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- Protects backpacks when traveling or checking in at airports
- Compact duffel to carry extra gear
- Large lockable zipper opening for easy loading
- Comfortable stow away shoulder strap
- Top and side grab handle
- ID card window
- Size small designed for packs < 50 liters.
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- Easy To Load
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- not water resistant, or waterproof
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I bought the SMALL to protect an Osprey Kyte 46, the women's version of the Osprey Kestrel 48, in the case it would have to be checked on an upcoming domestic flight (I hope not!) My pack isn't overstuffed and there is more than enough room for any "extras" (trekking poles, a pair of hiking boots) I agree with some of the other reviewers in that the sling strap makes the pack awkward to carry. The pack comes past my knees and almost to my ankles when carried by the strap (I'm 5'3). I wouldn't want to carry it in the airport for any distance. I'm also not sure how much weight the strap could withstand over time. My pack only weights about 20lbs when loaded. The airporter is made with quality material and looks durable for the protection needed against baggage handlers and I like that it has the ability to accommodate a small TSA lock, (not included) but Osprey could have designed it better. It would be more carrier friendly if it had backpack shoulder straps or the ability to expose your own packs straps. It would also help if there was a daisy chain on the outside of this cover once it is folded so that it easier to clip to the pack. I used my sleeping pad straps to attach it to the bottom of my pack. It dangles a bit since there is only one small handle, but it works.There are not many options that I've found for protecting a backpack. I chose the Osprey Airporter because it was smaller and cheaper in price compared to the Sea to Summit Pack Converter. If Sea to Summit comes out with a small pack converter for packs 50L or less that would be my top choice unless, of course, Osprey redesigns theirs.
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i used it to protect my check on backpack bag. the only disappointing thing is after just one trip its already worn a penny size hole in the bottom.
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With roster set, Hurdle more confident than ever
BRADENTON, Fla. -- When the dust, and his 25-man roster, cleared, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle enthusiastically proclaimed the 2013 Pirates improved.
Make that, as they say on TV commercials, "new and improved," with a 48 percent turnover in Opening Day rosters from 2012 to 2013.
"No. 1, the rotation is the best since I've been here [since 2011]," Hurdle said. "And I gotta believe the best since [general manager Neal Huntington] has been here [since 2008]."
The last two pieces of that rotation were put in place only the last two days -- lefties Jonathan Sanchez and Jeff Locke, who survived his competition with right-hander Kyle McPherson.
"The Minor League pedigree speaks for itself," Hurdle said of Locke, somewhat preordained for the promotion by being named the organization's Minor League Pitcher of the Year last season after going 10-5, with a 2.48 ERA, at Triple-A Indianapolis. "And I like the growth -- the biggest from anyone I've seen from last year. The fastball's got more life than you think, the breaking ball can be sharp, and when his changeup arrives, this will be a guy with some weapons."
Hurdle also singled out a bullpen that welcomes newcomers Jeanmar Gomez, Chris Leroux and lefty Justin Wilson.
"The versatility of the bullpen has been ramped up. We got three guys able to [pitch long]," the manager said, adding "The bench is gonna be more valuable than the bench last season."
Those reserves include veteran infielders John McDonald and Brandon Inge (once he comes off his anticipated season-starting DL stint, with a sore shoulder bone), a born-again Jose Tabata and the ever-versatile Josh Harrison.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Energy Price Outlook
The selloff in oil prices yesterday almost fully unwound the rally made on Monday as the buildup of fear subsided. The market may now be in a similar position as it was on Friday, which basically showed concern about Middle East tensions growing, some hope about a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, growing levels of oil stocks, and increasing oil production. These may all argue in favor of lower prices in the near-term, as the supply/demand balance is still angled toward surplus. Oil inventories will be released today at their normal time, while natural gas will be out today at 11:00am EST. The upside for oil markets rests in the chances for better demand as potentially indicated through an improving U.S. housing market and recovering Chinese economy. API data was positive yesterday afternoon. Technicals are mixed in WTI, with support coming from a bullish channel and the basing pattern at $84.05 while pressure will come from yesterday's hold at the 50-day MA and potential liquidation shown through falling open interest. Prices may fall toward $80/bbl over the next few weeks.
January WTI ended $2.53/bbl lower yesterday while Brent finished down $1.87/bbl. The selloffs unwound rallies of $2.61/bbl and $2.75/bbl respectively in Monday's trade. In the scope of the two days, it's a struggle to see what's changed in our view. Monday rallied on increased tensions between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which is tough to argue with. Yesterday's trade fell on word of a truce. It's an area that doesn't produce much oil, and there's been no threat to supplies so far. Monday's rally was also helped by a 207 point gain in the Dow which was fueled by hopes for a settlement of the fiscal cliff. While those hopes are founded after Friday's joint statement by Congressional leaders, there were many fresh developments since Friday's 46 point gain in the Dow. The president is traveling in Asia and congress is on recess until November 26th. The Hill newspaper suggested yesterday that there is a disconnect between what's happening in Washington and the market's perception of what's happening. It suggested that the two sides are still far apart on the Bush tax rates and entitlement changes. The other issue we see as a potential negative is the speech by Fed Chairman Bernanke yesterday, where he said that the Fed would be able to do little in the event that the economy goes off the fiscal cliff.
Outside of developments in Washington, the oil market will still be focused on the growing divergence between current oil stocks and their five-year average. Last week's stocks level was 44.33 MB above the five-year average which was the highest since the w/e Oct 29th, 2010. At the same time, oil production is at the highest level since the w/e Apr 29th, 1994. Oil demand recovered last week due to the passing of issues associated with Hurricane Sandy, but that recovery may only last another week. The last monthly report from the EIA showed that global supply/demand balance expectations have tightened, but it was the result of less production rather than more demand.
Natural Gas
The gas market rallied sharply on Friday by advancing 8.7 cents. It lost 7.1 cents on Monday, but gained more than that back again in yesterday's 11.3 cent rally. The focus since Friday and even prior to Friday has been on a cooling pattern shown not only in the short-run forecasts but the longer-term ones as well. In its Oct 18th forecast, the Climate Prediction Center noted that the winter months of Dec-Jan-Feb would be above-normal in the western half of the country. Its Jan-Feb-Mar forecast showed warmth in the western and northern portions of the country as well. That forecast offered some degree of pressure on prices in the weeks that followed, as the market fell from $3.904 on Oct 18th to $3.608 on Nov 8th. The Nov 8th date is key, as it was then that NOAA dropped its watch for El Nino for the next four months, which helped create a short-tern low close one day later. The bullish tone that started on Nov 8th increased further after NOAA updated its long-range forecast on Thursday to show cooler temperatures in the northern and southeastern portions of the country with above-normal temps in a shrinking portion of the southwest. The October forecasts are shown below on the left, while Thursday's updated forecasts are shown on the right.
The near-term trading direction may continue to be bolstered by the colder weather. CWG issued a forecast yesterday for December that was colder than its previous outlook. Another focus will be today's inventory numbers, which we expect to show a decline of 24 bcf. The HDD numbers during the survey week were slightly higher than they were during the previous week when a draw of 18 bcf was reported. A decline today would further solidify the level two weeks ago as a record high. Inventories were reported at 3.929 tcf then, which was 77 bcf above the 2011 record high. That's a much smaller difference from what was suspected earlier this year. Support should also come from the shrinking contango, which implies that expectations for excess storage are diminishing. Dec futures may reach $3.95 over the next 1-2 weeks while Jan could touch $4.05.
Global Economic & Dollar News
» Chinese Premier Wen Jaibao said that the country's economy is becoming more stable and is expected to maintain relatively fast growth.
» Sec'y of State Clinton will visit Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Cairo amid the fighting in Gaza.
» Israel Postponed a decision on launching a ground invasion into the Gaza Strip.
» Egypt Brokered a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
» France's Credit Rating was downgraded from AAA to AA1 by Moody's.
» In Greek Debt, finance ministers moved closer to a deal that would release the next tranche of aid to Greece before end-Nov when it is expected to run out of cash. The size of a haircut is still being negotiated.
» The Hill newspaper raised the point Tuesday that the equity markets see something that's not being seen in Washington in terms of a deal on the fiscal cliff. It said that a deal is far from secured and that large differences remain over the Bush tax rates and entitlement changes. It said that lawmakers had no choice but to have the first meeting sound positive. It suggested that there's no guarantee that a deal is in the works and that it will happen by the end of the year.
» Fed Chmn Bernanke said that the fiscal cliff poses a substantial threat to the economy and will likely cause a recession if it hits in full force. Congress and the White House need to protect the economy from the effects of the fiscal cliff. He urged for the raising of the debt ceiling to avoid a catastrophic default. Said the economy continues to recovery although the pace is slow. He also said that the Fed would not be able to offer much help if the economy did go over the cliff.
» U.S. Housing Starts were +3.6% in Oct to 894K vs. 840K expected and 863K previously (revised down from 872K).
Energy News
» Motiva's Port Arthur Refinery will begin starting its crude unit and process some oil starting in early-Dec. It is expected to take about a month to go up to full rates. The new crude unit will give the facility capacity of 600,000 b/d.
Upcoming Energy Events
Wed - EIA Weekly Oil Inventories (10:30am EST)
Wed - Natural Gas Inventories (11:00am EST)
Thu - Chinese HSBC Flash MFG PMI (Wed night at 8:45pm EST)
Thu-Fri - ECB Council Meeting
Fri - German IFO Business Climate
Sun - Spanish Election in Catalonia
Tue - API Inventories (4:30pm EST)
Wed - Last Trade NGZ2
Dec 12th - OPEC Meeting
Dec 12th - FOMC Meeting and Press Conference
EIA Inventory Preview
Whatever the result of Wednesday's inventory numbers is, the key indication will likely be the comparison of oil inventories with their five-year average. That increased to 44.33 MB above the average in last week's report, which was the highest in two years. We look for a decline this week that's in-line with the five-year average drop of 0.7 MB. The DOE's figure is still some 2.9 MB above that of the API, which will offer pressure, as will increased refinery output. Most refineries in the Northeast have ramped up to normal output levels with the exception of Hess's 70 kb/d and Phillips 66's 238 kb/d facilities. Hess began restarting late last week, while the latest on Phillips 66 is that a restart is expected between Nov 19th-26th. Some boosting effect on inventories could come from demand, where a slight pullback is possible after last week's surge. Demand will be difficult to predict, however, as reverberations from Sandy are still occurring. Gasoline demand should stabilize too, which could help stocks increase 1.0 MB this week. Gasoline imports could maintain a recovery from Sandy and show another increase. Distillate inventories typically show a decline this week before rebounding through year-end. That could certainly be the case again, as demand has already recovered in the wake of Sandy.
Natural gas inventories will be released today at 11:00 am EST due to Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday. The weather during the survey week seemed a bit colder than what was anticipated during the week, as the NOAA degree day estimates were between 134-142. That was 3-10 degree days above the previous week and could set up for a draw in gas inventories of 24 bcf compared to the previous week's 18 bcf decrease. Another decline this week will make the reading two weeks ago the new all-time peak in inventories at 3.929 tcf. That's a new record by only 77 bcf which isn't as much as was feared earlier this year when speculation about storage capacity constraints was ongoing. A decline in the magnitude of 24 bcf could be supportive for the gas market.
*The API convergence figures are the amounts that EIA data need to change in order to match the previous day's API figures
Grains Commentary
Published Tuesday morning, 11/20/12
The overnight markets once again have lost the momentum as it seems the entire market place is watching the same movie. The beans are trading down 10-12, meal is down $3-4, oil has eased by 20 points, corn is down 2-3 and wheat is hovering around unchanged.
The market knows that the SA weather for the most part is good; the market knows that the bean yield exceeded everyone's expectations; the market knows that the basis is strong; the market knows funds are still long from much higher levels. So what is out there for influential news? The demand aspect seems to be questioned recently with speculation that China has cancelled bean purchases, there has been no confirmation of this but there has been re-negotiated contracts (don't we all wish we could do this with trading losses?) The CO figure seems to be rising for beans with some estimating figures closer to 175 than 140, but with domestic crush running so hard don't be too quick to change the CO figure. The corn is stuck in a range, at this point $7 it appears that the US will do more export business that is needed while at $775 it appears that we would lose the export markets. The bottom line to corn is that it is getting closer to exports and the threat for the corn CO at this point is to get smaller rather than larger.
The other factor that has been discussed is how bearish the new crop markets are, based on additional acreage along trend yield new crop CO are massive, beans are starting in the area of 400+ and corn would approach 2.0b. We realize that there are many factors to this but if this is correct the reality is the spreads most likely are not any good either even with a tight old crop balance sheet as every consumer will ration with the inverse and every farmer will sell every kernel into the inverse.
The outside markets are mixed with equities marginally higher, crude oil is down .17, natural gas is up .05, sugar is down .09, gold is down $2, $index is weaker, cotton is up .19, the DCE is lower in the beans and meal but higher in oil and corn, the Matif markets are lower in all markets and the MDEX finished +33 ringgits.
The OI in corn increased by 8882, wheat was up 3421, beans were down 2654, meal was down 1036 and oil was down 2326.
The option markets have once again worked themselves lower with downside CF puts down under 20%. The downside SN puts are under 19% as are the SX13 puts. These puts seem like better ownership for the bull with futures or the bear and under hedge them. The BO has shown that the market is attempting to make the big shorts liquidate and with this buying call spreads and selling puts could be something to look at as BO premium is still higher than beans. The wheat is much higher than corn and with the recent 50 cent move in CH-WH look to buy corn puts vs. wheat puts.


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Related: What the American - US Airways merger means to consumers
After a long courtship, US Airways and American Airlines announced Thursday they will merge to become the world's largest airline, melding two carriers with divergent strategies for how to approach the Los Angeles-area market.
The combined airline will take American name and continue to be based in Fort Worth, Texas. If regulators approve the deal, as expected, American will become the world's largest carrier by passenger traffic, surpassing United Airlines. The airline will have roughly 6,700 daily flights to 336 destinations.
The $11 billion merger is likely the last in series of recent airline tie-ups that have changed the scope of the nation's aviation industry during the past five years. When the merger is complete, three carriers with major international route networks - United, American and Delta Air Lines - will control slightly more than half the nation's market share. Southwest Airlines, which operates a mostly domestic schedule, will be the nation's fourth-biggest airline, carrying about 15 percent of customers.
Most Wall Street analysts favor the merger, believing the combined carrier can reduce costs, boost profits and better compete with United and Delta, both which have completed large-scale mergers recently. But the new management team, led by current US Airways chief executive Doug Parker, will need to develop a strategy to unite two airlines with different philosophies both nationally and in Southern California.
American, now the third-largest carrier, is a true international airline - it is especially dominant to South America and Europe - with robust operations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas and Miami. US Airways, meanwhile, has considerably fewer international flights and is concentrated in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Phoenix. It is now the fifth-largest airline, behind Southwest.
Locally, American has concentrated its efforts at Los Angeles International Airport, where it is second in market share behind United, in part because it is a favored carrier among the entertainment and business communities. US Airways, meanwhile, has relatively flew flights at LAX but has a comparatively larger presence at outlying airports like Ontario, Burbank and Long Beach.
The strategy for the combined career won't become clear for some time, but Andrew Nocella, senior vice president of marketing and planning for Tempe, Ariz.-based US Airways, said in an interview Thursday that the entire Los Angeles basin will be important for the new airline. For now, the carriers only overlap on one route here - from LAX to Phoenix.
"This is a game changer for us, and I think for American," Nocella said. "I think it's going to make us better off in Los Angeles. We are going to be here to compete. This is the new American."
The old American announced, in late 2009 - two years before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - that it would focus on building up operations at its Los Angeles hub. In the spring of 2011, it began 10 new routes from LAX, including one to Shanghai. Before the merger, American officials had said the airline might continue to grow once the new Tom Bradley International Terminal opens in 2014, giving it access to more gates.
American's strategy at LAX has historically focused on attracting premium, high-fare passengers, especially on its flights to London, Shanghai, Tokyo and New York. The airline recently announced a plan to make significant upgrades to its first and business class cabins, including installing a bar on some of its Boeing 777 airplanes. And soon, it also will become the only carrier to offer a true first-class cabin on its flights to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.
US Airways, meanwhile, has pursued a different strategy. While the largely no-frills airline has a full slate of European flights from its East Coast hubs, its West Coast flights are mostly within the United States. Among major carriers, it operates by far the fewest flights from LAX, with service only to Phoenix, Charlotte and Philadelphia.
But while American has largely focused its efforts on LAX, US Airways has made an effort to connect Ontario, Burbank and Long Beach with its Phoenix hub. The airline has five daily flights from Long Beach, five from Burbank and five from Ontario. Of those airports, American serves only Ontario, with four daily flights.
Nocella, the US Airways executive, said he expects the new airline will continue to serve all of the area's airports, though it is much too early to know for sure.
With US Airways executives now running the combined airline, it might make sense for the new American to pare down its Los Angeles flights while building them up at other airports in the region. But Brett Snyder, founder of the aviation website Crankyflier.com, said US Airways executives know the world's largest airline must have a strong presence at the nation's third-largest airport, where it will compete with United and Delta.
"The US Airways management team has always had a pretty clear strategy that, if you can't be No. 1 or have a serious presence, then why be there?" Snyder said. "If you go with the current US Airways strategy, they would just walk away from LAX except with flights to their hubs, because it's a bloodbath with all the airlines fighting. But now you're one of the big three. You need to be relevant."
Henry Harteveldt, an aviation industry analyst at Hudson Crossing in San Francisco, said he expects the combined airline will focus on both LAX and on outlying airports. Long Beach and Burbank, for example, could gain flights to Dallas Fort Worth airport - American's largest hub.
"The good thing is I don't think L.A. will be affected in any negative way," Harteveldt said. "If anything, it might make L.A. a more important market. What this means is that American Airlines as a single airline will have a lot more utility in the L.A. basin, including in Burbank and Ontario."
American and US Airways officials said Thursday they won't know their exact strategies for some time. But Derek DeCross, vice president of global sales for American, said the Los Angeles market will remain key for the new airline.
"It's something we are dedicated to," he said. "It's a huge base for our corporate customers. It's something we don't intend to give up."
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Chris Lynn : On My Way To The Cinema
Chris Lynn is a multifaceted filmmaker and Sound Artist from Maryland, USA. His work has been screened at festivals and galleries in the United States, Europe and Mexico. His short films focus primarily in urban and rural landscapes. His sound pieces are an assemblage of field recordings, ambient pieces, and soundtracks from his films. His first CD, Audible Landscapes, was released on the Sockets ... Read More »


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Going into tonight's ugly game, Artest was shooting at a .315 percentage over the Pacers' last five games. Then tonight he shoots 9-27. Twenty-Seven shots is too many for almost any player, and especially one with a bad thumb and in the midst of a bad shooting slump.
He needs to play smarter, and he needs better shot selection. That should have been a 20 or 30 point win tonight, and would have been with more intelligent play.


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A new salary range for one of five top executives at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital is drawing heat from an employee union and a state assemblyman.
The hospital board last week approved a salary range for its chief operating officer — a position now held by chief operating officer James Griffith — that starts at $284,400 and goes to $479,100.
The National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents about 800 Salinas Valley Memorial employees, issued a press release on Monday demanding the board reverse the move and accusing it of "handing out huge pay increases heading into the holiday weekend."
On Tuesday, Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, who previously pushed for the California State Auditor to investigate the hospital's executive compensation, also called for the board to reconsider. He said the action "is out of alignment with the public's call for a cap on excessive pay and benefits."
The board's action didn't raise Griffith's or any other executive's salary, hospital spokeswoman Adrienne Laurent said.
She called the union characterization of the salary-range action "inaccurate and unfair."
"There has been no change in salary for anyone in executive management," Laurent said.
To comply with recommendations by state auditors, she said, the hospital is working toward having contracts with all senior level executives.
Griffith is the only executive in his job on a permanent, rather than interim, basis, Laurent said.
The other four senior positions "when they become permanent will have salary ranges," she said.
Griffith formerly was the hospital's vice president for strategic management and planning. He became chief operating officer under a realignment of Salinas Valley Memorial executives that trimmed a number of vice presidents and reduced overall senior executives from 11 to 4.5 positions, Laurent said.
His current annual salary is $311,000.
She said it wasn't valid to compare compensation levels under the former executive staffing to the new system. The hospital eliminated supplemental pensions and other benefits — in response to the state Audit Bureau — and executives now receive "straight compensation only."
A market analysis recommended the approved COO salary range for organizations similar to Salinas Valley Memorial, she said.


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We recently had a great day shared with Debbie Fink, co-author of A Mom of Many Hats, at an event in Maryland. She shares her perspective with us today.
By Debbie Fink
What makes October 13th different from any other day on the calendar?
• If you ask a member of the Navy family, the response is likely to be: "October 13th? It's the Navy's Birthday!"
• If you ask a member of a family with a loved one living with breast cancer, you might expect to hear: "October 13th? It's National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day."
• If you ask Lisa Perea Hane, a mom living with breast cancer and my heroic co-author of A Mom of Many Hats, she would respond: "October 13th? "It's my son's 16th birthday!"
• If you ask me, it would be for all these reasons, and a few more.
I was honored to be invited by Walter Reed National Medical Center to speak at the 8th Annual Cancer Art Show. My friends at United Through Reading and the USO were able to attend. My topic was the Mom of Many Hats Book & Project. As a civilian, it was an opportune gift, wherein I merged two missions near and dear to my heart:
1) To thank our Military families and children for the daily sacrifices made on behalf of our freedom (come back to read November's Operation Thanksgiving Eagle's blog). http://operationthanksgivingeagle.com/Home.html
2) To help families and children, who have a loved one on a cancer journey, move from fear to strength (visit http://momofmanyhats.com/Home.html )
On October 13th, I had the chance to thank Military families while helping them cope with a cancer diagnosis. As if military life isn't stressful enough…
What else made this October 13th so different and memorable?
Civilians joined us at Walter Reed for the event. A few of these civilians commented afterward that it was, "the first time they'd interacted with military personnel", and these Servicemen/women/children didn't 'fit' the invisible stereotype – always strong and stoic… A stereotype that many civilians don't even realize they have.
The October 13th event showed Military personnel singing, dancing, playing music (the phenomenal U. S. Air Force Strolling Strings ( http://ow.ly/79vkM ) serenaded us during our book signing after the event), listening, laughing, and emoting while sharing their cancer-related stories. October 13th at our Walter Reed event, the civilians and Military present shared common ground in their fight against cancer.
And the invisible walls came 'a-tumblin' down. Person by person; interaction by interaction; family by family. We've only just begun.
So . . . back to A Mom of Many Hats. It's a therapeutic and powerful story, beautifully illustrated by Caroline Smith Heming, who took the project on while losing a dear friend to cancer. The book overflows with healing love; collective wisdom; thoughtful pedagogy; child psychology; and helpful virtues. It provides coping tools for the entire family facing this medical crisis.
My head thought to write a more explanatory blog about A Mom of Many Hats, or more about its heartwarming backstory. But my heart told me to share the story of October 13, 2011.
So when next October 13th rolls 'round, I'll be singing "Happy Birthday!" to our U.S. Navy; praying for all those with metastatic breast cancer; sending Lisa's son a Happy Birthday text; and recalling how we helped some invisible walls between our Military and Civilian Americans– walls that invisibly divide our indivisible nation – come a'tumblin' down. Perhaps you'll be joining me!
Many thanks to Debbie and her incredible positive energy. Be sure and see her books on our booklist too! http://www.unitedthroughreading.org/booklist/


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Quick Labor, And Dad Made The Birth Too
How is this for an exciting birth story? Diane Krish-Veeramany, a junior teacher at Mantford Primary School in England, arrived to work a day before she was scheduled to go on maternity leave. Instead of leaving at the end of the day to enjoy a quiet evening with her husband and son, however, she had her baby that morning in an empty classroom. Surprise!
Unexpected delivery
Diane was 39 weeks pregnant and had planned to go on maternity leave the very next day. She showed up early that day to attend a breakfast meeting, and as she was eating some toast she started to feel a bit off -- she reported that she was experiencing hot flashes and a few tightenings.
She initially shrugged it off and tried to go about her business, but about 20 minutes later she texted her husband and let him know she wasn't feeling right. After a meeting, she told her supervisor that she needed to go home because she was feeling unwell. The supervisor offered to call an ambulance, but Diane refused, saying it was no big deal -- but she needed to go home.
Walking across to the other side of school, she felt something new and realized that she didn't want the school kids seeing her like this, so she and three teaching assistants went into a classroom that wasn't being used, where she continued to refuse an ambulance as she waited for her husband as she sat on a computer chair.
Soon, however, contractions began in earnest. And just 20 minutes later, while on the phone with paramedics, her colleagues helped her deliver her baby shortly after her husband entered the room.
Happy day
The baby, a boy they named Jonah, weighed 9 pounds and was in good health when he was born. He was resting comfortably in his mother's arms when the paramedics arrived, and the teaching assistants who helped deliver him all got certificates of recognition for their actions that day.
More incredible births
Surprise baby for mom with her tubes tied
Surprise! Mom gives birth at her own baby shower
Marathon runner didn't know she was pregnant


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BERKELEY-Time to grab your pencils and your books, because today was the first day of school for the Cal football team, as well as the rest of the Berkeley student body. Today's lesson: the depth chart.
With the first day of school upon us, the weather more than obliged, signaling the end of summer by dropping from a high of 113 degrees just two days ago to a chilly 59 for the Bears' morning practice, after which head coach Jeff Tedford revealed who would be Cal's starters going into next week's game against UC Davis, for which the team began preparation with today's session.
Of course, senior quarterback Kevin Riley will be calling the shots under center, junior Bryan Anger will be booting rain-making punts and junior tailback Shane Vereen-sidelined for much of camp with a balky hamstring-will be toting the rock.
"I'm not sure today, that he is right where he should be. We hope that, by the beginning of the week next week, he will be," Tedford said of his starting tailback. "We have tomorrow and Saturday to practice. I think he is (ready), as far as ball skills and everything else. We've just got to make sure that he's in great shape, and so, a couple more days, we'll continue to work him fairly hard."
The race for the right to back up Vereen concluded with the crowning of little Isi Sofele as the backup tailback, with Covaughn DeBoskie-Johnson and Dasarte Yarnway rounding out the top four backs.
"It's good to know that I'm right there, but I still have to work hard," Sofele said. "We've still got guys coming for my spot, so I've got to keep working. But, it feels good to know that I accomplished what I wanted to do."
Tedford said that Sofele is likely to see more than 10 carries a game in spelling Vereen.
"It'll be like normal, what we've done with (Jahvid) Best and Vereen, the same deal. You want to hold your starting tailback to somewhere in the 25-carry range. You hate to get up in the 30s, or the 40s," Tedford laughed, in reference to Vereen's 42 carries during the Big Game last season.
Sofele has added quite a bit of muscle during the offseason, turning the lightning-quick back into a more physical presence between the tackles.
"I think it was a big factor in this situation," Sofele said. "Just to go out there and show that I can out-physical some guys, go out there and throw my body out there and stay on my feet and run."
Tedford added that Sofele-even before he added the bulk-was a tough little runner.
"The pounding really hasn't been an issue for him. He's quick, he's under control, he can block. It's more for strength. The pounding, he's always been very tough and durable, so that's not the issue, but obviously, strength and muscle gain helps in injury-prevention, so it has to help some."
Plowing the way for the backs will be a starting offensive line of Mitchell Schwartz at left tackle, Brian Schwenke at left guard (backed up by Dominic Galas), Chris Guarnero at center, Justin Cheadle at right guard and Donovan Edwards at right tackle. Edwards' spot is secure pending the recovery of the injured Matt Summers-Gavin, who started camp working in at left guard before going down with a right bone bruise in his knee.
"He's coming along, but he hasn't practiced yet, so unless he starts practice at the beginning of the week, he won't play (on Saturday)," Tedford said. "The line, when he comes back, he'll probably move to right tackle, because we have more depth inside, (with) Schwenke or Galas at left guard, and Schwenke can play right guard as well."
Sofele for one cited the importance of having at least some semblance of consistency on the line, given that he'll be seeing more frequent action than he has to date.
"It's really important," Sofele said. "You've got to know who's who, where they're going, you've got to know what you're doing and what the read is, so you go in there and don't make any bad decisions, so you can just go in there and make things happen."
Apart from Vereen and Sofele, the offense will feature quite a large number of new playmakers, starting with the newest musical duo to sweep the nation: true freshman Keenan Allen and junior Marvin Jones, the starting pair of wide receivers. Allen had perhaps the most impressive fall camp, winning the starting gig on his first go-around, and continued his strong showing this morning, displaying smooth acceleration both in and out of his breaks, superb sideline awareness and balance, hauling in everything that came his way.
"It was evident right away. He's big, strong, fast, great hands, great body control, it took maybe three days, or something like that," Tedford chuckled, describing Allen's ascension up the depth chart.
Tedford then proceeded to name off the rest of the wide receiver rotation.
"You have Marv and Keenan, and then Jeremy Ross, Michael Calvin, (Alex) Lagemann and Coleman (Edmond)," Tedford said. "If we go three-wide, it'd be Ross, right now. Coleman will play, and we're going to keep Tevin Carter and Kaelin Clay in the mix. Then, we'll just have to see how they come along and what ends up happening."
Carter saw time on Thursday fielding kickoffs, along with Allen and Vereen. Clay-who had also seen a few return reps over the course of fall camp-has been a very pleasant surprise at his proper position of receiver, and has shown some of the softest hands outside of the top two newcomers in Allen and Edmond.
Also showing some solid pass-catching during today's one-on-one drills was tight end Jacob Wark, who Tedford named as the fourth tight end, behind Anthony Miller, Spencer Ladner and Jarrett Sparks.
"He came in physically prepared to play and block at the line of scrimmage," Tedford said of Wark. "He catches the ball well, runs well, but there's a lot to learn at that position, so that's really been his deal. When he finally gets everything down, and he can play unconscious, then he has all the tools to be a great tight end."
Other starters on offense include Eric Stevens at fullback, spelling incumbent Will Kapp by virtue of the latter having missed a significant amount of camp due to a concussion.
"Right now, the starting fullback would be Stevens," Tedford said. "Both those guys are going to play a lot, it's just that Kapp missed so much camp. It's 1 and 1A."
In what has been a fierce battle ever since the start of spring ball, the starting cornerbacks-at least for the moment-will be veteran Darian Hagan and Marc Anthony, who beat out another strong camper in Steve Williams, who, along with Bryant Nnabuife, will start the season as a backup.
During one-on-ones pitting corners against receivers, Anthony-who will start at left corner-was particularly suffocating, all-but throwing a wet blanket over the pass-catching machine that is Lagemann.
"He's done a great job in all areas-in the run game, he's tackling well, great cover guy-he had a very solid camp," Tedford said of Anthony. "We always felt like he had the potential to play, but he's had a great camp."
During nickel situations, Tedford said that Nnabuife and Josh Hill could come in as an extra defensive back. Hill is also in the mix at strong safety, and will back up senior starter Chris Conte. As for the free safety position, things look a bit more open.
"Sean Cattouse, we'll see by the end of the week, that kind of goes back and forth with the safeties," Tedford said. "There's Conte, there's Hill and D.J. Campbell. They'll all rotate, really. It doesn't matter who takes the first snap. They're all going to rotate."
Having clearly defined groups of free and strong safeties is something new for the Cal defenders, who, under former defensive coordinator Bob Gregory, just had left and right safeties with largely undifferentiated roles.
Another position still up in the air is defensive end. On one side, senior Cameron Jordan and his high-top Gumby fade are a mainstay, but on the other side, Deandre Coleman and Ernest Owusu will continue to contend with one another, with Coleman currently holding a slight edge.
"D-end right now, is not really (settled)," Tedford said. " It's either going to be DeAndre or Owusu. KP (Kendrick Payne) right now is the nose tackle."
Payne has pulled ahead of veteran Derrick Hill-if only slightly-and will remain there until Hill is healthy enough to challenge for playing time.
"Oh yeah, definitely, as soon as he gets healthy, because he's really been limited because of injury," Tedford said. "Hill has a chronic knee, and then he ended up having gout in his foot or ankle."
There have been other knicks and dings over the course of fall camp, but nothing major going into Thursday's practice. Senior linebacker Mike Mohamed battled through some sore ribs and had a solid practice, as did Conte, who was sporting a light wrap on his right wrist.
Mohamed will of course start at inside linebacker, along with D.J. Holt, with Keith Browner and Mychal Kendricks holding down the outside.
During positional work, linebacker Steven Fanua stood out, showing plenty of aggression in pad-hitting drills.
One contender for playing time at outside backer-true freshman David Wilkerson-had to sit out practice, along with his recruiting classmate Gabe King, who was making quite a push himself during fall camp at defensive end.
"Gabe is waiting for the NCAA. He's got a paperwork issue that the NCAA needs to clear," Tedford said. "Wilkerson's the same as Gabe King. He's got some paperwork. The (NCAA) Clearinghouse gets so bogged down right now, they get inundated with everybody's paperwork. We're just waiting on the final clearance from the clearinghouse for our people."
Tedford was more than slightly irked at having to wait on bureaucratic red tape, especially when it concerns two of his young studs on defense.
"Anytime something like that is in somebody else's hands, you always have to be a little bit concerned about it. They have sent their things numerous times, and I don't know what's going on at the Clearinghouse as far as what their mailroom looks like, or how they're organized or whatever," Tedford said. "It's a little bit frustrating when you send things two and three and four times, and they come up with new policies when you sent the paperwork in a long time ago, at the beginning of the summer, and then they change and there's something new. Then, the people at the high school are on vacation, and you're trying to get a hold of them to get something done. We were on top of this a long time ago. The compliance office is calling three, four times a day to try and get it figured out, find out where the paperwork is. It can be a bit frustrating."
Tedford said that, with the depth that the Bears have on the defensive line, King-despite his very strong camp-will most likely not be needed immediately, and will most likely redshirt. Wilkerson, however, was expected to compete at outside linebacker, and had to miss a large chunk of the latter part of camp because of similar paperwork issues.
"King most likely will redshirt. Wilkerson will be in the mix. It's a bigger thing for Wilkerson, as far as timing is concerned," Tedford said. "They can't practice until they've been cleared. They haven't practiced for four or five days, now. (Wilkerson) missed some reps. He didn't get to play in our last 'fast practice.'"
Having fast practices is largely the impetus behind a new format for the end of the Bears' sessions, starting with Thursday. Instead of having a dedicated scout team, Tedford is altering the landscape a bit to further competition between individual players as well as units.
"We're going to service each other. We'll have two service periods and one scout period. The speed is a lot better," Tedford said. "We'll service each other, which means we'll have our No. 2 defense line up with what we want to see, in our terminology, and we'll do it with speed. Same thing with the No. 2 offense against the No. 1 defense. Whatever plays they want to see, we'll put them in our terminology and we'll run them for the speed of the game. Then we take all the young guys and they'll all run plays against each other while these guys are servicing. Then, at the end, we'll have complete scout teams, where we may have something totally specific to that other team, just to be able to get the look, like if they do something kind of odd that our defense can't simulate at all, that's when we'll plug those things in. It's to simulate game temp and game speed."
Special Teams
In an unsurprising turn of events, Sofele will take on the duty of many of Cal's No. 2 backs of the past, and will be the primary kickoff returner.
"Return guys, right now, for kickoff, is probably going to be Sofele and Conte," Tedford said. "The punt returner will be Jeremy Ross. Conte's the off returner (on kickoffs)."
Expect Edmond, Clay and Carter to also see some time on kick and punt return once the whistle blows.
As for placekicking, Giorgio Tavecchio will be the starter on both kickoffs and field goals, but don't sleep on walk-on freshman Jed Barnett, who started fall backing up Anger in the punting department.
"Giorgio is still doing kicking (field goals and kickoffs) as of today," Tedford said. "I think that's still up in the air, as far as, he's the field goal kicker, and kickoffs, today, we'll continue to evaluate that. In kickoffs today, I thought that Barnett did a nice job."


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Thu, 16 May 2013 19:27:36 GMT —
WASHINGTON-- House Republicans have moved to protect the Department of Homeland Security from the big cuts facing other domestic agencies under the party's slashing budget plan.
An Appropriations subcommittee moved to beef up the Border Patrol, grants to local governments for first responders and training to disarm bombs.
The measure won support from Democrats. In many areas Republicans boosted spending above President Barack Obama's budget request.
But Democrats warned that generously funding the homeland security budget will mean even sharper cuts to programs like education, medical research, transportation and clean energy.
Earlier this year, tea party forces in the GOP-controlled House pushed through a budget that would force nondefense programs to bear cuts more than $90 billion below levels called for in a 2011 budget pact.


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Men at Lunch: Images are great but platitudes too plentiful in documentary about New York photo
Men at Lunch is the story of a time, a place, a photograph, and the people in that photograph.
The photo shows 11 men, eating their lunch on a beam, more than 800 feet above Manhattan. It was taken on Sept, 20, 1932, and appeared in the New York Herald Tribune on Oct. 2, 1932, with the caption Lunch Atop a Skyscraper. The name of the photographer is unknown. So far, only two of the workers have been identified. And they were building Rockefeller Centre, not the Empire State Building, as some online captions mistakenly claim.
The best parts of Men at Lunch are visual – photos and film footage of New York in the 1930s.
It was great to have a look at the archives of Rockefeller Centre itself, and, better still, to visit the Corbis photo collection, which is kept inside a former mine in Iron Mountain, Pennsylvania. (As someone who does not like rooms without windows, the long tunnels of the Corbis facility would not be my ideal work environment, though.)
The filmmaker, Seán Ó Cualáin, visited Corbis because that's where the (broken) glass negative of the photo of the lunching ironworkers is kept. That one photo earns the archive more money than any other. Given its fragility, maybe it's surprising that this negative did not break until 1996. We don't learn how it was broken, or who broke it. All I can say is, glad it wasn't me!
(A New York street vendor says that the image is his best seller, too. Something tells me that he's not paying any royalties to Corbis. He says that customers often claim that one of the men in the photo is their grandfather.)
Many of today's ironworkers say that poster versions of the photo hang in their homes, and in the homes of ironworker relatives. One of these men says that he comes from a long line of Irish and "Newfies."
Montrealers know that many local Mohawks helped to build New York, and other U.S. cities, too. There's some information about them on a web page of The Smithsonian Institution.
Germans, Scandinavians and Irish did this work, as well. (We don't see any black or Asian faces in any of the photographs, presumably because of discrimination back then.)
The film owes its existence to that Irish connection, in fact.
An article in the Irish Examiner says that Seán Ó Cualáin and his brother Eamonn saw a copy of Lunch Atop a Skyscraper in a pub in Shanaglish, County Galway, with a note underneath it that read: "As promised, picture of my dad and my uncle, far left and right, Sonny Glynn and Mattie O'Shaughnessy — Pat Glynn."
They were intrigued, and contacted Pat Glynn, a Boston man of Irish descent.
"We went into it with the sole intention of proving that Sonny and Mattie are the men in the picture," Seán Ó Cualáin told the Irish Examiner.
"Within about two weeks, we realised we weren't going to be able to do that. No work records survived from the construction of the Rockefeller building. The story had to change. We couldn't prove if it was them or not, but we knew there was still enough in the claim itself, and in the power of the photo, and the history of that time in America."
New York City skyline in the 1930s, as seen in Men at Lunch.
While watching the film, I learned that the men doing this very dangerous work earned $1.50 an hour, which was considered very good pay at the time. But every year, 2 per cent of New York's ironworkers would die in accidents and another 2 per cent would be disabled for life. Planners assumed that for every 10 storeys that were built, one worker would lose his life.
The buildings went up very quickly – four or five storeys in one week. "You could watch the city change before your eyes," says one of the many talking heads in this film.
And therein lies the unfortunate problem with Men at Lunch, which I'd been looking forward to seeing since I first read about it, several months ago.
The silent film era ended decades ago, but that doesn't mean that every second of a film must be filled with talking or tunes, does it?
There's a tinkly musical motif repeated so many times in Men at Lunch that I became very tired of it long before the film was over.
It's my understanding that a film has to be of a certain length to be eligible for various film festival prizes, and I suspect that explains the length of this one. It isn't a bad film, not at all, but it would have been so much better with a trim. (It seems that a shorter version has aired on PBS.)
There are only so many times we want to hear things like the "iron workers are walking, breathing icons of New York City," that they were the "motivational poster boys of their day," and that oldie-but-goody, "work hard and you can achieve anything."
Unless you've just arrived from Mars, you've probably heard about the American Dream, the Land of Opportunity, the famous Melting Pot, and Ellis Island. You know that New York is a city of immigrants. Certainly, any American viewer would know it, and even a Martian would only need to hear that once, no need to belabour the point. The film is almost like a citizenship application on the part of the filmmaker.
Men at Lunch is 75 minutes long. It's being shown at Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Park Ave., every night at 7 p.m. until Thursday, Feb 21, 2013.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — There are 45 cars entered in the 55th annual Daytona 500 scheduled for Feb. 25 at Daytona International Speedway.
The 43-car field will be determined through qualifying Feb. 17 and through the two qualifying races on Feb. 21.
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The front row will be set during qualifying on Sunday. The next 30 cars will make the field through the Budweiser Duel qualifying races, with six more cars then added based on qualifying speed.
The rest of the field will be filled out with provisional starting spots based on 2012 owner points.
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Jamie McMurray, No. 1, Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet
Brad Keselowski, No. 2, Penske Racing, Ford
Kasey Kahne, No. 5, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet
Dave Blaney, No. 7, Tommy Baldwin Racing, Chevrolet
Marcos Ambrose, No. 9, Richard Petty Motorsports, Ford
Danica Patrick, No. 10, Stewart-Haas Racing, Chevrolet
Denny Hamlin, No. 11, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota
Casey Mears, No. 13, Germain Racing, Ford
Tony Stewart, No. 14, Stewart-Hass Racing, Chevrolet
Clint Bowyer, No. 15, Michael Waltrip Racing, Toyota
Greg Biffle, No. 16, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 17, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford
Kyle Busch, No. 18, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota
Mike Bliss, No. 19, Humphrey-Smith Racing, Chevrolet
Matt Kenseth, No. 20, Joe Gibbs Racing, Chevrolet
Trevor Bayne, No. 21, Wood Brothers Racing, Ford
Joey Logano, No. 22, Penske Racing, Ford
Jeff Gordon, No. 24, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet
Michael Waltrip, No. 26, Swan Racing, Toyota
Paul Menard, No. 27, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet
Kevin Harvick, No. 29, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet
Jeff Burton, No. 29, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet
Terry Labonte, No. 32, FASLane Racing, Ford
Austin Dillon, No. 33, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet
David Ragan, No. 34, Front Row Motorsports, Ford
Josh Wise, No. 35, Front Row Motorsports, Ford
J.J. Yeley, No. 36, Tommy Baldwin Racing, Chevrolet
David Gilliland, No. 38, Front Row Motorsports, Ford
Ryan Newman, No. 39, Stewart-Haas Racing, Chevrolet
Juan Pablo Montoya, No. 42, Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet
Aric Almirola, No. 43, Richard Petty Motorsports, Ford
Bobby Labonte, No. 47, JTG Daugherty Motorsports, Toyota
Jimmie Johnson, No. 48, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet
Regan Smith, No. 51, Phoenix Racing, Chevrolet
Brian Keselowski, No. 52, Brian Keselowski Racing, Toyota
Mark Martin, No. 55, Michael Waltrip Racing, Toyota
Martin Truex Jr., No. 56, Michael Waltrip Racing, Toyota
Kurt Busch, No. 78, Furniture Row Racing, Chevrolet
David Reutimann, No. 83, BK Racing, Toyota
Joe Nemechek, No. 87, Nemco Motorsports, Toyota
Dale Earnhardt Jr., No. 88, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet
Travis Kvapil, No. 93, BK Racing, Toyota
Scott Speed, No. 95, Leavine Family Racing, Ford
Michael McDowell, No. 98, Phil Parsons Racing, Ford
Carl Edwards, No. 99, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford


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Did you know that September is whole grains month? I bet not. I bet you didn't know today is International Talk like a Pirate Day either. Avast, me hearties! I forgot! Or maybe I just chose not to talk like a pirate today. After all, I know very few phrases and speak "whole grain" much better than "pirate."
Fortunately, I didn't forget that September is whole grains month and have been celebrating all month long*. If you forgot, not to fear- you can still celebrate your favorite whole grains this month. Our friends at the Whole Grains Council have some wonderful suggestions to get you started:
I'll buy three different loaves of whole-grain bread and taste all of them to see which one we like best.
I'll serve bulgur or brown rice instead of potatoes with dinner one night this month.
I'll look for the Whole Grain Stamp every time I shop.
I'll try a new breakfast cereal with at least 16 grams of whole grain per serving.
I'll buy some whole-wheat pasta and try it.
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I'll make my favorite whole grain recipe for a friend.
On the weekend, I'll try cooking a pot of steel-cut oatmeal.
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Beliveau optioned after enduring wild travel day
CLEVELAND -- Jeff Beliveau jokingly sent fellow pitcher Chris Archer a text on Friday night, telling him that he could pitch the 10th inning of Tampa Bay's contest against the Indians.
Beliveau, who had been promoted to the big league squad earlier in the day, had his flight to Cleveland delayed. Little did he know that his teammates were also in a holding pattern.
Beliveau's original flight was scheduled to depart Raleigh-Durham at 2:30 p.m. ET, but the plane had a faulty tire, and the airline had to have a replacement shipped in. As a result, he was delayed for five hours.
Meanwhile, a trio of rain stoppages pushed back the majority of the Friday's series opener until after midnight. Beliveau ended up jumping on a 20-minute flight from Raleigh-Durham to Charlotte before catching another flight that left for Cleveland at 8 p.m.
When he finally landed in northeast Ohio, Beliveau assumed that the Rays had finished their game. Then he turned on his phone.
"Chris Archer texted me and said, 'Hey man, you're still going to pitch. We still haven't gotten past the second inning,'" Beliveau said. "So I rushed my way in a cab [to the ballpark]."
Beliveau didn't pitch in Friday's tilt, which ended at 2:53 a.m. on Saturday. Following the contest, he was optioned back to Triple-A Durham to make room for Archer, who made his season debut atop the hill on Saturday. Beliveau had an afternoon flight scheduled to return to Durham.
Zack Meisel is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @zackmeisel. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Afternoon: Program Registration. After you have your room assignment, come to the Road Scholar table located in the meeting room off the lobby to register with the program staff and get your welcome packet containing your name-tag, up-to-date schedule that reflects any last-minute changes, and other important information, and to learn when and where the Orientation session will take place. If your arrival is delayed, please ask for your packet when you check in. Orientation. The Group Leader will greet everyone with a warm welcome and lead introductions. We will review the up-to-date program schedule and any changes, discuss roles and responsibilities, logistics, safety guidelines, emergency procedures, and answer any questions you may have. Transportation will be provided primarily by motorcoach unless specified otherwise. This necessitates going up/down a few steps when boarding and getting off the motorcoach. Free time is reserved for your personal independent exploration. Evenings at leisure offer opportunities to make the program more meaningful and memorable through personal independent exploration, engaging in available activities on your own, or simply relaxing and making new friends among fellow participants. The Group Leader will always be happy to offer suggestions. Program activities, schedules, personnel, and indicated distances or times may change due to local conditions/circumstances. In the event of changes, we will alert you as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
Dinner: At the hotel, we'll enjoy a buffet dinner with coffee, tea and water; other beverages available for purchase.
Evening: The remainder of the evening is at leisure for you to continue getting to know your fellow Road Scholars, settle in, and get a good night's rest for the full day ahead. We are about to embark on a very special learning adventure to see first-hand how history lives on in the present, from stately homes in historic Charleston to extraordinary Lowcountry plantations. Charleston is and always has been a place of spectacular contradictions. Known as the "Holy City" because of its many houses of worship, this was one of the few cities in colonial America to protect religious diversity. Yet, it was also part of an ante-bellum society that benefited from slavery and became wealthy as a result. You'll have opportunities to ponder these contradictions as we explore and learn about magnificent dwellings, often adorned with graceful gardens, and the lives of the people who lived and worked there.
Activity note: Walking up to a ½ mile at the Battery over uneven terrain. Driving about 11 miles from Mt. Pleasant to downtown Charleston, approximately ½ an hour.
Breakfast: At the hotel, we'll start our day off right with a hearty and nutritious breakfast buffet that will include a wide range of freshly baked goods, organic whole-grain cereals, fresh fruit, creamy yogurts, freshly squeezed juices, fresh eggs and bacon or sausage. Coffee, tea, and water are also included.
Morning: A local historian will join us at the hotel to provide an introduction to Charleston and the Carolina Lowcountry. This prefatory history of Charleston will prepare us for the field trips we will take during our stay, beginning with our first field trip through historic downtown Charleston this afternoon.
Lunch: Transferring by motorcoach to a popular restaurant in the City Market Place in downtown Charleston, we will enjoy a plated meal from a select menu featuring regional specialties with coffee, tea and water; other beverages available for purchase.
Afternoon: Boarding our motorcoach, we'll carry onward to the Charleston Historic District where we will become more familiar with the interior city of Charleston. Our expert historian will lead us on a mixed walking and riding exploration of great houses and gardens. Your field trip will also include a visit to the French Protestant (Huguenot) Church dating back to the 1680's.
Dinner: Hotel buffet.
Evening: The Gullah people, descendants of slaves, are a distinctive group of African-Americans living in the Coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia. Because of their isolated community life, the Gullah have retained more of their African cultural heritage than many other groups and speak an English-based Creole language that has maintained many elements of African language and culture. We'll enjoy an informative presentation and selection of songs performed by our instructor that will entertain and delight us while providing insights into Gullah culture.
Activity note: Walking up to 1 mile at both plantations is over dirt paths and uneven terrain. Middleton covers a large area that takes approximately 2 hours to walk and standing for lecture. Magnolia involves walking up approximately 15 steps to the home. Getting on/off a tram for a 4 mile ride around the plantation. Garden walk is optional. Driving about 17 miles, approximately 1/2 an hour.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: Middleton Place, a National Historic Landmark situated on the Ashley River, is a carefully preserved 18th-century plantation that has survived revolution, Civil War, and an earthquake. During our field trip, we'll learn that it was the home of 4 important generations of Middletons beginning with Henry Middleton, President of the First Continental Congress; Arthur, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; Henry, Governor of South Carolina and an American Minister to Russia; and William, a signer of the Ordinance of Secession. Together with our local historian, we'll explore the gardens, the plantation stableyards, domestic life at Eliza's House, labor at the Rice Mill, and the Spring House.
Lunch: At Middleton Place Plantation, we'll enjoy a delicious buffet featuring Lowcountry cuisine.
Afternoon: Magnolia Plantation, founded in 1676 by the Drayton family, has survived the centuries and witnessed the history of our nation unfold from the American Revolution through the Civil War and beyond. It is the oldest public site open to visitors in the Lowcountry with the oldest public gardens in America. Originally opening its doors to visitors in 1872, those who wished to view the thousands of beautiful flowers and plants in its famous gardens now could enjoy the spectacle. We'll learn about its rich history from the expert staff at Magnolia as we experience the beauty of the house and gardens on a nature tram ride around the property with commentary.
Dinner: Hotel buffet.
Evening: In our meeting room at the hotel with a local expert, we'll learn about the history and techniques that have birthed Charleston's unique Sweetgrass Baskets through a demonstration. Brought to the area by slaves who came from the west coast of Africa, basket making is an ancient African art form in this country, which has been passed on from generation to generation. Skilled craftsmanship and long hours are involved in making these baskets. Even for the most experienced basket maker, a simple design can take as long as 12 hours whereas a larger, more complex design can take as long as 2 to 3 months.
Activity note: Walking up to 1 mile to historic homes within the Battery area on mostly even terrain.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: The motorcoach will leave the hotel and drive to a centrally located area in downtown Charleston. Participants will be given vouchers for entry to the Edmondston-Alston Home and the Nathaniel Russell Home; they also will quality each of us for a docent-led field trip. They are valid all day so participants may explore independently and schedule activities for their day autonomously. Both locations are within a short walk from the drop-off stop and one another. Built for shipping merchant Charles Edmondston c.1825, this house on Charleston's High Battery was acquired in 1838 by Charles Alston, owner of three rice plantations on the fertile Waccamaw Neck. It is an outstanding example of a planter's town house, where the Alstons enjoyed the social season and summer breezes of the city, avoiding the malarial rice plantations. Since it has never passed out of the family's ownership, it is richly appointed with original furniture, tableware, and even Charles Alston's library and gun. The second-story piazza affords a breathtaking view of Charleston Harbor. The second home to view this morning is the Nathaniel Russell Home. Since 1808, visitors have admired the grand Federal townhouse of Charleston merchant Nathaniel Russell. Set amid spacious formal gardens, the Nathaniel Russell House is a National Historic Landmark and is widely recognized as one of America's most important neoclassical dwellings. The graceful interior with elaborate plasterwork ornamentation, geometrically shaped rooms and a magnificent free-flying staircase are among the most exuberant ever created in early America. At the end of the day, participants will be picked up at a designated point and transported back to the hotel in Mt. Pleasant.
Lunch: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions. Explore some of the wonderful cuisine available in the many different restaurants in downtown Charleston.
Afternoon: Free time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions. In the early afternoon, the motorcoach will gather participants who want to go back to the hotel from downtown Charleston to Mt. Pleasant. For participants wanting to remain in downtown Charleston and sight-see, you will be on your own. The motorcoach will return to downtown Charleston again in the late afternoon.
Dinner: On your own to enjoy what you like from one of the many delicious local restaurants.
Evening: At the historic Circular Congregational Church located in the heart of the Historic District, we'll experience the unique sounds that define Charleston's rich musical heritage (gospel, Gershwin, music of the Civil War, light classics, & jazz) all presented by professional artists in a live and unforgettable concert. We'll then return to the hotel via motorcoach.
Activity note: Driving about 25 miles, approximately ½ an hour, one way. Getting on/off a tram for about a ½ hour ride, walking through the production building.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: A truly unique experience for the country, we'll then embark on a field trip to the only tea plantation in the United States: The Charleston Tea Plantation. The home of American Classic Tea, tea grown in America, it is located on picturesque Wadmalaw Island in the heart of South Carolina's Lowcountry. Its grounds include 127 acres of Camellia Sinensis tea plants, a working Tea Factory and a charming Plantation Gift Shoppe. While here, we will embark on a trolley ride with a local expert to explore the many acres of tea bushes while learning more about tea the enterprise through on board commentary. A stop at the greenhouse will afford us the opportunity to see up close what it takes to care for young tea bushes and grow them healthily. Furthermore, we'll walk the length of the tea production building where we will see all the equipment it takes to process tea from the field and prepare it for shipment. Large TV screens along the glassed-in gallery will illustrate the entire process.
Lunch: At the Charleston Tea Plantation, we'll have a scrumptious and fresh plated meal with iced tea or water.
Afternoon: Afterwards, we will visit the Angel Oak tree with our Group Leader who will speak about its long history. The Angel Oak is a Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) that is a native species found throughout the Lowcountry (Coastal Carolina) and it is believed to be in excess of 1,500 years old with its massive, draping limbs and wide spreading canopy presenting the aura of an angel. However, the naming of this tree was actually implemented by the tree's previous owners, Martha and Justin Angel.
Dinner: At a popular restaurant near the hotel, we will explore some of the area's distinctive coastal cuisine with a plated meal featuring signature Lowcountry dishes. Share favorite memories and toast to new Road Scholar friends over our special farewell dinner, with coffee, tea and water; other beverages available for purchase.
Evening: We will continue our fun into the night at the local restaurant recounting fun experiences and enjoying the group camaraderie. We'll then return to the hotel via motorcoach. Be sure to prepare for check-out and departures in the morning.
Activity note: Hotel check-out by 11:00 a.m.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: A guest speaker from the Charleston Preservation will join us at the hotel to speak about the ongoing efforts to preserve Charleston. This concludes our program. We hope you enjoy Road Scholar learning adventures and look forward to having you on rewarding programs in the future. Please join our Facebook page and share photos of your program. Visit us at www.facebook.com/rsadventures. Best wishes for all your journeys!


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In the media: Cox working on business services acquisition
When it comes to business services, Cox Communications was an early pioneer, but in order to keep pace with the competition, the nation's third-largest cable operator is working on deals to buy business services companies with annual revenue of about $200 million.
According to a story by Bloomberg, Cox could announce a deal over the six next months. Phil Meeks, senior vice president of Cox Business, told Bloomberg that Cox was targeting cloud computing and telecommunications services companies. In addition to buying business services companies, Cox is also looking at partnerships.
Cox has previously said it has targeted annual revenues of $2 billion for business services by 2016 after crossing the $1 billion threshold two years ago. According to Meeks, Cox's business services revenues are projected to increase by 13 percent to $1.4 billion this year. Small businesses, with 19 or fewer employees, account for 65 percent of Cox Business' revenues.
Cable operators have been successful in pulling away business from CenturyLink, Verizon and AT&T by offering Metro Ethernet services that are more flexible and robust than the telcos' T1 lines, as well as providing cellular backhaul networks.
Earlier this week, Bright House Networks announced it had signed an agreement to buy the business of cloud communications provider Telovations for an undisclosed sum.
Last year, Time Warner Cable paid $230 million for cloud vendor NaviSite. In its third-quarter earnings report earlier this month, Time Warner Cable said its NaviSite division posted revenue growth of more than 20 percent from the same quarter a year ago.
Last month, Time Warner Cable launched its cloud-based service-as-as-software offering for small- and medium-size businesses.


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The St. Francis High baseball team has a lot to celebrate at today's season-ending party. More than a week ago, the Lancers won their first Central Coast Section championship in 12 years and the first under head coach Mike Oakland.
"It should be a lot of fun," said Oakland, who just completed his seventh season at St. Francis.
Michael Strem, whose pitching and hitting played a big part in the Lancers' postseason success, seemed just as eager to reunite with his teammates to commemorate a year that ended with a 10-0 rout of Serra in the CCS Division I final.
"I'm going to miss all those guys for sure," said Strem, one of 13 seniors on the squad. "We had such great chemistry, combined with talent, all year long. Even when we were down, we fought back. That was huge."
The Lancers built such a huge lead against league rival Serra in the May 25 title game that it ended early on the 10-run mercy rule. St. Francis scored twice in the fourth inning, added five runs in the fifth and three in the sixth to finish off the Padres at San Jose's Municipal Stadium.
Although Strem said he "felt confident" the Lancers (30-4 overall) would hit well in the final, he never imagined the game would be so one-sided. The teams split their two West Catholic Athletic League contests.
"I thought it was going to be a pitchers' duel," Strem said. "But we jumped on them early, and John had some of the best stuff I've seen him throw."
That would be starting pitcher John Gavin. The lefthander surrendered just one hit and had a perfect game going until the fifth.
Yet Gavin's complete-game effort, which included eight strikeouts, was only the second-best performance by a St. Francis pitcher during the playoffs. Strem pitched a perfect game – the first in school history – in the Lancers' opening-round win over Monta Vista.
Each pitcher won two CCS games, with junior Gavin never allowing a run and Strem surrendering three.
For the season, Gavin notched 90 strikeouts and posted a 1.28 ERA, while Strem fanned 79 batters and had a 1.31 ERA.
"We tried to outdo each other every week," Strem said. "He'd get a shutout and I'd try to match him, and vice-versa."
This marked Strem's first season as a varsity pitcher; he primarily played the infield as a sophomore and junior.
"I knew he could pitch – we just didn't need him – but I didn't think he'd be this dominant," Oakland said. "He was phenomenal in CCS – he was lights out on the mound and did a great job at the plate."
The Boston College-bound Strem recorded five hits and six RBIs in the postseason. Two of these hits came in the final.
Strem was among three starters who batted above .400 this season (along with Chris Baker and Champi Lucca); five Lancers hit at least .300 (Mark Cardinalli, Tyler Deason, Austin Guibor, Kort Peterson and Hunter Simmons).
While stats are nice, Oakland noted that St. Francis' intangibles were just as important to the team's winning ways.
"The chemistry was as good as it's ever been," the coach said. "They were the most focused and hardest-working group I've had in high school or college."
Five team members are Los Altos residents: Lucca, Matt Bell, Brent Jarvis, Patrick McMullen and Casey Douglas. All of them played Los Altos-Mountain View PONY Baseball.
– Joe Schram contributed to this report
For more photos of the St. Francis High School baseball team, click here.


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UW-Madison receives grant for superconducting electron gun
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has received a $4.5 million grant from the United States Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences office. The award will fund a research and development project focusing on the fabrication and testing of what is called an electron gun for a free electron laser (FEL) — a several-football-fields-long light source, an immense instrument whose light would be used by researchers across a range of disciplines for their experiments.
The electron gun project will greatly enhance a UW–Madison initiative to build an FEL. This initiative, called WiFEL, or the Wisconsin Free Electron Laser, would be the brightest source of ultraviolet and soft X-rays in the world.
"Major advances in accelerator and laser technology have created this opportunity to construct a national light source facility based on free electron lasers. Here at UW–Madison, our team is pushing forward with development work as part of a new American FEL, hopefully to be located here. This award from DOE is a major first step toward WiFEL," explains Joe Bisognano, director of the UW–Madison Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC) and principal investigator on the project.
Since 1987, SRC has housed an electron storage ring, called Aladdin, which produces light by whirling electrons at nearly the speed of light around a circular track. Researchers use this light for a wide array of applications. A storage ring is just one of many ways to produce light. A free electron laser makes a laser beam of radiation that can produce super-short pulses of light measured in quadrillionths of a second. It all starts at the beginning of the machine at what's known as the electron gun, and this is the focus of the current project — a research and development project to produce the best electron gun.
"An electron gun is actually a vacuum tube for producing a stream of electrons as is found in all older tube TVs," explains electrical engineer Bob Legg, who spearheaded the design of this cutting-edge electron source. "The successful production of the photons by the FEL mechanism critically depends on the quality of the electron beam. Higher energy electrons can be used to compensate for poorer quality electrons, but requires ever-larger particle accelerators, whose cost is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the issue our gun will address."
The science that is foreseen possible with a free electron laser spans many disciplines including atomic physics, condensed matter physics and materials sciences, femtochemistry, biology and various fields of engineering. Such a light source will enable advances in disease research, biofuels, solar cells, nanotechnology and more.
"Synchrotron light sources such as Aladdin were the centerpieces of light-based research in the latter part of the 20th century. They explored much science — the science of how things are, but not how they got that way," explains Bisognano, who is also a professor of engineering physics in the UW–Madison College of Engineering. "With the FEL light sources, we'll be able to watch processes happen at the chemical level, at a size of a handful of molecules. FELs are the sources of the 21st century, and it's time for us at Wisconsin to be part of the adventure."
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Life Without Lupus® Recipe Collection
You are what you eat, so eat right!
You are what you eat — and if you want to have energy, you need to eat energy-rich foods. A good idea for anyone, but especially true for lupus patients whose energy levels are not always in ample supply. To help people with lupus be the most from what they eat, Cornell University Cooperative Extension Community Educator Sophia Baker shared recipes for lupus-friendly foods.
Recipes in the Life Without Lupus® collection are high on energy and low on sugar, salt and fat.
Try out a few of the recipes posted here. And for a collection of delicious recipes on the lighter side, check out our Pinterest page. Main dishes, appetizers, soups and desserts — each designed to be a healthier alternative to other options, appeal to the entire family and use readily available, generally nutritious ingredients.


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Holiday Schedules for Fairfax County Government
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director of Public Affairs
703-324-3187, TTY 711, Fax 703-324-2010
Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
Dec. 17, 2007
Holiday Schedules for Fairfax County Government
Listed below are schedules for Fairfax County government offices and
services for the Christmas holiday. Unless otherwise noted, regular
schedules are in effect.
County Government -- Closed Dec. 24 and 25
Courts -- Closed Dec. 24 and 25
Public Schools and School Offices -- Schools not in session Dec. 24 through Jan. 1; school offices closed Dec. 24 and 25
Libraries -- Closed Dec. 24 and 25
Fairfax Connector -- Weekday schedule on Dec. 24; Sunday schedule on Dec. 25
FASTRAN -- Not in service Dec. 24 and 25
Park Authority RECenters -- Open until noon on Dec. 24; closed Dec. 25 (George Washington RECenter will be closed both days)*
Community, Teen and Senior Centers -- Closed Dec. 24 and 25
County Trash and County Recycling Collection -- No trash service Dec. 25 (Tuesday customers will receive service on Wednesday); all recycling collections will be pushed back one day the week of Dec. 24**
Recycling and Disposal Facilities at I-66 and I-95 -- Open until 1 p.m. on Dec. 24; closed Dec. 25
* Nature centers, historic sites, Frying Pan Farm Park and Green Spring Gardens are all closed on Dec. 24 and 25.
** For more detailed information about county trash and recycling collection for the holidays, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/trash/coll_holiday.htm. Call private contractors about their schedules


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Actress Jane Asher has visited the Corsham Sure Start Children's Centre, to learn about how it helps families.
Ms Asher, 66, who starred alongside Sir Michael Caine in Alfie, toured the Barnardo's site, meeting families and finding out about training programmes it offers to parents.
At the Kings Avenue centre, which supports children up to the age of five, Ms Asher cut a cake celebrating the registration of more than 1,000 parents and carers at the Corsham centre, which opened in 2008.
Barnardo's supporter Ms Asher said: "It has been a wonderful day and it is interesting to see just how impressive this facility is and to learn more about the help it provides.
"Barnardo's offer a great range of support for children and, importantly, for their parents. I was really pleased to pay a visit to Corsham Sure Start and also have some of the lovely cake."
Ms Asher, who has her own cake shop, Jane Asher Party Cakes and Sugarcraft in London, praised the hard work of the centre's staff.
Barnardo's team leader Sarah Nelson said: "We are delighted that Jane was able to visit our project and learn more about how we are helping so many families to turn their lives around.
"Our staff and volunteers have a great relationship with the local community, establishing a level of trust and understanding which encourages parents and carers to seek help, if needed.
"So, although we're mainly targeting some of the more vulnerable and disadvantaged residents, nobody feels stigmatised when they walk through our doors.
"We are immensely proud of everything that has been achieved, not only by our own team but also by the parents themselves."
For information, call Corsham Sure Start Children's Centre on 01249 716254.


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Scenic View Road Lawsuit FiledCounty Takes Action
County files complaint seeking public access to Scenic View Road
By Kay Braddock - (Courtesy of Terry Tribune ) -
A 27-page legal brief filed by Prairie County last week in district court seeks a judgment declaring a 7-mile dirt road north of Terry a county road by virtue of prescriptive easement. Prairie County is also seeking a preliminary injunction from the court to remove a locked gate that is on the road.
The document lists Michael and Terry Karrels as defendants.
The Karrels placed a gate on Scenic View Road in 2007. A lock was added to the gate a year later. Talks between county officials and the Karrels came to an impasse after an October, 2009 public meeting between the two parties and officials from the Bureau of Land Management produced no compromise.
Scenic View Road leads to a popular overlook of the Terry Badlands, which rests on a large portion of BLM land. The road runs through portions of state, federal and private land.
According to court documents filed on Friday of last week, a 1965 cooperative agreement between the BLM and county commissioners extended and improved Scenic View Road, with BLM providing the equipment and materials for the work while the county provided the construction equipment and labor. This agreement places liability on the county to maintain the road for public use, according to court documents.
Prairie County also asserts the road has been used for both commercial and recreational use since at least 1965, according to court documents filed. Those who used the road included: Ranchers accessing BLM land where federal grazing permits were held; employees of Tongue River Electric, a local commercial well driller, and BLM officials to monitor federal grazing allotments, among others. None of these parties sought permission from landowners to use the road, according to the court documents.
The county is seeking a preliminary injunction to remove the locked gate in order to allow county road crews to maintain the road, preventing further deterioration.
Published Sept. 22, 2010
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Pero wrote:Well I don't know about optimism but the simple reality is that we wouldn't even know how to wipe our own asses after taking a dump without someone teaching us first. Of course after someone shows us how to do it, it's totally up to us to wipe our asses clean or walk around with shit smeared on our underwear.
It's always good to make a point with foul language. Shows how strong a statement you are making. Pretty sure we would all figure out how to wipe our own ass. After all, we have built pyramids in various cultures all over the world.


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Curious about some of the local flavors that President Obama enjoys while in our Nation's Capital? There's a great article in the DC Metro Magazine that highlights a few local favorites. Some of those include:
Ben's Chili Bowl – Ten days before his inauguration President Obama made a surprise visit to the iconic DC restaurant with Vice President Biden and their entourage. He's not the only presidential figure to enjoy a tasty chili dog. French President Sarkozy also stopped by for a bite. Ben's Chili Bowl has been around since 1958 and has been a staple in the community ever since. They serve a breakfast, lunch and a no-hassle group menu at crazy hours! Located on the bustling streets of Columbia Heights on U Street, this is a great place to stop by for something something to eat that everyone can enjoy!
Blue Duck Tavern– Even President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have enjoyed a romantic evening at the Blue Duck Tavern. They celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary at this award-winning restaurant located inside the Park Hyatt hotel in the Foggy Bottom area. This top-notch American eatery serves a delicious menu created by Brian McBride and Chef de Cuisine Michael Santoro where many dishes are cooked on their signature wood-burning oven for that little something extra.
Other place the Obama's have enjoyed while out on the town include the up and coming Komi restaurant, Restaurant Nora, Ray's Hell Burger (also enjoyed by Russian President Medvedev) and The Good Stuff Eatery.
Happy noshing! – Vanessa, Innkeeper
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