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The once-forgotten Brumby who scored the winning try for the Waratahs against his old club last season has another opportunity to inflict maximum pain this weekend.
And Sitaleki Timani, the soft-spoken mountain of a man who somehow morphs into a human wrecking ball in a Waratahs jersey, plans to do just that.
The 25-year-old says he hasn't forgotten the frustrations of 2010, when he did not play a single minute for the Brumbies.
Not even the match-winning try, regular starting roles and his first Test cap could rob him of the desire to prove something to the people who did not place their faith in his abilities.
''I came down here [to Sydney] and got the chance to go back and play against them and it gave me more motivation to try to prove something,'' Timani said.
''I'm trying to do it to every team [now] as well, to prove myself.''
Tomorrow night Timani will have an entire game to prove himself after Waratahs coach Michael Foley named him to start in the second row instead of Dean Mumm, who was named on the bench.
He is the only change to the side that narrowly lost to the Crusaders in Sydney last week. Timani will partner with Kane Douglas and pack in behind the Waratahs' all-Wallabies front row of Benn Robinson, Tatafu Polota-Nau and Sekope Kepu.
Dave Dennis, Jono Jenkins and Wycliff Palu will start in the back row, while Rocky Elsom and Lopeti Timani will wait to provide support from the bench.
Peter Betham and Atieli Pakalani will start on the wings for a second week running in an opportunity for the Waratahs's backs to strengthen their connection and shore up their defence, which was found lacking against the Crusaders.
Timani and Douglas have their work cut out for them to contain the locks named for the Brumbies - Sam Carter and Scott Fardy.
Carter's inclusion in the starting side was one of three changes coach Jake White made to the side that put on six tries to beat the Lions in Johannesburg last weekend.
Captain Ben Mowen and Dan Palmer return to blind-side flanker and tight-head prop after a week off. Timani said he was looking forward to playing his old squad.
''It's always good to play against your old mate over there, your friends and your mates in Canberra,'' he said.
''[It's] a big challenge for you to try to push in and be better than them or try to beat them, it makes you happy.''
Much like his other former Brumby teammate Elsom, Timani has been impressed with the work of White, who made wholesale changes to the squad when he arrived at the end of last year.
''They have a different game now and I think it's going to be a big challenge for us to beat them over there but I'm pretty confident we will come away with the four points.''
Timani said he was taking his return to form slowly and wasn't looking further ahead than securing his next start, despite the obvious attraction of adding another Wallabies cap to his game against Samoa last year.
''I'm not really thinking about the Wallabies now, I'm just working step by step,'' he said.
''My first step is to get a starting position and the next step to go from there and try to play well and get the selectors to [have some interest] in me but the Wallabies I'm not really thinking about it now, I'm just thinking about performing.''


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The main difficulty is to find an efficient route that didn't take us to far off track. Google maps shows the roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina but can't give you any driving directions. The GPS in our car had only major highways of which there were only 3 in the entire country. So, we had to guess that a border crossing would be near a big city so we headed for Slavonski Brod. The border crossing here was quick and smooth. The GPS lady was freaking out telling me to do a u turn because I wasn't on a road. Once I figured how to shut her up we headed in an easternly direction to find a different way out of Bosnia and Herzegovina and back into Croatia in order to continue on to Serbia.
We eventually made it into Serbia for a quick visit to Novi Sad (more on that later). Then came a rather comical series of events trying to get into Romania. Once again, our car's GPS was no help and google thought it could route me into Romania but it turns out google was wrong. Very, very wrong!!The plan was to enter Romania near Kikinda then head north through the country and eventually into Budapest, Hungary. According to google it would only be about an hour out of the way vs heading straight to Budapest. It was perfect. A scenic route through a new country. The problem was trying to find an open border crossing.
Here is our first attempt to cross the border into Romania from Serbia.We were very surprised. Google maps said we could get across the border here but this didn't look promising. I couldn't read the sign but I was pretty sure we weren't allowed to cross the border here. I had google maps downloaded to my ipad so I reviewed the map and saw another border crossing just north of our location.
2nd attempt to cross the border into Romania. At least we can see the sign that says "Republic or Serbia". So close yet so far. Denied again.There was one more border crossing just north of our location. This one had to work.
3rd attempt to get into Romania. No signs just a dirt road. We went up the road a bit but the weeds started getting longer and the dirt road more impassable. There was no way this was an open border crossing. Could we have gotten into Romina this way? Maybe. Would we have been arrested as illegal immigrants. Maybe. Anyway, we were denied again.By now I was getting kinda pissed. I'm a seasoned traveller and I wasn't going to be denied entry into a country. I was on a mission. Miki sensed my frustration (probably because of my many expletives directed toward google maps) so she got out a map. Not one of the many electronic maps I had but a paper one. You know, the old school kind that you have to fold out. As she's looking over the map she asks me what I think these little white flags on the maps were. I look at the map key and it said "border crossings".
Yep. We had a map in our car the whole time that labelled all the border crossings for the whole of Europe. Not surprisingly, our attempted border crossings didn't have a little white flag. However, there was one about 30km south of our first attempt to cross into Romania. The problem now is we were very far away from that border crossing and we didn't have time to double back. I temporarily admitted defeat and we headed to Budapest, Hungary.
As we were driving across the Serbia/Hungary border I said I'm not giving up. Even if we just cross the border into Romania and turn around we are going to do it. We looked at the paper map and saw the Hungary/Romania border crossing wasn't that far out of the way. Off we went.Eureka!!! We finally crossed the border into Romania. It was pretty quick process and we went into the closest town and find a nice little restaurant for dinner. At least we did something in Romania rather than just turning around as soon as we entered. After feeling very satisfied with our accomplishment and a nice dinner we continued our journey to Budapest, Hungary.

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January 22, 2010
Transaction Action
Overpaying Pineiro and Little Sarge's Big Apple Adventure
Signed RHP Joel Pineiro to a two-year, $16 million contract. [1/21]
Traded OF-S Gary Matthews Jr. and $21.5 million to pay him with to the Mets for RHP Brian Stokes. [1/22]
With Pineiro, there are so many unknowns that it makes the proposition that he'll deliver on this deal seem dubious, even after working through the historical track record and the math, as Eric Seidman did on Wednesday, comparing Pineiro's prospective value to Jon Garland's. Even with Mike Scioscia, as fine a handler of pitchers as you might find in any dugout, this just doesn't seem like it'll go well. While the Angels aren't a bad defensive team, they're also not an especially good one, and they did just lose Chone Figgins in the offseason. Even if you consider the move from having to work around Skip Schumaker at second as a possible benefit, there's a worse collection of outfielders, plus one-ninth of the opposing hitters aren't patsies.
Even if Pineiro was sticking around in St. Louis, I don't know if I would have that much faith that he'd be anything more than mid-rotation filler and a better asset to have over the regular season than someone you need at the front end to take postseason starts; effectively, that's what the Angels are paying for, having lost John Lackey, and having shelled out this kind of money for Pineiro. Perhaps the proposition that you can keep bottling lightning and sell it on the open market works, but I have my doubts. A full-season career-low ratio of homers per fly ball seems likely to regress, even if he keeps generating a 2:1 rate of ground-ball outs to fly-ball outs.
Consider the recent big-name defectors from Dave Duncan's rotations: Jeff Suppan's been an ongoing disaster in Milwaukee, and Braden Looper joined him in Brew'd ignominy last season. Matt Morris produced plenty of heartburn in San Francisco. Jason Marquis turned out better than expected, which is interesting, but if not for last year's success with the Rockies, it also wouldn't exactly be called an endorsement to employ ex-Cardinals. And I'm assuming Anaheim-gelenos haven't forgotten the explosively unhappy Kent Bottenfield experience. More like Morris or Suppan or Marquis, Pineiro was a top pitching prospect in his own right back in the day, and before the Cardinals put him back together again as a ground-balling machine, and maybe that's enough to go on. Considering Pineiro's one of those players whom I think none of us have a good sense of what to expect, it will be interesting.
As for eating most of the expense of employing Little Sarge the next two seasons, I guess I'd consider the relative silver lining involved. They get back $1.2 million over the next two years, not a lot, but since they have to pay out at least $800,000 for the roster spot over that same span, it's something. They got a right-handed person who can pitch as an 11th man somewhat cheaply, and to his credit, Stokes can get his fastball into the mid-90s; maybe the Angels can get better results with him than the Mets did, maybe not, but since he won't be making much more than the minimum for another season, they can take a look and see before they get into any real money. As far as replacing Matthews, that's easy enough, in that they get to swap in Reggie Willits more solidly into the roster spot that had been expended upon Matthews, and that gives them a better pinch-runner. Maybe that affords them the space for a Chris Pettit or Terry Evans or Freddy Sandoval as the 13th position player, or a third catcher to set Scioscia's mind at ease as far as his dealing with Mike Napoli's defense or Jeff Mathis' bat. Regardless, it spares them at-bats wasted on Matthews. Just because Matthews was a sunk cost didn't mean the Halos had to sink towards living with it to the bitter end.
Signed RHP Shawn Hill to a minor-league contract. [1/22]
You can consider him an active example for why some of us say health is a skill, as it's one that Hill obviously lacks. Hill's recovering from his latest elbow surgery, and is about as reliable as a junkie with your home appliances and the keys to your car. Sure, it might go well, but do you really expect it to? Of course not. He might be recovered from his second TJS (his most recent in a long litany of elbow problems) in plenty of time to contribute during some stretch of the season; he might even last multiple turns in a rotation. That's not snark, or at least I wish that it was, but just keep in mind that he hasn't made more than 20 starts in any single season, all levels combined, major and minor, since 2003. Hill can be a joy to watch when he's healthy and when he's on; I was in the press box for his five-inning no-hit effort against the Marlins for the Nats, but even then, he was on for three innings, and obviously hurting and laboring through the last two, before heading to the DL immediately afterward. There was a point in time when he was an exceptional, noteworthy talent; now he's starting pitching's answer to Chad Fox, and a flyer that teams perfunctorily take, and just as readily discard when they see him break down on their watch as well. It's a bit jarring to see that he'll only be 29 this spring and think that, now that the Canadian's been taken on by Canada's remaining team, you can hope he'll end his career on an up note.
Signed C-R Paul Lo Duca and OF-R Jay Payton to minor-league contracts. [1/21]
Both players are trying to get a new lease on life before moving into the retirement-oriented parts of the program, but both seem more likely to be headed for Colorado Springs, providing token veterandom on the big-league bench only should someone get hurt. It's generous of the Rockies to afford them the opportunities, but Lo Duca's barely serviceable as a big-league backup, and Payton's best employment might be as an infrequently employed fifth outfielder in a rosterscape not known for having many of those about.
Traded RHP Brian Stokes to the Angels for OF-S Gary Matthews Jr. and $21.5 million. [1/22]
"Mets land Matthews to bolster outfield!"
On what planet? The one where armless dwarves with gloves glued to their heads were the only available alternatives? Here on Earth, Little Sarge is probably one of the best thousand outfielders we've got. Major League Baseball needs fewer than 200 of those, however, so generally speaking, that isn't really the relevant standard in play, not unless we're stocking rosters for whatever notional baseball-playing nation/state is supposed to help fill out the slate of teams in the World Baseball Classic.*
That doesn't necessarily make him a good big-league outfielder, let alone one who can help the Mets in a substantive role. In a fair fight, he shouldn't beat out Angel Pagan for the right to absorb Carlos Beltran's playing time for however long the starter's missing due to his ongoing knee problems. The argument that Matthews "only" costs the Mets $2 million over the next two seasons to employ assumes that he's worth spending $2 million on; while a million bucks per season is less than the going rate for many scrubby outfield types these days (Mark Kotsay's getting $1.5 million for 2010, for example), Matthews' production has descended from his career-year spike in 2006 (.285 EqA) down to below a .250 EqA the last two years. Even allowing for how his production might improve in the weaker league if he were entrusted with everyday play, that's in his age-35 and age-36 seasons, and in a pitcher's park. He's probably an improvement on Jeremy Reed, and maybe on Cory Sullivan as well; that it's less than a sure thing put the question of whether he was worth getting at this price into reasonable doubt.
*: Since Andorra already has its first professional baseball player (Aroldis Chapman), I suggest Matthews might be best employed by one of the other noxious Euro-banking bandit statelets, say, Liechtenstein. Recent crackdowns on tax sheltering and Russian mob accounts or no, wouldn't you still want to sock away your paydays in the Alps? That would certainly make Matthews an appropriate mercenary addition to a club that plays in Citi(zens' Corporate Shakedown) Field, because publicly-funded ballparks named in respect for the suggestion of superior private industry competence seems so delightfully symbolic and disconnected with reality as is.
Agreed to terms with RHP Joe Blanton on a three-year, $24 million contract, avoiding arbitration. [1/21]
Agreed to terms with CF-S Shane Victorino on a three-year, $22 million contract, avoiding arbitration. [1/22]
A million here, a million there, and it all starts to add up, but the Phillies have bought out the last year of Blanton's arbitration eligibility plus the last two Victorino had, so that's sensible enough. Victorino's deal won't get much argument from me: buying out the arbitration years plus his first year of free agency seems like a good bet, given that these will be his age-29 through age-31 seasons, and near-term projections convey a certain reliability in terms of his comparables and ability to stay around the same level. A playable center fielder who can chip in an EqA of .270 or better at the least is a good thing to have around, even if he loses ground in terms of his production at the plate over the life of the contract. After that last season, the Phillies can re-evaluate. Maybe Tyson Gillies will be ready by then, maybe not, but that's related to my next point.
Given the $7 million he's due in 2010, Blanton's now making just $2 million less than Cliff Lee stands to make as a Mariner, and there isn't much cause to believe that Blanton will deliver Lee-like quality. Purportedly Blanton's relative untradeability was because it was expected that he'd cost around this much via arbitration, which says something about lower expectations, and also how much value the Phillies surrendered in dealing Lee. Affording Victorino for three seasons certainly puts a dent in the proposition that Gillies is going to be an answer to any outfield issues towards the end of those three years, which more solidly places responsibility for delivering on the deal any time sooner than that on Phillippe Aumont and J.C. Ramirez. Maybe that pans out, but I've already enlisted among the doubters, taking as a given what they gave up in Lee.
To his credit, Blanton's durable, and his improved strikeout rate in the National League (and especially his slight gain in swinging strikes generated) doesn't owe only a little to the benefit of facing pitchers at the plate; even taking opposing pitchers' flailing out, he set a career high in his strikeout rate, and whether he's achieving that through fair means or foul (on BP's internal listserv, at least one colleague noted Blanton's being spotted with pine tar on his cap), that's still translating into outs in a tough park. His SNLVAR has bounced from his 2007 high-water mark of 6.0 to 3.3 in 2008 back up to 4.3 last season; for the sake of comparison, Lee was at 8.1 in 2008 and 7.7 last year, Cole Hamels was at 7.0 and 3.8, and J.A. Happ was a 5.4 last season. A track record that comes with durability and some improvement has value, so while he's no Cliff Lee, he's a reasonable enough proposition as a third starter if you compare the expense of employing him to, say, the much more more speculative Brad Penny ($7.5 million) or Vicente Padilla (just over $5 million).
It's taking that out a couple of years where there's a little more faith invested, especially since Blanton's probably already achieved the extent of any upside he has. Retaining him isn't really the issue, as much as his presence and this commitment represents the upshot of the misstep made with Lee. The Phillies will remain the favorite in the division, certainly, but what they surrendered was a better shot at another crown, not merely another exercise in thwarting the Mets and Braves.
Signed C-R Steve Holm and RHPs Craig Whitaker, Osiris Matos, Eric Hacker, and Santiago Casilla to minor-league contracts. [1/21]
Signed C-R Bengie Molina to a one-year, $4.5 million contract; designated 1B-R Jesus Guzman for assignment. [1/22]
In what might seem like the latest semi-disappointing development, the Giants decided to spend a goodly chunk of change on Molina, presumably to push Buster Posey's eventual arrival back towards some point in the second half, if not all the way into 2011. This might not seem like really good news, but it's a reliable feature of Brian Sabean's teams to sign up available mediocrities, and let's be fair, Molina certainly is better than some. It's easy to decry the expense if you put it in the context of what they might have spent on better options at some of their now-stocked positions; I'll keep going back to the early-offseason handout for Freddy Sanchez, especially with Orlando Hudson's price dropping and with Mark DeRosa's subsequent signing. The money spent on Aubrey Huff seems wasted as well. But even without those sorts of comparisons, I find re-upping Molina's relatively defensible. Having a veteran placeholder in case Posey isn't ready seems sensible enough, especially since Eli Whiteside is never going to be an everyday option. It's only a one-year deal, so whether Posey proves ready to go by April or July, they can bring him up and split the playing down the stretch easily enough. If anyone gets hurt, they have depth. If Posey's really ready and Molina gripes about starting only two or three games a week, his contract's brevity and value is such that he wouldn't be untradeable.
It's easy to flagellate Molina for what he isn't or shouldn't be: a cleanup hitter, for example, or because he's a guy who doesn't walk all that much. With the current shored-up roster, however, I'd expect that he'll wind up much lower in the order, so we shouldn't blame him for what he was asked to do last year. No, he doesn't walk, but his EqA for a catcher has been around the MLB-wide average in the low .250s for five of the last six years. It's easy to see how it could be worse, too: Omir Santos, anybody? Or Jason Kendall? If Posey's blocked, at most he's blocked for a year, but if Posey's as good as we expect, he'll play his way into a job-sharing arrangement at the very least, in the way that a prospect's performance can have a way of setting its own timetable.
Christina Kahrl is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Oakland Athletics trade Grant Desme to God for future considerations.
Jan 22, 2010 16:56 PM
Reminds me of this goodie ...
Jan 22, 2010 20:13 PM
Would the future considerations possibly be Ryan Church? (rimshot)
Jan 22, 2010 20:15 PM
You know what the really sad thing about this is ... Desme had been selected by A's with compensation pick after they lost Barry Zito to free agency. Somehow I don't think they're gonna get a compensation pick this time.
Jan 22, 2010 20:19 PM
I guess I find this slightly ironic, if only in a personal vein; for my MA thesis, given my enduring interest in organizational behavior, I studied priestly formation and changes to one seminary's curriculum during and immediately after Vatican II, a time of immense possibility and change. Through that work, I got to meet and know a number of the men who embarked upon the priesthood here in Chicago in the mid to late '60s. Between their active interest in reforming the Church, in urban ministry and a more engaged brand of parish pristhood, even down to reading and debating the works of Nikos Kazantzakis or those who argued for marriage for priests or contraception as a valid choice, and then seeing how, subsequently, so many of them lived up to their calling... whatever my own (many) disagreements with the Church, I found them then and find them now admirable, as I find Desme's decision one due every measure respect.
Jan 23, 2010 10:57 AM
Can I call into work for being "sick of Omar Minaya"?
Jan 22, 2010 17:01 PM
Fine, Pagan takes Beltran's spot. So who take's Frenchy's spot if he opens 2010 like he did 2009? Or if Bay needs a short stay on the DL? And like you said, he's probably an improvement over Jeremy Reed and Cory Sullivan-- and I doubt the Mets want to try bringing up Frenando Martinez as a fill-in again.
Jan 22, 2010 19:03 PM
The problem is that he's only "probably" an improvement; Reed struggled in a pinch-hitting and part-time role, while Sullivan outplayed Matthews. Maybe Matthews can get back close to an average EqA (.260), still poor for a reserve, but even that's less than certain, given his age and woeful play in recent seasons. If anyone makes a ticket-purchase decision on whether or not the Mets have Gary Matthews Jr., I'd suggest it's a move whose only fruit will be even more bitterness on top of last season's heaping helping.
Jan 23, 2010 11:22 AM
The bitter fruit last year was the "Big Apple" in CF, which was rarely seen rising behind the wall due to the lack of homers.
Jan 24, 2010 06:00 AM
Lets start by saying I'm not a Met fan. But I like this move for the Mets. Sure, you aren't going to get much from GMJ, but there's virtually 0 risk. If he still stinks, you cut him and you lose $2 million and Brian Stokes, who is no one's idea of a future star.
Jan 26, 2010 10:00 AM
The disappointing part is that in the very few opportunities he has been given, Steve Holm put up decent OBP's, though he throws out virtually no runners attempting to steal. It's not clear to me that the Giants couldn't have gotten by with Holm for 1/2 year leaving $4m free. Also, Freddy Sanchez will apparently start the year on the DL which doesn't bode well for him being comeback player of the year.
Jan 22, 2010 19:04 PM
Holm's production has slacked off as he's ceased to be a much older man in younger leagues. He was 26 in the Cal League in 2006, and 27 in Double-A in 2007. Last year, he got squashed in the PCL, and his 100 big-league PAs aren't exactly enough to go on as a substantive endorsement. You might prefer him to Eli Whiteside, but he's not the next Ryan Hanigan.
Jan 23, 2010 11:27 AM
Given the relative unimportance of starting pitching in the 'Secret Sauce', isn't it about time you folks stop writing about how losing Lee really hurts the Phillies' chances in post-season? You've got a boatload of research stating it really doesn't. Or are you going to stop hyping the 'Secret Sauce' come October?
Jan 22, 2010 21:06 PM
Is this true? I hadn't been following this. Can somebody from BP respond?
Jan 23, 2010 06:32 AM
Jan 23, 2010 11:39 AM
Brian Cartwright
Every once in a while when I click on BP, I get a front page loaded from some past season, but a click on 'refresh' brings me back to the present day. (One time all the Puck Prospectus blurbs were in Finnish!).
Jan 23, 2010 00:44 AM
Sadly, your restriction on non-Euro nations rules out the Most Serene Republic of San Marino.
Jan 24, 2010 05:46 AM
I'd add Jeff Weaver to the "Duncan Miracle" pile (and I'll remind everyone that Jason Marquis was not good enough to make the Cardinals postseason roster when he was there, and we were plenty glad to be rid of him by the end of his stint). As a Cardinals fan, I'm hoping that the Duncan mojo rubs off on Brad Penny - who will undoubtedly sign next year with a team that will pay him too much money for too many years. Viva Duncan!
Jan 24, 2010 15:32 PM
Christina--the accusations of pine tar usage by Blanton are old news. Joe Maddon had the umps check it out during the 2008 World Series, and they found nothing: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081026&content_id=3646145&vkey=ps2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
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Former Pennsylvania poet laureate to present 'Poetry and Public Speech'
Not much saddens Sam Hazo more than the absence of poetry in our society.
"We're not a poetry-reading or poetry-listening people. It's too bad; it's our loss. All we have is advertising, TV programming, government prose and gossip," he lamented.
"We don't hear poetry in speech or public life at all. That's a major deficiency in American society because poetry provides insight into ongoing human problems."
Hazo, a former Pennsylvania poet laureate, will demonstrate this during an hourlong program titled "Poetry and Public Speech" at 7 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Northland Public Library, 300 Cumberland Road, McCandless.
He will read works written by himself and others that focus on achievement, disappointment, love, family and other topics.
"Dr. Hazo will discuss the role of memorable words in our lives and our recollections," said Jane Jubb, manager of adult services for the library and a Franklin Park resident. "He has a wonderful reputation and is very well known. We feel quite privileged to have him come here to present this program."
The program is free but is limited to the first 60 registrants. People may register at www.northlandlibrary.org or by calling 412-366-8100, ext. 113.
Hazo, 85, of Upper St. Clair, has published 45 books of poetry, fiction and essays. He also has written one film, five plays and seven speeches.
But, he said, he especially loves poetry because "it's the only thing that comes close to saying what I feel."
Hazo founded the directed the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh in 1966, which engaged more than 400 poets and performers — ranging from Lawrence Ferlinghetti to Princess Grace of Monaco — to recite their works to crowds large and small for more than four decades before funding faded.
He is the McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he taught for 43 years and has been awarded 11 honorary doctorates.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey Sr. named Hazo the first poet laureate for the commonwealth. He served in that role from 1993 to 2003, a time he spent traveling and promoting poetry throughout the state.
With all these achievements, what is Hazo's proudest accomplishment?
"Marrying the girl I love," he said.
He even wrote a poem or two about it.
Laurie Rees is a freelance writer for Trib Total Media.


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Albert Brooks, however, confesses that when his children resisted going to temple, he said: "Let me explain something to you: If Hitler came back, he's not going to ask if you went to temple. You're already on the train. So you might as well know who you are and why they're going to take you."
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Plays almost always begin in darkness. Then the lights come up.
It took me five years of working on shows, and more than that spent watching them, before I realized what is happening in that moment of darkness, as your eyes adjust and you feel yourself about to disappear. When you can no longer be seen, or see anyone else around you, your mind becomes still. The play in your head, your life as staged for some unobservable spectator, pauses. Reality starts over as the lights come up somewhere else.
I have a special interest in light. It was mostly an accident, something to do with knowing the right people at the right time. What a weird hobby, to be a lighting designer. There are a handful of us here at Yale, more than you might expect actually, considering that no one knows where we come from. Who decides to be a lighting designer? What little kid, twirling in a tutu or contemplating the nature of art with fingerpainted concentration, decides to learn the difference between a Source Four and an Altman? Probably fewer than contemplate becoming divorce lawyers or tax attorneys.
As a kid, I was, as many kids are, an insufferable show-off. My cousins and I staged labored skits for our patient parents on vacations, or performed dance cycles to the entire Riverdance CD. The last time I stood on stage, under lights so bright I could not pick out the faces in the crowd of the dark auditorium, I was about seven and wearing the pink frilled uniform of a dancing munchkin. I don't remember being nervous as I pranced around my parasol with all the other munchkins. Afterwards, all the parents gave their children bouquets bought in the lobby during intermission. I held mine in two arms, the way starlets are supposed to clutch their plaudits, like something careful and precious and, yet, expected.
I still am a closet show-off, but now I limit myself to the things I know I am good at. The first moment I doubted my ability to perform on stage was at day camp during one of those long summers between grades in elementary school. Everyone auditioned for the musical, because that was our activity for the next two weeks and there was nothing else to do. In the room, the man behind the table asked me to sing something. Anything. I felt something plummet abruptly from the back of my throat to somewhere in my lower abdomen. How stupid not to have expected that question. Never mind! I hurried to say. I'll be stage crew this year. I smiled, as if that's what I wanted in the first place. And I was the best goddamn stage crew the camp had ever seen.
I don't think I ever intended to stay behind the scenes, but that is the last time I stood on the receiving side of an audition table. I figured I would get a feel for the process, get comfortable, and try again next year. Or maybe the one after that. By the time I was neck deep in the social morass of high school, I was less likely than ever to risk an audience. But by then theater was mostly about people who came together over shared work. It didn't much matter what that work was. I stage-managed when I could, directed one show and wrote another, built sets and climbed ladders, everything but stand on the stage itself. My role models at the time were all writers; theater was a diversion, I told myself, something to keep me busy on the weekends. If I kept doing theater, I knew, I would have to find some more crucial role to play. I thought I might end up as a playwright. Or a director. In some unspoken part of me, there was still a dwindling hope that I might discover a deeply, deeply hidden talent for acting, one that had simply been quashed all this time by an unrelenting fear of being on stage.
Instead, I became a lighting designer. I became a lighting designer, basically, by not knowing what I was doing, but doing it often enough that I began to learn some tricks. Sometimes I stand on chairs, or move randomly from different seats in different parts of the audience as I watch a rehearsal. Sometimes I call out strings of numbers to someone standing on the other side of the theater. As I wait, something changes on stage, and I call out more numbers.
And then there is that feeling of expertise, when I am clinging to a ladder, reaching up with a crescent wrench to adjust something no one else can see from the ground. The mechanics of something so ephemeral as light are surprisingly gritty. The sheets of colored gel cut and jammed before the lights. The long loops of cable that do not want to coil neatly, which must be wrestled with and tied down. The trick of a sticky shutter, and how to weave the beams of a plot together so that there is no irregularity in the light, no darkness between the separate shafts and no spots that glare more brightly than the rest. Through all of this, the only time I stand on the stage is when it's empty, and I can stare into the hot center of one light at a time, assessing its angle, its glow, how it fits into the puzzle of the stage.
To a layman, the role of the lighting designer must be one of the most obscure titles on the playbill, somewhere up there with "dramaturge." The rest of it is much easier to get a handle on: the actors act, the director directs them, and the set designer builds something for them to stand in. The lighting designer—well, the lighting designer moves the play along.
When the lights come up, the world under the lights is revealed as being qualitatively different from the world outside it. Outside, the audience sits in the semi-darkness, their legs crossed, still and staring ahead at the people who begin to move under the lights. Inside the world of the play, held in a seamless net of light, a story starts to unfold that must end in the next hours. So time operates differently inside the stage world from outside. It speeds up or slows down, it jumps, or stops, or turns around. Identity is malleable, change is accelerated. Things that happen on the inside of characters' lives are revealed on the outside. That's what light can do, at its best. It turns people inside out.
That voice deep down never stopped wanting to be an actor, but it is so easy to want to be an actor. Look at them! They stand there and look beautiful and live out whole lives in front of everyone like it's the most natural thing. Who doesn't want to be that admired? But there is a certain appeal to lighting design. You are wanted, at least by desperate producers who know how to flatter. You know your work is important, even if no one ever says as much to you. "Don't do it for the glory," an older designer told me a few years ago. "It will never be glorious."
Recently, I turned to some friends while we were sitting in the theater. "Do you know that I'm a poet?" I asked. I don't think I'd ever said that out loud, I'm a poet, except as a kind of challenge. I am much more used to saying, "I'm a lighting designer," for those occasions when I have to explain how I spend so much time in theaters where I am neither acting nor directing.
They both paused to figure out how to answer. "I knew you were an English major," one friend said tentatively. In fact, I am writing my senior thesis as a collection of poetry. There is nothing glorious about poetry either, except that it is widely acknowledged as being difficult. I rarely think of the two forms of myself as separate; they are both informed by the same sensibility in the end. They can both be controlled, to a point, though both must contend with the messiness that comes from anything as spontaneous as life. Light is the medium of theater the way text is the medium of poetry. It interacts with every single moment and object of a play, which means it is invisible in the way ubiquitous things always are. It is the consciousness behind the play; it moves with and without the sound; it shapes the set and its shadows; it calls actors to the stage and sends them away again with inscrutable authority.
As a commonly-held belief among techies has it, the best lighting design is the kind the audience doesn't notice. No one in the audience notices it. But that's not right. The best lighting doesn't hide, but moves with a logic so natural to the play that its effect cannot be disentangled from the whole. That's the job of the storyteller, too, not to be the actor, within the moment, but to be the watcher without, among, around it all.


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Portugal is an appealing location, but for hard-nosed investors it offers only mixed returns. Holiday rental yields are good, but the housing market is volatile and there are factors that make property dealing more complicated than in many countries.
The Algarve is most popular because of the weather - 280 days of sunshine a year - but it is Portugal's busiest, most developed region. The Estoril coast south of Lisbon is also popular and the northernmost coast including Oporto is fast becoming a new Algarve.
As always, new homes are more expensive than old, and developments aimed solely at overseas buyers are the dearest of all. Buying a second-hand property in Portugal will cost from €100,000 for a small apartment to €1 million for a family-sized detached villa close to a beach.
Prices have risen only modestly in the past 18 months and the Algarve tends to have the largest capital increases.
For buyers there are key differences from the process in most European countries. First, you must get a tax card and fiscal number from the local authorities and must nominate a Portuguese postal address for documentation (a bank or estate agency office will suffice). Second, only a small proportion of Portuguese finance houses lend to foreign buyers, so most Britons arrange a mortgage at home. Third, many apartments in Portugal (especially those more than 20 years old) are community-run; buyers must purchase a share in the organisation and be responsible for communal areas.
Legal fees can be 2 per cent of property value; deed registration is another 1 per cent; a thorough survey costs €900; turning on the utilities can cost another 1 per cent; mortgage fees are often 2 per cent of the loan; stamp duty can be as high as 7.5 per cent of purchase price if you buy through auction; and there is transfer tax on second-hand homes which can be as high as 10 per cent. On top of all that, when you come to sell your property the estate agent can charge a commission of up to 10 per cent (four times that of the UK) although haggling is commonplace.
Investors wanting to rent long-term should always furnish their properties but remember there is little demand in resort areas, so stick to cities.
Most lettings agents calculate at least a 30-week letting year, with October to April the low season and July to September the peak.
What your money could buy
The Praia D'El Rey Golf and Country Club on the western coast is a typical modern Portuguese golf resort - a new course surrounded by homes, mostly aimed at investors.
World Class Homes (0800 731 4713) has built two-bedroom apartments from £130,644 and three-bedroom apartments from £170,525. Two-bedroom townhouses cost from £206,280 and three-bedroom versions from £240,660. Most of these have shared pools.
WCH is also selling plots for self-build three-bedroom villas with private pools costing £82,512 for the land and a predicted £240,000 for build costs. Add about 15 per cent for purchase costs, taxes and contingencies on all properties and plots.
The high season for renting out includes the Easter school holidays, Whit Bank holiday week, July, August, September, October half term and New Year.
At Praia D'El Rey, a two-bedroom apartment with a shared pool has a rent of €225 per day in high season and €110 per day at other times. A large villa with private pool is €225 per day in low season and €375 in high season.
This is not the hottest part of Portugal; winters can be cool and wet, which limits the tourist rental market. However, the golf course may make for larger returns than a traditional beach home investment.
Watch points
· Mortgage debts or local taxes are property-specific, so you must ensure the previous owner clears them before you buy... otherwise you inherit them. This also applies to community properties.
· Properties are listed by floor size, but some include outdoor patios and hardstanding and some do not, so check to make sensible comparisons.
· A 1993 law restricting further coastal development in designated areas means some locations are seeing above-average price rises as demand exceeds supply.
Country facts
· Long-term lets have high and low season rates (similar to holiday lets) even in cities and non-tourist areas.
· Estate agents in Portugal are all licensed and regulated - but commission is unregulated, so varies greatly.
· Lettings agents increasingly advise landlords to install air-conditioning to meet demands by holiday renters.


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Bureau County has turned green! This is a great time of the year if we could only figure out the weather. Instead of plowing snow now, we are mowing grass every week. And of course, we are inundated with thousands of those yellow things called dandelions.
May is a month when many people want to get out and try their luck at fishing. The sad part about this is many of Bureau County's favorite spots have suffered severe winter kill. The winter took its toll on many local ponds. Thick ice covered with snow wiped out most of the local bodies of water.
Fish biologist Ken Clodfelter has had many calls to check people's ponds and he is out every day working on the list of concerned pond owners. According to Ken, most of the ponds will have to be restocked. It is a sad situation. The source of great recreation has been taken away.
On a positive note, some people who enjoy getting out in the timber have had some decent luck finding morels. All of the sudden, the season was upon us and some lucky hunters have found some decent amounts. I personally want to thank a couple of friends who stopped by the house with some mushrooms for me to fry up. It was a great gesture, and I truly appreciate them. They are one of my favorite meals.
We are in the last couple of weeks preparing for our trip to Black Bear Lodge in Canada. The kids are getting their gear ready early because due to snow days, we have school the day we are to leave. They will pack early and just as soon as they are through with their classes, they will load up the bus and take off.
Captain John Smith will be in charge of the trip up. He has been going up with our group for more than a decade. It is good to have a veteran of many trips in charge.
I also want to thank some people who have donated some funds to help defray some of our costs. In memory of some loved ones such as Glenn Stammerjohn, Tom Robbins, Tim Alter, the parents of the Kirgan family, and my parents, this trip is a reality. Thank you very much.
Lee Wahlgren is the BCR Outdoor Columnist. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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If you've got $50,000 to invest, the Carlyle Group has lowered their minimum for private placements. If you haven't heard of the Carlyle group, they are the third largest private equity company in the world. Their business model is basically buying defense and real estate companies, fixing them up and either selling them or owning them outright. They have holdings all throughout the globe and are extremely well connected. As a result, their business is hugely profitable with a three-year annualized change of 41.57% in their operating profit margin.
So it might be worth checking out.
From the Washington Post:
The Carlyle Group is lowering its threshold for new investors to $50,000 in an attempt to broaden its customer base and tap an investment pool that reaches into the trillions.
Until now, Carlyle's client base has been limited to multimillion-dollar investments from wealthy individuals, foundations, foreign sovereign wealth funds and giant pensions.
The minimums for those entities has started at about $5 million. The new model will include investors who can put up $50,000, a pool that one analyst called "the holy grail" for investment firms.
Tim Loughran, finance professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the move by Carlyle and other private equity firms is an attempt to diversify their sources of cash.
"They are trying to get more money than ever," Loughran said. "And this is just another way of getting money. Let's see if it works. . . . There's a lot more people with $50,000 than with $20 million."
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For Tampa's Odyssey Marine, treasure hunting a cruel world of big ocean finds, bigger court losses
A cannon was recovered in 2008 from the wreckage of the H.M.S. Victory in the English Channel, in this photo courtesy of Odyssey Marine.
Wake up and good morning. What the world's oceans giveth, international law taketh away. Tampa's undersea treasure hunters, Odyssey Marine Exploration, continues it win-a-lot, lose-a-lot ways in the unique world of searching for shipwrecks in the hopes of hitting another mother lode.
"A deal was struck on Wednesday to save what could prove to be one of the richest treasure wrecks of all time. " a New York Times story begins. The report describes how four years ago, in the depths of the English Channel, explorers found the remains of a legendary British warship that sank in 1744 and lost more than 1,000 men. But intruders disturbed the site, dragging and damaging some of the 44 bronze cannons visible on the sandy bottom and hauling one of them away. The wreck's fate became a topic of public debate in Britain, and not just because of the nation's efforts to preserve its maritime heritage: documents suggested that the warship, the H.M.S. Victory, had carried a secret cargo of gold coins weighing about four tons, the Times story says.
"If melted down, the gold might be worth $160 million. But if sold for their historic value, the coins might fetch $1 billion."
The good news for Odyssey Marine? As discoverers of the wreck, the Tampa company said Wednesday it had signed an agreement in which they would document and recover the artifacts, ending a long period of uncertainty. They praised the accord as an innovative new way for nations to save historic wrecks, the Times story reports.
"We've come up with the model that everybody's been looking for," Gregory P. Stemm, head of the discovery team and CEO of Odyssey Marine, told the Times. The Tampa firm will recover the warship's remains for the Maritime Heritage Foundation, a British charity that received the title to the wreck from British authorities.
The upside? The foundation will reimburse Odyssey's costs and pay it a percentage of the fair market value of the recovered artifacts. Odysseys gets 80 percent for items used in commerce (notably coins) and 50 percent for warship objects such as weapons.
But things are faring worse for Odyssey in another of its discovered shipwrecks that has landed the firm in extensive court wrangling with Spain.
In Atlanta, a federal judge this week ruled against Odyssey in a dispute with Spain over 17 tons of silver coins recovered from a sunken 19th century Spanish galleon, the Black Swan. Odyssey found the treasure off the Portuguese coast in 2007. It had requested a stay after a federal court in Atlanta ruled last year the explorers must give the treasure back to the Spanish government. In an order Tuesday, a U.S. circuit court judge denied the company's motion for a stay. AP photo (right) from 2007 shows Stemm examining Black Swan coins.
The shipwreck is considered one of the greatest underwater treasure troves of all time. Reports the Guardian newspaper: "A jubilant Spanish government announced on Wednesday that the $500 million worth of gold and silver coins found at the site... would be back on Spanish soil within ten days."
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The driver of a Kingston Council traffic enforcement car which crashed in Chessington yesterday may have had his view obstructed by a parked lorry, the authority has claimed.
A large number of parents and schoolchildren from Castle Hill primary school saw the aftermath of the crash, which happened at the junction of North Parade and Moor Lane yesterday afternoon, March 10.
Video footage taken immediately after the accident show the council-branded CCTV car stopped behind a black Toyota, as passersby look on.
A Kingston Council spokesman said today: "The CCTV car driver had been enforcing a keep clear zone at a local school and is believed to have had his view obstructed by a parked van when turning into Manor Road [sic].
"Thankfully there are no reports of anybody being hurt."
One witness said: "It was quite a dangerous place to crash.
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I'm sold on it. I think 1.25 to 1.5 scoops per 20 ounce bottle will work better for me than the 1 scoop per 20 ounce bottle I have been using. I may eat some orange slices along with it, but I have have not had an issue with stomach problems or cramps since I started using it. And I will almost always get cramps in my quads and/or hamstrings about 20 miles into a long run and fight them from there until the end whether it is marathon, 50K, 100K, or 100 miles.
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How long does their typical bag last? If one uses only during long runs or races (so no more than once per week), how long would it last? The cost of one bag seems expensive but if it lasts then maybe a good investment with all the good reviews. Too bad it doesn't come in a small size as a sampler pack.
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The medium bag is 25 servings and large is 50. So however long it takes you to go through 2500 or 5000 calories on your runs. It ends up being cheaper than the typical gels at less than $1 per serving. For me they last quite a while since I mostly just use it for races with the occasional long run as well. They do have a sampler pack that comes with I believe 4 servings(400 cals) of each flavor for $14. I got the sampler pack first and that was a good way to go since there were some flavors I liked more than others. I prefer the naked, lemon and berry, but it's best to try them all. They have super fast shipping as well, so it's easy to get if no one local to you sells it.
My update is that is still working great for me, no energy or stomach issues at all. I usually mix it at 100 calories per 10 oz concentration. Sometimes I bump the naked concentration up slightly since there is not much of a noticeable flavor. For my last race I used small 3x4in zip lock bags to portion out the necessary amounts to dump in my bottles. That worked pretty well and the bags carried nicely in my shorts pockets. I'm looking forward to them offering 200 cal single packs so I don't have to measure it out, but it's easy to customize for your bottle size that way.


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Immediately after disposing of veteran Jay Hieron in just 36 seconds at UFC 156, former Strikeforce welterweight title contender Tyron Woodley began angling to get a spot on the welterweight heavy UFC 158 card. After Rory MacDonald was injured and forced out of his co-main event rematch opposite Carlos Condit the UFC moved Johny Hendricks out of his bout with Jake Ellenberger and into the fight with Condit. That left Ellenberger without an opponent and for a while rumors were swirling that Woodley was going to get the call to take on Ellenberger.
Unfortunately for Woodley he had yet to sign his new UFC deal and the fight went to former Strikeforce Welterweight Champion and the man who handed Woodley his lone professional loss, Nate Marquardt. For the time being the 30-year-old American Top Team welterweight will sit and watch UFC 158 from the sidelines, but that didn't stop him from giving his assessment of the three big welterweight fights that occupy the last half of the main card. First up was the Marquardt-Ellenberger match-up followed by Hendricks-Condit and last, but not least the UFC Welterweight Championship bout between Georges St. Pierre and Nick Diaz.
"Jake has a very heavy left hook and a heavy overhand right," Woodley told BJPenn.Com Radio. "He has the ability to go for a double leg quite often, both of those guys are so similar. Nate's a little bit bigger, he might hit a little harder, he'll throw in some kicks and his ground game is better. I don't know how Nate is feeling after his last fight (against Tarec Saffiedine) and if his leg is 100% healed up. Ellenberger is as hungry as ever as he tries to make his crack towards the top. He wanted that Hendricks fight because he knew how close Johny was to that world title. It'll be interesting, the way things are going to play out in this division over the next three months will be pretty crazy."
Just to backtrack a little we asked Woodley if he was surprised with how the fight went down between Marquardt and Saffedine last month in Oklahoma. Woodley has competed against both men inside the Strikeforce cage so his opinion comes with a lot of merit.
"Nate's a hard hitter and I said if he could get Tarec out within the first three rounds he would win the fight," admitted Woodley. "As the fight progressed towards the later rounds I felt Saffedine would have an edge. He was a very hungry kid when I fought him, I felt that we fought too soon. I said this is a guy that's going to be a future champion and we should be fighting for a world championship. Instead we fought as prospects coming up, I knew he was going to start chopping those legs, but I thought he'd switch it up and throw some headkicks. He was landing them so well and so often, why would he stop throwing them?"
Back to UFC 158, there are two other welterweight battles that should be fantastic fights. Former interim welterweight champion Carlos Condit will face the man many feel is the rightful number one welterweight contender in Johny Hendricks. In the main event Georges St. Pierre will defend his title against Nick Diaz in a bout that has been a long time in the making.
"Hendricks is a fight I wouldn't mind having in the future," Woodley said. "I think he's a nightmare for all those guys because the way he comes forward. He's coming from the southpaw stance with heavy hands and a decent chin and a great wrestling pedigree. He comes in there and throws everything hard. I think guys who can get in close to Condit, hit him inside and put him on his back are the ones who pose a threat. If he can keep Hendricks on the end of his punches and make it a kickboxing match, similar like he did with Diaz, he has a chance to pull it off."
"I think GSP is going to take Diaz down until his back gets rug burns on it. I don't think Diaz can submit him and he'll lose by decision. If GSP lets Diaz get inside of his head with his antics, his taunting and entertains a striking battle that'll put Diaz in the game. He didn't entertain it with Josh Koscheck and I don't see him doing it with Diaz. I think he'll stick to the script and be the champion he's always been. He'll go out there, stick to a strict gameplan and get the win."
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Get Ready for a Relentless Pursuit of Your Money!: Liberty of the Seas Cruise Review by dascari
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Get Ready for a Relentless Pursuit of Your Money!
Destination: Mediterranean
Embarkation: Barcelona
We had pre-booked private shore excursions for each of the scheduled ports. Unfortunately, due to poor weather conditions we missed out on the French Riviera, a major bummer. Guest Relations wouldn't even offer us a free can of Coke as compensation for a major missed port. Combined with that missed port we had three days at sea where we were on the ship all day and night. One would have expected that there would have been a good amount of things to do for these "at-sea" days. Not so. With a ship that size there was surprisingly very little to do. It seemed like every activity was somehow related to making you spend more and more money on the trip. For example, did we really need a consultation on getting our teeth More whitened for $149? Even Bingo on the ship cost our family of four $66 for an hour of play. Virtually everything cost extra: bottled water, soft drinks, you name it.
For breakfast at the main dining hall we were given watered down orange juice. If one wanted the fresh squeezed stuff you had to fork over an additional $3.50 per glass.
On the bright side, our ocean view room was more than adequate and well designed, although we would have liked a fridge that actually worked in the room, not a fridge that only worked as a cooler.
Our servers in the main dining room, Joel Canta and Heulayn Liu were absolutely terrific. They could not do enough to try and please us. They certainly made up for the merely average food quality.
We chose to prepay our gratuities at a rate of $12 per person per day. However, that was not enough for the Royal Caribbean Cruise line. Before we departed, we were encouraged to give additional gratuities for what they called the "Wow" factor. Very tacky in our opinion.
As this was our first cruise, we can't compare Royal Caribbean to other cruise lines. But with the lack of daily fun activities, and the relentless pursuit of our pocketbook, I cannot see us booking another cruise with this company in the near future. Less
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Cabin review: 2630
The room was well designed but was starting to show the wear and tear of months of use.
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"Skin and Bones" – Megan and Tommy investigate the savage murder of a young woman, which leads them to her neighbor, who bites Tommy and is diagnosed with rabies. When another rabies fatality comes in without any bite marks, Kate calls in the new health commissioner, Dr. Charles Stafford (Luke Perry), to help Megan uncover the truth. Could it really be zombies, as some of her colleagues suspect? "Body of Proof" airs TUESDAY, MARCH 19 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Body of Proof" stars Dana Delany stars as Dr. Megan Hunt, Jeri Ryan as Dr. Kate Murphy, Mark Valley as Tommy Sullivan, Windell D. Middlebrooks as Dr. Curtis Brumfield, Geoffery Arend as Dr. Ethan Gross and Mary Mouser as Lacey Fleming.
Guest starring Luke Perry as Dr. Charlie Stafford, Marisa Ramirex as Officer Riley Sunn, Mathhew Fahey as Mason Geary and John Prosky as Clark Wilson.
"Skin and Bones" was written by Alexi Hawley and directed by Michael Grossman.
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As a Southern California native, I wasn't weaned on a certain barbecue style. As a result, I'm not fanatical about one style, Carolina or Texas. I just want it to taste crazy-good.
To my advantage (I think), I approach barbecue with an open mind. In Orange County, I have never found fall-off-the-bone ribs better than the ones at Tulsa Rib Company. It makes no attempt to mimic Southern pit barbecue. Its baby-back ribs, for example, are boiled, then slow cooked (not smoked) for several hours in the oven. They are finished on the grill.
"If people are looking for Deep South smoke, that's not us," co-owner Liz Parker said. Purists eventually forced the restaurant to add hickory-smoked ribs. I've tried both, and I still prefer the slow-cook method. Get them with the Tulsa potatoes (round crinkle-cut fried potatoes), tabooli and cornbread, and you're set for a king's meal.
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As providers of health care from every sector of our industry and every corner of our state, we are acutely aware that the eyes of the nation are watching how California meets the challenge of the most ambitious health reform since the creation of Medicare in 1965.
We also know that the backbone of any successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act is Medi-Cal, California's version of Medicaid.
Today, Medi-Cal is the primary source of health care for one in five – or seven million – Californians. That number is expected to grow by another two million when the individual mandate takes effect in January 2014. Medi-Cal is the only path to primary and preventative care for millions of families but the cost savings in reduced expensive hospitalizations and emergency care benefit every Californian.
California cannot meet the health needs of its citizens or the far-reaching requirements of federal reform without an adequately-funded Medi-Cal program.
That's why it's both concerning and counterintuitive that officials in Sacramento are proposing once again to reduce Medi-Cal payment rates, already the lowest in the nation. That's why our unprecedented statewide coalition of health care providers have come together to aggressively fight these cuts.
Federal law requires states to provide Medi-Cal patients with the same access to care as private patients. The proposed cuts will cause devastating effects, driven by uncertainty and unavoidable cost considerations, that will force providers, clinics and hospitals to cease providing Medi-Cal services and close their doors. Slashing the program not only impacts enrollees, but costs California taxpayers and businesses when the burden of that expense is shifted. The areas hit hardest will be those same populations who currently suffer from the least access to quality care – rural areas and underserved, low-income communities.
Since the proposed cuts would affect every region and cost all Californians far more in the long run, this fight crosses partisan lines. Bills sponsored by California's health providers and experts – Assembly Bill 900 and Senate Bill 640 – would stop the cuts from moving forward. The bills have a long list of co-authors from both sides of the political aisle.
California's vast health care provider community has always been as diverse as the state itself. But here's one issue on which we all agree – Medi-Cal is an urgent imperative of federal health reform implementation. As a state, we cannot succeed by putting Medi-Cal funding on life support.
Brennan Cassidy, M.D., is a past president of the California Medical Association. C. Duane Dauner is the president of the California Hospital Association.


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The company spearheading the Broadway development has agreed terms with a national hotel chain for a 220-bedroom hotel in the £340 million shopping complex.
Australian shopping centre giant Westfield has submitted a planning application to Bradford Council for permission to reconfigure part of the layout of the proposed centre to include a hotel.
Under the proposal, unveiled today, the new city centre hotel would face onto Hall Ings, with a foyer and reception area at ground level for customers to check in and access lifts to reach bedrooms, which would all be located on the upper floors. If approved, the three-star hotel would include a restaurant, bar and conference facilities.
Neil Maclure, Westfield's development executive, said: "Terms have been agreed with a well-established national hotel chain and solicitors have been instructed to agree the lease, subject to planning approval. Although we can't name the interested party at the moment, bringing a good quality hotel into the scheme will add further to the Westfield offer.
"Westfield is continuing to make progress on the Broadway scheme, and have now invested more than £60 million in Bradford.
"We are moving closer to a start on-site, but this still remains dependent on getting the necessary number of pre-lets in place. In the meantime, Westfield is making all necessary arrangements so that when we do start, we can hit the ground running."
Maud Marshall, chief executive of Bradford Centre Regen-eration, said: "The proposed plans for a new hotel will be a strong addition to the Westfield Bradford development.
"It will boost Bradford's hotel offering further, following the refurbishment of the Great Victoria by the Tomahawk Group, the Hilton Bradford Hotel and the Midland Hotel.
"The new 220-bed hotel will help the city secure increased business and leisure travellers, as the renaissance programme brings more visitors to Bradford."
Head of the district's regeneration, Councillor Andrew Mallinson, said: "This is very positive and exciting news for the Broadway development and underlines that commercial confidence in the city centre remains strong."
Westfield is not the first company to put forward plans for a new hotel since the launch of the city centre regeneration initiative.
Earlier this month, Keyland Developments launched a consultation process to gauge public opinion about proposals to include a hotel in a new mixed-use development on the site of the former Yorkshire Water depot bordering Leeds Road and George Street. Meanwhile, the Citygate scheme, in Manchester Road, will contain a 116-bedroom hotel, and a new hotel is also proposed as part of the Channel Urban Village project near Forster Square.
The New Victoria Place proposal, which won a design competition to develop the former Odeon cinema site, would also contain a 100-bedroom hotel, alongside offices, affordable' studios, apartments and a café.


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Mt. Hekla in real time
Mt. Hekla is a live volcano in the South of Iceland (WikiPedia). Recently a live webcam was set up at the Burfellsvirkjun power plant with a view of Hekla. What these codes produce is a live "painting" of the mountain that regenerates itself in real time. Mt. Hekla has been rendered by many of Iceland's most prominent artists as can be seen in the documentation for the 2001 exhibition Flogið yfir Heklu (En. Flying over Hekla) at the Kjarvalsstadir museum in Reykjavik.
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FUJI spaces and other places
January 3, 2010; 6:30 am in Tokyo (4:30 pm EST)
Turbulence Commission: "FUJI spaces and other places" by Nurit Bar-Shai
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Appropriating, processing, and interweaving several existing webcam feeds of Mount Fuji, "FUJI" is a durational piece for four seasons. "FUJI" examinesthe authenticity of networked, spatiotemporal experiences of distant nature, sacred sites, and sacred icons. The overwhelming immediacy and delirious variety of live broadcasts available via the Internet, as well as the current incitement to communicate with distant but real subjects alter our experience of space which is invariably mediated through images. In "FUJI",the gap between the real place and its representation no longer exists. "FUJI" is a voyage across deep time, experienced minute by minute, day by day -- a longing for a place that could never be, yet, evidently, always is.
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Chris Gatling: Former NBA All-Star accused of squatting in home
PHOENIX - A former NBA All-Star is facing several criminal charges after a police report said he squatted in a Paradise Valley, home and then tried to list the place for rent on Craigslist.
Chris Gatling is accused of breaking into a key box and living in the home from July 2010 to August 2011. A police report says the homeowners lived in California but had left the power on.
He later listed the four-bedroom house for rent for $800 and called it an "Ex-NBA" home online.
Court records say Gatling got a down payment from one potential renter, but another got suspicious and contacted police.
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For the first three months of the year, general aviation aircraft deliveries experienced a modest decline of 2.1 percent compared with the first quarter of last year, while overall industry billings shrank by 8 percent, to $3.39 billion, according to statistics released last month by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. Although the fourth-quarter delivery totals increased for most manufacturers, leading to speculation that the much anticipated climb out of the trough was at hand, those hopes were tempered by the first-quarter results.
The 2.1-percent decrease between the first quarters of 2012 and 2011 was more palatable than the 22-percent drop between the first quarter of 2011 and that of 2010, and could suggest that the market is stabilizing somewhat, but industry analyst Brian Foley believes economic fears are still playing a role in cooling the market.
"World economics and the stock market volatility and more news on the debt crises over in Europe probably caused people to delay some of their purchase decisions," Foley told AIN. "That said, we're still thinking there is some pent-up demand out there and that the rest of the year should be better than the first quarter at least."
During the first three months of the year, manufacturers handed over 122 business jets, the lowest first-quarter tally since the start of 2004, when 114 bizjets were delivered, and a decrease of 4.7 percent from the same period in 2011. "The first-quarter shipment data shows mixed performance across the segments," said Pete Bunce, GAMA's president and CEO. That is evident among the bizjet makers. Of the six major OEMs, three increased their year-over-over year deliveries, while the remainder handed over fewer aircraft than in the first quarter of last year.
Cessna handed over six more jets in the first three months of this year than it did in the same period last year. With the exception of the very light Mustang and the XLS+, the Wichita airframer saw increases across its bizjet lineup, with total deliveries for the CJ2+, CJ3, Sovereign and X more than doubling over the previous year.
Dassault and Embraer both had better than 60-percent increases. Having trimmed its product line over the past year, the French airframer saw gains among its three offerings, while Embraer doubled deliveries of both of its Phenom models from the previous year.
According to the GAMA numbers, Gulfstream delivered fewer aircraft in the first quarter of 2012 than it did in 1Q/2011, but to align its delivery numbers with those of the other OEMs, the Savannah-based company agreed with a GAMA request to report henceforth only the deliveries of "outfitted" aircraft as opposed to green, which it had included in the past. As such, that first-quarter total does not include any deliveries to the company's completion centers of its new G650, which is expected to earn its certification soon. According to parent company General Dynamics, in the first quarter Gulfstream overall delivered 28 green aircraft, or four more in total than it delivered in the first three months of last year.
On the other side of the coin, Bombardier experienced a decrease of more than 30 percent in its first-quarter 2012 deliveries. Shipments of its smallest offering–the Learjet 40XR/45XR–experienced a significant decrease in first-quarter deliveries year-over-year, and so, too, did its largest aircraft, the Global 5000 and 6000. During Bombardier's first-quarter earnings call, company president Pierre Beaudoin attributed the decreased deliveries of the ultra-long-range jets to the integration process for the new Global Vision flight deck on the aircraft.
While Hawker Beechcraft wrestles with the fallout from its recently declared move into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the airframer delivered just six jets (three each of the Hawker 900XP and 4000) in the first quarter, a 45.5-percent decrease from the same period last year.
In the turboprop segment, although GAMA reported an increase in deliveries of 3.3 percent of the pressurized models, there was actually an overall decrease of more than 8.1 percent for all turboprop models. Hawker Beechcraft was the only OEM to increase its number of deliveries year-over-year, handing over 18 King Airs during the first three months of the year, an increase of more than 12 percent over last year's first quarter. Daher-Socata's delivery total for the TBM 850 turboprop single remained static, while Pilatus and Piper saw decreases of three PC-12s and one Meridian, respectively. Italian manufacturer Piaggio did not deliver any Avanti II twins in the first quarter of the year.
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A video uploaded to YouTube on Monday by a Syrian opposition group appeared to show a Syrian Air Force MiG fighter jet being shot down by rebel forces near the eastern city of Deir el-Zour.
The Local Coordination Committees in Syria reported Monday morning that Free Syrian Army forces downed one of President Bashar Assad's MiG-23s over the neighborhood of al-Muhassan.
Syrian state run media blamed the crash on a technical problem.
According to an Israel Radio report and Syrian opposition sources, the Free Syrian Army captured the downed pilot.
It is not clear from the footage how the plane was shot down, but NBC reported earlier in August that rebels had smuggled anti-aircraft missiles into Syria from Turkey.
If confirmed, the incident would be the first in which a Syrian Air Force jet was shot down by rebel forces.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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A kettle is not enough....: Ventura Cruise Review by Cloudyrain
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A kettle is not enough....
Destination: Mediterranean
Embarkation: Genoa
The ship itself was lovely, clean and attractive with lots of attention to detail. The atrium is nice and the pool deck is lovely. I did find it a little difficult to navigate, and other cruisers seemed to be having the same problem, but I think it's probably due to the amount of port time meaning we probably didn't pay enough attention!
We were (fortunately) allocated Freedom dining - if we had been given 6.30 dining we would never have eaten in the MDR! We ate in Saffron on 3 occasions and had a table on our own which we didn't have to wait long for. The food was nice, portions a little small (and I am a small person!), but a good selection and tasty. The only negative was that it was badly served - put the spoon down from your starter and your main appears! I know they can't give you lots More of time, but 5 minutes wouldn't go amiss! Dining also finishes quite early - go in after 9pm and they want you gone!
We really enjoyed The Beach House, but it was very difficult to get a table unless you arrived early. One night we were turned away at 7.30 with the "we are full for the rest of the night"! I think this is a sign of how good the place is, and the service is remarkable (unlike the lack lustre experience in the MDR.)
Personally we disliked the buffet greatly. The selection was limited and badly laid out. There were quite a lot of tables and it wasn't too noisy/busy, just a very poor selection in our eyes: and I always thought I was easy to please when it came to food!
The Pizza Bar and Grill were good, but the Pizza Bar was closed for 3 days which was very disappointing considering how bad the buffet selections were. In hindsight we should have used the MDR for lunch, but on Port Days we were out and during sea days we were sunning/swimming so not MDR appropriate!
There is a very large selection of bars, though due to the World Cup we mostly visited the Exchange which we enjoyed - quite like the quizzes and karaoke too! There are also quite a few deck bars which were lovely on the warm evenings.
The Headliners entertainment was brilliant! We are early 30s and are normally more Stone Roses than musical extravaganza, but the quality was really good. We also enjoyed Will Martin (a guest artist) - he was very talented and entertaining. There was a comedian, mind reader, singers, and a Gary Barlow tribute through the week, none of which appealed to us.
The balcony room we had was lovely and a decent size and well looked after.
There is a steam and sauna in the mens and womens changing rooms near the oasis pool which are free to use.
We managed to find sun beds on sea days, though there is a massive problem with people reserving beds - literally all day and not using them!
They show a few films (Monuments Men and Grudge Match) in the lovely Arena Theatre, and also in the Havana Bar (Winters Tale and something else that was that bad I have wiped it from my memory!)
They did Bingo, but done expect much energy or entertainment from it!
We did a P&O Venice trip that included a gondola ride. It was well presented and informative and worth the money. Word of warning though - take a bottle of water with you, don't moan about them not being provided for you!
- We loved the transfers, Entertainment, The Beach House, our room, the Ports, the pools and hot tubs, the kettle!
- we didn't like the dining situation, the lack of availability of the beach house, the closure of the pizza bar, the fact there is no ice cream in the buffet, that you only get one "complimentary" snack per Costa coffee.
- we hated the buffet, the fact that the casino closed early, and the very rude and ignorant passengers we sadly encountered on several occasions.
Sadly, despite all the positives I would only book another P&O cruise if it was an absolute bargain or going somewhere I really wanted to go. I am not a fan of the class-based fare system, the way freedom diners are treated, the inflexibility of P&O to work with their brand to accommodate the next generation of cruiser as well as comfortably fit with their existing "fan base", and the terrible dining offerings. A cruise on the med with late port departures requires later dining and entertainment and isn't suited to the "traditional" style of P&O. The Ventura is a fab ship that is perfect for the med, but it doesn't feel like it's being operated in a way that's conducive with it's location.
I would like to point out though that despite our gripes we had a lovely time as we do on every holiday, and we met some wonderful people. I think it was more that we didn't fit with P&O: we were lucky to have a lovely ship with some lovely staff going to some amazing places so in that respect I am glad we went. Less
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Cabin review: B234
Lovely room, well located and quiet. Not too far from the stairs but far enough! Nice sized balcony too!
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Labour out of ideas and out of their depth
Labour out of ideas and out of their depth
Education Minister Hekia Parata says that Labour's "new" education announcement today shows once again that they are a party out of ideas and out of their depth.
"Labour's 'back to the future' idea of reducing class sizes at the margin is proven to achieve very little in terms of better results for Kiwi kids. We know that because that was their policy last time they were in government and student achievement flat-lined at best.
"If you really want to improve success at school the answer is to help all teachers be better teachers, and invest strongly in principals. That's clear from evidence across the developed world and that is what our Investing in Educational Success initiative does.
"Investing in the quality of all teachers is more important than just adding more teachers."
Ms Parata says Labour's approach on teacher ratios is similar to their other policies for education where they do not appear to have done their homework.
"Labour are taking a real lolly scramble approach to education, and they are seriously understating the costs of what they are suggesting.
"Last week, and again today, they said they were going to end voluntary school donations. However they have only put up enough money for half the current amount of donations, and none of the school activity fees that parents pay.
"Also yesterday, they said they were going to provide every student between years five and thirteen with a digital device worth $600, by providing a $100 subsidy and having parents pay $3.50 a week for 18 months."
"Well, that only adds up to $373 per device. So there is a big shortfall there too."
"And on top of that they want to cancel National Standards which is helping more Kiwi kids learn and succeed.
"Labour's approach is to go back to the old ways of doing things and throw lots of entitlements around in an attempt to win votes.
"Kiwi kids can't afford to go backwards with Labour's confused and muddled approach.
"Under this Government more kids are starting earlier, staying longer, and leaving better qualified.
"This Government is ensuring that our education system is working for all New Zealanders," Ms Parata says.


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Terry Durham
Terry Durham has been involved in sports all of his life. His induction, as a member of the "Class of 2000," into the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame recognizes his contributions as a Wildcat athlete.
His association with Linfield comes easily. His father is Linfield Hall of Famer Paul Durham, long-time Wildcat football coach and athletic director. Terry was born in 1945. Paul came to Linfield as football coach in 1948. Players of that era remember Terry as a ball boy on the Wildcat football sidelines. While a McMinnville, Ore., High School student, he stood next to his father on the Linfield football sidelines and took notes during games. When he entered Linfield and was on the Wildcat football team, he again stood on the sidelines, not playing quarterback much as a freshman and sophomore.
"Dad always said I had to perform better than the other players that played my position, or he could not play me," Terry says. "So that was one challenge to deal with. Another was getting respect from the other players, as they really did not trust me being around them. They made me earn it.
"Playing for my dad was special. It got to the point in games that we would think alike, both calling the same play."
He earned it and became a two time all-Northwest Conference quarterback. Durham was one of the leaders of the 1965 Linfield team, which won conference and went on to the NAIA national playoffs. In the national semi-finals, Linfield went to Texas and beat Sul Ross State, 30-27.
His Linfield baseball career, playing for Coach Roy Helser, a Linfield Hall of Famer, was plagued with injuries. He played basketball as a freshman, then for the next two years "hoops" were limited to college intramurals until Coach Ted Wilson called. When Wilson kicked players off the 1966-1967 Linfield basketball team, Terry became a starting guard. Linfield tied for the conference title, beat Western Oregon in NAIA district and went to Kansas City, losing by a point in the opening round to the eventual champion in the NAIA National Championship opening round.
After Linfield, he played the 1967 season for the Victoria, British Columbia, team of the Continental Football League and had 1967 and 1968 tryouts with the NFL Chicago Bears.
His first coaching experience was in football at Linfield under Coach Ad Rutschman, while he earned (1969) a master's of education degree. Later, he coached football at Sunset High School, Beaverton, Ore.; Klamath Falls, Ore., High School, and was a football graduate assistant at Stanford University.
With a background in several sports, basketball is his focus today. This fall he begins his 23rd year as a National Basketball Association referee. His basketball officiating experience started as a junior high student, when he did grade school games. Later, he "refed" junior high, Linfield intramurals, high school, small and major college games. After applying to the NBA, he worked eight summer camps before being hired by the association.


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