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Two buildings, two bankruptcies.
That's what California investors Michael Kamen and Gerson Fox have left behind Downtown.
In 2008, they arrived with a Rodeo Drive-like flourish, spending $30.6 million in eight months to acquire the Union Trust Building on Grant Street and the James Reed Building on Sixth Avenue.
But there has been no Hollywood ending.
The historic Union Trust Building, built by industrialist Henry Clay Frick, ended up in bankruptcy this month a step ahead of a sheriff sale triggered by a mortgage default totaling $41.1 million, including interest and other costs. Eight months earlier, the James Reed Building followed the same path after the owners failed to sell it.
As it turns out, Pittsburgh isn't the only place Mr. Kamen and Mr. Fox are having trouble. According to one complaint, eight other buildings held by the pair in Los Angeles, Cleveland and other cities are either in bankruptcy, default or receivership.
Mr. Kamen has filed for personal bankruptcy, claiming $10 million to $50 million in liabilities. He was sued last year by Mr. Fox, who accused his longtime business partner and friend and some of his associates of "a long and orchestrated web of lies, theft, fraud, and abuse of a trusting elderly couple," causing him millions of dollars in losses.
The allegations and financial turmoil have shattered the relationship between the two men, one in his 70s and the other in his 80s, said Mr. Kamen's attorney, Richard Lee.
"These are old guys used to being very successful and getting their way. They'll never reconcile. It's kind of a poor way to spend the twilight of our lives. But who am I to tell them what to do?" he said.
In October 2008, the two bought the James Reed Building Downtown under the name 600 William Penn Partners LLC for $6.5 million. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy, filed in California last December, dodged a sheriff sale scheduled after the pair failed to sell the property and couldn't make a balloon payment on a PNC Bank mortgage.
Now it appears that the nine-story Beaux Arts-style building built in 1902 will be auctioned off in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles on Sept. 11 by Howard Ehrenberg, the Chapter 11 trustee appointed to handle the case.
Mr. Ehrenberg has secured an opening -- or "stalking horse" -- bid from PMC Property Group, a Philadelphia developer that has bought several properties in Pittsburgh over the last two years, including the Regional Enterprise Tower across the street from the Reed building.
PMC submitted an offer of $5.5 million, the highest of five bids, for the property, which has been vacant since the Reed Smith law firm moved to Three PNC Plaza in 2009. In the auction, PMC would have the right to bid above its $5.5 million offer. If it doesn't get the property, it would be paid a $165,000 break-up fee.
Mr. Ehrenberg expects the auction to be a success.
He hopes to use the proceeds to pay off creditors, including a negotiated payment of $2.2 million plus interest calculated from July 1 to PNC and claims of $110,066 by Allegheny County and $489,669 by the city and the city school district related to delinquent property taxes.
The fate of the Union Trust Building is still to be decided.
In February 2008, Mr. Kamen and Mr. Fox, doing business as 501 Grant Street Partners LLC, acquired the 11-story Flemish Gothic structure for $24.1 million with the intent of restoring its grandeur by adding upscale retailers and making other improvements.
Most of that hasn't happened. By the time 501 Grant Street moved the building with the stained glass dome into bankruptcy on Aug. 3, most first-floor retail space remained vacant and office levels were almost half empty. The Chapter 11 petition listed liabilities of $10 million to $50 million.
During their tenure, the owners feuded with their main tenant, Siemens Corp., over a bid by the firm to reduce the four floors of space it occupies in the building and lost upscale Larrimor's clothing store to One PNC Plaza.
Mr. Lee, special counsel for Mr. Kamen, predicted the Union Trust Building, like the James Reed Building, would be sold, either as part of the bankruptcy or through a foreclosure.
He blamed the real estate woes, in Pittsburgh and elsewhere, on the recession.
When the economy crashed, many of the properties lost value, he said.
"I lay the blame on the continuing poor economy, tenants who don't pay or tenants who aren't there, and banks that are frankly getting a little stricter about working things out," he said.
Mr. Fox, 85, tells a far different story in an adversary complaint he filed as part of Mr. Kamen's bankruptcy.
He accused Mr. Kamen of using their joint real estate holdings to "systemically steal money" from him or the special purpose companies set up to purchase the properties and to "use it to fund [his] lavish lifestyle." One of the companies that is a plaintiff with Mr. Fox is 501 Grant Street Partners.
He maintained that Mr. Kamen, among other things, used funds intended for the properties to pay personal expenses, including collectible art and cars, and private school tuition and fees for his children.
The scheme, he alleged, began to unravel in 2010, when he learned a number of the companies had defaulted on mortgage loans, property taxes or other obligations even though the properties had a positive cash flow.
He also accused Mr. Kamen and his associates of intentionally devaluing properties by failing to make mortgage and property tax payments so that they could be acquired at a discount by friends and accomplices.
The complaint alleged that at least 14 of the properties Mr. Fox held an interest in produced sufficient income to cover expenses.
Of those, 10 are in various stages of default, receivership or bankruptcy, including the Union Trust and James Reed buildings.
Mr. Lee described the claims as "completely frivolous." Charges that Mr. Kamen stole money are false, he said, adding that audits conducted involving the various entities have placed the amount of money unaccounted for at less than $20,000.
As for claims that Mr. Kamen and his associates devalued properties so they could be acquired at a discount by accomplices, he countered that none of the properties had been sold.
It's not your typical movie ending. Christian Scali, one of Mr. Fox's attorneys, conceded as much, though he argued Mr. Fox had no choice but to take the action he did.
"It's a shame that these people have to spend the years they should be enjoying life fighting over a friendship that's gone bad," he said.


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Creating Competitive Jobs is an Interreg project between Swedish and Danish universities and business organizations who want to test a new method to utilize research and increase companies' ability to absorb it.
During the period of September - November 2013, all small-and medium-sized enterprises in the Öresund region had the opportunity to apply for the project with an idea that needs to be developed. We received 89 applications in total and before the end of the year, 25 companies were selected for interviews. The existing budget allowed us to select 15 companies that are now offered positions at five different universities.
Participation in the project is completely free of charge for the companies and they will receive support as interdisciplinary research skills and salaries for working with the idea through a fixed term at a university. The project has considered appropriate researchers from Sweden and Denmark who have been matched with the companies to help them develop the idea that they applied with.
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Standing on the start line of the Great Manchester Run, Dr Fiona Thistlethwhaite made herself a promise.
She silently vowed she would be back in this race in 12 months' time.
Just a week previously Fiona, 41, had undergone tests for cancer after she found a lump in her breast.
And being a cancer doctor herself, she knew in her heart of hearts the news wasn't going to be good.
The mum of two says: "I had had benign breast lumps before, which I'd had checked out and removed, so I was actually quite relaxed about it when I found another lump.
"I didn't panic as I just thought I would go and see someone and get it sorted.
"It came as a shock when I realised I had cancer . The difference for me was that I knew as soon as I had the tests what the outcome was going to be.
"So when I stood on the start line I told myself I was going to come back and run again next year.
"I knew my life was going to change significantly once I got the test results and the thought of running again this year kept me going throughout my treatment."
That was a year ago – and Fiona has achieved her goal.
She is due to run the 10k race again on May 18 and this time has persuaded 35 colleagues from Manchester's world-famous Christie Hospital to join her in a bid to raise £15,000 for the hospital that saved her life.
Fiona, from Bramhall in Cheshire, had enjoyed running at school and university. But she decided to take it up again to help lose weight after having her children – William, four, and Emily, three.
She says: "I had trained all through the winter and had joined my local running club, so my main focus was getting a good time. I tried to block anything else out."
And despite the threat of cancer hanging over her, Fiona managed to cross the finish line in only 43 minutes.
Just a week later her worst fears were realised when the results of the biopsy came back and she was diagnosed with cancer in her left breast.
She says: "I already knew the results of the mammogram so knew breast cancer was likely but it was still a real shock when the doctor gave me the diagnosis."
She had to have four months of chemotherapy before undergoing a mastectomy and had to step down from treating patients with stomach and kidney cancer at The Christie.
She says: "Working in this business I see people day in, day out, who have been diagnosed with cancer.
"Yet I still thought it wouldn't happen to me. I suppose you have to think like that as a defence mechanism to be able to do the job I do.
"It is so important for women to be vigilant. Cancer can happen to any of us.
"I didn't have a family history of breast cancer or any of the risk factors. It literally can happen to anyone.
"I have been working in oncology now for 10 years and the treatments for cancer have come on so much in that time.
"But that doesn't take away the shock when you are diagnosed with cancer and the fact that you will have to undergo some fairly nasty treatments.
"Once you are diagnosed, your life has changed for ever.
"I have to live with the fact that my cancer could return one day, but you have to be positive."
Almost 12 months on, Fiona's cancer is in remission and she is on the drug herceptin.
She has been back at work part-time since January and has been back in training for this year's Bupa Great Manchester Run.
With the support of her husband Alan Walton, she is managing to juggle work and their busy family life to get back into her running.
Fiona says: "I am more tired and I am still having treatment, so training has been harder this time around.
"Going back to work was a big step but it was great to get some normality back.
"I have gone through the transition from being a doctor, to a patient, to a doctor again and I do think it has given me a different perspective on the work we do at The Christie."
She adds: "I have had brilliant care there. It is a really good place to be a patient.
"People go the extra mile for you and I know that isn't just because I work there.
"I usually see people once they have been diagnosed with cancer but I do have to break bad news if their cancer has returned.
"After going through this as a patient I think I have a much better understanding of the impact getting bad news has and the effect that it has on people."
Fiona and her Christie Challenge Team are raising money for the complementary therapy department at The Christie, where patients
undergoing cancer treatment can have massage therapy, aromatherapy and counselling.
She says: "Last year was all about getting a fast time but I know I am not going to do a fast time this year as I haven't trained as much and I am not fit enough.
"But I want to run it to say thank you to everyone at The Christie for all the care and support they have given me over the last year."


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The Book of Lost Tales 2 (HoME, Vol. 2) - 1995
di JRR Tolkien
Editore HarperCollins
Dimensioni 13 x 20 cm
Edizione 1995, Pagg. 386
Curato e commentato da Christopher Tolkien
Illustrazione in copertina di John Howe
Format: Paperback
Pubblicato per la prima volta da George Allen and Unwin nel 1984
This second part of The Book of Lost Tales includes the tales of Beren and Lúthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay, together with the texts of associated poems, and contains extensive information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages.


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Kendal is happy to talk about it. "They haven't come off till now because it hasn't been necessary or appropriate. It's not because I've at last been asked and I've been dying to do it for all these years," she says in that smiley, throaty voice that swells into a giggle which is something between a coo and a gurgle and then explodes into a gleeful, slightly wild "ha, ha, ha". Then, in an instant, she gathers herself together and is once more all no-nonsense composure. "It was always a decision. I'm not a great flasher obviously, but I'm not a shy person either. I didn't think twice about it, possibly because it's to do with Flora's illness and isn't something that tries to be sexy. The play's about a guy painting a woman nude. You'd be selling it short if you started being coy. If there's one word you don't want to read about this character in a review, it's coy."
On reflection, this is the one stage direction we should perhaps have predicted in a new Stoppard. For years he has been writing roles apparently designed to show Kendal in the most delightful light, and to reveal outer as well as inner perfection at the age of 48 is just another accolade. It is safe to say that Kendal is never going to appear in a Stoppard wearing a filthy slip, her hair greasy, throwing herself at a passerby. She says this is nothing to do with her, everything to do with what he writes.
"Tom doesn't write character plays, he writes about ideas, more like Shaw really. He likes writing clever people. The characters could swap some of the dialogue because they're presenting this magical circus of links and loops and language. You can't push too much blood and guts and sweat and deodorant into his plays because they're not about that."
This is Kendal's sixth Stoppard (six and a half if you count the radio play In the Native State which is the source of Indian Ink). He was so determined that this "bossy little blonde ", as he affectionately described her, should premier Hapgood that he delayed the opening to fit in with her second pregnancy. So is she Stoppard's muse?
"I know what you mean," Kendal says. "There's obviously a link, but three of the plays have nothing to do with me at all. I've absolutely no idea how anyone writes anything but I'm sure it always is related to the people you know. It's a partnership that works - it's like a painter finding the kind of shape he wants in a woman, a building, a landscape. That is what you are; you happen to be it, but you don't make it. There are people that influence people but it's only because they fit." Fluffy she may be, but she is also extremely firm.
She met Stoppard for the first time when she was cast as a boy in On the Razzle in 1981 at the National ("my most favourite part in the world") while she was doing Othello and Amadeus. They became a rather glamorous couple, but The Real Thing had been written before that, so had Arcadia - and the production of Jumpers she was in was a revival. This leaves Hapgood, Native State and Indian Ink (the two latter set in India, a background shared by Stoppard and Kendal) as the only plays in which she might have had a direct influence. There are few people with much clue about the terms of a partnership conducted from separate Chelsea houses: "The relationship we want works wonderfully. What it is is my secret, and one day I'll write a book about it." Kendal goes to some pains to establish how single she is right now, explaining, as she removes a large pair of boots from her drawing room, that her eldest son, Charlie, is very happy to live at home because there is no competition for who's going to sit in the most important chair. She also insists that Tom's plays would be written and staged whether she was around or not, and that working with him might not be everyone's idea of fun. The play opens tonight and he has been madly shuffling scenes and reworking the end.
"It's tricky when things change because I like practising. I'm not one of those actors who turns up with a performance. I put it together bit by bit and find out how I like to do it. I'm entering the phase I always reach around this time when I want to shout `Taxi!' and go somewhere else and not do it." She won't, of course, and despite last-minute alterations she will pull it off. Kendal has a reputation in the business for commitment, competence, great charm and a natural sense of timing.
Today she is wearing tiny tight black jeans and a classy gauzy jumper designed to reveal a tiny sleeveless black body beneath. She perches on a stool, legs astride, one elbow on one knee and her chin cupped in her hand looking every inch (5ft 2in, size six) like Peter Pan. The part of Flora requires her hair to be English mouse - "Not being blonde is a much bigger sacrifice than taking my clothes off" - but apart from that and a faint line or two, and minus the cardy and wellies, she's instantly identifiable as Barbara in The Good Life, a part she played two decades ago for eight years. "She was gutsy, not too glamorous, absolutely devoted to her husband. Everyone's perfect partner. It's a winner, that kind of part." A survey done at the time revealed that half the male population was secretly in love with her, the other half made no secret of it. She hopes they will come to the play, but suspects that the cost of the theatre ticket might well test the strength of their infatuation. "If you charge 50p an autograph, you suddenly find people don't want it quite so much."
Despite a recent hilarious appearance on Ruby Wax wearing a bustier, thigh boots and cracking a whip ("I got a completely different reaction from the boys in Peter Jones the next day") the squeaky-clean image of goody-goody Barbara sticks like marmalade, and she doesn't ever expect to shrug her off entirely. In any case, she offered her the break she badly needed.
Kendal has no classical training. She was brought up in India where her parents, actor-managers, went with Ensa during the war to tour doing twice- nightly rep. They fell in love with the heat and the jasmine and stayed for ever. If one of the troupe died, they wired Spotlight in London to send someone new. At the age of 10, Felicity was an accomplished stage manager, had played Puck and knew most of Shakespeare off by heart. "It was a wonderful apprenticeship but no one was very interested when I came back to England. It was all Julie Christie and Twiggy, and it was terribly hard to get started."
Her biggest fans - Peter Hall among them - will cast her adventurously, encouraging her to play down the doll-like vulnerability and turn up the forcefulness in parts such as Desdemona. "He made me much stronger. I found it quite hard to be anything other than reasonably pleasing until then." For her unremittingly tragic performance in Ivanov she won an award, and yet she has rarely been given the parts of deeply suffering souls. One critic has suggested this is because she is always Felicity Kendal her suffering is not plausible. "You can't expect the praise without also expecting the damning, and you have to be brave enough to try things. The instrument I have won't fit anywhere. I've done parts which I feel someone else would have done a great deal better but you just struggle on."
She is sorry she's missed out on some Shaw and some Shakespeare she now feels she's too old for, but there's "lots left to do that's quite yummy and the experience I've got is really nice to have. I simply enjoy working. For all one's pretensions to being artistic and clever and good, what's really lovely is being in a short play with your chums that goes well, and then you go home early."
`Indian Ink' opens tonight at the Aldwych Theatre, London WC2 (0171- 416 6003).
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On December 7, 1941 President Coolidge with transport A. T. Scott escorted by USS Louisville (CA-28). was en route from Tarakan to Pearl Harbor. The liner diverted to California where it was converted to a troop transport capable of carrying 5,440 men and was painted gray and armed with defensive weapons.
In her first voyage as a troopship, the Coolidge transported troops and equipment overseas to Melbourne, Wellington, Auckland, Bora Bora, and Suva then returned to California.
On October 6, 1942 departed San Francisco via New Caledonia bound for Espiritu Santo. Aboard were 5,440 troops, mostly from the US Army 43rd Infantry Division. Plus extensive equipment, armaments and supplies.
Sinking History
Captain Henry Nelson attempted to run the ship aground and ordered an abandon ship. Those aboard were told to leave all of their belongings behind under the impression that they would conduct salvage operations over the next few days.
Two were killed in the sinking. Fireman Robert Reid was working in the engine room and was killed by the initial mine blast. Captain Elwood J. Euart, U. S. Army Artillery Corps from Pawtucket, RI had safely gotten off the ship when he learned that there men were still in the infirmary who could not get out. Euart voluntarily went back aboard and into one of the sea doors. After successfully rescuing the men, he was unable to escape and he went down with the ship.
Over the course of the next 90 minutes, 5,340 men got safely off of the wreck and to shore. There was no panic as the troops disembarked - many even walked to shore. However, the captain's attempts to beach the ship were unsuccessful due to the coral reef. The Coolidge listed heavily on her side, sank, and slid down the slope into the channel. She now rests on her port side with her bow at a depth of 70' and her stern at 240'.
The shipwreck lies on her port side with her bow at 70', only a short walk and swim from the coastline near Luganville. At 45m within the ship is "The Lady" in the first class passengers lounge smoking room. Now she poses for those divers sufficiently experienced to penetrate the wreck.
The ship sank on her port side at a depth of 70' to 240' underwater.
Salvage operations which recovered items such as the propeller blades, bunker oil, brass casings of shells, electric motors, junction boxes and copper tubing. However, on November 18, 1983 the Vanuatu government declared that no salvage or recovery of any artifact would be allowed from the Coolidge. Since then the ship has been used for recreational diving.
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Dear friends, colleagues and fellow musicians,
We are very proud to present you our debut album, released by Hot Club Records.
The present recordings are a complete summary of our work and progress in the last several years. The album consists of 9 original compositions that offer a glimpse of our aim and scope in gypsy jazz, and 1 composition by Django Reinhardt, which we present as a hommage to the founder of this genre.
The album also contains several guest appearances by notable Croatian jazz musicians, starting from the pioneer of Croatian gypsy jazz, the guitarist Mate Matisic, to younger promising names of Croatian jazz, such as Pavle Golubic on percussion and Mladen Kosovec on accordion.
Very special thanks go to Branko Pucekovic, the sole responsible person for the sound of these recordings and our great friend and producer, Andrija Zelmanovic, whose photographs gave the album an identity, Jon Larsen from Hot Club Records, whose affirmative reception of our music and a generous, supportive stance towards our work made this possible at all, and all the guest musicians who, with their heartly involvement in the project, happened to enrich the final result of our work.
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The band is Andy Rau on banjo, rhythm guitar and vocals, Les Johnson on lead, rhythm, slide guItars and vocals, Evan Anderson on mandolin and vocals and George Boravich on bass and vocals.
"The Andy Rau Band's approach is modern and genre-bending applying bluegrass accents to songs steeped in contemporary folk and country, with hints of rock, blues and pop as well. The group's prime strength is an instrumental attack founded on inventive, dramatic arrangements, full of pregnant pauses and resonant chording, and keyed by fiery, fluid soloing on banjo and guitar."
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Why don't pigeons roost in trees?
pigeon's proper name is "rock dove". i let you figure out the rest
I just have to ask - does the following ever happen to you?If I'm sitting watching TV and someone in a movie (out of nowhere) kicks or punches someone, I usually have a reflex reaction, my leg will jump or I'll have some spastic instantanious reaction.It's a bit like jumping from something in a scary movie, but just a auto-reaction to some unforeseen action in a movie. Just curious.


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I bought Pink Floyd's Pulse the very second it became available. It was mid-1995.
It was my first year living away from home, in Wellington; ostensibly I had travelled to the capital to study English and Political Science. I already had my undergraduate degree in the works of Pink Floyd when Pulse was released.
The special edition version of Pulse featured a flashing red light; the actual pulse of the CD/packaging. We were told when we purchased that the batteries would need changing on the light after six months. I left mine. The LED continued to flash for six and a half years.
The hook, for me - and for most I'm sure - behind buying Pulse was the live rendition of Dark Side Of The Moon. I'd been a card-carrying Floyd fan since I was ten years old. I had Delicate Sound Of Thunder (and every studio album, including The Division Bell; the band's final studio album and reason for the Pulse tour). But I needed to hear the live versions of the Dark Side material.
How badly did I need to hear it? Well - pretty badly.
A chance stroll down Lambton Quay had provided the information that one music store would be offering Pulse at a special midnight opening (remember those?) The hook-line was that, being in New Zealand, you could be "the first in the world to own Pulse" - or however it was phrased.
Me and a mate decided we would definitely be up for that. He is a fellow Floyd nerd.
What time would you arrive for a midnight opening to ensure the prime position; to beat the queue? Half-past-eleven perhaps...maybe bang on eleven pm?
We arrived outside the store - pitch black, winter, cold, the streets essentially empty - at eight o'clock. Yep. Four hours early.
We were the only people outside the store. We were, I'm sure, the only people along Lambton Quay.
Now - as nerdy and in to Pink Floyd as we were, we did (kinda) expect to be the only ones there. We thought it would be fun. Good, clean fun. We didn't have Facebook or even cell phones then. We didn't have Twitter. We didn't have torrents. We did have cigarettes though - and filter-coffee. In fact it was smoking that became my second major, rather than politics.
Another friend sat with us for a while - assisted with a coffee run and so on - and, mostly, I think, came to laugh at us.
At about quarter to twelve, our fingertips icy-white, our lungs coal-black, the owner of the store arrived. He chuckled to see two teens sitting on the concrete outside his store. We were allowed in a few moments early and looked around the store, waiting, waiting for Floyd. Waiting for Pulse.
I can't remember if we had much of a plan about who was going to step up and be the first in the world - by our understanding - to own the CD. I think, perhaps, we'd thought that we would be first equal; that we would be served together. If we even thought that.
It transpired that a small crew of fellow nerds arrived around five minutes to midnight; fresh from car-rides in from Lower Hutt listening to The Wall or Wish You Were Here no doubt.
And, well, I can't really say what happened from here - I do know that I got the first copy of Pink Floyd's Pulse - the first in the world! (Ha!) And my mate was relegated to third or fourth. I'd like to say I felt bad. But I did not. Our other friend who, quote, "hates Pink Floyd" lined up with the nine or ten Floyd devotees and purchased an album by Pavement. His subtle joke.
Why am I telling you all this?
Well, about a month ago the owner of the third of fourth-purchased copy of Pink Floyd's Pulse was staying with me (we still speak - all, or most at least, has been forgiven). And I decided to resuscitate Pulse - adding fresh batteries for the first time in nearly a decade.
Now, once again it flashes with insistence. It is a novelty once again - in a now depleted CD collection. Visitors to the house have commented, have marvelled. What is that? they ask. What is that? they wonder. Baffled by the LED pulsing away, blipping doggedly.
It is Pink Floyd's Pulse.
I took it down from the shelf last night and gave it a spin. Took the CD from the case - larger than normal packaging - felt like a mini-LP, same ritual too...it started with the ubiquitous Pink Floyd opener, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, the way it always had; the way they always did.
From there it's to Gilmour and Wright taking on Barrett's Astronomy Domine and making a decent fist of it. To a few of tunes from The Division Bell and some from A Momentary Lapse Of Reason. And then to disc two - the live Dark Side...
I may only listen to Pulse once a year - or so - these days. It is not as ritualistic as I possibly made it sound - but it is a CD I'll hang on to. Because of that packaging - because of the story. Other CDs have disappeared - I prefer Delicate Sound Of Thunder (I am probably in a minority there, tends to be the way) but I don't still have the CD. It had no story attached to it.
So - there are two questions at the end of all of this. Right when I am figuring most of you are most pleased to just be at the end.
Firstly, what CD do you instantly think of in your collection that has a story attached to how you came to be the recipient of it? And - also - do you remember midnight openings? Did you ever line up for something? Do you remember the novelty, the excitement - the idea that you would be among the first to hear the music? And that you were rewarded for being a keen fan - you went to the music, rather than just expecting the music to come to you.
Oh - and now the CD has its batteries replaced and is shining its light once again it's as if I have admitted to a lovechild out of wedlock - my wife is not pleased with this thing that seems like it wants to be a burglar alarm, flashing and pulsing from our CD rack.
Last night she was in the other room while I played the album. She called out at one point - "what's this dumb album? Is this that Pulse album? It sounds dumb".
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I went to a listening party for the release of Kid A at the old Bodega in Wellington. There was hardly anyone there and we got stickers. If I were to come over to your place and see the Pulse still pulsing, I would probably drop my jaw in wonder as I thought the LED couldn't have its batteries replaced.
I was lucky enough to go to the concert at Earl's Court. Was one of the best nights of my life. Fantastic album.
Blackfoot - Highway Song - a version of the 12inch single "recorded especially for Manchester". Limited edition. They released different versions from different venues (although I suspect they just overdubbed the "coming to you <placename>" at the beginning). I'd been at the gig - so I took the long bus ride into the City to go to (HMV, I think) for opening time. But it was "not in stock yet. Should be in this afternoon." So I spent the day hanging around the city, window-shopping, getting bored (no cafes in those days and no money to spend on anything else), until about 3pm when I tried again. Still no sign "try later". I tried again just before closing and the d@mn thing still hadn't arrived. I had to go home and return the next day. Big failure in the "trying to be first to get the item" stakes there. Turned out, there were plenty of copies (I probably bought the only one). Still - I must dig that out and give it a spin (yes - old fashioned vinyl as well).
I should think our flashing red light has gone out too. What size battery did you buy. What a good idea to add to the festive season decorations.
Ah, Pulse. My mum bought it in 1995 too, and thus I discovered Pink Floyd (I was quite young in 1995). I loved it immediately when she played it.
So sad Simon. You're not married to that shallow chick on the Tower adds are you? Obviously not a soul mate.
I can't say that I have lined up until midnight to get an album because realistically I haven't needed too as the bands I'm into aren't the type of bands will have a midnight release as they're not huge like pink floyd. I'm a massive music collector so to me if any album goes missing I'm going to throw a fit. Once when I was younger 11-12 I believe I had just started collecting music; I remember a friend of mine and I worked our buts off out at his family's farm to earn some money so we could both go and buy Limp Bizkit 'Significant Other'. A year past and my music collection was getting bigger but still my Limp Bizkit album stuck out like a sore thumb and was getting trashed (ashamed to say; but I'm not going to lie) and one day after a couple of people had left my house I went to my room to find my CD was missing presumed stolen by a dodgee character who was floating around my house. Long story short I found out who stole it who then sold it to another dodgee character and after confronting the guy and getting punched in the face and stomach he gave it back because it was "dumb anyway". So I guess the the album that has the biggest story behind it… ask me where it is now… underground in some tip somewhere.
wow..that brings back some memories....I think I was #2 in the line to get it..and yes, made the decision to drive in from Lower Hutt at about 11:30.. (and yes, I may have pushed in front of your mates..please send my apologies!)
Still a great album..still gets a few plays when I plug in the guitar and trade a few solo's with Dave.... :) (strangely his tend to sound a lot better than mine...oh well)
Nice. This is why I still like buying the physical CD or LP of an album that I've really been looking forward to instead of just downloading it. The excitement and anticipation you feel as you open it up for the first time and put it in the stereo can't be matched by clicking a link on some web page.
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March 30, 2012
Fred Hardy Invitational Results
PITTSBURGH-Student-athletes from the University of Pittsburgh men's track and field team competed at both the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, and the Fred Hardy Invitational in Richmond, Va. on Friday, March 30.
The Panthers turned in several Big East qualifying times in both meets.
At the Fred Hardy Invitational, senior Kurt Barnhart finished second in the hammer throw (50.80 meters) to qualify for the Big East Championships.
With another Big East qualifying throw, senior Dan Kwiatkowski finished fifth in the shot put (15.36 meters).
"I was very proud of how our athletes competed today," Pitt throws coach Chip Brundage said. "Several of our throwers had breakout performances and set personal records."
Meanwhile, at the Texas Relays, the 400-meter relay team of freshman Joshua Thompson, sophomores Micah Murray and Brycen Spratling and senior Antony Hobwana finished 15th with a time of 41.11. Hobwana also qualified for the Big East Championships in the 100-meter dash (10.83).
In the 100-meter hurdles, two Panthers set Big East qualifying marks as Thompson (14.20) and junior Tashaun Hill (14.43) finished 13th and 16th, respectively.
Senior Jermaine Lowery clocked the 11th best time in the 400-meter hurdles prelims with a mark of 52.13 on Thursday, while his brother Jerome Lowery also ran a Big East Qualifying time of (53.40).
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But why two months? How much surveillance and girls gone wild footage do you need to make a bust? No comment, but I like to say, as Everest Police spokesman, "We arrested the participants in the act. "
Interestingly, this isn't the first time that the owners of the busty barista stand have been involved in an investigation. In 2009, the Wheeler family's chain of coffee stands were in the center of a prostitution investigation that involved baristas allegedly offering sex at the coffee stands. Bill Wheeler, owner at time, mysteriously vanished in 2010 and has been missing every since. Coincidence? Who knows?
After his disappearance Bill Wheeler Jr. took over the coffee stands and now holds the reins of the family business. Wheeler Jr told reporters that he enforces strict policies for his baristas to abide. Such as no flashing, no drug use, no personal visitors, and dress in accordance with appropriate bikini dress code. Wheeler Jr went on to say, "Their crotch has to be covered up. They can't expose their areoles." And "if any girls break our policies and procedures, if they do anything of that nature, then they're terminated on the spot." Wink, wink.
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Hey everyone, :D
I need some advise ppl, hope somebody can help me.
I am going to build my own house on a plot of land that i am going to buy.
what worries me the most will be the foundations and basement of the house.
Could some body please give me a couple of pointers and tips on how i should go about this, i have done a fair amount of studies on all aspects of building but have never done a lot of the practical, wont stop me though, lol, but i do want to make sure i do every thing right.
The house will consist of a basement which will not be fully underground, so as to leave space for small windows just above ground level, the garage and parking area will also be underground with the basement.
There will then be the ground floor and a 1st floor above that.
The measurements of the out side of the hse will be about 12m by 12m, with all floors including the basement following these measurements, if you know what i mean.
Please advise as to if i should take on the task of digging the space for the base ment and foundations my self, and actually construct the foundations my self also, as i wish to keep costs down by doing every thing my self.
Any advise or webpage links that might help will be greatly appreshiated.
Thanks SuB :cool:
We call that half in the ground with a drive in garage, a 'walkout'.
Your foundation is in many aspects the most important part of the house. Proceed carefully.
Where are you located?
Cheers BoB
Well im located on the south of spain, I Think im gonna have to get some pros in to have a look at the land, see how far they can dig, and what type of foundation i will be using, The thing that bothers me is the water supply, and drainage, which will need to be installed some where down there whilst work is being carried out on the foundations....
Now Im not sure what stages i should reach before starting on the drains, or vice versa.
Basically i would like to get my hands on some plans and see the different stages of drainage and foundations and understand how they intertwine and are constructed as one, i may be wrong and drainage would come after the main foundations are built, please correct me if im wrong.
I am very excited about starting to build my own house, i think every body should do it, It turns out so cheap, unbelivable, and a hobbie at the same time. I hope to go back to collage this coming september to start my a level construction theory just for back up ;)
Any help will be appreshiated
Thanks for the reply.
P.S BOB those are some nice jobs on some beutiful houses, just what im looking for but also i was hoping to have the house made from Brick not wood construction, i like the idea of the good old english solid brick house, but please advise.
Thanks again
Nice pics
Southern Spain, isn't that where the girls run naked on the beach? :D
If your going to this yourself, better buy a transit. Also pay real close attention to the brick ledge on whatever foundation plan you can find in a library. The ledge needs to be as close to perfect as you can get. That will assist you later while laying the brick.
Also check with your local code on your footing. Here we normally pour our footing a foot deep for a brick home.
U R The Man
p.s yes they run naked, oh yes how they run naked ( day dreams) ahhhhh
when the house is builst u can come over and see the anked chicks, i mean its wicked, they just run around my land naked all day!!!! round and round, lololol
cheers again :eek:
could be better to excavate the area of the house down to level needed. put concreat
raft reinforced whith steele mess.put drains in raft. the floor in garage area to be 150mm below internal basement FFL for fire. build brick or block footing 13 inch walls to
ground level DPC internal basement to be tank in ashphelt. this way better job all round
reduce walls at dpc 11inch all the best jonneybbob
that would be one construction site that would be hard :D to get any work done . but i bet all working on that site would show up on time if not early to work :D
before you dig you should do a soil test to see what kind of ground your in, here in canada we have to drill piles sometimes up to 30 feet deep, to support the foundation.If your buiding a walkout basement your foundation onthe side should step down according to the final grade the proceed laying brick on top of it to level of to the proper height on the back. Here in alberta we still do woodframe then lay bricks on outside,with tyvek or typar behind. that way we have something level to go with,also giving woodframe wallls for drywall, electrical, insulation,ect.Also we use tar on outside of foundation, up to final grade,then weeping tile around foundation covered with clean gravel, running to a sump in basement then pumped out away from the house to city drainage or a field if in the country.
I think if it were me, I would contract out the foundation, then do my own building on top of that. It's just too important for the foundation to be plumb, square, level, exact, etc. Nothing against your abilities, but just to be sure, I think that's how I would go about it.
My opinion, HTH :)
Subscript, how is your foundation coming along? If you get a chance, post some pictures, and if you happen to accidentally get some pictures of the naked chicks running around, well I guess that would be Ok too.
Thanks A Million
Thank you all for you input and posts,
I have been away for a while so this post is a little late :eek:
When i decide what i want exactly, which is a hard thing to do, ill post some pics of the up and coming home to be, and my ticket to the propperty ladder, loololol ;)
Is it true that porpertys will start to loose immense value soon???? I hear something is happening.
Thanks again
SuB :cool:
I have a cousin that lives outside of Barcelona, we aren't real close. I was close to my uncle who spent a lot of time over there and just recently passed. He never mentioned any imminent economic collapse.
Hello Subscript
Good for you, but pay for a briefing from a local groundwork on regs etc, maybe offer to work for free for a couple of days if you haven't done this work before yourself.
Remember, buried alive with no one around under 5 tonnes of Spanish muck is no fun so remember to shore up the sides of the footings where necessary.
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Geez - make me wish I were there. It would be a party (oh wait the party is at Silver Glen on Memorial Day weekend ). Are you going to the reunion at the end of the month? I've been trying to wear out the shirts from the past reunions (I wear each one at least once a week, interspersed with gunco shirts ). There is a Vietnam vet memorial on Ramstein AB.
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Meth Promotes Spread of Virus in HIV-Infected UsersAugust 07, 2006
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Researchers at the University at Buffalo have presented the first evidence that the addictive drug methamphetamine, or meth, also commonly known as "speed" or "crystal," increases production of a docking protein that promotes the spread of the HIV-1 virus in infected users.
The investigators found that meth increases expression of a receptor called DC-SIGN, a "virus-attachment factor," allowing more of the virus to invade the immune system.
"This finding shows that using meth is doubly dangerous," said Madhavan P.N. Nair, Ph.D., first author on the study, published in the online version of the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology. The study will appear in print in the September issue of the journal.
"Meth reduces inhibitions, thus increasing the likelihood of risky sexual behavior and the potential to introduce the virus into the body, and at the same time allows more virus to get into the cell," said Nair, professor of medicine and a specialist in immunology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
His research centers on dendritic cells, which serve as the first line of defense again pathogens, and two receptors on these cells - HIV binding/attachment receptors (DC-SIGN) and the meth-specific dopamine receptor. Dendritic cells overloaded with virus due to the action of methamphetamine can overwhelm the T cells, the major target of HIV, and disrupt the immune response, promoting HIV infection.
"Now that we have identified the target receptor, we can develop ways to block that receptor and decrease the viral spread," said Nair. "We have to approach this disease from as many different perspectives as possible.
"If we could prevent the upregulation of the meth-specific dopamine receptor by blocking it, we may be able to prevent the interaction of meth with its specific receptors, thereby inhibiting the virus attachment receptor," said Nair.
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Additional researchers on the publication, all from the UB Department of Medicine, are Supriya Mahajan, Ph.D., research assistant professor; Donald Sykes, Ph.D., research associate professor; Meghana V. Bapardekar, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate, and Jessica L. Reynolds, Ph.D., research assistant professor.
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Lisa Schnebly Heidinger's affection for Arizona is as deep as her roots. Hearing as a small child that the town of Sedona had been named after her great-grandmother, Sedona Schnebly, Lisa became interested in Arizona pioneers and history – although she ruefully admits that she resisted stopping at historical roadside markers until her 30s. ("It was a bad case of arrested development until I saw the Arizona Territory marker with my father, and was knocked off my metaphorical donkey!")
She began writing journals as a child, and moved from personal reporting to newspaper as a raw recruit at the Green Valley News in 1979. After four years she broke into broadcast journalism, working seven days a week to do morning drive at KCEE radio while working weekends on KGUN-TV. She then did full time television reporting for five years, covering everything from drug smuggling to polygamists. During the Tucson years, she taught broadcast journalism at the University of Arizona, wrote for Tucson andTucson Lifestyle magazines, and earned a SAG card for a Dennis Weaver movie called "Silo" that went straight to video distribution. In 1989 she moved to Flagstaff to open the Northern Arizona Bureau for KTVK-TV. She met Tom Heidinger doing her first satellite live shot at the Winslow prison; they married the next year and continued to visit one another on weekends until it became clear this was not a lifestyle conducive to raising children. Lisa resigned and moved to the Valley.
Once in Phoenix, Lisa began writing for Arizona Highways, as well as the Sunday editorial page of the Arizona Republic, doing a column called "Arizona Correspondent" for three years. She authored her first book in 1995, and has been doing articles, speeches and books ever since (see "Books" and "Speeches and Seminars" for more on those). She and Tom have two children, Sedona Lee and Rye Schnebly, and dogs Happy Jack and Leupp, prompting Sedona to ask at a young age, "Mama, what is it with you and Arizona towns?" She volunteers at her church, does some substitute teaching, and relaxes by going in the car whenever possible.


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Later in 2014, Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington, who worked for Epstein in Boston and replaced him when he left for Chicago, began to follow the same approach. He acquired, over three months, third baseman Pablo Sandoval and outfielders Rusney Castillo and Hanley Ramirez, just a few of the many collectibles in his own position-player hoarding.
For the past two decades, with MLB under an offensive explosion, the formula for winning baseball has been clear: Get arms. From the '01 Diamondbacks and '03 Marlins to the '05 White Sox, '08 Phillies and '12 Giants, teams with a few top aces -- often veteran ones -- could trump a full house of sluggers. Pitching was the prized art form, GMs the collectors. Yet here were the Cubs and Red Sox, buying bats in bulk. What were they doing?
WHENEVER HE FINDS himself stumbling upon highlights of Boston's 2004 World Series title, Epstein will cease channel-flipping and settle in to watch. The former Red Sox GM doesn't do this because he's sentimental or he needs to relive the joy but because he doesn't remember them. He literally wonders what comes next.
He does remember edging down to the runway leading to the Sox's dugout in Game 4 because he wanted to know what a Boston championship looked like. He couldn't see home plate, but he heard the ball hit the bat and saw pitcher Keith Foulke bounce off the mound in pursuit of that final out. Epstein knows he hugged somebody. He isn't sure who. And he can recall seeing longtime Boston player, coach and manager Johnny Pesky -- born in the months after the previous Red Sox title in 1918 -- weeping openly, as Epstein did. "A lot of the rest of it," Epstein says, "is very blurry."
But what Epstein, Cherington and the rest of his front office did manage to retain was a formula -- the brawny formula upon which they'd built the Sox -- the idea that a team's margin for error could be solved by an overwhelming lineup. They had identified hitters and stacked them throughout, from Twins castoff David Ortiz to former replacement player Kevin Millar to Bill Mueller, who won a batting title in 2003 at the bottom of the Boston order. "When you have a feared offense, one through nine in the American League or one through eight in the National League, it shows up every day," Epstein says.
And it compensates for weaknesses. A starter might have a rough game, or a fielder might make an error, but eventually Johnny Damon, Ortiz and Manny Ramirez would swing their team into the game. "An epic offense," Cherington recalls.
"For whoever was pitching, we wanted 27 outs to be as excruciating as they could possibly be," says Josh Byrnes, who worked for the Red Sox at the time before serving as a general manager for the Diamondbacks and Padres, and, most recently, as a senior vice president for the Dodgers.
The only problem: sustaining it. By 2005, as the implementation of tougher testing for PEDs loomed, execs predicted that offensive production would decline. But they could not have anticipated by how much. In 2000, 47 hitters had 30 or more homers; in 2014, 11 hitters reached that mark. In 2001, two pitchers had ERAs below 3.00; by the end of 2014, 22 pitchers did.
In 2000, 28 teams posted on-base percentages of .329 or higher. By the end of this April, just seven teams were at or above that mark. That those teams included Cherington's Red Sox and Epstein's Cubs was not at all an accident.
IN MAJOR LEAGUE baseball, ideologies are viral; they travel on the backs of host executives. And in 2011, when Epstein left the Sox, he carried with him his unique strain of thought.
Jed Hoyer was part of the Epstein rat pack in the 2004 championship and had been hired by the Padres as general manager in 2009. Two years later, when Epstein vaulted to the Cubs, Hoyer left San Diego -- where his standing was tenuous -- to become Chicago's general manager. And now, as those two men and the rest of the Cubs' new staff began meeting in Epstein's office at Wrigley Field, they studied the theoretical free agent classes of pitchers and position players for the years ahead. That forecast for hitters, they thought, was ugly. Teams were increasingly signing their best young players early in their careers, from Evan Longoria to Troy Tulowitzki, Ryan Braun and Joey Votto. And the free agents who did reach the open market tended to be far out of the Cubs' price range. Albert Pujols signed that winter for $240 million. The next year, Prince Fielder would pocket $214 million. Despite speculation that the Cubs would be heavy bidders on both, they effectively passed.
Although the Cubs believed they could find pitching in the free agent market, they saw investing in position players as the safer play -- like picking U.S. bonds over startup stocks. Still, Epstein and Hoyer determined that they couldn't rely on the market for position players; they would have to find their own, at a time when MLB started building restrictions on how much teams could spend on international players. "It's hard to find bats, but it's even harder to find them in free agency," Hoyer says. "Our thought was, let's be aggressive and build our offense and build our lineup for a long time."
They started by trading pitcher Andrew Cashner to San Diego for the then-unproven 22-year-old first baseman Anthony Rizzo, whom Epstein and Hoyer both knew from previous deals. Two days before the new rules went into effect, the Cubs signed Jorge Soler, a defector from Cuba, for $30 million over a nine-year deal. In the 2012 draft, the Cubs had the sixth pick and selected a prep outfielder, Albert Almora, who three years later has reached Double-A.
The Cubs had the second overall pick in 2013, which meant they were at the mercy of the Astros, who picked first. There was, at the time, a fairly overwhelming consensus about who the best available player was: Kris Bryant, a third baseman from the University of San Diego. Says a rival executive whose team didn't have a top-10 pick: "When we started ranking our board, it was like, 'Kris Bryant's No. 1, right? OK, move on to the next guy.'"
Assuming that the Astros would pick Bryant, the Cubs were prepared to take a starter in Jonathan Gray or Mark Appel. Then the Cubs got lucky: The Astros tapped Appel -- a pick that now appears destined to be as second-guessed as the Trail Blazers' selection of Sam Bowie over a guard named Michael Jordan.
Meanwhile, back in Boston, Cherington was forging his own path after a tumultuous first season as GM (aka the year of Bobby Valentine). In 2013, drawing on the experiences of 2004, he began to remake the team, filling the lineup with veteran hitters who would compete throughout at-bats -- Mike Napoli, Shane Victorino, Jonny Gomes. It worked well. Famously well. The Sox won the Series on the strength of their bats -- and a postseason pitching run by Jon Lester (4-1, 1.56 ERA).
Their strategy was working, but with Lester barreling toward free agency, Cherington and his staff faced a test of their resolve. While studying pitcher metrics for market inefficiencies, they noted that the age at which pitchers tend to peak was in retreat. Cherington won't reveal the metrics favored by the Red Sox, but the numbers mined by ESPN Stats & Information are striking. In the seasons from 1998 to 2003, an average of 49 pitchers in their 20s posted a WAR of at least 2.0, and 38 pitchers in their 30s did so. Compare that to 2010 to '14, when an average of 61 pitchers in their 20s posted a WAR of 2.0 or higher, but just 24 pitchers in their 30s did the same. The trend was notable and suggested that PEDs had been extending the careers of pitchers every bit as much as hitters. The takeaway for the Sox front office? High-end position players were a better, safer investment, particularly at a time of dwindling run production. So Cherington, like Epstein, began serially dipping into the market's selection of available hitters.
So it was that in the summer of 2014, Boston traded Lester to Oakland for slugger Yoenis Cespedes. Then, the Red Sox signed two Cuban defectors, center fielder Castillo and infielder Yoan Moncada, for about $135 million combined. During the winter, they bid heavily on two experienced hitters known for doing damage against good pitching -- Sandoval ($95 million) and Ramirez ($88 million). And they refused to consider trading catcher Blake Swihart or outfielder Mookie Betts for 31-year-old Cole Hamels, despite the clamoring from Red Sox fans. "You need both pitching and hitting, but maybe there's more you can do to help pitching than hitting," says a GM who's watched the Red Sox work. "It's easier to get pitching."
To build his rotation, Cherington targeted younger, less expensive pitchers. The 35-year-old John Lackey was traded for 26-year-old Joe Kelly. The Sox secured 26-year-old Rick Porcello with a four-year deal for $82.5 million, then traded for 28-year-old lefty Wade Miley and abstained from bidding on 30-year-old Max Scherzer and 33-year-old James Shields.
The upshot is that the Red Sox, like the Cubs, are now sitting on a surplus of bats, with the infield and outfield seemingly two- and three-deep at every spot. (Says one NL executive, "What the Red Sox have done is like a big-market version of the Cubs.") Cherington's peers assume that at some point this season the GM will use his stockpile to swap for precisely the kind of pitchers Boston now covets -- younger, closer to those peak years. "They have the resources to get anybody they want," says one AL executive. "They could probably outbid anybody if they wanted to."
Ironically enough, what Cherington wanted, early this winter, was to get Lester back. Even more ironically, Epstein wanted him too.
WHEN EPSTEIN SET his sights on Lester this offseason, he eschewed the hokey college recruiting stuff and showed Lester and his wife, Farrah, a video, a 15-minute promo with Ryan Dempster and Kerry Wood talking about playing in Chicago. Epstein wanted the whole thing to feel like a family reunion, an appeal from an old friend. But he was also prepared to do whatever was necessary. Knowing Lester's affinity for hunting, he sent him camouflage gear dotted with Cubs logos. "I was ready to soak myself in deer urine if necessary," Epstein later joked with reporters.
For the Cubs, the fight over Lester was an organizational statement, the first real superstar free agent target in Epstein's tenure. Epstein and Hoyer knew the pitcher well from their days together in Boston and knew they'd be landing a rotation anchor. And it was possible, in part, because of how Epstein and Hoyer had collected cheap, young position players, freeing up money.
Of course, the Sox had deep pockets too. The question was whether they'd spend. The previous winter, Boston had offered Lester $70 million over four years, reflecting its reluctance to invest in older pitchers. It wasn't close to where Lester perceived his market value, and some of Lester's teammates were angered by what they thought was a lowball offer. Lester's side ended the negotiations, and for weeks the Sox tried to persuade him to re-engage. On June 29, 2014, manager John Farrell met with Lester, trying to coax him to the table. But after Boston signaled that it would push its offer just a little beyond $100 million, in the range of Homer Bailey's $105 million deal with the Reds, the in-season talks ended. Lester was traded.
Once Lester reached free agency, his market price shot upward; the Cubs pushed, recruiting Lester's personal catcher, David Ross, and their offer to Lester reached $155 million. If Boston was going to land Lester, it needed to go all-in. But for a pitcher beyond his 30th birthday -- even someone they knew as well as they know Lester, his arm and mind -- Red Sox owner John Henry wasn't prepared to do that. Boston offered $135 million, but in the last 48 hours, there were those in the organization who knew it wouldn't be enough. Epstein got Lester, and Cherington went in a different direction -- and it appears he will have to keep doing so.
As Cherington leaned against the Fenway Park batting cage on May 3 and watched Ortiz lash line drives toward the Green Monster, he was aware the Red Sox had the worst rotation ERA in baseball. Just four days later, Boston would fire its pitching coach, Juan Nieves. Help will most surely be needed. A time zone away, Epstein has his own challenges, some inherent to a team relying on all those young players. It may be that the collective potential of Rizzo, Soler, Bryant and Russell -- or Swihart, Castillo, Moncada and Betts, for that matter -- won't fully manifest this summer. But Epstein and Cherington are steps ahead, already in a place other teams are now trying to get to, on the leading edge of baseball's never-ending quest for the undervalued asset.
"Boston's lineup is a joke," a rival general manager told me, meaning that as a compliment, "and if you were picking a team to win multiple World Series in the immediate future, you'd pick the Cubs. They can be that good."
Let the leaguewide hoarding begin.


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As we all know that tags/keywords of every file shouldn't be more than 30 characters and it is time consuming to always count the characters of each tag. If the characters of any of the keywords is more than 30 when you are about to submit a file, you will receive a message that there is/are tag(s) with more than 30 characters and it is very stressful to start counting them.
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Use the tool form 'Character Count Calculator Form' to count your tag characters to make sure that none of them is more than 30. This will save you a lot of time and the submission tags error notice.
Not sure about everyone else, but I stick to keywords rather than sentences
IMO , I think it would be just as time consuming to visit another site, mid upload, navigate to their calculator and count the characters in my tags…
In addition, tags are very important TRACK LINE to every file. Your item can be rejected because of poor tags. And if your tags lack the right words that will attract traffic, your sales will be stumbling. Therefore, it is very crucial for you to maximize the tags of each of your items because it determines the magnitude of visitors and amount of sales. Sound tags are more than any online item advertisement.
Make an 'apposite remark' on Google and you will gain a good number of visitors and sales increase.
I agree with Q&E, Im not sure on how Envato does there tagging but im sure smaller tags would give a better match to your items. It might be me as a web dev but on searched i do tags not 3 words in a row
Why is 'Right tags/keywords'? important?
- - The keywords are the words that search engine users will use to find websites/files that they are looking for. So it pays to get it right, whether you are optimizing your website meta-tags, post titles or working out which keywords to use in your next Google Adwords campaign.
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There is a very important information Envato support briefly outlined that can help you to get your items accepted and limit the chances of item rejection. I have read so many THREADS posted by fellows authors concerning low sales and item rejections. A good number of us often neglect that tiny info and when our items got rejected or hardly make sales – we wonder what is the cause.
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Get your item accepted:
- Read and follow the upload instructions.
- Added useful tags and ensured they're spelled.
- Added a thorough and useful item description (this also helps buyers find your file).
Looking at factor 3 Added useful tags and ensured they're spelled. Why is that factor very important? Because it is an important part of the process of search engine optimization. There may not be something wrong with your design but poor tags/keywords can result to item rejection. Mates, there are two articles that can help you choose the right keywords and phrase.
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An unbelievably pointless thread
SportTipsWorld said
An unbelievably pointless thread
To you sport! To many (newbies)... a good and useful tips.
If you need a tags calculator, then make an extension (with javascript) for Chrome or Firefox. This is the best way.
Shaking my head in utter disbelief.
I am here for three month and not much understanding yet. But I never faced any need to count characters or tags for my 80 items (audio and video).
I would rather love to be able to get some statistics of buyers search and other typical action for example: 1) what rate for search any specific keyword and vs. how many items have it. 2) How offen user buy item after search this keyword 3) How many items or pages user usually preview before buy after his search 4) What is the rate for buying after search vs. after some other link like external link or through follow link or through main page etc.
By the way if any common keyword potentially have hundreds or even thousand of items is it useless to specify many standard tags at all?
Best Regards, Andrey


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Have you compared them to Accurate Arms Big Red Book (aka reloading manual #1)?
Anyone tried some of these loads, that came with the die set?
Have you compared them to Accurate Arms Big Red Book (aka reloading manual #1)?
I've thought about reloading for my Tok, but it seems like to much work to find all of the brass
Is that picking up the fired brass or buying new? Without a cover the grass where I shoot seems to eat them.
I mean finding the doggone brass after I launch it into the atmosphere
I believe you can access the AA data online.................................
There seems to be a problem with Lee Loaders not centering the bullet in 7.62x25. I was considering doing it so I googled it, and there were a couple of sites where people had real problems getting it to center...as in "I through those damned Lee dies out the window". The conclusion was, "any dies but Lee".
Use a die with a round-nosed style seater stem to seat round bullets.
Flat faced stems are for wadcutters, period. Not Semi-wadcutters, just wadcutters, and on rare offacions certain Hollowpoint profiles..
I reload 7,62x25 with the Lee dies. No issues to speak of. The tokarev round isn't the simplest to load, but with modest attention it isn't hard to make either. It would be nice to have a Lee FCD though. The Lee loading data hasn't been useful to me; I use unique powder which works fine. Biggest hassle in the whole process is finding spent brass...usually winds up in the next county.
Thank you everyone! I did access the AA data, but there was no 7.62 listed. No big deal, my local shop has the AA powder, so soon I will develop some loads. Also H-110 is to try.
So what seater stem do YOU use on Semi-wadcutters? If not Flat, then you use the round nosed style? Have you found a "semiwadcutter" seating stem?
I use flat seaters on all "flat nosed bullets", ie.... Wadcutters, semiwadcutters AND hollow point pistol bullets. For sure the Round nose seater is not propper, and I just
don't find a "semiwadcutter or Hollow Point" seater made for the many different profiles of these type bullets.
I find the flat seater trues them up just fine when seating.
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I get good reliable OAL's, I get good straight bullets, no problems.
I don't HAVE a flat-stem in either of my Lee sets for those cartridges and the flat-faces seater for my Hornady "All Purpose .45" (Auto, Auto Rim, and Colt) has never been installed in the die.
Just thought to check, Lapua has some data, but, it's for Vhitavouri powders of course.....
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I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war.
I don't know what they did wrong. Most of the comments were about dies. I use a Lee with Lee dies and have never had a problem. But, I haven't tried 762x25. It stands to reason that a bottleneck cartridge with round nose bullet would take more care but it's hard to imagine that Lee would release a die set that was as delicate as some have reported.
IMHO, the problem often isn't with Lee dies, it's with the operator. The 762x25 brass will crumple if a heavy hand is used to seat the round into an improperly expanded mouth or crumple during crimping. Basic stuff. The round can also seat off-axis if care isn't taken. I've used the Lee set for this for around 3-4 years, and after a ham-handed start, have had no problems. Reloading is easier than finding commercial ammo.
When loading toks I went with the lee FCD die. It is VERY easy to crumple the case without it. The neck is so short it is very hard to get a good crimp without it. That is why lots of milsurp ammo is stab crimp. I reload using cast WW and lees 100gn bullet for a 32. I ended up sizing at .309 and use 10.3 grains of h110. Very accurate load using starline brass from midway. We set up a outside screened tent when shooting at our private range. Everyone shoots inside the tent and all the brass stays inside. We usually have a nice pile of fired brass after a weekend shoot!
Finally put it all together and shot some reloads. 9.0 gr. of AA9 with 100 gr. Speer plinkers/http://www.speer-bullets.com/ballist...ail.aspx?id=78/. The velocity was just under 1250 fps. out of a CZ52 with great accuracy and zero hiccups. Definitely a mild load with soft recoil.
I'm no expert and I have only been in the loading game from 1995 but I think you need stronger thicker brass. My Lee set has a cone seating stem. For brass I use Lake City militay it's thicker and stronger.
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That's nothing.
I bought five No4Mk1T's test fired only, all with walnut stocks in their transit chests and with the scope cans with matching scopes. $725 for all five rifles.