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Once again, I had to endure another discrimination as a woman. One that touched the very core of my soul—my own womanhood. How come I told myself that it's not a breast cancer survivor, baseball playing woman? I'm right here. Can't you see me? It should be one of us not one of them on our own day, our own Mother's Day. Breast cancer strikes women out 99% of the time with only a small 1% of diagnoses being men. So in a moment of jealous passion I decided to do something about it.
After all I'm the living, breathing version of their wood-painted pink bat. I am the real live pink bat. So in August 2008 I created myself for the public. I really did become the real live pink bat. A 50-year-old middle-aged, slightly overweight woman who went from the Torture for the Cure to the Race for the Cure in Southern Nevada to become their 2008 athlete survivor of the year decided to take on Major League Baseball by letting the boys of baseball know I exist.
As Brian Ross from Minor League News coined me, I may be mad but I ain't crazy, he was right. I was mad at that moment. And scared too that I would be laughed at by MLB for still wanting a dream that I'm now too old to pursue or so I thought. I designed my own media presentation book and sent 91 of my mini-me booklets to all the MLB teams. Each MLB team was sent 3 books (the White Sox were sent 4 with the extra going to Eddie Einhorn because I was told he supported women in baseball) to the top management. I never asked for anything from all 30 teams. There was no cover or personal letter, just the outside of the envelope addressed to the individual they were sent to.
I never expected to hear from anybody in MLB. I didn't. Not surprised either. My intent was to just stand up for myself, a breast cancer survivor who for 48 years wanted to be a Major League Baseball player.
Now I saw the opportunity to go for my dream by being the Mother's Day MLB real live pink bat. It was the right thing to do. Not just for me but for all women who dared to break from their traditional role as to what society and the men think we should be and that included seeing us for centuries as the weaker sex.
So on November 17, 2008 when a letter came from the Detroit Tigers Minor League Office asking me if I would be interested in coming to their Open Tryout in 2009, I couldn't believe it. I so wanted to hang up that letter for the world to see but after I called Dan Lunetta, the director of the Tigers' Minor League Operations, to let him know I was going to come and I wanted to share his kindness he asked me to keep it personal between us. I did. I could tell the world that the Tigers invited me but the Tiger responsible had to be kept in the background.
Dan never got one of my media books. I didn't send it to him.
I started at the top with Tigers President Dave Dombrowski. It was Dave's single act of kindness that started this real live tryout ball game going. He threw my media book to Dan who then threw me for a curve ball by writing to me. Now here I am tonight on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 writing to the world about how I went to the Tigers Spring Training headquarters in Lakeland, Florida and how on Monday, March 9, 2009 a small band of five baseball brothers and one baseball sister smoked the rest of the infield at this real live Major League Baseball tryout...
Oh yeah. We did.
We took them on and we smoked 'em good.
The journey to get to yesterday ended up involving a lot of people who, once they knew I was really going to that MLB tryout, stepped up to the plate themselves to help me and my husband Ed get there. Louisville Slugger donated pro bats, batting gloves and a new black and pink-trimmed ball bag. New Balance Athletic Shoes sent me a new pair of rubber-cleated baseball shoes, Dr. Saundra Namimatsu donated the physical therapy to get my shoulder into near perfect condition, some of my husband's friends donated to pay for our trip, my Sandvipers teammates couldn't go so they donated their signatures to my batting helmet, and the list goes on. Logoz Shirtz & Promoz even embroidered the baseball bag with my pink batness, cancer quote and tryout date. Righteously cool if you ask me.
Meanwhile I took the time to contact the media both here in Las Vegas and over there in Lakeland Florida including the little leagues and the Central Florida MSBL in Orlando for moral support. I didn't want to go it alone. I needed somebody to lean on once I got to the East Coast. Oh Lord what have I gotten myself into with this real live pink batness of mine. I must be crazy. Surely I was. Who is going to believe me at that tryout that I, at my age, my gender, my size could be taken seriously for a spot on the 40 man roster for any one of the five Tigers' teams from MLB down to their Minor League divisions.
Three hours before Ed and I left for the airport on Friday, March 6th, Rich Musumeci the manager for the Orlando Marlins called me to ask me if I wanted to play baseball on their men's team Sunday as a pre-warm up for Monday's tryout. I was thrilled. Of course I said yes. Then he told me that they changed their team website to breast cancer pink in honor of the real live pink bat. Rich wrote about me on their home page which is still up for now saying that the Marlins are proud of the Detroit Tigers for stepping up to the plate to invite me to come.
I called Brian Ross to tell him that news. He freaked but for a second... then he beamed with delight.
By the time we arrived in Tampa the next morning, Ed and I, we were exhausted. We slept most of the day then called Rich to get directions to the playing field for Sunday. His teammates, he said, were excited and the Orland Black Sox team were okay with me playing for the Marlins against them. The next day when we arrived in Orlando I donned the Marlins jersey. First baseman Josh came over to greet and then started to cry as he told me about a dear friend he lost to ovarian cancer. The real live pink bat is touching lives. He was thrilled to share his story about his friend with me. It meant that much. I hugged him. Then we went to warm up to play ball. Business as usual after an intense moment of emotional loss.
I ended up coaching first base for the team for the whole game.
I never did play an inning until the ninth when Rich asked me if I wanted to bat. No pressure. Take a hack. Yeah right! It was the bottom of the ninth, we were behind two runs with two outs. A man on first and the batter would be the tying run if he or she got on. Clutch time. I faced Larry Hingle, former AAA pitcher for the Houston Astros. No this was not my tryout but it definitely my baptism into the world of professional baseball. A preview of where I was going the next day. Hitting against a left-handed pitcher is tough for a righty. It's murder for a ****. That's what they call us lefties because we tend to hook the ball to right field.
Larry threw the first pitch, an outside fast ball that I managed to get a piece of fouling it off to the third base right where my husband was filming me with my camera. I do sports photography in Vegas aside from my day job. Just missed knocking him out with the baseball as the Black Sox manager whistled a wow she can hit from between his lips. Oops. Sorry honey.
After my new teammates stopped cheering for getting a piece off of Larry, his next pitch was low but across the plate. Another fastball. Just how I like them but really too low to zig it over his head for a center-field line drive. I eked out a solid grounder right back at him which he easily made a fielder's choice to first for the final out of the game. Yes we lost the game but not because I made the last out. The last out just ended the game. We lost the game as a whole team for a whole nine innings of play. It was a team effort from both sides with one team winning and the other team losing.
That's the point I'm trying to get across to Major League Baseball to let me swing the wood-painted pink bat for one inning on Mother's Day. It takes a whole team with a whole nine innings to win or lose a game. One at bat with the real live pink bat is not going to lose the whole game for any one of the 30 MLB teams if one of them would just let me do it. Besides that what if I do hit the baseball and get to first base? What then?
Well the Marlins and the Black Sox went crazy with my grounder. Screaming from both dugouts that I had hit the baseball. You see it's not about that I made the last out. It's about me going to bat for us women, for us breast cancer survivors, for the opportunity of the coming day, and for what the real live pink bat represents—the human side of breast cancer awareness. The personality behind the bat. A name and a face to cold hard side of breast cancer research.
It's not just about donating money which is all good to do but it's about teaming up with that research so that the public sees and feels the human side of it as well. We are not the cancer, we are people dealing with the cancer. After saying our goodbyes, hugs and high fives to my new baseball brothers along with taking their good luck wishes to the tryout, Ed and I left for our hotel home. As we sat on the second floor balcony while we washed my uniform, we both realized just how ready I was to take on the world of Major League Baseball.
Then came the call from Lakeland journalist Chuck Welch. I had contacted him earlier in the week to see if this baseball fanatic from Florida was interested in a real live story about me. He was. We talked for an hour with Chuck letting me know that he was going to write a pre-story before the tryout registration started at 9:00 am and that he would meet us at the stadium to say hi. Can you tell I'm excited? Chuck laughed and said yes. We headed off to bed to dream about our date with a baseball destiny never imagining anything other than I was going to give off the best performance at first base that I could be, run the 60 yard like a track star and swing for the fence at bat.
They were my goals for the day. This was business, a job interview for the position of being a Major League Baseball player for a one-day contact to swing the pink bat on Mother's Day. My business suit? My uniform. My attaché case? My baseball bag.
Arriving at the stadium the next morning, I was surprised to find myself in a sea of young hopefuls also applying for the same position. Some 250 in all applicants eager to display their baseball skills for one or two spots in pro baseball Major or Minor League. I had my work cut out for me when a strange thing happened. Chuck wished me good luck, hugged me like a man and I told him thanks coach. He liked that. No one noticed I was a woman in uniform. This was too good to be true. I loved it. Although I need to lose another 25 pounds that I'm self-conscious about, I looked like a middle-aged man in a baseball uniform.
I never got that look. You know the one. The one that we women get in baseball that says we "girls" can't play baseball and "are you serious that she wants to play" once over from their roving eyes. It wasn't there. Yay me! I kept my mouth shut, then spoke low and deep when I had to grunt a give me a registration form from within the testosterone crowd. This was just way too good even for me.
After I filled it out handing it to the Tigers staff and getting my 303 assigned number, I left Ed with my equipment near the gate to the training fields we were to use for the day. Heading off to the rear stadium restroom, upon my return trip back I noticed a Channel 9 news van in the parking lot. The newsman gave me a nod from one male to another or so he thought. I nodded back to him in a manly fashion. This just keeps getting better. I had no idea that my life as a real live baseball player was about to be birthed from that nodding moment on.
Back to my husband. I told him about the van in the parking lot and instructed him to give the newsman my pink bat photo media card. Ed's turn to leave now and he did, leaving me to carry all the camera equipment plus my baseball gear. When the Tiger directors announced where we were to go, I carried it all. Well for the moment I was still the baseball guy and nobody carries bags for a guy! So it was all me.
As I walked with the group of infielders to the field on our right, I finally saw Ed heading back my way. He was looking intently for me so I yelled him my way. Did you give the guy my card? Was he here to film their tryout camp? No says Ed. He's not here for the Tigers and their tryout. I was surprised why. Ed then told me that the newsman and a reporter were looking for me. Just me. They read Chuck's article online that morning and came to film me for their news. Ed took me to them quickly.
The tryouts were starting I didn't want to miss out. I came so far and a half a century too. Ed introduced me to Melissa Sogegian, the reporter. They were looking for me but missed me. Bay News 9. They were looking for a woman. Think about it. Even they stereotyped me looking for a womanly baseball player which they did not find. And must to both their surprise, to their delight, they were thrilled to come do a segment about me taking on the boys of baseball. I never asked them to come. They came looking for me.
I shook Melissa's hand and ran to the field. Lining up with the other four first basemen, the directors had us line up by position. There were eventually six of us for first base, two would come later. We were the smallest group standing closest to the infield when a golf cart came our way. The two men in it stopped next to our line. The driver pointed to me then called me out. I started to sweat thinking my manly jig was up but I didn't waiver up my pseudo gender.
After all, they thought I was the old man in the baseball suit. I just played along with it. I had to have some fun at this Major League event.
Yes sir, I said to the gray-haired thick-mustached Tiger suit. He proceeded to tell me that "I know who you are. I know what you do. And we are honored to have you at our tryout." The jig was up. But I never, never expected to hear that, which just came out of that man's mouth.
Glen Ezell. EZ for short. The director of player development for the Tigers and the man who was in charge of the whole darn tryout camp.
I never did remember who the other man was sitting next to him. I was mesmerized by his command and at that moment he was the Major League General and I was his private selection for the day. EZ then pointed to the other players saying they would all be watching as they competed against me. Then he pointed to the crowd behind the fence, friends, family and fans all eager to see us in action. "They're going to be watching you too." Looking back into my face he told me this was business. To keep my mind on my business.
I grabbed my Sandvipers uniform pulling it toward him and saying this was my business suit, I was ready to do my business. He said good girl. My time as a man just ended. Oh darn it was so much fun too. Then I joined the ranks of my baseball troop as we headed to the infield like an army taking to war.
Pickett, Trotta, myself, and Chris. I never did ask the first two what their names were. We stood at first base waiting to start. Looking across the field, the four of us realized we were a small infantry of three men and a woman taking on two huge battalions of Spartan warriors. In all about 100 or so men to 4. Not good odds in a real live war. But we're baseball players. First basemen.
(Note: Actually, it ended up being 72 men and one women total for just the infield. But honestly, it felt like a huge army was loomed before us so I'll leave the writing at that makes it more interesting story content. Overall 250 potentials really showed up with 133 of them being a mix of catchers, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B and OF with the remaining being pitchers.)
(And yes, one really special baseball player Kyle Deadshot too, from Tryoutforacause.com, in his second attempt to make the team. He's a Lakeland local young man with a big heart for helping the homeless. I ran across him on the internet a few weeks before this tryout to find out the experiences of other athletes. Honestly, he really is a deadshot but the fact that he keeps trying makes him a Detroit Tiger in my book and someday I'll mention that in the real live book I'll write. I remember his second base throw to me and thought he looked familiar. Darn wished I would have gone up to him afterwards to tell him good job. I have to meet him someday.)
I told my troops we could take them all. Bring it on. We were ready to do battle.
At that moment we became the fighting Tigers. Those 100 men mean that each one was going to get four grounders, left, front, backhand and a rolling one.
Before Greg and Mr. Puerto Rico showed up to make us a six-man corps at first base, we would each end up taking about 100 hits from the opposing sides. And I meant taking hits. They came at our heads, our feet, some 20 feet over and 50 feet out to each side, wild and wacky they came along with the straight and narrow. We dodged them like bullets when one of us was at the base where we were supposed to receive them. The now mighty six defended their first base territory telling each other we all hoped to make the Tigers team. We deserved it. We were men even me. There was no woman on the field yesterday. Just six men fighting for a spot on a professional baseball team.
And six men who were determined to show up the other infielders with our skills. We did. We gave 'em hell. We smoked them hard. We jumped, we dove, we ate dirt to defend our honor and our base. Every time they shot off a cannon ball our way that went anywhere but to whomever was defending the bag, they made us look good. We intended to keep it that way. We did. With everything we had in our baseball arsenal, the mighty six took on the world and won. We won on the battlefield yesterday.
We six walked off the field with our heads held high that day. But not before I executed some pretty awesome moves myself including a baseball text book perfect one-hopping throw to third base followed by a perfectly executed double play with the short stop throwing my own cannon ball at me from second base and me turning the bag just in time to catch the ball back at first.
My only mistake was that I didn't come off the base fast enough straddling it as I reached for the ball with my glove. EZ caught my footwork error telling me how to take the inside corner for the play so I would avoid getting hurt where I had left my feet at the end of the play. But it was text book alright. Major League text book. No shame in that even with my feet out of place. I got the job done just as it was supposed to be. Heading off to home plate, the mighty six were called up first to swing for the fence.
Batting in the third slot, I told EZ who by now was at the mound with a pitching machine, okay begging him, to adjust the machine for my vertical strike zone. Though I'm 5 feet 8 inches I was still shorter than my three of my own first base comrades. He did. In fact he was very accommodating to my turn at bat making me wait off the plate in a relaxed mode until he was perfectly satisfied with the pitches he wanted me to take. What a commander looking out for his troops.
Talk about respect for his army of men and one woman. I was so nervous facing the gun that I only managed to fire off four solid grounders to the right side. Darn, I can hit line drives 200+ feet but that didn't happen today. They never got to see what I can really do at the plate. But that didn't matter, when my time was over swing for the fence everybody applauded including the crowd of onlookers. I was still thrilled even with my gender cover blown. Hey they gave that to me and I enjoyed toying with their minds about it.
For the rest of the tryout I stayed in the dugout finally meeting Dan Lunetta, getting my photo taken with him and my real live pink bat which I only use for display. It's not made to be hit with. No. Not the Rick Redman Louisville Slugger pink bat. He had that made for me and no way I'm going to destroy it with baseballs. Rick is the vice president corporate communications for Louisville Slugger. He likes the real live pink bat woman.
Dan and I talked, giving each other respect. And even though he personally invited me to come to this tryout he was still surprised that I came all the way from Vegas. I had to. How can I turn down the respect from his letter in the first place. I came for him as well as for me. I came for Dave Dombrowski the big man in Detroit who let Dan know I exist in the first place.
The Tigers management cares about me. And they like the real live pink bat concept. Everybody at the tryout does. I am right about my mission to swing the wood-painted pink bat in a Major League game on Mother's Day. It's a good story for everybody especially during this economic lesson we're all learning by trial, error and greed.
After I left Dan, I met Marilyn his secretary. She's one of my biggest fans now. I love her to pieces. We had a great visit and Ed took our photo together with my now famous PB. After she left to go back to the office, I did a PB video to put on my youtube account for when I get home. It filled the time while we waited for the tryout to end. We just had to stay to the end.
I was not going home without my photo with Major League General Glen "EZ" Ezell. My commander and chief of the day, I wasn't going back to Vegas without thanking him, getting a photo op with the man who commandeered my short-lived Tigers career on the baseball battlefield. It was almost that patriotic for reals being in uniform. I had pride. Tiger pride. Army pride. I'm a baseball player pride. I busted my butt for it all pride. I earned it pride. American baseball pride.
As Ed took our photo, seriously with the PB and then playfully with me showing him how to swing the pink bat, I told EZ that I was proud of how great I played. Yes how great I did, not just good, but great. I did a great job yesterday. I can say that forever about my one day as a real live Detroit Tiger. I told him that I did a great job in spite of my age and gender. He stopped me. Waving his right hand aside high in the air as if to dispel throwing something out behind himself, he told me to put the age and gender aside. He told me I was a real baseball player.
That my age and gender had nothing to do with the fact that I can play real baseball. Looking at his face, straight into his eyes into his soul I knew he mean every word. EZ and everybody who was at that Tigers tryout look past the gender to see who I really am. A real live Detroit Tiger. A real live baseball player. Yesterday, March 9, 2009 I was no longer just a gender in baseball with a dream. I made it to professional baseball as a bonafide baseball player. And no professional contract could afford enough dollars to pay for that man's highest regard for my baseball skills. I came to take on all the infielders.
Yesterday, on March 9, 2009, the mighty six slaughtered them all on the field. We took no prisoners. We showed no mercy. We were a band of baseball brothers. I came to honor them and they gave their respect to their baseball sister by making her one of their own. The few, the proud, the baseball Marines.
Today I came home knowing that I am a professional baseball player. Not a contracted one. I probably won't get any contract from this tryout. I'm too old to play a full season. But a pro just the same.
My Mother's Day mission? Oh yeah that will never end until they let me swing the wood-painted pink bat because that's the right thing for the boys in baseball to do. To let me, a breast cancer survivor baseball-playing professional for the day swing for the fence in a Major League Game for reals. That is doable. And that needs to be done.
It's the right time and it's time to do it once and for all. The public wants it. The players want it. The Tigers showed their support of me pursuing it. Yes that's what needs to be done now. I know I can do it. I'm a Tiger now. I don't have to prove my worth in the baseball arena anymore. I just have to do the pink bat.
Because it's the right thing to do. It's not about Norine but about what her life symbolizes for everybody in this whole country. That's why it's the right thing to do. Honest to God as he's our witness.
Plus we have three bulls and a horse to confirm that baseball sign from heaven. Read on. Remember the news crew come to my tryout? They dropped out of the sky to find me then disappeared the same way before the tryout was over. Then it was our turn to drop in on them...
The Bay News Channel 9 team of Melissa Sogegian and filmman Tony along with Ed and I had a real live baseball adventure. It's a baseball sign all four of us are sure of. There are always baseball signs whenever something good is about to happen in a real live game. Pre-game signs are omens of athletic success.
After the tryout Ed and I headed back to our hotel to change. Got in the car and headed off to find Moe's Southwest Grill. We got lost looking for it. But saw a tremendous brush fire burning in the northside of Lakeland. As a professional photographer I did what I'm trained to do. HEAD FOR THE FIRE! HAVE CAMERA NEWS AT 11.
As we drove down country road after another trying to get closer, we found an entrance with a beautiful scenic with three bulls and a horse grazing with the fire in the pasture behind them. They didn't even care. I wanted the picture but Ed said we were driving to the end of the road first which we did, turning left to find a deadend some 300 feet later. At the end of the road was the Bay News 9 van and Tony the cameraman.
What are the odds? In the middle of Central Florida. In the middle of nowhere? In the middle of a cow pasture? With us just rambling the countryside with no direction as to where we were going?
I jumped out of the car and yelled... HEY I KNOW YOU! Tony turned around and must to his delightful horror of surprise starting screaming for Melissa because he couldn't believe it was us. We rounded the van, Tony and I, to where Melissa was monitoring her screen. MELISSA! IT'S ME! THE REAL LIVE PINK BAT! She turned and almost fainted then started screaming at me for being there. They didn't finish my tryout and were going to interview me when they were called away from a bomb threat in downtown Lakeland then this brush fire.
So what did we three all do? What every good photographer, journalist and reporter does. We did the interview in front of the brush fire in a cow pasture. No bull from me about this.
Vegas breast cancer survivor baseball player should swing pink bat on Mother's Day
Cancer can destroy the body but it cannot kill the heart
Dare to dream then do it.
My Mother's Day mission? To let me, a breast cancer survivor baseball-playing almost professional for the day swing for the fence in a Major League Game for reals.
http://www.norinevphotography.com/areallivepinkbat.html Baseball / Cancer Info about Norine V. Rathbone
http://www.youtube.com/areallivepinkbat Sports Videos about Norine V. Rathbone
http://www.minorleaguenews.com Brian Ross / Publisher Editor
http://www.lakelandlocal.com Chuck Welch / Journalist
http://www.baynews9.com Melissa Sogegian Reporter / Sunday March 15, 2009 News Segment
Ed Graney / Sports Columnist / Las Vegas Review Journal / Saturday March 6, 2009
Dan Lunetta / Director of Minor League Operations Detroit Tigers
Glen Ezell / Director of Player Development Detroit Tigers
Rick Redman / Vice President Corporate Communications Louisville Slugger
Rich Musumeci / General Manager / Orlando Marlins MSBL Central Florida Team


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Over the past year, the UMW has engaged in a broad campaign to protect pensions and health-care benefits for its members who retired from Patriot, which is undergoing financial reorganization in bankruptcy court.
Patriot Coal was founded in 2007 when Peabody Energy sold its union operations east of the Mississippi River to the newly created company. In 2008, Patriot bought Magnum Coal, a company that, in 2005, took over union mines previously operated by Arch Coal. In July 2012, Patriot declared bankruptcy, citing financial problems, especially the costs of health insurance and pensions paid for miners who had worked mostly for Peabody and Arch.
A bankruptcy judge allowed Patriot's plan to cut many employee and retiree benefits, but the UMW negotiated a new deal in which the company reinstated many of those benefits.
Since then, the union has tried to focus its campaign -- featuring street protests and numerous arrests outside company offices -- on Peabody and Arch. The matter also prompted several legal actions, with various companies suing each other and the UMW suing the companies, in complex arguments over what the industry calls "legacy liabilities."
Patriot employs about 4,100 workers, with about 1,600 of them being represented by the UMW. The company operates a large underground mine in Monongalia County and a huge surface mine along the Boone-Lincoln county border. Another Patriot surface mine, in Logan County, recently had been announced for closure, but Patriot said Thursday that certain expiring coal leases there would be extended.
As part of the settlements announced Thursday, Patriot will make $75 million in direct cash payments to the new Patriot Voluntary Employee Benefits Association, a so-called "VEBA" which will pay for retiree benefits. Also, Peabody has agreed to provide $310 million over four years, through 2017, to fund the VEBA, and settle all litigation between Patriot and the UMW against Peabody.
"I am pleased that we have been able to reach agreements that provide the UMWA with hundreds of millions of dollars in retiree health-care funding," Hatfield said. "The best result for the UMWA and its members is for Patriot to emerge from bankruptcy as a healthy company that will continue to provide jobs and benefits, and we are now on track to achieve that goal."
Under a settlement with Patriot, Arch Coal will provide Patriot with $5 million in cash and a $16 million letter of credit posted in Arch's name.
"This comprehensive settlement with Patriot relieves Arch of costly legal expenses, resolves the distraction of litigation claims, and allows Arch's management team to remain focused on steering the business through current market conditions and preparing for a recovery," said Arch CEO John Eaves.
The settlements still need approval from U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kathy Surratt-States. The judge is expected to rule shortly after a Nov. 6 hearing.
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The EU bailout for Irish banks failed to quell financial markets. Borrowing costs for Portugal, Spain and others continue to rise, because structural problems created by the euro and single European market remain unaddressed and more crises are inevitable. In the United States, banks engage in dollar-denominated deposit gathering and lending. The smooth functioning of the banking and payments systems are guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Treasury and Federal Reserve. When banks fail, the FDIC makes good on deposits up to $250,000 by subsidizing mergers with healthy banks. If banks are too big to be merged-for example, the recent Citigroup and Bank of America rescues-the Treasury and Federal Reserve can step in. Such extraordinary measures are possible, because the Treasury can issue dollar denominated bonds and the Federal Reserve can print dollars. The latter was critical during the recent crisis. In the EU, individual member states regulate and guarantee the banks that take deposits and lend in euro. The Irish government guarantees covers all liabilities – not just deposits up to $250,000. Major banks in smaller member states have grown too large for their Treasuries to act. They simply can't issue enough euro denominated bonds without driving up their borrowing costs to prohibitive levels and thrusting regular government operations into insolvency. In Ireland, the government is potentially on the hook for liabilities equal to two times GDP-no government, big or small, can borrow that much money. The analog in the United States would have been for North Carolina to have been responsible for all the liabilities of Bank of America. Prior to its banking crisis, Ireland had sound finances and a balanced budget. Now it has a deficit exceeding 30 percent of GDP, and even with the EU aid package, it faces draconian budget cuts. Along with lost banking business, those will reduce GDP by more than 10 percent and impose grave hardships on citizens who neither profited from the bank industry nor were responsible for its reckless behavior. Without European wide bank regulation and deposit insurance, reasonable ceilings on government guarantees, real EU taxing authority, and a mandate for the EU Treasury and European Central Bank to use bonding and currency printing authority to ensure the stability of banks, Ireland's banking crisis won't be the last of its kind. Similarly, the budget problems in Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain stem from social spending, health care and pensions more generous than their economies can finance with any conceivable national tax regime-if national taxes are raised too high, businesses will flee, and GDP and tax revenues actually fall. Whether social benefits are too high throughout Europe is an important issue, but the creation of the single European market has heightened expectations that benefits in southern Europe more nearly approximate the norm established in Germany, Holland and other rich countries. However, the creation of the single European market for goods and services was not accompanied by pan European taxation to finance social spending, health care and pensions. Even though Germany and others are richer by virtue of their participation in the single EU market, they don't assist poorer countries in the manner that New York subsidies social security and Medicaid in Mississippi as part and parcel to the benefits its banking, advertizing and other service industries receive from participation in a single market across the fifty states. The austerity now planned for poorer counties will not solve their basic fiscal problems-those will shrink their economies and tax bases. The $750 billion EU bailout fund is nothing more than a quick fix that boots the problem to the next generation of national leaders. In the days before the euro, national government debt was denominated in national currencies, and governments could inflate and devalue their way out of a fiscal mess. That's just a stealth way of imposing losses on bond holders but in a more gradual, economically less costly, and politically palatable manner. Now the EU has announced plans for private investors to take losses on bonds issued after 2013 if the weaker governments need another round of bailouts. The fact is sovereign governments in Athens, Lisbon and elsewhere already can enforce such losses on bondholders, and if they choose, boot the euro, reinstate national currencies and start over. A common currency and single market in Europe simply won't work without continental institutions to guarantee the solvency of banks and share social spending, health care and pensions. Until then, the bonds of individual member states carry high risk of eventual default, and investors would do well to demand much higher interest rates than have been offered in the recent past. Peter Morici is a professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland School, and former Chief Economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission. (CNN) â In the wake of the bailout of Irelandâs banks â and the bailout of Greece still fresh in mind â investors are wondering who will be next. Several countries in Europe have pushed through tough austerity measures, and the European Commission says those measures will take a toll on economic growth. It's predicting growth in the 16-nation eurozone at 1.5 percent next year, slightly lower than an earlier forecast. All the uncertainty has weighed on European stocks and the euro, which has dropped 6.1 percent against the dollar the past month. On Tuesday Asian markets closed largely lower, as concerns continue that the European debt problems will spread to other European markets, especially from Portugal. The Central Bank of Portugal comments that consolidation of public finances is needed is putting pressure on the markets. Portugal doesnât have the bank woes on scale of Ireland, nor the public debt problems on par with Greece, said Vanessa Rossi, senior economist at Chatham House, on World Business Today. âNevertheless, itâs still between a rock and a hard place,â she said. Will Portugal, or perhaps Spain (whose government debt yields continue to climb, raising its borrowing cost), be next in line for a Eurozone bailout? |
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The Review at a Glance: (max score: 5 )
Audio/Video total rating:
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Studio and Year: 20th Century Fox - 2011
MPAA Rating: R
Feature running time: 115 minutes
Genre: Drama
Disc Format: BD-50
Encoding: AVC (MPEG-4)
Video Aspect: 2.40:1
Resolution: 1080p/24
Audio Format(s): English DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio, Spanish/French/English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, amara Miller, Nick Krause, Matthew Lillard
Directed by: Alexander Payne
Written by: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Region Code: A
Blu-ray Disc release Date: March 13, 2012
"Life is complicated"
Film Synopsis:
From celebrated director Alexander Payne comes a wonderfully warm and witty and bittersweet drama about a detached father's attempt to reconnect with his two daughters and their often-hilarious quest for the truth.
My Take:
Based on the best-selling novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings and set in Hawaii, THE DESCENDANTS is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Alexander Payne's films aren't difficult to spot. His characters are generally earthy, awkwardly funny, and the stories speak to the human condition from a place that seems genuinely identifiable at least on some level. As soon as I saw the trailer for The Descendants (on another title that I had in for review), I summoned my wife, showed her, and we decided that we had to see it upon release, and we did. The Descendants is a wonderful dramatic film that takes a snapshot of a family undergoing a recent crisis after a severe accident befalls their wife/mother, leaving her in a coma. What we come to find out is that there were some pretty serious cracks in their familial foundation long before the accident. None of their problems are especially uncommon but are exacerbated by the accident which leaves a loving yet disconnected father trying to cope with two daughters, one an angry teenager, and the other an impressionable preteen longing for attention. Lastly, you have a husband who has lost his way as a partner and allowed the daily routine that life can be to become his priority. Together he and his daughters take a journey of discovery, some of it very painful, some of it very enlightening. What they discover is that the most important aspect of their journey is that they took it together.
None of the situational drama in this film is overtly original. What makes it special is the nuance found in the development of the story as it pertains to the characters and their interaction. The things that are said and done have an authenticity based upon what could easily be understood given the circumstances. The drama is rarely melodramatic and is offset by awkward moments of levity that have a seamless quality that reminds us that life even amidst tragedy can still be funny. I loved the cast. George Clooney and Shailene Woodley were both deservedly nominated for Academy Awards. As a unit the entire cast is deserving of praise as together they make the film what it is with each getting their moment to shine and doing so brilliantly. The film received 5 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. For me, The Descendants is simply one of the best films of the year and entitled to all of the accolades bestowed upon it.
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The rating is for language including some sexual references.
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The Descendants comes to Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox HE featuring 1080p AVC encoded video that has an average bitrate of 21 Mbps and lossless DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio sound that has an average bitrate of 3.1 Mbps.
This video presentation is consistent with most newer release films coming to Blu-ray and looks great. Colors are bright, with vivid primaries, and deep saturation which makes them visually pleasing. Contrast and brightness are nicely balanced which adds punch to colors and brightly lit scenes while keeping darker elements dynamic and gradational. Complexions are rich in tonal description with natural highlights that appear lifelike. Images are crisp with stable sharpness and appreciable definition that brings out plenty of subtle texture within the objects and people onscreen.
The lossless DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack is more than capable of handling the elements present in this dialogue driven comedy and sound excellent overall. Vocal reproduction is smooth and strident free through the center channel. The front oriented surround mix is delivered via a wide soundstage, with opulent detail and appropriate prioritization. Atmospheric ambience is lightly mixed to the rear channels which provides subtle venue replicating surround envelopment and music enhancement.
Bonus Features:
- (HD) 3 Deleted scenes
- (HD) Everybody loves George - 7 minute featurette
- (HD) Working with Alexander - 13 minute featurette
- (HD) The Real Descendants - 12 minute documentary
- (HD) Hawaiian style - 16 minute featurette
- (HD) Casting - 8 minute featurette
- (HD) Working with water - 11 minute featurette
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- Will I ever see you again
- Postcards from paradise
- Honolulu's whisper
- (HD) Waiting for the light - 3 minute production feature
- The world parade - Hawaii ( 10 minuet silent film)
- (HD) A conversation with George Clooney and Alexander Payne - 12 minutes
- Bonus DVD
- Digital Copy
Final Thoughts:
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, The Descendants is moving, funny, wonderfully enacted/directed and simply one of the best films of 2011. It makes its way onto Blu-ray in a solid offering from 20th Century Fox that features excellent high definition video, crystal clear lossless sound quality and a complimentary assortment of bonus features. This one comes highly recommended. Enjoy!
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Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad |
Location | 36641 Fort Romie Road Soledad, California 93960 |
Coordinates | 36°24′16.6278″N 121°21′20.9046″W / 36.404618833°N 121.355806833°WCoordinates: 36°24′16.6278″N 121°21′20.9046″W / 36.404618833°N 121.355806833°W |
Name as founded | La Misión de María Santísima, Nuestra Señora Dolorosísima de la Soledad [1] |
English translation | The Mission of Mary Most Holy, Our Most Sorrowful Lady of Solitude |
Patron | Our Lady of Solitude, Our Most Sorrowful Lady of Solitude [2] |
Nickname(s) | "The lonely Mission" [3] |
Founding date | October 9, 1791 [4] |
Founding priest(s) | Fermín Francisco de Lasuén |
Founding Order | Thirteenth [2] |
Military district | Third [5] |
Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) |
Chalon, Esselen, Yokuts Costeño |
Native place name(s) | Chuttusqelis [6] |
Baptisms | 2,131 [7] |
Marriages | 648 [7] |
Burials | 1,705 [7] |
Secularized | 1835 [2] |
Returned to the Church | 1859 [2] |
Governing body | Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey |
Current use | Chapel / Museum |
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Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, known colloquially as the Soledad Mission or Mission Soledad, is a Spanish mission located near the present-day town of Soledad, California. The mission was founded by the Franciscan order on October 9, 1791 to convert the Native Americans living in the area to Catholicism. It was the thirteenth of California's Spanish missions, and is named for Mary, Our Lady of Solitude. The town of Soledad is named for the mission.
After the 1835 secularization of the mission and the later sale of building materials, the mission fell into a state of disrepair and soon after was left in ruins. A restoration project began in 1954 and a new chapel was dedicated in 1955. The chapel now functions as a chapel of Our Lady of Solitude, a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey. The priests' residence was later recreated, and functions as a museum.
Mission era[edit]
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, La Misión de María Santísima, Nuestra Señora Dolorosísima de la Soledad, was founded October 9, 1791 by Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, the 13th of 21 missions in the California mission chain.
The Chalon, a subgroup of the Ohlone were converted and brought to work and live here, followed by Esselen and Yokut people. By 1803, there were 627 Mission Indians at Mission Soledad. At the Mission many Chalon married local Esselen speakers, while others married Yokuts were brought into the mission between 1806 and 1834.
The mission's herds numbered 1,150 cattle, about 5,000 sheep, 30 swine, 670 horses and 40 mules. Spanish Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga was buried in the chapel after he died on July 24, 1814 during a visit to the Mission.
The mission was inundated by floods in 1824, 1828, and 1832, and following secularization (when Pio Pico sold the mission for a reported $800), the remaining buildings were looted for supplies.
Restoration and reconstruction[edit]
In 1954, when the Mission Soledad restoration was begun, only piles of adobe dirt and a few wall sections from the cuadrángulo (quadrangle) remained. The chapel was reconstructed and dedicated under the auspices of the Native Daughters of the Golden West on October 9, 1955. The ruins of the quadrangle, cemetery, and some of the outer rooms, while not restored, can still be seen. Governor Arrillaga's grave was identified and given a new marker.
The Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is now a functioning Catholic chapel and public museum.
See also[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Soledad, California. |
- USNS Mission Soledad (AO-136) – a Buenaventura Class fleet oiler built during World War II.
- Forbes, Alexander (1839). California: A History of Upper and Lower California. Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, London.
- Jones, Terry L. and Kathryn A. Klar (eds.) (2007). California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Altimira Press, Landham, MD. ISBN 0-7591-0872-2.
- Krell, Dorothy (ed.) (1979). The California Missions: A Pictorial History. Sunset Publishing Corporation, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-376-05172-8.
- Leffingwell, Randy (2005). California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions. Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, MN. ISBN 0-89658-492-5.
- Levy, Richard. (1978). William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer, ed. Handbook of North American Indians. 8 (California). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. p. 486. ISBN 0-16-004578-9.
- Milliken, Randall (1987). Ethnohistory of the Rumsen; Papers in Northern California Anthropology No. 2. Coyote Press, Salina, CA.
- Paddison, Joshua (ed.) (1999). A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 1-890771-13-9.
- Ruscin, Terry (1999). Mission Memoirs. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-932653-30-8.
- Tapis, Estevan, OFM, State of the Missions of New California ... December 1803.
- Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8.
External links[edit]
- Mission Soledad
- Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad: Early photographs and sketches archives - via Calisphere California Digital Library
- Howser, Huell (December 8, 2000). "California Missions (105)". California Missions. Chapman University Huell Howser Archive.


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I'm relatively new to programming. I'm using Visual Studio 2012. The department is using AutoCAD 2013
I'm working on a program that adds the general notes to our drawings. The program does what I need it to do with one exception. The notes consist of multiple MText entries. When I click the "GENERAL NOTES" button to insert the notes, all the entries are compiled and inserted, but all at 0,0,0. I'm stuck at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Are you setting the location property?
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myMText.Location = new point3d(x,y,z)
You will have to confirm the correct syntax.
Thanks for your response. I was setting a location property but not by using a specific 3d point. I was using "middle top". Using a 3d point makes much more sense to me. Nothing like over looking the obvious. Do you have a method that will allow me to establish a specific space between each MText item?
Thanks again!
I have not done that in code. I often make manual changes using the property dialog, The screen shot shows an example of how you might do it. Any property with a "set" method *should* be available.
I'm going to the office on Wednesday and will let you know how your solutions workout. Thanks again for your help.
I wanted to let you know your solution works perfectly. I managed to work out the method for spacing the MText items using a value from the VBA program the new program is going to replace. At any rate, thanks for your help!!
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Lou Dobbs and Fox Business Network: The Lorax and Borrowers Adaptation Promoting Liberal, Anti-Industry Agenda (Video)
Back in December, Fox Business Network took on the most devious brainwashing film of our children's generation: The Muppets. They were basically promoting an Occupy Wall Street agenda, claimed Follow the Money host, Eric Bolling.
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Woodall Mountain Climber's Log
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mattdalman | #21 Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2011 | |
Did this one on the way to Disney as part of a family road trip. Also did Alabama and Florida's highpoint on this trip. | ||
Posted Jun 22, 2011 9:39 pm |
VtownStrider | Sherpa left at home!! Date Climbed: May 1, 2011 | |
This is #5 in my quest to hike all 50 states, it was part of multi state trip. The choice of states was totally random and I saw some horrible devastation created by the tornado's that hit a week earlier, I can't begin to describe that part. The summit was exciting no matter how small the elevation. The sign on top was very nice!! | ||
Posted May 4, 2011 7:00 pm |
BConley | Mississippi HP Date Climbed: Dec 29, 2010 | |
Easy to find. New rock monument was nice. | ||
Posted Apr 10, 2011 4:16 pm |
Steve Gruhn | HP # 26 Date Climbed: Nov 5, 2001 | |
Drive up. | ||
Posted Jan 18, 2011 4:54 pm |
Holsti97 | Meeting of the Badgers Date Climbed: Oct 7, 2010 | |
We got up early since we had to drive to Atlanta to fly home from our 5 state Highpointing trip. Drove to the summit at about 7 AM and found a pick-up truck with Wisconsin license plates and a couple taking pictures of the new summit boulder/marker. Met fellow Highpointer Kenny Pokora and his wife and had a nice visit. Kenny has a long climbing resume including 6 of the 7 summits and has done the 50 State highpoints almost 3X. It's a small world. State HP #46 for me and #29 for my wife. | ||
Posted Nov 10, 2010 7:10 am |
kavak | Summit Road Date Climbed: Oct 9, 2010 | |
I took the opportunity of attending my first State Highpointers Konvention because I hadn't been to Woodall Mountain. It was a very pleasant experience including the summit hike to the top. A large rock was unveiled with a commemorative plaque on the summit with the owners and news media present. I know people have dissed the mountain on more than one occasion but it certainly is a better experience now with the cleanup and the summit rock. | ||
Posted Oct 11, 2010 6:51 pm |
mlandau3 | Eleventh Of Eleven This Trip Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2010 | |
i lived in mississippi for a while - i was not surprised that all there was at the high point were some towers and a usgs marker with an empty beer bottle next to it | ||
Posted Jul 31, 2010 5:15 pm |
dsprice | HP#3 Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2010 | |
*Hats off to the Highpointers for the cleanup and memorialization of the summit. I am humbled that while I griped, others took action. Great job.* -Previous Post- I am a Southerner, but widely-travelled. I am still frustrated by my experience on Woodall Mountain, a neglected and disregarded site that has potential to be more than it has become. The sign that once marked this summit is gone, and picnic tables installed decades ago are crumbling. Worse, the vegetation is controlled with herbicide, which was acrid and pungent when we arrived. I'm not disappointed with the hill, just in the prevailing attitudes of some people down here that allow our green places to fall into spoil and decline. We hiked (walked) the southern approach, which is the gravel road. It is the site of decades of illegal dumping, and the trucks that drive the road DO NOT anticipate hikers. It looks like the north entrance is the better option in hindsight. Ate a good cheeseburger at Stagg's Grocery in Florence, AL on the way home (found it on Roadfood.com). Worth the stop if you are heading back that way. | ||
Posted Jun 6, 2010 12:54 pm |
6340298 | Clineb it & Wrote about it Date Climbed: Mar 14, 2008 | |
I climbed Woodall and wrote a book about it. Check it out at amazon.com - "Climbing Woodall Mountain" | ||
Posted Apr 6, 2010 9:59 am |
Tracy | Hp #29 Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2010 | |
Did this state highpoint with my son, Lance after driving up the Natchez Trace Parkway from Ross Barnett Reservoir. Also visited the summit of Little Mountain (601 ft.) in Jeff Busby picnic area in Choctaw County. Beautiful weather and arrived on top of Woodall right before sunset. | ||
Posted Apr 5, 2010 11:03 pm |
kteichert | HP #5 Date Climbed: Jan 28, 2010 | |
Most unimpressive state highpoint yet. Had a difficult time finding it, for lack of signage. Directions from lady at a Subway, "25 minutes up the road, you'll pass a Bingo House, and the road is on your left." Other state highpoints I've seen are well marked, and the state takes pride in their highest point. This one was very unheralded. | ||
Posted Feb 1, 2010 11:14 am |
IHaveArrived | HP #13 Date Climbed: Oct 28, 2009 | |
I drove to the top, snapped a picture of the USGS marker, did the obligatory hmmm look around, and then headed off to Alabama. | ||
Posted Jan 20, 2010 2:37 am |
BadgerSummitSeeker | HP # 10 Date Climbed: Mar 31, 2008 | |
Nice view from the top of N. Mississippi. As people have mentioned there's a lot of litter up here but I'm really grateful that the owners have allowed access to continue. | ||
Posted Aug 27, 2009 6:59 pm |
jeffh25 | Ehhhh. Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2009 | |
Nice view in the cut-out for the power lines otherwise, not so much. I realize Mississippi has bigger problems but throw in a sign or a historical marker or something. | ||
Posted Jul 14, 2009 3:35 pm |
osatrik | SHP #17, in 1987 Date Climbed: Feb 28, 1987 | |
Vanessa and my trip to the highpoint of Mississippi included a memorable lunch in the cafe at Iuka and a visit to the Shiloh Battlefield. Woodall was number 17 of the state highpoints we visited together, and of the 49 state highpoints I eventually summited. | ||
Posted Jul 3, 2009 2:57 pm |
maddie77777 | My least favorite HP so far Date Climbed: Feb 15, 2009 | |
It would be nice to have a sign or something at the top. As it is, there's just the survey marker and a bunch of antennas. # 17 for me. | ||
Posted Feb 17, 2009 11:13 am |
skinnywhitecomic | HP #11 Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2009 | |
Nothing too difficult with this one...even my Camaro made it to the top! | ||
Posted Jan 3, 2009 8:02 pm |
Ilafan | Top of Mississippi Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2008 | |
Er...um...ah...Mississippi has very nice people and campgrounds. Woodall Mountain, maybe not so much. | ||
Posted Jun 25, 2008 8:18 pm |
highlandvillager | Needs some TLC Date Climbed: May 18, 2008 | |
We didn't see a good place to park by the main road and wound up just driving to the top. Sprucing up this place would make a good project for a local Eagle Scout. HP8 | ||
Posted May 21, 2008 12:06 pm |
tioga | Powerline Date Climbed: Apr 13, 2008 | |
Drove to the top and then walked down the powerline and climbed back up. Met some native Mississippians on the powerline who were concerned with their land. They were nice and gentle folk but wanted to make sure that I wasn't up to something fishy. Relaxing area. | ||
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