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The latest chapter in the saga of the Minnesota Orchestra closed at a perilous point Tuesday morning, with its widely beloved conductor, Osmo Vänskä, announcing his resignation.
Long-awaited contract talks between the two sides in the Minnesota Orchestra labor dispute finally began Monday — and then almost immediately collapsed. Management said musicians' contract proposals don't solve the organization's financial problems. Then, orchestra management withdrew from two coveted Carnegie Hall shows scheduled for November. Vänskä had said publicly in May that if the Carnegie Hall concerts were canceled, he would be forced to quit.
Vänskä followed through on that decision this morning and said in a press statement: "It is a very sad day for me. Over 10 years ago I was honored to be invited to take up this position. I moved from Finland to the Twin Cities. At that time I made clear my belief that the Minnesota Orchestra could become one of the very greatest international ensembles. During the intervening years I have had the privilege of seeing that belief vindicated."
At a press conference immediately after the Carnegie Hall cancellation, musicians representative Blois Olson denounced what management had done: "They have chosen to drive the car that is the Minnesota Orchestra over the cliff."
Olson said the players are upset that management did not offer a counterproposal to their offers. "In other words, at the eleventh hour — and a half — they have refused to negotiate," he said.
However, management said it was the musicians who were not negotiating. In a statement, board Chairman Jon Campbell described the musicians' offers as a less than good-faith effort.
Orchestra President and CEO Michael Henson was only a little less blunt. "The musicians for the first time today, after 17 months of negotiations put in their first proposal, and in fact they put in two proposals today, both of which were unfortunately wholly inadequate," Henson said. The musicians actually submitted their first proposals in September 2012.
Henson said the present offers came nowhere close to saving the amount of money the organization needs to overcome its $6 million deficit. He said management's calculations found the musicians' three-year offer would cut salaries by only 4.7 percent. He said the board's most recent offer cut salaries by almost 18 percent and still left a deficit of over $1 million a year.
"If the musicians return with a proposal that acknowledges the substantial financial challenges that we face, we will of course be happy to negotiate," Henson said.
Henson said canceling the Carnegie Hall concerts was a hard decision, but Carnegie needed to know if the events were going to go ahead or not.
The musicians are mounting their own independent fall season and say they will investigate the possibility of taking Vänskä to Carnegie to stage their own concerts.
It has been a terrible week for the Minnesota Orchestra. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis resigned from the orchestra after 15 years. The conductor, Osmo Vanska, quit too, one year into the most rancorous and long-running labor disputes in U.S. orchestra history. The Minnesota musicians have been locked out for a year.
Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr has more.
EUAN KERR, BYLINE: Osmo Vanska is the Minnesota orchestra's franchise player. The Finnish conductor took the orchestra from an also-ran to one of the top ensembles in the nation, and some would say in the world. Vanska isn't doing interviews nowadays, but two years ago he said his method was simple. Rigorous rehearsal came first, then recordings.
OSMO VANSKA: Which are so good that they will get international attention. And then the third thing is we have to be able to go out from home to do national and international touring to prove that what people are listening from the recordings is true.
KERR: The formula worked. Recordings of all the Beethoven symphonies won acclaim and resulted in U.S. and European tours. Two more discs of Sibelius, Vanska's specialty, also drew raves.
KERR: They led to an invitation to play Carnegie Hall this coming November. In May, Vanska announced that if the concerts were cancelled because of the labor dispute, he would resign. They were, and he did. To understand how he got to this point, we need to go back to a five-year contract the musicians signed in 2007. It offered a 22 percent pay increase.
A year later, the economy tanked and the orchestra's endowment took a pasting. Before the contract expired last year, management proposed cutting salaries by over a third. This angered musicians so much they didn't offer a formal contract counterproposal. One day after the old contract ran out, management locked out the musicians.
The two sides negotiated through the press but almost never at the table. Musicians and supporters staged protests.
CROWD: Unlock the music, unlock the music.
KERR: Management argued it had cut everywhere else it could and the musicians' contract was the only thing left to trim. The orchestra posted a $6 million deficit. Musicians questioned why the orchestra was spending $50 million on a renovation of its concert hall while pleading poverty in a labor dispute. Principle cellist Tony Ross is on the musicians' negotiating committee. Like many critics of management, he questions how it's reported its finances.
TONY ROSS: Deficits can be small or large, depending on how they want to make the books look. It was clear when you read the meeting minutes from the board meetings.
KERR: Musicians argued they had been asked to work hard to become a top orchestra and they had delivered, so they deserve top salaries. And in a perfect world, they do, says Minnesota Orchestra board chair, John Campbell.
JOHN CAMPBELL: I'd like to be the highest paid too, but, you know, the reality is we can do what the community can afford.
KERR: Minnesota's governor even stepped in to help, enlisting George Mitchell, who negotiated the peace settlement in Northern Ireland, but even that didn't work. And last week, in addition to Vanska, composer Aaron Jay Kernin resigned as head of the orchestra's Composers Institute in protest over how both sides in the dispute have handled themselves.
AARON JAY KERNIN: Not talking, not in contact directly, not sitting down together. Things have been done through intermediaries or through the press and it just seemed to me it was time to be honest and work these things out together.
KERR: The musicians finally put forward two contract counterproposals last Monday. Management said the pay concessions were not enough and rejected them almost immediately. The orchestra then withdrew from the Carnegie shows. Vanska resigned early the next morning. But he still led the orchestra this weekend in concerts arranged by the musicians to say thank you and farewell.
The question is, what happens now? Both sides say they still want a contract, but with Vanska gone, so is the pressure to reach a deal. And now the dispute could go on for many more months. For NPR News, I'm Euan Kerr in St. Paul. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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James H. DeGraffenreidt, Jr., is the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of WGL Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Washington Gas. He also served as Chairman and CEO of Washington Gas, the natural gas utility serving over 1,000,000 customers in the Washington metropolitan area and surrounding region. During his tenure at WGL Mr. DeGraffenreidt provided leadership for the energy industry as well as important community institutions. In addition to serving on the boards of the Walters Art Museum and the Maryland Science Center, Mr. DeGraffenreidt completed terms as Chairman of the American Gas Association and Co-Chair of the Alliance to Save Energy during over a decade of service on each of those boards.
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Linda Eberhart retired in 2012 following an extensive education career that included 42 years working with students and teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools. She was an elementary classroom teacher for 37 years and was selected as the 2002 Maryland Teacher of the Year. Immediately after that experience, Linda continued meeting with teachers in her classroom monthly after school and formed one of the first Professional Learning Communities in the country. This group of dedicated educators grew and now includes 1500 teachers in 80 content and grade levels that continue to meet each month to discuss ways to improve instruction and support for students.
Ms. Eberhart and her colleagues presented at national conferences including the ASCD, Education Trust, Council of Chief State School Officers, National Goal Setting Conference on Education Standards, and the National Business Roundtable to share strategies and methods that they used to eliminate the achievement gap at their school. Her classroom and students were featured on national television news shows and in local and state newspapers.
She has served on numerous boards and work groups including the Maryland Professional Standards and Teachers' Advisory Board, Vice-President of the Baltimore Teacher's Union, and the Governor's STEM Task Force (Investing in STEM to Secure Maryland's Future). She currently serves on the Johns Hopkins STEM NSF National Advisory Panel and Aspen Institute Mathematics Advisory Board.
Ms. Eberhart received her undergraduate degree from Towson University and her master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. She is a life-long resident of Baltimore City.
Sayed Naved is the President, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Banyan Technology Solutions, an Information Technology consulting company based in Rockville, MD. Prior to starting his own company, Mr. Naved worked in leadership roles for Fortune 500 corporations delivering Information Technology solutions to the US Federal Government. Mr. Naved is a community activist and is actively involved in programs to enhance the education of disadvantaged children. He is a member of the Steering Committee of a non-profit organization that provides subsistence, scholarship and financial aid to over 450 school age children and college students in India. He serves on the Board of many Maryland based non-profit organizations and he is committed to bringing industry best practices to the non-profit sector. Mr. Naved obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, India and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park. He is married with two children and resides in Montgomery County.
Guffrie M. Smith, Jr. is a retired educator with a diverse career including 33.5 years with Calvert County Public Schools (1964 – 1975 and 1981-2004) and 6.5 years with the Maryland State Department of Education (1975-1981). In Calvert County , he served as a teacher, vice principal, principal, supervisor, coordinator of Healthy Families, director of curriculum/instruction and coordinator of a resource center. With the State, he served as specialist in migrant education, specialist in Title I and Migrant Branch Chief. Throughout his career, Guffrie has served on regional and statewide boards and committees including the State's Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board, social studies curriculum writing and assessment teams and the Multicultural Education Task Force.
Mr. Smith is active in the community with the Calvert Crusade for Children, Calvert Alliance Against Substance Abuse, Christmas in April, Kiwanis Club of Calvert, Calvert County Historical Society and Old Walville School Restoration Committee. In 1988, Guffrie was appointed to a local bank board; in 2003, he was honored as King of Calvert's United Way Mardi Gras; the Maryland State Teachers Association granted him their Martin Luther King Community Award; and in 2009, Guffrie was awarded the Louis L. Goldstein Award by Calvert's Democratic Central Committee.
Mr. Smith is a graduate of St. Mary's County Public Schools and earned his B.S. and M.A. degrees from Bowie State University. He has participated in post graduate studies at the University of Maryland and Nova University. He is married, has two daughters and resides in Calvert County.
Donna Hill Staton's diverse legal career includes more than a decade of public service, by appointment, as Maryland's Deputy Attorney General and as an Associate Judge of the Circuit Court for Howard County, Maryland. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Ms. Staton was a litigation partner with the major law firm of Piper & Marbury, LLP (now DLA Piper). Following law school, Ms. Staton clerked for the Honorable J. Joseph Howard of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. She has also been an adjunct faculty member of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Ms. Staton is a director of Howard Bancorp, and a trustee of the Client Protection Fund of the Bar of Maryland and the Bar Foundation of Howard County. She recently completed service on the Maryland Daily Record's Legal Editorial Advisory Board.
Ms. Staton has served on the Maryland State Board of Education since 2009. She represented the Board on the Task Force to Explore the Incorporation of the Principles of Universal Design for Learning. The Board's adoption of the task force recommendations made Maryland the "first state to adopt UDL to guide curriculum design for all students."
She is also a former trustee of McDonogh School (Secretary, Education Committee Chairperson) and the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust. Ms. Staton has worked with youth in a variety of settings, including teen advisor, recreational sports league coach and volunteer attorney for children in need of assistance. She coordinated attorney mentoring programs with two Baltimore City Schools and worked with the Bar's High School Mock Trial Program.
Ms. Staton is a past president of The Alliance of Black Women Attorneys, and served on the Maryland State Bar Association's Board of Governors and The Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland. She was elected a fellow of the Maryland State and American Bar Foundations.
A 2012 Leadership in the Law winner, Ms. Staton was also named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by the Daily Record (2000) and has been recognized as a Women of Achievement in Maryland History. She is also a recipient of Trailblazer Awards from the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys and the NAACP (Howard County, MD), the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority's (Columbia, Maryland Chapter) Community Service Award and Towson University's Distinguished Black Marylanders Award
Ms. Staton attended Howard County public schools and earned degrees from Princeton University (A.B. 1979) and The George Washington University School of Law (J.D. 1982), where she was selected to the Journal of International Law and Economics. She and her husband, Kerry, are the parents of two daughters.
Lillian M. Lowery, Ed.D., State Superintendent of SchoolsDr. Lillian M. Lowery became Maryland State Superintendent of Schools and Secretary-Treasurer of the State Board on July 1, 2012. Dr. Lowery's focus has been on raising achievement for all students, closing the achievement gap, preparing graduates for college and career, and supporting educator effectiveness. She has paid particular attention to strengthening Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.
She moved to Maryland from Delaware, where she served as Secretary of Education. Dr. Lowery has worked in various education institutions and programs since 1976. She served for three years as the Superintendent of the Christina School District in New Castle County, DE, served as an Assistant Superintendent in Fairfax County, VA, and as an Area Superintendent in Fort Wayne, IN. She held other administrative positions, and began her career as an English teacher at the middle and high school levels in Virginia.
A graduate in English and Secondary Education at North Carolina Central University, Dr. Lowery received her Master's of Education in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina, and her Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Virginia Polytechnic and State University.
The Maryland State Department of Education does not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, creed, gender identity and expression, genetic information, marital status, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation in matters affecting employment or in providing access to programs.
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The Danner Pronghorn® series has been a favorite of hunters for years. We've introduced some key changes while keeping most elements of the classic design. The new Tech-Tuff toe and heel protect the leather and your feet from sharp rocks and other hazards on or off the trail. An improved lacing system and more aggressive outsole were engineered to keep you secure and agile over long distances.
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- 100% waterproof and breathable GORE-TEX® liner is engineered to keep your feet dry and comfortable - even in extreme conditions
- 400 grams of Thinsulate™ Insulation offer lightweight warmth for those needing protection in cold climates
- Durable full-grain leather plus breathable 1000 Denier nylon upper for excellent durability and abrasion resistance
- TERRA FORCE™ X platform provides lightweight, durable traction, heel-to-toe energy transfer, side support to enhance maneuverability, and protection from arch overwork and fatigue.
- Fatigue Fighter™ footbeds are deeply padded for all day comfort and high-mileage arch support
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do you know if you will be getting the green bay packer computer chair in by christmas 2014?
This is an excellent product got it for my son for his birthday and he loves it. I have bought him several desk chairs and none seem to be up to his standards till I got him this one. A great chair at a great price I would have bought 2 but there did not have the 49ers chair in stock.
NFL Logo Leather Office Chair
Work in style while supporting your team with this NFL logo leather office chair. Featuring two-toned leather in Ravens colors and the team logo on the backrest, this adjustable chair is ideal for working at your desk, or for extra seating on game days.
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Celebrate your favorite NFL team day and night at work and at play. Five sturdy legs on casters let you pull up to your laptop or roll over to the TV at the start of the game. The adjustable height is perfect for guests who stop by on gameday or for parties, touchdown celebrations and more. It's a functional testament to your favorite NFL team that you will enjoy even after the season is over.- Two-toned in team colors
- Team logo on backrest
- Comfortable arms
- Hardware and allen wrench included
- Made from molded plastic, leather and metal hardware
- Approximately 48-inches high x 26.25-inches wide x 25-inch long
- Ansi-Bifma rated.
- Please note: orders of 4 or more chairs will ship with a freight carrier, and are not traceable via UPS. Please allow 10 days before contacting O.co regarding any freight carrier shipping concerns.
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Model Number | 5501-NFL |
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Eagles logo chair This is an excellent product got it for my son for his birthday and he loves it. I have bought him several desk chairs and none seem to be up to his standards till I got him this one. A great chair at a great price I would have bought 2 but there did not have the 49ers chair in stock.
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The Denver Broncos chairs are outstanding The order was received in a timely manager and professional manner and the product was received undamaged. I would highly recommend people buy products from overstock.com
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Packers Chair i have many friends into NFL all with different team choices so i will recommend this chair to them ..if i dont purchuse it for them for up coming birthday or christmas gifts...excellent chair..goes well in my office with my decor..again thank you
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Great Chair This is a nice looking, high quality, comfortable chair - perfect for the office of your sports fan.
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Great Comfort and color. The chair is very comfortable and looks great in my office.
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Will you be getting this chair in SF 49ers? I want to get one before valentines day if so
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What is the weight limit on this chair?
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Some FRU System Boards "System Brand ID" may show "LENOVO" as below.
Before replacing the original System Board with FRU stock, the original system board may have shown a specific Brand ID such as "ThinkCentre M91" or "ThinkCentre M91p".
Press F1 key to enter LENOVO BIOS Setup Utility -> Main.
| Machine Type and Model INVALID
| System Brand ID LENOVO
| System Serial Number INVALID
| Asset Tag
| System UUID xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
| Ethernet MAC Address xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
| BIOS Revision Level 9HKT37AUS
| Boot Block Revision Level 9H37A
| BIOS Date (MM/DD/YYYY) 02/14/2011
This is normal behavior since some System Board FRUs may be common for multiple Brand IDs.
Affected configurations |
The above symptom is associated with, but not limited to, the following systems:
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M91/M91p System Board FRU P/N 03T8007.
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Do not replace any hardware for this issue.
Step 1. Download the BIOS package through the Lenovo support site.
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Nike Women's Air Max Cage Shoe Review
Nike Women's Air Max Cage Shoe Scores | |
Comfort | 4.3 |
Ventilation | 3.8 |
Arch Support | 4.1 |
Foot Support/Stability | 3.7 |
Overall Sole Durability | 4.2 |
Toe Durability | 4.4 |
Traction | 4.1 |
Weight | 3.9 |
Overall | 4.1 |
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- Little to no break-in
- Ankle area loosens up over time
Nike fans who loved the Breathe Free IIs or the Breathe 2K series will love the new Nike Air Max Cage. With little to no break-in needed, our TW playtesters found the comfort to be exactly what they expected from a high performance shoe. Designed specifically for women's feet, this shoe has a modified running last for comfort and support. Although some of the playtesters noted a loss of traction and less support over time, there were plenty of reasons to sing the shoe's praises. The outsole and toe durability of the Nike Air Max Cage impressed all of the players, and they felt that the comfort was high. With a fresh design and sharp colors, this shoe is bound to impress players of all levels.
Comfort - Score: 4.3
Little time was needed for our playtesters to find the Nike Air Max Cage perfectly comfortable. Carol found all the comfort she wanted. She said, "This shoe is extremely comfortable. The Ortholite insole allowed my foot to sit very comfortably inside the shoe, and it worked well with the soft cushioning from the padding at the tip and heel. The Max Air unit added even more comfort, which I felt immediately after putting the shoe on."
Karly couldn't have been happier with the amount of cushioning the Air Max Cage offered. She said, "It was such a soft shoe, with cushioning throughout the entire shoe. Thanks to that good use of cushioning, I never felt any poking or pinching. I also thought the break-in was very, very slight. I don't know that I should even call it a break-in period because it only took about half an hour before any stiffness was gone."
Like the other playtesters, Brittany found comfort to be one of the best features of the shoe, saying, "While I wouldn't say there was a break-in period, I will say it took about one hitting period for the shoes to mold to my feet and to get rid of any stiff parts. As far as cushioning goes, this shoe nails it on the head with the Max Air bubble in the heel and the well-padded tongue."
Ventilation - Score: 3.8
Although it received varying opinions, the Nike Air Max Cage offered enough ventilation to avoid any serious criticisms. Brittany didn't feel strongly either way about the shoe's breathability. She offered, "Ventilation was average with this shoe for me, not bad but not great. I am playtesting this shoe in the cooler months, so I found it was a little harder to judge. While I never felt my foot was overheating, I didn't think there was as much air circulation as I would have liked (especially if I play in the summer)."
Wishing for more breathability was Karly. She said, "I found the shoe to have average ventilation. There were times when I was playing that I thought my feet felt a little warm, and after play my socks felt a little damp, though it wasn't enough to bother me. All in all, I thought the breathability was so-so. While not the best, a lack of ventilation was never an issue."
Carol competed without any issues, saying, "Ventilation was great in this shoe. My foot felt snug and cushioned with the mesh cage, but breathability was not sacrificed."
Arch Support - Score: 4.1
Earning a glowing reception from our team, the shoe's arch support was either effective or went largely unnoticed. Carol felt it fit the shape of her foot really well, explaining, "The perfect arch support. This shoe was made for my foot. It provided excellent arch support in just the right spot."
"I have no complaints about the arch support," said Karly. "I thought it was slightly lower than average, with a medium-low height, but it didn't cause any problems. I didn't have achey arches when playing in the shoe, and that's all I could ask for!"
Brittany didn't really notice theta arch support while she was playing. This suited her just fine. She said, "Because I have a medium arch I rarely have any arch problems, unless the support is hugely favoring one side (too high or too low). The arch support on this shoe is medium and fits my foot just fine. I didn't have any issues with it from start to finish."
Foot Support/Stability - Score: 3.7
While Carol felt the shoe was top quality and provided solid support, Karly and Brittany felt the shoe stretched out over time and lost some of its support. Karly said, "I was a little disappointed with the Air Max Cage's support. It may be because I had higher expectations for the shoe, but as I wore them more the shoe started to loosen up and decrease in support. The shoe loosened up the most around the ankles and I didn't feel as secure. The forefoot was extremely roomy and fit me a little longer than I would've liked, so I was experiencing quite a bit of sliding within the shoe the more aggressively I played. I didn't like all the movement within the shoe, in addition to the lack of support around the ankles, as I wore the shoe more."
"I will start off by saying this shoe's width is a medium," said Brittany, who had the same issues as Karly. "This shoe was too wide for my narrow foot, especially in the forefoot area where there was a ton of extra room. I found my foot was sliding around in the shoe while I moved around the court. When I first started playtesting this shoe I thought the support was really good. After about two weeks I noticed the ankle collar on both shoes started to loosen up and was flaring out as I was taking steps. I felt I lost a lot of the ankle stability that I need to play tennis."
Carol found exactly what she wanted from the foot support, saying, "This might be the best support and stability shoe I have ever playtested. This shoe provided me with a lot of confidence in all my movements on the court. My foot felt very snug in the shoe and rarely moved around. The she molded well to my foot thanks to the TPU-injected cage."
Overall Sole Durability - Score: 4.2
The Nike Air Max Cage's XDR outsole met the expectations of our playtesters throughout the playtest. Karly loved the combination of durability and weight, saying, "For how much the Nike Air Max Cage weighs, I thought the durability was impressive. I'd consider a 12 ounce shoe to be somewhat lighter than average, and at that weight I thought it did an excellent job holding up. Durability was not an issue for me."
The Nike Air Max Cage was right in Carol's wheelhouse for durability. She said, "It's been very durable so far, but I am showing a little wear out on the inside toe, which is typical. This is where I usually see wear on my shoes in this timeframe (about a month)."
Brittany, who has a history of playing in this shoe series, compared the newest model with its predecessors. She said, "One of the main reasons I chose to play in the Breathe Free IIs (one of its predecessors) in college was durability. Because I put a lot of hours on the court I would wear through tennis shoes quickly, and the Breathe Free IIs seemed to hold up the best. Well, the Air Max Cage definitely follows in the Breathe Free IIs' footsteps. I thought the durability was great, and the six-month durability is always an added bonus. One thing that really stood out to me was the zonal herringbone tread pattern on the shoe. The thicker outsole under the big toe gives extra protection to that high wear area."
Toe Durability - Score: 4.4
The Nike Air Max Cage stepped right up and offered great durability in the toe area. "As a toe dragger, I need all the protection I can get," said Brittany. "With the Air Max Cage I had plenty of toe durability. The toe bumper showed little to no signs of wear and will probably outlast the rest of the shoe. While the toe bumper only goes three-fourths of the way up the front of the shoe, it meets with the DragOn cage to provide all the protection I needed. The only noticeable change since I started the playtest was the DragOn material getting a little dirty and slightly scuffed on my right shoe (from the dragging on my serve)."
Finding the toe protection to match her aggressive footwork was Karly. She explained, "When it comes to toe durability, the Air Max Cage has got you covered. Literally! I thought the coverage around the toebox was outstanding. With the outsole coming up to meet the upper and the TPU cage around the forefoot, wearing through the material at the toes was the least of my worries with this shoe."
Traction - Score: 4.1
While there was some loss of traction at the end of the playtest, the shoes offered adequate support for movement. Karly felt the traction change as the playtest wore on. She said, "When I first played in the shoes I thought the traction was great. They gripped the court so I wasn't sliding, and there was just enough release. However, I did notice a slight loss of traction the more I wore the shoes. I never got to the point where I was slipping, but I didn't have that same grip on the court as I did when I first started playing in them. Overall, I thought the traction was average because it lost its grip faster than I would've liked."
Brittany echoed what Karly said about the traction, saying, "Another benefit of the zonal herringbone tread pattern outsole was the traction. When I first started hitting with this shoe I found it was gripping the court well and even allowing a little give when needed. I didn't have a problem moving around in any direction. One small thing I noticed was that toward the end of the playtest I started to lose a little bit of traction when I was moving aggressively and had to make quick, hard stops. Overall, though, I felt that the traction was slightly above average."
The Nike Air Max Cage gave Carol the confidence to move around the court. She said, "Great traction. I surprised myself with my movement in these shoes. I felt confident that this shoe would support me in all movements on the court, whether they be stop and go, side to side on the baseline, or going back for a deep overhead. I could feel the support around my ankle as I would plant for a running forehand. The traction and support worked hand in hand for me on the court."
Weight - Score: 3.9
We received mixed responses on the weight, but the players agreed that the shoe moved quickly around the court. Carol loved how fast her feet were, explaining, "Given the support, cushioning and excellent traction, this shoe is also very lightweight. I felt as if I were walking on air in this shoe."
Brittany found the weight of the shoes to be better than older models. She said, "To my surprise, these shoes felt a little lighter than the Breathe Free II, which I really liked. However, I would call this a middle of the road weight for a tennis shoe. It is definitely not the lightest shoe I have played in, but it certainly didn't feel clunky or heavy on the court."
"I thought they felt a little heavier than their actual weight," said Karly. "Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't consider them a heavy shoe, I just thought they felt heavier than 12 ounces. I just finished reviewing Nike's Vapor 9, which weighed in at 11.9 ounces. If I hadn't known their weights I would've said that the Air Max Cages weighed at least 2 ounces more than the Vapor 9s. I didn't feel like I could move my fastest with them on, which could have been because of the sliding within the toe box and the loose fit around the ankle, but I also didn't think they were a slow shoe, either."
Overall - Score: 4.1
Brittany - "I enjoyed the combination of comfort and durability."
Carol - "I loved every aspect of this shoe. This is the ideal shoe for me and my style of play. It supported me on the court with ample cushioning, traction and a lightweight feel. I thought the shoe's design was fun, young and very modern."
Karly - "The cosmetics and the comfort. I really liked the color blocking and contrasting AIRMAX callout on the back of the heel, and I loved how soft they felt."
Brittany - "I didn't like the ankle collar loosening up halfway through the playtest. It made me lose some of the ankle support/stability."
Carol - "My only complaint could/would be the outsole's durability on the medial side of the forefoot. I did notice some wear on this section of the shoe and will have to pay close attention to how fast this advances. I know extra rubber was added to the high wear areas, so I will continue to monitor this feature."
Karly - "The loss of support around the ankle the more I wore them. I played a little more hesitantly and it slowed me down."
Comparing this shoe to other shoes they've worn, our testers said:
Brittany - "There were some definite similarities to the Nike Breathe Free II. I thought the comfort/cushioning, durability and traction were very similar between the two. The main differences for me would be that the Nike Air Max Cage felt slightly lighter, but the Breathe Free II maintained its ankle support."
Carol - "This is my favorite Nike shoe so far. I felt that this shoe had better support than the Lunar Speed and better traction than the Nike Zoom Vapor 9 Tour."
Karly - "It reminded me a lot like the adidas barricade 7 in terms of cushioning. Both shoes offer top-notch padding that makes them comfortable shoes to wear on the court."
Playtester Foot Types:
Brittany - Narrow width, Medium arch
Carol - Medium width, Medium arch
Karly - Medium width, Medium-low arch
Review date: March 2013. If you found this review interesting or have further questions or comments please contact us.
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John DiStaso's Granite Status: Hassan in Washington to meet with Obama, attend first NGA, DGA meetings
Hassan spokesman Marc Goldberg said it will be her second trip out-of-state as governor. Her first was to attend Obama's inauguration on Jan. 21, he said.
At the meetings, he told the Granite Status before her departure, Hassan "will be urging Washington to stop the deep automatic cuts of sequestration, which will hurt our economy, put jobs at risk at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, BAE Systems and others due to defense cuts, and impact critical services throughout our state with cuts to federal grants and other programs."
(The full Feb. 21 Granite Status follows.)
THURSDAY, FEB. 21: DRAFTING HILLARY. Former state Democratic Party Chairman Chris Spirou emerged as a player in first-in-the-nation presidential politics Wednesday as chairman of a committee to draft Hillary Clinton to run for President in 2016.
Spirou made the disclosure about his new political action committee in an interview with the Granite Status, which first reported it yesterday on UnionLeader.com.
Spirou, a former House Democratic Leader and his party's 1984 nominee for governor, chaired the state Democratic Party during Bill Clinton's initial run for President in 1992. He has been under the radar, politically speaking, for many years.
Ever blunt, Spirou told us he is stepping up to form the draft committee at this early stage of the 2016 cycle to establish it as a "preemptive political tool to ward off a challenge" to Clinton in the 2016 leadoff presidential primary and to serve as a place for Hillary Clinton supporters nationwide to urge her to run.
Clinton won the 2008 New Hampshire first-in-the-nation presidential primary but eventually lost the nomination to Barack Obama, who she served as Secretary of State until Feb. 1.
"This is simple," Spirou said. "The purpose is to ensure we have sufficient commitment of support for her to win the New Hampshire primary in 2016."
The draft committee comes less than a month after Vice President Joe Biden courted a group of influential Granite State Democrats at his official residence during the inaugural weekend.
Biden has a core of supporters in New Hampshire, but Clinton and her former President husband have been favorites of state Democrats dating back more than 20 years.
A poll last week by the University of New Hampshire for WMUR showed Hillary Clinton supported by 63 percent of likely Democratic primary voters and with a favorability rating among Democrats of 87 percent.
But Spirou said he is concerned that a contentious 2016 primary campaign will lead to a Republican victory in the 2016 general election.
He believes former Sen. Ted Kennedy's challenge to President Jimmy Carter in 1980 was a factor in the election of Ronald Reagan. And 20 years later, he said, former Sen. Bill Bradley's challenge to Vice President Al Gore contributed to Gore eventually losing New Hampshire -- and the general election -- to George W. Bush in the 2000.
"As I have told all presidential candidates who have sought my advice," he said, "in a forest full of chestnut trees, those who arrive on the first day pick bags-full, those who are late pick pockets-full and those who are last can pick only hands-full."
Spirou said he is acting alone in setting up the committee. His daughter, Stavroula "Stavy" Bakolas, is the committee treasurer.
In a press release issued following our online report, Spirou said he will be organizing a network to recruit and solicit Granite Staters to join the committee.
"The time has come for a female President of the United States," Spirou says. "It is only fitting that it be Hillary Clinton. To my friend Hillary I say 'In 2016, Run Hillary Run.'"
D.C. FRIENDS OF SHAHEEN. As Sen. Jeanne Shaheen ramps up her reelection campaign, she's planning a March 18 fund-raiser at the D.C. home of a major Capitol Hill lobbyist.


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""When I made the film The Invention of Lying, they gave me a private jet for getting back and forth between New York and London. I thought, 'I will never use it' but I ended up using it every weekend. You turn up, right, and the airport is completely empty. I mean, there's just someone at the desk and then the pilot, who says, 'Are you ready to go?' and you say, 'Don't you want to see my passport?' and he goes, 'Oh yeah, I suppose I'd better.'" "
Royal Isabela
The hard part about designing a cliff-top golf course like Royal Isabela is making the inland holes interesting.
Out here on the northwest coast of Puerto Rico, 70 miles from San Juan, former tennis professionals Charles and Stanley Pasarell have unveiled a stunning layout that's likely to shift the golf balance of power in their native country from east to west. The course, designed by Pete Dye protégé David Pfaff, is the first installment for a rollicking 426-acre site that combines tropical woodland, limestone outcropping, cleared grazing land, deep river valleys and bluffs perched 200 feet above the foaming Atlantic Ocean.
Pfaff deploys fall-away greens that require a bump-and-run approach; infinity-edge putting surfaces that look as if they are suspended in midair with only the ocean as background; massive cliff-top fairways that tempt you to flirt with the rocky shoreline edge; and one of those scimitar-shaped par-3s where you have to carry a deep ravine. "Any idiot would have found that hole," he said of the 200-yard 17th. "The job was making the others work."
Limestone walls, and small ruins, evoke the sensibility of Old San Juan. The clubhouse and windswept patio offer a lovely outlook and give the place a placid character, particularly late in the day as long shadows dabble the ground and make you feel as if you're on a classic linksland course. And it's all within easy reach of mainland U.S., thanks to direct commercial and charter service into Aguadilla Airport, a former U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command base that is now the longest runway on a non-military airport in the eastern Caribbean.
Royal Isabela is a resort course, with private club membership, in Isabela, Puerto Rico. Natural tees: 7,667 yards, par-73 (80.3 rating/155 slope). For information, call (939) 940-4150 or visit www.royalisabela.com.
Rafael Hernandez Airport is 12 miles west in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Main runway is 11,700 feet. FBOs include COPECA, (781) 890-1250; and WASCO Western Aviation, (787) 890-2323.
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Oklahoma City, OK (SportsNetwork.com) - Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player for the first time Tuesday after capturing his fourth scoring title in five seasons.
Durant received 1,232 points -- including 119 first-place mentions -- from a panel of 124 voters consisting of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as an NBA.com fan vote.
Heat star LeBron James, who won the previous two MVP awards, finished second with 891 points and six first-place votes. Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers (434 points), Joakim Noah of the Chicago Bulls (322 points) and James Harden of the Houston Rockets (85 points) rounded out the top five.
Durant averaged a career-best 32.0 points, joining Wilt Chamberlain, George Gervin and Michael Jordan as the only players to win four scoring titles in five years. He also averaged 7.4 rebounds and 5.5 assists in 81 games.
He shot 50.3 percent from the field, 39.1 percent from 3-point range and 87.3 percent from the foul line, leading all players in free throws made (703) and attempted (805).
During a news conference, Durant thanked people from his teammates sitting on stage to his mother in the audience.
"I've been through the toughest times with my family, but I'm still standing," an emotional Durant said. "My mom, I think she just wanted to get me and my brother out of the house for a couple of hours. When I walked into the gym I fell in love with the game."
Durant noted the first time he walked into a gym he had a Grant Hill jersey on. Hill was in attendance for the MVP speech.
"I just got done playing against him," Durant said. "As a second grader, I had a Pistons Grant Hill jersey. That was the first time I walked into the gym. That's why I fell in love with the game."
Originally, Durant's aspiration wasn't to become an NBA player.
Instead, he wanted to remain close to home.
"My dream was to become a rec league coach," he said. "That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach. I love basketball so much, I love playing it. I just never thought I would make it to college, the NBA, or stand up here today in front of you guys and be MVP. It's just a surreal feeling. I've had so much help."
Durant's streak of 41 consecutive games with at least 25 points, which ran from Jan. 7 through April 6, was the longest in the NBA since Oscar Robertson did it in 46 straight games during the 1963-64 season. It's the third-longest single-season streak in NBA history.
A five-time All-Star, Durant led the Thunder to a fourth consecutive Northwest Division title and the second-best record in the NBA (59-23). This past week, Durant guided Oklahoma City past Memphis in the opening round of the playoffs.


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'Easy Like Sunday Morning'
Friday, 20th February 2009
London/Berlin. Echo Awards Rehearsal.
An early alarm pulled me out of a deep dream, something to do with being on a boat with "the bad idea bears" from 'Avenue Q'. Got up and hailed a cab to take me to Paddington Station, then onto the Heathrow Express (train) to beat the rush hour traffic.
Found my way to the British Airways lounge and knowing that several of our party were on this flight, I figured I'd just wander about in a daze until somebody called my name. Within minutes Frances, our tour press person, did just that so I sat with her as we both futzed with our laptops trying to locate the free Wi-Fi.
The flight was pleasantly uneventful. I worked on the Herald Tribune crossword, dozed, vegged out. Frances informed me I was sitting behind Taylor Swift, a country-pop singer of some note in the U.S. Descending into Berlin, the city was covered in thick snow, which was still falling at an impressive rate. On arrival at the surprisingly miniature Tegel airport we did the bag scramble and found our way to the inevitable waiting van. Billy Bragg was at baggage claim. No, really.
We headed to the hotel for a while and as I was beginning to feel the effects of another early morning, I decided to take advantage of the amply sized bathtub. It only occurred to me when I was wallowing in the suds that the last time I had a bath in this hotel I got a text message telling me that London was being blown up (7th July 2005).
Down to the venue mid-afternoon where it was clear that things were running a very great distance behind schedule. I was tempted to go back to the hotel but having got here through the snow I figured this was as good a place to hang around as any. I went to find the relevant people to assure me that all was well with the technical side of our performance. I was temporarily unsettled by not being able to locate anyone who knew anything about U2 having a video playback piece and received increasingly blank looks when enquiring about the facility for the video running in sync, timecode, Protools, and so forth. I took my appeal to a higher court and eventually found the producer of the event whom I had met a couple of weeks ago when I came out here to recce the gig. Finally I was introduced to the right people and assured all was well. It's all fine, just another factor in being part of an event of which we occupy such a small percentage of the whole. Not to mention doing so many of these in a row, where essentially you have to make up a stage production out of a different set of parts every day.
The long delay continued, so on hearing the strains of "Easy Like Sunday Morning", I wandered back out onto the arena floor to watch Lionel Ritchie's camera rehearsal. He was looking good, I thought, and in good humour. He was dueting on a love ballad with a German singer whom he had never met before but still made a pretty convincing job of it.
Eventually our moment came and U2 took the stage. The band got four runs at 'Boots', each time the whole thing coalescing more and more. As usual I was watching the TV monitors with the director and he seemed to be all over it. It always takes a few runs to get on top of the camera angles and lighting but there was good energy in his cutting right from the start, which was very promising.
Finally we were done; it was midnight and we'd been due to wrap up at 8pm. Back at the hotel a few of us gathered in the lobby bar and had a drink or two. Telling stories, unwinding, talking about what's ahead. It was all very pleasant and then it was all very 3am.
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