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It's time to roll out the offseason plans, where a few members of the PN writing team build their ideal 2014 Phillies Roster, taking into account team needs as well as payroll and luxury tax ramifications.
As the undisputed loser of last season's offseason plans, the guys let me go first this year. Like last year, I have chosen to go in quite a different direction than most of my colleagues and I tried to stick to realistic moves to help keep the Phils within the luxury tax.
Move #1: Create the ultimate catching situation – sign Dioner Navarro (two years, $6 million) AND Jarrod Saltalamacchia (four years, $40 million).
Crazy to sign two catchers? Maybe. Look, I'm not sold on Tommy Joseph being the long term answer at the catcher position and Cameron Rupp and Erik Kratz are fine back-ups but not the solution long-term.
What this move does is adds a really solid, young catcher (more opinion on Saltalamacchia here) who hits with power from the left side and a solid back-up from the right side (more opinion on Navarro here) who also has youth and experience on his side. $13 million to fill a catching spot is a lot but it is certainly a more sound investment than a Brian McCann-type signing (who I have some thoughts about here).
Strangely, I am willing to overpay for Navarro after Salty is signed to ensure this move works. The hope is that by the third or fourth year of Salty's contract, Andrew Knapp or Gabriel Lino is ready to replace Navarro in this platoon.
Move #2: Sign Joe Smith (two years, $6 million)
Not to be confused with the former NBA #1 Overall Pick, the sidewinding-righty reliever adds depth to the Phillies bullpen. I love Smith's ability to get batters out with ground balls and I think it will play well in the Majors' easiest park to hit homers in.
Move #3: Sign Jacoby Ellsbury (six years, $108 million)
Ruben (or me, in this case) overbids and outbids everyone on the board, just about blowing through the luxury tax for an opportunity to win now. I love Ellsbury speed, power, and defense. I would also hang on to Ben Revere and play him in left, moving Domonic Brown to right. This was a cautious play in my Pass or Play series but I have come around to having Ellsbury long term.
Move #4: Sign Mike Morse (one year, $1 million + incentives, non-guaranteed contract)
I love Morse on a non-guaranteed deal but anticipate he will find a much better offer. If he's available, play, play, play!
Commitments added:– Add Saltalamacchia at $10 mil per year (estimated 3.1 wins per Steamer)
– Add Navarro for $3 mil per year (0.8 wins)
– Add Smith for $3 mil per year (0.3 wins)
– Add Ellsbury for $18 mil per year (5.9 wins)
– Add Morse for $1 mil per year (0.0 wins)
And… The Resulting Roster
SP #1: Cole Hamels
SP #2: Cliff Lee
SP #3: Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez
SP #4: Jonathan Pettibone
SP #5: Adam Morgan
CP: Jonathan Papelbon
RP: Smith
RP: Antonio Bastardo
RP: Justin De Fratus
RP: Jake Diekman
RP: Ethan Martin
RP: Kyle Kendrick
C: Saltalamacchia
1B: Ryan Howard
2B: Chase Utley
3B: Cody Asche
SS: Jimmy Rollins
LF: Revere
CF: Ellsbury
RF: Brown
IF: Freddy Galvis
IF/OF: Cesar Hernandez
IF/OF: Darin Ruf or Morse
C: Navarro
Other commitments: Mike Adams (one year, $6 million, one year)
Contracts added: $40.5 million, less about $1.5 in arb for Revere, less about $0.6 mil for Hernandez and Martin. Added $31.9 million in contracts for 2014 with an estimated upgrade of 10.2 wins, less the departed J.C. Ramirez (-0.7 fWAR in 2013) and Luis Garcia (-0.5 WAR) in bullpen, Kendrick in the rotation (1.7 WAR), and Carlos Ruiz (1.4) for about a net 7.9 win upgrade, not including the possible added value of a move of Ben Revere from center to left and Brown from left to right, which could net them an additional win or two if both remain healthy.
Roster notes: My most extreme prediction? Morgan beats out Kendrick for a rotation spot. Ideally, I would non-tender Kendrick, but Amaro has already said the Phillies will tender Kendrick a contract. I would opt to give Howard regular rest against lefties, using either Morse or Ruf at first base. And Saltalamacchia can play some first as well on days Howard needs rest against righties. I had initially considered Mark Trumbo as a trade candidate but his estimated $5 million in arbitration and cost in young, affordable players is something that I wished to avoid.
And, there are a few familiar names missing from my roster: Kevin Frandsen and John Mayberry are the most notable non-tenders from my list. With those two gone and Chooch and Doc not coming back, that empties four 40-man roster spots. I added six players to the 40-man, resulting in a net addition of two to my team, resulting in 37 men on the 40-man roster. In addition, I would designate Zach Collier, Luis Garcia, Joe Savery, and Sebastian Valle to trim the 40-man down to 33. From a previous list, I would add Aaron Altherr, Kelly Dugan, Anthony Hewitt, Tommy Joseph, Mike Nesseth, and Rob Rasmussen, to leave one roster spot for any additional free agent I may want to add during Spring Training.
My total commitments come out to $166.15 million, including all extra costs, leaving Phillies space to make a splash if one presents itself, perhaps a pipe-dream trade for Matt Kemp if the Dodgers decide they have too many outfielders but I am not counting on something like that happening.
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I don't like three unknown quantities in the starting rotation. Pettibone, who may be be okay at the back end, is coming off injury, Morgan is a rookie, Gonzales a total mystery with possible arm troubles.
Kedrick could provide some depth, but I think more should be added.
I also think all those millions for catching might be a misappropriation of funds. Navarro's 2013 numbers were a small sample, and looking at his career, they seem a bit of a fluke. He's probably little more than back-up material, which the team already has.
I think it's wise that you would non-tender Frandsen and Mayberry. Their pay is going up, and Frandsen can be replaced with Hernadez and Galvis, Mayberry with Ruf.
Overall, I like some of the moves, but the lineup seems too left handed, and I think we need another good starting pitcher. If possible, I would trade Brown for a good young, RH power hitter who can play defense, then sign a free agent SP or trade him for a decent SP, then sign a right fielder free agent who has power and can play Defense.
Are you not even considering Nelson Cruz?
Nelson Cruz has a career .285 avg vs left handed pitching and you guys don't even mention him? lol
What scares me about Cruz is that he's a below-average hitter away from hitter-friendly Arlington, with a .734 career OPS. And that he's already 33.
The Phillies play in CBP = Hitter friendly ballpark!
It was this year, but from 2008 through 2012 it was one of the most neutral parks in baseball, both for home runs and for overall hitting. And even when it is hitter friendly, it favors LH hitters, not so much for right-handed ones.
BTW, what people typically mean when they say a park like CBP is neutral is that there are about as many runs scored (or homers hit, or whaterver) by both teams in the Phillies' home games as there are by both teams in the Phillies' away games.
Another factor that no one looks at in terms of Nelson Cruz is the fact that he is HORRIBLE defensively, I am getting to the point where I think letting Ruf play an entire season might be a safer plan than going after Cruz. Not to mention Cruz has never played an entire season due to injuries…in 2012 he played 159 games but other than that year the next highest he put up was 128 in 2009. So you want to pay a guy that is likely going to get 4yrs/$65M with all of those question marks. I would rather go for Morse or Young and then try to sign Ellsbury or Granderson to patrol center.
Ian: At first I thought you had been drinking when I saw two free agency catchers on your wish list but now (after a few drinks myself) it doesn't seem all that insane, especially after I noticed your inclusion of Ellsbury in CF. A solid upgrade and much needed speed.
I'd pass on Morse and platoon Ruf at first and use Cesar Hernandez as a platoon with Revere in left or as a pure swing man between IF and OF.
1) I'd just as soon platoon Kratz with Salty (or Pierzynski on a MUCH less expensive and shorter deal).
2) they could use a better bullpen arm than Joe Smith, of which there are plenty available.
3) I agree with the other posters that they desperately need another SP.
4) it's illogical to me that even the Phillies would pay Kendrick $6-$7 mil to work out of the bullpen. I'd rather trade him for Andrew Bynum and his bad knees and see if he can play the OF.
5) I'd also take Bynum over Ben Revere. Any team that plays Revere every day is a below .500 team. I'd rather have Chris Young, Rajai Davis or hell I'd even give Jeremy Moore a shot or see if Toronto would part with Moises Sierra.
Interesting to put Brown in right and slide revere over to left. I guess it makes sense given that Dom has a cannon for an arm and can cut down runners trying to go from first to third on a single, whereas Revere has a noodle arm.
I just don't buy Saltalamacchia as the answer behind the plate. From 2007-2012 he had a batting average of .239 and an OBP of .302. That's probably more in line with his true skill.
That and him striking out nearly 30% of the time leads me to say no to salty.
I think Joe Smith is exactly the kind of bullpen arm that the Phillies need. Although I don't think Cruz is a great fit he's exactly the kind of player that RAJ may become enamored with. The only change I would make to Ian's list would be the inclusion of a mid – level starting pitcher. An arm like Arroyo, Feldman, Haren or Hudson would be an improvement over what we currently have.
Im very impressed with what you did here, I think I would shy away from Navarro unless he is really cheap and give Rupp a shot. I love the additions of Salty, Ellsbury and Morse. I would look to sign a starter, I am not sold on Morgan being healthy enough and Pettibone is a 5th starter. I would love to see us get a guy like Tanaka or Garza since they are not tied to a pick. But even going after Feldman or Arroyo would be solid options. Also I am not sold on Smith either, I would prefer almost any other top bullpen arm since Smith is going to get 3yrs/$15M and I really do not want to commit that kind of money to a guy that has not pitched a ton as a setup man or closer. I would target Crain, he is coming off of injury and likely will get less than Smith.
I really like the idea of signing two catchers. If Navarro is taken, I believe John Buck might be a suitable backup as well. I like Hart, Morse, Chris Young and Cruz a lot more than blowing up a lot of money on Ellsbury. I would save some of that and get a solid 3-4 pitcher like Josh Johnson. Lastly I like the Smith move or grab someone like Eric O'Flarrety.
Josh Johnson is only solid if he stays off the DL; something he rarely does. Hart is a huge risk, too. He couldn't even make it through 2013 due to two bad knees. He's not good on defense, and niether is Cruz.
7 more WAR is not going to do it. Amaro has double downed on Rollins Utley Howard. Either they will produce or the Phillies will go nowhere. Too much money at those spots and all the clubs have cash available. If Amaro does not make a fast move (not necessarily under his control) the Phils will lose most auctions. As he is looking for RH power there is a limited pool and there will be crazy contracts.
Wait for 2018!
I like some of the suggestions here, but you gotta admit that the rotation kinda sucks.. I definitely think we need an upgrade. I wanted us to sign an impact starter like Anibal Sanchez last offseason and I still think we need someone similar if we want to compete. Lee and Cole, and 3 question marks, isn't going to cut it.
Sign Masahiro Tanaka you don't have to trade anybody for him , no Dom Brown ,no Franco , no Biddle no one , it also won't cost you a draft pick. All it costs you is money which the Phillies have . The posting fee does not count against the Lux tax and his salary is projected to be 10 million a year approx 6 years 60 mil. Pitch him between Hamels and Lee, then go on and sign an outfield power bat , catcher and relief pitcher plus the Phillies will still have Brown and the few good prospects they do have. Do it
So you think what 83 wins next year with that pitching staff? Keep in mind we have no real depth at SP. Lee or Hamels misses any time and the team is in trouble. The outfield even with Ellsbury is lacking. Everyone assumes Brown repeats two good months from last season? He ended the year more along his typical slash lines which I would argue is the true expectation for him. Lets face it the Phillies need to sell Lee and get prospects. Off load Howard's awful contract and start to redevelop the farm system. This team had a great run. Time to rebuild. 2018 sounds anout right.
"Everyone assumes…"
I actually haven't heard anyone assume anything like that.
How do you arrive at 83 wins?
Selling for prospects doesn't really work out most of the time. If it did the Pirates, Marlins and Astros would have had much more success than they have over the last ten years.
1. Selling Lee for prospects and building for 2016 is a lot different than a full sale salary dump like Houston, Florida and Pittsburgh underwent. How many games do you think Ian's version of the Phillies is likely to win?
2. Pittsburgh's long rebuild seems to be reaping rewards as they are now positioned as a playoff team with a number of top young, cheap players and more top prospects in their farm system. It is way too early to judge Houston's rebuild, which began midway through the 2010 season.
3. Only cherry-picking Pittsburgh, Houston and Florida ignores teams like Texas that benefited greatly from dealing Teixiera, Boston which rebuilt by dumping Gonzalez, Beckett and Crawford and Tampa, which dumped Shields for the ROY and still made the playoffs.
Whatever any of us may wish, I don't believe a full scale rebuild is going to happen. As they have for the last year and a half, the Phillies will be rebuilding as they try to remain competitive. And in that scenario, trading Lee means you would have to somehow replace his considerable production, so it's very unlikely that he's going anywhere.
I'm in between about whether or not to sign anyone offered a qualifying offer… But if we do I say go all in…
Because I want ubaldo Jimenez and he will cost us a pick I would say to go all in.. Something like a 4 year/50 million deal might get that done, then I would go after ellsbury on a 4 year/75-80 million deal to land him, a higher AAV to stay away from more years, I would then try to land also either tanaka or garza… That in turn would allow you to put a trade package together with revere, ruf, pettibone, Martin or even mag(whoever won't be the 5 starter) and possibly make a trade for Stanton, cespedes, trumbo or even a Matt kemp… I would keep both galvis and hernandez as utility players that are able to fill in for everyone virtually, utley Howard and Rollins are locks and asche pretty much has third unless Franco has an incredible spring… At catcher if I'm going all in I would go with salty and have rupp/Kratz back him up…
This would give us a really good rotation, an influx of speed and power in the lineup and outfield… Bullpens are always volatile, but I think smith is a good option…
I say if we're gonna make some world shocking signings, go all in and spend some money and make it happen rube
How do you arrive at 83 wins
"a net 7.9 win upgrade, not including the possible added value of a move of Ben Revere from center to left and Brown from left to right, which could net them an additional win or two if both remain healthy." add that on to the 73 they had this year.
As for your comment on trading for prospects not working out. You point out the three teams with the lowest payrolls in baseball. That has more to do with them being small market with a limited budget than it does with trading for prospects and them not working out.
I do like the catching plan and Joe Smith, however I am opposed to everything else. A rotation of Hamels, Lee, and 3 question marks is not going to cut it. Cruz, Ellsbury, and Choo our going to cost too much. I believe our best route is through trade. Matt Kemp should be amaros priority. Kemp is a power, right handed bat, who is still relatively young. He shouldn't cost too much prospect wise depending on how much salary we would eat. Trading for Kemp, and signing Granderson would be great. Our defense would drastically improve, and that would open the door for us to be able brown or revere, or maybe even both for someone like Stanton. We can fill our rotation through FA.


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ROME -- The abdication of Pope Benedict XVI is a move of global magnitude, but it is causing even bigger waves in Italy, where some experts believe the blanket media coverage could thwart the political comeback of Silvio Berlusconi.
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#39503 - 08/25/01 01:16 PM typing and double spaces
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A British friend of mine consistently uses a double space after each period whenever she types a text, and says she was taught that way, and that is the correct way to type. I was taught typing in high school in Spain, and have never heard of using a double space after a period. In fact, to me it looks funny, like the text is full of holes. Most of the typed text I have encountered here in Britain looks normal to me, i.e. has only one space after each period, so I don't think it can be a cultural thing. So I wonder why my friend was taught like that, and whether there is a right and a wrong way of punctuating after a period or it is just a matter of style? What do you all think?
#39504 - 08/25/01 01:53 PM Re: typing and double spaces
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I had always been taught that you should put two spaces between sentences. I'm not really sure why. I guess it is supposed to separate them more. It's a simple force of habit now to put two spaces after a period and I was surprised to find out, once I started making webpages, that even if you type to spaces, HTML will only render one.
I was also rather annoyed for a while because Lotus Word Pro, the word processing software I was using, had in it's grammar rules that only one space should go between sentences. I turned that rule off.
So, in answer to your question about whether it's a cultural thing, I don't know.
#39505 - 08/25/01 03:07 PM Re: typing and double spaces
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I think that the double space after a sentence helps you notice the end of the sentence, which I find helpful. Too many words too closely packed can be anaesthetising.
#39506 - 08/25/01 03:42 PM Re: typing and double spaces
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It has always been two spaces after both a period or a colon during my days of term papers, book reports and thesis writing. And it will always be. Old habits, you know.
#39507 - 08/25/01 03:46 PM Re: typing and double spaces
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Yes, a double space after a point/period/fullstop was the tradition taught by the (UK) RSA in all typing qualifications they provided and oversaw. Like Jazzo, having been used to this visual clue as to separation of sentences, I hated the auto feature of WP packages that tried to insist on single spacing, and still reject that layout. It is particularly annoying with justified or force-justified text, since the rather arbitrary word spacing can leave the eye skipping to the end of a sentence without visual warning of the end point approaching - I sometimes find this causes me to re-read sentences, because I had started to wrongly model the emphasis or stress patterns as a result, and thus got a distorted meaning. So here, after 'meaning', there is still the double space I was originally taught (whatever the HTML code does with it): not because I automatically cling to that, but because I believe it is functionally useful.
#39508 - 08/25/01 05:42 PM Re: typing and double spaces
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Posts: 2605
I, who grew up in the USA, have always used the double space as above -- at least since typing class in 7th grade. My e-mail system's spell-checker flags this as an error, which drives me crazy.
#39509 - 08/25/01 06:24 PM Re: typing and double spaces
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 10538
Loc: this too shall pass
the key word here is "typing". as maverick correctly points out, the added space is used to increase readability when using monospaced typewriter fonts. when using a proportional font, the extra space is not used. this reminds me of the English professor who insisted that papers be typewritten, not printed with proportional fonts, because, he said, the typewritten pages were easier to read. that would have come as a shock to a great many experts on type-setting.
#39510 - 08/25/01 08:32 PM Re: typing and double spaces
Registered: 01/15/01
Posts: 157
When I was first learning to type (on a computer, not a typewriter), I was taught to put two spaces after a sentence. I was later told that this was not necessary, so I stopped.
Perhaps the double space is an older style being phased out as computers become more common and typewriters are used less. With many fonts used today, two spaces don't look that different from one space. This could be an example of a written language evolving.
#39511 - 08/27/01 03:20 AM Re: typing and double spaces
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Posts: 618
Loc: Australia
I always assumed that it was a typewriter vs computer thing. I imagine early software designers just assumed that users would put two spaces as they had always done, and hence left the the full stop / period centered in the printing space as it always was. Has moving the full stop leftward (as appears to have happened at some stage) negated the need for the double space?
#39512 - 08/27/01 08:42 AM Re: typing and double spaces
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I have used the double space after sentence end, also. You can force it in HTML by using instead of hitting the space bar twice.
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Died in 2012
Posted 03 January 2013 - 02:05 PM
The great, the good, the others, gone in 2012:
Photographer Eve Arnold
Association Footballer Gary Ablett (to distinguish him from the AFL star)
Bob Holness
James and Bobby Purify's Robert Dickey
Strictly Come Dancing creator Richard Hopkins
Rugby Union player Selorm Kuadey
Soul musician Jimmy Castor
Johnny Otis
Etta James
Film-maker Theo Angelopoulos
Nicol Williamson
Colin Tarrant (The Bill)
'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius
Angelo Dundee
Artist Dorothea Tanning
Artist Mike Kelley
Ben Gazzara
Nigel Doughty
Bill Hinzman
Racehorse trainer Josh Gifford
Whitney Houston
Actor David Kelly
James Whitaker
Dory Previn
Michael Davis of the MC5
Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times
Frank Carson
Ken Goodwin
Actor Peter Halliday
Trumpet player Maurice André
Davy Jones
PC David Rathband
Paul McBride QC
Ronnie Montrose
Norman St John Stevas
Philip Madoc
Robert Sherman, film composer
West Indies Cricketer Runako Morton
Trammps singer Jimmy Ellis
Tubeway Army's Ced Sharpley
Rugby Union player Merv Davies
Chaleo Yoovidhya, creator of Red Bull
The King of Tonga
AFL player Jim Stynes
The Coptic Pope
Jamaican DJ King Stitt
Jocky Wilson
Boxing broadcaster Bert Sugar
Politician Tony Newton
Earl Scruggs
Novelist Harry Crews
Footballer Giorgio Chinaglia
Footballer Barry Kitchener
Jim Marshall
Broadcaster and Journalist Mike Wallace
Resistance hero Raymond Aubrac
Former Cardiff manager Eddie May
Dick Clark
Men At Work's Greg Ham
Levon Helm
Burt Weedon
Politician Jack Ashley
Charles 'Tex' Colson, one of Nixon's dirty-tricksters
Flying Burrito Brother Chris Ethridge
Boxer Terry Spinks
Thomas Marth, the sax player from the Killers
Swimmer Alexander Dale Oen
Junior Seau
Skatalites' bassman Lloyd Brevett
Adam Yauch
Skip Pitts
Maurice Sendak
Vidal Sassoon
Carroll Shelby
Donald 'Duck' Dunn
Speedway rider Lee Richardson
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes
Donna Summer
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Crowded House's Peter Jones
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Robin Gibb
Eugene J.Polley, inventor of the remote control
Johnny Tapia
Doc Watson
Actress Kathryn Joosten
Actor Richard Dawson
Herb Reed, founder of The Platters
Ray Bradbury
Dr John Horder
Villarreal coach Manuel Preciado
Jermain Defoe's Dad
Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac
Goalkeeper Gordon West
Teofilo Stevenson
Henry Hill
Rodney King
Jazz musician Abram Wilson
Journalist Danny Fullbrook
Cricketer Tom Maynard
Brian Hibbard of The Flying Pickets
Victor Spinetti
Footballer Teddy Scott
Actress Caroline John
Footballer Alan McDonald
Lonesome George (Ancient Galapagos Tortoise)
Nora Ephron
Sergio Pininfarina
Eric Sykes
James Grout
Andy Griffith
Ernest Borgnine
Lol Coxhill
Footballer Joe McBride
Richard D.Zanuck
Actress Celeste Holm
Jon Lord
Kitty Wells
Funk Brother Bob Babbitt
Sir Alastair Burnet
Angharad Rees
Simon Ward
Sally Ride, first US woman to fly in space
Writer Frank Pierson
Actress Mary Tamm, followed shortly after by her husband Marcus Ringrose
Referee Jack Taylor
David Barby (Bargain Hunt)
Geoffrey Hughes
Maeve Binchy
Derek Scott, Tony Blair's economic adviser
Gore Vidal
Speedway promoter John Berry
Gary and Dawn Barlow's baby delivered stillborn
Critic Robert Hughes
Bernard Lovell
Marvin Hamlisch
Mark O'Donnell, who co-wrote the musicals Hairspray and Cry Baby
Mel Stuart, film director
Special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi
Sid Waddell
Boxer Michael Dokes
Author Helen Gurley Brown
Politician Alf Morris
Harry Harrison
Winnie Johnson, mother of Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett
Songwriter Scott McKenzie
Film director Tony Scott
Phyllis Diller
Nina Bawden
Jerry Nelson (The Count from Sesame Street)
Neil Armstrong
Louise Clarke (Pan's People)
Sir Rhodes Boyson
Max Bygraves
Hal David
Cult leader Sun Myung Moon
Michael Clarke Duncan
Starship guitarist Mark Abrahamian
John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Oaksey, jockey and BBC Racing commentator
Joe South
Lillian Lopez, founder of disco giants Odyssey
Terry Nutkins
Bill Moggridge, inventor of the laptop computer
Footballer Ron Tindall
Ron Taylor, Jaws camerman
Derek Jameson
Prof. Sid Watkins
Rugby Union player Nevin Spence
Journalist Brian Woolnough
Top Of The Pops producer Michael Hurll
BBC Education correspondent Mike Baker
Boxer Corrie Sanders
Jacques Antoine, creator of The Crystal Maze and Treasure Hunt
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Herbert Lom
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Big Jim Sullivan
Lou Kenton, the International Brigade's last surviving British member
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Sylvia Kristel
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Emanuel Steward
Terry Callier
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Composer Elliott Carter
Voice of the Speaking Clock, Brian Cobby
Clive Dunn
Bill Tarmey
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Joe Egan
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Sir Alastair Burnet
Larry Hagman
Bryce Courtenay
Boxer Hector Camacho
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Dinah Sheridan
Chris Stamp, the original manager of The Who
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Rupert Murdoch's mother, Elizabeth
Dave Brubeck
Oscar Niemeyer
Major General Tony Deane-Drummond
Dundee United legend Doug Smith
Huw Lloyd Langton
Ian Campbell, folk musician and father of UB40's Campbell brothers
Sir Patrick Moore
Bicycle designer Alex Moulton
Ravi Shankar
Barcode inventor Norman Joseph Woodland
Kenneth Kendall
Ministry guitarist Mike Scaccia
Jack Klugman
Charles Durning
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Gerry Anderson
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General Norman Schwarzkopf
Tony Greig
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"I always enjoyed it more if there was a body or two lying about, it made the job a bit more interesting" Vince Karalius
Posted 03 January 2013 - 02:55 PM
Bags Thatcher.
NB: I am joking.
Under Scrutiny by the Right-On Thought Police
Posted 03 January 2013 - 11:43 PM
I think we should have a prediction contest for 2013. Everyone could nominate a person from the age bands 20-30, 30-40, 40-50, 50-60, 60-70 and then five over-seventies.
Bags Thatcher.
NB: I am joking.
Granted you are joking but there is actually a twisted website that does just this and has their own league etc,
Lilly, Jacob and Isaac, what my life is about. Although our route through life is not how it should be, I am a blessed man.


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Teachers at A.C. Jones High School were given several poems for students to read before the writers worked with them. Then, over a two-day period, Jesse Donaldson and Rebecca Wadlinger of WITS worked with the students on the elements of poetry and helped the students to write their own poems based on the style of one the poems they were given to read. Writers in the Schools is based in Houston, and its mission is to engage children in the pleasure and power of reading and writing.
Donaldson was born and raised in Kentucky and attended Kenyon College, where he studied English and history. He was a James Michener fellow in fiction and playwriting at The University of Texas-Austin. His work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Little Star, The Kenyon Review and Confrontation. He previously worked as an editor at Phaidon Press, as fiction editor for Bat City Review and has taught at Eastern Kentucky University and Houston Community College.
Wadlinger received her M.F.A. in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Houston. She has received fellowships and awards from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop and the Bucknell June Seminar for Younger Poets. Her work can most recently be found in the anthology Disco Prairie Social Aid and Pleasure Club (Factory Hollow Press, 2010), and the Best New Poets anthology. She works as the managing editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.


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Building Dreams, Friends and Memories
"Building Dreams, Friends and Memories" is the theme of the Rose Parade for 2011.
Congratulations to CPompe1 (Carol) for knowing that trivia in my prior post: What do Gregory Peck, Lorne Greene, Arnold Palmer, Dr. William H. Pickering, E.L. Bob Barlett and Earl Warren have in common?
They all served as GMs (Grand Marshals) of the Rose Parade. The years in order of names above: 1988, 1981, 1965, 1963, 1959 and 1955. Those are the years the Dodgers won the World Series.
Paula Deen was named the Grand Marshal for 2011 ya'll I wonder if she was the first choice.
From the www.examiner.com:
Peck wasn't the first choice, but he was a terrific one. The first choice that year, was Walter Cronkite. Perfect, but Cronkite had a previous engagement. The second, unnamed choice, bowed out at the last minute, just the before the programs went to press.
Despite being third in line, Peck was one of the most enthusiastic Grand Marshals ever. He had been attending Rose Parades with his father since he was a boy, and was thrilled to be riding along Colorado Blvd. in a vintage car. He pulled some strings and got on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, the first Grand Marshal to appear in that bastion of late-night celebrities.
Baseball players as GMs:
1999 Jackie Robinson (posthumously)
1975 Henry L. "Hank" Aaron.
Anyone seen the add on the internet for the '67 Rose parade hosted by Vin Scully with Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched?
For a list of other Rose Parade grand marshals go to http://www.tournamentofroses.com/the-rose-parade/history/grand-marshals
Here is to building dreams, friendship and memories!
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Paula Dean is next year's grand marshal? I love the Food Network but she and her y'alls get on my nerves. They should have picked California's own Cat Cora.
yep Jane, Paula Deen is the GM at the Parade next year. I would have prefer someone else too and was wondering if she was a first choice pick.
I would have like either one of them too with their connection to California.
I helped decorate the Dodger float in 2008. My friends and I went a few times to help and stayed very late 'cause we were concerned that it was not going to get done on time. I also helped decorate the USC float that year. It was fun looking at the Dodger float and spotting areas I worked on like glueing peanuts around. This year I might go back to show a friend that is coming from St Louis (Cardinal fan) and help some. The Dodger Booster club volunteers so I just give that name when I show up.
Neat, I wasn't even thinking of the Rose Parade but that answer makes sense. I agree with Jane, Cat Cora would have been a much better chef choice for California or Giada De Laurentiis who was raised in Southern California and has the family tie in to Hollywood. Oh well.
You volunteer for so many fun events, do you volunteer for the Rose Parade too? I remember fondly the many hours I spent decorating the City of Burbank's floats in Jr. High and High School.
– Kristen


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Barclays hires Asia trading chief
Barclays has hired the former head of electronic trading for Asia at Deutsche Bank, the latest in a flurry of moves among senior e-trading practitioners in the region.
Greg Lee, most recently head of Autobahn equity Asia at Deutsche Bank, is to join Barclays in Hong Kong later this year, according to two people familiar with the situation. He will join as the UK bank's head of electronic trading for Asia, with responsibility for sales and product regionally, one person said.
Lee had been asked to be the head of product for Autobahn, Deutsche Bank's electronic platform, in New York, but wanted to remain in Hong Kong, the people said.
Barclays and Deutsche Bank declined to comment.
Lee joined Deutsche Bank from UBS in 2009 and before that worked at Reuters for over three years.
His is the second Barclays hire in e-trading to emerge today. This morning, the bank announced that it had appointed Dan Miller as head of equities sales trading for Hong Kong, China and Asean. Miller was most recently at BNP Paribas Securities Asia where he worked as global head of execution sales, Asia Pacific. He will be responsible for managing and developing Barclays' low and high touch execution capability, the bank's said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Barclays announced a wide-ranging restructure of its investment bank, which will see it cut around 7,000, or a quarter, of jobs in the unit by 2016. Barclays said it would create a "bad-bank" division consisting of £115 billion of risk-weighted assets, which will include all its European retail-banking assets and some parts of the investment bank. This included mainly non-standard fixed-income derivatives, some commodities and emerging markets products, rather than equities, Barclays said.
Antony Jenkins, Barclays' chief executive, said "we will be a focused international bank, operating only in areas where we have capability, scale and competitive advantage".
Lee's hire is the latest in a number of high-profile moves among Asia e-trading practitioners in recent months.
JP Morgan hired Shuya Kekke, previously co-head of electronic trading for Asia Pacific at Goldman Sachs, as its head of sales for electronic client solutions and program trading, Asia Pacific, last October.
In March the US bank hired Stuart Baden Powell, most recently head of European, Asian and Australian market structure, regulation and government affairs at RBC Capital Markets, as a director in its electronic trading business in Asia. Ed Duggan was also relocated from London to Hong Kong this year to lead equities electronic trading sales in Asia for JP Morgan.
Earlier this month, it emerged that Bank of America Merrill Lynch had hired two former senior executives from Credit Suisse's electronic trading division in Asia. Murat Atamer has been hired as BAML's co-head of Asia Pacific institutional electronic trading, while David Broadfield will join as head of north Asia institutional e-trading sales.


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Jack Black Lands Friars Club Roast
Jack Black will follow in the footsteps of Quentin Tarantino, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lewis and Billy Crystal when he is inducted into New York's legendary Friars Club.
A host of comics and former colleagues will poke fun at the School of Rock star's career at the organization's annual 'roast' next April.
Black jokes, "What did I get myself into this time? I'm searching for a loophole in my contract, maybe there's a way I can weasel myself out of this thing. Those b**tards are going to brutalize me, but Jerry Lewis assured me it's going to be the highlight of my career, so I guess I got to go through with it."
Lewis, the Friars Club 'Abbot', adds, "We only roast the ones we love, and with Jack, we love his comedy, we love his music and we love his enormous talent. It's going to be a great day for all of us!"
The New York ceremony will take place on April 5th. Veteran actress Betty White was honored at the annual event earlier this year.


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New $125 million state complex unveiledBy Josh OGorman
Vermont Press Bureau | May 07,2014Stefan Hard / Staff Photo
Gov. Peter Shumlin manipulates a hose to pour concrete into forms Tuesday for the footing of the new state office complex in Waterbury, which will replace the complex that was devastated by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Shumlin was joined by personnel from contractor PC Construction and architects Freeman French Freeman, plus a host of state and local officials, at the ceremony for the $125 million project.WATERBURY From the ruin of Tropical Storm Irene will rise the largest state construction project in Vermonts history.
At a ceremony Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Peter Shumlin poured concrete for the foundation of what will be the $125 million Waterbury state office complex.
It is with incredible pride that we all stand here collectively, after Irene tried to take us out to launch the biggest single capital construction project in the history of the state of Vermont, thats going to assure Waterbury and everybody in Vermont that we have the most extraordinary green, clean, energy-efficient, beautiful, historic office of all the 50 states in America, Shumlin said.
While Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 wreaked havoc up and down the state with flooding, landslides and infrastructure destruction, downtown Waterbury was particularly hard hit when the Winooski River crested its banks and left much of downtown under water.
Contractors of all stripes have been working on the site since August two years to the month after the flood and have, so far, removed 16 of the 19 buildings slated for demolition.
The buildings that will be left standing are being remodeled and will connect with the new 86,000-square-foot building through a series of bridges and walkways.
The new building was designed by Burlington architects Freeman French Freeman to meet LEED Gold standards for energy efficiency and will be heated with wood-fired boilers for hot water and cooled with electric-chilled water.
To keep the new construction above the 500-year flood plain, the entire structure will sit 7 feet higher than the buildings that had occupied the space before 2011.
The dispersal of state employees to temporary office spaces up and down Interstate 89 has been a hardship on downtown restaurants and business, which had to first manage recovery from the flood and now await the revival of the downtown economy.
You think about when Irene blew through here in 2011 and the devastation it wrought on just this town, let alone the entire state of Vermont, said Jay Fayette, senior vice president of South Burlington-based PC Construction, which is overseeing the project.
It displaced some 1,500 workers in different areas of the community, Fayette continued, and to think that in a couple of years, they will start migrating back to this location and bring that energy and commerce back to the town of Waterbury is a monumental thing.
The project is expected to be completed in about two years.
Chris Nordle, chairman of the Waterbury Select Board, discussed the project.
Standing here today, its hard to believe that, three years ago, the site were on now was under water, Nordle said. It was really something new for Waterbury, and we all struggled, trying to figure out, How are we going to get back to normal? How are we going to put it all back together?
Looking around today, I cannot begin to say what an understatement that was, because this isnt coming back to the way it used to be. It isnt coming back to normal, Nordle continued. Its something more incredible than any of us could have imagined three years ago.
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OpenPTK for Lightweight Provisioning
By user12622652 on Mar 29, 2011
These days I am working at a customer that is deploying Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Directory Server, and Oracle Waveset. The customer has many geographically separate sites running Access Manager and Directory server locally. The work flow activities and user self service occur at a centrally deployed Waveset server at the headquarters. However, they still want to have the ability to do some provisioning activities even when connectivity between the remote site and the headquarters is unavailable. The best solution we have found is OpenPTK.
OpenPTK stands for Open Provisioning Toolkit. It is a framework purpose built for light weight provisioning tasks. The architecture is loosely coupled and flexible enough to support many different types of user repositories. For us, it is providing a great head start on development of a custom solution for this customer that will be simple to deploy, easy to maintain, and easy to use.
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Freedom New Mexico
Eastern New Mexico University has narrowed its athletic director search to four finalists, according to a university press release.
Mike Maguire, who served as ENMU's athletic director for seven years, will be reassigned to a teaching and fundraising position after seven years at the AD post.
University president Steven Gamble said the salary range for the position is in the low $80,000 range.
The candidates will be introduced at four separate open meetings, each 5-7 p.m., at the Zuni room of the Campus Union Building.
About 70 candidates applied for the position.
The candidates are:
• Kenneth Oliver, the athletic director and vice president of campus life at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo. Oliver, who is also the dean of students, has been a head or assistant coach for the university's football, golf, track and softball teams.
His meeting is slated for Monday.
• Richard Kaiser is in his 10th year as athletic director at Defiance College in Ohio. He has also been athletic director and Olivet College (Mich.) and Western Oregon and has coached football and tennis.
His meeting is scheduled for Thursday.
• Jeff Geiser, a sales representative with Gilman Gear sporting goods for three years, spent 10 years as athletic director at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colo. A former football coach for Adams State, Geiser was also the school's chairman for the exercise physiology and leisure science department.
His meeting is scheduled for May 4.
• Wayne Baker has been the executive director of the National Junior College Athletic Association since 2004. He serves as an ex-officio member in all NJCAA regular and special committees and has been the association's liaison with organizations bidding on NJCAA championship sites.
His meeting is scheduled for May 7.


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Two teachers in Louisiana are accused of having a threesome with a student. Take a look at other notable teacher sex scandals.
Alison Peck. Greenfield, MO. Peck was a 23-year-old music teacher in 2009 when she plead guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old student. Later that year, she was arrested again after allegedly meeting with the student at a hotel to have sex.


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The U.S. attorney for Hawaii collected $3.3 million related to civil and criminal cases during the latest fiscal year.
Most of that was collected as part of criminal cases during fiscal year 2012. The office says it collected another $4.7 million in criminal and civil forfeitures.
According to a news release, U.S. attorneys' offices nationally collected $13.1 billion in criminal and civil actions during the year, up from $6.5 billion in fiscal year 2011.
Hawaii U.S. Attorney Florence Nakakuni says her office is dedicated to protecting the public and to recovering funds for the federal treasury and crime victims.


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I am so glad I spent a car payment on a Medela PISA. Over the past 9 months, I have watched the quantity of pumped production dwindle. Seems I get less and less when pumping. I don't think I'm producing less because I still manage to get the required milk out of my breasts (4-4 oz. bottles) but I'm getting more and more by hand expression.
I used to pump 8 - 10 oz. at lunch (12:30PM) everyday with my Medela PISA. I would pump one breast at a time and it would pull out 4-5 streams of milk from a breast at once. In the past few months, I saw it dwindle to 5-7 oz. so I started splitting my sessions so I pump for 30 minutes at 11AM (double pumping both breasts at the same time) and again for 30 minutes at around 2PM. I figured emptying my breast an hour and a half earlier would help. Nope. Still getting around 6 oz. for the work day and I'd say only 3-4 oz. of that is with the pump. I have to hand express the remaining 3 ounces. I also notice that the pump seems to only pull out 1-2 streams of milk but if I go to hand express, I get 4-5 streams out of one breast using my hand. (Sorry, i don't know the proper terminology. Maybe it's 4-5 ducts?) I stop pumping because I can feel that I have milk(alot) in there but it's not pumping it fast enough and I have to resort to using my hand to get it out.
I don't know what's going on with my pump but it seems like it just pulls the milk to the front of my breast and I have to hand express it to get it out. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?


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However, commissioners voted unanimously to cease issuing game room machine permits until the ordinance is in place.
"Without any desire to criticize or malign the draft ... my personal feeling is that it is disorganized and full of typos," said Steele, when asked his opinion on the rough draft.
Steele went on to say the draft is unclear and lacks lots of definition on what the penalties are.
As an example, he pointed out that the draft ordinance, from its preamble through the document, refers to "coin operated machines" that will be permitted at $2,000 each. He said Coca Cola machines are coin operated.
"It's very difficult to understand," Steele said.
County Judge Rene Mascorro asked Steele if he could marry the Harris County game room ordinance, which has been a model of sorts for the local draft ordinance, with the rough draft.
Steele said back in January he asked the court to make a comprehensive list of what it wanted in the Refugio County ordinance.
Commissioner Gary Bourland said the draft of the ordinance is what the court wanted.
"I think I could sit down and rework it ... maybe using a similar outline that Harris County did," Steele said.
Steele said it may take a couple of months to get a cleaned up and clarified draft.
What Mascorro called the "devil in detail" was treating one business differently than others.
"We have to be very careful writing this," he said.
Another workshop seemed to be in the works to address some details, such as regulating the number of game rooms in the county and the maximum number of game room machines in each business.
Commissioners tabled scheduling public hearings until a finished draft is completed.
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The Delaware Company: a new historical organization
As a professional historian and historiographer, I know how important our past is and how critical it is to preserve and promote it. Unfortunately, for generations many people in this area have taken our history and historic landmarks for granted. That casual attitude has contributed to the deterioration of monuments to our history. Furthermore, we no longer devote as much effort as we once did to teaching our children about the history of our country, let alone that of our region.
The time has come to reverse the tide.
Preserving and promoting our past is essential for good citizenship. The study of history contributes to moral understanding and provides identity. And the promotion of our history to those outside our region, nurturing what has become known as heritage tourism, is good business for all of us.
Recently a new not-for-profit organization called The Delaware Company has been established, named for the group of hardy Connecticut farmers who, in 1755, overcame inestimable hardships to establish Cushetunk, the first permanent European settlement in the Upper Delaware River Valley. I am the organizaion's co-founder and first president. The Delaware Company's mission is to promote and support the history and historic landmarks of the Upper Delaware River Valley through education, outreach and fundraising. While the group will function as a de facto "friends of" group for Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History, the Minisink Battleground, and other historic landmarks, it will also sponsor presentations on historical topics, conduct narrated historical bus tours, and support and promote relevant historical programs sponsored by other organizations, such as the National Park Service.
The Delaware Company needs funding to begin our important work. Please consider making a tax deductible gift today. You can mail your donation, made payable to The Delaware Company, to Katrina Chellis, Treasurer, P.O. Box 624 Jeffersonville, NY 12748. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.
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Picea mariana
Picea mariana (Black Spruce) is a species of spruce native to northern North America, from Newfoundland to Alaska, and south to northern New York, Minnesota and central British Columbia. This area is also known as the taiga forest, in the Taiga and Boreal forests biome.[1][2][3][4][5]
Picea mariana is a slow-growing, small upright evergreen coniferous tree (rarely a shrub), having a straight trunk with little taper, a scruffy habit, and a narrow, pointed crown of short, compact, drooping branches with upturned tips. Through much of its range it averages 5–15 m tall with a trunk 15-50 cm diameter at maturity, though occasional specimens can reach 30 m tall and 60 cm diameter. The bark is thin, scaly, and grayish brown. The leaves are needle-like, 6-15 mm long, stiff, four-sided, dark bluish green on the upper sides, paler glaucous green below. The cones are the smallest of all of the spruces, 1.5-4 cm long and 1–2 cm broad, spindle-shaped to nearly round, dark purple ripening red-brown, produced in dense clusters in the upper crown, opening at maturity but persisting for several years.[1][2]
Natural hybridization occurs regularly with the closely related Picea rubens (Red Spruce), and very rarely with Picea glauca (White Spruce).[1]
It differs from Picea glauca (White spruce) in having a dense cover of small hairs on the bark of young branch tips, an often darker reddish-brown bark, shorter needles, smaller and rounder cones, and a preference for wetter lowland areas. Numerous differences in details of its needle and pollen morphology also exist but require careful microscopic examination. From true firs, such as Balsam Fir), it differs in having pendulous cones, persistent woody leaf-bases, and four-angled needles, arranged all round the shoots.
Due to the large difference between heartwood and sapwood moisture content, is easy to distinguish these two wood characteristics in ultrasound images[6], that is widely used as non-destructive technique to assess the internal condition of the tree and avoid useless log breakdown.
Older taxonomic synonyms include Abies mariana, Picea brevifolia, Picea nigra.
Growth varies with site quality. In swamp and muskeg it shows progressively slower growth rates from the edges toward the centre. The roots are shallow and wide spreading with fallen trees are colloquially called "drunken trees", and are often associated with thawing of permafrost.[1][4][5] In the northern part of its range, ice pruned asymmetric Black Spruce are often seen, with diminished foliage on the windward side.[7]
In the southern portion of its range it is found primarily on wet organic soils, but farther north its abundance on uplands increases. In the Great Lakes States it is most abundant in peat bogs and swamps, also on transitional sites between peatlands and uplands. In these areas it is rare on uplands, except in isolated areas of northern Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Most stands are even-aged due to frequent fire intervals in Black Spruce forests. It commonly grows in pure stands on organic soils and in mixed stands on mineral soils. It is tolerant of nutrient-poor soils, and is commonly found on poorly drained acidic peatlands. It is considered a climax species over most of its range. However, some ecologists question whether Black Spruce forests truly attain climax because fires usually occur at 50-150 year intervals, while "stable" conditions may not be attained for several hundred years.[1]
The frequent fire return interval, a natural fire ecology, perpetuates numerous successional communities. Throughout boreal North America, Paper Birch Betula papyrifera and Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides are successional hardwoods that frequently invade burns in Black Spruce. Black Spruce typically seeds in promptly after fire, and with the continued absence of fire, will eventually dominate the hardwoods.
It is a pioneer that invades the sedge mat in filled-lake bogs, though often preceded slightly by Tamarack Larch, Larix laricina, with which it may in time form a stable forest cover in swamps. However, as the peat soil is gradually elevated by the accumulation of organic matter, and the fertility of the site improves, Balsam Fir and Eastern Arborvitae Thuja occidentalis will eventually replace Black Spruce and Tamarack.
The larvae of the Spruce Budworm moth cause defoliation and if it occurs several years in a row will lead to death, though Black Spruce is less susceptible than White Spruce or Balsam Fir. Trees most at risk are those growing with Balsam Fir and White Spruce.
Numerous cultivars have been selected for use in parks and gardens. The cultivar P. mariana 'Nana' is a dwarf form which has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[8]
Uses and symbolism
Black Spruce is the Provincial tree of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The timber is of low value due to the small size of the trees, but is used for pulp and paper making.
- ^ a b c d e Farjon, A. (1990). Pinaceae. Drawings and Descriptions of the Gene Do De Do ra. Koeltz Scientific Books ISBN 3-87429-298-3.
- ^ a b Rushforth, K. (1987). Conifers. Helm ISBN 0-7470-2801-X.
- ^ Conifer Specialist Group (1998). Picea mariana. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- ^ a b Gymnosperm Database: Picea mariana
- ^ a b Flora of North America: Picea mariana
- ^ Wei, Q.; Chui, Y. H.; Leblon, B.; Zhang, S. Y. (2009). "Identification of selected internal wood characteristics in computed tomography images of black spruce: A comparison study". Journal of Wood Science 55 (3): 175. doi:10.1007/s10086-008-1013-1.
- ^ C. Michael Hogan, Black Spruce: Picea mariana, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg, November, 2008
- ^ http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=3823


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Fabric 101: Taffeta
In today's final fabric 101 installment, Henry tips us off on taffeta.
Taffeta is sleek, elegant and regal; it exudes vintage, has body, holds its shape and it drapes like a dream. Michelle and I love to use taffeta because, like Lace (see yesterday's 101), it is classic and can be used in both traditional and fashion-forward ways.
We feature taffeta in the following Henry Roth designs
1. Choose ballgown Ireland if you adore the regal elegance of traditional taffeta festooned and flounced featuring stunning lace and Swarovski beading.
2. The combination of taffeta, tulle and gorgeous beaded appliqués is dreamy in style Kaz, is ideal for garden and beach weddings.
3. Kathy has just about all the asymmetrical glamour that we can handle with its contoured bodice with divine beading and scalloped edging lace on the tulle skirt
Who wears it?
The romantic and traditional as well as the relaxed and fashion forward who are looking for just a touch of glamour. One of our favourite brides who chose Taffeta last year was Real Bride Athena who wore her Ireland gown twice over, once at a ceremony in Wiltshire UK and all over again at a country ceremony in the Australian bush (check out a selection of Athena's photographs here.)


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- 2 medium aubergines (cubed)
- 5 celery stalks, trimmed and cut into 1.5cm pieces
- olive oil, extra virgin, for cooking aubergines
- 2 large onions (chopped)
- 125 g green olives
- 65 g capers (rinsed)
- 400 ml (homemade) tomato sauce
- 50 ml vinegar
- 2 tblsp sugar
- optional: raisins & pine kernels
- De-gorge the aubergine by placing in a colander and sprinkling with salt. Allow the bitterness to drain for thirty minutes, then rinse the aubergine and pat dry.
- Fry off the aubergine and drain on paper towel. Heat a pan with oil and sauté onions and celery until they begin to colour before adding the capers, tomato sauce, sugar and vinegar and simmering for five minutes. Add the aubergine and olives cook for a further 10 minutes.
- Allow to cool and refrigerate for 24 hours before serving. Serve at room temperature as an antipasta with crusty bread.


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One month off after first Test-E 600/week-15 weeks. Only running liquidex.
Next powerlifting meet is Sept 20, training 4DAW westside style, so I'd like to start planning my next cycle out for some pretty decent PRs by then.
I've lost 10 pounds so far down to 225, have felt pretty moody and overall shit recovery, but haven't lost too much strength, even made a DL PR the other day (515 up from 500 at April 26 meet). Morning wood is coming back, drive seems to be slowly on the rise.
Should I take the rest of June, then start up 2nd 12-week cycle near beginning of July?
Welcome buddy
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Thanks ck
What weight class are you trying to fit into?
Definitely 275...
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Your cycle is going to have to be pretty heavy to get you from 225 to 275 in that time unless you just eat shit the whole time. Any reason why you have to be in the 275 class?
275 is anything under 275. Probably closer to 250-260. Thats my goal weight to pull of the prs im planning on hitting.
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Right...I'm just trying to get as big and strong as fast as possible. Last bench was 290, 515 deadlift, and 535 squat/briefs 410 Raw, all of those at 235 BW. Am set on hitting 315, 550 and 600 for openers at full power meet in Sept. I don't necessarily care about exact bodyweight numbers, except that I know the heavier I'll get means the more weight I'll move, and I'm definitely unwilling to have the majority of that weight be fat, although I don't have any qualms sitting at, say 18% bodyfat tops. Was probably around 15% at end of last cycle.
I'm certainly have no issues eating garbage, pretty standard for me during training cycles.
Your cycle is not...
I would have us design you a cycle with peak and maintenance phases.
Maintenance maybe 250 test / and some deca. Maybe 500 on test, but I am no pro on cycle design.
So Blast / maintenance / blast / maintenance / blast --- compete.
USA -- thoughts ?
Ill respond to this in the morning, it's late and I have not been getting sleep.
Thanks guys, appreciate the help
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Ok, first I need to know how many cycles and your max doses of each... Also drugs you have used. Then we can try to get this ball Rolling.
First cycle started in February. Did Test-E 600/week w/arimidex, for 15 weeks. Ended April 30th. Using Nolva currently, although CK here's been wondering why I didn't order any Clomid, was a bad case of too many cooks in the kitchen, so I'm sitting tight getting ready to lose almost all of my gains, and will chalk up to experience for next cycle.
So one cycle under your belt ok...
seems like you have about 16+/- wks I would go something like this... I know I'm gonna get shit for not sayin TREN but in your second cycle I can do it. If you want it then things can be changed.
cruise on 250mg test c, dont use e. imo alot of people for some reason dont like test e some have no probelms with it but we want you big and strong so use C for another 5wks then start cycle...
wks1-4 50mg Dbol Ed, 600mg test C, 3-400mg deca
wks5-7 600mg test C, 3-400mg deca
wks8-up to meet 8-900mg test C, 3-400mg deca, 40-60mg halo Ed
this is a simple way imo to get strength/size up to what should crush your numbers. There is a much more in depth way to go but would involve more pinning and more body stress.... This good with you? Or you want to go really hard core, health could be a issue. IMO for a second cycle this is alot of AAS.
I'll be very happy to try another test esther. It's hard to guage the differences just from reading about them.
Should this be a 12 week?
This looks like something I'm willing to go with. Obviously I am and probably should be a little scared of the halo, but I'm pretty serious about crushing numbers here. By cruising, are you recommending I just go ahead and order some to last until this cycle starts or just referring to standard maintenance for me after any cycle I do in the future. 250's pretty standard from what I hear so no problem there
Yes get back on ASAP the longer it takes you to get test floating body again the more weight and strength you will end up losing.
Let us know if you have any questions or want to change anything. Also let us know once you get started again I get back on the 250
Thanks....and again, this is for 10 or 12 weeks?
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Run the cruise for 5wks then up the doses to the one above up till the meet... Not totally sure but its one or the other, I think it's 11
how long till you can start the cruise? Do you have any test you can use now?
I have maybe 500 left...ill order this weekend, hopefully get by week after next.
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Ok take 250 now that will start your cruise, do 250 for 5 wks then start hitting new pr's.
Thanks a million.
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Yup, keep us posted. Or if you can start a log so we can fallow along and keep you motivated.


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Henry Ford had a vision of making a car that everyone could afford. He automated the process of building cars, and soon what was once something only the rich could buy was parked in garages all around America. Now everyone has their own ride, and plenty of us have car payments to go along with those cars.
Some of us do a better job than others when it comes to getting a car loan, and there's plenty to consider when financing a car, especially in this cruddy economy. A little forethought when financing a car can save you thousands of dollars and a lot of stress.
Here are some good things to be aware of when you try to finance your new dream machine -- they are some things that can keep you out of trouble now and in the future.
No. 5: Zero percent financing
Obviously, the lower an interest rate the better. And zero percent financing is about as good as it can get, but there's more to the story.
First, the car model that you want to buy may not be covered under the zero percent interest rate, so they'll try to steer you toward a model you don't really want. Also, you have a shorter time to pay. Dealerships love it when people pay a huge interest rate and stretch it out over six years.
Conversely, if you do qualify for the zero percent rate, they don't want you hanging around for half a decade -- at best you might only get 36 or 48 months.
Finally, look for the sticker price to be bloated and non-negotiable. They're not making much money off this sale, so they aren't likely to take much off if you try to haggle.
No. 4: HELOCs
Especially in this economy, we should already be wary of home equity lines of credit (HELOCs).
These are the things you can use to get a loan to pay off your car, but you use your home as collateral. That is, if you can't make your payments, the good news is you get to keep your car, but the bad news is since you are securing the loan with your home, you lose your house.
Making the concept even more frightening is the fact that usually HELOC interest rates are variable. So while the payment might be reasonable now, a couple bumps to the rate can lead to disaster.
Sure, there are advantages -- like being able to write your car loan off your taxes, for instance. But the whole thing can go south on you pretty quickly.
No. 3: Beware of online brokers
There are tons of loan options out there, but how do you know the best one? You can do all the research on your own, but that's all you'd wind up doing if you tried to do it yourself.
At least that's the selling point of online brokers. They act as middlemen between the buyer and lender, to get you financed right away. But "right away" is not the same as "with the best deal."
One of the dangers is that even though you give the broker all your information, they aren't able to come up with the answers the ideal lender needs, and quite possibly you can be rejected.
You'd probably be better off looking around yourself than rely on an online broker. The broker's job is to get you approved -- not to get you the best deal. As such, you might get approved, but with less than favorable terms.
No. 2: Think about financing first
On the previous page, we talked about the dangers of using an online broker. It's a better idea to do the legwork yourself.
There are all sorts of places you can look to get a car loan. Don't just go with the dealership. Although convenient, they might not offer the best rates. Banks and credit unions usually offer better rates, but they're not always open at nights and on the weekends.
Some insurance companies even offer financing plans. The benefit here is not only competitive interest rates, but also provide built-in Guaranteed Auto Protection (GAP) insurance. GAP insurance is something you should have on a newer car in case it gets totaled and the amount insurance pays does not cover the amount remaining on the loan.