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Registration of Marriage in the Population Information System
If you are a Finnish citizen and you get married abroad, you must notify the marriage to the Finnish Population System.
Ask the person conducting the marriage, what documents are needed when the ceremony is performed before a foreign public authority. A Finnish certificate of no impediment can be ordered in multiple languages from the Local Registry Office in your municipality of residence. Documents that are used abroad, must be legalised.
Some priests working among expatriate Finns, who are employed by Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, have the right to conduct marriages abroad. For further information, visit the website.
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When a Finnish citizen gets married outside Finland it must be notified to the Local Register Office. You can also leave the notification at a Finnish embassy or send it there to be posted to the Local Register Office for registration.
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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Name wanted for cute new born tiger cub at Flamingo Land - can you help?
THESE tiger feet are about to take their first walk outside to meet families at Flamingo Land and bosses want your help to name the cute new arrival.
The rare Sumatran tiger cub was born just eight weeks ago and there are only 300 of the species left in the wild so the event was dubbed a 'miracle birth'.
The cub has been kept in doors since it was born at the end of August. Not even the vet has been able to get close enough to determine whether it's a boy or a girl.
But that is about to change - the little one is to get its vaccinations and will then be allowed out of its den. Keepers say that should be in time for the upcoming half term school break.Now they want name suggestions for the cub.
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Zoo manager Ross Snipp said: "At the moment we don't have a name for the baby because we don't know if it's a boy or a girl. I think its a girl. But I have been wrong before, so we will wait for the vet to confirm.
"But we are looking for a name. So if anyone had any suggestions, they can always send them in to us."
The latest arrival is the culmination of seven years of hard work by the Flamingo Land animal carers in their attempts to protect the endangered species.
Three years ago, mum and dad Surya and Bawa produced triplets, which have now gone to other collections to start their own families.
Visitors can already see the cub as it bond with its parents - but only on TV screens around the tiger enclosure, showing live CCTV footage from behind the scenes.
Ross added: "It is just about to have its vaccinations and then hopefully it will be out and about following mum and dad, just in time for the Halloween half term.
"From day one, when the cub was born, we have had a live, unobtrusive video stream looking straight into the cubbing den. So visitors coming to see the tigers can actually view what's happening behind closed doors.
"They can see mum, the cub and dad...and actually watch it grow and develop.
"That's the first time we've been able to do something like that, using that kind of modern camera technology, to give you a look inside at something you normally wouldn't see.
"This is great for people and also for the tigers - because it means people can see what's going on without disturbing them.
"Every tiger cub is important. There are only around 300 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, on the island of Sumatra.
"They are art of a breeding programme here, across the whole of Europe. Every birth is important. We don't know what is going to happen to this tiger cub in the future. Maybe it will stay with us. Maybe it will go on and have babies elsewhere.
"But it does represent hopefully the future of the species."
Gordon Gibb, the resort owner, said: "Conservation is our passion and the survival of the Sumatran Tigers is one of our key missions.
"Together with our achievements in the field through our Udzungwa Forest Project in Tanzania we are at the forefront of International Strategic Conservation. We are extremely proud of our efforts."
Flamingo Land, in Kirby Misperton - between Scarborough and York - is Yorkshire's celebrated award-winning zoo, theme park and a resort with over 100 rides, attractions and lots of shows.
Latest attractions including a F1 family racing circuit and a new Peter Rabbit Adventure playground, plus a Halloween Ship of Horrors live show, which runs daily at 5pm from now for the next fortnight.
It has been named as one of the UK's top paid-for attractions
For full venue details, events, directions and a map check out www.flamingoland.co.uk
Sumatran tigers are found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
They are the smallest of all tigers and also have the narrowest stripes.
They have webbing between their toes which makes them good swimmers.
Habitat loss is the main threat to the endangered tigers.
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Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inauguration, and last week the availability of the largest online digital collection of presidential papers (that of John F. Kennedy) was announced. However, as the search page for the digitized collection makes clear, the majority of the library's collections remains undigitized and are available in their original, physical form only. As at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, libraries and archives all over the world are struggling to find the time and money to make even a small portion of their collections available online. Despite these obstacles, we here at Iowa State have been in the process of digitizing our collections over the past few years, and there are a number of new collections online which this blog hopes to highlight in the coming months.
For instance, a new blog post from our Preservation Department's blog describes the lantern slides from the Warren Manning Papers (prominent landscape architect), which are now available in our Digital Collections. Please take note that this is only a part of his collection, and the entire collection is available here in the Special Collections Department. If you would like to find out more, the collection's finding aid/description can be found here.
We have a variety of digitized portions of our collections in Digital Collections, in addition to photographs on Flickr, documents and publications on Scribd, audio on iTunes U, and films on our YouTube channel. We recently uploaded a number of films made by Iowa State landscape professor Philip Elwood (some of you may recognize the name from the former Elwood Drive, now University Boulevard). In 1923, Elwood was hired as a Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State College (now University) and helped to organize the new Department of Landscape Architecture. He was made head of the department in 1929 and served in that capacity until 1950.
During his time at Iowa State, Elwood conducted several summer travel tours for students to Asia and Europe, and throughout North America. These films document these travels, and I highly recommend you visit our YouTube channel to see them all since this would have to be quite a lengthy post if I were to highlight them all! You can limit the selections to only the Elwood films by searching for "Elwood" in the searchbox. However, please take note: if you are looking for exciting music and sounds with color images, please be aware that these are silent and in black and white. Even so, they are an interesting window into the early part of the 20th century both here and abroad, showing a different way of life (and landscape architecture!).
One of these films include a trip from Japan to Hong Kong. Professors Elwood and Popham took 4 students (Bethane Carpenter, John Hall, Max Bird, and Norman Morris) on a tour of Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, and Hawaii in 1929. This videodisc covers highlights of the Korea, China and Hong Kong portions of that trip and includes footage of a train ride between Kamakura and Kyoto showing rice farms, the sacred island of Miyajima (Itsuku-Shima), a willow pattern tea house, temples, the harbor of the Whang-poo River in Shanghai, scenes of Hong Kong, the upper deck of C.P. SS Empress of Russia, and views of Hong Kong from the docks at Kowloon.
There are also a number of films of Elwood's travels throughout North America, including Tennessee (this film is in 2 parts).
Elwood took students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States. In Tennessee they view a Confederate statue, homes in a small town, and boys playing football in a yard. From there they traveled on to view a new power plant with its lake, dam, and new community for its workers, dam construction, rural communities where girls are doing laundry outdoors in tubs, and a woman is standing over a tub on a fire. They also see a waterwheel working at a mill, logging, and mining operations. Then the group travels through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Wilson Ramos, the Washington Nationals catcher who was kidnapped and then rescued in his native Venezuela, plans to play winter ball in his homeland despite his ordeal.
Ramos, who spent two days in captivity and in fear for his life before police rescued him, intends to suit up for a Venezuelan baseball team on Wednesday, according to Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. Ramos' representative, Marfa Mata, tweeted that the ballplayer will make his winter debut on Wednesday and intends to play in at least a few games to show the fans his appreciation for their support during his abduction.
He'll suit up for the Tigres de Aragua in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, in a game against Caracas, which features Nationals pitchers Henry Rodriguez and Josh Wilkie.
Ramos, 24, was seized at gunpoint outside his mother's home in Valencia last Wednesday. Investigators soon found the kidnappers' stolen Chevrolet abandoned in the town of Bejuma alongside the mountains of central Carabobo state.
That led them to a rural house that had been used in a previous kidnapping, where they found an SUV with mud on it even though there was no mud in the area, said Venezuela's justice minister, Tareck El Aissami. Investigators suspected the SUV was being used to ferry supplies to another spot nearby, and eventually determined the house was probably being used by the kidnappers as a support base.
Teams searched the nearby area Friday and finally located me upon the remote house where Ramos was being held. They rescued Ramos in a fierce gun battle.
"I didn't know if I was going to get out of it alive," Ramos told reporters. "It was very hard for me. It was very hard for my family."
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One of North America's smallest owls, the Northern Pygmy-Owl is reputed to be a fierce and bold hunter. Bent (1938) referred to it as "blood-thirsty, rapacious . . . fiend . . . from the top of its gory beak to the tips of its needle-like-claws." Old beliefs die hard; this owl's habit of killing passerines, often at bird feeders, does not help its reputation even today.
Despite this bird's broad geographic distribution in western North America, it is one of the least studied owls on the continent. Its habitats range from deciduous bottomlands to high-elevation coniferous forests. Rarely seen during the breeding season, it is more commonly observed during the nonbreeding season as individuals move into towns and hunt birds and small mammals during the day¿often taking birds at feeders. True migration is not yet known for this species. Much of its diet consists of small birds and mammals, although insects may also be important during the breeding season. It nests in cavities, both natural ones and those excavated by woodpeckers.
Plumage coloration and pattern resembling false eyes or a false face on the back of the head are distinctive features of this owl. Its toot-like song can be heard year-round and appears to have several functions.
The taxonomy of pygmy-owls (Glaucidium spp.) is controversial and unresolved; as traditionally classified, for example, Northern Pygmy-Owl may include two or more species. Differences in the Primary Song, augmented by molecular data and ecological differences, may provide clues to resolve the relationships within this complicated group of birds.
The Northern Pygmy-Owl has been little studied. Observations made by Holman (1926) in California detail some aspects of breeding biology. In Montana, breeding season observations made by Norton and Holt (1982) and Holt and Norton (1986) describe breeding biology, diet, and habitat. Other Montana data reported by Holt and Leroux (1996) detail Northern Pygmy-Owl feeding ecology. Giese (1999) provides information on habitat selection, diet, and territory size in Washington State.
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(Portland, Ore.) April 2, 2012 — Portland State University's graduate program in Creative Writing has joined forces with Portland-based publishing enterprise Tin House to establish the Tin House Writer-in-Residence at Portland State University.
The partnership will bring national caliber writers to Portland for in-depth teaching opportunities in PSU's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing, beginning this spring with author Amy Stewart.
Stewart (pictured, left) will lead a nonfiction workshop in spring term at PSU (beginning in April), as well as taking part in community activities. She will also deliver a public presentation on Friday, May 11, at 6:30 p.m. The reading will be held at Eliot Chapel, Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave., Portland, Ore. Admission will be $10 and free for PSU students with PSU student ID.
Amy Stewart (www.amystewart.com) is the award-winning author of five books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world, including three New York Times bestsellers: Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers; Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities; and, most recently, Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects.
Stewart has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and every national garden magazine, including Fine Gardening, where she is a contributing editor. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Horticulture Society's Book Award, and a California Horticultural Society Writer's Award. Stewart lives in Eureka, California, with her husband Scott Brown, where they own an antiquarian bookstore.
"This partnership brings together a pre-eminent publishing and literary enterprise with a vigorous MFA Creative Writing program at Portland State University," said Michele Glazer, MFA program director and associate professor of English at PSU. "Tin House enjoys an international reputation for the books it publishes, for its distinguished quarterly Tin House and for the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop in Portland."
"Through this new partnership, Tin House will strengthen its local presence, while enriching our students' educational experience, and giving PSU's young MFA program greater visibility nationally and internationally," Glazer said.
"Tin House is thrilled about the partnership with PSU for the Writer-in-Residence program. We're so impressed with the graduate program in creative writing and glad we can be part of a enterprise that will enrich both organizations," said Holly MacArthur, Tin House deputy publisher.
The distinguished Writer-in-Residence will be housed in a newly furbished apartment adjacent to the Tin House headquarters in Northwest Portland. Applicants will be selected from a pool of ascendant and established writers from the U.S. and abroad. The residency will rotate through the three MFA strands: nonfiction, poetry and fiction.
Tin House and PSU have additional partnerships underway. This spring, PSU and Tin House bring national award-winning author Anthony Doerr to Portland as part of an inaugural "master class" that will begin with a term-long intensive study of the author's work, and culminate in a reading and interview.
Fiction faculty member Charles D'Ambrosio will lead a graduate seminar on Anthony Doerr, in which students read all of Doerr's oeuvre while exploring what it is that distinguishes his writing, and, as developing writers themselves, learn from it. Both D'Ambrosio and Doerr have taught at the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop.
On May 18, 2012, D'Ambrosio will host a staged question-and-answer session with Anthony Doerr for students and community members. For more information, contact email@example.com.
Anthony Doerr (www.anthonydoerr.com) is author of the story collections The Shell Collector and most recently, Memory Wall; the novel About Grace and a memoir, Four Seasons in Rome. His short fiction has won four O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in numerous collections, while his awards include the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Fiction and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his wife and children in Boise, Idaho.
Tin House and PSU's MFA Creative Writing program have another connection: fiction writer Leni Zumas, who joined PSU's English department faculty in fall 2011.
Tin House Books will publish Zumas' debut novel, The Listeners, in May 2012: http://www.tinhouse.com/books/coming-soon/the-listeners.html.
Additional plans for the partnerships include editing and publishing internships for PSU students.
ABOUT TIN HOUSE MAGAZINE (www.tinhouse.com)
Established in Portland, Ore., as a magazine in May 1999 (then expanded to Brooklyn, N.Y.) Tin House's mission is to publish compelling and authentic narratives of our time. The quarterly Tin House salutes the artistic edge but remains rooted in the tenets of the classic storytelling tradition. Magazine excerpts appear consistently in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, the O.Henry Prize Stories, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Tin House Books publishes fiction, non-fiction, story collections, and everything in between by both first-time and established authors. The Tin House Writer's Workshop takes place for one week every summer in Portland and includes workshops, seminars, panels, and readings led by the editors of Tin House magazine and Tin House Books and guests—prominent contemporary American writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING AT PSU (www.pdx.edu/creative-writing)
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Department of English at Portland State University. Building on a long-running master's program in writing and community connections, PSU established the MFA in 2010, offering poetry, fiction and nonfiction. The program's faculty includes Diana Abu-Jaber, John Beer, Tom Bissell (affiliated), Paul Collins, Charles D'Ambrosio, Michele Glazer (program director), Craig Lesley, Michael McGregor, A.B. Paulson and Leni Zumas.
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It's no secret that Charlottesville is a reader's paradise. Whether your mission is to surround yourself with tatty used paperbacks, rare first editions, thoughtful book groupies, or bestselling novelists– it's an easy task in this town. Even with only two chain booksellers in the yellow pages, Charlottesville nevertheless boasts an average 2.75 bookstores for every 10,000 people. That's the same density as dieticians in British Columbia!
No, really… UVA's monumental stacks alone hold close to five million volumes, and the inventory at the legendary Daedalus Bookshop may rival that soon (with a net worth that's a fraction of a single floor of Alderman.) Close to two dozen specialty shops sell used and rare books around town, and if you still can't find that elusive title, there's the Green Valley experience just up the highway– sort of like a quarterly trip to the literary Sam's Club.
As with everything, Charlottesville values quality over quantity, as evidenced by a survey of local bestsellers at the peak of summer. What you will find is a tasteful sample of recently published books by area writers, engaging histories, Harry Potter, well-received novels with pretty covers, Harry Potter, the foreign policy fetish du jour, and that nice story about a castaway boy and his Bengal Tiger. With the exception of a poorly titled self-help tome, Charlottesville's August reading list is supremely commendable.
But the true reading season for Charlottesville arrives in late March, when thousands converge for the annual Virginia Festival of the Book. Drawing over 17,000 attendees for the past two years, this event presents an open forum for both readers and writers. For five days panelists and attendees consider the merits of self-publishing and co-authoring, track the history of war reporting and sports writing and offer tips on body art, talking fish, Asian cuisine, and thought bubbles in texts.
The rest of the year, with its Dostoevsky book groups and Garry Wills swaps and John Grisham signings, is just a warm-up.


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"An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma."—Life
"His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear."—The New York Times Book Review


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I remember there was a radio promotion a few years ago in Philadelphia that required a boyfriend to call in and convince his girlfriend to strip down and run nude up the Art Museum steps in order to win Eagles tickets. These types of promotions were pretty typical gimmicks used by radio stations in partnerships with the team's marketing department in order to give back to the fans.
Enter 2007, and the first place Milwaukee Brewers decided to give something back to their fans in the form of an invasive, latex'd finger (in a trailer, no less). As ugly as this sounds, it shows a shift in the mindset of major league teams in how they treat their fans. It also shows the seriousness of how important prostate exams are for men. Do you want your prostate to calcify? Me neither. If only I could figure out what exactly its function is — or, you know, where it is — I'd probably be more worried about it. I still think of it like this magic button that rests deep inside your rectum that, when pushed, triggers a geyser-like spooge able to shatter glass. You know, kind of like the turbo boost button. I'm almost certain I'm wrong in this assumption.
This prostate exam-for-tickets promotion is a watershed moment for baseball parks. This may be the end of all of those wacky radio promotions that used to give away free tickets. Instead of making fans do such undignified things like eat live toads or tattoo call letters on their face, it's all about having a more health-conscious and respectable fanbase. If the fans are all dropping dead of prostate cancer, there will be stadiums full of ladies and babies — and nobody wants that. Therefore, it'll be interesting to see what other kinds of health services the other ballparks do to keep up with those progressive beercheesers in Milwaukee.
So, this week, I'm polishing up my taint, firing up my proton knife and placing odds on the next health-oriented promotions for MLB teams.
Let's all sing "Moon River", after this jump.
Pap Smears at Anaheim Stadium: 3/1
Surprisingly, a pap smear is not just a villain from the Naked Gun or something you use to put on bagels: It's a medical procedure used to find changes in the cervix on woman that could hopefully detect cancer. Good to know. It's the female equivalent of a prostate exam, but a lot less invasive, given that you can apparently just use a popsicle stick and petri dish to get what you need. Most cervical problems are found within the Latino and African-American communities, which are very prominent in a city like Los Angeles and its surrounding areas. In fact, to sweeten the pot, all ladies who get their cervices poked would not only get free tickets, but also a life-sized Rally Monkey nicknamed "The Cervix Chimp."
Breast Exams at Camden Yards: 2/1
Boobs. Bazongas. Bologna bags. Whatever you call the fleshy mounds of party protruding from a lady's chest, it's important to realize just how prone those things are to getting cancer. Thankfully, most women can prevent it from being a serious, life-threatening issue if they just get themselves felt up on a regular basis. And what a better place to do that than Camden Yards? Typically it's one of the easiest ballparks to drag women to because of its old-timey atmosphere, lush green grass and fresh-squeezed lemonade. So, offering free tickets for a quick round of tune-in-Tokyo from a stranger in a white lab coat shouldn't be too hard to sell.
Testicular Cancer Check-Ups at Fenway Park: 1/2
Nothing embodies the spirit of a Red Sox fan more than the word "nodule." And what better way to get a free day at historic Fenway than having your peach basket diddled? Given how tough tickets are to get — plus, third baseman Mike Lowell is short-sacked — it makes perfect sense for the Sox organization to participate in such a promotion. In fact, it'd probably be more successful if Theo Epstein performed the procedure himself. Most of the male portion of Red Sox Nation had made a pact after 2004 that they'd "go gay" for Theo: Now's the time to pay up.
Coffee Enemas at AT & T Park: 4/1
How badly do you want tickets to see questionable history in person after Barry Bonds breaks the home run record? Well, drop your pants, sit in this chair with the hole in the seat and wait for the whirring sound. Although its health benefits are still under debate, you can't deny the fact that the best way to get rid of drunken bloat and toxins inside the body is a complete flush out. I'd imagine they'd have some kind of barge floating around McCovey Cove, most likely filled with crazed eBay sellers hoping for a chance to catch 756. This is both a way to weed out the real fans of the Giants and not just some treasure seekers taking up valuable real estate. So don't be surprised if you see an emaciated (but thoroughly refreshed!) Todd McFarlane wandering around the stadium.


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I consider the National Guard to fit the mold for militia the best. You know what with the Commander in Chief being in charge of them as mentioned in the US Constitution.
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Seeking stiffer penalties against Moscow, a group of senators called on President Barack Obama Thursday to respond more forcefully to the incursion into the Crimean Peninsula by terminating the remainder of a $1 billion contract to buy helicopters from Russia.
Dozens of members of Congress have long pushed for the end of the Pentagon's contract with Russia's arms export agency, Rosoboronexport. Russia's "illegal invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea" provides an even broader reason to kill the deal, 10 senators wrote in a letter to Obama.
The eight Republicans and two Democrats also want Obama to impose sanctions banning any future U.S. business with Rosoboronexport. They describe the export agency as "unsavory" because it has supplied Syrian President Bashar Assad's military forces with arms and ammunition that have been used against Syrian civilians.
"Rosoboronexport is an arm of the Russian government and a powerful instrument of (Russian President) Vladimir Putin's increasingly belligerent foreign policy, and it handles more than 80 percent of Russia's weapons exports," the senators wrote.
By obstructing Rosoboronexport's business, "we would increase the costs of Putin's aggression," the letter said. The senators said ending the contract would limit the income corrupt Russian officials earn by skimming the profits of arms deals.
The Pentagon is buying the Mi-17 transport helicopters for Afghanistan's national security forces. About two dozen remain to be delivered of 63 helicopters ordered, according to the senators' letter.
While acknowledging Rosoboronexport's arms sales to Syria are deplorable, U.S. military officials have defended the Mi-17 contract. They've maintained the Russian helicopter is ideally suited for the Afghans, who are rebuilding their air force and need a reliable and easy-to-operate helicopter for transporting troops throughout the country.
The Pentagon and the Army office in Huntsville, Ala., that manages the contract did not respond to questions The Associated Press sent earlier this week about the contract's terms and whether military officials have considered cancelling it due to the crisis in the Crimean Peninsula.
Two Republican senators who signed the letter, John Cornyn of Texas and Dan Coats of Indiana, had wanted to use the Ukrainian aid bill as the vehicle for terminating the Mi-17 contract and sanctioning Rosoboronexport. But an amendment to the bill they drafted has yet to be considered.


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|#311302 - 06/23/10 11:33 AM Version 3
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It is a very exciting day at Axiom today. Over the past few years we have been working on a number of major improvements to our entire line. Today we will officially launch Version 3 on our website.
Version 3 brings some major improvements to the sound quality of every model along with some pretty cool cosmetic changes. The changes that affect the performance of the products began being incorporated about one year ago (longer for some of the woofers) and were completed on all models a few months ago. As of a few weeks ago the cosmetic changes were incorporated into our manufacturing and today our website will change to reflect these changes.
The main cosmetic changes are the aluminum dust caps, which are now made from the same material as our cones, and the elimination of the grille pins with the introduction of magnet grilles. It should be noted that the in-wall products will remain with grille pins as the female grille pin in the baffle is the access point for the screws which control the swing arms to mount these products to your wall.
As for changes to the performance we have redesigned our tweeter, all of our crossovers, and most of our woofers. I think the best way to describe the difference in performance may be to simply quote from an e-mail I received from a customer who has moved from Version 2 to Version 3 M80s.
The changes that you've made to the M80s are not subtle. It is that different! The first thing that I noticed was that the sound stage increased, dramatically. I describe it now as voluminous, wide and deep but at the same time, minutely precise. It's like the curtains were pulled back away from the stage. The sound field increased in all dimensions. I especially hear a lot more spatial depth. It's much easier to locate the position of performers in the sound field. The sound is especially seductive. It wraps around you.
The sound seems much more uniform over all frequencies. These speakers are so musical; I feel it necessary to make an analogy to the operatic voice. In vocal study, one strives to even out the registers in a voice so that a singer's sound is seamless throughout the entire range (so no one can detect a break when going from chest to head voice, etc). This is how I feel about these speakers. My impression is that you've particularly smoothed out the transition between the mid range and highs.
I am particularly blown away by the high end of these speakers. There's a new precision and GREATLY increased detail in the sound. In playing a stringed instrument (I've studied the 'cello), we pay attention to the 'core' sound of the strings making sure that when we bow the instrument, we always 'dig in' to the string adequately in order to make sure that the 'core' of the sound is always there. It is especially essential when playing something very softly. This is how emotion is subtly conveyed through sound. I'm hearing the 'core' of the sound with all music through this system like never before. Solo instruments and voices sound live, with minute detail in the sound. I can hear this will all instruments. In particular, operatic singers' voices now blossom as they sing a high loud passage. It takes my breath away! You have blown the top off the ceiling of these speakers. I listened to a lot of music louder than one probably should and the sound was not fatiguing. There's so much space around the upper frequencies. While I'm not even remotely a sound engineer, it seems to me that the proper way to 'warm up' sound in the upper frequencies is to add space around it (this is what my voice teachers said about proper vocal production) not 'soften' it by 'rounding off' or 'decreasing the treble'. That would rob you of reality. Additionally, there's a nice big fat, spacious area in the mids. Also of note are trumpets and brass. Rather than going 'ouch' on a loud passage, you get chills. Again, 'expansive' comes to mind.
Ian. I want to thank you for allowing me the privilege to experience this. You've created some real magic with these speakers. As I said at the beginning of this note, you have made a MAJOR change to the M80s with these modifications and it's THRILLING!!!! Many, many kudos to you and your staff at Axiom.
It is very fitting that the release of Version 3 coincides with our 30th year in business. They are both big milestones in Axiom history.
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President & Chief Engineer
|#311310 - 06/23/10 12:04 PM Re: Version 3 [Re: Ian]
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I only just bought my M22s and QS8s in February! Does this mean I have to upgrade?! Hmm... lets look into the upgrade program...
At the very least I now have to change my sig line to specify v2.
M22, VP150, QS8 <--all v2
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|#311312 - 06/23/10 12:10 PM Re: Version 3 [Re: snazzed]
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If you e-mail your Model and Serial Number to email@example.com she can tell you if you have all the latest Version 3 performance mods.
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|#311314 - 06/23/10 12:29 PM Re: Version 3 [Re: Ian]
Outstanding! Can't wait to get my v3's
|#311318 - 06/23/10 12:35 PM Re: Version 3 [Re: ]
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Do the crossover changes coincide with different XO points being used on the V3 models?
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|#311321 - 06/23/10 12:47 PM Re: Version 3 [Re: BlueJays1]
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Gonna be a lot of ti's and V2's at auction.
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|#311322 - 06/23/10 12:49 PM Re: Version 3 [Re: Ian]
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Loc: Canada
Very cool Ian. I'll be sure to give the new M80 a careful listen when I am up there in September.
Did you update the anechoic measurements as well?
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|#311324 - 06/23/10 12:53 PM Re: Version 3 [Re: fredk]
Originally Posted By: fredk
Very cool Ian. I'll be sure to give the new M80 a careful listen when I am up there in September.
Did you update the anechoic measurements as well?
Great point, I would love to see a new FR graph for the M80 v3.
|#311329 - 06/23/10 01:27 PM Re: Version 3 [Re: ]
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Was there ever a version 2 of the M60 In-Cabinet speakers? My reciept of a couple weeks ago says T60 with no verison number
The mids and woofers have the black dust caps, but I know the in-cabinets are a new design, so I'm wondering if I got older components, perhaps in an experimental model..?
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|#311331 - 06/23/10 01:32 PM Re: Version 3 [Re: axiomoholic]
Registered: 06/18/10
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Glad I bought my speakers yesterday, so I will be getting version 3. Thank God!
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The San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers last night to capture their second World Series championship in the last three years. The game went into extra innings, fitting for a desperate Detroit attempting to wring the last bits of magic out of their otherwise-remarkable season. The extra innings also appropriately gave Tigers fans that familiar false sense that the Giants had finally been put against the wall. Throughout the postseason, San Francisco would fight and cling their way back from the edge of defeat, only to then make victory look easy. So when the game went to a 10th inning, plenty of nervous fans back in San Francisco must have been holding their collective breath. Had these Giants put themselves into a corner once again?
After playing their way out of a hole in every series—coming back from a 1-3 hole in the League Championship Series against St. Louis and an 0-2 hole against the Cincinnati Reds—there was nothing easy about this march to the championship for the Giants. Therefore, the worry felt by Giants fans, even while 3-0 over a team that had just steamrolled the Yankees, seemed rational. The worry, it turned out, was unfounded.
The doubt of victory may have crept in to the minds of fans, but the players never let it creep in—and if they did, they certainly never showed it. The team that battled back over and over and over again this postseason never had to do so in the finals. The Giants forced the Tigers into batting a worse-
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For many years, PTMW Inc., Topeka, KS, focused on assembling signal and communication houses to the railroad industry, purchasing sheetmetal parts from job shops. But around the turn of the century, company president and owner Patti Jon Goff set out to vertically integrate her company, with a commitment to build the company's foundation on "supplying quality parts, timely deliveries, innovative processes and strong customer relationships," she says.
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Fast forward to 2000, when Goff opened the next chapter in PTMW's history.
"I knew that we had an opportunity to take a giant step into the world of manufacturing," Goff explains. "I didn't want to do it half . I wanted to have the best automated equipment available."
After comparing machines and systems, PTMW selected the Finn-Power (now Prima Power) Night Train flexible manufacturing system (FMS). Installed in March 2000 in a 15,000-sq.-ft. building (the firm operated out of several buildings at the time, totaling 100,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space), the FMS features automated raw sheet storage, sheet loading, integrated punching/shearing, unloading and inline automated bending. Overnight PTMW transitioned from being an assembler of component parts to having a worldclass sheetmetal FMS.
"The equipment helped us gain our independence and has set the path for determining our own destiny," says Goff. "The technology in that Night Train changed our world of manufacturing."
New Facility Welcomes New Automated Line
The centerpiece of the PTMW automated sheet-processing line is the Night Train material-management system—an inventory and material transporting center. The 200-ft.-long Night Train supplies raw material as well as removes and stores work in process.
With the Shear Genius right-angle shear concept, the objective is to provide a machine capable of transforming a full-size sheet into finished parts. These parts can be moved to the final production stages for immediate integration into the final assembly.
The heart of the servo-electric machine is a servo-electric 30-ton punching machine rated to a maximum stroke rate of 1000 hits/min. It also boasts a 250-RPM index speed and a sheet positioning speed to150 m/min. The servo- electric actuation system makes shear movement fast and fully controlled. Workpiece capacity is 5-mm aluminum, 4-mm mild steel and 3-mm stainless steel. Automatic loading has been integrated, as has automated part removal and sorting. On average, compared with a standalone turret punch press, the SGe reduces total manufacturing time by 60 percent and saves one blank sheet out of every 10.
The SGe also eliminates wasteful skeletons and costly secondary operations such as deburring. It allows the automated process to begin with a full-sized sheet of material and end with a finished part after automated loading, punching, forming, shearing and unloading—all in one operation.
"We incorporated the Shear Brilliance punch/shear combination we had purchased for our previous system into this new FMS, for added punching capacity," explains Sean Ryan, vice president of production. "The new SGe is faster than the older hydraulic models…we don't have to worry about the hydraulics warming up. We have consistency from the time we start the machine until the time we shut it down. We punch aluminum, galvanneal and some stainless steel. We also incorporated an inkjet printer on the machine that helps us identify parts and track back material."
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Another integral part of PTMW's flexible manufacturing system is the servo-electric punch-laser combo, featuring a 4000-W CO2 laser and a servo-electric turret punch press. The machine integrates punching, forming, tapping and laser cutting in a single unit, and allows PTMW to select the optimum process for the job at hand.
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• Reduction of piece-part costs—faster punching time, reduction in direct labor assigned to setup and punching, and reduction of number of manual operations;
• Ability to use full sheets, while eliminating the need to shear to size blanks being processed; and
• Increased machine utilization—using an automated load/unload system, unmanned operation can be achieved from load, punch, up-form, laser cut, unload and sort.
On the forming front, PTMW's servo electric Express Bender has a maximum bending length of 131 in. and a maximum opening height of 8 in. The new construction features actuation of the bending-blade movements (vertical and horizontal) by NC servo axes, rather than hydraulic cylinders. The upper tool movements also are made by an NC servo axis.
"Monday through Friday, we run three 8-hr. shifts," explains Goff. "Because of its productivity and accuracy, we run as much material through the bender as we can. That machine runs 24/7."
New Market OpportunitiesWhile railroad applications comprise 70 percent of PTMW's production, the company has expanded into new markets, including generator houses and data centers for the power-generation industry. "Because of our newly expanded fabrication capabilities," says Goff, "we're able to fabricate and assemble larger buildings."
Adds Ed Carpenter, vice president of external affairs: "The Prima Power equipment has made us much more flexible to produce different kind of parts. Customers in the power industry tend to specify a lot of 'specials'—every part in the power industry is unique. Now we have the flexibility needed to serve that type of market."
Goff explains that PTMW is in constant communication with its customers to gauge their particular needs. "We build supplier-managed inventory (SMI)," she says, "and when a customer pulls inventory, we replenish it. That's why lead times in most cases shrink to the time it takes for delivery. It allows us to manage our people and our materials, and keep the flow as smooth as possible.
"Even though we've automated our manufacturing operations," Goff concludes, "the automation isn't killing jobs…it's creating them." MFArticle provided by Prima Power, Arlington Heights, IL: 847/952 6500, www.primapower.com.
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Brochure design for a specialized technology company. We provide engineering and software services to a variety of manufacturing, industrial laboratories and product development companies and need a brochure that reflects our high degree of professionalism and capabilities.
DMC, Inc.
This project is for an eight page corporate brochure.
We have the preliminary copy and basic layout created - see http://www.dmcinfo.com/portals/0/Do…ctures.pdf
(note - disregard the colors and positioning of the text)
and would like someone to take that information and put it into a great brochure that would appeal to engineers and mid-level executives at mid to large sized companies.
DMC is an engineering and software development company that provides custom solutions to a wide range of industries utilizing a vast array of technologies. Fundamentally we write software and design control systems for things that interact with the "real" world - e.g. control systems for a packaging machine, test automation for a battery powered car, custom control board for a consumer product, etc.
Please see our website (http://www.dmcinfo.com) for the type of work we do and case studies section of our website to get an idea of type of projects.
1. Must look very professional - needs to convey an image of a company that someone can trust with a million dollar project
2. Must be technical yet not too techie
3. Clean - white space is good
4. Must be complimentary to our web site - it probably won't be an exact duplicate but should have kinda-sorta the same look and feel
5. Royalty Stock photos from the inexpensive sites (shutterstock, istockphoto, etc) with all rights assigned to DMC - can use any of the images from our existing site as we have all of the rights to them.
6. An easily editable format that we can modify as we see fit.
7. Ideally this would be created in MS Publisher format - if not, please specify which program you will deliver the project in.
8. Would defintiely appreciate any changes to copy
The layout of the brochure is as below. Again, reference
http://www.dmcinfo.com/portals/0/Do…ctures.pdf ):
(Feel free to deviate from this if you feel it will improve the piece)
Cover - want some sort of clean, techie-type background & just company name & the tagline "Providing Effective & Reliable Solutions"
Page 2 (inside front cover) - image or images for each of the three technology areas.
Page 3 - Company overview page - maybe a shot or array of photos for the city of Chicago or maybe a photo array of technologies or maybe a photos of people or maybe something else altogether
Pages 4-5 (centerspread) - right now considering 4 columns:
1. Just a general overview, kind of tying our expertise together: Indusrtries, technologies, processes. Also - want a graphic created for Project Development Lifecycle (probably circular)
2. Manufacturing Automation & Intelligence - maybe some photos above that are related to this
3. Test & Measurement Automation - again, with some relevant photos
4. Custom Software Development - once again, with photos
Page 6 - our overall value proposition - maybe people for photos here - not quite sure what it would look like
Page 7 (inside back cover) - sort of wrap things up here, Maybe photos that represent each of our technology areas
Page 8 (back cover) - the graphic would ideally continue from front cover when piece is laid down flat. Not alot of text - just basic contact info.
• A theme that pigeon holes us into one industry or technology
• Anything that is too "cartoonish"


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Monday, February 15, 2010
A Whale of a Time in Natal
In 1907, two Norwegians (Jacob Egeland and Johan Bryde) started whaling off the coast of Natal, with a factory sited below the Bluff in Durban. It was to become the largest land-based whaling operation in the world.
Two steam whale catchers were brought out from Sandjefjord in Norway and whaling began on 3 July 1908 when the first whale, a 40 foot Humpback, was brought in to the port. The company was named the South African Whaling Company.
Objections were soon raised about the site of the whaling station, which was then moved to the sea side of the Bluff near Cave Rock, but the penetrating smell of the operations at the factory remained a problem for residents on the Bluff. The station was moved again, towards the South West, where the winds carried the smell in a different direction.
Egeland and Bryde's partnership came to an end in 1909. With a cousin, Abraham Larsen, Egeland then formed the Union Whaling and Fishing Company in 1910. By 1912 thirteen whaling companies were registered in Durban.
Union Whaling Company came into being in July 1920, formed by Larsen and Egeland who had started the Union Whaling and Fishing Company, and was to last to the end of the whaling era, merging with the Premier Whaling Company in 1954 and operating the largest shore whaling station in the world. By 1960 850 people were employed in the Company. Coastal whaling ended in 1975.
Thanks to the efforts of David Asgeir-Nilsen it's now possible to take a Whaling History Tour, visiting what remains of the factory and viewing a large collection of photographs, newspaper articles, whaling artefacts and memorabilia. For more information see:
Further reading: African Keyport by Capt Tony Pearson, pub Accucut Books 1995
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I've been successfully reloading 5.7 now for the past few weeks and have had quite a bit of success in the pistol.
I've been reloading 1x brass with ~5.0 of True Blue and a 50 gr bullet. Worked up from 4.0 gr with iffy/weak cycling. Firm recoil now, feels good.
Light primer cratering, and ~50% of the brass showed signs of neck separation. (Shiny Band) some of the 1x 197 even showed banding, and I think I should throw them away? A little bummed, thought it was tougher than this. Hear people getting ~5 reloads. Maybe a lighter bullet is easier on it? I also think TB has initially too high of a pressure spike, but still burns too slow, producing a huge muzzle flash, what's a better speed powder?
Thankfully we got Jay to save us with this stronger brass. I got 400? I was gonna give a go soon.
I was hoping I might be able to get a cutaway of both brass to see the changes in the sidewall construction.
I'm guessing because of the lower case capacity I should reduce loads by ~25%? To start out.
Anyway, comments and advice is much appreciated.
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You can kind of see it in my video.
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Let's see pictures of your brass. I've got some that appears to have a band forming at the shoulder/neck junction, but it turned out to be lacquer damage right at that point, brass was fine. Maybe you've got something similar going on.
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Fey, Poehler spill their Golden Globes secrets
- The two turned a Globes conference call into a half-hour comedy routine
- This is the first year the show will have had two female co-hosts
- Are they up for the task? "If a drunk person wanders onstage, we'll know how to handle it"
What can you expect while watching Sunday's Golden Globes?
Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, the cast of Cheers, costumed hosting á la Whoopi Goldberg and a singing performance composed by Stephen Sondheim.
Then again, those news nuggets came from the show's hosts, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, so take them with a grain of salt — er, shot of Champagne (these are the Globes, after all).
Fey and Poehler turned a Globes conference call with reporters Wednesday into a half-hour comedy routine, with the hosts swapping more giggles than, well, actual information.
How will their improv training come in handy during the broadcast?
Fey: "If a drunk person wanders onstage, we'll know how to handle it."
Who was originally tapped to emcee Hollywood's statues-and-swill fest?
Poehler: "One of us and the car from Transformers." Alas, "there was not a door large enough in the venue to get the car in there," Fey explained.
How are they preparing for the big night?
Fey: "We haven't done anything."
Poehler: "We just took a really long nap, and now we're, 'Oh my God, it's Sunday.' "
What about their onstage attire and that homage to Whoopi as Oscar host?
Fey: "I'm going to wear one costume from each of the nominated films, beginning with Django and ending with a different character from Django."
Fey swore she wasn't drunk then, and she said she wouldn't imbibe in the hours leading up to the show, either.
Poehler, on the other hand, has other plans: "I'm going to pub crawl it all the way to the venue, take a two-hour black-out nap until the show starts, then, as soon as the show is over, I'm going to start a 10-day juice cleanse."
The funny friends got (a little) serious when talking about the spotlight often placed on them as pioneering women in comedy. "No one is more bored by that premise or story or headline than us," Poehler said.
Fey was cheekier: "Thank God the reign of tyranny of two years of a male host is coming to an end."
Speaking of Ricky Gervais (who in fact hosted the past three years), the pair hinted that their goal is not necessarily to shock and awe. "The night is not really about the host giving any big kind of comedy performance," Fey said. "It's about getting movie stars more liquored up hopefully so someone's boob will fall out of their dress. … I don't see it as a place to change the face of comedy."
The luckiest they could get is for something interesting and spontaneous to happen. "We're trying to plan that," Poehler deadpanned.


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The X Factor saw its semi-final audience plummet with 2.6 million fewer viewers than last year, while rival Strictly Come Dancing continued to be a step ahead.
The ITV1 singing contest drew an average of eight million during the 90-minute show, as its ratings slump across the series continued.
At this stage last year the Saturday night edition of the show had pulled in 10.6 million viewers. But compared with the 2010 semi it has proved to be even more disastrous, with the audience dropping almost 42% on the 13.7 million who tuned in two years ago.
Strictly won the ratings battle again last night with an average of 9.9 million viewers. However, even the BBC1 show saw a slight drop on the previous year when it pulled in 10.3 million for the equivalent show.
X Factor normally experiences a lift in viewer interest as it reaches its climax, but last night's semi-final was actually down 200,000 on the previous Saturday.
The show has seen its fortunes wane since show supremo Simon Cowell left the judging panel after the 2010 series. The failure to produce a significant rise as the series nears its end will probably cause some concerns for ITV bosses who normally saw The X Factor as one of their bankers in terms of audiences and advertising.


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WALNUT CREEK — PMI Group, which filed a $736 million bankruptcy more than a year ago, said a private investor has expressed interest in a plan to pump cash into the mortgage insurer, according to a regulatory filing.
Shares of PMI finished unchanged Tuesday at about 1 cent each. At various points on Tuesday, the company's shares spiked about 20 percent higher.
"A well-known private equity investor" is interested in proving new capital into a reorganized PMI in exchange for a minority stake in PMI. The investor also would gain management control over a restructured PMI, according to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Walnut Creek-based PMI didn't identify the investor.
PMI and the creditors committee in the bankruptcy are reviewing the indication of interest. The proposal is "not binding," PMI stated in the SEC documents.
Reeling from a housing meltdown linked to the worst recession since the Great Depression, PMI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2011, listing $736 million in debts and $225 million in assets.
PMI pays lenders after a homeowner defaults and a foreclosure fails to recover enough to cover the mortgage.
The company lost money on a consistent basis amid foreclosures that skyrocketed and home prices that eroded.
With the housing market showing signs it has perked up, some investors have become more interested in buying or setting up mortgage insurance firms.
Contact George Avalos at 925-977-8477. Follow him at twitter.com/george_avalos.


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For some hurlers, handling bat is serious business
Native son Dan Haren has come home, to Southern California, to pitch for the Dodgers in the league he favors in part because it puts an advantage in his hands: the baseball bat.
In Los Angeles, Haren will join a staff that had the game's premier hitting pitcher in 2013 in his former Angels teammate Zack Greinke. The Dodgers led the National League in batting average (.176) and on-base percentage (.233) by a pitching staff, finishing behind only the Travis Wood-powered Cubs in slugging, .229 to .227.
This might not seem like much, but Haren -- the Majors' leader in average (.236) and OBP (.254), and runner-up in slugging (.339), among pitchers since 2005 -- is keenly aware of the edge it can give a guy.
Powerful pitchers
|Wes Ferrell
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|Jack Stivetts
|Earl Wilson
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|Hal Jeffcoat
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|Reb Russell
|Jack Harshman
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|Guy Hecke
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"I think any good-hitting pitcher sees it as an advantage coming into a game," said Haren, who signed as a free agent with the Dodgers after a strong finish to 2013, his only season with the Nationals. "If you're facing a pitcher who doesn't see himself as a good hitter and doesn't take his at-bats as seriously as you do, it's definitely an edge.
"I always try to battle, put the ball in play. I know Zack takes a lot of pride in his hitting, in studying the other pitcher and trying to make something happen. I think it's a huge advantage if you can get a bunt down, move a runner up, put a ball in play. It might keep you in the game longer if your manager has confidence in your ability to handle the bat."
Newly elected Hall of Famers Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, excellent athletes with durable arms, can speak to the value of pitchers helping themselves with the bat. Maddux hit .171 with 84 RBIs en route to his 355 wins, while Glavine was even better offensively: .186 with 90 RBIs on his way to 305 victories.
Haren will join a lively competition among Dodgers pitchers during batting-practice rounds. Greinke, the NL Silver Slugger Award winner, wasn't the only offensive presence on manager Don Mattingly's staff.
Clayton Kershaw set the tone on Opening Day last season when he shut out the Giants, with his solo blast to dead center in the eighth inning at Dodger Stadium breaking a scoreless deadlock.
Kershaw, who went on to claim his second NL Cy Young Award in three years, has hit .204 over those three seasons, ranking third among pitchers behind Greinke (.237) and the Reds' Mike Leake (.233). Kershaw led all pitchers with his 10 RBIs in 2013, batting .182 and slugging .260.
Equally effective with the bat was rookie Korean pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu. The big lefty hurler, swinging from the right side, batted .207, his .293 slugging mark built on three doubles and a triple.
Greinke was far and away the premier hitting pitcher. Among all pitchers with more than 10 at-bats, Greinke was tops in average (.328) and OBP (.400), and his .379 slugging mark was eclipsed only by Wood's .381 for the Cubs.
Wood, also a lefty pitcher who swings from the right side, homered three times and is challenging the Brewers' Yovani Gallardo as the most dangerous long-ball threat among active pitchers.
Gallardo, with 12 career blasts and a .359 slugging mark, succeeded the inimitable Carlos Zambrano, who has unloaded 24 lifetime homers and slugged .388 in his swing-from-the-heels style. Wes Ferrell is the all-time leader for homers by a pitcher, bashing 37, and also is the single-season king, with nine, set in 1931. Hall of Famers Bob Lemon (37), Red Ruffing (36) and Warren Spahn (35) round out the all-time top four in career homers.
Wood, Adam Wainwright, Bronson Arroyo and Matt Cain each own six career homers. Jason Marquis is the active leader in doubles with 34, Haren producing 24 and Wainwright 22.
Setting off sparks among young pitchers, the Rockies' Tyler Chatwood hit .300 with seven RBIs in only 40 at-bats in 2013, while Henderson Alvarez of the Marlins batted .300 and slugged .500 in 30 at-bats.
Alvarez's teammate, NL Rookie of the Year Award winner Jose Fernandez, showed power potential, slugging .340 with a homer, double and triple while hitting .220 in 50 at-bats. The Padres' imposing Andrew Cashner batted .245 with a homer and a double and also stole two bases. The Braves' Julio Teheran hit .224.
Haren's .170/.204/.234 slash line in 2013 wasn't up to his standards, but he did crack three doubles for the Nationals. Like his buddy Greinke, Haren was a tough out as an amateur, serving as a designated hitter when he wasn't on the mound as the ace at Pepperdine University.
"When I was 25, I was taking batting practice every day," Haren said. "I obviously take a little pride in hitting. I had some good years in Arizona. When I was traded [to the Angels in midseason 2010], I was in a tree [batting .364 and slugging .527 with a homer, six doubles and seven RBIs]. As I've gotten older, I've backed off a lot of hitting. I maintain my swing during the season."
Greinke, a prospect as a shortstop as well as a pitcher coming out of Apopka (Fla.) High School, was the No. 6 overall pick in the 2002 First-Year Player Draft by the Royals. He didn't become a starting pitcher until his senior year, batting over .400 with 31 homers, primarily playing in the infield.
In his seven years with Kansas City, the 2009 American League Cy Young Award winner was able to use his offensive skills only in Interleague Play. Getting a feel back for hitting with the Brewers for a season and a half before getting shipped to the Angels, Greinke seems intent on making up for lost time with the Dodgers.
"I always wanted to be a hitter," Greinke said. "Even when I was drafted, I always wanted to hit. It's a lot more fun than pitching. You only play once every five days [as a starter], so that gets kind of boring in between starts. I always wanted to hit and play a position every day."
Greinke's batting average in 2013 was the highest by a Dodgers pitcher since Silver Slugger Award winner Orel Hershiser batted .356 in 1993. Fernando Valenzuela, Hershiser's teammate, was among the premier hitting pitchers, with 10 homers and 84 RBIs, batting .200, in his career.
Following the Dodgers in the NL in 2013 were the Padres (.154), Reds (.150), Braves (.148), Cubs (.146) and Brewers. Giants pitchers had the lowest collective batting average at .096, but that figures to rise with the arrival of athletic Tim Hudson, a career .170 hitter (three homers, 40 RBIs).


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A government-run Saudi Arabian newspaper reports that for the first time in the conservative Muslim country, women will be allowed to attend soccer matches in one of the country's stadiums.
Al-Sharq newspaper quoted unnamed officials as saying that women will be able to watch the matches in a new facility that will be completed in 2014 in the western port city of Jeddah.
The officials say that the new stadium will include a family section with private cabins and balconies for women who wish to attend the games.
Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islam prohibits unrelated men and women from mingling. Women and men in Saudi Arabia remain highly segregated and are restricted in how they are allowed to mix in public.
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My Personal Annual Birthday Forecast (pdf)
By: Robert Pollini
DescriptionMy Personal Annual Birthday Forecast (pdf)
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