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Baseball reality is so often legendary that it shouldn't be surprising when the opposite occurs and baseball myths, oft repeated, begin to take on an aura of reality. As an Angels fan, there were two such recent myths that caught my attention more than any others, as they were repeated throughout the regular season, the post season and on into November. Both myths "explain" Mike Napoli's rising star post trade from the Angels.
Myth 1: Of course Mike Napoli blossomed under the Rangers, the guy just needed to get some real playing time.
I actually fell victim to this myth myself for a little while. It certainly sounds plausible. And it's been repeated so often that it really started to seem like Naps got a lot more playing time with the Rangers…until I started thinking about all of the games I attended where Napoli played. Hmmm…so I looked up some real numbers.
In 2011, for the Texas Rangers, Mike Napoli had: 369 at bats in 113 games and played a position in 96 games, 61 at catcher and 35 at first base.
In 2010, for the Angels, Mike Napoli had: 453 at bats in 140 games and played a position in 126 games, 59 at catcher and 67 at first base, significantly more playing time than he enjoyed with Texas in 2011.
In 2009, for the Angels, Mike Napoli had: 382 at bats in 114 games and played a position in 96 games, all of them at catcher, roughly the same amount of playing time as he enjoyed with Texas in 2011.
Prior to 2009, Mike Napoli did experience less playing time, making an appearance in 78 games in 2008, 75 in 2007 and 99 in 2006. But for the two season prior to his trade, Naps saw as much or playing time in Anaheim as he saw in Arlington.
As the Mythbuster boys would say, I call this myth busted.
Myth 2: Mike Scioscia is too hard on catchers.
I only have anecdotal evidence against this myth, but I feel it's significant. While I have no doubt that Mike Scioscia is hard on catchers, I question the implication that this is universally detrimental. Yes, Mike Napoli played better for the Rangers and the current crop of catchers all need improvements in different ways but, come on, two out of three Molina brothers can't be wrong, right? Especially when the third isn't so much a dissenting vote as not included in the sample size. So, apparently, some catchers do just fine under Sosh. Myth busted.
And the reality?
Okay, if it wasn't more playing time and Mike Scioscia isn't a crippling influence on catchers, then why did Mike Napoli have so much stronger a season in 2011 than in 2010 or 2009? Well, in part, I would never underestimate the power of batting in the middle of that crazy good Texas lineup. Do they have a weak spot in their lineup? Because we sure never saw one. Talk about protection!
But, more than that, I suppose the greatest myth of all is that past performance is a guarantee of future performance, especially once you change any of the variables: new team, new manager, new coaches, new lineup, new clubhouse culture and so on. Some players in this situation adapt immediately and pick up right where they left off, give or take a little benefit/detriment from combining their talents with those of their new teammates. Adrian Gonzalez and Adrian Beltre, for example. Some players experience a (hopefully temporary?) set back in their new digs and perform well below expectations. Carl Crawford and Vernon Wells, for example. And others absolutely shine, like our current example Mike Napoli.
In Naps particular case, I think there is a slight, skewed truth to Myth #2. It's not that Mike Scioscia is too hard on catchers, but that way in which Mike Scioscia handles catchers, be it hard or not, simply didn't work for Mike Napoli, much like a particular teacher might be just the ticket for one student but ineffective at best for their siblings. So, significant lineup protection? New manager with whom he clicked better? Perhaps even added drive to prove himself after being traded twice in less than a week? Take your pick, but I think it's a combination of all of these reasons and perhaps a few more. Interesting food for thought as Hot Stove heats up and GMs begin to throw large sums of money about banking, quite literally, on past performances.
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Losing Napoli did hurt, but the Angels still have a good catcher in Mathis I think. He plays the position very well and is definitely a guy the Angels should hang on to.
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Mathis can be a good defensive catcher Yossif, but he makes a lot of mental errors and can't hit his way out of a paper bag. I wish we could somehow merge his pitcher whisperer and defense of the plate skills with someone who could hit, if not for power at least for average…and there are a lot of freeagent catchers right now. It's an intriguing prosect.
— Kristen
Great post. I like Napoli and it seems to me that he benefits offensively playing in Texas and in their lineup.
Thanks Ron! Yeah, I definitely think there is a lot about Texas that helps him. I like Napoli a lot too. It was hard to put on a happy face about that trade, even in the few seconds before he went to Texas.
I hear ya. Batting in that Texas lineup definitely insured he would see a lot of good pitches AND it's Arlington, where my little sister could fist one out oppo-taco style.
Too true about Arlington Jeff, especially when the wind is blowing just right…though that lineup can hit pretty much anywhere. And I never underestimate the power of a trade induced chip on the shoulder.
— Kristen
Napoli did need playing time, but being in a lineup with a lot more power will help a hitter as well.
Thanks for dropping by my blog and commenting, Steve! Yes, more playing time was clearly the reason…except, you know, for the part where Naps actually got less playing time in Arlington than he did last season in Anaheim and the exact same amount as he did in Anaheim in 2009.😉
— Kristen
I can't help but wonder how Napoli would have fared in Toronto. But then the Jays are overloaded with catchers as it is. I just wish they'd have gotten more for him.
In any event, if I could explain why some players go from supporting cast members to stars on other teams, I'd be a very rich GM right now. The Pirates are still kicking themselves for letting Jose Bautista go. The Twins let David Ortiz go for nothing. Sometimes a new team and a different coach just seems to make it all click for a player…. it just hurts twice as much when he clicks on a team within your division.
I would have preferred Napoli in the AL East to still in our division Bluejaysnest, that's for sure. But yeah, that's exactly my point. Past performance is mostly all anyone has to go one, but there are so many variables that determine success and your Jose Bautista really clicking with the Jays hitting coach and some of his team mates is a prime example.
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Chefs cooking for the Best of Milwaukee beer dinner are Justin Aprahamian of Sanford, Daniel Jacobs of Odd Duck, Paul Zerkel and Lisa Kirkpatrick of Goodkind (due to open in spring in Bay View), Dan Van Rite of Hinterland and Matt Kerley of Blue Jacket. »Read Full Blog Post
'Cesar Chavez,' the movie and the book
"Cesar Chavez" a new feature film that tells the story of the famed farm worker organizer and civil rights leader, opens soon in theaters across the country.
The movie bio-pic stars Michael Peña, and Rosario Dawson. »Read Full Blog Post
Brewers still working out details on Hank the dog's new home
Phoenix — The question persists: Where will home be for Hank, the Brewers dog?
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Long-awaited groundbreaking kicks off City PlaceJeb Wallace-Brodeur / Staff Photo
Gov. Peter Shumlin is joined by numerous state and local officials and other dignitaries Wednesday at the groundbreaking for the City Place development in downtown Barre.
BARRE — One man's wine-induced pipe dream was fittingly described as a coming attraction during a groundbreaking that began in a downtown theater Wednesday morning before moving outside to a nearby vacant lot that won't be vacant much longer.
By this time next year, City Place — a four-story, 80,000-square-foot building that will bring more than 300 jobs to the heart of downtown Barre — should be nearly complete. That is a very big deal, according to those who spoke during Wednesday's ceremonial kickoff to construction and a good many who didn't.
It wasn't standing room only at the Paramount, but most of the seats in one of its theaters were filled. Many of those people played a role in pulling off a project that Mayor Thomas Lauzon conceived of at his dining room table more than four years ago and then pursued with what Gov. Peter Shumlin described as dogged determination.
"It was a cabernet-induced idea," Lauzon confessed after gleefully and repeatedly plunging one of a dozen silver shovels into a photo-ready strip of dirt that was perhaps 2 feet high.
The occasion began with Lauzon proudly welcoming those in attendance to a community that he said is dreaming big dreams and doing big things.
"I couldn't be more proud," he said. "Through hard work and sound investments our team is turning Barre around."
The event ended roughly an hour later when an excavator began ripping through one of two vacant apartment houses while stragglers munched on popcorn served up courtesy of City Place developer DEW Properties LLC.
"Now that's what I'm talking about!" chortled Lauzon as the excavator shredded one end of one of the buildings that are the last things standing in the way of City Place.
Those who attended the ceremony were told there have been far more daunting obstacles — some of which seriously threatened to derail the project.
"City Place is a testament to what happens when people check self-interest at the door and just work together," Lauzon said, describing the project as a team effort that received a welcome boost when Shumlin dangled the prospect of moving the state Department of Education to Barre in his budget address a year ago.
"I admire people who swing at a breaking curveball," he said of Shumlin. "Anyone can hit a softball."
Shumlin returned the praise.
"Mayor Thom Lauzon, like a dog on a bone, is making things happen," he said, pointing to Barre's newly reconstructed Main Street and several other downtown redevelopment projects that are either under way or in the works.
"This is the most extraordinary transformation of a downtown in recent history for the state of Vermont, and (City Place) is a critical piece of the puzzle," Shumlin said.
Don Wells, president of DEW, praised Lauzon for his vision and Shumlin for his cooperation and support, while thanking everyone from the development company's design team and its banks to the tenants lined up for the building.
"Everybody worked hard to make this happen," he said, noting that it nearly didn't.
According to Wells, the company almost threw in the towel on City Place when an appraisal of the proposed structure came in $6 million less than the company anticipated. That forced DEW to persuade the state to take additional space, as well as renegotiate its lease with Central Vermont Medical Center and commit more of its own money to the project.
However, he said, even those moves wouldn't have been enough if the project hadn't secured nearly $5 million in working capital through a federal program designed to encourage investment in low-income communities.
Wells said that before a census-driven adjustment was made last year, the project wouldn't even have been eligible to take advantage of "new markets tax credits" and it would have been game over for what local officials have described as a game-changing project for Barre's historic downtown.
"If we didn't have those new markets tax credits we wouldn't be here today," Wells said, noting the project barely beat a Dec. 31, 2012, deadline that could have cost it $400,000 in working capital.
"It was a pretty intense couple of months," he said.
That was echoed by DEW's chief financial officer, Mike Francis, who described the push to beat the deadline as a "mad dash" that involved several lending institutions, more than a dozen lawyers from around the country and the U.S. Bank.
"(The U.S. Bank) bought the tax credits that sealed the deal," Francis said.
Now comes the easy part, according to Wells, who said construction will begin today with the demolition of what remains of the two apartment buildings.
When work is finished, Wells said, the state Department of Education and its nearly 200 employees will occupy the building's top two floors and the state Agency of Human Services will split the second floor with CVMC. He said the medical center will be creating administrative offices for roughly 45 employees and the Human Services Agency plans to move 50 members of its staff to City Place.
DEW has locked down one ground-floor tenant — the RehabGYM — but roughly 8,000 square feet of North Main Street retail space is still available.
Wells said he is hopeful a push to create a cooperatively owned grocery store will be successful and was encouraged by word that Shumlin's pledge to join pushed organizers over the 350-member mark. The group is hoping to identify 600 members by this spring and is poised to evaluate potential locations — including City Place — for Granite City Grocery.
Wells said he isn't concerned about finding someone to lease a storefront in a new building on a newly reconstructed Main Street in a historic Vermont downtown.
Neither is Lauzon.
"Great space sells, whether it's in Barre, Burlington or Montpelier, and this is going to be great space," he said after everyone had headed for home and the excavator was idle again.
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For 'Twilight's' last gleaming, 'Breaking Dawn - Part 2' makes unexpected leap
With "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2," the popular franchise officially enters "The Twilight Zone."
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Hank the dog part of Brewers' home rotation
The Brewers' newest recruit, Hank, is already a fan favorite. He has more than 1,000 Twitter followers at @BrewersHank. Hank has a team shirt and a team leash.
And he has a routine he follows, just like everyone else on the ballclub. »Read Full Article(36)
26 ways to raise a reader
Whether they are toddlers or teens, reading with your children will enhance their education while strengthening your connections as a family. Short on ideas for motivating your kids to pick up a book? Never fear, with the following ideas, nurturing your children's journey into a world of wonder, exploration and information is as easy as ABC. »Read Full Article
Chef Andrew Miller leaves Hom for the new Zarletti restaurant in Mequon
Andrew Miller has left Hom Wood-Fired Grill in Brookfield to become the executive chef of Salotto Zarletti in Mequon, the new Brian Zarletti restaurant that's expected to open in early spring.
"The menu will feature modern riffs on southern and central regional Italian cuisine," Miller said via email. His last day at Hom was Saturday. »Read Full Blog Post
Time Warner adds 'broadcast TV fee,' blames retransmission fees
Time Warner Cable has announced that a 40% increase in retransmission consent fees is forcing the company to add "a new line item called the Broadcast TV fee" onto customer bills to "make customers more aware of these rising costs."
The broadcast TV fee for new or non-promotional video customers is $2.25, and represents a 6% increase. However, according to Time Warner, 70% of its customers won't see any immediate boost because they are in a promotional package. »Read Full Blog Post(31)
Eastside Music Tour to kick off festival season early
Who said you have to wait until summer for a music festival?
Milwaukee's favorite warm-weather pastime gets an early start Saturday for the second annual Eastside Music Tour, with 86 acts occupying 32 businesses on and around E. Brady St. »Read Full Article
10 must-see acts at the Eastside Music Tour
Earlier this month, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a feature on 10 Wisconsin bands to watch, profiling some of the most talented emerging artists in the state.
Eastside Music Tour-goers can watch six of those acts Saturday. Four of them will appear at a Wisconsin Bands to Watch showcase at the Tap Milwaukee Stage at Club Brady, 1339 E. Brady St. »Read Full Article
DeVita brings war to the home front in 'An Iliad'
American Players Theatre standout Jim DeVita, now 53, freely admits that actors, like the rest of us, have stretches during which they wonder why they bother — and whether anyone out there is listening or cares.
But imagine being dogged by this sense of futility for 3,000 years. That's the situation confronting the bone-weary Poet in "An Iliad," a powerful, one-actor adaptation of Homer's poem by director Lisa Peterson and actor Denis O'Hare. »Read Full Article
Reading the John Updike stories: 'Dear Alexandros'
I'm reading and commenting on a story from The Library of America's recently published 'John Updike: The Collected Stories' each Wednesday until I finish the collection or give up.
Reading John Updike's early stories -- today's story is the 24th in the first volume of the LOA's collection -- has made me marvel at how well Updike wrote in his 20s. But this project has also made me wonder about the standards for publishing fiction at The New Yorker in 1950s. "Dear Alexandros," published Oct. 31, 1959 in The New Yorker is so slight I wonder why the magazine published it. Did it need a short short story to fill a hole? Was the competition weak? »Read Full Blog Post
Coundown to Spring: 23 Days
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Hey ya! Outkast to headline Summerfest June 29
Get ready to shake it like a Polaroid picture at Summerfest. Outkast, the recently reunited hip-hop duo of "Andre 3000" Benjamin and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, is headlining the Big Gig on June 29, with genre-jumping guitar master Gary Clark Jr. opening.
The first hip-hop act to win the Grammy for album of the year — for 2003's seminal smash "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" — Outkast announced in January that it would get back together after a seven-year hiatus to headline 40 festivals in honor of its 20th anniversary, although Big Boi recently revealed that a new album is not in the works. »Read Full Article(10)


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Tis the season to slather on tanning lotion and roast in the sun. And whether or not you buy the notion of global warming, you definitely need to protect yourself against the sun.
That is, unless you're already dark complected, then you're safe. And if you wear waterproof sunscreen, you only have to apply it once a day. If you're shopping for sunscreen, get the highest sun protection factor (SPF) level you come across. But if you already have some in the medicine cabinet, you're still good for this year.
Those are the myths we tend to buy as fact, but there is an inconvenient truth to all of these (see what we did there? It's an Al Gore joke!) There is a learning curve to being safe in the sun.
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An Ohio man called police after finding a burglary suspect sleeping in his bed and wearing his clothes, with his shotgun lying beside him.
Cory Fulst told Cleveland TV station WJW he didn't realize anything was amiss when he got home from work Monday.
The front door was locked, and nothing had been rifled through.
But when he walked into his bedroom, Fulst told police he found a man sleeping in his bed and wearing his clothes.
Fulst said his shot gun had been loaded and was lying next to the man in bed.
Police identified the intruder as Dustin Applegate, 31, who gave authorities an address in Ravenna but lived most of his life in Colorado.
Fulst was quick enough to grab the shotgun away from Applegate, who woke up when Fulst entered the room.
"Get down, dude. Sit down right there," Fulst is heard telling Applegate in a 911 call.
Applegate has been charged with aggravated burglary.


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Business Digest October 26, 2012
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Goochose Interactive LLC, doing business as Goozmo, moved from 1900 Folsom St., Suite 108, in Boulder to 1650 38 h St. Suite, 205W, in Boulder.
The local and state unemployment rates dropped in September, with the Colorado rate falling two tenths of a percentage point to 8 percent, according to a report issued by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The not-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Boulder County dropped as well, falling to 5.7 percent in September from 6.1 percent in August and 5.9 percent in September 2011. Broomfield County posted a smaller drop, with the rate falling one tenth of a percentage point in September to 7 percent. In September 2011, unemployment in Broomfield was 7.2 percent. In Colorado in September 2011, the unemployment rate was 8.2 percent.
Rally Software Development Corp. is teaming with software development organizations on research to create the Software Development Performance Index. Representatives from Boulder-based Rally, the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and software development organizations are joining forces to quantify insights about development work and provide feedback on how process and technology decisions impact development-team performance. The index will aggregate a set of metrics from the areas of productivity, predictability, responsiveness, quality, customer satisfaction and employee engagement.
Parascript LLC is opening a sales office in India in response to increased demand from financial institutions in that country for automated electronic processing of checks and forms. Longmont-based Parascript's new office in Chennai provides central access to markets in India, the Middle East and other South, Southeast and East Asia countries. Parascript has a suite of software products that recognizes information on checks, envelopes, parcels and various forms. It can recognize machine print, handprint and cursive writing.
Facebook is partnering with Broomfield-based Webroot Software Inc. to provide the social network's more than 1 billion users with protection against online security threats. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Facebookers can access Webroot's SecureAnyWhere cloud-based protection for their computers through the Facebook AV Marketplace.
The city of Longmont's sales- and use-tax collections increased 11.4 percent in September, compared with the same period a year ago, according to the city finance department's latest report. Longmont collected $4,136,688 in September, compared with $3,714,194 collected in September 2011. The collection in September represents sales made in August. The sales-tax component of collections increased by 5.6 percent from the same month the year before, and the use-tax component increased by 40.4 percent. Total sales- and use-tax collections for the year to date increased 3.9 percent compared with the same period in 2011, according to the report.
Water-quality information assembled by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is available to the public through a new tool on the agency's website, http://cogcc.state.co.us/. The database of water samples allows the public to view water quality for specific locations throughout Colorado and marks a significant milestone in the commission's ongoing efforts to monitor, protect and quantify water quality as part of its regulatory oversight of oil and gas development in the state.
Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN) has joined the Active Archive Alliance as a collaborative member. The Alliance is a data-storage industry consortium launched in 2010 by Boulder-based Spectra Logic Corp., Dell, FileTek Inc., QStar Technologies and SGI. The consortium develops and educates on evolving technologies for archived data.
Zeal Optics Inc. is selling its ski goggles and sunglasses in 1,000 retail sites in Europe, Canada and Australia, through parent company Maui Jim Inc. in Peoria, Illinois. Boulder-based Zeal is working with 16 Maui Jim subsidiaries around the globe on the project. Some 108 sales and operational employees in various international locations are working on brand sales. The company was bought by Maui Jim in spring 2011 for an undisclosed sum. The company said in June that it had 13 employees working on marketing, sales and design from a new headquarters at 1230 Spruce St. in Boulder.
The number of local work-from-home employees — at 10.9 percent — is higher here than anywhere else in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The percent of work-from-home employees in the Boulder metropolitan statistical area is followed by Medford, Oregon, with 8.4 percent; Santa Fe, New Mexico, with 8.3 percent; Kingston, New York, with 8.1 percent, and Santa Rosa-Petaluma, California, with 7.9 percent, according to estimates released Friday, Oct. 12, from the 2010 American Community Survey. The local statistical area includes Boulder County and some of Broomfield County, based on an online Census Bureau map.
Noodles & Co. will open a restaurant in the New York metropolitan area in partnership with the Mascott Corp., a regional franchise operator. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed between Broomfield-based Noodles and Mascott Corp., which is based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Mascott owns and operates six restaurant brands in the New Jersey area. The Noodles restaurant is scheduled to open in early 2013 and will be located at 683 Route 18 South in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
UQM Technologies Inc. (NYSE: UQM) will provide the electric propulsion system that will power a yacht tender made by Mylne Yacht Design in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Mylne Bolt 18 yacht tender is a transport used to service and to deliver support and entertainment to a private or charter yacht. Longmont-based UQM's PowerPhase Pro 100 electric propulsion system is powering the all-electric vessel.
Boulder-based Campus Publishers, a division of Redrock Publishing Co., has added two new guides to its family of more than 40 official university visitor guides. The University of Tennessee Guide will reach 60,000 members of the Knoxville campus' community, and the University of Central Oklahoma Guide will reach 40,000 on and around the campus in Edmond. Both guides will make their debuts in fall 2013. Campus Publishers, also publishes guides for the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.
Louisville-based lifestyle media distributor Gaiam Inc. (Nasdaq: GAIA) has signed a multiyear deal with fitness icon Richard Simmons to produce and distribute fitness DVDs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gaiam will produce a new infomercial for 2013 that will feature Simmons and focus on fun, dance-inspired weight-loss workouts choreographed to hit music, a digital version of his FoodMover and healthy meal plan.
The Creative Alliance in Lafayette has been retained by Inada USA, the exclusive U.S. distributor for Inada massage chair products. The Creative Alliance will provide integrated marketing services including advertising, website development, public relations and social media.
Tart cherry juice manufacturer Cheribundi Inc. in Boulder hired TDA Boulder as its advertising agency of record, duties which had been handled in-house for the last three years and, before that, by LPK, Cincinnati. Initial assignments will include a branding and packaging redesign, for introduction in first quarter 2013, and the development of sports-related sponsorship opportunities.
The University of Colorado-Boulder has been awarded $1.4 million for a new study on how changes in land use, forest management and climate may affect trans-basin water diversions in Colorado and other semi-arid regions in the western United States. The grant, part of the National Science Foundation-U.S. Department of Agriculture Water Sustainability Climate Program, was awarded to assistant professor Noah Molotch of the geography department. Molotch and his team will be identifying thresholds, or "tipping points," of change in land use, forest management and climate that may compromise the sustainability of the policies and procedures that dictate the timing and quality of water diverted from Colorado's Western Slope to the Front Range.
Boulder-based private equity firm Grey Mountain Partners has bought the security-glass company North American Specialty Glass in Trumbauersville, Pennsylvania. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. North American Specialty Glass previously filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to a press statement from Grey Mountain. The purchase and additional capital from Grey Mountain has saved nearly 100 jobs at the company.
Boulder-based JNBridge LLC, a provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET frameworks on the ground and in the cloud, has announced its latest lab that demonstrates how to build .NET-based LINQ providers for Java-based HBase. The lab is available on JNBridge's website, http://www.jnbridge.com/labs.
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Kyoto, Japan
Spring at Kyoto's Kodaiji Temple is filled to the brim with flowers and scented Spring breezes. The smell of love is in the air.Photo Credit: Akihiro I/Getty Images
Barcelona, Spain
Spend the morning in Barcelona wandering the urban sprawl, admiring the architecture and sampling the food, and end the day together relaxing on the beach.Photo Credit: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images
Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal is becoming an increasingly popular tourist destination. The old city is ideal for a leisurely day of wandering together.Photo Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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The iconic Obelisk in Buenos Aires attracts tourists galore, but also offers stellar people watching.Photo Credit: Daniel Garcia/AFP/Getty Images
Madrid, Spain
The bustling Madrid is always awake. Spend endless days and nights celebrating life with your loved one.Photo Credit: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images
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Miami offers couples plenty of nightclubs, lounges and beaches for a romantic and trendy time together.Photo Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Vienna, Austria
Vienna lures couples with its winding park paths and perfected landscaping. Cozy coffee houses adorn each block, great for curling up with your loved one and a cup of coffee.Photo Credit: Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images
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Prague is a city of narrow streets, wine, art and stunning views. The city comes to life at night, and its hilly location creates sweeping views of the lighted skyline.Photo Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
London, England
The Houses of Parliament often soak up London's few rays of afternoon sunlight. The view of this majestic structure and the surrounding city from the London Eye is a treat.Photo Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Venice, Italy
Venice's gondolas tend to be a touristy lure. But the ride is a fabulous way to cuddle up with your sweetheart while taking in Venice's beautiful canals.Photo Credit: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Florence, Italy
Florence, Italy's capital, is filled with candlelit restaurants and beautiful art. Simply walking through Florence's streets is romantic.Photo Credit: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images
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Rome's Trevi Fountain comes alive after dark. Visitors sit entranced by the water while lights illuminate the statues.Photo Credit: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images
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A bride and groom take in the dusky views in Honolulu, Hawaii. A beach wedding here all but guarantees flawless weather.Photo Credit: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
New York, New York
Central Park's ice skating rink is filled with couples skating hand in hand during the winter. Admire the beautiful city skyline as you coast (or wobble) across the rink.Photo Credit: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images
Sydney, Australia
The Sydney Opera House is worth a trip just to take in the surroundings. The performing arts center is famous for its architecture, and sits on the edge of the beautiful Sydney Cove.Photo Credit: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images
Paris, France
The Eiffel Tower rises an impressive 324 meters, perfect for gazing over Paris at sunset. It's worth a visit at night too; the Tower puts on beautiful light shows.Photo Credit: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images
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Berlin water bond squeaks through
Jeb Wallace-Brodeur / Staff Photo Oren Winters, 4, places his mother's ballot in the ballot box at the Berlin Town Offices on Wednesday during voting on a proposed municipal water system.
BERLIN A landslide it wasnt on Wednesday, but voters here narrowly approved plans to invest $5.5 million in a municipal water system.
The result couldnt have been much closer on a day when 230 of the towns 1,917 registered voters trickled into the town offices to cast ballots over the span of nine hours and it took less than five minutes to count them.
How close was it?
So close that the chairman of the towns water supply committee, who watched as the blue ballots were counted, had a sinking feeling the project he and others have been working on since 2007 was going to come up a few votes short.
Its not looking good, Tom Willard said while eyeing a mounting stack of no votes.
Willard was smiling moments later when Town Clerk Rosemary Morse announced that the bond issue had been approved, 122-108.
Whats that tell you? Morse asked, prompting a rapid response from one of the local justices of the peace.
That maybe we should count again? Matt Levin replied.
They didnt as Select Board Chairman Brad Towne declared victory and board member Pete Kelley did some quick calculating.
Your motion passes, Towne told Willard even as Kelley chimed in.
So eight people have spent $5.5 million, Kelley said, noting that if eight votes had gone the other way the bond issue would have been dead in the water.
Despite disappointing turnout and dueling letters to the editor between officials in Berlin and Montpelier, Berlin inched ever closer to breaking into the water business.
Towne was quick to note they arent there yet, and not just because they have to wait 30 days to see if a petition signed by 5 percent of the towns electorate about 96 registered voters surfaces in an attempt to force a revote.
According to Towne, the Select Board now needs to see if it can arrange for favorable federal financing and lock down customers for the proposed water system.
I just want people to understand that because the vote passed doesnt mean were actually going to borrow the money, he said. Were going to take and see if we can get the financing to do it.
The bond issue was approved amid promises that only the users would pay for the systems construction and that those who own property in the Berlin Four Corners area would not be compelled to hook on to the system. The water is to come from three wells the town drilled, tested and acquired on Scott Hill Road.
In addition to the wells, the plan includes installation of an estimated 31,500 linear feet of water line and a 400,000-gallon water storage tank and pump station. Both the tank and the pump station would be near the wells.
The Select Board decided not to warn the bond vote in conjunction with Berlins annual Town Meeting Day elections. But Towne said he would likely ask Mark Youngstrom of Otter Creek Engineering to attend town meeting next month to answer questions about the project. Officials believe the system could create a reliable, cost effective, municipally owned water supply in a strategically selected area of their community.
Berlin Elementary School, the town offices, and the local volunteer fire station are all in the area that would be served by the water system. It would cover portions of Airport, Crosstown, Comstock, Fisher, Granger, Scott Hill and Shed roads, as well as the full length of Industrial Lane and a short section of Paine Turnpike in the vicinity of the Route 62 intersection.
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Roseanne Barr -- Just Plain UGLY On July 25, 1990, Barr performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds. What will go down in history as probably the worst rendition ever, Barr offended many including President George H.W. Bush, who called her rendition "disgraceful." (Photo: AP) Click Here for Video
Whitney Houston – Amazing Houston gave us goose bumps when she nailed her rendition of the National Anthem before Super Bowl XXV in 1991. (Getty Images Sport/George Rose) Click Here for Video
Anita Baker -- Really Bad Baker butchered most of the Star Spangled banner before Game 4 of the NBA basketball finals between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday, June 10, 2010, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) Click Here for Video
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Kat DeLuna-Bad At a September 2008 Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game, Kat DeLuna gave an overwrought, pitchy rendition of the anthem that got the pop star booed by the whole stadium. (Getty Images/Scott Boehm) Click Here for Video
Michael Bolton – Bad Before the the 2003 ALCS at Fenway Park, Bolton forgot the words, paused and looked at his hand "cheat sheet." Ouch. (Getty Images Sport/Ezra Shaw) Click Here for Video
Beyonce -- Really Good Beyonce gave an amazing performance when she sang the National Anthem before Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004. (Getty Images Sport/Frank Micelotta) Click Here for Video
Carl Lewis - Really Bad The Olympic runner should stick to running. His 1993 National Anthem performance won him boos, not medals. (Photo: YouTube) Click Here for Video
Christina Aguilera—Bad The Grammy winner's version was more like the Star Mangled Banner since she forgot some of the words during her performance at Super Bowl XLV (Getty Images/TIMOTHY A. CLARY AFP) Click Here for Video
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Lagoon Tower
Destination: Gulf Shores
Type: Condo/Villa
Number of Floors: 20
Bedrooms: 3
Baths: 3
Come experience an Alabama vacation to remember at Lagoon Tower, where beach fun and water activities are mere steps away. Pristine beaches lining the Gulf of Mexico are front and center, while 'round back is a private fishing/boat pier to Little Lagoon. Each floor has only 2 units, so each of these amazing Alabama vacation rentals presents magnificent views from floor-to-ceiling windows and plenty of privacy.
Build sand castles and sunbathe on our sugar-white sandy beaches, or bring your boat—or rent one locally—and enjoy the natural beauty and fun fishing on the lagoon.
Lagoon Tower is just far enough away for relaxation and close enough to enjoy all of the exiting shopping, dining and entertainment that Gulf Shores has to offer. But amenities such as outdoor and indoor swimming pools, a hot tub and a pier over the lagoon make staying in a great idea as well.
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|Check-In Office Name: Gulf Shores Office
1557 Gulf Shores Parkway
Gulf Shores, AL
Check-In Time: 3:00 PM
Check-Out Time: 10:00 AM
Open: Monday - Sunday 8:00AM - 8:00PM
251-968-6868 (check-in line)
251-968-6868 (office)
After Hours Check-In Procedure:
Pick up telephone next to office door. Telephone automatically rings to after hours call center. Customer service agents assists with check-in via lock box next to telephone.
888-217-1509(after hours phone)
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Bedrooms: 3
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View: Lagoon View
Proximity: Across the Street from Beach
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Crispy Spice-Brined Pecans offer yet another reason to buy a cookbook. The photo and recipe are from "The Food52 Cookbook, Volume 2" by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs.
Lynn Neary of National Public Radio recently broadcast a story about the survival of independent bookstores. This holiday season, she said, "Cookbooks are the new black."
Daniel Goldin of Boswell Book Co. in Milwaukee told Neary that large, expensive, coffee-table-type cookbooks are flying off the shelves.
"We know people aren't particularly cooking out of those books," Goldin says. "It's people buy the book to have the book, to show off the book, to enjoy the book, to be enraptured by the book."
This makes me very happy for independent bookstore owners and authors of expensive cookbooks, but a little sad for our collective, apparently empty, kitchens.
A cookbook can be an adventure guide, a travelogue, a how-to manual, a nostalgia-filled memoir, a romance, a thriller and, occasionally, sheer poetry, but in the end, it should lead you to the stove.
If you maintain that cookbooks are to be cooked from, and kitchens are to be cooked in, you might consider some of these as holiday gifts:
Like millions of others, I was smitten by Deb Perelman and her "Smitten Kitchen Cookbook" (Knopf), an outgrowth of her Smitten Kitchen blog. If a woman whose kitchen is the size of a shoebox can happily whip up Mushroom Bourguignon and Chocolate Raspberry Rugelach, so can the rest of us.
Speaking of blogs, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, the founders of Food52.com, an online cooking community, offer another bunch of week-by-week recipes in their second book, "The Food52 Cookbook, Volume 2" (William Morrow). Its recipe for Crispy Spice-Brined Pecans (recipe follows) would make a perfect gift or a tasty addition to a holiday party.
"Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust" by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter) is a must for all "Contessa" fans. "Gourmet Weekday" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) can hook you up with some of the magazine's casual-chic recipes, such as Greek salad served in mason jars.
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For more exotic fare (and stunning photos), check out "Vietnamese Home Cooking" by Charles Phan (Ten Speed Press).
"Simply Satisfying" by Jeanne Lemlin (The Experiment) lives up to its name, as does the more intriguingly titled "The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian: Modern Recipes From Veggiestan" by Sally Butcher (Interlink Books). "The Gardener & the Grill" by Karen Adler and Judith Fertig (Running Press) is one of those books from which it is impossible to pick a favorite recipe. And then there's "Roots" by Diane Morgan (Chronicle Books). You'll never look at a rutabaga the same way again.
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"The Farm" by Ian Knauer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) takes the home cook through a year on the author's farm in Pennsylvania. "The Foothills Cuisine of Blackberry Farm" by Sam Beall (Clarkson Potter) offers a culinary tour through a luxury resort in the Smoky Mountains. Both are coffee-table books. But you can cook from them, too.
Crispy Spice-Brined Pecans
Yield: 2 cups
2 teaspoons sea salt
½ cinnamon stick, broken into 3 or 4 pieces
½ teaspoon ground mace
3 whole cloves
2 (3-by-1-inch) strips orange peel
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2 cups pecan halves
Put salt, cinnamon, mace, cloves and orange peel in a heatproof glass or ceramic bowl. Add the boiling water. Cool to lukewarm, then stir well and add nuts. Allow nuts to soak 6 to 8 hours.
Heat oven to 150 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment. With a slotted spoon, remove the pecans from the brining liquid and spread them on the baking sheet. Remove any whole spices and orange peel. Roast 10 to 12 hours, stirring occasionally. Enjoy! If by chance there are any left, store them in a tightly sealed container.
Recipe contributed by Antonia James, reprinted in "The Food52 Cookbook, Volume 2" by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs (William Morrow, 2012)
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Review: 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' is summer fun
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"Celeste and Jesse Forever" is filled with originality and a modern romance perfect to wave goodbye to summer and usher in fall.
In the film, love has bloomed already for Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg), thirtysomethings who fell in love in high school, got married and have now decided to divorce. The only trouble is, they are best friends -- finishing each other's sentences, laughing at their own inside immature jokes and living within a stone's throw away (he's moved in to a garage-type artist's studio in the back of their house).
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Jones, who is so wonderful on the television series "Parks and Recreation," co-wrote the screenplay with Will McCormack, who plays pot dealer and Jesse's pal, Skillz. Jones and McCormack based the movie slightly on their own personal relationship, which they say lasted for three weeks until they realized that they were better off as friends.
Samberg of "Saturday Night Live" fame shows his comic timing as Jesse, while Emma Roberts steals every scene she's in as a Miley Cyrus type pop star named Riley. Elijah Wood, in one of the funniest casting choices, is superbly laugh-out-loud funny as Celeste's gay co-worker.
"Celeste and Jesse Forever" did well at the Sundance and Los Angeles film festivals and its independent-type nature does give it a film festival tone, which makes it all the more likeable because of its intimacy.
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Soda is rotting our teethMay 09,2013In 1987, when my husband and I were graduating from dental school, they told us that by 2012, 25 percent of dentists would have nothing to do. Strange as that sounds now, we were in dental school at the precise moment in time when the result of municipal water fluoridation was becoming very clear: Fluoridating water was reliably reducing tooth decay by as much as 60 percent. We easily calculated that we would be only 52 years old and probably running out of work.
No one in 1988 could have imagined that by the year 2000, 75 percent of middle schools and 98 percent of high schools would be selling intensely sugared drinks in vending machines.
No one could have imagined that between 1977 and 1996, the average size of a sweetened drink would increase by almost 33 percent, and Vermonters would consume, on average, 50 gallons of sugar-sweetened beverages a year.
Who could have guessed that in the year 2010, the American Heart Association, would report that children ages 2-18 would be getting 35 percent of their daily calorie intake from soda/energy/sports drinks.
Of course, you all know the rest of the story: Dentists are not out of work, and there is said to be an access to care problem.
If the previous statistics dont surprise you, this might: My husband and I estimate that approximately half of the dentistry we do for people under the age of 40, is completely due to diet choices largely sugar-sweetened beverages.
Children or adults, rich or poor when we ask folks what is their daily drink of choice, plain water and milk are almost never on the list any more. So we ask you: If dental need was cut by 25 percent, would there still be an access to care problem?
Our experience tells us that this is actually an excess of need problem? These sugar-sweetened beverages just dont hurt peoples teeth for a month or a year. They permanently change the hardness of the enamel, and they leave people with teeth that will require high maintenance for the rest of their lives.
Even as we write, Vermont is staffing more and more state-funded dental clinics. None of them break even. All of these clinics must require huge cash infusions to balance their budgets at the end of the year and nothing on the horizon promises to shrink that taxpayer-funded chasm, except changing consumption.
So our question to you is this: Where in this equation can we make the biggest impact to decrease demand for dental services? Of course we all know the answer is: At the source. And that would be to discourage the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. All economic models from the dawn of time show that increasing costs will decrease demand. Its as simple as that.
And where a penny per ounce tax does not discourage consumption, at least the state will have gained revenue to pay for the demand for dental services if it continues to increase. And that money would come from the proper source people who drink excess sugar-sweetened beverages. Remember that statistic about the average Vermonters drinking 50 gallons of sugar-sweetened beverages a year? If you dont drink that much, that means that someone else is drinking your share or way more.
Every day we drop our daughter off at high school and see dozens of teens carrying 20-ounce soda bottles into school at breakfast time. We shake our heads. Sometimes the most obvious solutions are the hardest to accept. This is not that complicated if we can find the political will to stand up to the powerful beverage industry.
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