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Hot on the heels of our success at the Off License News Drinks Retailing Awards, the World Whiskies Awards 2013 were presented last week at the Waldorf Hotel in London, and, erm, we cleaned up again*.
I'm not going to re-hash the recent blog post I wrote about our success at the OLN awards, but suffice it to say, there's a reasonable-length post here about the innovations and initiatives we've launched in the past 12 months. It's well worth a read if you've not already.
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It's an exciting one, this...
It's not often that we get involved with Exclusive, Single-Cask bottlings direct from the distilleries themselves, as there's generally much better value to be had from independent bottlings. We do lots of them instead. Lots and lots.
Every now and then though, something comes along that wouldn't usually be available on the independent market.
This is one such bottling. A (very, very rare) Peated Balblair. Well, I say that – it's actually a Balblair that's been stored in a cask previously used to hold Peated Whisky. Sort of Peated through the medium of cheating. A Cheaty-Peaty whisky if you will.
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That's right, folks. Those crafty chaps from Caskstrength announced today their new bottling! Due to launch on 25 March 2013, the third instalment in the much-celebrated Alphabet Series is indeed a Cutty Sark, Neil and Joel undertook the herculean task of blending their own whisky, and the result is sure to be interesting!
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Back in September, we began offering some pointers on blending your own whisky to help you get the most out of the marvellous Home Blending Kits we have bestowed upon the world (we're good like that) as well as explaining a little about how whisky blending came about. Now, we left that post on a bit of a cliff-hanger I'm afraid but fear not! We didn't forget about this, good heavens no! Time to re-cap/catch up on How To Blend Whisky Part I because herein lies... Part Deux!
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Another month (well, nearly – it's been over 3 weeks), another clutch of supremely awesome whiskies bottled by That Boutique-y Whisky Company. This time we're bringing you whiskies from Brora, Arran, Tobermory, Tormore and Aberfeldy.
Sadly, one of these beauties has already sold out (no prizes for guessing which I'm afraid), but the rest are still available for your delectation:
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For the past 5 years, drinks writers (and now whisky bottlers!) Joel Harrison and Neil Ridley have hosted an awards ceremony intended to turn the whisky judging world on its head—or at least put it poolside with a drink in its hand. Jeil (or Noel, as they are affectionately referred to at MoM HQ) designed their Best in Glass Awards to celebrate whiskies that are accessible, delicious, and newly released. The annual Best in Glass Awards were held on 12th December 2012 at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society in London. After a gruelling afternoon of a two-course luncheon (wink!) and blind tasting of ten whiskies, one whisky emerged victorious from the collection to be dubbed the champion of the Best in Glass Awards 2012!
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I'm sure you'll all remember the frankly fantastic couple of bottlings launched by the irrepressible duo from Caskstrength Neil and Joel in the past year or so?
First up was an Arran – a delight of a whisky with a frankly absurdly low outturn of only 92 bottles. This astonishing bottling rapidly sold out, and is now changing hands for hundreds of pounds on auction sites.
Second was an astonishing Benriach, matured for an impressive 16 years, and finished for 4 of those years in a Pedro Ximenez cask. This too, sold out in incredibly short order.
After 'A' for Arran, and 'B' for Benriach, must come 'C'.
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And…we're back! That's right folks, we're now shipping to the USA again! It was scary there for a moment, but this brave little eagle has personally agreed to fly all of your packages across the Atlantic ocean for just a few kippers a day!
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Like a striding colossus of the whisky industry powered by pure inspiration, awesomeness and zeitgeist*, That Boutique-y Whisky Company have brought you not one, but seven brand new releases, as well as a second batch of Aberlour.
Without any further ado:
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You bought loads of Highland Park for Christmas, and each of you who did earned a chance to win an amazing trip to the Highland Park Distillery in Orkney! Now that you've cracked open the bottle (or gifted it to a loved one) to enjoy while drafting your resolutions for 2013, it's time to announce the lucky chap (or chappette) who's going to Orkney.
Drumroll, please…
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Court's Holding that ADHD is not a Disability Under the ADA Leaves California Employees Free to File Under State Law
Weaving v. City of Hillsboro, 763 F.3d 1106 (2014), involved an Oregon police officer who claimed he was terminated because of his disability, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). The jury found for Officer Weaving, however the Ninth Circuit took his verdict away, claiming that ADHD may have limited his life functions of working and/or interacting with others, but it did not "substantially" limit those life functions.
It is a pity for Officer Weaving that he didn't work in the State of California, where a disability is defined by statute as "limiting" rather than "substantially limiting" a life function. California employees can certainly argue that ADHD is a disability because of this difference. California employees should always file a charge with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (the DFEH, the California state agency governing employment discrimination and/or have the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the federal agency) cross-file the claim with the DFEH.
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Stockton called it "the most perfect putting round I've ever seen."
"I had some guy ask me earlier in the week if I thought Rory could become a good putter," Stockton said. "I looked at him as if he was nuts. He was already there.
"I don't know how anybody could have a better setup. He doesn't waste time. He lets it go. He would be one of the last people affected by pressure because of his routine. It's fun to watch."
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It was quite a week for Stockton, who was honored at Kiawah before the championship began with the PGA of America's Distinguished Service Award. The setting was perfect, of course, because one of the highlights of Stockton's life is being the captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup squad that won the "War by the Shore" in 1991 at Kiawah.
"Kiawah and I are now cemented even more," Stockton said. "The memories get better and better. Last week was a blur, and it was one of the highlight reels of my life."
If the PGA wasn't enough, another Stockton student, So Yeon Ryu, shot a 9-under 62 on Sunday to win the LPGA's Jamie Farr Toledo Classic by seven shots. Two pupils who won by a combined 15 shots.
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In Durango, Pads have someone up to speed
"(Durango) was able to run from the day that we signed him," Towers said. "But he hasn't really filled out a lot. I don't know if he's ever going to be strong physically. But each and every year he's kind of learning his game and what he needs to do to be successful. And it's to keep the ball out of the air, keep the ball on the ground and good things happen."
With first base coach Rick Renteria doubling as a translator, Durango assured reporters that there is more to his game than bunts and blurs.
"You'll see me swing the bat," he promised. "I bunt, but you're going to see me swing the bat."
Whether his swing is sweet enough to make a lasting mark at this level is unclear, but after two days on the job Durango is already a threat to Bobby Tolan's 1974 club record of 15 bunt singles. (Because of incomplete records prior to 1987, the major-league mark is unofficial. The known standard was set by Brett Butler, who had 42 bunt singles for the Dodgers in 1992.)
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10-year basic education only needs funds
The philosopher Pascal said, "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." It appears that nowadays Pascal's road is becoming the course of many a policymaker.
Many public officials like Education Secretary Armin Luistro, and probably including President Aquino, appear to be in favor of lengthening the years of basic education from 10 to 12—seven years elementary and five years high school. But what is wrong with the old 10-year regime?
My guess is as good as that of my neighbors. It could be the deteriorating educational system. But is there no other excellent idea to reverse the decline?
My late father used to tell me that high school graduates taught in public elementary schools and occupied government offices. My late elder brother, a high school graduate, worked in the Bureau of Posts and became a postmaster. Undoubtedly, the school system of the past produced quality and competent high school graduates. Why can't the present?
What has happened to our educational system? Why don't our educators and concerned government officials look back, investigate and rethink the old against the present policies and practices that led to the deteriorating education system? Perhaps the budget appropriated for the school system is inadequate, or it could be because of the poor method of selecting and training of teachers. The outmoded books and school curricula might be factors as are the parents' lack of supervision over their children, dilapidated or lack of school buildings and facilities such as libraries, etc.
To upgrade the educational system, the government will require a number of doable inputs: sustained and adequate annual budgetary support for the teachers' upgraded salaries, school buildings and libraries, adequate books and school supplies, proper selection and continuous training of teachers, to name a few.
If ever a year, yes, a year not two, is added, it should be for a valid and specific purpose. In my opinion, it should be in high school, not elementary. In their fifth year in high school, students can be rigidly taught technical or vocational courses for six months and a college orientation course for four months. The reason is, if a high school student is taught a particular field of work of his choice—either as a computer technician, electrician, auto mechanic, carpenter, house painter, baker, mason, tailor or beautician, he can earn a living after graduation. And those who will pursue college are already exposed to college work.
Nothing wrong with 10 years of basic education, provided there's enough funding for decent teachers' salaries, proper school facilities, right curricula and system of teaching, etc. Let's not add to the burdens of the long-suffering parents of the schoolchildren. Please.
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O'FALLON, Mo. (KMOV) A man and a woman were charged Friday after police allegedly found their 6-year-old autistic child locked in a make-shift cage in the basement of their O Fallon, Mo. home.
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Police said upon their arrival, officers found the couple s 6-year-old autistic child sitting in urine and feces without clothes on in a make-shift cage in the basement.
According to police, the cage had a plywood top and was held together with zip ties, tension straps and bungee cords. It was about 3 feet tall, 3 feet wide and 6 feet long and took several responders to break it.
According to the court documents, the parents were not home when police arrived. Police said the 6-year-old and five siblings ranging from 11 months old to 8 years old were left with an older relative recovering from a stroke. The relative told officers it was difficult for her to take proper care of the children.
Police said other areas of the home were completely unsanitary.
They said door knobs to the children s rooms were installed backward so they could be locked from the outside. The siblings also said they were rarely allowed to play with the autistic child, who they say was locked in the cage most of the time.
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Water storage ideas - IBC Totes?
I have two 55-gallon barrels and some bottled water, but just a few minutes ago my huband and I were talking. He is concerned since much of our food needs water for cooking, that we should add another barrel.
I have seen people on SB mention the IBC water totes that hold 275 gallons. I don't know where to acquire and how to fill / retrieve the water out.
We have both barrels stored in the basement on the slab cement floor with thick rubber pads between the barrel bottoms and the floor. We also have a detached garage with room, but it is not heated or air conditioned.
I would appreciate suggestions and source ideas. Thanks!
I'm using IBC totes. They're a perfect solution for my particular needs. Just make sure you get ones that held food grade liquids. Some of them are used to ship chemicals and such. It's not that hard to find food grade ones, since cooking oils, liquid sweeteners and such are commonly shipped in them too.
You can get standard pipe fittings for them. But you'll have to buy a few adapters to adapt the large opening down to something that will fit a spigot or valve. They can be filled with a garden hose, or a pump.
Unfortunately, sometimes they take some detective work to find. Mine came from a factory that makes sandwiches for convenience stores. But you could check other food factories. Anyone who would use oil, vinager, sweeteners, soy sauce or other liquids in large quantities. You can also find them on and off in craigs list or the newspaper ads.
You may be able to stack them 2 high in your basement. If so, that's 550 gallons of water, off in a corner somewhere, only taking up about a 4 foot square footprint.
If you have any small scale farming in your area, that's worth checking out too. They always seem to be selling used irrigation or livestock watering tanks here. I ended up with a 325 gallon one for free, just for hauling it off. Overall, I have $100 invested in 1,600 gallons of water storage.
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Thanks for the quick reply!
A few more questions:
I'm planning on using IBC totes to set up a water storage system which catches water from my downspouts. If you look up LDSPrepper on YouTube, he did a great series of videos on the subject.
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I don't know how well they handle freezing. Frozen liquid doesn't just expand upward. It expands outward too. They're pretty tough and durable, but I don't know if they're designed to withstand freezing. You could probably google up a supplier that makes the tanks and check the specs. I know I've seen them for sale new (pricey!!!) online somewhere.
Personally, I think I'd avoid anywhere that they might freeze. Your water does you no good if it's frozen when you need it.
Oh that reminds me of another source. Most cities of any size have materials resellers who specialize in selling used shipping materials, tubs, totes, padding, boxes, etc. They usually have the IBC totes also. You'll need to poke around the yellow pages for that one.
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Even though you're in Kentucky, I know that Lexington might not be convenient for you.
However, if Lexington is convenient, then you can get the totes from http://www.lexingtoncontainercompany...IBC-Totes.html
I have not got these particular totes from them before but I have got a number of items on different occasions. The barrels that they say were triple washed were very clean, so I think the totes are probably pretty clean as well.
I'm not affiliated with them in any way (just a customer) but I like to help others here find good sources. If you go there, they have mylar bags, pumps, buckets, gamma lids, barrels, different spigots, etc. So take some extra money if you have it.
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One concern on putting them in a basement is getting them down there. They are usually slightly less than 4'X4'X4'. Is there an area in your garage that adjoins the house that you could insulate and put vents through the wall to allow air flow from the house. If a vent were to be put low into the basement and high to an upstairs room, it would allow natural air flow. Your goal isn't to keep it room temp. just to keep it above freezing. It would only need to be big enough to cover the totes. Don't forget to insulate the floor.
Like Mike said, make sure it is food grade. I wouldn't count on being able to clean a chemical tank well enough for potable water.
Some totes have standard pipe threads and others require an adapter to change it to pipe threads. Some have a metal cage and others have a plastic cage.
Set bottom tote on bricks or something strong to get it off the floor for ease of access to the drain valve.
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A quick note on cleaning the tanks. If possible, try to get them prewashed. They're a hassle to clean. Mine had contained vegetable oil and had quite a lot left in them. I put them upside down on saw horses and used an inexpensive electric pressure washer from Harbor freight to blast the insides with warm water and dish soap. Then I left them upside down on cinder blocks in the sun to drain and dry out.
I already had the pressure washer for blasting cobwebs off the rough stucco finish of my house at the time. You can rent them cheap enough, but I wouldn't recommend it. Some people use them to spray grease removers and such. They aren't that expensive to buy. Maybe buy one, use it to clean totes, then resell it or something.
Thanks to everyone for all the ideas!
I showed these to my husband, and he is skeptical that we can handle these on our own and current setup.
However, we have two more water barrels on order (these will make 4).
As for the IBC totes, I've not entirely given up on these either. Maybe in the future we can bury a tote and catch rainwater to diversify our water options.
At least we are thinking, starting and DOING -- all in the right direction as a team.
Check your local area's craigslist.
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great idea! This board is very valuable with these alternate methods. Now if I could just find one (or two) of these locally in the carolinas.
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Does anyone have a trusted Western US source they've done business with where I can price a new tote? I don't want to deal with cleaning out syrup or other previously stored liquids.
After pricing them new, I may change my mind, since it may not be cost effective. I'm just curious what the 275gal. food grade IBC's cost.
Thanks in advance.
I'm just concerned that it may be very difficult to eliminate the syrup residue out prior to filling with drinking water. I did fnd a company not far from me in an adjacent state that sells food grade, 1 use, Schutz brand 275 Gallon IBCs for $75.00 and they will steam it out prior to shipment for a $15.00 fee. Do you think that will clean it properly?
Even with shipping, it appears to be more cost effective for me than buying two food grade 55gal drums.
I have 2 of these totes and I got lucky and paid $20 each!!!
If I would have known that some people are charging close to $100 for them I would have snagged more.
My system is for collecting rain water for my garden which is about 200 feet from the house.
I have 2 55 gallon plastic barrels that I have at one corner on the house at a downspout connected together.
When they are full, I have a small electric pump that I hook up and pump the water down the the totes at my garden.
550 gallons of water lasts me a long time in the garden considering how much water I get off of my roof.
These totes are great!!
I ordered four of them last week from someone I found on Craigslist. He had both 275 and 330 gallon tanks advertised, but he only had 275 gallon tanks available, so I went with those.
Has anyone had any success installing a two way, filtered automatic breather valve into the cap at the top of the tank?
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Japan votes in election seen returning LDP to power after three-year hiatus
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TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japanese voters streamed to polling stations on Sunday in an election expected to return the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to power after a three-year hiatus, giving ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a chance to push his hawkish security agenda and radical economic recipe.
Polls opened at 7am (6am Singapore Time) and will close at 8pm when major TV broadcasters will issue exit polls forecasting results.
An LDP win would usher in a government committed to a tough stance in a territorial row with China, a pro-nuclear energy policy despite last year's Fukushima disaster and a potentially risky prescription for hyper-easy monetary policy and big fiscal spending to beat deflation and tame a strong yen.
Media surveys have forecast the LDP will win a big majority in parliament's powerful 480-seat lower house, just three years after a devastating defeat that ended more than 50 years of almost non-stop rule by the business-friendly party.
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LAKE GEORGE Some time ago, the village mayor chatted with a man at the Holiday Inn bar and their conversation turned to the fragile but breathtaking beauty of ice sculptures and how it would be a dream come true if an ice-carving event were launched in Lake George. Mayor Robert Blais may not have known he was talking to the accomplished, award-winning ice sculptor Earl Covington from Mamaroneck, N.Y. But Covington, on the other hand, had no idea he was talking to Lake Georges long-tenured mayor. Now, the two are working together to transform their dreams into reality. Covington said he is arranging for about a half-dozen of his fellow artisans of the National Ice Carving Association to spend a week in Lake George creating sculptures for winter visitors and residents to enjoy. The event would include a friendly competition among the sculptors, Covington said, and the public would cast their votes for their favorite ice carving based on various criteria. Ice competitions in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Alaska have attracted thousands of people to their host communities, Covington and Blais said. The two suggested that the competition might be expanded annually to include companion public installations and activities so the event would develop into full festival proportions. I think we could build around it to make it into an event that would really extend our winter season here in the village, Blais said. Patricia Joyce of Glens Falls -- who organized two annual competitions in snow-sculpting, a related art form, in Glens Falls City Park -- offered her thoughts on both forms of frigid artistry. People were stunned, she said recalling the large, enthusiastic crowds that watched the snow-carving events . These sculptors are very creative in their artistic expressions, beyond what you would imagine. She predicted that thousands might be likewise drawn to Lake George for a similar event. Blais said he and Covington are aiming for a date in January, perhaps as soon as next year. Backed with 20 years of experience as an ice sculptor, Covington and a collaborating sculptor carved their way to 2nd place in the 1997 World Ice Art Championship competition in Alaska. He also won an Emmy award in 2004 involving production design for elaborate stages, figurines and backdrops he created out of ice for ABC Sports. Monday, Covington said that arrangements for the proposed Lake George ice sculpture event were progressing. The plan is to go forward for next year, he said. Well bring up a very talented group of competitors, great talent, and put on a really good show. He said his sculptor friends loved to dream up creative, innovative sculptures that intrigue people and fuel their imagination. I know theyll do some stuff in Lake George thats just unbelievable.
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The Alawites are more a cult than a sect. They appeared earlier in history than the Alevis. As described in an article by Daniel Pipes, published in 1989, Alawite "doctrines date from the ninth century A.D." from within the "Twelver" Shia current. As Pipes wrote, "In about A.D. 859, one Ibn Nusayr declared himself the bab ('gateway to truth')," a major religious title in Shiism. Alawite religion appears to preserve elements of paganism and of the dualist religions of pre-Muslim Iran, of which the best-known is Manichaeism, positing a permanent, cosmic struggle between light and darkness.
According to Pipes, "The [Alawite] religion holds Ali, the fourth caliph, to be the (Jesus-like) incarnation of divinity… [Alawites] celebrate many Christian festivals… They honor many Christian saints… The specifics of the [Alawite] faith are hidden not just from outsiders but even from the majority of the [Alawites] themselves… Religious secrecy is strictly maintained, on pain of death and being incarnated into a vile animal… Women do most of the hard labor; they are prized 'precisely because of the work they do that men will not do except grudgingly, finding it incompatible with their dignity.' Women are never inducted into the mysteries ('Would you have us teach them whom we use, our holy faith?'); indeed, their uncleanliness requires their exclusion from all religious rituals." Unlike the Turkish Alevis with their cemevi, Alawites "have no… places of worship; indeed they have no religious structures other than tomb shrines. Prayers take place in private houses, usually those of religious leaders," Pipes noted.
The contrast between the Arabic-speaking Alawites and the Turkish-Kurdish Alevis could not be clearer to those who know the latter. Where the Alawites are esoteric, Alevism is an enthusiastically public faith. Its religious songs and texts are published and widely distributed. Alevi women not only are treated as equal to men, but take a leading role in Alevi rituals. Alevis are descendants of dissident Muslim mystics who found themselves at odds with the Turkish state in the 1300s. In the 1500s, the predecessors of the Alevis sided against the Ottoman sultans in a war with the Sufi-ruled Safavid Persian empire.
Syrian Alawites and Turkish Alevis are not the only Muslims named for Ali. The Ba'Alawi Sufis are a strict Sunni order found in south Arabia, east Africa, and southeast Asia. Similarly, conventional Sunni Sufis in the Balkans are known as "Aliites" or "Alevians."
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the Turkish opposition leader, is an Alevi, not an Alawite. Does this confusion between two lesser-known phenomena in global Muslim religious life matter to people outside Turkey and Syria? It should, if only because Erdogan's charge that Alevis and Alawites are the same illustrates the same penchant for wild demagogy the Turkish prime minister has shown in dealing with Israel.
Alevis deserve the support of foreign monitors of religious freedom in their demands for equal treatment by the Turkish government. The Syrian rulers have distorted religious freedom for Alawites, Christians, and other non-Sunnis to perpetuate a brutal tyranny. Alawites are, perhaps against the will of some among them, servants of the dictatorial order in Damascus. Alevis are partisans of democracy and the West; Alawites are exemplars of despotism and lackeys of Iran, Russia, and China.
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Switched at Birth (TV series)
|Switched at Birth
|Family drama
Teen drama
|Created by
|Lizzy Weiss
|Vanessa Marano
Katie Leclerc
Constance Marie
Lea Thompson
D. W. Moffett
Lucas Grabeel
Gilles Marini
Sean Berdy
|Theme music composer
|John Swihart
|John Swihart
|Country of origin
|United States
|Original language(s)
American Sign Language
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|83 (list of episodes)
|Executive producer(s)
|Lizzy Weiss
Paul Stupin
John Ziffren
Becky Hartman Edwards
|David Hartle
Shawn Wilt
Sean Reycraft
|Peter Basinski
Jill D'Agnenica
Debby Germino
Susan Kobata
Mitchell Danton
William Marrinson
Nathan Easterling
|Frank Byers
Russ T. Alsobrook
Daryn Okada
Carlos González
Phil Parmet
|Camera setup
|Running time
|45 minutes
|Production company(s)
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Suzy B Productions
ABC Family Original Productions
|Disney–ABC Domestic Television
|Original channel
|ABC Family
|Original release
|June 6, 2011– present
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Switched at Birth is an American teen/family drama television series that premiered on ABC Family on June 6, 2011, at 9:00 ET/PT.[1] The one-hour scripted drama is set in the Kansas City metropolitan area, and revolves around two teenagers who were switched at birth and grew up in very different environments: one in the affluent suburb of Mission Hills, Kansas, and the other in working-class East Riverside, Missouri. According to ABC Family, it is "the first mainstream television series to have multiple deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars and scenes shot entirely in American Sign Language (ASL)".[2]
The show's debut was ABC Family's highest-rated series debut to date.[3] The series won an honorary Peabody Award in 2013, and on July 30, ABC Family ordered a third season which premiered on January 13, 2014.[4] On August 13, 2014, ABC Family renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on January 6, 2015.[5][6]
Bay Kennish, a teenage girl from the wealthy Kansas City suburb of Mission Hills, Kansas, discovers from a school lab assignment that her AB blood type is incompatible with her type A parents John and Kathryn. Genetic testing confirms she is not the Kennishes' biological daughter, which leads in turn to the revelation that the hospital mistakenly switched her with another newborn, Daphne Vasquez, who lives with her single mother Regina and grandmother Adriana in the low-income neighborhood of East Riverside, Missouri. Daphne is deaf, having lost her hearing as a result of contracting meningitis at age three. The Kennishes invite Daphne and Regina to their home, and after learning that Regina is struggling financially, propose that they move into their guest house with Adriana, an offer Regina accepts.
This forces the girls, along with both families, to understand their differences and embrace their similarities. The girls sometimes struggle with their identities, as Bay discovers she has inherited her artistic talent from Regina, and Daphne discovers she has inherited John's athletic skill and Kathryn's love of cooking. Both mothers learn to bond with their biological daughters, while often unintentionally angering their legal ones. John learns to relate to his new-found daughter by coaching her deaf school's basketball team and employing her in the office of one of the local chain of car washes that he owns. Bay is driven by a need to find and relate to her biological father Angelo Sorrento, who left Regina shortly after Daphne went deaf.
- Bay Madeline Kennish was born to Regina Vasquez on October 22, 1995, at 1:22am, but was mistakenly given to Kathryn Kennish by the hospital. She was raised in Mission Hills, Kansas as the legal daughter of Kathryn and John Kennish. She is a passionate, talented artist, which as she learns, she inherited from Regina along with her dark hair and Latina features. A student at Buckner Hall, she is academically challenged, and on learning of her birth switch with Daphne, suffers a bit of an identity crisis. In the first season, she and Daphne's deaf friend Emmett fall in love, giving her a strong incentive to improve her ASL skills. She feels Emmett is one of the few people who understand her passion for art, because of his own love of photography. Driven by the desire to find and relate to her biological father, she identifies him after a bit of detective work with Emmett's help, and eventually meets him. She breaks her relationship with Emmett when she cannot forgive him for making the foolish mistake of cheating on her with her ex-childhood friend who has since become her enemy. She has a passion to paint street art throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area, and finds a kindred spirit in Zarra, another street artist from East Riverside, whose friendship alienates her further from her legal parents. Accused of cheating and called before a Buckner honor board when her French grade suddenly improves (due to the help of her half-French biological father Angelo Sorrento), she decides to avoid the problem by transferring to Carlton's pilot program for hearing students.In season three bay and Emmett reunite as a couple after Emmett is catfished by a boy who goes to carlton and the last episode of season three ends with Bay taking the blame for Daphne vandalizing Regina's work project in East Riverside.
- Daphne Paloma Vasquez was born to Kathryn Kennish on October 22, 1995, but was mistakenly given to Regina Vasquez by the hospital, and raised as her legal daughter in the working-class neighborhood of East Riverside, Missouri. She inherited red hair from her biological mother, and lost her hearing after a battle with bacterial meningitis at age three. She wears hearing aids, which give her some sensation of ambient noise but not the ability to hear speech. She attends Carlton School for the Deaf, and has become accomplished in lip reading and American Sign Language (ASL). She is a vegetarian, who shares her biological mother's love of cooking, and also loves to play basketball, inheriting her father's athletic skill. She has become angry at the man she thinks is her father, Regina's boyfriend Angelo Sorrento, for leaving shortly after she became deaf, but gradually learns to overcome this after he returns upon learning of the switch. She adapts fairly readily and relates well to her biological parents, though as the series progresses, this relationship is sometimes strained. In the second and third seasons, she starts to get in trouble and becomes involved in a blackmail scheme. After performing community service in a free medical clinic, she decides to pursue a medical career.
- Kathryn Kennish is Daphne's red-haired biological mother, and Bay's legal mother, with an older son Toby. She has explained Bay's dark hair to herself as a recessive trait of her Italian grandmother. She is a passionate cook; gifted with hospitality, she graciously opens her home to Daphne, Regina, Regina's mother Adriana, and later, Angelo. She learns ASL, relates fairly well with Daphne, and is able to exchange parental advice with Regina. Angry at the hospital upon learning of her daughter's switch, she pursues a lawsuit with her husband. She decides to help herself deal with the switch, and also to counteract a yellow-journalist treatment of the story, by writing her own book about the switch. Regina, at first mysteriously unwilling to cooperate either with the lawsuit or the book, eventually changes her mind. Kathryn feels guilty about failing to detect the switch for almost sixteen years, after meeting another mother called to testify in the lawsuit, who detected the hospital switched her baby and was reunited after only nine days. The situation, exacerbated by Bay's alienation, places strains on her marriage. Later in the series, Kathryn decides to write another book, a novel.
- Regina Vasquez is Bay's biological mother, and Daphne's legal mother. Puerto Rican on her mother's side, she has raised Daphne alone since the age of three, when her boyfriend Angelo Sorrento left them and disappeared. Fiercely independent and proud, Regina has instilled these traits in Daphne by learning and teaching her ASL, encouraging her to learn lip reading, and sacrificing to give her the best deaf education possible. Regina was once a talented artist, but sank into alcoholism from which she recovered through Alcoholics Anonymous. Regina is adept at concealing the truth and lying convincingly when she feels she has a good reason. The hospital's lawyers discover that she has known about the switch since the girls were three, when Angelo suspected her of sleeping with another man and obtained DNA tests which proved he wasn't Daphne's biological father; then she hired a private investigator who found and photographed Bay, but she decided Bay's life would be better with the Kenneshes. After Angelo returns, Regina agrees to a sham marriage to prevent his deportation due to an assault and battery charge he faces in Italy. After reuniting with an old male friend, Regina briefly relapses to her alcoholism, and spends some time in a rehabilitation program. When Angelo is hospitalized for a serious car crash, we learn in a flashback that he didn't leave voluntarily as she had led everyone to believe, but that she kicked him out, from anger over his jealousy.
- John Kennish is Toby's father, Bay's legal father, and Daphne's biological father. John is a former MLB Baseball player who owns a chain of car washes. He is a state senator from the Republican Party. John is at first resentful towards Regina and does not trust her, especially after it comes out that she knew about the switch. He feels Regina kept him from his daughter. John suffers a stress-related heart attack, during which he has a fantasy about what it would have been like had Regina come forward about the switch. He realizes that both girls were better off staying where they were. John feels guilt over having denied Angelo a loan shortly before Angelo is declared brain-dead, suspecting Angelo's car crash could have been a suicide.
- Toby Kennish is John and Kathryn's son, Bay's legal older brother, and Daphne's biological older brother. He was the lead guitarist of Guitar Face, a band that included Wilkie and eventually Emmett. Toward the end of the season, Toby meets a girl named Nikki at his church, and together with Emmett form a new band. Toby has to deal with a gambling addiction that leads to him losing money and selling his stuff, but works through it with the help of Regina. Toby and Nikki get engaged and elope in the season 2 finale, but Nikki leaves soon after to volunteer overseas with her church for six months. When she returns, she tells Toby that she would like to be involved long-term overseas and that she would like him to come with her, but he turns her down and they discuss a divorce since they cannot stay married and be in separate countries. Initially, Toby regrets the break up and wants to follow Nikki where she goes, but realizes that would not be fair to either one of them. He takes a trip to Iceland and feels renewed upon returning with new prospects.
- Angelo Sorrento is Bay's biological father, the boyfriend (and later husband) of Regina. After finding out that three-year-old Daphne was not his biological child, he left Regina, believing she was unfaithful to him. Half-French and half-Italian, he spent most of the intervening thirteen years in Italy. He returns after learning of the switch in order to meet Bay and reconnect with Daphne and Regina. He joins the Kennishes in their suit of the hospital, and is awarded $5 million, which he ends up losing in a bad investment in a restaurant. He has fathered another illegitimate child before coming back to Kansas City. After his second daughter is born, he tries to raise her before giving her up in an open adoption. Angelo dies in season 3, episode 16, apparently from a cerebral hemorrage suffered in a car crash following an argument with Regina. It is subsequently discovered Angelo had a brain aneurysm which ruptured.
- Emmett Bledsoe is Daphne's childhood best friend. He inherited deafness from both his parents, and initially does not communicate verbally, or read lips as well as Daphne does. He had a childhood crush on Daphne for eight years, but has given up on waiting for her to return the interest. He tends to be mistrustful of the hearing world until he meets the Kennishes. He rides a motorcycle, loves photography, and plays the drums so well that Toby recruits him for his bands Guitar Face, and later Awesome Sauce. He develops a relationship with Bay after helping her find her father. They also bond over their mutual love of the graphic arts (Bay's painting), and date. This motivates him to improve his lip reading, and to take speech therapy. His parents are divorced; he lives with his protective mother who tries to shield him from his permissive father and father's girlfriend. While upset over his parents' custody arrangements, he has a desperate one-night stand with Toby's girlfriend, which causes Bay to end the relationship but by season three they are back together.
- Melody Bledsoe is Emmett's mother and Regina's best friend, and also a guidance counselor and substitute basketball coach at Carlton School for the Deaf. Proudly deaf, she is protective of her son, in contrast to his father's permissiveness. Mistrustful of the hearing culture, she initially sees Bay as a bad influence on Emmett, but gradually warms up to her as she discovers Bay genuinely cares for Emmett.
- Adriana Vasquez, Regina's Puerto Rican mother and Bay's biological grandmother, lives with Regina and Daphne in the Kennish guest house, and speaks ASL fluently. Fiercely supportive of Regina and Daphne, she doesn't approve of Regina's off-and-on-again relationship with Angelo.
- James "Wilkie" Wilkerson III, Toby's rich best friend and bass player of the band, Guitar Face. Wilkie falls in love with Daphne, and they date until Wilkie's father sends him away to boarding school.
- Simone Sinclair, former childhood friend, now an enemy of Bay. She dates Toby, until she betrays Bay and Toby by sleeping with Emmett.
- Tyler "Ty" Mendoza, Daphne's close friend from East Riverside. Bay falls in love with him, but breaks up as he joins the Army and is deployed to Iraq.
- Cameron Bledsoe is Emmett's deaf father. Extremely permissive, he does not have custody of Emmett until he is old enough to legally decide where he wants to live. When Cameron's equally permissive live-in girlfriend is discovered to be selling marijuana, he kicks her out and decides not to fight Melody for custody of Emmett.
- Olivia is Cameron Bledsoe's hard of hearing girlfriend. She offers Bay and Emmett wine, and deals marijuana which she hides in the garage.
- Christopher Wiehl as Patrick, owner of a local art gallery whom Regina asks to assess Bay's artwork. He becomes romantically involved with Regina until her sham marriage to Angelo, which Patrick perceives to be based on real feelings.
- Zarra, Bay's street artist friend, also known as "Medusa". Living in an abandoned trailer in East Riverside, Zarra hangs with a gang of street artists, who are pursued by a rival gang. When she and one of her friends are jailed, she asks Bay for the bail money, which Bay steals from her father's business. She leaves Bay in Texas, after a failed attempt to see a renowned street artist in Mexico.
- "Chef Jeff" Reycraft, head chef at Maize Restaurant and Daphne's boss, with whom she falls in love. Daphne sacrifices her job for their relationship, then finds he doesn't love her.
- Travis, an initially militant deaf student at Carlton, who has a problem with Daphne's newly privileged status. She discovers his attitude is based on his parent's inability to learn ASL or cope with his deafness. She persuades John to hire him at the car wash, and his attitude softens. He then falls in love with Daphne. She does not return these feelings, but eventually becomes his friend. In Season 2, Bay introduces him to Mary Beth during a screening at Maui, Kansas, the two begin a relationship.
- Noah, a hearing pilot student at Carlton who befriends Bay. He has lost 60% of his hearing due to inherited Meniere's disease.
- Lana, the mother of Angelo's second child. Puts baby up for adoption, forcing Angelo to go to court to get full custody of the baby.
- Nikki Papagus, a Christian singer who replaces Wilkie in Toby's new band. She has a boyfriend, but decides to drop him for Toby. They get married at City Hall.
- Natalie Pierce, a militant deaf student at Carlton. She bullies Bay, whom she resents along with all the hearing students in the pilot program, who slow the classes down with their poor ASL skills, and whom she sees as competing for limited school funding. After Melody forces a weekend team-building trip on the pilot students and the militant deaf students, Natalie reaches out to Bay and becomes her friend. In season two it is revealed that Natalie is homosexual.
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On August 1, 2011, ABC Family announced that they were ordering more episodes for the first season of Switched at Birth, bringing the first season to a total of 30 episodes. The series continued with a winter premiere on January 3, 2012, ending on March 20, 2012, with 12 episodes.[7][8] The series began airing the remaining 8 episodes of its first season beginning September 3, 2012.[9] On August 17, 2012 , ABC Family renewed Switched at Birth for a second season;[10] it premiered on January 7, 2013 .[11] After the spring finale on March 11, 2013 , the second season resumed on June 10, 2013 .[12] On July 30, 2013, ABC Family renewed the show for a third season to premiere on January 13, 2014.[4]
The show has an American Sign Language expert who helps make sure that the sign language used by the four fluent regulars (Katie Leclerc, Sean Berdy, Constance Marie, and Marlee Matlin) all employ a similar dialect.[13][14]
Airing on March 4, 2013, to mark the 25th anniversary of the "Deaf President Now" protests at Gallaudet University, the season 2 episode "Uprising" (which featured a similar student-led protest surrounding the closure of Carlton School for the Deaf) was produced almost entirely in sign language with few spoken lines.[15]
Filming locations[edit]
The show is filmed in Los Angeles, California. Establishing shots used in several episodes feature video of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, including: a shot of the Liberty Memorial in the first episode; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; and Loose Park.[16] There are scenes filmed in Santa Clarita, Valencia, Beverly Hills, and Pasadena.[17]
Main characters[edit]
- Vanessa Marano as Bay Kennish: the biological daughter of Regina Vasquez and Angelo Sorrento.
- Katie Leclerc as Daphne Vasquez: the biological daughter of John and Kathryn Kennish. Hard of hearing rather than deaf, Leclerc learned ASL at age 17, before she was diagnosed at age 20 with Ménière's disease which runs in her family. She developed a deaf accent for her role as Daphne, but speaks without it briefly in a scene in season 1, episode 9 where Daphne dreams the switch never occurred, and she was raised as Bay Kennish and retains her hearing. She also speaks without the accent through almost the entire episode 15 of season 2, "Ecce Mono", which is an alternative reality in which Daphne was raised by the Kennishes from age three and given a cochlear implant.
- Lea Thompson as Kathryn Kennish: Daphne's biological mother, and Bay's legal mother. Thompson directed two episodes: "Prudence, Avarice, Lust, Justice, Anger" in season 2, and "Your Body is a Battleground" in season 3.
- Constance Marie as Regina Vasquez: Bay's biological mother, and Daphne's legal mother.
- D. W. Moffett as John Kennish: Daphne's biological father, and Bay's legal father.
- Lucas Grabeel as Toby Kennish: Bay's and Daphne's older brother.
- Gilles Marini as Angelo Sorrento (recurring season 1, regular season 2-3):[18] Bay's biological father.
- Sean Berdy as Emmett Bledsoe: Daphne's childhood friend and Bay's Ex-boyfriend.
Recurring characters[edit]
- Marlee Matlin as Melody Bledsoe, Emmett's mother.
- Ivonne Coll as Adriana Vasquez, Regina's mother. It is a running gag on the show that Adriana likes to watch telenovellas, and she quips that they cannot compete with the real-life drama caused by Angelo.[19]
- Austin Butler as Wilkie, Toby's best friend.
- Maiara Walsh as Simone Sinclair, Bay's nemesis.
- Blair Redford as Ty Mendoza, Bay's love interest.
- Anthony Natale as Cameron Bledsoe, Emmett's father.
- TL Forsberg as Olivia, Cameron Bledsoe's girlfriend.
- Christopher Wiehl as Patrick, Regina's boyfriend.
- Tania Raymonde as Bay's friend Zarra.
- Justin Bruening as Chef Jeff Reycraft.
- Ryan Lane as Travis, Daphne's deaf friend. Lane's role as Travis earned him the RJ Mitte Diversity Award at the 2013 Media Access Awards.
- Max Lloyd-Jones as Noah, Bay's hard of hearing friend. The character parallels the real-life situation of Katie LeClerc, with hearing loss due to inherited Meniere's disease.
- Annie Ilonzeh as Lana, the mother of Angelo's second child.
- Cassi Thomson as Nikki Papagus Kennish.
- Stephanie Nogueras as Natalie Pierce, Bay's deaf friend
- Alec Mapa as Renzo, Kathryn's friend who she meets while taking tap dancing classes.
- RJ Mitte as Campbell Bingman, a wheelchair bound pre-med student and volunteer at the free clinic where Daphne is serving her hours of community service.
Guest stars[edit]
- Meredith Baxter appears in season 1 as Kathryn's mother Bonnie, a co-investor in John's car wash business, who turns her favor from Bay to Daphne upon learning of the switch.
- Corbin Bernsen appears in season 1 as Wilkie's father, James Wilkes Jr., who has the unpleasant task of telling Daphne he is sending his screw-up son off to boarding school.
- Shelly Long appears in season 1 as Rya Bellows, a publisher who encourages Kathryn to write her own memoir of the switch.
- Terrell Tilford as Eric, opened the coffee shop and Regina is now a partner of. The two of them are also in a relationship. Eric has a young son and mysterious past.
The series is first-run on the ABC Family cable channel. It airs in New Zealand on TV2 and in Australia on Fox8.
The first 72 episodes are available on Netflix's Watch Instantly service.
The show's premiere on the ABC Family network was the highest-rated ever, with 3.3 million viewers. The total, including the first episode's repeat later that evening, was an estimated 4.9 million.[citation needed]
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Monday 8:00 pm (September 3 – October 22, 2012)
|Monday 8:00 pm
|Tuesday 9:00 pm (January 6 – March 10, 2015)
Monday 8:00 pm (August 24 – present)
Awards and nominations[edit]
|ALMA Awards
|Favorite TV Actress — Supporting Role
|Constance Marie
|American Scene Awards
|Switched at Birth
|Teen Choice Awards
|Choice Summer TV Show
|Choice Summer TV Star — Male
|Lucas Grabeel
|Choice Summer TV Star — Female
|Vanessa Marano
|Choice Breakout Star
|Katie Leclerc
|Sean Berdy
|ALMA Awards
|Favorite TV Actress — Supporting Role
|Constance Marie
|Gracie Awards
|Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama Series or Special
|Outstanding Producer — Entertainment
|Lizzy Weiss
|Imagen Awards
|Best Supporting Actress — Television
|Constance Marie
|Best Primetime Program
|Switched at Birth
|Peabody Awards[27]
|TCA Awards
|Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming
|Imagen Awards
|Best Primetime TV Program
|Best Supporting Actress — Television
|Constance Marie
|Media Access Awards[28]
|Casting Society of America Award
|Deedee Bradley
|RJ Mitte Diversity Award
|Ryan Lane
|Peabody Awards
|Switched at Birth
|Teen Choice Awards
|Choice TV Show — Drama
|Choice TV Actor — Drama
|Lucas Grabeel
|Choice TV Actress — Drama
|Vanessa Marano
|TCA Awards
|Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming
|Switched at Birth
|TwoCents TV Awards
|Drama Queens
|Katie Leclerc
|Imagen Awards
|Best Primetime TV Program — Drama or Comedy
|Switched at Birth
|Best Supporting Actress — Television
|Constance Marie
|Teen Choice Awards
|Choice TV Actor — Drama
|Lucas Grabeel
|Choice TV Show — Drama
|Switched at Birth
|TCA Awards
|Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming
Media information[edit]
ABC Family promoted the series by launching an online game, "Switched at Birth: Hunt for the Code" one week before the premiere. Bay, a graffiti artist, left her signature stencil image on ten different websites, and players searched for the picture and accompanying code to redeem sneak peeks and enter a drawing to win $4,000.[29] Each weekday, ABCFamily.com posted two clues hinting at a site featuring the image, and instructed users to scan the code with a Microsoft Tag Reader for exclusive content.[30] Additionally, each code had two letters for fans to collect and enter to win upon completion of the ten-digit code.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (March 7, 2011). "ABC Family Expands Schedule To 3 Nights Of Original Programming". Deadline.com. Retrieved March 8, 2011.
- ^ Pennington, Gail (January 12, 2013). "TCA: 'Switched at Birth' goes deeper into deaf culture : Entertainment". Stltoday.com. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ^ Barney, Chuck (June 29, 2011). "Chuck Barney: 'Switched at Birth' another winner for ABC Family". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
- ^ a b "ABC Family Announces Premiere Dates for 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Twisted', 'Switched at Birth' and 'The Fosters'". TvByTheNumbers. October 21, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013.
- ^ "ABC Family's 'Switched at Birth' Renewed For Fourth Season". Deadline. Aug 13, 2014. Retrieved Aug 19, 2014.
- ^ Bibel, Sara (November 12, 2014). "ABC Family Announces January Premiere Dates for 'Pretty Little Liars', 'The Fosters', 'Chasing Life' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
- ^ "ABC Family Orders More Episodes of Switched at Birth". ABC Family. August 1, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
- ^ "Switched at Birth, Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game: return." TVseriesfinale.com Retrieved 11/03/11.
- ^ Bibel, Sara (July 10, 2012). "'Switched at Birth' to Air Its Season Premiere Monday, September 3; Season Kicks Off With All Day Marathon". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
- ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (August 17, 2012). "ABC Family Renews 'Melissa & Joey', 'Baby Daddy', 'Switched at Birth' & Orders Additional Episodes of 'Bunheads'". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ Ausiello, Michael (September 28, 2012). "'Pretty Little Liars' Season 3b Return Date — Plus 'Bunheads' Return Date". TV Line. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
- ^ "ABC Family Announces Summer Lineup Including Premieres of 'The Fosters', 'Twisted' + Return of 'Baby Daddy', Pretty Little Liars' & 'Switched at Birth'" TV by the Numbers Retrieved 03/11/2013
- ^ "Q & A with Constance Marie from "Switched at Birth"". modoration.com. July 14, 2011. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
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- ^ Yawn, Jacquelyne (July 15, 2011). "Special Interview with ABC Family "Switched At Birth" Katie Leclerc". San Diego Entertainer Magazine. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
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- ^ "ABC Family's 'Switched at Birth' ASL Episode Recalls Gallaudet Protest". The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ^ ABC Family, Switched At Birth - Season 1, Episode 3
- ^ http://www.seeing-stars.com/Locations/SwitchedAtBirth.shtml
- ^ "Gilles Marini Promoted to Series Regular on 'Switched at Birth' - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". Tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. September 18, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
- ^ Season 2, episode 3, Duel of Two Women
- ^ a b "Monday Cable Ratings: 'Pawn Stars' Tops Night; Plus 'WWE Raw,' 'Secret Life,' NHL Stanley Cup Finals, 'American Pickers' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". Tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. June 7, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
- ^ a b "Monday Cable Ratings: 'Monday Night Football' Triumphs + Presidential Debate Ratings, 'On The Record', 'Monday Night RAW', 'SportsCenter' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". Tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. October 23, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
- ^ a b "Monday Cable Ratings: College Football Dominates Night + 'WWE Monday Night RAW', 'Catfish', 'Love & Hip Hop 3', 'Teen Mom II' & More". TV by the Numbers. January 9, 2013.
- ^ a b "Monday Cable Ratings: NFL Preseason Wins Night + 'RAW', 'Basketball Wives', 'TI & Tiny', 'Marrying the Game' & More". TV by the Numbers. August 20, 2013.
- ^ a b Amanda Kondolojy (January 14, 2014). "Monday Cable Ratings: 'Monday Night RAW' & 'Love & Hip Hop' Tie for Lead + 'Single Ladies', 'Archer' & More". TV by the Numbers.
- ^ a b Bibel, Sara (December 9, 2014). "Monday Cable Ratings: 'Monday Night Football' Tops Night, 'Love & Hip Hop Hollywood', 'The Fosters', 'Major Crimes', 'Switched at Birth' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
- ^ a b Bibel, Sara (January 8, 2015). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'The Haves and the Have Nots' Wins Night' 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Switched at Birth', 'Dance Moms', 'The Real World' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
- ^ 72nd Annual Peabody Awards, May 2013.
- ^ "2013 Media Access Awards". Writers Guild of America. November 1, 2013.
- ^ Anne, Beth (May 26, 2011). "Switched at Birth Scavenger Hunt". Nice Girls TV. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
- ^ "Switched at Birth: Hunt for the Code". Hunt for the Code Game. ABCFamily.com. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Switched at Birth at the Internet Movie Database
- Switched at Birth at TV.com
- ABC Spark website
- 2010s American television series
- 2011 American television series debuts
- ABC Family shows
- American drama television series
- English-language television programming
- High school television series
- Sign language television programs
- Teen dramas
- Television series by Disney–ABC Domestic Television
- Television shows set in Kansas
- Television shows set in Missouri
- Television shows set in Los Angeles, California


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This network expansion is part of the company's aggressive multi-billion dollar network investment each year to stay ahead of the growing demand for Verizon Wireless' voice and data services. The company has invested more than $50 billion nationwide since it was formed — $5.5 billion on average every year — and plans to invest more than $100 million in Upstate New York in 2009.
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Strong demand for Verizon Wireless' services continued during the second quarter of 2009 as the company added 1.1 million net new customers. Verizon Wireless, the wireless company with the highest customer loyalty, reported the lowest customer turnover (highest customer loyalty) rate in the industry — 1.37 percent in the second quarter — for the 19th consecutive quarter.
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- You can't really miss J.J. Watt.
At 6-foot-5 and 289 pounds, the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year is a force to be reckoned with, one who can get after quarterbacks, slow down a run game and bat down pass after pass after pass.
"That's a good question," Watt answered with a chuckle when asked how he would go about defending himself if he were an offensive lineman. "I'd use two guys."
Last season, Watt posted 81 total tackles with 20.5 sacks. He also forced four fumbles and tallied 16 passes defensed.
The third-year pro out of Wisconsin has "only" 5.5 sacks and four passes defensed this season, but there is no doubt the Arizona Cardinals, who are about to face off with Watt and the Houston Texans, are well aware of the challenge awaiting them.
"He's the best of the best; he's an elite, elite player," Cardinals right tackle Eric Winston said of Watt. "I don't think it was an overstatement when Wade, in the beginning of the season, said he's going to be a future Hall-of-Famer if he keeps it up. I think there's no doubt about it.
"No one's blocked him yet; hopefully I can get in his way a few times."
The Cardinals will certainly look to account for Watt, whose presence alone can change how an offense operates. Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer, though, said the team can't allow the Pro Bowler to change what he does.
"You can't adjust your arm angle when you're throwing, you can't adjust balls," he said. "Odds are, once in a while he's going to get his hands on one, but you can't go outside your game plan and you can't go outside of your fundamentals and the things you're taught, because then other bad things could happen.
"He's very good at what he does, and odds are he's done it every game, and it will happen. You just have to reload and go to the next play."
Slowing down Watt, along with fellow defensive end and former Cardinal Antonio Smith, will be paramount for the Cardinals if they hope to win their second consecutive game.
"You know, Antonio doesn't probably get the credit he deserves," said Winston, who spent six seasons with the Texans. "He's had a heck of a career there and when I was there, I think he was a heck of a pass rusher.
"Even now, I think with how good Watt's been, people forget how good he is."
The 32-year-old Smith played in Arizona from 2004-2008, and has 41 career sacks.
The Texans come into the game with the top-ranked defense in football in terms of yardage, and are allowing a paltry 158 passing yards per game. They are tied for 21st in the NFL with 20 sacks and have picked off a league-worst three passes, though, meaning either they allow such little yardage because teams don't have to throw on them much, or they're doing something well that doesn't exactly show up in the box score.
As far as the Cardinals are concerned, it's the latter option.
"This is, defensively, a phenomenal football team," Palmer said. "To be No. 1 in the league in total defense and be 2-6, they're playing very good defensively."
And it all starts up front, with a pair of defensive ends who have been known to make offenses miserable.
"It's an all-day chore," Arians said of blocking Watt. "He's going to flip sides, right and left, he's going to be over our tackles, and he's also going to be over both guards.
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It was the first win in four starts this year for Indian Blessing, who was a head in front of tough 3-year-old filly Sara Louise at the wire. Trainer Bob Baffert doesn't think synthetics are the best surface for Indian Blessing, but figures to be inclined to give this 7 furlong race a try now.
Evita Argentina has enough points to qualify for the maximum 14-horse field if that's the option that owner Ted Aroney of Rancho Santa Fe and trainer John Sadler choose.
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Tomorrow's Oak Leaf and Norfolk Stakes, for 2-year-old females and males respectively, are the first two of eight Breeders' Cup prep races at Santa Anita over the next two weekends.
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Upcoming Webinars:
June 24: Contingent Workforce Legal Update 2015 - ACA and Other Concerns
July 22: CW 3.0: Increasing Value in Mature CW Programs
August 27: Future Workforce: Next Generation Workforce Management
September 23: CW 1.0: Making Sense of the CW World
October 28: HR and Procurement - Who Runs the Show?
November 19: VMS/MSP Landscape
December 17: In-House vs Outsource - Which Model is Right for You?