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Interview With Frosty The Snowman
This past year we've chronicled the rapid decline and ultimate downfall of a great holiday icon, Santa Claus. From his original sit down with us in Santa Spam One, to our very revealing interview with Mrs. Claus and right-hand elf Lipshitz in Santa Spam Two, and onto his now infamous drunken tirade in Santa Spam Three.
One can't help but wonder how a man who rose to greatness could sink so low. Could examining his childhood shine a light onto the troubles that were to come? For those of you looking for answers look no further, because today we visit with a ghost from Santa's Christmas' past- his childhood friend and confidante:
H.E.: Hello blogworld and gather around. I'm standing out here freezing my soft bits off so that I can bring you an interview with an icon of Christmas, Frosty the Snowman. Frosty how are you today?
F.t.S.: Cold and hard, if you know what I mean. If you treat me nice, I'll let you hold my snowballs. Whatya say? A little friction could warm you up. Hmmh? C'mon! What, nothin' but a cold shoulder? I could get that at home. Can't blame a guy for tryin' though, eh?
H.E.: I'd like to tackle some hard-hitting questions first. You're well-known for your corncob pipe, button nose and coal-lump eyes. Is this your personal statement about public smoking legislation, child labor in sweatshops, and open-pit mining?
F.t.S.: Nah! I used to be much better turned-out, but then one day a big Chinook blew through. Melted me right down to my bare essentials, you know what I'm sayin'? By the time the runoff subsided, this was all my Eskimo friends could find in the storm drain, to put me back together with. I went on the Inuit weight-gain diet to regain my Rubenesque look. I had to eat whale meat and blubber. If you had to eat nothing but whale meat, you'd blubber too.
H.E.: Hmm, I see. One more – not many people know, but years back you released a record to extend your fan base into summer that you called, "Frosty: the Wetter Side." Any comment on that album and the rumors that you ripped off William Shatner's idea?
F.t.S.: I wanted to title that one, "Slip and Slide". I think the kids would really have gone for it, but some toy company got all pissy about it. Like they're the only ones who ever had a good idea. Far as I'm concerned they can all starve, but I guess lawyers gotta justify their existence.
Interesting that you should mention Shatner. We found out later that the big warm blow that almost turned me into a tropical cloud, wasn't really a Chinook. It was just Bill comin' through on a speaking tour. I know I have a well-rounded….personality, but have you looked at him recently? I looked up "fat chance" the other day, and there was a picture of him, eh.
H.E.: How have you come to grips with being a seasonal personality?
F.t.S.: It's not bad. It's like being semi-retired. Work a few months, and then kick back and live off the residuals. I was thinking of expanding the market and working South America in the off-season. I've already had to learn Inuit and that poutine French they speak in Quebec. I didn't think it was worth having to learn Spanish, besides, it's almost impossible to get a refrigerated flight to Chile.
H.E.: Is there a Mrs. Frosty?
F.t.S.: There might soon be an ex-Mrs. Frosty. She hasn't just been Frosty; she's been down-right frigid for years. Santa's been whining about losing Mrs. Claus, but he needs her or some other Harriet Homemaker type, to keep the elves out of trouble. Polar bears and Arctic seals can take care of themselves.
H.E.: Two generations have seen the claymation TV specials, but in your own words, where the hell do you go between spring and early winter?
F.t.S.: Certainly not to Hell, unless you mean those few times when Hell freezes over. I migrate north with the caribou. I used to have a nice place just outside of Nome. I could see Sarah Palin's place from my front porch. It was nice for a while, but now it's all full of political reporters and comedy writers. She got drunked-up one day, mistook me for a moose, and almost shot my ass. Now I go so far up, that the North Pole sticks up my frozen assets.
H.E.: My sources tell me you are building a case to sue Wendy's over their signature frozen shake name that they sell. Any comment on that?
F.t.S.: Who told you about Wendy??! First Shatner, now her. Have you been reading my biography galley? We're just friends! Although she does have a warm heart, and a cold freezer. The wife and I have been going to an Aleutian marriage counsellor, but if that doesn't work out, I could move in with Wendy. I might be a little cabin-fevery after six months in a meat locker, but she promises to make it worth my while. She's already been slipping me some of the royalties from my namesake treat. I've been using it to hire a limo-dogsled for the trips north.
H.E.: Any final thoughts for the audience?
F.t.S.: Work hard to be a leader! If you aren't the lead dog in the sled-team, the view never changes. Stay frosty, and like the Eskimos say, "Don't eat yellow snow!"
Return for our next installment of the SANTA SHAME SPIRAL where we interview his dealer, LeMonjello Otis.


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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ruled the proportion of deaths from pneumonia and influenza was enough to reach the epidemic threshold for the first time this season.
That means the number of deaths from pneumonia and flu across the country have exceeded the numbers that were expected.
According to the CDC, widespread influenza activity has been reported in Texas and 39 other states.
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Dr. Paul Pepe at Parkland Hospital explained Friday that influenza is a very serious illness and can be lethal because of the body's reaction to the virus.
"It's a virus, so it basically causes inflammation and reaction throughout your whole body and many of your organs may not work so well and in really extreme cases you may have organ failure as a result," he said. "The real reason many people die is they have an underlying condition and they might not even know it. They may have an underlying heart problem and this is a major stressor on your system."
Pepe stressed the flu shot is still your best defense against the flu. "First of all the flu shots do work. They don't work for everybody and they don't work in every case," he said. Let's say it works 60 to 70 percent of the cases really well. I'd rather have a 60 to 70 percent chance of not getting the flu than a 100 percent chance. So that's straight-forward. You should get the flu shot."
The Tarrant County Public Health Department reported Friday that influenza-like illness increased from 9.6 percent in the first week of this year to 10 percent in the second week of the year (Jan. 5-11). information is not yet available for the current week.
Collin County health officials reported two more flu-related deaths in the county on Friday. Tarrant, Denton, Hunt and Wise Counties had no new deaths to report. Dallas County reported nine flu-related deaths on Friday.
There have now been a total of 50 flu-related deaths across North Texas this season.
Research from a partnership between Google and the Centers for Disease Control shows Fort Worth and Dallas near the highest level of Google searches for flu topics this year. Shown on Google Flu Trends, the graphs appear to level out or even decrease for the last months and show a lower instance of searches compared to last year.
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NBC 5's Amanda Guerra contributed to this report.

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I knew that good would come from the exploration. Earth-shattering change was not eminent. Altering my life was not required; but inspection, scrutiny and analysis of situation and self demanded action. Yet, I froze...suspended in a nebula of confusion and fear.
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In the week since the Boston Marathon bombing, a new phrase, "Boston Strong," has sprung up around the country as sports fans put aside their rivalries and reach out to a city in pain. NBC's Luke Russert reports.
Amid a week of terror in Boston, one common theme of support emerged online and off, locally, across America and around the world: "Boston Strong."
"We are one. We are strong. We are Boston. We are Boston strong," the Red Sox public address announcer said to an eruption of cheers Saturday, as the city came together at the first home game following the tragic events. The crowd honored the fallen and celebrated the heroic, and some, such as slugger David Ortiz, spoke their minds.
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The pain of residential school abuse is mirrored on Laura Tabac's face as she bears witness to hidden past horrors.
INUVIK, N.W.T. — Pictures tell stories. Stories tell us who we are. For 15-year-old Mary Masazumi the story falls into the category of mystery.
Her father Alfred is dead and there are no family photo albums at home in Fort Good Hope that stretch back into her father's childhood. Mary hoped to fill that gap pouring through binders of photos from the archives of the Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith.
The diocese came to Inuvik for the Northern National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada June 28 to July 1 with as many photos of students as could be found. The photos were the most popular attraction outside the commission hearings.
Masazumi's father went to school at the Immaculate Conception residential school in Aklavik — at least she thinks it was Aklavik.
"He hasn't told me about residential school," she said.
Like many young people in the North, Masazumi grew up surrounded by adults who seemed to have no past. None of her relations ever wanted to talk about how they grew up.
In Fort Good Hope just about all the older generation went to residential schools. They grew up institutionalized, away from their families, guilty of being aboriginals with the wrong language, an odd culture and suspect religious tendencies.
The Dene community sent a small flotilla of fishing boats down river to Inuvik for the TRC event. They also filled up all the available flights. For Masazumi it was a journey of discovery.
"Seeing what they've been through is hard," she said.
As she scans the pictures looking for a family resemblance, hoping one of her aunts might be able to identify her father, Joe Grandjambe is also looking for family in the 36 classmates he had at Grolier Hall in Inuvik.
"This is really the only family I have," Grandjambe said. "I really don't have any other family that grew up in this era. . . . I have parents I don't know. I have brothers and sisters I don't know."
But Grandjambe knows there's not much of his residential school family left. He's kept count and only 13 of the original 36 classmates are still alive.
"Most of them haven't died of natural causes," he said.
That includes former Olympian Fred Kelly, who came out of the Inuvik Ski Club to race the 15 km cross-country and the 4x10 kilometre relay at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
"It was the drinking and just trying to recover from the abuse," explained Grandjambe.
But Grandjambe is on the edge of tears even as he smiles at pictures of pretty girls and handsome young men he went to school with from 1960 to 1971. He was taken away to school when he was four years old and lives with memories he would rather obliterate.
"There's things you can't live with. Things you can't share with anyone else," he said. "That possibility of suicide never leaves your mind."
Journalists are prepared to ask questions, but we're not always ready for the answers. What can I say to Joe Grandjambe after he tells me he thought of suicide yesterday, thinks of suicide today and his mind will probably drift to suicide again tomorrow?
It is frightening to find myself in the middle of an interview hanging onto a pen and a notebook with a man's life hanging in the air between us.
The commission is trying to uncover this history, make all Canadians understand their part in it, start a new conversation between aboriginal Canada and the rest of us. This tale of colonization - an exercise of political, economic and religious might be used to break down cultures and consign entire peoples, languages and ways of life to obscure history - is not how Canadians think of themselves, or wish to.
While generation after generation of Americans over the last century-plus have had to own up to their nation's history of slavery, Canadians cling to our innocence.
"Every future Canadian, every person educated in this country, needs to learn about this," said chief commissioner Justice Murray Sinclair. "They need to learn not only about the residential schools but they need to learn a proper history of who aboriginal people are and who Canadians are, so they can look at each other through better eyes.
"We have come across documentation in government records which says any resistance to what the government is doing to these people will be overcome very easily by the fact we have their children in our schools," Sinclair said. "They're not going to fight us like the American Indians are fighting the American government because their children will be in our custody."
There are two parts to this exercise - first truth and then reconciliation. To know this truth is to weep.
In Inuvik, as people told their stories to commissioners or in sharing circles to one another, I struggled to do my job. I took notes, switched on my recorder, chose the right lens and the right position to capture the moment with my camera. But I cried as I worked.
Laura Tabac could hardly speak as she tried to tell of her life since losing her husband. After 30 years of marriage he had finally disclosed abuse he suffered at school.
However he died, Tabac couldn't quite say as she broke down.
"How dare they touch you, my beautiful husband?" she screamed. "I don't want to live any more."
This family's tragedy, this community's pain, has been our doing. We must admit we cannot undo seven generations, 150,000 students pushed through a system that misused education as a weapon against people we thought were strange, a remnant of pre-history.
As Catholics we dare not run away from truth, even if the truth is an open wound in the body of Christ.
Petah Inukpuk came from the eastern Arctic to tell his story holding a picture of his grandfather Quaguag. He wanted the commissioners to see where he came from, what kind of people the Inuit were before residential schools.
"He had immense knowledge," Inukpuk tells me. Having survived millennia in the Arctic his people have the gift of survival, he said.
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But the solution to this cultural breakdown so complete that families have been atomized, language and traditions worn away, eludes Inukpuk. This is different from knowing how to travel, keep warm and feed yourself through months of darkness.
"These people are in pain, but it's not our nature to feel pain," he said. "Our people are becoming like white people, lingering on their pain too long."
"We need to understand that while aboriginal children in residential schools were being taught this about their culture, their language, their identity and their religious views and religious belief, non-aboriginal children in Canada were being taught the very same thing," said Sinclair.
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WASHINGTON-Anti-Semitism poses a significant danger to the security of countries participating in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the premier trans-Atlantic group dealing with issues of human rights and democracy, Commissioner Felice D. Gaer told a hearing of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission). Intolerance towards one minority community can escalate easily into a more pervasive, general atmosphere of hatred, she said. "We're concerned about physical acts as well as about inaction that fuels an environment of intolerance," she said at the Feb. 7 hearing.
Gaer cited Russia, Belarus, Belgium, and Turkey-and non-OSCE participating states Iran, Uzbekistan and Egypt-as countries witnessing particularly acute surges in anti-Semitic discourse and, in some cases, violence. She urged the Members of Congress attending the hearing, which was chaired by CSCE Chair Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), to resist attempts to trivialize anti-Semitic acts and instead recognize that such acts constitute human rights abuses that can, in some cases, meet the criteria for prosecution as hate crimes.
The OSCE already possesses a unique infrastructure to address anti-Semitism, via three representatives appointed to the organization's Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). "There's no other international agency in the world that deals explicitly and distinctively with anti-Semitism," Gaer noted. However, she emphasized, the representatives' position within ODIHR must be made permanent and full-time. In response to a question by Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH), Gaer also pointed out that staffing and U.S. budget constraints prevent the OSCE from utilizing its human rights resources to the fullest extent possible.
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Gaer highlighted the Commission's recommendation that the OSCE Chair-in-Office provide more prominence to the three personal representatives through measures including:
·asking them to report in person to the annual full ministerial council meeting;
·ensuring that their reports are published and disseminated throughout and beyond the OSCE system;
·taking them on some of the Chair-in-Office's own visits to neighboring states and participating states; and
·encouraging participating states to invite them to visit the states separately.
"These matters could enhance not only the profile of the personal representatives, but the impact of their findings and recommendations on the scourge of anti-Semitism and combating it directly," Gaer said. Sens. Voinovich and Ben Cardin promised to raise the Commission's recommendation with the OSCE Chair-in-Office this week.
Given the rise in anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance in the OSCE region, Gaer urged the U.S. government to authorize and appropriate additional funds to ODIHR to expand its programs that would curb expressions of intolerance. Using diplomacy to express the U.S. government's ongoing commitment to the protection of freedom of religion, belief, thought or conscience is equally critical, Gaer said.
The full text of Gaer's oral and written testimonies can be found at www.uscirf.gov .
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to monitor the status of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief abroad, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related international instruments, and to give independent policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State and the Congress.
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Hopefully everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving and is recovering from turkey and pie overload. While working on the photographs I had for Calvary Cemetery, I've found a stone that just makes no sense. I cannot for the life of me, using Ancestry, Family Search, looking through my own family data, scouring obituaries, etc. identify this person. Perhaps someone can identify. See photo below, the grave is located in Section 40, I believe in range/lot 18. I'm wondering whether the name is misspelled and should be Rochowiak? You can click the photo to enlarge.
Since the stone is clearly labeled "Mother," I'm working with the assumption Frances was married. Unfortunately, I have no maiden name in which to use for a clue.
Within my family, there are two Frances Rochowiaks: one is my great-grandmother, Frances Rochowiak Przybylski. The other is the daughter of Martin Rochowiak and Catherine Switała, who by my calculations would be my first cousin, twice removed. Martin was a half-sibling of my great-grandmother. Martin's daughter was born in Góra Kalwaria, Mazowieckie, Poland in 1880. She married Felix Tafelski and died in 1961. So there is no possible way this grave could be either my great-grandmother or this particular cousin.
If you have any clues, drop a line here or email me.


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OK worlds. Image copyright Malee Whitcraft
by Robert Deaves
Jorgen Svendsen (DEN) has retained the World No. 1 spot in the OK Dinghy World Rankings after a late charge at the recent Singha OK Dinghy World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. Svendsen was the best sailor over the last three races in Pattaya to move up to seventh overall, which was just enough to hold a scant three point lead over multiple world champion Nick Craig (GBR) in the World Ranking.
This latest release of the OK Dinghy World Rankings includes the New Zealand Nationals, the Australian Nationals, Sail Melbourne, Sail Auckland and the World Championship.
Craig was runner up in Pattaya but moves up just one place, while Greg Wilcox (NZL) drops one to third. The biggest climber into the top 10 is the new World Champion Roger Blasse (AUS) who moves from 21st to 8th. Fellow Australians Mike Williams (AUS) and Mark Jackson (AUS) placed third and sixth in Pattaya to move up to 15th and 16th in the ranking.
While Jackson won the Australian Nationals, Blasse also won Sail Melbourne. Andre Budzien, the 2012 World Champion has also made his first appearance in the top 10, moving up from 19th to sixth.
One of the more interesting and encouraging bits of data to come out of the recent world championship was the diverse range of gear being used inside the top 10. While eight out of 10 of the hulls were built in the last three years, there are five different moulds being used, perhaps an indication that it is the sailors and their level of preparation, rather than the boat that counts. C-Tech from New Zealand continue to dominate the mast sector though Craig used the UK built Aardspars to good effect, while there was the widest range of sails being used for a number of years – seven different manufacturers. Foils are largely supplied by boat builders, apart from the odd exception, mainly because the shape of them largely limits much development.
Gear used at 2013 World Championship
Position Helm Hull (mould) Mast Sail Board Rudder
1 Roger Blasse Jason King (Delfs) C-Tech UK Halsey/Quantum Jason King Jason King
2 Nick Craig Idol (Icebreaker) Aardspars HD (Hunt Davis) Scoles Scoles
3 Mike Williams Jason King (Delfs) C-Tech North (NZ) Jason King Jason King
4 Paul Rhodes Cooksons (Icebreaker) C-Tech North (NZ) Ron Bull Ron Bull
5 Mark Jackson Jason King (Delfs) C-Tech Quantum Jason King Jason King
6 Greg Wilcox Icebreaker NZ C Tech Quantum Deaves C-Tech
7 Jorgen Svendsen Icebreaker NZ C-Tech Quantum Deaves Deaves
8 Stefan Myralf Idol (Rushworth) C-Tech Bojsen Møller Scoles Scoles
9 Andre Budzein Idol (Icebreaker) C-Tech Gericke Scoles Scoles
10 Terry Curtis Jason King (Delfs) C-Tech Pinnell and Bax Jason King Jason King
The next major event for the class is the Spring Cup in Medemblik later in May, though most of the sailors who travelled to Thailand will still be waiting for their boats and will be unable to sail. After that the class is looking forward to its Europeans in Carnac, France in July.
Svendsen at the mark. Image copyright Malee Whitcraft
OK Dinghy World Ranking List – April 2013
Top 30 from 432 (full list attached)
Rank Name Country Sail no. Points Events sailed
1 Jorgen Svendsen DEN 1420 947.99 11
2 Nick Craig GBR 2150 944.89 10
3 Greg Wilcox NZL 544 911.49 13
4 Jorgen Lindhartdsen DEN 1364 900.55 12
5 Stefan Myralf DEN 1408 892.19 14
6 Andre Budzien GER 762 859.55 5
7 Martin von Zimmermann GER 693 858.55 11
8 Roger Blassé AUS 749 831.19 6
9 Bo Petersen DEN 1421 792.48 5
10 Paul Rhodes NZL 517 786.07 6
11 Alistair Deaves NZL 542 781.46 9
12 Terry Curtis GBR 2118 778.88 6
13 Sonke Behrens GER 778 774.40 7
14 Jon Fish GBR 2151 760.94 7
15 Mark Jackson AUS 735 751.56 6
16 Mike Williams AUS 730 739.15 5
17 Mogens Johansen DEN 1335 736.48 11
18 Alex Scoles GBR 2147 683.87 8
19 Luke O'Connell NZL 546 679.53 6
20 Thomas Hanson-Mild SWE 100 678.92 8
21 Gunter Arndt GER 740 662.55 9
22 Rudiger Prinz GER 773 652.90 8
23 Jorg Rademacher GER 775 650.74 7
24 Rene Johannsen DEN 1393 626.92 10
25 Rob Hengst NZL 533 623.92 6
26 Jens Lauge DEN 1410 623.72 8
27 Mark Skelton AUS 736 612.74 5
28 Hans Elkjaer SWE 99 600.67 14
29 Robert Deaves GBR 2138 591.24 4
30 Christian Midtgaard DEN 1304 572.63 7


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Emmys 2013: How much was film's presence felt?
It's axiomatic in 2013 that there are enough blurred lines between film and TV to make Robin Thicke blush. And indeed, watching the Emmy Awards on Sunday night, it was hard not to be struck by the cinematic background of some of the winners. A selective filmography of some of those given TV's biggest prize: "Wall Street," "Out of Sight," "Terms of Endearment, "The Truman Show" and "Zodiac."
But the subject is worth a closer look. How deep is the crossover really, and where is it happening?
Actors are certainly going back and forth with more regularity, and Sunday proved it. A quick glance at the lead actor nominees: Kevin Spacey from "House of Cards," Jeff Daniels from "Newsroom," Laura Linney from "The Big C: Hereafter." All have at least one signature film role to their credit, and plenty of other memorable ones. Daniels joked to reporters afterward that he'll soon be heading from his Will McAvoy character on "Newsroom" to the "intellectual freefall" that is his Harry Dunn character in the "Dumb and Dumber" sequel he is about to shoot.
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But the creator side is a different story. The winners in the major categories of outstanding drama and comedy -- "Modern Family" and "Breaking Bad" -- each come from TV veterans. In fact, a quick look at the 12 nominees in those categories, shows that there are apparently only three -- "Girls," "Game of Thrones" and "Downton Abbey" -- springing from creators who made their names in film first.
Well, sure, but look at all the other behind-the-camera winners and their resumes, you say. And there are indeed some big names. But they're working in a very particular realm.
The behind-the-camera talent with film pedigrees who won Emmys did so for creating cinema-style one-offs -- David Fincher and the "House of Cards" episode he won for, Soderbergh and "Behind the Candelabra." Their work may have aired on TV (or on laptops), but the creative template is much closer to the feature world than serialized television. They're films that happen to go out on a different platform, not a different form in the first place. (Fincher, it should be said, is a co-producer of the entire Netflix series.)
The fact is, most great mainstream film directors have not worked much in television recently and don't have plans to. You'll come up with your own list, but here are some easy names: Christopher Nolan, Darren Aronofsky, Kathryn Bigelow, David O. Russell, Paul Greengrass.
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And those big-time filmmakers who are delving into TV, such as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, are doing so less as prime movers than as creative overseers, with teams under them handling the day-to-day in what is an offshoot of their empires.
All of which is probably to the good, since it allows many brilliant TV creators to have a chance to ply their trade without an invasion of feature types frustrated they can't get their movie.
There are plenty of factors for why the two worlds are still somewhat separate, but the biggest may be that directing a single piece over a defined period is a very different skill from churning out a story that will play out over 10 or 12 hours every year, with built-in sequels in the years to follow. That's why when great auteurs do try to make the move, it doesn't always go as planned, as Ang Lee recently learned.
And it's why when great TV creators -- I mean, really great ones, such as David Chase and Matthew Weiner -- try to make the switch to film, they don't find it all that easy.
Don't get me wrong. It's great, for them and for us, that there's room in the TV world for filmic types who feel squeezed out by the modern movie business. That allows us to see great work such as "Behind the Candelabra" that we'd never get to see otherwise. But in talking about the Golden Age of TV, it's probably good not to take the thought too far. It's still largely being carried out by people who are actually in TV.
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A prominent female Afghan politician has been killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
Hanifa Safi died after a bomb attached to her car exploded as she left her home in Laghman province. Her husband and daughter were injured.
As the provincial head of the Afghan ministry of women's affairs, Safi had for years been a leading advocate of fair treatment for women.
She had been known locally for going out without her head covered.


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What do all of these characters have in common?
How to be still, quiet, trusting and dependent upon God.
God's answer to our prayers isn't always 'yes.' Find joy in whatever answer He gives.
God is able to humble those who walk in pride.
Prayer makes a difference, and it's best if you use both channels: talking and listening.
God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
- 1 John 5:11


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No Obama, No Party.
That's basically what International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound said, referring to the probable absence of President Barack Obama at the Oct. 2 vote in Copenhagen to decide which city between Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympic Games.
"I don't think there's an IOC member on the planet that wouldn't love to meet your president," said Pound speaking at a symposium on the 2016 Games sponsored by DePaul University and the McCormick Foundation.
"If he can be persuaded to go, I think it makes a huge difference," said Pound, according to the Chicago Tribune.
"The risk is, your competitors are going to say 'Oh well, you know, he's too busy to come, but he sent his wife.' How that would play, I don't know,"
First Lady Michelle Obama has been announced as head of the U.S. delegation going to Copenhagen.
"Michelle is our best representative," the President was reported saying to Bloomberg News. "I'm in the middle of some very important decisions on health care."
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More UFO sightings are seen by New Witness, at Stephenville
Posted by dandare on February 9, 2009
I have had a very interesting e-mail from Fred Ewers ( who gave permission for his name to be added to this blog post).
" Dan, I am a semi-retired man 63 years of age and my wife and I recently (Nov 18,08) had a life changing experience. We saw an awesome display of large lights in the southern sky over Stephenville. I determined the lights to be approximately 8miles south at an altitude of approximately 5,000 ft.
The measurement from left to right was 1 to 2 miles in width. The lights had to be 50+ feet in diameter. First there were three very symmetrical horizontal lights, then a space was skipped and another three identical lights appeared to the west.
The first three went off and then came back on and then they all went off. Entire time lasp was maybe 15 seconds. The lights took on the appearance of port hole windows of a ship if you can imagine with bright light amber fluorescent lights inside. The lights were soft, no glare or prisms as car lights produce. Instantly on and off. Were not military flares as the military wants residents to believe.
We THINK we are anxious to find the origin of these lights.
Thank you. Fred Ewers Stephenville, Texas USA "
In a later correspondence, Fred mentioned that:
" No one at this point in time has the ability to come up with an answer. Who or whatever is responsible will eventually show up and I believe it could change the world. I failed to mention that the exact same lights appeared last Thursday night at about the same time and place. Numerous educated drug free citizens saw them for 20+ seconds".
My thanks to Fred for coming forward to report this.
Did you see these lights as well?
Would you like to describe what you saw? and where you were at the time, the size and shape of the UFOs, approximate height, and how long the sighting lasted for; or to even just add a comment here.
At this time, apart from MUFON and some other websites, it is quite hard to find other recent sightings around Stephenville, apart from Matt Collin's recent sighting.
Whatever is going on, it would be nice to try and get a sensible answer, as too what everyone is seeing…. if the UFOs are military or otherwise.
It is evident however, that whatever it is, is not going away.
For those of you who think Fred might be making it all up, well all i can say is, that you have to take all you receive in all honesty, until proven otherwise, and i do.
I would also welcome any theories, as too what it is that Fred saw….
In the Empire Tribune it mentions activity from last Thursday also (which has only just come to my attention, after writing the above).
(posted 8th Febuary 2009) " Unidentified freaky lights fill the sky "
" County residents are once again seeing more than just stars in the night sky. Reports of large, orange lights started pouring into law enforcement Thursday night.
Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant said the county dispatcher reported six calls between 7:33 and 7:44 p.m. coming in from various areas in the county. From Highway 108 to Highway 67 and out to CR 454, callers reported clusters of large orange or amber lights " (extract from article).
The last paragraph mentions that " United States Air Force Reserve Major Karl D. Lewis with the 301st Fighter Wing said people most likely saw a training exercise.
"F-16s from the 301st Fighter Wing/457th Fighter Squadron continue to train in the Brownwood Military Operating Area (MOA) during the day and night for training operations. We were conducting our normal training in the Brownwood MOA on February 5th," Lewis said " (extract from article).
Is this plausible….. do you believe this as an explanation?
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March 8, 2009 at 1:00 am
Nah… I don't believe the military explanation for one minute. They just want the main stream news to quit covering it, so they offer up a rebuttal that's easier for some to accept.


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Stunning photot – Love the lone water droplet!
What happens when a horsemad Ould Wagon moves from Cork to Provence with 2 horses, 2 dogs and a Long Suffering Husband? Why, she gets a third dog, discovers Natural Horsemanship à la Française, starts writing short stories and then discovers a long-buried talent for art, of course…
Just one shot today… I took this last Sunday near Céreste. In years gone by, Narcissi were grown here commercially for the perfume industry in Grasse. There are still a couple of fields where they turn up by the thousands, but mostly the land has been ploughed and reseeded and the Narcissi are just left to come up in the margins and the boggy patches which can't be ploughed.
I really wanted the narrow depth of field in this one, so that the flowers in the background blur away into the distance.
Stunning photot – Love the lone water droplet!
All you really need is one good one, and you got it! I like how the droplet echoes the story.
This is my favorite, that water drop really makes the shot.
It's beautiful. Too bad they didn't leave the fields alone it must have been awesome to see.
So pretty!!
So lovely! Do I see a drop of dew?


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Okay, the promo trailer is only 1 minute long but I'm confident enough to bet y'all $100 (USD) that the manga will remain superior. Anyway, Junji Itou is basically a horror manga artist and writer genius with a very impressive work history and one of my favourite people ever. He's that good. It seems like this new 2018 anime will be sourced from his main "Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection" which consists of 16 books and each book having around 5 mainly unrelated stories (if I remember correctly). I doubt every single story will be adapted so I'd say a select few. Possible stories for inclusion might be:
Tomie - She is a beautiful girl and any man that meets her inevitably go crazy and end up loving her to death, literally. Consisting of a bunch of continuing stories, Itou's first work (or first major work). Storytelling-wise, a bit rough, perhaps repetitive, but nonetheless interesting.
Ma no Danpen (Fragments of Evil) - A standalone volume consisting of several unrelated stories. One of those is: why is the man holding onto his head while breathing heavily? (as shown on cover)
Souichi's Selfish Curse - More of a horror/comedy. Souichi is a mischievous boy who likes playing with nails and inflicting curses on those who cross his path.
Namekuji Shoujo (Slug Girl) - A girl wakes up to find something wrong with her tongue...
Fashion Model - One day, a university student finds a terribly unattractive model in a magazine. Shortly after, this same "model" auditions for the main role of the movie he and his colleagues are making...
Oshikiri Idan (Oshikiri's Strange Stories) - I think it's about a boy named Oshikiri and his encounters with the supernatural.
4tsu Tsuji no Bishounen (The Pretty Boy at the Crossroads) - Horror/romance. The protagonist returns to his hometown to confront his past. At the same time, there are a series of suicides. Does that ghostly figure have anything to do with either? One of my favourite stories. The title was changed from its original "死びとの恋わずらい".
I don't watch much anime these days, but I'll make an exception this time and if history is of any indication, set my expectations low. Gyo (Fish) was previously adapted to an anime but none of the atmosphere and escalating horror got translated, nor key parts of the plot. It was reduced to a typical disaster movie. Uzumaki (Spiral) was adapted into a live-action movie but considering the original material (a multi-volume epic, what I consider to be Itou's masterpiece), it was doomed to be a failure from the beginning (with even more plot taken out, basically 90%). There's been other Junji Itou anime and live-action films but I don't feel like wasting my time.
Do you like Junji Itou, and if so, which is your all time greatest story of his?
P.S. I should take a photo of my manga collection one day, it should be close to complete, if not complete.


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Gov. Brown's plan to eliminate local redevelopment agencies is one piece of his budget plan that has real momentum.
Republicans seem to be warming to it. So if cities lose the ability to fund infrastructure and other projects through redevelopment, what will they do?
The answer, according to the local government web site PublicCEO, may lie in entities called Infrastructure Financing Districts, or IFDs. State legislation being considered would make them easier to use.
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What are they? PublicCEO explains:
"Under current law, local agencies may establish an IFD to finance the purchase, construction, or improvement of any project that offers community-wide benefits and an estimated useful life of 15 years or longer.
"These projects may include highways, transit, water systems, flood control, solid waste facilities, parks, and even child care facilities."
Similar to redevelopment, IFD funds are based primarily on tax-increment revenue. But unlike redevelopment, an IFD does not divert revenue from school districts.
While this distinction limits an IFD's tax increment to a mere fraction of what redevelopment can do, it also relieves the state of having to backfill schools for their lost revenue."
Translation: IFDs give local governments the ability to build things and pay for it with resulting increases in taxes -- but without the nasty cost to the schools and the state budget that made redevelopment a target for Brown.


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magic wrote:Soeroah wrote:Oh. I thought Nyte was the raid leader and she was being replaced xP
Either that, or Krom picked someone else, when Nyte was certain she was next in line
Or, the new raid leader is Donald
Keydar wrote:I changed the text in the final panel to be a bit less ambiguous.
For those curious as to what it was before:
Narya: Did Krom promote the new raid leader yet?
Miji: I'm not sure.
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Game 12: Oakland at Toronto pregame
It was a strange Friday afternoon here at the home. The batting cage was pulled onto the field, but there were no players in sight. Given the late flight out of Minnesota last night, manager Cito Gaston gave his team the day off from batting practice.
"You know what time we got home?" Gaston said with a chuckle. "I got to bed at six o'clock myself. Ah, BP is overrated anyway. It is."
The only bit of "news" that came out of our meeting with Gaston today was him indicating that having Brian Tallet in the rotation could kind of a "long-term" move, possibly around a month. That's at least how long Jesse Litsch is expected to be out with his elbow/forearm injury.
Litsch might be back in mid-May or closer to June, and Casey Janssen is expected to be ready somewhere in there as well. There's a chance Tallet will hold down the fort until one of them returns. It also affords the Jays more time to hand starts to prospects Brett Cecil and Brad Mills, pitchers who will likely be up at some point.
Hey, remember when the Blue Jays acquired Marco Scutaro from the A's two winters ago, dealing a pair of Minor League pitchers for the super utility man? Funny thing, Scutaro has three homers already this year. Oakland has three homers AS A TEAM. That's turned out to be a nice little trade for Toronto.
Also, I'm getting a couple days off this weekend, so the blog will likely be quiet, barring news.
Today's lineups:
1. Ryan Sweeney, CF
2. Orlando Cabrera, SS
3. Jason Giambi, 1B
4. Matt Holliday, LF
5. Nomar Garciaparra, DH
6. Jack Cust, RF
7. Kurt Suzuki, C
8. Mark Ellis, 2B
9. Bobby Crosby, 3B
Starter: LHP Josh Outman (0-0
1. Marco Scutaro, SS
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Alex Rios, RF
4. Vernon Wells, CF
5. Adam Lind, DH
6. Scott Rolen, 3B
7. Kevin Millar, 1B
8. Michael Barrett, C
9. Jose Bautista, LF
Starter: LHP David Purcey (0-1)
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Purcey looks bad tonight.
That's because he was bad tonight! I am amazed at home many teams have (e.g., twins for one) have filled holes by moving AA pitchers with no AAA experience directly to the majors, and have had success! To be honest, I am in a state of shock that Tallet is actually starting today! Is the cupboard that bare this early in the season? If this is the type of short-gap measure we have to resort to this early, the Jays are in big trouble. The hitting looks great, but it will cool. I believe we need someone from AA or AAA to step in and pitch like Romero has. I know that is a lot to ask, but other organizations seem to be able to find these 3 through 5 starters from within their organizations.
In one article I read Cito claimed he didn't get to bed until 6.00Am Friday morning from the Minnesota trip. So it could be Purcey was a bit jet lagged or we simply saw a bad performance from a young pitcher.
Purcey reminds me of McGowan when he broke in, the first inning killed him as well, then after that he was generally ok.
The cupboard is pretty bare in AAA, except for Mill's Cecil and Janssen. In AA, our starters got off to a great start but 2-3 of those kids were in Lansing ( A-) last year. I think we're about 6 weeks away form having some real options.
Bad call at first,I beleieve hill was safe, if it's a tie the call goes to the runner??????.
A great win for the Jays. Tallet had a great start, backed up with 6 2/3 innings of 1 hit, no runs by the pen. Overbay had a great day even without the walk off hr going 2 for 4 with 2 walks, 2 rbi's.
Chien-Ming Wang is definitely off to a great start. In his 3rd start today he went 1.1 innings and gave up 8 runs.
This totals 23 runs given up in 5 innings over 3 starts to raise his era to a very respectable 34.5.
Unfortunately, for the Yanks, Wang was followed by reliever Anthony Claggert who went 1.2 innings and gave up another 8 runs.
It didn't get a lot better from there and as I post this, it's the bottom of the 9th with the Yanks coming to bat trailing Cleveland 22 to 4.
Must be the new stadium, since the Yanks have given up 37 runs in the first 3 games in their brand new ritzy digs.
Good thing burt@rogers is not running the team. Thank goodness we have a versatile lefty like Brian Tallet who effectively fills different roles when asked upon. Do you people really think that there are better pitchers in AA ball than Brian Tallet? Do you think he is on the major league roster for fun? Do you really think teams can dip into AA and bring up studs? Are you really that stupid? Sounds like something Jordan would say!
Just go back about 10 days or so and read on this Blog what I said about CHOW MEIN Wong. I told you guys he was done. Took everybody a couple of years to realize that his sinker was a ball………. Now they lay of that pitch he comes up in the zone and they crush him. I guess back to double A with all those other great pitchers to figure out another pitch. He may or may not regroup.
PLEASE PLEASE no more possible lineups with John Macdonald. He WILL be shortly out of Baseball so plase stop with the nonsense.
Maybe we could trade him to K.C. over to bench coach Gibbons for a few bat weights or something.
Why are you so angry, did your mommy forget to feed you your pablum today?
Just out of interest…who do you think should replace Johnny Mac on the Jays roster?
I don't think we can expect any help from Cecil or Janssen anytime soon. Janssen has not yet thrown and Cecil has not been effective.
Cecil has had two starts to date. In the first one he went 4 innings and gave up two runs, in the second, he went only 2.2 innings and gave up 6 runs to raise his era to 10.80.
I would think the Jays would like to see Cecil have at least three to four high quality starts before considering moving him back here, so at best we're looking at the end of May or mid June.
Janssen will need at least 6 weeks of work before being considered, so its at least June for him.
Where did you hear that Janssen hasn't thrown yet? I thought he was down in Dunedin rehabbing and building up arm strength? I thought I remembered reading somewhere that they were going to have him do that over there as opposed to doing it with a minor league team, and that once he was ready to go, he'd have one or two starts with a minor league team before heading up with the Jays. If you're right, that's pretty disappointing.
Although with Tallet's career ERA of 3.54 (in 221 IP), he might not be such a bad option after all. We shall see.
Although I wouldn't call it a career for Wang just yet, all of a sudden, the Yanks rotation doesn't look as fearsome as it before, particularly when Burnett or Sabathia goes on the DL later in the season. Boo-hoo
Actually, Rshobie, I am very pleased that Mr. Tallet is on the team. He is an excellent MIDDLE reliever. I wouldn't mind seeing a few more MIDDLE relievers with Tallet's upside. However, Mr. Tallet is not a starting pitcher. He can, in a pinch, fill in and provide us with 65-75 pitches (hopefully enough to get through 4 innings). However, this leaves 5 innings worth of work for a bullpen that is already short one pitcher (that would be Mr. Tallet, of course). There are a number of teams in the recent past who have been able to promote from AA to the major league level when one or perhaps two starts were required. In fact, some of these pitchers have done so well, they have stuck around. The fact that I am trying to make is that we really need at least one of our young prospects to be able to step to the plate and pitch 5 (hopefully) decent innings at the Major-League level every now and then, given the fragility of the current starting staff. We cannot afford to over extend our bullpen too early in the season, given that we cannot rely on the starters giving us a solid 5-6 innings each start. Nothing would be worse than to be in the thick of things in September and have the bullpen start to fail due to over use filling in for injured starting pitchers. I hope that you can understand what I am trying to say to you, rshobie.
They have the double A to major league guys already on the roster in Litsch and Romero, what more can you expect ? I don't think Snider served a significant amount of time in triple A either, so my point is they do have have those guys.
Also, G.S. already explained the situations with Cecil and Janssen but those are 2 more guys that could possibly make the team in a month.
What I should have said is Janssen hasn't thrown in a game yet. He will need a lot more than one or two stats. He never was stretched out in spring training, so I'd expect he needs 5-6 outings.
What an excellent outing from Romero, he's now 3 for 3 in quality outings and lowered his era to 1.71. He gets better and better as his confidence grows.
Enigma – Litsch made the jump last year and is currently unavailable. Romero made the jump from AAA and is doing a great job thus far. However, if you read my post carefully, I was stating that we need a AA or AAA starter to be able to give us 1 or perhaps 2 starts at most. I am not talking about bringing up guys to bump Litsch or Richmond at this point in the season. I am talking about bringing up one pitcher, for perhaps one game, to give us one decent start, so that we do not have to over extend our bullpen. This is a regular occurrence among other major-league teams, and it is something that the Jays will likely need to be able to do to remain successful, given the fragility of their starting five. I hope that this is clear!
Nice too see the US media is finally starting to realize our guys are playing well. Check this out.
I agree with you gsjays. You usually see rookie pitchers fade towards the end of the year, because of the longer schedule in the majors. If we reach the playoffs, the season is a LOT longer, so we will need help as the season goes on.
And didn't Tallet do well for a MIDDLE reliever? He should be up to 85-90 pitches next outing, so hopefully, he can go 7 innings in MIDDLE relief! LOL If nobody else goes down until Mills and Cecil build up some innings in AAA, it doesn't look too bad. It is going to be interesting to see what our rotation looks like at the break.
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Talk about getting ignored! I guess the world stops at the 49th parallel.
Funny about that link you posted. Yesterday, when they posted it, Toronto was covered in the article and quite positively. I guess we got edited out overnight. lol
You are a funny (insert gender). Let me ask you a question: Is Tallet's salary in line with middle relievers or starting pitchers? That's right. He is paid a salary commensurate with a middle reliever. I guess that means he is a middle reliever. Or, perhaps JP is a genius: Sign a staring pitcher and pay him the same ammount as a middle reliever! Boy, that JP is clever!
you're right about the rotation. If it does suffer more injuries they'll need those guys.
As for the article, what seems to be ignored is that the Marlins have played the Nationals 6 times (and they're 1 and 9) and KC is only 7 and 5 which isn't anything special.
It does suck that the Jays are ignored though but that's generally what happens in the states when it comes to Canadian content. Sportsnet yesterday mentioned that the Jays have the second best record in baseball since Gaston has taken over. I think they're 60 and 40 since he's come in, which is damn good.
Fabio Castro is starting to serious impress me. In his 3rd start in New Hampshire AA tonight, Castro went 5 shut out innings before a rain delay, so it's unlikely he goes back out. But he struck out 10 and only gave up 1 walk and 1 hit.
In total, Fabio has now gone 17.2 innings with 3 starts and one (1 inning) relief appearance. In the 17.2 innings he's given up a total of 11 hits, 2 walks, struck out 17 and has yet to give up an earned run-not one. Think about that, not a single earned run over 3 games and he appears to be getting better not worse.!!!!!!!!
Fabio is a 24 yr. old, 5′ 7″ 180 lb. lefty. A tip of the cap to JP, since we got Fabio in the trade to Philadelphia for Matt Stairs. In checking old Philly draft reports, Fabio boasts a mid 90's fastball with good movement, a change up and a major league curve ball. What's wrong, do we have something against righties? lol
That should read a low to mid 90's.
So, what is the catch with Fabio (his height, durability)? Why were we able to get him for such a cheap price? He sounds like the type of guy you might be able to bring in when you need a single start (e.g., Tallet's last start).
I really don't know. He had sometime in the majors in 2006 and 2007 as a reliever, performed well for Texas and Philly in 2006, not so well in 2007, but his major league era is 3.30.
Maybe Jordan can get us more of a low down on him. One way or the other if this kid keeps performing like this, I expect we might see him sooner than later.
Castro is only 24, so he still has a shot at making it. His numbers weren't that great last year, but maybe he was able to make some adjustments under a new pitching coach, who knows? He's certainly off to a nice start.
Any way you look at it, it's a steal for JP because there was really no room for Stairs this year. I'm guessing he was able to pick him up due to his so-so numbers, and because the Phils needed someone like Stairs off the bench. Turned out to be a steal for the Phillies too, as he helped them win a World Series.
It was hard to imagine anything stopping Fabio Castro on Monday night. But then Mother Nature did.
The New Hampshire left-hander struck out 10 and only surrendered a hit and a walk over five innings before a scoreless matchup with host Connecticut was suspended due to rain. At one point, he struck out eight Defenders in a row.
Castro cruised through the first inning before allowing Brett Pill's single to start the second. He struck out the side in the second and the third before fanning the first two batters of the fourth for good measure. He walked Andy D'Alessio in the fifth.
By Josh Jackson-special to MLB
Tallet is still eligible for arbitration, so at this stage, he would probably get paid about the same no matter where he played. If he wins 12-13 games for them, he would certainly see a raise next year (a la Josh Towers). Oh! No!
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I hope he can stick with the Jays a bit and get a chance. I think sometimes teams value their own draftees more, and use players like Castro as trading cards. These guys need a good run like he's having this year to show up on the radar.
He really deserves a promotion to AAA, but then New Hampshire is a lot closer than Area 51 in case they need someone in a hurry.
Let's hope Texas play here like they have in their other road trips.
I expect if Fabio has one or two more outings like the first 3, we might see him if we need help up here. He has some major league experience so it wouldn't be that difficult of an adjustment and both Cecil and Janssen still appear 4-6 weeks away.
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Lefty B.J. Ryan has taken on a new role, besides being the Blue Jays? closer. He?s also their main cheerleader.
Ryan, who has two consecutive saves and is 2-for-3 in save situations this year, is excited about the Jays? 10-4 start and the contributions of the young players on the team.
?Right now, you get those guys and you?ve got Doc (Roy Halladay) at the top of your rotation,? Ryan said. ?It?s great for these young guys. He leads by example. You just watch him and spend a little time with him and just talk to him a little bit, you can learn so much, and that?s what these young guys are doing right now.?
The Jays have been producing offensively the opening two weeks?22 home runs and 87 runs scored?and they have also been a surprise in the pitching department. They rank third in the league with a 3.75 ERA.
?We may be surprising y?all,? Ryan said. ?But when you get a bunch of guys believing in the same thing, good things happen.?
On Fabio:
He said he was on a pitch count of about 75, and going on to 85-90 next outing, so 2 more weeks should see him stretched out completely. It looks as if we can get through this next month or 2, we should be knee deep in big league arms again. Does everybody realize that next Spring, if everybody stays healthy, that there will be at least 11 guys that have an even shot at making the rotation? Scary!


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New image replaces defaced Obama mural
Crews helped paint a redesigned mural of President Obama in Midtown on Wednesday evening, weeks after the mural was defaced by vandals for a second time.
Houston artist Reginald Adams and The Breakfast Klub restaurant invited the public to help paint the image. The event began with tracing the image onto a wall across the street from the popular restaurant at Alabama and Travis.
The mural was defaced in the early hours of Jan. 28 for the second time in recent months. The original mural, created during the presidential election campaign in 2008, was damaged early Oct. 16 by vandals who threw red paint on the larger-than-life image.
Adams drew a new image, which the next day was painted on the wall with the public's help.
"I'm going to use an LCD projector to transfer the new design onto the wall," Adams said at the time. "There's a method I use to engage non-artists in helping to create large-scale public art pieces, and I will use that process to help folks who are interested in helping us out."
Adams used the same method Wednesday evening.


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We Chat Amari with Maialino's Bar Manager, Erik Lombardo
You might have experienced a cheese cart or a chocolate cart, but what about a tableside basket of after-dinner bitter liqueurs? At Maialino in the Gramercy Park Hotel in NYC, bar manager Erik Lombardo recently introduced amari service, including a 16-bottle list and a few digestif bottles offered tableside for post-dinner sipping. The list, which includes a few familiar bottles (such as the delicious Nonino and Montenegro, Cynar and Zucca) but also some you might not have tried (such as Amaro Braulio and Lucano) rewards adventurousness, and sampling flights are available along with individual glasses. We asked Lombardo a bit about the program and his picks for amari novices, plus the weirdest bottles and his personal favorites.
You recently introduced an extensive list of amari at Maialino. What prompted the addition?
We wanted to encourage our guests and staff to learn more about the drink and what makes it so unique. The idea of having something that is specifically intended to aid digestion and to drink after a meal. Also, it's hard to get more authentically Italian than amaro. The best part is that the variety in amari mirrors the myriad of regional differences all over Italy. Amaro from Lombardia is pensive with focused blasts of mint, entirely reflective of its alpine origins. Amaro from the Marche regions is heady with floral and citrus notes, it's not hard to imagine obnoxiously fit and tan Italians sipping it while the Adriatic sea crashes dramatically in the background. Tasting amari is like taking a sensory tour of Italy.
How did you get interested in amari?
Like many people do, as a dare. My first introduction to amaro was Fernet Branca, which is a bit being introduced to someone who punches you in the face with a boxing glove full of menthol, myrrh and eucalyptus. To the uninitiated it can be like having a prankster tell you to put a ton of wasabi on your first piece of sushi, it completely overrides everything happening around you. Fortunately for me, it has another similarity with wasabi: when the attack fades it leaves an almost endorphin-like feeling; it's not difficult to become hooked. From the gateway of Fernet I started trying others, actively seeking out places that had amari I'd never heard of. If I sit at a bar and they have an amaro I'm unfamiliar with, that's the one I'm ordering.
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Which amaro would you say is the best for beginners?
I would say Meletti or Averna are good for beginners. They're softer than some of the big dogs, both of them have a good amount of sweetness to balance out the bitterness. Their also relatively low in alcohol, so you can try them in different formats. Amari change drastically when they are enjoyed in different ways. I prefer many kinds sipped neat, but I also enjoy some, like both of the ones I mentioned, topped up with club soda and finished with a twist of lemon. Completely different drink, the effervescence and citrus oil makes them incredibly refreshing.
Which is the most bitter bottle you're serving? What about the most unusual? The most rare?
Sibilla is easily the most bitter we have, the finish can drag out for minutes. Most unusual may go the fernets, not many people are used to drinking the alcoholic equivalent of Vap-O-Rub, although trust me, it works! The most rare currently is the Braulio which we had a small part helping get shipped to the country—shout out to our Wine Director Liz Nicholson for getting that ball in motion! Until recently only one pallet had been shipped to the country and we had a good chunk of that. We were certainly one of the first restaurants in NYC to feature it.
What do you look for when you're selecting new bottles to include?
Some amari fly under the radar. I like complex and nuanced flavors that develop slowly and help tell you a story. It's one thing for me to say that Cio Ciaro has root beer, smoke, and orange notes and quite another thing to tell you it tastes like someone was burning oranges in a campfire then decided they wanted to eat them so they put it out with sarsaparilla. We have everything from light and fun to dark and brooding, low-test to boozy. The idea is to have something for everyone. If you have someone scared of bitterness, you can suggest one that's sweeter; for someone who craves spice, there's one redolent of baking spices.
Do you have a personal favorite or two? Which bottles and why?
My relationship with amari is a quintessentially Italian romance. I fall in and out of love with all of them but I will never forget my first. Fernet for sure, and then maybe Braulio. The story of Fernet and Braulio is one of two twins separated at birth. One of them grew up on the mean streets of Lombardia and learned to speak with her fists. She's rough and tumble, she'll use and abuse you and you'll love every second of it. The other got adopted by a rich family and went to finishing school and learned to fence and speak Latin. She plays the cello and is incredibly well-read. Braulio is a polite introduction to the very same flavors Fernet has, but instead of having all four shout at you at the same time vying to be heard they parade one by one in front of you making gentle conversation. But ask me again tomorrow...
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Democrats try to regroup in wake of the debate
- Obama's underwhelming performance puzzled some Democrats
- One strategist says Obama's performance wasn't a game-changer
- Obama campaign vowed to sharpen its attacks
WASHINGTON -- After President Obama's disappointing debate performance, Wednesday, some Democratic strategists lamented that Obama missed opportunities to strike at what they saw as his GOP rival's inconsistencies on policy matters.
Obama accused Romney of lying to the American people as he traveled through the critical battlegrounds of Colorado and Wisconsin on Thursday, suggesting that Romney was misrepresenting his previously stated views on hot-button topics such as taxes, health care and Wall Street reform.
Yet the day after the first presidential debate, some Democrats said they were befuddled that the president didn't make that point during his first one-on-one encounter with Romney.
Jerry Austin, a Cleveland-based Democratic strategist, said the president's performance was disappointing and may have slowed or stopped the momentum Obama enjoyed over the last several weeks. But the moment was far less than a game-changer, he said.
Still, Obama, who will visit Ohio on Friday, needs to be "feisty and fighting" on the campaign trail in the days ahead, Austin said, and make the case that Romney's performance was more deserving of an Oscar than four years in the White House.
"What he's got to do in the days ahead is say, 'Hey,maybe this guy has an MBA from Harvard, but he's got a drama degree from Yale,' " Austin said."He should be saying, 'Here's what he said in the debate and here's what he said in the primary. I didn't say it at the debate, but I'm saying it now.' "
The Obama campaign vowed to sharpen its attacks in the coming days, arguing to voters that Romney's tax plan would lead to middle-class Americans paying more and that the former governor's plan to replace Obama's signature health care law does not include provisions for insurance coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions.
Some Democrats also expressed disappointment that Obama never took a shot at Romney's private comments at a fundraiser that were captured on video of him dismissing 47% of Americans as dependent on the federal government.
"I was surprised by that, but it's been all over President Obama's ads and I think it will come out," said Jaime Harrison, vice chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, "I'm sure Joe Biden's going to bring it up."
The vice presidential candidates will debate Oct. 11 in Kentucky.
David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, acknowledged that many supporters wanted to hear Obama hit Romney on the 47% comments as well as his time at the private equity firm Bain Capital and his refusal to release more than two years of tax returns. The Obama campaign and the president's surrogates have repeatedly criticized Romney in campaign advertisements on those issues.
"A lot of those questions are well-known to the public, and again I think the president was focusing on questions that were asked," Axelrod said. "Plainly he didn't come with as focused an intent as Gov. Romney on dropping particular lines …(Obama's) interest was in honoring the American people with honest answers to serious questions."
While Obama's performance was underwhelming, several veteran Democratic strategists said that Obama remains in a stronger position than Romney.
There might even be a silver lining for Democrats down ballot by the president's sub-par performance, says Matt Bennett, who served as Al Gore's campaign communications director.
There had been some speculation as Romney slipped in the polls in key battleground states in recent weeks that GOP-leaning super PACs would shift more money to Congressional races and away from the presidential race.
"This will keep super PAC money at the presidential level, whereas if (Karl) Rove and others had abandoned Romney after last night, that could have been real trouble for Democrats down ballot," Bennett said. "Oddly, we might look back at this debate and say it wasn't (Obama's) finest hour but it helped out other Democrats."
Phil Singer, who was spokesman for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, said Obama could use a stronger performance in the next faceoff, but that he didn't believe top Democrats were truly worried that his Wednesday showing was indicative of what's to come.
"Remember the rule of 2008, which was 'no bedwetting.' ... There is no reason to panic over what happened. Romney had a good night, but the reality is campaigns are cycles, and you have good weeks and bad weeks," he said. Obama is now "perfectly set up to rock and roll in the subsequent debates."


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No matter how many reassurances residents and organizations have had from the Florida Department of Transportation, the sense of trepidation regarding planned renovations of the north Siesta bridge project is very real.
Residents who suffered through two resurfacing projects in two years on the Key — and waited in lines 20 or 30 minutes long to get on or off the island — have voiced much of the concern. They are joined by business owners who fret that tourists will be deterred from making the trip to the Key, even though FDOT has promised one lane of the bridge will remain open at all times, and the work will be done only at night.
"It will be (a disruption), no doubt about it," said Russell Matthes, president of the Siesta Key Village Association and co-owner of the Daiquiri Deck. "Any time there's any type of barrier … it's going to deter people from coming out to the Key."
Until recently, Catherine Luckner, president of the Siesta Key Association, had been keeping an optimistic outlook on the project. In fact, she said FDOT officials have advised her about many worthwhile suggestions they have received from Siesta residents that should enable the work to progress more smoothly. What worries Luckner, she said, is that two other planned projects could combine with the bridge work to create havoc.
One involves the restoration of Palmer Point Park. County staff has been working with the contractor to resolve payment issues relating to a change in the plan for removing dredge materials from that island, which was created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dredging of the Intracoastal Waterway in the 1960s. When the contractor and the county ran into a barrage of protests from two different neighborhood groups about trucks using routes by their homes, the county pursued another option: use of the FDOT right of way by the north bridge for the offloading of the dredge material from barges pushed up the ICW from the park.
Project Manager Paul Semenac told Siesta Key Association members last fall he had hoped the contractor could start work at the bridge site Nov. 1. However, James K. Harriott Jr., executive director of the county's Public Works Department, told the Pelican Press Dec. 6 that the project still was stalled.
Although Semenac had said the contractor could not use the bridge right of way once the renovations began, Luckner questions what will happen if the contractor cannot finish all the dredge material removal before the bridge work starts June 5.
The other cause for concern, Luckner said, is the city of Sarasota's plan to install a new sewer pipe along the FDOT right of way by the north bridge.
Dave McAnaney, the senior project manager of Santec, which is overseeing the sewer work, planned to meet with the SKA Jan. 5 to discuss that project. He needs the SKA's approval to seek an FDOT permit to use the department's right of way by the north bridge for the sewer line installation.
The city wants to replace a cast-iron pipe "(that) is old and has seen its useful life," he said.
The sewer pipe replacement by itself "is not going to have a high impact on traffic on the bridge," McAnaney said.
The city also wants to complete the work before the bridge renovations begin — "get in, get it done and get out before the first of June," McAnaney said. Otherwise, the city would have to wait until the bridge work was completed before it could tackle the sewer project.
Luckner said she was keeping a positive outlook on everything.
"(FDOT engineers) are so organized," she said. "Just remember that the bridge is never going to be closed (during the work)."
North bridge renovation details
The Florida Department of Transportation has issued the following details about its rehabilitation of the north Siesta Key bridge:
• The work is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. June 5.
• One lane of traffic is to remain open at all times, as work continues between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., excluding a break for the July Fourth holiday (June 29 through the daytime hours July 8) and Labor Day weekend (Aug. 31 to Sept. 3).
• The expected completion date is Oct. 16.
• The cost is estimated at $3.49 million.
• FDOT has approved an incentive/disincentive bonus up to $150,000.
• The contract with the firm handling the work is expected to be signed by mid-February, according to Jennifer Stafford, public information officer working for the project.
• A public meeting with details on the construction timeline and other relevant information is being planned for May.
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