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Jerry Seinfeld is returning to NBC. But this isn't must-see TV, because you won't.
See him, that is.
Seinfeld said he has no plans to step in front of the cameras for the reality show he's producing, "The Marriage Ref" or, for that matter, to ever star in a television series again.
"It's a young man's game," said Seinfeld, 54. "Nothing could surpass the experience I had."
For those 10 or younger, that would be "Seinfeld," the sitcom that ended its nine-year run in 1998, a big part of NBC's golden era.
Seinfeld says his latest idea, which he hopes to have ready for this fall, came when he and his wife, Jessica, were arguing one day while a friend was visiting. The friend became uncomfortable and wondered if she should leave.
"I said, 'You know what, I need some help to settle this right here. I need a marriage ref,'" he said, and the friend obliged.
Seinfeld helped develop the idea with a friend, Ellen Rakieten, who had just left Oprah Winfrey's production company after 23 years
She brought the problem-solving experience and Seinfeld added the comic sensibility. They don't intend to delve into serious stuff, but smaller things like leaving the bathroom messy. Even, perhaps, about nothing, really.
Woman with Freeman in crash sues him
The woman who was with Morgan Freeman the night of a car crash insisted he was a "perfect gentleman" and that she was never romantically involved with him.
Oh, and that she's suing the actor for negligence.
Demaris Meyer, 48, and her lawyer, Gloria Allred, held a news conference announcing that Meyer has filed a lawsuit against the 71-year-old Academy Award winner.
"I have been labeled as the other woman and have been accused of having caused the breakup of Mr. Freeman's marriage," Meyer said. "Nothing could be further from the truth. I had hoped and prayed that Mr. Freeman or his representatives would have set the record straight and cleared my name, but they have not done so and that is why I have chosen to come forward to tell the truth about our relationship."
In the days after the accident last August, Freeman's lawyer, Bill Luckett, told media outlets that Freeman and his wife of 24 years, Myrna Colley-Lee, had been separated since December 2007 and were getting a divorce. Several media outlets reported that the 48-year-old Meyer was Freeman's mistress.
Injured Jewel vows return to 'Dancing'
Pop singer Jewel says she injured her knees while rehearsing for "Dancing With the Stars" but plans to return to the dance floor as soon as she heals.
Jewel blogs on her Web site that she's been sidelined for the ABC series' upcoming season due to tendinitis in both knees, and that her physical therapist said she'd be "good to go by next week" if she takes time to recover. In a statement issued by ABC, the singer says she's "dedicated to getting better and showing the judges and America that I can cha cha cha with the best of them. Don't count me out as I am in this for the long run."
Law and order: celeb edition
Russell Simmons says he's happy to fork over $40,000 a month in child support for his two daughters. Simmons commented about a court order that finalized custodial and financial arrangements for 9-year-old Ming and 6-year-old Aoki. Those are his children with ex-wife Kimora Lee Simmons.
Jeremy Piven is not off the hook yet. The producers of "Speed-the-Plow" say they will file for arbitration to settle their dispute with the actor for abruptly quitting the Broadway show after his doctor said he was suffering from mercury poisoning.

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The spice of life? Probably not.
It's perhaps a bit strong to call this a tourist trap, but there does not seem to be another category it fits in.
On a 2005 trip my ex-girlfriend and I visited the Spice museum in the harbour area (near the Dungeon). We are both keen cooks and thought it might be interesting.
It is effectively one large room with a few bags of spices, a couple of old grinders and a few maps and brief descriptions of spices.
There is also a sort of "touch, smell and taste" section, although there is little there not found in the average kitchen.
It seem to me that you are paying for the privelege of visiting their shop. A visit to a specialist spice shop would probably yield as much information.
€ 3 per person entrance, although this does include a sachet of peppercorns.
Unless you have a special interest in the subject, I wouldn't bother.
The museum is located @ Am Sandtorkai 32, 20457 should you want to go.
Unique Suggestions: Can't imagine whay you would "have to go".
Fun Alternatives: Just go for a walk around the harbour area, there are plenty of other things to see.Related to:
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I was warned
The Hamburg Dungeons are a heavily promoted attraction in Hamburg, next to the Minature Wonderland. I had already written off the London Version of this chain of attractions as 'Unsuitable for adults'. I was prepared, however, to give it a go.
After having my head chopped off in the entrance doorway by (slightly too enthusiastically I might add) Mrs Sourbugger, the girl in the ticket booth said that most of the attraction was an hour long performance by actors - in German. I have no idea if they do it in English at certain times, but we decided that it was time to beat a hasty retreat and explore elsewhere.
Interestingly, the entry in the 'Hamburg in you pocket' guide (given out free all over the city) has been lifted from a website elsewhere and reads thus :
"Part of the ever-growing global Dungeon franchise, if you've ever visited one of the other places you'll know exacty what this place is about. Why would anyone want to queue for three hours and pay 15 Euro only to be scared or bored is a mystery but there you go."
I suspect that the Dungeon company don't realise this as happened, as all other attractions seem to be written up with gushing praise.
I only wish that I had written it.
Unique Suggestions: Look round for discount vouchers at the Tourist Information, and book there.Add to your Trip Planner
Casino Reeperbahn
Perhaps not a tourist trap but I wouldn't recommend this to any visitor looking for a proper casino experience. It is mostly electronic gaming machines and the touch screens on some of those don't seem to work too well. For the purists, tables games are advertised on the top floor along with its own bar. All it consisted of was three Blackjack tables and two Roulette wheels and even though the place was full one of each was closed, along with the bar, and the jostling for position made the experience quite uncomfortable. Eventually I got a spot at a Blackjack table lost €50 and left thinking "well at least I can say I've been there and warn others about it". Entrance fee is just €1 and you will need photo identification.Related to:
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Krameramtswohnungen is a small street near St. Michael's church. It contains the only remaining 17th Century houses in Hamburg, built originally for widows of storekeepers but now all aimed at tourists.
The houses were very nice but there was just too many of them selling pointless souvenirs, while the amount of tourists here made it difficult to appreciate the history. We visited the street twice but on both occasions a large tour group was also there.
I would recommend visiting here at a quiet time, perhaps early morning or towards evening, when the crowds have gone.Add to your Trip Planner
Sightseeing busses
Somehow I never have done this because it's not my way of travelling... If the information is as boring and filled with that many dates and numbers like the harbor boat trips accompanied with lots of jokes I could not laugh about - it just got on my nerves...
The boat tours, however, I would still recommend - especially if you know no German - then you can get concentrated on the immense harbor and the huge ships there... Even I would do that - with earplugs;-)
Not the busses. Too expensive for what they offer. Take the regular bus line 112 and read about what you really want to know.Add to your Trip Planner
Nightlife Agents Hamburg
Funny Club and Party Guides in Hamburg. Tour throw the best clubs in Hamburg on the Reeperbahn.
Unique Suggestions: I was in hamburg with some friends and we heared about these crazy guides. Two nice women told us at breakfast, that they were on tour with the Nightlife Agents at the night before.
So we decided to make the same tour.
It was a very funny night on the reeperbahn. These two guides made a crazy party night with us.
Okay, 39€ wasn`t cheap for us students, but we had vip entry in 3 Clubs and some beer.Related to:
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Tv Tower
It's closed for some time and there is no notice when they will re-open it. Save your time and don't go there. We unfortunatly did !
And there weren't any constructors !!!
Unique Suggestions: Some fun park is near so you can spend some time there.Related to:
- Family Travel
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
This is one of the prime reproduce railways of the world! Experience a huge scenery with houses and figures, its like natural mad made cars and trees, hills and valleys, What an experience to see this impressing world within a world! It doesn't matter the time and the place,,,. This was unforgettable experience for the each and every visitor…
Fun Alternatives: Kultur & Gewerbespeicher
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L. Convery
Housing, Care and Support, vol.6, Nov. 2003, p.19-21
In June 2003 the Care Standards Tribunal turned down an appeal by Alternative Futures Ltd against a decision by the National Care Standards Commission not to let them cancel the registration of 11 care homes. Alternative Futures had applied for cancellation of the registration because it felt the homes were functioning as supported housing with domiciliary care. The service users had learning disabilities and had been granted tenancies. Article summarises some key points of the judgement.
G. Davidson, M. McCallion and M. Potter
Belfast: Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, 2003
The report reviews human rights issues involved in mental health law, policy and practice in Northern Ireland. It examines the assessment and civil "detention" of people with mental health problems, the Mental Health Review Tribunal, the Mental Health Commission for Northern Ireland, treatment, mental health and the criminal justice system, and protection and empowerment. Each area is examined in relation to the relevant international standards, law policy and practice in Northern Ireland, potential human rights violations, and the experience of other jurisdictions.
K. Godfrey
Health Service Journal, vol.113, Dec.11th 2003, p28-29
Describes a relapse prevention scheme, which uses techniques common in the field of substance abuse to help people with mental health problems stay out of hospital. The scheme uses cognitive behavioural training to help patients and their carers better manage their condition. Audit of the scheme shows a reduction in hospital admissions and length of stay.
S. Grant
Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Health Department, 2003
The report was produced to help with the planning for the implementation of the provisions of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act. It covers hospital and community services, crisis intervention, role of social workers and psychiatrists and administration and finance.
T. Braithwaite
Health Service Journal, vol.113, Dec. 18th 2003, p.32
There is an urgent need for the integration of inpatient and community mental health services. This would ensure that hospital admission becomes one of a range of treatment options, chosen for its benefit to the patient.
Mental Health Act Commission
London: TSO, 2003
The report is heavily critical of the current Mental Health Bill's proposals for compulsory treatment and detention of people with dangerous and severe personality disorders which, it argues, breach human rights legislation. Other concerns highlighted include:
K. Leason
Community Care, Dec. 4th-10th 2003, p.26-28
There are concerns that over-reliance on drug therapy for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder leads to failure to address underlying social and family problems. Health, education and social services need to work more closely together to address the needs of these children.
R. Fyson and K. Simons
British Journal of Learning Disabilities, vol.31, 2003, p.153-158
Article reports on the interim findings of the "Strategies for Change" research project which has focused on the need for effective strategic planning to implement the Valuing People White Paper. It draws attention in particular to the roles of commissioners of learning disability services and the new Learning Disability Partnership Boards in developing and implementing local plans.
Commission for Health Improvement
London: 2003
Mental health services are chronically underfunded in England, leading to acute staff shortages and lack of management capacity. Information systems are also severely under-resourced, and the service has in many cases failed to guarantee patients a decent standard of accommodation.
G. Slay
Professional Social Work, Dec. 2003, p.16-17
Discusses the role of social workers in community mental health teams.
Suggests that they should provide a counter to the tendency to medicalise people's difficulties or to over-rely in drug treatments. They should also promote the development of service user-led groups and activities.
N. Bostock
Primary Care Report, Vol.5, no.19, Nov.26th, 2003, p7-9
Primary Care Trusts stand accused of neglecting mental health services, hampered by a lack of resources and commissioning experience. Author highlights cases where services are working well, thanks to an integrated approach.


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Taking advantage of low barriers to entry and even lower natural gas prices, two large foreign-owned oil and gas companies announced plans to invest billions of dollars to develop shale resources in the United States.
Sinopec, China's second-largest oil company inked a $2.5 billion deal with Oklahoma-based Devon Energy to invest in five new shale development areas ranging from Ohio south to Alabama. In another deal, France's Total Group is investing $2.3 billion in a joint venture with Chesapeake Energy and EnerVest on an Ohio oil and gas project.
The two deals have a similar structure and purpose. The foreign companies are paying a majority of the development costs plus cash up front for a minority stake. The reason? Total and Sinopec want to learn a thing or two about advanced drilling techniques.
In the Sinopec-Devon deal, Sinopec is taking a one-third share in the five oil projects it is developing with Devon Energy but will pay $900 million in cash and 80 percent of the development costs, or up to $1.6 billion, reports The Financial Times. The additional costs born by Sinopec are being paid to Devon in exchange for transferring some of the technical knowledge used in shale gas development, namely horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
Total's deal has a similar structure with the French company taking 25 percent of the joint venture with Chesapeake and EnerVest in Ohio's Utica formation. Total will pay $700 million in cash and 60 percent of its partners' future development costs—up to $1.63 billion.
The French government, which has a 5 percent minority stake in Total (down from a peak of 30 percent), has outlawed hydraulic fracturing in France.
The two new foreign-led ventures are not the first big shale plays by foreign companies in the U.S. Rather they are emblematic of a growing trend of foreign investment in American natural resources. According to figures published by The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, $24.5 billion of the total $39.9 billion in gas and oil field deals in the first three quarters of 2012 came from foreign investors.
There are no legal requirements preventing foreign-owned companies—whether they are privately-held or nationally-owned—from developing oil and gas resources on American soil or in its coastal waters, only that they be registered in the United States through the State Department. With natural gas prices lower in the U.S. than just about anywhere else in the world, foreign companies are clamoring for a piece of the action.
And they are clamoring successfully.
Back in July, Sinopec Group vice president Zhang Yaocang told Reuters that the company wanted "to enter the shale gas area in Canada and America" within two to three years.
But with the announcement of the deal with Devon Energy, that timeline just got a lot shorter.
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Carl Duffy, Contributing Writer
I work for Freescale Semiconductor as an integrated circuit Test Engineer and recently came across an interesting problem. I started to see a lot of devices failing some digital tests and digging into it I noticed some signals were collapsing (see PIN_B and PIN_C in figure below). The signal on top, PIN_A, is an adjacent pin on the chip which is behaving appropriately. These are standard 3V CMOS digital outputs on a rather slow port with a period of about 38ns.
This situation occurred while testing a chip at wafer probe. We test every chip in its packaged form, but as a cost saving measure we also test each chip when it is still in wafer form to weed out defective devices before they go through the expensive packaging process. The noise or ringing you see on the signals is not atypical of the probecard environment where signals might travel through 50cm (20 inches) of cable or loadboard traces, pogo pins, and a 2cm unshielded probe needle. Bypass capacitors are far away from the chip.
As we debugged the problem we gathered a few clues. First, we noticed PIN_B and PIN_C were both powered by the same VDD and GND pads, however, PIN_A, gets its power from different VDD and GND pads. The problem comes on suddenly as VDD is increased. We also noticed that when the signals collapsed, the data coming out was still correct; only the voltages were wrong. The problem always happened when a certain data pattern was transmitted, but never happened when the part was retested later in its packaged form.
One of the early theories that we investigated was whether the collapse was caused by reflections on the signal lines. But reflections over this distance don't take 3 microseconds. Reflections take only a few nanoseconds over these distances and are visible in the finer detail. (See figure below.)
We also ruled out programmable drive strength or slew rates, because the problem did not occur when testing packaged parts with the same program. They might exacerbate the problem by increasing the instantaneous demand for current and thus the voltage spikes, but they did not cause the problem. Clamping of the power supply also was not the culprit: If this were the problem we would have only seen the logic 1 voltage decrease. Logic 0 would have been stayed at 0V.
We ultimately isolated the problem: The supply to the output circuitry was turning off - but what was causing the signal to collapse? The source of this problem lies with the ESD (Electro Static Discharge) protection circuits that are present on all CMOS chips. ESD protection circuits reacted to excessive noise on the supplies presuming it to be an ESD event. To protect the CMOS gates the ESD circuitry turned on, providing a momentary short circuit for the charge. This had the effect of collapsing the output signals.
A specific data pattern on multiple pins caused the problem because multiple pins toggling simultaneously and quickly caused the worst case ringing conditions on the supply. It was worse at high voltage because that drew the most power and thus had the highest ringing. The data was still correct because the microprocessor's core supply was separate from the supply on the pads, and it was the latter that was turning off.
So why did this only occur at probe? In this particular case, there was only one probe needle providing power to PIN_B and PIN_C but in the packaged part there were multiple bond wires providing power. This meant that at probe we were cramming all the current through one VDD pad. Factor in the inductance of the probe needles and the bypass capacitors being significantly further away, and you get increased ringing on the power supply which triggered the ESD circuitry. PIN_A had multiple power pads at probe so it did not have as much ringing.
Adequate bypass capacitors on VDD up close to a chip will counteract the inductance in the path between the board's power supply and the power supply pad, but on a probe card it is impractical to place capacitors close to the chip. The logic values were still correct because the I/O (input/output) supplies do not control the data. The I/O circuits provide level shifting and isolate the power supply noise of pad circuitry from core logic circuitry. The problem was resolved on a second revision of the chip with the addition of extra power and ground pads for probe needles. You can see this in the significantly improved signal quality in the figure below.
While our design team had spent a lot of effort designing the package, running simulations and adding extra power pads to ensure that we did not have simultaneous switching noise on the outputs, they had not run those same simulations on the probe card environment where fewer power supply pads were present. The bottom line for the IC designer is that ATE test environments require extra consideration during the design process. The lesson for the circuit board designer is the importance of bypass capacitors and following the power recommendations of the IC supplier.
Carl Duffy is a Lead Test Engineer working on iMX multimedia products for Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas.


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It's been three long days of hockey at Iceland USA in Strongsville, and the end is nearing. The Padua Christmas Tournament is down to one final game, the Championship, pitting St. Ignatius and Toledo St. John. The two teams met on Friday, with the Wildcats pulling out a 3-2 decision. That game will be played at 3pm on the West Rink.
9th Place Game: Toledo St. Francis 3, Padua 2
The Knights eked out two short-handed goals to edge the Bruins in the first game of the morning. Ricky Kwapich provided two of those goals, while Matt Opblinger had the other and also had an assist. The host Bruins got goals from Sophomore Alec Demsey, assisted by Will McGoughran, and Junior Joey Szpak whose came off assists from Mike Onorato and Matt Goebel.
The Bruins out-shot the Knights, 23-21. Padua Senior Austen Peppo had 18 saves, while St. Francis Freshman Kade Phipps had 21.
7th Place Game: Lake Catholic 4, Findlay 3
The Cougars got two goals from Joey Duffy to edge the Trojans in a battle. Lake Catholic's Jake Denner and Declan Conway also scored in the victory. Trojan goals were courtesy of Noah Hindall, Zach Wohlmaguth, and Kirby Simeon.
5th Place Game: St. Edward 2, Olentangy Liberty 2
Those kids from Liberty have become the comeback kids of the tournament, coming back from deficits in all four games to forge three ties and a dramatic victory. In a game that featured 23 penalties, giving the Eagles a power play in much of the 1st and the Patriots one in most of the 3rd, Liberty came back from a 2-0 first period deficit to settle for the tie.
St. Ed's had gone up with goals off the sticks of Todd Price and Andy Schroeck. Liberty's Joe Schoettmer cut the lead to 2-1 with a power play goal early in the 2nd, and Cole Bumpass finally took advantage of a long power play to score with 4:33 left in the game. Despite a man advantage for the rest of the game after that goal, the Patriots could not figure out the Eagle defense.
Last night in the final game of the evening, Nick Kouskouris took a pass from Ethan Hollingsworth and scored as time expired to give the Patriots a 2-1 win over Lake Catholic.
3rd Place Game: Sylvania Northview 3, University 1
After the Preppers won in a meeting of these two teams on Saturday, the Wildcats turned the tables on them. Northview tallied three goals in the 3rd Period to come back from a 1-0 deficit. Zandor Pryor got things going with 8:26 left, before Caleb Rau had the go-ahead goal with 1:15 left. Drew Crandall put the icing on the cake, tapping in a beautiful pass from Pryor with six seconds left.
The Preppers out-shot Northview, 25-15. Clarke Jones had the only University School goal.
I'll be signing off from coverage of the tournament here very soon, as I have to be at work at 4pm. I'll see a little of the Championship Game between St. Ignatius and St. John before leaving. For updates, follow the St. Ignatius Athletic Department on Twitter @SIHSSports.
I'd like to thank all of my new followers on twitter, and all those who stuck with me through the three long days of hockey. A big round of applause goes to Tournament Director Bob Haws, who has once again done a phenomenal job putting on such a great tournament.
I'll be back later tonight with a recap of the Championship Game. This is Tom Hamzik, signing off.
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The Hoboken Historical Society will be hosting its annual garlic festival this afternoon, for those looking to add a little extra kick to their weekend.
Sue and Rich Sisti of Catalpa Ridge Farm in Wantage Township are upholding the traditions behind the stinking rose by growing many old-time garlic varieties, such as the mellow, pink-streaked "Red Toch", which originated in the village of Tochliavri, Republic of Georgia, and the spicy "Lorz Italian," which the Lorz family brought to Washington State from Italy before 1900.
Melissa Abernathy, one of the organizers said there will be a tasting event - both native and imported - and a farm stand featuring home-grown Jersey garlic.
The festival runs from 1-5 p.m.at 1301 Hudson St. For more information call (201) 656-2240.


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November 2011
Thursday's News & Notes
It's finally starting to feel like fall here in Frisco and although hot stove league talk might be a bit premature, there are plenty of things going on right now affecting the RoughRiders and Rangers:
- After winning his third-career Gold Glove on Tuesday, Rangers' third baseman Adrian Beltre has just won his third ever Silver Slugger Award. Beltre was also honored by the award in 2004 (Los Angeles) and 2010 (Boston), as he becomes just the sixth player (both leagues) since the award's inception in 1980 to win three times as a third baseman. The only other Texas third baseman to win a Silver Slugger Award was Buddy Bell in 1984.
- According to the Chicago Sun-Times, two names "at or near the top" of Theo Epstein and the Cubs' list for a new
manager are Rangers' pitching coach Mike Maddux and one-time Milwaukee interim manager Dale Sveum, who interviewed for the Boston Red Sox vacancy on Wednesday. Maddux is also reportedly in the mix for consideration by Boston. (We all remember when the Rangers won the pennant in 2010, the club lost hitting coach Clint Hurdle months later when took over as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The unfortunate cost of winning).
- In minor league news, it's no surprise that the San Antonio Missions have been named Minor League Team of the Year and Double-A Team of the Year by MiLB.com. The Missions recorded the best record in all of the minors at 94-46 while winning both the first and second halves. Their 94 victories were the most in the league since the advent of the 140-game schedule in 1961 and were the second-most in franchise history, just one less than the 95 victories by the 1908 club. The Missions registered 100 overall wins after going 6-1 in the post-season on their way to capturing the franchise's 12th Texas League Championship.
- On July 19, Northwest Arkansas' Will Smith and Kelvin Herrera combined for the Naturals' first-ever no-hitter. To make things even better, the no-no was helped out by a sixth-inning 5-4-3 triple play. The Naturals edged the Arkansas Travelers 1-0 and, as a result, have also won Double-A Game of the Year from MiLB.com.
- It was announced yesterday that Hickory shortstop, and the Rangers' No. 2 prospect, Jurickson Profar, has won the Minor League Baseball Yearly Award for Class A Full Season Hitter of the Year. Only 18-years-old, Profar was previously named 2011 Low Class A Player of the Year by Baseball America to go along with winning the South Atlantic League MVP Award and being named to the SAL Annual All-Star Team this past season. I guess this kid is pretty good.
- Starting Friday at 10 a.m., The RoughRiders Foundation will be auctioning off game-used items and autographed memorabilia. Items start at their low reserve price and are open for bidding through November 18, 2011 at 5 p.m. Notable items include game-worn jerseys by Josh Hamilton and Nelson Cruz during their rehab assignments in Frisco this season. Questions? Contact Michael Davidow at 972-334-1978 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Olt Named AFL "Rising Star"
Yesterday I wrote about the success lefty Miguel De Los Santos is having in the prospect laden Arizona Fall League. Hours after my posting, the AFL released the rosters for the annual Rising Stars Game played this Saturday at Surprise Stadium at 1 p.m. CST.
Among the 50 prospects that will be on display, the lone Rangers' farm-hand selected was third baseman Mike Olt. In 16 AFL games, Olt is tied for the league lead with six home runs. His 22 runs batted in are the second-most. Some great power numbers over a small sample size while hitting .309.
You might remember Olt had a bit of an abbreviated 2011 season due to a home plate collision in early June that caused him to suffer a broken left collarbone. The injury resulted in Olt essentially playing the equivalent of a short-season schedule: 69 games. In that time the former supplemental first round pick out of Connecticut hit .267/14-HR/42-RBI.
The log-jam at third base from top to bottom in the Rangers' system is a good problem for Texas to have and should be interesting to watch develop in 2012 and beyond.
RoughRiders' fans are well aware of the abilities of 2011 RoughRiders' third baseman, Tommy Mendonca. Tommy was a Midseason Texas League All-Star and had a incredible month of June when he hit .375 and was named the Rangers Minor League Player of the Month. Mendo would be the first to say he struggled down the stretch, primarily with strikeouts. Nevertheless, Mendonca played well defensively, proved to be a force in the 'Riders lineup, and was a second-round draft pick.
Not to look too far up the ladder, but it is interesting to note that at the major league level, first-year Rangers' third baseman Adrian Beltre received his third career Gold Glove last night. In January the Rangers inked the former Dodger, Mariner, and Red Sox to a six-year, $96 million contract.
So much for him only playing well in a contract year.
Does Mendonca open up 2012 in Round Rock and Olt in Frisco? We'll have to wait until April to find out.
P.S. A big thanks to RoughRiders' team photographer James Garner for the pics in today's blog. He is somehow everywhere, including Surprise, Ariz. to take in some AFL baseball.
De Los Santos Earns AFL Honor
At 22-years-old, Miguel De Los Santos entered 2011 as the Ragners' No. 10 overall prospect. The lefty began last season right here in Frisco despite never pitching above the Low-A level. It seemed like it might have been a bit of a jump for Miguel, and in the end, that proved to be true.
In six Double-A starts last year, "Miggy" went 1-3 with an 8.04 ERA allowing 25 earned runs in 28 innings. At times, command really plagued him. In back-to-back April starts, De Los Santos walked five batters in four, and then five innings, respectively. However, on April 27 against a stacked San Antonio lineup, he pitched seven strong frames and walked only one batter while fanning 10.
His last Double-A start of 2011 came on May 7 against Midland. Following that performance, Miguel was put on the shelf with a shoulder injury and didn't pitch again until June 29 when he tossed two innings of relief for High-A Myrtle Beach.
His numbers with the Pelicans were much better: 6-3, 3.82 ERA with 97 strikeouts to 28 walks. Carolina League batters hit a mere .195 against De Los Santos, with lefties batting a woeful .093.
Miguel took that momentum into the off-season where he's currently pitching for the Surprise Saguaros in the prospect driven Arizona Fall Leauge. As of November 1, the southpaw is 3-0 over six appearances and three starts, and paces all AFL pitchers with 23 strikeouts.
A native of La Romana, Dominican Republic, Miguel went 2-0 in as many starts last week with a 3.00 ERA. That, plus his 13 strikeouts and two walks over nine innings, were good enough to earn him AFL Pitcher of the Week.
Last Saturday he started and pitched the first five innings of the Arizona Fall League's first one-hit shutout since 2007. Miguel struck out eight batters in the game, which shares the Fall League single-game high this season.
There's no doubt Miguel has "swing and miss" stuff, but the obvious challenge for him in Frisco last season was throwing strikes consistently. It's great to see that his location has improved since coming off the disabled list in June and that he's, in some respects, dominating AFL hitters.
I hate trying to guess who the 'Riders will have on their Opening Day roster (mainly because I'm fairly terrible at it), but I'd have to imagine that Miguel opens 2012 in Frisco.


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Terrible Aldi design shows need for new parking zoning
Carver-Langston is a dense, urban neighborhood, and is about to benefit greatly from the H Street-Benning Road streetcar, which will run across the entire southern edge of the neighborhood. Unfortunately, commercial developers still seem to think they are located in a far-flung suburb, miles from the city.
Along with the increase in transit options for the over 5,500 residents of the neighborhood, a new grocery option is on its way. Aldi will be opening a new store in the neighborhood, but the design and layout show absolutely zero creativity or understanding of how to build in a transit-friendly, walkable area.
Much of the entire southwest corner of the neighborhood is commercial in nature, but has been laid out in a suburban style. This isn't just inappropriate for this part of the city, it's clearly a waste of prime real estate.
Here's the preliminary site plan for the new Aldi store:
As you can see, the store, which will be located at the southeast corner of 17th Street and Maryland Avenue NE, will not address the street. Rather, a majority of the lot will be an asphalt parking lot, which is almost identical to the standard plan that Aldi provides to developers (PDF):
It doesn't have to be this way. Aldi's European operations have shown that they can operate stores that fit into an urban environment:
This store, located in Frankfurt, Germany, is at the junction of multiple streetcar lines and shares a building that includes other uses (which appear to be offices) above the ground floor. Bicycle parking in front (and a U-Bahn station below) add to the transportation options available to shoppers (of course, access by foot is a given).
Why couldn't a store like this be built in Carver Langston? There's little incentive to do so. Sure, this isn't the central business district of the city, but there's no reason that we shouldn't prioritize every parcel of limited commercial land in DC to serve a higher purpose. More property taxes could come from a multi-story building that has office space in addition to a grocery store. Income tax could come from residents living above such a store. Instead, the city has settled for the lowest common denominator.
How can we make sure things like this don't happen again? A first step is to make sure that the Zoning Commission passes the parking regulations from the zoning update. The Commission extended the period when they'll be accepting testimony, so there is still time to send in a letter stating your agreement that we need to prioritize non-automotive growth within the city.
Submit your comments to the Zoning Commission by fax or email. Emailed comments must be signed and sent as a PDF of not more than 10 pages. Send your signed PDF to: email@example.com. Written testimony must be received before 3 pm on Monday, December 20th.
In this case, according to zipcode data the AGI is 48K a year in Carver Langston. Incomes alone prohibit anyone (without it being underwritten by the city gov) from doing anything remotely mixed use.
The second issue where there is a huge discrepency is what you are calling "dense" neighborhood. Considering Aldi is building on an empty grass lot, across the street from an even larger empty grass lot, adjacent to a Safeway strip center that H&R can't for the life of them keep leased, and is surrounded by stick after stick of suburban style 2 story townhouses, dense is the last thing I would be calling this neighbrohood.
Zero metro accesibility and a 1 line street car that when built will go back and forth along H street.
Just because a place is located inside the beltway, doesn't make it dense. I could take you to dozens of neighborhoods outside the beltway that are far denser than this.
So inconclusion, neither the density nor the demographics warrant or support the kind of development you want.
Perhaps in 20-30 years if and when the citywide streetcar network is developed and H Street and its environs have been transformed into another "Clarendon" with the demographics and incomes to boot, then fine I would agree with you and help demand all the mixed use Whole Foods and multi-story retail the city can get. Until then, I would say the neighborhood is lucky any retailer or developer wants to spend money there at all.
I know I get defensive about things in Ward 5, and I don't want to be combative here, but just because we're across the Florida Avenue/Benning Road line, things don't become suburban here.
I wouldn't recommend offices at this site. The Frankfurt store is certainly a different beast, but there's no reason that apartments above this store would remain empty. A large apartment building is under construction just across the street, so developers have clearly already decided that there is a market for that kind of thing here.
by Geoffrey Hatchard on Dec 15, 2010 9:21 am • link • report
by Geoffrey Hatchard on Dec 15, 2010 9:23 am • link • report
More sloppy Shoupian thinking.
Look, even if you accept the no-offstreet parking requirements of the proposed zoning code, applying that rule here doesn't get you the result you want. And most of the complaints don't have to do with parking.
Let's be clear also: Aldi is for poor people. They offer cut rate prices, which is great, and most likely people would rather have a working grocery store rather than nitpicking details like fonts and/or parking. (Whole Foods in Clarendon, which is a very different neighborhood, seems to survive with 3 parking lots).
And again, not a perfect comparison, but people want Grocery stores so much that sainted Arlington made a deal for for trader joes.
But applying the new zoning laws to the new space:
1. Parking minimum: From you previous article: "n neighborhood commercial corridors or low-density residential areas without good transit, commercial, institutional, or multi-family residential buildings would still need to provide some parking. But any area with good transit service, or high-density areas, would have no requirements"
Does this apply to this neighboorhood? I'm not sure.
2. Parking minimums vs. what developer wants. Is there an iota of evidence that parking minimums is driving this lot -- or is it what the developer wants, because, well, it is a grocery store and people like to load up. Or maybe they are just really cheap and don't want to spend the money to do something fancy.
3. Building use: I think the core of the complaint is "Look, emerging neighborhood and we are wasting space with a parking lot." Well, true. But again, is there any side that another developer wants to come in and build a multi-use building? Demand side is important.
4. The evils of cars. The real problem with a grocery store with a surface lot -- again look at whole foods -- is it creates a lot of traffic and potential backups. Any analysis here? will the increased traffic be a problem?
5. Scaring away developers. Talking about removing government requirments on parking sounds good on paper. Yeah! Kill regulation. But what you really want is moving the lot, putting it underground, putting in bike and/or pedestrian improvements, landscaping, community concessions. That's not deregulation. Again, I suspect the primary driver here is cheapness. But again -- it's an Aldi. Do you expect something fancy?
Shockingly, Cambridge is doing an urban design review code for Rte. 50, and the recommendation (think for streets like York Road, Reisterstown Road, Liberty Road, US40, etc.) in Baltimore County remained in the posted draft, rather than getting excised--although it would take decades for changes to work through, even if it ends up getting enacted (recent changes post-election make that change extremely unlikely).
A similar change in the code should be made here. Parking behind should be mandatory. Developers always say that retailers and their studies always say parking in front, but those are mostly for suburban and exurban locations, so I say f* it. Make the regulation across the board in the city, and developers and retailers will "cope". (But of course they will press the City Council and the Mayor and other officials to not agree to the change.)
Plus, instead of matter of right development approvals being for projects that meet the minimum land use zoning requirements, it should be flipped, so that matter of right approvals only happen for projects that propose the maximum benefits, e.g., mixed use, parking behind, pro-transit, etc.
JP -- your point about that site not being ready for mixed use is a bit short sighted. With the changes in the neighborhood, the retail district, new development, and eventual improvements along Bladensburg Road, plus a streetcar, the long term prognosis for the area is much different than it has been over the past.
But GH -- you're right that developers/retailers are the last people pushing the envelope for positive change in the built environment. That's why you're getting an Aldi, not a Wegman's...
by Richard Layman on Dec 15, 2010 9:28 am • link • report
There is demand for housing here. If the developer who owns this parcel were to build it, they would make money.
by Geoffrey Hatchard on Dec 15, 2010 9:41 am • link • report
Apparently the developer disagrees with you. And I suspect they know more than you do about making money.....
The idea of regulations forcing surface parking to be in back, or even (gasp) requiring underground parking is brilliant.
@ freely: "The second issue where there is a huge discrepency is what you are calling "dense" neighborhood. Considering Aldi is building on an empty grass lot, across the street from an even larger empty grass lot, adjacent to a Safeway strip center that H&R can't for the life of them keep leased, and is surrounded by stick after stick of suburban style 2 story townhouses, dense is the last thing I would be calling this neighbrohood."
-The same thing could have been said of the empty lots & fields that once was Columbia Heights. A perfect example of how a well-planned grocery store can spark some remarkable development around it. Once the Giant moved forward, everything else followed. Could you imagine what would have been had that Giant been designed like the Aldi?
by Geoffrey Hatchard on Dec 15, 2010 9:58 am • link • report
My bigger point is that increased density is not always appropriate and should be looked at more site-specifically. I do think some sort of street presence should be included in the design though (more than a freestanding light-up sign).
@Richard...not short-sighted but realistic. The building is to open in 2011? Are they should orient the building to a streetcar line that won't open for another year and may not bring people to its door en masse for another 2 years?
@charlie...Aldi is not just for poor people. That is a disturbing and ignorant comment. We shop at an Aldi often because we appreciate the lower prices (i.e. saving money in a down economy) and while I would never say we are rich I wouldn't classify us as the working poor either. There's an Aldi in Stafford (yes, wild suburbia) that is frequented by all sorts of people.
The big problem for cities is that developers don't know much about/aren't comfortable with urban vs. suburban types of development, especially mixed use, which admittedly, is harder to do, costs more, and takes longer to have positive returns. OTOH, the returns overall are higher.
cf. http://www.cleinberger.com/docs/By_CL/Need_For_Alternative_Places.pdf
The general problem is coordinating development and land use so that value is maximized. The zoning code isn't set up to do that. Especially in areas where land values and perceptions are changing. Cleveland's Business Revitalization District Overlays calls for an additional level of design review in such circumstances, but it isn't enough to do this kind of change.
Charlie, I do wonder where you live, and what your experiences are working on these kinds of issues, especially with regard to urban neighborhoods and places generally, and revitalizing neighborhoods specifically. That being said, it's a hell of a lot easier doing it in DC than in weak real estate markets like Baltimore or Pittsburgh or Detroit or St. Louis...
by Richard Layman on Dec 15, 2010 10:01 am • link • report
If you want to go after the developer who owns the land to build housing fine. But framing the lack of housing as a shortcoming of Aldi's is missing the mark for me.
Again, completely different situation. One neighborhood is not equal to another.
And for the record, Target was the anchor in the DCUSA developement and Giant wouldn't sign on the line to build there until after Target did. Giant actually walked away from the table twice when it looked like Target was wavering.
Also, Columbia Heights was even then, of greater density than Carver Langston is now and more importantly directly on top of a metro station.
Lastly and MOST importantly, the District Tax payers had to kick in 43 million dollars of subsidies to get the whole thing started and that was during a period where cheap money was growing on trees and developers were starving for risky projects. DCUSA would not be there today had it not been for the District tax payer underwriting the whole thing, especially since the bottom fell out of the credit market.
So sure, IF Carver Langston was on top of a major metro line and IF the District gov decides to throw 43 million at the deal, fine...you "may" get some minimal level of success.
@RichardLayman; And I'm not an expert on urban redevelopment. However, I am pretty good at looking at regulations and realizing the result you want (housing and/or office space) has nothing to do with the proposed regulation (parking minimums)
Risk is an economic concept. Some people are willing to take a chance and make more money, others are willing to stick to the tried and true and get their expected return. What you are talking about is NOT risk. You're quite right that it is just inertia and applying the same model everywhere. But what does that interia have to do with parking minimums?
The best example may be the Kinkos across from Eastern Market Metro. Now, who in the early 2000s would say that it was dumb to build a site next to the Metro, that it was risky? Not many people. Even so, the developer refused to build a two story building. The second story is fake. This was despite all the lobbying, CHRS's recommendation, etc.
Afterwards, the developer realized he was wrong, that there was a market for a second floor. But the way the building was constructed, creating a real second floor was not possible, because of lack of an entry point.
So the building he did around the corner, he did make the second floor "real" and monetizable.
I expect something similar with the space around Bladensburg and MD Aves. It will take awhile sure. But it will happen. The thing is that eventually the Aldi will just get torn down and the site rebuilt because of the value of intensification. But it probably won't happen for about 22 years... (figuring that there is a 5 year lease with 3 5 year renewable options)
Temporary or short term uses have a much longer time frame than typical residents of a neighborhood, 20-25 years vs. 5-7 years. But for each of these projects, the ability to truly revitalize a neighborhood is delayed, not speeded up, through projects such as these.
E.g., compare the difference on H St. between Family Dollar and Joe Englert.
by Richard Layman on Dec 15, 2010 10:09 am • link • report
@RichardLayman; And I'm not an expert on urban redevelopment. However, I am pretty good at looking at regulations and realizing the result you want (housing and/or office space) has nothing to do with the proposed regulation (parking minimums)
I absolutely agree.
And it's covered in the things I wrote in response to the entry, if not necessarily in this entry overall.
by Richard Layman on Dec 15, 2010 10:11 am • link • report
We are talking about the "developer". I remember reading somewhere that Aldi's does it own development -- i.e. they might have bought the land and are doing this on their own.
WRT this general thread, most people don't seem to understand how I think/approach things in my blog etc. The basic thing is that I focus on outcomes, which I argue with planning and zoning, are supposed to yield improved quality of life, investment climate, economic development, etc.
So when these kinds of outcomes don't obtain, and they don't systematically obtain, it's a clear message that there are (serious) flaws in the processes designed to produce planning and zoning outcomes.
So I look backwards at the processes and make recommendations for changes to make the processes work the way we say we want them to work. (E.g., in my writings about Walmart, calling for an additional level of review for retail stores of 75K s.f., and for retail developments of say 150,000+ s.f.)
Anyway, this thread makes me ask some questions that I will pose in my own blog later today or tomorrow.
(Note to people commenting on Aldi stores in Europe, especially Germany. They have a completely different set of building regulations to deal with, that almost "require" acting urbanistically. We don't have such a regime here. Which is the problem.)
by Richard Layman on Dec 15, 2010 10:29 am • link • report
There are two logical problems in the OP. One, Aldi's proposal is bad, Two, the solution is the removal of parking minimums.
I'd say both are wrong. Aldi's proposal might be the best you can get here. Grocery stores are different and bring other benefits. But even if you accept that the proposal is bad, the proposed remedy does nothing to solve the problem.
by Geoffrey Hatchard on Dec 15, 2010 10:43 am • link • report
This development is not the "right" thing. It's a suburban model. It is, however, the path of least resistance. Doing the right thing (the dense, urban, mixed use kind of development) requires more time and thought, but it also requires jumping through more hoops with the current zoning code.
Perhaps Geoffrey focuses too much on parking requirements alone, but the larger issue is that Aldi is following the path of least resistance within the regulatory structure. The path of least resistance produces crappy outcomes. Ergo, we should change the dominant path for urban development to make the default outcome better.
Sidebar to JP: While the notion that more density isn't always appropriate is a nice statement and might be true in some cases, I can't really think of a single place in DC where more density wouldn't be appropriate. Likewise, you certainly shouldn't measure "more" density (as in the increase over the current conditions) from a baseline of an empty lot. If the starting point is vacant land (i.e zero density), more density is always appropriate. Always.
Where does the loading dock go in your design?
If the building is at the corner, people are then entering the store from opposite sides- which is bad design for a grocery store.
We have to look at the total project cost here, anything above 1 story may not be feasible for this kind of project in the area at this time. I've been involved in planning for some larger store layouts, and even this amount of parking seems on the low end for me. Adding places with too little parking is a disaster for the surrounding neighborhood, traffic flow. It's obviously not vastly too much parking, and should be a net improvement for the area.
I hate surface lots too. But what I'm trying to warn against is Shoupian mess than parking minimums create surface lots in cities, when there may be other factor (demand, zoning, inertia, need) driving them.
Do we really want another H St. AutoZone type complex in the middle of a potentially high foot traffic area? I honestly had no idea there was a Safeway up there for a long time, if it had been closer to the street, there is no way that I could have missed it...
Not sure why they're being toted out as a bastion of good urban design. IMO, they are one of Europe's worst offenders.
You're missing it because that's not what he said.
I think at a site like this, you can't expect a retailer to take too many other risks, especially about consumer behavior. Drivers are going to want to see where to park, and that there are places to park, especially in an area like this that is not very densely populated with high income households.
Unfortunately Aldi America has this requirement of a parking lot. Makes no sense since their Trader Joe's functions well without parking.
Does this increase revenue for them or lower the price of building the store; business is about maximizing profits how does making the store "urban" do that.
Anyway, I went to their store in Dundalk a couple of times when I used to live there and their meat is terrible. I wouldn't buy anything else there that wasn't some brand name pre-packaged stuff really. They have same good deals but not really that great. I don't care much for Aldi's low class image in terms of local property values either. I hope they don't put the Safeway across the street out of business, I like them much better.
Having intelligent use of urban space is something we have because we choose to have governments, instead of some type of anarchical system that places no value on externalities.
(That's my response. Anyone out there that can explain it better, have at it.)
by Geoffrey Hatchard on Dec 15, 2010 9:37 pm • link • report
Maybe you could submit something yourself, since you have quality feedback to share.
by Geoffrey Hatchard on Dec 16, 2010 1:14 pm • link • report
So yes, the design should be better. However, I don't see this as an either/or between strip malls and DCUSA; a better, more easily redevelop-able site plan, with no parking between the building and sidewalk and with less parking overall, should be what zoning requires. Zoning in some U.S. downtowns does include a minimum density requirement, but requiring multi-story, mixed-use development at this site seems excessive:
- the streetcar, while it is rail, has nowhere near the passenger capacity of Metro;
- there's not a huge unmet demand for large commercial; and
- there's little financing available for such development right now.
Big boxes have voluntarily behaved better in Columbia Heights and Tenleytown (and Lincoln Park) because of higher land prices -- prices they're willing to pay because dense, prosperous neighborhoods are next door and suburban alternatives are relatively inconvenient. That's not the case here: 20002 is half as dense as 20010, and Landover's big boxes are a quick drive up the road.
The Atlas Flats across Bladensburg are a very different story from something like DCUSA or even Park Place at Petworth; they're likely wood-framed, which has much lower costs than steel or concrete, and also appear to have a nice deal from HUD on financing. (That financing, and/or a chancy market, might explain why Atlas Flats has only token mixed use.)
by spirit equality on Dec 17, 2010 9:57 pm • link • report
Secondly, the photo up top is of an outdated model. We no longer build the ugly EIFS facing, and now have a much more architecturally pleasing prototype with (amongst other things) high ceilings and windows throughout that provide plenty of natural light.
Blogs and posts with unrealistic, NIMBY-istic views about what type of businesses should come to low income neighborhoods are nothing new. They're usually the result of pride in one's neighborhood and a lack of understanding of how businesses/politicians work or what motivates them. Also, comparing Frankfurt, Germany to DC is laughably irrelevant. Europe is much more densely populated and highly regulated. Germany is the size of Montana but has a quarter the population of the US. I could go on.
The argument that the space could be used for some better use seems moot if nobody else wants it, and the residents won't support it. I also assume that is it is zoned for a specific use and isn't fit for residential units.
There are plenty of false assumptions made about Aldi in the posts above especially regarding the quality of our products. I assure you that an enormous amount of resources are spent ensuring the quality of our food. We obtain our product from the same manufacturers that other retailers use for their private label, including upscale grocers such as Whole Foods and Wegmans. We are able to offer the lowest prices because of our trim overhead and high operational efficiency, not lower quality of product.
I have some questions I would like to ask offline, if you don't mind.
For what it's worth, I and others in the neighborhood do not have what you would call a "NIMBY" view of Aldi. I welcome the company with open armsI am just disappointed in the lack of creativity and vision in this development.
The land is zoned C-3-A, which has the following definition in DC (emphasis mine):
Permits matter-of-right medium density development, with a density incentive for residential development within a general pattern of mixed-use development to a maximum lot occupancy of 75% for residential use and 100% for all other uses, a maximum FAR of 4.0 for residential and 2.5 FAR for other permitted uses and a maximum height of sixty-five (65) feet. Rear yard requirements are twelve (12) feet; one family detached dwellings and one family semi-detached dwellings side yard requirements are eight (8) feet.Had Aldi chosen to add residential to this location, they could have been permitted to build more densely than is permitted for single-use commercial.
by Geoffrey Hatchard on Dec 18, 2010 6:59 pm • link • report
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The first Excel Star Youth Mardi Gras Ball was held in Kenner at the Hilton New Orleans Airport. The Excel Star Mardi Gras king queen and royal court and their guests were dressed in formal attire and enjoyed entertainment and inspirational speakers.
Executive Program Director Tomeckia Small said the idea for the ball started with the youth. "They've always seen their parents going to balls and wanted to know what a ball was like. They just felt left out."
"We sat down with kids." Small said, "The result was a youth-driven, family friendly event. They picked the menu and the music.
"We got so many great responses. In the end it was all worth the effort. It was wonderful."
Excel Star Youth Mardi Gras Ball was a fundraiser for the Excel Star youth organization, which includes after-school and performing arts programs, computer training and teen talk. It also offers a free eight-week summer program. Participants sold sponsorships, and proceeds will go toward an upcoming trip to Disney World. In an effort to expose the youth to new things, the group recently took a trip to Breckenridge, Colo. for skiing.
The court is: Queen, Paulette Washington; king, DJ Chisley; princess, Kailyn Dennis; prince, Payton Jacobs; royal duchess, Keyonte Stewart; royal duke, Christopher Jacobs; maid, Olivia Lewis; duke, Shaquille Dominick; maid, Sedonia Gilliam; duke, Rayford Gilliam; and maid, China Levier.
Chisley, 12, wore a crown and a purple robe. "Good to know I could be king this year." Chisley was quick to give credit to his family members for their support in becoming king.
He said his mother is the main reason for his earning the royal distinction. One of the perks of his reign was the ability to order his family and cousins around for the day. When asked if they listened to him, he replied, "Yeah."
Lionel Spears attended, saying the ball was his "first one, a good experience."
Lil Miss Bird Lady performed the song "School Bag Swag." Artists Jessie Marie and Tymes 2 also entertained attendees. Local artist Chico thrilled the crowd with his popular dance hit, "Boogie Board." Radio personalities and artists Roca B, Big Choo & Da Game Ova Crew also lent their support.
Awards of appreciation were given to the all of the artists who participated in the community youth event.
"This is a positive experience for the children. It's an education about life and the opportunity to see and experience different things that will serve them well as they get older," said Kenner City Councilman Gregory Carroll. The councilman commended the parents and community members involved in making the event successful. "There's nothing more important than our children. They look fantastic. Self-confidence breeds pride, character and leads to success."
Corneal "Seven" Johnson is a sought-after speaker who travels widely and recently performed for the presidential inauguration. The New Orleans native reveled in the opportunity to reach out to teens close to home. Johnson recited a poem and expressed the need to have drive in order to achieve in life. "We've planted a seed. This is where presidents, senators and future leaders come from."
Miss Black Louisiana USA, Chanté Du'pree Rice, employed her crown and sash in support of the local youth event. A high school teacher, Price knows firsthand "the importance of events that motivate youth out of school. It's nice to have support groups, other kids on the right track to keep them on the right track."
Southwest Airlines representative Myra Hitchens traveled from Florida in support of the charitable function. "It's our way of giving back," Hitchens said. "I love it."
Local companies like Southern Bell Marketing and promoter NOLA Home Grown offered their services for the event. In order to keep the costs of the formal attire reasonable for families, special arrangements were made with Linda Lee Bridal and Sandy's Tuxedo Showroom.
"She was amazing," said Excel Star executive director Pamela Phillips of local business owner Linda Lee. "She did an excellent job of helping to outfit the young ladies. They were beautiful."
Pamela Phillips, executive director, said, "I had so much fun. The kids had a great time, and the parents did too.
"They are talking about next year already."
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Four stores opened in downtown Portland this past week for two-month stints as part of a city-driven effort to fill otherwise vacant storefronts and help local designers and artists.
Pop-ups over the holidays have become nearly as prolific as food carts in Portland, taking the lead from cities across the country that have seen temporary tenants selling everything from premium jeans to automobiles. The idea gives designers a tiny taste of retail without the sometimes sour sting of a long-term lease.
Although a far cry from their more independent leaning pop-up shops, a number of temporary, yet well-known tenants, show up in malls over the holidays, too, such as Brookstone at Pioneer Place and Hickory Farms at Washington Square.
Last year, the program allowed dozens of would-be retailers to put their designs on display in five downtown stores. Over an eight-week period, those stores raked in around $150,000 and ultimately spawned two permanent shops: Crafty Wonderland and Portland Design Collective.
This year's PDX Pop-Ups include:
Downtown Artistry offers a variety of gift items from local artists and also conducts weekly craft classes. 940 S.W. Morrison St.
Portland Saturday Market Annex gives the popular weekend market a presence during the week. The wares of familiar market artists will be available as a number of local crafters will be working on their products in the store. 600 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 101
Trillium Artisans, a nonprofit, puts the work of 50 artists on display, including the wallets that April Alden crafts from old lawn chair webbing and the journals that Jacob Deatherage creates from recycled hardcover books. 318 S.W. Taylor St.
For more info on PDX Pop-Ups, check out downtownportland.org.


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In an earlier post, we described how teaching literacy from a developmental perspective provides your students, both pre-service and in-service teachers, a theoretical and pedagogical "home," or "safe harbor." Understanding the developmental approach helps teachers not only accelerate student learning, but also become more resilient to the inevitable shifts in ideology, pedagogy, and educational policy they'll encounter throughout their careers. In today's post, we'll look more closely at the developmental approach and how children's word knowledge is predictive of other literacy skills, and how this understanding helps teachers prioritize and differentiate their literacy instruction.
At some level, all learners are trying to make meaning when they read. The ease with which they are able to do so during reading, and how well they adjust when reading becomes challenging, depends a great deal on how efficiently they process written text at the word level, and later at the sentence and paragraph level. The same is true in writing: the degree to which students are able to write effectively—to encode their thinking at the word and sentence level while keeping the purpose of their writing in mind—depends a great deal on their knowledge of words, how to spell them, and what they mean. The more knowledge children have about words, the more efficient their processing becomes, freeing up cognitive resources to focus on comprehending text while reading, and expressing their ideas in writing.
More than forty years ago, Edmund Henderson, a literacy educator and researcher, noticed that the way children spelled words highly correlated to their other literacy skills. Later, the cognitive psychologist Charles Perfetti reinforced Henderson's insight when he observed, "Spelling and reading use the same lexical representation. In fact, spelling is a good test of the quality of representation" (Perfetti, 1993, p. 170, emphasis added). These two early pioneers discovered, as countless researchers have affirmed in the decades since, that effective reading and writing are dependent upon students' word knowledge. They also learned that reading and writing develop in synchrony, following a predictable pattern or continuum of development. With these observations in mind, studying children's spelling samples, or using a well-constructed spelling inventory will help teachers identify their students' stages of development, helping them match students to appropriately difficult texts, and plan developmentally responsive literacy instruction across the grades.
From Theory to Practice: The Developmental Approach in Action
Using the characteristics of learners in the five stages of development: emergent, beginning, transitional, intermediate, and skillful, we'll illustrate how children's spelling reveals their stage of development and shapes their teachers' instructional priorities:
Take Lee, for instance. Because spelling is such a powerful indicator of development, we are able to determine that Lee is in the late Emergent Stage of literacy development because she is just beginning to represent the most salient sounds in words when writing:
("The people saw him eating strawberry cake.")
We are also able to predict that Allison, a first grader who spells using the names of letters and some letter/sound correspondence, is in the Beginning Stage of development:
("I lost my stick in the driveway.")
Kirstin, a second grader, spells most short vowel words correctly and is beginning to experiment with common long vowel patterns, indicating that she is in the Transitional Stage of development:
Sharons frind brocke her arm yesterday by jumping off a swing.
I cant whate till tomarrow.
Michael, a fourth grader, spells long vowel words such as float, train, and bright correctly; his errors begin to appear in two-syllable words such as shoping for shopping, surving for serving, and ripin for ripen. Michael's spelling suggests that he is in the Intermediate Stage of development.
Ashley spells words such as village, confidence, and fortunate correctly, but she makes the following errors, suggesting she is in the Skillful Stage: dominence for dominance, iliterate for illiterate, and irrisponsible for irresponsible.
By studying students' spelling, noting what they do correctly, and what they're beginning to experiment with, we're able to illuminate their "instructional zones" and stages of development. With these insights, we're able to predict how well they can access text. For instance, we know:
- Beginning readers such as Allison are reading approximately 50-60 words correct per minute (WCPM) and will read in Guided Reading levels C through G
- Transitional readers such as Kirstin are reading approximately 80-100 WCPM and are able to read and understand texts in the 300-600 Lexile range
- Intermediate readers such as Michael are reading approximately 120 up to 145 WCPM and are able to read texts in the 600-900 Lexile range
- Skillful readers such as Ashley are reading approximately 150 up to 250 WCPM and are able to read texts in the 850-1150 Lexile range
Teachers are also able to set instructional priorities based on their observations of students' spelling and stages of development. Allison, for example, will benefit from studying words with short vowel patterns, eventually comparing these words to those with common long vowel patterns. As she begins to understand how single-syllable short and long vowel words work, she'll start reading and writing these words with greater accuracy and automaticity, allowing her to read and write with greater fluency and stamina, eventually reading and writing longer and more complex texts. Allison's fluency instruction in the beginning stage will focus on repeated readings to build her word recognition skills. As she enters the transitional stage, this instruction will shift to help her read with increased expression and comprehension. Reader's theater would become a good instructional choice at that time. Daily writing practice will help reinforce Allison's reading development.
Michael, on the other hand, is poised to study two and three syllable words for purposes of spelling them correctly. With instruction, he'll begin to examine a range of prefixes and suffixes and their effects on the root words to which they are attached, and how the meaning of words affects their spelling. These insights will help Michael read, spell, and understand longer, more complex words. With his teacher's support, Michael will learn how to dig deeper into texts, reading more closely and critically, exploring a full range of genres and various points of view. In writing, Michael will be responsive to instruction that focuses on author's craft and text structure, including reports and argumentative writing.
Within any elementary or middle school classroom, teachers will find students in at least two, if not three or four stages of development. By helping your students – both in-service and pre-service teachers – become familiar with the types of developmental profiles and trajectories described here, you'll be preparing them to think realistically about the nature and focus of instruction for the variety of learners they'll find in their classrooms today and in the future.
Shane Templeton and Kristin M. Gehsmann are authors of a new literacy methods text, Teaching Reading and Writing: The Developmental Approach (PreK-8). For more information about this text, visit us online.


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'Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted' review: Send the kids, see something else
There's a lot of interesting stuff happening in animation today. Very little of it is happening at Dreamworks.
As companies like Pixar and visionaries like Hayao Miyazaki and Henry Selick continue to push the medium forward in exciting new directions for audiences of all ages, Dreamworks targets a commercial sweet spot: colorful, hyperactive, joke-a-minute romps packed with celebrity voices and broad humor. They satisfy kids, entertain parents and generally make good money doing it.
So what's the problem? Well, nothing if you enjoy the Dreamworks brand of expertly crafted, utterly disposable entertainments. Occasionally they even hit on a genuinely great film, like "How to Train Your Dragon." But usually, if wisecracking animals, callow pop culture references and the shameless desire to turn every story into a franchise isn't your bag, enduring a new Dreamworks release can be a trial indeed.
"Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" is neither the best nor the worst of the Dreamworks formula. It's a solid hit right down the middle, designed to distract kids with its loud, shiny, smart-alecky shenanigans and please some parents with its quirky humor and soft-peddled sentimentality. But is there any reason to seek it out if you don't have kids to bring along or a desire to see every animated movie ever made? Not really.
Like the previous "Madagascar" films, this one features escaped New York zoo animals Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the Hippopotamus (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) who remain stranded in Africa, still trying to make their way back to the Big Apple as the film opens. They've also still got a trio of lemurs (voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric and the Entertainer and Andy Richter), a pair of chimpanzees and a quartet of precocious penguins tagging along to maximize the opportunities for oddball hilarity.
What's new here -- and what just barely saves the movie from becoming the cinematic equivalent of a Happy Meal -- is a traveling circus that agrees to shelter the crew when they get to Europe. (There aren't many places for giant animals, even lovable cuddly ones, to hide out and cross the continent.) The circus adds four more characters to the mix: burnt out Vitaly the Tiger (Bryan Cranston), adventurous Gia the Jaguar (Jessica Chastain), happy-go-lucky Stefano the Sea Lion (Martin Short) and (most bizarrely) Sonya the Bear -- a mute drooling giantess who rides a tricycle, sports a pink tutu and gets involved in an unlikely romance with Baron Cohen's diminutive lemur King Julien XIII. Their opposites attract sight-gag driven relationship is no different from Donkey and Dragon in "Shrek," but it's still kooky enough to prove the "Madagascar" filmmakers aren't totally asleep at the wheel.
They also toss in a memorable villain: Captain Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand), a French-accented authoritarian so cartoonishly maniacal (even for a cartoon) that she may earn the film an endorsement from Fox News. Although her definitively denounced bloodlust for hunting animals could cancel that out.
Even better, Cranston, Chastain and Short add welcome touches to fresh characters who are never quite as broad as their thick European accents. They're heartfelt dreamers who factor into the best sequences -- an alternately soaring and tender trapeze lesson between Alex and Gia, the harrowing history of Vitaly's novelty act -- and easily outshine the original supporting players shoved to the background, especially Gloria and Melman. Since the series has never developed its large cast as endearingly as the "Toy Story" or "Shrek" films, spending less time with some of the regulars does nothing to unbalance its limited emotional appeal. And Stiller's Alex remains front and center, as amiably dull as ever.
Film geeks will take notice that the screenplay is credited to Eric Darnell (a "Madagascar" regular who also co-directed with Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon) and Noah Baumbach -- the indie icon known for acid-dripped dramedies "The Squid and the Whale" and the Stiller-starring "Greenberg." I don't know what Baumbach was responsible for, but it's probably not the repeated use of Katy Perry's "Firework." Though I'm sure, like everyone else, he enjoyed the paycheck.
"Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" opens June 8


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H. B. Hammel (SSI), I. de Pater (UCB), S. G. Gibbard (LLNL), G. W. Lockwood (Lowell), K. Rages (SETI)
On 4 July 2004 UT, we detected a southern hemispheric cloud feature on Uranus at K' (2.2 microns) using adaptive optics and the NIRC2 camera on the Keck 10-m. At H (1.6 microns), the feature had two components: a condensed core (2004-A) co-located with the K' feature at latitude –36.0 ± 0.4 deg, and an extended feature (2004-B) at roughly –33.7 ± 0.4 deg. When we observed again on 8 July UT, the core had faded at K'. By 9 July we were unable to detect a K' feature; the extended feature was still seen at H. The initial high K'-brightness of 2004-A indicates that the core's scattering particles reached altitudes above the 1-bar level, with the larger feature at H, 2004-B, residing below the 1.1-bar level (assuming the model of de Pater et al. 2002, Icarus 160, 359). The core's rapid disappearance at K' indicates dynamical processes in the local vertical aerosol structure, for example, subsidence of the feature's cloud tops.
Features 2004-A and 2004-B had zonal velocities of 107 and 115 m/s, respectively (+/- 3 m/s), different from past velocities near these latitudes. These features are either new, or are long-lived but drifting in latitude (as has been seen on Neptune); see abstract by Rages et al. this volume. Regardless of their latitude, no southern features on Uranus have been detected at wavelengths of 2 microns or longward, indicating some change of activity. Continued observations of Uranus are strongly encouraged as its 2007 equinox approaches.
HBH acknowledges partial support from NASA grants NAG5-11961 and NAG5-10451. IdP acknowledges partial support from NSF and the Technology Center for Adaptive Optics, managed by UCSC under cooperative agreement No. AST-9876783. SGG's work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DoE, National Nuclear Security Administration by the UC, LLNL under contract No. W-7405-Eng-48.
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It merely forestalls the inevitable, but Eisai's (OTC BB: ESALY.PK) court victory over Teva Pharmaceutical (Nasdaq: TEVA ) stops the generics maker from cutting in on its lucrative Alzheimer's treatment, Aricept.
Eisai is 2-for-2 in protecting its patents from Teva. Last year, Eisai doled out some tough medicine when a court agreed that both Teva and Dr. Reddy Labs (NYSE: RDY ) had infringed on its heartburn medication Aciphex. Eisai had sued another generics maker, Mylan (NYSE: MYL ) , and had agreed to abide by the outcome of the Teva lawsuit.
Yet it's only a temporary reprieve for Eisai. While Aricept is the No. 1-selling treatment for Alzheimer's, it is scheduled to go off patent in 2010. Teva, like many generic-drug firms, was moving in early on the patent, saying it was unenforceable. The court ruling in Eisai's favor is only a preliminary injunction against Teva going to market early. The generic-drug maker had been granted temporary Food and Drug Administration approval for its version of Aricept and was expecting final approval by the end of next month.
Generic competition has not been Eisai's only headache. Its treatment, which is co-marketed here in the U.S. with Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) , has come under some heavy fire from regulators who view it as an expensive therapy that offers little benefit. Last August, the United Kingdom's High Court upheld the decision by that country's health agency to stop paying for Aricept for new Alzheimer's patients. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said it was too expensive and offered too few benefits for taxpayers to continue paying for treatment.
There is no cure for Alzheimer's, and Aricept only temporarily improves cognitive functions for those suffering from it. Yet doctors, patients, family members, and caregivers all tout the effects -- even if relatively fleeting -- that Aricept and similar drugs produced by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ ) , Novartis (NYSE: NVS ) , and Forest Labs (NYSE: FRX ) provide. Such are the vagaries of subsidized national health care.
With Aricept going off patent in 2010 and Aciphex subject to generic competition three years later, Eisai has been actively pursuing cancer treatments as part of its "Dramatic Leap Plan." It bought a portfolio of treatments from Ligand Pharmaceuticals, acquired Morphotek last year, and in December said it was buying cancer-drug maker MGI Pharma.
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Mario Kart 64.
Whats the point of buying a 800 Wii point game when you have 1k left? You have 200 left over you ca never use, or be credited for. So, what's the point of a 2k wii points card if your not buying 2 n64 games?
Also, with 1000 points left, what should i buy?
I like mario games, and I already have mario 64.
Mario Kart 64.
Originally Posted by WamooOriginally Posted by Brawny
the next time you get a wii points card you'll have extra points to add on
Originally Posted by $hawn
so with those 200 points
you buy more to use them up
and its never ending!
= $$$$$ for nintendo
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You could buy two TG 16 games(600 pts) and one snes or genesis(800 pts)...or one Neo Geo(900 pts), one TG 16, and one NES(500 pts). Nintendo cant predict everybodies buying patterns. Besides the points are still there the next time you buy points. They dont go away.Originally Posted by $hawn
If u like pokemon then pokemon snap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!Originally Posted by $hawn
on the VC I bought Mario 64, Star Fox 64, Mario Kart, Mario Bros 1, Mario Bros: Lost levels, Mario Bros 3.
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I hate the point system. I have 400 points left, and need atleast 100 points to be able to get anything. Even if I buy them online, the minimum I can buy is 1000 points. I wish Nintendo just let us pay directly for individual games, or let us buy any denomination of points, ex. 100 points.
Obviously the points system works for Nintendo because people need to keep buying more and more points just to be able to use their remaining points.
Yup. This is the exact reason why they have the set increments of points. It's a genius marketing strategy actually.Originally Posted by westearth
I got 500 left, could buy another game I guess, but I don't have the classic controller
Remaining points are there to be added on next time you top up your total.
Its not that bad having extra points.
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