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I want to know what the hell's wrong with these guys all of the sudden. It's like the wind has been taken out of their collective sails.
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I want to know what the hell's wrong with these guys all of the sudden. It's like the wind has been taken out of their collective sails.
Has a team ever started 15-1 and failed to make the tournament before?
The way we're playing right now, we may not even get to 20 wins. Inconceivable.
In conference play, every game is a big game. Much harder to maintain the intensity necessary on a night-in, night-out basis.
It shows a lack of mental toughness, more than anything, in my opinion.
This is the first year where I feel like it's really, truly fair to question Crean's coaching. I could buy the talent discrepancy the past few years, but IU is now lightyears better than Nebraska, and reasonably better than Minnesota. If the team can't get up to play those teams, can't stay mentally-focused, it's on the coach.
Yeah, I agree. They blew a ****ing 11 point lead with 6 minutes to go against a garbage team. I don't give a **** if it's on the road, that shouldn't be ****ing happening. Bunch of ****ing ****ies.
The thing is, prior to the Penn State game, this was one of the most consistent teams I'd ever seen. Now, they still are consistent...consistently bad.
It has nothing to do with "getting up for the big games." Just ask OSU.
It kills me that Abell couldn't even get in this game. I mean, does Crean really think senior/elder leadership is everything? Cuz VJ3 and Watford are two of the worst leaders on this team. What reason can he possibly have for keeping Abell tethered to the bench and feeding VJ3 monster minutes? It makes no sense to me. He's blindly labeled to guys who either suck or aren't even trying.
Minnesota and Nebraska are not.
Verdell is terrible and has been for a long time. I cringe whenever he touches the ball.
What really hurts is the sudden downfall of Watford and Oladipo.
Yes, OSU is better but we were never even in that game. We should and could have at least been competitive.
Loss vs. PSU and we're in Def-Con 5 territory.
The combo of the cupcake schedule (minus 2 big wins) early and questions about Crean's coaching dating to pre-IU tenure, really does focus this squarely on TC.
I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.
-Emiliano Zapata
This is dumb...I know this game has no effect on my day-to-day life. I have not met these players and coaches, will never meet them. It's just a game. There are way more important things in life, etc etc.
But damn do I want to punch a hole through a wall right now. I was quivering in rage for a good while. Why does a dumb bball game do this to me? Am I really that invested in my alma mater?!
Well, it's tough when it looks like a 15 - 1 start plus two huge upset wins (upset being the key word) is being revealed as possibly a big illusion. We are in the throes of potential disillusionment with this group and the start. Either, at some point soon, they learn, get tough, and adapt or they will truly embarrass themselves.
I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.
-Emiliano Zapata
No more coddling from Crean. Time for tough love with these guys. Shake up the status quo. For god's sake get Remy into games more, let him drive to the hoop (his one truly plus skill right now) and play defense. Do something. Lay into the team. Make them run sprints. Lose your temper. Toss a chair in practice.
Looks like that last play was on Hulls, who has sucked lately: https://twitter.com/#!/BtownBanners/...33831615111168
And if Hulls hits that layup... kicks out to an open player who hits his shot... or even hits that circus shot heave at the end does that change the conversation???
Let's face it... IU was never as good as Kentucky or OSU and most of the rest of the wins were cupcakes. Not to say IU hasn't improved but they still aren't there yet. The top 10 ranking maybe was deserved due to the upsets and overall record, but never a position they were going to maintain. And those big wins were upsets. They call 'em upsets for a reason.
Crean is probably going to have to make a tough decision about Verdell. The team has simply passed him by and yet they aren't good enough to cover for him. Roth has elevated his game to carve out a role and hang with the others... but Verdell is a turnover and bad decision machine. I realize Crean would like to reward Verdell for coming to Indiana and working hard with this down team but OTOH, he's got a team in a downward spiral. Mentally I'm sure they are questioning themselves at this point. They simply have to have their best players on the court now.
And Hulls needs to hit his damned FT's.... Talk about law of averages catching up to someone....
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
I don't believe the 15-1 start was an illusion. The team we've seen since then is completely different. I think it's more mental than anything. I just don't know why the sudden change.
The Hoosiers need to adjust. ...and they aren't really top 10 material so they aren't going to coast thru the Big 10 schedule. They are going to have to fight and claw and they'll be getting everyone's best shot too. So for one thing, Hulls needs to hit his FT's in crunch time.... Watford needs to re-energize.... and Verdell needs to have his minutes reduced (a lot IMHO).
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
Well, I said at the start of the season I expected 18 wins...le sigh.
I'm gonna go chug bleach.
the squad has been playing some terrible basketball lately no doubt.
from what i have seen, the biggest problems are from these guys:
oladipo- this guy has been laying an egg every game for quite a while actually. minn, osu, neb all were games where he has be getting faked out on D by going for every pump fake. his offense has disappeared too. his shot selection has been terrible. from out of control drives that end up turning into charges or just turnovers to not being able to hit from outside anymore. he has been making more than his share of careless turnovers. this is costing the team.
watford- this guy has really been mailing it in as well. from effort that often seems questionable to horrible shot selection, he needs to get his **** together quick.
in nearly every game since kentucky, he seems to have fallen in love with chucking up horrible, unnecessary 3 pointers. i think he wants to be the hero in every game now with that damn shot. he did this again against neb. in the 2nd half when there was around 20 seconds left on a play and absolutely no need for that shot but, he took it anyway. he keeps this crap up, crean needs to pull him for a while and explain to him if he does that ****, he will be benched.
hulls- yes, jordy has been doing this as well. i don't doubt his effort, i do doubt his decision making along with his shooting that has been going down the toilet lately. like watford, he too has been chucking up unnecessary 3's with plenty of time and his decision to go by himself against neb. in the final play was awful. this team needs a point guard and he hasn't been looking like a capable one for a while now.
no question about it- the team's best player is by far cody zeller. he comes ready to play every game. he still needs to improve on quite a few things however, at least he is reliable.
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Penn State beat first place Illinois last night. This conference is crazy
there's a friggin 5 way tie in the loss column for 1st
Makes that loss to Wisconsin in Mackey a little more painful
While the competition has increased significantly, I think our best shot to reclaim some of our mojo is a recommitment to intensity on D. Early, including some of the big upset wins, we created offensive energy off our defense. I don't get the sense the same consistent effort is being put forth on that end of the floor. That obviously includes rebounding.
I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.
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The Box player clinched the Over 55s singles crown on Sunday afternoon at the 2014 English National Championships at Bowls England Headquarters at Royal Leamington Spa with a 21-9 victory over Gloucestershire's Sue Latham.
Jacobs, 58, from Chapel Plaister, was in blistering form all weekend.
"I was very pleased to win the senior singles title," she said. "My form was good throughout and I played well in all my games.
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She added: "This is my first national outdoor title after going close a few times before at Leamington in different competitions."
Jacobs enjoyed four comfortable victories last weekend on the way to the O55s singles title and only one player managed to get into double figures against her.
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National PTA Teacher Appreciation Week is approaching quickly...May 7-11! Tired of the same old ways of thanking teachers? National PTA Radio comes to the rescue by providing parents and PTA leaders with fresh ideas for Teacher Appreciation Week. Who else to hear them from than the 2011 Teacher of the Year! We'll also provide a teacher's perspective on what this special week really means to them.
Can PTAs Endorse Political Candidates?
2012 is shaping up to be a big election year throughout the country. From local to national government, many parents and PTAs will experience a lot of political campaigns. Some PTAs may even want to get involved in the political process, but there are some very specific aspects that all PTAs should be aware of and careful with. PTAs can lose their 501c3 status if they misstep. Listen now to avoid any problems but still get the PTA message out!
Who has Control of Your PTAs Funds?
Believe it or not, it's a question many PTA leaders and members do not really know the answer to. National PTA Radio addresses this topic because that we hear PTAs across the country are struggling with it. So, who has the ultimate decision-making control over PTA funds? Is it the PTA president, school principal, the school district or anyone else? To answer these questions and more National PTA President Betsy Landers interviews the ultimate expert on this subject, Heather Dean, Deputy Executive Director in charge of finance and operations at National PTA.
How to Secure a $1,000 Grant for Your PTA
A local PTA president tells you how to earn a National PTA Take Your Family to School Week Grant, courtesy of the AXA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of AXA US, and a Proud National Sponsor of PTA. Faith Frank, President and Chief Executive Officer of the AXA Foundation, Inc. and a Vice President for AXA US also discusses how to get help for college. National PTA President Betsy Landers hosts a PTA Radio special on Take Your Family to School Week.
The Black History of National PTA
During the civil rights era National PTA made a statement to the world: segregation is wrong. Leading by example, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers merged with the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers to form what we now know as National PTA. In honor of Black History Month, National PTA Radio's James Martinez digs deeper into how this milestone of a merger created the world's largest child advocacy organization that truly speaks for every child with one voice and how the merger spoke volumes about the association's three founders, including Selena Sloan Butler.
Advocacy and Leadership Insights from William Novelli
National PTA Radio presents an exclusive one-on-one interview with William Novelli, former CEO of AARP, former president of Porter Novelli (one of the world's largest public relations agencies), and current professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. National PTA's Marilyn Ferdinand, editor-in-chief of Our Children (National PTA's flagship magazine), talk with Novelli about how the economy affects non-profits, appealing to a younger generation without alienating longstanding supporters and his efforts in education.
PTA: From the Playground to Capitol Hill
What's the latest on education and child advocacy? National PTA's Elizabeth Rorick, Director of Government Affairs, give listeners an inside look at National PTA's advocacy efforts and how they affect you, the average parent. Find out how what's going on in our nation's Capital directly impacts your family, school and community. Also, listen for the latest information from National PTA's Legislative Conference (March 7-8).


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Cena's Character Progression
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All this never-ending arguments between Cena fans vs haters... I just want to say this, because I'm tired of the stupid little jabs, and I wanna see what people say... In my case, is not about hating Cena the person, or the performer necessarily, but freshening things up is important in this business, and performers know well that they need to be careful and not become stale.
Now you have WWEs biggest star, who is a good performer (with his flaws of course), and his persona of an honorable good guy that loves his fans and fights for them.. I can see how people can get behind that and become die hard fans.
But being the face of the company means ALL fans have to watch Cena a whole lot, and you cannot just play to a specific part of the WWE fans when you are THE face. The way Cena's character is the goody good Super Hero, very specific that not everybody will like, of course if he doesn't change much in many years other fans are going to get tired of him.
And to me Cena fans are in their right to defend him, he is still a good guy irl as well... but they become blind in their fandom and fail to understand how this business works and what character progression means. Cena progressed until he got to the top and stayed the same, and no changing shirt colors every few months is not the same. I wanna like watching him, right now I don't enjoy him much, very rarely... it doesn't necessarily have to be a full on heel turn, but give the rest of the fans something new and fresh, I'm all for a heel turn but any real good progression will do. And maybe a couple of new moves, he has only added the top rope leg drop the past 5 years.
The ultimate prove to this point I'm making will be the crowd this Sunday at Metlife stadium. This is not just New Yorkers, for Wrestlemania all long time and new fans come from all over come, and will be a real barometer.


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IEC 61131-3 by the Numbers
The Programming Standard for Controllers: What It Is, What It Is Not and Its Benefits
The International Electrotechnical Commission's (www.IEC.ch) 61131-3 international standard "Programmable Controllers—Part 3: Programming Languages" was published in 1993 after 15 years in development and first used for PC-based control programming in the 1990s. Typically programmable logic controllers (PLCs) had their own vendor-developed programming platforms, but in the past decade, major PLC vendors from Europe and North America initiated and supported the new standard with their new programming platforms.
The intent of IEC 61131-3 is to normalize PLC and control systems' programming by standardizing functionality such as program entry, instruction visualization, data types and syntax. The general requirements section includes models for software, communication—external as well as internal instruction and variable parameter passing—and programming. The model functions are as follows:
- The software model introduces the following configuration concepts: resources such as CPUs; tasks such as executable application software; named variables used for storage; and communication paths (Figure 1). An IEC-based hardware "client" could run multiple tasks in one configuration or have multiple configurations.
- The communication model specifies how data is passed to different tasks or configurations or within the same task. Global variables are introduced.
- The programming model is tied closely with the concept of common elements, which enable the use of common data types, variable declaration and data formats such as dates and times. Program organizational units (POUs) also are common elements.
These POUs were developed to reduce the often-implied meanings of instructions and blocks. There are three types of POUs defined in the standard. The program POU is the program; no news there. The function-block POU is a program block with inputs and outputs used for tasks such as timers and counters. The function POU lets various program elements extend the instruction set of the configuration. The intent of these POUs is to reduce the programmatic differences between suppliers, so a timer is a timer, regardless of who provides it.
In addition, the standard defines data types, such as Boolean and integer. It also defines the use and format of derived data types and functions, which must conform to the previously mentioned standard data types.
Meanwhile, the programming model extends a PLC-type programming environment with three languages and two graphical representation languages. Ladder logic is most used in discrete applications and is the most widely coded language in automation today. It is mainly used and supported by the North American PLC vendors.
Instruction List, which is a rudimentary, assembler-type language has been a European programming staple for years. The third language is Statement List, which is similar to Pascal.
As a result, the graphical languages are Sequential Function Chart and Function Block. These are graphical representations of processes and have underlying code written in one of the three languages or in an alternate language, such as C++.
Finally, the standard defines the abstraction between the IEC model and the PLC/control hardware by using device tags and not addresses. Similar to programming in a high-level language such as Visual Basic, it allows the programmer to define a memory point, not by address, but by using a descriptive name. The standard defines the characters you can use in the description. The outside world is tied into the model based on the hardware used.
The desired effect of the standard is to reduce the user's learning curve between vendors, and with work beginning as early as 1978, it was developed to meet that need.
What IEC 61131-3 Is Not
The published IEC 61131 standard encourages extensibility, meaning any company that writes an IEC 61131-based product can add things to its "standard" product as long as it tells the user what changes and additions have been made relative to the standard. However, IEC 61131 isn't a standard. It is a specification for vendors that want to develop a control software programming environment according to a set of guidelines.
PLCopen (www.plcopen.org), the global association supporting IEC 61131, says you can't have a standard without certification. However, no one and no company can claim that its ladder logic editor creates compliant code. There's no way to certify it. And yet, one of Rockwell Automation's web pages for RSLogix 5 makes claims about the "RSLogix family of IEC-1131-compliant ladder logic programming packages."
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Take a look at that cassette above called "Unics". I made that sometime in the late 80's and it has some of the first songs I ever recorded on it. I should have probably spelled it "eunuchs" right? Maybe since I was a geek then too possibly "Unix" was the correct spelling. I'd like to say I was being smart and wanted my own unique band name and way of spelling but you all know I'd be lying to you. From what I remember the music was sequenced on a Yamaha QX7 and the sounds were from a DX7, Electrocomp-101 and some Casio home keyboard. I had a Tascam 4-track and Shure SM58. Do you like the cover I printed on a dot-matrix printer?
So where's the hilarious audio samples of my old songs? Well if I had a working cassette deck you would be listening and laughing right now. I did save two old decks but both are eating tapes so I don't dare but the above mentioned gem in them. I could order a head cleaning kit or even possibly find a repair shop to look at a deck. However, there's a new kind of Cassette deck that just recently became available: USB Cassette Decks.
The Ion Tape2PC and Alesis TapeLink USB are both dual cassette decks with built-in audio interfaces. Take a close look at these two units. They must come from the same Chinese manufacturer right? The Tape2PC is silver and comes with "EZ Tape Converter for free with Gracenote® MusicID technology"and has a street price of $149. The black Alesis comes with BIAS SoundSoap (which I have used to good effect in the past) and has a street price of $199.
So what do you think? Should I clean and repair my old Sony Dual Deck or just grab one of these new USB guys? The advantage of the built-in USB is I can bring it around with me to different rooms without an extra interface and cabling. I do wonder though if these new decks will sound as good as my old Sony.
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Cincinnati, Federated Department Stores will consolidate credit-related support facilities acquired in its merger with The May Department Stores Co. These moves will improve operating efficiencies and enhance customer service by coordinating technology and capital investments, the company said.
May Co.'s Earth City credit center in St. Louis will be retained as a fourth operational hub of Federated's Cincinnati-based Financial, Administrative and Credit Services (FACS) Group division. Earth City will join current FACS facilities in Mason, Ohio, Clearwater, Fla., and Tempe, Ariz., in servicing private label and Visa credit-card accounts for each of Federated's department store divisions. FACS also performs a variety of nonstore services for customers and employees. In addition, Federated will expand the main FACS facility in Mason, while phasing out former May Co. credit operations in Lorain and Parma, Ohio, and Houston beginning in spring 2006.


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Cancer Genetics
Skin Cancer and Further Exposure
At age 51, with blue eyes and fair skin, I'm diagnosed with BCC and SCC. My mother was also diagnosed with the same at 70. My dermitologist says most skin damage is caused by exposure prior to age 22. If so, how important is it to avoid exposure now? Will it really make any difference? I'm am an active outdoorsman. Thank you.
For some background information about different forms of skin cancer and their risk factors, please refer to the previous question entitled `Skin Cancer and Available Therapies`, which was posted on this forum in early January. You can do so by selecting the `Browse previous questions` option under the Cancer Genetics `Ask an Expert` forum. The information provided to you by your dermatologist is true: there is a direct correlation between sun exposure that occurs early in life and an increased risk for skin cancer later in life. However, it is still important that people, especially fair-skinned individuals, continue to practice safe skin care habits throughout life. The fact that you have already developed two skin cancers suggests that your type of skin may be more prone to sun damage. Therefore, it is even more important that you continue to protect yourself. The American Cancer Society recommends wearing a sunblock of at least SPF 15 on all sun-exposed areas. I would also recommend discussing your question further with your dermatologist. If you are concerned about both you and your mother having the same form of skin cancer, you may want to speak to a genetic counselor or geneticist in your area. Although BCC and SCC are usually sporadic, i.e. not due to an inherited susceptibility, it would be necessary for someone to obtain a complete family history to answer this question accurately.
Judith A Westman, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Medical Biochemistry
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University
Rebecca J Nagy, MS, CGC
Formerly, Clinical Instructor of Genetics
School of Medicine
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Probably slipped some Midol in there with a cup of antifreeze. Crazy bas tard
Nope...I did nothing. She headed out of the garage and to the backyard, staying as far away from me as possible (I have never hit that dog as I recall).
But no more blood in a couple of days...prolly got a stick stuck in her bowels.
Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
My guess is an empty Jim Beam bottle.
Is it possible to drink the Beam and not get violent?
Sorry, dude. Posting in this thread sort of demands a certain amount of irreverence.
oops... using a big word like irreverence might earn me a suspension from the random thoughts thread by commisioner Twes.
unless I post some cleavage...
Damn that button.
a 23-year old decided to rob somebody and picked out a 72-year old man.
It turns out that the 72-year old man was quite the boxer back in his day. He got a chance to step back in time:
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In other news, oddly enough when a man try to give himself a circumcision with a pair of nail clippers, it didn't turn out as well as he had hoped!
Imagine that!
"This is something we would advise men never to attempt," a medic said, "The results can be quite horrific and long-lasting and have quite an affect on a man's sexual performance.
One can only hope - some people really shouldn't procreate.
The poster formerly known as Rimfire
Jr. ordered his laptop yesterday. A MacBook with 13" screen. It's been so long since I used Apple technology I couldn't begin to fathom how much memory it has or how it relates to a PC. But he said it was what the music majors he's talked with said to get.
Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
Sunday we went canoeing, if you can call it that. Well, I am VERY fair skinned and like always got burnt.
Is there anything worse than your back itching from a sunburn? I have been burnt so many times the sting from it doesn't bother me, but the itch when it's about ready to peal drives me insane.
Or so I've heard ...
The poster formerly known as Rimfire
Oh wow, that IS disturbed.
There's a possible new screen name here, if Hicks would allow it:
dang... three days!
Did I kill this thread?
Wake up, people!
How 'bout a snickers bar?
That would leave me satisfied
UPDATE...1 week later
NEVER NEVER NEVER say "What could possibly happen next"
1) The washing machine died and had to be repaired (this AM)
2) Also this AM...the air conditioner works...when it wants to.
Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
But what about her ??
good one. I do aim to please though.
Can you feel it...
Antlers are growing my friends.
Yep. I about smashed one with my car last night.
Payback is on its way, focker.
The only thing I've done is pancake a squirrel last week.
Little focker was under me and zigged when he should have zagged.
Not pretty.
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Hello to all! I've been having good luck on my Cellcept -- more energy and I'm able to breathe more easily. I'm down to 13mg of Prednisone which is a complete miracle because prior to the Celllcept, I could barely breathe if I went below 20mg. It's nice to start getting some of the "moon face" to diminish.
A couple of odd things are the swellings in all my joints -- I've not had it too bad in my upper body before. Also, I have begun to hear things at night. I got off all sleep aids. But I still have plenty of nights that I hear some thing like a music box or these frightening noises or words. I told my doctor and I see a psych tomorrow. Nothing compels me to harm myself or others. I just get spooked!
One thing about it, I'm just not going to be running off to the ER whenever I have pain in my chest (which occurs much less since the Cellcept) or for anything short of near death. I think I've worked through this enough to just wait and let the next doctor tell me what to do or what I have. My pain doctor blithly mentioned that my body is full of bursitus. Between the bursitus, fibro, lupus and arthritus, I think my doctors can now believe me when I tell them how hard it is to deal with my body pain. But it simply helps to know what's causing it. If I can just get disablity, maybe the reduction in that stress will help in some way.
Take care all! I don't know about you guys but I'm so grateful for Fall. For once I'm not constantly drenched in sweat! Strange blessings - but I'll take what I can get!


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After a storied career that's spanned many arenas, Richard Parsons is glad to be moving along. But don't call it retirement. He has too much going on in his life.
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Why not? Parsons is former chairman of Citigroup and former chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, with a personal worth estimated at $100 million. He is sitting in a 47th-floor meeting room on West 57th Street in Manhattan at Providence Equity Partners LLC, the financial firm where he is a senior advisor. If Parsons had been four blocks downtown at the Grand Havana Room—the exclusive members-only cigar club where he is chairman of the board, and where celebrities have their own humidors and compatriots from the world of high finance have been known to hang out—he most probably would have a cigar in hand.
"I'm happy right now, that's for sure," he says. "I'm a happy guy anyway, but right now I'm in a good place. I have spent 45 years of a professional life doing a lot of interesting things, and having a fair amount of success, and putting myself into a position where I can now do not things I have to do but things I want to do. Almost everything I'm involved in now is something I want to be involved in, because it speaks to something inside me."
Parsons is one of the few African-Americans to have headed a Fortune 500 company, and he was chief of two of them. He was chairman of Time Warner from 2003–2008 (and CEO from 2002–2007) and chairman of Citigroup from 2009 to 2012. From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, he ran the Dime Savings Bank.
In 2008, he was appointed a member of President-Elect Obama's Transition Economic Advisory Board. He is also chairman of the Apollo Theater Foundation in Harlem, and a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and the American Museum of Natural History. He is on the boards of Estée Lauder, the Lazard financial firm and Madison Square Garden. And that's only a partial list of his credentials, past and present.
He is 64 now—he turns 65 on April 4—and despite his many current activities, he says he considers himself retired. He is still an imposing, if soft-spoken, presence, all six-feet-four of him. His beard is graying, and these days his midsection offers evidence of the good life. The image he presents is one of serenity, of humility, with the humorously self-deprecating demeanor of someone with nothing left to prove.
His smile is wide and relaxed. Descriptions often given of him in his long career include the words "smooth," "diplomatic" and "friendly giant," and this day there will be examples of them all.
He will convey these as he discusses his encounter with Fidel Castro; the vineyard he owns in Italy and the Brunello di Montalcino it produces; his plans for a new jazz club in Harlem; the commission he was appointed to head by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that was created to help improve student education; his rise from the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and South Jamaica, Queens, to the highest levels of corporate finance; his and his grandfather's connection with the late Vice President and New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller; his view of the financial world, and America's future; his own assessment of the pluses and minuses of his career, especially his years at Time Warner and Citigroup; his take on race relations; and the cigars, and the cigar club, he loves.
"I was introduced to cigar smoking by Fidel Castro," Parsons says. "I had been a cigarette smoker, but when my son was born 40 years ago, I quit." Then, "through a meeting orchestrated in the mid-1990s by Peggy Dulany, David Rockefeller's daughter, I met Castro. He was up here for the United Nations. He took a shine to me and I sort of took a shine to him, as a personality. And he insisted that I try one of the cigars he had with him, a Cohiba Esplendido." Parsons "fell in love with it. There's an elegance, almost a romance."
He smokes two or three cigars a week. "I tend not to smoke during the weekday because I'm busy. I smoke on weekends, or whenever I go to the Grand Havana Room." His favorite—"am I allowed to incriminate myself or would you advise against it?"—is "a good Cuban cigar. I still like the Cohiba Esplendido. And the Montecristo. I'm a No. 3 guy. No. 2s are good but I'm a No. 3 guy. If I'm up for a quick smoke I'll do a Robusto. And I like Romeo y Julieta." For non-Cubans, he prefers "the OpusX. And Davidoff makes a good cigar."
A more business-oriented pastime is the vineyard he owns in Montalcino, in the middle of Tuscany. "That's a fun project. We don't make money, but we make a lot of wine. The vineyard is about 20 acres, and we also rent a couple of other fields in the area, so we have some variety." Its name is Il Palazzone, and the main wine is a Brunello di Montalcino, 100 percent Sangiovese. "Brunello di Montalcino was the first officially recognized D.O.C.G. [Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita] wine in Italy. It's a very virile, elegant red wine." Brunello di Montalcino, he says, is considered perhaps the best Italian red.
"We've been going along making about 1,500 cases a year," he says. "It's been kind of a hobby. Now that I'm retired and have some more time to put into it I'm trying to turn it into a real business. I define a business as something that makes money, not loses money. I built a new cantina, which is basically a winery, on the property. I rented these additional fields and I'm going to take the production up to about 4,500 cases." (If you want to buy his Brunello retail in the U.S. it's mainly at Italian Wine Merchants in New York City, near Union Square; it's also available at restaurants, including Del Posto, and at the Grand Havana Room.)
Il Palazzone also produces extra virgin olive oil. And there's a blended wine, a Super Tuscan, named for his parents, Lorenzo & Isabelle (his father was an electrical technician, his mother a homemaker).
Another major project, in fact a passion, is the renovation and reopening of Minton's Playhouse, a legendary club in the history of jazz, where Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and others pioneered the development of bebop. Minton's, at West 118th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem, had closed in the 1970s, reopened in 2006 and closed again in 2010.
Parsons says he wishes to create the kind of jazz supper club he has always wanted to go to—and take his wife to, for good music—as well as to help "create momentum around the economic revitalization of Harlem."
And "I'm chairman of the Jazz Foundation of America. It's a philanthropy—we raise money and take care of old jazz musicians, blues musicians who have played all their lives, but because of the structure of that business they don't have pensions, and they can't play anymore, they don't play around town anymore, because there are no gigs. We found all these jazz musicians from the 1940s and '50s, still up in Harlem. They're 70, 80 years old and can't get work. We look after them."
The idea, he says, is to "bring Minton's into the 21st century in terms of a venue and let's give some of these old jazz musicians a place to come and gig again." Minton's is to reopen at its old 118th Street spot; around the corner on St. Nicholas, where there was a vacant space, will be a restaurant, the Cecil, named for the hotel that formerly occupied the site. Restaurateur Alexander Smalls will be executive chef for both.
Renovation work, "basically a gut renovation," is going on. "It's a multimillion-dollar project" (his own money so far, though he will probably recruit other investors) "to create the kind of venue you want, so people will come not only from around the city but around the country and the world and see what's going on at the world-famous—at least in the jazz world—Minton's. I'm hoping to open in June."
Then there's the Education Reform Commission, which New York Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed him to as chairman last year to suggest ways to improve student performance. "I have several passions. One is some form of public service, particularly education. Because I was just a kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant. I got lucky but I was in a position to get lucky because I got an education. That was the key to success."
For Parsons, "this is a labor of love, a labor of assumed responsibility. If you've been lucky enough to extract from this culture and society the kind of good living I've been able to, you really ought to try to do something to make sure the way is paved for others to do the same."
Parsons was born and grew up, one of five children in his family, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and then, from age six, South Jamaica, Queens. He attended public schools, and, when he was only 16, the University of Hawaii. Why Hawaii?
He didn't get into his first choice, Princeton—he was wait-listed. ("My mother always told me, you don't have any money, you can't go to Princeton, you have to go to C.C.N.Y."). And although he was accepted at City College of New York, "I was leaving home!"
"I sat next to in high school, in the physics lab, this girl, she was from Hawaii and she was stunning." He was accepted. He had played basketball at John Adams High School ("we were the Queens champions"), and Hawaii "said you can play basketball for us."
"I sat next to in high school, in the physics lab, this girl, she was from Hawaii and she was stunning." He was accepted. He had played basketball at John Adams High School ("we were the Queens champions"), and Hawaii "said you can play basketball for us."
So he went halfway across the Pacific, "had a lot of fun, played ball, met the woman who was my girlfriend, who I ultimately married, who is my wife today. And it was time to shape up or ship out. She said I ought to think about law school, because I would argue with a fence post. So I went to Albany Law School. I had been a goof-off in college, but now I was married and my wife was working to put me through law school, so I actually applied myself and did reasonably well." Actually, he graduated at the top of his class, in 1971.
Soon, he was working for Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York's governor at the time. "And it was not for several years that I told him that my grandfather had been head groundskeeper on the Rockefeller estate," Kykuit, in Westchester County, north of New York City.
"My grandfather, on my mother's side, died when I was three, so I never really knew him. But my mother used to tell stories about having met the original John D. Rockefeller when she was a little kid, and gotten a dime from him. And she knew Nelson, as a kid."
Rockefeller was named vice president in 1974 by President Gerald Ford, and Parsons went along; he wound up working as a senior White House aide under Ford. When Parsons returned to New York, Rockefeller said "why don't you live on the estate for a while?" Parsons says. "I wanted to go into private law practice. He said, you work for me in the family offices. You'll be my lawyer. I'll give you a little house on the estate. You can stay there and you can look around and see where you want to land. So we go back to the estate and I told him the story of my grandfather. He didn't know about it, because my grandfather's last name was Judd."
In 1977, Parsons was hired by Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, a top white-shoe law firm in Manhattan. He rapidly advanced, making partner in two years. Eventually, he became managing partner, leaving in 1988 for the Dime Savings Bank. Dime led to Time Warner (in 1995, he was named its president) and then to Citigroup.
Looking back at his tenure at Time Warner, he says, "I gave myself a B.
Looking back at his tenure at Time Warner, he says, "I gave myself a B.
"I think we did OK. We got the company through some tough passages and back on its feet." But dealing with the difficulties of the $350 billion merger with America Online in January 2000, he says, was difficult. "Why a B? Part of my job was to figure out AOL after I became CEO. The merger was driven by my predecessor, but I inherited it. I never figured it out."
As far as Citigroup goes, he says, he joined its board in 1996, so "I was there when the world hit the wall in 2008, but particularly Citi. So you can't escape some responsibility for that. I was part of the group that was supposed to be superintending this thing when we hit an iceberg, so that wasn't so good." His job "after we hit the fence was just to make sure we got through the crisis and to keep both internally and externally everybody calm while you work on the issues you have to work on to get through a crisis. And I think we were successful at that."
Parsons has been a major player during tumultuous financial times. He believes we have come through them, and he is optimistic on the future. "The American banking system and financial system is still the anchor for world finance," he says, adding that American preeminence "has been sustained and remains intact."
He thinks, though, that "it's going to be tough for some big banks to regain their footing. But they will. They've gotten through the crisis, and now they've got to rebuild their business and their credibility, and reshape their business models toward a more stable, less risk-oriented channel. But that'll be all right."
That holds equally true for Citigroup, he says. "My prediction is that Citigroup will emerge in the next three to five years as once again probably the preeminent bank in the world, in part because its international franchise is unparalleled. There's just nobody that has the kind of international scope Citigroup has. And its domestic difficulties—they'll work their way through that."
Many people have praised him for his leadership abilities, calling him a listener, a persuader, a diplomat. But others have criticized him for a failure to increase companies' value, saying he did not possess the visionary qualities necessary for the job. "Yeah," he says, "I would not call myself a visionary. I think we preserved a lot of value. I was good at leadership and management, but I would not give myself equal marks as a visionary."
Parsons grew up in a time of racial conflict, but he says he personally has experienced "very little" of "the ugly face of prejudice." A major exception was when he went down to Virginia to visit his grandparents in the 1950s, when segregation ruled the South, and he encountered examples like separate water fountains and segregated beaches—"My experience with it was almost like a visitor to a foreign land—i.e., Virginia."
He says he is "criticized by some of my African-American colleagues who say you shouldn't tell people that you haven't experienced prejudice or you don't see it out there, because it's there and it's real." But he has managed, he says, "more by dint of my own personality to get people into a color-blind mode more quickly. I don't have a sense of victimization. I wasn't bred that way. I never acquired it. So I don't look for it. I don't assume that everything that happens to me that's shitty is because I'm black. I didn't get that job, so it must be prejudice. It's not how I'm geared or built."
But, he says, "there is an almost bred-in-the-bone in America prejudice that manifests itself almost institutionally." He cites his time as a lawyer, when he was for a while a hiring partner and recruited African-Americans to diversify his firm. "And one of the things I noticed was that if a kid who is from the middle of the class at Harvard, white kid, would come in and you give an assignment, and half of them would trip over their first assignment, and you'd sit down with them, and it was almost bred in everybody's expectations, we know you're a Harvard guy, let's work with you, you didn't get this right, and you'd forgive them their first or second less-than-stellar outing." For "a black kid, not so. So I learned to tell all these young black associates, you really need to nail your first outings, and get help if you want to. Because what would happen is if a black kid turned in something that was not right, you could just see it in people's faces—there, you knew they couldn't do it."
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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The way Jarrod Parker sees it, he shouldn't need any time to settle in when he's starting a game. From the first pitch on, he aims to be locked, loaded and ready to attack opposing hitters.
So even after retiring 12 of the final 13 batters he faced Monday in his third Cactus League outing of the spring, Parker seemed frustrated with himself due to his sluggish start in which he allowed four first-inning runs to the Dodgers, all coming off homers.
"I don't really need to do that, that's not conducive to the way I need to pitch," Parker said of settling in. "From hitter one, I need to be aggressive and have a good mentality."
Said A's manager Bob Melvin, "I like that, he wants to be on it right away. It's a good mindset to have. He had a tough first inning, but he pitched well after that."
Parker, who appears on schedule to start the A's Opening Day game on March 31, shook off the shaky beginning and finished the day working 4 2/3 innings, giving up those four runs on four hits and a walk. He struck out five batters, including the final three Dodgers he saw.
"I got a little more aggressive," Parker said. "I got comfortable and so I was able to move the ball around, get to my changeup, throw it for a strike and finish when I needed to."
The home runs Parker surrendered were to Andre Ethier, who smashed a three-run shot off a 1-0 fastball, and Juan Uribe, who took a hanging slider and deposited it over the left-field wall.
Taking into account the four runs Monday, Parker's ERA on the spring now sits at 10.61. He broke camp last year with a 7.45 ERA in five starts and went on to turn in a fine regular season, but Parker doesn't want to make any excuses for his results, even if it's only Spring Training.
"I never want to chalk it up to something like that," Parker said. "I'm not real happy, but there's time to flip the switch. Next one, I want to get through five, get into the sixth and start to getting to where I need to be. I need to put together aggressive innings. Everything else will follow."
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Alamo Bar - "Show The Love" dinner w/ live music afterwards by Big Dan and the Jellystingers. Filet Mignon dinner includes cheesecake. 6-8 p.m. $15/single $25/couple. Sponsored by the Chrome Divas.
North Platte Senior Center - bingo. Early bird game at 6:30 p.m. Officially starts at 7 p.m. No kitchen, carry in foods allowed.
Neville Center (301 E. Fifth) OLIVER! 8 p.m. Tickets: $15 adults; $8 for children and students.
Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) Live music by Along For The Ride. 9 p.m. Cover charge.
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St. Patrick's Church Parish Hall (East 4th & Chestnut) - Breakfast 9 a.m.-noon. All you can eat. $6 adults, $3 children under 10.
Neville Center (301 E. Fifth) OLIVER! 2 p.m. Tickets: $15 adults; $8 for children and students.
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Neville Center (Fifth and Bailey) Opera performance by international performer George Dyer, featuring a mix of opera and Broadway favorites. 7:30-10 p.m. Membership $50, students $15 and families $100.
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Childrens Museum (314 N. Jeffers) Monthly program/craft workshop. 10:30 a.m. Members free, non-members $4.
Applebees Karoke with Rascal. 9-12 p.m.
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VFW Post 1504 (2100 E. Fourth) bingo, total of 24 games, starts at 6:45 p.m.
Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) adult dance lessons. 7-9 p.m. $3 per person.
North Platte Senior Center (900 E. Tenth) the Golden Classics, a four-piece combo, plays a dance. 7-10 p.m. $3.
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Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) Live music by Driving Dynamics. 9 p.m. Cover charge.
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A to Z Books (507 N. Jeffers) Open Mic Nite. Established performers and newcomers. 7-10:30 p.m. Free-will donation. Refreshments provided or bring your own.
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Childrens Museum (314 N. Jeffers) Movie night featuring Disney classic, Peter Pan. Character costume dress up welcome. Free popcorn served. 6:30 p.m. Member free; Non-members $4.
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Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) Live music by Bases Loaded. 9 p.m. Cover charge.
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A budget media briefing by Fairfax County Executive Anthony H. Griffin will be held immediately following the morning session of the Board of Supervisors' regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Feb. 26, at approximately noon. The news conference will be held in the Press Room (Room 158) of the Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax.
Griffin, along with Deputy County Executive Edward L. Long; Susan Datta, director of the Department of Management and Budget; and Kevin Greenlief, director of the Department of Tax Administration, will be available to answer questions about the proposed FY 2008 budget plan and 2007 real estate assessment notices.
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Public hearings on the FY 2008 fiscal plan have been set for April 9, 10 and 11, at 7 p.m. with the School Board presentation to the Board of Supervisors scheduled on April 10 at 6 p.m. The board has scheduled the budget markup session for Monday, April 23, at 10 a.m. The formal adoption of the budget is scheduled to take place on Monday, April 30, at 10 a.m. during the regularly scheduled board meeting.
For more information about the budget media briefing, contact the Office of Public Affairs at 703-324-3187, TTY 711.
For more news and information, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news.


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