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M. H. Siegel, H. E. Bond (STScI)
We report results of a search of Local Group galaxies for bright post-asymptotic-giant-branch (PAGB) stars. PAGB stars of spectral types A and F are the brightest members of Population II, and should have an extremely narrow luminosity function. PAGB stars are easily identifiable because their low surface gravities give them very large Balmer jumps. These factors should make PAGB stars excellent standard candles.
We have established a system of standard stars in a photometric system that combines the Gunn u filter (whose bandpass lies entirely below the Balmer jump) with the standard BVI system. We have obtained uBVI photometry of most of the members of the Local Group, including WLM, NGC 147, NGC 185, NGC 205, Phoenix, Fornax, and NGC~6822, and fields in the halos of M31 and M33. We have identified a number of PAGB candidates for spectroscopic follow-up, and confirm that the luminosity distribution is sharply peaked. Adopting a luminosity of MV=-3.4 based on PAGB stars in Galactic globular clusters, we present a tally of distance measures to these objects and compare them to those derived from other standard candles.
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 34, #4
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Righteous, Dude!
After more than a decade away, Black & White magazine has revived its Thursday Club Cinema film series at the Alabama Theatre, starting next week with Jeff Bridges as "The Dude" in Joel and Ethan Coen's cult comedy "The Big Lebowski."
Serious filmgoers are encouraged to wear their bathrobes and bowling shirts.
And, yes, they will be serving White Russians — The Dude's cocktail of choice — at the bar.
The movie starts at 8 p.m., preceded by a social hour that begins at 7.
"The Alabama Theatre, we think, is the best place to have a movie party, and that's what this is," Black & White associate editor David Pelfrey says.
"You can go to any theater and see a movie, but we're going to make sure that when you go see a movie, you're there with about 600 or 700 of your friends."
What: Thursday Club Cinema
Where: Alabama Theatre, 1817 Third Ave. North
When: Thursday, Jan. 12, through Thursday, Feb. 16. Social hour starts at 7 p.m., movies begin at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $9 at door, $10 through ticketmaster.com.
On subsequent Thursday nights, the six-week series will feature Richard Kelly's disturbing imaginary-friend drama "Donnie Darko" (Jan. 19), Wes Anderson's quirky prep-school comedy "Rushmore" (Jan. 26), Christopher Guest's canine-fancier mockumentary "Best in Show" (Feb. 2), Cameron Crowe's classic rocker "Almost Famous" (Feb. 9), and Steven Soderbergh's revenge thriller "The Limey" (Feb. 16).
"They all have a common thread, which is they sort of celebrate the individual," Pelfrey, who programmed the series, says. "Anybody who's marching to the beat of their own drum, these movies are full of those kind of characters."
Black & White previously hosted the Thursday Club Cinema series from 1998 to 2000 — screening such films as "Blue Velvet," "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" — but discontinued it after three years because of complaints about the poor quality of the Alabama Theatre's projection and sound system at the time, Black & White publisher Chuck Geiss says.
The theater recently installed a new digital projector just in time for its Holiday Film Series in December, so that issue has been resolved, Geiss says.
"Being that it is the Showplace of the South and the biggest screen in the state of Alabama, we just think a communal experience of watching films with friends on a big screen is enhanced by having good equipment, and they made that possible for us to do," Geiss says.
To heighten that shared experience, filmgoers who come dressed in "The Big Lebowski" garb Thursday night will be eligible to win movie swag and tickets to future films in the series.
A vintage T-shirt collector will buy, sell and trade old concert tour shirts in the lobby before the "Almost Famous" screening, and on the night of "Best in Show," $2 from every ticket sold will go to the Greater Birmingham Humane Society.
"We are reaching out and doing thematic kind of things to keep it fun and interesting," Geiss says.Email Bob Carlton at email@example.com
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TRENTON -- The former owner of a Staten Island real estate title company pleaded guilty in federal court in Trenton today to loan-sharking, extortion and arson for allegedly ordering a Mercedes-Benz to be set ablaze in a fit of revenge against a former employee, authorities said.
James V. LaForte Jr., 32, who is currently incarcerated in New York, worked with several others to use beatings and threats to collect high-interest loans in New Jersey with interest payments of up to $150 per week, authorities said. One debtor who failed to pay was smacked in the face; another was cornered near a Monmouth County delicatessen, where he was knocked to the floor and repeatedly kicked, authorities said.
In July, a second man, Francis Alfieri, 30, pleaded guilty in connection to the case.
LaForte also pleaded guilty to ordering a man to set a pair of cars ablaze at the Ocean County home of a salesman who had quit his firm, Richmond Abstract. One vehicle, a 2003 Mercedes-Benz, was destroyed, authorities said.
LaForte admitted to conspiring to commit, extortion conspiracy and crossing state lines to commit arson as part of a racketeering operation,
He faces up to 41 months years in prison under the terms of his plea deal, according to Anthony Moscato, an assistant U.S. attorney who handled the case. His sentence is scheduled for March 31.


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App review: Font Size (for root users)
Every now and then you come across an app that makes you say to yourself, "Why isn't this native again?" You would think that the ability to globally change font size on your Android device would come included, but alas. As you may have guessed by now, Font Size (for root users) does just what it sounds like, changes the font size on your rooted Android phone. There really isn't too much to say about Font Size. The only reason I wanted to do a quick review on the app, is after working with the Michigan Commission for the Blind for quite some time, I know how a person's vision problems can interfere with the technology they are able to use. For the most part, the font size is so small on cell phones, the visually impaired simply cannot use them. Font Size does it's part to try and help mend that problem, and in my experience, does it well.
Before I get into this, I have to say it. I know you don't want me to, but I have to. This app will work for rooted users ONLY. Ahem. OK, now that we have that out of the way… Installation and set up of Font size could not be easier. When you open the app you are greeted with five options for changing your font: small, original size, large, extra large, and XXL. After you select a font size, you will see an ominous pop up message.
Scroll down to read all parts, please:
Your phone could fail to boot after using this app. Font Size is in early beta testing.
Only continue if you have a nandroid backup on hand.
The phone will be rebooted for the changes to take effect.
Disclaimer of Warranty:
I have had absolutely no problems with Font Size so far. Does that mean you won't? I don't know. Just know that before you spend your hard-earned $1.50, people have had problems in the past. I'm sure at this point, you want to see what each size looks like. I sent myself a test message to take screen-captures which you can find below. When it comes to what font's sizes change when using Font Size, I couldn't find anything that wasn't affected by the changes you make. That includes widgets and icons. If you are using the XXL font, some words are heavily cut off on widgets and icons. I'm sure if you needed XXL font to be able to use your phone, it wouldn't be a big deal. I have also included a picture of my home screen with the XXL font so you can see what I mean.
The jump from small to XXL is dramatic. After just using the normal font size for long, then using the small size, even that seems dramatic.
That's just about all there is to it. I know this app isn't something everyone is looking to jump into buying. For the people out there who need something like this, Font Size is nothing short of amazing. If you see anything i may have missed or need to ask me any questions, don't hesitate to use the comments or add me on Twitter. Oh, I almost forgot. If you would like to see me review any app, paid or free, just let me know and I will see what I can do. Until then, You can grab Font Size from the DroidDog app store here. Enjoy!


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MARSHALL - The Marshall School Board looked at proposed budget cuts during the regular board meeting on Monday and wanted more options.
Superintendent Klint Willert presented the board with $574,372 in proposed cuts that he and his administrative staff had tabulated. The goal was $600,000 in cuts, and the board members asked Willert and his staff to come up with additional proposals so they would have some options to present to the public so they could better meet their goal.
Some of the programs they discussed eliminating:
Cheerleading program
Close the swimming pool and use the pool at Southwest Minnesota State University. "This would minimize the number of pools we're maintaining in this community," said Bruce Lamprecht, director of business services. He added it was suggested the pool be filled in and the gymnastics equipment be set up permanently in that space. It would save time the custodians use to set up and take down the equipment.
Orchestra. The program would be offered through Marshall Community Services.
Middle school activities. The activities would be offered through Community Services);
French at the high school.
Positions proposed to be cut or reduced:
One paraprofessional in each building.
One physical education teacher.
One nursing position. Lamprecht explained that they may decide to reduce hours to equal that one position.
One media (library) position. A paraprofessional could be re-directed to fill in at the library, Willert said.
One day care teacher. Replace with a paraprofessional.
One high school language arts person.
One MECLA teacher/tech.
Robert Walker is now a .5 position as the assistant elementary principal, a .25 position as the Title 1 coordinator and a .25 position as the Project Success coordinator. It is proposed he retain his duties as assistant elementary principal, and the duties as Title 1 coordinator be absorbed into that position, and the Project Success coordinator duties be rolled over to Jeremy Williams, assistant principal at MECLA. This will leave Walker in a half-time position as assistant elementary principal. "Mr. Walker could opt to return to the chemistry classroom and be a half-time administrator," Willert said.
Willert also presented the board with proposed new revenues.
"These are things in previous years that may have been reimbursable, but may no longer be reimbursable through federal and state special education programs," Willert said.
This list includes:
Increase activity fees. "We'd still be competitive with schools our size," he said.
PSEO. Keep students in the building so Marshall Public School gets the funding, rather than let them go to SMSU, Willert reasoned.
Increase rental fees by 10 percent.
Charge for transcripts. A fee of $10 would be charged for students who had been out of high school for a while. The projected income is $500.
Reinstitute student parking at $20/vehicle. It could generate $10,000.
The total of these proposed revenue increases is $44,000.
The board is looking for input from the community to see what the public can live with losing and what programs they definitely want to keep.
The board, as a consensus, wanted more options, for themselves and the public, to choose from.
"The administrative team met for five hours poring over a list," Willert said. "If we need to go back and revisit that list, I'd like to hear that from the board. If the board wants to have a series of choices: package A or package B. If the board would wish to do that, we can do that."
Board Chairman Jeff Chapman wanted to know whether instead of raising fees, should a program be eliminated?
Chapman asked about double testing with the NWEA assessment, which is given up to three times throughout the year, and the MCA2, which is given at the end of the year.
Willert explained the tests measure different things in the students' progress.
"I'd strongly recommend against (dropping one)," Willert said.
Board member Mike Booke was concerned that the district has improved some programs, gotten good feedback on that progress, and is now talking about cutting those programs.
"Maybe we need to look at other things," Booke said.
Willert and his team will meet again prior to March 16 to come up with additional recommendations for the board.
That meeting date will be determined later.
The board plans to make its final decisions at the March 30 meeting.
"What are we willing to give up? Somewhere, something has to give," Willert said. "It impacts the staff, the children and the community."
To view the entire proposal, visit www.swmn.org and click on the superintendent's link.


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Three Yarmouth County residents were presented with Caring Canadian awards by Governor General David Johnston at Yarmouth town hall last evening.
The award "recognizes individuals who volunteer their time to help others and to build a smarter and more caring nation. The award also highlights the fine example set by these volunteers, whose compassion and engagement are so much a part of our Canadian character."
Those who received the award are:
Winnie Surette
For her personal commitment to caring and her over fifty years of involvement with community organizations.
Phil Kitter
As a professional chef, for using his talents to feed the hungry in his community and raise funds for local causes.
Mary Lonergan Eldridge
For providing leadership and sound financial management to many charitable organizations in her community.
Governor General David Johnston commented on the significance of the awards at the conclusion of the presentation:
"This was established by Roméo LeBlanc, our 25th governor general. As you know Roméo LeBlanc was our first governor general of Acadian heritage, a neighbour not too far from here.
"He established that award because it recognized the kind of spirit in the Acadian community in which he grew up in. Communities where people cared for one another."
Following is another speech delivered during the event:
"Thank you for your warm welcome. I have been looking forward to this visit.
Samuel de Champlain admired Yarmouth during his explorations more than 400 years ago—and having spent the latter part of the afternoon lobster fishing in the harbour, I can certainly see why!
For centuries, Yarmouth has been reinventing itself—as a leading maritime community in the shipbuilding, shipping, fishing and tourism industries, to name a few. Yours is a long and remarkable history of which you are rightly proud.
What has enabled this relatively small town to exist for so many years? How have you managed to adapt and endure so much change?
You know the answer to that question better than I do, but I will hazard a guess. It is because you, the people of Yarmouth, show such caring, creativity and commitment to working together.
The most precious resource by far in this community is its people. You help and support each other—and in fact, you inspire all Canadians.
Let me assure you, this is no empty phrase. As some of you may know, earlier this year I had the privilege of awarding the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal to Bryden Hutt, an elementary school student at Meadowfields Community School here in Yarmouth.
Despite facing health issues of his own, young Bryden has raised more than $35,000 for the Children's Wish Foundation so that other children with illnesses could see their dreams come true.
I am certain the people of Yarmouth are very proud of Bryden. He is an extraordinary individual, and many Canadians were moved and inspired by his generosity and charm. Sharon and I certainly were.
And children across Canada owe him a debt of gratitude for "Bryden's law," the "legislation" he drafted while visiting Rideau Hall, stipulating that all children should eat chocolate three times daily!
You will also be familiar with the family name Killam—as in Izaak Killam, native of Yarmouth, in whose name I annually present the Killam Prizes for scholarly achievement in engineering, the humanities and the natural, social and health sciences.
The legacy of Mr. Killam and his wife, Dorothy, is having a positive impact on Canada and the world, and serves as a reminder of the great strength our country derives from smaller communities such as Yarmouth.
Of course, these are just two examples of your caring, but I believe they speak well of the culture of hard work, compassion and ingenuity that exists in this community. And in fact, I will be delighted to recognize four other individuals from your community following my remarks, with a presentation of the Caring Canadian Award.
As governor general, I have been calling on Canadians to imagine ways to build a smarter, more caring nation as we approach the 150th anniversary of Confederation. Having celebrated your 250th anniversary last year, you serve as an example to all Canadians of resilience and community spirit.
Be proud of what you have achieved, and continue in your efforts to adapt and support each other in the years ahead.
Your success is essential to the Canada of which we dream."


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It is a copper & brass kinetic sculpture made to be outdoors all year in any environment.
I had the idea for the basic design in the Spring 2011, but it wasn't until Sept. when I saw a peacock strutting his stuff in New Mexico that the piece found a theme. I started working on it in Sept and it took over three months to complete.
My sculptures often emulate something from the natural world, from a strand of DNA to a Galaxy, a flock of birds and schools of fish have all been my inspiration. The two goals in building this piece were to experiment with a new angle, instead of being vertical or horizontal I wanted to see how a sculpture at 45 degrees would work, and second was to make the piece as dazzling as a prancing peacock in full display.
One problem I faced with this piece was balance, to keep the center of gravity over the central bearing so it could turn to face the wind. Most sculptures will use the wind from any direction.
I believe my axle/bearing configuration is unique, allowing sections to turn in opposite directions using the same wind power. The design is my own and haven't seen anything similar used in other kinetic sculptures. All my sculptures are original ideas, though over the years I have seen work by other artists that are similar to some of my more simple designs on the outside, but use a different axle/bearing setup. The mounting angle along with the pivot system make the Peacock design unique.
Multiple sets of ball bearings are used along the upper axle of the sculpture, a larger axle and tapered roller bearing are mounted in the stand section to allow the whole piece to rotate in the wind.
What they won't be able to tell by looking at it is that the center piece uses glass and bronze parts from antique lamps that I salvaged for this sculpture, but in general I enjoy it when people experience their own feelings about a piece. Some people see birds when others see fish, I would want people to know that what ever they see or feel while viewing my work is correct.
The first thing that comes to mind would be to hire an assistant. Currently I can only afford to hire a helper for a few months in the spring. Being able to hire an assistant for a longer period would allow me more free time to be creative and work on new design ideas.
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Much like Alek's article on the Secret Society, this will be a theoretical entry, meant to improve your understanding of large-scale gender dynamics.
Let's begin with a definition:
The Sexual Market Place, or SMP, is the invisible battlefield on which intrasexual competition is constantly waged, in order for every individual to maximize the chances of passing their genes onto the next generation successfully.
Both men and women are in constant war with the other members of their respective sexes in order to fulfill their genetic prerogatives, which are to survive and replicate. This underlying warfare drives nearly all of human competition and progress in the world.
For both genders, there are only two ways to improve one's standing in the Sexual Marketplace:
Raise your own Sexual Market Value (SMV)
Lower the SMV of competitors
And that's literally all there is to it. For the remainder of this article, I'm going to point out common ways that each gender utilizes each option, highlighting certain social norms and forms of intrasexual aggression meant to facilitate those ends.
Let's start with the men.
How Men Compete in the Sexual Marketplace
For guys, option 1, to raise your own SMV, comes with a few choices:
- Improve your game / become more attractive to women,
- Accumulate wealth or high status, and/or
- Display dominance over other males.
Dominating women is easy; most guys can do that. The way the male hierarchy works, rather, is to climb the ladder by being more dominant than the other men.
Trust me, guys -- women determine your "alpha-ness" based not only on you treat them, but mostly on the way you are perceived by other men. They want to know where you are in the pecking order, and watch your interactions with other men in order to determine your status.
Option 2 is to lower the SMV of competitors, which for the sake of pragmatism, we can consider "all men who are not you." You can lower another man's SMV by:
- Getting him fired, thus lowering his access to resources,
- Disabling him physically, showing that you are dominant over him, or
- Insinuating that he is an unfit mate.
Let's take a moment and focus on that last option -- insinuating your competitor is an unfit mate -- since that's a topic we'll come back to when I discuss female strategies. There are many ways to do this, most of which are automatic and we don't even realize why we're doing it.
Here are some common ways to imply that another man is an unfit mate:
Asserting that he "treats women badly" to females. The subtext is that he will not provide for and protect them, and hence would be a poor choice of pair-bond.
Accusing him of being gay. This is very rarely "homophobia," and is far often a jab which indicates that his genes will not survive into the next generation.
Asserting that he has mental health issues.
Asserting that he is a very sensitive guy (accusation of femininity or weakness, regardless of whether that's accurate).
All of these are used to knock the impression of a man's reproductive fitness or value as a mate down a peg or two -- ideally leaving the knocker-down a leg up over his competition in the eyes of the women he's trying to impress.
How Women Compete in the Sexual Marketplace
Now that we've covered some basics for how men compete with each other in the SMP, let's consider how women do the same.
For a woman to raise her SMV, she has fewer options than men do:
She can improve her looks (which, as well known to all women, will cease to work as well once she hits a certain age range), or
She can learn how to better seduce and keep men around.
In our modern sociopolitical climate, what we are observing is the loss of female understanding of how this works. We see prioritizing of career and job prestige -- which increases male SMV -- over keeping oneself fit and being a good wife and mother -- which increases female SMV. All this stuff about "strong, independent women" is just a tragic confusion which tries to make women more masculine, seeking to compete in the masculine hierarchy. This is why many have noted that women outside the Anglosphere tend to be so much more feminine, submissive, and easy to get along with.
In their efforts to "do everything men can do," many have forgotten what it means to be a feminine woman. In their efforts to improve their SMV along the male hierarchy, they have dropped out of the race of competing in the female SMP. The short haircuts, hairy legs and armpits, aggressive attitudes and constant shit-testing have essentially dropped their SMV to zero. Straight men are not attracted to women who seek to be men.
Of course, many women recognize what's going on and consciously remove themselves from such a toxic female atmosphere -- because that is the smart play. By disassociating themselves from such women, they are ramping their own SMV through the roof by comparison.
Is it any wonder the thin, beautiful, feminine women with long hair (the women with the highest SMV) end up with the richest, most powerful men (the men with the highest SMV)? Their competitors have removed themselves from the race.
However, there are several more fascinating phenomena going on right now in the confusion that the SMP has become in recent times. I'd like to address some of those here, in light of the SMP competition.
Thin Shaming vs. Fat Acceptance
All over the Westernized world, certain groups of women have taken a campaign to shame thin women while deifying fat ones. As is obvious to anyone who's encountered such women, the women doing this aren't exactly what anyone would call "attractive." (and somewhere in the distance, a feminist shrieked)
These women, who are coming into the competition with little to no SMV of their own, are undertaking an enormous deception that nobody's falling for. They accuse thin women of being "objectified," with the intention of getting men to stop thinking of attractive women in a sexual way by shaming us for doing so. (Subtext: think of me instead! That's what a good man would do!)
They accuse thin women of being unhealthy, which if you remember from a few minutes ago -- is another way to lower a competitor's SMV. By asserting that thin women are unhealthy, they are attempting to lower the SMV of beautiful women by convincing men that they would not make genetically fit partners.
On the other side of the equation, we see the enormous culture of "fat-acceptance" (pun fully intended). These are the people who will chastise you for correctly noting that obesity is an indicator of poor health, and will tell you that the only reason you aren't attracted to land whales is because of "the media."
By this fallacious assertion, they are attempting to raise the SMV of lazy, unhealthy women who refuse to work on themselves by convincing people that they're secretly really attractive, and we've simply been brainwashed into thinking the opposite. Much to their chagrin, it isn't working.
What's interesting to note is that, as you may have noticed, many beautiful women are fully supportive of the "fat-acceptance" movement. Now, why is that?
Quite simple. All women know that men don't find fat women attractive (there are outliers of course, but I'm talking about the vast majority of us). Thus, it is very much in the best interest of beautiful women, for more women to believe that being fat is attractive. That way, more women will misguidedly make themselves into wildebeests, raising the SMV of the attractive women even further up the scale while knocking off more competitors.
In our cultural narrative, this is all couched in Social Justice Warrior "oppression / beauty is in the eye of the beholder / objectification / sexism" language, but when you think about what's going on behind the scenes, the true motives are quite easy to identify. And they are vicious... as nature designed them to be.
Slut Shaming vs. Slut Acceptance
This is a very big issue in our current sociopolitical climate. On the one hand, we have most men in the world preferring their female partners to have low partner counts.
Slut-shaming, the topic du jour, is something that is mostly done by women against other women. It is ironic, since they accuse men of doing this, when in reality it's just defensive projection (just like "objectification").
Slut-shaming, or the idea that a woman has a lower SMV due to her promiscuity, is at the forefront of "things the Social Justice Warriors hate." All women know, deep in their hearts, that nearly all men will consider them less "worthy as people" if they are promiscuous. For the record, if this is you, I encourage you to change your attitude. It does weaken their chances of being in a successful monogamous relationship, but it does not lower their value as human beings.
The women running these "anti-slut-shaming" campaigns are doing the same thing as those running the "fat-acceptance" campaigns: attempting to raise the SMV of women whom they believe don't have a lot to spare. In my experience, most men love the girls that some people call "sluts." No man is upset by easy access to sex. It is mostly women who, implicitly, assert that sluttiness is a bad thing -- by promoting the idea that it's actually a good thing (which assumes it must not be).
However, just as with the first example, there is more going on here than meets the eye. Just like thin women love the idea of more women believing in "fat acceptance," so too do chaster women outwardly promote the idea of "slut-acceptance."
Because of their beliefs that "sluts" have a lower SMV than chaste women, they want more women to be slutty -- because this raises their own SMV by comparison and means more competitors are out of the running.
No matter what social issue regarding sex you're looking at, it always comes back to this: raising your own SMV while lowering that of competitors. Old women calling young ones trashy? Yep, a desperate ploy to knock off competitors. Good-man shaming? An attempt to trick males into investing resources into women with low SMV.
Guys, it is critically important to understand such dynamics so that you don't accidentally wind up indoctrinated and buying into the superficial motives often pushed by those partaking in such actions. You know what you find attractive, and there's a good reason you do. Don't let a small but loud group of people convince you that there's anything wrong with what you find attractive in a woman.
So in quick summary, the Sexual Market Place is where men and women size up each other's Sexual Market Value in order to determine whom it would benefit them to pair-bond with, and who is not worth their time and investment. To improve yours, assuming you're a male reading this, keep doing what's taught right here on this site.
My hope is that now that I've shown you some more insight into this larger-scale dynamic, you will begin to easily recognize the attempts of others to either raise their own value or lower your own, as this is constantly happening all around you. An understanding of these dynamics will allow you to play the field even more wisely, and avoid traps that women with low SMV will set for you!
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Super article, Drexel-- thank you! Helps explain why I have had a thing for asian girls since high school. In the city where I live (college town where I got my own degree), we get a new batch of Korean/Chinese females every year, and they are absolutely easier to meet and get along with than the average caucasian. I avoid the green card hunters by only taking on the ones who DON'T try to showcase me with their friends-- mutually assured discretion... :) In fact, I am due to cook an Italian dinner for a Korean girl in my apartment tomorrow evening, so wish me luck!!
Well… one does what one can.
Very insightful, but as for promiscuity...
Great article, Drexel. I've been reading the site since the summer but this is the first article I've commented on. It includes many points that are shockingly obvious yet most people don't think about, yet we use and observe these tactics every day subconsciously. I am working on finding some lyrical topics to write about since I am a musician and I plan on writing about the SMP and the way our western society is attempting to trick us into buying into the "fat acceptance" and slut shaming/acceptance" movements. Which brings me to my question. Are women promoting the shaming or acceptance of promiscuity? I had always thought society is shaming it which you mentioned, but you also said chaste women are promoting it?
This is a good summation of
This is a good summation of the philosophy that Roissy has been diseminating for the last 6 years. I think it was he that came up with SMV theory, although it was percolating since the early seduction community.
As for "strong independent women", I'm glad you pointed out that that is not something men want. Men want feminine, submissive women. When a women is "strong" and "independent" I know that that is FemSpeak for a "royal bitch". Chase always talks about dating "strong independent" women. I wish he would stop using those terms. That's not red-pill language.
Hey Jack, thanks for the
Hey Jack, thanks for the thoughtful comment!
A couple points.
I believe it was Rollo Tomassi who first dissected the ideas of SMP and SMV, and Roissy has certainly done a fantastic job of his own. I'm not sure who the ideas originated with, but their philosophies have informed a lot of my own work.
Second, it's very important to make a distention between truly strong, independent women--who I think are awesome--and women who brand themselves with the "strong and independent" label--who are masculine nightmares.
I've been fortunate to know and date several strong and independent women (in the sense that they think for themselves, don't go with everything the herd says and make their own choices). Not one of them was a Feminist, and not one of them ever felt the need to declare how "strong and independent" she was.
If you hear those words leave a girls' mouth, she isn't one of them.


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Fitness activities, including road races, triathlons and bike races, are soaring in popularity. Here is a partial list of upcoming races planned in Central New York this year:
March 26: Mountain Goat training runs continue Saturday mornings, Armory Square, Syracuse
April 2: Fort to Fort Race, 5K or 10K, Geiger Road Fitness Center, Rome
April 10: Skunk Cabbage Classic, 10K and half marathon, Ithaca
April 30: Make-a-Wish 5K, Binghamton
April 30: Seneca Seven, seven person 77.7-mile course, Geneva
April 30: Making Tracks for Celiacs, 10th annual 5K walk/run, Jamesville Beach Park
May 1: Dunn Tire Mountain Goat Run, 3K or 10-mile, Syracuse
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May 1: AIDS Hike for Life 5K, Hamilton College
May 1: Cortland Canoe Classic
May 8: Cortland YMCA Fidelis 5K
May 13: Oswego YMCA Entergy Run, 5K or 10K
May 14: Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, 5K run/walk, New York State fairgrounds, Geddes
May 15*: Binghamton Bridges 5K or half marathon
May 20: Wilber Duck Mile, Oneida
May 22: Charity for Children, 5K walk/run or 8K run, Green Lakes State Park, Fayetteville
May 22: National Distance Hall of Fame 5K or half marathon, Utica
May 29: Majorpalooza 5K Run/Walk, Cayuga Community College, Auburn, NY
May 29: fifth annual Race4Hope, 24-mile bike race, Borodino, seven miles south of Skaneateles.
June 4: Paige's Butterfly Run, 5K, Syracuse
June 4: Tour de 'Cure Bike Ride for Diabetes, Verona Beach State Park
June 4: CNY Orienteering 24-hour Regaine, Morgan Hill State Forest, Cuyler
June 5: AIDS walk/run, 10K run or 5K walk, Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville
June 11: Livestrong at the Y Green Lakes Triathlon, Fayetteville
June 11: Nate the Great Race, 5K, Canastota
June 12*: Livestrong at the Y, 7-mile trail run or 5K, Green Lakes State Park, Fayetteville
June 15: Ithaca Twilight 5K
June 18: Hess Express Swamp Rat Runs, 5K or 10K, Oneida Shores, Brewerton
June 18: Cycle de Cuse - Swinburne Memorial Ride, B.I.K.E. Syracuse fundraiser, 10-, 20- and 40-mile routes, Burnet Park
June 19: Cortland YMCA Fidelis 5K Father's Day Run
June 19: CNY Orienteering Daddy-O, Pratt's Falls Park, Pompey
June 19: Mike Caruano Father's Day 5K or 1-mile walk, Fulton
June 21: JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge, 3.5-mile run, Onondaga Lake Park, Liverpool
June 25: Yellow Brick Road Race, 5K walk or 8K run, Chittenango
June 26: Tri-Oswego, sprint, intermediate and sprint relay events June 26; youth events June 25, Breitbeck Park, Oswego
June 26: Owasco Flyer Bicycle Race, Emerson Park, Auburn
July 2: Fingerlakes Fifties Trail Runs, 25K or 50K or 50-mile, Finger Lakes National Forest, Hector
July 3: 5K for the Troops, Central Square
July 4: Cazenovia Fourth of July Races, 5K and 10-mile
July 4: Teal There's a Cure, 5K run/walk, Marcellus
July 10: Utica Boilermaker, 15K or 5K run/walk, Utica
July 16: Ride for the Rescue, 5 routes of different lengths, Syracuse Inner Harbor
July 17: Cortland YMCA Fidelis 5K
July 30: Oswego YMCA Harborfest 5K run/walk or 10K,
Aug. 6: Mad Cow 5K, Nelson
Aug. 7: Cayuga Lake Triathlon, Taughannock Falls State Park, Ulysses
Aug. 7: Iron Girl Syracuse Women's Triathlon, Oneida Shores Park, Brewerton
Aug. 14: Great Race, run, bike, canoe or kayak, Emerson Park, Auburn
Aug. 14: Cazenovia Triathlon and Aquabike
Aug. 19: Oswego YMCA Rudy's 5K run/walk
Aug. 19: New York State Woodsmen's Field Days' 10K run or 5K walk, Boonville
Aug. 20: Oswego YMCA Tour de Loop Bike Race
Aug. 20: Willow Bay 5K Run/Walk for Women, Onondaga Lake Park
Aug. 21: Upstate Chiropractic Beaver Lake Run, 5K or 10K, Baldwinsville
Aug. 26: Citizen Downtown Auburn Mile, Auburn
Aug. 27:Run for the Woods, 5-mile or 4K, Marcellus Park
Aug. 27: Second Chance 5K, Willow Bay, Onondaga Lake Park
Aug. 27: Fulton YMCA Loop Around the Lake 5K or 15K, Bull Head Point, Fulton
Aug. 27: Run the Judge 5K, Jamesville Beach Park
Aug. 28: Chris Thater Memorial Races, 5K run or bicycling race, Recreation Park, Binghamton
Aug. 28: Cortland YMCA Fidelis Celtic 5K
Sept. 3: Skinnyman Triathlon, Skaneateles
Sept. 4: Skaneateles Races, open-water swim, bicycle race or 4-mile run
Sept. 5: Labor Day 5K, Groton
Sept. 10: Arc Races, 5K and half marathon, Onondaga Lake Park, Liverpool
Sept. 11: Baldwinsville Double Bypass 5K
Sept. 17: Fayetteville Classic, 5K or 10K
Sept. 17: Baldwinsville Oktoberfest 5K
Sept. 18: Ironman 70.3 Syracuse
Sept. 19: Lungevity 5K, Liverpool
Sept. 23: Ride for Missing Children, CNY Family Sports Centre, Syracuse
Sept. 24: Run/Walk for William 5K, Baldwinsville
Sept. 25: Heather's Teal Ribbon Run & Walk, 5K, Willow Bay, Onondaga Lake Park.
Sept. 25: Parks Run, 4-mile run/walk, Strathmore neighborhood, Syracuse
Oct. 1: Microcephaly Awareness walk/run 5K, Willow Bay, Onondaga Lake Park
Oct. 1: Cortland YMCA Fidelis Pumpkin Run 5K
Oct. 2: Syracuse Festival of Races
Oct. 2: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, 2.5-mile walk, Clinton Square
Oct. 8: Trek Womens Syracuse Bicycle Breast Cancer Awareness Ride, Green Lakes State Park, Fayetteville
Oct. 8: Hometown Heroes 5K, Willow Bay, Onondaga Lake Park
Oct. 8: Ludden Fest 5K, Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School, Syracuse
Oct. 9: Lafayette Apple Run, 5K or 15K, Lafayette
Oct. 9: Century Marathon, full, half and relay marathon, Fulton YMCA
Oct. 9: Bread Run, 5K and half marathon, Fabius
Oct. 15: Camp Talooli Family Walk/Run, 5K, Pennelville
Oct. 16: Empire State Marathon, full, half and relay marathon, Carousel Center, Syracuse
Oct. 16: Cortland YMCA Leaf Peeper half marathon
Oct. 16: First Frost AIDS Walk/Run, 5K, Watertown
Oct. 22: Cross the Creek 5K, Sandy Creek
Oct. 23*: Carol M. Baldwin A Run for Their Life, 5K run/walk or 15K run, Syracuse University
Oct. 23: Eastwood Park to Park Autumn Run, 5-mile, Syracuse
Nov. 6: Wounded Warrior Races, 5K run/walk, Camillus
Nov. 6: Burn Run, 5K, East Syracuse
Nov. 13: Oswego Veteran's Day Run, 3-miles
Nov. 20:Jingle Bell Run, 5K, Onondaga Lake Park
Nov. 20: CNY Orienteering Turkey-O, Highland Forest, Fabius
Nov. 21: Lights on the Lake walk, Onondaga Lake Park, Liverpool
Nov. 22: Lights on the Lake Doggie Walk, Onondaga Lake Park, Liverpool
Nov. 24: Oswego YMCA Run for the Pies
Nov. 24: Cortland YMCA Fidelis Turkey Trot, 5K
Nov. 24: Turkey Day Races, 5K or 10K, C.W. Baker High School, Baldwinsville
Nov. 24: Fayetteville-Manlius Turkey Trot, 4K or 8K, Fayetteville-Manlius High School, Manlius
Dec. 3: Oswego YMCA Reindeer Run, 5K run/walk
Dec. 10: It's a Wonderful Run, 5K run/walk, Seneca Falls
* Events new in 2011.
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CES 2008: Voltaic Generator bag charges your laptop on the go
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Microsoft moves to deny considering Blu-ray for Xbox 360
This week's HD DVD Blu-ray news seems to be rumour followed by fact followed by denial. The latest rumour to be quashed is from Microsoft who claim that comments made to Reuters by Albert Penello, group marketing manager for Xbox hardware in response... >>
Now Universal rumoured to be ditching HD DVD for Blu-ray
As HD DVD and Blu-ray rumours continue to whiz around CES in Las Vegas, the latest Chinese whisper to come out of the show is that Paramount and long time staunch HD DVD backer Universal will drop the format next month sounding the death of the format.... >>
CES 2008: Alienware unveils "curvy" widescreen monitor concept
Alienware has gone curvy with its widescreen monitors. Although a concept at the moment, the latest monitor from Alienware is getting gamers all excited about the possibility of "immersive gaming". This future launch is not a traditional LCD but actually... >>
CES 2008: Gallery of Cooler Master's custom chassis
Cooler Master has team up with Smooth Creations to offer hand-painted, limited edition chassis, some of which were on display at CES. Check 'em out, they're real purty... >>
CES 2008: Elvis lives on in Vegas...
America. Land of the free. Home of the brave. And full of cool tat like this Elvis-themed stand spotted at CES. >>
CES 2008: Waterproof wireless speaker launches
This CES find is fun, in a gimmicky way. A waterproof wireless speaker, this floats on water so you can enjoy your tunes in the pool, or bath even. With an effective range up to a claimed 600 feet, it works on the 2.4Ghz wireless frequency and can apparently... >>
CES 2008: Flying Alarm Clock
Trouble getting up in the morning? A kerazy alarm clock design that's supposed to help you leap out of bed ('cos there's a reason to) when the alarm goes off the propeller on the top of this gadget flies off and around the room. >>
CES 2008: ATP's green USB "EarthDrive"
Shown at CES, ATP's EarthDrive is an environmentally friendly flash drive. Designed with bio-recycled plastic material, the drive's unique housing is also fully recyclable. As well as these green credentials, the company has teamed up with the American... >>
CES 2008: Voodoo shows 24 carat gold-plated computer
Suitable considering the "playground of the rich" Las Vegas setting for the Consumer Electronics Show, Voodoo proudly displayed the blinged-up gold plated "OMEN" on their stand. >>


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CAAM is extremely grateful to the California African American Museum's History Council for undertaking this project to bring attention to the history of Black churches in Los Angeles. This is a very valuable resource for anyone seeking clearer knowledge about the who, what, where and how these institutions flourished and how the Black community organized itself in the early years of Los Angeles' growth.
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Norwegian Ambassador Appointment Is An Embarrassment
July 2, 2014
To The Reader's Forum: National Public Radio ran an interesting story on June 17 about the recent painfully embarrassing U.S....
Carla, all we have to do is elect a republican president and he will attack and blow up another country and then the world will just love us as a nation. Just like when bush was in office.
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This happened in jan. He is a top donor to the democrats. NPR is a little late but at least they covered it.
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Title: "Norwegian Ambassador Appointment Is An Embarrassment". I would say everything BHO does, is an embarrassment.
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If the writer thinks the growth of the National Front in France is "wonderful," he should simply admit to thinking neo-Nazi groups here and in Europe are "wonderful."
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Bravo! Well said. We are stuck with an inept and dangerous leader for 2 more years. This is yet another example of the damage that has been done,not just to our country but through out the world. We may never recover.
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The French Quarter is packed with places for fundraising parties. For the Vieux Carré Property Owners, Residents and Associates, the venue choices seem limitless. For this, its 75th anniversary, the group chose two classic buildings on Jackson Square: The Cabildo and the Tableau restaurant/Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré building.
"Vive le Vieux Carré" was the gala's thematic rallying cry, and with that patron partiers started the festivities at Tableau. The gala at the Cabildo followed, and soon that historic building was abuzz. Entertainment was top-notch with former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Darrell Hammond, a part-time French Quarter resident, doing a brief performance, while New Orleans native Bryan Batt was the celebrity auctioneer for the live auction, which included a dinner with the doyenne of Creole cuisine, Leah Chase, as well as 10 days in a beautiful 18th-century home, Le Moulin, in the south of France.
A silent auction of more than 80 items also tempted French Quarterites' wallets, and the soothing sounds of vocalist Leah Chase Kamata may have helped lure them into bidding. Those amongst the crowd were VCPORA executive director Meg Lousteau, as well as event co-chairs Brenda and Michael Moffitt, with co-chair committee members Pat Meadowcroft, Kathy Hebert, Suzanne Anderson, Mia Matassa, Stephen Swain, Carol Allen (VCPORA board president), Jennifer Kelly, Deborah Brown and Carolyn Goodwin. More VCPORA supporters included Harold Patin, John Hall and John Church, Judy and Mel Kossover, David Speights, Jude Swenson, City Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson, Frances Swigart-Steg, Jerry Zachary and Henry Bernstein, Bryan Francher, Daniel Brockhoeft, Edward Bonin and Rene Fransen, Chuck Garber and Rodney Villarreal, and Gregory Holt.
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Without the Rapid bus service between Grand Valley State University's Allendale and downtown campus, students traveling in personal vehicles would clog Lake Michigan Drive between the two campuses and GVSU would have to add thousands of parking spaces at each end of the route at a cost of many thousands of dollars per space.
Now officials with the Rapid are launching a study to see how the bus service can better serve not just the university, but also residents in Allendale, Walker, Standale, and the West Side.
"We need to add capacity to the route and allow for better scheduling of buses that travel Lake Michigan Drive," said Nicholas Monoyios, long-term planner for the Rapid. As there is no way to add more traffic lanes for vehicles along most of the route, adding capacity with public transportation is the logical choice.
If built, the "Laker Line" would be similar to the "Silver Line," which the Rapid is currently building to connect Grand Rapids Medical Mile and the city of Kentwood along Division Avenue. The 9.6-mile, $39.8 million Rapid bus system is set to open soon.
The Rapid kicked off the "Laker Line" study Thursday by hosting a series of public meetings to get input from local residents concerning upgrading the Lake Michigan Route from its current operation to a Bus Rapid Transit service. BRT service would add bus stops and mini-stations along Lake Michigan Drive between Allendale and downtown Grand Rapids so riders could load more quickly and buses would never leave Lake Michigan Drive.
"This is an important transportation conversation for our communities," said Barbara Holt, Rapid Board of Directors chair and former Walker mayor. "This project has the potential to benefit Walker's Standale business district in so many ways – not only by generating economic activity but by creating a sense of place that gives Walker a true town center."
Holt said the upgraded bus route could make Standale a place that is vital and vibrant, that is walkable, family-friendly, and offers the best of what the city has to offer – a sense of community.
The "Laker" route or Route 50, as it is called currently, serves more than 12,000 riders a day during the week and 1.4 million riders last year.
The Laker Line Study will conduct a comprehensive analysis of the potential for a BRT service along the Lake Michigan corridor.
The 15-month study will evaluate a number of factors, including rising ridership demand, compare various BRT implementation options, and identify an investment strategy that simultaneously meets future mobility needs, supports economic growth in the corridor, and delivers environmental benefits.
"We've worked hard with the Rapid in the last decade to create a culture of public transportation at Grand Valley, and we've succeeded," said Grand Valley State University President Thomas J. Haas. "This is a critical topic for the entire area as well as the university. I applaud the effort to gather input from the public and proceed with a strategy that will serve our region for years to come."
With the strong partnership between GVSU and the Rapid, it is anticipated that there will be continued funding for the operation of public transportation services between the Allendale and downtown Grand Rapids campuses.
Key project partners in addition to GVSU include the Michigan Department of Transportation, several local governments, and the Federal Transit Administration. Funding for the study is provided through a federal grant with a match of state funds.
Currently GVSU pays for the buses on the route. If the bus route is expanded, Rapid planner Monoyios envisions covered stops with automated ticket booths and other amenities. "Building a BRT would add several 'bells and whistles" to the route, making it easier and more attractive for all riders," he said.
The study will determine what those "bells and whistles"are, how the BRT could be funded, and a timeline for construction.
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Flying Panda
Pablo and Friends
Greg Papa, Pablo Sandoval, Dave Grosechner
Top of the Class
It is the nature of diehard fans to be impatient. This is a good thing. They push a team's management. Where's the long-ball hitter we need? Where's the rocket-armed reliever? Let's make a deal, and let's do it now.
But in the labyrinth of offices inside any major-league baseball organization, alongside the up-to-the-minute-what-can-we-do-now executives and analysts, are the futurists. They're the ones constructing the team we'll see next year and five years from now.
No team in recent years has planned for the future better than the Giants.
That's what Baseball America concluded in its just-published analysis of the last four draft classes.
Here's what Baseball America's Jim Callis reported yesterday:
"We grade every draft from 2005-08 in the new Prospect Handbook, and no team outdid San Francisco's 3.50 GPA. Vice president of player personnel Dick Tidrow ran those first three efforts, with scouting director John Barr coming aboard in 2008.
"The Giants' signature pick was stealing two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum after nine teams passed on him in 2006. San Francisco gets an A for Lincecum alone in 2006, though they also found fringe big league infielders Emmanuel Burriss (sandwich round), Ryan Rohlinger (sixth), Brian Bocock (ninth) and Matt Downs (36th).
"San Francisco was the only club to earn three As, also getting top grades in 2007 for Madison Bumgarner (first), with some help from righthander Tim Alderson (first), second baseman Nick Noonan (sandwich) and big league surprise Dan Runzler (fifth), and in 2008. That last group could be San Francisco's best hitting crop in years, led by Buster Posey (first), third baseman Conor Gillaspie (sandwich), outfielder Roger Kieschnick (third) and shortstop Brandon Crawford (fourth)."
As fans, we don't have to be patient. That's not our jobs. But it's good know it's somebody's job, and that the Giants happen to have some of the best people doing it.
Winter League Lessons
I phoned Giants player personnel
director Bobby Evans this week – he's back east with his family
for the holidays — to talk about the fall league and winter ball. I
wanted to know what he learns about his players when he looks at
their stats from these brief seasons in far-flung places.
"For most of the players, it's a
development opportunity," Evans said. "These are not rec
leagues. They're competitive, spirited, driven programs. You
succeed or you come home. The pressure is high and the stakes are
"As hard as it is for young Latin
players to come to the U.S. and succeed, that's what it's like
for American players to go into competitive winter ball leagues."
Nate Schierholtz, for example, hit .324
in Puerto Rico after a frustrating regular season that saw him
sidelined for a stretch with a strained hip. Winter ball "was a
strong development opportunity for Nate and shows how tough he is,"
Evans said.
Kevin Frandsen also did well in the
Puerto Rican league, hitting .337. "He'll compete to be one of
the utility guys on the big league club," Evans said. "He was
healthy all year and showed what kind of player he's capable of
being. Just like Nate, by doing well in Puerto Rico, it turns heads.
Helps people see, 'Hey, I'm not slowing down. I'm going to do
everything I can to compete.' "
For Brett Pill, the young first-baseman
who had a breakout 2009 season in the minors, the winter league in
Venezuela was a confidence boost. He batted .329 with a .411 on-base
"When you're playing alongside
major-league players you've only seen on SportsCenter, and you're
doing well, it's an eye-opener. You're thinking, 'I can compete
with these guys.' It's going to help him approach the next level
– his first major-league spring training — with a lot more
Evans puts less stock in the
performances in the Arizona fall league, where Brandon Crawford and
Buster Posey played.
"You can't read too much into
whether you were successful or unsuccessful because you get such
limited at-bats," Evans said.
Crawford hit .312 and Posey .225.
"As much as he might have struggled
offensively," Evans said of Posey, "he showed a respectable
on-base percentage (.324). It was a long year for him between
big-league camp, five months in the minor leagues in two different
places followed by a September call-up and fall league. Not question
there was strain on him.'
Evans said Crawford, whose impressive
performance in Single A early on in 2009 seemed almost effortless, is
expected to start the season in Double A "and see where the season
takes him. What we've seen in him is a sense of passion. He's
No word yet on whether Pablo Sandoval
has been successful in maintaining his weight-loss from his Operation
Panda conditioning camp. He hit .395 in Venezuela, his home country.
The Giants expect to see Sandoval back in San Francisco in a couple
John Bowker's winter-league season
was cut short by a quadriceps strain. (He played in just three
games.) He's been receiving treatment in San Francisco and is
expected to be ready for spring training.
Have a great New Year. See you in 2010.
From the Horses' Mouths
It sure looks weird to see the clubhouse in the off-season. Even filled as it was last night with fans in folding chairs, it was like walking into an abandoned building. There's a kind of ghostly loneliness about it without players slapping domino tiles on table tops and answering fan mail in front of their lockers and yanking down the bills of their caps as they rush out to take early BP. Is April really still three-and-a-half months away?
The next best thing to the actual baseball season, though, is talking about it.
Up on a temporary stage, erected on the far right of the room near the starting pitchers' lockers, Giants manager Bruce Bochy was sitting next to general manager Brian Sabean and taking questions from moderator Greg Papa.
"He's the best all-around player that I've ever seen because he can play everywhere," Bochy was saying. "He has a very similar body type to Tony Gwynn."
He was talking about Pablo Sandoval, who embarked on a rigorous conditioning and weight-loss program during the off-season, a one-man camp the Giants dubbed "Operation Panda."
"Obviously," Sabean cracked, nodding at Bochy and himself, "we haven't been in the same camp."
Packed into the room, in rows of chairs bordered by four walls of lockers, were season-ticket holders who had been invited to talk baseball with Bochy, Sabean, managing general partner Bill Neukom and relief pitcher Sergio Romo.
Asked by Papa if two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum's stuff matches up with the all-time greats, Bochy didn't hesitate.
"Sure it does. He's by far the best pitcher I've ever seen. When you have four pitches, especially the best or close to the best changeup in baseball right now, he's up there among the greats. He's a thinker out there and knows what the opposing team is doing and that's why he's won two Cy Young Awards."
"What's interesting about him," Sabean said, "is in college he would throw 140 pitches on a Friday night and then be the closer for his team on Sunday. He's proved to have a rubber arm and has an inner strength that other people don't have. He's fearless and he thinks that on any given day that he's better than anyone else."
Perhaps the highlight of the evening was Sergio Romo. He's a player that fans don't know very well yet, and last night they got a glimpse of his sense of humor and his boyish excitement for the game – starting with the fact he was texting his mother as he climbed onto the stage to tell he was going to be on television.
"You're from Brawley, California, near Los Angeles," Papa said, "so who was your favorite team growing up?"
"No comment," Romo said, smiling. "Let's just say I started hating the Dodgers the second I put on a Giants uniform."
After struggling with injuries last season, he said he's "very excited for the season to start . . . I miss my number 54 on my back."
When Papa opened the discussion to questions, one of the first was an update on the Giants' up and coming players.
"Peguero is a young outfielder that we just placed on our 40-man roster," Sabean said. "He's a lot like Sandoval in that he has a lot of energy. Thomas Neal came into his own last year and developed an all-around game. Brandon Crawford is going to be our shortstop of the future. We have a flow of talent that people will be proud of."
As for the readiness of pitcher Madison Bumgarner and catcher Buster Posey, Bochy said, "I really think that they can start for us next year. Posey is gonna be a front line catcher and he's on the fast track. Bumgarner did a heck of a job last year when Timmy went down. Here are two tremendous kids that stood out and both held their own. I'm curious to see how Buster looks this spring."
One fan wanted to know about keeping Lincecum and fellow pitcher Matt Cain as Giants for the long haul.
"Cain has two more years before free agency," Sabean said, "and Lincecum has four more and is going through arbitration right now. We are in a good situation because they both want to be Giants for a long time."
Sabean also addressed the decision not to resign veteran pitcher Brad Penny.
"We had a short window and in our estimation we thought we had home court in our situation. We couldn't bring ourselves to overpay when we have Madison Bumgarner in the wings."
Still want more? Tune in to a full broadcast of the event on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area on January 15 at 6:30 p.m.
Some shots from the taping:
Sabean's Strategy
Giants general manager Brian Sabean is honing a skill not innate to a baseball man who cut his teeth at the New York Yankees.
"The market right now is as slow or slower than last year in developing," he said during a break today from internal strategy meetings in preparation for next week's winter meetings in Indianapolis.
"Whether teams are still getting their budgets together or what, the free agent market has yet to develop. Players and agents are slow to do anything. It's a sign of the times."
Sabean said the Giants last week offered a one-year deal to pitcher Brad Penny, and yesterday offered one year and an option to infielder Juan Uribe. Both offers were declined. "At this time I'm not sure there will be further discussion," Sabean said. (He said veteran catcher Bengie Molina probably has been offered a multi-year deal by another team, essentially guaranteeing he would not return to the Giants.)
Sabean's strategy in building the 2010 team boils down to three basic – but difficult — questions:
� How can the Giants maximize the talent they already have?
� What can be accomplished on the free-agent market?
� Are there smart trades to be made – and what homegrown talent is the team willing to give up in order to secure valuable immediate help (such as a bigger bat in the lineup)?
"What we're doing right now – to get a bat, to figure out the catching situation, everything – is due diligence," Sabean said.
In other words, there is no magic formula. No shortcuts. No blockbuster, bold-headline quick fixes. Just hours and days and weeks of poring over scouting reports and statistics, working the phones and updating the huge erasable boards with lists of free agents and players likely the trading block, plus evaluating in every possible way the Giants' own prospects. (Who among them will blossom into big-impact major-leaguers, and when?)
"In a perfect world, you'd love to have (Madison) Bumgarner and (Buster) Posey burst on the scene," Sabean said. "But you don't want to rush them. So you keep at it, at the grindstone, and be ready when the best opportunities pop."
There might be interesting "secondary free agents," Sabean said, "but maybe that doesn't make as much sense as giving our own kids a chance. We have to continue to identify what we really have internally and not count on the outside world."
Sabean mentioned two "burning questions" for the Giants:
� If the Giants don't get Penny and instead bring up Bumgarner, their top pitching prospect, they will have a particularly young starting rotation. So what do you do about the bullpen? Do you counterbalance that with a more veteran bullpen and, say, bring Bob Howry back?
� What position does Pablo Sandoval play? If he stays at third, what options are available to upgrade the situation at first base outside the organization?
"In the past, we've been more aggressive," Sabean said. "But we're willing to go at the pace of the marketplace and show more patience. Trades don't have to be made at the winter meetings. So people shouldn't read anything into it if nothing happens in Indianapolis. It's just not a very sexy market at this time.
"But we'll come home with more information. It's a fact-finding mission to figure out who matches up with us in terms of free-agent interest. We'll have a clearer picture of trade scenarios. We'll find who our partners might be and how we can do business."
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How to Eat Like a Panda
Woolf is the nutritionist from Arizona State University who is
guiding the food and drink component of Operation Panda, Pablo
Sandoval's off-season conditioning regimen.
recently sent me an email with nutrition tips for athletes – and
the rest us — so none of us blow up like Macy's balloons during
the next month.
is her advice:
the season to……eat? Beginning at Thanksgiving and continuing
through Super Bowl Sunday, celebrations and family gatherings are
more abundant than at any other time of the year. Foods and
beverages, rich in fats and sugars, are the center of many of these
occasions. Also, many athletes do not maintain their usual training
routines during the holidays. Follow these tips to help you navigate
through the holiday season, without compromising your health or
if you are still full from the night before, start each day with
breakfast. A healthy breakfast should include whole grains, fruit,
dairy and protein. Try having oatmeal, a banana, and low fat milk. If
you include a small amount of protein (yogurt, egg whites, or peanut
butter), you may stay full until lunch.
desserts and treats are full of sugars and fats. To avoid over-
indulging, eat a healthy snack before heading out to a party. Choose
whole grains, fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, lean meats,
and nuts as they supply the body with proteins, vitamins and
minerals. Your intake of holiday sweets will be less and you can
spend your time socializing rather than over indulging.
eggnog and alcoholic beverages are plentiful at this time of the
year. However, focus instead on drinking water and eating five or
more servings of fruits and vegetables per day to keep your body well
hydrated. To monitor your hydration status, check your urine color
first thing in the morning. When well hydrated, urine is pale yellow
without a strong odor. Dark yellow, infrequent urine suggests
the holiday season, many meals will be eaten in restaurants. Make
good choices to keep your health in check. When ordering, ask your
server how foods are prepared. Choose steamed, baked, boiled,
grilled or broiled selections. Be sure to order mayonnaise, butter,
cream-based sauces, and salad dressings on the side. You can then
monitor the amount that gets added to your food.
is heading back home to Venezuela, where he will play winter ball.
His brother, Michael, will help keep him on track by advising their
mother on what to cook and by making sure Pablo brings his own food
to the ballpark every day.
will still perform cardio and weight lifting," Giants strength
and conditioning coach Ben Potenziano said. "The shift has gone
(from working out several hours a day) to playing baseball every day
for 9 innings. I added cardio earlier in the day so he can recover
and provide his body with food it needs to function prior to the
lifting has shifted to a full body workout 3 to 4 times
week. He will continue to maintain strength that will carry him
winter ball and then back to me in Arizona. I will turn up the
when he gets back and become more sports specific.
will be fielding, throwing and hitting more at that point as well.
His diet will not change. He will consult with Kathleen and me and we
can make adjustments to his workload. He did well with his exact
consultation and Pablo should be proud of himself."
try to contact Pablo in Venezuela to get an update on how he's
Operation Panda for the Rest of Us
By popular demand, I asked Ben Pontenziano, the Giants' fitness strength and conditioning coach — and mastermind behind Operation Panda — for fitness tips for those of us who can't work out for five hours a day like Pablo.
Here's some basic advice as we head into the holidays:
1. Go for a walk at the beginning of the day and then after dinner. Walk with family members and spend time together getting outside. Throwing a football around with family is always fun and you burn calories running around.
2. Try to continue with your regular workout routine during the holidays. Time can be an issue, but make time for yourself and stick to it. The key to a successful diet/workout is a routine. You have your plan and then carry it out. Go to the gym at your normal time. If it's not open for Thanksgiving, take your routine outside or in your home. Your cardio can be running, biking or running on the treadmill if you have one. Walking is a great low impact exercise, which you can do for 45 minutes to an hour. If you have any exercise equipment in your house you can perform a full body workout with what little you may have or just your body weight. There is no excuse for not doing a core workout. That can also be done with med balls or cable machines. Use your imagination and challenge yourself.
Next post: How to eat at parties and holiday dinners without gaining weight.
Tim and Willie
The greatest Giant of all time, and the greatest Giant of this time, held court in separate rooms in the bowels of AT&T Park this afternoon.
Willie Mays, in his ever-present Giants' cap and jacket, fielded questions from wide-eyed Giants' rookies about the toughest pitchers he ever faced (Koufax, Gibson, Drysdale and Rush) and his greatest influence (his father) during his reign as the best player in baseball.
Down the hall, in the Giants press conference room, newly crowned two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum fielded questions from reporters about his hopes for the future (World Series ring) and his greatest influence (yes, his father) during his two-year reign as the best pitcher in baseball.
The concrete corridor connecting the two rooms felt like a wormhole in an orange-and-black universe, a shortcut through time and space.
"I couldn't have ever seen this happening growing up," Lincecum was saying.
He was flanked by Bruce Bochy, Dave Righetti and Brian Sabean, who struggled to put into words just how remarkable Lincecum's performance has been, winning back-to-back Cy Youngs in his first two full seasons in the majors.
"It's almost overwhelming," Righetti said. "Where do you go from here?"
You go where Mays went.
Into the history books.
Because you can read and hear everything from Lincecum's press conference elsewhere, I'll bring you the highlights of Mays' lively chat with the Giants' draftees on the second-to-last day of their winter conditioning camp.
(I'll try to bring you a postmortem from Lincecum sometime in the next week.)
The 25 or so young players sat in chairs encircling Mays, who sat behind a small table.
"All right, guys, c'mon, what else?" Mays said, prompting the next question.
Ever get timed in the 60?
"No, no! I didn't run! I told them, 'I can't run the ball over the fence.' When they were out running, I was asleep in the clubhouse. They got you just running here? You doing some hitting?"
No, the players said. Just conditioning work.
"That's not fun! Maybe I should say something. You want to hit a little bit and then go run. You got to enjoy yourself."
He told them about his struggles against Drysdale, Gibson, Koufax and Bob Rush then added: "I made up for it on all the other guys, the scrubs. I destroyed them."
Best players you ever saw?
Robert Clemente, Mays said. Barry Bonds – "If I don't say Barry, he'll start a fight." Bobby Bonds (Now, he could run!" ) , Maury Wills ("Played a good shortstop.") and Frank Robinson ("Triple Crown winner").
What did you do in the off-season?
"Work, man, work! That's a very good question. I played basketball, football – touch football – they didn't know I played football! I had a 32 waistline. I worked out and played all the time. No time to lay around. Had to keep myself in shape. Played winter ball two times."
We've heard from other major-league players about what makes a good teammate. What's your definition?
"In 1962, they made me captain. I positioned the outfielders, the infielders, I'd call pitches from centerfield – he didn't have to take them but I wanted him throw a pitch I thought I could catch. You had to get 25 guys playing together even though nine or ten don't play much at all and it feels bad. I'd go to the manager and say, 'I want this guy to play because he needs to feel part of the team.' The guy would go 9 for 10 and he'd go sit down and feel like a part of the team. When guys had problems at home, they'd come to me and I'd call their wives. I knew the wives better than I knew the players!"
Your greatest baseball achievement?
"Man, I had so many! I think my greatest achievement was when I signed my major-league contract."
Greatest moment?
"Hitting four home runs in Milwaukee [with 8 RBI] was the greatest thing I ever did."
Best park to hit in?
"Wrigley. To me the ball went out of there pretty good."
Worst park to hit in?
"Candlestick. The wind's always blowing in. We put a glove to a fence to see if it would fall and it didn't fall. We could even hit it out in batting practice.
"I know you guys are saying, 'Oh, hell, he didn't do all this stuff. Oh yes I did."
What was your farthest home run?
"I never worried about that! You just get it over the fence! You don't care how far it went."
What effect did race have back when you played?
"We went to some towns and I couldn't stay in the same hotel. I remember once in Hagerstown, they dropped me off on the other side of the tracks. You guys from the South, you know what the other side of the track is. So they drop me off and I'm in a hotel, and at 2 o'clock in the morning two or three guys come through the window and sleep the rest of the night on my floor, and then at 6 a.m. they get up and go back out the window. They did the same thing the next night, watching out for me. Nothing was ever said.
"My father told me no matter what anybody said, never to fight. Turn the other cheek. I'd call him up and he'd ask, "Did you fight today?' Back then, you had to make sure you were bigger than those people who called you names. They called you all kinds of names. But I knew for me to get ahead, I had to take all that kind of stuff. Every time somebody called me a name, I hit the ball."
What did you do in a slump?
"A slump is going to happen to everybody in some way. For me, a slump was 0-for-10. Everyone has a different way of getting out of a slump. I'd get out by swinging inside-out and getting a hit that way."
Throughout Mays' talk, the young guys snapped photos with their cell phone, leaning close, recording forever their moment with the greatest player who ever stepped on a baseball field.
When Mays left, he rode a golf cart down the concrete corridor to Mike Murphy's office inside the clubhouse. Then Lincecum, finally finished with his round of interviews, stopped by. Mays rose from his chair.
"Don't get up!" Lincecum said. "You're getting up for me?"
"Congratulations!" Mays said. He shook Lincecum's hand.
They exchanged pleasantries as cameras snapped.
"Enjoy this," Mays told him.
Lincecum said he would, thanked him and left, smiling and shaking his head at the whirlwind day. He still had more interviews to do – still more questions about how he does what he does. But Lincecum doesn't have a clear answer to the question any more than Mays ever did.
Sometimes there are none.
Operation Panda article on SFGate
In case you missed it, here's an article from yesterday about Pablo's strength and conditioning camp feature on SF Gate.
Perseverance at Camp Panda by Henry Schulman, Chronicle Staff writer
Fan favorite Sandoval goes extra mile to shape up, slim down
"After 10 days of workouts that would make a Marine drill instructor weep with sadistic joy, the Giants' cuddly Kung Fu Panda finally bared his fangs.
With a host of others, including Giants head trainer Dave Groeschner and strength and conditioning coordinator Ben Potenziano, infielder Pablo Sandoval climbed Phoenix's Camelback Mountain on Thursday, 54 minutes up, 38 minutes down, and thought he was done for the day.
Then, Potenziano gave him the bad news: another weightlifting circuit and 30 more minutes of cardio.
'He was a little poopy-pants the rest of the afternoon,' Potenziano said. 'He wasn't his happy self.'
This is Camp Panda, an extraordinary, 3 1/2-week training and nutritional program devised by the Giants and conducted at a time when most players are home reacquainting themselves with their 6-irons. The object of Camp Panda is solving the biggest problem for the team's best and most exciting young player – his weight."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/16/MNPR1AK9ES.DTL


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BLUE EARTH - The South Central Conference's two-time quarterback sack leader will take his lethal pass-rushing skills to the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference in the fall.
Blue Earth Area senior linebacker/standup defensive end Gus Phillips signed a national letter of intent on Wednesday to play football for the University of Minnesota Crookston Eagles next season.
"I was looking at schools with ag-business majors and the University of Minnesota Crookston has one of the best programs in that field in the state," Phillips said in reference to one of the reasons why he selected the Division II school.
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COMMITTING TO CROOKSTON — Blue Earth Area senior athletic standout Gus Phillips signed a national letter of intent on Wednesday at Blue Earth Area High School to play football for Division II University of Minnesota Crookston during the fall campaign. (Photo by Brock Buesing of the Faribault County Register)
"I was impressed with the coaching staff there, too. They made me feel like a part of their (football) family from the first time I talked to them. I'd also like to be a part of a new generation of players who'll help turn their program back around," Phillips said in reference to the Eagles' rebuilding project on the heels of a 2-9 campaign last fall.
The 6-foot-2, 185-pound Phillips definitely possesses all the skills required to lend a helping hand to fuel the Eagles' resurgence after amassing 14 quarterback sacks during his final two prep seasons on the gridiron.
"Gus is one of those guys who just has a knack for coming off the edge and finding the quarterback," said Blue Earth Area mentor Randy Kuechenmeister. "He's definitely a game-changer. In fact, his performance during the (2012 Class 3A) state championship game speaks for itself."
Indeed. Phillips wreaked havoc in the Rochester Lourdes backfield by recording nine tackles, including three sacks, to help Blue Earth Area close out a perfect season via a 30-7 victory in the state finals at the Metrodome. Phillips also blocked a first-quarter field goal and a third-quarter punt for good measure.
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"As far as I'm concerned, I'll play wherever they need me to play."
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"I'm sure it'll be a big wakeup call for me," Phillips said with a chuckle in reference to the increased speed of the game at the Division II plateau. "It'll be a totally new experience for me, and I'm looking forward to the challenge."


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Can't see any obvious benefit to current shareholders. Lots of money floating around and no word from mgmt about any distribution (dividend, shares, special dividend) for current shareholders. This is becoming very common among big corps. (See Aapl). I am discouraged because I thought that management and the BOD had a "fiduciary" duty to the owners of the company, namely the shareholders. Lowest
Sentiment: Hold
Trouble is…PFE management did this all legally and above-board by taking it to a shareholder vote on the last annual meeting proxy. The shareholders approved taking this portion of the company public.
Unfortunately, the individual shareholders who see this goofiness cannot "en masse" stop the IPO from happening. The greater number of shareholders is represented by PFE management who will benefit most from this IPO or institutional investors (pension and mutual funds) who have no real skin in the game. You may own 1,000 shares of a mutual fund that owns 1,000,000 shares of PFE. You are not going to get a proxy asking how you want to vote, the fund manager will. And, he has no personal interest in whether the fund goes bust or not. It's you money, not his.
Sentiment: Sell
Management is always under the impression that they own the company. That is why shareholder activists go in the shake things up. Seems PFE management needs a spanking. Shareholders should make special interest in showing up at next annual meeting to roast these bums. How do they explain selling off part of our interest and not providing for shareholders benefit?


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Topping the list of Saturday's unexpected Voodoo Experience spectacles: Trent Reznor plunking away on a vibraphone.
Midway through Nine Inch Nails' closing set on the main stage, he channeled his inner Lionel Hampton during an overly long, overly ambient detour.
But give him credit for taking a considerable chance, especially in front of a vast, outdoor audience that easily eclipsed Friday's Stone Temple Pilots crowd.
Reznor has a special connection to New Orleans, and not just because he occupied a Garden District mansion and Magazine Street studio for years. His gratis performance at the 2005 Voodoo, a free festival pieced together exactly two months after Hurricane Katrina, provided a much needed morale boost during very dark days.
Reznor knows darkness. He spent years mired in alcohol, drugs and a deep-seated self-loathing that manifested itself in some of the most nihilistic, sadistic and despairing lyrics to reach a mass audience. Now sober, fit and intensely motivated, he is in a much different place. A line in "Echoplex," a track from his 2008 release "The Slip," posits, "Chip away the old version of you/You'd be surprised what you can do."
Thus he has rebuilt Nine Inch Nails by scraping away much of the industrial rock static that marked his landmark early albums. At Voodoo, keyboardist Alessandro Cortini supplied what electronic elements were needed. Drummer Josh Freese often whipped acoustic, rather than electric, drums; programmed beats were even less prominent. Guitarist Robin Finck slashed away at neatly cleaved chords. Justin Meldal-Johnsen contributed harmonies as well as bass.
Unfortunately, much of NIN's newer material is neither indelible nor essential. The industrial squall of "Head Like a Hole" and the creepy electric tick and synthesizer of "Closer" gave NIN its sonic signature; stripped of that industrial gauze, as on the Voodoo set's opening numbers, Reznor and company edged closer to generic hard rock.
With the exception of the vibraphone interlude. In February, Reznor released a 36-track instrumental project called "Ghosts I-IV" that he has described as a "soundtrack for daydreams." As his bandmates chilled with synthesizers against a stark backdrop of dead trees, he broke out the mallets. Not every studio experiment translates to the stage; this one bordered on self-indulgent.
As usual, NIN boasted a smart visual presentation. A semi-transparent LED screen periodically masked the musicians. At one point, Reznor and two others appeared as silhouettes caught in pools of burnt orange light, like prehistoric insects preserved in amber.
The black-clad frontman saved all commentary for the encore. "Last time we tried to play Voodoo, Katrina came and (messed) things up," he said. "A couple months ago, it looked like Gustav was going to come. I thought, 'Was it us, because we're playing Voodoo and cursing New Orleans?'"
After driving around the city Saturday, Reznor said, "this place is still home. I love it here."
In 2005, he unspooled a bleak "Hurt" alone at a keyboard. This time, the band facilitated the pathos with a scant arrangement. A final slash by Finck's guitar stamped it out like the last flicker of hope.
That is, or was, the essence of Nine Inch Nails.