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Cuba's Future: An Interview with Julia Sweig
From Cuba, May/June 2007
A top policy analyst in Washington talks about Cuba today, a post-Fidel Castro regime, key players on the U.S. side and new ideas for changes in America's approach toward its island neighbor
Julia Sweig is simply in the right place at the right time. She has devoted parts of her career to understanding and writing about Cuba, a natural extension of her interest in how Latin Americans deal with American power. In the 1980's she took American human rights experts into Cuban prisons. In the 1990s she became the only American scholar with access to Fidel Castro's presidential archive. Since 2000 she has taken the likes of David Rockefeller and Blackstone's Pete Peterson to meet with Cuba's leadership, including Fidel Castro.
When President Castro fell ill last summer, her knowledge of Cuban society and her contacts with the country's top government officials made her an indispensable source about what the consequences might be for both Cuba and the United States. Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and the director of Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was born in Chicago, graduated from the University of California-Santa Cruz and earned her Masters and PhD at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins.
She is the author of Inside the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground, and Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century. She authored a piece in the January/February 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs titled Fidel's Final Victory about the impending transition in Cuba in the wake of Castro's illness. She sat down with Cigar Aficionado's executive editor, Gordon Mott, in Washington earlier this year to discuss the current conditions in Cuba and the state of U.S.-Cuba relations.
Cigar Aficionado: Has there been a transfer of power inside the Cuban government since President Fidel Castro became sick last July?
Sweig: Yes. In fact, it started before Fidel's illness was even announced. But from the summer of 2006 to now, that transition is well under way.
Going back to before his illness, really over the last 10 or 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Fidel has been repopulating the bureaucracy with a second and third and now fourth generation of officials. That's happened in all Cuban institutions. Not necessarily in the top leadership positions, but in the workaday ranks of the bureaucracy. It was at least 10 years ago that the original revolutionary barbudos [the bearded ones] were sent to pasture and young people were brought in to all levels of government.
By the time you get to his illness in 2006, within the politburo, within the national assembly, within the counsel of ministers and within the Communist Party, you have these second, third and fourth generations running the country. That list includes Raúl Castro, but there were a number of newer people too.
When provisional power was transferred to half a dozen colleagues, half of them were old school who had been with Raúl and Fidel in the mountains in the 1950s and the other half [were those] who really cut their professional and political teeth in the 1990s. That's why, at the leadership level, the process of training and running the country post-Fidel had already begun. The government was able to simply continue the status quo with what these people had learned to do under Fidel and now are doing without him.
CA: What does that mean for the Cuban people?
Sweig: The conventional wisdom has always been that Cuba was a house of cards that was based on the charisma and repression of Fidel and Raúl, and that those qualities were what kept things in place. When [Fidel] goes, the theory went, the whole thing blows.
The current situation does not surprise me because my sense of what makes that country, and that nation and that revolution, tick is that it is a lot more than just about Fidel and Raúl and repression. It's the nationalism of Cubans that the regime plays up, and that the U.S. helps to feed. It is one of the fundamental sources of legitimacy that has been cultivated and sustained over the last 50 years. So was I surprised? No.
Moreover, in Washington, there is a very funny, paradoxical frame of mind. On the one hand, the United States sees itself as sort of the überpower. We have crafted a policy meant to topple the regime, always assuming that we are capable of toppling Cuba despite all of the evidence to the contrary. On the other hand, the very policy makers and individuals within the policy community—the Congress and intelligence agencies that have by and large supported this current status quo—seem to underestimate the power of U.S. policy inside Cuba, and our effect on their domestic politics.
There are a number of internal factors, however, that help explain why Cuba didn't explode or implode. The big external reason why it didn't implode is because of the circling-of-the-wagons mentality that dominates Cuba. The cadre that runs the country and the population at large, when confronted with hostility from the United States, which they have come to expect, circles the wagons. And we for some reason underestimate that as a factor in sustaining the revolution.
CA: Does that mean that the U.S. government and the American people don't really know what's going on in Cuba?
Sweig: By and large, the answer is that we are totally isolated from them. In the last six months, from Fidel's illness to the end of January, it is my very strong guess that there's been no contact. There is no back channel. There is not even a minimum contact, except for the gate in Guantánamo. There has been no initiative undertaken directly by the Bush administration to reach out to the collective leadership that Raúl now leads.
You have to go back to the shoot-down in 1996 of the Brothers to the Rescue planes, after which there was a period of limited contact. Then, leading up to the papal visit in 1998, the Clinton administration and the Cuban government began to resurrect some of the official and unofficial, and formal and informal, ties.
Under President Bush, most of the official contact stopped almost immediately, although we kept meeting with the Cubans for immigration talks. We had those bilateral immigration meetings twice a year since 1994 until about 2002 and then the Bush administration cut them off in 2003.
Those talks represented two opportunities a year when the Cubans would send up a pretty high-level group, headed often by Ricardo Alarcon (see interview, page 62). Our delegation was less senior, but that was always an opportunity. Those ended. Then, family travel was cut off, remittances were cut off and the people-to-people contact was cut off and all the cultural stuff was cut off, and all that was left was the agricultural trade that Congress had voted on and the President approved.
The United States government has been totally isolated from the key cast of characters probably for lots of different reasons that have to do with those assumptions we are talking about and because of domestic politics here. Certainly, Iraq played a role because it made Cuba a low-stakes issue. If you are a senior policy maker in Washington, why are you going to blow your wad on an issue like Cuba? In fact, why are you going to blow your wad on an issue like Latin America? So, there's been very little to be gained by messing with Cuba.
But now the Bush administration has been forced to confront a potential major change on their hands. And what's interesting is that the very stability of the last six months has reinforced that policy inertia that has existed for the entire Bush administration.
The events of the last six months have changed a lot of things, including some of the fundamental assumptions about the situation inside Cuba. If you read the testimony of John Negroponte and the deputy director of the DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] to the Senate Intelligence Committee in January, at least the public parts, it is a pretty significant example of just how isolated we have been and how we have misread Cuba's domestic policy. The testimony of these two men basically says we expect stability inside Cuba to continue.
CA: Haven't State Department officials also gone on the record saying that the Cuban people must be the catalyst for any political change?
Sweig: That's true. The other thing is there's a deafening silence from this administration, or maybe it's an admission of failure. There is nobody in this administration that defends the current policy, other than Carlos Gutierrez, the secretary of commerce, who was born in Havana. With the exception of an occasional statement by him, they don't defend it publicly. They don't defend it privately, at all. I mean, I have debated top administration officials, but it hasn't been very challenging to win an argument with them.
CA: But it was just a few years ago that the State Department, under then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, released a 600-page document outlining how to manage a transition in a post-Fidel Cuba, the report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. To any reader, it was a virtual repetition of everything the Cuban American National Foundation in Miami has been saying for years, wasn't it?
Sweig: Since then, the Cuban American National Foundation is severely weakened. But with men like Roger Noriega, who was in place at the time of that report in the State Department, those ideas had a supporter. Noriega was and is a true believer. He came out of Sen. Jesse Helms's office and was an author of the [1996] Helms-Burton Act. [Editor's note: Helms-Burton imposed tighter sanctions on Cuba and placed the authorization for the trade embargo in the Congress.] He and Otto Reich [a former State Department official] were focused on the most ideological touch points of the hemisphere: Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba. And that has radically changed.
Cuba has been lowered as a priority. It's now almost solely the province of domestic politics. You once had people talking about how the United States can support a transition to democracy and throwing around buzz words like regime change. But outside of Miami, that stuff is not taken seriously. In Havana, it still is taken seriously, but nowhere else.
CA: Going back to 2002, do you trace that cutoff of all contact at that point to that Reich-Noriega group inside the Bush administration?
Sweig: Absolutely. They didn't make this decision themselves. It had to have been something that was approved by Colin Powell and Richard Armitage [deputy secretary of state at the time], even if they disagreed at some level. I wouldn't put words in their mouth, but you don't know really where Powell probably stood on this. At his confirmation hearings, Powell made some statements to the effect [about] Cuba having been quite successful in dealing with major development issues like health care. And he was forced to back down immediately. So my view is that people like Reich and Noriega were just allowed to run with it. Plus, in preparing for the 2004 elections, Karl Rove wanted to secure the Hispanic vote and saw cracking down on Cuba, and even cutting off Cuban-American travel and remittances, as one way to strengthen Bush's return with Hispanics and especially [Cuban Americans].
CA: Does that mean that after 2002 and the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, no one has had any oversight over U.S.-Cuba policy?
Sweig: No, because when we started the war in Iraq, that's when a marginal issue gets run by marginal people. But one result is that there's been a lot of stability in Cuba. And the United States has the Cuban government to thank for that stability.
You have also a potential vulnerability. Go back to 1996 after the shoot-down of the planes. That incident was a product of anxious Cuban-American exiles who were worried that the White House and the Cuban government were going to cut a deal. The exiles wanted to provoke some sort of military confrontation to derail that process.
Although that cast of characters is weaker 10 years later than it was in the '90s, the fact is that we have no senior-level communication, the fact is that we have no back channels, and that means that the day that Fidel does die, if there is an effort at a flotilla toward Cuba or a refugee exodus toward the United States, there's no contact to help resolve it. The current status quo may be enough: we worry about our security, the Cubans worry about their security, and anything that falls through the cracks will hopefully not create a crisis that can't be managed.
CA: Doesn't a political vacuum like that create a higher risk?
Sweig: It's not just that. The foreign policy leadership vacuum creates a vulnerability. We are now legally in a position where for the guts of our policy to change, Congress has to make those changes.
Our November 2006 elections were important, however. Before those elections, you already had a kind of latent bipartisan majority that supported change. Now we have a congressional leadership which by and large does as well.
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shjohnk wrote:but people who are dealing with issues such as depression and other 'managable' issues: is conventional therapy the answer? Interested to hear the view sof anyone with training in psychiatry/psychotherapy.
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Elbow 'OK,' Sandoval remains on active roster
OAKLAND -- The 25-man Opening Day roster that the Giants finalized Saturday included Pablo Sandoval, demonstrating their belief that the third baseman's right elbow had improved enough to allow him to play.
"Pablo's OK," Giants vice president and assistant general manager Bobby Evans said.
The Giants announced their final spring roster moves a couple of hours after their 4-3 loss to the Oakland A's. They purchased the contract of catcher Guillermo Quiroz, adding him to the 25-man roster, and reassigned outfielder Cole Gillespie to Minor League camp. Obviously, placing Sandoval on the disabled list was not among San Francisco's transactions.
Sandoval stretched and played catch with teammates before Saturday's game. Bochy hoped to get Sandoval an at-bat late in the game but didn't find a proper situation. Bochy said that Sandoval would work out Sunday before the team boards its 3 p.m. PT flight to Los Angeles.
Sandoval went 0-for-2 as a designated hitter Friday night in San Francisco before telling Bochy of discomfort and being replaced.
"He's doing a lot better today," Bochy said before Saturday's game. "He feels fine and actually wants to play."
Bochy said that using Sandoval off the bench during the season-opening series at Los Angeles would be an option to prevent him from aggravating his elbow injury, which has been diagnosed as nerve irritation.
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. Alex Espinoza is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I have a sweet belt mounted bag that Peppermack made for me (thanks again, dad and I love them!) that holds 4 discs. I like to carry 1 extra disc in the hand to fill the gap after I drive so the bag doesn't rattle when I walk. However using my left arm to try to silence the rattle has really helped me with my open and close my shoulders, and consequently I'm throwing 400' low line drives now.
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167 SPD - Straight with fade. Headwind duties. Max D.
167 Champystar Valkyrie - Max D. Long turnovers. Rollers. Hyzer flip straight drives.
176 Z Buzzz - Stable fairway length drives. This disc has legs.
174 ESP Buzzz - More understable than the Z. Basically what I wanted my Comets to be.
173 Firm X Challenger - Main putter. More straight stable than the other plastics.
166 Soft X Challenger - I will use this instead when the temperature is really low or if there is snow on the ground. Overstable compared to the other plastics.


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NEW ORLEANS — With just one glance at the final score, it would be easy to think that the New Orleans Saints took out a season's worth of frustration Sunday on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
But the Saints said that wasn't necessarily the case. The Bucs, they said, just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when the Saints put it all together for one of the few times this season.
The result was a dominant performance and a 41-0 blasting of the Bucs in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, which helped the Saints (6-8) remain in the playoff picture for at least another week. The Saints have to win their final two games and hope for a lot of help, but at least they played well in a convincing win.
The 41-point spread was the third-largest margin of victory in franchise history behind a 55-point win over the Indianapolis Colts (62-7) last season and a 42-point decision over the Denver Broncos (42-0) in 1988. In ending a three-game losing streak that all but dashed their own playoff hopes, the Saints handed the Bucs (6-8) their fourth consecutive loss and dropped them from postseason consideration.
"Honestly, this didn't have anything to do with frustration or anything like that," Saints left tackle Jermon Bushrod said. "It was guys wanting to come in and go to work every day and prepare. It shows that we're going to play hard, and, at the end of the day, that's what we're here for."
It certainly showed Sunday when they got four touchdown passes from Drew Brees, who had no interceptions after throwing nine during the Saints' three-game losing streak, and the defense pitched a shutout for the first time in nearly 17 years.
The Saints had played 269 regular-season games since blanking the New York Jets, 12-0, on Dec. 24, 1995, in Giants Stadium until keeping the Bucs off the scoreboard. The NFL's worst defense came up with five takeaways — including four interceptions of Josh Freeman.
"That was guys just loving the game of football," said defensive end Will Smith, who had one of his team's two sacks. "Knowing we really don't have anything to play for as far as the playoffs are concerned, we wanted to play for each other and the fans and put on a good show."
Brees completed 26 of 39 passes for 307 yards with touchdowns to four different receivers for a passer rating of 124.6 — which followed three subpar performances. He led the Saints to a fast start in going 5-of-5 for 67 yards on his team's first possession, which he capped with a 9-yard TD pass to tight end David Thomas less than four minutes in.
Brees also tossed a 2-yard TD to running back Darren Sproles and later connected with receivers Lance Moore and Joe Morgan for scoring passes of 7 and 34 yards.
Running back Mark Ingram had an 11-yard TD run in the fourth quarter and also had gains of 31 and 26 yards in rushing for 90 yards — just one off his career high — while Garrett Hartley added field goals of 25 and 36 yards.
"Obviously, there was a renewed focus … maybe a new set of goals for these last three weeks the way we want to close out the season," said Brees, who helped the Saints pile up 447 total yards.
The Saints defense, which ranked 30th in allowing 29.2 points per game after giving up 52 a week earlier against the New York Giants, also got the message.
Freeman, who threw for a career-high 420 yards and three TDs in a 35-28 setback to the Saints on Oct. 21 in Tampa, had a passer rating of 37.5 in completing 26 of 47 attempts for 279 yards.
He was intercepted by cornerback Jabari Greer and safety Rafael Bush in the first half and picked off by safety Isa Abdul-Quddus and Greer again in the second. Freeman also lost a fumble when sacked by defensive end Cameron Jordan in the fourth quarter, which Jordan recovered.
The Saints offense turned the Bucs' five giveaways into 27 points.
"We did a lot of good things today," Bushrod said. "I think we saw what we were capable of doing all season long. We just had some games that didn't go our way, but today was definitely a total team effort."
Saints right guard Jahri Evans said it was nice to have everything fall together and fall their way for a change.
"Every phase made plays today," he said. "The defense got turnovers, and the special teams also set us up with good field position. It was just a good team win. It was nice to finally get one of those complete wins."
"I think it was us executing today," weakside linebacker Jonathan Vilma said. "We did a good job all around. That might be the first time all season that we complemented each other on offense, defense and special teams."


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A comedian is cycling 1,400 miles on a handbike to raise money for Sport Relief.
Former Leeds Trinity student Tommy Holgate was inspired by paralympians to take on the challenge of riding from John O'Groats to Land's End.
Tommy, who works as a stand-up comedian, comedy journalist and presenter for Sun TV, will spend 20 days riding on cycle paths and country lanes.
The former president of the student's union of Leeds Trinity, which is based in Horsforth, graduated in 2008.
He said: "I have always been keen to push the body to its limits, but have never really had the chance due to work. I'm taking this year's Fringe off, so it's freed me up to train and promote this adventure.
"I wanted to use a handbike because I remember seeing them on the Paralympics when I was a kid and thinking 'how are they doing that with their arms?' "When I found out a lot of them were amputees, I thought 'what, and then they go and train to be as fit as an Olympian? Legends!' "So I'm keen to communicate how admirable people are who refuse to give in to perceived setbacks and go on to achieve incredible things."
He added: "I interviewed double Olympic gold medallist Daley Thompson for a 1980s crisps promotion in The Sun and took the opportunity to ask him some advice afterwards.
"He told me that once you have the goal in mind, you just get it done. And coming from a double gold medallist, that sounds like advice I would like to take."
Tommy said: "I'm nervously excited by all this. Occasionally when I catch myself explaining the idea to somebody and see their face looking back, I think 'Oh dear', but then when I go out on the bike the next morning, I love it so much that I then think 'I can't believe this is how I get to spend my time – this is amazing.' "It's safe to say, though, that every ounce of me feels like this is the absolute right thing to be doing right now."
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A HIGH school teacher is raising money for an orphanage.
Lauren Davey, a teacher at St Christopher's High School, Accrington, is raising money for the Shining Faces Orphanage in India.
The school has supported the charity for more than 20 years.
A fundraising evening takes place on Saturday at the Hare and Hounds pub in Harle Syke, Burnley, with food and entertainment on offer.
Miss Davey said: "I have been overwhelmed by the support of local businesses in organising this local charity event.
"Firstly the Hare and Hounds in Briercliffe are providing the room, supper for all attending, plus a raffle prize of carvery for two absolutely free of charge.
"Local DJ 'Bobby B' has also offered his services free of charge. I am very grateful."
Tickets cost £5 and there will be a disco, raffle, games and supper.


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2017 sees Ed Sheeran taking his blockbuster studio album Divide on tour across North America. The British artist's status as one of the biggest singer-songwriters out at the moment is certainly cemented in this, his third album, which contains the mega-hit singles Shape Of You, and Castle On The Hill. It's seen him topping the charts across the world and infuses his delicate, acoustic pop with even more pronounced R&B flourishes.
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How does a school geek, famed for his ginger hair and massive blue specs, go on to become one of the biggest stars in the world? Welcome to the Ed Sheeran School of folk acoustic hip-hop thought. Since he was younger, Ed had always wanted to make music, and he set out to write and record his own songs at a feverish pace.
With warm, lyrical melodies that can have a sharp bite, he traversed the folk-hip hop scene and emerged as a major player, selling out concerts almost immediately after the release of breakthrough single 'The A Team'.
2010 saw Ed take a one way flight to America with little more than one contact, and manage to land up be-friending Jamie Foxx, who let him use his recording studio once he'd heard Sheeran at an open mic night in NYC. Fast forward 5 years later, and Ed is besties with Taylor Swift and is something of a worldwide heartthrob. Who would have thought it? Catch Ed Sheeran when he plays Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville , CT , Closed July 15, 2017
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A Model Train Show will be held President's Weekend on February 15th and 16th from 10am-3pm at the Ocean County Historical Society. The Ocean County Society of Model Railroads will operate their O gauge and H.O. gauge trains downstairs in the Birdsall Room and watch steam train movies in the Research Center. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for children, and $5 for families. Ocean County Historical Society is located at 26 Hadley Avenue in Toms River, NJ. For more information call 732-341-1880.


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This exhibit is planned as a group exhibit comprised of different artists (Casey McGarr, Aaron Calvert, David Warren and others) focusing on printmaking and will primarily feature relief printmakers working with a variety of themes and subjects.
A letterpress workshop will be offered in conjunction with the exhibit by artist Casey McGarr. Date and time for the workshop are February 7 at 9am-12pm in Moses Provine 205.
The exhibit will run January 13 – February 7 and will be on display in the
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SAN BERNARDINO – The Orange Show Speedway is on track to get dirty today, and with the dirt will come the beginning and end of new chapters for the track.
Tonight will be the end of pavement racing at the speedway, and the preparation of a new dirt track for the 2013 racing season.
Pavement racing at the track has a well-traveled history that brought communities and racers together.
Most of the races ever run at Orange Show Speedway were conducted during summer nights, with spectators in shorts, usually holding a drink and voicing an opinion.
It wasn't much different on the quarter-mile track. Local racers, inspired by the racing greats who had once competed on the same oval, were usually as hot as the weather.
For 63 years, there were many memories of the events at the track that first opened in 1947. However, the last two seasons haven't been as memorable as the venue pushed its state record streak to 65 years of continuous operations.
The figure will hit 66 years tonight, but in a much different way. Rather than summer, the lone race date of the year is in December. Today's event is being promoted by Dirt Entertainment, and at the end of racing, a large dump truck will roll onto the track and start the conversion from asphalt to dirt.
"It's going to be like an old-fashioned reunion," said Toni McCray, scheduled to drive a Super Late Model Car. While it's been a lengthy period of time since she's raced at the Orange Show, she and her family are well connected to the venue.
Her father, Rick, competed at the facility before his NASCAR career, and later returned to promote races from 2008 to 2019.
McCray is just one of the many successful racers who competed at the speedway. The alumni list also includes eight Indianapolis 500 winners – Bill Vukovich, Roger Ward, Jimmy Bryan, Troy Ruttman, A.J. Foyt, Parnelli Jones, Rick Mears and Al Unser Jr. Other great names include Ivan Baldwin, Gary Nelson and Ray Elder.
There were times when the tempers at the track and pit area were as hot as the temperatures.
"It's crazy down there. It's wacky. It's wild. It's raw and it's real," columnist Paul Oberjuerge wrote in 2007. "A bunch of overrevved guys in overrevved little vehicles racing on a quarter-mile track. You read that right. One-fourth of a mile, 440 yards. And about 20 yards wide.
"There's more fender-banging in one night at OSS than in 500 miles of a (NASCAR) Cup race. And when guys start swinging on each other, it's for real. It's not show. They're ticked. This isn't WWE."
Promoters Scott Miller and Scotty Burns don't have a solid idea of how many fans will be on hand. They initially thought they would have 30 entries, but the number is approaching 130.
Among the fans will be 87-year-old Gene Maxwell, who competed in a Ford-powered midget in the late 1940s.
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Just a note to let you know mom passed away, Sunday April 19th, at 6:30 am.. I was not there and I think that is how she wanted it. I had stayed night and day for a week and decided on Saturday to go home and spend the night, when the phone rang Sunday morning I knew what it was. Thank you all for your support.


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AUSTIN – Wildfires around Possum Kingdom Lake today covered more than 150,000 acres, continuing to threaten Possum Kingdom State Park and Palo Pinto County communities, forcing the evacuation of several communities and closure of Possum Kingdom Fish Hatchery located just below the reservoir dam.
Late Monday as wildfires crept closer, eight hatchery employees were not allowed into the restricted area. Two other staff members who live and work at the hatchery were required to leave the hatchery that is located 13 miles west of Graford. A skeleton crew was allowed to return this morning to the 103-acre facility where fingerlings are produced for stocking Texas waters.
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"Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it." Whether Mark Twain or Dudley Warner said it remains debatable, but the point is that the same thing could be said about gray-market charters. I have been in corporate and VIP aviation for decades, and I have been hearing the legal charter operators complain about this issue for my entire career.
Gray-market charter refers to the practice of an aircraft owner or operator taking money for flying people when that owner and/or operator has no legal right to do so. These scam artists can use pilots who may not be licensed properly and airplanes that may not be maintained to meet the minimum safety regulations. Other well intentioned but poorly informed people make the mistake of letting their airplane go out on an illegal charter not knowing that they might well be in breach of their lending and insurance covenants. Even companies that are lax in their controls over who, or which division, has access to the corporate airplane and their charge-back system could be gray-market charterers and not even know it.
This is a worldwide problem, not just an American or European one, and it seems to be getting worse year by year.
The most difficult gray-market operators to recognize are those who have an airplane registered in one country, an air operator certificate (AOC) from another country and operate from a base in a third country. The multiple layers of accountability and responsibility are extremely difficult to monitor thoroughly to ensure enforcement of regulatory issues. Such airplanes are like the tramp steamers that ply the world under flags of convenience, registered in countries that, too often, have no interest in anything but collecting the registration fees.
Gray-market operators in the Americas or Europe are much easier to find. They are, more than likely, the aircraft owners down the row of hangars who make their airplane available for a wide variety of "friends."
Encouraging Whistleblowers
With virtually all airplane flight activity now being recorded and stored on computers, the raw data for authorities to check for "unusual patterns of flight activity" is available at regulators' and enforcers' fingertips. The problem has been the magnitude of the task confronting those who would sift through this mass of data to extract readily usable information. Justifying this sort of investigative effort has been even more difficult. The legal investigation, with the aim of prosecution, must have a key that opens the door to expose the perpetrators.
Here's where the whistleblower concept should enter the picture. In the western world, whistleblowers have brought entire industries to their knees. Tobacco, oil, banking and other industries have been sent down the righteous path by whistleblowers. Why not gray-market chartering? Because, at this time, there is no financial incentive for the whistleblower to give a toot. Build in a financial reward and they will come.
Investigations with the goal of prosecution would have to begin on the inside of the offending company. "Disgruntled employee" is a term often applied to a whistleblower, but even happy employees with a sense of honesty and integrity could become whistleblowers. If they are aware of illegal activities they could begin a program of collecting invoices, flight records and passenger lists and noting frequency of flights and specific passengers. This includes the time-honored scam of invoices for "demo flights." ("Oh no, inspector. That wasn't a charter flight. The principal passenger wanted to buy that clapped-out old airplane and we gave her a demo flight.")
The potential whistleblower must do some research before embarking on a path that could be a bit dangerous to one's career or health. First consideration should be determining approximately how much the illegal operator is making from gray-market chartering and realistically how much of the skullduggery can be proved. Whistleblower rewards are generally a percentage of damages. For example, the IRS will pay up to 30 percent of the tax, penalty and other amounts recovered. But let's be conservative and figure that the most our whistleblower will collect is 10 percent.
Ten percent hardly makes it worthwhile to track down the amounts involved on a Cessna 172 that makes the occasional flight into graydom. But for a frequently used jet the amount of cash flow can quickly become substantial, running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this case, percentages can become considerable and the amount of money to a whistleblower can merit the risk.
Since the gray-market operator is breaking the law anyway, it might be safe to assume that it is also not declaring on its tax return the money it receives for this charter service. Cash would be king for this kind of transaction since it's difficult to trace. Solid proof would open the door to an IRS audit. On its whistleblower website the IRS makes this statement: "The IRS is looking for solid information, not an 'educated guess' or unsupported speculation. We are also looking for a significant Federal tax issue–this is not a program for resolving personal problems or disputes about a business relationship."
A visit to the FAA whistleblower website will give you some pointers on how to begin. However, when I visited that website I saw nothing about financial rewards. Perhaps action by some aviation alphabet groups would convince the FAA to enact a financial reward for whistleblowers.
Another, perhaps more involved, method of punishing gray-market charter operators is this: Once the offender has been identified by the regulatory authorities, would it be possible for neighbors on the departure and arrival ends of airports used on specific charter flights to enter into a class action suit against the operator? The justification for the lawsuit could be that they were unduly, deliberately and dangerously exposed to unreasonable risk by being underneath the unsafe operations. It could be assumed that the flights were inherently unsafe because they did not comply with the appropriate regulations.
In conclusion, it seems obvious that absolutely nothing will be done about unscrupulous, gray-market charter operators until their scam becomes financially beneficial to someone other than the seller and buyer of the product. The best way to see how to become a whistleblower is to Google whistleblower. A wealth of information is available for you to research. You might be in a position to earn a substantial reward while doing some good for aviation in an area that should have been addressed long ago. In other words, you could do something about the weather rather than just talk about it.
Good hunting.
John (not verified)
February 19, 2013 - 3:10pm
As pilots we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain professional licenses with such a small branch of resources for employment you have to be kidding me you want us to rat out people doing fractional ownership's or so-called Instruction with your girlfriend in the back seat.
Using your commercial license to the full potential of being an employee pilot two steps removed from the aircraft ownership is a right and regulation given to us by the FAA operate in those domains,
There isn't a pilot in this country that is going to RAT out somebody using their aircraft for fractional/135/part 91 ops,
George (not verified)
February 19, 2013 - 3:33pm
Why would you recommend turning in someone who is not endangering anyone else with physical harm?
And also why would you encourage the Communistic and Nazisim of reporting your neighbor to our Government with a closing statement of Good Hunting!!!!
What an ASS!
Frank (not verified)
February 19, 2013 - 3:41pm
The FAA and other alphabet agencies are completely GUTLESS! One example:
Look at what a private citizen has found by reading www.aviationcriminal.com. The unlicensed operation there (latest site www.flyfighterjets.com) has KILLED TWO PEOPLE!! The principal killed two others when, while charged with supervising their flight, he commanded a maneuver to be filmed for which the pilot had insufficient altitude to safely execute. He also was suspended for buzzing Santa Monica Pier. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/local-pilot-loses-pilots-l....
Brian (not verified)
February 19, 2013 - 5:12pm
I turned to this article for what I hoped would be some clarification of the charter flight rules, e.g., when can a commercial pilot legally fly people for pay in his own plane, in someone else's plane, occasionally, or often? That would be an interesting and useful article.
How to rat out fellow pilots for financial gain is much less interesting to me.
CARY ALBURN (not verified)
February 19, 2013 - 5:30pm
I have to disagree with John's and George's comments. Years ago, I did SE charter piloting for a couple of proper 135 operations, and I observed and was part of the extensive hoop-jumping they were required to do, to satisfy the FAA, things like unscheduled reviews of their mechanical department, 6 month checkrides for their pilots with FAA inspectors, etc. When an operation has to go through those reviews and the necessary expense associated with recurrent training, etc., they shouldn't turn their blind eyes toward those who improperly use their own aircraft for illegal charters under the guise of some bogus "demo" flight or "instructional" flight on a regular basis. It's hard enough for a 135 operator to make a living by doing things right; unfair competition from illegal, unlicensed, and very likely unsafe operations makes it even that much more difficult.
I don't think it's "Communistic and Nazisim" to report illegal operations, any more than I think it's "Communistic and Nazisim" to report unsafe operations. If we as pilots don't police ourselves, it'll be done for us, and all of General Aviation will suffer the consequences. Even worse, as Frank points out, those who will willingly violate the rules that the rest of us are supposed to live by may be just as willing to compromise safety for the almighty dollar.
William (not verified)
February 19, 2013 - 8:36pm
I have flown 135 myself as well. I have also seen the brunt of an FAA stranglehold on an industry that would explode if it weren't so over regulated. Medevac and high dollar jet ops are the only way to make a living complying completely with 135 regs.
Yes we will regulate and police ourselves and yes people will vote for safety and service with their dollars. I don't see the need for the FAA to probe into private business in the name of safety. They need to stick to solely developing and maintaining infrastructure.
How can anyone with a single engine, single pilot 135 operation compete with airline service and reach at subsidized airline fares? They can't and that is a real shame.
Craig Hollander (not verified)
February 20, 2013 - 12:42am
That was a very reasonable response. Whether or not an illegal charter operation is unsafe, it is definitely unfair competition. Operators who do their best to comply with the regulations should not be undercut by those who would skirt the law to make a buck. The industry is fragile enough as it is.
Dale F. Doelling (not verified)
February 20, 2013 - 6:19am
Who made these flights illegal? GOVERNMENT! How dare we think that the FREE MARKET is all that's necessary to regulate aircraft charters!! Well, we would all be better off if we told GOVERNMENT to go crawl back under the rock from which it came and let the free market decide who's a good pilot offering a service at a reasonable price. With today's technology, anyone can find out anything about any business. That's the way business was done before we allowed the buffoons in Washington to dictate our every move in today's America.
Stan (not verified)
February 21, 2013 - 11:00pm
And how many people are going to have to die in your little Ayn Rand fantasy land before the "free market" decides an operator is unsafe and it finally goes out of business? Wake up. Customers are dumb and the lowest price wins above all else. The operator that has the lowest price gets the trip, even if it's 50 dollars cheaper. If you don't think that's reality then you haven't been around the aircraft charter industry very long. We need a level playing field with a government entity to establish minimum standards for safety. Your "free market" BS would be too slow and let too many unscrupulous operators kill people.


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I am working on a translation of the Dhammapada from English to Spanish. I want to understand the meanings of the text as well as possible so I want to buy an English-Pali version, with both texts in full, for easy comparison. I'm thinking of getting this version, , by Radhakrishnan, but I want something accurate, so if anyone has any ideas about which one to get, please let me know.
I am using Thomas Byrom's rendering. Although the first verses in particular clash with my understanding, I am working it out with a Bhikkhu who has requested it. Much of it is very poetic.
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Santana goes seven strong innings, but Atlanta blanked by Reds
CINCINNATI -- The Braves got another great performance from a starting pitcher on Saturday night at Great American Ball Park. But unlike Friday, when Mike Minor's 7 2/3 innings of one-hit ball didn't go for naught thanks to Justin Upton's go-ahead homer in the 12th, there was no such backing for Ervin Santana.
The right-hander allowed one run on four hits over seven strong innings, but his counterpart and fellow righty Mike Leake silenced Atlanta's bats as the Braves fell, 1-0, to the Reds following a 1-hour, 56-minute rain delay.
With the Nationals' victory over the Giants, the Braves dropped to seven games behind Washington in the National League East and remained one game behind San Francisco for the second NL Wild Card spot.
In a scoreless pitching duel, Santana blinked first. He yielded a leadoff double to Leake in the sixth and the next batter, Billy Hamilton, dropped a sacrifice bunt to move Leake to third. Santana struck out the following hitter, Skip Schumaker, but with a full count on Brandon Phillips, he gave up an RBI single to left-center that put Cincinnati up, 1-0.
"I tried to locate it a little bit down and away," Santana said of the 95 mph four-seam fastball he threw to Phillips. "But it ran back toward the middle. Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes not."
As luck would have it on this night, that mistake would result in a loss for Santana despite his stellar performance; he walked one and struck out seven overall. The loss was Santana's first since the All-Star break. He is 6-1 with a 2.75 ERA in eight second-half starts after going 7-6 with a 4.01 ERA in the first half.
"In a situation like that, anything can happen. [Leake] was dealing and I was dealing," Santana said. "It was one shot, and that was it."
The Braves had their best shot in the seventh, when Andrelton Simmons opened the frame with a leadoff double past the diving Todd Frazier at third base and down the left-field line.
But Atlanta couldn't bring Simmons around to tie the game. The next two batters were the Braves' hottest as of late, but both Freddie Freeman and Upton struck out swinging. Following back-to-back walks that chased Leake from the game, reliever Jumbo Diaz got Tommy La Stella to hit a sharp one-hopper to short, which Zack Cozart gloved and tossed to second for a forceout to end the threat.
"We didn't support Ervin very much, but he went out and gave us seven strong innings, and you can't ask for much more than that," said Upton, who had his 13-game hitting streak snapped after he went 0-for-4.
"It's a shame that we couldn't get [Santana] the win, because he's pitched terrific," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "You figure we could scratch one run across and not have him get the loss, but their back end of the bullpen is pretty good, with [Jonathan] Broxton and, of course, [Aroldis] Chapman."
The Braves managed to get a baserunner to second against Broxton in the eighth on a two-out double by Emilio Bonifacio, but the right-hander fanned Simmons to end the inning.
In the ninth, Chapman overpowered the middle of Atlanta's lineup, striking out Freeman, Upton and Chris Johnson en route to his 27th save.
"When you get the ball to Chapman [it's tough], and that's their goal: to get the ball to the back end of their bullpen, just like it is for us," Upton said. "The roles could have been reversed if we had scored a run. That's the name of the game, to get the ball to your shutdown guy."
The roles might have been reversed had the Braves been able to continue the run of offensive production they enjoyed over the seven games prior to Friday's. Atlanta won six of those, batting .277 and averaging 6.1 runs per contest over that span. But in the last two games, the Braves scored three runs combined, batted .189 and went 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position.
On Saturday, it meant a hard-luck loss for Santana. But in the defeat, his performance and the trend it continued for the Braves' starting rotation was perhaps the only silver lining. Over the last nine games, Atlanta starters are 6-1 with a 2.39 ERA.
"We just have to keep it up," Santana said of the rotation. "We have a good team. We just have to keep it up."
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parth wrote:Dear Vancity,
I think you already are on right path by taking up goenkaji's retreat, just please carry on with it.
Hang around - read the forums-
There's plenty to do without having to 'link-up' with a single teacher: there's no guarantee of 'results' even if you do.
sitting/talking with a meditation 'master' is not going to help.
oh hi, no not thinking of Goenka- I would give the same advice for the approach to any teacher, myself included.
If we we become blinkered and closed off to advice from other teachers (this man is clearly asking advice on the matter, after attending Goenka, s/he seems to want more) we are going to be in trouble.. Do you suggest only sticking to GoenkaG?
Ekayano maggo- means 'one right path' if I am not mistaken. Do you take that to mean that the Goenka method is the only one right path?
In my reaching the Noble Eightfold Path has been expounded. So in this Teaching only, the Four Noble persons can be found. All the other teachings, being void of Ariyas. are futile
While I have come across a person who did reach stream entry using the Goenka method
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Over the past couple of years, one of the primary computing devices enabling this evolution has been the tablet computer — a sleek, elegant, and easy-to-use device that has gone from a niche product to a global phenomenon, seemingly overnight. As a way to boost mobility and efficiency, tablets are an excellent choice, and their role in the enterprise continues to grow. Over the next five years, total shipments of tablet computers to enterprises around the world are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 48%, according to Infinite Research. Tablets' portability, flexibility, and ease of use have made them a great fit for applications of all kinds. It's clear that tablets are bringing improved productivity and mobility into the enterprise, but this technology evolution has not come without its growing pains. In many cases, tablets are so attractive to business users that many of them have not waited for their companies to issue them — they've brought their own personal devices to work. In other cases, organizations have issued devices to their employees that are better suited for consumer use and lack enterprise-critical security, durability, and functionality. This has resulted in a fragmented IT management landscape consisting of myriad devices with different operating systems, security challenges, and support needs.


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Bigger, better East will be tough to win
October 20, 2004
This is not your father's Eastern Conference anymore. The NBA champions, the Detroit Pistons, come from the East. Now Shaquille O'Neal, the most dominant player in basketball when he weighs less than a bread truck, is in the East.
Even the perennial soft touches have become competitive. Cleveland with LeBron James. Boston with Doc Rivers. Philadelphia with a healthy Allen Iverson and a coach he respects, Jim O'Brien. Even the Atlanta Hawks show signs they might awaken from their decade-long stupor. Seriously.
The point being, the Indiana Pacers, who opened their home exhibition season Tuesday night at Conseco Fieldhouse against Minnesota, have to be better than they were last season if they want to reach the conference finals again.
And to reach the NBA Finals?
Not with this group as it's presently constituted. Not without picking up another useful big man some time during the season. Not if they're going to beat Detroit, which added Antonio McDyess, re-signed Rasheed Wallace and has Darko Milicic one year closer to getting off the bench. Not if they want to hope to compete with Shaq, who has stepped on Indiana's dreams before.
Without question, most of the pieces are in place. Without question, this is a 55- to 60-win team. If their top players remain reasonably healthy, there's no reason to think the Pacers won't be fighting the Pistons and Heat for a chance to play in the Finals.
But in my mind, team president Larry Bird and chief executive Donnie Walsh only got half the job done this offseason.
They made a fabulous move, picking up Stephen Jackson to give them scoring at the shooting guard position and a ready heir apparent for when Reggie Miller retires.
The other part of the job, though, needs finishing.
They still need to get another big man to help Jermaine O'Neal, who had Wallaces hanging on him last spring like he was some kind of teen idol.
Again, this isn't the old Eastern Conference, where Brad Miller can be an All-Star center.
Now 'Sheed will be in Detroit the entire year. Shaq makes the Heat as big a threat as Detroit or Indiana to come out of the East.
The Pacers' big-man options? There aren't many. Not on the current roster, anyway. (Come back, Primoz. All is forgiven.)
Scot Pollard, who was picked up in a fruitless effort to salvage something from the Brad Miller deal, has been a non-factor.
That leaves David Harrison, who stayed in Indy this summer and worked hard on his conditioning. But he's a rookie. And rookies, especially those picked at the back end of the first round, don't make much of an immediate impact.
It's the only blemish on a team that is otherwise easy on the eyes.
The Pacers need O'Neal to have another MVP-quality season. They need Ron Artest to continue to refine his game on and off the court. They need Jamaal Tinsley, who got hungry after losing his starting job last season to Kenny Anderson, to stay hungry.
The only real mystery continues to be practice legend Jonathan Bender, who is heading into the fifth and final year of his contract and is -- yes, once again -- sidelined with an injury. He expects to return Monday.
The Pacers have been waiting for him since he was drafted fifth overall in 1999, and it just hasn't happened. Some of it has been on Bender, but most of it, in fairness, has been the result of injuries.
"I've learned so much about MRI's, CAT scans and parts of the body," Bender said. "I ought to be a doctor by now."
Asked Tuesday if he's ever felt like he's turned a corner in this league, he shook his head.
"Never, not once," he said disgustedly. "Just a couple of highlights."
This is his best and last chance. Al Harrington is gone, but his minutes are not. The opportunity is there. It's make-or-break time.
The Pacers can still go a long way without Bender ever developing; they had plenty of success last year without him having any sustained impact. But if he suddenly comes of age -- which means staying healthy for more than 10 minutes -- he will give Bird and Walsh a lot more options come the trading deadline.
This year, it must be Indiana's turn to make the season-changing Rasheed-type deal.
Because in today's Eastern Conference, size does matter.
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Stephanie Powell Watts' short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in many publications, including the 2008 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and New Stories from the South: Best of the Year, 2007. Her first short-story collection, We Are Taking Only What We Need, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Gardner Fiction Award, the USA Book News Award, and the ForeWord Reviews Award. She teaches writing at Lehigh University.
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Henny joined the Seattle Fire Department in 2006 as the Department's first accelerant detection canine or "Arson Dog". Henny and her handler, Seattle Fire Department Captain Stephen Baer, graduated from the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Accelerant (ATF) Detection K-9 school. Henny's talents included detecting petroleum-based fuels in amounts that neither humans nor machines can smell. Her teamwork with Capt. Baer led to determining the cause for fires totaling tens of millions of dollars, as well as arrests of individuals responsible.
In the spring of 2012, Henny retired from her daily job at Seattle Fire Department. Her current occupation is being a full-time companion for Captain Baer and his family.
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Henny was born in December, 2004, with the purpose of being a guide dog for a blind person and she was raised by a family in Maryland.
Early on, the family had a feeling that Henny might not be cut out for leading a blind person. They reported that she was "Strong as an ox on the leash and loved to stop and sniff EVERYTHING!"
Stopping to sniff is not a problem for most dogs, but for a blind person trying to get to work on time, it is a problem. Henny was not selected as a guide dog but that loss was Seattle Fire Department's gain because she excels at sniffing out arson!
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Arson is the leading cause of fires (267,000 annually) in the United States and the second leading cause of deaths (475) and injuries (2,000). Arson causes $1.4 billion in property loss each year.
Seattle Fire Department has taken a big step towards improving arson investigation in Western Washington by acquiring Henny.
Arson Alarm Hotline
If you see any suspicious fire-related activity, call 9-1-1 immediately or if you have any information regarding an arson fire, call the Arson Alarm Hotline at 1-800-55-ARSON.
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Rashaad Newsome was born in New Orleans Louisiana where he received a BA in Art History from Tulane University. After moving to New York, he studied film and post-production at Film Video Arts. Newsome has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally at venues including The Kitchen, NYC; The Project Gallery, NYC; Ramis Barquet Gallry, NYC; K.U.E.L., Berlin; and Fondation Cartier, Paris. Recent awards include 2009 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Arts Grant; 2009 ReBAC Community Arts Regrant and 2009 Harvestworks Van Lier Grant.
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Feeling sick? If you work in agriculture, there's a good chance that feeling under the weather won't be enough to call in sick.
Sick days may cost the U.S. economy an estimated $84 billion annually, but a new study has found that farmers are among a group of professions that miss substantially less time due to illness than others, according to 24/7 Wall St.
A joint study by Gallup and Healthways listed farmers, foresters and fishers as No. 2 on the list. Only physicians ranked higher. On average, workers in the agriculture, fishing and forestry industries missed just one day of work every four months.
In the study, 93 percent of farm workers reported that they felt treated with respect. About one-quarter reported feeling stressed the day before.
So why are farmers not calling in sick? The study suggests that it is "potentially in part due to the constant attention they must give to their crops and livestock."
Topping the list of professions taking the most sick days were service workers, office workers, nurses and business owners. Read more here.
The study results likely are no surprise to hardworking farmers who are used to working while sick. However, Kansas State University animal scientist Chris Reinhardt urges producers to care for their bodies as well as they care for their equipment.
"Like mechanical devices, people need fuel, people need rest and people sometimes wear out. In order to ensure that people are rested and refueled for the upcoming season, it is critical that managers monitor the well-being of the people in their charge, and perhaps even insist that people take time off," Reinhardt suggests.
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Diamond, Swarzak expected to start season on DL
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Scott Diamond and Anthony Swarzak are both making good progress in their rehab from injuries, but both pitchers are expected to start the season on the disabled list.
Diamond, who had a bone chip removed from his left elbow in December, is scheduled to make his first start of the spring on Monday in a Minor League game. The left-hander is slated to throw two innings in a Class A game at the Lee County Sports Complex.
Diamond needs to keep building his pitch count and isn't expected to be ready to rejoin the rotation until mid-April.
Swarzak, who broke two ribs in a horseplay incident in late January, is throwing bullpens without any issues but also needs to be stretched out in his role as a long reliever, according to Twins manager Ron Gardenhire.
"It's going to be hard," Gardenhire said. "You're talking about a guy that's in a long-man situation. You have no time to get him stretched out to where he can go four or five innings. So we'll have to wait and see. It depends on when he gets on a mound, but I don't think we have enough time to do that. So I'd imagine he'd go on the DL and go from there."
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Can you believe the 2012 Summer Olympics are just around the corner? We're getting excited for it! To get ready for the Games, Procter & Gamble created this sweet ad honoring everything that moms do to help support their athlete children — from little league and peewee teams all the way to the Olympics! The video ends with, "The hardest job in the world, is the best job in the world."
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text: Into the Garden: Designer's tips spruce up outdoor spaces By Sara Busse June 9, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Designer extraordinaire Kristan Cunningham was raised in West Virginia, and she's coming back for a homecoming at Tamarack on June 21. She took time out of her busy schedule (she's filming a new show for OWN Network) to give me some great ideas for outdoor spaces.I spoke with Cunningham from her Los Angeles studio. Her DIY spirit combined with her designer eye led to a partnership with Lowe's. She's giving design tips using its products, but these ideas can be translated for any home."As we head into summer, we want our homes to feel topnotch -- we want it to be done! The trend over the last few years is, 'Let's make the outdoors an extension of the indoors.'"It used to be a couple of plastic chairs, but you've gotta up the ante now," she said, with indoor-type furnishings designed for outdoor conditions.Cunningham is redesigning her mom's patio with the help of online shopping."The whole shebang looks like it belongs in a living room," she said. But every DIY project doesn't have to be extensive and overwhelming, Cunningham said."Lightly decorating gets a lot of impact, especially outdoors because it's less expected."She suggested a one-hour do-it-yourself project she calls an "unexpected garden moment." Placing an urn, a pedestal or a fountain can make an artistic statement while creating a visual destination or focal point."Think of how nice it is when you open that back door. If you put one rug down, that's impactful -- that's a space-changer. The whole yard looks well appointed now because there's a great rug."She advises that you walk out your door and see where your eye falls; that's where you put your "statement piece." Scale, she added, is key.A simple cherry-red or canary-yellow lacquered arbor with uplighting can add a pop of color and is an easy project. Paint, she said, is cheap, and it gives you the biggest bang for your buck. The Los Angeles-based designer, who admits to reading Architectural Digest at age 9, said painting a front door is an inexpensive and easy way to add a dash of color to the front of the house without much commitment on the homeowner's part."The front door is your calling card, it's the outfit you put on your house," Cunningham said. She recommends using a product that's paint and primer all in one, and use a brush, not a roller."With a roller, you get that orange-peel look. Use a brush on any millwork, and with any type of paint it looks like it's done with old-school, oil-based paint. It just looks more expensive."If you don't like it, it's a can of paint and an afternoon. It can be changed," she said. She suggested using the popular decorator colors such as bright orange, salmon, shrimp, turquoise, bright green. Going with a color that's on trend says "I'm hip!" But when it's just the front door, it's a good way to use the color without painting the whole house.Painting the floor of a front porch, using tape to make "barcode stripes," is another way to introduce color to the outdoors. You can paint the whole porch, or paint a "rug" on one section. "I never met a stripe I didn't like," she said with a laugh. "I like the 'barcode style' with a skinny stripe, a 2-inch, an 8-inch stripe."With the barcode stripes, there's less measuring, and you can introduce colors like acid green in small doses, with charcoal gray, dove gray.""A zippy door color, the right light fixture, a special approach to the house or apartment numbers and a pair of container gardens provide the welcome statement you want," Cunningham said.Cunningham is one of the most recognizable faces in design television. In 2001, she was on HGTV's "Designer's Challenge," and one year later she kicked off the first of 10 seasons as part of the HGTV "Design on a Dime" family. She has previously worked for the "Rachael Ray Show" as the resident design guru. Premiering this July on OWN, Cunningham will host the competition series "Super Saver Showdown." In "Supersaver Showdown," Cunningham said it's like "couponers meets project runway meets design." She will be the host, mentor and judge, "a la Tim Gunn," she said with a laugh."People have 48 hours to throw the party for someone in need," she said. "It's amazing what people can do with $100 for 40 people. In a million years you won't believe what these people do ... They all are calling in favors from the church and neighbors for tables and chairs and all sorts of things, and while it doesn't cost much, it still feels fancy-pants."They make hot-dog-budget food into fancy," she said.Cunningham will be the special guest of the Tamarack Foundation for its inaugural Ladies' Luncheon from noon to 1 p.m. June 21 at the Tamarack Conference Center in Beckley.She'll talk about design tips for the home or office, and a bit about what it's really like behind the cameras at HGTV, as well as answer questions one-on-one.The price is $30 per person and includes a meal prepared by Tamarack's Greenbrier-trained chefs.Event sponsors are Lewis Automotive, Tamarack Foundation and WV Living magazine. All proceeds from the event will benefit West Virginia artisans.For reservations, contact the Tamarack Foundation by June 14 at 304-926-3770 or firstname.lastname@example.com. The Tamarack Foundation partners with artisan-owned small businesses in all 55 counties to produce art and products for Tamarack and other markets. A recent economic impact study showed that in one year, the artists and artisans associated with the Foundation and Tamarack contributed $18.6 million to West Virginia's economy.@bodsub1:East End Garden Showcase@rag:The East End Garden Showcase of more than 30 urban gardens in the historic Charleston neighborhood district will be held through June 23 (gardens will be open from dawn to dusk).Participating gardeners welcome visitors and ask that participants respect their property and gardening efforts. 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So, not sure how much media about this win streak is in Indiana, but the Uconn Women are playing a game tomorrow to tie the 88 game win streak. It's against OSU, who are a top team. (Sammy Prahalis, OSU's star, is an interesting point guard. Incredibly talanted but can easily be taken out of her game because of her emotions. )
It's on at 2:30 on ESPN U. If they win, the game to break the streak is on ESPN2 Tuesday at 7, if anyone's interested.
Kelly Farris is a sophomore from Indiana. She's really an incredible basketball player, would probably be one of the best players in the country if she could score. Truly, she's Uconn's best defender (possibly best defender Uconn has ever had.) one of our best ball handlers, our best passer (she has a really good assist/turover ratio, 3 to 1, which until about 2 games ago, was an even more ridiculous 5 to 1 assist to turnover ratio...and she's a wing, not a PG..not sure why we haven't tried her at PG though.) and a fantastic rebounder for a guard. Essentially, she's had games where she was one of the best, if not the best, player on the court without scoring a single point. She's an interesting player, and worth checking out.


text: The real deal with Wayne Brady By Bill Lynch October 10, 2012 Story Share Courtesy photo Multi-hyphenate Wayne Brady comes to the Clay Center on Sunday. The actor/comedian/singer is well known for his improvisational skills on stage, which will be on full display during the performance. WANT TO GO?Wayne BradyWHERE: Clay CenterWHEN: 8 p.m. SundayTICKETS: $25, $35 and $45INFO: 304-561-3570 or www.theclaycenter.org CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- There's not a lot that Wayne Brady won't make a joke out of, but the actor/comedian/singer/TV host has a couple of limits.Brady, who performs Sunday night at the Clay Center, said, "My mama always told me not to talk about politics or religion at the dinner table."And so he tends to stay away from that -- unless it's the big topic of the day and he'd look ridiculous if he didn't say something about it."I happen to have strong political views," Brady said, "but I keep them to myself. I leave it to Lewis Black and Jon Stewart." Also, Brady said, he doesn't do jokes about kids -- not anymore. He still hasn't quite lived down a joke about Trig Palin he made in August during the "Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr."The joke was a shot at comic Jeff Ross, comparing him to Palin's son. He later apologized for the joke, but Brady still regrets ever saying it."The one time I made a foray into that world [of jokes about kids], I made a stupid joke that was given to me [by a writer] about a child, and it wasn't even about the child. The child was used to set up the butt of the joke, but I kicked myself the second it came out of my mouth."That will never, ever happen again. I don't do that." But he might talk about reality sensation/trainwreck Honey Boo Boo. Brady groaned and said that he might do that.He said, "Sure, I'll talk about Honey Boo Boo, but I won't go in on Honey Boo Boo because, at the end of the day, she's a child." Then, he quickly added, "Now, I'll talk about Honey Boo Boo's mama."Whether he'll talk about her on Sunday or not, he's not sure. He's not sure what he'll talk about at all when he gets to the Clay Center.Brady's preferred brand of comedy is improvisation. He's not working on little bits and jokes all the time. His act gets made fresh daily."It's just myself, a microphone and my keyboardist," Brady said. On any given night, the show could go anywhere, but he said it typically starts with a little demonstration of his abilities.Brady takes a collection of random words from the audience, and then puts them up on a board."You can make them as hard as you want, as nonsensical as you want," he said.Then he turns the words into a freestyle rap that tells a story using names from the audience.Brady said, "So right off the top, you know this is what we're doing."Brady doesn't like being labeled or defined by others. He tends to think of himself in terms of hyphens. Brady isn't an actor, comedian, singer or improvisational comic. He's an actor-comedian-singer-improvisationalist.But that's just a job title, something he does to make a living.However, he outright hates being referred to as "a game show host." He bristles at the words, even though he is in his fourth season as the host of "Let's Make A Deal.""When I think of a game show host, I think of some cheesy guy with a long microphone whose hair is impeccably coiffed and talks in a overly broad voice."Brady doesn't do that. He hosts a game show that's really not a game show."We've turned it in to a game/improv/music/sketch hybrid," he said, although he acknowledges that some people do tune in for the spectacle of seeing people try to win cash and prizes.Others, he believes, just come for the reliable laughs and general madcap fun."I'm not over-hyping it," he said, "but in my experience, it's a little more than a typical game show."Reach Bill Lynch at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5195. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 3 Body found in Kanawha River, near South Charleston 4 Protester: 'Thanks for the danishes but we'd rather have health care' 5 Judge gives water crisis settlement preliminary approval 'The Master' opens at Park Place Friday Previous Story Philadanco comes to the Clay Center Next Story


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Renaissance Theaterworks Presents GORGONS 10/14-11/6
Renaissance Theaterworks (RTW) opens its 2011-12 mainstage season with GORGONS by Don Nigro. Drew Brhel will make his Renaissance directing debut with this play featuring Marcella Kearns and RTW Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Rupp. Running October 14 - November 6, 2011 at the Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway, tickets can be purchased for $34 in person at the Broadway Theatre Center Box Office, by telephone at (414) 291-7800, or online at www.r-t-w.com. Tickets go on sale September 1, 2011.
GORGONS Synopsis
Ruth and Mildred are bitter rivals. They've been fighting over roles and men throughout their long, once-glamorous, silver-screen careers. It's the 1960s now, and the two seasoned starlets are past their prime and fighting to keep some celebrity status alive. The chance to do so comes in a campy, low-budget horror film called Gorgons. Big egos and desperation collide as the two women battle it out in their attempt to portray two insane, homicidal sisters. Think Bette Davis and Joan Crawford duking it out on the set of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Pretty entertaining, right? Absolutely. It's a perfectly wicked comedy just in time for Halloween.
Director's Bio
Drew Brhel happily returns to Renaissance Theaterworks, having directed THESE SHINING LIVES and performed in various other play readings over the past few years. Drew divides his professional career more or less evenly between directing and acting these days... plays he has directed in the past include MEASURE FOR MEASURE and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Milwaukee Shakespeare); WHO'S AFRAID OF Virginia Woolf? (Bialystock & Bloom); THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (Windfall); MOM'S THE WORD (In Tandem); RUMORS and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Carroll University); NORMA, CENDRILLON, and THE MAGIC FLUTE (Milwaukee Opera); and THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, DON GIOVANNI, THE MAGIC FLUTE, DIDO AND AENEAS, and THE GONDOLIERS (Opera ala Carte). Meanwhile, Drew has appeared over the past twenty-five years with just about every theatre in town. Favorite roles include Bobchinsky in THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR and Fezziwig and Topper in A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Milwaukee Repertory); Herr Biedermann in THE FIREBUGS and Emil in THREE VIEWINGS (Next Act); Sterling in MAURITIUS, Porfiry in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and Richard Greatham in HAY FEVER (Milwaukee Chamber); and Herr Schultz in CABARET (Skylight Opera); as well as roles with First Stage, Windfall, In Tandem, Nevermore, and Cornerstone. He is also an eight season veteran of American Players Theatre, and has appeared in Shakespeare festivals from coast to coast.
Cast Bios
Marcella Kearns (Mildred) is a Milwaukee-based actor, teaching artist, and coach. In the Midwest, she has appeared with First Stage Children's Theater, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, In Tandem Theatre, goats & monkeys, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, and Milwaukee Repertory Theater; outside the region, she has worked with Studio Arena Theatre, Chamber Repertory Theatre, and Texas Repertory Theatre. She serves as a teaching artist with First Stage, Milwaukee Rep, and What You Will. Marcy holds an MFA from the University of South Carolina and completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Vienna, Austria.
Jennifer Rupp (Ruth) is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Renaissance Theaterworks. As an actress, her credits include productions with Renaissance Theaterworks, Next Act Theatre, First Stage, Bialystock & Bloom, Boulevard Ensemble, Milwaukee Dance Theatre, Madison Repertory, and Children's Theater of Madison. Ms. Rupp is a co-creator of the RED PEPPER JELLY musicals, original shows written and performed by local Milwaukee artists and produced by RTW. Ms. Rupp also works with her husband as the Business Manager for ComedySportz Milwaukee.
Production Team
Julie Swenson (Producer), Judy Martel (Stage Manager), Joseph A. Brhel (Set Design), Holly Blomquist (Lighting Design), Corey Lubowich (Costume Design), Paul Hurley (Sound Design), Dana Fralick (Prop Design).
Ticket Information
Tickets to GORGONS are $34 for all performances. Tickets are available through The Broadway Theatre Center box office by calling (414) 291-7800 or online at www.r-t-w.com. All performances are at The Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. Monday, October 17, 2011 will be the Pay-What-You-Can performance at 7:30 p.m. (Tickets for the October 17 performance will be available at the door at 6:30 p.m. No phone-in orders or advanced sales will be accepted for the Pay-What-You-Can performance.)
Season Sponsors: UPAF, CAMPAC
The mission of Renaissance Theaterworks is to create moving theater that awakens our recognition of what it is to be human - from classics to world premieres - with attention to women's roles onstage and off. Founded in 1993, Renaissance Theaterworks is, presently, Milwaukee's only women-founded and women-run theatre company. Renaissance Theaterworks is a member of Theater Wisconsin and the Third Ward Arts District. Renaissance Theaterworks receives support from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Milwaukee Arts Board, CAMPAC, United Performing Arts Fund, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, private donors and foundations.