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The holes in the house I grew up in.
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Early the next morning, we drive back from Baton Rouge to do what we can about the roof. Somehow, the water has gone up since the day before. Carrollton and Claiborne Avenue, a corner that had been dry, has once again become part of the municipal pool. We can still get to the house, though, if only by driving on the wrong side of the street.
We scour the garage for tools and come up with a staple gun with no staples, a battery-powered screwdriver with no bits, some hammers and nails, and a box of garbage bags. Sunlight squeezes into the attic from toaster-sized holes in the roof. Since we don't have a ladder big enough to get us on top of the house, we nail the garbage bags to the attic's interior support beams. After a few minutes, we give up and just lay the bags on the spots where natural light touches the floor.
We carry out boxes of photos, my sister's letters, my dad's CD cases, everyone's birth certificates. My dad slings three winter coats over his arm, just in case they're still not back home when the weather gets cold.
Next stop: my grandparents' house, the house my dad grew up in. Actual next stop: standing water. There's no way to drive to their place on S. Jeff Davis Parkway, and there's no way to wade there either. The water's still too high in every direction, and there are no dinghies or choppers around to commandeer.
On the way out of town, we scoot unimpeded through the streets we used to take to work, to school, to the airport. On Claiborne, a bored soldier plays golf in the middle of the street with a club fashioned from a stray piece of wood. We make it all the way back to Houston for an exiles' dinner at my grandparents' temporary apartment. There's brisket in the oven, and the LSU football game's on TV. My grandmother's black-and-white photos, the giant plush turtle I used to sit on, and everything else they own are still in a dark, empty house. Maybe it's all wet and maybe it's not, but everything feels far away.
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Spazio 11B, Rosi Serli, Rosini, Re Artù, MixArt, Lo Scrigno, Liberty, Da Pepi, Chocolat, Caffè degli Specchi, Boogaloo, Arbiter
I'm on the train and the view of the sea and the white little castle tells me I'm arriving to the city. Trieste was created as a free port and a residence for the House of Hapsburg, and then grew among literary cafés, coffee shops such as Illy and unique inns. From the station I see a glimpse of the old harbor, chosen by Sgarbi as the location for the exhibit "Lo stato dell'Arte" during the 2011 Biennale. If we're lucky the Bora won't be there to welcome us. The Bora is a strong and sharp wind that quite characterizes the Julian city and that cleans the air, allowing our eyes to wander up to the beautiful Istria. Walking along the shore, the promenade on one side and the Borgo Teresiano on the other, we arrive to the main square: Piazza dell'Unità d'Italia, also called Piazza Grande.
Facing the Mediterranean Sea, it's the location of the city's public offices, among which the Assicurazioni Generali palazzo, an elegant hotel and one of the oldest cafés in the city, called Caffè degli Specchi, but a citizen of Trieste, however, would never choose it as a destination for breakfasts, rather preferring an elegant cake shop like the Pirona, located in front of a palazzo that was once home to James Joyce, or a coffee shop. The delicious coffee shop La Triestina in Via Cavana 2 is the ideal location from which to start shopping, just after a "capo b" (a macchiato served in a glass) and a creamy Krapfen.
Cavana, a district in the oldest part of the city, was once an entertainment destination and a place for women of ill reputation. Today it's where to find antique shops, leather craftsmen, bookstores and vintage shops. One of the most interesting stores is MixArt in Via delle Ombrelle 7, where, among furnishings and fittings of the early '900s and collectible modern art furniture, we discover ties in pure silk at great prices, cases made in tortoise, several Roberta di Camerino and elegant gowns created by Parisian fashion houses. Turning into another alleyway we enter, instead, Liberty in Via del Ponte 7, a store that sells jewelry and vintage items, where to also buy brooches by Verdura or Cartier, and where to get lost in Lalique and in art deco objects.
Close to the museum dedicated to Italo Svevo, famous Italian writer and a lover of the city, we take a break to have a snak at Chocolat, giving a quick glance to Serli Uomo, in Via Cavana 14, which dresses the sports-elegant man from Trieste with Jacob Cohen jeans and Zegna jackets. At Via Felice Venezian 10, not far away, there's another vintage store called Boogaloo. Here you can find Hermes foulards but also Sixties clothing and fun accessories in wood created by the young owner under the brand The Complotto Accessories. Lo Scrigno Gioielli makes us discover precious Dalmatian and Triestine jewelry in deco or liberty styles. We cross once again Piazza Unità and take a look at the Teatro Verdi, dedicated to the great composer and built, in small scale, to copy the more famous Scala of Milan.
From the theater we walk down Via del Teatro where at number 1 we find Arbiter, a multi-brand store for men and women with brands such as Blumarine, Salvatore Ferragamo, Burberry, Brioni and Caruso.
We exit to Piazza della Borsa, just a few steps away from the very typical trattoria Da Pepi, open since 1897, where to taste local soups (Jota) or generously stuffed sandwiches, such as the one with mushrooms, sauerkrauts, mustard and horseradish. All accompanied by a Terrano wine, with a strong taste and an intense color.
And with this we're ready to walk down the lane where all the big department stores and modern clothing chain stores, such as H&M, are located. Along the street there is also the RosiSerli boutique with interesting suggestions and elegant accessories, but it also offers brands such as Stella McCartney, Fendi, Dries Van Noten, Balenciaga, MiuMiu, Roberto del Carlo shoes, Maria Calderara jewelry and the fun Alieni pendants. Turning left, at Via Dante 1, we enter Rosini, an elegant show factory, where clients are greeted by velvet, comfortable armchairs and smiling clerks.
Not very far away we find the Umberto Saba bookstore at Via San Nicolò 30b, which takes us to do some literary shopping among old D'Annunzio books.
Collections by Prada, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana catch our eyes in the Re Artù window shops at Via San Spiridione 3, while secondary lines and casual brands fill the shop Spazio 11b at Via Santa Caterina in the Piazza Sant'Antonio area, where you can buy Marc by Marc Jacobs, See by Chloe or Petit Bateau. The eponymous church faces the square in a neoclassical style dating back to 1849, as does the beautiful Serbian Orthodox temple of San Spiridione with light blue cupolas and golden Byzantine mosaics.
A stop at Godina is a must, the Triestine department store located in Via Carducci sells sportswear, elegant and formal clothing, as well as eccentric items from designers such as Vivienne Westwood.
For cocktail hour we visit another iconic café, the San Marco: founded in 1912, it instantly became a meeting place for young intellectual students, and is still loved today even by Claudio Magris, hosting exhibitions and offering a restaurant service.
We freshen up with a Spritz, the popular Triveneto aperitif, and nibble on some chips while we're surrounded by Viennese Secession style furniture and frescoed ceilings, thinking about what must have been said among these tables.
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Spazio 11B
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Rosi Serli
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Happy New Year from the TJES students and staff! School resumed at 8 a.m. on January 3, and we want to extend a special "Thank You" to all the parents whose children were on time that day! Attendance at school is so important to your child's education.
The annual ski trip is in the process of being scheduled. Students in grades 4-8 have the opportunity to experience skiing at Huff Hills, south of Mandan. Watch for notices concerning this upcoming event.
TJES staff and students welcomed new and returning parents at the January Parent Breakfast on the 11. If you haven't had a chance to attend this year, mark your calendar for the next parent breakfast on February 8 at 7:45 at the UTTC Cafeteria.
Although we have had some mild temperatures, please make sure your child is dressed warmly. If your child is missing hats or mittens, be sure and have them check the lost and found box in the office.
The December attendance Pizza Party was held on Monday, January 16, A total of 65 students were recognized for their attendance. Wonderful! Incidentally, TJES is currently at an all time high enrollment with 194 students!
The 2nd Quarterly Student Recognition will be held on Tuesday, January 24 from 12:05-12:45 p.m. at the UTTC Gym. Students will be recognized for making the honor roll, attendance (perfect for the quarter), and special awards. We hope to see all parents at this event. TJES students are GREAT!
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So the last two blogs were semi-serious.
This one on the other hand is anything bu
How many of you girls wear thongs.
Next question......WHY?
God they look uncomfortable
And what's up with the young girls showing them above their pant line and hangin jewlery on the...WTF
Maybe there are some guys that think that is really HOT
Count me out... K so I'm getting old or something...Wait for it...Wait for it..WAIT FOR IT..
In my day..( told you to wait) if you draws ( yes I meant to say draws) showed all the time everyone thought you weren't so bright
And if your pants were way too big, too short, too tight or too holie ( holy, holey, however you spell it. And I really don't care enough to look it up) then you were poor. Now all of the above is somehow cool. Guess it's kinda like the Blue, standin2 feet in the air Mohawks. Or the chains from earlobe to lips ( really never got that one).
Well anyway.. Just thought I'd throw that one out there and see if it stuck.
Oh and I'm naked...( Some of you will get that others won't . )
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Honesty???? Really???
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Aug 29 @ 6:16AM
LOL....i got it!
i worked with a woman (not a girl, but a grown, late 30's ) woman that worn thongs, and it seems they managed to show wayyyy to often....
finally i asked her, Arent those uncomfortable?
Her reply...oh you soon get used to it.
I ask, I'm sure I would, but why would i want to?
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Aug 29 @ 9:52AM
LOL! Mornin Stuie! Your naked you say?
I hope this doesn't ruin it for us...but I definately wear thongs......for a number of reasons....one is when I wear dress pants, you can't see my pantylines! Not good for a woman with a bootie like mine!
And secondly, cuz every guy I have dated (in the recent past) thinks they are sexy.....and honestly, they really are not that uncomfortable...but I also don't make a point like some silly girls do, to run around showing them off.....and also, with jeans being so low cut now, granny panties just don't cut it! Now imagine what those would look like stickin out of a pretty girl with a nice ass! I think that would turn me off BIG TIME!
Well, I'm off for a walk with my neighbor....ya'll have a good morning!
Aug 29 @ 10:17AM
Years ago I wore thongs. My mom stopped by once while I was folding laundry and asked how I could possibly stand to have that little bit of material up my ass crack. I explained it as, most underwear will creep and crawl up your ass crack as you walk and move around anyway. Would you rather have an inch of material there? or 3 inches all wadded up there?
Since then I've switched to lacy boyshorts. Much more comfortable, and no pantylines!
Sep 6 @ 1:39AM
Well, as a chick that doesn't wear underwear often (
), I can't compare (ALLL are uncomfortable to me! FUCK being uncomfortable all day).
But, I do know that chicks with the danglies off their undies
, are attention whores. Or stupid. They WANT the attention that it gets. Most men do find them attractive, specially on a girl with a nice ass. Makes it that much better, right?
I personally would rather wash my pants with extra hot water every night and not worry about ANY material inching it's way into my butthole!
If I see a chick with her asscrack, underwear, or snatch showin, I'm gonna say something to make sure the next time they do it, they might think it through.
It makes chicks look easy and whoreish.
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My, I mean Our classroom was getting out of hand, SERIOUSLY! My class was Really and truly out of control!
Here are some things we improved on.
Hurting: People were hitting, kicking and other (physical) abuse!, Now we respect one another and don't physicly harm others.
Fighting: People were fighting over supplies, Now we learned that its really the teachers class not ours, so we respect and share it.
Walking in the Hallway: Everyone was talking and screaming, Now My class is er, not perfectly quiet but were past the screaming.
Recess: There were people swaring and doing physical harm outside, We MOSTLY respect one another now.
P.E: My class would really disrespect my Gym Teacher, Now we are respecting him and being quiet because he's a person too!!!!
Homework: A lot of kids did'nt do their Homework, We're still trying to get everyone to do their homework, because its a team effort!
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Ratchet & Clank PS2 Collection to PS3: Hummm, maybe…
Posted by Demerson in Featured, PS3 software, R, Ratchet & Clank: Crack in Time, Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction, Rumors on July 8th, 2010
… but not from Insomniac Games. They could support Sony, if there is enough interest, though. That's what the Burbank-based independent studio twitted a couple days ago, in response to a possibility of a compilation of R&C PS2 games:
"We won't make it, but we'd support Sony if they decided to do it!"
At first, I thought it should be a good idea playing with my favorite lombax and his fellow robot in high definition. Then, I just realized that I already played with the duo in glorious high definition, and three times! First, in R&C: Tools of Destruction. Then, the PSN title R&C: Quest for Booty (disc-based in Europe), and finally R&C: A Crack in Time.
What do you think? Should it be a good idea to bring back those PS2 titles? Or we should just move along and wait for a brand new adventure from Insomniac?
Mario Galaxy vs. Ratchet & Clank: ToD Showdown
Posted by Darrin in Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction on October 17th, 2009
With the next Ratchet & Clank game coming out this month and with a next Mario Galaxy game coming out next year, and now that I've completed both games and had time to reflect on them, I thought it would be fun to do a scored category-by-category comparison of the two kings of the 3D platformer.
Scores are obviously subjective and light-hearted fun…
Technology: Visuals, flash, audio
On the Wii, I'm used to stuff like Wii Sports which has obnoxiously bad graphics. I know that's not the point of the game, and it's a runaway favorite with kids everywhere, but it makes it more surprising when Mario Galaxy actually looks pretty good. At several points I noticed various water or lava effects or shading effects that actually looked impressive. Beyond the core tech though, everything in Galaxy looks really well polished and integrated.
Ratchet & Clank, obviously runs on fancier hardware, so expectations are high, but the graphics, physics, and audio exceed those high expectations. Even two years later, Tools of Destruction is one of the most visually impressive and beautifully polished titles of today.
A quick glance at some screenshots or video footage should show that these two games aren't even in the same ballpark in terms of visuals and technology in general. Obviously, this is just one aspect of the game experience, but it does enhance the fun.
Winner: Ratchet +1 (no surprise here)
Longevity and Game Size
I didn't record my play time, but I'd say that both of these titles have unusually large single player campaigns packed with varied high quality content and are about equal in this regard.
Winner: Tie.
Level Design
Both games had tons of cool levels, with all types of unique and creative twists. I'd give the edge to Mario, however. They just had more creative twists, that were fun and easy to play through. Breaking up levels into miniature planet surfaces worked really well. (I know the Ratchet & Clank series did spherical levels first, but it's not in Tools of Destruction).
For a platformer, this is a broad and important category, so I'm giving two points.
Winner: Mario Galaxy +2
Boss Battles and Game Progression
Ratchet had some gorgeous and fun to fight boss battles, but Galaxy's bosses were more plentiful, unique, and entertaining.
Galaxy's level hub area worked better than Ratchet's space travel system. There is more flexibility of choosing the next level, repeating old favorite levels, and feeling game progress.
Winner: Mario Galaxy +1
Narrative + Cut Scenes + Voice Acting
Mario's cut-scene type story segments were a real bore (even for kids) and the voice acting is screeching and annoying. The game featured lots of text story books which held little entertainment value. The best news is that it's mostly avoidable and ignorable.
Ratchet has extremely well animated story segments with great voice work, and some genuinely funny moments. Some of the humor fell flat: I thought the pirate gags and the groovitron bit were overdone, but overall the story bits were well done and served as great polish on the rest of the game.
Winner: Ratchet +1
Special Powers and Vehicles
Almost every special power or mode in Super Mario was tons of fun: Fire Mario, the racing segments, the turtle shell swimming, bee mario, etc. Ratchet had a few gems, such as the flying wings, and had a bunch of cool weapons to use, but most of the other special vehicles and powers just weren't as fun as Galaxy.
Also, while the core of Galaxy is controlled by the standard analog stick and buttons, they have a few more fun novelty uses for the Wii pointer and tilt functionality.
Winner: Mario Galaxy +1
Mario obviously doesn't have gunplay and focuses strictly on it's strengths.
Gunplay is an integral part of the fun in the Ratchet & Clank series. Ratchet has deceptively childish cartoon looks, but the action mechanics are far better (fun, balanced, challenging) than most "mature" FPS games. Of particular favorite is the arena battles which have really fun and intense action challenges.
Winner: Ratchet +1
Expert Player Challenges
Mario has tons of extra bonuses to do and extra stars to earn. Ratchet has a few bonus arena challenges and collectibles to find on old levels, but is generally lacking in this regard. Even earlier Ratchet games had more end of level optional challenges. This is a real disappointment for Ratchet as the game needed bigger goals for expert players to work up to.
Winner: Mario Galaxy +1
Also, as an aside, and not as a better/worse point, the main game in Mario Galaxy was more difficult to complete than in Ratchet.
Winner: Mario Galaxy by two points.
It's a close contest, and they really both do excel at different areas. I have both sequels pre-ordered and eagerly anticipate them.
One other observation worth noting is that these games are meant for kids and novice gamers. Yet all the kids in my extended family and all the novice gamers that I know shy away from both these games. They seem to prefer simpler and more accessible games like 2D Mario on DS, Wii Sports, LittleBigPlanet co-op, or even Call of Duty. I suspect that the 3D platforming interface is somewhat less-intuitive and rewarding for novice players.


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Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, will showcase its wireless solutions for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) at DistibuTECH, the utility industry's leading smart grid conference, held in San Diego, California, Jan. 29-31. Silicon Labs' mixed-signal devices, including wireless radios, ultra-low-power 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), 32-bit Precision32™ MCUs and digital isolators, assist in the communications, sensing, calibration, timing, processing, security and reliability of smart meters. Silicon Labs will highlight its Ember® ZigBee® SoCs and EZRadioPRO® sub-GHz wireless transceivers and easy-to-use wireless development tools at DistribuTECH in Booth 3433. According to a recent market research report from IHS, the global installed base of smart meters is currently less than 18 percent of the world's 1.4 billion installed meters and is expected to double by the end of 2016. IHS predicts that global advanced meter shipments will surge in 2015 as advanced metering projects come on line in Europe and in developing economies, with China being the most significant market for advanced meters.Silicon Labs is a leading supplier of wireless technology for AMI applications including wireless home area networks (HANs) that connect communicating thermostats and other in-home systems to meters or gateways, as well as neighborhood area networks (NANs) that aggregate up to thousands of meters for back haul to the utility provider. Silicon Labs' Ember ZigBee and sub-GHz products provide wireless connectivity solutions for smart meter products from AMI industry leaders such as Landis+Gyr, Elster, Itron, Robulink and Holley Metering. "DistribuTECH provides a focused opportunity to share our wireless solutions and smart meter application expertise with leading players in the smart grid industry," said Diwakar Vishakhadatta, vice president and general manager of Silicon Labs' Embedded Systems products. "From silicon to software, we offer smart meter manufacturers complete solutions that will help them reduce the cost and complexity of their AMI applications."
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Students from Maria Montessori Charter Academy showed support for one of their own recently through a "Relay Recess" event at the school.
Tyler Chatterton, a student of event coordinator and sixth-grade teacher Emily Jennings, has been battling brain cancer.
"We've always done alternative 'healthy heart' activities during Valentine's Day, and this year we decided to partner with the American Cancer Society and do a 'Relay Recess' with them," explained Brent Boothby, principal/administrator.
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A couple of weeks ago, Matt Emmons was sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Colorado Springs, just a 20-minute walk from his home. Everything seemed serene in Emmons' world — as serene as it can be for a man who shoots guns for a living.
He was readying for his return to his third Olympics, again with his Czech wife who shot Saturday in her third Olympiad. They have a happy, healthy daughter who speaks two languages. He has an Olympic gold medal and silver on his résumé.
The happiness Emmons carries to London, however, has come at a heavy cost. The lessons he learned and the hardships he's overcome would send normal people into the deepest sanctums of serious therapy.
Slideshow: Shooting competition
In summary, he lost Olympic gold in 2004 and 2008 in the same event as a result of huge mistakes on his last shot. He survived thyroid cancer. He went far into this year struggling to find a gun that shoots straight, which is somewhat inconvenient in his sport. Oh, did we mention his recent back problems?
"There's no one on that firing line who's gone through half the things or dealt with half the (stuff) I've had to deal with," Emmons said. "So I have that on everybody."
In international shooting circles, Emmons, 31, is known as the sport's poster boy for sportsmanship. A five-time World Cup Final gold medalist, he handled the Olympic gold medals that slipped away with such class that it helped him meet and marry his wife.
It was 2004 in Athens. He had already won gold in the 50-meter rifle prone and had a comfortable lead going into the final shot in small-bore rifle three position. Then came the shooter's living nightmare: He fired at the wrong target and dropped to eighth.
Afterward, Emmons was commiserating with teammates and opponents at the shooting grounds' beer garden when he felt a tap on his shoulder.
It was Czech shooting star Katerina Kurkhova and her father, Czech shooting coach Peter Kurkhova.
"They both said, 'We really admire how you handled the situation today,' " Emmons recalled. " 'We really thought you performed so well. We want to wish you the best of luck.' "
Then they handed him a four-leaf clover keychain he still keeps in his wallet. Little did she know she was part of that future. They married three years later.
In 2008 in Beijing, his wife had won gold in air rifle and was about to watch her husband win gold in the 50-meter rifle three position. Two days after winning silver in the 50-meter rifle prone, he only needed a relatively easy 6.7 score out of 10.9 on his final shot to win gold.
"The Chinese take their shooting very seriously," Emmons said. "Having shot the World Cup there earlier in the year, there were a lot of people in the stands and they were reacting to the shots. If someone made a great shot or made a move ... they fire on everything. You can be in the middle of holding your gun and shooting your shot and the crowd will go, 'Ohhh!' "
Emmons and his wife are notoriously slow shooters. To prevent the Chinese crowd from jostling him, he trained to speed up his rhythm. It worked great — until that last fateful shot.
"I took a couple less breaths than I normally do," Emmons said. "I get on the sight, I start above the target and relaxed down into it. I just had this calm feeling in my body that, 'You got this.' As I was coming down, I start to put my finger on the trigger and ..."
Boom! The light, 100-gram trigger went off to his touch, way too early. He scored a 4.4 and wound up fourth.
Two years later, none of that mattered. That's when he learned he had thyroid cancer.
"Oh, yeah, that whole thing," said Emmons, as if cancer were just part of his laundry list of hurdles. "That was nuts."
He had felt sluggish for a while. People starting joking about his daily naps. He sensed a sinus infection.
It wasn't a cold. Doctors found a lump on the side of his thyroid and told him it could be cancerous. Sure enough.
They recommended surgery to remove half his thyroid.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! What does this mean?" Emmons said. "No. 1, how bad is thyroid cancer? Am I going to live? Am I going to die? Am I going to see my kid grow up? Am I going to be able to spend time with my wife? Who cares if I'm going to shoot?"
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Under the direction of the Food Service Manager/Coordinator, Chef or Lead Cook, the Cook 2 is responsible for the daily preparation of meals from an assigned menu, ensures safe food handling methods are followed, maintenance of a safe & sanitary workplace, inventory control and supervision of staff.
Responsible for the production of menu items including preparation of menu items as per the approved menus, production using standardized recipes and service ensuring standard department policies, procedures and safe food handling techniques are used at all times.
Ensures the proper preparation, delivery and storage of food to ensure safety of residents, guests and the public. Performs regularly required audits and corrective action as necessary.
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Note: Gene Orza is the retired chief operating officer of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Although he joined the union as a lawyer after Marvin Miller retired as its executive director, he experienced first-hand the ability Miller used to turn the union into one of the most powerful in labor history and the players into the wealthiest union members.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Lately starring, I read, Jake Ruppert, Hank O'Day and Deacon White. That's nice. But a baseball museum with Jake Ruppert, Hank O'Day and Deacon White in it, and not Marvin Miller? Some museum.
The absurdity, in the end, is entirely the Hall's fault, and no one else's, try as the Hall might to shift the blame to others, namely the voters it selects to decide who the worthies are.
But it was the Hall that selected those voters, and if the Hall lacked either the courage or the wisdom even to interview them about any damaging biases they may have harbored that could, in turn, destroy the authenticity of its claim to be a museum, it is the Hall that bears the responsibility for the resulting illegitimacy of the claim.
Look at it this way. You build your own museum, dedicated, say, to 20th century art. In the belief that you yourself lack the necessary expertise to acquire 20th century art, and not wanting that inadequacy to undermine your claim to be a real museum, you appoint curators to whom you delegate the responsibility for the acquisition of the art that will be on display in your museum.
A few years go by, and you notice that your museum, despite having had several opportunities to do so, doesn't have a single Picasso. Even you, less steeped in modern art, know about Picasso, so this voice starts whispering in your ear that a museum ostensibly dedicated to 20th century art might have a credibility problem if it doesn't have a single painting, drawing, sculpture, even a napkin, signed by him.
You investigate, and learn that among the curators you've hired are several who just can't stand Picasso. They don't like his philandering. They just don't understand all this fuss about Guernica. Cubes, big deal. Besides, the guy sounds like a veritable communist.
What do you do? One possibility, the one the self-described National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has adopted, is to throw up your hands and say, "Don't blame me. Blame the curators." That of course means your museum of 20th century art is destined to remain something appreciably less than that, because it consciously excludes exhibition of any works by the man widely regarded as the greatest artist of that century.
Some might even call your museum, and your calling yourself one, a joke. The other possibility, the one that might enable you to regain some credibility as a museum, to get people to stop laughing at you, is to revisit the way you hire your curators.
Maybe, you could interview them before their appointment. "Hi, Dave. I'm thinking of hiring you as a curator for the museum, but before I do, do you have any biases against people who obviously have to be in the museum. I mean, we don't have any Picassos at all. Not a one. Turns out, I've talked to the last batch I hired, and it seems that some of them didn't take being a curator seriously enough."
Of course the Hall won't do anything similar. Given how closely tied it is to Major League Baseball, a deliberate exclusion of owners and management officials from voting, even if they are biased, is not from the Hall's vantage a viable option.
There is, of course, an unfortunate irony in the distaste so many of these people have for Marvin, for his greatest contribution to the sport, the breaking of the perpetual reserve clause, freed the clubs to better compete among themselves as much as it freed the players to have their services competed for. But that shortsightedness on the part of some voters only serves to underscore the Hall's dilemma. It has incompetent, unqualified voters as part of its curatorial staff, and no way to get rid of them.
So what is left for the Hall to do to recapture a semblance of authenticity as a museum? Maybe a fitting acknowledgment of the error of its ways would be for the Hall to simply say to its voters, "Voting, schmoting. We're putting Marvin Miller in the Hall. If you don't like it, sorry, but we're supposed to be a museum, and without Marvin … well, we just ain't."
A unilateral decision by the Hall itself to install Marvin Miller can't entirely make up for the disgraceful and shameful exclusion of the man during his lifetime – oh, what an induction speech it would have been – but doing so will at least allow the Hall to call itself a baseball museum with a straight face.


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On a night when the theme involved the most memorable years of each star's lives, Christina Milian had a not-so-memorable evening: She was eliminated on "Dancing With the Stars."
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She was portrayed by Irish actress Katie McGrath.
Season 1
Morgana started off being a very kind girl who was Uther's ward. However, unknown to her at the time she was actually his daughter and half-sister of Arthur. Morgana had a close friendship with her maidservant Gwen, Arthur and Merlin at this point in time.
Morgana eventually discovered that she had the gift of prophecy which was something that frightened her immensely. She sought the help of Gaius but this did nothing to stop her prophetic dreams. Morgana would also join in Merlin's adventures such as rescuing Camelot from a plague and meeting a young Druid boy named Mordred who she bonded instantly with.
Morgana showed resistance Uther's rule and disliked his hatred of magic. Uther eventually imprisoned her and executed Gwen's father driving her to plan his assassination. She stopped when Uther showed he cared for her when they visited her supposed birth father's grave together.
Season 2
Morgana started to panic after several events led her to believe she had magic. She confided this in Merlin which led the two of them to become closer. Merlin suggested that she visit the Druids but this plan didn't work when Arthur and his soldiers invaded the camp. She eventually accepted that magic could be used for good.
Morgana eventually met her half-sister Morgause after the latter defeated Arthur in a duel. Morgana tells her that she wants Uther dead and Morgause makes her the source of a sleeping plague without telling her. When Merlin learned about this, he tried to kill her reluctantly using poison; however, much to their surprise, Morgause showed up to save Morgana and took care of her for a year. Morgause then used this time to corrupt Morgana, turning her evil.
Season 3
Morgana returned to Camelot pretending that she still cared about her former friends. Her true feelings are eventually revealed and Morgana is scheming to overthrow Uther so she can have the throne. Merlin tried to help her see sense but she continued working with Morgause.
Morgana and Morgause eventually were able to take over Camelot using the army of King Cenred, who had offered his allegiance to their plight. Morgause killed Cenred after they acquired the Cup of Life, which made the army immortal. Morgana killed a large number of townspeople to force the knights to be loyal to her. Morgana was defeated by Merlin, Arthur and Gwen, causing her and a wounded Morgause to flee for the time being.
Season 4
A year later, Morgana desired revenge on Arthur and all of Camelot. She sacrificed her sister to the Underworld in order to release spirits on Camelot. Morgana then formed an alliance with Agravaine in hopes of destroying Camelot. Morgana killed Uther but would not be satisfied until Arthur was dead. Some of her schemes with Agravaine included attempting to kill Arthur in a duel, brainwashing Merlin and using him to kill Arthur and having Gwen exiled.
Morgana took over Camelot again with the help of a warlord named Helios and became queen. Her reign was very short because Merlin and Arthur overthrew her army. Morgana was wounded in battle after attempting to escape. She met a dragon named Aithusa who healed her injuries.
Season 5
Morgana then used magic on Gwen, turning her evil temporarily. She then ordered to Gwen to kill Arthur by putting poison in his food. Morgana did this so she could get throne and then planned on killing Gwen if the plan worked.
During the final battle against Morgana, Arthur was on the verge of death after being stabbed by her ally Mordred. Percival and Gwaine attempted to kill Morgana by stabbing her but she captured them. Morgana killed Gwaine and found where Arthur was heading. Morgana encountered Arthur and Merlin and attacked them. Morgana taunts them saying she can't be harmed by ordinary weapons.
Merlin then stabbed Morgana with Excalibur, which was forged with dragon's breath, causing her death.
Powers and Abilities
Morgana was shown to be a very powerful witch capable of performing feats such as telekinesis, mind control and necromancy. She also had the capability of seeing the future via prophetic dreams and was a skilled swordsman though Morgana preferred using magic in combat. For all her awesome power, Morgana was vastly inferior to Emrys in terms of magic during the majority of the series. She was rendered almost catatonic with fear by the very sight of him. However, in season 5 her magic grow in power that it was said that her magic might equal Emrys' power one day. Morgana had a high sense of self-preservation and was not above begging for her life or hiding behind others to achieve her ends.
- She is based on the witch of the same name in Arthurian legend.
- In the TV series, Morgana is never known by her full name in the legend, "Morgana Le Fay".
- In the legend, she was also known as "Morgan" or "Morgaine".


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SAN DIEGO What Brian Schneider did Friday night was not easy.After spending most of the first two weeks of the season on the bench, he stepped into the starting lineup and had the at-bat of the game in helping the Phillies beat the San Diego Padres, 4-1 (see Salisbury's Instant Replay).Schneider laced a game-tying single to right field in the top of the seventh inning on a 99-mph fastball from Padres right-hander Andrew Cashner.Turning around Cashners fastball would be difficult for a hitter who has been seeing pitches every day. What made Schneiders hit his first of the season impressive was that hed had just six at-bats in the Phillies first 13 games and none since Saturday.Two batters after Schneiders game-tying hit, Juan Pierre drove a two-run single to right and the Phils late-arriving offense was off and running as the club won for the 13th straight time in San Diego.The late offensive surge made a winner out of Cole Hamels (2-1) and some strong defense and bullpen work by Jose Contreras, Chad Qualls and Jonathan Papelbon sewed it all up.Schneiders hit brought it all together. The seldom-used catcher, getting a start in place of Carlos Ruiz (see story), was the first batter that Cashner faced in relief of starter Edinson Volquez. Schneider knew Cashner threw hard. But just in case he needed reminding, teammates Hunter Pence and Jimmy Rollins offered scouting reports as Cashner warmed up.Oh, yeah, in addition to a fastball that reaches triple digits on the radar gun, Cashner has an excellent curveball.Schneider hit the first pitch he saw a fastball.I knew he had a good breaking ball so I tried to hit the heat right away, Schneider said. Luckily I got one on the first pitch.Schneiders hit was the fourth straight single by the Phils in the seventh inning. Shane Victorino and Ty Wigginton opened the frame with no-out singles and Freddy Galvis followed with a bunt hit to load the bases. Galvis was bunting to the move the runners, but he placed the bunt perfectly between the pitcher and third baseman. The rookie second baseman continues to do everything well especially the little things.Galvis also made an excellent defensive play in the game. In fact, the Phillies played tremendous defense all night, a must in a close game. Pences running catch on a drive by Jesus Guzman saved extra bases and Schneider made a nice pounce and throw to nail a runner at third in the second.Starting pitcher Cole Hamels was the beneficiary of all that defense and the lefty contributed with a difference-making play of his own when he sprang from the mound and made a glove-hand flip to Schneider to cut down Yonder Alonso at the plate on a squeeze bunt attempt in a scoreless game in the fourth.We work on that in spring training, Hamels said. I knew I had to get off the mound quick and I knew I couldnt bare-hand it.Hamels needed the defensive support because he was not at his sharpest. He allowed six hits, several hard-hit, over six innings. But he got big outs when he needed to, particularly with his changeup, in holding the Padres to one run.I wasnt able to locate well, Hamels said. Fortunately this is a big ballpark and I was able to get away with some pitches down the middle.Hamels has won his last four starts against San Diego and he has allowed just two earned runs in 30 innings over that span.The Phillies havent lost in San Diego since 2008. Their pitching staff has allowed just seven runs in the last 86 innings in San Diego. On Saturday, the Phils go for a third straight win over the majors worst team. Roy Halladay starts against lefty Cory Luebke. It is likely that Schneider will be behind the plate again. He had his first hit of the season Friday night and it was a big one.E-mail Jim Salisbury at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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text: Watch out, Silicon Valley: Europe's next billion dollar start-ups Silicon Valley 07 September 10 by James Watson One advantage of being part of the close-knit southern Bay Area tech community is the speed at which an idea can become a business. "You find the Valley will invest in a company, then six months later, Europe will make a clone," says Kanji. He cites Group on, in which his prior firm Accel invested $30 million late last year, its second main round of funding. Soon after, in January 2010, European VCs put €4 million into Citydeal.de, a German Groupon clone, which was promptly acquired by Groupon just four months later. The implication? "You're probably not going to become the global champion. The best you can do is become the regional company," says Kanji.The difference in value between first and second place can be hundreds of millions of dollars: Playfish and Zynga is one example, but a sharper one is AdMob and Quattro Wireless, two US mobile-advertising firms. AdMob was founded in the Valley in 2006, the same year that Quattro Wireless was set up on the east coast. AdMob grew fastest and became the subject of a bidding war between Apple and Google, with the latter snapping it up in 2009 for $750 million. Thwarted, Apple picked up Quattro Wireless this January for just $275 million. "The winner takes it all," Kanji says.For some in Europe, though, second place appears to be just fine. This has led to accusations of "clone factories", which copy emerging US businesses with the aim of controlling a local market, before being sold off as quickly as possible. StudiVZ is one striking example: a Facebook clone launched in Berlin in 2005, it grew rapidly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, before being sold on to a German publishing firm in 2007. "It's a local champion. It is beneficial to the ecosystem, but it's not how the West was won," argues Atlas Venture's Fred Destin. "Copycats are not the model," adds Hoberman. "What is the economic value added to Europe? They end up owned by American companies, and taxes go back to America, so it's not very productive for Europe."However, the fact that copycat firms can start up quickly and cheaply highlights a key difference today from the dot-com boom of a decade ago: the capital requirements for internet-based companies have dropped dramatically. Today, anyone can rent cheap server space from Amazon. "Technology costs a tenth of what it did a decade ago, so many businesses don't need millions to get going," says Ariadne's Julie Meyer.Besides, now that Silicon Valley has built the internet, any business anywhere can take advantage of it to go global."Talent can be anywhere, and I'm not restricting myself by geography," says Niklas Zennström. "This is not a business where you go door to door."Where, though, are the European role models? Ask someone to name the first five hi-tech businesses they can think of, and their wealthy founders, and the list will likely include Google (30-something billionaires Sergey Brin and Larry Page), Apple (Steve Jobs), Microsoft (Bill Gates), Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) and perhaps Dell (Michael Dell). It usually takes a while before a European company features on the list. And if it does, most people struggle to name its founders.Who runs Nokia, for example? Or SAP? And which European tech bosses are billionaires? Famous and wealthy tech pioneers are in short supply to spur on the next European entrepreneurs. By contrast, the continent excels in creating retail billionaires: according to Forbes, the richest five Europeans are all from the retail sector. None of the 25 richest Europeans made their money in technology.In the UK, whenever examples are sought of great British innovators, James Dyson is usually celebrated. "Really, the vacuum-cleaner guy?" exclaims the BVCA's Scott Sage. "Who are the new heroes?" Sonali De Rycker, a partner at Accel Partners, is concerned about such a lack of role models. "Entrepreneurs do not have enough people who have done it before that they can speak to and learn from, and hence the successes are just 'stories'; the multibillion-dollar outcomes just words." She believes that even though many entrepreneurs talk the talk, their ambition is lower. "We need to applaud entrepreneurs and make them the heroes. Silicon Valley founders are household names in the US. Not so over here."Fidelity's Davor Hebel says that too many European entrepreneurs lack "the audacity and drive to change the world". Why, he asks, is Mark Zuckerberg building up Facebook? "He could have sold at $100m, then $1bn, then $5bn." Instead, he wants to build something world-changing.But although there is a shortfall of brand name billionaires, a growing list of financially successful European tech entrepreneurs is emerging, many of them now actively backing others. Skype's Niklas ZennstrÖm and Janus Friis are perhaps the best known; Saul Klein is another. He worked on Skype's executive team, before moving on to ventures such as Lovefilm. Klein is now an active investor and supporter of start-ups via Seedcamp, a micro seed fund. Building on Europe's retail success, Jacques- Antoine Granjon runs online fashion retailer Venteprivee.com, a 2001 start-up expected to top $1 billion in sales this year. Simon Nixon made a fortune by helping others save a fortune on Moneysupermarket.com. Edward Wray and Andrew Black of Betfair have cashed in on the success of online gambling. Brent Hoberman, who helped sell Lastminute.com to Travelocity for £577 million in 2005, can count more than 20 new ventures that ex-Lastminute.com staffers are now involved with, ranging from Qype.com to Travelmatch.co.uk. This "ecosystem" means that London, in particular, is now attracting a growing number of talented US entrepreneurs to build and invest in new businesses.Jason Trost, an American, came to the UK three years ago to set up Smarkets, an online betting firm, in which Stefan Glaenzer is a key investor. Trost sees several benefits in launching over here: one is the UK's visa rules for highly skilled migrants, which attract young, educated workers. "That's a major win for Europe, which VCs and the UK should tout," Trost says. He waves aside oft-cited concerns about restrictive employment laws and capital-gains taxes, but points instead to a concern about a shortage of technical talent as a problem. "It's Europe's key constraint," he argues.Michael Acton Smith of Mind Candy, the online gaming firm behind the Moshi Monsters game, struggles to recruit talented developers. "We see great people who get resistance from girlfriends or parents who say: 'Don't take that risky start-up job, take that City job instead,'" he says. Playfish's Kristian Segerstråle felt the pressure himself: "I left Cambridge in 2000, and there's a sense of peer pressure about which consultancy or bank to join," he says. "It's seen as the prestigious thing to do. Whereas in Stanford and the west coast, the prestigious thing to do is to join a start-up. Nobody here talks about the entrepreneurs."Still, Segerstråle sees plenty of benefits in being London-based. For one, local start-ups are having to think globally from day one, simply because the UK market isn't big enough. "As London entrepreneurs, we should be able to take more advantage of this, because these days it doesn't matter for consumer internet firms where you are physically," he says. "I would love to see more London [start-ups] rise up and dare to dream bigger and build some world-beating companies."Brent Hoberman, too, is upbeat about the opportunities: London's start-ups, he says, are well placed to move into the fast-growing Indian and Chinese markets ahead of their US rivals. "This is where I hope to see examples come up in a couple of years," he says. Julie Meyer agrees. "Silicon Valley is a smart place, but it's incredibly American. In the UK, people think much earlier about how to expand globally." All that's missing, she says, is a public acknowledgement, from government and media, that -- since the financial crisis -- the tech sector has emerged as Britain's golden hope. "The technology-enabled ventures are creating wealth for society, much more so than the City," Meyer says. "Entrepreneurs are going to be creating the taxable income that all society benefits from. Let's get out and say it." 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