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This first edition of this book was a broad study, drawing on a wide range of published research and historical evidence, of the enormous stock market boom that started around 1982 and picked up incredible speed after 1995. Although it took as its specific starting point this ongoing boom, it placed it in the context of stock market booms generally, and it also made concrete suggestions regarding policy changes that should be initiated in response to this and other such booms. The book argued that the boom represents a speculative bubble, not grounded in sensible economic fundamentals. Part one of the book considered structural factors behind the boom. A list of twelve precipitating factors that appear to be its ultimate causes was given. Amplification mechanisms, naturally-occurring Ponzi processes, that enlarge the effects of these precipitating factors, were described. Part Two discussed cultural factors, the effects of the news media, and of 'new era' economic thinking. Part three discussed psychological factors, psychological anchors for the market and herd behavior. Part four discussed attempts to rationalize exuberance: efficient markets theory and theories that investors are learning. Part five presented policy options and actions that should be taken. The second edition, 2005, added an analysis of the real estate bubble as similar to the stock market bubble that preceded it, and warned that 'Significant further rises in these markets could lead, eventually, to even more significant declines. The bad outcome could be that eventual declines would result in a substantial increase in the rate of personal bankruptcies, which could lead to a secondary string of bankruptcies of financial institutions as well. Another long-run consequence could be a decline in consumer and business confidence, and another, possibly worldwide, recession'. Thus, the second edition of this book was among the first to warn of the global financial crisis that began with the subprime mortgage debacle in 2007.show more
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- 01 Apr 2005
- Princeton University Press
- New Jersey, United States
- English
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- 9 line illus. 4 tables.
- 0691123357
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Robert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics Winner of the 2000 Commonfund Prize for the Best Contribution to Endowment Management Research From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Robert J. Shiller ... has done more than any other economist of his generation to document the less rational aspects of financial markets."--Paul Krugman, New York Times From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Irrational Exuberance is not just a prophecy of doom... [I]t is a serious attempt to explain how speculative bubbles come about and how they sustain themselves."--John Cassidy, New Yorker From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Informative and well-argued ... A calm and reasonable antidote to today's euphoria."--Jeff Madrick, New York Review of Books From review of Princeton's previous edition: "What set off this speculation and what feeds it? Shiller ranges widely his explanations, laying them out in the first 168 pages in easy-to-read, sometimes passionate prose... [T]hose first 168 pages are must reading for anyone with savings invested in stocks."--Louis Uchitelle, New York Times Book Review From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Mr. Shiller's book offers a dose of realism... [I]t presents a message investors would be wise to head: Make sure your portfolio is adequately diversified. Save more and don't count on double-digit gains of the past decades continuing to bail you out during retirement."--Burton G. Malkiel, Wall Street Journal From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Although its message may be unwelcome to many, this important book should be read by anyone interested in economics or the stock markets."--Rene M. Stulz, Science From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Dazzling, richly textured, provocative . . By far the most important book about the stock market since Jeremy J. Siegel's Stocks for the Long Run."--William Wolman, Business Week From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Shiller has provided an accessible guide to the usually impenetrable literature on financial markets, especially the American stock market."--Foreign Affairs From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Shiller contends that investor psychology is so given to herd behavior that it's almost impossible to manipulate or even influence. The market can 'go through significant mispricing lasting years or even decades.'"--Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Irrational Exuberance should be compulsory reading for anybody interested in Wall Street or financially exposed to it; at the moment, that would be roughly everybody in the United States."--Economist From review of Princeton's previous edition: "[An] excellent new book... If you want to preserve capital, unload most of your stocks and invest in government bonds."--Steve H. Hanke, Forbes From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Likely to be the year's most-talked-about finance book... You can agree or disagree with it. But you owe it to yourself to read it if you are investing in equities or contemplating doing so."--Fred Barbash, International Herald Tribune From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Irrational Exuberance is likely to cause a stir... Shiller illustrates how the current market is like a naturally occurring Ponzi scheme in which investors become promoters for the game after receiving initial payments with money taken from subsequent investors."--David Henry, USA Today From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Irrational Exuberance is not billed as a personal finance book. But it is. You can agree or disagree with it. But you owe it to yourself to read it if you're investing, or contemplating investing, in inequities."--The Washington Post From review of Princeton's previous edition: "A must-read ... refreshing, well-reasoned ... and very readable."--Michael P. Niemira, Barron's From review of Princeton's previous edition: "So why have share prices soared so high in the past five years, taking market valuations past all historical records? Professor Shiller's answer, as the title indicates, is not encouraging. His message is: diversify now as much as you can, and batten down the hatches."--Diane Coyle, Independent From review of Princeton's previous edition: "Shiller has written a crystal-clear and tough-minded critique..."--David Warsh, Boston Globe The point of Irrational Exuberance is not to help investors dump their houses before the current exuberance fades. It is to deepen our understanding of the events we are watching as one bubble gives birth to another and to encourage readers to think about economic behavior and economic policies that can cushion the nasty side of volatility."--Sharon Reier, The International Herald Tribune "The first edition of this book was widely read because of its timing. This one, too, seems perfectly timed, coming when we're starting to fear we've been fooling ourselves. Again... There's a world of important information for everyone."--Lyn Miller, USA Today "The second edition's new component ... is Shiller's exploration of how market psychology has responded to the ensuing five years of retrenchment. One chilling conclusion he reaches from his knowledge of past market performance is that the 2005 market may still be correcting and that a return to 2000 levels may be a decade away. He further warns that many investors are still too heavily invested in equities and that proposals to invest Social Security funds in the stock market would subject the retirement system to unacceptable risk. Shiller expands his focus to include the booming real estate market where he sees another speculative bubble building."--Library Journal "There's plenty of new material in this edition... Chief among the new additions is Shiller's deeper focus on recent excesses in the stock market and his skepticism about investing in real estate... Shiller's ideas have so many devoted followers that I wouldn't be surprised to see many more editions."--Angele McQuade, BetterInvesting "Yale University Professor Robert Shiller pretty much called the stock market drop when this book was first published in 2000. In this fact-packed book, Shiller describes the psychological origins of volatility, among other things. And in the newest edition, Shiller compares the recent housing boom to the stock market bubble of the 1990s."--Registered Rep.show more
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Robert J. Shiller is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is author of "The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century" (Princeton) and "Market Volatility and Macro Markets", which won the 1996 Paul A. Samuelson Award.show more


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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiographyby Rupert Everett
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Red Carpets and Other Banana SkinsThe Autobiography
By Rupert Everett
WARNER BOOKSCopyright © 2006 Rupert Everett
All right reserved.
Chapter OneTales from the Crib
At several times in life one comes to a point of no return. The drama of this moment often escapes us. We walk into it unconcerned, not hearing all the closing doors slam behind us, not aware that suddenly we are cut adrift from the past and are loose on the high seas, charting a new course through undiscovered waters. I must have been six when it first happened to me. I was living with my mother and father, my brother and our nanny in an old pink farmhouse with a moat, surrounded by the cornfields of Essex. The local farmers had finished the harvest and that morning they were burning the stubble. We knew because my mother came charging into the house, after dropping my father off at the station.
"Nanny! Mrs. Smithers! They're burning the stubble!"
Mayhem. I sat on the hall floor as the two women in my life careered around the house slamming doors, closing windows, drawing curtains. Footsteps pounded across the creaky floorboards above, shaking the whole house: my mother's purposeful gait, identifiable to her children a mile off, and Mrs. Smithers', our darling cleaning lady, like a gentle elephant squeezed into my mother's hand-me-down court shoes. Snatches of conversation could be heard from the gables-a peal of laughter from my mother. And then silence. The sun battling through the curtains made the house feel like an aquarium during the burning of the stubble and, since my mother was a stickler for cleanliness, they could stay closed for days until the last fleck of black ash floated off through the sky. I loved it. Darkness made you feel naughty. And outside the inferno raged around us.
It was one of the highlights of our summer and we children were out there, under the gentle scrutiny of the local farmers from beginning to end, looking for hedgehogs and field mice to save from the fire and only leaving as dusk fell on the black glowing embers and the fields around our house had turned into giant tiger-skin rugs.
Meanwhile, inside the house that morning we settled down to the agreeable state of siege, and all sat in the kitchen as Mummy and Mrs. Smithers reminisced about former "stubbles," and Nanny made coffee and Ribena. "That dratted ash can get through anything," my mother could say a thousand times during the course of the next two weeks and Mrs. Smithers would keep on nodding sagely like a toy bulldog on the back seat of a car.
So it came as quite a surprise that it was decided I should be taken to the cinema. "What's the cinema?" I whined, lips a-quiver, ready for a tantrum. But there was no arguing, and no explanation.
"You'll see!" was the only answer.
So pretty soon we all bundled into our Hillman, Mummy at the wheel, me beside her with my own steering wheel, suction-stuck to the dashboard, and Nanny in the back, as we drove at a snail's pace through the howling flames down the chase that led to our house so that I could at least have a good look. I don't think Mummy knew that flames made petrol explode.
Until that year, 1965, we did not possess a television. The only images I saw were happening then and there in front of my very eyes. I had no concept of a world outside, and no desire to find one. When Churchill died my father went out and bought a large cumbersome set so that he and my mother could watch the funeral, and that was the first moving picture I ever saw. Grainy, incomprehensible and utterly boring, I thought, but then I turned around to see the tear-stained, enraptured faces of my parents and must have reconsidered. This television could get a lot of attention.
The Braintree cinema would be getting a lot of attention, too. It was unremarkable, one of those dismal buildings from the fifties with a curved brick front, Crittall windows and a shabby marquee. We parked the car and joined a long line that stretched around the cinema. None of us much liked queuing-my mum always had a million things to do, and I wanted to get back home to the stubble-and we nearly decided to leave. But fate was hell-bent and after half an hour of ranting (Mummy) and whining (me) we arrived at the box office.
And so my mother bought the fateful tickets and unknowingly guided me through a pair of swing doors into the rest of my life. Goodbye, Braintree! Suddenly we were in a magical, half-lit cavern of gigantic proportions. It must have been the hugest room in the world and at the end were the biggest pair of curtains I had ever seen. I loved curtains already, but these were something else. We were guided down the central aisle by a Braintree matron with a torch. What were all these chairs, and how did you sit on them?
"It's just like a loo seat, darling," said my mother.
I sat down between Nanny and her, took one of their hands in each of mine and slowly accustomed myself to the light and my racing heart. Looking up through the gloom was a circle, a balcony and, hanging miles over our heads like a tired moon, a huge crusty chandelier half lit as if for a seance. The place smelt of cigarettes and damp with the odd breeze from the toilets of urine and disinfectant. And sex. Even if I didn't know what it was yet, an insalubrious mist hung over the provincial cinemas of yesteryear. This was the place you got to finger your girlfriend's quim.
"Quim" was a word the big "yobbos" shouted from the circle at the Braintree girls as they waited in line for ice creams down in the stalls.
"Show us your quim, Karen!" they'd shout, and the girls would giggle coquettishly.
"What's a quim, Mummy?" I asked one morning during coffee.
"Your little toe, I think," said my mother vaguely. Mrs. Smithers and Nanny nearly choked. I realised right then that poor Mummy was not very much in touch.
But all that was for the evening show. Something much worse could happen at the matine. Even that day, sprinkled among the little children with their mums and nans, was the odd old fossil, motionless and lizard-like in the playground fray of the stalls. ("Don't sit too close to Mr. Barnard from Millens & Dawson, there's a good boy," one might be told. But no one cared much in those days.) The kids' giggles and screams bounced off the walls of the half-filled theatre. There was endless movement. To the toilets, to the ice cream lady, and finally some child would go too far and be dragged out. All that noise and movement stopped suddenly as the lights dimmed from the tired moon above and the little sconces on the walls jerkily faded to dull embers, and we all turned as one towards this huge billowing curtain that was bigger than our house. It was lit from below and was a bright crimson at the bottom as if the sun were about to rise from the empty orchestra pit.
What was behind it? Where was it all coming from? The film's certificate was projected while the curtain was still closed. It seemed as if it were bursting through from the other side, and then those huge curtains silently swished open and Mary Poppins sprang across the footlights and into my heart.
The next ninety minutes were the most shocking, inspiring, funny, tragic, exhausting, draining and troubling of my entire life. First of all, when all the nannies blew away, I was terrified. Looking at Nanny for a second, her life and role suddenly came into a new perspective. This could be a dangerous job, I thought. And then when Mary Poppins flew effortlessly down into the film something changed for ever. Was it that Julie Andrews looked and behaved somewhat like my mother? Maybe. Or was it because I already loved my own nanny to death? Of course, I could definitely identify with the spit spot of it all. Julie's way of showing emotion was our way. Controlled but with feeling; practical but with warmth. As for Mr. Banks, he was my dad. But I didn't want him to lose his job because of me. Yes-by halfway through the film I was Jane and Michael. I was learning at a fearful rate. I could identify with everything in the film. New horizons suddenly appeared. Maybe one could jump into the pavement. It had to be true, because everything else sort of was. After all, we drove past St. Paul's Cathedral every time we went up to our London flat, so I suppose I must have felt that the film had been tailored specifically for me, but soon it all became too much. My brain was overloaded. When Mary Poppins left without saying goodbye, I was so distraught that I had to be taken out of the theatre and missed "Let's Go Fly a Kite."
The kids in the movie went off with their dad to the park and Mary Poppins decided to leave. That was where I started shouting, "Jane! Michael! Quick! Go back to Cherry Tree Lane." A light slap from my mother was no deterrent, especially as the parrot umbrella seemed to be reading my thoughts. "They didn't even say goodbye," it squawked at Mary Poppins.
"Nobody told them you were leaving!" I screamed back, by this time hysterical.
"Shut up," said Mummy and Nanny, but I could not. I stood up and bellowed my heart and lungs out, and was dragged, kicking and screaming, from the cinema.
I was silent on the way home, listlessly looking at the glowing embers of the fields as we drove towards our house. Everyone tried to coax me back into my usual boisterous self, but there was nothing to be done. I was too upset to think.
Something had changed. I could feel it, but I couldn't express it. Actually, looking back, what had happened was that a giant and deranged ego had been born. Until that afternoon I had lived without question from day to night, from winter to spring, from anger to joy. I seamlessly inhabited every moment. There were no questions. But now I was on the game, looking for a personality, and my plumbing was all wrong. The hot was coming from where the cold should have been.
My mother was discarding an old tweed skirt (a pi r squared). It was my first act of madness. I was going to be Mary Poppins' daughter and this skirt was how I would pull it off. I rescued it from the dustbin and before long I was wearing it all the time. The place where I practised being the new "me" was our climbing frame, which had a swing in the middle. I would sit on that swing in my red tweed skirt and black slip-on plimsolls, for hours on end, humming the hits I was learning from my new Mary Poppins LP. Nobody paid much attention. But something had started. From then on I was a regular at the Braintree Embassy. I must have seen Mary Poppins twenty times, and no sooner had my mother put her foot down and banned me from seeing it again than Julie responded to my desperate telepathic messages to her and came out with The Sound of Music.
On Saturdays in the winter months my father would go hunting, and our whole household was galvanised into a fever pitch to help. My mother would run around like a chicken with its head cut off. Cooking breakfast. Squeezing my dad into his breeches and boots. Getting the rest of us up. She was a regular tornado, storming around the house. Mr. King and later Mr. Baker, our grooms, would begin to saddle up the horses. My brother would back up the car and attach the horsebox, and I would sit there humming show tunes wondering what I could do to get out of following the hunt with my mum and her best friend Mrs. Barker. Wishful thinking. It was never going to happen. Finally the noise of my father's boots clunking across the hall downstairs signalled my mother's shrill alarm call. "Roo! Come on. We're off."
Everyone we knew hunted; at the meet the grown-ups drank cherry brandy on their horses. The hounds seethed around. Some of the women still rode side-saddle; many of the men wore pink coats, top hats and white stocks. (A stock was a long starched piece of fabric that wound around the neck and was tied in a certain way that always eluded my father.) My mum and Mrs. Barker were the only mothers who did not hunt, and they stood around in their headscarves and wellies, while the Barker boys and I sat sullenly in the back of the car, cruelly imitating our mothers' inane chatter. ("Julia, darling, your crab mousse was divine. You must give me the recipe." "Oh, Sara, just put in a lot of Elnette to stiffen it.")
Then the huntsman would blow his horn and they would be off; Mrs. Barker and Mummy would canter towards the car and we'd set off after the hunt. They hardly ever caught a fox. We would drive for miles down little lanes and farm tracks just to be there when the hunt galloped by. Sometimes there was drama. Mrs. Motion was thrown off her horse and dragged for a hundred yards; she never came out of her coma. I remember it vividly. Her inert body-a black hump at the end of a field; and all of us running towards her. A doctor who was watching the hunt gave her an injection, which proved to be lethal. She should never have had one.
My brother was the first to start hunting. He hated it, but did it to please my father. I had no intention of pleasing anyone and made this as clear as I could, but I was made to go as well. I had a bitchy pony named Crisp. She used to lean round and nip me if I wasn't concentrating, and there was little love lost between us. I much preferred my brother's mare Netty, who was a lumbering old thing totally unruffled by anything. You could kick and kick and she wouldn't budge, but then slowly she would lurch into a stately canter that was not unpleasant. Crisp, on the other hand, was a plotting maniacal freak, and on my first time out ran away with me, overtaking the entire hunt. One of the golden rules of hunting is: no one rides in front of the Master and the hounds. No matter how hard I yanked on the reins, Crisp charged on. She was playing the game her way, determined to show me up. I could see out of the corner of my eye the ruddy disapproving faces of the local gentry as I sped past and could hear their various comments:
"Control your pony, you bloody little idiot!"
"Young Everett's being run away with!"
"Heels down, toes up!"
All very well, I thought, as I galloped past the Master and the hounds straight towards a gate that was taller than the little bitch Crisp herself. I knew just what was going on in her head. She was going to gallop as fast as she could and then stop dead when she got to the gate, throwing me over without her, and breaking my neck like poor Mrs. Motion. There was no going back. It was time to drop the resistance and show her who was boss, so I let the reins go, kicked the shit out of her and we sailed over the gate to our mutual astonishment and that of the rest of the hunt. It should have been a moment of victory. But I felt humiliated and, vowing never to touch Crisp again, I jumped down and stomped off across the fields.
I only had two or three more hunting experiences. On the last one we finally caught a fox. The poor thing was torn apart by the hounds and then something even worse happened. I was the unwilling victim of a tribal initiation. Another tradition: any new hunter had to be "bloodied" after they had witnessed their first kill.
"Young Everett. Come to the front," said the Master to the huntsman and the word was passed back. There was nothing for it. I kicked old Netty into action and sullenly rode past the rest of the hunters who were all smiling at me benignly like the devil worshippers in Rosemary's Baby.
"Dismount, boy," said the huntsman. Someone had cut off the fox's paw before it was torn to shreds. Raw and oozing, it was presented to the huntsman who then smeared it all over my face. Everyone laughed; there were a few claps, a couple of pats on my hat, congratulations from the Master-and the awful thing was that I felt really fabulous. Totally macho. Fitting in with the gang. My dad beamed at me from under his top hat. Mr. King gave me a wink. My mother and Mrs. Barker waved from a distance. I felt like one take-charge kind of guy. For a millisecond. Then some of the blood got into my eye and I freaked. Never had a mood swing happened so fast-it even took me by surprise and suddenly I was spluttering and shrieking, but words would not come out. The blood was everywhere. I could taste it. I was literally seeing red. If I could have, I would definitely have blacked out, but instead (as usual) I abandoned poor bemused Netty and made another of my early dramatic exits. I never hunted again.
Looking back, however, those traumatic times seem like the romantic scenes from a nineteenth-century novel. The morning meets in front of the old houses around the county, mostly shrouded in mist and drizzle so that all you could see were the reds of the hunting coats, the silhouettes of the horses and the dripping gables of some Elizabethan manor. The hunting horses always beautifully turned out, clattering down driveways, waving their bandaged tails; you could hear them even if you couldn't see them. Did people shout "Tally-ho"? I don't remember. I remember the smell. The chatter. The women with their veils, leaning over to tighten their horses' girths and somehow managing to hold a glass and a conversation at the same time-chatting and flirting with the men who drank from their flasks with their hands on their hips. There were a lot of affairs conducted from the raunchy position of the saddle and a lot of political talk; because this was the era of power cuts and "Bloody Wilson!"
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I preordered this book and couldn't wait to read it. I was looking forward to an irreverent peak inside social hollywood and was not disappointed. Rupert's witty reflections were at times hilarious and written with such clarity and honesty you felt you were a fly on the wall. Although, most of the time I'm glad I wasn't. Two-thirds into the book I started to wonder is this all? How sad. The homosexual lifestyle is what I thought it might be and now this book confirms it. At least the male homosexual lifestyle. It is narcisistic, loud and lonely and childless. Now I know why God made Eve and not Steve. Forgive me for that cliche but I understand the truth of it now. This book had two channels Rupert's hysterical and cynical view of Hollywood and an up close look at the homosexual lifestyle-both were illuminating.


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Milwaukee Artist Resource Network eliminates director
The Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, a non-profit organization that serves Milwaukee area artists, is reorganizing and has eliminated the position of executive director. Today was the last day for Melissa Musante, who has been MARN''s executive director for nearly four years.
In the near term, the eight members of the board will take a more active role in running the organization, and Liz Carr, a part-time marketing and administrative assistant, will run many of the day-to-day functions of the group. »Read Full Blog Post
Summerfest adds 80-foot Ferris wheel
What's old is new again at Summerfest.
The Ferris wheel is back. Not the Ferris wheel that once sat on the Midway but a new one soaring 80 feet into the sky and set up on the north end of Henry W. Maier Festival Park. »Read Full Article
Pete's Pops, a cart selling frozen treats, launching in June
A cart called Pete's Pops, peddling frozen-fruit confections in flavors like strawberry basil, will debut in Milwaukee within a couple of weeks, with a second expected in Wauwatosa around the Fourth of July. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
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Delayed Glendale Hofbrauhaus not likely to open in 2014
On Tap Today: Local documentary premiere 'Can You Hear Us Now?' at Oriental Theatre
Tragically, teens affected by violence in Milwaukee and beyond is an issue that isn't going away any time soon. Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee recognizes that, and now the new documentary "Can You Hear Us Now?" gives voice to area teens who have struggled with trauma, with gang violence, with the loss of loved ones who have been shot and killed.
A year in the making, the 40-minute documentary will premiere at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Landmark's Oriental Theatre, 2230 N. Farwell Ave. Admission is free; register for a ticket at eventbrite.com. »Read Full Blog Post


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Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Perseveres Struggles, Opportunity Digs in at Marquette Island -- And We Look Back on 2009
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/12/31 11:00 CST
The Mars Exploration Rovers quietly wrapped up 2009 this month: Spirit continued to valiantly spin its wheels in an attempt to get out of its embedded location on the west side of Home Plate in Gusev Crater; and Opportunity continued its investigation of Marquette Island, perhaps the oldest Martian rock it's found to date at Meridiani Planum.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/12/24 10:42 CST
This was so cute I had to repost it -- and record it too.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Turns Wheels, Opportunity Rests at Rare Martian Rock
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/11/30 11:00 CST
The Mars Exploration Rovers managed to make history and uncover history in November and that put both Spirit and Opportunity in the planetary exploration spotlight during the 71st month of an overland expedition that was supposed to be a three-month tour.
Opportunity's poking at Marquette Island; Cassini's catching dancing moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/18 04:58 CST
Since tomorrow's class is going to be on playing with raw images from the rovers and Cassini, I've been playing with recent raw images from the rovers and Cassini! I just thought I'd share a couple of the fun items I've been working with.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Begins Extraction Process
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/11/12 11:00 CST
On Monday, November 16, 2009, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will begin the much-anticipated, weeks-long process of extricating itself from a patch of powdery soil that stopped it in its tracks six months ago. It will begin by driving forward to the north, following its tracks out, even though its right front wheel is broken and immobilized.
Planetary Radio Q and A: Are meteorites on Mars actually interesting?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/09 03:53 CST
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been studying a lot of meteorites. That made me wonder, why study meteorites on Mars when we can study them in hand on Earth? How are Mars meteorites interesting?
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Overcomes Setbacks and Waits for Extraction Orders, Opportunity Takes a Magical Meteorite Tour
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/10/31 12:00 CDT
The Mars Exploration Rover mission logged another textbook-rewriting month in October 2009 with more discoveries of geologic gems, new robot achievements balanced with equal amounts of challenges and frustrations overcome, topped off with special honors.
Opportunity's world of dunes and rock
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/10/16 01:28 CDT
Opportunity's been making tracks lately, with brief stops to check out a couple of meteorites. I thought this view of its surroundings on sol 2,034 (a couple of days ago) was neat.
It would appear that Opportunity has stumbled upon another meteorite
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/10/02 12:58 CDT
I wonder if this came from the same original body as Block Island, or if Meridiani is the kind of slowly deflating landscape that accumulates meteorites at its surface, like the ANSMET meteorite hunting spots in Antarctica?
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Embedded Spirit Waits Exit Approval, Opportunity Celebrates New Mars Year with New Record
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/09/30 12:00 CDT
From notable achievements and new discoveries to trials and tribulations and harbingers of hope, the Mars Exploration Rovers seemed to experience the gamut on the Red Planet this September, their 69th month on an expedition that originally set out back in 2004 for a three-month tour.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/09/29 11:49 CDT
Opportunity rover is driving, driving, driving. It departed the meteorite named Block Island on sol 2,004 and has routinely clocked 70 meters per driving day (with drives every other day).
Opportunity's highway, and a tour of Block Island
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/09/15 12:35 CDT
Just a cool image to start the morning: after a 70-meter drive yesterday, Opportunity's following not one but two sets of its own tracks.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Celebrates 3 Martian Years, Opportunity Finds Blockbuster in Block Island
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/08/31 12:00 CDT | 1 comments
The Mars Exploration Rovers hunkered down in place in August and delivered more mission "gold" as they achieved new milestones and uncovered more scientific gems, not the least of which was a blockbuster of a meteorite. But August proved to be a stormy month, uniquely challenging and one that many on the Mars Exploration Team will never forget.
New image of Opportunity on Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/08/14 11:06 CDT
I really can't explain why it didn't occur to me to search for the rover in the image of Victoria crater released by the HiRISE team on Wednesday.
Mars eye candy: New oblique view of Victoria crater
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/08/12 12:59 CDT
Today the HiRISE team released a lovely new view of Victoria crater, taken nearly a year after the Opportunity rover departed it.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Works as Team Tests Exit Moves, Opportunity Roves to Block Island
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/07/31 12:00 CDT
The Mars Exploration Rovers maintained a busy schedule in July: Spirit worked day and night doing whatever it could to make use of its abundant energy; Opportunity effectively treated its "hot" right front wheel and got back to making some consecutive long drives toward the still distant Endeavour Crater.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Embedded in Paydirt, Opportunity Roving on 'Hot' Wheel
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/06/30 12:00 CDT
It's been a relatively quiet but scientifically significant month on the Red Planet for the Mars Exploration Rovers. While Opportunity continued its long journey to Endeavour Crater, forced to take it slower and make longer stops to rest its 'hot' front wheel, Spirit, seemingly just biding its time embedded in a sand pit it slipped into in April, turned up one of the most intriguing discoveries on the mission to date.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Sand Snared and Dusted, Opportunity Rests and Roves
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/05/31 12:00 CDT
The Mars Exploration Rovers hit some rough patches in May as Spirit sat stuck in a sand patch all month and Opportunity had to stop again to rest its right front wheel but with a little help from Mars, the intrepid, twin robot field geologists cruised through the summer solstice with the energy and invincibility of a couple of teenage robots.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Endures Reboots and Amnesia, Opportunity Races Forward
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/04/30 12:00 CDT
The Mars Exploration Rovers challenged their ground crews with an April full of high drama, a little suspense, and a lot of energy. While Spirit lived through a kind of robot soap opera, complete with bewildering reboots and bouts of amnesia, Opportunity roved forward and back into the fast lane on a restored front wheel, slowing down for a brief visit to a series of small, intriguing craters and an unplanned close encounter with a pesky little purgatoid.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Breaks Rove Record, Opportunity Sees Endeavour's Distant Rim
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/03/31 12:00 CDT
The Mars Exploration Rovers logged a memorable March, with Spirit finally making some serious tracks and setting a new driving record for a five-wheeled rover, and Opportunity getting a first glimpse on the distant horizon of its next big attraction, Endeavour Crater as it crossed a geologic boundary into a new field of "blueberries."
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New Videos: The Cranberry Show go around Traffic Lights & True Skool youth inform us on police encounters
The Cranberry Show - Traffic Lights
Visuals are still coming from The Cranberry Show's breakout album from earlier this year "Paranormal Karaoke" (which you can still get for $Free.99). This time it's for the track "Traffic Lights" and it has the same creativity and originality as their last video "Cinema". I'd appreciate less shirtless dudes, especially dudes I have to see on the regular, but I get the point. The darkness of the beat, matches the darkness of the video but in a funny and stylistic way so check it out.
VIdeo Vibes - Cool Kids, Gerald Walker, Breakbread and 99 Problems (in film)
Lotta new cool videos out. Watch them. You're welcome.
The Cool Kids - Rush Hour Traffic
I've always been down with the Cool Kids, ever since Black Mags. Their freshness has not stopped and this video for Rush Hour Traffic proves it. This track comes from their album from last year, "When Fish Ride Bicycles" »Read Full Blog Post
The Cranberry Show previews new album "Paranormal Karaoke" on The Mad Kids tonight
Make sure you tune in to the Mad Kids Radio show tonight where I'll be interviewing The Cranberry Show about their new album Paranormal Karaoke, which drops tomorrow. And did I mention the album will be FREE and hosted on Djbooth.net and DonutsandMilk.com. Yep, I just did. Come back tomorrow and I'll post the interview and even more music for you.
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Thampi Kakkanadan Passes Away
By Express News Service
Published: 11th August 2011 02:14 AM
Last Updated: 16th May 2012 10:20 PM
KOLLAM: Shortstory writer and brother of Kakkadan, Thampi Kakkandan, 60, passed away at a private medical college hospital here on Wednesday. He was suffering from various ailments after an accident in March.
He has authored several short stories and published a novel- Kalapathinte Orma. The body will be kept for public to offer respects at the house of Kakkanadan in Eravipuram at 10 am on Thursday. The cremation will be held at 12 noon in the Polayathod crematorium. He is survived by wife Valsamma and children Lalitha and Soorya.
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Restaurateur Pandl's daughter back for seconds with family memoir
Julia Pandl learned a few things from her father, George, the late restaurateur: Don't drink or eat in front of the customers, and don't consume anything from a hotel room minibar - it's too expensive!
While taking pancake orders at the Sunday brunch at George Pandl's Restaurant in Bayside, she also absorbed a lesson that is helping her sell copies of her book today. »Read Full Article(3)
Singing, acting both stellar in 'Figaro'
Actors are taught to act and opera singers are taught to sing - and all too rarely do the twain really meet.
The Florentine Opera Company's production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," directed by Candace Evans, cast that notion aside Friday evening with a spot-on blend of absolutely sterling singing and audience-connected acting. »Read Full Article
Theatre Gigante taps dark, creative energy in 'Electra'
While her father is out of town on business, her mother takes a lover. When her father comes home, Mom and her new consort stab him. She herself is thrown out of the house. Her baby brother now lives in exile.
No wonder Electra has a complex. The question is whether her righteous anger regarding the murder of her father (Agamemnon) can justify plotting with her brother (Orestes) to murder Mom (Clytemnestra) and Mom's new squeeze (Aegisthus). »Read Full Article
UWM work exhibited at Cannes film fest
Fourteen films by students, faculty and alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres have been accepted into the short-film showcase at this year's Cannes International Film Festival, which kicks off Wednesday on the French Riviera.
The total is more than double the number of short films that made it into the Cannes Court Métrage Short Film Corner last year. »Read Full Article


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Vincent Gallo Would Rather Have Lots of Fancy Shoes Than One Fancy Painting
And more "they're just like us" celebrity nuggets, in today's gossip roundup.
And more "they're just like us" celebrity nuggets, in today's gossip roundup.
"I have had something done, but it's not on my face," the actress taunts. And more compelling celebrity riddles, in our daily gossip roundup.
She wouldn't pose with one at a party.
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But it doesn't sound like he's the chivalrous boyfriend you'd imagine him to be.
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An accidentally released track doesn't sound so great — for J.Lo's future with her label.
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Hey, Green Day did it.
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Sandra Bullock has admitted that if she were Elin Nordegren, she wouldn't have stopped whaling on Tiger last Thanksgiving.
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This, no doubt, is a relief to many.By Katie Goldsmith
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Toxic Smoke
Fire breaks out again at Samut Prakan's Praksa landfill
ANOTHER FIRE broke out at Samut Prakan's Praksa landfill early yesterday, forcing residents to brace for further evacuations. As of 6pm, people in Bang Na could see a haze and smell the smoke.
The landfill made headlines last month after a fire burned there for a week, forcing thousands of residents to flee noxious fumes that blanketed several districts of eastern Bangkok. The cause of that fire is still under investigation.
Residents yesterday urged authorities to put out the latest fire quickly to prevent the spread of harmful gases.
As local fire-fighters tried to put out the fire, which started at 4am, Bangkok Metropolitan Adminis-tration Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office director Pol Colonel Pichai Kriangwattanasiri said if the situation did not improve later yesterday, the city would dispatch fire-fighters and water trucks there without waiting for a request.
Residents Suchat Nakkanok, 47, and Thanin Pimsorn, 53, expressed worries that toxic fumes would spread, and said many residents were packing their belongings to evacuate, if necessary. Another resident, Kanthiya Marlo, 35, said the fire in March prompted her to take her pet dogs to a veterinary hospital, where she spent thousands of baht because the pets were sensitive to toxic fumes.
Bang Pu Police Station superintendent Pol Colonel Wichit Boonchinwutthikul said two landfill tenants had been interviewed in connection to the fire, adding that so far no state agency had filed a police complaint. The police probe into an infant's hospitalisation, which has been blamed on the fumes, was pending a doctor's confirmation, he said, adding the probe should be concluded by the end of this month.
As for yesterday's fire, police would summon the landfill owner and tenants for questioning on the site's fire-prevention provisions and other issues.
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Creative Cloud official
Adobe has officially launched Photoshop CS6, the latest version of its famed image processing software, along with Adobe Creative Cloud, a subscription-based hub offering desktop and mobile tools as well as cloud-sync. Fourteen new apps, either new or updated, have been revealed as part of Photoshop CS6, with Photoshop itself getting new tools and a new Mercury Graphics Engine to use GPU acceleration to boost editing and processing speed. Meanwhile, if the high upfront cost of previous Creative Suite iterations has dissuaded you (or even sent you scurrying to pirated copies) then Adobe hopes its new subscription packages will lure you in.


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Appeals court backs police GPS use, raises questions
The 4th District Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld the secret use by police of a GPS tracking device to gather evidence against a Dane County man accused of stalking an ex-girlfriend.
But the court also urged the state Legislature to consider regulating police and private use of the technology.
In a decision written by Judge Paul Lundsten, the court found that police use of the tracking information was not a violation of Michael Sveum's constitutional right to be free of unreasonable search and seizures, but the court went on to say:
"We are more than a little troubled by the conclusion that no Fourth Amendment search or seizure occurs when police use a GPS or similar device as they have here. So far as we can tell, existing law does not limit the government's use of tracking devices to investigations of legitimate criminal suspects. If there is no Fourth Amendment search or seizure, police are seemingly free to secretly track anyone's public movements with a GPS device."
Lundsten added that the court, sitting in Madison, also is concerned about the private use of global positioning system surveillance devices. While there are legitimate private uses, "there are also many private uses that most reasonable people would agree should be prohibited."
According to the decision:
Sveum's girlfriend broke up with him in 1994. He stalked her, confronting her at home and work, damaged the cars of men she dated, and watched her apartment with binoculars. In 1996 he was convicted of felony stalking and three misdemeanor charges of harassment, violating a restraining order and criminal damage to property. From prison, he convinced his sister to call the woman on his behalf and wrote harassing letters.
Released from prison in 2002, he resumed stalking the woman and began making harassing hang-up calls to her home.
Sveum is serving a 7 1/2-year prison sentence for the conviction, which will be followed by five years of extended supervision.


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'Swan Lake' expressive, seriously gorgeous
The Milwaukee Ballet's two-act take on "Swan Lake" is a seriously gorgeous evening of dance.
Thursday's opening performance was built of deeply expressive dancing from the company's leading artists and beautifully disciplined corps work, set amid richly detailed sets and character-defining costumes. »Read Full Article
Ready to be floored again: Colorful MECCA court returns for one night
With a giant M flanking each side of the midcourt line, a candy-apple-red bull's-eye at center court and "MILWAUKEE" at either end, Robert Indiana's 1977 basketball floor at the old Arena once defined Milwaukee.
It may define the city again, if Ben Koller, who owns the MECCA floor, one of the largest pop-art paintings on the planet, has his way. »Read Full Article(44)
Exclusive Video: Semi Precious Weapons performs before Ke$ha concert at the Rave
Stevy Pyne, left, and Justin Tranter of Semi Precious Weapons performed new single "Aviation High" for Tap Milwaukee Wednesday, before taking the stage at a sold out Ke$ha at the Eagles Ballroom. Journal Sentinel photo by Mark Felix. »Read Full Blog Post
Singles Scorecard: Hear new songs from the Avett Brothers, Jennifer Nettles and Polica
The Avett Brothers, pictured here performing at Summerfest in June, has a new single out from a forthcoming album, less than a year after releasing its last one. Journal Sentinel photo by Mark Felix. »Read Full Blog Post
The Wanted, Jepsen get intimate with small but adoring crowd
Turns out the Wanted isn't so widely wanted in Milwaukee after all.
Despite the hype surrounding the British boy band, the main floor had unfilled seats and the balcony was largely empty Tuesday for the group's show at the 2,500-capacity Riverside Theater — even with "Call Me Maybe" hitmaker Carly Rae Jepsen as co-headliner. »Read Full Article(1)
Music, dance, Lucha Libre and more at Mexican Fiesta
Mexican culture past and present intersect this weekend at Maier Festival Park for Mexican Fiesta, the celebration of Mexico and Latin America that started as a street party on the south side in 1973.
Friday through Sunday, mariachi, ranchera, cumbia, bachata and other music will rule the festival stages, with performances by Revolucion de Amor, a Mana tribute band; Toby Love; and La Sonora Santanera U.S.A. »Read Full Article(1)
First impressions of 'Current Tendencies'
Several of the Art City contributors got a preview of the "Current Tendencies III" exhibit at the Haggerty Museum of Art on Friday. It was a chance for us glimpse this important survey of some of the more intriguing artists working in our region today and to begin to consider the work in the show.
For the first time, we've asked the contributors to file short audio pieces with a few early thoughts on perhaps a single artist or work in the exhibit. »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap Today: Farmers market, free music and the Brewers
It's Wednesday, which means its farmers market day in Westown's Zeidler Union Square. Booths filled with bright flowers, snap peas and organic greens open at 10 a.m., and the Tinker Boys will be playing there today.


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Digital Cinema Destinations Corp. (DCIN) To Feature On RedChip Money Report, Fox Business News 0 commentsJul 18, 2013 5:33 PM | about stocks: DCIN
Bud Mayo, CEO and chairman of Digital Cinema, a U.S. motion picture exhibitor focused on transforming movie theaters into digital entertainment centers, is slated to appear on The RedChip Money Report™ tonight at 10 p.m. PT (July 19 at 1 a.m ET). The show, hosted by Dave Gentry, president of RedChip, will air on Fox Business News.
The RedChip Money Report provides commentary on emerging growth companies as well as interviews with Wall Street analysts, financial book reviews, and more.
Founded in 2010, DCIN is a rapidly growing U.S. motion picture exhibitor featuring major motion pictures, coverage of live sports events, concerts, conferences, operas, ballet, Broadway plays, independent films, and more. The company currently operates 18 cinemas and 178 screens scattered throughout Arizona, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
The company's goal is to acquire existing cash flow positive theatres in top strategic markets, to profitably convert to digital format, and benefit from operational synergies, incremental revenue opportunities, and cost reductions. As part of this initiative, DCIN has its sights on establishing a national circuit featuring 100 theaters/1,000 screens in 76 top 100 DMAs, and targets 300 of these screens by year-end 2013.
DCIN's strategy is to acquire cash flow positive theaters in top locations, convert all analog screens to digital, and to transform these theaters into entertainment destinations by offering innovative programming and marketing strategies.
The company has increased total revenue per screen over the last four quarters as compared to comparable quarters in the year prior, by 18 percent, 30 percent, 15 percent, and 48 percent, respectively. In the second quarter of 2013 the company reported a seven-fold increase in revenue to $6.9 million.
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NETHERLANDS: Sligro food retail sales trail market
By Katy Askew | 17 April 2014
Sligro sees growth below market
Netherlands-based retailer Sligro Food Group has seen first-quarter sales growth at its food retail business trail the market amid intensifying price competition.
In the first quarter of 2014, Sligro said food retail sales fell 4.4%, while consumer sales at its Emte supermarkets dropped 2.7% in the period.
While Sligro flagged issues such as new VAT rules on tobacco products, the company conceded sales growth at its supermarkets was around 1.5% below market growth.
Sligro said the result was impacted by tough year-on-year comparables as the group lapped "high growth figures" for the first quarter of last year. "The intensified price competition experienced in the fourth quarter of 2013 continued in the first quarter of this year," Sligro added.
The company said total group sales increased 0.6% in the period, climbing to EUR592m (US$820m). Organic sales were flat. Sligro estimated the late Easter reduced sales in the period by around 1.5%.
Sligro Food Group First-quarter 2014 trading update
Sligro Food Group N.V.'s sales for the first quarter (13 weeks) of 2014 were €592 million, an increase of €3 million or 0.6% compared with sales of €589 million in the same period in 2013. Organic sales growth was flat. The timing of the Easter holiday had an adverse effect on both food retail and foodservice sales growth which we estimate at around 1.5 percentage points.
Food retail Food retail sales were down 4.4% in the first quarter, due to new VAT rules for tobacco products, store portfolio change and other factors. Like-for-like consumer sales at the EMTÉ supermarkets were 2.7% lower in the first quarter. This was around 1.5 percentage points below market growth, but the high growth figures for the first quarter of 2013 were also a factor. The intensified price competition experienced in the fourth quarter of 2013 continued in the first quarter of this year.
Foodservice Foodservice sales were up 3.5%. Organic growth, excluding the effect of acquisitions and changes to the VAT rules for tobacco products, was 1.5% (or 2.0% including the tobacco product changes). Sales growth increased as the first quarter progressed. The format changes we have made appear to have been well received by the market. The integration of Rooswinkel is proceeding according to plan. The first customers were recently transferred to the Sligro Food Group distribution centres and we expect to complete the process by the end of May. Horeca Totaal Sluis B.V. has been included in the group's consolidated figures since the beginning of March.
We prefer not to give a firm projection of the half-year results at this stage. The half-year figures will be published on 17 July.
Sligro Food Group encompasses food retail and foodservice companies selling directly and indirectly to the entire Dutch food and beverages market. The group is active in foodservice as a wholesaler and in food retail as a wholesaler and retailer. Sales in 2013 totalled €2.5 billion, generating a net profit of €68 million. The group employed an average of over 5,800 full-time equivalents in 2013. Sligro Food Group shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
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Iris Cole Richey Clark, 91, of Chestnut Hill, widow of former Philadelphia Mayor and U.S. Sen. Joseph S. Clark, died Monday, Sept. 17, at her home.
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It only took one swing of the bat Saturday afternoon to make Jensen Park feel a lot better — mentally and physically — and the feelings were mutual.
Park, a junior outfielder for the University of Northern Colorado baseball team, launched a 375-foot pain-free home run over the left-center field fence at Jackson Field in his first official at-bat after having back surgery five months ago.
No more pain in the back.
Park's dinger helped the Bears in a 3-1 nonconference victory over North Dakota State and a split in the doubleheader. The Bison won the nightcap 8-4.
The split improves the Bears to 3-11 overall while NDSU is 3-5.
Park struggled to get a hit in the nightcap, but his home run proved to be some consolation.
"I got a hanging curveball," the lanky Park said.
It beat the heck out of the hanging pain Park played with most of last season, requiring steroid shots to treat a bulging disc that put pressure on the bottom of his spine.
"I'm not 100 percent, but it feels a lot better," explained Park, who had surgery in October and was glad to get his first at-bat out of the way. "I got all of them (nerves) out of the way with one swing, a home run and all."
The home run tied the score at 1 in the bottom of the second, allowing starter Josh Tinnon to settle into a groove while throwing six innings and giving up just four hits.
Park explained that despite some postgame tightness, he's playing pain free, and the key is to make sure his lower back is "warmed up," during pregame.
"Everybody was pumped up about it (Park's home run) in the dugout," said Tinnon, who mixed enough off-speed pitches in with his fastball while throwing 103 pitches. "It was his first at-bat and that was a huge lift for the team."
Tinnon, a senior right-hander, received an even bigger lift in the bottom of the fifth inning when the Bears scored two more runs — an RBI single by right fielder Ben Netzel and Nick Miller scoring on an error — to give Tinnon the victory.
Senior right-hander Dan Talley threw a scoreless seventh inning to pick up the save.
After yielding a first-inning run to the Bison — Tim Cowell reached on a throwing error by Tinnon and later scored on a wild pitch — Tinnon struggled to find his control in the second before getting into a rhythm and escaped the third inning unscathed as NDSU (3-5) left the bases loaded, the victim of two defensive gems by UNC third baseman Brandon Vaughn.
Tinnon sandwiched a pair of strikeouts around a triple by NDSU's Kyle Kleinendorst in the fifth, then gave up one hit in the sixth before tiring.
"I got a little tired in the sixth and coach made the right call to get me out (of there)," Tinnon added.
UNC coach Carl Iwasaki praised Tinnon's production, and wasn't surprised at Park's recovery.
"He's (Tinnon) been good in his last three outings," Iwasaki said. "The story will be once we get our offensive side going ... we'll give these guys run support.
"What you saw today (from Park) is what he does when he's healthy," Iwasaki added. "I was with him through the process. He feels good right now and I saw him hit a triple in an intrasquad game this week. I saw it this past week. That (the home run) right there ... I knew it would happen. He's going to help us in the lineup."
The Bears pounded out 13 hits in the nightcap, but they weren't timely enough to help starter Chris Hammer, who trudged his way through seven innings, giving up 11 hits and four earned runs.
UNC senior first baseman Colby Harrison was 3 for 5 in the game with a pair of runs scored and senior catcher Andrew Coffman was 4 for 5, but the Bears left 15 runners stranded, including the bases loaded in the fourth and two in the seventh and ninth innings.
They also threw away a double play opportunity in the fourth that led to NDSU scoring two runs.
The Bison added two more in the seventh, thanks in part to three wild pitches by Hammer (1-3) and three (two unearned) in the ninth off of reliever Kevin Willman
"We didn't execute in the seventh and the ninth when it counts, but we'll clean that up," Iwasaki offered.
Northern Colorado 3-4, NDSU 1-8
First Game
UNC 010 020 x — 3 4 2
NDSU — David Ernst (L, 2-1, 4H, 2ER, 0BB, 0SO) and Michael Leach. 2B — Wes Satzinger. 3B — Kyle Kleinendorst).
UNC — Josh Tinnon (W, 2-2), 4H, 1ER, 3BB, 4SO) Dan Tilley (7th,S2, 0H, 0ER, 0BB, 1SO) and Bryan Tibbits. HR — Jensen Park (solo, 2nd). RBI — Park, Ben Netzel.
Second Game
NDSU — Trent Keefer (W, 1-1, 7H, 1ER, 3BB, 3SO), Trevor Jaunich (6th, 6H, 3ER, 2BB, 2SO) and Michael Leach. 2B — Tim Colwell, Nick Altavilla. 3B — Colwell. RBI — Jon Hechtner, Kleinendorst 2, Leach, Andy Wicklund.
UNC — Chris Hammer (L, 1-3, 11H, 4ER, 3BB, 5SO), Lucas Corrick (8th, 0H, 0ER, 0BB, 1SO), Kevin Willman (9th, 2H, 1ER, 0BB, 1SO) and Andrew Coffman. 2B – Ben Netzel. 3B — Rob Cashel, Jake Ekman. RBI — Netzel 2, Ekman, Landon Moseley.


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