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Obama Facade Crumbling As Birth Certificate Questioners Get Louder
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Unique among American public office holders, Barack Obama has enjoyed a freedom from scrutiny that would not be afforded your local dog catcher. Refusing to provide a valid birth certificate or school transcripts would disqualify anyone from most government jobs as well as most positions in corporate America.
For over two years, President Obama's cabal of protectors in academia, the old media and liberal interest groups has been successful in hiding these and other inconvenient facts about the odd man in the Oval Office. But as his incompetence becomes increasingly evident to the American people, curious observers have been chipping away at Obama's veneer of professional unassailability.
Just over three weeks from today, the remaining shreds of that facade will be demolished with the release of Dr. Jerome Corsi's latest investigative report, Where's The Birth Certificate? – already ranked #1 at Amazon and certain to be the first non-fiction blockbuster of the summer season.
[Click here to watch the WND TV ad on Obama's eligibility.]
Dr. Corsi's 2004 report, Unfit For Command, uncovered questions about Senator John Kerry's self-proclaimed valorous service in Vietnam and damaged the senator's presidential chances.
Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND and WND Books, the publisher of Where's The Birth Certificate?, called it "a game-changer – and the news media blackout on this issue has now turned into a media feeding frenzy to cover their negligent rear ends." Since before Obama's election, WND has been the only news organization to continue reporting consistently on the president's missing birth document.
By simply ridiculing anyone who raises the issue as "birthers," the president's liberal apologists have been able to sidestep questions about why Obama won't provide access to his birth certificate. The progressives' tried and true ad hominem mode of defense began to wear thin in recent months when Hawaii's governor publicly declared he would provide the documentation to put an end to questions about the birth certificate – and then was forced to reneg on the promise. Shortly thereafter, Donald Trump made headlines by asking why the president did not make the birth certificate available.
Now, with Dr. Corsi's book poised to hit the bestseller lists, the president will likely have some explaining to do, his defenders will need to do more than yell "birther" when the questions arise, and Obama's 2012 campaign managers themselves will likely be wondering why he won't just release the birth certificate, because the one thing they now know for sure is the issue is not going away before November 2012.
Click here to pre-order Where's The Birth Certificate? and view the WND TV ad campaign.
UPDATES: – Wes Pruden, The Ghost Of Birthdays Past
- More coverage by the Monk, who was way ahead of us on this topic, here and here. Check out the latter link for details on the "short form."
- More details here on the fringe element keeping this story alive.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - It's time to dust off the snowshoes and unpack the winter wear because winter is officially here. Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association on Saturday, Jan. 12, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. for its sixth annual National Winter Trails Day extravaganza.
Participants may register for a snowshoe hike, learn about snow core sampling, receive helpful winter safety information, demo gear, craft their own snow shelter and be a potential raffle prize winner. The festivities will be held in Tahoe Meadows just off of Highway 431/Mt. Rose Highway.
To participate, register online at www.tahoerimtrail.org or contact Hayley at 775-298-0238, email@example.com.
Free guided snowshoe hikes from Tahoe Meadows to the Tahoe Meadows Overlook and surrounding areas will take place throughout the day. Each hike has its own theme and guest interpreter. Don't forget your snowshoes - a limited supply of snowshoes will be available for participant use.
National Winter Trails Day is an excellent way for the community to learn more about the exciting array of winter recreation opportunities on the Tahoe Rim Trail and in the Lake Tahoe area. So bundle up, grab some free coffee and treats and join in what is sure to be an exciting day of winter fun.
Joining the TRTA for the day's events include: Great Basin Outdoor School, American Red Cross, Snowlands Network, Tahoe Expedition Academy, Incline Village and Crystal Bay Historical Society, Tahoe Institute for Natural Science, Tahoe Environmental Research Center, U.S. Forest Service, Waste Not, Tahoe Adventure Company, Sierra Avalanche Center, Nevada Wilderness Project, Tahoe Dave's, Sierra Nevada Alliance, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, Washoe County School District, Tahoe Mountain Sports and Boy Scouts of America Troop 10 from Reno.
For more information about the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, call 775-298-0012 or visit www.tahoerimtrail.org. The Tahoe Rim Trail Association, founded in 1981, is a nonprofit organization, which works to maintain and enhance the Tahoe Rim Trail system, practice and inspire stewardship and promote access to the beauty of the Lake Tahoe Region. The Association works in partnership with the USDA Forest Service and Nevada State Parks.


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A Project X-Style Christmas...
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I've been wanting to do something special this year, but I'm having my 5th baby Thursday and didn't know what, if anything, I'd be up to.ReplyDelete
This is a great idea. I'll run it by the fam!
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What a wonderful and inspirational idea that your friend has come up with!ReplyDelete
The NICU and Special Care Nursery is very near and dear to my heart as well. I will certainly be purchasing one of these bears to help out!!
For the past two years, on my son's birthday, we go out and purchase a couple of preemie sleepers and I have a friend knit me some baby hats and we go to visit the hospital and staff. The clothes go to the families of the babies and they eventually (depending on whether the baby can wear one in the isolet or not)get to choose an outfit that their loved one(s) can wear and even take home with them if they wish.
We have also made a scrapbook that is in the family lounge where parents can look through the book to see all of the success stories and to read about the angels that went on to a better place. After our experience, we are dedicated to supporting other parents that go through that initial shell shock of "what the heck has happened."


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This is an archival or historical document and may not reflect current policies or procedures.
December 2008
In This Issue:
Social Security To Be First Government Agency To Use Nationwide Health Information Network
Podcast Discusses When To Start Receiving Retirement Benefits
Social Security Proposes Expedited Records Request Provision
First Full Baby Boomer Year Closes, Bigger One Begins
Keep The Snow Where It Belongs
Social Security To Be First Government Agency To Use Nationwide Health Information Network
Beginning in early 2009, Social Security will be the first government agency to utilize the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and begin to receive medical records for some disability applicants electronically through the NHIN gateway.
Through the NHIN, Social Security will have instantaneous access to medical records. This will significantly shorten the time it takes to make a disability decision and make the process more efficient. The NHIN will help ensure records are received timely by making it easier and less labor-intensive for medical professionals to submit records.
Social Security is working with MedVirginia, the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, and Kaiser Permanente to implement the NHIN. In early 2009, the first real-world use of the system will begin between Social Security and MedVirginia.
The NHIN is an initiative of the Department of Health and Human Services and is supported by multiple government agencies and private sector entities. Please go to www.hhs.gov/healthit for more information.
Have you or your clients wondered about the best age to retire and receive Social Security benefits? Social Security's new podcast, "Deciding When to Start Receiving Retirement Benefits," is now available for listening at www.socialsecurity.gov/podcasts. In this podcast, Social Security Acting Deputy Commissioner Jason Fichtner and Deputy Commissioner for Communications Jim Courtney touch on the most important factors to think about regarding retirement age.
Please take a few minutes to visit www.socialsecurity.gov/podcasts and listen to "Deciding When to Start Receiving Retirement Benefits."
When it comes to reaching Social Security's goal of eliminating the disability backlog, 2008 included many challenges and even more impressive accomplishments. The economic downturn has produced a surge in disability claims and hearings. If new applications had not risen during the course of the year to unanticipated levels, there would have been a reduction in pending cases for the first time since 2001. As it was, Social Security received almost 26,000 more hearings requests than budgeted for, but due to productivity increases, we were able to process over 16,000 more hearings than projected and hold the increase in pending hearings down to 14,000 cases.
In fiscal year 2008, we moved quickly to add new staff, use new technologies, and improve our business processes. For example, we hired nearly 200 new administrative law judges as well as staff to support them. We also opened a National Hearing Center, which, through videoconferencing, hears and decides claims from those hearing offices with the highest backlogs. We introduced new electronic technologies and new processes to identify and expedite certain disability cases that are highly likely to be allowed. Through these efforts, we were able to virtually eliminate the aged case backlog (135,000 cases) that had been waiting over 900 days for a hearing decision.
These and other initiatives will continue to improve the quality of our disability claim review process and, providing that Congress gives us adequate, sustained, and timely funding, will allow us to reduce the number of pending cases. Although many challenges lie ahead, Social Security has responded to increased demands on our service and made impressive strides towards eliminating the disability backlog.
This holiday season, Social Security has good tidings to share with Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries: they will receive a 5.8 percent increase in benefit payments beginning with the January payments!
The 5.8 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits that over 50 million Social Security beneficiaries receive in January 2009. Increased payments to more than seven million SSI beneficiaries will begin on December 31.
Other changes: In 2008, the maximum taxable amount was $102,000. Beginning in 2009, the maximum taxable amount will be $106,800. This change will affect about 10 million of the 164 million workers who pay Social Security taxes. The tax rate remains the same: 6.2 percent for employers and employees, and 12.4 percent for the self-employed.
In 2009, it will take $1,090 in taxable earnings for a credit of Social Security coverage, up from $1,050 in 2008. All workers can earn up to four credits in a year. The average retired worker will receive $1,153 per month in Social Security benefits in 2009, up from $1,090 in 2008.
To learn more about Social Security changes coming in 2009, visit our online fact sheet at www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/factsheets/colafacts2009.htm.
Social Security Proposes Expedited Records Request Provision
Each year Social Security makes more than 15 million medical record requests for disability applicants and beneficiaries. Social Security has been working diligently on ways to make the disability determination process go faster and smoother for applicants and all parties involved. Now, Social Security is working in collaboration with advocates and the Disability Determination Services (DDS) to get legislation passed that will streamline the medical release piece of the disability process.
Currently, when a person applies for Social Security or Supplemental Security Income, part of the application process is to have the applicant complete several medical release forms (SSA-827) which Social Security and DDS use to send to medical providers. Each time we need a piece of evidence from another source, we must send out another medical release form. Sometimes, it is required that we go back to the applicant to have additional releases signed which delays the process.
Expedited Records Request would make the process go much faster. Applicants will still be advised of the need to obtain medical records, but they will be asked to grant Social Security permission electronically instead of on a signed paper form. No additional evidence of authorization would be required for the provider to release the information to Social Security. The provision would also relieve providers of existing liability for disclosure of medical records to Social Security when they respond to a request.
To learn more about disability benefits, visit www.socialsecurity.gov and select the "Disability" button along the top banner.
First Full Baby Boomer Year Closes, Bigger One Begins
This year saw the very first baby boomer begin to receive Social Security retirement benefits. Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, recognized as the nation's first Baby Boomer, applied for benefits the convenient and easy way — online at www.socialsecurity.gov. She received her first payment by direct deposit early in 2008.
Almost four million baby boomers will become eligible to retire in 2009! We have a suggestion for all those boomers: Save a trip and go online.
Applying online worked for Kirschling, and it can work for other boomers too. Tell people you know who are planning to retire to go to www.socialsecurity.gov and click on the "Retire Online" banner in the center of the page.
The weather outside may be frightful, but even more frightening is to be caught unprepared when February 17 rolls around. That's when it could begin "snowing" on your analog television set.
By order of Congress, analog broadcasts will end by February 17, 2009. People who don't have a digital television set or subscribe to cable will have to get their television through a converter box that allows old sets to receive digital broadcasts.
We want to let you know that the government is offering help to people who need to buy the converter boxes. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is issuing $40 coupons toward the purchase of a converter. Every household is entitled to two coupons. More than 100 retailers will accept the coupons toward the purchase of converter boxes.
Tell your clients they can keep the snow off their sets come February by requesting their coupons at www.dtv2009.gov.
Does anyone ever ask you when their next Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payment is coming? Questions like this arise when usual pay dates fall on holidays or weekends. Figuring out when benefits will be paid does not have to be a guessing game. Just visit our handy, online payment calendar. The calendar shows payment dates for the entire year of 2009, for Social Security benefits and SSI payments. You'll want to bookmark this page because the calendar at this web address is updated each year with the New Year's payment schedule. Take a look at the 2009 payment schedule by visiting www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/calendar.htm .
Subscribe to Social Security Update today and you'll always be in the know when it comes to Social Security news. All we need is your e-mail address.
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Daniel Henderson
Before coming to Keene State in 2012, Daniel had a full career in business, including nearly 20 years at Markem Corporation (now Markem-Imaje), where he was general counsel and a member of the senior management team.
In his role as Corporate Relations Officer at Keene State, he helps to forge long-term, strategic relationships between the College and business and industry. Daniel works with business leaders and with College faculty and staff to identify, define, and build plans to address strategic business needs and opportunities in ways that benefit business, the College, and its students. Much of this effort is focused around employers' need to recruit and retain talent.
Daniel's dream is that successful long-term business relationships will strengthen academic programs and open up more experiential learning opportunities and attractive careers to Keene State students, making Keene State an ever more-compelling higher education option. Businesses will benefit by having a strong and reliable source of future leaders. Read more here.
Daniel enjoys the outdoors all year round through kayaking, cycling, hiking, and skiing.
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2008 Party Platform Excerpts: Health Care
Families and individuals should have the option of keeping the coverage they have or choosing from a wide array of health insurance plans, including many private health insurance options and a public plan. Coverage should be made affordable for all Americans with subsidies provided through tax credits and other means.
Health care should be a shared responsibility between employers, workers, insurers, providers and government. All Americans should have coverage they can afford; employers should have incentives to provide coverage to their workers; insurers and providers should ensure high quality affordable care; and the government should ensure that health insurance is affordable and provides meaningful coverage. As affordable coverage is made available, individuals should purchase health insurance and take steps to lead healthy lives.
Pre-existing Conditions
Health insurance plans should accept all applicants and be prohibited from charging different prices based on pre-existing conditions. They should compete on the cost of providing health care and the quality of that care, not on their ability to avoid or over-charge people who are or may get sick.
Portability of Coverage
No one should have to worry about losing health coverage if they change or lose their job.
Mental Health & Addictions Coverage
Families should have health insurance coverage similar to what Members of Congress enjoy… We will finally achieve long-overdue mental health and addiction treatment parity.
Chronic-care and behavioral health management should be assured for all Americans who require care coordination. This includes assistance for those recovering from traumatic, life-altering injuries and illnesses as well as those with mental health and substance use disorders. We should promote additional tobacco and substance abuse prevention.
Federal Research
For the millions of Americans and their families suffering from debilitating physical and emotional effects of disease, time is a precious commodity, and it is running out. …We need to invest in biomedical research and stem cell research, so that we are at the leading edge of prevention and treatment… We will increase funding to the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the National Cancer Institutes.
We should increase competition in the insurance and drug markets; remove some of the cost burden of catastrophic illness from employers and their employees; and lower drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prices, permitting importation of safe medicines from other developed countries, creating a generic pathway for biologic drugs, and increasing use of generics in public programs.
Republicans believe all Americans should be able to obtain an affordable health care plan, including a health savings account, which meets their needs and the needs of their families.
Families and health care providers are the key to real reform, not lawyers and bureaucrats.
The current tax system discriminates against individuals who do not receive health care from their employers, gives more generous health tax benefits to upper income employees, and fails to provide every American with the ability to purchase an affordable health care plan. Republicans propose to correct inequities in the current tax code that drive up the number of uninsured and to level the playing field so that individuals who choose a health insurance plan in the individual market face no tax penalty. All Americans should receive the same tax benefit as those who are insured through work, whether through a tax credit or other means.
Pre-existing Conditions
Individuals with pre-existing conditions must be protected; we will help these individuals by building on the experiences of innovative states rather than by creating a new unmanageable federal entitlement.
Portability of Coverage
To empower families, we must make insurance more affordable and more secure, and give employees the option of owning coverage that is not tied to their job. Patients should not have to worry about losing their insurance.
Mental Health & Addictions Coverage
A culture of wellness needs to include the treatment of mental health conditions. We believe all Americans should have access to affordable, quality health care, including individuals struggling with mental illness. For this reason, we believe it is important that mental health care be treated equally with physical health care.
Federal Research
We support federal investment in basic and applied biomedical research. This commitment will maintain America's global competitiveness, advance innovative science that can lead to medical breakthroughs, and turn the tide against diseases affecting millions of Americans - diseases that account for the majority of our health care costs.
We call for a major expansion of support for the stem-cell research that now shows amazing promise and offers the greatest hope for scores of diseases - with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells - without the destruction of embryonic human life.
Parental Rights
Because the family is our basic unit of society, we fully support parental rights to consent to medical treatment for their children including mental health treatment, drug treatment, alcohol treatment, and treatment involving pregnancy, contraceptives and abortion.


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Will 'The Hawk' Land in Cooperstown?
Andre Dawson was born the same year I was - 1954. His birthday is the same as my eldest child's - July 10. But neither of those trivial bits have anything at all to do with his candidacy for election to baseball's hall of fame.
There's a strong numerical case to be made on behalf of The Hawk. I'll leave it to others to keep making it. But once it's been laid out I'd add a couple of intangible, immeasurable flourishes as finishing touches.
I remember a game that I want to say, but can't prove, happened during Dawson's MVP season of 1987 when everything he did seemed spectacular. Whoever was the starting pitcher for the Cubs on this particular day didn't have it and was getting cuffed around in the top of the 1st. The first two outs of the game were accomplished by Dawson throwing runners out at the plate, prompting an admiring Harry Caray to remark, "Dawson's pitching a better game than [fill in the blank]!"
A more generic endorsement of his worthiness, in my book, is the trouble he went to on a daily basis just to take the field. Dawson was known for spending a couple of hours both before and after games icing his fragile knees so he could stay in the lineup and off the DL. He not only insisted on playing, he managed to do it at a consistently high level. People always talk about athletes as role models for kids. The hell with that. What about serving as role models for their peers? I always thought Dawson must have been a tremendous example in the clubhouse of how a true professional should approach his craft.
And then on a related note, of course, there's the quasi-legendary blank contract that Dawson accepted to play for the Cubs in the first place, confident that his production would be fairly compensated after the fact instead of on the come.
Milton Bradley and, his prodigious power numbers notwithstanding, Sammy Sosa may have been highly paid for their time in right field at Wrigley, but you can combine the two at their respective bests and still have nothing more than a cheap imitation of Andre Dawson.
He was truly menacing both in the field and at the plate in ways that only the very best ever are. If you insist on numbers, Dawson compiled those too. But mostly he stacked up exclamations like, "Holy Cow!"
Here's hoping he gets in this time around and holds the door open for Santo next year
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Wasn't he the first to wear form fitting around his thighs? They were quite a target for intimidation from the mound to the plate, but that's where his power was.
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I wish the world had seen him play in Montreal before his knees were shot. As great as his 1987 season was, I think there is a lot of residual resentment that he won the MVP for a last place team.
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I don't think there's resentment over Dawson winning an MVP. He won it because Smith and Clark split their vote for the Cardinals. It happens.
I think if anything is keeping him out it's the spotlight that's been shone recently on OBP. Dawson's is awful.
I'm often interested to know the age of the extreme Dawson lovers. Or lovers of any player from the past for that matter. Many, it seems, were kids or fairly young fans when Hawk was playing for the Cubs and I think a lot of their love is fueled by the nostalgia you feel for that time in your life as a fan. You can never care about a player as much as you do when you're a kid.
Same with me for Williams, Santo and Jenkins. I've heard some good arguments on why Williams shouldn't be in the Hall. But I'm glad he is. And it's probably just my age but Santo not being in is a far bigger injustice than Dawson not being in.
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I'm a big Dawson fan, but "Milton Bradley and, his prodigious power numbers notwithstanding, Sammy Sosa may have been highly paid for their time in right field at Wrigley, but you can combine the two at their respective bests and still have nothing more than a cheap imitation of Andre Dawson." doesn't make any sense unless you're talking about some nebulous integrity standard.
There are very few players in the history of baseball who had a five year stretch as good as Sosa's from 1998 to 2002, and they're all HoF'ers or on their way.
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If the best arguments for Andre Dawson being in the hall of fame is that he "looked" like a HoF'er or that he worked hard, he doesn't belong. He's one of those guys, like Rice, who will lower the statistical threshold for other players to get in.
Baseball wise, Sammy and Dawson were very similar players. CF'ers with power and speed who didn't hit for much average or walk often, who eventually moved to right field.
Maybe you should have watched Sosa play in the flesh, and you'd know a little more about him (since you seem to think I haven't seen Dawson play.)
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Dawson belongs more than rice.
Rice getting in opens the doors to alot of nearly greats
(from 10,000 feet over Florida)
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problem with dawson is no one knew he existed until he became a cub.
looking around the net you'd swear he was a rookie coming to the cubs. hell, even "best of" and highlight shows VERY rarely shows any footage of him in MON.
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it didn't help his HOF case that the only time Dawson made it to postseason as an Expo was in 1981, in the strike shortened season. They got into the playoffs by being the 2nd half East division winners. The Expos did beat the Phils (the first half winners) in the NLDS but lost to Fernando and the Dodgers in the NLCS.
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Using the Hall's 75 percent threshold, the Tribune's voters would elect Roberto Alomar, Andre Dawson
The ballots include Sullivan, Rogers, Greenstein, Mitchell, Hersch, Van Dyck and Gonzalez.
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I'm old enough to have seen Dawson in his prime and given the choice between Sosa in his prime or Dawson in his, it's Dawson. Dawson had all 5 tools and used them all. Sosa had at least 4 tools and chose to use 1. Better player, better teammate, hands down.
Just for kicks, lets look up the "five tools" at their best, and see how they compare:
Hitting for Average: Sosa .328 Dawson .308
Hitting for Power: Sosa 66 HR's Dawson 49
Throwing: Sammy 17 assists Dawson 17
Running: Sammy 36/11 SB/CS. Dawson 39/10
Fielding: CF/RF Rate 97/109 Dawson 110/110
Then there's the "6th tool" - plate discipline:
Sammy 116 BB's Dawson 44
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You forgot the 7th tool...steroids
Dawson had more doubles, more triples, more steals, almost as many RBI, and was a much better fielder than Sosa.
Playing well in 1980 was just a little different than playing well in 1998.
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You know that Dawson didn't use steroids?
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His impact is felt even by today's generation. Watching him play for the Cubs on WGN, All-Star center fielder Torii Hunter credited Dawson with inspiring him to choose baseball over football as a kid in Pine Bluff, Ark.,
''He's the best I've ever seen,'' said former teammate Ryne Sandberg, using his own Hall of Fame speech in 2005 to lobby for Dawson.
That might be the best test of Dawson's Hall candidacy: the eye test...
As Sandberg said, ''No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more or did it better than Andre Dawson.''
Though I agree that the HoF standards include things other than statistics, the only argument that gets Dawson into the HoF is that the standards should include about 50% "intangibles" which to me is ridiculous. The most that should be is maybe 10%.
There were times when Dawson was a HoF player, but for long stretches of his career he was simply a good ballplayer.
But regardless, there's no need to try to tear down Sammy Sosa to try to justify Dawson's inclusion in the HoF. Nor is there any way to reasonably argue that Dawson was a better player at the peaks of their respective careers. When you're clinging to leadership and ice on knees to justify one player being better than another, you've already lost the argument.
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When Andre Dawson retired, he was:
22nd in Homeruns
24th in RBI
38th in hits
72nd in runs scored
21st in total bases
And 125th in stolen bases in the entire history of baseball
In addition, Dawson is the only player eligible for the HOF that has at least 2,700 hits and 400 homeruns who isn't in the Hall.
During his career, Dawson won:
NL Rookie of the Year (1977)
NL MVP Runner Up (1981, 1983)
8 Gold Glove awards
8 All-Star Team selections
4 Silver Slugger awards
The knocks I have heard on Dawson are that 1) he had a low OBP, and 2) he didn't deserve the MVP award he received in 1987. Dawson's career OBP is relatively low at .323. That can't be argued. But Dawson got tremendous production even while his OBP was low. For instance, in 1978 Dawson's OBP was only .299 for the year. Yet he managed 154 hits and 269 total bases. His OBP fell below .300 again in 1985 to .295, but he managed 135 hits and 235 total bases. Compare that to Milton Bradley who posted an OBP of .436 in Texas in 2008, but managed just 133 hits and 233 total bases. I don't mean to suggest that Bradley is a Hall of Famer or the equivalent of Dawson. I simply wanted to show how productive Dawson was even in years when his OBP was quite low.
As for not deserving the 1987 MVP award, I don't think it really matters. The fact is that he did win it. It's on his resume and it's considered part of his legacy. Plus, with or without the award, his 1987 performance was tremendous, especially for a guy playing on a last place team.
Finally, I don't want to speak for Mike Wellman, but the intangibles I think of with Dawson are not simply "leadership and ice on knees." In baseball, there are certain guys that garner the respect of their peers and the fans more so than other players. They are more feared at the plate, more closely watched on the base paths, and more respected in the field. Dawson was that kind of player.
Sure Dawson was a leader. Other players say he worked harder than anyone else. It's true he had terrible knees which had to constantly be iced and which prevented him from being even greater than he was. But there was something else too. I can't completely quantify it, or even properly name it, but there was a universal respect for Dawson that is extremely rare. That's not the only reason he should be in the Hall, but it should be considered.
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"So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that."
It's sad that you view baseball through the lens of statistics. Mike wrote a nice, personal article on why he likes Dawson and feels he is a hall of famer, focusing specifcially on his intangibles (even going out of his way to bracket the statistics part of the argument at the beginning), and your response is: "There are very few players in the history of baseball who had a five year stretch as good as Sosa's from 1998 to 2002."
Who the fuck cares? It wasn't the point of the piece.
Thanks for sharing Mike (and Cubster with the quotes) those views echo my own on the Hawk.
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Re: Will 'The Hawk' Land in Cooperstown?
What's sad, is your inability to read.
"...Sammy Sosa may have been highly paid for their time in right field at Wrigley, but you can combine the two at their respective bests and still have nothing more than a cheap imitation of Andre Dawson."
Maybe the sentence was too long for you to focus on, but when you hit .324 64 160 despite a league leading 37 IBB's, the only person you may be cheap imitation of is Babe Ruth. Dawson is the cheap imitation in that analogy, not Sosa. Sorry, you are wrong again.
If you say "all around player" where you cap the contribution of the hitting component to compose an "all around game", then the young Dawson was probably the better all-around player. When you look at who had the best season, if a team swaps out the 2001 Sosa with any team Dawson played on, they win four more games with Sosa.
Re: Will 'The Hawk' Land in Cooperstown?
Loved watching the Hawk play. Loved his intensity, his eyes, his leadership. But I can't see him in the hall. And yes, it's that damn OBP. Joe Posnanski wrote a good article on him a while back, and made mention how OBP isn't just about walks:
3 things struck me from that piece: If elected, Dawson's OBP would be the lowest of any HOF outfielder by 20 points. His average would be the 3rd lowest. And third, this pill: "Dawson got on base less often than the average major leaguer of his time. That's just a very tough thing to overlook."
Tough indeed. Great player, and I won't complain when he's elected (and I think he will be elected). But he wouldn't get my vote.
Re: Will 'The Hawk' Land in Cooperstown?
It kills me that Posnanski feels that way because he is a great writer. But even great writers can be wrong.
Pos claims that he could see voting for Dawson if he had a higher batting average; something in the .295 to .300 range. In order to have a .295 batting average, Dawson would have had to have gotten 7.4 hits per year more than he did. That's just slightly more than one hit per month. Is that really what separates the HOF players from those not worthy to be in the Hall?
I don't mean to suggest that 7.4 hits per year is insignificant. Over the course of Dawson's 21 year MLB career, that would have amounted to 155 additional hits. That's basically an entire season's worth of hits. But what Pos is saying is that he would vote for Dawson if he had 2,928 hits, but he can't with Dawson only having 2,774 hits. That's too fine a line for me, especially considering the other things Dawson achieved in his career.
While he's a great writer, Pos puts too much emphasis on stats, particularly OBP. He seems to throw out everything else when evaluating a player. That's not to say that stats are not important. They are and they shouldn't be ignored, but we're talking about the Hall of Fame, not the Hall of Stats. Things other than stats should and do count.
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Casey Alexander recently completed his second season as head coach of the Stetson men's basketball program in 2012-13. He is the 20th head coach in program history, which began with the 1900-01 season.
In his second campaign at the helm, Alexander led Stetson to a 15-16 overall mark and an 11-7 Atlantic Sun Conference record in 2012-13, both the best since 2008-09. The Hatters' 11-7 league tally earned them the three seed in their first A-Sun Tournament since 2008-09.
Defeating ETSU in the league championships for the first time ever, Stetson advanced to the A-Sun Semifinals for the first time since 2005-06, but ultimately fell to eventual A-Sun Champion and NCAA Tournament darling FGCU. The Hatters' 67-46 victory over the Bucs was the largest tournament win for Stetson since 1993, and the 25.4 percent shooting they held ETSU to was a new A-Sun Tournament record.
The Alexander brand of basketball brought plenty of positive offensive numbers in his second season, as the Hatters were consistently near the top of the league in scoring, field goal percentage, and three point shooting. Stetson really excelled, however, in sharing the ball. The Hatters were near the national leaders in assists per game all season long, ending the 2012-13 campaign eighth in the entire country averaging 16.2 helpers per contest.
A number of individuals achieved tremendous success under Alexander both on and off the court in 2012-13. Adam Pegg was named First Team All-Atlantic Sun, Capital One Academic All-District, and A-Sun Scholar-Athlete of the year for his excellence on the court and in the classroom. Chris Perez earned Second Team All-Atlantic Sun honors, while Hunter Miller was named to the Academic All-Conference Team.
In his first season in DeLand, Alexander led the Hatters to their then best record since 2008-09, while narrowly missing out on the A-Sun Tournament due to tie-breaker rules. Stetson's 6-12 league mark was also the best since 2008-09.
The 2011-12 Hatters improved their scoring output by 7.9 points, their shooting percentage by 14 percentage points, and three-point shooting by a staggering 46 percentage points from the previous season. Stetson also made improvements in free throw percentage (.620 to .695), assists per game (9.5 to 15), and rebounds (33.1 to 36.5).
There were also individual accomplishments during Alexander's first year at the helm. Junior center Adam Pegg (Clearwater, Fla.) was named to the All-Atlantic Sun Conference First Team, the first to do so since Garfield Blair in 2009. Pegg led the Hatters with 14.9 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. Pegg (twice) and sophomore Chris Perez were also both named A-Sun Newcomer of the Week during the 2011-12 campaign.
Alexander came to Stetson from then fellow A-Sun Conference member Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., where he spent 16 years working under head coach Rick Byrd. He was an assistant coach for the first seven years before being elevated to associate head coach prior to the 2002-03 season.
His responsibilities at Belmont included coaching, on and off campus recruiting, practice scheduling and planning, scouting, off-season player development, academic monitoring of players, coordinating and directing summer camps.
While at Belmont, Alexander helped the Bruins to four Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament Championships, four NCAA Tournament appearances, one NIT appearance and a spot in the NAIA Final Four (1996). During his tenure, the Bruins produced two A-Sun Players of the Year, five CoSIDA Academic All-Americans and more than 86 A-Sun Academic All-Conference student athletes.
Alexander had long been known as one of the top assistant coaches in college basketball. He was ranked by FoxSports.com senior college basketball writer Jeff Goodman as the No. 5 'Mid-Major Assistant Coach' in the nation and was rated sixth in the same category by Jason Belzer of CollegeInsider.com.
Prior to his coaching stint at Belmont, Alexander was a member of the Bruins' basketball team. He had a standout four-year career (1992-95), establishing himself among the top 10 in several of the school's career statistical categories. As the team's captain, he earned a spot on the All-Tennessee Collegiate Athletic Conference team in 1995 when Belmont posted a 37-2 overall record and an 18-0 TCAC mark.
Belmont played to a record of 119-25 during Alexander's career. For his contributions both as a player and coach, Alexander was inducted into the Belmont University Athletic Hall of Fame on October 7, 2005.
Alexander, a 1995 Belmont graduate with a degree in physical education, earned his Master of Science degree in Sport Management from Austin Peay in 1996. He was born on June 8, 1972, in Chattanooga, Tenn., and raised in Nashville. He and his wife, Sunni, have three children: Allie, Reed and Mason.


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Monday, August 5, 2013
The green barn at Carnes Crossroads should be rebuilt in the next 60 to 90 days.
The well known Berkeley County structure will serve as a pavilion and gathering place for the Carnes Crossroads community, where residents can hold meetings and picnics. That's according to Daniel Island Company's Communications Director Julie Dombrowski and VP of Development Bill McKenzie.
They said Carnes Crossroads is set to become a community similar to Daniel Island with a small town feel that has retail, parks, trails and corporate offices.
The 4,000-square-foot Dallas V. Carnes Barn is in the Goose Creek city limits. For years the barn has been visible to commuters near the intersection of U.S.-17A and U.S.-176.
McKenzie said the Daniel Island Company thought of turning the barn into offices but realized that would limit its enjoyment to a few people. "It will be a pavilion-like structure, more open air with the ability to enclose during the cold," McKenzie said. "It's designed to be flexible."
In 2009 the barn was moved a few hundred yards to its current location near the Carnes Crossroads Information Center.
"It's a little more complicated than starting from scratch," McKenzie said. "We're trying to reuse as much as we can. Some of the wood was rotten. The doors are being reworked."
"We felt it was important to keep it because it's historic," Dombrowski said.
"There really wasn't a whole lot to it," McKenzie said. "It has a second floor, but we're not going to utilize it."
Hill Construction is doing the renovations with architectural designs by Stubbs-Muldrow-Herin.
The barn's first owner of record was absentee owner Joseph Thorowgood in 1682, according to an archeological report by Brockington & Associates.
The land has had several owners since, including more recently Dallas V. Carnes (for whom the barn and crossroads is named) and Howard C. Prettyman, who appears to have built the barn in the late 1930s.
Carnes died prior to 1931. In 1938 Berkeley County Sheriff P.E. Myers Jr. sold Carnes' estate to Prettyman.
Prettyman was a Summerville timber man who acquired several thousand acres of local forests for use in his mill, H.C. Prettyman and Sons, according to the archeological report.
The Carnes Barn is a transverse-crib horse barn with a metal gambrel roof, according to the report describing the original barn. The two-story structure has a large, open hayloft about 12 stalls and various storage rooms.
It is a prime example of agricultural architectural styles from the early 20th century.
The barn has had continual upkeep. The report indicates the roof has some wind damage and some of the foundation piles exhibit damage from termite infestation. Overall, the barn is in good condition for its age, the report continues.
Two ventilators along the ridgeline provide air circulation to the hayloft. Each ventilator has a lightning rod with grounding wires running down each barn corner.
The structure measures 79 feet north to south and 34 feet east to west. The two main doors are 10 feet, 6 inches wide and are on both ends of the barn. The doors slide on overhead hardware.
The east elevation has six Dutch stall doors constructed of battens. The west elevation has six stall doors and one batten door on the north end that provides the only pedestrian entrance.
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LAHAINA - Buzz Williams reached a milestone, and Marquette sent a message.
The Golden Eagles claimed fifth place in the EA Sports Maui Invitational on Wednesday, and gave Williams his 100th win as Marquette's coach, by beating Southern California 72-64 at the Lahaina Civic Center.
The Golden Eagles showed resolve in multiple ways during their trip to the Valley Isle. They won back-to-back games after losing to Butler on a buzzer-beater in the first round, and the second of those victories came after the Trojans, who trailed 39-27 at halftime, rallied to get within a point.
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Marquette's Jamil Wilson gets back on defense after hitting a 3-pointer during the first half of his team's 72-64 victory over Southern California on Wednesday.
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"I thought they came at us to start the second half, and we didn't respond right away," Williams said. "Then I thought we were kind of able to level it off through the next media timeout in the third media timeout we came back with what we needed to come back and win."
Jamil Wilson scored 19 points for Marquette (4-1), which received votes in The Associated Press poll released Monday and might make a move upward.
"I felt like it was great for us to turn it around and get these two wins," said Wilson, who was 7-for-9 from the field, sinking three of four 3-point attempts. "It shows the maturity of our team."
The Golden Eagles' Junior Cadougan scored 11 points, and Chris Otule had 10.
Marquette's Vander Blue suffered an apparent knee injury with just under three minutes left in the game.
"The one doctor here said he didn't hurt or tear his ACL," Williams said. "He thought it was twisted, but that's not confirmed."
"He's good," Wilson said. "He was just telling us, he dove for the ball someone hit his knee. He's icing it now but he should be all right."
The Trojans (3-2) got 21 points from J.T. Terrell.
"We had a chance today," said USC coach Kevin O'Neill.
The Trojans trailed 41-30 after Otule's layup 80 seconds into the first half, then went on a 15-5 run that followed the Golden Eagles' move to a zone defense. Marquette scored the next nine points however - Cadougan assisted on Wilson's 3-pointer, then converted two layups and a jump shot - and never led by less than six the rest of the way.
"We tried to give them a different look and they executed and brought the score back," Wilson said. "But coach Buzz and everybody were just saying, 'Keep poised, make great plays. Throw good pitches and we'll be all right.' And we came back out with the win."
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Cadougan 3-7 5-6 11, Anderson 1-1 1-2 4, Blue 3-11 0-0 6, Lockett 2-5 4-4 8, Otule 5-7 0-0 10, J. Wilson 7-9 2-2 19, D. Wilson 1-3 0-1 2, Thomas 0-3 0-0 0, Taylor, Jr. 0-0 0-0 0, Gardner 3-5 6-6 12. Totals 25-51 18-21 72.
Fontan 1-8 4-4 7, Dedmon 1-2 1-1 3, Terrell 7-16 2-2 21, Wesley 3-11 4-6 12, Wise 5-11 1-1 11, Stewart 1-3 0-0 2, Bryan 0-0 0-0 0, Fuller 0-0 0-0 0, Blasczyk 0-0 0-0 0, Oraby 4-5 0-1 8. Totals 22-56 12-15 64.
Halftime-Marquette 39-27. 3-Point Goals-Marquette 4-10 (J. Wilson 3-4, Anderson 1-1, Blue 0-1, Cadougan 0-2, Thomas 0-2), Southern Cal 8-18 (Terrell 5-9, Wesley 2-5, Fontan 1-2, Stewart 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Marquette 35 (Gardner, Lockett, J. Wilson 6), Southern Cal 31 (Wise 9). Assists-Marquette 12 (Cadougan 6), Southern Cal 16 (Fontan 9). Total Fouls-Marquette 17, Southern Cal 20. Technicals-Gardner, Dedmon. A-2,400.


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|A New Light on Disordered Ensembles
Because individual biomolecules are very small, x-ray scattering experiments usually determine their structures by an analysis of scattering from a large number of them. In crystallography, scattering by many molecules in identical orientations vastly enhances the signal from a single molecule. However, not all biomolecules form crystals. They are more usually found in disordered ensembles in aqueous solutions or in biomembranes. Now, researchers from Arizona State University, SLAC National Accelerator Center, Berkeley Lab, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have performed, at ALS Beamline 9.0.1, the first experimental demonstration of a method that amplifies the information in the x-rays that scatter from disordered biomolecules, allowing the reconstruction of an image of a single molecule from fluctuations in the scattering from an ensemble of randomly oriented copies.
The overwhelming majority of known molecular structures at the atomic scale have been determined by x-ray crystallography, a technique that cannot be applied to molecules that resist crystallization (e.g., many membrane proteins). One solution to this problem would be to exploit the billionfold increase in peak brightness provided by an x-ray free-electron laser, due to which it may be possible to detect meaningful signals from single microscopic particles. Because of the large flux of radiation, however, it is necessary to work in the so-called "diffract and destroy" mode, in which the x-ray pulse must terminate within about 50 fs to avoid resolution-limiting effects resulting from the disintegration of the particle. The difficulty of targeting a single particle in such an experiment could be overcome with the development of a method for extracting structural information from scattering by a disordered ensemble of particles.
The absence of periodicity in such a sample means that the scattered x-rays form a continuous distribution, as opposed to discrete Bragg peaks. This allows for analysis of the data at a finer sampling rate, both radially (outward from the center) as well as angularly (around a ring of constant radius). If sampled finely enough, it has been suggested that enough information to reconstruct an image may be obtained from minute fluctuations in the angular intensities. These fluctuations can be detected via autocorrelation: a statistical analysis that facilitates the extraction of subtle patterns from a noisy signal. Since angular autocorrelations do not depend on a particle's orientation, it can be shown that the sum of the angular correlation functions from many diffraction patterns (each from many particles) converges to that from one particle. This can then be inverted to an image of a typical particle using iterative phasing methods.
In these experiments, the particles were nanorods varying in length and diameter by approximately 10% to 15% in both dimensions; a small but significant fraction (~20%) of the nanoparticles were spherical in shape. The sizes of the nanoparticles were approximately that of a typical virus, suggesting a possible application to determining the structures of virus particles supported on a similar substrate. The researchers collected soft x-ray transmission diffraction patterns using 750-eV highly coherent x-rays (1.65 nm in wavelength). Hundreds of diffraction patterns were collected from different 15-micron-diameter regions, each containing approximately 10 ± 5 nanorods. The experiments also showed that, even if the measured diffraction patterns are from two different particle shapes (in this case a nanorod and a nanosphere), simultaneous reconstruction of the real-space structures of the both particle types is possible.
As demonstrated for the first time in these experiments, the advantages of signal amplification, damage reduction, and access to oversampled intensities may be combined to determine the structure of a single particle by diffraction patterns from many identical particles with neither translational nor orientational order. The extra information present in the angular correlations allows for an ab initio reconstruction, free of modeling and a priori assumptions.
Research conducted by R.A. Kirian, U. Weierstall, and J.C.H. Spence (Arizona State University); M.J. Bogan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory); S. Marchesini (ALS); D.A. Shapiro (Brookhaven National Laboratory); and H.C. Poon and D.K. Saldin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, and the National Science Foundation. Operation of the ALS is supported by the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: D.K. Saldin, H.C. Poon, M.J. Bogan, S. Marchesini, D.A. Shapiro, R.A. Kirian, U. Weierstall, and J.C.H. Spence, "New light on disordered ensembles: Ab initio structure determination of one particle from scattering fluctuations of many copies," Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115501 (2011).
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The season's not yet over for some, but the awards are already rolling in.
Two area players and two area coaches picked up top honors Monday when the District 9 Baseball Coaches Association announced its all-district selections.
Seneca East's Mason McWilliams was named the Division IV player of the year while Tiger mentor Frank Lamoreaux gained the coach of the year honor.
Meanwhile in Division II, Bellevue's Jake Strayer picked up the top player award while Clyde's George Parks shared the coaching accolade with two others.
In all, 38 local players were selected for honors.
Division IV had the greatest concentration of local players.
Along with McWilliams, the first team included Seneca East's Ethan Caudill, New Riegel's Jake Dryfuse, Calvert's Jacob Vera, Buckeye Central's Austin Lutz and Mohawk's Austin Harper.
Second-team picks were Seneca East's Ben Cramer, New Riegel's Michael Kirian, Old Fort's Brad Heilman, Carey's Matt Holsinger, Calvert's Peyton Deats, Buckeye Central's Grant Loy and Mohawk's Austin Shook.
Earning honorable mention status were Carey's Satchel Strahm, Old Fort's Jake Wilson, St. Wendelin's Donovan Scudder, New Riegel's Aaron Reinhart, Seneca East's Nate Snavely, Mohawk's Derrick Sowers and Buckeye Central's Tanner Zaebst.
Strayer was joined on the Division II first team by Clyde's Derek Gray and Columbian's Nate Hoyda.
The second team included Clyde's Clayton Farrar and Blake Miller, Bellevue's Dylan Dewitt and Fostoria's Hunter Abell.
The honorable mention list had Columbian's Jeffrey Crawford, Upper Sandusky's Sam Plott, Fostoria's Chris Hampton, Bellevue's Triston Snezek and Clyde's Tim Hoppe.
Parks shared his coaching award with Northern Ohio League contemporaries Dan Gorbett of Ontario and Zack Moots of Sandusky.
The local Division III honorees were headed up by first-teamers Garret Sendelbach of Hopewell-Loudon and Nick Watts of Lakota.
Second-team picks were Hopewell-Loudon's Tyler Imes and Lakota's Dakota Gilbert.
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In Two MindsTwo great traditional Irish singers, Len Graham and Brian O'hAirt perform an evening of traditional Irish song.04/07/2013Time: 7:00 pmLocation: Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church, 416 W North Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Pianist Jose Ramos SantanaAs part of the series, the Arts in Eastertide, following the worship service, hear Mr. Ramos Santana in a brief recital, and enjoy an architectural tour.04/07/2013Time: 12:30pm5121 Westminster Place Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
A World of SignsShirli Nikolsburg's film, "A World of Signs," won the educational award at the 2012 international film festival in Vancouver, WA with a score performed by Nikolsburg, PSO cellists Michael Lipman (her husband) and Adam Liu, and pianist Rodrigo Ojeda. The film covers a holistic approach to early education through play, American sign language, music, and visual and folk arts.04/07/2013 - 04/29/2013Time: Sundays, 1:00pmLocation: Children's Museum, Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
The Six Brandenburg ConcertosConductor and harpsichordist Jeannette Sorrell leads these six masterpieces in concerto grosso form, J.S. Bach's supreme achievement in instrumental music. The Brandenburg Concertos were unknown until published on the centennial of Bach's death. QED's Jim Cunningham hosts a pre-concert talk at 6:30.04/08/2013Time: 7:30 pmLocation: Clay Concert Theatre, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVwebsite
Geraldine BrooksGeraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and an author who has been requested by many audience members, presents an extraordinary finale to our season in a talk about her life and her distinguished body of work, including People of the Book, March, and her latest best-seller, Caleb's Crossing. 04/08/2013Time: 7:30 pmCarnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
California University Concert Band & Community Band SouthThe California University Concert Band (Charles Marty Sharer, director) and Community Band South (Dean Streator & James Bennet, directors) will perform separately and then join for John Philip Sousa's "Semper Fidelis."04/08/2013Time: 8:00 pmLocation: Upper St. Clair High School, 1825 McLaughlin Run Rd., Pittsburgh, PA
Duets: Music for Cello and PianoChatham's Chamber Music Series presents cellist Michael Lipman and pianist Yeeha Chiu in Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata, Op. 18; and other works for cello and piano04/09/2013Time: 7:00 pmLaughlin Music Center, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Our ClassIn 1941, as Poland is being invaded, we meet ten schoolchildren, each one innocent and unaware of their futures as villains or victims - or both; each actor portrays a character from age 8 to adulthood. Fourteen "lessons" show how fear, envy and paranoia beget violence, murder and retribution. Music by Doug Levine & Susanne Ortner-Roberts (performed live) helps make Our Class an unforgettable experience. Directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks. Parental discretion advised. 04/10/2013 - 05/04/2013Stephen Foster Memorial Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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As chicken wing devotees thank Teressa Bellissimo for the hands that created the first Buffalo chicken wings, fans of the truffled Parmesan tater dice at Soho Burger Bar (64 W. Chippewa St., 856-7646, www.sohoburgerbar.com) may come to honor the name Linda Hayes.
Besides giving birth to Jay Manno, Soho's owner, she also concocted the recipe for his metropolitan burger joint's Truffle Tater Tots. "It's kind of turned into a signature side," said Manno. They're $7 or a $2 upgrade from the house-made potato chips that come with sandwiches.
His mom came up with the idea of a homemade tater tot, he said, developing the recipe and process before he and his cooks added the finishing flavorings.
Freshly shredded potatoes are mixed with shallots, garlic, cheese, truffle oil and flour before cooks squish out the water and press the mess into sheet pans. Partly frozen, the sheets are cut into bite-sized cubes and dominos. "When they come out of the fryer we hit them with Parmesan cheese, parsley and then truffle salt," Manno said.
The result is more dense hash brown cake than potato puff. Then there's all the corners, making the comparison to tots approximate. But there's no arguing with the flavor, or the fact that the dice stay crunchy longer than the hand-cut fries.
"There was a minute there that we were playing with them" before customer backlash squashed the experiment flat, Manno admitted. "We didn't put in as much flour and they came out more like our zucchini fritters. That lasted about two weeks."
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Sorcery, the PlayStation Move magical action game from The Workshop and SCE Santa Monica Studio, will be released in PAL regions on May 23, 2012, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced.
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Ellie White, 7, of Mancos, swings around the dance floor during the contra dance at Park Elementary School. White attended the dance with her father, Tim White. Organizer Wendy Graham said contra dancing is similar to square dancing: It employs a live band and a caller to teach the dances and then prompt the dancers. However, while square dancers remain in the same square, couples in a contra dance face each other in long lines and progress up and down the lines, dancing with new people as they go. �In contra dancing, the culture is to switch around,� Graham said.


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Technology presents opporunities and limits
January 19, 2013
Technology is not the solution to all our problems, regardless of what the purveyors of electronic devices and software for them may want us to believe....
First off, you have to have kids actually show up at school, then they have to WANT to learn. That starts at home--not with technology, or teachers for that matter. Politics and ideology have nothing to do with it.
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WV cost per student near the top of the list, tests scores near the bottom. Don't change a thing.
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Instead of expanding the use of technology in school, it ought to be reduced. I am amazed at how people, in this case, eduocrats, look to external tools for a fix when, all the while, the keys to academic performance improvement are internal. The shiny toys have their place but only after the students have learned what she first be penciled into their old-fashioned, marble notebooks.
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If they are gonna go this route, then offer on-line tutoring after school where a student can chat with a teacher in math and the sciences. Colleges have been doing this with success for years. We need more effort put into helping the student after the class to understand the course and the associated homework.
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A 71-year-old Woodward man who was killed when his roof collapsed after a powerful winter storm that moved through the southern plains on Monday has been identified.
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Woodward County Emergency Manager Matt Lehenbauer said the collapse happened at a house in the 3000 block of 22nd Street.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation is pleased to welcome Brenda Martinez as its new building coordinator at the Donald W. Reynolds Community Non-Profit Center. Brenda will be responsible for answering the main phone line as well as the first person to greet all those entering the DWR Center.
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Take a trip down memory lane as we look at the average price of gas in New England dating back to 1978 in this data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Woman arrested after locking daughter in trunk of car while she
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HUNTINGDON, Pennsylvania (AP) _ A woman who locked her
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I just finished reading entries for Journal Junction....
If idiotic comments were omitted from The Journal, the print and online versions would be blank. SLAM!
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All opinions should be published whether we agree with them or not.
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What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't—which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.
Pollan has divided The Omnivore's Dilemma into three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, alternative or "organic" food, and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering, or gardening. Pollan follows each food chain literally from the ground up to the table, emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the species we depend on. He concludes each section by sitting down to a meal—at McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. For each meal he traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods reflects our environmental and biological inheritance.
We are indeed what we eat-and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is a long-overdue book and one that will become known for bringing a completely fresh perspective to a question as ordinary and yet momentous as What shall we have for dinner?
A few facts and figures from The Omnivore's Dilemma:
Of the 38 ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, there are at least 13 that are derived from corn. 45 different menu items at Mcdonald's are made from corn.
One in every three American children eats fast food every day.
One in every five American meals today is eaten in the car.
The food industry burns nearly a fifth of all the petroleum consumed in the United States—more than we burn with our cars and more than any other industry consumes.
It takes ten calories of fossil fuel energy to deliver one calorie of food energy to an American plate.
A single strawberry contains about five calories. To get that strawberry from a field in California to a plate on the east coast requires 435 calories of energy.
Industrial fertilizer and industrial pesticides both owe their existence to the conversion of the World War II munitions industry to civilian uses—nerve gases became pesticides, and ammonium nitrate explosives became nitrogen fertilizers.
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Sixteen. The Omnivore's Dilemma
Seventeen. The Ethics of Eating Animals
Eighteen. Hunting: The Meat
Nineteen. Gathering: The Fungi
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Has anyone replaced there fluted cylinder with an unfluted cylinder on the S&W 629? Is this something I need to send to the factory or can I do it myself? I want to do it just because I like the looks of the unfluted cylinder. Thanks.