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One of the most adrenaline-fueled vacations in American history took place in August 1872, when a young New Yorker named George Bird Grinnell boarded a train at Grand Central Depot for the era's hot new travel destination — Nebraska.
While most Gilded Age travelers preferred to immerse themselves in the Old World pleasures of Paris and Venice, the 22-year-old Grinnell was one of a new breed of nature-lovers who chose to take rugged, and often dangerous, excursions into the Western wilderness, usually for the purpose of hunting and fishing. Now Grinnell was taking America's first "adventure travel" trend to a new cultural level: In order to experience firsthand the most romantic image of the Western frontier, he intended to join the Pawnee Nation of Plains Indians on their summer buffalo hunt through the prairies.
Thanks to the new Union Pacific rail line, Grinnell and a fellow Yale graduate, Jim Russell, were able to nip away from the cultured parlors in Manhattan to the raucous saloons of Plum Creek (now Lexington, Neb.) in a matter of days. From there, guided by a man named Luther North who had led teams of Pawnee scouts for the Union Army during the Civil War, they rode south to join a small army of Pawnee as they traveled into Kansas. While the Pawnee have been portrayed as Mad Max-style villains in Hollywood movies like "Dances With Wolves" and "Little Big Man," they were consistently allied with the United States, and when North arrived with his group, he was greeted as an old friend.
For the next week, the travelers took part in rituals unchanged since the Plains Indians had first acquired horses, around 1700, joining Pawnee warriors as they attacked enormous buffalo herds in the traditional style, dining afterward on roasted buffalo tongue and liver. They observed ancient religious ceremonies. And for a dramatic finale on their way back to Plum Creek, they were chased by the Pawnees' enemies, the Cheyenne.
I first stumbled across this alluring story at the New York Public Library while leafing through a yellowed 1873 volume of "Forest and Stream," a pioneer outdoor magazine in which Grinnell published a vivid account of his adventures. Further research unearthed other reports from Eastern travelers enjoying similar trips with friendly American Indians in Nebraska and Kansas — enough to show that the practice was not uncommon in the early 1870s.
Grinnell's trip, however, was more than a youthful jaunt. His name is largely forgotten today, but during his lifetime he became one of the first campaigners for Western wildlife and national parks, and a pioneer ethnographer. On his death at age 88, in 1938, The New York Times described him as "the father of American conservation."
With all the changes in the West over the last 140 years, I wondered if following Grinnell's route would offer any glimpses of the 1872 frontier. I had one thing in common with Birdie, as he was called by fellow Yalies: I too was a New Yorker longing for empty horizons and open skies. (And most of my city friends still belong to the Europhile camp, the prospect of a trip to Nebraska or Kansas being on a par with an exile to Pago Pago). In the past I'd always been drawn to the marquee national parks. But while the impact of the prairies is more subtle than mega-spectacles like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite, as Walt Whitman himself wrote, they "fill the esthetic sense fuller" and haunt the memory longer. What's more, I've often found, it's in America's neglected corners that the past most endures.
Even the modern metropolis of Omaha took me back in time more quickly than I could have hoped. After waking to the lonely whistle of a freight train at dawn, I strolled through the 19th-century warehouses of the Old Market district a stone's throw from the muddy Missouri River to an appointment in, of all places, the public library.
"Are you ready for the scalping party?" Lynn Sullivan, a librarian, asked cheerily as she handed me a pair of archival cotton gloves. In a neon-illuminated room, she unwrapped layers of protective foam to reveal a thick mat of golden brown hair. The glossy locks were attached to an oval of human hide, cured like old leather.
I carefully picked up the grisly relic, weighing it in my hands. I wasn't prepared for such lustrous healthy hair on a Wild West character, let alone one nearly a century and a half old.
The scalp once belonged to William Thompson, an English-born railway worker who was surprised in Nebraska in 1867 by Cheyenne raiders. Wounded by a tomahawk, Thompson feigned death while a warrior took his scalp, a sensation he later described as having the whole top of his head torn off. After the Cheyenne rode off, he retrieved his scalp, which had fallen from a warrior's belt, put it in a pail of water and took it to a doctor in Omaha in hopes that it might be sewn back on. (Astonished locals compared the item to "a drowned rat.") Surgery proved impossible, but Thompson recovered. He even took the scalp with him back to England, where he showed it off as a carnival attraction. At the end of his life, for reasons unknown, Thompson sent the hairpiece to the Omaha Public Library, where for many years it was displayed, thrilling generations of Nebraskan schoolchildren. These days it is kept more discreetly in storage.
Inspired, I cruised out of Omaha the next day, tracing Grinnell's route along the old Highway 30, which follows the Platte River. As I was fresh from the East Village of Manhattan, the profligate sense of space had a hypnotic effect. I wound down the window, smelling "the wild lyrical drizzling air of Nebraska," as Kerouac rhapsodized in "On the Road." Under the midday sun the landscape can seem bleached and monotonous, but when the golden dusk catches the sunflowers, the setting is as sublime as Provence.
Admittedly, it was an effort to visualize the landscape of 1872, amid the spider web of roads and patchwork of farms. But things improved when I visited the Platte River Preserve south of Grand Island. It's one of a half-dozen pieces of Nebraska now owned by the Nature Conservancy, mostly former cattle ranches that ecologists are returning to a semblance of their state before European settlement.
"We can't quite get the prairie back to its original condition here," said Nannette Whitten, a project manager I met at the conservancy's small office. "It's really impossible today. There's no regular burning of the grass. The rivers are dammed, so there is no natural flooding. But we can get the prairie back to a healthy condition by managing the seasonal plants and removing invasive species."
The conversation turned, as it often would, to the addictive beauty of the grasslands. It wasn't quite the landscape of 1872, but I was already hooked.
When Grinnell, Russell and North caught up with the Pawnee near the Kansas border, they were awe-struck by the spectacle of 4,000 men, women and children camped with their horses and ponies. After greeting the elderly chief, Peta-la-shar, they were invited to join the tribe the next day on their buffalo hunt. It began as a brilliant parade, led by eight warriors, "their saddles glittering with silver ornaments," Grinnell wrote, "and their bridles tinkling with little bells." Grinnell described a "surround" he participated in that same afternoon in which Pawnee warriors, still riding bareback and using traditional bows and arrows, silently encircled a herd then charged to the shrill cry of Loo'ah! "What had been only a wild gallop became a mad race."
Grinnell noted that the Indians — unlike Western hunters — used every fragment of the buffalo, even recycling their sinews as bowstrings and bladders for water bags. "We feasted on roast ribs, ka'wis (chopped pieces cooked in intestine) and dried meat, and really had a delightful time ... smoking and chatting in after-dinner fashion."
Today such scenes are preserved, in two dimensions at least, in the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha where the meticulous paintings of George Catlin and Karl Bodmer are the pride of the newly renovated Western Gallery. Unknown to the breathless Grinnell, he was witnessing the last successful buffalo hunt of the Pawnee Indians. The next year, the tribe would be attacked in midhunt by the Sioux in a place aptly called Massacre Canyon. White settlers were already flooding Nebraska, wiping out the buffalo herds and eyeing the fertile native lands. By 1875, the Pawnee would be forced to leave for a dismal reservation in Oklahoma.
Still, the Pawnee, like other Indian nations, are culturally resilient. In the old lush and verdant Pawnee homeland I called at Dannebrog, a riverside hamlet where an Indian campsite used to be, to visit the Pawnee Arts Center. Here I met the Nebraskan writer Roger Welsch, a Falstaffian figure who became involved with the Pawnee in the late 1980s, when the tribe wanted bones from the Smithsonian reburied in the local cemetery. In 2006, he and his wife, Linda, donated their 57-acre property to the Pawnee — the first land the nation has owned in Nebraska since it left in 1875. Since then, another 22-acre property just south has been donated, along with the commercial building for the arts center.
"It's like refounding the state of Israel," Mr. Welsch said with a smile. "The Pawnee are coming back! It's a homecoming."
Later, I spoke to the president of the Pawnee Nation, Marshall Gover, about his people's reaction to the move. "It's hard to put into words," he said, his voice cracking. "We were ecstatic. We were overwhelmed. We adopted Roger into the tribe, and held a dance in his honor." Plans are now evolving to create a Pawnee cultural center there.
AS I drove south into Kansas, even the remotest towns revealed their passion for history. In the one-horse town of Oberlin, the old bank had been turned into a hotel for the few passing tourists, and the locals all seem to be in the same business: antiques. In Lacrosse, I was the only visitor in the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum, where the attendant enthused that "we have over 2,400 types of barbed wire on display!" Like the best of America's quirky museums, it had a serious message: the proliferation of barbed wire in the 1880s guaranteed the end of the Old West, spelling doom for the romanticized era of cowboys and wandering herds of cattle.
In northwestern Kansas, Grinnell, Russell and North said farewell to the Pawnee and rode back to the railway line, pursued part of the way by 15 armed Cheyenne, who forced the travelers to use their horses for cover when fired upon. ("The song of each bullet created an extraordinary commotion in my mind," Grinnell wrote, "and I experienced the sensation commonly described as 'having your heart in your throat.' ")
Today, the most vivid glimpse of 1872 lies farther south. Of the 170 million acres of prairie that once covered the West, only 4 percent survives — most it in the Flint Hills of Kansas, where the limestone bedrock has ensured that no plow has ever turned the soil.
Here, oceans of undulating grass extend to the horizon, and strange little townships sit decaying on lonely crossroads. Now, instead of outlaws and cowboys, motorbike enthusiasts roar up and down the roads. Their gleaming machines were lined up neatly outside the Hays House in Council Grove, an 1857 trading post that says it is the oldest continually operating restaurant west of the Mississippi, and where enormous steaks are still the most popular item on the menu.
Nearby, the town of Cottonwood Falls is like a classic Western film set. The 1871 courthouse, which looms in surreal French Renaissance style, still contains the original dark lockup. I took a room in the town's only hotel, the Grand Central, which has operated since 1884.
Early the next morning I arrived at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, nearly 11,000 acres of grassland owned by the Nature Conservancy and managed by the National Park Service. The area is large enough to allow regular controlled burning of the land every April, which renews the vegetation as it did in presettlement days. The headquarters are in a stately 19th-century mansion and stone barn, beautifully designed for the cattle baron who once owned the land with every modern convenience for the family. Not many visitors come out here — rangers say around 23,000 a year, which is about 1 percent of Yellowstone's throngs — and I was entirely alone as soon as I headed along a hiking trail.
For me, there was a compelling symmetry to the visit. Thirteen buffalo were reintroduced to the preserve in 2009, which have now bred to 21 — the first born in the area for 140 years. And it would probably never have happened without the efforts of the young adventurer, George Bird Grinnell.
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After his 1872 trip, Grinnell became one of the most vocal conservationists of the Gilded Age. Living in a town house on East 15th Street in New York, he took over as editor of Forest and Stream for 35 years, founded the first Audubon Society, authored 29 books, befriended John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt and campaigned for the expansion of the national park system. Traveling with the Pawnee, he had his first glimpse that the buffalo were already in danger. In 1894, his magazine exposed the poaching of the last wild herd of buffalo in Yellowstone — numbers had been reduced to less than 200 — and he took the lead in pushing for the first federal law to properly protect the species. The National Park Protective Act pulled the animals back from the brink of extinction.
Today, in the Tallgrass Preserve, the buffalo gather in the backcountry, which has been open to the public for two years — and, improbably, you can simply set out to see them on foot. When I did, there wasn't a cloud in the sky, and the stroll was eerily idyllic, with butterflies flittering among the bluestem that line the trail. I had a moment of doubt about the safe viewing distance when I reached the gate to the bisons' pasture. "DO NOT APPROACH BISON," read a yellow sign. "Bison are wild animals and best viewed from afar." A drawing showed an angry buffalo chasing a hapless human. I cautiously pushed the gate open and scanned the hills. There, about 300 yards away, a string of dark, shaggy forms were visible, half-hidden in the folds of the land. Still, after traveling for so long with the ghost of Birdie Grinnell, I wanted a closer look.
I stepped warily forward through the rustling, thigh-high grass. The largest bull stood up and watched me approach. Two of the young were rolling around playing. It was strange to think that after the slaughter of untold millions of buffalo that once roamed this country, these chosen few would live out their days here without a care in the world.
When I got to within about 50 yards, the bull started stepping slowly toward me. I slowly backed away.
That was as close to 1872 as I was prepared to get.
Pick up a rental car in Omaha or Kansas City. Although the distances are long (I clocked up about 1,200 miles), the driving is easy, especially if you avoid the anonymous Interstates and cruise the back roads, which are usually ruler-straight and truck-free.
What to See
The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Strong City, Kan., nps.gov/tapr/index.htm.
Joslyn Museum, 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha; (402) 342-3300; joslyn.org
The Pawnee Arts Center, Dannebrog, Neb.; (308) 226-8286; open Thursdays from 4 p. m. and by appointment.
Where to Stay
Every town has its familiar supply of Comfort Inns and motels, but historic hotels do exist. In Cottonwood Falls, Kan., four miles from the Tallgrass Prairie Reserve, the Grand Central Hotel is at 215 Broadway; 620-273-6763; grandcentralhotel.com, $160. In Oberlin, Kan. the antiques-filled Landmark Inn is in a renovated 1884 bank; landmarkinn.com; (785) 475-2340; $120.
Where to Eat
Hays House, in Council Grove, Kan., says it is the oldest continually operating restaurant west of the Mississippi; (620) 767-5911; hayshouse.com.
One of the best meals I had was in tiny Dannebrog, Neb., where the Danish Baker stays open for pizza on Thursday nights. Diners had traveled from all over Nebraska to cluster around the half-dozen formica tables and eat a pie so heavy with toppings that it should be in the Guinness World Records; 114 Mill Street North; (308) 226-2208.


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For the better part of a year, the most tantalizing question in New Hampshire politics has been: What the heck is Scott Brown up to?
The former senator from Massachusetts seems to be popping up everywhere in the state he now claims as his home. He has appeared at Republican fundraisers, Lincoln Day dinners, county GOP gatherings and, most recently, shirtless across three columns of the front page of the Union Leader, the state's largest newspaper.
Brown was one of 600 people who plunged into the frigid Atlantic off Hampton Beach on Feb. 2 to raise money for the Special Olympics.
"It's the middle of winter. Scott Brown has his shirt off, and it can only mean one thing. He's running for US Senate in New Hampshire," Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi wrote of the hoopla surrounding the latest display of buffness from someone who was declared "America's Sexiest Man" by Cosmopolitan magazine in 1982.
On the other hand, Brown is not doing the private spadework that would be expected of someone who is seriously preparing to challenge Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D). He has no organization or staff, nor is he making the obligatory rounds of the Granite State's GOP leaders.
"I don't know anyone who does campaigns in New Hampshire who has talked with him," said Tom Rath, a former state attorney general who is a key figure in GOP politics.
There are also hints that Brown might be setting his sights higher than the Senate. In addition to moving to the state that holds the nation's first presidential primary, he lately has made two trips to Iowa, site of the first caucuses.
Or it could all be an elaborate fan dance by a faded phenom, aimed at maintaining the kind of interest that fuels speaking fees and television appearances. Then again, maybe it is just what Brown says it is: He is in New Hampshire because that is where his family needs him to be.
"He's been able to sustain a buzz for eight or nine months now, by just giving the ball a little tap now and then," said Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire GOP chairman.
Divining Brown's intentions is not merely a matter of curiosity for both parties nationally. When he ran for the Senate as an obscure Massachusetts legislator in 2010, it was on a promise to be the "41st senator," who could give his party the number it needed to filibuster President Obama's programs. By putting New Hampshire into play in 2014, Brown has the potential to be the 51st — the one who returns control of the chamber to the GOP.
If you spend any time around Brown these days, you don't come away with a sense that he has much appetite for undertaking a third tough Senate race in four years — or for returning to a polarized capital he describes as "broken."
A month after moving into what used to be his family's summer place in Rye, "I'm really, quite honestly, a little unorganized," Brown said in an interview, adding that he has been focused on unpacking and taking care of things such as getting his driver's license and making sure the mail gets forwarded.
And there are other demands. Both his daughters are getting married this summer, within a month of each other. His mother, who lives in New Hampshire, is in fragile health, requiring more of his attention.
"To just jump in and say I'm going to run for the United States Senate against a popular incumbent," he said, "it takes a little bit more than just winging it."
Yet that is precisely what many Republicans have been urging him to do as the June 13 filing date gets closer.
Brown was the likable everyman who stunned the political world in 2010 by coming from 30 points behind to win a special election to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts. But he was soundly beaten two years later by Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
Those who would like to see him run say Brown is a more natural fit for the famously independent Granite State than he was for liberal Massachusetts. They also note that the states share a lot of connective tissue: the same media markets, a stream of people who commute daily between the two for work and a legion of transplants who have moved north to escape the cost of living and taxes of Massachusetts.
"He's got a very blue-collar, charismatic way about him," said Jim Merrill, a top Republican strategist in New Hampshire. "If he gets in, he'll have to do the hard work. He'll have to earn it. But a lot of people will flock to his banner, as well."
The latest WMUR Granite State poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire, suggests that Shaheen, the only woman in U.S. history to serve as both a governor and a senator, could be vulnerable as she seeks a second term in Washington. Her approval rating has dipped to 50 percent, nine points lower than where she stood a year ago. But the poll also indicates that if a Shaheen-Brown matchup were held today, she would have a 10-point advantage, with 14 percent of voters undecided.
What is probably at least as significant as poll numbers for a race that has yet to happen is the fact that so many are treating it as if it were already underway. Shaheen's Web site features regular attacks on Brown, and the League of Conservation Voters last week launched a $200,000 television ad campaign across the state highlighting Brown's ties to and support for the oil industry.
In January, the conservative group Americans for Prosperity ran ads against Shaheen noting her crucial vote for the passage of the Affordable Care Act. The health-care law is increasingly unpopular in the state, with opposition rising by nine percentage points since last summer, according to the WMUR poll.
That is not unlike the political environment that propelled Brown to his stunning 2010 victory in Massachusetts, a win dubbed "the Scott heard round the world." It proved an early sign of the rocky road ahead for the health-care law.
Brown, however, has insisted that political opportunity is not what drew him to New Hampshire.
In a blunt and emotional speech Thursday night to students at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Brown focused more on his past than his future.
He recounted his dark, turbulent childhood: an absent father, a troubled mother who was briefly on welfare, two episodes of sexual abuse and an arrest when he was 13 years old for shoplifting record albums. He lauded the judge who set him straight by forcing him to write an essay on why he did not want to end up in prison. Judge Samuel Zoll was the first authority figure who had not written him off as "a loser," Brown said.
Now, "I'm 54 years old. I've been a senator. I've had, I feel, a productive, successful political career," he said. "Is there more? I don't know."
His recent move, he said, was an attempt "to get balance," which is something he learned early not to take for granted.
"It was just time — middle age, new opportunities and new challenges, and the ability to kind of reestablish the family unit," he told the students. "My mom and I were not close at all growing up. I mean, we're talking ba-bang, ba-bang, ba-bang — just knocking heads all the time. But now we're in a new chapter in our lives, where we have the ability to kind of reconnect. And I'm not going to lie — it's been surprisingly refreshing and rewarding.
"So not everything is about politics," he added.
Brown also suggested that his two years in the Senate had left him all but hopeless about getting anything done in a place where so few are willing to stray from their party ranks.
"Defeatist?" he said when one student told him that was how he sounded. "Yeah, I'm a little frustrated. I'm not going to lie. I'm frustrated at the debt. I'm frustrated at the lack of communication and respect for people down there."
Since leaving the Senate, he has landed a lucrative post with a prestigious law firm, maintained a busy speaking schedule and signed a contract with Fox News Channel, which has occasionally asked Brown to sub for its star conservative host Bill O'Reilly.
"Who else can say they've been a replacement for not only Bill O'Reilly but Ted Kennedy?" he joked.
One of his ventures caused some embarrassment last week when an e-mail distributed under his name turned out to be a pitch from a controversial doctor known for warning against vaccines and fluoridated water. Brown had rented his e-mail list to a conservative media company, Newsmax, which had sent the e-mail offering "5 Signs You'll Get Alzheimer's Disease."
"While the issue of Alzheimer's is personal to me and an issue I have been working on for years, I did not approve or authorize the sending of this particular e-mail," Brown told WMUR. "Due to this and other issues, I am terminating my relationship with this vendor effective immediately."
If Brown decides to run, he will not be guaranteed an easy primary. Gun rights advocates, angry at his support for an assault-weapons ban, showed up to protest an event where he spoke in December. And there are already several declared GOP candidates, including former senator Bob Smith, who has been living in Florida; Jim Rubens, a former state senator; and conservative activist Karen Testerman.
Democrats are emphasizing that point, as well as the carpetbagger criticism.
"Scott Brown faces a traditionally conservative Republican primary against conservative candidates who are actually from New Hampshire," said state Democratic Party spokesman Harrell Kirstein. "If he survives that, he'll face an even tougher general election against Jeanne Shaheen."
Others argue that this is simply the wrong race for someone with Brown's national profile.
"He does better as a presidential candidate than he does as a Senate candidate," said Andy Smith, who directs the University of New Hampshire poll.
Smith said a second loss in a Senate race could effectively end Brown's political career, while a presidential bid offers potential consolation prizes: a spot on the ticket, a Cabinet post, a cable TV show.
Were he to run and win, Brown would not be the first person to have represented more than one state in the U.S. Senate. In the 1800s, an Irish immigrant named James Shields was elected in three states over the course of 30 years: Illinois, then Minnesota, then Missouri.
As for Brown, he seems in no hurry to end the speculation.
"I do things my own way, at my own pace," he said.
He views Shaheen, he said, as "a rubber stamp" for Obama, and he said he will be working toward her defeat, even if from the sidelines.
"As a new resident of New Hampshire, I'm saying: 'You know what? I could do better.' As a matter of fact, other people could do better," Brown added. "Whether it's me or somebody else, I'm not sure yet. But I'm playing a role."

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Voestalpine Buys Italian Drawn Wire Producer
Voestalpine is expanding its activities in the drawn wire business segment and has completed its acquisition of Italian company Trafilerie Industriali S.p.A. based in Nervesa della Battaglia (Treviso). The acquisition of this Italian manufacturer of special wires brings additional strength to the Voestalpine product portfolio of drawn wire for the automotive industry.
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Voestalpine with Jump in Earnings in the First Half of the Business Year
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FACC and Parent AVIC to Shift Manufacturing of Passenger Cabins from Austria to China
During the China trip of Economy Minister Mitterlehner, Foreign Affairs Minister Kurz and Agriculture Minister Rupprechter, FACC AG and parent Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) have re-confirmed their "plans to enter into a strategic partnership relating to the integration of aircraft passenger cabins in China". Over the long run this means, that Austrian know-how and Austrian jobs will be moved and outsourced to China.
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Josef Taus to Delist MTH from the Vienna Stock Exchange
Josef Taus is delisting his investment company Management Trust Holding (MTH). The main reason for the delisting of this long-term stock market participant (since 1990) is the very low percentage of widespread shareholdings: only 1.25 percent of the shares is held in free float. The company will present a respective offer to the few minority shareholders. Another reason is the restructure of Taus' empire, which will allow the industrialist to reduce his dependence on minority shareholders.
September 3, 2014
Wienerberger Increases Capacity in the UK
Rising demand in the UK made it necessary for Wienerberger to initiated measures to increase its capacity. Around 200 million more bricks per annum will be produced by re-activating mothballed factories, investing in technology upgrades, adding shifts and new jobs throughout its UK operations, and importing from the continent. Earnings contribution from re-activated plants will be reflected in 2015 results
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Austrian Export Award 2014 for Above-Average Export Commitment
As part of a festive gala evening in Vienna's Museumsquartier, the Austrian Export Prize 2014 has been awarded by the Federal Minister for Science, Research and Economics, Reinhold Mitterlehner, and the President of the Economic Chamber Austria (WKO) Christoph Leitl.
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May 9, 2014
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The sentences handed down Friday come in one of the most emblematic human rights cases in Colombia in recent years.
The 50-year sentences went to an army major and lieutenant. Four enlisted men got 30 years. All were convicted in March.
The case stems from the January 2008 disappearance of 26-year-old Fair (FAH-EAR) Leonardo Porras of Soacha, a town just south of Bogota. He was lured to the northeastern town of Ocana with the promise of a job and killed.
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Gone are the days of brands shouting messages to their customers through traditional advertising media like television commercials and newspapers. Instead of creating one message and sending it to a wide range of individuals, brands must focus on creating content that reaches their specific audiences on the right channel and at the right time.
Here are five reasons why brands are moving beyond commercials and ads — and completely reshaping the world of advertising.
1. Brands are creating more personalized content
How many times do you get product and media recommendations from Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify? It's probably a daily occurrence, and there's a reason why. Companies that personalize web experiences see an average 19% increase in sales. As for email, businesses that send triggered emails have a 25% higher open rate and a 51% higher click rate.
Examples of personalized content can include:
- Information like the location of most of your customers, which is useful for sending them discounted offers. The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium did this by discovering the zip codes of its most frequent guests and targeting customers in that area.
- Dynamic content, which is content found on your website, forms, landing pages, or emails that will change based on the viewer. For example, you could send a newsletter of upcoming events to subscribers based on their location, like Ticketmaster does when artists announce shows in your hometown. Another example would be not sharing the same content with them when they come back to your site. If they downloaded an eBook after clicking a banner ad, then the next time they visit, the ad would be for them to join an upcoming webinar.
- Promotions based on known shopping behavior. For example, Boca Java found that if it sent discounts to customers, those who purchased two bags of coffee, rather than three or four, were more likely to take advantage of the deal.
- Email messages to your subscribers based on time zones.
- Segmented emails based on customers' specific needs. You probably wouldn't send a customer in Alaska a deal on beach attire during the winter. Instead, you would send them a deal on outdoor winter gear.
2. Brands are able to connect to real-time events and moments
Do you remember when Super Bowl XLVII experienced a power outage? Oreo sent out a "Dunk in the Dark" tweet that was able to "garner more than 32,000 social media likes and shares in just the first hour before snowballing into 525 million impressions in the following days."
Brands now have the ability to piggyback on real-time events to increase engagement, as well as assist customers with any questions or concerns. For example, companies like Target, American Express, and E-Trade have begun offering one-click access to help via video chat.
3. Content is becoming participation-based
Today it's not uncommon for brands to ask their customers to create content for their business. For example, Lowe's has created a Vine channel entitled "Fix in Six." The 6-second videos are actually created by customers who share their DIY home improvement tricks and tips, as opposed to videos that were actually created by Lowe's.
4. Branded content establishes thought leadership
Written content like listicles and white papers, along with visual content like infographics and videos, can help elevate a brand's thought leadership by demonstrating its knowledge and expertise. For example, our blog contains articles that help our audience streamline their email marketing efforts, such as by composing effective subject lines and recognizing the importance of setting objectives.
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If your brand doesn't have the funds for in-house content creation, you can now hire social media celebrities or blogging influencers to endorse your brand by creating their own content. L'Oreal hired YouTube's Michelle Phan to share her makeup tutorials, for example. This can introduce your brand to a new audience and increase word-of-mouth marketing.
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Well, you have likely noticed that it is time for resolutions according to the plethora of fitness equipment and organizational plastic bins on sale in every flyer you open. It seems fitting that we take a 4 step approach to positioning yourself for financial fitness in 2018 as well.
So first of all, I am going to go ahead and assume you are human. Yes? If so then please know that you are not slacker! Almost every person I have met has something in their financial world they have been meaning to get to but have not so forget the past and let's move onward and upwards!
Step 1 – Write down your goals. Study after study proves that actually writing out what it is you want causes the synapses in your brain to reconnect to work towards the goal even when you are not thinking about it.
Step 2 – Just do it! Seems I heard that somewhere before but anyways. It is now time to actually get everything in place.
* Will – Call around and get some quotes on having your will prepared with all the necessary paperwork by a reputable lawyer.
* Financial/Insurance Planner – People who work with a qualified financial planner do much better overall than those who wing it. Meet with a few of them and learn what you need to know so that your pennies turn into a comfortable future
* Accountant – The onslaught of cheap software makes it very easy to think you can do it all yourself when it comes to your taxes but a qualified accountant is essential in my opinion. They can literally save you thousands on your tax bill. That's your money so you should keep it.
* Mortgage Professional – Your home is your largest asset and your largest debt obligation. Have your mortgage reviewed by a Dominion Lending Centres mortgage professional to make sure you are in the best mortgage product for your situation now and to meet your goals later.
You will have noticed a theme here. You don't need to know about the law or investments or insurance or taxes or mortgages. All you have to do is find yourself a TEAM to protect your interests.
Step 3 – Time to automate-
Set up to meet your goals automatically. A regular withdrawal for your savings and other expenses is far less painful and way more likely to actually occur than if you have to sit down each month and choose to transfer the funds. If your goal is to pay down your mortgage, why not choose to increase your payments slightly rather than worrying about a lump sum later on. Bite sized is far easier.
If you are trying to keep a budget, there is an amazing app called mint.com. It is from the makers of Turbo Tax – you input all your credit/debit card info, your goals as far as savings or debt reduction, and a budget for each part of your life. Each purchase you make is automatically inputted into the correct category. You can see where you are spending and exactly how much and you will even get text notifications when you are close to your budget in a particular area.
Step 4 – Annual Review Day
So you have done the work and so now all you have to do is take 1 day a year off to review. Meet with all of your team to ensure you are where you need to be. Can you increase your mortgage? Is your will reflecting your new spouse or baby? Do you have enough insurance to protect yourself against disability or critical illness? Spoiler alert! We are all going to need life insurance, disability is the number one case of foreclosure and even out solid health care system does not cover all expenses so critical illness insurance can save your savings.
And there you have it, financial fitness in 4 steps! Your future self will thank you. As they say, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best is today.


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I pride myself in being non-emotional. I'm not easily hurt, or at least I never show it. I lick my wounds, dust myself off, buck up, and a million other clichés all to avoid being wimpy. So, it was totally unlike me to get teary-eyed at the Harry Potter expedition with my then 12 year-old son, and really like me to stifle those tears as best as I could.
I took Sergio to see the first Harry Potter movie in 2001, when it first came out. He was 4 and I was a wreck. His father and I were in the middle of a divorce and I was really afraid of losing Sergio. His father would say things like, "I have more money and I can get a better lawyer than you can." It was all I could do to suck my tears in and respond with things like, "Well, if that's what you want to spend your money on, go ahead." Inside I was shaking. There was no way that I could imagine living without my son with me every day. No way.
I was a basket case during this time. I was irritable, depressed, sick and skinny – the skinniest I had ever been in my adult life. I was a size 2!! I wasn't eating, and when I did eat I was sick to my stomach a lot, not in that afterschool special kind of way but in that "oh my God how did I get to this point in my life?" way. I wasn't sleeping. Every time I closed my eyes I would think about court, lawyers, child support, and all of the "he said she said" garbage. How do two people who love each other come to hate each other? I will never understand this.
Of course, the divorce was affecting Sergio, too. How could it not? He went to his dad's (a two hour car ride) every weekend at first, then every other weekend. Going back and forth was tough. At dad's house, things were different, as is often the case. Whenever Sergio came back from his dad's I had to get him reacquainted with our way of doing things. If it was hard on me, I know it must have been torture for Sergio.
During this time, when Sergio was finally at the age where he could sit through a movie, I took him to see Harry Potter. He loved it, and oddly enough, I did too. I was used to watching kid's TV shows with my son, and a few movies, and pretending to like them. Really, I would have rather had a colonoscopy than watch Dora the Explorer one more time. Harry Potter was different. It drew us both into a magical world, far away from the drama that was our life at that time.
Harry Potter became our special Mother and Son hobby, sort of. We went to every new movie together, and when Sergio was a little older, he started reading the books. So, I read them too. We haven't finished them, but we are working our way through. We took a break to conquer the Twilight series. Sergio's father does not enjoy reading, and my husband really isn't into Harry Potter. So, Harry is ours, just ours.
Sergio was surfing the internet when he discovered that not only was there going to be a Harry Potter theme park, but there would be a Harry Potter Exhibition in Chicago this summer, about three hours from our home. So, we took a day trip. Three hours there, and three hours back, and worth every minute.
Sergio and I got to Chicago at about 10 AM and purchased our museum and separate Harry Potter exhibition tickets. Our tour time was 10:45. We could not wait. While we were standing in line, waiting to enter the exhibition, there was a woman, with a British accent of course, asking everyone trivia questions from the series. Sergio got them all right and said, "I got them all right; I'm such a dork!" He had the biggest smile on his face. It was great to see my "rock star" son so happy with his dorky side. That's when I started to tear up, but I sucked it in. I swear if anyone can inhale through their eyes, it's me. There is no way I was going to cry in public. No way.
So, we walked through the exhibition and it was amazing. There were props and costumes from the movie. There were a lot of other people looking at the objects too, but we took our time and got a close up view of everything. Sergio even took the time to sit in Hagrid's chair. If I had been allowed to take a picture, I would have. Sergio looked like a little kid in that chair, even though he is now bigger than me. I could tell that he really got a kick out of seeing and touching all of this stuff.
While we walked through the exhibition, I was struck with how amazing this all really was. The props and the clothing were great to view, but the creation of this story was what really astounded me. A single mom, much like I was years ago, sat in a café and wrote the first Harry Potter while her baby slept. She managed to get herself off of welfare and bring joy to people all over the world just by writing a story. Now, here we were walking through a museum and looking at things created in one woman's mind. It was inspiring on many levels. I started to get teary eyed again, but managed to reel myself back in again.
The exhibition exits into a gift shop, a very theme park technique. We looked around for a bit and Sergio picked up a "Lord Voldemort movie replica wand" for 50 bucks. Normally, I wouldn't buy a plastic stick for 50 bucks, but it was a semi-grown up piece of Harry Potter that Sergio could take home. Plus, it was the bad guy's wand, which totally fit Sergio's rock star persona. So, I bought the wand and spent an extra 20 bucks for an official Harry Potter wand holder.
As soon as we got home, Sergio arranged all of his Harry Potter books (he has both the British and American versions in hard cover) on the top shelf of his hutch, next to the Twilight series. He put his wand in front of the books, with the same excitement he had as when I bought him his first Harry Potter costume when he was 4. Then, he went to play his electric guitar. I finally let myself cry.
Note: This was originally posted on my Salon blog, but I thought it fit the Halloween theme.


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Kevin and his family volunteer at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg…12-year-old Camden, the oldest daughter of Kevin and his wife, Emily, had open-heart surgery at the same hospital in 2007, when she was only 17 months old…she serves as a youth spokesperson for the American Heart Association…the couple has two other children: daughter Ella (11) and son J.D. (6) ... After enduring years of pranks from his former manager and boss, Indians Manager Terry Francona, Cash finally got his revenge last September in Cleveland…during Rays batting practice, he parked Tito's scooter on the field at shortstop, and the scooter sustained damage from a C.J. Cron line drive ... Kevin is the only current major league manager to have played in the Little League World Series and one of five to play in the College World Series (Florida State), joining BOS Alex Cora (Miami, 1996), CLE Terry Francona (Arizona, 1980), OAK Bob Melvin (Cal, 1980) and DET Ron Gardenhire (Texas, 1979) ... Grew up in Tampa and was a member of the Tampa Northside Little League team that advanced to the 1989 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. …he was one of three 11-year-olds on a team of 12-year-olds…Kevin's Northside team was later invited to play in the first "game" ever played at Tropicana Field (then the Florida Suncoast Dome)…the youngsters played a Wiffle ball contest as part of the dome's opening ceremonies in February 1990…his father, Mike, was an original Rays season ticket holder ... In 2012, he was a major league advance scout for the Blue Jays.
Last Oct 9, Kevin agreed to a contract extension through the 2024 season with a club option for 2025…named the fifth manager in Rays history on Dec 5, 2014, and is already the 2nd-longest tenured behind Joe Maddon (2006-14)…would pass Maddon in tenure on Opening Day 2024 ... Finished third in the BBWAA's 2018 AL Manager of the Year voting, behind OAK Bob Melvin and BOS Alex Cora…appeared on 25 of 30 ballots and received five first-place votes ... Under Cash's direction, the 2018 Rays went 90-72, their best record since 2013 and most wins of any team missing the postseason…they went 41-25 after the All-Star break (3rd in the AL) and 19-9 in September (2nd in the AL)… they went 30-28 against the five AL postseason clubs, including 21-11 from June 22 through season's end ... Had two members of his coaching staff hired away as major league managers last Oct 25: bench coach Charlie Montoyo (Blue Jays) and major league field coordinator Rocco Baldelli (Twins)…Cash became the first manager to lose two members of his coaching staff to big league managing jobs in one offseason since FLA Jim Leyland…after winning the 1997 World Series, the Marlins lost pitching coach Larry Rothschild (inaugural Devil Rays) and bench coach Jerry Manuel (White Sox) ... Selected to the AL coaching staff for each of the past two All-Star games, by HOU A.J. Hinch in 2018 (Washington) and CLE Terry Francona in 2017 (Miami)…prior to Cash, the only managers to represent the Rays at the All-Star Game were Joe Maddon in 2009 (St. Louis) and Larry Rothschild in 2000 (Atlanta) ... Spent the last four seasons as the majors' youngest manager until Baldelli was hired by the Twins…was hired the day before his 37th birthday, and became the youngest manager since A.J. Hinch piloted the 2009 Diamondbacks at the age of 34 ... Is the sixth Tampa-born manager in major league history, and second to manage the Rays… that list includes Hall of Famers Al Lopez and Tony La Russa, Lou Piniella (for whom Cash played in 2005), Dave Miley and John Hart ... Is the second Florida State University alumnus to manage the Rays, joining the franchise's first manager, Larry Rothschild ... With his next ejection, will tie Lou Piniella (eight) for 3rd-most in Rays history…only Joe Maddon (37) and Larry Rothschild (15) have more ... For two seasons (2013-14) before joining the Rays, served as the bullpen coach for the Indians under Terry Francona, whom he played for in Boston (2007-08, 2010)…in his two seasons there, with Cash and pitching coach Mickey Callaway in place, Indians pitchers posted the AL's 4th-best ERA at 3.69, just behind the Rays (3.65)…Indians pitchers also led the majors in strikeouts those two seasons and fanned a then-major-league-record 1,450 batters in 2014…Cash and Callaway were credited with assisting in improvements made by two-time AL Cy Young winner Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco, Scott Kazmir and Ubaldo Jiménez ... Finished his playing career in the Rangers organization in 2011 after playing the season with Triple-A Round Rock…after the minor league season, he served as an advance scout for the major league team for the rest of 2011 and was at Tropicana Field the night Evan Longoria hit his walk-off homer in "Game 162" to send the Rays to the ALDS vs. TEX.
Played professionally for 12 seasons with six organizations from 2000-11, including parts of eight seasons in the major leagues with five different teams from 2002-10…played all but 20 games in his career with AL East teams… played for four of the five teams in the division… appeared in 241 games (189 starts), all at catcher ... Caught two seasons in the Rays organization, including 13 games with the major league club in 2005…became the second former Devil Rays/ Rays player to manage in the major leagues, joining Ozzie Guillén (White Sox/Marlins)… since then, Mickey Callaway (Mets), Gabe Kapler (Phillies), Dave Martinez (Nationals) and Rocco Baldelli (Twins) have joined this group ... Threw out 26.7 pct. (43 of 161) of attempted base stealers in his career…the major league average during his career was 24.4 pct ... Started for the U.S. team in the Futures Game in Milwaukee in 2002 and later that year was a September call up by the Blue Jays ... Delivered his first major league hit on Sep 11, 2002 at CLE, a single off Dave Burba…his first home run came the next season on Sep 27 vs. CLE off Terry Mulholland ... Was in the Opening Day lineup for the Blue Jays in 2004 and started a career-high 50 games… was the Jays regular catcher until mid-May, when he went on the disabled list with a rib injury…returned in June and served as a backup to Gregg Zaun the rest of the season…threw out 42.4 pct. (14 of 33) of attempted base stealers, 4th-best among major league catchers (min. 50 starts). ®Acquired by the Devil Rays from the Blue Jays for Chad Gaudin at the 2004 Winter Meetings in Anaheim…was up with the Devil Rays in 2005 for 39 days (June 13-July 22) replacing veteran Charles Johnson, who was released…homered in his first at-bat as a Ray, and remains one of 14 who have done that…it came on June 15 vs. MIL off Victor Santos…in that same game, he caught Hideo Nomo's 200th career win, automatically qualifying Nomo for Meikyukai, one of Japan's two baseball halls of fame…of his 5 hits as a Ray, two were home runs…Cash's only other homer as a Devil Ray came off Hall of Famer Randy Johnson on June 21 at NYY in a 20-11 loss ... Was on the 40-man roster for former Rays Manager Joe Maddon's first spring training camp in 2006, but spent the entire season at Triple-A Durham and never played for Joe… signed a minor league contract with the Red Sox after the season ... Received World Series rings from the 2007 Red Sox and 2009 Yankees…joined the Red Sox for the last six weeks of the 2007 season when catcher Doug Mirabelli went on the disabled list…was on the Red Sox ALDS postseason roster, but didn't play ... Started 42 games for the Red Sox in 2008, including all 30 of Tim Wakefield's starts…homered in Game 4 of the ALCS vs. the Rays at Fenway Park off Andy Sonnanstine…was in the visitors' dugout at Tropicana Field when the Rays clinched the AL pennant with a 3-1 win in Game 7…was up with the Yankees for two weeks in 2009 (May 12-27) and appeared in 10 games while Jorge Posada was on the disabled list ... In his last major league season in 2010, he was traded from the Astros back to the Red Sox on July 1 when catchers Jason Varitek and Victor Martinez went on the disabled list…in the final start of his career on Oct 2 vs. NYY, he played a key role in a Red Sox win that helped propel the eventual AL East champion Rays into a first-place tie with the Yankees with a game to play… his bases-loaded walk in the 8th inning tied the game that was eventually won, 7-6, by the Red Sox…while with the Astros, he pitched one inning on May 28 at CIN in a 15-6 loss ... Hit his last major league home run on June 13, 2010 at NYY for the Astros…it came off Phil Hughes, who made the All-Star Team that season and won 18 games.
Played infield in high school and college…played three seasons at Florida State University…his junior year (1999), hit .317/.430/.536 (80-for-252) with 14 HR and 58 RBI, earning second team All-ACC honors…named Most Valuable Player of the Tallahassee Regional in the 1999 College World Series ... Kevin, his father, Mike, and his late uncle, Ron, all played in the College World Series; Ron with Florida State in 1970 and Mike with Georgia Southern in 1973…all three were infielders… Mike was drafted in the 27th round by the Giants in 1974 and played five seasons in the Giants and Phillies chains…in 1976 with Fresno in the Class-A California League, he had 22 HR and 102 RBI…only one other player in the Giants organization hit more home runs that season: Bobby Murcer hit 23 with the big league club… Ron played two seasons in the majors with the Tigers (1973-74) and hit .297 in 34 career games ... At FSU, he played in the first-ever Devil Rays game, a spring exhibition at Al Lang Field on Feb 26, 1998…Cash played first base for FSU and went 0-for-2 in the Devil Rays 6-3 win ... Undrafted out of FSU in 1999…he spent that summer with the Falmouth Commodores in the Cape Cod League, where he was named the team's Most Valuable Player…that summer he went to Manager Jeff Trundy and volunteered to move from infielder to catcher after illness and injury sidelined the team's two catchers… Kevin threw out two baserunners in his first inning behind the plate, and the position switch stuck ... On Aug 7, 1999-the same day Wade Boggs delivered his 3,000th career hit at Tropicana Field-he signed as a non-drafted free agent with the Blue Jays…he then worked with Ernie Whitt to develop his craft behind the plate ... Graduated from Gaither High School in North Tampa, where he was All-State in 1996 under coach Frank Permuy, who retired in 2014 after 31 years at the school…was cut from the school's fall team his sophomore season.


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The "Illegal Alien" costume causing uproar amongst immigrant rights activists, anti-immigrant supporters and free speech advocates is the first major faux pas of this Halloween season. While anti-immigrant supporters are scrambling to find the costume, immigrant rights activists are calling for a public boycott of the suit.
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October 2002 - Walmart, Party City and Urban Outfitters offer "Kung Fool" and "Chinese Man" costumes to buyers, drawing ire from the Asian community. Featuring buckteeth and slanted-eyed masks, Fu-Manchu style mustache, a pigtail and glasses, the suits caused a national protest that took the outfits off the shelves.
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October 2006 - UT Austin law students throw a "Ghetto Fabulous" costume party. And, of course, posted party photos online. "We had no intention...to choose a group or class of people and make fun of them," said the student who posted the pictures. But the photos of white students with 40-ouncers, shiny grills and "ethnic" nametags were too much for some to let slide. Black law students of the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society brought national attention to the incident and shamed UT into at least addressing the problem, although no disciplinary action came of it.
October 2007 - Penn State University students dressed up as Virginia Tech shooting victims in VA Tech garb, complete with bloody bullet holes, and posted some of the party photos to their Facebook accounts. The VA Tech massacre had taken place only six months previously, so naturally the costumes really pissed some folks off. It even spawned another Facebook site, "People against this costume." One student apologized for the unwanted publicity but the other, Nathan Jones, did not, citing free-speech rights. Jones eventually lost his job at Bank of America over the affair.
October 2007 - Julie Meyers, assistant secretary over Immigration and Customs Enforcement division (ICE), was a judge for a company Halloween party who gave the "most original costume" award to an employee who dressed in dark facial make-up, dreadlocks and a black-and-white prison outfit. Meyers even posed for a picture with the winner. The photo was posted to the ICE site until someone complained. The Associated Press later reported that Meyers issued an apology and that the offending employee was put on leave. Blackface, of course, is a not-so-original concept dating back to the 1830s. Since then, it's been considered kinda offensive, except (we guess) at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Moral of the story: Stereotypical costumes are continually coming under fire as racial equality finds its way through our society. Already the murmurs of dissatisfied ethnic groups are beginning to be heard about Arab, Gypsy and Asian Geisha costumes. Hair Balls' best suggestion to those of you who still want to exercise your free-speech right to offend but not draw the ire of an entire community: Dress up as a specific person -- that way you only piss off one person and not an entire ethnic group.


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MIAMI – Jose Fernandez may be one of the best pitchers in baseball and he may be the National League Rookie of the Year.
But Jose Fernandez is also a rookie, which means the Marlins phenom also has to take his fair share of abuse.
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It's a baseball custom that rookies are forced to dress up in wacky outfits as part of the hazing process of the big leagues.
On his Twitter posts, Fernandez posed in his outfit with baseball legend Tony Perez and said, "Rookie dress up day loving it. Part of the game." On another post Fernandez remarked, "Yeah yeah long fly and long night!"
Fernandez created some fireworks on Wednesday night after hitting a home run against the Braves. Atlanta players felt the rookie pitcher showed disrespect by not hustling around the bases and spitting in the direction of Braves third baseman Chris Johnson.
Fernandez, who was pitching in his final game of the season, later apologized for his actions.


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Today (May 20th) is our great webmaster's birthday - and it's a milestone! I'm sure you'll all want to join me in wishing John a
Very Happy Birthday!
John, I hope the casinos remember it's your big day and dump a load of comps at your door. In any event have a great one!
Here's my idea for a Da Vinci Diamonds type slot/ birthday card........
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Happy birthday, and thanks for giving us Reno enthusiasts a nonjudgmental place to talk about our weird affection for the ol' broad!
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Just like real slots, the most valuable icon is buried on the fifth reel in the middle... no chance of a win.
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It looks like a winner to me! Happy birthday.
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Happy Birthday John-
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Nice! Happy Birthday John, and thanks for all you provide!
BCDave - awesome machine prototype there. How many lines and credits per bet? LOL
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Thanks, everyone for the birthday wishes. Sorry for the delay in responding, but the party lasted a little longer than expected. Of course, at age 70, everything lasts longer than expected.
I'm winding down by listening to beautiful piano music, compliments of BC Dave, snuggling with Charlie and Higgins and sipping hot chocolate. There - now I feel like a senior citizen.
I got a special treat on my birthday...Jerry sent me an email full of good wishes. Seems he spent his 3rd consecutive winter at Lake Havasu City. He hopes to revisit the board soon.
Thanks again for the b-day wishes. It's time for my nap.
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Sounds like you had a good time, John. It would be a treat to hear from Jerry.
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Sorry to be so late with the birthday wishes; Mrs. Allen and I took a non-Reno trip, which of course, would not interest anyone here.
So, Happy Birthday to John, our esteemed webmaster and overlord of visitreno.com - the biggest little Reno travel-related website on Earth!
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Darn it I know there was something I needed to do last Monday, now I'll have to wait a whole year to annoy you on that special day of yours.
well a belated Birthday wish to you, hope you had as much fun as a blind prospector in a cactus field...
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Stan, I'm surprised you go places other than Reno. I thought everyone only came here.
For those of you who don't know, Sockmonkey (who is appropriately named) and I have a history. Now our lives are full of bitter resentment toward each other. She tried to poison me once, so I stabbed her in the thigh, then she threw me out of a second story window, but her convertible broke my fall and I got off with a mild concussion. In retaliation, I shot her dog, but it suffered only a minor wound. That's all lies. She's actually one of my favorite people. We just enjoy annoying each other. Thanks M, for being there and for forgetting to bother me on Monday.
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Yes as Mr Reno has implied we do have a past,I think it started when he started dating my mother in 1935.....It wasn't till they no longer had a relationship ,that he shot my dog and I threw him out the window. I wouldn't have thought to do such a thing ,but he took my dog to a bar and then out to dinner....Let's not air our dirty laundry in public, lets just hang it in the bath room where it belongs...That my friends is a true and almost accurate narrative of my past dealings with MR Reno...I only purposely forgot to annoy you on Monday because when I move back to town I will have plenty of days and time to do it in person, and I wanted to give you a false sense if security, so get plenty of rest J ,I still have plenty of pay backs in the works, your Friend till the end..M
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Orbologists Dr. Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann are in their lab putting together a massive sound worm by hand for the anniversary of Berlin's elite training ground, Shitkatapult. A lot will be sorely missed, but there's no other way it could be done!
A comprehensive overview of works spanning 20 years of label history, from the heyday of electronic music to its established conflation – beyond all recognition – in 2017, would not really be a mix as such.
And such is the intent of this compilation: a DJ mix or, better yet, a radio mix or radio show. As they often did, the Orb liked to operate right at the convolutions and interfaces between work and quote, between interpretation and punctuation. That's exactly what we have here – a fine, easy hour of music from the Orbital of Shitkatapult - The Orb Chronicles (20 Years Shitkatapult) Featuring (in mix order): Hamburger dub specialist Fenin opens the show with a darkly ambient hall 'Adeto' (from Fenin - Mixes and Maxis - Strike 117) and is immediately layered through with 'What is Paris?' by Bus w/ Dabrye (from Bus - Eagles - Strike 146). Both tracks blend together like a cut-up for adults into a single track, which also appears on the B-side of the maxi single released at the same time (The Orb - Suspected Hippies in Transit - Strike 165).
Next up, familiar spirits Phon.o (from his album 'Burn Down the Town' - Strike 64) with 'Verborg nie die 6' and wayward Finn Sami Koivikko ('Erisana' by Sami Koivikko - Kut Pulatin Pt.3 - Strike 28) deliver the most important building blocks of the minimal/tech house side of the label, coming from Cristian Vogel's Telemorphosis from the exiled UK artist's latest album, The Assistenz - Strike 160.
Followed and once again interrupted by Cristian Vogel, from the songs and more section with the Sorry Entertainers, Judith Juillerat, Khan of Finland und T.Raumschmiere (The Sorry Entertainers - The Only Thing I.......więcej