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After the greatest season of his career, Harrington still spent time last winter visiting Torrance. The two focused on improving Harrington's iron play, which was already quite proficient. "You have got to get the strike right," Torrance growls in a brogue that has been flavored by a lifetime of the cigarettes and coffee that help fortify him against the elements. "He is trying to come at the ball steeper to get more penetration in his flight. Instead of dropping straight down, the ball will come in high, but it will still be going forward when it is landing. There will be more backspin on the ball. A ball that drops straight down from the sky is not going to come back. But a ball that comes in lower with spin is going to go forward and then screw back. We are getting steep on the ball so that he can compress the ball more, the way Jimmy Bruen used to do." It's an allusion only Torrance could make Bruen was a great Irish amateur who starred at the 1938 Walker Cup.
Harrington's swing changes are part of his relentless quest for improvement, but being ready for this Masters was surely an influence. "Controlling the distance on your approaches is absolutely vital at Augusta," he says. Harrington spent much of the 2009 West Coast swing toiling to groove the changes. His middling results missed cuts at Riviera and Pebble Beach, a first-round loss at the Match Play led to a certain amount of consternation among an Irish public that is heavily invested in his progress, but Harrington was using those events as little more than spring training.
Relaxing in the clubhouse at Doral three weeks ago, he said, "I've been caught up in the swing and technique. I've been more than happy to close down the range many nights. Now it's time to trust it and simply go out and play." Shortly after uttering those words, he shot his best round of the year, a carefree 66 that put him one off the lead at the CA Championship. Harrington followed with three 71s to finish 20th and was buoyant with his progress. Last week at Bay Hill he turned in three scores of par or better and finished 11th.
Of course, this is all preamble, and the unique rigors of the Masters make it foolish to read too much into the run-up. Harrington has already proved he's among the few players who can will himself into peaking for the game's biggest events. Speaking after Doral, Torrance said of his pupil, "He is feeling very, very confident. He might not say it publicly, but Padraig knows that there isn't a player out there he can't beat. Not one. He's frightened of nobody. He would be more than happy to go out and play the last 18 holes at the Masters tied for the lead with Tiger. That would suit him down to the ground."
Woods was on the disabled list for last year's British Open and PGA Championship, but any talk of a metaphorical asterisk was quieted by Harrington's brilliance in shooting 32s on the final nine holes at Royal Birkdale and Oakland Hills. Halfway to matching the Tiger Slam, Harrington says, "I don't have to win the Masters this year to prove anything. I can easily get drawn into the hype about trying to win three [majors] in a row, but that is not what is driving me. I want to win the tournament because it's always been a dream, simple as that. Offer me a missed cut this year and a win next year, and I'll take it very nicely."
EVERYTHING ABOUT this Masters week is designed to allow Harrington to have fun and stay mellow. For the first time his five-year-old son, Patty, will caddie during the par-3 contest, which Harrington won in 2003 and '04. Many competitors are shooting for second place on Wednesday because, famously, no one has won the par-3 and the Masters in the same year. "I'm hoping to win both just to prove that superstition is a bunch of rubbish," says Harrington.
In the evenings he will retire to a house rented by a longtime golf buddy private by nature, Harrington declines to give a name who plays host to a sprawling cast of Harrington's friends and family members at every Masters. Dinners are catered, and afterward Harrington and his pal renew a gin rummy grudge match that is a decade in the making. "It's serious," he says. "Real serious. I will try as hard with that as I do playing golf during the day. It's a great distraction for my mind."
It is what's between his ears that separates Harrington as a player from his peers. He is not an overwhelming physical talent, and the game has never come easy to him. Before he turned pro in 1995, at the advanced age of 24, he earned an accounting degree because he was so unsure of his playing prospects that he wanted to have something to fall back on. Over his first six seasons on the European tour Harrington had 15 runner-up finishes against four victories, giving him a rep as a player who couldn't close the deal. Even now, after so much success, he says, "I play the game based on fear. I like the situation where I know the other guy has fear in him too. No doubt that's the case during the last nine holes of the Masters. Other tournaments, other times, you're not too sure what the other guy is feeling. Back nine on Sunday at Augusta, you know exactly what he's feeling. Because I've always played with that fear, there's a good chance I'll be able to manage better than him."
Torrance eschews the touchy-feely aspects of golf, but he has helped Harrington learn to embrace the big moment. Says Torrance, "All I tell him is this: These are the happiest days of your life. Go out and enjoy them. And he has."
For Harrington the exquisite joy and pain of the Masters will only be experienced if he steps to the 10th tee of the final round in the thick of the action. "The Masters is unique because the first 63 holes are simply jockeying, and then it's a nine-hole sprint to the finish," Harrington says. "The back nine at Augusta is the most intimidating set of holes in the world. Coming down the back nine with a chance to win you know you're alive then." And if his calculations have been correct, Harrington will be in position to risk everything for a shot at the green jacket.


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Paris, since it looks a bit like one of hers, don't ya think?
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Alumni News and Updates 2012-13
Kenneth Lewis (BA'12) has joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as an Associate Bank Examiner.
Kevin J. Kelley (MPA'98) is now the System Director of Privacy at Hartford HealthCare.
Matt Cournoyer (BA '12) has joined U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren's Washington, DC office as a Press Assistant.
Burt Buchman (LA'75) received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees for 20 years of public service.
Leanne Doherty (PhD'05) was appointed Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Curriculum at Simmons College in the summer of 2012. She had been chair of the department of Political Science and International Relations after receiving tenure in the spring of 2010.
John Hart (MA'08) was hired in August 2011 as a Legislative Budget Analyst for the Rhode Island House Finance Committee.
Mary Cardaras (PhD'12) has had her book , Fear, Power, and Politics: The Recipe for War in Iraq after 9/11, accepted for publication by Lexington Press, the academic arm of Rowman and Littlefield. One of her reviewers is quoted as saying, "I believe this text is not only truly unique, but it will make an important contribution to the literature."
Chow Bing Ngeow (PhD'10) was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer at the Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Rob A. DeLeo (PhD'13) was recently offered and accepted a full-time tenure-track position at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Rob's area of specialization at Northeastern University was Public Policy and he successfully defended his dissertation titled, ""Anticipatory Policymaking: When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why it is so Hard" on September 7, 2012.
Esmael Ansari (BS'09; MPA'11) has joined Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications (RBSC), one of the top 50 public relations and public affairs firms in the nation, as Senior Public Affairs Associate.
In this new position, Ansari assists with recruiting, organizing and mobilizing diverse constituencies in support of the firm's grassroots, digital advocacy, and ballot question campaigns.
Earlier in his career, Ansari successfully managed the re-election campaign for Boston City Councilor Rob Consalvo. His primary responsibilities included developing pre-Election Day and Election Day GOTV communications and projects, managing communications with key stakeholders, volunteers, and committee members and developing content and materials for campaign.
Ansari serves as the Treasurer of the Hyde Park Main Streets board of directors and is an active member of the Riverside Theatre Works board.
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Chau Ly (MPA'12) has accepted the position of Program Manager for State Wide and Community Supports at the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.
David Green (PhD'12) has just been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nagoya University, ranked among Japan's top 10 universities for many years. His appointment begins on December 1st, 2012. In April, he defended his dissertation, Local Autonomy Versus Central Domination: An Examination of Japanese Immigration Policy.
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Makese Motley (BS'04) is now Assistant Director of Federal Relations and Policy Analysis at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
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David Adler (LA '79) was awarded the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for superior performance by the Commerce Inspector General. He was recognized for his efforts in conducting complex reviews of the Department's systems and IT security program resulting in improvements to the security of the systems and the protection of sensitive data.
Jack O'Connor (MPA'11) has been appointed as Citizen Advocate / Legislative Aide in the Office of the Supervisor to the Town of Islip, New York.
Esmael Ansari (MPA'11) is currently working as a Campaign Manager for The Committee to Re-elect Rob Consalvo and is a Trustee for the Riverside Theatre Works.
Dan Burgess (MPA'11) was recently hired by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources as a Clean Energy Fellow focused on Communications and Outreach around clean energy projects.
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Kristen Hudak (PhD'10) recently accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Eastern Connecticut State University. Additionally her article "Building Microfinance Associations: Goals, Implementation and Policy Implications" and was just published in the Nonprofit Policy Forum with Berkeley Electronic Press.
Chow Bing Ngeow (PhD'10) recently joined the Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya as a Lecturer.
Joe Salvatore (MPA'94) was recently promoted to the position of Director for the Reports and Information Service Division within the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics.
Nicole Wilkins (BS'10) was just hired as a Communications and Policy Associate at the Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership (an education non-profit that seeks funding for afterschool and out-of-school activities.)
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That was pretty much the reaction 24 years ago by most baseball fans when a No. 9-hitting shortstop for the Milwaukee Brewers hit 25 home runs with 95 RBI in his first full season in the big leagues.
Through pain and misfortune, Dale Sveum hit only 37 home runs in the next 10 years. Now here we are asking the same question about the Cubs' third manager in 15 months.
The fact is, Mike Quade's replacement wears most of the answer on his sleeve — and under his sleeve in ink.
Three of the five tattoos on his arms honor his father, George, an ex-Marine who lost a fight with cancer in 1992. A fourth tattoo, an American eagle representing U.S. troops, echoes, again, of his father.
One shows a rattlesnake entwined with something his father used to say: ''Pain is inevitable. Suffering is just an option.''
That tattoo might course deeper in him than any other. It rang true after he rebuilt his career following a devastating leg injury the year after his breakout season. It rang true after he watched his father fight only a couple years later.
''It's just a fact. You're going to go through pain,'' said Sveum, who turns 48 on Wednesday. ''Whether it's physical, whether it's mental. Suffering is your option. You don't have to suffer. It's your own option if you want to whine and cry about it.''
He got that tattoo soon after his father's death.
If anyone doubts the source of Sveum's impatience with poor effort or unprepared players that he expressed Friday, he'll roll up his sleeve and spell it out for you.
''I think he's extremely tough,'' said Cubs president Theo Epstein, who percolated the idea of Sveum as a big-league manager in 2004, when they were with the Boston Red Sox. ''You don't shatter your leg and then have a 12-year big-league career by being soft.''
It happened in 1988, when Sveum went back for a pop-up and collided with left fielder Darryl Hamilton, gruesomely breaking his shin. In November, when the leg was healing improperly, Sveum had to have it surgically re-broken. He missed the entire 1989 season.
He was never the same player again. But if Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer are right about his ability and mettle as a manager, those characteristics might have started then. By the time he finished a career that took him through seven stops, Sveum was soaking up everything he could from coaches and managers, including Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Lou Piniella. As the Red Sox' third-base coach, Sveum handled hostile public scrutiny without pause or whimper.
Despite their familiarity with Sveum, the Cubs' bosses still were blown away by his interview.
''Dale provided extremely well thought-out answers to nuanced baseball questions instantaneously, answer after answer after answer,'' Epstein said. ''We came up for air and took a break and looked at each other and said, 'Wow.' This was not the type of thing you could fake.''
That's not to say he doesn't know his limitations. That fifth tattoo reminds him of his wife of more than 25 years, Darlene — and their anniversary he has been known to forget.
''I said, what the heck, I'll just tattoo it on my wrist,'' Sveum said.


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Authors: Brown, Malcolm, 1930-
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
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Characteristics: 208 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm
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Hi Kathy, nice to meet you too!. I like all kinds of music but defiantly classic rock is right up there. Music is a healing force for me too, playing and listening. I play for fun with friends on weekends, lots of Beatles, Motown and stuff from when I was growing up as well as some pretty twangy stuff. I listen mostly to Alternative Country these days. At parties we are sometimes asked if we know any newer stuff, unfortunately for me newer is early 90's:) This one is #1 on my playlist these days, trying to learn that swing backup guitar.
I have some pics of him on my fb page when he was like a day old so u might have to go back through my page to find them. I broke my wire to my carma and haven't been able to put any up for abit now.
Happy Friday the 13th to u too!
Hi Kathy. You have a pretty summer page! Hope you have a good weekend as well. We're birdwatching and keeping warm...
ooh, refrigerator pickles, I might have to try that. and now Reed's got me thinking about roasted vegetables.
Hello Pickle lady. They sound like they will be delicious. I just have not felt like myself lately. I even signed out of TY. It is depression or something or the heat but I gave myself a swift kick and today I am better. Of course, being awake all night while Russ coughed congestion did not help. Tom comes tonight. I am going to give the both of them my chicken noodle casserole and in a bit I will make Brownies. Me I am going to roast veggies with a few scallops thrown it. It is hot here. About 2 it rained for 5 minutes. 90's again today. Our swimming pool has no shade. I hope it drops to 80 so I can go in and do water erobics. A lot of my new plants died Debbie left too much water. So will start again. I hope you have a good day and keep cool. HUGS,Reed
you too Kathy, been thinking about your blog, I went to the eye doc yesterday, and I thought she was going to say my vision had gotten worse, but it's the same. I think I might have been blurry because my bg was a little high when I was there. of course, waiting 2 and a half hours in the waiting room gave me a chance to bring it down, lol. hope to see you on the chat later today or weekend.
Hell Kathy. I hope you correct bikette. I am from Florida and not a schmucks, HA HA. Nut you can tell her I flunked TYPING.
I think I slept I was dreaming of portable toilets ???I looked at the clock and it was 5:30.
Feeling pretty good. Knees bad but I can live with it. Another day in the 90's.It is s hot I prefer to stay in the house. My BG 102. TOPS tomorrow so have to get the Agenda ready. RAP SESSION different ways t cook veggies. Might get some good tips. We als bring food for the church food pantry. We use 3 big rooms and they only charge us $50 a mnth so to show gratitude we each bring food for their pantry. I vnever did get to doing the laundry. What have you been up to. I hope you are keeping cool/ Take cre. HUGS,Reed
It is a big place up here! I love it when some relative from England calls about coming to visit us and they want to know where we are relative to Vancouver because they only have a couple days to spend here. They have a problem trying to grasp how any cross country trip could take more than half a day by car. Heck, it takes 2 days by Plane to travel coast to coast to coast.
We in the Riviera part of Canada - further south than you! Minneapolis is considerably north'er than SW Ontario and I'm even in the SW tip of SW Ontario - just a couple hours from Detroit, in London ON. So our latitude compares to places like Rome and Denver and Northern California. Hard to believe sometimes! We are south of at least a dozen American States, including all of those west of Lake Michigan and most of New England also. Most Americans don't usually think of us Canucks in those terms, but I can often better understand how those poor schmucks in Florida feel when they're suffering from their humidity too.
We just never get much in the way of high winds or super storms... No earthquakes either and floods are rare because we live near a winding river and some shallow fresh water lakes. No oceans here. This is probably the safest place on the planet for natural 'disasters' but ever so often we get some wind / snow / ice damage in winter and that becomes our "hurricane" ... we all huddle together inside brick homes with deep basements and wait for the storm to peter out and move off.
Not a lot of trailer parks here - none in the winter except for a few in the national parks. And I'm always surprised to see the homes in the southern US - so many wood frame or aluminum (clapboard) homes. Lots of huge estates too, but most of those homes flooded in New Orleans were not brick and had no basements. Even in Tornado alley my gal pal there tells me people don't have basements and same in Florida with the shallow water table there.
I'd guess that about 80% of the homes in London On. are brick or brick veneer, with solid cement footings and basements. The rest are mostly aluminum siding with those same basements. Ain't nothin gonna push these places of their foundations - nothing this far inland anyway. And the way my hubby repairs windows and doors, so that "no man will tear asunder", it would take a helluva twister to shake them loose. If a tornado were to whip through our 'hood', I would fully expect to see our house and its bricks all shattered and strewn about, but with the windows and doors still standing!
Now if we could keep the people outa here, we'd have the safest place on the planet.
Fear not, Kathy - the weather dude says we're sending some cooler air 'down' to you this week so hopefully you'll be able to breathe again soon. I would have tossed you a snow ball earlier but we didn't get much snow last winter and the whole 'meltoff' part was just a trickle this spring. Too bad too. I don't drive much either so I really don't mind the snow.
I have a handicapped permit on my car to allow me to park closer to stores as I cannot carry parcels and still stay upright at the same time. I love it when people ask me about my apparently non-existent handicap... I just tell them I'm "legally blind" and wait for them to cock their heads... "whut?" Either that or I tell them I'm mentally handicapped and start swatting imaginary bugs off my shoulders. None of their dang business anyway.
Hang in there, girl.
He can't wear newborns at all. He already into 0-3 months clothing! LOL!
Thank U Kathy & I will. Yes I think he was a big boy for sure since my kids weighed 4 ponund 15 ozes and 5 pounds 5 oz. He kinda doubled his mom on weight! LOL!
Morning Kathy. I had a good night of sleep. I hope it is not going to be 3 nights no the 4th night yes. I see we are going to be 97 or more today. I will do laundry andgo to drug store. I wish I could get my pills and Russ's pills all on the same day instead of being scattered. Tom left this morning. He did a lot of weeding replanting. The vinca died new too much rain. So he got purple pinta hope they live. I think your temp has cooled. Any plans for today? Take good care of yourself. I care. HUGS,Reed
Hello Kathy. What a wonderful way to beat no power. Very glad you got AC friends chat sleep and breakfast..great way to go.
I was up all night no matter how hard I tried I just could not sleep. Tom ran and he wanted a lumber jack breakfast. The he stripped all the beds turned the mattresses made the beds. Where does he get his energy. I then washed them. We went to Hammock to shop....nice ride along the ocean. The vincaI plated 3 weeks ago died. Taking them back later and getting something else. I hope all is well with you and you are keeping cool.This weather staying with us all next week. Take care. I care. HUGS,Reed
hi Kathy, I enjoyed reading about your "camping" trip, what a good idea. hope everything's straightened out today. It's plenty hot here today, I'm just a little north of catlover, it's going to 94.
HI Kathy - What a resourceful idea !! To rent a room in a hotel. It will be 103 here today. I do not plan to go outside. How was your "free" breakfast ? I am in between packing for our trip to CA. We leave on Wed for 8 days. We will be visiting our daughter, sil and g-son. Hope you have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY, I understand it is very soon, and I may not be here. Stay cool. Cat
Kathy how are you doing in this hot weather ? I hope well. I am hopeful about my dissertation being done soon. So I will be a more frequent poster. Hit me up if you need anything I can help out with.
Good Morning, Kathy. Is it still hot there? It is not bad here right now but it will climb yo to the 90's lter. Got the laundry done,vacummed the rugs dry mopped the hardwood floors and am popped. Tom coming to night and wants meatloaf. So I have to go drug store and I will go to Winn-Dixie for a few things including hamburg. He has the Readings at Church on Sunday s I will practice with him. Russ is doing much,much better doing a lot of thins watering the gardens. They shaved and trimmed my palm trees this morning. The HOA insists we doi it once a year $18 tree. I admit they look better. You been out and about? I ony go if I have too...too steamy. Take good care you know I care. HUGS,Reed
Congrats on your featuredness, Kathy. I've been reading about your recent ordeal and hospital stay and empathize big time. My hubby went through a similar cellulitis scare and it was quite the threat! He now wears his fashionable compre$$ion stockings but doesn't sport those pretty purple legs anymore... the sacrifice!
Keep on keepin on, girl ... and keep it cool if you can!
Good Morning,Kathy. I saw on TV Minnie was 100 yesterday. In our backyard when Tom was grilling it was 102. I so pity those poor folks without power....especially in VA they have no idea when power will be returned....all the food spoiled. Sorry your affair was not good food so so serbice poor. Been putting it off but I MUST do the laundry. Then the drug store. I so wish my medicines all had the same date. Did you watch any of the fireorks shows? I thught the Capital 4th was much better today. Take good care of yourself and keep cool. HUGS,Reed
"Stuff"!! How's the weather at your end...hot and muggy here...was going to weed after the brief rain shower we had here yesterday....but the air was very thick....and my back still recuperating from having washed the kitchen floor 3x over on all fours (the old fashion way) the day before, when our middle grandson Riley (2) decided to spit out his juice all over the place. I would have been arrested for what I toyed doing to him! The room that our daughter was in before moving into her own place is now taken up as a storage room for Timothy and Steph (son and d-i-l). (Our son and daughter and theirs were here since mid January since the house they shared burned to the ground. No one was hurt, except for 3 pets that perished. Our daughter has moved into a new apartment, and our son has purchased a house and they are moving out of our place mid July!) The storage unit they have rented is all full!!! They're moving into their own house starting the 19th of this month! The repeat empty nest syndrome lol. It sure will feel odd to have the whole house to ourselves again! Steph (d-i-l) has a bad ear/sinus infection. She went to a walk in clinic yesterday, and was put on meds, including ear drops. Early evening, her ear was bleeding, which is not uncommon with ear infections...but I nevertheless offered to take her to ER, knowing that we'd be there for at least 6 hours...no no no...she didn't want to go. Midnight, as I'm coming out of the washroom to go to bed, she and Timothy are at the kitchen table...seems that now she feels she should take me up on that earlier offer. I said to her, "you realize that we'll be there all night 'till mid morning anyway!"
She had gone to the internet, and of course got frightened by the comments and suggested diagnoses of her bleeding ear! (sigh....who listens to me!!) So I said..."call telehealth" (a telephone access here, that helps to give you a heads up about your symptoms). They basically paraphrased my comment to her..."you have been seen, you DO have an ear infection which may bleed, you are on medication for it, you do NOT have cancer nor have you suffered trauma to the head. Call your doctor in the morning if it is still bleeding" Who listens to me!!! So this morning, she called her doctor who will see her at....3pm, and the appointment was later changed to 7pm! Guess the doc doesn't share her concern!!
So...life goes on in the Miller household! Sounds SO much like a soap that I should ask you to stay tuned tomorrow...same time same station! How's life at YOUR end??
hugs and best wishes....linda
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The Eagles pulled off their third consecutive boys-girls title sweep – the boys by a scant two points – while Plymouth and Triton also transferred both boys and girls clubs to Saturday's regional meet, also at Culver.
In the girls race, CGA senior Waverly Neer, who clamed seventh place at last year's state meet, finished with no one near her to capture her third straight individual sectional crown. Neer clocked in with a time of 18:32.3, 1:19.2 ahead of runner-up Andrea Sharfman of Manchester.
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Travon Demetreius Russell, 22, was originally charged Dec. 23 with maintaining a common nuisance, dealing marijuana and possession of marijuana after a raid at 336 1/2 W. Packard Ave. revealed a large quantity of marijuana and several handguns. Warrants were later issued for Russell when he didn't show up in court, police said.
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A new video posted on YouTube earlier this week appears to show a Syrian rebel fighter launching a U.S.-made anti-tank missile at what is said to be an enemy tank, raising new questions about whether Washington has begun to supply powerful weapons to groups trying to overthrow the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
If the TOW missile system were supplied by the United States -- and analysts cautioned Monday that its pedigree was unclear -- it would signal a dramatic change in the Obama administration's policy towards arming Syrian rebels. The U.S. government has been reluctant to supply heavy weapons such as anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles, which could be used to shoot down military or civilian aircraft, for fear they'll fall into the hands of religious extremists. The fighter in the video appears to be a member of Harakat Hazm, said two analysts, which is part of the Free Syrian Army, an umbrella group generally seen as more moderate than some of the Islamist fighters who are also trying to overthrow Assad.
The video, which was uploaded to the site on Saturday, April 5, shows a man in a black sweater firing a TOW missile at what a narrator claims is a Syrian tank at a checkpoint in the village of Heesh, according to an analyst who translated the video from Arabic. In the video, the missile smashes into the target, which disappears in a cloud of smoke as unseen militants chant "Allahu akhbar," Arabic for "God is great." The TOW system was built by the United States and has been in used by the American military since the Vietnam War. It's also used by around three dozen other militaries around the world.
But the TOW missile has never shown up in the hands of rebel fighters in Syria, analysts said. That in and of itself marked a potential shift in the course of Syria's three-year old civil war. Regardless of who supplied the weapon, it could give the rebels a leg up against Syrian military tanks. A video uploaded on April 1 also appears to show a Free Syrian Army fighter from the same group firing a TOW missile.
Older videos have shown rebels using Chinese-made anti-tank missiles whose origins are likewise difficult to ascertain. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been two sources of weapons flowing to fighters in Syria. The CIA also has a base in Jordan where it has trained Syrian rebels. Reuters reported in January that the Congress has secretly approved funding to supply the rebels with small arms.
Rebel fighters sometimes film themselves firing heavy weapons, including portable missiles, to demonstrate that they're not falling into the hands of extremists, which could be an inducement for foreign countries to keep the arms flowing, said Oubai Shahbandar, a senior adviser to the Syrian opposition.
"We have seen uptick in anti-tank missiles of various sorts being used by the Free Syrian Army," said Shahbandar, noting that the weapons have been effective against Syrian forces. "Whether this weapon is coming from the United States is difficult if not impossible to verify, because the U.S. works with regional partners," he said.
Eliot Higgins, a long-time chronicler of the Syrian civil war who blogs under the name Brown Moses, said the TOW in the video probably didn't come from the United States and was more likely taken by the rebels from Hezbollah forces, who've fought alongside Assad's troops in Syria's three-year old civil war.
But in March, administration officials said that the White House was considering allowing portable surface-to-air missiles, known as "manpads," to be shipped to rebel forces inside Syria. Those weapons would likely come from the Saudi government, which has them stockpiled but hasn't yet sent them to rebels because of U.S. opposition and concern that they'd fall into the hands of terrorists.
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Blackstone Group LP and Prologis Inc have agreed to buy a portfolio of 17 million square feet of warehouse and distribution centers whose majority owner is Lehman Brothers for about $960 million, two sources familiar with the deal said.
Under the deal, Blackstone's IndCor Properties Inc will operate about 9.5 million square feet of properties in Reno, Nevada. Prologis will buy the remaining properties that are chiefly in Pennsylvania and some in Las Vegas, the sources said.
The sources did not want to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the record about the pending deal.
Through a series of deals dating back to 2010, Blackstone will have a portfolio of about 100 million square feet of warehouse and distribution centers, managed under IndCor. That makes Blackstone one of the top three owners of warehouse and distribution centers, typically referred to as industrial real estate. IndCor's chief executive is Tim Beaudin, the former executive vice president of Catellus Development Corp, which Prologis acquired in 2008.
If Blackstone chooses to take IndCor public, the IPO is not likely to happen this year, one source said.
The deal for the properties, comes after Blackstone announced on Monday it would buy 4 million square feet of warehouse and distribution centers from First Potomac Realty Trust for $241.5 million.
Within the past three years, Blackstone has digested big bites of the industrial real estate sector. Last year, it paid $770 million for 65 U.S. properties owned by Australia's Dexus Property Group. It also took control of about 95 warehouse and distribution centers, a mostly California-portfolio known as CalWest, from Walton Street Capital LLC by buying the debt on the portfolio.
Rent and occupancy in the U.S. industrial real estate sector have been slowly improving over the past few years, with occupancy picking up at a more rapid rate over the past few quarters, Green Street analyst John Stewart said.
"However, the run up in asset values is definitely outstripping the improvement in fundamentals," he said. "It says we are in a low-return world."
Lehman first became involved in the property in 2007 when it agreed to provide about $1.5 billion in the form of a debt and equity loan to Prologis - then known as ProLogis - to acquire the properties known as the Dermody industrial portfolio. But the investment bank got stuck with the majority of the properties during the credit crisis. Lehman got stuck with 80 percent of the portfolio, and Prologis 20 percent.
Representatives from Blackstone declined to comment, and San Francisco-based Prologis was not immediately available to comment. Brokers from Eastdil Secured marketed the portfolio, which attracted "robust" interest, one source said. (Reuters)
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Seven years after Spencer Beckstead died in hospital's care, his father is still seeking justice
Published: February 26, 2014
At 7 years old, Spencer Beckstead had barely had a chance to live, but here he was at the emergency room at Orlando Regional Medical Center, dying. And somehow, nobody seemed to realize it was happening until it was too late.
He had been admitted to the emergency room on May 29, 2006, with a fever, dehydration and diarrhea, which was not uncommon for Spencer, who had battled serious health issues since he was diagnosed with a massive brain tumor when just a year old. His parents sought treatment for him at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where he underwent years of treatment before he beat his cancer and was stable enough to move with his family to Orlando in 2004. But brain surgery and years of chemotherapy left him with lingering health issues and disabilities, and he was a frequent visitor to the hospital. "We took him in whenever he had a fever or a temperature spike, and he would be there for about three days," his father, John Beckstead, says. "Ninety percent of the time we took him in, all he needed was an antibiotic."
Perhaps that's what he needed this time, as well. But if so, that antibiotic did not come. When Spencer arrived at the emergency room at 8:20 a.m., his heart rate, at 147, was elevated. He had a temperature of more than 101 degrees, and his blood pressure was 69 over 21. Though his vitals were not normal for the average child, according to a court deposition from Dr. Jakub Mieszczak, a resident who cared for him at the emergency room on the day he was admitted, they were considered "not unusual" for Spencer, who had what doctors called a "complex" medical history. So the staff gave him a glucocorticoid steroid to keep his heart rate and blood pressure up. They did not treat him for dehydration because, Mieszczak said, his assessment of Spencer was that he was "not dehydrated." He ordered cultures to look for sources of potential infection, but they would take 48 hours to return – in the meantime, antibiotics were not offered, Mieszczak said, because of the risk of antibiotic resistance. So Spencer waited while emergency room staff monitored him.
Over the next two hours, his vital signs fluctuated. By 1 p.m., his temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate were up again, and his blood pressure had dropped. At 1:22 p.m., nearly five hours after the Becksteads first arrived at the emergency room, Mieszczak called to admit Spencer to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, where the child had been a patient on and off since 2004. Fluids were ordered for him while they waited for transport to arrive. But at 1:52 p.m., it was clear that Spencer was in distress. By 2:15 p.m., he began to code. Mieszczak was at lunch.
Spencer went into massive cardiac and respiratory arrest in the emergency room that day. He coded twice and was resuscitated both times, but not before suffering from massive brain damage. While his father acknowledges that Spencer's previous health battles left him with major health concerns – he needed a feeding tube, his vision was extremely limited and he was paralyzed on one side of his body – prior to his admission to the emergency room on May 29, he says that Spencer was able to communicate, interact with his friends and family and participate in physical therapy. After his cardiac arrest in the emergency room, he fell into what his doctors called a persistent vegetative state.
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FORT WORTH — A TCU assistant athletic director apologized Friday after posting inflammatory remarks about the Texas A&M bonfire tragedy on his Facebook page.Greg Featherston, who works in the compliance department, posted the comment Wednesday. Featherston "shared a link" on the social media website that was commenting on A&M's plans to leave 12 seats empty at Kyle Field, which is being renovated, to honor the 12 students who died in the bonfire collapse in 1999.Featherston posted a message he said he didn't write "but could have."The message said, in part: "If the number of students that were victims of what amounted to drunken, negligent homicide on the part of that cow college didn't match so perfectly with the cult's favorite number, I doubt you would have seen anything like this done."The message concludes: "See, this way it's a passive tragedy that 'happened' rather than an active atrocity that was committed. This fits into the real aggy honor code of lying, cheating, and stealing."In his apology posted to Facebook on Friday afternoon, Featherston said the remark was in bad taste and should not have been re-posted. Featherston was not available for further comment, a TCU athletics spokesman said."I was on campus in Austin at the time of the tragedy, attended every vigil held on campus with UT students and A&M students who drove over from College Station. A very sad time for both institutions," Featherston wrote.The tragedy occurred Nov. 18, 1999, when students were working on the bonfire, a mammoth stack of wood that was to be ignited Thanksgiving night before A&M's game against the University of Texas. The stack of wood collapsed at 2:42 a.m., killing 12 students, including two from Tarrant County: Jerry Don Self of Arlington and Chad Powell of Keller. Another 27 students were injured.The post caught the attention of Aggies and was posted on Texas A&M fan sites."It was not my intention to disrespect the fallen students or minimize the magnitude of the disaster," Featherston concludes in his apology. "I sincerely apologize for the my lapse in judgment with regard to the re-post."TCU's administration also condemned the post in a released statement."Comments made by TCU employees on their personal social media accounts do not represent the university," the release states. "Greg has apologized for this post on his personal Facebook page. We expect our employees to behave in an appropriate manner. This behavior clearly does not live up to our standards."TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte said he "personally apologizes to anyone who may have been hurt or offended by these comments. They don't reflect TCU or our athletic program."
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The WRTA Transportation Hub replaces the transit agency's administrative office and transfer center, previously located several blocks away, with a brand new facility at Union Station. The new hub offers riders a direct connection to other transportation services, including the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail to Boston, Amtrak and intercity bus service.
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If you want copies of The Crimson Masquerade (2010) or Musick Most Dark (2012), head over to either iTunes or CDBaby-we're very low on physical copies, and we're holding what we have back for our live appearences.
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Valentine Wolfe's latest album, 'Once Upon A Midnight,' is avaible in all kinds of formats: graphic novel and CD, deluxe edition and CD (only a few of those left), and digital audio! If you helped us crowdfund it through kickstarter, click here to log in and access your digital copy. You can also head to the Buy section to get your own copy!
Download the wallpapers from Once Upon A Midnight here.Upcoming Appearances:
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In our "Ask the Experts" post, Dina asks how to find her voice — her copywriting voice, that is — for a blog:
"Copywriting for a lifestyle blog is a mystery. How can a blogger create compelling copy that resonates in the short opportunities available, i.e. tagline, front page, about page, social media profiles so that readers subscribe?
"Long copy strategies just don't work on my baby boomer marriage blog. There's not enough room to describe the content, show personality and be keyword-rich without sounding crazy.
"What style of writing works best in a blog situation?"
As social media evolves, businesses of all sizes are struggling to maintain a balance in tone between website, blog, and anywhere else their content and brand are represented.
You may already know how to find your website's voice, so let's unpack Dina's question a bit and see if it applies to your social media strategy as well…
Hi Dina!
First, subscribe to Brian Clark's Copyblogger. He's got concrete advice on web copy and content creation in general, and he's the best of the best when it comes to copy that's specifically tailored to blogging. In fact, one of his writers just did a post about "How to Create a Rock-Solid Tagline".
Second — Before we, or anyone, can help you find the right tone for your blog, it's essential to understand its goal.
How are you measuring success? You say you want to generate subscriptions, but to what end? Do you plan on monetizing the blog — and if so, how? Question your own assumptions. You're suggesting that there are only a few "short opportunities available" to ask people to subscribe, but don't forget that each post can present an opportunity to subscribe.
Your About Us page should be about more than just "keyword-rich" copy; it should tell your story. Take a look at Nike's About Us page. Powerful, isn't it? Sure, they hit all of the essential, dry corporate facts, but those few sentences that stick out let you know why people care about their brand. Your About Us page shouldn't need to be as dramatic as Nike's, but it should reflect your blog's purpose. Remember, you're asking people to subscribe to your blog, not search engines.
Let people know what you've done; where' you've come from; what's in it for you; what's in it for them. Future Now's About Us page isn't perfect, but hopefully we've been both honest and persuasive — two things that are essential to our blog's voice as well.
In your case (Dina runs a lifestyle blog about boomers getting married), here are a few questions that might help you find the right voice:
It may seem silly, but this stuff works.
Third, once you've established your blog's voice, make sure it resonates in the details. Comment directions, error messages, category titles and the like are all good places to indicate your personality. But most of all, headlines are key. Make sure the post titles reflect both your brand's personality and voice.
Finally, to the degree possible, make sure the content on the blog matches its editorial voice as well. This may be harder to do with multi-author blogs, but having a central blog voice can help. Send the style and voice guidelines out and simply ask for your writers not to stray too far from it. When some of them (quite inevitably) do stray, you can simply make it your policy to brand the post slightly differently than normal, so the readers know that not everyone shares the guest blogger's perspective.
When in doubt, you can always ask your readers what they think.
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Editor's Note: These are all things we've tried to do while finding our own voice at GrokDotCom. It's not easy, particularly when offering what one hopes is constructive criticism, to be percieved as actually having been constructive. Of course, subscribing to a blog feed or a newsletter does not mean you subscribe to everything its authors say or how they say it. And as Seth Godin points out, "Sometimes, the web is more of a cocktail party than a club meeting." Very true — and doubly so for those of us who offer advice.
On that note, we'd like to hear your thoughts on how GrokDotCom's voice has evolved over the days, months, or years you've been reading. Don't worry about hurting our feelings, either. We'd only be hurt if you thought we weren't listening.
Feel free to share your comments below or email Robert (that's me) directly. Thanks!
[...] Future Now's GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog wrote an interesting post today on How to Find Your Websiteâ��s Voice (Even if itâ��s a Blog)Here's a quick excerpt In our "Ask the Experts" post, Dina asks how to find her voice — her copywriting voice, that is — for a blog: "Copywriting for a lifestyle blog is a mystery. How can a blogger create compelling copy that resonates in the short opportunities available, i.e. tagline, front page, about page, social media profiles so that readers subscribe? "Long copy strategies just don't work on my baby boomer marriage blog. There's not enough room to describe the content, show personality and be keyword-rich w [...]
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Excellent post, Jeff. I'm currently in the middle of merging my website with my blog with a complete re-design and your thoughts here have provoked my own brain into thinking differently. Thanks!
Jeff – picking up on your last sentence about asking your readers what they think – I wonder if that point ought to be emphasised a bit further. I'm a big fan of testing (and by now I get the feeling the Grokfolk out there are too :] ).
If your blog was a commercial magazine you probably wouldn't hoist it upon the market and see if it sells. Now, I'm not suggesting many of us have the time/resources to do that kind of market research – but your post got me thinking about how you would test your blog's voice/tonality.
Random thought: Smart marketers use Google Optimizer to test different landing pages. Is there anyway bloggers could do something similar, testing multiple versions of a single posting with blog subscription (or list signup) as the conversion goal?
Anyone have any ideas about that?
Excellent post jeff
Great article. Definitely bookmark worthy! It can be hard to find a continuity in the way a blog is written the and topics written about… this is a great approach to handling those aspects.
Jeff, my constructive criticism is that I have none. After years of reading your posts I still find them relevant and interesting. Other blogs have faded, but the Grok is still going strong. Hats off to you.
Yes, you can definitely use Google Website Optimizer to test blogs — even at the post level. But there are a few things you should consider because it's certainly not worth it to test each post.
Thank you for a very provocative question. If you don't mind waiting a few more days, though, I'd rather answer it thoroughly in a separate post than discuss all the variables here. Jeff and I have been chatting about this one a bit and I've got a whole list of things to share.
Thanks again!
That's a very nice post. I'm sure it'll help bloggers come up a very excellent idea for their entry.
This has given me a lot of great ideas. I am preparing the transition from Blogger to a WordPress theme and have been trying to come up with a suitable domain name.
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Simogo is one of the more interesting mobile developers out there. The way they play with the line between game and narrative, and the way they incorporate interactive elements to help pull the player into the story, is unique in the App Store. Their latest, The Sailor's Dream, is another foray into interactive storytelling that…(Read the full article)