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PHOENIX – Sean Doolittle's sharp rise from Class A to the major leagues last season showed a knack for fast learning from the first baseman-turned-relief pitcher. But apparently that doesn't apply to everything.
As a last-chance offseason getaway before ramping up preparation for spring training, Doolittle and fellow A's relievers Jerry Blevins and Ryan Cook went on vacation to the Central American nation of Belize. They stayed on the beach, took water taxis into the city, snorkeled and visited Mayan ruins.
Doolittle and Cook also took a day to go fishing on the open water, with Doolittle's brother, Ryan, a pitching prospect in the A's organization.
Ryan Doolittle, Cook said, "kept pulling fish out of the water like it was going out of style."
And Sean?
"He was the worst," Cook said. "I think we gave him credit for 1 1/2 fish. We threw one of them back."
Doolittle didn't even take credit for the half, saying, "I only caught one."
So it doesn't quite stand up to the true fish story that was Doolittle's 2012 season, when the left-hander, whose position-playing career was derailed by injuries, emerged as one of the key members of the Oakland bullpen after joining the team in June.
Doolittle, who started the year at Advanced-A Stockton, went 2-1 with a 3.04 ERA in 44 games for the A's, striking out 60 hitters and walking 11 in 47 1/3 innings. Among American League relievers with at least 40 innings pitched, his 5.45 strikeout-to-walk ratio ranked fifth.
A's manager Bob Melvin calls Doolittle "one of the great stories in baseball last year."
Now the question is, what Doolittle will do for an encore? To start, the A's are monitoring his workload closely this spring after Doolittle threw 72 1/3 innings across all levels in his first season of professional pitching. He has pitched just once in their first nine Cactus League games.
"We want to monitor and make sure, because there's no track record with him as far as innings," Melvin said. "But our training staff does a great job of monitoring these guys. To this point, knock wood, he's handled everything."
Doolittle said he was "surprisingly nervous" before his first spring outing – one scoreless inning last Friday. He was happy with his fastball location and, perhaps more pertinently, mixed in three changeups and two sliders.
Doolittle blazed through the A's system last season largely on the strength of his fastball, which he threw on average at 93.6 mph in the majors, according to the analytical website FanGraphs.
It could be quite a weapon coming from the left side, and Doolittle relied on it heavily, throwing it on 86.8 percent of his pitches.
"That was what I would use to get ahead in the count, and then once I got ahead, I would use it to expand, elevate, try to get them to chase, bust them in," Doolittle said. "It was just the pitch I had the most confidence in."
Developing that confidence in the off-speed pitches is an emphasis this spring. He has tightened the break on the curveball he threw last season to make it more of a slider.
Pitching coach Curt Young said the hope is it can be more of a swing-and-miss pitch for Doolittle, particularly against left-handed hitters.
"But I mean, I'm still going to attack with the fastball," Doolittle said. "I'm still going to move it around the strike zone like I did last year. I don't think it's any secret that's still my bread and butter."
Doolittle said he didn't reflect much over the winter on his whirlwind rookie year. Cook and Blevins said the A's surprising playoff run didn't really come up in Belize either. Now that Doolittle is back in camp, though, the differences for him aren't so easily cast off.
"(Last spring), I was trying to prove to people that I could be a good pitcher, not just a good pitcher for a guy that used to be a hitter," he said. "It's hard to believe that one year ago I was here, and then, first cuts, I was out of here. To think about it like that is crazy."
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Check out Santa Fe, America's oldest state capital and home to some of the best galleries in the country. Surrounded by millions of acres of forest, it is the place for numerous outdoor activities.
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The headliners are President Bush, actor and former Senator Fred Thompson and Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democrat turned independent.
Bush will make his address by satellite from the White House, and it will be shorter than originally planned. Organizers had him slotted for 15 minutes Monday night. Instead he'll get about eight minutes tonight.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino says Bush will "throw his enthusiastic support behind John McCain for president." Asked if convention planners had said Bush should not come, Perino said, "I wouldn't put it that way."
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Get an overview of this hotelArt Deco Milan hotel in Viale Monza with 2 restaurants
Located in Viale Monza, this spa hotel is 1.3 mi (2.2 km) from Piazzale Loreto and 2.9 mi (4.6 km) from Corso Como. Piazza Aspromonte and Piscina Romano Ponzio are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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This smoke-free hotel features 2 restaurants, a health club, and a fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas and a free area shuttle are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a sauna, and a steam room are onsite.
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In addition to a health club, Ramada Plaza Milano features a sauna and a steam room. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. This Art Deco hotel also offers a fitness center, a rooftop terrace, and spa services. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Ramada Plaza Milano is a smoke-free property.
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- Number of buildings/towers - 3
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A health club and complimentary bicycles are featured at the hotel. Other recreational amenities include a sauna, a steam room, and a fitness center.
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Dublin - A license to drive drunk? Some small-town politicians think it's just the tonic for rural Ireland.
Councilmen in Kerry, southwest Ireland, passed a motion this week asking the government to create a permit that would allow isolated farmers the ability to drink a few pints and then return home in their car, or on their tractor, without fear of being busted.
Its backers say the measure is needed to combat an epidemic of boredom and depression on farms ever since Ireland imposed tough new blood-alcohol limits on drivers in 2011.
But Justice Minister Alan Shatter shot down the proposal during a speech in parliament Thursday as "grossly irresponsible."
"There is no question of this government, or indeed I don't believe any future government, facilitating individuals drinking in excess of the blood alcohol limits," Shatter told lawmakers.
A generation ago, drunken driving was commonplace in Ireland and even the smallest villages or forlorn crossroads would feature a pub. But in this century the country has steadily improved road safety standards, introducing mandatory driving tests, blood and breath tests and above all a penalty-points system that removes licenses from dangerous drivers, particularly drunks.
The effort has slashed road-related deaths from more than 400 annually in the 1990s to just 162 last year, a modern low in this country of 4.6 million.
Kerry pub owners say their business has plummeted right along with that nationwide carnage - yet deny any connection between the two trends. They describe the often narrow, lightly trafficked roads near their businesses as safe for people to navigate even after three pints of beer.
Danny Healy-Rae, who owns a pub and comes from Kerry's most famous and flamboyant political family, says farmers should be allowed to drive tipsy on their tractors because they don't go fast enough to kill anyone. He said those drinking two to three pints at a pub should be issued a permit allowing them to drive home so long as they stay below 30 mph.
Healy-Rae - who like his politician father is nationally famous for wearing a cap everywhere and talking in rapid-fire local dialect easy to parody but hard to understand - said pub-loving farmers "are living in isolated rural areas where there's no public transport of any kind. They end up at home looking at the four walls, night in and night out, because they don't want to take the risk of losing their license."
He said the older generation provided the sociological fuel to Ireland's tradition of pub-based music and "craic," Irish slang for entertaining conversation.
"All the wisdom and all the wit and all the culture that they had, the music and the singing, that's all being lost to the younger generation," Healy-Rae said. "These older people might as well be living in Japan and Jerusalem, because the younger generation don't see them at all anymore."
Yet even in Kerry, many have dismissed the idea as both dangerous to public safety and impossible to enforce. And alcohol-abuse campaigners say Healy-Rae's logic is twisted, since alcohol is a depressant and hardly a cure for the blues.
"The link between alcohol use and suicide has been well established and drinking alcohol will exacerbate, not alleviate, any mental health difficulties that a person may be struggling with, such as depression or anxiety," said Conor Cullen, spokesman for a pressure group called Alcohol Action Ireland.
The government emphasized that Kerry's council motion was already a dead letter.
"While rural isolation is a real problem," said Transport Minister Leo Varadkar, "the solution to it is not to hand out drink-driving permits."
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Pros: A lot of very nice features, and most work without problems. Great for duplicating audio discs. No problem ripping, even from 2 drives at the same time. You can select any and all aspects of "Artist", "Album", "Track Number", for filling of the ripped songs. Easy to install. Works with XP/Vista/ & Win 7.
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Praise for the First Edition
"Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer addresses a perennial and pernicious thorn in the leader's side—the yes-men in every organization. (And if you think your company is without them, you really need this book!) Leaders at all levels can use Roberto's advice to make better decisions and align their teams for results."
—KEN BLANCHARD, Coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Customer Mania
"Deciding how to decide is a powerful idea that all leaders should understand and put into practice. In doing so, they can become adept at stimulating candid dialogues, testing their company's core assumptions, and achieving alignment. Roberto's ideas have already begun to make a profound difference in the effectiveness of our management meetings. Our clients around the world would do well to adopt Roberto's straightforward recommendations."
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—KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT, Stanford W. Ascherman M. D. Professor, Stanford University and Codirector, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
"In his book Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer, Roberto provides a unique and very enlightening look into the process of decision making. His thesis around 'critical consensus building' is worthwhile reading for any manager or entrepreneur that strives to be the most effective leader they can be."
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Leaders still hear "yes" far too often—and they don't hear bad news until it's too late. They imagine they've achieved consensus, and then they find their decisions undermined by colleagues who never bought in. They become isolated, and even the most dangerous actions can go unquestioned. This remains an enormous problem for leaders and for the entire organization. But is it inevitable? Absolutely not.
In a new edition of his widely praised bestseller, Michael A. Roberto shows how to stimulate constructive debate that leads to better decisions, deeper consensus, and better results. Now reflecting new research and updated case studies, this edition also integrates more valuable guidance on benefiting from "devil's advocacy" without introducing negativity or costly delay.
Throughout, Roberto offers powerful new insights into managing teams, mitigating risk, and even promoting ethics through effective governance. Whether you're a senior executive or a project team member, this book will help you leverage your organization's immense untapped wisdom to optimize both decisions and performance.
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Professor Roberto's previous book, Know What You Don't Know (Pearson/Financial Times, 2009) addresses how leaders can become more effective problem finders. He has created two best-selling audio and video lecture series for The Great Courses ( The Art of Critical Decision Making , 2009, and Transformational Leadership , 2011). His articles have appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review , MIT Sloan Management Review , and California Management Review.
Professor Roberto's research and teaching have earned several major awards. The Everest Leadership and Team Simulation earned an MITX Interactive Award for Best E-Learning Solution in 2011. Columbia's Final Mission , a multimedia case study about the 2003 space shuttle accident, garnered the software industry's prestigious Codie Award in 2006. On the teaching front, Professor Roberto is a seven-time winner of the Outstanding MBA Teaching Award at Bryant University. He has been awarded Harvard's Allyn Young Prize for Teaching in Economics on two occasions. Professor Roberto received an AB with honors from Harvard College, an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, and a doctorate from the Harvard Business School.
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As many of you know, Goldman Sachs recently invested $500 million in Facebook at a $50 billion valuation. Goldman is also reportedly raising $1.5 billion from those special, lucky investors in a special-purpose vehicle that will invest alongside the firm. It's gonna be super special. All kidding aside, this is kind of a BFD. Speculation has been swirling for years around if and when Zuckerberg would take the social networking behemoth public. As you probably know, Zuckerberg has largely resisted, saying time and time again that he had no near-term plans for an IPO and would be taking his sweet time about going public, thank you very much ... and that you can go back to obsessively checking status updates for all he cares. (The Onion, as per usual, pegs The Zuck perfectly.)
Thus, when Goldman poured millions in this week, many in the press were seemingly elated, as its investment would give elite investors the opportunity to invest in Facebook stock and was therefore a clever little private IPO indeed that would save Facebook from having to ACTUALLY go public. Not so fast, Zuckerblurg. It seems an arcane securities law requires a company with over 499 shareholders to begin disclosing financial information -- which is typically followed shortly thereafter by a full-scale IPO. Considering that Facebook has said their number of shareholders will break 500 by the end of the year, it looks like the Goldman deal will force Zuckerberg's hand after all, likely pushing Facebook to an IPO by April of 2012.
Hey Monkeys, Got a quick question for yas ... I just read this article in Dealbook that talks about some of the big names on Wall Street who've also formerly led second lives as hockey players.
I also happen to be born and bred a hockey player, love the game, and cringe every time somebody makes a wisecrack about how the NHL is a joke. Instead of going into the business of hockey and what the sport could do to build a bigger base (I'll save that for another post), I wanted to ask you about the inordinate number of hockey players in finance.
As you may have heard, Dealbook reported today that GM is likely to raise the number of shares on sale in its imminent IPO by 31 percent -- to an expected 478 million shares. The projections surmise that shares will be priced between $32 and $33 and that GM could raise over $21 billion in their IPO, potentially making it the largest stock "debut" in American history. It is because of these (projected) numbers that GM is currently enjoying (at least for now) being one of the most successful turnaround stories in recent memory.
Director Alex Gibney's documentary, "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer," released this week, detailing the Former New York Gov's epic taste for high-class hoes and gettin' freaky. I've yet to see the doc, but apparently it's worth seeing. It even dabbles in a little conspiracy-theorizing, claiming that Spitzer's downfall may have been orchestrated by a few of the powerful political enemies the guv made while in office. I'm not totally convinced this isn't a part of some liberal conspiracy/campaign to rehab Spitzer's image, but I'm still buying a ticket.
In an interview with CNBC on Thursday, hedge fund elder statesman and father of Tiger Balm, Julian Robertson, shared his thoughts on the Critical Topics of the Day, including the recent elections, quantitative easing, and most importantly: fat people. Read the full interview transcript here, or fast forward to about 6:30 for Fat Talk.
There's no fooling Robertson. He sees you there, mayonnaise flecking your third chin, reaching after that fallen french fry like some sort of beached Manatee. Robertson has his eye on the ball, always has, always will, so when he's of the opinion that winning a fight against American obesity could add $1 trillion to the GDP, you open your fat ears and listen.
This week, investment firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KPCB) teamed up with Facebook, Amazon, and Zynga to create a $250 million fund for social networking start-ups. The fund, to be called "sFund" will focus on start-ups and businesses that fundamentally change the overall functionality of social networking, improving upon the standard in macro yet tangible ways -- not ideas that are add-ons or only improve some small part of social network usability.
Prior to the announcement of its monster Q3 earnings Thursday, Google's stock was down about $2, a ho hum dip in the big picture. Then, Google announced that its Q3 revenue jumped 23% to $7.3 billion, which blew away analyst predictions of about $6.67 earnings per share (It reached about $7.64 eps).
This astronomical rise puts Google it in striking range of Microsoft (at about $218 billion) and Apple (at about $278 billion) in term of overall market cap, and Goog might catch them both.
But what gets everyone really frothing at the mouth is that Google is now doing $2.5 billion of "non-text" ad revenue and $1 billion in mobile revenue, which means in other words, Google has officially become a multi-armed beast.
Alright monkeys, I don't get to watch a lot of television, so I want you guys to weigh in on the top 5 finance-ish (let's go broad here) shows you watch on the boob tube.
I watch Mad Money, but that's just because I like to watch shows that feel like an NBA halftime show, where at any moment I might have a seizure or lose all of my money, not because I feel it has any real value...
Here's a preliminary list to get the blood flowing and the anger mounting:
1) Squawk Box
2) Mad Money
3) Taking Stock
4) Kudlow & Company
5) Fast Money
Now, the hard-line WSO conservatives might say, WTF, MAN?!?! This post is off-topic, FOR SHAME. Well, first of all, eat me. Second of all, I know ... you're right. BUT, this is something I'm really fascinated by and that I think potentially has big market implications, (which I'll address Wall Street-topically in future posts), so bear with me.
I want to know what kind of OS/smartphones you guys use (and what carriers you use as a result), and why you do, if you care to share.
Why do I ask this question now?
In this week's issue of "Are You Smarter Than Your Local Billionaire?" we examine a few words from a Mr. David Tepper. Tepper, for those who've been stuck in an Excel template for the last 5 years, is the founder of Appaloosa Management and the guy who the New York Times named in March of this year as the top-earning hedge fund manager in the world in 2009.


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Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012
App Makers Up for Oscar
App makers Moonbot Studios have been nominated in the Best Animated Short category of the Oscars. While their story, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, was released through conventional distribution channels, it is also available as an application for the iPad.
Tuesday, 17 Jan 2012
Swap Faces with GroupShot
Macadamia Apps, an Israeli-based startup, has released their first application. Known as GroupShot, the app helps users edit photos and swap faces between different photos on your iPhone.
Monday, 16 Jan 2012
3D Printing, There is an App for That
3D printing has been a service available to design engineers which enables them to perform scale mock-ups of products. Now, French company Sculpteo has released an app that brings the fabrication service to the masses.
Wednesday, 11 Jan 2012
Qualcomm Brings Sesame Street to Mobile Devices Through AR
Augmented reality and Sesame Street. Now that's a combo that we didn't expect when Qualcomm demonstrated what its Snapdragon processors are capable of at its augmented reality demo area within CES 2012.
Kingston Announces Wi-Drive App for Kindle Fire and More
First released in 2011 for Apple devices only, Kingston has now announced that it will launch an app to enable Wi-Drive use with the Kindle Fire.
Thursday, 22 Dec 2011
Canon Introduces Free CanonSGLens App for DSLR Users
Designed to assist both beginners and professional EOS DSLR users, the CanonSGLens features detailed lens specifications of all Canon DSLR lenses sold locally.
Thursday, 15 Dec 2011
Flipboard Reaches 1 Million Users on iPhone
Flipboard was made available for the iPhone recently and within the short span of a week it has already reached one million users.
Friday, 9 Dec 2011
MSI+ Makes Its Official Debut
Covering a total of six categories - News, Videos, Match, Specs, Manual and Calculator - users can learn about its product characteristics and specifications from a comparison list and more.
Thursday, 8 Dec 2011
Instagram Coming to Android
Android devices and the iPhone are quite similarly matched in terms of hardware, but when it comes to applications, there are still some ways to go before parity is achieved. Instagram is bringing us one step closer to equilibrium by starting work on an Android version.
Wednesday, 30 Nov 2011
Microsoft Office on iPad?
Microsoft may be working on an iPad version of the Microsoft Office Suite, in order to extend their business app's market share within the tablet scene.


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Synthetic Methodology "Without Reagents" Tandem Enzymatic and Electrochemical Methods for the Manufacturing of Fine ChemicalsEPA Grant Number: R826113
Title: Synthetic Methodology "Without Reagents" Tandem Enzymatic and Electrochemical Methods for the Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals
Investigators: Hudlicky, Tomas , Butora, Gabor , Gonzalez, David
Current Investigators: Hudlicky, Tomas
Institution: University of Florida
EPA Project Officer: Karn, Barbara
Project Period: September 1, 1997 through August 31, 2000
Project Amount: $411,593
RFA: Technology for a Sustainable Environment (1997) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Sustainability , Pollution Prevention/Sustainable Development
Description:This proposal is aimed at the development of alternative synthetic methodology that will reduce and eventually replace some of the traditional and harmful reagents and solvents used in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing. It combines in tandem the use of biocatalysis with electrochemistry for oxidations, reductions and other functionalizations to reduce and replace the current dependence on either toxic solvents or metal-based reagents. Biocatalysis proceeds in aqueous medium and in most cases, the fermentation residues are judged disposable to municipal sewers after sterilization. It frequently provides optically pure metabolites from achiral compounds. Electrochemistry is the most efficient and the cleanest way in which electrons can be added to (reduction) or subtracted from (oxidation) organic compounds. It proceeds with essentially no hazards in simple solvents and under mild conditions.
The use of these two technologies in tandem will be applied to both known and new reaction sequences with the idea of replacing some of the currently known methods of oxidation and reduction. As a special benefit the research described in this proposal targets aromatic compounds as starting materials, as these are frequently viewed as harmful. Their use in "green" manufacturing constitutes their effective removal from the potential waste pool and therefore bypasses their costly disposal or storage with the added feature of providing useful end products.Approach:
Two technologies will be utilized in this project: Enzymatic oxidation. Recombinant organisms and blocked mutants of common soil bacteria are used to oxidize numerous aromatic substrates to optically pure arene cis-diols. This technique is well established in our laboratory and the current focus of this project will be in part provision of known starting materials for synthetic ventures and in part investigation of new substrate/enzyme matches to furnish new metabolites.
Electrochemical functionalization. Procedures will be developed for the synthesis of epoxides, diols, and aziridines from olefins, reduction of halides, sulfonate esters, and xanthates, deoxygenation protocols for sugars and nucleosides, and carbon-carbon bond forming procedures for oxidative coupling. These features will obviate the use of such reagents as m-chioroperbenzoic acid, tributyltin hydride, and lithium aluminum hydride, and prevent the use of solvents such as benzene, tetrahydrofuran or methylene chloride.Expected Results:
It is expected that the proposed technology will be demonstrated by adjusting currently known syntheses (some from our laboratory) of cyclitols, carbohydrates, and alkaloids and replacing as many steps as possible with the above electrochemical techniques. A comparison will be made in evaluating the improvement and the saving in overall waste mass for each new process. In addition, it is hoped that a simple electrochemical procedure will be designed for the deoxygenation of secondary alcohols via electrochemical reduction of their sulfur derivatives. Currently, the only method of accomplishing this reduction is the use of tributyltin hydride. The procedure is frequently used to produce important deoxysugars. A major focus of our project will involve the development of alternative "green" methods of synthesis for this group of compounds. Publications and Presentations:
Publications have been submitted on this project: View all 89 publications for this projectJournal Articles:
Journal Articles have been submitted on this project: View all 36 journal articles for this projectSupplemental Keywords:
enzymes, green chemistry, pollution prevention, toxic chemicals disposal, toxic chemicals, conversion, electrochemistry, green manufacturing, pharmaceutical intermediates, clean technologies, innovative technology, renewable, waste reduction, waste minimization, environmentally conscious manufacturing, treatment, remediation, bioremediation, tandem enzyme electrochemical oxidation reduction., RFA, Industry Sectors, Scientific Discipline, Toxics, Sustainable Industry/Business, cleaner production/pollution prevention, Environmental Chemistry, Manufacturing - NAIC 31-33, Sustainable Environment, HAPS, Technology for Sustainable Environment, 33/50, Environmental Engineering, cleaner production, environmentally conscious manufacturing, aqueous processing, reagents, environmentally benign solvents, carbon-carbon binding, benzene, green process systems, enzyme transformations, electrochemical techniques, chemical manufacturing, innovative technology, industrial innovations, Methylene chloride (Dichloromethane), pollution prevention, biocatalysis, green chemistry, solvents
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was formed in December 1935 and is a key contributor to the BBC's broadcasting and cultural role.
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was formed in December 1935 and is Scotland's national broadcasting orchestra. It performs to large and enthusiastic audiences in venues throughout Scotland, and carries out a busy schedule of broadcasts and concerts for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Television, and Online. A past recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best orchestra, the BBC SSO's commercial recordings have received a number of prizes, including four Gramophone Awards.
Based at City Halls in Glasgow since 2006, the BBC SSO is Scotland's leading champion of new music, and has established strong links with local communities through its thriving learning and outreach programme. It is also a major partner in Big Noise, Scotland's innovative project for social change through music, and it maintains a close association with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, working over a variety of disciplines with conductors, composers, soloists and orchestral players.
The BBC SSO appears regularly at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, and at other major festivals and venues throughout the world. Earlier this year it made its third tour of China and in 2014 its first visit to India. Future highlights include a concert in Glasgow in December to celebrate the orchestra's 80th Birthday and, in his last season as Chief Conductor, Donald Runnicles will celebrate this special time with many of the composers closest to his heart: Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and fellow Scot, James MacMillan.
Thomas Dausgaard will become Chief Conductor in September 2016 at which point Donald Runnicles assumes the post of Conductor Emeritus.
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- Donald Runnicles, Chief Conductor
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One of the UK's leading interpreters of new music, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has close working relationships with many of today's leading composers.
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#Lyndon - KISS or Re-Inventing the Wheel ? Raising the Bar for a Community Manager . . . OEM*
Yes, sparkling times ahead for ecademy and this blog is no exception in support for #Lyndon and the whole community getting #Lyndonized in a RUSH ;-) Question: What's a community manager ?Answer: A manager who manages the community.I stumbled upon this thought today sparked by the recent discussion about ethics, watchdogs, my own role as manager of groups which in itself I consider micro communities and . . . A blog which caught my attention:One Social Media Metric You May Have Missed: Community Manager SatisfactionWhether or not a community manager must be kept happy to work seamlessly . . . I wondered where the heck customer service fits in there.So I decided to dig deeper, crossed Wikipedia's Online community manager, some Social Media Community Manager Job Description elsewhere until I found an answer to ALL my questions in a blog from 2007:IS Situation - Vote DREAM Situation2) Brand EvangelistThe evangelist will offer GOOD products - Please read the blog to get a complete understandingVote: IS Situation - Vote DREAM Situation3) Savvy Communication Skills, Shapes EditorialThis individual is also responsible for MEDIATING disputes - Please read the blog to get a complete understandingVote: IS Situation - Vote DREAM Situation4) Gathers Community Input for Future Product and ServicesCHANCE to GIVE feedback - Please read the blog to get a complete understandingVote: IS Situation - Vote DREAM SituationSource: Jeremiah OwyangTo complement the tenets I compiled ONE poll for EACH tenet to figure out how the community perceives the IS situation and ONE poll for EACH tenet to figure out what the community would love to see in their DREAM.From that management may draw conclusions at their discretion.No need to re-invent the wheel I say . . . take what's there already put up by the brightest cookies around and adapt it for ecademy's use.What say you ? This too is OEM*. It is as it is. Says love.Love, peace and poetry.53/60 to go to see 200


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Rockies, Diamondbacks 2016 spring schedules posted
We've posted tentative and incomplete Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks 2016 spring schedules, featuring all home games at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick.
Diamondbacks 2015 spring training schedule posted
The last schedule of the season: We've posted the Arizona Diamondbacks 2015 spring training schedule, which features 20 home games and three road games at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick.
Rockies 2015 spring training schedule posted
We've posted the Colorado Rockies 2015 spring training schedule, as the team announces a slate with 15 home dates and an additional "away" game against ballpark partner Arizona Diamondbacks.
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It's a little early due to the team's plan to open the season in Sydney, but no matter: Spring training is officially underway after Arizona Diamondbacks pitchers and catchers reported to camp yesterday.
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Another schedule release: the Arizona Diamondbacks 2014 spring schedule features a limited slate of games, as the team will spend more than a week at a season-opening set in Sydney, Australia.
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AT&T Park, Marlins Park, Chase Field and Salt River Fields at Talking Stick are hosting four rounds of the 2013 World Baseball Classic, with the international sites and schedule still to be announced. The semifinals and finals will be played at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, while the second round will be […]
Diamondbacks unveil 2012 spring schedule
The Arizona Diamondbacks released a 2012 spring-training schedule that shows 19 games at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick — including two "away" games against Colorado — as well as a slew of night games and two matches against the Milwaukee Brewers at Chase Field. You can view the schedule here. The D-backs open their […]
Spring baseball returning to Tucson in 2012 — kinda
Professional baseball could return to Tucson's Kino Stadium in 2012, but it won't be American baseball — and there are no plans for anything geared for spectators. Stadium district officials are looking at signing a deal with two Korean League teams, the DC Dinos and the Hanwha Eagles, to train at the Kino Stadium complex […]
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Christmas Eve in War Zone D, Vietnam
Meloy, Guy S., Army
Christinas Eve 1970 was just another day and night at most of the fire bases throughout Vietnam. Fire Base Jupiter, like many fire bases, was isolated, hot, sticky, itchy, smelly, wet and muddy in monsoon seasons and with constant dust in between, totally dependent on helicopters for resupply, armed to the teeth and organized for defense in every direction. The closest U.S. unit was almost 15 kilometers to the southwest, the nearest road and the Vietnamese village of Dinh Quan were a dozen miles to the south, and the distance from our battalion rear and brigade headquarters at Bien Hoa was almost an hour's helicopter flight.
Constructed from scratch in thick triplecanopy jungle less than a month earlier by the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), Jupiter was home base for the battalion's command group, which consisted of myself, the command sergeant major, a half-dozen radio operators, and the S-2 (intelligence) and S-3 (operations and plans) staffs. It was also home for an S-I (personnel) NCO, several members from the S-4 (logistics) staff, the medical platoon and the battalion surgeon, our chaplain, the communications platoon, a Pathfinder detachment, an engineer water purification unit and a small battalion mess section. Jupiter was defended by a six-gun battery of 105 mm howitzers reinforced by a three-gun half battery of 155 mm howitzers, the 81 mm mortar and PPS-4 radar platoons from combat support company, and a tub-mounted Quad-50 provided by an air defense battalion. One of four rifle companies rotated to the fire base every fifth day to occupy a perimeter of fighting positions consisting of 4-feet-by-8-feet culvert bunkers protected by three-deep sandbags. Three concentric strands of triple concertina barbed wire and an almost continuous belt of claymore mines surrounded the perimeter. Fifty-five-gallon drums cut in half served as open-air latrines.
For the past three months, the 1st of the 12th had been operating in the northeast region of War Zone D searching for (and finding) enemy supply trails and weapons, ammunition and food caches. On one occasion, we uncovered, captured and rescued an impressed forced labor camp of emaciated civilians of all ages, from infants to grandmothers and grandfathers. There were many brief firefights, an hour or less, but only a few were serious enough to write home about, unless you were one of the infantry "grunts" being shot at. But every fight was always long enough to get your undivided attention and say a "thank you" for our supporting artillery and the courage and skill of the pilots and crews flying the aerial attack helicopters and the medevac Dustoffs.
Airmobile battalions were organized with four rifle companies that, at this stage of the war, often operated with considerable independence, sometimes many kilometers apart, but always within range of our direct support artillery. Except in those situations where we "piled on" for a heavy fight, each of the rifle companies operated in the jungle for about a 15-day period, then every fifth day one company would be airlifted back to the fire base for haircuts, cold 55-gallon barrel showers, a daily hot meal, clean clothes and an opportunity for direct sunlight to fight jungle rot. After five days of a welcome break (to the grunt), the rifle company defending the fire base would make an airmobile assault back into the jungle for its next 15-day mission, and another company would be extracted from the jungle and airlifted to the fire base for its turn to "relax" and defend for the next five days.
The best way to describe a fire base at night is that it is very, very quiet and very, very dark-no sounds or lights of any kind in any direction. Because the Viet Cong most often attacked fire bases at night, the troops were cocked, ready, alert and 100 percent business. To the uninitiated or to new replacements of any rank, coming to an isolated infantry fire base for the first time could be quite intimidating, almost eerie, and yet in an odd way, also impressive. …


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Kool Nites Limousine, Party Bus & Trolley in Kansas City
In 1998, we introduced our Prison party bus to Kansas City. This was the first party bus to hit the streets in Kansas City. The response to it was overwhelming. We very quickly added a second one. We later began adding shuttle buses and then after that came our Trolleys. By the mid 2000's, our fleet had grown to be one of the largest in Kansas City. Our fleet contains some of the nicest and most unique vehicles in Kansas City and the Midwest.
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History of the River Street Inn
To learn the history of the building now housing the River Street Inn is to learn a portion of the history of the Savannah riverfront. Similar to many of the buildings along the river, the original structure of the Inn was built for the storage, sampling, grading, and export of raw cotton. By early in the 19th century, Savannah was the world's 2nd largest cotton seaport, due in large part by the invention of the cotton gin.
In 1793, the widow of General Nathaniel Green invited a gentleman by the name of Eli Whitney to Savannah to tutor her children. During his stay, Mrs. Greene mentioned to Mr. Whitney the difficulty in separating cottonseed from the fiber. According to local tradition, Mr. Whitney locked himself in the barn, and within 10 days had invented the cotton gin. The cotton gin allowed growers to process and export cotton at a much faster rate, increasing the demand for warehouse space along the riverfront.
River Street Inn's original two floors, built in 1817 out of recycled ballast stone, were soon inadequate to house the increasing amount of cotton moving through the port. As the building has the Savannah River north, and a high bluff to the south with buildings on either side, the only way to expand was to go higher. On the lower floors are wide, arched doorways that were necessary to accommodate moving large bales of cotton. In 1853, the top three floors were added, allowing additional storage on the third floor and an office on the fourth and fifth. Since the upper three levels were used for office space, there are floor to ceiling windows which allowed the maximum amount of light, fireplaces for warmth, and probably most significant, the balconies that provided the factors with the opportunity to observe the arrival, departure, loading, and unloading of cargo ships.
It was also necessary to have outside access to each level for the storage and removal of the large cotton bales, and this need resulted in the creation of a series of alleys and walkways on the bluff. These alleys became known as "Factor's Walk" after the professionals who graded the cotton. These alleys add to the character and unique, historic design of the Inn. Additionally, the riverside streets and surrounding structures of ballast stone were once ballast in the numerous ships that traveled to Savannah from all over the world.
Savannah and the Civil War
The South suffered greatly from the Civil War, but Savannah fared better than most cities. In 1864, General William Sherman ended his "March to the Sea" at Fort McAllister, and after refitting his troops, proceeded towards Savannah. He was met by city officials who promised there would be no resistance if Savannah was spared. Sherman telegraphed President Lincoln, and offered Savannah to Lincoln as a Christmas present – and in this way Savannah was saved the fate of many other cities that were burned. The Union Army continued to occupy Savannah until the end of 1865.
After the Civil War as prices plummeted, the Savannah cotton warehouses fell into disuse. The building now housing the River Street Inn became a warehouse for various shipping concerns until redevelopment in 1987. In 1998, the River Street Inn expanded from its original structure containing forty-four guest rooms into the adjoining building, and increased in size to the present eighty-six rooms.
The River Street Inn Today
Three centuries of history surround the River Street Inn and include some of the nation's most significant 18th and 19th century architecture. The Inn is now adjacent to the Savannah Cotton Exchange, one of the city's most notable sights, and the first building in the United States to have "Air Rights". Savannah has the largest designated Historic District in the United States, and is still very active in preservation to this day. The quaint squares are flanked by restored homes and moss-draped oak trees that reflect the city's ageless charm and beauty. The Inn's past is intertwined with that of its surroundings, making it an integral part of Savannah's history with a timeless character that reflects the city itself.


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Elk Lighting 10130/5+5+5 Fifteen Light Drum Pendant from the Braxton Collection
Offering a new elevated level of quality and design in a drum pendant, the Braxton Collection uses ribbed glass cylinders with crystal-like optics that create a continuous beam of crisp light. Finished in polished nickel, this series offers elegant sophistication for classic to contemporary décor.
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- Number of bulbs: 15
- Bulb type: 60w cand.
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Dimensions : 21"h x 24"w
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