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Ashita no Anime
Anime of Tomorrow
Sengoku Collection Ep. 1
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Initial impression – unoriginal, but not entirely mind-numbing (4/10)
Spring 2012 (12 episodes) (English title – Parallel World Samurai) (more info)
Genderbending ancient Japanese heroes into women is hardly new territory; but Samurai Girls proved that it's possible to turn that premise into something cool. And while it falls far short of anything approaching what Samurai Girls accomplished, Sengoku Collection does a respectable job of telling a story of a young woman out of her era.
Where it fails, though is when it turns to the tired old plot device of having the main character travel around collecting pieces of some vague energy in order to have her wish granted. It's so lacking in imagination and the main story is such an ordinary clash of cultures / boy meets girl story that I can foresee nothing promising on the horizon.
This suspicion is further confirmed in the credits where the other characters feature as a smorgasbord of moe stereotypes ranging from glasses to jailbait. I'll fully admit my own weakness to moe, but I don't like having it shoved in my face in such a painfully obvious manner. The spirit of Sengoku Collection can be summed up as regendered, fetishized historical figures transported to the modern era and trying to get home and that's a bit too simple for me to lend it any more of my time.
What do you think? Is this kind of formula too weird? And is reimagining great men from Japan's past as women something that piques anyone's interest? How do you feel about the excessive exaggeration of the character's appeal? Is it fun and goofy or offensively contrived and transparent?


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Happy February! We're kicking off a full month of chia seed madness featuring some great recipes from bloggers of every sort. We know a lot of people are interested in this funny little seed and looking for some fun and delicious ways to include it in their diet. Without further ado, here is a wonderful recipe from Brittany of Itty Bits of Balance.
Brittany considers her blog to be a resource for all types of readers to come together and take a look on the inner workings of a healthy lifestyle. "Being formerly overweight myself, I have gone through quite the weight loss journey and have tried out my fair share of fad diets with non-wholesome ingredients. Ideally, I want to build a sense of community, where readers can escape the flawed views of "healthy" that are floating around through the media, and realize that we need to eat to live! (I was also recently diagnosed with an intolerance to wheat, so Bob's Red Mill has truly been a saving grace for me!)"
Chocolate Protein Chia Pudding
Prep Time: 30 minutes or overnight
- 1/4 cup chia seeds (I used Bob's Red Mill)
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1 tbsp protein powder of choice (I used hemp)
- 1 tbsp dark chocolate cocoa powder
- 1/2 tbsp Stevia (or other sweetener)
1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir together. Let sit for about 10 minutes, then mix again with a fork. Continue to let mixture sit until pudding forms and stir well before serving.
**For overnight option– just stir once after 10 minutes and let pudding form in refrigerator overnight.

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Ryan Kelly of Green River Fly Fisher sent in this report.
The hatches have started to taper off with a few lingering cicadas, pmd's and quite a few sallies on B. There are sparse cicadas on A section, with a few caddis still around and the occasional yellow sally. It was still good enough to throw dry flies the entire week with some moments of greatness mixed in. Some of the smaller fish are starting to show up which would suggest we are nearing the end of the hatches. When the big guys are away the little guys get to play. As the hatches continue to dissipate look for the fish to key on small ants, beetles, and robber flies. The nymph fishing will soon be attractors trailed by scud patterns. With the warm overnight temperatures this can also be the time of year to use mice, especially at night. Wading or floating in the middle of the night can be an exciting experience. We caught another fine spot cutthroat bringing the total up to 4 for the year. We also caught two Rocky Mountain Whitefish on the dry bringing my total up to 3 for the last decade. Good times and dancing lines, Ryan


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Welcome to Teton Pass Ski Resort!
At Teton Pass Ski Resort, you will find zero lift lines, oh-so-rare continuous vertical, and some of the friendliest folks around. It also has tremendous alpine touring terrain above the lift and great backcountry skiing access. Teton Pass, a 400 acre ski resort, is located in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, along the Rocky Mountain Front which is one of the most beautiful places in Montana. The closest town is Choteau, while the closest regional airport is located in Great Falls, Montana. One thing you will also notice immediately, is your dollars go so much further than in a typical big ski town. Teton Pass is a treasure waiting for you to discover it.


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An Observational Registry of Abatacept in Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified August 2017 by Bristol-Myers Squibb
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The purpose of this study is to examine the long-term safety of Abatacept for the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) with particular in interest in the occurrence of serious infections, autoimmune disorders, and malignancies.
|Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
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|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|An Observational Registry of Abatacept in Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
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MedlinePlus related topics: Arthritis Juvenile Arthritis
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Incidence rate of serious infections [ Time Frame: 10 years ]
- Incidence rate of malignancies [ Time Frame: 10 years ]
- Incidence rate of autoimmune disorders [ Time Frame: 10 years ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Number of serious adverse events [ Time Frame: 10 years ]
- Number of targeted infections (Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, papilloma virus, herpes zoster, tuberculosis and opportunistic infections) [ Time Frame: 10 years ]
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|Actual Study Start Date:
|January 31, 2013
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|December 31, 2029
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|December 31, 2029 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Patients with JIA who are treated with Abatacept
Patients with JIA who are treated with Abatacept according to physicians'/families' decisions
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|up to 17 Years (Child)
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Pediatric rheumatology clinics
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- Diagnosis of JIA (any subtype)
- Age < 18 years at the time of enrollment unless currently or previously enrolled in an abatacept clinical trial and received abatacept
- Receiving Abatacept at the time of enrollment as per treating physician's decision or received abatacept in a clinical trial
- Parent or legally acceptable representative willing to participate in the study and sign the informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or nursing female at the time of enrollment
- Prior malignancies if the patient has not been malignancy free for at least 5 years.
- Any serious acute or chronic medical condition other than JIA, including chronic infection, which would compromise the patient's ability to participate in the study
- Known poor compliance with clinic visits (based on physician judgment)
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|May 19, 2011
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|August 25, 2017
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Arthritis, Juvenile
Joint Diseases
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Rheumatic Diseases
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Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Immunosuppressive Agents
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Antirheumatic Agents
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CHINO – Chino Valley Unified School District board members will host their first meeting of the year on Thursday.
A public hearing to discuss the possible name change of a facility. It's not renaming an entire facility, it's adding the name of some community members, officials said.
Closed session begins at 4 p.m. with the meeting starting at 7 p.m. at 5130 Riverside Drive, Chino.
Check out the meeting agenda here.


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Topic: parents anniversary
It seems that life has become a bit more of a struggle for me since Dad's death. I thought I had it all together after he died, but the last couple of weeks have been tough...not sleeping, overeating, not wanting to be around people. I am working on shaking this one minute at a time.
...I need some sage advice. My parents anniversary is this weekend. I am planning to take my mom away for the weekend, but should I do/say anything regarding the anniversary? Is it appropriate to give her an anniversary card? Any gift ideas that would be meaningful? We celebrated dad's birthday with a dinner out at his favorite restaurant (which we did every year) and visited fond memories. But it was bittersweet, just three weeks after he died. I would like to acknowledge this special day for her, but am not sure how far to push it. Since my brain is complete mush lately, I would welcome any suggestions. It would be their 51st anniversary. Dad's been gone 6 weeks.


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Objection. Relevance.
Isn't part of being a good shooter knowing not to take poor, contested shots? How or why is this an indictment of his shooting ability?
I doubt it. With improved shot selection, Danny would probably get to the mid 40%s however. Which is about 6% better than Rush's avg.
Teams game plan for every player, even Josh McRoberts, so even the claim that teams don't game plan for Rush is bunk.
I can give you Rush's offensive scouting report pretty easily. "Don't lose him. Force him to put the ball on the floor, because he will quickly give it up." Done. And while I'm sure they have multiple pages dedicated to him, a lot of it will be charts/graphs of where he likes to shoot, and most of it will be redundant.
Rush is definately a consistent 3pt shooter. But he is no way a consistent shooter overall. He would be if he shot the ball more, but he doesn't so....
and as i stated earlier in this thread.. those of you in love with stats and %'s can have Brush all day long... give me Ray Allen and he is gonna knock down wide open 3's 60% of the time.
if its not clear now.. i dont know how else to illustrate it.. there is a difference b/t shooting the ball on the move, coming off a screen, and with a defender only trailing you for a second, which is what happens to ray allen, and then there is rush, who only shoots when he is open and feet are set.
but i guess that type of logic doesnt apply and clearly rush is a much better shooter than ray allen b/c the %'s are always 100% accurate.
Have I once IN THIS ENTIRE THREAD, compared Brandon Rush to Ray Allen and said that I would like to have Rush play shooting guard over Allen?
You are the one that keeps making those ridiculous comparisons. The poll does not say "is Brandon Rush the best shooter in the NBA" or "is Brandon Rush better than Ray Allen"?
How hard is that to comprehend?
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Ray Allen camps corners way more than you would like to admit. He's the king of receiving the drive and dish.
Again, I said this much, much earlier in the thread:
All clutch shooters are good shooters, not all good shooters are clutch.
Calling him a top 3 point shooter in the league is sort of misleading much like comparing his percentages to Ray Allen. Sure it looks nice but there is no meat and potatoes to that argument. One has a big stick that he whips out a lot and the other just keeps it in his pants..
Thats why I compared him to lowly Kapono
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He is one of the top 3 point shooters in the league on a % basis as well as %+attempts. That doesn't compare him directly to Ray Allen at all.
I mean Rush shot nearly 4 3s/game last year. That's not shooting it very often? How many times do you guys want him shooting the 3 to prove he's consistent? Should he be taking 6/game? 7? 8?
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your correct, i have nvr seen REG jack up an airball from behind the arc when he was WIDE OPEN!! i have stated this more than once. I remember the play vividly last season, someone shot, pacers got the offensive board, they kicked it out to rush who was WIDE OPEN, and im thinking man if this guy cannot hit this shot than im not sure about his shooting.. what happened next, rush jacked up an airball.. a freaking airball when no one was around him. maybe if rush were playing outside with a strong gust of wind that might be understandable, but this is supposedley a great 3 pt shooter and he airballs it from deep when no one is within 5 feet of him..
c'mon man!!
form doesnt matter, i suggested rush improve his follow through in an effort to see him improve; but if a guy can shoot it with unorthodox form like REG.. so be it.
lastly, i have made several points on this and why Rush's stats are misleading. i dont know how to make it any clearer than i have already. rush likely shot a high % due to the fact he is WIDE OPEN when he does shoot it. if Allen or Granger were able to shoot wide open 3's, they would likely be in the 60's when it comes to percentages from behind the arc.
or.... if Rush ever shot the ball on a fast break transition attempt as opposed to a set shot, his %'s would not be as high.
maybe there is a misunderstanding b/t how i view an accurate 3pt shooter and your definition. rush was drafted on his ability to shoot. but good shooters in this league are not going to get wide open looks, they have to be able to move w/o the ball, get around screens, and still hit the shot with a hand in their face.. rush cannot do that and that is the REASON he attempts so few shots!!!
if Rush were a good shooter, he would be bold enough to shoot when his feet are not set, coming off a screen or in transition as Granger does.. but rush is not that good of a shooter and that is the reason his attempts are low. sure.. he can shoot 41 % when he is wide open.. but most players in this league that are SG's when left open should be able to hit the shot. what separates the good/great shooters from the average ones is the the ability to hit contested shots on the move.. something rush will not even attempt.
again, maybe he worked on his shooting over the summer and i will be proven wrong, but based on what i have seen, his brother was a much better shooter. does rush have the ability to become a good shooter, i believe yes, but i have yet to see any reason that i would trust him with a game winner.
Granger, Dunleavy, Posey, and even George appear to all be better shooters at this point in there career, and i might add aj price to the list if i have seen him play more than he has.
ive always been told and firmly believe that good shooting starts at the free throw line. if you are a good shooter than you should average 80%. rush is in the freaking 60's so pls spare me this "is this real life" stuff until rush gets around 75% from the stripe, and actually has the courage to take and make contested 3's.
Also, I have a feeling that if Rush was averaging 20 ppg and this thread was up, even if he was still only shooting 3.7 3s/game, we'd have an entirely different result up there. Which is a shame. Being a good scorer, and being a good shooter are not the same thing in every case. I feel Rush is being punished by some for not being a good scorer or not being aggressive enough.
I can think of 100 different good shooters that don't have to come flying off screens to get their shot off. That is something good SCORERS have to deal with.
I hate the self-quote, but I feel like this needs repeated:
First of all, I find the assertion that Granger would hit 60% of his threes if given the same shots Rush gets to be hilarious. Do you remember how poorly Danny performed in the 3 point contest? He was awful. Why? Danny is a better shooter on the move than he is when he has time to think about it. He is a pull up shooter, Rush is a set shooter. Two different things. And yes, I wouldn't trust Rush with a game winner either, but that has nothing to do with his shooting ability and a great deal to do with his mental fortitude.
Second of all, do you really believe Rush attempts few shots? That's what I want to focus on. He's well above the league average on 3 pointers attempted both over the course of a season and per game.
therefore your assuming rush is going to become the 3 pt assassain that Reggie Miller was? i think your reaching, and again i rely on the eyeball test more so than stats alone.
the %'s may be comparable, but were the number of attempts? also, were defenders slacking off REG and letting him shoot open jumpers so they could double elsewhere. all these things must be taken into consideration.
Reggie was actually in a pretty similar situation to Rush his first two years. Reggie was just ballsier, and more of a scorer. And no, I'm not saying Rush will be Reggie.
Reggie his rookie year shot 172 3s. Rush shot 209.
Reggie his second year shot 224 3s. Rush shot 302.
Now who's shots were more open? I wasn't able to watch, so I can't say for sure, but based off what I know of those two years in Pacers history, I'm going to say they were probably in pretty similar situations. Why? Because the Pacers of the late 80's weren't a whole lot different than the Pacers of today. They had this guy named Chuck Person who much like Danny Granger drew the focus of the defense. So I'm imagining Reggie got a lot of his looks in his first two years in a similar fashion to how Brandon did these past two.
They were wired differently though, and thus why Reggie became a great SCORER, while Brandon will probably only remain a great SHOOTER.
I would need someone who wasn't 1 year old then to confirm my thoughts for me, but I'm really doubting Reggie was the primary focus of the opposing defense his first two years.
You made a comparison to Adam Morrison, I figured I could return the ridiculous comparison favor.
Here are the attempts numbers:
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of which Rush is neither.. heaven forbid he get fouled in game 7 of the nba finals and have to make two clutch free throws..
maybe he can move back to the three point line and shoot em.. might have a much better chance.
your going into an unrelated subject to this discussion. im stating that the majority of rush's threes are uncontested; good shooters in this league are not given the opportunity to shoot 3 uncontested 3's on average per game.
for example, rush may shoot 70% of his 3's over the course of a season with time to set, and get a good look at the rim; leaving the other 30% to be contested.
if rush were known as a consistent threat from deep like a Danny Granger, Ray Allen, or Reggie Miller.. the number of contested shots would be more like 70% and the open shots with time to set would be 30%.
it does not suprise me at all rush averages 3 threes a game.. because thats really all he does is camp out at the 3 pt line waiting for an open look.
You're making stuff up now. He shoots 67% from the free throw, and 39% from three. He'd still have a better chance of making free throws at the normal line.
And again, numbers don't lie. If Brandon Rush's 3pt% hovers around 40% for his career, he's a good shooter. That doesn't make him a clutch shooter.
1.) One of your main complaints this whole time has been that he doesn't shoot it enough to know one way or the other.
2.) Rush's man is a lot more willing to leave him because frankly, Rush doesn't have a single other part of his offensive game that at this point in time commands attention. I guarantee you though, that every single scouting report in the NBA on Rush says that he is a 3 point threat. I mean I would be absolutely shocked if this wasn't the case.
And you still haven't addressed the fact that are different kinds of shooters, Danny and Brandon are two entirely different shooters. They don't even attempt the same kinds of shots. Danny looks for 3s in transition, while Brandon looks for 3s in a half court setting. We saw Danny in the 3pt contest in a more half court, feet set environment and he did miserably.
it was also a completely different era in basketball as well at that time.. the 3 pt line was first adopted i believe about the same year REG entered the league.. so what may not seem like alot of 3's at the time by today's standards.. was actually more attempts than you would realize.
either way.. calling rush a great shooter at this point in his career is kinda hard to accept. he may eventually become a good shooter, but he has alot of work ahead if we wants to be mentioned in the same sentence as Reggie.
1.) I've never said he's as a good a shooter as Reggie, as clutch a shooter as Reggie, or that he will ever be Reggie Miller. You brought up Reggie first when you said Reggie had never, in his entire career, airballed an open 3. Count already proved that wrong. All I said, was that Reggie and Rush joined the Pacers in comparable situations, but they are wired 100% differently.
2.) You claim to be such a basketball expert, yet you think the NBA 3 point line was introduced the same year Reggie entered the league? Um, no. The NBA adopted the 3 point line for the 1979-1980 season. So basically 8 years before Reggie ever stepped onto an NBA court.
I'm not sure what this means...numbers are numbers. Unless NBA 3 point shooting suffered some sort of inflationary event, is a 3 pointer today worth more than a 3 pointer tomorrow. What's the exchange rate on an NBA 3 pointer when traded for a Euro League 3 pointer?Originally Posted by PacersPride
your correct, i got Bird mixed up with Reggie. the 3 was introduced around when Bird came into the league.
The Great MidRange Jumper Famine of 2004 saw a dearth of jumpers in front of the three point line. Due to this, three-pointers became a much more profitable commodity.
Was Reggie a consistent 3 point threat? He matched Rush's percentage 5 times in his 18 season career and didn't match Rush's 3 PT made 7 times.


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In a sports town used to the imagination-capturing drama of the last-gasp Kings and streaking Dodgers, it's not easy for the Galaxy to get noticed even after back-to-back MLS Cup triumphs.
Merely winning isn't good enough. Southern California sports fans weaned on Showtime and Magic demand that.
The Galaxy did their best to live up to that expectation last weekend, with Robbie Keane following in Landon Donovan's footsteps to deliver a second hat trick for the club in successive games.
And a matter of days after becoming the club's third designated player, Omar Gonzalez added a goal in a 4-2 battering of Western Conference leaders Real Salt Lake on Saturday, tightening the playoff race with just 10 games remaining in the 34-game regular season.
Only eight points separate the top eight clubs in a division where five of the nine teams qualify for the playoffs. And the Galaxy now trails Real Salt Lake by just four points with a game in hand.
"It's humbling to get beat like that," RSL goalkeeper Nick Rimando said. "I don't remember the last time we were beat … on four good goals from special players."
The Galaxy must keep pushing to maintain momentum and visibility, just in soccer and MLS.
The English Premier League cranked up again last weekend by jumping to the big leagues on NBC. The Los Angeles market contributed the network's sixth-highest rating in the nation for the inaugural Manchester United-Stoke City contest.
The Portland Timbers recorded their 45th consecutive sellout last weekend, something that has become somewhat of a rarity for the Galaxy.
And the Seattle Sounders are set to welcome a capacity crowd of 67,000 for Clint Dempsey's home debut Sunday that's likely to see the second-biggest regular-season crowd in MLS history (the Galaxy and Rose Bowl hold the attendance record for the club's inaugural game in 1996).
The stage is set for the Galaxy.
With all but two of their final 10 games against Western Conference opponents, you can argue the games in the final run-in against regional rivals are worth six points apiece rather than the usual three.
And one of those games is in hostile Portland, another is against rival Chivas USA and two more are against Dempsey, former coach Sigi Schmid and the Sounders — one at home and another at daunting CenturyLink Field in Seattle.
The Galaxy may have a way to go before resonating with Southern California sports fans on the same level as Yasiel Puig, but more dramatic, eye-catching performances en route to a third MLS Cup appearance certainly wouldn't hurt the club or the sport in general.
Galaxy bid for Champions League glory
Playing in the virtually invisible CONCACAF Champions League on a weeknight isn't going to help boost any profile, but that's the task awaiting the Galaxy tonight in Carson.
The Galaxy kick off their campaign at 7 p.m. against Costa Rican team Cartagines before what probably will be a small knot of hardcore fans.
Not many more figure to be watching on television; the game is relegated to Fox Soccer Plus (the even less-watched sister soccer channel of the soon-to-be-gone Fox Soccer). In contrast, the much more popular UEFA Champions League shows up on the new Fox Sports 1 at 11:30 a.m. with Italian giants AC Milan facing Dutch club PSV Eindhoven.
Expect plenty of changes from the Galaxy lineup seen just three days earlier against Real Salt Lake, although Panamanian goalkeeper Jaime Penedo is likely to retain his spot after dislodging under-fire incumbent Carlo Cudicini and making his MLS debut Saturday.
Also …
StubHub Center will host rare games on consecutive weeknights with 4-13-6 Chivas USA hosting 8-7-9 FC Dallas on Wednesday in a battle between two clubs at the foot of the Western Conference. … Former Galaxy Academy player Paul Arriola, 18, scored his first Liga MX goal Saturday for Club Tijuana in the 88th minute just three minutes after coming on as a substitute, although the Xolos eventually lost 2-1 to Monterrey in a frantic finish.
For more local soccer news, read the 100 Percent Soccer blog at www.insidesocal.com/soccer.


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Venters hopes he can return to Majors this year
ATLANTA -- When Jonny Venters underwent a second Tommy John surgery, there was little reason to believe he would ever regain the dominant form he possessed in 2010 and 2011. But 15 months removed from this surgery, Venters is still holding on to the hope that he might pitch in a Major League game this year.
"Time is getting short," Venters said. "Hopefully, I don't have to throw too many live [batting practices] and I can get into a game as fast as I can."
Venters has been throwing off a mound over the past week with what he approximates to be an 80 percent effort level. While his left elbow has not been as bothersome as it was throughout most of the 2012 season and 2013 Spring Training, he is still battling some discomfort.
"It's a different soreness and a different kind of pain," Venters said. "I'm trying to feel it out, trying to get over the pain really. You just got to get past it and know it's going to be sore."
Venters produced an impressive 1.89 ERA while making a Major League-high 164 appearances for the Braves from 2010-11. The left-handed reliever's elbow began bothering him the following season and then worsened when he returned to Spring Training the following year.
Fully cognizant of all Venters has endured while returning from this surgery and the one he underwent in 2005, the Braves are showing respect by not placing any expectations on him for this season.
"He's going at his own pace," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "If we can use him the last week or two weeks, fine. If it doesn't, that is fine too. He's gone through so many setbacks. I haven't even entertained the idea of him being with us [this year]."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Video: Sennheiser Mobile Music Series headphones
Most of the people appearing in our videos are employees at Crutchfield. We pull in folks from around the company to share their expertise. A lot of our on-camera stars come from our Advisor Group — they help people choose the right gear via phone, email and chat every day, so they're good at explaining the products and technologies.
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Eric Palonen from Sennheiser was at Crutchfield for a training, and showed us the Sennheiser Mobile Music series headphones.
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Eric: Hi. Eric with Sennheiser. I'm here at Crutchfield and we're educating some of the industries' best and brightest on our Mobile Music Series. There are four products that cover the entire range of mobility and lifestyle products, starting with the MM 100, MM 400, MM 450, and MM 550. Let's talk about them.
The MM 100 is the ideal companion for a smart phone. This is a Bluetooth neckband headphone with full fidelity, full range stereo sound. You can control your playlist, answer and end calls, regulate volume, all from the earcup — very lightweight, very simple. And of course, Sennheiser sound quality with a two year warranty.
The MM 400 is a collapsible on the ear headphone with Bluetooth functionality built-in. It collapses to about the size of a pair of eyeglasses — very portable. It can charge via USB with this port here on the bottom. Of course, you can charge it in a wall outlet and it does come with multi-county travel adapters so you can use this anywhere in the world. Of course, Sennheiser sound and fidelity with the capability to go Bluetooth — a fantastic option for a traveler.
For those who travel and spend a lot of time on planes and trains, you'll want to check out the MM 450. It features the same acoustics as our MM 400 here but with the addition of NoiseGard 2.0. NoiseGard 2.0 is going to listen to the very low frequency noise in an airplane cabin or train or bus and eliminate it. You can use it wired or wirelessly, and it features Bluetooth 2.0. You can also take a phone conversation with the same headset. It features the same navigation capabilities as the MM 400 — track skip, start, stop, volume up and down — so you can control your playlist or your mobile phone all from the earcup. It also features a talk-through function. When NoiseGard is engaged you can press the button one time, it'll activate external microphones so you can hear what's going on around you without ever taking the headphones off of your head.
For those who do not like an on-the-ear pad or prefer something a little bit larger, we have the MM 550 as an option. The MM 550 features the same Bluetooth functionality and noise canceling as the MM 450, but with a larger size earpad. Let's hold up both next to each other so you can get a comparison. It does fold up just like its counterparts so it's a nice compact package that fits easily in any kind of laptop or travel bag. The MM 550 adds one extra feature — SRS WOW HD. When using SRS WOW HD, you'll add a little bit of spice, a little bit of sugar and sweetness to the sound. This is great for older albums or songs that you have in your playlist that may be lacking a little bit of fidelity or excitement because of compression or perhaps just the simple fact that they were recorded long ago before modern recording techniques came into play.
So here you have four options in varying levels of functionality for use with your connected device including tablets, smart phones, laptops, and PCs. Thanks for watching.


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Like most people, I cannot afford most of the cars I want (1974 911 3.0 RS, 288 GTO, Sport Quattro). Now and again I will succumb to the evils of finance to bag a 'must-have', but that doesn't really fall under the category of 'accumulating', because the ownership period is determined by how long I can stomach the monthly payments.
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Currently, in my shed and littering the odd local garage storage yard and my driveway, I own (rent) the following:
1994 Range Rover Vogue SE. 3.9 V8 'soft dash' 160,000 miles.
1990 Peugeot 205 XS. 95,000 miles. Completely standard.
1988 Citroen AX GT. 68,000miles, Completely standard.
1997 Mercedes E320 Sportline Cabriolet. 90,000 miles. Standard car.
1957 Land Rover Series One 107-inch Pick-up. MOT failure.
2003 VW Passat TDi 100 estate. Slow.
A BMW 325 rally car.
2011 Porsche GT3 RS 4.0
1986 BMW E28 M5. 120,000 miles.
2012 Mercedes E350 CDi estate.
Going to plan
Is there really a grand plan? Yes. Within the next five years I would like to have a shed that contains examples of many of the most significant cars from my life to date, but also stuff that just takes my fancy. Almost all of it is quite affordable. I also like owning cars that I can kid myself cover every possible motoring eventuality - 4x4s for winter, sports cars for fun, a fast saloon for longer journeys, etc. Of course, that is the most romanticised of notions, because the buggers are never all taxed and running at the same time. Still, we live in hope.
2012: what's in and what's out
First out of the blocks, now that the weather has turned, is the M5. That's about to get some TLC because I want to use it this summer as it's so damn fast and cool. The Passat gets used quite frequently, as does the Range Rover in the winter months, but it'll now head into SORN hibernation until November.
The Landie is a project soon to be fully documented on PH - it needs a new chassis - but I think some kind of Defender is a prerequisite for any accumulation of cars - and I love the fact this one will be capable of carrying 10 people to the pub. It might need a V8 to manage that. I bought it as an MOT failure and it hasn't moved for 18 months. It's bang outside the front door - Mrs H remains remarkably calm about the situation.
I am mildly obsessed with old French death-traps. These were the cars I spent my formative driving years and, in the absence of the guiding hand of other family members, I'd probably try to bag an example of every decent French hatchback. If I was ever to fall into the trap of 'collecting', this would be my thing. As it is, the XS and the GT are the two that have always ticked all the boxes for me. Both are exceptionally direct.
W124 makes you play golf
Using the responses of friends and family to the Merc convertible as a guide, I must own a W124 cab to keep them amused. It doesn't get used much, but it's a stunning machine and a complete change from the stuff I knock about in on a daily basis. I love my job, I love doing silly things on circuits in 500hp monsters for videographers, but sometimes I just like to get in my W124 and go and play golf. There - I've said it. Is that worse than admitting using finance on PH?
The rally car you'll have read about already, and can read more in the summer, the Porsche I am of course completely obsessed by - though I view it as a temporary resident because the finance costs are staggering - and the Mercedes E-Class wagon has always been the best, big family estate car. Which is why we're currently on our fourth.
The editor has told me that I am to keep you informed of all fleet movements and shenanigans from this day forward. Some of it will amuse you while I quietly weep, and vice versa.
First stop - the M5...


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Houston Mayor Annise Parker, the first openly LGBT person elected mayor of a major American city, officially filed re-election papers with the city clerk on Thursday. Parker is seeking a second two-year term in city elections this November. In a speech to supporters at Houston watering hole Howl at the Moon, Parker spoke of her great love for Houston and her job as mayor.
"I'm more in love with this city than I was when I started in this office on Jan. 2, 2010, and I do love this city. I'm more excited about the job than I was when I first started," said Parker. "There's an old saying that if you have a job you love then you never have to work a day in your life. It's true. I love what I do, I'm excited every day to have the honor of representing the citizens of Houston and helping shape the future of this truly wonderful city."
Two other candidates have officially filed in the mayor's race: Kevin Simms and Amanda Ulman. Simms is a former staffer for Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and currently serves as the night supervisor at the University of Houston Recreation and Wellness Center. Ulman is the perennial Socialist Party candidate. Neither is considered a serious challenger. Other candidates have declared their intent to run, but have not officially filed, including Fernando Herrera, who ran as the Republican challenger to State Rep. Jessica Farrar, the House Democratic leader.
As previously reported by Instant Tea, Herrera attacked Parker in July for the Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau's 'My Gay Houston" Campaign, which seeks to attract LGBT tourists. Herrera specifically objected to an article on the My Gay Houston website titled "The Gay Boys Weekend in H-town" and questioned whether the campaign should be funded with tax dollars. The Convention and Visitors Bureau is funded by a hotel occupancy tax.
When asked if he expects further anti-gay attacks as part of the campaign, Victor Castillo, co-chair of the steering committee for Parker's re-election campaign, conceded that, as an out lesbian elected official, she faces opposition based solely on her sexual orientation. "That has always been the case," said Castillo, "but that is not a distraction for the campaign. The campaign is moving forward in terms of providing more jobs for the city of Houston, building a stronger local economy for the city of Houston — that is what Houstonians want."
The most recent campaign finance report filed by Parker indicates she has a a war chest of more than $2 million dollar for the campaign. In contrast Herrera reports less than $4,000 in the bank and has raised a total of just over $12,000 in the election.


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Fairfield man killed in northern Mendocino County crash
A head-on crash south of Leggett killed a 70-year-old Fairfield man and sent his wife and the other driver to local hospitals Thursday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The driver who died at the scene was identified Friday as Robert Leroy Crosby, of Fairfield, who was driving a gray Ford Taurus with his wife, Karen Crosby, in the passenger's seat.
They were headed north on Highway 101 about a mile south of Leggett when a white Toyota Corolla headed south crossed the two sets of double-yellow lines and two feet of asphalt strip separating the lanes and hit the driver's side of the Ford, according to the CHP.
"The road was really icy and it was hailing, so the road was extremely slick," Garberville Area CHP spokesman officer Matt Harvey said. "She lost control."
The Toyota's driver, identified Friday as Heather Anne Parker, 62, of Hydesville, was taken by ground ambulance to Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits with moderate injuries, according to the CHP. Her condition was unknown Friday.
Robert Crosby was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife was taken by ground ambulance to Jerold Phelps Hospital in Garberville with moderate injuries, and has since been released, according to Harvey.
The CHP does not believe excessive speed, alcohol or drugs were factors in the collision, Harvey said.
Traffic stop near Laytonville nets marijuana, cash, arrest
A driver stopped near Laytonville Tuesday night was arrested after authorities found marijuana and cash in his vehicle, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies patrolling spotted a vehicle with illegally tinted windows on Highway 101 and stopped it at mile marker 76. Police dog "Ben" alerted on the outside of the vehicle, indicating drugs were in the car, according to the MCSO, and deputies searched the vehicle.
They found four very large, empty, rubberized duffel bags resembling "sea bags," according to the MCSO, which are often used to transport marijuana. The deputies also found one pound of bud marijuana, several documents allegedly showing marijuana sales transactions, a Taser gun and more than $130,000 cash.
The driver, John D.L. Denney, 36, of McKinleyville, was arrested without incident on suspicion of possessing and transporting marijuana, and possessing money intended for a drug transaction. He was booked at the Mendocino County Jail under $50,000 bail, and was released after posting bail, according to the MCSO.


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Q A reader named Ian Wigley from Morgan Hill recently wondered if we would be willing to admit the dumb things we have done behind the wheel. Well, here goes.
After a long, long, long day on the bicycle at an event between San Francisco and Santa Rosa and back, at 10:30 p.m., I loaded the bike in the trunk and got in my car to drive back to Sunnyvale, without taking a nap! I was pretty tired when starting for home. If it weren't for the Botts' dots, surely there would have been a late-night collision or my car off the road on Interstate 280.
Thankfully I arrived home safely, not sure how many drivers dodged my car wandering into their lanes as I dozed. Lesson learned: Whenever feeling drowsy, pull over and take a short nap!
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A The National Sleep Foundation says three in five adult drivers — about 168 million people — drove a vehicle while feeling drowsy in a survey a few years ago, and more than one-third had fallen asleep at the wheel.
Q Over the 50 years I've been driving in the Bay Area I've made plenty of mistakes and sometimes done the same stupid things that I frown upon from other drivers.
For example, I wrecked my car crossing two lanes diving into the Peninsula Avenue exit ramp of Highway 101. Braking hard and still moving at 55 mph as I began to come into the short 15-mph hairpin turn there, I could see I wasn't going to make the turn without flipping my car.
So I quickly straightened the car out and simply did a "Dukes of Hazzard" jump into the ivy below. Of course, hitting that curb broke my front suspension and blew out both front tires. After landing into the ivy upright below, I sat for a few long moments cursing myself for the stupidity of what I had just done.
That experience taught me to stop being an aggressive driver, and especially no more diving into exits.
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Q It has taken me some time to muster the courage to confess to my bad driving habits. But I think I am ready now.
My first bad habit is tapping my brakes just before a lighted intersection even though I have the green light. I am so afraid it may suddenly morph into yellow and red and I will be caught in the intersection. I also approach a red light by stopping at least three car lengths behind the vehicle in front. I need my space.
And if I am in the right lane of an intersection with a dotted-line bike path, I often straddle that dotted line so that no car can possibly turn right until I pass through the intersection.
And finally, I drive a Prius hybrid, which means that as I approach a red light, I like to slowly glide to a stop just to increase my mileage by one inch per gallon of gas. I think of it as saving the environment, even though it frustrates drivers behind me.
Bob Sutis
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Q And I also have some highway bad habits which I could confess to if you are interested.
Bob Sutis
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Category: British sibset names
It's another morning with British baby names in the London Telegraph here, and this time I thought I'd focus on charming sibsets from the recent birth announcements.
I always love the slightly off-kilter (from the American perspective) British baby names plus the eccentric string of middle names. But including the names of brothers and sisters adds an extra dimension of style interest.
Counting first children not mentioned here too, trend watchers will want to note the names Elodie, Emilia, Florence, Isla, and Jemima for girls, and Barnaby, Frederick, Hugo, Montgomery, and Willoughby for boys. Also, diminutives such as Jack and Annie as not only full first names but middle names.
Recent British baby names and their siblings include:
Alannah Anthea, a sister for Eloise
Alice Milly Elsa, a sister for Edward
Annabel Clementine May, a sister for Henrietta
Aurelia Mary Susan, a sister to Beatrice
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The fantasy league that we've had on here for 7 years or so is just about done.
The Sports.ws site has given no clue as to weather they will be open for the 07-08 season. In the past they have either been open by now or had a sign on thier main page saying the site would be open on what-ever date.
So far nothing.
On top of that, their help desk has not responded to my e-mails. I also found an e-mail address for the founder of the site. That was a dead end too.
I have not had any updates from Able on the site he was working on. It was a long shot at best & knowing how busy he is I really can't see him pulling to much time & energy away from projects that pay the bills.
I have searched the web but nothing comes close to what we had with the old site. The NBA.com league we did last year just wasn't the same & even thou we could go back to it. Why bother, it wasn't that much fun & most of us lost interest rather quickly.
Unless some one has a site that they've found that looks promising it looks like the only things left to do are pull the plug & switch off the lights.
Barring a sudden rise from the dead for Sports.ws it pretty much looks like the end.
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Bianchi, 25, spent the entire 2011 season at Double-A Northwest Arkansas, where he batted .259 with two home runs, 48 RBI and 2 stolen bases in 119 games. The native of Lancaster, Pa., holds a .281 average in 490 minor league games since being selected b Kansas City in the second round of the 2005 June Free Agent Draft.


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Olympic bronze medal winning snowboarder Jenny Jones has helped launch a fitness fortnight.
Ms Jones visited the Federation of Singlegate and William Morris Primary Schools on Monday to kick-start the sport fortnight which will feature events including riding a smoothie bike to make smoothies, designing cereal bars and taking part in a sponsored run.
The schools have also got the families involved with weekly circuit, running and personal training sessions.
Ms Jones, who took the bronze in her snowboarding event in Sochi earlier this year, took part in an assembly at both schools to talk about her career and help inspire the budding young athletes.
Executive headteacher Nathalie Bull said: "To have key inspirational athletes like Jenny Jones sharing her goals and achievements with our children is an honour and a motivational experience to learn from.
"Both schools have worked in partnership to embrace our federated vision that promotes physical fitness as not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is also the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."


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Operation Game Thief Adds Technology to the Battle Against Wildlife Crime
AUSTIN, Texas — Typical Crimestoppers programs assist law enforcement officers only by offering rewards to the public for information leading to the arrest and conviction of targeted law breakers. But with broadened authority from the Texas Legislature last year, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's privately funded Operation Game Thief (OGT) program is now going a step further.
OGT, Texas' Wildlife Crimestoppers program, is now working to provide game wardens with the latest in technologically advanced tools to assist in both the curtailment and prosecution of wildlife resource crimes.
The recently concluded Operation Pescador, targeting illegal commercial fishing on Falcon Reservoir and the Rio Grande River, is a good example of the immediate benefit of the implementation of this technology: 28 individuals were arrested, and 20 boats and motors and more than 18 miles of gill net and were confiscated.
The tremendous success of this operation relied, in great part, on the ability of game wardens, coming from around the state, to effectively navigate in unfamiliar territory and especially on unknown, international boundary waters.
This navigation was possible through utilization of Global Positioning referenced maps, printed on-site with sophisticated equipment provided through a grant from OGT.
In other parts of the state, cases that previously would have been rejected by prosecutors because of unclear county boundaries are now being accepted, and successfully prosecuted, because of utilization of this same technology.
In light of recent legislation requiring accreditation of any lab submitting DNA evidentiary analysis for court proceedings, OGT has provided a partial-funding grant for specialized equipment necessary to achieve accreditation for TPWD's forensics lab. When that accreditation is achieved, the lab will be the only accredited state wildlife forensics lab in the U.S., a major achievement.
Other OGT grant-provided technological inroads for game wardens include the use of side-scan sonar devices to locate and recover drowning victims, lost or abandoned equipment, and even crucial evidence hidden beneath the water's surface.
"Drownings are tragic, and sometimes days, or even weeks of searching are required before the lost loved one can be returned to the family," said Col. Pete Flores, director of law enforcement for TPWD. "This technology has the potential of helping our officers recover the victim much sooner, easing the family's burden, as well as freeing the officers to handle other duties."
Thermal imagery is the next tool coming to the warden's arsenal in the battle against violations such as night hunting, the use of illegal nets and traps in public waters and the over-harvest of aquatic resources for commercial purposes, especially in Texas coastal waters.
"In other arenas, this 'see in the dark' technology has proven invaluable both in aiding apprehensions and as an evidentiary record in court proceedings," said Flores. "It also provides the added dimension of enhanced officer safety. It is the modern-day technology necessary to keep up with the bad guys, and we're glad to have it."
The 11-member Operation Game Thief committee, which administers the OGT Fund, has authorized rewards of more than $200,000 for information about game and fish law violations since its inception in 1981.
"Clearly the public has been proven to be the vital link in the on-going battle against the exploitation of our wildlife resources," said Buddy Turner, assistant chief of wildlife enforcement for TPWD. "This is evidenced by the thousands of calls to the 800 792-GAME Reward Hotline, and the private contributions that make it possible to finally put this technology in the hands of the wardens, albeit on a limited scale."
The application of proven advanced technology to help combat the poaching problem is only a matter of money, Turner said, and the non-profit OGT continues to seek those dollars through both individual and corporate commitments.
"The Committee is pleased to be an integral part of the effort to field new technology," said OGT Committee Chairman Ray Bailey, a Houston businessman. "Our hope is that the corporate sector will become more involved with us, either through direct donation or through participation in our fundraisers like the Bandana Ball at the Hilton Post Oak Hotel on June 10, or the Claystoppers Sporting Clays event next April in Austin.
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Buyer Beware: Counterfeit Cigars
Not the real thing—counterfeits of the top Cuban cigar brands are flooding the world market.
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Cohibas at $1 a stick, I thought to myself. How can I lose? Cuba's most prestigious and highly sought-after cigars usually sell for at least $10 to $30 each, depending on the size.
I told the man that I would buy a box the next day. I waited in anticipation of enjoying my heavily discounted Cohibas. The next evening he arrived at my chair by the pool with a white, cardboard cigar box properly decorated with the Cohiba logo. It looked no different than what was currently being offered to tourists in most hotels and other authorized distribution points in Cuba. (At the time, the white, cardboard boxes were used only domestically for Cohiba while the more distinguished, varnished cedar boxes were kept exclusively for export and a few, key cigar shops in Havana.)
Before giving him the $25 in cash, I opened the box and looked at the cigars. They appeared slightly rough for the usually long and elegant-sized Lancero, but they carried the proper yellow, white and black Cohiba band, and they appeared to be the right size. The only difference I could see was that thecellophane was slightly shorter than normal and was not folded over at the end of each Lancero. But for $25, I thought, what would be the risk? How bad could they be?
I gave him the money and asked him to bring me another beer to celebrate my shrewd purchase. I decided to try one right away. I selected one of the 7 1/2 inch by 38 ring gauge cigars from the box. I pulled it out of its cellophane, cut the end and lit up. It was awful. Green. Harsh. And much too peaty. I used my beer to extinguish the fire in my mouth.
I was too embarrassed to tell any of my traveling companions what I had done. And I thought there was no use in trying to get my money back from the waiter; he needed the $25 more than I did. I threw the "Cohibas" in the trash in my hotel room.
This was not an isolated incident, and many cigar lovers have gone through the same disappointment. From a few boxes of cigars on the streets of Havana to large consignments in warehouses in the Middle East, the counterfeit cigar business is growing. Counterfeiters can't resist the temptation to copy some of the world's most sought-after luxury-cigar brands--including Cohiba, Montecristo and Davidoff. They can copy the bonafide product for next to nothing and then sell the bogus cigars for 10 to 20 times' the production cost--still a fraction of the market value for the real thing.
At the moment, counterfeiters have not focused their attention on well-known cigar brands from such countries as the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Jamaica. "There isn't enough margin in the prices to do it with domestic brands," says Leonard Gold, national products manager for Consolidated Cigar Corp., producers of the Dominican Republic's H. Upmann, Don Diego, Primo del Rey as well as Mexico's Te-Amo. "Counterfeiters just couldn't make enough profit on domestic (U.S.) cigars."
However, Cuban cigars--especially those clandestinely sold in the United States--are an entirely different matter. With the average Cuban cigar selling for about $8 apiece and some as high as $20, the margins are more than ample for making large profits with forgeries. Currently, Cohiba represents the majority of counterfeit cigars traded around the world due to the incredible demand and high prices. Other cigar producers might secretly relish the idea of having a similar problem, but most other premium-cigar brands just don't have Cohiba's consumer sex appeal. The decline in the production of Cohiba because of a series of small crops in Cuba's tobacco plantations has only exacerbated the situation. With ample crops and supplies, the Cubans may make as many as 4 million Cohibas a year, but production was less than half that in 1993.
"Counterfeiting is a steady problem that we have to deal with," says Francisco Padron (see interview, page 75, Spring '94), general director of Cubatabaco, the Havana-based marketing organization for Cuban cigars, and the man who put Cohiba in the humidors of the world's cognoscenti. "All sorts of people try to counterfeit Cohiba and other brands. It's difficult to control. How can you stop people who counterfeit French perfume or Swiss watches? Nobody can. All over the world they do this, and they can't stop it."
Premium cigars are just another product on the long list of luxury goods counterfeited and sold around the world. If there's a demand for it, whether it's a Cartier watch, Givenchy perfume or a Cohiba cigar, counterfeiters will make and sell it. According to the Comite Colbert, an organization of 70 of France's luxury-goods producers including Cartier, Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton, the international counterfeit business costs manufacturers billions of dollars a year. The lost sales in Europe alone due to fakes is estimated at more than $500 million, according to a recent study released by the European Economic Community.
"We can't estimate how much our members lose a year due to counterfeits, but they probably lose more than they sell in a year due to the problem, and that equals $5 billion," says Christian Blanckaert, president of the Comite Colbert.
"It is very, very difficult to stop counterfeiting cigars," adds Padron. "In Cuba, we have tried to do our best. We have stopped small factories and people from doing it. But outside it is very difficult. For example, you can go to Switzerland and pay the duties and then you put whatever you want in the market. A few days ago, there were 200 boxes of Cohiba caught in Brussels. They said that they were Cuban, so I sent my fellow there. They were all fakes. I was in Beirut recently, and I went to the monopoly's warehouse. There were hundreds of boxes of counterfeit Cohibas. The monopoly said that they took them away from a fellow who was trying to smuggle them into the country."
Padron and other cigar executives interviewed couldn't put an estimate on the global counterfeit-cigar business, but most agreed that the losses in retail sales to bogus smokes could be in the millions of dollars. In fact, Ernst Schneider, the president/general director of Davidoff International, admits that the main reason his company decided to go into the perfume and fashion business was to protect its brand name from counterfeiters. Products had popped up all over the world with the name of Davidoff on them--from vodka in Holland to T-shirts in Italy. Someone was even selling Davidoff ice cream in Spain. Until Davidoff began producing men's after-shave, ties and eyeglasses, the firm had no legal recourse to stop unauthorized producers from using its brand name.
"I cleaned up the whole world market, which cost me a fortune," Schneider admitted in an interview in New York (see story, page 65, Spring '94).
"We had 32 lawsuits to clean the (world) market. The cost was about 3.5 million Swiss francs ($1.95 million)."
However, Schneider admits that stopping counterfeit cigars is a much more difficult task than putting an end to the unauthorized use of his brand. Although it has been less of a problem since Davidoff began producing cigars in the Dominican Republic, his company was plagued for many years by phony cigars coming from Central and South America, especially Brazil. Schneider said that his company suffered from the production and sale of counterfeit Davidoffs in Brazil for nearly 16 years. Located near Sao Paulo, a company under the ownership of the Koenig family made Davidoff cigars in the same sizes and packaging. The company was named Davidoff Commercio y Industria.
"We tried to make an arrangement with them, but it never worked," says Schneider. "We could never trust them. They always started selling cigars again. We did not get one cent back for all the money we spent on stopping them. This is what happens when you have a luxury brand."
To make things worse, the Brazilian cigar producer even guaranteed the product, stating on the box that the cigars could be returned or exchanged with an authorized Davidoff merchant if the consumer was not satisfied. The British Davidoff agent still has a box of 25 Brazilian cigars in his office, which he inadvertently exchanged for a customer who said that the cigars were unsmokable. "We just assumed that they were the real thing," says Simon Chase, of Hunters & Frankau, who worked for Davidoff 11 years ago. "We were surprised, to say the least, when we received the cigars in the mail, and we had already made good on the cigars with the real item."
Brazilian courts, however, recently ruled that the only company authorized to use the Davidoff name is Davidoff of Geneva. But that doesn't mean that damage wasn't done to the company.
Creating bad will with the consumer is one of the key issues with counterfeit cigars, according to most cigar producers. "It is not really a matter of money," says Cubatabaco's Padron. "It is a matter of prestige because people smoke these cigars and then they are disappointed with the quality. I saw a fellow in Spain recently, and he said to me, 'look at this poor Cohiba Lancero.' He was on the other side of the table, and I told him that that happened because he bought his Cohibas on the streets of Havana. He got what he deserved, but it didn't make things any better."
Adds Davidoff's Schneider: "In (lost) sales, that's not so important, but we lost time dealing with this matter. We also lost a lot of money in court and lawyer fees. But we also lost our nerves. It was extremely upsetting."
It certainly takes a lot of chutzpah to make and to sell bogus Cohibas, Davidoffs and other cigars. Periodically, small factories are set up in just about every major cigar-producing area in Latin America. A recent source for fake Montecristos was a small factory on the outskirts of Santiago in the Dominican Republic. The cigar manufacturer had been making Montecristos for some time despite the fact that the ownership of the brand remains in the hands of the U.S.'s Consolidated Cigar Co., Cubatabaco and Spain's Tabacalera. It has been difficult to stop them because of an oversight by the Dominican government that inadvertently approved the company to produce Montecristo. "The government has admitted that it has made a mistake and is taking action to stop them from producing Montecristo, but it all takes time," says José Seijas, vice president and general manager of Tabacalera de Garcia, the key cigar factory for Consolidated Cigar Corp. "It's all a little embarrassing for the government of the Dominican Republic."
Counterfeiting is not confined to offshore operations. Such hard-to-find cigars as La Gloria Cubana--produced by El Credito Cigar Co. in Miami, Florida, and owned by Ernesto Carillo--are allegedly available at La Gloria Cigar Co., also in Miami. Call here and a man identifying himself as "Ernesto" will tell you that Wavells and Charlemagnes (two highly coveted sizes made by El Credito) are readily available. To neophytes and even regular smokers of El Credito cigars, it's hard to know the fake cigars from the real thing, until they are smoked. "They're just awful," says one unwary buyer who purchased and smoked the bogus cigars.
A similar case recently occurred with a cigar producer in Honduras, the Honduras Cuban Cigar Co., which began selling bogus Cohibas earlier this year. According to Cubatabaco, the company was making cigars for a Miami-based man, who claimed to have documentation giving him the rights to the brand name. He had Cohiba's distinctive yellow, black and white packaging produced by a printer in Miami, and the boxes and bands were so good that they were impossible to discern from the originals made in Havana.
The bogus Cohibas, mostly in the Lancero and Corona Especial shapes, were packaged in Honduras and shipped to various countries including Panama, Spain and Colombia. About 30,000 cigars were shipped and another 30,000 were ready to be exported to Germany before they were stopped. General Cigar Co., the United States company with the rights for Cohiba in the American market, is currently pursuing a settlement with both parties.
"It was the best counterfeit I have seen," admits Adriano Martinez, a key member of the Cubatabaco staff, who added a few of the Miami/Honduras boxes to his growing collection of counterfeits. "I don't know how a consumer would have ever known."
Most counterfeiting of cigars is less in the open, however. Phony cigar production is widespread in Cuba, but it's hard to stop because
of the number of people making them. It's usually individuals making a few boxes a week in their homes from stolen tobacco, boxes and bands. "They come from the farmers. They get the tobacco and make them themselves," says Padron. "They also steal cigars and bands from the factory. Some people even print the bands themselves. We have caught printers doing it. It is amazing how quickly things can be done with computers."
One of the biggest sources for fake Cohibas in Europe is through returning tourists who pay $15 to $25 a box for them and resell them to friends, restaurants and cigar merchants for four to five times' the price. Each year, more and more foreigners visit Cuba on holiday. The number of tourists has increased in the past three years from about 300,000 to more than 1 million annually. The idea of making a few hundred dollars after spending a week or two in the sun is too good to pass up for many, and it's easy to find a few boxes of cheap cigars while on holiday in Cuba. Just walk down a street in a popular tourist area in any town, and you're bound to be offered a box or two for sale.
"I sell 20 to 25 boxes a week here," said a young, clandestine street dealer who was selling cigars in the old part of Havana. He held boxes of Cohiba Lanceros and Montecristo No. 4's. "I get about $20 to $25 a box. There are two ways that we get these cigars. We either get them from someone who makes them in the streets or from someone who gets them from the factories. The ones that are made in the streets are no good. I sell only the best quality, and that means they come directly from the factory.
"I can get you anything--the very best brands," he continued. "You name it: Montecristo, Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta Churchill--even Davidoff Dom Perignon. I know Dom Perignon is not made anymore, but I have a friend who works in the factory where they were made [La Corona], and he makes the same cigar with the same blend at home."
The dealer, who asked for anonymity due to the danger in trading contraband cigars, said that he normally splits his money with his cigar suppliers. Together, their income may reach $750 a week. Not bad when the average cigar roller makes only about $140 a month using the official Cuban government exchange rate (one peso to the U.S. dollar). The peso, however, is now trading at about one cent on the black market in Cuba, and most locals admit that without dollars they could not survive.
"I have been arrested before for selling cigars," the dealer said. "If I am caught again, I will go to jail for two years. It is very dangerous selling cigars now, but you can make money doing it, and you have to have dollars to live now."
Segundo Delgado, production director of the Briones Montoto Factory (Romeo y Julieta), admits that it's nearly impossible to control the flow of cigars leaving the factory. "We have a problem with people stealing cigars in all of our factories," he says. "Everyone is allowed to take one or two cigars a day, anyway. So it shouldn't be surprising that some are sold. They also steal tobacco leaf from here and roll cigars at home."
In addition, Delgado says that some leaf apparently is obtained directly from farmers in the Vuelta Abajo and other tobacco-growing regions, and rollers then manufacture the cigars at home. "Now that we are allowed to have dollars, it is much more difficult to control cigars leaving the factory," Delgado adds. "Considering the difficulty of living in Havana at this time, it is a very small problem."
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Pedro Perez—Former President, Tabacalera
A talk with the man behind Tabacalera, Spain's $7 billion tobacco company.
With annual sales of nearly $7 billion (mainly cigarettes), Spain's tobacco company, Tabacalera, is one of the largest companies in the international premium cigar market.
Involved with the Cuban tobacco trade for almost four centuries, Tabacalera is the largest buyer and distributor of Cuban cigars in the world, purchasing nearly 50 percent of Cuba's annual export of handmade cigars. The firm is also the largest purchaser of Cuban bulk tobacco, which goes into machine-made cigars and cigarettes manufactured in Spain and the Canary Islands. In total, the company produces nearly 450 million handmade and machine-made cigars.
Pedro Perez, 45, has been the president of Tabacalera since September 1993. He was instrumental in initiating negotiations with General Cigar, a division of the U.S.-based Culbro Corp., for a 51 percent stake in the company at a price of about $100 million. [Three days after this interview, the deal fell through.] Prior to his position with Tabacalera, Perez served in the Spanish government as the secretary of state for the economy; undersecretary for planning and economy, and commerce; and as executive director for the International Monetary Fund. Marvin R. Shanken, editor and publisher of Cigar Aficionado, interviewed Perez in Havana in late September.
CA: Can you give us a brief description of Tabacalera--how big it is and what industries it operates?
Perez: Tabacalera is a holding company with two major parts, the tobacco business and the nontobacco business. Within the tobacco business, we have a Tabacalera group that covers both cigarette and cigar production. As Tabacalera, we produce two and a half billion packs of cigarettes a year and roughly 350 million cigars.
In addition to Tabacalera, we have subsidiaries, normally 50/50 partnerships. For instance, we have subsidiaries with BAT [British-American Tobacco], Reynolds, and private investors in the Canary Islands. With the subsidiaries we produce a total of roughly 4 billion packs per year. That's roughly 80 billion cigarettes, since the industry standard is 20 per pack.
CA: What are the major brands of cigarettes?
Perez: Our major brand is Ducados. This is the second largest brand in Europe. We produce 1.2 to 1.3 billion packs. The second of our brands is Fortuna. We produce roughly 1 billion packs of Fortuna. These are the two leading brands. In total, we cover almost 95 percent of the cigarette demand in Spain. We are exporting to France. We are manufacturing in Poland and we are exporting also to Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet Union. We also export some small quantities to other European countries. One of our projects at present is to expand our presence in the European market.
CA: Which other areas of the tobacco business are you in?
Perez: We are presently in all phases of the tobacco business, including tobacco leaf and tobacco processing through our two subsidiaries, CETARSA and INTABEX Holding Worldwide. For cigars, we make mechanized cigars through Tabacalera and both mechanized and handmade Canary Island cigars through CITA. The brands include Condal, La Fama, Goya, Peñamil and others.
In the nontobacco sector, we have a company in the dairy business, the leading company in Spain, La Lactaria Espanola. We have a stake in an oil company, Koipe, which is the first olive oil company in the world, [and] a stake in sugar, Ebro Agricolas. We also have a small company in the financial sector, covering pension funds.
Altogether, the Tabacalera group consists of more than 20 companies.
CA: What were the annual sales and profits of Tabacalera in 1994?
Perez: Sales of the group was roughly $7 billion. And profit was around $150 million.
CA: Could you explain the ownership structure of the company?
Perez: Tabacalera was always a company in which the public [government] sector had a majority stake, 52 percent, [with] 48 percent for the private sector. This situation is not a new one. From the very beginning, the company was designed as a monopoly rented to the private sector.
CA: Didn't the government once own the entire operation?
Perez: When Tabacalera began in 1636, the government rented the tobacco monopoly to the private sector; so the private sector always managed the company. More recently, after the Civil War in Spain [1936-1939], there was a change and the public sector took a majority stake in the company. Since then, the structure has been 52 percent controlled by the government. Of the remaining 48 percent, 38 percent is controlled by foreign investors, 10 percent by Spanish investors.
CA: Of the $7 billion in sales, what percentage does tobacco represent?
Perez: It represents 80 percent.
CA: So that's roughly $5 1/2 billion. Of the $5 1/2 billion, what portion of that is cigar related?
Perez: Our cigar business is around $300 million annually.
CA: In the cigar world, that makes you one of the largest players?
Perez: Yes.
CA: Could you describe your cigar business?
Perez: As I mentioned, we produce the full range of cigars, from handmade to machine-made cigars, both in Spain and the Canary Islands. The main characteristic of our production, both in the handmade and the machine-made, is the percentage of Havana tobacco in our blends.
CA: You buy a lot of bulk tobacco from Cuba?
Perez: Yes, we are Cuba's number one client for the tobacco sector, by far. We buy almost 75 percent to 80 percent of total bulk tobacco exports from Cuba.
CA: How many cigars do you sell a year?
Perez: We are producing 450 million cigars annually, and we distribute a total of 660 million cigars.
CA: What percentage of those are handmade versus machine-made?
Perez: Handmade--34 million, 5 million of which are produced by Tabacalera.
CA: What are your major brands of machine-made cigars and where do they come from?
Perez: Our leading brand is Farias. Farias represents 60 percent of the total amount, which means 250 million cigars per year. The blend contains a very high percentage of Cuban tobacco.
CA: Where is it actually made?
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How It's Unique: Intolerance takes place over the course of 2453 years—yes, you read that right—showing the roots of intolerance in cultures ranging from 539 B.C. all the way to the modern era (at the time) of 1914. Griffith built enormous sets, including a life-size Great Wall of Babylon in Los Angeles, and used 3000 extras for a production that cost more than $2 million. The film eventually bankrupted Griffith's studio.
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There are three major reasons someone without teeth would have bad breath:
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Two weeks after professional cyclists race through Boulder and up Boulder Canyon, some riders in the 10th Annual Buffalo Bicycle Classic will follow much of the same route, the most mountainous section of Stage 6 of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge.
The pros ride through on Aug. 25 and the Elevations Credit Union Buffalo Bicycle Classic is scheduled for Sept. 9. The classic raises scholarship funds for high-performing University of Colorado Boulder students who qualify for financial aid.
Since 2003, the Buffalo Bicycle Classic has raised more than $1.6 million for scholarships and has funded more than 730 scholarships. The event is the single largest source of scholarships for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Scholarship recipients are selected based on grade-point average and financial need. They cannot apply for the scholarship and don't know they are being considered until they learn they have won. All net proceeds go toward scholarships, and a portion of the registration fee is tax-deductible.
The classic is debuting a 100-mile "century" route this year called the Buff Epic. The epic century ride will start on campus, ascend Boulder Canyon to Nederland, follow the Peak to Peak Highway past Ward, descend St. Vrain Canyon to Lyons and then head east to Erie and back to Boulder.
For the Buff Epic, Boulder Canyon's westbound lane will be closed to traffic from 7 a.m. to approximately 9:30 a.m. The fastest male and female climbers who ascend a 13.5-mile segment (from the base of Boulder Canyon to Barker Reservoir) will win polka-dotted jerseys, signifying their climbing prowess.
Times will be measured by individual riders' GPS devices and recorded on Strava.com. Ride organizers emphasize that while there is the canyon competition, the Buffalo Bicycle Classic is not a race but a ride for those of all strength and ability levels.
The 2012 Buffalo Bicycle Classic also includes all of its five traditional courses: a flatter 100-mile ride, now called the Foothills Century, plus its 70-mile, 50-mile and 35-mile routes, and the 14-mile Little Buff family-friendly community ride.
The 2012 Little Buff is co-sponsored by the Center for People With Disabilities. The center is recruiting participants -- including those who ride hand-powered bikes, recumbent cycles and blind riders who could ride on tandem bicycles -- according to Ian Engle, the center's executive director and an avid rider of a hand-powered bike.
"There are a lot of major athletes around the Boulder area who use adaptive equipment, and we work with a lot of folks who would love to showcase our talents and abilities using adaptive equipment and people who might not otherwise be able to participate in such an event," Engle said.
The Center for People with Disabilities is promoting the ride as a "fully inclusive community event." It is offering scholarships for disabled riders who can't afford the registration fee, and it is offering to provide adaptive equipment for riders who need it.
Engle said he wants the disabled riders to be "pity busters" who are proud to participate.
"We want to say 'Thank you for the opportunity to give back,' " Engle said. "When we include people who are on the margins of our community it strengthens the moral fabric of our community as a whole."
"This year, more than ever, the Buffalo Bicycle Classic will accommodate riders of every ability," said Todd Gleeson, former dean of the CU-Boulder College of Arts and Sciences and one of the ride's founders. Gleeson, a professor of integrative physiology, directs CU-Boulder's new Health Professions Residential Academic Program.
For more information on the Buffalo Bicycle Classic visit http://www.buffalobicycleclassic.com.
To see a CU Foundation video of scholarship recipients discussing what the scholarship meant to them go to http://youtu.be/Pj1l_ihaA8w.
To watch CU Cycling team members ride a time trial of the Boulder Canyon segment of the Buff Epic go to http://youtu.be/Pj1l_ihaA8w.
To see the fastest times so far on the Buffalo Bicycle Classic Boulder Canyon climb go to http://app.strava.com/segments/1822933.
CU Cycling team members Luke Amer, left, a graduate student in chemical and biological engineering, and Brett Peters, a senior in integrative physiology, begin an ascent of Boulder Canyon during a June time trial up the canyon segment of the Buff Epic course of the Elevations Credit Union Buffalo Bicycle Classic. Peters holds the fastest time on the segment as recorded on Strava.com. (Photo by Noah Larsen)


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Safety and Efficacy of Daily Use of Micamlo® Combination Tablets AP in Patients With Hypertension
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