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(Reuters) – Insurer Cigna Corp on Thursday reported a third-quarter profit that beat analysts' expectations as revenue increased and it managed medical costs in its commercial business.
Net income rose to $ 553 million, or $ 1.95 per share, from $ 466 million, or $ 1.61 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding investment gains, the company reported a profit of $ 1.89 per share. On that basis, analysts on average had expected $ 1.63, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Cigna, which provides U.S. and overseas health insurance as well as disability and life insurance, said it expected full-year earnings of $ 6.70 to $ 6.90 per share. Analysts were expecting $ 6.65, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue rose to $ 8.1 billion from $ 7.3 billion.
The company said the results reflected continued medical cost management and a lower operating expense ratio that were partly offset by some pressure on its private Medicare plans for older people.
Cigna's report comes after larger competitor Aetna Inc missed analysts' earnings expectations earlier this week, in part because of funding cuts in private Medicare. UnitedHealth Group Inc's quarter met but did not beat expectations for similar reasons.
Cigna has a private Medicare business, but it is comparatively small.
Cigna said that as of September 30, it had 13.8 million commercial customers and 488,000 customers in Medicare and Medicaid plans. The company also has a Medicare pharmacy benefit business and manages commercial pharmacy benefits.
The vast majority of commercial customers are in self-funded health plans in which Cigna administers health benefits as a third party and the company or organization is responsible for the actual cost of covering its members.
Cigna has a small individual business and is offering plans in five states on the new Obamacare health insurance exchanges. These exchanges sell new plans created under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law that include government subsidies based on income.
(Corrects number of Medicare and Medicaid customers in 9th paragraph to 488,000 from 488 million)
(Reporting by Caroline Humer; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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Despite a recent downturn in prices, corn still shows the strongest fundamentals of the grains and oilseeds complex, according to a market analyst.
The corn market is currently being driven by export demand created by a sharp decrease of 1.1 billion bushels in foreign feed grain production, according to Bob Wisner, Iowa State University, speaking at the Ag Market Network's April teleconference.
"Supplies are tightening (in the world), and the instinct is to use domestic supplies first, then turn to the United States. That is what is happening now."
A recent downturn in prices in April resulted from profit-taking by funds, according to Wisner. "We've had very large long positions in corn, soybeans and wheat. That creates a lot of volatility in those markets."
Wisner says there is still a good bit of upside potential for corn "as we move into the spring and the peak of the Midwest planting season and into mid-May."
Other positives for corn include 13 new ethanol plants under construction in the United States, all of which should be in production in a year.
In addition, cattle backed up in feedlots because of concerns over bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) "is positive for the short-term for feed demand. There appears to be an expansion under way in the hog industry. We have large broiler numbers. When you put all that together, we're expecting a significant drop in corn carryover stocks below 900 million bushels."
This news, plus planting intentions of 79 million acres, "tell me that corn is fundamentally on fairly solid ground. We need a minimum of 10.3 billion bushels of corn (to satisfy demand). Last year, we were a little below that mark. It's going to take very good yields at the forecast corn acreage to avoid tightening stocks further.
"For the next several weeks, new crop December corn is likely to come on stronger than old crop corn, leading old crop up, in an attempt to get more corn acreage. Technically, we have strong support on July corn at $3.20 to $3.22.
"On new crop, there are possible upside objectives in the $3.74 area. That's not guaranteed, but there are traders looking at those prices."
"The driving force for soybeans is a seriously short crop in the United States last year," Wisner said. "We're down almost 400 million bushels from what was considered normal production due to dry weather in the Midwest. On top of that, aphids have come in as a new pest in soybeans."
Questions about the size of the South American crop are also of concern to traders. "Early indications from trade sources indicate that South America may be close to 400 million bushels below normal due to a combination of drought in southern Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, parts of Uruguay and excessive rains in northern Brazil that are complicating Asian rust control.
"In addition, there are reports of sprouting in fields, delayed harvests and difficult conditions for transporting soybeans on dirt roads."
Wisner says that competition from South America, while strong, "is much less strong that we anticipated "That is going to be a support under the market."
The dominant influence in beans is still meal demand, according to Wisner. "We have rationed export sales almost as much as we need to. If we see any further decline in bean prices, we will see additional export demand and our supplies can't allow that."
On the other hand, "We haven't seen rationing in domestic crush. Crushing through February was just about even with a year ago. From here on, through August, our crushings will need to run about 15 percent below last year."
There is no real price incentive for processors to cut back, added Wisner. "That's going to have to change through a very strong soybean basis and bean futures pulling ahead of bean product prices. That's still ahead of us."
Wisner noted that the current setback in new crop soybean prices is coming from profit-taking and market correction.
"We should have strong support under November bean futures in the $7.50 area, with July in the $9.50 area. There is a chance on some additional strength based off those prices. How much, it's hard to quantify at this point. But the bean market can be extremely volatile into the summer because of the low carryover here and the deteriorating South American crop and the heavy role of fund traders in that market."
The U.S. winter wheat situation could have a significant influence on the corn market and to some extent on soybeans, according to Wisner. "Winter wheat, especially in northwest Kansas, Colorado and southern Nebraska is not in very good shape for this time of the year. Subsoil moisture is low and yield prospects are significantly below normal.
"The soft red winter wheat crop in the Eastern Corn Belt, Mid-South and Southeast, looks to be much better.
"Total global wheat supply is very tight, near record low levels," Wisner said. "With that situation, any serious problems in U.S. wheat will quickly translate into higher prices which would carry back into the corn market and affect soybeans in the battle for additional acreage this spring."
There is also some downside risk to consider for corn and soybeans, according to Wisner. "For the past 20 years, nearly 80 percent of the time, we have seen corn futures declining from spring to fall. For soybeans, it's two-thirds of the time.
"Farmers may want to look at a scale up marketing strategy for new crop corn and beans, spreading those sales into the market between now and the middle of May, with a little shorter window on soybeans.
"The idea is to move sales into the market on an uptrend. I'm confident we will be moving back into an uptrend before too long in those markets, given the fundamentals."
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September 2004 Al Tafar, Nineveh Province, Iraq.
Murph pointed to the low hills around the city. Small fires had sprung up in the distance. A few city lights and the fires on the hillsides burned like a tattered quilt of fallen stars. "It's beautiful," I whispered. I was not sure if anyone heard me, but I saw others point their fingers off into the darkness.
We stayed like that for a while. The night grew cool and the smell of fires burning was bright and clean and cut through the air like a spring wind out of season. I started to feel a little drunk as we traded the bottle back and forth. We rested our chins on our arms and our arms on the top of the low mud-brick wall and we watched the little fires the citizens made speckle the hillsides in every direction.
"It must be the whole city out there," Murph said, and I thought of the line of people who rode or walked or ran out of Al Tafar four days ago, how they waited patiently for us to leave, for the enemy to leave, how when the battle was over they would come back and begin to sweep the shells off of the roofs of their houses, how they would fill buckets of water and splash them over the dried, coppery blood on their doorsteps. We could hear a soft keening while we watched the low hills and desert glimmer in the darkness.
It was barely perceptible, that noise. I still hear it sometimes. Sound is a funny thing, and smell. I'll light a fire in the back lot of my cabin after the sun goes down. Then after a while, the smoke settles down into little ruts between clumps of pine. Wind whips up through the draws nearby and courses over the creek bed. And I can hear it then. I was not sure if it really came from the women around the campfires, if they pulled their hair crying out in mourning or not, but I heard it and even now it seems wrong not to listen. I took off my helmet and placed my rifle on top of it and allowed my ears to adjust to the ambient sounds in the night. There was something out there. I glanced at Murph and he returned a sad and knowing look. The LT put the radio down and sat in his chair with his head in his hands rubbing the strange mark on his cheekbone. We all listened to it awhile, watching the fires burn against the night. My chest tightened. There was something both ordinary and miraculous about the strange wailing that we heard, and the way it carried to us on the wind that began inside the orchard. Later in the night two of the lights in the distance began to brighten, then another two, and then another. The LT walked to each of us and said, "The colonel wants to see you guys. Get ready." (84-85)
The scene is from Kevin Powers' first novel The Yellow Birds (2012), drawing upon his 2004 and 2005 U.S. Army service in Iraq. Powers recreates the sense of ever-present menace that hung over his Iraqi days. An alley, a rooftop, a face might seem benign at one moment, only to prove deadly the next. Your companion might crack a joke at your side and then be felled by a tracer bullet.
But in this particular scene, night falls upon the city of Al Tafar. — "A few city lights and the fires on the hillsides burned like a tattered quilt of fallen stars." — and a soldier can't help but to whisper, "It's beautiful." "The smell of fires burning was bright and clean and cut through the air like a spring wind out of season." Foreign Iraq subtly melds into the hollows of his native Virginia, and something happens that can only hinder a soldier's task. He hears the sound of women wailing and can't help but to recognize, not his enemy but, a common humanity.
The Jesuit paleontologist Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) experienced something very similar in the trenches of the First World War. He was there as a non-combatant priest and stretcher bearer, and, one night, the glow of the moon over No Man's Land convinced him that something stronger than division was drawing all of humanity — our trenches and theirs — upward and into itself. He would later come to speak of what he called "creative union,"a Christ yet to be revealed, a cosmic Christ, calling creation into himself. Just as a biosphere, a integrated domain of life, had emerged from the lithosphere, inorganic matter, so too, de Chardin thought, a noosphere, a realm of mind or spirit is emerging, summoned into unity by God's spirit at work in the world.
The Jesuit's great act of faith was drawn equally from the resources of his religion and his science. In The Divine Milieu (1960) he wrote:
However vast the divine milieu may be, it is in reality a center. It therefore has the properties of a center and above all the absolute and final power to unite (and consequently to complete) all beings within its breast. In the divine milieu all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption. There they shed, in the meeting, the mutual externality and the incoherence which forms the basic pain of human relationships. Let those seek refuge there who are saddened by the separations, the meannesses, and the wastefulness of the world. In the external spheres of the world the human is always torn by the separations which set distance between bodies, which set the impossibility of mutual understanding between souls, which set death between lives. Morever at every minute he must lament that he cannot pursue and embrace everything within the compass of a few years. Finally, and not without reason, he is incessantly distressed by the crazy indifference and the heartbreaking dumbness of a natural environment in which the greater part of individual endeavor seems wasted or lost, where the blow and the cry seem stifled on the spot, without any awakening echo (72-73).
It's a beautiful vision of a unity still aborning, but most of us, most of the time, are more like Joshua than de Chardin. There's a spirit of sin within us that sunders. We see the Spirit of God moving beyond the boundaries we've drawn, and we can't help but to cry out, "Moses, my lord, stop them" (Nm 11:28)
Yet at our best, through the very Spirit of God, through Christ at work in his cosmos, we also sense that the one whom we call enemy is of our flesh and shares our dreams. We hear the Holy Spirit in her cries. In the Gospel, Christ tells us that, "whoever is not against us is for us" (Mk 9: 40), and in our hearts the Spirit whispers, "do not resist the summons of love."
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The next, the third in a row Baku International Jazz Festival was held from the 7th of June 2007 to the 14th. As in the past years the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Azerbaijan, Friends of Azerbaijan Culture Foundation and Baku Jazz Center were the organizers of the Festival...>>>
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Another difference of Baku International Jazz Festival 2007 from the previous ones - big number of master-classes, which will be held by guru musicians. In particular, a joint master-class of merited artist of Russia, one of the most experienced Russian sax players Alexander Oseychuk and assistant professor of Gnesin Music Academy sax player Janna Ilmer will be held during the first working day of the Festival, June 8. The next morning a master-class will be held by Bakunian and Berkley graduate Zulfugar Baghirov. Master-class of one of the most callable Russian pianists Yakov Okun will be held on June 11. A master-class of famous drummer Billy Cobham and percussion player from Brazil Marco Lobo will be held the same day at 16:00. And finally, a master-class of Holland singer Denise Jannah will be held on the day before the last day of the Festival, June 12...>>>
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There aren't as many women associates working at U.S. law firms as there have been in the recent past.
That's according to the latest numbers from the National Association for Law Placement, which show women accounted for 45.05 percent of all associates in 2012, down from 45.35 percent the year before.
It's the third time since the NALP began tracking the numbers in 1993 that the percentage of women associates has declined.
The information came from 1,209 law offices nationwide that are members of the group's directory of legal employers.
That trend is manifesting itself in different ways, depending on where a person looks, and is reflected in different ways locally. One female attorney in Memphis told The Daily News that the NALP data suggest summer internship numbers relative to women as well as partnerships for women are on the rise, but that fewer women are entering the law firm workforce as associate attorneys.
What's more, she said she's seeing a drop-off in resumes coming into her office from women.
The picture is complemented by other national trends. A recent survey of the 200 largest law firms in the U.S. showed that women don't have a widespread presence in the top ranks. That's according to the Seventh Annual National Association of Women Lawyers Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms.
"If this trend continues," the NAWL Foundation said in a press release, "it could trigger a downward spiral for women in the profession – we could see fewer women senior partners and law-firm leaders in the future, and thus fewer role models and mentors for succeeding cohorts of women lawyers."
"There have been some dips in the rest of the country," said Donna Fraiche, a shareholder in New Orleans with Memphis-based Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC.
She also chairs the firm's Women's Initiative.
Bucking the national trend, Fraiche said the percentage of women associates at Baker Donelson is up by a percentage point from last year.
"Increasing the number of women in leadership in our firm and heeding the call of our clients for more diversified teams is something we take very seriously," she said. "Of course, not every woman has to make their way up the leadership ranks to be successful in the profession. Women may want to do other things. And it's not so much at the associate level. It's as you get to the senior associate level, it may coincide with childbearing years.
"What Baker Donelson did early on was to have a program that allows for women to make a contribution to the profession and the firm by being staff attorneys or being of counsel and still making serious contributions to themselves and their professions – and not being penalized for that."
Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada PLLC has a similarly targeted diversity initiative that promotes outreach through professional associations, mentoring, sponsorships and networking.
Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the country's largest workplace law firms and which opened a Memphis office a few years ago, recently achieved a prominent national recognition for its own diversity efforts.
Jackson Lewis ranked 36th on MultiCultural Law magazine's 2012 "Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity" listing, which stacks up the top firms in the nation on the basis of diversity and inclusion.
The firm also garnered a top ranking as a top law firm for women.
Baker Donelson has seen a bump up in the number of "of counsel" women attorneys in the last couple of years and in the number of women shareholders, Fraiche said.
"Where the rest of the country is stagnant and losing ground, we think we're moving forward in a very positive direction," she said. "There are admirable reasons why women and men leave law practice for other kinds of law practice, or they might want to leave the profession for a while and try their hand at some other things. We're better because we are diverse, and many of our clients demand we have diversity to service their business and so do we."
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Officials have long insisted that a relief well was the only surefire way to kill the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, but with engineers only feet away from completing a pair of them they're now wrestling with how exactly to use them.
Crews planned testing Monday evening to determine whether to proceed with a plan — called a "static kill" — to pump mud and perhaps cement down the throat of the mile-deep busted well. The role of the relief well, plus a backup one dug at White House insistence, was to do the same from the bottom of the well and insure that the oil would stay in its vast undersea reservoir.
BP PLC Senior Vice President Kent Wells said Monday that engineers may pump cement directly into the busted well through the failed blowout preventer via a surface ship, rather than wait for the relief well's planned completion later this month.
That idea isn't new — but BP has never before indicated it might forgo use of the relief well altogether in direct attempts to plug the leak.
"Precisely what the relief wells will do remains to be seen given what we learn from the static kill," BP spokesman Daren Beaudo said. "Can't predict it for certain."
Either way, Wells said, "We want to end up with cement in the bottom of the hole."
The company began drilling the primary, 18,000-foot relief well May 2, 12 days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and killed 11 workers, and the second well May 16. The first well is now only about 100 feet from the target, and Wells said it could reach it by Aug. 11.
The British oil giant said there's no doubt the relief wells, which can cost about $100 million each, would be used in some fashion. Mud and cement could be pumped down to plug the reservoir, or it could simply be used to "confirm" that the static kill worked, Beaudo said.
BP didn't fully explain why, after so much time, money and effort, the company was unclear on the role a relief well would play.
The company could be more worried than it has said publicly about debris found in the relief well after it was briefly capped as Tropical Storm Bonnie passed last week, said Louisiana State University environmental sciences professor Ed Overton.
Plus, trying to seal the well from the top gives BP two shots at ending the disaster, Overton said.
"Frankly, if they can shut it off from the top and it's a good, permanent seal, I'll take it," Overton said. "A bird in the hand at this point is a good thing with this deal."
Engineers hoped to complete a final test by Monday evening to determine whether to proceed with the static kill. If the test is successful, Wells said, engineers would spend most of Tuesday and likely part of Wednesday slowly pumping the heavy mud down the well, which has spewed as much as 184 million gallons.
The only thing keeping oil from blowing into the Gulf at the moment is an experimental cap that has held for more than two weeks but was never meant to be permanent.
"The only thing that separates the oil from the sea now is the valve. This puts thousands of feet of mud and cement in between," said Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute. "The idea is to have as many barriers as possible between the ocean and the reservoir. We're adding an extra level of safety."
The whole procedure is still set to be completed by late August despite a brief evacuation for Bonnie.
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If this blog has held to one central, core argument since its inception (and indeed its prehistory), it is that Raul Ibanez will never amount to anything.
The Seattle Mariners officially announced their $2.75 million, one-year deal with outfielder Raul Ibanez on Wednesday, returning the veteran to where he began his major league career in 1996.
Seattle confirmed an agreement with Ibanez over the weekend but needed to clear a roster spot before making the transaction official. That took place when the Mariners designated for assignment right-handed pitcher D.J. Mitchell, opening a spot on the 40-man roster. Mitchell was acquired from the New York Yankees in the trade last July for Ichiro Suzuki.
The deal allows Ibanez to earn an additional $1.25 million in performance bonuses. This will be his third stint with the Mariners, after rejoining them from 2004-08.
Let me be the first LGM contributor to decry and denounce this deal, to confidently predict that it will somehow end disastrously for the Mariners, and to reiterate my argument (first made in 1998), that Raul Ibanez just doesn't have much of a future in the majors.


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Travis Anderson recently completed his fifth season as an Assistant Coach with the Gauchos. Responsible for the sprints, hurdles, relays, pole vault and horizontal jumps, Anderson's athletes have helped revitalize the sprints and jumps at UCSB since his arrival.
In five seasons, Anderson's athletes have produced 16 Big West medals in the sprints, hurdles and relays inlcuding six Big West Champions and two different NCAA Qualifers in the women's 400m. His athletes have combined to set six UCSB school records.
In 2017, Sike Azu-Irondi broke one of UCSB's oldest standing records, the men's 100m. Azu-Irondi ran 10.55 to eclipse the previous record set back in 1987. He also added a season best of 21.31 in the 200m and was a Big West finalist in both events.
Anderson guided Myles McDonald to a new school record in the 400m hurdles at the 2016 Aztec Invite. McDonald ran 51.55 to break a 37 year old UCSB record.
Two of Anderson's other athletes nearly broke records in their respective events on their way to NCAA First Round performances. Alivia Schlueter added three feet to her high school best in the triple jump, sailing out to 41'0.5 to earn the Big West Silver in the event. Sierra Emrick vaulted 13'3.5 to become the second woman in UCSB history over 13 feet. Both Emrick and Schlueter rank #2 All-Time at UCSB in their events.
In 2015, Anderson helped Gaucho senior Jessica Johnson lower her 400m best to 52.50- a time she ran in the final of the Big West Championships to claim conference Gold. Johnson would advance to the NCAA Championships after a 52.93 performance at the NCAA West Regional.
At the 2015 Big West Championship, Anderson helped guide two UCSB pole vaulters into the conference scoring column for the first time in UCSB history as Parker Curry and Clint Gallivan each cleared 16'0.75 for the Gauchos. Oscar Pearson went from walk-on to Big West runner-up in the long jump and recorded a season best leap of 23'11.
In 2014, Anderson helped guide Johnson and Evan Walker to the NCAA West Regional. Johnson captured bronze at the Big West Championships and finished the year with a best time of 53.77 in the 400m. Johnson had five races under 55 seconds in 2014. Evan Walker ran a best time of 10.50 in the 100m. After running track for only one year in high school before attending UCSB, Hallie Brauner found a spot in the Big West final in the 400m hurdles- there she ran a lifetime best of 1:01.54, moving into fourth all-time at UCSB.
2013 was anything but ordinary for the Gaucho sprint squad. 5 school records, 5 Big West Event Titles, 11 NCAA Regional Qualifiers, one NCAA Championship Qualifier and one IAAF World Championships competitor.
Anderson's athletes experienced rapid improvement under his guidance and after only one season he has established a common theme amongst his sprint/hurdles and jumps groups: Development.
Anderson's athlete's improvement in 2013
Athlete PR Entering 2013 2013 PR
Jennifer Carey **
57.06 400m, 24.97 200m
52.29 400m, 23.69 200m
Amanda Rodriguez *
61.91 400mH, 56.77 400m
58.39 400mH, 54.98 400m
Jordan Scott *
47.54 400m
46.44 400m
Evan Walker
10.87 100m
10.58 100m
Winton Nguyen
48.87 400m
47.85 400m
Sean Johnson
|Shannon Trumbull
|1:04.93 400h (2013)
|59.87 (2017)
- 2013 Big West Champion
Jennifer Carey led a talented Gaucho sprint squad by setting 4 new school records in the 200m, 400m, 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relays. She won the 400m Big West Title in 52.29. She would go on to qualify for the NCAA Championships as well as represent Ireland in the World Championships. Her 200m Big West runner up finish of 23.69 was also a new school record. One of her most impressive moments came in the second leg of the women's 4 x 400m relay in Austin, TX at the NCAA West Regional where she dropped a 51.5 split to help the Gaucho women reset the school record with a time of 3:38.86.
Amanda Rodriguez would also go on to the NCAA West Regional after setting a new 400m hurdle record in 58.32 while claiming her first Big West title. Also a key component to the relay effort, Rodriguez would set a new personal best in the open 400m at 54.98, cutting almost 2 seconds off her previous PR.
Jordan Scott led the Gaucho men with his PR Big West win in the 400m at 46.44. Scott also helped the Gauchos qualify for the NCAA West Regional in the 4 x 400m while winning the Big West Championship in 3:09.84.
Anderson's attention to technical relay coaching led the Gaucho men to their first Big West podium appearance in the 4 x 100m relay and their first Big West title in the 4 x 400m relay. He helped guide the Gaucho women to school records in the 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relays during his first season at the helm.
At UW-Milwaukee Anderson put together impressive event groups which accounted for a total of 24 school records – seven of which established new Horizon League records. In 2012, he guided Durrell Busby to an NCAA All America finish and a new school record in the 110 high hurdles at 13.67. Busby would go on to finish second in the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Trials. He also ran an indoor conference record in the 60h at 7.79. One of Anderson's other star pupils, Samia Taylor, achieved All-American honors in the triple jump in 2011 and established a new UW-Milwaukee school record at 42'4 ¼.
In 2012, Anderson guided Dexter Schleis to the men's 400 hurdle school record at 51.72 and Ben Crogan to the school record in the men's indoor pole vault with a mark of 17'3/4. On the women's side, Simbi Laaro set the women's indoor 60 meter record with a time of 7.52 and Laura Hamel set the women's outdoor high jump record with a mark of 5'8 ½.
Anderson coached 17 NCAA Regional Qualifiers and 2 NCAA Championship Qualifiers at UW-Milwaukee- Both athletes went on to become All Americans. (Busby- 110HH, Samia Taylor- Triple Jump) At UW-Milwaukee, he coached a total of 62 Horizon League champions.
Anderson helped UW-Milwaukee claim 16 team championships (10 men, 6 women) during his 5 years with the program. He also served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Panthers track and field, cross country, tennis and swimming and diving programs. He has a USA Weight Lifting Certificate and is a certified Sprints, Hurdles and Relays Specialist and Jumping Event Specialist through the USTFCCCA.
Anderson graduated from the University of Oregon where he was a three-time All-American in the 4 x 400m relay, running on four of the Ducks current top-10 relays, including their #2 AT 3:03.27 where he ran lead off.
Anderson By the Numbers
* 6 Big West Champions
* 34 NCAA West Regional Qualifiers
* 4 NCAA Championship Qualifiers
* 6 UCSB School Records
* 62 Horizon League Champions (Prior to UCSB)


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Admitting he was done, lefthander Erik Bedard handed Astros manager Bo Porter the ball and walked off the mound in the seventh inning.
Although the veteran appreciated the standing ovation, he didn't show emotion while heading to the dugout. As it turned out, Bedard and the Astros didn't have much reason to rejoice. Seattle pulled off a 4-2 victory despite being limited to one hit Saturday night at Minute Maid Park.
Although Bedard threw 61⁄3 no-hit innings and struck out 10, he and the Astros couldn't celebrate because All-Star catcher Jason Castro had two costly passed balls and reliever Jose Cisnero couldn't strand the runner he inherited.
"I would say it was the strangest game I've been involved in from Little League to the big leagues, when you give up one hit and punch out 15 guys and end up on the losing side of it," Porter said. "But it's crystal clear how we ended up on the losing side of it.
"When you walk (six) guys and all four of their runs that score are via the walk, there's no defense for it."
Outfielder Michael Saunders delivered the Mariners' lone hit for a game-winning, two-run double to center field in the seventh.
Bedard's tough fate
Bedard (3-7) gave up three runs (one earned) with five walks and 10 strikeouts, becoming the first pitcher to throw at least 61⁄3 hitless innings and lose since Boston's Matt Young threw eight hitless innings and lost 2-1 to the Indians on April 12, 1992.
"It's tough, but I battled for six innings to try to keep the team in the ballgame," said Bedard, who threw 109 pitches, 61 for strikes.
Hisashi Iwakuma (9-4) earned the victory by holding the Astros to seven hits and two runs with two walks and seven strikeouts over seven innings.
"Bedard threw a heck of a ballgame," Mariners manager Eric Wedge said. "He had a great breaking ball going, a live fastball. He did everything good to keep us off-balance but we made him work. We were able to get him out of there at a reasonable time and try somebody else out."
The Mariners became the first team in almost 100 years to score four runs on one or fewer hits without the help of an error.
With the Astros ahead 2-0 in the sixth, Saunders and Brad Miller drew consecutive one-out walks. The runners advanced when Castro had a passed ball on Bedard's fastball in the dirt to Nick Franklin.
Franklin cut the deficit in half with a sacrifice fly to center. Miller tagged over to third on the fly ball and tied the score when Castro had another passed ball on a fastball that tailed outside to Raul Ibanez.
"With Bedard," Castro said, "I mean, the way that he pitches I only know what's coming about half the time. In certain instances it's tough to catch back there, when he has such good movement and it's not always what's expected."
Bedard retired the first batter he faced in the seventh, but was pulled after walking Justin Smoak.
"The plan was to see if he could have a quick inning," Porter said. "He was kind of at the end of the rope."
Porter said he contemplated leaving Bedard in the game, but Bedard said, "I'm done" twice.
" 'Are you sure?' " Porter said he asked. " 'Yes, I'm sure.' At that point, I took the ball."
No second thoughts
Bedard doesn't want to throw more than 110 pitches in a game. He mentioned his three shoulder surgeries and said that instead of facing another hitter Saturday he would rather pitch two more years.
Cisnero took over and struck out pinch hitter Dustin Ackley for the second out. After Mike Zunino walked, Saunders hit a two-run double up Tal's Hill to give the Mariners a 4-2 lead.
It was only the third time the Mariners have won a game over the 20 times they've been held to one or fewer hits.
"I feel bad for Bedard," Cisnero said. "It's disappointing to throw a game like that and to lose it with only one hit."
Seattle's tough offensive night ended their franchise-high streak of 23 straight games with a home run.
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Schlaffer, Hans (d. 1528)
Hans Schlaffer, an Anabaptist martyr (d. 1528), highly regarded by Anabaptists as a true preacher of the Word of God, and a "highly gifted man" (Chronicle). His "Account" (Verantwortung) before the magistrate of Schwatz, Tyrol, in 1527 (Müller, 115-21) states that he had entered the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1511, and served in Upper Austria. With the coming of Luther he began to preach the pure Gospel but soon was forbidden to do so. In 1526 he resigned his priesthood, realizing that "it was the estate of a false prophet." For a time (1526-27) he stayed with the Protestant Lord Zelkin at his castle Weinberg near Freistadt, Upper Austria. It was either then or still earlier that he had come into contact with Anabaptists, most likely with Hans Hut. It is not known when or by whom he was baptized but Grete Mecenseffy shows how heavily the Anabaptist congregation of Freistadt leaned on Schlaffer, who followed more or less the line of Hans Hut. In any case he left the area, beginning a period of wandering, the sequence of places being not quite clear. He visited Nikolsburg in 1527 where he heard the dispute between Hubmaier and Hut, which happened prior to Hut's coming to Upper Austria. He may have been converted to Hut's ideas on that occasion and returned temporarily to Freistadt, establishing an Anabaptist congregation there; but it is also possible that he was in Nikolsburg even before he came to Lord Zelkin. In any case Freistadt soon became an unsafe abode, and he then went to Bavaria. First he went to Augsburg where he met Jacob Wideman, and again Hans Hut; he may have been present at the "Martyr's Synod" of Augsburg. Next he went to Nürnberg where he met Hans Denck and Ludwig Haetzer in September 1527 (Fellmann), "two excellent, in God learned men"; finally he went to Regensburg where he met Oswald Glait and Wolfgang Brandhuber, two more of the then leading men in the growing Anabaptist movement.
From Regensburg he turned south to the Inn Valley of Tyrol, to Brixlegg and Rattenberg, where he had some relatives. But after a brief stay due to sickness he went on toward Hall on the Inn for the winter. On his way he attended a meeting of Anabaptists in the mining city of Schwatz on the Inn, a few miles west of Rattenberg, on 5 December 1527, but was caught by the authorities and imprisoned in the nearby Frundsberg castle, together with the brother Leonhard Frick (or, as the Kunstbuch calls him, Funck). He was brought before the magistrate and submitted a written Verantwortung which was sent to the provincial government in Innsbruck. His defense was very dignified: he had sought nothing evil but only divine truth; nothing was further from his mind than rebellion. Children, he contended, should not be baptized, for "they were the Lord's as long as they were in innocence, and they would not be damned." The Innsbruck government sent instructions to Judge S. Capeller for conducting the case. The statements of the prisoners would be sent to the authorities in Bavaria who also wanted to try these men. Orders were further given to convene the court with twelve jurymen to pass sentence on the two prisoners. At the same time a secret report should be made by the judge on the attitude of the jurymen, as it was known that some of them did not approve of death in such cases. Finally the death sentence was pronounced and Schlaffer and Frick were beheaded at Schwatz on 4 February 1528.
Schlaffer left nine writings, all well preserved in numerous Hutterite codices. His long prayer written in the night before the execution is also found in the Kunstbuch of 1561 as No. 12. Of these writings only one rather short piece was composed while Schlaffer was still free, most likely in Freistadt, for the local brotherhood; it is a sort of shortened paraphrase of Hut's Vom Geheimnus der Tauff (Mecenseffy). All the other writings were written in prison between 6 December 1527, and 3 February 1528, slightly more than eight weeks. These are the writings:
(1) Kurzer Bericht eines christlichen Lebens (also Kurzer Bericht und Lehr eines rechten christlichen Lebens); it is made up of the "Hut paraphrase" (Müller, 94-96) and two prayers (ibid., 96-98; Beck, 651). Already in the first document we recognize Schlaffer's greatest potential: his profound gift of praying or communicating with his God.
(2) Ein einfältiger Unterricht zum Anfang eines gotseliges Lebens, again introduced by a beautiful lengthy prayer (Müller, 84-94). This tract, written 19 December 1527, likewise reveals strongly Schlaffer's dependence on Hut (Müller, 85, note).
(3) Kurze und einfältige Vermahnung von der Kindertauff, und wie derselbige nit mag beibracht werden aus Heiliger Schrifft. It was written 2 January 1528 (Müller, 98-105).
(4) Brief an einen schwachen Bruder, Antwort auf etliche Fragstück, also 2 January 1528 (Müller, 105-10).
(5) Von der Art und Gestalt Christi, was er geistlich und leiblich sey geformieret (unpublished, found in Canadian Hutterite codices).
(6) Bekandtnus und Verantwortung [dem Richter zu Schwatz] schriftlich überantwortet, no date (Müller, 110-15).
(7) Die andere Verantwortung: Antwort auf [fünf] Fragstück vor dem Richter (Müller, 115-21). From this item all the biographical information was gained. This account was apparently first given orally before the judge, and later written down by Schlaffer for his brethren.
(8) Ein Bericht seiner Verantwortung vor der Obrigkeit getan an seine Geschwistriget im Herren zugeschickt, Pfingstag vor Pauli Bekehrung, January 1528 (Müller, 121-25). This is another summary of Schlaffer's defense. He informed his brethren (perhaps the congregation of Schwatz) that the authorities in Innsbruck had falsified his written statement (No. 6), completely changing its meaning; for that reason he wanted to inform his brethren about what he had actually written. Thus we have three different documents (Nos. 6 to 8) in which Schlaffer gives account of the major ideas of South German Anabaptism as it had evolved at that time.
(9) Ein einfältig Gebet, also called Gebet, Beicht und öffentlich Bekanntnus, Hans Schlaffers Testament und eigen Bekanntnus gegen Gott, written 3 February 1528, in the night before his execution. This is found in the Kunstbuch No. 12, and in many Hutterite codices (also Beck, 652, as a very inadequate version of this prayer). In the typescript copy in the Mennonite Historical Library (Goshen, Indiana) this prayer covers 18 pages; in a narrowly written Hutterite codex (1566) it covers eight leaves. This prayer is no doubt one of the most profound and moving documents in the entire German devotional literature. Like Augustine in his Confessions he talks to God at great length about his life and thoughts, strengthening his mind during the agonizing hours before his death. It is most likely here that Schlaffer's greatest power is to be found and also his greatest contribution to Anabaptist tradition.
Schlaffer composed also two hymns: "Ungnad begehr ich nit von dir," No. 32 in the Ausbund, and pp. 22-23 in Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder; the hymn was also circulated as a pamphlet in 1527, and reprinted in 1550 and 1551 in Nürnberg; "Herr Gott, mein ewiger Vater" (with the acrostic "Hanns Schlaffer") in Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder, 21-22; it was written in the last hours of his life, either before or after the above prayer.
Schlaffer's teachings: As was pointed out above, Schlaffer's main ideas are not his own but were taken from Hans Hut, often to the point of verbatim borrowing. But this was nothing unusual in those days (compare Pilgram Marpeck and Bernhard Rothmann); what really mattered was the particular emphasis or slant given to the ideas. In all Schlaffer's writings we meet the same spiritualistic or pneumatic atmosphere as in those of Leonhard Schiemer, Ambrosius Spittelmayr, Hans Nadler, and other men connected with Denck and Hut. "Even if Christ had died a hundred times, it would avail nothing if the spiritual Christ is not preached also" (Wiswedel, 197, quoted from a copy in the Beck collection, file No. 46, in Brno). "Who ever descends into Hades with Christ, that is in Christ, will also be led out of Hades by God" (Müller, 96). Pilgram Marpeck some twenty years later liked to indulge in speculation of this kind in exactly the same way (see Gospel of Nicodemus).
Schlaffer is aware that suffering is a keynote of the Christian in the "world," and his writings abound in such thoughts. "All Scriptures speak of nothing but of the suffering of the elect, from Abel to the apostles; that is why the lamb has been killed ever since the beginning of the world" (Müller, 88). "Who ever suffers in the flesh stops sinning" (ibid., 89). And in the Account: "Here I stand as a lamb which does not open its mouth as it is being slaughtered, to which may Christ . . . grant me strength and help" (Müller, 124). "Only he who follows Christ is a Christian." Of particular appeal is a short passage in his first Bericht und Lehr where he speaks of the "Tiefe Christi," meaning Christ's lowliness (Niedrigkeit) and resignation. "It might also be called Hell, that a man could imagine himself deserted by God and all creatures. This lowliness (Tiefe) is the sign of Jonah. Into this lowliness one has to enter if one wants to be saved in Christ" (Müller, 96). This is a thought which was repeated twenty years later nearly verbatim by Pilgram Marpeck in his "Epistle to the Brethren in the Grisons, Appenzell and Alsace," 1 February 1547, dealing with Von der Tiefe Christi (Kunstbuch, No. 35; see Fast, 235).
Grete Mecenseffy compared this entire tract of Schlaffer (Müller, 94-96) with the Confession of the Freistadt Anabaptists (Nicoladoni, 250-52) and Hut's Vom Geheimnus der Tauff, and found a near identity of all three, at least in certain sections. She thinks that the major ideas were borrowed from Thomas Müntzer, Hut's first spiritual awakener, but this remains a debatable question. Rather one could think of the influence of late medieval mysticism as the true root of this line of tradition. In any case it remains a "gospel of the cross" which became particularly real as this cross was being experienced in the agony and dread of death.
In his "Letter to a Weak Brother" Schlaffer tries to answer certain scruples of that brother concerning difficult doctrinal issues; his reaction here might be called again typically Anabaptist. "One should not worry too much," he writes, "concerning certain secrets as if it would hurt you not to grasp their meaning. Rather one should take into captivity all thought and reason in obedience to Christ (II Corinthians 10:5)" (Müller, 107). This answer is found time and again in Anabaptist sources (see Reason and Obedience). On the delicate issue of the meaning of the Trinity, Schlaffer answers, again typically for pneumatic Anabaptism: "God is neither this nor that" (Müller, 108; here Lydia Müller refers to a stanza of a hymn by Ludwig Haetzer which says exactly the same thing and must have been known to Schlaffer, Mennonitisches Lexikon II, 231 or Beck, 34). But Schlaffer does not deny the truth of the Trinity; in fact he defends it to the best of his ability.
Schlaffer and Schiemer are usually mentioned together, and rightly so. They both had been Catholic clergymen, had become true apostles of budding Anabaptism, both pursuing mainly the Denck-Hut line. Both died as martyrs within the span of two and a half weeks, not more than five or six miles apart in the Inn Valley. Both left a valuable legacy to their brethren, who kept their memory and also their teachings alive. Schiemer was no doubt more the "bishop" who cared fatherly for his congregation or church; Schlaffer never had one to care for. His accounts and tracts are rich sources of instruction and of strength, but his most lasting contributions are his numerous prayers. No other Anabaptist ever produced documents of this type as profound and spiritual as Schlaffer.
Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967: 63 note.
Braght, Thieleman J. van. Het Bloedigh Tooneel of Martelaers Spiegel der Doopsgesinde of Weereloose Christenen, Die om 't getuygenis van Jesus haren Salighmaker geleden hebben ende gedood zijn van Christi tijd of tot desen tijd toe. Den Tweeden Druk. Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, 1685: II, 14.
Braght, Thieleman J. van. The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 425-426. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/.
Fast, Heinold. "Pilgram Marpeck und das oberdeutsche Täufertum," Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 47 (1956): 212-42.
Fellmann, W. Hans Denck, Religiöse Schriften. Gütersloh, 1956: 18.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: IV, 63-65.
Klassen, Herbert C. "Ambrosius Spittelmayr," Mennonite Quarterly Review 32: 251 ff., especially 266 ff.
Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder. Scottdale, 1914: 21-23.
Loserth, Johann. Der Anabaptismus in Tirol. Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1892: 35 ff.
Mecenseffy, Grete. "Die Herkunft des oberösterreichischen Täufertums," Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 47 (1956): 252-59.
Müller, L. Glaubenszeupiisse oberdeutscher Taufgesinnter. Leipzig, 1938.
Nicoladoni, A. Johannes Bünderlin. Berlin, 1893.
Wiswedel, Wilhelm. "Hans Schlaffer, ein ernster Beter und eifriger Verteidiger der göttlichen Wahrheit,"in Bilder and Führergestalten aus dem Täufertum, 3 vols. Kassel: J.G. Oncken Verlag, 1928-1952: v. 2, 191-212.
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Microsoft is re-branding its implementation of the increasingly popular Really Simple Syndication (RSS) in the next version of Internet Explorer (IE).
In a move likely to unsettle many outside Microsoft, the company said it is actively exploring the right name to use for RSS feeds, with the current working term being "web feeds". The name "web feeds" is currently used to describe initial support for the discovery and reading of RSS feeds in the IE 7.0 Beta 1, which was released this summer. Microsoft is also adding its own technology to RSS, according to reports.
Microsoft is a relative late-comer to RSS, which is quickly becoming the de facto technology for syndicating content for millions of blogs and web sites. IE 7.0 is planned for both Windows XP and Windows Vista, which is due late next year.
Many will be suspicious of Microsoft's plans, coming as they do from a company famed for going its own way on industry standards and technologies. Microsoft has been pushing its own vision for web services standards, partnering with IBM on the WS- stack rather than joining existing or alternative industry efforts.
Famously, Microsoft re-named and "optimized" its implementation of Sun Microsystems' Java language, in a move that saw Sun prosecute Microsoft for breaking compatibility with Sun's official Java specification.
Microsoft, though, is stressing support for all current web feed formats in the IE 7.0 beta. Jane Kim, RSS in IE program manager, said the Beta 1 supports RSS 9.x, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0, with Atom 0.3 and 1.0 support planned in a later release. ®


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Xbox One To Be Playable At San Diego Comic Con
Earlier today we shared that Sony is bringing the PlayStation 4 to San Diego Comic Con next week. Microsoft is also treating attendees with the first hands-on opportunity for the Xbox One.
Confirmed titles include Ryse: Son of Rome and Killer Instinct in the Xbox Booth (#100). Other games will be available also.
In the Xbox Lounge (located in the Manchester Grand Hyatt), will offer more than ten titles, including Dead Rising 3, Halo: Spartan Assault, and the first hands-on opportunity with Halo 4 Champions Bundle. 2K Games, Capcom, Disney Interactive, Konami, Ubisoft, and Warner Brothers will also have games in the lounge.
Microsoft is also hosting a number of panels, as follows:
Inside the Looking Glass: Building "Halo" Worlds and Wonders, Past, Present and Future
Room 6BCF, San Diego Convention Center
Thursday, July 18, 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Bringing the Roman Empire to Life on Xbox One: The Creation of "Ryse: Son of Rome"
Room 7AB, San Diego Convention Center
Thursday, July 18, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
The Future of Xbox Gaming Revealed
Room 6A, San Diego Convention Center
Saturday, July 20, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
The Video Game Culture of Zombies: How "Dead Rising 3" on Xbox One Kicks Off a New Generation of Mayhem
Room 5AB, San Diego Convention Center
Saturday, July 20, 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
[Source: Major Nelson]
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Well-Being of our Community – Invaluable but not Invisible
Today Jeff and I are announcing a project we will be spending a lot more time on this Fall. We would like to get you involved in photographing the value in our lives that cannot be expressed in monetary terms- invaluable things we do every day that contribute to our well-being and the well-being of our communities. These are things that don't cost a dollar, and do not contribute to GDP, but make our lives richer.
Our inspiration was a recent trip to Charlottesville, VA during Fridays after Five.
On the downtown pedestrian mall we were awash in the flow of people meandering to one end of the mall to join in with the salsa band. It was a brutal winter for Charlottesville, but on that evening, spring weather made its first appearance and short sleeves and sandals were out with a cathartic vengeance. Street performers and musicians were surrounded by amebic, smiling mobs. A grassroots symphony of laughter and the clatter of glass and silverware from al fresco dining floated by on the breeze. A complete spectrum of the local community- from stroller to cane- could be taken in with a single scan.
Here was a vibrant community. If asked to pick the happiest community out of a line-up, a five-year old could surely spot this one.
It was the same day that the first quarter U.S. GDP figures for 2010 were announced. The figures were higher than expected and the stock exchange tickers plotted a new, skyward course in celebration. (It turns out that this new course lasted only one week, until a glitch in the circuitry of one of the exchanges and a downward adjustment of the first quarter jobs growth figure conspired to bend the arrow back earthward, yet again).
The contrast was inescapable to us. So we started asking questions:
How would you tell a five-year old what a thriving community looks like? Well-Being? Social capital? How to make it, build it, nurture it? How could these things, which we value so much but aren't accustomed to counting, be so elegantly and simply conveyed as a GDP report; a single number that goes up or down? While the loudest voices during this down economy tell us the best thing we can do for the economy is to "shop!" and "spend!" what is the equivalent advice is for improving our communities' well-being?
And more importantly, who could tell me how Charlottesville got to this place, at this moment in time? Who else is working to recreate this scene where I live now, in D.C., as the Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest plans to do July 24?
The race among competing alternative measures to GDP is on, but until there is consensus, we thought that we could start with something much simpler, and possibly more meaningful: a blog project centered around community-led photography of the non-monetary economy.
There are some bigger wonky reasons for wanting to do this, but that's just the back-drop. Some countries, such as Bhutan and France are moving away from GDP and towards Well Being as primary indicators for national vitality and prosperity. Time Magazine recently discussed whether the U.S. might be thinking about the same thing (something Bobby Kennedy was talking about 40 years ago).
If the world does move away from GDP and towards well-being indicators, we are curious what that will mean for individuals, communities, and businesses, and for how they will measure their success in that new paradigm.
We are looking for partners interested in working with us or being interviewed by us to help us explore this topic, including three main focus areas:
1) Community Social Asset Mapping – conducting simple surveys to help us identify our community's "social assets;" those things (people, entrepreneurs, clubs, businesses, even websites) which contribute to a stronger community by building new relationships, strengthening new ones, increasing the amount of time people share and give to others in their area, etc. We will back these surveys up with interviews to go on the blog.
2) Community Photography – photography of the everyday things people do that have value and don't cost a dollar. We are looking, in particular, to get local students involved.
3) Entrepreneur and Business/Nonprofit Profiles – photography of what a positive social impact looks like, on a personal and moment-by-moment level, for B Corps, Ashoka Fellows, or other groups that have built a positive social impact into their missions. If there is demand, we might even roll up our sleeves and help businesses or nonprofits complete social impact assessments, using existing tools such as the Bhutanese Gross National Happiness project screening tool or the B Corps impact assessment tool as a guide.
Do you have ideas, want to help, or want to suggest friends of yours we should meet? Thanks!
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This here's the tale of a fella who calls himself "Mork Encino". Mork, he has faith in his skills as they apply to both eludin' and survivin'. He launched a website about it on June 20. It's called "Hunt Me 4 Sport".
As of last night, there were 21 pictures of him sporting overalls in various poses. Hiding behind a trees or brush. Showing off his new red "ear wear". Sitting in a "strategic fetal position".
Then, there's the offer:
I seek hearty gents who fancy themselves sportsmen and bored of the usual game. I am a new breed of prey with thick pelt and smooth hide. I'm faster than a wild turkey, smart as any GODDAMN wild boar and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the monetary health of my family.
If I am trapped and killed you stand to earn the RESPECT of your fellow hunters, a PRIZE HUMAN MOUNT for your wall and ALL INCOME from any organ harvest. For this I ask the reasonable sum of $US10,000 US DOLLARS per hunter/per round.
I will be armed only with my wits and the clothes on my back (naked is + $US2,000 US/per hunter/per round). A round is a days (24 hrs) hunt. I will not attempt self-defense. I will only seek to evade capture. In the event of my demise ALL payment will default to my family.
Yes, if Mork is to be believed, he has offered himself up as hunting prey for a mere $US10,000 (fine, $US12,000, because anybody in their right mind would throw an extra $US2000 up for naked game). Yet, between the goofy-looking pictures and the absurdity of not placing a larger price on one's own head, Mork is not to be easily believed. I asked him to make his case last week.
The interaction was solely over email since a phoner would be a location giveaway and "I don't want some crazy asshole showing up and blowing me away for free or bothering my parents or bringing over a Bible or anything like that. Someone told my mum about all this and now she is scared straight shitless so I gotta be careful."
He's 28. Puts his location as "East Coast USA" (the brush looks somewhat Carolinian). Says he's doing it because he needs cash badly. "I live with my parents but they are always threatening to toss me out on my arse especially after a bender or any gambling so I am SINCERELY trying to cut way down on all that," he writes, noting that a) he doesn't want to take his mum up on her join-the-army/enroll-in-massage-school suggestion and b) he doesn't "have a wife or anything" and realises/blames that on the fact that "Woman like money!"
I have never been any good with money but that's ok cause I never had any. I did some landscaping and I worked fast food and got lit in the walk in freezer and all that. I did some farm work. I cleaned out storage units. For a while I was on a demo crew but then everyone stopped work on their houses. So I've basically been a full time loser for over a year now.
Mork says he's gotten 10 or so responses; one guy wanted to write up a contract to "keep it all legal... another made a joke about my appearance... but no one has come out and said, 'Let's do this' or 'How can I help you young man?'" This included the respondent who wrote, "I have a 50 cal, ak 47 and about 12 pounds of dynamite." To ensure potential hunters don't get discouraged by what would appear to be his home-range advantage, he also included photos of amenities: "Location is secure & ATV friendly. Smokehouse and grill ON SITE."
So, this is legitimately life-or-death and not just some paintball shit, right?
I'm pretty sure no one would pay anything CLOSE to 10K to chase me around with anything less. That's a steep goddamn price for that type of soft action. I wouldn't expect any offers for that bullshit.
Would I rather be hunted with paintballs or rubber bullets or something like that? SURE. Laser tag all the way. But I doubt we'd be talking if that's what I put out there.
I don't have any control over who answers. It could be some Green Beret motherfucker with a necklace made out of ears or it could be some fat idiot. Bet your arse I'd rather face off against the fat idiot. Seems like there are alot of fat idiots out there that do ok these days bless their hearts.
If you were loaded, would you pay $US10,000 to hunt some broke dude?
No I would not, but that's not a position I expect I'll ever see. I'm not one of these poor assholes who admires rich dickheads and thinks everything is going to work out all dandy in the end. This country is run by criminals. Good for them. But you gotta give people what they want and if they pay up you have to deliver the goods. If somebody wants to give me money to do something else, by all means buddy I would love to hear from you but so far that just has not been the case.
That's noble and insightful, but is Mork's website offer even legal? I asked an attorney and lawman who was once Chief of the (NYP)Department and commissioner in both Philadelphia and Miami. They both raised questions.
Said Philadelphia attorney Conor Corcoran:
Sounds like a ham-fisted version of Kevorkian assisted suicide. Speaking of which, I have no idea what the status of assisted suicide is in Pennsylvania [ed: explicitly criminalized] . Solicitation to commit murder is a no-no, for sure, but consent is a valid defence in criminal prosecutions, so it might be kosher. But I'd just as soon advise someone to stay the hell away from the whole thing. The whole thing looks like an Andy Kaufman hoax to me.
If John Timoney came across a case like this ...
I would have the guy tested for mental reasons; should he be committed, etc. There would be an outside chance of a charge of 'conspiracy to commit murder' but you would need an 'overt act.' I guess if someone come up with the 10 grand that could be considered an 'overt act.'
Which brings it back around to an interesting question for Mork: Why should we believe this isn't some standard, albeit entertaining, hoax?
Hand over 10 grand and see what goes down. The website works. The email works. Look if someone made good with the cash and bagged me then you have your proof that this thing was legit. But I'd bet that guy probably wouldn't be running his mouth all over town about it and I won't be around to update the site. I'm not saying that's what I want to happen.
If all of this fizzles away because of potential illegality/lack of willing hunters/it being a hoax, Mork does have a golden-parachute option. Asked what the high point of his life would be in, say, a eulogy, he responded, "That one time I went to Lake Powell. That was a fucking BLAST. A houseboat on Lake Powell would be the goddamn TITS. If anyone needs a Lake Powell houseboat sitter, email [email protected]!"
HUNT ME FOR SPORT [Mork Encino]


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Pearl · Drums and Percussion(463 items found)
PearlToward the end of the 40´s jazz was gaining popularity in Japan and musical education was increasing strongly in schools. Even though there was a large demand for instruments, especially for percussion, it was nearly imposable to get anything.
That is when Katsumi Yanagisawa, who had been producing music stands since 1946, decided to start building bass and snare drums. He called the company "Pearl Industry, Ltd. ".
In 1953 the company was extended and started producing drum sets, marching drums, latin percussion, cymbals, stands and accessories under the name "Pearl Musical Instrument Company". Tsumis oldest son Mitsuo saw the oversees potential of the brand and so started a export department, exporting Pearl products through agents and trading companies.
In 1961 Pearl built a 4.500m² production plant in Chiba (Japan) to meet the huge demand that had aroused due to the popularity of Rock´n´Roll. The produced drum sets were inexpensive and were branded : Maxwin, CB-700, Crest, Revelle, Revere, Lyra, Majestic, Whitehall, Apollo, Toreador, Roxy, Coronet, and more. All in all Pearl was producing instruments for over 30 different brands.
In 1965 Mitsuo developed a long term strategy to place Pearl at the top of the percussion industry. This strategy consisted of the following points:
1. Developing new products that are equal or better in quality to the competition..
2. Installation of a automated machines in the plant in Chiba, to increase production.
3. Founding of a subsidiary in Taiwan
4. Set up of a worldwide sales and service network.
1966 Pearl introduced its first professional drum set to the market, called " Pearl President Series"
1968 Pearl entered the flute market with gold and silver instruments. Different ranges cover everyone from the school beginner to the professional.
1972 the first fibreglass and wood fibreglass drums were presented. A year later the Pearl Musical Instrument Company of Taiwan was opened. The first products made were the Pearl W-5. The Chiba production facility supplied goods like drum sets, marching drums, timpani and symphonic chimes for the Japanese markets. Peal introduced the "Transparents", seamless drums from Acrylic-plastics
1977 the Pearl Vary system was launched. One year later the Vary-Pitch Cannons designed by Randy May were introduced. A further year later Pearls Syncussion E-Drum-System hits the markets.
No matter if rock, metal, pop, jazz, country or R´n´B: Pearl drums feel at home everywhere, so its not surprising that the endorser list its very wide-ranging: Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Joey Jordison (Slipknot), Virgil Donati, Dennis Chambers (Santana i.e.), Omar Hakim, Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Daniel Adair (3 Doors Down / Nickelback), Eric Singer (KISS / Alice Cooper), Tico Torres (Bon Jovi), Steve Ferrone, Marvin "Smitty" Smith and many more.
Today Pearl is the worlds largest drum manufacturer with over 600 employees. Constant
Progression is a key factor to Pearls success. The top level quality, especially of the drum sets, has convinced many top drummers worldwide.
Pearls product range reaches from the fully featured beginners drum set to the custom, handmade Masterworks sets. The Taiwanese production plant now consists of 5 factories that have the capacity to serve the global demand of Pearl products.


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Accession no: LL 9323
Object type: Snuff Bottle
Name: Snuff bottle
Materials: Onyx; Glass (Stopper)
Place made: China
Date made: Mid-Qing Dynasty (C.1736-1850 AD)
Measurements: H. 6.8 cm
Description: Snuff bottle in flask-shaped; onyx with mocha markings, two of them in the form of ducks; flat top glass stopper.
Provenance C. S. Holberton collection; his sale, Christie's, 26 June 1918, lot 168, purchased by Frank Partridge for Lever; £18.9s.6d. (for the whole lot; twelve bottles); by whom gifted to the Lady Lever Art Gallery, 1922.
Literature R. L. Hobson, Chinese Porcelain and Wedgwood Pottery with Other Works of Ceramic Art, London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1928, No. 704.
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