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The Year of El Gato
Mario Torres doesn't look like a publicity stunt. With unruly, spiky hair, a crooked grin and freckles, he doesn't come off as a role model, either. In fact, the 23-year-old's wiry frame hardly seems sturdy enough to support his own dreams, let alone those of Dallas' Hispanic community and its professional soccer franchise. Yet even as Torres fills a canvas bag with loose soccer balls, cleaning up after practice, he is all of those things. His status as a rookie obligates him to carry the equipment bag, but his status as a local and a Latino means he must shoulder a different kind of load, one heavier than he ever imagined.
Torres is in his first year as a midfielder on the reserve squad of FC Dallas, the Major League Soccer (MLS) affiliate formerly known as the Dallas Burn. He has yet to play a minute with the first team, and his salary, while he won't give an exact figure, is "not enough to live on." But as the first player ever signed to the Dallas roster straight from the local Latino leagues, Torres is an experiment whose outcome could determine the future of professional soccer in Dallas.
"He is the pride of the Hispanic community," says Miguel Quiros, president of the Latino soccer league in Greenville, some 50 miles northeast of Dallas, one of many amateur leagues where Torres built a reputation as "El Gato"--"The Cat"--so called for his green eyes. Quiros was instrumental in getting Torres his shot at the pros, and sees him as the ideal fix for the strained relationship between FC Dallas and the Latino community that should be its strongest fan base. "He is the best calling card for the league to show that they are giving opportunities to Latinos," Quiros says.
Another key supporter in the political, fanatical world of Dallas' Latino soccer leagues was Luis Godinez. Godinez is the financial patron of Universidad de Guanajuato, a team in Dallas' Pan-American Soccer Association (PASA) that Torres led to two league championships. "He's got a noble character," Godinez says of Torres. "He's friendly, intelligent and focused in everything he does."
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Not everyone is so excited about Torres' chances with FC Dallas, however. Roberto Castillo is president of a federation of 12 Latino leagues. "I don't want to be negative, but the whole thing just looks like more public relations," Castillo says. Torres starred in many of Castillo's leagues, playing for as many as five teams at once. "There are a lot of very good players, and he was one of them," Castillo says of Torres. "I wouldn't say he was the best." Armando Pelaez, a former assistant coach for FC Dallas, says the physical, pressing style of play in MLS is ill-suited to Latino players like Torres, who rely more on individual skill and improvisation. "Gato will never see one minute playing in the whole history of the MLS," he says.
But the eyes of Dallas' Latino community are not the only ones fixed on El Gato. Torres is also called on to represent his community on a team dominated by Anglos. "He understands the responsibility," says FCD teammate and mentor Oscar Pareja, a veteran professional from Colombia. "He understands that we represent the Latin community. Everything we do here, me and Mario and the other Latin guys, they're going to think that that's what Latinos are like."
Torres says that he doesn't mind the scrutiny--most of the time. "There are a few people that didn't like me before and obviously don't like me at all now," he says. "Those are people that are just jealous."
The pressure Torres feels most comes from within. He had his first opportunity to play professionally thwarted by his move to the United States at age 12, and another ended by injury. Now, at 23, he has no time to waste. "I think this is my last chance to play pro," Torres says. "Knowing that this is my last chance, it goes through my mind, 'What am I going to do if this doesn't work out?'"
For many Mexican families, the United States is the land of opportunity, and the Torres family was no exception--except for Mario. When the family of five immigrated to Dallas from Chihuahua in 1994, the 12-year-old Torres, the oldest of four children, left behind an invitation to attend the soccer academy of Club America, a powerhouse professional team based in Mexico City. While there was no guarantee that Torres would have emerged from the boarding school as a professional soccer player, the invitation was a clear signal of his talent--and an opportunity missed.
"Sometimes I look back and wish that I would have gone," Torres says. His parents, too, would come to wonder if they had done the right thing. Torres' desire to play soccer was undiminished, while the language barrier at school soon quashed any appetite for academics.
Torres scraped by in school but was a standout on the field, playing varsity his freshman year at Howard Turner High School in Carrollton. A transfer to Coppell High the next year, however, saw him relegated to the junior varsity squad as a sophomore. Though he was among the best on the team, Torres saw little playing time, and he began to question his new coach's judgment. Frustrated with soccer and bored with school, Torres dropped out in 2000, his junior year, intending to finish high school in Mexico. Instead, he returned to the United States to work and eventually earned his GED.
He also began lighting up the Dallas Latino leagues. Torres played three seasons with Universidad de Guanajuato. "He was out of this world," says Luis Godinez, the team sponsor. Torres began to work for Godinez as a full-time house painter, but his real occupation was soccer.
"He was playing everywhere," says friend Cynthia de la Torre. "Every weekend he would play, like, five games. It was insane."
Insane or not, in the Latino leagues it was not uncommon. Roster rules are lax where they exist at all, and top-flight players seldom bother to practice, instead showing up to play key games for a variety of different teams. Torres began playing all over the metroplex as teams clamored for his services.
In terms of participation, soccer is the second-most popular sport in America, trailing only basketball, but more than two-thirds of the estimated 18 million players in organized soccer leagues are under 17. Among Hispanics, however, soccer is a lifelong activity, and Latin adult leagues are booming. Dallas' PASA, for example, began in 1991 with 24 teams and now has more than 100. Only this year did the league begin a separate youth program. Games take place virtually every day of the week on every available field. Most are watched by a smattering of family and friends, but rivalry games, known as "clásicos," can draw crowds in the hundreds. Until this year, many of those games featured El Gato.
In a sense, Torres had finally begun his professional career. The Latino leagues are recreational in theory, but in practice the high talent level and the passion for the game raise the stakes, stretching the definition of "amateur." Elite players are often lured to teams with promises of soccer gear or hard cash.
"They would offer it to me," Torres says. "I took the soccer shoes or any gear that I needed to use in the game. I told them that I'll take money when it's my job."
Saul Rivera, president of the Irving Amateur Soccer League, says paying players is commonplace--and none of his business. "It's all about the money. All the stars do it," he says. "They collect a little money here and there. It's hard to control that." Important games can inspire offers in the hundreds of dollars.
As Torres began to play farther afield, he did accept money for road expenses--and then for plane fare. A team in New Orleans flew him in for several weekends last year, paying for his travel, hotel and $300 to $500 pocket money in return for his services on the field. Torres enjoyed the trips but saved most of the money. "It's a party town," he says, "but I couldn't go out late before the games."
In short, Torres was set. He was making $100 a day painting and playing all the soccer he could handle, but he wasn't satisfied. Clashing with his high school coach, living at home, settling for a GED, none of these elements seems to suggest any burning ambition, any particularly stubborn self-confidence--but somehow both had taken hold of Torres and wouldn't let go.
"I knew I was meant to be playing soccer," he says. "I was working harder than anybody else. I would always train on my own, while the other players would just show up to games." Godinez noticed, and began to pull some strings. Through acquaintances he arranged a tryout for Torres with Atlas, a Mexican first-division team in Guadalajara. The two-week trial in fall 2003 didn't lead to a contract, but Torres was asked to stay and practice with the team until the next round of signings two months later, in December. The dream was in reach.
Then he got hurt. "I was running late and didn't stretch out like I should have, and I pulled my groin," Torres says. It was his first serious injury playing soccer since a teammate's accidental kick to the head gave him a prominent scar above his right eye at age 10. This time there was no blood, but the damage was much greater: Torres could no longer practice with Atlas, then struggling through a dismal season. When the coach was fired, Torres was informed by his successor that he was welcome to try out all over again. Still hampered by the injury, Torres came home to Carrollton.
After he recovered, Torres resumed his ferocious playing schedule. During the summer of 2004, he traveled to Greenville at the invitation of Quiros, the league president, to play in a tournament. Torres had a phenomenal outing, notching three goals and an assist en route to the tournament title. Nothing more might have come of it had the newly minted FC Dallas Hispanic Marketing Director Julio Cano not also been invited by Quiros--and had the Burn itself not been in dire straits.
FCD (then still the Dallas Burn) was on its way to missing the playoffs for the second year in a row--no mean feat in a 10-team league with an eight-team playoff. What's worse, attendance had tanked, and the Latino community had been thoroughly alienated. Dallas was looking for a lifeline, and in the stellar play of Torres, Cano had found it. Through Quiros he arranged an October tryout for El Gato.
"Everything went right that day," Torres says of the tryout. He netted two goals in a scrimmage. "There were other guys trying out, but they were trying to show off too much," Torres recalls. "You can tell right away if someone can play or not. What I did, I played simple. I just took my shots when I got the chance."
Torres was invited back to practice, then to spring training camp and then, after outlasting three rounds of cuts, to sign a developmental contract. Being a rare left-footed player helped, but it was Torres' attitude that carried the day. "He was just a stringy, piano-wire guy, but he was hard," assistant coach Brian Haines remembers. "He never quit on a play."
Torres' successful tryout was just one step on what the FC Dallas front office hopes is the road back from the brink of irrelevance. Radical changes--in roster, in ownership, in venue and in management--over the previous two seasons had all been changes for the worse. "The tryout basically started because we had our backs to the wall," sums up Victor Chaves, Cano's predecessor with the club.
The principal culprit was the venue change. The team, under its old name the Dallas Burn, left its cavernous but convenient home at the Cotton Bowl to play the 2003 season at a high school football stadium in Southlake, 30 miles north of Dallas. The move was meant to save money while a new soccer-specific stadium in Frisco was built, but it turned into a public relations fiasco. The artificial surface and permanent football lines on the field made the team a second-class citizen in its own home.
"It's like bringing the Stars to play at the Galleria," Chaves says. "You start to think, 'Do they know soccer at all?'"
The move had been decreed by new team owner Lamar Hunt of Hunt Sports Group. Hunt owns two other MLS teams, the relatively successful Columbus Crew and the dismal Kansas City Wiz, as well as the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs. Hunt pushed out popular Burn General Manager Andy Swift, described by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as "first and foremost a soccer guy," to be replaced by Greg Elliott, fresh from--the horror--the NHL.
The turf and the turmoil eroded the club's level of play, leaving it out of the playoffs for two seasons, the second under new coach Colin Clarke, a former player for Northern Ireland's international team who was promoted from assistant when his predecessor Mike Jeffries was fired. Clarke's apparent preference for Anglo players made him, in the words of Latino league federation President Roberto Castillo, "a bit of a racist." The perception was reinforced as the number of Latino players on the roster dwindled.
"You go from having Hugo Sanchez, and I think it was maybe seven on the roster, down to one or two players that were primarily reserves," Elliott says. "It also was compounded by the fact that the team was awful."
Chaves is even more blunt. "They really basically did everything wrong," he says. Even a tryout for local players he arranged in April 2004 backfired. "The coaching staff was there for, like, 10 minutes and went home," Chaves says. "It was a good gesture, but it wasn't handled properly." Moving back to the Cotton Bowl last year hardly helped: Attendance climbed from a pathetic 7,729 per game to only 9,088, still the worst in the league. The average so far this season is 9,614 in five home games (a figure for the May 18 Colorado game was not available).
This year, several more adroit moves, including the signing of Torres, ought to have at least staunched the bleeding. The name change, from the Burn to FC Dallas, with its "Football Club" prefix, evokes images of prestigious foreign teams rather than a prickly rash. Signing Guatemalan superstar Carlos Ruiz has returned at least a touch of Latin flavor to the starting lineup, and with the best record in MLS, it would seem that no one could argue with the team's performance.
Or how about everyone. "Everybody thinks that FC Dallas sucks," says Irving league President Saul Ramirez. "The level that they have is a really poor level. I've been trying; I've been giving away free tickets, but there's no chemistry between the team and the people." The numbers don't lie: Elliott says that walk-up ticket sales, which are predominantly to Latinos, have dwindled from highs of around 3,000 per game to "in the hundreds." Attendance remains flat even though some 20 percent of tickets are either given away or sold at a discount.
One example of how little slack Latino fans are cutting FCD these days is the case of Oscar Pareja. The 36-year-old veteran has seen limited action so far this season and announced his retirement on June 10, effective at the end of the season. Pareja, an immensely respected, thoughtful and deadly effective midfielder who was the team MVP in 2001 and 2002, has said all along that the retirement is his choice. "I want to quit when I feel like I can play," Pareja says in his soft, measured voice. "I want to quit when the people still feel like I can do it. Don't wait until they say, 'What are you doing? Just quit! You're no good anymore!'"
Yet team critics are outraged. "That is the biggest tragedy," says Pelaez, the former FC Dallas assistant coach, shaking his head. "[Pareja] is a gentleman, but I can tell you that inside he is totally destroyed." Even Torres, who accepts his own reserve status with a shrug and a grin, gets fired up about Pareja. "He's incredible," Torres says. "He's the best player here, and I don't see why he doesn't start."
It is hardly surprising that the FC Dallas staff is a little defensive these days, even as they sit atop the standings. When asked about the problem of flagging Latino support, Clarke responds in mock astonishment, "Do we have a problem with the Latinos?"
"You can call it whatever you want," assistant coach Haines says when asked of the problem. "If you have a winning formula, that should be supported."
Just how important is repairing the breach for FC Dallas' future? Castillo's federation, which is by no means all-inclusive, encompasses 12 leagues with more than 800 teams. That's roughly 16,000 players, not to mention family, friends and neighbors. As Chaves puts it, "You can fill up the whole stadium if they support you."
Despite the inept handling of its fan base, one could argue that some of FC Dallas' problems are not of its own making. In fact, the MLS as a whole has had a rocky relationship with Latino fans ever since it began play in 1996.
At first, Latinos turned out in droves for MLS games, partly because of the league's initial effort to sign big-name Latino stars such as Carlos Valderrama and Marco Etcheverry. Perhaps more important was that, at long last, a professional sports league had appeared in America that actually considered Latinos among its core constituency. Spanish speakers in the front offices and at the ticket windows joined those on the field. The league predicted an average attendance of 10,000 to 12,000 for its first season, but got more than 17,000 per game.
Problem was, the games weren't very good. After the high-priced foreign veterans and a few top-flight American players seasoned in Europe, the quality of the players plummeted. College players used to hand-holding coaches and postgame keggers just didn't have the speed and skill to dazzle the paying public. Spectators left disappointed, either accustomed to the high-powered professional soccer abroad or unaccustomed to watching a game that didn't feature their own children.
Only the deep pockets of the league's investors kept the MLS afloat through its first few seasons. As time went on, however, their pockets remained deep but their arms grew shorter. Signing aging Latino stars to lucrative contracts became less attractive than investing in home-grown talent, a first step toward bringing American soccer in line with the world game.
The standard U.S. model of athletic progression, high school to college to pros, produces 21-year-old rookies. In world soccer, 21 is middle-aged. Oscar Pareja, 36, is in his eighth and final season for Dallas--and his 19th as a professional. "In South America, when you're 20 years old, you already have 100 games as a professional," Pareja says.
In 1997, after a pathetic first-round exit by the U.S. men's Olympic team, MLS and the U.S. Soccer Association joined forces to create the Project-40 program. The program recruits players as young as 13 into the professional ranks, guaranteeing them a college scholarship if they don't make it in the bigs. Project-40 has since been a runaway success, producing stars such as Landon Donovan and DaMarcus Beasley, but the league still relies heavily on the college draft, a pool in which Latinos are egregiously underrepresented.
Their absence is reflected in the style of play. "The MLS is a hard league for Latin guys," Pareja says. Soccer in Latin America is played emphasizing ball skills and creative opportunism. "We have a different feel for soccer. We have 'toque, toque' ("touch, touch"), where we keep the ball and we're patient with it, and our fans appreciate it. They don't demand that we go straight to the goal."
FC Dallas, like most MLS teams, plays what is considered English-style soccer. The approach is based on physical play and aggressively challenging the defense by working the ball constantly forward, with long balls through the air or one-touch passes. "Is it good or bad?" Pareja asks. "No, it's just different."
But others aren't so sure. Castillo complains that the English style is unimaginative. "It lacks art," he says. "It's all about speed and strength. There's no spark." Pelaez, too, is convinced the Latino style is superior. "If I'm wrong with this, why are the Brazilians six-time world champions and not the English?" he asks. His argument is bolstered by the fact that in its otherwise promising 10th season, MLS as a whole is still grappling with the need to attract more Latino fans.
Even critics will concede that the European style has its benefits. "The American player has tremendous tactical discipline," Pelaez says. "They are well-educated and disciplined like hell." The emphasis on speed also demands that players stay in superb shape. Both are weaknesses of the Latino style. "With that kind of discipline and physical conditioning, who could stop us?" Castillo says almost wistfully.
Demographics alone dictate that in the future, U.S. soccer will become more of a combination of both styles. "You've got to do the mix--and you've got to have somebody as a coach that can mold that mentality," Pelaez says in a thinly veiled criticism of Clarke.
Torres hopes that by becoming the embodiment of the hybrid style he will have the advantages of both sides. "I could go to Mexico and be a different player," he says. "There are a lot of skill players in Mexico but not as many strong and fast players."
This vision of returning in triumph to Mexico gives Torres' voice an unconscious intensity, and highlights yet another difference between the Latino and American approaches to soccer--the power of obsession. "I think Americans become professional soccer players as a consequence of being an exceptional player," Pareja says. "In their early years they were playing soccer maybe not as their number one competitive sport. They are soccer players now because they were good in college and realized they could be professionals.
"In South America, you dream every day of being a soccer player."
"I'm actually kind of upset," Torres says as he looks down at the field through the glass. He is in the press box of the Cotton Bowl, watching his team take on hapless Chivas USA. The admission comes out slowly, as if Torres is surprised at himself for caring. "I thought I played well on Sunday [in the reserve game], and then some guys that didn't play so well make the bench." Indeed, Alex Woods, who on the preceding Sunday had looked lost at times against the L.A. Galaxy reserves, is parked on the metal bench far below at the bottom of the Bowl.
His eyes following the action on the field, Torres goes on to describe the pregame routine. "You come into the locker room, and you look for your jersey hanging on your locker. If it's there, you're playing. If it's not..." Torres says, looking up, "you're up here.
"I was really hoping it would be there," he says. "But I've just got to keep working."
Little in Torres' years of being the best on the field in the Latino leagues has prepared him for the frustrations of professional life. "You know what happened with Mario?" Pareja says. "He came to me on his first day and he said, 'I've never practiced with a serious team.' He had never practiced where it was organized and you do it every day. He said, 'I saw practice as a recreational thing.' I was like, 'How can that happen in this country? How can that happen when you have this talent?'"
Pareja is unsparing in his criticism of Torres. "He has to speed up his game a little bit. He has to play with more intensity. He has to become stronger physically. He knows the game, but he has more to learn." But the veteran from Medellín is just as confident in his final assessment. "I think he's learning quickly and he's going to get his chance, because the coaches like him. I know he's going to make it--but if you had asked me three months ago, even two months ago, I wouldn't have been sure."
If it turns out that Pareja is wrong, there's always modeling. Torres' career took an unexpected twist when he showed up earlier this year to have his picture taken for an article in El Sol de Tejas, a Dallas-based Spanish-language newspaper. The paper's editor, Rogelio Santillan, was in the midst of another project, one that he holds dear to his heart: the first locally produced fotonovela.
Fotonovelas are essentially comic books that use photos rather than drawings, and typically have a dramatic plot line similar to their better-known siblings telenovelas. Santillan was supervising a photo shoot for the fotonovela, and he noticed Torres' interest--and his magnetism.
"He has a lot of charisma," Santillan says of Torres. "He has a great presence, that spark." When Torres asked if he could participate, Santillan readily agreed--and gave Torres the leading male role. Now every so often, Torres is transformed into "Carlos Xaloc," a university student and athlete caught up in a love triangle in the pages of Idilio Azul, or Blue Idyll. Santillan plans to produce 5,000 copies of the first issue this summer.
As for FC Dallas, its hope may lie as much with Juan Garcia as it does with Mario Torres. Garcia is co-leader of La Raza Latina, essentially a Latino booster club for FC Dallas. He and anywhere from 20 to 50 of his colleagues come to every home game equipped with drums, horns, tambourines and hand-painted signs, and provide the kind of electricity that all the Jumbotrons in the world cannot. Though La Raza is only a shadow of its former hundreds-strong self, Garcia is ecstatic that his team is leading the league, and leaves no doubt as to what he thinks the results will be.
"Even if nobody from their country is playing, even if it was purely Americans, if they keep winning, people will come," Garcia declares. "There are a lot of Mexicans in La Raza Latina, even though we don't really have a really renowned Mexican player. We have everybody. We're in Dallas, and it's our team."
True, Garcia doesn't speak for everyone, a fact of which Torres is well aware. "There's a lot of Latinos that think the MLS is crap, that think there are better players on these local teams than there are in the MLS," he admits. "I'd tell them, 'Come see him in practice. Get on the field and try to do what he does. You can't.'"
Torres is confident, however, that he can. "I know I'm going to be there," he says with absolute conviction. "I'll be the best on the team and the best in the league." If he does successfully marry the English-style soccer of MLS and the flashy individual skills so cherished by Latinos, El Gato could point the way to a more harmonious future for professional soccer in America. That's a lot of pressure to put on the skinny, affable kid from Carrollton, but Torres' approach seems to have served him well so far: Just keep working, and good things will happen.
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Hastie managers, workers left high and dry in UAE
Five weeks after the collapse of the Hastie Group, 1,000 staff based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been left in the lurch, with their former managers forced to support them out of their own pockets.
In Australia, about 80 per cent of the 2,700 workers made redundant are now back working for other contractors, having received their full termination entitlements.
But the 1,000 mainly Indian and Bangladeshi labourers are yet to see a cent of their entitlements, known locally as gratuities, after Hastie's bank account was drained of $3 million just days before administrators were appointed.
And a small group of Hastie managers, who have been using their own money to help abandoned employees, claim they have been left high and dry by the administrators.
Hastie's general manager in Abu Dhabi, Darren Hunt, is one of four bosses left in the country, and like his workers, he feels abandoned.
He says managers have been left in the lurch and are standing by foreign labourers at their own personal expense to meet food and housing costs.
"I think that what has happened is criminal," he told AM.
"The three senior managers have absconded the country, left 940 employees in the Middle East.
"There is a humanitarian issue where we have got to accommodate people, we've got to provide food.
"We've got no funds to do that, we've got no access to do that and we've got no signatures to do that. I think there is a humanitarian issue and I think these people have got no morals doing what they've done."
"We are incurring, you know, daily expenses to try and make sure we do the right thing by these people.
"My personal expenses to date to Hastie are 90,000 dirhams which is probably 15,000 pounds, $30,000, I've got no chance of recovering."
'Get your arse to the UAE'
Mr Hunt claims Hastie's Australian-based administrators have ignored offers to help sell assets and call in debts to open up the money pipeline to help pay out local employees.
"I've had interested parties in buying Hastie International Abu Dhabi, which was a profitable business, which had limited liabilities, and had quite a large debt in the market that was due and could have been collected," he said.
"That debt alone would have paid for all this to be administered properly and the business closed down properly."
The Hastie Group's joint administrator Craig Crosbie sympathises, but rejects those claims.
"We've actually asked that the management over there to articulate exactly what assets they are talking about but you know, none of that has been forthcoming unfortunately," he said.
And Mr Crosbie says he does not have the power to treat Hastie's foreign workers the same as Australians.
"In Australia in the circumstance we've got, we can make an application to the Federal Government and they step in and pick up these entitlements, which if we didn't have there would be a number of Australians who would be in the same boat as what these people in the Middle East are," he said.
But Darren Hunt will not be trying to sell that explanation to his workers.
"Get your arse to the UAE and help us with this situation, you know. It is unacceptable," he said.
Follow Peter Ryan on Twitter @peter_f_ryan and on his blog.
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a resident of Los Altos Hills
on Jun 6, 2014 at 7:58 am
"Now, Mary and Brian Heffernan's The H&H Company operates six family-friendly or child-focused businesses in downtown Los Altos."
Very recently they sold their 8 Los Altos businesses to "an entity". See Los Altos Town Crier and your local gossip queen for more info.
a resident of Los Altos
on Jun 6, 2014 at 9:04 am
Forest on First and Bumble are both very, very pricey. Definitely for the very wealthy disengaged patent who wants separation time from the kids without the guilt, and can pay for it
a resident of another community
on Jun 10, 2014 at 8:40 pm
Welcome to the REAL northern California. I hope you do not bring the typical Bay Area attitude with you. We here believe in guns, hunting, Logging, Ranching, God and hard work. I hope that you will provide much needed jobs here. This is coming from a 5th generation Fort Jones family pioneer.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2014 at 11:46 pm
Isn't this reminiscent of one of this paper's April Fool's joke this year?
a resident of another community
on Jun 11, 2014 at 12:59 am
Sparty is a registered user.
"Forest on First and Bumble are both very, very pricey"
$16 for salmon isn't that pricey.
There's always McDonalds for the non-wealthy disengaged parent.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Jun 11, 2014 at 7:06 am
Fifteen dollars for two pancakes IS!!!
a resident of another community
on Jun 11, 2014 at 2:13 pm
OMG those places are for caricatures, not real people. Every time I go by there I see COMPLETELY disengaged parents, all dolled up, self absorbed and buried in their cell phones.
It is on my list of AVOID AT ALL COST places. You can have some elbow room and actually dine around non-irritating people in many places around town, but not here. The cost is secondary, you pay in Los Altos, that's the deal, but I don't pay to hang around with those folks, and CERTAINLY not their kids.
Enjoy though...seems quite popular with the newer breed of Los Altos residents. I'm glad it adds to the tax base.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Jun 11, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Hmmm is a registered user.
What a truly bizarre place, and its menu pricing is also strange.
a resident of Los Altos
on Jun 11, 2014 at 3:45 pm
Very strange place with a customer base reflective of the establishment.
We like to walk by and people watch. Inevitably someone says "Could you imagine actually going to that place?"
It is great people watching though, in the same way Wal-Mart is great for people watching.
Is it true that 2 pancakes are only one dollar less than the salmon? HA! Only two kinds of people pay 15 bucks for 2 pancakes: Utter fools or someone who is about to die if they don't eat 2 pancakes.
a resident of Stanford
on Jun 11, 2014 at 6:20 pm
Yup, robot parents on auto-pilot going through the motions without really being there. Probably had their kids thru AI. Can't imagine what they kids are going to turn into.
Shocked to hear that Sergei Brin and Anne Wojicki used to bring their kids here, when they were still together.
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Orange Beach, Ala. (PRWEB) December 20, 2012
Columbia Southern University (CSU), one of the nations premier online universities, is now offering students a flexible and secure method to take an exam without the need for a human proctor to monitor the test-taking.
Remote Proctor Now is an on-demand, third-party, webcam- based alternative which allows students to sit for an examination anytime through use of video technology. CSU students choosing Remote Proctor Now must have an operational webcam with audio, a high-speed Internet connection and appropriate system rights required to download and install software.
During the exam, Remote Proctor Now will access the students webcam and microphone to record the examination for academic integrity review.
To learn more about CSU, which offers online associate, bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees, visit http://www.columbiasouthern.edu.
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Hooked by a 20-pound yellowtail
"It couldn't be pushed through or pulled out due to tendons..."
Delinda Lombardo 5:15 p.m., Sept. 23
Little remains of the century-old, redwood-planked flume (aqueduct) that once brought the waters of the Cuyamaca Mountains to Grossmont Summit and farther west. Much of the flume's 36-mile-long grade is hard to identify, since no fill dirt was used to maintain the flume's uniform fall of 4 feet, 8 inches to the mile. Instead, workers employed numerous cuts, several tunnels, and more than 300 trestles. The completion and filling of El Capitan Reservoir in the 1930s put an end to the flume's usefulness. The 9 million board-feet of lumber used for the flume itself and for the trestles were scavenged a long time ago.
A 3.5-mile section of the flume's near-flat earthen grade along the east shore of El Capitan Reservoir is easily visible to the eye, and fairly easy to follow, once you are actually on it. A pleasant surprise awaits hikers at the far end of this stretch.
Start at the concession area of El Capitan Reservoir, at the far-east end of El Monte Road, east of Lakeside. The reservoir is open sunrise to sunset, Friday through Sunday only, beginning on February 3 (visit www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation/ for more information). A day-use fee is charged on entry to the reservoir area. Be sure to take plenty of drinking water on your trek, especially if the day is warm and sunny.
Your first and most difficult task is to flounder across the muddy bottom of the reservoir near its south end, where the waters of Chocolate Canyon and a smaller stream flowing downward from Peutz Valley enter the south arm of the reservoir. These two creek crossings were only slightly foot-wetting a couple of weeks ago — but soaking rains later this winter could induce more runoff, and water levels in the reservoir could rise, making the task more difficult.
Aim for the flat "shelf" cut into the hillside east of the lake just above the high-water line. The redwood structure of the flume followed this nearly flat bed. Continue north and east for more than three miles on a trail moderately overgrown by weedy grasses that have sprouted up since the 2003 Cedar Fire. As you get closer to Conejos Creek, there are detours where the path darts above or below the original level of the flume. The footing there may be treacherous. When you reach the spot where the flume grade crosses Conejos Creek, you'll discover a sublime sylvan scene, with water darting over and around boulders and century-old masonry associated with the flume. The trees and low-growing vegetation here are about 2.5 years into their recovery cycle following the Cedar Fire.


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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> IOW, we don't actually *know* at parse analysis time which table will be >> affected. > I don't understand that. Why would the execution be delayed to a future > transaction? You can't PREPARE an ALTER TABLE, right? Yeah, you can. Consider plpgsql, or protocol-level Bind. The fact that we don't expose these facilities as SQL doesn't mean they're not there. A cached statement in plpgsql is actually the main case I'm worried about... >> Maybe we should give up doing any CREATE/ALTER processing at all at >> parse analysis time, and push it all to execution time. > We'll still need something smaller to back patch, I think. :( At this point I don't think we'll try to fix this in the back branches. It's never really worked, so I don't see 8.2's behavior as a regression, and I don't see a small fix that doesn't create issues of its own. regards, tom lane
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Royal DSM NV (DSM), the world's largest maker of vitamins, will cut 1,000 jobs across Europe as Chief Executive Officer Feike Sijbesma strives to meet profit goals. Cutting more than 4 percent of the workforce will help boost profit by 150 million euros ($185 million), Sijbesma and Chief Financial Officer Rolf-Dieter Schwalb said on a call. DSM, based in Heerlen, the Netherlands, fell as much as 5 percent to 39.14 euros after highlighting increased doubt over the strength of Europe's economies.


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By Brady Ambrose
The Caledonia Argus
The alumni and former coaches in attendance couldn't have gotten a better treat for the 50th anniversary of wrestling at Caledonia as the Warriors rolled to a 43-28 win over Decorah, Iowa, Friday night.
With all five head coaches, including Ed Ferkingstad, Leo Simon, Roger Knutson, Jay Tolleson and current coach Dan Goergen recognized, as well as a gym full of alumni that included several state champions and hall of fame members, the Warriors got pins in six different weight classes and erased an early deficit to kick off the celebration in a big way.
"We started out slow; we couldn't get the ball rolling but we finally figured out that we can put kids on the mat and put their shoulders down and get the win," Goergen said after the match. "Overall we did real well."
Decorah won the first two matches but Jacob Winjum turned the tide, pinning Devin Storta at 120 pounds at the 3:15 mark. Dylan Lee and Drew Stemper then both followed with pins at 132 and 138 pounds to push the lead to 22-7 for the Warriors. At 145 Sam Stemper lost a tough 5-3 decision to Kennedy Folkedahl, and Blaine Knutson was pinned by Alec Fjelstul at 152 pounds as Decorah cut the lead to 22-16.
The turning point then came in the next match at 160 pounds. Sophomore Mitchell Schmitz, who trailed the entire match to Decorah's Luke Dixon, was behind 4-3 with 15 seconds left but recorded a two-point takedown with just 2.8 seconds on the clock and won 7-4 in a match that sent a roar through the crowd. "That was huge for Mitchell to come back like that. I think he realized that we can't give up anytime because anything can happen and you have to keep working until that last second ticks off."
The win gave the Warriors a 25-16 lead going into Eli Craig's match at 170 pounds, where Craig pinned Josh Graves. Alex Goergen then followed suit, pinning Kyle Hageman at 182 pounds to give the Warriors a 37-16 lead. Caledonia forfeited the 195 pound match, but Blake Mauss pinned Carter Zidlicky at 220 pounds to seal the win. Decorah got six points in the heavyweight match with a forfeit for the 43-28 final.
The Warriors will travel to La Crosse this Friday and Saturday for the ever-tough Bi-State Classic at the La Crosse Center.
106: Joe Knoke (D) won by decision over Kyle Cavanaugh10-3; 113: Carter Hubka (D) maj. dec. over Justin Stemper 13-2;
120: Jacob Winjum (C) pinned Devin Stortz 3:15;
126: Tylor Nelson (C) maj. dec. over Colten Mikkelson 15-4;
132: Dylan Lee (C) pinned Brendan Numedahl :28;
138: Drew Stemper (C) pinned Isaiah Mitchell :51;
145: Kennedy Folkedahl (D) dec. over Sam Stemper 5-3;
152: Alec Fjelstul (D) pinned Blaine Knutson 3:20;
160: Mitchell Schmitz (C) dec. Cody Ritner 7-4;
170: Eli Craig (C) pinned Joshua Graves :37;
182: Alex Goergen (C) pinned Kyle Hageman 1:25;
195: Sean Trewin (D) won by forfeit;
220: Blake Mauss (C) pinned Carter Zidlicky 2:40;
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Breakfast in Memphis. The Blue Plate Cafe.
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We had an opporunity to check out the downtown location of Blue Plate Cafe recently. The restaurant is just a
half block off the street car tracks in a lovely building that also doubles as an art gallery. Lots of beautifull art for sale. As soon as they get your drink order a basket of biscuits appears with a bowl of sausage gravy. The gravy was good although it could have used more sausage but the biscuits were thick and flaky,also VERY good. I had a bacon and cheddar omelet that was really good with plenty of bacon and sliced cheddar inside. The potatoes are called hash browns but are more what I call home fries. Either way they were perfectly done with a wonderful seasoning. Everyone working that morning was incredibly friendly and helpful.
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Nice photos and report. I have only eaten at the original suburban location. In fact, I had no idea that there was a downtown location of
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I've not been to Memphis for at least 3 years but I'll be heading that way in a few weeks and with a little more frequency from now on and this will be one of my first stops. Looks really good!
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EVGA X58 Classified - First Lookby Rajinder Gill on February 27, 2009 5:00 AM EST
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Shocking BIOS options
CPU VTT: Stock VTT voltage defaults to 1.17V or so. The scale runs in 10mv steps, allowing you to add or subtract from the base value. VTT voltage drives the integrated memory controller and the QPI link bus. This voltage will need to be increased as you increase memory frequency and increase BCLK (QPI frequency). Remember to keep this voltage within 0.5V of VDIMM to prevent damage to the integrated memory controller.
CPU PLL VCore: 1.8V base; we found no benefits to increasing this voltage for overclocking. Clean power to PLL circuits is essential for ensuring that external influences over the accuracy of clock signals is minimized. It seems EVGA have done a good job with regards to all PLL voltage rails on the Classified. In terms of overclocking headroom and PLL's, clean power always trumps more voltage, thus there's no need to tinker with these voltages to any great extent on this board, apart from perhaps QPI PLL. Even then, you'll probaby find the level of voltage required for maximum BCLK potential is far below what some other boards need to get the same clocks...
IOH PLL VCore: Input/Output Hub Phase Locked Loop voltage. The default voltage is 1.8V. For the most part this voltage can be left at stock unless chasing maximum QPI frequencies for benchmarking. For 24/7 use we recommend you stick with a maximum of 1.89V. Processors/IOHs needing more than 1.89V to remain stable are best run at a lower BCLK and higher CPU multiplier to bring them back into their comfort zone.
QPI PLL VCore: Quick Path Interconnect Phase Locked Loop voltage. For 24/7 overclocking this voltage can be left at stock in most instances. Again, if you need to use more it's probably wise to pull back a little on QPI frequency to a speed that requires no more than 1.2V. For benchmarking, we used 1.45V to reach 239 BCLK for a CPU-Z shot.
IOH VCore: Input/Output Hub voltage uses a 1.10V base. Stock values usually suffice for 24/7 overclocking even when using multiple graphics cards; we had no problems in reaching a stable 200 BCLK X20 for 4GHz CPU speed. For more extreme QPI frequencies this voltage will need to be increased. For 3D benchmarking past 220 BCLK we used 1.45V. We needed 1.50V to reach 239 BCLK. Values over 1.50V failed to POST or locked up in the OS; use only as much voltage as you need.
IOH/ICH I/O Voltage: IOH to Intel Southbridge termination voltage. We left this voltage at stock and did not see any overclocking improvements from increasing it on this board. Base value is 1.50V.
ICH VCore: 1.05V base voltage; again this voltage can be left at default.
NF200 Voltage: 1.2V stock. We left this voltage at stock for all overclocking.
VTT PWM Frequency: Changes the switching frequency of the VTT voltage line. Higher switching frequencies can help facilitate lower output ripple, and reduce overshoot while providing a higher frequency power bandwidth to the CPU. Setting a higher frequency with this BIOS option may improve overclocking headroom somewhat depending on the current drawn. For overclocking past 220 BCLK we generally used 490KHz; for speeds below this a 250KHz switching frequency worked fine for us and also reduces the heat output from the PWM FETs.
CPU PWM Frequency: CPU PWM (VCore supply) switching frequency. Stock is 800KHz, which is more than sufficient for 99% of overclocking. For subzero benchmarking you may wish to increase the switching frequency to see if it helps stability during heavy 8-thread CPU loads. The side effect in doing so is increased heat from the power FETs, although the temperature increase is quite small due to the use of a 10-phase power delivery circuit, especially as the FETs are indirectly cooled via the CPU power plane when the processor temperature is well into the negative region.
CPU Impedance: Sets the level of signal compensation for the QPI bus to the CPU. Higher QPI frequencies often demand a higher signal current, which means that compensation levels have to be changed in order to counter any signal line reflections caused by PCB traces and input impedance mismatches. The options available for this function are AUTO and Less. On the Classified, we found that QPI frequencies approaching 4GHz can benefit from a reduction in setting Less, even more so if the CPU frequency is well above 4.5GHz. Leave at AUTO for most 24/7 overclocking at BCLKs under 200MHz. For subzero cooling at high system speeds, set this value to Less to see if it helps with overclocking headroom.
QPI Compensation: Sets the level of signal compensation for the QPI bus to the IOH. There are three options for this function, those being AUTO, Less, and More. We found that IOH compensation is far more sensitive to changes in compensation values than the CPU. A setting of Less for high BCLKs and QPI frequencies almost always brings about additional system stability during benchmarking (at least in our experience). For all other purposes, this value can be left to AUTO.
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JarredWalton - Friday, February 27, 2009 - linkI'm not even sure that's the target market. More likely this is just a dog and pony show that EVGA will give to the top overclockers of the world, who will also get free CPUs from Intel, RAM from memory companies, etc. Then they will take all of that and push their system to new levels of performance and overclocking. The net result is that they hope having their top motherboard in the fastest systems in the world will have a trickle down effect and people will assume that their lower end products are also the "best". Honestly, it's mostly marketing if you ask me. EVGA might only make 500-1000 of these boards and call it quits for all we know. Reply
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With a music career that dates back well over a decade, Chicago rapper Kanye West has garnered numerous labels since the start of his career. And during a recent interview with San Francisco's 99.7 NOW, Kanye spoke on being labeled "crazy" and revealed that at times he feels he's the only one that isn't crazy.
"My life is philanthropy," West said. "When I wake up it's philanthropy. Everything I'm doing is 'How can I help others?' So if you think about the things that I've got the most backlash for I was actually trying to help others –maybe in the wrong way, maybe in the wrong time — but really trying to fight for…what I thought was the truth. When people say 'Kanye's crazy' sometimes I'm like, 'I feel like I'm the only one not crazy, I'm the only one not limited, I'm the only one not afraid.' You get to be afraid a little bit, but bravery is not not having fear, it's overcoming fear."
West's comments on philanthropy come only a matter of months after fellow Watch The Throne collaborator Jay Z spoke on a similar topic during an interview when he stated "my presence is charity."
The G.O.O.D. Music emcee further commented on perception during his interview as he compared himself to a video game character whose controller doesn't have a functioning joystick.
"A lot of times people look at celebrities like a video game character or an avatar," 'Ye said. "And I'm gonna tell you what up with me: My joystick is all the way out the plug. You ain't controlling this avatar in any way. There's only one person that walks this earth, or one level of greatness that can control me, and that's God."
West later commented on fashion and design, a topic he's discussed greatly in his string of interviews this month. According to the Windy City wordsmith, design has the capability to change the world.
"What if everybody really came together — I'm talking about the brands and corporations just in America alone, let alone the entire globe — I think the world can be saved through design," said the rapper. "Because design is about form, function, solution, and problem solving — It's not about politics. Politics is what slows everything down."
While on the West Coast for his "Yeezus" tour, which also features Compton rapster Kendrick Lamar, 'Ye conducted interviews with a number of local radio stations. In one interview in particular, Kanye addressed classism and the separation that tends to occur between classes.
"But really what I didn't know and I didn't really understand this term until a couple of years ago, is it wasn't about race," West said during an interview with Wild 94.9. "It's about class. And it was a classist move that even when you get invited to certain dinner parties, or even when you're in certain magazines, it's still like a Dinner With Schmucks situation. Are they inviting you to be a part of what you're doing or are they inviting you to laugh at your teeth?"
Kanye West's "Yeezus" tour is scheduled to make stops in Las Vegas and Los Angeles this month.


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The first step in the process for Anoka County to transfer two parcels of land within the city of Coon Rapids' Lions Coon Creek Park to the city has taken place.
The Coon Rapids City Council has approved a resolution approving the transfer and an associated grant agreement.
But it is not simply a land transfer between the county and the city. The National Park Service and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources are also involved, hence the grant agreement.
According to Tim Himmer, city public works director, the city has been leasing the parcels from the county since the park on Hanson Boulevard was built.
Those parcels comprise most of the park area and the county is now willing to transfer the land to the city at no cost, just as there has been no charge for the lease, Himmer said.
The lease term, which began in 1988, expires at the end of June, he said.
The Anoka County Board's Parks and Recreation Committee has approved the land transfer in concept, but in order to move the process forward, the council had to take action, Himmer said.
Anoka County received federal Land and Water Conservation funds from the state to purchase and preserve the land for public park purposes, according to Himmer.
Now that the council has taken action to support the land transfer, Himmer outlined three more steps that have to occur before the transfer can be completed.
• The National Park Service must approve the land transfer.
• A grant agreement must be processed between the National Park Service and the state DNR allowing the state to transfer the grant responsibilities to the city.
• A three-way grant amendment must be executed by the city, county and the state.
With the resolution in hand from the city, the county will submit a letter to the state requesting the transfer, at which time the DNR can process the amendment between the National Park Service and the state to transfer the grant responsibilities to the city, according to Himmer.
Once the National Park Service signs off, the state will prepare a grant amendment for the county, city and state to sign, Himmer wrote in a report to the council.
"The city would not be limited it its ability to enhance and improve the property as long as it remains in the public domain for park purposes," he wrote.
Lions Coon Creek Park, which totals 15 acres, has the city's largest play structure and is known for its trails and access to the Sand Creek/Coon Creek Trail system.
The park features three picnic shelters available for rent, two softball fields, basketball courts, a bocce ball court, volleyball court and a memorial garden.
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Would you like to get your GED in Auburn WA? The GED exam is for adults who do not have their high school diploma. The certification that you receive upon passing the Washington GED examination is accepted as an equivalent credential to a high school diploma by employers and colleges throughout the United States.
The General Education Development examination covers basic subjects that students learn about in high school. Lessons reviewed in GED classes include writing, reading, social studies, math, and science. These are the subject areas that make up the General Education Development exam in Washington.
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Day 2: Ngorongoro Crater – Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast we drive to Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon game drive. The park is at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment and is famous for its tree climbing lions and also for its huge herds of Buffalos and elephants. Accommodation at Lake Manyara Hotel. Includes: (FB).
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After breakfast we make a game drive in the Lake Manyara National Park. Afterwards we drive to the Airport to catch your flight back home or to Zanzibar.
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|Gauge Secondary Range Values: 0 to 2000
|Gauge Primary Range Units: psi
|Gauge Accuracy: +/-3-2-3%
|Pressure and Vacuum Gauge Type: Pressure Gauge
|Gauge Primary Range Values: 0 to 300
|Liquid Filled: No
|Gauge Primary Range Smallest Graduation: 5
|Gauge Sensor Material: Bronze
|Smallest Graduation: 5 psi
|Gauge Application: Test
|Basic Gauge Case Material: Plastic
|Operating Temp. Range: -40 Degrees to 150 Degrees F
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|Range: 0 to 300 psi, 0 to 2000 kPa
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text: Cyril Despres Out, Caselli In At KTM Cycle News Staff | March 12, 2013KTM Motorsports has announced some big changes to its rally program for the rest of the 2013 season. For one, the team will now ride under the Red Bull Factory Racing name while undergoing one very important rider change.One of the biggest news is that rally icon Cyril Despres is no longer with the team. The five-time Dakar Rally winner, who has for so long been associated with KTM, will be taking on new ventures elsewhere. KTM said in a release that "…when a rider of the high caliber of Despres indicated that he wanted to move on and face new challenges that the company had to respect his wish.""His exemplary achievements are recognized throughout the world of motorsports and he will always be a part of the history of our company," said Pit Beier, the head of KTM Motorsports, of Despres. "We thank him for his contribution and I join with everyone at KTM Motorsports and our entire company to wish him well for his chosen future."Despres has not yet indicated what that future will be, though most believe he will join the factory Honda team.Just as big of news is that American Kurt Caselli will step in for Despres, joining three-time Dakar winner Marc Coma and Ruben Faria, second in this year's Dakar Rally and Despres' long time "water boy." Making up the factory team will be Francesco "Chaleco" Lopez, the Chilean who finished third in this year's Dakar Rally."Just as we always look to the future by constantly developing our rally bikes, we must also do that same with the structure of our factory team," said Beier. "It is essential to evolve, to engage new talent and have the kind of balance and harmony essential for the smooth operation of the team in extreme circumstances like the Dakar Rally. We want to capitalize on the immense experience and talent of riders like Marc Coma, but also need to take advantage of those of ambitious up-and-coming riders like Caselli, Faria and Lopez."Coma, who did not ride this year's Dakar Rally because of a shoulder injury, is preparing to defend his World Championship Cross Country Rally title starting with the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, April 4-11.Caselli, a two-time AMA Hare & Hound National Champion and multi-time ISDE gold medalist, competed in the 2013 Dakar Rally for the first time when he was recruited at the last minute to fill in for the injured Coma. Caselli won two stages and showed much promise. In the past, Caselli has said that he would like to further his off-road racing career by getting into Rally racing.Beier concluded by saying, "We must invest in new talent, just as we invest in new technology and I am confident that with the new team structure we will continue to play a dominant role in rally sport." Comments


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ST. PETERSBURG — Technically, today's debate concerns the location of a new ballpark in the city. Realistically, it is a referendum on the future of major-league baseball in St. Petersburg.
Oh, the Rays are smart enough not to frame it in such stark terms. They know better than to open a conversation about a new stadium with threats or ultimatums.
But connecting the dots is not all that difficult. This ownership group is not staying at Tropicana Field for the long term. That could mean either selling the team or breaking the lease, but one or the other seems inevitable if a new stadium in St. Petersburg is not in the Rays' future.
So, yes, it is important to know about every detail and dollar regarding the financing of a proposed waterfront ballpark. It is important to understand the potential liabilities and possible drawbacks from this ambitious plan. It is important for the city to negotiate with a ruthless vision.
But it is important, also, to understand the potential cost of saying no.
Owner Stuart Sternberg is not going to remain at Tropicana Field through 2027, the final year of the Rays' lease. He made that clear just about a year ago this week when he said the stadium was nearly obsolete.
So figure out for yourself where this story goes if the waterfront proposal doesn't reach referendum, or isn't approved by city voters.
Sternberg will take it as an indication the city isn't committed to the Rays. Whether that is fair is not really the point. The reality is he will have 10 years of poor attendance, a mediocre building and a rejection by the community, and that will be more than enough for Major League Baseball to consider this a failing location.
Does that mean Sternberg would have an army of lawyers seeking ways to break the lease for a possible move to Charlotte or Portland? The closer we get to the stadium's debt service being paid off in 2017, the more plausible that prospect will seem. Does it mean Sternberg will talk to investment bankers about selling the team? That's harder to imagine but, like Lightning owner Bill Davidson, he is an out-of-town businessman with no loyalties here.
My guess is it will go one of two ways. Either someone in the city will suggest the Gateway area in northeast St. Petersburg as an alternative location, or the Rays will start leering suggestively at Hillsborough County.
The mere mention of Tampa should reinvigorate decades-old insecurities about St. Petersburg being the bay area's weaker sibling, but it is a question worth posing.
Frankly, this city has been a huge disappointment in terms of fan support. You can blame missteps by the previous ownership group and you can blame a decade of excruciating losing. You can blame the location of the stadium and you can blame the location of Venus or Mars.
But I keep coming back to this unsettling fact:
The Rays sold out the first game in franchise history on March 31, 1998. And they did not sell out another game for more than six years. That says far more about the market than the team's promotions or performances.
Maybe the simple truth is that, because of demographics and history, St. Petersburg has neither the wealth nor the civic roots to support major-league baseball.
If you believe that to be true, you shouldn't support a new waterfront ballpark. For all that will do is take the same inherent problems that doomed Tropicana Field, and move them a few blocks away with a much higher price tag.
If you believe St. Petersburg still has potential as a metropolitan city, then the redevelopment of the Tropicana Field site and the construction of a waterfront ballpark seems to be an idea worth exploring.
Just don't point at Tropicana Field as the answer to this issue. It no longer matters whether you love the place or not. The ownership group has decided Tropicana Field is not a sufficient facility to support a quality baseball team and payroll, and so every future conversation must begin with that in mind.
Again, it doesn't matter whether that is an appealing assessment.
The reality is that it is ownership's stance, and nothing is going to change that.
So if St. Petersburg residents decide they do not want a new waterfront stadium, it is certainly a defensible position and clearly within their rights.
Just understand that, ultimately, the decision may also mean St. Petersburg will not be in the business of major-league baseball 10 years from now.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — In case anyone is wondering, the three goals the Lightning allowed in 108 seconds of Wednesday's first period against the Sabres was not even close to a record.
The Blues dropped three on Tampa Bay in 36 seconds in April 1993. But that was little consolation Wednesday as the Lightning saw its two-game road winning streak end with a 5-3 loss at HSBC Arena.
"I've never been involved in anything like that," defenseman Kurtis Foster said. "Before you blink, it's 3-0."
Said coach Rick Tocchet: "It's one of those things where you say, 'What just happened?' "
Give Tampa Bay (16-16-10) credit for hanging in. The team, on a 5-2-1 streak, twice cut its deficit to one, including by the end of the first. It even ended with a 39-35 shot advantage (13-5 in the third).
But individual breakdowns were too much to overcome, not to mention a 0-for-3 power play and a blown second-period three-on-one with Vinny Lecavalier, Alex Tanguay and Steve Downie that didn't get off a shot with the Sabres up 5-3.
"It just seems we can't get over that mark," Tocchet said, speaking generally, "because at crucial times, somebody just makes a bonehead mistake."
The first period seemed as if was going to be a nightmare. Buffalo was up by three 2:11 in.
1-0: Tyler Myers scored at 23 seconds with a slap shot from the point after Tim Connolly won a faceoff from Zenon Konopka.
2-0: Jochen Hecht tipped in Craig Rivet's pass past goaltender Mike Smith at 1:11.
3-0: Clarke McArthur, with no one boxing out, put in a rebound 60 seconds later.
"I wouldn't say we weren't ready," Downie said. "We just have to do a better job of blocking shots and helping Smitty down low."
Tocchet called timeout because "I didn't want these guys to start playing out of their system." Smith made a huge stop on Rivet from in close at 6:46, and Tampa Bay got rolling.
Marty St. Louis scored with 7:57 left and then Victor Hedman with 6:35 remaining on a wrist shot from a faceoff circle that beat goalie Ryan Miller high on the stick side. It was a dramatic play by Hedman, who carried the puck from the defensive zone to start and finish a two-on-one.
Buffalo, the Northeast leader and winner of five straight, started fast in the second. Drew Stafford's power-play goal 1:19 in made it 4-2. Lecavalier answered off a scramble. Buffalo regained a two-goal edge on Jason Pominville's goal off his skate.
First Period—1, Buffalo, Myers 4 (Connolly), :23. 2, Buffalo, Hecht 9 (Rivet, Tallinder), 1:11. 3, Buffalo, MacArthur 11 (Mair, Lydman), 2:11. 4, Tampa Bay, St. Louis 10 (Stamkos, Malone), 12:03. 5, Tampa Bay, Hedman 4, 13:25. Penalties—Montador, Buf (hooking), 16:54; Malone, TB (roughing), 17:45; Gaustad, Buf (roughing), 17:45; Lecavalier, TB (holding), 19:22.
Second Period—6, Buffalo, Stafford 10 (Roy, Rivet), 1:19 (pp). 7, Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 10 (Downie, Lundin), 5:34. 8, Buffalo, Pominville 11 (Lydman, Connolly), 7:25. Penalties—Vanek, Buf (slashing), 11:14.
Third Period—None. Penalties—Veilleux, TB (tripping), 2:11; Malone, TB (cross-checking), 7:23; Montador, Buf (hooking), 13:14. Shots on Goal—Tampa Bay 10-16-13—39. Buffalo 15-15-5—35. Power-play opportunities—Tampa Bay 0 of 3; Buffalo 1 of 3. Goalies—Tampa Bay, Smith 9-11-6 (35 shots-30 saves). Buffalo, Miller 24-8-3 (39-36). A—18,690 (18,690).


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(Celiac.com 03/17/2000) Researchers in Britain have identified a dominant epitope of the A-gliadin protein of wheat that is linked to the cause of celiac disease. The findings could eventually influence the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. With the new information Wheat could be genetically engineered to be non-toxic for celiacs, according to Dr. Robert P. Anderson. Also, modified versions of T cell epitopes can have unique antagonistic effects that switch off particular immune responses. The identification of this peptide could be used to develop a blood tests to better diagnose celiac disease, and could also be used to better test food for celiac toxicity.
Dr. Anderson and his University of Oxford colleagues used a series of 15 amino acid peptides along the A-gliadin sequence (alpha gluten) to stimulate in patients with celiac disease their peripheral blood mononuclear cells, or PBMCs. The peptides were either unmodified or were treated with tissue transglutaminase, which, in the presence or absence of lysine, will convert glutamine to glutamate.
Researchers successfully stimulated PBMCs in celiac patients who were in remission due to a gluten-free diet with a gluten challenge. Patients were fed wheat bread for either a half day, 3 days, or 10 days, and healthy, non-celiac patients that were fed wheat bread each day for 4 weeks were used as controls. The researchers successfully produced PBMCs from the celiac disease group, who secreted interferon-gamma 6-8 days later, in response to a particular pool of A-gliadin peptides, which had been treated with tissue transglutaminase. A 17-amino-acid peptide, corresponding to the partially deamidated peptide of A-gliadin amino acids 57-73, was optimal for inducing the interferon-gamma secretion, and the responses were restricted to those with HLA-DQ2.
According to Dr. Anderson: On a more general level, the finding that a host enzyme modifies peptides that are then recognized by the immune system suggests that searching for epitopes important in disease may be more complex than simply reading off protein sequences from sequenced genes. Further, modification of the peptide by tissue transglutaminase that is present in the intestinal lining increases binding of the peptide to HLA-DQ. The researchers also point out that T cells that are responsive to the same A-gliadin peptide are readily induced in celiac disease despite many years of following a gluten-free diet, which indicates a persistence of memory T cells that could be caused by continuing exposure to trace amounts of gluten. The researchers only looked at the A-gliadin peptide, and point out that there is a possibility that other peptides that are structurally unrelated to A-gliadin are also important in celiac disease.
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Ironic, We went entirely gluten-free in our home after 2016 for how bad my neurological , joints, mood gets now in addition to my former gi, skin, and other issues . My son shows signs of my early symptoms and voluntarily went off gluten, corn, and milk like me as he did his own food like di...
Funny though, my brother and I were just discussing this. He has celiac and both his son and him are gene positive. Both were TTG/EMA negative but never tested for DGP. My brother had damage on endoscopy. They have not scoped his son. He feels his son is symptomatic but not his daughter. I ...
It might generate based on traffic searches or posts etc. My guess. I read them and respond because I wasn't on here as a member in 2012. I only use to visit then. So it's new to me V. happy friday ?
Just saying her TTg was 0 & her IgA was 27 doesn't tell us anything. Every lab can have different values so we need the reference ranges not just the results. Can you look back at the lab report & get those & post them please? Did they tell you she MUST be eating gluten every single day unti...
When the doc did the endoscopy, did he take biopsies? How many? From what locations? Get your records!!!! If he didn't take biopsies for celiac disease then he can NOT say you don't have it. 99% of the time, villi damage can not be SEEN by the GI doc during the endoscopy. And yes, the doc has no ...


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Isabel Marant, the French Designer Who Saves Your Time
Isabel Marant, the French designer who conquered the world haute couture scene by mixing bizarre and practical styles, is celebrating her 38th birthday today.
A daughter of German designer Christa Fiedler, Isabel Marant didn't dream of following her mother's steps when she was a kid – she preffered playing with her brother to girly stuff and wearing dresses or skirts seamed a nightmare to her then. The only clothes she liked belonged to her father as she found shirts and pants really comfortable.
When Isabel was 15, she asked her parents to buy her a sewing machine to fix her clothes to her liking – she hated to wear the same stuff as others. One day her friend asked her to create a costume, and that is when she began her designer career. In a year, she offered her creations to a commission shop at Halles. Her first collection brought her about 1 000 euros – the sum was huge for the girl her age and she decided to study design seriously.
Having graduated from the Studio Bercot school, she created her own line of jewellery and started to work as assistant to Bridget Yorke at Yorke and Cole. Later she also worked for Marc Ascoli, Michel Klein, Chloe and Yohji Yamamoto, but her style was too bizarre to fit in.
Her mother, who has launched a line of knitted wear, invited Isabel to join her venture and young designer worked for her until she felt she could start on her own – in 1989 Isabel created her collection of jewelry and accessories and in 1990 she expanded her business with womenswear. It is hard not to be lost for the young designer in Paris, the center of the world haute couture, yet in 1995 Marant's collections first appeared on the runway at Paris Fashion Week. Her debut presentation took place at Salon of prêt-à-porter in Versailles and her original design was noticed at once – she received her first order from Japan and for some time remained more known abroad than at home.
In 1997 she won the Howard Prize and continues to show off her collections every season during Paris Fashion Week. Her clothes, bizarre but practical for everyday wear, is considered to be perfect by both modern French women who manage to be business ladies and mothers at once and teenagers who love her funky style.
In 2003, the company annual trade turnover reached 10 million euro. The garments she created don't look new, they have a history, just like your old friends and often look stylishly crumpled, worn and shabby; they don't require ironing to save a precious time of a business woman. Her other secret is mixing styles and cultures to receive a unique design.
In her interview to lexpress.fr, Isabel shares her expectations and love for fashion: "I adore it! [fashion] The best reward for me is the admiration of the women on the streets, especially if she wears the clothes I designed. It moves me deeply. Garment, it is like your second skin, an [integral] part of you. I don't seek to design clothes with three sleeves, I just wish people like what i do. But dream of fashion, it always comes back to refuse things it eulogized last season. In fact, it is some kind of a game, that reincarnates desire again and again. It shouldn't be taken seriously. After all, it is just clothes!"


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POOR weather and high costs have been cited as a report found drilling and deal activity in the North Sea dropped in the opening quarter of the year.
Twelve exploration and exploration wells were drilled in the UK Continental Shelf in the first three months of the year, five more than in the fourth quarter of 2013 but one fewer than the same quarter last year.
The research, from Deloitte's Petroleum Services Group (PSG), also pointed to a decline in deal-making, which the accountant linked to higher operating costs and a gap between the price expectations of sellers and buyers. The report found 10 deals were concluded in the first quarter, down from 19 a year ago and eight fewer than in the final quarter of 2013.
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Graham Sadler, managing director of Deloitte's PSG, said: "It is very likely that what we're seeing is a result of the continuing higher operating costs and the ongoing challenges of a mature region. These could be having a knock-on effect on deal flow, since sellers might be seeking a higher price than buyers might be willing to pay.
"When profitable extraction is more challenging for operators, farm-ins are the most popular type of deal."
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A man woke up during night to discover his house in east Toledo on fire.
It happened in the block of 1100 Vinal Street around 2 a.m. Wednesday. Toledo Firefighters said the fire started in the first floor bedroom and spread to the attic. The man had been sleeping and woke up to the fire alarm and clouds of smoke.
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