text:
The Consumer Electronics Show, The Outdoor Retailer Show, a 10-day visit from Ryan's family, the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and a PSIA Steeps Camp in Jackson Hole, Wyo. That was my January. I should be ecstatic that my February has more white space than a Blue Book at exam time but I'm a zombie.
My new Utah Life Elevated Calendar
[caption id="attachment_14205" align="alignnone" width="280" caption="Ah, February"][/caption]
Sundance- it's gone. All packed up. Even the mounds of trash and playbills have been swept up. The send-off is bittersweet. On the one hand, I'm relieved but on the other, I miss the commotion, the energy, the style, the scramble to get from one appointment to another, to a screening to a party.
[caption id="attachment_14255" align="alignnone" width="315" caption="Fred Segal Salon and Studio On Main 'after'"][/caption]
I'm eyeing the supplements I got from the Utah Usana reps at Kari Feinstein's Style Lounge during Sundance.
They were there promoting 'stick packs' of Probiotic that you dissolve in water and drink for a healthier stomach and immune system. At this point, however, I'm eyeing their bottle of "Pure Rest" melatonin that is supposed to promote sleep and defend against stress. That way my head won't mill over the happy times I shared with Terrence Howard as he collected Rockport shoes.
I can't stop thinking about those Naomi Pumps with their shock absorbing heel, latex arch support, breathable polyurethane in the forefoot so you won't get sticky, sweaty toes, and a rubber outsole for durable grip on Utah pavement; loved by Carmen Electra. I wonder when they'll arrive...
Most women would sparkle if they were handed a 120 Colors Palette of eyeshadow from bhcosmetics but the choices just confuse me.
And then my new earrings from Saint Vintage Designs. The small crystal flakes were handpicked for me by the artist and cancer survivor Paige Jansen-Nichols. She uses vintage beads and charms she finds at estate sales and flea markets and weaves them into gorgeous lariat-style necklaces, bracelets and earrings. They will make the coolest Valentine's Day gifts and a portion of her sales go to cancer research.
The Obermeyer Kassidy Down Sweater perked me up when I put it on yesterday.
But then I had to bury it under the Oakley Tiers Jacket to beat the chill of our -8 temps.
Ah, the Oakley Learn To Ride Lounge at the Downstairs Bar. I never got to go out with the gang and ride but I did get a nifty outfit. I ran into Andie MacDowell and her daughter again (this time with One Tree Hill's Michael Copon) and they were having so much fun sifting through the women's collection (the girls not Michael).
At least it was sunny today so I could wear my Oakley Frog Skinz and feel like one of those "real" celebrities.
I'm back to the daily grind and more so. I've written all my elegant thank you notes on Tiselle letterpress cards (even Rob Lowe got some!) and I return to my Utah bubble.
That's where my bathroom pipes burst from the cold, I'm covered in drywall dust, there's no fresh powder to shake my funk and no swag lounge to dazzle me. What's a girl to do now? I guess shower and make some turns on the groomers. There's also the USSA World Freestyle Comps going on but not really today. The slopestyle finals just ended. Hey, I know! I can get my brakes checked and then reregister my car which came up for renewal last month. Just sounds like so much fun compared to gifting and movies. *Note* sarcasm.
OK, I'm even depressing myself. The FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships is a pretty cool event to catch and will surely lift anyone's spirits.
Here's the rest of the schedule in case you want to jet up to Park City and spectate. FYI- wear as many layers as possible. It's bluebird up here but still a chilly 21 degrees.
Friday February 4
|Ladies' and Men's Ski Halfpipe Qualifications
|Park City Mountain Resort - Eagle Superpipe
|Ladies' and Men's Ski Cross Finals
|Deer Valley - Solid Muldoon
|Aerials Finalists Showcase
|Deer Valley - White Owl
|Ladies' and Men's Aerial Finals
|Deer Valley - White Owl
|Deer Valley
|Ladies' and Men's Ski Halfpipe Finals
|Park City Mountain Resort - Eagle Superpipe
|Awards immediately following competition
|Park City Mountain Resort - Official Awards Stage
|Ladies' and Men's Dual Moguls Qualifications
|Deer Valley - Champion
|Ladies' and Men's Dual Moguls Finals
|Deer Valley - Champion
|Closing Ceremonies
|Deer Valley - Official Awards Stage
|Deer Valley


text:
UH Calendar
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art
Join the Women's Resource Center for our weekly brown bag discussion group that focuses on various issues related to women, gender, feminism, race, sexuality, etc. Topics vary week by week. This week's topic: Intersectionality and Privilege Women's Resource Center, 11:45 a.m.
For more info visit www.uh.edu/wrc
Pianist from the University of Oregon
For more information visit https://www.vendini.com/
Evening with New Creative Writers
For more information visit http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/
Works by Jacob, Ticheli, Turina, Sousa
For more information visit https://www.vendini.com/

subset: commoncrawl


text:
On July 29, 2014 during a game against the Atlanta Braves, a video message featuring several Dodger players began on DodgerVision without much fanfare and then suddenly became cause for a raucous celebration at Dodger Stadium as Yasiel Puig, Hyun-Jin Ryu and Justin Turner explained in Spanish, Korean and English that Dodger Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully would return for an unprecedented 66th season with the organization in 2015. Said Scully: "It is very difficult to say goodbye. Over the years I have been blessed to have so many friends including those that sit in the stands and listen as well as those at home, who listen and watch. It is just too hard to say goodbye to all these friends. Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time."
The Hall of Famer's 65 years of consecutive service with the Dodgers is the longest of any sports broadcaster with one team. This season, Scully will call all Dodger home games and road games in San Francisco for SportsNet LA as well as Dodger radio partner AM 570 LA Sports.
Last September, Scully was presented with the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award, which was created in 1998 to recognize accomplishments and contributions of historical significance. The Dodger broadcaster was just the second non-player to be receive the honor, joining Rachel Robinson. Said outgoing Commissioner Allan H. "Bud" Selig: "He is, to me and to many, the embodiment of the goodwill that our game inspires, and every day he reminds me why this game is forever the national pastime."
Scully continues to rewrite the record book of his trade each and every time he goes on the air. With awards and accolades beyond comprehension, Scully added "Grand Marshal" to his resume this past January 2014 when he served as the Grand Marshal of the 125th Rose Parade on New Year's Day. Scully remarked on the experience: "It's been absolutely thrilling and heartwarming. One of the great things about it is I was able to share it with my wife, with our grandchildren, most of them, and children. So the thought that they were enjoying it as much as I made me feel even better."
Also in January of 2014, Scully won the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association's best Play-By-Play award for both TV and Radio. He has now won the award 11 and 15 times, respectively.
In January 2013, he was bestowed with the Allan H. "Bud" Selig Executive Leadership Award at the annual Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation dinner, which is given to those who have made great contributions to the game of baseball.
In 2010, the American Sportscasters Association (ASA), put his name atop the list of the 50 greatest to ever sit behind a microphone. The ASA also elected Scully as the top sportscaster of the 20th century in a vote by more than 500 national members of the organization in 2000, topping such broadcasting icons as Howard Cosell, Mel Allen and others. In the 2005 book "Voices of Summer," Scully was named as baseball's all-time best broadcaster based on "longevity, continuity, network coverage, kudos, language, popularity, persona, voice knowledge and miscellany." Each criterion was rated from 1-10, with the perfect score being 100. Scully was the only broadcaster to reach that number.
Scully, whose vivid yet simplistic description of a baseball game has thrilled fans for years, joined Hall of Fame announcer Red Barber and Connie Desmond as part of the Brooklyn Dodgers' broadcast team in 1950, just a year after graduating from Fordham University. Scully, who played outfield for two seasons on Fordham's baseball team, called baseball, basketball and football games for the University's radio station. In 1982, 32 years after he called his first Dodger game, he reached the pinnacle of his career in baseball when he was inducted into the Broadcaster's wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the Ford C. Frick Award recipient.
In 2009, Scully was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, which recognizes individuals and programs that have made a significant and lasting contribution to the broadcasting industry. A plaque in his honor is permanently displayed at the NAB building in Washington, DC. Previous inductees to the NAB Radio Hall of Fame include Mel Allen, Gene Autry, Red Barber, Jack Buck, George Burns, Harry Caray, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Casey Kasem, Larry King, Rush Limbaugh, Edward Murrow and Ronald Reagan.
Also in 2009, The American Sportscasters Association selected Scully as the Top Sportscaster of All-Time. The same organization previously honored him as the Top Sportscaster of the 20th century in 2000 and inducted him into the American Sportscasters Association's Hall of Fame in 1992. During the 2008 calendar year, Scully was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in New York City as well as the California Sports Hall of Fame. He was honored on the field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before the team's record-setting game in March and a plaque was unveiled in his honor at the historic venue. He received the Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award from Pacific Pioneers Broadcasting and was honored by WFUV, the radio station he helped form at his alma mater Fordham, during its 60th anniversary celebration. Scully also received an honorary Doctor's of Law degree from Pepperdine, the university's highest honor.
When Scully first began broadcasting in 1950, the Dodgers had yet to win a single World Series and were known affectionately as "Dem Bums." Gasoline cost 27 cents a gallon, a postage stamp was just three cents and the minimum wage was only 75 cents per hour. Three years later, at the age of 25, he became the youngest person to ever broadcast a World Series game and in 1955, he had his most memorable moment behind the microphone, as he called the Dodgers' first and only championship in Brooklyn. The following season, Scully once again found himself in the enviable position of calling what he would later say was the greatest individual performance he had seen - Don Larsen's perfect game in the World Series - a broadcast that made national news again in 2009 when the MLB Network launched with the rare footage of that game.
Though he cut his proverbial teeth on radio, Scully is often known for letting the pictures tell the story on television. His most memorable call for Dodger fans likely came in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, when a hobbled Kirk Gibson's two-out, two-strike, two-run homer gave the Dodgers a victory over the highly-favored Oakland A's. "High fly ball into right field, she is gone," Scully said before remaining silent for more than a minute. The next words he spoke continue to be replayed almost nightly at Dodger Stadium. "In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened."
Scully's voice is often dubbed the "soundtrack to summer" in Los Angeles, where generations of fans have grown up listening to him call Dodger games. He continues to call all Dodger home games and road games in California and Arizona. While Scully handles all nine innings of the team's television broadcasts, the first three innings of each of his games is simulcast on radio.
As such, in 2005, USA Today ranked the Dodgers' radio broadcast team as MLB's best, based on a technical rating, a fan rating and an entertainment rating. Scully and his colleagues, Rick Monday and Charley Steiner, earned 28.5 points out of a possible 30.
On April 21, 2001, the press box at Dodger Stadium was named in Scully's honor. In addition to his Dodger broadcasts, the legendary broadcaster has called play-by-play for NFL games and PGA Tour events on CBS-TV from 1975-82 and play-by-play for Major League Baseball's Game of the Week, three World Series and four All-Star Games on NBC-TV from 1983-89. Scully also called play-by-play for the World Series on CBS Radio from 1990-97. In all, he has called 25 World Series and 12 All-Star Games.
In 2009, Scully hosted "Scully & Wooden for the Kids" alongside UCLA coaching legend John Wooden. The once-in-a-lifetime event featured Scully and Wooden sharing insights, philosophies, memories and wisdom before a sold-out audience of more than 7,000 people. Proceeds from the event benefited Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and City of Hope through ThinkCure!, the official charity of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Scully portrayed himself in "For Love of the Game," the 1999 Universal Pictures release starring Kevin Costner. During the 1999 World Series, Scully served as master of ceremonies at Major League Baseball's All-Century Team unveiling at Atlanta's Turner Field. He was named best of the century in Los Angeles Sports broadcasting by the Long Beach Press-Telegram and the poet laureate of baseball by USA Today. He has also lent his voice to Sony Playstation's MLB video game.
He and his wife, Sandra, reside in Los Angeles.
Broadcasting highlights include:
Jaime Jarrín, "the Spanish voice of the Dodgers" and one of the most recognizable voices in all of Spanish-language broadcasting, begins his 57th season in the radio booth alongside legendary lefty Fernando Valenzuela and Spanish-language broadcaster Pepe Yñiguez on Univision America's KTNQ 1020 AM. The Dodgers, with Jarrín and longtime broadcaster Vin Scully, are the only Major League club to feature a pair of Hall of Fame announcers. For seven different decades, Jarrín has been the Spanish-language storyteller of the Los Angeles Dodgers' greatest moments for countless Dodger fans and families.
Jarrín's broadcasting highlights include three perfect games (Don Larsen in 1956, Sandy Koufax in 1965 and Dennis Martinez in 1991) and 19 no-hitters including Clayton Kershaw's no-hitter last year. Jarrín missed calling Valenzuela's no-hitter in 1990 only due to a nearly fatal car accident that occurred in Spring Training 1990 which forced him out of the booth in recovery for more than four months. Jarrín has called 28 World Series, including the 2005 Fall Classic when he served as emcee for MLB's Latin Legends ceremony, 30 All-Star games and 31 postseason series. Jarrín's favorite memory was the entire 1981 season when "Fernandomania" swept the country and the game in which Orel Hershiser's 10 scoreless innings (September 29, 1988 vs. San Diego) broke Don Drysdale's record.
Jarrín was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 26, 1998 in Cooperstown, NY as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. Named in honor of the former broadcaster and Commissioner of Baseball, the Frick Award has been given annually since 1978 to a broadcaster "for major contributions to the game of baseball." When he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Jarrín became only the second Spanish-language announcer to achieve that honor, joining Buck Canel. In the 2005 book "Voices of Summer," Jarrín was named as baseball's all-time best Spanish-language broadcaster. He was rated 28th overall among all broadcasters.
The Quito, Ecuador native began working for HCJB in his home country when he was just 16 years old and went on to become the announcer for the National Congress of Ecuador. Jarrín arrived in the U.S. on June 24, 1955, the same year that Dodger great Sandy Koufax made his Major League debut. Jarrín had never seen a baseball game until he moved to Los Angeles. His first experience with baseball involved watching the Dodgers on a televised broadcast in 1955 when they won their first World Series championship by defeating the New York Yankees.
Jarrín began regularly attending minor league games in Los Angeles, visiting both Gilmore Field and Wrigley Field from 1955 until the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958 in order to learn the game. Jarrín was given one year to prepare to become a baseball broadcaster by William Beaton, the station manager at KWKW.
During his first six years with the Dodgers, Jarrín and his partner would recreate the games in the studio while listening to fellow Hall of Famer Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett on the radio. Starting in 1965, Jarrín took the Dodgers' Spanish-language radio broadcast on the road, making every stop with the Dodgers. Jarrín became the club's No. 1 Spanish-language broadcaster in 1973, 14 years after he first joined the Dodgers. From 1962-84, Jarrín called nearly 4,000 games spanning 22 seasons and never missed a contest. The streak was broken only when Jarrín took charge of all the Spanish-language radio coverage and production for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Jarrín became a household name across the country in 1980-81 when he served as the interpreter for Mexican pitching phenom Fernando Valenzuela during a period known as Fernandomania. The left-hander became an analyst in 2003. On August 23, 2009, Jarrín participated, along with Valenzuela and Yñiguez, in the first-ever regular season, dedicated, Spanish-language telecast of a Dodger game. PRIME TICKET aired the afternoon game against the Cubs on their sister network, FOX Sports West.
In addition to his work calling Dodger games, Jarrín found himself at the center of many international news broadcasts, including the funeral of President John F. Kennedy, Pope John Paul II's visit to America and several important meetings between foreign leaders and Presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson. He has called more than 30 world championship boxing title bouts throughout the world for radio and television stations in Latin America including the Thrilla in Manila between Muhammad Aliand Joe Frazier. He has called 19 All-Star Games and 25 World Series, including the 2005 Fall Classic in which he served as the emcee for MLB's Latin Legends ceremony. His broadcasts of the All-Star Game, League Championship Series and World Series on CBS, the Latina Broadcasting Network, Cadena Latina and Caracol from 1989 to 1999 were carried on more than 300 stations.
Jarrín was the first recipient of the Southern California Sports Broadcaster Association's President's Award in February 1998. He was given the highest award by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in June 1998 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 1998. On June 21, 2002 Jarrín was inducted into the California Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame and on August 23, 2003, he was inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum during pre-game ceremonies at Dodger Stadium. In early 2004, he was honored by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters with the 2003 Foreign Language Sports Broadcaster Award and inducted into the Southern California Sports Broadcaster's Hall of Fame. Jarrín was honored again by the SCSB with the foreign-language broadcaster of the year award in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2009 he was honored by the Society of St. Vincent DePaul for his commitment to changing the lives of atrisk youth in the community.
Jarrín's other honors included being awarded La Gran Cruz al Merito en El Grado de Comendador (the highest medal awarded to non-military personnel) in his native Ecuador in January 1992 and being named as one of the top 100 Influential Hispanics in the United States in Hispanic Business Magazine in 1990. He won Golden Mike Awards in 1970 and 1971 and became the first Latin American to win that award. In 2000, he spoke at the MLB Rookie Development seminar, which is designed to prepare top minor league prospects for the Major Leagues. In March 2006, Jarrín served as a play-by-play announcer for the inaugural World Baseball Classic. In 2011, Jarrín was honored by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) Foundation with a AFTRA Media and Entertainment Excellence Award. Also in 2011, Jarrín was the Hall of Fame recipient for the Associated Press Television-Radio Association (APTRA). In 2014, Jarrín was presented with the Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award from the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters.
Jarrín studied philosophy, letters, journalism and broadcasting at Central University of Ecuador in Quito. Jarrín remains connected to his native Ecuador, presently funding a baseball academy in Guayaquil for kids between the ages of 7 and 12 with the help his friends and colleagues across MLB, with hopes of growing the sport in Ecuador.
Jarrín celebrated his 50th season with the Dodgers in 2008 and was honored by the team on the anniversary of his arrival to the United States, June 24. Jarrín was recognized for his service that day with appearances throughout Los Angeles and received a special award from the publisher and general manager of Hoy, LA Times Media Group's Spanish-language newspaper. In 2012, the Dodgers honored Jarrín's 54th season as part of the club's season-long celebration of Dodger Stadium's 50th Anniversary. A Jaime Jarrín T-Shirt, featuring an excerpt of Jarrín's famous home run call "¡Se va, se va, y se fue despidala con un beso!" and Tribute Night on June 11 sold more than 50,000 tickets. Last season, the Dodgers held Jaime Jarrín bobblehead night on May 25, a sold out game. Jarrín maintains an active Spanish-language Dodgers' official Twitter account: @JaimeJarrin.
The Dodger legacy for Jarrín now spans three generations in his own family as his son Jorge, Dodger broadcaster and manager of radio broadcast sales and Hispanic initiatives, broadcaster will call select games in Spanish for SportsNet LA this season. His grandson Stefan played for the 2011 champion Arizona League Dodgers after being selected by the club in the 40th round of the 2011 draft.
Jarrín and his wife, Blanca, reside in San Marino.
Former Dodger outfielder and two-time Major League All-Star, Rick Monday begins his 23rd season as a Dodger broadcaster and 31st season overall with the organization, including eight as a player. He also spent three years calling Dodger games on cable television. The Emmy-Award winning broadcaster can be heard on the Dodgers' flagship station AM 570 LA Sports and across the Dodgers Radio Network.
In 2005, USA Today ranked the Dodgers' radio broadcast team, featuring Vin Scully, Monday and Charley Steiner, as Major League Baseball's best, based on a technical rating, a fan rating and an entertainment rating. The trio earned 28.5 points out of a possible 30.
This season, Monday will call 162 games both as an analyst and play-by-play man. For home games and road contests in San Francisco, Monday will serve as the analyst alongside play-by-play announcer Charley Steiner. For most road games, Monday will take on play-by-play duties with former big league skipper Kevin Kennedy serving as the analyst. For every game in 2015, Monday is also a co-host on the radio pre-game show.
Monday, who joined the Dodgers' broadcast team in 1993, began his broadcasting career as a sports anchor on KTTV in Los Angeles in 1985 while also calling play-by-play and hosting the pregame show for Dodger games on DodgerVision and Z Channel. He was nominated for an Emmy as host of the Dodgers' pregame show on KTTV's "Dodger Central" in 1988 and he earned an Emmy for Live Sports Coverage in 2001. Monday was also a color commentator for CBS-TV at the College World Series championship game in 1988. He moved to San Diego in 1989 and called play-by-play for the Padres on radio and television for four seasons.
The 2011 season marked the 35th anniversary of one of the most dramatic moments of Monday's playing career. While playing for the Chicago Cubs in 1976, he saved the American flag from being burned by two protesters in left field at Dodger Stadium on April 25. Al Campanis, former Dodger Vice President, Player Personnel, presented the flag to Monday after it was used as evidence in the case against the two protesters and former U.S. President Gerald Ford presented Monday with a Bicentennial Commendation for his service to others. On June 27, 2006, in honor of the 30th anniversary of his heroic efforts, the 109th Congress passed a senate resolution honoring Monday for his courage and patriotism and he was a guest of former President George W. Bush at the White House on several occasions.
In 2006, Monday released his first book, "Tales from the Dodger Dugout," a retrospective on the 1981 World Championship club on which he played a key role.
A star at Arizona State University (ASU), Monday led the Sun Devils to the 1965 College World Series Championship and earned All-American and College Player of the Year honors before the Kansas City Athletics made him the first player ever selected in the Major League First-Year Player Draft. He was inducted into the ASU Hall of Fame in 1975. He also serves on the Advisory Board for ASU Baseball.
After spending six seasons with the Athletics, including an appearance on the 1968 American League All-Star team, and five seasons with the Cubs, Monday joined the Dodgers as part of a five-player trade in 1977. He played eight seasons for the Dodgers, helping them to a World Championship in 1981 and three NL pennants (1977, 1978, 1981), and was named to the NL All-Star squad in 1978. Overall, Monday compiled a .264 career batting average with 241 home runs and 775 RBI while appearing in five League Championship Series and three World Series.
The former left-handed hitter is also known for his dramatic, game-winning home run in the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 1981 N.L. Championship Series at Montreal, which gave the Dodgers a 2-1 victory and a berth in the World Series. In 1977, Monday received the inaugural Humanitarian Award presented by Major League Baseball and in 1995 he was honored with the William A. Shea Distinguished Little League Graduate Award, which is given to a Major League Baseball player or individual who best exemplifies the spirit of the Little League Baseball program. A list of additional awards can be found below.
Monday and his wife, Barbaralee, who make regular visits to various veteran's hospitals throughout the year, reside in Vero Beach during the offseason.
Among the awards Monday has won during his four decades in baseball are:
Four-time Emmy Award-winner Charley Steiner enters his 11th season as a play-by-play announcer for the Dodgers. The veteran broadcaster will call the action for nearly every road game on the Dodgers' television network, SportsNet LA with partners Orel Hershiser and Nomar Garciaparra. In addition, Steiner will continue his duties as the radio play-by-play voice for all home games and select away contests on the Dodgers' flagship station, AM 570 LA Sports, alongside Rick Monday.
In March 2015, Steiner's alma mater, Bradley University formally dedicated the Charley Steiner School of Sports Communication. Currently there are 120 majors at the Steiner School, in radio and television broadcasting, journalism, production, direction, ethics, media relations, digital, and sales. Steiner plans to spend a week on campus each fall inviting writers, broadcasters, producers, and publicists for panel discussions. Previously, Steiner delivered the commencement address at Bradley University's mid-year commencement in 2010 and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the university. Steiner graduated from Bradley in 1971 and was inducted into the school's Sports Hall of Fame in 1995. He is also a member of Bradley's Centurion Society, which recognizes university alumni who have brought national and international credit to the school, and in 1991 received Bradley's Lydia Moss Bradley Award, which honors those who have given outstanding service to the school. Steiner has established the Charles H. Steiner Endowed Scholarship, which is given annually to Bradley broadcasting majors and in 2012 he was the keynote speaker at Bradley's Fifth Summit on Communication and Sport.
On Nov. 9, 2013, Steiner entered the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, joining Orson Welles, Edward R. Murrow, Paul Harvey, Vin Scully and Larry King among others. King, a lifelong Dodger fan, inducted Steiner, who became the 17th sportscaster admitted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Before joining the Dodgers, Steiner broadcast three years for the New York Yankees on WCBS Radio and the YES Network. While with the Yankees, Steiner and his partner John Sterling received the A.I.R (Achievement in Radio), for best play-by-play.
Prior to his seasons with the Yankees, Steiner spent 14 years at ESPN, where his responsibilities ranged from anchoring SportsCenter to working play-by-play for Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio and Television. He was also the play-by-play voice for ESPN 2's Saturday Primetime football. He served as SportsCenter's primary boxing reporter/analyst and also contributed to the Emmy and CableACE Award-winning Outside the Line series. His nationally-acclaimed coverage of the Mike Tyson trial in Indianapolis earned him a Clarion award.
In December 2010, Steiner delivered the commencement address at his alma mater Bradley University's mid-year commencement and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the university. Steiner graduated from Bradley in 1971 and was inducted into the school's Sports Hall of Fame in 1995. He is also a member of Bradley's Centurion Society, which recognizes university alumni who have brought national and international credit to the school, and in 1991 received Bradley's Lydia Moss Bradley Award, which honors those who have given outstanding service to the school. Steiner has established the Charles H. Steiner Endowed Scholarship, which is given annually to Bradley broadcasting majors and in 2012 he was the keynote speaker at Bradley's Fifth Summit on Communication and Sport.
This season Australia will become the seventh different country in which Steiner has broadcast Major League Baseball. In 2008, Steiner had the distinction of calling the Dodgers' historic two-game series in Beijing, China, the first ever Major League games played on Chinese soil. Steiner has called games in six different countries as he was also behind the microphone for ESPN in 1999 when MLB opened the season for the first time in Monterrey, Mexico and the first-ever Major League game in Puerto Rico in 2001. Steiner also called the 2004 Opening Day festivities for the Yankees in Tokyo, Japan. Steiner called the 2013 World Baseball Classic for Major League Baseball International and in 2006, he served as the lead play-by-play announcer for XM Radio at the inaugural WBC.
In 2009, Steiner won two Emmys for his broadcast work with PRIME TICKET for the network's "True Blue Stories," which aired during the Dodgers' 50th anniversary season.
In 2008, Steiner had the distinction of calling the Dodgers' historic two-game series in Beijing, China, the first ever Major League games played on Chinese soil. Steiner has called games in six different countries as he was also behind the microphone for ESPN in 1999 when MLB opened the season for the first time in Monterrey, Mexico and the first-ever Major League game in Puerto Rico in 2001. Steiner also called the 2004 Opening Day festivities for the Yankees in Tokyo, Japan.
In 2005, his first season with the Dodgers, USA Today ranked the club's radio broadcast team, featuring Hall of Famer Vin Scully, Rick Monday and Steiner, as Major League Baseball's best.
Steiner also has provided the reading voice for several books-on-tape, including Jane Leavy's "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy" and "As They See Them" by Bruce Weber, a book about Major League Baseball umpiring. He also served as the narrator for the DVD "Dodger Blue: The Championship Years," which was produced by Major League Baseball Productions. Steiner served as the lead play-by-play announcer for XM Radio at the inaugural World Baseball Classic in March 2006 and hosted a radio show on XM from 2006-09. He also broadcast the 2009 World Baseball Classic for Major League Baseball International seen around the world.
He began his professional broadcasting career in 1969 at WIRL Radio in Peoria, Illinois as a newscaster. After a nine-month stint at KSTT Radio in Davenport, Iowa, Steiner moved to Connecticut, where he served as News Director at WAVZ radio in New Haven and, later, at WPOP radio in Hartford.
After a year and half in Cleveland working at WERE radio and WKYC television as a sportscaster, Steiner moved home to New York, where for the next seven years, he was the morning sportscaster on WOR radio, while serving as sports director for the RKO Radio Network.
In addition, Steiner called the play-by-play for the USFL New Jersey Generals and, later, for the New York Jets on WABC radio. He won the UPI Best Radio Sportscaster award for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in 1981, 1983 and 1985, and the New York State Broadcasters Award for best radio play-by-play in 1983, 1984 and 1987 before joining ESPN. He spent five years calling the action for the Harvard-Yale football game each fall.
Steiner resides in Los Angeles and is originally from New York.
Fernando Valenzuela, legendary Dodger and 17-year Major League veteran, will now call games on SportsNet LA in Spanish alongside Pepe Yñiguez. Valenzuela enters his 13th season as a Dodger broadcaster and served as color commentator for the Dodgers' Spanish-language radio broadcasts on Univision America's KTNQ 1020 AM from 2003-2014. "Fernandomania" lives on now on SNLA where Valenzuela will offer his seasoned insights in Spanish for every game SNLA broadcasts.
Valenzuela was a late-season call-up in 1980, but his legend grew as the Dodgers' emergency starter on Opening Day, 1981, when he hurled a 2-0 shutout over the Houston Astros. It was one of five shutouts that Valenzuela tossed in his first eight starts that season and his improbable success sparked "Fernandomania," a phenomenon which remains not only one of the most memorable periods in Dodger history but also in Southern California sports history. While leading the Dodgers to the World Championship that season, he became the first player in Major League history to be named Rookie of the Year and win a Cy Young Award in the same season. He baffled hitters with his signature screwball and packed opposing stadiums throughout the National League, while also earning the All-Star Game start in Cleveland. He still holds the rookie record for consecutive scoreless innings (35.0), as he began his Major League career with a 10-0 record and a 0.40 ERA (4ER/90.0 IP) including his late season call-up in 1980.
In 17 big league seasons, Valenzuela compiled a 173-153 record and a 3.54 ERA with Los Angeles, California, Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Diego and St. Louis. He was named to the National League All-Star team for six consecutive seasons from 1981-1986 and in 1986 he won 20 games while also earning the Rawlings Gold Glove Award. On June 29, 1990 Valenzuela reached the pinnacle of any pitcher's career, as he tossed a no-hitter while blanking the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0. The southpaw's success and longevity allowed him to etch his name in the Dodger record books, as he ranks among the top 10 all-time in nearly every pitching category in Los Angeles Dodger history including wins (141, 5th), complete games (107, 4th), strikeouts (1759, 4th), shutouts (29, 5th), starts (320, 4th) and innings pitched (2,348.2, 4th). Among the all-time franchise leaders, Valenzuela is eighth in victories, fifth in strikeouts, seventh in shutouts and seventh in starts. His six Opening Day starts rank third in Los Angeles history to Don Drysdale and Don Sutton.
In 1986, Valenzuela completed 20 of his starts, the last big league pitcher to accomplish that feat. In fact, since 1980, only two pitchers have even reached 15 complete games in a year. But far more important than the statistics he posted was the effect he had on baseball. When he made his Major League debut, he was just the seventh Mexican to play for the Dodgers and his impact on the game internationally is incalculable. He was inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum during pre-game ceremonies at Dodger Stadium on August 23, 2003 and in 2002, his first season eligible for Hall of Fame consideration, the left-hander garnered 31 votes. In July 2006, he was inducted into Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in Pasadena. In 2008, Valenzuela was honored by National Spanish-language television network Univision at the first annual "Premios Deportes" as one of the most prominent Hispanic athletes in history with a lifetime achievement award, "Premio Leyenda Deportiva."
On February 3, 2013, Valenzuela was inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame (Pabellón de la Fama del Caribe) during the Caribbean Series in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, earning 175 of a possible 200 points via a vote of media members from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Valenzuela tossed a ceremonial first pitch as part of the opening ceremonies for the new Estadio Sonora in Hermosillo and was honored for both his big league career and his time in la Liga Mexicana del Pacifico (LMP) as a pitcher for Mayos de Navojoa, Naranjeros de Hermosillo and Águilas de Mexicali where he played his last three professional seasons of his baseball career (2004-2006).
Valenzuela was the subject of an ESPN "30 for 30" film "Fernando Nation." The Dodgers supported the creation of the film directed by Cruz Angeles on the cultural impact of his career. "Fernando Nation" was added to ESPN's fall schedule and premiered on ESPN Deportes on October 24, 2010 and on ESPN on October 26, 2010. Also in 2011, the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa selected the legendary lefty as the Hope of Los Angeles awardee. Valenzuela was honored at City Hall as part of LA's opening ceremonies for Latino Heritage Month. That same year, Valenzuela made his first trip to the Dominican Republic to be inducted into the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame at Casa de Campo in La Romana.
Following his playing career, Valenzuela turned to broadcasting, winning two Foreign Language Broadcaster of the Year Awards (2007, 2011) for his radio work and teaming with Jaime and Pepe Yñiguez on Aug. 23, 2009 for the first-ever regular season, dedicated, Spanish-language telecast of a Dodger game. PRIME TICKET aired the afternoon game against the Cubs on their sister network, FOX Sports West.
During his broadcasting career, Valenzuela has teamed up with the Dodgers to support the club's community and Latino initiatives. He launched the Amigos de Fernando Program, which brings children's groups from the community to select home games, and has helped to raise money for the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) by hosting Carne Asada Sundays. He also annually partakes in the club's Holiday Mall Tour and regularly attends dedications and clinics of the LADF's Dodgers Dreamfields program. As a result of this and his continued community involvement, the Reviving Baseball in Innercities Program (RBI) honored Valenzuela with a Lifetime Achievement award at its annual banquet in February 2007.
Valenzuela supports the development of baseball in Mexico, hosting Little League teams from Mexico at Dodger Stadium and also maintaining a relationship with the LMP, a winterball league in Mexico in which he played several years. Valenzuela returned to the WBC in 2013 as pitching coach on Team Mexico. Valenzuela also coached in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classic tournaments. In November 2014, the Charros de Jalisco retired Valenzuela's jersey number and unveiled a bronze statue at Estadio Panamericano de Atletismo, Zapopan, home of the Charros.
Each offseason, Valenzuela also serves as the Dodgers' ambassador in Mexico regularly participating in diplomatic events in Los Angeles for the Mexican consulate and throughout his native Mexico. In December 2014, Valenzuela traveled to Mexico City for an awards ceremony, where Adrian Gonzalez was honored with the Premio Nacional de Deportes (PND), a national sports award presented by the Mexican government. Also in December 2014, Valenzuela was presented with the Othli award from the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (IME), an agency of the Mexican government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He received the award in Los Angeles from Los Angeles' Consul General of Mexico Carlos Manuel Sada.
Valenzuela is also an avid golfer and regularly competes in charity golf tournaments.
Valenzuela and his wife Linda have four children, Ricky, Fernando Jr., Linda and Maria Fernanda. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife.
Dodger broadcaster Pepe Yñiguez begins his 17th season with the Dodgers and this year will join Fernando Valenzuela on SportsNet LA in calling Dodger games in Spanish. Yñiguez brings more than 25 years of experience in sports broadcasting to his new role with SNLA.
Yñiguez, a member of the Dodgers' Spanish-language broadcast since 1992, hosted the Dodgers' pre and post-game shows, "Hablando con los Dodgers," in 1993. In 2010 and 2011, Yñiguez also called select Dodger games in Spanish on PRIME TICKET alongside Dodger coach Manny Mota. In 2011, he called play-by-play for 27 games on television. Since 1992, Yñiguez broadcasted numerous events for FOX Sports International, including every World Series from 1997-2005. In 1997, he called the All-Star Game at Jacobs Field in Cleveland alongside Tito Fuentes and Dennis Martinez. He has also broadcasted the annual Caribbean Series.
Yñiguez worked alongside Hall of Famer Jaime Jarrín and color commentator Fernando Valenzuela for Univision America's KTNQ 1020 AM from 1999-2014. Yñiguez hosted the pre-game show, called play-by-play for select Dodger Spring Training games, all regular season games in addition to postseason games for KTNQ. Yñiguez also previously hosted the Dodgers' pre and post-game shows, "Hablando con los Dodgers," in 1993. He covered select Spanish-language broadcasting assignments for the Dodgers in 1998 before joining the Dodgers full-time in 1999.
In 2010 and 2011, Yñiguez also called select Dodger games in Spanish on PRIME TICKET alongside Dodger coach Manny Mota. In 2011, he called play-by-play for 27 games on television. Since 1992, Yñiguez broadcasted numerous events for FOX Sports International, including every World Series from 1997-2005. In 1997, he called the All-Star Game at Jacobs Field in Cleveland alongside Tito Fuentes and Dennis Martinez. He has also broadcasted the annual Caribbean Series.
From 1993-95, Yñiguez served as the color commentator for Los Angeles Raiders broadcasts. During past offseasons, he also hosted "Central Deportiva," a weekly sports talk show airing Sunday afternoons, on KWKW in Los Angeles.
Yñiguez has two daughters Karissa and Jaquely and two sons - Edgar and Alenrry - and resides in La Habra, CA.
Former MLB All-Star Nomar Garciaparra returns to the Dodgers in 2015 for his second season behind the microphone. Garciaparra serves as the color analyst for SportsNet LA alongside Charley Steiner and Orel Hershiser on nearly every Dodger road game. He is also a featured analyst with SNLA on pre-and-post game telecasts.
In 2014, Garciaparra was inducted into both the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame and the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame in the Dominican Republic.
Following his retirement from MLB in 2010, Garciaparra worked at ESPN across multiple platforms, including Baseball Tonight and various game telecasts, and became one of the lead analysts for the network's coverage of the College World Series and the Little League World Series from 2011-13.
A native of Whittier, CA, and a graduate of Bellflower's St. John Bosco High School, Garciaparra played 14 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, the Dodgers and the Oakland A's. He had a .313 batting average with 229 home runs and 936 RBI. He was the American League Rookie of the Year in 1997; American League batting champion in 1999 and 2000; National League Comeback Player of the Year with the Dodgers in 2006; a six-time MLB All-Star; and won a Silver Slugger Award. He is one of 13 players in Major League history to hit two grand slams in a single game and the only player to achieve the feat at his home stadium. He hit safely and scored a run in the first five games of his post-season career (1998-99) to join Ian Kinsler as the only players to start his postseason career with such an accomplishment.
Upon being drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the fifth round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, Garciaparra elected not to sign and instead attended Georgia Tech, advancing to the College World Series title game in 1994. He was a first-round pick of the Red Sox that year.
As a rookie with the Red Sox in 1997, Garciaparra hit 30 home runs and had 98 RBI, setting a MLB record for RBI by a leadoff hitter and most homers by a rookie shortstop. His 30-game hitting streak set an A.L. rookie record. He followed that with 35 home runs and 122 RBI in 1998 and placed second in the AL Most Valuable Player balloting.
He led the AL in batting average by hitting .357 in 1999 and .372 in 2000. He was the first right-handed hitter since Joe DiMaggio to win consecutive batting titles.
Garciaparra was traded to the Cubs at the July trade deadline in 2004, but in appreciation for all his contributions his Red Sox teammates voted him a World Series ring after sweeping the Cardinals to win their first World Series since 1916.
Garciaparra signed with the Dodgers in 2006 and moved from shortstop to first base. He earned his sixth All-Star berth and finished the year with a .303 average, 20 homers and 93 RBI. He helped the Dodgers reach the postseason and was named NL Comeback Player of the Year. He also hit two momentous home runs that season, the first on Sept. 18 following four consecutive home runs in the ninth inning to tie a game with San Diego, he hit a walk-off two-run homer in the 10th to win the game, 11-10. Six days later, he hit a walk-off grand slam in a win over Arizona.
After playing with Oakland in 2009, Garciaparra signed a one-day contract with Boston in 2010 to retire as a Red Sox. He was extremely popular in Boston, this admiration reflected in a Saturday Night Live sketch "The Boston Teens," in which Garciaparra made a cameo appearance. On "Nomar Garciaparra Night" on May 5, 2010, he was honored before the game and he will be inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame this summer.
Garciaparra was a member of the 1992 U.S. Olympic baseball team and his wife, Olympian and World Cup soccer champion Mia Hamm, played on the 1996, 2000 and 2004 women's Olympic soccer team. Garciaparra's cousin, Arturo Javier Ledesma, plays professional soccer in Mexico. His uncle is legendary Mexican soccer goalkeeper Javier "Zully" Medesma. His brother, Michael Garciaparra, has played minor league baseball. Garciaparra's given first name is Anthony, but he is known by his middle name, Nomar, the backwards spelling of his father's name, Ramon. Garciaparra and Hamm were married in 2003. They have twin girls, Grace and Ava, 7, and a son, Garrett, 2.
Dodger great Orel Hershiser enters his second season as a color commentator on every Dodger road game outside of San Francisco for SportsNet LA. Hershiser can also be seen at the SNLA studios and on the field for pre-and-post game telecasts.
One of the most popular Dodgers ever is back after working at ESPN since 2006 as a color analyst for their Baseball Tonight, Sunday Night Baseball and Little League World Series programming.
Hershiser played 18 seasons in the Major Leagues, 13 with the Dodgers. He also played for the Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants and New York Mets. He was a three-time All-Star and won a Gold Glove, Cy Young Award, National League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award with the Dodgers in 1988. He later pitched in two more World Series and earned the American League Championship Series MVP Award. He also holds the Major League record for most consecutive scoreless innings pitched at 59 from Aug. 30-Sept. 28, 1988. After his retirement as a player, he briefly worked as a coach and team executive with the Texas Rangers before joining ESPN.
In 1988, Hershiser led the National League in wins (23), innings (267), shutouts (8) and complete games (15). He was third in ERA at 2.26. He finished the season with a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings streak, breaking the mark of 58 set by Dodger Hall of Famer Don Drysdale, who was then a broadcaster with the team and was on hand in San Diego to witness the occasion.
Hershiser started Games 1 and 3 of the 1988 NLCS against the Mets and also recorded the final out in Game 4 in relief for a save. He then pitched a shutout in Game 7 and was selected NLCS MVP. He pitched a shutout in Game 2 of the World Series against the Oakland A's and allowed two runs in a complete game win in the clincher in Game 5 to add the World Series MVP Award to his trophy case. He is the only player to receive the Cy Young Award, the Championship Series MVP Award and the World Series MVP Award in the same season. He later received both The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year and Sports Illustrated magazine Sportsman of the Year awards for his brilliant 1988 season and postseason.
Hershiser's family moved frequently during his youth, which was spent in Buffalo, NY, Detroit, MI, Toronto, Canada, where he participated in baseball and hockey, and then high school in Cherry Hill, NJ. He attended and played baseball at Bowling Green (OH) State University and was drafted in the 17th round by the Dodgers in the 1979 Major League First-Year Player Draft.
Hershiser could be considered the quintessential over-achiever. Despite a less than glowing original scouting report and a rather non-exemplary minor league career, he won the Mulvey Award as the Dodgers top rookie in Spring Training in 1983. However, he did not make the Dodgers' Opening Day roster until the 1984 season, after spending the winter in the Dominican Republic working on his delivery with pitching coach Dave Wallace.
It was during a game that season that Hershiser was nicknamed "Bulldog" in an effort by Dodgers Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda to get Hershiser to adopt a tougher attitude on the mound. Hershiser became a fulltime member of the Dodgers starting rotation in July. His four complete games that month tied for the most in the majors that season. He posted an 11-8 record and a 2.66 ERA in 45 games (20 starts).
In 1985, he led the National League in winning percentage, compiling a 19-3 record with a 2.03 ERA. He finished third in the Cy Young Award voting and pitched in two games in the NLCS. He was 14-14 with a 3.85 ERA in 1986 and 16-16 with a 3.06 ERA in 1987, when he was selected to his first All-Star Game. He was also selected in 1988 and '89, when he posted a 2.31 ERA in 35 games.
He suffered a torn rotator cuff in 1990 and did not rejoin the Dodgers until May 29, 1991. In 21 starts in 1991, he was 7-2 with a 3.46 ERA, winning his last six decisions and was selected UPI Comeback Player of the Year.
Hershiser pitched for the Indians from 1995-97, going 16-6 with a 3.87 ERA in 26 starts in 1995 to lead the young team to their first post-season appearance in 41 years. He won two games in the American League Championship Series against Seattle and was selected ALCS MVP, the first player to have won the LCS MVP Award in both leagues, and also pitched well in a losing cause against Atlanta in the World Series. He was 11-10 with a 4.41 ERA with San Francisco in 1998 and 13-12 with a 4.58 ERA in 32 starts with the Mets in 1999, helping them reach the NLCS, where they lost to Atlanta. He ended his playing career with the Dodgers in 2000.
Hershiser remained with the Dodgers briefly as a player-personnel consultant. He then joined the Rangers as a special assistant to General Manager John Hart in fall 2001. He was named the Rangers' pitching coach in 2002 and after the 2005 season he became Executive Director of the Rangers.
He has co-authored or authored two books: Out of the Blue with Jerry B. Jenkins and Between the Lines: Nine Things Baseball Taught Me About Life.
Hershiser has two sons, Quinton and Jordan, and two stepchildren, Spencer and Sloane. He and his wife, Dana, reside in Las Vegas.
Former Major League manager Kevin Kennedy begins his second season and first full season as the analyst for AM 570 LA Sports alongside Rick Monday on every road game outside of San Francisco in 2015. Kennedy can also be heard after every game with David Vassegh as the co-host of Dodger Talk on AM 570 LA Sports.
Kennedy spent eight years in the minor leagues as a catcher in the Baltimore Orioles', St. Louis Cardinals' and Los Angeles Dodgers' farm systems. He retired from playing and became a manager in the Dodger organization for Great Falls (1984-86), Bakersfield (1987), San Antonio (1988) and Albuquerque (1989-91).
In 1992, Kennedy became the Montreal Expos' bench coach and one year later the Texas Rangers hired him as their manager. He managed the 1993 and'94 seasons in Texas, before getting a chance to skipper the Boston Red Sox from 1995-96. While in Boston. he piloted the Red Sox to their first postseason appearance since 1990 with an American League East title in '95.
Kennedy turned his sights to a broadcasting career in 1997 when he joined ESPN as a color analyst on the network's Wednesday night telecasts. He also performed the same role as ESPN Radio's first team on Sunday Night Baseball with Charley Steiner in 1998 and on Fox Sports Net's Thursday Night Baseball in 1999 and 2000. From 2001 to 2008, he was a studio analyst on FOX. He also contributed to Fox Sports Net, Fox Sports Radio and Prime Ticket's Dodger Live, where he did pre and post-game analyst duties for five seasons.
He was a full-time co-host on Sirius-XM Radio's MLB Network from 2005-2011 and he has done part-time work for them the past four years.
In 2009, Kennedy became a part-time television analyst for the Tampa Bay Rays and did that for two seasons before co-hosting a show on Sirius XM's MLB Network Radio and co-hosting Dodger Talk. Kennedy has been honored with an Emmy for his division clinching game broadcast in Tampa Bay in 2010 and has been twice nominated nationally for the Fox National Baseball Show.
Kennedy was elected to the Albuquerque Hall of Fame in 2012 as a manager and player.
A graduate of Taft High School in Woodland Hills, CA, Kennedy was selected in the eighth round of the MLB draft after playing for San Diego State University.
Jorge Jarrín will join father and Hall of Famer Jaime Jarrín for the first-ever season on Univision America's KTNQ 1020 AM. The Jarrín's are the only father-son broadcasting team in MLB Spanish-language radio. Jorge previously called games in Spanish on television for three years, including SNLA's inaugural season.
In addition to his broadcasting duties, from 2004-2014, Jarrín served as Manager, Radio Broadcast Sales and Hispanic Initiatives. In that capacity, he oversaw the Spanish-language radio broadcast and expanded the Dodger Spanish radio network. Jarrín will continue to consult on the Dodgers' Latino marketing initiatives.
Jarrin served as KABC Talk Radio's "Captain Jorge" for covering traffic from Jet Copter 790 from 1985 to 2011. The Associated Press of California honored Jarrin with four top awards for his work in reporting the Los Angeles Riots following the verdict of the LAPD/Rodney King trial.
Additionally, the Associated Press also honored the Dodger broadcaster with an award for his live coverage of a Highway Patrol pursuit and hostage situation.
Jarrin is also the recipient of the coveted "Golden Mike Award" for "Best Live Coverage of a Late Breaking News Story" in 1993, given by the Southern California Radio and TV News Association. In 2001 and 2002 Jarrin was teamed with Jose Mota to form Direct TV's "Major League Baseball Game of the Week" broadcast team to all of Latin America. Also during this period, he filled in as a sports anchor on the KTLA News at 10:00 p.m.
Jarrin is most proud of his father, Hall of Famer Jaime Jarrin, longtime Spanish-language broadcaster for the Dodgers. Baseball continues as an integral part of the Jarrin family fabric. Jarrin's son Stefan was drafted and signed by the Dodgers in the 2011 MLB Draft. An infielder, Stefan was a part of the 2011 MLB Arizona Rookie League Championship Dodgers, the first minor league championship team in the Dodger organization since 2005.
Jorge is actively involved in a number of charitable endeavors including Stillpoint Family Services, Villa Esperanza, the Ronald McDonald House of Pasadena and AltaMed Health Services. Jorge and his wife, Maggie, have been married 30 years and have three sons: Andrew, Phillip and Stefan.
Legendary Dodger coach Manny Mota enters his sixth year as a Dodger broadcaster and his 47th season overall with the Dodgers. Mota has been a member of the club's coaching staff since 1980 and continues to serve as a coach during Spring Training, making him the longest tenured coach in Los Angeles Dodgers' history.
Mota played in 20 Major League seasons with San Francisco (1962), Pittsburgh (1963-68), Montreal (1969) and the Dodgers (1969-80, '82), batting .304 and retiring as baseball's all-time pinch-hit leader with 150, a mark that has since been broken by Lenny Harris and Mark Sweeney. Mota, who was selected as a 1973 All-Star, retired as a player in 1980 and joined the Dodgers' coaching staff as the club's first base coach and batting instructor, but was re-activated on Aug. 29 of year when Reggie Smith went on the disabled list. He was also activated from the coaching staff for one game in 1982, his 816th contest as a Dodger, which rank as the fourth most among all Los Angeles players born in the Dominican Republic.
Mota, who participated in five World Series with the Dodgers as a player or coach, was inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum in 2003 and has also been awarded the Deportista Meritorio in the Dominican Republic, a lifetime achievement award honoring his baseball career and citizenship.
Mota and his wife, Margarita, operate a youth baseball league during the offseason and the Manny Mota International Foundation, a non-profit organization which has raised money to build a medical clinic, baseball fields and a school in the Dominican Republic. The foundation, which helps needy children in the Dominican and the United States, also awards scholarships and has hosted an annual golf tournament. He and his wife have eight children - Cecilia, Jose, Andres, Domingo, Manuel, Maria, Rafael and Tony - and the Mota family was honored by the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation with the Ray Boone Award as baseball's "family of the year" on January 16, 2010.
A 16-Year Major League veteran Jerry Hairston enters his second season with SportsNet LA, where he serves as a Dodger studio analyst for the new TV network. Hairston is seen on SportsNet LA's live studio shows, including "Access SportsNet: Dodgers." He also contributes to the live pre- and post-game shows nightly, as well as other SportsNet LA original programming.
Before joining SportsNet LA, Hairston previously worked for ESPN, appearing on "Baseball Tonight," and MLB Network, where he contributed to "MLB Tonight," "Hot Stove" and other programs.
The third-generation Major Leaguer played his final two seasons in Los Angeles and wrapped up his career hitting .257 with 70 homers, 420 RBI, 1,126 hits and 233 doubles in 1,442 career games with the Orioles (1998-2004), Cubs (2005-06), Rangers (2006-07), Reds (2008-09), Yankees (2009), Padres (2010), Nationals and Brewers (2011) and Dodgers (2012-13). In 2009, he won a World Series ring as a member of the 2009 Yankees and was a .362 career hitter in 17 postseason games.
Hairston, who played every position except for pitcher and catcher in his big league career, is the grandson of former major leaguer Sam Hairston, the son of former Major Leaguer Jerry Hairston, Sr. and the brother of Scott Hairston, who currently plays for the Washington Nationals. Hairston was originally selected by Baltimore in the 11th round of the 1997 First-Year Player Draft after earning two-time All-State honors for Naperville North High School in Illinois and hitting .360 over two seasons at Southern Illinois University (1996, '97). He was later inducted as a member of the Southern Illinois Baseball Hall of Fame.
The 37-year-old lives in Los Angeles and has three kids: Jackson, Kara and Jessica.
John Hartung returns for his second season as SportsNet LA's primary studio anchor. The veteran Los Angeles sports host anchors the network's live studio shows, including "Access SportsNet: Dodgers" live from SportsNet's Los Angeles studios each night and also contributes to the network's original programming.
Hartung joined SNLA in 2013 from KABC-TV in Los Angeles, where he spent the past 11 years as a sports and news anchor. He has worked in sports television for 21 years and is originally from Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Dodgers' Fan Club as a young boy and went to Taft High School in Woodland Hills. Hartung was at Dodger Stadium for Game 1 of the 1988 World Series and witnessed Kirk Gibson's game-winning home run.
Hartung graduated from San Diego State University with a BA in Broadcast Journalism and his first on air job was at KFSM-TV (CBS) in Fayetteville/Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he was the primary sports anchor. Following his stint in Arkansas, he went to KSWB-TV in San Diego and then spent the last 11 years at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Hartung anchored both sports and news for KABC-TV.
Hartung has two children and lives in Stevenson Ranch.
Alanna Rizzo enters her second season as a member of the Dodger broadcast team, where she serves as SportsNet LA's in-game reporter for games called by Charley Steiner, Orel Hershiser and Nomar Garciaparra while also hosting the pre-and post-game shows from Dodger Stadium.
Rizzo is a nationally recognized television sports journalist, reporter and studio host. A three-time regional Emmy Award winner, Rizzo has been covering professional and collegiate sports for more than 10 years. Before coming to Los Angeles, Rizzo could be seen on MLB Network, where she appeared across all of the network's studio programming, including "Intentional Talk" and "Quick Pitch", as well as reporting from the Major League Baseball All-Star Game Red Carpet, the MLB Postseason and the World Baseball Classic.
Previously, Rizzo was with ROOT Sports Rocky Mountain in Denver working as a sideline reporter and host for the Colorado Rockies, University of Colorado and University of Denver broadcasts.
Rizzo graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she earned an M.A. in Broadcast Journalism. She lives with her husband, Justin, and dog, Guidry, in Los Angeles.


text:
Please ... only one layout
If you submit more than one ... it means that I have to choose one fron those that you submit to put into the vote ... and I don't want to do that. I want the layout that goes into the vote to be the layout you want to be there
is that even English? Hopefully you know what I mean !!!!
reminder ... call closes midnight on Friday (midnight wherever you are)
Thanks to everyone that has taken the time to apply so far
My Guest CT call has now closed. Thank you to everyone that applied .. I feel a bit overwhelmed and I am glad it is my CT that will be making the decisions and not me I am such a coward !!!! I will be back in touch with everyone individually at the end of this week. Thanks you again ... your pages make designing a real joy.
And YOUR designs make creating pure happiness
I am sure you got quite a bit of applications; honestly I would also hate to have to pick. I am sure you will get some wonderful layout artists.
Woohooo!!! Congrats to everyone, I can't wait to see all the amazing layouts!
Proud CTM for Gingerscraps and JB Studio
I am so excited and can't wait for January
Congrats ladies!


text:
CEO Nostalgia: Ed Horowitz In The House!Posted by GMan
Feb 24
Like most CEOs, a big part of Edward Horowitz's job involves predicting the future. And besides death and taxes, he'll tell you two things are certain: that the emerging digital publishing and entertainment market will be a multibillion-dollar industry within five years and, more importantly, that the companies that will have a prominent — and permanent — position within that industry are those that realize that the future lies not in code, chips, or CPUs, but in content. Maybe that's what you'd expect to hear from the chairman and CEO…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: edward horowitz, R&D leaders, viacom
Bill Miller Led Quantum To Amazing HeightsPosted by GMan
Dec 6
Nothing seems to faze Bill Miller. Not a wildly vacillating hard-drive market, not gross margins that rise and fall with the phases of the moon — not even an industry in which one month's shipping delay can splash red all over the bottom line. That supreme unflappability has served Quantum Corp. well. With Miller as chairman and CEO, the Milpitas, Calif., company has become the hard-drive industry's volume leader — shipping an impressive 4.1 million units in its most recent second quarter. Now, with the October acquisition of Digital Equipment…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: storage companies, success stories
A Clicking Hard Drive Can Spell Trouble For YouPosted by GMan
Oct 15
Everyone who has been using a working computer for the past decade can understand what the phrase ?blue screen of death? means. This happens when one?s hard disk drive has failed and won?t let you access any of the data stored inside. In most cases, a hard drive crash can be predicted when one hears a clicking hard drive sound. Any unusual noises when opening up or saving a file or copying a file is definitely a cause for worry. As one of the most sensitive parts of a working…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: bad signs a drive is failing, hard drive recovery
Programming Made Better On The MacPosted by GMan
May 21
Genuine innovation is rare. More often than not, new ideas are really just refined old ones. But every so often, someone breaks completely new ground, and TGS Systems does just that with Prograph. it's truly a new way to program, and the Mac is its first home. This is a superior language, mainly because of its safety, which means far less instances where mac data recovery may be necessary for the programmer/user. VISION Until now, programming has always been associated with writing endless lines of impenetrable (for normal people) code.…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: case tools, mac programming, object oriented languages
Bilingual Programmers Wanted!Posted by GMan
May 19
Bilingual programmers wanted from schools The classified ad read, "Cobol programmer wanted," yet earlier in the year the professor had distinctly and repeatedly sullied that language's name, calling it the most useless on the face of the earth. Instead, the student was told that one should learn a pure language, well-structured, with elegant constructs and an easy syntax … something along the lines of Pascal. Now if only the job market would realize this too, and offer jobs where Pascal is the language of choice. This situation arises far too…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: bilingual programmers, cobol programmers
SQL Bug A HoaxPosted by GMan
May 10
Relational database suppliers are unimpressed by claims from database consultancy Butler Bloor about an alleged bug in the way they have implemented standard database query language SQL. Earlier this year Butler Bloor unearthed a flaw in they way some suppliers – which the consultancy has refused to name – implemented cursors, subsets of data. According to Butler Bloor, this could lead users to lose updates bacause some SQL implementations use copies of data rather then pointers. Now the Milton Keynes company has revealed details of a related bug, using a…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: raid recovery, sql bugs, sql servers
Laptop Data Recovery SolutionsPosted by GMan
Sep 24
One of the common methods to retrieve precious data is to remove the hard drive from your laptop and insert it into an external enclosure, a device which can be purchased from stores. External enclosures can connect the hard drive to a working computer via USB cable. If you are successful in browsing through your hard drive, then you can now transfer your files either to another external hard drive or to the computer you are working at. Be prepared to wait for many hours if you have large files.…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: data recovery, laptop drive problems
Data Recovery from a Broken Hard DrivePosted by GMan
Aug 16
Computers are used to process and store quite a large volume of information and in the process, they can break down due to a number of factors both internal and external. The most common reasons behind a broken hard drive revolve around malicious software. Albeit there can be other reasons other than viruses and malware, the main point after your hard drive breaks down is about recovery. If you were not prepared enough to have a backup plan or hard drive, then you will be in dire need of data…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: broken hard drive repair, fixing bad drives
Where to Find a Hard Drive Repair Service For Laptops And RAID ServersPosted by GMan
Jun 11
Hard drive repair is a process used by professional data recovery service to restore, retrieve deleted and lost data and files from a damaged device. Most of our government offices have data specialists that can retrieve any type of file or data from different kinds of devices. Data recovery services are helpful because they are able to retrieve seemingly law data and files from normal and severely damage devices. These kind of services are very in nature, which is why if you have a hard disk failure on a portable…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: laptop drive recovery, retrieving data from a dead laptop drive
Paradox Engine Still RevsPosted by GMan
May 15
Borland International Inc. is expanding the language options for its Paradox Engine and bolstering it with Windows support in an upgrade planned for release early next year, company officials confirmed last week. It's all in the box! The Paradox Engine 2.0, which is now in beta test, will feature function libraries that let developers write applications in Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal, as well as a dynamic link library (DLL) used to create Windows 3.0 applications, said officials of the Scotts Valley, Calif., company. "The bottom line is that this…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: borland c, microsoft C++, paradox engine
DBase Standard RecognizedPosted by GMan
May 12
Tired of dodging Ashton-Tate's high-handed attempts to guard the dBASE standard, several members of the dBASE community are joining forces to promote a non-vendor-specific standard. This standard enables systems to easily provide hard drive repair solutions when databases or hard drives crash. It was a necessary data recovery solution for all involved. Championed by longtime dBASE guru Adam Green, the "Xbase" project has a dual purpose: to develop guidelines for a data dictionary that will promote data sharing among dBASE-compatible products, and to evangelize the use of Xbase as a…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: dbase, dbase standards, hard drive repair
On Crossing: Truly DynamicPosted by GMan
May 1
On Crossing is a collaborative work on paper created by two artists who use ritualistic mark making and the exploration of space with fervor in their own studio practices. Jodi Green and Jessica Ann Mills first met in graduate school, and formed a very close professional friendship while working in very close quarters for three years. Both artists have strong ties to geographical areas that have suffered economic downturns due to reliance upon a single industry. In her prints and drawings, Jessica uses small hatched line-work to investigate the poetic…
Filed under: Uncategorized
Getting To Understand VMware RecoveryPosted by GMan
Mar 10
I recognize that these are industry have to keep moving if it wants to continue to manufacture enough equipment so that the web run smoothly. I did one of the best technologies that have been invented to deal with this over the past couple of years have to be VMware server. These guys got rich in the public markets for reason, and I have to get that because VMware remains one of the best server platforms out there. But VMware Is Not without Its Problems What I am hearing from…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged as: recovering vmware, vmware review, vmware servers


text:
|Page tools: Print Page Print All RSS Search this Product
In this Issue
It has been a busy few months for the Microdata Access Strategies team with a number of important CURFs being released, and more coming up in the remainder of the year, including the Business Longitudinal Database CURF. The eagerly awaited Census TableBuilder has also been released, offering researchers an easy-to-use tool for creating tables with up to 5 million cells! Read more about recent and expected releases in the New CURF Releases article below.
We are delighted to announce that we have now released our online CURF application system, MiCRO. This makes the process of applying for CURFs and keeping your information up-to-date simpler and virtually paper-free! It will also greatly assist each organisation's Contact Officer in managing their users and CURF holdings. All existing CURF users have now been registered to MiCRO and been provided with log-in details, but it is easy for new users to register themselves into MiCRO Online.
Our Newsletter also includes information about citation of ABS sources - when you are citing ABS information that you have used, or when you are providing us with details of your published research for our bibliography of publications. Correctly citing ABS information is a requirement, and can also greatly assist other researchers in their work.
For further information about these topics and more, please have a look through the articles below.
Michelle Gifford
(Acting) Director, ABS Microdata Access Strategies
New CURF releases
This part of the Newsletter provides information on recent and forthcoming CURF releases. Clients may also keep up to date with CURF releases by subscribing to our Email Notification Service or the ABS RSS Feed.
Microdata: Employee Earnings and Hours, Basic and Expanded CURF, Australia, 2006. Released: 31 March 2009
The survey was designed to provide statistics on the composition and distribution of earnings and hours of employees and whether their pay is set by award, collective agreement or individual agreement. Distribution and composition of average weekly earnings and hours of employees is classified by sex, adult/junior, full-time/part-time, managerial/non-managerial, industry, State/Territory, sector (private/government), employer unit size and composition of earnings and paid hours.
The 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing CURFs contain confidentialised data about each selected person and the household to which they belong. Data is also available based on diagnosis, mental health condition, and consultations for mental health (service use).
This CURF presents information on children aged 0-12 years and their families. Information was collected about the use of formal and informal care, requirements for additional preschool/kindergarten or formal care, patterns of child care attendance, child care costs, the use of the child care benefit, working arrangements used by parents to help care for their children and parental income.
The CURF also presents characteristics of children aged 0-8 in their early learning years through the collection of information about the types of formal and informal learning activities they engage in and the environments in which these activities take place. Information is also collected about patterns of attendance at preschool/kindergarten and school, including historical and usual attendance, and frequency of attendance.
The 2007-08 SIH cycle was conducted throughout the financial year and collected information about income and personal and household characteristics of persons aged 15 years and over resident in private dwellings throughout Australia.
Improvements have been made to the measurement of income in the 2007-08 cycle, in line with international statistical standards to: incorporate non-cash benefits provided to employees, termination payments and lump sum workers compensation payments; and to improve the coverage of bonuses and irregular overtime payments and inter-household transfers.
Microdata: National Health Survey, Basic and Expanded CURF, Australia, 2007-08. Indicative release: 21 September 2009
The 2007/08 National Health Survey (NHS) is the third in the series of regular triennial health surveys conducted under the partnership arrangements between the ABS and the Department of Health and Aging (DoHA).
Both the Basic and Expanded CURFs will contain information about:
The aim of Business Longitudinal Database is to facilitate micro level analysis for a panel (cohort) of small and medium businesses over time, and it will include both characteristics and financial data. A new wave of businesses is added each year and each wave is surveyed for five years.
Microdata: Labour Force Survey and Forms of Employment Survey, Basic and Expanded CURF, Australia, November 2008. Indicative release: January 2010
This Basic and Expanded CURF will provide information from both the monthly Labour Force Survey and the related Forms of Employment supplementary survey.
Formerly titled: 4100.0.55.001 - Multi-Purpose Household Survey, Australia, Expanded Confidentialised Unit Record File 2008/09
MiCRO. The new Online CURF application system
MiCRO is a new online system which streamlines the ABS CURF application process. This system has replaced the paper forms previously used to apply for CURF access. MiCRO enables users and contact officers to undertake tasks from your desktop including applying for CURFs Online, viewing the CURFs to which you have access and updating your contact information. Contact officers have much more visibility of their organisation's users and CURFs.
This week, MASS distributed letters containing MiCRO user ids and passwords to existing CURF users (via the Contact Officer).
Want to find out more? Click here for MiCRO information and guides
Log into MiCRO? Click here to log-in to MiCRO
Census TableBuilder - released 28 August
Available free to end users under the ABS/Universities Australia Agreement ,TableBuilder is an online tool which allows you to create your own custom tables of Census data including person, family and dwelling classifications in the one table. You decide to count either persons, families or dwellings, how to structure the data and which variables to include. Almost all variables from the 2006 Census Dictionary are available plus some additional popular requests.
TableBuilder's large table function makes creating tables with up to 5 million cells of Census data a breeze! Small tables are available immediately, while larger tables are submitted for processing, allowing you to create additional tables while your large table is being prepared.
New technology has been applied to TableBuilder which allows the screen to refresh much more quickly and allows you to make large selections without waiting for an entire list to display. In addition, a large table mode allows you to construct your table without displaying the data cells which can take your web browser a long time to return.
Unlike CDATA Online, TableBuilder is not topic based so you will be able to add any combination of variables to your table. The variables available to you will be restricted by the summation option you are using in the table.
For more information see the TableBuilder Product Brief
To register, download the Application and Undertaking Form.
Send us your citations!
We want to hear about your published research! If you have been using a CURF for a project and have published your research, send us the citation for inclusion in our list of Published research using CURF Microdata on the ABS website. The full text of the article or research is not required, although an abstract or web links can be supplied if available.
Your citations, and our bibliography, help publicise your research work and assist other researchers and the ABS to understand the range of research activities undertaken using CURFs.
Email your citation (any format suitable) to email@example.com.
Short cuts. How to cite CURF data in your publications
Short cuts is a regular feature highlighting tips and reminders for CURF users and Contact Officers.
CURF data should be specifically cited in your publications. Simply citing CURF data in the text of your publication as being from a "<named> survey" does not provide enough information to enable readers to identify that data source - since data from any ABS survey is released in various forms and in various products. You should therefore specifically name not only the survey and its reference period but that the data was sourced from a CURF.
While citation styles can vary, the standard elements to include when citing CURFs are:
For example: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2007, Survey of Education and Work (2008), Basic CURF, CD-ROM. Findings based on use of ABS CURF data.
For more information about citing ABS data and products please refer to Guide to Citing ABS Sources.
Document Selection
These documents will be presented in a new window.


text:
Saxophonist Steve Douglas is born in Los Angeles.
Steve Douglas begins a two-year association with guitarist Duane Eddy that will result in a run of instrumental hits, including "Cannonball," "40 Miles of Bad Road" and "Peter Gunn."
Phil Spector moves his base of operations from New York to Los Angeles, enlisting Steve Douglas to contract sessions and play sax on such records as "He's a Rebel," a #1 hit for the Crystals.
Steve Douglas begins working with the Beach Boys as a sideman, contributing sax to all their albums from Surfin' U.S.A. through Pet Sounds. He also becomes a regular on Jan and Dean's sessions, playing on "Surf City," "Dead Man's Curve," and others.
Steve Douglas is hired to work in A&R (artists & repertoire) at Capitol Records, where he'll produce and play on sessions for such acts as Bobby Darrin, Billy Preston and Glen Campbell.
Steve Douglas runs the West Coast office of Mercury Records, where he signs such acts as Blue Cheer ("Summertime Blues") and Asylum Choir (featuring fellow Phil Spector sideman Leon Russell).
Steve Douglas releases The Music of Cheops, recorded in the King's Chamber at the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt, on his own Cheops label.
Steve Douglas joins Bob Dylan's band for a year of touring and recording with Bob Dylan. He can be heard on Dylan's Live at Budokan album, recorded on March 1, 1978.
Steve Douglas dies of heart failure.
Steve Douglas is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the eighteenth annual induction dinner. Paul Shaffer is his presenter.


text:
Leading-edge color production system provides speed, quality and reliability for high-volume environments
West Caldwell, NJ, December 1, 2011 - Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced that it has installed a Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition color production printing system at VISOgraphic Inc. of Burr Ridge, Ill. The Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition will help provide VISOgraphic with greater quality, better versatility and quicker turnaround times to more effectively meet its customers' wide range of design, fulfillment and printing project requirements. This is VISOgraphic's fourth digital press, and first from Ricoh. Serving the Chicago land area since 1946, VISOgraphic is a digital and conventional graphic communications company. In addition to digital and conventional printing, VISOgraphic also specializes in web-based on-demand collateral systems, direct mail, variable data and hybrid printing, corporate collateral, digital publishing options for the web, and green printing solutions. VISOgraphic also offers full graphic design, bindery and finishing, and mailing and fulfillment services, making it a "one-stop shop" for customers' visual communication needs."The employees at VISOgraphic understand how critical printed materials are to our customers' ability to effectively promote their products and services," said Robert V. Dahlke, President, VISOgraphic. "We have offered quality printing, design and mail services for more than 60 years, so our customers have access to everything they need to create their visual communication projects – from initial concept to completion. Coupled with our new digital and web-based offerings, we strive to deliver content where and how our clients want it. The C901 adds to our inventory of solutions."Engineered to meet the demanding needs of the production print environment, the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition delivers exceptional quality and performance for the most complex applications. It combines consistent 1200 dpi output with 90 pages-per-minute speed, regardless of media type or weight, even in duplex mode. It delivers near-offset results with Ricoh's new PxP™ chemical toners and oil-free fusing technology, where smaller, more uniform toner particles deliver sharper images and better fills with a matte finish for commercial-quality output."With its superior quality, high speeds and state-of-the-art workflow applications, the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition is setting a new standard in color digital print quality and productivity," said Brian Balow, Vice President, Production Sales, Ricoh U.S. "In addition, with our extensive experience in digital printing, we can help printers expand their business and assist them in using technology and advanced solutions to help them succeed."Its modular design enables a number of input and output configurations, and offers many production tools for advanced page programming requirements like tabs, inserts, covers and chapter breaks."Over the last couple of years, we've seen the industry demand more printing jobs with smaller runs that incorporate variable data," said Dahlke. "To meet this increased demand, we needed to add another digital color production unit to our fleet. We investigated several different digital presses and performed extensive due diligence testing on each of them. The Ricoh C901 Graphic Arts Edition stood out because of its great quality combined with an attractive price point, giving us the ability to immediately enhance our graphic design and variable data offerings for customers." The Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition is designed to reduce maintenance requirements and is backed by Ricoh's team of locally based service and support professionals. In addition, Ricoh production print customers can take advantage of the Ricoh Business Booster Program, an integrated package of services and tools designed to help customers grow their business.It is this kind of support that led VISOgraphic to purchase the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition. "Being a Heidelberg shop, we were excited to hear about Ricoh's new partnership with Heidelberg. For Heidelberg to select Ricoh as their new digital partner says a lot about the quality of their product. We are a first-time Ricoh customer, and they have been with us every step of the process, through the purchase, delivery, set up and training," said Dahlke. "The Ricoh service team has been impressive as well. Ricoh's technicians are incredibly responsive and very knowledgeable about the product."For more information regarding the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition and other Ricoh products and services, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com.About VISOgraphic VISOgraphic Inc., founded in 1946, is a full-service graphics communications company located in Burr Ridge, Illinois. Its services include graphic design and layout, digital and conventional sheet-fed printing, bindery, mailing, on-demand collateral management, green printing solutions, and digital publishing options. For further information, please contact Linda LeClercq at 630-590-6100 or go to www.visographic.com. About Ricoh Americas CorporationRicoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion. Ricoh's fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.Information about Ricoh's complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.# # #© 2011 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved. All other company or product names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Contacts:Linda MontefuscoHeather NeversRicoh Americas CorporationBrodeur email@example.com@brodeur.com
* If you don't have Adobe Reader, you can download free.
Page Top


text:
For ALL Police Response:
Call 911
Administrative Offices:
Office Hours:
Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Texts or emails to stay up on all that's happening in the Town of Clayton!
Contact Us
The men and women of the Clayton Police Department are proud to serve the citizens of the Town of Clayton. We respond to your emergencies, teach crime prevention to groups visiting our Law Enforcement Center and patrol the Town's greenways—it's all just a part of our job. You may see us responding to accidents or read about our K-9 Unit sniffing out crime. The point is, we're here taking care of Clayton.


text:
The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native Americans as disease spread by European fishermen devastated their populations. Initially the two groups, the Wampanoags, under the charismatic and calculating chief Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, whose pugnacious military officer Miles Standish was barely five feet tall, maintained a fragile working relationship. But within decades, New England would erupt into King Philip's War, a savagely bloody conflict that nearly wiped out English colonists and natives alike and forever altered the face of the fledgling colonies and the country that would grow from them.
With towering figures like William Bradford and the distinctly American hero Benjamin Church at the center of his narrative, Philbrick has fashioned a fresh and compelling portrait of the dawn of American history, a history dominated right from the start by issues of race, violence, and religion.
©2006 Nathaniel Philbrick; (P)2006 Penguin Audio, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., and Recorded Books, LLC. All rights reserved.
"Impeccably researched and expertly rendered, Philbrick's account brings the Plymouth Colony and its leaders...vividly to life. More importantly, he brings into focus a gruesome period in early American history." (Publishers Weekly)
"Fascinating book about a little-understood time"
Mayflower is a fascinating account of a two early episodes in American History. The first period - the emigration of the Pilgrims from the Old World to the New is of course well-known, but not particularly well-understood. The basic story is there and (thankfully) the outline is what we all tend to believe. However, the details of the Pilgrims and that first Thanksgiving are nothing that you have learned in school. The initial chapters about the fitting out of the Mayflower (and the Speedwell) and the financial macinations are a bit tedious, but the story picks up very quickly with the voyage across the ocean and the landing around (but likely not on) Plymouth Rock.
The second period, King Philip's War, leads directly from the first but is much less famous. It takes place 50 years later than the Pilgrim's landing and is fascinating in its own right. The background gained from the study of the events at Plymouth in the 1620's allows for a deeper understanding of King Philip's War that would have been impossible in a stand-alone context.
The narrator does an excellent job with the pronounciations of the Indian proper and place names. It is a little confusing at first, but by the end of the book the names are familiar and easily recognizable. If you are interested in early Colonial history, I definitely recommend this book.
"A fresh and engaging perspective"
This book revisits the story of the passengers of the Mayflower, the preparation for the trip, the founding of the Plimoth colony, and the turbulent interaction between natives and a rapidly growing English population, leading to King Philip war in 1675. The author succeeds in bringing the characters to life by expertly presenting their perspectives, values and aspirations. The book is thoroughly researched and very engaging. The narration is outstanding.
"This is a wonderful book"
This is a wonderful book. The author tells such a compelling story that once the book was finished I found myself missing the characters. You won't be dissappointed.
Just what I was looking for. A well documented and well researched story about the Mayflower with a very good reader. Highly recommend.
The true story of the Pilgrims? Seems a lot more realistic than the picture book images of the first Thanksgiving that we all grew up with. Living in the Northeast makes it that much more familiar. Lots of Indian names, and following what tribe is on which side during some of the wars gets a bit confusing, but the whole story is fascinating. Life wasn't so easy (or peaceful) back then -- for anyone! Good book, excellent narration.
I love books and animals.I enjoy all sorts of genres, anything from history to supernatural.
"Lots of detail"
The main focus of this book is - the voyage of the Mayflower, its passengers, and the surrounding events that span about 50 years.
It was particularly intersting to hear how turbulant the relationship was between the Native Americans and Pilgrims.
The author uses an incredible amount of detail that make all the facts tangible and easy to listen to.
The narrator is one of my favorites and I think he does a great job.
Overall, if you enjoy historical non-fictions - you might want to try this. The only reason I did not give this a perfect 5 star was because the author jumped a little in the beginning of the book; and it was a little hard to follow at first.
"Removing the Blinders"
By the time I had listened to only the prologue this book had my full attention! As a former elementary teacher I hope that future history books will include the perspective and the facts presented here. Young people need the to know the background of their national heritage to be better informed for opinions in their adult futures. As it stands now - that doesn't exist in our schools. A Wonderful and enlightening book with a captivating narration.
"Untold Native Stories"
Overall the first half of the book moves at an even pace, fairly easy to follow until the author skips back and forth all over history's timeline to embellish episodes of an individual character before getting back to the sequence of events in the drama. The reader's tone is mellow and drawn out without much emotion. The insight into the Native American's lifestyle is facsinating, unlike anything I have read to date.
This is simply the best account of Pilgrim and Indian history I have ever heard.
"awe-inspiring history but mistitled"
This book covers a century. It has a large cast of historical figures, but not too large. I feel it focuses much less on the history of the Mayflower, and much more of the relations between the Indians and the Mayflower settlers and their descendents. It highlights both the day-to-day curiousities of the relationships, and makes me wonder how things could have been different. If you are looking for a book on the Mayflower, here instead is a great book about King Philip's War.
Report Inappropriate Content
If you find this review inappropriate and think it should be removed from our site, let us know. This report will be reviewed by Audible and we will take appropriate action.


text:
Houston based DJ/producer DJ Sun originally came up in Rotterdam and Suriname and today releases his debut album, 100. The project brings together 20 years of work, fusing electronic sounds with live instrumentation and a healthy dose of Houston vocalists.
100 focuses on music at 100 BPM, as DJ Sun explains in his video interview above. Learn more about this seasoned artist and his melange of sound in the interview.
Below, listen to "Heart Seed," which features Leah Alvarez and Martin Perna of Antibalas.
Purchase One Hundred on iTunes | Amazon


text:
On December 6th, The Roots dropped their first conceptual album, undun. The work focuses around a troubled young man named Redford Stevens and the short film above details the grim unraveling.
It's clear that a lot of love was put into this project with carefully crafted cinematography that creates a profound investment in a storyline all to real. Pay close attention to the quotes, too, they warrant pause.