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This paranoia has gotten to the point of total absurdness.
This is a discussion on Aftermarket Barrels & Concealed Carry within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; This paranoia has gotten to the point of total absurdness....
This paranoia has gotten to the point of total absurdness.
Let me ask another question.
Where YOU live , what percentage of the adult population carries a gun daily?
(We'll assume only civilians with permits and that they DO always carry )
I'll BET you it's LESS than 1%.
Just by legally arming yourself you become one of the RARE individuals
who has not only PREMEDITATED using Lethal Force against another human being but actually carries a TOOL to do it efficiently.
Any DA will make sure the jury understands this fact no matter what the
individual characteristics of your weapon are.
-SIG , it's What's for Dinner-
know your rights!
"If I walk in the woods, I feel much more comfortable carrying a gun. What if you meet a bear in the woods that's going to attack you? You shoot it."
{Bernhard Goetz}
I think you have your answer. No one knows of any shooting where an after market barrel was an issue and to think it might be is pretty absurd. Moreover, if you truly have to shoot someone to defend your life or that of someone else, what barrel you have will be far, far down your list of worries. Just hope that whatever barrel you have allows the bullet to go straight and true.
I really appreciate the responses ... well ... most of them. Allot of the local LE personnel frequent the range where I shoot and of course various discussions/debates breakout from time to time. The general consensus at the range is "If it ain't stock don't carry it".
I have never owned an out of the box Glock that worked for me ... so I thought I would ask the question.
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I can't believe that that so many people who responded to this thread seem to think that the kind of barrel you use will be "the least of your worries" or don't care what the jury/the prosecutor think after a self-defense shooting. I can't believe that one poster even dismisses the experience and advice of Massad Ayoob, who has probably testified in more self-defense shooting cases than anyone alive. Your problems only start when the goblin hits the dirt.
A barrel may seem like a small thing to us, but as AKsrule pointed out, a small, small fraction of the population goes to the trouble of carrying a concealed handgun to protect themselves with. What about that huge majority of the neutral or gun-fearing population? You can bet that they will be the ones hearing your case and deciding your fate. Someone that customizes their gun with a more accurate barrel could seem like a monster who wants to have the most deadly weapon possible in their holster so they can blow away the first down-on-his-luck victim of society that crosses his path to someone like that. It doesn't take much of an attorney to add that to his argument.
The reason you hear advice to use a stock gun and factory ammo for your carry piece is that juries will be sympathetic to someone who is just doing the best they can to stop an attack against themselves or their family and no more. They will be less sympathetic to someone who is trying to wring the last little bit of murderous lethality from their weapons.
The opposing counsel may be incompetent, or sympathetic to your cause, and won't mount much of a case against you, but don't bet on it. They could just as easily be a crusading anti-gun ambulance chaser who will exaggerate everything about you and do their best to make you look like a vicious killer. The less you give them to use against you, the easier it will be for your lawyer to win the trial. There's no need to make it more difficult and expensive than need be.
It's a calculated choice. I do believe it is wise to use only stock materials... if you can. Sometimes you know you need some good upgrades to make your weapon reliable. If that's the case, then document everything. Be prepared to articulate, clearly, why you chose to upgrade a particular component. If you know that the bbl in your gun is insufficient for precise shots, show independent data that backs that up, save your gunsmith records and be prepared to defend your decision.
I do aftermarket mods to my guns as well and have thought this through myself. No matter what happens, we have to be prepared to give a good answer.
It's not like an aftermarket bbl is the same as Punisher grips on a 1911. The big elephant in the room is going to be that you shot someone. After that, it all depends on your county. In Tarrant County, Texas (where I live) there are a TON of gun owners who are familiar with many of the 2A debates. They are sympathetic to us. In New York State, totally different story in many instances, I would imagine.
I think if you have a good reason for the change (remember, you are expected to be accurate and reliable if you are packin'), then that could make your life easier if worse comes to worse & you must use deadly force.
In order to minimize my liability in court, I have stoped carrying a handgun altogather and now just carry bullets that I plan on inserting manually into the bad guy.
This is a win, win for me because not only do I not worry about aftermarket gun accessories making me look blood thirsty, but i have more room for my CCW badge AND the entire "which hollowpiont bullet" debate goes away. I can carry FMJ with total confidence.
Regarding courts of law, I feel that it is best to CC with a gun that has not been modified, i.e. trigger jobs and etc. I have heard that some D.A.'s will pursue a case more aggressively if a gun used in a SD shooting has been modified.
Therefore, I use higher quality stock-manufactured guns; hence my Kimber UC. I just don't want to take the chance of being labeled a murderer when I am only defending myself.
Kimber UC II
1948 16g Remington Model 24
Mossberg .410g shottie
I've heard things like that over the years too.
A simple reply to the upgrades for me would be. Because I'm responsible for every round I fire, and I will most definitely be held accountable for damages, or injuries. I wanted to make sure I had the most accurate and reliable parts for my CC pistol.
"He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." Luke 22:36
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." Thomas Jefferson
+1 Varob & Dogrunner
'Clinging to my guns and religion
Keep in mind that aftermarket barrels generally have tighter chambers and are more prone to ammo issues causing jams. I find Barsto barrels are pickery than Fire Dragon barrels. Barsto barrels generally need to be fitted as well.
All of my 1911s have Ed Brown barrels.
If I were ever hauled into court and the issue came up..."well Mr. Ambulance Chaser, my factory barrel wore out so I replaced it..or..My factory barrel was defective so I replaced it..or..my factory barrel has a bulge in it from bad ammo..."get the idea? Just don't buy a barrel that's threaded on the end.
"First gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand."
Edge of Darkness
I would not worry about an aftermarket barrel one bit.


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"For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices."
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This is so goddamn ridiculous and reactionary and insane that it made my blood boil. Also, more women die from heart disease and lung cancer than they do from breast cancer, and yet breast cancer raises so much more money because it has a much higher survival rate as there are lots of faces to put to the disease.
And I say this as a woman who lost a grandmother to this disease and shopped around until I found a doctor that would let me get a mammogram at 35. You know what else runs in my family? Drinking heavily and smoking heavily and eating terribly and living in the Midwest, being miserable and sedentary. So also: diabetes and heart disease. It's all related, just having the gene (if you can even afford to get tested) is not a goddamn death sentence.
Seriously, fuck her .
All cancers are terrible. Getting a double mastectomy when you aren't sick is irresponsible and touting it like it is a thing women should do spreads misinformation.
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It's that she took precautions that are reserved for people who have the cancer and it is spreading aggressively (and from her editorial she did not mention this is the case for her). Women with cancer who want a double mastectomy are usually told no if it is not detected in the other breast, but that is based on insurance and means. I take issue with the way she is standing up to something that is not a recommended course of action, especially for a healthy person. (If she is sick, it is her right to not tell us, but she implied in the editorial that she was not.) Additionally, mastectomies (as she pointed out in her editorial) do not eliminate the risk. I am considered very high risk and I had to fight to even get a mammogram and I'm only 2 or 3 years younger than her. She is considered a role model by many and this editorial appeared in the New York Times. It's reactionary and spreading misinformation, even if the intent was not intended as such.
I'm honestly amazed that doctors and surgeons went along with this (if she was, indeed, healthy and just taking precautions). This IS very irresponsible and due to the publicity and her celebrity changes the dialogue from what should actually be done by non-celebrity, non-wealthy women or men to prevent or treat the disease.
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Angelina Jolie made a huge mistake. The elective and "preventative" double mastectomy that she underwent was completely unnecessary and unfortunately sets a horrible, public precedent for everyone who is afraid of the possibility of breast cancer.
Please understand as I get into this that my purpose is not to judge the actress or others who have made the same decision. My aim is to point out the tragic and catastrophic failure of the American medical system to treat or manage ANY chronic disease – in this case: breast cancer.
The sad truth is that the standard medical interventions for breast cancer have a pathetic track record at improving health outcomes and life expectancies for those who suffer from breast cancer. Treatments like chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery are ineffective long term and each of them serves to PROMOTE the spread of cancer cells throughout the body: metastasis. The medical community's answer to this is earlier detection and more radical "preventative" measures. The approach is all about mitigating inflated "potential" risk – placing women into categories, labeling them with a risk quotient, and prescribing useless treatment with no further consideration of patient's wishes or alternative methods.
Here are a SEVEN FACTS to consider when thinking about this issue:
1. Only 5-6% of cancers are hereditary – Familial "risk" is essential a moot point when compared to environmental and lifestyle factors that contribute to the development of cancerous growths.
2. Detection and diagnostic procedures such as mammograms and biopsies actually PROMOTE the growth and spread of cancers.
3. Cancers of every stage, type, and location are REVERSED every day through natural, safe, and common sense lifestyle measures.
4. Medical doctors are legally bound to recommend standard interventions such as chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery at risk of losing their license or going to jail. It's called "Standard of Care" and there are serious repercussions for deviating from it.
5. The formation of a tumor is a NATURAL and APPROPRIATE reaction of the body to a toxic or physiologically dangerous environment. It is not a disease – it is your body's answer to the hostile environment created by toxicity, inadequate nutrition, and a depressed immune system.
6. Standard medical treatments for cancer do NOTHING to address the CAUSES of the cancer in the first place – apart from increasing exposure to radiation, harmful toxins (chemotherapy), and introducing otherwise walled-off cancer cells into the blood stream through surgeries and biopsies. If nothing is done to address the cause, how could we possibly expect to avoid a more dangerous metastatic relapse in the future?
7. The detection, treatment, and awareness campaigns for all types of cancer is a TRILLION dollar industry. With so much funding being poured into "research" for new treatments and detection methods – we are in a worse state now than when our government declared a "War on Cancer" in the Nixon administration. Follow the money.Please understand that it is not my intent to browbeat or turn a judgmental eye towards anyone who is been affected by cancer. There is an enormous amount of misinformation, faulty logic, and corruption out there regarding cancer. Angelina Jolie is the next in the long line of unfortunate and tragically public victims that will only serve to further the fear-mongering surrounding a condition that is both reversible and safely manageable.


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First, from Mel J., Ursula LeGuin on the distinction between lit fic and genre fic:
To get out of this boring bind, I propose an hypothesis:
Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it.
The value judgment concealed in distinguishing one novel as literature and another as genre vanishes with the distinction.
Every readable novel can give true pleasure. Every novel read by choice is read because it gives true pleasure.
Literature consists of many genres, including mystery, science fiction, fantasy, naturalism, realism, magical realism, graphic, erotic, experimental, psychological, social, political, historical, bildungsroman, romance, western, army life, young adult, thriller, etc., etc…. and the proliferating cross-species and subgenres such as erotic Regency, noir police procedural, or historical thriller with zombies.
Some of these categories are descriptive, some are maintained largely as marketing devices. Some are old, some new, some ephemeral.
Genres exist, forms and types and kinds of fiction exist and need to be understood: but no genre is inherently, categorically superior or inferior.
This makes the Puritan snobbery of "higher" and "lower" pleasures irrelevant, and very hard to defend.'
Well, that was just stone cold awesome, ma'am.
Via James L. comes two links to Topless Robot's 2011 and 2012 lists of badass heroines from fantasy literature.
I confess, fantasy is not one of my favorite genres – but what do you think. Do you agree with this list?
And finally: a few books on sale, and a big ol' sale!
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About that last one – Slow Summer Kisses – I really enjoyed that novella. It was realistic and funny and adorable – and worth picking up for $3.00.
And, it's time for the Amazon Big Deal in romance – and there's a ton of other genres as well. Most books are between $.99 and $3.99. Thanks to Heather and many other's for the OMGYAY and the heads up!
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Underworld (1927)
Facts and Figures
Year: 1927
Contactmusic.com: 3 / 5
Cast & Crew
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Producer: B. P. Schulberg
Screenwriter: Ben Hecht, Charles Furthman
Also starring: George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Ben Hecht
Underworld (1927) Review
The only way Underworld whispers "gangster film" under its baited breath is from the input of screenwriter Ben Hecht, who wanted to make a film based on his experiences as a Chicago crime beat reporter. And to be sure, there are instances in Underworld that directly link it to 1930s gangster movies, specifically Scarface, also written by Hecht, particularly the neon sign spelling out "The City Is Yours" to a mob chief and the brutal, shooting gallery gun battle at the film's climax. Also in evidence are Hecht's sarcastic Front Page style one-liners -- for example, one gangster tells another to attend a gangster get-together by saying, "You've got to show. Everybody with a police record will be there." This was von Sternberg's second feature and at the outset, Hecht had the most clout, but as the film progressed, von Sternberg emerged victorious.
The story concerns Bull Weed, a blowhard hood (he is referred to as "Attila the Hun at the gates of Rome") with a hidden heart of gold, played with a Gibson Gowland bluster by George Bancroft. Bull takes a down and out drunk (Clive Brook channeling Thomas Meighan) under his wing, dubbing him Rolls Royce after Rolls proves to Bull that he is not a squealer. Bull is soft on red-hot moll, Feathers (Evelyn Brent), and gets red and hot when rival mobster Buck Mulligan (Fred Kohler) makes a play for her. But what he doesn't see until too late is that Feather and Rolls are red hot for each other.
Underworld starts out in the rat-a-tat world of Hecht and at the beginning of the film von Sternberg appears out to lunch, Hecht laying out the milieu and staking out the relationships and the film unwinds stodgy and clunky during the opening scenes, making the film look like a cheap programmer.
But von Sternberg rears his ugly head soon enough, shifting the tone and emphasis of the film and leaving Hecht in the dust. The von Sternberg kickoff is a gangsters' ball and, aided and abetted by cinematographer Burt Glennon (who would later hit his stride as house cinematographer to John Ford and as one of the exemplars of the film noir style), von Sternberg cuts loose with a crazy shadow play of light and murk as streamers and confetti rain down upon the debauched and drunken thugs. Von Sternberg even indulges in select point-of-view shots, including one in which the camera eye gets hit in the camera gut anticipating the opening scene of Sam Fuller's The Naked Kiss by 37 years.
But changing Underworld from a crime film into a von Sternberg mood piece undercuts Hecht's criminal intentions. Sternberg's obsessions with love triangles (later reaching the ultimate expression in the series of increasing fevered Paramount melodramas with Marlene Dietrich) appear here for the first time and in full force. Bull's overwhelming desire for Feathers turns the film into a tone poem of fear and desire and the gangster world of Underworld into a hermetically sealed fantasyland.
But the real world was not yet ready for a full-blown gangster drama in 1927. The context was not there. It would take the stock market crash and millions lurching for jobs, food, and shelter for the gangster genre to tap into a social and cultural whirlwind that appeared like the death of capitalism, paving the way for inverted American Dream success sagas of Cagney, Robinson, and Muni.
Underworld in comparison is just The Shanghai Gesture with gats.
Reviewed at the 2007 New York Film Festival.


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Palestinian boys look through morgue window 370. (photo credit:Reuters/Mohammed Salem)
I pity future historians. I pity the truth. And I'm beginning to pity all of us. Never has so much information been available in wartime; never has it been so hard to sort out the information from the disinformation and outright lies. And, since I'm the sort of person who still prints out photos and sticks them in an album, I wonder how much of this virtual material, even the facts, will survive in the long term and how easy it will be to put it in context.Gone are the letters written to and from the front that provided almost a hint of romance to the historical record. An SMS with the words "Don't worry" doesn't do much even to calm the fears of the mother/wife/sibling or friend waiting on the home front, also under attack, and certainly doesn't supply many clues for the researcher of the future.And then there is what's known as the social media. I, too, have kept up with friends and family via Facebook during the past week or so of Operation Pillar of Defense (which I much prefer to think of by its Hebrew name, Pillar of Cloud).As a result, I have also been inundated by pictures purporting to be of innocent Palestinian victims of Israel's latest campaign to stop the rocket attacks on its citizens. I have also been bombarded with the refutations. Some of the images have been so obviously stolen or staged that they had me humming the post-Six Day War song: "My daughter: Are you laughing or crying?" CNN's Anderson Cooper, for example, apologized for screening footage of an ostensibly wounded Palestinian man who made a remarkable recovery as soon as he thought the cameras were no longer rolling. Elsewhere, footage that was supposed to show the Gaza coastline had the distinctive colors and style of an Agam painting – the exact same painting that decorates Tel Aviv's Dan Hotel, to be precise. This was just another sign that truth was a casualty in the Hamas propaganda war; it was also an indication of what could have been had the Palestinians in Gaza decided to develop their tourism potential rather than terror, as I have noted before.Other photos supposedly coming out of Gaza were more shocking, not only for the amount of blood they showed, or for their audacity, but for what they symbolized. As The Jerusalem Post's Lahav Harkov, among others, has pointed out, Izzadin Kassam tweeted a photo of a father weeping over the bloody body of his child, as doctors looked on. It didn't take long for Twitter followers to point out that the photo was taken at the Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Aleppo, Syria, and originally came from a slideshow on the Guardian website. The lie might have been quickly exposed but the image itself has been immortalized in screencaps posted on Facebook and Twitter, another child victim to be used in the war against Israel.I couldn't help but think of Muhammad al-Dura, probably the best-known Palestinian child martyr. The whole world remembers his story, how he was killed by gunfire at the start of the second intifada in September 2000. What most of the world doesn't know (or certainly doesn't remember) is that an IDF investigation found he could only have been shot by Palestinian fire, and a Paris appeals court backed the claim by Philippe Karsenty that France 2 had broadcast a staged report on the death of the 12- year-old.A particularly poignant picture posted by pro-Palestinian activists this week showed a baby, dazed and bloodied, being held in the hands of a rescue worker. Not a victim of an Israeli atrocity in Gaza, or even a recycled victim from the huge reserve of those affected by the civil war in Syria, the tiny child was wounded when a missile from Gaza hit a home in the Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi, resulting in the deaths of three people on November 15.Incidentally, "concerned readers" can stop sending me emails informing me that the Palestinian missiles are primitive and not loaded with warheads.Frankly, I don't believe you (or the Palestinian missile launchers, more to the point).I am not immune to pictures of child victims. Friends, colleagues and readers around the world have called on me this week, as in Operation Cast Lead in 2008, to remember that the children in Gaza are suffering, too. They're right. Israeli children (Arabs as well as Jews) are the victims of Hamas and the children in Gaza are no less so.And this is what makes the situation so depressing. The fact is Hamas and its supporters are looking for blood – and it doesn't care whether it's the blood of me and my countrymen or whether it's the blood of its own martyrs. And if it doesn't have enough blood to rally around, it will import some from Syria or even the Zionist state (perhaps the nearest it comes to admitting that we also bleed if you blow us up).I used to wonder how to say "chutzpah" in Arabic; now I think they need to come up with a word of their own – one that goes beyond Leo Rosten's classic definition of a man who has killed his parents and then pleads for mercy in court on the grounds that he is an orphan.Terrorists like to spread terror – hence not only the missile fire but also the attacks like the Tel Aviv bus bombing on November 21. Anything is legitimate. As a Palestinian Media Watch report pointed out, on November 18 the Hamas-run Al-Aksa TV broadcast a message "From the Al- Qassam Brigades to the Zionist soldiers: The Al-Qassam Brigades love death more than you love life."The death threats don't scare me – they are an obvious means of psychological warfare: What scares me is the message behind the boasting; that our enemies really might love death more than the average traumatized Tel Avivian likes life in the cosmopolitan "city that never sleeps."It should be pointed out – again and again, if necessary – that every single one of the thousands of missiles fired by the Palestinians on Israel for the past 12 years was by definition illegal. Every mortar and missile was launched indiscriminately at civilian populations, starting in the South and spreading further and further to the center of the country until Tel Aviv was targeted and even Jerusalem.That the Holy City could be an address for Palestinian missiles is telling in itself. It reveals a very different story from the Muslim narrative.And yes, I do feel sorry for the Palestinian whose olive groves were hit close to Bethlehem and Gush Etzion when a missile failed to make it to the Israeli capital. He, too, is a victim.I'm not scared of missiles and I'm not scared of terror attacks. I am scared, however, of the cult of martyrdom. In Arab and Muslim countries around the globe, children are being raised to revere death and blood. This should frighten not only Israelis, but the whole civilized world. Anybody who doubts that Iran might use nuclear weapons if it means its own population could suffer as a result is ignoring the power of the martyrdom mentality.Even as a cease-fire was announced, and the missiles continued to fall on the South, I – like most Israelis – realized that the war is not over. In the oft-quoted words of Golda Meir: "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."That's why the fake images of martyred children make my blood boil. It's the only thing that stops it freezing in my veins.The writer is editor of The International Jerusalem firstname.lastname@example.com
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NeonRider is a fast paced reflex driving game. Drive your vehicule in the cyber world and try to finish the tracks as fast as possible. Change your bike color to stand on colored lines, collect bonus points and perform crazy flips! You will always be able to stand on blue lines. Use the minimap to plan your ride.
Space: restart level
Escape: end level
W: accelerate
S: brake
A: tilt left
D: tilt right
Arrow keys: change color (there is a reminder on the hud)
Very Very Good
I always like these games, and this had a little more; something akin to more puzzle based games. Which i liked even more. Other than a few spelling mistakes the only other criticism i have is the music track, it starts everytime you go to a level.
Overall Great Indeed.
loved the visuals and the music but there does seem to be a bug where the game freezes and you have to refresh.
a wider variety of tricks would be cool too.
A good driving game?
The only gripe I have is there should have been different songs. The same song over and over got annoying. Everything else was nicely done though.
ok, needs longer tracks
colour use nice, but early tracks are way too easy. Beef up the difficulty


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Waltham Forest College / Platform 5 Architects + Richard Hopkinson Architects
Architects: Platform 5 Architects + Richard Hopkinson Architects
Location: London, UK
Area: 3,000 sqm
Photographs: Alan Williams Photography
Canary Wharf Development Including Herzog & de Meuron Tower Wins Planning Approval
A significant development at Canary Wharf has been approved by planners in London. The scheme, dubbed 'Wood Wharf' and consisting of 30 new buildings, was masterplanned by Allies and Morrison and includes a cylindrical residential tower by Herzog & de Meuron, and will provide 3,100 homes, 240,000 square metres of office space, a primary school, a medical centre, a community centre, a hotel, and around 100 retail outlets. Connecting the space will be a 3.6 hectare network of public spaces.
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AD Interviews: Keith Griffiths, Chairman of Aedas, on Appoaching Densification in London
Following the recent announcement of Aedas' demerger into two separate companies - one retaining the Aedas name and the other now known as AHR - we spoke to Keith Griffiths, Chairman of Aedas' global board and a practicing architect for close to three decades. The company, which was recently ranked by the Architects' Journal as the 5th largest and most influential practice in the world, have now moved their head office to London's Chandos Place and are championing a new approach to urban regeneration in the UK's capital. Alongside discussing how an international practice of Aedas' scale successfully operates, Griffiths offered his insight into how the future looks for European cities based on a tried and tested Asian model of densification.
To find out how Aedas approach sustainability in flourishing Asian markets, as well as the significance of the 'urban hub' typology for London's metropolitan future, read the interview in full after the break.
Yardhouse / Assemble
Architects: Assemble
Location: Stratford, London, UK
Area: 250 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Assemble, David Grandorge
London Announces Design Competition for 'Olympicopolis' Site
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced a new competition for the designs of a cultural quarter next to the 2012 Olympic park. The site has been dubbed 'Olympicopolis', and so far has expressions of interest from University College London, University of the Arts London, the V&A, Sadler's Wells Theatre and now possibly – according to the Guardian - Washington DC's Smithsonian.
Read on after the break for more details of the competition
Mayor of London Unveils Three Visions for the Future of Heathrow
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has unveiled three proposals to redevelop Heathrow Airport into 'Heathrow City,' a new town occupying the site that according to one study "could provide 90,000 jobs and 80,000 homes" in West London. Developed in parallel with Foster + Partners' proposal to create a new airport in the Thames Estuary, the three possible designs are part of a plan that Johnson believes will not only improve the capital's aviation capacity, but also the quality of living in the area around the existing Heathrow Airport.
The three proposals, by Rick Mather Architects, Hawkins\Brown and Maccreanor Lavington, all take very different approaches to the brief, which was to create a mixed use residential and commuter town, with a focus on education and technology industries. Find out more about the three different proposals after the break.
Steven Holl's Maggie's Centre Gains Planning Permission
Steven Holl's designs for a Maggie's Centre at St Bart's Hospital in London have finally been approved, after a tense debate among the City of London Planning Committee which culminated in a vote of 11 to 10 in favour of the design. The approval puts an end to a year of controversy, after Holl's first attempt failed to gain planning (the first time a Maggie's Centre has ever been declined permission) and a protest group commissioned a rival scheme by Hopkins Architects which gained planning permission in April.
More on the decision after the break
Shortlisted Designs Revealed for Goldsmiths College Art Gallery
The shortlisted projects in the competition to design a new art gallery for Goldsmiths College at the University of London have been revealed. The project will see a new 400 square metre gallery created in the back of what was formerly a Victorian bath-house, and is now the college's Grade-II listed art studios. Six shortlisted practices were given six weeks to design a gallery which works with the existing industrial structures – including the building's old water tanks.
The designs will now be judged by Goldsmiths' competition jury, a panel which includes David Chipperfield and sculptor Antony Gormley.
Read on after the break for details of all six proposals
ECOWEEK London 2014
ECOWEEK is a non-governmental NGO with the mission to raise awareness on environmental issues and Climate Change and to promote the principles of sustainability. ECOWEEK has been organizing conferences and workshops across Europe that inspire and empower young architects to be active designers for the benefit of their communities.
Since 2005 ECOWEEK has hosted keynote lectures by leading professionals and thinkers including award-winning architects, such as Shigeru Ban, Ken Yeang, Bjarke Ingels, Francis Kere, Francoise-Helene Jourda, Michael Sorkin and landscape architect Julie Bargmann.
The ECOWEEK International Conference & Sustainable Design Workshops is scheduled to take place in London in September 14-21, 2014. The event is expected to attract young architects, landscape architects, designers and architectural students from the UK and abroad.
Assemble Architects and the Coming-of-Age of the Pop-Up Project
In his interesting profile of the young London-based practice Assemble, Rowan Moore of the Observer investigates the work of arguably the best collective of designers to emerge from 2010′s "Autumn of Pop-Ups" – examining how they have stayed true to the more noble aspects of pop-up architecture despite the concept's increasing commercialization. From their first project, a temporary cinema in a petrol station, to their recent Yardhouse project in Stratford, Moore finds an architecture that values exuberance and fun, yet is mature and refined. You can read his article in full here.
Hawkins\Brown Designs Housing Scheme in Rotherhithe
Hawkins\Brown have gained planning permission for a development of 103 new homes in Rotherhithe, South-East London. Consisting of two terraces of 3-storey family homes and a series of four-storey 'mansion blocks' containing maisonettes with apartments above, the scheme will be built on the site of the former Fisher FC football ground on Salter Road, with the playing surface redeveloped to form a new public park.
More on the design after the break
Design Contest Announced for New Thames Bridge at Nine Elms
Wandsworth Council has announced that it plans to hold an international design competition for a new pedestrian and cylist bridge across the Thames, connecting Nine Elms on the South of the river to Pimlico on the North. The announcement comes in response to a feasibility study by Transport for London which concluded that a bridge at this location could handle around 9,000 walkers and 9,000 cyclists a day at a construction cost of £40 million.
More on the competition after the break
Exhibition / Designing a Moment: The London 2012 Cauldron
The Cauldron, designed by the internationally renowned Heatherwick Studio, is one of the most enduring and creative symbols of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 204 unique copper elements, each alight and representing every competing nation, were arranged in sublime concentric formation at the tips of slender mechanised steel stems. Slowly pivoting sequentially, they converged to form the Cauldron, in which the Olympic, and later Paralympic flame, would burn brightly for the duration of London's summer of sport.
Designing a Moment: The London 2012 Cauldron, a new gallery at the Museum of London, tells the story of this moment, and celebrates the London 2012 Cauldron.
In the courtyard of the museum, a bespoke new pavilion to house the exhibition has been specially designed and built by Stage One – the creative engineers behind the London 2012 Cauldron. The permanent addition is the first new gallery in the museum since 2010, coinciding with the two year anniversary of the Olympic opening ceremony, when an audience of over one billion people first set eyes on the Cauldron.
Title: Exhibition / Designing a Moment: The London 2012 Cauldron
Website: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/whats-on/exhibitions-displays/the-london-2012-cauldron-designing-moment/
From: Fri, 25 Jul 2014
Until: Sun, 28 Sep 2014
Venue: Museum of London
Address: 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN, UK
Organic London Skyscraper Grows as Residents Recycle
Inspired by vegetative growth and the bamboo scaffolding of Asia, Thomas Corbasson and VS-A have proposed a conceptual project for an organic skyscraper for London that will incorporate waste produced by its occupants. The building will rise vertically as more and more of the glass and paper needed for construction is discarded by building residents. It is estimated that enough recycled material for the building's façade could be produced within a year. The project earned a special mention in a recent Skyscapers and SuperSkyscapers Competition.
Four Freedoms Park: Louis Kahn's "Ancient Temple Precinct" in NYC
Built four decades after Louis Kahn's death, New York City's Four Freedoms Park - the architect's posthumous memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his policies – is becoming one of the architect's most popular urban spaces. In a recent article for the Guardian, Oliver Wainwright investigates what he describes as perhaps Kahn's "best project". Wainwright's spatial description of the monument is interweaved by fragments of Kahn's personal history, building up a picture of a space with "the feel of an ancient temple precinct" and "a finely nuanced landscape". Although Gina Pollara, who ultimately realised the plans in 2005, argues that Four Freedoms Park "stands as a memorial not only to FDR and the New Deal, but to Kahn himself", can a posthumous project ever be considered as an architect's best? Read the article in full here.
Critical Round-Up: 2014 Serpentine Pavilion / Smiljan Radic
Last week, the 2014 Serpentine Pavilion opened in London's Hyde Park. The Serpentine Pavilion program invites architects who are yet to work in the UK to create a temporary installation at the gallery's grounds for one summer, and this year it was the turn of Chilean architect Smiljan Radic, who rarely builds outside his native country and is arguably the least well-known architect in the Pavilion's 14 year history.
Always a highlight in London's architectural calender, critics almost line up to write their reviews. This year, they are almost entirely unanimous: Radic's pavilion is, unquestionably, weird. But they're also unanimous on another judgement: it may be one of the best Serpentine Pavilions yet.
Read on after the break to find out what the critics said about this year's design
RIBA Report Aims to Put Architecture at the Heart of Next Government's Agenda
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published a report which it hopes will influence government policy writers in time for the general election next year. The report outlines the RIBA's stance on a wide variety of architectural issues, from planning policy, to school building, to designing healthy cities.
The report hopes to build on the recommendations made by the Farrell Review, which among many other things recommended the appointment of a chief architect to advise the government, as well as an overhaul of the current planning system. However, in one sense the RIBA report goes further than the Farrell Report by saying that the government should implement a defined architecture policy, pointing to the success of such policies in countries such as Denmark.
Read on after the break for more on the report's recommendations


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An Opening Day type of lineup
The Red Sox play the Phillies under the lights tonight in Fort Myers, and it's a pretty good pitching matchup. John Lackey for the Sox, and Cole Hamels for Philly.
Look at the lineup manager John Farrell has posted for today, and it could be the same one you see on April 1 in New York.
Ellsbury CF
Victorino RF
Pedroia 2B
Napoli 1B
Middlebrooks 3B
Gomes LF
Saltalamacchia C
Nava DH
Iglesias SS
Ortiz gets MRI
With David Ortiz not making the progress he had hoped with his right Achilles injury, the Red Sox sent the slugger out for a precautionary MRI on Saturday. The team should have the results later today. Interestingly, Ortiz had images on both heels.
He hasn't been ruled out for Opening Day yet, but it wouldn't be surprising if it eventually heads in that direction.
"He's undergone an MRI on both his heels and that's where he's been feeling the discomfort," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "It hasn't been in that right Achilles specifically, it's been overall in both heels. Just to rule everything out, he's undergone that imaging here today. I think the one thing that we still hold in all this is that while the timing might not be what was maybe initially expected, the bigger picture is he's still making progress. He's been able to run the bases – as we know – on the days that he has. He's been taking BP every single day. There's progress, yet, maybe not as fast as he might have anticipated or hoped. Like I said, we're ruling everything out but at the same time we acknowledge that there's progress being made."
When would the Red Sox officially rule Ortiz out for Opening Day?
"Well, we'll see how this week goes," Farrell said. "We don't have a date earmarked. Our goal is to have David in our lineup for the greatest number of games that we can throughout the course of the year. It's not like April 1 is a drop-dead date for an entire season. We're not going to rush to any decision where we're saying, you know what, Opening Day is out.
The Red Sox will only start examining alternative plans for the lineup once they know for sure Ortiz will start the season late. Could there be an option in which Jackie Bradley, Jr. starts the season on the active roster, with an outfielder — say Jonny Gomes – serving as the DH?
"That discussion is yet to be had. Regardless of who would fill out the 25-man roster, you know what, I can't sit here today and say that's not an option that wouldn't be discussed. Keep in mind that we fully expect Jackie to begin the season in the Minor Leagues. So we'll see – we'll work through the combinations that exist here in camp and, again, we haven't ruled out David either."
Middlebrooks, Red Sox dodge a scare
The Red Sox got the best news possible on Thursday morning. Will Middlebrooks was absolutely fine, a day after exiting the game with discomfort in his surgically repaired right wrist. In fact, Middlebooks could well be in the starting lineup for Friday night's home game against the Cardinals.
"His exam this morning was benign," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "He didn't feel any discomfort when he was put through a battery of tests and he's actually been cleared for all baseball activities, but I'm sure he's going to take the day to just let it rest. But given the way he came out after the swing, it was obviously very good news this morning."
When will he play? "He'll be day to day, until he takes BP, which should be tomorrow," Farrell said. "Our plan right now is that he would be able to go tomorrow, but we'll just be sure he comes through BP without any issue."
Third base is one position the Red Sox don't have much depth at. "Well at the time of the swing, it wasn't real encouraging. Given what he came through with the fracture a year ago, I can understand that he was a little tentative and probably a little scared," Farrell said. "Fortunately this morning things checked out OK."
Pedroia: Goal is still to win the World Series
After a last-place finish, it's only natural that expectations will be down for the Red Sox this season. But Dustin Pedroia doesn't much care what the pundits think. He has arrived in camp with his typical enthusiasm and drive.
"That it was easy, and you expect it to happen every year," Pedroia said when asked what it was like winning the World Series his rookie year. "But I still do. I still feel that it will never change. Our goal is to win the World Series every year. If we come into camp and that's not the goal [something's wrong]. I know everybody thinks that's not our goal right now but it is. "
Pedroia loves the roster moves Ben Cherington made over the winter because he feels there are a bunch of newcomers who share his mentality.
"Yeah, it's going to be fun," Pedroia said. "You see them around the game; they are guys known for loving to play the game. They like tough atmospheres and good places to play. It's going to be fun playing with those guys."
Nobody around the Red Sox had any fun last year. And though it became trendy to blame one-year manager Bobby Valentine for everything that went wrong, Pedroia said, "None. It's the players. Bobby didn't go out there and get any hits or make any errors or do any of that. We lost those games. It's on us."
That said, Pedroia can't wait to play for John Farrell. "John's awesome," Pedroia said. "Everybody got to know him when he was here before. He's easy to talk to. Obviously when he walks into the room, he has that presence. It's going to be great for us."
By the way, Pedroia got a kick out of the revelation in Terry Francona's recently-released book that the Red Sox conducted a marketing research study that indicated the Sox needed 'sexy' players like … Dustin Pedroia to increase ratings.
"What was my first reaction? They didn't need to hire a damn marketing team,"quipped Pedroia. "I could have told them that for free. I don't know. I just started laughing. I was like, no, that's pretty funny."
Farrell officialy on board; Toronto GM weighs in
The Red Sox will likely wait until the conclusion of the National League Championship Series — Game 7 is Monday night — to have their formal press conference to unveil John Farrell as the team's next manager.
Up in Toronto, Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos weighed in on the situation in a conference call on Sunday afternoon. Here is a sampling.
How the whole situation opened up for Farrell to be allowed to consider the Boston job. "I'm not sure if it was a Sunday or Monday, we were off on Monday (October 8), I spoke to John, starting going through offseason plans and so on, and that was the first time we talked about the Boston circumstances, the rumors and everything else. That was the first time we sat down all season even and addressed it and even spoke about it. John expressed to me that he'd really like an opportunity to pursue that if it came about. I explained to him that at that time, we hadn't gotten any phone call at all, and that obviously we couldn't hold up our offseason and even go down that path if we hadn't gotten a phone call and we couldn't wait forever.
"We ultimately agreed that we'd give it a few more days and see if there was going to be a phone call in the next few days. If we did not, then we were going to move forward. And if there was a call, then we were going to see if we could get something done. This was, as John explained it to me, a dream job for him, an opportunity he really wanted to pursue. So we felt if there was a deal that made sense for our club as well, we were going to try to go ahead and complete that. So we never really got that far [as an extension]. That's really the chain of events.
"And then after, I guess, our conversation, I'm not sure if it was a day later or two days later, John Henry, one of the owners of the Boston Red Sox, reached out to our CEO Paul Beeston, to express interest in working out a trade. I don't know how long it's been — maybe eight or nine, 10 days, or whatever it's been from that time, and here we are today. It finally got done."
You said at the end of the season you were certain Farrell would be your manager in 2013. What changed? "My focus was completely on the roster. We have a lot of work to do on the roster, starting rotation — that's where it needed to be. It was 100 percent John was going to be manager for 2013. We were going to continue to discuss things like we always do — finalize staff, finalize roster, talk about offseason needs, things like that. But ultimately, when we finally discussed the Boston scenario, the fact that it was a distraction that came up, I told him we hadn't even received a phone call at that point. He told me he'd really like to pursue it and it was something he really wanted. Ultimately, we both agreed though, that we couldn't wait on forever. If there wasn't any movement within a few days, then we needed to put it to bed and move forward. John was on board with that and I was on board with that. We had already started to discuss staff, players, roster. We'd already started to talk about some of those things geared towards 2013.
What was the process like? "I don't know that I'd characterize it one way or the other. For me, with this whole process, what's more disappointing to me is that there's so much false information put out there, whether it's, I read something the other day that supposedly John asked to release Omar Vizquel in July. One hundred percent false. Not one ounce of truth to it. There was all kinds of other things.
"I thought there was, to be completely candid, gamesmanship and a lot of things that went on from a negotiating standpoint, not on our end. But I thought there were a lot of things that were coming out that were completely false. You guys all know, we're pretty good at not putting things out there in the media, or leaking things, or saying things. There was just a lot, the upsetting part for me is how many false reports were out there, that I just didn't think were fair to John or to myself or to the organization entirely. From that standpoint, it was a story that was not going away. But we can't do anything to control that. That's the game we're in. It's going to happen with players. It doesn't usually happen with managers, but it was just a unique timing of events, with Terry Francona being let go the year after the hiring of John. I don't think anyone expected that. Again, this is something that John wanted. From that standpoint, once he told us that he wanted it and this was something that he wanted to pursue, at that point, it made sense for us to at least look into it with no guarantees and no assurances. If we could do something that made sense, it didn't make sense for us to hold him back if we couldn't work something out.
"Paul Beeston has various longstanding relationships with the ownership group there and Larry Lucchino, he's got a very strong relationship there. So I think at times there were some things, I mentioned some of them, we don't know where it came from or how it started, but probably didn't go as smoothly as we think it could have. That's just reality. We want to apologize, myself and Paul, on behalf of the ballclub, the fact that this even leaked last night. This was not a done deal last night, in the sense that John was finalizing his deal — I think he finalized that last night — but we had not finalized the medical examinations on the players, which got done today, and we did not get approval from the Commissioner until today to even go forward with this. We weren't even pleased with the way it came out last night. Who knows? When more than one person knows what's going on, you don't know where these things are coming from. But from our standpoint, we wanted to apologize to our media, the fact that it did come out the way that it did. That was not our intent and that was not supposed to be done that way. It was supposed to be done collectively today. "
Could you have had Farrell back with just one year left on his contract? "We could have. We talked about it. He was prepared to do so as well. One thing, he was honest. He didn't lie. I think that's one thing you have to respect him for. I certainly do. He's always been that way. You'll always get the truth out of John. You won't get a lie. From that standpoint, obviously, my responsibility is to the ballclub. But I also understand. I understand the connections. I understand the ties. John has been there a long time. There's a lot of strong relationships there.
"I understand , it's not completely foreign to me why there's an appeal there and why there would be a desire on his part, that this was the one job. That's how he expressed it to me: This is the one job. There was no other city for him that was more of a perfect fit and a perfect opportunity.
But, again, he was very candid and we talked about it, but we were prepared to move forward at that point. It was not going to drag on. If we didn't hear anything or there'd been no phone call within the next few days, that was it. it was done. We were moving forward. We'd even gotten pretty in depth about some things that we were going to do. So, we were fully prepared to move forward, 100 percent. But we got the phone call. From there, it developed over the last nine days or so.
On David Carpenter coming back to the Red Sox as compensation, "David Carpenter, at the time, we thought he had a good arm. Obviously he wasn't the centerpiece of the deal. He was someone that we added late at the end. But the primary pieces of the deal were Happ and Lyon, and again, Carpenter was a guy that we were able to get put on late. He wasn't the main part of that deal. But ultimately, in looking at our 40-man roster, David, unfortunately, was going to have to come off the 40-man just with the spot because even now, we're pretty full. With getting Mike Aviles back, we're adding a 40-man roster player. So David was going to come off the roster. He was going to be available to any team for $20,000 either way. From a procedural standpoint and a transactional standpoint, there needed to be some type of player going back in this transaction. Ultimately, for us, if there was a player who was going to come off the roster and be available to the other 29 teams for $20,000, it made sense to put him in the deal."
How the Red Sox tried to hire Farrell last year. "I probably don't even want to go down the path of last year. There's enough that's gone on this offseason with this transaction. I'm not looking to add more to this story or another dynamic. Obviously, it's been a story that started last year, it died, and then it continued I guess in the month of August. Today, I prefer to talk about what did occur and what happened. That's what happened this past offseason. I'd probably rather just leave it at that.
"John, he gave everything he had. He worked incredibly hard from start to finish. He never let up. His focus always remained on the job. There's no question, you prefer that something like this does not happen. …
On Mike Aviles coming to the Jays for Farrell. "No doubt, everyone is looking at on-base pecentage. It's very hard to get middle infielders who can play shortstop for a lot of at-bats and get a good on-base percentage guy. Those are normally superstar players. I think if we were getting a left fielder with a low on-base percentage or a first baseman with a low on-base percentage, and with the fact that he can play middle infield, if you look at the free-agent market right now with respect to shortstop, second base, it's just so thin. The fact that Mike does have control past this year. He is a hard-nosed player. He is a gamer. He's not without his flaws, if you look at the on-base and so on, but he is a high-energy player. He has some power. The fact that he can play the middle infield, which is so hard to find in today's game and is becoming harder and harder to find — we just saw a big trade with Oakland trading a shortstop over to Arizona for their center fielder, who was an All-Star a few years ago, the currency that shortstops bring, it's such a hard commodity to find. You'd love to get the ideal .360-.400 on-base percentage guy, but finding those guys at shortstop, it's very, very hard to do."
Farrell discusses an awkward topic
Funny how timing can be. With the rampant speculation about Bobby Valentine's future with the Red Sox, what better time for John Farrell and the Blue Jays to come to town?
It is a poorly-kept secret that Farrell was likely the top choice to succeed Terry Francona as Boston's manager following last season, but the Blue Jays had no interest in freeing him from his contract.
Maybe things have changed a little a year later. The Blue Jays, much like the Red Sox, are having an unsuccessful season in which they've been ravaged by injuries. Now, Farrell has just one season left on his contract.
If the Red Sox decide that Valentine — who also has one year left on his contract — isn't their manager beyond this season, you'd like to think a deal could be worked out with Toronto for Farrell.
Anyway, with limbo being the obvious way to describe the current situation, here are some thoughts from Farrell:
"There's a lot of speculation, obviously, but as I said last week in Toronto. I'm the manager of the Blue Jays. This is where my focus and commitment is. I'm under contract. That's obvious," Farrell said. "If I wasn't, I wouldn't be sitting here today. At the same time, we've dealt with a lot of challenges ourselves. I can understand the natural connection, because I've worked here in the past, but my focus is clearly with the Blue Jays."
"I don't look at other situations, because my focus is here. We've got a lot of challenges ourselves with getting guys back on the field. I'll say this – knowing what the Red Sox have gone through, with the amount of players they've lost to injury, I can empathize with Bobby and having to deal with a lot of changes to the roster. And because of that change, you're always trying to filter in new guys and get an understanding of what their capabilities are and how you can best utilize them to win a ballgame.
Did Farrell expect there to be such a buzz surrounding his latest return to Boston? "I don't know that you can fully anticipate anything. You understand there are articles written, there's things that are out there. With respect to everyone involved, my focus is right here in this dugout in this uniform.
If Farrell stayed in Toronto, would he want assurances beyond next season, asked Gordon Edes of ESPN Boston?
"Gordon, you're putting the cart way before the horse with that. My contract is through 2013. My approach day in and day out doesn't hinge upon my status. My focus and attention is today, right here. "
Boston vs. Toronto? "Any place is going to have its own uniqueness to it. Managing is an honor. It's a challenge at the same time. Different positions have different sets of challenges that are connected to them. Regardless of where you are, the focus remains on your task and duties at hand and doing the best job that you're capable of at the time and that's my focus right now, the challenge the Blue Jays have to face.
On what Terry Francona accomplished. "Having been in that dugout for four years, you do get the opportunity and the privilege to see it firsthand. He was a very successful manager, balanced a lot of different things both inside and out, he did a very good job. The history and the record speaks to that."
"Through it all, through the ups and downs along the way, the one thing Tito always talked about was be true to yourself. As long as you can look yourself in the mirror and know that you did what you felt was the right thing to do, and that being the players come first, as long as you keep the players first in your decision-making and your thoughts toward them individually, you're probably guided in the right direction to the right thing."
Obviously, managers in Boston are under tremendous scrutiny. "I've never managed in Boston. I've only managed in one place, and that's right here in Toronto. Having worked in Boston, sure, there's a tremendous fan base that's very passionate, the expectations are very high, but as a competitor, that's what you aspire to do and be involved in."
More on empathizing with Bobby V.
"As a manager, yes. We've had a lot of the same situations unfold, and it's not easy. Its definitely not easy. We come in here today with a rotation that's mapped out, and yet you come into the ballpark, you're waiting for the next phone call, and in this case it's J.A. Happ is out for the year. Not are you on Plan A or B; right now both teams are on Plan T or U. That's where we're at."
How much does Farrell enjoy managing? "I love it. It's an honor to be in the position entrusted with the team, to run a team at field level, and that's never taken lightly. I can't wait to get to the ballpark every day."
Obviously, Farrell still has ties in the Red Sox organization.
"I had the fortunate ability to work closely with guys that I respect and guys that we have history even prior to working here in Boston, whether it was Mike Hazen and I running the farm system in Cleveland. Not only are they professional colleagues, on some level they became personal friends. We had success, we shared a lot of challenges along the way. That's what you would hope would take place having worked for a number of years in one place or another."
Sveum, Mills, Farrell weigh in on Sox
Three former coaches from Red Sox championship teams all held court at the Winter Meetings on Tuesday as managers of their respective teams.
Yes, Terry Francona, who was officially unveiled by ESPN in a conference call Tuesday, has a bit of a managing tree.
Dale Sveum, the Red Sox third base coach in 2004-05, is the Cubs' manager, and interviewed twice with Boston before Bobby Valentine was hired.
Brad Mills now enters his third year as manager of the Astros after serving as Tito's bench coach in Boston from 2004-09.
And John Farrell, Francona's pitching coach from 2007-09, is entering his second year with the Blue Jays, and reportedly was the object of Boston's affection this winter, but the Blue Jays weren't going to let him out of his contract.
Was Sveum surprised his dialogue with the Red Sox didn't go any further than a second interview?
"I don't know if it was a surprise or not. It was basically that time where somebody was going to offer me a job or not offer me a job," Sveum said. " So the Cubs offered me the job first and that's kind of where it ended up anyway, after my second interview. After going through all those second interviews, it was just nice to get one offer."
Mills is getting a chuckle over Francona's move to broadcasting.
"Every time I talk to him now I say is this off the record or on the records," laughed Mills. " I've always told him, too, that if he's on TV he might have to spend two hours in makeup just to be on TV. But you know what, all that aside, you know how much I think of him and how great a job that he did there in Boston. And he's going to do a great job with ESPN, as well. You guys ought to know that even better than I do. It's pretty cool. And I'm thrilled to death for him to be able to do that."
Farrell on the perceived interest the Red Sox had in him to be their next manager?
"Well, first and foremost, I'm a Toronto Blue Jay. There was a lot of speculation, an article that started out that created a lot of feedback, and I totally understand Paul and Alex's approach to having to change a policy to deflect and really squelch out a distraction that started to be created," Farrell said. "You know, it's humbling when your name is associated with a potential opening, but I'm completely happy here, committed to the Blue Jays, and to think about any other place or any other position while you're doing your own is a disservice to where you are. I'm excited about being here and look forward to putting this team together to win a World Series here. That's our stated goal. That's what our goal has been, and I'm happy to be doing it here."
Thoughts on Boston's September collapse and the fallout that came with it?
"I never saw some of the things that people would read about," Farrell said. " I really can't comment on what took place inside of the clubhouse there. I know in the time that I spent there, I didn't see the things that were being reported on. They're our opponent, so it's our job right now to attempt and work towards overtaking them in the standings, and that's our approach day in and day out. I really can't comment on what took place there."
How about Bobby Valentine as the new Red Sox manager?
"Well‑respected baseball guy," Farrell said. " The Red Sox are always a challenge for anybody, and they've got a lot of good players. We're going to have to play extremely well to move ahead of them. Changes take place all over this game, but we know they're going to be a very tough opponent."
Not much else has happened Red Sox-related here in Dallas thus far today. Andrew Miller re-signed for one non-guaranteed year. David Ortiz has until midnight at the end of tomorrow to accept arbitration. Boston is expected to meet with Ortiz's agent Fern Cuza here in Dallas today.
Young replaces Farrell
While replacing John Farrell as pitching coach was a less than ideal endeavor, it worked out about as well as possible for the Red Sox, as they were able to land one of the best in the game in Curt Young.
Under Young's tutelage, the A's posted the best ERA in the American League last season, at 3.58. He turned down the offer to return to the A's shortly after it became clear Farrell was leaving Boston to become the manager of the Blue Jays.
"We are lucky to be able to add an experienced pitching coach the caliber of Curt Young to the organization," said Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein. "Curt has a proven track record of success in this job, mixing excellent relationship-building skills with expert knowledge of pitching and how to get hitters out at the Major League level. Pitchers who have worked with Curt swear by him, and the results speak for themselves. We think he will work well with our pitching staff and within the culture of our clubhouse."
Here is some other relevant info, clipped from the press released issued by the Red Sox:
"The 50-year-old Young has spent the last seven seasons as the Oakland Athletics pitching coach from 2004-10. Under his guidance, Oakland pitchers have posted an American League best 4.03 ERA (4,535 ER/10,135.1 IP) and held opponents to an AL low .257 batting average (9,939-for-38,616) while allowing the fewest home runs in the circuit (1,062). A's hurlers led the American League with a 3.56 ERA (566 ER/1,431.2 IP) in 2010 and topped the league with 17 shutouts. The staff also allowed the fewest hits (1,315), runs (626) and earned runs (566) in the AL this season and faced the fewest batters (6,011) in the Majors. Additionally, Oakland starters posted a Major League best 3.47 ERA (383 ER/992.0 IP), the lowest such mark in the AL since 1990.
Young began his coaching career in Oakland's minor league system in 2000, serving as pitching coach for Double-A Midland. His Midland staff compiled a 4.64 ERA that season, which was the lowest figure posted by the club in 15 years. In 2001, Midland pitchers bettered the previous year's figure by 24 points, finishing with a 4.40 ERA, and in 2002 the RockHounds finished with a 3.88 ERA. Young was promoted to Triple-A Sacramento for the 2003 season and the River Cats posted the fourth best ERA in the Pacific Coast League at 3.90 en route to the PCL Championship.
Originally drafted by the A's in the fourth round of the 1981 June draft out of Central Michigan University, Young pitched parts of 11 Major League seasons with Oakland (1983-91, 1993), Kansas City (1992) and the New York Yankees (1992). The left-hander compiled a 69-53 record and a 4.31 ERA (530 ER/1,107.0 IP) in 251 appearances (162 starts) and was a member of the A's starting rotation when they won three consecutive American League pennants from 1988-90."
Delcarmen getting closer
It was interesting that the Red Sox sent Manny Delcarmen to the Minor League complex for two innings on Monday so he could work on physical and mental aspects of his game. The righty is an important piece to Boston's bullpen when he is going well, but he struggled mightily in the second of last season.
Delcarmen is a perfect example of how Spring Training statistics mean almost nothing to the way the club evaluates a player. In Delcarmen's case, he has a 1.35 ERA in eight games, but the club has noticed him laboring.
Monday's exercise seemed to do Delcarmen some good. But he is still a bit of a wrok in progress.
"He was better," said Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell. "I thought there was better consistency to the command, and the location of the fastball was not down in the zone as much as we'd like to see. That's more fundamental or delivery-related. There was more of a willingness and an intensity to his two innings of work here and the whole idea today was to allow him to go through 35 to 40 pitches of work, granted, the atmosphere and the intensity is not what we're going to see of him or what he's going to be involved with."
Delcarmen was pitching through shoulder pain duiring his second half struggles, and might have lost some of his swagger. Farrell is trying to get Delcarmen to pitch with more confidence.
The righty will pitch his final Grapefruit League game on Thursday against the Twins.
"Talking to Farrell, he wants me to go out there and get that
attitude like, 'you're going out there and nobody can touch you.' I took
that approach a little bit today, just threw some pitches inside and
like I said, I felt great," Delcarmen said. "Hopefully this carries on to the next time I
throw and I'll just keep going and attacking. John said, 'I want you to get that fiery attitude back that you used to have."'
Delcarmen is one of Boston's more versatile relievers in this sense: He can go multi-innings in the middle of a game or he can pitch later in the game for a batter or an inning. He can also get lefties out. If anything, Delcarmen said, he needs to get back to the point where he is dominating righties. Lefties hit .221 against Delcarmen last year. Righties hit .322.
"I've heard Tito say it a bunch this spring. I know from my numbers
last year, I felt like I couldn't get a righty out for my life toward
the end," Delcarmen said. "I kept getting lefties out. He said, 'Manny has that ability
to get lefties out and when he's on top, downhill, he can get righties
out.' I see that as a plus, just stay healthy and whenever he needs me,
be ready to go. I definitely want to attack righties more."
There are also some delivery adjustments that should help Delcarmen.
"hen he separates his hands, when he's on time in his delivery, he's going to leverage the ball downhill with some giddy-up on it, with some life through the zone," Delcarmen said. "I think he understands it better. You could see it today. he was trying to get it out there and get it done. When he does it, it's good. I think it's still a little bit sporadic. He threw some good changeups today. I think the two innings helps. He'll go two innings again Thursday, which I think will help."


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Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor | |
General information | |
Office Type: | Partisan |
Office website: | Official Link |
2012-2013 FY Budget: | $1,278,000 |
Term limits: | None |
Structure | |
Length of term: | 4 years |
Authority: | Pennsylvania Constitution, Article IV, Section 4 |
Selection Method: | Elected |
Current Officeholder | |
Name: | Jim Cawley |
Officeholder Party: | Republican |
Assumed office: | January 18, 2011 |
Compensation: | $153,907 |
Elections | |
Next election: | November 4, 2014 |
Last election: | November 2, 2010 |
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The 32nd and current lieutenant governor is Jim Cawley, a Republican elected in 2010.[1]
The state Constitution addresses the office of the governor in Article IV, the Executive Department.
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Additionally, the lieutenant governor may not hold Congressional office, any other office under the Commonwealth, or any federal office. The exception is that the lieutenant governor may be a reserve member of the National Guard.
Details of vacancy appointments are addressed under Article IV, Section 14.
The President Pro Tem of the Pennsylvania State Senate takes over as Lieutenant Governor at any point when the elected Lieutenant Governor is unable to serve.
If the Lieutenant Governor has become Governor under Section 13, then the President Pro Tem becomes the new Lieutenant Governor and vacates her own Senate seat.
If the Lieutenant Governor's disability is temporary, the President Pro Tem serves as Acting Lieutenant Governor until the disability is removed.
The lieutenant governor presides in the Pennsylvania State Senate and is first in the line of succession to the governor; in the event the governor dies, resigns, or otherwise leaves office, the lieutenant governor becomes governor.
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The budget for the Lieutenant Governor's office in Fiscal Year 2012-2013 was $1,278,000.[2]
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Pennsylvania elects lieutenant governors in the midterm elections, that is, even years that are not Presidential election years. For Pennsylvania, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018 are all lieutenant lieutenant gubernatorial election years. Legally, the gubernatorial inauguration is always set for the third Tuesday in the January following an election. Thus, January 18, 2011 and January 20, 2015 are inaugural days.
In the event of a tie, a joint session of the legislature shall cast ballots to choose the lieutenant governor from the two top vote getters.
If an election's outcome is contest, the members of both chambers of the legislature shall select members of the special Commission to resolve the contest.
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The lieutenant governor's pay is set by law and may not be increased or diminished effective during the current term.
In 2012, the lieutenant governor was paid an estimated $153,907. This figure comes from the Council of State Governments.
As of 2010, the lieutenant governor is paid $146,926 a year, the 2nd highest lieutenant gubernatorial salary in America.
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It took more than five years, yet two of SCCA's offshore Regions – the Arctic Alaska Region and the Hawaii Region - held the first leg of their Rally Challenge, hosted by the Arctic Alaska Region, November 16-17, 2013.
On March 22-23, 2014, the Alaskans traveled to warmer shores to take in the Hawaii Region's RallyCross and the St. Patrick's Lucky Road Rally. Four Region members traveled to the islands to take in sunshine, great events and reacquaint with fellow members from the Hawaii Region.
Special to the event, was a letter from President Lisa Noble to the two Regions. It was received with great honor to be recognized for holding SCCA-sanctioned events so far from the lower 48.
Linked here is the great video posted just days after the Hawaii Rally.
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