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The electricity industry value chain consists of four elements. First, there is energy generation, requiring both a fuel source (e.g., coal, nuclear, natural gas, Wind Energy) and a power plant to convert that fuel source into electricity. Second, electricity transmission involves both transforming generated electricity into electricity that can be transmitted over power lines and matching end user requirements (demand) with energy availability (supply). After transmission, electricity must be distributed to individual end users via a vast network of power lines and substations. Electric utilities often own miles of power and transmission lines-- PG&E, the nation's 2nd largest utility, owns over 100,000 miles of distribution lines alone. Lastly, there is delivery, where electricity is transformed again and delivered directly to an end user. Delivery also involves metering and billing.
Understanding the business of electric utilities requires understanding which parts of the value chain they control-- and which parts they don't. As indicated by the explanation above, electricity is a natural monopoly--there is typically only one power line connected to your house. While one company may own that power line, they do not have a lot of say in the prices they charge due to government regulations.If prices went up would you switch utility companies? That would be difficult to impossible, depending on where you live.
In the fourth quarter of 2008, the U.S. economy contracted at a 3.8% annualized rate (5.1%, excluding inventory buildup) according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.[2] When the economy is in a recession and output contracts, demand for electricity plummets, as large industrial users cut back on production. As demand for electricity falls, so too do prices. This, combined with shrinking credit markets, means that electric utilities will find it difficult to spend more on investment, which has the potential to be a problem for companies operating in states with Renewable Portfolio standards (see below).
The 2008 Financial Crisis also saw plummeting commodities prices. The price of coal, in particular, is important to electric utilities; in April 2008, coking coal prices went as high as $285 per metric ton.[3] According to a report by UBS analysts, however, 2009 coking coal prices will drop to $85 per metric tonne and thermal coal will sell on average for $55 per short ton (.91 metric ton).[4] Similarly, natural gas contracts fell from a high over $14 in early July 2008 to below $4.50 in late January 2009.[5] As the costs of energy inputs decline, electric utilities will see their costs decline; the only question is: will costs or prices decline faster?
For the first time since 1945, the end of the Second World War, the International Energy Agency has forecasted that world electricity demand will fall 3.5% as a result of the global recession.[6] Chinese electricity use is predicted to fall 2% from 2008, while Russia's by 10%, and the OECD's by 5%.[7] Of these declines, three fourths are attributed to reductions in industrial energy consumption - because of the fall in industrial output.[8] To compare with these numbers, global energy demand increased 2.5% during 2008, the year the crisis struck.[9]
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Utilities face growing pressure from government regulatory bodies to curb their emissions of greenhouse gases, making them particularly vulnerable to "green" legislation like the Renewable Portfolio Standards being enacted in 26 states and the Advanced Energy Portfolio Standard being enacted in Ohio. Legislation such as these continue to pressure utilities using coal to switch to cleaner forms of energy generation.
Also effecting utilitiy companies, in July 2010, the Obama administration proposed deadlines to curb pollution. The proposed rules would limit trading of pollution allowances while slashing sulfur dioxide, which produces acid rain, and nitrogen oxide, the cause of smog. The proposed rules would cut sulfur dioxide by 71 percent by 2014 from 2005 levels and nitrogen oxide by 52 percent over the same period. Leading utility companies have made statements that utilities do not have enough time to permit, construct and install control equipment to limit emissions or replace polluting plants with new capacity.[10] Pollution cutting legislation will continue to impact utilities and will require changes to traditional forms of power generation.
I like the one that are oil filled and look like a small raoidtar. They heat up and help maintain a more constant temp IMO.The small ceramic ones that blow are nice too as long as they have a thermostat.The main thing to remember is that space heaters are not really intended to be your main source of heat, just supplemental and electric resistance heat is the most energy inefficient heat you can buy.just run the furnace at a low setting say 60 F and supplement with the electric and plenty of blankets at night.You might also look at having a small gas wall heater installed if there is a good place to put it.
Like air conditioner manufacturers, electric utilities have a love/hate relationship with the weather. Higher temperatures in the summer mean higher electricity bills (the average monthly residential bill in the U.S. is $88.60), but can also force the utility to purchase power at more expensive prices or to fire up older, less efficient power plants. Since retail prices are typically regulated, the high costs of generating electricity during peak usage periods cannot be passed on to customers.
U.S. households consume 21% more electricity now than they did in 1978, and the Edison Electric Institute estimates U.S. electricity use to rise by 30% by 2030 and U.S. household use to increase by 11%. At the same time, committed resources are only predicted to rise by 8.5%.[11] Combine this with growing demand from growing computer and AC use and restriction on generating sources to address climate change and some are predicting that the next price shock will be in the form of spiking electricity prices. Since 2000, average U.S. electricity rates have increased at 2.5% per year - faster than the 2% rate of inflation.[12]
Decreasing global demand for electricity, as predicted for 2009[13], will likely have the effect of lowering electricity rates, as local regulatory agencies will be pressured to reduce prices in the effort to take some strain off consumers.
Despite the long-term trend towards increasing energy use, the U.S. has become far more energy efficient over time. In 1970, the U.S. economy needed 18,000 BTUs for every dollar of GDP; as of 2008, only 8,520 BTUs are needed to generate a dollar of national income.[14] Thus, economic growth has been the primary driver of energy consumption - per dollar, Americans are actually using less energy than before, the implications of which mean that energy consumption actually grows at a lower rate than the economy - bad news for electric utilities.
Much of the nation's electricity infrastructure is over 100 years old; as electrical demand increases, utilities companies are being forced to look into installing new, costly infrastructure to handle more power - to be exact, an estimated $17 billion in new infrastructure technology by 2010, which will use techniques like liquid nitrogen cooling.[15] Some utilities, like Xcel Energy and Dominion Resources, are installing "Smart Grid" systems to help customers monitor electricity use and manage loads and costs.
As interest in renewable energies has increased, focus has turned to the ability of the nation's electricity grid to handle this energy and in a more efficient manner. With the passing of the American Economic Recovery and Assessment Act $4.5 billion dollars was allotted to the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability to be used to modernize the electric grid, enhance security of the energy infrastructure and to ensure that growing demand is met.[16] However, this is a small amount of what is required to upgrade grids and interconnects. It has been reported that to support the transportation of the proposed 300,000 MW of wind energy will require the investment of $60 billion by 2030.[17]
The current grid is over 100 years old and consists of over 9,200 electric generating units with more than 1,000,000 megawatts of generating capacity and more than 300,000 miles of transmission lines. Integrating large amounts of wind or solar power into the grid will require advanced energy management techniques and approaches at the grid operator level. According to the European Wind Energy Association for these energies to supply more than 20%, vast improvements will be required. If these are not met and planned for, the full potential of wind and solar power will not be realized. This is crucial considering that 29 states have committed to the use of renewable energy sources, with goals of increasing energy portfolios by up to 20% by as early as 2010.[18]
Also for the second year in a row a poll conducted by NRG Systems at the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) WindPower 2009 conference found that transmission and interconnection constraints were the greatest barrier to the development of wind energy. 43% of respondents (making it the leading opinion) stated that an upgraded national transmission system would contribute the most to the development of wind energy.[19] Without improvements the ancient electric grid of the U.S. will continue to struggle to meet increasing demand and the ability to incorporate input from renewable resources. Work must not only focus on the generation of wind energy, but to ensure that it can be distributed and utilized to its full potential.


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They say that time is money. What they don't say is that money may be running out of time.
There may be a natural evolution to our fractionally reserved credit system that characterizes modern global finance. Much like the universe, which began with a big bang nearly 14 billion years ago, but is expanding so rapidly that scientists predict it will all end in a "big freeze" trillions of years from now, our current monetary system seems to require perpetual expansion to maintain its existence. And too, the advancing entropy in the physical universe may in fact portend a similar decline of "energy" and "heat" within the credit markets. If so, then the legitimate response of creditors, debtors and investors inextricably intertwined within it, should logically be to ask about the economic and investment implications of its ongoing transition.
But before mimicking T.S. Eliot on the way our monetary system might evolve, let me first describe the "big bang" beginning of credit markets, so that you can more closely recognize its transition. The creation of credit in our modern day fractional reserve banking system began with a deposit and the profitable expansion of that deposit via leverage. Banks and other lenders don't always keep 100% of their deposits in the "vault" at any one time – in fact they keep very little – thus the term "fractional reserves." That first deposit then, and the explosion outward of 10x and more of levered lending, is modern day finance's equivalent of the big bang. When it began is actually harder to determine than the birth of the physical universe but it certainly accelerated with the invention of central banking – the U.S. in 1913 – and with it the increased confidence that these newly licensed lenders of last resort would provide support to financial and real economies. Banking and central banks were and remain essential elements of a productive global economy.
But they carried within them an inherent instability that required the perpetual creation of more and more credit to stay alive. Those initial loans from that first deposit? They were made most certainly at yields close to the rate of real growth and creation of real wealth in the economy. Lenders demanded that yield because of their risk, and borrowers were speculating that the profit on their fledgling enterprises would exceed the interest expense on those loans. In many cases, they succeeded. But the economy as a whole could not logically grow faster than the real interest rates required to pay creditors, in combination with the near double-digit returns that equity holders demanded to support the initial leverage – unless it was supplied with additional credit to pay the tab. In a sense this was a "Sixteen Tons" metaphor: Another day older and deeper in debt, except few within the credit system itself understood the implications.
Economist Hyman Minsky did. With credit now expanding, the sophisticated economic model provided by Minsky was working its way toward what he called Ponzi finance. First, he claimed the system would borrow in low amounts and be relatively self-sustaining – what he termed "Hedge" finance. Then the system would gain courage, lever more into a "Speculative" finance mode which required more credit to pay back previous borrowings at maturity. Finally, the end phase of "Ponzi" finance would appear when additional credit would be required just to cover increasingly burdensome interest payments, with accelerating inflation the end result.

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Ryne Sandberg found out his climb back to the big leagues was complete shortly after the Phillies returned to Philadelphia following their final series of the season in Washington.
"When the train got back from Washington D.C. after that last game of the year, I was told that (manager) Charlie (Manuel) and (general manager) Ruben (Amaro) wanted to meet with me in Charlie's office," Sandberg said Friday during a telephone interview. "Charlie told me he wanted me on his (coaching) staff next year and Ruben confirmed it. It was a great feeling because I had been working to get back to the major leagues."
Manuel and Amaro informed the 53-year-old Sandberg that he would serve as the Phillies' third-base coach and infield instructor in 2013. Sandberg made his big-league debut as a player with the Phillies in 1981 before being dealt to the Chicago Cubs, where he went on to become a Hall of Fame second baseman.
"We had a good talk," Sandberg said. "It was a short talk, but there are plenty of more conversations and meetings to come in the winter time. I will get together with Charlie and I am no stranger to him and he is no stranger to me. We're very comfortable with each other."
The two men did not know each other two years ago when they met at the winter meetings in Buena Vista, Fla., but they quickly developed a strong relationship after Sandberg was named the manager of the Phillies' triple-A Lehigh Valley affiliate.
"I was at the winter meetings for a Hall of Fame event and we hit it off right away," Sandberg said. "Like most former players, you go back to your experience as a player and you talk about the players you played with and against. I think we have a good open line of communication.
"The last two years he has bounced things off me and asked me to confirm what he's looking at. He's asked me about the hitting mechanics of players and whether I thought a guy was getting a good or bad read off balls in the field. We both enjoy talking about the game and that to me is the biggest thing right there."
Sandberg said he will give zero thought to the idea of replacing Manuel as the next manager of Phillies.
"First of all, there are no guarantees in baseball," Sandberg said. "I'm a guy who stays focused with my job. That's always how I handled things as a player and as a minor-league manager. I know what my job is next year as a third-base coach and infield instructor and that's what I will focus on. I'm real pleased about being in the capacity I'm in with the Phillies and I don't look any further than that."
You can read more about Sandberg's role as third-base coach and infield instructor in Saturday's Inquirer.


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Morris Student to Lead Water Management Effort
Posted by Allyce Amidon '12, Falcon Heights, Center for Small Towns on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012
Water management and conservation efforts are getting a boost at the University of Minnesota, Morris because of the efforts of student Jodie Roy '12, Brooks. Roy took on a new role with the Morris GreenCorps program, in which she will conduct outreach and education activities on storm water management and water conservation.
She said she is looking forward to reaching both the Morris campus and the community as a whole. "The position is exciting because it explores both surface runoff and water conservation," Roy said. "Managing water out of the tap and out of the sky is a big job. Morris has already taken steps in both of these areas, but there is more progress to make."
She is currently in an assessment phase, studying current campus and community storm water plans and practices, as well as investigating management and conservation work at other campuses and communities.
Each campus is different, "Morris will have a much different plan than Duluth, for example we're so flat and they have so many hills," Roy said. Additionally, Roy is taking steps to form a water working group on campus similar to the composting group that started last year.
The Minnesota GreenCorps is an environmentally focused AmeriCorps program administered by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). This program is funded through a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service with additional support from ServeMinnesota. Partnering in this program is University of Minnesota, Morris Center for Small Towns.
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7 U.S. Code § 136c - Experimental use permits
Any person may apply to the Administrator for an experimental use permit for a pesticide. The Administrator shall review the application. After completion of the review, but not later than one hundred and twenty days after receipt of the application and all required supporting data, the Administrator shall either issue the permit or notify the applicant of the Administrator's determination not to issue the permit and the reasons therefor. The applicant may correct the application or request a waiver of the conditions for such permit within thirty days of receipt by the applicant of such notification. The Administrator may issue an experimental use permit only if the Administrator determines that the applicant needs such permit in order to accumulate information necessary to register a pesticide under section 136a of this title. An application for an experimental use permit may be filed at any time.
If the Administrator determines that the use of a pesticide may reasonably be expected to result in any residue on or in food or feed, the Administrator may establish a temporary tolerance level for the residue of the pesticide before issuing the experimental use permit.
Use of a pesticide under an experimental use permit shall be under the supervision of the Administrator, and shall be subject to such terms and conditions and be for such period of time as the Administrator may prescribe in the permit.
When any experimental use permit is issued for a pesticide containing any chemical or combination of chemicals which has not been included in any previously registered pesticide, the Administrator may specify that studies be conducted to detect whether the use of the pesticide under the permit may cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment. All results of such studies shall be reported to the Administrator before such pesticide may be registered under section 136a of this title.
The Administrator may revoke any experimental use permit, at any time, if the Administrator finds that its terms or conditions are being violated, or that its terms and conditions are inadequate to avoid unreasonable adverse effects on the environment.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the Administrator shall, under such terms and conditions as the Administrator may by regulations prescribe, authorize any State to issue an experimental use permit for a pesticide. All provisions of section 136i of this title relating to State plans shall apply with equal force to a State plan for the issuance of experimental use permits under this section.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the Administrator may issue an experimental use permit for a pesticide to any public or private agricultural research agency or educational institution which applies for such permit. Each permit shall not exceed more than a one-year period or such other specific time as the Administrator may prescribe. Such permit shall be issued under such terms and conditions restricting the use of the pesticide as the Administrator may require. Such pesticide may be used only by such research agency or educational institution for purposes of experimentation.
A prior section 5 of actJune 25, 1947, was classified to section 135c of this title prior to amendment of act June 25, 1947, by Pub. L. 92–516.
1991—Subsecs. (b), (e), (f). Pub. L. 102–237 substituted "the Administrator" for "he" before "may" in subsec. (b), before "finds" in subsec. (e), and before "may" in subsec. (f).
1988—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 100–532, § 801(q)(1)(D), substituted "136i" for "136b".
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 100–532, § 801(d), substituted "require. Such pesticide" for "require: Provided, That such pesticide".
1978—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–396, § 10(1), provided for review of application, issuance or nonissuance of experimental use permit within prescribed period including reasons for denial, correction of application, and waiver of conditions and substituted provision for filing an application for experimental use permit at any time for prior provision for filing at the time of or before or after an application for registration is filed.
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 95–396, § 10(2), substituted in first sentence "shall" for "may" where first appearing.
1975—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 94–140 added subsec. (g).
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–532 effective on expiration of 60 days after Oct. 25, 1988, see section 901 of Pub. L. 100–532, set out as a note under section 136 of this title.
For effective date of section, see section 4 of Pub. L. 92–516, set out as a note under section 136 of this title.
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Hello all, I just wanted to inform the AO community about a change between 2000 and XP that I thought can be a serious security matter for administrators wanting to lock-down windows boxes, or just for the security consious users. (Bear with me)
For my particular setup, I don't believe in leaving "file and print sharing" running on any computer that is a workstation. I have a linux server running that I use to store all files my home network needs with samba for windows access.
Long story short, I have discovered that the ability to change users access level (i.e. users, power users, administrators, etc) has been linked THROUGH the server service (and therefore, by default file and print sharing).
This behavior does not exist in windows 2000 (at least not as of SP3, I haven't been willing to put SP4 on yet as I have heard lots of problems with that) as I uninstalled file and print sharing and was still able to access the "member of" tab and change user rights.
Perhaps I'm just being paranoid, but nonetheless, I believe in making my machines/network as secure as possible, and I personally consider this to be unacceptable.


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I would like to draw attention to a unique occurance that I have noticed today and last night... I was sitting on 144.200.0 usb with spectran running on the compy for no good reason, when suddenly i noticed a carrier sweeping down through my scope. By itself, this would be nothing special, BUT I recognized a pattern: the sweep rate was not linear, but resembled that of doppler-shift from a passing LEO satellite! it started out at one rate, then got faster as it passed through my IF, and past zero-beat. I retuned down, and continued to observe it become slower, finally fading-out rather abruptly while still sweeping down at a slower rate. I could not find any reason why any terrestrial signal might do this, so I looked through my list of sats on Orbitron, to see if there was any hardware that had passed recently. I noticed that "PEHUENSAT-1[+]" had JUST LOS my horizon on it's ascending orbit, and had been almost directly overhead a few minutes before. I made a mental note, and decided to check again on a future pass to see if it happened again, just to rule-out other possibilities. Sure enough, this morning on orbit # 4414, I was again, monitoring 144.200.0 usb and doing other tasks when I looked over at the PC and saw the same pattern. A check of Orbitron, showed that PO-63 just SO happens to be almost LOS decending from overhead. This brings a question which begs to be answered: How can this signal seem to be coming from this satellite? As far I as I can tell by searching google, the satellite is no longer functioning. could it be a reflection of a terrestrial signal, or could it be generated somehow by a malfunctioning onboard transmitter? I would like to hear from others about comparable observations or other insight. Thanks, Auke, VE6PWN DO33 _______________________________________________ Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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More than any other skill, glass blowing has allowed Tacoma, Wash., to emerge from Seattle's shadow. Carve out a couple of hours from a leisurely weekend of museum-hopping, shopping and sightseeing, and you'll take home something more tangible than the usual vacation leftovers of memories and a sunburn. At the Tacoma Glassblowing Studio (114 S. 23rd St., Tacoma; [253] 383-3499, http://www.tacomaglassblowing.com. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. weekends), manager Brian Farmer shepherded my son David and me through the process. It began by selecting colors and design, then rolling, cooling, reheating (up to 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit), blowing and shaping. By the time we were done, two amorphous blobs of molten glass had become a sapphire pumpkin and a greenish wavy bowl — ours to own after they cooled overnight. The tab: Airfare excluded, a weekend getaway for two will cost about $950, including lodging at Hotel Murano (two nights), meals ($225) and museum admissions ($66).
The bed
The hip, art-packed Hotel Murano (1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma; [866] 986-8083, http://www.hotelmuranotacoma.com) mimics a museum, with a stunning glass collection displayed throughout the property. Every floor features work by a selected artist, and images of glass works grace the stylish guest rooms. The hotel's "Hot Piece of Glass" package, starting at $309 plus tax, includes an overnight stay (Fridays or Saturdays only), valet parking, two tickets to the nearby Museum of Glass and lessons for two at the Tacoma Glassblowing Studio.
The meal
Its seafood wall murals and Formica surfaces don't offer much atmosphere, but the tacos at Vuelve a la Vida (5312 Pacific Ave., Tacoma; [253] 473-7068. Open 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. weekends) are enormous, cheap ($2.15) and satisfying. Handmade tortillas cradle a choice of meats, including birria (goat) and carnitas (pork). Just don't look for chips and salsa — big signs proclaim: "Viva la Revolution. No chips & salsa." In the mood for something more upscale? Try the flaky-crusted empanadas ($9.50), huge Caesar salads ($9) or sizzling steaks at Argentine-themed Asado (2810 6th Ave., Tacoma; [253] 272-7770, http://www.asadotacoma.com. Open for lunch on weekdays, dinner daily.
The find
More spectacular glass awaited half an hour north on Interstate 5, in the Space Needle's shadow in Seattle. Chihuly Garden and Glass (305 Harrison St., Seattle; [206] 753-4940, http://www.chihulygardenandglass.com. Open 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Fridays-Sundays; $19 adults, $17 seniors, $12 ages 4-12) opened in May 2012 and houses five decades of the work of Tacoma native Dale Chihuly. For a glimpse of some of Chihuly's whimsical personal collections (accordions on the ceiling, wooden fishing lures inset in dining tables), visit the on-site Collections Café for beef short ribs, onion soup and other way-better-than-typical museum cafe fare.
The lesson learned
If you are not averse to a minor detour on this glass-themed weekend, take in the art on four wheels amassed by Harold and Nancy LeMay at LeMay-America's Car Museum (2702 E. D St., Tacoma; [253] 779-8490, http://www.lemaymuseum.org. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily), adjacent to the Tacoma Dome. The 350-vehicle collection represents one gleaming wow after another, from a screaming yellow 1926 Marmon D-74 to the ultra-retro Flintmobile built in 1994 for the movie "The Flintstones." The winding, parking-garage-like levels can be a bit disorienting. But remember to hang a right at the DeLoreans (plural) and a left at the black El Camino and you'll return to the entry just fine, albeit a bit melancholy that the ride waiting for you in the parking lot is a rented Hyundai.
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Get moving this summer with Independent Health and YMCA of Buffalo Niagara's "Fitness in the Parks," a free program designed to encourage all Western New Yorkers to stay on track with their fitness goals.
"Fitness in the Parks" at Artpark runs June 19 through Aug. 31. It will feature Pilates classes on Wednesdays and Zumba on Saturdays from 10-11 a.m. in the lower park (guests are asked to use the South Fourth Street entrance). Everyone is welcome to participate in these free, 60-minute outdoor fitness classes, taught by YMCA certified instructors.
No registration is required. For more information and other Fitness in the Parks locations, visit www.artpark.net or ymcabuffaloniagara.org.


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|MLB Career Stats
|16th in NL
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|25th in NL
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|October 30, 2011
|RF J.D. Drew elected free agency.
|September 25, 2011
|J.D. Drew roster status changed by Boston Red Sox.
|September 13, 2011
|Boston Red Sox transferred RF J.D. Drew from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list.
|August 27, 2011
|Lowell Spinners sent RF J.D. Drew on a rehab assignment to Pawtucket Red Sox.
|August 26, 2011
|RF J.D. Drew assigned to Lowell Spinners.
|July 26, 2011
|Boston Red Sox placed RF J.D. Drew on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to July 20, 2011. Left shoulder impingement.
|July 25, 2011
|J.D. Drew roster status changed by Boston Red Sox.
WALK THIS WAY : Had 79 walks for the 2nd year in a row in 2008, the most on the Red Sox and 11th in the A.L...Walked once every 5.77 plate appearances, 2nd in the A.L. behind Jack Cust (5.39) among players with at least 400 plate appearances...Walked 3 or more times in a game on 4 occasions in 2008, tied for the 4th-highest total in the A.L...Over the last 5 seasons, is tied for 8th in the majors with an average of one walk every 6.15 plate appearances (minimum 1,500 PA)...His career figure of one walk every 6.96 plate appearances places 10th among active players with at least 3,000 plate appearances...Ranked 5th in the N.L. with a career-high 118 walks in 2004.
IN THE FIELD: Appeared in 106 games (105 starts) in right field and one in center field in 2008...Logged a .979 fielding percentage (4 E/194 TC) in right, 9th in the A.L. at that position among players with at least 150 total chances... Went 60 games without an error from May 13-July 29... Has a .980 career fielding percentage, .982 in 928 games in right, .977 in 220 games in center, and .955 in 33 games in left...Tied for 7th among A.L. right fielders with 6 assists in 2008...Led N.L. rightfielders with a .990 fielding percentage and ranked 5th among all outfielders with 12 assists, both career highs, in 2004...Compiled a .983 mark, 2nd among N.L. qualifying rightfielders, in 2006. all-star mvp: Selected as a reserve by player vote to the A.L. All-Star team in 2008, his first career selection...Played the final 10 innings in right field and was 2-for-4 with a walk, including a game-tying, 2-run homer off Cincinnati's Edinson Volquez in the 7th...Named the game's Most Valuable Player in the A.L.'s 4-3, 15-inning win at Yankee Stadium...Was the 4th Red Sox All-Star MVP, joining Carl Yastrzemski (1970), Roger Clemens (1986), and Pedro Martinez (1999)...Homer was the 17th by a Red Sox in All-Star play.
POST-SEASON EXPERIENCE: Has a career .263 (46-175) average with 6 homers and 23 RBI in 52 post-season games...Has posted a .324 (24-74) mark in 24 LCS contests, 9th best in history among players with at least 80 LCS plate appearances...Has a total of 17 RBI over 2 postseasons with Boston from 2007-08, tied with Kevin Youkilis for the most on the club in that time.
2008: Hit .263 (10-for-38) with 2 home runs and 6 RBI in all 11 of Boston's playoff games in 2008... Went 4-for-14 (.286) with one round tripper and 3 RBI in 4 ALCS games against the Angels and 6-for-24 (.250) with a homer and 3 RBI in 7 ALCS contests vs. Tampa Bay...Broke a 5-5 tie and gave the Red Sox a 2-0 series lead over the Halos with a game-winning, 2-run homer off closer Francisco Rodriguez with one out in the top of the 9th inning in Game 2 of the ALDS in Los Angeles...Marked Boston's first post-season victory in its last at-bat since Manny Ramirez' 3-run blast off Rodriguez in Game 2 of the 2007 ALDS at Fenway Park...Was the club's first road playoff victory decided in its last at-bat since an 11-inning, 7-6, win in Game 5 of the 1986 ALCS at Anaheim... Hit a walk-off 9th-inning single to score Kevin Youkilis from 2nd base and cap an historic 7-run comeback in Game 5 of the ALCS vs. the Rays, sending the series back to Tampa Bay...Was the 11th walk-off hit in club post-season history...Also stroked a 2-run, 8th-inning bomb and went 2-for-4 with 3 RBI and a run scored in Boston's 8-7 victory.2007 SUMMARY: Appeared in 140 games, including 123 starts in right field and 3 starts in center, in his 1st season in Boston...Ranked 2nd on the club in walks (79) and ranked 3rd in sacrifice flies (6)...Had 2nd highest totals of major league career for runs (84)-tied) and doubles (30)...His .270 batting average was his lowest since 2002 (.252) while he connected for just 11 homers, fewest ever in a full season.
STARTING ON A HIGH NOTE: Began his Red Sox career with a 9-game hitting streak from April 2-13, during which he hit .419 (13-for-31) with 2 doubles, a home run, 7 RBI, 6 runs and 4 walks... Was his longest hitting streak ever to start a season, with his previous high 6 games in 2002...Was leading the American League and 2nd in the majors to Miguel Cabrera (.429) after the season's first 9 games...Matched his longest hitting streak of the season, also June 20-July 1.
MORE BATTING: Was still hitting .375 on April 20 before batting just .189 (17-90) over next 32 games to drop to .221 through June 1...Had a .345 (30-87) mark over next 26 contest to improve to .265 on July 5...Hit .231 (37-160) in next 51 games and was at .252 through September 6.
FAST FINISH: Closed the season by batting .393 (24- 61) with 6 doubles, a triple, 4 home runs, 15 RBI, 14 runs and 14 walks in his final 18 games beginning September 7...Posted the 2nd best on-base percentage (.500) among major league qualifiers in that span behind David Ortiz (.534) and had the 6th best batting average...Had 3 homers and 12 RBI in his final 8 games, driving in at least one run in each contest, and hit safely in the season's final 5 contests.
HOMERS/RBI: Had a career-low 11 home runs, including a 33-game drought from April 23-June 7 and a career long 51-game homerless streak from June 23- August 25, going 166 at-bats in that drought, also a career high...Homered twice in his 1st 8 home games, including his Fenway Park debut as a member of the Red Sox on April 10 vs. Seattle, but went 47 home games between blasts on April 22 vs. the Yankees and September 11 vs. Tampa Bay...Had his 12th career 2- homer game, June 8 at Arizona and 2nd lifetime 1st inning leadoff blast, June 20 at Atlanta...In addition to career high 7 RBI contest on June 8, drove in 3 runs on 4 occasions...Had just one RBI in 15-game span, June 26-July 17 and 2 in 19 games, August 12-September 2.
Had the 2nd of Red Sox ML record tying 4 consecutive homers in 3rd inning, April 22 against New York...Also hit the 2nd of 4 consecutive 9th inning homers for the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 18, 2006 vs. San Diego.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS: Had season high 3 hits 12 times...Hit .237 (33-139) with runners in scoring position, .213 (16-75) in those situations with 2 outs and .118 (2-17) with the bases loaded...Batted .286 (100-350) against righties, but .224 (26-116) versus lefthanders, his lowest since 2003 (.218)... Started 95 games in the 5th spot in the lineup, but also started 14 games as Boston's leadoff hitter...Hit .328 (19- 58) with 4 homers and 13 RBI in 16 interleague games.
MISCELLANEOUS: Had Boston's only hit, a leadoff single in 8th, on April 11 vs. Seattle's Felix Hernandez... Recorded 1000th career hit with single on August 18 against Los Angeles...Missed games with a bruised lower back and strained right hamstring...Has appeared in 140 or more games in 3 of last 4 seasons...Was 1-for-9 as a pinch-hitter.
POSTSEASON: Batted .314 (16-51) with a homer and 11 RBI while appearing in all 14 of Boston's postseason contests with 12 starts in right...Went 2-for-11 while starting all 3 games of the ALDS vs. Los Angeles and had just 2 hits in 1st 15 total at bats in the post-season...Beginning with single in 5th inning of ALCS Game 2, had 14 hits in final 36 at bats...Ranked 2nd among the regulars with a .360 (9-25) mark in the ALCS...Started 5 of 7 games and appeared in all 7 contests, hitting safely in final 6...Went 3-for-5 with 5 RBI, including a 1st inning grand slam in Game 6 at Fenway Park...Was the 6th slam in ALCS history and the 3rd homer with the bases loaded in Red Sox post-season annals...Hit safely in 1st 3 World Series game versus Colorado before going 0-for-4 in Game 4 and batted .333 (5-15) while starting all 4 games...His ALCS grand slam was selected as the top post-season moment in fan balloting in mlb.com's This Year in Baseball Awards.2006 SUMMARY: Led the Dodgers in doubles (34), RBI (100), walks (89), and on-base percentage (.393, 10th in N.L.) and tied for first in homers (20)...ranked second on the club in games (146) and at bats (494)...established career bests for games, doubles, RBIs, and sac flies (6)...grounded into just four double plays, one every 123.5 at bats that ranked as the third best ratio in the National League...started 131 games in right field and four as the designated hitter.
SEASON RUNDOWN: Batted .340 (17-53) in season's first 14 games and was selected as the Dodgers April player of the month after hitting .306 (26-85) with four homers and 18 RBIs in 22 contests...reached base safely in all 22 April games, extending his two-season streak to 33 straight games...was still as high as .301 through May 20 before hitting at a .215 (17-79) clip over next 23 games to drop to .270 on June 21...batted safely in his next 13 games, a season high, at .396 (19-48), improving to .293 through July 7...had a .240 (35-146) average in next 47 games and was at .274 on Sept. 1...finished the year with a .333 (26-78) average, six homers, and 23 RBIs in his final 25 games, going 6-for-15 with 7 RBIs in the last 4 contests.
HOMERS/RBI: Recorded his third career 20-homer season in 2006...went deep nine times in his first 47 games before a 43-game homerless drought from June 2-July 26...ended that span with third career grand slam, July 28 against Washington...had 11 homers in final 54 games, including eight in final 32 contests...of those eight, four gave the Dodgers a lead...hit two homers in a game twice, both at Arizona, May 2 and Aug. 25...hit the second of four consecutive ninth inning homers for the Dodgers on Sept. 18 versus San Diego to tie game at 9-9...had a pair of pinch homers, May 20 versus the Angels, his 150th career blast, and Sept. 20 against Pittsburgh...Drove in 100 runs for first time in 2006...were most RBIs for a Dodger outfielder since Shawn Green (114 in 2002)...had four RBIs twice, July 28 versus Washington and Aug. 25 at Arizona, and drove in three runs on five occasions.
OF NOTE: Batted .297 (44-148) with runners in scoring position and has a .295 (233-790) career mark with runners at second and third base...had a .311 (50-161) average with two outs in an inning...grounded into just one double play in final 96 games, including 92 straight contests without a GIDP, June 5-Sept. 26...ended Andy Pettitte's no-hit bid with seventh inning homer, April 24 at Houston...went 3-for-8 with two homers and three RBIs as a pinch-hitter.2005 In his first season as a Dodger, batted .286 with 15 homers and 36 RBI in 72 games, missing more than half the season due to injuries ... His 72 games played were a career-low, as he had never before played in less than 100 games in a full big league season ... Missed just four of the Dodgers' first 70 games ... Was diagnosed with chondromalacia in his left knee and missed five games from June 22-26 ... Returned to the lineup for the next six games before being hit by a pitch from Arizona's Brad Halsey on July 3 and suffering a fracture in the ulnar styloid bone of his left wrist, forcing him to miss the remainder of the season ... At the time, ranked fifth in the National League with 51 walks and eighth in the league with a .412 on-base percentage...in his final 24 games of the season, batted .358 (29-for-81) with eight homers ... Reached base via hit, walk or hit by pitch in his final 25 games of the season ... After starting the year 0-for-25, batted .317 (72-for-227) with 46 walks, 15 homers and 36 RBI in 67 games before his season-ending injury ... Batted .304 (56-for-184) vs. right-handers and .331 (45-for-136) at Dodger Stadium ... Hit .304 (21-for-69) in day games ... In the month of June, batted .347 (25-for-72) with five homers and 10 RBI ... Hit five of his 15 homers against the Diamondbacks while batting .348 (16-for-46) against Arizona ... Made 44 starts in right field, during which the Dodgers posted a 23-21 record...made 28 starts in center field ... Made his Dodger debut on Opening Day, April 5 at San Francisco ... Snapped a season-starting 0-for-25 streak with consecutive hits in his final two at-bats on April 10 at Arizona ... Hit his first home run as a Dodger on April 17 vs. San Diego, a two-run shot off Tim Redding ... From April 10-27, batted .392 (20-for-51) with 10 walks, three homers and eight RBI in 16 games ... Had a season-high eight-game hitting streak from June 1-10, during which he hit .448 (13-for-29) ... Had two multi-homer games: June 2 vs. Milwaukee and July 2 vs. Arizona, the eighth and ninth of his career ... Finished the season with 14 two-hit games, three three-hit games and one four-hit game ... Had eight multi-RBI games, including two games with three RBI ... Batted .282 with three home runs and seven RBI in Spring Training ... Underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder (Dr. Ralph Gambardella) and right wrist (Dr. Norm Zemel) on Sept. 20. 2004 Set career highs with 31 home runs, 93 runs batted in, 128 runs scored, 158 hits, 118 walks, 28 doubles and eight triples in 145 games for the National League Eastern Division Champion Atlanta Braves...finished sixth in voting for the National League Most Valuable Player Award and ranked among the league leaders in several offensive categories, including runs scored (4th), on base percentage (4th),walks (5th) and slugging percentage (9th)...while playing the majority of his games in right field, ranked fifth in the National League in outfield assists (12) and committed just three errors in 145 games in the field...also registered a career-best 22-game hitting streak from June 30-July 26, the second-longest streak in the National League in 2004 behind Jeff Kent (25 games)...was one of nine National League players and 13 Major Leaguers to bat .300 or better with at least 100 runs scored, 30 homers and 90 runs batted in...joined Vladimir Guerrero, Bob Abreu and Carlos Lee as the only Major Leaguers to combine those numbers with 10 or more stolen bases. 2003 Began the season on the disabled list as he recovered from off-season surgery on his right patella tendon. Also disabled for much of August due to an oblique injury. Appeared in a career-low 100 games (70 games started)... Activated from the DL on April 20... Batted .338 (25-for-74) with runners in scoring position and drove home 20 of 94 runners who were in scoringposition... Hit his first homer of the season on May 6 at Cin. (off C.Reitsma in the ninth) - his first career pinch-hit homer... Crushed a 514-foot two-run homer on May 16 vs. Chi's Matt Clement (the fourth-longest HR at Busch since 1988) that proved to be the game-winner... Belted a 432-foot, 3-run homer May 26 vs. Hou... Batted .320 (8 x 25) as pinch hitter, including a 2-run pinch HR June 12 at Bos... Went 3 x 5 July 12 vs. SD with a homer, double, walk and three runs scored... On Sept. 3 at Chi. he made his first game appearance since August 8 and was 3 x 5 with a grand slam homer (off F.Sanchez). J.D. had been placed on the DL with a right oblique strain August 9 September 1 - his sixth career stint on the D.L... Hit safely in 11 of his 21 games (18 x 56; .321 BA) following his return from the DL. 2002 Appeared in just 135 games in an injury-plagued season and batted .252 with 18 home runs and 56 RBI...His 12 game-winning RBI ranked second on the Cardinals (A. Pujols-14)... Belted a 496-foot homer on 4/12 vs. Hou.; the eighth-longest homer ever measured at Busch Stadium... Reached base five times on 4/15 at Ari., with a homer, triple, single, two walks and two RBI...Matched his career high with four hits on 4/26 at Mon...Provided the game-winning RBI in back-to-back games 5/22-23 vs. Hou...Reached safely in all five plate appearances 6/1 vs. PIT, going 3-for-3 with two doubles, a single and two walks...Tendinitis in his right knee forced J.D. to miss 11 games while on the disabled list, 6/28 to 7/13...His homer (#15) on 9/1 at CHI was his first since 7/25... His 16th homer didn't come until 9/24 vs. Ari., but it snapped an 0-for-20 skid and broke a 0-0 tie in the seventh inning...Had surgery, performed by Dr. George Paletta, on 10/17 to remove the diseased portion of his right patella tendon...Minor surgery, also by Dr. Paletta, on 1/31/03 to remove a cyst from the ball of his left foot...2002 POSTSEASON HIGHLIGHTS: Batted .318 with two home runs in seven postseason games (five starts)...Division Series (Ari.): Went just 2-for-9 (.222), but homered off Curt Schilling in the third inning of Game 2...NLCS (SF): Played in all five games against San Francisco and started three games...Batted .360 (5-for- 13) and hit safely in the first four games of the series...Clubbed a pinch homer to left-center field off Tim Worrell in the eighth inning of Game 1. 2001 Appeared in just 109 games in an injury-plagued season, but made the most of his playing time, batting .323 with 27 home runs, 73 RBIs and 80 runs scored...Finished third in the National League with a .360 batting average with runners on base...Hit well in the clutch, batting .337 (33-for-98) with five homers with runners in scoring position...Fifty of his 121 hits went for extra-bases and 41 of his 73 RBIs came via home runs...Batted .332 with 24 homers off righthanded pitchers and .289 with three homers off lefthanders...Of his 14 infield hits, seven were bunt singles...Hit safely in 58 of his last 78 games (95-for-281; .338)...Had 13 RBIs in his last 22 games and had 21 RBIs in his last 36 games...Batted .478 (11-for-23) with three HRs in his seven-game hitting streak, 4/27-5/5...Went 3-for-4 with a single, double and home run on 5/1 at FLA...Had five homers and 11 RBIs during 5/7-13 homestand vs. PIT and CHI. He batted .393 (11-for-28) during the homestand and homered in three straight games, 5/11-13 vs. CHI. Reached base four times and stole a base on 5/12 (two singles, one home run and a walk)...After batting just .258 in April, hit .366 with 10 homers and 27 RBIs in May...Launched only the 17th HR to reach the rightfield upper deck at Veterans Stadium in PHI on 5/19...Batted .405 during his career-best 11-game hitting streak, 5/19-31....Hit his 21st HR on 6/16 vs. CWS and posted his fifth three-hit game of the season...Had two stretches in which he missed substantial playing time. Was hit by a David Wells pitch on 6/17 and missed 35 games with a broken right pinky finger (was on the 15-day disabled list 6/18-7/30). Was activated from the DL on 7/31 and went 2-for-4 with two RBIs vs. ATL in his return...Suffered a lower back sprain on 8/7 at MON and missed another 12 games. Returned from that injury on 8/20 at CIN and went 2-for-5 with a homer and two runs...Reached base four times on 9/28 vs. PIT, with a double, two infield singles (one bunt hit) and a walk...Posted his sixth career two-homer game 10/3 at MIL. 2001 POSTSEASON - Made four starts and played in all five games in the Division Series vs. Arizona...batted only .154 (2-for-13) in the series...tied the decisive Game 5 at one run apiece with an eighth-inning solo homer off Curt Schilling...it was the only run Schilling allowed during the series. 2000 In just his second full season in the big leagues, J.D. had a fine campaign in which he batted .295, with 18 home runs, 57 RBI, 73 runs scored and 17 stolen bases... made 108 starts, including 78 in RF, 17 in CF and 13 in LF... hit safely in 49 of his last 62 starts (70-for-225, .311, 7 HR), raising his batting average from .270 on 6/20 to .295... 24 of his 57 RBI came with two outs... each of his 18 HR came off right-handed pitchers... was solid against the other three NL playoff teams this season, batting a combined .344 (21-for-61) with two home runs and eight RBI vs. NY (.409; 9-for-22), SF (.333; 6-for-18) and ATL (.286; 6-for-21)... finished second on the Club with six outfield assists (Jim Edmonds had 10)... his four bunt hits were second on the Club to Fernando Vina's 10... batted .321 (26-for-81) in August and .280 (26-for-93) in September... his pinch double delivered the winning run in a 7-6 victory vs. CHI on 9/16... hit HR No. 18 9/14 vs. CHI... swiped his 17th base on 9/11 at PIT... sparked a win on 9/2 vs. NY with a leadoff 2B in the ninth inning. Belted a two-run homer on 9/1 vs. NY and stole his 13th base... hit HR No. 14 on 7/5, surpassing his 1999 rookie total of 13... walked career-high four times 8/18 vs. PHI and tied the game with a two-run single in eighth inning... had a career-high four hits on 8/13 at MIL... drove home the game-winning RBI in 11th inning on 8/7 vs. FLA... suffered a sprained left ankle on 7/7 vs. SF and was on the disabled list 7/8 to 7/27... missed 15 games, but went 2-for-4 with a double in his first game off the DL (7/27 vs. ARI)... had a career-high 10-game hitting streak (15-37, .405, 2 HR), 6/22-7/2... batted only .227 (20-for-88) in June, but had six home runs and 15 RBI in that month... enjoyed a spectacular game 6/24 vs. LA, homering (No. 12), throwing a runner out at the plate, tying the game with a two-out hit in 11th and making a diving grab in 12th... homered twice on 6/6 vs. KC... collected three hits on 5/9 at SF... hit two HRs on 4/6 vs. CHI, including his first career grand slam (off Brian Williams). Also collected a career-best five RBI. 1999 Played 104 games in his first full season in the big leagues, batting .242 with 13 home runs, 39 RBI and 19 stolen bases... tallied 72 runs scored, a rate of 112 runs over the course of a full season... made 93 starts in the outfield, including 92 in center and one in left, and led the Club with nine outfield assists and six outfield double plays... also paced the squad with six triples and five bunt hits; his six game-winning RBI ranked fourth on the team... ranked in the top five among National League rookies in home runs (5th), stolen bases (2nd), walks (4th), triples (2nd) and outfield assists (2nd)... was successful in 19 of 22 stolen base attempts, including 2-for-2 at third base... batted .301 with runners in scoring position... posted 19 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI contests... 35 of his 89 hits (39%) went for extra bases... enjoyed his greatest success against MON (8-for-21; .381), COL (9-for-25; .360) and HOU (9-for-30; .300)... reached base safely four times and equaled a career best with three hits at MIL on 4/19; hit his first homer of the year, tripled, singled and walked in the 6-2 Cards win... went 3-for-4 and matched a Cardinals single-game record when he scored five runs at MON on 5/1... strained his right quadriceps muscle in May and was placed on the 15-day disabled list on 5/15; went on an injury rehabilitation assignment to Triple-A Memphis before being optioned on 6/17; hit .299 with two HR and 15 RBI in 25 games at Memphis... was recalled from Memphis on 6/30; hit safely in 21 of his first 29 games after the recall and lifted his batting average from .230 to a season-high .268... hit an inside-the-park home run (the Cardinals first since 1997) off Trever Miller in a 10-4 win at HOU on 7/1; went 2-for-5 with a pair of RBI... hit safely in eight straight games from 7/11 to 7/21... drew a pair of walks and stole a career-best two bases 7/30 vs. COL... posted a career-high nine-game hitting streak from 8/10 to 8/21; batted .333 (11-for-33) in the streak; hit safely in 14 of 15 games from 8/10 to 8/27... homered in back-to-back games at PHI (8/11) and vs. CHI (8/13)... hit a home run (No. 12) and equaled a career best with four RBI 9/18 vs. HOU... clubbed his 13th HR on 9/20 at CHI. 1998 Signed a Major League contract on 7/3 and reported to the Class AA Arkansas Travelers the following day... played in 14 games with the Cardinals after joining the Club on 9/8... batted .417 and led Cards rookies with five home runs... batted .471 (8-for-17) with runners on base and .500 (4-for-8) with six RBI with men in scoring position... two of his four hits against left-handers were home runs... was 0-for-2 in his big league debut 9/8 vs. CHI, the same game Mark McGwire hit his record-breaking 62nd home run... collected his first Major League hit, a 438-foot home run off lefty Gabe White, on 9/9 at CIN in his fourth big league at-bat... stroked a two-run pinch-single 9/10 at CIN... was 2-for-4 with three RBI as a Cardinal pinch-hitter... in a 9/15 doubleheader vs. PIT, was 4-for-9 with two homers and three RBI... hit his second and third homers of the year in the first game, becoming the first Cardinal rookie since Bernard Gilkey (10/5/91) to have a two-homer game... also recorded his first big league outfield assist in Game 2, throwing out Keith Osik at the plate... in the season's final series vs. MON, was 8-for-15 with six RBI... was 3-for-4 with two homers and four RBI on 9/25, notching his second multi-homer game in just his 12th big league contest... played 30 games for the St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League before signing with the Cardinals... joined the Arkansas club on 7/4 at Wichita, Kan... was 2-for-4 with one RBI that night, then went 3-for-4 with two homers the next day... was promoted to Class AAA Memphis on 8/10... played in the Arizona Fall League with the Peoria Javelinas, batting .248 with four homers and 15 RBI in 31 games. 1997 Picked second overall in the June amateur draft by Philadelphia... signed with the St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League after he and the Phillies were unable to agree on a contract... named the Northern League's Rookie of the Year after batting .341 with 18 homers and 50 RBI in 44 games with St. Paul... concluded his third, and final, collegiate season at Florida State by receiving a cavalcade of honors as a junior, topped by the 1997 Golden Spikes Award, given annually to the nation's top amateur player, and the Dick Howser Award, emblematic of the National Player of the Year as chosen by collegiate coaches... also was tabbed Player of the Year by Baseball America, The Sporting News, Collegiate Baseball and the Atlantic Coast Conference... voted first-team All-America by Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, the ABCA, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and The Sporting News... led Florida State to a 50-17 record and an ACC Tournament title... named to the ACC Tournament and NCAA East Regional All-Tournament teams... recorded the first 30-homer, 30-steals season in NCAA Division I history (31 homers, 32 steals)... became just the third Division I player to record a "triple-triple" by notching 106 hits, 100 RBI and 110 runs scored in 67 games... set Florida State single-season records with a 34-game hitting streak, .455 batting average, .961 slugging average, 84 walks and three grand slams... set ACC single-season marks for homers, runs, slugging average and walks, and tied a conference record with 224 total bases... during his 34-game hitting streak, batted .524 with 20 homers and 62 RBI... concluded his tenure at Florida State as the school's career leader in batting (.391), slugging (.789) and grand slams (three), and the ACC career leader in slugging and home runs (69). 1996 As a sophomore outfielder at Florida State, Drew ranked among NCAA Division I leaders with 21 home runs (tied, 10th), 94 RBI, (tied, seventh) and 183 total bases (tied, ninth)... helped lead Florida State to an ACC regular season title and a 52-17 overall record... led the Seminoles in batting (.386), runs (90), triples (five), homers and RBI... led the ACC in homers and RBI and ranked second in batting... homered 6/4 vs. Florida in the College World Series, setting a record for most career homers (five) in Series play... voted first-team All-America by Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, the ABCA and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association... named to the ACC All-Conference team... was a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award... played for Team USA (and was a finalist for the Olympic team roster) and batted .268 with six homers and nine RBI in 41 at-bats. 1995 As a freshman at Florida State, Drew was named to Baseball America's and Collegiate Baseball's Freshman All-America teams and to the College World Series All-Tournament team... helped Florida State to a 53-16 record and an ACC tournament title... ranked second on the Seminoles in home runs (17) and RBI (63) while hitting .325, third among Florida State's regulars... tied a College World Series record for most homers in a Series, four, and became the first player to hit three home runs in a Series game, 6/6 vs. USC, a 16-11 loss that eliminated Florida State from the tournament... also homered against Oklahoma, 6/2.


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At CPAC gathering, Romney advocates strong U.S. militaryBy PAUL WEST
Tribune Washington Bureau
March 15. 2013 10:04PM
OXON HILL, Md. - Returning to a public stage for the first time since losing the presidential election, Mitt Romney called on Republicans Friday to put a powerful U.S. military at the top of their agenda.
The 2012 Republican nominee had a distrustful relationship with some conservatives during his presidential run, but he was warmly received by hundreds of activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual meeting of activists from that wing of the party.
Romney's call echoed his 2012 campaign promise to expand the Pentagon budget.
Romney advised anyone who would be President to "do whatever you can to keep America strong, to keep America prosperous and free and the most powerful nation on earth." He added that "American's pre-eminent position is not guaranteed," mentioning China, Russia and "the jihadists" as forces that could surpass the United States this century.
Although he singled out his former running mate, Paul Ryan, for praise, Romney did not address the spending plan that the House Budget chairman released this week. It would devote $2 trillion less for defense over the next 10 years than Romney and Ryan proposed in the campaign.
Greeted by loud applause and cheers of "Mitt, Mitt," the former Massachusetts governor, who has said he is done with elective politics after two unsuccessful presidential runs, began by thanking the conservative crowd for its past support.
"Of course, I left the race disappointed that I didn't win," he said, adding that setbacks in the past had paved the way for future Republican victories. "It's up to us to make sure that we learn from our mistakes, and my mistakes."
Romney said he rejected the "fashionable" pessimism about the future of the conservative movement and the Republican Party.
"Like you, I believe a conservative vision can attract a majority of Americans," he said, acknowledging that, "as someone who just lost the last election," he is probably not the best source of advice on a way forward.
His 15-minute speech was largely thematic and sidestepped divisions within the GOP over efforts to broaden the party's appeal. In a nod to the isolationist sentiment that runs through much of the young, libertarian crowd, he leavened his praise for U.S. military interventions in Iraq and elsewhere by injecting the phrase "whatever you think of them."
Republicans would do well to look to its state governors for solutions to the nation's problems, Romney said. He singled out several, including Georgia's Nathan Deal, for promoting charter schools, and Michigan's Rick Snyder, who signed legislation designed to weaken the power of labor unions.
Romney has often sought out CPAC as a venue for important appearances, even though many of those attending the annual events remained suspicious of the depth of his conservatism.
In 2008, he pulled out of the Republican primary campaign at a CPAC conference. Four years later, in another CPAC speech, he declared himself "severely conservative," a description that struck some as a ham-handed appeal to the ranks.
This time, he appeared to flub a date likely to go down as the most pivotal of his life, his defeat in the Nov. 6. election. "We may not have carried on Nov. 7, but we haven't lost the country we love and we haven't lost our way," Romney said.


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shells in cakes. The latter were the multitude of white displays that rose like rivers from the beach.
Rocket Dawg B.J. Whitehouse was on the radio bringing vital information and patriotic music to his fans thoughout the island. At the same time, he was putting together the American flag later to be illuminated on the beach. We roamed the beach supervising the activities and asking stupid questions.
At 8:30 all was at the ready. Cars and trucks were moved to leeward, across the road. The crew got its fire-proof coats ready and discussed assignments. All of the shells, with the exception of the ground display which was fired electronically, are fired by hand with road flares.
Eddawg was going to light the shells in the reloadable steel banks that hold the big boys. Earlier, he had told me, "When these things go they have to be respected."
Freddawg and Tonydawg were to work the racks. "I'm going to be running the dance of death among the flowers of fire," said Tonydawg with tongue planted firmly in cheek. "Do you want to fire one this year Jimdawg?" he asked. We quickly demurred,
pleading a shortage of guts.
At 9:03, with the road shut
It was the biggest KA-BOOM ever on Jamestown. The light
and sound of 1,114 exploding shells over a period of 30 minutes reverberated off the walls of the canyon known as Mackerel Cove.
Islanders told us it was the best yet. That was because of the generosity of Jamestown residents, organizations, and businesses.
After two fog-outs in July, Saturday's shoot began shortly after 2 p.m., when the truck with the shells arrived from New Hampshire and the racks and pipes came in by truck from Barrington. The crew began nailing them together into cubes. The workers consisted of Ray Medley of Barrington, Telstar Display Fireworks' local representative; Rocket Dawgz Fred Brome, Tony Gutierrez and Ed Booth; Bill Fields of Fairhaven, Peter Butler of Newport and Ray and Jonathon Pezzullo of Barrington.
When we arrived at 6, Ray Medley told us everything was on schedule. Aside from a heat haze, it looked like a go for the evening. The crew was working on the last rack for the finale and beginning to load the shells into the tubes, well over a thousand, all by hand. There's a lot of heavy work, and on a hot day like Saturday, it becomes dirty, sweaty work.
This year's ground display consisted of 15 candles and 1,000 down and a complete stillness and quiet in the air, the first shell went up. For the next 30 minutes, Jamestowners had their Independence Day celebration being observed on the eve of V.J. Day that 60 years ago saw the end of World War II. Two events hundreds of years apart, but both very significantly entwined in the formation and continuation of our nation's love of freedom.
Kudos to the police and fire departments for their great assistance. The police moved the traffic in and out smartly and the firefighters made sure the sparks did no damage in the dry conditions. The recreation department raked the beach for a level setup and the harbormaster kept the boats in the cove at a safe distance.
Also many thanks to Bill Murphy for the loan of his generator that provided light in the beach restrooms that the town didn't want unlocked or lit.
Rocket Dawg thanks to Conanicut Marine Services Inc., Thomas Harris and Maureen Coleman of East Shore Road, and Bruce Sundlun of Seaside Drive for their donations. The money gives us a nice jump on next year's blast. One final KA-BOOM!!!
To the Jamestown Moonbathers: All flags were at full staff last weekend.
Jim Pemantell plays his bluegrass mandolin even during Patriots games. He turns down the audio on the TV and strums away. Other times he practices along with a CD or while listening to a bluegrass show on WRIU.
On Sundays, he sometimes drives out to Westport to jam with other musicians, and on the third Thursday of every month he hangs out and plays along with other instrumentalists at Main Street Music in East Greenwich.
"I play every day," he told us. His love for the bluegrass mandolin comes across in his conversations about the instrument. The bluegrass shaped mandolin came into use some 70 years ago and has a different sound to it," Jim said.
You'd think that the retired Jamestown Police Department chief has been playing the mandolin for a long time. Actually, the 67 year old's been with the instrument only five years. He said he's always liked the sound of the mandolin so he began taking lessons. "I took a few lessons from a guy in town. He moved away right after that. I hope it wasn't because of my playing," he said, laughing. From there he learned his strumming from books.
But Jim goes for professional guidance at least once a year. He just got back from his second trip to a bluegrass getogether called Augusta Heritage at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, W. V. Jim said it's in the middle of nowhere. Musicians come together for five days of lectures in the mornings and afternoons and jamming in the evenings. They stay in college dorms and eat cafeteria food, and Jim said there's nothing like it. If you want to take an elective and learn another instrument, you can. Families come along for square and contra dancing.
"I've made a lot of friends from all over the country. They all sing, and they asked me why I don't sing. I told them I don't think bluegrass and a Rhode Island accent go together." Jim brings home tapes from his daily lectures and studies them. "It's a great time," he added.
If you haven't heard Jim play, you'll be able to tonight. He'll join up with Cape Cod guitarist John Titmas to accompany him for an appearance at the Jamestown Community Chorus' Talent Show beginning this evening at 7:30 at the Community Center.
We asked Jim how he is doing with his other love, running. Over the years he's been in 39 marathons. "I'm getting in shape to get in shape," he replied. Jim plans to run in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 31 and in the Philadelphia Marathon Nov. 20.
You can bet he'll be looking for jams in both those cities.
Kudos to the Newport Gulls for winning the New England Collegiate Baseball League championship. It was the Gulls third possession of the Fay Vincent Cup since coming to Newport in 2001.
*** A letter from grandson Tom at the Yawgoog Boy Scout reservation last week:
"Dear Grandma and Grandpa,
"I am having a great time at camp! I am working on 2 merit badges, First Aid and Citizenship in the Nation. How is it going back in Jamestown. It is really hot here and im (cq) swimming all the time, when I can. Today tuesday I went kayaking on the pond. Yesterday I went fishing. I got to go! "Love Tom
"P.S. send food and drink in package please!"
For the past four years, Tammy Fasano has been perched on a platform at the rear of the Community Center's auditorium aiming her spotlight on the Jamestown Community Theatre's activities taking place on the stage.
Tammy's presence there has been pretty much dictated by her daughter Allie's very talented enthusiasm for the stage. Putting the spotlight on Allie must have brought much joy to Tammy.
When the CBC Players production of "Enchanted April" opens at the Central Baptist Church on the weekend of Sept. 9, Tammy will find herself on the other end of the spotlight.
For the first time ever, she will be on stage. We asked her why she tried out, and she replied, "I didn't audition. Someone else did but then couldn't take the part. Then someone said, 'Let's call Tammy' and I came in for a reading."
She was offered the part of Costanza, an outspoken older woman who for her entire life ran a large house named San Salvatore and took care of its family. Costanza ruled the house and that is true even when the family decides to rent it out.
As if being on stage for the first time weren't enough, all of Tammy's lines are in Italian. "I don't see any reason I can't do it, it's not me, not Tammy," she said. Actually, Italian is a familiar language to Tammy. Her husband Steve's family is in Italy and the Fasanos have traveled there frequently.
Is she enjoying her new role? "It's an honor working with the other actors. It's a small, very talented group. It's also a beautiful story."
"Enchanted April" will be staged the weekends of Sept. 9 and 16.
Kudos to islander Scott Ferguson, winner in the Laser full-rig class in the Buzzards Bay Regatta at the New Bedford Yacht Club.
Do you have a cat that insists on doing some indoor gardening? Here's what Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic has to say about that in his Pet Tip of the Week.
"Do you have cats that insist on digging in your potted plants? A Jamestown resident, Mrs. S., passed on this trick for cats. Buy either some smelly potpouri (citrus seems to work) or those scented pine cones that are popular around the winter holidays and bury them around the edges of your plants.
"When you water the plants, the smell will permeate the soil, give the house a nice scent, and the cats absolutely hate the smell and will not go digging around in there. Other less smelly options include using black or cayenne pepper and sprinkling it around the soil or getting more of a bark mulch layer on top of the soil because cats do not like to dig in either of those. Good luck and thanks Mrs. S.!" A'CHOO!!
Happy belated birthday to Diane Wright who celebrated "the big one" on Aug. 2. Hugs, please!
Rose Fraley was the first to come in with the completed lyrics for the three songs scattered in last week's column.
"We joined the Navy to see the world, but what did we see? We saw the sea."
"A you're adorable, B you're so beautiful, C you're a cutie full of charms, D you're a darling and E you're exciting and F you're a feather in my arms..." We're not sure of the name of this song but we think we saw and heard Ray Bolger sing and dance it in "High Button Shoes" at the Shubert in NYC.
The last was a patriotic song during WWII. "Buy a bond today, bonds for freedom that's what we're selling, buy a bond today...."
Sally Schott e-mailed all the lyrics for the alphabet song right through to WXYZ. "It's fun to wander through the alphabet with you to tell you what you mean to me!"
Tomorrow's full moon is the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.
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In the past week, the SPCA of Niagara received another mass rescue of animals - cats this time - plus became the beneficiary of new security cameras to that the SPCA hopes will prevent any future vandalism at its Lockport Road site in Wheatfield.
The SPCA is caring for 50 cats rescued from a closed up, feces-filled house at 155 Roncroff Drive in North Tonawanda. Code enforcement officers were notified late last week of a strong smell of cats coming from the vacant house.
Shelter Director Amy Lewis said Wednesday that the SPCA was waiting for the owner to sign over the cats for adoption and was hoping it would be done that day.
Lewis said the cats were originally the owner's cats or stray cats the woman let into the house. Although the owner was apparently not living in the house, she was still bringing food and water, Lewis said.
She described most of the cats as "not exactly social." Only about 10 could be put up for adoption immediately. For the others, volunteers are coming in to help socialize them. All are relatively healthy, although one cat has a broken leg and some others have skin conditions.
This is the second time in recent weeks that the SPCA has had a mass influx of animals. On Feb. 2 (see Tribune Feb. 7), 64 Pomeranian dogs were rescued from poor conditions in a Lockport residence. Within days, the SPCA had a waiting list of more than 100 people interested in adopting the dogs.
"Unfortunately, cats are a different story entirely," said Lewis, herself a cat owner, adding that there had been no calls about the cats yet.
Lewis said there are no plans to euthanize any of the cats. Those that cannot be socialized will be offered as barn cats.
The cats and the rest of the animals at the SPCA of Niagara will now be safer.
According to the SPCA of Niagara Board of Directors, eight Swann security cameras were installed by a dedicated group of volunteers last Sunday, along with all the equipment necessary to monitor and record activity at the scene from remote locations. The new system has high-resolution night vision, which ensures 24-hour surveillance and protection. These safety measures were added to the burglar and fire alarm systems already in place.
The added security was made possible by a generous donation from a woman who asked to remain anonymous, but provided the funding in honor of her friend, the late Cheryl Ann Harrington Curry, an avid animal-lover.
In recent months, several occurrences have been cause for concern at the shelter. During a summer fundraiser, someone broke into the building and opened the cages of several dogs with aggression issues. Luckily, shelter dog control officers were in the process of giving a tour and were able to secure the situation. Then, last week a mysterious Dumpster fire (see Feb. 28 Tribune) filled the stray dog kennels with noxious smoke.


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The price of oil rose above $88 a barrel on Friday as traders cautiously returned to commodity markets following sharp sell-offs this week.
Benchmark crude for May delivery rose 28 cents to finish at $88.01 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Crude has lost about $9 a barrel since the beginning of the month, as various reports highlighted slower growth in China and still-sluggish growth in the U.S. and elsewhere, while oil supplies remained high.
At the same time investors sold off gold, silver and other commodities, and looked to the stock market for better returns. The stock market had a volatile week as many of those investors bought and sold shares, looking to consolidate their positions.
Analysts said relatively low prices for oil and a weaker dollar rekindled interest among buyers.
"Crude oil prices rebounded and climbed higher on Friday ... supported by a weaker U.S. dollar and a strong rebound in the global equity markets and increased risk appetite," said a note from Sucden Financial Research in London. A weaker dollar makes crude cheaper — and a more attractive investment — for traders using other currencies.
Prices were also supported by the possibility that oil-producing countries could reduce output.
Some of the members of OPEC — which includes some the world's leading oil exporters like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Venezuela and Nigeria — have said that $100 a barrel is a "reasonable" price for both producers and consumers.
In London Brent crude, which is used to price oil used by many U.S. refiners, rose 52 cents to end at $99.65 on the ICE Futures exchange.
"If the oil price were to fall further, this would step up the pressure on OPEC to take action," said a report from analysts at Commerzbank in Frankfurt. "At present, OPEC is producing (around) 800,000 barrels per day more crude oil than is needed given the growing shale oil production in the U.S. and the weaker than expected global oil demand."
Meanwhile many drivers in the U.S. are seeing lower prices at the pump. The national average for a gallon of regular fell about half a cent at $3.51 a gallon. That's about five cents lower than a week ago and almost 39 cents below a year ago.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
— Gasoline rose 2 cents to finish at $2.77 per gallon.
— Heating oil added 1 cent to end at $2.79 a gallon.
— Natural gas rose 1 cent to finish at $4.41 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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A Texas mother beat the odds this Valentine's Day by giving birth to two sets of identical twin boys, reports TODAY.
The babies were conceived without any fertility drugs and were delivered at 31 weeks by C-section. According to The Woman's Hospital of Texas, where the mother gave birth, the chances of naturally conceiving two sets of identical twins is one in 70 million. "The incidence of spontaneous quadruplets is somewhere of the order of 1 in 500,000," Dr. Brian Kirshon, a specialist in maternal and fetal medicine at Houston Perinatal Associates and the Montalvo's doctor, told TODAY. "And then if you take two sets of identical twins in the quadruplet set, the incidence must be one in many, many millions. It's an extremely rare occurrence."
Tressa and Manuel Montalvo Jr. of Houston had only been trying for one baby brother or sister to keep their 2-year-old son Memphis company. When Tressa was 10 weeks pregnant, the couple was told that they would be having twins. But they were in for an even bigger surprise when they learned at Tressa's 12-week checkup that they would be having four babies, not two. "If I wasn't already on the table lying down, I'm pretty sure I would have hit the floor," Tressa, 36, told TODAY. Manuel was thrilled: "The first thing I said was 'Home run!' and then I started jumping up and down."
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Ace and Blaine came first weighing 3 pounds, 10 ounces, and 3 pounds, 15 ounces, respectively. A minute later Cash and Dylan arrived weighing 2 pounds, 15 ounces, and 3 pounds, 6 ounces, respectively.
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Manuel has said that he'd like to keep trying for a baby girl even with a family of five boys, but Tressa isn't ready to agree to anything just yet. "My husband was quick to answer for us in interviews," she told TODAY. "For myself, I thought, 'OK, can we get through this first before I answer that?'"


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Manchester school district administration expands with three new hires
By TED SIEFER
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— The district is hiring three new administrators, including a new spokesperson for the school system.
The salaries for the spokesperson and for the other new position, an executive director to oversee a plan to improve struggling schools, are set to exceed the upper limit posted for the jobs. The salary of the other new hire — the clerk of the school board — will be more than $10,000 higher than that of her predecessor.
The Board of School Committee discussed the new employees and their proposed pay as part of the personnel report the superintendent presented at its meeting Monday.
The report indicated that the executive director would be paid $100,000 a year out of the district's general fund. The director would oversee the "Innovation Zone," a plan promoted by state and federal education officials to boost performance at seven city schools.
When the board first approved the "Innovation Zone" plan in November, the upper limit of the executive director position salary was supposed to be $80,000, and Superintendent Debra Livingston told the board that the plan would be fully funded with state and federal money.
Asked why the personnel report indicated that the position would be funded through the general fund, Livingston said that this was a mistake, and that it would in fact be paid for with federal money.
Livingston said the reason for raising the pay to six figures should be discussed in non-public session, which the board held later in the evening. After it reconvened, the board voted to approve the position at the pay of $100,000.
The new clerk, Maura Leahy, who has worked in the Office of the City Clerk, will be paid $50,000 a year, along with benefits, more than $10,000 more than previous clerk, Suzanne Sears. The board has also voted to expand the role of the clerk and to have her work at the district's administrative office. Sears had worked from home when she wasn't taking meeting minutes.
Leahy had previously been hired to be the clerk for the Charter Commission, which met last winter and spring.
Creating a public relations liaison was one of Livingston's first proposals when she became the new superintendent. The board backed hiring the public relations person to serve as a "cheerleader" for the district and to communicate with the public and the press.
First proposed as an hourly part-time job, the board backed making the position full-time and benefited, with a salary limit of $32,000.
The personnel report indicated that the new spokeswoman would be paid $38,000.
It's not clear if the board agreed to that amount on Monday.
Livingston's assistant, Tracy Mancuso, said a final version of the personnel report and information about the final votes taken at Monday's meeting would not be available until Wednesday.
Livingston did not return calls for comment on Tuesday.
The new spokesperson, who started work Tuesday, is Andrea Alley. According to her LinkedIn profile, Alley previously worked as the director of communications for the Southern New Hampshire Health System and for the New Hampshire Hospital Association.
At Monday's meeting, Ward 2 school board member Debra Gagnon Langton questioned several parts of the personnel report, including the salaries for the new executive director and spokesperson.
"I didn't support this to begin with," Langton said of the spokesperson job. "I thought teachers were more important at this point in time."


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Anthony "Tony" Imbimbo of Winterton, a former employee of the Times Herald-Record, entered into rest at his home, surrounded by his loving family. He was 62.
The son of the late Anthony and Gloria Giacchi Imbimbo, he was born on July 18, 1950 in Jersey City, NJ.
A family statement read: "To know Anthony was to love him. He had a warm smile, kind heart and a vibrant personality. He was a great story teller. A proud father, he enjoyed golf, watching the Yankees and Miami Dolphins and hanging out with his family and grandchildren sharing stories."
Survivors include his wife, Randi; his children: Kimberly Imbimbo of Hamden, CT, Tara Holmberg of Staten Island, Krista Holmberg, Joseph Imbimbo and Anthony Stassa, all of Winterton and Kayla Ketchem of Cuddebackville; his brothers: John of Middletown and Thomas and his wife, Domenica of Old Bridge, NJ; his nieces: D'Anne Leroy and Gina Imbimbo, both of Middletown; his grandchildren: Jada, Aliyah, John-John and Jordan, as well as several nephews and cousins.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday May 1st, at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph Church, Cottage St., Middletown, NY.
Interment will be in Bloomingburg Cemetery, Bloomingburg, NY.
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Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are known for glitz. It's one of their leitmotifs - and alongside their sleek black tailoring, crisply starched white shirts and shiny shiny patent shoes there's always been a few lairy, blare-y printed silks in a kaleidoscope of technicolor hues. So, when they stripped back their mainline to all-encompassing black-and-white this season, the question that immediately sprang to mind was: where has all the ramatazz gone?
Fear not, they were simply saving it for the D&G show, where the urge to decorate roamed free across acres of printed silk. Foulard was the theme - the silken scarves that have knotted the hair of aristocratic matriarchs and caressed the throat of foppish youths since well before Brideshead was revisited. That silk was sliced, diced, patched and stitched into D&G's usual catwalk-flooding, market-swamping four-hundred-or-so piece tsunami of a collection. Hermes may very well be gearing up for a lawsuit - Versace too, actually, given that they staked their claim on the Louis Quinze silk-print pantsuit about thirty years ago. Meshing it with denim, however, brought it back to D&G true: souped-up casualwear for brash Eurotrash youths. That's not a criticism, just an observation.
It was satisfyingly whole-hearted. If Domenico and Stefano play it safe (sometimes too safe) with the retail juggernaught that is their Dolce e Gabbana collection, for D&G they're never afraid to be cheap and cheerful. This collection may have been simplistic, but the singular (read: single) idea they alighted on was worked out good and proper, through every possibly permutation (even the invite was swirled with a damned paisley-print). Often, that can seem too much - here, it was just enough.