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Showing solidarity with workers on Labor Day, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Monday requiring paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors, including 300,000 who currently receive none.
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I have my Home page set to have circles linking to Pages and not Posts. I found the instructions here and they worked fine. I'm using a child theme. I'd like one of my pages to act as a typical blog page. I'm using a child theme.
Currently my front page is set to display: "Your Latest Posts" in the Reading dashboard. With this setting my Blog page looks like all my other pages but no blog posts appear.
I've tried setting the front page to "Static Page" and having the Posts Page set to my blog page. I leave the Front page set to nothing because for whatever reason my home page isn't a choice. With these settings my Home page appears with circles still but when you click on the circle to take you to the Blog page, that also appears with the same circles as the home page and no posts appear.
I read one of the threads that partially described setting up a custom page template but the instructions weren't complete so I ran into a dead end. I also looked in the Codex for custom page templates and could only get so far.
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Jed Hoyer and Jason McLeod Press Conference
I believe the press conference is scheduled for 3pm CST, maybe EST...so soon. You can allegedly watch a live stream at CSN Chicago.
In the meantime, read up on the new scouting director with this very well done Q&A.
The rumor mill is rather quiet at the moment, last bit of "news" was that Theo and Jed (sounds like a sitcom title) met with Q-Ball for 7 hours last week and have a second meeting this week. I want to imagine the 7 hours was spent getting as much information about the ballclub out of him before they canned him.
On the manager front, Peter Abraham reports that the Cubs and Red Sox could both be interested in former Brewer player and their current hitting coach, Dale Sveum.
After the jump, I'm trying to embed the live stream...see if it works.
If anything interesting is said in the presser, throw it in the comments.
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Theo said a final decision on Quade will come "hopefully within a week". Theo said he talked to Cue-Ball on the phone early last week and then met with him in person along with Hoyer for 5-6 hours a few days ago. Kaplan in the post-interview chit chat with Hollandsworth said he thinks Theo's body language hinted that Q is gone. Hollandsworth agrees.
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I still wouldn't be surprised if they keep him so they have a fall guy in July or September of next year...2012 looks like it will be a year of "find out what we have and what we need."
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I think Q is gone. Z might have a better chance of staying, unless Ricketts really wants Z gone.
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They've already got a fall guy, Jim Hendry, and Theo is supposed to be a pretty smart guy, and keeping a manager to have a "fall guy" would be a pretty dumb way to run a baseball team.
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Asked about ARam's future with the Cubs, Theo talked in past tense several times, "he had a great career as a Cub...we wish him well in the future...I wouldn't rule anything out...but as the top third baseman in free agency, I would think another team will make a nice offer...reading the tea leaves I think he will be moving on and we'll be looking at another solution at third."
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Asked about Z, Theo said, "I have had conversations with Barry Praver, Carlos' representative and those were enlightening," Epstein said. "I've sat down with a number of the guys who have been here working alongside Carlos during his Cubs career and that was also enlightening. I think now it's just a matter of processing the information, putting it together, following up with Carlos and seeing what's best for the Cubs. That's ultimately what is most important."
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Jason McLeod was asked who will run the draft next year and who will have final say on who is picked, he said that hasn't been determined yet and that like in Boston, everyone will get together and discuss who they feel is the choice, then decide.
Also, both McLeod and Theo said that Tim Wilken was in town. Which I take it as, he doesn't work at Wrigley Field everyday?
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Rob, Thanks much for setting this up---and all the rest of the work you do to keep the blog interesting.
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Thanks for that link to the McLeod interview, a few interesting things there. One is that he is the great grand-nephew of Carl Hubbell. Another is that he only reluctantly left SD, his hometown. He said he agreed to leave because the Padres wouldn't match the Cubs offer of 5 years to Hoyer (and I presume McLeod also got a 5 year deal).
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Asked about the compensation to Boston, Theo said it hasn't been concluded and if they can't get it done by the end of the day MLB will take over and it will take a while while MLB does their research and decides compensation.
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is the hold up how much chicken or how much beer to send over?
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lol. Completely overhaul the team? I'm trying to think of a starter who is a plus defender at his position. Seems like Byrd, Colvin, and Soto round out the starters who are currently average defenders. Pena was somewhere between average and above average, so I guess if he's back there is one. Soriano is a mess (I don't care what the metrics say), Starlin has his obvious faults, Darwin actually isn't that great, LaHair would probably be merely passable in either LF or 1B, and I'm not thrilled with any of the defenders at 3B (except maybe LeMahieu, who would have to make great strides offensively to be in contention for a job this year).
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that sucks...i was getting used to having s.castro on the team. =p
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It's not like the team that won the world series lost their best pitcher in spring training or anything.
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As opposed to Hendry of whom everyone in the worlds seemed to know what he was doing. Granted, his plans were written in nacho cheese and quickly consumed.
I don't really know what that means.
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It depends on the money and length of deals they want, but I wouldn't mind seeing us go after Jason Kubel and Edwin Jackson in free agency. I haven't seen enough of Kubel's defense to know how good/bad he is though.
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kubel has nothing-special D, but not bad...good enough arm to play RF for years.
i wouldn't mind seeing him in RF, but he's more of a "solid lineup filler" type rather than a difference-maker. with a good enough 1st or 3rd he'd be solid support.
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via gordo witty's twitter feed (7 hours ago)
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Theo on Z: talked with agent. "Enlightening conversation"
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I have no defensive metrics at hand to prove this, but based on visual evidence, Asdrubal Cabrera got robbed.
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The defensive metrics seem to agree he's pretty bad. He did make one nice play, though.
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Way more than one, but thanks as always for your insight. As I said, the evidence was anecdotal.
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Yeah, I was talking about the triple play.
About 20 runs below average by UZR last two years, and TZL doesn't like him much either. The Fan Scouting report likes him a little, so your observations aren't alone.
Down near the bottom are various "saber" oriented ratings of defense.
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I wonder if they would consider moving him to third to make room for a solid defensive shortstop.
I'm wishing the Cubs would start shopping Barney as if he were a 2nd division starting shortstop (which he might be).
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woo...about time the mccourt(s) exited mlb ownership...it's been ugly since they bought the team and left roopurt with a sweet revenue ripping TV deal as part of the purchase, imo.
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Are there any "believers" here that rate the farm system as anything more than middle of the road (which I'm assuming means roughly the same thing as middle of the pack)? It's possible I've been misunderstanding others' comments on the system. . .
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There is probably at least one frequent commenter who would rate the Cubs farm system as better than "middle of the road/pack."
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There may be one or two commentors that are convinced the system is laced with #2 and #3 starters and regular players, but I think the consensus is that it's somewhere around 20th in MLB. Of course, pre-Garza and Gonzales trades, it was probably better than the Padres system, and arguably the Sox as well.
All teams are going to tend to overrate their own systems, because they're filled with guys that, at some point at least, they liked to be MLB players.
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I obviously think the Wilken drafts have been better than middle of the road, but it's too soon to judge, and it will be for several more years. It will be two years or more before we know for sure about Josh Vitters, and he was in Wilken's second draft in 2007.
McLeod's first draft as scouting director was 2005, and he grabbed Ellsbury in the first round and Buchholz in the supplementary. That was a good draft, obviously. In 2005, Wilken was scouting director for Tampa. He picked pitcher Wade Townsend, who flopped after having Tommy John surgery the same year he was drafted. Wilken did take high-schooler Jeremy Hellickson in that draft, whose major-league numbers compare favorably to Buchholz's, I would say, and who is two years younger.
In 2006, McLeod drafted Josh Bard in the first round. I don't really recognize the names of the other players in that Red Sox draft or, for that matter, in any of McLeod's draft since, but then I don't watch AL games, and as I said, it takes time for most prospects to find their way. It's also harder, I would imagine, for a Sox prospect to get an opportunity in the majors. I am familiar with Anthony Rizzo, because for a time this season he was LaHair's leading rival for PCL MVP. Before this year, Wilken would have been reluctant to use a 5th-round pick on a first baseman, because there are only 30 1B roster spots available to players with such limited defensive scope. Prospects like Rizzo are mainly good trading chips, which is how the Sox ultimately used him. Wilken heard the complaints this year about too few corner-infield prospects and drafted Vogelbach.
I guess a Wilken fan would put up Samardzija and Cashner to answer Bard, and Brett Jackson for Ellsbury. Ellsbury is the tough one until Colvin or Jackson prove something.
McLeod was not scouting director in 2004 when they drafted Pedroia, or in 2003 when they took Papelbon. If you go back that far, you're talking about Stockstill, not Wilken.
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I don't mean to be dismissive about Rizzo, he had fantastic numbers for a 21-year-old in AAA. It's just that having watched the Cubs in those years before 2006, I know that a scouting director can't make a living drafting slugging first basemen--you can name a half dozen Stockstill 1B prospects as easily as I can--and I don't blame Wilken for not trying.
Overall I'm very happy--not to say charmed--with the new brain trust even though I doubt that Wilken will still be there the day after his current contract expires. Because of the long lead time for prospects, I'll be able to enjoy the fruits of his labors for several more years after he departs.
I really liked Hoyer yesterday, because he pushed most of my buttons: more athletic, speed and power, etc. He sounded like a proud papa talking about all the home-growns on that second Series-winning team. My kind of team--and very unCub-like.
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VA Phil, I think it's fair to say that among regular commenters, your evaluation of the system is often the most favorable. My question to you is, do you think the whole farm system is better than middle of the pack? (And I'm not just talking about an evaluation of Wilken and his drafts.)
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I think if nothing else, it's interesting that the Theoregime believes that you need lots of brains to put together a team. No matter what I think of Wilken, and for me the jury is really still out, it did seem like the team was making its choices based on the opinions of one guy, Wilken. That's over. I think that's a good thing.
"Middle of the road"
Of course McLeod has to call the Cubs' system middle-of-the-road. You move into a new job and you don't start out by dissing the work of your predecessors, especially since one, Wilkens, is still your employee.
And you don't start out by overly praising it, either, since that creates pressure on you to do better, and may deflect credit in the future if you actually do win a World Series.
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Any update on whether the Cubs are still looking into Bohringer? I guess I don't understand how they keep him, Wilken, and Fleita in the fold without some serious butting of heads.
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Sullivan has an article covering the press conferences which includes some of "sources" that say Buehrle is a target.
Also on a topic some of us were debating yesterday, Hoyer is open to signing premium free agents.
When asked if the Cubs would shy away from any big ticket free agents, he replied: "No, I wouldn't say that. But we have to figure out which free agents are the best bet. … A lot of it is profiling which guys have peak years left."
crunch's favorite player
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i had a hard time explaining to people on TCR why "my favorite player" would be one of the stupidest draft pick expenditures any team could make...and he was injured pre-draft.
shoulder and elbow and a degenerative hip...give him 5 million bucks.
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Rosenbloom, who I generally dislike, has a good line in his morning column:
"Epstein said he and Hoyer spent six or seven hours with Quade, and while I have no idea what could take up that much time, other than mastering Quade's nickname decoder ring, I'll give the new guys points for being complete."
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What's really amazing there is that Al Yellon and Rob Neyer have a discussion and Neyer comes off as the dolt.
Recent comments
2nd in defensive WAR, NL.
6th in NL in RBI
Go complain about something else, like, "they never play good against the good teams", or some other shit.
Addy really has trouble breaking through .250 BA -- after his hot streak got him to .251, he has gone 1-for-17.
Thank goodness for Jansen's 2 WP on Friday -- otherwise this would have been a sweep.
There seems to be a direct correlation with overconfidence in the Cubs offense against mediocre/young pitchers and really poor offense against mediocre/young pitchers. So, let's fear the Pirate pitchers!
Rizzo due for a power surge -- one HR in August so far. He truly does hit them in bunches.
Sometimes I'm not as supportive of Cahill as maybe I should be. There, I said it.
Rough 8th inning all around -- HBP, Cahill error, Javy's poor decision.
Oh well - given that the Cubs didn't look like they were going to score, it's better to lose in 9 innings, save the bullpen and get changed for the PJ trip home.
Baez still learning
heyward with his 3rd multi-hit game since the all-star break (all in august)...2nd in the past 3 games during his 7 game hitting streak.
he's gone from flirting with a sub-.300 ob% to nearing .310 ob% in 3 games (1 game was just a 1 for 1 pinch hit appearance). all 5 hits in the past 3 games have come in a row...neat.
stewart with 7Ks through 3ip...of course.
that 10-13 mph difference in his fastball/change is working today...and they're swinging at his crappy slider.
brock stewart...steven brault...fun times for the cubs hitters vs allegedly competitive teams...maybe.
Maddon would have started three lefties against the Dodgers, Montgomery, Zastryzny and Lester, except that he doesn't have the juice to do that. No manager does. Maddon has a boss, Epstein (and probably Hoyer, too), who gave him a starting rotation of five guys including Hammel. Maddon was asked yesterday about the starting group for next year and basically said, Not my call, that's why I drive away in my RV in the summer and occasionally check in, etc.
video of Maddon.
always nice that he actually tries to honestly answer questions. Does mention that he wanted to give Zastr? a chance in a meaningful spot rather than a mop-up role.
from Muskat:
#Cubs Maddon: "I'm not going to make up an excuse for why I did what I did. It has nothing to do with lack of confidence" ... "It was the right thing to do today based on what I saw, what their lineup looked like and Rob Z.'s availability." #Cubs
Hammel not particularly understanding of getting pulled out...as he should. Be curious what Maddon had to say. All I can think of is is keeping arms fresh and maybe wanting to see if Zastr? is worth considering for the playoffs and how he'd do against the Dodgers.
great defense
Heyward, Russell, Baez, Bryant, Ross in particular...although Bryant's a bit hard to judge with all the positions.
Fowler and Rizzo in the top half of the NL for their positions as well (per fangraphs)...Zobrist right at the halfway cutoff for 2b in the NL.
I'm sure some luck is involved too, but the Cubs and Maddon knew what they were doing.


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We go through a lot of bottles in the beverage industry, and most of them go into the recycling bin or worse, the trash. However a few companies have designed bottles specifically to keep some of the glass out of the trash can for at least one more use.
Remember it's an ordered list: Reduce, Reuse, and only then Recycle.
This newish rum by drinking personality Zane Lamprey has pre-scored lines on the bottle so that you can cut it into one of three things: A goblet, rocks glass, or pint glass.
Then you can use one of several methods (including one with lighting a string on fire that seems like it would work well with the lined bottle) of cutting a bottle into a glass. Don't forget that you'll need to file down the edge afterword.
All the the liter-sized, ergonomic bottles from this company (Ford's Gin, Tequila Cabeza, Cana Brava Rum, Aylesbury Duck Vodka) are made with volume markers on the outside.
These make inventory easier for bartenders (rather than just estimating volume), they can make batching easier, and they're a popular choice to refill with juices and syrups behind the bar. So popular, in fact, that they started making available to bartenders special colored bands that fit around the bottles to indicate what is in them - green for lime and yellow for lemon, for example.
This PDF file shows all the ways the bottle was designed for bartenders.
East Imperial Beverages
This line of tonic water and sodas, available in just a few US markets so far, come in small bottles optimized for bartenders to reuse for bottled cocktails.
The labels are made from a type of metallic-plastic-something paper so that the labels pull off in one piece, typically without any glue residue left on the bottle. I've tried it at home and they're great.
I wrote a story for Saveur.com about how honeydew and cantaloupe melons are all the rage in the land of mixological masterpiece theatre.
"But now two other melons—cantaloupe and honeydew, those stars of breakfast buffets everywhere—are taking off on bar menus too." - me
There are recipes included from Houston's The Pastry War and Edinburgh's Lucky Liquor Co.
In a story I wrote for Details.com, I discussed some of the hidden technology used to improve cocktails out of site of the bar customer.
At molecular-mixology bars, the science is a big part of the show: Mists of vaporized cocktails, spherified Negronis, and tanks of liquid nitrogen used to freeze glassware and "nitro-muddle" basil. Increasingly though, other bars are working with the same high-tech equipment but being more subtle about it.
While you may recognize that you're having the best gin and tonic of your life, you may not realize that's because the lime was treated with Pectinex Ultra SP-L and both it and the gin were carbonated for maximum fizz.
Read the story here.
For Drinks International Magazine I wrote a story looking at trends seen in the American bars that made the World's 50 Best Bars list.
As you probably know, I am the voting coordinator for North America for the World's 50 Best Bars list and make an effort to always stop into ones on the list when I'm traveling.
But I didn't need to go very far to write the story on American bars, in fact I did most of it by phone. I interviewed:
Plus mentioned a lot of other bars of the 16 American ones on the list.
In my latest piece for Details.com I wrote about the history and current status of popcorn in drinks, be it fat-washed in or garnished atop.
It turns out that a million different places are doing it, and I mentioned about half of them and the various ways they're incorporating the movie food into the drinks.
In my latest post for Details.com I have a story about how music festivals are embracing craft cocktails. This is happening in the US and a bit around the world.


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BENNINGTON An East Road man was ordered held without bail after being accused of punching a woman and knocking her out during an argument on Sunday.
Robert G. Bourn, 45, of Bennington, pleaded innocent in Bennington criminal court on Monday to a felony count of first-degree aggravated domestic assault and a misdemeanor count of domestic assault.
In an affidavit, Officer Robert Murawski, of the Bennington Police Department, said police were called to an East Road home on Sunday around 9:45 p.m.
Murawski said he spoke with a woman who said she had argued with Bourn on Sunday. She accused Bourn of hitting her in the face three times.
The woman said she threw a lamp and a television remote at Bourn to get him to leave the room but said neither hit him. She also said she bit Bourn after he grabbed her by the chin and forced her against the wall.
Following the bite, Bourn hit her with his fist and knocked her unconscious, she told police. She said she woke up while he was dragging her by the hair into another room.
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(12/11/15/ - ATLANTA) --- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Newberry County School District in South Carolina is one of 85 school bus fleets in 35 states to receive rebates through EPA's Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) funding. Nationally, EPA announced the award of more than $7 million in rebates to replace or retrofit 400 older diesel school buses. The new and retrofitted buses will reduce pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and particulate matter that are linked to numerous health problems, including asthma and lung damage.
"Schools and other organizations that install clean diesel technology are doing more than just saving money --- they're creating cleaner, healthier air for children and all community residents," said Christopher Grundler, director of EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality. "This program continues to help thousands of children breathe easier and lead safer lives year after year."
This was EPA's third round of the rebate program aimed at replacing older diesel school buses. Applicants replacing buses with engine model years of 2006 and older will receive rebates between $15,000 and $25,000, depending on the size of the bus. This year, applicants also had the option of retrofitting school buses with engine model years between 1994 to 2006 with a Diesel Oxidation Catalyst plus Closed Crankcase Ventilation system (DOC plus CCV) to reduce toxic emissions. EPA will fully fund the cost of these devices up to $3,000.
EPA has implemented standards to make newer diesel engines more than 90 percent cleaner, but many older diesel school buses remain in operation and pre-date these standards. Older diesel engines emit large amounts of pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, which are linked to instances of aggravated asthma, lung damage, and other serious health problems. Nearly 17,000 of our country's schools are located within steps of a heavily-traveled road, potentially exposing more than six million children to traffic-related pollution at a time when their developing lungs are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of air pollution.
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Spring checkup done 3-18-06. Alive and well. Come, pahk the cah an find me.
Kenya believe it? Its upta $2.50 a gallin? Then ya sait cost $1.75 to git on an they want moah to git off? Caaws, if ya kno waya, the gettin off can be free but ya need to know jus waya to make yor move.
Seems tho its gettin wawse out thaya every day. They jus keep nickel and dimin ya to death an now thaya upta quatas! Trooth is, thaya headed ovah the top; wicked bad Im tellin ya.
Ayah, an wahm wethas soon heah which will bring em comin from the south and west and noth any day now! Yessah by gorey, mabbe we should reluurn the old back way or jus hunkah down and stay home for suppah. Still wannago?
OK. Maybe Ill jus leave mine an shaya spenses with ya. Ill pahk heah and you come git me.
OK, Ill pick ya up between 2 & 3.
While I wait for ya Ill just look around this place. They say sometimes ya can find some wicked awsum stuff around heah. Hey, whats the road doin ovah theya?
Dont know deah. Better climb ovah and check it out hi and lo and in between.
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Del Valle Expects To Return on Ortiz vs. Berto Undercard
By Ryan Burton
BoxingScene.com has been advised by Orlando Del Valle (16-0) that he will return to the ring on June 23rd on the undercard of the Victor Ortiz-Andre Berto rematch, which takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA. His opponent is still to be determined and the fight will likely be televised on Showtime Extreme. Del Valle just fought this past Friday when he defeated Christopher Martin (23-2-3) via unanimous decision. De Valle became the first fighter to knock down Martin in the process.
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Skip to comments.5 Muslim Soldiers arrested at Fort Jackson in SC
Posted on 02/18/2010 6:39:49 PM PST by csd
5 Muslim US Army soldiers have been arrested at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. They stand accused of attempting to poison the Army food supply at Fort Jackson, and they are now supposedly being referred to as the Fort Jackson five. These 5 muslim soldiers worked as Arabic translators for the US Army. Details of the situation are not clear, as this is still an ongoing investigation; and it is not yet known whether the suspects are still in custody.
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I thought you cannot reference the words Muslim, Democrat, or black in reference to crimes?
Don't forget Gay....
Lets try that again... HANG THEM!
Oh yeah that's right. As a matter of fact I think it is a thought crime to even think it.
"Not known if they are still in custody?"
Released on their own Recognizance, you think?
HA! *That's a VERY 'guttural' laugh BTW*
If they've disappeared nothing will save the obama administration.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! . They are absolutely Wahhabi !! There is no excuse for any Wahhabi Moslem to be in our military. Capture or kill them now!!! The cover up on Major hussien WAS CRIMINAL!!!
Ooohhh, you're right! (pinky at mouth)
I never even thought about that. Maybe that's why they covered it up for so long. Good thinkin'
That would pretty much end his presidency. He might still hold the office but it would only be a matter of time.
How on earth did something this big get covered up for two whole months?
Let them become cooks at the White House for the current administration.
Obama doesn't consider this "big." His problem with this is that they got caught. The MSM will let it die.
Bet they are in Pakistan.
who are the lawyers??? work for Holders firm???
When will it end?
Easy, muslim backlash.
Obama doesn't want it front and center his brethren are acting up.
The libs will never let that happen. We have to be tolerant. Terrorists are people too. We just need to try and understand them.......hmm, I don't think a Muslim army would let Christians in.
Exactly. Why should we be "tolerant"? But not them? My son was stationed at Ft. Jackson but any one's son or daughter could have been poisoned. I just don't get it. I guess many will have to die before those @$$* Congress critters get it.
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Westfield, Mass.-Sophomore Rebecca Tellier (Smithfield, RI) finished 62nd (361 runners) with a time of 20:43.71 to lead the Rhode Island College women's cross country team at the James Earley Invitational, hosted by Westfield State on Saturday.
The Anchorwomen tied for 14th (38 teams) with Coast Guard after posting a team score of 443. Williams College won the meet with a score of 46.
Freshman Allison Lomas (Saunderstown, RI) finished 11 spots behind Tellier at 73rd overall with a time of 20:54.61. Junior Jenna Pare (Tiverton, RI) followed Lomas with a 80th place finish and a time of 21:02.42.
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By KATE BETTS
Published: July 28, 2002
ALYSA HANTGAN knew the party was a success because there were gold American Express cards all over her dining room table.
With a spread of grilled vegetable and pesto sandwiches waiting in her kitchen on the Upper West Side, more than a dozen friends and acquaintances, many in the entertainment business, chattered happily as they fingered Fair Isle cashmere sweaters and rifled four rolling racks of floral print T-shirts, denim jumpers and tiny pairs of striped tights. ''Your apartment makes a really good showroom,'' one guest said as she came through the door, seven months pregnant.
Contentedly stacking sales slips and minding the credit cards was Lisa Berke, a stylishly dressed representative from the Petit Patapon design house. ''The layette is in the bedroom, and 18 months to 4 years is here in the living room,'' she said.
Welcome to the newest twist in that venerable fashion institution known as the trunk show. Now that investment clubs have been wrecked by the bear market and Tupperware parties have gone cyber, these shows are the latest excuse to get together.
Not the traditional fashion-forward department store pageants where fancy designers open fancy trunks full of ball gowns for fancy women, these are more democratic affairs, held in private homes or hotel suites from Charlotte, N.C., to San Diego, and catering to working mothers and society mavens with pressing toddler wardrobe needs. Most of the niche lines sold at the shows are responding to a void in the children's market for traditional clean-cut clothes like smocked dresses with rickrack trim and miniature quilted corduroy barn jackets. They are an alternative to generic Gap styles or the Britney-inspired bellybutton look. Brands like Petit Patapon, Emma T., Papo d'Anjo and Kule -- sold at invitation-only trunk shows, sometimes supplemented by Web sites and catalogs -- have answered a desire for logo-free clothes.
''Trunk shows for kids are just another indicator that consumers are frustrated with stores because the merchandise all looks the same,'' said Marshal Cohen, a co-president of NPDFashionworld, which tracks retail trends. While trunk shows represent too tiny a share of the $9.6 billion-a-year children's apparel market to measure, they seem poised for growth. Even as the adult clothing market is contracting, squeezed by consumers' financial worries, children's wear seems to be holding its own, with unit sales up 7 percent last year, according to NPDFashionworld.
Some trunk-show guest lists include a roster of Park Avenue society -- the Aerin Lauder, Marina Rust, Sloan Barnett crowd -- but no matter who shows up, the agenda is always equal parts practical shopping, social networking and old-fashioned mommy-and-me style advice.
''This is a great way for working mothers to connect and feel like they're still doing the mommy thing,'' Ms. Hantgan said. ''So many of them have kids under 3.''
In recent years, many new lines have joined the field, some with ambitious growth plans. Emma T., which was started four years ago by Nancy Tobin, a former merchandiser for Ralph Lauren Sport, when she couldn't find clothes for her two toddler sons, has scheduled 30 trunk shows for the fall season in private homes or country clubs in places including Charlotte; Dallas; Houston; Rumson, N.J.; Wellesley, Mass.; San Diego; and the Los Angeles area. And Papo d'Anjo is offering 44 trunk shows around the country this fall.
''Once you're in this business, you find out how many people do this,'' said Jane Schelling, a former fashion editor at Town & Country who is now a partner in Emma T. ''We have definitely not maxed out the South yet. My friend in Charlotte said that this is pretty much the way people buy their children's clothes.''
Although Emma T. projects only about $200,000 in sales this year -- small potatoes -- other lines are well established in the South and Midwest, among them Orient Expressed, based in New Orleans, and Kelly's Kids, which calls itself the nation's largest home party company selling children's wear.
Jamie Tisch, the wife of the film producer Steve Tisch, discovered Emma T. at a trunk show in Liz Lange's maternity boutique in Beverly Hills last year and immediately offered to hold a show in her West Hollywood home-furnishings shop, Better Things. She gave 10 percent of the gross to the charity Operation Smile. The show was so successful -- with Hollywood A-listers like Cecilia Peck and Elizabeth Wiatt scooping up three and four Emma T. roll-neck cotton sweaters at a time -- that Ms. Tisch is planning another one in September.
Prices for Emma T.'s basic pull-on corduroy pants, cotton stretch shirts and popular sweaters emblazoned with footballs or Labradors are about $10 more than similar items from the Gap. More elaborate pieces compare in price to styles from Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.
''We've tripled the number of people who attend our shows,'' Ms. Tobin said. ''We have over 1,000 names just of friends of friends who saw someone at a party wearing one of our dresses, and they e-mail us for an invitation.''
Then there are the women Ms. Tobin doesn't know, the ones who send her messages from across the country asking if they can run a trunk show themselves.
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Good power steering, interior is in good shape for how old the car is, missing the driver mirror, the gauge light doesnt work, has some rust, wear and tear but nothing that wouldnt be on a car thats this old. Has an A/C but the controls for it broke because it was so old, cracked dash board.
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The Research & Creative Works Conference is a venue for students to present original research and creative or artistic works to peers and expert judges. Held every semester at BYU-Idaho, the conference provides opportunities for students to network with professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill sets.
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In mid-19th-century Alberta, young Running Fawn's world of beauty and serenity is disrupted by the violence of white settlers stealing Blackfoot lands and by the increasing harshness of life on assigned reservations. Although Running Fawn slowly resigns herself to life on the reservation, she struggles fiercely with the strange beliefs of the Christian missionary who has come to live and teach among her tribe. Because of the strength of Running Fawn's convictions about the corrupt nature of the settlers and Christianity, her final conversion rings false. Still, Oke (The Red Geranium, LJ 11/1/95) combines the panorama of Alberta's history with the typical, gentle simplicity of her storytelling to fashion a tale that will be popular among her many fans.
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Christian romance writer Oke, whose sales have now topped 13 million, turns in a sensitive story of a young Blackfoot girl coming of age in nineteenth-century Alberta. Running Fawn's people have been devastated by smallpox and are struggling to make a new life on the reserve. A naive young missionary, Martin Forbes, arrives to preach that Jesus died for everyone, not just whites. He begins a simple school and selects his two most promising students, Running Fawn and the chief's son, Silver Fox, for the mission school in Calgary. Oke's at her best in the school scenes, through which Running Fawn is in constant distress; Silver Fox holds his own rather better, since he is determined to lead his people into rapprochement with the whites. Running Fawn decides to walk home from the school--several hundred miles--when she learns of her father's illness, and there are some nice passages, delivered in simple, almost poetic sentences, describing her as she fashions moccasins and snares a jackrabbit. And there's a love story, of course, as the lonely young missionary tries to marry Running Fawn and as Silver Fox actually does. Much more appealing than Oke's last offering, the gimmicky A Gown of Spanish Lace. John Mort --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.See all Product Description
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This book was a HUGE disappointment. The beginning was GREAT. It was very descriptive and enjoyable. But, as the book neared the end, I was hugely disappointed. Mrs. Oke skipped some major parts toward the end. The ending was not at all satisfying and it didn't even fit the story. It was unexpected and not good, to my better judgment. I was VERY disappointed and strongly feel that this is DEFINITELY not Oke's best. The plot did not lead up to the ending...although I enjoy a bit of romance (that occurred in the ending), in this book, it did not seem to fit WHATSOEVER!! In conclusion, I feel this book deserves three stars, because, I didn't care for the ending and I didn't like the last 2 or 3 chapters of the book...it seemed as though Oke got tired of writing it, therefore, it seemed as though she hurried to finished it, depriving us of details on key information.
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Tyson Fury Rips David Price, Says Audley Has No Guts
Tyson Fury: Don't buy Price hype, he was KO'd and Audley is washed up!
By Phil D. Jay
The recently announced British and Commonwealth title bout between current holder David Price and Olympic gold medal winner Audley Harrison has not gone unnoticed by unbeaten rival Tyson Fury.
The 24 year-old, who has long been linked to a fight with Price, believes that the Liverpudlian has chosen an easy option in signing to fight the former European champion, who at 40, Fury believes has seen better days.
"Audleys an old man and washed up, even at his prime had no guts!" Fury told World Boxing News.
"Price has been 'managed' so well, his team should be called Mothercare!"
Fury is lining up some of the top names in the division for his next outing, including the likes of David Haye and Tomasz Adamek and believes that Price has been built up too much following some unimpressive losses in the unpaid ranks.
"The British fans need to know that Price will be the first heavyweight to be great coming off a knockout defeat in the amateurs.
"There isn't anyone else, it's definitely a first. He was not a young kid either, he was three-time ABA champion and in his late twenties.
"Price has never been remotely tested as a pro so don't buy the hype."
Price, 29, has stopped eleven of his thirteen opponents so far and meets Harrison in his home city on October 13. The 6ft 8ins fighter believes he is seven fights away from fighting for a world title and both boxers seem content to avoid each other until either of them has a world belt in their possession.
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[SIZE="5"]Lol.[/SIZE]Comment by Thurman on 07-26-2012
Imagine a young cruiserweight beating old middleweights and calling himself the best. That's Fury, except he is a heavyweight with a size advantage over his smaller, aging opponents. Price isn't skilled either, but he's a class above Fury. Fury won't…Comment by tripper on 07-26-2012
[QUOTE=Sparked_26;12373280]Hardly. The big man is fairly light on his feet. He has a few short-comings but your comment is a nonsense.[/QUOTE] If hes light on his feet then im a helium balloon.Comment by DonCarlos83 on 07-26-2012
[QUOTE=Sparked_26;12373280]Hardly. [B]The big man is fairly light on his feet.[/B] He has a few short-comings but your comment is a nonsense.[/QUOTE] :no: :no:Comment by Fishkie on 07-26-2012
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Spartanburg man was victimized last week by a man promising to insulate his home.
The elderly man was approached at his North Blackstock Road home by a man driving a red mid-sized pickup truck. The man told the victim he needed to blow insulation above his ceiling. The two men agreed the work would be done for $150. Then the con artist, promising to do the work, asked to use the man's bathroom. When the suspect left, he took a small safe and a shoe box containing $600 in cash.
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benefit the public: Investors Union Spokesman
Iraqi Kurdistan's investment sector is a
mess, it does not benefit the public: Investors
Union Spokesman
July 1, 2012
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — A report from the
Financial Auditing Committee has led to debate over
investment projects in Sulaimaniyah and some dark
aspects of contracts the report has brought to
light. Yaseen Mahmood Rasheed -- known as Mala
Yaseen – is the CEO of Barez, one of the companies
involved in the investment projects reviewed. He is
also the spokesman for the Investors Union. Mala
Yaseen discussed the Financial Auditing Committee's
report with Rudaw.net and said that, although it
mentioned his company, these reports greatly serve
investment projects.
Q: A despised
term in Kurdistan is "investor," and "investment."
What to do you make of this?
Mala Yaseen:
Investment is a new field in Kurdistan that only
started after 2006. In some countries, investment
has brought calamities. In Egypt a few years ago,
news of fake companies and investors broke out and
was followed by the destruction of buildings. We
have to prevent such disasters from occurring here
in Kurdistan. After Feb. 17, 2011 [demonstrations],
investment projects have met with questions and
Q: Why?
Mala Yaseen:
Investments go through a number of stages. From 2006
to 2011, the people of Kurdistan were waiting to see
what investment was, what it could do and what it
has done. In 2011, opposition parties took advantage
of this new area and used investment to criticize
the government. The reforms of the Kurdistan
president were a response to the opposition's
The reforms started by targeting investment
projects. In the early stages, many investment
projects were halted. The reform committee even
halted some projects that had been allowed by the
People realized that investment projects were not
benefiting the public much. Investors were targeting
housing markets. All they wanted was fast
money-generating projects. Some investors declined
all projects except housing ones. Barez was one of
them. I was one of those investors, too. I have to
be honest.
Investment projects must benefit people. They should
not only serve a few people, like myself, so that
all of a sudden a few people get rich.
Q: And some of
those fast money-generating projects are useless.
Mala Yaseen:
Yes. There are housing projects in Sulaimaniyah that
were built in 2006 and now need renovation. The
problem is investment law. Investment law, too, has
to be renovated. Look, the Ministry of Agriculture
has been around for 22 years. The Financial Auditing
Committee has a number of reports about handling the
finances in this ministry, which is normal. But the
Board of Investment has been around only for six
years, and the Financial Auditing Committee has 40
to 50 reports on this board. This is not normal.
Q: The
Sulaimaniyah Board of Investment claims that the
Kurdistan Presidential Reform Committee did not find
anything against the board, yet you say Financial
Auditing Committee has all these reports on the
board. How is this so?
Mala Yaseen: I
do not know why the Reform Committee did not find
anything against the board. The Reform Committee did
a lot of great things. Before the committee,
agricultural lands were given to investment
projects, but the committee stopped that. Now only
non-cultivable lands are given to investment
projects. This is the greatest thing the committee
changed. The committee also changed the way licenses
are issued to investment projects, and annulled many
contracts. We visited Kurdistan's prime minister and
asked him to form a permanent committee to
continuously monitor investment projects.
Q: Foreign
investment companies, compared to local ones, are
not blamed for problems. How have they been able to
win the trust of people?
Mala Yaseen:
Well, there have been some fake foreign companies
too. But the real ones have good technological
abilities, capable staff and have presented good
projects in Kurdistan -- for example, the
pharmaceutical and cement factories in Sulaimaniyah.
Moreover, there are a number of five-star and super
nice hotels in Sulaimaniyah and Erbil built by
foreign companies, as compared to a country like
Afghanistan which does not have even one five-star
Q: Does the
Investors Union have information on the number of
projects run by foreign companies?
Mala Yaseen: A
large number of companies have asked for licenses.
However, the Council of Investment, which is chaired
by Nechirvan Barzani [prime minister] has halted a
number of projects. Now no permissions are issued,
in order to carry out reform, particularly for
housing projects. But in the past, 500 investors
were given permission to start projects. Just today,
permission was issued to the Asia Insurance Company.
However, another 500 investors are awaiting
permission to start projects.
Q: Investment
has now become child's play. Everyone asks for a
license to invest. Isn't that true?
Mala Yaseen:
Unfortunately, the investment law says investment
projects are to be assessed, but it does not say
investors too must be assessed.
You know, you see a guy who is a policeman, and one
day he quits his job and submits a proposal for an
investment project. Then he is permitted to carry
out the project and builds 1,000 housing units. I
mean there have been certain "investors" that not
only were not investors and did not have the money
to carry out any projects, but did not even have
money to pay for a taxi.
Lawyers of companies, or anyone, are given projects
and once they receive the approval they sell the
project for US$800,000 interest. Recently, I met
someone at the Sulaimaniyah Directorate of
Investment. The person was there to submit a
proposal for an investment project. This same person
came to me and asked for a $2,000 loan last year. He
has not even been given the project, but has already
sold half the project.
Q: Do you know
how many projects are sold [to other contractors]?
Mala Yaseen: In
Sulaimaniyah, it happens on a daily basis. But I
would say it's less than 100 projects. But due to
this phenomenon, now we have fake investors. A
number of people set up an office [claiming to be
investors] and sell other people's housing units.
This is what investment has turned into.
Q: Why is the
Investors Union silent in the face of this problem?
Mala Yaseen: We
sent several letters to the prime minister of the
sixth cabinet and informed him of the issue.
Q: Then what is
the solution?
Mala Yaseen: The
investment law has to be amended. A guy walks into
the investment directorate, and comes out talking of
millions of dollars. Serious reform is needed.
The Investors Union must hold an immediate
convention and discuss the issue. The Investors
Union, agriculture and industrial sectors have to be
given attention. The government's budget should not
be spent via investment directorates. These budgets
should not be allocated to housing projects; they
should help people set up factories.
The previous cabinet made a big mistake when it
delegated power to the general directorates. In the
beginning, I thought investment permissions were to
be given at the governor level, and therefore
thought it was a good step. I did not know that was
not the case, but instead Sulaimaniyah's Directorate
of Investment allows $300 million projects to go
Next year, the Financial Auditing Committee will
find out what a mess this sector is, especially when
they discover what projects are being permitted by
the investment directorates at the provincial level.
The investment directorates are authorized to permit
$50 billion projects. This is a disaster. In other
countries, not even the assessment of the investor
would be done in 10 days; here, the whole project is
approved in days.
Investment permission must be authorized by the
governors. A committee must be formed of five
general directors. In Sulaimaniyah, there are some
projects where the deadline has been extended from
two years to five years. This is a mess. This is not
in the interest of people.
Q: The free
trade zone in Sulaimaniyah was a project approved
eight years ago and US$950,000 was allocated to
design its master plan. But the project was canceled.
Was it not a good project?
Mala Yaseen:
It's good that it was canceled. We lost $950,000,
but saved 5,000 acres of land. Otherwise, we would
have lost the land too. I hope the land will not be
given to other projects.
Q: Opposition
parties in Sulaimaniyah now run some of the
companies and private sector businesses. Do you
think investment and the private sector are now
involved in a political conflict between parties?
Mala Yaseen: Why
should the opposition not have companies? They do
have companies. As long as they are operating their
companies legally, they should have companies.
However, in Sulaimaniyah there are a number of
projects that are licensed but have not started; the
lands are still open. There are some other projects
that have issues. There are some other projects that
have no issues, but the investor does not have the
money to carry out the project, the investor is
waiting for a time when he can get some money and
start the project.
I will not provide information about these projects
to the Board of Investment, but if Kurdistan's prime
minister asks me, I will give him all the
Q: There is talk
of rapid money-generating projects. What is the
volume of investment capital in Kurdistan?
Mala Yaseen: We
do not have an active banking system, so it is not
easy to accurately know the answer to that question.
However, investment projects are not the only source
of generating money. Now the tourism and agriculture
sectors also license projects.
However, the term "millionaire" does not make much
sense anymore. A million is nothing nowadays. Now
the criterion for being rich is having no less than
US$5 million. In Sulaimaniyah, 3,000 entrepreneurs
have a fortune that exceeds $5 million. In
10,000 individuals have US$5 million or more. Every
year, a number of people join the wealthy class of
$5 million.
In other countries, the government has investors pay
a monthly salary to a number of the people with
special needs; this is a form of taxation. But in
Kurdistan, the government does not tax the rich.
Some of them pay salaries to people with special
needs voluntarily.
Q: Why does the
report from the Auditing Committee target
Mala Yaseen: I
do not know why this report was published now. This
report was sent to the Council of Ministers six
months ago, so why was it published now? The report
includes studies of the companies Nalia, Qaywan and
Barez. The report should have been published and
responded to by the previous cabinet of the
Kurdistan Regional Government.
However, the Auditing Committee has done a great job
that serves investment. Their work is very detailed
and they are aware of all the investment laws.
Q: Some Iranian
citizens took $5 million from a number of
businessmen in Sulaimaniyah. As the Investors Union,
what have you done in that regard?
Mala Yaseen:
Unfortunately, that money is gone. That incident
dealt a blow to the Sulaimaniyah market. We lost a
number of great businessmen.
By Nawzad Mahmoud - Rudaw
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Complaint Review: Windy City Balloon Port
Windy City Balloon Port100 Ski Hill Road, Fox River Grove Fox river grove, Illinois United States of America
Windy City Balloon Port They're a big scam!! Fox river grove, Illinois
*Consumer Comment: People do fly
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They always have a weather excuse on the phone or a pilot can't fly that day specific because doesn't have enough people. Ah, sometimes they call you and cancel because is holiday. Save your money, time and the headache!!
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