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As the head of Sullivan & Cromwell's California practice, Alison Ressler '83 continues to make big deals and spur positive impact.
U.S. energy policy is a mess. The situation at the global level is even worse. Could it be that lawyers hold the key to getting things turned around?
Houlihan Lokey Senior Managing Director David Preiser '82 analyzes crisis scenarios and financial disasters with the calm, confident demeanor of a natural problem solver.
Professor Nathaniel Persily's new course on redistricting endeavors to train students in the complicated, nuanced, and exceedingly complex practice of drawing nonpartisan congressional district lines.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara '93, and his entrepreneurial whiz kid brother, Vinit Bharara '96, have reached remarkable professional heights.
For practitioner, philanthropist, and photographer Max Berger '71, success goes hand in hand with maintaining focus.
Columbia Law School professors are making an impact at the highest and most critical levels of federal, state, and local government. Back in Morningside Heights, students and colleagues reap the benefits of this real-world experience.
Four Law School graduates based in East Asia talk about working in bustling, opportunity-laden centers of the new global economy at a critical moment in time.
Browse a timeline of Columbia Law School's Center for Chinese Legal Studies and U.S.-Sino relations.
Review a list of Columbia Law School faculty with public service experience.
Learn about graduates working in government positions.
At this years Reunion celebration, graduates working in finance discussed the shortfalls of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Watch a video of the panel discussion.
Professors at Columbia Law School continue to contribute significant scholarly work to the field of clean energy policy. Read samples of their work relating to the topic.
Read profiles from major media outlets about the professional accomplishments of Preet Bharara and Vinit Bharara.
Stream and download a podcast of the Reunion 2011 panel discussion on complex class-action cases and mass tort litigation.
Professor Nathaniel Persily is well known as one of the nation's leading experts on redistricting. Read a sampling of his work.
Professor Gillian E. Metzger '95 examines how federalism issues can impact the success of high-stakes legislation.
Greg Beaton '13 combines his experience in finance and journalism to craft a legal career in corporate law.
Requests by disabled individuals for accommodation can lead to benefits that improve the lives of a wide variety of people.
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati believes that academic scholarship and real-world impact should go hand in hand.
The latest addition to the Law School's faculty, Professor Kathryn Judge, aims to master the complexities of capital markets.
A native of Turkey, Maya Ondalikoglu '12 anticipates crafting a career in corporate law that will maximize her experience and international perspective.
Michelle Pham '12 makes a practice of giving back to the community.
Rafael Sakr '12 LL.M. helps spur change on both the micro and macro levels.
It is time for news organizations to begin making greater use of the nonprofit form.
On August 19, David M. Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, welcomed the incoming class of J.D. and LL.M. students to Columbia Law School. Read an edited version of his remarks.
Novelist Arin Greenwood '00 notes that both law and literature require similar skill sets.
Ben Wiener '96 took a year-long detour clerking at the Israeli Supreme Court. The decision ranks among his most satisfying career moves.
Binta Niambi Brown '98 balances a career in corporate law with pro bono work focused on human trafficking, womens rights, and economic development initiatives in war-torn regions.
George Kellner '67 has a proven track record of success with his 30-year-old hedge fund, Kellner DiLeo & Co.
Over the past 30 years, Maria Foscarinis '81 has played a role in nearly every federal legislative effort to combat homelessness in America.
Pernille Ironside '02 LL.M. has a unique metric for workplace productivity: the number of children whose lives she has helped save.
Since being elected president of Georgia in 2004, Mikheil Saakashvili '94 LL.M. has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and has worked to spur lasting economic growth in his country.
Brad Meltzer '96, the bestselling author of political thrillers, recently delivered a TED talk to a sold-out crowd in Miami.
At this years Reunion celebration, graduates working in finance discussed the shortfalls of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
The Columbia Society of International Law and the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law recently hosted the 37th Annual Wolfgang Friedmann Conference in International Law, which examined the wave of revolutions that have swept through the Middle East this year.
Kirkland & Ellis has committed to sponsoring the first-year writing program, an initiative that will further strengthen Columbia Law School's tradition of producing graduates with exceptional legal writing skills.
This September, Columbia Law School and the New York State Bar Associations trusts and estates section sponsored a symposium on how theories that shape prudent investing have changed in light of the financial crisis. Those
This fall, Professor Harvey J. Goldschmid will deliver the keynote address at an International Financial Reporting Standards conference in Boston.
Olivier De Schutter, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on right to food, will teach a new course during the fall semester titled "The Legal and Political Economy of Hunger."
Columbia Law School remains "one of the finest institutions of legal education in the nation," the American Bar Association concluded in its most recent report on the Law School.
Some of the worlds leading arbitrators, lawyers, judges, and scholars recently convened at Columbia Law School to discuss complex arbitrations as part of the second-annual Columbia Arbitration Day.
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. '76 encourages Columbia Law School graduates to stay true to the values they acquired in law school and discusses of-the-moment legal issues with Judge Gerard E. Lynch '75.
Columbia Law School's Center for Gender and Sexuality Law recently received a $1.5 million grant from the Arcus Foundation to launch the Engaging Tradition Project.
Professor Michael W. Doyle has been elected a Daniel Patrick Moynihan Fellow by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Prominent legal and human rights scholars convened at the Law School this spring to discuss and celebrate the legacy of Professor Emeritus Louis Henkin.
Professor Jane C. Ginsburg recently was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, which named her among 15 distinguished scholars outside Britain engaged in areas of study the academy aims to promote.
The Center for Climate Change Law recently received a $485,000 grant to facilitate clean-energy investment in India.
A new cross-disciplinary program will train young leaders to reshape schools and other public institutions.
As part of this June's Reunion 2011 weekend, several experts in class-action and mass tort litigation gathered to discuss challenges and recent developments in the field.
Professor Katherine M. Franke recently received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
Susan Denham 72 LL.M. was named chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland, becoming the first woman to lead that countrys highest court.
Columbia Law School graduates have been named deans at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Suffolk University Law School.
Donald B. Verrilli Jr. '83 recently was sworn in as U.S. solicitor general, a position tasked with representing the government before the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the sixth edition of Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure, Professor James S. Liebman and co-author Randy Hertz have added exhaustive analysis of recent habeas corpus case law to their authoritative two-volume book on habeas corpus relief.
Professor Carol B. Liebman and Nancy N. Dubler address the contentious and often wrenching questions concerning end-of-life medical care in their recent book Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded Edition.
A selection of recent articles, columns, and book chapters published by the Columbia Law School faculty.
In A Modern Approach to Evidence: Text, Problems, Transcripts and Cases, Professor James S. Liebman and his fellow co-authors explore significant recent cases and address scientific and technological developments that have impacted the rules of evidence.
Professor Jane C. Ginsburg and her co-authors have added new cases, excerpts, and textual material in the 8th edition of Copyright: Cases and Materials.
The 11th edition of the casebook Gellhorn and Byses Administrative Law, Cases and Comments, published this past August, includes expanded case law materials and coverage of regulatory initiatives.
Liberal Peace: Selected Essays, a collection due out soon, brings together some of Professor Michael W. Doyles most influential articles on international relations.
A new book co-edited by Professor George A. Bermann examines the role of mandatory rules in international arbitration, an area of the law that has become increasingly relevant amid rapid globalization in recent decades.
Published this past May, The Law of Clean Energy comprehensively catalogs the countrys schizophrenic tapestry of energy regulations that exist across jurisdictions large and small.
Released this past August, the cumulative supplement to Trademark and Unfair Competition Law adds important updates to this casebook.
Adriano M. Hernandez '91 was an attorney, author, and executive specializing in infrastructure and natural-resource projects in the Philippines.
Among the many victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was Arlene Fried '93, vice president and assistant general counsel at Cantor Fitzgerald.
Charles N. Eggert '74 was a small-town solo practitioner who embarked on his legal career after working as a United Airlines pilot for more than three decades.
Clement J. Driscoll Jr. '40 was a one-time FBI special agent who went on to a 30-year legal career with various corporations.
Daniel M. Friedman '40, was a distinguished federal judge and beloved mentor whose career in public service spanned seven decades.
Florence L. Riley '35 was a skilled former lawyer and judge who was among the first generation of women to attend Columbia Law School.
The Columbia Law School community extends its deepest sympathy to the loved ones of recently deceased alumni, faculty, and friends.
John Powell '58 was a prominent attorney in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he specialized in estate planning.
Kathleen Warwick '63 was a longtime federal securities law expert and the first woman to be appointed regional administrator of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Manhattan.
Leonard H. Rossen '55 was a former official with the Securities and Exchange Commission who spent a quarter of a century with the agency, eventually serving in regional administration roles in California.
Oluwafemi (Femi) Morohunfola 10 was a promising lawyer known among friends and colleagues as a charming, outgoing young man, and a gifted orator.
P. Richard Bauer 59 was a lawyer, investment banker, and corporate executive who specialized in turning around failing companies and assisted some of the first Japanese companies entering U.S. capital markets after World War II.
Raúl Serrano Geyls '46, LL.M., was a former associate justice on the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and a legal scholar who helped guide generations of law practitioners in the commonwealth.
Sheldon Kaplan '39, a prominent attorney in Minneapolis, served for decades as general counsel for the Minnesota Vikings, later joining the teams board of directors.
Steven G. Gey '82 was a beloved law professor at the Florida State University College of Law, a prominent constitutional scholar, and an internationally recognized authority on religious liberties under the First Amendment.


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BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator Ray Horton prides himself on being a look-in-the-mirror kind of guy, and the man staring back at him can't deny that his defense has choked in the fourth quarter of the past three games.
"We have failed the last three weeks," Horton said. "You cannot play well for three quarters and then, come crunch time, tighten up. We talk about being the backbone of the team; well, you can't do that. You don't do that. … It's very disappointing."
Horton acknowledged that some of his players are crumbling under the weight of a close game.

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Like it or not, fighting is a part of the NHL (at least for now, but that could change within a couple of years), and even during special or significant games, specifically the Winter Classic, fighting still occurs.
Two out of the four NHL Winter Classic games have included fights: Bruins-Flyers in 2010 and Penguins-Capitals in 2011.
The more meaningful and historic the rivalry is between the two clubs, the more likely that physicality will be prevalent in their meeting.
With the Philadelphia Flyers facing off against their longtime division rivals, the New York Rangers, in this year's outdoor game, it's almost guaranteed that the mitts will drop at some point.
New York leads the league in fights; Philadelphia ranks fourth in that category. The two teams have met twice so far this season and have combined for 72 minutes of penalties, including eight fighting majors.
Taking into account those figures, and the fact that these teams have a mutual hatred for each other, the odds of this Jan. 2 affair being an intense and chippy battle are great, and the chance of a scrap or two manifesting seems imminent.
These are the 10 most likely partners to square off in this nostalgic pond hockey showdown.


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SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY — The Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop will present "Twelve Angry Jurors," an adaptation of the famous play "Twelve Angry Men," at the Rivoli Theatre on September 20, 21, 27, 28 at 8 p.m. and 2 p.m. on September 22 and 29.
All of the action takes place in a jury room, where a diverse group of jurors deliberates the fate of a 19-year-old accused of stabbing his father to death. As prejudices surface, the arguments become more and more heated. From the initial vote with one dissenting juror, to the final climactic scene, this drama will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The cast includes Darren Fouse, Mike Gastwirth, Serena Gildersleeve, Valeria Henry, Ivan Kalter, Connie Lawrence, Carol MacAdam, Sophia Mahmud, Barbara McCauland, Kim McKune, Peter Nastasi, Paul Puerschner, Marshall Ulger and Stephanie Watson, all directed by Constance Slater. Tickets cost $18 for adults, $14 for seniors, students with ID and veterans. Opening night only special tickets are half price. Call 845/436-5336 and visit www.scdw.net [1].


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Mind posting your build once you're satisfied with it, Dave? I might be building a music server for someone who isn't computer literate and have been considering building a cheaper variant of Computer Audiophile's pocket server. Due to too many years building gaming PCs, I'm having to repeatedly remind myself that I don't need to shove in a pair of GeForce cards in SLI to play flacs through Foobar.
Any thoughts on the Auraliti PK90, btw? I figure the MSRP ($749) is at least twice the BOM, but I read a few favorable comments so I'm curious, if only on an academic level.
Chances are I'll spend a few nights on silent PC review and hash something out under $800. I'm kind of annoyed that Win7 OEM will run $100-130 of the cost, but I'm not going to go the Hackintosh route for this one. Foobar Media Library is just too good If only they'd start selling Anedios again...
Sure, I'd be happy to. Right now it's looking like this:
Case: Lian Li PC-A04 ($100), chosen for decent ventilation that can be dust filtered, and light weight. Thin aluminum is a normally problematic with silent PCs, but since this will be fanless, vibration shouldn't be an issue. The drive cage and all fans will be removed. The Fractal Arc Mini has even better ventilation which is good for passive cooling, but it weighs twice as much.
Motherboard: Asus E35M1-M Pro ($120). This is a passively cooled Micro ATX board running AMD's E-350 processor. The E-350 is a better performer than the Intel Atom. I chose Micro ATX rather than Mini ITX for future proofing reasons. The board has a PCI-e slot and two PCI slots, and you can't get all of those together on a Mini ITX board. It also supports a full 8GB of ram.
Hard drive: 1TB Samsung EcoGreen ($140), which will be inside the Smart Drive Neo enclosure ($75), mounted in one of the CD drive bays.
RAM: 8GB of G.skill DDR3 ($45). Tons of ram is important for large playlists or high-res files in JPlay.
Power supply: For this, I may actually go with the Seasonic X-560 ($120), rather than a completely passive supply. The Seasonic is "semi-passive", and under light load conditions, the fan stays off. The E-350 never draws more than 50W, so the fan should never come on. If things start to get too hot though, the fan is there as a backup, so there's no risk of dangerously high temperatures which is a possibility with no fan at all. The Seasonic's iron grip on voltage and ripple are also a plus. You just don't get results like that with a power brick.
Interface: A wireless mini keyboard/trackpad. JPlay is controlled entirely by the keyboard, so something like this makes a lot of sense as a remote: http://www.amazon.com/CE-Compass-Wireless-Keyboard-Touchpad/dp/B004VPXLDI/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1320391865&sr=8-7
The total cost will be around $600, plus the $300 SoTM card, and a copy of Windows 7 64 and JPlay.
The Auraliti is really not a bad value, but the issue is powering it, and storing your music. A Hynes 12V supply for it and a high quality silent hdd enclosure like the HFX box would run you over a thousand dollars, more than the cost of my entire DIY system. You could use the brick supply and a NAS in a different room (assuming you''ve already got ethernet wired for that) but I think my ~10lb. all in one box is more practical.


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RUSH: This is International Women's Day. Did you know that? It is. And I have here, I've been holding this in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers for, well, two-and-a-half hours here. From the Wall Street Journal, a story by Peggy Drexler. The author of the story is a woman, and the title of the story is, "The Tyranny of the Queen Bee." And let me give you some pull quotes, just to set this story up. "Far from nurturing the growth of younger female talent, they push aside possible competitors by chipping away at their self-confidence or undermining their professional standing. It is a trend thick with irony: The very women who have complained for decades about unequal treatment now perpetuate many of the same problems by turning on their own."
Women versus the sisters.
My friends, human nature is human nature. This is the thing that the feminist movement hated the most. The militant feminazis were just royally ticked off by human nature, and that was their target. They were unhappy with the way nature had treated them to begin with, and so they began their quest to try to alter basic human nature. And, by the way, this next statement is actually not mine, but it is a good theory. I forget who, it was some man that the feminazis all admired, who said that the big problem that the early militant feminists in the late sixties or early seventies made, was that rather than try to build upon the natural differences between men and women, they sought to make women more like men. The quest for power. The way to dress. The seeking of the CEO seat in the corporation. Joining all-male clubs and trying to horn in on that area, rather than using what they naturally had to their advantage.
In fact, the early feminazis resented women using what they naturally had. The worst thing the early feminazis -- I kid you not, my friends, you may hate me for saying it, you may resent me for voicing it -- the early feminazis resented attractive women using that aspect to get ahead, because not every woman is attractive, and therefore it's unfair. And it's not something you can really do much about. I mean, makeovers can do some kind of magic, but let's face it -- same thing with guys -- not everybody's born attractive. There's some ugly people out there. But it matters more in our culture for women than it does men, and that just ticked 'em off.
That's why I wrote Undeniable Truth #24, which, while it established me as a great thinker, also made me enemy and target number one of the feminists and their early acolytes. And that is: "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." It's so elegant and simple, and it's truth that I ended up being hated for it. Human nature is human nature, and the early feminists did their best to try to change that.
Well, you want examples? Okay, making little boys play with Barbie and painting their rooms pink and making little girls play with GI Joe and painting their rooms blue. You don't think that that happened? TIME Magazine had a cover in 1998, I think, or '96, somewhere around there, a cover story: "Men and Women Are Actually Born Different." A cover story.
Now, the men at TIME Magazine were every bit the feminazis as the women. They got caught up in it. I mean, they did what they had to do. Feminism was a big Northeastern urban thing. They did what they had to do to get female comfort, so the definition of a real man became Alan Alda, Michael Kinsley. They actually ended up believing that men and women were actually the same. It was the corrupt culture of America that turned women into something different than men. It wasn't human nature. They set out to try to prove this by turning little boys into girls and vice-versa. It didn't work.
So now what's happened, many women have acceded, have risen to the pinnacle of power in corporations, and this story is about how they try to keep other women from getting anywhere near 'em. They're not mentoring them. They're not inspiring them. They are undermining them, in many cases. Over 40 years of modern feminism, and there's been no change in basic human nature and behavior. Women who advance do not help other women. They didn't in the seventies, and they don't now. Working women, if they have to be b-i-itches, they are, they will be. Whatever it takes, they'll do it, just like men will.
They're not part of a sisterhood when they get there. They're not gonna open the doors and welcome other women in. It took them too much to get there. They're not gonna share it. Just like men don't. I mean, there may be natural mentoring and so forth, but nobody makes way for their competitor to overtake 'em. But the feminazis expected that to happen. There's a bunch of liberals, share everything, nobody's better than anybody, we're all equal. So if one of you happens to become CEO, all of us are gonna be CEO. But that's not the way it works.
"Kelly was a bright woman in her early 30s: whip-smart, well qualified, ambitious -- and confused. Even a little frightened. She worked for a female partner in a big consulting firm. Her boss was so solicitous that Kelly hoped the woman -- one of just a few top female partners -- might become her mentor. But she began to feel that something was wrong. In meetings, her boss would dismiss her ideas without discussion and even cut her off in mid-sentence. Kelly started to hear about meetings to which she wasn't invited but felt she should be. She was excluded from her boss's small circle of confidants.
"What confused Kelly was that she was otherwise doing well at the firm. She felt respected and supported by the other senior partners. She had just one problem, but it was a big one. One of the male partners pulled her aside and confirmed Kelly's suspicions: Her boss had been suggesting to others that Kelly might be happier in a different job, one 'more in line with her skills.'"
What was happening was Kelly actually posed a threat to her boss, so her boss wanted to move her into some other place.
Now, Ms. Drexler, writing the piece says, "I met Kelly while I was conducting research on women in the workplace. She was trying to puzzle through what she had done wrong and what to do about it. (To protect the privacy of Kelly and others in the study, I refer to them here by first names only.) I wasn't sure Kelly had done anything wrong, and I said so. As I told her, 'You might have met a queen bee.'" Queen bee? What's a queen bee? She had to tell her. "Having spent decades working in psychology, a field heavily populated by highly competitive women, I had certainly seen the queen bee before:
"The female boss who not only has zero interest in fostering the careers of women who aim to follow in her footsteps, but who might even actively attempt to cut them off at the pass. The term 'queen bee syndrome' was coined in the 1970s, following a study led by researchers at the University of Michigan -- Graham Staines, Toby Epstein Jayaratne and Carol Tavris -- who examined promotion rates and the impact of the women's movement on the workplace.
"In a 1974 article in Psychology Today, they presented their findings, based on more than 20,000 responses to reader surveys in that magazine and Redbook. They found that women who achieved success in male-dominated environments were at times likely to oppose the rise of other women. This occurred, they argued, largely because the patriarchal culture of work encouraged the few women who rose to the top to become obsessed with maintaining their authority.
"Four decades later, the syndrome still thrives, given new life by the mass ascent of women to management positions." Here it is again, the pull quote: "Far from nurturing the growth of younger female talent, they push aside possible competitors by chipping away at their self-confidence or undermining their professional standing. It is a trend thick with irony: The very women who have complained for decades about unequal treatment now perpetuate many of the same problems by turning on their" sisters.
This, again, is in the Wall Street Journal by Peggy Drexler. Let me tell you who she is. It'll say here at the end. She "is an assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College [in New York] and the author, most recently, of 'Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers and the Changing American Family.'" (New Castrati impression) "Mr. Limbaugh, why you are spending so much time on this? Can we get back to the filibuster or talk about the sequester?"
Well, because, Mr. New Castrati, we've also talked this week about efforts to corrupt our culture that have taken place, efforts that have been underway to undermine the institutions and traditions that led to this nation's greatness. I firmly believe that militant... See, "feminism" is like every other -ism in liberalism. At the top you have the really motivated, malcontent, committed, radical, extreme leaders. And then you've got the rank and file who may not have the slightest idea that there's any politics at all in what's going on.
To them, feminism is simply equal pay for equal work. Feminism is maternity leave. Feminism is, you know, being treated nicely. Feminism is a chance to succeed like the guys. Feminism is not having to see Playboy at the desk. But they don't equate politics with it at all. As such, they're used. So not all women are these militant, radical feminists. That's why I've always said, "There's only ever been about seven real feminazis."
The women thought I was saying every feminist is. Gloria Steinem still hasn't gotten over it. When this subject comes up on TV, my name comes outta her mouth. (Don't try to visualize that.) Every time she's on TV. They have no sense of humor. None. I mean, none. I once told a feminist that I had no problem at all with the women's movement, especially when walking behind it. They didn't think that was funny.


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Fifteen-year-old Frankie longs to be part of the historically all-male club her upperclassman boyfriend leads. She assumes a new identity and begins orchestrating their pranks via e-mail hoping her ingenuity will inspire the members to recognize her as part of their group.
The acclaimed author of Dramarama and The Boy Book now delivers a story about a girl who goes from being mildly geeky to a teenage knockout to — a criminal mastermind?
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Birding and Coffee: A Travelogue(ito) from February 2014
Cafe Campesino launched its first Birding and Coffee Tour of Guatemala in February 2014, visiting three regions in nine days, including Chajul (and its environs) in the Guatemalan Highlands where we source coffee. We logged more than 100 species of birds on the trip, visiting Antigua, near Guatemala City, Chajul, in the Quiche department, and St. Lucas Toliman, located on the southwestern shores of Lake Atitlan. We also got first-hand accounts of the 2013-2014 harvest from coffee farmer members of the Asociacion Chajulense who are desperately battling the spread of Roya.
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A crippling orange, powdery fungus that withers the leaves of the trees it infects, Roya, also known as coffee rust, keeps leaves from performing photosynthesis- that vital plant function that converts sunlight into energy (learn more about Roya here). Without its necessary fuel, coffee trees are unable to produce cherries, and harvests decline. The Chajul cooperative alone expects a 50 percent drop from its 2012-2013 harvest season where it produced some 29 containers (or 1.1 million pounds) of green coffee. This is especially devastating when many of Chajul's 1,406 members rely on sales of green coffee as a primary source of income to buy food.
Helping its farmer members combat Roya is the Chajul cooperative's greatest challenge right now. On one of the three days we were in Chajul, the cooperative distributed to its members organic fungicide mixes and seeds from trees that had successfully resisted Roya in an effort to help members clean out the fungus from existing crops and plant stronger strains of trees to start anew. But new trees take up to 3 years to produce. And many farmers live in villages where not all of their neighbors are members of the Chajul cooperative and
are not as committed to combating Roya as they are.
Many farmers throughout Guatemala, in fact, have abandoned their Roya-plagued coffee trees. They have reasoned that administering multiple applications of fungicide, in addition to the regularly cleaning and maintaining their coffee trees, is not worth their time. So, in many parts of Guatemala, Roya lives-on unchecked (and presumably spreads). Government assistance to curb Roya is virtually nil for small-scale farmers, according to many of the people we talked to along the trip, who explained that much of the state-led Roya assistance efforts were tailored to large coffee farms that do not farm organically.
"No hay cafe" (There is no coffee), said farmers in Chel, a village about a 2-hour drive north of Chajul. While there was some production in Chel, many of those farmers no doubt have fresh in their minds the 2011 coffee harvest when the co-op produced more than 48 containers (or 1.8 million pounds) of green coffee during one of the highest market prices in history. A high market price, combined with a high yield made 2011 a wonderful year for coffee farmers. This year is dramatically different.
In a region that still wears the scars of harrowing human rights violations (the legal office of the Chajul co-op has helped locate mass graves in its region since the Peace Accords that ended a 36-year-long Civil War were signed in 1996), in a country that still struggles to bring war criminals to justice, it's hard to understand how farmers can remain hopeful in the face of Roya. "There's nothing else to do," one farmer told us, saying that remaining hopeful and working his coffee plants was all he could do.
Entities like Cooperative Coffees, who in January organized a best practice-sharing session among coffee farmers battling Roya, help bring, at the very least, solidarity and support to farmers like those in Chajul. Cooperative Coffees also initiated a Roya Relief Fund in the summer of 2013 that sends emergency monies to producer partners to help fund the costs of re-planting trees, purchasing and applying organic fertilizer, developing food security garden projects or other initiatives that may generate additional income for farmer families.
Textiles from Chajul Women's Cooperative
In an effort to get more money into the Chajul area, Cafe Campesino is purchasing hand-woven textiles from a women's cooperative that was born out of Asociacion Chajulense and still shares office space with the coffee exporting cooperative. "Unidas por la Vida" (United for Life) is the motto of the Asociacion Chajulense de Mujeres (the Chajul Women's Association), which is made up of about 50 indigenous Mayan Ixil women who weave using back-strap looms and foot-looms. They make purses, cosmetic bags, wallets, I-pad cases, pillow covers and more, and Cafe Campesino will carry some of these products beginning in the spring of 2014.
The women's cooperative provides artisans with designs as well as prepared thread with which to work. Most women work from their homes, generating additional income while still tending to the needs of their children and families. In addition to providing jobs for women in the Chajul area, the women's co-op also administers a micro-credit fund from which it will loan 2,400 quetzales (or about $300) to an individual woman. The loans are generally repaid within one year, can be used for whatever the loan recipient needs, and are monitored and administered at the local-level by small groups of women who make sure that the loan gets repaid. Since starting the fund in 2007, the co-op has never had a woman default on her loan, and the number of loan recipients has increased from 19 in 2007 to 800 in 2013.
Look for freshly designed, newly woven (the women were working on our order while we were there in February) collection of textiles at Cafe Campesino soon!!!
Birds, Birds, more Birds
And if direct visits with coffee producers and artisans weren't enough for our intrepid group of travelers, bus rides through cloud forests, chocolate tastings at Fernando's Cafe in Antigua, sunsets on one of the most beautiful lakes in the world and sightings of more than 100 species of birds (some of which were very rare) were all on the agenda, too.
Our birding outings were led by our old-friend and veteran Habitat for Humanity volunteer Clive Rainey (who not long ago traded-in an Americus, Ga.-based home for Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, home). Clive took us to some beautiful, tranquil and amazing sites- lush with vegetation and active with bird-life. Among the species of birds that we saw were the White-bellied Chachalaca, the Groove-billed Ani, the Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, the Northern Potoo, the Black Swift, the Turquoise-browed Motmot (the national bird of El Salvador, btw…), the Yellow-Throated Vireo, the Yellow-naped Parrot, the Painted Bunting, the Yellow-billed Cacique, the Azure-crowned Hummingbird and SO MANY MORE! Clive and a small contingent continued birding after the Cafe Campesino trip had ended, seeing ultimately, the Resplendent Quetzal.
And so, with our first Birding and Coffee trip to Guatemala under our belts, we are poised to return with a new group! New for next year's agenda? An overnight in Guatemala City at the Quetzalroo Hostel, where our group will hopefully get Marcos's famed walking tour of the city. AND- iced coffee served from hand-blown martini glasses at El Injerto coffee shop in Guatemala City. Both were pre-trip highlights of this trip leader.
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TDF13 Spotlight: Richland Rum
Richland Distilling Company is located in Richland, GA. The owners Erik and Karin Vonk and master distiller Jay McCain are helping put Richland on the map by making authentic, quality products. Garden and Gun calls Richland Rum "the smooth amber liquid that had brought new life to this town." (Find the whole article here.) It is a family-owned business and makes Richland Rum exclusively.
Richland Distilling Company will be one of our stops on Saturday, Nov. 9 during the Southwest GA Tour de Farm 2013 bike ride. We will get the opportunity to taste Richland Rum and to take a tour. Tickets for Tour de Farm are on sale now! Register today to ensure your spot in the ride.
Richland Rum is made by hand and is done so day-by-day all in one area. They grow their own cane sugar at Vennebroek Estate there in Richland and distill, age, and bottle their Rum all in the same place. The process of making their Rum involves fermenting, distilling, and aging in oak barrels, where it is matured for at least one year with some longer.
Richland Rum only contains two ingredients! Those ingredients are either sugar cane juice or premium sugar cane syrup and water. This means that it is all natural and contains no preservatives, artificial aromas, coloring, additives, or chemical enhancements. The fermentation recipe used to make Richland Rum also plays an important role in contributing to the all natural taste of the quality Rum.
To learn more about Richland Distilling Company and Richland Rum, check out these articles:
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution April 2, 2013
Also, check out this YouTube video about Richland Rum.
If you haven't already done so, be sure to check out Richland Rum's website.
TDF13 Spotlight: White Oak Pastures
We believe White Oak Pastures is a gem in Southwest Georgia, and we are so thrilled to have them featured on this year's Southwest Georgia Tour de Farm. Primarily a livestock farm and processing facility, White Oak stands out nationally for its sustainable farming practices and commitment to land stewardship, animal husbandry and organics. Plus, the folks who work there are just so darn innovative, creative and committed to doing the right thing for their community, the land they live on and the animals that feed them.
We promise a fantastic tour and exceptional supper on Friday, Nov. 8, where the food will literally be born, raised, processed, prepared and consumed on-site. (Thank you so much, White Oak!)
Supper-only tickets are available for $30 online at http://tdf2013.eventbrite.com/. or at Cafe Campesino Coffee House and Roastery in Americus. Full event tickets include the Meat & Greet Supper, as well as two days of food-and-farm-oriented cycling in Southwest Georgia. The entire event is a fundraiser for non-profits Georgia Organics and Sumter Cycling. Learn more about Tour de Farm and purchase tickets online. Read more about White Oak below!
Just why is White Oak Pastures so cool? Here's some stuff that stands out for us:
-Forty percent of the energy needs of White Oak's on-site processing facilities COMES FROM THE SUN! (yeah, there's a big solar panel on that farm)
-White Oak makes bio-diesel on-site to power its farm tractors
-On-site commercial meat processing hardly ever happens on farms. In fact, only 2 farms do this in the U.S. White Oak Pastures is one of them.
-Nothing goes to waste- blood, bones and viscera are all broken down to make compost.
-In 2011, White Oak complemented its red-meat processing facility by opening up a USDA-inspected poultry abattoir and now raise and slaughter chicken, ducks, geese, guineas, and turkeys on-site.
-There's a certified organic vegetable farm that produces food for CSA customers across Southwest Georgia.
Still Curious? Keep reading at some of the links below:
From The Local Palate in June, July 2013
From the Atlanta Magazine in February 2011
Check out their website to find out even more great things about White Oak Pastures.
Guatemala February 2014: Sign-Up Now
We invite you to join Café Campesino and our sister company Sweetwater Organic Coffee, along with local birding enthusiasts for a ten day trip to Guatemala from Feb 7 to Feb 16, 2014. Our Coffee and Culture Tours focus on understanding coffee production in the countries where coffee is grown. We introduce participants to more than just how coffee is produced, but also to the positive impact that fair trade and organics bring to small scale farmers and their family economic development. As we meet farmers and their families, we understand customs, culture, geography, economics, language and family life in the country visited.
Guatemala is a delight for birders. As we travel to the places where shade grown coffee is produced, and even to the market cities where coffee beans are processed, travelers are in the midst of a range of micro climates that support a wide variety of bird habitat. Our balanced itinerary allows us time to focus very specifically on coffee on certain days and birds on other days. At certain times we may incorporate both in a day's activity. We may also find certain days when the birders hike in one direction while the coffee hounds head in another. Some of the birds that we are likely to encounter are unique to Guatemala while others are migratory birds that you may see in North America in a certain season and in Guatemala in the colder temps of a North American winter. The value of shade grown crops, a rainforest canopy and organic methods are a boon to the health of all birds and this will be demonstrated.
Please join us. The dates are February 7th to 16th and you may choose to extend for other birding, language school, or other Guatemala tourism. Extending is at your own separate expense. The cost is $75 per day plus your air ticket and travel insurance. So the ten day trip is $750 plus airfare (which you will coordinate on your own). This includes in-country transportation, meals, snacks and water each day, and accommodations (based on shared rooms). Single supplements will not always be available and will have an added cost.
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Cafe Campesino receives "Rock Star" Accolades from State Econ Dev.Groups
AMERICUS (August 22, 2013) – Café Campesino is one of six companies that was recognized as a "Small Business Rock Star" in Atlanta on Monday by the Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA) and the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD). Nearly 50 companies competed for the title, which lauded outstanding, unique and impactful small businesses in the state of Georgia.
"It's important to honor companies whose best practices help set the state apart as a nurturing environment for small business," said Mike Pennington, president of GEDA, which collaborated with the GDEcD to host this first-time event that highlighted innovative entreprenuers across the state.
"Entrepreneurs find where there's a need and work to fill that need," said Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who spoke at the Aug. 19 luncheon at the Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel that honored the winners.
A local need for sustainably sourced, high quality, organic coffee prompted Bill Harris to start Café Campesino in 1998. Mr. Harris accepted the award for Café Campesino on Monday and highlighted its work to honor small farmers "who work harder than any of us here" as the driving force behind his business. He also noted that the company's simple business philosophy – to "treat others as you would like to be treated" was at that heart of everything Café Campesino does.
"We are a company that measures its success based on its relationship with the three P's– profits, people and the planet," Mr. Harris said to the more than 100 public officials and econonomic developers attending the luncheon, who included newly appointed Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Corbin, as well as Lt. Gov. Cagle.
Deeply committed to developing small business in the Americus and Sumter County region, Mr. Harris expressed his gratitude to the state and local entities that have provided Cafe Campesino with support along the way. He cited the Department of Community Affairs, the Americus-Sumter Co. Chamber of Commerce, the Americus Sumter Payroll Development Authority, South Georgia Technical College, the Georgia Department of Economic Development and the City of Americus as being strong supporters of Café Campesino.
Café Campesino also underscored the importance of these entities and the tremendous opportunities for entrepreneurship it sees in small towns across Georgia during the Aug. 14-16 Georgia Downtown Association conference it attended in Savannah where it served on a panel that highlighted craft industry and agritourism in Georgia downtowns. Pladd Dott, a Statesboro-based music company and guitar manufacturer and the Savannah Bee Co., a retailer and wholesaler of sustainably sourced honey and skin-care products, were also on the GDA craft industry panel.
Other "Small Business RockStars" winners included Laurie Jo's Southern Style Canning, located near Moultrie; FactoryMation of Canton; Azalea Health of Valdosta; Restaurant Interiors of Jasper and Atlanta Light Bulbs of Tucker.
Nema Etheridge of Café Campesino, Angela Westra, director of chamber development, Americus Sumter County Chamber of Commerce and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harris Sr. accompanied Mr. Harris to the award luncheon.
Small Business RockStars is a collaboration between GEDA and the GDEcD to recognize outstanding, unique and impactful businesses with fewer than 50 employees across the state.
About Café Campesino
Cafe Campesino is a fair trade, organic coffee company that is based in Americus, Georgia. It was founded in 1998 after Americus resident Bill Harris traveled to Guatemala with Habitat for Humanity. Today, Café Campesino sources coffee from small-scale farmer living in more than 10 countries around the world and sells freshly roasted coffee to customers across Georgia and the United States. It is headquartered in Americus where it operates a roasting facility and coffee shop. www.cafecampesino.com
About GEDA
Celebrating 50 years of service excellence, the Georgia Economic Developers Association is the leading professional organization advancing Georgia's economic vitality. GEDA is a non-profit association of professionals, volunteers and supporters. The association provides networking and professional development opportunities for its members, and supports public policies that promote quality job creation and sustainable economic development throughout the state. For more information, visit www.geda.org.
About GDEcD
The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) plans, manages and mobilizes state resources to attract new business investment to Georgia, drive the expansion of existing industry and small business, locate new markets for Georgia products, inspire tourists to visit Georgia, and promote the state as a top destination for arts events and film, music and digital entertainment projects. Visit www.georgia.org.
SAVE THE DATE: Tour de Farm Southwest Georgia: Nov. 8-10, 2013
Join us for another weekend of cycling through beautiful Southwest Georgia!
This year we will return to Koinonia Farm and spend an evening at White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Ga.
This is a NOT TO BE MISSED event for food-lovers, organics enthusiasts and people who like exploring the world on bikes.
Check our Facebook page this summer for ticket information.
See pics from last year to convince you that you want to attend this year's ride 😉
4/30/13: Film Screening + Garden Launch in Americus
AMERICUS, Ga.- Café Campesino joins a series of locations around the world screening the critically acclaimed documentary, "GROW!" that showcases the work and enthusiasm of 20 young farmers across Georgia who are energizing the local food movement. Film-makers Owen Masterson and Christine Anthony will be on-site for the Tuesday, April 30th screening in Americus that will take place in Café Campesino's newly established community garden- the first of its kind in Sumter County.
The public is encouraged to attend this free event and bring a picnic, blankets and a general curiosity about community gardens, organics and Georgia's local food movement. Garden gates open at 6:30 p.m. Mingling and information-sharing begins at 7 p.m. and an outdoor screening of "GROW!" will begin at sunset, about 8:15 p.m.
A 60 minute documentary, "GROW!" shares the stories of young people across Georgia who have chosen the unlikely but energizing career paths of becoming small-scale farmers. "GROW!" highlights young farmers living in Atlanta, Blairsville, Chattahoochee Hill Country, Mansfield, Ranger, Savannah, Winterville, Pine Mountain and other locations across the state. Released in 2011, "GROW!" has received worldwide critical acclaim including 2011 Best American Documentary at the Rome International Film Festival, 2011 Official Selection at the Savannah Film Festival, 2012 Best Feature at the Colorado Environmental Film Festival, 2012 Official Selection at the Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival of New Zealand and the 2013 Earth Award of the Cinema Verde Film Festival.
The film screening will be the first held in Café Campesino's newly established Community Garden that offers 14 raised-bed plots to individuals in Americus who either do not have access to land or sunlight to grow their own food. Though still in its nascent stages, the Café Campesino Community Garden is meant to be a gathering spot for gardeners of all skill-levels and backgrounds who are eager to learn more about organic farming and local food. During Tuesday's 7-8 p.m. information-sharing hour, local experts on composting, beekeeping, organic gardening, chickens and heritage-breed livestock will be in attendance to answer questions, promote discussion and share their knowledge with the general public.
Join us at 725 Spring Street in Americus, Georgia, on Tuesday, April 30, or call with questions in advance: 229-924-2468. Watch the trailer or learn about "GROW!" at growmovie.net
CONTACT: Nema Etheridge
Work: 229-924-2468
Cell: 404-558-6221
Understanding Roya: The Coffee Rust
Roya- or coffee "rust"- is an orange fungus that grows on the leaves of coffee plants, causing them to whither and fall off. It reduces coffee production and eventually causes plants to die, and it is quickly spreading through Central America. We witnessed the effects of roya during our trip to Guatemala in January, and shortly after our return, the Guatemalan government issued a national coffee emergency, anticipating some 70 percent of its 2013 coffee harvest to be affected by the fungus. Bill, who on the trip visited the same small-scale farm of Chel-based Pedro Pacheco Bop that he visited in 2011, saw a drastic change. "I was shocked. It was not the lush green coffee forest that we saw 2 years ago. His farm was noticeably different." Roya has affected other coffee growing regions in the past, most notably devastating coffee crops of the British Ceylon (or modern-day Sri Lanka) in the 1800s, and later affecting coffee crops in Indonesia and Brazil and some areas of Central America and the Caribbean as recent as 30-40 years ago. Scientists remain undecided on what is causing the outbreak. An increasingly changing climate- where longer periods of wet and warmer temperatures are reaching high-altitude coffeelands- is one culprit. But John Vandermeer, a scientist at the University of Michigan, believes that an ecosystem damaged by the excessive use of pesticides and fungicides is to blame. For example, a white halo fungus, which has helped to keep coffee rust in-check, has been nearly eradicated through chemical applications in Central America that have also killed off the insects that help germinate it. Coffee industry professionals throughout Central America are looking to get the fungus under control, and small-scale farmers like Pacheco Bop will turn to his cooperative, the Asociacion Chajulense, for expertise and technical help on how to deal with roya. Bill sees this as a critically important role that the cooperative plays. "The coop has technical advisers on staff who are working on this right now," he said. "And this is an example of another moment where being a part of a larger organization and working together and collaborating is the best way for the farmer to get through this," he said. The effects of a diminished harvest will be especially bitter for the coffee farmer this year, as the price of coffee has dropped from last year's near 15-year high. "They're not getting nearly the amount of supply, so they're getting affected by the negative trend of production and the negative trend of pricing," he said. "Just when it looks like it is getting good, then watch out… such is the life of the farmer." Café Campesino will continue to be committed to learning more about roya and responding to the needs of the cooperatives at origin. "The best thing we can do is support whatever decisions they make," said Bill.


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FORT LEE, N.J. – April 5 , 201 2 – Greeting Easter with a basketful of in-game activities, kid-friendly virtual world Fantage.com ( Fantage), is kicking off the holiday with a week-long "Bunny Bash 2012". Beginning today and ending on Wednesday, April 11, the world's young players can enjoy several new mini-games, accumulate free gifts and a valuable medal, and collect Easter-themed limited items at www.fantage.com.
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- Find the Eggs! – Players are tasked with uncovering hidden eggs by clicking areas they want to explore. Their character will move to that section and the spot will be revealed; however there are a limited number of clicks allotted to find the goal number of eggs, so players are encouraged to plan their search well.
- Easter Egg Drop – In this game, users are in charge of non-playable character (NPC) Kawaii, and must move her side-to-side to collect the target number of eggs before time runs out.
- Egg Decoration – Players put their artistic skills to the test in this game, clicking paint colors to apply a stencil, and then dragging to a white egg to apply the effect. To complete the game successfully, they must match the given image in the time limit.
- Egg Colorator – Players start out with three conveyor belts of eggs and must shoot them to add color to as many eggs as possible before time runs out.
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- Egg-coloring fountain – Players can celebrate the season by buying their character an egg costume and exploring the Fantage world to discover egg-coloring fountains. Fountains are located in different areas, so players can walk through to embellish their exterior with any one of four random patterns.
- Free gift – Available on April 8, players can collect a free Easter egg for a limited time.
- Easter egg scavenger hunt – 20 eggs will be hidden throughout the Fantage world. Players will be awarded five stars per egg they find, with a bonus of 100 stars for any player who finds all 20 eggs in one day.
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WTWJRF = What Team Would Jesus Root For?
Do you hate when Athletes thank God?
Many people, including folks that say they believe in God can be put off by hearing someone thank God in an interview-after a win or at an award ceremony. I have thought to myself; how is it possible that God would be rooting for one team over the other? From what I've read around the web this act of thanking God in public is a touchy subject and can most certainly be miss-understood by the speaker and the listener.
Here are some Bible verses that came to mind:
"Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus"-1Thes.5:18
We don't always get to hear comments from athletes after a loss, but it would be cool to hear someone thank the Lord after loosing a big game. Would that not be the best time to publicly show the kind of strength that Jesus demonstrated in suffering on the cross?
"So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God"-1Cor.10:31
This verse is answering a question about a religious practice of diet, but it caused me to seek the answer (about this subject) in prayer to God; What is the best way to point to (God) without upstaging (Him)? The key must be in our heart. It must be in our motivation, the reason why we do-what we do. My kids thanked me for the pizza I brought home last night and I noticed my thought was "Thank God"…I did that fist to the heart/point up thing and I saw the "AH-HA" moment in their eyes. That was sweet…I felt an appreciation to God-my provider by providing for my children.
As the Scriptures say, "If you want to boast, boast only about the LORD." 2Cor.10:17
The person with a real heart for God can't help but to point to the one that gives them strength. It can not possibly be that God is on one side or the other in a competition since God often allows us to fall order to make us stronger. It must be that when we hear a star athlete with a heart for the Lord thank God, they are giving the glory to Him. They are acknowledging that God has put them on that stage to be seen by us…for us to come to know Him.
It makes me appreciate God even more to realize how often I miss-understand and criticize Him (aloud, in my thoughts and/or agreeing with others in opposition to Him) and yet God continues to reach out to me. In fact God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. When I think about what that verse from the book of John chapter 3, verse 16 actually means it makes me want to shout PRAISE THE LORD GOD IN HEAVEN!
What's In A Name?
95.7 Sports Radio Facebook Page July, 8 2011:
"The A's have been the Redheaded Stepchild in the SF Bay Area…until now! 95.7 is paving the way for San Jose!" -big_e
Nic Caciappo asks the question:
If the 49ers move to a new stadium in Santa Clara will they still be the SAN FRANCISCO 49ers, or the Silicon Valley 49ers?? Santa Clara 49ers??? 7 hours ago
Enrico Christion My fellow Bay-Areans: Our regional aka to the USA is in fact the "San Francisco Bay Area"…The Raiders and A's (who by the way put Oakland on the map) could just as well be associated with the city of San Francisco by the same standard…unless they went big picture: like – Golden State Warriors, Texas Rangers…etc – naming rights in the modern era of baseball is now all about $$$- see LAA.
"49ers" refers to the historical event known as the "Gold Rush", synonymous with San Francisco. It makes sense on many levels for the name to remain SF-49ers, on the other hand $an Jose carriers a big bat!
The A's; owned by a man who speaks softly and swings a big wrecking ball will only build a stadium where corporate sponsorship eliminates the need for failed marketing ploys such as free-parking Tuesdays. His target market is no doubt in the South Bay, populated by all of us spoiled-geeks that work in adult jungle-gym office environments…"there's gold in them-thar hills!"…valley this is.
I moved here to the Bay Area in 1987 and tried to be a 49er fan, but the glove didn't fit and there was no where to sit….the wait list was over 20 years long for a season ticket. When the Raiders moved back in '95 I could sit on the 50 yard line with a $5K-5 year PSL, no problem. The 49er bandwagon has since thinned out and with the invention of Stub Hub one can sit anywhere one can afford.
But here's the thing that should make one go hmmmmm???- If I want to see the Raiders, I have to go to the game, yet somehow the half empty lop-sided monster-stick in not blacked out…what's up with that is called corporate sponsorship. The 49ers have it even in the dump they play in. It's self evident Al Davis has hung on to the wheel of "how we always did it". Mount Davis speaks volumes to the level of class that it attracts (including vanilla-ice-a-lattes like me). Oakland/East Bay residents report to have this notion that their lack of attendance to their own team's home games have something to do with the inferior quality of the facility, like oxymorons wrapped in an enigma these faithful but few fans seem to be drinking this "if we build it they will come" kool-aid concoction.
I, like most of the population of California, am not native to this land. I grew up loving the Raiders and A's in spite of (and because of) their history of dysfunction and identification with everything that is BLING!. The mystique of "THE RAIDERS" for me, is larger than the city of Oakland and/or LA….if Mr.Davis could swing a shared stadium deal in Santa Clara, a home town moniker for the Raider Nation would be irrelevant. I believe the Silver & Black have the moxy to be the first (and only) team to pull off an aka like the artist formally known as "Prince"…to simply be known by just *The Shield* (logo). As for the that other "-Bay Area" NFL team, their most popular logo is an SF in a football shaped thingy same as the football Giants *NY* who make their home in the "Meadowlands"-WHATEVER!
The relocation of the 49ers is a similar situation to the one in New York. It's more about providing an appropriate modern facility for a storied franchise with an imbedded supportive fan base than an issue being associated with the name of the city it is located in. The relocation of the A's to a viable marketplace creates an issue that carries with it a perceived stigma by the local fans of a team with a history transcending it's current location.
I'm a big fan of all pioneers of progress in the face of adversity, with a spirit of advancement at the cost of controversy. Al Davis, one of the a founders of the AFC, first owner to hire a black coach among other important advancements to sports moved the Raiders from Oakland to LA and back again. Charlie Finley the P.T. Barnum of baseball. As ringmaster of the Kansas City and Oakland A's for two decades introduced some "far-out" ideas such as Day-Glo orange balls, the designated runner, multicolored uniforms, Hot Pants Day, Mustache Day (discount admission for anyone with a 'stache) and Senior Citizens Day (discount for everyone 65 and over, provided they were accompanied by their parents). Charlie also championed the designated hitter rule originally proposed in 1906 by the great Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack.
The DH rule is the one thing that differentiates the AL from NL and in my opinion is an example of a progressive advancement of baseball. I personally favor Quest-Tech balls & strikes, a one time replay challenge and/or anything that will enhance the quality of the game. I think MLB should let the A's use aluminum bats as long as they sit on the decision to build a suitable ballpark where the A's can attract and retain veteran sluggers.
The A's, like the Raiders carry a tag of a rebellious, radical attitude augmented by trend setting facial hair-a tradition of bucking tradition itself. Regardless of their current city of origin both the Raiders and the Athletics have been able to maintain an attractive quality of progressive youthful desire in the pursuit of excellence. The Green & Gold branding is the perfect role model to spin for the likes of this want-it now-now-now generation, that college-educated yet casual energy-conservationist-crowd peddling those crazy colored bikes around the campus of Google…and every the other similar structured company headquartered the South Bay.
The founders of the Fairmont Plaza who do just happen to have $450+ million to privately fund a modern sports venue, most certainly have done there homework and have publicly declared that the Capitol of Silicon Valley has in place the perfect down-town cost model to make this puppy fly. There's a lot of zeros on the end of the figures involved on all sides of this deal. Lew Wolf's Frat-buddy Bud has got to make sure no rock is left unturned and this business plan is air-tight. The city/naming rights, a very lucrative component and no small detail of this deal is a crucial aspect of the A's relocation – unlike that NFL team from the side of the self named bay, the name on my new A's grey road jersey will most certainly be "San Jose"; nothing personal, it's just business.
Exorcism of Futility For A New Facility
Big-e was in the House last night ya'll along with a whopping 11,438 other die-hards to welcome home the Oakland A's.
The 2011 Athletics returned to the other city by the bay Tuesday, June 14th. There's no place like their multi-purposed home field corporately dubbed Overstock.com Coliseum. While they were out getting run-over on the road the A's received a face-lift as well as the outfield lawn trampled under foot from a U2 Concert. Excitement was in the air tonight and you could cut it with a knife. This was the first home game for the new skipper "Bo-Mel" Bob Melvin, replacing the lack-luster manager/scape-goat Bob Geren; who'da-thunk-it- Billy Boy Wonder suddenly fired his best man mid-season.
The BOB is Dead, Long Live the BOB!
The once lack-luster visiting club from Kansas City came to town and surely the Royal Punching Bag of old would have been just the thing the A's needed to burrow-out of a ditch they've dug skidding on a 1 win – 11 loss June-Gloom-Doom. After being swept out of town by the Yankees, the A's returned to their homely-home from a 1-9 losing road trip and yet the "O" was almost one-third full! There's got to be something bigger happening here than just a game. If you were there too, you would have seen what all the buzz was. Revolutionary Fan-Fare proudly hung out to dry like laundry on a close line, (proley not seen on TV) defiant decorative demonstrations of, love?. Some of my favorites slogans include "don't take our A's away" & "Fisher-Slumlord Billionaire" It was hard to deny the passion expressed on the banners in right field…unless you weren't there and chances are you were not. hmmmm, now that puts the diss in dysfunctional! I just can't figure out what all the fuss is about…anyone that's ever trekked through the Fairmont Plaza at Christmas in the Park knows The Wolf means business. Even if English isn't your first language you can clearly read the writing on the wall…well, it might as well be-
As soon as I made it down from the West Side Club to my MVP box seat at the top of the 1st inning, I found it hard to focus on the game. There was a surreal effect from the sodium lights reflecting off the sea-air molecules contrasted by shadows covering the field. I was either hypnotized from Trevor's psychedelic warm up song or had a contact high from my mouth breathing neighbors. Sitting in yet another sparse hammered crowd the game rolled in to the 3rd & 4th inning and I began squinting at the sight of my beloved A's once stellar defense flounder, wincing with our Ace struggling on every pitch, having absolutely no confidence that poor Derrick Barton can put the ball in play ever again…the full moon rising over the C lot seemed to be the only spectacle worth the price of admission, until…
Godzilla lines one on a rope to Matsui-Land, then later Jamile Weeks puts a charge on the ball deep in the gap, flying around the bases-diving in for his third triple since being called up only a hand full of days ago…WOW-even Breslow came in and starting dealing!
Schwing!-the A's are fighting back, but I too began to find myself fighting back negative thoughts of the Money-Ball-Wizard sitting somewhere behind the diamond seat curtain winding tape back and forth, freezing replays of Cahill-Sweeny-Weeks, spinning scenarios of yet another multi-team trade with young phenoms for aging veterans as a stop gap measure to salvage one more hopeless season…trying to pull out of this patterned spiral of anxiety, pep-talkin' to myself; " big_e -gotta stay positive buoy"…
… then waves of cold reality started crashing in…first I blow the call on which cap the dibs are under (it's never under the same cap that it starts at, right?)…then BOOM-ump#83 blows an obvious tag out call at third…and now I'm cranking up the volume on the play-by-play in an attempt to drown-out the steaming mad belligerents' firing off f-bomb chants over what proved to be the unrecoverable pivotal point in the game…the volume is already up as loud as it goes!!!-
…just then the battery on my FM dies and an eerie hush envelopes my senses like I'm in the Twilight Zone……..,
…. I glanced out to the virtually empty outfield bleachers and wondered if Sweet-Lew Wolf is going to see those make-shift hate signs when he shows up with his grand-kids to sit in his on-camera home plate seats…my heart sank as the thought creeped into my mind;
"they're going to sit Weeks when Ellie comes of the DL…oh-no, they may even send the one spark of hope I've seen tonight back down to sac-town to make room for the same-old-fail-mold"
WELL-Today is a new day…got to look on the bright side and trust in the frat-brother-powers that be…Thank the Lord for 95.7 home of the * A's *, San Jose Sharks and Dexter Posey :^) I'm thankful to be able to tune in to this oasis of quasi-positive media coverage for the long time step-children of the soon to be South Bay-A's.
While I was listening in to my fellow-fanatic pawns of pain sound off with hypothetical postulation about the viability of a new ballpark in San Jose vs. Oakland – I composed this little expose for San Jose in an effort to build hope and endurance for my next arduous traffic jam up the 880:
>free parking Tuesday promo-($40/gas commute from San Jose),
>face value for two front row stub-hub MVP seats $110.00,
>no waiting for a table at the glass in the West Side Club-$58,…
>walking two blocks down San Carlos Ave. to Cisco Filed 75+ times a season-PRICELESS!
Sometimes When You Loose You Win
can throw an 80-mph fastball and was featured on the cover of ESPN the
Magazine — was cut after he tried out for a High School
varsity team in Florida. Dr. Phillps High School coach Mike Bradley's main concern about this bionic boy wonder was him trying to field bunts off the pitcher's mound. Principal Gene Trochinski stands by the coach's decision, believing his coach made a determination of who could contribute to the team this year "…
not that Anthony couldn't, but other kids could at a higher level."
Despite the setback, Anthony doesn't make any excuses for being cut. "I want to earn my position on the team. I want him to say I'm good enough to play," he told an Orlando paper. That statement in itself says to me that the level Anthony is on is higher than almost everyone of us will ever reach.
I would like to lift Anthony up in prayer to God as high as he has lifted my spirit. I want a faith a fraction of the size of his fortitude. I believe that God has a great plan for each one of us, and Anthony Burruto is a beacon of hope that The Light that gives life to everyone is shinning through for you and me to see.
I would also like to offer a prayer for coach Mike Bradley, Principal Gene Trochinski and everyone that believes "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing". My son made a profound statement when he was about six years old. We were at an A's/Rangers game in Arlington and the crowd was booing Pudge Rodriguez for striking out, he said; "shouldn't his fans be encouraging him?" It made me really think about how serious us hard core fans can make a game that is supposed to be fun….and even more so how we measure ourselves and others by the definition of what the world defines as winning.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see the A's take a beating. Every game I watched on TV last year was a recording of at least a 45 minute delay, in part to skip through redundant adds and in part to fast forward through moments of the game when the bad guys were raking our pitchers. Okay, so I still have a ways to go to fully recover from an obsessive sports addiction, but my desire here is to seek higher ground.
This story is about High School baseball not the MLB…and I'm here to twist it around even more and make it about Jesus The moral of this story has been pretty well documented, debated and blogged about for well over a month now. The spin move I beg to offer is one not only of inspiration but of restoration. I've read the slams against the coach, principal and high school sports system as well as the defensive comments by the do-or-die-hard that thinks "the crippled kid should go play in the Special Olympics".
No matter what side you're on, I'm sure I'm on the right one. But in order for there to be restoration, one of us has got to die. Someone on the opposition has to die to the idea that they know is right. Then God can begin to restore us. This is what Jesus did. He willingly died for us when we were yet sinners. His selfless act of love moves us to respond in love for Him.
He told us to love our enemy and pray for those that persecute us. In doing so we enable the Holy Spirit to restore harmony within us and our enemy. Anthony Burruto's courage to succeed combined with his integrity to make no excuses for being cut is quite an admirable virtue in deed. The example God wants to demonstrate to us through Anthony's perseverance is for us then to bless the coach, principal or any apparently heartless ******* that would bunt the ball on a paraplegic pitcher to win the game. A concept that is as about as easy to wrap our mind around as it would be to hit this kid's 80 mph fastball.
A's New Home Jersey
A Facebook friend of mine saw this
and did a double take, thinking at first the headline read;
A's New
Home: "Jersey"
………………oh nooooo,……………….
The "Hoboken Athletics"
His LMAO comment reminded me of the three alarm anxiety I felt when I first heard Lew Wolf's plan B to move the A's to Omaha Nebraska. I could identify with the abandonment plagued Oakland area natives experience with yet another of their team's pending exodus looming on the smoggy horizon…and the subsequent obvious revelation that I may be storing up treasure on a sinking ship rather than investing in eternal things, the things that bring real meaning and purpose in life.
Everyone that knows me knows I'm a hard core A's fan, love 'em long time season ticket holder and obsessive compulsive sports memorabilia collector. I've paid a stiff price learning the hard way that being an Oakland Athletic Supporter is a slippery game in which we the peeps can get sucked in to more than what we've bargained for. The past couple of decades of musical chairs with Oakland's star players has been shocking and disappointing. Passing on Miggy's due value for the affordable Cry-Bobby Crosby, forcing Jason G's hand to go play for the Dark Side, the breakup of the big three (Hudson-Mulder-Zito) rocked the house that Reggie built. The apparent solution to filling the salary gap seems to be the very hole Lew Wolf has spent the past several years digging for; the perfect plot to break ground and build a new stadium. We know that He knows where that place is, the space makes the best horse sense to erect his high-tech cathedral of the future. It's so ridiculous that the team directly across the bridge owns marketing rights in a territory thirty miles away, in a city that can actually sell out a new stadium, the self proclaimed Capitol of Silicon Valley; San Jose. Did I just hear someone in Oakland say "be careful what you wish for"?
True-dat, a brand new big ticket price stadium can't stop the merry go round free agency created, it may just slow it down long enough for the ink to dry on my Josh Willingham autographed gold baseball…but when will this viscous cycle end? Which brings me to the point I really want to share with my fellow sports addicts and/or anyone else that God has lead to this page in life. The realization that maybe I've sunk way too much time, money and effort in something that is ultimately doomed to let me down.
It was no secret that 2006 would be Zito's last year with the A's, yet
I still wanted to add his #75 home white to my collection. I even paid
to have the Bill King patch sewn on…Barry left Oakland in style and he
was sure to be an icon at his next gig, right? The next season, spring 2007, in an attempt to endear myself to another Oakland A, I kicked down full price on an authentic Swisherlicious, a most colorful fun-loving character. As fast as you can say; SHEEKABOOMBA-2008 dude's dealt to another team…so when I saw "Oakland's Man In Black" (Justin The Duke) on the cover of the September issue of the Athletics Magazine that year, I could hear Ken Harrelson's voice in
my head proclaim; "He Gone". A born sucker for the alternate black cool base, I seriously considered
having a #32 version tagged [CUST OUT] but thank
God for bringing me back to reality. And thank God for giving us one franchise player so I can safely stock pile all that #3 garb available, amen? ….I break the bank writing checks that my balance sheet can't cash, Mr. Franchise broke his back leaving it all on the field of dreams…Sorry Chavey, you're heading for the retirement home-team down stream while I'm up floating up cash creek without a paddle to my name.
So now that I have 24 feet of wardrobe space full of mustard stained jerseys, none of them with a player on their current team, some of them only fit my beer belly evil twin, and all of them aint going with me to heaven…but, the grace and mercy of the Lord brought me to a place of restoration. God is making a youth leader and tailgate minister out of me. I can now see a day when I will be able to reach the lost dressed up like Ice Cube in "Are We There Yet".
We will never be fulfilled to the full satisfaction of our need by anyone or anything other than Jesus Christ. He is the one who we all want to believe in. The following famous quote has been attributed to renowned mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal:
"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be
filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known
through Jesus."
Life is the pursuit of fulfilling basic human needs. If we try to meet
them with our own understanding, we will become disillusioned,
frustrated, discouraged, and depressed. However, if we follow God's
design, we will experience the joy and fulfillment that comes from
achieving our basic life purposes. I would like to recommend a web site that outlines a book called Seven Basic Needs. LifePurposeHealth.com
May the Lord bless you and lead you to fulfill His purpose for your life…
….wish you were here,
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
Allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man with an AKA…several of them in fact. I would like to make my first mark on the MLBlog by posting my story, the extended version, in hopes to stain my reputation right from the get go. I'm a die hard Oakland fan but an even more frantically zealous, life long rebel of everything that advances the instrument of change.
I'm all in favor of the Giants and 49ers having the whole upper half of the San Francisco Bay Area; a very nice place to visit, but I don't live there. I'm a born again Christian with my finger on the trigger of a weapon of mass reconstruction, a life long member of that dreaded radical denomination, often times mocked as a meek and lowly bunch of athletic supporters promoting the A's exodus to the center of the new millennium; San Jose, California.
What seems to many to be unfair times the impossible is where faith rears it's unpopular righteous head. If the conservative, we've always done it that way group of contestants to this relocation from here to there and back again will just back up to a broader place of perspective, I believe we will all view in hindsight the A's ball park in San Jose is for the greater good, not just for the A's but also for the MLB, the entire SF Bay Area and yah-sure, me personally. If you're still reading this and care to dig deeper in to the mystery of the one with the multitude of aka's, by all means necessary not excluding a king's size carafe of Christian crank…read on, there's something here sure to offend everyone.
Born in 1960 down river from Detroit, Michigan I grew up watching Tiger games with my "paw-paws" in living color on WJBK TV 2. My Grandpa Olson played in the minor leagues, caught fire hot foul balls at Tiger Stadium with his bare hand and taught me to throw a wicked Uncle Charlie when I was 10. My Grandpa Susewitz, a hard nose little league coach gave me the nickname Enrico Rodriguez Immanuel Continuez (aka E.R.I.C. my real first name) my Dad added to this moniker…El Fartos deTurd, but later shortened it to simply "Rodriguez"; the fearless one". He taught me to play Ty Cobb style base-brawl, I broke my own record every year for being hit by the pitch. I lived, slept and breathed baseball. At the risk of tooting my own horn, I was good enough to make the traveling team the first year at Sietz Jr. High in Riverview. I could have been great, I could have been a contender! Until this thing called Desegregation showed up in my vocabulary. My ultra-white conservative parents moved the family out to the sticks to escape the threat of forced busing.
Hartland Michigan for me, was a creepy small minded town with one traffic light and no street lamps the middle of nowhere. I rarely saw my Grandpa except for dysfunctional alcoholic holiday's, Polish weddings and special visits usually planned around a trip to Tiger Stadium. When the Oakland Athletics came to town I made sure I was there. Despite being decked out in what I thought to be clown colors, the A's were real cool man! They had long hair, mustaches and they were, during my little league career the World Champions. I became an Oakland Rebel. I was raised in an All American Johnny Bench hick-town and my boyhood heroes were the likes of OJ Simpson (that's another story) and Reggie Jackson; Mr. October! Touted as a traitor (not by me though-see my favorite current player list: Curtis "Grandy"…Nick "Swisherlisous"), Reggie bailed on his blue-collar team and went to play on the big stage for the Yankees. I followed in his foot-steps (sort-of) in 1979 accepted to Parson's School of Design in New York to pursue an art degree.
The education I received on the streets of New York was just what the Lord had in mind for me graduating with dishonor from the school of hard knocks…to make a long story relevant; I found God at the bottom of a bottle in Dallas Texas in 1984. After enduring an underwhelming reception from the art world to my first one man show documenting my walk to Christ I hopped on board the Amtrack, arriving at the Deardon Station-San Jose, California in 1987 (next to the proposed future home of the San Jose A's). By the grace of God, my little brother and his Michigan transplant friends I wound right side up in the commercial furniture industry. I'm now the proud father to four diverse and equally dynamic children. I proposed marriage in section 124, row 23 at the Oakland Coliseum to a blond bombshell-execu/babe California native, not necessarily in any particular order.
I celebrated my 50th birthday on September 25th 2010 with 24 friends and family in suite 83 wearing a Josh Hamilton American League All Star Jersey. The Texas Rangers clinched the American League West that day and went on as you know to loose the World Series to the upstart SF Giants, my wife's family's favorite team…and the saga continues…I pray each waking moment to hear that booming voice of gold announce "Come up Hear"…or that other booming voice over the Public Address System on the corner of Montgomery and San Carlos; …YOUR SAN JOSE A's! which ever comes first.


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