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Each year when Baseball Cards are printed there are glaring errors made... some deliberately and some by accident. Can you recall a Baseball Card that fits this category?
Each year when Baseball Cards are printed there are glaring errors made... some deliberately and some by accident. Can you recall a Baseball Card that fits this category?
A former "Brooklyn Dodgers BUM (Fan)" who became "JUST " A Baseball Fan in the Spring of 1958.
Good topic, 0077!
I remember the 60's baseball card of Aurelio Rodriguez of the California Angels, who was so unknown at the time that they took a picture of the batboy and printed the card as his.
A classic from the '80's showed Billy Ripken with the words F**K FACE on the bat knob, where the # usually goes.
Lew Burdette of the Braves posed as a lefty in a '50's Topps card.
I use this example at my job as a visual aid to show what happens when Quality Control is allowed to slacken:
The Cubs had a promising young 22 year old infielder in 1962 and 1963 named Ken Hubbs. Hubbs was the 1962 NL Rookie of the Year, great glove and good hitter. Hubbs also held a private pilot's license, and tragically was killed in Utah while flying his plane in cold weather just before spring training in 1964.
Two years later in 1966, Topps issued the card of Cubs pitcher Dick Ellsworth, but used the image from Hubb's card in 1963. It was never corrected, and to this day remains a collectable error card.
"Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em."
- Casey Stengel
I remember as a kid turning over my 1981 Donruss card of Leon Durham only to discover that it listed him as having collected something like 926 career homeruns. I don't recall if that's the correct number, but I do remember it had him surpassing Aaron.
1979 Topps--Bump Wills as both a Blue Jay and Ranger.
1974 Topps-Just about all the Padres, save one Dave Winfield, also had cards saying they played for Washington National League.
Bill Tom George Mark Bob Ernie Soupy Alex Sparky
Joe Gary MCA Emanuel Sonny Dave Earl Stan
Jonathan Neil Roger Anthony Ray Thomas Art Don
Gates Philip John Warrior Rik Casey Tony Horace
Robin JEDI
Then there's that treasured 1972 Billy Martin card when he was managing the Tigers. Apparently the photographer was REALLY getting on Billy's nerves that day, as his face gives away that he is a torrent of controlled rage. But the giveaway is the upsidedown bird that Billy is flipping on the handle of the bat!
"Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em."
- Casey Stengel
A 2001 Andruw Jones card I have says he has a total of over 1000 stolen bases.
I don't know if it was so much a prank as it was a teammate displaying what he thought of Ripken, the manager's son. As the team star, Cal Jr. could be expected to get preferrential treatment, but I have heard a few stories of resentment toward the second sacker.
I always liked the two big errors that happened in 1982. Pascual Perez with no position on the card, and John Littlefield with his photo reversed. I don't think I've seen eother one of those errors.
And both Fleer's and Donruss's first issues (1981, or a comeback in Fleer's case) were so loaded with errors the error cards didn't hold much value over the corrected versions.
Bill Tom George Mark Bob Ernie Soupy Alex Sparky
Joe Gary MCA Emanuel Sonny Dave Earl Stan
Jonathan Neil Roger Anthony Ray Thomas Art Don
Gates Philip John Warrior Rik Casey Tony Horace
Robin JEDI
Tommy John, 1969 when he was with the CWS, Topps Card#465 shows him completing his follow-through on a pitch. The only problem was you could clearly see the Baseball still lodged in the glove on his right-hand.
As mentioned earlier, Lew Burdette posed as a lefty, without a baseball in the pitching move. Also his name on the Topps Card #440 in 1959 was printed "Lou"
A former "Brooklyn Dodgers BUM (Fan)" who became "JUST " A Baseball Fan in the Spring of 1958.
the all time classic is al lieter when he played for the yankees the picture wasn't leiter but the batboy!
The "True Story" behind the Ripken error is this:
In a spring training game, Ripken was given the bat with the dirty word on it by Mike Greenwell as a joke (The O's were playing the BoSox). It was never intended for anyone other that the players on the field to actually see the bat.
As for an error, how about the 1989 Score card that proclaimed Wade Boggs had a career .364 batting avg? If that were true, he would have retired then second all time.
And who can forget the 1990 Topps card of Frank Thomas where the company forgot something unimportant like Thomas' name!
I have two baaseball cards that fit:
a mid 60's card of Twins pitcher Jim Katt (front) but Topps spelled it Kaat on the back.
a 1977 Rod Carew card with Willie Stargell stats on the back.
it wasn't cut perfectly but still a cool card. 2 HoF'ers!!
Here's where you can see the infamous Billy Ripken card:
Still lurks the BBF.
I own a Roberto Clemente card that reads his birthplace as New York City, NY
My son has a 1997 Carlos Delgado Pinnacle #119. On the back it has a photo of Carlos but on the front it is someone else. I have tried to find info on this but with no luck. Can anybody help?
1997 Pinnacle card #119 is Troy Percival... so I'm assuming you mean the 1997 New Pinnacle set, which lists Carlos Delgado as card #119.Originally posted by dave bird
My son has a 1997 Carlos Delgado Pinnacle #119. On the back it has a photo of Carlos but on the front it is someone else. I have tried to find info on this but with no luck. Can anybody help?
The Beckett Almanac of Baseball Cards and Collectibles (the BIG book) lists 1997 New Pinnacle Carlos Delgado card #119, but has no mention of the card portraying the wrong player. I've personally never seen the card, but I consider this book to be the most reliable source of information available. It's possible that in a future edition of the Almanac, they will include the information you seek; I have the 7th edition, which I believe to be the latest (c 2002)...
I have a couple of cards like those.
The 2001 UDMVP spells Kenny Rogers' name "Rodgers."
The other one I have is a Topps Stars (1999?) of Mike Lansing without his name on the front.
I have a card from i belive it was the 1992 or 93 fleer ultra set that has a picture of Bernie Williams on it and has his name on the front but says Gerald Williams on the back.
The 1991 score set has Red Sox reliver Greg Harris pitching Lefty when hes a righty and Cubs outfielder Doug Dacenzeo pitching.
The 1991 Bowman set has both Ken Griffey Sr and Jr with the same card number
Lets Go Yankees, Valley Cats, Dutchmen, UT Spartans and ECU Pirates.
My favorite is the 1990 Upper Deck Bill Buckner card. The First time I saw it the card I noticed right away, as I think any Young Red Sox fan would (still being distraught over 1986), something very funny about the image. There is Buckner on the field with his hands on his knees waiting for the next pitch. His legs are slightly bowlegged and in between them is the tarp rolled up and the opening of the tube is placed so perfectly at this bowlegged opening that it had to be done on purpose. I always laugh at this picture.
And then I cry about '86.
I think the Buckner card HAD to be done on purpose. In my opinion, Upper Deck has always had top-notch photography on their cards. They had plenty of other shots of Buckner to choose from...
And I think that's one of the funniest cards I've ever seen.
Wish I had a scanner. I have a 1972 card depicting an angel (forget right now who it was) and the guy's standing right in front of a huge halo from the stadium, which appears to be hovering right over his head.
Dascenzo pitched in one game for the Cubs in '90 and one in '91. It was some crazy move where the Mets were up by like sixteen runs and they put then-Cubs reliever Les Lancaster in left so Dascenzo could face one or two hitters and then they could bring Lancaster back in.The 1991 score set has Red Sox reliver Greg Harris pitching Lefty when hes a righty and Cubs outfielder Doug Dacenzeo pitching.
Something like that ... I was like 12 ...
I do remember he pitched though.
Gracie threw one inning for the D'backs last year.
John Olerud's 1990 Score RC has him listed as a pitcher and 1B ... kinda glad he stuck with a position that offers more ABs, 'ey?
The Score card actually has him as OF-P. Ironically, he ended up at neither.Originally posted by 4-Man_Rotation
John Olerud's 1990 Score RC has him listed as a pitcher and 1B ... kinda glad he stuck with a position that offers more ABs, 'ey?
The info was probably because of what he did at Washington State.
Olerud showed promise early on at Washington State, where he was named Baseball America's NCAA Player of the Year in 1987 and '88. His senior year, he recovered from a frightening brain aneurysm in January to hit .359 with 30 RBIs in 27 games that spring. The scare would always be with him though, and he began wearing a batting helmet on the field for safety.
Olerud was so promising in college (he set single-season Washington records with a .462 average and 23 homers, and even sported a 15-0 record as a pitcher) that once he was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in 1989, he became the 16th player since the amateur draft's inception to skip the minors entirely and go straight to the big leagues. After notching three hits in eight at-bats in the end of that season, the first baseman showed promise with his sweet swing in his rookie year of '90, when he batted a respectable first-year .265.
A former "Brooklyn Dodgers BUM (Fan)" who became "JUST " A Baseball Fan in the Spring of 1958.
I am an avid baseball card collector and could mention many more errors but I'll just list some of my favorites.
On the back of the 1964 Rookie card of Dave Bennent it says "the 19 year old curve baller is just 18 years old"
The 1969 card of Larry Haney used the same photograph as his 1968 card. The only problem is the negative was reveresed so in 1968 he's catching right handed and in 1969 he's catching left handed.
The 1957 card of Hank Aaron shows him batting left handed because of another reveresed negative photo.
The 1966 (and 1967) cards of Claude Raymond show where he forgot to zip himself up before the photographer arrived. (see photo)
Sorry to bring this year old post back to life, but I couldn't resist telling you guys about this mishap on a card. As I was looking through my extinsive card collection I saw a Cory Aldridge card, for those of you who don't know who he is he's a Braves minor league outifielder, and so I looked at the card and read his stats and how he was injured in 2002. Then I looked at the front of the card and studied it and I didn't remember him being called up in '02 when the Braves wore the 70's throwbacks and I never remember Cory Aldridge being white, so I figured out that Topps made an error in putting Darren Bragg on the front instead of Cory Aldridge. If anyone could find a picture of this card I would be happy, it is Topps Total 2002 Card number 68.


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When PNC Park was being built, people had the opportunity to "sponsor" a brick with their name or message or both on it. At the time, I thought I remember reading that there would be a kiosk or something helping each person to locate their brick once they were put in place. I have since managed to forget that thought for the past eleven years and have no idea why it is suddenly back in my head now. Nonetheless, is there a way to locate your brick other than wandering around and doing it the hard way?


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VietNamNet Bridge – Most of huge tourism projects on Phu Quoc Island have yet to be kicked off and the island will still be short of hotel rooms in the next couple of years, which helps explain why international airlines still keep the island at arm's length.
Work can be started on only some projects until 2015 and it will take at least over two years to put some components of such projects into use, said Le Minh Hoang, director of Kien Giang Province's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Hoang said tourism and hotel projects account for two-thirds of a total of some 170 projects approved on the island. However, only 23 small and medium projects of fewer than 160 rooms have been implemented after many years.
There are many reasons for the slow progress of tourism projects, including economic difficulties and unfinished infrastructure. Key roads on the island off Kien Giang Province have not been completed while the submarine power cable has only been started.
With such reasons, the province has granted an extension for investors of slow-moving projects, allowing them until later this year to decide whether to keep working on or halting projects.
According to Hoang, small and medium projects which are being implemented from now until 2015 will provide only 500-700 rooms and Phu Quoc will still lack rooms.
"The province's tourism growth is 12% per year and that of Phu Quoc is 17-20%. The number of tourists visiting the island rose by up to 34.5% to 474,000 in the year's eight-month period," Hoang said.
Phu Quoc currently has 2,900 rooms, with around 2,400 of them meeting standards for tourists.
The shortage of hotel rooms not only affects the island's tourism growth but also prevent foreign airlines from flying there.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) is still inviting foreign air carriers to launch flights to Phu Quoc Island but many of them are still concerned over tourism infrastructures there.
Ho Quoc Cuong, head of the Air Transport Department, told the Daily that CAAV had invited some foreign enterprises to open flights to some tourist destinations such as Nha Trang, Dalat, Can Tho and Phu Quoc.
Although Phu Quoc International Airport has been upgraded to handle large aircrafts, the airlines are concerned that the shortage of hotels and travel services will fail to lure visitors to the island.
CAAV has yet to receive any applications from foreign air carriers for flying to Phu Quoc, Cuong said.
Inaugurated in December, 2012, Phu Quoc International Airport is able to serve big aircrafts such as Boeing 777-300, Boeing 747-400 and A380-800 crafts. The airport is expected to welcome over 2.6 million passengers each year by 2020 and seven million passengers each year by 2030.
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Group page showing full width even though a sidebar is present
I am using the Custom Community theme and the latest version of BuddyPress and WordPress. The problem is that when I view a group, it displays the page content full-width, overlapping with the right sidebar. See:
The Groups page uses the correct layout and I am not sure how the individual group's page is being generated but I'm assuming on the fly because I don't see it listed with the WordPress pages.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with BuddyPress or with the theme integration so I'm posting both here and on the theme support site. Any help would be appreciated.
Digging around, I see that this is happening with virtually all of the pages related to groups aside from the main groups page, so all of the group creation pages are also having this same problem, pretty much anything that is generated by the php and not a real page.
Anyone? Even if you could get me to the right place to start searching that would be something. Right now I can't even find the right php file to start digging through.
It's really hard for me to believe that a plugin this popular would be so difficult to get support for. I see dozens of posts in here with zero replies. Where are the developers and experts?
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more of a theme question then a buddypress question i think the dev hasn't been any help?
@ubernaut thanks for the reply! Sorry but my internet has been down and life a little too busy to log back in here.
I finally got a reply from the theme developer, but his answer didn't help. He did at least confirm that it was a problem with the theme and then told me to just upgrade to the new theme they were developing (which is still in beta and has massive problems), so not useful at all. I hacked in some custom CSS I'd found for someone else havign as similar problem with a different plugin to trick it into displaying correctly while I look for another theme.
I believe it is somehow related to the fact that buddypress sidebars are not the same as site sidebars, it just doesn't see that there are any sidebars at all. I went through the codex and the pages and tried to see where I could fix it myself since the developer has essentially abandoned the theme but it's just a little beyond my coding skills at present. I think my ultimate solution will be to find a theme by a developer with better support. Hopefully as I learn more problems like this will be less of an issue.
On another note:
I realize that this is an open source, free product but I have to say that the attitude from the developers here in the threads I've read is incredibly off putting. Rolling your eyes at people who've installed a plugin but do know how to code and find your codex incomprehensible is extremely unhelpful.
Wordpress was designed just so that people who didn't know how to code could build custom blogs and websites. Whipping out a hipster sneer and telling them that they should be grateful is both rude and mean. You are the ones who chose to develop a plugin for a different user base than the core product. Don't slap them across the face for assuming your plugin might work for them (since it's apparently the #1 plugin on WordPress.org) and then having questions when it doesn't.
I will say that having read the forums here first, I almost didn't install BuddyPress at all because I don't really want to interact with devs who treat their users so poorly solely based on the excuse that it's free so you should be able to talk at us however you like, or simply ignore us if our questions are "too stupid". If I didn't have even at least a little experience with programming and web development I would've passed over it completely. I won't be able to recommend it to any of my clients because I wouldn't ask them to have to deal with this themselves.
You are lucky that you have users here helping one another, because for the most part they are the only one I see providing any support.
WordPress was designed just so that people who didn't know how to code could build custom blogs and websites.
No it wasn't actually, it was originally just developed as a blogging app to be better than those that existed, and in the early days before the theme api or the plugins api were introduced you would have had to have some knowledge of basic coding. The notion that it should take all the effort and requirement to learn a little basic coding skills out of the equation didn't really develop until much later.
I'm sorry you feel aggrieved at the level of help or that you perceive an attitude from some here as for referring to the 'Devs' that is likely a little unfair, for the most part they are busy developing the core app and knowing most of them I can say that they don't have an attitude or ever put anyone down.
>You are lucky that you have users here helping one another, because for the most part they are the only one I see providing any support.
No not lucky this is how forums have always been intended to work, this is a classic volunteer help forum and it's the general users that help out and return to the project or community their knowledge and experience to help users like yourself who hopefully in turn then help out others in turn.
I'm calling it like I see it. Some of the responses I've seen here are down right uncivil. WordPress powers 20% of all websites on the internet, you think people sign up to use it because they're just lazy programmers? No, they really don't know how to program so when someone asks for help and says, "I don't know how to program" telling them to go learn and stop bothering the "busy" developers is completely useless.
These forums are pointless because the developers are unresponsive. I can go to a dozen other forums and ask random blokes what they think I should do and get just as much help as I've seen anyone get here. At least if you didn't have these forums people wouldn't keep getting told to go here and ask for help by well meaning people who assume that help will be given when help is very unlikely to be received.
A large portion of the threads I see here are people asking for help, getting no response, and then either muddling through long enough to answer their own question or just giving up. If they are lucky enough to figure it out, there are half a dozen or more other people begging for the solution because they got no answer when they asked themselves. It's completely dysfunctional.
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Advocacy groups protesting Ken Burns' upcoming World War II doc asked PBS and WETA in Washington, D.C., Aug. 20 [2007] for assurance that the producers would work harder to include Latinos in "current and future programming.
The statement about Burns' The War bore the signatures of 53 individuals, ten media, policy and educational organizations and Defend the Honor, the coalition that first challenged Burns.
In a response, PBS said it "continues to build upon our track record of inclusion in programming, in front of and behind the camera." WETA has issued no response.
The full statements from Defend the Honor and PBS are below.
Why the Latino Community Can't Let This Matter Rest
The Latino "war" against Ken Burns' upcoming documentary, The War, to be aired on PBS is not over. Despite recent press statements, key Latino organizations and leaders across the country today publicly announced that the issue is far from resolved and that they will continue pressing for a respectful resolution.
Latino organizations and leaders called on Ken Burns and Florentine Pictures to meet with a representative cross-section of the national Latino leadership to explain in detail the changes they have made to the film, how they plan to include the Latino experience in their future projects and how they plan to include Latinos on the Florentine team. They also call on PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger, as well as WETA-TV's CEO and president, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, to explain the measures that will be taken to assure that such a gross exclusion of the Latino community does not occur again in their current and future programming, and how they will supplement The War with other programming and activities to include the Latino experience, in particular with the educational programming.
At the urging of a corporate sponsor, Burns met with two Latino groups in early May and reiterated that he would include interviews with some Latino veterans in the 14.5-hour documentary, without offering many details. This was a commitment that he and PBS had already made publicly. Citing the results of this meeting, Burns and PBS officials at both the national and local levels have declared the issue closed.
"Ken Burns cannot choose to make a secret deal with only two of the many Latino groups that were involved in this issue and in discussion with him and PBS, and then claim that the matter is resolved," explains Marta Garcia, co-chair of the New York Chapter of the National Hispanic Media Coalition and one of the founders of Defend the Honor, a Latino grassroots mobilization that first raised the alarm about Latino exclusion from this PBS documentary at the beginning of this year. "He must bring closure to this issue by paying the Latino leadership of this country the respect, respeto, of meeting with us to explain himself and his future relationship to the Latino community."
Some progress had been made on the issue over the past several months in that Burns has added interviews with two Mexican American veterans and one Native American to the 14 hour-28 minute documentary. "But make no mistake," said Ivan Roman, executive director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, "we will withhold judgment on how meaningful that additional material is whether it truly speaks to the Latino experience and whether it is reflected in the companion book and educational material."
In subsequent statements to the press, Burns has been dismissive of the arguments that the inclusion of Latinos is about historical accuracy rather than political correctness.
"It is unfortunate that Ken Burns continues to see this issue as one of politics and rhetoric that he must rise above," said Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, the University of Texas journalism professor who co-chairs the Defend the Honor Campaign. "It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with historical accuracy and inclusion."
Rosa Rosales, national president of LULAC, said that it was crucial for the Latino organizations to publicly challenge statements in the press by Burns and PBS that the issue had been resolved. "As Ken Burns travels across the country as part of the $10 million promotional effort by PBS, he still characterizes this as a terrible misunderstanding," Rosales said. "It's no misunderstanding. We understand perfectly that he only added the new interviews under pressure and, right now, it looks like he's not very proud of that new material."
Another sticking point are the discrepancies between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant proposal that provided federal funding for the film, and what he and PBS have said in recent months. For instance, Burns has said repeatedly in news interviews that in the more than 6 years of production, "no Latinos came forward" to be interviewed about their WWII experiences. But he apparently excluded Latinos from the beginning: in the NEH grant proposal submitted in 2004, Burns and Florentine Films said that the film "will celebrate American diversity" and that it will be about the "diversity of wartime America . . . African-American, Japanese American and white."
"This is certainly very different from the way he discusses his film today in defending himself against Latino criticisms," observes Jess Quintero, president of the Hispanic War Veterans of America.
That documentary will shape how Americans view WWII, and if short shrift is given to the Latino contributions, there will be a reinforcement of the widespread ignorance of the Latino contribution to the building of the U.S. "Ken Burns and PBS are playing recklessly with our history, both as Latinos and Americans," observes Gus Chavez, one of the co-chairs of the Defend the Honor. He concludes, "This is something every American should be upset about."
"We are very uncomfortable with taking Burns and PBS' word that they have addressed the Latino community's concerns before actually seeing the product," Armando Rendon of Defend the Honor Campaign of Northern California adds. "The anger in the grassroots Latino community continues unabated by the manner in which he and PBS have handled this matter."
Preliminary signatories to this statement include the following, with additional signatures to be added through Sept. 22, 2007.
– Afro-Latino Project, Queens College (CUNY), Flushing, NY
– APITO Centro Cultural de Puerto Rico (ACCPR), San Juan, Puerto Rico
– Defend the Honor
– Latino Literacy Now, Los Angeles
– League of United Latin America Citizens (LULAC)
– Lic. Rudy L. Ramos Civil Rights Chapter of the AGIF, San Antonio, Texas
– National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), Washington, DC
– National Association of Latino Independent Producers, (NALIP)
– National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC)
– National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP), New York, NY
– National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT), New York, NY and Washington, DC
Individuals (affiliations for identification purposes only):
– Vicente "Panama" Alba, New York, NY
– Dr. Frances Aparicio, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
– Luis Aponte-Pares, Boston, MA
– Louise Bonanova, Civil Rights Investigator (Retired), Office for Civil Rights, United States Department of Education, San Francisco, CA
– Maria Caban
– Grissele Camacho, Esq.
– Ed (Gato) Castillo-Rubio
– Commander, Viet Nam Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 9305 of Imperial County
– Maria Elena Cepeda, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Latina/o Studies, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
– Evelyn Collazo, New York, NY
– Edgar De Jesus, AFSMCE East Region Area Organizing Director, and National Bronx Member, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LACLA)
– Minerva Delgado, Bronx, NY
– Dra. Rosalina Diaz, Associate Professor of Education, Medger Evers College (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY
– Martin Espada, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
– Jaime Estades, Brooklyn, NY
– Myra Y. Estepa, Brooklyn, NY
– Dolores M. Fernandez, Ph.D., President, Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College (CUNY), Bronx, NY
– Ricardo R. Fernandez, Ph.D., President, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY), Bronx, NY
– Juan Flores, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, New York, NY
– Cynthia Garcia Coll, Ph.D., Charles Pitt Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor Professor of Education, Psychology & Pediatrics, Brown University, Providence, RI
– Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Queens, NY
– Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Sociology, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY
– Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, MSW, Ed.D.
– Tanya K. Hernandez, Professor of Law and Justice, Frederick W. Hall Scholar, Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, NJ
– Dr. James Jennings, Ph.D., Professor, Tuft University, Boston, MA
– Miriam Jimenez Roman, Afro-Latino Forum, New York University, New York, NY
– Francisco J. Gonzalez, Cottage Grove, MN
– Aldo Lauria Santiago, Ph.D., Rutgers University
– Raul Madrid, Ph/D., Department of Political Science, University of Texas at Austin
– Miguel "Mickey" Melendez, New York, NY
– Carlos Molina, Ph.D., New York, NY
– Edwin Karli Padilla, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Houston-Downtown
– Franklyn Perez, Esq., Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY
– Luis O. Reyes, Ph.D., New York, NY
– Eugene Rivera, Clinical Coordinator, Hill Health Center, Middletown, CT
– Dr. Clara E. Rodriguez, Bronx, NY
– Luz Rodriguez, New York, NY
– Carlos Rodriguez-Fraticelli, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
– Placido Salazar, San Antonio, USAF Retired Vietnam Veteran, State Veterans' Affairs, Officer of The American GI Forum of Texas
– Carlos Sanabria, Ph.D., Coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY
– Izzy Sanabria, publisher, Latin NY Magazine; Salsamagazine.com
– Dr. Jose Ramon Sanchez, Chair, Department of Urban Studies, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
– Nelson Sierra, Albany, NY
– Hector Soto, Esq., La Resurreccion UMC Social Justice Committee, Bronx, NY
– Candida Tapia
– Donato Tapia, JD, San Francisco, CA
– Esteban Torres, former U.S. Congressman, California
– Gloria Tristani, former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
– Luis Urrieta, Jr., Ed.D., Department of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Texas at Austin
– Richard Valencia, Ed.D., Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
– Angela Valenzuela, Ed.D., Dept. Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Administration, University of Texas at Austin
– Armando Vazquez-Ramos,Ph.D. , Chicano & Latino Studies Department, California State University, Long Beach
– Emilio Zamora, Ph.D., Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Rosa Rosales, president, League of United Latin American Citizens, (210) 733-5454 or PresidentRosalesLULAC.org
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Co-chair, Defend the Honor campaign, (512) 471-0405 or mrivasmail.utexas.edu
Gus Chavez, Co-chair, Defend the Honor campaign, (619) 807-8938 or guschavez2000yahoo.com
Armando Rendon, Esq., Defend the Honor Campaign of Northern California, (510) 219-9139 or armandorendonsbcglobal.net
Jess Quintero, president, Hispanic War Veterans of America, (202) 439-8028 or jaq1000verizon.net
Marta Garcia, National Hispanic Media Coalition, (212) 965-9758 or mediacoalitionoptonline.net
Further information: Defend the Honor Campaign Website http://www.defendthehonor.org
PBS responds: Will 'build on track record of inclusion'
The network provided this statement Aug. 22, 2007.
Since the issue was first raised earlier this year, PBS and Ken Burns have met and corresponded with a range of organizations from the Latino community, we have listened to their concerns about The War and we have addressed those concerns.
We are pleased that Florentine Films, HACR and the American GI Forum were able to reach an agreement in May about the new content. PBS feels that Ken's willingness to add content after the completion of his production is highly commendable.
Florentine Films has scheduled many screenings in recent months, including one in June at the Library of Congress, attended by representatives of Latino groups, where clips from the new content were shown in rough-cut form. In July, the American GI forum invited Florentine Films to show clips from The War at their annual conference. That screening included clips of the new content featuring Latino veterans of World War II and the featured vets appeared at the conference in person.
PBS met with a broad cross-section of Latino leaders in July and provided an update on steps underway to ensure that PBS continues to build upon our track record of inclusion in programming, in front of and behind the camera, as well as in staffing at PBS and in the system as a whole.
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Gamers bring competitive, fun energy to Hungarian Pastry Shop
Every Tuesday night, a group of gamers fills Hungarian Pastry Shop to test their skills in the ancient Chinese game of Go.
To understand the atmosphere and competitiveness of these weekly gaming sessions, check out the video above.
Read the full article—with interviews of members of the Columbia Go club—in the News section of today's paper.
You tell us: Does Obamanard still matter?
In this week's Lead, Margaret Boykin examines the legacy of last spring and the sexism that it brought to the forefront of campus discourse. We went and asked students around campus if they thought that the "Obamanard" debacle was still relevant, and what we can still learn from it.
Mult-eye-media: Faces of Undocumentation
In last week's Lead, Naomi Cohen wrote about undocumented students at Columbia by telling their stories and highlighting people at Columbia who help them. Below are interviews with the different individuals mentioned in the article.
Though he now has a student visa, Brandon had to leave the United States for a year before attending Columbia because of his initial lack of status. He is now a first year majoring in Math. Hear him talk about his experience:
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Captain America sits down with Spec…sort of
This weekend, Spec got a rare opportunity to interview Captain America — or at least, someone who dresses like Captain America.
Will Rivera lives at 109th and Broadway and has a passion for cosplaying the iconic hero. Rivera was one of the many interestingly-attired folks at this year's Comic Con. Check out our video interview!
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There are kangaroos hopping down 112th Street
Given its status as a college town, Morningside Heights is home to many fun or quirky traditions—Primal Scream, closing down Broadway to make way for PrezBo's fun run, that underwear pillow fight that happens every now and then. The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine played host to one on Sunday, temporarily converting itself into a zoo for the 28th Annual Blessing of the Animals.
Neighborhood residents brought their pets, and some less domestic animals (that's where the kangaroo comes in) were hired in from professional animal agencies.
"We do this every year to remind us of the blessing of what it means to have these creatures great and small in our lives, how dangerous it is to treat them with disrespect or to create environmental threats that may cause even extinction of some species," Rev. James Kowalski said.
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Veteran GS students talk about how 9/11 altered their lives
To go along with this week's Eye lead by Finn Vigeland about the student journalistic response to 9/11, Spectrum's Naomi Cohen interviewed veteran General Studies students about the impact of the tragedy on their lives, their military service, and what it meant to be a soldier in the post-9/11 world.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP officials say they plan to begin forcing cement down the blown-out Gulf oil well Thursday.
The announcement came last night shortly after their plan was approved by the federal official in charge of the oil spill.
The company plans to shove cement down from pipes attached to ships a mile above the sea beginning Thursday.
Earlier, crews were able to force down the oil with mud.
National Incident Commander Thad Allen approved the plan, as long as it doesn't delay the ultimate solution of drilling a relief well that will cut off the leaking well far below the sea floor.
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Baylor has different take defending Big 12 title
Posted: 07/21/2014 - DALLAS (AP) -- Coach Art Briles and Baylor arrived at Big 12 football media days as defending champions for the first time.
Posted: 07/21/2014 - DALLAS (AP) -- Coach Art Briles and Baylor arrived at Big 12 football media days as defending champions for the first time.
Posted: 07/18/2014 - MOLINE, Ill. – The Missouri Valley Conference announced Thursday it has entered an agreement with the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau to bring the MVC Women's Basketball Tournament to the iWireless Center through at least 2018.
Posted: 07/18/2014 - NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — In between his rounds Thursday at the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, Michael Gellerman felt a little uncertain about his game.
Posted: 07/16/2014 - OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Brandon Rush and the Golden State Warriors have agreed to a two-year contract.
Posted: 07/16/2014 - Kevin Durant has won two ESPY Awards, including male athlete of the year, and mixed martial arts star Ronda Rousey earned female athlete honors, becoming the first UFC fighter to claim a trophy in the biggest category at the show.
Posted: 07/16/2014 - WICHITA, Kan. – Wichita State track and field head coach Steve Rainbolt will be the head coach of Team USA's Decathlon team at the 2014 Pan American Combined Events Cup on Thursday and Friday at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Posted: 07/10/2014 - TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- The bowl formerly known as the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl will now be the Cactus Bowl.
Updated: 07/10/2014 - WICHITA, Kan. -- Former Kansas State quarterback and Heisman finalist Collin Klein will take his passing academy on the road once again next week, with 5 stops on the newest tour.
Updated: 07/10/2014 - WICHITA, Kan. -- Buffalo Bills running back and Wichita native Bryce Brown will unite with his brother, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Arthur Brown, Jr., for the Blue Chip and Spine Future Elite Skills Football Camp Saturday at Haysville District Stadium.
Posted: 07/09/2014 - The Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament will remain in St. Louis through at least 2018, MVC Commissioner Doug Elgin has announced.
Posted: 07/07/2014 - WICHITA, KS (July 7, 2014) – On Monday afternoon the Wichita Wingnuts received good news in two different fashions.
Posted: 07/07/2014 - Kansas State senior captains Tyler Lockett, Jake Waters and Ryan Mueller were each named to preseason watch lists for awards presented by the Maxwell Football Club, the organization announced Monday.
Posted: 07/07/2014 - The Maxwell Football Club announced Monday that Kansas senior linebacker Ben Heeney was named to the 2014 Chuck Bednarik Award preliminary watch list.
Posted: 06/27/2014 - PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Philadelphia 76ers president Sam Hinkie is confident that draft picks Joel Embiid and Dario Saric will play key roles.
Posted: 06/27/2014 - BEREA, Ohio (AP) -- Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel has no intention of toning down his weekends.
Posted: 06/26/2014 - WICHITA, KANSAS – It was an evening of celebration at the 17th Annual Greater Wichita Sports Banquet as local awards were handed out in various categories.
Updated: 06/26/2014 - Wichita State All-American Cleanthony Early (Middletown, N.Y.) became the highest draft choice out of Wichita State since Xavier McDaniel in 1985, when his named was called in the Second Round, No. 34, to the New York Knicks in the 2014 NBA Draft, from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Updated: 06/26/2014 - LAWRENCE, Kan. – Only two picks separated former Kansas big man Joel Embiid from his Jayhawk teammate Andrew Wiggins, as the Philadelphia 76ers selected Embiid with the third overall selection in the 2014 NBA Draft Thursday night inside the Barclay Center.
Updated: 06/26/2014 - Andrew Wiggins of Kansas has been taken by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.
Posted: 06/26/2014 - BROOKLYN, N.Y. – For the second time in Kansas men's basketball history, a Jayhawk was taken No. 1 in the NBA Draft. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that the Cleveland Cavaliers selected Andrew Wiggins with the first selection in the 2014 NBA Draft Thursday night at the Barclays Center.
Posted: 06/26/2014 - NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops' salary will jump to $5.25 million for the upcoming season.
Posted: 06/26/2014 - Vanderbilt beat Virginia 3-2 on Wednesday night for their first national championship.
Posted: 06/25/2014 - MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Collin Klein will return to Kansas State as a member of Bill Snyder's coaching staff, according to a report released by GoPowercat.com Wednesday.
Updated: 06/23/2014 - Officers were called to the 3200 block of 27th street in Grantville around 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
Posted: 06/18/2014 - IRVING, Texas (AP) -- The Dallas Cowboys have signed defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence, their second-round draft pick and the last of the selections to agree to terms.


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Photo and story involving Ron Artest's appearance at an event in Hollywood on Thursday.
A look back when Artest was an offensive threat. It's a shame Kobe and Artest wasted their primes on non-championship teams(2004-2008ish).
Ron Artest Crashes into a Ron Artest Exhibit
Back when Artest had an offense.
Ron Artest's Hair: A Chronology of the 2009-2010 Lakers' Season
He says he wrote this song a year ago and if that's the case, he's a friggin' prophet. It sounds like it was written the day after they won the title! Awesome stuff.
Article and video chronicling Ron Artest's incredible Game 7 and his even more incredible postgame celebration, which included a trip to a club in Hollywood.
The Lakers lack the cohesion of a team that the Celtics have - from running their offense, to getting amazing defensive plays, the Celtics have continually hurt the Lakers with the intagibles: heart and desire (Eye of the Tiger). Winning 2 in a row generally spells doom for the other team, but can the Celtics put it together to get a win at Staples?
Breaking the finals record for 3's in a game, Ray Allen had the eye of the tiger as he took on all comers. No one could slow him down as he shot 8-11 from 3 point range on his way to a 32 point night. For even more basketball: BBALLBREAKDOWN.COM
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McDonald: Shaq to Spurs? Seriously?
So, apparently there is an unnamed source out there claiming Shaquille O'Neal wants to play for the Spurs. OK, fine. We'll buy it. After all, Shaq is a free agent, and teams aren't exactly banging down the doors for the 38-year-old's services this summer. He needs a job. He's got to eat. But will it happen? Could it happen? Shaq in silver and black? Not if the Spurs are still aiming to lure Tiago Splitter this summer.


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Lydia Kindheart is saying farewell to Fairfax. The owner of and Lydia's Kitchen will move her organic and vegan restaurant to Petaluma at the end of this month.
"It's a huge change. I've been part of the community for a long time," Kindheart said.
A is planned for Saturday at the Fairfax restaurant, which serves a variety of organic, gluten-free and mostly raw foods, including kale chips, buckwheat crepes, smoothies or coconut-almond humus.
The Lydia's operation will move June 30 to the Sunflower Center, a community space and longtime dream of Kindheart's that opened earlier this year.
The Sunflower Center fills an 8,000-square-foot space in a half-empty business park in Northern Petaluma, . It's complete with a state-of-the-art kitchen that was computer-giant Cisco's company cafeteria until it closed roughly six years ago.
The facility was especially appealing to Kindheart, who had been doing all the manufacturing of Lydia's Organics products (which are distributed nationwide and to Canada) behind the scenes at Lydia's Kitchen in Fairfax.
"There's a lot more space and it's more affordable," Kindheart said, adding that Marin isn't the most practical "manufacturing" location.
Kindheart said her company gradually grew in Fairfax, since it first started in a tiny space downtown. "I never said I wanted to have a big business, it just kind happened organically from the community's support and me wanting to feed more people. It has snowballed," she said. "It has been a great journey – a lot of hard work – but it's been great."
She's had the business on and off for 17 years, she said, and it has been a fixed restaurant for nine years.
Many local parents have told her that their children were raised at Lydia's Kitchen. "I have mamas who breastfeed their children in here," she said, referring to a corner of the restaurant frequented by nursing mothers.
Kindheart, who has lived in Forest Knolls, Lagunitas and Fairfax over the years, will move to Petaluma from Forest Knolls at the beginning of July.
Saturday's festival will give locals a chance to bid adieu to Kindheart before she moves roughly 25 miles north.
"We will turn the parking lot into a little festival," Kindheart said. "We'll draw a big sunflower with chalk and have kids write things inside the petals."
For those still hoping for a local Lydia's fix within Marin, Lydia's Organics products can be found at Good Earth and Whole Foods.
"Hopefully people will come visit us at the Sunflower Center," Kindheart said.
The Sunflower community center, in addition to manufacturing Lydia's products and serving fresh food, offers yoga classes, massage workshops and movie nights, Kindheart said. There is also a pillow strewn "chill space," community meeting rooms, a children's play area, library, garden and even an outdoor volleyball court, .
"Basically I created a vessel for people to feel comfortable and nurtured in all walks of life. We have CEOS, a knitting group, hipsters, bikers and kids who hula hoop there," Kindheart said.
Lydia's Kitchen, located at 31 Bolinas Rd, will host a moving celebration on Saturday, June 16, from noon to 8 p.m., with live music, food and kids' activities.


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- Guests: 3
- Bedrooms: 2
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Bedroom 2 - 1x Single
- Bathrooms: 1
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Located in the heart of Melbourne's central city. Short stroll to 'Chinatown', located on Melbourne's 'Greek Town' and Melbourne's QV Shopping and Corporate business centres are literally across the road from the apartment building.
The apartment consists of the following: kitchenette, kitchen utensils, beds, towels, linen, TV, and home furnishings. Simply bring your luggage.
Trams and train stations are also walking distance away, Bouke St mall, Queen Victoria market are all within close vicinity of our lonsdale st apartment.
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- Minimum Stay 14 Nights
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- Extra Adults Charge - $22 inc. GST Per Night (applies when more than 2 Adults)
- Extra Children Charge - $20 inc. GST Per Night
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- Late Arrival - $40 inc. GST Per Booking
- Weekly Service (inc.Linen) - $90 inc. GST Per Booking
- Housekeeping (Light.Servicing) - $60 inc. GST Per Booking
- Baby Cot Hire - $10 inc. GST Per Night
- High Chair Hire - $10 inc. GST Per Night
- Broadband Internet - $25 inc. GST Per Night
- Pet Cleaning Charge - $20 inc. GST Per Person/Night
- Fold Up Bed Hire - $20 inc. GST Per Night
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Skate filmmaker Zack Mack posted up in Barcelona for three weeks this summer with Lucas Erlebach, Jabari Pendleton, Yoshiaki Toeda, James Capps, Sebo Walker, Erik Pettersson, Javier Sarmiento, and Jesus Fernandez. Think he got some good footage? Umm yeah.
Skate filmmaker Zack Mack aka Holla Zack has just dropped this teaser for his longer length edit with Sk8mafia dropping soon. Here's Larelle Gray, Kellen James, Jamie Palmore and Joseph Mairena giving a pink ledge the business.
Sometimes a minute is all it takes. A perfect example is this forty seconds of radness featuring Adrian Williams filmed by Zack Mack for FTC. Tell your girl that the next time she complains.
Zack Mack just dropped this smooth montage showing love to the the FTC family and San Fran. Peep Adrian Williams, Jabari, Karl Watson, Matt Miller and more as they whirlwind through the city to the sounds of Afu Ra.
Western Edition just dropped this dope 8mm short starring Jabari Pendleton entitled "Searching." Filmed and edited by Zack Mack.


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Shia LaBeouf calls 911 after coming face-to-face with a stalker at his Los Angeles home
The Transformers actor phoned police after a stalker turned up at his LA home - he claimed she had been following him for three weeks But this time, it seems the actor was simply minding his own business when he came face-to-face with a strange woman who was at the door of his home in Los Angeles.
RiversideLOS ANGELES: Metrolink train, bound for Riverside, kills person on tracks
A Metrolink train headed to Riverside killed a person on the tracks near Los Angeles' Union Station, delaying trains and sending some westbound passengers by bus, Metrolink spokesman Jeff Lustgarten said.
Hamburgers are wonderful. With all of the barbequing that goes on during this time of year, thoughts of the perfect hamburger begin to inspire all kinds of variations.
Program Extended - Registration NOW Open! Last Chance Lawn Mower...
In early spring, Southland residents had an opportunity to register and get up to 75 percent in savings on a new electric lawn mower with the South Coast Air Quality Management District's popular Lawn Mower Exchange Program.
Now There's a 61-Foot-Tall Rubber Duck in Los Angeles
A giant yellow vinyl duck joins sailing ships and motorboats during the Tall Ships Festival L.A. parade in the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014.
Katie Holmes moves to Los Angeles
Katie Holmes has bought a new mansion in Los Angeles in the hope of boosting her Hollywood career and improving her daughter's upbringing.
Housing in Los Angeles: LA storeys
JOSA< MARROQUIN lives with his mother, wife and four children in a tiny apartment in a rough part of town.
Columbus Short to appear in Los Angeles court, could be jailed
Columbus Keith Short appears at Los Angeles Superior Court on May 15 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Pacoima Man Shot to Death In Car
A man was shot to death today as he drove a pickup truck in the Pacoima area, authorities said.
1 injured in 405 accident near Getty Center Drive that snarled traffic
A person was injured today in a traffic crash on the southbound San Diego Freeway in the Brentwood area, authorities said.
Hit or Bust: A Look At Pop Stars Immortalised In Statues
The memorial has been designed by Scott Eaton and will be erected at the Stables market, not too far away from where the singer died so depressingly young in July 2011.
Police Are Looking For The Couple Who Took These Sexy Selfies
Modern technology has allowed for a lot of criminals to make rookie mistakes. This includes liking the photo the police are using on Facebook to track you down, sending selfies to your victim's mom , and using stolen technology to capture your intimate moments.
Flier with swastikas found in Westwood
When a Jewish storeowner found a flier with swastikas on it underneath the door of his Westwood business on Aug. 12, it marked the third time this year that hateful fliers have found their way into public settings across Los Angeles, according to the Anti-Defamation League .
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Once a month throughout Year of the Alumni, an alumnus will share a My Marian Moment.
This month, Sr. Norma Rocklage talks about the Franciscan Sponsorship Values and the great agents of change Marian University graduates are throughout the world.
"Wherever there is a Marian University alum, something changes. They are taking the education and values they learned here to really transform the world wherever they are," said Sr. Norma.
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Early registration Second Summer School of Astronomy IOTA/ME (2014), which lasted seventeen days, finished. Through 293 people who filled the Initial Registration Form, 48 numbers of them, after examining based on scientific level required summer school, selected as an admitted primary and admitted ultimate after finally registration process, will attend the summer school. It should be noted, as mentioned in the first announcement, because this program is workshop and to raise the scientific quality of the school, the school's capacity was 39 people. Most of admitted are physics graduate students in particular M.A level.
Second IOTA/ME Astronomy Summer School entitled "Semi-professional Astronomy with Small Telescopes" will be held in Tabriz, Iran from September 13 to 16, 2014 by IOTA/ME, Iranian Space Agency (ISA), Ayaz Astronomical Group and Tabriz University. With support from Iranian Young Scholar Club (IRYSC) and scientific help of Çanakkale University Observatory of Turkey and International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Educators course: Atila Poro, Dr. Marjan Zakerin, Amir Hassanzadeh, Dr. Mohammad Reza Norouzi, Haj Mohammad Hassani, Dr. Mohammad Javad Kalaie, Sara Khalafinejad, Dr. Volkan Bakis (University of Antalya in Turkey), Jens Hoeijmakers (University of Leiden in Netherlands).


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July 19th UPDATE:
Well I decided on Nashville. Atlanta came in second but I just liked Tennessee a lot better. The more I looked into it my $$$ would go further, I liked the landscape better, and I liked the feel of the city better. All the others are still great cities, they just didn't appeal to me like Nashville did. So far I LOVE it up here. If any of y'all are ever in Nashville or Knoxville let me know.
I just accepted a new job offer and my company has offices in all 3 of these cities. I need to pick one to live in.
I've been to all 3 and I like all 3 for numerous personal reasons. On a personal note, if any of you guys live in one of these three or used to, please share your experiences, etc. I'm a suburbs guy so I need to find a suburb of one of these cities to live in, first renting, then buying in a year or 2.
But, which of these 3 cities would you pick IF you still wanted to be able to catch Gator games in person(I still think I should be able to catch most on TV since this is still SEC country). I have a ritual of attending one away game every year so driving a nice distance isn't out but I would like to cut back on that as possible. So if I lived in Nashville I wouldn't want to drive to Auburn but would drive to Knoxville.


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I was looking around on USA Today.com and sw they released their roster for All-Joe Team. Their definition of a Joe is "Our Joes are not average or even sloppy, but rather unheralded, unloved and, sometimes, underpaid since the one prerequisite for being an All-Joe is that you cannot have a Pro Bowl on your résumé. "
Jason Avant, Eagles— Fearlessly plies his trade over the middle. But he can also step in seamlessly as a starter as he proved in San Diego (8 catches, 156 yards).
Brent Celek, Eagles— He stepped up as one of the weapons Donovan McNabb needed, falling 29 receiving yards shy of 1,000 while catching a team-high 76 passes.
Winston Justice, Eagles— The 2006 second-rounder seemed to be a bust. But he stepped in for injured Shawn Andrews and started all 16 games at right tackle.


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Garston residents 'misled' over new housing plans
12:20pm Tuesday 29th April 2014 in News By Beth Cherryman, Senior Reporter
Plans have been submitted for two new housing developments on a Watford estate - but residents say they're already in desperate need of more parking.
One application seeks to build 46 new one, two and three bed homes consisting of two-to-three storey buildings together with new shop, community facilities including community gardens, parking and landscaping on the eastern side of the Boundary Way Estate.
The plans are to demolish 24 flats, a shop, a community building and garages and associated hard landscaping to make way for the new development.
A second planning application has been lodged for the same estate to knock down seven garages and put up 16 new one and two bed homes consisting of two storey buildings, split over four separate areas, with associated parking and landscaping.
Residents held a meeting on Thursday to sign a letter of objection regarding the developments.
Organiser Mick Fox said residents felt they had been misled about the plans.
He said: "Initially we thought they were going to knock down the garages because of the parking problem we have here.
"We thought more open space would be fantastic.
"But then we found out they were going to build flats there.
"We haven't been listened to.
"I definitely feel misled, if not lied to.
"This is going to create more of a parking problem on the estate. There's going to be more people looking for spaces.
"The people behind this don't seem to be on the same planet as everyone else."
Mr Fox also said it would be nice to have more green spaces in the estate, rather than adding more buildings.
The Watford Community Housing Trust lodged the application to knock down the garages.
Euan Barr, the trust's head of new business, said: "We have been consulting with Boundary Way residents about regenerating the area since 2012.
"We now have a proposal to invest £8 million in improvements which will provide a new heart to the estate, a more open and accessible layout, increased space for car parking and much-needed new homes for local people.
"We believe it will lead to a better environment for everyone living at Boundary Way.
"While we cannot address every concern in the consultation process, we do take residents' views on board and this has meant several changes to the designs in the two years we have been discussing the project.
"The planning application was submitted at the natural conclusion of our consultation exercise, and we have encouraged local residents to share their views not only with us, but also with their local authority."
The Abbots Langley Parish Council is set to consider both applications at the Planning and Highways Committee meeting on April 30.
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2:02pm Tue 29 Apr 14
garston tony says...
Watfordengineer wrote:Isnt there some planning law that Labour introduced a few years back that actually restricts the number of parking spaces ie deliberately stops there being enough provided for the number of properties being built.
No doubt the development will have the minimum parking requirement (1car/flat and 2/house), so cars will spill over onto the local area. When will planners accept that in the south east it takes 2 incomes to afford most flats, which may mean 2 cars. it is little things such as parking of cars that wind people up and cause problems in the neighbourhood.
I distinctly remember it and the reason given was they wanted to encourage people to use public transport etc.
I could be wrong, it might not apply here but its not necessarily the developers fault if not enough spaces are provided.
12:29pm Wed 30 Apr 14
Phil Cox - UKIP Mayoral candidate for Watford says...
Whether you are right or wrong on that point Tony, no-one will be at all surprised if you are right, it's what we come to expect from parties that have left the real world and the real people that inhabit it behind.
That's why I'm standing for UKIP, to try to introduce common sense to policies like that where other parties have quite frankly taken leave of their senses.
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- Each individual economic actor has a 'goal' or payoff, such as profit maximization, maximize happiness, minimize loss, etc.
- The decisions made by one economic actor not only affects her payoff, but the payoff of one or more other economic actors
Game Theory - Some Alternative Points of ViewHere are a few definitions that should help you answer the question "What are Game Theory and Bargaining Theory?":
The best definition of Game Theory I've seen is contained in the Economists "Dictionary of Economics". In part it states: "Much of economic theory is concerned with the process and conditions under which individuals or firms maximize their own benefits or minimize their own costs in markets in which their individual actions do not materially influence others (perfect competition). There are, however, many cases in which economic decisions are made in situations of conflict, where one party's actions induces a reaction from others. An example is wage bargaining between employers and unions. A more simple case is the of duopoly, in which the price set by one seller will be based on his view of that set by the other in reply. The mathematical theory of games has been applied to economics to help elucidate problems of this kind."
The Game Theory SocietyA group of academic game theorists called the Game Theory Society defines game theory as: "Game theory studies strategic interaction in competitive and cooperative environments. Only fifty years old, it has already revolutionized economics, and is spreading rapidly to a wide variety of fields. It develops general mathematical formulas and algorithms to identify optimal strategies and to predict the outcome of interactions."
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Bra-fucking-vo, UFC. When you're off, as you were for UFC 149, you're really off. But when you're on, you're really on.UFC on Fox 4: Shogun vs Vera gave us everything, with eight finishes, including spectacular knockouts and submissions, and a pair of fights of the year.
Although there weren't any real surprises, some guys who weren't expected to show up really demonstrated some heart and courage. And now that it's over we know who's going to be Jon Jones next victim after Dan Henderson is choked out at UFC 151. Enter the Dragon, Lyoto Machida, who knocked out TUF scrub Ryan Bader.
John Moraga (A) vs Ulysses Gomez (D)
My pick: Moraga by decision
Reality: Moraga by KO at 3:46 of round 1
I was fully prepared to pick "Useless" Gomez based on the hype surrounding the hometown fighter. Until I heard him talk about Justin Bieber being his favourite singer. At that point it wouldn't matter if he was as good as GSP, my immediate reaction was:
I'm glad I made the switch. Moraga came out putting the leather to Gomez, fighting off takedowns repeatedly, and landing some big shots. Anyone who says the Flyweights aren't exciting or don't have power should take note. Johnny aint fuckin playin.
Manny Gamburyan (B-) vs Michihiro Omigawa (C-)
My pick: Omigawa by decision
Reality: Gamburyan by decision
This was probably one of the weaker fights on the card, but it was still fairly entertaining. I had Michihiro winning the first round, before dropping the next two to the superior wrestling of Karo Parisyan's midget cousin. Neither fighter looked very good out there, and Omigawa repeatedly tagged Manny but seemed to have very bad timing in his decisions to clinch when he should have gone for the finish.
Admittedly, Manny hit the Japanese fighter with everything except a fucking bazooka, but his chin held up very well, and if anything I felt like he was winning the exchanges on the feet. Sadly, like many people from the land of tentacle rape, he was held down by a superior American wrestler and won the decision on the judge's scorecards 29-28 29-28 and 30-27.
I think it may be too late for Michihiro to turn his career around at the age of 36, which is a shame because anybody with a chin like that should be given a lot of leeway. But I can't see the UFC keeping a guy around who loses every single fight he's in by decision.
Philip DeFries (B) vs Oli Thompson (D)
My pick: DeFries by decision
Reality: DeFries by Rear Naked Choke submission at 4:16 of round 2
The only thing good about British fighter Oli Thompson is that he's slightly tougher than he is ugly. Getting outstruck by Philip DeFries demonstrated just how horrible his standup is, and that as Britain's strongest man he's able to take a pretty good beating. Still, I doubt Winston Churchill would approve.
An amusing moment occurred in the first round when Joe Rogan had just finished saying that DeFries has no power to worry about when the submission fighter dropped Oli on his shitter. Although the beard survived the onslaught he never fully recovered and eventually gave it up like dress on prom night.
Rani Yahya (A) vs Josh Grispi (D)
My pick: Yahya by decision
Reality: Yahya by North-South Choke submission at 3:15 of round 1
You've got to give it up for Yahya. Yeah, yeah, we all know Yahya is going to take it to the ground, but can you stop him? Grispi had to have known that was the case, but he still couldn't keep it on the feet for very long. The manner in which Yahya choked out Grispi was impressive as well. It reminded me of a boa constrictor slowly and patiently choking a gazelle before swallowing him whole.
As for Josh, what can you say about this choker? A man who was supposed to face pound-for-pound nightmare Jose Aldo for the Featherweight Championship, it doesn't look like Grispi could finish a fetus right now. In this situation it might be best to give him the axe and send him to the minor leagues. Here's the amazing thing though. Grispi has been fighting since 2006 and he's only 23! Cut the kid, let him win a few fights to build his confidence and then see if he's made some adjustments.
Wagner Prado (-) vs Phil Davis (-)
My pick: Davis by decision
Reality: No decision after accidental eye poke
Can't really assign a letter grade after 1:28 of relative inaction. Basically what happened is Davis made no attempts at a takedown, got hit a few times in the face, which he didn't like one bit, and while backing up against the cage to an aggressive Prado stalking him, he flailed his fingers forward, skullfucking Prado.
Prado was given a timeout and the referee Luis Cobain, who seemed to have about fourteen brain cells to rub together, called in some quack doctor who asked the Brazilian in English if he could see. Prado replied that he couldn't, either because he didn't understand the question or because he didn't understand the ramifications of his answer, and the asshole doctor called the fight right there and then.
Realizing what had happened, Prado began screaming like he'd just found out the entire Denver Broncos had fucked his mother and didn't know who his real dad is. For a second I thought he was going to James Thompson the referee and begin rampaging through the cage. Fortunately, the Hulk calmed down long enough to accept reality.
Here's the funny thing though. Kick a guy square in the fun bags and he gets five minutes to squeal like a pig on national television and adjust his gibblets while doing groin thrusts at the camera. But penetrate pupils and the guy gets 15 seconds to decide whether he can see straight before the fight is called. Fucktarded? I think yes.
Nam Phan (B) vs Cole Miller (C)
My pick: Phan by decision
Reality: Phan by split decision
Boy this was a close one. I had Phan winning rounds one and three and Fight Metric pretty much agrees with that one, with Miller winning the second round pretty easily. As soon as these two were matched up I knew it was trouble for the lanky Miller. Cole's never really reached his potential following the TUF Season 5 and his futility continued last night against superior boxer Nam Phan.
The problem is that Miller is a great jujitsu fighter and he does well against guys who are weak in that area, but Miller never tried to get it to the ground. Even if he had, Phan is a pretty accomplished black belt there, which may explain why that didn't happen. Still, it's almost as though Miller relished the idea of being the striking underdog and tried to prove something.
He did outstrike Phan in the second round, using his jab and range to keep the Alpha Male newbie at bay, but ultimately Phan showed his relentless pace can still win fights against guys with arguably more skill.
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Mike Swick (B) vs DaMarques Johnson (B+)
My pick: Swick by KO round 2
Reality: Swick by KO at 1:20 of round 2
Although people are crowing about how great Swick is now that he's back, I was unimpressed. Johnson, arguably the UFC's worst welterweight, gave Swick all he could handle in the first round, mounting and back mounting him like a pony. Barely surviving the opening stanza, Swick then landed a beautiful piece of chin music, dropping Johnson on his can before delivering a fight-ending blow jumping into his guard, ala Lyoto Machida vs Thiago Silva.
Congratulations to Swick for coming back after taking a century off from injuries, but the ring rust was pretty bad. Still, he's an exciting fighter who really brawls and I do love that style. As for Johnson, kudos for standing and banging with a guy who was at one time considered one of the top five welterweights in the UFC. Although it didn't pay off, he earned some respect for surviving a round with Swick.
Joe Lauzon (A+) vs Jamie Varner (A)
My pick: Varner by KO round 2
Reality: Lauzon by Triangle Choke submission at 2:44 of round 3
What a beautiful little barnburner this was. Varner hit Lauzon with some heavy shots, then Lauzon took his back, then Varner recovered and dropped him, then Lauzon had him in trouble, and back and forth like that it went the entire time. It could easily have been fight of the year, but personally I give that one to the main event.
The weird thing is that the same half-wits who were criticizing Shogun for a lack of cardio in the main event were strangely silent on the fact Varner gassed about two minutes into the first round in this one. Still, it didn't stop him from putting on a great show. And considering he took the fight on short notice it's hard to really criticize the guy too much.
I think Varner's back, personally. With a full camp he's shown he has some of the nastiest power in the lightweight division and could be a threat to anybody. As for Lauzon, he's very durable, and lethal on his back, probably second only to Nate Diaz or Paul Sass when it comes to the danger of getting into his guard. A thoroughly enjoyable fight.
Lyoto Machida (A-) vs Ryan Bader (F)
My pick: Machida by KO round 1
Reality: Machida by KO at 1:32 of round 2
Although Lyoto Machida looked good in his fight, he did that same thing he usually does for the first five minutes that can make him a frustrating fighter to watch: nothing. Relying on counter punching is how Machida gets brutal knockouts, just ask Rashad Evans and Thiago Silva. And now Ryan Bader.
As for the TUF scrub, he looked pretty much like this:
Bader has this slow, pathetic, plodding style and his movements are pretty telegraphed. It was during one of those telegraphed moves that he got knocked out. Machida is also extremely difficult to take down, which Bader found out to his chagrin.
Still, Machida has nothing for Jones, since the champion showed during their fight he can reach him anytime he wants with his range without ever putting himself into a stupid situation like Bader. I think Machida might last beyond the second round this time, but the result will be the same. Death by Jones.
Mauricio Rua (B-) vs Brandon Vera (A)
My pick: Rua by KO in round 2
Reality: Rua by TKO at 4:09 of round 4
Wow, what an awesome, sloppy, brawling, beauty of a fight. Easily in my top five fights of the year and maybe even the best of 2012. Look, I know a lot of people don't like Rua's lack of cardio and consider this a poor performance. But Rua, like the honey badger, don't give a rat fuck about your consideration of his cardio or his potential or his technique. He goes in brawling, throwing punches to knock a motherfucker out. And usually he does.
Rua laid an absolute smackdown on Vera for four rounds last night before finally crumpling the fighter as he seemingly went to adjust his mouthpiece. It was a beautiful display of balls-to-the-motherfucking-wall fighting. No energy being spared, no careful circling, no boring waiting like Machida. Just walk up to Vera and punch that ugly fuck right in the chops. Awesome.
As for Vera, nobody gave him a chance in this fight and I was pretty impressed with his performance. He fought back admirably, surviving some brutal shots that put Hendo on queer street, and actually had Rua in some bad spots. It showed that Vera probably doesn't deserve to get cut just yet.
I still think Shogun is the number two fighter at light heavyweight and the best chance to dethrone the champ, though probably not a very good one. He may have lost to Hendo on points but he "broke" the fighter in the fifth round of their fight, with his relentless slobbering brawling style. Hendo was all but completely finished. This kind of style is really difficult to deal with and whether you like it or not it's beaten pretty much everybody he's faced.
Shogun is one of those rare treats for fight fans, a true warrior and genuine bad ass motherfucker.
So that's it. Next fight card, Bendo defends his title. See you kids next Saturday. Or in the comments.