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OK, here it is…all the amazing traffic at rush hour at 5pm on Father Morresette Blvd! No sound, but gee, where is all the crazy traffic? Thanks to Steve for posting it.
Note: there is a point at which the bike lane goes from being on the right side to being in the middle due to the Aiken St right turn. We could, perhaps, have a rational discussion of whether or not that's confusing, and how to address it. (In Boston, in high-traffic areas, they paint bike lanes green). Otherwise, the bike lanes are seriously the least confusing things I've ever seen. The double line (which allows for opening doors from parked cars and buffer between traffic and bikes) is standard, and honestly, why is this conniption fit even happening? I just don't get it.
Update: On the topic of these bike lanes, a good question was asked on Facebook - since the $70,000 for making the bike lane infrastructure came entirely from federal grants…does that come with strings attached…like, you actually have to keep the damn things or give back the money used for the work??
So in case a Council meeting in which the destruction of brand new bike lanes isn't enough fun for you (and a wonderful waste of taxpayer dollars already expended), there is also an Economic Development subcommittee meeting prior to the meeting, starting at at 5:30pm, where the parking ordinance will be discussed. Remember, this subcommittee is run by Corey Belanger, downtown businessman extraordinaire. Who, of course, believes he knows all the answers to downtown businesses' woes. His latest blame game as to why his dive bar is emptier than he'd like? Those pesky parking fees on downtown street meters. The going "proposal" - I use that term loosely - is to go ahead and advertise the badly-kept secret that meters are not monitored past 4pm on weekdays and not at all on weekends. Just go ahead and make that official.
(As an aside…the thrice-bedamned PoS website is NOT updated with this term's subcommittee membership. #majorwebsitefail)
Back to the subcommittee meeting…this is of course a totally wrongheaded and ill-informed direction for the parking ordinance. Belanger's dive bar, the restaurants, the clothing stores, and the coffee shops…all rely on one really big thing to sustain an influx of paying customers: turnover. Downtown resident and neighborhood group secretary Corey Sciuto explains this a lot better in a letter he sent to the Council some time ago. (Worth a good reread.)
The fact that residents of the downtown know that after 4pm and on weekends there is no enforcement, means that a necessary turnover in parking, and hence of customers, comes to a complete halt in those timeframes. You know why I don't go out to eat downtown at night or on weekends? Because I can't find easy street parking. Why is that? Because downtown residents park and stay there for free, all evening and overnight, and all weekend. There's no place to quickly hop out of the car, pay a small fee at a kiosk, and stay for the 15 minutes to 2 hours I can usually get my business done downtown. Once 5pm hits, a customer which wants to come in to shop or eat is screwed for street parking. Given a choice between the hassle of going on floor #4 of a parking garage blocks away from where I want to be, or going to find another place to eat outside of downtown, I often opt for the second one.
In essence, real experts in the field of economic development and revitalization indicate that we should be doing the exact opposite of what Belanger's proposing, and actually enforce the night and weekend hours on the meters, and even extend it (maybe til 7 or 8pm, when the dinner crowd wants to come in, and on Sundays).
This is a simple concept and yet, despite the fact this is a well-known city planning rule of thumb, and that it's been explained a zillion times, the self-appointed economic development expert just refuses to see it.
Hey look, I get it, you wanna look like you have big ideas. A sweeping vision. Funny how that comes across as entirely self-serving…and less like a vision and more like throwing shit on a wall to see what sticks…but you wanna be seen as the big man in town with lots of new ideas. Problem is, your ideas are going to sink us, real fast. This one, and the rest of the ones you're kicking around.
The real heart of the problem is that the average IQ of this Council is just not that high. Intellectual curiosity? Heavily weighing the opinions of real experts? Thinking things through to their logical conclusion? Nah. The majority of these people will go with their uneducated gut. Real experts be damned.
I swear, this City Council is hell bent on making the City of Lowell look totally ridiculous in the eyes of our sister cities across the Commonwealth. No one can take this Council seriously. It's gonna be a long two years, folks.
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In just eleven days, I'll be leaving all this behind. I'm headed for greener grass. Lush, top-of-the-mountain, top-of-the-world outlook. Morningsong. Nature trails. Weaving looms and smithies. An entire week of someone else preparing my meals. Better: an entire week of talking, constructing, and loving the writing life.
I'm talking about the John C. Campbell Folk School, a place I've been dreaming of for years, and the class I'm teaching, appropriately enough, is called The Habitual Writer. Can't, can't wait.
To those who have already signed up for all the fun and those getting ready to head over now to register: get some rest. Read a really great book. Get ready to climb up that mountain, step into a culture of artists of a variety of crafts and callings, and write, write, write. I'll see you there!


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SANTA YNEZ, CA (August 15, 2014) - Gary Shaw Productions presented another great edition ofESPN "Friday Night Fights" at the Chumash Resort Casino in Santa Ynez, Calif.
In the main-event, Lightweight contender Rustam Nugaev's (27-7-1, 17 KOs) five fight knockout streak was halted by a very determined Denis Shafikov (34-1-1, 18 KOs), who put on a stellar performance winning by TKO at the 1:16 mark of round 9. With the victory, Shafikov becomes the mandatory challenger to fight IBF Lightweight Champion Miguel Vasquez, whom he just lost a close unanimous decision to in his last fight.
"Tonight Shafikov was the better man," said Nugaev. "I couldn't get into a good rhythm with my game plane and it showed. I still feel I have a lot of fight left in me and I promise I'll be back to fight another day. I want to thank Gary Shaw for all that he's done for me. I'm very disappointed I didn't perform to my best ability tonight, but like I said...I'll be back."
In the co-main event, Puerto Rico's shining star and IBO Super-Featherweight champion, Jose "Sniper" Pedraza (18-0, 12 KOs), looked sensational as he defeated the rough and rugged Juan Carlos Martinez (20-15-1, 7 KOs) by way of knockout when Martinez quit on his stool after the sixth round. The win gets Pedraza one step closer to a world title opportunity as he is currently rankedWBA #4, IBF #7 and WBC #7.
"I knew Martinez was a very tough fighter coming in, but I wanted to make a statement and let the boxing world know that I'm for real," said Pedraza. "I feel I'm ready to fight any of the champions in my weight class. I'm going to let my promoter Gary Shaw put everything together. I know I have the talent to bring a world title back home to my people of Puerto Rico. I'll be back in the gym as soon as I return home."
Undercard Results
Francisco Santana defeated Luis Alfredo Lugo (5th round TKO)
Khabir Suleymanov defeated Rufino Serrano (Majority Decision)
Edwin Sandoval defeated Lyonell Kelly (Unanimous Decision)
Makani Sarellano defeated Andrew Tinae (4th round KO)
Carlos Samuel Lopez defeated Azamat Umarzada (Unanimous Decision)
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Verizon to launch the Galaxy Nexus only at the end of the month?
Google and Samsung have certainly done a fine job with the Galaxy Nexus – the very first device to come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – and that's why lots of people are eager to try it (and buy it).
While in Europe the new Galaxy will be released on November 17, we still don't have official word on the handset's launch date for the US market, where Verizon is supposed to introduce it first.
According to a previous rumor, Verizon's Galaxy Nexus could be out on November 10. However, a newly leaked document – seen below – suggests that this will actually not happen before Black Friday (November 25).
Of course, there's no way to confirm this at the moment, but Verizon and Samsung should shed some light on this soon. In any case, let's hope the Galaxy Nexus won't be delayed or anything like that.
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Marina Riviera Nayarit is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Taste Of La Cruz event to be held Saturday, January 12, 2013 at the Malecon and Xiriki Amphitheater of the marina, 4-7 pm. This year's much anticipated event will benefit The Junior Sailing Program of the La Cruz Yacht Club and PEACE's Action For Food program in La Cruz.
The 2013 Taste Of La Cruz will feature a unique blend of businesses, services, restaurants and musicians from throughout Banderas Bay and Riviera Nayarit. Event organizers are encouraging these entrepreneurs and restaurants to sign on for the mid-January event as quickly as possible to ensure a space on the Malecon. Taste Of La Cruz offers a unique opportunity to promote commerce to an excited, captive audience.
The event is being supported and promoted by the state of Nayarit's Tourism Department, the CVB (Convention & Visitor's Bureau) and Riviera Nayarit with a news conference, promotional displays throughout Riviera Nayarit and film crews at the event. Based on the success of Taste of La Cruz in 2012 and the additional support from the state of Nayarit this year, attendance is expected to exceed 2,000 visitors from throughout Banderas Bay / Riviera Nayarit as well as Tepic, Guadalajara, Mexico City, and Leon/Guanajuato.
Last year's first-ever event was a phenomenal success, attracting 1,200 visitors to La Cruz de Huanacaxtle and the Marina Riviera Nayarit. Exhibitors praised expo/fair in providing an exciting and vibrant opportunity for the promotion of their businesses. Visitors were likewise thrilled with the festival atmosphere, delicious food and drink and the variety of intriguing businesses and entrepreneurs in such an impressive setting.
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On Saturday, R&B songstress Mya took over the stage for an exclusive performance at HAZE Nightclub while DJ Pauly D manned the turntable deck.
Shortly before the superstar singer arrived, DJ Pauly D got the party started in the booth for his monthly "Turnt Up" residency at the Sin City hot spot. He spun a mash up of dance favorites and club bangers that kept party-goers on the dance floor.
Soon after Mya finally got on the mic and sung "Happy Birthday" to a special VIP guest. Dressed in burlesque attire Mya along with two HAZE go-go dancers put on a show stopping performance that enticed partygoers.The beautiful and talented singer sung a melody of her hits including "Case of The Ex," "Ghetto Superstar" and "Best of Me," as well as "Earthquake" from her 2011 album K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple). After her set, Mya took photos with fans and enjoyed the rest of the night taking in the club scene with her entourage.
HAZE Nightclub is a one-of-a-kind nightlife creation. The over-sized, multi-level nightclub features suede walls and plush interior, an expansive main dance floor, full-color laser shows and the latest in sound technology, making the nightclub an extraordinary experience.
HAZE Nightclub is located at Aria and is open Thursday - Saturday from 10:30 p.m.-4 a.m. For more information, call 702-693-8300 or visit www.hazelasvegas.com.
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People will think you really fuss when you present these crisp, flaky pinwheels....but they're easy to do. And, the filling is bursting with savory goodness and a touch of sweetness.—Marcia Kintz, South Bend, Indiana
- 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 cup finely chopped fresh spinach
- 1/2 cup finely chopped Brie cheese
- 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries, finely chopped
- Unfold pastry. Combine mustard and honey; spread over pastry. Layer with spinach, cheese, walnuts and cranberries. Roll up jelly-roll style; cut into 12 slices. Place cut side down on an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
Freeze option: Freeze cooled appetizers in a resealable plastic freezer bag. To use, reheat appetizers on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet in a preheated 400° oven until crisp and heated through. Yield: 1 dozen.
Originally published as Cranberry Brie Pinwheels in Taste of Home Christmas Annual Annual 2011, p8
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"Yum! I didn't use honey or spinach in the filling, just dijon mustard, cranberries and brie. They are so good."
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"Easy to make and look really nice for the holidays."
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"Kept the dough moist with a sheet of Saranwrap over the dough until I was ready. Worked great."


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One of the best ways to experience a culture while travelling is to try authentic local cuisine. Barbadian food incorporates a mix of English and African ingredients, and uses many of its locally grown produce and spices. Barbados is also home to the yellow fin tuna, snapper, and mahi mahi fish; however, it is most popularly known as "The Land of the Flying Fish" because flying fish is the most commonly used type of fish in dishes. Barbados is the culinary capital of the Caribbean. Here are some Barbadian staples that you can't leave without trying:
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$10 [Meant to bid $260 -- Ed.]Posted by reallygone at June 1, 2006 07:55 AM
Err Starting bid is $250.
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I bid $US 250.00 + (not part of the bid) $50 US to Soldier's Angels in Your Name.. Cool Pic :)
I'll up the bid to $300. No extra though because I've already given to Soldier's Angels this year ... does that count?Posted by David Gilson at June 1, 2006 12:06 PM
Should .. My donation was seperate :)Posted by LarryConley at June 1, 2006 12:39 PM
That being Said $US 325.00Posted by LarryConley at June 1, 2006 12:43 PM
Thank you, Larry. We're honored that you'd donate in our name. By the way, here's their Web site: Soldier's Angels
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You've read about this being the worst spring for allergies ever. But better news: the worst is over. Spring pollens were terrible, peaked, and now they're back to normal. Of course, that may mean that some of you are still sneezing.
The good news comes from Rick DiMaio, who does savvy weather & gardening reports at Ch2 and Mike Nowak's Garden Show at Chicago Progressive Talk Radio. Rick will tell you what others may leave out, so I asked him to interpret the data.
The Bad: March's pollen counts were off the charts. The sudden onset of warm weather created an explosion of plant life, followed by soaring pollen counts.
The Good: We had a reprieve. High winds and cooler temperatures have lowered the counts. Tree and weed readings are still high, grass is moderate and mold counts are actually low.
Of course, none of that counts if you happen to be allergic to whatever is blooming right now. Flowering trees are still in bloom, and cottonwood is yet to blossom. We're farther along on the annual cycle, but everything that blooms will still come around, and your allergies will come with it.
So now that we have a moment's breathing space (pun intended), let's look at ways to help your allergies this year.
- Decrease stress. An allergy is an overreaction by the immune response. If your immune system is stressed, it's more apt to overreact. Just like you're more likely to catch cold if you've run yourself down, you're more likely to have a worse reaction if your immune system is overtaxed.
- Catch some ZZZZs. Nothing like lack of sleep to increase stress and tax your systems. A little extra rest will help your body adjust.
- Acupuncture or NMT. Acupuncture helps open up the nasal passages quickly, and also helps remove stress. NMT corrects errors in the immune system itself to get to the root of the problem.
Allergy season isn't over yet, so I'll keep updating allergy reports from Rick DiMaio, and adding more tips. Meanwhile, enjoy the spring!


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Kenya Moore is one of the most outspoken members of the crew of Bravo's "Real Housewives of Atlanta," but she is not one of the highest paid as rumors have stated. As of Feb. 21, 2014, Kenya Moore, the former Miss USA winner and Miss Universe participant has an overall celebrity net worth of $300,000.
- Net worth: $300,000
- Annual salary: ??? per season
In 1993, Moore won the Miss Michigan USA pageant in 1993 and went on to win Miss USA. From there, she went on to place in the top six of the Miss Universe pageant.
The confusion about her salary came from when reports started being released about which cast members were coming back for the next season of "Real Housewives of Atlanta." Some reports said that she was going to be right behind NeNe Leakes in salary and paid $600,000 per season.
When that rumor started floating around, Bravo big-man Andy Cohen let it be known that was far from true. He wouldn't reveal what her actual salary was, but he said that no article has ever been correct about the salaries of Bravo stars.
Kenya Moore's celebrity net worth has gone up due to her acting work on television shows and in some movies as well. She has also been directing, producing, and much more with her company, Moore Vision Media.
Fans of the show also know about her workout DVD called "Kenya Moore Booty Camp."
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TUCSON ? With the 2007 season in the past, the University of Arizona gymnastics program has begun preparations for a run at the 2008 NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. With coaches hitting the recruiting trail hard, the UA gymnasts are working hard as well, whether it's in the classroom for summer school or in the gym partaking in voluntary off-season training. But perhaps the significant off-season development for the UA gymnastics program is the on-going renovations to the Mary Roby Gymnastics Training Center, which began last month.

The Mary Roby Gymnastics Training Center has been home to UA gymnastics practices for the past 13 seasons, after construction on the facility completed in the fall of 1994. For over a decade, it has been one of the finest training facilities in the country, but because of the advancement of skills and year-round training in the sport, the facility is ready to undergo a much deserved face-lift.

"This is a very exciting time for our program," head coach Bill Ryden says. "This will be one of the finest gymnastics facilities in the country. I am very appreciative of the fact that our university is going forward with this project. It means a great deal to me and our program"

As part of Campaign Arizona Phase II, a $20 million project which targets renovations and constructions of several athletic facilities on campus, the gymnastics training facility will be expanded to approximately 10,000 square feet. Every training station in the facility will be upgraded from its previous state. The added space will allow for a lengthened vault runway, additional bars and beam stations, and more pits. Additionally, the locker room and taping room inside the facility will be remodeled.

"We are a teaching program here at Arizona, which I think distinguishes us from many other programs around the country," Ryden explained. "We teach very difficult skills here and develop our athletes so that they get better throughout their collegiate careers."

"The renovations to our training facility will allow us as coaches to teach to the best of our abilities," Ryden added. "The facility will be very ergonomic for quality coaching. We will be able to teach every progression for high level skills. It will be very beneficial for our athletes."

The renovations are expected to be competed by Dec. 1, 2007. For the time being, the gymnasts are utilizing the local gym which is home to Tumbleweeds Gymnastics. The team hopes to continue to use the facility once official practice begins in the fall, before moving back to their home on campus upon completion of their facility.

The facility is located directly east ? a 30-second walk ? from the McKale Memorial Center, home to UA gymnastics meets as well as the offices for coaches, locker rooms for student-athletes, and athletic department administration and personnel.

The expansion is the latest in several improvements to facilities utilized by the gymnastics program in the last decade, the most significant being the opening of the Eddie Lynch Athletics Pavilion on the north end of McKale for the 2002-2003 academic year. Included was the 19,000 square foot, state of the art Bill Estes Jr. Family Strength and Conditioning Center, which provides gymnasts and all athletes the opportunity to maximize their athletic potential. In addition, the Michael Kasser Family Medical Treatment Center was built, totaling 5,300 usable square feet, and includes an underwater treadmill, X-Ray examination room, as well as other rooms and equipment designed to prevent and treat injuries.

In the summer and fall of 2002, the entire women's locker room complex received a complete overhaul. A project that amounted to approximately $1.3 million, the renovation added 7,500 square feet to the existing women's locker room area. With the addition, each sport program now has its own separate locker area, while softball, women's basketball, volleyball and track and field each have their own private lounge and shower areas. There are two shared lounge spaces, one with a big-screen television and new furniture and the other set up to serve as a study area.


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Just as attractiveness can help job-hunting applicants beat out the competition, looks can also hurt (case in point, Sherry Alfano). Studies from the '70s and '80s found that a woman's appeal decreased her popularity in the job market: Attractive women were disadvantaged in evaluations for managerial positions. Unattractive female participants gave significantly negative ratings for the attractive women they evaluated, perhaps out of jealousy. And attractive women's ratings for corporate success were severely affected by their good looks. A 2010 study by the University of Colorado Denver Business School agreed, finding that women face discrimination when they apply for jobs where appearance is not important or if the job is deemed "masculine."
Newsweek's report found that this negativity has prevailed into the 21st century. More Americans today reported that attractive women are at a disadvantage in the job market, with 12 and 9 percent, respectively, as compared to the respective 5 and 4 percentages in 1990. And 10 percent of the polled public said that they know someone who has been held back professionally because of their good looks.
Debrahlee Lorenzana, the former Citibank employee fired in 2009 for allegedly being "too attractive," as her lawsuit charges, can sympathize. On June 28, 2010, Lorenzana filed a gender discrimination complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights.
"Citibank unquestionably treated me differently from the male business bankers in my branch," asserts her complaint, "claiming that I could not wear normal business attire because I was 'too attractive' and refusing fundamentally to support me in the most basic ways for me to do my job, while at the same time supporting the male business bankers in full and never criticizing their attire."
Since her story made headlines in June, the infectious buzz around Lorenzana has circled the cyber world and office space chatter. Recounting the progression of her mistreatment, Lorenzana alleges that she was ultimately fired, not because she was unable to meet quotas, but because the company set her up for failure.
Her attorney, Gloria Allred—known for taking on high-profile and oftentimes controversial cases (she represented Nicole Brown Simpson's family during the O.J. Simpson murder trial and currently represents alleged Tiger Woods mistresses Rachel Uchitel and porn star Joslyn James)—is pulling no punches fighting back.
"Citibank attempts to crush her after she complained of their sexist treatment will not be tolerated," she declared in a written statement. "We allege that this termination was pretextual, retaliatory and unlawful. Every employee has the right to file a complaint of gender discrimination with their employer, without being punished by retaliatory conduct for having protested the gender discrimination."
Alfano, too, has encountered this retaliatory discrimination, according to her complaint. Before working at the Starbucks in Great Neck, Alfano was a barista at the coffee chain's Merrick Road location. But after the store's manager failed to reprimand a co-worker for making racist and sexual comments toward coworkers and physical threats toward Alfano, she contacted Starbucks' national complaint center. Again, the center referred Alfano's gripes to Partner Resources, and a month later, she was placed at the Northern Boulevard location, it reads.
But when she arrived, the district manager informed Alfano that he would never promote her because of her complaints, charges her lawsuit. And her store supervisors were of no help, either.
"'You've been transferred from one store because things had happened,'" Alfano recalls one of her supervisors saying. "'They're going to start to think something's wrong with you. You want to get promoted to supervisor, you have to learn to deal with the problem and let it roll off your back. He [Keith] doesn't mean anything by it; he's harmless. That's just how he is.'"
With no one listening to her pleas, Alfano says, she felt powerless.
"[As] a barista, I felt like I was always trying to stay on top and not drown and suffocate because I had these supervisors that were also my friends, or pretending to be my friends, that were telling me if I want to get promoted," she says, "I have to learn to let things roll off my back, I'm too serious, I'm, you know, not going to get far if I keep complaining to everyone, they're not going to take me seriously."
This is simply unacceptable, and the explanation which Alfano says she got—that she was to blame because she's "'too sexy'"—is exemplary of the continued discrimination against women still existing in the workforce today, explains NOW's Pappas.
"This is 2010, and one would think that employers and employees would never think that sexual harassment is appropriate no matter how they perceive the beauty of that person who is being harassed," she says. "That comment of her employer certainly shows the ignorance that still permeates our society on the issue of harassment and women in the work place.
"It's everywhere, it's not just Long Island," adds Pappas.
In fact, one of the main reasons she went through with her motion, Alfano tells the Press, was to expose what is going on and prevent it from happening to other women—at her former Starbucks and across the country.
"I'm sure there are lots of [Keiths] out there," she says.
With Alfano's good looks and Lorenzana's curves working against them in the workplace, Newsweek's study results may provide an answer as to why.
"Our survey results found that recruiters believe women will get ahead by showing off their figures at work, yet at the same time, they can be punished for being too good-looking—viewed as less intelligent or vain," Newsweek's Bennett tells the Press. "So how do you strike a happy medium? It's not easy. And where it often leaves us is obsessing about our appearance when we should be thinking about the bottom line."


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On April 28, 1988 the Baltimore Orioles lost 4-2 to the Minnesota Twins and Mike Boddicker's record dropped to 0-5. In the grand scheme of things this that isn't such a big deal until you realize that the Orioles record fell to 0-21 on the season, the worst beginning to a Major League Baseball season in history.
The once proud Orioles franchise was now just a shell of it's former self. Cal Ripken Jr. and Eddie Murray were still around but little else was left in the cupboard. The offense averaged just 3.42 runs a game for the season and during the losing streak it was just 2.09 runs per game. In ten of those games the team scored zero or one runs ten times.
On the other side of the ball the team wasn't any better. During the streak the opposition averaged 6.11 runs scored. That did at least improve to 4.90 runs over the full season.
Cal Ripken Sr. started the year as manager and was dismissed after just six games. Hall of Famer Frank Robinson was brought in and things didn't get any better. The Orioles finished in the cellar of the then seven team American League East, 34 1/2 games behind the Boston Red Sox.
Ripken Jr. led the team with just 84 runs batted in. Dave Schmidt and Jeff Ballard led the pitching staff with eight wins apiece. In the end the Orioles wound up one of the worst teams in baseball history.


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- Paid no corporation tax
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- Revenues rose by £1.8million
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- Increased bills by inflation-busing 6.7%
- Chief Executive Martin Baggs will receive pay rise to £450,000 plus a £274,000 bonus
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Thames Water, the UK's biggest, which supplies homes in Wiltshire, paid no corporation tax and received a £5million credit from the Treasury, in the same year that its revenues rose by £1.8million.
It made £549million in underlying pre-tax profits, at the same time raising bills by 6.7%.
The figures come in the wake of criticism by Jonson Cox, chairman of regulator Ofwat, that the high profits and tax-reducing corporate structures of some water companies were 'morally questionable'.
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In testimony provided to members of the European Parliament on Friday, exiled former NSA contractor Edward Snowden said that he had many more details to divulge regarding the spy agency's global surveillance network.
However, he said, he would allow the journalists whom he has been working through to decide what details they want to release.
"There are many other undisclosed programs that would impact EU citizens' rights, but I will leave the public interest determinations as to which of these may be safely disclosed to responsible journalists in coordination with government stakeholders," he said.
Snowden, a one-time contracted intelligence analyst for the NSA, downloaded a trove of top secret documents and other materials that have laid bare U.S. spying capabilities, as well as those of nations allied with Washington. Critics have said the released details thus far have done incalculable damage to U.S. and European security.
"I don't want to outpace the efforts of journalists, here, but I can confirm that all documents reported thus far are authentic and unmodified, meaning the alleged operations against Belgacom, SWIFT, the EU as an institution, the United Nations, UNICEF, and others based on documents I provided have actually occurred," he said. "I expect similar operations will be revealed in the future that affect many more ordinary citizens."
In August 2013, and against President Obama's wishes, Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia by President Vladimir Putin. That came two months after the initial press reports that began detailing the scope and scale of U.S. spying.
Snowden, in his testimony, said the reason why the U.S. missed warning signs regarding the so-called "underwear bomber" was because the NSA and other spy agencies were focused elsewhere.
"Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 'Underwear Bomber,' was allowed to board an airplane traveling from Europe to the United States in 2009. The 290 persons on board were not saved by mass surveillance, but by his own incompetence, when he failed to detonate the device," Snowden testified. "While even Mutallab's own father warned the U.S. government he was dangerous in November 2009, our resources were tied up monitoring online games and tapping German ministers. That extraordinary tip-off didn't get Mutallab a dedicated U.S. investigator. All we gave him was a U.S. visa."
He continued: "Nor did the U.S. government's comprehensive monitoring of Americans at home stop the Boston Bombers. Despite the Russians specifically warning us about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the FBI couldn't do more than a cursory investigation – although they did plenty of worthless computer-based searching – and failed to discover the plot [in which] 264 people were injured, and 3 died. The resources that could have paid for a real investigation had been spent on monitoring the call records of everyone in America."


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In conversation with brad mehldau (part 2)
Below is part two of Ted Panken's extensive interview with Brad Mehldau. For part one, click here. Also check out jazz.com's Dozens feature on twelve essential Brad Mehldu tracks, and the essay "Assessing Brad Mehldau at Mid-Career."
by Ted Panken
Another influence that filtered into the sound of your early trio was classical music, which seems as much a part of your tonal personality as the jazz influences. Were you playing classical music before jazz?
Yes. I started playing classical music as a kid, but I wasn't getting the profundity of a lot of what I was playing. I didn't like Bach, and I liked flashy Chopin stuff. I did already have an affinity for Brahms, though; he became sort of a mainstay. Then jazz took over.
Fast forward. I was around 22, maybe four years in New York, and for whatever reason, I started rediscovering classical music with deep pleasure. What I did, what I'm still doing now, as I did with jazz for a long time—I absorbed-absorbed-absorbed. I went on a buying frenzy to absorb a lot of music. A lot of chamber music...
Records or scores?
Records and scores. A lot of records. A lot of listening. A lot of going to concerts here in New York. I guess it rubbed off a little. For one thing, it got me focusing more on my left hand. Around that time, I had been playing in a certain style of jazz, where your left hand accompanies the right hand playing melodies when you're soloing. That's great, but I had lost some of the facility in my left hand to the point where I was thinking, "Wow, I probably had more dexterity in my left hand when I was 12 than I do now." So it was sort of an ego or vanity thing that bugged me a little, and it got me into playing some of this classical literature where the left hand is more proactive.
Were you composing music in the early '90s? After your first record, most of your dates feature original music. Around when did that start to become important to you? Was it an inner necessity? Did it have anything to do with having a record contract and having to find material to put on the records?
I've never actually thought of when I began writing tunes until you asked the question. I guess there were a few sporadic tunes from the time I arrived in New York until 1993, or 1994 even. I guess I was comparatively late as a writer in that I was an improviser and a player and a sideman before I was trying to write jazz tunes. Two of my early originals appeared appeared on my first trio record with Jorge Rossy and his brother, Mario Rossy. On my next record, when I got signed to Warner Brothers, Introducing Brad Mehldau, there were a few more.
A lot of your titles at the time reflect a certain amount of Germanophilia.
At the time, for sure.
You wrote liner notes that referenced 19th century German philosophy, but applied the ideas to the moment in interesting ways. Can you speak to how this aesthetic inflected your notions of music and your own sense of mission?
What I was trying to do was bridge the gap between everything I loved musically, and there was this disparity for me between Brahms in 1865 and Wynton Kelly in 1958—all these things I loved. Looking back, at that age, I was very concerned with creating an identity that would somehow, if it was at all possible, mesh together this more European, particularly Germanic Romantic 19th Century sensibility (in some ways) with jazz, which is a more American, 20th century thing (in some ways).
One connection that still remains between them is the song—the art songs of Schubert or Schumann, these miniature, perfect 3- or 4-minute creations. To me, there is a real corollary between them and a great jazz performance that can tell a story—Lester Young or Billie Holiday telling a story in a beautiful song. Also pop. Really nice Beatles tunes. All those song-oriented things are miniature, and inhabit a small portion of your life. You don't have to commit an hour-and-a-half to get through it. But really good songs leave you with a feeling of possibility and endlessness.
Not too long after your first record for Warner Brothers in 1995, which featured both your working trio and a trio with Christian McBride and Brian Blade, you began to break through to an international audience. You had a nice reputation in New York, but then overnight to receive this acclaim, where people pasted different attitudes onto what you were doing, whether it was relevant to your thoughts or not. . . . Trying to develop your music and stay focused while your career is burgeoning in this way could have been a complicated proposition. Was it? Or were you somewhat blinkered?
It was complicated. I think I was sort of in the moment, so I don't know if I viewed it as such, but retrospectively, if you're addressing the attention factor from other people, I developed a sense of self-importance that maybe didn't have a really good self-check mechanism in it. If I could go back and do it all over again, some of the liner notes would be maybe a little shorter! Not completely gone...
You did write long liner notes.
Long liner notes. And I still do.
Using the language of German philosophy.
I still do, so I shouldn't even say it. But I suffered a bit from a lack of self-irony (for lack of a better word). I think I've pretty much grown out of it now—an old geezer at 36.
People became accustomed to the sound of the first trio with Larry Grenadier and Jorge Rossy, and when you formed the new one, as an editor put it to me at the time, his friends in Europe were saying that they were afraid that now you wouldn't play as well, that the things that made you interesting would be subsumed by a more groove-oriented approach, or something like that. Speak a bit to the way the trio evolved into the one you currently use.
What you're alluding to is certainly true. A lot of people approached me directly and said, "What are you doing, changing this thing you have that's so special?" That was interesting. One way I can mark the progression is that at first Larry and Jorge and I had a lot more to say to each other about the music. As I mentioned, Jorge and I would have these sessions, and work specific things like playing in odd meters. All three of us would talk about whether or not something was working on a given night, what it was about, what we could do to make it better. Over the years, as it became easier to play together intuitively, we reached a point where we had less and less to say. It was either working or it wasn't. I don't want to say that we were resting on our laurels, but there was a slight sense that almost it was too easy. That even was Jorge's phrase. I think he was feeling that as a drummer, personally—just as a drummer, independent of playing with us—and wanted a new challenge playing a different instrument.
Then I heard Jeff Ballard in the trio Fly [editor's note: with Mark Turner and Larry Grenadier], and felt a sense of possibility in the way Larry was playing with him. Larry plays differently with different drummers—he plays one way with, say Bill Stewart, and a different way with Jorge and me. In Fly, he plays in a way I'd describe as more organic and intuitive, and it surprised me. I almost felt sort of a jealousy. I thought, "Wow, I never heard Larry play like this, and I'm playing with him all the time." It made me almost want to grab Jeff!
What was it about what he was doing? Was it a more groove-oriented approach?
I would say yes. A certain groove, and also, though it may sound strange, my trio has become more precise since Jeff joined. The way Jeff and Larry state the rhythm is very open-ended, but precise in the sense that I can play more precise rhythmic phrases, which adds a bit more detail to the whole canvas. You can see the details more clearly, let's say. Jorge was always very giving; he usually followed my lead in terms of how I'd build the shape of a tune. One thing that Jeff does that's different, which is sort of a classic drummer move (if you think of Tony Williams or Elvin or someone like that), is putting something unexpected in the music at a certain point. Say we're on the road, we've been playing one of my originals or arrangements for a month, and we do a big concert somewhere in front of two thousand people—and he starts playing a completely different groove. At first, I had to get used to that—if I don't change what I'm doing, it won't make sense. So I have to find something new. Then we're actually improvising again, developing a new form or canvas for the tune.
Talk about the balance between intuition and preparation, how it plays out on the bandstand.
I don't write really difficult road maps, as they call it. Maybe some of my stuff is a little hard, but most of it is not too difficult where you're going to have your face in the music. I like that, because then you start forgetting about the music, and it becomes more intuitive, which hopefully is the ideal. That's how it feels with the three of us. A lot of times with a band, you start playing a tune, an arrangement or your own original. You find certain things that work formally within the entire shape of the tune, places along the way, roughly, where you build to a climax, or a certain thing that one of you gives to the other person, like a diving board that you spring from to go somewhere else formally. In that sense, the process becomes less improvised, because you get this structure that works, and it helps you generate excitement and interest.
A few years ago, maybe around 1999-2000, you began to look for new canvases by incorporating contemporary pop music into your repertoire, and on Day Is Done it comprises the preponderance of the recital.
That development coincided with your move to Los Angeles and associating with the producer Jon Brian, who it seems showed you creative ways to deal with pop aesthetics.
Mmm-hmm. What I loved about him when I first heard him at this Los Angeles club, Largo, was that I felt like I was going to see a really creative jazz musician—in a sense even more brazen than a lot of jazz musicians. Really completely improvising his material, the material itself, taking songs that maybe he had never played from requests from the audience, and then developing a completely unorthodox, strange arrangement in the heat of the moment, right there, for those kinds of songs, which were more contemporary Pop songs. Also Cole Porter and whatever. All over the map. Completely not constrained by anything stylistically. That was definitely an inspiration for me at that point.
As somone who's played a good chunk of the Songbook and as a one-time jazz snob, can you discern any generalities about the newer pop music of that time vis-a-vis older forms? You've said that you see the limitations of a form as a way of finding freedom, rather than the other way around.
Right. For me personally, not a judgment on other stuff. I need to have some sort of frame. I need to have a narrative flow. That's what makes it cool for me, if I'm taking a solo or whatever. With more contemporary pop tunes, pop tunes past the sort of golden era that some people call the American Songbook, all of a sudden there are no rules any more. That's the main thing. With people like Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell, you can often hear similar structures, with verse, chorus, that kind of stuff. But in a lot of pop music and rock-and-roll, it's not that the forms are complicated, they aren't at all, but there is not a fixed orthodoxy. In the songs of Cole Porter songs and Rodgers and Hammerstein and or Jerome Kern, there's a verse and then the song itself, which is often in an AABA form, something within the bridge, and then that something again with the coda. These forms often keep you thinking in a certain way about what you're going to do when you're blowing on the music. When you get out of that, it becomes sort of a wide-open book, with often the possibility for a lack of form to take place. I try to take some of these more contemporary songs and somehow impose my own form on them in the improvisation. That's the challenge. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Given that you've been a leader and highly visible for more than a decade, it seems to me you've tried hard to sustain relationships with the people you came up with and to keep yourself in the fray, as it were—being a sideman on Criss-Cross dates and so on. Is it important for you to do that?
Someone like Keith Jarrett comes to mind as someone who is really in his own realm, who hasn't been a sideman. But I value the experience of connecting with other musicians who are outside of my band, and not being a leader. Not to sound self-righteous or whatever, but it does teach a certain humility when you go into a record date and you have to submit your own ego, to a certain extent, to someone else's music, and go with the musical decisions they want to make. The challenge is to negotiate a balance between your own identity, which the person who called wants to hear, and the identity of their music, what they've written. To try to do justice to that is always fun and exciting, and I like that challenge.
June 07, 2008 · 2 comments
// Jun 08, 2008 at 07:19 PM
I really dig all the interviews i've read on the sight! another great interview! thanks!
// Jun 17, 2008 at 11:26 AM
BM's thoughts on the difference between the trio with Rossy and the trio with Ballard was interesting and enlightening. Thanks.


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STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford sophomore Inky Ajanakuis touring China with the Pac-12 all-star team. In the final edition of her blog, Inky's Chinese Adventure, she talks about the team's trip to Beijing and the Great Wall.
Hey Stanford fans!
This is my final blog from China, featuring our last destination before we head home! The first day we got to Beijing, we were so tired from our log day of traveling but we had to gear up for one of our few full practices. Although we were tired we could not give up a chance to work on our team chemistry.
Before practice, we checked into our new hotel in Beijing, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the jump from the four star hotel in Huaian City (which had rock hard beds and mold growing out of the shower walls) to the five star hotel in Beijing was substantial.
The next day, after sleeping in what felt like clouds compared to the beds in Huaian City, we had a serve and pass and then were then taken to the silk market for a couple hours of shopping before our first game. The "silk" market is actually Beijing's biggest black market. With most of us being bargaining virgins, we were all pretty nervous about trying to get good deals on our first day. My plan was to stick with the only bargaining veteran on the team, Lauren Plum. On the bus ride over there, she seemed to have it all figured out. She had finalized a target list, brought an extra shopping bag, and while telling everyone the estimated amount they should pay for Beats, she gave the team a little pre-shopping pep talk.
Although I thought the extent of my bargaining would be me just following Plum around and demanding the same price, I ended up to be a natural. After about 20 minutes I ventured off on my own and was even getting some things for an even lower price than our veteran. By the end of the first day I came out with about eight pairs of headphones, three watchers, six pairs of sunglasses, two wallets and plenty more. When we all got back on the bus to take us back to the hotel, the bus conversation transformed into a show and tell. Each person would hold up what they got and tell how much they paid for it, as the rest of the team listened to see who got the best deal. By the time we got back to the hotel the general consensus was that we needed to go back to the silk market tomorrow and, this time, we would all be buying and extra suitcase.
When we got to the hotel, I couldn't help but post a picture of all the things I got at the market. Little did I know, posting that picture set me up to get multiple texts from new and old friends with their orders. Quickly my list of a few forgotten items from the first day ended up to be longer than my original list. It wasn't until I went for the third day in a row that I thought I might run into a little trouble at customs. The final count of my silk market purchases: 22 pairs of Beats by Dr.Dre (headphones), six Nike frees, two pairs of vans, two pairs of toms, three speakers, three watches, six wallets, 12 pairs of sunglasses, three necklaces, a computer charger, three phone chargers and a new suitcase.
I'm pretty sure I taught myself my own lesson on American consumerism. Although the silk market was cool, arguing with less than five foot tall shop owners for a couple hours each was not going to cut it as our cultural event for the trip. I was really excited when I heard that we were going to The Great Wall, The Forbidden City, and Tiananmen Square all on our last day. As we got on the bus at 7 a.m., I was really stoked about getting to walk on The Great Wall. A two hour bus ride and 45 flights of stairs later, my excitement was replaced with exhaustion. Climbing those stairs was literally one of the most exhausting activities that I had done the entire trip (games included). Besides the fact that it was like 1000% humidity, the stairs were so steep that my usual game plan of striding them out only seemed to exhaust me further.
After walking as far as we could, we made our way to tower 6 where we could take a louge down the mountain. The carts and the louge looked a little sketchy, but it was still a far better alternative than walking down the 45 flights of stairs. With virtually no speed limit, I felt like I was flying down the mountain. After the Great Wall, we headed back to Beijing visit The Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. As I was mesmerized by the ancient architecture and vivid colors, the Chinese people seemed to be more interested in our team. I imagine that our crew of 6-0 plus players was a nice little side attraction to many of the Chinese tourists.
By the time we left for dinner it seemed like I had posed for more pictures than I had taken myself. Our last meal in Beijing was at a very nice restaurant where their specialty was roast duck. I have had duck before and I had been a pretty adventurous eater on the trip so far, so I wasn't too worried. The duck was pretty good and I had found other foods on the table that I enjoyed. I was in the clear until they placed the duck head, chopped in half, on the table. Right then I had a flash back to the meeting I had with Coach Dunning right before I left. The one thing he told me to try was the duck brain. And since I always follow the rules... I had to try it. So I picked the brain up and shoved it into my mouth. While my entire team waited to see how long it would take me to blow chunks, I tried so hard to pretend like it was good, so I could trick someone else into eating it. It was actually revolting. I lost the poker face about five bites in. With my appetite pretty much gone for the remainder of my life, I got back to the hotel more ready than ever to get back to America!
I can't wait to get home and enjoy the rest of summer before heading back to Stanford!


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This is one of my favorite examiner.com stories and was originally published Dec. 22, 2011. This article is in honor of Alan Logan, who died at age 52 one month ago today.
It's called "smashmouth bowling," and in many ways, it's the same as "smashmouth football."
In football, it's the defensive line that takes a pounding when a big-muscle offensive line uses its brawn to run straight ahead and plow through beleaguered defenders.
In bowling, it's the pins that feel the wrath of an all-out onslaught by a rampaging ball.
And few people personify "smashmouth bowling" more than Alan Logan, a strapping 6-foot-1, 214-pound right-handed flinger who drives his strike ball right up the gut at the pins.
There's no messin' around by Logan.
He just doesn't knock down pins.
He blasts them.
He overpowers them.
He destroys them.
He obliterates them.
In Logan's vernacular, he "blows them up."
Typically, Logan will send "messenger" pins scurrying everywhere as they try to cut down any still-standing pins.
This is "smashmouth bowling" at its finest and this method is not for everyone. It's just for those powerful enough and bold enough to pull off the feat.
Does "smashmouth bowling" work?
Is it better than simply trying to throw a dainty hook that wedges into the pocket and tries politely to shake up all the pins?
Consider this:
Logan's teams have won two league championships in his five years of bowling. And Logan has averaged a more-than-respectable 152 during his league competition at AMF Woodlake Lanes in Woodland Hills.
Logan, using a 15-pound ball, registers 18 mph on his strike ball before reducing his speed to improve accuracy on his second ball.
He said before he got his own ball, he sometimes would hit 22 mph with the house ball.
"I'm not sure if it's the right coaching method," said Logan of his gun-slinging ways, "but it's just my personal technique."
His colleagues have taken notice.
"He sometimes gets a strike and he doesn't even hit the head pin," noted bowling expert Tom Martino, who competes in Logan's league. "The pins sometimes hit the side wall and then bounce back toward the middle of the lanes and if something is standing, it'll just wash it out."
Even with his successful bang-it-up style, the 50-year-old Logan said he gets offers "all the time" to help him develop a hook.
Logan said he good-naturedly agrees to try, but "I don't get a chance to practice [a curve]. I have a busy life with grandkids. I've tried it a couple times, but you have to practice it.
"I've just been very successful keeping my arms straight and bowling strong. I admire people who release the ball and you don't hear the ball [down the lane]. It's like a duck on water. I always applaud them. It's the coolest thing.
"I'm not able to do that with my big arm," said Logan, laughing.
Logan's enthusiasm is quite visible after he rolls a strike, using an ear-piercing clap right afterward.
"It's my personal excitement," Logan explained. "I wear my excitement on my sleeve."
A striking figure on the lanes – no pun intended – Logan is a popular figure at Woodlake Lanes.
"Alan is one of the kindest people I've met," bowler Carol Tucker said. "He cares so much about others and is filled with a radiant spirit that makes everyone around him happy. He is a very special man."
Logan bowls on a team with his life partner, Lillian Matson, along with Chris Ohmstede and Scott Tschappat. The team is enjoying a strong season and is battling for the league title.
On that team, there's no shortage of excitement – or noise.


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eGov Masterplans
Vision & Strategic Thrusts
e-Government Action Plan (2000-2003)
Re-inventing Government in the Digital Economy
Delivering Integrated Electronic Services
Being Proactive and Responsive
Using ICT to Build New Capabilities and Capacities
Innovating with ICT
Re-inventing Government in the Digital Economy
Governance in the Digital Economy requires a thorough understanding of the impact of ICT on internal processes in the public sector and transactions with citizens and businesses. The Digital Economy demands rigorous reviews of policies, regulations and processes to ensure that the e-Government initiative is up to speed with the rapid developments in the economy, and to meet the public's rising expectations. Public officers must therefore be prepared to embrace change by revamping their tried and tested methods in the process of transforming government.
Delivering Integrated Electronic Services
"Key public services will be delivered electronically by year 2001. Government agencies will streamline their processes to be more customer-oriented, delivering services with the citizens' needs in mind rather than the convenience of the agencies."
DPM Lee Hsien Loong
at COMDEX/Asia, Singapore Informatics 98
Greater value will be created for the public if electronic services are integrated and centred on customers' needs. The end objective is to provide a convenient one-stop, continuous service portal for the public. The government's eCitizen Centre initiative embodies this concept. It requires government agencies to work across boundaries to integrate information, processes and systems, so as to provide a seamless online experience for its citizens and customers.
Being Proactive and Responsive
Government agencies do not have the luxury of time to develop new policies, systems and services, as implementation time for new services becomes an important consideration. Increasingly, government agencies will have to adopt the same "sense and respond" approach as the private sector in anticipating citizens' needs, and delivering responsive systems and services with speed. Existing services and processes also need to be further fine-tuned to meet customers' changing needs, as well as to keep abreast with new technological possibilities.
Using ICT to Build New Capabilities and Capacities
Government agencies must learn to re-engineer government processes to benefit from the new business models of the Internet era. This will help to enhance internal processes, and build new capabilities and capacities. Appropriate systems and infrastructures will be needed to support the change. Towards this end, public officers will need to acquire necessary skills and tools to make them effective knowledge workers. They must be able to access systems and information anytime and anywhere, as tele-commuting becomes more prevalent.
Innovating with ICT
To be a leading e-Government, innovation and experimentation are fundamental. Public officers must therefore be prepared to experiment with, innovate and exploit new technologies to deliver government services more effectively. They must be prepared to be benchmarked against private sector e-commerce practices and other leading e-Governments.
When initiating new projects, public officers need to think radically; execute with speed by starting small to deliver value quickly; and scale up quickly once the pilot has been proven to be successful.


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Barry Schuler may know a thing or two about running multi-billion dollar technology companies, but what he really wants to talk about, given the chance, is food and wine. The former CEO of AOL, Schuler often gets credited along with Steve Case (who preceded Schuler as CEO) for the company's success in the late Nineties. But while his colleagues and most of America's top technology executives were returning home at the end of their long days to comfortable suburbs near major metropolitan areas, at the end of the week Schuler was making his way back to Napa, California. Schuler may have been one of the country's top technology executives, but now he spends as much time thinking about wine as he does anything else.
Schuler says that he can remember wanting to live in Napa as early as the age of 18. In addition to dabbling in photography and filmmaking as a teenager, he says, "I was really into cooking. And drinking." His obsession with food and wine, led him to the altar of Alice Waters' restaurant Chez Panisse, which he visited for the first time in 1974 on the pretense of considering a graduate degree at UC Berkeley. Instead of attending his interviews and exploring the campus, however, Schuler dined at Chez Panisse, and drove to Napa, where he spent days wandering around in a daze. "It was like mecca," he says, "like I was hit by a lighting bolt. It truly was amazing. I decided then and there that I had to figure out how to live [in Napa] someday."
By his own account, Schuler spent the next 15 years "chasing French wine" and working out the math that would get him back to the Napa valley. While he wasn't in his own kitchen dreaming of his future Napa estate, Schuler was busy making a name for himself in the emerging world of digital interactive media. He founded an early advertising agency to serve the emerging home and business computing market, then ran one of the first successful Macintosh software companies, and finally ended up founding an interactive design agency called Medior, with several colleagues, including Tracy Strong, who is now his wife.
Schuler finally moved to Napa in 1989, settling closer to the town of Napa than to the centers of culinary and wine activity farther up the valley, because he was attracted to the change he saw underway in and around the city of Napa. "It was a train wreck in those days," says Schuler, but he saw something of a diamond in the rough in the scrabbly area to the east and north of town known as Coombsville. When he finally decided he wanted a bit of land on which he might one day plant some grapes, "mostly just to sell, I was thinking," he says, "I started looking in Coombsville." Good lots were not immediately forthcoming, so Schuler would spend several years poking around the area until in 1998, when someone told him that a 35 acre parcel was due to be sold in the area, and that he might want to take a look at it.
After rounding the shoulder of the hill and seeing the view of a green cow pasture roll out from underneath the mossy shade of oaks all the way to the San Francisco Bay in the distance, Schuler purchased the property on the spot, thinking he'd figure out whether it could grow grapes later.
What Schuler ended up with is an interesting geologic and climatologic anomaly in the region. The hilltop of ash and clay soil is layered thinly on a deep base of round river stones, and sits up higher than most surrounding points in the traditionally cooler region of Napa. This makes the property a little island of heat that misses much of the fog influence that creeps up from neighboring Carneros and the wind patterns that sweep through the rest of the region, which is a pending AVA (American Viticultural Area) under the name Tulocay.
With the help of vineyard consultant Michael Wolf, Bill and Dawnine Dyer, (of Dyer Vineyards) and occasional advice and moral support fromTony Soter (of Etude Wines) the Schulers set about carefully establishing their 22 acre vineyard, still with the idea that they'd sell the grapes, and perhaps make just a tiny bit of wine for themselves. After some struggles, the vineyard began yielding grapes in 2003, and by the time the 2004 grapes were going into bottle, it was clear that the fruit was on track to being exceptional. The folks who had purchased the initial lots of grapes were clamoring for more, and new requests were constantly being made.
"At that point," says Schuler, "we couldn't resist." Barry and Tracy enlisted the Dyers to make them 40 cases of wine from the 2003 harvest, and asked them to become equal partners in the winery. For the name of their project they selected a rephrasing of Medior, the company that had brought them together, and arguably made possible the fulfillment of Barry's teenage dreams. For their label they chose the silhouette of the solitary, ancient oak tree that anchors the center of their vineyards.
Most of Meteor Vineyard's grapes are still sold to select wineries around the valley, but the family holds back enough fruit to make about 700 cases of their estate Cabernet, and about 90 cases of their Special Family Reserve, which represents the best barrels from each vintage.
2004 Meteor Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Coombsville/Tulocay, Napa
Medium to dark garnet in color, this wine has a perky nose of nutty, cherry aromas that are tinged with hints of tobacco and anise. In the mouth its initial impression is of brightness and good acidity, with earthier flavors of tobacco, leather, cherry, and a hint of "stemmy" green wood that doesn't keep the wine from being tasty. Score: around 9. This wine is not commercially available.
2005 Meteor Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Coombsville/Tulocay, Napa
Medium to dark garnet in the glass, this wine bursts from the glass with bright cherry and chocolate aromas that are followed rapidly with sweet tobacco and vanilla scents. In the mouth it is silky, even sexy, on the tongue, with a nice weight to it. The wine is juicy, with acidity that might even be slightly too sharp in comparison to the rest of the beautiful lush cherry and cedar fruits that mingle with pipe tobacco to finish with great length and satisfaction. I would expect this wine to smooth out in the next year or so in the bottle, and continue to improve for several more. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $225.
2005 Meteor Vineyard "Special Family Reserve" Cabernet Sauvignon, Coombsville/Tulocay, Napa
Medium to dark garnet in color, this wine smells of tobacco, earth, and cocoa powder. In the mouth it displays a deeper earthy quality than the label's primary release. Nicely balanced flavors of cherry and wet earth, with hints of blue fruit, sit poised on the tongue, nicely balanced for a finish that feels like a leisurely backstroke in a placid pool, as the wine slinks and slips down the palate. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $300.
The 2005 vintage will be available for purchase starting at some point in the next couple of months. Interested parties can sign up for the winery's mailing list on their web site.
I also had the opportunity to taste several clonal selections from different blocks of the vineyard, vintage 2007, that will soon be blended. These samples displayed a broad range of deep, complex fruit that are showing their first incarnations in the wines above. The clone 7 cabernet fruit was classically Cabernet Sauvignon -- cherry with hints of stem tannins. The Clone 4 fruit was deep and earthy, with notes of slate and graphite aromas and spicy flavors of espresso and orange rind. Finally the clone 337 was an impressive, powerful luge-run of cherry fruit that nearly knocked my socks off. There are clearly many good things to come from Meteor.
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Britney Spears can now aim her song "Womanizer" towards another man. If the rumors are true, Spears has called it quits with agent-boyfriend Jason Trawick, for being too friendly with other women. Sources saw him flirting with two women at Los Angeles' bar The Roger Room, and even leaving with one of the women.
Ella Davis, who was at the bar at the time, told Daily Mirror Newspaper: "Jason left the bar with two bottles of water and a stunning blonde who looked like Britney."
The spy-witness reported, "He had his arms around her and they looked extremely comfortable in each other's company."
Britney and Jason allegedly began dating in March of last year, during her recovery process. At the time, her father had tight reigns on whom Britney had contact with but loved Jason, and the two really connected. Jason, who is also best friends with Britney's older brother, connected with Britney's two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, as well. The couple and the kids were seen on numerous occasions having family vacations.
Hollywoodscoop.com is reporting that Briney is "distraught" and is refusing to take his call. Upon hearing of her boyfriend's bad behavior, Britney allegedly checked herself, along with her mother, into the Mondrian Hotel.
Friends say Jason is not really like this and tried to reassure Britney that the girls were just friends. Britney is not willing to hear him out, and it now appears Jason is out of a girlfriend and job. He didn't think these actions would let him stay as Britney's agent, did he?
Hopefully this doesn't break the star, and bring back her '08 and early '09 behaviors. Remember the head shaving and partying antics? Knowing that her mom is with her and that her dad still has a say so in what she does will hopefully keep Britney grounded.


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Le Oui Oui Crepe Cafe // This former Ohio City creperie has found a stripped-down home in University Circle. Although popular with students and the working lunch crowd, the cafe has just three tables. So along with other customers one busy Saturday, we dined in the overflow area, surrounded by the Mexican sounds, sights and smells of Luchita's X-Press. Free of the ooh la la we often associate with French anything, the experience relies on the menu of savory, egg-filled and dessert crepes as well as newly added gratins. But this small selection doesn't disappoint. From the savory section, we happily devoured the spinach, tomato, mozzarella with olive tapenade ($5.95). Although there's nothing surprising about the first three ingredients, the mild combo is elevated by the rich and salty Mediterranean flavor of the tapenade. For dessert, we preferred the deliciously dependable duo of banana and Nutella ($5) over the almond and overly sweet apricot preserves ($4). Owner Denajua, a French import herself, uses preserves, spreads, chocolates and teas from her native country. Don't miss the latter: Mariage Freres teas, which are hard to find in the U.S. Sipping the fruity, sweet Pleine Lune while enjoying our crepes was all we needed to feel transported to a Parisian cafe. Le Oui Oui Crepe Cafe, 11309 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, 216-231-2800
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Recent Research Developments
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|December 22nd, 2004
|Cloaking Sensitive Nanoparticles for Chemical Invincibility
Nanoparticles inherently maximize surface-to-volume ratio and, as a result, researchers in surface science andĀsurfaceĀcatalysis are interested inĀwhetherĀconductingĀreactions atĀnanoparticleĀsurfacesĀwouldĀcompareĀfavorablyĀwith those at macroscopic surfaces. However, the high surface area of nanoparticles sometimes makes them thermodynamically unstable relative to bulk material. Passivating nanoparticle surfaces with ligands can help, but even then there is an inevitable trade-off between nanoparticle stability and surface access.
Graduate student Youngjong Kang and Professor T. Andrew Taton have recently shown that
access of molecules to a nanoparticle surface can be regulated by a self-assembled, block-copolymer shell whose permeability varies with solvent
conditions (
However, in solvents that normally dissolve polystyrene, the glassy polymer block swells with solvent, and the cloak becomes suddenly (though reversibly) permeable. In this way, molecules that have been excluded from the nanoparticle core, like the cyanide etchant shown in the figure below, can suddenly access the particle surface. As THF swells the hydrophobic polymer, it carries dissolved cyanide with it and, in this case, dissolves away the encapsulated particle. In general, crosslinked polymer shells could be useful not only to protect sensitive particles, but also to control access of catalytic nanoparticles to substrates, or of sensing particles to analytes.
Figure 1. Encapsulation of Au nanoparticles within crosslinked, block-copolymer shells. The polyacrylate block is crosslinked with a diamino-oligo(ethylene oxide), which imparts broad solubility to the particles. In principle, any glassy block can be used in the core, and the specific polymer used dictates which solvents permeate the shell and which do not.
Figure 2. Solvent-triggered etching of encapsulated nanoparticles. Even in the presence of an overwhelming excess of cyanide ion, PS-b-PAA-coated particles remain stable (and deep red in color) in solution. However, when 20% THF is added, which solvates the PS block, the encapsulated particles are quickly etched away.
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FCR Release 05-01 Minor: Specifications
Implementation Date: January 28, 2005
Published: October 26, 2004
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Enhancement to the Federal Case Registry (FCR) is as follows:
- Discontinue the bundling option to have FPLS external locate results held until all responses have been received. Instead, results from each source will be returned as soon they are received.
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