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When Greg Menna and Juan Pablo Segura were high school students together at The Heights in Potomac, they would snack on doughnuts after school.
"Almost a half a dozen," Menna said. "We would just crush doughnuts."
Years later, when Segura was looking to enter the world of entrepreneurship, he visited the Doughnut Plant in New York, and recalled his after-school snack. He and Menna brought pastry chef Christine Schaefer into the business, and the three co-founded District Doughnut, which has been operating for the past three years as a catering/special order business, most recently out of Union Kitchen. All of its founders are younger than 28.
This month, District Doughnut will open its storefront doors at 749 Eighth St. SE. The shop will host a series of soft openings throughout the month -- check @DCDoughnut for announcements -- with an expected grand opening during the second week of September (Update: The shop will open Sept. 12). District Doughnut is located across from the Marine Barracks, which hosts a parade every Friday evening through Aug. 29; some of the soft openings will coincide with these events.
The small shop's front windows face the barracks entrance, while the space is decorated in shades of crisp white and a color described as "poolside blue." The daily menu will consist of six yeast doughnuts and two cake doughnuts, and coffee by Compass Coffee.
(Read more about Compass in From the Ground Up, The Post's ongoing series about starting a small business in D.C.)
Doughnuts will cost $2-$3. Eventually, Schaefer hopes to broaden the menu to include savory doughnuts and ice cream. Schaefer will also be making six-packs of miniature gluten-free doughnuts using buckwheat flour.
District Doughnut has made a name for itself with its doughnut delivery service -- Menna says he used to deliver them in a suit and tie -- and Schaefer's beautiful presentation. The shop ranked high in the Food section's doughnut ranking last year, with extra praise heaped upon the brown-butter doughnut.
Some of the flavors that will be available upon opening include chai tea creme brulee, blueberry almond, lemon meringue and dulce de leche. The doughnuts are more manageably sized than some of the District's other gargantuan doughnuts, so you won't feel guilty if you eat the whole thing.
"Don't cut them," Schaefer said. "Everything falls off." They're so pretty, you won't want to split them, anyway.
District Doughnut, 749 Eighth St SE (Metro: Eastern Market). Official opening: September.


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Last night about 1am there was a huge barn fire near where I live. Here is the story, Three horses killed in Kendall barn fire | democratandchronicle.com | Democrat and Chronicle
It got me thinking, what would I do if the barn where my horse is at was on fire? While I was there of course, otherwise I wouldnt know because the barn is a few miles from my house.
Do any of you guys have a plan if something like this were to happen? I'd really like to hear!

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Congressional experts predict the U.S. Navy's fleet of ships will drop to near 300 over the next several decades, yet new electronics and electro-optical systems and technology upgrades promise shipboard electronics capability like never seen before.
BY Edward J. Walsh
The U.S. Navy is braced for severe budget cuts for shipbuilding and other systems acquisition and technology development this year, such that the Navy will not be able to achieve its hoped-for fleet strength of 310 to 316 ships over the next 30 years.
Even before the threat of deeper cuts, the Navy expected to face further constraints for critical shipbuilding, systems acquisition, and science and technology development programs.
A Congressional Research Service (CRS) analysis released last December pointed out that the Navy's 2013 to 2017 five-year shipbuilding plan contains 41 ships, compared to 55 ships in the 2012 five-year plan covering 2012 through 2016, and the 57 ships that had been planned previously for 2011 to 2015.
The ships dropped or delayed from the plan include eight joint high-speed vessels (JHSVs), one TAGOS surveillance ship, one Virginia-class (SSN-774) attack submarine, two littoral combat ships (LCS), one LSD(X) amphibious assault ship, and three fleet replenishment oilers.
|Virginia-class attack submarines will benefit from the acoustic rapid COTS insertion of new processing technologies. Shown here, USS Virginia tied up at the Groton, Conn., sub base.
The Navy also proposed retiring seven Ticonderoga- class Aegis guided-missile cruisers-four this year and three in 2014. When the House Armed Services Committee objected and the House and Senate appropriations committees funded the ships for 2013, the Navy reversed course on the 2013 decommissionings.
The CRS also says that the Navy's 2013 30-year shipbuilding plan would cost about 19 percent more than the Navy's own estimates: 11 percent higher the first 10 years, 13 percent higher for the second 10 years, and 33 percent more than the Navy's projection for the final 10 years.
The Navy also is worried about long-term shipbuilding trends. Speaking to Navy and industry officials in January, Rear Adm. Thomas S. Rowden, director of the Surface Warfare Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV), said the Navy is "going in the wrong direction-costs are going up and numbers are going down," despite a current robust shipbuilding program.
The cost of combat systems has become a major driver in the cost of new ships, and upgrades to combat systems are a major factor in determining whether ships will fulfill their planned service lives, he says.
Rowden added that the Navy must "decouple the cost of the combat system from the hull, and focus on cost and schedule as key performance parameters in order to deliver capable and affordable ships."
Still, major ship programs moved forward in 2012, with a few new surface combatants joining the fleet. The Navy is building two littoral combat ship classes: Freedom (LCS-1), a conventional 3,200-ton monohull, and the 2,800-ton Independence (LCS-2) class designed with a trimarin hull.
Last September, the Navy commissioned the third LCS, Fort Worth (LCS-3). The second of the Freedom class was built in Marinette, Wis., by shipbuilder Marinette Marine with the Lockheed Martin Corp. Mission Systems and Training (MS2) segment in Moorestown, N.J., as systems integrator.
Two more Freedom-class ships, Milwaukee and Detroit (LCS-5 and -7) are under construction. In March, the Navy awarded the team a $715 million modification to its LCS contract for construction of Little Rock and Sioux City (LCS-9 and -11).
Austal USA, the shipbuilder for the Independence-class LCS team led by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (GDAIS), laid the keel for Jackson (LCS-6) at its Mobile, Ala., yard and completed light-off for the combat system and main engine for Coronado (LCS-4). The team also is building Montgomery (LCS-8), Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10), and Omaha (LCS-12).
The LCS teams each are working on contracts to build 10 ships. The LCSs will accommodate separate surface, mine countermeasures, and anti-submarine warfare mission packages, which are brought aboard as needed based on missions assigned.
Freedom and Independence already are operating with the fleet. In June, Freedom completed first-stage testing of its surface warfare package, including the Mk 46 gun system, 11-meter rigid inflatable boat, and MH-60R helicopter. Freedom is set for deployment to Singapore in March.
|Newer Ticonderoga-class cruisers are expected to be upgraded with the baseline 9 combat system program. Shown here, Vella Gulf (CG-72) underway during Operation Enduring Freedom.
The Navy's plan is to build 55 LCSs, but the program has been controversial. In April, the non-profit Project on Government Oversight charged that the Navy had not fully reported design and performance problems with the Freedom class and that the mission packages were experiencing delays. The Navy responded that the problems had been reported promptly and addressed, noting that Freedom "has traveled more than 65,000 nautical miles…and continues to meet our expectations."
The Navy added that development and integration of the mission packages with the seaframes has been a considerable challenge, acknowledging that systems originally selected for all three packages have been replaced.
Northrop Grumman Maritime and Tactical Systems in Bethpage, N.Y., as prime contractor for the mission packages, is overseeing development of them independent of the seaframe construction. In Sept. 2012, the Navy awarded the company an $18 million contract modification to an earlier contract for engineering and production planning for the LCS mission packages.
Austal also is teamed with GDAIS to build nine 308-foot-long joint high-speed vessels (JHSVs), which will transport personnel, vehicles, and equipment at high speeds within combat theaters and to support humanitarian operations. In October, Austal launched Choctaw County (JHSV-2), and in December, the team delivered the first ship, Spearhead (JHSV-1) to the Navy.
In other shipbuilding developments, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, in December installed and integrated the deckhouse of the new land-attack destroyer Zumwalt (DDG-1000) with the ship's hull. The 1,000-ton, 155-foot-long deckhouse was built by Huntington Ingalls Industries at its Gulfport, Miss., yard.
The 15,000-ton Zumwalt, first of a class of three, is set for launch this year and delivery to the Navy in 2014. Construction of Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001) is underway with delivery planned for 2016. The third ship, Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002), will deliver in 2018.
In November, BAE Systems won a $24 million modification to an earlier contract for the 155-millimeter Advanced Gun System (AGS) for DDG-1002. The Zumwalts will be armed with two AGSs, which fire a GPS-guided, long-range land-attack projectile in support of units ashore.
Also in December, the Navy took delivery of Arlington (LPD-24), the eighth San Antonio-class amphibious assault ship, following acceptance of Anchorage (LPD-23) in November. Currently 11 San Antonios are planned to replace 41 older amphibs. Arlington, like New York (LPD-21) and Somerset (LPD-25), is named in honor of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
John P. Murtha (LPD-26) is under construction by Huntington Ingalls, which in August started fabrication for LPD-27. In June, the company launched America (LHA-6), the first of a new class of helicopter assault ships, which will replace the retiring Tarawa class.
The America class will be powered by the hybrid gas turbine/diesel and electric drive propulsion system and use the zonal power distribution system introduced aboard Makin Island (LHD-8), the last of the Wasp class of big-deck amphibs. Huntington also in June won a $2.3 billion contract for detail design and construction for Tripoli (LHA-7) with delivery set for 2018.
OPNAV is conducting an analysis of alternatives for a new amphib, now called LX, that will replace the Whidbey Island (LSD-41) and Harper's Ferry (LSD-49) class amphibs.
In November, the Navy launched USNS Montford Point (MLP-1) at General Dynamics NASSCO yard in San Diego. The vessel is the first of a new class of mobile landing platforms, which will act as floating ports.
The MLPs will provide some 25,000 square feet of stowage and will transfer personnel, vehicles, and equipment from maritime prepositioning ships and other transport ships to ship-to-shore connector craft. NASSCO will build two more, John Glenn (T-MLP-2) and Louis B. Puller (T-MLP-3).
In a major shipbuilding development, in May, the Navy took delivery of Michael Murphy (DDG-112), the last Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be built before the restart of the Burke class with John Finn (DDG-113), now under construction. The restart program will build the class out to at least DDG-125 in a dramatically redesigned Flight III configuration.
|Arleigh Burke-class destroyers Laboon (DDG-58) and Forest Sherman (DDG-98) escort a Military Sealift ship in the Mediterranean. The Burkes are being fitted with new air and ballistic missile defense capabilities through Aegis combat system enhancements.
Systems development, systems integration
The Navy achieved important progress in several major ship-systems integration efforts, and pushed forward on its centerpiece goal of modernizing the surface combatant force to offset smaller numbers.
The highest-profile effort is a huge modernization program for Ticonderoga-class cruisers and the Burkes, especially for the ships' Aegis combat system and the weapons and sensors integrated with it.
Jim Sheridan, director of Navy Aegis programs for Lockheed Martin MS2, longtime prime for Aegis, says that the company has completed installation of a "baseline 8" combat system (formerly called advanced capability build or ACB-08 for its first year of fielding) for seven cruisers, CGs-52 through -58.
Aegis, originally the name for the shield of the Greek god Zeus, is an integrated naval weapons system from Lockheed Martin that uses powerful computers and radars to track and guide weapons to destroy enemy targets.
The new baseline modifies the ships' Mk 41 vertical launch system for launching the Raytheon-built evolved Seasparrow air-defense missile, and adds the SPQ-9B air-search radar; upgraded Mk 15 Phalanx block 1B terminal defense gun and, among others, the cooperative engagement capability (CEC), a networked sensor system that enables the ship's weapons to engage targets detected by other ships and aircraft linked in a CEC network.
Lockheed Martin also finished installing a new baseline 9A (formerly ACB-12) aboard the cruiser Chancellorsville (CG-62) and neared completion of the installation of baseline 9C on the destroyer John Paul Jones (DDG-53) in late 2012.
Baseline 9A primarily provides anti-air warfare upgrades for the cruisers. Baseline 9C, for the DDGs, is a decisive combat system enhancement for ballistic missile defense and integrated air-missile defense (IAMD) through new open-architecture software, a new BMD 5.0 program, and multi-mission signal processor (MMSP), as well as new display and processing upgrades for the Aegis SPY-1D(v) radar. Baseline 9 integrates the RIM-174 SM-6 air-defense missile, which is built by Raytheon Missile Systems and fitted with an active seeker for extended range.
OPNAV's Admiral Rowden says that when the baseline 9C upgrade is complete, "John Paul Jones will be the most capable warship on the planet."
Industry and Navy officials say that a critical component of IAMD is the naval integrated fire-control counter-air (NIFC-CA) capability. The NIFC-CA integrates CEC with remote sensors, including the E-2D advanced Hawkeye surveillance aircraft and the Army's joint land-attack cruise missile defense elevated netted sensor system (JLENS), a long-range surveillance aerostat.
In September, the Navy and Army demonstrated NIFC-CA at the White Sands, N.M., Missile Range. The Aegis baseline 9 program used data from a JLENS, processed through CEC, to launch an SM-6 to destroy a cruise missile target in flight.
In October, longtime CEC prime Raytheon Integrated Network Centric Systems won a $20 million contract for 2012-2013 CEC production, following September awards for CEC engineering support.
The Navy eventually will install baseline 9C on all the destroyers up to DDG-112. Baseline 9D, which will go aboard John Finn, will adopt baseline 9C and add new radar advances. Lockheed Martin's Sheridan says that Finn will be the first ship designed "from the keel up" to be BMD-capable. Keel-laying for Finn is set for July.
The Flight III ships will add a common display system, built by DRS Technologies, which also will go aboard the Zumwalt-class submarines and aircraft. Other Flight III upgrades include an integrated bridge system for bridge and navigation control, machinery control system, and digital video surveillance system that uses 22 cameras for operator situational awareness.
|Wasp-class amphibs will get the Mk 2 Ship Self-Defense System during a planned mid-life upgrade. Here, Iwo Jim (LHD-7) transits the Suez Canal.
The Flight III combat system will go through additional upgrades with ACBs-14, -16, and future iterations. The Navy is expected by March to award a contract for a new systems integrator for the ACB-16.
Baseline changes are made easier because the combat system programs are maintained in a common source library (CSL) that Navy officials say enables developers to "build once and apply to many baselines." Capabilities are selected from the CSL based on commonality, both for system modernizations and new-ship construction, maximizing interoperability and minimizing or eliminating the need for development of new program code.
Navy and industry officials say though that the Aegis SPY-1D(v) radar limits future growth. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman are awaiting a Navy decision on a contract for development of a new S-band air-missile defense radar (AMDR). The three companies, after two-year AMDR studies, submitted proposals and are awaiting the selection. The AMDR is planned for first fielding aboard DDG-123.
BMD capability is a frontline initiative for Aegis. Lockheed Martin now is developing a baseline 9E for the Aegis Ashore system that will be deployed in Rumania in 2015 and in Poland in 2018.
In March, the Navy certified an Aegis BMD program, designated BMD 4.0.1, for the baseline 8 cruisers. The program introduces a BMD signal processor that will support the launch of the SM-3 missile.
In mid-May, the Navy and the Missile Defense Agency used BMD 4.0.1 aboard the cruiser Lake Erie (CG-70) to track and intercept a ballistic missile target. A month later, Lake Erie conducted a successful intercept of a separating ballistic missile target with an SM-3 block 1B missile.
Also in May, Lockheed Martin's Missiles and Fire Control segment in Orlando, Fla., started a series of airborne captive-carry tests for the sensor suite of a long-range anti-ship missile (LRASM) for the Ticos and Burkes. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research are managing the LRASM effort. The project is developing a low-signature subsonic missile, fitted with a GPS RF sensor and electro-optical seeker, which will use the airframe for the Air Force's joint air-to-surface standoff missile-extended range.
In early June, the Navy awarded Raytheon Missile Systems a $338 million contract for production of Tomahawk Block IV land-attack missiles. The ship- and submarine-launched Block IV succeeds two earlier Tomahawk variants, with all three now aboard some 140 U.S. Navy ships and attack submarines and the U.K. Royal Navy's Astute- and Trafalgar-class submarines. In March 2011, the destroyer Barry (DDG-52) launched the 2,000th Tomahawk during Operation Odyssey Dawn in support of the U.N. campaign in Libya.
Raytheon also has discussed with the Navy the development of a new semi-autonomous offensive anti-surface weapon or multi-mission Tomahawk for use against surface targets. The new variant, planned for the 2015 timeframe, would use Tomahawk subsystems and add a new moving target seeker and an upgraded datalink for detection, discrimination, and terminal guidance.
Raytheon continued work on its longtime ship-launched missile and ship-defense programs. The company won a $140 million contract for engineering support for the Evolved Seasparrow block II missile in December and, over recent months, awards for production and spares of SM-2, SM-6 Block I low-rate initial production, SM-3 all-up rounds, and the rolling airframe missile and SeaRAM system for terminal ship defense.
In related combat systems activity, in October, the Navy released a draft request for proposals for further upgrades to the Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS), which, like Aegis for the Ticos and Burkes, integrates sensors, weapons, and combat system processors. Although Raytheon has built SSDS since 1997 in a Mk 1 version for the Whidbey Island and Harpers Ferry-class LSDs and Mk 2 for Nimitz-class carriers and large amphibs, the RFP is open to all competitors, with the final RPF to be released in March.
SSDS is the first shipboard combat system to comply fully with the Navy's Open Architecture initiative through use of its Open Architecture Computing Environment or OACE. Eventually, Raytheon says, the Mk 1 architecture will be converted to the Mk 2 configuration, resulting in a single-source SSDS baseline. The Navy also will install SSDS Mk 2 aboard the Wasp (LHD-1) amphibs during a planned mid-life upgrade.
As systems integrator for the San Antonio-class LPDs, Raytheon builds for those ships an integrated electronic systems control network, called the shipwide area network (SWAN). The system was problematic aboard the first several LPDs, but Navy officials say that additional testing has resolved the shortcomings. Raytheon replaced an early-generation gigabit Ethernet design with a gigabit Ethernet token-ring network. The Navy now plans to augment SWAN with the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES).
In February, the Navy awarded Northrop Grumman a $37 million contract for production of the CANES system, which the company says will provide a common computing environment for dozens of surface ship, submarine, and shore-based command, control, intelligence, and logistics applications. The overall goal, says Maj. General Tom Hanifen, OPNAV's director of Expeditionary Warfare, is to "go from fleet-unique to fleet-standard."
Major Navy contractors also worked together. In Jan. 2012, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin formed a team to capture a Navy award for the newest generation-Block 3-of the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program, or SEWIP, a series of improvements to the Raytheon-built shipboard SLQ-32(v) electronic warfare system, which is aboard nearly every surface ship. The multiple SEWIP variants will provide more effective capability for actively and passively countering hostile electronic signals.
GDAIS built several Block 1 versions, but Lockheed Martin won the Block 2 program in late 2009. The Lockheed Martin-Raytheon team demonstrated the Block 3 SEWIP last year during the RIMPAC naval exercise in the Pacific.
|The Navy plans to build 55 littoral combat ships of the Freedom (LCS-1) and Indepen-dence (LCS-2) classes. Shown here, the trimarin Independence (foreground) and monohull Freedom underway off California.
Subs, sub systems
The Navy in late December awarded a five-year contract valued at nearly $2 billion to General Dynamics Electric Boat for research and development on a new submarine class to replace the 14 Ohio-class ballistic-missile subs with 12 new ones. The first five of the original Ohio class have been converted to guided-missile submarines (SSGNs) for conventional land attack and insertion of special operations units. Construction of the first Ohio replacement SSBN is scheduled to start in 2021 for delivery in 2027; it will be the first of a class that is projected to serve until 2083.
Also in December, General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls won contracts worth $2.5 billion for construction of two Virginia-class (SSN-774) attack submarines, under a multi-year arrangement set by Congress in 2008 that stipulates construction of two SSNs per year.
In the past year, the Navy continued to push efforts to contain costs of submarine systems through its acoustic rapid commercial off-the-shelf insertion (ARCI), with a series of awards to Lockheed Martin MS2 for development and production of common acoustics technologies for upgrades to the Virginia-class sonars and sonar processing suite.
GDAIS won a $28 million award in December for engineering and production of multiple upgrades of a submarine multipurpose processor and total ship monitoring system, to be integrated with the ARCI processing architecture. The company also won contracts in June and July for technology migration and technical support for the BYG-1 submarine tactical control system for U.S. Navy and Royal Australian submarines.
Lockheed Martin is teamed with L-3 KEO for the non-penetrating "photonic mast" periscopes for the Los Angeles-, Seawolf-, and Virginia-class SSNs and the Ohio-class SSGNS.
The masts are imaging systems that provide visual data and digital imaging capabilities. L-3 KEO is the former Kollmorgen Electro-Optical of Northampton, Mass., which L-3 acquired in March of last year.
The Navy awarded L-3 KEO an $11 million award for mast systems for SSNs-788 last March, and the Navy awarded Lockheed Martin $7.5 million for two systems in July. The photonic mast is integrated with the universal modular mast, which also incorporates four other mast-mounted sensors.
|The Navy continues to field the Block IV Tomahawk land-attack missile while looking at potential upgrades. Here, the Burke-class destroyer Sterett (DDG-104) launches a Tomahawk from its Mk 41 vertical launch system during an exercise in California.
Research and development
The Navy continued extensive R&D for surface and undersea warfare, exploring the integration of weapon, sensor, and command and control technologies and on finding affordable ways of outfitting future platforms.
In a high-profile surface warfare project, the Office of Naval Research is evaluating two electromagnetic railgun prototypes, one developed by an industry team led by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems and the second by BAE Systems. The prototypes are capable of generating 32 megajoules (one megajoule is the power to propel a one-ton object at 100 mph). The BAE prototype was test-fired at the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Dahlgren, Va., lab last February and the General Atomics "Advanced Containment Launcher" was fired at Dahlgren in October.
The railgun uses a magnetic field generated by extremely high-powered electrical current to accelerate an armature between two rails to launch a projectile at velocities in the range of 5,600 mph. The teams now are developing thermal management systems and automated loading systems.
Under a January 2012 award, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems is developing a design for a pulse-forming network to generate railgun power.
ONR and industry have collaborated on new mechanical, and electrical systems that, beginning with the Zumwalt-class DDGs, will support "electric drive" propulsion and shipboard power.
All-electric drive designs use electric motors and advanced distribution systems to deliver order-of-magnitude increases in power and lower fuel costs.
NSWC's Carderock Division demonstrated the integration of motor and power control technologies developed by Rolls Royce, GE Marine, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, at its Philadelphia land-based test site in mid-2012 in a three-year effort, aimed at installation aboard Zumwalt next year. The power architecture will be built around advanced induction motors and electronics provided by Converteam.
Multiple other initiatives are underway. For example, Rockwell Automation is working, under a $21 million award from the Carderock lab, to provide and support programmable logic controller hardware and software for shipboard machinery control systems.
In submarine systems, Penn State University won a Sept. 2012 contract potentially worth up to more than $850 million over five years for R&D, engineering, and testing of guidance, navigation, and control of undersea systems, thermal propulsion concepts, advanced propulsors, and related technologies.
In June, the Navy awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat an $11 million modification to an earlier contract for further research on advanced submarine technologies, across such areas as manufacturability, reliability, manning, machinery, hydrodynamics, and acoustics, as well as human factors, weight margins, and affordability.
EDWARD J. WALSH is the Naval Systems columnist for U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. A former Marine Corps communications-electronics officer and veteran defense journalist, he is the former senior editor for Sea Power magazine, where he reported on Navy weapon system and technology development, and is the founding editor and publisher of Naval Systems Update, a semi-monthly publication that covers Navy systems integration and program news.


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Lifetime's all-star cast also includes Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott and Pariah's Adepero Oduye.
The Lifetime network has assembled an all-star, A-list group of acting talent for its Steel Magnolias' reboot.
Deadline is reporting that Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott, Adepero Oduye and Rashad's daughter Condola Rashad will star in the upcoming and much anticipated TV movie version of Steel Magnolias. Queen Latifah will serve as executive producer, Kenny Leon (who helmed the ABC TV movie remake of A Raisin in the Sun) will direct and the script will be penned by Sally Robinson, the writer of Iron Jawed Angels.
The 1989 original feature film, which starred Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Julia Roberts, centered on the friendships of six Louisiana women who support each other through life's best and worst times. The women congregate at a local beauty shop called Truvy's to mull over husbands and children, life and death and hair and nails, all topics which bond and cement their sisterhood.
This updated, contemporary version of Steel Magnolias will feature Queen Latifah as M'Lynn, Woodard as Ouiser, Phylicia Rashad as Clairee, Scott as Truvy, Oduye as Annelle and Condola Rashad as Shelby.
The film is slated to begin production next month in Atlanta and will debut on televison later this year.
Move over The Jacksons: An American Dream and The Temptations, this film has the makings of yet another extremely quotable Black TV movie classic.
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CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's military warned Saturday of "disastrous consequences" if the crisis that sent tens of thousands of protesters back into the streets is not resolved, signaling the army's return to an increasingly polarized and violent political scene.
The military said serious dialogue is the "best and only" way to overcome the nation's deepening conflict over a disputed draft constitution hurriedly adopted by Islamist allies of President Mohammed Morsi and recent decrees granting himself near-absolute powers.
"Anything other than that (dialogue) will force us into a dark tunnel with disastrous consequences; something which we won't allow," the statement said. It was read by an unnamed military official on state television.
Morsi had called for a dialogue Saturday to discuss how to resolve the disagreement as his vice president suggested that a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum could be delayed.
But the main opposition leaders declined to attend, saying talks can take place only if Morsi rescinds his decrees and cancels the referendum.


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This just started but it's pretty funny, a satire of whiskey tasting notes.
This just started but it's pretty funny, a satire of whiskey tasting notes.
I like to throw out a couple of similar satrical notes about bourbon when I am introducing it to a newbie.
For example,....
The musty nose of an old Civil War novel with the leathery taste of Robert E Lee's saddle and a finish as long as the road to hell.
I thought that was really funny Chuck...thanks. Check out what Serge has going on over at whiskyfun.com . Here's a link to his new line of whisky.
Way to funny.
Hey Joe, is Binny's gonna get any of that GlenWonka Hustler Edition for 2009?
If so, I'm there!!
I'm afraid it's already been sold through. Have no fear!!! I believe I saw a few listings up on e-bay.
Very funny. I enjoyed reading that.
I'm surprised the SWA hasn't sued them yet. Even fake whiskies can't use the name "Glen" unless SWA says it's okay. Maybe it's okay because they are (fictionally) made in Scotland.


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HSBC banks in Tunstall and Sandbach close for final time
Posted: September 15, 2012|
TWO bank branches have shut their doors for the final time.
The HSBC outlets in Tunstall and Sandbach closed yesterday.
The Sentinel reported in July that the branches were to shut after suffering a drop in customers.
Both outlets employ two members of staff who are being transferred to other branches nearby.
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HSBC customers who live in Tunstall will now have to travel three miles to Etruria or Hanley to do their banking.
People in Sandbach will face a six-and-a-half mile journey to HSBC's next nearest branch in Crewe or seven miles to Congleton.
An HSBC spokesman said the bank is currently investing more than £50 million a year on 'updating and improving' its branch network.
He added: "As part of this programme, we need to ensure that our branches are in the right locations for our customers and, on occasions, this means that we need to close some branches where customer footfall has fallen dramatically or there has been a shift in customer shopping patterns."
The spokesman said that both the Tunstall and Sandbach branches had seen a 'significant fall' in customer use over the last few years.
Both branches had only opened for 'limited hours' – from 9.30am to 3.30pm, Monday to Friday.
Traders have hit out at the closures, saying they will inconvenience businesses which hold accounts there and raising fears the buildings will remain vacant.


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Interested in world cultures? Looking to learn a couple words in a new language? Come to BSLE language projects! Each project is led by a native speaker who is anxious to share his or her language and culture with you. BSLE is meant to briefly introduce Brown students to languages and cultures. They are once-per-week, homework-free, casual discussion sections. They are not substitutes for intensive language courses, but are instead fun and casual ways to engage with the cultural diversity at Brown.
Albanian: Chiara
Wednesdays at 6:00pm in Smith-Buonanno (Smitty-B) G01
Chiara comes from Albania, a tiny country in Europe with a huge history, a diverse cultural background and a unique language. It is one of the hidden gems of Europe, and she is confident that through her BSLE discussions, she will shed light on this sometimes-overlooked civilization, its roots and how it has evolved. At the same time, Chiara will make sure that by the end of the semester, project participants leave with some basic conversation skills in Albanian. Being a great fan of foreign languages, Chiara has already gone through quite different language teaching systems while studying English, Italian, French and Spanish. Chiara is a junior concentrating in Biology. She loves traveling, photography and cooking desserts.
Romanian: Ovidia
Bulgarian: Viktoria and Ivan
Romanian: Ovidia
Sundays at 4:00pm in J. Walter Wilson 303
Described by many as the country of contrasts, Romania is the place where gypsies meet vampires, where the cemeteries are merry, where sea meets mountains and the communist vestiges are intertwined with modernity. Eager to introduce us to her eclectic culture and language over this semester, Ovidia is a native Romanian, passionate about linguistics and multiethnicity. After studying Latin for five years, she is currently a sophomore at Brown and takes special interest in the evolution of languages throughout history. From this point of view, Romanian can represent a fascinating study case. As a Romance language, it is considered by many the closest living language to Latin, despite the geographical position of Romania in the middle of a Slavonic sea. Thus, by the end of the semester, the participants will develop a deeper understanding not only of the Romanian language per se, but also of the other Romance languages. Ovidia is a Development Studies / Classics concentrator, intending to choose as area of focus Eastern-Europe.
Bulgarian: Viktoria and Ivan
Saturdays at 4:00pm in J. Walter Wilson 202
· The Balkans has been a venue of interaction and clash between various cultures and influences for thousands of years. Bulgaria, situated in the heart of the peninsula, is the very representation of the unique contradictory nature of the Balkans and a place where Thracians, Ancient Greeks, Slavs, Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans and the medieval Bulgarian tsars have left their material and spiritual mark. Few people however can locate Bulgaria on the map, and even fewer know that Bulgarian people have their own distinct language. Bulgarian is a colorful ancient language of great potency, which has used the Cylliric alphabet for more than a thousand years, longer than any other country has. Viktoria hopes that by being a BSLE project leader, she will be able to not only give fellow Brown students a good sense of the language but also offer them a taste of the rich culture and unique mentality of the people from that often overlooked part of the world. Besides Bulgarian, Viktoria speaks also English, German and Macedonian. She is concentrating in Econ/IR and loves art, politics and time traveling.
Bulgaria is a small, but a very beautiful and diverse country, both culturally and geographically. Being among the oldest nations on the European Continent, it has a long and rich history – one dotted with miraculous triumphs as well as great tragedies. Contemporary Bulgaria is similar in that it can often be a place of very palpable paradox, but wonderful despite it – or at times, precisely because of it. Ivan was born in Bulgaria, but has spent more than half his life in the United States. As a BSLE project leader, he hopes to share his passion for language and the heritage he holds very dear. In addition to Bulgarian and English, he speaks Spanish and studies Russian. Ivan is a junior concentrating in Political Science; though his primary focus is on political theory, Ivan is also interested in the international relations, politics, and culture of Eastern Europe. Ivan enjoys traveling, sports (soccer!), the finer things in life – poetry and philosophy, and most of all humor (he has been known to insist that his jokes really are funny – sometimes it just gets lost in translation).
Cape Verdean Creole: Rob
Sundays at 5:00pm in J. Walter Wilson 401
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Rob served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the West African island nation of Cape Verde from 2008 to 2010. There he taught courses in linguistics and pedagogy at the newly-founded University of Cape Verde while also developing various non-curricular and international English-language initiatives. He returned to Cape Verde to work in the private sector in 2011 and continues to collaborate on various projects based there. He speaks both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole (Kriolu) and is currently pursuing his Masters in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown. He has also studied Spanish since high school (forgive the rustiness) and is now beginning to dip more into (Quebecois) French, having recently spent the summer living in Montreal. He really looks forward to facilitating greater dialogue between the Brown community and Providence's vibrant Cape Verdean diaspora heritage. His favorite phrase in Kriolu is mansu-mansu, which literally means "nice nice".
Tagalog: Chelsea
Thursdays at 7:00pm in J. Walter Wilson 303
Chelsea was born in a city called Tarlac in the Philippines. When she was seven years old her mother and sisters moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where her father had been working for most of her life. She lived there for five years, perfecting the glottal stop and playing ukulele for tourists at Waikiki Beach. In 2005, her family moved to San Antonio, Texas, where she eventually graduated from high school in 2012. Although she has existed in many different communities during her life, Chelsea has kept in very close touch with the Tagalog and Pampango languages as well as the Filipino culture with the help of her immediate family and relatives still living in the Philippines. Chelsea is also familiar with French, Latin, and Hawaiian Pidgin. The first Tagalog word she ever spoke was "tutubi," meaning "dragonfly."


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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Bible Fruit (season finale?)
(S05E09) "Well... I'm about to update your "MyFace" page with my ass unless you get in there and read us a story!" - Shake
Well, not the best episode of ATHF, but I liked certain parts of it. The addition of new or temporary characters is always so touch and go on this show. Sometimes it's huge and repeat appearances are warranted. Think Mooninites, Plutonians, and MC Pee Pants. The Bible Fruit? Despite the extra points for being a well-done knock off of the openly Christian themed VeggieTales, I'll be glad if I never see them again.
Frylock went ahead and made a MySpace page and quickly made three new friends who he invited over for a party: Burt Banana, Tammy Tangerine, and Mortimer Mango. Carl showed up briefly, but quickly left after remarking "see you fruits later." Hilarious. Despite the fact that everyone dressed up (Frylock had a cardigan, Shake had a Hawaiian shirt, Meatwad... a belt), the party went south fast when the Fruits outed themselves as drug addicts turned hardcore Jesus freaks. Think of all the religious fanatic stereotypes you've ever encountered and that pretty much sums them up.
Over the course of the evening, Burt lost control and began to crave alcohol, drugs, sex, and beating his fiancé Tammy. Blame Shake's mojitos I guess. They trashed the house as most guests of the Aqua Teen's tend to do and eventually, Frylock and Meatwad blew the place up with Shake and the Fruits inside.
Nothing all that special, but there are a few things worth talking about...
Anyone notice the jab at Adult Swim for pulling Futurama? Meatwad wanted to watch it but Shake said they didn't have it anymore and he'd have to go next door to "Carl Central" (get it?) to watch it. Then he made some crack about how Carl didn't even want it until they [the Aqua Teen's] liked it. Funny stuff and well played. Futurama is now exclusively on Comedy Central.
Has Shake ever "whipped it out?" Does "it" even exist? He always threatens, but never acts. I'd like to see that played out some time... I think.
I know that Burt was voiced by David Cross, even though he was credited as Sir Willups Brightlysmoore. But who voiced Tammy? I know I recognized the voice but didn't see a familiar name in the credits.
I thought Shake was supposed to be filled with what was presumably pistachio flavored milk shake? Was Frylock being serious when he said that Shake was actually filled with liquid crystal meth?
Carl with a comb-over is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on this show.
Why had Meatwad vomited so much? Was Shake testing out his mojito recipe on the little guy before the party?
I loved listening to some of Burt's lines as he slowly gave in to his desires. He went from "high five Jesus" to "pour me a little bit of a full glass of that rum" in about thirty seconds.
This may be the season finale but I'm not sure. I've found a few places that list a tenth episode with title and airdate TBA, so who knows -- Adult Swim is like that, though. If there is one more ep, it's not next week. The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is premiering on Adult Swim. If this is it, it's been a good season. If not... I'm looking forward to see how they end it. Unless this is the end. Right? Yes. Maybe.
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BASF Starts Up New Test Line for Ultramid Packaging Films
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The line can produce cast and blown films with up to seven layers. The size and flexible configuration of the combined system enable it to simulate production conditions. The line is ideal for the production of test quantities and application testing for new film products.
"Ultramid helps our customers to develop increasingly sophisticated film structures," says Hermann Althoff, Senior Vice President of BASF's Global Polyamide & Intermediates Business Unit. "The new coextrusion line will enable us to develop new film applications for specific market needs in partnership with our customers."
The line can be used for cast or blown films depending on the requirements. It extrudes symmetrical and asymmetrical films 20µm to 250µm thick and up to 750mm wide at a speed of up to 50 meters per minute. Blown films can be air-cooled and additionally cooled with water if required. Cast films are cooled on a chill roll with an adjustable temperature of between 20°C and 130°C.
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a bright hue. Aromas of black currant, plum and black cherry are
lifted by a bouquet of vanilla, toasted pastry and spice from a year
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Roll of Honour:
Philip Llewellyn Howell-Price
Rank: Major
Unit: 1st Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918
Date of death: 04 October 1917
Place of death: Belgium
Cause of death: Killed in action
Age at death: 23
Place of association: Richmond, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
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Philip Llewellyn Howell-Price's name is located at 29 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the U.S. will join France and Britain to press for world support against Bashar Assad • West tries to overcome Russian opposition and win a new U.N. resolution demanding a halt to Syria's deadly crackdown • Syrian opposition leader: Assad will end up like Libya's Gadhafi.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Monday that the U.S. would throw its weight behind an Arab-backed condemnation at the U.N. of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, which she said was brutally blocking the country's hopes of peacefully transitioning toward democracy. Clinton warned that the escalating violence could destabilize Syria's neighbors in the powder keg that is the Middle East.
"The status quo is unsustainable," Clinton said. "The longer the Assad regime continues its attacks on the Syrian people and stands in the way of a peaceful transition, the greater the concern that instability will escalate and spill over throughout the region."
Clinton said Monday she would join the French and British foreign ministers at the U.N. Security Council to press for a clear message of world support for Syria's besieged people who face soaring violence. "We stand with you," Clinton told them in a statement.
Assad's regime, meanwhile, has been intensifying its assault against army defectors and protesters. The U.N. has said more than 5,400 people have been killed in violence since March. At least 190 more were killed in the past five days, with activists reporting at least 28 civilians killed Monday.
Syrian forces heavily shelled the restive city of Homs on Monday and troops pushed back dissident forces from some suburbs of the capital city of Damascus, activists said. The increased violence occurred as the West tried to overcome Russian opposition and win a new U.N. resolution demanding a halt to Syria's crackdown on the 10-month-old uprising.
The Obama administration was "intensely discussing with the Russians the real deterioration on the ground in Syria," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday. He said it was important that the U.N. Security Council take action, but described the administration as examining "how best to use all the levers" to end what he termed the Assad regime's "appalling and ultimately ineffective and harmful repression."
Without mentioning Russia, Carney cautioned governments who continued to side with Assad's regime. "As governments make decisions about where they stand ... it is important to calculate into your consideration the fact that he [Assad] will go," he said. "The regime has lost control of the country and he will inevitably fall."
With talks on the resolution due to begin Tuesday, a French official said at least 10 members of the Security Council backed the measure, which includes a U.N. demand that Assad carry out an Arab League peace plan. The plan requires Assad to transfer power to his vice president and allow for the creation of a unity government within two months. He has rejected the proposal.
A resolution needs support from nine nations on the 15-member U.N. Security Council to go to a vote. Russia, along with the U.S., Britain, China and France, holds veto power.
An Arab diplomat said that Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby met the Russian, Chinese and Syrian ambassadors in New York on Monday in an attempt to reach a compromise that would facilitate a dialogue between the Syrian regime and the opposition. Assad's representatives reportedly accepted the proposal, but opposition leaders said they would reject any proposal to negotiate with Assad's regime.
Moscow insists it will not support any resolution that could open the door to an eventual foreign military intervention in Syria, the way an Arab-backed U.N. measure paved the way for NATO airstrikes in Libya. Instead, the Kremlin said Monday it was trying to put together negotiations in Moscow between Damascus and the opposition.
Assad's government has agreed to participate, it said. The opposition has in the past rejected any negotiations unless violence stops, and there was no immediate word whether any of the multiple groups that make up the anti-Assad camp would attend.
Russia appeared unwilling to move toward the U.S. position Monday. Clinton tried to reach Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov by telephone over the course of some 24 hours, but he was "apparently unavailable" while on a visit to Australia, State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. She said Clinton would continue to seek a conversation with Lavrov ahead of the U.N. session.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice said the Security Council had to take a stand.
"We have seen the consequences of neglect and inaction by this council over the course of the last 10 months," Rice said. Yet she lamented that a "couple of very powerful members" -- namely Russia and China -- might still be preventing any meaningful action after using a double-veto to block a European-drafted condemnation of Syria in October.
Clinton's statement condemned the Assad regime's latest violence "in the strongest possible terms."
"The government has shelled civilian areas with mortars and tank fire and brought down whole buildings on top of their occupants," she said. She reiterated the Arab League's call for the Assad regime to halt all violence, withdraw military forces from residential areas, permit journalists and monitors to operate in Syria and release all political prisoners.
On Monday the killings in Syria continued, with reports of more than 100 deaths in clashes between military forces loyal to Assad and opposition forces on the outskirts of Damascus.
A senior rebel leader told the British Daily Telegraph that despite Assad's tenacity, he would "end up like Gadhafi," the Libyan dictator who was ousted after 42 years in power and killed by rebels last October.
Meanwhile, Israel has been making preparations for the fall of Assad's regime. IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told a Knesset committee earlier this month that Israel was preparing to absorb a flood of refugees from Assad's minority Alawite sect into the Golan Heights.
Israel should also prepare for the possibility that cornered authorities in Damascus could "as a lifesaver ... act against us," Gantz said.
Israeli officials have said they do not expect Assad's government to last more than a few months, but Gantz's remarks were the first indication that Israel is already making contingency plans for the end of the rule.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said earlier this month that Israel was also concerned Syrian weapons could be transferred to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon, which he said "we view with great gravity."
Syria is widely believed to possess chemical weapons, which Damascus denies, and has long-range Scud missiles capable of striking Israeli territory.
Barak said that "when central authority weakens [in Damascus] all kinds of factors can create friction to try to act in the Golan Heights, and there are enough bad people in the region."
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Some links on this frosty Saturday night…
- Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic spoke to Diamondbacks general manager Josh Byrnes, who took full responsibility for Eric Byrnes' three-year, $30MM contract. Arizona designated Byrnes for assignment on Friday.
- The Rays have four remaining arbitration-eligible players in Jason Bartlett, Matt Garza, J.P. Howell, and B.J. Upton. The club will stick with their policy of cutting off negotiations after exchanging figures, which happens at noon on Tuesday, writes Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times. Tampa Bay does this to try to bring about a settlement and to avoid settling at an artificial midpoint between the two figures.
- Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com isn't terribly upset that the O's weren't the club to land Kevin Kouzmanoff. Kubatko understands frustrations over the Orioles' lack of production at third, but notes that the 28-year-old's offensive production was nothing to write home about in 2009. Kouzmanoff hit .255/.302/.420 with 18 HRs for the Padres last season.
- As we heard earlier today, a committee is being formed to work on changes to the amateur draft. The committee will look into making the draft worldwide and instituting a slotting system. Mike Axisa of River Ave. Blues doesn't see any changes being made until after 2011, when the collective bargaining agreement expires.
- The Orix Buffaloes are close to signing So Taguchi, according to a report from Sponichi passed along by Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker (via Twitter). The 40-year-old emerged with the Cubs at the end of last season, making 12 plate appearances in six games.
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Overnight Links: Red Sox, Jays, Posey, Past Deals
Some overnight links for your viewing pleasure as we start to get into the real late hours of the night:
- USA Today's Bob Nightengale says good morning with a series of tweets; Nightengale says he continues to hear Edwin Jackson's name floated about, and that "most executives" feel he'll be traded soon. He also wouldn't be surprised to see Adrian Beltre fall into Boston's lap if he declines arbitration. Not sure where he envisions Mike Lowell in that scenario.
- Jeff Zrebiec lists ten trade targets for the Orioles, though he admits that some are highly unlikely. In a separate piece, Peter Schmuck opines that it's not a waste of money if the O's spend money on free agents this offseason to add a few wins and show future free agents that Baltimore is trending in the right direction.
- Alex Speier of WEEI.com explains why it would be unlike the Red Sox sacrifice a high draft pick for a free agent reliever such as Mike Gonzalez or Rafael Soriano. As you know, Boston currently owes their first-round #29 pick to the Blue Jays for signing Marco Scutaro.
- Anything can happen at the Winter Meetings, writes Peter Schmuck, who reminds us of the 1990 deal between the Blue Jays and Padres that sent Fred McGriff and Tony Fernandez to San Diego for Roberto Alomar and Joe Carter. That trade started off as a minor discussion.
- The Boston Herald has ten things to keep in mind at this year's Winter Meetings.
- Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch looks at how the economy will affect this year's Winter Meetings, and poses five key questions to keep in mind this time around.
- Gordon Wittenmyer looks at why the Cubs are optimistic that they can move Milton Bradley this offseason.
- Count Tim Wakefield and Daniel Bard among those in the Jason Bay camp for the Red Sox, says Michael Silverman. While Matt Holliday may be a more complete player, Wakefield and Bard would prefer their friend and proven AL East commodity. Good read, if for no other reason than Wakefield's quote at the end on how closely he follows the offseason: "…We'll be sitting in the dugout in spring training in Fort Myers and I'll look across and be, 'How the hell did he get over there?' "
- John Tomase touches on the Red Sox needs this offseason. Tomase hits most of the names we've already heard, and throws Mark DeRosa and Jamey Carroll into the mix as well.
- Quick! Who do you see spending the most money on the draft in 2010? Bet you didn't guess the Blue Jays (unless of course you took into consideration the large hint I provided in the title of this post). Reports are that the Jays will have a ridiculous $16MM to spend on the draft in 2010. The Jays have eight picks in the first three rounds (nine if Rod Barajas signs elsewhere), and plan to take full advantage of it.
- El Lefty Malo takes a look at the possibility that the Giants sign Jason Kendall as their starting catcher because of the belief that Buster Posey isn't ready. Apparently, it's not a thought that sits well.
- MLB.com looks back at some of the best trades and free agent signings by each club in the National League and American League since the era of Divisional play began. They've also got a more generic list of the best moves of the past 40 seasons.
- Per Kyodo News, several teams have expressed interest in So Taguchi, according to his agent Alan Nero. Several teams? Can't say I expected that one.
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Cubs Release So Taguchi
According to MLB.com's transactions log, the Cubs have released outfielder So Taguchi. The 39-year-old Taguchi spent most of the 2009 season with Triple-A Iowa, hitting .248/.347/.333 in 304 plate appearances. He got into six games for the Cubbies in September, picking up three hits in 12 trips to the plate.
As the first Japanese-born player to win the World Series with two different teams, Taguchi will one day be the answer to a trivia question. He was on the 2006 Cardinals, and last year's Phillies.
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Odds & Ends: Kikuchi, Dye, Varitek
Links for Monday…
- Yakyu Baka translated a recent Yusei Kikuchi press conference. Kikuchi has yet to decide between the U.S. and Japan. The Mets and Tigers attended the conference.
- Baseball America's Jim Callis has the 2010 draft order, and he also explains which picks are protected from Type A free agent signings.
- Jermaine Dye talking to Scot Gregor of the Daily Herald on possibly finishing his White Sox career: "I don't really have a feeling."
- Talking to WEEI's Alex Speier, Jason Varitek would not address next season (he has a $5MM team option and $3MM player option). Manager Terry Francona made sure Varitek received an ovation yesterday.
- MLB.com's T.R. Sullivan gives one-liners on 35 Rangers players.
- Tyler Bleszinski of Athletics Nation talked to A's GM Billy Beane. Beane chatted about Matt Holliday, stolen bases, and the first base depth chart, among other things.
- Richard Griffin of the Toronto Star tells us about new Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos.
- Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times explains how advanced defensive metrics influenced the team's acquisition of Franklin Gutierrez.
- Outfielder So Taguchi hopes to play in 2010, according to Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Cubs Sign So Taguchi
According to ESPN's Jayson Stark, the Cubs signed outfielder So Taguchi to a minor league deal potentially worth $900K. Taguchi, 39, hit .220/.283/.297 in 103 plate appearances for the Phillies in '08.
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Astros Not Interested In So Taguchi
8:28pm: Alyson Footer says the Astros are not interested in Taguchi.
12:44am: According to Kyodo News, So Taguchi's agent Alan Nero says the Astros are interested in his client. He's talked to five teams about the free agent outfielder.
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Red Sox Rumors: Payton, Taguchi, Bard, Paulino
Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald has a few new Red Sox rumors:
- The Sox are not interested in Jay Payton or any Craig Landis client (he also reps Jon Garland). They're also not in on So Taguchi.
- Josh Bard could be a Plan B or C at catcher. Ronny Paulino has also been discussed.
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Phillies Rumors: Burrell, Moyer, Howard
Let's round up the Phillies links. By the way, I am hoping to get to their Offseason Outlook on Friday.
- The first issue is Pat Burrell, to whom the Phillies will probably make a two-year offer (according to Buster Olney). It is true that Burrell added a Philly-based agent (Ed Hayes), but he's also keeping Greg Genske. The confusion with agents is one reason negotiations haven't begun with the Phils. Burrell would love to return. If he doesn't re-sign, the Giants may be interested. Keep in mind that Burrell does not want to DH.
- If Burrell leaves, the Phillies hope to add a righthanded hitter to replace him. Magglio Ordonez, Matt Holliday, and Manny Ramirez are considered long shots. Milton Bradley would be interesting, if the Phillies believe he can play the field every day. It'd also make sense for the Phillies to inquire on Ryan Ludwick, Jermaine Dye, Josh Willingham, Casey Blake, and Mark DeRosa.
- The Phillies have had one brief conversation with Jamie Moyer's agent. Moyer wants a multiyear deal, but Olney does not believe the Phils are inclined to do that.
- Scott Eyre would take a one-year contract to stay, and the Phillies hope to re-sign him before November 14th.
- Olney says the Phillies are expected to explore talks with Ryan Howard's agent regarding a long-term deal.
- Don't forget starting pitching; Scott Lauber figures they'll be in the market.
- Outfielder So Taguchi was released today.
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NPB Rumors: Tazawa, Iwase, Iguchi
Some Japanese baseball-related rumors, courtesy of Patrick Newman at NPB Tracker:
- Seven teams have surfaced in Japanese media reports as suitors for free agent amateur pitcher Junichi Tazawa: the Red Sox, Braves, Mariners, Pirates, Tigers, Cubs, and Phillies. David O'Brien of the AJC says the Braves are "legit players" for Tazawa. The Red Sox are seen as the frontrunner, according to Paul Hoynes. Sean McAdam of the Boston Herald agrees that Boston is in the lead, and adds the Marlins to the mix.
- Reliever Hitoki Iwase will remain in Japan. Shortstop Tomohiro Nioka is a free agent, but may not necessarily come to MLB.
- So Taguchi and Tadahito Iguchi may return to Japan for the '09 season.
- Saburo Ohmura is a 32 centerfielder with an eye on MLB. Newman tells me he profiles as more of a fourth outfielder.
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Options Declined: Taguchi, Gordon, Counsell, Embree
Alright, time to lump today's remaining options together in one post.
- The Pirates declined Jason Michaels' $2.6MM option. He could re-sign for less.
- The Phillies declined their options on So Taguchi ($1.25MM with a $150K buyout) and Tom Gordon ($4.5MM with a $1MM buyout). The moves may have been Pat Gillick's last as GM.
- The Brewers declined Craig Counsell's $3.4MM option, paying a $400K buyout.
- The Athletics declined Alan Embree's $3MM option. As a Type B free agent, the A's could offer him arbitration. Susan Slusser spoke to Embree, who didn't mind having the option declined.
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Rochester, NY - In snowy Rochester this weekend the FIT Tigers competed at the NE District Championships, placing fourth on the women's side with four swimmers and seventh on the men's side with three swimmers. Freshman Enily Lehr came away with two silvers and a bronze in her three individual events including two school records. FIT swimmers finished as follows:
Day One
Women's 200 Free Relay
Jacki Kicksee, Lauren Lyons, Ivana Ng, Emily Lehr, 3rd, 1:55.17
Women's 500 Free
Emily Lehr, 3rd, 5:43.17
Jacki Kicksee, 4th, 5:44.02
Men's 500 Free
Sean Maldjian, 4th, 5:22.14
Women's 200 IM
Lauren Lyons, 4th, 2:38.51
Men's 200 IM
Shachar Keizman, 4th, 2:13.77
Women's 50 Free
Ivana Ng, 16th, 31.60
Men's 50 Free
Holten Wyatt, 6th, 23.72
Women's 400 Medley Relay
Lauren Lyons, Ivana Ng, Emily Lehr, Jacki Kicksee, 2nd, 4:42.23
Day Two
Women's 200 Medley Relay
Lauren Lyons, Ivana Ng, Emily Lehr, Jacki Kicksee, 4th, 2:10.29
Women's 400 IM
Emily Lehr, 2nd, 5:15.47 (school record)
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Women's 200 Free
Jacki Kicksee, 3rd, 2:05.87
Men's 200 Free
Sean Maldjian, 4th, 1:54.08
Women's 100 Breast
Ivana Ng, 7th, 1:27.68
Men's 100 Breast
Shachar Keizman, 2nd, 1:04.19
Men's 100 Back
Holten Wyatt, 3rd, 57.04
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Jacki Kicksee, 4th, 20:20.
Women's 200 Back
Lauren Lyons, 4th, 2:37.13
Men's 100 Free
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Holten Wyatt, 4th, 51.78
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New Justice League: War Image Shows Off Shazam's New Costume
A new image for DC's next animated feature, Justice League: War, has been released. We've previously gotten a look at Batman and Wonder Woman's new looks in the first New 52 animated flick, but tonight we get a peek at
Captain Marvel Shazam's movie costume. DC animated's resident PR Guy, Gary Miereanu, Tweeted out the first image of Shazam as voiced by Sean Astin (yeah, that Sean Astin). Shazam joins Batman (voiced by Jason O'Mara), Wonder Woman, and Colonel Steve Trevor in the movie coming out sometime in early 2014. Below Shazam you can see all of the previously released images.
Much like the comics, the DC animated features got a reboot of shorts after the recently released Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. While Justice League: War is based on the first JL arc from Geoff Johns, it will not feature Aquaman. Shazam takes his place in the story. The King of the Seas will get his own animated flick in the near future to appease his fans though. What do you think of Shazam's look?
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