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Red Money - (Conspiracy Theory #11)
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July 20 2010 16:23
The company, which manuafactures and prints bank notes, said production at its main plant in Hampshire had failed to meet "certain quality specifications"
The company declined to provide details of what was wrong with the paper, but said that production and shipment had been suspended while it conducted an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the faults.
Don't cha remember how instantly the gasoline rationing coupons hit the street, back in the 1970s? They were preprinted and stored in tractor-trailers on Army bases around the country. When it was time for a "currency change" as rationing coupon, they just rolled the trailers up to the banks for distribution and WHOOP! there is was.
The idea of issuing new currency only makes sense with a revaluation, 10, 100, 1,000 to one. Pick a number. The B I S stated there were some $1.4 quadrillion in listed and unlisted derivatives so if 100:1 is the number, a quadrillion is then 10 T and an ounce of gold is $12. If Ben says the gold ounce is worth $20, reinstating the $20 gold piece as worth $20 new dollars, it will seem just like old times, happy days are here again. This will only impact financial accounting as gasoline will not stay at 3 cents per gallon. It'll go to a nickel in no time. As the Five Families have all long ago gone "legit", banks in the Bahamas and Bermuda, etc are all set to move Suezmax cargo loads of cash into whatever the new fiat is, no questions asked as a rite of professional courtesy. The cash underground does game theory too.
Red Credit
Ok, i've decided i can't put it off any longer - here it is ...
Scary DOW monthly chart.
What a fascinating premise!
When you are the rule-maker you can also be the best rule bender.
Makes sense.
So, even if the people come up with good ideas, the fundemental equation as I see it is:
Masses+Masses of Ideas+distributed wealth Vs. Classes+focus+concentrated wealth+time
Not quite balanced, eh?
How then do you pull off a revolution?
Americanspirit:: Yes, I remember that well with the Army SCRIPT $$. Iwas on a 19 day leave, and after a few poker games in London and near Paris I won appx $500. That nite on my way back to Frankfort there was a script change and I made some great exchanges as I was returning to base a day early. Bought up old script 4 &5 to one then went on base and changed it out.
$1700 bought a new car then. My, my what an incredible toss of the cards. Totally forgot about that til your note. Milestones
I always thought "red money" was a way to create a blocked currency so it could be selectively devalued... i.e. American debt-slaves using red money inside US borders and favored players (and the rest of the world) using green money, at a 10:1 or 100:1 exchange rate... it's the best of both worlds for the FED, maintaining the dollars reserve status while confiscating the benefits of that from the American people.
And yeah, using the red money to "flush out" the terrorists, drug kingpins and money-launderers is a real hoot - they would put the CIA and the TBTF banks out of business overnight!
see, we here are able to reason like chess players. We see an endgame and so there's no point in playing the extra 20 moves. The world will play the 20 moves.
The currency collapse is in slow-motion, look; it's been going on for 40 years. The Roman collapse took hundreds.
As far as Red Money bringing out bad guys...LOLZ
NAFTA already made money laundering a matter of legal international banking. There are billions sitting on banks this side of the border for which there is no way to account for their presence. NAFTA enables trucks to cross to Mexico laden with paper cash, deposit in a Mexican bank, take a laundering fee haircut, and then those deposits can be taken via cashier's check or wire either to a US bank or a US branch of the same bank.
And it's all perfectly legal. This is what is so laughable about the Patriot Act and all of this $10000 and $2000 transaction shit. The BIG illegal activity is taking place every day totalling up over time to hundreds of billions in parked, laundered deposits. The Gov already created the means by which if the terrrists were so inclined, they could move large amounts of money AT WILL.
Meanwhile, coin shops are having to take IDs for >2k purchases, what a fucking JOKE. Green money would be turned into Red Money via mexican banks; it already has been.
3 thoughts:
-This would be a great, velocity-of-money power move. There have to be some relevant case histories here. Pre-Euro how many times have various European countries replaced an existing paper/coinage with a new one - if for no other reason than to trump counterfeiters? Quite a bit I think. The reasons were different but when the cash Euro was finally established it must have flushed out a lot of technically illegal and/or ill-gotten cash - thirteen currencies worth at once no less. Again, any good studies on this?
-If we haven't got our financial/fiscal/government house in order first this move will just be a short lived adrenaline rush. No sense using the heart-start paddles on the patient if he's covered in napalm and on fire too.
-No. The real power move here is that the government just eliminates or severely restricts the use of all cash period. Forever. Everyone gets a debit card tied to their SS# and you get paid electronically, pay all bills electronically and buy all things in stores with the plastic. All kinds of illegal activity would come to a standstill overnight: drugs, bribes, prostitution, black market, gambling, counterfeiting and any tax evasion of any kind over a penny - anything that relies on a transaction with no audit trail. You could still hustle in PM and barter but it probably wouldn't be like it was before when the greenback was king. The downside of course is that the government would have it's microscope so far up your ass you won't be able to buy a fucking Fresca without it showing up on 17 different reports. In other words, how could Obama not love this idea?
How would the banks that are buying the politicians pay for them? With a credit card that leaves a paper trail? So much for that theory...
Let's see...company jet time, getting a job for junior, anything involving sex, products/services at the bank's disposal, a bump to the front of the line on that country club waiting list, the keys to the place in Aspen, an Ivy League acceptance letter...hell any functioning set of dentures and a sloppy kiss might be enough for Barney Frank.
Bruce- what do you have against Miami condos?
Having lived in Westchester, Manhattan and Miami, I'll take Miami.
Love Florida, Love Miami. Would Miami like to see 3000 high end condos sold in three months?
An interesting fact: In WWII the US was concerned Hawaii might be lost and the cash on the islands used against US interests so they printed special bank notes that could be refused elsewhere if they were captured and presented elsewhere.
It seems that everyone here misses the whole point why this would never happen:
The FED knows to the dollar how much money has been printed and how much money has been returned. You know they keep track of this and don't need to 'estimate'. Unfortunately for us (and US) is that there is probably 3 Trillion out there, so they definitely will never, never want a physical inventory to be taken.
The gap between the truth vs. the lies that pass for truth in the media has never been so wide. But living a lie is very destructive, so it's important to cross this gap. Today I want to clear up one of the most important lies reinforced by the media–the idea that we have sovereign countries.
No doubt most of you have heard of the sovereign debt crisis that so many countries are facing. We hear endless economists, reporters, and billionaire hedge fund raiders talk about it. But the phrase they use is fictitious. It is a fabrication of the Ivy League, Wall Street, and erudite periodicals like the Financial Times of London. Sovereign debt is an impossibility. It cannot exist.
It seems ridiculous to point this out, but sovereign debt implies sovereignty. Right? Well, if countries are sovereign, then how could they be required to be in debt to private banking institutions? How could they be so easily attacked by the likes of George Soros, JP Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs? Why would they be subjugated to the whims of auctions and traders?
A true sovereign is in debt to nobody and is not traded in the public markets. For example, how would George Soros attack, say, the British royal family? It's not possible. They are sovereign. Their stock isn't traded on the NYSE. He can't orchestrate a naked short sell strategy to destroy their credit and force them to restructure their assets. But he can do that to most of the other 6.7 billion people of the world by designing attack strategies against the companies they work for and the governments they depend on.
The fact is that most countries are not sovereign (the few that are are being attacked by CIA/MI6/Mossad or the military). Instead they are administrative districts or customers of the global banking establishment whose power has grown steadily over time based on the math of the bond market, currently ruled by the US dollar, and the expansionary nature of fractional lending. Their cult of economists from places like Harvard, Chicago, and the London School have steadily eroded national sovereignty by forcing debt-based, floating currencies on countries. So let's start being honest and stop describing their debt instruments as sovereign.
We long ago lost the free market envisioned by Adam Smith in the "Wealth of Nations." Such a world would require sovereign currencies, i.e. currencies that are well-regulated rather than floating, and an asset rather than an interest-bearing debt. Only then could there be a "wealth of nations." But now we have nothing but the "debt of nations." The exponential math of debt by definition meant that countries would only lose their wealth over time and become increasingly indebted to the global central banking network.
So thanks to debt-based, free-floating currencies, the "wealth of nations" transitioned to the "debt of nations" which is now transitioning to the "death of nations." The new world economic order with one currency, one banking system, one government, and one integrated corporate empire is on the horizon. Perhaps that's a good thing, but if it were, why would the establishment concoct oxymorons like "sovereign debt" instead of telling the truth? That's my only goal here–I think people can be trusted with the truth. Lies harm not only the population hearing them, but also the powerful people telling them.
Those powers have the best salesmen in the world, so why don't they just sell the population on the truth? Apparently they don't think you'd like it. Well now you have it. And it's coming unless countries follow Iceland's lead and recover their sovereignty. The choice is ours.
This is the monetary equivalent to speculating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Along the same lines I had wrote a while back:
"Interesting Currency Fact
Earlier this week I was paging through the marked pages of a book I read a while back titled "Gold: The once and future money" by Nathan Lewis. Now this is not going to be a gold post, I got tons of comments over at Seeking Alpha for the blurb I posted last night.
I had marked this section for further thought:
A staff member of the IMF estimated that as little as 10-15% of all the US Currency held outside of banks is used inside the United States. The rest is being used outside the country--by foreign central banks, in dollarized countries, by travelers, smugglers, drug cartels, tax evaders, and foreign commercial banks--as the international currency of the world. Roughly two thirds of all the dollars in the world are in the form of $100 bills, a denomination almost never seen in the United States.
I would wonder just how much money is out there but there is just no way to know. And I do not mean just the smugglers, well, the drug sort anyway not the government types!"
" $100 bills, a denomination almost never seen in the United States."
I beg to differ with this comment. I see $100 bills every day.
and how does this stop the derivatives circlejerk?
Considering the implications, I actually want the Fed to do it. It will be a well deserved suicide mission.
what if all other countries followed suit and changed their currency?
what if they all decided to have one single currency...:-)
it is difficult to do that without unifying the fiscal/monetary/supervisory infrastructure. look at Euro.
Exactly , look at Euro
they knew Greece had problems since 2008-9 but didn't come out until the time came
Now Euro is going up coz Trichet finally gave up and metamorphosed into Europe's Ben and started monetising everything
European banks are allowed to get new money for all the useless things as collateral- best form of recycling, reserved only for big banks
They know there are problems in USD but let's party until the day comes
Long live big banks- Lets make Trichet the man of this yearand give him a trillion Nobel prizes!
"But at the same time some very big (and smart) eyes and ears would be looking at the money flow. This would be a good way to flush some of those bad boys into the open."
hillarious, ...
I would like to direct your attention to http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/07/wells-fargo-wachovia-...
Any hope of getting mob and/or drug money has a snowball's chance in hell. Especally with TBTF, banks will not walk away from that profit when the downside is a slap on the wrist. All they need to do is whine how legal action will bankrupt them and poof, their problems go away.
I think investing in a good laser jet printer (and scanner) would be a great idea during a currency exchange/collapse.
gold, silver would almost instantly be realized as currency and sought out by the masses (and red dye).
Bob Kraft will be happy to sell you the paper, he's taking a bath at Patriot Place, but will never turn down a good deal.
- Ned
On the completely illegal side we go from bad to worse. Drug dealers, drug cartels, organized crime, banks and all manner of burglars.
I made a small correction for you Bruce. I couldn't help but think Wachovia, Bof A, et al. If laundering a million in cash is hard imagine 384 billion dollars in cash. Even criminals need bankers these days.
I don't have an economics PhD but with several years of running profitable businesses under my belt I'll take a swing at this. Forgive me if you are being humorous and I am too obtuse( where is Andy D. these days anyway) to sense it but in general this measure telegraphs desperation and it does so in a way that everyone gets to see every time they open their purse or wallet. The crooks at the top know they need a certain amount of public confidence in the economy and the currency.
The message that this would send is that the government is no longer allowing anyone to store and protect their wealth from the government itself. Most of us here know this already but if everyone was reminded of this every time we bought or sold something the public mood might quickly become quite foul. I think the full consequences of this are larger than any of us can imagine.
Presuming congress would have something to say about this as well as the supremes, and most likely whoever is temporarily in residence on Pennsylvania Avenue, and most ominously, Lord Blankfein and his henchpersons, the likelihood of this EVER happening is 180 degrees opposite of ZH's motto.
When I was an Army kid in Japan and Europe after WWII Americans used occupation script, not US dollars, to buy things on base at the PX, Commissary etc. A lot of script also wound up in the hands of Japanese, Germans, and Italians townspeople in various ways. Every so often, totally unannounced in advance, we would all be told that we had 24 hours to turn in all our old script for new script - after the 24 hours the old script was worthless. I can't tell you how much I made exchanging script for my friends families in town - all very illegal, and my Dad would have been court-martialed if I had been caught, but that never happened. The funniest part of the story is that after the 24 hours had passed, for a week or so afterwards, you would see wads of old script blowing around on the streets where it had been tossed. Totally worthless. So this basic idea has been around for a long, long time.
I always thought it would have been a really cheap way to recapitalize the banks in the first place if they'd just done away with paper money and coinage altogether and said 'All transactions from x day forward have to take place electronically and will require a bank or brokerage account.'
It would've been more money than the TARP and, as far as I can tell, wouldn't have cost a damn thing. Now that TARP has turned into a political slush fund, it's all going to get pissed away anyway.
My understanding was that the bulk of paper money was held by drug gangs. Seems appropriate to recapitalize the banks that way. It would make entire classes of crime more difficult and eliminate others. The people who have direct deposit and use cards (debit, credit, etc) for nearly everything now wouldn't give two shits.
Yeah, it's illegal and probably unconstitutional, but it was also the cheapest and most elegant solution to the problem at hand. I don't understand why it wasn't at least considered. If they wanted to get around any constitutional issues, well, the banks could've been urged to decree it in unison so that it came completely from the private sector.
Come on, Bruce!
You know that the TBTF Banks are laudering astronomical amounts of Dollars for the Drug Cartels and Foreign Dictators and Ponzi Artists.
This would do absolutely nothing that cannot be done Right Now to find the 'Bad Guys' and take the Profits from Their Criminal Enterprises from Them.
On the other hand; this would be an excellent way of fucking up Price Discovery and adding further Distortions to the Markets by confusing Producers and throwing Demand Signals into chaos; -thus making prudent choices in the use of Capital impossible.
This could only be desired by Criminals or Tyrants.
It is ONLY a great Idea if .GOV Inc™, the FED Cartel, Politically connected Inside Players Who would be in on the Scheme, and the Corporations are running flat out of other more viable ideas for screwing Everybody Who isn't part of the Oligarchy.
Nice TINFOIL, and might even be a contingency if TPTB are looking for a new angle from which to take a shit on the rest of Us; but, -I had come to expect better of You.
Isn't it here, already?
just flush the fed at the same time......... "UNITED STATES NOTES"
Gold money loves Red money!
So, after everybody quickly converts their mattress cash into tangible assets, driving a short term pop in prices, what happens to those assets after the conversion is done?
Many people will see a continued decline in equivalent value. It won't fuel consumer spending for anything but a short period, then prices will drop even lower than they were as no one else is left to buy and the recent purchasers are fretting over the deteriorating value of their new assets and are no longer in a festive, buying mood.
It won't end well so you might want to carry some of this around to keep those cranky types who got cornered in that paper money fiasco from ripping your throat out in the latte line at Star Bucks.
Exactly, which would then need to be followed by "Blue", "yellow", etc to keep driving the binge. This is why I proposed disappearing ink above. The money will just decay and that whay they dont have to keep picking new colors, since they may run out of color options and have to use green again someday (money will be like bell bottoms). Its all a stupid idea anyway, I cant beleive I posted as many times as I have on this subject.
Hang on! You're on to something, changing colors, devaluing currency, pulling forward demand. The key idea here is to constantly decay the currency by issuing new currency to stimulate false economic activity in an ever increasing ponzi spiral to pull demand forward as otherwise all asset prices would fall. By jove! You've invented the Federal Reserve and fractional reserve banking, 96% loss of value in paper baby and the ponzi is going strong :)
I bought a pepsi yesterday with two dollar bills
and one of the two quarters I got back had red fingernail polish on it.
I was wondering if this was an omen from God to short the market.
But now, I understand ...
thanks again, zh
I've seen red painted quarters too. The best explanation I heard was from an apartment superintendent. The owner of the building gives him red quarters to use in the laundromat. When the owner empties the cash box he gives him back his quarters. Free laundry is one of the fringe benefits of being the super.
Many bars do the same thing with coins for Juke boxes, pool tables, etc.
Red painted quarters have been around forever.
The main drawback to this plan is that unintended inflation would clear the physical markets of hard goods - anything portable. At this point, it would generate too much fear and panic in one short impulse. The way to introduce new money would be with a long persuasion campaign. "It's really for your benefit, etc...". This would require quite a lead time, so they should get started now.
For those of us who keep aware, there should be plenty of time not to get caught with worthless paper. It's like with the forced annuitization of IRAs and 401(k)s - just a watch at this point, not a warning.
DB Cooper Would Be Pissed...
Humping in backpacks of cash... For the rest of us:
"Anything, including: Jewelry, uncut diamonds, gold and silver, big boats, as many cars as you could find, houses, raw land, cases of wine, art..."
"Bergdorf Goodman, Saks and Macy's would quadrupled their cash sales overnight."
It means the VAT tax would be put in place before Red Money...
There you go P. Another compelling argument. How can they ignore "it"?
The things "Fat Larry" Summers can think up in the oval office over a huge plate of cookies...
I liked your post... good thought experiment.
Red Money is just another version of some anecotal discussions which go on at the Fed. Bob Prechter mentions it in his book, the Fed has discussed means of stimulating the economy, by replacing bills in circulation with identical bills, except they would have time date strips. If the money doesn't circulate within a set amount of time, the money is devalued.
If you were sitting on cash, you would have to recycle it every so often. The IRS and the DEA would be overwhelmed by the volume of a complete exchange out. And at first mention of the plan the price of gold would go through the roof. End game if they are looking for someway to restore confidence in fiat currency, this isn't it.
Rubles: Now You See Them, Now You Don't
On January 22, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union, decreed that all existing 50- and 100-ruble banknotes were no longer legal tender and that they could be exchanged for new notes for three days only and only in small quantities. This had the effect of instantly deleting large portions of the savings and accumulated capital of private citizens. He followed up this genius move on January 26, by ordering that the police had the authority to search any place of business and to demand the records of any business at any time. The union's economic problems accelerated into a death spiral. Gorbachev resigned on December 25, and on the next day the Supreme Soviet dissolved itself and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Great story Bruce.
Anyone have any sourcing on this Red Money theory?


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I do not like films like this one, it is not my cup of tea but I bet action lovers will like this film. I was way confused during this film and could not keep track of who is killing whom and why. The film is very blood and there is a lot of killing that seems to be in the film just for the sake of violence and I do not like it. The film is very stylish and it is shot in a very interesting way, i enjoyed the visual experience i just did not like all the violence. The director is definitely very good at creating intensity and thrills and I can not deny his mastery (I do not think that anybody can) and people who love his films will love this one as well. Overall, if you like thrillers that are full of violence you will like this film.
This is a thriller about the boss of a big crime syndicate who orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate, the film is directed by Takeshi Kitano and stars Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shiina and Ryo Kase. This was not my type of movie but I still appreciated the masterful delivery of the story and the director's style. The film was stunning visually and quite entertaining, there was not too much violence but when it happened it happened brutally and I had to cover my eyes every time (i usually do not go see films like this one). Overall, people who love Kitano's work should not be disappointed but if you are like me I would suggest seeing something less violent and less intense.
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Loris Sofia Gregory, FRESH & LOCAL Healthy Kitchen Coach, Apple Valley, MN
Valley Natural Foods, 13750 County Road 11, Burnsville, MN 55337
Challenged in getting your engine revved up in the morning and sustained throughout busy days? Sluggish and cranky from your roller coaster of energy highs and lows? Dreaming of steady sources of energy for a perpetual perky mind and body? If you are more than ready to jump start your engine each morning and stay productive, happy and energized all day long, consider these power-punched tips, breakfasts and snacks that you can find on our Bulk Trail.
Eat a satisfying breakfast. To break your overnight fast, your body needs fuel first thing in the morning. An adequate breakfast with enough protein will give you essential fuel plus a "full and satisfied" feeling for a productive morning. Here's a few great fatigue-beating breakfasts you will find on our Bulk Trail. Supplement these cereals and grains with our fresh berries and fruits, low or no-fat "milks" (sourced from cows, almonds, hemp, rice, etc.), whole grain breads, low-sugar yogurts and fruit spreads. Satisfying anytime of the day!
•FRESH & LOCAL, sustainable, fair trade and organic, Birchwood Café of Minneapolis provides us with their signature granola, using grains from Whole Grain Milling Company in Welcome, Minnesota. MORE WHOLE GRAIN GRANOLAS include the tantalizing flavors of honey apple crisp, French vanilla almond, honey gone nuts, hemp plus, raspberries and cream, coconut almond, blueberry with flax, goji (berry) agave, and how can you resist "Naughty but Nice" from Pure Bliss?
•IF POPS or FLAKES strike your fancy, try quinoa flakes or air-puffed quinoa pops for complete protein; rolled rye, barley or wheat flakes from Whole Grain Milling; or "High Fiber Multigrain Cereal Flakes" from Breadshop.
•LOVE HOT CEREALS to warm your tummy? Whole Grain Milling also brings us "8 Grain Hot Cereal," wheat and rye berries and oats groats. Groats are the hulled whole grains that include the cereal germ and fiber-rich bran portion of the grain as well as the endosperm. Groats are nutritious but hard to chew, so they are usually soaked and cooked. They can be the basis of kasha, a porridge-like staple meal of Eastern Europe.
•MORE WARMING ENERGY: Swany Flour Mills Cream of Wheat Farina from Freeport, Minnesota and New England Natural Baker's Muesli. Originally created for German hospital patients in 1900, muesli is a mix of uncooked rolled oats, fruit and nuts. It can also be enjoyed as a light evening dish or desert.
•OLD FASHIONED OATS contain more soluble fiber than any other grain plus high protein, resulting in slower digestion and lasting satisfaction. Choose from steel cut, thick rolled, regular rolled or quick rolled. Steel-cut oats are whole grain groats (the inner portion of the oat kernel) cut into pieces. Nuttier in flavor and chewier, steel-cut oats take longer to cook than instant or rolled due to their minimal processing, typically 15–30 minutes, though much less if pre-soaked.
Refuel with the right power snack. A small healthy snack that is low in sugar, includes protein and/or fiber can help you deal more gracefully with hunger and make wiser choices at your next meal. Additional power foods found on our Bulk Trail include:
•BARSEY'S ALMONDS come to us from Minneapolis. Produced in small batches, all-natural ingredients, with no added preservatives, "Smokies" have a deep hickory flavor that some call "vegan bacon" with a delightful outer crust of nutritional yeast. "Sweeties" are gluten free, slightly sweet and subtly seasoned with East-Indian spices. You can also find carob-covered almonds in bulk for a change of pace.
•CHUNKS OF ENERGY: Portable "pop in your mouth" sustaining snacks. Choose among organic wild cranberry, chocolate almond chip, carob supergreens and raw cocoa with goji.
•DRIED FRUIT: Experience flavorful, colorful energy among apricots, apples, banana chips, bing cherries, blueberries, Craisins, dates, figs, mangos, papaya spears, pineapple tidbits, raisins, prunes and goji berries, native to Asia and touted as a "fountain of youth."
•NUTS, raw and unsalted, are great "as is" for breakfast or on-the-go snacks. It will take you awhile to exhaust the possibilities in creating your own unique energy-sustaining morning bowls or "have a small handful" mixtures of nuts and healthy seeds, including chia, flax, hemp, sunflower, pumpkin and sesame.
•NUT BUTTERS peanut, almond and cashew in bulk are eager to spread on whole grain toast, rolls and breads, crackers and fresh crisp apple slices.
•STICKS, CRACKERS & PEAS: Consider wild rice and sesame sticks, rice crackers or wasabi-coated peas for easy tasty snacks.
•TRAIL MIXES: Take more hikes to energy test our trail mixes: campfire, chocolate almond, fruit and nut, high antioxidant and super snax.
When in doubt, have a piece of chocolate. If you're yearning for something sweet, it might as well be chocolate. We get an endorphin buzz and low-caffeine boost from chocolate, with more caffeine in dark than milk. Explore chocolate treats in cahoots with almonds, ginger, peanuts and raisins on our bulk trail.
FREE DEMO, Tuesday, March 13, 11 am -2 pm. Sample and gather powerful ideas for ready-to-eat breakfasts and on-the-go healthy snacks.
CLASS, Tuesday, March 20, 6:30-8:30 pm, $17/VNF members; $20/non-members. Register ahead here or call Customer Service at 952.891.1212, Ext. 221.
Based in Apple Valley, reach FRESH & LOCAL health coach Loris Sofia Gregory at 952.431.5586 or lorissofiagregory.com. Loris would love to hear your ideas and questions about eating FRESH & LOCAL. Request her earth-friendly seasonal recipes and healthy eating tips if you miss her monthly demos and classes.


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Wednesday's Homegrown Music Festival featured the centerpiece Trampled By Turtles at Clyde Iron Works, a much buzzed-about show that drew about 500 people to the early armband rush and later filled the venue.
There was even a bit of tailgating and day-drinking and Pizza Luce's muscle volunteered to help keep things running smoothly — which it did. And it seems that everyone who wanted to get into the show got into the show. The band went plenty nuts on their instruments, like everyone wants them to, and it was all very exciting.I wrote about the scene here.
Equal Exchange, a hip-hop, soul, double-sax band started the show with rapper Rain Elfvin at the wheel. The band includes Jesse Hoheisel on guitar, Jason Kokal on bass and Matt Milinkovich on drums. This is a unique band — born of friendship between coworkers at Whole Foods Co-op — makes an interesting sound you don't hear much of in these parts. Think of a Beastie Boy jamming with a funk band. Whenever I think of this band, I think of the year that one of them ate an apple on stage during their Homegrown set. It just seemed like such a good idea. (Not to mention nutritious).
Father Hennepin, the reason for the Homegrown season, played next, kicking off the set with the theme song "Homegrown." The band includes Ted Anderson, Scott "Starfire" Lunt — who set things in motion by having a music festival to celebrate his birthday — Bob Olson on bass, Brad Nelson on drums and Susan Ludwig on accordion and keyboard and they play alt-country with Duluth cues. About midway through the show — around the time Starfire chucked a chicken head hat into the crowd, the band added a three-man horn section. They closed out a super-fun set with "I Like it in Duluth," a cover of the Moose Wallow Ramblers' song. (Here is a kicky video that local filmmaker Mike Scholtz made of the song for a past Homegrown Music Video Festival).
From the curious files: Someone asked me if I was in the band Father Hennepin. (No, I'm not). And that wasn't even the weirdest conversation I had on Wednesday night.


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March 12, 2014
Up Next: Fresno State Classic
Dates: Thursday-Sunday, March 13-16, 2014
Online Video Broadcast Link: http://www.gobulldogs.com/videos
^Radio: ESPN 790 AM The Deuce (All five Bulldog games on Thu.-Sun.)
>Click here for Tourney Schedule Link with Live Stats links
Thursday, March 13
^5 pm - *Fresno State vs. Pacific
Friday, March 14
9 am - Colorado State vs. *Cal Poly
11:15 am - *Pacific vs. CSU
1:30 pm - Cal Poly vs. *Ohio State
3:45 pm - NMSU vs. *Pacific
^6 pm - *Fresno State vs. Ohio State
8:15 pm - *NMSU vs. St. Mary's
Saturday, March 15
9 am - Pacific vs. *Ohio State
11:15 am - *St. Mary's vs. Ohio State
1:30 pm - *CSU vs. St. Mary's
^3:45 pm - *Fresno State vs. Cal Poly
6 pm - CSU vs. *NMSU
^8:15 pm - *Fresno State vs. NMSU
Sunday, March 16
9 am - Ohio State vs. *CSU
11:15 am - NMSU vs. *Cal Poly
1:30 pm - *St. Mary's vs. Cal Poly
^3:45 am - *Fresno State vs. St. Mary's
*Asterisk indicates home team
^ indicates radio game (790AM)
Looking ahead to its sixth and final week of early-season tournament play, Fresno State (12-8, 0-0) returns home to host its second tourney, the Fresno State Classic, this Thursday-Saturday, March 13-16.
This weekend's action wraps a majority of the `Dogs' non-conference slate, while the MW season begins next week with a three-game swing at Boise State, Fri.-Sun., March 21-23.
Last weekend in the Judi Garmin Classic in Fullerton, the `Dogs staked their first wins vs. top-25 teams since February 2012 with 1-0 shutouts of World Series returnees and No. 6 Washington and No. 14 Nebraska.
In return for her success on Sunday vs. the Huskies, redshirt sophomore pitcher Kiley Shae Aldridge picked up the team's first MW Pitcher of the Week honor of 2014 on Tuesday - the fourth player/pitcher weekly conference honor under second-year head coach Trisha Ford.
Adult Lower Box $45 / $15
Adult Upper Reserved $30 / $10
Adult G.A. (Outfield Berm) $21 / $7
*Senior/Youth Upper Reserved $15 / $7
*Senior/Youth G.A. (OF Berm) $15 / $5
Fresno State Classic All-Tournament Packages (4 Days): Lower Box - $45; Upper Reserved - $30; Gen. Admission - $21; Senior and Youth in Upper Reserved or GA - $15.
Pacific (Thu., March 13, 5 p.m.) - Social Media Madness Night means 2 for 1 ticket deals for all fans who like or follow a Fresno State Athletics Social Media Account.
Ohio State (Fri., March 14, 6 p.m.) - On Greek Night, the Greek House with the largest attendance will receive a $250 Visa gift card for their house. Free Youth Jersey Friday earns free admission for kids wearing jerseys with a paid adult.
St. Mary's (Sun., March 16, 3:45 p.m.) - For Salute to Sundays, all active military and veterans receive free admission with a valid military ID.
Last weekend in the Judi Garmin Classic in Fullerton, Fresno State lost its first three tilts to Long Beach State (8-0), Cal State Fullerton (9-2) and returning NCAA advancer Houston (4-2). On Sunday, the `Dogs responded to their eighth and nine tilts of the year against NCAA Tournament returnees with 1-0 shutouts vs. No. 14 Nebraska and No. 6 Washington.
MW Pitcher of the Week and redshirt sophomore Kiley Shae Aldridge shined against No. 6 Washington in her first start in nearly two years after redshirting last year because of a knee injury/surgery. Her first career shutout featured only three hits allowed and nine strikeouts - a team season high (and three times her previous career best (3)).
Combined for the five games in the Judi Garmin Classic, Aldridge led the team in ERA (0.00), fewest hits allowed (3), strikeouts (9) and opponent batting average (.130).
In her shutout vs. Nebraska, sophomore Jill Compton held the Huskers to four hits and no runs after it put five runners into scoring position. She struck out five NU batters and walked only one. She also pitched her first of two complete games on the weekend (the other came vs. CS Fullerton) and seven on the season. It was her second 1-0 shutout of an NCAA Tournament returnee after she topped returning ACC Tournament champion N.C. State opening weekend.
Returning All-MW center fielder and junior Brenna Moss was the only `Dog to have multiple multi-hit games on the weekend, and banged out two hits vs. Houston (2-for-4), No. 14 Nebraska (2-for-3) and No. 6 Washington (2-for-3).
For the weekend, she led the team in batting (.353), hits (6), runs (2), doubles (2), slugging (.412) and stolen bases (1). Defensively, she threw out her fifth base-runner this season in the first inning vs. Houston at third base on an overthrow by the catcher on a stolen base attempt.
Against UW, she turned a single to center field vs. Washington into a double - interestingly her first career-wise after racking up 15 triples the last 2 1/2 years (and fifth-best career total in school history).
After a pinch-hit triple vs. Cal State Fullerton and pinch-hit single against Houston, freshman left fielder Kierra Willis saw her 14-game reached base streak end vs. No. 14 Nebraska Sunday with a pinch-hit ground-out. She also walked vs. Long Beach State the first game of the weekend, and still ended the tourney with a .400 batting average (2-for-5, 2 walks).
Junior DP Taylor Green made her first starts of the year in the final four games of the Judi Garmin Classic and was one of three `Dogs that topped .333 (4-for-12, HBP). She singled in the first two contests, and also went 2-for-3 vs. No. 6 Washington to tie for the team game high in hits with Brenna Moss.
Junior right fielder Michelle Solomon hit her team-leading second triple of the season in the first inning vs. No. 14 Nebraska - also her second game-winning RBI of the season. She also had an RBI single and walk vs. Houston.
Making all five starts at shortstop last weekend (the first of her career at the position), sophomore Whitney Smith also added her first game-winning RBI of 2014 with her fifth-inning single against No. 6 Washington.
Freshman Liza Liddell made her first five starts as a collegian last weekend at second base, and collected her first hit as `Dog vs. CS Fullerton.
This week, two Bulldog pitchers ranked first in the league - sophomores Kiley Shae Aldridge (ERA, 0.51) and Taylor Langdon (saves, 4; games finished, 8). Aldridge also stood second in opposing batting (.208), as did Langdon in games in relief (9).
Former All-MW honoree and sophomore right-hander Jill Compton added third-place rankings in wins (7) and starts (11) and fourth in opponent batting (.220), and sophomore Hannah Harris ranked ninth in starts (7).
At the plate, five `Dogs were spotted offensively - senior first baseman Stesha Brazil (RBI, fourth, 22; homers, fifth, 4), All-MW center fielder and junior Brenna Moss (runs, third, 18; stolen bases, third, 9), junior right fielder Michelle Solomon (triples, second, 2; hit by pitch, third, 3), senior third baseman Vonnie Martin (walks, third, 20) and freshman left fielder Kierra Willis (walks, sixth, 13).
Team-wise, the Bulldog pitchers still pace the conference in saves (4), and stood second in lowest opposing batting average (.255) and third in ERA (2.98).
In the first edition of the NCAA's weekly softball rankings released this week, sophomore pitcher Taylor Langdon led the saves category (4).
Six other `Dogs stood top 80 nationally - senior third baseman Vonnie Martin (walks, ninth, 0.68 p/g), sophomore pitcher Jililan Compton (shutouts, 28th, 3), junior right fielder Michelle Solomon (triples, 32nd, 2), sophomore catcher Paige Gumz (sacrifice flies, 33rd, 2), senior first baseman Stesha Brazil (RBI, 57th, 1.10 p/g) and junior center fielder Brenna Moss (stolen bases, 80th, 0.45 p/g).
Team-wise, Fresno State's highest rankings were in triples (34th, 0.30 p/g), stolen bases (72nd, 1.36 p/g), ERA (79th, 2.90) and win-loss percentage (87th, .600).
NCAA statistics are updated every Monday at the http://stats.ncaa.org/rankings/ranking_summary URL address.
In last year's mid-March event at Bulldog Diamond, the `Dogs topped Iowa State (7-6) and St. Mary's (8-0 (6)), and lost to No. 6 California (1-0), while its games vs. Oregon and Oregon State were cancelled due to weather.
Versus the World Series-returning Bears, Jill Compton dealt six scoreless and hitless innings before a seventh-inning Cal homer proved the difference in the 1-0 decision. The All-MW selection struck out a career-high 10 Cal batters, while two `Dogs hit safely - Brenna Moss (1-for-3) and Paige Gumz (1-for-3) against Cal's former Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year Valerie Henderson.
In the opener, Taylor Langdon earned her sixth win of 2013 after throwing two scoreless relief innings vs. the Cyclones, while pinch-hitter Kelly Megee hit a bases-loaded, game-winning RBI single in the seventh inning. In the final, Hannah Harris recorded her first complete game shutout in a three-hitter over the Gaels.
Multi-hit efforts on the weekend went to Michelle Solomon (ISU, 3-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI, SMC, 2-for-3, 2 RBI), shortstop Maria Sio (ISU, 2-for-2) and Moss (SMC 2-for-4, 3B).
Second-year Fresno State head coach Trisha Ford welcomes back starters at seven of the eight field positions, and 2013's top three pitchers.
All four of last year's All-MW picks are also back - senior infielder Vonnie Martin, junior outfielder Brenna Moss and sophomore pitcher Jill Compton and catcher Paige Gumz - while senior infielder Brooke Ortiz was an All-WAC choice in 2011.
Other starters back from 2013 include senior outfielder Kapri Angotti, senior first baseman Stesha Brazil, junior outfielder Michelle Solomon and sophomore infielder Whitney Smith.
Last year in Ford's first season, the Bulldogs went 30-24 overall and tied for second in the MW Conference with an 11-7 mark.
Head Coach Trisha Ford and the Bulldogs look for their seven-member newcomer class to make an immediate impact in the spring of 2014.
Her first recruiting class is entirely from California and includes catcher Niki Kaleialii (Oakley), infielder Liza Liddell (La Verne), and outfielders Melissa Gilbert (Merced), M.J. Jimenez (Newark), Alanna Layton (Acton), Christina Rodriguez (Livingston) and Kierra Willis (Pleasant Hill).
Kaleialii helped her team to three Bay Valley Athletic titles and was a two-time captain; Liddell was a four-time all-league selection at third base and shortstop; Jimenez was a three-time All-League pick; Gilbert helped lead Merced High School to three CCC titles; Layton was a CIF All-League First-Team choice; Rodriguez was a multiple all-conference choice; and Willis was a four-time first-team all-league selection.
Willis has started 19 games this year, while Liddell has made five starts at second base among her 11 appearances. Rodriguez had appeared in 13 games as a pinch-runner and stole bases vs. Sacramento State and Long Beach State; Jimenez pinch-ran ran vs. No. 8 Oregon and Riverside; and Kaleialii saw time behind the plate vs. UC Riverside and No. 25 Texas.
Fresno State owns all-time advantages vs. Cal Poly (38-11), New Mexico State (32-4), Pacific (79-22-1) and St. Mary's (15-2), while Ohio State owns a slim edge vs. the `Dogs (5-6).
Last year, Fresno State beat Pacific (1-0); split with Cal Poly (6-5 loss, 6-1 win); and went 2-1 vs. St. Mary's (1-0 and 8-0 (6) wins; 3-2 loss).
In other most recent meetings, Fresno State won all three games vs. New Mexico State in 2012 (1-0, 3-1, 2-1), and the Buckeyes won 3-0 in 2012 (while Fresno State's last series wins came in 2004 (1-0, 3-2)).
Pacific (www.PacificTigers.com): Last weekend the Tigers (7-11) went 1-3 in the Hawai'i Spring Fling with a split at Hawai'i (4-2 win, 8-7 loss) and narrow losses to California (5-2) and James Madison (4-2). Other notable wins earlier this year have come vs. Cal Poly (8-3), Oklahoma State (5-4) and UTEP (6-3). Pacific returns six starters and 13 letterwinners from last year's squad that went 28-28 overall and tied for fourth in the Big West (12-12). Senior outfielder Megan Fogelsong was an All-Big West Second-Team choice last year and is one of four players hitting +.300 in 2014 (.328, 19 H, 2 HR, 11 BB, 4 SB), with senior UT Taylor Petty (.431, 22 H), sophomore infielder Nicole Zapotoczny (.345, 19 H, 2 HR, 11 RBI) and freshman C/UT Bailey O'Mara (.340, 18 H). Pacific has split the pitching workload between junior right-hander Dani Bonnet (4.59, 3-4, 50.1 IP, 35 SO, 31 BB, 67 H) and senior right-hander Tori Shepard (4.58, 3-3, 44.1 IP, 27 SO, 31 BB, 46 H). Twenty-second year head coach Brian Kolze is the winningest coach in school history (649-543-1) and the second Big West Coach to reach 600 wins. He has directed the team to eight NCAA Tournament bids with the most recent in 2011.
Ohio State (www.OhioStateBuckeyes.com): The Buckeyes (9-11) went 3-1 last weekend in the Red and Black Classic with wins vs. Illinois State (6-5), UMass (9-7, 13-3 (5)) and losses to Ohio (7-3) and Louisville (11-5), and other notable wins this year have come vs. Long Beach State (10-8) and Fordham (1-0). Ohio State returns seven starters in the field and all five pitchers from last year's squad that went 34-22 and placed eighth in the Big Ten (10-13). Three Ohio State players are hitting +.300 this year - sophomore outfielder Caitlin Conrad (.368, 21 H, 2 HR, 12 RBI), junior first baseman Evelyn Carrillo (.328, 20 H, 5 2B, 12 RBI, 3 SB) and redshirt sophomore catcher Erika Leonard (.316, 18 H, 4 2B). Four pitchers have split time in the circle with +20 innings of work - sophomore Alex DiDomenico (3.07, 3-2, 21 SO, 14 BB, 30 H), sophomore Olivia O'Reilly (4.45, 1-2, 22 IP, 16 SO, 14 BB, 28 H), freshman Shelby Hurshe (4.47, 2-3, 31.1 IP, 34 SO, 37 BB, 22 H) and redshirt junior Melanie Nichols (4.54, 3-4, 37 IP, 30 SO, 24 BB, 39 H). Second-year head coach Kelly Kovach Schoenly sports a 231-185-1 career mark after she spent six seasons as the head coach at Miami (Ohio) and directed the team to two NCAA berths (2009, `12). In her prior work as an assistant coach, she helped Penn State to six NCAA bids and her alma mater Michigan to three Women's College World Series trips. As a pitcher for the Wolverines, she was a 1995 All-American and two-time Big Ten Pitcher of the Year.
Cal Poly (www.GoPoly.com): Last week, the Mustangs (13-9) went 6-0 at home vs. Stony Brook (7-0, 3-1), Fairleigh Dickinson (6-0), Sacramento State (6-1, 6-2) and Santa Clara (3-2), while other notable wins this year have come vs. No. 8 Oregon (6-4), Indiana (9-2), Pacific (7-4), Fordham (10-4) and Maryland (4-0). Cal Poly returns seven starters in the field and one pitcher from last year's squad that went 19-34-1 overall and placed eighth in the Big West (8-16). The squad returns a pair of All-Big West honorable mentions - senior outfielder Kim Westlund and senior catcher Mariah Cochiolo. Tenth-year head coach Jenny Condon is a three-time Big West Conference Coach of the Year. She has led the team to a 245-229-1 record and pair of NCAA tourney appearances and Big West titles in 2007 and '09.
New Mexico State (www.NMstatesports.com): The Aggies (15-10) went 2-3 last week with wins over Northern Colorado (3-2) and UT Arlington (4-3) and losses to UTEP (5-1), UT Arlington (5-3) and Texas Tech (8-4). Other notable wins earlier this year have come vs. Iowa State (5-4), Texas Tech (8-6) and UNLV (5-4). NMSU returns five starters in the field and 14 letterwinners from last year's squad that went 37-20 overall and 16-5 in the WAC. Senior outfielder Staci Rodriguez was the 2013 WAC Player of the Year, and this season leads the team this year in batting (.418), hits (28), homers (9), RBI (29) and on-base percentage (.545). Four other Aggies are topping +.300 this year - sophomore infielder Fiana Finau (.382, 26 H, 9 HR, 22 RBI), sophomore UT Emma Adams (.359, 23 H, 4 SB), junior catcher Lacey Rother (.352, 19 H, 12 RBI) and freshman catcher Devon Thomey (.326, 15 H, 6 SB). Three different NMSU pitchers have five wins this year - senior Celisha Walker (5-4, 3.64, 57.2 IP, 30 SO, 10 BB, 68 H), sophomore Makayla McAdams (5-1, 4.01, 45.1 IP, 18 SO, 13 BB, 53 H) and junior Karysta Donisthorpe (5-5, 5.14, 42 SO, 35 BB, 56 H). Eleventh-year head coach Kathy Rodolph sports a 305-291 mark in Las Cruces, and was the 2011 WAC Coach of the Year.
St. Mary's (www.SMCgaels.com): The Gaels (9-12) went 5-1 last weekend with wins over Lehigh (2-1, 1-0), Belmont (9-8, 6-0) and Brown (5-3) and a loss to Lehigh (4-2). Other notable wins earlier in the campaign came vs. No. 23 California (4-1), Hawai'i (3-2) and New Mexico State (3-2). Two SMC players topped .300 this week - Cassidy Szeredy (.322, 19 H) and Sarah Lira (.306, 15 H) - and its top two pitchers this year are Lujane Mussadi (3.44, 17-11, 73.1 IP, 28 SO, 20 BB, 90 H) and Sarah Lira (2.11, 5-3, 59.2 IP, 14 SO, 20 BB, 60 H). Tenth-year head coach Jessica Hanaseth-Rodgers has led the Gaels to six 20-win seasons, and the two-time conference coach of the year is the all-time winningest coach in program history with 191 wins. A 2001 graduate of SMC, she ended her career ranked top 10 in school history in RBI (second, 84), doubles (third, 19) and batting (eighth, .284).
With four saves already this season, sophomore Taylor Langdon has already tied a team season record, and that same total ties for seventh-most in a career for the `Dogs.
At the plate, senior first baseman Stesha Brazil drilled her third and fourth homers of the season three weeks ago in Cathedral City and moved into sole position of eighth place on the Bulldog career homer list (20).
Junior center fielder Brenna Moss stole another base last weekend ago to up her career total to 54 - second-best for Fresno State just ahead of former All-American Becky Witt (third, 51, 1998-2001). Her triple against No. 2 Tennessee moved her to 15 career-wise and into a tie for fifth all-time for the `Dogs, and her four runs opening week vs. UC Riverside tied a team game record shared by four other Bulldogs.
Last year, Moss smashed the school stolen bases record with her 34 swipes - seven better than the former mark (27) shared by Haley Gilleland (2011) and Karen Tabor. Moss's nine triples was also second-best in `Dog history behind All-American Laura Berg (11, 1995), while two others stood top 15 - Maria Sio (sacrifices, 14th-tie, 19) and Vonnie Martin (hitting streak, eighth-tie, 14 games). Among other all-time Bulldog game bests, Moss's three stolen bases vs. New Mexico tied a school record.
Sophomore pitcher Jill Compton also made history with the program's 70th no-hitter vs. St. Mary's last February. Her seven-inning, five-strikeout performance also made her the Bulldog freshman to achieve the feat since 2006.
Last year, the squad combined for a school record 87 stolen bases in 54 contests. For comparison's sake in 2014, the `Dogs have already swiped 28 bases after 20 games (which would equate to 78 in a 56-game season).
Among the Bulldogs' 51 games this year against 31 opponents, its non-conference slates features five WCWS returnees in 2013 national runner-up Tennessee, Arizona State, Nebraska, Texas and Washington.
In the opening months of the year, Fresno State will face another Super Regional advancer (Oregon), a seventh NCAA Regional Finalist (N.C. State) and four other NCAA tourney qualifiers (Arizona, Houston, San Diego State and San Jose State).
Overall, the `Dogs will play 16 contests against 11 squads that advanced to last year's 64-team NCAA tournament field (not to mention four teams that have combined for 12 national titles in their school histories).
Not only do 23 of the 24 members of the Bulldog roster hail from California, but many proudly call the Central Valley their home.
Two players are from the Fresno area directly - seniors Kapri Angotti (Clovis) and Kim Fisher (Fresno) - and also played their initial collegiate seasons at Fresno City College. Two others' hometowns are less than an hour's drive away - freshman Melissa Gilbert (Merced) and sophomore Bria Kennedy (Hanford) - and two other starters are from the Central Valley, senior Stesha Brazil (Turlock) and junior Brenna Moss (Bakersfield).
Looking northward, seven players matriculated from the Bay Area - freshmen Christina Rodriguez (Livingston), Niki Kaleialii (Oakley), M.J. Jimenez (Newark) and Kierra Willis (Pleasant Hill), sophomores Kiley Shae Aldridge (Lompoc) and Whitney Smith (Auburn) and senior Brooke Ortiz (Lodi).
Ten players hail from the nation's most fertile softball fields (Southern California) - freshmen Alanna Layton (Acton) and Liza Liddell (La Verne),sophomores Jill Compton (Oceano); Hannah Harris (Santa Barbara), Taylor Langdon (Glendora) and Paige Gumz (Chino Hills) and juniors Michelle Solomon (Beaumont), Maria Sio (Lake Forest), Kelly Megee (Riverside) and Taylor Green (Chino Hills).
The team's only non-California resident is senior Vonnie Martin (Plano, Texas) who is only a 22-hour 1,556-mile drive from Fresno.
After a successful season on the field and in the classroom, six Fresno State softball players were named to the 2013 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete team that was released last October.
The group of senior infielder Brooke Ortiz, junior infielder Kelly Megee and catcher/infielder Taylor Green, sophomore pitcher/utility player Hannah Harris and Taylor Langdon and former senior outfielder Diane Runge were selected based on their +3.50 grade point averages for the 2012-13 academic year.
The six-member class tied the largest in Bulldog softball history, and are among 39 Fresno State players that have received similar honors since the 1997-98 school year. Runge and Ortiz are three- and two-time honorees and the 10th and 11th Bulldogs to claim multiple honors. In addition, Runge and Ortiz were CoSIDA Academic All-District First-Team choices in 2013 and `12, respectively.
Last spring, nine `Dogs picked up Academic All-Mountain West honors - Harris, Langdon, Megee, Ortiz, Runge, senior catcher/infielder Stesha Brazil and infielder/outfielder Vonnie Martin, junior center fielder Brenna Moss and sophomore infielder Whitney Smith.
Overall in school history, the softball team has racked up 108 academic all-conference honors since it began WAC play in 1993 and MW action in 2013.
2014 MW Standings
Team MW Record Pct. Overall
san Diego State 0-0 .000 16-7
Fresno State 0-0 .000 12-8
Nevada 0-0 .000 12-9
San Jose State 0-0 .000 11-11
Colorado State 0-0 .000 10-5
Boise State 0-0 .000 10-11
New Mexico 0-0 .000 7-14
Utah State 0-0 .000 5-7
Notable 2014 MW Individual Rankings (NCAA)
Kiley Shae Aldridge - ERA - 1st, 0.51; Opposing Batting - 2nd, .208
Taylor Langdon - Saves - 1st, 4 (1st); Games Finished - 1st, 8; Games in Relief - 2nd, 9
Jill Compton - Wins - 3rd, 7; Starts - 3rd, 11; Opp. Batting - 4th, .220; Strikeouts - 5th, 46; ERA - 5th, 2.35; Strikeouts Looking - 6th, 13; Appearances - 8th, 12; - Shutouts - (28th, 3)
Hannah Harris - Starts - 9th, 7; Fewest Hits Allowed - 10th, 33
Stesha Brazil - RBI - 4th, 22 (57th); Homers - 5th, 4 (129th)
Kierra Willis - Walks - 6th, 13 (91st)
Brenna Moss - Runs - 3rd, 18; Stolen Bases - 3rd, 9 (80th)
Michelle Solomon - Triples - 2nd, 2 (32nd); Hit by Pitch - 3rd, 3
Vonnie Martin - Walks - 3rd, 20 (9th)
Paige Gumz - Sacrifice Flies - (33rd, 4)
Notable 2014 MW Team Rankings (NCAA)
Triples - 2nd, 6 (34th)
Stolen Bases - 3rd, 28 (72nd)
Walks - 5th, 77
Sacrifice Bunts - 5th, 7
Opposing Batting - 1st, .249
Saves - 1st, 4
ERA - 2nd, 2.90 (79th)
Strikeouts - 3rd, 87
Batters Struck Out Looking - 3rd, 26
Fewest Hits Allowed - 3rd, 129
Stolen Bases
2. 54 Brenna Moss, 2013- (1st is 86)
5. 15 Brenna Moss, 2013- (4th is 17)
Home Runs
8. 20 Stesha Brazil, 2012- (7th is 22)
Hitting Streak
8. 14 Vonnie Martin, 2013
7. 4 Taylor Langdon, 2013- (4th is 5)
10. 2 Hannah Harris, 2013- (8th is 3)
Stolen Bases
1. 34 Brenna Moss, 2013 (2nd is 27)
2. 9 Brenna Moss, 2013 (1st is 11)
Sacrifice Hits
14. 19 Maria Sio, 2013 (9th is 20)
1. 4 Taylor Langdon, 2014
9. 2 Harrah Harris, 2013 (4th is 3)
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WHEREAS, it is of primary concern and interest to the City of St. Augustine, Florida, to vigilantly protect and preserve the quality and historical and cultural ambience of the historical sections of the City. Of special importance is the mixed commercial and residential section of the City on St. George Street north of Cathedral Place, extending to Orange Street. This area of St. Augustine is a vital area of the City and serves the community and visitors to St. Augustine as the frontispiece of the story and life of this oldest city in the United States; and
WHEREAS, based on such concerns, the City adopted Ordinance No. 2000-03, Ordinance No. 2000-09 and Ordinance No. 2000-41 prohibiting street performers and sales within the above-referenced section of St. George Street; and
WHEREAS, upon consideration, the City Commission of the City of St. Augustine has determined that the time, place and manner restrictions upon conduct on St. George Street have worked for the purposes intended, and studies of traffic patterns of congestion upon the streets and testimony before the Commission at public hearing has indicated that allowing performers during certain times would not adversely affect the cultural and historical ambience of the City's historic district; and
WHEREAS, the City of St. Augustine therefore finds that in order to preserve the historical character and quality of the Prohibited Public Area, to ensure the safety and utility of this area of the City, and to protect the interests of the property owners and regulated merchants in the Prohibited Public Area, it remains necessary to prohibit the Street Performers from performing on St. George Street from Cathedral Place to Orange Street and for a certain distance on the Public approaches, lanes and streets intersecting with this portion of St. George Street during certain times; and
WHEREAS, occasional, periodic short-term parades will enhance the historical and cultural ambience of the City, and will not adversely affect the safety of pedestrian traffic or the occupants or users of structures on St. George Street if precautions are made to provide for the safety of the general public.
Section 1. Amending Section 22-10. Section 22-10 of the Code of the City of St. Augustine is hereby amended, to read, in its entirety, as follows:
Sec. 22-10. Regulation of street performers.
(a) Intent. The City Commission of the City of St. Augustine finds that the existence in the city of street performers, as hereinafter defined, in the prohibited public area, as hereinafter defined, interferes with the public health, safety, and welfare of the pedestrian traffic, including residents and tourists by, among other things, attracting audiences which congest the prohibited public area. The city finds that the existence of the street performers in the prohibited public area further adversely affects the city's interests in the aesthetics incident to the oldest city in the united states and adversely affects the interest of residents and the regulated, code compliant businesses and museums in the enjoyment of peace and quiet in their homes, businesses and museums. Also, the city finds that the existence of the street performers in the prohibited public area poses a safety risk to the public and passers-by by congestion and clutter in this area of St. Augustine. Therefore, it is the intent of the city to prohibit the street performers from performing in the prohibited public area of the City of St. Augustine but to permit them to have access to reasonable alternative avenues of communication throughout the city.
(b) Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(1) Perform or performance means acting, singing, playing musical instruments, pantomime, mime, magic, dancing, juggling, or the sale of visual art and wares, which means drawings or paintings applied to paper, cardboard, canvas, cloth or to other similar medium when such art is applied to the medium through the use of brush, pastel, crayon, pencil, spray or other similar object, and the creation, display and/or sale of crafts made by hand or otherwise.
(2) Prohibited activity means any activity involving the use of fire, aerosol or spray paint.
(3) Prohibited public area means the pedestrian accessed public areas of St. George Street from Cathedral Place north to Orange Street and within fifty (50) feet of that section of St. George Street on the intersecting public lanes, streets or thoroughfares.
(4) Street performers means individuals who perform, as defined herein, on the streets of the City of St. Augustine.
(5) Other public areas means public streets, rights-of-way, sidewalks, parks, playgrounds, and all public ways except those portions of the streets and roadways intended for use by vehicular traffic within the city.
(c) Prohibition. No street performers may perform in a prohibited public area. No street performer may perform a prohibited activity anywhere in the City of St. Augustine.
(d) Permitted performances. Street performers may perform in all public areas of St. Augustine except that area on St. George Street located between Orange Street to the north and Cathedral Place to the south, and within fifty (50) feet of this section of St. George Street on the intersecting public streets, lanes and thoroughfares.
(e) Exceptions. A street performer shall not perform in a manner that interferes with the visibility of any motorist, or at or near intersections or passages in a manner which interferes with the sight distance of any motorist traveling on or entering any thoroughfare in the city.
(f) Parades. Parades may be held on St. George Street under the following circumstances:
(1) A permit is obtained from the City Manager or such office as designated by the City Manager:
a. The City Manager, or his designee, shall act upon an application for a parade permit within five (5) days after filing thereof and must notify the applicant of the approval or denial of such application during that same period, at the telephone number or address listed on the application.
b. If the application is denied, a written notice stating the reason for denial shall be sent to the applicant by certified mail and made available by the City for inspection within the five (5) day period specified above.
(2) Criteria for issuance of a permit:
a. Application shall be made, on a form approved by the City, no less than seven (7) days and no more than thirty (30) days prior to the scheduled date of the parade.
b. Payment of the permit fee shall accompany the permit application, and the application shall contain the following information:
1. The name, address and telephone number of the person seeking to conduct such parade; and
2. If the parade is proposed to be conducted for, or on behalf of, or by an organization, the name, address and telephone number of the headquarters of the organization and of the authorized and responsible officers of such organization; and
3. The name, address and telephone number of the person who will be responsible for the conduct of the parade; and
4. The proposed date on which the parade is to be conducted; and
5. The proposed route to be traveled, the starting point and the termination point; and
6. The approximate number of persons who will constitute such parade; and
7. The proposed hours when such parade will start and terminate; and
8. The location of any assembly area for such parade.
c. The person applying for a parade permit shall agree in writing to abide by the provisions of this article and shall sign the agreement. If the party applying for the parade permit is an entity rather than an individual, the above signature shall be supplied by a duly authorized representative of such entity.
d. Applicant shall pay a minimum fee of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) Dollars to cover the administrative costs of the City reviewing such permit application and to provide for police officers for traffic control and to provide for the safety of the public. Said fee may be increased if it is determined that, due to the size of the parade, additional police officers are necessary for traffic control or to provide for the safety of the public. The additional cost charged shall be at a rate determined by the City Manager, based upon the salary, benefits and costs to the City for providing officers as necessary to ensure that the safety of the public is maintained during the course of the event and to ensure access for emergency vehicles and to evacuate the public from the area if necessary during the time of the parade. The number of the police officers necessary shall be determined based upon the projected number of participants in the parade and the length and duration of such parade.
e. Any person, group or organization obtaining a permit under this section for a parade or procession shall have the non-exclusive use of St. George Street for not more than sixty (60) minutes. Participants in the parade shall not be allowed to utilize motor vehicles or motorized vehicles except electric wheelchairs as necessary to accommodate ADA requirements, nor shall any participants be allowed to bring animals or pets as part of the parade procession.
f. No person, group or organization shall be permitted to obstruct St. George Street to the extent that it cannot be used for normal pedestrian access.
g. No person, group or organization may apply for more than three (3) permits per calendar year.
h. There shall be a maximum of one (1) parade or procession permit issued per day.
(g) Penalties. Offenses under this section shall be punishable as provided in section 1-8 of this Code."
Section 2. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance is held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, then said holding shall not be so construed as to render invalid or unconstitutional the remaining provisions of this ordinance.
Section 3. Inclusion in Code. It is the intention of the City Commission that the provisions of this ordinance shall become and be made part of the Code of the City of St. Augustine and that the sections of this ordinance may be renumbered or relettered and the word ordinance may be changed to section, article or other such appropriate word or phrase in order to accomplish such intentions.
Section 4. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective ten (10) days after passage pursuant to s. 166.041(4), Florida Statutes.


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Sate writes:
7A7P, oh that's wonderful. The double bass on the Away With Words intro makes me flip out, every time. Are you into Misery Signals at all? Norma Jean also freaking rules, even though I don't really like their new vocalist. Here, this is for you: <3
todayhatesyou writes:
ahh. you rock. you're really hot, PLUS you like the norma. yum
xthisheartneverdiesx writes:
you are *SO* hot!! wee!! 10 for you hunny! <33


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