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Agile Transformations Explained
Leading a large-scale agile transformation isn't about adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level… it's about helping your company deliver faster to market, and developing the ability to respond to a rapidly-changing competitive landscape. First and foremost, it's about achieving business agility. Business agility comes from people having clarity of purpose, a willingness to be held accountable, and the ability to achieve measurable outcomes. Unfortunately, almost everything in modern organizations gets in the way of teams acting with any sort of autonomy. In most companies, achieving business agility requires significant organizational change.
Agile transformation necessitates a fundamental rethinking of how your company organizes for delivery, how it delivers value to its customers, and how it plans and measures outcomes. Agile transformation is about building enabling structures, aligning the flow of work, and measuring for outcomes based progress. It's about breaking dependencies. The reality is that this kind of change can only be led from the top. This talk will explore how executives can define an idealized end-state for the transformation, build a fiscally responsible iterative and incremental plan to realize that end-state, as well as techniques for tracking progress and managing change.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
Brief Agenda
- Deciding the Scope of the Transformation
- Deciding Your Transformation Approach
- Managing Change and Measuring Progress
Learning Outcome
Participants will leave the session with an understanding of how to build an organizational business case for agile, how to craft a transformation strategy and roadmap, how to build consensus internally for the transformation, and how to support the transformation with meaningful metrics that reinforce and support the changes.
Target Audience
Agile Change Agents, Management, Executives, Leadership, Agile Delivery Leaders, Agile Coaches, etc.
LeadingAgile Blog: https://www.leadingagile.com/blog/
Past Public Talk...Live from Agile and Beyond 2017: Executives Guide to Leading Large-Scale Agile Transformation: https://www.leadingagile.com/2017/05/live-agile-beyond-executives-guide-leading-large-scale-agile-transformation/
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Sponsored by several local charities, Boat for Hope is a day of fun and adventure for kids with special needs. Volunteer captains dressed like pirates will decorate their boats and take 200 kids around Okanagan Lake in a quest for pirate treasure.
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The Queen's Silver Jubilee was celebrated in Meldreth on Tuesday 7th June 1977. The programme for the day was as follows:
1.45pm Procession from the village hall to the stocks.
2.00pm Reverend Alan Heawood dedicated the new village sign.
2.30pm Children's sports on the school field
3.45pm Tea for everyone in the Village Hall
followed by a Whist Drive for the 0ver 60's
4.00pm It's a Knock Out on the recreation ground
8.30pm Jubilee barbeque followed by dancing with a live band
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In spite of the weather there was an excellent turnout for our procession through the village to the stocks. Many people had dressed up and many people had decorated their bikes, trikes and pushchairs which looked very gay decked out in red, white and blue. The procession, led by a band of school children playing a variety of instruments and by a Jowett Javelin licenced in Cambridge in 1953, made its way to the stocks, where the vicar conducted a short service of dedication and unveiled the new village sign. The sign was carved locally, and has received very favourable comments to date.
After the unveiling the children had fun at their sports on the school meadow after receiving Jubilee buttons for entering a race and a rosette for gaining a place. Tea in the village hall proved very popular, everyone working flat out to serve approximately a thousand teas!
Tea was followed by a whist drive in the village hall and an It's a Knockout competition between seven teams from the village on the recreation ground. Even the downpour towards the end of the competition did not deter the competitors who carried on to complete the course.
As the village barbeque was due to start at 8.30pm there was just enough time to rush home and tidy oneself and then get back to the recreation ground for the barbeque of chicken, sausages and salad, with dancing to a band in the village hall and to a disco in the marquee until the early hours.
The committee would like to thank everyone who helped make the day enjoyable for us all and for supporting the committee in their efforts.
The committee, which had been set up to fund-raise and organise the day, had the following members:
Alan Counsell, Mary Course, Daphne Deakin, Janet Elliott, Cecilia Gillington, Gil Graham, Audrey Hollamby, David Hollamby, Robert Hollamby, Tessa Humphreys, Basil Jacques, Carol Mead, Hazel Parker, Denis Parker, John Price, Richard Remnant, Kathleen rogers, Bob Weir.
If you have you any memories of the day or can identify anyone in the photographs, please add a comment to this page.
Seeing these photographs reminded me of my part in the Jubilee celebrations in 1977. I can be seen in some of the photographs playing the trombone and wearing a blue t-shirt with a "77" on it. When Ron Harding was head of the primary school he encouraged many children to take up the clarinet. Whoever was organising the 1977 activities asked me to get a marching band of school children together. This was a challenge with my technical knowledge of music - I do not read music, but improvise around the chords of the number. After some thought I decided to use a corny jazz tune, 'When the Saints Come Marching In'. Not knowing how to arrange for such a group with a large number of clarinets I split the children into four groups so that they took it in turn to play the tune. I walked from our old house next to the school to the stocks more than once, humming the tune quietly and counting the number of choruses that we would have to play. I did manage to write out the notes for the children to learn and also copied the melody lines for the hymns which were to be played at the stocks. When we arrived there the music and stands were all at Mrs Findlay's house (Geneva House) and it was very windy so the music had to be held down with clothes pegs. One slight embarrassment was one hymn sung to the tune of John Brown's body: I counted it in so fast that nobody was able to get the words out! A success though was God Save the Queen: I copied the piano chords and spread the individual notes among the group as instrument parts with me playing the bass line and to my amazement it sounded very good.
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Gibson / J45 / 1953 / Sunburst / Guitar
The J45 is known as the workhorse guitar, and this example really is a workhorse, with all the bumps and bruises to prove it - and the kind of mature tone that only comes with years and years of play. This example plays just as well and sounds just as good as it's more expensive, cleaner equivalents - only because it's clearly been played hard, and has several repaired top and back cracks, it's far more affordable. A diamond in the rough would be a good way to describe it. It has a depth and warmth to the tone that make it truly inspirational to play, you can hit it hard and it will respond, yet it will handle the most delicate finger picking, it really is a superb all rounder. The guitar comes in a non original hard case.
Glenns Guitars, UK
Welcome to Glenn's Guitars here on Vintage & Rare. After many years in the industry, and having been fortunate enough to have worked in Hanks and The Acoustic Centre - probably London's two foremost acoustic guitar shops - I decided to do my own thing.
I have a passion for used and vintage acoustic guitars; nearly new second hand guitars because they can represent a bargain compared to the price of a new guitar, older and vintage guitars because they tend to have more character and can often become an investment.
You will notice when viewing my stock list my taste in guitars, as I only sell guitars that I genuinely like - and there are certain brands noticeable by their absence. I am a huge fan of older Gibson, Martin and Guild acoustics, but also more boutique brands such as Lowden and Collings.
I will consider part exchange if it makes your desired guitar a little easier to afford. I also offer a guitar finding service, if there's something specific you're looking for.
If you are happy to buy over the internet, I will send you as many high resolution photos and as much information about the guitar you're interested in as I can. If you can get to me - I'm based in Enfield, only 30 minutes from London Liverpool Street Station - you can always make an appointment with me and come and try some of the guitars out first.
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I used to hate painting vineyards...too many rows to mess with and they slow you down. Then I began to realise after painting a few that vineyard scenes usually have the things I like painting...deep shadows, great contrasts in dark/light due to the bright highlights on the tops of the grape plant and room to allow great sky work. They also offer the chance to work on atmosphere as well as give you a chance to work on painting distance into a scene.
Working on these paintings is really good practise in capturing all these elements in a painting so I've done a few of these now. I just recently finished 3 of them and thought it woul be cool to post them together to show the variations in painted vineyards. I am totally no pro at them yet, or with any other subject for that matter, but I am always trying to paint better paintings and this is the price for that...paint, paint, paint.
Here they are..........
Vineyard Shadows
12"x16" Oil on Canvas
Domaine Alfred Vineyard
9"x12" Oil on Canvas
Mosby Sunlight
12"x16" Oil on canvas


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Gregory Isaacs, John Holt and Frankie Paul – Classic Reggae!
Great Vocalists Rule at the Jamaica Vintage Independence Celebration
Review by M. Peggy Quattro
Photos by Lynn Dearing and M. Peggy Quattro
Ft. Lauderdale, FL – The Jamaica Vintage Music Fest is becoming one of the must-see shows in South Florida. In celebration of Jamaica's Independence, a group of the island's finest singers came together for a night of true niceness.
From Rock Steady to Dancehall to the Cool Ruler himself, Club Cinema was packed with an all-ages audience eager for the music and ready to dance!
Code Red band was red hot and successfully backed a string of performers. Early acts included Tenor Blue Ras Baba, Teena, and crowd favorite Honorebel. General Degree brought back the fun back to Dancehall music and stormed his way into the fan's hearts with his hits, including "Pianist" and "Pass Mi My Cellular." His braids and beads had the 90s singer looking as young and fresh as the gals glued to the front of the stage. Next up was Singing Melody, in a mint green suit and white curl-toes shoes. He owned the stage and filled the room with his sweet voice, closing with his hit "Just As I Am."
Reggae's most famous tour manager, Copeland Forbes, was in the house celebratiang his birthday. He was surprised on stage with a proclamtion commending him for his 40+ years in the Jamaican music business. When the unmistakeable groan from Gregory Isaacs was heard, the rush to the front of the stage was lightning fast.
Looking slick in his gray silk suit and trademark hat, Gregory performed well, despite being a bit ill. He went through his decades of hits, including "Rumors," "Diamonds and Pearls," "Nightnurse," "Raggamuffin," "Front Door," "Mr. Brown," "Love is Overdue," and more.
Although not quite vintage, singer Etana made her way onto the list of a "future vintage star." She performed her hit "Roots" and songs off her latest CD. A crack on the band was unnecessary and the energy slightly changed.
John Holt still commands the crowd when he steps on stage, and this night was no different. In a stylish suit and ites wool cap, the dreaded crooner dashed from one edge of the stage to the other, singing and dancing and genuinely having a great time. "Stick by Me," "Tribal War," "Wear You to the Ball," "If I Were a Carpenter," and "Tide is High" are just few hits from his distinguised career that had the fans shouting for more.
Frankie Paul, looking dapper in a white suit with trademark long jacket, was welcomed with loud applause that followed after every hit song the crooner delivered. Looking out over the audience, it was a sea of motion as the large crowd moved in unison to the reggae standards delivered the way only Frankie Paul can deliver. "Sarah" was booming in the background as we made our way out of Club Cinema, another great show featuring the classic artists who have contributed to reggae's history.
Kudos to promoter Luther Mac and all the fine sponsors for supporting the music and the always pleasurable stage shows. Congrats to Jamaica on their 47th anniversary of Independence!


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September 2012
The Olympics and Paralympics have just drawn to a close, so now we can take a breath and revisit reality. The time has been uplifting to the nation and we can all share in the sense of pride that has abounded these wonderful Games. The wonder, the awe, the sacrifice, the heartache, the humility…. clearly apparent in all participants…let's hope the feel good factor remains in these challenging times!
I opened my boutique 3 months ago and am very pleased to have taken the plunge. Its success to me is not measured by the shrieking of the cash register, but by the comments of the clientele. They have been positive and I feel I have struck the right chord with all those who cross the threshold.
The challenge is not to stand still but to keep moving forward. The 'Dejanira' line of reworked retro clothing has been highly successful. It offers that uniqueness that I aspire to and am pleased that customers feel the same. I shall endeavour to expand what is available.
The website of 'Bohemian Finds' is no longer an online business, as you will know. This decision was a tough one, but I moved it to the
ASOS Market Place
as this was more manageable with the boutique. ASOS is updated monthly, but there is always more in the shop…. so pay a visit if you can.
Love it or hate it...the grunge look is here to stay
Bohemian Finds has also moved to become part of the local community project 'Discover Northampton'. This project sees artwork and photographs displayed in town businesses throughout the town centre creating an Artist Trail. Steve Addo's work is on show in our Market Walk boutique. As a follow up to this there is BID Businesses Exhibition and Fashion Show on October 1st at Royal & Derngate Theatre.
Similarly there is a VIP DAY which we are supporting, on Thurs 20th September. This sees us join up with 4 local businesses offering photo portraiture, colour analysis session, Head and shoulder massage, corset fitting, hair and make up demonstration and a range of clothes to view from us at Bohemian Finds. There is a prize draw too! It is £5 per head with all profits going to Cynthia Spencer Hospice.
I am pleased that Bohemian Finds is able to support these local enterprises and help raise its profile in very challenging times.
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DISCOVER northampton Artist Trail
There is a lot of art and beauty in Northamptonshire that is undiscovered, much of it is represented by local artists and photographers. In co-operation with local art groups Northampton BID businesses are hosting a 'local' Artist Trail throughout September supporting local artists and photographers by showcasing their works within businesss premises.
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Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum'
This tree is deciduous so it will lose all its leaves in autumn, then fresh new foliage appears again each spring.
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: fertile, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: slow-growing
- Flowering period: April to May
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Initially the foliage of this undemanding tree is a dazzling shrimp-pink, but as it matures, it turns a soft yellowish green. A highly ornamental sycamore, it has a spreading habit, but is both smaller and slower growing than many of the others. This top-worked tree (ie grafted at 1.2m), is perfect for more compact gardens, and it can also cope with salt-laden winds.
- Garden care: Add a top dressing of a multi-purpose fertiliser around the base of the plant in late spring. No routine pruning is required, just remove any dead, damaged or crossing branches in late autumn or winter when they are fully dormant.
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- Hello. We have several acers (including a Brilliantissimum), all quite mature and still in pots - desperately need to plant them! I have two questions please. Firstly, is it ok to plant them now (July)? Secondly, do acers need to be planted in ericaceous soil? Any help much appreciated - thank you
Hello, Acers flourish in fertile, moist but well-drained soils, but they do not need to have an acidic pH. As for planting times, pot grown plants can be planted out at any time of the year, but it is crucial that you make sure they are kept well watered during the hot weather.
- Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brillantissimum' size? Hi I am looking for an Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brillianissimum'. Can you tell me if the one on your website is a quarter standard? Thank you Linda
Twiname, Linda
Hello Linda, I'm afraid the ones we sell on our site are not quarter standards. I'm sorry not to be more help. Helen Plant Doctor
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- Help with a Japanese-style corner please? Hello, I was wondering if you could please advise me with a planting related matter. We have a small area in front of our kitchen which has the (grotesque) wheelie bin next to it and then the front door. We thought a minimalist (fuss-free) Japanese scheme would work best. Because it is partially shaded, we decided that three Japanese Acers of different foliages (tall, medium, and small heights) placed in planters would brighten up that corner. However, before doing so, we wanted to know if the three Acers ought to have barriers between them or not and what plants would complement the Japanese look for ground cover, perhaps an ornamental grass. If so which varieties would work best for year round interest? Should we use a multipurpose compost for all these plants? We'd appreciate any other helpful tips you can give. Many thanks, Muna
Muna Hai
Hello again Muna, While it is true that Acers will not like disturbance to their roots, I have never heard of them needing a barrier, or that you cannot underplant them. When choosing what to plant it is worthwhile looking at the eventual height and spread of a plant. For example the Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum' will eventually grow to 6m tall x 8m wide, the Acer japonicum 'Aconitifolium' will grow to 5mtall x 6m wide and Acer palmatum 'Sango-Kaku' will grow to 6m tall x 5m wide. Therefore, the choice will be dependant on how much room you need to fill, and the effect you want to create. As for the Liriope, I have never heard of one called Aureum, so I am not sure which one you are referring to. Best regards, Helen Plant Doctor
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Many thanks for the early reply, Helen as I do need to sort it all out soon. The barrier I was referring to was for the roots as I've been told Acers don't like to be fussed about with, which is why I was thinking Ishouldn't plant anything else around it in the same planter, other Acers,or even ground cover plants? Also, bearing in mind they're slow-growing, these are the Acers I've ordered. Please would let me know if I'm still mistaken in ordering so many? If there was one or two to keep and complement each other, which one(s) would they be? I probably still have time to change my order. Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum', Acer japonicum 'Aconitifolium', Acer palmatum 'Sango-kaku'. Thanks for the Liriope suggestion. Is Aureum (the one without flowers) similar? Regards, Muna
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Hello Muna, My initial thought is that 1 Acer would probably be enough as most of them will get quite large as they grow. I am not really sure what you mean by needing barriers (roots or foliage screen?), as I have never heard of this with an Acer. Japanese Acers are beautiful plants and generally colour up well in autumn, but they will need a good amount of sun for this to happen, and then they lose all their leaves in winter, so you are left with bare twigs. Therefore your best option may be to have evergreen groundcover such as Liriope which looks a little like a grass, Pachysandra or Luzula to provide interest until the Acers puts on new growth again in the spring. Helen Plant Doctor
Muna Hai
- How big are your Sycamores trees? I am interested in the Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum') you have on your website but I am looking for the biggest and oldest I can get. Can you tell me how old and how big yours are?
Debbie O'Donnell
The Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum' we sell on our site are in 10 litre pots. They are about 1.5m tall and approximately 4-5 years old.
- What can I use as a centrepiece in my bed? I'm looking for a small ornamental tree or shrub for a centrepiece, ideally with with flowers or pretty foliage. Can you give me any ideas??
David Poulter
There are some wonderful plants that would be suitable - here are some of my favourites. Prunus Amanogawa http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=4640&CategoryID=7 Arbutus unedo http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=78419&CategoryID=7 Malus floribunda http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=4584&CategoryID= Malus x robusta 'Red Sentinel' http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=4594&CategoryID= Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis Rosea' http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=4651&CategoryID= Prunus 'Kiku-shidare-zakura' http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=4643&CategoryID= Betula pendula 'Youngii' http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=358&CategoryID= Sorbus cashmiriana http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=4726&CategoryID= Amelanchier lamarckii http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=257&CategoryID= Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum' http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/results/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=138&CategoryID= Useful articles: http://www.crocus.co.uk/plantdoctor/trees/ http://www.crocus.co.uk/feature/plantingtrees/
- Is there an evergreen Acer? Could I just ask if there is an Acer that is not 'deciduous' but 'evergreen'?
Susan McGarragh
Sadly not as all Acers are deciduous.
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This is the second recipe I tried for use with my new
Hubby, as I said in my previous post, preferred the denser Marcato biscuits (although he found it hard to admit it to me).
Just a note on the cheaper Norpro brand (link shown here):
I received it already. Made of aluminum, it is lighter and thinner than the Marcato I bought earlier (which, interestingly, also bears the Norpro mark on the box, but is made in Italy). I would think it will not be up to denser cookie dough like the Marcato biscuits. However, I think it is still a better option than plastic ones. I will also someday try its butter spritz cookie recipe included in the manual. The light dough below should not be a problem with this cheaper Norpro cookie press.
Wilton's Classic Spritz Cookies
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 cups butter softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon no-color almond extract
Makes: 7-8 dozen cookies.
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
In bowl, combine flour and baking powder. In large bowl, beat butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg, milk, vanilla and almond extract; mix well. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture; beat until combined. Do not chill. Fill cookie press with dough and with desired disks, press cookies onto ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 2 minutes on cookie sheet on cooling rack. Remove from sheet; cool completely.


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Happy Labor Day! I hope that you are all off today and spending some time with friends and family!! We were supposed to get a storm here on the East Coast but I think that it has dissipated! Thank you to all of you that played along with our Wonderful Wings Challenge from last week!! What a lovely assortment of birds, butterflies and other winged creatures you shared with us!! Now here are this week's Design Team picks:
Tina – Such a gorgeous card with an awesome layout! I loved that beautiful layered flamingo and the vertical sentiment was perfect with it! Your layered color choices were great.. loved that Watermelon Wonder!
Sandy – Kaja's card is a clean and simple beauty! I love the sweet little stork and baby, and the stitched background adds so much interest while still maintaining plenty of white space. Awesome card, Kaja!
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Justin – I love the art journal feel to the card! Such a fun and different take on the challenge!
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Board cutting line PK-PK 170
For cutting boards automatically into finished palletized blanks in one operating process, max. 220 cycles/min.
Technical data
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Working width
Original board format
Slitting width
min. 600 mm | max. 1,400 mm
Slitting length
min. 700 mm | max. 1,400 mm
Finished size
Slitting width
min. 85 mm | max. 1.380 mm
Slitting length
min. 150 mm | max. 480 mm
Board thickness
1 – 4 mm
Depending on board quality and number of cuts
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Capacity of the board feeder
max. 60 sheets/min
Capacity of the strip feeder
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|Birmingham Barons
|Southern League
|South Division
|Year founded
|Major League affiliation
|Chicago White Sox
|Home ballpark
|Regions Park
|Previous home ballparks
|Rickwood Field
|Hoover, Alabama
|Current uniform colors
|black, white, silver
|Previous uniform colors
|Logo design
|The wordmark "Barons" in black outlined in white and silver with the word "Birmingham" centered above in black.
|Division titles
|League titles
|1983, 1987, 1989, 1993, 2002
|Rafael Santana
|Don Logan, Jeff Logan, Stan Logan
The Birmingham Barons are a minor league baseball team based in Birmingham, Alabama. The team, which plays in the Southern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox major-league club. The Barons are considered by many as one of the most successful minor league teams in baseball.
The Barons play in Regions Park, located in Hoover, Alabama; the park seats 10,800 fans. They moved there in 1987 from historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham's West End community. They still play one "throwback" game called the Rickwood Classic each season in period uniforms at the old facility.
The Barons were briefly involved in a media frenzy by virtue of being the minor-league club that Michael Jordan played for in 1994 after his first retirement from basketball.
Early history
The Barons history can be traced back to 1885, when the Barons (originally known as the Coal Barons) played in the many Southern Leagues during the early years of baseball. In those years leagues came and went, but baseball in Birmingham survived. In 1901 the Southern Association formed with teams in Birmingham, Selma, New Orleans, Shreveport, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga. The modern Barons 1st Southern Association title came in 1906 as the team that went 85-47 under manager Harry Vaughn.
In 1887, the Birmingham Barons were playing at Slag Pile (West End Park), located on 6th Street between 1st Avenue North and the Alabama Great Southern Railroad tracks. The old Slag Pile grandstand would only grant one 60-day lease at a time. Also during this time, the Barons played in East Lake. A.H. (Rick) Woodward, the late Birmingham millionaire industrialist, decided to buy the team in 1910 from J.William McQueen, the Barons owner since 1901.
After reaching the final terms in February of 1910, Woodward's first objective was to construct a ballpark. In a short time, he produced plans for the first concrete-and-steel ballpark in the minor leagues. Woodward consulted Philadelphia's legendary manager Connie Mack about building the 12.7 acre park. From parks such as Philly's Shibe Park and Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, Rickwood Field took shape. The name of the park originated from Woodward's first name and part of his last name. Construction of Rickwood was complete prior to the first game played there on August 18,1910. The Barons won the opener 3-2 over Montgomery, after a 2-run rally in the 9th inning. A crowd in excess of 10,000 came for the contest.
Carleton Molesworth arrived in Birmingham in 1908 to serve as the Barons manager and outfielder. He ended up serving as skipper until 1922. He helped the Barons to 2 Southern Association titles and became synonymous with Birmingham baseball. The Barons won their first SA title for Molesworth in Rickwood in 1912. The first of 5 Baseball Hall of Famers who played in a Barons uniform was Burleigh Grimes. The righthander pitched in Birmingham from 1914-1916 and later became one of the last legal spitball pitchers in the majors. He was not a major factor as the Barons took their third SA title with an 88-62 record, but he struck out 158 batters in 1915 and won 20 games in 1916 while pitching a team-leading 276 innings.
The 1920s
The Barons set attendance records during the "Roaring Twenties". During the decade the Barons drew 160,000 or more to Rickwood 8 times, including a then-team-record 299,150 in 1927, a year in which the Barons played all of their games during the day and there were no Sunday games. During 1927, Hall of Famer Rube Marquard pitched for the Barons.
A total of 14 years passed before the Barons won another Southern Association title in 1928. The team posted a batting average of .331 in winning a club-record 99 games for Johnny Dobbs. This was the first split schedule in the history of the SA and the Barons took the first half title, then beat Memphis in 3 straight for the championship. The next season , the Barons made it back-to-back titles under Dobbs as 13 players hit .300 or better, a SA record. The Barons won their first Dixie Series appearance 4-2 over Dallas of the Texas League.
The 1930s
The 1930s, played under the shadow of the Great Depression, started well for the Barons as the team won the 1931 pennant for second year manager Clyde Milan. It would be the highlight of a decade which saw the Barons in the SA's top 3 only twice. The depression and its financial crunch forced Woodward to sell his beloved ball club, after 3 years of virtual bank ownership, to Ed Norton in 1938.
Rickwood's grand years
The Barons did not claim an SA pennant during the 1940s, but the resurgence of baseball across the country after World War II brought record crowds to Rickwood from 1948-50. In 1948, the Barons drew 445,926 to Rickwood winning the Dixie Series over Fort Worth and followed up with 421,305 in 1949. Unfortunately, the Barons did not win another SA pennant until 1958, when they won 91 games and the pennant by 6 1/2 games for Cal Ermer.
The remainder of the 1950s and 60s saw the club finish first in 1959 (1st half) but could not win the pennant. Then, for the first time since 1898, Birmingham did not have a team as the Southern Association ceased operations after the 1961 season.
The new Southern League
Rickwood Field remained dark for just 2 years before the Barons were reborn in 1964 in the newly formed Southern League, composed of members of the old Southern Association and the South Atlantic League. The Barons survived for two years, but moved again after the 1965 season.
The Kansas City (later Oakland) Athletics, owned by Charles O. Finley brought baseball back to the Magic City in 1967 with the Birmingham A's. Right out of the gate the A's took the Southern League title in 1967 by 3 1/2 games under John McNamara. During this time (1967-75) the A's featured Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson and Rollie Fingers, who went on to be mainstays of the Oakland Athletics 3 consecutive World Series titles (1972-74). The A's moved after the 1975 season to Chattanooga and Rickwood did not see Southern League baseball again for 5 seasons.
The Hoover Met
The latest version of the Barons came back to Birmingham in 1981, thanks to the efforts of Art Clarkson, who engineered the move of the Montgomery Rebels to Rickwood Field. The Barons played in front of their largest opening night crowd in 31 years (9,185) on April 14,1981 in a 6-5 win over Jacksonville. The 1981 squad featured future major league star Howard Johnson and current Arizona Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin. Good times followed as the Barons won the 1983 title over Jacksonville in 4 games. It was apparent by 1986 that historic Rickwood Field would not host the Barons forever. Clarkson made plans to move the team to Hoover, Alabama, a Birmingham suburb, and a 10,800 seat Hoover Metropolitan Stadium (now called Regions Park). The final game at Rickwood (September 9,1987) was a 5-4 loss to Charlotte in the second game of the Southern League title series. The team won "one more for Rickwood" by taking the title in 4 games.
The Barons took the field for the first time at the Hoover Met on April 18, 1988. Birmingham won 8-2 over Greenville in front of 13,279. The club has won three titles (1989,93,02) since the move to Hoover. The 1993 title was led by current Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona.
Michael Jordan
The 1994 season was historic for the Barons as former NBA superstar Michael Jordan switched sports and was assigned to the club on March 31st. Jordan's popularity helped shatter the club's season attendance record (467,867). Jordan batted .202 with 3 homers and 51 RBI and stole a club-leading 30 bases as the team was covered by journalists from around the world. The Barons drew 985,185 overall and millions of others watched as the club played on national or regional television 4 times. Terry Francona managed the team when Jordan played there.
Recent accomplishments
The club was sold to new ownership in 1995 (Elmore Sports Group Ltd.). Among the innovations under the new ownership was the Rickwood Classic. Once a year the Barons return to play a game at Rickwood Field , honoring baseball's rich history in a "turn back the clock" game. The Classic is a favorite of players and fans alike.
The Barons have been to the Southern League playoffs a record-tying six consecutive seasons (2000-2005), winning the Southern League crown in 2002 under former Major League player Wally Backman. Another former Major Leaguer, Razor Shines managed the Barons in 2004-2005. He came aboard in 2004 and made two playoff appearances. Cris Cron, who had previously managed the team during the 1999 season was named the Barons manager for 2006.
New ownership
In September of 2005 the Birmingham Barons were sold by Elmore Sports Group Ltd. to Don Logan and his sons Jeff and Stan. They plan to operate as Birmingham Barons, LLC. The Logans become the 11th owner in the Barons history.
Playoffs and championships
- Southern League Playoff Appearances (12): 1983, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- Southern League Championships (5): 1983, 1987, 1989, 1993, 2002
Major League affiliations
- Boston Red Sox 1947-52
- New York Yankees 1953-56
- Detroit Tigers 1957-61
- Kansas City Athletics 1964-65
- Detroit Tigers 1981-85
- Chicago White Sox 1986-Present
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Famous Barons/Birmingham A's
- Jeff Abbott
- Wilson Alvarez
- Wally Backman (manager)
- Sal Bando
- Jason Bere
- Vida Blue
- Mark Buehrle
- Mike Cameron
- Bert Campaneris
- Phil Cavaretta (manager)
- Joe Crede
- Rob Dibble
- Ray Durham
- Darrell Evans
- Scott Eyre
- Rollie Fingers
- Terry Francona (manager)
- Jon Garland
- Burleigh Grimes
- Roberto Hernandez
- Bo Jackson
- Reggie Jackson
- Bobby Jenks
- Howard Johnson
- Michael Jordan
- Tony LaRussa
- Carlos Lee
- Rube Marquard
- Jack McDowell
- John McNamara (manager)
- Bob Melvin
- Miguel Olivo
- Magglio Ordonez
- Jimmy Piersall
- Johnny Riddle (player/manager)
- Aaron Rowand
- Joe Rudi
- Bobby Thigpen
- Frank Thomas
- Pie Traynor
- Robin Ventura
- Bob Wickman
In her 2003 video for the single "Every Time" Britney Spears sported a Birmingham Barons cap with its stylized capital "B".
See also
External links
- Birmingham Barons
- BirminghamProSports.com
- "Our Summer with Michael" newspaper story about Michael Jordan's season with the Barons
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Liz Braswell's A Whole New World is such a waste of potential. As with any book that has more than one attractive cover–I particularly like the style of the reprint covers for the series–the contents being less attractive is a major let-down. But it's also a waste of a fun idea. The series is called "Twisted Tales" to reflect the concept that each book is basically a Disney animated feature film book adaptation with a what-if plot twist. The twist for the first book, based on Aladdin, is that he never got the lamp.
I'm assuming that Jafar did get the lamp and his reign of terror simply took place sooner. I didn't get that far. For a long time, I had better things to read, or higher priority books like ARCs. I did suffer through the saccharine prologue about Aladdin's unrealistically sainted mother a couple of times. It holds hints of the book's many, many failings, but I didn't want to dump it based on that alone. Fans of Renaissance Disney have this weird inclination to imagine the dead mothers of protagonists as idealised women who are perfect the way that a poorly written Yamato Nadeshiko is perfect: flawless, meek, and selfless to the point of lacking even healthy self-interest. The idealised Disney mother, if she's ever alive, is written in such a way that she is quite obviously doomed to die, probably beautifully. It's kind of gross. Dehumanising a character and thinking it poetic.
One thing the prologue has going for it is that it's original. It has pathetic, incredibly forced callouts to recognisable things in the Aladdin franchise (comprised in my view of the three movies and the animated series) like Rasoul and Aladdin's mother decides to get him a pet. Because when you don't have enough money to eat, a pet is a thing you want. But it's still more like fan fiction and less like a straight up novelisation. After the prologue, the book becomes a novelisation.
A breathtakingly dreadful novelisation.
Although I can see where quoting the movie verbatim would be irritating to some readers, I would have preferred it. Some lines of dialogue sound like they were in the movie, but since I grew up watching it, I could correct the changed lines in my head. They weren't as good as the original lines, nostalgia notwithstanding.
Action was streamlined to the point of being outright removed, and I felt more like I was being told about the movie by someone who had both barely watched it and had hated what they did watch. In the movie, the guards who chase Aladdin during the song One Jump are ugly bumblers, but they're still effing ARMED and he's running. This communicates to the audience that they are a threat.
Braswell chose to remove all tension from the chase and instead reduce it to the same adverb-heavy navel-gazing as every other part of the narrative.
He scooted around Rasoul and managed to duck past the rest of the guards as they grabbed at him ineptly. Ten of them weren't worth one of Rasoul–thank goodness. He was the only one Aladdin needed to worry about–and he knew the streets almost as well as the boy did.
This is the only mention of the guards who are not Rasoul. All of Aladdin's dialogue during the chase is broken up by heavy breathing and too much thinking. He gets injured, which did not happen in the movie and cannot be chalked up to the "twisted" what-if that the book is supposed to deliver.
At this point, I was fatigue-y and in a lot of pain, so I'd asked my husband to read to me so I could maybe fall asleep after a bit. But I couldn't fall asleep when every few sentences I had to stop him to ask if the book actually said that or if he was bamming me. His disbelief was about as constant. Why is there an allusion to prostitution? Because there was a visual reference in the movie? That could come and go without comment because it was a visual reference. Written references are far more overt, and they have to be justified. The small moment of kindness when Aladdin gives his bread to the tinier orphans becomes this overwrought drama with waffling contradictions about how street rats treat each other. "Oh we look out for each other!" And then he thinks, "I know what it's like to be picked on by the bigger kids who stole my food!" Which is it?? Honour among beggars/thieves or everyone for himself?
Then there is the research fail. It's painful. If any research of Middle Eastern countries went into this book, it must have come from the back of a cereal box. Baklava! Turban! Effendi! Dates! If Abu hadn't been in the movie, I'm sure the author would have felt it necessary to add a monkey on her own initiative. Braswell apparently has an anti-monarchy streak in this series, and it looks like woefully uneducated American revisionism, because this is so obviously not her culture. Aladdin made a random mental observation about the fat sultan playing with his toys instead of seeing to his people. …which… no. This was what ultimately drove both Hubby and me to just stop trying and DNF. He literally handed me the book and said, "Reading this is making me uncomfortable."


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WINLAW, B.C. - An evacuation order has been lifted for residents near the site of a jet fuel spill in British Columbia's West Kootenay region.
As many as 2,500 residents of the Slocan Valley were affected by the evacuation order after a tanker truck spilled 35,000 litres of jet fuel into Lemon Creek on Friday.
It contaminated local water courses and sent toxic fumes into the air.
The evacuation was scaled back and finally lifted this afternoon.
The Regional District of Central Kootenay says air, water and soil samples showed it was safe for residents to return and for Highway 6 near the spill to reopen.
A 24-hour order against using the water remains in effect in the area about 60 kilometres from Castlegar, B.C.
The truck had been on its way to supply helicopters battling wildfires when it rolled into the creek, causing minor injuries to the driver.


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By Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor
Often at MOVIEGUIDE® we deal with non-believers, skeptics, and biblically Christians complaining about some aspect of our biblical, Christ-centered worldview.
One of the things many of these critics forget is the amazing prophecies that God inspired the Hebrew prophets to write down in the Hebrew Scriptures, aka the Old Testament, especially the ones that make startling predictions about Jesus Christ.
The first, and one of the best, prophecies is the one that God told Satan, the evil "serpent," in Genesis 3:15:
"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
This passage clearly shows that the Messiah, the seed of the woman, will be born of a virgin (see also Isaiah 7:14), that Satan aka The Devil will have a special hatred against the Messiah, that Satan will hurt the Messiah when He comes, but that the Messiah will have a unique victory over Satan that destroys Satan's power, including his power over sinful man.
Later, God tells Abraham that through, him, Abraham, will come the Messiah, the Holy Seed who will be a blessing to all nations, not just the Jews (Genesis 22:18). Then, God predicts, in Daniel 7:8-14, that the Messiah will be worshipped as God by the people and have an "everlasting" dominion or reign. God adds, in Isaiah 53, that the Messiah, the Seed of the Woman and the Branch of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1-16), will die for men's sins but will be resurrected, a fulfillment of the ending to Psalm 22. Finally, God tells Jeremiah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, that at the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, God will make a "new covenant" with His people, where He will put His law in our minds and write it on our hearts in a special, new way, a way that will be similar to the old covenant, but that will be even more powerful.
As many Hebrew scholars have shown, these passages are the original meaning of these actual biblical texts about the Messiah. And, as Alfred Edersheim shows in Appendix IX of his great book THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JESUS THE MESSIAH (see also <http://philologos.org/__eb-lat/appen09.htm>), this is also what the oldest Jewish scholars of the Talmud and other revered Jewish texts, believed about these messianic passages. See also WHAT THE RABBIS KNOW ABOUT THE MESSIAH by Rachmiel Frydland and THE PROMISE-PLAN OF GOD and THE MESSIAH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT by Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
One final note:
These messianic passages about the Seed of the Woman, the Seed of Abraham, the Branch of Jesse, the Son of Man, and the New Covenant or New Testament, are perhaps the primary reason that true, Bible-believing Christians revere the Jewish heritage of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. For instance, the Messiah will be the seed of the woman, not that of the man AND the woman. Hence, it implies that the Messiah will be born of a virgin. To delete or amend the prophetic Jewish meaning of these messianic Bible passages from Christianity, therefore, is to invite the very kind of Anti-Semitism that puts a wall of enmity between Christians and Jews.
As Paul writes in Galatians 3:28, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
Photo by Steve Snodgrass.
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