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Queen's birthday marked by Stoke-on-Trent made china collection
PRINCE Philip called it a ghastly place but the proud city of Stoke-on-Trent was given a fillip today when an official range of souvenir china went on sale to commemorate the Queen's 90th birthday.
An official range of souvenir china went on sale to commemorate the Queen's 90th birthday
Personally approved by the monarch and made using techniques developed 250 years ago, the Royal Collection Trust's official range is predicted to be a big seller that will help preserve jobs and traditional skills in the North Staffordshire Potteries.
Thousands of items in the range, which includes a £25 mug, £29 pillbox, £39 tankard, £39 side plate, £55 teacup and saucer, and £89 large plate, are expected to be snapped up by Britons keen to have their own personal memento of the Queen's landmark birthday.
The souvenirs feature a central design including the Royal Arms encircled by ribbons tied in a bow, garlands of roses, shamrocks and thistles representing different corners of the kingdom, and forget-me-nots which traditionally flower in April around the Queen's birthday alongside cornflowers which bloom in June around the time of the monarch's official birthday.
Many of the hand-finished pieces are edged with partridge-eye pattern inspired by the decoration of Sevres porcelain in the Royal Collection.
After the Queen's 80th birthday in 2006, and then a string of special royal events starting with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding in 2011 through the Diamond Jubilee, Coronation 60th anniversary, and births of Prince George and Princess Charlotte, the market in royal memorabilia has been going through a mini boom period.
Her Majesty the Queen was very happy
Ian Grant, the collection trust's production controller, reckons sales after the first week will give a good indication of the market this time.
"It was certainly in the thousands for the Queen's 80th and we are expecting this to be bigger, partly because our business is bigger now and the Queen is very popular.
"Over the last 10 years, we feel the Royal Family's popularity has increased," he said.
Each design, worked on for 12-18 months before it goes on sale, is shown to the individual member of the Royal Family whose event it is commemorating for approval and they are given the first off the production line.
"When Prince George and Princess Charlotte were born, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge approved each item and were presented with them," Mr Grant said.
The Queen liked this range but occasionally, some members of the family do object to parts of the design and get things changed.
"We have received comments in the past," said Mr Grant.
"We have acted on the comments but I am happy to say Her Majesty the Queen was very happy."
Six years ago relations between the people of the Potteries and the Royal Family were briefly strained when former prime minister Tony Blair published in his memoirs a story about the Duke of Edinburgh being rude about the area during a Buckingham Palace reception in 1997 for Labour MPs.
"It was going fine until Prince Philip wandered up to Joan Walley, a very sincere leftish feminist MP," Mr Blair wrote. "As Prince Philip approached Joan, he asked her where she represented - and when she told him Stoke-on-Trent, the Prince replied: 'Ghastly place, isn't it?'"
The china was personally approved by the monarch
There was uproar for a few days but, in fact, Stoke-on-Trent's ceramics industy, which employed 80,000 people in its heyday until the jobs disappeared to cheaper factories in the Far East in the 1980s, has partly been kept afloat by the Royal Family and its collection trust in the past 25 years.
Reconfigured as small niche manufacturers selling on high quality rather than cheap mass production, the industry now employs about 7,000 in the six towns - Hanley, Longton, Fenton, Burslem, Stoke, Tunstall - that make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent.
"We work with a range of eight to 10 manufacturers," said Mr Grant, who has a constant need for merchandise to sell in palace gift shops even when there are no special royal events.
"Indirectly, we probably employ 80 to 100 people in the area."
Thousands of items are in the range, including a £39 side plate
One of his manufacturers, Peter Walpole, said it was impossible to compete on price with factories in China now mass producing ceramics in a low wage economy with less anti-pollution legislation.
Asked why, he replied: "Red tape." From the European Union? "Definitely. And government," he said. "The Potteries have survived by becoming high end, niche producers."
Cheap imports from China are likely to flood the market for royal souvenirs this year too but the Royal Collection Trust's range is the only official merchandise.
Also included is a £25 mug
Any profits are ploughed back into preserving royal treasures for the nation.
The official china can be purchased online from www.royalcollection.org.uk/shop, and in Royal Collection Trust shops at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and on Buckingham Palace Road, and at Royal Collection Trust shops at Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
A range of limited-edition commemorative pieces for collectors will be introduced later in the year.


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my freind on msn said sometimes its acceptable(he says he's much smarter than me at this) to sometimes use c code with c++
is this true and if so when but i dont think it is
my freind on msn said sometimes its acceptable(he says he's much smarter than me at this) to sometimes use c code with c++
is this true and if so when but i dont think it is
When you don't want to reinvent the wheel.Originally Posted by lilhawk2892
7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
40. There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.*
Well, in almost all cases, C++ has an improved alternative to the original C method of getting something done. When programming in C++, I rarely find any need to use the C method to do anything. Keep in mind, much of the libraries used in C are still used in C++, for instance <cmath> and <cctype>. Now, if you're porting C code to a C++ program, it's generally fine to leave the C as C and just build the C++ around it so long as the C still works. As they say, if it isn't broken, don't fix it.Originally Posted by lilhawk2892
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For many cases, yes, I'll agree. But there are libraries out there that are written in C: libcurl, SDL, pthreads, Win32 API, etc. Some of these have C++ wrappers/equivalents. And some of us use the C version anyways. I've intermixed C++ with all of the above libraries except pthreads (it's only a matter of time).Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom
Mixing C libraries with C++ code is, imho, perfectly acceptable and good thing. Mixing C and C++ code together in the same project, eh, it's ok. But if you're the one writing it, you might as well take advantage of the features C++ gives you.
And the STL/C++ adds a lot of stuff to the binary. Especially when debugging - those suckers get big quick. (But with today's hard drives, this is moot. And it's debugging...) Though wxWindows is large no matter what...
Edit: Missed your comment about libraries... oh well. My 2cent.
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Unprecedented performance: Nothing ever ran this slow before.
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Yeah, sometimes one uses C-style code when dealing with libraries or APIs that are written for C and C++ both. I'd never use C-style code within a C++ program in any other case, though. In general the C++ style is shorter and easier to understand.
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I have a talent, well...more habit really, ok it's a slight addiction...to destruction.
When everything is all peace and love in my life; I'm making rent, meeting deadlines, enjoying my yummy new man, (who by the way seems totally mentally sound and socially acceptable) and I'm just starting to relax into the feeling of normality, it happens. I begin to get edgy, I grow restless and a little anxious, and I slowly (mostly without realizing) pick up the matches to start the fire that will no doubt burn what I had been building to the ground.
I can almost set my clock to it. Two Months and two days. Without fail.
With every new relationship comes the addictive rush of excitement. The butterflies and late night calls, the whispered words in dark places. The erotic playground of any back seat. The thrill of learning one another from the outside in. It is all so incredibly intoxicating, carefree and easy... for the first few months.
But for whatever reason, as my relationship grows out of its pubescent phrase of cutesy everything; and the shiny newness wears away, opening up to the possibility that it could be something more than a brief affair, I begin to panic. I start to feel suffocated and consumed. As any normal couple naturally begins to make more and more space in their life for the other person, I seem to do the opposite. I cling the my old life like a security blanket, terrified that should I loosen my grip, it will be snatch away from me so suddenly, I will never find it again. I hold close the less- than -desirable people from my past and stand firm with my singledom behavior.
Think it all sounds a touch dramatic? Perhaps. But for for someone who so fiercely guards her independence this the start of the end.
When you have spent your whole life living only for one, it is easy to become a little stubborn and rigid. As hard as I try to integrate both of my lives, there is often inevitable cracks. Excitement and laughter, gives way to stern talks about communication, and
"I want you now", text messages, turn into: "Where are you?, Why aren't you home?"
With a tendency towards adventure and carelessness, I can hardly blame a guy for wanting a little more security, reassurance ( or hell, even respect!).
Often caught in the midst of the moment, I cast aside the fact I have a a gorgeous man, who worries and cares for me, and who would like goodnight text after I arrive home from a night on the town. But,I do not send the text. Not because I forgot, but because the proud lioness inside of me digs in her claws, roaring, "I don't answer to nobody!" Match lit.
The inability to compromise my old life for new, and the fear of co-dependance fuels the flames that will soon ruin everything.
Let it be a lesson to all who reads my not so wise words. Be very careful when you play with fire. Choose carefully the battles you wish to fight and the ones which require surrender.
If you are like me, and have obvious independence and commitment issues, take a step back and look at the bigger picture. What has become a habitual cycle of demolition prone relationships could be more your doing, than it is men who have come just a little too close. Sometimes its just plain old fear that causes us to hurt/destroy something or someone really wonderful.
And if your like me, its worth thinking about what it is you are so desperately trying to hang on to in your past, as it may not hold a match to what, together, you might actually create in your future.


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The Outlets at Hillsboro is trying to reinvent itself by opening clearance centers instead of outlet stores.
Competition from discount shopping online and other outlet malls has left the center, which is 65 miles south of Dallas on Interstate 35, with few tenants.
Nike operated a Nike Factory Store at the center for several years and has now converted it to a 15,000-square-foot Nike Clearance store.
Under Armour Clearance House opened a week ago. While the popular athletic brand has several outlet stores in Texas, this is its first clearance center, said Rob Snowden, general manager of the Outlets at Hillsboro.
What's the difference? Snowden said outlet stores promise discounts of 35 percent to 65 percent off regular prices. Clearance center prices are as much as 90 percent off. The stores have open floor plans with merchandise on tables and not as much customer service. Clearance centers are more like the factory stores that used to open next to manufacturing plants when clothes were made in rural U.S. towns.
During the 1990s, the Outlets at Hillsboro was a popular day trip. It opened in 1989 and was handy for folks who didn't want to make the longer trek to the state's premier outlet center in San Marcos.
Then Grapevine Mills opened in 1997 and Allen Premium Outlets in 2000. Grand Prairie Premium Outlets opened last year after being delayed several years by the recession.
The Hillsboro center has only 35 stores open, including a Polo Ralph Lauren Factory Store, Sunglass Hut, Lane Bryant Outlet, Gymboree Outlet and Carter's.
The center's owner, Craig Realty Group, doesn't expect that the 350,000 square feet of retail space will again house 100 stores, Snowden said. So the center and the city of Hillsboro are coming up with new ways to keep the space productive.
"We're working with several brands that have a clearance concept or are thinking about starting one," Snowden said. "With Nike and Under Armour, we're trying to build a track record."
About 16,000 square feet of space that used to include a Gap outlet was demolished to make room for a full-service restaurant that hasn't yet been named.
Another 18,000 square feet is being converted into event space that can be rented out for banquets, weddings, proms, high school graduations, recitals and business meetings, Snowden said.
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In a meeting with a coaching client this week, I was again struck by the powerful disconnect that can happen between a team leader's intention and impact.
My experience is that leaders show up every day wanting to do the very best they can for their teams. My client, let's call her Mary, is just that type of leader – she really invests in being a good leader. She leads a team of experienced managers who take pride in their work and the organization's purpose.
I had just been interviewing the team members to understand what they value (and don't) about Mary's leadership style. Before I was able to share what I'd learned, she had launched into the latest issue facing her team.
She had spent hours thinking about the issue, identifying options and evaluating the pros and cons of each. I asked her what was making her most anxious about the challenge. She was clear – "I need to get this right for my team – I need to solve this problem for them!" I knew that her intentions were to support her team and that all her efforts came from an honorable place.
It was later in the conversation that I was able to share with her the number one issue her team wanted her to address. They wanted her to do less of the heavy lifting, and bring them in more. They were frustrated by her tendency to hang on to issues and make decisions independently. And therein lay the biggest difference between her intent and impact.
Team leaders often intend to add value by solving problems. The unintended impact on team members, however, is that they feel undervalued. Counter-intuitively, as a leader of a team you may need to add more value by doing less! It's the new math …. adding by subtracting!
If you are unsure about how your good intentions to support your team may be translating for them, here is how you might proceed:
- Be transparent about your intentions. If you are taking an independent approach to a problem, explain your intentions or rationale behind this plan.
- Ask team members what they think about your approach – and be genuinely curious about what they say. Remember that your good intentions may be having a totally different impact than you intend.
- Ask your team for structured feedback on a regular basis. Not, "how am I doing?" which is impossible to answer on the spur of moment. Try something like: "In our next meeting, I want to really understanding your views of how I'm leading the team. I want you to think about three questions: What should I continue doing? What could I do more of? What could I do less of?"
- Most importantly, remember that it's not your job to fix all the difficult problems. As team leader, your job is to bring your team into the process of finding great solutions.
By being open about your intentions and sharing issues with your team, you will add more value by doing less! And sleep better at night.
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Claude Julien called for calm, so why not go with that thought for a moment? On Saturday night, Julien's Boston Bruins had finally broken through to score a couple of goals against the Vancouver Canucks, ending a lengthy shutout streak by Roberto Luongo and his stalwart band of defenders. Julien's Bruins had pushed the NHL's regular-season champions to the absolute limit in each of the first two games of the Stanley Cup final, games that seesawed back and forth, that could have absolutely gone either way.
That the Bruins lost one game with 19 seconds to go in regulation and the other 11 seconds into overtime?
Julien would not dwell on the heart-breaking nature of the defeats - and the psychological repercussions of being so near and yet so far away. It didn't matter in the slightest, not to a team that has taken resilience to a new level in these playoffs.
It was just the sort of galvanizing, hard-edged, anger-tinged message that you'd expect from a veteran coach who can see the end in sight and knew at this stage of the proceedings, down 2-0 in the best-of-seven series, it was time to go all Knute Rockne.
To Julien, after a long day of travel to prepare for Monday's pivotal third game, this was not the time for the Bruins to feel sorry for themselves, no time to ponder what might have been and especially no time to start second-guessing the players that got them to this stage of the playoffs in the first place.
So what if Zdeno Chara wasn't at his best? Or that Tim Thomas - who has spent his whole career making the most of an unorthodox playing style - was burned so badly on Saturday's overtime winner. Thomas was so down and out on the play that the Canucks' Alex Burrows had enough time, even sliding along the ice, to score the decisive goal on a wraparound.
"It's not the end of the world here, guys," Julien lectured. "We lost the game, but we're a better team than that, and we're a team that's bounced back all through the season. I don't see an issue here."
While it might not be the end of the world, you could see it from where the Bruins found themselves, perched two games away from elimination. History will tell you that only twice before in Stanley Cup history has a visiting team lost the first two games on the road and then come back to win. It happened to the 1971 Montreal Canadiens and to the 2009 Pittsburgh Penguins. That's it. But that was enough for the Bruins right now, given that the alternative would be to meekly raise a white flag of surrender.
Rightly or wrongly, Julien believes the Bruins lost because they beat themselves - and the mistakes they made are correctable. Possibly. But the one discernible edge the Canucks had in both games was that, with the games on the line as the third periods advance, they took over the play both times. Not good, if you're a team such as Boston that prides itself in wearing down an opponent because of a relentless and physical fore-check.
"As far as I'm concerned, we're taking responsibilities for this loss," Julien said. "It's our own fault. We beat ourselves with some bad decision-making and some poor puck management. You take responsibility and you make the corrections that you have to do and you move on. I think our game this year has been good when we've been at our best and executing properly. And we didn't to that here."
Boston was behind in two of three series in these playoffs and the deficit in the opening round against the Montreal Canadiens seemed even more daunting because they lost the first two games at home.
Now, Julien was also honest enough to point out that Montreal isn't Vancouver, and the Canucks were the runaway regular-season champions for good reason this year. Balanced scoring, lots of unlikely heroes. A perfect case in point: the Sedins, who weren't very good in the first two periods, were very good in the third plus the one deciding overtime shift. That's how championships are generally won - with teams that stick with it, even if things aren't falling your way, knowing that perseverance can change matters in a hurry.
So here we are at Game 3 and as the Canucks' Daniel Sedin peered into his crystal ball, he predicted that not much was going to change, at least not in terms of the low-scoring defensive style that characterized the two games in Vancouver.
"Expect the same," Sedin predicted. "It's not going to be a lot of scoring chances. I think we're confident playing in games like this. They are, too. But I think if all our lines play like we can, we're a tough team to beat."
Sadly for the Bruins, to win the Stanley Cup now, they'll need to beat that tough Vancouver team four times in the next five games. The way things are clicking so efficiently into place for the Canucks, it is hard to imagine them letting that happen right now.


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[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Kelly Rowland[/lastfm]'s latest single "Motivation" is burning up the airwaves at Amp Radio with it's sultry, sexy groove, but that hasn't stopped the jokers from mixing it up a little bit.
In one of the most popular "Motiviation" covers or parodies on Youtube, the comedy group YFCFB (Young Funny Cash Funny Brazillionaires) take the slow jam and make it into a lament about high gas prices and broken down rides.
Check this one out for yourself.
I can't stop laughing at this one. How did they turn my jam into this joke? I'd feel outrage if I could stop from giggling. But really, the creative lyrics are good enough for the likes of [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Weird Al Yankovic[/lastfm], and that's not too shabby.
The video takes you from pushing a car to being stranded at the gas station, but you still feel like you've gone the distance, "I'm feeling sharp pains, in my back now," touts the singer on the track.
In related news, Kelly Rowland's album Here I Am dropped yesterday and she celebrated the album release in New York City with Moet and a slew of famous friends. She will also appear on the cover of the August issue of Vibe Magazine.
We know what our girl Kelly would do. She'd listen to this song, smile, and "Shake Them Haters Off."
And guess what? Kelly is touring with Chris Brown? So exciting!


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Jackie's not a WWE superstar but he still has a fancy name for every way he rips you to shreds.
Despite the seemingly overpowered abilities at your disposal, Jackie does possess an Achilles heel. The Darkness cannot manifest itself in the presence of light, leaving Jackie a mere mortal with guns. A significant aspect of combat involves shooting out lamps and disabling generators to plunge the environment into darkness. As the game progresses, enemies become aware of this weakness and will exploit it to their advantage. This is where your darkling will come in handy. The little wisecracking imp that appears as a manifestation of the powers of The Darkness will aid you in battle, gutting enemies, leading you through obstacles and most importantly, helping you to get rid of light sources that would otherwise impede your progress. You will get to play from the perspective of your darkling, and you will experience a different kind of thrill from covert executions of enemies from the shadows.
More hearts, more skills.
Existing abilities can be upgraded and new abilities can be learnt as the game progresses. With each kill, you gain Dark Essence points (the more imaginative and horrific the kill, the more points gained). These can be traded at talent shrines for better abilities and to imbue Jackie with new skills to torment enemies with. Melee attacks can be upgraded to chain into combos, objects thrown can be granted a supernatural explosive effect and The Darkness can equip your armaments with unholy ammunition that grants additional damage.
Apart from the single player story mode, there are also Vendetta campaigns that you can play in. You get to play as four hitmen under Jackie's employ, each with unique Darkness abilities and specific missions, giving the game more depth and play time. Mission combat is similar to the main campaign but Vendettas offer some additional storyline content and should definitely be attempted.


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Oklahoma City, Okla. - The 7th-ranked Georgia Gym Dogs posted their highest total of the year but could not overcome two falls on beam as they dropped a 196.7-196.3 decision to No. 9 Oklahoma on Sunday at the Cox Convention Center.
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Kelsey Ericksen earned her fourth straight win in the individual all-around with a 39.45 and Ashley Kupets was just behind with a 39.425.
Junior Brittany Smith was a late scratch for the Gym Dogs (8-3) with a sore back.
"Having Ashley back is the best thing as far as I can see about today," said coach Suzanne Yoculan. "She's our big scorer on the end of the lineup.
"But I'm concerned about our mistakes on beam again. If we' d won the meet with those mistakes we'd probably take them for granted. The girls have a lot of talent and a lot of heart. We just need to keep plugging away."
Ericksen had a season-high 9.9 on beam but a team score of 48.625 allowed Oklahoma (8-1) to pass the Gym Dogs for the win, as the Sooners scored a 49.1 on the floor exercise.
In the first rotation a career-high 9.825 by Megan Dowlen on the uneven bars helped the Gym Dogs to a 49.125. Kupets led the way with a 9.875 and Katie Heenan added a 9.85. Oklahoma opened on vault with a 49.35.
Georgia took the lead in the second rotation (98.375-98.35) with a 49.25 on vault.
Ericksen tied her career high with a 9.9 and Michelle Emmons had a 9.9 for the second consecutive meet. Just five gymnasts competed on vault for the Gym Dogs, while Oklahoma scored a 49.0 on the uneven bars.
Kupets tied a career best with a 9.925 to lead Georgia to a 49.3 on floor. Emmons had a 9.9 and Ericksen added a 9.85 on the event, which gave the Gym Dogs a 147.675-147.6 lead through three rotations.
Emmons has five scores of 9.9 or better in the last three meets, which equals her season bests from her freshman and junior seasons.
It is the first time Georgia has dropped three straight regular season meets under Yoculan.
Georgia will next host Alabama on Friday, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Athens.
The two rivals will meet under the headline Teams Unite as portions of the ticket sales will go to complete Georgias $100,000 pledge to Athens
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A's pick Balfour over Fuentes for closer's role
A's pick Balfour over Fuentes for closer's role
As Balfour was exiting the mound in the A's win over the D-backs on Sunday, Oakland manager Bob Melvin congratulated him for a good outing, took the ball and gave him a quick oh-by-the-way whisper.
"He just said, 'I'm going to go with you as the closer,'" Balfour said Monday morning.
Balfour, who has eight years of Major League service time but has never been a full-time closer, made no secret about the fact that he wanted the job heading into Spring Training. He is coming off two stellar seasons in a setup role, having put up a 2.47 ERA and 1.032 WHIP in 62 appearances last year with Oakland and a 2.28 ERA and 1.084 WHIP with Tampa Bay in 2010.
Balfour, 34, was spectacular in 2008 for Tampa Bay, striking out 82 batters in 58 1/3 innings and pitching to a 1.54 ERA for a team that went all the way to the World Series.
He's amassed 10 saves as a fill-in closer over the course of his career, but he said he's eager to start tallying a lot more.
"I was happy to hear it," Balfour said. "You don't want to get too excited and lose track of what you've got to do. ... I've just got to keep doing what I've been doing."
Balfour, a right-hander, had been in competition for the role with veteran left-hander Brian Fuentes, who has saved more than 20 games in seven separate seasons, including an American League-leading 48 when he was with the Angels in 2009. Fuentes saved 12 games last year with a 3.70 ERA, but he was a replacement for injured closer Andrew Bailey, who has since been traded to Boston.
So far this spring, neither Balfour nor Fuentes had been particularly impressive from a numbers standpoint. Heading into Tuesday's game, Balfour had a 7.94 Cactus League ERA and Fuentes' was 7.50. Then again, Balfour has been pitching better of late. He was touched up for five runs in 1 2/3 innings in his first two outings, but since then he's been unscored upon in four innings over four appearances.
"The last four or five outings, it's been good," Balfour said. "I've been throwing up some zeros and I just want to continue to take that into the season. I'm starting to feel good and I'm excited about the season and I'm excited about what we've done here in the spring as a team. It's been great. So it's another part of the puzzle, and I want to pull my weight and do my job. Hopefully everyone can do their jobs and we'll be good."
That sounded good to Melvin, who said he picked Balfour primarily because of his dominance in the setup role last year. Melvin didn't foresee any issues with Balfour taking what, by all counts, is a super-intense mound demeanor and transferring it to the ninth inning.
"If you're profiling the demeanor of a closer, you would find a picture of Grant Balfour right there," Melvin said. "Now, the uncertainty is that he hasn't done it before, but he's excited about doing it, he wants to do it, he came into camp with the mindset that he wanted to do that, and therefore that's the direction we're going."
Balfour admitted that he brought the goal of becoming the team's closer into camp, and he even vocalized that wish to the coaching staff, but he said he had no plan to alter his approach now that he's tasked with getting the last three outs of games.
"My mindset's going to say the same, and that is going out there and throwing up a zero," he said. "No one wants to give up runs, no matter whether you pitch in the first or second or whatever inning you're pitching. You want to go after hitters, you want to be aggressive and I don't see anything changing."
Fuentes, meanwhile, said he wouldn't change anything in his routine either.
"You still have to go out there and get guys out," Fuentes said. "And now it'll be the seventh and eighth innings instead of the ninth. I'd take [the closer's demeanor] in the fifth inning if I had to. That's just the way it is."
Fuentes said he was disappointed that he lost the closer competition but that he'd be ready to take on the setup role he'll now be slotted into.
"I wish I could have thrown better in spring to give myself a better opportunity," Fuentes said. "Ultimately I understand that regardless of how well I threw, it might have ended up the same way. But I believe I'm very capable of doing it. Unfortunately it wasn't the opinion of those in command."
For now, Fuentes will root on Balfour. The two get along, and Fuentes said he believes Balfour can succeed as the team's closer.
"He has the stuff, that's for sure," Fuentes said. "Everybody who's watched him do it for the last four or five years, the way he's pitched has been at a high level and very effective. And I'll be there to help him if he needs help, or talk about it or whatever. But I think he can do it."
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DougMillerMLB and read his MLBlog, Youneverknow. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Editor's Column: Celebrating Amazing Things
I had a business trip to Florida as we were running up to deadline this week. I was bummed when I got to the airport and realized I had forgotten "Moll Flanders", which I'd checked out of the local library. I had work to do on the way out and writing my column planned for the flight back. In all honesty I wasn't looking forward to this prospect.
In addition to business travel last week, my little sister was scheduled to get married (worded on the safe side!) at my house on July 23. We had done a lot of work in the months leading up to the wedding, including making the groom's and groomsmen's vests and yarmulkes to coordinate. I was about to give up on making my dress as the matron of honor, which I still hadn't started as of this writing.
Flying Southwest, I was early in the cattle call and got to choose my seat as I was boarding. I wanted to be at the front to jump off as quickly as possible and head home to start this column. (I'm really not a procrastinator.) I sat in the aisle of the first row, which had more legroom too, next to an older couple. Before we even got taxiing down the runway, they shared with me that they were flying beyond Baltimore on to New York to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with their daughter and various family members. As we took off, I looked down and noticed they were holding hands. Imagine the life they've led!
So as my sister and her fiancé head into their nuptials and my husband and I near our 11th anniversary, I was inspired to finish that darn dress. Everything should be perfect because you only have opportunities like this once in a lifetime.
When the couple settled in with their paperback mysteries, I was a little disappointed. I also again regretted forgetting my own paperback and settled back with Spirit, Southwest's in-flight magazine. July 2011 was dubbed "The Awesome Issue" on its cover. Quite self-congratulatory I thought initially. It contained the usual travel fare of far-off and not-so-far-off destinations. Smack dab in the middle began the awesomeness.
Page 87 was a full-page picture of a college wrestler arms raised victoriously after winning the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship standing with the referee. I didn't think much of it until I read the deck: "This three-time All American athlete won the 2011 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship in his weight class. And he did it with only one leg."
What?!?! I did a double take of the picture and sure enough, Anthony Robles of Arizona State University had just one leg. The story went on to note that he nearly quit the year before after only coming in seventh until an envelope stuffed with letters from third-graders in Georgia arrived cheering him on. "I didn't know how much my wrestling meant to people," the article quoted Robles as saying. Sometimes we all can get too focused in our own little worlds and miss the big picture. And the fact that Robles maintained such humility where many lesser athletes would not have is itself humbling.
The magazine featured a series of people doing innovative or amazingly odd things, but this article was absolutely the one that stuck with me. I've been so fortunate in my life to make a happy, healthy family and, corny as it might sound, to find my way to the credit union industry.
I figured if a one-legged man could win a national wrestling championship, I could plunk out a column that might have some meaning for credit unions.
Credit unions across the nation and around the world are doing amazing things for some amazing members with programs like Homes for our Troops. Others like the CU Philanthropy Group partner with outside groups so credit union employees can build teamwork while creating functioning prosthetics for landmine victims. Massive projects like this can attract huge media play for credit unions, which they need to raise awareness among potential credit union members to continue to spread the credit union gospel.
But the heroes and the work don't always have to be big and flashy. Maybe you notice a single mom who has a used car loan with your credit union and brings in paychecks from two different jobs. She's been timely on the payments for nearly two years, so give her a month off from payments or use a payment to start a savings account for her family.
Or you notice a school teacher who constantly talks about his students when visiting the branch and his credit card purchases are tracking all the best deals at the school supply stores. Return the funds.
Credit unions are one of the few industries that can get away with a lot of social do-goodism. It is your business. Take advantage of this special industry to give once in a lifetime recognition to everyday heroes and inspire.


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Glue Traps =(
Go back by the fridge and there's a leetle mouse stuck in the glue trap wiggling around lilke crazy to get out.
I don't like glue traps :( Looks like he's been there a little while too.
Knowing some of the women around here who would go into full panic mode - I put him and his little prison into a small plastic container and he's under my desk now waiting for one of the janitors to come take him away.
Anyone ever do a rescue from a glue trap?
Poor guy. Make sure he can get to some water.
aaah! I'm not a big animal advocate or anything, but a glue trap? that's horrid torture. :(
I just threw up in my mouth a lot.
Thanks for sharing. :(
Glue traps made using natural or synthetic adhesive applied to cardboard, plastic trays or similar material. Bait can be placed in the center or a scent may be added to the adhesive by the manufacturer. Glue traps are used primarily for rodent control indoors. Glue traps are not effective outdoors due to environmental conditions (moisture, dust) which quickly render the adhesive ineffective. Glue strip or glue tray devices trap the mouse in the sticky glue;
users can free the mice from the glue by applying vegetable oil.
These types of trap are effective and non-toxic to humans. However, death is much slower than with the traditional type trap[8], which has prompted animal activists such as PETA to oppose the use of glue traps. Many mice eventually die from exposure, dehydration, starvation, suffocation, or predation, or they are killed by people when the trap is checked. Others die from injuries or blood loss as they try to chew through their own limbs in an attempt to escape. In some jurisdictions there have been proposals to ban glue traps, or to legally restrict their use.[9]. In Ireland it is illegal to import, possess, sell or offer for sale unauthorized traps, including glue traps. This law, the Wildlife (Amendment) Act was passed in 2000. [10]
glue traps are nasty. I used one once when I hadn't really thought it through. Wound up sticking to a mouse's tail and he was trying to get away climbing behind our kitchen cabinet but he had this big sticky cardboard thing stuck to his tail that wouldn't go through the crack. I found him rattling around and pulled back on the cardboard thing to pull him back out into the room, and then he broke away and escaped down the hole. That mouse deserved to live another day.
Sorry, but having lived in an old house that became a rat home, I don't miss them. I started with the glue traps and live capture traps. Either way, I wasn't going to let them get in. They would be put out of their misery. I think what actually kept them away was putting moth balls all around the outside of the house.
Mice, while incredibly cute, are really destructive and a huge nuisance. Sorry, but when I find one inside, it's minutes are numbered.
I'm all for traps. But not the glue traps. 'Off them quickly. Don't make them starve to death. That is inhumane.
I used a glue trap once. I will not do it again.
Kill traps are bad, but not for inhumane reasons. The reason is because mice carry fleas and other external parasites. When the mouse dies in any kind of trap, as the body cools the parasites crawl off and escape.
It's much preferable results to use a live-capture trap and check the trap daily. When you catch a mouse, you can either let it (and it's fleas) go outside, or you can dunk the trap in a bucket of soapy water (and kill the mouse and all its fleas at once).
If you use the dunk kill method, use soapy water. Do not use plain water, because the fleas won't sink in it--they will just will bob up to the the surface and jump off.
Totally off the subject but the talk of fleas reminded me. Dawn dishwashing detergent is deadly to fleas. A diluted mix of Dawn and water will get rid of fleas on a dog and you can use a bowl of dawn and water with a flea comb for a cat. Fleas die instantly. Just don't use it on a dog everday 'cause it dries out their skin. Dogs have suprisingly sensitive skin.
But anyway, I hate glue traps too. I'd rather just get it over with right away.
Ernest the Thread Pirate
And applying soapy water only kills the hatched fleas however--it won't kill the eggs.
I remember in grammar school we ate glue. I don't think I would like mouse tar tar with my glue. :(
And in my house the rodents must be eliminated not set free.
Our rodent control system has 12 legs, 12 sets of claws, and 3 sets of teeth.
I have mice... I've found that they can't resist dark chocolate when placed on the trap. My room-mates place traps around the house with peanut-butter, cheese, bread crumbs - and the traps just sit their for days or weeks - while mice roam about freely and unmolested.
But I have not been bothered enough by their presence recently to buy any more traps... I just keep my room clean and free of accessible food or crumbs. The mouse will come in my room and look around on its routine inspection of the house, and then it will leave the same way it came after it has found nothing. However the mouse droppings that I sweep out from under the crevices in my room are a problem... it's possibly the cause of some breathing congestion that I've been experiencing. I guess it's them or me...
But even if you remove them by some means - there will always be more of them to take their place. So, I don't see the urgency in dealing with them right away.
Sorry Stace :(
However ... I, the DISBELIEVER!!! and insubordinate and blah blah, have disposed of two other glue traps that I found.
Course I'm not doing my workplace any good things, as they'll most likely place more down - poor mousey was a fat adult so there are more around. <sigh>
I work in a building downtown that was built in the 30-40's with the 2nd floor that was a food court at one time so yeah - all the catalyst is there. And actually we found out that the suite of offices we're moving too is ... infested.
yep - big ole downtown roachies. wtf. THE BIG ONES!!! - the ones that come out of sewer drains - the ones that look like the pet "hissing" roachies that people purchase.
nuthing like having to move the office and then to move into inhabited quarters.
Sounds like WAR, ay?
You could do like the woman in this story. :eek::wtf:
How Not to Kill Mice
Up just a bit and to the right we coulda had a Darwin Award winner. :(
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The influence of family and peers on adolescent substance abuse has been well documented in the scientific literature. Generally, positive family influences, such as family bonding and consistent rules, appear to reduce the risk of tobacco, marijuana, and other drug abuse among teens, while negative family influences tend to increase risk. The same is true of positive and negative peer factors. Little research, however, has been conducted to see how parental and peer factors interact to influence adolescents' initiation to and young adults' use of drugs.
Two new NIDA-funded studies--one looking at initiation of substance use, the other at continued substance abuse--show that some aspects of family and peer influences remain potent from early initiation into young adulthood and across socioeconomic, ethnic, and gender lines. Both studies yielded surprises and implications for intervention. For example, the first study found that although
family and peer factors had similar effects on males and females, family monitoring and rules had a stronger protective effect for males than females. The second study found that for either gender, peer influence was not mediated by the quality of the relationship, except for female peer influence on young adult marijuana use.
University of Washington researchers recruited 808 5th-graders from 18 Seattle elementary schools in high-crime areas and followed them from ages 12 to 21 to see how peer, family, and sociodemographic factors interacted to influence drug initiation.
As part of an ongoing NIDA study directed by Dr. J. David Hawkins, data from this group were gathered annually through age 16 and again at 18 and 21. The sample included a high proportion of low-income families, "but not all children came from homes in high-risk neighborhoods," says Dr. Karl Hill, one of the study's authors. Of concern were the extent of bonding to family, family involvement (time spent interacting with parents), family conflict resolution and parenting practices (monitoring, rules, and consistent discipline), peers' prosocial and antisocial activities, and measures of use for tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, tranquilizers, sedatives, and psychedelics.
Initiation of illicit drug use for the entire study group was 4.6 percent by age 12, 8.4 percent by age 13, 12.6 percent by age 18, and 40.5 percent by age 21. By age 21, 45.4 percent of male participants had initiated illicit drug use, as had 35.5 percent of females. Native Americans had the highest rate of initiation, at 55.9 percent, compared to 53.6 percent of European Americans, 33.3 percent of African Americans, and 14.6 percent of Asian Americans.
All of the measured family factors were influential, with the terms low level referring to families in the lowest 10 percent for a specific factor and high level referring to those in the highest 10 percent. Higher levels of family monitoring and rules were associated with a "significantly" lower risk of illicit drug initiation, according to Dr. Hill. For example, youths with low levels of family monitoring and rules at age 18 were twice as likely (14 percent versus 7 percent) to initiate illicit drugs as those with high family monitoring. The same was true for a higher level of moderate and consistent family discipline--youths with low consistent family discipline were over twice as likely (15 percent versus 6 percent) at age 18 to initiate illicit drugs as those with high consistent family discipline.
Low levels of family bonding and high levels of peer antisocial activity were consistently associated with higher prevalence of illicit drug initiation among youths ages 12 to 21 compared with prevalence seen when high levels of family bonding and low levels of peer antisocial activity were present. By age 21, however, a high level of family bonding had far less impact than in earlier years on adolescent drug initiation.
Family bonding was particularly influential before the age of 18--youths with low family bonding at age 15 were three times more likely (9 percent versus 3 percent) to initiate illicit drugs than those with high family bonding. Higher levels of family conflict were associated with a higher risk of initiation. For example, youths with high family conflict at age 18 were over twice as likely (15 percent versus 6 percent) to initiate illicit drugs as those with low family
conflict. High levels of peer antisocial activity, especially after age 15, found youths at age 18 nearly four times as likely (19 percent versus 5 percent) to initiate illicit drugs as those with low antisocial peer influence (in the bottom 10 percent).
Family monitoring and rules seemed to reduce the risk of initiation primarily by affecting the child's choice of peer groups. "Some family factors operate through peers and some are independent of peer groups," Dr. Hill explains. "Kids with low bonding to parents are more likely to get involved with narcotics and stimulants, even if they don't hang out with bad peers. So you end up with this set of independent risks with high family conflict, low bonding, and bad peer involvement. All these things stack the deck toward initiation of serious drug use.
"In general, family and peer factors had similar effects on boys and girls," Dr. Hill observes. "Only family monitoring and rules had a stronger protective effect for males than for females." Family monitoring and bonding were more predictive for European Americans than for African Americans. Otherwise, says Dr. Hill, "family and peer factors affecting illicit drug initiation were similar across gender and ethnic groups."
The message is clear: Family factors matter. "The impact of only one factor--family bonding--begins to decline after age 18," Dr. Hill says. Peer factors also matter. Having antisocial peers, especially after age 15, increases the risk of drug initiation. "Both sets of influences contribute," he says, "even after controlling for sociodemographic background and prior alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana initiation."
In terms of intervention, "family and peer factors should be important targets for preventive efforts," Dr. Hill says. The effort should start early and continue into the twenties, emphasizing family bonding early and family monitoring, rules, and reduction of conflict throughout. "Programs that address these family and peer factors should work relatively well across gender and ethnic groups," he concludes.
Another NIDA-funded study took a slightly different path, looking at peer influence on young adults. As part of a long-range study led by
Dr. Hyman Hops of the Oregon Research Institute in Eugene, Oregon, the researchers gathered data from 294 participants ages 19 to 25. Each participant brought one same-sex and one opposite-sex peer into the study; those who were married brought their marital partner as their opposite-sex peer. Data gathered annually for 3 years included the quality of these relationships, the extent of any substance abuse, and the problems associated with drug use.
At the beginning of the study, 30 percent of the 294 participants had smoked cigarettes, 29 percent had smoked marijuana in the previous month, 10 percent had used other illicit drugs, and 41 percent reported problems associated with drug use in the previous 12 months. Thirty-nine percent had not used any drugs in the period specified. Men who smoked marijuana did so, on average, more often than female marijuana smokers did--an average of 5.5 times per month versus women's average of 2.7 times a month. "Other differences between genders were not significant," says Dr. Judy Andrews, lead author of the Oregon team. "Correlations between various substances were moderate."
Each participant brought one same-sex and one opposite-sex peer into this study; participants who were married brought their spouse as their opposite-sex peer. The quality of the relationship with a female peer was a factor in young adults' marijuana use; with young adults' use of other substances, however, the quality of the peer relationship was not a factor.
Use of drugs by male peers positively influenced subsequent use by both men and women. "I expected females, in general, to be more influenced by males than by females," Dr. Andrews says, "and we found that to be true only in cases where the user reported problems associated with drug use. For example, friends of both genders also influenced both males' and females' subsequent cigarette smoking."
Another surprise emerged in the effect of good versus bad peer relationships. In general, the quality of the relationship with the friend did not matter when it came to substance use. "We expected that peer influence would be mediated by the quality of that relationship," explains Dr. Andrews. "If you don't like somebody, why would you emulate him or her? But we found this effect only with marijuana use when the peer was female. Good female friends influenced the marijuana use of both males and females. But if the good friend was male, he did not influence the marijuana use of either his male or female friend."
Again, the overall message is clear: Young adults are influenced by their friends. "It's an important finding," observes Dr. Andrews. "Interventions with substance-abusing young adults should not only be with individuals, but with their peers as well."
"We are continuing to see family and peer effects into early adulthood," says Dr. Kathleen Etz of NIDA's Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research. "People assume that families become less important as kids move out of the house, and this does not appear to be the case.
Andrews, J.A.; Tildesley, E.; Hops, H.; and Li, F. The influence of peers on young adult substance use. Health Psychology 21(4):349-357, 2002.[Full Text]
Guo, J.; Hill, K.G.; et al. A developmental analysis of sociodemographic, family, and peer effects on adolescent illicit drug initiation. Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 41(7):838-845, 2002.
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"You can't trust everything you read on the Internet." — Elvis Presley. Or Lincoln. Or Shakespeare. Or Mark Twain. Or Dorothy Parker. Or Buddha. Or Winston Churchill. Or the Dalai Lama.
"You can't trust everything you read on the Internet." — Elvis Presley. Or Lincoln. Or Shakespeare. Or Mark Twain. Or Dorothy Parker. Or Buddha. Or Winston Churchill. Or the Dalai Lama.
Whatever, it's wrong.
Many of the above folks are eminently quotable, and also kidnappable by time-�travelers. Nothing better than a pithy quoter, with, usually, some eccentric facial or head hair, to boost your lame sci-fi premise.
But more often it's their words or good names being stolen. So I have a new favorite site bookmarked, along with the oft-thumbed (if one can thumb a virtual page) snopes.com: www.thatsnotshakespeare.tumblr.com. It's a blog site, as you might guess, with the noble notion of shooting down all the poor faux-Shakespeare tumbling across the social media.
Shakespeare did not say "Expectation is the root of all heartache." Read Shakespeare, or see a play, hear a sonnet, and you'd know this "expectation" thing doesn't sound remotely right. It's like attributing "Call Me Maybe" to Tom Waits.
It sounds more like a Buddhist thought, in fact, though I'm loathe to pin that one down to Gautama Buddha (just one of many Buddhas, by the way, but the founder of Buddhism and so the one most people think of as the single-name Buddha) being as he lived thousands of years ago and didn't speak English.
Those were my first clues.
Shakespeare's characters often boast great expectations, in fact, as do any human or fictional characters worth following. Now overweening pride, greed, wrath, ambition, mismatched lovers and misleading witches, they all might source some heartache in the Bard's world.
The closest thing found in Shakespeare to such a line comes in Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy:
"...to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished."
Another one currently making the rounds, mis-attributed to Shakespeare is "The music has earth for those who listen." Note the lack of "hath." That's a clue. Note also it's not a particularly musical line.
Those words may come from the poet George Santayana, but even that's questionable, because it's tough to find an authoritative source. Goodreads.com is an egregious spreader of misattributed quotes. Wikiquotes is better, but like even the renowned Bartlett's, found online at www.bartleby.com, hardly the final word: "No documents match the query." Possibly it's just some failed poet equipped with Photoshop, attempting to meme his or her way to fame.
There's another I can't believe anyone, even the most non-Bard-equipped reader, would fall for, but it's popped up numerous times on the That's Not Shakespeare site: "When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."
Really, Hallmark? Try Romeo on for size:
"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
And that's one of the simpler couplets from Mr. Montague. On actually meeting Juliet, he speaks:
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
Or, in simpler yet clearly Will-y terms, Benedick and Beatrice coming to terms with love, and grief, from "Much Ado About Nothing":
Beatrice: "You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to protest I loved you."
Benedick: "And do it with all thy heart."
Beatrice: "I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."
Benedick: "Come, bid me do any thing for thee!"
Beatrice: "Kill Claudio."
Not likely to fit on a Hallmark card, nor be mistaken and misattributed into a meme. "Get real, people: Check your freaking sources." — Billy Shakespeare.


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Official word on Ford plant closing launches 'next steps' process for St. Paul
Although it was inevitable, Monday's announcement that the St. Paul Ford Motor Plant will close for good Dec. 19 brought a strong dose of finality to plant employees, city officials and neighbors in Highland Park who've spent the past five years trying to keep the plant alive, or at least delay its closing.
"Even though we've known it was coming, finally getting that date makes it real," said Merritt Clapp-Smith, a senior planner at the city of St. Paul. "It's an emotional piece of news."
In addition to the work done to try to persuade Ford to keep the plant up and running, officials kept busy on Plan B and have invested tons of time preparing for the closing and ultimate reuse of the site.
The next step in the Ford Plant saga comes next month when Ford officials will hold a public meeting to outline the end game. They'll talk about equipment removal and demolition of the buildings as the begin the long process to sell the 125-acre site.
The meeting, billed as "Next Steps After Ford Plant Closure," is Nov. 9 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the UAW-Ford-MnSCU Training Center Auditorium, at Ford Parkway and Mount Curve Blvd. in St. Paul.
Ford officials will discuss logistics of the shutdown and site clean up, said Janelle Tummel of the city's Planning and Economic Development Department.
"The meeting is open to everyone and is geared toward the community, letting people know what to expect next, with specifics on timing," she said. "People will want to know about the noise level during demolition, how loud and dusty it's going to be, and how these things will affect the community."
On the agenda:
Key steps and activities after plant closure, including continued environmental assessment, decommissioning of the plant, building removal, marketing the site, and future planning work.
The fate of the plant site has long been a major issue for city and neighborhood officials; a task force has been meeting to develop guidelines for redevelopment of the property. There are scenarios for redevelopment, and sustainability goals for the site have been developed.
A city website works to put a positive spin on the closing:
While the closure of the plant is a significant loss for the community, the city and the region, it provides an unprecedented redevelopment opportunity in the center of the Twin Cities region, in one of the most beautiful, stable and economically strong neighborhoods of Saint Paul.
And Mayor Chris Coleman's statement about the closing date said:
"My thoughts are with Ford employees and their families today. Since the first Model T rolled off the line 86 years ago, Ford has impacted the history, character and livelihood of Saint Paul. We are thankful for Ford's contributions to the city and the community involvement of its employees.
"While we are sad to see their doors close, we are optimistic about the opportunity to use this land to create new businesses and jobs. Through our partnership with Ford and a redevelopment framework in place, we will create new uses for this site that are of the greatest benefit to the region."
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The future of the Ford site was one of the main topics at a recent 3rd Ward candidate forum in St. Paul. 3 of the 4 candidates had distinctly different ideas about what should take its place and, in one case, an idea for replacing St. Paul's current zoning laws with a plan modeled after that used in Houston, TX. The fourth offered no specific vision for the property or anything else, for that matter, focusing almost exclusively on process.
As I recall, John Mannillo favors mixed use development; Eve Stein prefers the property be used for residential and recreational purposes; Tyler Slinger advocated for the change in zoning laws; and Chris Tolbert was focused on process.
Isn't that site still controlled by Ford and possibly polluted? It was exciting when they talked about redevelopment during the housing boom, I think the city would have gotten a lot more property tax off it. But it will unfortunately be a slog now. Great location though.
It is a great tragedy that the Twin Cities Ford Assembly plant will close for good on December 22. I have been in the plant many times and I have many friends there. The plant's closing is at least partially a result of bureaucratic intransigence and industrial naivete on the part of public officials. That plant, which always ranked near the top of ALL North American plants in quality and productivity did NOT have to close. What it needed was integrated metal stamping which ALL modern plants have. The State and local community could have helped facilitate the provision of this special attribute, but they were either too lazy or too unimaginative to pursue the matter.
Minnesota workers have a right to expect MORE from their elected officials and economic development personnel.
Frederick M. Zimmerman, PhD
Come on people, the answer is obvious. This is the logical choice for the new Vikings Stadium site. It's a perfect addition to the list of controversial and/or polluted possibilities, and it's riverfront property too. Let's add to the complexity of the stadium debate and bring the Vikings to St. Paul.
When Ford announced they were closing the plant, the reaction from the Saint Paul city council was to envision condos and candle shops in that space.
At the same time, Mercedes was building a plant in Alabama, Mitsubishi was expanding their production facilities in Illinois, and Honda was expanding in Ohio. Both foreign and domestic auto manufacturing plants were looking for prime property to build or expand. Our city leaders did nothing at all to attract that business.
It's outrageous what politicians from the supposedly working-man's party did when faced with losing 1,500 long-term manufacturing jobs. Instead of their visions of property tax-paying yuppies sipping latte from their condo balconies, they've got nothing to show for it and no clue where those 1,500 replacement jobs will come from.
But hey, the local thuggery will have the convenience of light rail in 2-3 years.
It is Ford's plant and it was and is Ford's decision to close or continue to operate. Mayoral overtures, beginning with Norm Coleman, were greeted by Ford with polite smiles and "Thanks but no thanks." The bottom line is that in Ford's eyes it made financial sense to close the plant rather than modernize. I recall no request on Ford's part for local or state government subsidies or incentives to keep the plant open.
Local government has had many failures over the years, but this isn't one of them. What the City decides to do with respect to re-zoning the property and how it seeks to direct redevelopment will be its responsibilty, as it will be Ford's responsibility to determine who to sell it to, for what purposes and how much environmental cleanup it's willing to undertake in order to do so.
Cleanup is a complicated issue. The extent of the effort required is a function of the nature of the contaminants, the property location, water tables, and the intended use of the property, among other things. So, the intended use directly affects both the cost of the cleanup and the sales price.
Industrial development of some type would be great for the local economy, but likely will be successfully resisted by Highland Park residents even if an industrial buyer were to step forward. It strikes me as unlikely that Ford would be willing to sell the property for development into single family homes, in light of the fact that this typically requires the most extensive cleanup. If I'm right, then the most likely scenario is mixed use development that might include everything from small, light industrial to, retail, office and multi-family residences. Will it replace the jobs and taxes lost by the plant closing? Time will tell, though I'm not optimistic.
a few thoughts on the closure of the TCAP (twin city assembly plant) it was with anger and sadness when I heard the plant was slated to be closed. my brothers and sisters of the united auto workers had dedicated their lives to making quality job one. the ford corp. had other ideas and when they poured billions into the upgrade of the plant in detroit and the focus of ranger trucks in thailand- sent a signal of their intentions. they have no allegiance to the u.s.
anyways- but I believe development of the site will be an extremely long process for the following reasons:
it will be a brown field extradonaire
(my uncle worked in the glassworks remembers using mercury as a rolling agent on the silica- and dumping it in barrels)
unless Ford is given a free and clear pass on liability for pollution- they will just pay the property taxes and sit on it.
selling the hydro plant was a mistake and the city or state should have stepped forcefully to retain a public asset.
So-I stand with the workers and will do my part to help them find work and solidarity.
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It's the difference between a personality-driven show and an ensemble cast. Does one person take the spotlight surrounded by supporting characters, or is the storyline passed around, giving everyone a chance to shine?
In the case of the concerto grosso, it's ensemble all the way. Sure, it's called a concerto, but in this case it's not about one instrument front and center; the lead is bumped back and forth among the various sections.
The Opus 3 set of concerti grossi by Handel were his very first published concertos. There's a fair amount of scholarly head-scratching about the set. These six pieces don't seem as uniform as a typical set of baroque concertos. It was a generally accepted practice of the era to publish a set of concertos highlighting the same solo instruments throughout. For example, Handel's Opus 6 concertos featured strings exclusively. The Opus 3 collection, however, variously spotlights oboes, flutes, bassoons, violins and combinations thereof. I think the variety of instruments is well-suited to the egalitarian nature of the concerto grosso itself.
The way these solo instruments rise in and out of prominence is so subtle that a new instrument can kind of sneak up on you and be fully into its solo before you realize it.
Even the "background" bits are breathtaking. Though they're the accompaniment to the melody line, perfect little trills from flutist Rachel Brown and violinist Pavlo Besnosiuk shimmer ever so briefly. It's like catching the tiniest burst of ginger in a well-composed sauce--a little explosion of flavor that doesn't overwhelm, but enhances.
Period performances often sound charming, but from time to time, the limitations of early instruments can result in some blatty brass, honk-y winds, and some generally dodgy intonation. In fact, some early-music specialists of late have seemed to revel in the grittier, raspier, earthier aspects of period performances. There is a ragged, wild-horse kind of appeal to that.
But in Handel's music, there is an unmistakably regal, celestial nature that calls for a more polished approach. Members of the Academy of Ancient Music use either original 17th and 18th century instruments or recreations. In this recording, their rustic, tonal colors shine through, but never at the expense of perfect intonation--and they are oh-so-smooth. Not the glossy, hard smooth of lacquer on a parquet floor, but smooth like a perfect custard: creamy, light and just sweet enough.


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Just caught the season finale and it didn't disappoint. Anyone see it?
As I mentioned in an earlier thread, the whole premise of the show is somewhat preposterous but it's a damn entertaining show.
For all who missed it and have cinemax, I highly recommend watching the whole season on demand. You will probably get hooked the first episode and it will end up as a marathon watching session.
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Now that Prime Suspect, one of the best female-fronted police procedurals ever created, has been remade for American audiences — and will debut on TV Thursday Sept.22 on NBC (see our 10 reasons you should be watching here) — it's time to celebrate four other great female detective series from the U.K.. Three of them have recently been released on DVDs in their entirety by Acorn Media.
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Many critics agree that Helen Mirren's turn as Jane Tenneson on the long-running British TV series, Prime Suspect, is hands down the greatest female police detective ever. The series won more than 20 major international awards and set the standard for police procedurals that has affected American TV for years. This re-released debut series opens as the American remake does, with Jane seizing the opportunity to head a murder investigation — after years of repeatedly being overlooked by male superiors. Prime Suspect: Series 1 is rife with big name guest stars (Tom Wilkinson, Ralph Fiennes, Zoë Wanamaker) but no matter, all eyes are on Helen Mirren as she battles crime, sexism, and her inner demons. Prime Suspect: Series 1 and 2 have recently been re-released solo, but queer fans would be best served by buying the complete 7 season Emmy-winning series, Prime Suspect: The Complete Collection, for $99. Purchase here.
The Super Bowl had something for everyone this year when Lady Gaga, decked out in a shiny red suit with matching eye shadow, made the National Anthem her own and made us all tear up in awe. The game hadn't started yet, but it was hard to see how any moment could possibly be better than this. Watch her Super Bowl performance here.
Based on the best-selling mysteries by Ann Cleeves, Vera follows the eponymous crotchety and cantankerous middle-aged investigator in the Northumberland Villages of England, a woman who happens to be brilliant at police detecting. Two-time Oscar nominee Brenda Blythyn is Vera Stanhope, a demanding and sometimes arrogant cop who looks more like your disheveled mom than, well, any of the women on Law & Order. But she's smart and tough, demands a lot of her long-suffering employees (almost all of them men), and does it all in sensible shoes. This new set of four feature-length episodes offers great character-driven crime drama. Even better, DCI Stanhope is never particularly coded as straight (no boyfriends, no kids, no lust for men), so even though she's not out, it's quite easy to view the character as a lesbian. $52. Purchase here.
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Lady Gaga may not have won the Oscar for this song she co-wrote with Diane Warren about surving sexual assault, but she won our hearts. Her performance (which you can watch here) is the definition of powerful, especially when she is joined onstage by many more survivors. Lady Gaga is a beautifully honest, inspirational, and genuinely talented star who just keeps surprising us with more and more ways to fall in love. We couldn't be happier she was born, and we look forward to celebrating for many more years to come!
Chief inspector Janine Lewis is a character you'd never see on American primetime television. She's a pudgy, slightly slovenly, harried mother of four who balances solving gruesome crimes in Manchester, England with the stresses of family life. She's clearly straight (if the four kids didn't tip you off, her lusting over her handsome colleague will) but wickedly wry and easy to identify with by women of all orientations. In Blue Murder: The Complete Collection, actress Caroline Quintin (from Men Behaving Badly) tackles socially timely issues: the murders of a rock star, a cheerleading coach, and an illegal Belarusian émigré. Mixed in with the gritty mystery is good natured ribbing at work that makes Lewis feel real and relatable. $86. Purchase here.
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Gaga's always been a vocal LGBT ally, but she took things to the next level with the soaring anthem "Born this Way." And then she took things to a literal next level by starting her performance being birthed out of an egg. Because is it really a Gaga performance if we always know exactly what's going on? Watch "Born this Way" here.
Now in its fifth season, the most popular TV program in Britain is a DVD must-view. New Tricks: Season 5, out Sept. 27, follows sexy Amanda Redman as Superintendent Sandra Pullman, a woman who leads a ragtag crew of slightly curmudgeonly old cops who tackle abandoned cold cases. Every cop (including Pullman) is battling internal issues of some sort (hers is a shady family history). A sexy 42 years old, Redman was already popular with lesbians in the U.K. after her steamy sex scenes with Manouk van der Meulen in the 1998 mini-series, Close Relations. (Google it: you won't be disappointed.) If you've missed this series on BBC America, now's the time to catch up. $37. Purchase here.


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The Sarova Shaba Lodge is seated in the heart of Kenya, in the Shaba Game Reserve, where the wild roam free and the air is clean. The 85 standard rooms and specialty suites are designed for a light privacy, built with a woody appeal and having a tree house effect. An open air restaurant offers a multitude of dining choices both local and international, accompanied by an extensive wine list. The lodge provides a host of activities from which guests may choose, such as a dip in the free-form pool to cool off after a dusty game drive.
There are 80 standard rooms, all of which are thatched chalets facing the river. These are luxury en-suites with bath, shower, and WC, mosquito net and fan, and equipped with voltage 240 volts. There are 4 Junior suites, which are essentially a separate bedroom and lounge. There is 1 Presidential suite, which is a separate bedroom and lounge, and private jacuzzi. Guest services include Bureau de Change, free safety deposit boxes, laundry and Valet Service, and Baby Sitting services.
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Citizens for Public Justice is celebrating half a century of advocating Christian values to Parliament on issues of national importance.
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OTTAWA – Gatineau Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher has a passion for evangelization and faith education.
On Oct. 21, in conjunction with the municipal elections, Albertans will also vote for their respective school board trustees.
As elected officials, trustees are responsible for overseeing and directing the operations of the school district. Serving four-year terms, trustees are elected by Catholic school taxpayers.
SAINTE-ADELE, QUE. – Charity or caritas needs to begin face-to-face, at the local parish level, Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga told Canada's bishops Sept. 24.
Sister Mary Alban Bouchard has been called a prophet in our midst and a courageous woman who dedicated her life to the cause of peace and social justice.
EDMONTON – Thanks to the support of community and faith groups, including Edmonton Catholic Schools and several parishes, Edmonton is now a Fairtrade city.
Tillie Zyp heard noise in the kitchen in the dark of night many years ago at the home she and her husband Hank lived in south of Enoch. Undeterred by the possibility that burglars might be looting their belongings, she got up and confronted three teenage boys who had broken in.
Sylvan Lake's Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Parish enjoyed the good weather during their gigantic yard sale Sept. 14 and 15.
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Born just 60 years ago in Horley, Surrey, just down the road from the international Gatwick Airport England, Dick was a unique human being.......and that's not just my opinion, believe me!. Dick had been suffering from spinal cancer for about 7 years prior to his passing. I am, for my sins, a "Small works General Builder"- with a passion for great Jazz. Dick, in so many ways, provided me with the greatest pleasure, both as a player and as a friend.
It was about fifteen or so years ago, that I first saw Dick playing live. The venue was the Jersey Jazz Festival....Channel Islands (not Jersey USA.) Well..... talk about Blowing up a storm!. His duets with guitarist Martin Taylor and vibes player Alan Randall were incredible. The basement room of the "Pomme D'or" Hotel in St Hellier was the jazz venue to be at..... IN THE WORLD. Unbelievable music. It was a large room.... packed solid...wall to wall stuff. The electricity in that room would make lightning look tame! Louder cheers than the cup finals at Wembley were normal when Dick played.
An additional pleasure for me, personally, was having Dick eat at my table in the Hotel. (Four days of GREAT conversations). I remember thinking, "What a fantastic bloke, completely natural". He was GENUINELY interested in YOU. The "Big Time" attitude had never entered Dick's world and never would despite the fact that he was, without a doubt a world-class player.
From the conversations, it turned out that, as a kid, Dick used to cycle through our small village of Tatsfield on his way to look at airplanes take off and land at the war famous "Biggin Hill" airport, Kent. (Just 2 miles from Tatsfield - say 15 from Horley).
To do proper justice to Dick - a 500 page book to fully document him wouldn't be enough. (Maybe I will attempt one in old age).
I play a bit of Jazz on Chromatic Harmonica and once had the pleasure of making a three track demo with bassist Len Skeat, pianist Ian Wright , drummer Ralph Salmins with special guest Dick on tenor saxophone! What an unforgettable experience! I had to follow a solo by Dick on an up-tempo "I got Rhythm". I was thinking that it was like being in a cage with a roaring Lion. Talk about being lit up. (No electricity needed there... I was glowing like a light bulb!.) A TOTAL moment of pure joy.
Dick would stay over at our house occasionally and I would join him on a walk around the village. Dick had never driven a car in his life. My brother Tony has the local garage in Tatsfield and I took Dick around there to meet him. "I know NOTHING AT ALL about all this" he said. He didn't need to. (Motor cars - Who is the wise one 'eh!) He loved birds, animals, scenery, and in fact anything to do with nature. Once, in the early hours of a star studded morning, returning from a gig at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Dick and I were close to "Chartwell".... formally the Home of Sir Winston Churchill. Waddling along, on the opposite side of the road, going in our direction was a big-old Badger. "Whats that" said Dick, coming awake. "A Badger" says I. "I've NEVER SEEN A BADGER" says an excited Dick Morrissey. For his pleasure, I slowed the car to a crawl in first gear, put the headlights on full and followed the Badger for about 50 yards before it found a gap in the hedge. Dick was OVER THE MOON.... like a little kid. I was in awe of a legendary Jazzer, Dick was in awe of the Badger!
Getting back to Jazz, Dick was greatly admired by fans, friends and family alike. The "Morrissey Mullen" band were legendary. Together with guitarist Jim Mullen, Dick toured America, made four albums during the early 70's and took America by storm. They were based in Sweden for a while and made parts of Europe totally theirs at that time. They just went down a bomb, wherever they performed. (I have those four albums and would NEVER part with them.... for any price)
We all wish Dick's sister Liz and Brother Chris, plus Dick's four children our deepest condolences for their loss. The support that Liz and Chris gave Dick throughout his long illness was so touching to see. During that time, in a wheelchair, Dick would summon up enough strength to play locally in Deal near Dover, raising money for various charities in the process. What a Man! Up until the last days he was brilliant. When he was too ill to play anymore... he quietly slipped away. On behalf of thousands of his fans, family and friends.... "We will miss you Dick!"


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One for the RoadOkay, I'm off for my weekend, but wanted to leave you with one parting "funny". Have you seen the commercial for the "snuggie" blanket on TV? The whole time it's on I make fun of it and say funny things about what the actors are doing while wearing the blanket. I hate it and love it at the same time.
Well, it seems I have a kindred spirit in YouTube land, because this guy just read my mind and recorded it for all to see. These are EXACTLY the things I say when watching this commercial. Brilliant! Go Steelers!
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Oh, boy, did that make me laugh! I had to share it on my Facebook page! Thanks, Jennifer!ReplyDelete
Too freakin' funny!!!!!! have you been peeking in my windows???!!!....we are saying the same stuff over here!!!!!!!!!...the kids keep threatening me they are getting me one!!!...and get a load of this!..they have them for $14.99 at Giant Eagle!!! fuel perks too :)ReplyDelete
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