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First his head, now his arm.
The first John Rocker issue, unpleasant as events have been the past 18 months, was one he could survive. There are enough people out there who don't like New York City, gays and people of different races that -- right or wrong -- Rocker could survive as some sort of anti-media cult hero.
The second, though, is a problem.
The John Rocker the Cleveland Indians thought they were getting from the Atlanta Braves when they dismantled their bullpen to get baseball's bad boy has been nowhere to be found.
Since working a 1-2-3 outing in his first two appearances with Cleveland, Rocker has slid backwards with every outing. Saturday's Sid Monge-type performance was a horror outing reminiscent of those 100-loss Indians' teams.
Rocker has now lost two games in a row with abysmal efforts, but his performance against the Reds had to make John Hart ask himself why he ticked off Bob Wickman and why he didn't wait until the end of the season to worry about Steve Karsay's and Steve Reed's roles and future with the Indians.
What's the shakedown on the trade thus far? In eight games and eight innings with the Indians, Rocker is 2-3 with two saves with a 4.32 ERA, allowing six hits and walking six. Karsay is 1-0 with two saves and a 1.93 ERA in 9.1 innings, allowing six hits, while Reed is 2-0 with a 1.00 ERA in nine innings, allowing only four hits.
In this 2-for-1 deal, the scales tip toward Atlanta, and Saturday only reinforced that notion.
Simply put, Rocker was horrible against the Reds. He was bailed out in the 12th when Pokey Reese was called out at home plate when replays showed Tribe catcher Tim Laker never got a tag on Reese on a bang-bang play at the plate, a double play which ended the inning.
Given that break, Rocker simply gave it back in the 13th. He hit a batter to open the inning, threw away a sacrifice bunt attempt and then walked a .204 hitter on four straight pitches to load the bases.
And when the game was over, Rocker was nowhere to be found and it was left to others to talk for Rocker, about Rocker.
"On the radar gun, maybe he's not throwing as hard, but his ball still jumps," Laker told the Associated Press.
"The only thing I see different is that even when he gets ahead of a hitter, he has trouble throwing enough strikes to finish him off," Indians manager Charlie Manuel said. "He's having trouble with his control."
Rocker has complained of a tired arm -- something Manuel has denied is a problem -- and has lost several miles per hour off his fastball. If Manuel is right and Rocker is healthy, then other forces are at work. And if confidence, or a lack thereof, is at work, then Rocker and the Indians are in trouble.
I was at Cleveland Stadium in 1980 when Brian Sipe failed to throw the ball into Lake Erie, thus ending the Browns' bid to reach the Super Bowl.
Like a champion, though, Sipe came back out to face the mass of national reporters and spent nearly an hour talking about the game and his fateful throw.
Sunday, Rocker cowered in the trainers room from the beat reporters. You make the analogy. You tell me who the man is.
Like it or not, Rocker has to face the music, whether its the 7 train or the recent slide in his performance. If he can't face the fans -- and booing surrounds Rocker every place he goes -- and he can't face reporters, then he's surely going to have a hard time facing the guys with the bats, the ones who are looking to take his job away from him.
If Rocker is about attitude, if Rocker's persona is not caring about what people think of him, he's failing on both counts. Ultimately, the question has to be asked: will the Indians fail as a result?


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Arroyo Seco Loop off Highway 79
The Canyoneers 1:30 p.m., Sept. 20
The 2013 Fall Concert Series of the City of San Diego Public Library is launching a spectacular year of performances to celebrate the new Central Library.
The December 1 event features Jory Herman and Friends (Art of Élan members Kate Hatmaker, violin, San Diego Symphony; Alex Greenbaum, cello, The Knights; Jory Herman, bass, San Diego Symphony). They will perform music from Herman's new CD of the J. S. Bach solo cello suites nos. 1-3, transcribed for bass.
The remainder of the Fall series features prominent local musicians, including Bach Collegium San Diego, Hausmann Quartet with soprano Ann Moss, San Diego Master Chorale, San Diego Children's Choir, and Camarada Trio.
The Library began its Chamber Music Series in the mid-1950s. Critical and popular response encouraged the Library to increase the scope of the series into its present status of a Fall Concert Series and a Winter/Spring Concert Series. These series are made possible by the Friends of Central Library, the San Diego Public Library matching fund program, and public and private donations.
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The Macerich Company (NYSE:MAC) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2010-12-31.
Macerich Company has a market cap of $6.12 billion; its shares were traded at around $47.06 with a P/E ratio of 17.6 and P/S ratio of 8. The dividend yield of Macerich Company stocks is 4.2%.Hedge Fund Gurus that owns MAC: Bruce Kovner of Caxton Associates, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC. Mutual Fund and Other Gurus that owns MAC: Columbia Wanger of Columbia Wanger Asset Management, Pioneer Investments, Jeremy Grantham of GMO LLC.
Highlight of Business Operations:On January 28, 2011, the Company in a 50/50 joint venture, agreed to acquire the Shops at Atlas, a 400,000 square foot community center in Queens, New York, for a total purchase price of $53.8 million. The Company's share of the purchase price consisting of $26.9 million is expected to be funded from cash on hand.
On February 24, 2011, the Company increased its ownership interest in Kierland Commons, a 434,690 square foot community center in Scottsdale, Arizona, from 24.5% to 50%. The purchase price for this transaction was $34.2 million in cash and the assumption of $18.6 million of existing debt.
On April 19, 2010, the Company repurchased and retired $18.5 million of convertible senior notes ("Senior Notes") for $18.3 million. This repurchase resulted in a loss of $0.5 million on early extinguishment of debt. The repurchases were funded through cash on hand.
On April 20, 2010, the Company completed an offering of 30,000,000 newly issued shares of its common stock and on April 23, 2010 issued an additional 1,000,000 newly issued shares of common stock in connection with the underwriters' exercise of its over-allotment option. The net proceeds of the offering, after giving effect to the issuance and sale of all 31,000,000 shares of common stock at an initial price to the public of $41.00 per share, were approximately $1.2 billion after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and other transaction costs. The Company used a portion of the net proceeds of the offering to pay down its line of credit in full and reduce certain property indebtedness. The Company plans to use the remaining cash for debt repayments and/or general corporate purposes.
On August 2, 2010, the Company replaced the existing loan on Wilton Mall with a new $40.0 million loan that bears interest at LIBOR plus 0.675% and matures on August 1, 2013. As additional collateral for the loan, the Company is required to maintain a deposit of $40.0 million with the lender. The interest on the deposit is not restricted.
On November 3, 2010, Pacific Premier Retail Trust, one of the Company's joint ventures, repaid $40.0 million of the $155.0 million balance then outstanding on its credit facility, modified the interest rate to LIBOR plus 3.50% and modified the maturity to November 3, 2012, with a one-year extension option. The credit facility is cross-collateralized by Cascade Mall, Cross Court Plaza, Kitsap Mall, Kitsap Place, Northpoint Plaza and Redmond Town Center.
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by Drew Farwell
The constellation Canis Major contains within it one of the most storied celestial objects in the heavens. Commonly known as the "dog star", Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. It is so bright in fact, that at times it shines brighter than all other bodies, save the Moon, Venus and Jupiter. But what if I told you this bright star is not really a star at all? It is in fact two stars. Or more accurately, a binary star system with a massive primary star and a smaller secondary star locked in orbit around an invisible shared center of mass.
The primary star, Sirius A, is a white main-sequence star twice as massive as our Sun and twenty five times more luminous. The secondary star, Sirius B, is a white dwarf star nearly equal to the Sun in mass but only the size of the Earth in volume. The distance from Sirius A to B varies between 753 million miles and 2.9 billion miles. At their closest, the two stars are closer together than the Sun is to Jupiter. At their most distant they are further apart than the Sun is from Neptune. In our solar system, that difference in orbital distance is large enough to house the two gas giants Saturn and Uranus.
What this means for amateur astronomers is that there is enough angular separation between Sirius A and Sirius B for them to be observed as a double star in a large (twelve inch or larger) telescope. That is no small feat considering we are viewing them from 50.6 trillion miles away. While that distance seems unfathomable, this binary system is contains two of the eight nearest stars to our solar system. And they're getting closer. They will continue to grow brighter over the next 60,000 years until they finally recede and begin their journey away from us. Even after they have passed, they will remain the brightest star in the night sky for another 150,000 years.
Sirius has played a crucial role in astronomy throughout mankind's history. In ancient Egypt, the arrival of Sirius meant the coming of the flood waters of the Nile. With Sirius' arrival farmers could anticipate and redirect the mineral rich waters to canals allowing them to fertilize and irrigate the arid desert land. While a bringer of bounty to the Egyptians, Sirius was not so kind to the people of ancient Greece. Its name, derived from the Greek word seirios, meant "scorcher" and meant the "dog days" of summer would soon be at hand. Its sweltering cruelty was lamented in Homer's Illiad:
"Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid sky
On summer nights, star of stars,
Orion's Dog they call it, brightest
Of all, but an evil portent, bringing heat
And fevers to suffering humanity."
Half a world away, Sirius belonged to the constellation Manu and marked the arrival of winter to the peoples of Polynesia. The ocean going people of the islands looked to its light to navigate across the open waters of the Pacific.
Today, Sirius is a popular target amongst amateur and professional astronomers. With little more than binoculars it shines like a diamond in the night sky. Its colors are brilliant and ever changing. In 150 AD the Greek Astronomer Claudius Ptolemy described Sirius as red in color while the 1st century poet Marcus Manilius claimed it was as blue as the sea. Still, Chinese astronomers of the same period described the star as a bright white light. And so it is today. It is not uncommon for observers to report seeing all three colors brilliantly flashing at them as the star rises from the horizon during a single night of observation.
For professional astronomers, observation of Sirius has also been beneficial. Beyond its beauty and history, it serves a very useful purpose in modern astronomy. Because it is a binary star system, its luminosity drops in intensity when one eclipses the other (from our vantage point here on Earth). The luminosity of the star does not drop as significantly during an occult of Sirius B as it does when the secondary star transits across the face of the larger Sirius A. By measuring the fundamental parameters of the binary star during an eclipse, we have been able to calculate the mass of both Sirius A and B (as well as the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy).
Whether this beautiful binary brings with it the sweltering heat of summer or the icy chill of winter, it is a perfect night to spend time with the dogs.
Drew Farwell is an amateur astronomer focused on urban outreach and is the author of the blog Front Yard Astronomy.
***Author's Note: As correctly pointed out by David W. Knisely, while the use of binary stars is in fact to provide a standard candle for astronomers and astrophysicists, the eclipses of Sirius A and B are not visible from Earth and thus, were not used to calculate the distances of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Andromeda Galaxy or the Triangulum Galaxy. Additionally, the photo that appears in the article was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and can be found on Wikipedia. I apologize for these oversights. Drew Farwell


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2 arrested in Johnson County courthouse threat
CLARKSVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Two men have been arrested for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to the Johnson County courthouse.
Authorities said Wednesday that 33-year-old Anthony Stepp of Clarksville and 46-year-old Gregory Marshall of Scranton are each charged with felony communicating a false alarm. Officials say bond was set at $1 million for each.
The Southwest Times Record reports (http://is.gd/VBjZwd ) a threat was phoned in at the courthouse in Clarksville at 8:45 a.m. Friday and the building was evacuated.
No bomb was found and the building reopened about 45 minutes after everyone had to go outside.
Stepp and Marshall were arrested later Friday.
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"Zumbalicious" party: Women's Health Night with Zumba demonstrations and health, beauty and fitness vendors 6:30-9:30 p.m. at Highland Recreation Complex, 400 Highland Ave., Largo. $10 advance; $12 at the door. Call (727) 518-3016 or visit www.playlargo.com.
Bring your talent: Audition for the 2008 Adult and Senior Fall Talent Show on Oct. 17 at the Largo Community Center, 65 Fourth St. N. The show is Nov. 6. To reserve an audition time, call the center at (727) 518-3131.
Monster Mash dinner: Enjoy German food and music by Joel Stone 5-7 p.m. at the Palm Harbor Community Center, 1500 16th St. Bring your own beverage. $6 members; $7 nonmembers. Paid reservations suggested. Call (727) 771-6000.
Green market reopens: The Dunedin Green Market, featuring produce, cheeses, seafood, plants, pet treats and more opens its fifth season with a birthday celebration and live music. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. every Friday through April in Pioneer Park, at Main Street and Douglas Avenue. Call (727) 733-4215.
Monster madness: Teens 13 to 18 are encouraged to participate in "Books With Bite," the theme of Teen Read Week 2008, by dressing as a zombie, vampire, werewolf or monster 6-8 p.m. at the Palm Harbor Public Library, 2330 Nebraska Ave. Eat, play video games and win prizes. To sign up, call (727) 784-3332, ext. 203.
Fall carnival: All are invited to the PTA Fall Carnival 5-9 p.m. at Sunset Hills Elementary School, 1347 Gulf Road, Tarpon Springs, for food, a haunted house, doggy bouncy, arts and crafts, games and more. Call (727) 943-5523, ext. 2005.
Oktoberfest: Pork dinner with all the sides and live music, 7 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 1251 San Christopher Drive, Dunedin. Doors open at 6 p.m. For details, call Jerry Cronin at (727) 734-7735 or Jack Sager at (727) 733-3871.
Oil painting: Learn about "The History of Color" from Larry Leach, who will give an oil painting lecture and demonstration at 10 a.m. at the Dunedin Fine Arts Center, 1143 Michigan Blvd. Includes free art supplies for participants. RSVP required by calling (727) 298-3322 or e-mailing [email protected]
Jazz Soiree: The Clearwater Library Foundation's fifth annual Jazz Soiree will be 7-11 p.m. on the west terrace of Clearwater Main Library, 100 N Osceola Ave., with the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and fireworks. For reservations and reserved parking, call (727) 562-4970, ext. 5189.
Classical concert: Pinellas Youth Symphony presents the Serenade Strings Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. in Murray Studio at Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 McMullen-Booth Road, Clearwater. $10 adults; $2 children and students. Call (727) 438-3149 or visit www.pysmusic.org.
Band competition: The Tarpon Springs High School Outdoor Performing Ensemble will host its annual Outdoor Music Festival at 3 p.m. at 1411 Gulf Road featuring 14 competing Pinellas County bands. For details, call (727) 937-4841 or visit www. tarponspringsband.com.
Local author to speak: Gloria Tesch will discuss her debut novel, Maradonia and the Seven Bridges, at 2 p.m. at the Tarpon Springs Library, 138 E Lemon St. Free. Call (727) 943-4922.
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December 19, 2012 5:00 am
A mix of weird and mundane at the Winter Meetings, from bats to Harold Baines to ball-washers.
In the spirit of the Winter Meetings Trade Show, which took place in a huge room right below the media workroom in the Gaylord Opryland, here is some quantity over quality, a partial list of things for sale or rent or perusal:
Foul pole banners, fence mesh, outfield signage, "oversized backlits": things you don't see but which are performing vital functions both promotional and utilitarian. What you come away with is the suddenly strong sense that much of the baseball experience is dictated by objects and phenomena that you don't even notice.
December 12, 2012 5:00 am
Numbers play a big part in determining who's a Hall of Famer, but timing, contemporaries, and other historical accidents also make their impact felt.
The circus inside the circus known as the 2012 Winter Meetings—both of which took place inside another circus, the Gaylord Opryland—was the Trade Show, where you can buy everything from umbrellas to stirrups, stadiums to soft pretzels, mascots to misters (as in, things that spray mist) to Musco lighting.
I'll be back next week with a deeper rundown of the emporium, but it was two things not for sale at the Trade Show—well, not quite for sale, anyway—that distracted me from the Dippin' Dots and Mini Melts while the panel formerly known as the Veterans Committee (now called the "Pre-Integration Era Committee") announced its honorees in the same building.
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December 5, 2012 9:51 am
A visit to the minor-league side of the Winter Meetings reveals an organization attempting to step into the spotlight dominated by its big-league brethren.
The Winter Meetings—or rather, "Winter" Meetings; it was about 75 degrees here in Music City on Monday—are where everybody goes to make major-league deals and do major-league things. Peter Gammons is here, apparently towing multiple clones of himself who allow him to be shaking hands simultaneously in different locations around the Gaylord Opryland Gullywhumpus. Ken Rosenthal looks nervous all the time, and slightly paranoid. Actually, just about everyone looks a little paranoid. And I keep running into the same people I know. This is a small world in a big place.
Guys not in the majors are here trying mightily to get in, somehow, anywhere in the machinery of the business. From the size of the place to the teeming thousands to the millionaires to the bright lights, this is without a doubt the big time, the Show, the major leagues.
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November 28, 2012 5:00 am
You might recognize the way winning managers think: it's the way we think sometimes, too.
I've got a power pitcher who can't throw enough strikes because his mechanics are unrepeatable and I doubt he'll ever be able to fix them. I have a DH with prodigious power but chronic and severe plantar fasciitis, so I can't really use him in the outfield at all, which I had planned to do a few dozen times because I've got two guys out there who can't hit righties. Now I've got to hope that they manage to hit them anyway, and also that they don't break down under a 150-plus-game load since I can't use my DH to spell them.
We've got what appears to be a viable second baseman just up from Triple-A, but you never know how kids will adapt and adjust up here. My solid no. 2 gap hitter has a great compact swing, never gets hurt, and shows up to play every day—but doesn't get on base enough to take advantage of his speed (and isn't a good bunter). My no. 1 starter is a superb control artist who's finicky and will get surly if left alone during practice, which affects his performance. The season gets underway in three days and I still don't know whether my slow-starting center- and left fielders will be ready for big-league action. They're just skipping to their lou through spring training. The front office is supposed to be acquiring a lefty groundball specialist for me to use situationally, but I haven't heard from the GM whether that deal has been green-lighted by ownership, and in any case we're not even sure if his current club even wants to deal him.
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November 21, 2012 5:00 am
The Mike Trout-Miguel Cabrera debate reminds us why the sabermetric movement was what baseball needed.
The Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Hirshhorn in Washington isn't about baseball, but it is indirectly about ways of seeing baseball differently. Well, really it's about ways of seeing everything differently. So perhaps it's appropriate here to revive the old saw that when your only tool is a hammer, everything tends to look like a nail. I left thinking about baseball—or rather, thinking about thinking about baseball. A dancer would probably leave thinking about choreography, a banker about the economy.
Ai Weiwei's gift is in the way he makes you rethink your own tools, your own subject. The Hirshhorn retrospective is called According to What?, a title borrowed from a 1964 Jasper Johns painting. Ai situates himself in Johns' pop-art tradition, which is perhaps why thoughts of baseball seem near to hand: it may be a national pastime, but the game is also a pop icon as much as Mao is. Its solemnities are ripe for sentimentality and sentimentality's (more) evil twin, kitsch, and ripe too for sheer, soulless moneymaking.
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November 7, 2012 5:00 am
What can we conclude from the free agents who did and didn't receive qualifying offers in the first season under the new CBA?
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
We now know which of the players who qualified for… um, a qualifying offer, received one. They were:
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October 31, 2012 5:00 am
The Giants were a club fit for Halloween, but their colorful costumes couldn't obscure their competent play.
Well, and what did you expect? It's Halloween, and the Giants wear black and orange.
Yes, I know, those are not stats. But to push on this a bit harder: it's costume week, and the time of the dead, and the Giants dressed the part. Look at them. Brian Wilson, who is spending a year-plus dead, has the fake-looking beard, and Sergio Romo went trick-or-treating in the closer costume (beard included) Wilson used to wear. Pablo Sandoval went as the power hitter he used to be (his ISO dropped 70 points this season and he hit 12 home runs). In Game One he went as Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson, and/or Albert Pujols.
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October 24, 2012 5:00 am
The Tigers' ALCS sweep of the Yankees offered a reminder of why the sweep is one of the most satisfying series outcomes.
After the Tigers swept the Yankees, I was happy. Not because I was rooting for the former or against the latter. I just like sweeps. I like them because they're fairly rare, especially four-game sweeps. Maybe someone with much more powerful number-crunching jaws than mine will want to chew on this, but it seems to me that the 4-0 sweep is not only the rarest of regular-season series outcomes, but by far the rarest.
Given that we're in the postseason, how about playoff sweeps? Since 1985, the year the League Championship Series expanded from a best-of-five to a best-of-seven, every LCS (and of course World Series) has been a race to four. From 1985-2011, there were 78 best-of-seven postseason series. At first that made no sense to me, because I counted on my fingers a bunch of times and kept coming up with 81 (27 seasons times three series per season), but then I counted the actual number of series results, with my fingers literally touching the screen as I scrolled, and kept getting 78. I decided the reason I couldn't make it work was that I am simply bad at math until I noticed that there were no playoff series in 1994 because of the strike. So I am bad at history. And in fact I'm also bad at math. Good thing I went in for an MFA.
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October 17, 2012 5:00 am
The Yankees' manager is known for his use of a stat-packed binder, but in practice, he makes many of his moves on faith.
The postseason has so far provided a useful corrective to what I thought of Joe Girardi after reading (and writing about) Gay Talese's recent profile of the Yankee manager in the New Yorker. One thing I didn't say, but probably should have, in trying to puzzle out why Talese made Girardi seem so bland, was that perhaps Girardi himself is bland, just not interesting enough for a long profile. I blamed Talese, but Girardi might actually have been the culprit.
Yet I'm glad I didn't make that speculation. These playoffs have put Girardi into numerous tough positions where his binder was going to get him only so far, and his character and instinct were going to have to take over.
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October 10, 2012 5:00 am
Remembering Dave Freese's heroics from last October, and wondering who'll join him in the postseason pantheon in 2012.
I named this story "The Shot before the Shot" when I sent it to my editors, although I don't know if that's the title under which you're now reading it. [It is! Ed.] As you may already know, it isn't my job, or even my right, to entitle what I write. Titles are the domain of editors, not writers. I may call the thing a changeup, but if the editors think the sound of "Gyroball" will sell it better, then "Gyroball" it is.
As a general rule, though, if I do have a suggested title for a piece of writing I submit, most editors I've worked with, here at BP and elsewhere, will use it as long as it's reasonably punchy and apposite. Editors are busy, busy people, happy not to have to be the heir of entitlement.
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October 3, 2012 5:00 am
More access to Joe Girardi doesn't make for a more interesting story, which explains why Gay Talese's new profile of the Yankees' skipper can't compare to "Silent Season."
There's a clue to what's wrong with Gay Talese's recent New Yorker profile of Yankee manager Joe Girardi in these two very similar anecdotes. According to a 1973 profile of the writer, in the spring of 1950 the 18-year-old Talese went to St. Petersburg, Fla. to watch the Yankees in spring training. A young woman mistook him for the Yankees' Jerry Coleman. Talese went along with it and, in this pinch-hitting imposture, took her deep that night. (Coleman was told about this later and was apparently livid.)
In his new piece on Girardi, Talese recounts another such story, about a time when he "embarked on a love affair in college with a young woman I had met in French class." A few years before, Talese had gotten his first autograph from another Yankee, Johnny Lindell, who substituted for Joe DiMaggio while the Yankee Clipper was serving in the Army Air Forces. ("Lindell always posed graciously for snapshots and talked with fans before and after the games," Talese recalls.)
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When it comes to fandom, can it really be true that it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game?
I was surprised to find the Orioles-Rays game still on when I came home. It had stretched into the 13th inning, though, nearing four hours. I didn't have much time—I had to go back out again in a few minutes—but Chris Archer, who as a Durham Bull I have watched, interviewed, and written about often over the last year or so, was pitching a third inning of long, late relief. This was just his fourth career appearance in the major leagues. So of course I wanted to tune in.
Archer issued a leadoff walk to Endy Chavez, then made a poor throw on Manny Machado's sacrifice bunt attempt for an error. That put two men on. Mark Reynolds followed by hitting a tantalizing corkscrew fly ball into shallow right-center field that retreating second baseman Elliot Johnson couldn't quite catch. It ticked off his glove—oh, poor Elliot—for a single, loading the bases with no outs in the 13th inning of a game fraught with post-season implications for both teams
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I get the same basic question over and over again in my email inbox, so I thought I'd address it in a quick article.
The question goes a little something like this…
"I find the photography stuff easy, but can't seem to get enough clients. The clients I do get love my work, but I just can't find enough to turn this into a successful business. What can I do to get more photography clients?"
If only it were as simple as doing one or two things to turn a struggling photography business into a highly profitable one. BUT a few good strategies can certainly make a huge difference!
Here's a couple of ideas that'll make a difference in your business…
Operation 'Get Photography Clients' Idea #1
Get Loads More Testimonials
You may already have a few that you've been given from happy clients, but I'm not talking about a few…
Aim to get a testimonial from EVERY SINGLE CLIENT you work with!
You can never have too many testimonials. If you had a document with 1000 testimonials, you should still keep adding to it.
Sure, you won't be able to use all of them in your advertising, but the more you have, the more 'amazing' ones you'll have. PLUS you can create a testimonial book, which is basically an entire book filled with testimonials from clients… imagine how impressive it is when you hand prospective clients a book FULL of them… dozens or even hundreds!
Vary you testimonials if possible…
Try to get them for different aspects of your business. For example, one for how great the results were, one for how friendly you are, another for how great your direction was and so on. It's better to have variety than having 50 testimonials all saying that the results were good because different people will care about different things… so cater to as many people as possible.
Operation 'Get Photography Clients' Idea #2
Get Ranked Highly In Google
Getting ranked highly in Google so that your website shows up in the top spot when prospects search for a photographer in your local area isn't that difficult.
It can take a little time, but once you're there you'll be rewarded with a steady stream of targeted prospects.
You should aim to get ranked for phrases like "[your city] wedding photography" or "[your city] pet photography", so that when people in your city search for the type of photography you do, your site will show up at the top and they'll see what you have to offer.
I won't get fully into the detail of how to rank highly in Google because this post could go on for days and I've already covered this in a previous post.
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"The Spirit" is a 108-minute brawl between too much 'tude and too little coherence. The loser, by a landslide: the audience.
This is also an Oedipal slugfest between two comic book titans. In one corner, we have Frank Miller, author of the graphic novels "300" and "Sin City," which others re-created as Hollywood hits. This time, Miller has seized control of the film, directing, scripting and appearing on screen as a policeman.
In the opposing corner, there's Will Eisner, who created "The Spirit" in 1940 as a newspaper insert. "Spirit" tales showcased old-school wit and storytelling mastery. Eisner died in 2005, but he still inspires graphic artists – the comic book industry awards, given annually at Comic-Con, are the Eisners.
Miller is among the many who have saluted the master. Too bad this salute is a 21-gun misfire.
Denny Colt is a Central City cop who is murdered and then resurrected as the crime-fighting Spirit (Gabriel Macht). His nemesis is The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson), who storms through the film seeking to capture and consume the Blood of Heracles, which gives its owner divine powers.
The Octopus also parades about in kimonos and SS uniforms, creates/kills/then re-creates a series of mindless henchmen, and yells at his sidekick, Silken Floss. She's played by Scarlett Johanssen, who looks embarrassed and confused.
She's not alone. It's never clear why The Octopus needs Grecian Formula B.C. Like The Spirit, yet another potion has made him impervious to bullets and blades. And he can't need the calories. Jackson consumes everything in sight, including the scenery.
At least he does so with a villainous glee. Macht, though, wears the title role like an ill-fitting and overly starched tuxedo; he's stiff, ticked-off and just plain weird.
Captured by The Octopus, he awakens strapped to a dentist's chair.
"What smells dental?" The Spirit growls. Then he looks around to see a room dominated by a huge swastika.
"Dental and Nazi," he moans. "Great."
Not so much. Like "Sin City" and "300," "The Spirit" was filmed almost entirely before a green screen, and the images have a static, 2-D quality. Black and white and red all over, the shots are initially striking and ultimately monotonous. The Spirit roams alleys and tenements, the waterfront and a hospital, but Central City never looks like anything more than a series of sketchy backdrops. Like The Octopus' Nazi fetish, it's graphic design for no reason.
"The Spirit," though, doesn't lack for plot or characters. The hero possesses a James Bondian sexual charisma, at least to his castmates. The Spirit enchants former gal pal-turned-bling-obsessed thief, Sand Saref (Eva Mendes); Dr. Ellen Dolan (Sarah Paulson), the police commissioner's daughter; Plaster of Paris (Paz Vega), whose role is duller than the sword she swings for unknown reasons; Officer Morgenstern (Stana Katic), a starry-eyed rookie; and Lorelie Rox (Jaime King), who's apparently Death after several hours with a hairstylist.
Even 007 might have found this 002 much.
No law requires realism of comic book movies, of course. But these stories, like Will Eisner's "Spirit" demonstrated, must have a clear beginning, middle and end.
They should entertain, too. Miller's script is larded with clunky one-liners, such as The Octopus' threat against The Spirit: "You'll be as dead as Star Trek."
The next "Star Trek" movie – the 11th in that series – is scheduled to open in May. By then, we should know which franchise is dead and which resurrected.


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On Saturday 03 May 2003 13:27, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2003 16:10, Josh Berkus wrote: > > More disks is almost always better. Putting WAL on a seperate (non-RAID) > > disk is usually a very good idea. > > From a performance POV perhaps. The subject came up on hackers recently > and it was pointed out that if you use RAID for reliability and redundancy > rather than for performance, you need to keep the WAL files on the RAID > too. but for performance reason, that RAID can be separate from the data RAID..:-) Shridhar -- "Gee, Toto, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore."
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Police release image of man suspected of exposing himself on TriMet bus
PORTLAND, Ore. - Police are looking for a man who exposed himself to at least two people on a TriMet bus on Monday.
On Tuesday, police released TriMet surveillance images of the man suspected of exposing himself to a mother and her daughter just after 11 a.m.
The man was last seen near S.W. 6th Ave. and S.W. Columbia. Police said he is white, about 6-foot-1 and very thin. He's around 40, and was wearing light-colored clothing.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Officer Chad Daul or Officer Rich Harvey at 503-962-7566. Alternately they can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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|Table 4: Informal time and costs without distinction of place of leaving.
|NS: not specified; Percent of TC: percentage of total costs; unit costs: valuation of one hour of informal caregiving.
All costs are in 2012 USD; informal care time: per week; informal costs: per year; unit cost: unit cost of one hour of informal care.
AD: Alzheimer disease; PD: Parkinson disease; VD: vascular dementia.


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Hard to believe, but it's that time again – as expressed in this #ThrowbackThursday post: It's already time for the seasonal hiring process to begin! #tbt #lifeguards #holidayworld We're now accepting applications for our 2016 season, with 2,200 seasonal positions to fill, plus several full-time jobs.Read More »
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This #ThrowbackThursday picture is pretty adorable: Fun times @holidayworld circa 2009 #throwbackthursday pic.twitter.com/S9s5trUQX3 — Kris Kirschner (@krisk13) March 13, 2014 You may recognize Kris from the news; she's with WTHR-TV in Indianapolis!Read More »
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It's nearly Auditions Time at Holiday World! For this week's #ThrowbackThursday photo on Instagram, here's a look at our Rockin' the Country show from 2007: Click here for more information about our February 8 auditions. Looking for a seasonal job that doesn't require a Gotta-Sing-Gotta-Dance attitude? We're looking for 2,100 smiling faces and happy personalities…Read More »
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Printed letters, August 18, 2013
The Aug. 8 article about rounding up wild horses on the Little Book Cliffs range said, "The range can support 90 to 100 horses, but the herd now numbers an estimated 154 head."
There are 154 horses on the range, but the appropriate management level for the Little Book Cliffs is 90 to 150, not 90 to 100. Our local BLM wild horse personnel are so conscientious that they would have called for a removal long ago, the minute we surpassed the high end if it were 100.
The statement that 50 horses will be removed is also incorrect. The number of horses removed from the range will be determined around Aug. 20, based on "current range conditions and utilization levels," according to the decision record for the gather plan.
The decision record states that, "If utilization levels are light to moderate in August 2013, the population would be gathered down to 130 to 140 head…" It goes on to say, "If utilization levels are heavy to extreme, up to 50 wild horses may be removed."
From what I have seen of the range and the condition of the horses since our wet monsoon season began in July, I am hopeful that only 15-20 horses will be taken off. I can't imagine it will be 50.
In the article, BLM spokesperson David Boyd said, "The nice thing is that all the horses will be adopted locally." In a perfect world, all of our Book Cliff horses would be adopted locally. In reality, this has only happened once in our 10 local adoptions of horses from the Book Cliffs range.
For example, in 2007, 55 horses were removed and only 41 of these horses were adopted. The other 14 went to long-term or short-term holding facilities at a great expense to taxpayers.
Since all of the horses to be removed this year will be ages 5 and under, there is a chance they will be adopted locally. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and praying for more rain.
BLM volunteer
Grand Junction
Determining acceptable level of risk in fracking is the key
I agree with the recent writer who urged the North Fork to get the facts on fracking before opposing fracking for natural gas in our valley.
A good place to start is on the Internet with a Google search on "fracking dangers." Once you scroll down through the gas industry-paid sites, you come to thousands of sites to "non-industry" articles outlining the monumental danger fracking can cause to the air, water, land and humans, like us, who inhabit this land.
You will find credible articles reporting damage to drinking water sources, seismic activity created by fracking causing earthquakes, air pollution from fracking chemicals creating greater risks of serious health problems and many other bad outcomes.
Keep in mind, as you analyze the divergent conclusions, that the gas industry is making billions from drilling wells all over the United States. There is so much gas being produced in our country that we are building export terminals so that liquified natural gas can be exported internationally.
The real question, based on the conflict between "facts," is to decide what the acceptable level of risk is for you. Check out the facts, evaluate the source of the facts and then make up your own mind.
If you are looking for a compromise, consider the North Fork Alternative Plan that seeks to allow fracking in specific areas yet protects the current agricultural, coal and tourist economy by designating certain areas where gas exploration and fracking are prohibited.
MICHAEL McCARTHY
Some want benefits without the impacts of gas drilling
There were five governors at the governors' summit this summer in Aspen. All more or less were sitting astraddle the fence on the subject of drilling and fracking for natural gas and oil.
Following this news item was one showing protesters opposing all drilling and fracking for development of oil or gas.
The next news story was about people in the corridor from Glenwood Springs to Aspen being elated over how their air quality had improved since the public transportation buses had started using compressed natural gas.
There has been drilling for oil and gas for more than 100 years. If it is so bad for the environment and Mother Earth, why hasn't the sky fallen by now?
Not in my backyard. Can we have it both ways?
Grand Junction
Organizations, volunteers praised for river cleanup
Great thanks are due to Bob Richardson and the Western Association To Enjoy Rivers for organizing the ninth annual "Colorado River Clean Up" float trip.
The cleanup was a big success, with 70 volunteers removing more than 22 cubic yards of trash, 24 tires, two TVs, two grocery carts and one hot tub (yes, a full-size hot tub) from the river. That's a lot of trash.
Thanks also go out to the 5-2-1 Drainage Authority, Grand Valley Drainage District, Mesa County, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction, Fruita, Palisade, REI and Cabela's. All contributed by way of waived fees, prizes or financial support. And thanks for the BBQ dinner prepared for the volunteers.
The cumulative effect on the riparian habitat is tremendous, and we should be proud that our community leaders support the volunteers who work to clean up the river.
And, please, don't throw hot tubs into the river. They are hard to get out.
Thanks again, Bob. Great job.
Grand Junction


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Culture of Life
Make Mother's Day Special
Family Matters: Married Life
BY Tom and Caroline McDonald
May 6-19, 2012 Issue | Posted 4/26/12 at 5:45 PM
My husband is loving and a good father, but I'm always a little disappointed when Mother's Day or my birthday rolls around because he doesn't do much to mark the day. I feel silly complaining about trivial events because he is such a good provider otherwise. Is it wrong that my feelings get hurt?
Tom: Of course not! All of us need plenty of affirmation and encouragement, and we especially need to hear that we are loved. Mother's Day and birthdays are natural occasions for this to happen. Let's face it: In the whirlwind of modern family life, most of us forget to express our gratitude for each other, and we could use a reminder — or two or three! Maybe Mother's Day has been ridiculously commercialized; but it's a good idea nonetheless. We bet your disappointment is not so much about the day itself as it is about not feeling cherished and appreciated.
Caroline: Ladies, here's the rub: If we want our dear husbands to make a big deal out of our birthdays or whatever, we have to tell them so! Many good men need it spelled out. I resisted this idea early on in our marriage because I thought Tom should just intuitively know what to do out of love for me. After all, he was my best friend; he knew me better than anyone else. But it's really not fair to expect our spouses to be mind readers. We can't be disappointed when they don't buy us jewelry, for example, if we never mentioned it in the first place. Twenty years later, I've learned to bring up Mother's Day to Tom and the kids about a month early — and multiple times. Then I start pointing out ads in the newspaper and displays in the stores: "You see that? Wouldn't that be a great Mother's Day present? Just one more week to go. Hope everyone's been working hard on my cards." I say it in a joking manner, of course, but it does give them some ideas. And there aren't any hurt feelings about forgetting our anniversary or my birthday because I simply don't let him forget.
Tom: Gentlemen, it's true that your wife is not your mother, but she is the mother of your children, and that alone should motivate us. Remember, how we treat our wives sets the tone for how our children treat their mother. If we want them to honor and respect her, then we need to lead the way. Be sure the kids are doing something special for her along with you. Remind your older kids, and take younger kids shopping yourself. It's about so much more than a date on a calendar. The kids need to see that you really love your wife and are excited to do things for her. They need to see firsthand that marriage is a great sacrament that brings deep joy. Blessed John Paul II called this "remote marriage preparation."
And don't forget, men, that Father's Day is just around the corner, so "Do unto others …"
Tom and Caroline McDonald are family-life coordinators
for the Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama.
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Otis O. Carroll, 76, a well known retired farmer and livestock raiser in the Farmersville vicinity most of his lifetime died at 9:45 p.m. Monday (25 Mar 1957) at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, a few minutes after his arrival there by ambulance.
A heart condition was fatal.
Mr. Carroll and his wife, Daisy Margaret Pritchard Carroll, had
resided in recent years at
Mr. Carroll's worsening condition resulted in his removal
yesterday from his home to the home of a son, William C. Carroll, at
Farmersville from where he was taken to the hospital. Mrs. Carroll, the
wife, who is ill, entered the L. & R. Nursing Home in
The deceased was a native of Posey county, the son of John R. Carroll and Virginia Adzett Carroll.
He resided on a farm north of Farmersville during his years of successful farming and livestock raising.
Mr. Carroll was an active Republican. He was a former member of the Posey county Alcoholic Beverage Board and of the Black township Advisory Board.
The body is at Short-Niehaus Funeral
Home. It will remain there through the funeral service to be conducted at
Thursday in Short-Niehaus chapel.
Burial will be in Bellefontaine cemetery. Rev. Temas
Taylor, pastor of
Surviving, in addition to the wife and son, are a daughter, Mrs.
Martha Overton,
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I've said on that twitter that, thanks to the wonders of our electoral system, the Lib Dems could be seeing net gains at the next election.
(In fact what I actually said was "UKIP on 25% means about 80 seats for the Lib Dems and 10 seats for UKIP")
This has been met with consternation from some quarters. I have been drinking (One Gin and one Beer as it happens) and that sounds quite odd, probably so– I am Lib Dem core vote strange as it might seem and weren't many of us to start out with – but this is not some weird theory – it's a reading of the poll numbers – where UKIP support is coming from and, in a utterly seat predication model crushing scenario where UKIP do achieve 25% of the popular vote more or less across the board what the actual impact on individual seats is.
Keep your UNS at home
There's a few things to get out the way here. The Universal Swing is dead. It hasn't been very good at anything other than Labour to or from Tory swing since its inception and it's become increasingly meaningless – especially where Lib Dem seats are involved.
If it was a valid model then the near million extra votes the Lib Dems achieved in 2010 would not have resulted in 5 losses.
The second thing to get out the way is that First Past the Post is not a fair system and has zero correlation with seats won. David Cameron won a minority of seats with a higher vote share in 2010 than Tony Blair achieved in 2005 when he won a handsome majority. The Lib Dems won 23% of the popular vote in 2010 and 9% of the available seats. Cry me a river.
FPTP is an arse – as UKIP are soon to find out.
Now back to the claim. On the assumption that UKIP win 25% of the Vote and the Lib Dems recover to around 10% of the vote, two things will likely happen.
UKIP will likely get lucky in the 5-10 of the 10 or so seats they are planning to target and rack up huge numbers of votes in all other seats resulting in good third and second places.
The Lib Dems will find it much easier to win and defend seats.
This counts for both Lib Dem defences and targets, and helps them disproportionally against the Tories.
This means a seat by seat analysis – which I will get onto – but first I want you to take a look at where UKIP's 2015 votes are coming from – consider these polling info-graphs from You Gov: (First from Feb 2014 second from October 2014) and keep them in mind when discussing the seat by seat business.
The thing to remember about UKIP is that they are at heart an anti EU, Anti-Immigration and predominantly right wing party. This is a poor fit for that 30% of the population who vote or would consider voting Lib Dem, whereas that platform appeals to a great mass of Tory voters, and to a lesser but by no means insignificant extent, working class voters who usually vote Labour.
The one subset of 2010 Lib Dem voters UKIP does appeal to are those disaffected by politics and voted for the party because it was seen as representing a change from the establishment or as a protest. These voters were lost to the Lib Dems the moment they agreed to Coalition. They represent 10-20% of the parties 2010 support in general terms but, and it is worth saying – they are breaking to UKIP more so than Labour in opposition which is much better for the party than them going to Labour or the Tories.
Seat by Seat: Defence
So, the Lib Dems are hopeful they can retain at least 30 of the 56 seats they currently hold – I think, based on Lib Dem strength when defending seats due to incumbency factors, like relative local strength of the parties, more emphasis on the individual MP, casework and street campaigning, they can be hopeful of retaining 40. Perhaps this is just expectations management.
Where the Party does have a concern is in Labour facing seats – basically anywhere north of Watford – Birmingham Yardley, Redcar, Manchester Withington, Leeds North West, most of London, Brent, Hornsey and Wood Green, Southwark and basically anywhere in Scotland not represented by Ming Cambell, Alistair Carmichael or Charles Kennedy.
That's not to say all hope is lost – all those seats are represented by MP's who are popular locally and well regarded by their constituents – but if the Lib Dems make big losses it will be in these seats.
It does help that the chunk of their vote in these seats which is anti-establishment is not transferring directly to Labour, the Lib Dems can count themselves lucky that Labour's leadership has been inept, that UKIP is stealing populist support is an added bonus as, thanks to a lack of transfer, these are likely to minimise any Labour gain from a reduced Lib Dem vote and drain some of the Labour vote from the Labour total, meaning that these seats can be retained even on lower vote shares.
This latter consequence of UKIP support has a magnified effect in Lib Dem defences against the Conservatives – Solihull becomes much easier to retain when you consider that Tory voters are switching to UKIP in droves and Lib Dem defectors are going to UKIP and the Greens by a much lesser extent – this seat will essentially come down to whoever between the Tories and Lorely Burt can more effectively stem the tide of seepage to the minor parties but that's a much easier fight for the Lib Dems than a straight up fight with the Tories.
Seat by seat: Offence
Here's where things get interesting – If I said to you the Lib Dems could make gains at the next election, if you were someone who vehemently hates the party your head might explode and if you merely were resigned to a very poor night for the party you might think I'd been drinking more than I have.
The problem is, it's not at all impossible – and – if UKIP are going to do well enough to win more than a fifth of the vote – mostly at Tory expense – all you need to do is take a look at the following seats. (Kindly Stolen from http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/lib-dem-targets/)
Those are the top 27 LD/Conservative Marginals in the country.
Now, look again at You Gov's Data and bear in mind that UKIP are much more likely, by almost 3 to 1 to gain Tory Voters than Lib Dem. Bear in mind also that the Lib Dem vote will most likely keep up in seats where it is a strong challenger and has a strong local party and candidate, then do me a favour and look at Hereford & South Herefordshire, West Dorset and Romsey & Southampton North and tell me how, if UKIP poll 20% in those seats and three Tories vote UKIP to every Lib Dem, the Lib Dems fail to pick up these seats?
That's 22, 29 and 39 on the most winnable Lib Dem seats.
It also makes seats like Watford – where the Lib Dems hold the mayor and it remains a very competitive three way seat – even more competitive if the Tories get knocked out this way.
There's even a few Labour seats where things get too close to call – defying all logic. If UKIP are, as Labour fear, picking up working class voters dissatisfied with Ed Milibands leadership and want to give them a good kicking as well, Hull North could become one of about 5 'dark horse' Labour/Lib Dem battleground seats where, if the Lib Dems can hold up their local vote and UKIP hit Labour's working class support, Labour could be dropping seats to the Lib Dems.
I'm not the first to notice how UKIP could hurt Labour – but Conor Pope does fail to look at any impact on Lib Dem/Labour target seats – perhaps he might tell me what he thinks could happen in Kingston upon Hull North, Swansea West, Ashfield, and Chesterfield if there is a strong Lib Dem local party in place putting a heavy squeeze on the Tories and any voters Labour gain from the Lib Dems being at least equally lost to UKIP?
I'd also like to know what he might think of Edinburgh South if you swap UKIP for the SNP…
Is it possible?
This isn't, by the way, on the assumption that the Lib Dems will increase their share of the vote – everywhere where the Lib Dems have no real presence they can expect to halve their support if they are lucky – there is a precedent for this – the Lib Dems dropped 5% vote share in 1992 nationally resulting in only 2 losses. Vote share dropped a further 1% resulting in a gain of 26 MPs in 1997. It's not about how many votes you win – it's about where you win them and how you target your resources in this crazy First Past the Post World.
Nor am I saying this is a likely outcome. The game can change in all kinds of ways yet – can UKIP sustain their surge? What if there is a Labour defector to UKIP? Does Labour Change leader or tack to the right on immigration putting off any potential Lib Dem switchers? Is there a pact? What if Lib Dem and Tory vote share drops at more equal rates in marginal seats? What if the Lib Dem's aren't as good on the ground in the face of a hostile electorate as we all expect and opposition ground game is?
It's possible I have too much faith in Lib Dem ability to hold on to what it has, or the parties resources to maintain fights in 30 marginal seats at once and in the face of a repetitive narrative of doom and wipe-out this seems hard to fathom. I know all this – but consider this scenario:
UKIP win the next couple of by-elections – a few more Tory and one or two Labour MP's defect, Labour and the Tories go right to compensate putting off a great swathe or centre ground voters and still losing small 'c' conservative voters to UKIP. The Lib Dems with a small bounce in support and facing split opposition hold on to 50 seats and take 25 more on reduced shares of the vote.
UKIP Win 10 Seats, Lib Dems win 75-80, the SNP take 15 from Labour in Scotland and the Tories and Labour make net losses.
I'm not saying it's fair. I'm not saying it's just. I'm not saying this is what I think will happen (I've been saying 40 Lib Dem seats since 2012) I'm not saying there won't be outcry that, on half the vote share from last time the Lib Dems have a stronger strangle hold in a hung parliament but I would ask you – is it entirely impossible?
Don't blame me – I campaigned to get rid of First Past the Post. Silly system if you ask me…


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During Gary Payton's brief and overlooked stint as a Jordan Brand Team Member, 'The Glove' wore the Air Jordan XIX as well as other Team Jordan releases – and even appeared in an Air Jordan commercial for the Air Jordan XIX. Part of Gary Payton's sneaker arsenal during his Laker days include the two featured here – the Air Jordan XIX SE and the Jordan Team Flow. A yellow/white Player Exclusive of the Jordan Team Flow was made for GP, with his jersey number stitched on the inner heel of the shoe, and while the Air Jordan XIX SE wasn't a PE and indeed released for retail, the colorway was made with Gary Payton in mind. When we think of Gary Payton and his sneakers, the 'Glove' comes to mind immediately and his Jordan affiliation is often forgotten, so here's a refresher on Gary Payton's Jordan PEs and Colorways – we've got a nice gallery of his sneakers as well as in-game shots after the jump, so continue reading and let us know what you think of the shoes. via US10.
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Hank Garland, 74, a Versatile Guitarist
Published: December 29, 2004
Hank Garland, a country, rock and jazz guitarist who performed with Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline, Charlie Parker and many others, died here on Monday. He was 74.
The cause was a staph infection, his brother, Billy Garland, said.
In the 1950's and 60's, Walter Garland, called Hank, was the talk of Nashville, a studio artist known for musical riffs that could take a recording from humdrum to dazzling, as he did on Presley hits like ''Little Sister'' and ''Big Hunk of Love.''
He had his first million-selling hit at 19 with the country tune ''Sugar Foot Rag.''
Mr. Garland was at the forefront of the rock 'n' roll movement, was a country virtuoso, pioneered the electric guitar at the Grand Ole Opry and jammed in New York with George Shearing and Charlie Parker.
He started playing guitar at 6 and appeared on radio shows at 12. He was discovered when he was 14 at a South Carolina music store, where he had gone to buy a guitar string.
He worked with Presley from 1957 to 1961, and was playing on the soundtrack for the movie ''Follow That Dream'' in 1961 when a car crash put him in a coma for months. After the crash injuries and shock treatments, he had to relearn everything, from walking and talking to playing the guitar.


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Considering the increasingly international scope of Damon and Naomi's music, and their prolonged interest in melancholy (their first LP was titled More Sad Hits), it makes sense that they'd put together a series like this: a collection of tearstained art-folk music from around the world. It's not surprising, but welcome. This first volume features two musicians from Japan (Mikami Kan and Tomokawa Kazuki), one from Turkey (Fikret Kizilok) and one from Korea (Kim Doo Soo). Each has his own style, lyrically and musically—some more philosophical, some more directly political, some more cynical—but each is a serious talent, though nearly unknown in the US. As the liner notes point out, the four draw less from their country's folk traditions, are more poetic singer/songwriters in the tradition of a Bob Dylan. The 16 songs here are all remarkably powerful works, and they're only hints of what these musicians have accomplished in long careers. The copious liner-notes bios detail the ups and downs—stylistic changes, battles with censorship and personal addictions, falls in and out of favor with fans. Even in this supposed global information era there's still music of stature and depth being made in other countries without our knowledge—it makes me wonder if "world music" as a genre isn't often a limiting force, the way it tends towards sociology, towards music that represents the perceived culture of the musician's country of origin.
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House Redistricting Chairman David Lewis says accusations that the GOP's maps target Democratic women are "absurd" and "misleading."
"The maps are fair and legal," Lewis said. "What you have are people who don't like the outcomes."
"Gender has never had anything to do with it," he added. "I don't think it has anything to do with the decisions of these folks to bow out."
Lewis said Democrats' protests of gender bias are part of a campaign strategy that's also underway in other states. And the NC Democratic Party has produced TV and online ads to relay that message. GOP voting maps hit Dem women hardest
Statistics show they may have a point.
House Democratic women were much more likely to be double-bunked than their male counterparts in either party. Out of the 22 women in the House Democratic caucus, 8 were double-bunked - 36%. That's compared to 23% of Democratic males, and 24% of GOP males. No GOP women were double-bunked.
In the Senate, the numbers were even more stark. The fifty-member chamber includes just 6 women, 3 Ds and 3 Rs. Two of the three Democrats were double-bunked -- Ellie Kinnaird (D-Orange) and Linda Garrou (D-Forsyth). That's 66%. In comparison, 25% of Republican men were double-bunked, 13% of Democratic men, and 33% of Republican women.
When you go beyond double-bunking to look at district changes, four other House women saw their districts become distinctly more Republican: Alice Bordsen (D-Alamance), Marian McLawhorn (D-Pitt), Edith Warren (D-Pitt), and Martha Alexander (D-Mecklenburg). Bordsen and Warren have already announced they won't seek re-election. The other two are said to be weighing their respective decisions carefully.
Adding up the 8 double-bunked women and the 4 above, that's 12 of 22 - 55% of the House Democratic women.
Asked about those numbers, Lewis said neither he nor anyone else has denied some lawmakers were targeted. But he says it was because of their politics, not their gender. Lewis on women and redistricting
"There are elected members of the General Assembly who happen to be women who have constantly advocated for failed policies that are out of step with what North Carolina needs," Lewis said.
"The only explanation they can come up with is to try to play some kind of victim role," he continued. "Frankly, it's offensive. And I think the people see through it." Watch the interview at right.
But many outspoken male Democrats in both chambers were not targeted for removal in the new maps.
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It's one thing to read about Corey Seager's mammoth home runs with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, but it's something entirely different to see them in person. They are, in a word, jaw-dropping. (Okay, that's two words – but you get the point).
Even though Seager, who was selected by the Dodgers as the 18th overall pick in the 2012 MLB First Year Player Draft out of Northwest Cabarrus High School in Concord, NC, is only 20 years old, he is extremely mature for his age and has a tremendous baseball swagger about him – this, no doubt, because he comes from a baseball family. (He is the younger brother of Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager).
After being drafted by the Dodgers, Seager signed three weeks later and began his professional career with the Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer Rookie League as an 18-year-old, where he hit .309 with eight home runs and 33 RBIs, thus confirming that the Dodgers scouting staff had done their pre-draft homework on Corey.
At 19 years old, the 6′ 4″ 215-pound shortstop began the 2013 season with the Dodgers Low Single-A Great Lakes Loons where he once again hit .309 – this time with 12 home runs and 57 RBIs and proving yet again that his skill level was well beyond his years.
In August of 2013, Seager was promoted to the Advanced Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, becoming the youngest player in the California League. At Rancho and for the first time in his young professional career, Seager struggled. In his 56 games with the Quakes, Seager hit only .160 with four home runs and 15 RBIs. On the other side of the ball, Seager committed eight errors in 93 chances for a rather dismal .914 fielding percentage. It was a reality check for the young shortstop for whom, to this point, everything had come relatively easy.
But struggling in the minor leagues isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti sees it as a good thing.
"Corey's got a chance to be a great player," said Colletti last September after the Quakes had concluded their season. "He went to Rancho and he struggled for a while, which everybody said 'Oh jeez he wasn't ready' and I said 'I'm not sure he's ready or not, I'm not judging that.'
"But I wasn't put off that he struggled," Colletti added. "Because up here [in the major leagues] there's going to be those days, and if you've never done it before, if you've never had to figure your way out of a slump or you've never had to try to figure out what you need to get better at because the game has come easy to you, this is the wrong place to be trying to figure it out for the first time."
After representing the Dodgers in the prestigious Arizona Fall League, Seager began the 2014 season back at Rancho Cucamonga – but this time it was different. Now 20 years old, Seager began tearing it up against Cal League pitching – so well, in fact, that during the month of May he batted .400 (44-for-110), hit six home runs, 15 doubles and drove in 24 runs – all of which earned him a spot on the 2014 California League All-Star roster and a trip to Wilmington, Delaware to face the Carolina League All-Stars on June 17.
During one stretch in May, Seager had a 12-game hitting streak in which he went 25-for-50 with four home runs, nine doubles and 13 RBIs. On May 31 he fell a triple shy of the cycle against the first place Lancaster JetHawks (Astros). In that game Seager went 3 for 5 including a two-run home run off of JetHawks ace and 2012 number one draft pick Mark Appel. Seager knocked in five of the Quakes 16 runs in their eventual 16-13 win over the JetHawks.
With only four games remaining until the All-Star break Seager is second in the Cal League with his .342 batting average. He leads the league with his 24 doubles, .615 slugging percentage, 1.004 OPS and 144 total bases. He is sixth in home runs with 12 and seventh in RBIs with 49.
The point to all of this is that Corey Seager fans living in the Southern California area who want to see him play live and in person better head out to JetHawks Stadium (aka "The Hangar") in Lancaster tonight through Saturday night because Seager will, in all likelihood, be promoted to the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts after (or shortly after) next week's Cal League All-Star break. This could very well be the last time for Southern California Corey Seager fans to see the young superstar until he reaches the major leagues, which many experts believe is still two seasons away. (I say he makes it up at some point during the 2015 season).
But wait… there's more!
Tonight's four-game series opener against the JetHawks will feature left-handed 17-year-old Mexican phenom Julio Urias on the mound for the Quakes, and Dodgers right-hander Chad Billingsley is slated to make his second rehab start for the Quakes on Friday night (followed by Dodgers 2013 second round draft pick Tom Windle). Fireballers Jharel Cotton and Fabio Martinez will toe the rubber for the Quakes on Thursday and Saturday nights respectively. The aforementioned Mark Appel is scheduled to start for the JetHawks on Thursday night.
The Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night games start at 6:30 PM and Saturday night's game at 6:00 PM.
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