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Fan Confidence Poll: November 8th, 2010By
Season Record: 95-67 (859 RS, 693 RA, 98-64 Pythag. record), finished one game back in AL East, won Wild Card, lost in ALCS
Top stories from last week:
- The Yankees signed one free agent this week, but it was one of their own and it wasn't a player: hitting coach Kevin Long re-upped for three years.
- Both Chad Gaudin and Royce Ring were outrighted off the 40-man roster, and both opted for free agency. Melky Mesa was added to the 40-man to prevent him from becoming a minor league free agent.
- With free agents now officially able to negotiate with any teams, the Yankees contacted Cliff Lee's agent to let him know that a contract offer would be coming soon, perhaps within 72 hours. It's possible that income tax will play a role in Lee's decision where to sign.
- Talks with Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera should start within a day or two, though we don't even know what Jeter wants. Hal Steinbrenner made it clear that he wants it to be a deal "both sides are happy with."
- The Yanks are unlikely to pursue Carl Crawford or Jayson Werth, and reportedly there's "no chance" that Zack Greinke would accept a trade to New York.
- The Yanks got permission to speak to Athletics' pitching coordinator Gil Patterson about their pitching coach vacancy, though they we're able to secure the same from the White Sox for Don Cooper. Bullpen coach Mike Harkey is getting serious consideration for the job as well.
- Brett Gardner was named the game's best defensive leftfielder in this year's The Fielding Bible Awards.
- Jesus Montero was named the team's top prospect by Baseball America.
- Former Yankee coach and GM Clyde King passed away at 86.
Please take a second to answer the poll below and give us an idea of how confident you are in the team. You can view the Fan Confidence Graph anytime via the nav bar above, or by clicking here. Thanks in advance for voting.
- 10 (very confident)
- 9
- 8
- 7
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1 (no confidence)
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Usually a nine, but Long bumped me up!
9 because I know no team will steal 2nd and third twice in one inning against Jesus Montero!
And we know his bat will make up for it even though the above event would be very rare and unlikely especially considering the slow AL East and pitchers that actually care about the running game.
It was an 8 all last season and they got to Game 6 of the ALCS. Seems appropriate.
Still an 8. Sign Cliff Lee and it will…still be an 8. I cannot go to a 9 until there are actual in-Season results.
How long until pitchers, catchers and The Jesus report?
I was at a four last week, now that they started talking to Cliff Lee's agent, Manny's impressive outing in the Rising Stars game, and combined with them displaying a tremendous amount of confidence in Montero next season I'm up to a five. Lets hope I'm a ten by pitchers/catchers.
Just curious as to why you are at a 4/5. This is a team that went to the ALCS just last month.
Yes, and their pitching was shat on, they basically only managed to outplay the Rangers for ten innings. When the team's WS hopes next year are basically "Sign Cliff Lee or bust," I tend not to be that confident until Cliff Lee is signed.
And they were still in the ALCS. You can not have so little confidence when COMPARED to other teams in the AL. Unless you would vote 2 for all those teams.
Well if I was a fan of those teams I'd probably have lower standards.
And getting to within 2 games of the WS, a year after winning the WS, w/ a top-12 or better farm system & w/o Lee only warrants a 4?
Then you look at Boston w/ a team just as old as ours, a TB team that will take a step back means we should be in real good shape to make the playoffs next year w/o Lee.
Then the AL central is a non-factor means they have a great shot at being in the ALCS again. Did I mention w/o Lee.
This is not blind fandom. There is looking at where the NYY are and seeing where the other teams are. All teams have flaws – you are just looking at their flaws & not their positives.
I rank my confidence in terms of winning a WS this year or next year…anytime the plan is "sign this guy or bust" I tend not to show a lot of confidence. I wouldn't count the ALC out for so long either.
10. Undefeated and tied for first place. Confident the team will make the moves it needs to make. Cliff Lee's wife will love all the suburban-type shopping options popping up all over the city. Two games away from the World Series last year. #28 coming home.
The Yankees should just buy him a new wife, it might end up being cheaper…
And easier on his back.
mark tex poor batting average was due in part to the shift many teams used in him batting from the left,look what it did to jason giambi's average.like giambi tex will not hit to the opposite field and combat the shift.if he hits 250 next year,i fear he will be a hitter tlike giambi,thankfully his fielding is great
Giambi was a very very good hitter in his 5 healthy seasons with the Yankees. He also had two bad seasons where he missed large parts of the season due to 'injuries'.
Giambi AVERAGED a .400 on base percentage in his time with the Yankees. I pray Tex even comes close to that.
I don't get why people hated the Giambi deal…I thought it was a pretty solid deal, over all.
Easy. We never won a WS with him and he replaced precious Tino (who I loved too, but Giambi was quite clearly worlds better offensively).
I see why the idiots hated it, but if you know what on base percentage is I don't see what the problem you'd have with it is.
Batting Average.
It's just that people's expectations were set based on his last two years in Oakland – .335 / .476 / .653. Those numbers dropped by .028 / .042 / .055 in his first season in NY. The rest of his NY seasons were a significant drop off from that. He had injury and steroid issues on top of that.
It's not that he was bad, I think people just expected a few more MVP level seasons out of him before starting to decline.
Still at a 7. A Cliff Lee signing would bump me to an 8. I hope it happens, there does not seem to be much of a plan "B" available.
Right with you, primarily for the same reasons. Looking beyond next season, I'm still a 7, as we don't know anything yet about the Jeter/Mo contracts and the progress of the minor leaguers. I'm not opposed to a 3 yr (or perhaps even 4 yr, depending on his ability to bounce back from this season) contract for Jeter. I am concerned about finding a better than league average replacement. Mo? No concerns unless they give him longer than 3 years (again, need to see how he does beyond '12). Montero? Hoping for the best. May need to sure up our catching.
Lee might push me to a 7.5 or above. They should consisently make the playoffs regardless of the above outcomes (unless EVERYBODY fails to meet expectations), but how many more WS victories? I'd be happy with 3 over the next 5 years.
I also worry about Mo. How long can you realisticly expect him to perform at this level? After Mo I fear we will be in a closer wilderness for a while.
i voted a 9. While this team played like the Royals in September and got embarrassed in the ALCS, this is still a good team. With a #cured Granderson, a hopefully healthy Arod/CC/Jeter/Tex/Swish/Posada, the rise of Jesus, and the farm system taking gigantic steps forward; this is an excellent franchise.
Cliff Lee makes it go past 11.
Note to Ross: If they get Cliff Lee and a good 4th OF that hits LHP well I'd be about an 8 to an 8.5, if Russell Martin gets nontendered and they sign him to take over the Cervelli role I'd be at a high 9, and that's assuming the rest of the competition in the AL has the typical "good offseason," if Boston and the rest of the AL East has a meh-ish offseason I'd be at a 10 (provided they get Clifton and a good 4th OF), if Boston or Tampa blows me away in the offseason I'd probably be back at an eight, again provided they get Lee and a good 4th OFer…a lot is up in the air right now.
why do you care who the 4th OF is? We've got replacement level OFs galore, no? You want to sign CC or Werth to make Swisher or Gardner the 4th OF?
Find some minimum wage FA if you don't like the young kids, and throw that money in the starter budget.
If players were good they wouldn't be 4th OF. Also, bench-type players vary so much from year to year. I know I was on the Sign Reed Johnson bandwagon last year, and I wasn't really interested in Thames much…
I think I was unclear, not a good player to be a 4th OF (like Kemp or singing Werth to push Gardner or someone to the bench) I meant a player that would be a good 4th outfielder. Like a Matt Diaz or Reed Johnson type. Given the outfield's issues with LHP over their careers (mainly Gardner and Granderson's) and my concerns with how Gardner will do next year I think having an outfielder who can play a respectable left field and hit LHP well would do the 2011 squad a world of good.


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DENVER -- Greetings from Denver, where the Kings will face the Avalanche on Tuesday night without the veteran leadership of defensemen Willie Mitchell and Matt Greene. Center Anze Kopitar, however, will be back in action.
Mitchell is on this three-game trip but is not ready to return. Greene remains back home and was diagnosed with a herniated disk, which will require surgery, Kings Coach Darryl Sutter said.

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Spotlight Shines on ALEC's Anti-Middle Class Agenda - and its Cost to States
Charles Monaco on May 20, 2011 - 11:51am
As the middle class remains under sustained attack in state legislatures, media attention is increasingly turning to the corporate interests orchestrating a national spread of industry-written bills seeking to weaken state economies, strip workers of their rights, suppress voter turnout, and capitalize on the politics of division and fear – all in pursuit of private profit. In a spate of recent reports, specific scrutiny is being focused on the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in allowing corporations access to influence state laws that benefit their bottom lines at the expense of the economic security of families.
Last Sunday's (Nashville) Tennessean featured a front-page article on the slew of copycat bills written by and for corporations that has hit the Volunteer State this session – a report that could likely be replicated in many states that have seen similar waves of destructive legislation. Some of the efforts advanced in Tennessee's legislature this include a call to repeal the federal health care law, laws to weaken unions, and a divisive bill to ban Islamic Sharia law which even its sponsors admitted to not reading before filing.
Tennessee State Rep. Mike Turner gave the Tennessean his perspective on the deluge he and his colleagues are seeing this year: "We've taken model bills in the past, but very rarely did you see model bills passed without any changes or amendments", said Rep. Turner. "Some of this stuff they're running this year is straight out of the ALEC playbook."
In an attempt to reveal some pages of that playbook, People for the American Way (PFAW) released a report this week describing the nuts and bolts some of ALEC's often shadowy operations. The study, "ALEC: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests In State Legislatures," provides an overview of publicly available information on the group's funding and structure and notes examples of policies they have attempted to advance in recent years. It concludes that "rather than serve the public interest, ALEC champions the agenda of corporations which are willing to pay for access to legislators and the opportunity to write their very own legislation."
One of the case studies noted in PFAW's report is the role of ALEC in enabling the for-profit private prison industry to influence the writing and passage of Arizona's infamous anti-immigrant law. The story on the involvement of the Corrections Corporations of America (CCA) with SB1070 received much attention last October as the result of two reports by NPR's Laura Sullivan, but has recently been pushed back into the national spotlight.
Brave New Foundation and Cuéntame released a YouTube video infographic last week explaining in detail the connections between ALEC, CCA, and the group of conservative legislators and corporate allies who are advancing legislation to privatize prisons and then fill them up with immigrant detainees.
It is clear that legislation like this benefits the corporations who are writing it, but it also became clearer this week that privatizing prisons, as more than 30 states have done, does not result in cost savings for states.
According to a New York Times article, research by Arizona's Department of Corrections shows that despite laws requiring cost savings, inmates in private prisons can often cost the state as much or more to incarcerate as inmates state-run prisons. The data also reveals that private prisons often appear less expensive because they only house the healthiest inmates. As Arizona State Rep. Chad Campbell told the Times, "It's cherry-picking… they leave the most expensive prisoners with taxpayers and take the easy prisoners."
Meanwhile, other ALEC priorities are struggling. According to a survey by the Associated Press, so-called "right-to-work" bills that would weaken private sector unions and restrict the ability of businesses enter into contracts of their choosing with their employees have been introduced but failed to pass in 13 states this session. In a 14th state where a bill did pass, New Hampshire Governor John Lynch issued a strongly-worded veto one such bill last week, stating that "in my time as a CEO, in my years spent in the private sector turning around companies, and in my seven years as Governor, I have never seen the so-called right-to-work law serve as a valuable economic development tool."
These bills have long been priorities for both ALEC and their corporate sponsors. After last year's elections, Wisconsin State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald (R) told a reporter he was "surprised how much momentum there was" around right-to-work bills at an ALEC conference he attended in Washington, DC. But as and more legislators and voters learn about the corporate front groups attempting to pass laws in their states and the true costs of the anti-middle class agenda they want to enact, the momentum behind that agenda promises to stall even further.
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I guess nowadays I either try to watch skating sans commentary or watch it in other languages so it's definitely possible there are great commentators out there that I have never listened to. I guess PJ Kwong is probably one. You can tell that she really cares about skating and she definitely does her research.
It always shocks me how Chris Howarth and Nicky Slater - both of whom work in skating as coaches and choreographers - often lack knowledge of the IJS rules and fail to notice a lot of errors that should be apparent to somebody who's a skating insider. They also don't seem to do much background research on skaters and seem to know less about them than many skating fans do.
P.S. Not everybody will know everything, it's only natural. When you don't know about something simply don't mention it, instead of pretending that you do know it and talk bullshit...
The Polish Eurosport commentator is actually very decent. He knows what he's talking about, he points out a lot of details and gives some interesting background info as well (he won't for example say 'fantastic' when a pair team does a triple twist where a lady collapses onto the man instead of being caught by the waist and put down - which Chris/Simon/Nicky do regularly). I disagree with him a lot but he's honest and makes clear arguments for why he thinks a certain way and you can take it or leave it.


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Amy Westervelt, Contributor
I cover innovation at the intersection of health & the environment.
What is with the scandals in the nonprofit world this week? First there was the whole Susan G. Komen for the Cure/Planned Parenthood debacle and now here comes the Sierra Club, scrambling to explain how and why it now fights against the same natural gas industry it once happily took millions from. No matter which side of the issues you're on (abortion, in the case of Komen, and natural gas in the case of the Sierra Club), there are a few big communications lessons hiding in these stories, particularly for those involved in organizations or companies associated with a social cause or a socially responsible good or product.
Lesson #1: Get in Front of the Scandal In case you've been living under a rock for the last 48 hours, the upshot of the Komen mess is this: Komen decided to stop funding Planned Parenthood once its current grants run out; Planned Parenthood kicked up a fuss and told its supporters, who in turn went after Komen. It didn't take long for the story to surface of newly hired Komen senior VP of public policy, Karen Handel, clearly stating her pro-life beliefs and her opposition to Planned Parenthood during her gubernatorial run in Georgia, which only added fuel to the fire.
Komen waited over 24 hours to respond in any way, and finally came out with a statement indicating that it had pulled the grants as part of a new policy to not fund any organization under investigation. That statement was followed about 24 hours later with the explanation that Planned Parenthood also didn't meet the organization's new grant standards in other ways.
The Sierra Club, on the other hand, was right out in front of its little mess. Lucky for them the story broke not on the AP, like the Komen story, but on a small blog called Corporate Crime Reporter. Still, rather than waiting for its detractors to run with the story, the Club's executive director went to Time Magazine's Bryan Walsh directly and gave him the exclusive on it, then proceeded to masterfully pin the organization's overly cozy relationship with the natural gas industry on his predecessor, Carl Pope, without ever actually calling Pope out. Of course, it probably doesn't hurt that the Sierra Club's news is coming out in the midst of the Komen storm.
Lesson #2: Know What Story You Want to Tell, and Stick to It So far, Komen has let its opponents, and Planned Parenthood, control the story. Seemingly caught completely off-guard by the backlash, their entire strategy has been defense, and pretty poorly executed defense at that. The initial justification for the funding decision–that Komen is no longer funding organizations under investigation–only gave the organization's critics more fuel. Many opposed to the decision charged Komen with creating this policy with the sole intention of de-funding Planned Parenthood, which is forever being investigated in the various states in which it operates, investigations largely spearheaded by pro-life groups that take issue with the organization's abortion work. Planned Parenthood is currently being investigated under what many consider to be trumped-up charges by House Republican, Rep. Cliff Stearns. Today, Jeff Goldberg reported in the Atlantic that higher-ups in Komen had quit over the creation of the investigation policy, which is said to have been spearheaded by Handel. Since the policy was instituted in December, Planned Parenthood is the only grantee, out of over 2,000, that has been affected.
This evening, CEO and Founder Nancy Brinker told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that Komen's decision had to do not only with the investigation, but also with new requirements and standards for grants that Planned Parenthood did not meet. She was promptly taken to task by not only Mitchell herself, who demanded a detailed accounting of how exactly Planned Parenthood had failed to meet Komen's standards, and by Senator Barbara Boxer, who claimed Brinker was trying to backpedal and revise history. "They clearly said yesterday that it was about this investigation, now today they're saying it's to do with new standards," she said. Brinker spent the entire interview on the defensive.
It's not the first time Komen has been caught off-guard by detractors. It seems every year there's at least one pink ribbon product affiliated with the organization that has critics seeing red–the KFC pink buckets, the Promise perfume with its endocrine disrupting chemicals, the pink ribbon Bibles sold by evangelicals. And yet each time, Komen seems to be scrambling to understand and respond to criticism.
Again, the Sierra Club is a foil to Komen, a lesson in communications done right. By telling the story first, to a journalist well versed on the background of the issue, and admitting some of the mistakes the organization has made, Brune has not only set the tone of the story but also diffused much of what his critics are bound to say. "The chapter groups and volunteers depend on the Club to have their back as they fight pollution from any industry, and we need to be unrestrained in our advocacy," he told Walsh. "The first rule of advocacy is that you shouldn't take money from industries and companies you're trying to change."
It might help that the Sierra Club is clearly an activist organization and thus knows its critics well and has spent years mastering the art of presenting a specific image and message in the media. Similarly, Planned Parenthood has always had a clear stance and has been forced to defend that stance on multiple occasions.
Komen, on the other hand, has always prided itself on being bi-partisan and non-political, which not only makes the hiring of Handel, and the firing of Planned Parenthood, as it were, more surprising to its supporters, but may also have made the organization less equipped to expect or handle the backlash. Although as nonprofit communications expert Kivi Leroux Miller told Politico yesterday, it's hard to believe that the response was a complete surprise to Komen staff. "They pretty much cut their fundraising support in half," Miller said. "I don't think they meant to make a huge political statement, but it was extremely naïve of them to think this wasn't hyper-political."
Lesson #3: It Goes Social Media, then Mainstream Media, then Your Own Website The social media world has been on fire for nearly three days now with people either praising or criticizing Komen, depending on which side of the abortion debate they're on, and meanwhile thanks to its email campaign–which launched the issue into public eye–Planned Parenthood has made more in the last 48 hours than it has in months. Planned Parenthood executive director Cecile Richards quickly made the rounds of all the big TV news shows and gave interviews to anyone who asked. Komen CEO Brinker opted instead to decline interviews, releasing her own canned video statement instead. Komen stayed off of Facebook and Twitter (except to delete negative comments) for over 24 hours. By the time Brinker finally took to the airways on Andrea Mitchell's show, anything she said looked like a scrambling defense.
It is absolutely amazing that a massively beneficial charity organization that saves women's lives every day was able to be infiltrated, subverted, and destroyed from within by right wing Christianic theofascist extremists who hate everything our country stands for.
THIS is why Americans should register to vote so we can eliminate the theocracy-driven fascists from positions of power over our country, both in government and in the private sector.
No. What's absolutely amazing is that the theocratic hard left and their enabling "progressives" were able to bully and browbeat a mainstream organization into trying to do their bidding. No organization is required to be all things to all women. A group that provides breast cancer support isn't require to support abortions, end of story. That's what freedom is all about. The left hates everything that America stands for in that regard when it thinks that it can bully and harass groups to do their political bidding. I hope Komen will resist this unconscionable pressure.
Freedom is letting individual women make their own choices around their bodies without interference right? Or are you hoping Komen and you should browbeat them?
If government, courts, NGOs, or "theocrats" limit your medical or bodily choices, you've lost the most basic freedom.
Just a counterfactual point here, Amy. Go to the NYC web page: abortions and birth control are what they offer, not mammograms. The word "mammograms" does not appear. Now maybe it's under the vague "women's health," but I'm seeing people say they do NOT offer mammograms everywhere.
Everywhere the press wrote about the new VP who was anti-abortion weighed in on this. And that's her right. And it's their right to suspend aid while the investigation was underway. The awful thing that happened here is that they got brutally mugged by the left.
And as I pointed out, what's even more awful is that you think that social media guru-ing "the right way" would have fixed this. But you let the cat out of the bag, because what you really think they should have done was *not cut off PP*. THAT is your "social media guru advice". And in this answer, too, you're saying they had a relationship for 30 odd years! So you're clearly implying they should have kept that in order to save their fund-raising. That's awful.
Let them lose some supporters, and find new ones. I had never thought to give them money before; had they kept to their decision, I would have, merely on principle: I don't think it's right to bully organizations like that to get them to follow your agenda.
Go "cry a river" catfitz! But you think it's o.k. to hijack an organization by loading the board with conservatives or hiring conservative vps for public policy to guide or dictate the policies of that organization? Ya' think those moves might witness an effort to dictate the direction an organization takes?Besides, those weren't bullies, you neandertal, they were (largely) cancer survivors and daughters of cancer survivors, mothers of cancer survivors. Everything but ideologues. (Unless the idea is/was "help as many women survive breast cancer as is possible.") They were just trying to reclaim "their" organization and its mission from being hijacked by the likes of Karen Handel. Does Handel have breast cancer? Maybe the organization SGK – at its heart – has outgrown Brinker. Perhaps it has grown more expansive and inclusive than her conservative, well-heeled imagination is comfortable with. She's a terrible liar. Anyway…. to the author – and I'm not trying to curry favor – (Your posted credits don't include "appearances" on NPR. (Hard to "appear" on radio, huh?) But I'd swear your written voice sounds familiar.) I hear what you're writing about the "too bad that being caught up in politics and the abortion debate will cost the organization contributors". But, again, perhaps the organization and its mission and its reach has outgrown Brinker and her Board and its hires. Founders aren't necessarily the best at growing their organizations. Perhaps Brinker never intended to extend the organization to "all" women. The existing Board evidently doesn't. And what's up with hiring Handel as vp of Public Policy and then trying to act like "we had no idea our new grant policies might affect our relationship with PP and only PP?" Maybe what came out this week was the true voice of Brinker and her Board and its hires, in which case, the constituents of SGK heard the voice and protested: "this is not the voice of our organization." Sometimes a PR debacle is an organization demonstrating its leadership's true colors? Or, maybe, just growing pains. Thanks for the article and your posted responses to the comments that were offered. Sorry I got in so late.
This is all fake, and it's all about social media gurus trying to keep themselves employed, and manufacture problems only they can solve.
1. You yourself don't support Komen's decision, you think it's politically incorrect. Admit it. So what you're really trying to say is that they shouldn't have made this decision at all.
2. No matter how Komen would have done this, the outcry from the hard left and organized "progressive" organizations would have been enormous, hateful, and shrill — there isn't any way to make this better or easier — it is what it is.
3. Social media is mainly on fire with OPPONENTS not supporters because social media is in fact still very much dominated by the left and "progressives" — the conservative/Tea Party use of it is growing, but it is nowhere near the mindshare that the shriekers on the left have. Social media's very makers and its power users like yourself do not share conservative views and support abortion. Therefore your claim that you have some "better" way to do all this is really fake.
4. Komen isn't "scrambling," it's doing what it feels best to do, and that is resonant with groups of constituents who don't share your views. That's why you feel it is "wrong" — the issue is what bothers you, not their methods. There is no good way for them to satisfy the howling and hounding left. None. So they shouldn't be placating or modulating their message but stick with their views and their constituences.
5. Komen is not required to take on all the shrill and mendacious claims of the howling entitlement-happy left on this matter, pretending that they "must" answer for the needs of all poor women for breast screenings.
6. Go to the ads for Planned Parenthood in NYC, and you'll see what misleading propaganda it is to claim that they mainly do generic health services. The first word in the ad is "abortion" and then "birth control". That's what they do. They should cease lying about this or pretending they are something else. They immediately raised $1 million over this affair, great, let their own constituencies support them and start badgering and hectoring an organization that has different constituency. No nonprofit is required to be all things to all men.
7. There isn't any way to deal with this on the liberal to "progressive" TV shows. They can't win as they would be hounded and badgered with all the fake propaganda, i.e. they are harming all poor women, only they can deliver these services, PP only delivers generic services blah blah blah. Appearing on TV would put them into diametrically opposing the mendacity of PP, so they are better off not going on TV to play that game.
8. You give away the store about your own fake "bi-partisan" claims or the "neutrality of a social media professional" with this paragraph:
"Komen, on the other hand, has always prided itself on being bi-partisan and non-political, which not only makes the hiring of Handel, and the firing of Planned Parenthood, as it were, more surprising to its supporters, but may also have made the organization less equipped to expect or handle the backlash. Although as nonprofit communications expert Kivi Leroux Miller told Politico yesterday, it's hard to believe that the response was a complete surprise to Komen staff. "They pretty much cut their fundraising support in half," Miller said. "I don't think they meant to make a huge political statement, but it was extremely naïve of them to think this wasn't hyper-political.""
So basically, what you think the social media strategy is (and what is social media *for* except for fund-raising, at the end of the day!), is to NOT HAVE MADE the decision. To have remained "bi-partisan" and not jeopardized their fundraising.
You think you should have a say, as a liberal, in the hiring and firing of this private foundation "just because" you think they have some social obligation to fulfill *your* agenda. And that's just what's wrong here. They don't.
They can go fundraise in response to the witch-hunting the left has unleashed on them just like PP itself is shamelessly fundraising.
This is yet another ugly story of intolerance *on the part of the left* not on the part of this in fact centrist organization not wishing to alienate a good portion of their constituency which is not seeking an abortion and which does not wish to support abortion. *And that's ok*. This is America — organizations should be free to pursue their own agendas in their own way. Don't like it? Support a different organization and stop harassing this one.
I can accept your hatred of "the left", because that's a choice you personally make, but not the desire to deny individual women's freedoms.
It's ok to be sharp in one's opinions, Amy, God knows the left were as shrill as they possibly could be, even Anonymous hacked the site, even that greeting card company had a spoof, I appreciate your keen ear for "civil discourse," but it was missing with all of them, you know what I mean?
I personally oppose abortion for myself as a matter of faith as a Catholic, and I think this is a valid teaching. I don't think it can be forced on others, and I don't campaign on it. It's the law of the land, and I accept that it's a "choice" for others. The reality I find with my friends who have had abortions is that they aren't in a "choice" place. They are not poor or minorities. They are women trying to keep boyfriends or women who afraid of appearing non-spontaneous if they put in birth control. Hardly a "choice" place.
The reason I spoke out on this is because I saw the same mob mentality and e-thuggery as with the anti-SOPA campaign and other things that the "progressives' don't like. And I hated to see that bullying, that's all.
Komen didn't want to be closely associated with PP when it was under investigation for abortions in a state where it was having a high profile. *And that's ok*. Maybe some of the Komen people think they save PP's soul by at least having breast cancer screenings in a place where women mainly go for birth control and abortions. Your notion that their message through this was intended as "non-political" just isn't supported by the original statement. And I emphasize again that it is *okay* for them to be political because God knows, the left is.
Again, you're hiding behind your "craft" to pretend that you don't have a point of view, like old mainstream media used to do. But you *do* have a point of view and you think the ultimate communications strategy was *to not have shed PP*.
I don't feel organizations "have" to respond to the din and drumbeat of social media. The public outcry in this case was a contrived politicized fiction whipped up first and foremost by the progressive political blogs and the social media gurus crying that this was a social media disaster. And again, that is all fake.
Komen was thrown by the mob. This is wrong. They will come for you some day.
The lesson we should take from the Sierra Club's taking money from the industry that most threatens drinking water is:
Our "left" must organize itself democratically, radically, and horizontally. It also must abandon the high profile hight cost hierarchies like Sierra, and assume that the "reforms" these NGOs are touting are cover for industry reform of the NGOs.
For years Sierra Club compromises aided the cutting of Washington States old growth forests, which have been reduced to 1% of what they were when Sierra first claimed to be "Saving the old growth".


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BATESVILLE — John Worth and Paul Barada Jr. have opened a new office of their law firm, Worth and Barada LLP, at 444 Main St., Brookville. Both have had extensive legal careers in southeastern Indiana.
Worth and his wife Gay reside on their farm in northwestern Franklin County. He serves as Franklin County attorney, and she is a Franklin County Public Library District board member. The Worths also operate a log home bed and breakfast in the county.
Worth began his practice of law in 1970 in Rushville and the surrounding counties. He is a past recipient of the coveted Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. He has held various positions in state government under Govs. Ed Whitcomb and Otis Bowen, serving as corporation counsel for the secretary of state's office, Industrial Board member and as a clerk under Judge Cooper of the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Currently, he serves as the Rush County public defender's council commissioner and attorney for Rush County Schools, where he successfully defended the school corporation's drug testing policy before the U.S. Supreme Court. He recently served as the United Methodist Church Rushville District general counsel and on the South Indiana Methodist Foundation board of trustees.
Prior to joining this practice, Barada served three terms as the elected Rush County prosecuting attorney, handling all major felony prosecutions and juvenile cases.
He has taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, from which both he and Worth graduated. While at IU, Barada also studied at the London School of Economics, London.
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Richard Beasley didn't make a plea to jurors for his life.
Instead, the convicted killer sat in his wheelchair, keeping his head bowed and his hand covering his eyes while his mother and his attorney tried Wednesday to save it.
They were not successful.
Jurors recommended to Judge Lynne S. Callahan shortly after 6 p.m. that Beasley be put to death for killing three men in the so-called Craigslist murders. He has also been convicted for attempting to kill a fourth man.
Callahan will impose her sentence at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday.
After the announcement, Jack Kern, father of victim Tim Kern, said closure will begin after the sentencing.
He said the families of the victims helped each other throughout the ordeal.
"We all stuck together. It's been a family for us. We've really been together for the whole time. It means a lot," said a tearful Kern as he held his wife, Ellen, and was surrounded by representatives of the other families.
Kern said there were times during the trial that listening to the testimony was difficult.
"I wanted to walk out of the courtroom when [Beasley] was on the stand. It was terrible. Blatant lies," he said.
But Wednesday's swift verdict suggested jurors "knew what was going on," Kern said. "They made the right decision."
In the sentencing hearing during the day, defense attorney Lawrence Whitney implored jurors to spare Beasley's life and consider less penalties such as life in prison with no parole or parole eligibility in 25 or 30 years.
The same jury convicted Beasley this month in the killings of Ralph Geiger, David Pauley and Tim Kern. Beasley, 53, was also convicted of attempted murder in the shooting of Scott Davis.
The men were all lured by a bogus job offer to oversee a vast, isolated property in Noble County. The ad was written by Beasley and appeared on Craigslist in 2011. Prosecutors said Beasley targeted down-on-their-luck bachelors with few family ties.
But Whitney reminded jurors that the "heinousness" of the crimes of which Beasley was convicted is not to be considered by jurors when they recommend a sentence.
"The verdict you sign determines whether Mr. Beasley lives or dies," Whitney said.
Defense attorneys called just three witnesses during the day's sentencing hearing. Beasley was not one of them.
In death penalty cases, defendants can take the stand with impunity, and many do so to plead for mercy from jurors. In Beasley's case, such a plea would have been contradictory.
At trial, he testified to the same jurors that he didn't kill anyone, that he shot Davis in self-defense and that others, perhaps members of a motorcycle gang, were responsible for the deaths of Geiger, Pauley and Kern.
Instead, his 72-year-old mother, Carol Beasley, while making no direct plea of mercy, told jurors that she "loves Richard with all [her] heart."
The thrust of her testimony centered on her son's early childhood, which she said included an absent biological father and later, an abusive, alcoholic stepfather.
"He was abusive from the point that he neglected us. He was just never around," Carol Beasley said of her first marriage, which lasted less than two years.
Richard Beasley was about 18 months old when his father left the family for good. Carol Beasley remarried about two years later and raised her son in Akron. She told jurors that her new husband, Jim, drank and gambled incessantly and was abusive toward her, Richard, and their two daughters.
Her own physical abuse included slapping and pushing, she said. Furniture, dishes and windows were broken during many of her husband's tantrums, she added.
The trauma initiated from her husband, she said, was especially prevalent "anytime he drank, which was about seven days a week."
She said her son bore much physical and emotional abuse and she recalled a time when her husband used an extension cord to whip a young Richard Beasley for riding his tricycle in their home.
"It just never got any better," she said. "Everybody was afraid when he'd come home."
Carol Beasley and her husband are still married.
"In retrospect, I can see I made a mistake," Carol Beasley told jurors.
She said her poor marriage affected her children, especially Richard. In school, she said, her son was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. She also told jurors that she recently learned her son was molested as a child by two boys in the neighborhood.
Dr. John Matthew Fabian, a forensic psychologist and mitigation expert, testified for the defense about Beasley's life. Fabian met with Beasley in the Summit County Jail on 10 occasions from April 2012 through March 9 of this year.
Fabian told jurors that Beasley's childhood and his family's "cycle of violence" contributed to his adult diagnosis of depression and dependency on alcohol and opiate drugs.
"It's not a good way to start out in life," Fabian told the jury.
Beasley was diagnosed with depression while in prison in 1980 and has been on medication ever since, Fabian said. His substance abuse began while Beasley served in the U.S. Navy and continued through his adulthood as a means of "escaping" his problems, Fabian said.
He also found Beasley to have above-average intelligence with an IQ of 115. However, he said, tests showed Beasley has personality disorders that include narcissistic tendencies and anti-social behavior that includes a lack of empathy for others.
A third defense witness was a friend of Beasley, who talked of meeting the defendant about 10 years ago at church. The friend continues to visit Beasley in jail.
Paul Scarsella, an assistant Ohio attorney general, countered for the state, reminding jurors of Beasley's "moral culpability" in the murders, Beasley's personal choices, and the fact that many people from abusive homes don't grow up to kill.
"It doesn't diminish the appropriateness of the death penalty in this case because he grew up in an abusive household," he said."
He reminded jurors of another finding in Fabian's report: that Beasley "blames everyone else" for his problems and crimes. He urged jurors to recommend death.
Geiger, 56, of Akron, was killed Aug. 9, 2011. His body was found in Noble County in November, the same day the body of Kern, 47, of Massillon, was found in a wooded area near the former Rolling Acres mall in Akron.
Authorities believe Kern was killed Nov. 13, and Pauley, 51, of Virginia, on Oct. 23.
The scheme did not come to the attention of law enforcement until Davis, 48, a Stark County native living in South Carolina, was shot Nov. 6 while touring the property.
Beasley's co-defendant, Brogan Rafferty, a Stow-Munroe Falls High School student, who was 16 at the time of the crimes, was convicted of three counts of aggravated murder last year. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
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The Airport Privatization Citizens Review Committee will hold their first meeting Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 4 p.m. at the Briscoe Field offices. The 11 members and Infrastructure Management Group (IMG) will provide counseling in the proposals for the potential privatization of Briscoe Field.
Here is the proposed agenda for Tuesday's meeting:
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(Born on January 9, 1958) -- When it comes to Olympic heroes who played for the Buffalo Sabres, it's easy to think of Mike Ramsey - a member of the "Miracle on Ice" group that won a gold for the United States in 1980. But don't forget one of McClanahan's teammates, Rob McClanahan.
The forward was part of a national championship team at the University of Minnesota in 1979. He joined the Olympic team the next season, and became a standout. McClanahan only trailed Mark Johnson in the exhibition season in the run-up to Lake Placid.
When McClanahan arrived, he was ready. Not only did he have five goals in the tournament, but McClanahan scored the game-winning goal in the third period against Finland. Moments don't come much better than that.
The Sabres signed him right after the Olympics and brought him to Buffalo to play. That must have been a difficult emotional task, but McClanahan still had some good moments for a Buffalo team that reached the NHL playoff semifinals.
In the fall of 1981, the Sabres put him on waivers, and the Whalers claimed him. McClanahan also spent time with the Rangers before retiring because of injures. From there it was on to a second career, working on investments back home in Minnesota. Think anyone asks him about Lake Placid?
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Ribble Valley MP's concern at lottery ticket price hike
11:03am Friday 18th January 2013 in News
An East Lancashire MP has criticised Camelot's decision to increase the price of a Loterry ticket to £2.
Nigel Evans, who represents the Ribble Valley, said: "Notwithstanding the higher winnings, I do think that this is bad timing on Camelot's part.
"Most people who play the National Lottery do so out of a sense of hope and what could be.
"Increasing the price by 100 per cent does seem very unfair, especially at a time when people are struggling financially.
"Many people also play the same numbers week in week out and I worry that they would feel compelled to continue at double the cost.
"I understand that prices have not changed since 1994, but I see no compelling reason to change them now and I hope that they remain the same in the autumn."
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11:18am Fri 18 Jan 13
buckoff says...
12:13pm Fri 18 Jan 13
jimpy0 says...
12:20pm Fri 18 Jan 13
ste.g says...
jimpy0 wrote:i emailed Camelot to inform them i would be closing my account if they increased it to two pounds.
Also just closed my account ........
they replied with an email on how to close it.
bye bye lotto, hello the Irish lottery
1:35pm Fri 18 Jan 13
frank says...
1:55pm Fri 18 Jan 13
Lankygirl says...
2:03pm Fri 18 Jan 13
jimpy0 says...
2:57pm Fri 18 Jan 13
Kevin, Colne says...
I guess the aim of the price rise is to raise more money and Camelot will have done their sums: they may lose players but still increase revenue overall.
Remember when you buy a Lottery ticket you're contributing to good causes, one of which is the pensions of retired teachers in Ontario – Camelot is owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund.
It's ironic: I suspect that many players of the National Lottery will have poor pension provision yet seem content to make a contribution to pensions of retired teachers in another country.
The supreme irony would be a teacher in this country now contemplating strike action in respect of their own pension while playing the National Lottery and effectively making a voluntary contribution to the pension of teachers in another country. It puts a whole new meaning on the phrase AVCs!
Premium Bonds are a loan to the Government in which returns – effectively interest but called 'winnings' - are distributed randomly. A win on the Premium Bonds should really be called: 'A Randomly Generated Interest Payment'.
3:19pm Fri 18 Jan 13
Elegant1 says...
Mr Evans is probably one of the MPs that are under the illusion that they are worth £250.000 a year salary instead of the £75k they get at present.
As it happens I do not buy lottery tickets as it is around 14.000.000 to 1 that I will not win. That would be about the Odds on a Tory victory at the 2015 election!
5:51pm Fri 18 Jan 13
time will tell says...
Ladbrokes will give you 14 million to 1 for Elvis Pressley to crash a UFO into the Loch Ness monster.
Doesn`t Tory boy`s family own a newsagents?
6:16pm Fri 18 Jan 13
drunken donut says...
5:19pm Sat 19 Jan 13
Elegant1 says...
time will tell wrote:If you ever see me in Ladbrokes I give yoou permission to shoot me!
@Eleganti 1
Ladbrokes will give you 14 million to 1 for Elvis Pressley to crash a UFO into the Loch Ness monster.
Doesn`t Tory boy`s family own a newsagents?
Yes, He hails from Wales where his family are/were Newsagents he worked in the business and tried hard to get elected until he was given a safe Tory seat in the Ribble Valley.
He knows a lot about the "Poor" as he has objected to the Minimum Wage from the outset and has objected to every increases that has been granted. I would be surprised if he has ever had segs on his hands in his working life. Quite a colourful character according to Wickipedia. Had he been to Eton or Oxford he would have been in the Cabinet before now.
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2 for 5p says...
However I do agree that to much goes to charity.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Brooke Palmer had 21 points and 13 rebounds and Fort Gibson won its second state championship in three years, beating Mount St. Mary's 58-43 Saturday night for the Class 4A title.
The Lady Tigers (29-1) dominated the boards in the second half, outrebounding Mount St. Mary's 21-4. Palmer, Cheyenne Johnson and Savannah Gray each had six rebounds apiece after halftime, and Fort Gibson turned eight offensive rebounds into 14 second-chance points to pull away.
Aimee Rishcard scored 18 points to lead the Lady Rockets (25-6), who were up 27-26 early in the second half before Fort Gibson reeled off seven straight points. Mount St. Mary's got within 34-33 on Rishcard's 3-pointer before the Lady Tigers put it away with a 12-2 run.
Allie Glover added 12 points for Fort Gibson.
Clark's 51 leads Douglass past Roland 82-80
OKLAHOMA CITY — Stevie Clark had 51 points in a scoring duel with Roland's Seth Youngblood, leading Douglass to an 82-80 victory and its fourth straight Class 4A state championship.
Clark — who has signed to play at Oklahoma State next season — scored the Trojans' last nine points after Youngblood's four-point play gave Roland (28-2) a 74-73 lead midway through the fourth quarter.
Clark's layup put Douglass (27-3) back ahead and then je hit a 3-pointer to make it a four-point game. After another 3-pointer by Youngblood, Clark hit four free throws in the final 40 seconds to close out the win for Douglass.
Youngblood ended up with 41 points — hitting nine of 15 3-point attempts. Brooks Robertson added 15 points for Roland.
Glenn Banks had 16 points and 14 rebounds for Douglass.
Woodard's tip-in lifts Edmond Memorial to 6A crown
TULSA — Jordan Woodard's tip-in at the buzzer lifted Edmond Memorial to a 49-48 win over Midwest City in the Class 6A Boys state championship game Saturday night.
The win marked the second state championship in three seasons for the Bulldogs (26-2), who squandered a 12-point lead they held against the Bombers (27-2) before halftime.
Midwest City appeared to have locked it up when Trey Sneed sank two free throws for the Bombers with 31 seconds left, but in the final 17 seconds Aaron Young scored on a free throw and Shaquille Morris scored off an offensive rebound with 7.1 seconds left to make it 48-47. After a Midwest City turnover, Woodard scored on the tip-in.
Morris had 20 points for Edmond Memorial and Torey Noel had 20 for Midwest City.
Booker T. Washington 52, Bixby 46 in girls 6A
TULSA — Kaylan Mayberry scored 22 points to lead No. 6 Tulsa Booker T. Washington to a 52-46 win over third-ranked Bixby in Class 6A Girls state championship game at Oral Roberts' University's Mabee Center.
BTW took the lead for good in Saturday's game with a layup by Sandy Samilton with just more than two minutes to play and MaKenzie Ellis' two free throws with 30.4 seconds left iced the game for the Hornets.
The state title is the third in six seasons for the Lady Hornets (27-2).
The Lady Spartans (21-8) had the ball with a chance to tie or take the lead when they turned the ball over and Ellis was eventually fouled — leading to the clinching free throws.
Stevi Parker led Bixby with 13 points and Christian Devers added 11 for the Lady Spartans.
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TULSA — Devin Perez scored 18 points and Demari Edwards added 15 as Tulsa Memorial beat Bishop McGuinness 59-42 for the boys Class 5A state championship in Tulsa.
Saturday's win gives the Chargers (23-5) their first state championship since 2008 and sixth in school history.
Tulsa Memorial led 23-17 at halftime and 32-25 in the third quarter before breaking the game open — leading by 22 at one point.
David Love and Stephen Amalog each scored 13 points to lead the Fighting Irish.
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TULSA — Ashley Gibson scored 21 points, Bayli Blanchard got 16 and Dakota Vann made 14 as No. 2 Deer Creek knocked off top-ranked Shawnee, 59-44 in the Class 5A Girls state championship game.
Saturday's game at the ORU Mabee Center was closer than the final score suggests, as Deer Creek pushed its lead from three points to 15 in the last two minutes by sinking free throws.
The Lady Antlers led by a point at halftime and pulled away with an 18-5 run in the second half that gave them a 41-27 lead. Shawnee cut the lead to 46-43 with just under two minutes left but got no closer.
It is the first state championship for Deer Creek (27-2) since 2006, when it won at the 4A level. Shawnee (26-3) won last year's state title.
Sulphur beats Perkins-Tryon 42-34 for 3A title
OKLAHOMA CITY — Ashley Hughes scored 15 points and Sulphur beat Perkins-Tryon 42-34 to win a Class 3A girls state championship game featuring teams that had both reached the finals undefeated.
The Lady Demons (28-1) were never able to recover after being held to just two points in the first quarter of Saturday's game. Sulphur (30-0) led by 10 at halftime and withstood a string of six straight Perkins-Tryon points to start the second half that cut the lead to 19-15 — before pulling away again.
It is the first state championship for the Lady Bulldogs.
Jordan Gorham led Perkins-Tryon with 13 points and Bailey Wensler added 11.
Latta beats Haworth 58-41 to take boys 2A title
OKLAHOMA CITY — Trent Storts scored 18 points, Kade Hayes chipped in 15 points and Latta never trailed on its way to a 58-41 victory Saturday against Haworth in the Class 2A boys state championship game
It was the first state title for Latta (29-3).
Storts hit a 3-pointer and then Hayes followed with three more 3s during a 12-0 first half run, putting Panthers in control to stay. Hayes' third 3-pointer made it 16-4 early in the second quarter.
Haworth (28-7) could never again get within single digits. Oscar Rivera had 11 points to lead the Lions.
Jake Collins hit all eight of his foul shots and finished with 10 points for Latta.
Northeast pulls away, tops Alva 53-36 for 2A title
OKLAHOMA CITY — Lanesia Williams scored 14 of her 21 points in the second half, T'ona Edwards added 11 points and Northeast pulled away to beat Alva 53-36 in the Class 2A girls state championship game.
Chanel Akins had a pair of baskets in a 9-0 run to start the second half of Saturday's game as the Lady Vikings (30-0) built on a 22-21 halftime lead. Northeast shot 61 percent in the second half while limiting the Lady Bugs (25-5) to just 26 percent.
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Wiping away tears from his eyes as he took the podium, Michael Foulkes, Apple's senior manager for state and local government affairs, accepted an award Saturday on behalf of the late Steve Jobs, reminding the crowd that Jobs hated awards.
"I forgot I was going to see a video of Steve, which is always hard to see," Foulkes said. "So, thank you Chamber of Commerce for this award. Steve hated awards, especially awards about him so I'm going to be very quick."
The City of Cupertino's tribute video to Steve Jobs played just before Foulkes stepped up to accept the 2012 President's Award from the Cupertino Chamber of Commerce at the Chamber's 2012 STAR Award banquet.
"We all miss him so much here, but, um, he believed that technology was a mental bicycle and that's all it was; nothing more, nothing less. It should make each of us be better than we are. He always followed that and the company still follows that, and hopefully will follow it for generations to come.
"So Steve lives in all of us. Those who worked with him miss him dearly but he lives in our hearts. All of you who have a device at home or in your pockets, hopefully that is your mental bicycle and make you be a better person than you are," Foulkes said.
Then turning to the Apple 2 campus that will be built on the current Hewlett-Packard Cupertino campus, Foulkes said this: "And finally for all of us in Cupertino, we have a new campus coming forward designed by Steve. Steve designed this campus as a product. You'll be very excited as it comes to fruition. It's something that is an engineering marvel that will rival any building on the planet and something that Steve, up till the end made sure was going to be a lasting legacy for Cupertino of Apple. So thank you in Steve's honor for this award," Foulkes said.
The Chamber's annual STAR (Service Teamwork Achievement Recognition) Award is an annual event to recognize those who perform outstanding community service or show exceptional leadership. The President's award is at the discretion of the Chamber's current president, who is now John Zirelli, general manager of Recology.
Saturday's 55th annual Star Awards ceremony was held at Cypress Hotel.
Other 2012 Star Award recipients were: KRTV/ KLIV Broadcasting for the Large Business of the Year, Hobee's De Anza for the Medium Business of the Year, Picchetti Winery for the Small Business of the Year, Rashel Yadegari, senior branch manager of the First Tech Federal Credit Union, for the Chamber Ambassador of the Year, and former Mayor Dolly Sandoval and Rotarian Tom Dyer for the Citizens of the Year.
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The Mineral Wells Art Association invites the public to join them Tuesday evening at the Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce for a demonstration by artist Ken MacFarlane, who will show how to create works of art from scratch board.
A resident of Breckenridge, as well as Tucson, Ariz., MacFarlane uses scratchboard to make dramatic depictions of subjects, namely people and animals.
He explains that scratchboard "is like pencil in reverse" where "dark becomes light."
Instead of putting color or graphite on a white piece of paper, an artist or student starts out with a black-surfaced scratchboard and uses tools, scratching lines to create exquisitely detailed white-on-black art.
On his website, www.tunastreasures.com, MacFarlane said one of his favorite aspects of art is "capturing the battle between light and dark. That is why I have become enamored with scratchboard."
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(415) 771-7779
Hours of Operation:
Dinner: Monday - Saturday 5:30pm-10:30pm and Sunday 5:30pm-10:00pm
Lunch: Saturday and Sunday 11:00am - 2:30pm
Payment Options:
AMEX, MasterCard, Visa
Executive Chef:
Matthew Accarrino
Dress Code:
Casual Dress
Accepts Walk-Ins:
Additional Details:
Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Chef's Table, Counter Seating, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Takeout, Wheelchair Access, Wine
Getting there
Cross Street:
Between Bush & Pine
Public Transit:
Muni 22 Fillmore, 3 Jackson, 38 Geary & 1 California.
A word from SPQR
SPQR is a Northern California restaurant inspired by Italian cuisine and wine.
An acronym for Senatus Populesque Romanus, SPQR translates to "The People and Senate of Rome" and was the emblem of the Roman Empire.
We strive for a balance in offering the highest quality of
food, wine and service we can for each guest's experience in a relaxed, fun, and inviting atmosphere.
If you would like to dine at our Chef counter please mark your reservation. Please inform us of any allergies or dietary restrictions as we will try our best to accommodate.
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Diner Reviews
Let me start with this is a good
restaurant if you live in the area, not worth a special trip! I am a Chef in Paso Robles. My wife and I enjoy taking special trips for nice food experiences. Since SPQR is a 1 star Michelin restaurant we wanted to give it a try. I made reservation and was looking forward to try the sea urchin PABA cotta. Called to make sure they had it and was told they did. Very excited! Upon arriving it I was told that they only make 6-8 portions a night and they were sold out! So disappointed! The presentation is well done on all dishes, but the food is average at best. Nice wine selection but many other places have just as good selection. Would recommend if you live local but much better places to dine at!"
Dined on 7/27/2014
Exceptional service, unique menu
with just the right portions (we went for weekend lunch), extensive wine list with great suggestions from our waiter"
Dined on 7/27/2014
Made a reservation a couple days
before for a friend's birthday dinner! Right when we walked in, they had our reservation and table ready and sat us down immediately. We ordered the two tasting menus (truffle and pasta) and decided to share. It took quick awhile for the first course to arrive but after that the food just kept coming and coming! Each dish was delicious and the typical tasting menu sized small portions. However, with the large quantity of dishes, near the end, we both got very full and ended up not finishing the dishes! The service was amazing and our waitress was very friendly! She folded my friend's napkin everytime she left to go to the restroom! Our waters were never empty! Amazing restaurant! Would highly recommend it!"
Dined on 7/24/2014
Although I am insulted by the
credit card required for any reservation, I note that it has freed up more reservations than usual. As someone who always honors a reservation (or cancels with due notice) I usually stop eating at such credit-card-required establishments on principle, but we are long-time customers and the food and service is superb, so I am giving them a pass."
Dined on 7/24/2014
Overall, lived up to its
ourstanding reputation. Most dishes excellent, as was service. However, ordered pasta with truffles and truffles had zero aroma, almost no flavor, and lousy soft texture. Clearly frozen. It was, in part, our fault for ordering truffles in summer; but SPQR should only put truffles on the menu if they are proud to serve them -- and I can't believe you are proud of this product, certainly not at $50 for a dish of pasta. In my view, a pretty shameful lapse in an otherwise exemplary meal."
Dined on 7/23/2014
We made the long haul up from
Silicon Valley on a Tuesday night to do the pasta tasting menu which had been mentioned in the SF Chronicle's "Top 100" Restaurants piece. It was definitely worth the trip (and expense). The pasta tasting was five courses with the option to add a sixth, a truffle course, for an additional $25. Each course was unique and the portions were quite large. It was a good sampler of the main menu with a touch of off-menu specialties. It is small and quaint. If you can, get the chef's counter where you can delight in seeing the young chefs put together the dishes with incredible design and flair, do. Make reservations in advance if possible, though there is limited bar seating as well (about 10 seats)."
Dined on 7/22/2014
I took my boss here. I had no
idea he had no dairy/no butter requirements or I prob would not have picked spqr. The waitress told us there were no pastas w/O butter so not to look there. We then went down every line item & nothing was an option, nor did she seem to want to ask the chef for it to be. We finally just said surprise us. She brought a salad w a fried avacado on it. My boss LOVED it & given his Crohn's diseased body, that was a treat that he could eat. He asked for more. The answer was no. After we ate a few things that she brought, he was still hungry. He asked for pasta with just olive oil. The answer was no. Everything was no. I felt bad for him. He left hungry & w/ the honor of paying a big bill w/o being satisfied."
Dined on 7/22/2014
After hearing so many good
reviews, I expected more from SPQR. The food was fair, but the prices are extremely high."
Dined on 7/21/2014
For my husbands birthday I was
able to get a lunch reservation at SPQR. It is very hard to find high quality restaurants that are open for lunch. We prefer to have our big meal early in the day. What a wonderful feast. Reminded us of our most recent trip to Rome, where we were lucky enough to get reservations at Pipero Al Rex for lunch. Definately a place for that foodie experience."
Dined on 7/20/2014
I booked well in advance. Had a
great time, good food and service! Loved the ambiance and the server was approachable and friendly."
Dined on 7/19/2014
After enjoying a fabulous meal
with a bill in excess of $350, the restaurant separately states and adds in $6 for employees health care tax. Is this to make a point or is the restaurant struggling such that they need to separately bill an expense. What next, a charge for leasing the table for 2 hours?"
Dined on 7/19/2014
We were given a gift certificate
to SPQR. Our server recommended a salad, which we shared, and that was very good. Although for $15, overpriced for what we got. Our entrees, which were $36 and $37 respectively, were awful. I had 3 types of veal, a loin, a sweetbread and some other form which was difficult to identify - this was served with vegetables. Only the loin was edible. The others were dry, and had a very unappealing taste, that stayed with me the rest of the night. The vegetables consisted of one new potato, slightly larger than a grape cut in half, two baby carrots cut in half, and about 6 tiny onions. My husband had pork which was very dry and overcooked. Our bill came to $105, without any beverages and no dessert. BAD."
Dined on 7/19/2014
Sat at a table in the middle of
the restaurant towards the back. The table was just inches from a prep area, felt like we were eating in the kitchen. Had several lackluster servers- not offered dessert or coffee. We did order coffee however but it tasted off and they were kind enough to remove it from the bill after tasting it and agreeing that it was "burnt". Maybe the dinner experience would be better."
Dined on 7/19/2014
I went there for date night with
my boyfriend (I had been once before) on a fri. This restaurant clearly knows how to make special dishes. The staff are very knowledgeable and helped us with the wine list since I hadn't heard of any of them. The only thing that bugged me was the service. My bf and I were right on time for our reservation and the party of two right beside is, who arrived after us, had already received their drinks and appetizers before we had even ordered our wine. At a very expensive restaurant like this, i would have expected the waitress to be more attentive."
Dined on 7/18/2014
Fresh ingredients, creativity,
masterful innovative cuisine. Soon will outgrow this lower Pacific Heights location and move to Sacramento and compete with Spruce. Matthew Accarrini is the US equivalent of George Blance, the French Chef from Vonnas (Burgundy) Humble and quiet - but a genius in the kitchen"
Dined on 7/14/2014
It's not really Italian food at
all, except the common food vehicle called pasta. However, this 'pasta' is hand made of grains and textures you'd never find in Italy and mixed with extraordinary ingredients you'd only get from a northern pacific coastline. The result is some of the most inventive and unforgettable 'pasta' dishes you'll ever experience."
Dined on 7/14/2014
I have heard nothing but good
things about this restaurant. However, after trying it twice, the reality is that is just not all that. Fish was over salted. Appetizer's were bland. Overall, nothing had a wow factor, even the highest priced items on the menu didn't stand out in any way. They sat us side by side with another couple, (which is fine, its SF) but it was so close that we were actually in each others conversation. I don't think i'll be going back for dinner anytime soon."
Dined on 7/14/2014
We started with 2 entrees which
soundedz really good but both of them were extremely eclectic and weird ( lots of ingredients that didn't really go together ) and at this moment we really didn't understand what the buzz about. But then the main course of pastas arrived and they were wonderful! A very creative and delicious combination of different flavors cooked to perfection. We really enjoyed them even though the portions weren't very big. Tiramisu for dessert was also very good. We say - skip the first courses, order more pastas!"
Dined on 7/13/2014
We were sat at a table that was 1
inch from the table next to us... I was almost touching the woman sitting next to me on the bench. Very awkward & uncomfortable. The server came by, asked our water preference, then dryly told us there were truffle specials available if we were interested, but apparently she didn't want to expend the energy to tell us what they were. The bus boy brings us our water and we sat with the pretty complicated menu for about ten minutes. We had lots of questions about the menu, but our server was no where in sight. We were never offered a cocktail or glass of wine, nor was there any bread or offer for an appetizer. We decided to leave & the hostess tried to block the door. Went to Elite Cafe and had superb service"
Dined on 7/12/2014
We sit at the Chef's Bar (7 seats)
every time we visit SPQR and watch the magic happen. Front row seats for the Chef Matthew Accarrino show (named Food & Wine "Best New Chef" for 2014) and see first hand what he and his amazing crew can do. My wife and I shared all plates . . . starting with the Chicken Liver Mousse ($12) then the Octopus ($21) then one at a time, came the three medium in size pasta's ($26 each). We had the Level III Sommelier choose our wines (3 glasses) that we traded off to one another during the night (Avg. $16 per glass) and ended with the Buttermilk Panna Cotta ($14) . . . and for the encore, they deliver some small treats to enjoy. Approximately $180 plus tax & tip for a FANTASTIC meal and a heck of a show - Bravo !"
Dined on 7/12/2014
Gotta give major kudos to Matthew
here - his menu is not small and every dish is incredibly unique in the ingredients used, flavors and presentation. We were simply blown away by how inventive, how detailed and how simply delicious every single dish was that we tried. The homemade pastas were to die for (wife had the crazy inventive corn pasta ravs and I had the straw and hay bucatini). Scallops were perfect to the second on timing of cook. Best Italian wine list I've seen in a long, long time (we found a Verdicchio di Jesi that we loved when we lived in Le Marche) and server was so relaxed, genuine and above all - really, really knowledgeable about the food. Total, total 5 start experience in every way."
Dined on 7/11/2014
My first time here and we both had
the chef's pasta menu. The pastas, all homemade were amazing. My favorite was the tomato risotto with salmon. It was delicate but also deep in flavor and cooked perfectly. I've also tried to make gnudi, but the ones here are heavenly with homemade pork meatballs in a reduced meat sauce. I enjoyed the wine pairing with the meal, which to me is a must when having multi course meals. I'd come back again and try the extensive menu. It definitely deserves a michelin star. It beats Flour and Water's chef's pasta menu hands down."
Dined on 7/10/2014
Pasta is a specialty but very
chewy. Perhaps not cooked enough? Salad was a wonderful blend of textures/tastes. Tables too close together, music too loud and prices high - surely worth a linen tablecloth! My friend (the birthday girl) loves the place, but she likes mousse and pate' and I do not."
Dined on 7/10/2014
food was good but not off the
charts. small pasta dishes for $26 seemed a bit pricey and not fantastic enuf to justify the price. wine list had too much mark up. staff was a bit huffy (just one person -- rest were fine). would not go back."
Dined on 7/8/2014
My husband and I celebrated our
10th Anniversary at the chef's table. Very relaxed, but impeccable. Extremely efficient and relaxed team crafting our plates. Brilliant wine pairings assisted by our waiter."
Dined on 7/7/2014
Overpriced, pretentious and too
crowded for comfort."
Dined on 7/7/2014
Food and service was very good as
has been our experience twice before."
Dined on 7/6/2014
Hadn't eaten at SPQR in a while
and found it, if anything, better than I remembered. Great pasta and extensive wine list. Professional and friendly service. Highly recommend."
Dined on 7/5/2014
If you have the opportunity to sit
at the chef's counter, take it. We were dazzled watching the chefs make dish after dish. We also loved the food. Flavorful food with unexpected tastes combining and colliding. Loved it."
Dined on 7/5/2014
We have been wanting to go to SPQR
for years and now with the SFgate writing up the new chef, we thought it would be this year's SF exciting restaurant. We were seated right away ad service was very good. The Pasta's were so good we ordered the tuna with egg plant but his turned our to be predominately a five spice powder dish which has been so overdone in the past ten years. The Guinea Hen pasta was really good and my wife loved the smoked clam, arugula pesto pasta. The salad was very fresh, but we did not find this restaurant to be as stellar as its prices. You can find better in SF."
Dined on 7/5/2014
Yummy for the populous! Foodies
must March over to Filmore!!"
Dined on 7/5/2014
I wanted to like SPQR more, but
there were a couple of misses when I ate there. I came in at 9:00 pm as a single diner and let them know I had been up since 3:30 am eastern time, with almost no food that day. The first course of the tasting menu didn't arrive for 20 minutes. I wasn't given an amuse, bread or anything to tide me over. The table next to me actually ended up giving me a bite of their food because I was starving... When the food did arrive, I was very pleased with all but two of the courses, which were just very blah. They lacked flavor. I think if I had not waited so long for the first course, I might have been more forgiving of the toe courses that were so-so. I would go back, though, and give it another chance."
Dined on 7/3/2014
We had the eating experience of a
lifetime, as we had seats at the bar and the outstanding line chefs/cooks were front and center giving us a real show in terms of their unbelievable preparation and execution of all of SPQR's dishes. Executive chef Matthew was directly in front of us as well as he directed all activities, putting his signature on each and every dish the kitchen produced. I would highly recommend SPQR to anyone in San Francisco, and is truly one of the finest restaurants I have ever eaten at, bar none."
Dined on 7/3/2014
My friend and I wanted to order
from the pasta tasting menu. She doesn't eat meat. We did ask the server if they can substitute or have the meat taken out. She told us the chef won't be able to do either, which was fine. It does require the whole party to order the tasting menu, not just one person. The least for them is to make an exception to allow one person to order the tasting menu and have the other order from the full menu. Didn't seem like the server wanted to work with us and seemed annoyed at our questions. She pretty much tried to avoid our table after that. She'd explain arriving dishes to the tables around us, but would just drop ours off without a word. The food was fresh, but it was too salty. I may give it another try."
Dined on 7/2/2014
We just expected better. Server
was nice enough but spent kept glancing out the window behind us when he was speaking to us; we felt we were in the way of whatever he wanted to really be doing. A special "australian truffle" was offered on a few courses that night for an extra $25 per plate; despite huge amounts on the top of he pasta, it was just about flavorless and scentless,. Of the four pasta dishes we ordered, three were pretty uninspiring. The corn soup was great. Despite arriving on a Monday at 9:30 and being the last there we never felt rushed. Dishes arrived with descriptions from serving staff,.with the exception of the cheese plate that was dropped on our table with no description whatsoever. We found that odd."
Dined on 6/30/2014
Food was variable, being on
average good but far from exciting. In my opinion, prices are higher than they should be quality-wise. Wine list is very good but I do not like the system adopted of not showing the bottle when patrons order wine by the glass. Even if they pour it from an Enomatic machine, showing the bottle is to my mind de rigueur."
Dined on 6/30/2014
Delicious good. Enough said.
Everything is do unique and we'll flavored. We had a black truffle pasta special and it was one of the best pastas we have ever had."
Dined on 6/30/2014
The meal was delicious, unique and
beautifully executed. The waitstaff was cheerful, welcoming and informative. The overall experience was perfect for our early anniversary celebration. Lunch SPQR will be a memory that sticks out in our trip to San Francisco."
Dined on 6/29/2014
Our party of four ordered 6
appetizers, 4 mains and 4 desserts just so we could try as much as possible. Everything was delicious - in particular the amazing chicken liver mousse, the pork belly appetizer, the squid ink spaghetti and the pasta specials with shaved truffles (one with veal and one with porcini mushrooms). Desserts were all outstanding as well, but don't miss the stonefruit or hisbiscus based desserts! amazing service, excellent wine recommendations, and delicious moscato d'asti to end the night perfectly. Best meal of the week in SF/Napa Valley."
Dined on 6/26/2014
i gave spqr another shot after a
so so experience last visit and this time did not disappoint. waiter was attentive and gave us good menu recommendations. good wine, good food, good dessert. tough table to get but worth the wait."
Dined on 6/26/2014
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By Kenny Bayless
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Here I sit with Alan Reed at Starbucks Coffee about to figure out how and where mushrooms grow.
I will be talking to several different people on the subject, and I don't think anyone truly knows how mushrooms grow or they would be millionaires if they could grow them.
Reed is a nice, thoughtful man that you can enjoy visiting with for hours on end. He's a genuine person that puts in thought to everything he says.
So let's get started. Which came first the chicken or the egg?
Does a mushroom re-seed itself or does it start from a newly generated spore or fungus? Of course, in coming writings we will explore the best spots to find them.
Reed has thoughts along with well-kept documentation from his own experiences.
In 2010, he discovered 150 morels of different varieties. In 2009, he counted 505, including a harvest of 300 gray and whites on April 15. In 2008, he found about 200; in 2007, about 380; and in 2006, about 310.
Reed feels that they recreate themselves by releasing spores, which he says you can shake a large one and see them fall to the ground.
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How does a mushroom originate? Is it due to soil, vegetation, certain types of trees, a certain fungus or mold?
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