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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- The Brewers released Bobby Crosby from his Minor League contract on Monday, ending Crosby's bid for a comeback after two years out of baseball.
Crosby, 33, got a late start because of a thigh injury and then struggled to knock off the rust. He appeared at first base, third base and shortstop but batted .188 with no home runs or RBIs in seven Cactus League games.
"We wanted to let him know ahead of time that his chances of making the club were slim at this point," general manager Doug Melvin said. "Then he talked to his agent and we talked about Triple-A or whatever, but in the end he decided to take his release. He may try to pursue [a deal] with other clubs.
"It's hard to come back from two years [away], but he was OK. He could have still continued to play, but all this comes down to timing. We've got 11 games left, so our [regular] guys are going to be playing more."
Crosby's agent, Paul Cohen, said Crosby hoped to continue his comeback with another club, and appreciated the Brewers making their call on Crosby before the end of camp.
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke believes Crosby could benefit from some regular playing time in Triple-A.
"It's going to take him playing somewhere all the time to get back his whole game," Roenicke said. "I still have a lot of confidence when the ball is hit to him, he's got good hands and is going to make the throw over there. He's a very smart guy. Great on a team. But I think he needs a lot of at-bats to get the [offensive] part back again."
Neither of the Brewers' comeback candidates worked out. They also extended a non-roster invitation to right-hander Kelvim Escobar, who has made only one Major League appearance since 2007. But the Brewers were troubled by Escobar's shoulder and released him March 10.
Crosby was not the only Brewers' bench contender enduring an unproductive spring. Fellow non-roster veteran Donnie Murphy entered Monday batting .219 with two extra-base hits in 32 at-bats. Taylor Green was hitting .121. Jeff Bianchi has been limited to one game since March 2 by groin and hip flexor injuries.
If Bianchi can get healthy and Green can start hitting, they would have good chances to make the Opening Day cut because both are on the 40-man roster. Green is a two-time Brewers Minor League Player of the Year.
Until those players get going, the Brewers are considering other players in camp like non-roster catcher Blake Lalli, who also plays first base and could take a left-handed bench job away from Green. Lalli had two more hits Monday including a double off the center-field fence and is batting .387.
"He's impressing a lot of people," Roenicke said. "And not just what he's doing [at the plate], but this guy is really sharp. He can call a great game if we have him behind the plate. Really smart guy. … It would be pretty nice to have a third catcher, and we can use whomever's not catching that night as a pinch-hitter."
Of Green's spring slump, Roenicke said, "That's hitting. Sometimes you struggle for a while and it's hard to get out of it. He was in a role with us that he just started to swing well before he went to the [World Baseball Classic], and I think in one game in the [Classic] he hit well, but he came back here and wasn't swinging like he did before he left. He's pressing to make the team, like everybody is. Hopefully, he starts swinging it like we know he can, and he'll be one of those guys at the end we have to make a decision on."
The same goes for Bianchi, who had to withdraw from Italy's World Baseball Classic entry because of a groin strain that sidelined him two weeks. He returned for two at-bats against the Reds on Saturday before Roenicke revealed a new injury to Bianchi's hip.
"We're hoping to get him back on the field and get him enough at-bats here to be able to make a decision on him before we start [the season]," Roenicke said. "Hopefully, he will be a guy we're talking about those last couple of days."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bright Eyes is Back!
The People's Key, the latest release from Conor Oberst's indie-folk band Bright Eyes since Cassadega in 2007, is officially being released February 15, 2011, but will be streaming online in it's entirety through NPR's "First Listen" series.
The 46:58 album can stream as one track or listeners can click on individual songs to hear. Bright Eyes has been around since 1995, producing timeless albums and gathering devoted fans, but Oberst has been growing as an artist throughout that time. Bright Eyes has a distinctive sound but the overall tone of each album changes, and The People's Key is no exception.
The album is a huge leap from the clear, twangy sound of Cassadega, but follows the pattern of starting off the album with a sound clip. A deep voice speaks ominously of time travel, aliens and different dimensions (it's a bit difficult to follow). As the music takes over, Oberst's voice rings out not clearly, but with a deeper tone as though through a haze of effects. He sounds confident, and while he still fills his songs with lyrics like encoded poetry, Oberst seems to be thinking about what he's saying more and tackling his subjects with a wiser perspective.
The first song eases into the second with upbeat piano chords and a comforting sound. I chose to listen to the album as a continuous track and enjoyed it more as the songs kept coming. It might be a sound for Bright Eyes fans to get used to in comparison with their old favorites (like my personal favorite 2005s I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning), and seems like an experimental record as the band dealt with what to do after their hiatus, but it undoubtedly has infectious melodies and those profound lyrics we expect from Oberst.
The title song appears halfway through the album, with a stuttering guitar start that carries the song in the background and an upbeat twist that is perfectly placed to rejuvenate the record. As the music drops and his voice ethereally sings "the people's key/ ringing, filling, everything/ the theme repeats/ thinner than the galaxy" you realized how much you've missed having Bright Eyes release new material. The album has a great flow, fluctuating at the right moments and forming a rich, deep sound overall.
For those who think that Conor Oberst can do no wrong, and The People's Key has the make to be a new favorite for all those fans. Its complicated and captivating but still catchy enough to keep it playing in the background. If you're curious for a listen, stream it here through NPR.


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Author. Born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a farming village approximately 100 miles northwest of Minneapolis/St. Paul with a total population of slightly more than 1,000 at the time of his birth, his mother died when he was six years old and his father, a country physician, remarried a year later. According to his obituary in The New York Times, he was "described as a gangling, pink-skinned, freckled, red-haired young man whom everybody called 'Red.'" He started at Yale University in 1903, but interrupted his studies to work as a janitor in Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall, a utopian community along the Hudson River. He graduated with an A.B. degree from Yale in 1908. Sinclair stated himself that he was fired by The Associated Press, The San Francisco Bulletin and other newspapers for incompetence. He worked for the hefty salary of $60 a week for a book review syndicate based in New York and he sold short story plots to Jack London, according to The New York Times. He also worked in various positions in the publishing industry including as an editor and manuscript-reader. Lewis also had stories published in the famed Saturday Evening Post. Lewis's first five novels did not garner him any attention. All of them, according to his 1930 Nobel Prize acceptance speech "…were all dead before the ink was dry": "Our Mr. Wrenn" (1914), "The Trail of the Hawk" (1915), "The Job" (1917), "The Innocents" (1917), and "Free Air" (1919). His very first book was a children's book published in 1912 titled "Hank and the Aeroplane" that he rarely mentioned and downplayed throughout his life. Lewis's first successful novel was 1920's "Main Street," followed two years later by "Babbitt," which solidified his reputation as a force in literature. "Babbitt" introduced a new word into the American lexicon: Babbittry. The word came to signify a wishy-washy, middle-of-the-road, intellectually vapid state, Lewis characterizing the mid-Western U.S. as such. Lewis was prolific in the late-1920's, publishing novels every year: "Arrowsmith" (1925), "Mantrap" (1926), "Elmer Gantry" (1927), "The Man Who Knew Coolidge" (1928), and "Dodsworth" (1929). This is a considerable feat in light of Lewis's reputation for being a dedicated researcher, gathering many facts and much information before writing. His father's occupation would surface, in part, in "Arrowsmith," which a Dr. Paul de Kraif served as medical consultant. Lewis was both the first person to refuse the Pulitzer Prize (awarded in 1926 for "Arrowsmith") and the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. In his refusal letter to the Pulitzer Prize Committee, he refused the award on the basis of the criteria, which stated, in part, the American novel should "…best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life…" (Joseph Pulitzer is the acknowledged father of yellow journalism). Lewis stated that such criteria will not reward novels based on their literary merit, "…but in obedience to whatever code of Good Form may chance to be popular at the moment." He accepted the Nobel Prize four years later because the award was not based on those restrictions. In his acceptance speech of the Nobel Prize, Lewis stated that Dr. Gustaf Sondelius, of Arrowsmith, was his "favorite among all my characters." His career began to taper off in the 1930's, but his novels remained widely-read. He wrote "Ann Vickers" (1933), "Work of Art" (1934), "It Can't Happen Here" (1935), "The Prodigal Parents" (1938), "Bethel Merriday" (1940), "Gideon Planish" (1943), "Cass Timberlane" (1945), "Kingsblood Royal" (1947), "The God-Seeker" (1949), and "World So Wide" (1951), published posthumously. He also published "Selected Short Stories" and wrote the play "Jayhawker" in 1935. He was married twice: First to Grace Livingston Hegger on April 15, 1914 in New York City and a son, Wells Lewis (named for author H.G. Wells) was born to them. The couple eventually divorced and Wells was killed in World War II. Lewis married a second time to Dorothy Thompson on May 14, 1928 in England and they had a son, Michael Lewis. Lewis had been suffering from heart and lung problems for a long time, according to The New York Times, and his condition worsened. He died at a private nursing home in the suburbs of Rome, Italy.
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Professor of Geology David Lageson and world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker will leave Bozeman on March 18 for an expedition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first American ascent of Mount Everest.
Anker -- team captain of The North Face climbing athlete team and a non-degree graduate student in MSU's Department of Earth Sciences -- will lead an American team up the West Ridge to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful American ascent of Mount Everest in 1963, particularly the first ascent of the West Ridge and the first complete traverse of the mountain. The expedition is sponsored by National Geographic, The North Face, MSU and National Science Foundation EPSCoR.
Lageson - who oversees Anker's graduate studies -- will climb the South East Ridge route of Everest with other team members who are sponsored athletes of The North Face, including MSU alumnus Kristoffer Erickson and MSU geology alumnus Travis Corthouts. If all goes as planned, the two teams will meet at the top of Mount Everest and descend together down the South East Ridge route. The mountain, sitting on the border between Nepal and Tibet, is the world's tallest mountain if measured from sea level to summit. The elevation is 29,035 feet, approximately six times higher than Bozeman.
Lageson, 61, has climbed several 14,000-foot peaks in his home state of Colorado. He has climbed in the Teton Range in western Wyoming and numerous peaks in western Montana. His primary work on the expedition will focus on "telling the geologic story of Mount Everest" to schools throughout Montana, as part of an NSF EPSCoR-funded education/outreach program created by MSU's Extended University. In addition, Lageson is planning several research projects to help answer the many questions that remain about the geological history of Mount Everest. Lageson specializes in structural geology, the tectonics of mountain building, and the structural geology and tectonic evolution of the Rocky Mountains.
Extended University, the Montana NSF EPSCoR program and the climbers have developed a variety of ways to share the Mount Everest experience as it happens. Extended University has built an MSU-based website at http://www.montana.edu/everest/ that will allow visitors to follow and interact with the climbers. Anker plans to participate in a blog that will be posted onto Facebook and other social media. It will be more educational and less introspective than many Everest blogs have been, Anker said.
The outreach team also developed classroom curriculum that targets fifth graders but could be adapted for other ages. Mount Everest "teacher kits" will go to Montana teachers who applied in advance and were selected to receive them. The kits contain some of the same equipment that the climbers will use, including professional GPS units, geologic rock hammers, digital cameras, weather-proof notepads, space pens, National Geographic maps and more. The kits also contain prayer flags, which reflect the Buddhist culture in that region. Several companies and professional organizations contributed to the kits. For a complete list, go to http://www.montana.edu/everest/sponsors.htm
Lageson and Anker are leaving Bozeman approximately two months before their ascent, because they need time to adjust to the altitude, Lageson said. He and Anker will fly to Katmandu, Nepal, and then fly to the small mountain village of Lukla, where the elevation is approximately 9,300 feet. From there, they will hike slowly to Everest Base Camp (EBC) at an elevation of approximately 17,600 feet. No one will ride animals or vehicles. After spending time at base camp to further acclimate to the high elevation, making short day hikes to even higher elevations and conducting geologic field work near Everest, the climbers will gradually set up a succession of camps to the summit.
"It can be a multi-week process to go from base camp to the summit," Lageson said. "For the route I will be taking (South Col), there will be four main camps between the base camp and the summit."
Lageson said his participation in the expedition grew out of his friendship with Anker, who has already climbed Everest twice and was a member of the team that found the body of legendary British climber George Mallory on Mount Everest. Anker, now 49, and Lageson met a few years ago at the Bridger Bowl ski area where Lageson discussed his mountain research, and Anker talked about mountain climbing and his interest in becoming more involved in academics and giving back to the younger generation through education.
For a related press release, see "Mountaineer Conrad Anker to lead spring 2012 expedition to Mount Everest with support of National Geographic and The North Face."
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USDA updated the farm income data and forecast the last week of August, and the new data show that income in 2011 was much higher than previously expected and that income in 2012 will be even higher.
New data for 2011 show net cash farm income hit $134.7 billion in 2011, far above the February forecast of $108.7 billion. The improvement in the income figure for 2011 came from all sides, with higher cash receipts, lower expenses and more money from crop insurance because of the drought in the Southern Plains last year. The previous record higher for net cash farm income was just under $100 billion in 2010.
Net cash income is forecast to increase to nearly $140 billion in 2012. Crop cash receipts will be high due to the big price gains over the last few months. The strong prices will almost certainly continue through the rest of this year and into 2013. Crop cash receipts in 2012 rise by $13.7 billion, due mostly to higher prices for corn and soybeans. With the severe and widespread drought this year, crop insurance payments will increase significantly again. The combination boosts gross cash farm income by $22.7 billion from 2011 to 2012.
But farm expenses will also be up significantly in 2012. By far the biggest increase is in feed costs, which rise by $7.2 billion, according to the USDA forecast. This is about 40 percent of the total increase in cash expenses for this year. Livestock cash receipts do not increase at all from 2011 to 2012, but feed costs surge by $7.2 billion. This is a clear formula for financial stress for the livestock sector of the industry.
The crop sector overall will have a good year in 2012, but the income won't be evenly distributed. Producers in some areas will not be able to capitalize on the high prices because they have little to sell. Farmers in other areas may see yields only modestly below trend, but be able to sell their production for very good prices. But the record high net cash farm income may be another problem getting the new farm bill passed. With net cash farm income forecast at a record high, some members of Congress may try to force even bigger cuts to farm programs.
USDA does not extend forecasts out to 2013, but net cash farm income will probably stay pretty high next year. The strong crop prices should continue through the winter and into spring. Prices could weaken next summer if the 2013 crops get off to a good start, but stocks will remain tight unless next year's crops are big. With no real cushion, especially for corn and soybeans, market participants will remain nervous about supplies until big crops are assured. Crop insurance payments will probably decline in 2013, but some of the payments for the 2012 crop losses will probably be delayed until early 2013. Net cash farm income probably won't repeat the 2012 record high next year, but will almost certainly be above levels for any year prior to 2011.


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Two Mendocino County men, including one from Willits, were injured in a plane crash last week near Williams.
The single-engine airplane en route from Ukiah to Tahoe on February 12 crashed in an almond orchard just west of East Camp Road and about a mile south of Highway 20 near Williams. The two men on board, Ryan Sciucchetti, 24, of Willits, and Lionel Jahnke, 77, of Ukiah, were injured in the crash," according to the Colusa County Sheriff's Office.
Sciucchetti received "minor injuries" and Jahnke received major injuries in the crash.
Sciucchetti is now at home from the hospital and is recovering from his injuries, according to family members.
Jahnke was flown to Enloe Medical Center in Chico for treatment and his condition was unknown as of press time.
The Lancair 360 aircraft had taken off from the Ukiah airport that morning and was flying over the Williams area at around 11:30 a.m. when smoke began to fill the cabin. As the pilot searched for a place to set the plane down on a roadway and began his descent, the smoke became heavier and a fire broke out in the aircraft, forcing it down into a grove of almond trees, according to the Colusa sheriff's office.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash but had issued no results as of press time.
Jahnke owns a Lancair 360 airplane, which is based in Ukiah, according to FAA records. The aircraft was built in 1992 and received its original airworthiness certification in 1994. Its most recent flight certification was issued in November 2012, with a 2015 expiration date.
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If you enjoyed the TV drama "Farah Layla" (Layla's Wedding) last Ramadan, then you might want to hold onto those feelings for a while longer, as its leading star Laila Elwi dropped the bomb that there may not be [2] a sequel next year.
The series talks about a woman in her forties who hasn't yet gotten married due to several psychological issues.
Although makers of the show had previously confirmed its return in a sequel next year, they seem to have changed their minds now.
Laila is currently in talks with the show's director, Khaled Al Hajar, to make a final decision on the issue.
Rumor has it that the actress is the one who changed her mind about working on a sequel due to the lack of good criticism [3] received by fans and show critics for part one.
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2012-13: Played in all 27 games of the season … recorded one goal, two assists, 43 shots on goal, and 12 blocks … scored a first-period goal during power play in a 4-1 victory over Colgate on Oct. 27 … received the team Academic Excellence Award for highest cumulative GPA … ECAC All-Academic Team selection for the third consecutive year.
2011-12: Played in 13 games … scored two goals and two assists … Finalist for the ECAC Hockey Mandi Schwartz Scholar Athlete Award … ECAC All-Academic Team selection.
2010-11: A staple of the second line in just her first season, Welten appeared in 27 games ... fifth on the team with three goals ... tallied two assists for five points total, eighth-best on the squad ... totaled 36 shots on goal and one penalty for two minutes … selected to the ECAC-All Academic Team.
Before Brown: A two sport athlete at Ecole Secondaire Catholique de Casselman (ESCC) ... earned three varsity letters in hockey and two in soccer ... was an academic athlete selection from 2007-2010 and was the Female Athlete of the Year in 2008 and 2010 at ESCC ... served as a captain in 2009 and 2010 at ESCC ... was the assistant captain for her club team, the Nepean Junior Wildcats.
Personal: Vanessa Mercedes Welten is the daughter of Harry and Marian Welten of Crysler, Ontario … Has two sisters, Cassandra, who also plays hockey at Western University, and Samantha, whom Welten lists as her biggest influence … an honor roll student who ranked number one in her class in grades nine through 12.


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Torres Hurt; out 3-4 weeks minimum
December 18 2007 10:42AM
Ol' "Raff-Daddy" Torres' season hangs in the balance after suffering a knee injury against Detroit last week. It's unclear if he's torn his ligaments or not but either way it's another Oiler down. We can only imagine Ken Lowe's blisters and sleepless nights as he treats virtually every Oiler, and half of section 112 at Rexall, for various injuries.
Come back soon Raff-Daddy. We need your bug eyes and thunderous checks, as infrequent as they may be.
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Folau ends his role as a weapon in war of codes
Israel Folau says the truth about his dramatic decision to join the Waratahs, rather than the Eels, will emerge one day. Meanwhile, speculation - informed and otherwise - fills the void.
One plausible theory, propagated by Greater Western Sydney Giants coach Kevin Sheedy, is that Folau was reluctant to be used as a weapon in rugby league's war against the AFL in Sydney's western suburbs. Sheedy, always eager to stir the pot, claims Folau did not want to ''bag'' the AFL.
''I think there is an underlying comment out there that the NRL wanted him to bag the AFL, and he wouldn't do it,'' Sheedy said this week. ''Maybe Israel Folau was being asked not only to sign with NRL, but also to bag the AFL. I don't think he felt comfortable with that at all.''
Another source claimed Folau had been told he would be expected to renounce his involvement with GWS, state publicly that he regretted the switch and become a figurehead for aggressive promotional campaigns in the west. But, having spent the past two years playing the reverse role for the AFL and GWS, Folau was reluctant to be used in the same manner again.
Instead, the publicity-shy Folau wanted to concentrate solely on his football - regardless of which code he played. Not be the ''face of the game'' or instrumental in a tit-for-tat battle with the AFL.
For its part, the NRL dismisses any suggestion Folau was asked to take part in an anti-AFL marketing campaign or criticise the AFL or the Giants. An NRL spokesman said no league officials had met Folau since he left GWS, and the only contact had been with his agent Isaac Moses. And that, the spokesman added pointedly, ''was when [Moses] was still accredited''.
''We didn't want [him] to be involved in any points-scoring exercise [against the AFL],'' the spokesman said. ''That was not in our interests or his interests.''
The NRL claims the only offer made to Folau, outside his club contract, was to work with Nathan Hindmarsh at the NRL's western Sydney academy, and that no financial incentives had been discussed. ''We never reached a stage of talking about anything else,'' the spokesman said. Upon his departure, GWS claimed Folau's media profile had been well worth the estimated $3 million commitment made over the past two seasons.
Whether Sheedy was simply making mischief, it seems the AFL is still gaining some mileage from its association with the code-hopping star. Whether Folau was asked to criticise the AFL, the Giants have again deliberately shone a light on the inability of the NRL to get its man.
What does seem genuine is that Folau retains an affection for the AFL, despite his inability to master the game - perhaps understandable given the size of the cheques he banked. At his media conference on Tuesday, Folau said he had left the AFL ''because I didn't have the passion for the game''. But there is believed to have been no bitterness on either side, and the Giants were satisfied with the exposure he had provided and, although they have not said so publicly, resigned to the fact Folau would not make it.
Folau's decision to accept a lesser offer to play for the Waratahs has been ascribed, by many, to the time taken by the NRL to approve the deal put together by Parramatta. However, the relative neutrality of the Waratahs might be something of a safe harbour for a player keen to avoid further controversy.
Folau acknowledged on Tuesday the criticism he had received for his code-hopping had affected him. ''I class myself as a true person to me and my family, so what has been said is upsetting,'' he said.
''There were a number of factors in my decision to join the NSW Waratahs. I left GWS because I didn't have the passion for the game, but because of timings I didn't know if I'd get anything [in other codes].''
As ever, the gentle, softly spoken Folau came across as an unlikely weapon in a propaganda war. One reason the NRL might yet be better off without him.
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GREAT AMAZING RACE Adventure Run & Family Activity, Atlanta GA, Saturday March 9, 2013
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Official Site: www.GreatAmazingRace.com. A fun adventure race modeled after the show THE AMAZING RACE. It's way more fun than a 5K! On-line registration will close once 100 team limit is reached. Sign up now, team members can be added on race day! 1. ABOUT THE RACE: Kids in grades 1-12 can pair up with or race against parents, grandparents, family members, friends or neighbors while completing a one mile cross country course filled with fun challenges patterned after the show THE AMAZING RACE. Whether you run, jog, walk or watch, it'll be a BONDING EXPERIENCE you will never forget. Adults can pair up and participate too! Testimonial: "What an awesome day my son and I had. My son could not stop talking about it and thanking me for taking him! It has made memories that will last a life time." 2. RACE DESCRIPTION: Modeled after the popular television show "THE AMAZING RACE", this rain or shine event where teams of two people compete against each other completing a string of up to eight fun-filled challenges spread across a one-mile cross-country course. Each station will contain a SECRET CLUE CARD that instructs each team to complete a task (game, relay, obstacle course, etc.) before proceeding to the next challenge station. Challenge stations include varying levels of difficulty, based on age of participant. The team that reaches the finish line with the fastest overall time wins. How well you work as a team is the most essential ingredient to winning the race! Waves begin every 10 minutes … kids teams, then adult teams. 3. REGISTRATION INFO: Teams consist of two participants (adult/kid, kid/kid or adult/adult). Kindergarten & Pre-K is allowed only if paired with an adult. Active duty, reserves, retired - military, law enforcement and fire department – including spouses – receive a 50% discount off team entry fee. Teams can choose a RECREATION PACE (those who prefer to walk or jog at a leisure pace) or a COMPETITIVE PACE (those who prefer to run and are physically active. Spectators are welcome to tag along for free and take photos for the scrapbook. 4. AWARDS: Every team that crosses the finish line gets an award to recognize their accomplishment. Medals are presented to the winners of each grade division (determined by grade of youngest team member): Grades 1-4 Division and Grades 5 & Older Division. The top 25 teams, at each city, qualify for the Championship Race and $2,000 prize! 5. SUPPORTING: The Great Amazing Race series supports the 30-MINUTES-A-DAY family and academic initiative, a national program that encourages parents to be a good ROLE MODEL by participating in three daily home activities that have the power to improve their student's academic performance and family quality of life: physical exercise, reading books and eating healthy. 6. SPONSORSHIP: Sponsorship with Great Amazing Race offers many exciting exposure possibilities for your company. Please contact us to discuss exhibitor and booth opportunities.
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Any information on internal/external appeals w/ your insurance companies and Y90 therasphere treatment? Our insurance has denied our request twice now for my mom to receive this treatment and we are now in the external appeal, in which we have to basically plead for her life and how it will help her. Just wondering if anyone has any experince w/ this or gone thru it.


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What Is Your Worst First Date Food?
The other night I was eating corn on the cob and feeling very happy I was not on a date because I looked like a rat gnawing on a typewriter spool. It inspired me to write up the worst first date foods, complete with a handy dandy legend for quick reference...
M = Messy
NR = Makes nose run
U = Unwieldy
F = Gas Producing (could be applied to any food really)
C = Cheap/thoughtless
A = Alters your appearance
PSYCH = Plays with your mind
NA = Noise Alert!
Spaghetti (M, U)- Choose your pasta wisely! Pasta comes in all shapes and sizes, so there are safe choices like penne. But avoid spaghetti. My Italian grandmother was adept at twisting her fork into a mound of spaghetti and pulling it out in a nice, manageable ball. I never picked up that skill. So, if you can't get that spaghetti to cooperate with your fork, you are left to suck the loose dangling ends into your mouth like a vacuum cleaner over a worm farm. Pasta sauce only complicates matters. Loose ends of spaghetti left to their own devices hanging out of your mouth will act like octopus tentacles slinging sauce all over everything, including your date.
Soup (U, NR, NA) - It hurts to include this amazing food here, considering it's my all time favorite food. But, inexperienced soup eaters are not skilled at cooling and managing bites of soup, so they do the only thing they know to do: they slurp, making your date think they are having dinner with a sump pump. And if you're nervous or shaky, soup can spill from the spoon or the bowl. And why does my nose always run when I eat soup?
Beans and Other Gas Producers (F, NA)- Beans act as ammunition to turn your first date into your last. On a first date, you don't need to eat any food that will bloat you up til you float away like the Hindenburg. And you know what happened to the Hindenburg. And you know what happens if you let the gas go. Some day you'll hit that right of passage where you can eat all the gas producers you want, but for your first few dates play it safe.
Super Spicy Foods (A, PSYCH, NR) - There's an amazing Thai place that I order food from every now and then. I spar with the guy who takes the delivery orders (he knows me by now), by seeing how far we can up the ante with the spiciness in my chicken with basil that I order. The dish arrives to my apartment so peppery-hot, that I am sweating mid way through the dish. I think to myself: "I look disgusting right now". You're usually nervous enough on a first date-don't give yourself another reason to sweat. Some peppers are even strong enough to alter your mental state. I once bought a few habenero peppers and chopped them up and threw them in my stir fry. I ate it while watching a football game with my roommate. The next day I woke up and realized I had blacked out the night before from the peppers. My roommate later told me that I was comatose for about three hours after I began eating. Unless your date is horrible, you probably don't want to black out your first time together.
Fast Food/Chain Restaurants (C) - My friends and I joke that taking a girl to McDonalds ensures that she won't want to see us again. Sure, there are those campy impromptu fast food experiences with that special someone, but on a first date it's best to go to a special place. Also, if you look like you've done some research it's always appreciated. Best case scenario, you introduce that your date to a place or a food they never had before, and mutual discovery is what love is all about. But... I must admit if a girl took me to Chic-Fil-A, she'd have my heart.
The great thing about 'the one" is that he/she will love you regardless of what food you eat on your first date. These suggestions are based on avoiding personal anxiety. Most likely, if the person's into you, impersonating a vacuum cleaner on a worm farm will be perceived as "cute" instead of "gross". Funny how love works. So, perhaps what I'm trying to say here is: you must put yourself through personal embarrassment in front of that special someone to see if they are the one. Isn't love fun?
So, what foods would you black list for a first date? Can you share any food horror stories from your dating life, and do you agree or disagree with my list?


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The Cleveland Indians have openings at first base and at designated hitter. According to The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Kevin Youkilis may be an option to fill one of those spots.
Youkilis is a free agent after finishing last season with the Chicago White Sox. Before that, he spent eight-plus seasons with the Boston Red Sox, playing primarily for new Indians manager Terry Francona.
Youkilis' well-publicized feud with former manager Bobby Valentine, his early struggles at the plate and rookie Will Middlebrooks' solid play all accelerated Youkilis' departure from Boston in 2012.
A June 24 trade to Chicago did not fully revive Youkilis' bat, however. He batted .236/.346/.425 with 15 homers and 46 RBIs in 80 games for the White Sox.
Antonetti told The Plain Dealer that the Indians are looking at a lot of players who are similar to Youkilis.
"There aren't many of those kind of guys that we haven't talked to," Antonetti said, adding that the Indians are also trying to fill a hole in the outfield.
Youkilis, 33, can also play third base, but Antonetti said the Indians want to give Lonnie Chisenhall "a full season of at-bats" at that position to continue his development.
"He's a guy who we think has a great future," Antonetti said of Chisenhall. "Now it's up to him on how quickly that happens by the work he puts in over the winter and how he approaches spring training."


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A TWO-day festival just for kids will take place at Merry Hill next week to banish boredom and raise funds for a good cause.
HarryFest will take place from 10am to 4pm on Friday and Saturday (August 8 and 9) on the Eat Central car park.
Youngsters will be entertained with a fun fair, a superhero-themed photo booth, live music, dancing, a roller disco, balloon modelling and face painting.
The festival is part of the centre's superhero-themed super six-week holiday programme, which provides entertainment every day of the school break.
Kelly Reed, senior marketing manager at Merry Hill, said: "We're very excited to run our fantastic kids festival. We've so much going on and at £2.50 a ticket it's a great way to entertain the family without breaking the bank.
"And with all proceeds going to Help Harry Help Others, every attendee will be doing their bit for this wonderful cause."
She added: "We raised more than £35,000 for the charity last year and are keen to raise as much as possible in 2014. We'd encourage shoppers to get their hands on tickets for their little superheroes as soon as possible to avoid disappointment on the day."
Tickets are available from concierge on the lower mall of the Brierley Hill shopping centre or on the gate on the day of the festival.
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Dear President Correa:
I am writing to you personally to implore you to re-instate Decree 2130 to ban illegal shark fishing and shark finning, not just in the Galapagos Islands but throughout the territorial waters of Ecuador.
I am a shark photographer, and I have been visiting the Galapagos regularly since 1997. As a diver I could see for myself every time I returned to the islands that the shark populations in the archipelago are dwindling at an alarming rate.
You are probably aware of the fact that sharks play an essential role in the oceans, and that removing them will have catastrophic consequences for the delicately balanced marine biodiversity.
The Galapagos without sharks would quickly turn into an underwater wasteland only comparable to the after-effects of an almost unimaginable natural catastrophe
I am sure you also know that most sharks are being fished for their fins. One does not have to be an activist to be highly disturbed at the ongoing controversy: shark fin soup versus the health of the oceans.
Unfortunately, because of the huge amounts of money involved in the international shark fin trade, no sensible compromise seems to be feasible - it is, thus, either or.
While I fully appreciate that the local fishermen have their own demands which you, as president of all Ecuadorians, have to take into consideration, I plead with you to protect the sharks of the Galapagos, and of the mainland coasts, from human depredation.
As in other parts of the world, shark tourism has developed into an interesting alternative source of generating foreign exchange and creating many jobs. Being an avid recreational diver I can attest to the incredible attractiveness of the marine life in the Galapagos.
What I have seen in South Africa and in the Bahamas in terms of marine eco-tourism could easily be developed in Ecuador as well.
Apart from being home to a fauna not found anywhere else on our planet, the Galapagos could become a mecca for shark divers from all over the world.
You have the authority, and the historic opportunity, to save the Galapagos from an ecological disaster which would severely affect Ecuador's image as a top international tourist destination, and thus hurt the economy of your country for a very long time.
I am sure that the vast majority of your fellow Ecuadorians will feel the way the world community does about the uniqueness of the Enchanted Islands, and the need to keep this treasure intact for future generations.
Mr. President, the power to make a difference lies in your hands. Your countrymen and the citizens of the world trust that you will not waste it.
Thank you for listening to me.
Best personal wishes.
Respectfully yours,
Wolfgang Leander
Underwater Photographer
Cochabamba / Bolivia
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CHURCH HOSTS ALZHEIMER'S WORKSHOP >> Trinity of Oroville will host a series of workshops called 'Caring for Someone with Alzheimer's/Dementia."
Classes go 6:30-8 p.m. Mondays, July 21, 28 and Aug. 4 at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2350 Foothill.
Presentations by knowledgeable people working in the field will lead the workshops. Time will be set aside for questions and answers, and it is open to the community.
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Submitted on Tue, 12/13/2016 - 4:32pm
By staff - NEPA IWW, December 1, 2016
The Northeast Pennsylvania Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) stands in strong opposition to the reactionary and authoritarian forces that are on the rise in many parts of the world including the United States. These reactionaries will take control of the US government on January 20th with the inauguration of Donald Trump. These forces seek to divide the working class and turn worker against worker for the benefit of those that have the most wealth and power. This is not new. We have seen this over and over again throughout history – from Franco's Spain, Nazi Germany and the era of Thatcher and Reagan. Each of these regimes viciously attacked labor, immigrants and all others that opposed them. We vow to fight this latest upsurge of reactionary forces together as a united working class seeking our liberation. We refuse to see our fellow workers as enemies regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, immigration status or nationality. We believe in the slogan: an injury to one is an injury to all.
On January 20th 2017 Donald Trump and his reactionary cabal will take office. We must resist this dangerous regime. We have seen their values. They rose to power on a platform of hate and division. They will continue this as they take hold of the U.S. government. If history is any guide, we know that once they are fully in power, they will attack organized labor and every perceived enemy very soon after. They know that we, the workers that run society, are one of the few obstacles to their agenda. We need to take this opportunity to show our unity and our strength.
We call for mass action across the nation and the world on January 20th to resist these dangerous forces. We will organize resistance in our workplaces, our communities and in the streets. We call on all people to do the same. Take action to resist this rising tide of reactionary authoritarianism. Organize a walkout at your school or workplace. Call in sick. Take to the streets. Together, we will place our bodies upon the gears of the machine of hate and force it to a stop. As the Trump regime consolidates power and fills all the seats of the state with yes-men and cronies, the power of popular resistance is the only power we have left. The IWW has been doing this for more than110 years and we will continue to fight for the liberation of the working class. This is a struggle for the type of world we want to live in - a struggle for humanity against barbarism.
If we do not act now, it will be too late. If we let them take the reins of the state without any resistance they will think that they have won - that they have a mandate. They do not. We are the majority. We hold the greater power of collective resistance and collective solidarity. We are humanity. We will win!
In Scranton we will be gathering at 12:00 noon for a rally and march in Courthouse Square. Join us in this show of solidarity.
Submitted on Wed, 11/30/2016 - 3:13pm
Statement on Opposing All Oppression from the Twin Cities GDC Local 14
We fight against capitalism. We do so because capitalism is organized theft based on hierarchy. We unionize because fighting this authoritarian theft can be done most successfully in the workplace, at the point of production. In unionizing we face many challenges, from creating strategies and tactics to accomplish our goals, as well as maintaining morale, fighting spirit, and solidarity with each other.
One of the most difficult challenges the working class faces is that of oppressive social divisions. We may be of a single class, but we are not the same as a result. In addition to experiencing the oppressions of our class, we have differing experiences of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-semitism and Islamphobia, along with other types of oppressions. Some of us experience privilege on the basis of our race, sex, gender, or religion, while others among us experience oppression on precisely the same grounds.
The ruling classes know this, of course. It is one of their favorite strategies for destroying organized workers: divide and conquer. Many of these oppressions exist in starkest relief in America's massive prison-industrial system, where wardens encourage and enforce racial segregation and violence among prisoners, precisely as a system of maintaining control. These forms of control through oppression are not limited to prisons, of course. We see and experience them in our daily lives, and in our workplaces as well.
To maintain solidarity with all workers requires that we maintain explicit solidarity with workers on the diverse grounds of their oppression. Our revolution cannot maintain a merely minimal, workerist, program which concentrates on the oppression of labor and leaves other problems solely to those workers who face them. Given the still relatively homogenous makeup of the Industrial Workers of the World, to do so sends a clear message to the working class experiencing such oppressions that the class struggle and their struggles against racism, gendered, or religious oppression are separate issues. If you were already struggling to keep the basics of your life together in the face of constant attacks on your person, would you be interested in taking on another massive but unconnected struggle in your workplace? By pointing out the ways in which struggles against all oppression support and further our collective freedom from class and other oppressions, we gain strength as a union.
Neither have we proceeded, historically, with a minimal program of workplace organization that leaves other oppressions unchallenged. The Industrial Workers of the World were founded in 1905 in part precisely to overcome the divisions of race, sex, religion, language, nationality, etc., among the working class. Militantly in favor of the organization of the entire working class, Wobblies quickly turned toward the power of young women in garment factories, racially-mixed work-gangs on the waterfronts, and nationally diverse immigrant groups. The IWW took on the Ku Klux Klan and other racist organizations that attempted to divide the class on the grounds of race. More recently, some IWW branches have begun to successfully undermine the divisions of oppressions based on gendered identities in ways that seem truly revolutionary.
Submitted on Wed, 11/30/2016 - 3:04pm
By Edinburgh Wobbly - IWW Scotland, November 25, 2016
Now more than ever we need organising that is:
Donald Trump's victory in the US elections, following the recent Brexit vote, creates a whole new political climate in the West.
Since the 1980s, working class people have suffered a massive attack with the loss of traditional industries, in favour of low-paid service jobs, and the destruction of the labour movement. The neoliberal model that was created was based on growth through the financial sector and it led to the 2008 economic crisis.
When the UK government bailed out the banks it forced us to shoulder the cost through austerity, cutting vital services and targetting the most vulnerable.
The left responded to post-crisis austerity first through mass protest around the world, and then the rise of several populist movements seeking parliamentary power. One by one, they have been defeated or have so far been unable to provide any real challenge.
And now things are about to get worse.
There are many uncertainties – what will Brexit mean? how will Trump govern? What we can expect in the UK is that austerity will go on, even if the aim is no longer to cut the deficit, and real wages will continue to decline.
Both Brexit and Trump's presidency are a victory for the far right. Immigration to the UK will be curbed and border controls will become even more cruel. Racism against ethnic minorities will be reinforced by the tabloid media as the nationalist dream fails to appear.
Of course, we know that migrants don't lower wages – bosses do.
Submitted on Tue, 11/22/2016 - 3:41pm
Official Statement - IWW General Executive Board, November 22, 2016
These are difficult times for the working class, times of struggle and hardship. The employing class controls more of the world's wealth and power than ever before, and the divide between working people and our oppressors grows wider by the day.
It is important to remember that this is nothing new. The ruling class has been waging a war against the working class since the birth of capitalism. We, the workers of the world, continue to be exploited and abused, the value of our labor always falling into the boss' pockets. While they rake in unprecedented profits, the employing class continues to damage our planet through the unsustainable and irresponsible extraction of natural resources. These vultures tell you that your disappointments, your failures, and your hardships are the fault of other working class people. People of different races, genders, nationalities, and religions. "Blame immigrants," they say. "Blame blacks and Latinos," they say. As we fight amongst ourselves, the ruling class celebrates in their gilded halls, making toasts to the disunity of the working class.
Many people in the working class sought out hope in the electoral system this year, confident that reason and compassion would hold the day. Many other people in the working class were motivated by bigotry. The electoral system is designed to disenfranchise all working people, to take their hopes and desires as mere suggestions rather than as concrete demands. Unions, which are supposed to fight for all working people, organized people to put their faith in fighting bigotry at the ballot box - and now they say they are "ready to work with" the representatives of bigotry and division.You are no doubt feeling disillusioned, fearful, and angry, and are ready to consider different ways of fighting back against our oppressors.
We, the Industrial Workers of the World, invite you to work with us in building a new kind of labor movement, one that refuses to play by the rules of the employing class. An approach where we no longer allow them to divide us along artificial lines of race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, or religion. From housewives to factory workers to prisoners to office workers, we are all the working class, and it is our labor that creates all wealth. We can challenge the ruling class if we unite with each other, but that unity must start with defending the most oppressed and vulnerable groups among us first, for "an injury to one is an injury to all." It is clear that there is a strong current of bigotry within the US working class, and we pledge to confront that head on in our organizing. We believe we can win workers away from bigotry if we show that we have a plan to win a better world. We must work towards the creation of a new world in the shell of the old, and the only way to do that is through organizing in our workplaces and in our communities.
The Industrial Workers of the World have been organizing working people for over 110 years, and our future as a revolutionary union is bright. Our approach is one of direct action. Instead of relying on elected officials and other intermediaries, we take the fight directly to our oppressors. We have been trailblazers in the modern labor movement, organizing fast food workers in Oregon, package handlers in Minnesota, entertainers and restaurant workers in New York, and prison laborers throughout the country, to name just a few. Our members have been at the forefront of resistance to police violence and the Dakota access pipeline. We have been working tirelessly to build a genuine and truly representative working class organization that can provide strength to working people, and we need your help.
If you have questions about exactly who we are and what we do, let's talk. If you're ready to organize and resist, join us and we will welcome you as fellow workers and fellow members of the working class. It is time to organize, it is time to fight back. Let's make white supremacists, fascists, and other hate mongers fear our power. Our struggle will be long and it will be difficult, but we will win. Sign up for the One Big Union today, and let's organize together in our workplaces and communities. Nothing is too good for the working class, and we want all the good things life has to offer.
Submitted on Wed, 11/09/2016 - 10:52pm
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I am getting the error: ag3499 Open List.vi<ERR>Driver Status: (Hex 0xBFFF000E) The given session or object reference is invalid.
I think it is becuase it is not recognizing the 3499. When I select the instrument handle from the drop down menu, the menu displays GPIB0::1::INSTR but after selecting this it only displays GPIB0::1: in the menu.
Is there something that I should be doing to setup the 3499 beforehand?
Hi Chris,
You may have to simply type in the correct value instead of selecting it from the drop down menu.
When shipped from the factory, the GPIB interface is selected and its address is set to "9". The GPIB address of the instrument can be set to any value between 0 and 30.
For information on how to setup the 3499a beforehand, refer to the To Configure the Remote Interface section of the Agilent 3499A/B/C Switch/Control System User's Manual: http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/03499-90017.pdf
Hope this helps!
Chad Erickson
Switch Product Support Engineer
I got the same error while trying to acquire measured data from the Agilent Data Logger 34830A. I made communication with the device, but its showing an error on the error out of the 'read measurement.vi'. As said before in this forum, I doubt that the error is because it couldn't identify the right instrument. I wonder if it's because it doesn't have any measurements to return? (I haven't connected the package yet!). Any idea what I can do to solve this? I have attached the part where it goes wrong.
Hello Renu13589,
The VI attached was blank also, can you clarify what you meant by not having the package connected?
Best regards,
Ali M
Applications Engineer
Natioinal Instruments
Sorry about that. Hopefully I have attached it correctly this time.
What I meant is that the data logger is not reading anything. Or in other words, I haven't connected anything for it to measure something. So am hoping that's why the error is showing up and not because of any other problems. I am going to try connecting a load to it today, so that it will have some measurements to output. But still please go through my attached file and let me know if there is anything wrong with it.
I don't understand. You posted to a thread about the 3499A, you mention using 34830A (software) and you post some code that uses 34401A drivers (not a datalogger). The error in this thread (BFFF000E), has absolutely nothing to do with anything connected. Is that in fact what your error is? Are you in fact using the 34401 DMM? What exactly do you have for the VISA Resource Name and how did you select it? Did you type it in or select it from the dropdown menu? If this is not the error you got, why did you even post here and what is the actual error?


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Fairfax County was presented with a Certificate of Distinction this week by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) at its annual conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. Fairfax County is one of only 24 jurisdictions to achieve this level of recognition among more than 200 communities participating in ICMA's Center for Performance Measurement.
The county received the certificate for collecting and using performance data from 14 government service areas (such as police, fire and rescue, libraries, etc.) and applying that information to training, data verification, public reporting, planning and decision-making, networking and accountability.
"This recognition demonstrates Fairfax County's commitment to high performance, accountability and transparency in managing our government services," said County Executive Anthony H. Griffin. "A number of these benchmarking comparisons are included in the annual budget, which shows how Fairfax County's performance ranks in relation to other similarly sized jurisdictions, as well as other participating Virginia localities."
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Dawn Patrol
Nicole Lapin, an anchor at CNBC, sees cigars as a natural tool to create camaraderie
It's 3:17 in the morning on an unseasonably warm Tuesday in late November in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and Nicole Lapin is hard at work.
Lapin, the 26-year-old co-anchor of CNBC's "Worldwide Exchange," is sitting at her office desk, cell phone in hand, in a three-way conference call with her colleagues in Europe and Asia. Their subjects of discussion include the day's Dow Jones futures; North Korea's deadly shelling of a South Korean fishing village (and its likely effect on world markets); an FBI raid on three hedge funds suspected of insider trading; the reaction to the bailout of the Irish economy; and the monthly survey of the United States residential real estate market.
The call continues as she gets up and walks down the hall to the network's makeup and hairstyling room, where two experts work in tandem, quickly and skillfully, to make her cosmetically ready for the camera. By now it's 3:31 a.m., and in 29 minutes, she will be at another desk, just down the hall in the cavernous, blue-walled and high-ceilinged TV studio in the world headquarters of CNBC, the global business-news network, working with her coanchors in London and Singapore, as "Worldwide Exchange" begins its two-hour report on what has happened, what's happening right now, and what is likely to happen later that day, in the wide and volatile world of high finance.
The program, a rapid-fire mix of reporting, interviews, visual aids and computer graphics—featuring correspondents, commentators and business experts worldwide—is the network's most widely distributed news program, available in more than 100 countries.
Lapin is considered by many to be a rapidly rising star in the TV-news universe. At 22, she was hired by CNN as its youngest anchor. Her move to CNBC in early 2010, with a regular program, one that focuses on no-nonsense business reporting, increased her profile and continued to establish her as a serious journalist, not just a broadcaster with a pretty face (although that face certainly garners notice). She has, she says, no objections to being considered a news nerd. Her work ethic—sometimes it's 18 hours a day in the office—and her eagerness to succeed mark her as someone to keep an eye on. And, she says, cigars play an important role in her job (but more about that later).
"I've never been on such a dynamic show," Lapin says; it's a few minutes after 6 a.m. and she is in her company's cafeteria, winding down after 120 minutes of airtime and dipping a fork into a plastic container of cubed watermelon. "There's a lot to talk about. There are so many moving parts. So much is happening. There's such an intensity. My adrenaline is always flowing. And I love it. I love days like today, trying to make sense of it all, to flesh out all the rapidly moving facts and make them coherent, juggle the many different types of stories, pulling together all this data very quickly. There's so much on my computer screen—so many open applications, charts, e-mails. And you can't really script on a 24-hour-type news show. Most of it is ad lib. It comes out of my brain, hopefully eloquently. You're putting together a very first rough draft of history."
For the petite, svelte Lapin—her inherited beauty comes from her mother Orly, a former Miss Israel—creating that first version of history takes a major part of the 24 hours in a day. And getting where she is today took a significant quantity of, to use her description, chutzpah—a quality that perhaps compensates for her relative lack of downtime.
"My schedule?" Lapin replies when asked about her typical workday. "The short answer is there is no schedule. I make time for the things I need or want to do. When I go to sleep and when I wake up depend on what's happening that day."
So how much sleep does she get? "Sunday night, for example, I got into bed about 8. I fell asleep about 9. I woke up about midnight and started reading—the newspaper websites, The Wall Street Journal, ft.com, the wires, our planning reports. My car picked me up about 2. I live in Hell's Kitchen on the West Side of Manhattan right across the river so it's an easy trip. I kept on reading in the car. I'm always reading something—iPhone apps, our planning reports. Then I came in and did the show"—for the broadcast, she is alone at her anchor desk in a corner of the large studio, which, though lively by day, is almost deserted in the middle of the night. Her producer, Adam Idleberg, sits a few feet away, providing company and guidance. In front of her are preset lights and a fixed, unmanned camera, aimed at her face. The program itself is produced from London, with which she is in constant contact.
"After the show I did a report on the financial markets on 'Morning Joe' on MSNBC. And later I did the 4 p.m. closing bell report on the stock market."
When she can, she tries to catch a few extra hours of sleep in the afternoon. "And sometimes I don't go to sleep at night at all and just sleep during the day. The last couple of days have been more normal than most."
Often, she says, she reports stories—like a recent one from New York's Comic-Con on comic books as investments—and that takes time. "And sometimes I'll travel for special series and reports, and I might fly to other cities. Once I flew to Nashville for a day and flew back to do the show. Once we were in Maine and missed the flight home and drove back to the studio in time to do the show. That's the beauty of the schedule—you can pretty much defy the space-time continuum." (On weekends, she keeps a more normal schedule.)
Her desire for a career in journalism, she says, originated during her childhood in Los Angeles, and in one way was an act of defiance. Her parents emphasized study and forbade her to watch TV news because of its unremitting violence. (Her father Ron Lapin, a surgeon who invented a method of bloodless surgery, using a special piece of medical equipment that closed wounds as it cut to reduce the need for blood transfusions, died when Lapin was 11.)
"I was always an independent young lady," she says. "A little bit rebellious. My family was very proreading and antitelevision news watching. So I would sneak it on." She went to a small private school for "gifted" children that gave no grades and had no grade divisions. "If you were 9 and wanted to study algebra, you could study algebra. We were all a bunch of nerds, but in a good way. There were no judgments for being bookworms. I was always intellectually curious. And it turned out I was able both to read and to watch television news. Fancy that."
By the time she was in high school, she was already doing local news cable-access broadcasts, courtesy of a school program. "I just had this passion," she says. And then she decided she wanted to study dance. "So in my junior year I transferred to a performing arts high school. I was going to transition into a very expensive private school, but the performing arts school was free. It was two buses away, quite far away, through downtown L.A. I wanted it bad, so I did whatever it took to get that experience." She was the class valedictorian.
In fact it could be said that wanting things bad, doing whatever it takes to get them—and here's where the chutzpah comes in—kind of defines Lapin.
After high school, she decided she was less interested in performance and "more in communications—it's communicating with an audience that I especially love." And the communicating she wanted to do was through journalism, the TV journalism she had been forbidden to watch but managed to look at surreptitiously. And so she decided to fashion for herself what she terms "an adhoc education," and to gain as much work experience as she could.
She had, at age 15, taken part in a writing program at Harvard and signed up for graduate literature courses. She took classes at Columbia University in New York and studied European Union politics at The Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.
She used all those credits for her degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she graduated summa cum laude as valedictorian, with a second major in political science.
"Northwestern was very accommodating to my working professionally," she says. "In those years I was working, part of it full time, in smaller markets—you have to pay your dues—at local news affiliates as a general assignment reporter." She was a reporter in Lexington, Kentucky, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Palm Springs, California.
"I went wherever someone would take me. I sent out hundreds of little tapes from the local cable-access news. I begged people to hire me. I worked really hard and studied really hard. I bombarded everybody, took any opportunity—would I like to work weekends, nights, replace someone on maternity leave? 'Yes, yes, yes,' I said. I was so hungry. And I still am."
While at Columbia, she decided she wanted to intern at WNBC-TV with the reporter Asa Aarons. "He's a great mentor of mine. I showed up at his office. I had gone to the Human Resources office, but they said I had to be a senior, and they played by the book. So I just showed up at his desk and introduced myself as a summer intern. He thought I had chutzpah and he hired me. He said if I could figure out how to get through security I could figure out what he needed for me to do as an intern. I spent a lot of hours there while I was studying at Columbia."
ll that experience paid off—in 2006 she wound up, at age 22, at CNN as its youngest anchor.
It was at CNN that she reported live on the massacre at Virginia Tech, the Israeli-Arab conflict, the terror attacks in Mumbai, India, the Hudson River plane crash and the 2008 presidential election. She also interviewed politicians and celebrities, among them Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California. She reported live from Los Angeles for the Michael Jackson memorial service. She pioneered a series called "Young People Who Rock," profiling high achievers under age 30. And she wrote a column for CNN.com.
"I worked very long hours at CNN too, 18 hours a day sometimes. All their networks were in one place in Atlanta—CNN International, CNN Headline News, CNN.com. Being so hungry and excited and wide-eyed, I wanted to work for everybody."
The Virginia Tech story, she says, was the most memorable—and awful. "It was a seminal moment in news coverage," she says. "If you go to the Newseum you see it was a turning point, because the primary visual depiction of the shooting came from a citizen journalist, a student who had shot footage on his cell phone. That changed the game. From that point news was no longer about lighting kits and setups. It was about information. It was about content being king, and being platform agnostic."
Covering the shootings was "horrific," but it also filled her with pride. "It was of course a life-and-death situation, and students would email us saying they were watching from their dorm rooms and they didn't know what was happening. They would ask, 'Is there another shooting?' " Being a source of information for the students "was a great responsibility. It made me proud to be a member of the Fourth Estate."
Working at CNN was particularly exciting, she says, "because we covered everything. You had to become an expert at everything. When I was in local news, you became an expert on worm farming, or hurricanes, or triple homicides. That's what I love about this job, and CNN really hit it home."
And that is what she loves about CNBC, where she has been since January 2010 (her coanchors on "Worldwide Exchange" are Ross Westgate and Christine Tan). "It's business—and everything is connected to business. Every story has a monetary focus. Toward the end of my time at CNN, we were covering the financial crisis. Everybody became a financial reporter. I had been one in Chicago, and I became one again. I realized very quickly that this is the story of this decade, of this generation, and I felt an intense urgency to be part of it."
She is also proud of CNBC, she says, "because it's a higher level of concentration. Nothing is dumbed down. It's more technical. I really like that. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I like being nerdy."
And what role do cigars play in her life and her work?
First of all, she says, cigars are "a nostalgic experience. It was ingrained in my family life. My father smoked cigars. I remember the aroma. I remember his smoking jacket. When I smoke, it reminds me of him."
But then there are also those very useful workplace cigars. "It's a good thing for 'sourcing,'" for helping to create a mood of camaraderie and collegiality when she meets with people in the business world to make the contacts and get the information necessary for her job. "A lot of financial gentlemen—and ladies—find cigars a recreational experience. Someone, for instance, will invite me to the Grand Havana Room" in Manhattan.
When it's time for her to light up, Romeo y Julieta takes first place, followed by Ashton and Avo: "Lighter wrappers, medium body."
So is Lapin all business? Does she have a personal social life?
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William Fricker Andalusia, Pa.,19020, USA, March 23, 2011 2:19pm ET
Great Article.I enjoyed reading it and learning about Nicole Lapin.She is a very driven Lady
and will truly be a winner at what taskes she
decides to take on.
Great Article.I enjoyed reading it and learning about Nicole Lapin.She is a very driven Lady
and will truly be a winner at what taskes she
decides to take on.
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TPWD Upland Game Bird Advisory Board Recognizes QU Support
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Upland Game Bird Advisory Board is recognizing the conservation efforts and contributions of two Texas-based chapters of Quail Unlimited.
The Alamo Area Chapter of Quail Unlimited provided about $12,000 in funds that have been utilized in habitat enhancement activities and in the acquisition of equipment required to accomplish such. The most recent contribution went towards acquisition of a no-till drill to be used in providing enhanced habitats for upland birds; habitats that will not only benefit quail, but a diversity of other wildlife as well.
The South Texas Chapter of Quail Unlimited, since 2001, has contributed about $95,000 towards habitat enhancement activities and equipment purchases to accomplish such, including some $15,000 which was used toward purchase of a 4x4 tractor for use on the Daughtrey WMA.
"This level of participation and contribution represents the true spirit of the public/private partnership focus at Texas Parks and Wildlife," said Deborah Clark, Upland Game Bird Advisory Council chair. "Specifically, these donations support improving habitat management efforts that are the foundation of providing prime hunting opportunities to a broader populace who might not otherwise have access to these and other WMA around the state. The Upland Game Bird Advisory Board is proud to recognize and publicize the generous contributions of these two Quail Unlimited chapters."
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"Both the Alamo and South Texas Chapters of Quail Unlimited have been extremely contributive towards conservation efforts on the South Texas Ecosystem Project (Daughtrey and Chaparral WMAs) in recent years," said David Synatzske, area manager at the Chap.
Synatzske went on to note the donations could not have come at a more opportune time, because the Chaparral WMA is re-tooling after a wildfire in March destroyed the area's research facility and numerous new research projects are in the works.
"As a result of the recent wildfire on the Chap, there are additional opportunities, utilizing equipment purchased, to enhance habitats in efforts of maintaining a diversity of habitats in the successional processes that will result from such a wildfire," he said. "Diversity of habitats results in diversity of wildlife and this fire offers the opportunity to not only enhance diversity of habitats but also research the effects of such in both the long and short term."
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