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iancevans wrote:Assuming you're not dulling your edge by using too muh pressure or wobbling, then your knife is getting "sharper", your tests of sharpness just aren't discerning enough--the finer abrasives are putting a finer scratch pattern on your edge, after all... (assuming "sharper" means more refined.So here are some test that might reveal more:1. Shave your face with the edge... A more refined edge is substantially more comfortable, especially against the grain.2. Try push-cutting (no draw/slicing) paper held at a 90 degree angle... How far away from your hold point can this be achieved? The more refined the edge, the further away from your fingers3. Get some hemp rope and place it on a scale and push cut through it... How much force does it take? A more refined edge should require less pressure to make the cut4. Try the hanging hair test... An edge that just whittles hair is only at the HHT2 level or so... Can your stropped edge achieve HHT4 or 5 (plenty of examples of pocket knives at that level on YouTube)http://www.coticule.be/hanging-hair-test.htmlIf your edge really doesn't improve on any of these tests AND doesn't get worse on them, then the conclusion would be that your angle is too shallow on the strops and you're not refining the apex of the edge.
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Jeff Kinney's tales featuring wise-cracking middle schooler Greg Heffley have reached number-one on the New York Times best-seller list, inspired a major motion picture, and been translated into dozens of languages. Greg has endured countless horrors—girls, bullies, jocks, oblivious parents, wrestling in gym class, even the dreaded Cheese Touch—the past few years. But everything changes in this fifth hilarious adventure.
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The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards
So we can move on with our lives and never speak of this again, here's Blacky GaGa and the rest of the 2011 MTV VMAs. And just to demonstrate how irrelevant this entire event was, Katy Perry didn't even bother to show any cleavage and Jake Busey was there. Jake Busey. When you can't even get his dad to show up, it's time to search deep within your soul and start asking yourself some serious questions. Questions like, did he eat the invitation? Or perhaps fashion it into an airplane which he then threw at a satellite dish to deflect the bullshit beams? Perhaps a combination of the two?
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE director of cricket John Bracewell insists the new Royal London One-Day Cup competition is tailor-made for Will Gidman.
The all-rounder starred with bat and ball as Gloucestershire stunned Yorkshire at Headingley on Tuesday to pick up their first win in the new 50-over competition and bounce back from their opening defeat against Northamptonshire.
Gidman took 2-28 off eight overs as Yorkshire were bowled out for just 192 and then hit an unbeaten 71 to see Gloucestershire over the line with three wickets and 28 balls to spare.
Bracewell said: "We always said this could be a competition for Will Gidman because 50-overs cricket suits his bowling and he showed that it does.
"It was good to beat a class side like Yorkshire who have some excellent outstanding cricketers. To tip them over on their home turf is a good effort."
David Payne (3-31) and Gidman made early inroads with the new ball to reduce Yorkshire to 45-5 after they decided to bat first.
The hosts recovered with Jack Leaning and Adil Rashid sharing a 129-run partnership but they lost their last five wickets for just eight runs with Jack Taylor, returning to the side in the absence of the injured Alex Gidman (back) taking 2-33.
Although captain and opening batsman Michael Klinger scored 37, Gloucestershire were soon in trouble in their chase on 83-6.
However, Will Gidman and Taylor (38) put on 69 in 13.2 overs to sway the game in their favour.
An unbroken partnership of 41 between Gidman and Tom Smith (4*) sealed Gloucestershire's win.
Gloucestershire take on Hampshire and Leicestershire at Bristol on Thursday and next Tuesday respectively in the One-Day Cup.


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text: Obama Administration Proposes New Rules on Contraception The Department of Health and Human Services looks to change how nonprofit religious institutions insure contraceptives. The Obama administration has presented a new attempt to deal with religious objections to insurance coverage for contraception, but its effect on Wheaton College's federal lawsuit remains unclear. The federal Department of Health and Human Services announced plans on Feb. 1 to change the way that nonprofit religious institutions, including hospitals and universities, will be required to insure contraceptives that employers oppose for religious reasons. More > New Housing Community Focuses on Racial Reconciliation Wheaton begins living-learning housing option called the Shalom Community. The Residential Life Office and the Office of Multicultural Development have collaborated to create the Shalom Community, a new housing option for Wheaton College students. During the 2013-2014 academic year, this alternative housing option will serve as an intentional living and learning community focused on racial reconciliation. More > Senior Class Gift Goes to B.R.I.D.G.E. The class of 2013 to give funds to educational summer program. The Class of 2013 is giving back to Wheaton through a gift of funds to Building Roads to Intellectual Diversity and Great Education (B.R.I.D.G.E.), an intensive four-week residential academic enrichment and leadership program. Bringing together first-generation, low-income African American or Latino students from Chicago, this free two-year summer program prepares Christian high school students for college through a curriculum that caters to their intellectual, leadership and spiritual growth. More > Middle Eastern Youth to Visit Wheaton Three Israeli and Palestinian youth will share stories of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a vision of reconciliation "I should really try to see God in the other person," said Ronit Avni, a Messianic Jew living in Israel, in an untitled documentary produced by the independent film company Within Broken Borders. On Wednesday, Feb. 13, Wheaton is hosting an event that will be a once-in-a-lifetime evening for many attendees: Three guests from the Middle East are coming to share stories of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and their vision of reconciliation for their peoples. More > Wheaton Hosts Annual Pete Willson-Wheaton Invitational Twenty-nine teams compete in the nation's largest tournament. Last weekend 29 teams and over 250 wrestlers converged on Wheaton's campus for the nation's oldest and largest small school wrestling tournament, the Pete Willson-Wheaton Invitational. Pete Willson served as a coach for the Wheaton wrestling program from 1964 to 1990 after graduating from Wheaton in 1950. More >


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"If you have to go someplace every single day of the year, it ain't a bad place," chef and owner Weldon Fulton, says.
And the food ain't bad either. Fulton's menu doesn't feature burn-your-lips-off chile, but it has enough international flare to be far from boring. Currently, there's a prix fixe menu offered in conjunction with exhibits at the Folk Art Museum. Right now, you can sample fare that's part of the New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más menu that springboards from the exhibit of the same name.
The chicken mole on that list is so good, though, says Fulton, that when it comes off the special list the first week of January, it will become a permanent addition to the menu.
On my recent visit, I started off with a cup of soup fit for the brisk temperatures and snowy landscape outside the café's large windows. What the menu lauds as "The Best Chicken Soup" ($5.95) is served with a lime wedge and a tortilla, and also features potatoes, carrots and celery with a tasty broth. Although the ingredient list promises a hint of jalapeño, I didn't pick up that flavor.
Nevertheless, this soup is one that I'd go back for a larger serving of.
Next, I plowed through a delicious trio of housemade mushroom taquitos ($ 10.95) that come with a liquidy side of what's described as "Laura's red chile." Laura Nuñez, the kitchen manager at the café, is responsible for this treat and lots of other dishes on the menu, Fulton explains, noting that spices are mild on purpose.
"We want people to really taste what red chile is supposed to taste like, not to be offended by the heat," he says.
The taquitos also have their own story. A few years ago, Fulton, also of the Railyard's Station Coffee House fame, ended up with an extra case of cheese and an extra box of mushrooms by accident. Instead of sending them back, Nuñez went to work. The end result in a sumptuous umami flavor with a mixture of portobello and button mushrooms and sautéed onions melded with just enough cheese in a taquito with a respectable girth (nothing like the Delimex versions that filled my freezer when I moved to the Southwest 13 years ago.)
The small salad served with the piping hot taquitos is lacking the kind of creativity on the other side of the plate. Shredded romaine topped with a mushy-tomato pico de gallo and a glob of sour cream left me eying the plate of my dining companion, who ordered a Cobb salad and raved about the ranch chipotle dressing. The chicken on her loaded entrée had a great flavor, and the cheesy, buttery crostini was super duper crunchy and tasty.
The restaurant also offers red and white wines by the glass, local, domestic and imported bottled beer, and specialty drinks including "Portuguese lemonade." Wondering what that is? Our waiter says it's not really Portuguese, but it's good: an icy glass of lemonade mixed with a fine port wine. While it was supposed to be layered like a tequila sunrise, according to Fulton, mine was a lovely uniform shade of magenta.
For dessert, we split a piece of creamy pistachio cardamom pie that was eyes-rolled-back good. The fluffy filling has a subtle flavor and a sprinkling of nuts on top of whipped cream. We owe the pleasure of this to Kim Faulkner, who runs the kitchen at the nearby Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat Center.
The bonus of the whole meal happened at the end, when I remembered the card in my wallet that proves I'm a member of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and had thusly earned a 10 percent discount. You call it cheap. I call it thrifty. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
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Editor's note: An earlier version of this story gave the wrong name for the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.


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75 Never Looked So Good
Next time it's your birthday, invite the world famous Dale Chihuly to come. That's exactly what the Desert Botanical Garden is doing to commemorate its 75th anniversary. Credited with revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement and elevating the perception of the glass medium from the realm of craft to fine art, Chihuly has long held a love affair with the Sonoran Desert. And now he's putting that love affair on display for the second time at DBG during Chihuly in the Garden. The exhibit blends the distinct shapes and colors of the desert region – think agave plants and the bold and brilliant sun – with Chihuly's signature touches like brightly adorned glass balls in wooden boats. Behold Chihuly's brilliant ability to weave his ornate pieces of art into the garden's 50,000 indigenous plants including the iconic saguaro, cholla cactus and palo verde November 9, 2013 – May 18, 2014. The last exhibit, which ran in late 2008 and early 2009 attracted more than 550,000 over six months.
Wild West Lassoes New Cowboy Joints
Sure Scottsdale is nicknamed "The West's Most Western Town," but today the scene is more old west meets new west and a bit more Miranda Lambert than John Wayne. Two new modern-day saloons are adding to the collection of more than 80 hotspots in downtown, dubbed a "desert version of Miami's South Beach" by The New York Times. The Western swung open its wooden doors with its name written in chalk on April 25, 2013. This honky-tonk is all about local country bands, home-style grub and whiskey cocktails with a cool western meets modern motif as the backdrop – think old church pews, a faux-leather bar, iron bar stools and a well-worn couch.
Just down the street, Dierks Bentley's Whiskey Row made its debut on Independence Day as a 1920s-style saloon with a new country vibe and live tunes from national and local acts performing on a stage hanging from the ceiling directly above the bar. The owner, Bentley, who just so happens to be a Grammy-nominated country star and Phoenix native, is bringing a taste of the South to the desert with a comfort-food menu with items such as shrimp and fritters, fried pickles and BBQ grilled chicken chockfull of local ingredients. Self-serve beer and liquor on tap will quench any cowboy's thirst.
Taste the Flavors of Real Mean Cuisine
Where can you get a satay daging beef skewer for dinner and a s'mores sandwich for dessert? Look no further than the Food Truck Caravan in downtown Scottsdale, which takes place each Saturday from 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Featuring eight or more gourmet trucks from foodie havens such as Grilled Cheese Truck, Liberty Biscuits, Satay Hut, Spice It Up, Stickaberry, SuperFarm Food Truck and Udder Delights, expect everything from Southern comfort food and organic sliders to curriesand classic diner cuisine. This family and dog-friendly roundup is complete with picnic tables, live music and a caravan concierge, offering discounts at participating nearby local shops and art galleries for those who spend $8 or more on dinner.
Scottsdale – Shaken, Not Stirred
Scottsdale loves to shake things up when it comes to crafting cocktails. And there's no better place to sip on a martini than jade bar at Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain, set to debut its new face this October. Named one of the best bars in America by Esquire magazine, this chic lounge is undergoing a major renovation that will nearly double its seating both inside and out but maintain its signature feature, floor-to-ceiling windows that offer incredible views of the surrounding mountains and valley. Cozy up with a friend or loved one at the stand-up drink bar made of authentic jade or on the patio, featuring a retractable shade, heaters and a fireplace.
You love cocktails, and you're a fan of all things local. Then it's time to mix it up, literally, at The Mix Up Bar, at Royal Palms Resort and Spa. Opening in September, this fun cocktail haven is the brainchild of Kim Haasarud, founder of nationally acclaimed beverage consulting company Liquid Architecture, and Paul McCabe, the new executive chef at T. Cooks, whose passion for locally sourced items is as much a part of him as his Arizona roots. Expect the unexpected with garden-to-glass cocktails featuring a lineup of ingredients like AZ Bitters Lab's flavored bitters, La Bella Terre's botanical sprays and vinegars from Outrageous Olive Oil & Vinegars, plus fresh produce and herbs grown in the new T. Cook's garden. Pair a cocktail with a meal that's designed to enhance the flavor of the alcohol.
One of Scottsdale's original cowboys, Lon Megargee, founder of the upscale, yet rustic The Hermosa Inn would be proud of the recent transformation at Last Drop at the Hermosa. This casual dining bar and grill was expanded to include outdoor seating. Daily happy hour features live entertainment and a new menu from Executive Chef Jeremy Pacheco that includes everything from salads and sandwiches to shared bites and pizzas. All handcrafted cocktails featuring house-made liquors, tinctures and bitters are whipped up by Last Drop's Travis Nass.
On the Edge of Ingenuity
Home to more than 100 galleries, Scottsdale has long been an art mecca that's inspired some of the greatest creative minds of the 20th and 21st century. On The Edge Gallery, an artist co-op featuring work by more than 40 artists, tells the story of just a few of these great minds through jewelry, ceramic and paintings. Step in the 2,000-square-foot gallery in downtown and encounter artists such as Dave Bigelow, whose starkly beautiful crosses are carved locally in a small woodshop; Wyatt Moody, whose sculptures tell the story of mankind's journey and connectedness to the Earth; and Sherry Herradence, whose mixed media prints depict her fascination with bold colors, flowers and the four seasons. This one-stop shop harnesses the creative of the Southwest and Scottsdale.


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QuestionI am an American and I have been working in Kurdistan for the past year and by the time this year ends it will be a year and a half. I have a Kurdish Foreign Resident I.D, my question is this. The company that signs my checks is an American Company in Houston,Tx, but the company I am contracted to work for in Kurdistan is a Canadian company. My company takes taxes out of my paycheck like normal. AM I allowed to be exempt from paying taxes and if so do I get the taxes i paid back when I file?
Generally, as a U.S. citizen, your worldwide income is subject to U.S. income taxation, regardless of where you are living.
IRS Publication 54 is always a good reference tool for US citizens working abroad. The publication discusses special tax rules for U.S. citizens who work abroad or who have income earned in foreign countries.
IRS Publication 54 discusses several tax provisions that mitigate your double taxation concern, such as:
- Foreign earned income exclusion
- Foreign housing exclusion and deduction
- Foreign moving expenses
- Foreign taxes
- Tax treaty benefits
That being said, please note that the income tax rules applicable to expatriates are very complex and that you would be well served by contacting a CPA/PFS who will be able to help you analyze the tax rules and whether or not you are eligible for treaty benefits. Please visit www.findacpapfs.com to find a CPA/PFS in your area.
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Fox News continues to attempt to redefine "nuclear option"
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In its latest attempt to redefine the meaning of the term "nuclear option," Fox News has seized on a Breitbart-promoted video to falsely accuse Democrats of hypocrisy for considering using the reconciliation process to pass health care reform, when they had previously opposed the "nuclear option." But, in fact, the nuclear option referred to a Republican proposal to change Senate filibuster rules on judicial nominees and was not related to reconciliation.
Fox News uses Breitbart-hyped video to accuse Dems of hypocrisy on reconciliation
Fox & Friends: "Irony" that Dems are now considering reconciliation. On Fox & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade said: "The problem with reconciliation is the Republicans say it's an outrage. It's bypassing the Constitution. It was never intended for that reason. Is that what the Republicans are saying, or is that what the Democrats have already said when the Republicans had the majority? Let's look at this tape, first put together by a website called nakedemperor.com." After playing the video, co-host Steve Doocy said: "Harry Reid has said it's still on the table, and that's why we are showing the irony that the Democrats were saying, you can't do reconciliation. It's just wrong. It's not the spirit of the Congress." [Fox & Friends, 2/25/10]
Sean Hannity: "What do you make of the hypocrisy?" On his February 24 Fox News show, Sean Hannity aired clips of Democratic leaders and asked Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich, "What do you make of the hypocrisy?" Gingrich replied: "Well, I think that what you're seeing is a Chicago-machine politics approach that basically says, if we can run over you and mug you then we're going to get away with it. And I think what they don't understand is this is not Chicago. The United States is not going to tolerate a group of people trying to apply kind of a Hugo Chavez majoritarian rule in the Senate." [Hannity, 2/24/10]
Bret Baier: Reconciliation was "once called the nuclear option." On Fox News' Special Report, Bret Baier said that the Senate process of reconciliation "was once called the nuclear option" and then aired clips of what he claimed were Democrats criticizing the "nuclear option" "when Republicans were using it." After he aired the clips, Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers said, "Thank you for establishing beyond all doubt that politicians are hypocrites." [Special Report, 02/24/10]
Fox Nation: "Video Flashback: Dems Howl with Rage Over Nuclear Option." The Fox Nation embedded the Naked Emperor News video under the headline, "Video Flashback: Dems Howl with Rage Over Nuclear Option." From the Fox Nation:
Van Susteren: "[Y]ears ago when it came to Republicans using reconciliation, Democrats were singing a different tune." On her February 24 Fox News show, Greta Van Susteren noted that Democrats want to use reconciliation to pass health care and said, "But years ago when it came to Republicans using reconciliation, many Democrats were singing a different tune." After playing the clips, Van Susteren told former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum that there "may be some hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle." Santorum later said, "It is, in my mind, Democratic hypocrisy, not Republican hypocrisy." [On the Record, 02/14/10]
Beck: "[T]hey all stood up and said this was such a bad idea." On his radio show, Fox News host Glenn Beck played clips from the Breitbart.tv video and said of the possibility that Democrats might use reconciliation: "Why are they threatening this so much? Especially when they all stood up and said it was such a bad idea." [Premiere Radio Network's The Glenn Beck Program, 2/24/10]
"Nuclear option" was coined by GOP in 2005 to describe a process to change Senate filibuster rules
Lott described proposal to change filibuster rules as "nuclear option." The term "nuclear option" was coined by former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), one of the leading advocates of the proposal to change the Senate rules on filibusters for judicial nominations. After Republican strategists deemed the term a political liability, Republican senators began to attribute it to Democrats. As Media Matters for America noted, at the time, many in the news media followed suit, repeating the Republicans' false attribution of the term to the Democrats.
Democratic senators in video weren't discussing reconciliation. The clips of Democratic senators aired were first compiled in a video created by the conservative website Naked Emperor News and promoted on Breitbart.tv -- where "NEN videos premiere." As Media Matters noted, the senators were expressing opposition to the proposal to change Senate rules to eliminate use of the filibuster for judicial nominations -- i.e. the "nuclear option" -- not the use of reconciliation.
Reconciliation is already part of Senate procedure, and Republicans have used it repeatedly
Reconciliation process is part of congressional budget process. The budget reconciliation process is defined by the U.S. House Committee on Rules as "part of the congressional budget process ... utilized when Congress issues directives to legislate policy changes in mandatory spending (entitlements) or revenue programs (tax laws) to achieve the goals in spending and revenue contemplated by the budget resolution."
Republicans repeatedly used reconciliation to pass President Bush's agenda. Republicans used the budget reconciliation process to pass Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts as well as the 2005 "Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act." The Senate also used the procedure to pass a bill containing a provision that would permit oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (The final version of that bill that Bush signed did not contain the provision on drilling.)
Reconciliation has been used to pass major changes to health care laws
Reconciliation has repeatedly been used to reform health care. On February 24, NPR noted that many "major changes to health care laws" have passed via reconciliation. These measures include COBRA, which allows laid-off workers to keep their insurance coverage, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Fox News has a history of conflating reconciliation and the "nuclear option"
Fox News repeatedly falsely labels reconciliation as "nuclear option." Fox News hosts and guests have repeatedly pushed the falsehood that the "nuclear option" refers to the budget reconciliation process. The Fox Nation and Fox News personalities like Hannity, Van Susteren, Dick Morris, Bret Baier, and Bill Sammon have all falsely compared reconciliation to the "nuclear option," and the Fox Nation has previously coupled its headlines with images of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb:
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Planning the Best Baseball Road Trip
Sometime during the second game of a doubleheader in Batavia, N.Y. on a Monday night, you start to realize just how much baseball there is. So when you return home from that game, you look up the fact there were 14,423 games in the majors and the affiliated minor leagues last year, and all of a sudden hitting six games in four days doesn't sound so impressive.
It is something that every baseball fan with the necessary mobility should try once, though. And then after you try it once, you'll start picking your next trip before you even take the ticket stubs out of your pocket.
While much has been written on the topic from people with much more exhausted odometers than mine, the advice here might sound a little different. It starts with asking a lot of questions. There is no better learning experience than a baseball road trip if you ask the right people the right questions. Talk to scouts before or after games, and find out what their life on the road is like. Talk to stadium employees on a night when there is an announced crowd of 908. Read the history of a town of 15,000 during a pitching change and gain an appreciation for where you're just passing through.
If what I learned from six games in four days sounds like a scrambled stream of consciousness, it's because it's supposed to be. You have a lot of thoughts on the road. The fact that you're with two of your best friends for most of the trip increases the number of thoughts way more than threefold.
1. The trip
This actually was not my most impressive trip. That one was five games in four days, but it was five ballparks and required attending an 11 a.m. game and a 6:30 p.m. game in the same day, four hours of driving apart. We just made it.
But it was an easy trip as an Upstater, and one that was complete with side trips to Cooperstown, the Finger Lakes, and Canada along the way.
2. The best player I saw
The best player I saw, despite seeing the Appel debut, was Xander Bogaerts. It was my first live experience with the no. 3 prospect on Jason Parks' midseason top 50. He hit the ball sharply to all fields; even his flyout was a bullet. And the climax was a three-run home run over the left field bullpen and off the scoreboard in Rochester (video here). He was a bit laughable in the field—not the kind of stuff that has you thinking he's not agile enough to be a shortstop, just a throw he should have eaten and a popup that he lost on a cloudy day. But I'll remember that bat.
3. Find something weird outside the lines
This trip featured an even more obscure place. In Buffalo, in the shadow of the Peace Bridge to Fort Erie, Ontario sits a small monument in an otherwise mostly quiet marina. The plaque commemorates the Fenian Invasion, a little-known piece of American history, Canadian history, British history and Irish history that can be summarized fairly briefly. After the Civil War, a few hundred Irish men who had fought in the war got together and straight-up invaded Canada. They succeeded in making a few captures in the name of "encouraging" the British to surrender their control of Ireland. The raids were squashed in short order thanks to some U.S.-British diplomacy, but just months after the first one, Britain ceded control over Canada (1867), with part of what is now celebrated as Canada Day being the crown's disinterest in defending such a large piece of land.
Here is the monument, five miles from the home of the Buffalo Bisons.
4. The second-best player I saw
Okay, he probably won't end up being the second-best player we saw. Suggs was drafted with the last pick of the second round last month, no. 73 overall, as a college reliever out of the University of Arkansas. That's usually a predictor of a fast rise, and the stuff was way too good for the New York Penn-League. Despite the NYPL being generally the worst offensive environment in baseball—the pitchers are ahead of the hitters, who are using wood bats for the first time—it's not an extreme strikeout league and is actually mild (7.6 per 9) compared to say the offense-happy Cal League's 8.4 per 9. But Suggs had some exception swing-and-miss stuff and good velocity. Given the state of Miami's club, expect him in the majors before you finish reading the next section.
5. Tim Hortons doesn't have an apostrophe.
6. The most unusual player I saw
It's impossible to deny that part of what made him stand out, in addition to the body, is how unusual it is to see a catcher from the Far East in the U.S. professional ranks. Pitcher: sure. Outfielder: rarer, but sure.
There have actually been only two catchers ever from Japan, South Korea or Taiwan, which ranks pretty low on the list of all 81 modern era players from those countries listed by their primary position.
Source: Baseball-Reference.com Play Index
One of them was Keith McDonald, who was born in Japan but played college ball at Pepperdine and was drafted. The other: Japanese-born Kenji Johjima, who spent his early-30s seasons with the Mariners from 2006-09.
7. What level should you see
Triple-A is well documented as a waiting room for the majors without many exciting prospects, and the short-season leagues just have some poorer baseball and too many guys who will wash out.
Your mileage may vary, but I'd rank the levels in terms of watchability:
1. Double-A
If I were drawing a minor league road trip from scratch without placing much importance on starting point, I'd try to focus it around as many A and Double-A games as possible.
8. So where should you go?
Florida has the most teams at 14, plus all the GCL teams, and California is second with 12, but you're essentially getting all high-A games in one league and not always the greatest variety of cities. Montana, believe it or not, has the most teams per capita with four Pioneer League teams and only a million people, but it's a huge state and not a great level. Maryland leads all multi-team states in density of those teams per unit of land area, with five minor league teams in a state 1/16 the size of California.
I'd probably start there. You're on the southern frontier of the Double-A Eastern League and the New York-Penn, and if you go south, you're right in the heart of the low-A South Atlantic League and especially the high A Carolina League. If Triple-A is your thing for name recognition, you have Norfolk, Durham, and Charlotte, and don't forget the O's and Nats if you want to throw the real thing in there.
Pennsylvania is an excellent choice, too, with two major league teams and eight minor league teams, many of which play in brand-new facilities. Here's a great map from MILB.com that might help you out.
No matter which area you choose, do it with open ears—as you can see, just this four-day trip produced a wide array of scrambled thoughts. And do so with a good eye for things beyond the outfield wall and, most importantly, plenty of sunscreen.
Zachary Levine is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @zacharylevine
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Bogaerts has game power and his body looks 75% matured. I've seen him play in Portland 3 or 4x and once v Hicks now w/the Twins and afte the game I tweeted if Hicks is a top prospect, then Bogaerts is an All-Sar. I wasn't saying Hicks looks bad, but in a 1-2 count, Bogaets showed a defensive approach and swing to a low outside FB and sent it off the CF wall, over Hicks head. After that swing and seeing the ball explode off the bat when he was obviously just barreling the ball for ct, I knew he had some major leaps comin on the top 100. His defense on the other hand was pretty shotty, but that's over a year ago. He literally had his feet tangled on a warm-up ball from the 1B.
Jul 11, 2013 03:31 AM
The Fenian organization is a side plot in the excellent baseball book "If I Never Get Back" by Darryl Brock
Jul 11, 2013 05:37 AM
In 2000 I did a tour of North Carolina'a minor league teams - 12 games in 14 days or something like that. I had high aspirations for documenting the trip - even set up what passed for a blog in those early days of blogging. But the realities of the road quickly intervened with my writing. Driving, finding lodging, finding food, exercising my dog (I brought him along on my week-long swing through the western part of the state), took a lot more time and energy than I expected.
Jul 11, 2013 08:52 AM
You are absolutely right about Timbits.
Jul 11, 2013 10:14 AM
Binghamton is just about 10 miles over PA border and a great place to watch a game. I remember seeing McCutchen when he played for Altoona at a game there in 2007, and in 2009 I got Carlos Santana's autograph. Good times.
Jul 11, 2013 12:29 PM
I think you are right about the Mid-Atlantic. I was thinking the Carolina, Sally, and Appy Leagues are all there.
Jul 11, 2013 13:05 PM
As an Orioles fan, I enjoyed a great trip a few years ago (when the Orioles were not very good) ... catching (in this order) the Orioles, Aberdeen, Bowie, Frederick, Delmarva (Salisbury MD), Norfolk (3 games including a double header) and Bluefield in a seven day period... nine games in seven days... all at home. The Baseball Prospect book and Orioles Media Guide were necessities in the trip. I viewed it as a personal scouting trip. What would I change? I would try to catch a three-game series featuring each of the minor league teams (though Bluefield has gone Blue Jays) next time.
Jul 11, 2013 14:15 PM
Sort of on topic: Work is sending me to Charlotte at the end of this month and I have Saturday night free and a company paid for rental car. Looking to take a quick roadtrip to one of the following games:
Jul 11, 2013 15:16 PM
Definitely Hickory if for no other reason than to see Joey Gallo.
Jul 11, 2013 18:36 PM
Kannapolis is a cookie cutter stadium built for car travel. McCormick Field in Asheville has a lot of character. The last time I was in W-S for a game was 2000 and they played in old Eddie Shore Field - looks like they've got a new downtown ballpark now, though downtown W-S isn't much to talk about. Charlotte's stadium is another one plopped in the 'burbs with easy car access.
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Phoenix Suns – Human Basketball – Nick Corrales Slam Dunk himself
Verve Sol Patrol member Nick Corrales scores a basket using himself during a timeout in the third period of the Suns-Bobcats game yesterday. Check out how this Suns performer and dunk squad high-flyer soared off of a trampoline and averted an epic disaster to slam dunk himself. Look at this video. What happens when You jumps too high:) Movie from nba.com
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On accepting the title role of Linda Lovelace in the upcoming feature film Lovelace, in theaters Aug. 9: "I read the script and I was like, 'Wow, this is the riskiest thing that's happening [in Hollywood] right now.' The first thing you think about is that it could have ruined my career. At the same time, I was like, 'This is my chance to show them, to show the industry, to be recognized.'"
Embroidered organza sweater, an embroidered tulle gown, and patchwork reptile boots from Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci; a wool hat from Ralph Lauren Collection; and a white gold double ring with black rhodium, quartz, and diamonds from Jack Vartanian.
On the need for physical attraction in a relationship: "Everybody I've dated I've been sexually attracted to immediately. Sparks don't grow—your vagina doesn't become more inclined to wanting someone just because you're around them."
Silk dress, $2,950, wool sweater, $1,290, both, Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane, at Saint Laurent, NYC. Gold heart lock pendant, Tiffany & Co., $475. Black rhodium, diamond, and black quartz ring, Jack Vartanian, price on request.
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Local Human Rights Lawyering Project Advisory Board (.pdf)
Catherine Albisa is Executive Director of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). Ms. Albisa is a constitutional and human rights lawyer with a background on the right to health. Ms. Albisa also has significant experience working in partnership with community organizers in the use of human rights standards to strengthen advocacy in the United States. She co-founded NESRI along with Sharda Sekaran and Liz Sullivan in order to build legitimacy for human rights in general, and economic and social rights in particular, in the United States. She is committed to a community-centered and participatory human rights approach that is locally anchored, but universal and global in its vision. Ms. Albisa clerked for the Honorable Mitchell Cohen in the District of New Jersey. She received a BA from the University of Miami and is a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Colin Bailey is the Executive Director at Environmental Justice Coalition for Water. He was formerly a staff attorney with Legal Services of Northern California, an LSC-funded, legal aid organization. Colin received his JD from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, where he participated in the Program in Public Interest Law & Policy and the Critical Race Studies concentration, while studying human rights and international law. Colin regularly trains advocates around the country on the tools of race-conscious community lawyering, a subject on which he has published. Colin has worked for what was then called the World Health Organization's Office of Health and Human Rights and currently represents homeless clients before the United Nations. For the past nearly five years, Colin has served as lead counsel on a complex, community-lead, multi-forum, environmental justice campaign, which includes the preparation of a racial impact statement. Colin lives in Sacramento, California, with his wife and daughter.
Susan Bennett is Director of the Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. She holds expertise in community economic development; nonprofit organizations; law, poverty, and the homeless; legal services for the poor; pro bono legal services; public interest law; federal housing law and programs. Ms. Bennett is also a member of the ABA's Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, she serves as vice chair of the Advisory Committee of the D.C. Bar's Community Development Project, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Interpreter Bank Project of the District of Columbia's Access to Justice Commission. She received an A.B. and M.A. from Yale University and is a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Johanna Bond is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington and Lee School of Law. Ms. Bond's teaching and scholarship focuses on international human rights law and gender and the law. Before Washington and Lee, Ms. Bond was an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming and before that a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center for several years. She also served as the Executive Director of the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, a non-profit organization housed at Georgetown. Ms. Bond's human rights experience includes substantial travel and collaboration with non-governmental organizations around the world, including attending the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Before beginning her teaching career, Ms. Bond was a law clerk for the Honorable Ann D. Montgomery, United States District Court, District of Minnesota from 1997 – 1998. Ms. Bond holds a B.A. from Colorado College, a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and an LL.M from Georgetown University Law Center.
Pamela M. Brown is the Director of the Bi-National Family Violence Project of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc., an LSC-funded law firm serving low-income clients along the Texas-Mexico border. Pam focuses her practice on assisting survivors of family violence in international family law and child abduction cases. As a recognized expert in the field of international child abduction, Pam provides technical assistance to legal aid attorneys across the United States and has conducted numerous trainings throughout the United States and Mexico. Pam also served as an observer delegate to the Special Commission on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction at The Hague, Netherlands, in October 2006, June 2011 and January 2012. She has received numerous awards of merit from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for her work in recovering abducted children and has reunited over 50 children with their mothers. In 2010, Pam was recognized for her work with the Impact Award from the Poverty Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. Pam received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1986. She is licensed to practice law in California and Texas.
Olga Byrne is a 2011-2012 U.S. Fulbright-Schuman Scholar in Europe, studying policy trends toward separated, immigrant children and states' adherence to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. From 2006-2011, Ms. Byrne worked on two national programs at the Vera Institute of Justice designed to improve access to legal services for immigrants in removal proceedings and played a key role in developing a pilot project to provide direct legal representation (or government-appointed counsel) to detained unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings. She also provided ongoing technical assistance and training to legal service providers, as well as ongoing recommendations to government, for example, by participating in a working group to develop draft regulations for the U.S. Asylum Office on issues pertaining to children. Also at the Vera Institute, Ms. Byrne managed a pilot guardianship project designed to advocate for the best interests of vulnerable, unaccompanied children in accordance with international law and federal anti-trafficking law. Prior to that, Ms. Byrne worked in legal services, representing victims of domestic violence and trafficking victims at University Settlement Society, as well as a commercial litigator at the law firm of Thelen, Reid & Priest. Ms. Byrne graduated cum laude from Fordham University School of Law, completing a portion of her legal studies in French at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and graduated cum laude from Cornell University.
Kevin M. Cremin is the Director of Litigation for Disability and Aging Rights for MFY Legal Services, Inc. (MFY). He supervises MFY's Adult Home Advocacy Project and coordinates MFY's affirmative advocacy and litigation involving the rights of people who are elderly or have disabilities. Mr. Cremin has litigated numerous cases in federal, state, and local courts, including, with co-counsel, Disability Advocates, Inc. v. Paterson, which resulted in a finding that New York State discriminated against approximately 4,300 individuals with disabilities. In 2006, Mr. Cremin received a fellowship to conduct a study to determine whether law and public policy should be reformed to facilitate better community-based services for individuals with psychiatric disabilities in India. He has also worked for the West Side SRO Law Project and Legal Services NYC. After clerking for a federal district court judge and a federal appellate court judge, he was a Trial Attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Cremin is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Yale Law School. He has published numerous articles on the rights of individuals with disabilities, and he is an adjunct at Cardozo Law School and Columbia Law School.
Timothy M. Curry is the Managing Attorney at the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC), where he focuses on training and support of juvenile defense attorneys around the country. Prior to joining NJDC, Mr. Curry worked as the Supervising Attorney in the Criminal Division of D.C. Law Students in Court, where he represented indigent adults and juveniles charged with crimes inWashington, DCandsupervised the clinical practice ofstudents from the George Washington and Catholic University law schools. Mr. Curry has also worked as an E. Barrett Prettyman Post-Graduate Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, where he maintained a defense practice and supervised student clinical work in thejuvenile court. Prior to that, Mr. Curry clerked for the Honorable John Ramsey Johnson, Associate Judge at D.C Superior Court. Mr. Curry has alsovolunteered with various criminal defense and human rights organizations, both domestically and internationally, such as the D.C. Public Defender Service, DITSWHANELO – the Botswana Centre for Human Rights, and the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Prior to earning his law degree, Mr. Curry worked with various humanitarian relief and refugee organizations in West Africa and as a television and magazine journalist. Mr. Curry holds an LL.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, and a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University.
Martha F. Davis is Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law. Ms. Davis teaches Women's Rights Lawyering, Constitutional Law and Professional Responsibility. She is also a faculty director for the law school's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Ms. Davis has written widely on women's rights, poverty and human rights. In addition to her numerous articles, she recently co-edited Bringing Human Rights Home, a three-volume work chronicling the US human rights movement. In 2008, Bringing Human Rights Home was named one of the "best books in the field of human rights" by the US Human Rights Network; an abridged version was published in 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Ms. Davis's book, Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, received the Reginald Heber Smith Award for distinguished scholarship on the subject of equal access to justice, and was also honored by the American Bar Association in its annual Silver Gavel competition. Recently, she filed an amicus brief arguing for the relevance of international law in a domestic force feeding case. Prior to joining the law faculty in 2002, Ms. Davis was vice president and legal director for the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. As a women's rights practitioner, she was counsel in a number of cases before the US Supreme Court, including Nguyen v. INS, a challenge to sex-based citizenship laws that Professor Davis argued before the court. Professor Davis has also served as a fellow at the Bunting Institute, as the first Kate Stoneman Visiting Professor of Law and Democracy at Albany Law School and as a Soros Reproductive Rights Fellow.During 2008-2009, Ms. Davis was a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, and a non-resident fellow of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Ms. Davis chairs the board of directors of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and serves on the editorial board of the Harvard School of Public Health's publication Health and Human Rights. She is also an appointed member of the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights. Ms. Davis holds an A.B. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Oxford University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.
Davida Finger is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law where she teaches the Community Justice section of the Law Clinic. She has also taught the Law & Poverty course and Social Justice Lawyering seminar. She joined Loyola in 2006 to work with what was formerly the Katrina clinic.In collaboration with community organizations, Professor Finger has worked extensively on disaster-related litigation and policy matters focusing on government accountability in rebuilding. She also works on civil rights and human rights litigation and advocacy. Professor Finger received Loyola University College of Law's 2010 Gills Long service award and the 2010 Loyola University Faculty Senate service award. She was the 2011-12 chair of the Association of American Law Schools poverty law section.
Lynsay Gott is Senior Associate with WMR Immigration Law Group. Ms. Gott received her J.D. from University of Cincinnati College of the Law, and was the recipient of an Equal Justice Works Fellowship upon graduation in 2007. Her fellowship project, carried out at Human Rights USA, involved working to close the loopholes in U.S. law that limited the availability of asylum protections for trafficked persons and mandated the return of some to the countries of origin where they were originally victimized. She remained with Human Rights USA upon completion of the fellowship, eventually becoming the Acting Executive Director, and her work expanded to pursuing civil remedies for survivors of human rights abuses. She joined WMR Immigration Law Group in 2012 and currently helps clients receive humanitarian protection such as asylum, as well as other forms of immigration relief. Ms. Gott is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars.
Amber Harding is a staff attorney and founder and director of the David M Booth Disability Rights Initiative at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. Ms. Harding joined the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless in 2003 as a Steptoe & Johnson Equal Justice Works Fellow after receiving a law degree from Georgetown University and a degree in anthropology from the University of Arizona. Through direct legal representation and policy advocacy, Ms. Harding advocates for the rights of District of Columbia residents with disabilities to equal access to emergency shelter and housing. Her work focuses on improving the disability-rights compliance of DC, particularly the DC-funded emergency shelter system; developing, improving, and monitoring subsidized housing resources (including permanent supportive housing); enforcing the right to shelter in severe weather; improving access to the courts for persons with disabilities; and fighting zoning discrimination and "NIMBYism" that prevent the siting of affordable housing and supportive services across the city. In 2007, she received the Citizen Advocate award from the DC Center for Independent Living. In 2011, her work on improving the accessibility of emergency shelters was cited as a "particularly noteworthy" example of a successful reform campaign by the Shriver Center's Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys.
Hadar Harris is the Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC. Ms. Harris is an international human rights attorney and specializes in issues of civil and political rights, gender equality, and domestic implementation of international norms. She has worked extensively in assessing and reviewing national compliance with international human rights treaties, working both with NGOs and governmental bodies and advising on implementation of recommendations. She has assisted in developing shadow reports, government reports or trained government and civil society representatives on a variety of treaties in various parts of the world including Botswana, Israel, Lao PDR, Macedonia, Armenia, Kosovo, and the United States. She created the Center's Human Rights in the US program ten years ago and has worked closely with NGO partners to train and empower activists to integrate human rights into their advocacy in the US. Previously, she lived and worked in Jerusalem where she was the Director of Program and Resource Development for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). She also formerly served as the Executive Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, a bipartisan legislative service organization of the United States House of Representatives (now the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission). Ms. Harris has her B.A. in Political Science from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Matt Hill is a staff Attorney at Public Justice Center (PJC). Mr. Hill's primary focus is spearheading the PJC's new initiative to enforce recently enacted state and federal laws that protect tenants when the landlord enters foreclosure. In 2008-2009, he was the Francis D. Murnaghan Appellate Advocacy Fellow at the PJC. Before PJC, Mr. Hill clerked for the Honorable Deborah S. Eyler on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. While in law school, Matt interned at the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, working on various aspects of Maryland development law, HUD regulations, and fair housing law. As a member of his law school's Community and Economic Development Clinic, he represented a tenants' organization seeking to purchase and transform their building into a cooperative. Before law school, Mr. Hill taught eighth grade at Mother Seton Academy, a school for "at risk" youth in Baltimore City. Prior to teaching, he interned at the Homeless Persons Representation Project promoting the rights of day laborers and working to kill repressive panhandling legislation in Baltimore City. Mr. Hill graduated summa cum laude from Loyola College in Maryland and summa cum laude from American University Washington College of Law.
Sarah Hymowitz is a staff attorney at Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ). For the past six years, Ms. Hymowitz has been an advocate in LSNJ's Worker's Legal Rights Project, where she represents low-income clients in a variety of employment-related cases. Ms. Hymowitz's primary focus is unemployment and wage and hour cases, but she has represented clients in matters ranging from employment discrimination to human trafficking. She practices in state court, federal court, and administrative courts. Ms. Hymowitz graduated from Douglass College, Rutgers University and American University Washington College of Law, where she received an award for her work in the International Human Rights Clinic and was an editor-in-chief of the Human Rights Brief.
Maha Jweied is a Senior Counsel with the U.S. Department of Justice's Access to Justice Initiative, where she coordinates the international component of the office's mission of exchanging information with foreign ministries of justice and judicial systems on respective efforts to improve access to justice. In addition to organizing a convening on International Perspectives on Indigent Defense and co-authoring the report of that meeting, with colleagues from the National Institute of Justice, she recently served as the U.S. Government representative at the International Legal Aid Group's bi-annual conference. She also coordinated efforts between the Legal Services Corporation and the U.S. Department of State to issue guidance to LSC-grantees clarifying that they can represent foreign indigent parents in Hague Abduction Convention cases. Prior to joining the Department, she was a senior attorney-advisor at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and spent time at Mizan Law Group for Human Rights, a Jordanian human rights NGO. Ms. Jweied served as a law clerk to Judge Shahabuddeen of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She received a BA from The George Washington University in Middle Eastern Studies, JD from Columbia Law School, and LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics.
Risa E. Kaufman is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute and a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School. At HRI, Ms. Kaufman works to advance international human rights norms and strategies in the United States by developing legal theories and advocacy strategies using international human rights standards and mechanisms to address economic justice in the United States; directing the Institute's treaty implementation initiative; coordinating the Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers' Network; developing human rights training programs for practicing attorneys; and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Institute. Ms. Kaufman also serves on the steering committee of the Human Rights at Home Campaign, which seeks to build a stronger federal and local infrastructure for human rights monitoring and enforcement in the United States. Ms. Kaufman has extensive experience in public interest litigation, advocacy and legal education with a special focus on women's rights, poverty law, and access to justice. Prior to joining HRI, she engaged in impact litigation, policy initiatives, direct services, and public education focusing on welfare, housing rights, racial profiling, domestic violence, access to legal services, rights of incarcerated persons, and voting rights. She served as associate counsel for the Community Service Society of New York, as a Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at the law firm of Gibbons, P.C., and as a Skadden Fellow at NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now Legal Momentum). Ms. Kaufman has taught at Fordham Law School, Seton Hall Law School and New York University School of Law, where, immediately prior to joining Columbia, she was an acting assistant professor in the Lawyering Program. Ms.Kaufman holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar, and clerked for Judge Ira DeMent in the U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Alabama. She holds a B.A. from Tulane University.
Sarah Paoletti directs the Transnational Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, which focuses on international human rights and immigration law. Students enrolled in the clinic engage in direct legal representation of individual and organizational clients in a myriad of cases and projects that require them to grapple with international and comparative legal norms in settings that cut across cultures, borders, languages, and legal systems. Before coming to Penn Law, Paoletti taught in the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University Washington College of Law, where she also taught a seminar on the labor and employment rights of immigrant workers. Her areas of specialty include international human rights, migrant and immigrant rights, asylum law, and labor and employment. She has presented on the rights of migrant workers before the United Nations and the Organization of American States, and also works closely with advocates seeking application of international human rights norms in the United States. Ms. Paoletti holds a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law and a B.A. from Yale University.
Wendy Pollack is the founder and Director of the Women's Law and Policy Project (WLPP) at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. The WLPP draws on the experiences of women and girls and brings those experiences to the forefront in the Shriver Center's analysis of poverty and the development of solutions to end poverty permanently. Wendy works extensively on public benefits and work supports, workforce and economic development, education, employment, family law, violence against women and girls, gender equity in schools, and other issues affecting low-income women and girls, on the local, state, and federal level. She is the editor of WomanView, a newsletter on developments in legal issues affecting low-income women and girls. Wendy was awarded the 2011 Kutak-Dodds Prize from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association which honors the accomplishments ofattorneys who, through the practice of law, are contributing in a significant way to the enhancement of human dignity and quality of life of those persons unable to afford legal representation.
Jayesh Rathod is an Assistant Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. His areas of expertise and scholarly interests include immigrants' rights, labor and employment, occupational safety and health, and the intersection of law and organizing. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a Staff Attorney at CASA of Maryland, representing low-wage immigrant workers on employment law and immigration matters, and participating in worker education, organizing, and advocacy efforts. He also practiced in the litigation section at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering LLP, and was law clerk to the Honorable Louis F. Oberdorfer, of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Over the course of his career, Mr. Rathod has worked with numerous non-governmental organizations to advance the civil and human rights of communities in the United States and abroad. Mr. Rathod holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and an A.B from Harvard University.
Alice Riener is the Director of Housing Services at NO/AIDS Task Force in New Orleans, where she works to provide supportive housing services to low-income disabled people to ensure that they remain housed, and direct housing assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS. Prior to her current position, Ms. Riener spent three years working as a staff attorney in the housing law unit at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (SLLS). While at SLLS, she represented low income clients in eviction court and administrative hearings involving housing assistance. She also participated in various advocacy initiatives with the local housing authority, HUD, and FEMA. During law school, Ms. Riener clerked at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica and participated in the Fall 2005 Committee Against Torture meetings in Geneva as a research assistant. She also interned at the Observatory for Indigenous Rights in Temuco, Chile, and worked as a research assistant for the Public International Law and Policy Group focusing on Kosovo. Ms. Rienerholds a B.A. from Columbia University and she is a 2007 graduate of American University Washington College of Law.
Eric Tars is Director of Human Rights and Children's Rights Programs at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. In his human rights capacity, he works with homelessness and housing advocacy organizations to train and strategically utilize human rights as a component of their work. In his youth rights capacity, he works to protect homeless students' rights to education and advocates for homeless youth and families through trainings, litigation, and policy advocacy at the national and local levels. Before coming to the Law Center, Mr. Tars was a Fellow with Global Rights' U.S. Racial Discrimination Program and consulted with Columbia University Law School's Human Rights Institute and the US Human Rights Network. Mr. Tars' work has spanned the country and the globe. He coordinated the involvement of hundreds of organizations in the hearings of the U.S. before the UN Committee Against Torture and Human Rightsin 2006. Mr. Tars has conducted numerous trainings on integrating human rights strategies into domestic advocacy, and he currently serves as the chair of the US Human Rights Network's training committee. Mr. Tars received his J.D. as a Global Law Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center, and during that time served as a research assistant to Prof. Mari Matsuda, as a legal assistant at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and as law clerk at Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, a law firm specializing in non-profit law. He received his B.A. in political science from Haverford College and studied international human rights in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and at the University of Vienna.
Stephanie Troyer is a Supervising Attorney in the Family Law and Domestic Violence Unit at the Legal Aid Society of DC, where she represents litigants in custody, child support, divorce, and civil protection order cases. With partner organization Bread for the City, Ms. Troyer designed and oversees a court-based community legal services office in the Paternity and Support Branch of the DC Superior Court to provide same-day representation to litigants. In addition to litigation work, Ms. Troyer is active in law reform efforts, most recently relating to the processes for the appointment of guardians ad litem and child support enforcement. While she has spent most of her legal career as a poverty law attorney, Ms. Troyer also served as the Legislative Counsel for the National Abortion Federation. Prior to joining Legal Aid, Ms. Troyer was an Assistant Public Defender in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before law school, she was a domestic and international policy assistant at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Ms. Troyer received an A.B. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Nathalie Walker is Co-Director of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR). AEHR is a nonprofit, public interest law firm whose mission is to provide legal services, community organizing support, public education, and campaigns focused on defending and advancing the human right to a healthy environment, and advocating for the human rights of internally displaced Gulf Coast hurricane survivors. Since 1991, Ms. Walker has provided legal counsel and advocacy support that have helped community organizations win important environmental justice victories. In 2003, Ms. Walker, along with Monique Harden, co-founded AEHR. Ms. Walker has authored and co-authored numerous reports and papers on environmental justice and human rights issues. Her advocacy work has been featured in television and print news, as well as books, magazines, and documentaries. Ms. Walker is a graduate of Tulane University Law School (1981), and received an M.A. (1973) and B.A. (1972) from the University of Michigan.
R. Michael Waller is a staff attorney and litigator with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Enforcement. Before joining the FTC, he worked for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc., providing legal representation to indigent and low income clients in housing, domestic violence, employment, and consumer protection cases. In addition, he practiced in the financial institutions group at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP. Mr. Waller graduated from the University of the South (Sewanee); the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University; Vanderbilt Divinity School, Vanderbilt University; and he is a 2005 graduate of American University Washington College of Law.


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BDC Advertising is off to ICAST, the world's largest sportfishing industry trade show. With several prominent clients attending and every day packed with media appointments, this year's show proves to be a landmark event for BDC Advertising and the companies we represent.
And there's no better place than ICAST to make the first of several big announcements. After nearly a year of development, BDC Advertising in cooperation with The Fish Sniffer will unveil the new Fish Sniffer website --- and an exciting new approach to fishing websites. It's sure to create a buzz and is the first of several big announcements coming from BDC Advertising over the next few months.
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Did you know?
German missionaries imported cherries to South Africa and helped to establish the Free State cherry industry.
Ah, the joys of Oktoberfest! The tasty Bavarian wonders of bratwurst and eisbein, the clink of massive steins of beer, the oompah bands, the lederhosen and the sauerkraut. Above all, the gemutlichkeit. Good vibes. Pretzel, anyone?
No, we are not in Munich, where this wonderful festival began in 1810, we are in the heart of Cape Town, at a German celebration in the V&A Waterfront. Or we could be at a drinking hole in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, a province where villages named Hamburg, Berlin, Stutterheim and Braunschweig dot the landscape.
Of course, Oktoberfests are celebrated by Germans (and other party animals) all over the world. But somehow, here in South Africa, an Oktoberfest is all the more fun because it also heralds the arrival of summertime.
The German diaspora is alive and kicking in South Africa, in the form of social clubs, German schools and festivals. Also, the presence – in the Eastern Cape – of automotive giants Volkswagen and Daimler AG (makers of the Mercedes range) has brought significant upliftment to the region.
The German history in South Africa really began with the arrival of the British-German Legion. They came with their wives, many of them quickly acquired in Britain, and were ensconced in South Africa by 1857. But they were soldiers, not farmers, and soon most of them headed out for other campaigns abroad.
A year later, five ships full of real German farmers and their families arrived and it was this community that has left an enduring mark on the Eastern Cape. Similar German settlements took place in what was then Natal and even the Transvaal, where a village called Kroondal still speaks predominantly German.
Johannesburg has a strong German presence, and its International German School, founded in 1890, is one of the oldest schools in the country. The South African chapter of the Goethe Institut provides information on Germany's cultural, social and political life. It also focuses on local development, promotes the German language and encourages information changes with German organisations.
Modern Germany remains one of South Africa's strongest trading partners and the numbers of German tourists coming to South Africa is second only to the United Kingdom. Prost!
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How to get here
Driving west from East London, you will find the towns of Berlin, Braunschweig, Stutterheim and Dohne - all of German origin. Down the coast from East London is the seaside village of Hamburg.
In KwaZulu-Natal, you drive north of Pietermaritzburg to see traces of German settlement in places like Wartburg and New Hanover.
Get around
Hire a car from East London or Pietermaritzburg, get a good map and head off.
Length of stay
A full week for the Eastern Cape leg; three days or more for the KwaZulu-Natal section of the trip.
What's happening
The German Country Club in Johannesburg, the Goethe Institut in Johannesburg and the Expats in Cape Town website will provide you with information about activities taking place with the German community of South Africa.


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A public spat flared up this week between Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk and the New York Times reporter John Broder over a test drive of the new Tesla Model S. The review, which Musk called "fake" on Twitter, triggered a war of both words and data, with Musk releasing Broder's driving logs. Though Broder countered with a detailed follow up, the drama was an object lesson in how the dynamics of disputes like this have been transformed by big data. Read more
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In Silver Linings Playbook Jacki Weaver plays a mother in a sports-mad Philadelphia family; now she'll mother a sports-mad Boston family for a new TV comedy.
The two-time Oscar nominee has landed a starring role in US network CBS's family comedy The McCarthys, according to industry website The Hollywood Reporter.
The pilot, to be directed by Fred Savage, of Wonder Years and Austin Powers fame, will see the Australian actress in the role of Marjorie, the loving but exhausted mother of the loud, Irish-Catholic McCarthys.
Marjorie loves to hang out with her gay son Ronny while her husband (to be played by Jack McGee) and her other children obsess over basketball.
Weaver is nominated for an Academy Award in the supporting actress category for her role in Silver Linings Playbook.
The Oscars ceremony will be held on February 24 (1230 AEDT on February 25).