed to an estimated 56 million sales worldwide, putting it nearly 20 million ahead of its closest competition, Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997". Bing perched atop the charts for 11 weeks in 1942. The song recharted eleven times over the next dozen years, even picking up two more weeks at #1 in 1945 and a fourteenth overall week on top in 1947. The song logged over 100 weeks on the pop charts over 20 Christmas seasons.
Irving Berlin, who was often insecure about his work, referred to "White Christmas" not just as the best one he'd ever written, but the best anyone had ever written. LW He wrote his "beautiful, longing ode to snow and the Christmas spirit" BC for the film Holiday Inn; it even won the Academy Award for Best Song. However, much of its success had to do with its addition to the Armed Forces Radio playlist. NPR The song "captures both the celebration and underlying melancholy present for many at the holiday," BC a theme which resonated with soldiers yearning for better times when they were back home. LW
The song also took on a life beyond Bing's recording. The five million in sales for the sheet music made it one of the ten best-selling sheet music songs of the first half of the century. WHC With over 500 versions in dozens of languages, "White Christmas" has also become the most recorded Christmas song. BC At the end of 1998, ASCAP named it the most-performed holiday song of the century. The song is also notable for helping to usher in the era in which performers outdistanced the songwriters in popularity. "Tin Pan Alley had passed into history." NPR
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- one of the RIAA's top 365 songs of the 20th century
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- the DMDB page for "White Christmas"
- Bing Crosby's DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- BC Blogcritics.org (2005) ASCAP's 25 Most-Performed Holiday Songs for 2000-05. By Eric Olsen.
- JA David A. Jasen. (2002). A Century of American Popular Music: 2000 Best-Loved and Remembered Songs (1899-1999). Routledge: Taylor & Francis, Inc. Page 213.
- LW Alan Lewens (2001). Popular Song – Soundtrack of the Century. Billboard Books: New York, NY. Page 84.
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- TY Don Tyler (1985). Hit Parade 1920-1955. New York, NY: Quill. Page 110.
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San Jose's arduous campaign to establish the first direct flight between Silicon Valley and Asia in more than six years highlights the obstacles regional airports face in luring more planes to terminals in an era of airline industry cost-cutting.
After a five-year effort, business and government officials will toast Friday's launch of the five-day-a-week All Nippon Airways service between Mineta San Jose International Airport and Tokyo's Narita International Airport that will deploy Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner. But industry experts say future success for San Jose International — which underwent a billion-dollar makeover amid the U.S. airline industry's recent financial implosion — will be hard-won.
"It's not just a San Jose issue. The airline industry has fundamentally changed in the last three to five years," said Robert Herbst, an aviation industry consultant who operates AirlineFinancials.com. "It will be challenging for San Jose to get any measurable airline growth. I don't see it happening in at least five, 10 years minimum."
The changes include airline bankruptcies, major consolidations, elimination of routes and reducing plane sizes for some service. Meanwhile, more flights have been shifted to the nation's largest airports, such as San Francisco International Airport, and away from secondary airports, such as San Jose. The deep recession added to the financial pain airlines were experiencing brought on by rising prices in jet fuel, cutthroat domestic competition and aging, less efficient planes.
Annual passenger traffic at the San Jose airport has dropped 22 percent since 2007 — from 10.6 million to about 8.4 million last year, with final numbers for 2012 expected to remain about the same. Oakland International Airport experienced an even greater falloff during the same period: a 32 percent plunge, from 14.6 million passengers to about 10 million. SFO, on the other hand, has seen the number of passengers moving through its terminals soar 20 percent from 2007 to about 43 million in 2012.
San Francisco remains the de facto gateway for the region. San Jose and Oakland, for example, offer only one daily nonstop flight to the New York City region — and each flight is a JetBlue Airways red-eye flight. SFO has 28. San Francisco International handles about 96 percent of all Bay Area international travelers, averaging 60 international flights a day. Other than the new Tokyo service, San Jose has just three international routes, all to Mexico. Oakland has two routes to Mexico and two seasonal summer flights to Europe.
San Jose's airport is "a beautiful facility and better than the vast majority of U.S. airports," said Alan Bender, professor of aeronautics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. But, he added, passengers land at San Jose because it is usually their final destination, not to catch another flight. "San Jose is a dead end. Almost no one is going to change planes there," he said.
The industry's turbulence began with the struggles of U.S. airlines. Over the past 11 years, America's airlines suffered dramatic losses caused by a combination of skyrocketing fuel prices — up 300 percent in the past seven years — the recession and broken business models, said Herbst, the consultant. Airfares, on the other hand, increased only 15 percent between 2006 and 2011, he noted.
In the past two years, after the merger of Delta and Northwest, United and Continental and Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways, most U.S. airlines returned to the black. American Airlines, which is in bankruptcy, is looking to merge with US Airways.
The consolidations cut service to smaller airports. In 2003, Oakland International averaged 15 United departures a day, airport spokesman Brian Kidd said. Today, United has four daily flights at Oakland.
The Bay Area is "the third-largest air market (in the United States), after New York and Los Angeles," he said. "But that doesn't mean it gets distributed proportionately."
Oakland, he added, was particularly hard hit when Burlingame-based Virgin America launched service at SFO in 2007, which caused competitors to beef up service in San Francisco to the detriment of other airports.
Changes in flight plans have been devastating for San Jose International, which incurred $1.5 billion in debt to modernize its facilities on the assumption the improvements would increase air traffic to Silicon Valley. Airport officials, in planning for the worst-case post-construction business scenario, anticipated a 2 to 4 percent drop in airline business, said Bill Sherry, Mineta San Jose International Airport's director of aviation. Instead, the revenue drop-off from fewer passengers was about 35 percent.
"No one, from the rating agencies to the bondholders to our financial consultants, envisioned we'd lose 35 percent of our traffic," he said.
"We had to take some extraordinary measures," Sherry said. Those included slashing airport expenses by $50 million a year, including restructuring debt and outsourcing services such as janitorial, landscaping and curbside security.
It also meant cranking up marketing efforts, including tapping the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents companies from Apple (AAPL) to Cisco Systems (CSCO), to lobby airlines such as ANA to bring new service to San Jose.
Increasing numbers of airports are trying to steal service from one another, said Debby McElroy, executive vice president of Airports Council International, a trade organization that sponsors an annual conference that is something akin to speed dating for airports and airlines. Airport officials make pitches not only to win new air services, but also to retain those they already have, she said.
With the U.S. airline industry still in recovery, airports are aggressively courting international carriers, which are rolling out new aircraft and routes. To land the ANA San Jose-Tokyo flight, San Jose offered the airline numerous incentives — including no fees for its first year, a 66 percent fee discount its second year and 33 percent discount the third.
Bender said the incentives are a good way for secondary airports to snag a new carrier. And it can pay big dividends when the new flight is an international route, he said. Studies show that travelers from Asia, for instance, spend as much as $2,000 when they travel, giving a good boost to the local economy.
Seth Young, director of the Center for Aviation Studies at the Ohio State University, said San Jose and Silicon Valley, with its large population, tech economy and wealthy enclaves, is in a strong position to attract more flights once the economy and airline industry have fully recovered.
"If you make those investments (in airport upgrades) there is always a risk of the investment not turning out," he said. "But if you don't make those investments, there is no chance of taking advantage of increased demand in the future. If airlines are going to service a major market like the Bay Area, there will be need for additional capacity."
Contact John Boudreau at 408-278-3496. Follow him at Twitter.com/svwriter.


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Merrill R. Francis, October 1, 2012 at age 80. Merrill was born in Humboldt, Iowa, and lived in Rochester, NY, and Kenosha, WI, before moving to California. He graduated from John Muir high school in Pasadena. He later attended Pomona College in Claremont, where he studied Economics, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated in 1954. While in the U.S. Navy he was posted to the Naval District Headquarters, Seattle, WA, as a supply officer. Upon discharge he attended Stanford University Law School where he graduated in 1959.
He joined the firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, and Hampton in 1959 and spent his career there, retiring in 2001. He held leadership roles in legal organizations including the Financial Lawyers Conference, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy Board of Regents, and the Ninth Circuit Admissions Council. He had been honored as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
He was involved in civic activities, the arts, and various outdoor interests. He served as President of the La Canada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce and Community Association, and received the Les Tupper Community Service Award in 1976 for his guidance and advocacy during the incorporation of La Canada Flintridge. He was an avid art patron, admiring and supporting the work of Los Angeles area sculptors and painters. He loved to sail, often spending time at Catalina Island. He was also an avid runner completing several marathons.
Merrill is survived by his wife, Maria Del Carmen Heffler, Indio, CA. He is missed by his children Kerry Francis of Oakland; David Francis of Wooster, OH; and Robin Felix of Moraga; daughters and son of Nancy Francis of Oakland. He leaves grandchildren Isabel Francis Bongue, Silvia Francis Bongue and Lia Francis Bongue of Wooster; Garrett and Carrington Felix of Moraga. He also leaves a brother, Blair Francis of San Diego, CA; sisters Diane Francis-Williams of NM and Jennifer Francis-Martin of Bozeman, MT. He will be remembered by family, friends and colleagues for his distinctive sense of humor, exacting standards, mentorship, and sometimes colorful expressions.
A celebration of Merrill's life will be held at Descanso Gardens, Van de Kamp Hall, 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada-Flintridge, CA, at 1:30 PM on Sunday, November 11, 2012, reception to follow. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to The Pasadena Arts League at email@example.com or to The Huntington Library, (www.huntington.org).


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Christopherd.lee needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Happenstance LLC
Happenstance is all about developing the latest, hippest iPhone apps. We love to design in slick, modern, but minimalistic graphics that are true to Apple's products. Everything about our apps should just scream "cool" and should just work. We love visually appealing art that really complement the functionality of the applications they design. "Busy" graphics are definitely not our thing. We feel that everything designed into the application be it functionality, graphics, button placement, etc should have meaning and purpose. We're looking for like-minded graphic artists that are on the same page as us and willing to deliver top-notch products for the world to see.
We're targeting the typical consumer. As we all know, typical iPhone users love the visually appealing graphics. This is for the world to see. The Calculator app is such a vanilla application that it's time to just make it "cool" and the world will appreciate that, guaranteed. Targeted audiences can be male or female so keep that in mind when creating the graphics.
1) We envision a calculator skin with large buttons, buttons large enough so that it's almost impossible to mis-press adjacent buttons. But we also don't want it so large that the buttons become an eye sore.
2) We want two-row display mimicking a calculator LCD screen. The bottom row should be large enough so that the user can see what he/she is typing. Adjust the sizing accordingly.
3) The aim of this project is to produce skins for the calculator. We're looking for "cool", "artistic", "creative", thinking outside of the box skins. Feel free to be as creative and artistic as you need, but with purpose. Examples are: wood, sand, ocean, plaid, denim, skins with a stylish yet simple pattern and cool to see when you launch the calculator app. These are some of the basic skins that people are used to seeing. But we would love to alternative ideas that will whet people's appetite. We'd also need a default calculator UI of course, similar to -http://www.appannie.com/400179811/
4) Landscape mode calculator UI is also required
5) We have 7 screens to create, the rest are rather basic, please see attached for direction.
6) Graphics should be compatible with all iPhone handsets. We want the skins to be compatible with:
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Nulex necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 275 design presentati da 56 designer.
Nulex Construction
Nulex construction is a recent start up construction company with its main focus being residential and commercial building and construction projects. Our primary focus moving forward will be targeting the commercial construction sector. The two directors of the company have a good knowledge of the marketplace and want to ensure that the logo creates a positive professional corporate image.
Initially the company will target both the residential and commercial sectors of the construction industry in Sydney and Newcastle in Australia.
The audience will cover industry professionals including architects and also clients including corporates and the general public.
We are looking for a clean, simple and sleek logo design that will be used on stationary, business cards, letterheads, the company website, company vehicles and construction site banners (signage).
The design should target and exude the following emotions: strength, quality, stability and long term success.
Our preference for the logo would be to focus on predominately on the letters of the company name, however we would also like to see some options where a simple graphic was incorporated.
We would like the use of some colour and our preference would be the colour light green or chartruse , however we would consider alternatives.
We also have a preference for the use of lower case lettering, however again we would consider the use of logo using capital letters.
We have attached the following files as examples of logos i like for their simplicity as a guide:
1. Gen Y wealth logo as I like the colours and simplicity of the design
2. EOM - I like the small amount of colour used.
3. SMM - I like how this and each of the above files provide various colour options and greyscale, etc for design. This is important for us as we will be using our logo in different situations.
Ultimately we want a simple, sleek and professional logo.
Thank you.
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Sorry...I was doing this from the scorecard and it just said "Mike"...since there was more than 1 "Mike", i tried to differentiate using your last name...should be fixed now...I thought you would've been happy just to see it at the top of the list.
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Karl Palachuk needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 76 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
We're looking for a fresh, modern, fun design. Promotion Monkey is a new business, specializing in teaching people about modern, Internet-based marketing techniques.
Promotional Business needs mascot/logo design - flexible enough to use on the web or in print.
Promotion Monkey
Eventual web site will be PromotionMonkey.com.
Emotions: Fun, Trendy, Productive, Sleek, Professional
The Promotion Monkey will be used in three basic positions:
- Facing Front
- Presenting Left
- Presenting Right
- Promotion Monkey Facing Front
- Promotion Monkey Presenting Left
- Promotion Monkey Presenting Right
- Should either be blue or work well with a blue web site
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- Too much detail
- Too many colors
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I awoke at 3:45 a.m. on Sept. 30, and by 4:35 I was on a train speeding from Merrick to Penn Station. At 6 a.m., I stood at Liberty and West streets in Lower Manhattan, near 1 World Trade Center, the glass-and-steel superstructure that is now under construction near the footprints of the Twin Towers.
With its white lights illuminating the dark, foggy sky, 1WTC towered above the city like a beacon. I snapped a photo of the skyscraper and stood silently, marveling at this miracle of modern architecture and human perseverance. It took my breath away.
Then I was on a shuttle bus to Red Hook, Brooklyn, surrounded by runners chatting at a frenetic pace, excited to take part in the 11th annual Tunnel to Towers Run.
The race/walk pays homage to former Rockville Centre resident Stephen Siller, a New York City firefighter who died in the World Trade Center trying to save others on Sept. 11, 2001. On that terrible day, Siller, a 34-year-old father of five, drove his Jeep from his firehouse in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, only to find it blocked by traffic. Siller leapt from his vehicle and ran through the tunnel, carrying 60 pounds of equipment. Rescue workers picked him up on the Manhattan side and drove him to the Twin Towers. He went in but never came out.
His family, including brother Russell Siller of Rockville Centre, started the Tunnel to Towers Run as a charitable fundraiser. The Sillers wanted to replace the evil perpetrated by 19 Al Qaeda terrorists with the kindness of thousands of good people.
This year's run attracted 30,000 participants and raised more than $1 million to build technologically advanced homes that allow triple- and quadruple-amputees returning from war in Afghanistan and Iraq to live in dignity. The homes are equipped with wheelchair ramps and wide doors. Kitchen cabinets drop down to wheelchair level with the touch of a button. Elevators allow access to more than one floor.
I did the Tunnel to Towers Run because, in my own small way, I wanted to help our wounded veterans, and to say thank you to the first responders who gave so freely of themselves on 9/11 and thereafter.


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by Cathie Adams
|Further Reading: United Nations / Global Warming
|November 30, 2011
South African leader Nelson Mandela said that, "It always seems impossible, until it is done." Mandela rightly envisioned the statement to mean freedom regardless of race, an ideal entirely supported by Americans, but the United Nations' use of the statement during the meeting in Durban, South Africa is not supportable.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol set legally binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions at seven percent below 1990 levels by 2012, but no country has been able to meet that goal because it would have devastated their economies. The Protocol/Treaty was signed by former President Bill Clinton and unsigned by former President George W. Bush. It was never submitted to the U.S. Senate for the required two-thirds vote for ratification. Democrats and Republicans alike know that there are a myriad of problems with Kyoto.
Even so, CAN International, a coalition of 700 radical environmental groups, is in Durban demanding that when Kyoto expires in 2012, a new Durban agreement should replace it to set the greenhouse gas emission targets at least 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020 and to decarbonize national economies by 2050.
Environmental extremists in Durban have revealed how they think this can be accomplished. They are displaying a Zulu Beehive Hut that they claim is cool in the summer and warm in the winter because of its circular structure with a single door and no windows. The green beehive's exterior is ladened with plants.
One could call it ingenious until he realizes that there is no running water or electricity in the beehive. And that the reason for its round structure is so that snakes are deprived of a corner to hide in! That standard of living cannot even appeal to environmental extremists.
The UN is supposed to be a place for sovereign nations to freely decide what is best for their countries, but the truth is that the UN is bent on micromanaging them into extinction by setting impossible targets then micromanaging them to transfer once-sovereign nations' authority to themselves.
Canada, for example, was awarded the first place Fossil of the Day by CAN International because it plans to withdraw by Christmas from the Kyoto Protocol. (Each day CAN inflicts its Fossil award on a nation throughout major UNFCCC meetings.) Greenpeace activists responded by setting up LED emergency lights on the Canadian Parliament's lawn stating "Climate Fail." This is just one of the ways used by the UN to intimidate delegates to succumb to their extremist wishes.
The U.S. won the second place award accused of being "the worst historical climate polluter" and being "beyond complacent by rationalizing the collective mitigation targets as in keeping with what climate scientists say is needed to avoid global disaster." CAN concluded that, "The United States is either in denial about the science, or is trying to thwart justified pressure to improve its own ambition."
Unless Americans are ready to exchange their homes for Zulu Beehive Huts, we had better notify our Congressmen that the inmates are running the asylum at the UN and we want our money withdrawn before they can do irreparable damage to our national sovereignty.


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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Awash in Nostalgia
I get to spend one more day with them, when I get off from work after this weekend, but the Lorax will head back to Milwaukee with his grandmother tomorrow.
I took Christian for a walk around downtown La Crosse. He marvelled at the same things Natali and Andreas did five years ago, when we first moved here. It's such a beautiful, cool night here; the Lorax shrieked as he chased sticks down the little stream that flows from one of the statues. He got too excited and stepped in the little river, just as his brother did 4 years ago.
I could have cried, but I haven't yet. The Lorax sleeps with his grandmother and I just got back from a run. I planned to go running around town and to thicken the nostalgia I ran around the hospital where we used to live. Many of the houses were hit by a tornado this spring and ours is marked with a neon orange box. Some houses have x's inside the boxes, and they seem to be condemned, but ours had a family moving in. It struck me that the new interns are probably starting next week.
I snuck around the back and almost couldn't breathe as I looked into our old kitchen. Birthdays with the kids, our first Christmas in La Crosse, my early romance with the Girl, the kids running out the back door; it all came back to me. It felt so close, like I could reach back in time and walk in there to a life that resembled normalcy.
I could see the bedroom ceiling and imagined all our things on the floor. I imagined waking up there with the Girl on a warm summer morning, listening to the birds outside.
It's an end of an era. Natali has been a light in my life these last two years and she has been a major positive force in Christian's life. She is very proud of what she has accomplished in Denmark and talks about keeping a similar lifestyle in La Crosse. I hope she succeeds.
Now that she is gone, there are a few positives. I will have more time for Christian and the Girl, not to mention the new baby. Natali and the Girl have a step-mother, step-daughter relationship that I don't understand. Seeing their disagreements move into the background will be nice.
But even with a myopic focus on the positives, I am already counting down the days till we move back here.
3 comments:
- sea legs girl said...
Well, that was definitely worth reading. Now I don't feel like we're so far apart.
I would not be surprised at all if Christian really understood about Natali. I told him she was moving back to the live with her mom for a year, and though that whole "year" thing makes no sense to him, he, despite his diapers and nuk, understands these things.
Hope this weekend of work is okay.
- June 23, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- SteveQ said...
Just heard that the unemployment rate in Milwaukee for black men is 34%, just like in north Minneapolis, where they also had a tornado. Some tough times in the midwest right now. LaCrosse is a little easier.
I wouldn't sweat the relationship between Natali and the Girl (first time I've ever called her that. weird) - I never understood how my sister couldn't get along with my mother, the easiest person in the world to get along with and Janice couldn't understand how I could have a problem with our dad, as he was "the easiest person in the world to get along with." That's just the way families work, I think.
- June 24, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- Bianchii said...
Really nice blog, interesting posts !
It would be nice if you'll visit my blog sometimes :)
Have a nice day :)
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Gerard Butler dating Romanian model/actress
Scottish movie star GERARD BUTLER has found love with Romanian model/actress MADALINA GHENEA, according to a U.S. report.
The 300 hunk reportedly fell for the European beauty when she was hired to help Butler promote a new razor for the Dubai-based Super Max brand this spring (12).
The couple was first rumoured to be romantically involved in May (12), but Ghenea played down the claims at the time, stating, "Gerard is a friend of mine. We are friends and nothing more."
However, the New York Daily News reports the relationship has since developed into something more intimate, with a source telling the publication, "Gerry isn't seeing other women, which is serious for him, since he always has lots of girls."
A representative for Butler, who has prevously been linked to Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston and reality TV star Brandi Glanville, has refused to comment on the new romance reports.


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For the past 19 years, Thai Bros. has been serving locals and tourists mostly traditional Thai cuisine, save the occasional exception like fried wontons with cream cheese and avocado.
This little storefront restaurant is a pleasant and unpretentious place to dine, with white tablecloths, a large fish tank and pictures of people and scenes from Thailand. One wall is covered with a striking, Asian-themed, multi-dimensional painting by local artist Paul Courtney. The cozy, narrow, L-shaped dining area makes it easy for guests to inquire of their neighbors, "What are you eating, and is it good?"
We can never pass up the geow sa, wonderful fried dumplings stuffed with a juicy, delicately seasoned chopped chicken and vegetable mixture. It comes with a sweet and spicy soy dipping sauce on the side. Shredded carrots and cabbage garnish the plate, and we used the extra sauce as a dressing to make a little salad.
There are several sates, spring rolls and fried calamari, among other selections. If you can't decide, have a sampler platter with a variety of tasty bites.
Thai curries range from the popular Famous Yellow, with chicken and potatoes in a coconut milk sauce, to the Red Devil, featuring beef, snap peas, sauce carrots and zucchini in a mild Panang curry sauce.
Soups are always a good bet in a Thai restaurant, and we chose Doug's Favorite, a creamy-smooth coconut milk soup that had a gentle tartness for balance and was chock full of shredded carrots, cabbage and cilantro. Patrons have their choice of chicken or shrimp, and we went for the small, tasty shrimp. The restaurant offers a wonton soup (geow num) with wontons stuffed with shrimp and chicken and the classic tom yum, hot and sour, with cilantro, lemon grass, vegetables and chicken or shrimp.
On the salad menu, in addition to the house and papaya, are three entrée-sized offerings, one with chicken, one with beef and one with seafood. I'm a big fan of these, since they make a perfect lunch. I can't make up my mind which I like best, but maybe it's the yum gai: sliced chicken breast on romaine, with celery, carrots, onions, cashews, peanuts and mint in a spicy lime dressing.
Perfect Harmony is the name of the sliced chicken in peanut sauce on a bed of spinach. The chicken was a bit overcooked, but the bright green al dente spinach was very good, and the peanut sauce brought everything together.
What we missed in the entrees was some heat. Usually, you are asked in Thai restaurants how spicy you would like your food prepared, or hot sauce is available on the table.
Eggplant chicken was better in that department, with an underpinning of spice. We thought the chunks of eggplant were delicious, as were the green and red peppers, onions and carrots strewn together with the slices of chicken in a wonderful, sweet basil sauce.
Fire Bird refers to the restaurant's Cornish game hen, marinated in Thai spices and grilled. It had a crispy, dark brown skin but was a bit overcooked. It was a simple dish, served with mixed vegetables and sweet chili sauce. The sauce provided the extra flavor and moisture for the bird.
The dish that really surprised us was the garlic pork. The thin slices of tender pork and shredded carrots came bathed in a rich and very flavorful sauce of the meat juices, dark spices, a bit of heat, slivers of fried shallots and thinly shredded cabbage. It was excellent.
We tried two different ice creams for dessert. The green tea version was too sweet and didn't have enough of the astringent tea flavor. However, the house-made coconut ice cream, which was more like coconut ice milk, was a light and refreshing finish to our meal. Tiny bits of mango and peanuts gave it texture and subtle flavor, and it had just the right amount of sweetness.
TERRY MARKOWITZ was in the gourmet food and catering business for 20 years. She can be reached for comments or questions at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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When: Noon to 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; noon to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Appetizers: $5.95 to 7.95
Entrées: $11.95 to $17.95
Desserts: $4 to $7
Bottles: $24 to $38
By the glass: $6.50 to $9
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The Twenty Kuan Yin Mindfulness and Spiritual Law of Attraction Teachings
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In 2004, a hypnosis client, Lena Lees, began to spontaneously channel Eastern Deity of Compassion Kuan Yin, thereby clarifying the Kuan Yin profound spiritual teachings. The Spirit Deity revealed Her immutable wisdom on Mindfulness (focused intent) and the Laws of Attraction and Compassion as well as Her prophecies for the future of humankind. The following represent the major Kuan Yin Mindfulness and Spiritual Law of Attraction Teachings as explained in "Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin" http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Compassion-Kuan-Eternal-Wisdom/dp/143922506... and other Hope Bradford & Lena Lees books:
1. You are the physical extension of your "Authentic" or "Always" Self--that which is the essence of your being
2. "You are god: both the "sliver of god" and the "ball of light". Ego's very nature-capable of a relatively expansive, detailed, and yet individualistic perspective is crucial. Separating itself out from the God Force, ego extracts infinite unique experiences, integral to humanity's process of 'spiritualizing matter'. Incarnating on the earth, achieving individualism is therefore critical for attaining divinity."
3. You are a creator: "juggler of the dream and the world of dreams", Kuan Yin states:
"You're at page ten but I understand the entire evolution. In reality, it's already over. It's a dream. Remember? You're living a dream. It's very complicated to hold the dream and live the dream. You are learning the art of juggling the dream and the world of dreams. Nobody really gets hurt".
4. "You create your whole world from your thoughts."
5. You are here on earth in your "rightful place" because you have chosen it. The laws of reincarnation and karma are real.
6. The basis of your life is free will and karma (the personal vibration created from prominent beliefs attracting objects and events to you). You always have the freedom to change your beliefs and thus what is attracted: In Her teachings, Kuan Yin states:
"There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen: karma and free will. The question is, 'how are you going to handle what you have?' You are riding the karmic wave underneath and the wind can shift. Everyone must take what they see and deal with that which is unseen."
7. The purpose of your life is to marvel and enjoy all you've created as well as to utilize your "focused intent"; to "imagine the possibilities of something greater than is right here."
8. "You are meant to be the 'Watcher'. Instead of judging, you just see."
9. "The most powerful forces in the universe are loving-kindness and motherly-love."
10. "You cannot die; you are eternal, quantum beings."
11. You have infinite realities to choose from.
12. "The universe will bring whatever one wants!"
13. "You are made of sound. Sound comes first in the universe."
14. "Being in the moment is one's link to eternity."
15. "There is no such thing as time."
16. "There is no evil, only ignorance."
17. There are new, inexperienced as well as advanced, compassionate souls on earth.
18. "You are a totally unique, divine being simultaneously belonging to one huge family, a great continuum."
19. "You are all sacred energies and everyone is as sacred as the next."
20. "Regard your life as about choices, experiences and desire and that you are already liberated. Don't be afraid of desire. It is why you're here: to taste, live."
For more information on Hope Bradford books please go to: Hope Bradford's Amazon Central Page: http://tinyurl.com/23g98ea


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The success of USL-1 sides in the CONCACAF Champions League when contrasted with the failures of MLS sides make this a non-starter.
The talk of Major League Soccer placing one or more teams in the Copa Libertadoras sometime in the near future has once again began in earnest. This idea would quite frankly be laughable given MLS' current state of play. Perhaps after the new CBA is negotiated could this step be undertaken, but right now with the exception of a Houston Dynamo team whose coach and GM (Oliver Luck and Dom Kinnear) have the magic touch no other MLS side can be counted upon to be competitive let alone get a result in such a prestigious tournament. In addition, enough controversy has developed about how the FMF awards their teams passage to the event, run by COMNEBOL. Interliga, a yearly tournament hel between the Apertura and Clausura seasons and run by SUM, the marketing arm of MLS on US soil has become very unpopular among Mexican fans, managers and even many players. Should MLS set up a similar sham event to award Copa Libertadoras births, surely hard feelings within the league among coaches, players and fans are sure to ensue.
MLS to Copa Libertadoras is a noble long term goal. However, let's keep the idea long term and work on MLS improving its rather shabby quality of play and renegotiating the CBA in the mean time.


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Arrieta's debut, homers give Cubs third straight win
CHICAGO -- Junior Lake and Anthony Rizzo helped Jake Arrieta celebrate his Opening Day on Saturday.
Lake hit a two-run homer with two outs in the sixth and Rizzo added a solo shot in the eighth to lift the Cubs to a 3-0 victory over the Cardinals and their first series win of the season. Chicago now has won three games in a row for the first time since last July 26-28.View Full Game Coverage
CHICAGO -- Junior Lake and Anthony Rizzo helped Jake Arrieta celebrate his Opening Day on Saturday.
Lake hit a two-run homer with two outs in the sixth and Rizzo added a solo shot in the eighth to lift the Cubs to a 3-0 victory over the Cardinals and their first series win of the season. Chicago now has won three games in a row for the first time since last July 26-28.View Full Game Coverage
"That's three in a row and two in this series against two good starters," Arrieta said of the Cubs beating the Cardinals' Adam Wainwright on Friday and Michael Wacha on Saturday. "But we have good guys, too. We have some guys who can compete at that level and put up some good performances."
It's the Cubs' first series win since they took two of three against the Reds last Sept. 9-11.
"It feels good -- it just feels good to win a ballgame," Cubs manager Rick Renteria said.
Reliever Brian Schlitter picked up his first Major League win, and received the traditional beer shower as a reward. He took over for Arrieta, who was making his first start of the year after being slowed this spring because of tightness in his right shoulder. On Saturday, the right-hander struck out seven over 5 1/3 innings, and was pulled after throwing 82 pitches.
"I thought he maintained his strength throughout," Renteria said of Arrieta. "Coming back from such an extended recovery, we were going to make sure we took care of him."
This was only the Cardinals' second look at Arrieta, who faced them last Aug. 16 at Wrigley Field and gave up two hits over seven scoreless innings. That was his second start for the Cubs, who acquired the pitcher from the Orioles in the Scott Feldman deal.
"He had good life on the ball and it just wasn't one side," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "He was moving the ball around, had a lot of movement going away from right-handed hitters, and times you could see them taking some uncomfortable swings."
Arrieta admitted he had a few butterflies.
"I think a lot of it had to do with pitching back at Wrigley for the first time," Arrieta said. "It's pretty special pitching here. After I played catch and got in the bullpen, it was kind of business as usual."
The Cardinals threatened in the first, and had runners at first and third with two outs, but Arrieta struck out Yadier Molina to end the inning. The Cubs had a runner at third with two outs in the fourth and Wacha got Welington Castillo to fly out to right.
The Cubs loaded the bases in the fifth but Wacha got Rizzo to ground out. Matt Adams singled with one out in the Cardinals sixth to chase Arrieta, and Schlitter got both Molina and Jhonny Peralta to fly out.
The Cubs finally came through in the sixth. Starlin Castro singled to lead off, and two outs later, Lake connected on his third home run off a 2-1 pitch from Wacha, launching it into the bleachers in left-center. Lake entered the game 5-for-31 in his last 10 games.
"I didn't think about anything, just look for my pitch," Lake said. "If they throw my pitch, I said, 'I got it.'"
"Wacha was good today," Rizzo said, "and he got himself into some trouble but worked out of it a few times. Junior, that home run is huge for us. That was it, that was the deciding factor."
Rizzo made it 3-0 when he led off the eighth against Randy Choate with his sixth home run and third this season off a lefty. The Cubs first baseman now has homered in three straight games, and was batting .400 (20-for-50) in 15 home games.
"We're swinging the bats with some production," Renteria said. "I think we're playing pretty good defense and the starting pitching has done a pretty good job of keeping us in the ballgame. It doesn't hurt that to this point, the bullpen has stabilized a little bit. They've done a nice job when we've asked them to do what they've needed to do."
The Cardinals made it interesting in the ninth. Molina and Peralta both singled off Hector Rondon, the closer of the day, and then Jon Jay hit a comebacker to the pitcher, who turned a 1-6-3 double play.
"Rondon's out there, and I call him 'Angry' because he looks angry on the mound," Rizzo said. "That comebacker is nice. It's textbook."
"I knew I needed to make a good pitch," said Rondon, who now has three saves, all against the Cardinals.
The Cubs haven't had a designated closer since April 11, when Jose Veras blew a two-run lead in St. Louis. Before the game, Renteria said the situation was "fluid." Now?
"It's organic still, as they say," Renteria said.
This is Renteria's first exposure to the Cubs-Cardinals series, and he's keeping an even keel approach.
"It's two games," he said. "There's a long season ahead of us. I'll measure up where we're at at the end of the season. Is it good to put these two games behind us? Sure. But it's a long season and we have to maintain our approach and keep playing baseball. Right now, we're in a good place."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.


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Kentucky coach John Calipari likes to say there are no rivalry games at this point in the season.
Try telling that to the Bluegrass State, where basketball's version of the civil war — Kentucky vs. Louisville, winner plays for the NCAA title — has so divided the small state that senior citizens have actually come to fisticuffs.
"The fans take it as, whoever loses, it's their funeral, really," Louisville senior guard Chris Smith said. "It's really cut-throat, I would say."
The game Saturday is the fifth time top-seeded Kentucky (36-2) and fourth-seeded Louisville (30-9) have met in the NCAA tournament. They split the previous four meetings.
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Basketball purists may argue Duke-North Carolina or Kansas-Missouri are the game's biggest, most intense rivalries. But those are like quaint tea parties compared with the animosity between Kentucky and Louisville, which required government intervention to get them to schedule each other.
No, think Auburn-Alabama on the hardcourt, and you get the idea.
"We get along with most of them," Kentucky fan Pat Stahl said of Louisville fans, "as long as they don't talk to you."
Or, heaven forbid, say something at a dialysis appointment. A 71-year-old Louisville fan punched a 68-year-old Kentucky fan earlier this week after their discussion over Saturday night's game got out of hand.
To be fair, police say the Kentucky fan did flip off the Louisville fan.
"It all started with the racial lines in Kentucky," Louisville coach Rick Pitino said of the rivalry. "Now (it's) no longer racially motivated. It's just pure hatred."
It's a given that Louisville and Kentucky would be rivals, their campuses a mere 70 miles apart in a state where basketball is king. To hear fans of both schools tell it, however, the programs might as well be on different planets.
Kentucky is a college basketball blue blood, its seven national titles second only to UCLA, while Louisville has a nice little tradition going with two national titles.
Kentucky is the bigger school, and its campus is set in bucolic hill country. Louisville sprawls over several city blocks, smoke from a soy processing plant billowing overhead and railroad tracks cutting through the center of campus. (If the Louisville lacrosse coach never sees a train again after she retires, it'll be too soon.)
Big Blue counts most of the state among its fan base, too, while Louisville isn't necessarily even No. 1 in its own city.
In fact, about the only thing the two schools have in common is Pitino, who led the Wildcats to one national title and two other Final Four appearances in eight years at Kentucky.
Forget that engendering any warm-and-fuzzy goodwill with the Kentucky folks, however. Now that Pitino isn't theirs, Kentucky fans hate him, too.
"Since we got Rick, (the rivalry) is more on their part," Robert Coke said. "They're used to getting the cream of the crop and being top-notch, so it's hard when they see someone else doing well."
Think it's a coincidence that Kentucky sped up its plans to renovate Rupp Arena after Louisville decided to build the KFC Yum! Center?
But the bad blood has been simmering for generations.
Kentucky never scheduled in-state schools under coach Adolph Rupp, and former assistant Joe B. Hall dutifully followed suit when he took over as coach. Gov. John Y. Brown stepped in following their matchup in the 1983 NCAA Mideast Regional finals, now known around the state as The Dream Game, and told the schools to start playing each other.
Kentucky currently holds bragging rights in the annual in-state rumble, winning 18 of the 29 games, including a 69-62 victory at Rupp Arena on Dec. 31.
"All you hear from the fans is, 'Don't lose to the Cardinals. Whatever happens, Big Blue Nation better not lose to Louisville,'" recalled former Kentucky guard John Wall.
Fan is short for fanatic, after all.
There are some fans who can view the rivalry with detachment, however. Or at least reason.
Coke and his wife, Denise, sat behind Stahl, his brother Jim Joe, and their brother-in-law, Jamie Solomon, at open practice Friday, and security didn't need to run interference. When the Cardinals took the floor, one of those standing to applaud was Ken Berkins, proudly wearing his Kentucky blue after flying all the way from the Middle East to see his beloved Wildcats in the Final Four.
"My family would probably hang me if they saw me clapping for Louisville," Berkins admitted. "But we're just unbelievably excited to have two teams from Kentucky in the Final Four."
Solomon even said he'd root for Louisville if the Cardinals beat Kentucky on Saturday night.
"But I'm a transplant," Solomon quickly added, as Pat Stahl shook his head in disgust.
Try as they do to rise above the nitpicking, even Calipari and Pitino can't resist the fray.
Both coaches were reminded Friday about a comment Calipari made back in October about Kentucky's uniqueness, which sure sounded like it was a slap at Louisville.
"There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one," Calipari said then. "Because those other states have other programs."
Asked about that exact comment Friday, Calipari said, "I didn't say that," explaining that what he meant was Kentucky fans are scattered across every inch of the state while Cardinals fans are more concentrated in and around Louisville.
"We sleep with the enemy in Louisville," Pitino acknowledged. "We have many Louisville men and women that marry into Kentucky families. It's very difficult to swallow, to see that happen."
Pitino seemed to try to give Calipari the benefit of the doubt, saying the third-year Kentucky coach hasn't been around long enough to really appreciate the depth of the rivalry.
But Peyton Siva, Louisville's guard by way of Seattle, has been around the same amount of time as Calipari, and he sure seems to get it.
"For outsiders, I'd just say wear white," he said, "so you can blend in."


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A winner was selected from 255 designs submitted by 69 freelance designers.
I want to change my existing logo that I created. You can see my web page and my existing logo here: http://www.orlandonegron.com
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I would like a logo that would work with my name and and also work separately with just my initials ON like the one in my web site. I'm thinking in use my name like:
orlando negron
o.negron photography with the ON in the background.
I want to use just the ON like watermark in my pictures or the entire logo. can be like the one in my web site or o.negron photography with the ON behind the letters. The ON can be regular letters or with texture, cracks or with an abstract look. Fell free.
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