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{Top: Hurley, Cardigan: Urban Outfitters, Flower pin: Forever21, Cropped Pants: Gap, Flats: Urban Outfitters}
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What I Wore: Russell Street BBQ & The Nike Hoop Summit
{Top: Hurley, Cardigan: Urban Outfitters, Flower pin: Forever21, Cropped Pants: Gap, Flats: Urban Outfitters}
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I feel the same way about style blogging! GAH! Why are we so hard on ourselves? Seriously stupid. But you look so adorable, and I love your outfit here. That flower burrowed it's way into my little heart with that mustard cardi.ReplyDelete
Precious. :)
you look gorgeous! And yes. Taking those photos and making everything look natural and beautiful and feeling comfortable POSTING them online is quite harder than it looks and feels. haha I tried once and I just gave up it was sooooo soooo hard. AND everything felt like unless I tried hard to look good I just didn't. Haha I think you did a good job THOUGH :)!ReplyDelete
love your outfit. i could never be a fashion blogger, it seems like so much work!! to come up with a completely new outfit every day would literally kill me.ReplyDelete
p.s. love your red lips!
I think you could totally be a fashion blogger, this outfit is so cute!ReplyDelete
look adorable! love the red lips! and the hubbs :)ReplyDelete
I think you look lovely! But I know exactly what you mean. Somehow I always think that my outfit is that much more chic... before I see pictures of it!!!!! Gah, disappointment!ReplyDelete
I love that you transformed a Hurley shirt into something so chic and feminine. I'm totally inspired for work wear ;)ReplyDelete
you look sooo cute!! love the red lipstick!ReplyDelete
i know what you mean about the mirror and pictures though. i hate that.
You look simply adorable...I love your look and what cute flats!!! So glad I stumbled upon your lovely blog...I love it and hope you have a Terrific Tuesday, Liz! :)ReplyDelete
Liesl :)
You are so gorgeous! I just discovered your blog and I love it. I really want to get into photography myself so I'm hoping you will share some pointers down the road!ReplyDelete
you look so cute! love the stripped top and that cardigan :) xoxo jcd :: cornflake dreamsReplyDelete
You looked gorgeous! however I feel what you say, I always feel very self conscious when I do my outfit posts!ReplyDelete
lovely outfit! I agree, taking fashion photos is hard and awkward. But you did great!ReplyDelete
I know you said you weren't fishing for compliments, but I can't help but say that you are adorable and so is this outfit!ReplyDelete
that is one extremely cute outfit!ReplyDelete
I have the SAME problem with mirrors and photos! You feel so glam when you're looking at your reflection only to look at your camera screen and feel so not hot. I think you look adorable though, Liz! You always do and that red lipstick is so perfect :) xoReplyDelete
You look fabulous! I always do the exact same thing. Us women are way too hard on ourselves!ReplyDelete
Lovin that whole outfit! You look gorgeousReplyDelete
I just found your blog! Your pictures are so cute! I love your weekend pictures!ReplyDelete
i've never tried to do an outfit pst (probably because i'm much too lazy to get dressed every day), but i think you do it well! i absolutely love that shade of lipstick! what is it? it looks great on you! :)ReplyDelete
You're too cute!ReplyDelete
Great outfit! And there's no way I could pose for outfit photos, so kudos to you!ReplyDelete
Such a cute outfit...and love your red lips too!ReplyDelete
Liz, I love everything about this outfit. I say you should do more outfit posts! :)ReplyDelete
I love your outfit and your hair is amazing! I vote for more outfit posts too ;)ReplyDelete
Could you be any stinkin cuter? Seriously Liz you photograph beautifully! It takes me like 50 shots to take one good picture! LOL You are a daily read for me! :) Pet Henry for me! xo- C MaeReplyDelete
Liz, you look beautiful! :)ReplyDelete


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Everyone knows that coffee buzz that helps you get your day started but how long the buzz lasts depends on your ability to metabolize caffeine. "In 50 percent of people, caffeine has a half-life of two to three hours, which is why some of us can have a coffee after dinner and still sleep soundly that night," says Jim Lane, PhD, professor of behavioral medicine at Duke University Medical Center, who studies caffeine.
"In others, caffeine's effects last 6 to 10 hours, so even a cup of coffee after lunch can make it difficult for them to fall asleep."
No matter how you metabolize the stuff, a morning joe gives most people the biggest jolt of the day. "By the time you pour your second cup, many of those receptors in the brain may be saturated with caffeine, so the effects aren't as potent," explains Jeffrey Mechanic, MC, president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
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SANTA CRUZ - A 33-year-old man was jailed recently for owning a San Francisco Giants jersey.
Jose Luis Ortegon of Watsonville was arrested Tuesday near Cherry Court and Rodriguez Street in Watsonville, jail records show.
Thursday, Judge Samuel Stevens, who is retired and was filling in for Judge Timothy Volkmann, handled Ortegon's arraignment for an alleged probation violation.
Stevens asked public defender Diana August why having Giants gear was a probation violation and August said she understood that the 'SF' denotes the wearer is proclaiming he or she is "free" of a certain gang, using a slang word for a gang, not the better known "Sureño" term.
"That explains it, OK," he said with a shrug toward August and her client.
Ortegon was expressionless. Stevens told him to comply with his search terms, saying "you know they're going to be back."
August noted that her client is on "intensive supervision."
Per Sentinel archives, Ortegon was pulled over by Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputies in May of 2011 near Freedom Boulevard and Green Valley Road for having large dice dangling from his rearview mirror, obstructing his view.
He allegedly refused orders to get out of the car after deputies spotted him reaching for something in the back of a four-door Geo, deputies said. They said they found a gun in the car, which was unloaded, and that Ortegon admitted to being a gang member.
Tuesday, Ortegon told jail booking officials he worked as
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 A combination lock: students write a class to determine when the lock is locked or unlocked. It only unlocks if the correct combination is passed as parameters. Students practice instance variables and parameters.
An AM/FM radio: Students write a "tuner" class. It remembers the current frequency, tunes up or down, seeks up or down, and has presets. Students practice with instance variables, looping, parameters.
A equation grapher: Students write a class implementing an eval function. The provided user interface displays the corresponding graph. Three different Java interfaces allow practice with only parameters, parameters and instance variables (for the coefficients) or parameters and arrays (arbitrary degree polynomials).
An image transformation program: Students write a class to transform an image stored as a 2D array of integers. The provided user interface reads the image from a file and calls the appropriate transformation methods in the student class. Transformations can include rotating, scaling, brighten, flip, mirror, etc. I believe a similar assignment was included in the SIGCSE 2003 Nifty Assignments panel.
A marks "spreadsheet": gives students practise with both 1D and 2D arrays. The 1D arrays store student and assignment names. The 2D array stores the marks.

Java interface. Students write a class to implement the interface and pass an instance to the UI. The result is a complete and satisfying program.
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Superior Court Judge Jonathan Jackson never got to see the inside of the new Henderson County Courthouse. His son, Frank Jackson, drove him past the new building on South Grove Street in Hendersonville so he could see it before he died in 1997.
On Wednesday morning, a portrait of Jackson was unveiled in the corridor outside courtroom No. 1. Frank Jackson, an attorney, said he was proud that his dad's is the first judicial portrait to hang in the new courthouse.
"I am extremely honored to have my dad in the courthouse," Jackson said. "He was a humble man. I don't think he would've ever expected to have his portrait in the courthouse."
The elder Jackson served as Superior Court judge for the 29th Judicial Circuit from 1966 until he retired in 1980.
The portrait was the idea of local attorney Kenneth Youngblood. Another local attorney, Ervin Bazzle, raised the funds for the portrait.
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Vail is a remarkable story. No other place compares. At least for me.
It's Pete Seibert making the dream happen, taking people like Pepi Gramshammer to the Back Bowls, before they were named. It's Earl Eaton in a trench, building the first gondola. It's Dick Hauserman's how ya doing smile, just knowing that somehow this would work.
It's Rod Slifer selling homes before anyone, the Gallegos brothers pushing wheelbarrows of rocks as teens.
It's Bob Parker, Sarge Brown, John Donovan, Doc Steinberg and a small bunch of other folks I should be naming here who made Vail happen.
It's flat amazing.
I believe that Vail in its own way, in its own time, is as big a deal as Google, Amazon or Apple today.
Sure, the scale is different. But the inventiveness, the sheer backbone and no-quit of the founders isn't so different.
The next waves carried Vail, too, and on down the Vail Valley clear to where proud Eagle Valley citizens grump about marketing slogans and only grudgingly accept the economic boon that rippled out from the headwaters.
One of my favorite memories was my then 14-year-old punk teen son shaking hands with Earl Eaton after I hissed at him during a 40th anniversary celebration at Mid-Vail not to smart off like he just did to Vail Resorts CEO Adam Aron ("What do you like about Vail, Ben?" "Well, actually, I prefer Beaver Creek ..."), stand up, shake hands, look him in the eye and it's Mr. Eaton ... dude.
The kid got it. Founder. He already knew instinctively when I pointed Earl out. Never saw him so respectful.
To this day, a certain ethic endures. The best of the millionaire-billionaires go by their first names, dress in jeans and blend with us hoi poloi just fine.
Kids still have their ski bum glory years, later to frown at how everything has changed - like their predecessors who haven't realized that graying hair isn't the only inevitable part of aging.
Alas, I wasted my glory time on the California coast. If I'd known then what Vail really was like, why, I'd never have bothered with that whole education and career thing, I'm sure.
My family got here just in time to know some of our pioneers in real life. That's special, too, and much of the young spirit that built this community in the first place yet has spark.
We're all the pioneers of the next 50 years. Are we up to this, able to ignore the everyday doomsayers and continue building this place to its Olympic potential?
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Other results from the day with Neosho listed first in singles were: Tucker Bailey lost to Larry Chambers 8-2. Jordan Cox lost to Tucker Palone 8-4. Trenton Hopper lost to Logan Sperry 8-2. Nathan Scribner lost to Quentin Kolb 8-3 and Hendricks lost to Munch 9-7.
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On offer is a cozy and recently renewed flat only a few steps away to the beach. It has two terraces, one of which is refurnished with a table and chairs to dine outside, ideal for 4 persons.
This property is located just 100 meters from the seaside and it has an area of about 49 meters, with living room with kitchen, bathroom, double bedroom, single bedroom, two large verandas and parking place. There are two bedrooms, one with a double bed and an adjacent veranda, the other with two single beds. Amenities also include parking space and TV.
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We had a nice stay at Tonis apartment in Rimini! :-) It was easy to reach with the car and the beach is a few steps away. The apartment was clean and quiet (except for some trains). We've been five people but the rooms offered enough space for us all and the baggage. Toni is a nice host an he was really helpful when we had any questions. Thanks for everything!
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
Everything was great!!!
Toni waited for us when we arrived and the rest was very uncomplicated!
Thanks for that!
The apartment is really, really great!
Near to the city and to 2 parking stations. (Garage ŠPANĚLSKÁ and Garage OLIVOVA)
Can be booked on www.mrparkit.com/de
When I come next time to Prag I will book this apartment again!!
I rented this flat for a group of 10 friends spending a weekend in Prague. Our priorities were: Spacious flat, well located, affordable price.
We found all of that in Toni's flat! Its big enough to accommodate 10 people comfortably. It has two bathrooms, both with shower, so that even large groups like ours can quickly get ready to leave for the city in the mornings. The flat is conveniently located in walking distance from Prague's main station and close to where the historic district begins. A supermarket, some bars & restaurants as well as breakfast places can all be found close to the flat. Toni is a nice & helpful host, upon arrival he immediately gave us directions to the most important places, tips for our stay in Prague and his contact info in case we run into any kind of trouble.
I can definitely recommend this apartment to anyone who is looking for a convenient home base that accommodates a larger group of travelers. Active groups that want to spend as much time as possible discovering Prague will enjoy having this flat to come back to at night & get some good rest for the next day!
We booked the flat in Prague at short notice but thanks to Toni that was no problem. The check-in and check-out were totally uncomplicated and Toni helped us with everything. That was great! The flat was as described: very clean and perfectly located. Anytime again!
Hi Toni,
all of us together again a super thanks for the friendly welcome and the great apartment in the heart of Prague. The handover has worked best and we would love to come back again.
Tip on the edge: Those arriving by car may park in Praha 10 (Garage Kodaňská 48) and take line 22 of the station Slavia to the station Namesti Miru. Takes about 10 minutes by train and another 2 minute walk to the apartment. Parking costs about 6 € per day, is safe and this can be pre booked online via Mr. Parkit. Great idea simply.
For a group outing, possibly family up to 8 people, the apartment is perfectly suitable because it is very large and spacious. The large bathroom, a spacious kitchen, living room and the two bedrooms are perfectly adequate.
Like I said ... a huge plus to Toni and the flat course. Wenceslas Square we did not even need 3 minutes. Back perhaps a bit longer :-)
Best wishes to Toni
Hi Toni,
von uns allen zusammen nochmals ein super dank für die freundschaftliche Begrüßung und die tolle Wohnung mitten in Prag. Die Wohnungsübergabe hat besten geklappt und wir kommen gern nochmal wieder.
Tip am Rande: Wer mit dem Auto anreist, könnte in Praha 10 (Garage KODANSKA 48) parken und mit der Linie 22 von der Station Slavia bis zur Station Náměstí Míru fahren. Dauert ca. 10 Minuten mit der Bahn und nochmal 2 Minuten zu Fuß bis zur Wohnung. Das Parken kosten ca. 6€ pro Tag, ist sicher und dies kann vorher online über Mr. Parkit gebucht werden. Tolle Idee einfach nur.
Für einen Gruppenausflug, evtl. auch Familie bis zu 8 Personen ist die Wohnung super geeignet, da sie sehr groß und geräumig ist. Das große Bad, die geräumige Küche, das Wohnzimmer und die zwei Schlafzimmer sind völlig ausreichend.
Wie gesagt … ein dickes Plus an Toni und die Wohnung natürlich. Zum Wenzelplatz haben wir nicht einmal 3 Minuten benötigt. Zurück vielleicht ein bisschen länger :-)
beste grüße an Toni
really good location near the city, but finding a parking slot was a little Problem until we found a good place at the Trainstation
The appartment is extremely spacious, it's very well located, around the corner of the national museum and very close to the center. The street looks somewhat run down but you can see that the building itself was very chique and can be very chique again with some cleaning up. Something similar goes for the appartment: it must have been really beautiful, it's very clean and well kept but the furniture is a rather cheap gathering.It took some time to convince Michelle that a 5 person appartment needs more than a 1 person coffee maker. Maybe I'm asking too much in a former soviet republic, on the other hand, we paid enough. Toni is a nice guy, and michelle is very nice too, the woman we actually got to deal with. All in all I would certainly recommend the appartment.
La sistemazione corrisponde perfettamente a quanto indicato. I familiari di Toni che ci hanno accolti sono stati molto gentili, anche attendendendoci la sera tardi al momento del nostro arrivo. La casa era pulita. Anche il nostro cane Penelope è stata accolta benissimo.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Throughout the summer and into the early fall semester, GoIslanders.com will talk with members of the Islanders men's basketball team to give you more insight into the ins and outs of the basketball program. Today, we visit with junior guard Kennon Dvorak.
A true walk-on, Dvorak played in 14 games and made seven starts a season ago. His most memorable performance was against UT Arlington, when he knocked down four threes and scored 15 points to push the Mavericks to the brink at the Dugan Wellness Center. Dvorak was a member of the Southland Commissioner's Honor Roll in the spring.
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Chris O'Dowd is on the line with the Irish Voice from the New York hotel room that he's just stepped into for the first time moments ago. An hour earlier his plane touched down at JFK. It's going to be a busy week for the Irish star best known in these parts for his breakout role in the comedy smash Bridesmaids.
First up there's his attendance at the American Ireland Fund Young Leaders party on Thursday, where he'll receive the Spirit of Ireland Award. Then he will attend the U.S. premiere of his latest film, The Sapphires, the sixties girl group movie that received a 10-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival last year.
Having just arrived in New York on Monday, it seems appropriate to congratulate him on being presented with the Spirit Award. "Thank you very much. I'm feeling very honored," he said.
Asked what the evening will hold, Roscommon native O'Dowd admits he doesn't know.
"Not a clue. I presume the night will entail some kind of a dinner, and I'm hoping there will be some kind of hula dancers. In the traditional Irish way."
In The Sapphires, which was written, directed and stars a cast and crew of indigenous Australians, O'Dowd, 33, plays a down on his luck Irish music promoter who takes his all-girl group on a trip to stardom. In the film his being Irish is another interesting layer of an already compelling character.
"The Irish diaspora, compared to its size, still feels like un-mined territory around the world. I love playing Irish characters that just turn up in places and aren't necessarily explained," O'Dowd says.
"We all know that we're everywhere. We're the most traveled nation of people, so it never seems incongruous to me."
You see Irish bars in Kuwait, O Dowd explains, and no one thinks anything of it. "My sister used to work in an Irish bar in Abu Dhabi. I think that's a very funny sentence," the comic admits.
O'Dowd's character in The Sapphires was originally written as an English guy, with no real reason for it, he says.
"When I came on board we made him Irish because it felt like they'd find connection. In that time the Aboriginal struggle was at a similar stage to the Irish struggle, and so they become friends from having a common enemy. That made sense that he was Irish, and I enjoyed that aspect of it," says O'Dowd.
At the festival screening of the film in Cannes O'Dowd got dressed up because the legendary producer Harvey Weinstein, who bought the rights to The Sapphires, had told him that at Cannes you wear a tie.
But O'Dowd is also Irish, which means unpardonably casual, and when he heard the opening bars of "Soul Man" playing on the red carpet he did what many Irish men have done before him -- he began to dance.
"I was dressed really well and suddenly I felt so uncouth. The head of the festival came over and barked at me, 'Stop that! This is Cannes!,'" O'Dowd recalled.
"I kind of thought for a minute that he was joking but then I thought, 'Oh no – there's no joke happening here. He does not appreciate my moves.'"
O'Dowd confesses he was thrilled with the dramatic audience response to the film. But it didn't end there.
"As happy as I was for myself, it was much touching because it is such a distinctly Aboriginal story, and I was sitting there with the director, the cast and the photographer, who are all indigenous Australians, and they were just so moved. It was beautiful actually," he says.
Meanwhile, O'Dowd has a starring role opposite Brendan Gleeson in Calvary, the highly anticipated new Irish film from director John Michael McDonough, the talent behind The Guard.
"I can't really talk about it," he says. "I mean I'd be happy to but the more that anybody talks about that thing, it will give it away and ruin it. It's going to be great and Brendan Gleeson's fantastic in it."
O'Dowd has also delighted audiences in his turn in HBO's Girls, the show that has become a cultural phenomenon.
"Lena Dunham asked me to come and do one episode which was where I try and have a threesome with the two girls and it's not very successful," he says.
"The show was fun and I had a good time on it and I think they were happy with what I did because they asked me to come back."
But O'Dowd explains he was a little worried because he wondered what his character, Thomas-John, could do after ruining things so gloriously.
"And Lena being Lena said, 'Well, we're going to have you marry one of the girls.' I went back and did another four or five episodes and I imagine that would be it now," he says. (His character had a quickie wedding with Jessa, played by Jemima Kirke.)


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Uncovering America's Heritage... Coin by Coin
North Dakota Quarter
Welcome to the North Dakota quarter! In its image, it's easy to see the grazing bison, which used to roam throughout the state. But it might take a closer look to see the butte (BYOOT) in the background. That kind of flat-topped hill is common in the Badlands, a place that reminds me of the Wild West.
But North Dakota has good lands, too! There have been lots of farms in this state, though the census shows that more people are living in cities now than in the country. Besides running farms, many North Dakotans make farm machinery, process food, and set up places where tourists can have fun and learn about the state's history.
A quarter for North Dakota's neighbor, South Dakota, will also come out this year. If you've seen a picture of it, you may have noticed that the year-1889-is the same for both states. What you may not know is that both Dakotas became states not only in the same year, but on the same day! Did the president sign one of them into statehood earlier in the day?
Both states had been part of one place called "Dakota Territory," named after the Dakota Indians. When the Territory was split in two for statehood, both areas wanted to be the first to become a state. President Benjamin Harrison thought of a way to make them both happy. He had his Secretary of State James Blaine shuffle the papers. Blaine made sure the President couldn't see which state was named on each of the papers he was signing. If even Blaine knew, he never recorded the order.
So no one will probably never know which state was brought into the Union first. But that's fine with me. I still love the buffalo, buttes, and Badlands of the North Dakota quarter!


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Too Small to Fail?
Lately, the notion of getting a bailout has become embedded in American culture, intensified no doubt by unprecedented federal support for troubled companies like AIG. So far, the rationale has been that some firms are too big to let fail. I think there are some firms that are too small to let fail too — young enterprises that are the entrepreneurial backbone of our economy.
As Americans, we hold our tradition of entrepreneurship dear. Decades of economic growth have been fueled by innovators spawning new industries, high-value jobs and stock market gains. Lotus, Southwest Airlines and Google are but a few of the success stories. Yet one result of our credit and subprime crises is that the current wave of U.S. innovations is very likely to be slowed — or in some cases lost to us entirely — from lack of adequate investment sources. Many of these young entrepreneurial enterprises are facing serious cash shortages or even outright failure, not for lack of entrepreneurial promise, but for lack of dependable funding. And if they lose their momentum, we as consumers, investors and perhaps even employees will lose the benefits innovation usually bestows.
No stimulus plan under consideration addresses this critical sector's vitality directly — not a surprise, since the companies are too small to lobby effectively. And, their venture capital (VC) sponsors have seen a degradation of their political clout over most of the last decade, overshadowed as they have been by the sponsors of investment vehicles that use leverage and financial engineering. I suggest that, rather than betting everything on outdated industries or new infrastructure, we place a few stimulus chips on the best of our young and soon to be cash-starved enterprises.
These budding enterprises are typically underwritten by VC funds which invest in young, high-potential companies and hope to see a return as the companies mature. Venture capital funds are in turn funded by institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals and managed by dedicated professionals.
The majority of new entrepreneurial companies do not use substantial leverage. Nevertheless, the damage from the subprime and credit crises is very meaningful to them. The lack of a viable IPO market is their first impediment. Public markets are a crucial capital source for these enterprises when they reach maturity as well as an exit where the venture capitalists can realize and recycle their investment gains. The IPO market has been nonexistent since last August save for one deal, Grand Canyon Education. The Nasdaq index was down as much as 33 percent last quarter and was extraordinarily volatile. An outright sale is an alternative for some young companies, but many that do not want a sale or cannot find one are being forced to seek unanticipated rounds of venture funding because there is no viable public-market access and none is likely soon.
At the same time, the VC funds that might meet this unanticipated funding gap are experiencing a capital drought of their own. Their principal investors, particularly pension funds and endowments, are reeling from losses and markdowns in subprime vehicles, hedge and private equity funds, and greatly diminished equity portfolios. As a result, some institutions are beginning to retrench on honoring capital calls and to rethink the portfolio proportions committed to the investment category that includes venture capital.
The venture capitalist, then, faces a difficult choice: Well-managed funds have a portfolio of promising enterprises that depend upon ongoing injections of growth capital. When that funding dries up, the manager must decide which companies will be given the needed capital — and thus the chance to survive — and which will be cut loose to slow their growth or perish.
It does not matter that capital may have been previously committed to a VC fund by a large investor. Frequently, VC funds are structured such that the money committed is delivered in stages, in response to calls for capital from the fund manager. But in difficult times like these, the commitments can be illusory — no venture fund manager can afford to ignore the institutional power of a major pension fund or endowment warning against receiving capital calls.
Compounding the issue, there are usually limits to the amount a VC fund can invest in any single promising enterprise. Typically, a VC sponsor will seek like-minded VC fund managers to participate in subsequent rounds of a venture's financing or launch another fund. But today, additional venture investors are scarce, since they face the same issues with their own fledgling companies, and any new money can find deeply discounted positions from institutions seeking liquidity in the secondary market. That may be fine for the new investors, but no cash reaches entrepreneurial enterprises in these transactions.
As a result, many of these young enterprises are being told to slow down, conserve cash and stretch out development and marketing plans. No doubt, some perfectly viable enterprises will be abandoned in the hasty triage process. And many new ideas triggered by the current economic realities will be hard-pressed to find funding at all.
Some inappropriate ventures, conceived at a time of high leverage and unrestrained consumption, will fail. But the more typical entrepreneurial enterprise is aimed at providing efficiencies, improvements or new approaches to commonplace industrial processes and everyday life. Many of these can survive and prosper in the altered economic climate we now face.
New technologies, new products, and new efficiencies are all nice things to have sooner rather than later in a broad economic downturn. There is also job creation, economic activity and perhaps an exciting story or two to breathe some life back into the IPO markets in the near future. Further, with the right kind of protections, taxpayers may well get a decent return on their invested tax dollar.
So how about devising a channel for a few billion dollars of whatever stimulus package we decide upon to directly maintain an adequate level of capital availability for these emerging enterprises? There is some precedent for this with the U.S. Small Business Administration. It or another agency could be authorized to take over venture fund commitments from legitimately cash-constrained institutional investors. The agency could also invest directly in portfolios of promising enterprises, alongside VC sponsors that have poor prospects for near-term fundraising on their own. Procedures to institute meaningful taxpayer protections and to avoid unsuitable ventures or funds are not difficult to devise, and any such program would have the benefit of injecting some dependable financing into this important entrepreneurial component of our economy.
No entrepreneurs or venture capitalists are flying (or driving) to Washington, D.C., to make the case for this particular form of stimulus. But consider for a moment which would leave us better off in a few years: our tax dollars invested in Detroit or a bridge to nowhere — or in a few years' vintages of U.S. entrepreneurs?
Michael A. M. Keehner is adjunct professor of finance and economics and a Bernstein faculty leader at the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School.
A version of this piece was published December 16, 2008, on Public Offering, the Columbia Business School blog.
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"But that's not how it happened in the book."
Sound familiar? That mantra has been bandied about quite often in recent years as television increasingly plumbs -- not always religiously -- popular tomes for source material. From "The Walking Dead" and "Game of "Thrones," to dramas like "Masters of Sex," "True Blood," "Witches of East End," "The VampireDiaries" and others, the list of shows tied to published works goes on and on.
All the while, I continue to be fascinated by the relentless tug-of-war between book and screen and how it affects the way we process what we watch and, in some cases, how it even provokes wide divisions among audience members.
Nowhere is that tug-of-war more intense than with HBO's "Game of Thrones." Fans still passionately chat up the merits of last season's adaptation of the "Red Wedding," a plot twist that had three characters getting slaughtered in a sudden, cold-blooded act of vengeance.
For days after that episode aired, faithful devotees of author George R.R. Martin's fantasy series nitpicked the scene to death, pointing out all the deviations between his pages and what happened on the screen. But when all was said and done, the general consensus was that the show conveyed the scene's horror, shock and utter brutality in ways that Martin's pages couldn't. Solid job all around.
This season, however, the show has been justifiably knocked for a glaring departure from the book. In Martin's saga, the scene in question was already highly disturbing: Incestuous lovers Cersei and Jaime have torrid sex in the same room where the corpse of their son, King Joffrey, lies.
Unfortunately, producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss wrote it as a rape scene, which triggered an avalanche of online fury. Even for a series fueled by vicious acts, this was too much. Critics tore into the scene, citing not only its gratuitous violence, but how it drastically changed the way we felt about Jaime as a character.
It was also a case of horrible timing -- coming when television script writers are being slammed for their over-reliance on rape as a plot device. General consensus? They botched it.
As for Martin, he distanced himself from the scene, pointing out that it changed the "whole dynamic" of what happened in the book. And he expressed regret that it might have "disturbed people for the wrong reasons."
Martin also spoke of how, in the book, the scene was written from Jaime's point of view, so the reader is "inside his head, hearing his thoughts." On the TV show, he said, "You don't know what anyone is thinking or feeling, just what they are saying and doing."
Controversy aside, it has been somewhat amusing to observe how loyal "Thrones" readers watch and react to the show much differently than those who haven't experienced the books. The pop culture website, avclub.com, has gone so far as to post separate recaps of each episode, one titled for "Experts" who have followed Martin's works, and another for "Newbies" who haven't. The site even has a highly detailed post breaking down the differences between the show and books, if you're into that sort of thing.
I've always been of the mind that books and TV shows are two very different beasts, and that a show should be allowed the freedom to live and breathe on its own. Before the HBO series launched, I read Martin's first book basically as homework. But then I backed off, because I wanted to experience the show as an unvarnished newbie.
In some ways, I think that strategy has enhanced my experience. For example, when the "Red Wedding" aired, I had no preconceived notions of how it would, or should, play out. On the contrary, I never saw it coming. So the jaw-dropping shock was fresh and profound and real. It was a must-feel TV moment.
On the other hand, Martin's saga is so sprawling and epic and complex that some basic familiarity with the books can certainly bolster your understanding and enjoyment of the show. To that end, I'm fortunate to have an aide and translator close at hand: My oldest son, David, is a voracious reader who has consumed every page of the five massive books Martin has published so far.
On Sunday nights, when the family gathers for that week's episode, we'll have David set things up with an explanatory preface. And on the occasions when our brains curl up in the fetal position from "Huh? What?" overload, I'm not ashamed to say that we'll put the show on pause for a moment and have him perform emergency narrative resuscitation.
We've learned the hard way that sometimes it just helps to do things by the book.
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- San Francisco 49ers notebook: Safety Eric Reid looks forward to facing Aaron Rodgers
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SANTA CLARA -- Safety Eric Reid, the 49ers' first-round draft pick Thursday night, arrived at the team's practice facility Friday dreaming big.
"We're starting against Green Bay, and if I can pick off Aaron Rodgers, that'd be nice," Reid said of the 49ers' regular-season opener Sept. 8.
Rodgers, who received a historic contract extension Thursday from the Packers, is the first quarterback Reid will face if he wins the starting free safety spot, vacated this offseason by Dashon Goldson.
The 49ers traded up 13 spots Thursday to select Reid, a starter the past two seasons at LSU.
"I'm honored they traded up and got me," Reid said. "I expect to work hard, earn the respect of my teammates and hopefully I can start."
Reid's competition at safety will come from Craig Dahl, C.J. Spillman, Darcel McBath, Trenton Robinson and Michael Thomas.
"He has the ability to go back in center field and make a play on the ball," LSU coach Les Miles said on NFL Network. "He's going to identify with the best coaches on the team. Eric Reid will be a great contributor."
Reid should be a quick learner, if his report cards are any indication. He had a 4.6 grade-point average in high school, finishing sixth in his graduating class of 366, a ranking he clearly recalls because: "I'm proud of it." Reid had a 3.2 grade-point average at LSU, where he majored in marketing and plans on completing his degree in the coming offseasons.
Although he's a Louisiana native, he wasn't near New Orleans when the 49ers lost there in Super Bowl XLVII to the Baltimore Ravens. But Reid watched with keen interest.
"I was disappointed about the power going out. I was all, 'Come on, New Orleans. You've got to get it together,' " Reid said. "I was rooting for defense. I knew it was going to be a struggle and it was a great game."
A few weeks after the Super Bowl, Reid met with 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh at the scouting combine, and they barely talked about football. Instead, they recalled Harbaugh attempted recruitment of Reid to Stanford years earlier. Reid said Harbaugh "made fun of me not coming to Stanford, and he said he knew what kind of player I am."
Reid made visits to six teams' facilities -- the 49ers weren't among them -- and he had nine private workouts. Asked if any NFC West teams were involved, Reid said: "I don't even know the divisions yet."
Upon arriving at the 49ers facility Friday, Reid had lunch with defensive coordinator Vic Fangio.
"He's got the size and speed that you like in a safety," Fangio told 95.7 The Game. "He's a good, smart player. He comes from a good background. All the intangibles are good. He's a guy we think will fit in here and hopefully be a good player for a long time."
Reid's tackling ability has come under question during the draft's evaluation process, and Fangio didn't sound concerned about it.
"Hopefully we'll be able to teach him why he's missed some tackles in the past and get him to eliminate those or keep them to a minimum," Fangio added. "We're confident he'll be a good tackler and he'll need to be to join this group."
Reid met a few players in the 49ers weight room Friday, and he apologized as their names escaped him. "I'm definitely looking forward to meeting Donte (Whitner)," Reid said of his safety counterpart, who flew out earlier Friday to his offseason home in Miami.
Reid posed for pictures while holding up a No. 1 jersey. Beside that number representing draft status, he wore it on his jersey at LSU. He'll have to change to a higher number in the NFL, and he's undecided on what number to take, as is the case with recently acquired cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha.
Reid came out to the Bay Area some eight years ago with his mother, Sharon, who works as a registered nurse and would travel here on occasion from their Louisiana home.
Reid attended the draft in New York, and he admitted that his 3-year-old daughter "stole the spotlight" when he took her on stage with him while being introduced. Once little LeiLani fell asleep later that night, Reid said: "I sat back and soaked it all in."
Reid endorsed the possibility of the 49ers signing his former LSU teammate Tyrann Mathieu, a prolific cornerback and return specialist who sat out last season because of reported drug issues.
"He's a great football player and we all know he made a mistake," Reid said. "He paid the ultimate price as a football player and that was missing a season."
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LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles police say a man has been shot and killed at a North Hollywood intersection.
The shooting occurred just before 7 p.m. Sunday at Vineland Avenue and Vanowen Street.
Officer Norma Eisenman says officers responding to a man-with-a-gun call arrived to find a man in the middle of the street.
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Writer of Popular Kids Series to Premiere Autobiographical Solo Show 'Not That Jewish'
The writer of a popular children's television series will premiere an off-Broadway solo show called "Not That Jewish," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written and performed by Monica Piper — the Emmy Award-winning showrunner of Nickelodeon's "Rugrats" — the show is described as "the autobiographical telling of a Jew…'ish' girl's life." "Not That Jewish" explores Piper's Bronx upbringing in a show-business family, her comedy-club debut and her "almost" night with former Yankees legend Mickey Mantle. "Audiences can expect to leave laughed-out, a little teary-eyed and […]Read more →
Scottish Soccer Team Will Fly to Israel on Private Jet Used by Madonna
Scotland's Celtic soccer club will fly to Israel with the same private jet Madonna used while on tour, The Scotsman reported on Monday. According to the report, the team is heading for the Jewish state to compete against Israel's Hapoel Be'er Sheva on Tuesday night, and will be transported in the customized, luxurious Boeing 757-200 that the pop icon used in New Zealand for her six-month Rebel Heart tour, which wrapped up in March. The plane is on loan from Greece-based GainJet Aviation and can accommodate 62 passengers. The […]Read more →
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Revealed: Actor Jonah Hill Officiated at Wedding of Fellow Jewish Star, Singer Adam Levine
Jewish actor Jonah Hill revealed on Wednesday morning that he had officiated the wedding of good friend and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. The "War Dogs" actor, 32, was a guest on Sirius XM's The Howard Stern Show when the conversation turned to Levine's July 2014 wedding to Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo. Hill said that after he was asked to officiate the nuptials, he started getting worried about the type of speech he was going to deliver. "I'm writing all these things, and then I […]Read more →
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Jewish Indie Rocker Dedicates New 'Refugee' Track to Grandfather Who Fled Nazi Persecution
Jewish indie singer Ezra Furman released a song on Wednesday that he said was dedicated to his grandfather, who escaped Nazi persecution. Furman told the website Consequence of Sound that the new track, called "The Refugee," is his "first song entirely concerned with my Jewish background and present, a song dedicated to my grandfather who fled the Nazis, as well as to all of the refugees desperate for a home today." He added, "May all the wanderers find the homes they seek, and […]Read more →
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Uncanny Toy Replica of Israeli 'Wonder Woman' Gal Gadot Auctioning on eBay for Over $1,600
An artist is auctioning on eBay a Wonder Woman doll he purchased and repainted to create an uncanny replica of Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who will play the superhero in an upcoming 2017 spin-off film. Noel Cruz purchased a 19-inch action figure of the Batman v Superman star and replaced its plastic hair with a new wig, and added a material belt and Princess Diana's lasso, according to the blog Io9, which first reported on Cruz's work. He then painted the doll to make it look like the […]Read more →
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British Jewish Star Daniel Radcliffe Hopes New Movie About Neo-Nazis Will Spark Dialogue to Defeat Antisemitic Rhetoric
Racist and antisemitic rhetoric supported by white supremacists can be defeated by opening channels for meaningful dialogue, British-Jewish actor Daniel Radcliffe said, ahead of the release of his new film, in which he plays an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a neo-Nazi group. "[White supremacist ideologies] have more power the less we talk about them. So hopefully this does start a kind of conversation, which would be a tiny part of a much larger conversation that needs to happen," the actor, 27, told The […]Read more →
Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas Reveals She Can Read, Speak Hebrew
Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas knows how to read and speak "a little" Hebrew, she revealed in the Aug. 15 issue of Us Weekly. The 20-year-old gymnast, who told the magazine that her favorite book is the Bible, was featured in a spread about the USA gymnastics team — which was awarded the gold medal in the women's all-around finals at the Olympics in Rio on Aug. 9. In her 2012 memoir, In Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith, Douglas wrote that her […]Read more →
Ben-Gurion University Institute Tackles Water Shortages, Hygiene in Developing Countries
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My tips to keep a consistent workout schedule:
1. Try out different things until you find what you love - I used to run a lot but I didn't really like it all that much, I just did it because I needed some cardio which then made it really hard to go to the gym. I tried several classes at my gym before discovering ones that made me feel like I was having fun and getting a good work out and now I look forward to going to those classes.
2. Set an alarm - Because my days are pretty busy and often times I get so engrossed in what I'm doing, I now keep an alarm on my phone that goes off the same time 5 days a week and it says "GYM!!" This totally helps keep me on track and I for sure always go to the gym when the alarm goes off.
3. Work out with a friend or your significant other - I don't tend to like to work out with people, I like to do my own thing as I get much better work outs that way, but what I do like is the accountability of going with someone else. On those days that I just want to sit on the couch, if I see that my husband is ready to go with the gym, a part of me knows that if he goes to the gym and I'm just sitting at home, I'll feel really lazy and guilty for not going with him too. And on some days, it's vice versa where I'm the one motivating him to go, so it's always nice to have each other to keep you balanced.
4. You get to indulge and not feel as guilty - Of course you can not take this to the extreme and just think "I'm working out so I can eat a huge slice of cake for dinner every night!" but every once in awhile when you indulge, you feel a little less guilty and a little more deserving when you've been taking care of your body and health.
6. Being healthy is a lifestyle, not a resolution - I know that with the new year, there is a lot of these "I'm going to lose 10lbs" or "I'm going to the gym 4 times a week" resolutions. I don't know about you but those types of things never work for me. I can say it all I want but if I don't make it a part of my life, it's always just going to be something that I say and not actually fit into my life. Like I mentioned before, I've made a lot of changes to my lifestyle in the past year and being healthy is one of those things. Not just working out but also what I eat and how I take care of my stress. All of it goes hand in hand to living a healthy lifestyle and not just a quick fix.
SarahFit, one of my favorite fitness bloggers just did a post about them and it looks like they are now doing a bit of a bait and switch where they originally promised brand name clothes and now are only offering their OWN line that nobody has ever heard of or even tried. I also saw in Sarah's comment section that it seems like I'm not the only one that had a bad experience with them. I'm all about supporting new start up businesses and giving them a chance but it's hard to support one that seems to have so many bad experiences and customer issues.


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Oak Ridge City Council will hold a public hearing and two special meetings tonight to discuss the next phase of the Woodland Town Center and to approve the financing of the city's continuing wastewater project.
The city is asking Council to authorize the acceptance of state revolving fund loans for $14 million and $4 million to finance the majority of the $23 million in wastewater capital projects outlined in the city's wastewater collection system remediation plan, which was submitted to — and approved by — the Environmental Protection Agency, as part of the requirements to meet an EPA Administrative Order.
The EPA mandated the city update its 70-year-old sewer system by 2015 or face fines. The city received the administrative order in 2010. The cost for the project could cost $24 million to complete but non-compliance could cost millions more in fines.
The city had been spending about $1.2 million per year on improvements for the 15 years before the EPA order and had replaced about 20 percent of the system by last summer.
Council authorized earlier the issuance of $10 million in bonds to pay for the rest of the sewer work, which is now being handed down to the customers in the form of a rate increase.
A delegation made up of Oak Ridge City Council members and citizens met with Environmental Protection Agency officials earlier this month in Atlanta to talk about an EPA mandate, but also to let EPA officials know about how the mandate puts a burden on the city and its residents.
At tonight's meeting, Council could also approve an amendment to a land use plan for the Woodland Town Center to make way for Phase III of the project that will allow development in Woodland Terrace East across from Panera Bread and Aubrey's.
Council will meet at 7 p.m. in the Courtroom at the Municipal Building.
Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.
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This was quite an historic night for me: the first night of the New Year's Run, my second show, and my eighteenth birthday. I still had not yet gotten into the tape-trading scene, so I was not overly familiar with the unpublished music, which gives a whole new approach to the show. My first show was on 10/21/96 (MSG, New York City), but this was the one that truly sold me on Phish. You appreciate things in the moment, rather then as a comparison to the two dozen other times you've heard the same song. For example, I thought Frankenstein was amazing, it totally floored me. Now, after fifteen shows and some 320-plus hours of tape, this song has a been there, done that feel. With experience, you really begin to appreciate the nuances of the jam songs and the genius of the improvisations, but at the same time, you tend to lose the excitement of the composed numbers.
The first set is good. The second set smokes because of one man Page McConnell. If you love Page, you should seek out this show. 1996 is a great year for Page, he really improved. His "mule duel" segments become amazing. This is one of the few shows I've heard that allows Page to shine through, especially compared to later tours. He gets to tear things up on Maze, then gets a solo from Mike's Song > Strange Design and then again at the end of Weekapaug. The man was in rare form. The stuff is beautiful, poetic, pure magic. Like I said, I was sold.


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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi tennis program will have a busy weekend starting this Saturday, as the men host UTSA at 5 p.m. on Saturday, while the women face McNeese State at 12 p.m. on Saturday, and Lamar on Sunday at 11 a.m. in the final home matches of the year. It will also be Senior Day for four very special players to the Islanders program.
The men's team comes into the weekend with a mark of 10-10 on the year, and a win over UTSA would go a long way in helping the team to a fifth straight Southland Conference Championship. The women's team is 12-4 overall, 5-3 in league matches. They are enjoying one of the best seasons in school history and look to improve their position in the conference standings.
On Saturday, Nathan Robinson, Aurelien Tave and Alex Pavlov will be honored before the match, in their final home contests as an Islander. On Sunday, senior Mirna Cicak will be recognized for her part in the rise of the Islanders program, and as one of the winningest players in school history. All contests will be held at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
Tave, who transferred from Troy, won Southland Newcomer of the year. In his two years of playing for the Islanders, he has never lost a Southland Conference singles match and is currently the team captain. He has been an incredible leader and has had wins at No. 2 singles against Oklahoma State and Texas. Tave just three weeks ago at the HEB Tournament of Champions won the clinching match to beat Oklahoma State, a Big 12 team, and clinched 3rd place for the Islanders. Tave has had above a 3.0 GPA each semester he has played for the Islanders.
Nathan Robinson is one of the best examples of a student-athlete any school will ever see. Last year he won the Texas A&M Corpus Christi award as the top economic student at the University, something you rarely see from a scholarship athlete. He has had a 4.0 GPA in five of his last six semesters at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi. He also won the Southland Conference Student-Athlete of the Year award in 2011. Also a great player on the court, Nathan was the Southland Conference Newcomer of the Year in 2010 and recently clinched our 4-3 victory at UT Arlington in #4 singles. Robinson is undefeated in the Southland Conference so far this year and recently beat Rice at #3 singles position.
Alex Pavlov is a four-year letter winner for the Islanders who has played as high as No. 1 doubles and No. 4 singles. This makes him the second Pavlov to play No. 1 doubles for the Islanders, as his brother Mikhail also did. Alex clinched the Lamar match to make the Islanders Southland Conference Champions in 2010. Alex also clinched one of the longest matches in Islanders history at nationally ranked Louisiana –Lafayette in a 6 1/2 hour match that finished after 1 a.m. - one of the most memorable matches of all time for the Islanders. Alex also has above a 3.0 GPA for the Islanders.
Cicak has played No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles for four straight years. She is the team captain and heart of the team that is currently having the best season in school history at 12-4 overall and 5-3 in the Southland Conference. Cicak has been an absolute warrior for the Islanders overcoming multiple surgeries, and always competing with incredible intensity for the Islanders. She has been a captain for three years and has had above a 3.0 GPA each of her four years with the Islanders. With her playing No.1 doubles and No. 1 singles, the Islanders made the conference tournament three years in a row and finishing 4th out of the 12 teams in the Southland Conference last year, the highest in program history. She has been truly special for the Islanders.
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Tennis), follow the team on Twitter (@IslandersTennis) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.


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Venus, Make My Wish Come True
We often find ourselves "asking" for expansion. We ask for expansion into a more powerful way of living and being; expansion in our thinking; expansion in our abundance and affluence; expansion in our relationships. The interesting thing to me is that when we are in a space of desiring expansion, we don't often consider the totality of what that means.


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"High Hopes" isn't just the name of Bruce Springsteen's 18th studio album.
It's also an accurate summation of the feelings with which fans greet any a new Springsteen offering. Over his incredible 40-year-plus career, The Boss has trained us to expect nothing less than greatness.
And he usually meets or exceeds these expectations. That was certainly true in the earliest stages of the 21st century, as Springsteen dealt three straight aces -- 2002's "The Rising" (ranked by some as the artist's greatest work), 2005's "Devils and Dust" and 2006's "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions."
"High Hopes," which hits stores on Jan. 14, isn't in the same league with that trio of modern classics. It's more in line with three post-"Seeger" outings -- 2007's "Magic," 2009's "Working on a Dream" and 2012's "Wrecking Ball" -- all solid-enough affairs that contained equal amounts of magic and mediocrity (at least by Springsteen's high standards).
"High Hopes" is a bit better than those three previous outings, but it's not a classic.
It feels like Springsteen was cleaning out his closet with this album. But, then, few can boast a closet like Springsteen's. "High Hopes" is chock full of old songs that never found a home on previous recordings. Most of these songs probably weren't good enough to make the cut. For instance, "American Skin (41 Shots)," a tune about the shooting of young African-American Amadou Diallo by four New York City police officers, has been floating around on E Street Band concert set lists since 1999, but lacks the punch of Springsteen's best political numbers.
The album opens with the anthemic title track, which is nothing less than a first-tier arena rocker. It might be telling, however, to note that Springsteen -- one of the greatest songwriters in rock history -- turned to another's song book for the title track ("High Hopes" was written by self-described "gothic blues" artist Tim Scott McConnell). It could be a signal that even a well as deep as Springsteen's can occasionally run dry.
That feeling is underscored by the second track, "Harry's Place," a high-gloss offering that sounds like something Don Henley would have written for a "Miami Vice" TV episode in the 1980s.
Things improve after Track 3 ("American Skin") as Springsteen pours his trademark passion into the rocker "Just Like Fire Would" -- a song written by Chris J. Bailey and originally recorded by his Australian alt-rock act the Saints -- and then begins to flip through textures and styles in mostly convincing fashion. There's the meditative, mesmerizing "Down in the Hole," followed by the great gospel workout "Heaven's Wall" and then the friendly, folksy "Frankie Fell in Love."
Springsteen's voice -- which is nothing less than a national treasure -- sounds incredibly strong throughout the album. The music is just as mighty, as Springsteen is once again accompanied by the E Street Band (as well as other players).
The highlight of the album is the new take on the classic "The Ghost of Tom Joad," which is done as a debut with Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello. Listening to Morello's guitar work on this song is alone worth the price of admission. Morello is also featured on several other tracks on the album.
It all adds up to another worthy addition to what already ranks as one the greatest catalogs in all of popular music. It might not be the Boss' best, or even close to it, but it's certainly one should live up to the "High Hopes" of Springsteen fans everywhere.
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Latest BCS National Championship is now writ in crimson flame
Saban's statue updated in advance of today's parade
Published: Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 10:17 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | You watched the Crimson Tide beat Notre Dame, you bought a championship T-shirt, but now it's really time to celebrate.
Thousands of fans are expected to gather today for a parade to commemorate the University of Alabama's 2012 national football championship team.
The parade, featuring head coach Nick Saban and members of the team, will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the corner of University Boulevard and Second Avenue.
The parade will proceed to Bryant-Denny Stadium, ending at the on the top steps of the north end zone in front of the Walk of Champions, where a ceremony will be emceed by Eli Gold, the Crimson Tide's radio broadcaster.
Parking will be available at all legal parking spots on the UA campus.
Fans can find a spot to view the parade along the sidewalks of University Boulevard or gather along the Walk of Champions.
The Million Dollar Band, Big Al, UA cheerleaders and the Orange Bowl's mascot, Obie, will all be part of the festivities.
From 9 a.m. until noon, fans can have their picture taken with all three of the Tide's crystal BCS trophies at Gate 3 outside the stadium.
At 10:30 a.m., fans can watch a replay of the 2013 BCS National Championship Game on a large video screen near the Walk of Champions.
Commemorative posters will be available at three locations around the Walk of Champions: by Gate 3 and at the northeast and northwest corners of the Walk of Champions.
Five thousand mini footballs and 5,000 commemorative beads will also be distributed.
BCS commemorative cups will be available with the purchase of a $6 beverage at all food tents. BCS-themed merchandise will be for sale at a tent on the northwest lot of the stadium and in front of Reese Phifer and Farrah halls.
After the ceremony, fans will be allowed to walk onto the field inside the stadium by entering through Gate 47.
The parade is sponsored by Regions Bank, AT&T and Academy Sports and Outdoors.
The Crimson Tide earned its 15th national football title on Jan. 7 in Miami, marking the program's third BCS title in the last four years.
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Boston Globe: NH start-up lets users create mass prayers, do fund-raising
The Manchester, N.H., start-up PlusGrace is taking a model popularized by sites such as Kickstarter, which gives artists and entrepreneurs an online platform for funding projects, to the faith community.
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