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Crazy Horse guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro tells Rolling Stone that he believes this tour with longtime compadre Neil Young will be their last together, after 45 years on and off of recording and touring together.
From his home in Hawaii, Sampedro said, ""I just think once it stops it's going to be kind of hard to get it rolling again. My gut tells me this is really the last tour. I hate saying their ages, but I'm 64 and I'm the baby of the band. I love playing and we're playing as good as we ever did, but at any time something could go down with any one of us."
He noted, "Our shows are physical. It takes a lot of energy to play that much. It just seems at some point something is going to break. I already had an operation on my thumb. Neil's wrist bugs him, and he has to tape it when he plays. You can't fool time. You can't count on this happening again in five years."
Young first used Crazy Horse when he recorded his second solo album, "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" in 1969 that included the hit rocker, "Cinnamon Girl" and the extended FM radio cuts, "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Down by the River." Young and Crazy Horse have been particularly busy lately, releasing two studio albums last year, "Americana" and the 2-CD "Psychedelic Pill," and touring extensively. Last month they wrapped a nine-date tour of Australia and New Zealand. Their British and European tour kicks off June 2 at the 22,000-seat Waldbuhne amphitheatre in Berlin and runs through the summer until Aug. 19 at London's 20,000-seat O2 Arena.
Barbra Streisand, who turned 71 this week, was serenaded by Liza Minnelli and Tony Bennett when she received the 40 th annual Chaplin Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, according to The Associated Press.
Those attending the awards gala that raised $2 million for the society, including Streisand, Kris Kristofferson and last year's honoree Catherine Deneuve, were treated to Minnelli and Bennett teaming up on Charlie Chaplin's standard, "Smile," accompanied by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.
Former President Bill Clinton paid tribute to Streisand by telling the audience at the close of the evening, "Every great person is driven. But if that person has massive talent, big brains and a bigger heart, you want to go along for the ride."
Streisand will be traveling abroad for shows in London at the O2 Arena on June 1 and 3, at the 17,000-seat Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on June 6 and 10, at the 20,000-seat Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany on June 12, then to the 17,000-seat O2 World Arena in Berlin before playing Israel for the first time, on June 20 and 22 at the 14,400-seat Bloomfield Stadium in the capital, Tel Aviv.
So anxious was Neil Diamond to show his support for the people of Boston that he personally called the Red Sox general switchboard to tell them that he was in town and wanted to come to their first home game since the Boston Marathon bombing on Beantown's biggest day, Patriot's Day, and personally sing the song that the team and the town have embraced as its own, "Sweet Caroline," according to longtime Boston political reporter and well-known Red Sox fan, Mike Barnacle, on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer surprised and delighted the 35,000 fans packed into Fenway Park when he appeared on the field during the 8 th inning of last Saturday's Red Sox-Kansas City Royals game they won, 4-3, wearing a Red Sox cap, singing live and leading the throng in the "So good, So good, so good," shouts, and telling them, "What an honor it is for me to be here today! I bring love from the whole country."
Diamond, 72, also tweeted, "Boston, I love you and I'm thinking of you" and to the Yankees he tweeted, "Thank you New York Yankees for playing 'Sweet Caroline' for the people of Boston. You scored a home run in my heart. With respect, Neil." He tweeted similar messages thanking the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Miami Marlins for also showing their solidarity by playing his"Sweet Caroline" in the 8 th innings of their home games, as the Red Sox have been doing since 2002.
He also told the The Associated Press, "There is a lot of comfort that music can offer. In this particular situation, I'd much rather it not have happened than for 'Sweet Caroline' to become part of it. But it's obviously offering comfort to people and I feel good about that."
Diamond, who is writing songs for a new album, tells Rolling Stone that he's been so moved by the people of Boston in the wake of the bombing that he's written a song about the incident and aftermath. "I'm writing now and obviously affected by this situation in Boston, so I'm writing about it just to express myself."
He's fast tracking it for a quick release. "I spent the whole day recording it and I will spend tomorrow recording it. With a little bit of help from the man upstairs, I'll have it finished by the weekend."
George Clinton says he and his band of space rockers, Funkadelic, have recorded a new single, The Naz," with eccentric and reclusive superstar Sly Stone, according to VVN. The song was set to be available for download on April 20, but it has yet to appear on the usual download websites. Stay tuned.
Glen Campbell's Alzheimer's has gotten to the point where the legendary 77-year-old pop and country singer-guitarist can no longer perform in public, reports United Press International. As such, he has cancelled the remainder of his farewell tour of North America.
However, he is set to release one last album, "See You There," in July - a pleasant surprise, as it was promoted that his last album, "Ghost on the Canvas," that came out in August 2011, would be his last. That album featured songs by former Replacements leader Paul Westerberg and Jakob Dylan, as well as a slew of songs co-written by Campbell himself, and featured such guests as former Stray Cats guitarist Brian Setzer, Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Neilson, Keith Urban, Chris Isaac, former Lou Reed and Alice Cooper guitarist Steve Hunter and "King of the Surf Guitar," Dick Dale.
Most of the recordings for the upcoming album came from the "Ghost" sessions, during which he re-recorded, and in many ways, re-interpreted, some of his greatest hits, including "Wichita Lineman," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Gentle on My Mind."
His wife Kim tells The Associated Press, "Glen still wants to record, but it's just a matter of if he's able to. It just gets more and more difficult for him all the time." She said that his family still invites musician friends to their home, and they play jam sessions. Campbell also stays active by playing golf. "We're trying to live our lives and stay out there and socialize as much as we can, as long as we can. The other night we went to see Merle Haggard and hung out with Toby Keith on his bus. Everybody played different songs and had a great time."
A new discount priced import box set series containing five complete albums released during the '60 s and '70 s, many priced at $18.99 - $19.99, is out.
Among the artists featured in the "Original Album Classics Series" are from Jethro Tull ("Aqualung," "A Passion Play," "Minstrel In The Gallery," "Too Old To Rock 'n Roll Too Young To Die!" and "Songs From The Wood"); The Monkees ("The Monkees," "More Of The Monkees," "Headquarters," "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.," and "The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees"); Fleetwood Mac ("Then Play On," "Kiln House," "Futures Games," "Bare Trees" and "Mystery to Me"); Linda Ronstadt ("Prisoner In Disguise," "Hasten Down The Wind," "Simple Dreams," "Living In The USA" and "Mad Love"); The Doobie Brothers ("Toulouse Street," "The Captain And Me," "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits," "Stampede" and "Taking It To The Streets") and Jeff Beck ("Rough And Ready," "Jeff Beck Group," "Blow By Blow," "Wired" and "The Jeff Beck Group With Jan Hammer Live").
Also The Jefferson Airplane ("Jefferson Airplane Takes Off," "Surrealistic Pillow" and "After Bathing At Baxters," "Crown Of Creation" and "Bless Its Pointed Little Head"); Carole King ("Writer," "Music," "Rhymes And Reasons," "Fantasy" and "Wrap Around Joy"); Electric Light Orchestra ("On the Third Day," "Face the Music," "New World Record," "Time" and "Discovery"); Alice Cooper ("Pretties For You," "Easy Action," "Love It To Death," "Killer" and "School's Out") and Sly and The Family Stone ("Dance to the Music," "Life," "Stand," "Greatest Hits" and "There's a Riot Goin' On").
Others are from Spirit, Donovan, Curtis Mayfield, Chic, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Kris Kristofferson, America, Montrose, Billy Cobham, James Taylor, The Byrds, Randy Newman, Argent, Little Feat, John McLaughlin, The Jefferson Starship, Jean Luc-Ponty, The Lovin' Spoonful, Lou Reed, Thelonious Monk, Rory Gallagher, Harry Nilsson, The B-52 s, Molly Hatchet, Weather Report, Blackfoot, The Psychedelic Furs, The Incredible String Band, Johnny Winter, Booker T. and The MGs, Stanley Clarke, The Thompson Twins, Patti Smith, Santana, Hot Tuna, Mountain, Poco, Iggy Pop, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, Black Oak Arkansas, Soft Machine, Art Garfunkel, The Cars, Earth, Wind and Fire, Elvis Costello, and Blood, Sweat and Tears. These box sets are available on Amazon.
As has happened numerous times over the past year-and-a-half, country great George Jones, 81, has once again been hospitalized. He was admitted to a Nashville hospital with a fever and irregular blood pressure, according to the Boot. This has forced the cancelation of at least two concerts. Jones is currently on a year-long farewell tour that is set to conclude in November in Nashville. He's also recording what he says is his last studio album. On the album, he is working closely with his good friend Dolly Parton, who has composed several songs.
Peter Garrett, former frontman for Australian rockers Midnight Oil has always been civic-minded and a staunch environmentalist, even during his tenure with the band (1973-2002). Since 2004, the 60-year-old has held several positions in the Aussie government, including being elected to its House of Representatives. In 2006, he was Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment, Heritage and the Arts, and from 2007-2010 he was Australia's Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts.
Since 2010, he's been his nation's Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth.
The man who sang lead on such hits album as the 1987 platinum-selling "Diesel and Dust" and the top 10 singles in the U.S. as the No. 1 "Blue Sky Mine" and No. 6 "Beds Are Burning," reunited with the members of Midnight Oil at the Rock for Doc Concert in Sydney to sing The Animals' "We Got To Get Out Of This Place" with another Australian rock group, The Angels. Doc is The Angels' lead singer Doc Neeson, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor over Christmas and has been undergoing treatment ever since. The concert raised $200,000 for Doc.
Van Halen with David Lee Roth, Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne, a reclusive Billy Joel and a battling Aerosmith all played gigs this past week in Australia.
Van Halen's gigs were its first there since 1998 when Gary Cherone was its singer. This time around the band stuck to what it's been playing ever since Roth rejoined in 2006, which is exclusive Roth songs from 1977-1984 with two more from its 2012 CD, "A Different Kind of Truth"). The band continues to act as if none of the music they made with Sammy Hagar from 1985-1996 ever existed, including the 6 x platinum album,"5150," the 4 x platinum CD, "OU812," the 3 x platinum albums, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" and "Balance."
Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne back in the fold after a million years, is playing a set almost exclusively comprised of songs from 1970-1976, including the expected heavy hits, as well as gems "Electric Funeral" from 1970's "Paranoid" LP, and "Symptom of the Universe," from 1975's "Sabotage." They're also showcasing two new cuts from its upcoming June release, "13."
Billy Joel, currently in a semi-retired state, had such a great time playing his first full gig in more than three years, at the Stone Music Festival in Sydney that he's considering retiring permanently, he told news.su.com before the gig. Always harboring a desire to be an honest-to-God rocker, he emerged from behind his piano to come front and center and strap on a guitar for "We Didn't Start The Fire." His band even covered bona fide Aussie rocker's AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," but he didn't sing it. Two guys from his road crew did. He closed the show with "Piano Man" that had everyone singing along.
Aerosmith is touring Down Under for the first time in 13 years. They co-headlined Sydney's Stone Music Festival with Joel, opening with "Draw the Line" from 1977 and wrapping with 1975's "Sweet Emotion." They rocked from start to finish, delivering such bone-crushers as "Last Child," "Livin' on the Edge," as well as "Love in an Elevator" and gems like "No More No More" from 1975's "Toys in the Attic" and their 1978 cover of The Beatles' "Come Together" from the "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" motion picture soundtrack.
Aerosmith's main songwriters, singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry received the ASCAP Founders Award as part of the 30 th annual Pop Music Awards at the Loews Hollywood Hotel but couldn't accept in person because of their Aussie tour. However, they did tape a thank you message.
American folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens, best known for his festival-opening set at Woodstock, suffered a fatal heart attack, at 72, at his home in Jersey City, NJ, according to NPR.
From the outset of his career, dating to his early '60 s days as part of the Greenwich Village folk scene, Havens cultivated a reputation as a powerful performer. However, it was his intense three-hour performance that opened the Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York, in August 1969 before an estimated 450,000 and his two songs in Michael Wadleigh's hit 1970 Academy Award-winning documentary, "Woodstock," that introduced him to the world.
Haven's performance with his anti-war raps, calls for peace and song themes set the tone for the entire three-day festival for the artists and fans alike.
Like many of the fest's performers such as Joe Cocker, Alvin Lee and Ten Years After, Sha Na Na, Santana, Arlo Guthrie, and Crosby, Stills and Nash, Havens became overnight sensations thanks to their stirring performances captured in the film.
The film showed Haven's performing an anti-war folk song, "Handsome Johnny" and then his final song of the set, "Freedom/Motherless Child," that the sweat-drenched musician improvised on the spot because he'd run through all his rehearsed material and he kept being called back for additional encores.
Of the fabled Woodstock Festival he said, "I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late. Everyone else was at the hotel seven miles away and couldn't get to the stage because the one back road they thought they could take was completely blocked."
His Woodstock appearance led to gigs at other festivals, including another legendary rock fest the following August at the Isle of Wight that was capped by an appearance by a then-mythic and ultra-reclusive Bob Dylan with John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and pal Eric Clapton in attendance.
Havens was never a big seller when it came to hit albums or singles. Only three of his LPs charted below Billboard's Top 200, the highest being "Alarm Clock" in 1971 that peaked at No. 29, followed the next year by "Richie Havens on Stage," that made it to No, 55. He did have one hit single, a cover of Harrison and The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun," that reached No. 16 in 1971.
It was as a live act that Havens was most popular, something he did until March 20, 2012, when he announced that, after 45 years, he was forced to stop performing due to ill health.
Australian singer Chrissy Amphlett, former lead singer of New Wave rockers The Divinyls, who biggest hit here was "I Touch Myself," died in New York City, at 53, after battling breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, according to Reuters. Her husband, Divinyls drummer Charlie Drayton posted a statement on the Australian Recording Industry Association's website that the singer died at home in her sleep, surrounded by friends and family.
Amphlett co-founded The Divinyls in Sydney in 1980. The group recorded five albums until their initial breakup in 1996. In 1991, Amphlett and the group wrote and recorded "I Touch Myself" that became an international smash, hitting No. 1 in their native country, No. 10 in the U.K. and No. 4 here.
"America's Beloved Gospel Singer" George Beverly Shea died at 104 following a brief illness, reports the Washington Post. In a career spanning more than seven decades, Shea was considered gospel music's first international singing star via his appearances around the globe at evangelist Billy Graham's Crusades.
Shea released 72 albums and was nominated for ten consecutive Grammys, winning two. When he was 102, in 2011, the Grammys gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award, making him the oldest living recipient of a Grammy. Several weeks before that Grammy ceremony, he sang at a Christmas concert.
Shea's career in radio began during its infancy, in 1929 and he sang in all 50 states and a staggering 185 countries on every continent. His theme song was the Christian standard, "How Great Thou Art."
Among the recently released albums, digital reissues, MP3 downloads and deluxe box sets are "To Be Loved" from Michael Buble, the most popular successor to the Great American Songbook lineage that includes Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, includes versions of Sinatra hits, "You Make Me Feel So Young," "Young At Heart" and "Something Stupid" with actress Reese Witherspoon taking the place of Frank's daughter/singing partner Nancy; "Love Has Come For You," from actor-comedian-bluegrass banjo player Steve Martin and New Bohemians singer Edie Brickell, who has been married to Paul Simon for the past 20 years, features 13 Martin-Brickell compositions; "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor," the fifth solo album from former White Zombie leader and horror film director Rob Zombie; "Frequency Unknown," the 12 th studio effort since 1982 from American metal heads, Queensryche; "Live" from the Jeff Lynne-led Electric Light Orchestra that was recorded at CBS Television City in Hollywood in 2001 and includes "Mr. Blue Sky" and "Can't Get It out of My Head" and ELO's cover of Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven" that mixed classical music with rock and roll that first got them noticed in the U.S. in early 1973 and a re-release of 1990's "Armchair Theatre," Jeff Lynne's first solo album that prominently features his fellow Traveling Wilbury George Harrison, as well as his old ELO mate Richard Tandy on keyboards, and Ringo Starr on a song or two, and includes a cover of Jesse Stone's early rock and roll classic, "Don't Let Go;" "Spirit in the Room" is the 40 th studio album from Sir Tom Jones and features his version of one of Sir Paul McCartney's most recent compositions, "(I Want To) Come Home" as well as tunes by Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Richard Thompson, Mickey Newberry and Odetta.
A 20-track, live 2-CD "Made in Japan (Deluxe Edition)," from Whitesnake recorded in 2011 (also availably as Blu-ray and DVD); an expanded 24-song, 2-CD of Bob Marley and The Wailer's 1978 LP, "Kaya;" "Live at Montreux 2013" from Canadian alt pop-rocker Alanis Morissette recorded last July (also available as Blu-ray and DVD); "Raven" from Grammy-winning adult contemporary singer Paula Cole; yet another greatest hits collection, the 16-song "Very Best of The Rolling Stones 1964-1971;" a 4-CD import box, "All Through The City" from Brit pub rockers Dr. Feelgood, that formed on Canvey Island, Essex, in 1971 and "Under An Indigo Sky" from former Wings guitarist Lawrence Juber.
New DVDs include "Farewell Concert," after nearly 40 years, the last performance, in 2002, from country and gospel music legends, The Statler Brothers.
Classic acts from the '50 s, '60 s and '70 s continue to perform. Here's what one of them is doing.
*Don't be fooled by the memory of the gimmicky Revolutionary War uniforms. Paul Revere and The Raiders were one of the great rock bands of the '60 s.
The Raider's pounding, stomping 1965-1966 smashes, "Just Like Me" (No. 11), "Kicks" (No. 4 here and No. 1 in Canada), "Hungry" (No. 6) and "Good Thing" (No. 4) would have been an instant ticket into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for any other group.
But The Raiders were supported by Dick Clark, who promoted them as rollicking, fun and loveable teen idols on his afternoon teenage music show, "Where the Action Is" and this appears to have had a negative effect on Hall of Fame voters. This is the opposite of how the Hall voters treated another artist who was heavily promoted via television, Rick Nelson, whose father, Ozzie Nelson, showcased him constantly on their family's weekly sitcom, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
The loopy, goofy, fun-loving Raiders were fronted by a genuine teen idol, Mark Lindsay. However, Lindsay's good looks that were made for the covers of "Tiger Beat and "16" magazines and that teen idol status distracted from the fact that he was one of the greatest front men of any group, and one of the best rock singers of the '60 s.
In addition to the aforementioned classic rock singles, he and The Raiders scored a considerable number of other hits, including "Him Or Me, What's It Gonna Be" that made it to No. 5 in 1967, and the group's biggest hit, "Indian Reservation" that went to No. 1 and was certified platinum in 1971.
In addition, "Arizona," that he released as a solo artist in 1969 hit No. 9 and sold more than a million copies and was awarded gold record status.
Lindsay left Paul Revere and The Raiders in 1975, although he did appear with them a handful of times over the next couple of years. He composed music for such films as "For Pete's Sake" with Barbra Streisand and Jackie Susann's "The Love Machine." In 1985, he embarked on The Legends of Liberty Tour that saw him backed by cult Los Angeles-based rockers Spirit.
Through the decades, Lindsay toured sporadically. He recorded an album in 1989, "Looking For Shelter" that wasn't released until 2003. It was his last recording effort until 1996 when his album, "Video Dreams" was released.
In 2003, Lindsay announced his retirement from touring, but it didn't last and he's toured here and there since. In 2006, he began hosting a radio show, "Mark After Dark," from his then-hometown, Portland, which changed its name the following year to "Mark Lindsay's Rock and Roll Caf?," which was also the name of his restaurant there.
He resumed touring big time in 2010 and 2011 when he joined the Happy Together tours headlined annually by The Turtles.
Now 71 but appearing and bounding about the stage like a man a quarter-century younger, Mark Lindsay is once again touring with his pals The Turtles. So far, 46 dates have been announced for this year's tour, but in a Facebook message, Turtles' lead singer Howard Kaylan says it's probable that more dates will be added. This year's tour also features former Three Dog Night frontman Chuck Negron, former Union Gap singer Gary Puckett and Gary Lewis, leader of The Playboys. It kicks off June 8 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Miss., and includes a Fourth of July stop at the San Diego Country Fair at the Del Mar Racetrack, and a show on July 11 at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, near Santa Barbara.
A new single he recorded in New Jersey with help from a new mentor, The E Street Band's Steven Van Zandt (who sings backup vocals), "Like Nothing That You've Seen," could be mistaken for a classic Alice Cooper rocker.
It's available for download on Amazon, and will appear on an upcoming album he's just recorded.
Steve Smith writes a new Classic Pop, Rock and Country Music News column every week. Like, recommend or share the column on Facebook. Contact him by email at email@example.com.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo.—If Jovan Belcher took the route he likely did to the Chiefs' training facility on Saturday morning, driving west through his neighborhood to Raytown Road, and up Raytown almost the rest of the way, then he passed within a couple of blocks of the police station that sits less than two miles from his home.
He may or may not have considered stopping there.
After murdering the mother of his child and before killing himself, Belcher must've been besieged by conflicting thoughts and emotions. But we don't know that for sure, much less what was on his mind and in his heart as he made that final drive.
It was too late to save Kasandra Perkins. Was it too late to save himself?
Romeo Crennel hoped not. When he came to Belcher in the Chiefs parking lot—a little more than a 10-minute drive from Belcher's home—he saw the handgun. According to Crennel on Monday, the coach had no knowledge as he spoke with Belcher that the 25-year-old linebacker had already killed someone.
"I was trying to get him to understand that life isn't over, he's still got a chance, let's work this out," Crennel said.
Before they could stop him, Belcher pressed the gun to his head and ended it all.
Ended it all for himself, that is. Not for Crennel, assistant coach Gary Gibbs and general manager Scott Pioli, who witnessed the shooting. Not for Belcher's teammates. Not for the Chiefs organization and the team's fans.
"It might not be over for a long time—for some of us, the rest of our lives," Crennel said.
It has only just begun for Belcher's and Perkins' families.
And for a three-month-old named Zoey.
Oh, sweet Zoey. America grieves for you.
— More: Perkins' family breaks silence | Former teammates stunned
Unfortunately, America also wants—demands—answers that aren't going to come and explanations that aren't going to be accurate.
During a press conference on Monday, a reporter from one of the major cable news networks asked Crennel as leading a question as could be drawn up. To paraphrase: "Were the pressures of football and fatherhood and his relationship with his girlfriend the reason Jovan Belcher snapped?"
Crennel—remarkably calm and composed throughout—appeared for just a moment to take umbrage.
"Now you're trying to make me a psychologist," he answered, "and I'm not a psychologist. I don't know why he snapped."
Now that's a question made for the cable news cycle.
— The game goes on: Chiefs block out the pain, but at what cost?
And many members of the media, and of society at large, want to hear answers—and read opinions—that meet that same need for simplicity and speed.
Leading questions were bouncing off the walls of the Chiefs locker room on Monday.
A reporter from one of the national morning TV talk shows seemed to ask Andy Studebaker all of them at once. Why did Belcher snap? How do you feel about him now that he killed someone? Did he have head injuries we don't now about? Are guns partly to blame?
"Complex" is the word Studebaker kept using, to little avail.
"When you try to answer in one sentence," he finally said, "you leave out a lot."
He was right.
On guns, specifically, Studebaker was more than right. Given the chance to explain himself, he was profound.
"It sort of minimizes what they went through to say that if athletes didn't have guns, none of this would've happened," he said. "It minimizes the level of their hurt."
Because this is about pain, human pain, and suffering, human suffering.
— Costas' comments: NBC host cites pro-gun control column during telecast
It's not about football. It's not about whether the Chiefs are mourning the right person, as though it's impossible for them to cry for Belcher and also for Perkins—and for their orphaned child.
As though it's unacceptable for them to still feel love for the friend who, just last Friday, was in their midst.
"He was a good dude," Shaun Smith said. "The incident that happened, that's not the Jovan I knew."
"Jovan is still a member of our family," Crennel said. "You don't throw him out the door."
If those words raise your ire ... try to back yourself down long enough to consider the possibility that those words aren't the sum of their thoughts on a murder-suicide.
Six days before she died, Perkins cradled Smith's six-week-old daughter in her arms. It was at Arrowhead Stadium after the last game of Belcher's life.
"I have three little girls," Smith said, fighting his emotions. "I feel sorry his little girl won't be able to know who her mom or her dad is."
Several members of the Chiefs defense met with grief counselors on Monday. They weren't ordered to; they chose to. Are they grieving in part for Belcher? Of course they are.
— Chiefs owner Clark Hunt: 'So many people are hurting'
There's a parallel that can be drawn from this tragic story to the one that unfolded at Penn State. For a while, it was dangerous business to write anything about the football players whose careers were in jeopardy because of a vast, evil scandal that didn't implicate them in any way whatsoever.
Write about them and their predicament—or recall a single good deed done by Joe Paterno—and you were accused, often angrily, of being insensitive to the real victims.
Of grossly missing the point.
But the victims in Pennsylvania didn't go ignored, did they? Jerry Sandusky is rotting in prison.
The victims here aren't being overlooked. Certainly not by the Chiefs.
Studebaker liked Belcher. Their daughters came into the world at just about the same time.
"I think about Zoey a lot," Studebaker said, his voice cracking, barely two days after Perkins lay dead in Raytown and Belcher lay dead in the parking lot just outside.
There's room enough to think of all involved.
— Steele: Horrifying acts incomprehensible

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A local foundation is raising money to build a "world-class" veterans memorial in downtown Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Veterans Memorial Foundation is seeking $2.2 million through its Brick Campaign, where bricks are being sold at a range of $250 to $550. All bricks can be purchased in honor of a veteran and customized with the veteran's name, rank, dates of service and … [Read more...]
The Window Officially Launches in Downtown Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS – The Window, a multi-purpose space located Downtown at The Ogden, officially opened its doors this week. The space will serve multiple audiences, and the arts will be a focus, as a live art installation and gallery will occupy The Window. The inaugural art piece will include a live installation by classically trained Las Vegas artist Donovan Fitzgerald, who … [Read more...]


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A U.S. Senator from New York sees green for the state's Greek yogurt industry and hopes that proposed federal legislation will help dairy producers cash in on the yogurt's growing success.
According to The Saratogian, dairy farms may need to increase milk production by 15 percent to supply the growing number of large Greek yogurt plants planned in central and western New York. To meet this demand, New York dairy farmers will need to increase milk production by nearly 1.9 million pounds annually.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., hopes that his recently introduced legislation will help give dairy producers the financial tools to grow to help meet the challenge.
"The yogurt industry could be a cash cow for upstate New York dairy farmers," Schumer said.
His legislation, the Dairy Augmentation for Increased Retail in Yogurt products (DAIRY) Act, would allow a 50 percent bonus depreciation for cows currently in production that one farm buys from another. It would allow farmers to set up a tax- preferenced savings account where earning could be deposited during high-income periods and held tax-free until needed for leaner times.
"It's like a dairy IRA (Individual Retirement Account)," Schumer said of the savings account.
Some New York producers, however, are far from convinced that expanding their herd and increasing milk production is the best option. One farmer, David Wood, owner of Eildon Tweed Farm, believes that demand needs to actually increase before expanding their herds.
"I don't agree with having to increase production ahead of time," Wood told The Saratogian. "If the milk price goes up, then we will produce more. Right now, a lot of farms are culling their herds because the price of beef is high and the milk price is declining."
Wood pointed that dairy farms increased production when milk prices were high, thus creating more supply. More supply led to the recent price decline. Last year's peak of $22-per-hundredweight has since fallen to $18.50.
"It's not taxes that are keeping us from expanding," Wood said. "It's the price of milk."
National retail sales of Greek yogurt more than doubled in 2011 reports The New York Times. In a 52-week period ending in October, Greek yogurt sales jumped to $821 million. Sales are expected to continue through the end of the year.
Greek yogurt's popularity played a distinct part of this year's Super Bowl after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo put up the yogurt as part of a friendly wager with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. Greek yogurt was also featured in a Dannon commercial played during the Super Bowl to a record audience of 111.3 million people.


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Quis is hoopin'.
We lead the free throw race with 13 attempts to their 3. I like that trend. Even though we've committed 11 t/o's to their 4 we lead in points off t/o 9 to 6. Dunleavy and Danny were seriously limited due to foul trouble in the 1st half. They'll be out in full force in the 2nd.
I'm in these bands
The Humans
Dr. Goldfoot
The Bar Brawlers
Wow Rush made a 3 pointer.
Tins> Hinrich.
Rush is probably the best basketball of his career right now. Everyone should watch you'll never see him do this again.
another bomb! good
Wooohooo Shawne and Rush *finally* gets one to stay down...
No Linking to your own site if it sells something.
he want a cheesesteak or a burger?
Tins showing some leadership and getting David to calm down. Tinsley is the leader of this team now on the court IMO.
mel mel the abuser is in the house.
[~]) ... Cheers! Go Pacers!
Holy cow... Tinsley with some moves
"He wanted to get to that money time. Time when the hardware was on the table. That's when Roger was going to show up. So all we needed to do was stay close"
Darnell Hillman (Speaking of former teammate Roger Brown)
Jamaal Tinsley has decided to take over the game and there is nothing Chicago can do about it.
Tinsley looking really good. I'm impressed.
No Linking to your own site if it sells something.
David gets a call from the refs?
That was awesome. You could hear David say "right here. stays right here" and pointing down at the paint.
This space for rent.
Also: have to admit that over the summer I thought Chicago had two point guards better than our starter (or three if you counted Ben Gordon).
I'm stupid sometimes.
This space for rent.
This is a heck of a quarter of basketball right now if we keep the effort up.


text: Home → Sports Dodgers President Stan Kasten talks Yasiel Puig, his 'Yankee' manager, team heritage and more By Los Angeles News Group Posted: 07/11/13, 12:01 AM PDT | # Comments The Los Angeles News Group hosted a town hall meeting Wednesday night with Los Angeles Dodgers President Stan Kasten. At the Los Angeles Sports Museum, Kasten talked with readers about Yasiel Puig, Wi-Fi in Dodger Stadium and offered insight into the job of team president. Here's the transcript and some video:Kevin Modesti, moderator: Thank you for being here. It's great you're here. This is going to be fun and we hope informative. It's an interesting time to talk about the Dodgers, isn't it? I'm sure our guest is happy -Stan Kasten: Although give me credit. When we scheduled this I had some nerve. We scheduled this about two months ago.KM: A month ago, the first 10 questions would have been about the job/future of the manager. I crossed out those 10 questions. We can move on, we think, to happier times. We want most of tonight to be about you asking questions of and offering advice to the boss of the Los Angeles Dodgers. When that time comes, we'll ask you to stand at the microphone on either side. There's one over there, one over there. We'll get to that. I'm going to warm up with a few questions.Let me tell you about our guest. I think sports fans know his name really well, know a little about his accomplishments. He's one of the smartest people in sports. He gets smarter every time Yasiel Puig gets a base hit. (Laughter) It is an understatement to say that he is one of the leading executives in sports. In Atlanta he was at one time the president of the baseball, basketball and hockey teams all at once. His Atlanta Braves won the World Series and won 14 straight divisions. With the Atlanta Hawks he was the only person -- still I think -- to win the NBA executive of the year two years in a row. And built a ballpark in Atlanta, Philips Arena, moved on to Washington, president of the Washington Nationals, and built back up that franchise which had moved from Montreal. And now the big city. | MORE PHOTOS: Stan Kasten at the town-hall meetingStan comes to the Dodgers as president and as part-owner of the group that has brought optimism back to the Dodger franchise. Or, well, as soon as they get back to .500, which could be happening as we speak. Welcome Stan Kasten. (Applause)We're taping this. It will be shown on the newspapers' websites later on.SK: Before I give every speech, I ask whether there's any media here, whether there are any tape recorders. It changes the content of what you might hear, but it's really for my own safety. You've seen how many times in your career that a ballplayer or a celebrity will get into trouble for something they said. Invariably the explanation the next day is, 'I was misquoted. I didn't say anything. Out of context, I was misquoted.' I've got to tell you, in my career. That has never happened to me. Every time I've gotten into trouble it was for exactly what I said. So I need to be really careful.KM: Now that we've set the ground rules -- you've said the gloves are off. I can ask any question. What is Yasiel Puig really like?SK: I've known him for less than a year. In fact, I don't know anyone who has known him more than a year. Those people don't exist. I've heard the comparisons to Roy Hobbs -- "The Natural," you know, who came from kind of nowhere with a mysterious background? The better comparison is Joe Hardy -- does anyone remember who Joe Hardy is, from "Damn Yankees," who came out of nowhere. And we know how he got there, so I'm a little concerned about that.I haven't known him very long. I can tell you that what you see physically is what he is. He's a fanatic about working out and taking care of his body. He didn't get that by accident. He works out. He is the first one in the locker room at home, just wants to play baseball. He's great with teammates -- laughing, joking and talking. He's very wary of the media. This is a brand new thing. I think, personally, the stories, back story is so interesting that invariably when media come in they can't get too far into the interview before they want to know about the background, about Cuba, coming out of Cuba, how he got from there to here. Those are things he just does not want to revisit, probably for some very good reasons I suppose. So he's vary wary of the media -- learning what works, what doesn't work. We're working through those. He's 22. A lot of things. I explained to him that I've seen guys with issues, worrying about stuff in an interview all the time. I don't see it much in baseball. He's having issues that young basketball players have. Here's why: In baseball, when you get signed, you get drafted, go to Arizona. Then you go to Michigan. Then you go to Tennessee, then you go to New Mexico, then you go to Los Angeles if you make it as a Dodger. For four or five years, you're learning, you're growing, you're maturing, you're figuring out how to handle things. Whereas basketball players, they go right from high school or right from college, to the big time with all the money, with all the celebrity, and you need more protection. You need to watch out because of that. That's what he's going through. There's no learning curve. He's been thrown into all of this. He's highly intelligent. But rather than make a mistake, he chooses to pull back. That's the push and pull between the right amount of exposure. This past week, he could have really helped himself if he was really interested. As voting was going on, he could have been doing the morning shows, every interview -- but that's not him. He doesn't care about that as much as playing ball, letting his teammates get their publicity and not worrying about publicity for himself. It's really honorable.�KM: We could talk about Yasiel Puig all night, but there are other topics. Let me ask about you. You're from New Jersey. Educated in New York. Career in Atlanta, then Washington. What did you know about the culture of Dodgers baseball when you arrived here?SK: Well from before I was, I grew up a sports nut. I grew up a Yankee fan in New Jersey in the '50s. I think most of America -- half this room is Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio. If you were an American sports fan in the '50s, you were a Yankee fan. Like so many people my age, I wanted to be a center fielder for the Yankees. Even people who grew up in Los Angeles, that's what they wanted to be when they were young. By the time I finally figured out I wasn't going to be the center fielder for the Yankees, I chose something different. Growing up, the two glamour franchises -- not just in baseball, but in all sports, back then there was only one sport and it was baseball -- and the two glamour franchises were the Yankees and Dodgers. And that really hasn't changed. Wherever I travel around the world, people know the Yankees and they know the Dodgers. That's what I knew. I also knew that in transplanting from New York to Los Angeles, there had also emerged this culture by virtue of the O'Malley family, the care they took making sure Dodger Stadium was pristine and perfect, making sure they reached out into the community, making sure prices were low, making sure it wasn't jumped up with lots of signage, things like that. That was part of what it meant to be a Dodger. Every player wore that magnificent, iconic uniform perfectly because that's what you did as a Dodger. I had this conversation with Yasiel Puig a few months ago back when he was still in Chattanooga, I spent a little time with him. I told him: 'Your talent will get you to Los Angeles but there's more to being a Dodger than just talent. There's a whole other part of it.' He's working on his game. He's working on what all of us do. We have a tremendous privilege to be a Dodger but that also carries responsibility to carry on this legacy that all of us are so proud of.KM: What does a team president do?SK: Fend off nasty questions. (Laughter.) It's very much on the mundane side. It's running any business. The president of any business worries about all the ways we can make revenue, take care of your customers, keep them coming back and keep them happy. And a hundred ways that are more similar than dissimilar is running a medium company, it's not a large company we have the addition of always being under the microscope. Everything that we do is publicized and analyzed. That's another dimension that most companies don't have. But we put out a product, we do our best to market it. We try to take care of our customers in the many ways we can do that. That's what a president does. I think it boils down, if I can get generic about it, to three functions. I have to make sure that we're organized correctly so that every job is getting done. I have to make sure we have the best people in the boxes on the organizational chart. Then I have to make sure each of those people has the resources they need to do their job. Resources certainly means money, but it means other things. It means direction, it means support, and more often than not in our business, which is so highly a product of R&D because of our minor leagues, it also means time. For a lot of the things our people do it requires time and growing. So in summary, that's what I think I do.KM: You've been a general manager. Where is the gap between you and Ned Colletti?SK: I've been a general manager alone, I've been a president and a general manager at the same time, and I've been just a president. The GM is largely responsible -- entirely responsible in a lot of ways -- for the team that plays. That goes into not just the major league team but in baseball, it also includes an enormous apparatus of minor league scouting and player development. In basketball my universe was 12 players. In the whole world. I had no minor leagues, no nothing. Whereas in baseball I've got 25 guys up here, and I have 250 more Dodgers both domestically and internationally that I have to worry about. I have more than 50 full-time and part-time staff. I have more than 50 fulltime and part time coaches, trainers, etc. It's a different enterprise. The general manager is responsible for all of that, whereas the president oversees the GM and also oversees the business part of it. I focus on talking to the GM and our head of business, which in our case is a fellow named Bob Wolfe. I talk to them all the time. Every day. And it flows out from there.KM: How should we judge the performance of the general manager?SK: Not in obvious ways. You look at the standings and go, OK, 'this is good, this is not good,' but there's so much more that goes into it. The first half of this season, I think many people would have picked out on all of us for every date, and yet we also had this extraordinary run of injuries. We don't use that as an excuse. I don't like it as an excuse, but I can't ignore it. If these guys weren't important, why were we paying them so much in the first place? So missing them was an important thing. It wouldn't be fair just to judge on that, but in baseball much more of an organizational challenge than in basketball where you've got your 12 guys and three coaches, whatever. But baseball is about organizing your players and coaches and staff to get the best product, and all of those things are under the radar, below sea level, where 90 percent of the iceberg is where the work gets done. That's harder and less obvious than the public at large when you're evaluating.KM: When this trading season is over, what would make it a success or a failure?SK: We are blessed with the opportunity to think both long-term and short-term. I think we should expect to contend year in and year out. It's a market and a fan base that is the most loyal, deepest and broadest that I've ever seen anywhere in any city, that have supported this franchise for more than 50 years for more than 40,000 people. I don't know how you all get there every night through traffic. What I have learned is that 40,000 find your way there every night and all of you have your own way to get to the ballpark. 'I've got my own secret way,' everybody tells me that. So because of that, we've got to be contending now. Last year we were very, very aggressive trying to get the best people we could right now. At the same time, we have to be building long-term, so every move we make -- I've said this repeatedly, 'if we can make a move for a short-term player that doesn't come at the expense of a long-term player, I'll do that.' But we won't give up long-term minor league development pieces for just a short-term rental. We showed that last year. There were a number of players rumored that we might have picked up, but it would have taken top prospects. We did not do those deals. We were not going to do the deals. When the Boston opportunity came up, we did part with at least two guys that we thought really had a long-term future but it was going to bring an immediate return as well as a longer-lasting one. So that's what I can say to you generically. I have to look at both. Most clubs aren't that fortunate. Most clubs also, you either think of teams as being buyers or sellers, and they're in that decision-making mode right now. I will tell you we will always be buyers if that term means we're trying to win now. We always be trying to win now. But we'll never lose sight of what the Dodgers really need to get back to, and that's the old Dodgers that were developing players year-in, year-out, developing rookies of the year year-in, year-out. That's what we want to get back to. We won't be successful in my mind until we return to that model.KM: Even though we think of big budget teams as going out and getting a proven veteran player, you're determined that it won't be the 'Yankee Way'?SK: First of all, I would not criticize the Yankees because they've had extraordinary success. I'd be happy for someone to think of us as the Yankees. Really, I would. But I think signing free agents is very good if it's the last piece. It's the least efficient way to add talent. The most efficient way is to add players on your own. The other way is trades, and the least efficient way is to sign a free agent. But it is the best way to get the answer that you need if one player will make the difference. If you're in that position, where one piece is what you need then yeah, do the free agent thing. I think we would like to become a team once again that develops on our own. Along the way that's also going to mean we won't have the highest payroll in baseball but our goal is not necessarily high payroll/low payroll. Our goal is to win and be productive year-in, year-out. And a byproduct of doing it correctly will mean a lower payroll than we're paying now, but that's not our primary focus.KM: Did I see you say the Dodgers wouldn't give a contract to a player that would take him beyond what, age 36?SK: I was misquoted (laughter). What I said was, last year, people in the media went off and had their own theories about what we were doing, including 'oh they've lost their minds; they don't care what they spend on anything,' and I made the point that if you look at who we got last year, none of those players had contracts that lasted beyond the age of 36. It's not like we got guys into their 40s or mid-40s. We were watching what we were doing. I'm not gonna say we will never get a guy beyond the age of 36. We haven't done it yet. It's a useful benchmark. Maybe it should be lower than that. I don't think you mortgage the future by getting guys who are no older than 36 when their contract is up.�KM: You mentioned the stadium. You made some changes at the ballpark. Who here has been to the park this year? (Applause.) Do you like the changes? (Applause.) Anybody dissatisfied?Fan: The loge level used to look like prisons.SK: We were going for the non-prison look.Fan: In previous years before the renovation, it looked like a prison. You had those little round lights. It looked like I was going back to my cell. The lighting too and the seating, I can keep score in every game. Every game I'm like 'OK, where am I because it's so dark in the loge level.' Now it's nice and cleaned up.KM: Will the time come when we'll be able to walk all the way around the park?SK: I don't know. That's a really long-term project. You're building another concourse, an exterior concourse right now what we did was renovate, update, modernize. If we really want to build the next generation, the next 50-year Dodger Stadium, we might do an exterior concourse that connects all the way around. That's a very big project, a long-term project. I will say it's on the long term to-do list but we just haven't decided what the long-term is going to be. We set a goal of doing all we could in 26 weeks. We knew that's all we had, 26 weeks. We have more to do. We'll evaluate that right now.KM: And the wi-fi?SK: The wi-fi has been the thorniest thing for me so far. It's the thing I'm most disappointed that we haven't gotten that yet. I would give you a long detailed explanation, but if any of you have ever been one person in one apartment, waiting for the cable guy, multiply that by 56,000 seats and lots and lots of different entities. It's so much more complex than I could've imagined. It involves modern, state of the art signals in a ballpark that was built before the Internet was a word and we simply had to go right from Ground Zero to install that. We are two-thirds of the way in but there's that last third that's been tough to do, and I have learned through this process that until 100 percent, you've got nothing. We can't turn it on yet but we are making progress. I promise you it's as important to me as anyone here because I want to have streaming video. MLBAM, that's how they live. And yeah, the second stream experience that we have -- we watch TV in our phones and iPads and on our lap. It's how we live. It's how the younger generation, the next generation of fans expect to experience things. Baseball is uniquely positioned to take advantage of it because unlike the other sports, we have a discrete stop in the action every few seconds in between pitches where you can do other stuff. The other sports, they don't score a lot but, you know, they'll notch every second of time. Baseball, we can really encourage younger generations to come to our sport. I'm promised you I will have it. Now I'm not sure I'll even get to it this year but I promise it's coming because it's so important.�KM: Do people still want to go to the ballpark or watch at home? I think there was a poll recently that showed people would rather watch at home. Is that a bad thing, because that's what made it a billion-dollar sport.SK: As someone who's about to kick off a new cable system next year, we really like it when people watch our games on TV. That's a good thing. Especially we like it when they watch road games on TV. They say more and more people like watching it at home, and I will tell you that once again this year, which hasn't been true the last few years, the Dodgers are once again going to lead baseball in attendance. (Applause.) The live performance is as great as ever. It looks better sitting out in the evening or afternoon at Dodger Stadium, looking out at those bleachers, those palm trees, the San Gabriel Mountains. There's nothing like it. I think that is not going to change.KM: Do you have any thoughts about what the LA sports landscape might look like in a generation as it pertains to the NFL.SK: Nothing definitive, but like everyone else in this room it befuddles me that we haven't had football in LA for probably 20 years now, whatever. I do know many people in the NFL who want the NFL back here, who expect the NFL back here, but the circumstances of that just haven't been clear. In their defense, the NFL is doing quite nicely even without having a team here, but there's no question that they would like to have a team here someday. That's really all I know. I don't have any more insight. Plenty of talk, plenty of theories, plenty of ideas and suggestions. Nothing I know is close to concrete in the way of getting (the NFL) back.Fan: In 10 or 15 years, when Vinny retires, are there any thoughts as to who will be his successor?SK: I'm not going to entertain that thought. I'm not going to think about it. It's going to be the next president or the president after his or hers responsibility. It ain't going to be mine. That's my answer and I'm sticking to it.Fan: I've heard the NFL salivates over the Dodger Stadium site, and moving the Dodgers more near LA Live. Is this not going to happen?SK: I've heard that too, obviously. There's talk, kind of casual behind the scenes, but there's nothing planned. At all. If it gets closer, what would we say, how would we feel? There's an awful lot of moving parts to that scenario you just outlined. I don't have that answer today because we haven't really thought that through in depth. We have been here a year. It's really just been a year since last May. We have focused on rebuilding the major-league team. Trying as quickly as we can to build a minor-league system, particularly internationally, and improve the ballpark quickly, in 26 weeks that I have between seasons. That's what we've spent our time focusing on. The longer term, we hear rumors. We hear idle talk, but nothing concrete. Maybe a year, two years from now, I'll know more, but I just don't.Fan: I wish you could set Vin Scully up in his room, on road games, with a big 60-inch screen TV and let him broadcast the games instead of the two wonderful guys we have on TV now.SK: Not only would I agree with you, I think those two guys would agree with you too. Vin is a treasure. I've told this story before. It's so amazing to work everyday -- every day I work Tommy Lasorda's here, Vin Scully's here. Just amazing. And one Vin Scully story. I have something that drives me crazy. The way I see major-league players for all organizations do rundown plays incorrectly. I never see them do it correctly. The correct way is the way Branch Rickey explained it in his book "The American Diamond," which I read, which he wrote in the '30s, outlined the correct way to do everything about baseball. And you will often hear whenever there's a rundown play, always run incorrectly, and you'll hear Vin frustrated by how badly they do it. I'm the same way. One day we were chatting and I was telling him, 'I can't believe it.' It's a pet peeve of mine too that even in the organizations I've been in that teach it wrong. They teach it wrong here because I can't get them to teach it Branch Rickey's way. So I was having this conversation with Vin one day, 'they need to do it the way they explained it in Branch Rickey's book.' And Vin says, 'I know. That's exactly the way Branch and I used to discuss it.' That's what working with Vin Scully is like. I couldn't agree with you more. For whatever time I am blessed to be working here with Vin Scully, I treasure every day. He is warned to maintain his health. He monitors his time and his travel. We're sensitive to that. We've given him a schedule that works for him, that enables him to continue to work as long as he can. And I will tell you this. If the tradeoff -- if we insisted on 162 games and Vin said, 'sorry, I have to retire' -- that wouldn't be a very good tradeoff. So what we've done is got a schedule that can keep him going and going.Fan: Are we going to get an All-star Game after all these renovations are done? Are you in discussions with the league?SK: I am, but you know there's a queue. And until a year ago, this wasn't a popular franchise or a popular place for Major League Baseball, you know? I think that has changed now and I think we're clearly in the queue, but there is a queue. And particularly, new stadiums. Having said that, we are Los Angeles. We're an important market for Major League Baseball. As soon as we can get a game, they'd love to do it. But that's at least -- I think -- three, four or more years away.�Fan: Did you ever think of having a Founder's Game at Dodger Stadium, to incorporate Charles Ebbets, Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, the O'Malleys, all the great owners and leaders of the organization?SK: I didn't think about it, but our promotions department -- which does a very good job -- always is looking for new ideas. They're watching this right now and we will put it on the idea pile.Fan: To get everyone in Dodger Stadium hooked up, just give them a transistor radio and they can listen to Vin Scully.SK: That would work for me too. By the way, where do you get a transistor radio? Any real Italian restaurant in America has three real pictures on the wall: The Pope, Frank Sinatra, and Tommy (Lasorda).Fan: I'm a father of two young boys, and it gets harder and harder to put baseball in front of them these days. What I'd like to see more is the children, somehow or another, get forgotten. I know there's RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), but there has to be more.SK: We have continued a program that previous ownerships have had. We're very, very happy it. That's one of our most important things -- scouting, player development, fan experience, and then community relations. The continuation of those policies. We have built 26 inner-city little league fields. We'll continue that program. Our goal is 50. When we get to 50, we have another goal. We have improved kids areas at the ballpark, and someone said something funny to me today. There was talk in years past, there were -- the upper deck in particular wasn't safe because there was gang activity or whatnot -- guys who used to come and cause trouble are so disappointed because they see moms and dads in those same places they used to hang out. We have kids areas and family areas there instead. So that's what we're trying to do to make the experience better for fans. We've worked very hard to retain our $5 and $6 tickets. We've worked very hard to retain the pricing on Dodger dogs and things like that, but I understand that there's a tension and a pressure on all of us. We do the best we can. I think by and large we get a decent grade. That's why, again, we're going to lead baseball in attendance this year because we have made some good, fair, family and community-oriented decisions.Fan: I'm Jewish. Often I sit there and think, 'it would be great to have a Dodger dog.' I can go to the field level when I'm allowed to and go get a Kosher-style Hebrew National Dog. Is there a plan to have actually Kosher food at the stadium? Also, this season when I've gone to get my pass to the field level, they say 'we're out of passes right now,' and I say, 'when can I get one?' And they say 'oh, when people bring them back come back in an inning or two or three, and often times I don't want to wait 20 or 40 or an hour to get my food.'SK: That's a good point. Thanks for bringing that up. There should be passes for everyone. We'll follow up on that. Kosher hot dogs, it falls into the whole food-services thing, and we've had our issues with that. We have a plan for that. It's surprisingly low demand, but those people like yourself and the people I grew up with, they really do want it. It's not a big number, but we plan to have it. We were going to have it this year, we just haven't been able to do it yet. I hear you. I don't know how Orthodox you are, but the Hebrew Nationals are going to have to cover you. I know they're not completely Kosher, but we do let you bring food in on your own. A lot of places don't.Fan: Why do we still not have FM radio for baseball?SK: 95 percent of baseball teams are still on AM. Those are contracts that are still in place from before we got here. I don't know what the next generation will hold. Our goal will be along with the new cable system, will be ultimately getting the very best, most extensive radio network. And by and large, we have a very, very good extensive radio network, but it can always be improved. In Atlanta for three years I did have an FM as a flagship. I'm very comfortable with that.Fan: Why did you choose to get into sports business after law school?SK: I don't know. I was going to be an antitrust lawyer. I clerked for the attorney general in New Jersey. My last summer of law school, I was going to do that and work for a law firm in New York when I met Ted Turner in a bizarre way, and offered me a job and invited me down to Atlanta. My family has lived there for 36 years. So it was quite by accident. I always was an insane Yankee fan growing up as a child. So I always loved baseball. Later on, I got into the other sports. It wasn't my career plan but when the opportunity was there, I did kick that door in. I did know it was something I wanted to do and I worked very, very hard to become successful at it. It was not easy. It wasn't natural. I did have to work and learn. It was just something that presented itself and I took advantage of it.KM: What's the biggest way sports have changed?SK: Everything is bigger. When I started with the Hawks, which was my first substantial job, the front office had six people. What was funny is 10 years later, Ted Turner whom I worked for back then, we had six or eight people in the front office and if everything went right, in a good year maybe you could make a million bucks. That was a successful year. Then 10 years later our front office had about 100 people, as the NBA was exploding. With 100 people now doing all that work, in a good year you could maybe make a million bucks. But everything else has gone up along with it. It's just so much more of a widespread, certainly communication has changed. I joined Ted Turner in October of 1976. And it was in November of 1976 that we turned on the first "Superstation." There was no TBS when I got there, not to mention the rest of cable, not to mention the internet, not to mention tweeting. I don't know what's next. That has certainly changed. We were always in a fishbowl. We're much more so now. Along with it come the rising values of everything and the rising costs.Fan: What advice would you give college students looking to become a highly renowned executive such as yourself?SK: That's a little like asking a lottery winner how to go about winning the lottery. I can't just advise you on that. I've had a lot of breaks. I've been very lucky. I know you can't get a job just like I did, which is walking up to a unique, unique guy like Ted Turner at a ballpark one night, just chatting it up and hitting it off. But there are even stranger ways to get in. What I tell young people is decide what you're going to do outside of sports -- lawyer, accountant, whatever -- be the best at it you can be, because unless you're really good you're not going to be able to help anyone when you do get a job. All sports teams have entry-level jobs doing commissioned sales, things like that. Minor leagues are fantastic breeding grounds for young executives and you get the full gamut of experiences. Those are opportunities for you. Start at the bottom. And if you care enough to do that, those opportunities are there. The only thing I can tell you is, expect to work long hours for not great pay. When I tell that to people it's almost never a problem because we are blessed to work in something that's love. What I do, what all of us with the Dodgers do, we feel blessed. We feel privileged. So expect to work hard. I expect everyone to work hard because we all love what we do so much.�Fan: Why is a Yankee managing the team?SK: Well, many of the great managers -- even Dodger managers -- started out other places. That doesn't disqualify them. We want the best manager we can get. I know there was an awful lot of unhappiness going in the season. The manager is just a focus when lots of things go wrong. But I think let's let the season play out. Because things, as I hoped would fall into place, you've heard me say before about our manager Don: He has many qualities that I see in the managers I like. Long-term managers, a lot of the qualities that Bobby Cox has, a lot of the qualities that Joe Torre has in terms of being able to lead high-profile, high-ego, high-accomplishment starts, which we expect to have. I don't think every manager can manage that. If we can get through more hurdles, get over the rough patches and develop a stable team with a lot of stars, that's the kind of template, that demeanor, that will drive and be successful. I'm hoping that, because I do like stability. I avoid change for change's sake. I'm happy that we are where we are. I'm not satisfied if we're not successful as a team. I have changed managers when in my career when necessary. I don't feel that way now. About your point about the old people who work (at Dodger Stadium), I value that too. It's an extraordinary place to work. If you told me you're an employee of mine and you've worked for the Dodgers for 40 years, you wouldn't make the top 20 of long-term. I have a guy in my office. Works there every day. Billy DeLury. Was the traveling secretary, was an assistant, he's done many things. Billy was in the office on the day of Bobby Thomson's home run in 1951. He was working, and he's still there. That's the kind of place it is and I value that.Fan: Have you considered having a section in one of your stores that's "family priced"? I've seen it at other stadiums. The kids would love to wear more stuff. That's kind of an attractive thing, to see more things on the wall that are affordable, maybe the quality's not there.SK: I really had not heard that issue much because we do have a section of kids' stuff. Last year former ownership made a very good decision in putting the merchandising back in-house. We took out the middleman. Our prices now for many items are cheaper than you can buy them anywhere in town. I don't think prices for our merchandise is a problem, but if you say you want maybe some lower-quality choices at a fair price point, that's something for us to look at.Fan: Have you talked about getting a mascot and can I try out?SK: I do get this a lot. It's well below 50 percent (of fans) that want a mascot, but I will say this: I think there is a place for it directed at kids, because kids do want the mascots, and not really on the field or in the stands. I think there's probably something that can satisfy both. That's why we did the bobbleheads. We don't have a mascot, but it's something for kids to hang out with, take a picture with, something like that. We're not all the way there yet. I'm not promising you that we're going to have a mascot, but I hear you. It's a debate that we have internally.Fan: What about the apps that allow you to order food from your phone, have you looked at that?SK: That's why you tell us, so we can do all that. It's in my best interests to get wi-fi. I'll do better by doing a better job for you.Fan: What's your plan for the outfield once Crawford, Kemp, Ethier are all healthy?SK: First of all, those of you expecting an epidemic of good health to break out, I'm waiting for that day. 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text: Seasoning key to muzzleloader care By John McCoy January 19, 2013 Story Share John McCoy To heat a muzzleloader barrel enough to season it, Glenn Jones pours a kettle of boiling water into it. When the barrel gets so hot that Jones can feel the heat through a rolled-up towel and an oven mitt, it's warm enough. ELKVIEW, W.Va. -- For many sportsmen, shooting a muzzleloader is a love-hate affair. They love to shoot it, but they hate to clean it.Not Glenn Jones.When Jones shoots one of his muzzleloaders, he knows he'll have it perfectly clean and ready to put away within 10 minutes. That's a far cry from the 45 minutes it took him when he first took up black-powder shooting."I've been hunting with muzzleloaders for about 35 years," said Jones, president of the West Virginia Hunter Education Association. "For the first five years, I cleaned my gun the way everyone else did - using hot, soapy water and a lot of elbow grease. It was no fun and it took a lot of time."Then Jones bought a new muzzleloader - one that included instructions for treating the barrel so it became much, much easier to clean."There was a little fact card that came with the gun, and it described how to 'season' the barrel, just like a cook would season a skillet," he said. "I followed the directions and seasoned the barrel of that rifle. Just like that, muzzleloader cleaning became a breeze."He's used the same technique and materials to season dozens of barrels since then. He even recommends the technique to students in his hunter-education classes."A bunch of people in my classes have tried it, and they've come up to me later to tell me that it works. More important, I've had people who stopped shooting their muzzleloaders because of the cleaning hassle come up later and tell me that after they seasoned their barrels they'd gone back to shooting."Cleaning a muzzleloader is important because black powder residue is extremely corrosive. Barrels that aren't cleaned promptly can rust badly within a day or two.Jones said there are two different procedures for seasoning barrels - one for brand-new guns and one for guns that have already been shot. "If a gun has already been shot, the barrel has to be stripped all the way down to the bare metal," he explained. "The best way to strip it is with a good-quality chemical bore cleaner. Once the barrel is clean, the procedure the rest of the way is the same."The materials Jones uses to season a barrel are simple: A teakettle, a bathroom hand towel, an oven mitt, a funnel that will fit into the muzzle end of the gun barrel, a .410-bore shotgun cleaning swab threaded to fit the ramrod, and a tube of any good-quality, all-natural "bore butter.""The bore butter needs to be all natural, no chemicals," Jones cautioned.The seasoning procedure is simple. In fact, Jones said it takes longer to describe than it actually takes to perform."Basically, what you do is to heat the barrel to open the pores in the steel, and then you fill those pores up with lubricant," he said. First, Jones detaches the barrel from the gunstock and removes its percussion-cap nipple. He fills the teakettle with water and puts it on the stove to heat up. While the water is heating, he threads the shotgun swab onto the end of the ramrod and coats the swab evenly with bore butter. After that, he folds the towel lengthwise into thirds so it forms a long, thin strip. He wraps the strip around the middle of the barrel, dons the oven mitt and uses his gloved hand to grasp the towel-wrapped barrel.When the water in the kettle begins to boil, Jones puts the funnel into the barrel's muzzle, grabs the kettle with his free hand and, holding the barrel over the kitchen sink, then pours the water into the barrel through the funnel."You want to pour just fast enough that the barrel stays full," he said. "You'll know the barrel is hot enough when you just start to feel the heat through the towel and the oven mitt."Jones then removes the funnel, grabs the ramrod and runs the coated swab down the full length of the barrel and back two or three times."You'll see the grease melting and coming out the nipple hole," Jones said. "Set the barrel aside until it cools, and then repeat the procedure twice more. After the third treatment, you'll never have to do it again." After the barrel cools for the final time, Jones runs a couple of dry cleaning patches through the barrel to absorb any surplus grease and then reassembles the gun."You're good to go at that point," he said.Jones said the only thing that can ruin the barrel's seasoning is the use of harsh chemical bore cleaners."Those will strip the seasoning away," he said.To avoid having that happen, Jones employs a very specific method for cleaning his well-seasoned rifles after they're fired."I break down the gun until I just have the barrel, and then I take the nipple out," he said. "I put my finger over the nipple hole and pour 1/2 to 3/4 ounce of Thompson's No. 13 Bore Cleaner into the barrel. I put the thumb of my other hand over the muzzle and then invert the barrel six or seven times, letting the cleaner slosh back and forth."When I pour the cleaner out, it comes out black. I repeat the procedure again, and then I start swabbing the bore with patches. The first patch comes out black. The second patch comes out dirty gray. The third comes out light gray, and the fourth comes out clean."I run another patch through to dry out the inside of the barrel, another patch with some bore butter on it to lubricate the bore, and I'm done."Jones said the beauty of the procedure is that he can "hunt and shoot all day" without having to worry about his barrel becoming fouled."I could go out and fire 100 shots, and the last shot would load as easily and fly as accurately as the first one," he said. "Even after all that shooting, the cleanup would take about 10 minutes. It's unbelievable how easy it is."Reach John McCoy at 304-348-1231 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. 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Texas Wildlife Manager Awarded National Honors for Innovative Approach to White-tailed Deer Management
Washington, DC — Mitch Lockwood, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wildlife biologist, has been awarded the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies' prestigious Mark J. Reeff Memorial Award. The award, for dedication to wildlife, youth, landowners and natural resources, was presented at the Association's 2006 Annual Meeting last week in Snowmass, Colorado.
The hallmark of the Mark J. Reeff Memorial Award is to acknowledge good ideas pursued with dedication and persistence. Each year, the award is presented to an individual who is 35 years-old or younger, and has distinguished themselves by outstanding commitment to wildlife management. The award was designed by the Association to acknowledge and encourage younger professionals to "address the myriad of issues they now face, ever-increasing in range and complexity, with a spirit of innovation and determination."
Particular recognition is due to those who willingly accept more difficult challenges, and inspire others to do the same.
Lockwood was hired as the Texas White-Tailed Deer Program Leader, and within one year he was challenged with evaluating statewide deer data collection and analysis. As a result, he led the charge to implement important changes that improved the science and efficiency of deer data collection and analysis in Texas.
Lockwood re-defined sampling, and survey procedures using modern technology and software, and introduced staff to ecology-based efforts by focusing on where deer live, habitat conditions, and what they eat.
"Mitch Lockwood exemplifies why Texas Parks and Wildlife is an exceptional conservation organization and one of the top state agencies in Texas and the nation," said Robert Cook, TPWD executive director. "Mitch is an intelligent, dedicated and sincere wildlife biologist. He cares about wildlife and he cares about Texas. We have known from the beginning that Mitch is "Top Notch." It's gratifying to know that other folks recognize that also."
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CLEVELAND, Ohio. - Oregon State cornerback Jordan Poyer was named the Jim Thorpe Defensive Back of the Week on Wednesday after the senior helped guide the Beavers to a win over Washington State with three interceptions.
Poyer's three picks were the most by an OSU player since Mitch Meeuwsen intercepted three against Washington State in 2003. Poyer's interceptions helped seal Oregon State's 19-6 win over the Cougars Saturday, in which the Beavers allowed Washington State just 227 total offensive yards - 207 came through the air.
The honor is Poyer's second this week after he was named a Walter Camp Foundation National Player of the Week on Monday. The Astoria, Ore., native now has four interceptions on the year, which is tied for first in the Pac-12 Conference and tied for second nationally.
Poyer and the Beavers moved up to No. 10 in the Associated Press Top 25 rankings on Monday. It's the highest ranking for the Beavers since Oregon State opened the 2001 season ranked 10th.


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Risperidone Pharmacokinetics in Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)
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|Drug: Risperidone
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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Risperidone Pharmacokinetics in Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- Quantify the variability of clearance and volume of distribution among AE rating, weight gain and ABC responder status.
- Exploratory analysis will be performed to examine the relationship of other factors to risperidone and metabolite concentrations for PK/PD assessment.
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Pervasive Developmental Disorders is a category of disorders that includes autism and related conditions. While these disorders are rare, they represent a significant public health problem because they are extremely debilitating and lack efficacious therapies. Neuroleptic use in PDD is high and the population appears to be at increased risk of serious sequelae including tardive dyskinesia. Newer atypical neuroleptics including risperidone are now used in 87% of cases but dosing, safety and efficacy is undetermined in the vulnerable population.
This study consists of a total of 3 visits, the initial screening visit where consent, medical history, demographics and vitals will be recorded. Two additional visits with blood sampling will occur. The second visit will be no greater than 30 days from the screening visit and the 3rd visit will be one month from Visit 2.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Male and female patients between ages of 5 and less than 17 years.
- Patients meeting DSM-IV criteria for PDD-NOS about to initiate clinical treatment or currently clinically treated with risperidone.
- Patients with autistic disorder or PDD-NOS currently on risperidone as a participant in one of the multi-site RUPP protocols.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children taking psychotropic or other medication that will interact with target CYP 450 isoenzyme activity will not be eligible for the pharmacokinetic study (i.e. CYP2D6 or CYP3A4; to be decided by the PI)
- Patients with known renal or hepatic dysfunction (e.g. serum creatinine > 1.5 normal upper limit, transaminases or bilirubin > 2 times normal upper limit)
- Failure of the parent/legal guardian to give informed consent.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00147394
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|Children's Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State University
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201
|United States, North Carolina
|Duke University Medical Center
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705
|United States, Ohio
|Cincinnati Children's Hospital
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
|Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106-6010
|The Ohio State University Medical Center
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210-1296
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|Alexander Vinks, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
|Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
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Pervasive Developmental Disorder
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Child Development Disorders, Pervasive
Developmental Disabilities
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autistic Disorder
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Mental Disorders
Serotonin Antagonists
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Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Central Nervous System Depressants
Psychotropic Drugs
Dopamine Antagonists
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About 2 to 3 months ago I noticed a white patch near my clitoris. I went to my local clinic and have been told I have no STIs or infections. When I showed the nurses at the clinic she had never seen it before so had to get the doctor, he also didn`t know but said I would need a biopsy. I have it booked in but I`m really worried. Do you have any suggestions as to what this may be?
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Of course, a common concern is a malignancy and that's why it is so good that you have that biopsy scheduled. No one can tell just by looking. You don't say how old you are and if you have other skin issues- that could also influence the diagnosis.
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NEW ORLEANS — Tulane University continued its search for an offensive identity Tuesday night, trying different scoring tactics during a 65-48 win against Nicholls State.
While the Green Wave departed Devlin Fieldhouse with plenty of unanswered questions, they did showcase one offensive strength: the ability of their guards to penetrate, create their own shots and finish at the rim.
Guard Jordan Callahan took advantage of a nonconference opponent void of a shot-blocker with timely layups and on other possessions, jump shots on the perimeter. Callahan finished with 16 points, including 3 of 6 on 3-pointers. His jumper with 12:50 left in the first half made him the 33rd player in school history to score 1,000 points.
Point guard Ricky Tarrant also scored 16 points, using a mixture of drives in Tulane's half-court offense and 6-of-7 shooting at the free-throw line.
"There were times tonight there was good rhythm doing that," Tulane coach Ed Conroy said of his guard play. "There were other times I felt like we forced it. But I think both Jordan and Ricky put a lot of pressure on the defense because they can hit the 3, but they can also take it inside the 3-point line and convert, and that makes it a difficult deal to defend."
Their play, coupled with a 10-0 run early in the second half, allowed Tulane (7-2) to win its fourth consecutive game. While Tulane is still trying to develop a transition game, as well as scoring in the post and off the bench, Callahan and Tarrant thrived against a Nicholls defense intent on disrupting the passing lanes.
"When teams get in the passing lanes, that really opens up drives," Tarrant said. "So we get to the basket, get fouls, drop it off to the big man."
Forward Josh Davis (11 points, eight rebounds) was the recipient of several back door cuts for layups. He narrowly missed logging his seventh consecutive double-double performance.
With 14:23 left in the first half, Callahan scored his second 3-pointer, giving Tulane a 12-10 lead it would not lose. Tulane led 30-24 at halftime.
Meanwhile, the Colonels had no offensive answer. They played without leading scorer Fred Hunter (21.7 points per game), who missed his second game with a hamstring strain. New Orleans native T.J. Carpenter led Nicholls State (1-4) with 15 points. Amin Torres, also a New Orleans native, added 10.
They were the Colonels' lone double-digit scorers.
Nicholls State was held to 38 percent shooting.
Up next for Tulane is a road game against San Diego on Saturday.