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EASTLEIGH schoolchildren have buried their memories in the grounds of a new retirement village.
Pupils from Stoke Park Junior School spent weeks collecting magazines, photographs, letters and toys which capture modern life.
Now they've buried them in a time capsule in the grounds of Anchor retirement village, in Church Road, Bishopstoke, which is due to open early next year.
Pupils, their headteacher Matt Johnson, Anchor staff and building contractor Willmott Dixon all joined in at the special ceremony, where documents relating to the build were also buried.
Bishopstoke Park village adviser, Fiona Bacon said: "Everyone has been looking forward to burying the time capsule.
"The pieces collected by the children and papers relating to Bishopstoke Park will be important historic documents when they are read in 2064."
Headteacher, Matt Johnson, said: "This has been a fantastic opportunity for children at Stoke Park Junior School to be involved in this project.
"When considering what should be included in the time capsule, we looked at what had changed in the 50 years that our school has been opened and then asked the children what they thought Bishopstoke Park would look like in 50 years' time.
"The contents reflect life in 2014 with letters to be opened by future generations."


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A CIRENCESTER councillor has renewed a desperate appeal calling on motorists to slow down after a Chesterton family's beloved cat was knocked down and killed.
Cllr Roly Hughes, who has been campaigning for a 20mile per hour speed limit to be enforced in Chesterton for two years, has likened the area's roads to "rat races".
"The situation up here is terrible. It really is lethal. It's become such a massive a problem and I have had so many people email about it," he said.
"Something really needs to be done about it, this is the third time that a pet animal has been killed on our roads."
Mum-of-three Tina Brunton, who did not want to speak to the Standard, was left consoling her young children following the news that their cat Rosie had been killed by a speeding motorist in Bathurst Road.
Cllr Hughes said: "This is awful. The family has lost a pedigree cat and Tina now has three children who are very upset."
Since 2012, a '20 is Plenty' campaign has been running in Chesterton with more than 100 triangular signs urging drivers to slow down have appeared in some of the area's most notorious roads.
However, Cllr Hughes told the Standard that the project has been hindered by some people who have damaged the signs.
"It is getting stupid now. I put the signs up along the streets and people just come along and rip them down," Cllr Hughes said.
He now hopes that the campaign to bring in the lower speed limit will soon be recognised by traffic police in Cirencester.
"I would just like to tell drivers to slow down and take their time. It really is that simple and it would avoid situations like this," he said. For more information on the '20 is Plenty' campaign, contact Roly Hughes on 01285 238606.

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Prize Recipient
Michael Tambe
I grew up in Yorba Linda, CA, a suburb a half hour from Disneyland and the location of the Richard M. Nixon Library. My decision to choose Physics as a major was made during my senior year in high school but my interests had always been in this field. The concepts shown in Star Trek and Star Wars captured my imagination from an early age. In the fall I will be a junior at the University of California, Santa Barbara in an Advanced Honors Physics program in the College of Creative Studies. This summer I will be working in a physics lab on research projects involving an Atomic Force Microscope and Quantum dots. I intend to earn a PhD in Physics.


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Chuck Muncie, a tall, talented running back whose career was set back by drug problems, died of a heart attack on Monday. He was 60.
Muncie played nine years in the NFL with the Saints and Chargers and was a three-time Pro Bowl selection. At 6-3, 227 pounds, he was a versatile back who could chew up yards with his long stride and was an effective receiver out of the backfield.
PHOTO GALLERY: Notable sports deaths of 2013
With his talent, height and trademark glasses—he was one of the first players to use glasses or goggles—Muncie always stood out on the field.
He went over the 1,000-yard mark twice—with the Saints in 1979 and the Chargers in 1981, as part of the explosive Air Coryell attack. He also led the NFL with 19 rushing touchdowns in '81 and rushed for 124 yards and a touchdown in the Chargers' epic 41-38 overtime victory over the Dolphins in the divisional playoffs that season.
The third overall pick in the 1976 draft by the Saints, he rushed for 6,702 yards and 71 touchdowns in 110 career games.
Muncie played in only one game in 1984, when he was suspended after testing positive for cocaine. He later was reinstated and traded to the Vikings in 1985, but he never played in another regular-season game.
Muncie was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling cocaine. He eventually turned his life around and worked with children and people who battled drug addiction. He also mentored athletes at Cal, his alma mater.


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A.C.T. Offers Captioned Performance of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Tonight, 7/21
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) offers an open captioned performance of The Scottsboro Boys, the critically acclaimed musical based on a tragic chapter in American history, tonight, July 21, at 8 p.m., at the American Conservatory Theater (415 Geary Street, San Francisco). Special seats have been reserved for hearing-impaired audience members who would like an optimal view of the digital screen.
These tickets (located in the Orchestra section) are $34 per person and available by visiting act-sf.org/scottsboro and entering the code CAPTION or by calling A.C.T. at 415.749.2228.
The use of open captions in theater has gained worldwide attention and support for its ease of integration and program enhancement and has introduced a wave of new audiences to the theater. Open captioning displays text alongside live speech, dialogue, and singing. It does not require patrons to use special equipment for viewing the text. Open captioning services for A.C.T. are provided by Turner Reporting and Captioning Services.
The West Coast premiere of The Scottsboro Boys opened to rave reviews from Bay Area audiences and critics alike. Karen D'Souza ofSan Jose Mercury News called The Scottsboro Boys "scorching musical theater," while Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chroniclehailed it as "electrifying!" Nominated for 12 Tony Awards in 2011, The Scottsboro Boys features music and lyrics by the legendaryBroadway songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman), book by David Thompson(Steel Pier, Chicago), musical direction by Eric Ebbenga, and direction and choreography by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Contact). Jeff Whiting serves as associate director and choreographer. Tony and Emmy Award winner Hal Linden (Barney Miller, The Rothschilds on Broadway) joins the stellar cast as The Interlocutor.
Based on the notorious Scottsboro trials of the 1930s, The Scottsboro Boys tells the story of nine African American teenagers—ranging from 12 to 19 years old—convicted of raping two white girls on a Southern Railroad freight train while hitching a ride to Memphis in search of employment. Despite the fact that one of the original complainants later denied that any rape had occurred, the nine teenagers were subjected to years of brutal imprisonment, death-sentence verdicts, and a denied appeal. Reclaiming the framework of a minstrel show and "turning the taboo form on its head," explains Stroman, the musical—through high-energy dance numbers and exuberant music—courageously addresses one of the most abhorrent episodes in American history.
The Scottsboro Boys marks the fourth and final collaboration for John Kander, Fred Ebb, Susan Stroman, and David Thompson. Previous collaborations included the 1987 off-Broadway revival of Flora, The Red Menace, the 1991 off-Broadway production of And the World Goes 'Round, and the 1997 Broadway production of Steel Pier. Looking at famous trials of the 20th century as inspiration, the four were immediately drawn to the compelling story of the Scottsboro Boys trials. Says Kander: "As a young boy growing up in Kansas City, I remember when the Scottsboro Boys were first in the headlines. I remember the conversations with my parents about what the trials meant. I am sure there were similar conversations at kitchen tables across the country. I also remember when the headlines began to fade and the Scottsboro Boys gradually disappeared from the national spotlight. As we began to write The Scottsboro Boys, it was immediately apparent why it was so important to tell their story. Behind the headlines, the spectacle, the ongoing trials, and the histrionics of politicians and lawyers was the story of nine young African American boys, determined to prove that they mattered."
A.C.T.'s production of The Scottsboro Boys is sponsored by Deloitte and Farella Braun + Martel LLP. The Scottsboro Boys is made possible by executive producers Lesley Ann Clement and Barry Lawson Williams and Lalita Tademy; producers Rose Hagan and Mark Lemley, Marcia and Jim Levy, Terry and Jan Opdendyk, David and Carla Riemer, Bert Steinberg and Lucia Brandon,Lorenzo Thione and David Palmer, and Larry and Robyn Varellas; and associate producers Anne and Jerry Down, Robert Hulteng,Christine and Stan Mattison, Maria and Jeff Spears, and Judy and Bill Timken. A.C.T. would also like to acknowledge its 2011–12 season company sponsors Ray and Dagmar Dolby, Frannie Fleishhacker, Ambassador James C. Hormel and Michael P. Nguyen,Koret Foundation, Fred M. Levin and Nancy Livingston, The Shenson Foundation, Burt and Deedee McMurtry, Mary and Steven Swig, Doug Tilden, and Jeff and Laurie Ubben.
The Scottsboro Boys will play its final performance on Sunday, July 22, 2012, at the American Conservatory Theater (415 Geary St.).Tickets for all remaining performances are on sale now and may be purchased online at act-sf.org or by calling 415.749.2228.


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Friday, September 22, 2017
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iMac boots Windows Vista, survives to tell tale
Ends up without Mac OS X, though...
Windows Vista has been booted on an iMac, according to a poster on the OSx86 Project forum yesterday. Previous attempts to install and run Vista - currently available in pre-release form - have been unsuccessful.
According to OSx86 Project's correspondent, the solution is to eradicate the machine's Mac OS X disk partitions and install only Vista. Airman Pika said he used Apple's recently released Boot Camp utility to install the Microsoft operating system and apparently had to delete all the OS X partitions.
Subsequent correspondents claimed it's not necessary to remove OS X, simply the EFI partition Boot Camp creates. Doing so allows the system to boot from either operating system.
That said, the Vista installation process does not appear to run as smoothly as the Boot Camp-based Windows XP installation. Work is going on to understand what the Vista installer is doing in order to tweak the overall installation process and make dual-boot Vista installations work more effectively. ®


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Corn futures turned lower Friday morning. Ideas that the U.S. harvest is ending and talk of improving export demand seem to be supporting corn futures. The result of the weekly Export Sales report also seemed supportive. However, weakness spilling over from big soybean losses apparently dragged prices lower before midday. December corn futures slid 1.25 cents to $4.2525/bushel late Friday morning, while May declined 2.25 to $4.4275.
Improving South American weather undercut the soy complex. Although CBOT traders were encouraged by talk of improving demand from China, recent rainfall over Brazil and Argentina are boosting production prospects in those countries. The added supply could weigh heavily upon prices next year. A long-term forecast from a respected industry analysis firm added to the downward pressure. January soybean futures dove 25.5 cents to $12.72/bushel around midsession Friday, while December soyoil skidded 0.16 cent to 40.81 cents/pound, and December soymeal plunged $11.7 to $412.9/ton.
The wheat markets followed corn and beans lower Friday. Although word of improving international demand at current prices is encouraging wheat market bulls, they proved unable to overcome selling spilling over from the corn and soy complexes this morning. When combined with the low sales total on the weekly Export Sales report, it wasn't terribly surprising to see wheat futures decline modestly. December CBOT wheat futures slipped 0.75 cent to $6.44/bushel in late Friday morning trading, while December KCBT wheat futures slumped 5.0 cents to $6.98, while December MWE futures sank 1.75 to $6.9825.
Cattle traders may still expect a cash market advance. Wholesale beef prices have moved inconsistently this week, but cattle futures have remained generally firm. That seemingly reflects trader suspicions that seasonally and cyclically tight conditions will power another cash market advance later today. December cattle futures inched up 0.30 cents to 133.27 cents/pound early Friday morning, while April futures rose 0.07 to 135.02. Meanwhile, January feeder cattle moved up 0.45 cents to 165.65 cents/pound, and March feeders lifted 0.27 cents to 165.17.
Thursday's late pork strength is supporting hog futures. Signs of increasing hog and pork supplies are recently weighed upon CME swine prices. However, while cash quotes are mixed-to-weak this morning, Thursday's big rebound in pork values seems to be offering persistent support for the complex this morning. December hog futures gained 0.15 cents to 85.75 cents/pound just around lunchtime Friday, while April added 0.12 to 92.22.


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The guy who replaced Ryan Katz as Oregon State's quarterback is coming to town, and the Aztecs had better be ready.
Third-year starter Sean Mannion beat out Katz for the starting job in 2011, and Katz ended up transferring to SDSU in 2012.
Since then, Mannion has justified the Oregon State coaches' faith in him.
The Beavers (2-1 overall) come to Qualcomm Stadium this Saturday with the top passing offense in the country.
Through three games, Oregon State is averaging 438.7 passing yards and Mannion is No. 2 nationally in passing yards per game (412.3), total offense (404 yards) and points responsible for (76).
Mannion and Beavers receiver Brandin Cooks (29 receptions, 498 yards, seven TDs) form a dangerous tandem that will test San Diego State's cornerbacks.
Here are a couple other things to note about the Beavers, a team whose problems are similar to SDSU's this season.
One notable similarity: Both teams dropped their season openers to FCS foes. SDSU lost to Eastern Illions 40-19 while Oregon State fell 49-46 to Eastern Washington.
1 – Oregon State can't run the ball to save its life
The Aztecs' run game (average of 93 yards per game) has been woeful so far this season, but Oregon State's is worse.
The Beavers are averaging 70 rushing yards per game, and to compound matters, leading rusher Storm Woods (45 carries, 152 yards and two TDs over three games) sustained a concussion in Oregon State's win at Utah and will not play against SDSU.
Senior Jovan Stevenson and junior Terron Ward will replace Woods.
2 –- The Beavers have struggled defensively
Oregon State's pass defense is ranked 113th nationally. The Beavers allowed 411 passing yards in the season opening defeat to Eastern Washington and couldn't stop Utah QB Travis Wilson, who ran for 142 yards and three scores while throwing for 279 yards and another two touchdowns.
Can the Aztecs finally get their passing game on track against the Beavers?
3 – Mike Riley will go for the gutsy call when he needs to
The Beavers pulled out all stops to edge Utah 51-48 in overtime on Saturday.
On 4th-and-1 from the Beavers' 45 in the fourth quarter, Riley called timeout, then sent his offense back in with a trick play – Mannion handed off to Ward who pitched the ball back to Mannion for the quarterback to uncork a 48-yard pass to Cooks that resulted in a first down at the Utah 7-yard line.
Like Rocky Long, Riley isn't afraid to take risks when they're warranted. Like the Aztecs, Oregon State has some trick plays up its sleeve.


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CARSON, Calif. – Just as Eric Avila was crediting team chemistry for Chivas USA's early-season success, teammate Giovani Casillas joined a group of reporters with a menacing smile on his face, holding a sandal in his right hand and pretending it was a microphone.
Chivas USA are winning, and they're having fun doing so.
Despite not scoring as many goals theirtheir previous wins, manager José Luis "El Chelís" Sánchez Solá called Saturday night's 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps the best game his team has played this season. Chivas USA capped a strong month by leaping up to 10 points, enough for them to sit alone in second place in the Western Conference.
OPTA Chalkboard: How did Chivas' passing check out against Vancouver?
"How beautiful they play at times," Chelís said in his postgame press conference. "During a span I was telling myself, 'I'm leaving. I already sold what I needed to sell.' But I warm up to it and want more of those sequences. And they can do it."
With two more goals, Chivas USA maintained their spot atop the MLS leader board in that category. And it's an important statistic for a coach who has said on a number of occasions he was brought to the United States to entertain.
"We had the ball a lot and we dared to possess the ball," Chelís said. "There was no better week to attempt this style of play. Any team that wants to beat us, either here or on the road, has to run more than us. If they don't out-run us, it's a guaranteed point for us. By what I've seen of these Chivas USA players, who fight and battle, the point is already assured."
The Rojiblancos took chances, with rookie Carlos Alvarez finding the back of the net by inadvertently deflecting a strike off a Vancouver player's shoulder. They also generated some pristine sequences, highlighted by Avila's volley of a Jorge Villafaña across-the-field lob pass.
Then, they celebrated together – something Avila said the team practiced a bit last week during its trip to Chicago.
"We've been working hard since preseason," Villafaña said. "They probably didn't expect us to come out strong this year, but we know what we're doing. We know what we have to do. Things are coming out our way and we're winning games."
As a giggling Casillas scampered off with sandal in hand, searching for his next victim, Avila credited the camaraderie the team has built in its two months together.
"All the guys in the locker room are just great," he said. "Everyone is on the same page. No one is doing any individual stuff. We're working together and it's helping out a lot. Yeah, we have a couple things to work on, but as a unit it's making us stronger."


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I got nothing today title wise. Sorry.
8+ miles including some GHMP miles shortly. Hoping to beat the rain. 59 degrees though!
I got nothing today title wise. Sorry.
8+ miles including some GHMP miles shortly. Hoping to beat the rain. 59 degrees though!
mdawg - nice temps for the tempo. Run
Had the offer to run with DW's buddy - she's doing 10. Hmm...
mdawg-enjoy your workout
RA-don't do it!!! Or do, your call on how your body feels
6 easy done. Actually saw some sunlight at the end of the run. Class and looking for a good credit card today. There are so many out there that I have no idea which one I should get. Any ideas from you all?
mdawg-Soon it will be the weeklies and the pressure will be off.
RA-If I had to run 10 miles right now, I would be fighting to get it done before sunset.
Taylor-Get one that offers rewards without an annual fee. I use the AMX Hilton card. No annual fee and you get Hilton points for using it. This is how I get hotel rooms for out of town races.
Day 4 of recovery. I'm still completely screwed up. Not even close to running yet.
Morning folks.
Nice little package in the mail from my coach yesterday. As a laugh (RA would understand) she included some Oakley Flak Jackets with Australian colours. I actually like them so will definitely use them.
Ended up with 14.5 yesterday, with the run club miles quicker than expected - but I'm off plan, so who cares. Thinking 8 this morning over lunch.
Taylor - I'm a big fan of the cards with miles. I use those for free trips to Boston, Tokyo etc. But if you'd rather hotel points - those are good too. I *HIGHLY* recommend this site. I get the e-mail each day with advice. See the section on 'Best Current Credit Card Offers' and then look for miles, or hotel points or whatever you preference is. I'll get the points / miles - then cancel after a few months, and then sign up for another… (although I do have a couple of cards that I've kept for years)
RA - was she hot ? That would be part of my decision making
Badger - is that new ? Was chatting with some friends last night who've done Comrades. Made me even more certain I'm going in 2015. It'll be a good group - you and DG should definitely come too.
Dawg - hope you beat the rain, although that's often fun to run in.
Have a good day folks.
RD- that's a care package from your coach??? Hmmmm, looks like maybe more than a coach? ANd what are Oakley flak jackets?
Taylor- Only will use no annual fee and reward cards. We have Delta miles Am Ex, a cruise line MC, and Disney Visa. I put EVERYTHING on our cards, pay it all off, and reap some nice rewards.
Badger- Are you still having to ice? Can you walk alright yet?
Mdawg- I'll be sad when your clever daily titles are gone. (Even though you didn't have one today)
Mfam- from yesterday's post- Savannah is considered pretty much flat. I think the total elevation climb is under 200 ft.
So my local running club/forum has been going haywire with all the people running Savannah this weekend. There are a lot of newer runners, or at least newer to longer distances on it. Many it will be their first half, and since they just added this half marathon relay, there are a lot going to that as well. The posts have been much to do with carbo-loading- lots of photos of crazy, massive meals! Unfortunately, when one is stressed and going a little cuckoo, it's easy to jump on the band wagon, so yesterday, I decided to try to do more carbs than I've ever done before a race- I was trying to follow the formula of 4g per pound of body weight. I knew there was no way I could get 444 g of carbs in a day, but tracked everything to see how I was doing. I got at least 300 gr. Around 10 pm I started feeling sick to my stomach and it's been messed up since. No way will I do that again today.
It's drizzling this morning, and since I'm not teaching (I've been off since TUesday!), I will just wait until the afternoon to get my last couple of miles in. Printed out two pace bands- one like H2H's miles last Chicago, and one with even miles at 7:49 which I taped to my water bottle ( and, yes, I still carry that damn hand held water bottle- I can't nor do I want to wean off of it.)
Latest weather update for Saturday is low 49, high 71 (midday), 8 mph wind, as of now 0% chance of rain. If that high could just drop to maybe 63, that would be perfect for me.
Run done. 8 miles and some change. The GHMP miles were 7:32, 7:52, 7:40, 7:58, and 7:51. I started off way too fast and then had to pull back again after the 3rd mile. Not sure what pace to target for my 12/14 HM. However, I know I can't hold 7:30s for 13.1 miles...yet...
Ebunny: Ugh. Not a good idea to up it that much in one day. Better to try a gradual 3 day load with increasing amounts each day. Hope your stomach is better today.
taylor: First rule of credit cards...pay it off each month.
RD: I beat the rain for the most part. Only got a light sprinkle during my last cool down mile. Nice swag!
badger: Take it easy and recover. Hope your feet are less swollen
RA; Hope you made the right running decision...whatever it was!
Morning gang,
Mdawg - Nice work on the 8. Ready for the big SEC showdown?
RA - Already back to running 10? Awesome!
Taylor - Both my wife and I have the Chase United Mileage Plus card. We've gotten several free flights off it. Only thing is it has a $95/annual fee. I'm sure you can find one comparable with out the AF.
Badger - Holy crap your alive! I had just filed a motion to contest your will so I could get all your running shoes. Fail.
RD - Uh, are you a sponsored athlete now? Goodbye Newton?
Ebunny - Your going to kill it!!!
Me: 7.8 this morning with no watch. Had to use MapMyRun. My strap broke on my Garmin (for the second time) so I need to replace it. Poor guy is hanging on by a thread.
eBunny - these are flak jackets. I've worn a pair for years for pretty much all my training runs and races. Perfect light weight glasses IMO.
photo below of the actual 'Aussie colours' from my coach.
Why are you doing carb loading now ?? Have you done this in training to test ?? I'd seriously stop if I were you. Remember the adage - don't do anything new for race day… Curious why you feel you need it ? If you're planning on taking gels during the race - you really don't need to be doing extra carb loading now. Just eating normally, with the reduced mileage, your glycogen levels should be good - then topping off with gel. I'm sure you'll be fine. Good luck this weekend !
Dawg - nice run
Morning. 3 easy miles today, nothing tomorrow, marathon Saturday. I may have to think of another peppy slogan other than "I will kill it"
I am probably a strange bird, but I'm really looking forward to my experiment. Exaggerated slowness in the opening 10 miles or so, and then see how that impacts my overall race feel. See how much of a negative split I can do So my slogan can be "you will be so negative"
Mdawg - I love marathon weekends, then the relaxation after. It's getting back into training that always seems to be the grueling part.
RA - I'm such a lone runner, I have to really force myself to run with other people. They always want to talk and be social, I am very anti-social a lot of the time.
Taylorma1 - I vote for US Air Mastercard, or some other flight related one. You get priority boarding, and you get $99 ticket special coupons once a year for anywhere in the US round trip. Other airlines may have other deals. If you pay off your credit cards the interest rate is not as important, that is the key.
Badger - Has the swelling gone down at least? DS ran a barefoot HM one time. His feet were so screwed up with blood blisters he couldn't walk for 2 days. I had to call him in sick to school. Crazy kids.
RD - so the signing up and canceling doesn't hurt your credit rating? That sounds pretty good to me, get the perks and leave.
Ebunny - One word, cheesecake! I didn't inend to do any carb loading, but our receptionist made this FABULOUS cheesecake. It's 12" diameter, home made with an oreo cookie crust that uses genache glue. I've had 2 pieces per day. It's just been a coincidence, and it hasn't hurt my stomach, but I am unintentionally carb loading. I had birthday lasagna as well, lots o cheese and pasta and cheesecake. Let's see how that plays out.
RC - I think all the airline cards to have that annual fee though, then they give you great flight deals. It works out in your favor when you fly around a lot.
RD, VERY cool glasses! I've always upped my carbs the last 2-3 days before my previous marathons, but I've never tried to hit a certain amount, that's what got me in trouble yesterday. Yep, 444 g of carbs is insane for me, especially when I'm a huge protein eater (I had about 100 g of protein yesterday, and that was with me trying to reduce it!) I probably ate 2,500 calories for the day, which typically I usually eat around 1300-1750, maybe? At least I realized it two days before. I guess I should just go back to my normal amount of calories but reduce the amount of protein and fat (though I typically don't have a lot of fat in my diet), and replace with more carbs? I do take gels every 5 miles or so for the race, and eat basically just carbs for dinner the night before and the morning of, too. UGH- I screwed up.
Mdawg- those were mighty fine splits you had there!!!! Is that Diva HM fairly flat? I don't remember.
Maureen- cheesecake is in my top 10 favorite foods probably. That sounds really good. I'm sure if that had been in my house I would have added that to my gluttony yesterday.
I just got back from my last run. Woo-hoo! Pfitz had called for a completely different schedule than what I did this week-
Pfitzinger- Mon- 6 recovery, Tues- 7 w/ 2 at pace, Wed-rest, Th-5 recovery w/ 6x100m strides, Fri- 4 recovery. Total of 22 miles
Me- Mon- step class, Tues- 6 w/ 2.5 pace, Wed- 3.25 recovery, Th- 3.25 w/ 4 x whatever you call what I did (please label it for me), Fri- rest (I've never run the day before the marathon and I like it that way ) Total of 12.5 miles + 1 hour of step
Sooo, would you call what I did today strides? Or are these fartleks? mi 1-2 9:04 & 8:58. Then .15- 6:54 (recover.25),.1-6:48 (rec .2), .1- 5:36 (rec .18), .15- 5:24 (rec .1). The first one I counted one leg's foot strike until 100. Realized that .15 might be too long for strides?? I don't know. Recovery was .25 because I was waiting until I got to the top of a hill (but it was flat on the other side). From then on I went for distance instead of foot strike (.1) except for the last one which got me home- that last one was on a slight decline.
I know I should know all the lingo by now, but for some reason, every time I look up strides, I come away with a different definition.
Regardless, last one is done.
Good Afternoon!
Mdawg: Nice Tempo run today! You have 4 days to come up with a clever weekly title.
RA: my money says you ended up running today
Badger: one last foot question: any toenails left?
RD: no short shorts in the care package?
Taylorma: We have the same as RC's Chase United card (my wife uses it), but I tend to use my Citi Mastercard. No fee and you earn 1-2% cash back.
Ebunny: Always a good feeling when the last workout is done. Instead of carbo loading, I think RD mentioned he eats Spicy food the night before a race, and look at his performance
RC: regarding your strap, you must be pumping your arms too much when you run
Maureen: I kinda used your strategy when I ran Milwaukee a month ago (fast finish). I ran slow for the first 6 miles then gradually picked up the pace. I had plenty in the tank at the end when passing people. Funny hearing the crowd shout out "looking strong". If they only knew.
I got in my 6 yesterday, in a light rain, but it was mild out. Ran 14 miles today at 8:36 pace.
mdagw - you need to think of titles the day before
RA - don't do it!
taylorma - my advise...don't get a CC!
badger - recover well my friend!
RD - is that a visor?
ebunny - don't try anything new!
RC - just carry it in your hand
h2h - nice job on the 14...seems like a long way to run for me now.
another 4 done...nothing too exciting.
maureen - which one are you running on Sat?
Mini - I am doing the Santa Barbara International marathon. I ran it last year, it's a really nice course. It's gently rolling, then there is a final uphill, then downill over miles 23 - 25. It's so gorgeous though you hardly notice the hill! Not really, but it is super pretty. Organized well too, always a plus.
Very nice expo the night before, plenty of parking, plenty of space, interesting vendors.
DD attends UCSB and some of her friends are working the marathon. She will be hanging out at the marathon. She has volunteered at a few in her day, sometimes you just want to hang out and not volunteer.
We are doing dinner the night before, then hanging out after so it's more a pleasure trip than a serious marathon trip.
Mdawg- those were mighty fine splits you had there!!!! Is that Diva HM fairly flat? I don't remember.
I decided to do Kiawah Island, SC instead. And it is pancake flat. Ran my first full marathon (aka sufferfest) there.
Howdy all!
Slept in this AM. Exhausted from working on the house. Not badger exhausted, just jmhubba exhausted. Moving on top of marathon/Dopey training on top of work picking up is not a great combination. RA, why didn't you warn me about this?!?! lol
Managed to get out at lunch for 6.4 miles. Felt pretty good.
taylorma - the best advice I ever heard about credit cards, which I regretfully did not heed, is to not get one. I admire people who have the discipline to use them but always pay them off. Once you start accumulating a balance it just snowballs. Dave Ramsey has some great stuff regarding the credit card epidemic. With debit cards you really don't need a credit card. Having worked for a retailer for 11 years who had their label credit cards I saw first hand how retailers fleece consumers with easy credit. They make more money off the credit cards than they make off selling goods. Sorry for the lecture, but this is a topic that has burned me personally.
Rest up ebunny and maureen! It's almost showtime!
Gotta scoot. Have a good one everybody!
RD - Wish my coach sent me stuff! Must be nice. Let's not talk about cricket or rugby. Nice glasses but for $150 they better shave 5 minutes off my marathon PR! ==
jmh - my recent experiences should have served as a warming. Rest up!
mini - Plenty of time to build. 18/80 sounds brutal but you seem to do well with more volume (not having any kids and a flexible schedule and all)
H2H - Nice work on the 14. You will be crushing CIM. By the way, you owe me $20 on that bet.
ebunny - extra spoonful of pasta the night before should do you...
RC - I've had a Garmin strap go once, after 4 years. What are you doing to it?
Maureen - I like to run with others on occasion. Breaks it up. Keep you shoes on this weekend and you'll be solid.
Badger - I won't even be thinking about running but then again I'm not crazy. Well no more than others. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Taylor - think about what you'd use the card for and when you'd need points. Also apply a limit to avoid going too far in debt. I get points off my Credit Union CC that can be used for anything. DW has an Amex card with the same plan. My other card is for air miles but they do have a "store" where you can waste those miles...
Well, I resisted the urge to run. Hooray! Will hold out until Sunday. I'll be so rested that 6:00 pace will seem like jogging! LOL!
Run done. 8 miles and some change. The GHMP miles were 7:32, 7:52, 7:40, 7:58, and 7:51. I started off way too fast and then had to pull back again after the 3rd mile. Not sure what pace to target for my 12/14 HM. However, I know I can't hold 7:30s for 13.1 miles...yet...
Badger: one last foot question: any toenails left?
I have 9.5 attached. However, two of them are quite ugly.
Well, I resisted the urge to run. Hooray! Will hold out until Sunday. I'll be so rested that 6:00 pace will seem like jogging! LOL!
Good man!
Mini - yes, a visor. All new balance stuff, since the other coach works for them.
Maureen - I don't think it impacts the credit history - at least not enough to prevent me doing it I typically sign up, make whatever the minimum spending amount is for the first 3 or so months to get the extra miles, then stop using it. Then a few months later call and cancel. There are whole on-line communities dedicated to helping people do this (including that link I posted) - but hell, it's given me easily enough BA miles to go run Comrades in 2015, and a bunch of trips on United. I'm about to get another 30,000 united miles when I pay the balance of my Tokyo payment to MT. They make so much money and mess with so many people - I figure those of us who pay them off each month should turn the tables a bit
eBunny - that's fartlek for me.
eBunny - that's fartlek for me.
THANK you! However, I still don't know how to do strides, but I've survived this long without knowing, so maybe it's not too important. LOL
6th and final post for the night (can you tell I'm a little stir crazy?)!
Finishing up packing and then going to try to go to bed early for an all-time earliest ever record since I'm going to have to wake up practically the middle of the night Sat morning. We leave for Savannah first thing in the morning once the kiddos get off to school. It's about a 5 hour drive. Expo as soon as we get there and then hoping to have a relaxed rest of the evening.
I'm sure I'll be checking in on my phone, but good luck, Maureen! Have fun with your daughter and have a relaxed, stress-free marathon weekend! That sounds really nice!
I'll check back in and let you know how it went either way.
Well, I resisted the urge to run. Hooray! Will hold out until Sunday. I'll be so rested that 6:00 pace will seem like jogging! LOL!
Good man!
That's open for debate.
Good luck to you Ebunny! I just spent a stressful couple of hours packing and fretting, lol. I'm always worried I will forget something, that feeling will never leave me no matter how relaxed I am about a marathon. I don't know what I imagine will happen in the middle of a crowded marathon with lots of support, fuel, and aid stations, but it will be so awful that I may not make it out alive!
Now I'm about ready for bed.
Good luck to you Ebunny! I just spent a stressful couple of hours packing and fretting, lol. I'm always worried I will forget something, that feeling will never leave me no matter how relaxed I am about a marathon. I don't know what I imagine will happen in the middle of a crowded marathon with lots of support, fuel, and aid stations, but it will be so awful that I may not make it out alive!
Now I'm about ready for bed.
Good luck!


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Topic: Supplements with Chemo?
After my brother was diagnosed, we did some research on foods and supplements with anti-cancer properties. The Sloan-Kettering website has a great on-line glossary.
His doctors were OK with most of the diet changes (although they were skeptical of the benefit). They suggested that he NOT take ANY supplements during chemo. As a compromise, my brother has only been taking his supplements during his off-weeks from chemo.
He is taking Ave Ultra, Essaic tea, mushroom extracts, citrus pectin and turmeric (circumin) and quercetin. So far he has had very few side effects from his chemo and got a 25% reduction in the area of the tumor, just from the first round.
I have seen some doctors on-line that say that it is actaully better to take supplements during chemo when they are most effective and may also reduce side effects.
Does anyone have any experience with this issue?


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If you've gone to area farmers markets, you may have sampled or purchased the Khadoos' spinach balls. I sampled them at the Historic West Main Street Farmers Market some time ago, and they were tasty. They would be a great appetizer to serve at a holiday party.
The spinach balls are a new version of an appetizer served at the former Herb Garden Restaurant in Fremont, which was operated by Trina Khadoo and her mother, Connie Moeller. The original recipe was created by Moeller.
The spinach balls can be frozen or refrigerated and reheated in the stove or microwave, Trina Khadoo said in the news release. The company sells a variety of spinach balls: some with cheese centers; some that are low-fat or gluten-free; and a vegetarian version made with all-natural ingredients. They are packaged with a fresh dill dip.
The Khadoos have acquired a specialized machine that produces 100 spinach balls per minute. Before that, they hand-rolled the spinach balls. They currently sell their spinach balls locally at The Olive Twist, Jamison Meats and the Health Food Shoppe, as well as in Indianapolis, Carmel, Columbia City and other locations in Indiana and Ohio.
In addition to QVC, the Khadoos are negotiating with a national market to sell their spinach balls across the U.S., and they continue to expand their distribution sites throughout Indiana and into Ohio. The spinach balls are also available online through the company's Web site at www.spinachball.com.This will be your last chance to enjoy the Taste of The Chamber because of the sale of the building.
It will be 5-8 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, 826 Ewing St. It's an opportunity to network with area business professionals while enjoying complimentary hors d'oeuvres from dozens of local restaurants and caterers and various cash bars.
All three floors of the Chamber building will be filled with vendors. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Purchase your tickets at the front desk at the Chamber building or by going here: http://business.fwchamber.org/Events/details/taste-of-the-chamber-2451.
Here are some of the local food and beverage participants: Club Soda; Champions Sports Bar & Restaurant; Fort Wayne Chocolate Fountain; Ceruti's; Granite City; The Olive Twist; Satek Winery; Nutcracker Sweet Shoppe; Panera Bread; J K O'Donnell's; Holiday Inn at IPFW; and Country Heritage Winery.
Any restaurant, caterer or food vendor interested in taking part in this year's Taste of The Chamber should call Liz Struckholz at 424-1435, Ext. 259, or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com Oyster Bar, 1830 S. Calhoun St., will offer a five-course menu featuring Old World and New World wines, starting at 5 p.m. Sunday. The event is hosted by Southern Wines, and will pair suggested wines with holiday fare. Cost: $65 per person including tax and gratuity. Call 744-9490 for reservations.
Something happening at your eatery? Call Cindy Larson at 461-8284, fax 461-8817, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or write Restaurant Notes, C/O The News-Sentinel, PO Box 102, Fort Wayne, IN 46801. This column is the personal opinion of the writer and does not necessarily reflect the views or opinion of The News-Sentinel. To read other columns, go to www.news-sentinel.com/section/LARSON.


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This week, actress Charlize Theron announced that she's now a mom — she adopted a four-month-old baby boy, named Jackson. And while she was on Ryan Seacrest's morning radio show promoting her new film Snow White and the Huntsman, she talked about her life as a new mommy. Charlize said she now "travels in a pack," but is grateful for all the support. "It's been amazing, the amount of emails and congratulations," she said. "Everyone's just been so lovely, it's been really nice."
When Ryan asked about her favorite baby gadget so far, Charlize sang the praises of a swaddle blanket. "I didn't think I would be a fan of the swaddling, but the swaddling is pretty amazing," she added. "It looks a little bit like a straightjacket and you just feel like it's child abuse, but for some reason they just love it."
Congrats Charlize!
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Players, members and supporters of Trowbridge Rugby club having been letting the Twickenham victory sink in today with a celebratory barbecue at their Doric Park ground.
Manager Nobby Knight said he was up from 2am yesterday morning, sorting out tickets, going through the kit and double checking everything.
He said: "This morning has been surreal. The build-up of pressure has been released and today is going to be relaxing.
"It was all about the lads in the build-up. They got us there; they have done all the hard work. This is brilliant for the club and the community.
"No-one looked nervous. There were a lot of smiling faces and the atmosphere was fantastic.
"I was sat on my own in the management seat at the top all on my own and was watching different things from everyone else. Walking down onto the pitch with people grabbing and hugging me was a very proud moment.
"It was nice to see some of the older players brought to tears. They wanted it so bad for the lads.
"There was a lot of hugging and patting on backs. Words don't have to be said."
Fly-half Lloyd Davis said:"It has been non-stop but I made sure I enjoyed the day and took it all in. I treated it like any other game. At 22-12 we thought we were in control but it was such a close game. They (Leek) came all guns blazing.
"Walking out onto the pitch was one of the best memories. Sharing the day with all the guys and lifting the trophy together in front of all our supporters was amazing.
"We knew there was going to be a lot of supporters but we were surprised by the noise the made. The amount of people was overwhelming. To be able to win it for them as well as ourselves topped it off."
President Mike James, who has been a member of the club since 1963, said: "We are still trying to come off Cloud Nine. I watched the game from the royal box, which was an experience in itself because every time I have come to Twickenham I have been high up in the stands.
"Leek were gaining more possession and territory than us, then we started scoring.
"I was at the 2003 World Cup and in terms of emotions; the last five minutes yesterday were right up there. The difference is this is my club.
"I have seen a lot of them grow up. If someone had told me years ago we would get to Twickenham and won, I would have never believed them.
"We met Leek before the game. Their club is similar to ours and we have made really good friends and we want to find a way of maintaining that friendship."
Full-back Jackson Szabo said: "I have not had time to process everything. It is all a blur. We tried to keep level headed and enjoy the game.
"There weren't any nerves. We knew it was our game as soon as we woke up. We felt really honoured to be there.
"The most emotional point was before the game. We had a little huddle and Sean Jones explained it was his last game which got everyone going.
"The reaction from the crowd was incredible. There were so many people we represented. So many people gave up so much of their time so we 22 players could have that opportunity.
Shane Johnstone said: "I hope this put Trowbridge on the map and gives younger players and people interested in taking up rugby something to aspire to."
Captain Matt Howard, who is marrying Amy Rush in five weeks and will have the reception at the club, said: "Today has been really nice to catch up with people we didn't get to see on the day.
"Yesterday was a really proud moment for all the team. Many people have come to Twickenham to watch Bath or England but coming in on the coach was something special.
"We all said that Guildford was the final and Twickenham was the prize.
"It was a really good game between two of the best teams in the country at this level.
"This is my third year as captain and it has been my best by far."


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The Houston Dynamo will be without captain Brad Davis on Saturday when they play the Vancouver Whitecaps, but he has a good excuse for missing the match.
Davis is a late addition to the U.S. men's national team for the World Cup qualifiers against Costa Rica on Friday in Denver and then at Mexico on March 26.
"I'm extremely excited," the midfielder told the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday night. "This year's been a good start for me. I was called into the January camp. And this is a fresh start with the national team for me."
More U.S. national team news:
— SN exclusive: Coach Jurgen Klinsmann's methods, leadership questioned
— Linemakers: U.S. favored against Costa Rica
— Injuries leave team with patchwork defense
Davis did not play when the U.S. team lost to Honduras, 2-1, last month in the final qualifying phase of World Cup qualifying in the CONCACAF region. That loss makes the upcoming games against Costa Rica and Mexico that more important.
"There's a huge job to be done for us," Davis told The Chronicle. "This first game against Costa Rica is a huge game for us. We have to try to get the three points at home."
In two games for the Dynamo this season, Davis has a goal and three shots. He's played with Houston since 2006 and has scored 30 goals with 74 assists.


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No link!
(Cut to the last remaining 3,500 Pacers fans nodding impassively.)
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No link!
(Cut to the last remaining 3,500 Pacers fans nodding impassively.)
you need a link, but yeah I agree with him
@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
No argument here either.
I don't think it's a clowning statement at all, and I think Danny would agree with him.
There are very few players that can single handedly carry a team. It's not a slam. He's not a #1 guy, right now, maybe ever. But he would be a damn good #2.
It takes a team to tango. Danny hasn't had much to work with during his time here.
But on a positive note, there are no Pacers listed in the Top 25 Worst Contracts.
But he can't take a really bad team to the playoffs..especially when he's been injured the entire year.
That is funny that Tinsley is being remembered as the one firing off at a strip club (see Marc Gasol #27).
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He's just not Kobe, Lebron, Carmello..ect...
I'm just saying you can build a contending team without having a superstar..you need all stars, obviously..but you don't need a Lebron or Kobe.
I think there's a lack of realism in what people can get. Get a bunch of really good players/good players who play a good style..a team style..of basketball, and they'll be a very good team. You don't need three superstars, and truth is..most likely we won't get three superstars.
I said at a forum party once that I felt like J.O. was a great Robin, but he would never be "that guy".
I feel the same way about Granger. It is not a knock on him at all, it is just the reality that there are only so many Kobe's, Wade's, and Lebrons out there (and even with those three many people can argue if they can "carry" a team by themselves)
It's preferable, but 6 straight ECF's with two Finals and one Title is still pretty great.
I'd love to have that kind of stretch this decade.
FWIW, I am not saying you "need" a star, but rather I think most GM's would prefer to have one guy to build around.
I can agree 110% that I would love to have a stretch like that.
lol @ some highlights
Bill Simmons
Kevin Martin (30): My favorite possibly available trade piece -- great contract, proven scorer, high hoops IQ, someone who'd thrive on a veteran team that protected him defensively and ran plays for him. Right now he's playing on a glorified pickup team with Tyreke Evans, who thinks "point guard" means "I get to dribble over midcourt." Not gonna fly. Someone like Martin is a luxury. You pamper him. You set him screens. You hook him up on slash-and-kicks. You go to him after games and say, "Hey, what's the best place to deliver the ball for you -- chest high and a little to the right?" He could absolutely be a contender's No. 1 scoring option like Reggie Miller or Rip Hamilton once upon a time. Stay tuned.
35. Chauncey Billups
Thirty years from now, when the Pistons have finished their 30th straight losing season and officially switched places with the Lions in the Detroit landscape, someone will write a "Curse of Chauncey" book for which Joe Dumars will refuse to be interviewed.
-My thoughts exactly Bill.
Group G: "We'll Discuss Him, But You Can't Tell ANYONE"
26. Danny Granger
Starting to worry that he's a classic franchise player who looks great on your fantasy team, but if he's the No. 1 guy on your real team, you're going 32-50 and that's that.
(Cut to the last remaining 3,500 Pacers fans nodding impassively.)
-How soon do they really start discussing trading Danny (secretly)? I would say at least another year. The 3-year plan will always be the excuse for Danny I think. And once the 3-year plan finally arrives and we are still horrible, Danny will be our Troy Murphy of today. Hoping to trade him so we can buy out an expiring and get a guy like Hickson.
I'd have to agree. Danny Granger's not yet the kind of player who can put his team on his back and necessarily win a game down the stretch by himself, ala, Kobe or LeBron, but I think he's close to being that type of players. He's really not that far away. Of course, it helps if he had the right caliber of players around him. Give him another year or two...
4 of the Grizzlies starting 5 made the list and if they took Tyreke Evans like they should have at #2 they could have had the whole squad.
However, you can build a TEAM of good players like the 90s pacers, the 00s Pistons, or the current Atlanta Hawks, and have some real success. You might even sneak in a win a title one year. Hey, I think thats pretty good.
"As a bearded man, i was very disappointed in Love. I am gathering other bearded men to discuss the status of Kevin Love's beard. I am motioning that it must be shaved."
- ilive4sports
I 100% agree. Granger is the # 1 scoring option on this team. I'm not asking Granger to take the team to the championships by himself. If Granger can average 23+ PPG, then I'm happy. Outside of Wade, Lebron, Kobe, and Melo (he's kinda a stretch for me, IMHO), how many dominant players are left in the NBA? The only thing that I want out of my Superstar/Franchise player is the mental toughness to WANT to take the team on his back when they're against the ropes. Granger has shown me that all last season, and in spurts this season.
3,500 remaining fans? Say it ain't so Bill, say it ain't so. I recenlty purchased a few extra tickets to bring some "transplants" (co-worker who moved from out-of-state) to a few quality Pacer games. I'm hoping to convert them. Spending the money will be worth the water cooler conversation.
Anyone else think Bill Simmons is an idiot? Or at least tire of his shtick?
I don't. He sincerely makes me laugh pretty hard. Doesn't take much.
You ask me I think Granger is exactly what we need. We don't need a first rate superstar, a LeBron or a Wade, who's sitting on a max contract because if that's what we had, we wouldn't be able to add enough talent around him. I mean...didn't we just try that, with O'Neal?
Danny's the perfect guy for this team, what's needed is a couple more players of his caliber. I'd take 3 or 4 starters of his talent over a LeBron + medicore roleplayers, which by the way didn't earn Cleveland a championship over the last 6 years when that was really the case. Who cares who's the official "#1 guy on your team" if that team is winning?


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New York -- Marimekko will open a flagship in the heart of Beverly Hills, Calif., on Nov. 15. The 5,000 -sq.-ft. store will feature the entire range of Marimekko products, from signature fashions to home furnishings and textiles, as well as a showroom to support further business development of the brand in the area.
The Finnish textile and clothing design company, renowned for its original prints and colors, opened a store in Palo in the Stanford Shopping Center, on Oct. 25.
In past 12 months, the brand opened a flagship shop in New York City and expanded its Boston presence with a store on Newbury Street, as well as collaborated with Canadian-based design store EQ3 for a new shop-in-shop in Toronto in August.
In addition to the brick-and-mortar store Marimekko launched an e-commerce last year in an effort to bring the brand to a wider audience. Marimekko has also its own store in Cambridge and a retailer-owned store on Manhattan's Upper East Side as well as shop-in-shops at select Crate & Barrel locations.


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Sanchez excels in final start before Classic
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- The next time Anibal Sanchez pitches, he'll be wearing a Venezuelan uniform, not the Old English 'D'. Manager Jim Leyland expects he'll still be getting ready for the Major League season in the process of pitching in the World Baseball Classic.
The Tigers have had position players and relief pitchers take part in the World Baseball Classic. A prominent starter such as Sanchez, fresh off signing a five-year, $80 million contract, is a new one for them.
"I'm not worried about it," Leyland said. "When that thing started, they had some rough spots. They weren't really sure. … It was something that had never been done before. Now, I think they're taking pride in it."
With the pitch limits written into the rules, overuse shouldn't be a problem. The test will be the intensity of the pitches. Instead of "getting his work in," he'll have national pride on the line.
"You can throw 35-40 pitches, and there are some pitches in games like now where you're throwing them to work on stuff," catcher Alex Avila said. "In those pitches you're throwing there [in the Classic], they're tough pitches. It's a little bit different as far as the adrenaline. There's a little bit more meaning behind the pitch. It's definitely different this time of the year for guys.
"Some guys have reacted both ways from it. I just hope that he just makes sure that he progresses and builds his arm strength, which I know he will."
Sanchez threw 30 of his 45 pitches for strikes over three scoreless innings Thursday, mixing in his entire repertoire. In that, he might be ahead of his fellow Tigers starters, which should help him going into Venezuelan camp.
So far, Avila said, Sanchez has been "a breeze to catch."
The stuff that made Sanchez stingy down the stretch last year once they developed a rapport has carried into this spring.
"Not only does he have an out pitch, he's got four above-average pitches," Avila said.


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The editor position at the Denver Post isn't synonymous with long-term employment.
Over the past decade, three men -- Gil Spencer, Dennis Britton and Glenn Guzzo -- have served as the Post's editor, and many journalists believe a fourth person, Neil Westergaard, deserves this designation as well. (In an exchange of letters in Westword a few months ago, Spencer and Post owner Dean Singleton disagreed over whether Westergaard ever filled the role officially, even though he led the paper for well over a year.) If the least secure high-profile job in the city remains "head coach of the Denver Nuggets," "Denver Post editor" isn't far behind.
But 47-year-old Greg Moore doesn't seem gun shy in the slightest. The Post's editor since June 10, he's forthright, commanding, direct, and not given to expressions of doubt. His self-assurance recalls Robert Duvall's character in Apocalypse Now, who strolls through battles without concern because he's certain that no bomb or bullet has his name on it.
Moore's resumé testifies to his resilience. He began his reporting career at the Dayton Journal Herald in 1976, jumped to the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, his hometown, four years later, and moved to the Boston Globe in 1986. In his sixteen years at the Globe, Moore ascended from assistant metro editor to managing editor, earning praise along the way from colleagues and rivals alike for his contributions to numerous blockbusters, including recent stories of sexual abuse among the Catholic clergy.
The low point of Moore's Globe tenure took place in 1998, when writer Patricia Smith, whom he edited, resigned after having admitted fabricating items in her column. There's no telling if this connection slowed Moore's upward trajectory at the paper. But when Globe editor Matt Storin stepped down in mid-2001, Moore, along with several other internal candidates, was bypassed for the top slot in favor of Miami Herald executive editor Marty Baron. Less than a year later, Moore accepted Singleton's offer to take over the Denver Post.
Support from the mercurial Singleton is critical for Moore -- but keeping the main man happy is hardly his only challenge. Despite being first among equals in the joint operating agreement that mated its business operation to that of its crosstown foe, the Rocky Mountain News, in 2001, the Post remains a house divided -- a workplace marked more by its backbiting and rumor-mongering than by high morale and professional satisfaction. Quality remains an issue, as well. The paper has an abundance of resources thanks to Singleton, who's often said he wants the Post to be one of America's great newspapers. Thus far, though, its aspirations have only intermittently translated to achievements. David Migoya's recent series exposing the dirty secrets of the meat industry demonstrates the heights to which the Post can rise. But most nights, no one at the New York Times is losing any sleep over what the Denver Post is doing.
The following exchanges took place on July 22 in Moore's office, where personal touches consist primarily of two framed posters: One near his desk commemorates the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which led to school desegregation; the other is labeled "Field to Factory: Afro-American Immigration, 1915-1940."
Obviously, Moore, the first African-American editor of the Post, doesn't downplay his heritage. But neither does he overemphasize it in discussing his plans. Instead, he talks about instilling the paper with a new sense of energy, style, intelligence and urbanity -- and if a shakeup accomplishes these goals, so be it. His words can be blunt, as he demonstrates while critiquing specific parts of the Post; likewise, the messages he sends to beat reporters and columnists aren't subtle. No wonder many of his new charges are somewhat panicky about the future.
When Moore's robust sense of humor and surplus of charisma are on display, such fears seem unfounded. But he can also be snappish -- a side that emerges after he's told about some comments made by News editor John Temple in a conversation chronicled here last week ("Inside the Temple," August 1). The two editors have been friendly since spending time together at a journalism conference earlier this year, but Moore's manner makes it clear that camaraderie won't stop him from trying to best the Rocky day in and day out. For Denver readers, his attitude is a very good sign.
Westword: What were the events during your career that were the most formative for you?
Greg Moore: The first one was in Dayton, Ohio, when I was only 24 years old and I became a City Hall reporter. I was getting my butt regularly kicked by this veteran at the Dayton Daily News, the evening paper. He knew where all the bodies were buried, he knew all the reports that were about to come to fruition. He was just killing me. I was doing my own thing, and I'd had a number of page-one stories, but I was really despondent. So my city editor took me out, and I was like, "I'm really sorry. I don't understand what's happening. I'm working as hard as I can on my own stories." And he said, "I don't have any complaint with you. As long as you're doing stories that you think are important and we think are worth page one, well, that's the nature of competition. They're going to have some things we don't have. But if this is happening six months from now, we're going to have a serious talk."
What did you take from that?
That you have to give people time to develop beats and expertise. But it's fair to expect them to be setting their own agenda -- to not sit around waiting and wondering what the competition does. And in time, hopefully, they'll be able to get the stories that matter the most. That's one lesson I learned -- and another one came when I was 28 and my city editor -- or maybe it was the managing editor -- tapped me on the shoulder and told me he wanted me to be an editor. And I really didn't want to be an editor.
Why not?
I was covering politics, and I was enjoying being responsible for myself. I'd spent a couple of years covering this beat, and I'd just gotten to the point where I didn't have to be there every day and information came to me. I was mastering the beat, and I wanted to enjoy the fruits of my labor. But the lesson I learned on that is, if you can't see potential in yourself, sometimes other people can -- and you've got to be willing to go with the flow. I did, and I've been an editor ever since.
What about lessons from the Globe?
A lot of great lessons -- and one of the biggest is that the best newspapers thrive on ideas and concepts. They cover the events that happen very well, creatively, but when things are slow, they're able to look at the ideas and concepts that help drive the news. So I learned to look at stories, read them all the way down and then turn the prism a little bit and find some new angles that provide fresh perspective. But having had some tough moments at the Globe, I also learned that when those tough moments present themselves, don't put them off. Do what needs to be done. Because tough problems only get tougher when you don't deal with them.
There are a lot of tough problems at the Post, and many people expected you to come in and make instantaneous changes. But for the most part, you've moved more slowly. Are you trying to apply the same patience to the Post that your editor in Dayton had with you?
I am. I don't believe quick fixes are lasting fixes. The easiest thing would be for me to come in and say, "Everybody here is terrible, and I'm just going to bring in all new people." But to lay waste to the place and chop off people's heads and make lifetime decisions about their careers in six weeks is stupid. I want to build a foundation that's going to last, and you do that by taking your time, putting your system in place, giving people a chance to adjust -- and if they don't, they don't. I think people really rise to the expectations that are put on them.
Is that the message you've been giving to people in various departments right now? That at a certain point, more will be expected of them?
I need our people on beats doing a very aggressive job, and I want a higher page-one quotient than they've been accustomed to. If they fall back to metro front or page two of metro, great. But aiming for the inside just to feed the beast is not going to work. And people who want their beats and enjoy their beats should be performing at a very high level. I'm in the process of talking to all the beat reporters, trying to assess their level of excitement and satisfaction on the beats they've covered. Most of the people I've talked to have said they really love their beats and they want to stay on them. And I say, "Well, if you like them, that's great. But you really, really, really need to be on page one." Everybody understands what I want -- and they know they'll be measured from this point forward.
Do you have a set expiration date regarding beats, where if people have been on a beat for X number of years, they've been there too long?
You want to create the expectation that a beat is an assignment, and like any assignment, it's a finite thing. I don't want someone sitting on a beat for a decade or two decades; that really retards their development, especially if they're younger people. Having some expertise is fine, but five or six years on a beat is a lot. Even if they're comfortable doing that, it's not really in their best interest to leave them there indefinitely, so I don't plan to do that -- and I apply that to myself.
That seems to tie into your second anecdote, about initially wanting to enjoy the fruits of your labors instead of taking on something new. Can an excess of comfort be a detriment to a beat reporter?
When you get comfortable, you lose your sense of urgency. The first year covering a beat, you're just trying to find the bathroom -- trying to figure out the mechanics of the place. The second year, you're really sharpening your knowledge, and the third year, you know your beat well enough that some things are beginning to come to you -- and the fourth year, you own that turf and are really dominating it if you've been working hard. But after that, you start getting bored and needing something new. And it's up to us as managers to maintain that level of enthusiasm and keep reporters on an upward trajectory, learning new things. At the Globe, I found out there were people who'd been covering beats for a decade who'd never been asked, "Is there something else you'd like to do?" -- and when they were asked, they jumped at the chance. So I plan to ask that question.
As you know, Dean Singleton is a big admirer of the Globe, and he's said he set out to hire you because he felt you'd made the paper what it was. Did you?
No paper is the result of the efforts of one person, so I don't ever want that said. But I'm a product of the Globe, and I understand some of the things that made it distinctive. First and foremost, what makes the Globe the Globe is talent, and you've got to go out and hire it, develop it and nurture it -- and that's what we've got to do here. So just my hiring as an individual isn't going to make the Denver Post more than what it is now. You have to have people who are really dedicated to the news business. Not the opinion business, not the personality business, but the news business. I'm pleased that Dean likes the Globe, because I don't think I would probably be here unless he did. But I'd like him to talk about the Globe a little less -- stop talking about that and give us a chance to do what we need to do here.
The story for which the Globe has gotten the most attention lately has been the Catholic Church scandal. How involved were you in that coverage?
Involved, very involved. This is the whole truth; this is not a lie; this is what happened. There'd been some ongoing coverage about one priest who'd been accused of abusing kids: Father Geoghan. One of our columnists had written a piece last July questioning whether we would ever know the truth if impounded documents weren't released and opened to the public. I saw that when I came back from vacation, and I went to our investigative editor and said, "This might be a target of opportunity for us if we could find out whether or not the problem in the Catholic Church goes beyond this one priest. Do you think you guys might be able to uncover some stuff?" And he said, "Yeah, that might be something we should try to do." And then I talked to Marty [Baron] and said, "I want you to know, since this has been a sensitive area in the past, that we're taking a look at the Geoghan case to see if we can go deeper. Because sometimes when we do stuff like this, we get protesters outside. The last time we went after the church, the cardinal [Boston cardinal Bernard Law] even put a curse on the editor."
What year was that?
Around May of '92. And Marty looked at me and laughed, and said, "I'm not really worried about that at all." And later, he said, "Let's go to court and see if we can get those records open." And that was the beginning of the end for that particular story, which I hope will lead to a Pulitzer Prize for the Globe.
The Catholic Church is a tremendously powerful institution nationwide, but especially in Boston. How much thought did you give to that before pursuing the story -- or is one of the things that makes a newspaper great not giving thought to something like that before pursuing a story?
The latter. You've got to be aware of the past, aware of how sensitive a subject is and how careful you need to be. But it never entered into our thought process to say, "We're not going to do that story because of the grief it will cause us." Never. I can truthfully say that in my time at the Globe, one of the things I really, really came to admire and understand is, a newspaper is really great when it doesn't play favorites, when it doesn't have sacred cows. News judgment and service work can't be influenced by outside interests.
An example of that philosophy appeared in the Post recently: Louis Aguilar's business story, "Elway Inc." In this town, John Elway has been treated with kid gloves to a large degree. But I thought that story was evenhanded and fair, but also straightforward about some not-always-positive facts. Is that the kind of story you'd like to see more of in the Post?
It is; I'd like to see much more of that. I've said to everyone that I'd like to examine everything here and ask questions -- ask why, and what does it mean. In Elway's case, he was announcing a new venture with the arena football league, and I just said, "This guy's everywhere. How good of a businessman is he?" And people were like, "Well..." And I said, "Don't tell me. Let's put it in the paper." So that's what we're going to do.
You mentioned the tough times at the Globe, and I assume you were talking about the Patricia Smith matter. You were her direct editor?
I was the editor she would file her stories to. This isn't revisionism, just facts: Pat's column ran on Thursday or Friday and then again on Mondays -- and someone else would edit her on Sunday, because I wasn't there. But I was the person who for that last year was responsible for dealing with Pat.
Considering the workload of a managing editor, it seems a lot to expect for you to really have the time to work closely with a columnist like her. Did that strike you as a systemic problem?
The reason the higher-level editors were editing the columnists is so they would not be sort of ordered about by assistant managing editors, who'd tell them to write a column about this or that. It was a way to send a signal that they were more independent voices, above the daily vagaries of the news -- that they could pick and choose what they wanted to cover. But, look: The way the system was set up was the way the system was set up. And we did the best we could, given the load we had to handle. But now the deputy managing editor handles the three columnists, and that person doesn't have the same load that the executive editor and the two previous managing editors did. So I like the system they have there now much better.
When your hiring was announced, I had the opportunity to talk with Matt Storin about this topic, and the quote he gave me was, "Greg would be the first to admit that he had a supervisory role that he did not fulfill quite to the degree that he or I would have wanted in retrospect." Do you agree with that statement?
Yes. I've never tried to separate myself from that. I was part of the management team at the Globe; that was a person I was responsible for editing. And if it happened on my watch, it happened on my watch. But if we had it to do over again, when we first found out there might be questions about how Pat was putting together her columns, we probably should have taken the column away from her. Because that was an abrogation of the public trust and the trust her editors had placed in her. And if we'd done that, it wouldn't have happened. I believe in second chances, and I want to make sure that we run a place that's compassionate and understanding. But there are certain things that are too big to be ignored. You have to have a hierarchy of wrongdoing. And that is near the top.
When Matt Storin left the Globe and an outside editor was brought in, you let it be known that you wanted to run your own shop -- and that you might have to leave the Globe to do it. Were you actively looking for other opportunities?
I wasn't actively looking, but it was just a fact. It was well-known that I wanted to be an editor, and I certainly would have loved to have done that at the Globe after sixteen years there. I was ready for the opportunity, and I was well-prepared; I haven't seen everything, but I've seen a hell of a lot. So I was committed to doing this, and I really didn't care where I did it as long as it was a good newspaper in a metropolitan area in a community that deserved to have a first-class newspaper. And Denver fits that bill.
In the national journalism community, you've been seen as a rising star for a long time, which may lead some people to believe you see the Denver Post as a stepping stone to papers with bigger reputations. Is that misdirected?
It is misdirected. You look at my career, and you'll see I go places and I stay either until I've outgrown the place or the place has outgrown me -- and the latter hasn't happened yet. I'm not a job-hopper. I do what makes sense, and this job makes sense for me. I left a very good job making a very nice living, with a house that I loved, that my wife [TV executive Nina Henderson Moore] loved, and causing her to leave her career. And now we're bringing a new baby into the world [it's due in November]. Now, you don't do those type of things lightly, thinking "Two years from now, I'll be somewhere else." This is where I want to be.
Even though the Post is seldom mentioned among the great papers in the United States?
There are very few papers in this country that are of the caliber of the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal; there are a lot of newspapers that are left out of that equation. But the Denver Post has a substantial staff in a community that has high newspaper readership. It's affluent, well-educated, very interested in the news. It's a paper that's won a few Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 1999. The Denver Post probably in the near future isn't going to win one for international or national reporting. The Globe hasn't been able to do that. But we can be recognized for covering things in our back yard that are important. And I want to make sure we capitalize on them and serve our readers well.
Regarding international coverage, the Post hadn't done a great deal of it in the past -- but after 9/11, there was an expenditure of quite a lot of funding to send folks overseas. Is that something you see the Post doing more of in the future?
I see us picking and choosing our spots. But it was a big, big deal for this newspaper to rise to the occasion of 9/11 and to rise above maybe lowly expectations. They didn't know how to get a fixer in Pakistan and how to make their way around Afghanistan, but they learned. They're more experienced than they were on September 11, 2000. Will we continue to do that? My hope is that we'll have a bureau in a year or two -- hopefully in the Middle East, or in Mexico. My first priority, of course, is day to day to make the paper better and have a first-class local report. But I want to make sure we bring the world to our readers in an intelligent way, where we can make a contribution and build expertise for the future.
Was one of the most important things about the coverage the message it sent to your own staff?
This is a newsroom that thinks it can do a lot of things now. So it was a big message to our staff; it was a message to the community; it was a message to the industry; and it was a big statement about how the paper sees itself. It sees itself as a major metro. A major metro. And getting out of the so-called cowtown mentality is a big plus here.
Is the step beyond "We can do it" to be able to say "We can do it really well"?
Right -- to do it really smart and really well. We did some really good things after 9/11. But we're going to continue to build on quality and do it even better. Every time a bomb goes off in Israel, we're not going to get on an airplane and cover it. But people recognize when it's the right time to go, when we can add some value to how people perceive and understand these events.
The first day you arrived at the Post, the Hayman Fire really blew up. That wasn't the type of story you were accustomed to at the Globe, but did you find that your experiences covering different stories were applicable to covering something like that?
There are certain elements of covering a big story that are pretty universal, like trying to have it organized and trying to make sure you have layers of coverage: the straight-ahead stuff, the human stuff, the explanatory stuff, the helpful-hints stuff. So I felt comfortable with that. But understanding what the next stage of the story was is something I had to learn. When we had a story saying this fire could burn for ninety days, I was like, "What? Ninety days? You mean for the next ninety days, we're going to have front pages that will look like this?" I wasn't used to something like that. But I read every word we published every day, and that really hastened my learning curve. I learned a lot -- and if there's anything that kind of got away from me, it's that we probably had a little bit more coverage than we should have, like the sixth and seventh and eighth day into the story. But it was just so big: It wasn't just Hayman, but Missionary Ridge and Coal Seam. There were nine other fires. So in a certain sense, if you want to serve your readers, you just have to say, "We're going to give it to you."
That's interesting, because in one of John Temple's columns in the Rocky, he seemed to imply that the Post backed away from the fires sooner that it should have.
I don't think we backed away from the coverage -- and I think John ought to just worry about his own newspaper. We were cognizant that all of Colorado wasn't burning and that there were a lot of other things going on in our readers' lives, other important stories that needed covering -- and the fire needed to share the page with those other stories. But we had some really good enterprise stories, and we had a nice special section that I felt was very important for our readers to put into perspective what had happened. Years from now, when this fire is over with and these people are rebuilding their lives, they're going to look back on this incredible moment, and I think they'll be looking at our paper and not the Rocky Mountain News. Nobody tried to tally what the loss was from the Hayman Fire, but we did. And no one had tried to document every single house that had been lost in the Hayman Fire but us. We did it, not the Rocky Mountain News. So did we back away from the story? I don't know.
In my conversation with him, Temple used the special sections to contrast the Post and the News. He said the News's section was more immediate and was designed to give people the information they needed right away. But the Post waited a couple of weeks and took an approach he called "encyclopedic" -- a newspaper-of-record approach in which the Post looked at the fire from a greater distance.
I'm not going to get into an argument with John. I respect what he does, but his paper is totally different from mine. And let's see which section has more lasting impact: the little quickie they did on a Friday, or the piece that we took our time on and really explored and did the graphics and did the helpful stuff that will assist our readers in Denver when the next fire comes down the pike. All I can tell you is, being quick doesn't always mean being the best. And sort of jumping the gun, trying to tell the story of the Hayman Fire by publishing a section the Friday before the fire was contained -- well, I like our approach better. So even though I respect John, I'm not going to listen to what he has to say about what the Post is or isn't doing. This town is blessed to have two newspapers, and the more dissimilar we are, the better.
As an outside observer, I thought it was great that Temple was a little combative --
I think it's great, too.
-- because after the joint operating agreement, a lot of people feared that sense of competition wasn't going to last. Your response suggests strongly that the desire to compete is there from your side, too.
It's definitely there. This newspaper war is far from over, and I've said that to my staff. We're fighting for readers, okay? There may be a joint operating agreement, but people are still deciding which newspaper is going to be their newspaper -- and I want it to be us.
In the past, the Post has sometimes been described as dull. [Moore laughs.] That sounds like a description you never want applied to the paper.
I don't ever want to hear that word. I don't want us to be dull, and I don't want us to be predictable. We're never going to be shot if we do something different than we did yesterday. Somebody might say, "Why wasn't that story across the top the way it was the past three days?" Well, it's because we didn't want to do that.
Another thing you've talked about not wanting to do is run so many columns. Does having too many of them diminish the impact of the main columns?
I don't know if it diminishes their impact, but it gives the paper a decided lack of urgency. An opinion is never urgent. When you have material in the paper where, if you saw it, great, and if you didn't, so what, that's a recipe for not having a compelling product. I want people focused on breaking news stories and not spending a day and a half or two and a half days to write a column -- and I'm not even sure people are spending that much time doing it. So we want to reduce the number of columns, particularly on the inside pages -- and even though there are some people in the arts who need to be able to write a column occasionally, I want to rethink all of that, too. People here were pretty nervous in the beginning about what I've been saying, but I haven't been doctrinaire about it. Joanne Ostrow, our television columnist, is writing more stories, but she had a column in the paper today.
A TV column is usually viewed as standard equipment for a daily newspaper. Was reducing the number of TV columns a way of sending a message that no column is going to run just because everyone is accustomed to it running?
I've had a lot of people say to me, "My column has a big following." Well, anything you put in the newspaper for a period of time is going to have a following. That doesn't mean it's good. It doesn't mean it's important. And so what we're going to do is, we're looking at everybody and everything. And if you're going to make a statement like that, you need to be able to take on the redwoods, and not just the itty-bitty sprouts. And Joanne's a big player. But we had a really good talk, and she has responded to what I want.
Are you still looking to fill the major columnist position that opened up with the departure of Chuck Green?
Yes, I am. I just want to take my time and look at what we have, what we don't have. I didn't know Chuck Green and didn't know much about his columns. But having a columnist that can forge the broad band of our readership -- not all of whom are affluent, not all of whom are well-educated, not all of whom enjoy all the great things that Denver has to offer -- is really important to us. I want to make sure we get someone who's speaking to both sides of our audience. There are a couple people inside who've expressed some interest in that position, and I'll give them every consideration. But I also see the value of having a fresh voice from outside, so I'm looking around. I have some ideas, but I'm not going to tell you what they are.
Is it a good thing if some of the columnists at the Post are a little uneasy?
I'm uneasy in here every day. I come to work with the hair standing up on my neck, realizing I can take one below the bow any day. I'm fully engaged, and I want everybody else to be, too, because that leads to a better newspaper. I want us all to come in here and say, "Today's a new day, and we're going to do a good job."
I understand that in addition to meeting with staffers in your newsroom, you've met with a lot of people around town -- civic leaders and so on. Who have you sat down with?
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The mayor, the governor, people involved with the arts community, the nonprofit community, the education community. I met with Dr. Yates from CSU. And regular people, too. Shoeshine guys. They read the paper; they've got stuff to say. And I went to the Black Arts Festival at East High and talked to a lot of people who've got ideas there.
In these conversations, have you gotten a sense of what people look to the Denver Post for, and what they want it to be?
I think they look to the Denver Post for a comprehensive approach to coverage, a wider menu of things, a broader perspective. What they want is a more probing, questioning, harder-hitting newspaper that speaks to all the various segments of greater Denver and Colorado. I've been reading the paper off and on for six or seven months, and I've yet to see a story from Five Points -- and I don't understand that. Maybe it was an issue I didn't see, but it certainly hasn't had any prominence. So we're going to move around. And people are willing to give us a chance to prove that we've mastered all segments of this complex community every day. I had this woman come up to me at the festival and say, "I've heard a lot about you, but I don't really read the Post." And I said, "I want you to pick it up in three months and see if you're surprised. And then pick it up again in six months and see if it surprises you again." And she said, "Oh, I'll give you a chance. Just tell the truth." So that's what people want. Just tell the truth, whether it's good or bad. That's got to be job one. And if we do that, we'll be fine.


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Will Rahul Gandhi be Prime Minister in 2014? Unlikely, for three reasons.
First, he may not want to be. (Rahul at every public opportunity – the last being his zero-hour intervention in parliament on August 26 – has displayed both lack of appetite and talent for the top job.) Second, the Congress may well lose the next general election so Rahul may have to settle for being leader of the Opposition till 2019. And third, India is beginning to move beyond dynastic politics.
But is dynasty all that bad? It surely can't be if we've voted members of the same family into the prime ministership for 38 years (Jawaharlal 17 years, Indira 16, Rajiv 5) and elected to office the same party (the Congress) for 52 out of our 64 post-independence years?
Feudalism still runs deep in Indian society. But all good (and bad) things come to an end – eventually. Rahul is sharp enough to know this – even though the glib sycophants in the Congress who treat dynasty as a political livelihood don't. India – especially young India – rightly regards dynastic politics with growing disfavour.
But we are voted in to power, protest young dynasts from various parties who, following in the Congress's large footsteps, have flourished all across India: the Karunanidhis, the Pawars, the Hoodas, the Abdullahs, the Reddys, the Yadavs. If being elected gives politicians absolute legitimacy, Narendra Modi – elected thrice over by voters in Gujarat and virtually certain to be elected a fourth time in 2012 – should be the most legitimate and credible politician in India.
In an evolving democracy, voters can be shortchanged in several ways by politicians with malintent.
1. The Poverty Card: The country ranks 119th on the Human Development Index (HDI) 2011. India's GDP would have been double today's $1.5 trillion (Rs. 70 lakh crore) had Indira Gandhi not asphyxiated the economy with the Licence Raj through the 1960s and 1970s. Poverty deepened as a result.
Impoverished voters in India, however, can no longer be taken for granted. In the face of brazen corruption, as Karunanidhi's DMK learned the hard way in Tamil Nadu, votes cannot be bought. What was true of Tamil Nadu in May 2011 could well be true of India in May 2014.
2. The Caste Card: This has been played by regional parties to good electoral effect. The caste factor has been mercilessly exploited by Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh but it is abused in several other states as well.
3. The Communal Card: Out of the 28.55% national voteshare the Congress won in the May 2009 Lok Sabha election, over 11% came from the lock it has on the 13.50% Muslim vote. Without the Muslim vote, the Congress would be in permanent Opposition. Only around 17% of the 83% Hindu vote now goes to it – most from the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid (hence Sonia Gandhi's emphasis on MNREGA and other social sector schemes which help tighten its grip on this narrowing slice of the downtrodden electorate).
Can the Congress buy itself out of its electoral trap? Examine its finances: the party's audited balance sheet for 2008-09 shows it collected Rs. 496.88 crore, most of it from the sale of "coupons" to benevolent (and mostly anonymous) donors. The BJP's audited income for 2008-09 was Rs. 220.02 crore. (Astonishingly, the audited balance sheets for 2009-10 of these parties are not yet available for public scrutiny.) Election Commission officials say privately that the real income of parties like the Congress and the BJP is at least 10 times their declared income. Most large parties are funded by corporate donors, creating a quid pro quo nexus. The result: kickbacks from myriad scams find their way into parties' treasuries as undeclared income. It is this black money that funds most MPs' election campaigns, including those with criminal records.
This represents a classical feudocracy: rich politicians, poor voters. In an evolved democracy, it is the other way around.
For dynastic parties like the Congress, it's now a race against time. A worried Rahul, for example, knows that every percentage point increase in Indian literacy levels could shave half-a-percentage point off the Congress's national voteshare of 28%. The more educated the voter, the more empowered she is. In no democracy globally, where education and literacy levels are high, is dynasty in power. Development is the enemy of dynasty. As India develops economically and socially, dynastic politics will inevitably wither. Then questions like Rahul vs. Modi for PM in 2014 will sound faintly embarrassing.
How long will this process of de-dynastisation – to use a neologism – take? Ten years? Five? Somewhere in between would be good bet. By 2020, dynasts like the Bhuttos in Pakistan may still be around. But India would have outgrown them.


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NOBODY LOVES YOU Will Open at Second Stage This Summer
Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Founder and Artistic Director; Casey Reitz, Executive Director) will conclude its 34th season with the New York premiere of the acclaimed new musical comedy, NOBODY LOVES YOU, featuring music and lyrics by Gaby Alter (Band Geeks!), book and lyrics by Itamar Moses ("Boardwalk Empire," Bach at Leipzig), choreography by MAndy Moore ("So You Think You Can Dance"), directed by Michelle Tattenbaum (The Sublet Experiment). NOBODY LOVES YOU will be performed at Second Stage Theatre's Tony Kiser Theatre (305 West 43rd Street) this summer. Exact dates will be announced shortly. For subscription or ticket information, please call the Second Stage Box Office at 212-246-4422 or visit the company's website, www.2ST.com.
The new musical comedy NOBODY LOVES YOU follows a philosophy grad student who auditions for - and surprisingly finds himself cast on - a reality TV dating show, all in an attempt to win back his ex-girlfriend. But when an unexpected on-set love connection threatens to ruin his plan, manufactured drama collides with real emotion in this original new musical.
NOBODY LOVES YOU had its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in the summer of 2012. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called NOBODY LOVES YOU, "CONSISTENTLY WITTY...A DELIGHTFUL CHAMBER MUSICAL" while Margaret Gray of the Los Angeles Times called it "FRESH, PERTINENT, AND VERY, VERY FUNNY," and Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal said the show is "CRISP, SMART AND IMPECCABLY ACCOMPLISHED...ONE OF THE BEST MUSICALS OF THE SEASON."
Casting and additional creative team will be announced shortly.


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