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Moar Highlander team!
Can you be a member of too many Highlander teams? Berath's Brain Burps thinks no you cannot and to prove the point is now a member of a fourth Highlander team (or fifth if you count the mercing for Cats Don't Eat Haggis). This team is perhaps the largest Highlander team in the world and goes under the rather puzzling name of Swarthy Spanish Sean Connery As far as I understand it, I'm back-up back-up engineer so I'm not expecting the demands made upon me to be great.
The first match has already been played (on Lakeside) and won. I was out at the time. The next map is cp_croissant.
All this is happening in the UGC League. The UGC (United Gaming Clans) League is another TF2 League like ETF2L. It has a Highlander League and a 6v6 League and separate divisions for NA teams, EU teams, South American teams, Asian teams and Aus/NZ teams. Swarthy Spanish Sean Connery (team tag mish) is sitting in the lowest EU division, Euro Steel, which makes sense as many of the members are first-time Highlander players.
In other TF2 news, FNR! has started the new ETF2L Season 14 with a loss. FNR! has been seeded in Division 4B; that's getting to the position where the majority of your opponents know exactly what they're doing and have practiced. And I'm afraid it's the not practicing that let FNR! down. For various reasons, the team had had little opportunity to play any scrims or pcws the previous week or so and it showed. The team didn't seem to gel, particularly on Gullywash, a map that previously hadn't been a problem (the first map was Badlands), and their opponents consistently got the better of them, mainly the scouts. Practice has taken place for the next game, so hopefully the team will be back on track. Individually skillwise, they're already there. So anyway, it's all eyes on tomorrow's match.
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Here's the scoop on Colossal Gelato.
The stand at the L.A. County Fair not only sells Italian ice cream, it gives away half its profits to agencies that help children worldwide.
In 2012, that meant $9,000 from the sales of cones, sundaes and shakes in Pomona went toward Feed My Starving Children, which provides meals at 22 cents each for children in the last stages of starvation. Many that year were in Haiti, still suffering after a 2010 earthquake.
Colossal Gelato is one arm of an unusual business venture by Matt Holguin, a 32-year-old Azusa Pacific University alumnus, that is as much about saving the world as it is about satisfying sweet tooths.
The whole operation is called Working to Give, and — wait, let's slow down. No need to give you the factual version of an ice cream headache.
I was introduced to Holguin on a recent blistering afternoon at the Fair by reader Beth Brooks, who met him last year and was impressed. The stand is along Broadway in front of the Grandstand.
When I stepped into the stand, Holguin was out, but his brother was taking care of business, making waffle cones from scratch. His name is Cheston Holguin.
(I didn't ask where his parents came up with Cheston. I prefer to think it was a tribute to Charlton Heston.)
Working to Give, based in Atascadero, has two gelato stands that set up at various California fairs, and three stands at Downtown Disney that sell churros, cinnamon rolls and gelato.
"Fifty percent of profits go back to the company, to grow the company, and the other half we give away," Cheston explained.
This year the company is assisting an orphanage in South Africa named Acres of Love, which attempts to give orphans as normal a life as possible, so that they're indistinguishable from children with parents.
Because Working to Give operates businesses, it doesn't send out fundraising appeals (and waste donor money on doing so).
"It's a new way. It's a different way. The other way, sending out support letters, isn't necessarily wrong. We're using the businessman's approach," Cheston said.
Matt soon entered, fresh from a meeting with Downtown Disney officials about expanding that he said went well.
His brand of philanthropy is, he said, "easy for people to get behind." They might not even know they're getting behind it. They might just want gelato. Prices start at $4 for a scoop of such flavors as cookies and cream, Sicilian pistachio and, the top seller, peach Champagne.
Matt is a traveler, often for missionary work, who estimates he's been to 70 countries. (I've lost count myself, but I've visited either three or four, depending on if I include the United States.)
In 2006 he visited Italy to learn how to make gelato, which he describes as having 70 percent less fat than ice cream and a more intense taste. He persuaded an English-speaking gelato maker to teach him and got contacts for suppliers, returning to America with everything he needed to open a gelateria except dough.
He spent two years in a frustrating quest for a bank loan to open a shop in Paso Robles. Twenty-two banks turned him down. Maybe bankers don't eat gelato. Still, this may have been a blessing, in his eyes, because he fears he would have lost everything in the recession.
Instead of a storefront, Matt opted in 2008 for mobile sales, first with a trailer at fairs and festivals, then a second trailer, and in 2011 with his first stand at Downtown Disney.
His travels, especially in Africa, also convinced him that the world has so much poverty, he ought to do something to help.
"You see all these things and it does something to you," Matt said.
The Christian, who got his master's in business administration from Azusa in 2005, says he's trying to heed the admonition of Mark 12:30.
"It's the greatest commandment. Jesus says, love God and love your neighbor as much as you love yourself," Matt said. "Where does 50/50 come from? It's from that verse."
It's profits he's giving away, not revenue. As he explained it, 75 cents of every dollar from the L.A. County Fair goes to rent, ingredients, salaries and taxes. That leaves 25 cents of that dollar as profit. Twelve and a half cents goes back into the company and 12 1/2 to charity. And as I said above, last year, its second year at the Fair, that resulted in $9,000 going to charity.
An extra boost has come from donors, whom the Holguins call "give investors," who have provided financial backing. People get inspired after hearing their mission and tell their friends. The investors also make up the difference between whatever Working to Give has pledged to donate and what it can afford.
Working to Give met its 50 percent goal starting in year four. Last year, Matt said, the company gave away 60 percent of its profit.
"This year alone we'll be able to give away $75,000," Matt said. He's pledged $100,000, though, to Acres of Love, which is where donors may come in.
And they probably will, as will customers. The Holguins are upbeat, idealistic and earnest. They could sell gelato to the Eskimos.
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Every now and then you reach a sort of fissure or fracture in time. It's like a scenic overlook as imagined by Einstein or Kepler, from which you can actually witness two possible futures: Off the left side, you see a world of orderly streets and squares, where fans crowd theaters showing the new blockbuster by Jessica Simpson, who looks down from a marquee, slender and blonde and shaped like a barbell, booming on top and in the middle, skinny as a pencil between, and radios blast an endless stream of Jessica Simpson hits, her voice syrupy and love-filled. Off the right, a different world entirely, a place fallen into chaos and ruin, where a tremendous pop energy has leaked away and our beloved galaxy of reliable stars has been replaced by shabby novelties, and Jessica Simpson, living in a house amid a strip of identical houses in the fifth settlement ring beyond Dallas, with her third husband, a kicker in the Arena Football League, has been utterly forgotten.
Simpson, 28, who flashed like a jet through the pop-star sky, with her first Top 10 hit coming at age 19 ("I Wanna Love You Forever"), followed by other hit records, the MTV reality show that made her a household name (Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica), and several films, is currently surrounded by handlers—publicist, father and mother, pop-star sister (Ashlee), quarterback boyfriend (Tony Romo, of the Dallas Cowboys)—who together, like a high-altitude rescue team, try to get her down the sunny side of the slope.
"I think she absolutely needs to re-invent herself," said Tommy Mottola, who, as the head of Sony Music, signed Simpson to her first major-label record deal in 1997.
There have been danger signs. First, the sudden weight gain, as evidenced by pictures that turned up in the tabloids earlier this year showing the starlet, onstage, looking less than slender, holding the microphone like a turkey leg, and wearing what were described everywhere as "mom jeans."
But as surprising as her appearance—how she seemed to be turning, before our eyes, into just another performer on the never-ending Opry circuit (she was, in fact, promoting her first country album, Do You Know, the genre being a tempting refuge for struggling Top 40 stars)—was the venue: a strawberry festival in Plant City, Florida. Plant City Florida for God's sake! Even if the pounds were shed quickly, even if, as Simpson's camp insists, they were never there in the first place, the dissemination of the photos was a blow for Simpson, who, like all starlets, has been careful to be pictured in just one way: as the skinny, forever-24-year-old sex bomb. What's more, in April she was spoofed in an Eminem video as a gone-to-seed pop tart spilling out of her Daisy Dukes, hiking a cheeseburger to Tony Romo, played by Eminem.
All this came amid a cascade of career setbacks. Her record sales, for example, which peaked in 2003, when her show was in its prime, have fallen ever since. (The country album sold fewer than 200,000 copies.) Her movies: Blonde Ambition, a bastard child of Working Girl and Legally Blonde, which opened in December 2007 in just eight theaters in Texas, where it grossed $1,771 on its opening weekend; followed by Major Movie Star, which went straight to DVD last spring, where it sank without a trace, like a wounded ocean liner that goes down quietly, sending up no more than a storm of bubbles.
In short, it's been a bad time for Jessica Simpson: flop, flop, country flop, fat picture. And yet, despite it all, she does radiate a special quality. She brings an unmistakable energy to everything she does, can carry a song, and can even make a commercial worth TiVo-ing. (She's done excellent work for Pizza Hut.) She can hold your attention, in other words, make your eyes follow her, which is a classic definition of stardom.
But Jessica Simpson—who just a few years ago was No. 44 on *Forbes'*s list of the hundred most powerful celebrities; who has had seven singles hit Top 10 and has gone platinum three times; whose first movie, The Dukes of Hazzard, a tour de force of lowbrow, car-chase shenanigans, opened at No. 1—has reached one of those critical junctures, beyond which every possibility, both glorious and obscure, is open.
We met in the Polo Lounge, the restaurant off the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel, in Los Angeles. She was wearing a dark, fedora-like hat pulled low. She told me it's part of her fashion line, which is on racks in Macy's, Nordstrom, and Dillard's, and which, she said, is the most lucrative part of her career. "The Jessica Simpson Collection is a $400 million business," she said. "My mom and I are creative directors. We have hundreds of people working, but nothing gets by us. It's adorable and it's affordable. What's amazing right now, during this recession, is that, somehow, the business keeps growing."
Jessica seemed nervous. Her hands trembled. She ordered a glass of Pinot Grigio. It seemed to calm her. She didn't want to talk about her weight, so, of course, that's all I could think of—it gilded each question in my mind: What are you working on now [that you're fat]? Do you see yourself as part of a class, with Christina and Britney [or are you too fat]? Do you feel that your relationship with Tony Romo has affected his performance as a quarterback [because you are fat]?
But there was really no reason to ask about her weight. Her extra pounds had gone back to wherever they came from, existing only in a few dated pictures on the Internet. Jessica was skinny again, in dark pants, velvety coat, and high heels. Now and then a wispy strand of blond hair, as if making a break for it, swung across her face, only to be caught and tucked back. She talked about the tour that had just ended, on which she opened for the country band Rascal Flatts.
During that tour, on more than one occasion, Jessica forgot the words to her songs, gaffes that turned up immediately on YouTube, where they were taken as part of a pattern. (These snafus echoed an earlier incident in which Simpson, during a tribute to Dolly Parton at the Kennedy Center, with President Bush and other heavies in attendance, forgot the words to "9 to 5.") "When it comes to media criticism, that's just something I have had to train myself—literally train myself—to ignore," she said. "Because I'm the one up there onstage, and I can feel the energy of the crowd. And I know when I did good. And I know when I did great. And there wasn't one time on this tour when I felt like I butchered it. I mean, the way people make it sound, I should have never been singing in the first place."
She finished her wine, ordered another. She spoke in a laid-back, twangy way about Tony Romo, her parents, her career. When I asked about her ex-husband and reality-show co-star, Nick Lachey, she said, "I have not spoken to him in years." When I asked if Tony Romo had watched Newlyweds, she said, "A couple episodes. He thought I was cute."
I didn't want to ask about her weight directly, so I hinted at it, asking instead about body image in general, physical changes, perception—from my questions, you might have thought I was interviewing the Wolf Man. "It comes with what I do," she said, "and I know that every day the media's going to challenge me, is going to want to bring me down. But I feel like I'm at such a place that I own myself, and it's authentic. I own that authentic part of myself, and none of those words are harsh enough to make me believe them."
She then said, "I can't imagine saying some of the things people have said about me about anybody else."
In the end, sitting with Jessica Simpson, you felt that here was a talented, decent, beautiful person who had reached a dead end in the trail she had been following since she was a girl in Texas, too young, really, to decide much of anything. To understand her current condition you must therefore understand the trail, the path she has followed—her story, her biography—for everything she has done and been led to this moment.
Simpson's father (Joe) and mother (Tina) married young—20, 18. He was a Baptist minister, one of those regular Elmer Gantry types. Some of Jessica's first memories are of sitting in the pews, listening to Joe Simpson preach. "He was amazing," she told me. "If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers." Jessica was born in 1980 in Abilene, Texas. Her sister was born four years later. By the time Jessica was 10, the family had moved at least a half-dozen times, the minister forever in search of a ministry. It's a righteous calling, but a hard life.
Jessica began singing on the altar, sunlight beaming through high windows, her first songs dedicated to the only Father that matters. Joe Simpson used to bring unwed mothers home to live, to counsel and feed, but also as a kind of visual warning to his daughters: Here is what comes from yielding to temptation! When Jessica was 12, Joe gave her a purity ring, on which she pledged to keep her virginity until its taking could be ordained by God (and aired on MTV).
How did Jessica decide that she wanted to be something more than a church singer, that she wanted to share her gift with the world?
By holy epiphany.
One weekend when she was 11 years old, on a church retreat, the pastor spoke of special callings, of being alert enough to hear, courageous enough to answer. After that, as the congregants were singing "Amazing Grace," Jessica recognized the beauty of her own voice, as if for the first time, and the pastor seemed to hear it too, saying, There's somebody in this room who's going to use their voice to affect the world. Whoever you are, come to the front. After pushing through her fellow believers, Jessica stood beside the preacher, smiling because she knew.
Soon after, she went with her school dance class to open auditions being held in Dallas for the new Mickey Mouse Club, a nationwide, once-in-a-lifetime, get-famous-just-like-that search that began with 50,000 entrants. She sang "Amazing Grace" without accompaniment and danced to "Ice Ice Baby," which should tell you something about the era and about Simpson. It was 1992. She made the cut, made the next cut and the cut after that, progressing as you progress from level to level in a video game, until she found herself in a studio in Orlando, Florida, with a dozen other finalists, what remained when the grade schools of America had been sifted and panned for gold. If you wanted to change the course of history, you could send Schwarzenegger back to 1992 to destroy that studio, as on its stages were the next 20 years of tabloid culture: Timberlake, Spears, Aguilera, and Simpson in shrunken, Muppet-baby form.
Here's the thing: Jessica did not make the final cut. She was a shoo-in, that's what she was told, but, as she sat in the greenroom preparing for the last audition, she made the fatal mistake of watching Christina Aguilera on a closed-circuit television. The tremendous competence of Aguilera—"She sounded like Mariah Carey"—turned Simpson's blood to ice. When Jessica's name was called, she went out as if to her own funeral. She was supposed to sing an Amy Grant song—remember Amy Grant?—but when the music started and the lights went on, she froze. "I ended up drawing a blank, and obviously you can't do that on TV," she told me. "But I was coming from the church choir with a Polaroid. I didn't come with headshots. I didn't do Off Broadway. I wasn't on Star Search. I wasn't doing all the things these other kids were doing. I was a preacher's daughter with a Polaroid.
"When I got the letter that said I didn't make it, I just remember that I was giving up and I thought that I was going to die."
Within a few weeks, Jessica got a second chance—it came as a mysterious stranger right out of Mark Twain. A guest speaker appeared in church, sat transfixed as Jessica did a solo, lingered after. I'm starting a gospel label, he told Joe. I have to hear her again. "I went in and sang Whitney Houston's [version of] 'I Will Always Love You,'" Jessica said. "I got that record deal right then and there."
But it was the trip to Orlando that was the turning point: "I always knew she was a singer," Joe told me. "But there's a difference between thinking your kid's got a great voice and having it verified. The Mickey Mouse Club audition is what knocked it into us, because they listened to thousands and she was one of the final six. That was the moment we finally realized: This girl can really sing."
I have never met Joe but have spoken to him on the phone, studied pictures of him, and parsed his sayings as you might parse the sayings of Dear Leader. He's the spiky-haired Texan who seems responsible, in one way or another, for everything Jessica has done. Her records, movies, marriage, boyfriend—his signature is on all of them. He is a fascinating man, a minister who quit the church for showbiz, or, to be precise, quit one kind of showbiz for another.
The big difference is meaning: the story of Jesus means everything; the story of Jessica means nothing. Its meaninglessness is its point and its pleasure. In the case of Jesus, every day and every meal is saturated with significance, whereas the days and meals of Jessica, which have been chronicled with precision, have no meaning whatsoever. All to say, Joe Simpson—a uniquely American figure, who has made a place for himself beside the great Colonel Tom Parker, another manager of exclusive clientele; whose words and actions have long been criticized by music executives, journalists, and aficionados of showbiz weirdness, especially for the way in which he seems a bit too aware of his daughter's sexuality (notorious is a quote he gave to GQ in 2004, when, speaking of Jessica, he said, "She's got double Ds! You can't cover those suckers up")—has stayed true to his first calling: the minting and selling of images.
When I asked Jessica about her father's role in her career, she said, "I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13. So, at this point, we're in a good rhythm. A lot of people find it strange, but it's the only way I know. And I don't care to know another way, because it suits me. And we've done a pretty dang good job."
When I asked Ashlee Simpson, who, for most of our conversation, said the types of things pre-loaded in the memory chip of a Chatty Cathy—"Jessica is a fighter"; "Jessica is a wonderful girl"; "We're the best in our pajamas together"—the same question, she came to life. "My dad gets such a bad rap," she said, "and it's all bullshit."
As Jessica's gospel record was being produced, she toured on the Christian-rock circuit. This interlude is interesting mostly for why and how it ended, which, according to Joe Simpson, was because of those determining factors—her breasts—that made her too sexy for the circuit, causing the male parishioners to lust, distracting them from the divine. It's part of the story the family (including Jessica) tells about Jessica. Too sexy for church, thus forced from the world of Hallelujah to the world of Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
A few years later, before Jessica's gospel record was released, the label went bust. Jessica's grandmother fronted cash to make a test pressing, which, sent here and there, brought Jessica to the attention of a New York entertainment lawyer, who, with a few calls, was able to schedule nine auditions over two days. It was in this way that, one afternoon in July 1997, Jessica found herself sitting with Tommy Mottola, who, more than just being the president of Sony Music, was Mariah Carey's husband. "I knew he married Mariah and had probably listened to her sing in the shower," Jessica said. "That was very nerve-racking, because Mariah was a voice I always did look up to and I would always try and emulate."
"She had a great little look and a great attitude, a fresh new face, and something a bit different than Britney and all of them," Mottola told me. "She could actually sing."
Mottola signed her because she was beautiful and talented, yes, but it was more than that. Mottola was looking for his own Britney, or Christina, to ensnare the fans filling the lower and middle schools. In this way, Jessica, in a sense, found herself back in Orlando, where Christina was singing on the closed circuit. "It's funny to look at my journals and see all the fears I had to face," she said. "[Those girls] all remembered me. I didn't feel competitive. I was more intimidated."
Jessica's first record, Sweet Kisses, which came out in 1999, followed hit albums by Spears and Aguilera, which meant, from a press point of view, Simpson was a tag-on, another version of the same thing. You have McDonald's, you have Burger King, then you have Hardee's. "My album was different [from the others]," she said. "I released a ballad first. I wasn't dancing and doing that whole thing. I wanted to set myself apart. But I was always third runner-up." Her record sold two million copies in the U.S., and the single "I Wanna Love You Forever" went Top 10.
Jessica's second album, Irresistible, was released in June of 2001. Following 9/11, Sony refused to promote a third single, which Joe Simpson believed critical for his daughter's prospects—she needed a hit. Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2004, he said, "When those planes crashed into those buildings, it nearly demolished our career." I quote this not only because it's nuts, but because of the chilling use of the first-person plural: "our career."
Jessica Simpson met Nick Lachey at a Christmas parade in 1998. She was 18; he was 24. They met again a month later at a party thrown by Teen People. Jessica's debut was yet to be released. Lachey was the front man of the boy band 98 Degrees. He had already made records, had hits, experienced the life Jessica was on the cusp of. They fell in love. I guess. (I don't believe anything I see on TV.) After the party, Lachey told his mother, "I've met the woman I'm going to marry." If he were smarter, he might have said, "I've met the woman I'm going to marry, star in a TV show with, grow estranged from, and never talk to again."
Jessica was still wearing the purity ring, so Nick, presumably, was a frustrated man. They broke up and would have stayed so if not for … "After 9/11, I knew that I never, ever wanted to be away from Nick for the rest of my life," Simpson told a reporter. They hugged through the aftermath like survivors in a disaster movie and were married in October 2002. In the wedding video (the ceremony was photographed and filmed by InStyle), Joe Simpson looks pained. This was not the plan. First, there was the matter of control. As it says in the Bible in re marriage and parents: leave and cleave. Then there was Jessica as a pop commodity, with no small value as an object of sexual fantasy, a value, as any manager of talent can tell you, that diminishes if said commodity is married. This is not how Joe Simpson phrased it. He spoke instead of his own early marriage and of not wanting his daughter to make the same mistake, but I think he scowls in the pictures—in part, anyway—for the same reason Brian Epstein told the Beatles to date around and be free.
According to Jessica, Texas girls are hardwired for marriage. "It was what we all wanted," she said. "Go to college, get married, and have babies. It was my way of thinking. At 16, every boyfriend I had I was going to marry."
Joe Simpson must have known there was no wisdom in standing in the way of young love, so he seemingly fell on a solution that, while leaving him blameless, both kept him close and got his daughter's career on track. I'm not sure when Newlyweds was green-lighted, but the cameras came into Nick and Jessica's house in Calabasas, California, six months after the wedding. The show was pitched by Joe Simpson. He was a producer and had final cut. A hit when it premiered in 2003, Newlyweds finally distinguished Jessica from Britney and Christina. Said to document a couple learning to live as newlyweds, it remains a fascinating, multi-layered document.
First, there is the text: the show itself is a postmodern parody of I Love Lucy with each episode organized around a classic comedic situation—a pampered girl goes camping, for example. To make it work, Jessica was cast in a simple role, stereotypical 50s-sitcom ditz, which she is not. If you sit with her and talk, you see that she is smart, reads, thinks, cares, wants to know, but viewers came away with just a few images, the way, if you think of Lucy Ricardo, you come away with just a few images: Lucy in the candy factory, say, overwhelmed by the speed of the conveyor belt.
Then there is the subtext, which is Joe Simpson sending a camera crew into the house where his chaste daughter is losing her chastity. "They were there all the time," Jessica said. "But they could never go upstairs. That was our space."
It's the same when you visit Graceland, I told her.
Though Newlyweds linked Jessica and Nick Lachey forever in the minds of a certain demographic, it seemed to deflate the marriage. (Isn't Joe Simpson a genius?) Whereas the show ran for three seasons, the marriage ran for just over three years. It's unclear if it ended in divorce or was simply canceled.
"In all honesty, I believe it did not affect our marriage," Simpson said. "Because we enjoyed watching those episodes, and that will always be a time I cherish. It made me understand what marriage is, what love is, what commitment is."
Interestingly, Newlyweds, while allowing her to break out—her third record, In This Skin, its release timed to the premiere of the show, was her biggest hit—may also be responsible for her current impasse.
"Those things are dangerous," Mottola told me. "That kind of exposure—it's very revealing—is not necessarily the kind of thing audiences, though they want to see it in the beginning, want for their singer in the end. It's a shot of adrenaline, but you can come down just as quickly."
Following her divorce, the tabloids connected Simpson with just about every male artist who crossed her path: John Mayer, Dane Cook (her co-star in 2006's Employee of the Month), Johnny Knoxville (the Luke to her Daisy in The Dukes of Hazzard). And even if the tabloids were factually wrong, they were getting at a poetic truth. Jessica did seem to be searching, looking for a new role or identity. Her fifth album, A Public Affair, was released after her marriage dissolved. This is when the trouble with remembering lyrics began (most famously during a live broadcast of Good Morning America last year), coinciding with a decline in her record sales. It was while filming The Dukes of Hazzard that she first considered country music—it came at the suggestion of co-star Willie Nelson.
"It's not necessarily a bad move," Mottola explained. "She's a country girl—it's close to her heart. But if she tries to go back to pop, that might be too much ping-ponging. When you confuse your audience, you're done."
ne problem with Simpson's movies, especially those she's been asked to carry, is her acting, which is not very good. As an actress, she's slightly less skillful than the actress who replaced Suzanne Somers on Three's Company. To many, her greatest performance has always been playing Jessica Simpson—on records, on TV, and now, in the role that gets the most attention, as, depending on whom you ask, either the glamorous star dating the quarterback of America's team or the succubus who has destroyed the Dallas Cowboys: Yoko Romo.
The couple met through Joe Simpson. "My dad is a super Cowboys fan," Jessica said.
O.K., to get this part, you have to know about Romo and the Cowboys. The Cowboys are a religion in Texas. The quarterback of the Cowboys is the Pope. By dating the Pope, Jessica has put herself in a uniquely high-profile position. Romo is big, easy, handsome. He began seeing Jessica in November of 2007. Then they were everywhere: Dallas, L.A., Wisconsin, where Romo is from. "She has a very small-town side to her," Romo told me. "We're very similar in that we both appreciate the hometown feel to a lot of things, and live our life like that."
So Romo and Simpson are just a normal couple, like you and your girl, only faster (in his case) and better-looking (in hers), tossing the pigskin around the Cowboys practice facility, going to the movies, etc.
At games, Jessica sits in a skybox, hands over her eyes, a girl at a monster movie, too scared to watch. "She comes to a ton of games," Romo said. "She's a supportive girlfriend." Her country album includes the song "You're My Sunday," which is about … well, you know. "I was always a fan," she told me. "In Texas, it's a sin not to be. But I've never been as passionate as I am now. Before a game, I'm crazed, sending mass e-mails: 'Please pray for Tony's protection.'"
I asked if she hung out with the players' wives during games—they have a special section, like the wives of astronauts—but she said she doesn't. "It's a nurturing place to be, around people who love their husbands," she told me, "but it gives me anxiety to watch with them."
Trouble began a week before the Cowboys were to play the Giants in January 2008. Romo went with Simpson and others to Mexico, was photographed relaxing and taking it easy, then came back and lost a playoff game to New York, who went on to win the Super Bowl. This was the crossing-of-the-Rubicon moment for many Dallas fans, after which Simpson went from being interesting trivia to being a grave threat.
"A lot of people head to Vegas, go back to their hometowns, colleges, and stuff [between games]," Romo explained. "I was just like, 'Let's rent a house and sit around and watch football.' It seemed like a good decision. But when you're in the public eye, things can be perceived differently." Locals now speak of a Jessica Jinx, and her presence at games is noted and figured into the odds made by bookmakers in Vegas. Even George Bush, a Cowboys fan, blamed Simpson, though she had publicly endorsed his presidency. During a post–Super Bowl visit the Giants made to the White House last April, Bush suggested the Republican Party find a way to get Jessica Simpson to the Democratic convention. (Simpson has since taken a political U-turn: "I think it's definitely time for change," she said. "And I am very supportive of our president, and I believe that he's going to do remarkable things.")
"Jessica Simpson has hovered over this city like a dark cloud," Gary Cartwright, a writer at Texas Monthly, told me. "The great quarterbacks are 100 percent dedicated to the game. But Romo seems happy-go-lucky. If they win, he seems happy. If they lose, he seems happy. And all this is tied up with Jessica Simpson."
"You know, it's very hard when you lose," Romo said, "because games are important, and so many people put so much time and effort in. It's nice to have someone to come home to and try and make you feel better."
When I asked Jessica about the controversy—her place in the psyche of certain fans—she said, "That's how the story goes. Can't help it. But we don't let it affect our relationship. If we did, we wouldn't be together, because it happened at the very beginning. Dating the Cowboys quarterback comes with hype, the fans, the bloggers, but I've never dated a guy that was more simple. I'm always there for him after a game, and he knows he has me to come home to."
It's late afternoon. The sun is going down. She talks about her inner life: "I'm spiritual. I live off the faith that has been instilled in me, that has never left. I've never let a stumbling block actually make me fall." She talks about her beliefs: "We all go through trials, but not one thing has ever made me question God. I have a great relationship with God. I can talk to him, get mad at him, frustrated with him. But, ultimately, my faith is what defines me." Whatever she says, she seems to be thinking of her future, the up-for-grabs state of her place in the world: famous, less famous, used to be famous. (Like Robert Johnson, Jessica Simpson stands at the crossroads.) "There will always be another opportunity," she says, "another door to walk through." She stands, tugs down her hat, incognito again. I follow her to the front of the restaurant, where her assistant is waiting. She hands Jessica a leather bracelet from her collection, the kind worn by the kids who played Hacky Sack behind the school. Jessica ties it on my wrist with terrific solemnity, as if I were being knighted. I walk out of there feeling good. Spring will come early this year.
Rich Cohen is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and is the author of Sweet and Low: A Family Story and Tough Jews, among other books.


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(Reuters) - All-Star point guard Chris Paul and the Los Angeles Clippers have agreed to five-year $107 million contract extension, according to a report on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website on Monday.
Paul, who averaged 16.9 points, 9.7 assists and 3.7 rebounds last season leading the Clippers to a club record 56 wins, cannot officially sign the deal until July 10th because of NBA rules.
After the hiring Doc Rivers as the new head coach getting Paul's name on an extension was the top priority for the Clippers.
Taken with the fourth overall selection in the 2005 NBA draft by the New Orleans Hornets, Paul was traded to the Clippers in December 2011 for Al-Farouq Aminu, Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman and a 2012 1st round draft pick (Austin Rivers).
A six-time All-Star, Paul is a double Olympic champion helping the United States to gold medals at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Summer Games.
Over eight NBA seasons Paul has averaged 18.6 points, 9.8 assists and 4.4 rebounds.
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Minnesota Wild fans remember Marian Gaborik and Derek Boogaard. Both players entertained the Minnesota crowd for years before signing as free agents with the New York Rangers. Unfortunately, the Minnesota Wild came out flat and were buried 5-2 by the New York Rangers. The Rangers got 3 second period goals and didn't look back. Matt Cullen and Martin Havlat scored for the Minnesota Wild but it was too little too late. The Minnesota Wild were outshot 17-4 in the 2nd period, something that they need to quickly fix.
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Berkery Noyes Releases Education Industry M&A Report For Full Year 2012
Jan 17, 2013, 07:31 ET
NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkery Noyes, an independent mid-market investment bank, today released its full year 2012 mergers and acquisitions trend report for the Education Industry.
The report analyzes M&A activity in the sector during 2012 and compares it with data covering 2010 and 2011. This market includes information and technology companies servicing the Education Industry, including the K-12, Post-Secondary, Childcare Services, and Corporate and Professional Training segments.
Berkery Noyes' research showed that transaction volume remained nearly constant on a year-to-year basis. However, aggregate transaction value fell 44 percent, from $11.93 billion in 2011 to $6.66 billion in 2012. The median revenue multiple between 2011 and 2012 stayed the same at 1.6x, while the median EBITDA multiple declined from 12.0x to 10.3x.
There was an uptick in private equity activity in the Education Industry over the past twelve months. Financial sponsors accounted for 30 percent of transaction volume and 63 percent of value in 2012, compared to 25 percent of volume and 51 percent of value in 2011. Providence Equity Partners was one of the most active private equity firms in 2012, completing three industry transactions.
The two highest value education deals in 2012 both occurred in the fourth quarter. This consisted of the announced sale of McGraw-Hill Education to Apollo Global Management for $2.62 billion and Pearson's acquisition of Embanet Compass for $650 million. Higher-Ed Media and Tech was the segment with the most notable rise in transaction volume, improving 59 percent since 2011. One of the segment's largest deals over the course of 2012 was John Wiley & Sons' acquisition of Deltak.edu for $220 million, which was announced in the fourth quarter as well.
"As the migration to digital formats and delivery continue, the potential for transformation in the education industry that is succeeding at the post secondary level will continue to be substantial in all the education subsectors," stated Peter Yoon, Managing Director at Berkery Noyes. "In particular, the digital subscription model that is becoming more prevalent across the entire education spectrum, from K12 to professional/corporate training, is especially attractive to acquirers due to the visibility and recurring nature of the revenues."
Meanwhile, the number of transactions in the K-12 Media and Tech segment declined 15 percent in 2012, following a 28 percent rise from 2010 to 2011. Deal volume in the Professional Training Institutions segment experienced a 14 percent yearly increase, edging past both the K-12 and Higher-Ed Media and Tech segments as the industry's most active market sector.
"Acquirers are increasingly interested in e-learning solutions that will both complement and build upon their existing products," said Mary Jo Zandy, Managing Director at Berkery Noyes. "With the implementation of the common core state standards and the related digital infrastructure, the value of e-learning will be enhanced."
A copy of the EDUCATION INDUSTRY M&A REPORT FOR FULL YEAR 2012 is available at the Berkery Noyes website.
Berkery Noyes specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory, debt and equity financing, and financial consulting services for companies in the $10 million to $500 million range, a market that is enjoying a surge in activity. The firm's research teams publish acquisition activity in the respective sectors they follow on MandAsoft.com.
About Berkery Noyes
Berkery Noyes is an independent investment banking advisory firm servicing the information industry. Since its founding by Joseph W. Berkery in 1983, the firm has worked with corporate clients to grow through acquisition, divest non-core assets, and maximize shareholder returns through strategic transactions and restructurings. For private owners, Berkery Noyes helps create liquidity and execute timely exit strategies that achieve their personal and professional objectives. Securities services are offered through Berkery Noyes Securities, LLC. For more information, visit www.berkerynoyes.com.
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Author Will Critique Space Shuttle ProgramSOCORRO, N.M. April 29, 2011 – New Mexico Tech and the Civil Air Patrol are hosting a special presentation on the history of the Space Shuttle – "the most complex machine devised by man."
Author, historian and pilot Ted Spitzmiller will review three decades of shuttle flights, why this spectacular flying machine failed to achieve its primary goal, and what lies ahead for human presence in space. The free public presentation will be at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 5, at Macey Center on the New Mexico Tech campus.
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Dr. Van Romero, Vice President of Research at Tech, said Spitzmiller's talk is an excellent opportunity for the university and the community to learn more about space travel.
"With the Space Shuttle program winding down and commercial space travel ramping up, this is a very germane topic," he said. "I look forward to hearing Ted talk about how things are developing in the commercial space arena."
The presentation will come 50 years to the day after Al Shepherd became the first American astronaut to fly in space, and just over 30 years after the first Shuttle flight. With only two more Shuttle flights scheduled before the end of the program, Spitzmiller said, "The United States will no longer possess the ability to launch humans into space for many years. Support for the $100 billion dollar International Space Station will have to rely on the same Russian space technology that sent their first man into orbit in 1961."
Spitzmiller retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory and is a commercial pilot and flight instructor. He has written about aviation and space history for the past 25 years, and is author of a two-book series entitled Astronautics, a definitive history of mankind's exploration of space, from early Chinese rocketry to today's spacecraft.
"Ted Spitzmiller's presentation will be an exciting way to celebrate 50 years of American space flight," said Civil Air Patrol Major Dave Finley, commander of the CAP's Socorro Composite Squadron. "Ted is an expert on space history, and he presents it with energy and enthusiasm that excites his audience."
Spitzmiller's Astronautics examines the epic events of space history that shaped an era and provides fascinating insight into the wide-ranging impact that space exploration has had on technology, politics, and society.
Spitzmiller is a popular lecturer and aerospace-education officer for the New Mexico Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), who also has written "Enchanted Wings," a history of the CAP in New Mexico. He is co-organizer of an aerospace-education extravaganza scheduled for June 25 at the Balloon Museum in Albuquerque. This extravaganza will feature workshops, exhibits, and presentations, including a talk by Col. Joseph Kittinger, who holds the world's record for a high-altitude parachute jump. In 1960, Kittinger jumped from a helium balloon at 102,800 feet over White Sands. In addition to Kittinger, Mary Feik, a noted pilot and aviation engineer, will speak at that event.


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Wayland dedicates new women's dormitory
Trustees, employees and friends of Wayland Baptist University gathered for a brief ceremony dedicating the first new dormitory constructed on the Plainview campus in several decades.
The new women's dormitory - which is yet to be named - is located at 8th and Smythe Streets, on the north side of the campus. The $1.1 million facility was constructed in the spring of 2001 and opened for its first residents in mid-August. The dorm holds 48 young ladies and features a suite format with two private rooms with full bathrooms adjoined by a common sitting area with a sleeper sofa.
During the dedication ceremony, Plainview Mayor Lloyd Woods presented the university with a certificate of appreciation for "contributions to the community," and continued improvements to Plainview through campus improvements.
Dr. Wallace Davis, university chancellor, addressed the crowd about the dorm's inception, stating that while he envisioned a larger dorm, students preferred the smaller, more intimate settings like those provided at current dormitories.
Davis credited trustee Delbert McDougal of Lubbock with being instrumental in the areas of architectural and building expertise as well as support for the project.
Davis recognized major donors to the dorm project, who have wings of the dormitory named after them. Those include Sally Shaw of Lockney, Thelma Evans of Amarillo, Yvonne Franklin of Amarillo - all board members. Another wing is named in memory of the late Ervin Graham, a former trustee, by his wife Eva.
Martha Cross, director of development at Wayland, also recognized other donors who purchased rooms of furnishings. Plaques bearing their names are hung outside those suites.
"Dorms have affected and changed more lives. We see more here than a building and beautiful rooms," Davis said. "We see an environment for girls to grow. Let's celebrate the Wayland tradition today."
Plainview campus president Dr. Paul Armes led the dedicatory prayer, then joined in the ribbon cutting for the new facility. Guests were invited to tour the facility and enjoy refreshments.
The dorm is the first residence hall constructed on the campus since 1980, when Marshall Hall was added to Atwood Hall to create the Caprock Complex for men.


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Martha and Tim, you need to get together — now. You need to sit across from each other at a conference table, a lunch table, a kitchen table, a blackjack table, doesn't matter, and make this whole miserable case go away.
Amazingly, after a 17-month investigation, after a laborious 26-day trial involving 170 exhibits and testimony from 24 witnesses, Martha Coakley and Tim Cahill finish in a perfect position to help each other out.
Here's what must happen, for their sake, and for the public's sake: The attorney general and the former state treasurer need to reach some sort of agreement to this semi-absurd criminal case, one that will allow them to both save a little bit of face.
To not reach an agreement means that the public will again be subject to a heavy dose of the self-described flunkies and half-wits who populate our state government and the world of Beacon Hill politics. Please, I'm begging, it's not fair to do that again.
The common perception is that this is now all or nothing, that Coakley will either forge toward a new trial or drop all charges as if a hung jury is, as Cahill ridiculously asserted this week, "total vindication." But there is a third way, middle ground, and that's where this has to go.
They need to reach a settlement, preferably a civil agreement, one that will require Cahill to accept some responsibility for blowing through $1.5 million in public funds on self-serving ads for the state lottery he oversaw amid his stunningly sophomoric 2010 gubernatorial campaign.
Tim Cahill isn't an evil guy. He seems like a good husband and father. But he was so far over his head overseeing complex entities like the lottery and state pension fund that he probably suffers a lifelong case of the bends. He should have been satisfied as a Quincy city councilor, amazed at becoming the Norfolk County treasurer, and forever blessed by somehow managing the unimaginable feat of winning election as state treasurer. But he seriously, incredibly believed he had what it took to be governor, no novel plans or a compelling personal story required.
That said, if self-obsession was a criminal offense, the Legislature would be voting from the rec room of Cedar Junction. The question remains, is Cahill just smart enough to realize he has to give a little bit to make this case go away?
As for Coakley, she's taken criticism for devoting these kinds of resources to a case that has caused many people to simply roll their eyes.
Coakley is a widely lauded attorney general, a fair and reasonable person, whose soft spot has been the lack of public corruption cases notched on her belt. This case, her allies argue, never offered her a choice. There was a new ethics law, a hand-delivered complaint, and the likelihood of accusations of favoritism if she didn't pursue charges against a fellow constitutional officer. The question remains, can she accept a mild hit by ditching the criminal charges for a civil outcome?
There is reason to hope. Publicly, Coakley has said, "We are considering our options." Privately, there are sounds from her camp that they believe they accomplished a public good by pushing this case to trial and don't necessarily feel they need to spend more public dollars to do it again.
Likewise, one of Cahill's lawyers, the estimable Jeffrey Denner, scoffed not at all when I asked him Thursday about settling this case, though he stressed he hadn't talked to his client. He went out of his way to commend Coakley as "dedicated" and a person of integrity.
"I have always felt that there are issues here that should be aired out, and the ethics commission on the civil side is as good a vehicle to use when there are gray areas," Denner said.
Please, get it done. It would be nice to know there will be no rerun to this perfectly depressing show.Brian McGrory is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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An ulcer is an open sore in the lining of the stomach or intestine. Peptic ulcers are eventually caused by acid and pepsin, a digestive stomach enzyme. These ulcers can occur in the stomach, where they are called gastric ulcers, or they can occur in the first portion of the intestine. These are called duodenal ulcers. Peptic ulcer is a term used to describe either or both of these two types of ulcers. H. pylori and certain drugs are the two major factors that cause ulcers. This issue provides a comprehensive overview of the causes, diagnosis, and treatments of peptic ulcers, including conditions like Zollinger -Ellison syndrome. Articles are devoted to NSAID ulcers and how to prevent them, stress ulcers, and antiplatelet therapy.
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The back-and-forth between China, Japan, and the U.S. over disputed islands in the East China Sea this week continued ratcheting up, exposing policies that could prevent any diplomatic solution.
China's new map:
Less than a week after Thanksgiving in the U.S. last year, China released its new " nine dash map" passport that made clear its South and East China Sea ambitions. Brushing off controversy at the time, China outraged many neighboring nations, particularly Vietnam and the Philippines whose territory the map annexed. Both countries refused to stamp the document, using a separate sheet of paper slipped into the book instead.
Now, China's National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation is reportedly releasing its official state map of 2013 to include 130 disputed islands in the area. Not due to be released until the end of January, the new maps are supposed to increase the Chinese people's awareness of national territory. Essentially reinforcing the nationalistic zeal against Japan already running through mainland China.
Prepare for war:
China's General Staff Headquarters, which oversees the People's Liberation Army of around 2.5 million active and reserve troops, issued training directives this week to prepare for war.
From NTD TV:
But the combative streak speaks to profound shifts in Chinese politics and foreign policy that transcend the heat of the moment. The more provocative of these officers call for "short, sharp wars" to assert China's sovereignty. Others urge Beijing to "strike first", "prepare for conflict" or "kill a chicken to scare the monkeys".
They routinely denounce the Obama administration's recent "pivot" to Asia - without naming the United States, Ren in his Melbourne speech accused "external countries" of complicating disputes in Asia.
The U.S. picked sides:
Just one day after the U.S. and Japan got to work Thursday revising their defense treaty guidelines for the first time in15 years, Hillary Clinton issued China a " veiled warning."
In a meeting Friday with Japan's foreign minister, Clinton spelled out the U.S. belief that the disputed islands belonged to Japan, were under their control, and therefore under the U.S. security treaty with Tokyo.
Chinese media is reporting Clinton's remarks effectively break the U.S. vow of neutrality in the region.
China shows what they think of the U.S. position:
Within hours of Clinton's remarks Chinese ships entered Japan's territorial waters around the islands. Three Chinese Marine Surveillance ships cruised the waters around the islands for five hours before traveling away from the East China Sea.
Backing up Clinton's words, and as a counterpoint to China's response, the Japanese foreign minister said plainly: "Japan will not concede," and will, "uphold our fundamental position that the Senkakus are an inherent territory of Japan."
Which all bodes poorly for peace and found the Economist Saturday saying the two countries look to be on an irreversible path. "China and Japan are sliding towards war" the magazine says in its most recent piece on the situation.
China paper calls for foreign military bases:
As part of its current $200 billion defense budget The Japan Times says China's foreign bases are for more than supplying and protecting trade routes. This in addition to news from a Chinese state-run newspaper advising the PLA Navy to build 18 overseas naval bases. It's an unofficial declaration and the locations are best estimates, but it's an interesting addition when considering the charged climate of the region.
The nationalism building in both China and Japan allows little room for any leader to be seen "selling out" their country by negotiating and without negotiations the next step may be more conflict rather than less.
Estimates of where China's new naval bases would go.


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While I haven't completely finished blood elf history, a lot of the events that happened to these fel-loving arcane-sucking addicts happened after the introduction of the Burning Crusade expansion. I'll be doing a detailed list of posts regarding the lore and story behind the Burning Crusade at some point, but for now I think it's safe to stop at the stopping point I found with the blood elves in Azeroth.
It may seem like the 'blood elf' portion of blood elf history is awfully short – and it is. The sin'dorei didn't become the sin'dorei until quite recently in the Warcraft timeline. For now though, it's time to wrap up with some of the most commonly asked questions and misconceptions about the little pointy eared buggers, as well as making sense of some of the in-game contradictions.
Blood elves are night elves?
Oh heck no. They were, at one point in time – mind you this was well over 10,000 years ago in the Warcraft time line. But the changes that struck them after they left Nordrassil's range of protection were enough to dramatically differentiate them from the night elves you know today.
So who are these high elves wandering around then? They don't have the green eyes but they look like the blood elves do.
Those are the high elves that left back after the Second War. Remember when Anasterian pulled his support from the Alliance, Kael'thas stayed behind because he was in the Kirin Tor? There were other high elves that stayed behind as well, to continue teaching the humans and other races the magic that they'd learned. These high elves weren't affected by the destruction of the Sunwell – why? Probably because they had spent so much time away from it that they were nowhere near as closely tied to it as the elves that lived in Silvermoon proper.
These high elves had to learn proper control, and how to deal with being away from the Sunwell right from the start – so its destruction simply didn't affect them in the same way. It may also be (and this is speculation, mind) that they learned a few things from the creatures they were teaching about alternate ways of keeping that power that is inherent to their survival alive. The humans they taught weren't really tied to the Sunwell after all – they looked for ley lines and other sources of magic to pull their abilities from, so perhaps the high elves just learned to do that.
How come the high elves are allied with the Alliance? Or they con friendly with the Alliance anyway, but they don't seem to like the blood elves at all.
Because these high elves that left did so in order to teach the various Alliance races magic. It could be that they didn't agree with Anasterian's decision to pull his support from the Alliance, it could be that they saw the path the quel'dorei of Quel'Thalas were headed down, and they simply didn't wish to follow that path. And now that the sin'dorei are obviously following a much darker path…well, they don't really want anything to do with that.
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Honor Magic hard reset using the phone keys
How to remove forgotten password on your Honor Magic Andorid phone.
You can display the recovery screen using phone keys.
1. Turn off your Honor Magic phone.
2. Press the volume up key and the Power key until the phone start screen appears and the LOGO is displayed. Do NOT press the power so long but keep pressing the Volume UP key until EMUI logo and factory reset options appears.
3. When the recovery menu comes up just release the Volume key.
4. Select Wipe data / Factory reset on the touch screen. The touch screen is not active, so you have to use Volume UP/DOWN to move and POWER to select. Press volume down.
5. On the next screen confirm you want to delete all data and restore your phone to its factory default settings. Select Wipe data / factory reset again or if you want to cancel select no. Press Vol down an power to reset.
All data will be deleted! Be sure to backup your data before doing a factore reset / wiping your data.
or Reset Huawei Honor Magic from menu settings
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2012 Cook GFS Game 6 – Mariners vs. Rockies (5/19/12)
On May 19, 2012, we headed back to Coors Field on a grey and drizzly morning for the sixth and final game of the 2012 Cook Grandfather-Father-Son Baseball Roadtrip.
When we headed into the ballpark, it felt like only about 10 other fans joined us. And there was no one on the field. The tarp was out. The batting cage was nowhere to be found. There would be no BP to speak of.
Luckily, we did not have to wait too long for some on field entertainment. Pretty quickly, the Mariners pitching corps popped out of the dugout and headed to the CF grass next to the visitors' bullpen.
As the Mariners pitchers stretched and chatted amongst themselves…
…Kellan and I were the only fans in the front row section. There were a couple fans above us in the bleachers. The only other people in the front row were my dad, Tim, Dan and Emily, and they were chatting amongst themselves over in LF at Dan's seats:
This was our view out in CF:
When the Mariners paired up and started playing catch, the closest Mariners to us were Hisashi Iwakuma (along the warning track in RCF) and Brandon League (in the CF grass):
While the M's played catch on the field, Kellan pushed his stroller around, stomped in puddles, and just hung out and watched the action on the field:
Eventually, League short hopped Kuma with a hard throw. The ball trickled past Kuma and was scooped up by his interpreter. Kuma pulled a second baseball out of his pocket and he and League played catch for a few more minutes.
Once they finished playing catch, League tossed the ball they were using to a guy in the bleachers behind us. League then motioned to Kuma's interpreter for their original warm up ball. He tossed that ball to us, and it was a Dodger Stadium commemorative ball!
Thanks, Brandon!
After getting the baseball from Brandon, Kellan and I stayed put for a few minutes. But when I looked back over to LF, Dan gave a big *come over here* wave. When Kellan and I reached Dan's seats, he introduced me to a guy from mlb.com who said he wanted to interview me about our Roadtrip. He ended up shooting a five minute video interview (during which I felt like I was continually looking off camera to check on Tim and Kellan who were running back-and-forth). I've never seen that video turn up anywhere. But later the same day of the game, the following blurb popped up on MLB.com's Cut4 page:
When the interview wrapped up, the only Mariners still playing catch were Tom Wilhelmson and Charlie Furbush. And they were playing extreme-long-toss – from the LF foul line to the RF warning track.
When they finished up and started to walk off…
…, one of them (I think Furbush) tossed the baseball to my dad…actually, he completely air mailed him, but it stayed in the front row where we were the only fans who could get to it. It was also a Dodger Stadium commemorative baseball, my dad's second!
Once Furbush and Wilhelmson wrapped up their long-toss show, there was absolutely nothing happening on the field. So we just hung out for a bit and watched Felix and Brandon League…
…get in some work in the bullpen.
Eventually, Munenori Kawasaki and Anthony Suzuki (Ichiro's interpreter) started playing two person pepper along the LF line:
Tim, Kellan and I headed over there to watch since nothing else was happening. After playing some pepper, Muni ran some sprints. Check out those fancy shoes he is wearing.
When he wrapped up the running, Muni and Anthony started walking back to the dugout, and all of the fans hanging out down the line were completely silent…except us.
I called out a simple, "Hey, Muni!" He looked over and then did an exaggerated backspin to crow-hop before gentling tossing one of the two baseballs he'd been using to us.
Thanks, Muni!
After he tossed the baseball to us, another fan got brave and asked for an autograph. He ended up coming over and signing a bunch of autographs, including signing the baseball he'd just thrown to us:
I've thought for a while that it would be cool to get a Japan-born Major Leaguer to sign a baseball in Japanese (Iwakuma did this for my dad at spring training). So, as Tim handed the baseball to Muni, I asked if he would sign in Japanese. He responded (essentially), "No Japanese! This is America! Only English!"
No problem, an English Muni-autograph was just fine for us.
Thanks, again, Muni!
My dad was still out in LF and he took this picture of us as we walked back to LF:
Check out all of those fans! Man, it was packed!
It was quiet and peaceful in the stadium. The grounds crew was using the quiet time to tidy up the outfield grass:
We still had a long time until the game was scheduled to start. So we headed over to the Blue Moon Brewery restaurant in the RF foul corner concourse. I had a big, tasty BBQ sandwich…
…but Kellan wouldn't let me simply sit and enjoy it. Instead, while Tim and grandpa hung out at the table, I ate on foot while watching Kellan run up-and-down and up-and-down and up-and-down this ramp:
After lunch, we headed back out to the OF. My took Tim to get some pizza (he didn't want to eat in the Brewery), and Kellan and I checked out the tunnels under the OF bleachers:
We noticed a funny site as the Mariners relievers approached the bullpen before the start of the game:
They had to stop and wait for the band that played the national anthem to finish marching by before they could get to the bullpen.
As the band belted out the national anthem, the boys were ready to get to the baseball:
Rockies pitcher Christian Friedrich's (who is pictured in LF before Tim in the first game picture from our last entry) first pitch to Dustin Ackley was called a ball…
…and we were underway!
I am quite happy to report that this game was all Mariners. And the scoring got underway when Kyle Seager belted a 2-run homerun in the top of the second inning:
With the 2-0 lead in hand, the Mariners never looked back.
Of all the games to which I have taken both boys together, this was by far the easiest because Kellan fell asleep while I was holding him in the first or second inning:
And he just kept on sleeping until THE SIXTH INNING!
For most of that time, Kellan and I sat with Don the Rockpile Ranter and his son, Hunter:
It was great chatting with these guys.
Sadly, I did not get a picture of the "Bring Back Helmer" sign that Hunter periodically held up for the TV cameras. (It looked a whole lot like this).
I hardly took any pictures while sitting there holding Kellan. But I did manage to get a shot of Ichiro out in RF:
And one of Ichiro drilling a line drive toward short stop:
If you click on that picture, you can see the ball just to the left of Ichiro and just barely above his head level. Unfortunately, Tulowitzki made a diving catch on the ball.
But it didn't matter. The Mariners were already piling on the runs. They scored 2 more in the third inning, 1 in the fourth (on a single by Jason Vargas!)…
…, and 4 more in the sixth. That made the score 9-0 Mariners.
Don didn't like the score so much, but I sure did. And Kellan would have too if he was awake.
Eventually, I headed further out toward LCF to see my dad and Tim.
Kellan was still fast asleep, but it was ice cream time for Tim:
Want to see essentially those same exact two pictures again, but this time as one picture? Okay, here you go:
Kellan woke up just in time for Don to catch a Rockies shirt in the T-shirt launch. He ran up into the bleachers to make the grab and he handed the shirt to us on his way back down:
Kellan was mighty satisfied holding it all wrapped up in cellophane. But he was still a little cranky from his nap. When I unwrapped the shirt, Kellan gave me a piece of his mind. Apparently, he wasn't ready to see it unwrapped quite yet.
In the sixth inning, the Rockies brought Eric Young in to play CF as part of a double switch. I took some pictures of the Rockies outfielders, but really I just wanted to show how tiny Eric Young seems to be:
My dad spent most of the game chatting with Rockies regular Robert Harman:
Before this trip, I knew about Robert from the Rockpile Rant and an article Zack Hample wrote about Barry Bonds' final career homerun. Robert was very nice and he and my dad got along swimmingly during the game.
Here are some pictures I took in the tunnel under the bleachers in LCF:
Top left: There is some sort of security office under there, right around the corner from the women's restroom.
Top middle: There was a brief rain shower late in the game. The game wasn't delayed at all, but we hid out for a few minutes in the tunnel where this was our view of the field. We ended up putting our backpacks in the tunnel for the rest of the game to keep dry. It is definitely convenient having your own personal tunnel like this for a game!
Top right: Tim, Emily and Emily's friend played tag in the tunnel. This was just one of the many things they did to entertain themselves in the tunnel. Kellan tried to mix it up with the big kids a bit too.
About 5-10 minutes before the rain, the Rockies scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. The final two runs came on a homerun hit by Wilin Rosario that sailed right over our heads into about the sixth or seventh row of the bleachers behind us. I was hoping it would ricochet back down to us (my Dad had caught a Miguel Olivo BP homer like this the day before and Robert got a Michael Cuddayer game homer like it earlier in the season), but the crowd swallowed it up, never to be seen again by us folks down in the first row.
It was too bad this homerun couldn't have been hit in the eighth inning instead of the seventh, because almost no one was left in the bleachers after the rain…
…and the ball almost certainly would have bounced back down to us.
The Mariners got one run back in the eighth on a passed ball to Kyle Seager that scored Ichiro. That made it 10-3 Mariners, which would hold up to become the final score of the game.
The previous day, I had noticed that Michael Saunders…
…tossed the CF-LF warm up baseball into the crowd in the ninth inning. There were zero fans in the front row out in CF by the batters' eye. So I figured that Kellan and I ought to head over there in the ninth so Saunders would have a target.
It was a solid plan. After finishing his ninth inning warm up tosses with Casper Wells, Saunders turned and threw a strike right to us. Another Dodger Stadium commemorative!
Thanks, Michael!
Sean Kelley and Steve Delabar each pitched a scoreless/hitless inning of relief to cap off the game. Another wonderful Mariners win! That made them 2-0 for us on the season.
After saying our good-byes to Dan and Robert (Don had left during the rain because he feared for his super-nice camera's safety), we got an usher to take our picture:
Then we walked around to home plate…
…and got an usher to retake the family photo the fan had botched the night before:
The key to that picture was that Tim had his foot up on the step above us. He thought this made the picture look very, VERY cool.
Outside the stadium, I got a shot of my three Roadtrip mates outside Coors Field:
And then we headed over to the 15th Street Mall for some dinner.
On our walk back to the hotel, my dad and Tim were locked in battle in a fierce game of "yellow cab" (the objective being to spot as many yellow cabs as possible) when we walked by Coors Field for the final time:
"YELLOW CAB!" (in the foreground) "YELLOW CAB!" (across the street)
The yellow cab battle continued as the fifth installment of the Cook Grandfather-Father-Son Baseball Roadtrip slowly walked down Park Road to our hotel and into the sunset
It was an OUTSTANDING trip.
Let the planning begin for the 2012 GFS Roadtrip!
2012 C&S Fan Stats
|10/9 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|14/13 Teams – Tim – Mariners, Rockies, Phillies, Mets, Marlins, Athletics, Orioles, Nationals, Diamondbacks, Blue Jays, Twins, Cubs, Cardinals, Royals; Kellan – Mariners, Rockies, Marlins, Nationals, Athletics, Orioles, Mets, Diamondbacks, Blue Jays, Twins, Cubs, Cardinals, Royals
|14 Ice Cream Helmet(s) – Phillies 1, Orioles 1, Mets 2, Twins 2, Cardinals 3, Royals 2, Rockies 3
|51 Baseballs – Mariners 9, Marlins 4, Mets 8, Nationals 1, Phillies 1, Umpires 5, Orioles 6, Athletics 1, Diamondbacks 4, Blue Jays 1, Twins 1, Cubs 7, Cardinals 1, Royals 2
|10 Commemorative Baseball(s) – Marlins Park, Mets 50th Anniversary 2, Camden Yards 3, Dodger Stadium 4
|8/7 Stadiums – Tim – Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Camden Yards, Citi Field, Target Field, Busch Stadium, Kauffman Stadium, Coors Field; Kellan – Nationals Park, Camden Yards, Citi Field, Target Field, Busch Stadium, Kauffman Stadium, Coors Field1/1 Mascots Photos – Tim – Sluggerrr; Kellan – Fredbird
|2/1 Player Photos – Tim – Ricky Bones, Willie Bloomquist; Kellan – Willie Bloomquist
|2 Batting Gloves – Ronnie Deck
|5 Autographs – Willie Bloomquist 2, Tim Byrdak, Brian Roberts, Munenori Kawasaki


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NBA Elite 11 was indefinitely postponed on Monday, a week before its commercial release. I didn't receive any disc pre-release (for review), but conceivably they might exist somewhere in the wild. One allegedly just sold on eBay for $255.
eBayer tgarreth is not a fly-by-nighter. He's a top-rated seller on the online auction service (an 1866 feedback score.) That has to count for something. tgarreth said it did not have a case ("does come in a slim case") but does have an instruction booklet. If so, it's got an Online Pass code with it. I'd be curious what redeeming that does.
"This was an accident to get....but a good one, lol!" says tgarreth. Who knows. If he held onto it longer - this game might be canceled outright, and then what's it worth? But it could be released soon, and then it's worth nothing. Tough call.
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With a moniker like Daisy Balloon, it's no surprise that their medium of choice is balloons and sculpted like you've probably never seen them before. The artist (whose real name is Rie Hosokai) uses them in window displays and as art objects, but more surprisingly, fashion. Taking numerous small balloons, she gathers them into large groups that make up long flowing dresses, body suits, and structures reminiscent of armor. Her avant-garde designs are worn by models and celebrities like Bjork (are you shocked?).
Her entire portfolio is no doubt impressive – after all, keeping all of those balloons full is no small feat – but the colorful, giant teddy bear that's constructed completely out of smaller teddy bears is the right mix of visual ingenuity, nostalgia, and fun. (Via Spoon & Tamango)


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With its diverse make-up of sprawling subdivisions and densely populated cities, Orange County's housing situation is a complex puzzle with countless moving pieces, a new Orange County Business Council report shows.
And solving that puzzle will require long-range inter-city cooperation, local officials and OCBC Chief Economic Advisor Wallace Walrod said at a forum Friday morning.
Walrod presented the council's 2012 "Workforce Housing Scorecard" to a group of city administrators and business people from around the county at Irvine's Hyatt Regency Hotel.
The report analyzes the county's jobs-to-housing balance — and projected imbalance — through lenses like demographic and population trends, costs of living, commute lengths, homeownership versus rental levels, and business climate.
All of those factors, Walrod said, converge in a tough regulatory environment for developers. Another hurdle development faces is public opinion, which can sway in favor of NIMBYism at the expense of growth in the long run.
The report concluded that job growth is likely to outpace housing growth throughout the county from 2010 to 2035, and that higher-density, lower-cost housing will be necessary to offset that growth.
Despite the fact that on a surface level it may seem as though they're already "built-out," some of the county's densest cities are in the best positions to do just that.
"When we think of places being built-out, that's kind of an antiquated concept," Walrod said.
The report also ranked the county's 34 cities according to how well they're projected to fare in terms of housing and job growth balance, based on some of the factors detailed in the report.
At the top of the list was Irvine, followed by Anaheim, then Brea. Huntington Beach ranked No. 4; Newport Beach, 10; Costa Mesa, 20; and Laguna Beach, 31.
South County cities tended to rank lower because of their locked-in development opportunities, Walrod said.
In other words, because cities like Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita (22 and 32, respectively) were built up when single-family-home developments ran according to the covenants, conditions and restrictions set by homeowners' associations, their ability to develop higher density areas is now limited.
Larger cities, like Irvine and Anaheim, which have "embraced higher density mixed-use developments," according to the report, are projected to better address the need for denser housing.
Irvine Mayor-elect Steven Choi, who addressed the group after Walrod's presentation, said the city has worked to build a variety of housing types, particularly in areas close to job centers like Irvine Spectrum. This, he said, helps Irvine residents achieve a desirable "work/life balance."
But while they said Irvine and other cities' planning efforts are worthy of commendation, audience members in a discussion following the presentation stressed that the picture is more complicated on a regional level.
Choi's fellow Irvine council member, Mayor Pro Tem Beth Krom, said cities should work together to come up with housing solutions, particularly because many of the county's workers commute to another city.
"We tend not to be integrated in the way we look at these kinds of issues," she said. "Rising tides lift all boats. Let's look at geography and transportation and help all cities be part of a comprehensive solution."
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Third NIH Conference on Holoprosencephaly (HPE): Midline and Laterality Development
Third NIH Conference on Holoprosencephaly (HPE):
Midline and Laterality Development
This conference is supported by the NIH Office of Rare Diseases
and the Carter Centers for Brain Research in Holoprosencephaly
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Clinical residents and fellows are invited to attend a meeting we are holding in April 2004 on a rare disorder, holoprosencephaly (HPE). HPE, a developmental defect affecting the forebrain and face, has many causes, some of which are genetic, and has been the focus of my laboratory's work for many years.
In April 2000 we held the 1st National Institutes of Health (NIH) Conference on Holoprosencephaly (HPE) featuring both national and international experts in various aspects of HPE. That meeting was so successful that we followed it with the 2nd NIH Conference on Holoprosencephaly and Early Embryonic Development in April 2002. We are now preparing for the Third NIH Conference on Holoprosencephaly.
The first day of the meeting, Sunday, April 18, will be devoted to basic science, while the second day, Monday, April 19, will be geared more toward clinical science and dysmorphology. The third day of the conference, Tuesday, April 20, will be an information and discussion session for parents of children with HPE. It will be a unique opportunity for trainees to meet with families who have experienced living with this disorder.
We think this will be a wonderful opportunity for trainees to learn more about the prenatal development of a brain anomaly and the postnatal consequences both clinically and socially. We invite them to submit an abstract on either clinical or basic science aspects of HPE for presentation as a poster. To facilitate participation by trainees, we will offer a partial travel stipend to up to 20, first-author trainees based on the quality of their abstracts and the funds available.
As in our previous conferences, Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits are given for attendees who request them.
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