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5 Reasons Why You Should Buy...: "Culo": "Many Of The Pictures In Here Are Influences From Diddy & Jimmy Iovine"
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[SOHH Special: In honor of the winter holiday shopping season, SOHH is celebrating weeklong, featuring "5 Reasons Why You Should Buy" on the hottest must-have products to stuff your stockings with. Today, famous photographer Raphael Mazzucco gives you his Top 5 reasons to get a grasp on the new Diddy/Jimmy Iovine-approved Culo by Mazzucco coffee table book.]
1. Last Train To Bliss
The book within itself is a journey and what you'll see is a lot of the photographs are shot in all different places in the world, [such as] Vietnam, Italy, parts of South America as well as Iceland. We really went around the world. Jimmy Iovine and Diddy are really just friends of mine and the way we began the journey was very spontaneous in the beginnning. Places that I ended up shooting had to do with the color setting we thought would be really beautiful in the book or maybe the girl happened to be in that location and we would work with the environment that we were in. All the time, it was very unpredictable where we were going to shoot. That element really helped with this project because we never really preplanned much from the beginning. It made it more fun.
2. Take That, Take That, Take That
I think another reason is because this is a celebration of female sensuality, and with that comes the art factor. It's showing [that] each girl is unique in herself which entertains the viewer in such a different light. The producer Polow Da Don really helped introduce me to an idea that he thought would be beautiful and then Sean [Diddy] would give me ideas about color and shape and what type of girl [would be ideal to feature in the collection]. A large part of this project was the collaboration with all of these incredible people that are involved in making amazing music and me being this art/fashion photographer getting a chance to work with these people was just an incredible combination. I was really honored to do it.
3. Press Play
Another reason is the color factor. Hopefully this will make the viewer dream and feel like they're living in the places where we shot. [In some locations], it's snowing and sometimes the color is blue. It gives you a mood to where you might want to be. You want to be right in that book. You want to jump in! I almost look at color as remembering what the whole shoot was like. From the beginning to the end. In the beginning, we start with this idea and from there, we'll go forward and start working on the art. We had a lot of fun doing it. The colors weren't preplanned, so it made it a lot of fun, especially the end process where we got to see the arrival [of the art].
4. Forever
The book [is] a celebration of atypical fashion picture. It has a lot to do with the pop culture element, it has a lot to do with the music element, it has to do with a lot of things that were based on when we did the book with Jimmy Iovine and Diddy. Many of the pictures in here are influences from Diddy and Jimmy Iovine. We explored those ideas and how we arrived to those pictures is what made it so interesting.
5. Let's Get It
I think the final reason is because it's Christmas and everyone needs a beautiful present. With this, you can celebrate art and this is not a bad way to start the Christmas season off.
You Decide. Will you add Culo to your holiday shopping list?
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BioWare Receives 402 Protest Cupcakes Of Mass Effect 3 Ending
Posted on Tuesday, March 27 @ 11:49:38 Eastern by Nicholas Tan
We all know that Garrus loves cupcakes!
Bioware's Creative Producer Casey Hudson once famously said:
So in protest of the endings, a fan on the BioWare forums has collected around $1,005 from his fellow protestors and have sent a batch of cupcakes to the studio. The 402 custom cupcakes made by Fuss Cupcakes under the name Retake ME3 will be delivered with one-third with Green vanilla icing with the letter 'A', another one-third with Blue vanilla icing with the letter 'B', and the last third with Red vanilla icing with the letter 'C':
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President Barack Obama will lay out a jobs package worth more than $300 billion on Thursday night.
His televised speech will take place during a joint session of the U.S. Congress, at 7 p.m.
He is expected to speak for 45 minutes.
Obama is likely to offer a package of ideas that would affect people in their daily lives - tax relief, unemployment insurance, spending to support construction jobs, aid to states to keep people in their jobs. Businesses would get their own tax breaks. And he will promise a long-term plan to pay for it all.
Given the country's political and economic reality, two key questions hang over the president's speech: Will any of his ideas get approved, and will they actually work?
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he was hopeful that there would be some proposals the White House and Republicans could agree on.
At the heart of Obama's plan will be extending, by one more year, a payroll tax cut for workers that went into effect this year. The president wants the payroll tax, which raises money for Social Security, to stay at 4.2 percent rather than kick back up to 6.2 percent. That tax applies to earnings up to $106,800.
Obama is expected to seek continued unemployment aid for millions of people receiving extended benefits. That program, too, is set to expire at year's end.
Among the other potential proposals by Obama:
Since Obama took office in January 2009, nearly 2 million Americans have lost jobs. Almost 14 million people are out of work.
The unemployment rate, which stood at 5 percent at the start of the deep recession and 7.8 percent when Obama began in office, is at 9.1 percent. Most troubling is the trend line. After a period of steady if modest job creation, employers have stopped hiring.
You can watch the speech live on CBSAtlanta.com tonight at 7:00 p.m. Click on the banner at the top of the page.
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County officials in Ohio County have opened up a "warming center" for those with power outages.
Those without power can go by the Center Town City Hall until power is turned back on.
The warming center is being ran by county EMA.
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If you know anyone that has lost power, please notify them of this center.
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Augmented reality, image recognition and other multimedia features could be standard in future smartphones and tablets, and Nvidia's upcoming Tegra 5 mobile chip will have features to handle such demanding graphics capabilities.
Nvidia on Wednesday said that it has made its biggest advance in mobile graphics technology with the integration of its latest graphics core code-named Kepler into Tegra 5, which is code-named Project Logan. The chip is due next year, and will be able to handle the most demanding graphics applications through ray-tracing, tessellation, advanced lighting and post processing, said Daniel Vivoli, senior vice president at Nvidia.
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The graphics capabilities in Logan will be demonstrated at the SIGGRAPH show in Anaheim, California. The demo will highlight the ability of a mobile processor to show a lifelike human face while consuming just two to three watts of power. The 3D simulation of the human face will show "full features," Vivoli said, including light refraction, microscopic wrinkles on the skin, and other small details such as skin oils.
The human face -- called Ira by Nvidia -- was demonstrated on stage at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference and was rendered with server-class graphics processors based on Kepler. Features from those high-end GPUs are being scaled down to fit into the power constraints of mobile devices, Vivoli said. The Ira demonstration was ported to Logan after paring down some hardware capabilities and also with tweaks in clock gating and cache.
Tegra 5 is scheduled to ship next year. Nvidia has just started shipping its Tegra 4 chip, which will be in devices such as Hewlett-Packard's SlateBook X2 tablet.
Nvidia declined to provide numbers on the graphics performance gains versus Tegra 4. But the graphics core will be faster and more power efficient, and Nvidia said it will use less than a third of the power of graphics cores in tablets like the iPad when rendering the same graphics. Logan will provide better graphics performance at the same power consumption levels.
Nvidia is known for its graphics, and its chips are considered among the best at handling multimedia in mobile devices. The company's high-end Tesla graphics chips based on Kepler are being used in some of the world's fastest supercomputers, and now similar features will be available in mobile devices going ahead.
It's also the first time that Nvidia is bringing its latest graphics core to the mobile processor, effectively uniting all graphics products on the same microarchitecture.
"We've always have a separate architecture," Vivoli said. "We've been working for years where we can converge the graphics roadmaps."
Nvidia earlier offered a graphics development platform called Kayla in which a Tegra processor was attached to a Kepler GPU via a PCI-Express interconnect. The platform was intended to get programmers to start writing mobile applications for the Kepler GPU. But with Logan, the Kepler graphics processor is integrated inside the Tegra chip.
Programmers will have to write algorithms and programs to enable augmented reality, face recognition and other high-end multimedia, Vivoli said. Processing such tasks will be quicker when off-loaded to the Kepler graphics core, Vivoli said.
It will also be the "first time" GPGPU (general-purpose graphics processing unit computing) comes to mobile devices, Vivoli said, referring to a concept in which processing is being increasingly moved to from CPUs to graphics cores in systems.


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Mitchell J. Krebs was named President and CEO in July, 2011. He joined Coeur in 1995 after spending several years in the investment banking industry in New York. Mr. Krebs has held various positions in the corporate development department, including Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. In March, 2008, Mr. Krebs was named Chief Financial Officer, a position he held until being appointed President and CEO. He holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard University.
Peter Mitchell came to Coeur from Taseko Mines Limited where he served as Chief Financial Officer. In that capacity he led Taseko's financial operations, including sourcing strategic capital to fund the company's strategic growth plan. Previously, Mr. Mitchell was involved in leading and managing growth in private equity portfolio companies through acquisitions, integrations and greenfield initiatives. Mr. Mitchell is a Chartered Accountant with a BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
Frank Hanagarne was most recently Chief Operating Officer of Valcambi, SA, a precious metal refiner in Switzerland, in which Newmont Mining Corporation has an equity interest. Prior to his appointment as operations head of Valcambi in early 2011, Mr. Hanagarne was a Director of Corporate Development for Newmont. Mr. Hanagarne's 17 years of service at Newmont has included positions of increasing responsibility within key areas of Newmont's operations and business functions as well as environmental, health and safety. He has a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering degree from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
Prior to joining Coeur, Mike Harrison was Director of Investment Banking for the Mining Group at Cormark Securities Inc. in Toronto, Canada. In addition to seven years of investment banking experience, Mr. Harrison spent eight years in BHP Billiton's Global Exploration Group after receiving his BS in geophysics engineering from Queen's University in Kingston Ontario. Mr. Harrison also holds an MBA with Distinction from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
Keagan J. Kerr leads the organization in all aspects of human resource and corporate communication programs across Coeur's operating regions-including employee and public relations, executive compensation, talent attraction, leadership development and strengthening of organization capability. He has a track record of accomplishment in large scale mining operations on multiple continents through various leadership roles with Barrick Gold Corporation, including regional head of the talent management & leadership development portfolio in the Australia Pacific region, and previously as Manager, Organization Development at the Cortez operation in Nevada. Mr. Kerr holds a BA in Public Relations and Communication from Florida Southern College and a MA in Organization Leadership from Gonzaga University.
Casey Nault has extensive experience as a corporate and securities lawyer, including prior in-house positions with Starbucks and Washington Mutual and law firm experience with Graham & Dunn in Seattle and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles. His experience includes securities compliance and SEC reporting, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings and other strategic transactions. Mr. Nault has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Washington and received his law degree from the University of Southern California Law School.
Joe Phillips has extensive experience in mine development and operations and has a proven record of leadership and team building resulting in successfully building mines on time and on budget. Mr. Phillips comes to Coeur from Silver Standard Resources where he served as Senior Vice President of Operations and Development and acting Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Mr. Phillips served as Senior Vice President of Project Development at Pan American Silver. Mr. Phillips is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines and has completed Graduate studies in Engineering Management at the University of South Florida.
Hans Rasmussen was appointed Vice President of Exploration in September 2013. Mr. Rasmussen has many years of experience in the mining business, 16 years of which were with senior producers Newmont Mining and Kennecott/Rio Tinto; as well as serving as a consultant for senior producers such as BHP, Teck-Cominco and Quadra Mining. Since 2004, he has been an officer or served on the Board of Directors of several junior public exploration companies with gold and silver projects in Quebec, Nevada, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. Mr. Rasmussen has a Master of Science in Geophysics from the University of Utah, and Bachelor of Science degrees in Geology and Physics from Southern Oregon University.
Humberto Rada was appointed President of Coeur South America and of Coeur's Bolivian subsidiary Empresa Minera Manquiri, S.A. in July 2008. Prior to that Mr. Rada served as General Manager for Newmont Mining Corporation's Bolivian company Inti Raymi. Mr. Rada is currently President of Bolivia's National Mining Association and has over 23 years of experience in South American mining and finance.
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ANDERSON, Ind. —
As Madison County jobs decreased in 2010, the unemployment rate rose, causing already low income levels to remain steady.
Unemployment rates peaked at 11.9 percent in September of 2010 with the preliminary rate being 10.7 percent, a rate higher than the state at 9.5 percent and the nation at 9.2 percent, according to research by Dagney Faulk, director of research at the Center for Business and Economic Research, Ball State University.
For the most part, weekly average wages remained about the same as the previous year, however; these wages were about $167 less than the weekly state average.
Faulk said population within the county was a contributing factor to income levels.
"Population has decreased over time," Faulk said. "When jobs decrease, people move."
Population in Madison County was the greatest in the mid 1970s with a population of 142,000. By 2008, the population dropped to 131,000.
Likewise, the number of jobs within the county dropped, with the county losing about 2,000 jobs between the start of the recession in December of 2007 to December 2010.
Barry Ritchey, professor of economics, Falls School of Business, Anderson University, said his personal prediction, not based on any numbers, for the future would be a flat and steady income level in Madison County.
"It's an older demographic that relies on retirement income. Retirement income is flat," Ritchey said. "In order for income to rise, either you are attracting new jobs or increasing value. I don't see us losing or attracting new jobs in 2011."
Linda Dawson, executive director of the City of Anderson Economic and Community Development, agreed, saying she thought income levels would remain about the same for a few years.
"Income levels will probably hold steady while companies are allocating resources to capital growth," she said. "Within the next five years, income levels should increase along with fringe benefits as unemployment levels decrease, creating a more employee-friendly market."
Faulk's research showed small growth within some industries in Madison County. The highest earning sectors in the county were management companies, utilities, metal manufacturing and transportation equipment manufacturing.
"Shifts occur over periods of time, so I would say that these would continue to increase and be our top," Faulk said.
Although income will probably hold steady, Faulk also saw promise in a rise in income for the future.
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Income levels remain steady
ANDERSON, Ind. —
As Madison County jobs decreased in 2010, the unemployment rate rose, causing already low income levels to remain steady.
- Annual Report: Business & Industry
Auto dealers seeing increase in sales
Overall auto sales have been climbing in the U.S., and it's just as true in Madison County, where many dealerships have seen consumer demand on the increase.
Job loss, low incomes lead to population drop
Though the federal government reports that the nation is on an economic upswing, Madison County continues to struggle with a 10.2 percent unemployment rate.
Healthy growth
Growth along the Interstate 69 corridor has been healthy, at least for two area hospitals.
Flagship forms hub of Exit 22
The Flagship Enterprise Center at Exit 22 was created in 2005. The business incubator has helped more than 100 companies get a start.
Hoosier Park VP sees tourism driving economic turnaround
Jahnae Erpenbach, the vice president and general manager of gaming at Hoosier Park, strongly believes that the city of Anderson and Madison County are near a turning point in the area's economic fortunes.
Local banks saw a year of growth
During 2011, banks saw modest growth, returning to the industry despite a rough year in the media spotlight.
Interest in people keeps Baker banking
Mike Baker, the regional president of North Central and Muncie regions of First Merchants Bank, entered the banking industry in 1983.
Bright Automotive may be gone, but not the future
There's no question the demise of Bright Automotive represents a blow to Madison County and the hybrid-electric niche it occupies in the automotive industry. But county economic development officials aren't willing to let the engineering expertise that existed here with Bright slip away without a fight.
Economic Development director on the lookout for businesses
As the city's economic development director, Greg Winkler's job entails seeking companies that are looking to expand or relocate. He tries to make such companies "give Anderson a hard look."
City wants to bring foreign companies, jobs
One of last year's biggest economic development announcements in Anderson was the news that a 72-acre baseball and softball training and competition complex would be built along Interstate 69.
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Did you miss our May Volunteer Forum call?
Watch the recording below as volunteer Rachanee Curry presents on the importance of social media in affecting health outcomes and how you can participate in the conversation. New Western States Affiliate Executive Vice President Kathy Rogers also shared her thoughts on how this tool will help us reach our 2020 goal.
Become an AHA/ASA Social Media Ambassador - May 27, 2014
PowerPoint Presentation
- Go Social with the Western States Affiliate! Connect with your local division through social networks, view this PDF for some simple instructions on where to find us online.
- Watch: the power of social media.
- How a Nonprofit Raised $41k on Twitter in 24 Hours Without Trying. -- Hint: It was through the power of volunteer advocates.
Our Volunteer Speaker:
President, Tacoma Division Board
Rachanee Curry is a healthcare leader who works within top leadership teams to move an organization from being a provider of care to being a provider of choice.
Rachanee Curry currently serves as the President of the American Heart Association, South Sound Chapter Board and has been an active member of the board for 3 years including developing the Mission Committee. She is the Administrator, Cardiac Careline for MultiCare Health System, Regional Heart and Vascular Centers. Prior to this position Rachanee served in other healthcare leadership positions in Hawaii, UCSF in San Francisco, and in the Army Medical Service Corps.
Rachanee has a long history of community involvement with organizations including the Heart and Stroke Association, American Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and American College of Healthcare Executives and she currently serves on the Boards of the Madigan Foundation and the Washington State Health Executives Forum.
Listen to our past presentations...
Listen to the audio presentation from our April 15, 2013 call - All About Stroke.
Listen to the audio presentation from our January 22, 2013 My Heart. My Life. Volunteer Leadership Forum call.
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Premier lodging in a premier location! The Desmond offers colonial charm and contemporary comfort being just minutes from downtown Albany!
Welcome to The Desmond Albany Hotel & Conference Center, an award winning luxury hotel near downtown Albany! During your stay at The Desmond enjoy luxury and casual dining, complimentary Wi-Fi internet access, free parking and airport shuttle service, newly renovated fitness center, indoor pool with Jacuzzi, 24-hour business center among a comfortable, charming atmosphere. Elegant guest room suites are available with wet bars and separate sleeping and living areas. For an ultimate stay - with the most privacy, space and luxury - enjoy our unique two-story Duplex Suites. The Desmond redefines comfort for full-service hotels. Elegant and sophisticated enough to impress the most seasoned travelers. Comfortable and casual enough to allow you to kick off your shoes and surf the Web or curl up with a classic novel. Relax and enjoy your stay. You've arrived at The Desmond, where we take comfort seriously and define luxury through high standards of commitment to our guests.
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From the moment we arrived to the moment we left everything was simply wonderful. All the staff greeted us like we were the sole purpose they were there that day. The room was wonderfully presented. The hotel itself was well above standard and offered free WiFi throughout. All in all, it made for a great night sleep especially after eating a delicious meal in Scrimshaw. The location was prime for our early morning flight. This was a wonderful way to start our trip. Highly recommend.
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An overnight stay in one of our richly appointed guest rooms will make you feel like royalty. Awake refreshed then enjoy a day of racing, The Sport of Kings, with two clubhouse admission passes and two official racing programs. Your Desmond Track Package includes a $40 F&B credit to be used in either our casual dining restaurant, Simpson's Grille, our AAA four diamond restaurant, Scrimshaw or The Tavern.
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West Manheim Township Police have charged 31-year-old Kipp Ordean Wentz of Glenville with aggravated assault of a police officer, resisting arrest, retail theft, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and illegal use of solvents.
An officer responded to the Walmart on Baltimore Pike after it was reported that a man was inhaling dust remover in the restroom.Employees called 911 after noticing a strong chemical odor towards the back of the store that burned their throats and eyes.
Upon checking the men's restroom they found Wentz in a stall inhaling dust remover.
The responding officer arrived and found Wentz locked in a stall huffing two cans of dust remover he had taken from the store. Wentz refused to unlock the door, and the officer kicked it in.
Police said that Wentz then aggressively resisted and fought the officer, who then tased Wentz and handcuffed him.
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KFIX Rock News: Aerosmith Members To Be Inducted Into Hollywood Bowl Hall Of Fame
The Ventura County Star is reporting that Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith are set to be inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall Of Fame.
"Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith will be into inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame on June 22 when the iconic outdoor amphitheater opens its 2013 season," according to vcstar.com.
"Following the evening's ceremony, Tyler and Perry will perform with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. As part of Aerosmith, they first appeared at the bowl in May 1999."
"The group made repeat appearances in 2002, 2006 and 2012."
"Proceeds from the opening night show will benefit the LA Phil (Los Angeles Philharmonic) and its education programs."
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Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Stewart, who became the first female pilot to join the Red Arrows, is to wed, according to reports (Royal Air/PA)
Rumours of an alleged affair between two members of the Red Arrows were investigated by RAF bosses, a source has said.
Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Stewart, the first woman pilot in the aerobatic display team, and then- Squadron Leader Ben Murphy were interviewed to see if any rules had been broken when claims of a relationship between them emerged.
A source for the RAF said no action was taken following the 2011 inquiry.
"The two individuals were interviewed by their command chain and asked whether they were having an affair," he said.
"At that point, and the interviews given, it led to there being no action taken."
Asked if the RAF had a view on a report by The Sun newspaper that Flt Lt Stewart and Sqn Ldr Murphy were now engaged to be married, he said that the RAF does not discuss personal matters about any personnel.
He added: "They've all got their personal life and they're entitled to it."
Both fliers have now left the elite Red Arrows team.
Iraq veteran Flt Lt Stewart, 36, joined the display team for the 2010 season, having seen off competition from up to 40 other pilots.
She is now a Squadron Leader, having moved to a ground-based role following the tragic deaths of her Red Arrows team-mates Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging in August 2011 and Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham just three months later.
Mr Murphy, 38, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, completed his term as team leader in 2011 and is now working for defence firm Lockheed Martin.


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Live updates
Defender Ryan Cresswell thanks the fans after Southend's Wembley disappointment
Freddy Eastwood talks to Donovan Blake after Southend's Wembley defeat
Heartbreak for Southend at Wembley
Southend United have been defeated 2 Nil by Crewe Alexandra at Wembley.Read the full story
More than 30,000 Southend fans travelling to Wembley final
Southend fans arrive at Wembley ahead of final
Southend United fans are beginning to arrive at Wembley stadium ahead of their club's match with Crewe Alexendra in the final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
Southend striker Gavin Tomlin hopes to score at Wembley
Southend United's top scorer Gavin Tomlin says his age and experience has improved his record in front of goal.
Southend's Kevan Hurst 'looking forward to victory'
Southend Midfielder Kevan Hurst says he won't be overawed by the big occasion at Wembley tomorrow - he's been to the stadium before, with Scunthorpe and Carlisle.
Thousands of Southend fans prepare to travel to Wembley
Southend United's Bilel Mohsni 'excited' about first trip to Wembley
Southend United's Bilel Mohsni is looking forward to his first trip to Wembley for the final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.


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(Originally published on Oct. 17, 2012)
Maybe pigs can't fly (yet) but they can swim, as evidenced by the latest attraction at Washington Farms.
The piglets are around 9 weeks old and have been training for about a month, John Washington told a crowd on Oct. 7.
Have you visited Washington Farms this season? Share your photos by clicking on "Upload photos and videos" and tell us about your experience the comments below.
Find the complete fall schedule and ticket information www.washingtonfarms.net/dates-hours-and-pricing/. The last day of the 2012 fall season is Saturday, Nov 4.


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Sunday, August 2, 2009
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CONYERS - The Clayton State University MBA program coming to the Rockdale Career Academy in January has a new director.The school appointed Dr. Michael Tidwell as director of the program that also holds classes in its main campus in Morrow and at a university instructional site in Peachtree City. He replaces Dr. Michael Deis, who served as director since it started in 2007. "I plan to focus my attention on continuing the quality program that Dr. Michael Deis began almost two years ago," said Tidwell of his plans for the program in a press release. "My goals are to brand the program as highly accredited, internationally focused and community-minded. I'll do this by working with local chambers of commerce, Rotary organizations and county governments to express the importance and value of graduate education for their communities." Previously, Tidwell was assistant dean of external relations and graduate programs in the school of business at Clayton State. He also teaches global business and strategic management in the school of business and is a tenured associate professor of management. In June, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved a proposal by Clayton State to partner with the Rockdale Career Academy in Conyers to offer an MBA program beginning in January. In June, school officials said they plan to start Rockdale's program with about 30 students who have bachelor's degrees and are looking for advanced classes about business principles, and it will grow from there. The school plans to hold an open house in Rockdale later this year, but in the meantime, the university holds MBA open houses on its Morrow campus from 5:30 to 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month in the Spivey Board Room of the Harry S. Downs Center. The deadline to apply for the spring MBA program is Nov. 15. More information about Clayton State's MBA program is available by calling 678-466-4500 or visiting www.clayton.edu. Tidwell said he also welcomes communication through e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. Michelle Floyd can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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MONROE, La. (KNOE 8 News)- Charlie P. Goodin turned himself in Saturday night to the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Department.
Goodin was being sought after for his involvement in the murder of Gary Croom, whom he allegedly shot multiple times after a verbal disagreement.
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Everyone knows that the sooner a smoker quits, the better.
Now, research co-authored by marketing Professor Rajiv K. Sinha of the W. P. Carey School of Business shows that the later in life people start smoking, the more likely they are to quit. And, the longer people wait to light up, the more likely it is that they never will smoke at all. But those who take that first puff early in life are most likely to be doomed to a lifelong addiction.
"Our results provide preliminary evidence that both marketing efforts by tobacco firms and public policy initiatives can have a significant influence on smoking behavior," states the study that is forthcoming in Marketing Science and titled, "Smoking Cessation: A Model of Planned versus Actual Behavior for Time-inconsistent Consumers."
"In particular, we find that minor reductions in the age at which individuals start smoking may not only vastly extend their duration of smoking but also convert potential 'never smokers' into lifetime smokers," the study concludes.
The study lends support to recent legislative efforts to control tobacco and smoking. California, which has been at the forefront of efforts to curb youth smoking, recently enacted numerous anti-smoking measures. Other moves attempted to increase the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 in that state. Legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress in February would give the FDA regulatory authority over tobacco and its ingredients, including nicotine. Congress is also currently considering further limiting cigarette advertising.
The very thin line…
Sinha and his co-author, Fernando S. Machado of the Catholic University of Portugal, put together a dynamic optimization model which they validated with survival analysis using survey data from more than 800 smokers. They found that there is a very thin line between those who start to smoke and those who never do, Sinha said in an interview.
The authors' results suggest that smokers' participation and cessation decisions are governed by three interplaying effects:
The cessation effect leads smokers to advance their plans to quit smoking
The procrastination effect leads them to consecutively revise their planned quitting age upwards.
The threshold effect causes an "all or nothing" type of extreme smoking behavior based on their individual preferences for instant gratification.
The duration of smoking is effectively governed by which of the first two effects is dominant.
"The central result is that smokers with a strong proclivity for instant gratification are more likely to deceive themselves into believing that they can quit early," Sinha says. "They underestimate the magnitude of pleasure they derive from smoking -- the 'hit' -- and overestimate the health costs from smoking. So they think they will quit soon, and easily. However, then they run into the procrastination effect. They keep pushing down the planned quitting date as they get closer to it."
The authors cite previous research from economists Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy which recognizes that addiction, although an irrational and myopic behavior, leads rational individuals with perfect foresight to choose addiction because the gratification from smoking exceeds the costs of doing so.
Putting off what should be done today
Sinha and Machado investigate the relationship between smokers' planned and actual behavior over the entire cycle of their smoking careers.
They say smokers engage in "time-inconsistent behavior" -- that is, present preferences are actually at odds with what they might prefer later. Their plans to quit tend to go by the wayside, and their actual quitting dates may come many, many years later than they had originally planned.
"Actually, they understand that they might not be able to quit, and so use self-control devices to mitigate the impact," Sinha explains. For example, many smokers forego cartons for the more expensive single pack. "By buying fewer cigarettes they commit themselves to smoking less, a plan that they would not be able to carry out without such pre-commitment. This inability to meet goals is the hallmark of time-inconsistent behavior."
In other words, they put off for later what they ought to do today.
Tobacco marketing and public policy
"Our analysis also highlights the extreme power that marketing efforts by tobacco manufacturers may have on smoking behavior, not just by affecting the length of smoking but also by potentially converting some non-smokers into lifetime smokers," the study states.
Continuing: "Furthermore, we show that the development of more effective smoking-cessation aids may induce lifetime smoking behavior among certain segments. Finally, our theoretical results have some interesting public policy implications, as we demonstrate that even a small increase in the legal smoking age may not just reduce the length of smoking but also decrease the initiation of smoking."
The authors note California's efforts to curb youth smoking and the state's legislative attempts to increase the legal smoking age from 18 to 21.
"Increasing the legal age beyond 18 years will have the immediate effect of making it harder to market tobacco to high school students and teenagers, thereby potentially saving many of them from a lifetime of addiction," the authors state.
Ironically, smoking aids are a double-edged sword, Sinha says.
"By reducing the withdrawal costs, these products help smokers to quit earlier," he says. "However, if such products also change the perceptions of potential smokers regarding the difficulty of quitting -- and reinforce their naiveté regarding the ease of quitting -- then they may cause some time-inconsistent individuals to initiate smoking and continue doing so for many years."
Targeting the young
"Our findings support the congressional move to further limit cigarette advertising, as they provide evidence that targeting youth has the potential of converting 'never smokers' to 'forever smokers'," Sinha reiterates.
Sinha notes that cigarette smoking primarily begins in early adolescence and one-third of all smokers had their first cigarette by the age of 14. Ninety percent of all smokers begin before the age of 21, according to the American Lung Association.
Cigarettes cause more than 400,000 preventable deaths a year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The death toll exceeds those caused by AIDS, guns, vehicle crashes and all other drugs put together.
According to Sinha, every smoker is different in the way he or she experiences a smoking "hit," the level of withdrawal symptoms and the perceived health costs.
For example, the empirical results indicate that about 80 percent of those who start smoking at the age of 18 think that they will quit within a ten year period. However, the majority of those individuals will not be able to do so and many of them will smoke throughout most of their lives.
"Some of these blokes may be off by almost 40 years," Sinha says. "They manage to fool themselves rather gravely, no pun intended!"
The study identifies 'hyperbolic' smokers as consumers for whom a sacrifice appears less appealing as the moment of sacrifice approaches.
"Ergo, for hyperbolic smokers who are trying to give up smoking, there is a conflict between preferences for today and those for tomorrow," Sinha says. "Today's 'self' is impatient, and given a choice between the current pleasures of smoking and the long-term health damages of doing so, they greatly discount the latter and decide to smoke. But tomorrow's 'self' is much more patient and would prefer to quit smoking. The problem is that tomorrow never comes and smoking continues, much to the regret of the smoker."
How realistic is it to expect the smoking age to be raised to 21?
"I don't know, but I have to assume that if legislators are more aware of the beneficial impact of very minor increases in the smoking age they might take a more forceful stand against the tobacco lobbies," Sinha says.
The "extreme power" of cigarette marketing
The study cites the "extreme power" of cigarette marketing, so should all cigarette ads go the way of TV ads and be banned?
"This would be unrealistic, though desirable from my point of view, but at the very least we should get rid of ads in all media vehicles that target teens," Sinha says.
Sinha used to smoke and shares his personal experience as follows: "I smoked for four years, starting at the age of 19 and giving up at 23 in February 1982. This is fairly atypical behavior. Incidentally, I quit on the very first attempt, so my model does not apply to me at all!"
Bottom line:
- That first cigarette is a health and financial step into quicksand (a pack-a-day habit, even at a low price of $3 a pack, costs $1,095 annually and $43,800 over a 40-year smoking career).
- The sooner someone smokes, the longer it takes to quit and the more likely it is that they will smoke their entire, cigarette-shortened life.
- Smokers who want to quit fool themselves about how long it will take: Almost always, their actual quitting date comes years after they had planned.
- Ads that appeal to teens by minimizing the health risks and underestimating the difficulty of quitting are not in the public interest.
- Raising the legal age of buying cigarettes from 18 would shorten smoking careers, prevent some from smoking altogether and possibly prevent many premature deaths.


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I am really sick of having to repeat my view regarding the Cubs this year, so I guess I will lay out my views on this one post.
Here are a few of the general arguments/statements that have been made way too much lately:
1) For some reason, we could be talking about something completely random, and it ALWAYS leads to something regarding Mark DeRosa.....SHUT UP ABOUT DeRosa....WHAT'S DONE IS DONE.
- people need to realize that getting rid of Mark DeRosa occurred so we could fix one of the problems we faced in the playoffs, that is the lack of power hitting lefties in the lineup………If Bradley panned out and was productive, people would not really care too much about Mark DeRosa because our team would have been better overall, but obviously Bradley has not performed well overall. T
- The entire Bradley/DeRosa pickup/release was a risk taken by the front office, and so far it has led to negative rewards.
- "$136 million dollars for a .500 ballclub"........investments may look bad at times, investments can also be long run. Wait till the season is over to assess the failure of the payroll.
2) "The Cubs are not performing now....let's trade away our players to get better!!!"
- uhhhhhhh no. The team that we have now was put together to win now, not to have a dynasty 5 years down the road.
3) "Even though Aramis is coming back, we need to add a bat."
- People, you need to realize that baseball is a business. If we were to acquire a hitter around the time Aramis was injured, I would be all for acquiring a hitter, but it's too late. It is not financially feasible to make an acquisition for a hitter with Aramis coming back this soon. And people can complain about the amount of time it will take Aramis to get back to 100%, but let's be honest, none of you have any real idea. Some of you will hold a pessimistic view, but I for one have confidence behind Aramis knowing that he is our best player and one the most potent and clutch hitters in the game.
4) "We are not performing well, ALL IS LOST!!!!"
- really? because last time I checked we still had a whole lot of baseball left. I think 93 games or so.
- last time I checked, the NL Central sucks. We are somehow only 3.5 games left....and I doubt any team in the division will make a big move prior to the trade deadline to solidy their team.
- Players generally will end the season just around their career averages....now I know some of the players won't, and I realize that....but there are still 93 games for the players to improve.
Overall, all of these arguments that I have read or responded to are understandable. It's been over 100 years since the Cubs won a world series and I know it can be difficult to watch sometimes. As I often tell people on this site, the key to the Cubs this season is PATIENCE (being a Cubs fan, I know that is difficult and you may not be familiar with the term. I suggest looking it up in a dictionary if you find yourself baffled by the term).
I doubt the Cubs will trade for a player that would make an impact for a huge turnaround, and with our suffering hitters, we will have to be patient throughout the rest of the season.
- just a side note, if you can't be patient, you really should not be a Cubs fan.
Baseball is a great game because it's the longest in the big pro sports. Players and teams can go on huge hot and cold streaks, which makes baseball such a great sport. Even when all looks gray, teams can still find their way into the playoffs (2005 Houston Astros...15 games under .500 at one point, managed to get into the world series). The players know that they are not performing, and trust me, they probably feel sicker in their stomachs than you do and have a huge desire to be successful.
That is my rant. Oh and if somebody starts posting stuff about DeRosa or having some "brilliant, groundbreaking" idea of moving Harden to the pen, idk what I will do.


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There's a lot of flibbity-floo about Heyward's spot in the batting order and not having protection. I generally believe that protection theory is bogus, and this is not meant to show comprehensive evidence that it actually exists. However, it could possibly be evidence of a short term trend with Heyward not only hitting 6th, but having some decidedly light bats behind him.
The following numbers show the percentage of pitches thrown in the strike zone to each regular member of our lineup. For comparison, the current league average is 47.8%.
1. Martin Prado - 47.2%
2. Nate McLouth - 43.1%
3. Chipper Jones - 46.8%
4. Brian McCann - 45.0%
5. Dan Uggla - 47.0%
6. Jason Heyward - 39.1%
7. Alex Gonzalez - 48.7%
8. Freddie Freeman - 33.3%
Hitting 8th, it isn't a surprise that Freeman isn't seeing a ton of strikes. But there's a sharp contrast between Heyward and his surrounding batters right now.
Of major league players with at least 60 PAs, Jason Heyward is currently LAST in percentage of pitches seen in the strike zone. Perhaps just small sample size noise, but it was an interesting discovery for me.


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Burger Bash, Pie Mania…and a Recipe to Keep!
October 12, 2011 at 9:51 am , by Ladies' Lounge
Nothing goes so well together as a juicy burger and a sweet piece of pie and at the 2011 Blue Moon Burger Bash, (part of the New York City Wine &Food Festival) presented by Pat LaFrieda Meats and hosted by Whoopie Goldberg, tasters could get their fill of both!
The event was a gluttonous feast of burgers, cooked on the new Hamilton Beach outdoor grill, milkshakes (at a station manned by Duff Goldman) and of course, the ultimate in pie indulgence.
For the first course, chefs from 20 different restaurants dressed their burgers in explosively delicious flavors using jalapeño, bacon, cheddar and other secret ingredients and presented them for judging by some of the biggest names in food: David Burke, Adam Richman, Andrew Zimmern and Anne Burrell.
As tasty as the burgers were, I had my eye on the massive dessert table jam packed with endless rows of pies created by Dangerously Delicious Pies which were, in fact, dangerously delicious.
I was in heaven going back for 2nds, ok maybe 3rds, and my favorite was the chocolate pie. It was just as creamy and delicious as the Ladies' Home Journal Chocolate Covered Pretzel Pie. Check out the recipe for our amazing chocolate pie, along with many other tempting varieties, in the October issue and bake up some decadence. — Cathie Yun
Categories: Food, Ladies' Lounge | Tags: Burgers, chocolate, Food, Hamilton Beach, pie | 1 Comment
5 Reasons the Holidays Are Good For You
December 22, 2010 at 3:48 pm , by Amelia Harnish
The holidays get such a bad rap for being the time of year when overwhelming stress and irresistible, fattening treats lurk around every corner. Yes, it's stressful and double yes, it's hard to resist the myriad cookies and candies and cocktails just begging to be consumed. But there are things about the holidays that are good for you—as long as you remember to rein it in and relax.
So we say enjoy! Here are some healthy tidbits about five of our favorite holiday staples.
- Holiday Cocktails
- Shopping
- Chocolate
- Family Time
- Nuts
Alcohol in moderation (no more than a drink or two a day) has been shown to reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke and possibly even diabetes. In fact, moderate drinkers live longer than those who don't drink at all, so you can feel good about imbibing a bit. Just be sure to designate a non-drinking driver!
The stress from packed malls and frantic fellow shoppers is enough to make you want to give up on gift-giving altogether. But remember this as you're doing that last-minute buying: Exchanging gifts makes you happier by strengthening bonds and evoking gratitude, which studies show makes for a longer, healthier life.
There's no replacement for fruits and vegetables, but chocolate, especially dark chocolate, is packed with some of the same antioxidants found in plants that protect against heart disease and cancer. Sure, even the darkest chocolate has some sugar and fat, so savor it slowly and you'll feel satisfied.
Getting together is so much more fun if you can forget about expectations and enjoy your loved ones, quirky as they may be, for who they are. If you feel a conflict coming on, take a few deep breaths and just let go. You'll find a kind of liberation in compromise and acceptance. You don't always have to be the peacemaker, either.
When in doubt, reach for the nut bowl—all types of nuts are rich in the monounsaturated or "good" fats that are crucial for heart health. Walnuts in particular are a great source of omega-3 fatty acids, which reduce your risks for a whole host of health problems, from high cholesterol to arthritis. Nuts are crunchy and loaded with fiber so you'll feel full on a small handful and maybe even not as tempted by the other goodies.
Happy, healthy holidays to all from your LHJ health editors!
Photo via Fashion&Style
Categories: Health, Ladies' Lounge | Tags: chocolate, Christmas, cocktails, Health, Holidays, stress | 4 Comments
Dishing It: White Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
December 2, 2010 at 1:48 pm , by Jennifer Castoro
When I saw this recipe in our December/January issue, I could not wait to make (and scarf down) these cookies. In LHJ food editor Tara's beautiful picture (below), they reminded me of the cookies I loved best as a kid (and, let's be honest, I still mow down innocent bystanders if I happen to spot them): peanut butter cookies with a chocolate kiss in the center. Mmmmmm. I followed Tara's suggestion and bought high-quality Lindt white chocolate bars, and I had all the rest of the ingredients already at home, which is a great thing about this recipe – all you need is flour, sugar, butter, salt, egg, vanilla and choco.
The one thing I forgot and didn't have in my many cabinets was parchment paper, a mistake that would come back to haunt my cookies. I also didn't heat the oven as my first step, as instructed, since the dough has to chill in the fridge for 90 minutes before you can roll it and I didn't see the sense in leaving my oven on the whole time.
I followed the next steps exactly, stirring and blending and mixing, and my dough came out looking a little . . . crumbly. (See the third picture, below.) Like the topping on a coffee cake. I'm not sure if it was a blending issue or the fact that my ancient hand-mixer really only has one speed (insanely fast), but it wasn't as smooth as I thought it should be. It looked a bit dry. It came together fine when I wrapped it in plastic, but even after cooling it in the fridge for an hour and a half, it still crumbled a bit when I rolled it into 1-inch balls. I also initially made the balls way too big and was about two dozen shy of what the recipe said I should make from the batter, so I went back and resized some of the behemoths into less gluttonous sizes. Read more
Categories: Ladies' Lounge | Tags: baking, chocolate, chocolate cookies, Christmas cookies, cookies, holiday cookies, white chocolate | 2 Comments
Food of the Week: Pretzel M&M's
June 18, 2010 at 3:08 pm , by Khalil Hymore
First it was Q.Bels. Now it's Pretzel M&M's. Have you tried these yet? If not, you must! M&M's newest flavor is winning rave reviews around our offices lately, and we're not the only ones who think so. The salty, sweet, chocolaty center housed inside the classic M&M's candy shell is what makes this new snack our FOOD OF THE WEEK!!!
A Little Something Sweet
March 10, 2010 at 11:00 am , by skay
Meet our newest guest blogger, LHJ intern Sara Kay! Sara enjoyed an indulgent chocolate tasting last week (not a bad perk, right?) and reported on it for us.
When you bite into a piece of decadent, heart-warming chocolate, the last thing that probably comes to your mind is "Gee, I wonder what this chocolate tasted like when it was just a bean?" For those of you who fall into the minority, however, the National Confectioners Association has the answer for you. I attended their tasting event last Wednesday with world-renowned chocolate connoisseur Jacques Torres, who lead the discussion on the making of chocolate and had tasty treats to share along the way.
I had the honor of sitting in on this chocolate journey. There was a fun presentation about the progression of chocolate from bean to bar, from the original seed to the cocoa bean, to cocoa butter, all the way to the nicely packaged bar of chocolate that can be bought at your local grocery store. We sampled tasty bites of the bar throughout each stage of production (though some were not so tasty; the beginning of the life of chocolate tastes NOTHING like the good chocolate we're used to buying and enjoying).
There was a lot to learn, including the proper way to taste a piece of chocolate by looking, listening, smelling, and then finally, tasting. Thoughtfully, of course. The process was best described by Torres himself: "Bravo!"
Photos courtesy of Charlotte Fouch at Fleishman-Hillard.
Categories: Ladies' Lounge | Tags: celebrities, chocolate, dessert, Food, Jacques Torres | 1 Comment
Meet a Dove Chocolate Discoveries Chocolatier
February 22, 2010 at 6:08 pm , by Ron Kelly
Do recipes with names like Milk Chocolate Chai Mousse, Molten Cupcakes and Coconut Chocolate Granita (pictured) grab your attention? Have you drooled on your computer yet? If so, you're my kind of people.
As someone who considers chocolate a major food group, I was intrigued by the concept of the Dove Chocolate Discoveries direct selling program, which enables women to become professional chocolatiers. They prepare, share and sell Dove chocolate treats, candy-making ingredients and kits, adult and family-friendly beverages, and more, all while gathering and entertaining with others who go cuckoo for all things cocoa. We at LHJ were even treated to a sample party last month, and I must come clean that I have just today kicked my Sea-Salted Caramel Collection habit that started that night. (Although I do have Dr. Drew on speed dial, just in case.)
What intrigued a lot of us here, though, was the lifestyle of a chocolatier. I mean, next to "rock star," it's possibly one of the coolest-sounding job titles around. So we followed up with one of our hostesses, Lisa Pagano, to get the inside scoop.
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I have my own theory about how the moon was made...
Back then, there was no moon. Oh, how I remember the cold nights and the hot days, and that time in the mornings where you were not quite sure if it was refreshingly cool or pleasantly warm and the delicate white flowers would open themselves to the waking sun.
They called him a god later on. He was always the storm to me, however; drawing me in with terrible force and leaving only wreckage behind. I think I loved him, but it is so hard to know for sure, now that he has passed. He certainly did not love me. He saved his love only for the heavens, the stars, and the massive engines that thundered up there every day.
He would never quite tell me what he was doing with those machines. He would find me in the evenings as I walked along the beach, when it was once again pleasantly warm, or perhaps refreshingly cool. He would wave his arms about as though conducting an orchestra, and he would grow so excited that he would grab me by the shoulders - oh, how beautiful his face was as he talked of his love to me.
"We're making the world," he would say, with the falling sun reflecting from his eyes. He would turn me around and point out all the stars to me, as the sky grew dark enough for them to be seen. "We'll be brighter than all the stars, so bright that even the sun won't hide us from sight!" I would think he was talking about him and me, and I would smile, and we would make love. Then he would sleep, while I lay and listened to the sound of the waves beside us - I laugh now, to think I called those ripples waves, but one must find humour where one can.
One evening he did not sleep. Even the passion of our lovemaking, with his body battering my shores, was not enough to quench him.
"It's nearly here," he said, and pointed out another star to me. "See that one? That one is ours. Soon we will change everything." He pointed that star out every time after that, and soon even I could see it grow bigger night by night. His prediction came true, and even during the day it could be seen dimly against the blue of the sky, if the sun was not too near. It frightened me, and it excited him so much that he could no longer make love, not to me - just a bolt of lightning on the sands of my body, and then he would only have eyes for his star. Oh, only his - it was never mine.
I thought it was only him I was losing. The star grew until it was the size of the sun itself, although pale and dim; and though you could see it during the day, it often set before long if it was caught in the sun. You cannot change the nature of a star completely, it seems. The water rose gradually, so that at first I did not notice it, but on the day he finally came to me again - he had not shown himself to me for days, spending all his thought on those engines of his - I did not share his excitement.
It was late at night, and I was crying. It was bright enough to see, with the new star fat and full above me. The beach was only a sliver of what it once was, the water had risen over all those precious flowers, and the sea was full of tiny white petals. He did not even see the tears.
"It's here! It's all done! Isn't it amazing?" He saw me looking at the sea, but I do not think he saw the flowers. I do not think he was capable of seeing anything so small. He explained to me how the sea would now rise and fall, but the reason was lost on me. I only knew that those flowers would never grow there again.
The nights are still cold, but the days are cooler now, too. The storm has passed, but the rain is here to stay.
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D-Day Update: So we are getting even closer! My math suggests that the Angels will finish at or about 72 wins based on their current win/loss percentage. The current division leaders (Red Sox, Tigers and Rangers) are all already at 70 or better, and the two leading Wild Cards (Rays and A's) are at 67. Right now we all know that the Halos are suffering through a trial that they cannot possibly win, but it's possible that by the time you wake up next week to WeekEnd HaloLinks they could be Dead Team Walking, just waiting for The Gallows of Mathematical Elimination.
But on the road to perdition there is still some fun to be had. Take, for example, yesterday's 8-4 shellacking of the New York Yankees. We avoided being swept (although suffering the dustpan was embarrassing enough) as Chris Nelson got a little pissy at his ex-teammates, launching his first two home runs of the season - including what turned out to be the game winning 8th inning grand slam against the team that DFA'd him a little while ago after only 10 games. And it's fresh to hear happy talk coming out of the clubhouse: "I love the guys here, I love the organization," Nelson said, "and I just want to make my mark here."
And, I must confess, it feels nice to best a kid (Phil Hughes) who literally grew up in the shadow of The Big A as a passionate Yankee fan. For the record, HaloVet went to school with this kid. But, hey, we got C.J. Wilson and the MFY don't. In quality effort, Hughes outpitched by Wilson "After racking up 27 runs in their first three games against the Angels this week, the Yankees couldn't come up with the same big hits they got in Tuesday's and Wednesday's blowout wins."
On To Angels Baseball!
- The Scott Downs Project, PART 1: With the departure of Scott Downs, it occurred to me that we could now tabulate how Downs was used under the management and control of Mike Scioscia, versus how he might be able to contribute under any other circumstance. I chose to do that. For my effort, I chose to use his last three years in Toronto as the closest comps. Roughly the same age. Roughly the same health. Roughly the same opposition. Different colored uniforms. Different home fields. Different managers and coaches. The dye color on a uniform doesn't matter at all. If park factors make a difference, I will leave those for others to tune.
So let's get right to it. After assembling 6 years worth of outings, splitting them into the two groups of (1) Downs WITHOUT Sosh, and (2) Downs WITH Sosh, what do we have? Look at the chart below:
|1 - 2
|3 - 4
|5 - 6
|7 - 8
|9 or more
If we look at how Downs was used regardless of outcome (meaning those outings when he was effective AND those outings when he was not), we see that 12.71% of the time while not playing for Sosh, Downs was limited to only 1 or 2 batters. However, while under Sosh's control, Downs was limited to only 1 or 2 batters nearly twice as often at 24.38%. Was that because it was not possible for Downs to face more batters? Apparently not.. Free from Sosh, Downs was able to go 5, 6, 7, 8 or even 9 batters a combined 34.25% of the time. Under Sosh, Downs only witnessed 5 or more batters 22.5% of the time. (Keep in mind that the ~11% shift between 5 or more batters, versus 2 or less batters, is not ~11% more effort or work, since it is up to 9X more work to face that 9th batter than only facing 1.) But wait a minute, you say, this doesn't consider quality of each outing? What if Downs sucked twice as often as a Halo than as a Blue Jay?
Glad you asked. Next week...
- Jean Segura: In this article, one comment is about how we Angels fans are going to be regretting the loss of Jean Segura for years to come. I agree that we will be, but I don't agree that we should. We will be, because fans are short-sighted, selective in memory, fickle in faith, and imaginative in projecting alternate realities. It's how we are wired. But I am not so sure that we had a place in our roster for Segura at the time we leveraged him for one of the best pitchers in the game as a linchpin starter in a playoff race. We knew he was capable of being good. He reinforced that opinion in the 2012 Futures Game. That we couldn't keep Greinke is the Dodgers fault, but Segura secured for us a great pitching talent and a sporting chance by allowing us to use a good prospect which was blocked by the immediately preceding signings of Kendrick and then Aybar. We had just gotten a combined 8.9 WAR out of those two and now have them in team-friendly deals. Callaspo over at 3B had just given us another 3.3 WAR and was getting praise for his .366 OBP. Had we not traded Segura, I am not so sure that he would be flying around anybody's Major League Baseball field today. I would propose that, instead of ignoring Aybar/Kendrick/Callaspo of that time we think, instead, of the reality that the LAA minor league system generated yet another MLB MVP vote getter from a period when our farm system was being lambasted by experts as worthless.
- Josh Hamilton: Hambone, ostensibly hired for his potential to drive in runs necessary to win baseball games and make us a World Series contender (I really did have a hard time typing that phrase just now), instead has been racking up LOBsters at a phenomenal pace. Through last night's game he has driven in a grand total of 58 runs. Now, having only 17 home runs at this point in the season is lame enough for a guy who is a power hitter, and who should have had the HR title in the American league just last season. 10 of his 17 home runs have come with the bases empty. Simple logic tells you that those bases being empty at the time he hit those runs is not his fault. But what that logic fails to tell you, is whether or not he would have hit that same home run had there been runners on base. We will never know. But what we DO know is how many base runners were left out on the base paths when Josh completed his walk back to the dugout. In the month of April, we were introduced to our new Superstar with 65 runners left on base and everybody was worried, but expecting him to snap out of it at some point. That was 0.546 LOBsters per Plate Appearance. In May that number dropped to 29 (0.269/PA). June appeared to hold rather steady at 102 LOBsters, but his reduced number of PA's actually meant he was climbing again, at 0.441 LOBsters per PA. July? 91 LOBsters @ 0.407 LOBsters per PA. This month??? So far, 45 LOBsters at an amazing 0.763 LOBsters per PA!!! Overall, Hamilton has left 221 runners stranded in the course of 2013, and nearly 1/3 of those in the first half of August alone.
- Jered Weaver: Sucks to be him. "In the two years since Weaver committed to the Angels by taking a below-market five-year, $85 million contract, the team has progressively gotten farther from returning to October, rather than closer."
- Joe Blanton: I think that, as world record shattering levels of mind-boggling horrendousness that pitcher Joe Blanton has turned out to be, this suspicion of him gets more and more funny.
- Trout Porn: One thing that jumped out at me in The Youth Of Baseball link of above, is this comment from "cohnjusack"
"Mantle v. Trout — Age 20 – 21 (omitting first partial seasons for both players. Mantle was better at 19)
269 games, 199 runs, 307 hits, 61 doubles, 10 triples, 44 HR, 179 RBI, .304/.396/.515, 12 SB, 154 OPS+, 11.7 WAR
256 games, 213 runs, 331 hits, 59 doubles, 16 triples, 51 HR, 159 RBI, .327/.411/.568, 75 SB, 174 OPS+, 17.5 WAR
Trout, has 17.5 WAR his first two full seasons. Let's say he ends this year with 8 (it's at 6.6 right now, making this probably a bit conservative). That's 18.9 over the course of his first two full seasons. How does that compare with other players who got off to historically great starts (first two full seasons)?
Albert Pujols- 12.1 WAR
Ichiro Suzuki: 11.2 WAR
Ted Williams: 13 WAR
Joe DiMaggio: 12.8 WAR
Scott Rolen: 11.1 WAR
Mike Piazza: 10.6 WAR
Dwight Gooden: 17.6 WAR
Cal Ripken: 12.8 WAR
Tom Seaver: 12.8 WAR
Frank Robinson: 13.4 WAR
Dick Allen: 15.1 WAR
Stan Musial: 14.7 WAR
Shoeless Joe Jackson: 18.7 WAR
The only players that come close are Joe Jackson and Dwight Gooden. The guy has, quit simply, put up possibly the best start to a career in major league history. "
- Power Fail: It could be worse. The Angels still have a ways to go before they hit absolute bottom in all of MLB. Not too very far to go, but…"They batted Chris Nelson ahead of Josh Hamilton in the lineup Tuesday. Needless to say, things haven't gone as planned."
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Angels themed drink coasters. But for some strange and non-hygienic reason, they are filled WITH GAME USED STADIUM DIRT!!!
Friday, August 16 @ 7:05 PM, (FS-W / MLB.TV) Houston Astros @ LA Angels - Angels Stadium, Anaheim
Brad Peacock (RHP) 1-4 6.43 ERA versus Jerome Williams (RHP) 5-8 4.85 ERA
Saturday, August 17 @ 6:05 PM, (FS-W / MLB.TV) Houston Astros @ LA Angels - Angels Stadium, Anaheim
Dallas Keuchel (LHP) 5-7 4.97 ERA versus Garrett Roichards (RHP) 3-5 4.04 ERA
Sunday, August 18 @ 12:35 PM, (FS-W / MLB.TV) Houston Astros @ LA Angels - Angels Stadium, Anaheim
Brett Oberholtzer (LHP) 2-1 2.57 ERA versus Jason Vargas (LHP) 6-5 3.86 ERA
Is it just me, or have we all officially entered the realm of Weekend Series Of Who Gives A Shit? Will anybody do anything that might elevate any of these games to a level where they get more attention than a line item score on the ticker racing across the bottom of our national consciousness? A lot of teams are playing meaningful baseball. Even the Kansas City Royals. But all we can guarantee are video boards of hand-clapping. And admonishments to "make noise". And, of course, the rally monkey. All to help a 90 loss team strive to stay in front of a 110 loss team. Arte Moreno, I am unhappy with what you have done to my team of late. This should have been a breather in our stretch run where we gather up 3 precious and easy wins on our way to the 95 we will need to wrap up the West.
This Date In Baseball History: 1909 - Pittsburgh Pirates' second baseman Dots Miller launches a shot off of Christy Mathewson to the deep right field of a storm darkened Forbes Field, and just as Giants outfielder Red Murray snags the ball with an incredible grab, a flash of lightning lights up the entire field. The catch halts a furious Pirate rally and the halts the game as a tie as the storm launches its deluge. Although everyone present is stunned, there are some claims that Red Murray himself was knocked unconscious by the lightning (see, for example, Wilbert's book linked below). This is probably journalistic myth-making (Interesting note: I always try to cross check these entries elsewhere on the Internet. Many sites point to this happening on July 17 of 1914, including Wikipedia and a book by Warren Wilbert - see page 138 - But I was able to track down news reports of the time and repeated in Jason Aronoff's book "Going, Going...Caught!", readable online via Google, starting on page 62. It smells like time and distance have confused two games into one great play. But for now, I would suggest sticking to the 1909 date.)...........1920 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Browns is beaned by NYY pitcher Carl May. The pitch fractures his skull. Chapman will perish the next day and is the only MLB fatality due to play on the field..........1927 - Babe Ruth launches a home run completely out of Comisky Park..........1948 - On this date, in 1948, George Herman "Babe" Ruth passes away. The cause of death is cancer, but it might not be the version of cancer commonly assigned.........1954 - The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published..........1996 - The first MLB game ever played outside of the US or Canada is played - in Mexico, to avoid a conflict with the Republican National Convention..........2002 - In what might have ended up costing us Angels fans dearly, the MLB Players Association executive board votes to strike on August 30th. With just hours to spare on the target date of the 30th, the strike is averted. And the season, and post-season, is played on.
Rounding Up The Major League News
- Replay Replay: Word is that we will be getting expanded Instant Replay for the 2012 playoffs. I am not the first to mention this, but it is kind of stupid to launch something completely new at the most critical time of the season. Why they don't work out the kinks in ST games is beyond me. But now we are hearing that the system is going to work via manager challenges. And I am not the first person to make the point that this is frikkin' ridiculous. It's simple. MLB needs to get ALL the plays right. MLB owns the umpires. It's MLB's job to make the umpires get ALL the calls right, even if it needs video replay to help them do it. It's not the job of the managers to force the MLB's umpires to get the calls right.
- Other People's Money: In the great game of rich people slurping at the trough of taxpayer's money - the one that already has the City of Oakland and the City of San Jose being hogtied by their gonads and pulled in a three-way between Lew Wolff, Bill Neukom and Bud Selig - comes word that Stuart Sternberg of the Tampa Bay Rays is about to get Uncle Bud to intercede on his behalf with the City of St. Petersburg, Fla.
Video Of The Week
(The Greatest Wiffle Ball Catch Of All Time. Watch very carefully, though, as the home plate umpire fails to understand the basic principal of making a catch over the wall.)
(Trouble viewing the video? Direct link here.)
What every Halo Fan needs: Mr. Burns impersonating Mike Scioscia T-shirt..........The Human Factor, ain't it quaint? We certainly don't want to lose any of this color to the game of baseball! Here is a rundown of the different ways that the balk rule is interpreted, and mis-interpreted...........It's one thing to go out onto the field and round up an obstacle. It's another thing altogether to figure out what the heck to do with it once you have it. I suspect that Commissioner Gordon would know what to do with a bat!.........The infamous Chicago White Sox promotion, "Disco Demolition", as a cartoon..........How to take the intentional walk, and have it go horribly wrong............Ahh, good ol' Torii. Some things are just magical, and never change..............These are an awesome first step, but I would love to see a lot more Negro League merch!!!
And now, being the full service weekend linkage institution that we are, here is the obligatory moment we take out of each Friday...for beer...
Friday: Stone Brewery will be hosting their 17th Anniversary Brewers reception as part of their Invitational Beer Festival to be held at Cal State San Marcos.............In San Francisco, the Salesian Boy's 7 Girls Club is staging a Charity Beer Tasting & Food Event...........(If you are in San Francisco, I would presume that beer would be served, of course, during The America's Cup World Series.)
Saturday: the Stone Brewery 17th Anniversary celebration continues with their Invitational Beer Festival.
Sunday: For thirsty folk living in The Heartland of California, Hayward is in the middle of their Annual Zucchini Festival, while Fairfield battles back with their Annual Tomato Festival.
Future Forecast: Let's keep these up and handy from here on out to the dates of the events, shall we? Ladybug has shared some finds worthy of our consideration. First off is the Delicious Chili and Brewfest on The Queen Mary in Long Beach. Ladybug links us to The Living Social online deal...........Second is the Ultimate Beerfest OC on October 19th at the OC Fairgrounds. Again, Living Social..........
BEER BONUS: Fan catches foul ball with his beer. Let's hope that the beer lost was Miller Lite or some such..!


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