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A 29-year-old government contractor died Monday during a nighttime exercise with the U.S. Navy's marine mammal program in San Diego Bay.
Coll Perske, an employee of Science Applications International Corp., was given CPR at the scene by paramedics and taken to UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, where he was pronounced dead.
A Navy spokesman said the training exercise involved two boats and SAIC contractors. The team was practicing a skill called "swimmer interdiction" – when Navy dolphins and sea lions detect and mark an incoming swimmer with a claw-like device.
But Jim Fallin, spokesman for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific on Point Loma, said the marine mammals were always either in the boat or in sight of the boat crews and were not engaged with the swimmer -- in this case Perske, whose job description was marine mammal specialist.
The Navy's $28 million marine mammal program, headquartered in San Diego, uses 80 bottlenose dolphins and 40 California sea lions. This is the first time a person has been killed in connection with the program, Fallin said.
Deferring to the continuing investigation, Fallin said he didn't have any releasable information on the cause of Perske's death. A San Diego County Medical Examiner's report released late Tuesday said Perske drowned during a diving exercise. After he failed to resurface, co-workers assisted him to the surface but found him unresponsive.
The commander of SPAWAR's Point Loma operation has called a temporary halt to all training events that are not considered mission-essential, Fallin said.
"This is a tremendous loss to all of us," said Capt. Kurt Rothenhaus, commanding officer. "I want to express my sincerest and deepest condolences to the family, along with the many friends and teammates our SAIC colleague had here at SSC Pacific."
SAIC, based in McLean, Va., released a statement that said the company is "deeply saddened" by the loss.
"Perske had been a member of the SAIC family and the marine mammal program for more than five years. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends," the company said in a statement released Tuesday.
The Navy uses marine mammals because they are armed by Mother Nature with superb eyesight, sophisticated sonar and the ability to dive 500 feet without getting "the bends."
Navy dolphins and sea lions have deployed to Iraq and Bahrain during the post-Sept. 11 wars to keep ports safe for American ships. Their roles including patrolling for enemy divers and finding mines. It's a program that goes back to naval research that started in the late 1950s and at one time included killer whales and sharks.


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"Lizzie Borden: The Girl with the Pansy Pin," a work of fiction by city resident and native Michael Thomas Brimbau, will debut on Aug. 4, the anniversary of the Borden murders. Brimbau's 560-page novel is the largest piece of fiction written about Lizzie, the infamous city resident who was acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother 120 years ago, and the first in 22 years.
"Lizzie Borden: The Girl with the Pansy Pin," a work of fiction by city resident and native Michael Thomas Brimbau, will debut on Aug. 4, the anniversary of the Borden murders.
Brimbau's 560-page novel is the largest piece of fiction written about Lizzie, the infamous city resident who was acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother 120 years ago, and the first in 22 years.
The book offers a historic look at the city in 1892, though it adds a fictional approach to the people it follows and events that occurred.
"It's more factual than any other novel (about Lizzie Borden)," Brimbau said.
It took Brimbau two years to complete "Lizzie Borden: The Girl with the Pansy Pin," though he actually started the book 30 years ago. His first three chapters lived in a desk drawer until recently.
A book collector, Brimbau said he's had an "on and off" interest in Lizzie Borden over the years. Many of his books about Lizzie "sat on a shelf unread for years."
Oddly enough, Brimbau lives in the same neighborhood as Maplecroft, the house where Lizzie resided after the murders until her death. He can actually see her back porch where she liked to sit, adding a little inspiration to his writing.
"Thirty years ago, it wasn't going to be about Lizzie Borden, it was going to be centered around a crime, a who-done-it," Brimbau said.
He picked up his three chapters one day and decided to finish it.
"It was on my bucket list," Brimbau said. "I believe in finishing what I start."
Once he picked it up again, something happened and he couldn't stop writing.
"What happens is these characters take on a life of their own and it writes itself," Brimbau said.
In the book, Lizzie is seen as a three-dimensional person with a real life and real life problems. From home life to her travels and even to her love life, Lizzie is made real by Brimbau's pen.
"Every good novel has a love scene," Brimbau said.
Brimbau said he's not attempting to solve the murders, but to play out one of a thousand different scenarios that could have led one to murder the Bordens in such a heinous way.
For those who have a taste for blood, the novel offers a wide angle look into the Borden household on Aug. 4. They'll also have a view into Victorian Fall River. And for those who like a little romance? Yes, Lizzie has sex.
"Lizzie Borden: The Girl with the Pansy Pin" seems like a playful title considering the "girl" may or may not have killed her father and stepmother.
But the title shows that Lizzie was more than a possible murderess.
The "pansy" itself has meaning. Brimbau explained that in German folklore, the pansy is a symbol for stepmother, and its two top petals, which do not match the rest of the flower, signify the stepdaughters.
Learning about the lore was simply a happy accident.
"It does play into it," Brimbau said.
Brimbau's book was edited and published by Stefani Koorey, Brimbau's partner and publisher of the Literary Hatchet magazine. The book was published under Koorey's Pear Tree Press.
The cost is $22 for a softcover copy, or $20 for those who reserve a copy by Aug. 3. They will be for sale starting on Aug. 4 at the Fall River Historical Society, 451 Rock St. Brimbau will sign copies on that day at the society from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Also available are two hardcover versions. The first is limited to 26 lettered copies. It is offered signed, in a slip case, and with tipped-in color illustrations. It features a different cover from the softcover. The cost is $85. Another hardcover copy is available in 100 signed, numbered editions for $45.
To pre-order, by credit card only, call the Historical Society at 508-679-1071, Ext. 1 or 2.
For more information, visit girlwiththepansypin.com.
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Among the recent enforcement actions taken by the Department of Labor (DOL), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) were a settlement of $1.27 million to be paid by an advisory firm to 13 pension plans; charges in an insider trading ring; and a number of fines and censures over failures to report, to control trading limits, to retain electronic messages and to set reasonable markups.
Advisory Firm to Pay $1.27 Million to Pension Plans after DOL Investigation
The Department of Labor announced that USI Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of USI Consulting Group, a Goldman Sachs Capital Partners company, has agreed to pay $1,265,608.70 to 13 pension plans to resolve alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act between 2004 and 2010.
The Glastonbury, Conn.-based fiduciary investment advisor was found in an investigation to have made investments in mutual funds on behalf of ERISA-covered defined benefit plan clients and received 12b-1 fees from those funds. However, it failed to fully disclose the receipt of the 12b-1 fees or to use those fees for the benefit of the plans, either by directly crediting the amounts to the plans or by offsetting other fees the plans would be obligated to pay the company.
Under the terms of the settlement, USI Advisors has agreed not to provide bundled investment advisory and actuarial services to any ERISA-covered defined benefit plan client without first entering into a written agreement, contract or letter of understanding that specifies the services provided and whether the company or its affiliates will act as a fiduciary to those plans. USI Advisors also will provide to clients a description of all compensation and fees received, in any form, from any source, involving any investment or transaction related to them.
SEC Charges 8 With Insider Tranding on Pharma Merger
The SEC announced that it has charged eight individuals living in the Griffin, Ga., area for their involvement in an insider trading ring that generated more than $500,000 in illegal profits based on nonpublic information about an upcoming company merger.
According to the SEC's complaint filed in federal court in Atlanta, local accountant Thomas Melvin Jr. exploited confidential information from a client who was on the board of directors at Chattem, a Tennessee-based pharmaceutical company known for such over-the-counter products as Allegra, Gold Bond and Icy Hot. In late 2009, after Chattem's board was informed that the French pharmaceutical manufacturer Sanofi, then Sanofi-Aventis, made a tender offer to purchase the company, Melvin's client sought his professional advice on the financial impact of his Chattem stock options being involuntarily exercised due to a change in control of the company.
The Chattem board member made clear to Melvin during their private conversations and meetings that the topic of discussion was confidential. The board member shared the likely increase in stock price, $20 to $25 per share, from the pending transaction as well as its potential timing. Melvin breached his duty of confidentiality to the client and proceeded to tip three friends and a partner at his accounting firm, Melvin, Rooks & Howell PC, about the likely increase in the company's stock price as a result of the impending transaction. Those individuals then knowingly traded on the confidential information ahead of the public announcement of the merger, and some even tipped others who traded illegally as well.
The four told by Melvin were C. Roan Berry, a friend who lives in Jackson, Ga.; Michael Cain, a friend who lives in Griffin, Ga.; Joel Jinks, a friend who lives inGriffin and was a one-time candidate for local sheriff; and R. Jeffrey Rooks, Melvin's longtime accounting partner who lives in Griffin.
The SEC alleges that Berry tipped his friend and neighbor in Jackson, Ashley J. Coots, who in turn tipped his friend and former co-worker Casey D. Jackson, who lives in Atlanta; in addition, it alleges that Cain, who works at a brokerage firm, tipped his friend Peter C. Doffing, who lives in Milner, Ga., and purchased out-of-the-money call options based on the nonpublic information.
Four of the eight men—Berry, Coots, Jackson and Rooks—agreed to settle the SEC's charges and pay back all of their ill-gotten gains plus interest and penalties for a combined total of more than $175,000. The SEC will proceed with litigation against Melvin, Cain, Doffing and Jinks.
Exception Monitoring Failed
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. was censured and fined $450,000 on FINRA findings that, prior to March 1, 2009, it did not have an exception-based reporting system that specifically monitored for potentially unsuitable concentration levels in structured products in customer accounts. That affected sales of about 650,000 structured product purchases between Jan. 1, 2006, and March 1, 2009, of which more than half involved structured product offerings issued by the firm's parent company.
Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and entry of findings that stated that while the firm, in supervising sales of securities to retail customers, relies upon automated exception-based reporting systems to flag transactions and/or accounts that met certain predefined criteria, prior to March 1, 2009, did not have a system in place that specifically monitored for structured product levels of unsuitable levels in client accounts.
MSSB Fined After Overnight Trading Losses
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney was censured and fined $450,000 by FINRA over findings that the firm failed to adequately safeguard or control a system that allowed a junior trader to accumulate a position more than double that of its agency desk limit and many times his own position limit that resulted in substantial losses for the firm.
Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings on the junior trader's actions. He was responsible for trading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac products in a cash book and Eurodollar and Treasuries futures contracts in a futures book, and was permitted to trade remotely so he could trade after hours and react to global events. However, at the end of one trading day, he had accumulated a futures position of approximately $744 million, more than double the agency desk's limit of $350 million and several multiples over his position limit of $116 million. He also traded at home and overnight so that, by the following morning, he had further exceeded his position limit with holdings in Eurodollar and Treasury futures of $1.33 billion.
When the market turned against him that morning, he tried but failed to reduce his exposure and suffered losses. According to the findings, the firm at that time identified on a T+1 basis a risk anomaly that was traced to the trader, cutting off his access to the trading system. He had reduced the cumulative position to $740 million, but the five-year agency book sustained a realized loss of $4.7 million.
The firm liquidated 75% of the remaining contracts and liquidated the rest the following day, realizing additional losses. The firm's account sustained realized losses based on his trades over two days that totaled approximately $14.9 million. However, since these were proprietary positions, there was no customer loss.
FINRA found that the firm did not have adequate safeguards or controls in place to detect that the trader had exceeded his position limit, either during his trading during the day or while trading remotely overnight, and also failed to prevent him from exceeding his position. The trading desk did not have a consolidated view to capture and monitor trading activity across products and systems, which contributed to the firm's failure to detect the trader's actions.
Merrill Lynch Unit Fined Over Instant Messages
FINRA censured and fined Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. $80,000 on findings that it failed to retain instant messages sent and received by employees who joined the firm as part of an entity the firm acquired, and who sent and received instant messages using non-firm messaging systems.
Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and entry of the findings, which stated that the firm failed to retain sender/recipient information for electronic messages that the same acquired entity's legacy employees sent and received through a proprietary trading system. The electronic system also did not automatically verify the quality and accuracy of the storage media recoding process. The electronic messages sent and received via the proprietary trading system were not stored accurately, nor could complete and accurate indexes and records be readily downloaded.
FINRA Slaps NFP for Excessive Markups; Orders Restitution
NFP Securities was censured, fined $43,121.39 and ordered by FINRA to pay $43,121.39, plus interest, in restitution to a customer. Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that it charged excessive markups on several riskless principal corporate bond transactions in a customer's account. In each instance, according to the findings, the firm purchased the bonds, added a markup that was not fair and reasonable and immediately, on the same day of purchase, sold the bonds to the customer. The firm's markups on the transactions exceeded the amounts other dealers in similar transactions charged by $43,121.39.
The findings also stated that the firm's supervisory system and WSPs were not reasonably designed to ensure that prices at which it sold debt securities to customers in principal transactions were fair and reasonable, nor designed to achieve compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations pertaining to effecting principal transactions with customers. Other shortcomings relating to price fairness and supervisory reviews of markups and markdowns were also in the findings.
FINRA Fines E*Trade for Failure to Report Complaint Data
E*Trade Securities was censured and fined $75,000 by FINRA on findings that it failed to report to FINRA the name and other identifying information of registered representatives named in customer complaints it received alleging the registered representatives' misconduct.
Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to findings that stated the vast majority of the complaints alleged sales practice violations like unauthorized transactions, mismanagement, unsuitability and misrepresentations related to auction rate securities, and that on statistical and summary reports concerning complaints, the firm incorrectly reported the location of the branch office where the grievance occurred, in some instances instead saying complaints originated in the locations where they were reviewed.
Additionally, the findings included failures by the firm to report complaints concerning auction rate securities that were sales practice related; those complaints mainly alleged illiquidity, misrepresentations and poor recommendations, but one alleged fraud and another alleged unauthorized trading.
Rather than report the complaints itself, the firm's sister broker-dealer, with which it shared some overlapping compliance systems, reported the complaints, and incorrectly reported them under a non-sales practice problem code for Account Administration and Processing (Code 61).
FINRA Hits LPL for Untimely Reporting
LPL Financial was censured by FINRA and fined $17,500 for findings that it failed to report information regarding transactions effected in municipal securities to the real-time transaction reporting system (RTRS) in the manner prescribed by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).
Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that it failed to report information about municipal securities transactions to an RTRS portal within 15 minutes of trade time. It also was found to have failed to report the correct trade time to the RTRS for these transactions, and failed to show the correct execution time on some brokerage orders memoranda, as well as failing to report S1 transactions in TRACE-eligible agency debt securities to the trade reporting and compliance engine (TRACE) within 15 minutes of the execution time.


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Ira Stephen Behr noted that there was great reluctance to mention any aspect of the original series during the Next Generation, lest it make it seem like the show couldn't stand on its own feet. He said that it took days of negotiation to even get the single passing mention of Spock into this episode.
Sarek introduces Perrin as "she who is my wife" in this episode. This is word for word identical to how he introduced Amanda in Journey to Babel.
In "Journey to Babel", the mission of the Enterprise is to transport delegates to the planet Babel where a conference will discuss the admission of Coridan to the Federation. Sarek notes that he favours admission. In this episode it is established that Sarek's view won the day, and Coridan was indeed admitted to the Federation.
Michael Piller has pointed out that this episode was made during a time when Gene Roddenberry himself was beginning to suffer from his advancing years, and was a "great man going into decline". As such, he felt that Sarek could be seen as a representation of Gene himself, stating "If you go back and look at 'Sarek' closely, what that character is, is Gene Roddenberry."
Wesley's yelling "Well at least I don't have to find my women on the holodeck!" at Geordi is a reference to "Booby Trap", in which Geordi fell for the holographic recreation of Leah Brahms.
Sarek's mind meld with Captain Picard is the first time a Vulcan mind meld was performed in The Next Generation.
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I've been hitting the junkyards quite frequently of late, searching for interesting Cash For Clunkers victims, and some heartbreaking non-clunkers are showing up as well. For example, this Cougar.
Now, your serious Cougar zealot is most likely going to favor the sleeker '67-70 models, but I've always thought the '71-73 cars were pretty cool-looking. Only in America could you get a grille like that. This example seems pretty much solid and rust-free, and the interior is reasonably intact.
Sure, it's just the 351 Windsor two-barrel, not the big 429, but it's still a shame to see this car get crushed. As always, we hope its pieces live on in other Mercuries.


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The Washington Capitals have been in existence for 39 years and they still have not won a Stanley Cup.
With their team spiraling further away from winning Lord Stanley, Caps Owner Ted Leonsis and Team President Dick Patrick fired both General Manager George McPhee and Head Coach Adam Oates on Saturday.
Those moves were no surprise, especially if you read my blog from two weeks ago. The Capitals have a flawed and unbalanced roster that became even more exposed under some questionable coaching decisions this past season.
Simply put, these moves had to be made and Leonsis stated that the team needed new leadership and "a new set of eyes."
The hiring of the next GM is critical to this franchise given that star players Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, who are both signed to long term contracts, are in the prime seasons of their career. McPhee and company were unable to put a quality team around those two players and as a result much criticism has fallen on them, especially the Gr8.
Some who cover the NHL have already tweeted or blogged that this is Ovechkin's fault. When you make the money he makes, have won the MVP three times, aren't of North American descent, and haven't won a Stanley Cup yet, those things will happen. It's an easy narrative for those who choose to be lazy and biased.
But those who've studied and watched this Washington team since 2008 know the real story. Fancy stats clearly show that this team's puck possession statistics have steadily declined since 2009, after Sergei Fedorov left for Russia. The decline is a function of an eroding roster, particularly on defense, and poor coaching/system changes. None of those roster or system decisions were made by Ovechkin.
Hall of Famer Rod Langway used to always tell me that hockey starts from the goalie to the defense and then to the forwards. If your defense routinely can't get the puck out of your own end, how are the forwards going to produce with any consistency at even strength? Washington's overall blue line crew has gotten worse over the past several seasons.
Bottom line, as I wrote two weeks ago, the Caps have failed Ovechkin, not the other way around.
For those who still want to put a vast amount of blame on him I pose the following question:
If I gave you the choice of any other forward in the NHL in place of Ovechkin for the last three seasons, would the Capitals have won a Stanley Cup or even made the Finals?
That's right, you could have Jonathan Toews, Ryan Getzlaf, Sidney Crosby, etc. but you lose Ovechkin in that move. Do you think the Capitals win a Stanley Cup doing that?
No way, not with the rest of that roster.
Hockey is a team sport. So blaming Ovechkin for the team's decline is absolutely incorrect.
Now that's not saying that the Gr8 can't improve his game. Every player can always get better. NBA great Larry Bird used to spend every summer working on new moves, so if Bird thought he needed to improve, every player certainly should be trying to do so, as well.
Fortunately for Caps fans, the ownership, despite making it clear that these moves weren't done solely for Ovechkin, get that the Gr8 is a special player. When I asked both Leonsis and Patrick about the pressure and abuse that Ovechkin takes, Patrick was quick to defend him and point out the nature of the NHL.
"Alex Ovechkin is a great, great hockey player," Patrick said. "I wish we had two of him, then we wouldn't even be here today, probably. All he wants to do is win. People are saying, 'Well, you've got Alex Ovechkin. How come you haven't won a Cup?' It does take a team. It takes 20 guys. How can you be unhappy with what Alex Ovechkin has accomplished and continues to accomplish in the National Hockey League?"
Patrick is bang on and that is why it is so crucial to get a GM that really understands how to build a team. The "new set of eyes" needs to help alleviate the pressure on its two stars by bringing in better players, particularly on the blue line, and by adding leaders with winning experience.
As the great Jim Ignatowski once said on Taxi, "There is no substitute for experience!"
That brings me to my next point. The trend in sports is to seek out the next "hot" assistant and give him the keys to the camper. We see it with GM positions and head coaching openings many times in pro sports.
Jim Benning of Boston is a name that is on the top of the "next GM" list for many NHL clubs, according to people I've spoken with around the league. There are other hot assistants out there too like Ron Hextall, Jason Botterill, and Tim Burke.
But would hiring another hockey person with no GM experience be the right move here?
Sometimes bringing in a person that has performed in that role previously is the better choice, even if they've been fired. After all, Joe Torre and Bill Belichick were both fired but went on to win multiple championships with their new teams. Simply put, there is something to be said for learning from past mistakes.
So shouldn't names like Mike Gillis, Neil Smith, and Craig Button garner attention? All have been a GM before and both Smith and Button have Stanley Cup winning experience, Smith as GM of the Rangers in 1994 and Button as the Director of Player Personnel with Dallas in 1999.
To me, Button is an intriguing option. He has ties to the organization from his late father Jack, who played a prominent role in the drafting and development of personnel in Washington from 1979 to 1996. Craig worked closely for years with Bob Gainey and Doug Armstrong in Dallas taking a team that was built around young players Mike Modano, Derian Hatcher, and Richard Matvichuck and transformed it into a Stanley Cup Champion. He understands the microscope Ovechkin and Backstrom are under and he has a successful track record in dealing with that scenario.
In addition, he took a flailing Calgary Flames team and re-built the defense on a club that eventually went to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2004. Then GM and Coach Darryl Sutter credited Craig for laying the groundwork for a squad that came ultra close to winning it all.
He currently covers the NHL for the NHL Network and TSN but he also pays close attention to the junior ranks and publishes his own draft board each spring on TSN's website. His knowledge of current pros and amateurs is extensive. With the Stars, he drafted both Jarome Iginla and Brenden Morrow. As someone in the business recently told me, "He's hard working, dedicated, and has an incredible passion for the game."
Given his excellent people skills, I'd have to imagine he is on Leonsis and Patrick's current list to interivew.
As for that process, Leonsis made it clear that they were not going to conduct a search where information is going to be made publicly available. Certainly details will get exposed as the media scouts out Kettler IcePlex, but the Caps are pretty good at keeping things secretive.
Leonsis stated this was going to be a thorough search while putting no timetable on its conclusion.
Given the importance of this decision, which I believe is the most critical one in franchise history, the owner and Team President must do what they need to do to make sure they get this GM selection correct.


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We've experienced a sort of enforced hiatus due to a long overdue hiatal hernia reduction that I should have taken care of years ago. The operation, as such, went extremely well, except that I contracted pneumonia as a result of the anesthesia… so I spent a couple of extra days at the VA hospital up at Palo Alto. Great hospital, superb care… but undoubtedly the worst place there is to get any rest. So, I've spent the last few days luxuriating in rest and unbroken sleep.
Nothing bores me worse than other people's health issues, and rightly so… it has no place here. But I felt that we owed an explanation to our regular readers. My stay at the hospital did give me a chance to watch the Republican National Convention in detail… much more so than I ever could have, otherwise.
Most of our national television coverage is so leftward leaning and so badly in lockstep with MaoBama and his DeMarxists that they themselves scarcely know fact from fiction. The Convention, by and large, was a spectacular success in introducing the country to a very strong Republican ticket. It's a strong conservative ticket with something the DeMarxists don't have, thanks to all you Patriots out there… we've got a deep conservative bench. Thanks to all of the American Patriots (read: Tea Party) out there, we have a real shot at turning this country around.
It's also pointed out fatal weaknesses in the Republican establishment's mind-set. It's obvious to me, and to most dedicated conservatives, that Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan over the (more 'acceptable') choices of the RINO crowd, such as Rob Portman or Crispy Cream Chris Christie, went against the dumbed-down vanilla beltway crowd.
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1601 - Pilgrims celebrate the first Thanksgiving. Pete Best wonders why there is no Thanksgiving in the UK until he realizes that The English have nothing to give thanks for.
1859 - The great prophet Charles Darwin publishes his manifesto The Origin of Species, predicting the eventual birth of Pete Best.
1941 - Pete Best is kicked out of mother's womb.
1946 - Teacher sends note home to Best's parents, complaining about his sullenness and unwillingness to play bass with other children.
1951 - Mother auditions George Best as possible replacement in the family.
1955 - Learns to play drums. Snares, bass and drumsticks go off and socialize with one another, leaving Best out.
1960 - Makes trip to Germany; greeted with cries of "Rammstein forever, Pete Best never!"
1961 - Plays with Tony Sheridan; burns Virginia with Phil Sheridan.
1962 - The Beatles record demo version of "Love Me Do;" original chorus of "We hate our fucking drummer" goes unnoticed.
1962 - George Harrison stares icily at Best during a performance; Paul McCartney kicks his drum set during rehearsal; John Lennon hires Brian Epstein solely to fire Best.
1962 - George Martin brings Ringo Starr in to shout incoherently over Best's drum parts; later uses it as an excuse to fire Best.
1962 - Best kicked out of the Beatles.
1963 - Best kicked out of house;
1964 - Best kicked out of England; Elizabeth II says her kingdom "wants to go in a new direction."
1968 - Best briefly kicked back into Beatles when Ringo leaves during White Album sessions; quits when he realizes he'll lose his job a second time to a guy named "Ringo."
1970 - John, Paul, George and Ringo join Best in the "Ex-Beatles" group.
1971 - Alice Cooper jumps from a plane and disappears, after collecting a ransom which includes US$200,000 and a Pete Best box set.
1980 - Best kicks it old school.
1984 - Fozzie Bear tragically dies of a heart-attack.
1991 - Seven years after the song was released, Freddie Mercury breaks free and moves to the Moon.
1993 - David Dickinson makes headline news after cutting off negotiations to be in the Doom video game.
1995 - Release of Beatles Anthology allows new generation of fans to kick Pete Best around.


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Check out what Bean found at her local grocery store the other night.
Of course, a true Shapeling king cake would contain an edible baby, but it's a start.
Check out what Bean found at her local grocery store the other night.
Of course, a true Shapeling king cake would contain an edible baby, but it's a start.
To quote W.C. Fields:
Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child – if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
MMmmmmmmm …. King cake …..
*shudders* king cake. It always looks slightly radioactive to me. And I was always afraid I would choke on the inedible baby. I would much prefer a baby made of marzipan!
OT here but wanted to let you know about this article if you havent seen it yet. "Is the Obesity Epidemic Exaggerated?"
I think my absolute favorite in that warning is the fact that they had to SPECIFY "non-edible" baby. Quite frankly not much in the world is truly "non-edible". I mean heck, almost anything you put in your mouth can be eaten and hence rendered edible….they could have just put "Plastic" baby or "small ceramic baby inside cake poses choking hazard"….
Mmmmm baby flavoured king-cake…its like donuts in super-size! :D
(giggles helplessly)
What a great image to start the day on!
Hilarious! Thanks for making my day.
The cake is a lie.
I'm sorry that I cannot keep myself from making nerdy jokes.
Dare I ask why there is a non-edible baby inside the cake? Why put one in if it isn't edible?
I'm flashing on Monty Python – "But if you took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy now, would it?"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
With this hilarity, of course.
shinobi: That's the first thing I thought as well.
Um, maybe I'm just sheltered, but….WTF is King cake?
I've never had King Cake, but after seeing that pic, I totally want one now.
The cake is a lie.
I'm sorry that I cannot keep myself from making nerdy jokes.
Over my head. Where' s that from?
Shade, king cake is one of the traditional foods of Mardi Gras. Every store and bakery here in New Orleans has their own version (and I hear they have them over in Mobile, too). King cakes typically aren't really like cake at all, they're drier and more pastry-like, though some bakeries make them really moist and more doughnut-like.
Plain king cakes have cinnamon swirls, and you can get them filled with just about anything – cream cheese, fruit fillings, even chocolate. They're topped with white icing and sprinkles in Carnival (Rex) colors – purple, green, and gold. Every king cake has a small plastic baby in it.
In time past (and still in some societies today), the king or queen of next year's carnival was decided by serving the cake, and whoever got the piece with the golden bean (now baby) was the next royalty. Nowadays the lucky partygoer who finds the baby has to bring a cake to the next party.
More info in king cake history here.
In time past (and still in some societies today), the king or queen of next year's carnival was decided by serving the cake, and whoever got the piece with the golden bean (now baby)
You just know it was a fat person who suggested replacing the bean with a baby.
(and I hear they have them over in Mobile, too)
And if I were from Mobile I'd tell you that they (Mobilians) had them first — probably while sputtering in indignation. ;-)
Cake and grief counseling.
Huh… the baby Jesus thing makes sense.
Anybody else get paczki yesterday? They are pretty much baby donuts when you consider the tiresome rundown of how many calories they have and how many hours of x, y, or z you would have to do to "burn them off." They are the evil food of February around these parts. Suddenly an item that is only available for a few days once a year is responsible for the Obesity Epidemic.
Didn't stop normal people from lining up around the block to buy dozens, of course. God forbid you should have fun with food traditions and enjoy life.
I want that picture on a postcard.
That reminds me of the new commercial for "Hot Pockets" or some such that brags about the fact that the pocket contains "REAL CHEESE."
Which begs the question: as opposed to…
omg, packzi. i want! hard to find around here, maybe the yuppie grocery will have them
This is fascinating. About the only people in the UK now who have a Twelfth Cake (as they call it here, because they still do it on Jan 6th) are the actors at the Drury Lane Theatre. I had no idea it was part of Mardi Gras.
Sadly, I don't think you'd get away with a non-edible choking hazard baby over here. Too many health and safety regs. Pancakes are our thing for the season, but they reckon pancake racing is dying out because well, you know, tossing a pancake around….you'll have someone's eye out with that! That's before you even get to OMGSATURATEDFAT…
the baby is baby Jesus
Well, of course it's a non-edible baby Jesus. Why would anyone eat the body of ….. oh, uh … hang on … lapsed-Catholic memory re-booting …
I look forward to eating a king cake every year. They are wonderful! Cream cheese, lemon, and bavarian cream filled ones are my favorites, but plain king cake is delicious on its own.
I've noticed that in recent years the baby is no longer inserted inside of the cake. Even with the warning on the box, bakers now put the baby in the middle of the cake or on top of it.
And even still there is a warning on the box.
ok, while there are not marzipan babies (see here http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/marzipan.asp ) there is just about anything else you can think of made of marzipan here http://www.marzipanworld.com/acatalog/index.html
I was actually looking for packzi (The Wife is of Polish descent) when I found the king cake in question. Given the amusement this photo has provided it is too bad I don't have a high res photo – just a camera phone one.
The office vegetarian brought King Cake to work last week and I told her she couldn't eat it because "there's a baby in King Cake, and that counts as meat."
She was not impressed by my charm or wit, so I laughed like a lunatic AT MYSELF!
Sometimes, ya gotta.
Hee hee hee…good thing you're not from Mobile, Tricia, or we'd have a problem here ;-) Yeah, technically, Mobile started Carnival and many of the traditions, including king cake, but we've improved on 'em ;)
I've never heard of a packzi before in my life, and I'm 1/4 Polish! In what part of the country is that traditional February food? Why?
Suzanne – funniest. lapsed. Catholic. joke. ever. I'm one too.
Fillyjonk – you had drinks with Jonathan Coulton?! I am SO jealous! My code monkey husbadnd just introduced me to his music, and hilarity has ensued. I wrote him a geeky fan email and he replied, nice guy.
"Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?"
kira: I love my fellow Alabamians to the south (well some of them anyway), but the entire concept of "family friendly" Mardi Gras is just wrong. So, yeah, N'Awlinz definitely wins that contest.
this is a discussion of much goodness!!
obscure food history!
portal references!
Jonathon Coulton!
who, i might add was nice enough NOT to run away screaming when i told him his presence was what actually got me to attend PAX this year. upon reflection, i had just spent a not small chunk of change at his booth at the time.
now i want cinnamon rolls or danish…
hmmm,it is my birthday on saturday, i've never had king cake, maybe i'll ask for one this year.
I like to think that the wee baby is there to eat his/her way out of the cake, eventually becoming edible once the whole cake is consumed and they break free of the cumbersome bonds of cardboard packaging…I mean, it has to be where chubby babies come from, right?
mmmm king-cake flavored babies mashed into pancakes topped with butter mmmmmm
I am not too familiar with the origins of paczki or how widespread they are, but I have heard some indications that they might be sort of a regional Michigan (or maybe Midwest) thing. But that might just be our local media trying to co-opt them, I'm not sure.
Either way, IMO you can't go wrong with delicious donuts filled with everything from typical doughnutty stuff like raspberry or lemon or custard, to prune and apricot (which I think are considered the more traditional paczki filling). Though I know there are plenty out there who do not appreciate the prune as I do. :)
I went to Hamtramck (a traditionally Polish suburb of Detroit) to get mine this year on a pretty much unanimous ruling that the best ones are to be gotten there. I don't fuck around when it comes to donuts (after all, I'm a fatty, right?), so I wanted the best. And I have to say, it was worth it, though you can also get them at pretty much any grocery store around here.
Anyway, all that to say that I am in no way Polish (I just like to ride the coattails of any donut-related custom) so I'm not sure to what extent paczki are traditional outside of this area.
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Goldman has a new report out on The BRICs countries after 10 years, and how global markets will continue to evolve.
Remember, the BRICs are Brazil, Russia, India, and China -- the four countries identified 10 years ago by Goldman's Jim O'Neill as being the global growth-drivers of the next generation.
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NEW YORK -- Giants right-hander Matt Cain will undergo surgery next Monday to have bone chips and spurs removed from his throwing elbow, manager Bruce Bochy said on Monday.
Bochy said that Giants orthopedist Dr. Ken Akizuki will perform the procedure in San Francisco. Though a three-month timetable has been mentioned for Cain's recovery, that won't be known more definitively until surgery is performed and the extent of the irritation is determined.
Cain did not comment before leaving the Citi Field visitors' clubhouse following the Giants' 4-3 win over New York. But he has admitted that the fragments floating in his elbow have bothered him -- never more so than this year, when the three-time All-Star went on the disabled list for the first time with his throwing arm ailing. Earlier, he was sidelined with a cut finger and a hamstring strain.
"It's been frustrating for Matt," Bochy said. "He's been battling this for a while. It's time. He could keep trying to push it, but it's inevitable, it looks like. So we're going to have this done and have him ready for Spring Training."
Besides consulting Giants physicians, Cain also met with renowned orthopedist Dr. James Andrews and Mets medical director Dr. David Altchek within the past week. All recommended surgery for Cain, 29.
Cain built a reputation for durability by reaching the 200-inning level each season from 2007-12. This year, he was 2-7 with a 4.18 ERA in 15 outings after beginning the season as the No. 2 pitcher in San Francisco's starting rotation.


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In support of visual artists and art galleries in the Washington metropolitan area, fine artwork is purchased each year to expand the District's Art Bank Collection, a growing collection of moveable works funded through the Art in Public Places Program. Works in this collection are owned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) and loaned to other District government agencies for display in public areas within government buildings. The largest display of artwork from the Art Bank is the City Hall Art Collection at the John A. Wilson Building.
The Washington Collection is a special branch of the Art Bank Collection featuring works created solely by residents of the District of Columbia. Established in 2016, The Washingtonia Collection expands biannually, through thematic calls to artists.
Currently there are over 3,000 artworks in the Art Bank Collection, installed in more than 150 District government spaces as part of the Art Bank Loan Program. An open call is initiated each year to invite local artists to submit artwork for consideration of purchase into the collection, providing the selected artists with financial and professional benefits. A selection committee is formed to review prospective works and to make final selections of all new acquisitions. Once purchased, the artwork is documented, framed and installed in public areas of District government agencies, improving the environment in public facilities for District employees and residents alike.
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- Agency will not damage the Work(s) or do anything that could potentially cause damage to a Work. Agency will be responsible for any loss of or damage to loaned Work(s) , and will incur all costs associated with removing and repairing Work(s) that are damaged.
- Agency will notify CAH at least 30 business days prior to:
- a move or renovation that would require relocation of the Work(s)
- requesting the replacement of a Work with another Work from the Art Bank Collection
- requesting removal of Work(s) from a site before the end of the 2-year term. CAH will not be held responsible for any holes remaining in the wall after artwork is removed or relocated. It is the responsibility of the Requestor to coordinate and assume costs for any wall repair resulting from artwork service requests.
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- Agency will provide all installation and maintenance vendors with unobstructed access, during business hours to fulfill all art-related requests and services.
- Agency will not, without our prior written consent, remove, relocate, or change the condition of any Work(s) or its frame, and will not attach, affix, nor hang anything from any Work.
- Agency will notify CAH promptly when made aware of any damage to or theft of any Work(s). Agency will not attempt to repair a Work without CAH's prior written approval. Recurring damage or thefts of artwork will result in complete removal of all loaned Work(s) and immediate termination of the loan.
CAH will not incur any costs associated with the installation of items outside of the Art Bank Collection. This includes but is not limited to plaques, certificates, personal photographs, and posters. CAH's capacity is limited to the addressing the city-owned fine art collection; however the agency will provide recommendations for the appropriate service providers based on the requested task.


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Avinash Kaushik, Google's Analytics Evangelist and author of "Web Analytics: An Hour A Day" hosted an invitation only event at Google's Atlanta office earlier in the week. The meeting "agenda" was traditional "Google style", a meet & greet over Ping-Pong followed by (absolutely fantabulous) hors d'oeuvres and multi-colored icy cold adult beverages served in the game room at Google Atlanta. All in all, the group was 50/50 Googler to non-Googler with 15-20 of us total.
After a little "schmoozing" it was time to get down to business and Avinash's main talk followed by Q&A as well as a short feedback session all topped off with FREE swag from Google. At the end of our meeting, Avinash asked if we would mind "beta testing" a presentation (which included that latest non-published until now perhaps, Google stats) he was working on and had put together during his flight to Atlanta, GA earlier in the day.
Big News:
- The average Google query now consists of 4 words and not 3! That's up for the first time ever as of Q4 2007, from the long-time 3 word per query Google user average.
- 14% of Google clicks come from paid search and 86% of clicks are organic. (up slightly)
- 25% of Google's user queries are unique, meaning no other user has used the same query previously. (unchanged)* [see update below]
The meeting was informative as well as educational! I must say, Avinash is one of the best speakers I've seen in addition to having a great sense of humor and being quite personable. Thanks Google and hats off to you Avinash! It was a pleasure...
Many thanks to Philipp Lenssen for pointing out an important issue concerning Google's definition of "unique queries". Here is what Matt Cutts said in response to the issue at Google Blogoscoped a few months ago:
"Philipp, I think that's a pretty accurate estimate if you look over a time period of a month or so. So if you had queries from the last month or so, 20-25% of queries the next day would be new/unique. It also depends a little bit about whether you're defining it only as web queries, or all queries to Google (e.g. blog search, book search, patent search, etc.)."
- http://blogoscoped.com/forum/100228.html
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February 28, 2017
Improving the insulation, solar heat gain, and infiltration characteristics of windows can significantly improve overall thermal performance by reducing heat transfer through the window and by decreasing air leakage into and out of a home. As approximately 43% of existing homes (~50 million houses) still have low-performing, single-pane clear-glass windows, and millions of other homes have only double-pane clear-glass windows, improving window performance can also save a lot of energy.
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Had a little race with my buddy's mustang, and had great fun and satisfaction. Here are details of the two competitors,
G6: 3.5 LX9, automatic, crab option 3 & FPU, magnaflow exhuast system, crappy front tires that i'm ready to change them any day.
Mustang: 4.0 V6, automatic, tune up recently done, very new four tires that have great grip on road
The races were on a road under construction. no traffic. not sure about the distance. it was from one intersection to the next, 0 km/h start and i reached 90 km/h, so i guess it was around 1/8 mile to 1/6 mile.
We pulled three races, and I won three of them, all by two car lengths or more. The mustang couldn't even stay close to me from the start.


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after selling modest electric car models in Houston for nearly 4 years (see www.HoustonElectricCars.net ), I have learned well that people aren't interested in the electric car to stop polluting, or stop adding to man made climate change. Even people who claim to be environmentalists rarely will do anything that costs even $1 so they can reduce pollution. They are only motivated to get an electric car when the economic advantage is very clear, mostly gas prices/ total spent per week on gas gets to painful point. Then they start to be motivated. With the Tesla products, there is a glamour factor, or a conspicuous consumption factor, but I promise you no Texan will spend a dime to make less pollution-- may well be the same all over the USA.
Actually, it is. CO2 is a huge boon for agriculture. And warming has historically brought boom times for humans and virtually every other species. Cooling, the opposite.
Problem is not the warming itself, it is the speed of the warming. That changes rain patterns too fast and that means you are farming in wrong places, either too wet or too dry, and wrong crops. Species are not able to adapt fast enough either, which means huge extinction event. Those that do adapt (rats, mice, cockroaches etc. non-specialized species) boom.
For EV:s ICE vehicles lose to BEV in performance, which will start the change. Tesla is first to show that these cars are not just glorified golf carts. I'm actually surprised that no other car maker is doing the same thing. It's up to small ones to show that ICE is obsolete.
The speed is identical to the last two big bursts (1850-1880,1910-1940). And probably many previous, but paleorecords aren't detailed enough to pick up on short-term variations.
And warming is not causing any problems, and in fact is historically ALWAYS beneficial.
As for the "extinction event", that has been comprehensively disproven. Faulty extrapolation from isolated island ecologies. In fact, more species are being removed from the "extinct" list than added.


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