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In Serious Pursuit of Noodle Soups
Serious Southeast Asian noodle soup hounds have their sources: zealous feeders whose sworn mission in life is to unearth the hidden culinary gem. They call you at midnight and swear you must immediately get over to some scruffy little restaurant in some obscure neighborhood. Here, they say, you will find a gastronomic miracle, a noodle soup born in the vast and mysterious world of aromatic powerhouses.
The finds run from Vietnamese pho, the sine qua non of beef-noodle combos, to Thai boat noodles, sold by river hawkers in Thailand and highly pursued by culinary X-gamers.
The best of these soups are fiercely nuanced, full of elusive spices and floating exotica, from banana blossoms to meats that seem straight from the organ donor bank. Flavors are fused and yet each taste sings its own solo: the muscular honk of lemongrass and long-simmered beef bones; the siren call of chile heat; the slips and slides of sharp and tangy and sweet.
From Vietnam to Thailand, noodle soup cooks are like sushi chefs — they may spend a lifetime perfecting one particular dish and nothing else. Bowls are judged in part by the quality of the broth, and the best are poems of liquid that require hours of simmering to acquire a concentrated hue, an irresistible perfume and a flavor that flows through the system like plasma. To this is added various cuts of meat, perhaps seafood or fish balls, a heap of noodles and often a field of scallion greens.
Further flavoring comes at the table — a DIY approach to taste and texture adjustments. Vietnamese soups are typically equipped with a pile of lime wedges, crispy bean sprouts and a garden of fresh herbs, some minty, some soapy, some boasting the bright pep of Japanese shiso leaves. You'll also find slices of green or red chiles — the former will merely curl your toes, the latter will rearrange your DNA and possibly peel paint.
Most Thai noodles arrive with four taste-tuners to adjust levels of salt, heat and sweet: crushed dried chiles; fish sauce with Thai chiles; vinegar with mild chiles; and sugar.
And this doesn't count the add-your-own supply of table sauces that vary from place to place: hoisin (for a sweet-soy flavor); sambal paste or sriracha (for spicy heat); or ground chiles with black bean paste (for hot and savory).
"In this country, we expect flavors ready to go, dishes seasoned just right," says Pok Pok owner Andy Ricker, a veteran Southeast Asian stall-hopper. "But in Southeast Asia, it's just a baseline. In Thailand, for instance, you can order boat noodles not too hot or with extra water spinach or dry (no broth) with dark soy, beef or pork. The more you know, the more complicated it is. Then it becomes simple ... what do you like?"
So where to start? You only need to cruise along 82nd Avenue to know that Portland has its own candidates for the Noodle Soup Hall of Fame. The following bowls are a good place to start. These are the insider finds, the ones that the cognoscenti keep on speed dial.
Daily soup special at HA & VL
Noodle soup heaven, first stop: Take a sharp turn into the tiny Wing Ming Square off 82nd Avenue and leave behind any semblance of latte-loving Portland. This small enclave of shops brings on a nostalgia for 1950s movies set in Shanghai. Walk past the Asian herb shop that sells not just fascinating powders and potions but geodes as big as your head. Continue past the wall poster, the one with the giant Food Patch that proclaims: "Greasy toxins can be flowed from the bottom of the foot." You have now arrived at HA & VL.
Don't be fooled by the generic-looking exterior: Inside is a charming daytime-only Vietnamese deli with an Asian modern-pop sensibility. Sandwiches are available, but come for the daily soup special, highly prized for breakfast and sold out by noon during the week.
Owners Ha "Christine" Luu and William Voung H. are clearly not in this for the money. They are artisans, making labor-intensive regional soups in small batches — not nearly enough supply for the demand, but to them, quality is all. Their soups are built around vibrant, slow-simmered broths from whole chickens or baby pork ribs. Noodles are soaked an hour before their brief trip to the boiling pot— a method that assures an extra bounce of chewy goodness.
Even the Vietnamese iced coffee is a head-snapper and the city's best: deeply roasty, with a subtle spike of salt, just enough custard-thick condensed milk, and blessedly not too sweet.
Each day brings a different soup, and regulars know the drill: Monday is for Bun Rieu, pink-hued and pumped with fried shrimp paste. Tuesday brings Bun Moc, a pork ball wonder from central Vietnam, and so on.
True believers come on Friday for Hu Tieu Nam Vang, a fragrant bowl with its own porkocracy: intestines, belly and meatballs. The dish achieves its own special delirium when spiked with the kitchen's blend of vinegar and red chiles. "We call it TNT in vinegar," says Voung H. with a wicked grin. Believe him.
The hottest ticket is Sunday, when the kitchen showcases both Pho Ga, a deep swoon of chicken noodle soup, and Bun Thang, topped with exquisite blades of hand-cut, air-dried scrambled eggs and superior free-range chickens flown in from Sacramento.
Both are often sold out by 10 a.m.
There must be a Vietnamese term for snooze, you lose. You've been warned.
2738 S.E. 82nd Ave., 503-772-0103
Mi Quang at Pho Van
Pho Van on Southeast 82nd is a good place for novices to discover joys of pho (pronounced fuh), the classic beef-noodle soup. It is the raison d'être of this casually stylish place, which put Vietnamese eats on the mainstream map.
Still, the wait staff did not attend Swiss hospitality school, and questions can be met with distant stares. Waiters can disappear for so long you expect to see their faces on a milk carton.
So know this: Go beyond pho. The inside ticket is Mi Quang.
It's a beauty to behold, with yellow-tinted turmeric noodles floating in a reddish pork broth to which delicate spices cling. Also in the swim: curled-up prawns, soft-springy fish balls, fresh herbs, peanuts and best of all, a couple of sesame-speckled rice crackers up to their waist in broth, so they're part flavor-soaked sog, part crispy counterpoint.
The whole thing tastes like dim sum in a bowl: mysterious, savory and silken, with a mellow sophistication that is addictive.
The avocado shake tastes like a diet meal, but beer is the logical drink with this kind of food.
1919 S.E. 82nd Ave., 503-788-5244
Bun Bo Hue at Bun Bo Hue
The appeal of this little storefront is its realness. The setting includes comfy little molded plywood booths, the kind of communal table you'd find at a bake sale, complete with folding chairs and a teeny television recently tuned to a Vietnamese talent show. Fans are in full hum, everyone seems to speak Vietnamese, and warm smiles and gratis iced tea are part of the deal.
Bun Bo Hue, a spicy Vietnamese soup tightly packed with thick rice noodles (bun) and pig parts galore, is both the specialty of the house and the name of the restaurant here. It's a live-wire of provocative flavors, positively thick with pork: cha lua, a kind of Vietnamese ham, and "picnic pork," smoked pork shoulder.
Of course, this is real-deal territory, so those jiggly red cubes floating about are coagulated pork blood cakes. If that's not in your fly-zone, just push them aside, blur your eyes and pretend it's Jell-O — after all, you wouldn't eat that, either.
Extras on the side extend the fun: Four kinds of fresh herbs and a heap of shaved banana blossoms. What to do with that empty saucer on the side? Squirt in some hoisin sauce and spice it up with sriracha and hot chiles, say the owners, then pluck the meat from the soup and dip away, followed by plunges into the noodles and broth.
For dessert, don't miss Three Che Mau, a sweet, refreshing iced drink the color of spring, with nutty sweet beans and jelly-like things bobbing on the bottom.
Bun Bo Hue's plastic take-home bags are emblazoned with the words: "Thank-you. Have A Sunny Day." After eating here, mission accomplished.
7702 S.E. 82nd Ave., 503-771-1141
Boat Noodles at Pok Pok
What Martin Scorsese is to the mean streets of New York, Andy Ricker is to the eat streets of Southeast Asia: an obsessive with an profound feel for his subject. Ricker's a serious food cart-quester, with some 20 years of field experience in Thailand and beyond, hanging with hawkers and sniffing out roadside stalls. The best finds turn up at Pok Pok, an extraordinary eat-lounge and food shack in Southeast Portland.
Ricker still goes on the hunt a couple times a year, and when he returns, word of new menu items travels among food hounds like a hot YouTube video. A month-long expedition this spring ended in feverish pursuit of boat noodles (kuaytiaw reua), typically sold on river canals by floating vendors.
Boat noodles teem with adventure, making them highly prized by noodle-soup fanatics. The broth can be forbiddingly dark and boldly beefy, and the whole thing vibrates with earth and musk and sweet heat. To eat boat noodles is to embrace a taunting funkiness, with layers of tang, sour, spice, sweet that shout: "all-systems-on-go."
Pok Pok's version, served at lunch only, is certainly all of that. It all unfolds in waves, as hints of licorice and cinnamon yield to the smoky air of toasted dry chiles, dust-ups of vinegar and garlic oil dart around rice noodles, sawtooth herbs and the unexpected flash of water spinach. But the show is the beef, all of it deeply seeping into the liquid: great stewed knobs, poached flank slivers and tender meat balls.
It's a heady flavor bomb that grips your brain right at the intersection between desire and hunger. But if you want to tinker more, Pok Pok supplies the classic four Thai soup taste-tuners on the side. Go!
3226 S.E. Division St., 503-232-1387 www.pokpokpdx.com
Karen Brooks keeps Portlanders up to speed on local dining trends at http://www.oregonlive.com/dining/
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He kicks off the critically acclaimed jazz performance series at the University of New Orleans with the new UNO Louis Armstrong Quintet on Wednesday, October 3 from 7:30 to 10:00 pm. This debut concert and all following shows will be held in the Flambeau Room on the rear of the UNO University Center first floor on Alumni Drive.
The following are the guest artists for the season:
October 3: pianist Ellis Marsalis
October 10: guitarist Warren Batiste
October 17: pianist Larry Willis
October 24: singer Maria Marquez
October 31: clarinetist Evan Christopher
November 7: drummer Mike Clark
November 14: trumpeter Irvin Mayfield
"Jazz at the Sandbar" was established in 1990 by Ellis Marsalis, the first Chairman of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of New Orleans. The Jazz at the Sandbar performances are designed to provide UNO Jazz Studies students an opportunity to get real life experience performing with professional musicians in front of a live audience. The series is presented on Wednesday nights during the Fall and Spring semesters and features a different respected jazz artist each week. It also provides a medium in which students exercise their improvisational skills and gives them the rare opportunity to work with jazz masters. Downbeat Magazine has declared "Jazz at the Sandbar Series is one of the best things going in America."
"Jazz at the Sandbar" is presented by the UNO Jazz Studies Program with support from the UNO Student Government Assn, the New Orleans Jazz Centennial Celebration, the Louis Armstrong Foundation & the Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro.
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On the Road: Much S'more to Love in Savannah
The previous missive in this low-stakes blogging odyssey ended in Asheville on a Saturday night, and my next order of business was to be in Savannah on a Sunday afternoon. As you can see from this road trip map (made by MiLB.com's ace editorial team), I had a lot of driving to do in a very short amount of time.
I felt so rushed on Sunday morning that I almost forgot to do a road trip hotel room review on Vine (a new tradition), but after a coffee and cracklins-fueled journey I did indeed make it to Savannah's Grayson Stadium in time for this Mother's Day matinee. And let me tell you, when you're in Savannah you definitely know you're in Savannah. The landscape, it's just different, and a lot of that has to do with the flora and fauna.
The Sand Gnats are a Mets affiliate. Or, should I say a Pal-Met-to affiliate?
These are the idyllic grounds of Savannah's Daffin Park, of which Grayson Stadium is a part. The stadium is located across the street from this upbeat amateur facility.
I'd say that Grayson, despite being 87-years-old, has a fairly youthful and optimistic outlook as well. (For much more on my Grayson stadium experiences, please read my MiLB.com piece! My MiLB.com pieces are the hand-rolled cigars that perfectly complement the glasses of single-malt Scotch that are the blog posts).
As I walked to the stadium, I could hear Andrew W.K.'s "I Love New York City" playing from inside. This created a welcoming atmosphere for a Big Apple-dweller such as myself, even though the price of admission was far less than anything that would be found in NYC and the surrounding tri-state area.
Prior to my arrival, the Sand Gnats held a contest on Facebook to find my designated eater (you know, the fan who samples the ballpark cuisine that my gluten-free diet prohibits). It was a pretty cool looking contest:
Unfortunately the winner (one Joey Chiarello) wasn't able to make it for whatever reason, so the team recruited an intern in his stead. Hank Garcia was his name, food and beverage was his game, and almost as soon as I walked through the gates he suggested that some eating should commence.
Who am I to argue? Our first stop was this unassuming concourse stand.
But the item that Mr. Garcia walked away with was anything but unassuming. The Godfather (list price $10) consists of Italian sausage, cheesesteak, pepper, onions and jalapenos. It is a huge mass of sandwich.
Garcia and the Godfather:
A closer look:
Garcia praised the Godfather, noting that the savory sausage was a perfect complement to the saltiness and spice of the cheesesteak and vegetables.
"It results in a plethora — wow, I just said plethora — of flavors," he said. "Sorry, I just watched The Three Amigos."
You'd think that Garcia would have been done after the Godfather, but no. Dessert was on the agenda as well!
"It's Italian Panini bread with Nutella, marshmallow fluff, crushed up graham crackers and powdered sugar," explained Garcia. "Then, after it's warmed up in a Panini press, chocolate syrup is added on top."
This six seconds of video, via Vine, is all you need.
If you thought this food and beverage tour was over, then think again! Like most old stadiums there is limited room for concessions at Grayson, but the team still found some room for the hard stuff.
Garcia ordered and off-menu specialty, and I'd suggest that if you're of age and at a Sand Gnats game then you do the same. This drink consisted of Horchata (a sweet, rice-based Mexican drink) and Red Hot cinnamon whisky.
"It's like a liquid Cinnamon Toast Crunch," explained Garcia.
While I could not immediately ascertain whether or not this concoction was gluten-free, I went ahead and gave it a try (read: gulped it down). My verdict is, word-for-word, the same as Garcia's on the S'mores Panini: Delicious! (You watched the Vine video, right?)
I chased down the "Liquid Cinnamon Toast Crunch" with a certifiably gluten-free offering: Michelob Ultra cider. That, too, was tasty (despite what my perpetually angst-ridden expression might lead you to believe).
A couple drinks to start my work day had me seeing things.
That fluorescent amphibian soon disappeared beneath a patch of foliage, leading me to believe that it was a hallucination with the power to later manifest itself within the realm of digital photography. I blinked, and it was gone.
This wall, located on the stadium's third base side, has an interesting history. Read about it on MiLB.com! Less interesting but more scenic is this, the most beautiful front office in all of Minor League Baseball!
Inside, it's perhaps not quite as beautiful. The master bedroom of this enshrouded shack has been transformed into the main office.
The bathroom (note the shower stall on the right) is now a storage area. No one ever said that working in Minor League Baseball is glamorous!
The front office is located behind a courtyard and picnic area, which provides views of the action from down the third base side.
It was while in this area that I spotted a real-life Sand Gnat.
That would be Gnate, who like a real G moves in silence like lasagna. A cartoonish and altogether more intimidating version of Gnate can be seen on Grayson's brick facade.
And, yes, the team is named "Sand Gnats" for a reason. These six-legged nuisances are known to swarm over the stadium at night, although they made themselves scarce on the afternoon I was in attendance. THEY KNEW BETTER THAN TO OFFEND A BLOGGER.
But anyway, there was a game going on amidst all of this wandering. Really!
A rather sparse Mother's Day crowd was taking in the action (Savannah is a church-going town, I was told, so Sunday has always been a difficult draw. The social demands of the holiday only seemed to exacerbate the problem).
I spent much of the afternoon with Sand Gnats director of sales Jonathan Mercier, seen here at the base of "Land Shark Landing" while radioing his co-workers that "the blogger is under control."
Land Shark Landing, which opened on July 4, 2010, is certainly one of Grayson's more modern-seeming elements.
Meanwhile, many of the fans chose to sit beneath one.
But no matter where you were sitting, or what you were doing, there was no doubt that it was a beautiful day in Savannah.
Up close and personal:
As you can discern somewhat in the above pic, Grayson boasts an interesting press box. While I'm no stranger to roof top press boxes (Hagerstown and Vancouver spring immediately to mind), this was more of a roof bottom press box.
I was intrigued, so Mercier and I headed up there. I took pictures at various stages of this arduous journey.
The path to the professionals:
I was pretending that these guys were the pilot and co-pilot of a flying stadium spaceship. Set coordinates for family-friendly entertainment!
The view:
This picture doesn't do it justice, but the press box walls were recently re-painted in a rather striking light green hue (about the same color as the lizard featured at the beginning of this post).
Sand Gnats graphic designer Vince Caffiero was the man responsible for this interesting choice, and when I asked him about it he shook his head slowly from side to side.
"I'm getting a lot of flak," he said in a deadpan tone. "So much flak. It's not fair."
As it turned out, the path from the press box was almost an exact approximation of what I have dreamed that the path to the afterlife will look like. (The fans, in my vision, are the people I'd have to leave behind within this earthly realm.)
It turned out, however, that there was to be another stage to our journey.
The roof! The roof! The roof is 100% free of any sign of fire!
I didn't want to get too close to the edge, so I laid flat on my stomach, extended my arms out in front of me, and took the following shot.
Finally ready to retreat to the stands, I snapped a picture of this fan-friendly view.
Back at sea level, my ballpark tour continued. Mercier and I looped past the verdant batting cages and visitor's bullpen en route to a truly exclusive view.
This is the rear end of a pig!
As aviator pig, if you want to be specific about it.
"From the stands it looks professional, but seen from below it's definitely amateur hour," said Mercier of his and his co-worker's pig-mounting abilities.
View from the pig:
To the left of the pig one can find the manually-operated scoreboard.
For when things really get out of hand.
The view of what's in front of the scoreboard is a little bit better than the view of what's behind it.
With the game winding down, I headed to the seats — nay, benches — located behind home plate in order to watch the game like a normal person. While there I was photographed with a prop.
This bat — named "The Phoenix" — is the source of much mayhem and mirth within the Sand Gnats front office. To make a long story short — an argument erupted between Caffiero and ticketing manager Joe Shepard over the offseason, regarding just who it was that the bat belonged to. In response to this bickering the bat was hidden from both of them, and now both parties are being subjected to taunting photos such as the one seen above.
And so it goes.
And so it went. As I was posing with heavy lumber the game ended, with the visiting Rome Braves earning the win.
And even though it was Mother's Day, the moms assumed picture-taking duties as their kids ran the bases.
Man down!
But as for me? I'm a man done. A man done blogging. Over and out from Savannah.
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Being from. Savannah, I got to see Hank Aaron play in 1953 in Grayson Stadium. There used tobe bleachers in left field, but they were condemned in 2005 and torn down in 2010.
Cool post, liked the Lil Wayne reference, as well as the taunting phoenix story and photo.
I love this stadium, it is such a classic baseball experience. AND they serve Moon River Beer… Yum
Love this old stadium, a lot of history here. Great place to relax and watch a ball game.
I used to play at this stadium back in 2001-2002 and used to love watching them homeruns in BP hit and bounce of theose old cement stands in left field. sad to hear they are gone. This place has had thousands of players play here, great history!!


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BOSTON — The relevance of the Red Sox winning the World Series to the Boston Marathon attacks seems mutable, even worthy of tempering.
The best team in major league baseball surely provided the city that adores it with comfort and normalcy. Even those who were most directly impacted, perhaps, found an occasional sense of healing at points. Fans gathered near the Marathon finish line on Wednesday night, a poignant display of "Boston Strong."
At the same time, team's position as healer — the correlation between a World Series or a division title or a pennant and life itself — is a dangerous point to oversell. The Sox know that.
"I don't think a win-loss record sums up how much we care about this city," Red Sox outfielder and proud patriot Jonny Gomes said Wednesday night. "I'll tell you what, I don't think we put Boston on our back, I think we jumped on their back. They wouldn't let us quit. This World Series isn't icing on the cake, this has turned into a lifetime."
The Red Sox had a lot of newcomers this year, Gomes among them. Shane Victorino, David Ross, Koji Uehara — the list goes on. Patriot's Day ultimately brought the team close to the people here in rapid fashion. A terrible circumstance raised an understanding of the strength of a community that many had just entered.
For the most part in secret — although some hints were dropped on social media — the Red Sox visited area hospitals and those in need when the team got back to Boston on April 19. The Sox were headed to Cleveland play the Indians on April 15, the day of the attacks, packing their bags at Fenway Park after a game with the Rays when the explosions went off.
"No one prompted them to do anything, but they came up with some thoughts internally," Farrell said. "We couldn't be more proud of the way they responded. They understood their place in this city and what this organization and the Red Sox mean to the people in town. They really felt like they had a chance to help some healing. We didn't know how it was going to unfold, but they didn't hold back. They threw themselves in the middle of it and reached out, whether it was tickets they left victims to hospital visits to the number of ways they could acknowledge the first responders. They really understood their place at a moment of need."
The key phrasing there might be "they really understood their place." The Red Sox don't seem to be under any illusions that they can or did make it all better, that their championship fixed everything, or that they were anything more than a really talented, compassionate bunch of baseball players.
That's an easy storyline to grasp on to — that the Red Sox won for the victims. But that line of thinking is tricky, if not overwrought or flat-out misleading. Craig Breslow has been nicknamed "the smartest man in baseball," and he's a native New Englander, hailing from Connecticut.
He navigated the subject with the deftness of, well, a crafty left-hander.
"It's a great story, the success of this team," Breslow said. "I think to point to that tragedy as the impetus to success is probably to belittle the importance of what people have been going through in this city, the loss that people have gone through. Certainly, as representatives of this city, we understand that Fenway Park and the Boston Red Sox offer an avenue where people can clear their minds and focus on something other than what's going on. But again, to point a tragedy like that, of such historic proportions, as the reason for success, is probably unfair to those people who suffered losses."
That doesn't mean the Red Sox aren't genuine in their caring, or that they didn't feel deeply for this city or didn't want to win for the city. They did, and they commendably did what they could.
No one on the team wants to be portrayed as having done more than that.
"I think the importance lies in the fact that we all wanted to do it," Breslow said of the hospital visits and similar efforts. "This wasn't something that was forced upon us. This was something that came from within the group in the clubhouse. For a really long time, guys have understood the importance of putting on the Boston Red Sox uniform, and this was just another example. I think it becomes unfair to start to point our team's role in this tragedy in so much as calling that a driver for success or calling that a bonding moment.
"Certainly this entire city was in need of healing. The fact that we were one outlet is something that we appreciate. But at the same time, I would hate to think that, you know, people would look to this team as kind of the answer as to why something like that happens, or kind of a rallying cry. 'Cause again, there are thousands of people who have been affected, and for most of them I would think, a Boston Red Sox successful season doesn't really mean a whole lot."
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Scandinavian Bewilderment
PART III. Blending into the fabric of an alien society may present its challenges in cultural shock. However, the failure to grasp a local dialect properly can also hinder an attempt of total immersion.
'In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.' - Roman Polanski
Admittedly, comparing the likes of Paris and Gothenburg is hardly fair. Yet there are some similar challenges in settling into a new country where one chooses to lay their hat and call home, which can be found anywhere.
Mindless football or ice hockey banter with local Swedish sports enthusiasts, can quickly change from celebrating a goal, to suspicious enquiries into one's country of origin. Thankfully, these harmless series of questions (in which the interrogators are usually intoxicated) lead into amicable back slaps and stereotypical jokes. A personal example, was once having to endure dozens of Norwegian and Danish impersonations by a very drunk Swede, while watching football in the pub.
These types of experiences are always easier to be dealt with when one of the two, or both, parties are under the influence. The harsher lessons of life are always easier to remember when in a stone cold sober state of mind.
In hindsight, I should probably have thought about how to address these types of scenarios, before inadvertently falling head first into them. In addition to that, I should also have paid attention to the numerous notice board burglary warnings around my girlfriend's apartment block, urging residents to keep a watchful eye out for unfamiliar faces. On top of that, I could have been more aware as to which apartment floor I'd wandered onto. Or noticed the different surname on the door I was trying to open, with a key that unlocks a completely different apartment. Yet, all these things deluded me, leaving me in complete disarray when confronted by the angry elderly resident of the flat I was trying to access.
It's surprising how many questions can be thrown at you in Swedish before you choose to answer just one of them.
'Vad gör du?! Vem är du?! Vad vill du?!' (What are you doing? Who are you? What do you want?)
Once I had managed to reinstate enough composure to deliver a response, it was done in the worst fashion possible. It was done in Danish.
'Err..Undskyld. Jeg troede at de var..' (Err.. I'm sorry. I thought this was..)
The old man's blazed with alarm at the sounds of the guttural dialect stuttering out of my mouth. Not only was I the stranger trying to open his door, now I was the strange Danish foreigner trying to open his door!
'Jamen! Varför är du här??!' (Why are you here??!)
The damage was done. Trying to reply in distorted Swedish now would only have made matters more suspicious.
'Jeg troede at det her var min kærster's legelihed!' (I thought this was my girlfriend's apartment!)
'Jaså?! Vad heter hon?' (Really?! What's her name?)
'Errr...' Forgetting your girlfriend's name is never a proud moment. However, forgetting it when it's needed to prove you're not a burglar is even worse.
'Jag visste det! Om din flickvän bodde här så skulle du veta vad hon heter!!' (I knew it! If your girlfriend lived here you would know her name!!)
'Nej! Nej!' Professing your innocence is hardly advertised well, when desperately tapping the elevator button to escape with your back pressed against the cold, hard metal door.
The barrage of continued questioning refused to slow, perhaps due to the fact the only reply offered back were rhythmic repetitions of 'Nej!', coupled with persistent headshaking.
This continued even as the elevator door closed at an agonisingly slow pace, finally sealing my escape from the old Swedish man on the floor above our flat.
The situation could perhaps been handled in a better fashion. In a way it's not surprising that the old Swede still refuses to let me into the apartment block, when we occasionally meet at the main gate. Although why he thinks the Danish burglar consistently tries to break into the same block of apartments over and over again, I'll never know. Friends and acquaintances have often told me I would have been able to calm the situation more effectively, had I spoken in Swedish. However, with my accent, I somehow doubt that.
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SPRINGFIELD - A year ago Juana Hernandez was new to her Allen Park neighborhood and just amazed at the size of the neighborhood's National Night Out festivities.
There were so many people that she said she just stood and watched it all.
This year Hernandez volunteered to help organize the event and get everything running.
"It's awesome!" she said. "It's absolutely great."
She and her family moved to Allen Park Apartments, off Allen Street in Sixteen Acres, about 18 months ago.
She credits the event last year with helping her to get to know some of her neighbors and swelling everyone's sense of pride and belonging to the neighborhood.
"It's something for the kids to do outside, and everyone can come over and get to know who's here," she said.
Linda Ferranti of Winn Residental Management, the property managers for Allen Park Apartments said the event has been a highlight of the summer going back eight years, drawing around 400 people each year.
Working the grill, Ferranti said she ordered 600 hot dogs, 600 hamburgers and trays of rice, ziti and other fixings.
"So far, so good," she said.
Although there is nothing simple about the preparation - it takes weeks to arrange all the food, the two bounce houses, face painter and DJ - the event is a simple way for neighbors to meet neighbors, she said.
Across the county, neighborhoods were hosting similar events as part of the annual mid-summer rally against crime and violence.
An estimated 10,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases around the world participated or about 40 million people in all.
The Allen Park celebration was one of five separate Night Out events in Springfield.
Event were also held at the Seniority House on Chestnut Street, Worthington Commons on Worthington Street, East Springfield and Indian Orchard.
Sgt. John Delaney, aide to Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet, said Commissioner Fitchet is committed to the program as a way for the department to establish ties with the public, he said.
"We want people to know there is a bond between the police and the public," he said.
People who feel a connection with their neighbors and with the police, they are less likely to look the other way when there is trouble
"This is kind of a going-away party for crime and violence," he said.
Kalise Anthony who was there with her 7-year-old son, Mekai, and some friends, said the National Night Out event is a great time.
"We come every year," she said.
"The kids get to know each other, and all the parents get to know each other's kids," she said.
Springfield police officer Rafael Vega, perched on one of the department's Piaggio three-wheel motor scooters, said it is a great event for police to mix with members of the public.
A member of the department's ordinance enforcement squad, Vega said most of the time when he is meeting people at their homes it is to enforce city ordinances about mowing the grass or removing an abandoned car from the front lawn.
"Ninety percent of the time, it's a negative encounter," he said. "This is totally positive."
"They ought to do it twice a year," he said.


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Steve Nelson Named Bishop Field Office Manager
Steve Nelson has been named manager of the Bureau of Land Management's Bishop Field Office.
The Bishop Field Office manages over 750,000 acres of public land surface and about 2 million acres of subsurface mineral estate in the eastern Sierra region of central California.
"Steve brings a breadth of professional knowledge and extensive practical experience to the field manager position in Bishop," said Este Stifel, BLM Central California District manager. "His enthusiasm and commitment to our public land resources and the public we serve is contagious and he will be a tremendous asset as we work through the varied issues facing the field office."
Nelson began his career with the BLM in 1987 and has served as manager of the Bio-Physical Resources Division in the Bishop Field Office since July 2008. He and his wife Susan have lived in the Bishop area since 1988.
He holds a bachelor's degree in natural resources management, with a concentration in fisheries and wildlife management, from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. His previous positions with the BLM include wildlife biologist, geographic information systems technical specialist, supervisory wildlife biologist and supervisory natural resource specialist.
A California native, Nelson was raised in a family that taught him to respect and value our public lands. "I am honored and excited to have been appointed the new Bishop Field Manager," Nelson said. "The eastern Sierra is a great place to live and work. The sense of community and the quality of public land resources in Inyo and Mono counties are second to none. I look forward to building upon our existing partnerships and working with the public to care for the public lands and resources I have been entrusted to manage."
He replaces Bernadette Lovato, who accepted a job as the BLM Carson City District manager.
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Actress Alyssa Milano poses at the premiere of 'Clash of the Titans' at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California March 31, 2010.
Riteish Deshmukh with Jacqueline Fernandes at the premiere of the movie 'Clash Of The Titans' at Cinemax, Mumbai on March 31, 2010. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
Sam Worthington in a still from the Hollywood movie 'Clash Of The Titans'. (Pic. courtesy: Warner Bros. Pictures)
Actress Amanda Righetti arrives to the premiere of "Clash of the Titans" at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, on March 31, 2010.
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BATTLE CREEK, MI -- A suspect in the stabbing of R&B singer Mary J. Blige's father has been charged with attempted murder and is jailed on $500,000 bond, authorities said.
Thomas Blige, 63, who was stabbed three times in the neck in his Battle Creek apartment Thursday morning, has undergone surgery and is in recovery at an undisclosed medical facility, according to a news release from the Battle Creek Police Department.
The suspect, Cheryl White, 50, of Battle Creek, was found near the scene of the incident and was arraigned Friday afternoon at the Calhoun County Justice Complex, according to the release.
Authorities said no further information will be released on Blige, who was reportedly stabbed by his ex-girlfriend after he confronted her about slashing his tires.
An examination hearing for White has been scheduled for Feb. 7.
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I was just perusing the USA Triathlon page (usatriathlon.org) and noticed a familiar red and blue racing top on a participant at last year's National Duathlon Festival (this weekend in Richmond). Check it out, can't identify the racer but pretty cool. Good luck to anyone racing this weekend.
There's also an ad for the Duathlon Championships in the Mid-Atlantic April edition of Competitor Magazine that features a DC Tri Club'er by name. It includes a quote and a picture of her on the bike.
That'd be Courtney in the Competitor Mag...unfastened chinstrap (penalty) and all ;-)
I didn't know if she wanted the free pub here, but I guess she's already in the magazine.
LOL, I didn't even notice the chin strap. Oops.


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I heard Ethernet inventor Robert M. Metcalfe this week speak about energy at the Lux Executive Summit on energy. I disagreed with much of what he to say although I know Bob is a very smart and accomplished guy. No doubt, he would stand tall in the networking and Internet Hall of Fame if there was one.
The generalization that put me off the most was his comment that corporate and government labs are "marginal" in terms of output. Then he dinged the Dept. of Energy for not resolving our energy problems. The guy sitting next to me had spent 28 years with DOE and was now working for an organization promoting solar. It didn't sit well with him either. "Platitudes," he muttered.
Metcalfe believes students, professors backed with venture capital is the best combination of elements that will come up with the answers to our energy problems. There's no law against self-serving statements, but it should be noted that Metcalfe is a VC and a "Life Member" of the MIT Corporation Board. Indeed, an immense amount of innovation has sprung from VC, students, professors and MIT. At the same time, IBM Research, a corporate lab to be sure and long run by a one-time monopoly, has been one of the most if not THE most singularly productive research organizations ever.
My dealings with DOE and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory have usually been productive. Just the fact we have a Dept. of Energy intelligently doling out grants to STUDENTS and PROFESSORS at universities like Metcalfe's MIT is a good thing. Indeed, he forgot to mention the deep partnership worth billions between the government and universities. Casting off DOE as unproductive money pit was a touch cavalier.
My takeaway from Metcalfe's talk was that he believes in letting the free market resolve our energy problems. The free market is a stinking mess right now because it was neither watched nor monitored or intelligently regulated. A lot of people are suffering as a result.
He is pleased with a nuclear industry waking up from two decades of slumber and said global warming is little more than a "bubble." I wasn't quite sure he if thinks global warming is a problem or not, but the intimation was it isn't. But I agree with his claim that resolving global warming does not necessarily mean we are out of the woods on energy. No doubt, our energy needs are rapidly expanding every year.
More than ever, we need straight talk now about energy. I know I dinged T. Boone Pickens in another blog post, but that's just because no one from the media can get an interview with him. But he is giving us as much straight talk about energy self-determination movement as any one human being.
Metcalfe also thinks the color for renewable shouldn't be green so it isn't associated with environmental movements or worse, hippies or people far to the left. It should be blue for reasons I don't entirely understand. And he has advocated that we apply lessons of the Internet to finding energy solutions under the banner of the "Enernet." It sounds good, but I honestly question how much substance there is to the notion.
Like I said, we need straight talk about energy.


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Last Film Deadline is this Thursday, November 15
Pretty simple this one, if you want to have a film, short, or musical video featured at SXSW Film, you need to get a screener to the team in the Austin offices by Thursday this week. Miss that deadline, and it's game over. A reminder of the rules, where to submit, and everything else you'll need can be found at SXSW Film.


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AuRico Gold (NYSE: AUQ ) has proven abnormally masterful in its execution of one of the more remarkable turnaround stories this Fool has recently observed, and I view the resulting recovery in the shares as just reward for that array of accomplishments. All within the past year, AuRico Gold (formerly Gammon Gold) has:
- Achieved a 44% increase in gold-equivalent production from its flagship Ocampo mine at costs that rival those of industry leaders Goldcorp (NYSE: GG ) and Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY ) .
- Discovered new high-grade resources near existing mining operations, placing some of those immediately into production.
- Emerged victorious from a hotly contested bid to acquire producer Capital Gold and its enticing array of projects in the development pipeline.
- Returned the previously discontinued El Cubo mine to commercial production.
With those and other meaningful achievements already behind the company, one might be tempted to expect a more muted forward trajectory for the stock relative to its peers. However, AuRico continues to place its golden ducks in a row; building a platform for sustained long-term growth momentum that I still consider virtually unrivaled in the industry.
Although the subsequent emergence of similarly dramatic turnaround stories in the making -- like that of Brigus Gold (AMEX: BRD ) -- have pushed AuRico back to third position among my current top 10 picks for gold, my outlook for continued outperformance for AuRico's shares remains etched in gold and silver.
So before you consider looking anywhere else, be sure to consider the full range or remaining catalysts that are poised to support AuRico Gold's incredible growth momentum. For starters, release of a preliminary economic assessment remains imminent for the miner's Guadalupe y Calvo development project, and AuRico aims to build the project into its fourth producing mine by late 2013. Meanwhile, AuRico has wasted no time targeting aggressive increases in output from the recently acquired El Chanate mine. The company recently unveiled a low-cost, five-phase strategy to grow daily throughput by more than 85%, to 26,000 tons per day, with an anticipated 1,300% internal rate of return on the first two phases alone. Operations at El Cubo are ramping up toward full-scale production ahead of schedule, and the company is shifting to a mining method called "long-hole stoping" that achieved substantial operational improvements at Ocampo in recent years.
With all of these golden ducks in a row, AuRico increased its 2011 production guidance to between 265,000 and 295,000 gold-equivalent ounces at cash costs between $445 and $475 per ounce. At a time when leading producers Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM ) and Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX ) are incurring rising production costs per ton, AuRico is bucking that trend convincingly. I know of few operators in the mining world that are firing on all cylinders so convincingly across every aspect of their business, and so I can think of very few gold producers I would rather hold for the long haul.
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Orchards across Donnybrook are a hive of activity as the first varieties of apples are harvested and delivered to stores and fruit bowls around the State.
At Prime Organics in Donnybrook, co-owner Jason Jarvis and his team are busy picking and packing galaxy apples, a strain of the royal gala variety and some of the first of the season to be harvested.
Mr Jarvis said that to describe this time of year as "busy" was an understatement.
A third generation fruit grower, Mr Jarvis said he was seeing a growing trend towards organic produce, which his orchard has been producing for five years.
"Our fruit is sold mainly in Western Australia, but we will be selling some to the eastern States this year, " he said.
"Because it's organic it's mainly through organic shops but we're starting to sell some through the major supermarket chains.
"The demand is increasing because people never had the opportunity to buy organic and now they do."
Mr Jarvis said sales of organic apples doubled in the eastern States last year after major supermarkets stocked them. He expected a similar trend to follow in WA.
The busy period will not let up soon, with varieties including fuji, red delicious, golden delicious, granny smith, pink lady and sundowner to come off the tree in the coming months.
With all the fresh fruit set to hit supermarkets, Mr Jarvis has a simple message for consumers: "Buy West, Eat Best and if you like it, go back and buy more."


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I can attest to the "bouquet" of the menhaden purse seiner! I've spent about 2000 days on them. It's good sea time...twelve hour days (although many of your days are longer than 12 hours)...and the boats run from the mid-500 ton to mid-600 ton (GRT, not ITC) range. Generally five days a week, sometimes six. The boats in the Gulf (Cameron, Du Lac and Moss Point) fish from mid April to mid October. The boats out of Reedville, Va. generally fish from mid May until December or January.
It's hard work, long hours, OK accomodations and not much money but it's a job and sea time. How good the job is depends on who the captain is. Good captains have good crews, GOOD COOKS, and catch more fish, thereby earning their crews more money. That's why they have good crews and good cooks.
Those who are afraid of hard work, long hours, sea nettles and strong smells need not apply.
There's also an outfit down in Empire that I think is a better company than Omega: Daybrook Fisheries. It's a smaller, more "family oriented" company with good equipment. I've never worked for them, but I have friends who do.
If you've absolutely, positively got to have a job and/or 500+ ton sea time then give Omega or Daybrook a try. If you get a job as a pilot on a pogy boat, you WILL become a good boat handler or become unemployed. Moving those things around with the bottoms rubbing together or around the dock trying to stuff a 40 foot wide boat into a 40 foot six inch wide berth, with a single rudder, two woefully underpowered engines and one and a half million pounds of fish in the holds can get pretty exciting sometimes!
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YFM hires Taylor as VP
February 24, 2004-- Home Textiles Today,
EDISON, N.J. — Area, accent and bath rug supplier YMF Inc. recently appointed Ron Taylor to the newly created post of vice president of business development to help broaden its customer base for its goods, which range from promotional to high end.
He reports to Yaron Shemesh, senior vice president.
Taylor most recently worked as national sales manager for Tessile. Prior to that, he was vice president of sales for Gala Industries and senior vice president of sales for Bess Manufacturing.
He will work from both headquarters here as well as from the company's showroom at 295 Fifth Ave. in New York City.
YMF Inc.'s area and accent rugs come in various constructions — heat set, iscose, wool and wool-and-silk blends.
The company owns manufacturing facilities in Turkey, Israel and other countries and has partnerships with factories in China, where it produces wool-and-silk blend rugs.
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Renegotiation of Work Contract and Work Agreement of Coal Mining Undertaking in Indonesia: Legal Aspect of Renegotiation vs Pacta Sunt Servanda Principle
Ahmad Redi
University of Indonesia (UI) - Faculty of Law
July 12, 2013
Article 169 letter b of Act Number 4 of 2009 on Mineral and Coal Mining regulates that the stipulation mentioned in work contract (KK) and coal mining undertaking work agreement (PKP2B) shall be adjusted 1 (one) year at the latest since this Act is promulgated except concerning state revenue. Instruction for adjustment of KK/PKP2B article is not automatically can be implemented in view of there is opinion differences between the Government and mining company as the party to implement KK/PKP2B. Mining company is of the opinion that KK/PKP2B has pacta sunt servanda principle that must be recognized by the parties that has to be respected. Therefore, if either party does not want to carry out contract adjustment, then KK/PKP2B adjustment cannot be forced. This very differences in opinion that becomes the basis for intention to renegotiate KK/PKP2B between the Government and mining company which becomes the party in the contract, consequently effort is needed to find solution on the implementation of instruction of the contract/agreement in Article 169 letter b of Act No. 4 of 2009 on Mineral and Coal Mining with the intention of the coal mining. This article will discuss in critical-analytical manner on legal aspect of renegotiation with the validity of pacta sunt servanda in KK/PKP2B in Indonesia.
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We've known for some time that Black Forest Games planned on bringing Giana Sisters to the Wii U, but today they've finally got a release date for the game. It'll be hitting the Wii U eShop on September 5th, making it a full circle release for all consoles as the game was previously released on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 after a successful Kickstarter. The game will retail for $14.99.
Having played the PC version of the game I can say that it's a great little game for those of you who enjoy old school platformers, as some of the puzzles are a bit challenging. The developer has promised an easier mode for those who felt the original was too challenging, so there's always that if you played the game previously but didn't care for the difficulty level.
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The same pressures that have made U.S. companies rethink the way they do business have also forced old-school charitable organizations such as the United Way of Greater Cleveland to employ new strategies to remain relevant.
Fortunately, the region's most important and effective safety-net provider is doing just that.
The United Way made its annual distribution announcement Thursday, detailing where nearly $40.7 million raised during its annual fundraising campaign will be going.
What's notable is that the local United Way no longer guarantees funding for a three-year cycle and has said all appropriations will now be subject to constant review to make sure they are achieving desired results.
It's part of the organization's effort to be more accountable and effective, said Bill Kitson, executive director of the Greater Cleveland United Way.
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Such initiatives should help convince contributors – the local pledge drive peaked at more than $50 million in the early 1990s – that their money is being properly applied.
Nearly one-third of the money raised by United Way goes to agencies designated by donors, with other slices going to associated organizations. That left nearly 28 percent, or about $11.5 million, to be parceled out this year in response to specific funding requests designed to meet the United Way's goals of improving high school graduation rates, nurturing healthier lifestyles and fostering financial stability.
United Way is rightly focused on making those dollars work as effectively and efficiently as possible, using specific metrics and programs designed to get nonprofits to work collaboratively. It should be applauded for its efforts and it should continue to be rewarded with your contributions.


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We're off at 5 p.m. sharp as the girls 400 starts things here in Toms River.
And Freehold Township is off to a quick start. Emily Bracher and Adrian Vitello finish 1-2 in the seeded heat around 1:01.xx. Expect a big performance out of those two later in the 800 as well.
It's pretty crowded around the media table here today. Three photographers yet I'm the only reporter. Find that a little odd. Oh well. Unseeded heats of girls 400 going on now. Boys seeded heats coming up shortly.
Zach McDermott of CBA wins the boys 400 heat in about 51 seconds. That starts off what should be a big day for CBA as they aim to win its fourth straight title.
Turns out two girls from Neptune actually won the 400-meter race out of the second heat. Destiny Boynton and Phyllis Gordon ran 1:00.54 and 1:00.57, respectively.
Neptune actually placed three in front of the FT duo, don't sleep on Neptune! They've got a quick 22 points to lead off the meet just like that!
Lots of JV heats for boys and girls going on in the 400 right now. It'll be a while before we have any significant updates.
The high hurdle trials are going on right now. Once they're over we've got the 1600-meter girls and boys seeded heats. The boys seeded heat should be a good one with Jack Boyle and Billy Bragg of CBA and Dylan Tarpey of Freehold Township. Meet record is 4:19.48 set by George Kelly last year. It could definitely be taken down by all three of these guys.
Matawan gaining some points by winning the pole vault. Nicole Macco cleared 10-8 for the Huskies. They could find themselves in a position to win this meet, it'll be interesting to keep to see how they do.
Girls 1600 is off. Courtney Thompson of SJV and Marin Warner of Holmdel should find themselves in a good duel.
Warner wins it! And it was as close as advertised. The two girls were neck and neck the entire race but with 200 meters to go Warner pulled ahead for the win and finished around 5:11.
The highly anticipated boys 1600 race is on deck. Stay tuned I will blog the winner and highlight the race as soon as it is over.
And Boyle wins it! Boyle and Tarpey took the race out and with about 400 to go he dropped the hammer and finished around 4:21. Tom Rooney of CBA edged out Tarpey for second place, I missed the time. The race went out pretty slow for their standards, 67 through the first 400, 2:14 through the 800. But Boyle opened it up running a 63 in the third 400. Full results later.
Holmdel girls coming in strong right now! After Warner won the 1600, Katerina Distler won the high jump for Holmdel. They now sit with 28 points and ahead of Neptune for the lead in this meet. Still plenty of events left to go though.
Boyle's official time announced as 4:22.4.
We've got JV boys 1600 going on right now. The 55-meter dash trials will follow, both varsity and JV. After that we'll have the 800, so once again, quite the break in updating the blog right now.
800 girls seeded race coming up soon.
Girls 800 was a very tight race, but Tara Connelly of SJV outkicked Emily Bracher of Freehold Township to win the race. Bracher and Adrian Vitello finished second and third, repspectively but it's Connelly who comes away. I did not get the time on that but I think it was around 2:19 or 2:20. I was videotaping and forgot to look at my watch. I'll post the official time when the results come in.
CBA wins the 800 in around 1:56.x, not sure who he is, I'll get a name asap.
Odd start to the second heat of the 800. The race has been called back twice now, because a runner has fell in the first few seconds of the race. Never seen that before.
Connelly finished in 2:18.55 in the girls 800-meter race.
The battle for the girls title is really heating up. We're in a three-way race between Holmdel, Neptune, and Freehold Township. Holmdel leads with 32 points and has a solid distance squad to score in the 3200, as does Freehold Township, who has 24 points. Neptune can win off of its 4x4 and sprinters, as they sit in third with 22 points.
Zack McDermott just won his second event of the day, winning the 55-meter hurdles.
Julia Petruch of Colts Neck wins the girls 55-meter hurdles in 8.55.
I just got bombarded with results. In short, Holmdel leads but Colts Neck has catapulted itself through the 55-dash and hurdles into second place. Freehold Township and Neptune still in the hunt.
Lennon Cooper of Holmdel just won the 3,200 in 11:20.x. Holmdel now leads Freehold Township 42-37 heading into the 4x400. If FT wants to win they have to finish three spots ahead of Holmdel. I know FT has good 400 runners, not so sure about Holmdel.
Tom O'Neill of Middletown North just SHATTERED the meet record in teh 3,200. He finished in 9:05 with no one near him. That time breaks the previous record of 9:22.62 held by Mike O'Dowd of Colts Neck.
O'Neill's time is the US No. 1 time in the 3200!!! WOW. What a performance by Tom O'Neill! I can't get over the fact he did it by himself with no one pushing him.
Girls 4x400 is on deck. Freehold Township must finish at least third to win the county title otherwise it goes to Holmdel.
And Freehold Township wins the girls title! They place second in teh 4x400 meter relay
TEAMS: 1-CBA 149. 2-Matawan 57. 3-Middletown North 14. 4-Long Branch 12. 5-Freehold Township and Colts Neck 11. 7-Rumson-Fair Haven 10. 8-Manalapan 9. 9-Holmdel 8. 10-Red Bank Regional 7. 11-Shore, Marlboro, and St. John Vianney 6. 14-Freehold Boro 2. 15-Ocean Township and Manasquan 1.
55-METER DASH: 1-Jacob Lopez, Matawan, 6.67. 2-Saeed Blacknall, Manalapan, 6.71. 3-Mike Zupko, CBA, 6.77. 4-Xavier Chestnnut, Red Bank Regional, 6.83.5-Ian Curry, Freehold Boro, 6.84. 6-Daniel Debner, Manalapan, 6.95.
400-METER RUN: 1-Zack McDermott, CBA, 50.60. 2-Mike Pozo, CBA, 51.97. 3-Chaz Byrnes, Marlboro, 52.47. 4-Tyler Perlowin, Matawan, 52.49. 5-Rob Hart, CBA, 2.83. 6-Frank Confurti, Colts Neck, 52.88.
800-METER RUN: 1-Clark Mangini, CBA, 1:56.71. 2-Aaron Liberatore, CBA, 2:00.27. 3-Colin Chehanski, Colts Neck, 2:01.68. 4-Matthew Natoli, Matawan, 2:01.89. 5-Stephen Farr, CBA, 2:04.28. 6-Robert Mendez, Long Branch, 2:04.63.
1600-METER RUN: 1-Jack Boyle, CBA, 4:22.42. 2-Tom Rooney, CBA, 4:26.49. 3-Dylan Tarpey, Freehold Township, 4:26.56. 4-Billy Bragg, CBA, 4:26.56. 5-Eric Williams, Holmdel, 4:27.53. 6-Kevin Summonte, Freehold Township, 4:27.59.
3200-METER RUN: 1-Tom O'Neill, Middletown North, 9:05.50, meet record; 9:22.62, Mike O'Dowd, Colts Neck, 2011, previous record. 2-Blaise Ferro, CBA, 9:40.31. 3-Mike Cassidy, CBA, 9:51.51. 4-Aaron Barlev, Holmdel, 9:52.07. 5-Daniel barlev, Holmdel, 9:52.54. 6-Aiden Durney, CBA, 9:57.22.
55-METER HURDLES: 1-Zack McDermott, CBA, 7.89. 2-Chris Alexander, CBA, 7.90. 3-Nate Bowie, Matawan, 7.95. 4-Justin Love, Matawan, 8.0. 5-John Alston, Matawan, 8.09. 6-Trey Smith, Long Branch, 8.18.
1600-METER RELAY: 1-CBA (Mike Somma, Mike Zupko, Zack McDermott, Clark Mangini) 3:29.04. 2-Matawan 3:30.82. 3-Long Branch 3:36.64. 4-Colts Neck 3:36.93. 5-Red Bank Regional 3:40.71. 6-Ocean Township 3:42.48.
HIGH JUMP: 1-Justin Love, Matawan, 6-2. 2-Chris Jordan, CBA, 6-0. 3-Andrew Mahon, Shore, 5-10. 4-Roshaad Redway, Middletown North, 5-8. 5-Pritinder Singh, Matawan, 5-8. 6-John Alston, Matawan 5-8.
POLE VAULT: 1-Mike Cresanti-Daknis, CBA, 12-6. 2-Alfred Bradley, CBA, 12-6. 3-Derek Hona, Matawan, 11-6. 4-Alex O'Connor, Freehold Township, 11-6. 5-Mike Maggs, CBA, 11-6. 6-Ryan Pappas, Manasquan, 11-0.
SHOT PUT: 1-Jason Bryan, Rumson-Fair Haven, 52-9. 2-Alex Berger, CBA, 50-10 3/4. 3-Chris Green, St. John Vianney, 48-10 3/4. 4-Saquan Gwaltney, Long Branch, 47-1. 5-Tim Knipe, CBA, 46-11 3/4. 6-Xaire Williams, Red Bank Regional, 44-7.
Girls TEAM: 1-Freehold Township 45. 2-Holmdel 42. 3-Neptune 40. 4-Colts Neck 37. 5-Matawan 24. 6-St. John Vianney 20. 7-Monmouth Regional 18. 8-Ocean Township 15. 9-Middletown South 12. 10-Long Branch 11. 11-Rumson-Fair Haven and Middletown North 10.5. 13-Marlboro 10. 14-Wall 8. 15-St. Rose 2. 16-Freehold Boro and Raritan 1.
55-METER DASH: 1-Cleopatra Morrison, Long Branch, 7.37. 2-Jackie Wold, Colts Neck, 7.44. 3-Kimberly McKinnon, Marlboro, 7.52. 4-Domonique Panton, Freehold Township, 7.57. 5-Jocelyn Anderson, Monmouth, 7.64. 6-Devon Freshnock, Middletown North, 7.67.
400-METER RUN: 1-Destiny Boynton, Neptune, 1:00.54. 2-Phyllis Gordon, Neptune, 1:00.57. 3-Raquel Henderson, Ocean Township, 1:00.58. 4-Kadeem Curtis, Neptune, 1:00.63. 5-Adrian Vitello, Freehold Township, 1:01.40. 6-Emily Bracher, Freehold Township, 1:01.52.
800-METER RUN: 1-Tara Connelly, St. John Vianney, 2:18.55. 2-Emily Bracher, Freehold Township, 2:18.77. 3-Adrian Vitello, Freehold Township, 2:19.73. 4-Marin Warner, Holmdel, 2:21.46. 5-Abigail Faith, Freehold Township, 2:22.29. 6-Brenna Clark, Ocean, 2:22.37.
1600-METER RUN: 1-Marin Warner, Holmdel, 5:11.33. 2-Courtney Thompson, St. John Vianney, 5:11.84. 3-Cassidy Weimer, Middletown South, 5:16. 36. 4-Brianna Haspel 5:17.92. 5-Kathleen Dailey, St. Rose, 5:18.83. 6-Abigail Faith, Freehold Township, 5:21.96.
3200-METER RUN: 1-Lennon Cooper, Holmdel, 11:18.62. 2-Ciara Roche, Freehold Township, 11:20.23. 3-Jackie Gottuso, Rumson-Fair Haven, 11:27.64. 4-Isabella Maita, Rumson-Fair Haven, 11:43.14. 5-Samantha Hoagland, Colts Neck, 11:50.52. 6-Ciara O'Donoghue, Freehold Township, 11:52.49.
55-METER HURDLES: 1-Julia Petruch, Colts Neck, 8.55. 2-Rebecca Malos, Wall, 8.94. 3-Gaynelle Boham, Matawan, 8.95. 4-Victoria Zaamarra, Colts Neck, 8.95. 5-Taylor Cosby, Neptune, 9.18. 6-Stephanie Sparacino, Raritan, 9.3.
1600-METER RELAY: 1-Neptune (Kadeem Curtyis, Phyllis Gordon, Brietta Wilson, Destiny Boynton) 4:04.3. 2-Freehold Township, 4:06.73. 3-Colts Neck 4:08.96. 4-Matawan 4:14.65. 5-Middletown South 4:15.05. 6-Long Branch 4:21.33.
HIGH JUMP: 1-Katerina Distler, Holmdel, 5-0. 2-Julia Petruch, Colts Neck, 5-0. 3-Nicole Ras, Middletown North, 5-0. 4-Joy Price, Matawan 4-10. 5-Kristen Hassenkamp, Middletown North, 4-10. 6- Nora Ryan, Rumson-Fair Haven, and Savannah Forte, Middletown North, 4-10.
POLE VAULT: 1-Nicole Macco, Matawan, 10-8. 2-Kelly McKay, Holmdel, 8-6. 3-Cara Wiebalk, Monmouth, 8-0. 4-Alexis Barker, Freehold Township, 7-6.
SHOT PUT: 1-Chloe Yelle, Monmouth, 34-8 1/4. 2-Michelle Mazza, Ocean, 34-4 1/4. 3-Jada Taylor, Neptune, 34-2. 4-Cassandra Spano, Marlboro, 33-00. 5-Jordyn Styczynski, St. John Vianney, 30-8 1/2. 6-Yameenah Mayfield, Freehold Boro, 30-4 1/4.


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What's the frequency, Abby?
Abby Goldstein spent Tuesday morning fielding phone calls from friends who wanted to know just why her radio station -- KKZN-FM (93.3), otherwise known as The Zone -- was broadcasting audio from old Bob Newhart Show episodes. She had no idea. Goldstein, a longtime fixture in local radio, had been fired from the station August 25. All Goldstein had to offer was the obvious: Hey, I guess they're getting ready to break the new format. But even Goldstein didn't know what the format was going to be hours before it debuted. And new Zone program director Scott Strong, who had previously worked for an adult-contemporary station in St. Louis, wasn't spilling the beans.
"I've only been here a week, and I would like to stay here a little while longer," Strong told Buzz hours before unveiling something called the Merge format -- which, as far as we could tell during Tuesday afternoon's debut, means playing everything recorded since 1985. (Among the station's first song selections: Lenny Kravitz's "Are You Gonna Go My Way," R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World," and Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus.") As a bonus, the station's new Web site, www.merge933.net, tells you what song is currently on the air and allows you to buy the album by linking the user to amazon.com.
It was inevitable that The Zone -- which debuted in October 1996, broadcasting "adult alternative" music, meaning lots of Dave Matthews Band -- would disappear sooner rather than later. In the most recent Arbitron ratings, the station was ranked 21st in the market.
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"We were searching for an identity from the very beginning," Goldstein says. "It's hard to sign on with a weak signal [the station has a 50,000-watt tower] and not have a strong direction immediately."
Goldstein says her parting was amicable enough. "My particular personality doesn't fit into the radio station of the new millennium," she says. "Hey, I wish them luck and hope they do really well. I'm just not listening."
The buck stops here
Those of you who just can't get enough of council member Laura Miller, take heart. In addition to her seemingly daily appearances in The Dallas Morning News, she's now self-publishing on her own Web site, www.lauramiller.com.
Buzz supposes she has some time on her hands, since she's not going to be chairing any city council committees as long as Mayor Ron Kirk draws breath.
Miller, a former Dallas Observer columnist, writes that her "silent, growing frustration at no longer having a newspaper as a vehicle to share...reporting" prompted her, in part, to create the Web site. Buzz might buy frustrated, but silent?
Readers of the the site are greeted with an animated screen flashing a quote from Harry S Truman: "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it's hell."
Buzz might say something wise here about the problems that arise when one politician on a 15-member council thinks she has cornered the market on truth, but let's face it, wise just isn't Buzz's bag -- unless you tack on the suffix ass. In that vein, maybe she should consider this Buzz quote: "I don't have a big ego. I just compare myself to dead presidents, and everyone thinks I have a big ego."
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Both witnesses told police that Jones, with whom Bryant Brown has a 5-year-old daughter, arrived at the house with a hammer in her hand, stating she wanted to talk with Brown. Johnson said that Jones lunged past her towards Brown.
"I grabbed her coat and hood to hold her back from hitting Brown," Johnson told police, according to court records. "Brown grabbed the hammer and took it away from her."
At that point, Johnson said Jones began wrestling with her, pulling her hair and scratching her. Brown separated the pair and Jones left, Johnson said.
Brown gave police much the same account, adding that his daughter came with Jones to the scene and that she was present during the fracas. He also provided police with the hammer he said he took from Jones.
Police later went to Jones' residence and spoke with her. She told them she went to Johnson's home to speak with Brown, but that Johnson had a piece of wood in her hand when she opened the door. "After we argued is when I went out and got my hammer out of the car," Jones told police. "My hammer is always in my car so I did not take it over there to assault anyone with it."
She said Johnson punched her first and she did not strike anyone with the hammer. Police arrested Jones.
Jones is free on a personal recognizance bond pending sentencing, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4.


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"For everything there is a season…A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance." -Ecclesiastes (NLT version)
In June, I talked about happiness, joy, fun, and laughter. It was a great exploration! It has been even greater to put these great things into practice in my own life. I have been having a fun summer so far, filled with laughter and fun, and I expect a lot more in the months to come.
But for this month's topic, I'm going to do a complete 360 from happiness to grief. Or is it really a 360? Some experts believe the grieving process is a necessity to get us to the happiness and joy that we deserve. Some losses we will never get over. But allowing ourselves to grieve our losses, even our non-death losses can give us emotional healing and a sense of peace. Re-positioning a loss may be a necessary activity to help us to enjoy life again. The only way to do this is through working through the pain of grief.
I know in reflecting on my own life, the times that I have struggled the most emotionally have been when I haven't allowed myself to grieve a loss. Or if I haven't acknowledged the fact that I had experienced a loss of something that was special to me. It sucks, but you have to go through it.
I was inspired to talk about grief this month because I was asked to do a grief workshop at a 12 step convention, and in my preparation for that workshop, many buried feelings began to resurface.
With the workshop and other things I have going on, my schedule is a bit busy this month, but my goal is to post 5 posts this month that will represent the 5 stages of grief.
A note about the grief stages: (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) The stages are not neat and orderly stages that people complete and then move on to the next one…ultimately saying yay! I'm at acceptance, it took me exactly 6 months, so that means I've gotten over my loss. It's not that simple. The stages represent ways that people can identify what they are feeling about a loss at a given point in time. You may go back and forth through the stages for as long as it takes. Something may trigger you back to depression after you feel you have accepted a loss. For those of us who have difficulty identifying feelings, the stages are a good way to work through our feelings and to know what we are feeling when we have lost something or someone special.
I have shared on my blog about many of the "death" losses that I have experienced. But non-death losses can hit us in the same way, just in a different part of our hearts. In preparation for the upcoming workshop, I read a book by Melody Beattie called The Grief Club and in the Appendix of her book, she encourages people to inventory their losses through a "Master Loss Checklist." She lists one of the most exhaustive list of losses that I've ever seen. As I was going through the list, there was a loss item that jumped out of the page and screamed at me:
"Desire romantic relationship but cannot find acceptable partner."
I thought to myself, could this really be considered a loss? Nah! That sounds pretty pathetic. Get over it Michele! It will happen…hopefully…one of these days…right?
But I realized that it's still a loss because it hasn't happened at this point of my life, and I thought that it would. It's a loss of a dream.
I think I had been reluctant to grieve my singleness because does that mean I am accepting the fact that I will be single forever? But then I thought, no it doesn't. Grieving is a process, a culmination of feelings. The process itself is not a finalization. I realized that I need to grieve my singleness at this point of my life, so that I can get to the other side. I need to grieve what I thought my love life should look like at this point in my life, so that my heart can be open to the beautiful, special person that my Higher Power will one day bring into my life.
Grieving sucks. But it's a necessity.
So how in the world will I go through the grieving process about being single? The only way I know how to do it is to write it out and share it. So that's what I will do.
Join me in my grief.


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Senators 5, Thunder 3 – Game 111, July 31 at Arm & Hammer Park, Trenton, N.J.
THE MONTH THAT WAS: Wednesday's victory helped the Sens finish July with a 16-14 record. That's a testament to Harrisburg's pitching staff, considering the team batted just .227 in 30 games with 22 home runs and 91 RBIs.
Four regulars – first baseman Justin Bloxom (.207), shortstop Jason Martinson (.216), third baseman Carlos Rivero (.228) and right fielder Steven Souza Jr. (.232) – all batted below .235 for the month.
Harrisburg's leading hitter in July was second baseman Ricky Hague, who batted just .262. The top RBI man was designated hitter/first baseman Jimmy VanOstrand with 13. He tied Souza for the most homers with five.
As a team, Sens batters struck out 214 times in 30 games, an average of 7.1 Ks per outing.
Pitching-wise, left-handed reliever Matt Grace won all three of his decisions, and despite giving up two earned runs Wednesday, his ERA was 2.57. The Sens' team ERA was 3.17 in July. Overall, Harrisburg still leads the Eastern League in that department with a 3.48 for the season.
When July began, Matt LeCroy's team led the Western Division standings by 2½-games. On Aug. 1, the Sens (60-51) are 1½ games up on the second-place Erie SeaWolves (57-50).
COLE OFF TO FLYING START: Much like left-hander Taylor Jordan did earlier this season, A.J. Cole has stepped right into Harrisburg's rotation after a promotion from Single-A and looks like a worldly veteran.
The right-hander claimed his second Double-A victory in as many starts, holding the Thunder to four hits and one unearned run while walking three and striking out six in his six innings of work.
The 21-year-old Cole has surrendered just seven hits and one earned run in 13 innings of Eastern League action. His ERA is 0.69, he's fanned 12 batters and opponents are hitting just .149 against him.
A WEEK WITHOUT BARRETT: Sens closer Aaron Barrett hasn't pitched since his calf tightened up in the ninth inning of last Wednesday's game in New Hampshire.
With Harrisburg holding a 5-3 lead heading into the ninth Wednesday afternoon, it sure seemed like an opportunity for Barrett to nail down the game. But instead of using the right-hander and his 20 saves, LeCroy used right-handed Tyler Herron for a second inning.
It seems unlikely Barrett would have been passed over had he been 100 percent. Herron pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his second save of the season.
GOODWIN SITS AGAIN: Center fielder Brian Goodwin was out of Harrisburg's lineup again for the second straight day with what the team said was a stomach ailment. In his absence, Jerad Head played center field for only the third time this season. Sean Nicol started in left, walked twice and scored a run.
Goodwin's absence isn't helping the Sens' offense. He batted .250 in July with three doubles, two triples, three homers, eight RBIs, 14 walks and two steals.
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|Confucian influences in Korea
|Written by Michael Fones
|Sunday, 24 August 2008 16:39
The other day I was commenting on the apparent freedom that Koreans enjoy because of their sense of community. My friend, Cha Yun-kyung, a professor in the area of sociology of education at Hanyang University, Seoul, said that the tenets of Confucianism also play into the sense of propriety and responsibility that helps maintain order in this densely populated country.
This past weekend the Chas and I drove to Gyeungjong, the ancient capital of the Silla dynasty. We traveled along part of the north-south spine of the country, a series of low, but quite steep granite mountains that rise about 2000 feet from the road. The small valleys we passed occasionally were intensely farmed, creating a patchwork of rice, corn, sesame, garlic, eggplant, ginseng, and a variety of fruit trees.
The city is dotted with ancient tombs of the Silla kings and queens. They date from the mid 8th century A.D. and are rounded hills ranging in height from about 15 feet to over 100 feet. The royal corpse was laid to rest in a wooden chanber that was covered with as much as 15-20 feet of rocks, a relatively thin layer of clay a a foot or so thick, and then that was buried under soil.
On the trip back we stopped at a Confucian school outside Andong, a city about three to four hours northwest of Pusan. Dosanseodang would have housed about thirty students at a time. Founded in 1561 by Yi Hwang, a well-known neo-Confucian scholar who also went by the name of Toegye, it has a variety of interesting structures, like a double library raised above the damp ground to protect the delicate handwritten parchments, a printing room, several classrooms, as well as small cells for Confucian scholars and students. In a small museum adjacent to the school, some of Yi Hwang's basic principles for living are described. They sound very much like some things St. Paul says: be patient, observe your surroundings carefully; don't be deceitful, love others, do not kill, don't even entertain vicious thoughts. I wonder how the Gospel was preached by the early Korean missionaries, and how much resonance their listeners would have heard in St. Paul's admonitions to the Corinthians or Philippians?
I know next to nothing about Confucianism, although it seems that Yi Hwang at least thought that knowledge should lead to right actions in order to truly be called knowledge. It also sought order in one's personal life and in society. Neo-Confucian scholars were important figures in the Joseon dynasty in Korea, and the good Korean king would have been expected to govern according to neo-Confucian principles. In fact, Yi Hwang served in nearly 30 different administrative posts under for Joseon dynasty kings, and was known for his impeccable character and dedication to truth. Whether he and other scholars were more successful in influencing the behavior of Korean politicians than Catholic religious leaders were regarding the behavior of European kings, I do not know.


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CNN correspondent Soledad O'Brien will be the principal speaker at Dillard University's commencement on May 7. The ceremony will start at 8 a.m. on the Avenue of the Oaks on the campus at 2601 Gentilly Blvd.
O'Brien, who was part of CNN's team covering the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, was a member of the CNN teams that won the George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Alfred I. DuPont Award for reporting on the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Heading to Canarreos Archipielago is a spectacle itself. From the plane is easy to contemplate the magnificent color of the waters of the Batabanó Gulf covering the reef between Cuba and Isla de la Juventud. This island is the second biggest one in Cuba, follow by Key Largo del Sur. Besides this two island the Canarreos Archipielago has 150 small inhabited keys of pure virgin mangroves and white sand beaches with palm trees.
Visiting these islands is like moving to Paradise. Life there is pleasant and makes us forget about our stressful lives. If you are looking for the perfect spot for your deserved vacations, Be Live Las Morlas is your answer. Cuba has a lot of things to offer, great places to visit, mild climate all year long and thousands or varied landscapes. This luxury all-included resort is the perfect place to be host comfortable and relax on the Varadero beaches. Here you can get tan with the Caribean sun and enjoy one of the most beautiful sunsets ever seen.
Canarreos Archipielago is full of life friendly curious iguanas, crabs and birds. Diving into its wonderful sea beds is making an impressive trip to the undiscovered. A polychromatic world with thousands of amazing creatures fishes, octopuses, lobsters and manta rays living in different varied rages of corals. If you are more interesting on the live into the mangrove, you can visit the Cuban iguanas' reservoir in Key Iguana. These saurian are endemic to Cuba and really friendly. They have been in severe danger of extinction, but now they are been protected from hunting.
Besides, iguanas and fishes, Canarreos has a huge bird population. Pelicans, cormorants, seagulls, terns, herons, egrets, wagtails, and hawks can be often seen in the islands. They all create an interesting spectacle for bird-watchers and curious people.
Largo Key and Iguana Key are two most visited islands in Canarreos Archipielago. "Cayo Largo" has become famous for its limpid waters with marvelous coral reefs full of submarine life, and its lonely white sand beaches. "Cayo Iguana" is the perfect place to get in contact with the untouched Cuban nature. Both constituted an incredible natural landscape and an unforgettable place.


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The Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers will face off on Sunday night in an AFC North showdown.
The Bengals are riding high atop the division with the No. 2 seed in the playoffs in their sights. The Steelers are reeling from a bitter defeat at the hands of the Miami Dolphins that all but ended their playoff hopes.
Can the Steelers play spoiler and ruin Cincinnati's weekend?
Check out the video to get a preview of this Sunday's prime-time game from the man who will be calling it from the booth, and make sure to let us know what you're looking forward to in the comments section below.


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|EC 304 - Environmental Economics
|(3 cr.) This course examines environmental issues and their economic impact. Topics include economic efficiency both in market and nonmarket activities; dynamic efficiency for nonrenewable and nonrenewable resources; how environmental problems are modeled from an economic perspective; and principles of environmental policy design at the state and federal level. Prerequisite: EC 111; Every Other Year
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A spokesman for the former Detroit Medical Center CEO and former county prosecutor said he'll gather some 500 supporters at the Samaritan Center, 5555 Conner Street at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26 for the announcement.
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Duggan announced the event plans last week in a radio interview, and his campaign released a statement Friday.
"Since September, Mike Duggan has conducted a thorough grassroots exploratory process which has included more than 70 intimate gatherings with Detroiters in their living rooms, churches, coffee shops and community centers," campaign spokesman John Roach said in the news release. "Tuesday's announcement comes as a direct result of the feedback he has during these and many other meetings."
Former top city attorney Krystal Crittendon, state Rep. Fred Durhal, Jr., former state Rep. Lisa Howze and Howard University student Andrae Townsel are also running for mayor.
Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napolean is likely to join the race.
Activist Tom Barrow is also exploring a run.
Mayor Dave Bing has not said whether or not he plans to run for another term.
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